Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder the crosse and death, two bokes very fruictefull for deuoute people to rede, translated from latyn to englysshe, by Rycharde Tracy.
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- Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder the crosse and death, two bokes very fruictefull for deuoute people to rede, translated from latyn to englysshe, by Rycharde Tracy.
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- [Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,
- Anno. M.D.XL. [1540]]
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- Death -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.
- Consolation -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE RYGHT HONORABLE, AND HIS syngular good lorde and mayster, Lord Thomas Crumwel, Lorde Priuy seale, Rycharde Tracy desyreth and wy∣sheth bodely prosperous helth, and to the soule eternall lyfe and felycitie. -
❧THE PREPA∣RATION TO THE crosse, and howe it muste be paciently borne.- ¶What the crosse is. Cap. i.
- ¶Two kyndes of crosses. Cap. ii.
- ¶Howe the feythfull be tempted. Capi. iii.
- ¶The crosse is of god onely. Cap. iiii.
- ¶Crosse is the worke of the good wyll and mercy of god. Cap. v.
- ¶The godly are the fyrst that are afflicted, and they are afflicted of god, to theyr good and welthe. Cap. vi.
- ¶In tribulation we muste praye. Cap. vii.
- ¶We oughte to be pacient in affliction, not to be angry, nor to speake yuell of god. Cap. viii.
- ¶Socour in affliction muste be asked of god. Capi. ix.
- ¶Yet in afflyction or syckenes, medicyne and councell are not to be des∣pised. Cap. x.
- ¶In afflyction no tyme may be appoynted to god, nother yet maner wherby we wolde be delyuered. Ca. xi.
- ¶It is a great comfort to them that be in af∣fliction, to remembre, that Christe was also tempted and exercised with yll as we be wont to be ex∣ercised. Cap. xii.
- ¶It is great comfort in affliction that no man can hurte the faythfull, except Chryste wyll. Cap. xiii.
- ¶The goodnesse of god is not to be despised, or lyghtly regarded before afflyctions. whirby god wyl punishe and gyue warnynge. Capi. xiiii.
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¶There be dyuerse craftes of the dyuell, wherby he tempteth, and where one crafte profyteth nothynge, he ad∣deth many other. Ca. xv.
- 1 If thou be tempted in pryde or vayne glory, answere hym agayne.
- 2 If thou be tempted in wrothe or anger.
- 3 If thou be tempted in feastynge, or glo∣tony and drounkennesse.
- 4 If thou be tempted in auaryce or couetousenes,
- 5 If thou be tempted with hungre, pouertie, or carefulnes of lyuynge,
- 6 If thou be tempted of ydelnes,
- 7 If thou be tempted of securytie to be without feare.
- 8 If thou be tempted of fornication and adultery,
- 9 If thou be tempted with lyinge or lyghte wordes,
- 10 If thou be tempted of confessynge the gospell, or sufferynge persecution for the gospell,
- 11 If thou be tempted of the faythe of thy pa∣rentes: as wherfore beleuest thou not that, whiche thy forefathers haue beleued,
- 12 If thou be tempted of straunge relygion or of worshyppynge of saynctes, pyctu∣res, ymages, or men,
- 13 If thou muste dye, and leane wyfe, chil∣dren, and thy dere frendes,
- 14 If thou be tempted of condemnation, that thou arte condemned of god.
- 15 If the dyuell saye, thou arte a synner, and arte not graffed in Christe.
- 16 If he continue and saye, but thy synnes passe the sonde of the see.
- 17 If he saye, suche promyses are made to the godly, thou arte an apostata and a loste man.
- 18 But god hereth no synners nor strayers awaye,
- 19 But thou commest very late with thy contricion.
- 20 But he hadde a stronge faythe in god, whiche thou lackest,
- 21 What if all holy scripture be false, for they were men, which spake it and wrote it?
- 22 If the temptator saye, thou haste not kepte the lawe of god, wherfore thou arte accursed.
- 23 If he say, thou must forsake the worlde.
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❧THE PREPARA∣TION TO DEATHE, AND howe they which be in point of deathe, shulde be comforted, the .ii. boke.- ¶What is deathe. Cap. i.
- ¶What is the cause of deathe. Cap. ii.
- ¶Two maner of deathes. Cap. ii.
- ¶To the efecte and faythfull, eternall deathe by Christe is ouercome. Cap. iii.
- ¶Althoughe the godly dye, yet they shall lyue. Cap. iiii,
- ¶The deathe of the godly, is a slepe. Ca. v.
- ¶Baptisme is a comforte in the poynte of deathe. Cap. vi.
- ¶The godlye knowe the tyme of dyinge to be determyned of god. Cap. vii.
- ¶Notwithstandyng the vngodly shall not liue out halfe theyr dayes. Cap. viii.
- ¶The godly also in the tyme of hunger, pe∣stilence, and warre, be punyshed, and dye with the wycked. Cap. ix.
- ¶To whom they that dye oughte to com∣mytte theyr spirite. Cap. x.
- ¶The body is buried, but it shall ryse agayne in the laste daye. Cap. xi.
- ¶In the panges of deathe, and in all temta∣tions, the remedies be to be lerned of the sufferaunce of Christ. Ca. xii.
- ¶They that be dienge, muste be exhorted. to forgyue. Cap. xiii.
- ¶Suche as be diynge shulde be admonished, that they receiue the Sacrament of Chri∣stes body and bloud. Ca. xiiii.
- ¶Diuerse consolations, that the life and tyme of affliction is shorte. Cap. xv.
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