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A07288	Saint Peters chaine consisting of eight golden linckes, most fit to adorne the neckes of the greatest states, nobles, and ladies in this land, as the chiefest iewell of true nobilitie: and not vnfit for the meaner sort. Digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister. With a praier annexed to the end of euerie chapter.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1596 (1596)	STC 17683; ESTC S112697	95,593	198

lay no more vpon his children then they shall be able to beare but will giue the issue with the temptation And this promise hath the Lord alwaies fulfilled to his Saints faithfull children in all ages Whereof wee haue innumerable examples in the Scripture and the Acts and Monumentes of the Church howsome were stoned hewen a sunder slaine with the sword drawen in peeces of wilde Looke for examples in the scriptures and Acts and Monumēts how God hath strēghned his children in most gneuous torments horses rosted vpon gredirons some cast vnto wilde beastes to be deuoured some their skins fleyed off their shoulders innumerable burned vnto Ashes in flaming fire or consumed by some other torment deuised by cruel and bloudy tyrants In this lost age of the worlde that bloudy beast of Rome hath endeuored to be like other tyrants that were before him in crueltie But in all these torments the Lord sustained his Saints and children and gaue them great patience to endure what paines or punishments soeuer that could be inflicted vpon them so true is that saying of the spirite of God The Lord The beast of Rome hath endeauoured to exccede all tyrants before him in crueltie 2. Pet. 2.9 knoweth how to deliuer them that are his out of temptation Wherfore euery Christian ought to take boldnesse in all afflictions euen as Saint Paule did when he was deliuered for a time out of the mouth of that Lyon at Rome The Lord assisted me saith he and strengthned me and I was deliuered from the mouth of the Lyon meaning from cruell Nero Emperour of Rome that bloudy tyrane Whereof also he taketh further 2 Tim. 4.16 17.18 assuraunce for time to come saying in the same place and the Lord wil deliuer me The faithfull are assured that God will either deliuer them orgiue thē strength patience to endure Acts. 20.25 How Gods children are marty red and deliuered out of the hand of their enemies Mat. 10.28 Rom 15.4 will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome here then is that assuraunce which euerie one ought to haue in God Paule was sure he should be deliuered he was sure hee should be preserued yet no doubt hee did know that he must bee martyred one time or other as not long after he was how was he then deliuered His body and soule were preserued vnto Gods euerlasting kingdome Therefore our Sauiour Christ biddeth vs not to feare death nor tyrants for they can kill but the body but rather to feare God that can cast both body and soule into hell fire Althese things are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scripture might haue hope Let these examples euer bee before our eyes let vs serue God truely in our callings let our trust be wholly in him then shall we neuer want patience in afflictions but rather reioyce in tribulations which shall Rom. 5.3 bring forth patience Let vs still remember this saying of Saint Peter it is better if the will of God be so that we suffer for well doing 1. Pet. 2.20 then for euill for hereunto are wee called as Christ suffered for vs leauing vs an example that wee should follow his steps Let vs oftentimes call to remembraunce that sweete saying of our Sauiour Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnesse Mat. 5.10.11 sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are ye when men reuile you and say all manner of euill sayings against you falsely for my sake reioyce and be glad for great is your reward in heauen Let vs neuer forget these most comfortable sayings of Saint Paule That all the afflictions of this life are not worthie of the glorie that wee shall haue in the life to come That we need Rom 8.18 31. not feare the force of anye tyrants for if GOD bee with vs who can be against vse who spared not his owne Son but gaue him for vs all to death how shall hee not withhim giue vs al things also Who shal lay No tribulation nor persecution canseparate the faithfull from God anything to the charge of Gods chosen It is GOD that iustifieth who shall condemne It is Christ which is dead yea rather which is rysen againe who is also at the right hand of GOD and maketh intercession for vs. Who shall separate vs therefore from the loue of God Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or sworde At it is written for thy sake are we killed all the day long wee are counted as sheepe for the slaughter neuerthelesse in all these thinges wee are more then conquerours through him that loued vs. Last of all let vs bee assuredly perswaded as Sainte Paule was that neyther Vers 38. death nor lyfe nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor 39. things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. This assurance of faith wee ought to haue in our God in all our tryals temptations and afflictions whatsoeuer Let vs therefore bee faithfull and patient vnto the death then Christ will giue vs a crowne of life which he hath purchased for vs by his death and passion A Praier for Patience O Righteous God and mercifull father how wonderful art thou in al thy works and who is able to comprehend the secrets of thy iudgements Thou bringest man vnto destruction by and by thou sayest come againe O yee children of men thy wrath lasteth but the twinckling of an eye but in thy presence there is life for euermore heauinesse may endure for a night but ioye commeth in the morning I acknowledge O Lord that all my corrections are ten thousand times lesse then my deseruings therefore I pray thee good Lord stil correct me to amendment but plague mee not to my destruction And because ther is no chastisement but is grieuous for the present season though after it bringeth forth the quiet fruit of righteousnes to them that are exercised therin therefore I most humbly beseech thee O my good God and father to giue vnto me in al my tryals and temptations that most excellent gift of patience quietly to beare and suffer whatsoeuer thy gracious goodnesse hath appointed to lay vpon me for the tryall of my faith for the glorie of thy name and for the good example of others Yea O Lord I most instantly intreate thee to let patience haue her perfect working in me so shall I be perfect lacking nothing and howsoeuer it shal please thee to dispose of my body and goods yet graunt me good Lord this benefit that I may possesse my soule in patience so whether there come sickenesse come health come life come death or come what wil come I may say with patient Iob the Lord giueth and the Lord taketh blessed be the name of the Lord. This mercy O my good God vouchsafe to

and peace to the Iewe first and also to the Gentile for 11 there is no respecte of persons with God Wherefore let vs hearken vnto Saynt Peter who biddeth vs to ioyne godlines with patience and the other vertues yea God no accepter of persons Leuit. 11. 1 Pet. 2. 11 let vs hearken vnto God himselfe who biddeth vs bee holy as hee is holie let vs eschewe euill and doe good let vs seeke peace and follow after it Let vs not bee dismaied with the multitudes of the vngodly for there are some Reuelat. 22 11. which are vniust and wil bee vniust still some filthy and will be filthy stil but let him that is righteous bee righteous still and let him that is holye bee holy still for beholde I come shortly saith Christ and my rewarde is with mee to giue to euerye 12 man as his worke shall be Blessed are they that doe his commaundements 14. mentes that their right may bee in the tree of life and that they may enter in through 15. the gates into the Cittie for without shall bee dogges and inchaunters and whoremongers and murtherers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lyes A Prayer for godlines O Good and gracious God most louing merciful Father seeing thou hast not onely created mee after thine owne image but also redeemed mee being lost that I might bee thy child by adoption grace I most humbly beseech thee so to assist me with thy holy sanctifying spirite that I may lead my life in a holy christian godly conuersation as behoueth me professing thy name that I may be holy as thou O Father art holy that I may bee partaker of thy Godly nature in fleeing the corruption which is in the worlde through lust that I may dayly offer vp vnto thee my soule body as a holy and acceptable seruice that I may cast of the old man the whole body of sinne bee renewed in the spirit of my mind put on the new man which after thy likenes is created in righteousnes and true holmes that seeing Christ Iesus is made vnto me wisedome righteousnes sanctification and redemption I may by vertue of his resurrection die dayly vnto sinne and liue vnto thee in godlines newnes of life during mine abode here in this world that in the world to come I may haue life euerlasting through the same Christ Iesus our Lord and Sauiour Amen Of Brotherly kindnesse Chap. 7. THe Apostle Saint Peter hauing furnished sixe linkes of his Chaine the vertue vse whereof doe especially profite and appertaine to ech particular person that is indued with them as euery particular man and woman must be saued by his owne faith euery one must haue vertue to addorne and beautifie his faith euery one must haue true knowledge to leade him the way vnto vertue euery one must labour by temperaunce and sobrietie to keepe his owne bodie in subiection to his spirite according as his knowledge out of Gods worde doth teach him euery one hath need of patience to endure the sundry trials and temptations of this life and of godlinesse which is the maintayner and supporter of christian patience Thus I say euery one of these vertues do in a special peculiar mānerprofite themselues that are endued with them But because man is not borne alone for himselfe as heathen men also haue taught and therefore must not onely haue vertues to benefite himselfe but also such as wherewith hee may doo good to others Therefore Saint Peter biddeth vs to ioyne with the other forenamed vertues first brotherly kindnes which is a most feruent 2. Pet 1. 7. What brotherly kindnes is loue and kinde affection that all the children of God do beare one vnto the other and therefore rightlye called of the Apostle brotherly kindnes as wee are brethren in Christe by grace of redemption then bids vs last of al to ioyne with our brotherly kindnes loue or charity which extendeth it selfe farther then brotherly kindnes doth not onely to the saints and children of God but vnto all men in generall euen vnto our verie mortall and deadly enemies For this cause then is it that Saint Peter doth not bring loue and brotherly kindnes together within the compasse of one linke but speaketh of them seuerally distinctly yet lincketh them one in the other because there can bee no brotherlie kindnes where there is no loue nor any true loue where there is not brotherlie kindnesse Whereupon it must needs follow that none but the children of God can haue either loue or brotherly kindnes Obiection First then to intreat of brotherly kindnes which is not so generall as loue is seeing that none but the faithfull are endued with it a question maye heere bee mooued what kind of loue affection that is which is shewed by one man to another euen of them that are not christians but heathen people and infidels yea and also many of them which beare the names of christians shewe great kindnes one to the other not because they are christians of the household of faith for that is the least thing they account of but for some other cause and in some other respecte Answere I answere that this kind of loue and affection may also in a sort bee called brotherly kindnes to wit as we are brothers by creation But to make a distinction between the one the other seeing the holy ghost doth call that kindnes of affection which christians beare one to the other brotherly kindnes let vs call this other kindnesse and affection naturall kindnesse for so indeede it is a naturall vertue giuen vnto mankinde in his first creation but sithens greatlye corrupted and defaced by sinne as all other giftes of nature are Now for as much as naturall kindenes was before brotherly kindnes and because brotherly kindnes wherevnto Saint Peter exhorteth vs doth not take a way naturall kindnes but rather seeketh to repaire nature thorough grace therefore I thinke it not amisse in this chapter to speake first of naturall kindnes and how wee do degenerate heerein contrary to our kinde and nature and then to come to this christian brotherlie kindnes that Saint Peter speaketh of which doth excell and exceede the other by many degrees shewing withall the want of this brotherlie kindnes which doth too much bewray it selfe euen among those countryes and nations which are professed christians First then concerning naturall kindenes wee maye consider the greate and wonderful wisedome of almightie GOD as in all thinges so especiallye in this one thing forming in numerable sortes of creatures wherwith the whole world is replenished Gen 1 24 Nature hath taught all beasts to loue theyr kind infused into eache creature this secrete force of nature that euerie one shoulde loue and liue together with such as were best like the one vnto the other The birdes of the aire by themselues the beastes of the fielde by themselues