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A68302	A most excellent and comfortable treatise, for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie, made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman, sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde. Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the gospel of Christ Iesus. And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian [and] an afflicted conscie[n]ce: wherein, by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest, and ouerthrowen: with a godly prayer thereunto annexed	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1577 (1577)	STC 15000; ESTC S107429	44,945	104

likewise the historie sheweth of Ammonarion Mercuria Dionysia and other notable women that were so vnfearefull to suffer most sharpe death that they woulde runne when they heard where the execution was in hande and carie their young children with them such delight had they to suffer for Christes sake in great hast as vnto a ioyfull feast fearing nothing els but that the tormentours would spare them and that they should not be thought worthie to beare witnesse to Christes death with their owne bloud Call to your remembrance that faithfull woman and worthie martyr of Iesus Christ your owne countrie woman Anne Askew her imprisonment moued her not she litle weyed the cruel torture and tearing her bodie on the racke she ioyfully went to the fyer and was of more comfort in feeling the paine and lesse wearie thereof then the lookers on to beholde or the tormētours to do execution The historie sayeth that Theodorus a yong man was so grieuously tormēted with diuers and sundrie kindes of tormentes and at length his bodie so rent and torne that they left him for dead Whome Ruffinus the writer of the Ecclesiasticall storie afterward asked whether he felt not grieuous paines whiles he was in the torments to whom he aunswered that he felt verie litle paine For said he there stood as he thought a yong man by him who always wiped the sweat from him and so much comforted his stomacke that the time of the tormenting seemed to him much more pleasaunt then painefull Who made the yong men walke in the fire and burne not Who hardened these martyrs of men and women that they did not shrinke at paine but ranne thorow fire water and most cruell torments and not be ouercome Certainely euen he who had promised them that neither in fier water no nor yet in the shadowe of death he woulde be from them but woulde be their buckler defendour and shield faithfully performing that no temptation should so assaile them but that he woulde giue a ioyfull ende and deliuerance whereunto they trusted and so by their constant fayth ouercame and had the victorie For this is the victorie that ouercommeth the worlde euen our fayth Yea as S. Paul saith the time woulde not serue vs if we would rehearse how the Patriarks prophets Apostles Martyrs through faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnes obtained the promises stopped the mouthes of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sworde out of weaknes were made strōg waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliants the women receiued their dead raysed to life againe Other were racked and would not be deliuered that they might inherit a better resurrection Againe other were tried with mockings and scourgings moreouer with bonds and imprisonments were stoned were hewen in sunder were tempted were slaine with sworde And these al through fayth obtayned good report The holy Ghost hath caused these histories to be kept in writing for vs that are now in the latter dayes to this ende that we should not onely behold in them the fierie raging of the world from the beginning against the chosen people of God how stoutly they withstood ouercame by faythfull patience the malice therof but also that by reading of thē we should in our like troubles learne like patience receiue the same cōfort being thorowly tried cōceiue a sure hope of the same victorie which they after many sundrie trials did winne whereof we shal not be disapointed if we to the ende striue lawfully If it be to hard aboue your capacitie to beholde al the histories exāples propounded in the scriptures the Chronicles of Christes church with such cōsideration that you may espie behold in them the order of Gods working with his Church in all ages wherby to perceiue these your grieuous chaunges to be no new and vnwonted work of God If you doe not perceiue see in them the true iust cause which moueth the Lord hereunto and thereby to learne faithful repētance if you doe not vnderstand in diligent perusing them that the end and issue was alwayes ioyfull and glorious victorie deliueraunce wherewith to comfort your selues in the middes of miseries take into your handes the comfortable historie of King Dauid marke his whole life from that time he was taken from his fathers sheepe to his death beholde in him your selues in the people during the time of his rule the church of England and in the wonderfull iudgement of God in ordering his Church then what shal be the ende of his sharpe crosse wherwith he doeth exercise you at this time And to the ende you may the better see how to wade in considering his whole life we haue disclosed and opened for you to beholde a part thereof wherein you shall see plainely that the grieuous afflictions of euery one of you seuerally and of the whole Church of England together is not fallen by chaunce of euill or good fortune but by the mightie hande of God whose good will it is thus to haue you tried for a while also for what cause GOD thus worketh and what shal be the ende of al these dooings After the Lorde had founde out Dauid a man after his owne minde and appointed him King ouer his people who laboured worthily to deliuer and defend Gods people from their enemies the Idolatours that dwelt nere about them he did not graūt to him such quietnes neither to his people but that he was in continuall troubles and no small daungers during the life of Saul and also after his death the Idolatours and also Sauls friends seeking all the wayes that might be to disturbe him forth of his kingdome And not onely was he thus vexed with his foraine enemies but also most grieuously of all by those of his houshold who shoulde haue bin his most deare friends his owne natural sonne Absalom his most priuie Counselours the nobilitie of his Realme the most part of his subiectes Absalom pretending to his father Dauid a great holines as the maner of the hypocrites is desired to haue leaue to go into Hebron there to doe sacrifice for the performance of a vowe which he had made in the time of his being in Syria but his meaning was to obtaine the kingdome from his Father and to stirre all Israel against him which he brought to passe Dauid was banished and pursued vnto the death by his owne sonne who wrought so much vilanie against his father that he did not forbeare in the despite of him to misuse his fathers wiues in the sight of all the people how grieuouse and daungerous this sodaine chaunge was to Dauid to the godly people which were but a very fewe in respect of the great number of the malicious hypocrites which folowed Absalom it appeareth plainly in the storie and you may easely consider The best that was like to come of the matter was that whiles the kingdome of Israel was

heauenly comfort of his holy Spirit that peace which the world can not giue and that constant patience in all his fatherly corrections that we be not founde false hirelings but true and trustie seruants no bastard children but by vnfained faith the blessed posteritie of the blessed Abraham and true regenerates of God by our Sauiour Christ And the holie sanctifying Spirit of trueth and God be blessed for euer Amen A verie godly and learned Exhortation to suffer patiently imprisonment exile or what miserie soeuer els may happen to a man in this life for the profession of the Gospel of CHRIST IESVS IF the worlde hate you good Brethren and thereupon with sundrie afflictions and griefes do moleste and vexe you marueile not with grudging but prayse GOD with patience who in this fornace fashioneth you to the lykenesse and image of his owne Sonne whome the worlde hath hated from the beginning for whose sake also in no wise it can loue you but with moste spitefull hate will pursue you euen vnto the death for that you are chosen by Christ from the worlde to walke foorth and bring out fruite which shall continue to sanctification whereof the end shal be euerlasting life For as a riche and beautifull Harlot full of amorouse filth with a painted face wantō looks trimme araye fayre wordes large promises great giftes with the entisement of quiet wealthie and pleasant life allureth them on whom she casteth loue yet at the end rewardeth them with pockes piles fighting brawling and most shamefull death whom if she can by no meanes entise to folow her fancie she hateth so deadly that she ceaseth not but causeth the whole rablement of her bawdie bawdes ruffling roysterkins with brawling bragges shamefull slaunders subtill surmises quarreling questions and falsly fayned accusations to vexe trouble and bring to destructiō So the Princesse of the world that most filthie harlot wooeth Gods children espoused vnto his sonne Christ to breake their faith and trouth to him plighted and to become her dearlings setting before their eyes all the kingdomes of the worlde and the glorie thereof promising with holowe holines subtill suspicion falsely fained religion and a pokefull of such pretie persuasions that if they wil fal downe and worship as she doeth she will giue vnto them all these same for then shall they be her owne deare dearlings and she will loue them as her owne but the end shal be most dreadful damnation Whom if she cannot perswade neither by one way or by other vnto her loue from Christ their best and onely beloued spouse she conceiueth so great an hatred against them that she stirreth all her champions with might maine to doe them displeasure in their goods to worke them hatred of their friendes to impayre their good name to punishe their bodies to offende their consciences to make their life yrksome vnto them and moste cruelly without mercie to kill them yet whose death is most precious in Gods sight and hath to rewarde a most glorious resurrection Thus the worlde hath serued our deare and best beloued Christ before vs for our sakes who was giuen into the handes of this harlot to be thus cruelly dealt withall for to be vnto vs a patern which we should folow an image after which we must be fashioned painted forth before our eyes in the Scriptures to teache vs to folowe his trace with patience and in running this race to cōceiue comfort hoping after victorie through fayth in him who both gaue vs warning of the paine and lest we should faint to comfort vs promised victorie saying In the world shall you haue affliction but in me peace be of good cheare for I haue ouercommed the worlde To fight with a puissant enemie whose courage was neuer abated whose strength is inuincible and who hath bene oftentymes assailed by many but neuer vanquished might discomfort a weake heart and cause it to giue ouer at the first without further resistance But for so much as this stern madame with all her chiualrie and force is so ouercome and weakened to our handes that she is not able to resist what countenance so euer she makes much lesse able to ouercome such as doe stoutly withstand her malice and crueltie how faint hearted cowardly milksoppes may we be iudged that wil be abashed and may not abyde the lowring countenance of a feeble maymed and beaten bragger especially seeing that in striuing faithfully against her and her souldiours the losse of renowme here is the purchasing of eternall glorie the losse of worldly goods the gayning of heauenly riches the losse of a miserable and short life here the winning and very entrance into a ioyfull and euerlasting life in heauen Is the friendshippe of the worlde so deare to vs that therefore we should not esteeme Gods fauour Ought our goods wife children friendes landes and possessions so much to be regarded that for to saue them we should forsake the heauenly riches and euerlasting inheritance Ought we to be so desirous to liue here that for a short life and vnpleasant we will purchase an euerlasting and most painefull death But the burthen of pouertie is importable hunger imprisonment exile is intolerable the bitter stormes of persecution and the sharpe showres of death are so insufferable that we feare least we shoulde not be of power to abide and passe thorow them and therefore do thinke it better to sit still then to rise take a fall better not to enterprise the conflict then in the middes for lacke of strength through faintnes to giue ouer with shame and runne away How delicate fearfull and therefore vnwilling the fleshe is to suffer common experience teacheth al men hauing any feeling of them selues perceiue and chiefely they who setting all persuasions of the fleshe apart haue of full purpose and resolute determination with them selues entred into the schoole of sufferance beginning at Christ his crosse and so forth to learne therein onely to glorie can by that they feele in them selues best declare For as the deadly foe to mankinde assaulted our deare brother Iesus Christ then most hotly after he perceiued by plaine tokens that he was Gods Sonne bent by the crosse and contempt of the world to enter into glorie with the firie dartes of famine pouerty ignominy shame afterward with the feare of death on the other part with plentie riches honour possessions and glorie of the whole world knowing most perfectly that these perswasions should be most strong to moue persuade the fleshe to refuse the crosse weying the paines the trauail with one eye the pleasant wealthy honour with the other so he ceasseth not to assayle Christes mēbers with the self same entisements to cause the fleshe to abhorre the crosse and seeke after ease but then most busilie when he perceyueth the heart moued by Gods Spirit to cōtemne these as vanities and to seeke after true wealth quietnes and glorie And

thus deuided Gods enemies the Philistims who had lyen long in wayte therfore shoulde snatche vp from both the parties the kingdome of Israel and not onely vtterly banishe Gods true religion from among the Israelites but also bring thē their countrey and their posteritie into most miserable bondage and thraldome and that to Gods enemies the most vile people and hated of all the world Dauid in all these perilous daungers of his owne lyfe losse of his kingdome vtter destruction of Gods people did not discourage himself but vnderstāding all this to be the worke of Gods owne hande acknowledging the true cause vnfainedly did perswade him self that the Lord after a time when his good wil should be woulde giue a cōfortable end to al these stormes and bitter pāgs His whole behauiour he himself describeth in a Psalme which is left in writing for vs to learne therafter how to behaue our selues in the like persecutions Whē he was fled from Ierusalem the priestes were departed frō him with the Arke of the Lords Couenaunt he went vpon mount Oliuet barefoote wept as he went and had his head couered and so did all the people that were with him And he made his mone vnto the Lord saying O Iehoua how are they encreased that trouble me how many are they that rise against me howe many are there that saye of my soule There is no helpe for him in his God Selah Wonder not though this good King with an heauie hearte and sorowfull cheare doeth lament and bewaile his dolorouse estate Woulde it not grieue a King when he thinketh of no such matter sodainly to be cast out of his Royall seate and brought in daunger of his lyfe and that by his owne naturall Sonne Can the displeasure of any enemie so much pearce the heart of a kinde father as the vnnaturall crueltie of the sonne to seeke his death of whom he himselfe had his life It grieued him no small deale to perceiue such as had bin his wise Counsailours whom he much trusted whose duetie it had bin with the spending of their owne liues to haue defended the common weale brought to good and quiet order both in matters of policie of Gods true religion to be the supporters and mainteiners of an hypocrite who had neither respect to Gods true honour nor yet consideration of duetie to his most honourable Father neither yet regarde to the prosperous weale of his natiue countrey But nothing of all these grieued him so much as this one thing the remembrance and true acknowledging in himselfe that he himselfe was the only cause of all these euils He called to his remembrance that these plagues fell vpon him sent from God whose worke it was and that for his sinnes which were the cause thereof and this made him weepe and mourne For so soone as the Prophet Nathan had warned him of his offence he cryed peccaui I haue sinned and afterward when hee sawe this grieuous and sodaine chaunge folowe he perceiued it came partly for his sinne by the worke of God and therefore submitted him self wholy to Gods will saying If I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lorde he will bring me againe and shew me both his Arke and the Tabernacle thereof but and the Lorde thus saye I haue no lust vnto thee behold here am I let him doe with mee what seemeth good in his eyes Thus the worthie man of God acknowledgeth his troubles to be of Gods hande his sinnes to be the cause and therefore humbly and faithfully submitteth himselfe to Gods ordering wel content to receiue whatsoeuer should be layd vpon him He assured himselfe that when he himselfe were most weakest then God would declare his strength for his owne glories sake and after he were reduced to a faithfull repentaunce by the correction of his mercifull Father then the rod should be cast into the fire This consideration of plagues both to priuate men particularly and also of Realmes whole common Wealthes is diligently to be weyed that as they come from God so haue they this ende that they tende partly to his owne glorie partly to our profit and amendement For although sinne is the generall cause wherefore all mankinde generally was is shal be molested with many and sundrie kindes of troubles and calamities yet the calamities afflictions are not to all kinde of men alike nor yet for one end and purpose For the wicked and reprobate are punished whipped of God to a farre other end and meaning then the godly and chosen children who are the true church of God the liuely mēbers of Christ such as shal be neuer separated frō God and his louing fauour in Christ Iesu These although they be neuer without trouble in this world but alwayes exercised vnder the crosse yet the cause and cōsideration why God will haue them thus exercised is either for the glorie and honour of his owne Name or the profite commoditie and exceeding benefit of them whom he thus afflicteth either els for both these considerations together for that there is no trouble that cōmeth to Christes church or any mēber therof which appeareth not plainly to redound to Gods glorie the profit of the afflicted if it be wel iustly cōsidered These two causes considerations doth the Scripture teach in all calamities of the church whether they be generall or particular which being wel marked will easily put out of the way this stūbling block wherat many stumble fal marueyling wherfore God wil suffer his word his chosen childrē thus to be vsed euil dealt withall The childrē of Israel were in Egypt most cruelly dealt withal 400. yeeres oppressed with most painfull labours most seruile exactions their infants slaine they cried vnto the Lord their griefs encreased for God had hardened Pharao his heart that he shoulde not ease or deliuer his people Wherefore did God thus afflict his people and stirred this cruell tyrant so grieuously to vexe thē truely for his own glorie their profit God rehearseth this cause and cōsideratiō in the scripture of the hard cruel hearts of the Egyptians towards his people The Egyptians shal know that I am the Lord and that I will deliuer my people by strong hand frō among thē For this purpose saith God to Pharao haue I raysed thee vp that in thee I may declare my power thorowout the whole world This profit they receiued the exercise of their faith the triall of their patience and the confirming of their hope for deliueraunce which was not deceyued Thus S. Paul noteth and collecteth of this historie the one end to be Gods glorie for the honourable fame and renowme of his Name throughout the whole world and also the profit that the afflicted receiue which is the exercise of faith as he noteth of Moses and his parents to the Hebrues But much more plainly doth S. Paul note teach these two

countrey dispersed them in many countreyes among the heathen sent straungers to inhabite their land and so vtterly destroyed that kingdom God defende the realme of England from the like punishment This was a fearfull iudgement of God where hee had but one smal kingdome in the whole worlde that bare the face of his Churche where his true honour was maintained and that so sodainly of twelue tribes ten should fal from God to idolatrie and false religion yea and the other also during all the time of Roboam and his sonne Abia after him so that during al this time there was not in the worlde any Churche or people where the syncere religion and pure word of God was receiued by publike authoritie and common order although God reserued always some that priuatly serued him and feared his Name faythfully who were alwayes so hated and punished by the Idolaters that their liues were bitter vnto them In those daies did the idolaters make the selfe same reasons arguments against the Prophets and their doctrine which your Idolaters doe make now against Gods people his true religion The faithfull then liued among those Idolaters with no lesse feare trouble and persecution then the Christians doe nowe in England The Prophets were then imprisoned driuen out of their countrey like seditious heretiks the causers of all euill as the true preachers now in England are partly imprisoned partly driuen out of the realme After the death of these wicked Kinges of Iehuda God visited his people with some light of the trueth by the meanes of Aza and King Iosaphat after him who restored although not perfectly the true religion bannished the false and destroyed the Altars of the Idolaters The which reformation was not done without great difficultie and trouble and continued but a small time in that same order For Ioram the sonne of Kinge Iosaphat ouerthrewe the true seruice of GOD condemned it and brought in the place thereof the superstitions and Idolatries of the Kinges of Israel and so the Churche continued neuer perfectly reformed but alwayes afflicted till the time of Ezechias For although Aza Iosaphat Ioaz Amazias Vzzias and Ioatham attempted a reformation and were indifferently good Kinges yet was not the Church cleansed of all the Idolatries and false counterfeit religion as it appeareth by the Prophets Ely Amos Esay Ozea Micha But the worthy King Ezechias in the first yere of his raigne began to reforme the religion brake downe and banished all Idols and Images hil altars and whatsoeuer was against Gods commaundement restoring Gods true religion after the rule of Gods worde The which thing as he brought to passe not without great troubles and difficulties so it continued in puritie but a litle time For his Sonne wicked Manasses who raigned after him put away and did forsake the true way and brought in againe all maner of Idolatrie and false religion and did grieuously punishe and persecute the faithfull people and true Prophets He shed saith the Scripture innocent bloud exceeding aboundantly In lyke maner did his sonne Ammon also who raigned after him This grieuous change remained thus vntil the good King Iosias made a newe and godly reformation which ought to bee a glasse to all Princes to beholde themselues in But this godly reformation of this good King did not continue for his sonne and al the Kings of Iehuda after him forsooke the wayes of God and restored againe the Idolatrie and false religion of their forefathers and so continued till God sent the King of Babylon to destroye their citie Temple and coūtrey Who also led them captiue into Babylon where they continued many yeres in great affliction as it appeareth by the Prophets Ieremie Daniel so that in fiue hundreth yeres and aboue in the dayes of all the Kinges of Iehuda Gods religion was set forth and receiued in publike order syncerely and perfectly and the contrarie vtterly banished abolished but only in the times of Dauid Ezechias and Iosias as Iesus the sonne of Sirach witnesseth saying all Kings except Dauid Ezechias and Iosias committed wickednes for euen the Kings of Iehuda also forsooke the lawes of god With what difficultie and troubles Gods religion and true seruice was restored after the returne of Gods people from Babylon and how short a time it continued in puritie what troubles and grieuous persecutions the true seruants of the Lord suffered it is partly set forth in Esdras and Nehemiah after in Hester then in the Machabees And although vnto the comming of Christ there was an outwarde face and beautifull shew of Gods religion among the Iewes yet was it so defaced and vtterly falsifyed with traditions of the Pharises who were that time in estimation that Christ himselfe doth testifie that their seruice was but vaine traditions of men and the commaundement of God was not obserued All that time there were no Prophets to instruct them in the right waye For immediatly after the captiuitie all prophecying ceassed in Israel Nowe peruse the historie of our Sauiour Christ in the foure Euangelistes and you shall perceiue in what state Christ founde his true religion what paines and trauaile he tooke to restore the true and syncere honouringe of God with howe great difficultie hee brought it to passe and at the last howe it cost hym his life After whose death the crueltie of them who would seeme to haue and maintaine the true honouring of GOD ceased not but stirred most vehement persecution against the true Churche of Christ and dispersed it thorowout all the worlde with what paines troubles and difficultie true Christianitie was planted and false religion put away S. Lucas partly mentioneth in the Actes of the Apostles who spent their liues in the buylding of Christ his Church After Christ his death the cruell tyrant Nero the Emperour did persecute the Church most cruelly after whose time the Church was in some quiet but not long for Domitian the Emperour did persecute Christ his Church to destroye his true religion most hainously Nerua his successour was friendly to the Christians Traiane after him a cruell persecutour and enemie and then Hadriane after whose tyme the Churche had rest for a whyle For shortly after the Christians that were in Asia and also in the West parties were cruelly disquieted Shortly after this tyme did England receyue the Christiā fayth and was the fyrst countrey of all the world that receiued the faith of Christ by publique authoritie Lucius beeing their first Christian King but the puritie of Christ his trueth did not long there cōtinue not much aboue an hundreth yeres Seuerus the Emperour wrought all the meanes that might be to destroy Christes Churche and to subuerte the true religion with most sharpe persecution after whose time there was some quiet but shortly after the cruel tyrant Maximinus did sore molest the faithfull and likewise after him Detius Gallus Hostilianus Lucius Valerianus Galienus graunted the Christians peace Aurelianus