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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

theyr iuggelyngs crafty gloses can not bryng one ●ote of goddes worde Surely surely they be not onely all these abhominatiōs which are come into the churche of England alredy wherof I haue spoken somwhat before but also an innumerable rablement of abhominatious and wicked abuses which now must nedes folow As popishe pardons pi●grymages Romishe purgatory Romishe masses Placebo dirige with trentalles Scala coeli dispensations immunities from all godly discipline lawes and good order pluralities vnions and ●ot quottes with a thousande moo Nowe shall come in the flatterynge fryers and the false pardoners and play their olde pranckes and knauery as they were wonte to do Nowe you shall haue but of the see of rome onely and that for money canonysing of suche saynctes as hath stoode stoute in the popes cause shrinynge of relicques and from anye kynde of wickednes if you wyll pay well for it cleere absolution a pena et cupla with thousandes of yeres yea at euerye poore byshops hande and suffragan ye shall haue halowing of churches chapelles altares superalteres chaleces and of al the whole household stuffe and adornament which shall be vsed in the churche after the Romishe guise for al these things must be estemed of suche hyghe pry●e that they may not be done but by a consecrate byshop only O Lorde all these thinges are suche as thy apostles neuer knewe As for coniuringe they call it ha●owing but it is coniuryng in dede of water and salt of chrysteninge of belles and suche like lyghte thinges what nede I to speake for euery priest that can but reade hath power they say not only to do that but also hath suche power ouer Chrystes bodi as to make both god man once at the least euery daye of a water cake After the rehersall of the saide abhominations and remembraunce of a number of many mo which the lord knoweth yrketh me to thinke vpon and were to long to describe when I consider on the other side the eternal worde of god that abydeth for euer and the vndefiled lawe of the Lorde which turneth the soule frō all wyekednesse and geueth wisedome vnto the innocente Babes I meane that mylke that is without all gu●le as Peter doth call it that good word of god that worde of truth which must be grauen within the harte and thē is able to saue mennes soules that wholesome sede not mortall but immortal of the eternal and euerliuing God whereby the manne is borne a newe and made the chylde of God that seede of God whereby the man of god so being borne can not sinne as Iohn saythe he meaneth so longe as that seede doth abide in him that holy scrypture whych hath not bene deuysed by the wytte of manne but taught from heauen by the inspyration of the holy ghost whych is profitable to teach to reproue to correct to instruct and geue order in al righteousnesse that the man of god maye be whole sound ready to performe euery good woorke when I saye I consyder thys holye and wholesome true woorde that teacheth vs truely our bounden dewty towardes oure lorde god in euery poynte what hys blessed wil and pleasure is what his infinyte greate goodnesse and mercy is what he hath done for vs how he hath geuen his owne only dere beloued to death for our saluation by him hath sent vs the reuelatiō of his blessed wyll pleasure what his eternal word willeth vs both to beleue also to do and hath for the same purpose inspyred the holy apostles wyth the holy ghost and sent them abrode into all the worlde and also made them and other dysciples of Chryste inspyred by the same spyrit to write and leaue behynde theym the same thynges that they taught which as they dyd procede of the spyrit of truth so by the confessyon of all them that euer were endued wyth the spirite of God were sufficiente to the obteyning of eternal saluation and lykewyse when I consyder that all that man doth professe in his regeneratiō when he is receued into the holy catholyke church of Christ and is now to be accounted for one of the liuely members of Christes owne body all that is grounded vpon Goddes holy worde and standeth in the profession of that fayth and obedyence of those cōmaundementes which are all contayned and comprysed in Gods holy woorde and furthermore when I consider whom our sauyoure Chryst pronounceth in his gospel to be blessed and to whō Moyses geueth hys benedictions in the law what waies the Lawe the Prophetes the Psalmes and all holy Scryptures bothe newe and olde doth declare to be the wayes of the Lord what is good for man to obtayne and abyde in Gods fauour which is that sayth that iustifieth before God and what is that charity that doeth passe and excel al which be the properties of heauenly wisedome and whyche is that vndefiled religion that is allowed of god whych thynges Chryst himselfe calleth the weighti matters of the law what thing is that which is only auaylable in Chryst and what knowledge is that that Paule esteemed so much that he counted him selfe only to knowe what shall be the maner of the extream iudgemēt of the later day who shal iudge and by what he shal iudge and what shall be requyred at our hands at that fearful day howe all thynges muste be tryed by the fier and that that only shal stand for euer whych Christes wordes shal allowe which shal be the iudge of al fleshe to geue sentence vpon al flesh and euery liuynge soule eyther of eternall damnation or of euerlastyng saluation from whyche sentence there shall be no place to appeale no wytte shall serue to delude nor no power to wythstande or reuoke when I saye I consyder all these thynges and conferre the same agayne and agayne all those wayes wherin standeth the substance of the Romishe relygion wherof I spake before it may be euydente and easye to perceaue that these two wayes these two relygions the one of christ the other of the Romishe see in these latter dayes be as farre dystaunte the one from the other as lighte and darkenesse good and euyll ryghteousnes and vnrighteousnes chryst Belial He that is harde of beliefe let him note and way well with him selfe the places of holye Scryptures which be appointed in the margent wherevpon this talke is grounded and by Gods grace he maye receyue some lyght And vnto the contemner I haue nothynge nowe to saye but to rehearse the saying of the prophet Esaye whyche Paule spake to the Iewes in the ende of the actes of the apostles After he had expounded vnto them the truth of Gods worde and declared vnto them Chryste out of the lawe of Moyses and the Prophetes from mornynge to nyghte all the day long he said vnto them that woulde not beleue well sayde he spake the holi ghost vnto our fathers sayinge go vnto this people and tel them ye shall heare with

in the other yet the lord is al one towards them in both and loueth theym nolesse when he sufferethe theym to be beaten yea and to be put to bodelye death then when he woorketh wonderes for their maruelous deliuery Nay rather he doth more for them when in anguish of the torments he standeth by them strenghneth them iu their faith to suffer in the confession of the truethe and his faithe the bitter panges of death then when he openeth the prison doore and letteth them go lose for here he doth but respit thē to an other time and leaueth them in daunger to fall in like peryl agayne and there be maketh theym Perfect to be without daūger payne or peril after that for euer more But this his loue towardes theym howe soeuer the world doth iudge of it is all one both when he deliuereth and when he suffereth theym to be put to death He loued as wel Peter Paul when after thei had according to his blessed wil pleasure and prouidence finished their courses and done their seruices appointed them by him here in preaching of his Gospell the one was beheaded and thother was banged or crucified of the cruell tyraunte Nero as the Ecclesiasticall historye saythe as when he sent the Aungell to bring Peter out of prison and for Paules deliuery he made all the dores of the prison to flie wide open and the foundation of the same like an earthquake to tremble and shake Thinkest thou O thou man of god that Christ our Sauiour had lesse affection to the fyrste martyr Stephen bicause he suffered his enemies euen at the firste conflicte to stone him to death No suerlye nor Iames Iohns brother whiche was one of the three that Paul calleth Primates or Principals amongst the Apostles of Christe He loued him neuer a whit the worse then he did the other although he suffered Herod the tyrants sword to cut of his head Nay doth not Daniel say speaking of the cruelty of Antechrist his time Et docti in populo docebunt plutimos ●uent in gladio in flamma in captiuitate in rapina dierum c. Et de cruditis ruent 〈◊〉 cōflentur e●●gātur dealbentu● c. That is and the lerned he meaneth truly learned in gods law shal teach many and shal fal vpon the sworde and in the flame that is shal be burned in the flaming ●yer and in captiuitye that is shal be in prison and be wo●●d and robbed of their goods for alonge season And after a lyttel in the same place of Daniel it foloweth and of the lerned ther be whiche shal fal or be ouerthrowen the they maye be knowen tried chosen made white he meaneth be furnyshed and scou●●d a new picked and chosen made freshe and lustre Yf that then was foresene for to be done to the godlye lerned and for so gracious causes let euery one to whome any such thinge by the wyll of God doeth chaunce be mery in God and reioyce for it is to Gods glory and to hys owne euerlastinge wealth Wherefore well is he that euer he was borne for whome thus graciouslye God hath prouided hauinge grace of God and strenghe of the holy ghoste to stande stedfastly in the height of the storme Happy is he that euer he was borne whom God his heauenly father hath vouchsafed to appointe to glorify him to edifie his church by the effusion of his bloud To die in Christes cause is an hyghe honour to the which no man certainlye shall or can espire but to whome god vouthsafeth that dignitie for no man is alowed to presume for to take vnto himselfe any offyce of honoure but he whiche is there vnto called of god Therfore Iohn sayth wel speaking of them whiche haue obteyned the victory by the bloud of the lambe and by the worde of hys testimonye that they loued not their lyues euen vnto death And our sauiour Chryste sayeth he that shall lose hys lyfe for my cause shall finde it And this maner of speache pertayneth not to one kind of christians as the worldly do wyckedly dreame but to all that doe truly pertain vnto Christ. For when christ had called vnto him the multitude together wyth hys dysciples he saide vnto them marke that he said not this to the disciples and apostles only but he said it to al whosoeuer wil so low me let him forsake or deny hīself take vp his crosse and folow me for whosoeuer wil saue his life shal lose it he meaneth whosoeuer wil to saue his lyfe bothe forsake or leaue him his trueth and whosoeuer shall lose his life for my cause and the gospels sake shal saue it for what shal it profit a man if he shal winne the whole worlde and lese his owne soule hys owne life or what shall a man geue to recompence that losse of his owne life and of his owne soule Whosoeuer shall be ashamed of me and my words that is to confesse me and my gospell before this adulterous sinful generation of him shal the son of man be ashamed when he cōmeth in the glory of his father with the holy aungels Know thou O man of god that all thinges are ordeyned for thy behofe and to the furtherāce of thee towardes thy saluation All thinges saith Paule worketh with the good to goodnes euen the enemies of god and such kind of punishments wherby they go about to destroye theym shall be forced by Goddes power might and fatherly prouidence for to do them seruyce It is not as the wycked thinketh that pouertie aduersity sycknes tribulation yea paynefull death of the godly be tokens that God doeth not loue theym but euen cleane the contrary as al the whole course of scripture doth euedently declare for then he wold neuer haue suffred his most deare beloued the Patriarches to haue had such troubles his prophetes his Apostles his Martyrs and chiefe chāpions and maintainers of his trueth and gospel● so cruelly of the wycked to haue bene murdered and ●●in Of the whiche some were racked as the apostle sayth and would not he deliuered that they might re●e●l● better resurrection Some were lived by mockings and scourgings yea more ouer by bondes and imprison mente they were ●oned they were he wen and cut in ●ūder they were tempted they were slain with the sword they wandered vppe and downe in sheepe skins and Gotes skinnes being forsaken afflicted and tormented suche men as the worlde was not worthye to haue wandringe in wildernesses in mountaines in dennes and caues of earth All these were approued by the testimony of fayth and receiued not the promise bicause god did prouide better for vs that wyth●u●e vs they shuld not be consūmated They tary now for vs vndoubtedly lōging for the day But they are commaunded to haue patience yet sayeth the lord a littel while vntil the number of their fellowe seruauntes be fulfilled and or theyr brethren whych are yet to

Iesus Christ that he will strengthen vs both wyth hys holy and mighty spirit that we may constantly continue in the confession of his truth vnto the ende that lyke as we nowe see one another presently in spirite we may also see one another personally in the glorious presence of God and his holye aungels where vndoutedly we shal know one an others personage to oure greate ioy felicity and endles comfort And now therfore deare sister K. be strong in the Lord our god for doubtles the time of trial is at hande a great persecution with cruell murtherynge of gods deare sainctes is like to be very shortly in this wofull wicked realme of England Therfore dere sister for the loue of God prepare you to the crosse with all diligence and make your selfe ready to die with Chryste that you may also liue with hym for euer There is no remedy if you wil be Christes disciple you muste nedes take vp your crosse and follow him for the disciple must not loke to be aboue his master nor the seruaunt to be better intreated then his lord Yf we were of the world good sister no doubt the worlde would loue vs. But for as much as Christ hath chosen vs out of the world to serue God in spirite and veritye let vs be well assured the worlde will hate vs persecute vs as it hath done our lorde master Chryste But yet let vs be of good chere for Christ hath ouercome the worlde The payne is but shorte that we can fele here but the plesure is perpetuall that we shall feele els where Let vs set before vs the exāple of Christe which abode the crosse and despised the shame in respect of the ioy that was set before him Euē so let vs consider for whose sake wee suffer whose cause we defend what glorious reward we shal haue at the day of our victory and then doubtles the consolation of these thinges will make sweete all our sufferinges and sone swallow vp al the sorowes that we are sowsed in for Goddes sake I could recite diuers texts of the scripture to confirme this poynt But I nede not for I am well assured that you do know them most perfectly all ready The lorde geue you strength assiste you with his holy spirite that you maye continuallye walcke in all points accordīg to your godly knowledge And then shall you not doe as the moste parte of our Gospellers doe nowe a dayes the more is the pitie There are a greate manye in Englande that doe perfectly knowe that the idolatrous masse is abhominable diuelyshe and detestable in the sighte of God And yet alas they be not afrayde to pollute and defyle theyr bodies whych ought to be the tēples of the holy ghost with being present at it so synning agaynst God and their owne conscience But dere syster K. doe you flie from it both in body and soule as you would flie from the very diuell himselfe Drinke not of the whore of Babylons cup by no meanes for it will infecte the body poyson the soule Be not partakers of her sinnes saith the aungell least you be partakers of the plagues that shortly shal be powred vpon her O what an araye is this that so manye that knowe gods truth will nowe tourne agayne and defyle them selues in the filthy puddle of antichristes stinking religiō They go about to saue theyr liues with their double dissimulatiō but doubtles they shall lose euerlasting life by it if they do not repente in time and turne vnto the lord But deare sister my truste is that you doe vtterly abhorre the comminge to any such thinge I hope that you wil not by anye meanes turne backe into Egypte nowe but that you wil boldly venter through the wildernes of troble persecution that you may come into the lande that floweth wyth all kinde of heauenly pleasures ioyfull delectatiōs and possesse the same for euer Let vs cōsider howe that euery one of vs doth owe vnto god a death by nature and howe sone the Lorde will require it of vs we knowe not O howe happy are we then if god of his goodnesse appoint vs to paye natures det with suffringe for his truth and Gospelles sake and so makynge vs his faythfull wytnesses wyth the prophetes apostles martyres confessours yea with his dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ to whom he doth here begin to facion vs lyke in sufferynge that we might be like him also in glory Thus my derely beloued sister I haue ben bold to trouble you a littel with my rude and simple letter beinge made in haste as it doeth apeare Yet I desier you to take it in good woorthe as a token of my pore zeale vnto you to accepte my good will And if it please god to spare me life and libertye I truste hereafter to write vnto you more largelye Fare ye well deare sister K. E. the Lorde blesse you and all youres and powre vpon you the heauenlye dewe of hys grace The lord endue you with plentifull knowledge of his veritye and fill you with his holye and mightye spirite that you may continually reioyce in the cōfortes of the same now and euer Amen Praye pray praye with stedfast fayth Your daily Orator Ihon Careles prisoner of the Lorde at al times abydinge hys most merciful wil and pleasure Another letter of the same Iohn Careles sent to the same party ¶ Grace mercy and peace from god our eternall and most deere louing father wyth quyetnes of conscience in our swete lorde and only sauiour Iesus Chryst with increase of knowledge health strength and spiritual ioy in and through the mighty operatiō of the holy ghost our euerlastinge comforte be wyth you nowe and euer my moste dere louing sister K. E. to the good perfourmance of all that he hathe so graciously begon in you in such sort as may be moste to his glory● the comforte of hys pore afflicted churche and to the eucrease of your owne euerlastinge ioy in him Amen AS I am by no meanes hable my deere harte in the lord in the leaste pointe to recompence anye part of the greate loue faithfull frēdship manifolde kindnes that you haue so largely extended vnto me euen so am I not able to declare how much and how depelye I am continuallye bound to geue god most hūble praise and continuall thankes for you and on your behalfe Before God I speak it I can not with pen expresse what ioy and comforte my poore afflycted hart hath conceyued of you and that in mo respectes then I wyll or can now declare Ah my deare syster K. whose humble hart and lowly spirit doth to me presētly appeare in youre most godly and louing letter blessed are you and all such meke handmaides of the lord For doubtles you shall be eralted in that day when the proud persones of the world and hygh minded Pharaseys shall be cast downe God for euermore bee blessed who hath geuen

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