Four godly sermons against the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teaching…Foure godlye sermons agaynst the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teachyng…

but direct our desires unto him, and pour forth our complaints as it were into his bosom, which only can remedy our grief and miseries. And this must we know assuredly that this horrible corruption and confusion of religion which we see at this day in that the whole worship of god is corrupted, the doctrine of the word is adulterate, depraved and altered, all the sacraments are contaminate defiled and perverted, is the grievous & sore punishment of sins proceeding from gods most just judgement. To whom then shall we fly for the redress & amendment of these ⟨image 63⟩so great evils, that we may obtain the pure doctrine of the sacraments & call upon the name of god with liberty & make confession our faith, but unto him which doeth chastise us with this so miserable want and loss of so great treasures? Howbeit yet this grievous bitterness of pain & punishment ought not so to alienate & turn us from god, that we should not come unto him in whom all succour & mercy is only to be found. Much less then may we kick against the prick, grudging & dis••yning with our selves to seek the remedy at his wholesome hand who hath laid this grievous and dangerous plague upon us. David in deed knew right well that he was banished from Jury not without gods providence: yet is he not thereby stayed nor letted to come unto god & to make his complaints unto him: not because his tentation was easy & light, for he seemed utterly to be cast of from god if we only consider the miserable state of this present life. But his faith which he had in the promise made unto him causeth him to surmount all difficulties, holdeth him up & brigeth him into the confidence, that he prayeth god to give him the fruition of the thing continually ⟨image 64⟩which he had taken from him but for a certain space hear me think I have sufficiently applied this doctrine unto us & to the state & condition of our times, but that the wits of certain men are so dull that nothing can enter into their harts & minds, unless the matter proposed as the meat of most wholesome doctrine, be minced & chewed, & made most small that so it may be offered to the stomach & received.

but direct our desires vnto him, and powre forth our complaints as it were into his bosome, which only can remedie our griefe and miseries. And this must we knowe assuredly that this horrible corruption and confusion of religion which we see at this day in that the whole worship of god is corrupted, the doctrine of the worde is adulterat, depraued and altered, al the sacramentes are contaminate defiled and peruerted, is the greuous & sore punishement of sins procedyng from gods most iust iudgement. To whom then shal we flie for the redresse & amendmēt of these