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A09316	An excelent comfort to all Christians, against all kinde of calamities no lesse comfortable, then pleasant, pithy, and profitable: Compendiously compiled by Iohn Perez, a faithfull seruant of God, a Spaniard (in Spanish) and now translated into English by Iohn Daniel, of Clements Inne, with diuers addicions by him collected and therevnto annexed.; Epistola para consolar a los fieles de Jesu Christo. English	Pérez, Juan, d. 1567.; Daniel, John, of Clements Inne.	1576 (1576)	STC 19626; ESTC S111936	128,141	335

armed with this faith which was communicated vnto him by the Gospell did ouercome hys enimies furies so that they could not resist the wisdome and spirit with the which he spake Dauid a verie yoūg man of small age what maner of weapon had he to fight against Golias that mightie capteine of the Philistines hée sought no helpe of Saul nor could not abyde his Armour and weapons nor yet did not fauour any kynde of humaine counseile nor hys own force which was nothing in comparison to the strength of that mightie Gyaunt But onely armed with a sure faith affiance and hope in God he fought couragiously did ouerthrow him cut of his head and so set the chosen hys fellow members at libertie In this is and shall bée for euer verified to all the faythfull that God wil fulfil and performe his promises And so he sayeth by the Prophet Dauid hée that trusteth in mée I will kéepe and deliuer him for that he hath knowen my name And therfore sith he is greater that is in vs then he that is in the world let vs forsake all humayne counseill strength industrie prudencie and wisdome in the same for that how much the lesse we estéeme and depende vppon them so much the more is the efficacie strength power of God in vs and our sight the clearer perfecter to sée the great admirable works don in his elected by his most mightie potencie might Euen then doeth God discouer to our weaknesse the greatnesse of his most mightie power and strength to our health and saluation For when we think our selues most strong depend most vppō terene and earthly defence euē thē are we most weakest and our hope most frustrate Bicause those things in the worlde we accompte and holde most sure for our reliefe in our greatest necessitie falleth from vs and so we left at the worste and in displeasure with god For that we so vaynely dyd forsake him and slée to vanitie which are the things of this world for our help and defence so are we left forsaken both of God man Bicause we made a God of those things the which wée trusted in therein did forsake the true god Those which doe put their trust in worldly things doe it bycause of the fayre shewe thereof to their carnall or fleshly eyes but so they make a deuision of that hope whiche they ought to haue in God put aparte or péece therof into those which are of the worlde which is vanitie and of no value at all Our filthie flesh is fondly ledde to trust and hang all hope on creatures in place and steade of that hope which is due vnto God the creator Suerly it is such a subtle snare of the father of all subtelties lyes that it often deceyueth manye and continually it deceiueth it self For it hath alwayes a custome to couer infidelitie and hipocrisie with some one craftie cloaked colour or other that may not easily be knowen So that when wée bee beguyled by the same we doe thinke our selues in such securitie that we sléepe therein as though fortified with suche humayne helpe furniture and fauour as none might be the like when as in very déede by the ende of experience we may shal finde our owne weaknesse to be such as is of no validitie at all Whereby is manifested that these carnall furnitures weapons armour in which we hope and trust to be succoured by doe not onely serue vs nothing at all for our helpe and defence but also is and are extréeme lets and hynderances to kéepe vs from the doyng of that which we ought and are bound to doo by the commaundementes of god And therfore in this lyfe which is a tyme of trouble tirannie battail and warfare let vs be imitators and folowers of Dauid who neuer did bear other armes nor weapōs against his enimyes then onely his sure trust in God wherewith he alwayes got the victorie and ouerthrew them all How we oughte to doe and behaue our selues to our enimyes as wel visible as in visible corporall as spirituall God doeth teache vs by hys Apostles All the wyse holy and mightie of the world All the riches aucthoritie dignitie exelencie greatnesse humaine strength and policie that was in the same was against them in such sorte that it séemed inuinsible There was very fewe scarce none neither Lordes Earles Dukes Princes Kings and Emperours kingdomes nor countreis but were against them with most cruell warres and persecutions But yet they I mean the childrē and disciples of God armed with confidence and affiance in God and pacience by the onely wordes of the Gospell did convince and ouerthrow to the grounde all the power and potencie of them all aswell the principalles as the reste And by beléeuyng truely in the Gospell they did fyght with and ouerthrowe all the sublymate and supreme highnesse that dyd rise repugne against them Christ their heade in them They did ouercome captiuitie bring a great number to be ruled by preaching the pure Euangelie of truthe in the Gospell and to the obedyence of fayth therin By force wherof they made the world to tremble and did work marueilous works most worthy of memory The world was not so strong nor Sathan so mightie nor yet his ministers so subtil that they altogither with their strength mighte policie and subtiltie could let or hinder the small grayn of musterd séede the fayth in the Gospell but that it did increase florysh and growe into a great and mightie trée the braunches wherof did extend into all partes of the worlde so that the byrdes of heauen might buylde their neastes therein at hys pleasure The diuill all his vaseilles bōdslaues are beaten down daily ouercome with that Armour weapon wherwith God hath armed the faithfull elected If those which serue the prince of darkenes that are marked with the mark of the beast which S. Iohn speaketh of could make that the sonne did not aryse and shewe it selfe so that dayly he did not or might not dryue awaye the darkesome nyghtie cloudes so spread his beames into all parts of the world wherby the force may bée felte of the heate and light of the same they might as well let and hinder the shyning sonne of the Gospell that the splendant light thereof should not shine and shewe his inestimable brightnesse to giue light vnto the blynd that they might goe and be guyded thereby in the righte way of truth And also let that the potencie of God therein shoulde not take the captyue out of captiuitie open the prysons to the prysoners and that the contrite of hart should not receiue frée lybertie thereby Let them goe to heauen if they can and throwe the sonne downe oute hir place vsuall vnto the earth or let them let hinder the shining of the Gospell of glorie which doeth manyfest that

sinnes that we haue committed he dooth presently pardon vs for them with suche a dexteritie that he is so redye to imbrace kisse and otherwyse to comfort vs with his pure peace that we cannot so soone open our lippes to confesse our offences as he is redy to performe the effect of his grace to giue the guardon thereof vnto vs By the which he dooth discouer himselfe to be no lesse our father then then he was before our falling His ioye is such for our saluacion then that the accompt which he hath of our offences is as if we had neuer offended Haue we lost and spoiled our spirituall ritches and substaunce that he hath geuen vs for our patrimony yea it is euen so we haue most retchlesly done it yet what then in his heauenly house or habitacion he hath much and many more riches to help and inrich vs with And therefore let vs remoue our eyes frō our owne misery and nakednesse and leaue the regarde that we haue thervnto and let vs firmely fix our sight looke wholly on him with hart mynd and strength for that he is our onely lyfe health remedy redéemer and saluacion none but he For in vs there is nothing that is any thing auaileable therevnto It is a bitter torment of mynde christian conscience to consider how many are made affraide discouraged and driuen to doubte by our denegacion or deniall of our Christ For although they were tender younglings in the knowledge of him at the first now condempninge through vs the trueth which before they did allowe This will wounde our weake consciences wōderfully which doo so reuolt And therefore I meane to the ende we should doo so doothe sathan make such continual warre against vs But therin to such lyke reuolters it happeneth as it did to the Apostles which dyd deny their maister and made many to faint feare and doubt in and of him But although as weake vntrained souldiers to such lyke warres we be often put to scilence and made to breake aray by our enimies Yet it is very conuenient fit that we gather a new force vnto vs and once againe to confesse the trueth stoutely which we haue staggered fallē from and denyed and with a couragyous mynde and constant fayth aduenture our lyues for the same as the Apostles did Although before they had denyed it yet they conuerted and dyd returne agayne to réedifie by their dealinges that which they hadde distroyed in séekynge mortall lyfe by denegation of theyr maister If with weakenesse wée doe commit this as they dyd we haue the like vertue and as full power to repent pray to God and conuert as they had And therefore the holy Ghost saithe and dooth commaunde vs by Sainct Paule wée haue not a highe priest that can not take compassion of our infirmyties but we haue suche a one as was tempted in all thinges lyke vnto vs and yet without sinne Let vs go therefore boldlye vntoo and béefore the throne of that good highe Priest that wée may receyue mercy and fynde grace to helpe vs in tyme of néede And Christ him selfe sayeth that the whole or healthful néede not the Phisition but they that are sicke And therefore he doeth call them vnto him saying Come vnto me all you that labour and are loaden and I will ease you take my yoke vppon you and learne of mée that am gentle méeke in harte and you shall finde rest or refreshing for your soules So that when wée are sicke and oppressed in conscience let vs runne vnto him that the rather we may come to our remedie bycause wée are those which are called of hym that hée might vnloade and heale vs. If they haue taken away our honour or spoyled vs of our goods If they haue shut vs vp in prisons and strong Castles or haue condempned vs for heresie as they terme it yet for all that it is no let at all but that we may come vnto hym and receiue other goods honours and libertye muche greater wythout comparyson then are those whych are visible For although that of men we are cōdempned as enimies yet God dooth loue and allow vs as his children and frendes And therefore dooth commaūd vs to come to be refreshed of his son If he dyd not loue vs he would not deale so diligently for our remedy our sinnes cannot be so great as is the health and helpe that he hath already prouided for them he hath destroyed and ouercome sinne and will that we enioy the benefit of his victory If we thincke our selues vnworthy yet our vnworthinesse shal not hinder vs for that his worthynesse is sufficient Let vs therfore shut our eares to the reasons of the worlde and the fleshe and let them be onely opened to this amorous voyce which doothe call vs so louingly And sith that onely in God who is the fountayne of all goodnesse there is mercy let vs not thincke to fynde it in any other but onely in him in those that haue his spirit and be membres of Christ his sonne It is the propertie of true mercie to deliuer the miserable from their myserie and euill and in place thereof to communicate vnto them aboundance of true ryches and goodnesse And also it is most certayne that how much the greater the euils and miseries are of the which he doth deliuer his faithfull of So much the more brighter doth remaine the shew and setting foorth of his glory in them who is most worthie of the same Then howe can we call that mercie that doeth all that may bée depryue vs of so many benifites as is possible and doeth put vs into a déepe dungeon amongest a mightie multitude of massie myseries and euilles In good sooth this can be none other but a most straunge and curssed crueltie cloathed but with a coate or cloke and name of mercy the aucthor wherof for a certeintie is the diuil and his members The persecutors of the gospel doe accompt and call it mercifull dealyng to constraine the electe chosen to deny both God and his word to spoyle them of the fruites of their redemption and in place thereof to put them into the handes of the diuill Is this any thing els may we think thē to depryue them of an innumerable number of benifites and to put them into an infinite and vnmeasurable many of mischiefes for that in place and stéede of inioyning and hauing the lyues of their bodies they doe nothing but reape the benifite and fruite of vanitie it selfe Which indureth not a moment but vanysheth awaye with them selues lyke a scrow in the fire or as a vapour in the ayre and so they with it is cōsumed and commeth to naught for euer How can there rest remaine or be any mercy in place where as the trueth and rightuousnesse of God is condempned How can those be mercifull that condempne the innocents and doe accompt it as a most curssed cryme

worthie of the moste spytefull death of the crosse to professe the name of Iesu Christ and to acknowledge and confesse that hée onely is the redéemer heade and quyckner of his church Amongest such audiences and iudgement places of mischieuous mercyful nay rather mercilesse men there doeth aryse spryng procéede and growe nothyng but homicyde and suckyng of bloud from the beginning And therefore there can be nothyng in them but vnrightuousnesse crueltie which shineth in them according to the doctryne which they teach And how much the greater and more their tiranny is braueth against the faithfull their doctrine which is a moste pure truth So much the more pure celestiall diuine comfortable is it to the author therof who is Iesu Christ And therfore my dearely beloued be no more deceyued by reposing any truste or confidence at all in their mercy so mischieuous For whereas they so mercifully nay mercilesly doe suffer you to inioy the liues of your bodies they doe therein dispoile you of the liues of your soules which is the true fayth of the Euangelicall Gospell The maner of parte of the persecution in Spaine vvith a comfort against the lyke c. The xxv Chapter THe signes tokens and fruites that commeth groweth and are shewen of them is verie like vnto the mercie which is in them They giue for a liuery Saint Bennets coate which is in signe of pennance about a yarde and a halfe of yellow cloth with a hole cut in the middest thereof where through the recantantes doe put their heads so that the one halfe thereof is worne before on the brest the other halfe behynde on the shoulders the which hath twoo red crosses called by them S. Bēnets crosses the one before the other behynd this they do appoint to be worne for certaine yeares within a certaine precinct vppon payne of death To signifie that by them and the wearers thereof the fayth of Christ is denyed that they bée wholy guided by the diuilish doctrine of Antichrist and the diuell his fellow to whome they are faythful with a fayth vnfayned most vnfaythfull to God that they haue chaunged the ioyes eternal for vaine ioyes and vanitie it selfe which perisheth and haue according to the prouerbe like a dogge torned againe to theyr vomit or like a sowe well washed torned againe and wallowed in the myre So that this signe or liuery is a perfect shew signe and token of the mischeuous minde that is in them and of theyr mercilesse mercy so vnequall to the true mercy which GOD dooth shew vnto his elected persecuted by them beinge his enimies wherefore we ought not to séeke nor trust to any other for mercie but onely to god nor to change his mercy for any feare flattery or crueltie whatsoeuer of men nor the diuell although they doo thonder it out with theyr dissembled sounde or voice neuer so fiersly Let vs vnderstande that the mercie which god dooth shew vnto his people is very great when that for his name sake our liues are taken from vs by such or those which ought to doe their best to kéepe lyfe in vs we may bée bold to take it to be a substancial and most certayne and sure signe that wée are partakers of and doe perteyne to the kingdome of God when that for his loue or for the confession of his name we be euill entreated and condempned of men and the worlde let vs not feare nor flée away so fast from death that for to liue eight dayes longer in this lyfe we will loose the lyfe euerlasting which is the true life a lyfe perdurable which neuer will haue end What other thing is the lyfe which they graunt vs by their mercy as they say but a cruell continuall death full of sorowes troubles of no cōtinuance to true life but many times taken away dispatched by light occasiōs Wherfore for that for so short a thing a thing of so momētary a béeing we aduenture our humayne liues for eternall blessednes a lyfe that neuer shall haue end our lot or hap is the better more blessed in that we dye with such dishonors thē is the lotte of our persecutors though they lyue with neuer so muche péeuish popishe pompe Our death here is a true testimony of the life which we haue in christ with eternall resurrectiō by him and wher as they cruelly kil craftily cōdempne vs it is an infallible signe testimony most true that they be clean from Christ haue no parte with them Blessed are they saith S. Iohn the dye in the lord And the prophet Dauid saith the death of the Sainctes are precious in the presence and sight of god And therefore our death béeyng a thyng which the Lord doth loue a testimony that we are blessed we ought not to feare it in no maner of wyse béeyng his children but rather to glorifie hym in the same to the imitation of the Apostles Let vs giue attentyue eare to the wordes of our sauiour Christ Iesus directed to them that will folow him He that loueth father or mother more thē me is not worthy of me he that will not take vp his crosse and folow mée is not worthy of me For whosoeuer will saue his lyfe shall loose it but he that wil loose his life for my sake the same shall saue it For what auayleth or profiteth it a man to win the whole world then to loose his owne soule or what may a man giue to redéeme his soule from death And also he that shall be ashamed of mée or of my worde before the men of this adulterous and sinfull generation the sonne of man shall bee also ashamed of hym when hée shall come before mée in hys glorie accompanyed with holy Angelles So that the forme and order of keping sauing our liues according to the doctrine of Iesus christ is to loose them by affliction for hys sake for the profession of his name And thereby it is manifest that we kée●● and saue our liues most sure whē as and at such time as they doe take thē from vs for that by the meanes therof we are put in the hands of god Let vs not be ashamed of Iesus Christ nor of his word although they dishonour vs neuer so muche therefore but let vs rather account theyr most dishonored spite vsed towardes vs for our most triumphant honour and victory yea lette vs accompt euen the verye sweardes axes fleshookes stranggeling stringes paynted myters liueries of mockery faggots fire rackes boiling leade pitche rosen and tarre tortures and all other their instrumentes of torment to be enseignes of honour vnto vs badges of the eternall kingedome to the which we be brought by bearing and sufferinge of them Iesus Christ was the sonne of God and kinge of all creatures such a one as was promised by the Prophets But yet his crucifiers