Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…

Now we will consider, who shall call us to this reckoning, before whom, and what punishment to the wicked, and what reward to the faithful: there be two Judgements, one at separation of body and soul, which is the particular doom: and the second at the general resurrection that is universal; to the first we shall be called one after another, to the second we shall come altogether in the twinkling of an eye: we are called to the first by three summons; sickness, age, death: the first warneth, the second threateneth, the third taketh; some are slain without sickness or age, and the most part without age, and there is a sickness that makes the body fe• ble, and a sickness of the soul which is general to all men, and the continuance thereof is cause of corruption: if a man cast all worldly things out of his mind, yet can he scantly think only of God a Pater-noster while: O God, what a sickness is this to the sons of Adam, of this sickness spake S. Paul, I see another Law of my members, rebelling against the Law of my Spirit; as a man looking on the Sun cannot long endure, yet the fault is not in the Sun for it is most clear, but in the feebleness of mans eyes: so since Adam was put out of Paradise, all his off-spring have been thus sick•: the second sickness is of the body, as hunger thirst, cold, heat, sorrow, weariness, and many others: as Job saith. A man borne of a woman is full of many miseries, and is but for a little time: there be other sicknesses that happen to some as Fevers, Dropsy, Blindness, and such like, as it is said of the Israelites, if thou keep not the commandments of God I shall increase the sorrows and sicknesses of thy seed, but God sendeth such sicknesses sometimes to good men, and tribulations for two causes: First to know that it is of God, and to increase in meekness: of this saith Saint Paul, ¹least my great revelations should extol me in pride, to me is given the prick of the flesh: I three times prayed God it should go from me, he answered, my grace is sufficient; for my power is manifested in weakness; the Devil asking Job to be tempted, was heard, and not the Apostle asking his temptation to be removed▪ he heard the damned, and heard not him that should be saved: also God sendeth sometime his Saints to give us sinners example of patience, being we have deserved much more:

Now we will consider, who shall call vs to this reckoning, before whom, and what punishment to the wicked, and what reward to the faithfull: there bee two Iudgements, one at separation of body and soule, which is the particular doome: and the second at the generall resurrection that is vniuersall; to the first we shall be called one after another, to the second we shal come altogether in the twinckling of an eye: we are called to the first by thrée summons; sicknes, age, death: the first warneth, the second threatneth, the third taketh; some are slayne without sicknes or age, and the most part without age, and there is a sicknes that makes the body fe ble, and a sicknes of the soule which is generall to all men, and the continuance therof is cause of corruption: if a man cast all worldly things out of his minde, yet can he scantly thinke onely of God a Pater-noster while: O God, what a sicknes is this to the sonnes of Adam, of this sicknes spake S. Paul, I see another Law of my members, rebelling against the Law of my Spirit; as a man looking on the Sunne cannot long indure, yet the fault is not in the Sunne for it is most cleere, but in the féeblenes of mans eyes: so since Adam was put out of Paradice, all his off-spring haue been thus sick: the second sicknes is of the body, as hunger thirst, cold, heat, sorrow, wearinesse, and many others: as Iob saith. A man borne of a woman is full of many miseries, and is but for a little time: there be other sicknesses that happen to some as Feuers, Dropsie, Blindnes, and such like, as it is said of the Israelites, if thou keep not the comman dements of God I shall increase the sorrows and sicknesses of thy seed, but God sendeth such sicknesses sometimes to good men, and tribulations for two causes: First to know that it is of God, and to increase in méekenes: of this saith Saint Paul,