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.
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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.
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Peârez, Juan, d. 1567.
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At London :: Printed by Thomas East, for William Norton: The .ix day of August,
An. Do. 1576.
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Consolation -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09316.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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❧ A TABLE OF all the Chapters in this Booke.
OF the will of God, an entry in∣to the comfort, vvith a perswa∣sion to knovv the will of God perfectly. Cap 1. Fo. 9.
What we vvere before our be∣ing reduced to God. Cap. 2. fo. 11.
Of our blindenes in times past. ca. 3. fo. 15.
Of the loue of God, and of our calling, & the cause thereof. cap. 4. fo. 17.
Of the cause of our callinge and redemp∣tion. cap. 5. fo. 20.
Of our iustificatiō by the rightuousnesse of God. &c. cap. 6. fo. 22
Of an excelent comfort by the loue of god. cap. 7. fo. 25
Of the cause of Christes comming, and of the fruites of christians. ca. 8. fo. 30
Of a great cause of comfort, by reason of the crosses of Christ. ca. 9. fo. 34
Hovv that the estate of Iesus Christ is com∣mon to the faithful, and dothe exhort vs to an excelent comfort. ca. 10. fo. 37
Of the prouidence of God for them which are called. &c. cap. 11. fo. 42
Of the propertie of persecutours, with a perswasion to pacience. cap. 12. fo. 47
An excelent comfort to the afflicted. cap. 13. fo. 50
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Of gods exceding loue, greatly to the com∣fort of his people. cap. 14. fo. 55
Of Purgatory, and the causes thereof, &c. cap. 15. fo. 58
A great comfort to the christian, with a ter∣rible threate to the vngodly & vvicked. cap. 16. fo. 61
An inuectiue againste the wicked, vvith a merueilous comfort to the godly christi∣an, &c. cap 17. fo. 65
Of pacience, and an exhortation therevn∣to, &c. cap. 18. fo 70
Hovv that good experience, bringeth forth hope, and of a shadovve of certaine per∣secution. cap. 19. fo. 75
A pure proofe vnto vs, that vve are beloued of God in our greatest griefes, &c. cap. 20. fo. 78
A persvvasion to trust onely in God, and to auoyde all vain trust had in any humain helpe. &c. cap. 21. fo. 83
Hovv vve ought to be instructed in truth & veritie & to haue no confidence in mens tradicions. cap. 22. fo. 90
Vppon vvhat condicion God receiueth vs, vvith an excelent comfort to the christi∣an, &c. cap. 23. fo. 96
An excelent kyndely and comfortable per∣svvasion of the faithful to reioyce in any calamitie, &c. cap. 24. fo. 101
The maner of part of persecutiō in Spaine. vvith a comfort against the like. Cap. 25. fo. 106
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A true Simylitude of the true church &c. cap. 26. fo. 112.
Of predestination and of glorification ther∣by. &c. cap. 27. fo. 119.
Of the mightie power, and exceeding loue of god. cap. 28. fo. 124
An excelent comforte againste the feare of death, vvith a confutacion of his povver, &c. cap. 29. fo. 129
Of the cause that Christ dyd feare death, & hovv constant diuers Martirs haue beene, sithens in their martirdome. ca. 30. fo. 135
Of the goodnesse of God in our defence, a∣gainst our persecutours, &c. ca. 31. fo. 140
A merueilous comfort to those that are af∣flicted, either by fire or othervvise. cap. 32. fo. 147
An entery into the conclusion, vvith many godly exhortacions. cap. 33. fo. 152
Very godly exhortacions for all men that are afflicted, and also for those vvhich are in prosperitie. cap. 34. fo. 157
An ende, vvith a true declaracion vvhat the being shall be in the ende, as vvell of the faithfull as the reprobate. cap. 35. fo. 162
FINIS.
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