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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

you contrary to nature such a meke humble hart For vpō al such he saith himself his holy spirit shal rest which promis is ful wel verified on you which holy spirite of his is the good guide and leader yea the only teacher and instructer of all the lordes deare electe children And as it hath trulye taught you to caste your selfe down as it is most conuenient euen so will it rayse you vp agayne as I doubt not but it hath already done and set you vppon a high rocke of stone wheron you shal stand sure and dwell safe for euer I meane vppon Iesus Christe on whom your fayth is fyrmely built so that the gates of death or hell shall not finallye preuaile against the same Selah But as I do righte well on your parte admit the similytude of the faythful wife of Cana which came to Christ for to haue her daughters helth wyth whō you may be well compared bothe for fayth and humble mekenes euen so I wyll in no wyse allowe that you should so much exalt me a moste vyle wretched sinner yea slime earth and asshes and a verye lumpe of Adams dunge as though● there were some thinge in me in respecte wherof you should thinke your selfe vnworthy to call me brother Alas what am I in respecte of my selfe but a depe and a damnable sinner yea suche a one as daily doth deserue not only this long enprisonment and death which now knocketh at my dore but also Gehenna and hell fier if God for his sonne Christe his sake did not forgeue the same I meane my sin which partlye hath prouoked God to plage all thys Realme Therfore my deare sister if you thinke your self vnworthy to cal me brother let it be only in respecte that I am moste vnworthye of that name Otherwise you must consider that you maye and I trust dailye do boldly call Iesus Chryst the eternall sonne of God your most deare and louing brother who by his death hath brought you life and hath made you the childe of God and felowe heyre with him of the kingdome of heauē whither he is also ascended for your possession takinge and hath thereto left with you in pledge his pure and holy spirit as a sure earnest penye of the same wherwith I am right suer we are bothe sealed vnto the daye of redemption That spirite certifyeth our spirit that we are the true adopted sonnes of God and therefore we maye boldlye call him deare father then must I nedes be youre brother and so I pray you cal mee god make me worthy of that name And where as you deare hart do desier to be refreshed wyth the fruitfull water of life which floweth forth of the holye ghost the fountain of al grace I say with Christ that blessed is your hungry soule for it shall be wel satisfied with that heauenly manna which● maketh the eaters thereof to liue for euermore For God hath geuen you his spirite which hath taught and doth still teach you what you ought to beleue and how to lyue according to the same as hitherto you haue done youre light so shininge before men that god hath ben and is greatlye glorified by the same Therefore be you certaine suer that God will likewise glorify you with him self in euerlasting glory For as the lord did know and elect you for his before the foundation of the worlde was laydi● so hath he called you by the syncere preaching of his holy gospel And as he hath truly called you so doeth he moste mercyfullye iustifye you of his free grace and fauor And as he doeth iustifye you or repute you righteous in his syghte so wyll he glorify you with a crowne of immortality in his kingdome for euer Read the eight to the Romaines for your consolation and put your truste in God who careth for you and will kepe you in his safe custody free from all the assaultes of your cruel aduersarie thoughe in hys myscheuous members he doe transforme himself into an aungel of light moste craftelye to deceaue yea ●uen the very elect if it were possible for him so to do I perceaue dear sister ●k that you haue met with some of the greuous wolues whych are fearslye entred in amongest the sely sheepe of Christ to scatter them I knowe well that you haue bene sore assaulted of the Papistes But I am sure they shall not preuayle agaynst you For their cruel tyranny and all the rest of their diuelyshe doinges is so directly against the word of God in all poyntes that they can not beguyle you thoughe they woulde neuer so fayne Perchaunce you haue also bene troubled with oure spronge vp heretykes the Arrians and Anabaptistes God keepe you and all hys deare chyldren forth of theyr wycked companye for verily they are a crafty kinde of men and many a gentle harte and symple soule they do full sore abuse depely deceyue bryngyng them far from the sincere fayth of Christe and from the pure vnderstanding of his holy word though in their outward appearance they would seme as holy as any flatteryng frier If any such come about you to perswade you from that euerlasting truth which was taught you in the dayes of oure late good kynge Edwarde by those worthy witnesses whych haue sealed the same wyth their bloud let thē not come wythin your dores neither bid thē once god spede If I were sure that any suche blynde prophetes did go about to lead you in to the dike of darknes I wold take a litle more paine for your sake I haue sente vnto my good brother Henry Iones of Witney a true and christiā confession of my faith the whiche I would wishe you to reade and in all points to be ruled thereby My good brother Richard Brice will help you to it well inough I haue spoken to him and to my brother Henrye also Ah deare sister these be the daungerous dayes in which Christ did prophecye and Paule and Peter also that manye false Prophetes shoulde appeare bring in damnable sectes euen deniyng the lorde that boughte them as these diuelishe Arrians do in denying Iesus Christ to be the ternall son of God of one substance and equal with the father But my deare hart in the lord be of good chere For though this tyme of darkenes be neuer so daungerous to the cage of vncleane and hatefull birdes that can not abide the light that is to say the congregation of Sathan whiche had no lust to beleue the truth and therfore God hath sent them stronge delusion to beleue lyes yet the sure grounde of Ged remayneth still and hath his seale which is the spirite of trueth The lord knoweth them that are his and hath committed them vnto Christe his keping who will lose nothinge of that whiche his father hath geuen hym but will raise it vp at the last day yea for his chosē sake the Lorde hath saide these sorowful dayes shal be shortned of which most happy number

and also to abstaine moste willinglye from all thinges that be detestable in his sighte what daunger so euer shoulde ensue to you for the same But in dede my dear hart to be plaine with you I doe heare to my great grief that the due consideration of this greate loue and infinite mercy of god hath not yet effectuously wrought al these aforesaid things in you according to my lōng expectacion but it is enformed me by credible persons ▪ that you notwithstanding the great loue of God towards you and the excellent knowledge he hath so graciouslye geuen you before many other doe yet manye times defile your faith or mariage garment with comming into the companye of filthy idolaters at the time of theyr Antechristian seruice Trulye if it be so it is a token that the great abundant bottomles loue mercy of God towardes you hath not yet in suche sorte ben considered of you that it hath as it ought to haue done swalowed vp all the vaine loue of the worlde Ah where is true faith become and liuely seling of Gods mercy that were wont to make the children of god diligent to kepe Goddes commaundementes and merilye to beare his crosse But perchaunce you do not thinke it a breaking of Gods commaundementes to goe to the Idols temple and to bee present with the papistes at their supersticious seruice c. But god forbid you should be so ignorāt after so many instructiōs in so great weightye a matter For surely the vnknowen sicknes is most daungerous euermore as experience teacheth But I verily thinke at the least wise I hope that youre knoweledge is so great in these things that the daunger in being partaker with the wicked is not hid frō your eyes Therfore your fault is so muche the greater the sorer punishmēt is due for the same But my vndoubted trust is that almighty God our most deare louinge father wyll not leaue you in your weaknesse but wil rayse you vp agayne by true and earnest repentance and geue you such grace and strength of his spirit that henceforth you shal be so far from cominge to anye of theyr abhominable superstition that you shall be able well to persuade this bearer and many other the sainctes of God from the same I knowe deare harte that thys thinge which I requier of you wil bryng a great crosse vnto you as well at the handes of your husband as of many other your worldly frendes and foes But let not that discourage you any thing at all syth you are one of the chosen children of God to whom hys crosse doth specially belonge Let not tribulation for righteousnesse sake seme a straunge thing vnto you but rather reioyce and be glad that God will vouche you worthye of so great dignity For trulye it is the greatest honor that God can bringe his elect vnto in this mortall life I meane to make them his witnesses to the world and to make them worthye to suffer for his sake which thinge is not permitted to the highest Angell in heauen albeit I beleue they wolde more reioyce thereof then in all the glorye they haue Oh whye are we then so loth to come to this great promotiō seing it is the verye ordinance of god vppon all his deare chyldren as S. Paule affirmeth saying To you it is geuen not only that you should beleue in Iesus Christ but also that you should suffer for his sake Again he saith all that will liue godlye in Christ Iesu must suffer persecution Oh what cause haue we to reioice if it please God by suffringes to make vs some thing cōformable to the passions of our swete Christ who fyrste suffred for vs and afterward entred into his glorye Wee haue in thys world nothing so much to reioice in as that we are made meete to be vnder the crosse with Chryst. For therby are we assured not onlye that the glorious spirite of god resteth vpon vs but also that we shall reign with Christe and bee glorifyed together with him who hathe testified with his owne mouth that they be blessed which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theirs saieth he is the kingedome of heauen into the which we must also enter by manye tribulatiōs Happy is he saith christ that endureth to th end Be faithfull vnto death saith the holy ghoste I will geue thee a crowne of life c. But what mean I to make so long a circūstance vnto you my deare hart who knoweth al these things as wel or better then I Oh that you hadde the grace and strēgth to do al things accordinge to youre knowledge I meane concerning the fleing frō Idolatry and suffering for the truth As for al other things I know you are vnspotted praised be god for you Oh that you durste pledge me of the same cup if need do requier wherof the lord of our glory hath not refused himself to drinke before vs and hath left vs an example to folow his fotesteps that he might crowne vs wyth his owne glorye and most precious giftes Oh lord helpe thy deare children that wold faine come vnto the and loke not narowly vpō our sins which are the cause of oure long absence from thee but couer theym for thy Christes sake with the mantell of thy manifold mercies whyche far surmounteth al thy workes that we may not be ashamed but reioyce at thy most glorious comming the which do thou hasten according to thy promise for thy chosens sake We haue deare sister bene of longe season acquainted with this earthlye old man of ours to much which is ful of sin and presseth downe sore our vnderstāding that it is needful for vs to be tried throughe manye trybulations that the rust therof myght be worne awaye that we might be made mete vessels for the lordes owne vse and be sanctifyed to honour Happy is he that endureth chasticinge Whyche blessing my good sister God offereth vnto vs at this present yea and him selfe also as our moste deare louinge father Let vs willingly embrace him therfore and geue thankes vnto his name that hath triumphantly gottē victorye ouer al our ennemies and is now pleading our cause on the right hand of God his father in the kyngdome of heauen where he kepeth possession for vs. To whom if we direct oure eyes wyth a stedfast fayth wee shal not nede to feare neither death synne nor hell for theyr whole power is taken awaye and Christes righteousnes maketh aūswer for vs. Yea he is wholy ours with al his merites mercies and moste swete sufferinges and we are his for euermore so that we may boldly say the lord is our helpe and therfore we wyll not feare what man maye do vnto vs for he is but fleshe and his breath is in hys nostrels but the strengthe of the lord and the power of his word endureth for euer vnto the whyche let vs stedfastly trust then shal we not be confounded My deare frend faithful sister K. thynke no vnkyndnes in me that I write thus boldlye vnto you for verily it is of pure loue and a true hart that I beare vnto you as I am most depely bound yea double and treble I haue plentifully reaped your temporal things god recōpence you for it And ought not I thē much more to sow vnto you some of those spyritual thinges wherewyth God hath blessed me yes truly and euerlastynge woe and damnation were most due and suer vnto me if I did it not God for his christes sake forgeue me my great neglygence in thys behalfe towardes you and al the rest of hys deare children whome I loue in the lord as mine owne soule and thanke God most hartelye that you do me likewyse whych am most vnworthy of the same God geue me the spirite of prayer that I maye therewith supply some part of my duty towardes you for verily I am farre in your debt and so am like to die But my suer trust is that my good God for whose sake I lose lyfe and goods and al earthly commodityes wyl abundantly recompence you wyth his blessyng both spirituall and temporal and in the ende bringe you vnto me in the place of perpetual ioy and quietnes where we shal rest from al our labors and remaine together for euermore There shall we most perfectly know one another personally thoughe in thys lyfe we are not like to doe so for I am alredy proclaimed heretike at Paules crosse I prayse god most hartily for it For nowe I know I shal shortly be with him for whose sake I am so called and shal be yet more solēnely the sūday after Trinity sunday doctor Harpesfield saith ▪ I thanke him for his paines For he hath geuen me good warning to prepare my selfe ready against the daye of slaughter whiche time is not yet in their handes for all their bragges and proud bostinges but in the good wil determinatiō of my most deare God and louinge father And right suer I am that they I meane my enemies and if al the diuels in hell do helpe theym can not shorten my life one minute of an howre otherwyse then GOD hath appoynted for his glory and my eternal profit Therefore vpon him wil I cast all my care be careles according to my name in spite of theym all and tell them I will when I come before them that God doth laughe al their doinges to scorne and shortlye wyll bringe all their counselles to naught to their owne vtter confusion if they be not conuerted For whiche thing let vs praye to him whiche onelye is able to doe it and wyl when he seeth hys good time and pleasure In the meane space the same LORDE geue vs hys peace and pacience with plentiful consolation and ioye in the holy ghost who gouerne guyds lead and conduct vs vnto the very end Thus yet once agayne I commit you vnto Goddes moste mercyfull defence who euer haue you and all youres in hys blessed keping The blessinge of God be wyth you euermore Amen youres for euer moste vnfeynedlye Iohn Careles prysoner of the Lorde at all tymes abidinge his most merciful wyl pleasure Pray pray pray FINIS Imprinted at London by VVillyam Powell dwelling in Fletestrete at the signe of the George nere to Sainct Dunstons Church Apoc. 17. He meaneth hym selfe Math. 24. 2. Cor. 6. Lib. 4. Cap. 15. Apo. 9. Daniel 11. Apoc. 12. Math. 10. Apoc. 2.