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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	8,213	5	4.2899	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16573	The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Rogers, Matthew. Instruction of a father to his children.; Allerton, Ralph. A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto god our onely healper.; Allerton, Ralph. A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.; Allerton, Ralph. Songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Wordes of Maister Houper at his death.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. These are the wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered.	1559 (1559)	STC 3479; ESTC S112643	64,740	174

in him should ●ot perish but haue euerlasting life Loe ●r hee saith not that some might haue life ●ut all sayth he And what all All y t loue ●im with all their hearts all y t haue liued a ●odly life Nay all that beléeue in him Al●hough thou hast liued a most wicked hor●ible life if now thou beléeue in him thou ●halt be saued Is not this swéet geare Againe sayth Christ Come vnto me all ●ee that labour and are laden and I will re●esh you Let vs a litle looke on this letter Come vnto me Who should come Lords Priests Holy men Monkes Friers Yea ●oblers Tinkers whores théeues mur●herers also if they lament their sinnes Come vnto me sayth he all ye that labour ●nd are laden that is which are afrayd of ●our sinnes And what wilt thou do Lord And I wil refresh you sayth he O what a thing is this And I will re●esh you Wot you who spake this Hée ●hat neuer told lye He is the trueth there ●as neuer guile found in his mouth and ●ow wil he be vntrue to thée good brother ●hich art sorie for thy grieuous sinnes No ●rsooth heauen and earth shal passe and pe●ish but his word shall neuer fayle Saint Paul sayth God would haue al men saued Loe he excepteth none And to Titus The grace of God bringeth saluation to all men As from Adam al haue receiued sinne to damnation so by Christ all haue grace offered to saluation if they reiect not the same I speake not now of Infants I say nor I néed not to enter into the matter of Predestination In preaching of repentance I would gather where I could with Christ As surely as I liue sayth God I wil not the death of a sinner Art thou a sinner Yea. Loe God sweareth hée will not thy death How canst thou now perish Consider with thy selfe what profite thou shouldest haue to beléeue this to bee true to others if not to thy selfe also Sathan doth so Rather consider with Peter that the promise of saluation perteineth not onely to them which are nie that is to such as are fallen a little but also to all to whō the Lord hath called be they neuer so farre off Loe now by mee the Lord calleth thée thou man thou woman that art very farre off The promise therefore pertayneth to thée néeds must thou be saued except thou with Sathan say God is false And yet if thou doe so God is faithfull and can not denie himselfe as thou shalt féele by his plagues in hell for so dishonouring God to thinke that hée is not true Will hée bée found false now The matter hangeth not on thy worthines but it hangeth on Gods trueth Clap hold on it and I warrant thée Christ is the propitiation for our sins yea for the sinnes of the whole world beléeue this man I know thou beléeuest it say therefore in thy heart still Domine audage mihi fidem Lord encrease my fayth Lord helpe my vnbeleefe Blessed are they which sée not by reason this geare but yet beléeue Hope man past all hope as Abraham did And thus much for a taste of these promises which are euery where not onely in the new Testament but also in the old Reade the last end of Leuiticus 26. The Prophet Esay 30. Where hee saith God tarrieth looking for thee to shew thee mercie Also the 40. and so foorth to the 60. Reade also y e 2. Reg. 24. Psa 33. Ioel. 2. c. Howbeit if this geare will not serue i● yet thou féelest no faith no certaine perswasion of Gods loue then vnto prayer and diligent considering of the frée and vniuersall promises of the Gospell Thirdly set before thée those benefits which God hath to foregiuen thée and presently giueth thée Consider how hee hath made thée a man or a woman which might haue made thée a Toade or a Dog And why did hée this Verily because he loued thée And trowest thou that if hee loued thée when thou wast not to make thée such a one as he most graciously hath made thée will he not now loue thée béeing his handy worke Doth he hate any thing that he made Is there vnablenesse with him Doth he loue for a day and so farewell No forsooth he loueth to the end his mercie endureth for euer Say therefore with Iob Operi manuum tuarum porrige dexteram that is To the worke of thy hands put thy helping hand Againe hath hée not made thée a Christian man or woman where if hee would hée might haue made thée a Turke or Paynim This thou knowest hee did of loue And doost thou thinke his loue is lessened if thou lament thy sinne Is his hand shortened for helping thee Can a woman forget the child of her wombe And though shee should doe it yet will not I forget thée sayth the Lord. He hath giuen thée lyms to sée heare goe c. He hath giuen thée wit reason discretion c. Hee hath long spared thée and borne with thée when thou neuer purposedst to repent and now thou repenting will hee not giue thee mercie Wherefore doth hee graunt thée to liue at this present to heare him to speake this and mee to speake this but of loue to vs all Oh therefore let vs pray him that he would adde to this that wee might beléeue these loue tokens that hee loueth vs and indéed hee wil doe it Lord open our eyes in thy gifts to sée thy gracious goodnesse Amen But to tarie in this I will not Let euery man consider Gods benefites past and present publike and priuate spirituall and corporal to the confirming of his faith concerning the promises of the Gospell for the pardon of his sinnes I wil now go about to shew you a fourth meane to confirme your faith in this geare euen by examples Of these there are in the Scriptures very many as also dayly experience doth diuersly teach the same if wee were diligent to obserue things accordingly wherefore I will bee more briefe héerein hauing respect to time which stealeth fast away Adam in Paradise transgressed grieuously as the painfull punishment which we all as yet doe féele prooueth if nothing else Though by reason of his sinne he displeased God sore and ran away from God for hée would haue hid himselfe yea hée would haue made GOD the causer of his sinne in that he gaue him such a mate so farre was he from asking mercie yet all this notwithstanding God turned his fierce wrath neither vpon him nor Eue which also required not mercie but vpon the Serpent Sathan promising vnto them a séed Iesus Christ by whom they at the length should be deliuered In tokē whereof though they were cast out of Paradise for their nurture to serue in sorrow which would not serue in ioy yet hee made them apparell to couer their bodies a visible Sacrament and token of his inuisible loue and grace concerning their soules If God was so mercifull to Adam which so sore

absent to the corporall sences yet this absence is not an absence in déede but to reason and the olde man the nature of Faith beeing a possession of things hoped for Therefore to graunt a presence to Faith is not to make no presence at all but to such as know not Faith And this the Fathers taught affirming Christ to bée present by grace and therefore not onely a signification but also an exhibition and giuing of the Grace of Christes body that is of life and of the séede of immortalitie as Cyprian writeth Wée eate life and drinke life sayth Saint Augustine We féele a presence of the Lord by Grace or in Grace sayth Chrysostome We receiue the celestiall foode that commeth from aboue saith Athanasius We receiue the propertie of the naturall coniunction and knitting together sayth Hillarius Wee receiue the nature of the flesh the blessing that giueth life in bread and Wine sayth Cyrillus And elsewhere hee sayth that with the bread and Wine we eate the vertue of Christs proper flesh life grace the propertie of the body of the onely begotten sonne of God which thing he himselfe expoundeth to be life Basilius sayth that we by the Sacrament receiue the mysticall Aduent of Christ grace and the very vertue of his very nature Ambrose saith that we receiue the Sacrament of the true body Epiphanius sayth we receiue the body or grace And Hierome sayth that wee receiue spirituall flesh which hee calleth other flesh then that which was crucified Chrisostome saith that wee receiue influence of grace and the grace of the holy Ghost Saint Augustine sayth that we receiue grace and veritie the inuisible grace and holinesse of the members of Christes body All the which sayings of the Fathers doe confirme this our faith and doctrine of the Sacrament wee granting in all things héerein vnto them and they in like manner vnto vs. And therefore the lying lyppes which both belye the Doctours as though they graunted a carnall and reall presence of Christes body naturally and corporally after the Papistes declaration and meaning and which belye vs also as though wee denied all presence of Christ and so made it but a bare signe These lying lips the Lord will destroy if they repent not and with vs beléeue and teach the trueth that the Sacrament is the foode of the Soule a matter of faith therefore spiritually and by faith to be talked of and vnderstanded which faith they want therefore they erre so grosely in that they would haue such a presence of Christ as is contrary to all the Scriptures and to our Christian Religion whereby commeth no such commoditie to the receiuer as by the Spirituall presence which wée teach and according to GODS word do affirme For we teach these benefites to bee had by the woorthy receiuing the Sacrament namely that wée abide in Christ and Christ in vs. Againe that wee attaine by it a celestiall life or a life with GOD moreouer that by Faith and in Spirite wée receiue not onely Christes body and blood but also whole Christ GOD and man Besides these wée graunt that by the woorthy receiuing of this Sacrament we receiue remission of our sinnes and confirmation of the new Testament Last of all by woorthy receiuing wée get an increase of incorporation with Christ and amongst our selues which bée his members then which things what more can be desired Alas that men consider nothing at all howe that the coupling of Christes body and blood to the Sacrament is a spirituall thing and therefore there néedes no such carnall presence as the Papistes imagine Who will deny a mans Wife to be with her Husband one body and one flesh although he be at London and shée at Yorke But the Papistes are carnall men guided by carnall reason onely or else would they knowe howe that the holy Ghost because of our infirmitie vseth metaphorically the wordes of abyding dwelling eating and drinking of Christ that the vnspeakeable coniunction of Christ with vs might something be knowen GOD open their eyes to see it And thus much for this Now to that part of the obiectiō which sayth that wee teach Christ to bee none otherwise present in the Sacrament then in his worde I would that the obiectors would well consider what a presence of Christ is in his worde I remember that saint Augustine writeth how that Christs body is receiued sometime visible and sometime inuisible The visible receite hee calleth that which is by the Sacrament the inuisible receite hee calleth that which by the exercise of our faith with our selues wee receiue And saint Herome in the third booke vpon Ecclesiastes affirmeth that wee are fed with the body of Christ and we drinke his blood not onely in mysterie but also in knowledge of holy Scripture Wherein hee plainely sheweth that the same meate is offered in the words of the Scriptures which is offered in the Sacrament so that no lesse is Christes body and blood offered by the Scriptures then by the Sacramentes Vpon the 147. Psalme he writeth also that though these wordes He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood may bee vnderstoode in mysterie yet he sayth it is more true to take Christs body and his blood for the worde of the Scriptures and the doctrine of God Yea vpon the same Psalme hee sayeth plainely that Christes flesh and blood is powred into our eares by hearing the worde and therefore great is the perill if we yeeld to other cogitations whylste wee heare it And therefore I trow Saint Augustine sayth that it is no lesse perill to heare GODS word negligently then so to vse the Sacrament But héere of may no man gather that therefore it néedeth not to receiue the Sacrament or to affirme that a man may as much by himselfe meditating the word in the fielde receiue Christs body as in the Church in the right vse of the Sacrament For Christ ordaineth nothing in vaine or superstitiously hee ordaineth nothing whereof wee haue not néede Although his authoritie is such that without any questioning his ordinances are to be obeyed Againe though in the field a man may receyue Christs body by faith in the meditation of the word yet deny I that a man doth ordinarily receiue Christs bodie by the onely meditation of Christs death or hearing of his word with so much sight and by such sensible assurance whereof GOD knoweth our infirmitie hath no small néed as by the receite of the Sacrament not that Christ is not so much present in his word preached as hee is in or with his Sacrament but because there are in the perception of the Sacrament more windowes open for Christ to enter into vs then by his woord preached or heard For there I meane in the word he hath an entrance into our hearts but onely by the eares through the voice and sound of the words but heere in the Sacrament he hath an entrance by all our senses