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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10781	A pituous lamentation of the miserable estate of the churche of Christ in Englande in the time of the late reuolt from the gospel, wherin is conteyned a learned comparison betwene the comfortable doctrine of the gospell, [and] the traditions of the popish religion: with an instruction how the true Christian ought to behaue himself in the tyme of tryall. Wrytten by that worthy martyr of god Nicolas Rydley, late Bysshoppe of London. Neuer before this tyme imprynted. Wherevnto are also annexed certayne letters of Iohn Careles, written in the tyme of his imprisonment. Perused and allowed according to the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Careless, John, fl. 1564-1566.	1566 (1566)	STC 21052; ESTC S110643	38,326	116

Iesus Christ that he will strengthen vs both wyth hys holy and mighty spirit that we may constantly continue in the confession of his truth vnto the ende that lyke as we nowe see one another presently in spirite we may also see one another personally in the glorious presence of God and his holye aungels where vndoutedly we shal know one an others personage to oure greate ioy felicity and endles comfort And now therfore deare sister K. be strong in the Lord our god for doubtles the time of trial is at hande a great persecution with cruell murtherynge of gods deare sainctes is like to be very shortly in this wofull wicked realme of England Therfore dere sister for the loue of God prepare you to the crosse with all diligence and make your selfe ready to die with Chryste that you may also liue with hym for euer There is no remedy if you wil be Christes disciple you muste nedes take vp your crosse and follow him for the disciple must not loke to be aboue his master nor the seruaunt to be better intreated then his lord Yf we were of the world good sister no doubt the worlde would loue vs. But for as much as Christ hath chosen vs out of the world to serue God in spirite and veritye let vs be well assured the worlde will hate vs persecute vs as it hath done our lorde master Chryste But yet let vs be of good chere for Christ hath ouercome the worlde The payne is but shorte that we can fele here but the plesure is perpetuall that we shall feele els where Let vs set before vs the exāple of Christe which abode the crosse and despised the shame in respect of the ioy that was set before him Euē so let vs consider for whose sake wee suffer whose cause we defend what glorious reward we shal haue at the day of our victory and then doubtles the consolation of these thinges will make sweete all our sufferinges and sone swallow vp al the sorowes that we are sowsed in for Goddes sake I could recite diuers texts of the scripture to confirme this poynt But I nede not for I am well assured that you do know them most perfectly all ready The lorde geue you strength assiste you with his holy spirite that you maye continuallye walcke in all points accordīg to your godly knowledge And then shall you not doe as the moste parte of our Gospellers doe nowe a dayes the more is the pitie There are a greate manye in Englande that doe perfectly knowe that the idolatrous masse is abhominable diuelyshe and detestable in the sighte of God And yet alas they be not afrayde to pollute and defyle theyr bodies whych ought to be the tēples of the holy ghost with being present at it so synning agaynst God and their owne conscience But dere syster K. doe you flie from it both in body and soule as you would flie from the very diuell himselfe Drinke not of the whore of Babylons cup by no meanes for it will infecte the body poyson the soule Be not partakers of her sinnes saith the aungell least you be partakers of the plagues that shortly shal be powred vpon her O what an araye is this that so manye that knowe gods truth will nowe tourne agayne and defyle them selues in the filthy puddle of antichristes stinking religiō They go about to saue theyr liues with their double dissimulatiō but doubtles they shall lose euerlasting life by it if they do not repente in time and turne vnto the lord But deare sister my truste is that you doe vtterly abhorre the comminge to any such thinge I hope that you wil not by anye meanes turne backe into Egypte nowe but that you wil boldly venter through the wildernes of troble persecution that you may come into the lande that floweth wyth all kinde of heauenly pleasures ioyfull delectatiōs and possesse the same for euer Let vs cōsider howe that euery one of vs doth owe vnto god a death by nature and howe sone the Lorde will require it of vs we knowe not O howe happy are we then if god of his goodnesse appoint vs to paye natures det with suffringe for his truth and Gospelles sake and so makynge vs his faythfull wytnesses wyth the prophetes apostles martyres confessours yea with his dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ to whom he doth here begin to facion vs lyke in sufferynge that we might be like him also in glory Thus my derely beloued sister I haue ben bold to trouble you a littel with my rude and simple letter beinge made in haste as it doeth apeare Yet I desier you to take it in good woorthe as a token of my pore zeale vnto you to accepte my good will And if it please god to spare me life and libertye I truste hereafter to write vnto you more largelye Fare ye well deare sister K. E. the Lorde blesse you and all youres and powre vpon you the heauenlye dewe of hys grace The lord endue you with plentifull knowledge of his veritye and fill you with his holye and mightye spirite that you may continually reioyce in the cōfortes of the same now and euer Amen Praye pray praye with stedfast fayth Your daily Orator Ihon Careles prisoner of the Lorde at al times abydinge hys most merciful wil and pleasure Another letter of the same Iohn Careles sent to the same party ¶ Grace mercy and peace from god our eternall and most deere louing father wyth quyetnes of conscience in our swete lorde and only sauiour Iesus Chryst with increase of knowledge health strength and spiritual ioy in and through the mighty operatiō of the holy ghost our euerlastinge comforte be wyth you nowe and euer my moste dere louing sister K. E. to the good perfourmance of all that he hathe so graciously begon in you in such sort as may be moste to his glory● the comforte of hys pore afflicted churche and to the eucrease of your owne euerlastinge ioy in him Amen AS I am by no meanes hable my deere harte in the lord in the leaste pointe to recompence anye part of the greate loue faithfull frēdship manifolde kindnes that you haue so largely extended vnto me euen so am I not able to declare how much and how depelye I am continuallye bound to geue god most hūble praise and continuall thankes for you and on your behalfe Before God I speak it I can not with pen expresse what ioy and comforte my poore afflycted hart hath conceyued of you and that in mo respectes then I wyll or can now declare Ah my deare syster K. whose humble hart and lowly spirit doth to me presētly appeare in youre most godly and louing letter blessed are you and all such meke handmaides of the lord For doubtles you shall be eralted in that day when the proud persones of the world and hygh minded Pharaseys shall be cast downe God for euermore bee blessed who hath geuen