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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

be slaine as they were Now thou O man of God for our Lords sake let vs not for the loue of this life tary them to longe and be occasion of delay of that glorious cōsummation in hope and expectation wherof thei departed in the lord and the which also the liuing end●ed with Gods spirit ought so earnestly to desire and to grone for with al the creatures of God Let vs all with Iohn the seruant of God cry in our harts vnto our sauiour Christ Veni domme Iesu come Lorde Iesu come For then when christ which is our life shal be made manifest and apeare with him in glory thē shal the children of god appeare what thei be euen like vnto Christ for this our weake body shall be transfygurated and made lyke vnto Christes glorious body that by the power wherby he is able to subdue vnto himself all thinges Then that which is now corruptible shall be made incorruptible that is nowe vyle shal thē be made glorious that is nowe weake shal rise then mighty and strong that is grosse and carnal shal be made fine and spirituall for thē we shal see haue the vnspeakable ioy and fruition of the glorious maiesty of our lorde euen as he is Who or what then shall let vs to ieopard to leopard yea to spend this life which we haue here in Christes cause in our lorde God his cause O thou therefore man of god thou that arte loden and so letted lyke vnto a great bellied woman ▪ that thou canst not fly the plague yet if thou lust after such things as I haue spoken of stand fast what soeuer shall befall in thy maysters cause and take thys thy letting to fly for a calling of god to feighte in thy maister Christe hys cause Of this be thou certaine they can do nothing vnto thee which thy father is not aware of or hathe not foresene before they can do no more then it shal please him to suffer them to do for the furtheraunce of his glory edifyinge of his church and thyne owne saluation Lette them then doe what they shal seing to thee O man of God all thinges shall be forced to serue and to worcke with thee vnto the best before God O be not afraide and remember the ende All thys whiche I haue spoken for the comfort of the lamentable case of the man whō christ calleth the great bellied woman I meane to be spokē likewise to the captiue and prisoner in Gods cause for suche I count to be as it were already summoned and prested to fight vnder the banner of the crosse of Chryste and as it were souldiours allowed and taken vp for the Lords warres to do to their lord and maister good and honorable seruice and to stycke to him as men of trustie seruice in his cause euen vnto death and to thinke their life lost in his cause is to winne it in eternall glory for euermore Therefore now to conclude and to make an ende of this treatise I saye vnto all that loue God our heauenly father that loue Christe Iesus oure redemer and Sauioure that loue to folowethe wayes of the holy ghoste which is our comforter and sanct●●er of all vnto all that loue Christes spouse and body the true catholicke churche of Christe yea that loue life ther owne soules health I say vnto all theis harken my deare brethrē and sisters all you that be of God of all sortes ages dignities or degre harken to the worde of our sauioure Iesus Christe spoken to his Apostels and ment to all his in Saincte Mathewes Gospell Feare not theym whiche kyll the bodye for they can not kil the soule but feare him more whiche maie destroye and caste both bodye and soule into ●ell fyer Are not twoo small-sparrowes ●old for a mite and one of them shal not fal or light vpon the ground without your father All the hears of your head be numbred Feare them not you are much more worth then are the littel sparrowes Euery one then that confesseth me before mē him shal I likwise confesse before my father which is in heauen But whosoeuer shal denye me before men I shall denye him likewyse before my father whyche is in heauen The lord graunt vs therfore of his heauenly grace strength that here we may so confesse him in this world amongest this adulterous and sinfull generation that he maye confesse vs again at the latter day before his father which is in heauen to his glory and our euerlasting comforte ioy and saluation To our heauēly father to our sauiour redemer Iesus Christ and to the holy ghost be al glory and honor now and for euer Amen ⸫ CERTEYNE Godly and comfortable letters of the constaut wytnes of Christ Iohn Careles written in the time of his imprisonment and now fyrste set forth in printe ⸫ Anno Domini 1566. Thomas Pirry to the Christian reader in commendacion of that worthy man of god Iohn Careles MUch care did carefull Careles bide in time of Romishe rage Whē flesh bloud with fier was tried to make mennes faith to swage But god be thanked for his grace who did him so defende that in the truth he ran his race and made a godly ende No man more carefull for the crosse of Christe his sauinge health no man more careles for the losse of frendes and worldly wealth When he was hated and abhorde of Cayphas and his sede he cast his care vpon the Lorde and Careles was in dede For why he knewe that worldly power no farther coulde procede then god whose worde doth still endure already had decrede And that the Lorde would in the ende worke all things for the best when of great mercy he shoulde sende his soule to ioyfull rest In hope wherof he careles was and ready to the stake if god so woulde he did not passe such ende on earth to make But gods will was he should not die such death in open sighte wherefore in prison ioyfully to Christ he yelde his sprite Psalme 54. Caste thy care vpon the lorde and he shall nouryshe thee he wil not suffer the righteous to fall for euer ¶ The grace and free mercy of God in Iesus Chryst the swete consolations of the holy ghost the guide of all Gods dere children be with you strengthen and comforte you my derely beloued swete sister K. E. nowe euer Amen AL be it my derly beloued syster in Chryste that as yet we dyd neuer see one an other personally to any knowledge yet by the vertuous reporte that I haue heard of you and also by the large louynge token that I haue receaued frō you my thinke that I doe euen presently see you beholde your person faithfully walkinge in the feare and loue of god ioying and reioycing with you in the spirite as though we were swetly talkynge together of Christes veritie The lorde god do I humbly besech in the bowels and bloude of our lorde and sauyour

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

geuen him gra●e and strength ▪ stoutly to confesse him and his trueth before the worlde And to haue grace strength to confesse christ and the doctrine of the crosse and to lament and mourne for the abhominatiōs of antechryste I suppose is to be sygned wyth Tau whereof Ezechiell the prophet doeth speake Thus I suppose these prophecies are spiritually to be vnderstanded and to looke for other corporall markes to be sene in mens forheads or in their handes is nothing els but to loke that ther should come some brute beaste out of Babilon or some Elephante Leoparde Lion or Camell or some other suche mōstrous beast with ten hornes that shoulde do all the wonderful things spoken in Iohn yet of a beast speaketh Iohn but I vnderstande him so to be called not for that he shal be ani such brute beaste but for that he is shal be the childe of perdicion whych for his cruelty and beastly maners is well called a beaste The carnal Iewes knewe ther was a promise made that Helias shoulde come before christ Messias the anointed of god to prepare his waies thei knewe also there was a promyse of Messias that he shoulde come and be a kinge raigne in the house of Dauid for euermore but thei vnderstode all so grosely so carnally that they neyther knewe Helias nor Messias whē they came for they loked for Helias to come downe from heauen in his own persō for Messias to come raygne in worldly pompe power riches glorye when as the prophecies of both were spiritually to haue bene vnderstanded of Helias that he should come not in person but in spirit that is one which should be indued with the spirit and giftes of grace of Helias which was in deede Iohn Baptist as christ himself dyd declare to his apostles of Messias raygne all the prophets were to be vnderstāded of the raigne of his spiritual kingdome ouer the house of Iacob the true Israelites for euermore And so by that theyr grosse and carnall vnderstandinge they mystake both Helias and the true Messias and when they came knewe neyther of theym both So likewise I feare me nay it is certain the world that wanteth the light of the spirit of god for the world is not able to receaue hym sayeth Iohn neyther doth nor shall knowe the beast nor his markes though he rage cruelly liue neuer so beastly thoughe his marked men be in number like the sand of the sea The lord therfore vouchsafe to open the eies of the blinde wyth the lyghte of grace that thei may see perceaue and vnderstand the wordes of god after the minde of his spirite Amen Here remayneth two obiections which maye seeme ●●●yghty and the which may peraduēture moue many not to folow the former coūsell The former reason is a man wyll saye Oh sir it is no smal mat●er ye speake of to depart from a mans owne natiue coūtrey into a straunge realme Manye men haue so greate let●es as howe is it possible that they can or may do so Some haue lands and possessions whych they can not carry wyth thē some haue father mother wyfe children and kinsefolke from whom to depart is as hard a thyng and all one almost as to suffer death and to goe to a straunge countrey that thou knoweste not neyther the maner of the people nor how thou maist away either with the people or with the cūtrey Oh what a harde thinge it is to liue among a straunge people whose tongue thou doest not vnderstande c. I graunt here thou mayest heape a number of worldly incommodityes whych are surely verye 〈◊〉 en●ue the departure out of a man●es owne natiue countrey I meane 〈◊〉 of the whole realme into a straunge lande but what of all these and a thousand mo of the like sort I wil set vnto thē one sayinge of our Sauioure Christe which vnto the faithful childe of god and to the true Christyan is able to counteruaile al these yea and to way thē downe Christ our sauiour saithe in Luke if any come to me and doe not hate his father mother he meaneth and wil not in his cause forsake his father and mother his wife children and brethren yea and hys lyfe to he cannot be my disciple and who soeuer doeth not beare hys crosse and come after me he cannot be my discyple And in the same place he declareth by two parables one of a buylder the other of a king that is a warrier that euery man that wyl not in christes cause forsake all that euer he hath he can not be hys dysciple Loke the place who wil the matter is so plainly sette forthe that no gloses nor cloking of conscience to the man of god can serue to the contrary Many plac●s there be for the same purpose for the imbracing of christes crosse whē Christ and hys cause layeth it vppon our backe but thys is so playne that I nede here to rehearse no more The latter reason obiection wherof I spake before is of more force and includeth a necessitie which after the common sayinge hathe no lawe and therfore it is more harde to shape for it a good aunswere This may be obiected of some Alas sir I graūt all these thinges do greue me and because I vnderstande they do not agre with gods worde whych is the rule of my consciēce I loth either to loke on them or to heare thē But sir alas I am an impotēt man an aged man a sycke manne a lame man or I haue so many smal infants and a lame wife which all lyueth by my labour and by my prouision if I leaue them they shall sterue I am not able to cary them with me suche is my state Alas sir what shall I do And these causes may chaūce to some men of god whereby either it shal be for them vtterly impossible to depart the coūtrey or els in departing they shal be inforced to forsake such in extreame necessities of whom both god and nature hath commytted vnto thē the care Alas what counsell is here to be geuen O lamentable state O sorowefull harte that neither can departe and without extreame danger and peryll is not able to tarye styll And these are they whom our sauior Christ sawe before should be and called them in his prophecy of the latter time great bellied or trauelinge women and women that geueth after they be broughte to bed their small babes sucke The state of such as are not able to fly the infection of the pestiferous plague of antechrists abhominations Chryst lamentinge not cursing sayth wo be vnto the greate bellyed and trauelynge women and women that geueth suck in those daies For these alas my hart mourneth the more the lesse I am able to geue any comfortable counsayle but this that alwaies as they loke for euerlasting life they abide stil in the cōfession of his truth whatsoeuer shal befall and