CHAP.
I.
Comfort
from
the
holy
Scriptures
.
THere
is
not
any
greater
affliction
vnto
Gods
seruants
in
this
life
,
nor
any
more
sharpe
corrasiue
vnto
their
hart
,
then
the
happening
of
strange
&
dreadfull
mischances
,
that
carry
a
shew
of
his
anger
agaynst
their
Religion
,
wherby
the
enemies
therof
harden
their
soules
as
stone
,
agaynst
it
.
And
Gods
Omnipotent
Wisdome
,
as
he
resolued
for
reasons
best
known
to
himselfe
,
to
deuide
indifferently
amongst
the
good
&
bad
,
these
terrible
casualityes
of
mortall
life
:
So
likewise
in
his
Mercy
,
S.
Augustine
noteth
)
one
whole
booke
of
that
heauenly
learning
,
to
wit
,
that
of
Ecclesiastes
,
beginning
,
Vanity
of
Vanities
,
and
all
things
vanity
,
is
entyrely
spent
in
the
prosecution
of
this
argument
,
That
there
is
this
Vanity
vpon
earth
,
that
there
be
iust
men
vnto
whome
it
happeneth
according
to
the
worke
of
the
wicked
:
agayne
there
be
wicked
men
vnto
whome
things
happen
as
if
they
were
iust
,
that
so
(
sayth
the
same
Father
)
Men
might
loue
the
life
that
hath
not
Vanity
vnder
the
sunne
,
but
verity
vnder
him
that
made
the
sunne
.
Out
of
which
booke
I
will
alleadge
only
one
sentence
,
but
the
same
so
full
,
and
so
fit
for
our
purpose
,
This
is
the
worst
of
all
things
vnder
the
sunne
,
that
the
same
things
happen
alike
vnto
all
,
to
the
iust
and
to
the
wicked
,
to
the
good
and
to
the
bad
,
to
the
cleane
and
to
the
vncleane
,
to
them
that
sacrifice
,
and
to
them
that
contemne
Sacrifice
,
to
them
that
sweare
the
Truth
,
and
to
them
that
are
forsworne
.
Hence
the
hearts
of
the
sonnes
of
men
are
filled
with
malice
&
contempt
in
their
life
tyme
,
and
afterward
shall
be
carried
vnto
Hell
.
To
these
wordes
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
what
can
be
added
as
more
cleare
in
proofe
of
our
Argument
?
what
may
be
spoken
more
complete
,
proper
,
and
pithy
for
our
comfort
in
this
accident
?
Heere
by
Gods
holy
Word
we
are
informed
that
such
is
his
prouidence
in
this
life
,
that
an
house
or
roome
may
fall
,
no
lesse
vpon
the
Iust
,
as
they
are
hearing
his
heauenly
Doctrine
,
then
vpon
the
Wicked
,
as
they
are
blaspheming
his
blessed
Name
.
No
lesse
vpon
the
Good
,
that
are
weeping
for
pardon
and
remission
of
their
sinnes
;
then
vpon
the
Badde
,
that
feast
and
banquet
,
riot
and
reioyce
in
their
sinnes
.
No
lesse
vpon
the
Cleane
,
that
by
humble
Confession
and
penall
Satisfaction
purify
their
soules
,
whose
wayes
are
at
all
tymes
impure
,
the
iudgments
of
God
(
by
the
doctrine
of
only
Faith
)
being
taken
away
from
before
their
eyes
.
No
lesse
vpon
them
that
offer
the
Christian
vnbloody
Sacrifice
of
the
immaculate
Lambe
,
then
vpon
them
that
contemne
this
holy
Sacrifice
,
&
would
rather
massacre
the
Priests
that
consecrate
the
same
.
Finally
no
lesse
vpon
them
that
sweare
the
Truth
,
that
that
doctrine
is
Christian
which
from
the
mouth
of
Christ
,
by
the
vniuersall
cry
of
Christian
Preachers
in
all
Ages
hath
byn
successiuely
sounded
vnto
them
;
then
vpon
them
that
depose
their
priuate
conceyts
gotten
by
their
own
inquisition
into
Gods
worde
,
to
be
the
only
Christian
diuine
sauing
Truth
,
so
filling
the
world
with
innumerable
dissonant
sects
.
For
as
what
fancy
thinketh
,
that
the
bell
ringeth
:
so
what
Heresy
imagineth
,
that
in
their
conceyte
the
Scripture
soundeth
.
This
being
so
,
why
doth
Heresy
insult
vpon
Religion
,
in
regard
of
an
accident
common
vnto
men
,
and
vnto
which
their
owne
sect
is
continually
subiect
?
Why
should
Charity
be
frighted
to
see
such
deaths
in
their
dearest
Friends
,
that
may
happen
,
and
often
do
happen
vnto
greatest
Saynts
?
Why
doth
Fayth
complayne
or
wonder
at
this
course
of
Gods
prouidence
which
he
hath
set
down
to
himselfe
in
his
Word
,
and
which
hath
been
still
his
ordinany
since
the
world
?
Why
doth
zeale
grieue
without
comfort
to
see
the
Church
her
enemies
triumph
,
&
not
rather
pitty
their
case
,
that
after
a
moment
of
malice
and
contempt
,
shall
be
carryed
to
burne
for
euer
in
Hell
?
The
Holy
Ghost
doth
acknowledge
this
kind
of
Crosses
to
be
the
greatest
,
the
worst
vnder
the
sunne
,
yet
not
so
ill
vnto
you
the
children
of
the
Church
,
as
vnto
the
sonnes
of
men
;
I
meane
them
,
whose
Religion
as
different
from
the
Catholike
is
humane
,
nothing
but
a
denyall
of
high
mysteries
[
*
](A01012-e10640-b)
*
As
that
the
Eucharist
is
not
bread
,
but
the
body
of
Christ
.
That
the
Saintes
heare
our
prayers
.
That
God
assist
his
Church
she
cannot
erre
.
That
the
Body
of
Christ
is
in
sundry
places
at
once
.
That
Sacraments
worke
Grace
:
Priests
remit
sins
&c.
Tobias
c.
2.
contrary
to
the
seeming
of
flesh
and
bloud
:
Vnto
these
Humanists
,
I
say
,
this
accident
is
worse
,
and
causeth
greater
mischiefe
then
vnto
you
.
It
doth
grieue
,
and
afflict
your
hart
,
it
doth
harden
and
obdurate
their
hart
.
It
doth
fill
you
with
sorrow
and
sadnes
,
It
filleth
them
with
malice
and
contempt
.
It
bringeth
teares
from
your
eyes
,
grones
from
your
breast
,
it
fetcheth
blasphemyes
from
their
mouths
,
iniuries
from
their
handes
.
It
makes
you
weary
of
mortall
and
miserable
life
vnder
the
sunne
,
not
desiring
comfort
till
you
come
to
enioy
with
your
Friends
the
felicity
aboue
the
sunne
:
It
makes
them
ioy
in
the
sunne-shine
of
the
greatest
vanity
vnder
the
sunne
,
not
admitting
of
the
light
of
Faith
,
that
looketh
aboue
the
sunne
;
so
continuing
in
their
errours
,
vntill
they
be
carried
from
vnder
the
sunne
,
vnto
the
greatest
mysery
that
is
vnder
the
earth
.
Call
to
mind
the
Example
of
the
holy
Tobias
,
in
whom
you
may
behold
a
patterne
of
your
present
afflicted
state
.
He
was
strucken
blind
with
swallows
dunge
falling
into
his
eyes
,
when
comming
home
from
burying
the
bodyes
of
the
faythfull
that
had
been
slayne
,
he
cast
himself
down
vnder
the
wall
of
his
house
to
sleep
,
through
wearines
of
pious
labour
,
not
able
to
go
further
.
A
strange
&
miserable
accident
scarse
euer
heard
of
before
,
sent
(
as
it
might
seeme
)
by
the
hand
of
Gods
prouidence
vpon
him
euen
in
his
most
feruent
exercise
of
Religion
.
Where
is
thy
hope
for
which
thou
didst
good
workes
?
Now
thine
almes-deedes
appeare
.
As
if
they
had
sayd
:
Now
the
fruite
of
thy
deedes
of
Charity
is
seene
.
Now
thy
Religion
of
workes
is
brought
to
light
.
Thou
art
punished
with
blindnes
,
that
thou
maist
see
thine
own
blindnes
,
to
thinke
that
one
by
workes
can
please
God
,
winne
his
loue
,
merit
his
fauour
,
purchase
heauen
.
Thus
did
auncient
Infidelity
speake
in
the
Puritan
language
,
which
now
dayly
soundes
in
our
eares
.
Hence
we
know
,
that
for
God
to
send
strange
disasters
vpon
his
seruants
hath
been
euer
his
custome
,
wherby
their
Religion
hath
byn
brought
into
scorne
,
and
themselues
into
sorow
,
as
now
we
are
.
In
which
occasion
on
what
can
we
better
thinke
for
our
comfort
,
then
on
the
golden
wordes
of
this
glorious
Toby
,
which
he
spake
in
answere
vnto
his
deriders
,
shewing
the
Tradition
of
his
holy
Auncestors
that
deliuered
from
hand
to
hand
that
doctrine
vnto
him
,
from
which
they
had
changed
:
Nolite
ita
loqui
,
quia
FILII
SANCTORVM
sumus
,
&
vitam
illam
expectamus
,
quam
daturus
est
ijs
qui
Fidem
suam
NVNQVAM
MVTANT
ab
eo
.
Do
not
speake
in
this
manner
,
because
we
are
the
Children
of
the
Saints
,
or
holy
Fathers
,
and
we
exspect
that
life
which
God
will
giue
vnto
them
that
NEVER
CHANGE
THEIR
FAITH
from
him
,
vpon
any
accident
,
or
occasion
whatsoeuer
.
Put
before
your
eyes
the
patience
of
holy
Iob
,
in
that
most
rufull
and
horrible
disaster
,
when
all
his
ten
Children
with
many
seruants
were
oppressed
by
the
fall
of
an
house
,
togeather
all
once
.
Betwixt
which
accident
and
our
mischance
there
are
so
many
similitudes
,
first
begotten
sonne
of
Iob
:
This
in
his
house
who
represents
the
person
of
that
King
,
that
is
tearmed
the
fi●st-begotten
Sonne
of
the
Church
.
They
were
oppressed
as
they
were
sitting
at
the
meate
of
their
body
:
These
as
t●ey
were
taking
the
ghostly
refection
of
their
soule
.
They
died
as
they
were
keeping
a
Feast
in
token
of
their
fraternall
vnanimity
and
concord
:
These
as
they
were
at
a
spirituall
banquet
,
at
a
Sermon
,
wherin
was
preached
vnto
them
the
Christian
Precepts
of
mutuall
charity
and
loue
.
So
the
words
of
Origen
are
true
of
them
both
,
Tunc
nouissimum
vnanimitatis
&
concordia
prandium
pranderunt
super
terram
:
In
coelis
namque
aeternae
gloriae
&
incorruptionis
beatitudine
pariter
fruuntur
.
The
cause
of
that
slaughter
was
Satan
in
malice
agaynst
the
Religion
of
their
Father
;
The
cause
of
this
slaughter
was
the
same
Satan
(
for
he
is
the
Author
of
all
euill
)
in
hatred
of
the
Religion
of
their
Fore-fathers
,
&
of
the
Holy
Catholike
Church
their
Mother
.
after
the
circle
of
the
seauen
dayes
were
runne
about
,
on
the
Sabboth
when
in
the
morning
before
,
they
had
byn
sanctified
by
the
sacrifice
of
their
holy
Father
,
offering
an
Holocaust
for
euery
one
;
These
also
were
slayne
when
the
weeke
was
expired
,
on
the
day
of
the
Christian
Sabboth
,
when
(
the
most
of
them
at
least
)
had
byn
sanctified
in
the
morning
by
the
Christian
most
pure
Sacrifice
,
and
by
being
partakers
of
the
Sacrament
,
or
Holocaust
of
Christ
his
most
pretious
Body
and
Bloud
,
giuen
whole
and
entire
seuerally
to
euery
one
.
Compare
your
case
with
that
of
this
holy
Prophet
,
and
consider
what
reason
of
comfort
he
had
,
which
you
haue
not
much
more
strong
?
what
cause
of
sorow
you
haue
,
which
he
had
not
in
greater
measure
?
what
solace
had
Iob
that
you
want
?
That
his
Children
so
suddainly
slayne
were
of
holy
life
?
They
were
simple
and
sincere
of
hart
,
chast
and
pure
in
soule
,
of
vnspotted
conscience
,
beloued
of
God
,
deare
to
his
Angels
for
their
innocency
,
full
of
brotherly
charity
one
towards
another
,
not
any
did
,
or
could
speake
of
them
an
euill
word
.
That
they
had
byn
sanctified
not
long
before
by
the
sacrifices
then
in
vse
?
These
also
on
the
very
same
day
were
expiated
by
the
Christian
Sacraments
,
&
by
a
sacrifice
of
a
farre
greater
force
,
yea
of
infinite
price
.
They
were
taken
as
they
were
discoursing
of
Piety
and
Sanctity
among
themselues
,
honouring
God
in
their
hartes
,
praysing
him
as
their
Creatour
,
adoring
him
as
their
Benefactour
,
giuing
him
thankes
as
vnto
their
Foster-father
.
As
little
Innocents
sit
and
stand
,
play
and
sport
togeather
without
any
malice
or
vncleanes
in
minde
,
so
were
these
holy
Children
of
their
most
holy
Father
,
when
the
blow
came
vpon
them
.
On
the
other
side
,
what
cause
haue
you
of
affliction
that
did
not
presse
more
heauily
vpon
the
fatherly
hart
of
holy
Iob
?
You
haue
lost
them
that
were
deare
vnto
you
;
but
not
more
deare
then
was
vnto
him
his
whole
family
of
children
.
A
stroake
(
sayth
Origen
)
whereof
none
can
comprehend
the
dolefulnes
,
but
such
as
know
by
experience
what
is
the
loue
of
a
Father
,
though
the
sole
imagination
therof
may
moue
any
mans
hart
vnto
teares
of
compassion
.
He
lost
his
Sonnes
whom
he
had
nourished
,
to
whom
he
had
giuen
best
education
,
that
now
were
come
to
ripe
yeares
;
His
Sons
whom
he
had
brought
vp
in
piety
,
seasoned
with
the
feare
and
worshippe
of
God
,
settled
in
charity
and
mutuall
loue
,
made
in
all
kind
of
sanctity
like
to
himself
;
His
Sonnes
whose
yssue
he
did
desire
to
see
,
whose
posterity
he
did
so
earnestly
expect
,
from
whom
in
his
old
age
he
did
hope
for
comfort
;
These
Sonnes
,
and
not
they
only
,
but
also
his
Daughters
,
so
chast
,
so
pure
,
so
religious
,
immaculate
,
without
blemish
,
on
whose
heades
on
the
day
of
their
mariage
he
did
intend
to
set
garlands
of
ioy
.
All
these
perished
togeather
at
once
,
and
togeather
with
them
,
spes
quanta
nepotum
!
all
his
ioyfull
hopes
of
glorious
ofspring
.
The
death
of
your
Friendes
was
dreadfull
,
horrible
,
wherof
the
very
remembrance
is
execrable
,
how
much
more
the
sight
?
Not
more
rufull
&
terrible
then
the
death
of
the
holy
Children
of
this
blessed
Patriarke
,
which
Origen
describes
in
these
wordes
?
They
dyed
not
an
ordinary
but
a
most
lamentable
death
,
they
were
most
miserably
slayne
.
Their
bodyes
were
torne
in
peeces
with
stones
,
bruysed
with
the
weight
of
beames
,
couered
and
defiled
with
dust
,
lime
and
rubbish
.
Mamocks
of
their
torne
flesh
,
togeather
with
peeces
of
their
broken
bones
,
their
braynes
,
their
bowells
,
their
bloud
,
the
brothers
with
their
sisters
,
the
sisters
with
their
brothers
lay
mingled
with
clay
,
morter
and
stone
in
one
inseparable
masse
.
For
the
Diuell
left
nothing
of
them
entyre
,
not
their
sculls
,
not
their
bowels
,
not
their
stomackes
,
not
their
armes
,
not
their
handes
,
not
their
leggs
,
not
their
feete
,
in
summe
not
any
part
of
their
body
.
A
rufull
spectacle
,
a
wofull
sight
,
yea
rather
no
spectacle
,
no
fight
at
all
.
For
nothing
was
to
be
seen
,
nothing
that
could
be
known
,
flesh
and
bones
,
stones
and
timber
,
clay
and
morter
,
bloud
and
wine
lay
so
confusedly
togeather
in
one
heape
;
Neyther
the
maisters
from
the
seruants
,
nor
the
brothers
from
the
sisters
,
nor
his
children
among
themselues
were
discernable
the
one
from
the
other
,
eyther
by
their
faces
,
or
by
their
persons
.
Thus
dyed
the
holy
&
innocent
Children
of
Iob
,
whose
death
yet
was
deare
and
precious
in
Gods
sight
,
that
we
might
not
iudge
of
the
sanctity
of
mens
liues
,
by
the
hydeous
●hew
of
their
deaths
.
But
Iob
his
Religion
(
you
will
say
)
was
not
reproached
in
regard
of
this
accident
.
Yes
,
and
perchance
much
more
then
the
Catholike
now
is
,
in
respect
of
this
late
Euent
.
For
I
am
perswaded
that
all
moderate
Protestants
behold
this
mischance
with
the
eye
of
pitty
,
as
a
misery
indifferently
incident
vnto
mankind
,
not
with
eyes
of
disdayne
,
as
an
argument
of
iust
contempt
of
the
Religion
of
them
that
stood
obnoxious
therunto
.
Neyther
do
I
thinke
,
that
they
,
vnto
whome
indiscreet
auersion
from
euery
thing
of
our
Church
hath
giuen
the
name
of
Pure
,
do
presse
this
fall
as
a
iust
reason
,
to
fall
from
our
Religion
,
except
they
be
so
voyd
of
discretion
and
vnwise
,
as
to
make
the
truth
of
GODS
Word
,
which
will
not
fayle
though
heauen
&
earth
passe
away
,
to
depend
on
the
standing
or
falling
of
an
house
.
If
some
,
whom
the
temporalities
they
haue
gotten
,
by
the
banishment
of
our
Religion
engage
,
and
late
,
vayne
,
and
idle
feares
of
loosing
what
they
haue
gotten
,
enrage
against
the
Roman
Church
;
if
these
men
(
I
say
)
by
their
declamations
in
pulpit
,
incense
the
rude
vulgar
multitude
to
take
this
occasion
to
insult
vpon
our
Religion
,
Ministers
of
Satan
.
For
who
knowes
not
,
how
he
was
assaulted
and
iusulted
vpon
,
by
them
that
vpon
the
newes
of
his
mishapp
,
came
to
comfort
him
;
but
the
Diuell
changed
their
hartes
into
bitternes
agaynst
him
,
filled
their
mouths
with
blasphemyes
and
iniurious
wordes
.
So
that
in
place
of
consolation
,
they
fell
to
reproach
his
Religion
,
vrging
the
sayd
mischance
to
condemne
his
sincerity
of
diuine
seruice
,
&
true
practise
of
piety
.
Wherfore
as
you
are
the
consorts
of
holy
Iob
in
your
triall
,
so
be
like
vnto
him
in
your
trust
and
confidence
in
God
,
and
from
his
goodnes
expect
,
in
deuout
silence
,
the
like
reward
of
your
constancy
,
not
only
a
crowne
of
patience
in
the
next
world
,
but
also
increase
of
temporall
comfort
in
the
present
.
CHAP.
II.
Comfort
by
the
Examples
of
former
Christian
tymes
.
THe
comfort
of
holy
Scripture
,
is
seconded
by
the
practise
of
Gods
Prouidence
in
the
Christian
Church
,
Examples
within
the
first
three
hundred
yeares
.
BEing
to
alleadge
Examples
of
dreadfull
deaths
,
and
mischances
happened
vnto
Saints
since
the
Christian
tymes
,
where
can
I
better
beginne
then
with
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
,
the
founder
of
our
Fayth
,
the
accomplisher
of
our
Hope
,
the
head
of
the
Christian
elect
,
the
Patterne
of
perfection
,
according
to
the
modell
wherof
the
Saints
of
God
are
framed
.
Could
the
eternall
Father
designe
for
his
beloued
Sonne
any
kind
of
death
more
dismall
and
pittifull
,
more
disgracefull
and
horrible
then
that
of
the
Crosse
?
A
death
infamous
vnto
the
Gentile
,
execrable
vnto
the
Iew
,
No
death
is
euill
which
is
the
sequell
of
good
life
:
That
death
is
made
miserable
,
not
by
the
miseryes
that
go
before
it
,
but
by
the
miseryes
that
follow
vpon
it
:
That
men
(
seeing
they
must
of
necessity
dye
)
are
to
regard
not
the
horrour
of
the
mischance
by
which
they
are
taken
away
,
but
the
quality
of
the
place
they
are
by
death
carryed
vnto
.
But
as
Christ
Iesus
in
regard
of
the
dignity
of
his
person
is
without
peere
,
so
this
example
by
reason
of
the
strangenes
therof
,
shall
passe
as
incomparable
,
and
not
to
be
put
in
number
with
the
rest
.
I
will
therfore
pose
proud
presumers
that
dare
determine
when
,
&
on
whome
God
sendeth
his
vengeance
,
with
the
different
kind
of
prouidence
he
shewed
towards
two
Roman
Emperours
of
contrary
dispositions
,
to
wit
,
Caius
Caligula
,
Titus
Vespasianus
:
The
one
surnamed
the
monster
of
mankind
,
whom
Nature
(
as
Seneca
writes
)
may
seeme
to
haue
brought
forth
to
no
other
end
,
then
that
in
him
as
in
a
glasse
,
it
might
appeare
vnto
what
extremity
of
wickednes
man
may
arriue
,
when
the
basest
disposition
vnto
vice
,
and
the
highest
condition
of
Prince
,
meete
togeather
in
the
same
person
:
The
other
surnamed
Delitiae
generis
humani
,
The
ioy
and
pleasure
of
mankind
,
in
whom
was
seene
a
secret
neuer
before
,
nor
perchance
since
seen
in
the
world
,
that
he
is
terrible
in
his
counsels
aboue
the
Sonnes
of
men
?
Specially
seeing
Infidels
tooke
this
occasion
of
calamityes
happening
vpon
this
Emperour
the
friend
of
Christians
,
Heerin
they
were
confirmed
by
the
successe
of
the
raigne
of
Gordian
the
Emperour
,
a
friend
of
Christian
Religion
,
if
not
also
a
worshipper
of
Christ
secretly
,
most
horrible
Earth-quakes
,
wherwith
whole
Cittyes
with
all
the
people
dwelling
therin
perished
,
and
were
swallowed
vp
aliue
by
the
opening
of
the
ground
;
many
of
them
without
question
being
Christians
of
very
holy
life
.
For
Christians
were
then
so
multiplied
,
as
they
filled
all
Cittyes
,
Townes
,
and
almost
Villages
of
the
Roman
Empire
:
and
S.
Cyprian
beareth
witnesse
that
in
all
kind
of
calamityes
,
famin
,
Pestilence
,
sacke
of
Cittyes
,
shipwrackes
,
Earthquakes
&c.
Christians
were
destroyed
&
consumed
without
exception
,
as
much
as
any
other
.
By
which
Mischances
the
hartes
of
Infidels
were
hardened
against
Religion
,
euen
as
much
as
new
Sectaries
are
in
this
Age
,
wherof
Origen
liuing
at
that
tyme
doth
complayne
in
these
wordes
.
Denuo
calumniatores
nostritantorum
motuum
causamin
multitudinem
Fidelium
conferre
coeperunt
quod
non
impugnemur
à
Principibus
sicut
superiori
tempore
:
Heere
agayne
our
calumnious
Aduersaries
,
layd
the
cause
of
so
miserable
mischances
vpon
the
multitude
of
the
Faythfull
dayly
increasing
,
because
now
we
are
not
persecuted
by
our
Princes
as
in
former
tymes
.
Behold
the
auncient
language
of
Infidelity
,
which
heresie
especially
by
hipocriticall
Purity
now
hath
made
the
vulgar
English
of
our
Country
,
wherby
it
may
appeare
,
that
both
Pagans
and
Puritans
impugne
the
same
Church
,
and
that
both
are
moued
to
speake
by
the
same
spirit
,
seeing
they
vtter
their
mind
so
iust
in
the
same
forme
of
wordes
.
Neyther
was
this
the
first
insultation
of
Infidels
ouer
Christians
in
that
Age
,
in
regard
of
mischances
,
nor
was
this
the
first
occasion
they
tooke
of
hardening
their
harts
as
stone
agaynst
them
.
A
little
before
happened
the
lamentable
murder
of
Alexander
Seuerus
a
most
iust
Emperour
,
a
great
admirer
of
Christian
Religion
,
yea
Mammea
his
Mother
was
esteemed
a
Christian
.
He
kept
in
his
Cabinet
a
picture
of
Christ
,
he
exhorted
Pagans
to
imitate
the
sanctity
of
Christians
;
when
men
were
punished
for
any
crime
of
in●ustice
,
he
did
vse
by
the
voyce
of
the
cryer
to
proclayme
that
Christian
sentence
,
Quod
tibi
non
vis
,
alteri
ne
feceris
.
Finally
he
was
resolued
to
haue
built
a
Temple
vnto
Christ
,
where
Christians
might
worship
him
:
but
the
Pagan
South-sayers
opposed
against
it
,
affirming
(
euen
as
heresy
now
doth
(
for
all
errour
is
guilty
to
its
owne
weaknes
)
OMNES
Christianos
futuros
,
&
reliqua
templa
deserenda
,
Earth-quakes
happen
euen
also
amongst
vs
in
sundry
places
,
with
the
ruines
of
houses
&
swallowing
vp
of
many
people
;
the
impious
deuoyd
of
fayth
,
crying
euery
where
that
to
punish
Christians
such
earth-quakes
are
.
And
not
only
these
,
but
they
that
seemed
wise
did
in
publicke
affirme
,
that
these
Earth-quakes
in
regard
of
Christians
were
caused
.
Firmilianus
a
Bishop
liuing
in
that
Age
affirmes
,
that
such
miseryes
and
strange
vengeances
,
some
of
them
were
priuatae
Christianis
,
fell
vpon
Christians
only
:
as
also
Origen
insinuats
in
the
former
wordes
,
euen
amongst
vs
earth-quakes
happen
.
And
Firmilianus
addeth
,
that
these
earth-quakes
were
raysed
by
the
inchantment
and
witchery
of
a
woman
professing
her selfe
a
Christian
,
and
a
Prophetesse
,
being
(
as
it
is
likely
)
of
Montanus
his
sect
,
which
then
was
in
strength
.
Who
will
not
wonder
at
Gods
holy
permission
,
that
such
miseryes
should
be
inflicted
vpon
Christians
,
(
as
aunciently
vpon
holy
Iob
)
by
an
hereticall
Witch
,
so
making
Religion
a
scorne
&
obloquy
amongst
Infidels
:
As
also
this
our
mischance
,
though
there
was
a
naturall
apparent
cause
therof
,
yet
we
need
not
doubt
but
Sathan
therin
had
secretly
his
hand
.
But
in
these
permissions
and
dolefull
accidents
we
cannot
say
vnto
God
,
Why
doest
thou
so
?
We
must
with
holy
Iob
and
the
auncient
christians
,
lay
our selues
prostrate
at
his
feete
,
in
the
silence
and
sorrow
of
soule
,
in
the
bottomles
depth
of
his
iudgments
,
crying
as
they
did
with
the
Prophet
,
Thou
art
iust
(
O
Lord
)
and
righteous
are
thy
iudgments
.
And
agayne
:
The
iudgments
of
God
are
iustifyed
within
themselues
,
though
out
of
themselues
,
and
vnto
vs
their
iustification
doth
not
alwayes
appeare
.
Of
the
scandall
of
Infidels
and
Heretiks
,
at
the
lamentable
destruction
of
Nicomedia
,
and
Nicea
.
AFTER
Constance
had
set
vp
the
profession
of
Christian
Religion
euery
where
in
the
world
,
in
the
dayes
of
his
Sonne
Constantius
,
the
whole
Citty
of
Nicomedia
,
the
place
which
so
many
christian
Martyrs
had
consecrated
with
the
precious
effusion
of
their
bloud
,
with
Earthquakes
and
fire
was
vtterly
destroyed
,
being
then
not
only
Christian
,
but
also
Catholike
,
or
the
most
part
,
This
miserable
mischance
is
by
Ammianus
described
in
these
wordes
.
Straight
after
the
breake
of
day
,
a
suddayne
concourse
and
thickning
togeather
of
darke
cloudes
tooke
away
the
sight
of
the
sunne
,
which
was
rysen
cleere
vnto
the
world
,
so
that
for
want
of
light
men
could
not
see
things
that
were
neere
vnto
them
,
and
which
they
touch't
with
their
handes
.
Then
as
if
God
had
resolued
to
send
a
fatall
destruction
vpon
them
,
calling
the
windes
from
the
foure
coasts
of
the
world
for
that
purpose
,
behold
a
most
horrible
fury
of
stormes
inuaded
the
Citty
.
An
hydeous
noyse
was
heard
from
the
mountayns
round
about
shaken
with
the
violence
of
the
winds
,
as
also
from
the
shore
beaten
with
the
rage
of
roaring
waues
.
Heerupon
ensued
horrible
whirlewindes
with
such
dreadfull
shaking
of
the
ground
,
as
therewith
both
the
Citty
and
the
Suburbs
were
ouerthrowne
.
And
as
a
great
part
of
the
citty
stood
vpon
the
side
of
hills
,
buildings
fell
one
vpon
another
,
men
languishing
away
with
feare
and
griefe
through
the
most
rufull
noyse
caused
,
aswell
by
the
cracking
of
houses
that
fell
on
euery
side
,
as
also
with
the
lamentable
cryes
&
schriches
of
men
and
women
,
bewayling
the
losse
of
parents
,
husbands
,
wiues
and
children
,
and
whatsoeuer
else
by
the
band
of
kindred
was
neere
and
deare
vnto
them
.
At
two
of
the
clocke
after
dinner
somewhat
before
three
,
the
sunne
shined
out
of
the
cloudes
cleere
and
bright
,
as
it
were
smiling
at
their
misery
,
and
comming
a
purpose
to
discouer
vnto
them
,
and
lay
before
their
eyes
as
it
were
vpon
a
Theater
,
the
whole
most
execrable
spectacle
of
that
rufull
slaughter
.
Many
vnder
the
ruines
pittifully
broken
&
chrusht
in
peeces
by
the
weight
of
things
that
fell
vpon
them
.
Some
couered
in
the
rubbish
vp
to
very
necke
,
only
their
heades
being
out
,
might
haue
liued
if
any
had
giuen
them
their
helping
hand
,
who
for
want
of
succor
perished
.
Others
hunge
in
the
ayre
vpon
the
end
of
beames
and
rafters
,
which
had
pierced
into
their
bowels
,
and
through
their
bodyes
.
Many
hundreds
lay
togeather
in
one
heape
slayne
at
one
clapp
;
a
little
before
,
a
company
of
liuing
men
,
now
nothing
els
but
a
mangled
multitude
of
deformed
corses
.
Diuers
within
their
owne
houses
were
with
ruines
round
about
inclosed
and
imprisoned
aliue
and
sound
,
to
be
consumed
with
anguish
and
hunger
,
amongst
whome
Aristenaetus
gouernour
of
the
towne
,
breathed
out
his
soule
by
the
torment
of
a
long
death
.
Some
in
their
falling
had
their
heades
bruyzed
&
broken
one
agaynst
another
,
some
their
leggs
,
some
their
thighs
,
some
their
armes
,
some
their
very
shoulders
stroken
off
from
their
bodies
,
who
lay
groning
betwixt
life
and
death
,
with
most
pittifull
cryes
and
obsecrations
,
imploring
the
ayde
of
them
that
were
in
the
same
misery
.
A
great
part
of
that
infortunate
Citty
,
alwell
of
Churches
as
of
houses
and
men
,
might
notwithstanding
this
calamity
haue
remayned
,
had
not
terrible
globes
of
flame
issued
out
of
houses
,
which
wandering
euery
where
about
the
Citty
for
fifty
dayes
and
fifty
nights
,
consumed
into
ashes
whatsoeuer
was
obnoxious
vnto
fire
.
Thus
Ammianus
.
This
dreadfull
destruction
of
Nicomedia
,
was
censured
as
a
vengeance
of
God
agaynst
Christian
and
Catholike
Religion
,
because
it
happened
at
the
same
tyme
when
agaynst
the
errour
of
Photinus
,
and
Aetius
,
a
Councell
of
Bishops
was
thyther
summoned
to
be
held
.
Not
altogeather
so
terrible
,
yet
in
respect
of
the
circumstance
of
the
tyme
more
scandalous
was
the
wonderfull
destruction
of
the
citty
of
Nicea
,
where
the
first
Christian
generall
Councell
was
celebrated
agaynst
the
Arians
,
and
the
doctrine
of
Homousion
,
or
Consubstantiality
defined
.
When
Valence
the
Arian
Emperour
began
to
persecute
the
Nicen
Fayth
,
some
few
yeares
after
his
being
come
to
the
Empire
,
iust
at
the
same
tyme
the
Citty
of
Nicea
was
ouerthrown
from
the
very
foundations
by
an
earth-quake
.
Saint
Gregory
Nazianzen
tearmeth
this
earth-quake
the
greatest
that
had
happened
within
the
memory
of
man
.
whereby
his
holy
Brother
Caesarius
then
the
Emperours
Receauer
,
was
in
danger
,
and
miraculously
escaped
.
For
being
couered
within
the
rubbish
of
the
ruines
,
the
same
were
a
defence
vnto
him
agaynst
further
mischiefe
,
till
he
was
thence
taken
out
a
little
hurt
,
and
thereupon
resolued
to
giue
ouer
the
world
.
Heere
the
Arians
did
triumph
agaynst
the
Catholiks
of
that
tyme
,
(
euen
as
some
hoat
Puritans
doe
now
agaynst
vs
)
as
if
God
togeather
with
the
Emperour
,
heauen
togeather
with
earth
had
conspired
agaynst
the
Nicene
doctrine
,
of
Christs
being
Coeternall
and
Consubstantiall
vnto
God
his
Father
.
These
our
Antagonists
that
are
so
iolly
and
iocund
,
so
puffed
vp
with
pride
at
the
fall
of
a
rotten
chamber
vpon
some
few
at
a
Catholike
sermon
,
where
no
doctrine
was
then
preached
which
they
dare
say
was
contrary
vnto
theirs
;
how
insolent
and
intollerable
would
they
be
,
if
the
Emperour
should
turne
to
be
of
their
Sect
,
and
persecute
the
Catholike
Fayth
;
and
that
iust
in
that
coniunction
,
the
Citty
of
Trent
,
with
the
Church
and
place
where
the
Councell
did
meete
,
and
made
their
Decrees
,
should
by
some
earth-quake
or
lightening
from
heauen
be
destroyed
.
And
yet
should
they
haue
no
greater
argument
agaynst
the
Tridentine
,
then
the
Arians
had
agaynst
the
Nicene
definition
of
Fayth
.
Whence
one
may
gather
how
vayne
,
empty
and
destitute
of
solide
causes
of
ioy
their
hart
,
and
their
Religion
is
,
that
do
so
much
triumph
at
a
trifle
,
wherby
they
make
not
their
strength
of
Fayth
,
but
their
weaknes
of
iudgment
,
and
want
of
charity
,
manifest
vnto
the
world
.
Other
Examples
strange
and
wonderfull
.
HOw
much
did
Infidels
reioyce
when
the
Christians
of
Moguntia
were
slayne
by
the
Barbarians
,
S.
Hierome
deplores
,
saying
:
How
did
the
Nouatians
exult
agaynst
the
Catholiks
,
when
in
a
most
strange
and
horrible
conflagration
of
the
Citty
of
Constantinople
,
all
the
chiefe
monuments
of
the
citty
&
Catholike
Churches
being
wasted
with
fire
,
only
the
Nouatian
Church
or
meeting
place
for
prayer
escaped
,
the
houses
round
about
being
al
in
a
flame
.
Which
they
did
attribute
vnto
the
prayers
of
their
Bishop
,
who
was
then
praying
in
their
Church
,
and
in
memory
of
that
supposed
miracle
did
early
keep
a
solemne
feast
;
and
yet
after
their
triumps
&
insultations
agaynst
Catholike
,
their
sect
vanished
away
,
&
within
short
time
after
,
there
was
scarse
any
memory
therof
,
which
wil
be
also
the
end
of
these
torrents
of
errour
that
now
swell
with
waters
,
and
keep
a
noyse
in
the
world
.
How
great
was
the
ioy
of
the
Pagans
,
when
at
the
time
of
the
banishment
of
S.
Chrysostome
,
the
Church
of
Constantinople
being
consumed
with
casuall
,
or
with
procured
,
or
(
as
other
rather
thinke
)
miraculous
fire
,
togeather
with
the
Emperours
pallace
,
&
house
of
the
Senate
?
all
Christian
monuments
were
wasted
and
consumed
,
and
in
particular
the
Statua's
of
Constantine
,
and
Theodosius
the
great
,
the
two
Christian
Emperours
whom
Idolatry
did
most
detest
,
yet
two
images
or
Idols
,
the
one
of
Iupiter
,
and
the
other
of
Minerua
,
were
found
in
the
confused
masse
of
ashes
vntoucht
:
Infidels
did
interprete
this
prodigy
that
the
Gods
had
not
forsaken
the
Empire
,
but
would
agayne
returne
.
Which
foolish
conceyte
of
confort
,
was
but
a
lightening
before
death
,
seing
presently
the
Gothes
preuayling
,
togeather
with
their
entrance
,
Paganisme
was
wholly
&
vtterly
extinct
,
not
any
practise
therof
being
left
in
the
Empire
.
I
will
conclude
with
one
more
Example
of
the
diuine
prouidence
,
in
afflicting
his
seruants
the
Orthodoxe
Christians
,
in
such
sort
that
in
the
iudgment
of
men
and
Heresy
he
might
seeme
to
mislike
their
Religion
.
The
citty
of
Antioch
,
being
by
situation
of
the
place
subiect
to
earth-quakes
was
free
and
quiet
from
such
mischances
,
in
the
gouernment
of
three
Eutychian
Emperours
Zeno
,
Basiliscus
,
and
Anastasius
,
for
the
space
of
threescore
and
seauen
yeares
,
Heresy
reioycing
and
florishing
therein
.
As
Catholiks
haue
cause
of
comfort
in
these
Examples
,
to
see
things
succeed
with
them
,
as
they
did
with
the
orthodoxe
Christians
and
Saints
of
God
in
former
ages
,
so
likewise
our
Censurers
,
that
making
themselues
of
Gods
Priuy
Counsell
giue
out
their
Writs
agaynst
vs
,
may
tremble
,
to
see
themselues
hardened
in
malice
,
as
former
Heretiks
were
,
and
to
feele
the
same
lightenings
of
death
as
they
did
.
And
for
conclusion
of
this
Chapter
,
I
will
agayne
repeate
the
wordes
of
the
Holy
Ghost
wherwith
I
beganne
,
in
which
Catholiks
may
receaue
comfort
,
&
our
insulting
Aduersaries
may
heare
their
doome
from
Gods
owne
mouth
:
This
is
the
worst
of
all
vnder
the
sunne
,
that
the
same
things
happen
alike
vnto
all
,
to
the
good
,
and
to
the
impious
.
Hence
the
hartes
of
the
sonnes
of
men
,
are
filled
with
malice
and
contempt
in
their
lyfe-time
,
and
afterward
they
shal
be
carryed
into
Hell
.
CHAP.
III.
Comfort
,
by
comparison
with
our
Aduersaryes
,
and
Gods
cleere
Iudgments
agaynst
them
.
BEfore
I
beginne
to
discourse
of
this
Argument
,
I
must
heere
meete
with
an
Obiection
,
which
I
know
will
be
made
agaynst
what
hath
byn
sayd
;
to
wit
,
If
mischances
happen
alyke
to
the
good
and
to
the
bad
,
to
the
Christian
and
to
the
Infidell
,
to
the
Catholike
and
to
the
Heretike
,
Why
doth
Cardinall
Bellarmine
make
Temporall
felicity
a
Marke
,
S.
Augustine
,
A
Deo
euidentissima
largitate
concessa
,
comming
apparently
from
the
speciall
bounty
of
God
.
This
felicity
God
vseth
to
grant
when
the
same
is
necessary
for
the
defence
of
true
Religion
agaynst
Infidelity
and
Heresy
:
and
it
appeared
manifestly
in
the
victories
obtayned
by
Constantine
the
Great
,
by
Theodosius
the
great
,
by
Honorius
his
Sonne
,
by
Charles
also
the
great
.
Neyther
hath
the
like
speciall
prouidence
and
supernaturall
assistance
been
wanting
or
lesse
apparant
in
sundry
battayles
fought
in
this
age
betwixt
Catholiks
and
Heretikes
.
For
though
God
permit
strange
accidents
sometymes
,
which
tend
to
particular
triall
of
his
seruants
,
yet
misfortunes
and
miraculous
ouerthrowes
,
dismall
&
vnfortunate
deaths
fall
more
frequently
vpon
his
enemies
,
as
might
be
proued
by
examples
ten
for
one
,
if
need
so
required
.
that
men
might
not
thinke
that
the
prosperity
of
this
life
,
were
not
to
be
gotten
but
by
seruing
the
Diuell
,
adorned
the
two
most
Christian
Emperours
Constantine
and
Theodosius
,
with
all
kind
of
worldly
felicity
the
hart
of
man
could
wish
:
On
the
other
side
that
Christians
might
know
that
they
are
not
to
serue
God
for
these
temporall
goods
,
he
would
haue
the
raigne
of
Iouian
a
most
pious
Emperour
more
short
,
then
that
of
Iulian
the
Apostata
.
Also
Graetian
a
godly
Prince
(
not
so
gracious
in
name
,
as
in
manners
)
he
permitted
vnto
the
sword
of
a
rebellious
Tyrant
.
Secondly
this
felicity
the
Marke
of
the
Church
,
is
knowne
by
the
End
,
which
is
the
saluation
of
soules
,
by
dilatation
of
Christian
Religion
amongst
Heathens
,
and
by
maintenance
of
peace
&
vnity
in
the
Christian
Church
agaynst
the
breaches
of
factious
doctrine
.
For
without
question
,
Felicity
that
serues
to
so
diuine
&
heauenly
an
end
,
is
diuine
and
heauenly
,
and
sheweth
the
Church
,
in
fauour
wherof
the
same
is
granted
,
to
be
the
only
true
Christian
Church
.
Neyther
it
is
hard
for
any
man
to
discerne
vnto
which
Church
this
felicity
,
mantayning
peace
of
Religion
amongst
Christians
,
&
dilating
Christian
Religion
among
the
Heathens
,
doth
belonge
:
as
also
where
that
accursed
kind
of
felicity
is
found
,
by
which
no
Nation
of
Infidells
hath
been
conuerted
,
but
only
the
quiet
of
Christendome
,
in
matters
aswell
of
Religion
,
as
of
ciuill
Gouernement
,
peruerted
.
Thirdly
,
this
felicity
proper
vnto
the
Church
,
is
made
euident
by
the
Effect
,
to
wit
,
by
the
pious
workes
&
godly
liberalityes
therof
,
shining
in
the
Princes
vnto
whome
the
same
is
granted
.
For
as
God
doth
by
speciall
prouidence
,
honour
and
enrich
these
Princes
for
the
benefit
of
his
Church
;
so
likewise
by
secret
inspiration
,
he
doth
infuse
acknowledgment
heerof
into
their
hart
,
and
moueth
them
to
discharge
their
debt
of
gratitude
towardes
him
,
by
shewing
their
liberalityes
vnto
his
Church
.
Thus
Cyrus
though
a
Pagan
did
acknowledge
his
temporall
felicity
in
being
made
Monarch
of
the
world
from
the
hand
of
the
God
of
Israel
,
Constantine
,
Theodosius
,
and
Charls
,
all
three
surnamed
the
Great
?
Who
doth
not
see
the
workes
of
true
Christian
felicity
in
our
country
,
and
of
what
Religion
those
Princes
were
,
by
whom
Churches
,
Monasteryes
,
Hospitalls
,
and
other
workes
of
Piety
,
with
their
temporall
endowments
were
founded
?
This
then
is
that
kind
of
Temporall
felicity
,
which
is
to
be
held
a
Marke
of
the
Church
,
to
wit
,
That
,
wherof
Gods
miraculous
prouidence
,
is
the
Authour
,
Propagation
of
Christianity
amongst
Heathens
,
the
end
,
Liberalityes
in
temporal
workes
of
Piety
,
the
effect
.
Without
these
respects
,
to
make
happy
Euent
a
note
of
the
truth
,
or
vnlucky
successe
a
signe
of
falshood
,
what
is
it
,
but
to
set
Religion
on
the
dyce
,
to
expose
Conscience
vnto
chaunce
,
to
make
Fayth
mutable
with
the
wind
?
If
the
Professors
of
true
Religion
,
cast
out
of
Churches
,
by
the
piety
of
their
Ancestors
built
,
meete
to
heare
Gods
word
in
a
priuate
chamber
,
shall
Truth
that
remaynes
for
euer
,
Progidious
thinges
that
did
happen
at
the
change
from
Catholike
Religion
in
England
.
WIll
our
Aduersaries
themselues
be
content
to
haue
their
Religion
put
to
this
triall
?
If
they
be
content
,
things
in
this
kind
recorded
by
their
Annales
,
will
bring
their
cause
in
danger
.
When
King
Henry
the
eight
had
withdrawne
himself
from
the
obedience
of
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
togeather
with
Schisme
(
though
agaynst
his
will
)
did
enter
Irreligion
towards
the
most
blessed
Sacrament
reserued
in
Churches
,
what
happened
?
Vpon
the
25.
of
May
,
the
rood
of
S.
Margarets
Patins
by
the
Tower-street
in
London
was
pulled
downe
and
broken
in
peeces
togeather
with
the
Tabernacle
.
And
three
nights
after
,
to
wit
on
the
27.
of
May
,
was
a
great
fire
in
the
same
S.
Margarets
Parish
not
farre
from
the
Church
,
the
which
flre
consumed
there
more
then
a
dozen
●ouses
,
and
many
persons
,
men
and
women
brent
to
death
.
Was
not
this
a
iudgment
?
did
not
God
presently
punish
that
fact
of
Heresy
with
fire
,
the
punishment
by
Christian
custome
appoynted
for
that
kind
of
impiety
?
Did
not
the
fire
come
iust
in
time
to
punish
that
irreligious
act
,
hauing
giuen
them
first
three
dayes
to
repent
,
according
to
that
decree
of
the
Scripture
,
He
that
within
three
dayes
shall
not
come
backe
to
Hierusalem
his
whole
substance
shall
be
consumed
?
Did
not
the
fire
fall
right
in
the
place
where
the
sin
was
committed
,
as
if
God
by
sending
that
fire
had
sayd
vnto
them
,
you
haue
disquieted
my
Tabernacle
,
violated
my
house
,
abused
my
sacred
Body
left
you
vnder
the
forme
of
bread
,
and
would
not
repent
:
therfore
in
vengeance
therof
,
I
now
burne
your
tabernacles
,
fire
your
houses
,
consume
your
bodyes
into
ashes
.
When
Queene
Elizabeth
in
the
second
yeare
of
her
reigne
,
had
put
Catholiks
from
all
Churches
,
not
permitting
them
so
much
as
one
for
the
Religion
that
all
her
Christian
Progenitours
Kings
of
England
had
professed
:
who
knowes
not
what
happened
vnto
the
Chiefe
,
the
most
goodly
and
glorious
of
all
those
Churches
,
presently
vpon
the
very
next
yeare
,
their
Religion
being
scarse
yet
warme
in
the
profession
thereof
?
On
the
fourth
of
Iune
(
sayth
the
same
Annalist
)
betweene
foure
and
fiue
of
the
afternoone
,
the
steeple
of
Paules
in
London
was
fired
by
lightening
.
The
fire
brast
forth
(
as
it
seemed
to
the
beholders
)
two
or
three
yardes
beneath
the
foote
of
the
Crosse
,
and
from
thence
,
brent
the
speere
(
which
was
of
two
hundred
and
sixty
foote
)
downe
to
the
stone-worke
and
bells
,
so
terribly
that
within
the
space
of
foure
houres
the
same
steeple
with
the
roofe
of
the
Church
so
much
as
was
timber
or
otherwise
combustible
,
were
consumed
,
which
was
a
lamentable
sight
,
and
pittifull
remembrance
to
the
beholders
therof
.
Thus
he
.
This
was
the
welcome
Heauen
gaue
vnto
the
new
Religion
then
entring
into
our
Kingdome
,
by
fiering
vpon
them
that
most
magnificent
Temple
,
which
vnder
Catholikes
had
stood
almost
a
thousand
yeares
.
They
that
vrge
the
falling
of
an
old
chamber
as
miraculous
vengeance
sent
from
heauen
vpon
Catholike
Religion
:
what
can
they
with
any
shew
of
probability
answere
vnto
them
that
will
presse
them
with
this
prodigious
lightening
&
fiering
which
came
directly
from
heauen
vpon
them
?
Specially
seeing
therwith
their
Communion-table
was
also
fired
,
though
their
Cronicler
,
to
saue
the
credit
of
their
Ghospell
make
no
mention
therof
?
Neyther
is
it
without
mystery
,
that
this
fire
brake
forth
from
vnder
the
foote
of
the
Crosse
,
as
comming
agaynst
the
enemyes
of
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
,
and
to
shew
Gods
anger
agaynst
them
for
their
contempt
of
that
most
holy
instrument
of
our
redemption
.
What
will
they
say
vnto
another
Prodigy
also
set
downe
in
their
Annals
,
that
vpon
the
tyme
their
Religion
was
begotten
by
Q
Elizabeth
,
and
christened
in
England
?
Iust
at
the
same
tyme
so
many
monstruous
births
happened
within
two
or
three
moneths
,
as
the
like
is
not
noted
in
any
of
our
antiquityes
.
This
yeare
(
sayth
the
sayd
M.
Stow
)
were
many
monstruous
births
.
In
march
a
mare
brought
forth
a
foale
with
one
body
and
two
heades
,
and
as
it
were
a
long
tayle
,
growing
betweene
the
two
heades
:
also
a
Sow
farrowed
a
pig
with
foure
leggs
,
like
to
the
armes
of
a
man-child
with
handes
and
fingers
&c.
In
April
a
Sow
farrowed
a
pig
with
two
bodyes
,
eight
feete
,
and
but
one
head
.
Many
calues
and
lambes
were
monstruous
,
some
with
collars
of
skins
growing
about
their
neckes
like
to
the
dubble
ruffes
of
shirts
and
neckercheffs
then
vsed
.
On
the
twentith
of
May
,
a
man-child
was
borne
at
Chichester
in
Sussex
,
the
head
armes
and
legges
wherof
were
like
an
anatomy
,
the
breast
and
belly
monstrous
bigge
,
from
the
nauill
,
as
it
were
a
longe
stringe
was
hanging
,
about
the
necke
a
great
collar
of
flesh
and
skinne
like
to
the
ruffe
of
a
shirt
,
comming
vp
aboue
the
eares
playting
and
folding
.
Thus
he
.
Was
it
by
chance
(
thinke
you
)
that
so
many
monstruous
and
vgly
Births
happened
thus
on
a
heap
togeather
with
the
birth
of
your
Ghospell
?
or
rather
were
they
not
sent
by
Gods
prouidence
,
to
lay
before
euen
your
carnall
eyes
,
the
fedity
and
deformity
of
your
change
from
the
fayth
of
all
your
Christian
Auncestors
?
I
will
heere
conclude
without
passing
into
forrayne
countryes
,
only
I
will
intreate
our
Aduersaries
to
looke
out
of
England
no
further
then
they
may
almost
from
thence
reach
with
their
corporall
sight
,
to
wit
,
vnto
the
Hill
on
the
Sea-shoare
neere
vnto
Deepe
.
There
the
ruines
of
one
of
their
Temples
are
yet
to
be
seen
,
which
fell
vpon
their
reformed
Puritan
Auditory
,
at
the
tyme
of
the
Preach
,
wherwith
foure
hundred
with
the
Minister
were
oppressed
.
The
cause
of
this
ouerthrow
was
not
vulgar
and
ordinary
as
in
our
case
,
but
a
strange
and
terrible
whirle-winde
,
raysed
and
sent
by
Gods
speciall
prouidence
to
punish
them
.
The
remembrance
of
this
whirlwind
and
wofull
accident
will
happily
take
from
them
their
insulting
spirit
,
or
at
least
so
blow
away
their
vayne
and
friuolous
clamors
,
that
this
accident
was
Gods
vengeance
vpon
vs
for
our
Religion
,
as
they
will
not
be
heard
with
esteeme
by
any
man
of
iudgment
.
The
death
of
the
Catholike
Preacher
of
this
Sermon
,
compared
with
the
death
of
Caluin
and
Zuinglius
.
BVt
they
thinke
we
shall
not
find
amongst
their
Ministers
,
any
that
was
stroken
with
so
suddayne
and
disastrous
a
death
as
the
Iesuite
Preacher
of
this
Sermon
was
.
This
shews
how
ignorant
they
are
of
their
owne
Church
,
and
how
like
the
Lamiae
,
of
whome
Plutarch
writes
,
that
being
at
home
they
pull
their
eyes
out
of
their
head
,
Iohn
Caluin
?
God
(
sayth
he
)
in
the
rod
of
his
fury
punished
Caluin
before
the
dreadfull
houre
of
his
vnhappy
death
with
his
mighty
hand
.
For
being
in
despayre
and
calling
vpon
the
Diuell
he
gaue
vp
his
wicked
soule
,
swearing
,
cursing
&
blaspheming
.
He
dyed
on
the
disease
of
lice
and
wormes
,
increasing
in
a
most
loath-some
vlcer
about
his
priuy
partes
,
so
as
none
present
could
endure
the
stench
.
These
be
the
wordes
of
that
Protestant
.
But
because
this
happend
within
the
walls
of
Geneua
,
and
in
Caluins
priuy
Chamber
,
we
cannot
haue
such
proofe
therof
,
but
Puritans
will
outface
both
Protestants
and
vs
.
Wherfore
we
will
bringe
them
out
of
the
walls
of
Geneua
into
the
open
field
,
out
of
Caluins
closet
into
the
sight
of
heauen
and
earth
,
Hulderick
Zuinglius
whom
they
honour
as
a
Prophet
ioyned
in
commission
with
Luther
,
to
preach
the
eternall
Ghospell
,
as
an
excellent
man
sent
of
God
to
giue
light
vnto
the
whole
world
,
in
the
midst
of
darknes
when
truth
was
vnknowne
and
vnheard
off
.
This
Minister
or
rather
Patriarke
of
the
Ministry
,
as
themselues
confesse
,
hauing
sought
by
famine
to
oppresse
fiue
Catholicke
townes
,
and
force
them
by
want
of
victuals
to
consent
vnto
his
doctrine
,
when
they
stood
in
their
defence
,
came
armed
into
the
field
,
where
hauing
first
embrued
his
sword
in
much
Christian
bloud
,
himselfe
togeather
with
fiue
other
Militant
Ministers
,
was
slayne
in
the
battayle
.
I
desire
the
Christian
to
compare
togeather
these
two
deaths
,
the
one
of
Robert
Drury
that
dyed
preaching
by
this
last
accident
:
The
other
of
the
Reformitan
Zuinglius
which
I
haue
set
downe
out
of
their
owne
recordes
.
This
done
then
in
the
sight
of
that
God
that
hateth
iniquity
and
loueth
charity
,
let
him
define
which
of
the
two
deaths
be
iudgeth
most
Christian
and
happy
,
or
with
which
of
the
two
Preachers
he
would
rather
wish
his
soule
.
sworde
in
his
hand
,
stretching
forth
his
arme
to
spill
Christian
bloud
:
the
other
with
the
sword
of
Gods
holy
truth
in
his
mouth
,
the
enemy
only
of
sinne
and
vice
,
spreading
abroad
his
armes
,
to
gather
into
the
bosome
of
God
and
his
Church
,
soules
redeemed
with
Christ
his
most
precious
bloud
.
The
one
exhorting
both
by
word
and
example
his
armed
auditory
,
[
*
](A01012-e13840-b)
*
His
text
was
,
serue
nequam
omne
debitum
dimisi
tibi
&c.
Superbia
,
&
crudelitate
impulsus
.
Osiand
.
Epitom
.
hist.
fol.
30
Qui
manet
in
charitate
in
Deo
manet
.
1.
Io.
4.16
.
Qui
non
diligit
manet
in
morre
.
1.
Io.
3.15
.
Valerius
Max.
l.
4.
c.
4.
Daniel
.
12.
●
.
for
that
was
the
subiect
his
sermon
)
preching
the
Precept
of
charity
,
perswading
his
deuout
Auditours
to
loue
their
enemyes
,
to
forgiue
iniuryes
,
to
roote
reuenge
and
rancour
cleane
out
of
their
hart
.
From
the
eyes
of
one
sparkled
fire
of
anger
and
Martiall
fury
,
not
to
be
quenched
but
with
the
bloud
of
his
enemyes
;
From
the
eyes
of
the
other
sprunge
teares
of
Deuotion
and
Piety
,
which
by
Sympathy
caused
waters
of
Contrition
in
the
harts
of
his
hearers
,
which
flowing
out
at
their
eyes
,
might
serue
as
a
second
Baptisme
,
to
wash
their
soules
pure
in
that
moment
of
dissolution
and
death
.
Is
there
any
man
so
voyd
of
Christianity
that
will
not
preferre
this
death
in
charity
,
and
therfore
in
God
,
before
that
death
of
hatred
and
reuenge
,
and
therfore
a
death
not
of
body
only
,
but
euen
of
soule
?
Oh
that
the
Spirit
of
God
with
the
gale
of
his
aspiring
Grace
,
would
driue
away
the
cloudes
of
human
sorrow
that
ouer-whelme
the
harts
of
flesh
and
bloud
,
that
pure
Christian
Fayth
,
shining
in
her
proper
brightnes
,
might
giue
sentence
of
the
quality
of
this
accident
!
Then
we
would
not
soe
much
pitty
,
as
enuy
such
happy
passages
out
of
this
life
,
nor
tearme
them
disastrous
,
but
rather
(
if
I
may
so
speake
)
Astruous
deaths
.
For
(
that
I
may
apply
the
wordes
of
a
prophane
Authour
vnto
a
true
subiect
)
Non
ita
homines
ex
spirant
,
sed
Astra
sedes
suas
repetunt
.
These
be
deaths
by
which
men
fall
not
to
the
ground
,
but
STARRES
returne
vnto
their
heauenly
home
:
those
starres
I
meane
,
wherof
Daniel
sayth
,
They
that
informe
men
vnto
righteousnes
,
shall
shine
as
STARRES
in
the
firmament
for
all
eternity
.
Certainly
his
body
fell
not
so
fast
to
the
ground
,
but
his
soule
flew
vp
as
fast
vnto
heauen
,
like
the
Doue
into
Noe
his
Arke
,
with
the
branch
of
Oliue
,
the
Word
of
Peace
and
Charity
in
mouth
.
King
Euander
in
the
vntimely
death
of
his
only
sonne
,
tooke
comfort
to
consider
he
dyed
in
a
glorious
enterprize
of
human
friendship
,
in
the
conducting
of
his
exiled
friends
into
their
promised
Country
of
rest
,
professing
that
he
would
euer
ioy
in
the
memory
of
that
heroicall
death
,
—
Ducentem
in
Latium
Teucros
,
cecidisse
iuuabit
.
What
greater
,
or
more
glorious
endeauour
of
Diuine
Charity
,
then
to
guide
soules
made
to
Gods
image
into
the
felicity
of
their
cecestiall
Country
,
that
is
,
the
blissefull
vision
of
the
face
of
their
Creatour
?
Seing
it
was
Gods
holy
pleasure
to
take
them
out
of
the
world
,
whose
longer
liues
in
our
iudgment
would
haue
byn
beneficiall
vnto
his
Church
;
though
we
cannot
but
feele
their
immature
death
,
yet
we
cannot
also
but
ioy
in
this
happy
circumstance
therof
,
that
they
dyed
in
the
exercise
of
the
highest
act
of
Christian
Mercy
;
that
their
last
breath
was
,
in
calling
men
vnto
God
,
most
blessedly
spent
,
that
the
sweat
of
death
they
felt
,
was
no
other
,
but
the
sweat
of
burning
charity
towardes
God
and
man
,
—
Ducentem
ad
caelos
animas
,
cecidisse
iuuabit
.
Here
we
may
with
reason
take
into
our
mouth
King
Dauid
his
funerall
songe
in
prayse
of
Abner
,
As
the
slouthfull
vse
to
dy
,
thou
didst
not
dye
,
O
Abner
:
Thyne
handes
were
not
bound
,
but
still
mouing
in
charitable
deedes
,
so
long
as
they
had
motion
of
life
.
Thy
feete
were
not
put
into
fetters
,
but
free
;
and
that
of
them
particularly
the
Prophet
may
seeme
to
haue
spoken
,
How
beautifull
are
the
feete
of
him
that
doth
preach
Peace
,
that
doth
denounce
the
best
things
!
For
what
thing
better
then
charity
&
loue
?
as
men
fall
before
the
sonnes
of
iniquity
,
so
thou
fallest
,
a
Martyr
in
the
sight
of
God
&
his
Angels
,
though
the
persecutor
appeared
not
in
the
sight
of
men
.
What
shall
I
say
more
?
I
will
conclude
with
the
words
of
our
Sauiour
,
Who
is
the
faythfull
and
prudent
seruant
whom
his
Lord
hath
put
ouer
his
family
to
giue
them
MEATE
in
tyme
?
Blessed
that
seruant
whom
his
Master
coming
shall
finde
SO
DOING
.
Verily
I
say
vnto
you
,
he
will
place
him
ouer
all
his
goodes
.
Protestants
that
were
present
at
this
Sermon
defended
.
SOme
vrge
this
accident
as
a
iudgment
of
Gods
vengeance
,
not
so
much
agaynst
Catholikes
as
agaynst
Protestants
,
that
hauing
preachers
of
their
owne
,
would
resort
vnto
this
Catholike
Sermon
,
whom
I
will
refell
briefly
,
not
by
way
of
Rhetoricall
discourse
,
but
by
way
of
Syllogisme
,
prouing
by
their
owne
principles
these
fower
ensuing
propositions
,
vnanswerably
.
The
first
Proposition
.
Protestants
by
the
Law
of
God
,
may
heare
Catholike
Sermons
.
THis
is
proued
.
Because
Protestants
may
heare
the
Ministers
of
Gods
holy
Worde
,
that
haue
Diuine
Order
,
Diuine
calling
,
Diuine
Commission
to
preach
it
.
For
whom
may
they
heare
,
if
they
may
not
heare
them
whom
God
appoynts
?
But
the
Priests
of
the
Roman
Church
haue
Diuine
Order
,
Diuine
Calling
,
Diuine
Commission
to
preach
Gods
holy
Word
,
as
now
Protestants
,
&
euen
Luther
did
,
who
sayth
,
The
Papists
haue
the
TRVE
office
of
Preaching
,
The
second
Proposition
.
Protestants
should
rather
heare
Catholike
Sermons
,
then
Puritan
.
THis
is
proued
.
Because
wisedome
teacheth
,
that
in
doubtfull
Questions
we
choose
the
surest
side
,
specially
in
affayres
that
concerne
the
euerlasting
saluation
of
our
soules
.
Wherfore
in
this
question
,
whether
Catholik
or
Puritan
Preachers
are
to
be
heard
,
we
must
rather
choose
the
certainest
part
.
But
that
Catholike
Priests
are
the
Ministers
of
God
,
endued
with
Diuine
Order
and
authority
to
preach
his
Word
,
and
consequently
the
Men
who
by
Diuine
Ordination
are
to
be
heard
,
is
most
sure
and
certayne
:
because
all
agree
therin
;
in
so
much
as
Protestants
as
I
sayd
,
chaleng
their
Orders
from
the
Roman
,
that
if
the
Roman
ordination
be
not
currant
,
Oxford
:
If
the
Roman
Priests
be
not
Ministers
,
then
are
not
we
Ministers
at
all
,
for
we
are
Ministers
of
those
Ministers
.
Therfore
out
of
the
principles
of
Christian
wisedome
,
men
should
rather
heare
Catholike
,
then
Puritan
Preachers
.
The
third
Proposition
.
Protestants
by
the
principles
of
their
Religion
,
THis
I
proue
:
because
the
Iudge
is
bound
by
the
law
of
God
and
man
,
and
light
of
reason
to
heare
both
partyes
before
be
giue
sentence
for
,
or
agaynst
eyther
,
and
to
condemne
eyther
side
vnheard
is
intolerable
wronge
:
But
euery
particular
Protestant
,
and
euery
one
of
the
common
people
is
a
iudge
appoynted
of
God
,
hauing
the
publick
authority
of
Gods
spirit
,
speaking
openly
vnto
all
in
Scripture
,
wherby
he
may
reproue
the
greatest
and
most
Catholike
Church
in
the
world
,
the
best
Church
in
the
world
,
to
wit
,
the
Protestant
,
as
themselues
most
earnestly
teach
;
auerring
that
this
doctrine
was
neuer
denyed
by
any
Church
,
but
the
Roman
,
that
knowing
her
doctrine
to
be
drosse
,
durst
not
put
herself
to
this
triall
.
Therfore
euery
particular
and
priuate
Protestant
is
bound
by
the
law
of
God
,
and
Man
,
Grace
and
Reason
,
to
heare
the
Roman
Church
,
as
well
as
the
Protestant
.
The
fourth
Proposition
.
They
that
heare
not
our
Sermons
,
but
condemne
vs
vpon
trust
of
their
Ministers
,
cannot
be
saued
.
THis
I
proue
.
Because
they
that
built
vpon
the
trust
and
credit
of
the
Protestant
Church
,
and
passe
not
to
the
triall
that
they
may
say
of
their
certayne
knowledg
this
is
errour
,
this
is
truth
,
these
cannot
be
saued
.
This
is
cleere
,
because
none
is
saued
without
diuine
,
and
supernaturall
most
certayne
Fayth
:
Try
all
,
and
hold
the
best
:
this
Precept
as
Protestants
teach
being
Diuine
,
and
such
a
one
as
doth
concerne
euery
priuat
man
?
Is
not
the
Roman
Religion
one
amongst
all
Religions
that
are
to
be
tryed
,
yea
the
only
one
,
amongst
them
all
?
How
then
can
they
be
saued
that
will
not
try
the
Roman
among
the
rest
,
that
not
vpon
trust
,
but
by
their
owne
triall
they
may
know
whether
her
Doctrine
is
to
be
held
?
Wherfore
they
that
reprehend
those
Protestants
for
comming
to
this
Sermon
are
ignorant
,
euen
in
the
first
principles
of
their
owne
Fayth
.
Hence
I
inferre
,
that
our
Aduersaries
cannot
esteeme
of
this
Accident
as
a
punishment
of
God
,
if
without
passion
they
will
pronounce
sentence
by
the
principles
of
their
owne
Religion
,
supposing
(
which
is
most
certayne
)
that
the
subiect
of
the
sermon
was
the
duty
of
Charity
to
forgiue
each
other
,
&
to
be
ready
to
giue
account
vnto
God
when
we
are
called
out
of
the
world
.
For
what
was
there
in
that
Sermon
that
God
may
be
thought
to
haue
punished
by
that
fall
,
the
Doctrine
preached
&
the
order
to
preach
it
,
being
both
his
owne
?
If
this
mischance
ought
to
be
taken
as
a
token
of
Gods
vengeance
agaynst
the
doctrine
of
the
Iesuits
,
surely
God
was
singularly
offended
with
that
doctrine
the
Iesuit
did
actually
preach
at
that
very
instant
,
when
by
the
fall
his
breath
was
stopped
,
which
was
the
doctrine
of
Charity
and
Peace
.
O
heauenly
doctrine
,
and
O
happy
breath
that
is
lost
in
the
preaching
therof
!
which
was
the
last
sermon
and
Cygnaean
songe
as
of
this
Father
of
the
Society
of
Iesus
,
Loue
ech
other
.
Hence
also
appeares
the
vanity
of
them
that
haue
found
this
farre
fecht
argument
agaynst
vs
.
This
accident
,
say
they
,
happened
vpon
the
Papists
on
the
fifth
of
Nouember
,
stilo
nouo
,
therefore
it
was
a
punishment
of
the
Treason
they
intended
agaynst
vs
on
the
5.
of
Nouember
stilo
veteri
.
First
this
their
arguing
is
folly
,
because
in
their
comparison
or
congruence
,
agaynst
the
rules
of
Logick
▪
they
do
transire
degenere
ad
genus
,
that
is
,
compare
things
togeather
of
different
kindes
,
stilo
nouo
,
&
stilo
veteri
,
being
different
kindes
of
computation
.
So
that
if
we
take
the
thing
according
to
the
truth
,
and
not
according
to
the
sound
of
words
,
the
5.
of
Nouember
stilo
veteri
,
is
not
the
5.
but
the
15.
of
nouember
stilo
nouo
.
Secondly
agaynst
this
vanity
grounded
vpon
words
without
sense
we
haue
an
argument
inuincible
deriued
from
the
first
principles
of
Christianity
,
to
wit
,
that
God
being
iust
,
cannot
punish
men
for
sinnes
they
neuer
committed
,
but
euer
detested
.
Now
these
that
fell
at
this
Sermon
,
neuer
intended
that
gunpowder-treason
(
as
these
accusers
bely
them
)
nor
euer
thought
therof
but
with
detestation
and
terrour
.
Therfore
certainly
God
being
holy
&
iust
,
did
not
intend
this
accident
to
punish
that
sinne
vpon
them
.
Finally
what
sense
or
congruence
is
there
in
this
prouidence
,
for
that
a
sinne
commited
agaynst
Christian
Charity
,
many
yeares
agoe
,
God
should
now
punish
men
altogeather
innocent
therof
:
and
this
in
the
act
of
preaching
Christian
Charity
,
agaynst
rancour
and
malice
,
which
doctrine
of
all
other
,
is
opposite
vnto
such
execrable
vndertakings
?
Some
perchance
will
say
,
that
though
he
preached
Charity
,
yet
he
preached
in
the
Popish
fashion
,
that
by
deedes
of
charity
they
merit
heauen
.
I
do
not
know
if
he
made
mention
of
merit
;
Augustine
.
They
be
(
sayth
he
)
impious
,
they
are
vngratefull
vnto
God
,
they
are
deepely
oppressed
by
the
wicked
spirit
,
who
murmure
agaynst
the
chast
celebrity
of
such
meetings
,
where
men
are
taught
,
how
they
are
to
liue
well
for
the
time
in
this
present
world
,
that
so
they
may
MERIT
to
liue
blessedly
for
euer
in
the
next
world
.
CHAP.
IIII.
Comfort
,
from
the
Ends
and
Intentions
of
God
in
this
Accident
,
wherof
we
may
make
Profit
.
IF
the
Doctrine
preached
was
so
pious
,
and
the
Preacher
authorized
to
preach
by
Diuine
Order
,
why
was
the
sermon
ouerthrowne
by
suddayne
death
,
in
the
mid'st
therof
?
Why
?
Because
God
is
Lord
,
he
may
permit
,
he
may
doe
as
he
pleaseth
,
and
yet
no
man
may
say
vnto
him
,
Why
do'st
thou
so
?
Reasons
in
regard
of
Protestants
.
WIll
Protestants
haue
a
reason
why
God
would
haue
this
Iesuit
dye
before
their
eyes
,
preaching
forgiuenes
of
iniuryes
,
charity
and
peace
,
that
they
might
be
witnesses
of
the
fight
agaynst
the
vulgar
Puritan
slaunder
,
that
Iesuits
incense
Catholike
people
agaynst
them
,
vnto
bloud-shed
and
murder
?
Behold
a
Martyr
,
a
witnesse
that
lost
his
breath
in
the
refutation
of
this
slaunder
:
Nor
can
their
accusers
name
the
Iesuit
,
that
for
the
time
he
was
Iesuit
,
killed
any
man
,
or
euer
drew
sword
in
anger
,
or
went
armed
into
the
field
.
They
be
present
indeed
many
tymes
in
battayle
to
help
the
soules
that
are
wounded
,
and
can
make
vse
of
their
helpe
:
and
though
they
walke
in
the
mid'st
of
dangers
,
yet
haue
they
no
other
armour
,
then
their
habit
,
no
other
pistoll
but
their
beades
by
their
side
,
Will
they
haue
a
reason
?
God
would
haue
this
Catholike
Priest
dye
in
the
commendation
of
Charity
,
then
which
no
doctrine
is
more
properly
Christian
,
that
they
might
feele
euen
with
their
handes
,
the
rashnes
of
them
that
iudged
the
fall
was
to
punish
the
then
preaching
of
Doctrine
Antichristian
.
They
iudged
(
being
ignorant
of
the
Catholike
custome
)
that
our
Ministers
of
Gods
holy
Word
be
like
theirs
,
who
commonly
spend
the
time
,
not
in
exhortations
vnto
good
life
,
but
in
bitter
declamations
agaynst
the
Pope
.
This
accident
hath
made
knowne
our
Sermons
to
be
made
in
another
Tune
,
as
opposite
vnto
theirs
,
as
is
light
vnto
darknes
,
sweetnes
vnto
bitternes
,
Charity
vnto
hatred
,
mildnes
vnto
arrogancy
.
Will
they
haue
yet
another
reason
?
God
permitted
this
accident
,
that
the
zeale
of
hearing
Gods
word
,
&
the
hard
condition
of
Catholikes
might
heereby
be
made
knowne
vnto
the
Christian
world
.
All
the
Churches
of
England
haue
byn
erected
by
our
Catholike
Ancestours
,
and
yet
Catholikes
now
haue
not
permitted
them
so
much
as
one
Church
of
so
many
,
to
heare
the
word
of
that
Christian
Fayth
,
wherby
the
same
were
founded
.
They
must
eyther
want
the
comfort
of
the
bread
of
life
,
or
els
resort
to
priuate
Chambers
for
the
same
with
danger
of
mischance
;
that
the
auncient
cause
of
Ieremy
his
complaint
may
seeme
renewed
in
vs
,
We
may
yet
adde
hereunto
a
fourth
Reason
.
Seeing
God
in
his
iudgments
still
aymeth
at
the
finall
end
of
his
mercyes
,
why
may
we
not
thinke
he
permitted
this
Accident
to
mitigate
men
harts
towards
Catholike
Religion
,
She
was
a
Queene
,
and
a
Kings
daughter
,
let
her
be
buried
with
honour
.
Who
knowes
not
the
weeping
of
Alexander
at
the
death
of
Darius
?
The
teares
of
Caesar
vpon
the
fight
of
Pompey
his
head
,
through
remembrance
of
his
former
high
worthines
and
state
?
The
destroyers
of
Hierusalem
,
as
Ieremy
foretold
,
This
is
Hierusalem
that
was
once
the
fayre
and
beautifull
Citty
,
the
ioy
of
the
whole
earth
.
If
misery
be
thus
able
to
purchase
fauour
vnto
wicked
persons
and
mortall
enemyes
,
how
much
more
vnto
Catholike
Religion
that
in
so
many
of
her
children
,
slayne
in
that
their
innocent
exercise
of
deuotion
,
lay
so
wofull
a
spectacle
to
our
Country
?
It
is
scarse
possible
,
but
by
that
pittifull
sight
,
men
should
be
warned
to
remember
her
Sanctity
,
her
Dignity
,
her
inestimable
Benefits
in
former
tymes
bestowed
on
this
Land
;
and
in
their
hearts
to
say
:
This
is
the
Religion
,
that
,
from
her
Head-Citty
Rome
,
sent
hither
Christian
Preachers
,
in
the
heauenly
lauer
of
Purity
.
This
is
the
Religion
that
did
first
banish
from
our
mouth
the
vncouth
names
of
Panime
Gods
;
that
taught
vs
first
to
pronounce
the
sauing
Name
of
IESVS
;
by
whose
meanes
the
sweet
Alleluia
began
first
to
be
songe
in
our
streetes
,
in
hope
of
heauenly
felicity
.
This
is
the
Religion
that
for
a
thousand
yeares
togeather
was
the
sole
Christian
Queene
raigning
in
all
our
Catholike
Princes
,
working
in
their
harts
knowledge
and
loue
of
celestiall
things
,
&
mouing
their
handes
to
leaue
monuments
of
their
piety
,
memorialls
of
their
charity
,
religious
examples
of
sanctity
,
to
the
ioy
of
heauen
and
wonder
of
earth
.
These
cogitations
of
truth
,
and
the
like
are
both
easy
and
obuious
to
be
had
of
any
that
will
not
shut
their
eyes
agaynst
them
,
Barbarisme
vnto
Christianity
?
Or
persecute
and
seeke
to
ouerthrow
that
Religion
,
that
is
the
only
ground
and
pillar
of
hope
,
that
any
of
their
Christian
ancestors
were
saued
?
We
may
therfore
thinke
that
God
would
haue
these
Catholiks
as
so
many
graynes
of
wheate
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
beare
fruite
in
abundance
fal
togeather
in
terram
bonam
&
optimam
,
vpon
the
ground
of
the
good
,
Reasons
for
Puritans
,
and
the
Inhumanity
of
some
of
them
.
WIll
Puritans
haue
a
reason
of
Gods
permittance
on
their
behalfe
?
God
permitted
it
,
to
the
end
that
by
occasion
therof
that
might
happen
,
wherby
they
may
see
the
rudenes
of
their
Pretented
Holy
Discipline
,
behold
the
inhumanity
their
Heresy
putteth
into
peoples
harts
,
vnder
pretence
of
rooting
out
Popery
,
they
bring
extreme
Barbarity
into
the
Church
.
For
there
did
not
want
a
multitude
,
Iewish
cruelty
,
set
vpon
the
poore
creatures
hurt
by
that
fall
,
presently
as
they
were
taken
vp
from
vnder
the
ruines
and
rubbish
,
that
some
Gentlewomen
were
forced
to
leaue
their
coach
to
saue
themselues
in
a
house
of
their
Friendes
.
This
was
not
the
fact
of
Englishmen
;
they
are
of
more
noble
nature
:
Nor
of
English
Protestants
;
Heresy
hath
not
made
them
so
wild
:
but
of
Puritans
,
not
of
the
whole
Lande
,
they
neuer
cease
to
be
the
children
of
God
and
gracious
in
his
sight
,
though
they
commit
murder
an
hundred
times
a
day
.
I
confesse
that
no
circumstance
of
this
accident
doth
so
grieue
me
to
the
hart
as
this
;
not
for
any
hurt
they
did
therin
vnto
vs
,
for
the
hurt
was
only
to
themselues
.
They
shewed
themselues
more
dead
in
conscience
for
want
of
charity
,
then
the
other
were
dead
in
body
for
want
of
life
:
the
Beames
that
did
oppresse
and
buize
the
bones
of
Catholikes
were
not
so
heauy
nor
so
deadly
,
as
were
the
beames
of
passion
and
hatred
in
the
eye
of
these
miscreants
,
bruyzing
and
wounding
their
soule
with
the
sinne
vnto
death
,
it
being
better
as
the
holy
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*
S.
Wenceslaus
.
King
of
Bohemia
said
,
to
dye
an
Abel
,
then
to
liue
a
Cayn
.
The
cause
of
my
griefe
is
,
that
any
in
our
Country
,
should
be
found
so
voyd
of
common
humanity
,
to
the
discredit
of
our
Nation
,
this
being
done
in
the
eye
of
the
Stranger
,
whence
now
it
is
spread
abroad
,
to
the
horrour
of
the
Christian
world
.
For
euery
Nation
vnder
the
Cope
of
heauen
,
both
Christian
and
Heathen
,
both
Ciuill
and
Barbarous
doth
by
custome
pitty
,
yea
reuerence
them
that
are
newly
saued
from
vnder
the
death-blow
of
chaunce
.
Wherof
we
may
giue
three
reasons
grounded
on
the
pious
instinct
of
nature
.
The
first
is
,
because
men
saued
from
this
deadly
stroake
,
seeme
then
to
beginne
to
liue
,
and
to
be
then
as
it
were
borne
a
new
.
Wherfore
nature
bidds
men
to
congratulate
,
&
welcome
them
againe
into
the
world
:
and
the
contrary
,
to
wit
,
to
seeke
to
stop
the
first
breathings
of
this
their
new
life
,
is
the
greatest
barbarity
that
may
be
.
Against
which
,
one
bitterly
but
iustly
inueigheth
,
as
we
may
read
in
the
Prince
of
Poets
,
whose
inuectiue
I
could
wish
none
of
our
Nation
had
drawne
particularly
vpon
themselues
.
Quod
genus
hoc
hominum
?
quaeue
hac
tam
barbara
morem
Permittit
Patria
?
—
What
wild
men
be
these
?
what
barbarous
country
is
this
?
We
being
sau'd
from
sea
,
euen
from
the
iawes
of
death
,
They
rise
agaynst
vs
straight
,
they
do
not
vs
permit
In
quietnesse
to
set
first
footings
on
the
ground
.
Bella
cient
,
primaque
vetant
consistere
terra
.
The
second
reason
is
,
because
the
stroake
of
chance
,
as
it
is
in
truth
,
so
is
it
taken
by
the
instinct
of
nature
,
as
the
stroake
of
Gods
speciall
prouidence
,
and
hand
.
From
this
stroake
they
that
are
saued
,
as
they
liue
by
his
speciall
will
and
loue
towards
them
,
so
they
are
regarded
of
others
as
things
sacred
vnto
God
,
Cicero
Act.
7.
in
Verrem
initio
.
Vehementer
vererentur
ne
quem
virum
fortuna
seruasset
&c.
Viri
Niniuitae
surgent
in
iudicio
&c.
Matth.
14.
Propter
iniquitatem
corripuisti
hominem
.
Ps.
38
.
1●
.
and
by
speciall
bande
of
Religion
tyed
vnto
him
,
that
it
is
a
kind
of
sacriledge
to
violate
them
.
An
Oratour
of
Rome
(
as
Tully
writeth
)
pleading
for
the
life
of
a
Captayne
,
that
had
in
the
field
receaued
many
dangerous
woundes
on
head
and
breast
,
shewed
the
scarres
or
markes
therof
vnto
the
Iudges
,
wherwith
he
moued
them
not
so
much
to
pitty
,
as
to
religious
reuerence
of
the
Man
,
that
they
feared
to
condemne
him
to
death
,
from
so
many
dangers
wherof
he
had
byn
by
fortune
,
that
is
Gods
speciall
protection
,
most
strangly
saued
.
Thes●
Iudges
in
the
Day
of
Iudgment
shall
condemne
the
Puritans
,
seing
they
being
Heathens
bare
more
reuerence
vnto
the
dead
&
darke
signes
of
Diuine
Protection
in
a
guilty
person
,
then
these
did
vnto
the
fresh
tokens
of
Gods
speciall
saluation
,
in
innocent
Christian
Women
.
The
third
reason
is
,
because
the
punishment
of
disastrous
change
,
is
by
the
instinct
of
Nature
accounted
the
punishment
of
God
,
as
it
were
taking
the
execution
of
Iustice
immediatly
into
his
owne
hand
.
Hence
it
is
that
they
,
who
from
the
hand
of
Diuine
execution
escape
afflicted
,
frighted
,
wounded
and
hurt
,
are
to
be
held
as
set
free
by
Gods
speciall
warrant
,
as
punished
inough
,
according
to
the
equity
of
his
iudgment
.
Wherefore
presently
to
set
vpon
them
,
as
deseruing
more
punishment
,
is
not
only
iniustice
and
cruelty
,
but
also
a
kind
of
impiety
and
condemnation
of
God
,
as
if
he
wanted
eyther
wisedome
to
know
,
or
iustice
to
hate
,
or
power
to
punish
sufficiently
the
grieuousnes
of
mans
sinnes
.
We
will
not
stand
vpon
the
Deniall
,
but
this
chance
might
be
sent
vpon
these
persons
as
a
punishment
of
God
in
regard
of
their
lesser
or
veniall
sinnes
;
seing
euen
Martyrdome
it selfe
,
the
death
most
glorious
of
all
other
,
may
be
inflicted
as
a
punishment
in
this
kind
,
Machabees
Martirs
sayd
:
Nos
propeccatis
nostris
ista
patimur
.
At
least
they
that
suffer
,
may
&
ought
to
make
that
account
,
as
S.
Cyprian
counselleth
,
Decet
Martyres
verecundos
esse
,
Haue
pitty
,
haue
pitty
on
me
,
for
the
hand
of
God
hath
strucken
me
,
for
my
sinnes
,
as
you
suppose
,
and
I
do
not
deny
;
yet
the
number
of
them
,
&
how
great
or
small
they
are
,
God
knowes
much
better
then
you
do
.
Deserued
I
punishment
?
Behold
these
bleeding
woundes
,
witnesse
I
haue
already
had
my
punishment
at
the
handes
of
the
liuing
God
;
Creatures
may
well
spare
me
,
at
least
you
my
friendes
,
allyed
vnto
me
both
in
nature
and
country
,
whome
the
like
mortality
(
may
not
I
say
the
like
iniquity
?
)
makes
liable
vnto
the
same
mischance
.
Call
to
mind
the
saying
of
our
Sauiour
vnto
the
eager
enemyes
of
the
guilty
Woman
,
He
that
amongst
you
is
without
sinne
,
let
him
cast
the
first
stone
at
her
,
Haue
pitty
,
haue
pitty
on
me
,
for
the
hand
of
God
hath
stroken
me
.
But
these
wordes
would
not
haue
moued
mercilesse
harts
,
and
so
those
distressed
soules
might
better
(
as
perchance
they
did
)
lift
vp
their
eyes
vnto
God
in
holy
Dauid
his
complaynt
:
in
payne
,
not
only
outwardly
through
the
woundes
of
body
,
but
also
inwardly
though
griefes
and
frights
of
soule
.
They
bare
no
respect
vnto
me
,
as
a
thing
particularly
beholding
,
and
belonging
vnto
thee
,
as
one
whom
thy
saluation
tooke
vp
into
thy
handes
out
of
those
ruines
.
If
a
Tygar
or
Shee-wolfe
hauing
a
man
in
her
pawes
should
out
of
compassion
let
him
free
,
how
cruell
would
he
be
thought
that
should
seeke
to
make
that
man
away
presently
vpon
his
escape
?
O
Lord
thyne
anger
(
as
the
Prophet
sayth
)
is
as
fierce
as
the
Shee-beare
that
hath
lost
her
whelpes
.
Whome
thou
hadst
struken
,
they
pursued
,
and
added
new
griefe
vnto
my
woundes
.
But
shall
such
cruelty
passe
without
punishment
?
No.
They
shall
receaue
the
greatest
punishment
that
God
in
his
implacable
anger
can
lay
vpon
men
in
this
life
,
which
is
set
downe
in
the
wordes
that
next
follow
:
Appone
iniquitatem
super
iniquitatem
eorum
,
&
non
intrent
in
iustitiam
tuam
:
deleantur
de
libro
viuentium
,
&
cum
iustis
non
scribantur
.
Lay
vpon
them
iniquity
vpon
iniquity
,
and
let
them
neuer
enter
into
thy
righteousnes
:
let
them
be
blotted
out
of
the
booke
of
life
,
and
not
be
written
amongst
the
iust
.
And
this
may
be
another
reason
of
this
permission
in
regard
of
Puritans
,
to
wit
,
for
the
greater
obduration
of
the
more
hoat
,
vnmercifull
and
obstinate
sort
of
them
.
For
as
their
malice
is
such
,
as
they
would
,
if
they
could
,
loade
the
Catholike
Church
with
wound
vpon
wound
,
so
God
permitting
mischances
to
happen
before
the
eyes
of
their
body
,
that
carry
some
shew
of
scandall
,
&
subtracting
from
before
the
eyes
of
their
soule
the
light
of
his
grace
to
make
due
inspection
vnto
them
,
giues
them
occasions
,
wherby
they
heape
iniquity
vpon
iniquity
,
filling
their
hearts
,
more
&
more
,
with
malice
&
contempt
,
till
being
come
to
the
measure
of
Gods
appoyntment
,
they
be
carried
into
Hell
.
These
iudgments
of
God
are
so
much
the
more
terrible
,
because
they
least
of
all
regard
them
whom
they
most
concern
being
so
blinded
&
deluded
with
the
delightful
imaginations
of
selfe-fancy
in
their
interpretation
of
Scripture
,
as
they
neuer
so
much
as
apprehend
the
heynousnes
of
their
offence
in
contemning
the
perpetuall
Christian
Tradition
of
the
Church
.
I
will
not
insist
vpon
this
poynt
,
but
referre
it
vnto
the
inward
search
of
their
Conscience
,
desiring
them
in
Christ
Iesus
,
and
as
they
tender
their
saluation
,
that
they
will
call
to
mind
how
many
thousands
of
Heretikes
haue
byn
in
former
Ages
,
that
thought
themselues
no
lesse
secure
of
the
truth
then
they
now
doe
,
did
alledge
Scriptures
for
their
errours
as
fast
as
they
now
do
,
and
more
cleere
and
expresse
then
they
can
doe
any
,
&
yet
now
burne
for
euer
in
hell
,
for
their
contempt
of
the
Tradition
and
Authority
of
the
Church
.
Reasons
in
the
behalfe
of
them
that
were
slayne
,
&
the
happines
of
their
death
.
TO
come
to
the
principall
intendment
of
God
,
who
in
the
midst
of
his
iudgments
,
is
euer
mindfull
of
his
mercyes
:
S.
Bernard
was
summoner
of
this
Holy
Hoste
,
in
which
the
Emperour
was
in
person
with
other
great
Princes
of
Europe
.
And
the
Saint
wrought
many
miracles
,
as
the
healing
of
diuers
that
had
byn
borne
blind
and
lame
,
to
shew
it
was
Gods
will
they
should
goe
.
They
went
,
they
were
dispersed
,
they
were
killed
,
they
dyed
of
Famine
,
very
few
returned
backe
into
their
countryes
.
A
most
sad
accident
,
and
so
dreadfull
,
as
it
filled
all
Europe
with
lamentations
and
teares
.
Why
was
this
done
?
Gods
holy
purpose
heerin
was
,
that
men
by
that
leauing
their
friends
and
country
,
by
the
pious
labour
of
the
iourney
,
What
can
Christian
Piety
thinke
better
of
Gods
infinite
goodnes
,
but
that
he
ordayned
this
meeting
for
the
saluation
and
entrance
into
heauen
of
many
soules
at
once
,
seing
they
were
afore
hand
so
Religiously
prepared
for
death
.
For
that
day
(
the
most
of
them
)
were
purified
by
the
Sacrament
of
the
Church
,
and
all
of
them
afterward
sanctified
by
the
preaching
of
Gods
holy
Word
,
and
the
doctrine
of
Charity
,
which
hydeth
the
multitude
of
sinnes
.
Seraphicall
winges
of
Charity
,
which
the
Sermon
gaue
them
tooke
their
flight
togeather
at
the
same
tyme
into
the
bosome
of
God
.
Happy
the
●an
whom
the
LAST
HOVRE
findes
imployed
in
the
Diuine
●eruice
,
Then
were
these
men
most
happy
whom
the
LAST
HOVRE
,
yea
moment
of
life
,
found
in
the
…
blest
act
of
the
Diuine
seruice
,
hearing
his
holy
Word
●ith
great
content
and
deuotion
of
soule
.
As
for
Protestants
that
were
present
,
it
is
likely
there
were
few
such
in
hart
,
yet
it
there
were
any
,
we
may
…
pe
,
yea
we
need
not
doubt
,
of
Gods
mercy
towardes
…
hem
in
that
moment
.
He
endued
their
harts
with
the
…
ght
of
true
Fayth
,
with
sorrow
for
their
sinnes
,
with
…
uall
,
or
at
least
virtuall
desire
of
the
Sacraments
of
the
Church
,
and
so
they
found
by
happy
experience
the
…
th
of
that
Diuine
promise
,
In
whatsoeuer
houre
the
sinner
…
ene
vnto
me
,
I
will
not
remember
any
of
his
sinnes
.
If
many
that
●●●
been
incredulous
in
the
dayes
of
Noe
,
feasting
and
banquetting
,
i
…
derision
of
the
Deluge
he
threatned
to
come
vpon
them
,
…
en
they
saw
themselues
inclosed
with
inundations
of
water
,
cryed
vnto
God
,
and
God
as
soone
as
they
cryed
〈◊〉
pardon
,
sent
vpon
them
the
Spirit
of
his
grace
,
heard
〈◊〉
grones
and
sighs
of
their
pennance
,
notwithstanding
〈◊〉
hydeous
roaring
of
waues
;
may
we
not
with
more
…
son
hope
of
the
conuersion
of
these
that
came
sponta●●ously
to
this
Sermon
?
They
were
taken
,
not
feasting
…
d
banquetting
,
but
in
an
exercise
of
piety
,
not
as
they
…
e
deriding
,
but
as
they
were
diligent
in
hearing
Gods
…
y
Word
▪
and
as
they
were
by
the
power
therof
mol
…
ied
,
togeather
with
others
,
to
sorrow
for
their
sinnes
;
Could
the
cracke
of
the
chamber
in
the
fall
so
drown
their
grones
,
as
they
passed
not
into
the
eare
of
Gods
mercy
?
Could
the
dust
&
rubbish
so
hide
their
lifting
vp
of
harts
and
handes
for
pardon
,
as
not
to
be
perceaued
by
the
eye
of
his
goodnes
?
Can
we
thinke
that
God
that
loueth
soules
,
brought
these
men
desirous
of
sauing
truth
to
a
Sermon
where
the
same
was
preached
,
A
Sparow
(
though
not
worth
a
farthing
)
falles
not
to
the
ground
without
the
heauenly
Father
;
Heauenly
Father
working
in
their
soules
?
No
,
no
:
Surely
it
was
for
their
eternall
happines
,
that
he
conducted
them
where
they
should
be
so
Religlously
occupyed
,
so
deuoutly
disposed
,
in
that
moment
on
which
eternity
dependes
.
Comming
with
the
last
,
they
were
rewarded
with
the
first
,
and
they
haue
proued
with
the
holy
Prophet
,
Now
to
returne
vnto
the
Catholikes
slayne
,
some
may
obiect
that
they
dyed
suddainly
when
they
did
not
think
.
I
answere
that
suddaynes
of
death
is
a
fauour
in
them
that
are
prepared
as
these
were
.
In
this
their
death
concurred
,
what
is
good
and
to
be
wished
in
each
kind
eyther
of
suddaine
or
expected
death
.
The
good
of
suddaynes
is
to
be
quit
of
the
terrour
of
expectation
of
death
,
which
many
times
is
more
terrible
then
death
it selfe
.
violence
of
sicknes
,
but
by
the
verity
of
Gods
Word
,
which
caused
in
them
not
sadnes
,
according
to
the
world
,
but
sadnes
according
to
God
,
which
(
as
the
Apostle
sayth
)
worketh
pennance
with
assured
saluation
.
Hence
their
purposes
to
leaue
sinne
were
as
harty
as
in
the
sad
expectation
of
present
death
,
and
their
purposes
to
doe
good
workes
as
absolute
as
in
the
prudent
expectation
of
long
life
.
They
then
resolued
to
liue
better
then
the
custome
of
other
men
,
they
were
straight
taken
away
,
and
not
put
to
the
triall
,
wherein
they
might
haue
fayled
aswell
as
other
men
.
In
them
that
looke
to
dye
,
griefe
for
sinne
is
stronge
,
but
commonly
stayned
with
some
seruility
of
feare
:
in
them
that
thinke
to
liue
,
though
griefe
for
sinne
may
be
pure
,
yet
commonly
it
is
so
weake
as
it
doth
not
conquer
the
ensuing
temptations
of
sinne
.
The
death
of
these
was
hidden
and
sudden
,
hidden
from
their
eyes
of
flesh
,
that
feare
might
not
stayne
the
purity
of
their
pennance
;
sudden
,
comming
in
the
very
instant
,
that
tyme
might
not
weaken
the
constancy
of
their
purposes
.
But
some
agayne
will
say
,
their
death
was
dreadfull
,
their
bodyes
bruyzed
,
their
faces
disfigured
,
they
were
not
knowne
of
their
friendes
.
Let
S.
Augustine
answere
.
Christians
belieue
the
death
of
Lazarus
among
doggs
licking
his
sores
,
more
happy
then
the
death
of
Diues
in
purple
and
fine
linnen
;
they
that
lead
holy
liues
,
what
are
they
worse
in
that
they
dyed
terrible
deaths
?
God
will
haue
his
children
feare
any
the
least
sinne
more
then
any
the
dreadfullest
death
,
and
therfore
sometymes
he
doth
punish
small
offences
with
horrible
slaughters
.
The
Bethsamites
in
the
midst
of
their
pious
ioy
,
for
the
returne
of
the
Arke
,
were
slayne
by
fifty
thousands
,
only
for
a
curious
looke
:
Oza
that
put
his
hand
to
saue
the
Arke
from
falling
,
was
strucken
dead
,
because
he
did
it
in
lesse
reuerent
manner
.
In
the
Bookes
of
Kings
is
recorded
the
death
of
an
holy
Prophet
,
presently
vpon
his
working
a
most
strange
miracle
,
and
dyed
all
within
ten
dayes
after
.
Can
the
world
discerne
any
difference
of
vnhappines
betwixt
the
death
of
our
King
Edmund
the
Martyr
.
and
the
death
of
our
King
Richard
the
Tyrant
?
They
both
were
defeated
in
field
,
both
killed
and
couered
with
an
heape
of
slaughter
,
the
dead
bodyes
of
them
both
came
into
the
power
of
their
enemyes
to
be
scorned
.
Compare
the
death
of
King
Lewis
the
Saynt
,
with
the
death
of
King
Antiochus
the
wicked
,
no
dissimilitude
appeares
in
outward
shew
.
Both
dyed
in
a
strange
country
,
both
after
a
shamefull
repulse
,
both
stroken
with
a
lothsome
pestilent
vlcer
.
And
yet
these
deaths
,
such
paralells
in
the
aye
of
flesh
and
bloud
,
did
differ
no
lesse
then
Heauen
&
Hell
in
the
sight
of
God
and
his
Angels
.
Man
iudgeth
acco●ding
to
the
face
,
God
looketh
into
the
hart
:
know
you
not
.
It
little
importes
the
dead
that
their
bodyes
be
knowne
of
their
friends
,
who
when
they
know
them
will
but
lay
them
vnder
earth
to
be
the
food
of
wormes
.
going
out
of
their
bodyes
,
they
may
be
car●●●d
by
them
into
the
bosome
of
Abraham
,
and
into
the
euerlasting
●●●●rnacles
.
And
yet
I
dare
say
,
their
bodyes
were
not
so
disfigu●●d
as
they
may
compare
in
deformity
with
the
body
of
their
crucified
Lord
and
Sauiour
,
We
saw
him
,
and
there
was
neyther
shape
nor
figure
in
him
,
so
we
know
him
not
,
but
made
esteeme
of
him
as
of
a
leaper
,
and
as
of
a
man
strocken
of
God
.
It
is
a
part
of
their
honour
they
were
so
like
to
their
Master
,
and
the
day
shall
come
when
the
disfigured
bodyes
of
their
humility
,
shall
be
configured
vnto
the
body
of
his
clarity
,
then
be
so
much
the
more
beautifull
,
by
how
much
now
they
seemed
horrible
.
Reasons
for
the
Profit
of
Catholikes
:
and
the
Conclusion
.
TO
Conclude
with
whome
I
began
.
You
the
worthy
Children
of
the
Church
;
God
hath
permitted
this
Accident
to
be
vnto
you
a
Warning
,
a
Triall
,
an
Occasion
,
a
Presage
:
a
Warning
of
Death
,
a
Triall
of
Charity
,
an
Occasion
of
more
Pennance
,
a
Presage
of
Comfort
.
The
Deaths
of
these
our
Friends
,
are
Documents
how
incertayne
life
is
,
and
Warnings
to
be
at
all
tymes
,
and
in
euery
place
prouided
for
death
.
God
shewed
in
his
Saynts
what
may
happen
vnto
sinners
,
he
stroake
their
bodyes
with
suddayne
and
short
oppression
of
death
,
to
strike
into
our
soules
longe
and
perpetuall
meditation
of
death
.
The
Chambers
of
impurity
haue
no
priuiledge
agaynst
death
,
more
then
the
Chapells
of
sanctity
;
nor
haue
riotous
feasters
in
a
Tauerne
,
a
surer
warrant
of
life
then
Religious
hearers
of
a
Sermon
.
Death
which
came
vpon
these
as
they
were
in
the
act
of
abhorring
,
may
likewise
set
vpon
them
as
they
are
in
the
act
of
committing
sinne
.
Behold
here
,
Nubes
testium
,
a
whole
cloude
of
witnesses
,
suddaynly
dissolued
into
the
bloudy
rayne
of
death
,
that
vpon
the
consenting
testimony
of
so
many
dying
men
,
we
may
belieue
and
still
remember
,
that
our
life
,
when
it
is
at
the
best
,
is
but
vapour
,
warned
of
the
end
of
all
liuing
thinges
.
Behold
here
that
holy
House
of
Mourning
,
which
ringes
of
this
Warning
,
with
so
sharpe
and
shrill
a
sound
,
as
may
penetrate
into
the
deafest
hart
.
For
the
Auditors
of
that
sermon
became
Preachers
in
their
death
,
crying
vnto
all
men
,
BE
READY
FOR
GOD
IN
EVERY
PLACE
,
AT
EVERY
MOMENT
,
who
will
come
when
men
least
think
:
This
is
ours
,
to
morow
will
be
your
dying
day
:
in
this
dolefull
cry
we
must
breath
out
our
soule
that
the
wholsome
sound
thereof
MAY
NEVER
DYE
IN
YOVRS
.
This
accident
is
a
Triall
,
not
of
your
Fayth
(
which
being
built
on
the
Rocke
cannot
be
shaken
with
the
fall
a
roome
,
same
would
stand
,
though
Heauen
and
earth
should
passe
away
)
but
of
your
Charity
.
To
loue
Protestants
that
in
their
noble
and
courteous
disposition
,
pittyed
the
mischance
;
to
loue
those
worthy
Magistrates
that
being
in
authority
did
their
endeauour
to
shew
their
humanity
by
their
deedes
.
Euen
as
those
foure
renowned
Magistrats
of
the
Citty
of
Samaria
stood
against
the
immanity
of
their
brethren
that
would
haue
tyranized
vpon
them
they
had
taken
of
the
Tribe
of
Iuda
,
If
you
loue
them
that
loue
you
(
vpon
human
and
no
higher
behoofes
)
what
reward
shall
you
haue
?
But
to
respect
them
that
insult
vpon
you
,
to
requite
bitternes
with
loue
,
iniuryes
with
good
turnes
,
the
coales
of
charity
on
their
heades
,
that
cast
stones
of
cruelty
at
yours
,
This
is
the
patience
,
this
is
the
charity
of
Saynts
,
in
the
exercise
whereof
these
our
Saynts
dyed
.
For
the
pardoning
of
iniuries
,
the
rooting
reuenge
out
of
their
hart
was
the
Testament
&
last
will
they
made
vpon
earth
,
in
the
sermon
of
that
subiect
,
by
a
publick
Notary
,
according
to
the
authenticall
instrument
of
Gods
word
.
And
as
they
haue
left
you
the
heyres
of
their
Fayth
,
so
likewise
they
haue
made
you
the
executors
of
their
Will
:
neyther
can
you
do
them
any
greater
pleasure
,
then
to
pray
for
these
their
enemyes
and
yours
,
whom
for
their
part
in
that
their
last
will
they
did
aforehand
eternally
pardon
.
Excuse
this
their
zeale
with
all
kind
of
mild
interpretation
within
your
hart
;
Belieue
that
in
many
it
was
but
a
passion
in
the
heate
of
bloud
,
wherof
perchance
since
they
are
abashed
:
do
not
forget
to
alleadge
vnto
God
,
our
Sauiours
excuse
of
his
crucifiers
,
nesciunt
quid
faciunt
?
Consider
with
hope
that
they
may
happily
repent
:
call
to
mynd
the
sweet
saying
of
S.
Augustine
,
That
they
shall
neuer
enter
into
his
righteousnes
,
and
shall
be
blotted
out
of
the
booke
of
life
.
Seeke
with
teares
of
sorrow
and
earnest
intreaty
to
blot
out
this
sentence
agaynst
them
,
offer
vnto
God
your
bloud
(
if
need
be
)
to
be
shed
by
their
handes
,
for
the
inke
wherewith
to
write
their
names
amongst
the
saued
.
O
that
there
were
a
Moyses
now
vpon
earth
,
so
gracious
with
God
,
so
charitable
towardes
these
men
,
that
he
might
and
would
effectually
say
,
Lord
●●●don
them
,
or
blot
me
out
of
the
Booke
of
Life
.
But
in
your
Charity
towardes
other
,
forget
not
the
per●ection
of
●our
owne
conscience
,
for
which
God
permitted
this
accident
,
to
giue
you
an
occasion
to
increase
〈◊〉
mortification
&
pennance
.
rent
in
peeces
his
〈…〉
and
●ate
in
sacke-cl●●n
and
ashes
,
so
take
you
hold
of
〈…〉
to
cast
away
from
you
such
need●esse
vanitye
〈◊〉
●he
choyce
of
you●●art
,
but
the
〈◊〉
of
tyme
hath
put
vpon
you
.
●f
God
,
so
that
,
they
that
are
of
his
household
,
his
seruants
▪
his
Saynts
must
nyther
themselues
mortify
●nd
chasti●●●●eir
desires
of
worldly
content
,
or
th●●●
expect
punishment
&
restrain●●
from
Gods
heau●e●●●nde
.
If
we
did
iudge
our selues
sayth
S.
Paul●
we
shoul●●ot
be
iudged
●●d
when
we
are
iudged
we
are
chastized
of
God
,
〈◊〉
with
the
world
we
be
not
damned
.
For
the
heauenly
Father
a●
he
loueth
you
,
so
is
he
iealous
of
you
:
he
will
〈◊〉
let
you
liue
without
a
Crosse
to
puis●e
you
,
that
your
Loue
may
neuer
rest
vpon
earth
,
but
still
be
flying
towardes
him
and
your
true
country
.
Propitius
suit
eis
▪
vleiscens
in
〈◊〉
affectiones
eorum
,
as
S.
Augustine
reade
,
He
was
●●●●ull
vnto
them
,
taking
reuenge
of
their
affections
vnto
life
,
by
t●●
crosse
of
contradictious
people
,
who
made
life
a
torment
vnt●●hem
.
You
haue
more
need
of
admonitions
in
this
kind
now
●hen
before
,
as
you
stande
now
in
greater
danger
〈…〉
his
life
▪
which
some
mitigation
of
troubles
had
●●de
lest●
bitter
.
The
safe
ariuall
of
your
Hopefull
●o●●●●●●ed
Pr●nce
deliuered
from
the
daungers
of
sea
,
〈◊〉
〈…〉
of
con●ent
,
wherein
though
you
were
in
〈…〉
Dutifull
and
Diuine
●spects
,
yet
i●
〈…〉
Nature
many
tymes
hath
secretly
a
part
.
And
if
he●●●
your
mortall
flesh
ouerdesirous
of
ease
from
persecution
made
you
sicke
of
a
Plurisy
of
Ioy
,
you
see
the
carefull
hand
of
our
heauenly
Surgeon
comes
in
tyme
to
let
you
bloud
.
Finally
God
permitted
this
accident
,
to
be
a
presage
of
your
approaching
Comfort
,
&
of
the
speedy
ouerthrow
of
your
hoater
Aduersaries
:
Their
ouerthrow
I
meane
in
their
errour
,
and
heresy
,
not
in
the
life
of
their
bodyes
,
which
we
desire
may
not
be
shortned
,
but
runne
out
,
according
to
the
full
length
of
Natures
race
and
Gods
holy
will
.
You
may
remember
the
examples
of
former
Heresies
I
brought
in
the
second
Chapter
,
that
dauncing
for
ioy
at
the
mishap
of
Catholikes
,
Perijt
memoria
eorum
cum
sonitu
,
their
memory
shall
perish
with
an
empty
sound
of
exultation
and
ioy
.
Such
also
shal
be
the
Conclusion
of
the
last
Infidelity
in
the
end
of
the
world
,
to
wit
,
that
of
Antichrist
.
When
the
two
Prophets
shal
be
slayne
,
and
their
bodyes
ly
a
bloudy
spectacle
in
the
streetes
,
then
shall
his
followers
exult
and
triumph
.
Gaudebunt
super
illos
(
sayth
the
Scripture
)
&
iucundabuntur
,
&
munera
mittent
inuicem
,
ante
ruinam
exaltatur
spiritus
.
by
the
breath
our
Sauiours
mouth
,
shall
be
blowne
out
,
and
they
conuerted
to
giue
glory
vnto
the
God
of
Heauen
.
And
as
vayne
and
empty
ioy
is
the
Presage
of
the
ruine
of
Heresy
,
that
the
same
will
soone
vanish
out
of
their
harts
;
so
likewise
affliction
sent
on
Gods
seruants
by
him
,
is
the
harbinger
of
Comfort
,
that
according
to
the
prognostication
of
Saynts
,
the
surest
presage
of
a
fayre
Day
is
a
misty
Morning
,
as
doth
signify
the
Prophet
Amos.
For
hauing
foretold
a
great
affliction
that
God
would
send
vpon
his
people
,
straight
added
these
comfortable
wordes
,
wherwith
I
will
conclude
this
Word
of
Comfort
.
Postquam
haec
fecerit
tibi
,
praeparare
in
occursum
Dei
tui
O
Israel
,
quia
ecce
faciens
nebulam
matutinam
:
When
he
hath
layd
this
affliction
vpon
thee
,
then
O
Israel
,
make
thy selfe
ready
to
go
meete
thy
God
,
for
behold
he
makes
a
mist
in
the
morning
:
as
one
should
say
,
when
you
see
a
mist
of
affliction
in
the
morning
,
then
prepare
your selfe
for
the
fayre
and
lightsome
day
of
comfort
.
We
now
are
in
the
mist
of
sorrow
and
affliction
for
this
mischance
,
that
hath
cast
a
mist
of
new
darkenes
and
ignorance
ouer
the
eyes
of
some
,
which
the
light
of
truth
ioyned
with
the
burning
flames
of
your
charity
and
mercy
,
and
also
with
the
shining
beames
of
humility
and
mildnes
,
may
soone
dissolue
.
And
these
Innocents
that
dyed
in
this
so
pious
exercise
of
Religion
,
will
be
your
Aduocats
with
God
,
your
Aduocats
with
men
;
they
will
pleade
your
cause
in
Heauen
,
they
will
pleade
your
cause
on
earth
;
their
bloud
will
in
tyme
mollify
harts
as
hard
as
Dyamond
:
The
voyce
of
their
bloud
hauing
a
better
cry
then
that
of
Abell
,
FINIS