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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11244	The pitifull estate of the time present A Christian consideration of the miseries of this time, with an exhortation to amendement of life: compiled by one zealous in the lawe of God, and set forth by publike autority, being perused and allowed by the same.	I. S., fl. 1564.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 21504; ESTC S112130	22,439	64

The Pitifull estate of the Time present A Christian consideration of the miseries of this time with an exhortation to amendement of Life compiled by one zealous in the Lawe of God And set forthe by Publike Autority being perused and allowed by the same Wisedome 6. Giue eare yee that rule the multitudes for power is giuen you of the Lord strength from the highest which shall trye youre workes and searche oute your ymaginations howe that yee being Officers of hys Kingdome haue not executed true Iudgement wherefore ye shall haue the sorer punishment ¶ Imprinted at London in Whitecrosse strete by Henry Denham The Preface to the Reader AS ACCORDING to the saying of Saint Paul Rom. 15. all that is written is written for our instruction and learning that wee might fashion oure selues to the good wyll and pleasure of GOD in following of vertue and embracing that is good forsaking vice and detesting that which is euill I therefore hereby moued and occasioned did peruse of late a booke of small volume which hath to name the Triall of truthe set forth a yeare passed and more in the which booke as the Auctor zealouslie made a briefe discourse of the sundrie visitations and punishments of God for our forgetfulnesse of him thorowe our sinfull wickednesse so did he likewise brotherly warne admonishe vs to leaue forsake and abhorre our accustomed euill and Christianlike exhorte vs to liue in newnesse of lyfe putting vs in remembraunce that the Fier which fell frō heauen so quickely defacing the buge Temple of Paules the straunge and monstrous shape as well of Children as of beastes wherof there were diuers and sundrye with also the vnseasonable time then thorow the dailye dropping showers were altogither plaine declarations and tokens of Gods vengeaunce and heauy wrath to come vpon vs and more sharply to punnishe vs than euer he did before where of we might assure our selues vnlesse with hearty repentaunce and specty amendment of our wicked life wee tourned vnto the Lorde our God And this in maner was the effect of that little worke wherein it appeareth that the Auctor was more carefull for vs than wee are for oure selues For notwithstanding that he with also many others haue not ceassed thorow their continual daily and painefull trauaile in writing and setting forth of Godly Bookes wherof neuer since Christes time more plentye than of late yeres hath bene teaching instructing persuading exhorting admonishing and in Goddes behalfe threatening vs by all meanes possible seeking to drawe vs from euill to good from worse to better from sinne to godly lyfe that we might learne to do the wil of our heauenly Father yet are wee for all this so vnmindefull of GOD and of his good gifts in his creatures and our mindes so set and busied in the vaine and transitory things of this worlde that wee are not at laysure to know God nor by hearing and reading to learne how to attayne vnto the world that is permanent and euerlasting but eyther the workes so set forth for our instructiō are so long that we cānot intend to reade them thorow although in the meane we bee neyther idle nor yet wel occupied or else if they be short then soner red ouer than wel cōsidered and followed as the crooked conditions and wickednesse of vs wretched people of England doth to euidently declare whose abhominations are so vile detestable in the sight of God as that I cānot but maruell how either wee dare presume to aske or hope to haue any thing at the hands of our Heauēly Father that might be beneficial or necessary for vs but rather loke for present destruction to be roted from the face of the Earth nothing regarding the many and often warnings of God by his ministers neither yet his louing correctiō which with fauor hitherto we haue had ▪ alas how oft hath he called vs hōe so carefully so louingly so fatherly tendering vs euen as the Father his children yet we will not come but still so muche neglect his mercifull goodnes that nedes he must of his iustice being a gelous god that hath pmised to visit the sins of the fathers vpō the children vnto the thirde fourth generation of them that hate him euen punnish with sorrowe to vs our sinnes and laye vppon vs the heauie burthens that oure wickednes hath worthilye deserued for where the shaking of the rodde will not helpe or preuaile there must needes sharpe strokes followe and wee shall haue them let vs assure our selues thereof except spedie amendement of our wicked life and carnest reformation of our mōstrous manners which as I heartilye wishe and bicause I woulde as much as in mee is be a meanes to prouoke and stirre vp my brethren thereto ▪ whose forgetfulnesse of their duties towardes God I heartelye lamente and bewaile haue therefore thought it my part though with eloquēce vnacquainted by pleasantnesse of stile to please the Reader yet 〈◊〉 this simple sorte plainely to declare my good will tendering as nature forceth mee the welfare of the whole body of this Realme of Englande whereof although I be but a weake yet thorowe the grace of God a well willing member Reade and discerne The Pitifull estate of the Tyme present OH WRETCHED AND gracelesse people why do we so long tempt the Lord our God and thorow our diuellish doinges deny him we deny him I saye in that wee beeing a people voyd of all Godly seare still continue carelesse and neglecte the keeping of the holy preceptes and commaundements of our eternall and euerliuing GOD whome we thorow the leudnesse of our lyfe do so shamfully abuse and offende For alas how doth all kinde of vice rather increase than diminish Vice florisheth in England For who heareth not the horrible vice of blasphemy and swearing so brimme and rife in the mouth of young and olde of all degrees as well in courte as in countrey Otheo co●mon in olde and yonge that almost euery toung is embrued w e bloudy othes which though it highly offend the Maiesty of God and worthily deserueth sharpe correction and punnishment yet not all so considered but euery one still suffered to sweare and forsweare sincking in their sinne Filthy whoredome likewise The whor dome of Englande stinketh be fore the face of God which in all degrees and places as it is to bee hated as most shamefull in the sight of the Almightie so would God that houses of fame and estimation were not as well spotted therewith as are the brothell houses whose gracelesse inhabitaunts are limmes of the deuill And lamentable is it to see in Englande at this daye from the Courtyer to the Carter that stincking sinne is so common that it is rather accompted an ordinarie pastime than an odible offence whordom accounted no Sinne which as it stincketh before the face of God so is it left vnpunished sauing now and then in Bridewell a place so necessarye for the redresse