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A15701	The castell of Christians and fortresse of the faithfull beseiged, and defended, now almost sixe thowsand yeares. VVritten by Iohn VVolton, on e of the Cathederal Church in Exetor.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1577 (1577)	STC 25975; ESTC S103316	80,248	214

bee turned from the fountaine of all goodnesse vnto the bothomlesse lake of all euyll from sweete lyfe to bytter death from true blessednesse to euerlasting miserie On the other side as touching the elect and faythfull this is the effect and end of Gods presence in his Church To confyrme them in fayth to moue them to be thankefull towarde him vnder whose wings they are couered to make them feare God in whose fighte they walke that they should also in tyme of trouble cal vpon him being present with them that in patience they should looke for victorie agaynst worlde and diuell Hereof spryng those sayings full of diuine consolation The Lorde is with vs feare not And another And nowe O Lorde our God saue vs out of the hand of Sennacherib that all kingdomes of the earth may knowe that thou only art God. Wherefore let vs plucke vp our hartes vnto vs and be of good comfort for without all doubt God wyl through all tymes saue preserue that Church which kéepeth the doctrine that hath bene delyuered by the Prophetes Apostles and by Christ himselfe as that swéete promise in the Prophet testifieth This is my couenaunt which I wyl make with them sayth the Lorde My spirite that is vpon thee and my vvords vvhich I haue put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seede nor out of the mouth of the seede of thy seede saieth the Lord euen from henceforth for euermore Euen so wee maye assure our selues that Christe wyll be present in our Church sytting at the ryght hand of his Father and rayning in the myddle of his enimies But wee must remember that it is our partes to thinke vpon our duetie and calling to retaine stedfastly the confession of sincere Doctrine to bewtifie Gods Churche with good endeuoure lyfe and manners Then wyll hee not fayle vs to pytche his Campe round about this Christian Castell and faithfull Fortresse that no euyll thing shal approch nigh vnto it he wyl be the maister and leader of his Sheepe that it shall not bee drowned with the floodes of persecutions Hée wyll blesse this our Countrey that it shall continew another Sarepta and bee an harbour for his seruauntes Hee wyll defende our gratious and godlye Queene with the custodie of his holye Angelles hee wyll adorne her Nobilytie with prudent counsayles and happie euentes He wyll represse the sedicious enterprises of diuelles and wicked men whose only bent and chiefe desire is all to rent the vnitie and concorde of his Churche and to dysturbe peace and tranquilitie in Common weales He wyll styrre vp dayly learned and faithful Pastors and Ministers that shall fight against Idolatrie and al erronious opinions which Lurke and Pope mayntaine with sauage immanitie and crueltie against the honour of Christ And finally he wyll abandon and remoue from vs sedicious warres persecutions famine contagious disseases that wee hauing restfull quiet mindes may wholy giue our selues to prayer and all other holye exercises yeelding vnto him only praise and thankes for the myraculous propagation and conseruation of his Church FINIS The continuall warfare of christies church Luk. 11. Eph ●6 Iob. 4. Reue. 12. Warres in all partes of the world Englande the hauen of Christes ship the harbour of persecuted men for the Gospell What good men should do in the consideration of these things Luk. 13 For what causes peace and other temporall blessinges are giuen to common Wealthes Consolations amōgst these worldly calamyties The per●ce armour of godly men Esa. 46. Esa. 49. Esa. 40. Esa. 44. ct 46. Esa. 11. Warre shal not ouercōe Christes Church 2. Reg. 19. Esa. 37. Esa. 31. The godlye dye with honour and tirantes with dishonour Dan. 3. 2. Mac. 7 Psa 112. prouer 10 Sapi. 3. Exod 12. God increseth his lyttle flock and maketh thē a mightye people August in psalm 10. Some common weales that cannot bee ouerthrowen Gene. 7. The commodyties which england inicyeth by imbracinge the worde of God. 1. Reg. 18. Sirach 40 Ephe 4. Autor serm ad fratres in eremo Iob. 14. 1. Cor. 15. Gen. 3. The generasion of man vncleane Psal. 50. Mans birth All liuing creatures haue their dēfences man only excepted Plinius lib. 7 cap. 1. et cap. 50. Perils and daungers whereunto man is subiect Solon Man is mane soe and enemy Painefull and fearful Death Euerlasting death Eccless 3. Sodayne deathes ●arnon security or di●fydence The complayntes of Philosophers touching mans stailnesse Selueccerus in prolegon ad Genesin 1. Aristo 2. Euripides in orest et Cicero Tuse 4 3. Pindari in pithijs od 8 De veritate fidei lib. 1. cap. 16. Seneca epist. 1 ad Lucil. Theophracomplaint of Nature Lucretius lib. 5. plinius lib. 7 Salust in praesat Belli Ingu●th Lactant. de opificio cap. 3. et 4. Lud. viues de veritate Fidei lib. 1. cap. 12. Seneca de breuitate vitae Cicero Tusce lib. 3. Of the word Nature Seneca de benef lib. 4 cap. 7. Gallenus de placitis hippocr et plat lib. 9 lactantius lib. 2. cap. 9 De anima et eius origine lib. 2. cap. 3 Mathous Beroaldu● Cron. lib. 2. cap. 6. Caluniuc lib. 1 institut cap. 5. Lactant lib. 3. cap. 28. what Theophrast meant by the word Nature Augu cōtra Iusianum lib. 4. ca. 12. repetit ex lib. 3. Cic. de Repub. The sygnifycations of the worde Nature Aug. retrac cap. 10. De trinitat lib. 13. ca. 12 In Psal. 38. Ephe. 2. Sulucte reyrehenbeth Theophraste but yeldeth no reason De natura et gratia cap. 1. Rom. 10. Ibidem cap. 3. 2. Cor. 5. Ephe. 2. The disorder of the Ethnickes Lege Calu Iustit lib. 2. cap. 1. Seneca his iudgement of this matter Lact lib 1. cap 5. et lib. 2. ca. 9. Seneca de breuitate vitae Our lyfe is long enough if we coulde vse it well Exigua pars est qua vitimus Man hath great causes to lament portus nauigantiū mors What the worde of God pronounceth of mans estat Gen. 6. et 18. Gen. 47. Deu. 34. Psa 90. Mans lyfe a peregrination Hebr. 11. Phili. 3 2. Co. 5. The disposition of straungers Mans dayes are euyll Ecclesia 1. 2. et 9. Cic. de niuent lib. 1. Wisdome abused Ierem. 9 Mans daugerous condiciou set out in some symylitudes 1. Pete 5. Iob. 7. Sic enim vertit Chaldeus Paraphrastes Ephe. 6. Nah. 3. Man is borne to labour Iob. 5 1. Tim. 1. Iob. 7. Esa. 3 S. Psa. 89. 2. Tim. 4. 2. Tim. 4. 2. Cor. 4. The wilful obstinacy of the world Luke No man content with his estate Herodotus Many and great pe●ua in all vocations Deut. 34. Psal. 90. Math. Of Oeconomie or house-keeping The sorrowes of parents Gen. 4. Gen. 34. 2. Sa. 13. A lamentable story Georg. Maiot in postill Grafton in parte 6. polid lib. 1. Ferrex porrex Videna The tragedye Gorbedug Petryls and miseris in ciuill regement Demostenes

be Schaddai that is to say omnisufficiente and strong ynough of himselfe and needeth not the helpe of any creature with whome as the Angell saith nothing is impossible Yet for the greater comfort of his Church hee vseth the industrie of his souldiors in this expidition against the deuyll and leuieth a great mightie armie partlie consisting of pure chaste Angelles who are named in the holie scripture flaming spirites horses and charets of fire who pitch their campe round about the godlie and are appointed to bee ministring spirites sent forth to minister for their sakes vvho shal be hcyres of saluation Of whome the number is almost infynite that mans infyrme nature is not able to comprehend the same Here vnto he adioyneth a great company of vertuous and faithfull men and women picked and chosen out of all callings vocations Which supplie hee vseth not to strengthen him selfe as though he were eyther weake or vnwarlyke but such is his gratious wyll tender kindnesse toward his seruants that he vouchsafeth in some sort to communicate and impart his glorie with his faythfull seruytors and souldiors And fyrst concerning Angelles they are all seruing spirites For their sakes who shal be heyres of saluation For so long as this worlde shall endure Angelles serue and attende in the Church mylitaunt which notwithstanding is not the ende of theyr nature but an office or function temporall for after the generall Iudgement when the Church of God shall obtaine perfit victorie they shall triumphe with the electe euerlastinglie Touching theyr number the Prophete Daniell speaketh after this manner Thousande thousandes ministred vnto him and ten thousande thousandes stoode before him Of the battayle of the Lord of Hostes and his Angelles and of their victorie wee maye reade more in the Reuelation Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angelles but they preuailed not neither was their place founde any more in heauen And the great Dragon that olde serpent called the deuyll and sathan was caste out which deceyueth the whole worlde hee was euen cast into the earth and his angelles were caste out with him Then I heard a lowde voice saying Now is saluation in heauen and strength and the power of our God the kingdom of his Christ for the the accuser of our brethren is cast downe vvhich accused them before our God day and night But they ouercame him by the blood of the Lābe and the worde of their testimonie This Michaell whome the holie ghost in this place maketh the Captaine of the battayle is the sonne of God euen our Lorde Iesus Christe as we maye both by the Prophete Daniell and by the etymologie of the worde easily gather For Michaell is asmuche to saye as vvho is lyke God The Angelles therefore folowing the ensigne and Auncient of Michaell that is to saye of the Lorde of Hostes are celestiall powers and spyrites The manner and order of their seruice is noted in manie places of Gods word But in my iudgement are most effectually collected and set downe in one place by the Prophet Dauid First he sayth That they garde and keepe all the faythfull That is that they kéepe watche and warde in housholdes commonwealths and Churche who as they neuer sleepe themselues so doo they awake those that sléepe when daungers are immynent and at hande for so they raysed vppe Peter and brought him out of prison These kéepers and watchmen neuer departe out of that roume wherin God hath placed them vnlesse is be by his especiall commaundement Some of them therefore are alwaies in all present with vs when we pray when we sing Psalmes when we either héere sermons publickly or priuatly réede the holy scriptures when we eate drinke and fleepe they then fight for vs and defende vs from all firie dartes which the worlde and deuill with greate malice caste and throwe against vs Beholde the great loue of our Emprour Captaine Emanuell towarde his Church in that he vouchsafeth to appoynt some of his heauenlie souldiers to wayte vppon it vnto whome he geueth a singular and an especiall charge that they kéepe vs warely in all our wayes We shall the better perceyue this benefite if we open it with asimilitude There is no worldlie man but hee would accoumpt it a greate signe of loue and an argument of safetie if a worldlye Prince should appoint him a sufficient number of his Garde to wayte attende vpon him daye and night that no misfortune might betide him But there is no comparison betweene this heauenlie Prince and earthly Princes nor betweene their garde consisting of weake men and this of strong Angels appointed to vs by our Captaine in Baptisme to watch and wayte vppon vs both night daye in water and fyre by sea and lande in all our lyfe and at the howre of death Secondlie the Angels beare and cary godly men about in their armes Beholde herein the rage and furie of the deuyll who in euery place layeth shares and stumbling blocks for mennes féete wherby many fall and hurt themselues euen vppon plaine grounde breaking theyr armes and thighes yea and some tymes their neckes The lyuing Lorde and mercifull God therefore minding to preuent these mischiefes commaundeth his holie Angelles to beare vs in their armes and to carrie vs from place to place that we maye doo the workes of our voration Beholde I saye euen as the Mother with an especiall delyght and pleasure taketh her young chylde wrapped in swathlyng clothes and lying in the Cradle and beareth it in her armes with many kysses vntyll the Chylde be wearie and then shee layeth it downe againe in the Cradle Euen so the Angelles euerie morning doo lyft vs out of our beddes and beare vs about all daye long in their armes that wee maye exercise our selues in the worke of our vocation and in the euening when we are wearie they bring vs to our beddes and refresh vs with many long dayes and yeares and in the ende carrie our soules in their armes with incredible ioye into Abrahams bosome where wee shall beholde the cheerefull countenaunce of God eternally The thyrd kinde of seruice of Angels expressed in that Psalme of Dauid Is that they shall put and submytte euyll beastes and venemous serpentes vnder godly mens feete without any harme as Lyons Leopardes Lyons whelpes Cokatrices and Dragons that is to saye all sortes of Tyrauntes and herytiques vppon whome good Fathers in ther families Schoolemaisters in their Schholes Ministers in their Churches and Princes in theyr Realmes do tread subdue So Iohn the Euangelist with his prayer and preaching trode vpon Cerinthus that Leoparde So was Arius that Cockatrice stamped downe with the seete of Alexander Bishoppe of Constantinople So Polycarpus Iohn the Euangelists scholler Bishoppe of Smyrneus trode vpon that Dragon Marcion And finallye so Constantine sur●●●●●● the great trode vpon and with warlike sworde