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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

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and deceyue not your selues If you bee not Christs then pertayne you to the Deuill of which thing the fruits of the flesh doth assure you as whoredome adulterie vncleannesse wantonnesse Idolatry witchcraft enuy strife contention wrath sedition murther drunkennesse gluttony blasphemy slothfulnesse idlenesse bawdy talking slaundering c. If these Apples grow out of the Apple trées of your hearts surely surely the Deuill is at Inne with you you are his birds whom when he hath well fed he wil broache you and eate you chaw you and champe you world without end in eternall woe and miserie But I am otherwise perswaded of you all I trust you bee all Christ Iesus his people and children yea brethren and by faith As ye see your sinnes in Gods Law and tremble sigh sorrow and sob for the same euen so you sée his great mercies in his Gospell and frée promises and therefore are glad merrie and ioyfull for that you are accepted into Gods fauour haue your sins pardoned and are endued with the good spirit of God euen the seale and signe Manuel of your election in Christ before the beginning of the world The which spirit for that he is the spirit of life giuen to you to worke in you with you and by you héere in this life satisfaction and holinesse whereunto you are called that yée might be holy euen as your heauenly Father is holy I beséech you all by admonition and warning of you that you would stirre vp the gifts of God giuen to you generally and particularly to the edifying of his Church that is I pray you that you would not molest the good spirit of God by rebelling against it when it prouoketh and calleth you to goe on forwards that the which is holy might yet be more holy hee which is righteous might bee more righteous as the euill spirit moueth and stirreth vp the filthy to be yet more filthy the couetous to be more couetous the wicked to be more wicked Declare you now your repentance by works of repentance Bring forth fruits and worthy fruits Let your sorrowing for your euils demonstrate it selfe departing from the euils you haue vsed Let your certaintie of pardon of your sinnes through Christ and your ioy in him bee demonstrated by pursuing of the good things which Gods word teacheth you You are now in Christ Iesus Gods workmanship to doe good works which God hath prepared for you to walke in For the grace of God that bringeth saluation vnto all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that wee should deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ which gaue himselfe for vs to redéeme vs from al vnrighteousnesse and to purge vs a peculiar people vnto himselfe feruently giuen vnto good works Againe Titus 3. For we ourselues also were in times past vnwise disobedient deceiued seruing lusts and diuers pleasures liuing in maliciousnesse and enuy full of hate and hating one another But after that the kindnesse and loue of God our Sauiour to manward appeared not by the déeds of righteousnesse which wee wrought but of his mercie he saued vs by the fountaine of the new birth and with the renewing of the holy Ghost which he shedde on vs aboundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour y t wee once iustified by his grace should be heires of eternall life through hope This is a true saying But I will make an end for I am too tedious Dearely beloued repent your sinnes that is be sorie for that which is past beléeue in Gods mercie for pardon how déepely soeuer you haue sinned and both purpose and earnestly peruse a new life bringing forth worthy and true fruits of repentance As you haue giuen ouer your members from sinne to sinne to serue the Deuill your tongues to sweare to lie to flatter to scold to iest to scoffe to baudie talke to vaine iangling to boasting c. Your hands to picking groping idlenesse fighting c. Your féete to skipping going to euill to dancing c. Your eares to heare fables lyes vanities and euill things c. So now giue ouer your members to godlinesse your tongues to speake your eares to heare your eyes to sée your mouthes to taste your hands to worke your féete to go about such things as may make to Gods glory sobrietie of life and loue to your brethren and that dayly more and more diligently for in a stay to stand you cannot eyther better or worse you are to day then you were yesterday But better I trust you bee and will be if you marke well my Theame that is Repent you The which thing that you would doe as before I haue humbly besought you euen so now yet once more I doe againe beseech you and that for the mercies of God in Christ Iesus our Lord Repent you repent you for the kingdome of heauen that is a kingdome full of all riches pleasures mirth beautie swéetnesse and eternall felicitie is at hand The eye hath not séene the like the eare hath not heard the like the heart of man cannot conceyue the treasures and pleasures of this kingdome which now is at hand to such as repent that is to such as are sorie for their sinnes beléeue Gods mercie through Christ and earnestly purpose to leade a new life The God of mercie through Christ his Sonne graunt vs his holy spirit and woorke in our hearts this sorrow faith and new life which through his grace I haue spoken of both now and for euer Amen An other Sermon made also by the said master Iohn Bradford vpon the Lords Supper THere are two Sacraments in Christes Church the one of imitation that is wherewith we be inrolled as it were in the houshold and familie of God which Sacrament we call Baptisme the other wherewith we be conserued fed kept and nourished to continue in the same familie which is called the Lords Supper or the body and bloud of our Sauiour Iesus Christ broken for our sinnes and shed for our transgressions Of the former Sacrament that is of Baptisme to speake now I am not purposed because occasion and time serue not so thereto Of the second therefore will I speake something by Gods grace if that first you remember this that Baptisme in Christs Church now sithens Christs death is come in place of Circumcision which was in the same Church afore Christs comming Whereby wee may sée that Christian Parents séeme to bee no lesse bound to offer their Infants Babes to be baptized that they may be taken and accounted of vs as members of Christs mysticall body whereunto they are receiued and sealed then were the Hebrues their children to bee taken as pertayning to the couenant and league with God wherewith they were inrolled alonely the circumstance of the eight day not necessarie to be obserued béeing now abrogated But
signifie onely and signes which also doe represent confirme and seale vp or as a man may say giue with their signification As for an example An Iuie bush is a signe of Wine to be sold the budding of Aarons Rod did signifie Aarons Priesthood allowed of the Lord the reseruation of Moses Rod did signifie the rebellion of the children of Israel the stones taken out of Iordane Gedeons fléece of wooll c. Such as these be signes significatiue and shew no gift But in the other signes which some call exhibitiue is there not onely a signification of the thing but also a declaration of a gift yea in a certaine manner a giuing also As Baptisme signifieth not onely the cleansing of the conscience from sinne by the merits of Christs blood but also is a very cleansing from sinne And therefore it was sayd to Paul that he should arise and wash away his sinnes and not that hee should arise and take onely a signe of washing away his sinnes In the Lords Supper the bread is called a partaking of the Lords body and not onely a bare signe of the Lords body This I speake not as though the elements of these Sacraments were Transsubstantiate which I haue already impugned eyther as though Christs body were in bread or wine eyther were tyed to the elements otherwise then Sacramentally and spiritually eyther that the bread and wine may not and must not bee called Sacramentall and externall signes but that they might be discerned from significatiue and bare signes onely and bee taken for signes exhibitiue and representiue By this meanes a Christian conscience will call and estéeme the bread of the Lord as the body of Christ For it will neuer estéeme the Sacraments of Christ after their exterior appearance but after the words of Christ Whereof it commeth that the Fathers as Chrysostome and others doe speake with so full a mouth when they speake of the Sacrament for their respect was to Christs words If the Schoolemen which followed had the same spirit which they had then would they neuer haue consented to Transsubstantiation For with great admiration some of the Fathers doe say that the bread is changed or turned into the body of Christ and the wine into his blood meaning it of a mutation or change not corporall but spirituall figuratiue Sacramentall or mystical For now it is no common bread nor common wine béeing ordained to serue for the foode of the soule The Schoolemen haue vnderstood it as the Papists now preach of a substantiall changing as though it were no great miracle that common bread should now bee assumed into that dignitie that it should be called Christs body and serue for a celestiall foode and be made a Sacrament of his body and blood As before therefore I haue spoken I would wish that this Sacrament should be estéemed called of vs Christian men after Christs words namely Christs body and the wine Christs blood rather then otherwise Not that I meane any other presence of Christs body then a presence of grace a preseruer to Faith a presence spiritually and not corporally really naturally and carnally as the Papists doe meane For in such sort Christs body is onely in heauen on the right hand of God the Father almightie whither our faith in the vse of the Sacrament ascendeth and receyueth whole Christ accordingly Yea but one will say that to call the Sacrament on that sort is to giue an occasion of Idolatrie to the people which will take the Sacrament which they see simply for Christs bodie as by experience wée are well taught and therefore it were better to call it bread and so lesse harme should be especially in this age To this obiection I answer that indéed great Idolatrie is committed to and about this Sacrament and therefore men ought as much as they can to auoyd from occasioning or confirming it But in as much as the holy Ghost is wiser then man and had foresight of the euils that might bee and yet notwithstanding doth call it Christs bodie I thinke wee should doe euill if we should take vpon vs to reforme his spéech If Ministers did their dueties in Catechizing and Preaching then doubtlesse to call the Sacrament Christs body and to estéeme it accordingly could not giue occasion to Idolatrie and confirme it Therefore woe vnto them that preach not There bee two euils about the Sacraments which to auoyde the holy Ghost hath taught vs For least we should with the Papistes thinke Christes body present in or with the bread really naturally and corporally to be receiued with our bodily mouth where there is no other presence of Christes body then spirituall and to the faith in many places he kéepeth still the name of bread as in the Epistle to the Corinthians the tenth and eleuenth Chapters And least we should make too light of it making it but a bare signe and no better then common bread the holy Ghost calleth it Christes body whose spéech I wish we would followe and that not onely as well to auoyde the euill which is now a dayes most to be feared concerning the Sacrament I meane of contemning it as also for that no faithfull man commeth to the Sacrament to receiue bread simply but rather yea altogether to communicate with Christes body and blood For else to eate and drinke as Paul saith they haue houses of their owne The contempt of the Sacrament in the dayes of King Edward hath caused these plagues vpon vs presently the Lorde bee mercifull vnto vs. Amen And thus much for the obiection of calling the Sacrament by the name of Christes body What saith one to cal the Sacrament Christs body and to make none other presence then by grace or spiritually to faith which is of things hoped for and of things which to the bodily sences doe not appeare is to make no presence at all or to make him none otherwise present then hee is in his worde when it is preached and therefore what neede wée to receiue the Sacrament in as much as by this doctrine a man may receiue him dayly in the fielde as well and as much as in the Church in the celebration and vse of the Sacrament To this obiection I first answere that in deede neither the Scripture nor Christian Faith will giue vs leaue to make any carnall reall naturall corporall or any such grosse presence of Christs naturall body in the Sacrament For it is in Heauen and the Heauens must haue it as sayeth Pete● till Christes comming to iudgement except wée would denie the humanitie of Christ and the veritie of mans nature in him The presence therefore which wee beléeue and confesse is such a presence as reason knoweth not and the world cannot learn nor any that looketh in this matter with other eyes or heareth with other eares thē with the eares and eyes of the Spirit and of Faith Which Faith though it bee of things hoped for and so of things