thy sinnes past and the facilitie thou hast used in committing of them do not make thee afraid why doest thou not feare at the least the majesty and omnipotencie of him against whom thou hast sinned Lift up thine eyes and consider the infinit greatnesse and omnipotencie of the Lord whom the powers of heaven do adore before whose majestie the whole compasse of the wide world lyeth prostrate in whose presence all things created are no more than chaffe caried away with the wind Consider also with thy selfe how unseemely it is that such a vile worme as thou art should have audacitie so many times to offend and provoke the wrath of so great a majestie Consider the wonderful and most terrible severitie of his justice and what horrible punishments hee hath used from time to time in the world against sin and that not onely upon particular persons but also upon citties nations kingdomes and provinces yea upon the universall world And not onely in earth but also in heaven and not onely upon straungers sinners but even upon his owne most innocent sonne our sweet Saviour Iesus Christ when hee tooke upon him to satisfie for the debt that we owed And if this severitie was used upon greene and innocent wood and that for the sins of others what then will he doe upon drie and withered wood and against those that are loden with their owne sins Now what thing can bee thought more unreasonable than that such a fraile wretch as thou art should bee so saucie and malapert as to mocke with so mightie a Lord whose hand is so heavie that in case hee should strike but one stroke upon thee he would at one blow drive thee downe headlong into the deepe bottomelesse pit of hell without remedie Consider likewise the great patience of this our mercifull Lord who hath expected thy repentaunce so long even from the time that thou didst first offend him and thinke that if after so long patience and tarrying for thee thou shalt still continue thy leaud and sinfull life abusing thus his mercy and provoking him to further indignation wrath he will then bend his bow and shake his sword and raine downe upon thee even sharpe arrowes of everlasting wrath and death Consider also the profoundnesse of his deepe judgements whereof wee read and see daily so great wonders We see how king Salomon himselfe after his so great wisdome and after those three thousand parables and most profound mysteries uttered by him was forsaken by Almightie God and suffered to fall down and adore idols We see how one of those seven first deacons of the primative church which were ful of the holy ghost became not onely an hereticke but also an arch heriticke and a father of heresies Wee see daily many starres fall downe from heaven unto earth with miserable fals and to wallow themselves in the durt and to eat the meat of swine which sate before at Gods own table and were fed with the very bread of Angels If then the just and righteous for some secret pride or negligence or els for some ingratitude of theirs be thus justly forsaken of almightie God after they have bestowed so many yeares in his service What maiest thou looke for that hast done in a manner nothing els in all thy life time but onely heaped sinnes upon sinnes and hast thereby offended almighty God most greevously Now if thou hast lived after this sort were it not reason that thou shouldest now at the length give over and cease heaping sinne upon sinne and debt upon debt and begin to pacifie the wrath of Almightie God and to disburden thy sinfull soule Were it not meet that that time which thou hast hetherto given to the world to thy flesh and to the devill should suffice and that thou shouldest bestow some little time of that which remaineth to serve him who hath given thee all that thou hast Were it not a point of wisedome after so long time and so many great injuries to feare the most terrible justice of Almightie God who the more patiently hee suffereth sinners the more hee dooth afterwards punish them with severitie and justice Were it not meet for thee to feare thy long continuance so many yeares in sinne and in the displeasure of Almightie God procuring thereby against thee such a mightie adversarie as hee is and provoking him of a mercifull loving father to become thy severe terrible judge and enemie Were it not meet to feare least that the force of evill custome may in continuance of time be turned into nature and that thy long vicious usuall manner of committing sinne may make of a vice a necessitie or little lesse Why art thou not afraid least by little and little thou maiest cast thy selfe downe headlong into the deepe pit of a reprobate sence whereinto after that a man is once faln he never maketh account of any sinne bee it never so great The Patriarke Iacob said unto Laban his father in law These fourteene years have I served thee and looked to thine affaires now it is time that I should look to mine owne and begin to attend unto the affaires of mine owne houshold Wherefore if thou hast likewise bestowed so manie yeares in the service of this world and of this fraile transitorie life were it not good reason that thou shouldest now begin to make some provision for the salvation of thy soule and for the everlasting life to come There is nothing more short nor more transitorie than the life of man and therefore providing so carefully as thou doest for all such things as bee necessarie for this life which is so short why doest thou not provide likewise somewhat for the life that is to come which life shall endure for ever and ever ⧠The conclusion of all the premisses IF now all this bee so I beseech thee even for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Iesus Christ to remember thyselfe and consider that thou art a Christian and that thou beleevest assuredly for a most undoubted truth whatsoever the true faith instructeth thee This faith telleth thee that thou hast a judge above that seeth all the steps and motions of thy life and that certainely there shall a day come when he will require an account of thee even for every idle word This faith teacheth thee That a man is not altogether at an end when he dieth but that after this temporal life there remaineth another everlasting life and that the souls die not with the bodies but that whiles the bodie remaineth in the grave untill the generall day of judgement the soule shall enter into another new countrey and into a new world where it shall have such habitation and companie as the faith workes were which it had in this life This faith telleth thee also that both the reward of vertue and the punishment of vice is a thing so wonderfull that although the whole world were full of bookes and all creatures were writers yet
untill feare enforce him to it but let us frame our premises as wee would find our conclusion endeavouring to live as wee are desirous to die let us not offer the maine crop to the devill and set God to gleane the reproofe of his harvest let us not gorge the Devill with our fairest fruits and turne God to the filthie scrapes of his leavings but let us truly dedicate both soule and bodie to his service whose right they are and whose service they owe that so in the evening of our life wee may retire to a Christian rest closing up the day of our life with a cleare sunne-set that leaving all darkenesse behind us we may carrie in our consciences the light of grace◠and so escaping the horrour of an eternall night passe from a mortall day to an everlasting morrow Farewell STrike saile poore soule in sins tempestuous tide That runst to ruine and eternall wracke Thy course from heaven is exceeding wide Hels gulfe thou ent'rest if grace guide not backe Sathan is Pilot in this navigation The Ocean sin the rocke hell and damnation Warre with the dragon and his whole alliance Renounce his league intends thy utter losse Take in sinnes flag of truce set out defiance Display Christs ensigne with the bloudie crosse Against a Faith-proofe armed Christian knight The hellish coward dares not mannage fight Resist him then if thou wilt victor be For so he flees and is disanimate His fierie darts can have no force at thee The shield of faith dooth all their points rebate He conquers none to his infernall den But yeelding slaves that wage not fight like men Those in the dungeon of eternall darke He hath enthralled everlasting date Branded with Reprobations cole-blacke marke Within the never-opening ramd up gate Where Dives rates one drop of water more Than any crowne that ever monarch wore Where furies haunt the harttorne wretch despaire Where clamours cease not teeth are ever gnashing Where wrath vengeance sit in horrours chaire Where quenchlesse flames of sulphur fire be flashing Where damned soules blaspheme God in despight Where utter darkenesse stands remov'd frō light Where plagues inviron torments compasse round Where anguish rores in never stinted sorrow Where woe woe woe is every voices sound Where night eternall never yeelds tomorrow Where damned tortures dreadfull shall persever So long as God is God so long is ever Finis ¶ Of the punishments which our Lord threateneth unto such as live a sinfull life ONe of the principall meanes that our Lord hath used oftentimes to bridle the harts of men and to draw them unto the obedience of his commaundements hath beene to set before their eyes the horrible plagues and punishments that are prepared for such persons as be rebels and transgressors of his law For althogh the hope of the rewards that are promised unto the good in the life to come may moove us very much hereunto yet are we commonly more mooved with things that bee irkesome unto us than with such as bee pleasant even as wee see by dayly experience that wee are vexed more with an injurie done unto us than delighted with any honour and wee are more troubled with sickenesse than comforted with health and so by the discommoditie of sickenesse we come to understand the commoditie of health as by a thing so much the better perceived by how much more it is sensibly felt Now for this cause did our Lord in times past use this mean more than any other as it appeareth most clearly by the writings of the Prophets which are every where full of dreadfull sayings and threatenings wherewith our Lord pretendeth to put a terrour into the hearts of men and so to bridle subdue them under the obedience of his law And for this end hee commaunded the prophet Ieremie That hee should take a white booke and write in the same all the threatnings and calamities which he had revealed unto him even from the first day he began to talke with him untill that present houre and that he should read the same in the presence of all the people to see if peradventure they would be moved therwith unto repentance and to chaunge their former life to the end that hee might also chaunge the determination of his wrath which hee had purposed to execute upon them And the holy Scripture sayth That when the Prophet had done according as he was commaunded by almighty God and had read al those threatenings in the presence of the people and of the rulers there arose such a feare and terror amongst them that they were all astonished and as it were bestraughted of their wits looking one in anothers face for the exceeding great fear which they had conceived of those words This was one of the principall meanes which almightie God used with men in the time of the law written and so hee did also in the time of the lawe of grace in which the holy Apostle sayth That as there is revealed a justice whereby God maketh men just so is there also revealed an indignation and wrath whereby hee punisheth the unjust for which cause S. Iohn Baptist the glorious forerunner of our Saviour Christ was sent with this commission and embassage to preach unto the world That the axe was now put to the roote of the tree and that everie tree that brought not foorth good fruite should bee cut downe and cast into the fire Hee said moreover That there was another come into the world more mightie than hee that carried in his hand a fanne to winnow and cleanse therewith his flower and that hee would put up the corne into his garner but the chaffe hee will burne in a fire that should never bee quenched This was the preaching and embassage which the holy fore-runner of our Savior Iesus Christ brought into the world And so great was the thunder of these wordes and the terrour which entered into mens hearts so dreadfull that there ran unto him of all estates and conditions of men even of the very Pharisees and Publicanes yea and souldiours also which of all others are woont to bee most dis solute and to have least care of their consciences and each of them demanded for himselfe particularly of that holy man what hee should doe to attaine unto salvation and to escape those terrible threatenings which hee had denounced unto them so great was the feare they had conceived of them And this is that deare Christian brother which I doe at this present in the behalfe of almightie God deliver unto thee althogh not with such fervencie of spirit and like holinesse of life yet that which importeth more in this case with the same truth and certainetie for so much as the faith and Gospell which S. Iohn Baptist then preached is even the same now taught Now if thou bee desirous to understand in few words how great the punishment is that almightie God hath threatened in his holy Scriptures to the wicked that which may most
breefely and most to the purpose bee spoken in this matter is this That like as the reward of the good is an universall good thing even so the punishment of the wicked is an universall evill which comprehendeth in it all the evils that are For the better understanding whereof it is to bee noted That all the evils of this life are particular evils and therefore doe not torment all our sences generally but only one or some of them As taking an example of the diseases of our bodie wee see that one hath a disease in his eyes another in his eares one is ficke in the heatr another in the stomacke some other in his head And so diverse men are diseased in diverse parts of the bodie howbeit in such wise that none of all these diseases be generally throghout all the members of the bodie but perticular to some one of them And yet for all this wee see what greefe onely one of these diseases may put us unto and how painefull a night the sicke man hath in any one of these infirmities yea although it bee nothing else but a little ach in one tooth Now let us put the case that there were some one man sicke of such an universall disease that hee had no part of his bodie neither any one joint or sence free from his proper pain but that at one time and instant hee suffered most exceeding sharpe torment in his head in his eyes and eares in his teeth and stomacke in his liver and heart and to bee short in all the rest of his members and joints of his bodie and that hee lay after this sort stretching himselfe in his bed beeing pained with these greefes and torments everie member of his bodie having his particular torment and greefe Hee I say that should lie thus pained and afflicted how great torment and greefe of mind and bodie thinke yee should hee sustaine Oh what thing could any man imagine more miserable and more woorthie of compassion Surely if thou shouldest see but a dogge to be so tormented and greeved in the street his verie paines would move thy heart to take pittie upon him Now this is that my deare Christian brother if any comparison may bee made betweene them which is suffered in that most cursed and horrible place of hell and not onely during for the space of one night but everlastingly for ever and ever For like as the wicked men have offended Almightie God with all their members and sences and have made armour of them all to serve sinne even so will hee ordaine that they shall bee there tormented everie one of them with his proper torment There shall the wanton unchast eyes bee tormented with the terrible sight of devils the eares with the confusion of such horrible cries and lamentations which shall there bee heard the nose with the intollerable stinke of that ougly filthie and loathsome place the tast with a most ravenous hunger and thirst the touching and all the members of the bodie with extreame burning fire The imagination shall bee tormented by the conceiving of greefes present the memorie by calling to mind the pleasures past the understanding by considering what benefites are lost and what endlesse miseries are to come This multitude of punishments the holy scripture signifieth unto us when it sayth Math. 15. Psalm 10. That in hell there shall bee hunger thirst weeping wailâ—ng gnashing of teeth swords double edged spirits created for revengement serpents worms scorpions hammers wormewood water of gall the spirit of tempest and other things of like sort Whereby are signified unto us as in a figure the multitude and dreadfull terrour of the most horrible torments and paines that be in that cursed place There shall bee likewise darkenesse inward and outward both of bodie and soule farre more obscure than the darkenesse of Aegypt which was to bee felt even with hands Exo. 20. There shall bee fire also not as this fire here that tormenteth a little and shortly endeth but such a fire as that place requireth which tormenteth exceedingly and shall never make an end of that tormenting This beeing true what greater wonder can there bee than that they which beleeve and confesse this for truth should live with such most straunge negligence and carelesnesse as they doe What travell and paines would not a man willingly take to escape even one onely day yea one houre the very least of these torments and wherefore doe they not then to escape the everlastingnesse of so great paines and horrible torments endure so little a travell as to follow the exercise of vertue Surely the consideration of this matter were able to make any sinfull soule to feare and tremble in case it were deepely regarded And if amongst so great number of paines there were any manner hope of end or release it would be some kind of comfort but alas it is not so for there the gates are fast shut up from all expectation of any maner of ease or hope In all kind of paines and calamities that bee in this world there is alwais some gap lying open whereby the patient may receive some kind of comfort sometimes reason sometimes the weather sometimes his friends sometimes the hearing that others are troubled with the very same disease sometimes at the least the hope of an end may cheare him somewhat onely in these most horrible pains miseries that be in hell all the wayes are shut up in such sort and all the havens of comfort so embarred that the miserable sinner cannot hope for remedie on any side neither of heaven nor of earth neither of the time past or present or of the time to come or of any other means The damned soules thinke that all men are shooting darts at them and that all creatures have conspired against them that even they themselves are cruell against themselves This is that distresse whereof the sinners doe lament by the Prophet saying The sorrowes of hell have compassed mee round about and the snares of death hath besieged me For on which side soever they looke or turne their eyes they doe continually behold occasions of sorrow and greefe and none at all of any ease or comfort The wise virgins sayth the Evangelist that stood readie prepared at the gate of the bridegroom entred in the gate was foorthwith locked fast O locking everlasting ô enclosure immortall ô gate of all goodnes which shall never any more bee opened againe As if hee had said more plainely the gate of pardon of mercie of comfort of grace of intercession of hope and of all other goodnesse is shut up for ever and ever Six dayes and no more was Manna to bee gathered but the seventh day which was the Sabboth day was there none to bee found and therefore shall hee fast forever that hath not in due time made his provision aforehand The sluggard sayth the wise man will not till his ground for feare of cold and therefore shall hee
beg his bread in summer and no man shall give him to eat And in another place hee sayth He that gathereth in summer is a wise sonne but hee that giveth himselfe to sleeping at that season is the sonne of confusion For what confusion can there be greater than that which that miserable covetous rich man suffereth who with a fewe crums of bread that fell from his table might have purchased to himselfe abundance of everlasting felicitie and glorie in the kingdome of heaven But because he would not give so small a thing he came to such an extreame necessitie that hee begged yea and shall for ever beg in vaine onely one drop of water and shall never obtaine it Who is not mooved with that request of that unfortunate damned person who cried O father Abraham have compassion on me and send down Lazarus vnto mee that hee may dip the tip of his finger in water and touch my tongue for thâ—se horrible flames doe torment mee exceedingly What smaller request could there bee desired than this Hee durst not request so much as one cup of water neither that Lazarus should put his whole hand into the water nor yet which is more to bee wondered at did he request so much as the whole finger but onely the tip of it that it might but touch his tongue and yet even this alonely would not be granted unto him Whereby thou maiest perceive how fast the gate of all consolation is shut up and how universall that interdict and excommunication is that is there laid upon the damned sith this rich glutton could not obtaine so much as this small request So that wheresoever the damned persons doe turne their eyes and on which side soever they stretch their hands they shall not find any manner of comfort bee it never so small And as hee that is in the sea choaked and almost drowned under the water not finding any stay wherupon to set his foot stretcheth foorth his hands oftentimes on every side in vaine because all that hee graspeth after is thinne and liquid water which deceives him even so shall it fare with the damned persons when they shall bee drowned in that deepe sea of so many miseries where they shall strive and strug gle alwayes with death without finding any succour or place of stay whereupon they may rest themselves Now this is one of the greatest paines wherewith they be tormented in that cursed place for if these torments shold have their continuance liâ— mitted but for a certaine time though it were for a thousand yea a hundred thousand millions of years yet even this would bee some little comfort unto them for nothing is perfectly great in case it have an end But alas they have not so much as this poore and miserable comfort but contrariwise their paines are equall in continuance with the eternity of almightie God and the lasting of their miserie with the eternitie of Gods glorie As long as almightie God shall live so long shall they die and when Almightie God shall cease to be God then shall they also cease to be as they are O deadly life ô immortall death I know not whether I may truly tearme thee either life or death for if thou be life why dost thou kill And if thou be death why doest thou endure Wherefore I will call thee neither the one nor the other for so much as in both of them there is contained something that is good as in life there is rest and in death there is an end which is a great comfort to the afflicted but thou hast neither rest not end What art thou then Marry thou art the worst of life and the worst of death foâ— of death thou hast the torment without any end and of life thou hast tâ—e continuance without any rest O bitter composition ô unsavorie purgation of our Lords cup of the which all the sinners of the earth shall drinke their part Now in this continuance in this eternitie I would wish that thou my deare Christian brother wouldst fixe the eyes of thy consideration a little while and that as the clean beast cheweth the cud even so thou wouldest weigh this point within thy selfe with great deliberation And to the intent thou maiest do it the better consider a little the paines that a sicke man abideth in one evill night especially if he be vexed with any vehement greefe or sharpe disease Marke how oft hee tumbleth tosseth in his bed what disquietnes he hath how long and tedious one night seemeth unto him how duly hee counteth all the houres of the clocke and how long he deemeth each houre of them to bee how hee passeth the time in wishing for the dawning of the day which notwithstanding is like to helpe him little towards the curing of his disease If this then bee accounted so great a torment what torment shall that bee trowyee in that everlasting night in hell which hath no morning nor so much as any hope of any dawning of the day O darknesse most obscure ô night everlasting ô night accursed even by the mouth of almightie God all his Saints That one shall wish for light and shall never see it neither shall the brightnesse of the morning arise any more Consider then what a kind of torment shall that bee to live everlastingly in such a night as this is lying not in a soft bed as the sicke man dooth but in a hote burning furnace foming out such terrible raging flames What shoulders shall be able to abide those horrible heats If it seeme to us as a thing intollerable to have onely some part of our feet standing upon a panne of burning coales for the space of repeating the Lords prayer What shall it bee thinke you to stand bodie and soule burning in the midst of those everlasting hot raging fires in hell in comparison of which the fires of this world are but painted fires Is there any wit or judgement in this world Have men their right sences do they understand what these words import or are they peradventure persuaded that these are onely the fables of Poets or doe they thinke that this appertaineth not to them orels that it was onely meant for others None of all this can they say for so much as our faith assureth us most certainely herein And our Saviour Christ himselfe who is everlasting trueth crieth out in his Gospell saying Heaven and earth shall faile but my word shall not faile Of this miserie there followeth another as great as it which is that the paines are alwaies continuing in one like degree without any manner of intermission or decreasing All manner of things that are under the cope of heaven doe moove and turne round about with the same heaven and do never stand still at one state or beeing but are continually either ascending or descending The sea and the rivers have their ebbing and flowing the times the ages and the mutable fortune of men and of kingdomes
in the sight of God and the death of the other is unquiet painefull and troubled with a thousand frights and terrours To conclude the one live like children under the protection and defence of Almightie God and sleepe sweetly under the shaddow of his pastoral providence and the other being excluded from this kind of providence wander abroad as straied sheep without their sheep heard and maister lying wide open to all the perils daungers assaults of the world Seeing then that a vertuous life is accompanied with all these benefits what is the cause that should withdraw thee and persuade thee not to embrace such a precious treasure what art thou able to alledge for excuse of thy great negligence To say that this is not true it cannot be admitted for so much as Gods word doth avouch the certainetie hereof To say that these are but small benefits thou canst not for so much as they do exceed all that mans heart can desire To say that thou art an enemie unto thy selfe and that thou doest not desire these benefits cannot bee considering that a man is even naturally a friend to himselfe the will of man hath ever an cie to his own benefit which is the very object or marke that his desire shooteth at To say that thou hast no understanding nor tast of these benefits it will not serve to discharge thine offence for so much as thou hast the fayth and beleefe thereof though thou hast not the tast for the tast is lost through sin but not the faith and the faith is a witnesse more certaine more secure and better to be trusted than al other experiences and witnesses in the world Why doest thou not then discredit all other witnesses with this one assured testimonie Why doest thou not rather give credit unto faith than to thine owne opinion and judgement O that thou wouldest make a resolute determination to submit thy selfe into the hands of almightie God and to put thy whole trust assuredly in him How soon shouldest thou then see all these prophesies fulfilled in thee then shouldest thou see the excellencie of these divine treasures then sholdest thou see how starke blind the lovers of this world are that seeke not after this high treasure then shouldest thou see upon what good ground our Saviour inviteth us to this kind of life saying Come unto me all ye that travell and are loaden and I will refresh you take my yoke upon you you shal find rest for your souls for my yoke is sweet my burden is light Almightie God is no deceiver nor false promiser neither yet is he a great boaster of such things as he promiseth Why dost thou then shrinke backe why dost thou refuse peace and true quietnesse why dost thou refuse the gentle offers and sweet callings of thy pastor how darest thou despise banish away vertue from thee which hath such prerogatives and priviledges as these bee and withal confirmed signed even with the hand of Almighty God The queen of Saba heard far lesse things than these of Salomon and yet shee travelled from the uttermost parts of the world to trie the truth of those things that she had heard And why doest not thou then hearing such notable yea and so certain news of vertue adventure to take a little paines to trie the truth and sequell therof O deare Christian brother put thy trust in Almightie God and in his word and commit thy self most boldly without all feare into his armes and unloose from thy handes those trifling knots that have hetherto deceived thee and thou shalt find that the merites of vertue doe far excell her fame and that all which is spoken in praise of her is nothing in comparison of that which shee is indeed ¶ That a man ought not to deferre his repentance and conversion unto God from day to day considering hee hath so many debts to discharge by reason of the offences committed in his sinfull life alredie past NOw then if on the one side there bee so many and so great respects that do bind us to chaunge our sinfull life and on the other side we have not any sufficient excuse why wee should not make this exchange How long wilt thou tarrie untill thou fully resolve to doe it Turne thine eyes a little and looke backe upon thy life past and consider that at this present of what age soever thou bee it is high time or rather the time well nigh past to begin to discharge some part of thy old debts Consider that thou which art a Christian regenerated in the water of holy Baptisme which doest acknowledge Almightie God for thy father and the Catholicke church for thy mother whome shee hath nourished with the milke of the Gospell to wit with the doctrine of the Apostles and Evangelists consider I say that all this notwithstanding thou hast lived even as loosely and dissolutely as if thou hadst been a meere Infidell that had never any knowledge of Almightie God And if thou doe denie this then tell mee what kind of sinne is there which thou hast not committed What tree is there forbidden that thou hast not beholden with thine eyes What greene meddow is there in which thou hast not at the least in desire feasted thy letcherous lust what thing hath been set before thine eyes that thou hast not wantonly desired What appetite hast thou left unexecuted notwithstanding that thou didst beleeve in almightie God and that thou wert a Christian what wouldest thou have done more if thou hadst not had any faith at all If thou hadst not looked for any other life If thou hadst not feared the dreadful day of judgement What hath all thy former life been but a web of sinnes a sinke of vices a way full of brambles and thornes and a froward disobedience of God with whome hast thou hetherto lived but onely with thine appetite with thy flesh with thy pride and with the goods and riches of this transitorie world These have beene thy gods these have beene thine idols whome thou hast served and whose lawes thou hast diligently obeied Make thine account with the Almighty God with his laws and with his obedience and peradventure thou shalt find that thou hast esteemed him no more than if hee had been a god of wood or stone For it is certaine that there be many Christians which beleeving that there is a God are induced to sinne with such facilitie as though they beleeved that there were no God at all and do offend no whit the lesse though they beleeve that there is a God than they would doe if they beleeved there were none at all What greater injurie what greater despight can bee done than so to contemne his divine majestie Finally thou beleeving all such things as Christs church doth beleeve hast notwithstanding so led thy life as if thou wert persuaded that the beleefe of Christians were the greatest fables or lies in the world And if the multitude of