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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13094	A christal glasse for christian vvomen containing, a most excellent discourse, of the godly life and Christian death of Mistresse Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton vpon Trent, in Staffordshire the 14. day of December. 1590. With a most heauenly confession of the Christian faith, which shee made a little before her departure: as also a wonderfull combate betwixt Sathan and her soule: worthie to be imprinted in letters of golde, and are to be engrauen in the tables of euery Christian heart. Set downe word for word, as she spake it, as neere as could be gathered: by Phillip Stubbes Gent.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1592 (1592)	STC 23382; ESTC S104605	19,337	22

her but she beat her away and calling her husband to her sayd Good husband you and I haue offended God grieuously in receiuing this bitch many a time into our bed we would haue beene loth to haue receiued a Christian soule purchased with the precious blood of Iesus Christ into our bed and to haue nourished him in our bosoms and fed him at our table as we haue done this filthie our many a time the lord giue vs grace to repent for it and al other vanities And afterward could she neuer abide to looke vpon the Bitch any more Hauing thus godly disposed of all things she fell into an extasie or into a traunce or swound for the space almost of a quarter of an houre so as euerie one thought she had beene dead But afterward shee comming to her self spake to thē that were present as there were many both worshipful others saying Right worshipful my good neighbours friends I thanke you all for the great paines you haue taken with me in this bed of my sicknes whereas I am not able to requite you I beséech the Lord to reward you in the kingdome of heauen And for that my houre-glasse is run out that my time of departure hence is at hand I am perswaded for thrée causes to make a confession of my faith before you all The first cause that moueth me hereto is for that those if there be any such here that are not throughly resolued in the truth of God may heare and learne what the spirit of God hath taught me out of his blessed al sauing word The second cause that mooueth me is for that none of you should iudge that I died not a perfect christiā a liuely mēber of the mystical body of Iesus christ so by your rash iudgement might incurre the displeasure of God The third and last cause is for that as you haue béene witnesses of part of my life so you might be witnesses of my faith and beleeue also And in this my confession I would not haue you to thinke that it is I that speak vnto you but the spirit of God which dwelleth in me and in al the elect of God vnlesse they be reprobates for Paul saith Ro. 8. If any one haue not the spirite of Christ dwelling in him he is none of his This blessed spirit hath knocked at y e dore of my heart and God hath giuen me grace to open the doore vnto him he dwelleth in me plentifully And therefore I pray you giue me pacience a little and imprint my words in your hearts for they are not the words of flesh and bloud but of the spirite of God by whom we are sealed to the day of redemption A most heauenly confession of the Christian faith made by this blessed seruant of God Mistresse Katherine Stubbes a little before she died ALthough the Maiestie of God bee both infinite and vnspeakable and therefore according to his excellent dignitie can neither bee conceiued in heart nor expressed in words yet to the end you may knowe what that God is in whome I beléeue as farre as he hath reuealed himselfe vnto vs in his holy word I will define him vnto you as the spirit of God shal illuminate my heart I beléeue therfore with my heart and freely confesse with my mouth here before you all that this God in whom I beleeue is a most glorious spirite or spirituall substance a diuine essence or essential being without beginning or ending of infinite glorie power might and Maiestie inuisible inaccessible incomprehensible and altogether vnspeakeable I beleeue confesse that this glorious Godhead this blessed substance essence or being this diuine power which we call God is diuid●d into a trinitie of persons the father the sonne and the holy spirit distant onely in names and offices but all one and the same in nature in essence substance deitie maiestie glory power might and eternitie I beleeue and confesse that God the father the first person in this blessed Trinitie is from euerlasting before beyond all times not made nor created nor begotten of any but the onely maker creator and begetter of all things whatsoeuer I beleeue confesse that Christ Iesus the son of God is the second person in this glorious Trinitie not created or made of any but begotten of his father before all Eternitie time or worlds I beléeue the holy spirite to be the third person in this sacred Trinity not made of any nor begottē but proceeding both from the father the son as the very wisdome and inspiration of thē both I do beleeue confesse that this most glorious Trinity is cōsubstantial coessential together none before or after other none greater or lesser then another of equal power of equal maiesty of equal glory eternity as before I beleeue and confesse that this God this blessed Trinity not onely created all things both visible and inuisible spiritual and corporall where or whatsoeuer but also that he vpholdeth continueth and maintaineth them by his almightie power vnsearchable wisdome through the secret wisdome of his spirit I beleeue and confesse that this God ordereth and disposeth al things according to his good pleasure and will and that he also foreseeth all things by his prouidence and prescience so that nothing commeth to passe by Fortune chaunce or casualtie to him though so it seemeth fortuna●l or casuall to vs who see neither the beginnings the middles the endes the causes or effects of things before they come to passe I beleeue and confesse that the Lord our God hauing created the vniuersall engine and frame of this worlde with all things contained therein for the benefite and vse of man onely the last of all other creatures euen the sixt day created man after his owne similitude and likenesse holy pure good innocent and in euery part perfect and absolute giuing him also wisdome discretion vnderstanding and knowledge aboue all other creatures the holy Angels set apart And which was more hee gaue vnto him a certaine power strength and facultie which wee call freewill by force whereof he might haue continued and remained for euer in his integritie and holinesse if hee had would But hee had no sooner receiued this inestimable blessing of freewill of innocencie and integritie but by hearkening to the poysoned suggestions of the wicked Serpent and by obeying his perswasions hee lost his freewill his integritie and perfection and vs all his posteritie to the end of the world and so of a Saint in heauen hee and we in him became firebrands of hell vassals of Sathan Miscreants Reprobates Abiects and Castawaies before the face of God for euer Then when there was no other way or meanes for man to bee saued in the iustice of God I constantly beleeue and confesse that God the Father in the multitude of his mercies when the fulnesse of tyme was come sent

of the booke of God And good Lord that hast begun this good worke in me finish it I beseech thee and strengthen me that I may perseuere therein to the ende and in the end through Iesus Christ my onely Lord and Sauiour She had no sooner made an end of this most heauenly confession of her faith but Sathan was ready to bid her the combat whome shee mightely repulsed and vanquished by the power of our Lord Iesus on whom she constantly beleeued And wheras before shee looked with a sweete louely and amiable countenaunce red as the Rose and most beautifull to beholde nowe vpon the sudden she bent the browes shee frowned and looking as it were with an angry sterne and fierce countenaunce as though shee sawe some filthy vgglesome and displeasant thing shee burst foorth into these speeches following pronouncing her wordes as it were scornefully and disdainfully in contempt of him to whom shee spake A most wonderfull conflict betwixt Sathan and her soule and of her valiaunt conquest in the same by the power of Christ. HOw now Satan what makest thou here Art thou come to tempt the Lords seruant I tell thée thou hell-hound thou hast no part nor portion in me nor by the grace of God neuer shalt haue I was now am and shall be the Lords for euer Yea Satan I was chosen elected in Christ to euerlasting saluation before the foundations of the world were laid and therefore thou maist get thee packing thou damned Dog and goe s●ake thine eares for in me thou hast nought But what doest thou lay to my charge thou soule fiend Oh that I am a sinner and therefore shall be damned I confesse in deed that I am a sinner and a grieuous sinner both by originall sinne and actuall sinne and that I may thanke thee for And therefore Satan I bequeath my sin to thee from whō it first came and I appeale to the mercy of God in Christ Iesus Christ came to saue sinners as he saith himself and not the righteous behold the Lambe of God saith Iohn that taketh away the sinnes of the world And in another place he crieth out the bloud of Iesus Christ doth cleanse vs from all sinne And therefore Satan I constantly beleeue that my sinnes are washed away in the precious bloud of Iesus Christ and shall neuer be imputed vnto me any more But what sayest thou more Satan Doest thou aske me how I dare come to him for mercy hee being a righteous God and I a miserable sinner I tell thee Satan I am bold through Christ to come vnto him being assured and certaine of pardon and remission of all my sinnes for his names sake For doeth not the Lorde bidde all that be heauy laden with the burthen of sinne to come vnto him and he will ease them Christes armes were spread wide open Satan vpon the Crosse with that shee spread her owne armes to embrace me and all penitent sinners and therefore Satan I wil not feare to present my selfe before his footestoole in full assurance of his mercy for Christ his sake What more Satan Doest thou say it is written that God will rewarde euery one according to his workes or according to his desertes But it is written againe thou deceiptfull deuill that Christes righteousnesse is my righteousnesse his workes my workes his desertes my deserts his merits my merits and his precious bloud a full satisfaction for al my sins Oh but God is a iust God thou saist and therefore must néedes in iustice condemne me I grant Satan that he is a iust God and therefore he cannot in iustice punish me for my sins which he hath punished already in his sonne It is against the law of iustice to punish one fault twice I was and am a great debter vnto God the Father but Christ Iesus hath paid the debt for me and therefore it standeth not with the iustice of God to require it againe And therefore auoid Satan auoid thou firebrand of hell auoid thou damned dog and tempt me no more for he that is with me is mightier then thou euen the mighty and victorious Lion of the tribe of Iuda who hath bruzed thy head and hath promised to be with his children to the end of the world Auoid therfore thou dastard auoid thou cowardly souldier remooue thy siege and yeeld the field won and get thée packing or else I wil cal vpon my grand-captaine Christ Iesus that valiant Michael who beat thée in Heauen and threw thee downe to hell with all thy hellish traine and diuelish crew She had scarcely pronounced these last words but she fell suddenly into a sweete smiling laughter saying Now is hee gone now is he gone doe ye not see him flie like a coward and runne away like a beaten cocke He hath lost the field and I haue wonne the victory euen the garland and crowne of euerlasting life and that not by my own power and strength but by the power and might of Iesus Christ who hath sēt his holy Angels to keep me And speaking to thē that were by she said oh would God you saw but what I sée For do you not see infinite millions of most glorious Angels stand about me with fierie charets readie to defend me as they did the good Prophet Elizeus These holy Angels these ministring spirits are appoynted by God to carry my soule into the kingdome of heauen where I shall behold the Lord face to face shal see him not with other but with these same eyes Now am I happy blessed for euer for I haue fought the good sight and by the might of Christ haue won the victory Now from henceforth shal I neuer tast neither of hūger nor cold paine nor wo misery nor affliction vexation or trouble feare nor dread nor of any other calamity or aduersity whatsoeuer From henceforth is layd vp for me a crowne of life which Christ shall giue to those that loue him And as I am nowe in possession thereof by hope so shall I be anon in ful fruition therof by presence of my soule and hereafter of my body also when the Lorde shall please Then she spake softly to her selfe as followeth Come Lord Iesus come my loue Iesus oh send thy Purseuant sweete Iesus to fetch me Oh sweet Iesus strengthen thy seruant and keepe thy promise Then sang she certaine Psalmes most sweetly and with a chearefull voice which done the desired her husband that the 133. Psalme might he sung before her to the Church And further shee desired him that hee would not mourne for her alledging the Apostle Paul where he saith Brethren I would not haue you to mourn as men without hope for them that die in the Lord affirming that she was not in case to be mourned for but rather to be reioiced of for that shee should passe shee said from earth to heauen from men to holy Angels to Cherubins and Seraphins to holy Saintes

in remembrance of the death passion of Iesus Christ doe eat and drink Iesus Christ spiritually to their euerlasting saluatiō And I do verely beleeue that in this Sacrament neither the bread nor the wine neither before nor after the wordes of consecration as they tearme them are chaunged altered or transubstantiate into the reall essentiall or materiall body of Christ but doe remaine the same still in nature and substance that they were before And therefore Paul feared not to call it bread still many times in his epistle to the Corinthians And our Sauiour Christ in the 6. of Iohn saith that they should see him ascend into heauen with the same body that he sate in with them at Supper whole and vneaten adding further that the wordes that he spake were spirite and truth and that it is the spirit that giueth life the flesh profiteth little And he biddeth vs to celebrate this Supper in remembrance of him and to preach his death therin till he come againe If Christ were in the Sacrament flesh blood and bone then the wicked might eate him so should there neuer any wicked be condemned for Christ sayth hee that eateth his flesh and drinketh his bloud shall neuer die yea Rattes Cattes and Mice might eate his body which were blasphemous and sacrilegious once to imagine though the Papists are not ashamed to teach it openly And albeit that these Sacraments doe represent vnto vs most excellent things yet do they not conferre grace of themselues neither is the grace of God so tied to the materiall Elements that hee cannot saue without them And therefore are the Papists more then cruell that teach all children to be damned that die before baptisme For wee read of certaine in the Acts of the Apostles that were baptised and yet they had not so much as heard whether there were any holy Ghost or not Simon Magus was baptised yet he receiued not the holy Ghost tho And againe Cornelius had receyued the holy Ghost before his Baptisme Iohn the Baptist receiued the holy Ghost in his mothers wombe and the like But yet notwithstanding although the grace of God be not tyed to the Sacraments yet hee that may receyue them and wil not or else setteth light by them or contemneth them shall neuer receiue the gifts and graces signified by them I doe also most constantly beleeue that as Iesus Christ is the vndoubted Sauiour of the worlde so is he our onely Mediatour aduocate and intercessour to God the Father and none but he alone who is ascended into the Heauens sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh continuall praiers to God for vs. And Iohn saith If any man sinne we haue an aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins And to the same effect Paul speaketh 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one mediatour betweene God and man which is the man Christ Iesus And as I beleeue that Iesus Christ is our onely mediatour and aduocate so I constantly beleeue that he onely is to be called vpon inuocated and prayed vnto and neyther Saint nor Angel Patriarke nor Father Martyr nor Confessour Peter nor Paul Apostle nor Euangelist Iames nor Iohn no not Marie herselfe nor any other creature how excellent soeuer they seemed to be in the eye of the world For we are assured by the word of god that the saints can neither heare our praiers nor grant our requests And therefore Christ saith Call vpon me in the day of thy troubles and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt prayse me And againe the Apostle sayth how shall they call vpon him in whom they haue not beleeued Then as it is not lawfull to beleeue in any other saue in God alone so is it not lawfull to pray to any other but to God alone in the name and mediation of Christ Iesus onely I doe also most constantly beleeue that my soule so soone as euer it shall depart foorth of my bodie shall be caried by the ministerie of the holy Angels of God into the kingdome of Heauen where I shall see and certainly knowe Adam Euah Noah Abraham Isaac Iacob Moses Samuel Dauid and all other Prophets Patriarkes and Fathers together with Marie the mother of Christ Peter Paul Iames and Iohn and all other Martyrs Confessours and holy Saints of God which haue dyed since the beginning of the worlde or which shall die to the ende of the same Oh what a comfortable thing is this that we shall know one another in the life to come Talke one with another loue one another and praise God one with another and all together worlde without ende And because some of you peraduenture will hardly beleeue this doctrine to be so I pray you giue me leaue to proue it by the worde of God and then will I make an end When God had cast Adam into a dead sleepe made woman of a ribbe of his side he brought her vnto him and he knew her straight way and called her by her name Could Adam in the state of innocency know his wife he being in a dead sleepe whilest she was in making And shal not we being restored to a farre more excellent dignity and perfection then euer was Adam in not know one another Shall our knowledge be lesse in heauen then it is in earth Doe we know one another in this life where wee know but in part and see but in part yea as it were in a Glasse and shall we not know one another in the life to come where all ignorance shall be done away In the 16. of Luke we reade how that the rich man lying in hell knew Abraham and Lazarus in heauen a farre off Then I reason thus If the wicked that be in hell in torments doe knowe those that be in heauen so farre aboue them how much more shal the godly know one another being altogether in one place fellowe Citizens in the kingdome of heauen We reade also in the 17. of Matt how our Sauiour Christ meaning to shew vnto his Disciples Peter Iames and Iohn as it were a shadowe or glimmering of the ioyes of heauen and therefore hee is sayd to bee transfigured before them and his face did shine as the Sunne and his apparell was like the light there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias sayth the text Then it followeth that if the Disciples being in their natural corruption and but in a shadow and glimmering of the ioyes of heauen did knowe Moses and Elias the one whereof died almost two thousand yeares before the other not much lesse how much more shall we knowe one another in the life to come all corruption being taken away and we in the full fruition and possession of all the ioyes and glory of heauen This is my faith this is my hope this is my trust this hath the spirite of God taught me and this haue I learned out