An excelent comfort to all Christians, against all kinde of calamities no lesse comfortable, then pleasant, pithy, and profitable: Compendiously compiled by Iohn Perez, a faithfull seruant of God, a Spaniard (in Spanish) and now translated into English by Iohn Daniel, of Clements Inne, with diuers addicions by him collected and therevnto annexed.

The Argument of the Booke.

THe Aucthor heereof was a Spanyard, and liued in Spaine a coūtrey of great persecutiō, by the spirit of God he did rightly vnderstand the scriptures, bee∣ing greatly persecuted, hee doeth verie diuinely comfort hym selfe, giuing heereby the lyke vnto others in any kinde of calamitie, ex∣horting therwith patience, and doeth proue that patience bringeth experience, and that experi∣ence bringeth hope, and so loue &c. with a con∣clusion that great blessednesse is the ende of all. Also he doth expresse by shadowes, diuers kindes of cruelties practised by diuers Tyrants in par∣ties beyond the Seas: with a plaine declaration of the constancie of diuers Martirs, that haue dyed by many kindes of death, truely testified by aucthoritie sufficient, so comfortable & delight∣full as is possible. &c.

In Mundo in coelis in perpetuisque tenebris est labor est requies et sunt sine fine dolores hunc fer, vt hanc speres illos conamene vites.

G. R.