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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10781	A pituous lamentation of the miserable estate of the churche of Christ in Englande in the time of the late reuolt from the gospel, wherin is conteyned a learned comparison betwene the comfortable doctrine of the gospell, [and] the traditions of the popish religion: with an instruction how the true Christian ought to behaue himself in the tyme of tryall. Wrytten by that worthy martyr of god Nicolas Rydley, late Bysshoppe of London. Neuer before this tyme imprynted. Wherevnto are also annexed certayne letters of Iohn Careles, written in the tyme of his imprisonment. Perused and allowed according to the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Careless, John, fl. 1564-1566.	1566 (1566)	STC 21052; ESTC S110643	38,326	116

whose names are registred in the booke of life my firme faith is that you are one as by your stedfast faith and fruits of the same it doth appeare And wheras you say that my simple letters haue bene a stay and comfort to you I am moste glad therof do most hartely prayse God therfore that God of his greate mercy will vse me poore miser of the worlde as his instrument or meane to doe good to anye one of hys deare saincts And I do moste hartely desier you to forgeue mee my great neglygence towardes you in that I haue not more oftner written letters to you seing that you do so well esteme them as you do But if god spare me life I wyll be a littell more diligent to write vnto you then heretofore I haue bene And as for my pore prayer as you haue bene so shal you continually be sure of it I truste you doe also remember me in youres as your large and louing dedes do declare no lesse Ah good syster what doe you meane to sende me fo rich a token Alas you make me sory to se how carefull you are for me and what greate cost you haue bestowed vppon me a most vnprofitable member in Christes church But verily I do perceiue whereaboute you go You are minded to bring God a great deale into your debt and to put your money vnto a godly vsury according to the sainge of the wise man He that hath pitye vpon the pore saith he lendeth vnto the lord and loke what he laieth out it shal be paid him againe The lorde recompence your pitiful hert which is so careful for the children of God in the time of their captiuity God be blessed who hath made you so chereful in geuinge and diligent in well ●●ing for verely the time is at hand that you shal reap without ceasing the fruit of eternall life Therfore be of good chere for they that now sow their good sede with teares shal thē reap their full sheues with gladnes and god shal wipe al teares frō their eyes for euer Cast all your care vpon the lord and commit your soule and body vnto him as vnto a faithful creator for doubtles deare sister he cōtinuallye kepeth you and careth for you The moste and principall thing that God requireth of you is that you be fullye perswaded that he careth for you and that he is your god and most deare louinge father and wil be so for euer Without this faith and true perswasion you can not please him you can not commit and betake your selfe wholye vnto hym you can not truly feare him or loue him in dede you can not call vppon him or hartely pray vnto him Therfore let this be your alone and continuall endeuor to be confirmed more and more of this that God is youre most beare louinge faher throughe ▪ Iesus Christ that he hath a most tēder care ouer you and for you as alwaies he hath had and alwais wil haue both in soule and body for this lyfe and for eternall lyfe howsoeuer thinges appeare and seme vnto you According as you beleue so shal it be vnto you and as you think God wil bee vnto you so shall you fele hym Think therfore swetelye of the lorde and his goodnes and pray for the encrease of faith whiche God graunte vnto vs both for his mercies sake Amen Thus most deare and faithfull sister for this time I make an ende commyttinge you and all yours to Goddes most mercifull defence who blesse kepe and preserue you nowe and ●or euermore Amen Fare you well in Christ good sister your pore brother and daily Orator Thou Careles prisoner of the Lorde at al time abyding hys most merciful wil and plesure pray pray An other letter sent frō the same Iohn Careles to the selfe same woman ¶ The euerlasting peace of GOD in Iesus Christ the continuall aide and strength ioye and comfortes of his most puer holy mighty spirit with the encrease of faith and liuely felinges of his eternal mercies be most effectuously wrought in your hart and grauen in your mind my deare frend and faithful louing sister K. E. to the full finishing of all the good workes which he hath most graciously begon in you that the same by al meanes may be to the setting forth of Gods glorye the commodity of his pore afflicted Church and to youre owne euerlastinge comforte in him Amen AS the dailye occasions whyche happen to me deare sister in the lord puttinge me in remembraunce of my mooste happy departure and final deliuerāce to be at hand do moue my pore hart to much spiritual mirth and gladnes in the lord euen so doth the daily remembrance of you and other the deare sainctes of God whom I shall leaue behynde mee engender much sorow and sadnes euen to my very soule to se in what a miserable worlde you must remaine subiect to our deserued plages bothe spirituall and tēporal In respect wherof as I daily make mention of you in my cotinual prayers that God wil protect you vnder the wynges of hys mercy from al things that may be hurtfull eyther to soule or bodye so haue I thought it good yea my very bounden duty to write these few lines vnto you as well to comfort you what soeuer crosse it shal please the Lorde to lay vpō you as also to warne you to walke circumspectly as the chylde of light least at any time the darkenes should ouertake you as it is like to doe those foolishe virgins whiche haue let their lampes go out alredy the bridegromes cōming being so nigh at hand as suerly it is not far hence as it appeareth both by the prophecies of the holy scriptures also by daily exāples wherof we haue experience God for his Christes sake geue vs al grace diligently to watch and pray that we maye be readye prepared for that longe desired daye Amen My deare sister K. cal to your remēbrance always the great loue and mercifull kindnes that God your most deare louing father hathe from time to time extended vnto you speciallye in that he would vouchesafe to geue for you his owne only dearly beloued son in whome was and is all his whole pleasure and delighte vnto the verye death of the crosse yea and that whē you were his very enemy the chylde of wrath the bonde seruaunt of Sathan and a very fierbrand of hel and should haue so remained for euer Cōsider also howe he hathe geuen you with his swete sonne al thinges necessary either for bodye or soule yea all that euer is in heauen and earth and hath made you by him heire vnto himselfe and owner and possessor of al that euer he hath In consideratiō wherof you ought so to loue him againe that nothinge should be able to seperate you from him yea of very loue only you ought to serue him in such holines and righteousnes as is accept before him all the dayes of youre life

Iesus Christ that he will strengthen vs both wyth hys holy and mighty spirit that we may constantly continue in the confession of his truth vnto the ende that lyke as we nowe see one another presently in spirite we may also see one another personally in the glorious presence of God and his holye aungels where vndoutedly we shal know one an others personage to oure greate ioy felicity and endles comfort And now therfore deare sister K. be strong in the Lord our god for doubtles the time of trial is at hande a great persecution with cruell murtherynge of gods deare sainctes is like to be very shortly in this wofull wicked realme of England Therfore dere sister for the loue of God prepare you to the crosse with all diligence and make your selfe ready to die with Chryste that you may also liue with hym for euer There is no remedy if you wil be Christes disciple you muste nedes take vp your crosse and follow him for the disciple must not loke to be aboue his master nor the seruaunt to be better intreated then his lord Yf we were of the world good sister no doubt the worlde would loue vs. But for as much as Christ hath chosen vs out of the world to serue God in spirite and veritye let vs be well assured the worlde will hate vs persecute vs as it hath done our lorde master Chryste But yet let vs be of good chere for Christ hath ouercome the worlde The payne is but shorte that we can fele here but the plesure is perpetuall that we shall feele els where Let vs set before vs the exāple of Christe which abode the crosse and despised the shame in respect of the ioy that was set before him Euē so let vs consider for whose sake wee suffer whose cause we defend what glorious reward we shal haue at the day of our victory and then doubtles the consolation of these thinges will make sweete all our sufferinges and sone swallow vp al the sorowes that we are sowsed in for Goddes sake I could recite diuers texts of the scripture to confirme this poynt But I nede not for I am well assured that you do know them most perfectly all ready The lorde geue you strength assiste you with his holy spirite that you maye continuallye walcke in all points accordīg to your godly knowledge And then shall you not doe as the moste parte of our Gospellers doe nowe a dayes the more is the pitie There are a greate manye in Englande that doe perfectly knowe that the idolatrous masse is abhominable diuelyshe and detestable in the sighte of God And yet alas they be not afrayde to pollute and defyle theyr bodies whych ought to be the tēples of the holy ghost with being present at it so synning agaynst God and their owne conscience But dere syster K. doe you flie from it both in body and soule as you would flie from the very diuell himselfe Drinke not of the whore of Babylons cup by no meanes for it will infecte the body poyson the soule Be not partakers of her sinnes saith the aungell least you be partakers of the plagues that shortly shal be powred vpon her O what an araye is this that so manye that knowe gods truth will nowe tourne agayne and defyle them selues in the filthy puddle of antichristes stinking religiō They go about to saue theyr liues with their double dissimulatiō but doubtles they shall lose euerlasting life by it if they do not repente in time and turne vnto the lord But deare sister my truste is that you doe vtterly abhorre the comminge to any such thinge I hope that you wil not by anye meanes turne backe into Egypte nowe but that you wil boldly venter through the wildernes of troble persecution that you may come into the lande that floweth wyth all kinde of heauenly pleasures ioyfull delectatiōs and possesse the same for euer Let vs cōsider howe that euery one of vs doth owe vnto god a death by nature and howe sone the Lorde will require it of vs we knowe not O howe happy are we then if god of his goodnesse appoint vs to paye natures det with suffringe for his truth and Gospelles sake and so makynge vs his faythfull wytnesses wyth the prophetes apostles martyres confessours yea with his dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ to whom he doth here begin to facion vs lyke in sufferynge that we might be like him also in glory Thus my derely beloued sister I haue ben bold to trouble you a littel with my rude and simple letter beinge made in haste as it doeth apeare Yet I desier you to take it in good woorthe as a token of my pore zeale vnto you to accepte my good will And if it please god to spare me life and libertye I truste hereafter to write vnto you more largelye Fare ye well deare sister K. E. the Lorde blesse you and all youres and powre vpon you the heauenlye dewe of hys grace The lord endue you with plentifull knowledge of his veritye and fill you with his holye and mightye spirite that you may continually reioyce in the cōfortes of the same now and euer Amen Praye pray praye with stedfast fayth Your daily Orator Ihon Careles prisoner of the Lorde at al times abydinge hys most merciful wil and pleasure Another letter of the same Iohn Careles sent to the same party ¶ Grace mercy and peace from god our eternall and most deere louing father wyth quyetnes of conscience in our swete lorde and only sauiour Iesus Chryst with increase of knowledge health strength and spiritual ioy in and through the mighty operatiō of the holy ghost our euerlastinge comforte be wyth you nowe and euer my moste dere louing sister K. E. to the good perfourmance of all that he hathe so graciously begon in you in such sort as may be moste to his glory● the comforte of hys pore afflicted churche and to the eucrease of your owne euerlastinge ioy in him Amen AS I am by no meanes hable my deere harte in the lord in the leaste pointe to recompence anye part of the greate loue faithfull frēdship manifolde kindnes that you haue so largely extended vnto me euen so am I not able to declare how much and how depelye I am continuallye bound to geue god most hūble praise and continuall thankes for you and on your behalfe Before God I speak it I can not with pen expresse what ioy and comforte my poore afflycted hart hath conceyued of you and that in mo respectes then I wyll or can now declare Ah my deare syster K. whose humble hart and lowly spirit doth to me presētly appeare in youre most godly and louing letter blessed are you and all such meke handmaides of the lord For doubtles you shall be eralted in that day when the proud persones of the world and hygh minded Pharaseys shall be cast downe God for euermore bee blessed who hath geuen