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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	justify_v	5,380	5	8.8463	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07554	The misterie of iniquitie Plainely layd open by a lay-Christian, no profest diuine, out of truth in humanity, and rules of naturall reason. Whereby the world may see, read and vnderstand, the proud and vaine comparison of a cardinalles red-hat, and a kings golden crowne. Alwayes prouided, in reading, read all, or read nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1611 (1611)	STC 17934; ESTC S114600	61,425	60

ne Miserum Dcus abijce neue repu●sum 12 Afflatu sancto spolia quin certa salutis Gaudia restituas ut qui me heroicus olim Se creuit reliquis porro quoque Spiritus ornet 13 Quo Duce fretus ego errantes per deuia multos Voce regam mutatosque in contraria flectam 14 Alme Deus Deus in quem tota mente recumbe Ne meritas a me poenas pro immanibus ausis Et tanta heu scelerum patrata cedo reposce 15 Da potius vt lingua valeam sidibusque canoris Te canere in veniam promptum fideique tenacem Os mihi tute aperi tu dirige labra loquentis Vt tibi promeritae persoluant laudis honores 16 Ecce tibi non ara placet non victima flammis Infumos abiens alioqui haec larga dedissem Et pridem crebris ónerassem Altaria donis Sacra igitur meliora fero quae spernere nunquam 17 O bone consuesti deiectos nempe dolore Attritosque animos peccati et saucia sensu Pectora triste vnique tibi medicabile vulnus 18 At tu consueta pergas bonitate Syonem Amplecti selecta tibi dum mania surgant Tum nos rite tibi solennia vota feremus Liba merumque simul Consecratumque cruorem Fumabitque tuum solidis Altare iunencis Truth What how now Man what doest thou feele how fares it well Customer Magnasemper veritas praeualuit preualebit The inward ioyes of a Christian vnspeakable I feele such ioyes as I cannot declare nor tell Truth But doest thou beleeue what I told thee before Customer O I do beleeue LORD yet helpe mine vnbeliefe for I am troubled sore for by Faith in looking vpward I am forced to confesse O my GOD thou art true and O my Soule thou art happy but my Frailty looking downward compels me to cry Nilsum nulla miser noui solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tu me sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae I nothing am and in my selfe no Comfort finde but this That Christ the Masse of humane flesh hath taen ioynd to his Thē hold me Christ grant withal that this frail flesh of mine A twig at least may bud branch frō that great Masse of thine Truth Now I see thou do'st beleeue for thy Prayer showes no lesse then worke well withall to confirme this Grace least Faith proue idle How Faith alone doth Iustify How Faith and Works concurre therefore worke I say apace Customer Then Faith I perceiue in the action of Saluation stands sole without Woorkes because of Free Grace but in the Party saued both must concurre together But who can Woorke where Matter failes As no Church hath no Tithes And no Court no Quittents So no Staples no Customes and Forme doeth no way fit Or who can Pipe well that wants his vpper Lippe for though I still be tyde to worke my taske in Clay my Straw is clean gon and my stuble taen away whilest idle Taske-maysters accuse me to my Face whose Credits haue no Being but in my Disgrace but that which grieues me most For no Staples no Trafficke No Trafficke no Mines No Mines no Bullion No Buillion no Mints No Mints no Money and faine I would resist our Traffick's deadly Sicke and cannot long subsist for her Pulses faile her Face is pale and wanne I meane her Mintes are dead and my Soueraignes Quitrents gon and none seekes whether Truth They went from the Altars of Vnity and Truth where I now dwell The Staples of Kent kept at Cantorbury maintaind a Mint neere Christ-Church there as others did elsewhere Disorder of Iustice Commutatiue Trafficke for want of Staples the occasion of Prohibitions and drynesse betweene Religion and Iustice Destributiue The King only and the Counsaile can and must restore our Staples Customer Where 's that sweete Truth Truth By my glorious Temple and seate of Fame Customer See see I thought it was not idle that it bore CHRISTES name O that our Soueraign would bring our Staples thither Religion and Iustice might then hold hands togither and Righteousnesse and Peace would kindly kisse each other which nowe contest by personall defectes about Tythes and Tributes Truth Then work I say still and beleeue well withall for GOODNES can and WISEDOME will effect it Customer I would if I could but my Credit 's cleane gon and I am almost tyred thus working still alone Truth Customers out of credit their othes at their admission compelles them as they may and dare to cry out for Staples to mantaine Trafficke as our Churches do Religion In space growes Grace harke GOODNES calles againe and thou must perseuer Customer Then Sanctify my wits TRVTH and blesse thou mine endeuour for I worke in feare Truth Why so poore Man thy Soule is so beset with vowes that are Deuine thou shalt not tread amisse let not thy heart decline Customer Then Danger stand aside TRVTH must prenaile GOODNES calles me to it if ought do put me by ti 's WISDOMES hand must doe it Nowe GOD from whome all holy thoughtes and best endeuours growe Inuocation Prayer of Customers Make mee possesse that perfect Peace the world cannot bestow And that which in my selfe I see no hope at all to gaine Graunt that thy Grace by Faith and Woorkes may helpe mee to obtaine Obtaine therefore I say and will still pray to obtaine so great a blessing to praise and thank GOD for it Infusiuely from DEITY by Grace in IESVS CHRIST and Respectiuely from MANHOOD by Generall Consent For happy are those Subiects all whose honest Endeuours haue rays'd their Conditions to such degrees of Credit The Happines of England for the truenesse of Doctrine in the Christian Catholicke and Apostolick Religion before GOD and his LIEV-TENANTS Twise happy are those Christians that dwell where this Doctrine is constantly defended freely put in practise and publikely taught And thrise happy GREAT-BRITAINE whose IOSVA And Bounty of the Soueraigne thus maintaines both Church and Common-wealth Come therefore Subiects all come home I say from ROME and here prostrate your selues before the Glorious Obiect of your Welfare and Credits To day if ye will heare his voice Summons all Popish English Fugitiues to come home and all Recusant Catholiques to conformity harden not your harts after fiftie yeares more that sti●mecked Iewes and vnbeleeuing Turkes admyring your Happinesse may learne by your Obedience to groane for like Grace and poore seduced Catholickes may see how Proud Popery hath long time bewitcht them with the Doctrine of Merits ¶ Now see what hath past and so hast to an end These grounds being furely laid that is to say if of all worldly happinesse the meanest be but Wealth and Reputation chiefe Honor being held a recompence for all our losse besides If all quit their Liuings for Liberty to worke If all forgo their Liberties

might at last Obtaine to see his height of GLORY the Tipe of all our Blisse Obtaine I say Theword Merit vsed for obtaine the foundation of Pride in Popery here beaten down corrected not Merit for how should we deserue that in our owne beginnings had neither Art nor Part and beeing made Men not Beastes had no minds at all to worke nor skill to proceed when we had Will to be doing without the help of HIM that gaue vs first our Being whose Will being the motiue of all his owne Endeuors his Word the meanes his Wisedome the Way and his Iustice the Bounds of his owne Greatnes and Honor his Mercy notwithstanding to seeke and finde vs out when wee had lost our selues seeming Greater then Him selfe may be Matter to muse on but notto expresse and Admire that GLORY wee cannot merit All this is true I know for GOODNES tels me so A Dialogue betweene Truth and the Customer here meeting together that cries and cals me forward and the Byble sets it downe whose words are all our warrants but here lies all our misery and hence is all our woe who dare tell proud Popes presumptuous Cardinals and profane Conclaues so who dares bell the Catte Truth Mary that dare I. Customer Oh Sacred Truth is' t thou was 't thou so nigh Truth Why shrinckst thou so why dost thou from me fly Customer Least by my stay Truthes-selfe should seeme a lie Truth Come neerer Man Customer I dare not Truth Why Customer For Shame and Disgrace Truth Customers in Disgrace Shame them befall that Shame deserue thy Shame doth argue Grace Customer For want I starue and die for paine Truth Want Conntenance and Main●e nance Thy working showes thou shouldst obtaine Customer I dare not aske in any case Truth Assai domanda chi ben seruendo tace but what art thou come neare and tell me than Customer A Publican to Sinners tyde a despisd and wretched Man Beare others Faulrs Truth None wretched are but such as God doth hate Customer A Customer whose Credit 's out of date Truth Out of Credit What Port and Towne Customer SANDWICH hereby Truth O! SANDWICH loyall sometimes my resting place The Staple of Kent kept at Sandwich temp Edw. 1. 2. though nowe the Pit lie drie for there I was a while and there dwelt I till crosse the Seas I was conuayed awry and morgag'd was for fifteene yeares Customer Sweet Truth tell where Truth At BRVGRS Towne by Sluce in Flanders whence Transported thence to Bruges by K. Ed. 3. Pride and Ingratitude conspir'd and draue me thence Customer From Bruges whether Truth To KENTS great Honor and Christians speciall Glory for KENT and CHRISTENDOME were neuer seene to varry Customer Where there sweet Truth Truth To CANTORBVRY Customer To CANTORBVRY Brought backe from Bruges and setled at Cantsrbury why thither bound am I. Truth To what Place there Customer To the Austen Fryers but why siniles sweete Truth Augustine Fryers Fatall to Popes why laughes she tell me why Truth Why MARTIN LVTER man was an Austen Fryer that told the Emperour to his face the Pope was a Lyer but what seek'st thou there Customer 1 Customes 2 Mynes or Staples My Soueraines 1 Quitrents his Great 2 Demeanes and whole Estate that sometimes Stapled were by the Northerne-Gate Truth Ti 's true poore Man the Name remaines I remember it wel though now so cleane forgot that none can tell Customer But what became of all that wealth and store Is' t cleane forlorne shall wee neuer hope for 't more The Staples remoued from Canterburie to Callis and thence into Flanders and the Netherlands bred Disorder in Trafficke at home in England Truth Yes God forbid but it shoulde returne and be restord to whence it went for being packt vp it was to CALLIS sent where Trafficke since exilde and wandering vp and downe hath welcome beene to Citties Ports and Townes all Flanders thorough but tyrde at last cries home-ward nowe Desires now to be called Home vpon the Truce of the Hollanders and wants but passage to her owne Ressort and dwelling whereon depends a Tale may be worth the telling Customer How where and when Truth Haue patience Man and ply the woorke a while to redeeme the time and tediousnesse beguile that what thou canst not merir thou mayst obtaine being borne to worke harke GOODNES calles againe Customer Man borne to Worke. Is Man then borne to labour Truth As sparks fly vpward for Man is but a spark a smoak or a lighter thing Customer Customers Penury and Want for all their Labor And labours he to eate Truth Qui non laborat ne manducet why sighes thou Man Customer I feede on Leekes and drink cold water Truth What rack poore Man it makes no matter Customer But by meate alone it seemes you say wee liue Truth Not so Non solo pane viuit homo but by Grace in Meate and Eating Customer No maruaile then if Salomon that was so wise did wonder to see bodily labor shund by the Sonnes of mortall Men since GOD hath so decreed it but though we liue to labour by a Power in vs inherent howe worke we then so well that we may obtayne Truth By a Power that is infusiue from Him that sits aboue and drawes you vp vnto him Customer What way what meanes Truth By attentiue hearing and often reading his Sacred written word with meditation and Prayers Customer O Fooles that teach Free-will by proud Conceits of Fancies and Traditions No Freewill in Man to Goodnes since his Fall what haue wee wee receiue not but Auarice and Ambition O Sinfull Deceite and deceitfull Sinne by Couetise and Pride then whether doe you driue vs and what are all our Merits but Shame and Confusion for as the loue of Money is saide to be Idolatry and Couetyse in that respect the very root of euils so Pride by Presumption turnes Men into Beasts and Angels into Deuels O Couctyse and Pride vt transuersa cogunt mortalia pectora secum But Heauen we see is merited at one hand or other and that by Man Truth Most true for GOD himselfe for the Loue he bare to Man came downe from Heauen became a Man and liu'd on Earth so base and vile degree that his life by death did well deserue it for you the God and Man CHRIST IESVS his life so your life and his woorkes imputed yours that hee holdes you by the hand to drawe you vp thither Customer O height of Happinesse and Degree of Dignity what Creature is capable of so great a Blisse Truth The Soule of Man Customer O blessed Soules that are so prepared but who can bestow it Truth Gods onely Loue and freely woorking Spirit Customer O happy estate who can apprehend it Truth The Iust by Faith Customer O Iustifying Faith who is able to expect it Truth Hope Customer O comfortable Hope who is able to

declare it Truth Charity Customer O sanctifying Charity and bond of Perfection but who can discerne it Truth The eye of Grace if thou canst but desire it Customer O infinite Happinesse howe should I affect it Truth By reciproke Loue. Customer O heauenly Loue how might I obtain it Truth By Patient humility Customar Vincit qui patitur O Conquering Pacience and Glorious Humility that by sufferance and Lowlinesse are able to attaine to such a height of Dignity but how Truth By Obedience Customer Whereto Truth To the Rules of Conscience Customer But my Conscience doeth accuse me to be bond-slaue to Sin the bane of all Blisse Truth Yet doe not despaire Customer What meanes to auoide her Truth None shee is borne and bredde with thee Customer What remedy then Truth Watchfulnesse and Prayer Customer Tu mihi Summe opifex rerum cor fingito purum Et recti inspira renouatum pectore amorem But the Diuel is at hand and somwhat He would haue Truth Tell him all thy debts are paid and bid him walke a Knaue Customer O infinit Bounty who is able to deserue it and where are all our merites Truth See the Annotations in the Rhemish Testament vpon the sixt to the Hebrewes God is not vniust In the Rhemish Testament and Religion hatcht at Rome Customer O damnable Iesuites and Doctrin fit for Diuels that in challenging-wise dare print it to the world that God is no God for he must be vniust as they say and teach if he giue vs not Heauen for our owne Demerites but God being alwaies Iust or Iustice it selfe and I so borne to Sinne as smoake flies vpward stand subiect st●ll to die wretch then that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of Sinne and Death Truth His Mercy Preheminence of Iustice Prerogatiue of Mercy for though his Iustice by Preheminence may abide no Sinne yet his Mercy by Prerogatiue hath a sauing Power Customer Which way Truth By thy dying vnto Sinne and liuing righteously Customer But howe may that be Truth By Contrition Confession Desire to amend and Hope of Pardon for the merites of his owne and only Sonne whose Death hauing satisfied the Iustice of his Father his Bloud hath washt away and Purged all thy Sinnes Customer O Dreames then of Purgatory Popish Purgatory a Fancy to feare Fooles and torment fitte for Fooles Truth Yet be not high minded and doe not presume Customer What meanes to restraine and keepe our Fancies downe Truth A serious Meditation that you are but Men with Fasting and Prayer Customer What Comfort to support vs being still so beset with Sin Death and Hell Truth Gods euer sauing Grace Adoption is heere set dovvne but to show Reason in Humanity how and when MAN first comes to feele and vnderstand h●s own Happinesse in and by CHRIST which GOD had reserued for him by his meere and speci●ll Grace in the purpose of this Will from all Begian●ng and sanctifying Spirit who seeing thy Humility and hearing thy Prayer for the Loue of thy Sauiour adopts thee for his Son Customer What Bond doth so binde him being Free of himselfe as to loue whome hee list Truth His written Word and Promise proceeding from the Essence of Deity it selfe and Pend by his Spirit without Equiuocation Customer What Seales to Confirme and warrant it vnto vs Truth The Prints of the Wounds in his Hands Feet and Side that are still to be seene in his Crucified Body Cuflomer What Pledges to assure vs that wee shall meet together Truth The Sanctified Elements of Water Bread and Wine whereby being first conioyned to the Mysticall Body of his true Christian Catholicke and Apostolck Church he after entertaines thee for a liuely working Member of his own Flesh and Bloud Customer But my Sauiour being in Heauen and I still on Earth what Hand but his owne can helpe me vp thither Truth His Apostolicke Prelates and Pastoral Ministers by Vertue of their Orders his High-Cōmission their Voice his Voice their Hands performe it for Him for Quod per aliôs facit per Ipsum fieri dicitur Customer O profane Popery that turnes Creatures into Gods and Masses into Idols but what must I doe Truth Repent and amend and beleeue the Gospell Customer O I thank my God then for his Grace in Iesus Christ but I am euer sleeting and subiect to relapse and his Iustice laide to Sinne consumes lire Fire Truth Though his Iustice haue a quickning Power to set forth his Greatnesse in preferring of Man-hoode when he first made you Men yet his Grace it is relieues you all and his Mercy makes you Liue for his Loue is Euerlasting his Affections all are Free and GOODNES is his Name so that howsoeuer Iustice stands Preheminent as touching your first Being Preh●minen●e and Prerogatiue rightly distinguisht by Iustice and Mercy to Saue or Destroy giue Mercy the Prerogatiue and thou canst not swerue Customer O Sacred Prerogatiue and milde word of Comfort by whome all our Vowels retaine their full Sound Prerogatiue and all our Mutes and Liquides are taught to speak and stand the Preseruer of our a Wealthes of our e Liberties of our i Liues Prerogatiue vsed for Preheminence the cause of Capitall Errors in the Church and Common-wealth of our o Honours and the u Peace of all our Land how oft art thou mistaken and abused for sterne Preheminence Truth But show thy recipiscence by a feruent kinde of Prayer Customer Ah Deus immensum clemens Psal 51. miserere precantis Et quaecunque tuo bonitas in pectore regnat Seruando huic misero se protinus exerat omnis 2 Elue me sceleris pollutum crimine tanti Elue peccatique iube euanescere sordes 3 En sceler a agnosco scelerum Noctesque Diesque Ante Dies versans me lurida terret imago 4 Res etenim proprié tecum mihi te Deus vnum Offendi infaelix quem non fraus vlla fefellit Sublimi e solio meque mea facta tuentem Vt si pro meritis Iudex mihi sederis eheu Damnatus iustas subeam te Iudice paenas Me Genetrix etenim grauida quum ferret in aluo Iam pollutus eram siquidem me tempore Mater Et pariter sordes concaeptas fouit eodem At contra integritas synceri pectoris vna Gratia tibi nec eras alios mihi Doctor in Vsus Ingratum quondam tua quum me arcaua doceres Ah Deus hyssopum hic adhibe quaecunque tenaces Abstergunt maculas vt crimine purus ab omni Emergam paenitusque ablutis sordibus ipsas 8 Exuperem candore Niues fac nuncius aures Impleat vt melior recreent fac gaudia mentem Ne semel absorptis peream maerorc medullis 9 Iratos auerte oculos potiusque benignus Multiplici dele Contractas crimine labes 10 Tu mihi Summe Opifex rerum cor fingito purum Et recti inspira renouatum pectore amorem 11 Ne me