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A16577	A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1564 (1564)	STC 3481; ESTC S106823	29,063	104

where and when he wyll vinde vp the woūdes of his people and heale theyr plagues Oh that we might haue some liuely sight hereof that we might reioyce ouer the vndefyled unmortall inheritaunce whervnto God hath called vs whiche he doth kepe for vs in heauē that wee might heare the sweete songe of his saued people crying saluatiō be vnto him that sitteth on the throne of our God vnto the lamb that we might ▪ with y e elders and Angels sing and say praise and glory and wysedome and thankesgeuing and honour and power and might be to thee our god for euermore that wee mighte be couered with a whyte stole haue a palme in our handes to stand befort Gods throne night and day to serue him in his temple and to haue him dwel in vs that we might heare y e greate voice saying from heauen behold the tabernacle of the lord is with men and he wil dwel with them and they shall be his people and God hym selfe wil be with them their god Oh happy were they that nowe myghte haue a little she we of that holy citie new Ierusalem descending from heauen prepared of god as a bride decked for her husband which he shewed to his seruaunt saincte Iohn Trewely this should we se if we were with him in the spirite but this can not be so longe as wee are in the fleshe Alas then and well away that we loue this life as we do It is a signe we haue lyttle faith for els how could we but night and day desire the messenger of the lord death I mean to delyuer vs out of all miseries that we might enter into the fruition of eternall felicitie But here wyll some man saye Oh Sir If I were cerrayn that I should depart from this miserable life into that so great felycitie then coulde I be right glad and reioyce as you will mee and byd death welcome but I am a synner I haue greuously transgressed and broken Gods wyll and therfore I am afraide I shal be sent into eternall woe perdition and mysery Here my brother thou doest wel that thou doest acknowledge thy self a sinner to haue deserued eternal death for doubtles if wee say we haue no sinne wee are lyars and the trueth is not in vs. A chylde of a nightes birth is not pure in goddes syghte In sinne were wee borne and by birth or na●●re we are the chyldren of wrath and her brandes of hell Therfore confesse our selues to be sinners wee needes must For if the lord wyl obserue any mannes iniquiries none shall be able to abide it yea we must nedes all cry enter not into iudgement O Lorde for in thy syghte no fleshe nor man lyuing can be saued In this point therefore thou hast done well to confesse that thou art a synner But now where thou stantest in doubte of pardon of thy sinnes and thereby arte afrayde of damnatiō my deere brother I wold haue thee answere mee one question that is whether thou desirest pardon or no whether thou doest repent or no whether thou doest vnfainedly purpose if thou sholdest liue to amende thy life or no. If thou doest euen before god so purpose desirest his mercy then harken my good brother what the lord saith vnto thee I am hee I am hee that for my owne sake wyll doe away thyne offences If thy sinnes bee as redde as scarlet they shalbe made as whyte as show for I haue no pleasure in the death of a sinner As surely as I lyue I wyll not thy death but rather y t thou sholdest liue and be cōuerted I haue so loued the worlde that I wold not spare my dearelye beloued Sonne the Image of my substaūce and brightnes of my glorye by whome all thinges were geuen but gaue hym for thee not onely to be man but also to take thy nature and to purge it from mortalitie sinne and al corruption and to adorne and endewe it with immortalitie eternal glory not onely in his owne person but also in thee and for the wher of nowe by faith I woulde haue thee certein as in very dede thou shalte at length feele and fully enioye for euer This my sonne I haue geuen to the death that a muste shameful death euen of the crosse for thee to destroye death to satisfie my iustice for thy sins therefore beleue and accordinge to thy faith so be it vnto the. Harken what my sonne himselfe sayeth vnto thee Come vnto mee al ye that laboure and are laden I will refreshe you I came not into the worlde to damme the world but to saue it I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance I praie not sayth he for these mine Apostles only but also for al them that by theyr preachīg shal beleue in me Now what prayed hee for suche Father saith he I will that where I am they may also be that they maye see and enioye the glorye I haue and alwaies had with thee Father saue them and kepe them in thy truth Father saith hee I sanctifie my selfe and offer vp my selfe for them Loe thus thou hearest how my sonne prayeth for thee Marke nowe what my Apostle Paule sayeth we know saieth he that oure Sauiour Christes prayers were hearde Also this is a true saying that Iesus Christ came into the worlde to saue sinners Harkē what he saieth to y e Iaylor beleue in the Lorde Iesus thou shalte be saued For hee by his owne self hath made purgaciō for our sinnes To him saith Peter beareth all the prophetes witnes that whosoeuer beleueth in his name shal receiue remissiō of their sins Beleue man pray Lorde helpe mine vnbelefe lorde increase my fayth aske and thon shalt haue Harken what s Iohn saith If we confesse our sinnes God is righteous to forgeue vs al our iniquities and the blood of our lord Iesus Christ shal wash vs frō our sinnes For if we sin we haue an aduocate sayeth he with the father Iesus christ the righteous and he is the propiciation for our sins Harken what Christe is called Call his name Iesus saith the Angel for he shal saue his people from their sinnes So that where abundance of sin is there is abundaunce of grace Say therefore who shal lay any thinge to my charge It is god y t absolueth me who then shal condempne me It is Christ which is dead for my sinnes yea which is risen for my righteousenesse sitteth on the righte hande of the father prayeth for me Be certayne therfore and sure of pardon of thy sinnes be certain and sure of euerlasting life Do not nowe say in thy hart who shall descend into the depe that is dobute not of pardon of thy sinns for that is to fetch vp Christ againe neither say thou who shal ascende vp in to heuen that

olde man therefore is more stronger iusty and stirring then is the new man because the birth of the newe man is but begonne now and the olde man is perfectly borne And as the olde man is more stirringe lustye stronger thē y e new man so is y e nature of him cleane cōtrary to y e nature of y e new mā as being earthly corrupt w t Satans sede y e nature of y e new mā beīg heauēly blessed with the celestial seed of god So that one man in as much as he is corrupt with the seede of the serpente is an olde man and in as muche as hee is blessed with the seede of God from aboue he is a new mā And as in as much as he is an old man he is a sinner an enemy to god so in as much as he is regenerate he is righteous and helpe and a frende to God the seede of God preseruīg him from sinne so that he cannot sinne as the seede of the serpente wherwith he is corrupt euen frō his cōception inclineth him yea enforceth him to sinne nothing els but to sinne Soo that the best part in man before regeneration in Gods sight is not onely an enemie but enmitie it selfe One man therfore wich is regenerate well may bee called alwaies iust and alwaies sinfull iust in respect of Gods seed and his regeneration sinfull in respect of Satans seed his firste birth Betwixt these two men therfore there is continuall conflicte warre most deadly The flesh and olde man by reason of his birth that is perfect doth often for a time preuaile againste y e new man being but as a child in comparison and that in suche sorte as not onely other but euē the children of God themselues thinke that they bee nothing els but olde and that the sprit seed of God is lost and gone away wher yet notwithstandinge the the truth is otherwise the spirit and the seede of god at the length appearing againe and dispelling away the cloudes which couer the sonne of gods seed from shininge as the cloudes in the ayer do y e corporal sonne so that some times a man cannot tell by anye sense that there is any sonne the cloudes and windes so hiding it frō our siht Euen so our cecitie or blindnes and corrupte affections doe oftē shadow the sight of Gods seed in Gods children as though they were plaine reprobates wherof it commeth that they praying accordinge to their sense but not accordinge to the truth desire of god to geue them againe his spirit as though they had lost it he had takē it away Which thing God neuer doth in deede althoughe he make vs to thinke so for a time for alwayes he holdeth hys hande vnder hys childrē in their faules that they lie not stil as other do which are not regenerate And this is the difference betwixte Gods Children which are regenerate and elect before all times in Christ the wicked cast awayes that the elect lie not still continually in their sinne as do the wicked but at the length do returne againe by reason of gods seed which is in them hid as a sparkle of fier in the asshes as we may see in Peter Dauid Paule Marye Magdalin and others For these I meane Gods Children God hath made all things in Christ Iesu to whom he hath geuen this dignity y t they should bee his inheritance spouses This our inheretour Christ Iesus GOD with God light of light coeternal and consubstanciall with the father and with the holy Gost to the end that he might become oure husband because the husband and the wyfe must be one body and flesh hath taken our nature vppon hym communicating with it and by it in his owne person to vs all his children his diuine maiestie as Peter saith and so is become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones substancially as we are become flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones spiritually all that euer we haue pertaining to him yea euen our sins as al that euer he hath perteineth vnto vs euen his whole glory So that if Satan should sōmon vs to aunswere for our dettes or sinnes in that the wife is no sutable person but the husband wee may well byd him enter his action against our husband Christ and he wyll make him a sufficient answere For this end I meane that we might bee coupled maried thus to Christ and so be certein of saluatiō at godly peace with god in our consciences god hath gegeuen his holy word which hath two partes as now the children of God do consiste of two men one part of gods word beīg proper to y e old man the other part of Gods word beinge proper to the new man The part properly perteining to the old man is the law the part properly perteining to the new man is the gospell The law is a doctrine which cōmaundeth forbiddeth requiring doing and auoiding Vnder it therfore are cōteined al preceptes threatnings promises vpon condicions of our doing auoyding c. The Gospell is a doctrine which alwaies offreth and giueth requiring on our behalfe not as of worthines or as a cause but as a cerificat vnto vs therfore vnder it is conteined al the free and swete promises of god as I am the lord thy god c. In those that be of yeres of discretiō it requireth faith not as a cause but as an instrumēt wherby we our selues may be certeine of our good husband Christ and of his glorye and therfore when the conscience feleth it selfe dysquieted for feare of Gods iudgement agaynst sinne she maye in no wise loke vppon the doctryne perteyninge to the olde man but to the doctrine only that perteyneth to the newe man in it not loking for that which it requireth y t is Faith because we neuer beleue as we should but only on it which it offreth which it geueth y t is on gods grace eternal mercy and peace in Christ So shall she bee in quiet when she loketh for it altogether out of her self in Gods mercy in Christe Iesu in whose lappe if she laye her heade with saiut Iohn then is she happy and shal find quietnes in deed when she feleth her selfe quyete then in Gods name let her looke on the lawe vpon such thinges as it requireth therby to brydel and kepe downe the olde Adam to slay that Goliath from whom she must nedes keepe the sweete promises being the bed wherein her spouse and she mete and lie together as the wife will kepe her bed only for her husbād although in other thinges she is contented to haue fellowship with others as to speake sitte eat drinke go c. So our cōsciences which are Christs wiues must nedes kepe the bed that is Gods swete promisses alonly for our selues and our husbande there to meete together to embrace and laugh together and to be