and makest them thereby to be partakers with thée of thine heauenly and diuine nature through the wonderful operation of thine holy spirite We are taught by thine holy Apostle that what so euer is not of this faith is sinne and that there is no possibilitie without it to please thée or to finde grace by sute at thyne holy hande And therefore all they that come vnto thée must in déede firmly beléeue that thou art very God and very Man yea and suche a God of mighte of mildenesse great mercy aboue all Gods as both can and euer will heare incline thine eare and abundantly rewarde all them that with liuely and true faith séeke thée and vnfaignedly desire to finde thée or to be relieued by thine holy hande By this fayth O Lorde we also obteine of God thy father all good things yea what so euer we craue at his hande in thy name Through this fayth also so many as beléeue are iustified made the sonnes and heires of God and enioy most certainly thereby the rewarde of euerlasting life O Lorde Iesu great is the power and working of this fayth for by it the consciences of the godly are quieted by it they truely know thée the onely high and eternall God by it they loue and feare thée be constant towards thée strong and pacient in al aduersitie their hope is firme for things to come by it they conceiue boldenesse to repaire to the throne of thy grace for mercy to haue sure trust in thee to inuocate thine holy name to adore and worshippe it to confesse the truthe before thée to obey it moste gladly to perseuer therein moste willingly to withstande the force of all tyrannie to yéelde vp in time their spirite and to goe through fayth to thine and their heauenly father Séeing then O graciouse God and Sauiour that this vertue is so heauenly so holy so mightie so acceptable and preciouse in thy sight that without it nothing can be well pleasing the will of thy maiestie or to serue happily our owne turnes and we also of suche frailtie can not attayne to this moste singuler treasure except it come from aboue euen from thée and infused into our hearts by the grace of thine holy spirite we moste hartily beséeche thée by the power thereof to make cleane our hearts to purge them of all error darknesse and ignorance of all mistrust infidelitie and vnfaythfulnesse and to plant moste spéedely in vs a true liuely and vndoubted faithe in the blessed and moste glorious Trinitie in God our heauenly father in thée O God oure only sauioure and in the holy ghoste our most deare and swéete comfortour by whome alone we be all highly blessed preciously redéemed and eternally sanctified and that also for thine only sake O blessed sauioure thine heauenly father is well pleased with vs our sinnes cléerely remitted vnto vs This faithe O swéete Iesu daily encrease in vs help most gratiously our vnbeléefe O Lord strengthen vs from faithe to faithe that we may at the laste thorow thine accustomed grace be made perfectly faithfull constante warriors and valiant conquerors in the defence of thine holy religio againste the power of Sathan the worlde and Antichriste and in all things to she we oure selues in this life bothe in our profession manners truly and frutefully faithful euen to the high exaltation praise of thy name which liuest and raignest with God the father and God the holy Ghoste true and perfecte God our onely mediator and aduocate world without end Amen V. To the attainement of Grace and for the due examination of suche desires and motions as are put daily into oure mindes BEholding O God our maker the miserable state of mākinde in this lyfe how diuersly therein and in finitely he is continually beset compassed and hedged in with bodily and ghostly euil stepping euery moment amōg the low shrubbes lurking stubbes stumbling blockes craggie rockes dead pits trappes catches snares grinnes furious and fierse beastes in the wildernesse of this worlde to present destruction alwayes vncertaine and feareful through danger whereunto in his wayes he may leane or trust wandring in this desert among doutful chaunces voide of certain hope farre off from comfort forsaken of frendes beset with many enemies and entised diuersly to sundry desires and motions so moste gréenously perplexed and inwardly afflicted in minde musing before thée O Lorde in thine heauenly presence vpon hys moste wretched state what shall betide him knoweth not what to doe which way to turne him whether to flée not certaine of his ende ignorant when howe and where he shall ende his dayes and leaue to earthe his moste wretched and earthie carcasse who during his shorte time possesseth two powers diuersly drawing and leading him althoughe onely one preuayleth either with him or againste him which is a willyng consente to vayne pleasures bredde in the corrupted fleshe or otherwise a more apte inclination to the good wil and motion of the spirit which are bothe contrary the one to the other and the one continually warring or waging battaile against the other whose fight if there be resistance are bothe very violente to preuaile stirreth daily the soule to great vnrest Which powers or partes of man O Lord in the time of innocencie before the fall of my first parents haddest coupled them togither in moste blessed concorde and vnitte but alasse nowe separated peace broken and set at discorde by the Serpente the enemie of peace and of mankinde and cannot liue ioyned togither wythoute contynuall warre ruffeling and wrangling together as things dyuers althoughe in déede but one I beséeche thée therefore O my God the greate God and maker of heauen and earthe to beholde with greate compassion my miserable state among the rest in this moste wofull and gréeuous conflicte my greate frailetie and weakenesse wythoute thy grace my darknesse and ignoraunce and the power of sinne raygning in myne earthely and mortall members that as thou arte God the author of peace the true light and guid and the only God of my strengthe to preuaile for me by thine holy spirit against the Prince of sedition and darkenesse of fraud and deceit of erroure and lies and the corrupted motions of the sinneful fleshe so graunt me the strengthe of thy grace a liuely and quicke féeling faithe also in thy promisses thorowe Christe that thereby my spirite being alwayes prepared quickned and directed by thy spirite it may yéelde to the only quickening and good motions therof that by the heauenly power of it I may at all times be constante in them and learn perfectly by due examination and with good desires out of thy worde of truth the euent of all attemptes stirres motions assaultes entisements dessres prouocations and affections to iudge truely of them to way rightly their natures from whence they come by what spirite to what ende whether worthy thy well liking tēding to thy
by thine holy spirit to remember always the burthen of my sinne and to feare the terror of thy iudgemēts for due punishing of the same so I make vnto thée most hūble sute not to be destitute of a liuely faith true trust and confidence in thy mercy and grace that thou wilt hūble my soule before thée prepare in me a cleane heart and a will inclineable to thy testimonyes that how so euer by thy will and iustice I féele in this worlde for good thy priuate iudgements to the purging repressing and kéeping vnder my stubburne and proude fleshe at the generall iudgement day and in the world to come that when al works good and bad shal be reduced to memory and when a straight accompt and reckening shall be made and a iust rewarde giuen celestiall or infernal both to body and soul I may yet escape the fulnesse of thy paimēt due for euer to the wicked by theyr deadly and iuste deserte Heare me O my God of all mercie and take thou care ouer me this day moste graciously directe me confirme and strengthen me in thy wayes leaste in mine owne respecte I be founde but féeble and weake slipping full of inconstancie vncleane and too too filthie for there is no will no power nor holynesse that auayleth no wisedome no temperaunce humilitie loue dilygence chastitie or mine owne keping to good effect without the frée direction of thyne holy hand daily gouernment most gratious preseruation defending holy watching All which as they procéede onely from thée and are of thy méere mercie bestowed moste bountifully vpon me so graunt me grace yea the continuaunce of thy grace not to be forgetfull of thée but always to remember thée with al humilitie and thākfulnesse euch from the very depth and bottome of mine harte and soule all the dayes of my life and haue thenceforth the rewarde of eternall felicitie thorowe thy mercie and the only merites of thy sonne and my Sauioure Iesus Amen XVIII The Flighte of the faithfull Soule to Christe in the exuemitie of temptations and invvarde affections of the minde IF I in presenting my selfe before thée O swéete Iesu my Lord and only sauioure shall séeme by thy gratious permission some thing to say vnto thée with heauinesse of harte for my sinnes which are infinite most dānable by instice in thy sight and most plainly also proue by thy woorde of truthe that thou art yet bounde to be fauorable vnto me bound to cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe bounde to bestowe thy good graces thy blessings and benesites vpon me yea and bounde also in time to giue vnto me thine heauenly and celestiall Paradise I will not do it rashly before thée my Lorde and my God vpon presumption or cōtemptuously or for that I beare not a due and woorthy reuerence vnto the glory of thy diuine maiestie neither meane I therby in any thing to diminish the excellencie of thyne heauenly power but rather to magnifie and extoll thine only omnipotencie and great goodnesse and to stirre vp my selfe euen with al humilitie to cōsider in parte the deare loue that thou bearest towardes me thy most euil and vnprofitable seruaunte O my swéete Iesu beare nowe with me therfore and first of all remember I beseeche thée thy perfecte knowledge héerin that thine eterns and most mercifull father did send thée into this worlde and vale of great miserie to the ende thou shuldest saue me comfort me in my distresse strengthen me defende and deliuer me moste wretched sinner in all anguishes troubles temptations and miseries bothe of bodie and soule and that my sinnes shuld not preuaile againste me when I humbly pray and craue thy mercie Thou O mercyfull and louyng Lorde and sauior was obedient to the will of thine heauenly father like a most lowly and mild childe and for the loue sake also whiche thou hadst to thy flocke like a most deare louing pastoure diddest offer thy selfe to die euen the most cruell and shameful death vpon the crosse And also if in case I did at any time make resistaunce rebelliously and wickedly to disobey to straggle or stray abrode when thou calledste vnto me tourning the deafe eare would not heart thée he straightely charged thée and gaue expresse Commaundemente vnto thée also that thou shouldest constraine and compell me home again to the fold and to be also his beloued ghest in his heauenly kingdome at the ioyfull day of thy mariage O Christe for this onely good purpose was thou borne vnto vs for thys cause didste thou humble thy selfe among vs and for thys moste happie ende did thy father so plentifully enrich thée and euen filled thée with the aboundance of his good giftes treasures Therefore O my mercifull Lorde Iesu remember I pray thée thy tharge sée thou be mindefull of thy good and most holy office and yeeld héerein to the obedience of thy fathers will as thou arte bound and woonte to doe Thou knowest O Lord that all good and iust lawes binde those that be riche wealthy in this world to distribute parte of their substance to the relieuement of poore and néedie personnes yea and the richer they be of the good gifts of God and in the greater miseries they finde their poore néedy neighbors the more are they bound gladly to helpe and succoure them This I say lord bicause I acknowledge thée to be moste riche and of moste excellent power abounding farre aboue all others in all ioyes and treasures incomparable where I contrarywise am in greate sorrow and heauinesse of hart oppressed with all care and miserie and with extréeme pouertie and necessitie both of body and soule Wherefore O Lord I humbly make sute vnto thée chalenge thée to be my spéedie helper for that I know thée to be moste readye moste willing most able and most bound to comfort me And thoughe I haue moste gréeuously offended the eyes of thy maiestie yet bicause thou art merciful and I appealing to thy mercy thou canst not set thy selfe agaynst me or withholde thy compassion from me but arte rather bound with all good incoragement spéedily to helpe succour me And why Lord should I say this truly for this cause the greter in the excellency of thy holy state thou dost approuedly find thy selfe aboue all other so muche the more art thou subiecte and obedient to the indispensable law of charitie and to be therfore most mercifull vnto me and to be obedient thervnto is the greatest and moste porfecte soueraintie thou shouldest not be that Chryst of God onlesse thou diddest gladly participate thy deare loue to thy brethren Yea I say moreouer thou art so much the rather bound to loue me for that thou arte myne head and I the meaner parte and mēver of thy body Neither maiest thou say thou canst not helpe me for although with the flowing foūtaynes of thy grace thou hast boūtifully enriched all the Sainctes
that euer wer from the beginning yet notwithstanding that thy deuine treasures are not so spente nether sodiminished but that there remayneth store abundauntly for me and for all penitent sinners No no Lorde thou hast treasures yet superfluous which shal endure for euer and wilt not thou aide and comforte me thy poore wretched creature with the crums that fall from thy table for my most ioyful refection seeing me now in danger irke to perish Shat I thinke O Lord thy compassion so slēder and so farre from me that I shal doubt to be refreshed at thy gracious hād No God forbid I wil neuer thinke so euill or slenderly of thee but rather beléeue that as thou arte able so thou wilt in déede helpe me and am thorowly persuaded whie Am not I swéete Iesu one of thy precious redéemed Iewelles And hast thou not spent euen thy moste precious heart bloud for me suffering for my sake so many so extreame paines moste greeuous torments Yea and haste thou not giuen thine owne deare life and soule to purchase me vnto thy selfe and to liue with thée in thy fathers kingdome And nowe to relieue or recouer me out of daunger shouldest thou shew thy selfe so vnkinde vnto me that I can not be partaker of thy superfluous store thine ouerplus and thine offalles Thy father did so plentifully enriche thée with so many his woorthy graces to the end thou O Lord shuldest behold in this world the sicknesse and great necessities of thy troubled flocke and largely againe to distribute vnto thē in their pouertie and to ease them also of their painefulnesse and infirmitie And bicause O my Lord and sauioure I yéelde and humbly confesse me to be one of those poore miserable scabbed shéepe and acknowledge thée also the only bountifull good and free phisition I come therfore boldly and say thus vnto thée O Christ Iesu as thy mercifull father hath fréely giuen thée vnto me with the fulnesse of thine incomparable and heauenly treasures for my ready health wealth strength both of body and soule so I now flée vnto thée moste toyfully embrasing thée and in suche wise truste in thy mercy that thou shalt too too muche wrong me if thou stóc from me or forsake me Yea Lorde I say vnto thée in consideration hereof thou oughtest not neither canst thou abanbon or cast me out from thee but retaine embrace me for my most ioyful sauing health O Lord Iesu suffer me yet a litle to questiō with thée Was not thou the very same man the same Lorde sauiour god which by fauour hauing enriched thine holy Apostles gauest them also in charge that they shuld communicate deale and deuide to others such spirituall ryches heauenly treasures as thou before haddest giuen vnto them Should I iudge of thée that giuest cōmaundemente to others in dooing good things that thou thy selfe wilte not perfourme the same O Lord as thou art a god of mercy truth and delightest of all men to be truly so noted were it possible for thée to alter one iot of thy puritie most perfect beautiful clerenesse of thy godly diuine nature wherby one shéepe of thy flock should quayle or find any light occasiō of offence O Iesu as thou art righteous so art not thou a stūbling block vnto the righ teous And truly my soule trusteth in thée it moūteth vp into the heauēs before thée my faith is liuely towards thee O performe therfore faythfully towards me as thou art faithful the which thou didst so iustly cōmaund vnto thine Apostles and to vs Thou certainly doest know that thine heuēly father at the beginning filled thée withal vertues stuffed thée with al tresures poured his graces vpon thée with al plentifulnesse to the ende that in thys world thou shouldest not bend nor set thy mind properly to possesse gather treasure for thine own self but that thou shouldest altogither turne and apply thine endeuoure to sée me and the rest of thy poore brethren comforted safely nourished kept strengthened and defended in all assayes And so thou haste done hitherto as S. Paule beareth vs in hande for all that thou hast pretended wrought and suffered from the beginning was for me for thine and my brethrens sake Thine holy incarnation therefore thy natiuitie and circumcision thy baptisme thy fasting and praying thy temptations thy watchings thy preachings thy painful trauellings and dangers thy shamelesse accusatiōs spittings and raylings thy bloudie sweat thy woful and bitter teares thy cruel and traiterous apprehension thy crosse and moste painefull passion thy bloud shed thy life thy death thy buriall thy resurrection yea thy moste glorious ascention into euerlasting life and al the rest which thou haste done felt and suffered was all for me they are all mine and I now chalenge them all at thine hand as mine owne Al thy diuine treasures are mine yea and euen thou thy selfe art wholely also mine Thy father hath giuen thée vnto me and thou also was contented that I should possesse thée and therfore thou canst not nowe denie thy selfe to be mine Thou camest into this worlde to take paynes for me and to serue me and doste thou not knowe that what so euer the seruaunt getteth by his trauaile he gaineth it not for him selfe but for the vse of hym whome he serueth Thou didst like a puissant Prince triumphantly fighte for me by waging and winning battail and therfore the treasures and spoyles the triumphs and victories which thou then didst get are altogither mine It is not now of late O Iesu thou moste victorious and noble Prince since thou as with whom were only lefte these greate and precious treasures and haste thou nowe bestowed them all I will not say thine but my treasures wherewith thou hast purchased for me a moste pleasant place of rest euen the ioyfull and heauenly Paradise yea thou haste also taken possession of it for me and shouldest thou now goe aboute to dispossesse me of myne owne and to depriue me of mine inheritaunce and right No Lorde no there is in me no possibilitie at all to beléeue that for I haue in suche wise bothe hearde felte and knowne diuersly and innumerable wayes of thy gratious good nature and of thy perfecte charitie and truthe that I muste néedes confesse thy great goodnesse and liberalitie towardes me and so to trust truely in thee Thou hast diligently sought for me thou haste offered thy selfe vnto me thou hast so many wayes called vnto me and so diuers and sundry wayes allured me to come to thy moste royal and magnificent marriage promising to accepte me for thy deare beloued gheast therefore I am moste certainely persuaded and fully assured not to be deceiued of thée And thou hast sayd he that commeth to thée thou wilte not cast him oute And nowe that I moste gladly and willingly yéelde vnto
merites eyther their most damnable and idolatrous deuised vanities 9 Whether thou thynkest it not the Dyuels bewytchyng by his maligne mimsters to bee depriued of so pious and precious a prepared raunsome 10 Whether thou at the receyuing of the holy mysteries of Christes body and bloud vnderstandest them to bee his owne only ordinance for the vse of his holy churche and to bee witnesses therein of the open and publike confession of the true saithe whiche thou haste in him and to be saued onely by his bodilye death and the bloudy sacrifice vppon the Crosse once for all offered vnto God his heauenly father for thine for mine for al the sinnes of the whole worlde euen so many as haue this acceptable saithe of God in them 11 Whether thou haue regarded by the word of God touching the Sacrament of Christes body and bloud the difference therin betwixt the Diuelles faith and thine either the saithe of an Hipocritishe and dampnable reprobate 12 Whether thou hast by true saithe repugned the Deuill who boldely chalēgeth thee as he thinketh he may be bolde and maketh equall compart son with thee of thy saithe touching simplie the confession of Christe as of his Conception by the holy Ghost of his Natiuitie and birth of the virgine Marie to be also the Sonne of God liued perfecte and vndefiled man vppon the earthe his doings to be onely omnipotent most miraculous wonderfull suffered most sharpe and cruell death was buryed rose againe ascended into the heauens verie God and very man yea and of his retourne also againe vnto iudgement All these things the Diuels beleeue and confesse with thee but yet vtterly vnperswaded to be his onely sufficient sauioure and redeemer by his precious bloude shedde and deathe euen as those saithlesse wickednesse which in theyr vnsoundnesse stubbornesse vnstayednesse touching the couenant of God in his sonne Christe for their saluation accompt the price of his precious bloud to be insafficient for them withoute the very absurde and most fond annexing of their owne and other mennes merites and so to make Christe vnto them selues to be at the moste but a mingled peeced botched and patched Sauioure 13 Whether thou hast on this maner folowing considered of Sathans chalenge and comparison with thee and sayde thus vnto hym in the secrecies of thy faithfull soule for thy defence O thou very mortal most cruel and damned enemie I vnfaynedly from myne hart defie thee I withstande thee to the face thou hast naught to doo with me or to make suche comparisous with mee in my christen and most holy profession I know full wel thy malice and stoutnesse which hath ben in thee from the beginning bothe agaynste the annoynted of God and all his Experiēce teacheth me of thy not slumbring of thy wandring about and seeking watchefully to deuoure and to spoyle mee of my faith wherby I must be saued I tell thee thou most wicked one thy trauell is all in vayn I am none of thyne nor nothing inclined to thyne affection or motions I am Gods I tell thee and the perswaded childe of God by his spirit of truth who by grace possessing me and by his power mightily working in mee hath moste graciously planted in my harte the frutefull tree of pictie of true and perfect fayth fast roted in me deply stayed and surely setled euen with the finger of god my father touching the dignitie price and true estimation of his sonne and mine onely sauiours most preciouse body for mine only health and eternal saluatiō And though I haue falne or fainted as traiterously thou hast tripped me yet of frailtie haue J falne not wilfully of malice as thou haste most maliciously tempted me which God hath seene in me in mercy therfore hath raised me vp ageyne and wil stil vpholde me in spite of thee Art thou ignorant of this thou griseled and foule helly monster that I am not such a one as thou art or as thou woldest haue mee to bee doubtefull of my faythe as the wicked are to leaue the freedome of Gods spirite and to bee entangled agayne in thine infernall filthy bands Thinkest thou that I beeyng nowe called to the lighte and knowledge of the sweete woorde of life whereof I haue truely tasted and haue in detestation mine olde conuersation will be newly agayne deceiued offer to approche eyther once nibble or smell to thy beslubbered brackishe and most filthy embrued baytes Notest thou me of suche slipperinesse that hauyng farre entraunce in the spirite and feele the incomparable ioyes therof that I will nowe ende in the greefes and sorrowes of the fleshe to sette so lyttle by the Kyngdome of Iesus Chryste that taking holde of the Plough will now looke backe agayne to bee as a Dogge and to returne agayne to my vomite or as a beastely Swyne to beraye my selfe agayne in the myre to defourme the Image of God and to defile his holy Temple No no Sathan thou arte deceiued I tell thee truely for thy discouragemente I am now better schooled well armed and better warned to let thee goe for naughte Knowest thou not that I haue put vppon me to endure for euer my Lorde and God my Chryste and Sauioure Art thou forgetfull O thou enemie that I in true faythe professing his name and receyuing woorthily hys bolye and most blessed Sacraments by the onely rule of his word am armed ouer all with his only healthful and most mercifull merites to strengthen me mightily ageinst thee who is made mine with all that he hathe and I am onely hys hoth body and soule one bodye wyth him fleshe of his fleshe and bone of his bones Ah Sathan this certeinty and truth in faith considered wastefull are thy wretched wandringes and wylye waightings to wreck and vex my soul Away from me away J say thou cursed and spightfull spirite or stay if thou lust to offer boldly vnto mee as thou darest thy very blashlesse and bragge attempts of malignitie I yet tell thee they shall not hurt me neither do I any thing esteeme thee J regard not thy force J feare not thy fury The Lorde is my God he is the God of my strēgth and considence thou hast of thy selfe no powre at all ageinst me For what so euer thou attempteste or seekest to performe therin to thy wil thou wantest powre But that which thou doest is by his onely omnipotent hande and sufferaunce that is my God whose waight and mightinesse thy broosed braines hath selte to make thee stonpe for euer to hamper thee at his will to thine owne irons to ouer throwe thee soone in thine owne tourne and to blowe thee backewarde at will euen with the breath of his mouth into the bailesse and deepe botomelesse pitte whose bonde slaue thou art and a drudge enforced and in thine outrage by his permission a knowne peerelesse paricide a very restlesse pitilesse and most gracelesse raunging roge the only ring leader and infectuouse ranke roote of all reproch
great glory as thou sholdest confesse is ascended on high and sitteth with almightinesse power and maiestie on the right hand of his heauenly father with open and fresh bleeding wounds the many fest marks impressions before him for euer of the purchased most preciouse redeemed inheritance euen for thee most notoriouse and deadly sinner by the secrete testimonie of thine owne conscience These things such like of thee thus christenly considered thou mayest bee bold with thy most merciful and louing god But yet agayne I say vnto thee hold thee sure vnto thy sauiour christ swarue not frō him nor frō the vertue of his onely merites wherby thou must be onely saued Cleaue then close to the rocke of assurance leane to no loose nor sandie safetie Trust not to the rottennesse of our humane deuises labour not to languish in a maze of vncertaintie Bemoyle not thy selfe in suche myre of mortalitie and shun soone such shoures as wil wrecke thy soules fidelitie Then cry as J sayd and ceasse not to craue pardon of God thy father in his sonne name ' Doubte not of thy sute what so euer it be for it shal by good motiō be so vpright so reasonable so acceptable before him and allowable and shal touch therwith so neere the tendernesse of his mercy his truthe and fidelitie that of necessitie graunt muste bee made vnto thee he wil not denie thee the requests of thy lippes yea he will so graciously tender thee that foreseing thy cause of inwarde complaynte he wyll prepare quickely thine heart most faithfully to call vpon him Beleeue therfore faithfully trust of assurance and thou shalte surely obteine thy desire with greate mercy and fanour at his holy hande Thy sinnes shal not be imputed vnto thee thou shalte bee blessed and righteouse in the sighte of God all the dayes of thy life so happily shall thine hart be prepared so mightily shal thy prayers preuayle for thee they will forcibly pearce the celestiall and high heauens approche neare to the onely throne of grace and maiestie cry incessantly for thee will not returne from the presence of God nor once be satisfied before the full graunt of their humble sute for thy sauing health and cōmoditie To conclude in all thy godly attemptes whether in praying fasting geuing of Almes frequenting the holy Sacramentes or rendering moste hartie thankes vnto God for his infinite Mercies Graces Blessinges and Benefites bestowed vppon thee and vppon his whole Churche from the beginning vntill this present day and what soeuer in holinesse thou commendest daily vnto him let it always be done vprightly orderly with christian comelynesse and modestie with peace of conscience faithfully constantly cherefully and in charity as the only worde of God moste straitely byndeth thee Which I pray to God may clerely shine into thee by the power of his holy spirite who quicken thee this day to morow and for euer and kindle in thee towardes him the firie flames of his true loue throughe his sonne Chryst Iesus who speedely graunt thee the same signement of his holy hand and satisfie thee with inward ioy in all thy moste lowefull and diuine desires Amen FINIS A deuout meditation of the godly Christian with a briefe Confession and Prayer WHen I O heauenly father thorowe the glorie of thine only eternal gracs am euē in the middest of many muses lamentable mournings déepe sighings and inwarde monings to my self most happily stirred to the due consideration of my self and in what perillous state I euer stande here in this wretched worlde how in the breuity therof I am compassed with many miseries with greuous plagues and punishmentes with dreadful calamities perilles and dangers with diuers maladies sicknesses aand infirmities bothe of body and mind how by the mighty power also pollicie of mine ancient and most deadly enimy the olde subtile serpent this deceitful vaine world as also mine own weaknes corruption apte inclination most vile subiection to sinne I am daily assaulted and tempted to sinne and in cōmitting sinne become the seruant of sin must acordingly looke for death the iuste reward of sinne bicause diuersly therwith and damnably through disobedience the breach of thy law in thought word and déede I haue and do most gréeuously offend the will of thy Maiestie and am become thereby a very Sathanist the childe of the diuel to hasten thy furies vpon mée that he shuld vse his tirānie against me for so witnesseth by accusation my wounded conscience whereby my soule is daylie dysquieted sore clogged gretly destled maruelously amased made monstruouse before thée and hated of thée wherevnto my freedom and innocencie being lost of my owne concupiscence am accustomably blinded drawne and entised and by the malice thereof both vnderstanding heart and wil are holden captiue and in deadelie slauery to the diuel the only author and beginner of all euell concupiscence and sinne By which occastō in stead of healthsome and profitable thinges I ofte desire very noysome most pernitious and hurtfull things And my soule also which in the excellencie therof through reason and the vprightnesse of the inward man should beare the beauty of thy heauenly and most glorious ymage in perfect puritie and innocencie through the corruption therof is sowly deformed and sore blemished and made accordingly his euill fauoured most filthy image and so woorthily by thy iustice shaken off and caste from the presence of thy deitie So that héereby O Lord thou hast yet by the continuance of thy grace moued me to consider that if thy mercies did not abounde vppon me or that thy gratious fauoure should nowe or at any time in this most deadly plight vtterly forsake me and not rather cōfortably with spéedy and most swift sway turne againe towardes me and bring therwith from thine heauenly presence the distilling moystures and large flowing streames of thy celestiall dewe plentifully drawne from the swéete fountains of my sauioure to refresh comfort make whole againe clense beautifie my very leprous moste sinneful and sicke soule and of thy méere mercie to reduce hir to hir pristinate former state my case should be most miserable my bands shuld be indissoluble I shoulde become a cursed reiect remain a fire brand of hell for euer But as thy loue O Lord is vnspeakeable and thy fatherly mercie toward me infinite which willest not the deathe of a sinner but rather he should fourne from his wickednesse and liue and offrest him time and space to repēt and amende so haste thou now in mercie remembred me looked back againe vpon me cheared and comforted me encreased true faithe in me thy spirit hath renued me stirred me to call moste humbly vnto thée set me frée from the ennemie pitied my soules deformitie prepared the most healthful remedie for the bloud of thy sonne Iesus hathe clensed me whereby thou haste so quickened me that my soule reioyseth within me with most earnest
hearing apte receiuing keeping and continuing of the vvoorde of God amongst vs. COnsidering o thou God of al holinesse that the certainetie of oure Christian faithe standeth by the Scryptures or immoueable woorde of thy truthe which as thy messenger procéedeth from thee by thy gratious inspiration or secreate brething wherunto as vnto a seast royal euery man of al nations vnder heauen are called but are of thy Church only receiued and deuoutly vsed to the instruction confirmation strengthening and establishing of thine only faithfull true flocke and be as thy blessed Apostle calleth them sacred and holy birause they be heauenly moste precious diuine healthfull and comfortable to the soule excelling all the wisedom of Philosophers and the vainly wise of this world and be therefore in their high power and maiestie woorthily aboue all aduanced segregate and put aparte by them selues from all other wrytings of prophane matters and the flitting descriptions of men not onely pertaining to this present worlde and for the vse of this temporal life but also from all Ethnicke superstitians salse woorshippings wicked sacrifices and erronious opinions vsed contrary to thy woord against thée the only eternal and true God which by lying custome and crueltie are corruptly crepte into thy Church to the foule féeding filling defiling and poisonning therof and is yet daily occasioned therby wout thy grace to be sinisterly drawne and seduced straying frō the right way and haled to death by will in oure selues from the life that is in thée euen to eternall death and destruction we beséeche thée moste humbly O thou gracious God to enspire vs with thy holy spirite of truthe to kindle in all our hartes the fire of thy loue light and truth that by thy power in them oure faithes may be strengthened oure soules also humbled rightly ledde and instructed in thy word of loue light truthe and of eternall life by vertue wherof at our first entrāce to Christ our high Pastor we may truely vnderstande our profession and promisse in holy baptisme and haue it accordingly wrytten with thy finger of grace in our hartes to the true knowledge of thy law and the spiritual vnderstanding therof to loue thée moste woorthily aboue all and our neighbor as our selues as also to knowe the promisses of thy mercie in thy sonne oure Sauiour Iesus Christ most soundly and purely as thy holy word expresseth therein whereby we may be well vpholden and zealously staide in our profession to treade our pathes right to be guided by the true light to heare gladly the voice of oure shepheard Iesus Christe to testifie his name to folowe him the onely true lighte and not to feare the powers of darknesse but to ouercome them by thy mighte although euen with the losse of our liues not only the dalyings dimme deuises and vanities of the wicked and to shun all suche hatefull enemics as are vsuall mockers daily deprauers sinnefull despisers wilfull impugners wicked seducers double dealers backe sliders pluckers back from thy word but also the sleights of their father Sathan the enticements of the worlde and the filthie motions of the fleshe And to that happie ende O Lorde we may be constant and thy woorde euer abide in vs stirre vs vp to continuall and hartie prayer quicken our zeale woorke in vs a true liuely quicke and frutefull faithe that it being a bright shining light in our hartes to the expelling of all Hipocrisie cloudinesse darknesse and erroure and also our conuersation being answerable to our profession the continuance of thy grace may stil comfortably shine vppon vs thy holy woorde may continue amongste vs may be truely preached vnto vs diligently boldly and zealously vttered ouer al and by al the ministers thereof by what occasion time and place so euer it be for vnto vs that shall be saued it is a thing moste precious and holy It is the woorde of life the woorde of reconciliation the lanterne vnto oure féete and a light vnto our pathes the fountaine of wisedome the breade of life the foode of the soule thy mightie power and swoorde of the spirite And for as much O heauenly father as thy woordes thus to vswarde come from heauen are spirite and life and are not to be wayed with the vaine imagination policie wisedome or witte of man nor yet to be applied vnto the hurtfull pleasures of this sinnefull worlde but to be moste holily and highly estéemed moste humbly had in credite reuerently thought vppon gladly inclined vnto heard with silence and receiued with all modestie ghostly gréedinesse we humbly beséeche thée that as thou haste euer heeretofore ben the only gratious director instructor and teacher of thy holy Patriarks and Prophets Apostles and holy fathers from time to time from the beginning and amongste al men for thine electes sake in Iesus Christe continuest yet so still vntill this day O traine vs vp also in thine heauenly knowledge we pray thée prepare our harts teach vs thy law and wryte thy woordes of life in the tables of oure heartes that in these our monstrous dayes of moste wilfull vanitie which in their strangenesse crieth oute by plagues to be punished we may aforehande be warned we may be yet better schooled thy wrath thereby preuented our soules more spiritually nourished filled with thy fauoure more mortified daily from the vanities of this brickel life guided to more thristian modestie and temperāce affected solie to the way of holinesse comforted in all troubles and aduersities boldned manfully against the face of the enemies stayed well armed and strengthened against all temptations stirred vp to the encrease of all vertues that thy woordes which shal iudge vs in the last day being by thy ministers truely preached and of vs also as zealously embraced and by any meanes not to be despised or slandered but on all partes surely holden and to shewe for the accordingly the true frutes of rightuousnesse we may be called of thée thy holy disciples auoide I say the sal of thy vēgeāce amōgst vs thy iudgement also to eternal condemnation be receiued in time to euerlasting saluation throughe thy grace the only merites of thy sonne our Lord Iesus Christ Amen IIII. For Fayth BY reading or hearing thy holy worde O blessed sauiour we are taught that true fayth which is thine onely gifte is onely therby attayned and that by the power of thine heauenly spirite it is breathed into the onely hearts of all thine electe who receiue it by measure and quantitie according to the will and power of the same spirite and with thine eyes beholding it in them thou gloriest in them thou daily blessest them thou encreasest it in them thy countenance shineth vppon them thou amiably appearest and she west thy selfe vnto them yea so acceptable it is in thy sighte O swéete sauiour that thou béeing the king of eternall glory and maiestie art espoused to the soules of the faithfull
it is for them to be soughte oute with diligence to be brought home againe to the folde or to be pinned in fauourably pinched a while in some bare pasture and sometime to be kept lowe with thy milde touch of calamities and aduersities to abate their courages and to let their liuely leapes and oute girdes by meanes whereof they be oft called againe better to remember them selues and whereby they may also haue thée the more in minde and truely to knowe their owne state in this life whereunto they are called and to whose seruice to walke in the wayes of thy preceptes to kéepe them euer within their boūds and that during their shorte race they liue héere but as exiles or as Pilgrimes farre from theyr owne home not to liue héere in felicitie not to regarde the pleasures of thys worlde either yet to put theyr hope and affiance in them but to vse thē without abuse as by the way but for their only necessities homward we moste humbly beseeche thée O thou father of all mercie that thou wilt daily renue thy compassion vpon vs that thou wilt tēder vs in our frailty lustinesse vain iolitie that in our offences thou wilt with mercie reforme vs not vtterly by thy iustice confound vs but seeke mildely for vs call vs gently home to thy sheepfold with mercie embrace vs keepe vs togither for euer in one in the swéete vnitie felowship and amitie of thy flocke And if at any time we shall hencefoorthe wander abrode and goe astray wherby we shall offond thée and iustly incurre thy most heauie wrath and displeasure we craue yet at thine holy hād to remember thy mercie and so in the time of correction to temper it with thy iustice that we thy children by adoption and grace may largely tast in that respect the comfortes of thy moste tender and fatherly goodnesse that as we shal for oure disobedience and sinne iustly feele some parte of thy iustice and haue therfore great cause of inward gréefe and heauinesse occasioned daily to grone in our hartes for our spéedie deliuerance from thy rodde of correction and to attaine againe the bright countinunce of thy fauor so we may also in the meane time possesse a liuely faith shewe foorthe the fruites of the same pray continually vnto thée and beare paciently thy holy will wyth all thankfulnesse all the dayes of oure lyues through the only grace of the highe pastor and chéefe shepheard of oure soules thy sonne our Lord and only sauiour Iesus Christe Amen VIII To be humble in the sighte of God. O My lord God which arte mine only goodnesse a God of great Maiestie and to be blessed for euer I moste poore and wretched sinner moste vile woorme dust and ashes and of all others moste vnwoorthy thy grace and fauour yet beholding thy great mercie thy truthe and fidelitie thy vsual and approued clemencie towardes all humble and penitent sinners I among the rest but a lumpe of earthe and shaken by thy power to dust in a momēt doe prostrate my selfe vppon the earthe bewailing before thée my moste sinnefull state crying with the Prophet peccaui peceaui and with repentante teares call for thy mercie O my GOD almightie and my maker which truely knowest me thy creature euen as I am and searchest thorowly in me the very secretes of the heart and raines If I should in thy sight being nothing of my self esteeme any thing of my self or else glory in any thing besids thée vnder the sunne thou woldest as thou mightest by due iustice againste me woorthily reproue me and condempne me with the rest as most vaine and for naught Yea mine own sinnes would accuse me vnto thée and my conscience very terribly crie oute against me for I am before thée but a thing of naught and my sinnes hast thou sealed vp against me to the terrifying alwayes of me and to incurre daily in my mind diuers incommodities inward anguishes to myne owne ouerthrow and cōfusion But humbling my selfe before thée O my God and estéeming of my selfe as in déede I am but vile duste and ashes and cast vtterly from me all estimation of my selfe being pressed downe as it were to nothing then I trust I shall obtain thy mercie then shall I hope to possesse the happie peace then shall I féele true ioy in my self for thy presence shall be euen at hand thy grace shall cōfort me thy good spirit shal quicken me thy fauorable countinance shal cheare me vp and thine heauenly lighte approche neare mine heart wherby it shall most blessedly happen that where I haue héeretofore most vainly estéemed but the least thing of my selfe the same very vaine or small estimation conceyued shall sodenly consume and vanishe to naught for euer and shall thencefoorth by the hand of thy maiestie be so vndor propped and graciously holden vp that I shall neuer decline from due consideration of my selfe what I am of my selfe what I haue bene by whom I haue my being and from whence I am come namely of nothing and from nothing and being so lefte vnto my selfe I shall be founde nothing but only as a shadow or méere infirmitie and weakenesse Therefore I most humbly beséeche thée O thou father of al mercy the only assured stay of thine inheritance which seuerely chasest away the vaine glory of man turne a little towardes me tender me in my weakenesse and shewe me the strengthe of thy countenaunce that immediatly in thée I may be strong and newely chéered vp with inwarde and heauenly gladnesse that being entred into most sodaine admiration with my selfe to sée my self in a momēt by thy fatherly embracement raised vp to heauen which by myne owne pronenesse and waighte of sinne was before caryed downe to hell I may thanke thée my moste swéete and louing God and prayse thée with an humble and moste lowly heart with continual modestie zealously religiously and godly in thought woord and déede thorowe thy mercie and grace in thy sonne Iesus Christe all the dayes of my life Amen Amen IX Of true obedience and subiection to suche as be in authoritie according to the woorde of God. FOr as much O heauenly father as it is rather auaileable for men in this worlde to be in subiection to other than to leane to their owne only sway and leude libertie and so muche more safely to obey than to beare rule and haue all at commaundemente with all humblenesse we beséeche thée to directe vs with thy spirite of humilitie and lowelinesse and to be alwayes in subiection to aucthoritie according to thy woorde by the rule of thine holy Apostle not onely for feare for necessitie and therefore painefully but rather of true loue duetifully moste gladly and that for conscience sake For otherwise O Lorde wée slippe from our Christian profession true obedience and moste reuerente subiection and attaind not the true libertis of minde and the shewing
of all our affences and be depely tormonted in vnsufferable anguishes 〈◊〉 forowes yelling lauguistying and the auinosse for our carelesse most gracelesse negligence bicause 〈◊〉 our health and tune of felicitie we 〈◊〉 forgetful of thée vs we caued not to tēpte thée we feared not thy threatned vengeance neither thy Preachers and Prophetes we were vnmindefull of the ende we considered not the way of all fleshe we remembred not deathe neither readily prepared for his sodaine comming whose ensigne by thy iustice is openly all blacke displayed most ougly issuing out of his darke sepulcher to the spéedie destruction of all fleshe Therefore O Lord as oure liues are wholely in thyne onely hande and are by thée when we call vppon thée most graciously directed quicken our harts to prayer endue vs thorowe thy grace wyth thine heauenly wisdome teache vs thereby to number our dayes to applie oure hartes vnto wisedome to be mindefull of thée our God not to be forgetfull of oure wretched and wicked state and to remember alwayes thy rightful iustice in iudgemente that we may endeuor to be suche in déede in oure liues as we woulde wishe moste gladly to be founde at our deathes O heauenly father so strengthen vs with thy vsuall and woonted grace that as we may haue this worlde in most earnest contempte so we may also as effectually craue at thine holy hād the daily prospering and going forwards in vertue pray that our loue may abounde towardes godly discipline for the fourme of good liuing yéelde fréely forth the frutes of earnest and true repentāce haue ready and prest wils to shewe true obedience bothe in body and soule to be humble and méeke in spirite not to stay at any time the deniall of oure selues to subiecte our selues to thy holy will and commaundements and so to leane gladly to the suffering of this worldes calamities not for oure selues but for the loue of Iesus Christe for our brethren for so shal we be knowne to be the children of god All which if we happely possesse vse and put in daily practise great shall be the cause of oure ioy to haue good affiaunce in thy mercy a swéete tast of good life and a sure hope by happie death becomming in the meane while parient Pilgrims in spirituall pouertie and not regarding the pleasures of this life that oure soules may possesse the felicitie of thy freedome be daily lifted vp vnto thée in this our short race that we may continually praie with sorowfull sighings déepe sobbings inwarde gronings and shedding salte teares in our accustomed and moste humble sutes bewayling oure miserable state mourning the delay of this bodyes dissolution and yéeld with pacience to abide the stroke of deathe that when it which is the laste enemie shall be destroyed our spirites may haue rest in thine eternall life therow the only merites of thy sonne our Lord and sauior Iesus Christe Amen Amen XVII To haue in remembrance the secrete iudgementes of God and to feare the withdrawing of his grace HAuing good experyence by thyne holy scriptures O thou rightuous God that as thou arte moste high most glorious most holy wise and mighty and a great God aboue all Gods eternal and from euerlasting so arte thou also a Lord a ruler a master an ouerscer a iudge ouer all the dooings of men yea a seuere iudge a straighte examiner an vpright iust rewarder against whome no man may once rowse or aduaunce him selfe stande in his owne conceite or shewe before thée any proude or hautie countinance for it is thou onely O Lorde that art omnipotent whose mighty arm reacheth ouer all which aduancest and bringest lowe which strykest and healest which woundest and makest whole which liftest vp and throwest downe againe which dealest in thy iudgement not after the manner of men wickedly winking at the sinnes generally committed of all or of a few but vsest vprightnesse vnto all withoute respecte of persons generally particularly to many to a fewe and to some one alone when their sinnes before thée are ful and waxeth ripe vnto iudgement apte to fall and ready to féele from thy wrathfull hande the sodaine stroke of thy vengeance for vengeance annexed to thy power is only thine and thy iust rewarde whose iudgementes for sinne are very terrible fierce a flaming and consuming fire to licke vp catche burne and deuonre all or some as the cause shal require and as by thy iustice in iudgement thou finedest thē for so in all ages we haue both truly heard and knowne which examples of thine in sundry wise are all wrytten for our vnderstanding and learning always to be remembred of vs to put vs in good mind to terrifie vs to bridle oure affections to feare thy maiestie to séeke the true knowledge of thy will reuerently therein to obey thée and to escape aptly therby thy iust rigor vengeance for vengeance is thine thou wilt reward O holy and iust god which also artmost gracious which sparest whē we deserue punishmēt in thy wrath thinkest vpon mercy and haste vowed compassion vpon the poore penitent haue mercy vppon me moste wretched sinner O forgéeue me all my wickednesse past let thy tender mercie preuent my sinnes cast them al behinde thy backe and shewe me againe thy cōfortable countinance for my sinnes sore trouble me they iustly accuse me thy iudgementes terribly thunder against me they sore shake my limmes with feare and trembling and terrifie out of measure my sore vexed and contrite heart And if by thine heauenly motion O Lorde I yet wade further in thy iudgemēts and consider the very heauens not to be cleane in thy sight but expecte the day of their renouation for further cleerenesse and puritie O how am I occasioned to be the more amazed and to bewail my wretched state in the lothsomnesse of my corruption And if in the Angels them selues thou haste founde sinne and the desert of eternall death therefore not spared thy iudgemēts ouer them O what shall become of me earthie fraile and moste sinnefull wretche And if also the gloryous starres themselues haue in the excellencie of their outwarde clearenesse and beautie falne down from heauen abide likewise thy iudgement what shall I a masse of darknesse stime and filthe of the earthe looke for at thy wrathfull hand hauing my very secrete sinnes not hid from thee in their moste horrible lothsome and poysoned apperance But yet I beséeche thée O heauenly father althoughe thou be a straighte iudge ouer all thy creatures for sin whether of heauen or of earth celestiall terrestriall or infernall subiecte to thy will and to abide iustly thy iudgement for thine approued clemencies sake and tender pity towardes me imprinted stil freshe in my memorie and boldened thereby to approche thy presence so to extēd vpō me thy great mercy and grace that as I nowe craue the continual good motion inward stirring vp of my mind
thée and take me to thy mercy sometune one of thy great enimies very wicked very faithlesse obstinate headie and rebellious but nowe thy louing brother thy faythfull frende thyne obediente louer and a sounde member of thy body O saue me then I say comforte my soule guyde mée in thy wayes strengthen mée and let not thy spirite departe from mee that I may hencefoorthe ioyfully please thée and render alwayes vnto thy father through thée all due prayse honour and glory here in thys vale of myserie and in the euerlasting world which is to come Amen FINIS Whervnto the eternal spirite stirreth the hearts of gods electe A preparation to Prayer Certaine special cautes folowing that are to be coÌ„sidied by gods childreÌ„ wherof they examin the selues before prayer and receyning of the holy sacramintes to auoid his heauy iudgemeÌ„ts The diffrence to be considered betweene the true christians fayth the faith of the diuell and the reprobate The true christiaÌ„ at earnest defiance with the diuel and she weth vnto him for his discoâ—â—gemeÌ„t the power of his fayth The mercy grace of God â—n the hearts of his elect to cosider in this life their dangerous and miserable state for sinne CoÌ„cupiscence and the malice therof The diuell the onely author of concupiscence and sin The soules de formitie thorowe sinne True faith in the abouÌ„ding mercies of God. The miserable state of the sicke Soule without true faith in the fre mercy of god The feeling of the grace of god The humble submission confession of the faythfull Soule A calling vnto God for comfort and strength The fighte of the faythfull Soule What danger they fall into that forsake god and leane to the worlde and the pleasures thereof The seruice of God what it is The worlde a deepe dongeon wherin the children of vanitie are enclosed Armoure of rightuousenesse Christian chiualrie The sight of a christian 〈…〉 in the seruice of god must be continuall and couragious Palone of victorie Crowne of glorie Hid Manna And a White stone The scriptures of God only receyued of the faithfull Superstitions false worship pings c. Our professioÌ„ in holy Baptisme Enemies of Gods word Hartie prayer to God maketh vs constante in the word of God. The worde of God what it is and how of the godly to be considted God the only instructour of all in all ages An apt Prayer for these oure dayes Faithe only breathed into the hartes of Gods elect True faithe in Christe Faithe iustifieth The power of Faith. The miserable state of man in thys life Man posses seth in himself two powers and of sundly inclinations The serpent cause of discorde Prince of sedition The meane to knowe the good motions from the bad The inconuenience of care lesnesse or not to receiue in time the good motions of God. The power of the spirite of light and truthe The way and mene to plese God in this life Holy discipline Exercises of the crosse The inconuenieuce that commeth by sufferance and cuill custome He is happie that humbleth him selfe to discipline MaÌ„ in present danger God at hand to deliuer Pynches to the proude flesh are somtime necessarie Man for a time is but an exile from his home and a pilgrime The Iustice of God and sinne are not clerely seuered in this life amoÌ„g the children of God. Man but a worme duste and ashes Man moste vayne and naught Mans humble subiection before God attayneth the grace mercy and peace of God. Man a thing of nothing It is better for a man to obey than to leane to his owne sway The inconuenience that commeth by disobedieÌ„ce The iudgements of God ouer seditious rebelles Princes and Magistrates are the most apte InstrumeÌ„ts stirred of God to further his glory here vppon earth What it is to imitate christ How we shold for the greate loue of God lone hym agayne Humilitie God threatneth the world for sinne The Canker couetousnesse how it reigneth Conetousnes how it worketh Couetousnes the woorshipping of Idols Couetousnesse he we it hathe preuayled Children of diffidence Abac. 2. Constancie in chastitie Sole life Matrimonie a fountayne in Gods church The corruptioÌ„ of fleshe and bloud The power of flesh and blud and what they worke The pumishe ments of God for vnclennes of lyse To bee a blasphemer of Gods name is rather the propertie of an ethnik than a Christian The errour of our liues The power of Gods word The mercy of God in Christ The inconue niece that foloweth the want of Gods worde The punishe ments and plages of God for taking his name in vaine The necessitie of Gods mercie Sute for mercie The sanctifying of Gods holy name The kingdom of heauen A quiet conscience The nature of a mans conscience Wicked consciences The con modity of a quiet conscience Mans life fickle and but a vayne shadow The damnable state of mankinde in thys frayle life In what case we shal stande at the houre of death The blacke enfine of deth displayed Discipline worketh the fourme of good liuing The sweete frutes of good lyfe agaynst the comming of death Paciente abyding of death bringeth the soule to rest The maiestie and great power of God ouer al flesh God a God of vengeance Gods iudgements are to be remebred and why Gods iudgements are terable and thuÌ„ dring The heauens the Angelles theÌ„ selues and the stars falne from heauen are all subject to the iudgements of god God at the last day by his iust iudgemeÌ„t rendereth full payment vnto all wicked sinners God freely by his grace dyrecteth to good life Christ is chalenged and why Christes obedience to hys father for hys flocke The cause of christs death The bonde of the wealthy in this world Christ aboundeth in heaueÌ„ly riches chatitie power and loyes in comparable The distressed loule Christ humbly chalenged Chryst bound to helpe and why Chryste the head and cow foâ—â—er of hys members Store remayneth of Gods grace The assured fayth of the thirsten soule Fayth in Christes bloud Scabde shepe Chryst the phisitian Christ humbly chalenged Strong faythe in Chryste Rom. 15. Chrysts incarnation natiuitie so forth are al chalenged of the faithfull soule as his owne Rom. 8. Math. 20. Chryst a seruaunt Chryst a conquerour Paradise purchased by Christe Experience of Christes good nature and his mercie Math. xj xxij Iohn 6 Ioho 12. Math. 5. Roma 1. Christes payment and howe Ezech 16. Ezech. 16. Math 18. Sinne of Gods electe Iohn 15. Chryste the onely sauiour the onely adâ—ocate Sinne of the reprobate The bloud of Abel cried for vengeance Chrystes bloud calleth to saluation ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman for William Norton ANNO. 1572.