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A09316	An excelent comfort to all Christians, against all kinde of calamities no lesse comfortable, then pleasant, pithy, and profitable: Compendiously compiled by Iohn Perez, a faithfull seruant of God, a Spaniard (in Spanish) and now translated into English by Iohn Daniel, of Clements Inne, with diuers addicions by him collected and therevnto annexed.; Epistola para consolar a los fieles de Jesu Christo. English	Pérez, Juan, d. 1567.; Daniel, John, of Clements Inne.	1576 (1576)	STC 19626; ESTC S111936	128,141	335

the cause thereof The .iiii. Chapter BVt persisting and going forewarde in suche estate as then was ours which was without Christ reputed as alients and straūgers to the common wealth of Israell and to the couenaunts conteyned in the testament and promise of reconciliacion voyde of hope and without God in this worlde It pleased him who is most ritche in mercy thorough his great loue wherewith he loued vs euen whē we were dead by sinne To quicken vs againe in Christe together with him by whose grace we be saued raysed vp made to sitte together in heauenly thinges through him notwithstādinge as I say that we were dead by sinne and at the brimme or brincke of our condempnacion yet he called vs to his knowledge that we might haue lyfe together in Christ Iesus and beinge so farre from him he called vs nigher by the power vertue of his most precious bloud And so sayth Sainct Paule in another place that God dyd set out and cōfirme his loue and charitie in vs for that we as yet beinge sinners enimies vnto him and so iustly condempned he dyd giue his own sonne to most direfull death to reconcile vs vnto him therby and to make vs partakers of his rightuousnes and sanctificacion So that the whole cause of our perdicion was in our selues bicause that by vs sinne had his first beginninge for that we dyd throw our selues so voluntaryly into his cursed handes who dyd dispoile and robbe vs of all goodnesse Wherfore God so louing vnto vs thought it most necessary for our saluacion to take all vpon him selfe for that wée might thereby obteine remission and forgiuenesse of all our transgression for euer And that being at the first true the condempnacion that we had deserued it might aswell be true the healthe and saluacion graunted to deliuer vs from the same So the holy Ghost dooth testifie vnto vs by the Prophet Osea sayinge from thée thy selfe O Israell doothe proceede thy perdicion and from mée onely doothe come thy saluacion And by the holy Apostle sainct Paule it is sayde that when the beninge kyndenesse and loue of our Sauiour God to man warde apeared he saued vs not by the workes which we had done and are vnrightuous but conformable to his mercy by the washing of the regeneracion or new birth and renewing of the holy ghost the which he hath shedde abundantly vppon vs by Iesu Christe our Sauiour for the iustifyed by his grace we should be made heires thorough according to our hope of the lyfe eternal Wherby it apeareth that of the calling by the which God dyd by is mercy most pitifully call vs vnto him dooth procéede all our health and saluacion Bicause as at the beginning God did make vs of himselfe without receiuinge any helpe of our partes and so gaue vs the being of men that we might be wholly his owne pure woork Euen so hath he now called vs and now that we be called he hath reformed and sāctified vs without our helpe in any thing that we might be his children If Lazarus were dead foure dayes buryed and stincking in his graue and coulde not frée himselfe therefro but the God dyd rayse him from death giue him a newe lyfe Much lesse may we frée our selues from death for that we be captiuated and buryed so by the help of sinne that we are much more deade stincking before God then was the corporall body of Lazarous to the sighte of men But as by the might strēgth vertue and power of that voyce with the which Iesus Christ dyd call him he was set frée from the prison stinge of death purifyed of all corrupcion restored to a new lyfe euen so we by the voyce of the same Lorde are raysed againe to a new lyfe Bicause god dooth call those things which are not as though they were For by the efficacie and strengthe of the voyce with which he dooth cal he doth giue a new being For the euill being of a sinner is as no being before god But in callinge himselfe to mynde to call vpon God with a feruent fearefull and louing heart vnfayned his louinge almightifull kindenesse will giue him a diuine essence participated ioyned with the same woord with the which he called him when as he had no sufficiencie at all to doo the woorks of lyfe We our selues in the estate which we were could not by any meanes doo any kinde of thing that might be pleasant or acceptable to God but dyd cōtinue still sléeping possessid of deathe without any féeling of lyfe We dyd not call nor séeke vpon God but were of the numbre of those which Dauid hath spoken of before which haue not knowen God bicause we called those dead which liue dyd séeke the things we knewe not And therefore it was sayde by the Prophet Esaye I am founde of them that haue not sought me haue apeared manifestly to those which haue not asked after me For that we should vnderstand that he onely did séeke vs dyd call vs and giue him selfe to be knowen vnto vs Yet we in the meane tyme were dronken with obliuion buried in sinne in all kinde of wickednesse also were possessid with the diuel whome we dyd obey in such sort that we accoūted his coūsell and workes for the vphouldinge and rule of our lyfe The cause why that God dyd so call vs out of that duskye darckenesse in the which we were to his admirable light was onely the loue that he had to vs in his sonne Iesus Christe by whome he dyd determine to saue vs By Christ Iesus sayth S. Paule we are chosen to the inheritance predestinated accordīg to the purpose of him which dooth will all thinges conformable to the councell of his diuine wil so that we which doo put our trust in him should be in all thinges for the setting foorth of his honour and glory Of the cause of our calling and redempcion Cap. v. BY the purpose counsell of GOD which he dyd ordeyne before the beginninge of the world that we might be partakers of his healthe and saluacion is the cause why he suffered vs to fall that wée might be made knowen vnto his son by whose merittes we should be made acceptable vnto him Sainct Peter sayth that we haue béene elected and chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in sanctificacion of the spirit to obey him and to be cleansed washed in the bloud of his sonne Iesus Christ Sainct Paule considering the goodnesse of god for his benefits so much vndeserued of men dooth giue thankes vnto him for himselfe and for all the faithful that haue béene called to the participacion thereof and sayth Blessed be God the Father of our Lorde Iesus Christe which hath blessed vs with all maner of spiritual blessing in heauenly things by Christ according as he had

procure to be so much the more certaine and sure of our vocacion and calling of the good will that God had and hath vnto vs and that we doo not doubt by no way nor meanes of the immutabilitie and firmnesse of his diuine councel with and by the which he dyd determine before the beginninge of the worlde to saue vs in Christ Iesu in knowledge of whome dothe concist all our wealth comfort and consolacion The want of knowledge the doubt had hereof is wont to dooth engender great amasednesse dismayinges troubles in the myndes of some of the faithfull it dooth make them fearfull weake full of cowardise sad discomforted mistrustfull and doth put them into great forgetfulnesse of the benefits which they haue receiued of god From hence dooth also arise growe springe those déepe moorninges groninges and sighinges with the which many séeinge themselues afflicted for the trueth doo repent them that they haue vsed their eares heard and beleeued the voyce of the lord Bicause that they séeinge the aduersities that doo succede follow by reason of professing and confessing the name of Iesu Christ they call it guile and deceit and doo retorne againe to wallow in the dirtie mire of their olde errours and supersticions in which they were before their calling doo become more enemies to God and more cruell against the trueth by meanes wherof their last ending is worser then theyr beginninge And for the contrary to know the trueth thereof aright and well and to haue the same printed in the hart it dooth make the good christian the stronger againste all kindes of aduersities and the more mightie to warre and fight magnanymousely manfully against all the might force of hell and neuer more to turne his shoulders to the enemie but doth become from day to day the more inriched with heauenly giftes whereby he is made the more exceptable to god All that is agaīst Iesus Christ in the world maketh war contradiction againste him but yet he ouercommeth all victoriously and most triumphantly by the vertue and strength of his perfect knowledge thereof And how much the more as it is printed in his heart so much the more shal be increased his cōfort in the time of affliction persecucion more strong firme constant in aduersitie more burning in desire to be with god greater in disdaine of the worlde and of all the delights the reigneth therein know the better how to sanctifie the name of the Lord and to demaunde with more feruent zeale that his kingdome may quickly come bicause his enimies might be destroied wholly and that he alone might be obeyed and reigne in the consciences of all those which he hath redéemed with his most precious bloud What we were before our being reduced to god Cap. ii IF we dyd vnderstād how the sinne which we dyd commit against God in the beginning dyd leaue vs after it had once gotten power emperye ouer vs we should vnderstand aswel how great the loue goodnesse of him was that dyd redeeme and take vs out of the same and deliuer vs from the condēpnacion so iustly due vnto vs for it The diuell by sinne dyd breake in and destroy all goodnesse that God had indued vs with by the which we were cléerely knowen to be his owne workmāship he did blot out the Image of god which was grauē in our soules so that the likenes of him by whom we were created was taken quite frō vs we depriued of all kinde of holines rightuousnes also made strāgers to all trueth cleannes He did leaue vs without the direction libertie that we had to cōfort our selues with in all thīgs by the diuine wil of god Finally we did remaine voyde emptied of all those gifts graces with the which God had adorned bewtified enritched vs to be serued by Bicause we might haue him euermore to be our god and that we might be known to be his childrē by the effect of those his wicked works in the world he dyd destroy in vs all the good that god had geuen vs so that we remayned full of all euill that is to be abhorred and cōtrary to god For that the diuel in place of the perfect picture Image and likenesse of him that was in vs did put his owne And so we were ful of all vnrightuousnesse of life hipocrisie fornicacion mallice couetousnesse enuie guyle hatred wickednesse abhominable abhorrours haters of god and his trueth proud vaine glorious disobedient vnfaithfull without vnderstandinge altogether blynde and without mercy made at the last a pestilent picture euen like vnto the diuell whose captiues we were In the Epistle to them of Ephesus Sainct Paule declareth and in them to vs that such was our condicion before God did call vs And you sayth he were dead by your owne delightes of sinne in the which sometyme ye walked according to the course of this world after the prince and gouerner that ruleth in the Ayre which is the spirit that now worcketh in the children of vnbeléefe amonge the which we all in tymes past haue béene conuersant in desires of the flesh and fulfylled the wyll and mynde thereof so that by nature we wer the children of wrathe And thus he concludeth that in vs there was not one spot of goodnesse nor rightuousnesse but that we were in all subiect to the diuell that all our delightes and pleasure was in naughtinesse and infidelitie so that all our works were of the flesh corrupted and accursed Bicause that if the flesh be an enemie to God and not subiect to his lawe nor may nor can be All the worckes that procéede thereof is so likewise and plaine demōstracions of the hatred of the truth wherewith the hart should be possessed And if that all humaine thoughts or thoughts of men doo from the beginning tend to euil all workes done by them be of the same qualitie euil cōdempned lost prouokers of gods great indignacion and ire so that all our euil commeth by nature At the first we were the childrē of god now by sinne we are the children of his wrath that is wholly lost banished disinherited of his riches goodnesse moreouer enimies to all that dooth please him All of vs are corrupted abhominable saith the Prophet there is none that dooth good there is none no not one Then being by sinne and the flesh al corrupted what may spring come therof but curssed stick of such efficacie the it corrupteth all goodnesse by the which it passeth By reasō wherof we are compared by the same prophet to an open sepulchre wher ther is nothing but bodies dead rotten ful of worms frō whēce may nor can come nothing but suche cruel stincke as dooth infect corrupt and kill The mouth of this sepulchre is our throfe as the said Prophet saith

the we cary the venome of waspes vnder our tongues bicause all the commeth out of the mouth is of such force that it killeth Our mouthes are full of curssing and bitternesse we haue our féete swift to runne to shed bloud our wayes manners of liuing are mortal deadly aswell for that they kill as also for that there is nothing in them but calamities and griefes misaduentures and mischiefes which are plaine testimonies of our perdiciō For in that miserable seruitude of sinn in the which we wer tyed deceiued we did not know the way of peace for that we did know nothing that might please god wherby we might be reduced or brought againe to his fréendship we were destitute of the feare and rightuousnesse of god We dyd runne lyke vnbrydled horses into all kinde of wickednesse if it had not béene for the vaine feare of men we had cōmitted openly and publickly all kinde of vice which was hidden in our hartes A man after that the soule is departed from the flesh ther resteth nothing but to bury the body for that it is wormes meate Euen so we beinge deade in sinne and sinfull delighte and God seperated from our soules there remayneth nothynge but to be buryed in Hell and to be made foode for eternall Deathe which we haue most iustly deserued in suche wise that if god would geue sentence definitiue against vs shut vs from the processe of his goodnesse and mercy we should be constrained by our owne proper consciences to confesse and yelde our selues to be well and rightuously cōdempned Bicause our workes our thoughtes our desires hartes and all that we haue within vs hath condempned vs and forced God vnto it who will not suffer so much vnrightuousenesse nor yet tollerate so great and monstrous slanderours of his truthe and bewty of his worke the which wer not our selues before our fal into that estate so miserable all that was in vs was matter and cause of iust condempnacion and to sturre vp the wrath and iudgemēt of God by the which all shal be destroyed and cōsumed bicause that all was darcknesse malediction sinne and the fruites of sinne deformed and extreme contrary to that which God doth require of vs in such maner that we had not nor cold not doo any thing that was good for that we were euil tréese corrupted rotten which colde not bring forth good fruite by reason whereof we haue bene wholly subiect to all the foresayde paynes and punishments cursse malediction that was due vnto vs there hath rested nothing but to be cut of from all the goodnesse of God and put in the company of the diuel and of his ministers all redy condempned Of our blyndnesse in times past The third Chapter THose workes which we hild for good wherein we busied our selues most earnestly in those tymes passed when as we dyd thinck to doo god good seruice thereby they were of such condicion and qualitie that by them we dyd so offend him that we brought our selues more déepely into the lake of perdicion Then we fasted we vsed disciplines of mens tradicions we caused masses to be sayde often tymes we dyd heare them we erected chappels chāteries we prayed with prime and howers we were full of deuocion for soules in purgatori we did chuse dead saints to be our aduocates to the deitie that we might escape from the wrathe condēpnacion therof by meanes of them We dyd make vnfaithfull promises and vnlawful vowes we tooke Bulles we walked stacions pilgrimages we sought for pope antichrists pardons we were awriculerly cōfessed dyd receue the Sacrament the oftener that we might be accompted the more holy merit saluacion the rather We had them that would lende or sell vs merits or deseruinges bicause that Death should not take vs vnprouided But what had we hereby to present to god for to satisfie him for our sinnes these and other the like thinges we did for to serue him with to obteine grace glory at his hāds But with thē all although they were séene allowed of men yet it dyd not open the kingdome of heauen but rather cause it to be shut vp the gates of hell to be set wide open Bicause that all that is most high sublimate supreme in estimaciō amōgst men is greatest abhominacion before god Who dooth neither allowe nor yet is well pleased with any thinge that he dooth not commaunde Neither dooth any man doo any thinge at all according to his will without his spirite norishment Those things which we doo to serue him cannot please him bicause he hath condēpned them by his worde alredy for sinne For that they procéede of our own opinions and the opinions of our fleshly teachers not of the knowledge and loue of his holy will. For all that commeth not therof is sinne as the holy Apostle dooth testifie The summe of all that the lawe diuine dooth aske and require of vs is to loue God with all our hart and our neighbours as our selues to doo right to loue mercy and to haue faith The works that we doo vnder that tytle name of holinesse are not comprehendid in the lawe they procéede not of rightuousnesse mercy and faith without the which it is impossible to please God and therefore he dooth throw them away as wicked and euill and we our selues for most wicked and euil with them And then if the worcks and sacrifises that he dooth commaūd in his lawe be not done according to his cōmaundement he dooth cast them out for euill and abhominable and sayth that he is angry with them so angry at them that he can suffer them no longer How much the more then may he be angry accompt for euill those worckes which he dooth not cōmaunde but by his word dooth rather expressely forbyd them So that all our fayned holinesse is testimony or witnesse againste vs of our greater blyndnesse and condempnacion and will cause the wrath of God to come the sooner to rest vpon vs. Bicause it was all idolatrie with the which we dyd our deuocion It was not to the true God for that we know him not but to those which were gods of our owne imaginacion fayned according to our own inuencion and false gods yet dyd we beare the marcke of the true God which was his holy Baptisme in signe of fayth and fidelitie not to haue none other gods but one the true liuing god nor to serue him by none other rule thē by that which his word teacheth yet we wer to him traytours rebells vnfaithfull Idolatours alyed and confederate with his enimies and giuen to all vnrightuousnesse and wickednesse So that we might say with the Prophet that if the onely mercy of God wer not we had béene for euer vtterly consumed and perished together Of the loue of God and of our calling and