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A16125 A godly consultation vnto the brethren and companyons of the Christen religyon By what meanes the cruell power of the Turkes, bothe may, and ought for to be repelled of the Christen people, Theodore Bibliander beinge the author. Thow shalt also fynde here (most gentle reader) of the reasons wherwyth a firme and sure concorde and peace in the Churche, and the Christen publyke weale may be constytuted, and of the fyrst begynnynge and increacementes of the Turkes domynyon, and also of the superstytyous and damnable lawe of the Mahumetanes, and of other certen thynges moste worthy truly to be red and consydered.; Ad nominis Christiani socios consultatio. English Bibliander, Theodorus, ca. 1504-1564. 1542 (1542) STC 3047; ESTC S111613 144,753 308

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dyd tell before hande Iosephus that there sholde be sygnes in the sonne and the mone in the starres But Iosephus a writer of storyes / reherseth not a fewe of those wonders whiche the Iudgement of God had prophesyed before Abowte the descendynge of Iacob in to Egypt whē the afflictiō of the Israelytes was now at hande of the whiche god had Gene. xv warned Abrahā ij hōdereth yere before One man that is to ●●ye Ioseph the sonne of Iacob Red● the story● Genesis xxxvii ād xxxix The Lorde dyd ouerthrowe one man of moste excellent vertu wyth wonderfull mysery and calamytyes / that by the example of his pacience the people of god sholde be encouraged for to perseuer in afflictions whiche the Lorde had prohecyed to come And he also promised that ther sholde be an ende of all those trobles and that they sholde be delyuered with glory and greate riches from that nation / whiche with cruell tyrannye had oppressed them Also the children of Iob beynge destroyed with the fall of an house / his ryches taken Iob .i. ii from hym by the Sabees Chaldees Theues and Robbers / hys body tourmented with botches from the sole of his fote to the toppe of his heade / an vnkynde people contemnynge hym whome he had rewarded with infinyte benifytes / his frēdes accusynge him as a wycked creature / and his wiffe prouokynge hym for to curse god ▪ Iob had none other hope of healthe lefte him / then that he knewe his soule sholde be conserued in the hande of almyghty God / and hys bodye to be restored vnto glorye in the resurrection of the deade / and to optayne euerlastynge beatitude Wyth the whyche hope he stode inuyncible and full of corrage agaynste all the assautes of hys enemye the dyuylle / And that the Israelytes commynge afterwarde into the lande of Egypte for a lytle whyle to be straytely corrected and all other the true worshippers of god sholde beholde more clerer then the light that the hope of them is not vayne whyche permytt and gyue ouer thē selues all to gether to the goodnes of god Iob was not onely delyuered from all hys plages / but also he dyd optayne here in the erth greater felicite by doble so moche more then he dyd possesse Iob. xlij before And whē the sayde Israelytes dyd euē now grone vnder the yoke of Pharo or ells rather were baked in the ouen of Exo. ij ilj afflictions / whyles Moses a man sted awaye for the death of the Egyptian / dyd fede the cattel of Ietro the preiste of the Madianytes he dyd se a busshe burnyng which not wythstandynge was not with the fyer burnte or consumed And approchynge What the burnyng bussh●●yd portend● and signifie nere vnto it / he herde an angell / speakynge in the busshe with the wordes of God / that he dyd beholde the affliction of his people and had herde theyr crye / that he wolde lose or set them at libertye Which thinge being sene / the Lord showed to Moses the people of Israel / whych being vnto the Egyptians very odyous and as it were full of pryckes / and also rough with the thornes of vyces were therfore exercysed in greate calamytyes Neuerthelesse they were not yet all to gether destroyde / no nor sholde not be of the tyrannye of Pharao / God beinge present in the myddeste of them / whose prouydēce dyd not fayle them / how soeuer they were troden vnder the fete / nether wolde he suffer any thynge to happen vnto thē that dyd not brynge moste greate proffyt But lest my oration sholde wander to farre of in the explication of wonders / I wyl be cōtēted wyth these fewe before expressed / seinge that they proue sufficiētly monsters and wonders / and prodygyous signes and tokens and these stran̄ge warkes in the world not to be vayne / nether yet with contēpt for to be demitted For why they be as the tokens of God / which brefely and as it were with a short quicke sentēce do put before owre eyes the celestiall Iudgement of mennes affayres / and they cōmaunde vs to compare owre maners and this present lyffe with the disposicion and wyse sayynge of diuine scriptures and with the warkes of the lorde done before tyme. And so to pyke owte a sure sentēce what is to be looked for god or euyll For as godly and obedyent childerne when they se theyr father / to houlde vp his fynger / to becken with his heade / to wynke vpon them / or when they here him whistle are moued in their mynde to cōsider diligētly by the disposiciō maners of their parēt by soche thīges as he hath done spoken before tyme what he wolde in that present for to be amēded takē hede of / so that they wāder very seldom or ells truly not far of from the marke / all whiche thinges truly moueth not a frowarde and a stubberne childe any thīge at all no not thus moch euē so god striketh stirreth vp the myndes The miracles of nature are signes gyuē of God to make ●s citc●m ●pecte in the consp●eratiō of his diuine pleasure of good mē with the miracles of nature that firste they maye serche examine them self fe thē afterwarde the state of the publike weale so farforth as it may be manifeste or knowne and that they may compare it with the nature and worde dedes of god rehersed in the table of the holy scriptures other faythful histories By the which respect of the lyffe of men of gods will ād pleasure a more sure sentēce iudgemēt is gathered far awaye / thē Astronomers do pronosticate by the aspectes of the Planetes Where of studie spryngeth or rather is increased / of pleasynge god with vertu / with innocēcie of maners / with almous dedes / with prayers and other holy officis What may we therfor suppose the firie doue in the ayer for to haue signified / that I may passe ouer the defectiō of the sonne / the quakynge of the erth / the burninge of the elemēte and other thinges / whē as Maximus Arbogastes / Eugenius / and certen other false desirers of tyrānie were the firste players of that fatall tragedie / which Ruffinus the caller forth of the Turkes Gildo and Stilico had moued Before the face of all the worlde there appereth a firie doue that euery mā myght ●e / whiche some time bereth the figure of the holy goste the gyftes of his grace / wherfore A declaratiō of the fyrye done what she myght porteno● and ligny●●e it is wryttē that the sayde holy spirite dyd reste vpō owre Lorde beyng baptized of Ihon in the lykenes of a doue Also a doue sent owte of the Arke of ●oe brought gladde tydinges / the waters of the floodes fallynge awaye and the wrath of god remitting it self fe Sometyme a doue figureth