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A09649	A comfortable treatise vpon the latter part of the fourth chapiter of the first Epistle of Saint Peter, from the twelfe verse to the ende. By O. Pigge. Seene and alowed; Comfortable treatise upon the latter part of the fourth chapiter of the first Epistle of Saint Peter, from the twelfe verse to the ende.	Pigg, Oliver, b. ca. 1551.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1582 (1582)	STC 19915; ESTC S106422	38,659	87

much And if we looke to the whol nation of the Iews first in Egypt and then after in the lande of Canaan we shall finde that the Lorde punished them alwayes first and that to so sharply as the like vengeance and destruction lightened not vpon any people As it is mentioned in Daniel And as Ieremie sayth I beginne to plague the City where my name is called vpō The reason of this proceeding of the Lorde is best knowne vnto himselfe it suffiseth vs for this text to be perswaded of this trueth whiche we may vnderstand by the recordes of the scriptures Although it mighte bee briefly sayde that hee hath an especiall care of the saluation of his people and therefore punisheth them aboue and before the rest to reclaime them from their sinnes that they shoulde not bee damned with the worlde Moreouer because his mercies towardes his Churche are beyonde all comparison more then vnto others It is equall and righteous that it offending should both be first punished and more seuerely then the rest But as this hath beene the ordinary course of the Lorde toward his Churche from the beginning so was it especially true of the time wherein the Apostle writ after the manifestation of the sonne of God in the flesh For both then euer sithence the Lorde was and continueth so sharpe to them that truly worship him be carefull to please his ma●esty in the meane season seeming often times to spare the wicked and vngodly that in the iudgment of flesh and bloud it was better with suche as sayd vnto God departe from vs we will none of thy lawe what is the almightie that we should feare him then with those that stood in awe of his commaundements and sette naught by all the pleasures and tormentes of the worlde in comparison of the fauoure of God and keeping a good conscience beefore him Consider the estate of the Apostles and professours in the Actes The condition of the Church hath not amended any thing sithence but as the glorye of it approcheth neerer neerer so the warrfare of it vpon the earth hath increased sharper sharper The persecutions vnder the Romaine emperours the Turkes and last in the vsurped dominions of the Prieste of Rome doe sufficientlye prooue the truethe of this matter Let vs remember what hardnesse Cranmer Latimer Ridley Hooper Bradforde and the reste indured of late yeares with in our owne realm when as it was peaceable and quiet with all the wicked of the lande And how hath it gone more lately with the true Christians and faythfull seruants of God in our neighbour countries of Flanders France and Spayue as their stories doe witnesse when as in the meane time brothels witches adulterers incestuous persons murtherers blasphemers ruffians and abhominable Idolaters were vntouched And was there euer suche a iudgement vnder heauen as after that marriage at Parise fel vpon those zealouse and sincere professours of the trueth S. Paul therefore sayth truely of all faithful Christians that if the hope of the life to come were taken away of al other men they were most miserable If in this life onely we beleeued in Christ we were sayth he moste wretched of all others Neither spake he this without good matter to lead him vnto it For whereas the wicked liue peaceablie in the worlde because the worlde loueth it owne be free from aduersity and in their prosperity reioyce them selues the faithful seruants of God bee alwayes hated and persecuted one waye or other they no sooner creade awry but the Lord calleth them agayne into the way with some scourge in the middest of their greatest peace they be humbled with inward temptations sorrow for sinnes past griefe for present and dayly falles doubtes terrors so as they alwayes woorke out their saluation with feare trembling Insomuch as indeed the most wicked were in better case then they if their fayth hope good conscience had no other recompense but in this life But the life to come is their comforte because they know that if the tabernacle of this earthly house be put off and dissolued they shall haue a building giuen them of God that is an house not made with handes but eternall in the heauens Therefore let vs not be discomforted in oure troubles as though for them wee mighte conclude wee were forsaken of the Lorde and did not belong vnto him Wee see here the apostle telleth vs that iudgement beginneth at his owne house It followeth If it beginne first with vs what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospell of God We haue heard before of the troublesome estate of Gods Church people vpon the earth and how the Lorde seemeth to fauor the wicked because for a time they florish and be spared in their sinnes Now least the faythfull shoulde be deceiued with the prosperity of the wicked and imagine that the Lord would euer beare with them in their naughtinesse here the apostle telleth vs that they likewise must haue their course and that necessarily there must be a time wherein they shall be plagued For thus doth he reason from the lesse vnto the greater If God correct them that imbrace his gospell and be careful to doe him faithfull seruice if he begin first to scourge such is it possible that they should escape moste fearefull vengeance which be sworne enemies to his maiesty superstitious idolatrous ignorant and disobedient to his wil The time certeinly will come God being iust when they shall bee rewarded seuenfolde into their bosoms Therefore let not wicked men presume vpon their safety because they be spared for a time let them not insult vppon the Seruauntes of God because they are afflicted and kept vnder when themselues enioy the desire of their heartes and often times be the Lordes roddes whereby he whippeth his chosen For when the Lorde hath worne them to the stumps aboute the backes of his children to their greate good then muste themselues be throwne into the fire of destruction because the Lorde hath no more vse of them This did Isaiah the prophet prophesy to the comfort of the church in his time when sayth he the Lord hath acomplished all his worke vppon Mount Sion and Ierusalem he will visite the fruite of the proud heart of the king of Ashur As though he should haue sayd although God for a time giue vp his church to be chastised by the king of Assiria a wicked man so as he may seeme to haue cast of his owne people for euer and to haue taken the proude and irreligious Assirians in their stead Yet the time will come when they shall bee restored to their beautye and the wicked king with his people broughte to confusion and ruine Euen when the Lord hath by them accomplished that correction of his Church which hee hath determined According to that which he sayth in another place Woe to thee that spoylest and wast

all pittye amongst you Surely it is no maruell that you shoulde novve pleade youre innocencie vvhen all the vvorlde may knovve your vvicked traiterous trecheries that vvill not vvillingly shut their eyes But it maye bee You thinke by some popishe vvitchery to goe in uisible by hauing some of the Popes trumpery aboute you But you deceiue youre selues and so doth he vvhom you serue Therefore repent and turne to him vvho is able to saue your soules Returne to Iesus Christe that high pastour that suffering for trueth vvith him you maye likevvise bee glorified vvith him othervvise hovvsoeuer you byte his heele vvith the Serpent hee vvill bruse your head and in the end triumph ouer you The Lorde Iesus sanctifie all that are his euen thoroughout both body soul and spirite that vvee may bee kept blamelesse vnto his holy comming Amen Amen the 27. day of this third moneth Thine assured in Christe Iohn Field 1. Pet. 4. 12. Dearely beloued think it not strange concerning the fiery triall which is among you as though some strange thing were come vnto you IT appeareth by the discourse of this epistle that y e Christians to whome Peter wrote were at that time in great persecution whereuppon after other thinges handled before in this text he commeth to giue them instructions touching this matter how they shold patiently ●eare the crosse and comfortably behaue themselues in the middest of their greatest afflictions A point of doctrine not vnnecessary for vs at this time For although by the great mercye of God it fareth not with vs as it did with the churches then Because we liue vnder a gratious prince that doth cherish and mainteine the trueth Yet because our sinnes be such as doe iustly diserue the taking away of he● royall maiesty and the restraint of pure religion I see no reason why the teachers should be charged not to take a good course in preparing the people before hande to bear such troubles whensoeuer they should come no more then our sauiour Christ was to be challenged For telling his disciples so oft of his and their own persecutions before they came arming of them againste the same It is the practise of well ordered common wealthes in the time of peace to teach their people the feates of warre And each man that hath any care of himself and his country when all things are most quiet doth neuerthelesse prouide such things in a redinesse as may stand him in steed in y ● time of trouble Euen so is it necessary that in the peace of the gospell we● be instructed to bear afflictions for the sa●e when the trueth hath greatest liberty we should continually looke for persecution therefore by the precepts and comforts of the worde be alwayes prepared to abide whatsoeuer may fal out Which considerations haue moued mee at this present to speake vnto you out of this scripture Thinke it not straunge concerning the fiery triall In this first verse he willeth the Christians not to maruell at the persecution of the churche which hee calleth by the name of fiery triall as thoughe some strāge thing had happened The last words seeme to bee set downe as a reason to perswade that which he requireth As though he should haue sayde on this wis the trouble affliction of the church or any member thereof is no straunge thing and therfore no reason why you shoulde maruel at it For we maruell at such things onely as doe seldome come to p●sse and after an extraordinary maner But if any thing come to passe often and ordinarily that wee are not wont to maruell at although in it selfe it be neuer so wonderfull If we should see a horse flye in the ayre if wee shoulde see great snowes in the middes of sommer or a plentifull haruest in the middes of winter behold iust occasions to make vs wonder because these things seldome or neuer fall out and the course of nature the order set downe by God himselfe shoulde bee inuerted But to see a horse runne apace vpon the grounde to see deepe ●snowes in the middest of winter and haruest in August or September doth neuer cause wonder●ng or astonishment although in deede they be most marueilous works of the Lord. Euen so persecutions and afflictions for righteousnes sake beeing the ordinarye portion which from time to time the saints of God haue receiued in this worlde there is no more cause why we should be amazed or astonished at that whensoeuer generally or particularly it falleth out then at the snow in the winter or haruest in the sommer If we looke vnto the beginning we shall see that Cain persecuted his own brother Abel afterward Ismael Isaack Esau Iacob And when y e visible church began to be a great people I mean y e Iewes the Egyptians first then al the nations round about ben● their force against them Among the Iews hypocrites and naughty persons of the kings priestes prophets and people failed not to hold on the same course in offering all manner of cruelty to such as truely feared the Lorde and zealously executed the functions in them committed as the histories of the scripture doe playnely witnesse If we looke into the enterteinment of our sauiour Christe and his apostles in their time it shall appeare to haue bene nothing better th●n the former And that the like condition hath bene vpon the church euer sithence it is knowne to such as haue read the stories In so much as that complaint is most true w●ich she maketh in the psal They haue often times afflicted mee from my youth vp that is to say euer sithence I had any being vpon the earth mine enimies haue not ceassed to afflict me as it were to plowe deepe furrowes vpon my backe You see then what we haue here to learne in the first place namely not to be troubled at the persecutions which may happen to our selues or any other the members of Christ For the profession of his truth and doing of our duety as though some strange thing were come to passe seeing it is the ordinary course which the wicked worlde whose works are nought taking their direction from their grandfather Caine hath from time to time practised agaynste the church and the ordinary way by the which the Lord from age to age hath lead all his children to the verifiyng of that which Paul and Barnabas preached wheresoeuer they came Through many afflictions wee must enter into the kingdome of God And this being so It behoueth vs when wee first ioyne our selues to the churche of God and enter into the profession of his trueth with purpose to leade oure liues according thereunto to sitte vs down according to the counsel of our sauiour Christ to make our account on this wise Surely I see that al flesh is grasse and al things vnder the sunne are but vanity The time will come when I must dye and God hath appoynted a day wherein he