Grace
mercy
and
peace
from
God
the
Father
of
oure
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
/
with
the
perpetual
conforte
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
with
you
for
euer
and
euer
.
So
be
it
.
HAuynge
no
lesse
desyre
to
comforte
suche
as
now
be
in
trouble
within
the
realme
of
Englande
,
(
and
spe
cially
you
for
many
cause●…
moste
deare
to
me
)
then
hath
the
natural
father
to
ease
the
grief
&
payne
of
his
dearest
childe
,
I
haue
conside
red
with
my selfe
,
what
argument
or
parcel
of
Goddes
Scriptures
,
was
moste
conueuient
and
mete
to
be
en
treated
for
your
consolation
in
these
moste
darck
and
dolorous
dayes
.
And
so
,
as
for
the
same
purpose
I
was
turnyng
my
boke
,
I
chaunsed
to
se
a
note
in
the
Margine
written
thus
in
Latyn
:
Videat
Anglia
.
Let
Englande
beware
.
Which
note
when
I
had
considered
,
I
founde
that
the
matter
written
in
my
boke
in
Latin
was
this
:
Seldome
it
is
that
God
worketh
This
note
was
made
vpon
a
place
of
Scripture
written
in
the
fourtenth
Chapter
of
S.
Mathewes
.
Which
place
declareth
:
that
after
Christ
Iesus
had
vsed
the
Apost
les
as
ministers
and
seruauntes
,
to
fede
(
as
it
had
ben
by
their
handes
)
fyue
thousand
men
beside
women
&
children
,
with
fiue
Barley
●…ues
and
two
fisshes
.
He
sent
them
to
the
sea
,
It
shal
not
be
necessary
to
entreat
the
texte
worde
by
worde
,
but
of
the
hole
summe
to
gather
certaine
notes
&
obseruations
(
which
shal
not
farre
disagre
from
the
estate
of
these
daies
)
it
shal
be
sufficient
.
And
first
it
is
to
be
obserued
,
that
after
this
●…reat
miracle
that
Christ
It
is
not
to
be
iudged
that
the
Why
Christ
remoued
and
sent
awaye
from
him
the
people
,
the
Euangelist
S.
John
declareth
,
saying
:
when
Iesus
knewe
that
they
were
Why
the
disciples
should
suffre
that
great
daunger
,
feare
&
anguishe
.
S.
Marke
in
his
Gospel
.
plainly
sheweth
,
saying
:
that
theyr
hertes
wer
When
I
depely
consider
(
dearly
beloued
in
our
Sauiour
Christ
)
how
aboundauntly
and
how
miraculouslye
the
poore
&
smale
flocke
of
Christe
Iesus
was
fedde
within
the
realme
of
Englande
vnder
that
electe
&
chosen
vessel
of
God
to
glorye
&
honour
Edward
the
sixte
:
and
nowe
againe
be
holde
not
only
the
dispersion
and
scattering
abrode
,
but
also
the
apperinge
destruccion
of
the
same
,
vnder
these
cursed
,
cruel
and
abhominable
Idolatrers
,
me
thinke
I
se
the
same
causes
to
haue
moued
God
,
not
only
to
withdrawe
his
presence
from
the
multitude
,
but
also
to
haue
sent
his
welbeloued
seruauntes
to
the
trauels
of
the
Seas
,
wherin
they
are
sore
tossed
and
turmoylled
,
and
appearantly
moste
lyke
to
perishe
.
What
were
the
affeccions
of
the
greatest
multitude
that
folowed
the
Gospel
in
this
former
reste
&
abundaunce
,
is
easy
to
be
iudged
,
yf
the
lyfe
and
conuersation
of
euery
man
should
haue
bene
throughlye
examined
.
I
meane
nothinge
of
those
the
folowed
And
therfore
God
iustly
permitteth
that
they
blaspheme
the
truthe
,
whiche
they
neuer
loued
.
I
meane
not
that
euer
suche
dissemblinge
hypocrites
shal
imbrace
the
veritie
,
but
I
meane
of
suche
as
by
infirmitie
of
the
fleshe
and
by
natural
blyndnesse
(
which
in
this
lyfe
is
neuer
al
together
expelled
)
then
coulde
not
geue
the
very
obedience
,
which
Goddes
worde
required
,
neither
nowe
by
weaknes
of
faith
dare
openly
&
bold
ly
confesse
that
,
which
their
hertes
knowe
to
be
moste
true
,
and
yet
lamenteth
and
mourneth
both
for
the
imperfection
by
passed
and
present
.
From
suche
shal
not
the
amiable
pre
sence
of
Christe
Iesus
for
euer
be
The
Ministers
who
were
the
distributours
of
this
bread
(
the
true
worde
of
God
)
wherwith
the
multi
tude
within
Englande
was
fedde
,
lacked
not
their
offences
,
which
also
moued
God
to
sende
vs
to
the
sea
.
And
because
the
offences
of
no
man
are
so
manifest
vnto
me
as
are
myne
owne
,
only
of
my selfe
I
wyl
be
th
accusoure
.
It
is
not
vnknowen
vnto
many
,
that
I
(
the
moste
wretched
)
was
one
of
that
nombre
,
whom
God
appointed
to
receaue
that
bread
(
as
it
was
broken
by
Christ
Iesus
)
to
distribute
and
geue
the
same
to
suche
as
he
had
called
to
this
banket
,
in
that
parte
of
his
table
where
he
appointed
me
to
serue
.
It
is
not
in
my
knowlege
nor
iudgement
to
define
nor
determine
what
porcion
or
quantitie
euery
man
receaued
of
this
breade
,
neither
yet
howe
that
whiche
they
receaued
agreed
with
their
stomackes
.
But
of
this
I
am
assured
,
that
the
benediccion
of
Christ
Iesus
so
multiplied
the
porcion
that
I
receyued
of
his
handes
,
that
duryng
that
banket
(
this
I
writte
to
the
prayse
of
his
name
,
and
to
the
accusacion
of
myne
owne
vnthankfulnes
)
the
bread
neuer
failed
,
when
the
hongry
soule
craued
or
cryed
for
foode
,
and
at
the
ende
of
the
banket
,
myne
owne
conscicnce
beareth
wytnesse
,
that
my
handes
gathered
vp
the
crummes
that
were
lefte
in
suche
abundaunce
,
that
my
basket
was
ful
amonge
the
reste
.
To
be
playne
,
myne
owne
conscience
beareth
recorde
to
my selfe
,
how
But
alasse
,
howe
blynded
was
my
herte
,
and
howe
litle
I
dyd
consyder
the
dignitie
of
that
office
;
and
the
power
of
God
that
then
multiplied
and
blessed
the
bread
whiche
the
people
receaued
of
my
handes
,
this
daye
myne
owne
conscience
beareth
witnesse
to
my selfe
.
God
I
take
to
recorde
in
my
conscience
,
that
I
delyuered
the
same
bread
that
I
receaued
of
Christes
handes
,
&
that
I
mixed
no
poison
with
the
same
,
that
is
:
I
teached
Christes
Gospel
without
any
mixture
of
mennes
dreames
,
deuises
,
or
phantasies
.
But
Alasse
I
dyd
it
nat
with
suche
feruencie
,
with
suche
indifferency
,
&
with
suche
diligence
,
as
this
day
I
know
my
dutye
was
to
haue
done
.
Some
complained
in
those
dayes
,
that
the
preachers
were
vndiscrete
persones
(
yea
and
some
called
them
raylers
and
worse
)
because
they
spake
against
the
manifest
iniquitie
of
men
,
and
especially
of
those
that
then
were
placed
in
authoritie
aswel
in
the
courte
,
as
in
other
offices
vniuersally
throughout
the
realme
both
in
cities
,
townes
and
villages
.
And
amonge
other
paraduenture
my
rude
plainnesse
displeased
some
,
who
did
complaine
,
that
rasshly
I
dyd
speake
of
mennes
fautes
,
so
that
al
men
myght
knowe
and
perceaue
of
whom
I
ment
.
But
alasse
,
this
daye
my
conscience
accuseth
me
,
that
I
spake
not
so
plainly
as
my
dutie
was
to
haue
done
.
For
I
ought
to
haue
said
to
the
wicked
man
expressedlye
by
his
name
:
Thou
shalt
dye
the
death
.
For
I
fynde
Ieremye
the
prophete
As
I
was
not
so
feruent
in
rebu
〈◊〉
,
remaining
in
one
place
I
was
not
so
diligent
as
myn
office
required
,
but
sometyme
by
of
carnal
frendes
I
spared
the
bodye
:
some
tyme
I
spent
in
worldlye
busynesse
of
particuler
frendes
,
and
somtyme
in
takyng
recreacion
&
pastyme
by
exercise
of
the
body
.
And
albeit
men
may
iudge
these
And
besyde
these
I
was
assaulted
,
yea
infected
and
corrupted
with
more
grosse
sinnes
.
That
is
,
my
wicked
nature
desyred
the
fauours
,
the
estimacion
and
prayse
of
men
,
against
whiche
albeit
that
somtime
the
spirite
of
God
dyd
moue
me
to
fyght
,
&
earnestly
dyd
stirre
me
(
God
know
eth
I
lye
not
)
to
sobbe
and
lament
for
those
imperfeccions
,
yet
neuer
ceassed
O
Lorde
be
merciful
to
my
great
Thinke
not
beloued
of
the
Lorde
,
that
thus
I
accuse
my selfe
without
iuste
cause
,
as
though
in
so
doynge
I
myght
appere
more
holy
,
or
that
yet
I
do
it
of
purpose
and
intent
by
occasion
therof
to
accuse
other
of
my
brethren
the
true
preachers
of
Christ
of
lyke
or
of
greater
offences
.
●…o
,
God
is
iudge
to
my
conscience
,
that
●…do
it
euen
from
an
vnfayned
and
sore
troubled
herte
,
as
I
that
knowe
my selfe
greuously
to
haue
offended
the
maiestie
of
my
God
,
duryng
the
tyme
that
Christes
Gospel
had
free
passage
in
Englande
.
And
this
I
do
to
let
you
vnderstande
,
that
the
ta
king
awaye
of
the
heauenly
breade
,
The
seconde
thyng
,
that
I
synd
In
saint
Mathewes
Gospel
it
But
profitable
it
shal
be
,
and
somwhat
to
our
comforte
to
consyder
euery
parcel
of
their
daunger
.
And
first
ye
shal
vnderstande
,
that
when
Secondly
,
it
is
to
be
marked
,
by
what
meanes
and
instrumentes
was
this
great
storme
moued
.
Was
the
plunging
of
their
oores
and
force
of
their
smale
bote
suche
as
myght
●…tir
re
the
waues
of
that
great
sea
?
〈◊〉
doutlesse
.
But
the
holy
ghost
declareth
that
the
Seas
were
moued
by
a
And
last
,
it
is
to
be
noted
and
considered
what
the
disciples
dyd
in
all
this
vehement
tempest
.
Truely
they
turned
not
back
to
be
dryuen
on
forlande
or
shore
by
the
vehemency
of
that
contrary
wynde
,
for
so
it
might
be
thought
,
that
they
could
not
haue
escaped
shipwracke
and
death
.
But
they
continuallye
laboured
in
rowyng
against
the
wynde
,
abyding
the
Consider
and
marke
beloued
in
the
Lord
,
what
we
rede
here
to
haue
chaunsed
to
Christes
disciples
,
and
to
their
poore
bote
.
And
you
shal
wel
perceaue
,
that
the
same
thynge
hath
chaunsed
,
dothe
and
shal
chaunse
to
the
true
churche
and
congregacion
of
Christe
(
whiche
is
nothing
els
in
this
miserable
lyfe
but
a
poore
bote
)
trauelyng
in
the
Seas
of
this
vnsta
ble
and
troublesome
world
,
towarde
the
heauenly
porte
and
hauen
of
eternal
felicitie
.
Which
Christ
Iesus
to
his
electe
hath
appointed
.
This
myght
I
proue
by
the
posterite
of
Iacob
in
Egipte
,
by
the
Is
raelites
in
their
captiuitie
,
&
by
the
churche
duryng
the
tyme
that
Christ
him selfe
dyd
preache
(
and
somryme
after
his
Resurreccion
and
Ascension
)
againste
whome
the
vehement
storme
dyd
not
rage
immediatly
after
they
entred
into
the
bote
of
their
Euen
so
moste
dearly
beloued
is
happened
nowe
to
the
afflicted
churche
of
God
within
the
realme
of
En
glande
.
At
al
tymes
the
true
word
of
God
suffred
contradiccion
and
repugnauncie
.
And
so
the
wynde
blewe
against
vs
euen
from
the
beginning
of
the
late
vpspryng
of
the
Gospel
in
England
,
but
yet
it
could
not
stoppe
our
course
tyl
nowe
of
late
dayes
,
that
the
ragynge
wynde
bloweth
without
briddel
vpon
the
vnstable
Seas
,
in
the
myddest
wherof
we
are
in
this
houre
of
darcknesse
.
To
wryt
my
minde
plainly
vnto
you
beloued
brethren
.
This
wynde
that
alwayes
hath
blowen
againste
the
Churche
of
God
,
is
the
malice
&
hatred
of
the
deuel
which
rightly
in
this
case
is
compared
to
the
wynde
.
For
as
the
wynde
is
inuisible
&
What
the
deuel
and
his
membres
.
the
pestilent
Papistes
ment
by
his
a
waye
takinge
,
God
compelled
my
tounge
to
speake
in
mo
places
then
one
.
And
specially
before
you
,
and
in
the
newe
Castle
,
as
syr
Robert
Brad
linge
dyd
not
forget
of
long
tyme
after
.
God
graunt
that
he
maye
vnder
stande
al
other
maters
spoken
before
him
than
and
at
other
tymes
,
as
right
ly
as
he
dyd
that
myn
interpretacion
of
the
vyneyarde
,
whose
bedges
,
ditches
,
toures
&
wynepresse
God
destroyed
,
Transubstanciation
(
the
byrde
that
the
deuel
hatched
by
Pope
Nicolas
,
and
sythe
that
tyme
fostered
&
nurryshed
by
al
his
children
,
Prestes
,
Freres
,
Monkes
,
and
other
his
con
iured
and
sworne
souldiers
,
and
in
this
laste
dayes
chiefly
by
Stephen
Gardiner
and
his
blacke
broode
in
England
.
)
Transubstanciacion
(
I
saye
)
was
not
then
clearly
confuted
and
myghtely
ouerthrowen
.
And
ther
fore
God
put
wysedome
in
the
tounges
of
his
ministers
&
messengers
to
vtter
that
vayne
vanitie
.
And
specially
gaue
such
strength
to
the
penne
And
also
God
gaue
boldnesse
&
Then
dere
brethren
was
the
bote
in
the
myddes
of
the
sea
,
and
sodenly
Of
this
short
discourse
beloued
in
the
Lorde
,
you
maye
consyder
&
perceyue
two
special
notes
.
The
first
,
that
the
hole
malice
of
Let
no
man
wonder
thoughe
I
saye
that
the
crasty
policies
of
pestilent
Papistes
wrought
al
mischiefe
,
for
who
could
better
worke
mischief
,
then
suche
as
bore
authoritie
&
rule
.
And
who
I
pray
you
ruled
the
roste
in
the
courte
all
this
tyme
by
stoute
corage
and
proudnes
of
stomack
but
Northumberland
?
But
who
I
pray
you
vnder
kynge
Edwarde
ruled
al
by
counsel
and
wyt
?
Shall
I
name
A
chitophel
,
Sobna
,
and
Iudas
:
Of
whom
Why
permitted
so
godly
princes
To
the
which
I
answered
:
that
Sobna
..
For
of
And
Sobna
was
vnto
good
kynge
Was
Sauid
(
sayd
I
)
and
Ezechias
princes
of
great
and
godly
gif
tes
and
experience
,
abused
by
crafty
counsailers
and
dissemblyng
hypocrites
?
what
wonder
is
it
then
:
that
a
yonge
and
innocent
kinge
be
deceiued
by
craftye
,
couetouse
,
wycked
&
vngodly
counselours
?
I
am
greatly
afrayd
,
that
Achitophel
,
be
counsailer
that
Iudas
bear
the
purse
,
&
that
Sobna
This
&
somwhat
more
I
spake
that
daye
,
not
in
a
corner
(
as
many
yet
can
wytnesse
)
but
euen
before
those
whome
my
conscience
iudged
worthy
of
accusacion
.
And
this
daye
no
more
do
I
wryte
(
albeit
I
maye
iustly
because
they
haue
declared
them selues
more
manifestly
)
but
yet
do
I
affirme
;
that
vnder
that
innocent
Kinge
,
pestilent
Papistes
had
greatest
Albeit
the
tyrauntes
of
this
earth
haue
learned
by
longe
experience
,
that
they
are
neuer
able
to
preuaile
against
goddes
truth
,
yet
because
they
are
bounde
slaues
to
their
maistery
●deuel
,
they
can
not
ceasse
to
persecute
the
membres
of
Christ
,
when
the
deuel
This
I
wryt
that
you
shall
not
wonder
,
albeit
now
ye
se
the
poysoned
papistes
wic●…ed
Wynchester
,
&
dreaming
Duresme
with
the
rest
of
theyr
faction
(
who
somtymes
were
so
confounded
,
that
neither
they
durst
nor
could
spea●…e
nor
wryte
in
the
defence
of
their
heresies
)
nowe
so
to
ra
ge
and
triumphe
against
the
eternal
truth
of
God
,
as
though
they
had
ne
uer
assayed
the
power
of
God
spea●…ing
by
his
true
messengers
.
Wonder
not
here
at
(
I
saye
)
It
is
fearfull
to
be
herd
,
that
the
deuel
hath
such
power
ouer
any
man
,
but
yet
the
worde
of
God
hath
so
instructed
●…e
is
called
the
prince
of
darknes
,
that
hath
power
in
the
ayre
.
It
And
herein
dere
brethren
standeth
my
singuler
comforte
this
day
,
when
.
I
hear
that
those
bloudy
tyrauntes
within
the
realme
of
Englande
doth
kyl
,
murther
,
destroy
and
deuoure
man
and
woman
as
rauynous
.
●…yons
nowe
loused
from
bondes
.
I
lyft
vp
therfore
the
eyes
of
myne
herte
(
as
my
iniquitie
and
pre
sent
doloure
wil
suffer
)
&
to
my
heauenly
father
wyl
I
saye
:
O
Lorde
,
those
cruel
tyrauntes
When
I
fele
any
taste
or
mocion
of
these
promyses
,
then
thinke
I
my selfe
moste
happy
,
and
that
I
haue
receyued
a
iuste
compensacion
,
albe●…t
I
&
al
that
to
me
in
earth
belongeth
,
shulde
suffer
the
present
death
,
know
ynge
that
God
shal
yet
shewe
mercy
to
his
afflicted
churche
within
Eng
lande
,
and
that
he
shall
represse
the
pride
of
these
present
tyrauntes
,
lyke
as
he
hathe
done
of
those
that
were
before
our
dayes
.
And
therfore
beloued
brother
in
For
albeit
that
Christe
Iesus
be
absent
from
you
(
as
he
was
from
hys
disciples
in
that
great
storme
)
by
his
The
thyrd
watch
is
not
yet
ended
,
This
darre
I
be
bold
to
promese
in
the
name
of
hym
,
whose
eternal
veritie
and
gloriouse
gospel
ye
haue
harde
and
receaued
.
Who
also
putteth
in
to
myn
hert
an
earnest
thrist
(
God
knoweth
.
I
lye
not
)
of
your
sal
uacion
,
and
some
care
also
for
youre
bodies
,
which
nowe
I
wil
not
expresse
.
Thus
shortly
haue
I
passed
thorowe
the
outrages
tempest
,
wherin
the
disciples
of
Christe
were
tempted
,
after
that
the
great
multitude
were
by
Christe
fedde
in
the
deserte
.
Omit
tinge
many
profitable
notes
,
which
myght
wel
haue
bene
marcked
in
the
terte
,
because
my
purpose
is
at
this
present
not
to
be
tediouse
nor
yet
curiouse
,
but
onlie
to
note
such
thinges
,
as
be
aggreable
to
these
most
dolorouse
dayes
.
And
so
let
vs
nowe
speake
of
the
ende
of
this
storme
and
trouble
,
in
which
I
finde
foure
thinges
cheflye
to
be
noted
.
-
1.
Firste
,
that
the
disciples
at
the
pre
sence
of
Christe
were
more
affrayed
then
they
were
before
.
-
2.
Secondlye
,
that
Christe
vseth
no
other
instrument
but
his
worde
to
pacifie
their
hertes
.
-
3.
Thyrdlye
,
that
Peter
in
a
feruencie
firste
left
his
bote
,
and
yet
after
feared
.
-
4.
Last
,
that
Christe
permitted
neyther
Peter
nor
the
rest
of
his
disciples
to
perish
in
that
feare
,
but
gloriously
deliuered
al
,
and
pacified
the
tempeste
.
Theyr
greate
fear
and
the
cause
therof
are
expressed
in
the
texte
in
these
wordes
:
When
the
disciples
sawe
him
walking
vpon
the
sea
,
they
were
afrayed
sayinge
▪
that
he
was
a
spirite
.
And
they
cryed
thorowe
feare
.
It
is
not
my
purpose
in
this
treaties
to
speake
of
spirites
,
nor
yet
to
dispute
,
whether
spirites
good
or
bad
maye
appeare
and
trouble
men
:
neither
yet
to
inquire
,
why
mannes
natur
is
affrayed
for
spirites
,
and
so
vehementlie
abhorreth
their
presence
and
company
.
But
my
purpose
is
only
to
speake
of
thinges
necessarie
for
this
tyme
.
And
firste
let
vs
consyder
,
that
ther
was
thre
causes
,
why
the
disciples
knewe
not
Christe
,
but
iudged
him
to
be
a
spirite
.
The
first
cause
was
the
darknesse
of
the
nyght
.
The
second
was
the
vnaccustomed
vision
that
appeared
.
And
the
thirde
was
the
daunger
and
tempest
,
in
which
they
so
earnestly
labored
for
the
sauegard
of
their selues
.
The
darknesse
(
I
saye
)
of
the
nyght
letted
theyr
eyes
to
see
hym
:
And
it
was
aboue
nature
,
that
a
massye
,
heuy
and
weyghtie
body
of
a
man
(
suche
as
they
vnderstode
their
master
Christe
to
haue
)
shuld
walke
,
go
vpon
,
or
be
borne
vp
of
the
water
of
the
ragynge
sea
,
and
not
sincke
.
And
finally
the
horroure
of
the
tempest
and
greate
daunger
that
they
were
in
perswaded
them
to
loke
for
none
other
but
certaynly
to
be
drouned
.
And
so
al
these
thre
thinges
concur
rynge
together
confirmed
in
them
this
imaginacion
,
that
Christe
Iesus
,
who
came
to
theyr
greate
comforte
and
deliueraunce
,
was
a
fearfull
and
wicked
spirite
appearyng
to
their
What
here
chaunsed
to
Christe
Iesus
him self
,
that
I
myght
proue
to
haue
chaunsed
and
dayly
to
chaunce
to
the
veritie
of
his
blessed
worde
in
al
ages
from
the
begynnynge
.
For
as
Christe
hym self
in
this
their
trouble
,
was
iudged
and
estemed
by
his
disciples
at
the
firste
syght
a
spirite
or
phantastical
body
:
so
is
the
truth
and
syncere
preachinge
of
his
gloriouse
gospel
sent
by
God
for
mannes
most
comforte
,
delyueraunce
from
synn
,
and
quietnesse
of
conscience
,
whan
it
is
firste
offered
and
truly
preached
,
it
is
(
I
saye
)
no
lesse
but
iudged
to
be
heresye
and
disceauable
doctrine
,
sent
by
the
deuel
to
mannes
destruccion
.
The
cause
herof
is
the
darke
ignoraunce
of
God
,
which
in
euery
ag●…
syth
the
beginnyng
so
ouer
whelmed
the
worlde
,
that
sometymes
Goddes
veray
electe
were
in
lyke
blyndnes
and
erroure
with
the
reprobate
:
As
Abraham
was
an
idolatrare
The
chefe
note
that
I
wold
haue
The
more
nyghe
deliuerance
and
The
lyfe
is
to
be
seen
in
the
bofe
of
Kynges
,
both
vnder
Eliseus
and
Esaias
the
Prophetes
.
For
in
the
dayes
of
Ioram
sonne
of
Achab
was
Samaria
beseged
by
the
king
of
Sy
The
lyke
is
redde
of
Ezechias
,
who
defending
his
citie
Ierusalem
,
and
resisting
proude
Sennacheryb
.
No
doute
obeying
the
counsel
of
Esaias
,
at
length
was
so
oppressed
with
sorowe
and
shame
,
by
the
blasphemouse
By
these
and
many
histories
mo
,
it
is
moste
euident
,
that
the
more
nigh
saluacion
and
deliueraunce
approcheth
,
the
more
vehement
is
the
tem
tacion
and
trouble
.
This
I
writ
to
admonishe
you
,
that
albeit
yet
you
shal
se
tribulacion
so
abounde
,
that
nothing
shal
appere
but
extreme
misery
without
al
hope
of
comforte
:
that
yet
ye
declyne
not
from
God
.
And
that
albeit
somtymes
ye
be
moued
to
hate
the
messengers
of
lyfe
,
that
therfore
you
shal
not
iudge
that
God
wyl
neuer
shewe
mercy
after
.
No
dere
brethren
,
as
he
hathe
entreated
other
before
you
,
so
wil
he
do
you
.
God
wyll
suffer
tribulacion
and
dolour
abounde
,
that
no
maner
of
con
●…e
drowned
Pharao
and
his
ar
But
yet
peraduenture
you
wonder
not
a
lytle
why
God
permitteth
suche
bloud
thristye
tyrauntes
to
mo
lest
and
greue
his
chosen
Church
:
I
haue
recited
some
causes
before
,
and
yet
mo
I
could
recite
,
but
at
this
tyme
I
wyl
holde
me
content
with
one
.
The
iustice
of
God
is
suche
,
that
Iesabel
and
Athalia
were
not
Yf
Steuen
Gardiner
,
Cuthbert
I
fynde
that
Athalia
through
appetite
to
raigne
murthered
the
seed
of
the
kynges
of
Iuda
.
I
fynde
that
Iesabel
that
cursed
Idolatres
caused
the
bloud
of
the
But
you
Papistes
wyl
excuse
your
Marye
the
virgine
,
wel
,
let
her
be
Fyrst
her
〈◊〉
and
proclamacion
dyd
signifie
&
declare
,
that
neither
she
would
〈◊〉
in
,
neither
yet
mar●…
any
straunger
,
〈◊〉
and
●…uffolke
and
the
cytie
of
London
doth
testifie
and
wytnesse
the
same
.
The
auncient
lawes
and
actes
of
par
liament
pronounceth
it
treason
to
transferre
the
crowne
of
Englande
into
the
handes
of
a
forreyn
nacion
.
And
the
othe
made
to
obserue
the
sayd
statutes
cryeth
out
,
that
al
they
are
periured
that
consent
to
that
her
traitorous
facte
,
●…peake
now
(
O
ye
Papistes
)
&
defende
your
monstrous
maistres
,
and
deny
yf
ye
can
for
shame
,
that
she
hath
not
vttered
her self
to
be
borne
(
Alasse
therfore
)
to
the
ru
yne
and
destruccion
of
noble
Englande
.
Oh
who
would
euer
haue
beleued
(
I
wryt
nowe
in
bytternesse
of
herte
)
that
suche
vnnatural
crueltie
should
haue
had
dominion
ouer
any
reasonable
creature
?
But
the
saying
Who
would
euer
haue
thought
,
that
the
loue
of
that
realme
,
whiche
hath
brought
forth
,
which
hath
nurryshed
&
so
noblye
mayntayned
that
wicked
woman
,
should
not
〈◊〉
haue
moued
her
herte
with
〈◊〉
.
Who
seeth
not
nowe
,
that
she
in
all
And
who
euer
could
haue
beleued
that
gloriouse
Gardener
and
trecherouse
Tunstal
(
whome
al
papistes
praysed
:
for
the
loue
they
bare
to
theyr
countrey
)
could
haue
become
so
manifest
traytoures
,
that
not
only
agaynst
theyr
solemne
othes
,
that
they
shuld
neuer
consent
nor
agre
vnto
:
that
a
foren
straunger
shuld
raygne
ouer
England
,
but
also
that
they
wold
adiudge
the
Imperial
croune
of
the
same
to
appertayn
to
a
Spaniarde
by
Enheritaunce
and
lyneal
dissent
?
O
traytours
traytours
,
how
can
yow
for
very
〈◊〉
shewe
youre
faces
?
It
commeth
to
my
mynde
vpon
Christemas
daye
in
the
yere
of
oure
lorde
.
1552.
preachinge
in
new
Castle
vpon
tyne
,
and
speakinge
agaynste
the
obstinacie
of
the
papistes
,
I
made
this
affirmacion
.
That
who
so
ouer
in
his
herte
was
enemie
to
Christes
gospel
and
doctrine
,
which
then
was
preached
within
the
realme
of
Englande
,
was
enemy
also
to
God
,
and
secrete
traytours
to
the
croune
and
common
wealth
of
Englande
.
For
as
they
thristed
nothinge
more
than
the
Kinges
death
,
which
their
iniquitie
wolde
procure
,
so
they
regarded
not
who
shuld
raign
ouer
them
,
so
that
their
idolatrie
myght
be
erected
agayn
.
Howe
these
my
wordes
at
that
tyme
pleased
men
,
the
crymes
And
therfore
as
they
founde
and
iudged
by
the
progeny
of
Antichriste
,
most
apte
instrumentes
to
maynteyn
establysh
and
defende
,
the
Kingdom
But
O
thou
beast
,
I
speake
to
y●
Thou
art
brother
to
Cayn
,
and
felowe
to
Iudas
the
traitour
,
and
therfore
canst
thou
do
nothinge
,
but
thrist
the
bloude
of
Abel
,
and
betraye
Christe
Iesus
&
his
eternall
veritie
.
But
thus
deare
brether
must
the
sonnes
of
the
deuel
declare
their
The
instrumente
and
meane
wherwith
Christe
Iesus
vsed
to
remoue
and
put
awaye
the
horrible
feare
and
Anguysshe
of
his
disciples
,
is
his
only
worde
.
For
so
is
it
written
:
But
by
and
by
Iesus
spake
vnto
them
sayinge
:
Be
of
good
comforte
.
It
is
I.
Benot
affrayed
.
The
natural
man
(
that
can
not
vnderstand
the
pouer
of
God
)
wold
haue
desyred
somme
other
presente
comforte
in
so
greate
a
daungere
:
As
either
to
haue
had
the
heauens
to
haue
opened
,
and
to
haue
shewed
vnto
them
such
light
in
that
darknesse
,
that
Christe
myght
haue
bene
fully
knowen
by
his
own
facc
:
or
els
that
the
wyndes
and
ragyng
waues
of
the
scas
soddenly
shuld
haue
ceased
:
or
some
other
miracle
,
that
had
bene
subiecte
to
al
their
senses
,
wherby
they
myght
haue
perfitly
knowen
,
that
,
they
were
delyuered
from
al
daunger
.
And
truly
,
equall
it
had
bene
to
Christe
.
Iesus
to
haue
done
any
of
these
(
or
any
worke
greatter
)
as
to
haue
sayd
:
It
is
I.
Be
not
affrayed
.
But
willyng
to
teach
vs
the
dignitie
and
effectual
power
of
his
most
holy
word
he
vseth
no
other
in
strument
to
pacifie
the
great
&
horrible
feare
of
his
disciples
but
the
same
his
confortable
worde
&
liuely
voyce
.
And
this
is
not
done
only
at
one
tyme
,
but
whan
so
euer
his
churche
is
in
such
straite
perplexite
that
nothing
appeareth
To
Abraham
was
geuen
no
other
The
same
we
find
of
Isaac
,
who
fliynge
from
the
place
of
his
In
al
the
iorneyes
and
temptacions
of
Iacob
,
the
same
is
to
be
espied
:
This
same
expostulacion
of
Moses
declareth
how
sore
he
was
tempted
,
yea
and
what
opinion
he
had
conceaued
of
God
,
that
is
:
that
God
was
eyther
impotente
and
could
not
delyuer
his
people
from
such
a
tyrauntes
handes
,
or
els
,
that
he
was
mutable
and
vniuste
of
his
promyses
.
And
this
same
and
sorer
temptacions
assaulted
the
people
.
For
in
Anguisshe
of
herte
they
both
refused
God
and
Moses
(
as
we
before
haue
partely
touched
)
And
what
meanes
vsed
God
,
to
comforte
them
in
that
greate
extremitie
?
Dyd
he
strayght
waye
soddenly
kil
Pharao
,
the
great
tyraunte
?
No.
Dyd
he
send
them
a
legion
of
Aungels
te
defend
and
delyuer
them
?
No
such
thynge
.
But
he
only
recyteth
and
beateth
in
to
their
eares
his
former
promises
to
them
,
which
oftentymes
they
had
before
.
And
yet
the
rehersal
of
the
same
wrought
so
mightely
in
the
hert
of
Moses
,
that
not
only
was
bitternes
and
desperacion
remoued
away
,
but
also
he
was
inflamed
with
such
boldnesse
,
that
without
feare
he
went
agayne
to
the
presence
of
the
kynge
,
after
he
had
bene
threatened
and
repulsed
by
hym
.
This
I
writte
,
beloued
in
the
lorde
,
that
ye
knowynge
the
worde
of
Remembre
brethren
,
that
Goddes
Marke
well
dere
brethren
,
before
that
Christe
spake
,
his
disciples
iudged
hym
to
haue
bene
some
wycked
spirite
,
which
was
to
them
no
delectable
sauoure
:
But
when
he
speaketh
,
the
swete
odoure
of
his
voyce
pearseth
their
heartes
.
For
what
conforte
was
in
the
heartes
of
the
disciples
,
when
they
herde
these
wordes
:
Be
of
good
comforte
,
it
is
I.
That
is
:
Iudge
not
that
I
am
a
spirite
come
to
your
destruccion
,
●…o
.
I
am
come
for
your
delyueraunce
.
It
is
I.
Youre
maister
,
yea
your
maister
most
familiar
.
It
is
I
,
whose
voyce
and
doctrine
you
knowe
,
for
ye
are
my
shepe
.
It
is
I
,
whose
workes
you
haue
sene
,
although
perfytly
ye
consydered
not
the
same
.
It
is
I
,
who
commaunded
you
to
entre
into
this
iourney
,
What
comforte
(
I
say
)
deare
brethren
,
was
in
the
hertes
of
the
disciples
,
hearing
Christes
voice
,
&
●…
ynge
hym
by
the
same
,
can
neither
the
tounge
nor
penne
of
man
expresse
,
but
onely
suche
as
aster
longe
conflicte
and
stryfe
(
whiche
is
betwixte
the
fleshe
and
the
spirite
,
in
the
tyme
of
extreme
troubles
,
when
Christ
appereth
to
be
absent
)
feleth
at
laste
the
consolation
of
the
holy
ghost
,
can
wytnesse
and
declare
.
And
Peter
geueth
some
external
signe
,
what
Christes
wordes
wrought
inwardly
in
his
herte
.
For
immediatly
after
he
heard
his
masters
voice
,
he
sayeth
:
Lorde
,
yf
it
be
thou
,
Commaunde
me
to
come
vnto
the
vpon
the
waters
.
Here
maye
be
sene
,
what
Christes
voyce
had
wrought
in
Peters
herte
,
truely
not
onlye
a
forgettynge
and
contempt
of
the
greate
tempeste
,
but
also
suche
boldenesse
and
loue
,
that
he
coulde
feare
no
daunger
folowyng
,
but
assuredly
dyd
beleue
,
that
his
maister
Christes
puissaunce
,
power
and
myghte
was
suche
,
that
nothyng
myght
resiste
his
worde
and
commandement
,
and
therfore
he
sayeth
:
Commaunde
me
to
come
.
As
thoughe
he
woulde
Thus
Christe
to
instructe
Peter
further
,
and
vs
by
his
example
condescended
vnto
his
petition
.
And
con
maunded
him
to
come
.
And
Peter
quickly
leauyng
the
bote
,
came
downe
from
it
and
walked
vpon
the
waters
,
to
come
to
Christe
.
Thus
farre
of
Pe
ters
facte
,
in
whyche
lyeth
great
aboundaunce
of
doctrine
,
but
I
will
passe
ouer
al
that
especially
appertaineth
not
to
the
qualitie
of
this
time
within
the
realme
of
Englande
.
Before
it
is
sayd
welbeloued
brethrē
,
that
somtymes
the
messengers
of
lyfe
are
iudged
to
be
very
messengers
of
death
,
&
that
not
onely
with
the
reprobate
,
but
also
with
goddes
electe
.
As
was
Moses
with
the
Israelites
.
Ieremie
with
the
citie
of
Ierusalem
,
and
Christe
him selfe
with
his
apostles
.
But
that
is
not
a
synne
permanent
and
that
abydeth
for
euer
The
one
obeyeth
God
speaking
The
other
alwayes
resysteth
god
des
messengers
,
&
hateth
his
worde
.
And
therfore
in
their
great
aduersitie
God
either
taketh
from
them
the
presence
of
his
worde
,
or
els
they
fal
into
so
deadly
desperacion
,
that
although
goddes
messengers
be
sente
vnto
them
,
yet
neyther
can
they
receaue
comforte
by
Goddes
promyses
,
neyther
folowe
the
counsel
of
god
des
true
messengers
,
be
it
neuer
so
perfite
and
frutful
.
Hereof
haue
we
many
euident
testimonies
within
the
scriptures
of
God
.
Of
Saul
it
is
plaine
that
God
To
Ahas
kynge
of
Iuda
in
his
great
anguyshe
and
feare
,
whiche
he
had
concey●…ed
by
the
multitude
of
those
that
were
con●…ured
against
hym
,
was
sent
Esay
the
Prophet
to
And
albeit
God
kept
touch
with
that
hipocrite
for
that
tyme
(
whiche
The
lyke
we
rede
of
Zedechias
the
wretched
and
laste
kynge
of
Iuda
,
before
the
destruccion
of
the
citie
of
Ierusalem
,
who
in
his
great
fear
and
extreme
anguyshe
sente
for
Iere
mie
the
prophet
,
and
secretly
demaun
ded
of
him
howe
he
myght
escape
After
that
the
cytie
of
Ierusalem
Thou
speakest
a
lye
,
neither
hath
the
Lorde
our
God
sente
thee
vnto
vs
,
commaundyng
that
we
●…ere
maye
be
espied
in
this
peo
In
wrytinge
hereof
it
came
to
mynde
,
that
after
the
death
of
that
in
nocent
and
moste
godlye
kynge
Edwarde
the
sixte
,
whyle
that
great
tu
multe
was
in
Englande
for
the
esta
blysshyng
of
that
moste
vnhappye
&
wycked
womans
authoritie
(
I
mean
of
her
that
nowe
raigneth
in
Goddes
wrath
)
entreatinge
the
same
argument
in
a
towne
in
Buckingham
shyre
named
●…ammershame
before
a
great
congregacion
with
sorowful
This
and
muche
more
in
the
doloure
of
myne
herte
that
daye
in
audience
of
suche
as
yet
maye
beare
recorde
,
God
wolde
that
I
should
pro
nounce
.
The
thynge
that
I
then
most
feared
,
and
whiche
also
my
tounge
spake
(
that
is
:
the
subuercion
of
the
true
religion
,
and
bryngynge
in
of
straungers
to
raigne
ouer
that
realme
)
this
daye
I
se
come
to
passe
in
mennes
counsels
and
determinacions
.
Whyche
yf
they
procede
&
take
effecte
as
by
men
is
concluded
,
then
so
assuredlye
as
my
God
lyueth
,
and
as
those
Israelites
that
obstinatlye
retourned
into
Egypte
agayne
were
plaged
to
the
death
:
so
shall
Englande
taiste
what
the
Lord
hath
threatened
by
his
pro
God
for
his
great
mercies
sake
stirre
vp
some
Phinees
,
Helias
,
or
Iehu
,
that
the
bloude
of
abhominable
Idolaters
maye
pacifie
goddes
wrath
,
that
it
consume
not
the
hole
multitude
.
Amen
.
But
to
retourne
to
oure
matter
:
Of
the
premisses
it
is
plaine
,
that
But
lest
that
some
should
alledge
To
aunswer
to
this
obieccion
:
we
After
that
the
Israelites
hadde
The
lyke
puissaunce
and
vertue
of
Goddes
worde
workynge
in
a
●…ereoff
it
is
plain
that
many
wer
departed
from
hym
,
whom
he
feared
more
than
he
dyd
his
enemies
.
Many
mo
testimonies
myght
be
brought
,
to
declare
howe
myghtelye
Goddes
worde
spo●…en
by
man
,
hath
wrought
in
the
hertes
of
great
multitudes
.
●…s
in
the
hertes
of
the
●…iniuites
,
who
at
Ionas
preachinge
And
fyrste
,
that
Peter
seynge
a
myghty
winde
was
afrayed
,
and
so
,
when
he
began
to
sync●…
,
he
cryed
:
Lorde
saue
me
:
are
thre
thynges
principally
to
be
noted
.
The
fyrste
,
from
whence
commeth
the
feare
of
Goddes
electe
.
The
seconde
,
what
is
the
cause
that
they
faint
and
fal
in
aduersitie
.
The
thirde
,
what
reste●…
wyth
them
in
the
tyme
of
this
feare
and
downe
sync●…ynge
.
And
fyrst
,
it
is
playne
:
that
so
long
as
Peter
had
his
eyes
fixed
vppon
Christe
,
and
attended
vpon
no
other
thynge
but
the
voyce
of
Christe
,
he
was
bolde
and
without
feare
.
But
when
he
sawe
a
myghty
wynde
(
not
that
the
wynde
was
visible
,
but
the
vehe
ment
storme
and
waues
of
the
sea
that
were
styrred
vp
and
caried
by
the
wynde
were
sene
)
then
began
he
to
feare
,
and
to
reason
(
no
doute
)
in
his
herte
,
that
better
it
had
bene
for
him
to
haue
remained
in
his
bote
,
for
so
myght
Christ
haue
come
to
hym
,
but
nowe
the
storme
and
rage
of
wynde
was
so
vehement
,
that
he
coulde
neuer
come
to
Christe
,
and
so
he
greatly
feared
.
Wherof
it
is
plain
that
the
only
cause
of
oure
feare
that
haue
left
our
bote
,
and
throughe
the
With
this
feare
was
Abraham
This
I
note
for
this
purpose
,
that
albeit
this
late
&
mos●…e
ragyng
storme
within
the
realme
of
England
haue
taken
from
you
the
presence
of
Christe
for
a
tyme
,
so
that
you
haue
douted
whether
it
was
Christ
whiche
you
sawe
before
,
or
not
.
And
albeit
that
the
vehemencye
of
this
contrarie
wynde
,
that
would
dryue
you
from
Christe
haue
so
occupied
youre
eares
,
that
almoste
you
haue
forgotten
what
he
was
that
commaunded
you
to
come
to
hymselfe
,
when
that
he
cryed
:
Come
vnto
me
all
ye
that
labour
and
are
burthened
,
and
I
The
cause
that
Goddes
electe
be
gynne
to
faynte
and
to
synck
downe
in
the
tyme
of
greate
aduersitie
,
is
feare
and
vnbeleue
,
as
in
Peter
doth
appeare
,
for
so
longe
as
he
neither
feared
daunger
,
neither
mystrusted
Christes
worde
,
so
longe
the
waters
(
aboue
,
&
contrarie
to
their
nature
)
dyd
obey
and
serue
his
feete
as
they
had
ben
the
drie
,
solide
&
sure
ground
But
so
soone
as
he
beganne
to
despaire
But
the
question
maye
be
asked
:
Albeit
that
we
coulde
render
no
And
doutles
so
arrogant
is
our
nature
,
that
neither
will
it
knowe
,
neither
confesse
the
infirmitie
of
the
selfe
,
vnto
suche
tyme
as
it
haue
a
tryal
by
experience
of
the
selfe
.
And
that
is
moste
playne
by
Peter
longe
after
this
tempeste
.
For
when
Christ
said
to
his
disciples
:
This
nyght
shall
ye
all
be
staādered
in
me
.
Peter
boldly
bragged
and
sayd
:
Albeit
that
all
should
This
was
a
bolde
presumpcion
and
an
arrogant
promyse
spoken
in
contempt
of
all
his
brethren
,
frome
whiche
he
could
not
be
reduced
by
Christes
admonicion
,
But
the
more
that
Christ
shewed
hym
,
that
he
should
denye
hym
,
the
more
bolde
was
he
to
affirme
the
contrarie
,
as
thoughe
his
maister
Christe
the
author
of
all
trueth
,
yea
rather
the
trueth
it selfe
,
should
make
a
loud
lye
.
And
therfore
of
necessitie
it
was
,
that
he
should
proue
in
experience
,
what
was
the
frailtie
of
mannes
nature
.
And
what
was
the
imbecillitie
and
weaknesse
of
fayth
euen
of
those
,
that
were
hys
chiefe
Apostles
,
which
had
continually
herde
his
heauenvly
doctrine
,
sene
dayly
his
wonderful
miracles
,
whiche
had
heard
them selues
so
many
ad
monicions
and
exhortacions
of
hym
,
which
also
had
folowed
and
obeyed
hym
in
many
thinges
.
That
imbecil
litie
and
weaknesse
of
fayth
yf
Peter
had
not
proued
and
felte
it
in
hym selfe
,
neither
could
he
ryghtlye
haue
praysed
goddes
infinite
goodnes
&
●…brased
hys
free
mercy
:
Neither
had
he
bene
apte
and
mete
to
haue
bene
a
pastoure
to
the
weake
shepe
&
●…ender
lambes
of
Christ
,
but
he
should
haue
bene
as
presumptuouse
a
boaster
of
his
owne
strength
,
as
the
Papistes
are
of
their
free
wyll
.
And
he
should
haue
ben
as
proude
a
contempner
&
dispiser
of
his
weake
brethren
,
as
the
errogant
Papistes
,
that
contempne
and
dispise
all
godly
&
great
learned
men
though
they
be
a
thousande
partes
more
excellent
than
the●…
.
But
to
correct
and
reforme
both
This
frute
haue
we
to
g●…ther
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
Peters
downsynckynge
in
the
sea
,
(
which
was
a
secrete
know
lege
and
priuie
admonicion
that
he
after
should
denye
Christe
)
That
we
are
assured
by
the
voyce
of
Christ
,
that
yf
in
the
tyme
of
our
trouble
and
extreame
daunger
,
we
crye
with
Peter
,
we
shal
be
deliuered
as
he
was
.
And
if
we
mourne
for
our
denial
of
christ
as
he
dyd
,
we
shal
fynde
the
same
grace
&
fauour
at
Christes
hande
,
that
he
founde
.
But
nowe
let
vs
touche
the
thirde
note
,
which
is
this
.
That
with
goddes
electe
in
their
greatest
feare
&
daunger
ther
resteth
The
calling
for
Christes
helpe
by
prayer
in
this
extreame
daunger
declared
also
that
Peter
had
some
hope
through
his
gracious
goodnesse
to
obtayne
delyuerannce
.
For
in
extrea
me
perils
impossible
it
is
,
that
the
herte
of
man
can
crye
for
Goddes
helpe
wythout
some
hope
of
hys
mercye
.
It
is
also
to
be
noted
,
that
in
his
great
ieopardye
Peter
murmureth
not
agaynst
Christe
.
Neither
dothe
he
impute
or
laye
any
cryme
or
blame
vpon
Christe
,
albeit
,
at
his
commaundement
he
had
lefte
his
bote
.
He
sayeth
not
:
why
lettest
thou
me
synke
,
seyng
that
I
haue
obeyed
thy
commaundement
.
Moreouer
Peter
asked
helpe
at
Christe
alone
,
of
whom
he
was
perswaded
bothe
could
and
would
helpe
at
a
pynche
.
He
cryed
not
vpon
Abraham
,
Jacob
,
Moses
,
Samuel
,
Dauid
,
neither
vpon
any
other
of
the
Patriarkes
,
Prophetes
,
or
saintes
departed
:
neither
yet
vpon
his
owne
felowes
in
the
bote
,
but
vpon
Christ
,
at
whose
commaundement
he
had
left
the
bote
.
All
these
thynges
together
consydered
,
decla
re
,
that
Peter
in
this
his
extreame
feare
&
daunger
had
yet
some
sparke
of
fayth
(
albeit
in
that
present
ieopar
die
he
neither
felte
consolacion
nor
conforte
.
)
For
these
premisses
are
vndoubted
tokens
that
he
had
faythe
.
But
now
to
the
ende
,
which
is
this
:
And
immediatly
Jesus
stretched
forth
his
hande
,
and
caught
hym
,
and
sayd
vnto
hym
:
O
thou
of
lytle
fayth
,
wherfore
dyddest
thou
dout
.
And
when
they
were
come
into
the
shyppe
,
the
wynd
ceassed
.
And
they
that
were
in
the
shyppe
came
and
worshipped
him
,
sayng
:
Of
a
truth
thou
arte
the
sonne
of
God
.
And
immediatly
the
shippe
was
at
the
lande
whyther
they
went
.
Hereof
first
is
to
be
noted
,
that
Howe
soddenly
and
beyonde
all
expectation
was
Sauid
many
tymes
delyuered
from
Sauls
tyranny
,
his
owne
herte
confessed
,
and
compelled
The
sharpe
rebuke
that
Christ
Ie
sus
gaue
to
Peter
,
teacheth
vs
that
God
dothe
not
flatter
nor
conseale
the
faultes
of
his
electe
,
but
maketh
them
manifest
to
the
end
that
the
of
fendours
may
repent
,
and
that
others
maye
auoyde
the
lyke
offences
.
That
Christ
called
Peter
of
lytle
fayth
,
argueth
and
declareth
(
as
we
before
haue
noted
)
that
Peter
was
not
altogether
faytheles
,
but
that
he
faynted
,
or
was
vncertayne
in
hys
fayth
,
for
so
soundeth
the
Breke
terme
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
wherof
we
ought
to
be
admonished
:
that
in
passynge
to
Christe
throughe
the
stormes
of
this
worlde
,
is
not
onely
requyred
a
feruent
fayth
in
the
begynnyng
,
but
also
a
constancie
to
the
ende
.
As
Christ
sayeth
:
he
that
continueth
to
the
end
Albeit
that
Peter
fainted
in
fayth
O
blessed
and
happy
are
those
that
paciently
abydes
this
delyueraunce
of
the
Lorde
.
The
ragynge
sea
shall
not
deuoure
them
.
Albeit
they
haue
fainted
,
yet
shall
not
Christe
Iesus
leaue
them
,
behynde
in
the
stormye
sea
,
but
soddenly
he
shal
stretch
forth
his
myghtye
hande
,
and
shall
place
them
in
the
bote
amonge
their
brethren
,
that
is
:
he
shall
conducte
them
to
the
nombre
of
his
electe
and
The
maiestie
of
his
presence
shal
put
to
silence
this
boisteous
wynde
,
Albeit
(
I
saye
)
that
somtymes
The
remembraunce
of
these
promisses
is
to
myne
owne
herte
suche
occasion
of
comforte
,
as
neither
can
any
tounge
nor
penne
expresse
,
but
yet
paraduenture
some
there
is
of
Gods
electe
that
can
not
be
conforted
in
this
tempest
by
any
meditacions
of
Goddes
eleccion
or
defence
,
but
rather
beholdyng
suche
as
somtymes
boldely
haue
professed
Christes
veritie
,
nowe
to
be
returned
to
The
doloure
and
feare
of
suche
I
graunt
to
be
moste
iuste
.
For
oh
how
fearfull
is
it
,
for
the
loue
of
this
tran
sitorie
lyfe
in
presence
of
man
to
denye
Christe
Iesus
and
his
knowen
and
vndoubted
veritie
?
But
yet
to
suche
as
be
not
obstinate
contempners
of
God
,
and
of
al
godlynes
:
I
woulde
geue
this
my
weake
counsa●…e
,
that
rather
they
should
appeale
to
mercy
,
then
by
the
seueire
iudgementes
of
God
,
to
pronounce
agaynst
themselues
the
fearfull
sentence
of
condempnacion
.
And
to
con
But
some
shall
obiecte
:
fayth
was
not
vtterly
quenched
in
them
,
&
ther fore
they
got
delyueraunce
,
&
were
restored
to
comforte
.
Answer
.
That
is
it
which
I
wold
Fealest
thou
thy
soule
fayntynge
in
fayth
?
as
Peter
felt
his
body
sinck
downe
into
the
waters
?
Arte
thou
as
sore
affrayed
that
thy
soule
should
drowne
in
hel
,
yf
thou
consentest
or
obeyest
Idolatrye
,
as
Peter
was
that
his
bodye
shoulde
drowne
in
the
waters
?
Desyrest
thou
as
earnestly
the
delyueraunce
of
thy
soule
,
as
Peter
dyd
the
delyueraunce
of
his
body
?
Beleuest
thou
that
Christ
is
able
to
delyuer
thy
soule
,
and
that
he
wyl
do
the
same
accordynge
to
his
promisse
?
Doest
thou
call
vpon
him
wythout
hipocrisie
nowe
in
the
day
of
thy
trouble
?
Doest
thou
thrist
for
his
presence
,
and
for
the
lybertie
of
his
worde
agayne
?
Mournest
thou
for
the
great
abhominacions
that
now
ouerflowes
the
realme
of
Englande
?
Yf
these
premisses
(
I
say
)
remaine
yet
in
thy
harte
,
them
arte
thou
not
altogether
destitute
of
fayth
,
neyther
shalt
thou
descende
to
perdition
for
euer
.
But
mercifullye
shal
the
Lorde
stretche
forth
his
myghtie
hande
,
&
O
God
the
heathen
are
entred
But
O
Lorde
thou
knowest
howe
sore
they
greue
vs
.
But
suche
is
O
Lorde
thou
knowest
that
we
are
but
fleshe
,
and
that
we
haue
no
power
of
our selues
to
withstand
their
tyranny
,
and
therfore
O
father
open
the
eyes
of
thy
mercy
vpon
vs
,
and
Let
suche
O
Lorde
as
now
are
most
Yf
on
thys
maner
or
otherwyfe
(
as
god
shal
put
in
our
hertes
)
with
out
hipocrisie
in
the
presence
of
oure
God
(
respecting
more
his
glory
than
our
priuate
wealth
)
continuallye
we
powre
forth
our
complaint
,
confession
,
and
prayers
.
Then
so
assuredlye
as
our
God
lyueth
,
and
as
we
feall
these
present
troubles
,
shal
our
God
hymselfe
ryse
to
our
defence
,
he
shall
confounde
the
counseilles
of
our
ene
myes
&
trouble
the
wyttes
of
suche
as
moste
wrongfully
troubleth
vs
.
Be
shall
sende
Iehu
to
execute
hys
iuste
iudg●…nentes
againste
ydolatours
and
against
suche
as
obstinatly
defendeth
them
.
Iesabel
her selfe
shall
not
escape
the
vengeaunce
and
plages
that
are
prepared
for
her
porcion
.
The
flatterers
and
the
mainteners
of
her
abhominacions
shal
drink
the
cuppe
of
goddes
wrath
with
her
And
in
despite
of
the
deuell
shall
yet
the
glorye
of
Christe
Jesus
,
and
the
bryghtnesse
of
his
countenaunce
so
shyne
in
oure
hertes
by
the
presence
of
his
grace
,
and
before
our
eyes
by
the
true
preaching
of
his
gospel
that
altogether
we
shall
fall
before
him
&
saye
:
O
Lorde
thou
arte
our
God
,
we
This
no
dout
dear
brethren
shal
one
Remember
me
deare
brethren
in
your
dayly
prayers
.
The
grace
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
be
wyth
you
all
.
Amen
.
Yours
with
sorowfull
herte
,
Iohn
Knox.