The repentance of Iohn Haren priest and his returne to the Church of God; publickly by him recited in the French Church at Wezell, in the presence of the senate, conposed of the ministers and the people assembled togeather vpon the 7. day of March, Anno. 1610. Likewise, the recantation of Martine Bartox, at Rochell, sometimes Doctor of Diuinitie in Spaine, vicar prouinciall and visitor of the order of the holy Trinitie for the redemption of prisoners in the Kingdomes and Crowne of Arragon. Translated out of the Latine and French, into English.
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             The repentance of Iohn Haren priest and his returne to the Church of God; publickly by him recited in the French Church at Wezell, in the presence of the senate, conposed of the ministers and the people assembled togeather vpon the 7. day of March, Anno. 1610. Likewise, the recantation of Martine Bartox, at Rochell, sometimes Doctor of Diuinitie in Spaine, vicar prouinciall and visitor of the order of the holy Trinitie for the redemption of prisoners in the Kingdomes and Crowne of Arragon. Translated out of the Latine and French, into English.
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           THE
           Repentance
           of
           Iohn
           HAREN
           Priest
           ,
           and
           his
           returne
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ;
           publickly
           by
           him
           recited
           in
           the
           French
           Church
           at
           Wezell
           ,
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           the
           Senate
           ,
           composed
           of
           the
           
             Ministers
             and
             the
             people
             assembled
             togeather
          
           vpon
           the
           7.
           day
           of
           March
           ,
           Anno.
           1610.
           
        
         
           Likewise
           ,
           The
           Recantation
           of
           MARTINE
           BARTOX
           ,
           at
           Rochell
           ,
           sometimes
           Doctor
           of
           Diuinitie
           in
           Spaine
           ,
           Vicar
           Prouinciall
           and
           Visitor
           of
           the
           order
           of
           the
           holy
           Trinitie
           for
           the
           redemption
           of
           Prisoners
           in
           the
           Kingdomes
           and
           Crowne
           of
           Arragon
           .
        
         
           
             Ezeckiel
             Chapt.
             33.
             
             Vers
             .
             11.
             
          
           
             J
             am
             liuing
             ,
             saith
             the
             eternall
             God
             ,
             and
             I
             take
             no
             pleasure
             in
             the
             death
             of
             a
             Sinner
             ,
             but
             rather
             that
             he
             should
             returne
             from
             his
             vvickednesse
             and
             liue
             .
          
        
         
           
             Apocalips
             Chap.
             18.
             
          
           
             Come
             foorth
             of
             Babilon
             my
             people
             ,
             least
             you
             be
             partakers
             of
             her
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             so
             be
             punished
             vvith
             her
             :
             for
             her
             sinnes
             hath
             mounted
             vp
             vnto
             Heauen
             ,
             and
             God
             hath
             determined
             to
             punish
             her
             iniquities
             .
          
        
         
           Translated
           out
           of
           Latine
           and
           French
           ,
           into
           English
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             H.
             Rockit
          
           at
           S
           Mildreds
           Church
           in
           the
           Poultrie
           ,
           and
           N.
           Bourne
           at
           the
           Royal
           Exchange
           .
           1610.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           
           The
           Repentance
           of
           Iohn
           Haren
           ,
           and
           his
           returne
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           publickely
           by
           him
           recited
           in
           the
           French
           
             Church
             at
          
           Wezell
           ,
           
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             the
          
           Senate
           ,
           composed
           of
           the
           Ministers
           
             and
             the
             people
             assembled
             togeather
          
           vpon
           the
           7.
           day
           of
           March
           ,
           Anno.
           1610.
           
        
         
           
             To
             the
             faythfull
             Christians
             of
             the
             Netherlandes
             ,
             that
             haue
             abandoned
             the
             abuses
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             to
             liue
             in
             puritie
             &
             sinceritie
             of
             conscience
             ,
             
               IOHN
               HAREN
            
             wisheth
             health
             and
             prosperitie
             .
          
        
         
           DEarely
           beloued
           Breathren
           in
           the
           Lord
           ,
           This
           Treatise
           which
           I
           imbolden
           my selfe
           to
           present
           you
           withall
           ,
           belongeeh
           truely
           and
           directly
           vnto
           you
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           the
           subiect
           and
           matter
           therein
           contained
           :
           for
           although
           that
           by
           my
           fall
           ,
           &
           beastly
           Apostacie
           ,
           I
           haue
           offended
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           neuerthelesse
           I
           know
           and
           am
           assured
           ,
           that
           the
           Churches
           ,
           in
           the
           middle
           whereof
           I
           haue
           been
           nourished
           from
           my
           youth
           vpwards
           ,
           and
           whom
           I
           serued
           many
           yeares
           in
           the
           worke
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           haue
           been
           most
           afflicted
           :
           if
           you
           will
           vouchsafe
           to
           read
           it
           ,
           you
           shall
           therein
           see
           ,
           and
           manifestly
           behold
           most
           great
           effectes
           of
           the
           prouidence
           of
           God
           towards
           his
           elect
           ,
           who
           for
           a
           certaine
           time
           being
           seduced
           by
           the
           malice
           &
           practise
           of
           the
           Diuell
           ,
           fell
           not
           onely
           into
           great
           tempestes
           and
           shipwrackes
           ,
           but
           into
           horrible
           and
           scandalous
           laborinthes
           of
           troubles
           :
           but
           yet
           not
           so
           low
           ,
           but
           that
           falling
           into
           the
           armes
           
           of
           their
           nourse
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           )
           they
           haue
           been
           relieued
           and
           comforted
           againe
           :
           For
           the
           fall
           of
           the
           
           Elect
           ,
           is
           not
           eternall
           .
        
         
           You
           shall
           also
           therein
           perceiue
           how
           that
           in
           thinges
           which
           seeme
           most
           doubtfull
           and
           wholly
           desperate
           ;
           and
           when
           in
           outward
           appearance
           wee
           are
           as
           it
           were
           at
           the
           poynt
           of
           death
           and
           vtter
           destruction
           ,
           our
           Lord
           hath
           vsed
           ,
           and
           is
           alwayes
           ready
           to
           put
           foorth
           his
           hand
           to
           defend
           and
           
           preserue
           those
           that
           are
           his
           .
           Who
           would
           euer
           haue
           thought
           ,
           that
           Moses
           ,
           being
           abandoned
           by
           his
           Mother
           ,
           and
           put
           into
           the
           Water
           in
           a
           Basket
           ,
           should
           haue
           been
           the
           Deliuerer
           of
           
           the
           people
           of
           God
           ?
           And
           that
           Ioseph
           ,
           sold
           ,
           by
           his
           breathren
           ▪
           mourned
           for
           by
           his
           father
           for
           dead
           ,
           &
           cast
           into
           a
           miserable
           Prison
           ,
           should
           saue
           his
           Father
           and
           Breathren
           from
           most
           great
           Famine
           ,
           &
           place
           them
           in
           the
           best
           part
           of
           Egipt
           ?
           Who
           
           would
           haue
           thought
           that
           Jonas
           ,
           cast
           into
           the
           Sea
           ,
           and
           swallowed
           ;
           yea
           &
           as
           it
           were
           buried
           in
           the
           belly
           of
           the
           Whale
           ,
           should
           haue
           been
           the
           sauer
           of
           the
           great
           citie
           of
           Niniue
           ,
           and
           a
           figure
           of
           the
           Messias
           ?
           And
           that
           I
           ,
           being
           cast
           into
           a
           sorrowfull
           and
           miserable
           Prison
           ,
           wherein
           I
           remained
           for
           the
           space
           of
           8.
           yeares
           and
           more
           ,
           wholly
           without
           hope
           of
           deliuerance
           from
           thence
           ;
           wherein
           Antechrist
           of
           Rome
           ,
           had
           caused
           me
           to
           be
           throwne
           at
           the
           instance
           and
           motion
           of
           his
           Legate
           Coriolanus
           (
           the
           Plague
           of
           all
           
             Germinie
             ,
          
           )
           for
           hauing
           bindred
           his
           cruel
           purposes
           &
           desseignes
           against
           the
           Churches
           on
           this
           side
           .
           God
           moststrong
           ,
           powerfull
           ,
           &
           good
           ,
           by
           his
           most
           mighty
           arme
           ,
           &
           contrary
           to
           all
           humane
           expectation
           ,
           hauing
           broken
           my
           Bandes
           ,
           and
           deliuered
           my
           soule
           out
           of
           the
           danger
           of
           death
           ,
           yea
           of
           eternall
           death
           ,
           should
           charitably
           deliuer
           me
           into
           the
           handes
           of
           his
           Church
           ;
           to
           the
           end
           I
           should
           serue
           him
           the
           rest
           of
           my
           dayes
           ,
           iustly
           and
           holily
           :
           For
           the
           which
           ,
           while
           I
           liue
           ,
           I
           will
           neuer
           cease
           to
           yeeld
           prayse
           and
           thankes-giuing
           vnto
           God.
           
        
         
           You
           shall
           likewise
           know
           by
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           the
           great
           virtue
           ,
           force
           ,
           &
           efficacie
           of
           Prayer
           made
           in
           Fayth
           ,
           whereby
           we
           obtaine
           of
           God
           much
           more
           good
           ,
           then
           we
           dare
           aske
           or
           demande
           at
           his
           hands
           .
           What
           could
           the
           Mother
           of
           Moses
           
           desire
           more
           ,
           when
           her
           Child
           was
           put
           into
           the
           Water
           ,
           but
           
           onely
           that
           God
           would
           preserue
           it
           from
           death
           ?
           But
           by
           her
           Praier
           she
           obtained
           much
           more
           ;
           for
           he
           being
           found
           by
           Pharaos
           Daughter
           ,
           he
           was
           not
           onely
           deliuered
           out
           of
           danger
           ,
           and
           committed
           to
           his
           owne
           Mother
           to
           be
           noursed
           ,
           but
           waxing
           great
           ,
           he
           was
           adopted
           for
           the
           Sonne
           of
           the
           Kings
           daughter
           .
           What
           could
           the
           people
           of
           God
           (
           cruelly
           
           afflicted
           by
           the
           Egiptians
           )
           desire
           more
           ,
           but
           that
           God
           haueing
           toucht
           the
           heart
           of
           Pharao
           ,
           he
           should
           permit
           and
           suffer
           them
           to
           depart
           out
           of
           Egipt
           ,
           to
           serue
           him
           in
           the
           land
           of
           their
           Fathers
           ?
           But
           he
           did
           more
           for
           them
           ;
           for
           ,
           deliuering
           them
           out
           of
           the
           miserable
           seruitude
           &
           tirannie
           of
           Pharao
           ,
           he
           inriched
           them
           with
           the
           spoyles
           and
           riches
           of
           the
           Egiptians
           ;
           whom
           afterward
           he
           drowned
           and
           vtterly
           ouerwhelmed
           in
           the
           Sea
           ;
           thereby
           declaring
           his
           Iustice
           in
           punishing
           of
           those
           that
           afflict
           his
           people
           .
           What
           could
           lacob
           likewise
           
           when
           he
           left
           the
           house
           of
           Laban
           his
           Father
           in
           law
           ,
           haue
           desired
           more
           ,
           when
           he
           prayed
           vnto
           God
           to
           deliuer
           him
           from
           the
           feare
           which
           he
           had
           of
           his
           brother
           Esau
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           might
           passe
           freely
           &
           safely
           on
           his
           way
           ?
           but
           God
           not
           onely
           graunted
           him
           that
           ,
           but
           much
           more
           :
           for
           when
           his
           brother
           met
           him
           ,
           he
           not
           onely
           receiued
           and
           entertained
           him
           courteously
           ,
           but
           offered
           to
           beare
           him
           company
           on
           the
           way
           .
           And
           what
           could
           Joseph
           (
           being
           a
           Prisoner
           )
           more
           desire
           
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           onely
           his
           enlargement
           and
           deliuerance
           from
           thence
           ?
           which
           at
           last
           he
           obtained
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           ;
           for
           he
           was
           made
           Lieutenant
           and
           Gouernour
           of
           all
           Egipt
           .
           But
           I
           for
           my
           part
           ,
           haue
           receiued
           more
           grace
           and
           fauour
           ,
           then
           all
           they
           ;
           for
           the
           billowes
           of
           the
           tempestes
           of
           the
           soueraigne
           God
           ,
           had
           not
           onely
           subiected
           my
           life
           to
           a
           miserable
           temporall
           captiuitie
           ,
           wherein
           not
           onely
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           supports
           ,
           determined
           to
           destroy
           me
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           me
           vnprofitable
           vnto
           the
           world
           during
           the
           rest
           of
           my
           dayes
           :
           but
           Sathan
           ,
           enimie
           to
           my
           Soule
           ,
           had
           made
           and
           seduced
           me
           to
           become
           one
           of
           the
           most
           filthy
           Apostates
           that
           euer
           was
           heard
           of
           :
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           my
           heart
           was
           continually
           vexed
           with
           most
           cruell
           troubles
           :
           mine
           owne
           corruption
           
           made
           warre
           against
           me
           ,
           and
           my
           torments
           put
           me
           in
           feare
           and
           doubt
           ,
           that
           God
           had
           wholly
           reiected
           and
           barred
           me
           out
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           Heauen
           .
           I
           found
           my selfe
           to
           be
           in
           continuall
           feare
           (
           for
           want
           of
           Fayth
           &
           repentance
           ,
           )
           thinking
           in
           that
           abusiue
           of
           troubles
           ,
           that
           by
           incredulitie
           ,
           I
           should
           vtterly
           be
           cut
           off
           from
           the
           loue
           and
           fauour
           of
           God.
           Yet
           I
           was
           not
           destitute
           of
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Prayer
           :
           for
           in
           my
           greatest
           troubles
           and
           aflictions
           ,
           lifting
           vp
           mine
           eyes
           vnto
           Heauen
           ,
           I
           often
           times
           sayd
           ,
           Hath
           the
           Lord
           cast
           me
           off
           for
           euer
           ?
           Is
           his
           louing
           kindnesse
           withdrawne
           for
           euermore
           ?
           Hath
           the
           most
           mercifull
           God
           forgotten
           to
           be
           pittifull
           ;
           hath
           he
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           anger
           )
           shut
           vp
           his
           compassion
           ?
           And
           often
           times
           sighing
           and
           speaking
           vnto
           my
           soule
           ,
           I
           said
           :
           Oh
           my
           soule
           !
           Why
           art
           thou
           abashed
           ,
           &
           why
           doest
           thou
           tremble
           within
           me
           ?
           Repose
           thy
           trust
           in
           God
           ,
           and
           hope
           in
           him
           ,
           he
           shall
           yet
           be
           praysed
           and
           magnified
           in
           thee
           ,
           when
           with
           a
           benigne
           countenance
           onely
           ,
           he
           easeth
           thy
           torment
           .
           The
           Father
           of
           mercie
           ,
           the
           God
           of
           all
           consolation
           ,
           did
           not
           reiect
           my
           prayer
           :
           he
           receiued
           my
           request
           ,
           and
           heard
           me
           in
           Heauen
           :
           He
           brake
           my
           bandes
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           Captiue
           ,
           set
           me
           free
           and
           at
           libertie
           :
           He
           dealt
           not
           with
           me
           as
           I
           deserued
           ,
           nor
           rewarded
           me
           according
           to
           my
           iniquities
           :
           For
           that
           as
           farre
           as
           the
           Heauens
           are
           distant
           from
           the
           Earth
           ,
           so
           much
           hath
           his
           mercie
           been
           aboundant
           vnto
           me
           .
           With
           the
           same
           affection
           that
           a
           Father
           is
           mooued
           towardes
           his
           Child
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           hath
           the
           Lord
           been
           mooued
           towardes
           me
           .
           Let
           my
           Soule
           blesse
           him
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           partes
           and
           members
           of
           my
           body
           prayse
           his
           holy
           name
           :
           He
           hath
           saued
           me
           out
           of
           the
           Pitte
           ,
           and
           withdrawne
           my
           life
           from
           death
           :
           Hee
           hath
           pardoned
           all
           my
           Iniquities
           ,
           and
           healed
           my
           Inf●●●●ties
           .
           The
           Lord
           doth
           right
           and
           iustice
           vnto
           all
           those
           〈…〉
           iniuries
           and
           persecutions
           .
           I
           will
           not
           therefore
           doe
           〈…〉
           who
           sayling
           in
           the
           middle
           of
           the
           Seas
           ,
           and
           after
           a
           th●●sand
           dangers
           safely
           arriueth
           at
           his
           desired
           Hauen
           ,
           without
           considering
           or
           marking
           the
           hand
           of
           the
           Pilote
           that
           stirred
           the
           Shippe
           ;
           I
           will
           diligently
           acknowledge
           in
           this
           my
           deliueraunce
           ,
           the
           hand
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           prouidence
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           
           THE
           Repentaunce
           of
           IOHN
           HAREN
           ,
           and
           his
           Conuersion
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           to
           the
           true
           Church
           
             of
             God
             ,
             openly
             published
             and
             made
             by
             him
          
           in
           the
           French
           Church
           ,
           remayning
           in
           Wezell
           ,
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           the
           wise
           and
           discreete
           Senat
           of
           the
           same
           place
           ,
           the
           7.
           day
           of
           March.
           Anno.
           1610.
           
        
         
           MY
           Lordes
           ,
           and
           louing
           Breathren
           in
           the
           Lord
           ,
           at
           my
           comming
           out
           of
           my
           sorrowfull
           Prison
           ,
           wherein
           I
           haue
           been
           violently
           holden
           for
           the
           space
           of
           eight
           yeares
           &
           vpwardes
           ,
           for
           suckering
           your
           Churches
           :
           passing
           by
           this
           towne
           of
           Wezell
           ,
           to
           goe
           〈…〉
           friendes
           ,
           I
           haue
           imboldned
           my selfe
           to
           salute
           you
           ,
           and
           to
           giue
           you
           to
           vnderstand
           many
           thinges
           which
           concerne
           the
           honour
           and
           glory
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           edification
           of
           his
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           saluation
           of
           my
           soule
           .
        
         
         
           Truely
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           not
           for
           the
           assurance
           that
           I
           haue
           of
           your
           pietie
           towards
           God
           ,
           and
           Christian
           charitie
           towards
           your
           Neighbours
           ,
           I
           durst
           not
           haue
           been
           so
           bold
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           at
           this
           present
           ,
           to
           certifie
           you
           of
           the
           miserable
           estate
           ,
           whereinto
           my
           sinnes
           haue
           brought
           mee
           ;
           but
           assuring
           my selfe
           ,
           that
           you
           will
           be
           imitators
           of
           the
           Mercie
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Grace
           of
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           our
           Lord
           Iesus
           Christ
           ;
           who
           desireth
           not
           the
           death
           of
           a
           Sinner
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           should
           conuert
           and
           be
           saued
           ;
           it
           maketh
           me
           doe
           that
           vnto
           you
           ,
           which
           the
           diseased
           person
           doth
           vnto
           the
           Phisition
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           to
           discouer
           the
           Griefes
           of
           my
           heart
           ,
           and
           the
           Wounds
           of
           my
           soule
           .
        
         
           Beloued
           breathren
           ,
           in
           mee
           you
           see
           and
           behold
           the
           paterne
           and
           spectacle
           of
           the
           iust
           Iudgement
           of
           God
           vpon
           man
           ,
           who
           hauing
           acknowledged
           Iesus
           Christ
           for
           my
           Sauiour
           ,
           trode
           his
           Word
           vnder
           my
           feete
           ,
           and
           made
           no
           account
           of
           his
           holy
           Ordinaunces
           ;
           and
           therefore
           God
           as
           a
           iust
           Iudge
           ,
           set
           me
           vpon
           the
           scaffold
           of
           his
           Wrath
           and
           Indignation
           ;
           because
           I
           would
           seeme
           to
           be
           Wise
           in
           my selfe
           ,
           forgetting
           the
           indignitie
           and
           miserie
           of
           my
           estate
           ,
           I
           haue
           grieued
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           which
           had
           registred
           mee
           in
           the
           Cathalogue
           of
           the
           blessed
           ;
           certainely
           I
           had
           been
           most
           happie
           ,
           if
           at
           the
           issuing
           foorth
           of
           my
           Mothers
           Wombe
           ,
           I
           had
           been
           buried
           ,
           without
           euer
           seeing
           the
           light
           of
           this
           World
           ,
           seeing
           that
           by
           my
           sinnes
           ,
           I
           haue
           subiected
           my
           vncertaine
           dayes
           ,
           vnto
           so
           many
           outrages
           and
           griefes
           :
           For
           ▪
           is
           there
           any
           man
           that
           hath
           receiued
           more
           benefites
           at
           the
           holy
           and
           liberall
           handes
           of
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           then
           I
           ?
           Who
           from
           my
           youth
           vpwardes
           ,
           was
           brought
           vp
           and
           nourished
           in
           the
           most
           excellent
           Schooles
           that
           are
           in
           Christendome
           ;
           hauing
           had
           a
           Father
           ,
           that
           spared
           no
           thing
           to
           bring
           me
           vp
           in
           Learning
           ,
           Vertue
           ,
           and
           Pietie
           ,
           and
           that
           shewed
           me
           an
           example
           of
           Constancie
           and
           Fidelitie
           ;
           hauing
           suffered
           death
           for
           professing
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Lord.
           But
           ,
           as
           if
           God
           had
           done
           me
           wrong
           ,
           to
           continue
           his
           graces
           and
           great
           mercies
           vnto
           me
           ,
           I
           became
           the
           most
           filthy
           &
           beastly
           
           Apostate
           that
           euer
           was
           in
           the
           World
           ;
           I
           say
           the
           most
           filthy
           :
           for
           ,
           consider
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           the
           Apostacies
           which
           were
           in
           times
           past
           in
           the
           auncient
           Church
           ,
           specially
           during
           the
           tenne
           great
           Persecutions
           from
           Nero
           to
           Constantine
           the
           great
           ;
           and
           the
           eleuenth
           ,
           which
           was
           vnder
           Iuhan
           that
           wicked
           Apostate
           ,
           which
           caused
           so
           many
           Reuoltes
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           when
           so
           many
           great
           persons
           made
           shipwracke
           of
           the
           Fayth
           .
        
         
           Consider
           also
           the
           Apostacies
           that
           haue
           been
           committed
           in
           our
           dayes
           ,
           and
           you
           shall
           see
           ,
           if
           you
           can
           sinde
           the
           like
           to
           mine
           ?
           That
           a
           Seruant
           of
           God
           ,
           nourished
           and
           brought
           vp
           at
           the
           feete
           of
           true
           Doctors
           ,
           the
           Sonne
           of
           a
           Martire
           ,
           one
           that
           preached
           the
           Ghospell
           17.
           or
           18.
           yeares
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           edification
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           when
           the
           Swordes
           of
           Tirantes
           made
           all
           publike
           places
           in
           the
           Netherlandes
           redde
           with
           humaine
           blood
           ,
           I
           reputed
           my selfe
           not
           onely
           happy
           to
           beleeue
           and
           anounce
           Iesus
           Christ
           ;
           but
           with
           the
           losse
           of
           my
           goodes
           to
           indure
           all
           sortes
           of
           oprobyes
           and
           slaunders
           for
           his
           name
           ;
           in
           ,
           and
           by
           whom
           I
           beleeued
           and
           spake
           .
           And
           yet
           neuerthelesse
           afterward
           ,
           with
           so
           great
           scandale
           ,
           hauing
           made
           my selfe
           a
           Disciple
           of
           Antechrist
           ,
           Who
           would
           not
           be
           abashed
           ,
           and
           abhorre
           such
           an
           offence
           ?
        
         
           And
           therefore
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           I
           openly
           cry
           out
           and
           confesse
           ,
           that
           my
           Sinne
           is
           not
           like
           vnto
           other
           mens
           sinnes
           ;
           for
           if
           any
           man
           sinneth
           by
           ignoraunce
           or
           infirmitie
           ,
           hee
           shall
           finde
           a
           Mediatour
           which
           will
           pray
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           it
           shall
           be
           pardoned
           :
           but
           who
           shall
           be
           my
           Mediatour
           ?
           I
           haue
           offended
           God
           and
           all
           his
           Seruantes
           ;
           I
           haue
           scandalized
           his
           people
           ,
           and
           haue
           made
           my selfe
           vnworthy
           of
           the
           commiseration
           of
           honest
           men
           :
           Therefore
           the
           dolors
           of
           death
           eternall
           haue
           compassed
           me
           about
           ,
           and
           the
           tempestes
           of
           my
           iniquitie
           haue
           abashed
           me
           ;
           for
           the
           Arrowes
           of
           Almightie
           God
           haue
           wounded
           my
           soule
           in
           such
           maner
           ,
           that
           no
           part
           of
           my
           Flesh
           ,
           nor
           any
           of
           my
           Vaines
           are
           whole
           ,
           so
           much
           my
           mischiefe
           increaseth
           :
           my
           Heart
           panteth
           and
           
           beateth
           in
           my
           breast
           with
           griefe
           ,
           my
           Bones
           are
           weakened
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           great
           distresse
           ,
           which
           I
           indure
           by
           meanes
           of
           my
           wicked
           action
           .
        
         
           Behold
           how
           those
           that
           abandonate
           them-selues
           vnto
           Vanities
           ,
           are
           forsaken
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           owne
           grauitie
           .
           It
           is
           a
           horrible
           thing
           to
           fall
           into
           the
           handes
           of
           the
           liuing
           God
           ,
           and
           to
           abiure
           his
           Trueth
           ,
           once
           knowne
           .
        
         
           What
           shall
           I
           doe
           ?
           shall
           I
           despaire
           ?
           Must
           I
           at
           my
           departure
           out
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           attend
           and
           expect
           the
           reward
           of
           Cain
           and
           ludas
           ,
           and
           say
           with
           those
           miserable
           Apostates
           ;
           My
           Sinnes
           are
           greater
           then
           the
           Mercie
           of
           God
           ?
           No
           ,
           I
           will
           not
           despaire
           ;
           for
           I
           know
           ,
           the
           eternall
           God
           is
           good
           ;
           that
           his
           Mercie
           surmounteth
           all
           the
           Heauens
           ,
           that
           he
           desireth
           not
           the
           death
           of
           a
           Sinner
           but
           rather
           that
           he
           should
           repent
           and
           be
           saued
           ;
           and
           that
           incessantly
           he
           pardoneth
           and
           forgiueth
           his
           elect
           .
        
         
           He
           pittieth
           true
           repentant
           sinners
           ,
           be
           they
           neuer
           so
           miserable
           and
           great
           offenders
           :
           and
           where
           Sinne
           aboundeth
           ,
           his
           Grace
           super-aboundeth
           .
        
         
           I
           haue
           met
           with
           my
           Mediatour
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           my
           soueraine
           Sacrificator
           ,
           who
           can
           and
           will
           haue
           compassion
           of
           my
           infirmities
           :
           but
           more
           then
           that
           ,
           his
           voyce
           and
           his
           example
           sommon
           ,
           induce
           ;
           yea
           and
           lead
           me
           to
           approch
           
           neere
           vnto
           him
           .
           Come
           vnto
           mee
           (
           sayth
           hee
           )
           all
           you
           that
           are
           heauie
           laden
           and
           wearie
           ,
           and
           I
           will
           refresh
           you
           .
           And
           
           againe
           ,
           Come
           now
           (
           saith
           the
           Eternall
           ,
           )
           if
           your
           Sinnes
           were
           as
           redde
           as
           Scarlet
           ,
           I
           will
           make
           them
           as
           white
           as
           Snow
           :
           and
           if
           they
           were
           as
           redde
           as
           Vermilion
           ,
           I
           will
           make
           them
           white
           like
           Wooll
           .
        
         
           When
           a
           man
           of
           credite
           speaketh
           ,
           wee
           beleeue
           him
           :
           how
           much
           more
           then
           ought
           we
           to
           beleeue
           the
           mouth
           of
           him
           that
           can
           not
           lie
           ?
           It
           is
           hee
           that
           sanctifieth
           my
           afflictions
           ,
           to
           the
           ende
           that
           they
           should
           not
           bee
           the
           entry
           vnto
           eternall
           paine
           .
        
         
           I
           haue
           likewise
           set
           before
           mine
           eyes
           ,
           an
           infinite
           number
           of
           examples
           of
           his
           pietie
           towardes
           Sinners
           .
           The
           poore
           
           Publican
           casting
           downe
           his
           eyes
           to
           the
           ground
           ,
           crauing
           
           mercie
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           returned
           home
           iustified
           .
           The
           sinfull
           woman
           washed
           our
           Sauiours
           feete
           with
           her
           teares
           ;
           and
           hauing
           wipt
           them
           with
           her
           haire
           ,
           obtayned
           pardon
           of
           her
           finnes
           .
           The
           poore
           Theefe
           being
           hanged
           vpon
           the
           Crosse
           ,
           desiring
           to
           be
           saued
           ,
           and
           calling
           vpon
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           assended
           from
           the
           Crosse
           into
           Paradise
           .
           S.
           Peter
           hauing
           three
           
           times
           denied
           his
           good
           Maister
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           bewayled
           his
           sinnes
           with
           humilitie
           and
           repentance
           ,
           lost
           not
           the
           grace
           of
           an
           Apostle
           ,
           but
           was
           reestablished
           in
           his
           estate
           and
           vocation
           
        
         
           I
           call
           to
           minde
           great
           and
           inorare
           sinnes
           ,
           cruelties
           ,
           and
           wicked
           Apostasies
           committed
           against
           God
           ,
           and
           his
           Prophets
           by
           King
           Manasses
           ,
           who
           neuer
           the
           lesse
           being
           Prisoner
           in
           Babilon
           ,
           and
           finding
           his
           Conscience
           to
           be
           much
           pressed
           with
           the
           feeling
           of
           his
           wickednes
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           confessed
           his
           faultes
           vnto
           God
           ,
           he
           was
           receiued
           into
           mercie
           .
           Jonas
           flying
           away
           frō
           the
           face
           of
           God
           &
           from
           his
           presence
           in
           Tarsis
           ,
           because
           he
           would
           not
           follow
           his
           vocation
           ,
           was
           cast
           into
           the
           Sea
           ;
           and
           after
           being
           miraculously
           deliuered
           out
           of
           the
           Whales
           belly
           ,
           went
           to
           Ninine
           to
           declare
           his
           Commission
           .
        
         
           All
           these
           examples
           haue
           made
           me
           know
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           exceeding
           good
           to
           those
           that
           seeke
           him
           ;
           who
           pardoneth
           all
           our
           infirmities
           :
           hee
           is
           so
           good
           ,
           that
           hee
           will
           neuer
           reward
           vs
           according
           to
           our
           sinnes
           ,
           for
           he
           is
           prompt
           to
           Mercie
           ,
           and
           slow
           to
           Anger
           ;
           and
           hee
           is
           the
           perfection
           of
           all
           goodnesse
           .
        
         
           Vp
           then
           my
           soule
           ,
           and
           prayse
           God
           :
           and
           thou
           Sathan
           my
           aduersarie
           ,
           present
           no
           more
           vnto
           mee
           the
           inormitie
           of
           my
           apostacie
           ,
           thinking
           to
           astonish
           my
           conscience
           ,
           for
           the
           mercifull
           God
           of
           my
           continuall
           complaintes
           ,
           hath
           heard
           my
           voyce
           ,
           he
           hath
           receaued
           my
           request
           ,
           and
           hath
           graunted
           me
           more
           then
           I
           asked
           him
           :
           All
           my
           enemies
           shall
           be
           ashamed
           and
           confounded
           ,
           neither
           could
           Sathan
           be
           
           both
           my
           Iudge
           and
           my
           Accuser
           ,
           for
           it
           was
           God
           whom
           I
           
           had
           offended
           ,
           who
           onely
           is
           my
           Iudge
           :
           If
           therefore
           he
           is
           my
           Iudge
           ,
           who
           dares
           take
           vpon
           him
           to
           condeme
           me
           ?
           If
           he
           be
           with
           me
           ,
           who
           can
           be
           against
           me
           ?
           and
           if
           my
           Iudge
           will
           be
           my
           Aduocate
           and
           my
           Intercessor
           ,
           why
           should
           I
           feare
           the
           power
           and
           force
           of
           the
           Diuell
           ,
           &
           Tirants
           ,
           although
           they
           sought
           to
           assayle
           me
           ?
        
         
           And
           therefore
           being
           in
           this
           sortresolued
           ,
           I
           determine
           to
           doe
           two
           thinges
           :
           The
           one
           following
           the
           example
           of
           
           the
           Prodigall
           Childe
           ,
           to
           returne
           to
           my
           Countrie
           ,
           and
           my
           Fathers
           house
           againe
           ,
           I
           know
           he
           is
           mercifull
           ,
           and
           that
           although
           by
           my
           sinnes
           I
           haue
           lost
           his
           fauour
           ,
           yet
           he
           will
           neuer
           leaue
           nor
           loose
           his
           bountie
           .
           I
           will
           willingly
           forsake
           the
           company
           and
           fellowship
           of
           those
           filthy
           Beastes
           ▪
           with
           whom
           I
           haue
           so
           long
           time
           conuersed
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           the
           Romane
           Antechrist
           the
           Sonne
           of
           perdition
           ,
           that
           lifteth
           and
           opposeth
           himselfe
           against
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           the
           sonne
           of
           God
           ;
           and
           that
           vnder
           a
           false
           title
           of
           Pietie
           ,
           at
           this
           day
           tiraniseth
           ouer
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           desiring
           to
           satisfie
           his
           couetous
           humour
           with
           crueltie
           and
           ambition
           .
           I
           will
           willingly
           abandon
           that
           sorrowfull
           habitation
           ,
           so
           odious
           and
           infamous
           ,
           and
           will
           put
           on
           the
           Roabe
           of
           Humilitie
           ,
           to
           present
           my
           Father
           with
           a
           true
           and
           sinceere
           contrition
           and
           confession
           of
           my
           faultes
           and
           offences
           .
           My
           contrition
           shall
           be
           a
           disliking
           and
           detestation
           of
           my
           sinnes
           committed
           ,
           a
           trouble
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           apprehending
           and
           feeling
           in
           my
           Soule
           ,
           the
           wrath
           and
           anger
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           I
           haue
           incurred
           and
           deserued
           by
           my
           offences
           ,
           which
           would
           cause
           me
           to
           despaire
           ,
           if
           I
           were
           not
           strengthned
           an
           other
           way
           ;
           which
           is
           by
           a
           true
           and
           liuely
           faith
           in
           the
           mercie
           of
           God
           ;
           by
           the
           which
           after
           I
           haue
           truly
           &
           duely
           confessed
           my
           sinnes
           ,
           I
           depose
           my selfe
           by
           faith
           to
           mount
           vp
           vnto
           the
           throane
           of
           grace
           ,
           to
           obtaine
           one
           drop
           of
           the
           Blood
           of
           our
           Lord
           and
           Sauiour
           Iesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           I
           haue
           sayd
           within
           my selfe
           ,
           I
           will
           seeke
           the
           face
           of
           God
           :
           But
           where
           shall
           I
           find
           it
           ,
           but
           there
           where
           his
           Word
           is
           faythfully
           preached
           ,
           and
           the
           Sacramentes
           truely
           
           administred
           ?
           This
           Church
           so
           well
           marked
           ,
           was
           once
           my
           Mother
           ;
           she
           conceaued
           and
           brought
           me
           foorth
           to
           Christ
           my
           Sauiour
           :
           she
           had
           giuen
           me
           many
           faire
           &
           great
           prerogatiues
           ;
           for
           she
           had
           committed
           vnto
           me
           the
           keeping
           of
           her
           Spouses
           Flocke
           ;
           but
           I
           was
           one
           of
           those
           foolish
           Shepheardes
           ,
           (
           of
           whom
           the
           Prophet
           Ezecheel
           in
           his
           13.
           
           Chapter
           of
           his
           Reuelations
           speaketh
           ,
           )
           which
           follow
           their
           owne
           fantasies
           ,
           and
           haue
           no
           care
           to
           execute
           their
           Offices
           and
           Vocations
           ;
           and
           therefore
           God
           ,
           the
           iust
           Iudge
           ,
           was
           angrie
           with
           me
           ;
           he
           dispoyled
           me
           of
           his
           fauours
           ,
           which
           were
           the
           singuler
           giftes
           &
           graces
           wherwith
           he
           had
           indowed
           me
           in
           my
           youth
           ;
           and
           hath
           made
           me
           eate
           with
           Beastes
           ,
           as
           he
           did
           the
           Prodigall
           Child
           :
           Yet
           I
           can
           not
           forget
           the
           loue
           which
           once
           she
           bore
           me
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           haue
           aproched
           vnto
           her
           againe
           ,
           hoping
           that
           she
           will
           be
           a
           follower
           of
           the
           bountie
           of
           God
           to
           wardes
           me
           asking
           two
           things
           of
           her
           :
           The
           one
           ,
           that
           she
           will
           vouchsafe
           to
           pray
           vnto
           God
           for
           me
           ;
           for
           as
           issue
           of
           all
           enterprises
           dependeth
           vpon
           the
           fauour
           of
           God
           ,
           (
           without
           the
           which
           we
           can
           doe
           nothing
           ,
           )
           it
           is
           reason
           and
           very
           fitte
           to
           begin
           so
           holy
           a
           worke
           ,
           with
           the
           inuocation
           of
           his
           holy
           name
           :
           The
           other
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           great
           perturbation
           of
           Spirit
           whereunto
           my
           intemperaunce
           hath
           brought
           me
           ,
           she
           will
           vouchsafe
           to
           giue
           me
           counsell
           and
           aduise
           ,
           for
           that
           from
           hence-foorth
           I
           will
           no
           more
           be
           wise
           in
           mine
           owne
           conceite
           ,
           but
           onely
           in
           God
           ;
           in
           whom
           consisteth
           the
           spring
           of
           Life
           and
           Wisedome
           .
        
         
           I
           was
           then
           in
           an
           obscure
           and
           blacke
           Prison
           ,
           wherein
           Antechrist
           of
           Rome
           had
           caused
           me
           to
           be
           cast
           without
           any
           hope
           euer
           to
           come
           out
           againe
           .
           My
           Accusations
           were
           ;
           That
           beeing
           Seruant
           to
           the
           Dutchesse
           of
           Cleaue
           ,
           I
           had
           been
           a
           Fauteur
           &
           Mediator
           for
           the
           Churches
           which
           our
           Lord
           had
           assembled
           in
           the
           Dukedomes
           of
           
             Inlyers
             ,
             Cleaue
          
           ,
           and
           Bergh
           ,
           hindring
           diuers
           sinister
           enterprises
           pretended
           against
           them
           .
           The
           rigor
           which
           they
           vsed
           against
           me
           was
           great
           ,
           and
           my
           life
           was
           in
           danger
           ,
           if
           the
           hatred
           of
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           persons
           ,
           which
           were
           the
           cause
           of
           my
           mischief
           ,
           
           had
           had
           as
           much
           place
           and
           force
           ,
           as
           the
           benignitie
           and
           prudence
           of
           the
           noble
           Princesse
           of
           Lorraine
           had
           power
           to
           defend
           and
           preserue
           me
           from
           their
           cruelties
           .
        
         
           Being
           in
           my
           sorrowfull
           Prison
           ,
           abandoned
           of
           all
           the
           World
           ,
           when
           it
           seemed
           that
           I
           was
           at
           the
           poynt
           of
           death
           ;
           and
           that
           Heauen
           and
           Earth
           had
           conspired
           togeather
           ,
           and
           agreed
           to
           worke
           my
           ouerthrow
           and
           destruction
           ,
           I
           desired
           my
           God
           ,
           to
           let
           me
           know
           the
           cause
           of
           his
           wrath
           and
           anger
           conceaued
           against
           me
           ;
           who
           sufficiently
           made
           me
           vnderstand
           by
           his
           holy
           Spirit
           ,
           that
           my
           apostacie
           was
           the
           only
           cause
           thereof
           .
           I
           lamented
           my
           euill
           ;
           I
           fainted
           vnder
           the
           burthen
           of
           my
           anguish
           ;
           I
           washed
           my
           Bedde
           with
           teares
           ,
           and
           watered
           my
           Couch
           with
           weeping
           ;
           and
           without
           longer
           delay
           ,
           I
           made
           a
           Vow
           agreeable
           and
           pleasing
           vnto
           God
           :
           which
           was
           ,
           that
           if
           he
           would
           vouchsafe
           to
           deliuer
           me
           out
           of
           Prison
           ,
           and
           to
           restore
           me
           to
           my
           friendes
           againe
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           first
           reformed
           Church
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           I
           should
           come
           vnto
           ,
           I
           would
           certifie
           vnto
           it
           my
           affliction
           ,
           &
           my
           desire
           ;
           which
           was
           ,
           to
           cry
           God
           mercie
           ,
           &
           to
           extirpe
           the
           Scandale
           proceeded
           of
           my
           Apostacie
           ,
           by
           the
           way
           of
           humilitie
           &
           repentance
           .
           The
           Lord
           which
           doth
           all
           things
           iustly
           ,
           heard
           my
           Prayer
           ,
           he
           receaued
           my
           request
           ,
           he
           graunted
           my
           desire
           ,
           he
           brake
           my
           bands
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           Prisoner
           ,
           made
           me
           free
           .
           It
           is
           reason
           therefore
           that
           I
           performe
           my
           Vowes
           :
           I
           haue
           not
           done
           like
           Ionas
           ,
           who
           in
           stead
           of
           going
           to
           Niniue
           the
           great
           Citie
           ,
           tooke
           the
           way
           to
           Tarsis
           :
           nor
           
           like
           the
           wife
           of
           Lot
           ,
           who
           looking
           backe
           whē
           she
           went
           out
           of
           
             Sodoma
             &
             Gomora
          
           ,
           was
           turned
           into
           a
           Piller
           of
           Salt.
           Our
           Lord
           also
           saith
           ,
           That
           hee
           which
           putteth
           his
           hand
           to
           the
           Plough
           ,
           &
           looketh
           backe
           ,
           is
           not
           good
           for
           the
           kingome
           of
           heauen
           :
           therfore
           I
           esteemed
           the
           things
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           hurtfull
           and
           a
           hinderaunce
           vnto
           the
           couers
           of
           my
           vacation
           :
           &
           taking
           my
           way
           straight
           to
           this
           Church
           which
           had
           ingendred
           me
           in
           Christ
           ,
           with
           teares
           in
           my
           eyes
           ,
           and
           griefe
           of
           heart
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           with
           the
           feeling
           of
           my
           temporall
           afflictions
           ,
           as
           for
           that
           I
           haue
           offended
           :
           I
           asked
           two
           things
           of
           
           her
           ;
           the
           one
           ,
           if
           that
           the
           way
           of
           Repentance
           should
           yet
           be
           open
           vnto
           me
           ?
           and
           the
           other
           ,
           what
           penaunce
           I
           deserued
           ,
           or
           should
           submit
           my selfe
           vnto
           ,
           to
           deface
           the
           euill
           which
           I
           had
           committed
           ?
           Shee
           made
           me
           answere
           ;
           that
           God
           neuer
           shutteth
           the
           Gate
           of
           his
           Church
           against
           any
           man
           ,
           truely
           repenting
           :
           and
           hauing
           considered
           my
           teares
           and
           complaintes
           ,
           and
           the
           effectes
           of
           my
           contrition
           ,
           she
           did
           charitably
           comfort
           and
           instruct
           me
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           with
           ioy
           and
           gladnesse
           of
           spirit
           come
           out
           of
           Babilon
           ,
           Mother
           of
           Confusion
           ,
           which
           had
           lifted
           me
           vp
           in
           pride
           against
           God
           and
           his
           Church
           ;
           which
           fostered
           in
           my
           foule
           ,
           not
           onely
           a
           perpetuall
           dolour
           and
           anguish
           ,
           but
           an
           executioner
           which
           neuer
           let
           me
           rest
           in
           peace
           night
           nor
           day
           .
           For
           the
           which
           ,
           infinitely
           I
           thanke
           my
           God
           ,
           that
           in
           my
           old
           age
           ,
           and
           before
           I
           goe
           downe
           into
           the
           Sepulchre
           ,
           after
           hee
           had
           fatherly
           punished
           mee
           with
           so
           long
           and
           horrible
           Imprisonment
           ;
           he
           hath
           this
           day
           restored
           me
           to
           my
           Mother
           his
           Church
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Temple
           and
           Habitation
           of
           his
           Spirit
           :
           in
           the
           vertue
           whereof
           ,
           I
           beseech
           him
           to
           blesse
           and
           sanctifie
           my
           steppes
           to
           his
           glorie
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           me
           capiable
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           continue
           his
           most
           humble
           and
           obedient
           seruant
           .
        
         
           Oh
           happie
           Prison
           ,
           which
           hath
           deliuered
           my
           soule
           from
           destruction
           !
           and
           taking
           me
           by
           the
           hand
           ,
           to
           lead
           and
           conduct
           me
           by
           the
           pathes
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           to
           the
           Peace
           of
           the
           Elect
           :
           Who
           would
           not
           admire
           the
           great
           effectes
           of
           the
           prouidence
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           in
           most
           desperate
           thinges
           ,
           can
           withdraw
           the
           shadow
           of
           darknesse
           ,
           to
           illuminate
           and
           direct
           our
           vncertaine
           steppes
           ,
           to
           follow
           his
           will
           ?
           Behold
           how
           it
           happeneth
           many
           times
           ,
           that
           that
           which
           we
           thinke
           would
           be
           most
           hurtfull
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           turneth
           vnto
           our
           great
           profit
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           Prison
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           which
           I
           am
           deliuered
           ,
           without
           any
           blot
           of
           mine
           honour
           ,
           hath
           done
           that
           in
           me
           ,
           which
           the
           Prison
           in
           Babilon
           sometimes
           wrought
           in
           King
           Manasses
           :
           So
           that
           I
           will
           not
           cease
           euery
           day
           to
           giue
           thankes
           vnto
           our
           
           good
           God
           ,
           who
           euen
           in
           the
           multitude
           and
           greatest
           force
           of
           my
           afflictions
           ,
           did
           alwayes
           support
           and
           vpholde
           my
           Soule
           in
           such
           libertie
           ,
           that
           it
           seemeth
           that
           how
           strong
           and
           great
           soeuer
           my
           troubles
           were
           ,
           they
           had
           power
           onely
           to
           ouercome
           and
           master
           my
           particular
           Passions
           ,
           and
           to
           eleuate
           my
           Spirit
           to
           Heauen
           ;
           to
           make
           me
           so
           much
           the
           more
           capiable
           to
           obtaine
           of
           God
           the
           assuraunce
           of
           his
           mercie
           ,
           by
           dispoyling
           me
           of
           the
           transitorie
           &
           corruptible
           thinges
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           to
           eleuate
           and
           stirre
           mee
           vp
           to
           thinges
           glorious
           and
           eternall
           .
           For
           as
           much
           trouble
           and
           disquietnesse
           as
           my
           imprisonment
           procured
           vnto
           my
           bodie
           ,
           so
           much
           and
           more
           force
           and
           resolution
           it
           added
           vnto
           my
           soule
           .
           It
           is
           true
           that
           Pietie
           is
           weakened
           ,
           by
           too
           great
           Felicitie
           :
           but
           the
           Crosse
           and
           Persecution
           accompanied
           with
           a
           good
           Conscience
           ,
           maketh
           it
           become
           an
           assured
           Bulwarke
           against
           all
           the
           effortes
           and
           forces
           of
           the
           Diuell
           .
           And
           in
           trueth
           we
           see
           ,
           that
           those
           whom
           God
           punisheth
           grieuously
           in
           this
           world
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           part
           are
           they
           ,
           whom
           he
           instructeth
           most
           fauourably
           ;
           in
           such
           maner
           ,
           that
           to
           speake
           properly
           ,
           the
           euils
           which
           God
           sent
           me
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           indured
           patiently
           ,
           were
           no
           euils
           vnto
           me
           ,
           but
           sharpned
           and
           stirred
           vp
           my
           spirit
           to
           soueraigne
           good
           .
        
         
           Certainely
           that
           which
           Plato
           sayth
           ,
           is
           very
           true
           ;
           That
           those
           that
           are
           in
           griefes
           and
           anguishes
           ,
           haue
           the
           functions
           and
           faculties
           of
           the
           Soule
           more
           excellent
           ,
           then
           in
           time
           of
           prosperitie
           .
           But
           that
           which
           maketh
           me
           most
           to
           woonder
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           as
           much
           as
           my
           afflictions
           separated
           me
           from
           the
           House
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           companie
           of
           the
           Faithfull
           ;
           so
           much
           it
           seemeth
           ,
           that
           they
           augmented
           and
           increased
           the
           former
           affection
           which
           I
           had
           ,
           to
           reunite
           my selfe
           thereunto
           ,
           and
           to
           leaue
           Papistrie
           .
        
         
           A
           good
           man
           ,
           can
           not
           shunne
           aduersities
           ;
           but
           hee
           may
           well
           surmount
           and
           vanquish
           them
           :
           and
           Although
           he
           seemeth
           vnto
           men
           ,
           to
           be
           wholly
           abandoned
           and
           reiected
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           middle
           of
           his
           troubles
           ,
           he
           alwayes
           enioyeth
           a
           perfect
           felicitie
           ,
           the
           which
           hath
           sworne
           to
           be
           so
           loyall
           
           vnto
           him
           ,
           that
           whatsoeuer
           hapneth
           vnto
           him
           ,
           shee
           is
           alwayes
           with
           him
           ,
           shee
           is
           alwayes
           within
           him
           ,
           and
           maintayneth
           his
           Soule
           in
           such
           an
           estate
           ,
           that
           in
           what
           condition
           soeuer
           shee
           findeth
           her selfe
           to
           be
           ,
           shee
           is
           alwayes
           like
           vnto
           her selfe
           ,
           being
           so
           highly
           eleuated
           aboue
           the
           accidentes
           of
           humaine
           thinges
           ,
           that
           shee
           can
           not
           receiue
           any
           hurt
           or
           disgrace
           .
        
         
           Seing
           then
           that
           the
           word
           of
           God
           teacheth
           vs
           ,
           that
           hee
           which
           hath
           publikely
           offended
           the
           Church
           ,
           ought
           to
           confesse
           and
           acknowledge
           his
           fault
           openly
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           the
           Order
           of
           Ecclesiasticall
           discipline
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           practiseth
           the
           same
           :
           I
           haue
           desired
           that
           my
           returne
           into
           the
           House
           of
           God
           ,
           should
           be
           publikely
           made
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           middle
           of
           this
           notable
           congregation
           of
           the
           Children
           of
           God
           ,
           in
           this
           Towne
           of
           Wezel●
           ;
           and
           that
           not
           onely
           because
           of
           the
           knowledge
           which
           I
           haue
           of
           so
           many
           Prerogatiues
           which
           our
           Lord
           hath
           giuen
           it
           ,
           as
           being
           the
           auncient
           receptacle
           of
           poore
           afflicted
           Christians
           ;
           hauing
           purged
           it
           from
           the
           darkenesse
           of
           errours
           &
           ignorances
           of
           the
           Romish
           Wolfe
           ,
           for
           the
           space
           of
           70.
           yeares
           and
           more
           ;
           and
           miraculously
           defended
           and
           preserued
           it
           from
           a
           thousand
           and
           a
           thousand
           outrages
           ,
           ambuscadoes
           ,
           and
           sinister
           enterprises
           of
           Tirantes
           ;
           whereof
           I
           am
           partly
           an
           eye-witnesse
           .
           And
           thus
           much
           more
           ,
           for
           that
           I
           know
           that
           at
           this
           present
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           notable
           companie
           ,
           there
           are
           yet
           many
           of
           you
           that
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           subiect
           and
           ground
           of
           the
           anger
           of
           those
           that
           persecuted
           mee
           ,
           proceedeth
           from
           this
           ;
           that
           duering
           the
           time
           of
           my
           continuance
           in
           the
           seruice
           of
           the
           noble
           House
           of
           Cleaue
           ,
           I
           did
           charitably
           succour
           the
           afflicted
           Churches
           ,
           which
           Antechrist
           and
           his
           supporters
           sought
           and
           inforced
           them selues
           to
           ruinate
           and
           ouerthrow
           .
           Knowing
           then
           ,
           that
           with
           the
           cause
           of
           my
           afflictions
           ,
           the
           cause
           of
           fauouring
           of
           your
           Churches
           (
           and
           particularly
           of
           that
           which
           our
           Lord
           hath
           assembled
           in
           this
           Towne
           ,
           )
           was
           ioyned
           :
           I
           assure
           my selfe
           ,
           that
           you
           will
           haue
           compassion
           of
           the
           griefes
           which
           I
           feele
           at
           my
           heart
           ,
           for
           hauing
           offended
           
           God
           ,
           that
           in
           respect
           of
           me
           ,
           you
           will
           doe
           as
           God
           presently
           doth
           ;
           who
           hauing
           opened
           the
           eyes
           of
           my
           vnderstanding
           ,
           hath
           taken
           my
           sinnes
           and
           cast
           them
           behind
           his
           backe
           :
           hee
           hath
           throwne
           them
           into
           the
           deepe
           Sea
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           not
           lay
           them
           any
           more
           to
           my
           charge
           :
           whereof
           not
           onely
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           beareth
           me
           witnesse
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           ordinarie
           ministerie
           which
           it
           hath
           pleased
           him
           to
           establish
           in
           his
           Church
           ,
           giueth
           me
           euident
           and
           manifest
           assurances
           ,
           beseeching
           you
           to
           haue
           pittie
           on
           mee
           ;
           and
           casting
           from
           before
           your
           eyes
           the
           scandale
           which
           I
           haue
           committed
           :
           restore
           me
           to
           that
           alacritie
           of
           spirite
           which
           in
           times
           past
           my
           heart
           enioyed
           ,
           when
           holding
           each
           other
           by
           the
           hands
           ,
           we
           ascended
           with
           ioy
           to
           the
           Mountaine
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           seeking
           the
           God
           of
           lacob
           ,
           with
           Songes
           and
           Thankes-giuing
           ,
           because
           he
           had
           made
           vs
           members
           of
           his
           Sonne
           Christ
           Iesus
           ;
           whereby
           in
           this
           temporall
           life
           you
           shall
           do
           that
           which
           God
           doth
           in
           the
           spirituall
           life
           ,
           in
           comforting
           the
           afflicted
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           truely
           stricken
           with
           vnfeigned
           sorrow
           &
           remorse
           of
           their
           sinnes
           :
           for
           as
           by
           his
           goodnesse
           and
           bountie
           he
           relieueth
           and
           strengthneth
           them
           ;
           so
           he
           that
           loueth
           clemencie
           and
           mercie
           ,
           maketh
           himselfe
           worthy
           and
           capiable
           both
           of
           the
           Joue
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           world
           .
        
         
           Let
           your
           hearts
           then
           be
           mooued
           with
           my
           sigthes
           ,
           &
           by
           bereauing
           your selues
           of
           the
           remembrance
           of
           my
           faultes
           ;
           therein
           shew
           your selues
           as
           strong
           as
           my
           wickednesse
           is
           great
           :
           my
           brused
           bones
           shall
           reioyce
           ,
           my
           tongue
           shall
           openly
           sing
           the
           prayse
           of
           the
           Lord
           ;
           my
           closed
           lippes
           shall
           open
           againe
           ,
           highly
           to
           thunder
           foorth
           his
           Iustice
           :
           I
           will
           teach
           his
           wayes
           to
           those
           that
           transgresse
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           such
           as
           haue
           done
           ,
           as
           I
           haue
           done
           against
           the
           Lord
           ,
           may
           willingly
           conuert
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           assured
           that
           you
           will
           graunt
           my
           request
           ,
           for
           I
           perceiue
           your
           bowels
           to
           be
           mooued
           and
           proane
           to
           mercie
           ;
           your
           countenaunces
           are
           witnesses
           vnto
           me
           of
           your
           charitic
           ;
           and
           your
           teares
           ,
           of
           the
           griefe
           you
           haue
           in
           your
           hearts
           .
           I
           likewise
           will
           neuer
           beleeue
           that
           there
           is
           any
           man
           in
           this
           
           holy
           assemblie
           ,
           that
           will
           be
           an
           Imitator
           of
           the
           rudenes
           and
           inhumanitie
           of
           the
           brother
           of
           the
           Prodigall
           child
           ,
           that
           
           murmured
           at
           the
           liberalitie
           vsed
           by
           his
           father
           ,
           when
           he
           receiued
           his
           brother
           home
           againe
           .
           The
           House
           of
           God
           is
           great
           and
           wide
           and
           his
           Tablemost
           rich
           ,
           to
           receiue
           &
           nourish
           vs
           all
           .
           Our
           Lord
           saith
           ,
           that
           the
           Shepheard
           reioyced
           to
           haue
           found
           his
           lost
           Sheepe
           .
           The
           Woman
           that
           had
           lost
           her
           Groat
           ,
           reioyced
           with
           her
           friendes
           for
           the
           finding
           of
           it
           againe
           :
           and
           the
           good
           Father
           for
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           which
           had
           offended
           him
           so
           many
           and
           so
           often
           times
           .
           And
           will
           not
           you
           reioyce
           with
           the
           holy
           Angels
           ,
           for
           the
           honour
           which
           God
           hath
           done
           vnto
           me
           ,
           this
           day
           to
           haue
           receiued
           me
           into
           his
           Church
           ;
           from
           the
           which
           Sathan
           ,
           enimie
           to
           Iustice
           and
           truth
           ,
           had
           separated
           me
           ,
           &
           almost
           destroied
           me
           ,
           if
           God
           had
           not
           bin
           merciful
           vnto
           me
           ?
           But
           he
           hath
           lost
           his
           prey
           ,
           he
           hath
           spent
           his
           time
           in
           vaine
           ,
           he
           remembred
           not
           that
           God
           is
           my
           Father
           ,
           that
           his
           Christ
           is
           my
           Mediator
           ;
           he
           knew
           not
           that
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           had
           registred
           me
           in
           the
           booke
           of
           Life
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           cathalogue
           of
           the
           Elect
           ;
           whose
           fall
           is
           not
           eternall
           .
        
         
           Therefore
           that
           I
           may
           no
           more
           fall
           into
           those
           snares
           and
           nettes
           ,
           I
           haue
           withdrawne
           my selfe
           into
           the
           house
           of
           God
           ,
           into
           the
           fort
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           to
           be
           made
           his
           household
           Seruant
           ,
           and
           a
           member
           of
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           willingly
           forsaking
           the
           raigne
           of
           the
           Pope
           ;
           whose
           doctrine
           &
           religion
           ,
           to
           say
           truth
           ,
           is
           no
           other
           thing
           but
           auncient
           paganisme
           ,
           mixed
           with
           Iudisme
           ,
           and
           couered
           with
           the
           cloake
           of
           Christianitie
           ;
           which
           treadeth
           vnder
           foete
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           soueraigne
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           mercies
           of
           his
           sonne
           Christ
           Iesus
           .
        
         
           For
           when
           men
           make
           the
           simple
           people
           beleeue
           ,
           that
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           (
           in
           whom
           consisteth
           the
           wel-spring
           of
           life
           )
           hath
           not
           fully
           satisfied
           the
           Iustice
           of
           God
           his
           Father
           ,
           but
           hath
           onely
           obtayned
           the
           first
           grace
           for
           vs
           ;
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           the
           occasion
           or
           cause
           of
           Merite
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           resteth
           now
           in
           vs
           to
           be
           carefull
           not
           to
           lose
           the
           occasion
           ,
           to
           obtaine
           the
           rest
           .
           Is
           it
           not
           a
           most
           impudent
           boldnesse
           ,
           to
           dispoyle
           Iesus
           Christ
           of
           his
           vertue
           ,
           seeing
           the
           Scripture
           witnesseth
           for
           
           him
           ;
           that
           all
           those
           that
           beleeue
           in
           him
           ,
           are
           iustified
           ?
           And
           those
           hel-houndes
           teach
           ,
           that
           there
           proceedeth
           no
           other
           benefite
           vnto
           vs
           from
           him
           ,
           but
           onely
           that
           hee
           hath
           made
           vs
           an
           ouerture
           and
           way
           to
           be
           iustified
           ;
           contrarie
           to
           the
           
           expresse
           word
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           teacheth
           vs
           ;
           That
           whosoeuer
           hath
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           hath
           life
           also
           :
           Whosoeuer
           beleeueth
           ,
           hath
           past
           from
           death
           to
           life
           ;
           is
           placed
           in
           Heauen
           with
           him
           ;
           is
           already
           transported
           into
           the
           kingdame
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           hath
           obtained
           saluation
           .
           And
           these
           miserable
           abused
           Papistes
           ,
           not
           contenting
           themselues
           therewith
           ,
           bereaue
           God
           of
           a
           great
           part
           of
           his
           Prayses
           ,
           to
           transferre
           them
           vnto
           men
           .
        
         
           But
           tell
           me
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           What
           thing
           is
           more
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Christian
           fayth
           ,
           then
           to
           acknowledge
           and
           confesse
           our selues
           to
           be
           destitute
           of
           all
           vertue
           ,
           to
           be
           clothed
           therewith
           by
           God
           :
           voyde
           of
           all
           goodnesse
           ,
           to
           be
           filled
           therewith
           by
           him
           :
           slaues
           to
           sinne
           ,
           to
           be
           deliuered
           by
           him
           :
           blind
           ,
           to
           be
           illuminated
           by
           him
           :
           weake
           ,
           to
           be
           sustained
           by
           him
           :
           to
           bereaue
           our selues
           of
           all
           maner
           of
           glory
           ,
           that
           he
           onely
           may
           be
           glorified
           ,
           and
           we
           in
           him
           ?
           Further
           ,
           what
           is
           more
           proper
           vnto
           Faith
           ,
           then
           to
           assure
           our selues
           that
           God
           is
           our
           benigne
           and
           louing
           Father
           ;
           when
           Christ
           is
           acknowledged
           to
           be
           our
           Brother
           and
           Mediatour
           ,
           then
           to
           expect
           all
           good
           and
           prosperitie
           from
           him
           ,
           whose
           loue
           and
           fauour
           is
           so
           much
           shewed
           &
           extended
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           that
           he
           spared
           not
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           but
           exposed
           him
           vnto
           death
           for
           vs
           :
           then
           to
           rest
           in
           a
           certaine
           assurance
           and
           hope
           of
           saluation
           ,
           and
           of
           life
           eternall
           ,
           when
           we
           know
           that
           Christ
           hath
           been
           giuen
           vs
           by
           the
           Father
           ;
           in
           whom
           such
           treasures
           are
           hidden
           ?
           But
           these
           thinges
           are
           repugned
           by
           the
           Papistes
           ,
           who
           say
           ,
           that
           such
           certaintie
           of
           assurance
           ,
           cannot
           be
           without
           arrogancie
           &
           presumption
           :
           But
           as
           we
           must
           not
           presume
           of
           any
           thing
           to
           be
           in
           our selues
           ;
           yet
           we
           must
           presume
           of
           all
           thinges
           in
           God
           ,
           for
           in
           trueth
           we
           are
           not
           for
           any
           other
           cause
           bereaued
           of
           all
           vaine
           glorie
           ,
           but
           onely
           to
           the
           end
           that
           we
           should
           be
           glorified
           in
           him
           .
           On
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           behold
           and
           see
           with
           what
           affection
           
           those
           miserable
           and
           ignorant
           persons
           (
           I
           speake
           specially
           of
           Ecclesiasticall
           persons
           )
           are
           mooued
           and
           ledde
           :
           they
           easily
           permit
           both
           them selues
           and
           others
           ,
           to
           be
           ignorant
           ,
           negligent
           ,
           and
           carelesse
           of
           the
           true
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           taught
           vs
           by
           the
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           resolutely
           and
           firmely
           held
           among
           all
           men
           ;
           and
           thinke
           that
           it
           is
           no
           great
           matter
           what
           Fayth
           euery
           man
           holdeth
           ;
           nor
           whether
           he
           holdeth
           with
           God
           or
           Christ
           :
           so
           that
           with
           an
           inueloped
           or
           imposed
           Fayth
           (
           as
           they
           tearme
           it
           )
           they
           submit
           their
           censures
           to
           the
           iudgement
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           care
           not
           though
           the
           glory
           of
           God
           be
           poluted
           by
           euident
           Blasphemies
           ,
           so
           that
           no
           man
           speaketh
           a
           word
           against
           the
           authoritie
           of
           our
           Mother
           the
           holy
           Church
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           (
           according
           to
           their
           meaning
           ,
           )
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           :
           And
           therefore
           they
           fight
           and
           contend
           with
           such
           rigour
           and
           boldnesse
           for
           the
           Masse
           ,
           Purgatorie
           ,
           Pilgrimage
           ,
           and
           such
           trifles
           ,
           in
           such
           maner
           that
           they
           denie
           ,
           that
           true
           pietie
           can
           be
           obserued
           ,
           if
           all
           those
           thinges
           be
           not
           beleeued
           and
           holden
           for
           infallible
           rules
           of
           our
           saluation
           ;
           although
           they
           prooue
           nothing
           by
           the
           word
           of
           God
           :
           Wherefore
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           but
           onely
           because
           their
           Belly
           is
           their
           God
           ,
           the
           Kitchin
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           World
           their
           Paradise
           ;
           which
           being
           taken
           away
           ,
           they
           are
           not
           onely
           perswaded
           that
           they
           can
           be
           Christians
           ,
           but
           which
           is
           more
           ,
           no
           men
           :
           and
           although
           some
           of
           them
           liue
           delicately
           and
           in
           great
           aboundance
           ,
           and
           others
           liue
           barely
           and
           votarely
           in
           pouertie
           gnawing
           of
           Crustes
           ,
           neuerthelesse
           they
           liue
           all
           by
           one
           Pot
           :
           which
           without
           such
           aydes
           ,
           would
           not
           onely
           waxe
           cold
           ,
           but
           wholly
           be
           frozen
           vp
           :
           And
           therefore
           he
           which
           among
           them
           ,
           hath
           most
           care
           of
           his
           Belly
           ,
           is
           the
           most
           zealous
           in
           their
           Fayth
           .
           To
           conclude
           ,
           they
           haue
           all
           one
           selfe-same
           purpose
           and
           intent
           ,
           either
           to
           maintaine
           their
           Kingdome
           ,
           or
           their
           Bellies
           :
           and
           there
           is
           none
           of
           thē
           that
           sheweth
           the
           least
           apearance
           in
           the
           world
           of
           true
           zeale
           ,
           and
           yet
           they
           cease
           not
           to
           Slaunder
           ,
           and
           with
           Fire
           ,
           Sword
           ,
           Water
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           mischiefes
           ,
           to
           pursue
           and
           persecute
           the
           doctrine
           of
           Trueth
           ;
           either
           to
           
           make
           it
           odious
           ,
           or
           suspected
           .
           But
           if
           we
           were
           permitted
           to
           speake
           as
           boldly
           and
           as
           well
           as
           they
           ,
           I
           am
           perfwaded
           that
           their
           hotnesse
           ,
           wherewith
           they
           boyle
           so
           terribly
           against
           vs
           ,
           would
           be
           somewhat
           cooled
           :
           for
           to
           say
           trueth
           ,
           that
           which
           the
           blind
           world
           at
           this
           day
           honoureth
           in
           those
           idle
           Bellies
           ,
           is
           onely
           a
           faigned
           vizard
           of
           Hipocrifie
           ,
           which
           vnder
           the
           shadow
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           would
           hide
           their
           couetousnesse
           ,
           to
           beare
           rule
           ;
           seeking
           for
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           in
           the
           beautifulnesse
           of
           Houses
           ,
           and
           other
           exteriour
           ornamentes
           ;
           thinking
           that
           the
           vnion
           of
           the
           Faythfull
           ,
           consisteth
           and
           is
           contayned
           in
           those
           exteriour
           thinges
           ,
           which
           are
           transitorie
           and
           corruptible
           ;
           and
           not
           rather
           in
           righteousnesse
           and
           trueth
           .
           Wherefore
           according
           to
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ,
           we
           hold
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           to
           be
           the
           Seate
           of
           Antechrist
           ,
           which
           eleuateth
           and
           opposeth
           it selfe
           against
           that
           of
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           vnder
           a
           false
           title
           of
           Religion
           ,
           at
           this
           day
           tiranniseth
           ouer
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           liuely
           representing
           
           that
           Seate
           of
           Impietie
           whereof
           the
           Prophet
           Daniel
           ,
           
           and
           the
           Apostle
           S.
           Paul
           haue
           spoken
           ;
           whereof
           we
           say
           ,
           the
           Pope
           is
           the
           Captaine
           ,
           which
           hath
           prophaned
           the
           Holy
           Temple
           of
           God
           by
           horrible
           abhominations
           ,
           in
           such
           sort
           ,
           that
           therein
           there
           rather
           appeareth
           an
           Image
           of
           Babilon
           ,
           then
           any
           shew
           of
           the
           holy
           Citie
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           But
           some
           men
           will
           obiect
           ,
           and
           aske
           mee
           ;
           Did
           not
           you
           before
           your
           reuolt
           ,
           know
           these
           great
           impieties
           and
           mischiefes
           ,
           viz.
           that
           all
           the
           Romane
           sect
           is
           but
           a
           King
           dome
           of
           Vntruethes
           ,
           where
           the
           name
           of
           the
           eternall
           God
           is
           villanously
           prophaned
           ,
           and
           the
           Lordes
           honour
           impudently
           giuen
           vnto
           Idoles
           ?
        
         
           I
           answere
           ,
           that
           I
           knew
           it
           ,
           hauing
           a
           hundred
           and
           a
           hundred
           times
           published
           and
           preached
           it
           vnto
           the
           World
           ▪
           but
           in
           trueth
           I
           confesse
           ,
           that
           I
           neuer
           did
           so
           pertinently
           vnderstand
           ,
           nor
           marke
           so
           well
           the
           horrible
           Sacrileges
           of
           Antechrist
           ,
           as
           I
           did
           while
           I
           conuersed
           familiarly
           with
           them
           in
           Rome
           ,
           where
           euery
           man
           attendeth
           his
           owne
           profite
           and
           pleasures
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           seruice
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
         
           We
           must
           not
           then
           feare
           that
           by
           leauing
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           we
           diuorce
           our selues
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           the
           communion
           of
           the
           Church
           was
           not
           ordained
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           that
           it
           should
           be
           a
           place
           for
           to
           draw
           vs
           to
           idolatry
           ,
           impietie
           ,
           ignorance
           of
           the
           true
           God
           ,
           and
           other
           wickednes
           :
           but
           rather
           to
           retaine
           vs
           in
           the
           feare
           of
           God
           ▪
           and
           in
           the
           obedience
           of
           the
           truth
           .
           We
           do
           truly
           withdraw
           our selues
           from
           Poperie
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           the
           Church
           ;
           we
           shun
           and
           flie
           from
           idols
           ,
           but
           not
           from
           the
           true
           Church
           ;
           we
           will
           withdraw
           our selues
           from
           the
           tyrannie
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           the
           true
           Christian
           common
           wealth
           ;
           from
           the
           plague
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           life
           :
           ready
           to
           reunite
           our selues
           with
           them
           ,
           when
           Antichrist
           ,
           and
           the
           mischiefe
           which
           he
           hath
           brought
           into
           it
           ,
           shall
           be
           driuen
           away
           .
           In
           the
           meane
           time
           the
           house
           of
           God
           shall
           be
           my
           habitation
           ,
           the
           Lord
           my
           portion
           ,
           and
           his
           Sonne
           my
           Pastor
           :
           he
           will
           cause
           me
           to
           rest
           in
           his
           parkes
           of
           assurance
           ,
           he
           will
           restore
           my
           afflicted
           soule
           ,
           and
           will
           preserue
           me
           ,
           if
           it
           pleaseth
           him
           ,
           from
           the
           bloudy
           hands
           of
           those
           that
           seeke
           my
           vtter
           ruine
           and
           ouerthrow
           .
        
         
           All
           you
           that
           haue
           done
           as
           I
           haue
           done
           ,
           and
           haue
           suffered
           your selues
           to
           runne
           headlong
           into
           mischiefe
           ,
           and
           which
           as
           yet
           liue
           in
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Antichrist
           ,
           with
           a
           contaminated
           and
           defiled
           conscience
           ,
           and
           vnquietnesse
           of
           spirit
           (
           for
           I
           thinke
           and
           beleeue
           certainly
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           a
           man
           that
           hath
           knowne
           the
           impieties
           of
           Papistrie
           ,
           where
           the
           bloud
           of
           Christ
           is
           bought
           and
           sold
           ,
           where
           his
           onely
           propitiatorie
           sacrifice
           offered
           for
           our
           sinnes
           ,
           is
           esteemed
           to
           be
           insufficient
           to
           deface
           them
           ;
           where
           the
           merits
           of
           men
           are
           equalized
           with
           the
           merits
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           :
           I
           beleeue
           that
           his
           soule
           is
           alwayes
           in
           paine
           ,
           and
           that
           if
           he
           stayeth
           long
           there
           ,
           in
           the
           end
           he
           will
           feele
           an
           executioner
           in
           his
           conscience
           ,
           which
           will
           neuer
           suffer
           him
           to
           liue
           in
           peace
           night
           nor
           day
           :
           )
           I
           beseech
           you
           most
           humbly
           in
           the
           name
           and
           fauour
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           to
           abandon
           and
           leaue
           the
           synagogue
           of
           Sathan
           ,
           and
           to
           reunite
           and
           ioyne
           your selues
           to
           this
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           vnited
           and
           conioyned
           in
           faith
           with
           the
           Patriarchs
           ,
           Prophets
           ,
           and
           Apostles
           ,
           in
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ;
           which
           is
           faithfully
           
           preached
           ,
           and
           the
           Sacraments
           duly
           and
           purely
           administred
           .
           It
           is
           into
           his
           lap
           that
           I
           yeeld
           my selfe
           ,
           it
           is
           vnto
           the
           guard
           of
           his
           pietie
           that
           I
           haue
           recourse
           :
           beseeching
           him
           with
           all
           humilitie
           to
           receiue
           and
           admit
           me
           into
           the
           communion
           of
           his
           children
           ,
           hauing
           determined
           to
           liue
           with
           them
           (
           by
           the
           power
           of
           my
           God
           )
           all
           the
           dayes
           of
           my
           life
           .
           I
           likewise
           desire
           those
           ,
           on
           whom
           God
           hath
           powred
           his
           grace
           (
           hauing
           miraculously
           preserued
           them
           in
           his
           Church
           ,
           with
           constancy
           and
           perseuerance
           ,
           without
           hauing
           diuorced
           themselues
           ,
           or
           committed
           apostacie
           as
           I
           haue
           done
           :
           )
           to
           praise
           God
           with
           all
           their
           hearts
           ,
           and
           continually
           to
           giue
           him
           thanks
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           a
           most
           great
           miracle
           ,
           which
           proceedeth
           not
           from
           their
           owne
           force
           and
           vertue
           ,
           but
           from
           the
           holy
           and
           liberall
           hand
           of
           God
           our
           Father
           .
           Wherefore
           let
           them
           perseuere
           in
           louing
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           flie
           from
           finne
           and
           vices
           ;
           and
           being
           of
           a
           good
           courage
           ,
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Antichrist
           will
           fall
           ,
           and
           that
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           shall
           be
           established
           :
           but
           before
           that
           hapneth
           ,
           the
           diuell
           will
           enforce
           himselfe
           more
           then
           euer
           he
           did
           ,
           to
           make
           warre
           against
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
           Behold
           wherefore
           ,
           if
           euer
           the
           children
           of
           God
           haue
           had
           need
           of
           prudence
           and
           wisedome
           surely
           to
           direct
           their
           vncertaine
           paths
           according
           to
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ,
           it
           is
           now
           in
           this
           pitifull
           and
           sorrowfull
           time
           ,
           wherein
           Satan
           ,
           enimy
           vnto
           all
           righteousnesse
           and
           godlinesse
           ,
           seemeth
           to
           haue
           so
           much
           authoritie
           euen
           ouer
           the
           elect
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           were
           not
           miraculously
           aided
           and
           defended
           by
           the
           holy
           and
           liberall
           hand
           of
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           they
           should
           not
           onely
           be
           vtterly
           cast
           downe
           ,
           but
           the
           earth
           would
           soone
           be
           reduced
           vnto
           the
           same
           state
           that
           Sodome
           and
           Gomorra
           was
           in
           times
           past
           .
           Let
           prayer
           therefore
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           true
           repentance
           ,
           be
           our
           refuge
           vnto
           him
           ,
           who
           will
           neuer
           forsake
           his
           inheritance
           ,
           and
           that
           will
           cause
           the
           assaults
           of
           Antichrist
           to
           perish
           ,
           as
           he
           once
           drowned
           Pharaoh
           in
           the
           sea
           .
        
         
           To
           make
           an
           end
           ,
           I
           beseech
           you
           pray
           vnto
           God
           for
           me
           ;
           and
           if
           any
           one
           among
           you
           haue
           any
           bookes
           ,
           which
           in
           times
           past
           haue
           beene
           printed
           in
           my
           name
           ,
           in
           diuerse
           languages
           ,
           bookes
           full
           of
           iests
           ,
           lies
           ,
           and
           false
           suppositions
           ;
           I
           
           desire
           they
           may
           be
           burnt
           and
           consumed
           to
           ashes
           .
           I
           will
           not
           likewise
           passe
           ouer
           in
           silence
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           confutation
           of
           those
           bookes
           ,
           and
           in
           some
           histories
           ,
           wherein
           mention
           is
           made
           of
           my
           fall
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           clauses
           ignorantly
           set
           downe
           ;
           which
           I
           impute
           not
           so
           much
           to
           the
           inconsiderate
           zeale
           of
           the
           Authors
           ,
           as
           to
           mine
           owne
           fault
           ,
           which
           God
           would
           iustly
           punish
           and
           correct
           ,
           hauing
           placed
           me
           vpon
           the
           scaffold
           of
           his
           wrath
           and
           indignation
           ,
           as
           I
           had
           most
           iustly
           deserued
           .
        
         
           If
           you
           aide
           me
           with
           your
           prayers
           vnto
           God
           ,
           and
           if
           you
           be
           imitators
           of
           that
           great
           mercy
           which
           he
           hath
           shewed
           this
           day
           vnto
           me
           ,
           which
           I
           beseech
           you
           beare
           in
           minde
           ;
           I
           will
           praise
           God
           for
           your
           pietie
           ,
           and
           pray
           vnto
           him
           to
           continue
           his
           mercy
           towards
           you
           and
           yours
           ,
           with
           long
           life
           and
           happy
           dayes
           .
        
         
           
             The
             prayer
             of
             king
             Manasses
             when
             he
             was
             prisoner
             in
             Babylon
             .
          
           
             O
             Lord
             Almightie
             ,
             God
             of
             our
             fathers
             
               Abraham
               ,
               Isaac
            
             and
             Iacob
             ,
             and
             of
             all
             the
             righteous
             seed
             of
             thine
             elect
             ;
             which
             hast
             made
             heauen
             &
             earth
             with
             all
             their
             ornaments
             ,
             which
             hast
             bound
             the
             sea
             by
             the
             word
             of
             thy
             commandement
             ,
             which
             hast
             shut
             vp
             the
             deep
             ,
             and
             sealed
             it
             by
             thy
             terrible
             and
             glorious
             name
             ,
             whom
             all
             doe
             feare
             ,
             and
             tremble
             before
             thy
             power
             :
             for
             the
             Maiestie
             of
             thy
             glory
             cannot
             be
             borne
             ,
             and
             thine
             angry
             threatning
             towards
             sinners
             is
             importable
             ,
             but
             thy
             mercy
             is
             vnmeasurable
             and
             vnsearchable
             ;
             for
             thou
             art
             the
             most
             high
             Lord
             ,
             of
             great
             compassion
             ,
             long
             suffering
             ,
             and
             most
             mercifull
             ,
             and
             repentest
             for
             mans
             miseries
             .
             Thou
             ,
             O
             Lord
             ,
             hast
             promised
             of
             thy
             great
             mercy
             ,
             to
             giue
             grace
             of
             repentance
             and
             mercy
             vnto
             those
             that
             haue
             sinned
             against
             thee
             ,
             and
             hast
             appointed
             repentance
             vnto
             those
             that
             are
             sinners
             ,
             that
             thou
             mightest
             saue
             them
             by
             the
             greatnesse
             of
             thy
             compassions
             .
             Thou
             therefore
             ,
             O
             Lord
             which
             art
             the
             God
             of
             the
             iust
             ,
             hast
             not
             appointed
             repentance
             vnto
             the
             iust
             ,
             as
             to
             
               Abraham
               ,
               Isaac
            
             and
             Iacob
             ;
             nor
             for
             
             those
             that
             haue
             not
             sinned
             against
             thee
             ;
             but
             for
             me
             that
             am
             a
             sinner
             ,
             for
             I
             haue
             sinned
             aboue
             the
             number
             of
             the
             saud
             of
             the
             sea
             ;
             my
             transgressions
             are
             exceeding
             many
             ,
             and
             I
             am
             not
             worthy
             to
             behold
             and
             see
             the
             height
             of
             the
             heauens
             .
             For
             the
             multitude
             of
             mine
             vnrighteousnes
             ,
             I
             am
             bowed
             downe
             with
             many
             and
             great
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             cannot
             lift
             vp
             my
             head
             ,
             neither
             haue
             any
             release
             ,
             but
             onely
             in
             thy
             free
             mercy
             :
             for
             I
             haue
             prouoked
             thy
             wrath
             ,
             and
             done
             euill
             before
             thee
             ,
             I
             haue
             not
             done
             thy
             will
             ,
             neither
             kept
             thy
             commaundements
             ,
             but
             haue
             most
             wickedly
             committed
             sinne
             and
             iniquitie
             in
             thy
             presence
             ,
             and
             wilfully
             multiplied
             sinne
             vpon
             sinne
             .
             Now
             therefore
             ,
             O
             Lord
             ,
             I
             bowe
             the
             knees
             of
             my
             heart
             ,
             beseeching
             thee
             of
             grace
             and
             mercie
             .
             I
             haue
             sinned
             ,
             O
             Lord
             ,
             I
             haue
             sinned
             &
             done
             euill
             before
             thee
             ;
             but
             I
             humbly
             beseech
             thee
             forgiue
             me
             ,
             O
             Lord
             ,
             forgiue
             me
             ,
             and
             destroy
             me
             not
             in
             the
             multitude
             of
             mine
             vnrighteousnesse
             ,
             be
             not
             angry
             with
             me
             for
             euer
             by
             reseruing
             euill
             for
             me
             ,
             neither
             cast
             me
             into
             the
             bottomlesse
             pit
             of
             hel
             :
             for
             thou
             art
             the
             God
             ,
             euen
             the
             God
             of
             them
             that
             repent
             .
             And
             in
             me
             ,
             I
             beseech
             thee
             ,
             shew
             foorth
             thy
             goodnesse
             ,
             in
             sauing
             me
             that
             am
             vnworthy
             ,
             in
             the
             multitude
             of
             thy
             great
             mercie
             :
             and
             I
             will
             praise
             thee
             all
             my
             life
             long
             for
             euer
             ;
             for
             all
             the
             powers
             of
             heauen
             praise
             thee
             ,
             and
             thine
             is
             all
             glory
             for
             euer
             and
             euer
             .
             Amen
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           Conuersion
           of
           a
           Doctor
           in
           Spaine
           .
        
         
           SEeing
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           chiefest
           goodnesse
           and
           felicity
           ,
           and
           maketh
           his
           grace
           and
           goodnesse
           communicable
           to
           other
           things
           ,
           hath
           participated
           himselfe
           in
           things
           we
           see
           not
           and
           touching
           the
           Diuinity
           ,
           to
           the
           Son
           by
           generation
           (
           contrary
           
           to
           the
           opinion
           of
           Arrius
           ,
           and
           
             Samosatenus
             ,
          
           )
           and
           to
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           by
           proceeding
           (
           contrary
           also
           to
           Macedonius
           ,
           and
           Eunomius
           ,
           arch-heretiques
           )
           euen
           according
           to
           his
           infinite
           Essence
           ,
           without
           any
           distinction
           or
           deuiding
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           equall
           with
           him
           in
           deity
           stance
           .
        
         
           
           Therefore
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           begotten
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           not
           made
           ,
           and
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           which
           proceedeth
           from
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           (
           as
           from
           one
           beginning
           )
           haue
           the
           same
           essence
           in
           number
           ,
           and
           inseparable
           nature
           with
           the
           Father
           ,
           (
           contrary
           to
           the
           opinion
           of
           the
           Valentines
           ,
           which
           faine
           more
           then
           one
           :
           )
           yet
           his
           Persons
           
             (
             viz.
          
           )
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           of
           the
           
           Sonne
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           are
           in
           number
           distinguished
           and
           deuided
           ,
           (
           contrary
           to
           the
           Sabellians
           ,
           who
           dreame
           
           they
           are
           all
           but
           one
           Person
           .
           )
           For
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           Father
           is
           one
           ,
           of
           the
           Son
           another
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           another
           :
           But
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           and
           the
           holy
           God
           ,
           there
           is
           but
           one
           Diuinity
           ,
           one
           equall
           glory
           ,
           and
           one
           coeternall
           Maiesty
           .
           
        
         
           
           God
           himselfe
           is
           immutable
           in
           his
           counsels
           ,
           neither
           can
           he
           be
           any
           way
           hindered
           or
           deceiued
           in
           the
           same
           .
           By
           reason
           whereof
           it
           comes
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           whasoeuer
           happeneth
           ,
           the
           same
           he
           hath
           determined
           from
           eternity
           :
           who
           in
           things
           that
           we
           see
           ,
           by
           his
           word
           (
           as
           he
           saw
           good
           )
           hath
           created
           all
           things
           of
           nothing
           ,
           and
           made
           and
           disposed
           in
           order
           ,
           the
           heauens
           ,
           
           the
           earth
           ,
           the
           sea
           ,
           and
           whatsoeuer
           is
           therein
           contained
           ,
           by
           his
           euer-liuing
           Sonne
           ,
           working
           with
           the
           Father
           :
           who
           also
           by
           his
           infinite
           and
           consubstantiall
           power
           and
           vertue
           ,
           viz.
           by
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           administers
           all
           things
           in
           his
           diuine
           Prouidence
           .
           In
           this
           participatiō
           God
           remaines
           in
           himselfe
           ,
           imparting
           his
           Essence
           to
           other
           Persons
           ,
           but
           not
           his
           Person
           ;
           that
           he
           cannot
           communicate
           :
           for
           if
           it
           were
           to
           be
           communicated
           ,
           the
           
           distinction
           of
           persons
           would
           be
           takē
           away
           .
           But
           God
           (
           who
           is
           only
           good
           )
           did
           participate
           himselfe
           vnto
           men
           ,
           when
           he
           cōmunicated
           his
           word
           full
           of
           grace
           &
           truth
           .
           He
           took
           not
           vpon
           him
           the
           nature
           of
           Angels
           (
           as
           Paul
           saith
           )
           but
           humane
           nature
           .
           In
           this
           first
           communication
           God
           is
           in
           himselfe
           ,
           but
           in
           his
           second
           (
           after
           a
           sort
           )
           without
           himselfe
           .
           Such
           a
           one
           did
           
             Dionysius
             Areopagita
          
           regard
           him
           to
           be
           ,
           when
           he
           said
           .
           
             This
             we
             dare
             speake
             for
             truth
             ,
             that
             almighty
             God
             suffered
             on
             earth
             by
             the
             power
             and
             force
             of
             charity
             ,
             viz.
             he
             was
             not
             in
             himselfe
             .
          
           Of
           this
           participation
           S.
           Iohn
           writes
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Euangelists
           .
        
         
           
           And
           seeing
           God
           made
           nothing
           in
           vaine
           ,
           this
           communication
           also
           was
           made
           for
           some
           purpose
           .
           For
           it
           was
           to
           take
           away
           the
           sinne
           committed
           by
           our
           first
           parents
           ,
           and
           by
           propagation
           (
           Christ
           accepted
           )
           past
           ouer
           and
           transmitted
           vnto
           mankind
           .
           By
           reason
           whereof
           (
           as
           Paul
           saith
           )
           we
           are
           all
           borne
           the
           sonnes
           of
           wrath
           ,
           because
           we
           all
           sinned
           in
           Adam
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           the
           right
           which
           we
           had
           to
           the
           inheritance
           of
           eternall
           life
           before
           the
           fall
           of
           Adam
           ,
           we
           afterwards
           lost
           ;
           as
           the
           Lawyers
           teach
           .
           But
           God
           ,
           that
           (
           as
           a
           father
           )
           loueth
           vs
           the
           
           sonnes
           of
           adoption
           ,
           decreed
           in
           his
           vnchangeable
           counsell
           ,
           to
           send
           forth
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           made
           of
           a
           woman
           ,
           and
           made
           vnder
           the
           law
           (
           for
           what
           loue
           exceeds
           the
           loue
           of
           a
           father
           ?
           )
           that
           we
           might
           receiue
           the
           adoption
           of
           the
           sonnes
           .
           And
           (
           as
           Iohn
           witnesseth
           )
           
             God
             so
             loued
             the
             world
             ,
             that
             he
             gaue
             his
             onely
             begotten
             Son
             ,
          
           &c.
           by
           whose
           coming
           ,
           and
           participation
           Saint
           Paul
           saith
           ,
           
             We
             are
             saued
             from
             wrath
             ,
             and
             redeemed
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Sonne
           of
           God
           is
           also
           communicated
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           instruct
           vs
           in
           his
           holy
           wisedome
           and
           vnderstanding
           ;
           
           because
           in
           him
           
             are
             had
             all
             the
             treasure
             of
             wisedome
             and
             knowledge
             .
          
           
           For
           he
           was
           the
           chiefe
           Maister
           ,
           and
           teacher
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           appointed
           by
           God
           the
           Father
           ,
           that
           all
           should
           receiue
           &
           vnderstand
           from
           him
           the
           doctrine
           of
           truth
           :
           for
           thus
           God
           spake
           of
           him
           :
           
             This
             is
             my
             wel-beloued
             Sonne
             in
             whom
             I
             am
             well
          
           
           
             pleased
             ,
             heare
             him
          
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ;
           
             Let
             a
             man
             examine
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             so
             let
             him
             eate
             of
             this
             bread
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           By
           which
           it
           manifestly
           appeares
           ,
           that
           it
           continues
           to
           be
           bread
           .
           And
           the
           very
           Priests
           of
           Rome
           themselues
           after
           consecratiō
           of
           the
           Sacramēts
           (
           which
           according
           to
           their
           opinion
           is
           euē
           the
           body
           of
           Christ
           ,
           &
           not
           bread
           )
           vse
           the
           signes
           of
           the
           crosse
           vpon
           the
           same
           Sacrament
           ,
           calling
           it
           an
           holy
           ✚
           Sacrament
           ,
           a
           pure
           ✚
           Sacrament
           ,
           an
           vndefiled
           ✚
           Sacrament
           ,
           the
           sanctified
           ✚
           bread
           of
           eternall
           life
           ,
           and
           the
           cup
           of
           ✚
           euerlasting
           saluation
           .
           So
           that
           they
           name
           it
           bread
           ,
           and
           yet
           are
           contrary
           to
           themselues
           .
           The
           same
           truth
           teacheth
           that
           holy
           father
           Irenaeus
           :
           saying
           .
           
             Now
             it
             is
             no
             common
             bread
             ,
             but
             the
             Eucharist
             ,
          
           
           
             consisting
             of
             two
             things
             :
             that
             is
             ,
             earthly
             ,
             and
             heauenly
             .
          
           In
           which
           words
           he
           expresly
           teacheth
           ,
           the
           bread
           to
           remaine
           there
           still
           .
           Moreouer
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           body
           of
           Christ
           is
           the
           soule
           ;
           for
           Aristotle
           saith
           ,
           that
           
             Anima
             est
             actus
             corporis
          
           
           
             physici
             potentiâ
             vitam
             habentis
          
           .
           But
           it
           cannot
           be
           said
           that
           the
           substantiall
           forme
           of
           bread
           is
           conuerted
           into
           the
           soule
           .
           Therefore
           the
           same
           substance
           of
           the
           bread
           remaineth
           .
           Further
           ,
           if
           the
           substantiall
           forme
           of
           bread
           be
           conuerted
           into
           the
           body
           of
           Christ
           ,
           it
           would
           then
           follow
           ,
           the
           body
           of
           Christ
           to
           consist
           of
           two
           formes
           ,
           which
           is
           most
           false
           .
           Also
           the
           Accident
           without
           the
           substance
           cannot
           be
           ministred
           or
           giuen
           ;
           but
           there
           the
           Accidents
           are
           seene
           ,
           tasted
           ,
           smelt
           &c.
           
           Therefore
           the
           substance
           is
           giuen
           .
           The
           refuge
           of
           the
           Papists
           is
           to
           make
           it
           a
           miracle
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           whitenesse
           of
           the
           bread
           continues
           ,
           and
           other
           accidents
           thereunto
           belonging
           .
           But
           it
           is
           a
           false
           reply
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           not
           found
           in
           the
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           neither
           was
           it
           needfull
           that
           Christ
           should
           worke
           such
           a
           miracle
           .
           Saint
           Augustine
           saith
           :
           
             These
             things
             may
             be
             honoured
             ,
             as
             religious
             but
          
           
           
             to
             worke
             wonder
             or
             astonishment
             they
             cannot
             ,
             as
             miraculous
             .
          
           Also
           the
           accidents
           are
           alwaies
           destroyed
           by
           the
           corruption
           of
           the
           substance
           .
           But
           (
           as
           I
           will
           make
           manifest
           hereafter
           )
           the
           very
           
           accidents
           of
           bread
           are
           destroyed
           in
           time
           ,
           therefore
           transubstantiation
           of
           the
           bread
           is
           not
           giuen
           .
        
         
           By
           reason
           whereof
           the
           Papists
           at
           their
           times
           renew
           such
           sacrifices
           ,
           reserued
           in
           their
           Vestries
           ,
           or
           other
           places
           appointed
           to
           keepe
           their
           holy
           things
           ,
           and
           reliques
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           euery
           weeke
           in
           Sommer
           time
           :
           but
           in
           the
           Winter
           time
           at
           15
           daies
           .
           And
           this
           is
           done
           to
           take
           away
           the
           scandall
           of
           their
           corruption
           :
           Therefore
           Transubstantiation
           is
           not
           giuen
           .
        
         
           In
           a
           matter
           so
           plaine
           ,
           and
           euident
           ,
           I
           neither
           desire
           to
           spend
           much
           time
           ,
           nor
           to
           be
           too
           tedious
           ,
           or
           troublesome
           to
           the
           readers
           .
           
           But
           if
           any
           shall
           be
           desirous
           to
           reade
           more
           concerning
           this
           point
           ,
           let
           them
           looke
           vpon
           
             Christophorus
             Pezeline
          
           ,
           and
           
             Iohn
             Caluin
          
           ,
           who
           very
           manifestly
           and
           learnedly
           teach
           the
           truth
           ,
           and
           make
           it
           cleare
           and
           apparant
           to
           the
           eyes
           and
           vnderstanding
           of
           such
           as
           are
           blind
           and
           ignorant
           .
        
         
           
             Of
             the
             Corporall
             absence
             of
             Christ
             in
             the
             Sacrament
             .
          
           
             
             BEcause
             it
             is
             the
             ground
             and
             foundation
             of
             the
             tyrannicall
             monarchy
             of
             the
             Papists
             ,
             to
             blind
             the
             eyes
             of
             the
             faithfull
             ,
             which
             (
             according
             to
             their
             enchaunting
             speeches
             )
             beleeue
             the
             body
             and
             bloud
             of
             Christ
             to
             be
             really
             in
             the
             consecration
             of
             many
             sacrifices
             ,
             and
             (
             as
             they
             say
             )
             in
             euery
             one
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             cup
             ,
             and
             chalices
             ;
             I
             will
             speake
             somewhat
             by
             the
             way
             against
             their
             false
             opinions
             ,
             not
             to
             the
             satisfaction
             of
             them
             that
             reade
             ,
             (
             for
             of
             this
             matter
             ,
             they
             may
             peruse
             the
             Institutions
             of
             Doctour
             
               Caluin
               ,
            
             )
             &c.
             but
             to
             expresse
             
             mine
             owne
             minde
             ▪
             I
             say
             first
             :
             The
             Papists
             do
             adde
             and
             detractmany
             times
             from
             the
             words
             of
             the
             true
             text
             to
             confirme
             and
             establish
             their
             owne
             inuentions
             ;
             as
             it
             is
             to
             be
             seene
             by
             the
             Inquisitors
             ,
             who
             adde
             to
             the
             Gospell
             of
             Christ
             what
             may
             ▪
             serue
             their
             owne
             purpose
             .
          
           
             
               For
               Christ
               doth
               thus
               admonish
               vs
               by
            
             Math.
             Chap.
             18.
             
             
               (
               before
               cited
               :
            
             )
             If
             thy
             brother
             trespasse
             against
             thee
             ,
             go
             and
             tell
             him
             his
             fault
             betweene
             thee
             ,
             and
             him
             alone
             :
             &c.
             
             If
             he
             heare
             thee
             not
             ,
             t●ke
             yet
             with
             thee
             one
             or
             two
             witnesses
             :
             If
             he
             will
             not
             vouchsafe
             to
             heare
             them
             ,
             tell
             it
             vnto
             the
             Church
             .
          
           
           
             The
             Church
             of
             Rome
             to
             these
             words
             of
             Christ
             ,
             addeth
             
               (
               praeter
               causam
               fidei
            
             ,
             but
             for
             faith
             or
             religions
             sake
             :
             )
             so
             that
             they
             take
             away
             and
             cut
             off
             the
             meaning
             of
             the
             Gospell
             ,
             and
             contradict
             Christ
             himselfe
             ,
             so
             charitably
             admonishing
             ,
             and
             exhorting
             .
             So
             do
             they
             contradict
             Saint
             Hierome
             ,
             Saint
             Ambrose
             ,
             and
             many
             other
             holy
             Fathers
             ,
             and
             many
             times
             adde
             and
             detract
             from
             the
             very
             words
             of
             the
             holy
             Scripture
             :
             as
             manifestly
             appears
             in
             that
             vnchristianlike
             booke
             intituled
             ,
             the
             
               Index
               expurgatorius
            
             .
          
           
             But
             now
             to
             returne
             to
             our
             purpose
             :
             The
             Church
             of
             Rome
             to
             the
             words
             of
             Christ
             :
             saying
             ,
             
               This
               is
               my
               body
            
             ,
             addeth
             (
             for
             )
             which
             Christ
             neuer
             pronounced
             ,
             nor
             Saint
             Peter
             ,
             whatsoeuer
             
             Thomas
             affirmeth
             .
             And
             if
             the
             Priest
             pronounce
             not
             (
             for
             )
             among
             the
             Papists
             he
             sinnes
             hainously
             .
             Also
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             addeth
             ,
             that
             the
             bread
             of
             consecration
             ought
             to
             be
             vnleauened
             :
             which
             precept
             was
             neither
             deliuered
             by
             Christ
             nor
             his
             Apostles
             .
             The
             Greeke
             Priests
             do
             vse
             leauened
             bread
             .
             Therefore
             it
             may
             be
             said
             ,
             that
             if
             they
             be
             various
             in
             the
             matter
             ,
             there
             can
             be
             no
             truth
             found
             in
             the
             forme
             .
             For
             the
             determinate
             matter
             ,
             hath
             her
             determinate
             forme
             ;
             and
             the
             determinate
             forme
             also
             her
             determinate
             matter
             .
             But
             they
             adde
             and
             diminish
             at
             their
             pleasures
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             rules
             and
             commandements
             of
             God
             :
             who
             saith
             ,
             
               You
               shall
               not
               adde
               to
            
             
             
               the
               word
               that
               I
               speake
               vnto
               you
               ,
               nor
               take
               from
               the
               same
               .
            
             And
             moreouer
             ,
             
               What
               I
               command
               thee
               that
               onely
               doe
               ,
               neither
               adde
               thou
               any
               thing
               ,
               nor
               diminish
               .
            
             God
             reprehends
             such
             as
             are
             bold
             and
             audacious
             in
             this
             behalfe
             :
             saying
             ,
             
               I
               protest
               vnto
               every
            
             
             
               man
               ,
               that
               heareth
               the
               words
               ,
               &c.
               
               If
               any
               man
               shall
               adde
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             See
             how
             God
             reproues
             the
             bishop
             of
             Rome
             &
             all
             his
             Popish
             Priests
             &
             complices
             that
             walk
             against
             Gods
             cōmandemērs
             ;
             
               for
               the
               word
               of
               the
               Lord
               endureth
               :
            
             and
             he
             himselfe
             saith
             ,
             
             
               Heauen
               &
               earth
               shall
               passe
               away
               ,
               but
               my
               words
               shall
               not
               passe
               a-away
               .
            
             Therefore
             that
             God
             ,
             that
             true
             and
             euerlasting
             God
             ,
             will
             send
             vnto
             them
             sodaine
             ruine
             and
             destruction
             .
          
           
             Amongst
             other
             ceremonies
             which
             the
             Papists
             do
             vse
             ,
             one
             is
             after
             consecration
             of
             the
             bread
             ,
             to
             blesse
             the
             same
             bread
             with
             the
             signe
             of
             the
             crosse
             ,
             and
             certaine
             words
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Now
             I
             demand
             of
             them
             ,
             if
             it
             be
             lawfull
             for
             the
             creature
             to
             
             blesse
             the
             Creator
             ?
             For
             benediction
             (
             as
             Saint
             Paul
             saith
             )
             is
             alwaies
             from
             the
             greater
             to
             the
             lesser
             ,
             
               The
               lesser
               is
               blessed
               of
            
             
             
               the
               greater
            
             ,
             as
             he
             affirmeth
             in
             expresse
             words
             .
             Hebr.
             7.
             7
             
             For
             the
             father
             giues
             his
             blessing
             to
             the
             sons
             ,
             as
             Isaac
             did
             to
             Iacob
             ,
             
             and
             Esau
             ,
             and
             Iacob
             to
             the
             sonnes
             of
             Ioseph
             his
             sonne
             .
             And
             it
             is
             commonly
             obserued
             ,
             that
             the
             father
             at
             the
             very
             point
             of
             death
             giues
             his
             blessing
             to
             his
             sonnes
             :
             but
             the
             sons
             (
             which
             are
             the
             lesser
             )
             although
             they
             reuerence
             and
             honour
             the
             father
             ,
             do
             not
             yet
             giue
             him
             benediction
             .
             By
             which
             I
             conclude
             ,
             that
             the
             Papist
             Priests
             (
             as
             inferiour
             )
             ought
             not
             to
             blesse
             Christ
             their
             superiour
             :
             and
             if
             they
             do
             it
             in
             their
             Masse
             (
             as
             they
             terme
             it
             ,
             )
             they
             blesse
             not
             Christ
             the
             Creator
             ,
             but
             the
             bread
             the
             creature
             ;
             and
             so
             they
             worship
             the
             creature
             ,
             not
             the
             
             Creator
             :
             as
             Saint
             Paul
             saith
             ,
             
               They
               haue
               turned
               the
               truth
               of
               God
               into
               a
               lye
               ,
            
             and
             worshipped
             
               and
               serued
               the
               creature
            
             much
             more
             then
             the
             Creator
             .
          
           
             Neither
             ought
             we
             to
             beleeue
             that
             Christ
             is
             in
             their
             hands
             ,
             when
             the
             words
             are
             pronounced
             by
             them
             .
             For
             many
             are
             consecrating
             the
             Sacrament
             at
             once
             ,
             and
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             being
             but
             one
             in
             number
             ,
             is
             not
             in
             many
             sacrifices
             .
             For
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             is
             natural
             ,
             and
             keepeth
             a
             place
             ,
             and
             is
             not
             giuen
             in
             many
             places
             at
             one
             time
             .
             But
             the
             Papists
             reply
             to
             this
             ,
             saying
             ;
             that
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             is
             there
             sacramently
             ,
             not
             
             totally
             .
             But
             this
             is
             a
             very
             idle
             distinction
             ,
             and
             a
             slanderous
             boldnesse
             :
             to
             say
             they
             haue
             Christ
             (
             in
             that
             manner
             )
             in
             their
             hands
             at
             the
             Sacrament
             .
             For
             if
             (
             as
             they
             confesse
             )
             Christ
             haue
             a
             chiefe
             place
             in
             heauen
             ,
             and
             yet
             is
             in
             the
             Sacrament
             with
             the
             same
             really
             as
             he
             is
             heauen
             ,
             it
             would
             follow
             .
          
           
             God
             in
             times
             past
             who
             was
             figuratiuely
             in
             the
             Arke
             ,
             was
             
             couered
             with
             a
             Table
             of
             gold
             ,
             and
             so
             the
             Arke
             was
             honored
             and
             had
             in
             admiration
             ,
             that
             the
             Priests
             might
             with
             feare
             come
             vnto
             it
             .
             For
             when
             Vzzah
             ,
             as
             the
             Arke
             of
             God
             was
             carried
             out
             of
             the
             house
             of
             Abinadab
             ,
             with
             a
             godly
             zeale
             
             put
             his
             hand
             to
             the
             Arke
             ,
             
               The
               Lord
               was
               very
               wroth
               ,
               and
               smote
               him
               in
               the
               same
               place
               for
               his
               fault
               ,
               and
               there
               he
               died
               by
               the
               Arke
               .
               Therefore
            
             Dauid
             
               that
               day
               feared
               the
               Lord
               ,
               and
               said
               ,
               How
               shall
            
             
             
               the
               Arke
               of
               the
               Lord
               come
               to
               me
               ?
            
             and
             durst
             not
             bring
             the
             Arke
             of
             the
             Lord
             to
             himselfe
             .
          
           
             If
             this
             be
             so
             ,
             how
             dare
             the
             Romish
             Priestes
             pronounce
             Christ
             himselfe
             with
             his
             Diuinity
             and
             Humanity
             to
             descend
             into
             their
             hands
             ?
             Or
             if
             the
             true
             body
             of
             Christ
             were
             in
             the
             sacrifice
             ,
             or
             the
             sacrifice
             it selfe
             were
             the
             true
             body
             of
             Christ
             ,
             how
             comes
             it
             that
             brute
             beasts
             haue
             place
             there
             ?
             For
             many
             times
             the
             flies
             goes
             vpon
             it
             ,
             and
             other
             insensible
             creatures
             ,
             as
             is
             daily
             seene
             and
             made
             manifest
             .
             And
             I
             my selfe
             often
             celebrating
             the
             Masse
             ,
             haue
             seene
             flies
             vpon
             the
             Sacrament
             consecrated
             ,
             and
             made
             holy
             .
             Therefore
             we
             may
             not
             beleeue
             the
             true
             body
             of
             Christ
             to
             be
             there
             .
             Sometimes
             also
             by
             negligence
             of
             the
             Priests
             ,
             part
             of
             the
             sacrifices
             haue
             fallen
             vpon
             the
             ground
             ,
             and
             bene
             troden
             vnder
             foote
             .
             And
             I
             am
             a
             faithfull
             and
             true
             eye
             witnesse
             ,
             that
             in
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1595
             in
             a
             Church
             ,
             which
             the
             Order
             of
             the
             most
             holy
             Trinity
             hath
             at
             Turol
             ,
             whereof
             I
             was
             chiefe
             ,
             a
             certaine
             religious
             man
             (
             as
             they
             call
             him
             )
             celebrating
             the
             Sacrament
             ,
             turned
             the
             chalice
             vpside
             downe
             ,
             and
             the
             consecrated
             wine
             (
             as
             they
             say
             )
             was
             part
             sprinckled
             on
             the
             earth
             ,
             and
             part
             shed
             vpon
             the
             Altar
             .
             And
             for
             these
             mischaunces
             there
             are
             certaine
             rules
             set
             downe
             in
             the
             Missall
             of
             Rome
             ,
             ordaining
             punishments
             to
             such
             Priests
             by
             whom
             they
             happen
             or
             befall
             .
             Also
             in
             the
             Emperours
             Cathedrall
             Church
             of
             S.
             Paul
             ,
             in
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1580.
             the
             theeues
             stole
             away
             a
             siluer
             Casket
             ,
             where
             the
             consecrated
             Sacrifices
             were
             vsually
             kept
             ,
             and
             threw
             the
             sacrifices
             themselues
             vpon
             the
             ground
             and
             vpon
             the
             Altar
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1586
             ,
             in
             the
             Monastery
             of
             S.
             Sauiour
             at
             Fraga
             ,
             theeues
             a●so
             tooke
             away
             the
             chest
             where
             the
             Sacrifices
             were
             kept
             ,
             and
             they
             were
             throwne
             vp
             and
             downe
             .
             Therefore
             we
             may
             not
             beleeue
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             to
             be
             there
             .
             For
             if
             (
             as
             they
             grant
             )
             the
             body
             and
             bloud
             remaine
             vnder
             those
             formes
             ,
             so
             long
             as
             they
             continue
             vncorrupt
             ;
             and
             if
             also
             laid
             vpon
             the
             ground
             (
             as
             is
             aforesaid
             )
             they
             be
             vncorrupt
             ,
             and
             so
             are
             troden
             vnder
             foote
             ;
             then
             Christ
             must
             likewise
             be
             troden
             vnder
             foote
             ,
             which
             is
             a
             most
             grosse
             absurdity
             .
             Sometimes
             also
             as
             I
             haue
             
             seene
             )
             wormes
             haue
             bred
             in
             those
             their
             sacrifices
             .
             If
             then
             we
             hold
             their
             opinion
             ,
             it
             must
             needs
             be
             that
             they
             beingendred
             out
             of
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             ,
             not
             out
             of
             the
             bread
             ,
             because
             there
             (
             as
             they
             say
             )
             the
             bread
             is
             not
             .
             
               Haec
               de
               Accidentibus
            
             .
             Because
             if
             by
             miracle
             (
             as
             they
             hold
             )
             they
             continue
             and
             abide
             of
             themselues
             ,
             then
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             kept
             by
             miracle
             without
             any
             corruption
             ;
             for
             there
             is
             no
             greater
             reason
             for
             the
             one
             ,
             then
             for
             the
             other
             :
             nor
             of
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             .
             Otherwise
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             should
             change
             the
             forme
             ,
             and
             the
             very
             wormes
             should
             partake
             of
             the
             body
             &
             bloud
             of
             Christ
             ,
             and
             from
             thence
             haue
             originall
             beginning
             ;
             which
             is
             most
             false
             and
             vnworthy
             .
             Therefore
             it
             is
             to
             be
             said
             ,
             that
             nothing
             is
             there
             more
             then
             the
             bread
             it selfe
             .
          
           
             Moreouer
             ,
             let
             there
             be
             two
             sacrifices
             of
             bread
             put
             together
             ,
             sod
             ,
             and
             made
             at
             one
             time
             ,
             of
             one
             meale
             ,
             fire
             ,
             and
             water
             ;
             and
             let
             the
             one
             be
             consecrated
             and
             made
             holy
             ,
             and
             the
             other
             vnconsecrated
             ,
             and
             we
             shall
             see
             their
             corruption
             to
             be
             alike
             .
             It
             therefore
             followes
             ,
             that
             the
             one
             hath
             no
             more
             in
             it
             then
             the
             other
             ,
             neither
             is
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             more
             in
             the
             consecrated
             forme
             of
             bread
             then
             in
             that
             which
             is
             vnhallowed
             .
             Sometimes
             also
             poyson
             (
             as
             they
             say
             )
             is
             put
             into
             that
             Sacrament
             ,
             that
             so
             men
             may
             be
             bereaft
             of
             their
             liues
             ;
             as
             it
             is
             read
             of
             the
             Emperour
             Henry
             the
             7
             ,
             and
             of
             Pope
             Victor
             the
             third
             ,
             whereof
             the
             first
             losse
             his
             life
             by
             the
             Sacrament
             of
             bread
             poysoned
             by
             his
             Consessour
             :
             the
             last
             ,
             by
             wine
             transsubstantiate
             .
             Therefore
             we
             must
             conclude
             ,
             that
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             is
             not
             there
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             to
             be
             the
             instrument
             of
             sin
             ,
             and
             the
             meanes
             of
             euill
             ;
             which
             is
             blasphemy
             .
          
           
             This
             corporall
             absence
             ,
             Christ
             hath
             manifestly
             shewne
             ,
             
             saying
             ,
             
               The
               poore
               you
               shall
               haue
               alwaies
               with
               you
               ,
               Me
               you
               shall
               not
               haue
               alwaies
               .
            
             Christ
             also
             speaketh
             of
             the
             absence
             of
             his
             humanity
             ,
             (
             for
             his
             Diuinity
             fils
             both
             heauen
             and
             earth
             :
             )
             in
             which
             humanity
             he
             shall
             not
             come
             vnto
             vs
             till
             the
             day
             of
             iudgement
             .
             Moreouer
             the
             Papists
             affirme
             ,
             that
             the
             matter
             of
             the
             Sacrament
             of
             the
             Lords
             Supper
             ,
             ought
             to
             be
             determinate
             .
          
           
           
             They
             are
             also
             possessed
             with
             many
             mad
             imaginations
             ,
             saying
             ,
             this
             is
             a
             true
             Proposition
             ,
             
               Out
               of
               bread
               becomes
               the
            
             
             
               body
               of
               Christ
            
             .
             And
             this
             also
             is
             false
             :
             
               Of
               bread
               becomes
            
             ,
             or
             is
             
               made
               ,
               the
               body
               of
               Christ
               .
            
             These
             are
             words
             of
             exceeding
             folly
             and
             dotage
             ,
             and
             are
             differing
             and
             repugnant
             to
             themselues
             ,
             although
             Thomas
             expound
             them
             supernaturally
             .
             In
             conuersions
             also
             ,
             that
             which
             is
             conuerted
             is
             corrupted
             ,
             and
             that
             into
             which
             the
             conuersion
             is
             had
             ,
             is
             begotten
             and
             ingendred
             :
             Thus
             after
             their
             opinion
             we
             must
             say
             that
             Christ
             is
             so
             begotten
             and
             ingendred
             ;
             which
             is
             an
             heresie
             .
          
           
             The
             Diuell
             getteth
             much
             ,
             and
             enlargeth
             his
             power
             and
             number
             by
             the
             idolatry
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             which
             he
             still
             perswades
             them
             to
             maintaine
             ;
             and
             so
             they
             will
             ,
             vntill
             it
             shall
             please
             God
             of
             his
             infinite
             goodnesse
             and
             mercy
             to
             open
             their
             eyes
             ,
             and
             make
             their
             vnderstanding
             perfect
             ,
             that
             they
             may
             truly
             see
             and
             reade
             the
             booke
             of
             God
             ,
             for
             they
             yet
             liue
             in
             error
             and
             darknesse
             .
             But
             if
             they
             would
             looke
             vpon
             ,
             and
             heare
             the
             booke
             which
             Hilkiah
             the
             high
             Priest
             found
             in
             the
             house
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             they
             would
             do
             as
             that
             godly
             king
             Iosiah
             did
             in
             the
             18.
             yeare
             of
             his
             Monarchy
             :
             who
             as
             
             soone
             as
             Shaphan
             the
             Chancellor
             had
             shewed
             it
             ,
             and
             read
             it
             to
             the
             king
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             had
             heard
             the
             words
             of
             the
             booke
             of
             the
             Law
             ,
             he
             was
             so
             moued
             therewith
             ,
             that
             he
             rent
             his
             clothes
             ,
             and
             wept
             before
             God
             ;
             and
             crauing
             pardon
             at
             Gods
             hands
             ,
             humbled
             himselfe
             ,
             destroyed
             the
             idols
             ,
             and
             walked
             according
             to
             the
             will
             ,
             and
             word
             of
             the
             Lord.
             
          
           
             
             I
             was
             also
             much
             troubled
             in
             minde
             about
             the
             power
             of
             the
             Pope
             ,
             when
             he
             doth
             those
             things
             which
             almighty
             God
             neither
             doth
             ,
             or
             can
             do
             .
             For
             although
             God
             be
             omnipotent
             ,
             and
             nothing
             is
             vnpossible
             with
             him
             ,
             he
             yet
             worketh
             no
             sinne
             or
             euill
             ,
             neither
             is
             there
             any
             guile
             found
             in
             his
             mouth
             ;
             neither
             can
             he
             do
             that
             which
             is
             wrapt
             or
             encombred
             with
             controuersies
             and
             contradictions
             .
          
           
             But
             the
             Pope
             takes
             vpon
             him
             to
             do
             this
             ;
             for
             if
             any
             come
             vnto
             him
             ,
             and
             desire
             the
             reliques
             of
             some
             Saint
             ,
             as
             of
             Hermolaus
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             ,
             he
             will
             answer
             that
             he
             hath
             none
             ,
             because
             his
             bones
             are
             dispersed
             :
             But
             he
             takes
             the
             bones
             perhaps
             
             of
             some
             reprobate
             and
             wicked
             person
             ,
             and
             blesseth
             them
             ,
             and
             baptised
             in
             the
             name
             of
             Hermolaus
             ,
             he
             deliuereth
             them
             to
             him
             that
             makes
             suite
             for
             the
             same
             ;
             and
             then
             the
             bones
             of
             him
             are
             worshipped
             ,
             whose
             soule
             in
             hell
             is
             cruciated
             .
             And
             thus
             it
             begets
             scandall
             and
             contradiction
             ,
             that
             the
             bones
             of
             any
             wicked
             or
             idle
             persons
             ,
             are
             the
             bones
             of
             some
             Saints
             or
             others
             ,
             at
             his
             pleasure
             .
          
           
             I
             obserued
             the
             power
             ,
             couetousnesse
             and
             tyranny
             of
             the
             same
             Pope
             :
             I
             beheld
             his
             exceeding
             pompe
             and
             pride
             ,
             and
             with
             these
             things
             ,
             and
             many
             more
             of
             this
             nature
             ,
             my
             minde
             was
             much
             tormented
             .
             For
             seeing
             Christ
             is
             the
             fulnesse
             of
             all
             grace
             ,
             in
             that
             he
             endues
             the
             Church
             with
             spirituall
             grace
             and
             vnderstanding
             ;
             we
             ordaine
             him
             to
             be
             the
             head
             thereof
             ,
             
             with
             S.
             Paul
             ,
             saying
             :
             
               He
               hath
               made
               all
               things
               subject
               vnder
               his
               feete
               ,
               and
               hath
               appointed
               him
               ouer
               all
               things
               to
               be
               the
               head
               of
               the
               Church
               .
            
             And
             seeing
             both
             Men
             and
             Angels
             are
             ordained
             to
             
             enioy
             Gods
             glory
             ;
             euen
             as
             of
             men
             ,
             so
             also
             of
             the
             Angels
             he
             may
             rightly
             be
             called
             the
             head
             .
             For
             the
             mysticall
             body
             of
             the
             Church
             doth
             not
             onely
             consist
             of
             men
             but
             of
             Angels
             .
             But
             of
             all
             this
             multitude
             and
             number
             Christ
             is
             the
             head
             ,
             for
             that
             his
             seat
             is
             neere
             vnto
             God
             ,
             and
             doth
             partake
             of
             his
             gifts
             not
             onely
             more
             absolutely
             then
             men
             ,
             but
             more
             perfectly
             
             also
             then
             the
             very
             Angels
             :
             so
             that
             from
             his
             influence
             
             both
             men
             and
             Angels
             receiue
             their
             benefits
             .
             As
             Saint
             Paul
             witnesseth
             ,
             saying
             :
             
               He
               hath
               set
               him
               at
               his
               right
               hand
               in
               the
               heauenly
               places
               ,
               farre
               aboue
               all
               principality
               ,
               and
               power
               ,
               and
            
             
             
               might
               ▪
               and
               domination
               ,
               and
               euery
               name
               that
               is
               named
               not
               in
               this
            
             
             
               world
               onely
               ,
               but
               also
               in
               that
               that
               is
               to
               come
               ,
               and
               hath
               put
               all
               things
               vnder
               his
               feete
               .
            
             And
             so
             S.
             Matthew
             saith
             ,
             
               Behold
               the
               Angels
               came
               and
               ministred
               vnto
               him
               .
            
             And
             albeit
             the
             Angels
             themselues
             lacke
             faith
             
               (
               Quia
               non
               per
               fidem
               sed
               per
               speciem
               ambulant
               )
            
             and
             the
             Church
             is
             the
             congregation
             of
             the
             faithfull
             ,
             neuerthelesse
             Christ
             is
             their
             head
             .
          
           
             There
             fore
             besides
             that
             diuine
             wisedome
             which
             Christ
             had
             from
             the
             beginning
             ,
             he
             had
             also
             a
             humane
             knowledge
             
             (
             notwithstanding
             the
             position
             ofsuch
             as
             deny
             ,
             that
             there
             be
             two
             sorts
             of
             wisdomes
             in
             Christ
             ,
             which
             in
             the
             sixth
             Synode
             
             
             is
             held
             a
             thing
             damnable
             :
             )
             for
             as
             S.
             Ambrose
             saith
             ,
             
               God
               did
               assume
               the
               perfection
               of
               humane
               nature
               in
               the
               flesh
               ,
               tooke
               vppon
               him
               the
               sence
               of
               man
               ,
               but
               not
               the
               pride
               of
               carnall
               sensualitie
               .
            
             But
             to
             the
             sence
             of
             man
             appertaineth
             an
             humane
             knowledge
             created
             .
             Therefore
             in
             Christ
             is
             giuen
             that
             experimentall
             
             knowledge
             of
             which
             S.
             Luke
             speaketh
             .
             So
             did
             loel
             prophetically
             see
             him
             taught
             ,
             saying
             to
             the
             people
             ,
             Reioyce
             
             
               in
               the
               Lord
               your
               God
               ,
               for
               he
               hath
               giuen
               you
               the
               raine
               of
               righteousnesse
               ,
            
             &c.
             
             And
             the
             spouse
             saith
             ,
             
               I
               will
               leade
               thee
               and
               bring
            
             
             
               thee
               into
               my
               mothers
               house
               ,
               and
               there
               thou
               shalt
               instruct
               me
               .
            
             And
             
               Isaias
               ,
               I
               haue
               giuen
               him
               for
               a
               Prince
               ,
               and
               a
               maister
               vnto
            
             
             
               the
               people
            
             ,
             comprehending
             these
             two
             things
             ,
             namely
             ,
             that
             he
             was
             a
             Redeemer
             and
             a
             Maister
             :
             for
             whereas
             he
             termes
             him
             a
             Prince
             ,
             he
             meanes
             him
             to
             be
             a
             Redeemer
             ;
             but
             calling
             him
             Maister
             ,
             he
             signifies
             him
             an
             instructer
             or
             teacher
             .
             Christ
             therfore
             is
             endued
             with
             all
             these
             sciences
             ,
             by
             which
             mē
             were
             instructed
             by
             him
             ;
             as
             out
             of
             Mathew
             ,
             opening
             his
             mouth
             ,
             he
             taught
             his
             Disciples
             ,
             and
             out
             of
             Iohn
             ,
             Iesus
             ascended
             into
             
             the
             Temple
             and
             taught
             the
             people
             ,
             and
             as
             it
             is
             written
             in
             
               Luke
               ,
               They
               found
               him
               sitting
               in
               the
               Temple
               ,
            
             &c.
             
             By
             two
             wayes
             then
             he
             taught
             the
             people
             ,
             that
             is
             ,
             by
             example
             ,
             and
             
             words
             .
             For
             Iesus
             began
             to
             do
             ,
             and
             afterwards
             to
             teach
             ,
             the
             true
             and
             simple
             doctrine
             without
             any
             kind
             of
             commixtion
             .
          
           
             Seeing
             therefore
             Christ
             came
             to
             teach
             mankind
             ,
             and
             to
             
             redeeme
             them
             with
             his
             most
             pretious
             blod
             ,
             my selfe
             being
             one
             among
             the
             rest
             to
             be
             redeemed
             and
             taught
             through
             his
             vniuerse
             and
             exceeding
             goodnesse
             ,
             was
             at
             the
             length
             called
             to
             the
             true
             knowledge
             of
             his
             diuine
             will
             and
             pleasure
             ,
             and
             by
             his
             assistance
             I
             began
             to
             open
             the
             eyes
             of
             my
             vnderstanding
             ,
             and
             to
             purge
             and
             seclude
             my selfe
             from
             those
             mists
             and
             errors
             of
             the
             Romish
             Church
             ,
             by
             which
             my
             minde
             before
             was
             too
             much
             caried
             away
             and
             obscured
             .
             I
             obserued
             againe
             that
             from
             time
             to
             time
             there
             was
             a
             continuall
             mutabilitie
             and
             various
             changing
             of
             opinions
             among
             the
             Prelats
             :
             for
             what
             was
             one
             day
             receiued
             and
             allowed
             by
             authoritie
             ,
             was
             the
             next
             day
             prohibited
             ,
             and
             vtterly
             disanulled
             :
             as
             it
             is
             plainely
             to
             be
             seene
             in
             
               Indice
               expurgatorio
            
             .
             
             For
             whatsoeuer
             seemed
             to
             taxe
             the
             errors
             of
             the
             Priesthood
             ,
             the
             same
             by
             commandement
             of
             the
             Inquisitors
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             was
             forthwith
             razed
             out
             and
             extinguished
             .
          
           
             
             Secondly
             ,
             because
             if
             the
             Bishops
             at
             any
             time
             gaue
             power
             and
             authority
             to
             any
             for
             the
             preaching
             of
             the
             word
             of
             God
             ▪
             they
             did
             not
             graunt
             him
             free
             libertie
             of
             speech
             ,
             but
             prescribed
             him
             a
             forme
             of
             preaching
             ;
             as
             my selfe
             can
             witnesse
             by
             their
             Commissions
             granted
             to
             me
             in
             that
             behalfe
             :
             which
             is
             manifestly
             knowne
             to
             be
             a
             thing
             repugnant
             to
             the
             truth
             .
             For
             as
             Paul
             saith
             ,
             
               The
               word
               of
               God
               is
               not
               tied
               or
               limited
               :
            
             but
             
             they
             limit
             the
             same
             ,
             saying
             ,
             We
             giue
             you
             authoritie
             for
             the
             preaching
             of
             the
             word
             of
             God
             ,
             so
             farre
             forth
             ,
             as
             you
             do
             it
             according
             to
             the
             opinions
             of
             the
             holy
             Fathers
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             decrees
             of
             the
             most
             holy
             Councell
             of
             Trent
             .
             When
             as
             notwithstanding
             neither
             the
             opinions
             of
             the
             Fathers
             or
             of
             the
             Councels
             agree
             amongst
             them
             ,
             neither
             are
             they
             alwayes
             true
             .
             But
             if
             they
             do
             agree
             ,
             and
             are
             true
             ,
             they
             are
             (
             as
             is
             aforesaid
             )
             euery
             where
             altered
             by
             them
             and
             changed
             .
             And
             if
             according
             to
             their
             iudgements
             the
             word
             of
             God
             should
             be
             expressed
             ,
             the
             truth
             would
             sometimes
             be
             made
             more
             manifest
             and
             apparent
             .
             But
             in
             this
             they
             are
             contrary
             to
             them selues
             ,
             as
             that
             most
             learned
             man
             
               Iohn
               Caluine
            
             hath
             rightly
             
             and
             learnedly
             set
             downe
             .
             
               I
               am
               an
               eye
               witnesse
            
             (
             saith
             he
             )
             
               of
               the
               tyranny
               of
               the
               Bishops
               ,
               and
               Inquisitors
            
             ;
             for
             I
             haue
             often
             heard
             very
             learned
             men
             preach
             amongst
             them
             :
             but
             because
             those
             things
             that
             haue
             bin
             preached
             ,
             were
             displeasing
             to
             the
             tyrannous
             Inquisitors
             and
             Bishops
             ,
             the
             same
             preachers
             and
             learned
             men
             haue
             bene
             compelled
             euen
             in
             the
             same
             Church
             (
             and
             that
             against
             their
             owne
             consciences
             )
             by
             their
             commandements
             and
             authoritie
             to
             speake
             against
             themselues
             ,
             and
             to
             preach
             another
             doctrine
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             truth
             .
             For
             instance
             whereof
             ,
             Father
             Lobo
             ,
             a
             famous
             preacher
             ,
             whose
             name
             is
             well
             knowne
             in
             Spaine
             and
             Italy
             ,
             at
             Rome
             in
             the
             beginning
             of
             Pope
             Gregory
             the
             13
             ,
             in
             his
             Sermon
             was
             heard
             to
             vtter
             these
             words
             :
             
               It
               is
               of
               more
               weight
               and
               efficacie
               ,
               and
               of
               greater
               profit
               and
               vtility
               with
               God
               ,
               to
               heare
               his
               word
               ,
               then
               the
            
             
             Masse
             .
             But
             the
             same
             preacher
             forthwith
             by
             the
             commandement
             of
             that
             great
             beast
             (
             the
             Pope
             )
             was
             compelled
             to
             make
             his
             publicke
             recantation
             ;
             and
             yet
             for
             all
             this
             ,
             he
             was
             depriued
             of
             his
             authoritie
             of
             preaching
             ,
             and
             enioyned
             to
             other
             penances
             .
             Let
             God
             arise
             ,
             and
             iudge
             his
             cause
             ,
             who
             saith
             ,
             
               Viuus
               est
               sermo
               meus
            
             ,
             My
             word
             is
             a
             liuing
             word
             ;
             and
             Dauid
             (
             lest
             he
             should
             fall
             )
             did
             place
             the
             word
             of
             God
             ,
             
               A
               Lanterne
               vnto
               his
               feete
            
             :
             by
             which
             also
             the
             heauens
             were
             
             framed
             ,
             and
             which
             endureth
             for
             euer
             .
             To
             heare
             the
             same
             word
             by
             which
             all
             things
             were
             made
             ,
             and
             is
             the
             fountaine
             of
             wisedome
             ,
             the
             publicans
             and
             sinners
             assembled
             themselues
             together
             ,
             and
             the
             people
             preassed
             vpon
             Christ
             to
             heare
             the
             word
             of
             God
             ,
             of
             which
             all
             things
             were
             made
             ;
             for
             it
             is
             the
             fountaine
             of
             wisedome
             .
             Ezekiel
             admonished
             the
             sonnes
             of
             Ammon
             ,
             the
             mountaines
             of
             Israel
             ,
             and
             the
             dry
             bones
             ,
             to
             heare
             the
             word
             of
             the
             Lord
             God
             :
             by
             mediation
             whereof
             the
             bones
             came
             together
             ,
             bone
             to
             his
             bone
             ,
             and
             behold
             the
             synewes
             and
             the
             flesh
             grew
             vpon
             them
             ,
             and
             the
             skinne
             couered
             them
             .
          
           
             Christ
             also
             calleth
             them
             happy
             and
             blessed
             ,
             that
             heare
             the
             word
             of
             God.
             What
             the
             word
             of
             God
             makes
             loose
             and
             free
             ,
             that
             these
             tyrants
             do
             bind
             and
             tye
             to
             limits
             and
             compasse
             .
             When
             Iohn
             Baptist
             was
             in
             prison
             ,
             he
             preached
             the
             
             same
             word
             ,
             which
             (
             as
             the
             Lord
             saith
             )
             we
             ought
             not
             any
             way
             to
             oppugne
             or
             resist
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1597.
             
             
               Valentine
               Cortazer
            
             being
             Inquisitor
             ,
             the
             twentieth
             day
             of
             Iune
             comming
             to
             visit
             the
             city
             of
             Liria
             ,
             entred
             the
             same
             in
             his
             accustomed
             pompe
             and
             vanitie
             ,
             and
             did
             impose
             vpon
             me
             the
             charge
             and
             duty
             of
             preaching
             a
             Sermon
             of
             Faith.
             And
             vpon
             Sonday
             the
             22
             day
             of
             the
             same
             moneth
             and
             yeare
             ,
             
               Aderat
               Inquisitor
               Ecclesiae
               pro
               Tribunali
            
             ,
             sitting
             in
             great
             maiestie
             ,
             and
             (
             as
             the
             manner
             is
             )
             
               Lecto
               mandato
               praeceptorum
               de
               accusatione
            
             ,
             I
             ascended
             the
             place
             of
             preaching
             ,
             and
             hauing
             saluted
             the
             Inquisitor
             began
             my
             Sermon
             .
             After
             I
             had
             past
             ouer
             many
             things
             in
             praise
             and
             commendation
             of
             the
             Inquisitors
             and
             Inquisition
             ,
             I
             spake
             thus
             to
             the
             Auditorie
             .
             Remember
             (
             deare
             brethren
             )
             
             and
             be
             mindfull
             of
             those
             words
             which
             I
             spake
             vnto
             you
             in
             Lent
             time
             ,
             in
             a
             Sermon
             touching
             brotherly
             correction
             (
             for
             two
             Lents
             I
             was
             their
             Preacher
             .
             )
             You
             are
             bound
             (
             as
             I
             then
             told
             you
             )
             euery
             one
             of
             you
             to
             correct
             ,
             and
             admonish
             your
             brother
             secretly
             betweene
             you
             and
             him
             .
             But
             if
             after
             
             admonishment
             he
             continue
             still
             in
             his
             wickednesse
             ,
             then
             tel
             and
             acquaint
             the
             Church
             therewith
             .
             Yet
             before
             brotherly
             correction
             you
             are
             not
             tied
             to
             denounce
             him
             .
             Marke
             this
             well
             .
             This
             I
             speake
             vnto
             you
             ,
             in
             the
             name
             ,
             and
             behalfe
             of
             the
             liuing
             God.
             
          
           
             Hauing
             made
             an
             end
             of
             my
             Sermon
             ,
             I
             was
             inuited
             by
             the
             Inquisitor
             with
             all
             kindnesse
             and
             courtesie
             to
             take
             my
             dinner
             with
             him
             ;
             which
             being
             ended
             ,
             he
             began
             to
             fall
             into
             commendation
             of
             my
             Sermon
             ,
             but
             vtterly
             to
             condemne
             that
             brotherly
             admonition
             ,
             saying
             ,
             That
             it
             is
             not
             admitted
             in
             matters
             of
             faith
             ,
             with
             which
             the
             Inquisition
             hath
             to
             do
             ,
             and
             takes
             notice
             of
             .
             I
             replied
             with
             the
             very
             words
             of
             Christ
             in
             defence
             thereof
             ,
             but
             was
             compelled
             to
             hold
             my
             peace
             ,
             and
             the
             Sonday
             following
             constrained
             to
             preach
             of
             him
             that
             they
             hold
             and
             terme
             accursed
             ,
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             the
             Inquisitor
             ,
             and
             lay
             open
             his
             mind
             and
             pleasure
             against
             Gods
             word
             ,
             and
             to
             say
             that
             brotherly
             correction
             had
             no
             part
             or
             place
             in
             such
             matters
             ,
             as
             were
             contained
             in
             the
             Edict
             .
             Do
             but
             see
             ,
             and
             behold
             how
             the
             word
             of
             God
             is
             tied
             ,
             and
             bound
             by
             these
             people
             of
             Antichrist
             .
             And
             this
             whilest
             I
             was
             one
             of
             their
             number
             ,
             and
             company
             ,
             drew
             my
             mind
             into
             diuerse
             and
             sundry
             distractions
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             Of
             Transubstantiation
             .
          
           
             MY
             soule
             also
             was
             grieuously
             troubled
             about
             Transubstantiation
             
             of
             bread
             and
             wine
             into
             the
             body
             and
             bloud
             of
             Christ
             :
             for
             this
             among
             other
             things
             alwayes
             seemed
             vnto
             me
             a
             matter
             of
             much
             difficultie
             .
             And
             Saint
             Paul
             teacheth
             the
             contrary
             ,
             speaking
             of
             the
             Lords
             supper
             ,
             he
             alwayes
             nameth
             bread
             ,
             saying
             ,
             
               As
               aften
               as
               you
               shall
               eate
               of
               this
               bread
               ,
               and
               drinke
               of
               this
               drinke
               ,
            
             &c.
             
             Againe
             ,
             
               Whosoeuer
               shall
               eate
               of
               this
               bread
               ,
            
             &c.
             
             Also
             by
             this
             it
             followes
             ,
             that
             the
             Pope
             doth
             falsly
             intrude
             himselfe
             to
             be
             the
             head
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             as
             is
             proued
             by
             this
             reason
             .
             The
             Primitiue
             Church
             ,
             and
             that
             which
             flourished
             for
             many
             yeares
             ,
             knew
             no
             other
             head
             but
             Christ
             ,
             nor
             had
             any
             vniuersall
             Bishop
             .
             But
             the
             Primitiue
             Church
             (
             euen
             according
             to
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             Papists
             )
             was
             the
             true
             Church
             :
             Therefore
             the
             true
             Church
             ought
             to
             knowe
             or
             acknowledge
             no
             head
             but
             Christ
             ,
             nor
             any
             vniuersall
             Bishop
             .
             It
             is
             also
             thus
             proued
             by
             authority
             .
          
           
             Gregory
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             wrote
             against
             Iohn
             Patriarch
             of
             Constantinople
             ,
             saying
             :
             He
             that
             shall
             name
             himselfe
             the
             vniuersall
             Bishop
             ,
             may
             be
             called
             the
             forerunner
             of
             Antichrist
             .
             And
             the
             Councell
             of
             Carthage
             forbiddeth
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             to
             be
             called
             the
             vniuersall
             Bishop
             (
             as
             Gratianus
             witnesseth
             )
             in
             these
             words
             :
             But
             now
             ,
             no
             not
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             may
             be
             called
             vniuersall
             .
             What
             should
             I
             speake
             of
             the
             Synode
             of
             Chalcedon
             ?
             whose
             arguments
             are
             so
             many
             and
             so
             euident
             against
             the
             Sea
             of
             Rome
             ,
             that
             the
             same
             must
             either
             needs
             fal
             from
             her
             high
             pride
             and
             dignity
             ,
             or
             the
             whole
             authority
             of
             her
             Councell
             be
             vtterly
             suppressed
             ;
             as
             here
             manifestly
             appeares
             ,
             in
             that
             the
             same
             Synode
             is
             held
             and
             celebrated
             ,
             onely
             by
             the
             Emperors
             command
             ,
             without
             either
             the
             presence
             ,
             or
             authoritie
             of
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             :
             as
             in
             those
             times
             euen
             vnto
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             900
             (
             as
             Cusanus
             witnesseth
             )
             their
             Councels
             were
             not
             vsuall
             to
             be
             assembled
             but
             by
             the
             direction
             of
             Caesar
             .
             And
             
             Pope
             Leo
             (
             as
             Thomas
             affirmeth
             )
             following
             the
             same
             custome
             ,
             
             submitted
             himselfe
             to
             the
             opinion
             and
             iudgement
             of
             the
             Emperour
             .
          
           
             Christ
             the
             true
             Bishop
             ,
             as
             in
             this
             world
             he
             took
             vpon
             him
             
             no
             person
             of
             state
             ,
             so
             he
             appointed
             no
             dominion
             or
             Empire
             among
             his
             Apostles
             ,
             but
             with
             graue
             words
             pacified
             them
             (
             muttering
             somewhat
             among
             themselues
             of
             principality
             )
             so
             that
             he
             drew
             their
             thoughts
             and
             cogitations
             vnto
             another
             forme
             of
             life
             farre
             differing
             from
             the
             Princes
             of
             this
             world
             ;
             and
             openly
             affirmed
             ,
             that
             such
             as
             would
             be
             the
             first
             ,
             and
             greatest
             in
             the
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             ,
             must
             humble
             
             themselues
             amongst
             men
             .
             
               And
               whosoeuer
               will
               be
               great
               among
               you
               ,
               let
               him
               be
               your
               seruant
               .
            
             Christ
             euer
             taught
             and
             exercised
             humility
             ,
             saying
             ,
             
               I
               haue
               left
               you
               an
               example
               ,
               euen
               as
               I
               do
               ,
               so
               also
               do
               you
               .
            
          
           
             Christ
             had
             not
             where
             to
             lay
             his
             head
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             one
             Pallace
             suffice
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             ?
             Christ
             refused
             the
             condition
             of
             Regall
             dignity
             ,
             being
             offered
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             one
             Crowne
             content
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             ?
             Is
             it
             not
             enough
             that
             he
             possesseth
             Italy
             ,
             vnlesse
             with
             his
             triple
             Crowne
             he
             command
             the
             world
             ?
             Christ
             departed
             away
             into
             a
             mountaine
             himselfe
             alone
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             not
             make
             him
             a
             king
             ,
             declaring
             
             his
             kingdome
             not
             to
             be
             of
             this
             world
             .
             And
             shall
             this
             glorious
             Vicar
             ,
             in
             the
             name
             of
             Christ
             ,
             with
             such
             honor
             and
             superfluity
             possesse
             his
             kingdome
             in
             this
             world
             ?
             Or
             shall
             he
             thinke
             men
             will
             continue
             so
             besotted
             ,
             and
             miscaried
             in
             this
             difference
             ,
             and
             vnlikelinesse
             of
             things
             ,
             as
             to
             be
             perswaded
             that
             he
             beares
             the
             place
             and
             office
             of
             Christ
             here
             vpon
             earth
             ,
             or
             rather
             not
             of
             Antichrist
             ?
          
           
             Boniface
             the
             third
             was
             the
             first
             that
             tooke
             vpon
             him
             the
             name
             of
             vniuersall
             Bishop
             ,
             about
             the
             yeare
             600
             ;
             which
             name
             was
             neither
             giuen
             him
             by
             Christ
             ,
             nor
             from
             heauen
             ,
             but
             by
             that
             tyrant
             and
             parricide
             Phocas
             the
             Emperour
             .
             From
             that
             troublesome
             fountaine
             did
             arise
             the
             great
             floud
             of
             Papistrie
             ,
             and
             that
             proud
             name
             had
             first
             beginning
             .
             And
             yet
             in
             those
             dayes
             the
             Popes
             did
             not
             ,
             as
             now
             they
             do
             ,
             presently
             ascend
             to
             the
             top
             and
             height
             of
             dignity
             ,
             but
             by
             degrees
             
             did
             steale
             into
             rule
             and
             dominion
             .
             For
             Boniface
             the
             8
             
             after
             he
             had
             by
             cunning
             and
             sedition
             crept
             into
             the
             Papall
             place
             ,
             made
             Emperours
             and
             Kings
             to
             feare
             him
             ,
             going
             about
             to
             depose
             ,
             and
             raise
             vp
             to
             authoritie
             ,
             whom
             he
             pleased
             .
             So
             he
             thought
             himselfe
             both
             King
             and
             Emperour
             :
             in
             so
             much
             as
             when
             the
             Iubilee
             was
             first
             granted
             ,
             he
             shewed
             himselfe
             openly
             the
             first
             day
             to
             the
             people
             ,
             attired
             in
             his
             Pontificall
             vestments
             ;
             and
             the
             day
             following
             in
             his
             armor
             ,
             and
             coate
             of
             male
             ;
             and
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             all
             the
             people
             with
             a
             loude
             voyce
             he
             commanded
             himselfe
             to
             be
             proclaimed
             Caesar
             .
             Which
             vanity
             
               Baldus
               Antoninus
            
             Arch-bishop
             of
             Florence
             ,
             Salo
             ,
             and
             many
             others
             ,
             doe
             maintaine
             by
             their
             false
             doctrine
             ,
             saying
             ▪
             that
             Emperours
             and
             Kings
             are
             but
             the
             Popes
             substitutes
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Bishops
             of
             Rome
             had
             both
             the
             power
             of
             spirituall
             and
             temporall
             gouernement
             .
          
           
             They
             ground
             their
             false
             opiniō
             vpon
             the
             power
             of
             Christ
             ,
             which
             power
             they
             pretend
             to
             haue
             as
             his
             Vicars
             :
             for
             Christ
             saith
             ,
             
               All
               power
               is
               giuen
               vnto
               me
               ,
               both
               in
               heauen
               and
               in
               earth
               :
            
             
             and
             so
             by
             consequence
             ,
             both
             the
             swords
             :
             for
             he
             is
             named
             King
             of
             Kings
             ,
             Lord
             of
             Lords
             ,
             and
             in
             diuers
             places
             of
             the
             Scripture
             is
             called
             King
             and
             Emperour
             .
             Ezechiel
             giues
             him
             both
             names
             ,
             and
             the
             Magicians
             and
             Pilate
             call
             him
             King.
             
          
           
             But
             I
             demand
             this
             of
             these
             Antichrists
             ;
             that
             if
             they
             imitate
             Christ
             in
             this
             ,
             why
             they
             do
             not
             follow
             him
             in
             humility
             ?
             For
             although
             Christ
             had
             the
             power
             of
             rule
             and
             command
             ,
             yet
             he
             in
             respect
             of
             his
             humility
             vsed
             them
             not
             ,
             but
             rather
             affirmed
             his
             kingdome
             not
             to
             be
             of
             this
             world
             .
             But
             if
             the
             Pope
             do
             not
             imitate
             Christ
             ,
             he
             is
             not
             his
             Minister
             ,
             his
             Vicar
             ,
             nor
             successour
             .
             As
             the
             lewes
             boasted
             before
             Christ
             ,
             that
             they
             were
             of
             the
             seed
             of
             Abraham
             ,
             so
             the
             Pope
             glories
             in
             the
             succession
             of
             Christ
             ,
             and
             of
             Peter
             .
             But
             the
             same
             answere
             that
             Christ
             giues
             vnto
             the
             Iewes
             ,
             he
             giues
             also
             to
             the
             Pope
             ▪
             as
             you
             may
             read
             in
             Iohn
             8.
             
             Chap.
             the
             37
             verse
             ,
             to
             the
             very
             end
             
             of
             the
             same
             Chapter
             .
          
           
             But
             the
             Pope
             saith
             ,
             they
             are
             called
             the
             Seruants
             of
             seruants
             ,
             and
             so
             named
             for
             their
             humility
             .
             So
             that
             may
             suffice
             .
             
             To
             this
             I
             answere
             ,
             that
             vnder
             a
             faire
             shew
             lye
             hid
             foule
             intēts
             .
             He
             carries
             the
             name
             of
             humility
             ,
             but
             his
             deedes
             are
             cleane
             contrary
             .
             Is
             he
             the
             seruant
             of
             seruants
             ,
             that
             holdeth
             his
             foote
             forth
             for
             Kings
             and
             Emperous
             to
             kisse
             ,
             and
             do
             reuerence
             to
             ?
             Is
             he
             the
             seruant
             of
             seruants
             ,
             that
             is
             carried
             vpon
             mens
             shoulders
             ?
             Is
             he
             the
             seruant
             of
             seruants
             that
             makes
             such
             daily
             boast
             of
             his
             kingdome
             and
             authority
             ?
             Is
             he
             the
             seruant
             
             of
             seruants
             ,
             that
             saith
             he
             hath
             authority
             from
             heauen
             ,
             and
             the
             fulnesse
             of
             power
             to
             make
             iustice
             of
             iniustice
             ?
             Is
             he
             the
             seruant
             of
             seruants
             ,
             that
             saith
             he
             is
             like
             vnto
             the
             Sun
             ,
             and
             the
             Emperour
             like
             the
             Moone
             ?
             No
             ,
             but
             he
             is
             rather
             to
             be
             called
             an
             Harpy
             crowned
             ,
             or
             a
             deuouring
             Hiena
             ,
             that
             vnder
             a
             faigned
             shew
             of
             humility
             ,
             worketh
             death
             and
             cruelty
             .
          
           
             Sedition
             and
             controuersy
             oftentimes
             troubles
             the
             minds
             of
             such
             as
             aspire
             vnto
             that
             vaine
             dignity
             ,
             and
             contend
             for
             the
             Papall
             seat
             and
             authority
             and
             the
             place
             in
             which
             stands
             much
             scandall
             ,
             when
             schismes
             ,
             and
             deuisions
             arise
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             in
             the
             very
             act
             of
             election
             .
          
           
             Many
             times
             this
             fals
             out
             ,
             for
             proofe
             whereof
             reade
             Plato
             
             and
             Illescas
             in
             the
             History
             of
             the
             Bishops
             .
          
           
             If
             then
             the
             election
             of
             this
             present
             Pope
             ,
             Clement
             the
             8.
             be
             diligently
             examined
             ,
             it
             was
             in
             like
             manner
             very
             irregular
             ,
             &
             the
             people
             did
             much
             murmure
             at
             it
             .
             By
             reason
             whereof
             (
             vnlesse
             I
             be
             deceiued
             )
             the
             Diuines
             are
             very
             doubtfull
             concerning
             his
             election
             ,
             For
             at
             Vall-Solet
             .
             a
             (
             place
             where
             the
             king
             of
             Spaines
             Court
             is
             )
             in
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1602.
             
             
               Theses
               Theologicae
               apparuerunt
            
             ,
             teaching
             Pope
             Clement
             the
             8.
             not
             to
             be
             held
             a
             true
             Bishop
             ,
             which
             doctrine
             (
             amongst
             many
             other
             )
             father
             Bazquez
             maintained
             ,
             being
             one
             of
             the
             society
             of
             the
             Iesuits
             :
             which
             comming
             straight
             way
             to
             the
             eares
             of
             the
             Bishop
             ,
             he
             caused
             both
             him
             and
             them
             to
             be
             presently
             called
             beforehim
             .
          
           
             And
             because
             amongst
             many
             other
             reasons
             that
             haue
             moued
             me
             to
             this
             separation
             from
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             this
             of
             the
             vsurped
             power
             of
             the
             Pope
             hath
             of
             long
             time
             bene
             the
             chiefest
             ,
             I
             thought
             it
             my
             part
             to
             say
             something
             of
             his
             
             tyranny
             ,
             &
             of
             his
             name
             and
             hypocrisy
             .
          
           
             But
             for
             that
             this
             little
             labour
             hath
             bene
             onely
             vndertaken
             by
             me
             to
             satisfie
             mine
             owne
             minde
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             some
             declaration
             thereof
             vnto
             others
             ;
             lest
             I
             should
             be
             tedious
             and
             troublesome
             to
             the
             Readers
             ,
             I
             will
             for
             this
             time
             pretermit
             the
             further
             handling
             of
             these
             things
             ,
             yet
             (
             God
             willing
             )
             in
             their
             place
             and
             time
             shall
             they
             be
             particularly
             expressed
             more
             at
             large
             ;
             imitating
             the
             doctrine
             of
             Saint
             Paul
             ,
             who
             after
             his
             owne
             conuersion
             did
             conuert
             his
             brethren
             ;
             which
             Christ
             also
             our
             heauenly
             Schoolmaister
             doth
             teach
             vs
             :
             saying
             to
             
               Peter
               :
               Now
               thou
               art
               at
               length
               conuerted
               ,
               strengthen
               thy
               brethren
               .
            
             And
             I
             my selfe
             conuerted
             ,
             am
             bound
             in
             duty
             to
             do
             the
             same
             ,
             yet
             in
             the
             meane
             time
             reade
             Doctour
             
               Caluin
               ,
               li.
            
             4.
             
             
               Institut
               .
               Cap.
            
             6
             7.
             
             &
             11.
             
             
          
        
         
           
             Of
             Purgatory
             ,
             and
             the
             Sacraments
             .
          
           
             INsomuch
             as
             I
             am
             now
             determined
             to
             imbrace
             the
             truth
             of
             the
             reformed
             Church
             ,
             I
             do
             with
             stedfast
             resolution
             ,
             
             looke
             into
             the
             sentences
             thereof
             ,
             being
             consonant
             and
             agreeable
             vnto
             the
             Gospell
             of
             Christ
             ;
             lest
             the
             words
             of
             the
             Lawyers
             may
             be
             inferred
             against
             me
             ,
             who
             hold
             this
             opinion
             ,
             That
             it
             is
             a
             foule
             &
             dishonorable
             thing
             for
             any
             that
             liues
             in
             the
             common-wealth
             ,
             to
             be
             ignorant
             of
             that
             law
             ,
             in
             which
             he
             is
             conuersant
             .
             And
             so
             there
             is
             no
             other
             Church
             allowed
             of
             more
             then
             the
             Church
             militant
             and
             triumphant
             :
             But
             amongst
             the
             Papists
             Purgatory
             is
             ordained
             ,
             the
             third
             Church
             ,
             which
             I
             vtterly
             deny
             and
             abiure
             .
             For
             (
             as
             Saint
             Paul
             saith
             )
             Christ
             
               is
               the
               purger
               of
               our
               sinnes
               ,
               and
               sitteth
               at
               the
               right
               hand
               of
               the
               Maiestie
               in
               the
               highest
            
             
             places
             .
          
           
             Besides
             hell
             and
             heauen
             ,
             there
             is
             no
             middle
             place
             found
             in
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             ,
             where
             our
             soules
             should
             rest
             ,
             or
             be
             detained
             .
             The
             opinion
             which
             the
             Papists
             hold
             of
             
               Veniall
               sinnes
            
             ,
             and
             the
             ceremonies
             ,
             by
             which
             the
             same
             is
             absolued
             ,
             I
             wholly
             disalow
             ,
             as
             vile
             ,
             and
             excreable
             ;
             nor
             is
             there
             any
             other
             then
             mortall
             sinne
             ,
             which
             is
             onely
             washed
             away
             
             
             by
             true
             contrition
             of
             heart
             ,
             by
             the
             mercy
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             shedding
             of
             the
             bloud
             of
             Christ
             ;
             as
             Saint
             Paul
             saith
             .
             The
             Sacrament
             also
             of
             extreme
             vnction
             ,
             by
             mediation
             of
             which
             (
             as
             the
             Papists
             dreame
             )
             the
             reliques
             of
             sinnes
             mortall
             are
             taken
             away
             ,
             is
             a
             very
             idle
             ,
             and
             ridiculous
             matter
             ,
             and
             no
             Sacrament
             .
             For
             if
             it
             were
             a
             Sacramēt
             ,
             the
             redemptiō
             of
             Christ
             were
             imperfect
             ,
             and
             in
             vaine
             ;
             which
             is
             against
             the
             truth
             of
             
             Gods
             word
             ,
             which
             saith
             
               The
               Lord
               is
               mercifull
               ,
               and
               righteous
               :
               and
               our
               God
               is
               full
               of
               compassion
               .
               The
               Lord
               preserueth
               the
               simple
               :
               I
               was
               in
               misery
               and
               he
               sauedme
               .
            
             I
             reiect
             also
             the
             Sacrament
             of
             Confirmation
             ,
             and
             the
             rest
             which
             the
             Pope
             hath
             ordained
             ,
             and
             onely
             reuerence
             and
             embrace
             the
             Sacraments
             of
             Baptisme
             ,
             and
             the
             Lords
             Supper
             ,
             instituted
             by
             our
             Sauiour
             .
             By
             this
             I
             am
             instructed
             in
             the
             rules
             of
             Christ
             ,
             and
             by
             this
             I
             am
             more
             and
             more
             strengthened
             ,
             and
             confirmed
             in
             him
             .
          
        
         
           
             Of
             Auricular
             confession
             .
          
           
             AVricular
             confession
             ,
             (
             which
             the
             Papists
             call
             the
             Sacrament
             of
             Penitence
             )
             is
             very
             foolish
             .
             For
             this
             tyrannicall
             confession
             ,
             is
             neither
             found
             in
             the
             law
             of
             nature
             ,
             nor
             in
             the
             Law
             of
             God
             :
             but
             in
             the
             diuell
             and
             the
             Popes
             kitchin
             ,
             to
             increase
             their
             fare
             ,
             and
             delicacies
             .
             Neither
             did
             the
             Apostles
             
             teach
             the
             same
             ,
             or
             Saint
             
               Iohn
               Baptist
            
             :
             as
             Caluin
             directly
             proueth
             .
             And
             Chrysostome
             also
             maintaineth
             :
             whose
             words
             
               (
               Con.
            
             3.
             t.
             2.
             
             Pag.
             1371.
             )
             are
             these
             :
             
               Why
               dost
               thou
               blush
               and
               art
               ashamed
               to
               tell
               thy
               sinnes
               ?
               Take
               heed
               thou
               reueale
               them
               not
               to
               any
               man
               ,
               lest
               he
               vpbraid
               thee
               ;
               nether
               confesse
               them
               to
               thy
               fellow
               seruant
               ,
               lest
               he
               publish
               them
               :
               but
               vnto
               him
               which
               is
               the
               Lord
               ,
               who
               hath
               care
               and
               charge
               ouer
               thee
               .
            
             And
             againe
             ,
             
               Tell
               thy
               faults
               only
               vnto
               me
               priuately
               ,
            
             (
             God
             here
             speaketh
             ,
             )
             
               that
               I
               may
               heale
               thy
               disease
               ,
               and
               deliuer
               thee
               from
               sorrow
               .
            
             Which
             words
             (
             because
             they
             are
             repugnant
             and
             contrary
             to
             that
             great
             beast
             )
             are
             by
             the
             commandement
             of
             the
             Inquisitors
             taken
             away
             and
             blotted
             out
             in
             the
             booke
             ,
             called
             
               Index
               expurgatorius
            
             .
          
           
             Many
             in
             the
             same
             manner
             of
             confession
             haue
             reuealed
             
             their
             sins
             willingly
             to
             their
             Confessours
             ,
             and
             the
             Confessour
             to
             the
             Iudges
             ,
             and
             others
             .
          
           
             A
             certaine
             Bishop
             of
             Girona
             in
             the
             time
             of
             Iames
             the
             second
             king
             of
             Arragon
             (
             being
             his
             Confessour
             )
             reuealed
             his
             confession
             to
             the
             Pope
             ,
             and
             the
             king
             forthwith
             cut
             out
             his
             tongue
             .
             I
             my selfe
             can
             faithfully
             witnesse
             ,
             that
             being
             many
             times
             present
             at
             the
             talke
             &
             communication
             of
             Confessours
             ,
             they
             haue
             so
             foolishly
             behaued
             themselues
             ,
             and
             so
             openly
             in
             their
             talke
             reuealed
             the
             sinnes
             that
             haue
             bene
             confest
             vnto
             them
             priuately
             by
             the
             penitents
             ;
             that
             their
             names
             and
             persons
             haue
             easily
             become
             knowne
             to
             me
             ,
             and
             perhaps
             to
             many
             others
             ,
             that
             haue
             heard
             the
             conference
             .
             And
             although
             there
             be
             diuers
             lawes
             ordained
             by
             the
             Pope
             to
             punish
             Confessours
             thus
             offending
             ;
             they
             yet
             commit
             this
             crime
             of
             reuelation
             ,
             and
             (
             which
             is
             worse
             )
             without
             a
             summe
             of
             money
             ,
             the
             Penitents
             haue
             no
             grant
             of
             absolution
             ,
             as
             appeares
             in
             the
             bookes
             of
             Taxes
             ,
             &c.
             
             By
             which
             feare
             ,
             many
             euen
             in
             the
             very
             act
             of
             confession
             do
             conceale
             the
             truth
             ,
             till
             they
             be
             compelled
             to
             confesse
             the
             same
             .
             I
             could
             speake
             much
             of
             this
             matter
             ,
             and
             point
             it
             out
             with
             my
             very
             fingar
             ,
             but
             I
             will
             obserue
             my
             oath
             ,
             and
             with
             good
             aduice
             forbeare
             to
             relate
             it
             .
          
           
             In
             this
             matter
             of
             auricular
             confession
             ,
             the
             Confessours
             are
             wont
             to
             seduce
             ,
             and
             auert
             the
             minds
             and
             affections
             of
             women
             from
             God
             ,
             and
             to
             turne
             and
             conuert
             them
             to
             their
             owne
             lusts
             and
             filthinesse
             .
             To
             proue
             this
             true
             ,
             I
             present
             (
             as
             witnesses
             )
             those
             Confessours
             that
             haue
             bene
             punished
             by
             iudgement
             of
             the
             Inquisition
             ,
             for
             such
             abhorred
             and
             abhominable
             wickednesse
             ;
             and
             such
             as
             haue
             bene
             adiuged
             to
             punishment
             ,
             and
             by
             sentence
             of
             the
             Prelats
             and
             others
             ,
             for
             being
             found
             guilty
             of
             the
             like
             misdemeanours
             .
             For
             by
             auricular
             confession
             ,
             many
             monstrous
             enormities
             arise
             ,
             and
             are
             begotten
             .
          
           
             To
             auoid
             the
             imputation
             of
             tedioulnesse
             ,
             I
             will
             not
             continue
             to
             make
             any
             longer
             discourse
             ,
             or
             discouery
             of
             the
             errours
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             .
             But
             with
             all
             my
             heart
             ,
             with
             
             all
             my
             minde
             ,
             and
             with
             all
             my
             soule
             ,
             I
             reuerence
             and
             confesse
             all
             things
             whatsoeuer
             our
             new
             reformed
             Church
             doth
             allow
             and
             embrace
             .
             And
             if
             any
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             shall
             vpbraide
             me
             that
             I
             haue
             falsely
             and
             perfidiously
             fallen
             
             from
             the
             same
             .
             ;
             I
             answere
             with
             Saint
             Ambrose
             ,
             In
             leauing
             it
             I
             forsake
             not
             Christ
             :
             Him
             onely
             no
             man
             ought
             to
             forsake
             ,
             or
             change
             :
             to
             whom
             it
             is
             worthily
             said
             ,
             
               Lord
               to
               whom
               shall
               we
               flie
               ?
               Thou
               hast
               the
               words
               of
               euerlasting
               life
               .
            
             For
             the
             faith
             of
             the
             Church
             is
             commanded
             chiefly
             to
             be
             sought
             for
             ,
             in
             which
             if
             Christ
             haue
             habitatiō
             ,
             it
             may
             vndoubtedly
             be
             chosen
             and
             followed
             :
             But
             if
             the
             people
             be
             perfidious
             ,
             and
             the
             maister
             an
             heretique
             ,
             and
             deforme
             and
             dissigure
             the
             dwelling
             place
             ;
             the
             fellowship
             and
             communion
             of
             such
             heretiques
             is
             to
             be
             abandoned
             ,
             and
             such
             a
             Synagogue
             to
             be
             auoided
             .
             We
             must
             shake
             off
             the
             dust
             from
             our
             feete
             ,
             lest
             the
             drought
             of
             our
             barren
             vnfaithfulnesse
             prepare
             and
             make
             the
             way
             sandy
             ,
             and
             hard
             to
             the
             true
             progresse
             and
             passage
             of
             our
             mindes
             and
             vnderstandings
             .
             So
             if
             there
             be
             any
             Church
             (
             as
             he
             saith
             afterward
             )
             that
             renounceth
             the
             true
             faith
             ,
             and
             doth
             not
             keepe
             and
             obserue
             the
             foundation
             ,
             and
             ground
             of
             the
             Apostles
             preaching
             ,
             it
             is
             to
             be
             left
             and
             forsaken
             ▪
             that
             it
             beget
             not
             the
             corruption
             of
             vntruth
             .
          
           
             Seeing
             then
             I
             haue
             found
             Christ
             onely
             ,
             and
             his
             doctrine
             dwelling
             in
             the
             reformed
             Church
             ,
             and
             haue
             seene
             that
             erronious
             teachers
             do
             deforme
             &
             disgrace
             the
             habitation
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ;
             I
             haue
             deseruedly
             left
             the
             one
             ,
             that
             I
             may
             cleaue
             to
             &
             embrace
             the
             other
             :
             &
             that
             according
             to
             the
             commandement
             
             of
             the
             Apostle
             :
             saying
             ,
             
               Do
               not
               company
               together
               with
               idolaters
               .
            
             And
             againe
             :
             
               Haue
               no
               fellowship
               with
               the
               vnfruitfull
               workes
               of
               darkenesse
               ,
               but
               euen
               reproue
               the
               rather
               .
            
             And
             what
             more
             vnfruitfull
             worke
             is
             there
             ,
             then
             to
             embrace
             false
             doctrine
             ,
             and
             heresie
             ?
             In
             another
             place
             :
             
               We
               command
               you
            
             
             
               brethren
               ,
               in
               the
               name
               of
               our
               Lord
               Iesus
               Christ
               ,
               that
               ye
               withdraw
               your selues
               from
               euery
               brother
               that
               walketh
               inordinately
               ,
               and
               not
               
               after
               the
               instruction
               which
               he
               receiued
               from
               vs.
               
            
             And
             to
             
               Titus
               ,
               Reiect
               him
               that
               is
               an
               heretique
               ,
               after
               once
               or
               twice
               admonition
               .
            
             And
             the
             Apostle
             moreouer
             saith
             thus
             .
             
               If
               any
               preach
               the
               Gospell
            
             
             
               vnto
               you
               otherwise
               then
               you
               haue
               heard
               and
               receiued
               it
               ,
               let
            
             
             
               him
               be
               accursed
            
             .
             And
             a
             little
             before
             that
             :
             
               Although
               any
               ,
               yea
               an
               Angell
               from
               heauen
               should
               teach
               you
               any
               other
               doctrine
               then
               that
               we
               haue
               preached
               vnto
               you
               ,
               let
               him
               be
               accursed
               .
            
             But
             I
             will
             no
             longer
             stay
             vpon
             those
             places
             of
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             wherein
             the
             people
             is
             oftentimes
             exhorted
             to
             leaue
             ,
             and
             go
             out
             of
             Babylon
             ,
             which
             I
             know
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             both
             imitates
             and
             followes
             .
          
           
             Let
             it
             not
             be
             obiected
             vnto
             me
             by
             any
             aduersary
             ,
             that
             I
             haue
             denyed
             my
             baptisme
             by
             which
             I
             am
             consecrated
             to
             almighty
             God
             :
             for
             I
             onely
             renonunce
             the
             vaine
             ceremonies
             vsed
             therein
             by
             the
             Bishops
             ,
             without
             authority
             of
             holy
             Scriptures
             .
             The
             vertue
             whereof
             I
             know
             to
             depend
             on
             God
             ,
             &
             not
             in
             man
             that
             administers
             the
             same
             vnto
             me
             .
             Seeing
             thē
             it
             is
             the
             part
             of
             a
             louing
             mother
             ,
             not
             onely
             to
             bring
             vp
             her
             children
             in
             the
             obedience
             and
             feare
             of
             God
             ,
             but
             to
             instruct
             them
             also
             ,
             and
             nurse
             them
             vp
             with
             the
             food
             of
             his
             heauenly
             word
             ▪
             and
             so
             vnite
             them
             to
             Christ
             :
             as
             I
             haue
             bene
             consecrated
             to
             God
             by
             baptisme
             in
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             so
             in
             the
             same
             I
             haue
             bene
             seduced
             from
             Christ
             by
             humane
             inuentions
             .
             I
             haue
             therefore
             worthily
             ,
             and
             of
             right
             ,
             made
             choice
             of
             that
             Church
             ,
             in
             which
             the
             true
             baptisme
             is
             sincerely
             administred
             ,
             and
             the
             sound
             doctrine
             thereof
             is
             faithfully
             deliuered
             to
             such
             as
             are
             baptised
             ,
             through
             the
             whole
             course
             of
             their
             liues
             .
             Besides
             I
             perswade
             my selfe
             (
             and
             that
             truely
             )
             that
             I
             am
             more
             deepely
             bound
             to
             God
             the
             Father
             ,
             God
             the
             Son
             ,
             and
             God
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             ,
             (
             being
             three
             Persons
             yet
             onely
             God
             )
             then
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             which
             hath
             forsaken
             and
             rebelled
             against
             that
             faith
             which
             the
             Apostles
             in
             times
             past
             so
             highly
             commended
             in
             her
             ,
             and
             against
             whom
             that
             imputation
             of
             reproach
             may
             worthily
             be
             had
             ,
             which
             was
             once
             laid
             vpon
             the
             Church
             of
             the
             Iewes
             in
             these
             words
             :
             
               And
               their
            
             
             
               sonnes
               whom
               they
               beare
               vnto
               me
               ,
               they
               haue
               offered
               to
               Idols
               ,
               to
               be
               deuoured
               .
            
             And
             againe
             in
             the
             same
             Prophet
             :
             
               They
               haue
               played
               the
               whores
               ,
               and
               bloud
               is
               in
               their
               handes
               ,
               and
               with
               their
               idols
               haue
               they
               committed
               adultery
            
             And
             what
             is
             it
             else
             to
             commēd
             the
             inuocation
             of
             soules
             ?
             the
             adoration
             of
             images
             ?
             the
             obseruation
             
             of
             Purgatory
             ?
             and
             of
             Pardons
             ?
             They
             glorie
             of
             the
             workes
             of
             Supererogation
             ,
             the
             rules
             and
             examples
             of
             men
             that
             are
             sinners
             :
             as
             
               Francis
               ,
               Dominicke
               ,
               Bruno
               ,
               Celestine
               ,
               Ignatius
               ,
               Loyola
               ,
            
             and
             others
             ,
             and
             especially
             to
             thurst
             yong
             men
             and
             women
             against
             their
             wils
             into
             a
             monastery
             ?
             What
             is
             this
             else
             (
             as
             I
             say
             )
             but
             to
             be
             consecrated
             to
             idols
             ,
             and
             to
             superstitious
             
             worshipping
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             end
             to
             the
             deuill
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             damnation
             ?
          
           
             And
             because
             (
             as
             it
             is
             well
             knowne
             vnto
             me
             )
             the
             Papists
             thinke
             we
             walke
             not
             after
             the
             right
             decrees
             and
             determinations
             of
             the
             true
             Church
             ,
             neither
             beleeue
             those
             things
             ,
             which
             are
             to
             be
             beleeued
             :
             I
             will
             therefore
             ,
             seeing
             (
             as
             God
             hath
             commanded
             )
             I
             am
             separated
             and
             come
             from
             among
             them
             ,
             relate
             those
             things
             ,
             which
             we
             faithfully
             hold
             and
             
             imbrace
             :
             For
             as
             Paul
             saith
             ,
             
               I
               am
               not
               ashamed
               of
               the
               Gospell
               of
               Christ
               ,
               for
               it
               is
               the
               power
               of
               God
               vnto
               saluation
               to
               euery
               one
               that
               beleeueth
               .
            
             Before
             all
             things
             we
             beleeue
             in
             God
             ,
             the
             Father
             Almighty
             ,
             maker
             of
             heauen
             and
             earth
             ,
             and
             in
             his
             Word
             ,
             begotten
             of
             the
             Father
             ;
             and
             in
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             ,
             proceeding
             from
             them
             both
             ,
             to
             whom
             their
             due
             and
             distinct
             properties
             are
             to
             be
             attributed
             :
             in
             which
             (
             according
             to
             Essence
             )
             we
             neither
             separate
             the
             Sonne
             ,
             nor
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             from
             the
             Father
             :
             nor
             (
             contrary
             to
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             Manicheys
             )
             diuide
             the
             Father
             from
             the
             Sonne
             ,
             or
             from
             the
             holy
             
             Ghost
             :
             but
             we
             beleeue
             that
             they
             haue
             one
             vnity
             of
             Essence
             ,
             and
             Trinitie
             of
             Persons
             ,
             without
             any
             confusion
             .
          
           
             Which
             vnitie
             and
             trinitie
             (
             as
             
               Hilary
               ,
               Ambrose
            
             ,
             and
             many
             
             others
             teach
             )
             cannot
             perfectly
             be
             comprehended
             by
             naturall
             reason
             ;
             but
             is
             apprehēded
             by
             faith
             ,
             as
             many
             other
             hiddē
             mysteries
             of
             God
             ,
             of
             which
             S.
             Paul
             speaketh
             :
             
               Oh
               the
               deepnesse
               of
               the
               riches
               both
               of
               the
               wisedome
               and
               knowledge
               of
               God.
               How
               vnsearchable
               are
               his
               iudgements
               ,
               and
               his
               wayes
               past
               finding
               out
               ?
            
             All
             honor
             be
             giuen
             to
             the
             blessed
             Trinity
             ,
             being
             one
             God
             ,
             and
             to
             whom
             is
             equall
             glory
             in
             three
             Persons
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             opinion
             of
             Arrius
             ,
             that
             blasphemously
             takes
             away
             the
             
             equality
             of
             Persons
             ,
             holding
             the
             Sonne
             to
             be
             inferior
             ,
             and
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             to
             be
             seruant
             to
             God
             the
             Father
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             Of
             Christ
             the
             Sonne
             .
          
           
             
             VVE
             beleeue
             in
             Iesus
             Christ
             ,
             his
             onely
             begotten
             Sonne
             ,
             the
             Redeemer
             and
             Mediator
             of
             mankind
             :
             through
             whom
             in
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             he
             created
             all
             things
             in
             the
             beginning
             ;
             not
             that
             he
             redeemed
             mankind
             without
             the
             Father
             ,
             which
             sent
             his
             Sonne
             to
             be
             the
             Redeemer
             of
             the
             world
             ;
             or
             without
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             ,
             by
             whom
             man
             is
             conceiued
             and
             annointed
             :
             but
             because
             the
             only
             person
             of
             the
             Sonne
             tooke
             vpon
             him
             humane
             nature
             ,
             and
             by
             his
             death
             and
             passion
             payd
             the
             price
             of
             our
             redemption
             ;
             and
             is
             but
             one
             person
             (
             contrary
             to
             the
             opinion
             of
             Nestorius
             ,
             that
             maintained
             two
             .
             )
             We
             beleeue
             also
             that
             Christ
             was
             borne
             of
             the
             virgine
             Mary
             ,
             according
             to
             humane
             nature
             it selfe
             ,
             by
             the
             inspiration
             of
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             ;
             and
             we
             beleeue
             (
             with
             the
             Catholicke
             Church
             )
             that
             she
             was
             a
             virgin
             before
             the
             birth
             ,
             in
             the
             birth
             ,
             and
             after
             the
             birth
             ,
             against
             Heluidius
             ,
             whom
             S.
             Hierome
             vtterly
             disallowes
             ,
             so
             doth
             S.
             Ambrose
             ,
             S.
             Augustine
             and
             S.
             Thomas
             .
          
           
             We
             beleeue
             also
             that
             Christ
             our
             Lord
             ,
             suffered
             vnder
             
               Pontius
               Pilate
            
             ,
             was
             crucified
             ,
             dead
             and
             buried
             ,
             and
             descended
             into
             hell
             ,
             and
             the
             third
             day
             rose
             againe
             :
             not
             by
             anothers
             meanes
             ,
             as
             Lazarus
             ,
             and
             others
             ,
             but
             by
             his
             owne
             proper
             power
             and
             vertue
             ;
             because
             he
             was
             God
             ,
             which
             according
             to
             Diuinitie
             was
             cause
             of
             his
             resurrection
             ,
             as
             Iohn
             saith
             :
             
               No
               man
               taketh
               it
               from
               me
               ,
               but
               I
               lay
               it
               downe
               of
               my selfe
               .
               I
               haue
               power
               to
               lay
               it
               downe
               ,
               and
               haue
               power
               to
               take
               it
               againe
               .
            
          
           
             We
             confesse
             also
             that
             he
             ascended
             into
             heauen
             ,
             &
             sate
             at
             the
             right
             hand
             of
             his
             Almighty
             Father
             ,
             which
             ascension
             Christ
             made
             not
             according
             to
             his
             diuine
             nature
             (
             which
             was
             neuer
             out
             of
             heauen
             )
             but
             as
             he
             was
             man
             ,
             for
             so
             he
             entred
             into
             heauen
             ,
             and
             by
             his
             owne
             power
             ascended
             .
          
           
             We
             confesse
             further
             ,
             that
             with
             great
             Maiestie
             and
             glory
             he
             shall
             come
             to
             iudge
             both
             the
             quicke
             and
             the
             dead
             :
             and
             to
             reward
             euery
             man
             according
             to
             his
             workes
             :
             which
             are
             all
             matters
             of
             faith
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             beleeued
             ,
             and
             are
             taught
             in
             the
             reformed
             Church
             .
             With
             true
             faith
             we
             imbrace
             the
             Apostolicke
             Creed
             ,
             the
             Creed
             of
             Nice
             ,
             and
             Athanasius
             :
             And
             so
             to
             that
             Church
             ,
             whose
             confession
             I
             find
             to
             be
             agreeing
             
             and
             conformable
             to
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             ,
             I
             wholly
             yeeld
             and
             subscribe
             vnto
             .
          
           
             But
             lest
             any
             man
             should
             thinke
             ,
             that
             either
             for
             want
             ,
             and
             necessitie
             ,
             or
             for
             any
             horrible
             offence
             committed
             ,
             and
             so
             for
             feare
             of
             punishment
             ,
             I
             haue
             left
             ,
             and
             separated
             my selfe
             from
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             I
             will
             make
             short
             repetition
             of
             what
             hath
             befallen
             vnto
             me
             ,
             through
             the
             whole
             course
             of
             my
             life
             ,
             euen
             from
             my
             infancie
             :
             not
             led
             by
             ostentation
             ,
             or
             vaine
             glory
             ,
             but
             that
             in
             remembring
             thē
             ,
             I
             may
             be
             the
             more
             drawne
             to
             giue
             humble
             and
             hearty
             thankes
             vnto
             almightie
             God
             ,
             who
             hath
             had
             such
             pity
             and
             compassion
             on
             me
             .
          
           
             I
             was
             borne
             at
             
               Caesar
               Augusta
            
             (
             which
             is
             the
             chiefest
             place
             of
             the
             kingdome
             of
             
               Arragon
               .
            
             )
             The
             day
             before
             the
             Calends
             of
             February
             ,
             at
             two
             of
             the
             clocke
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1567.
             of
             honorable
             parentage
             both
             by
             father
             and
             mother
             ,
             as
             is
             well
             knowne
             in
             my
             countrey
             ,
             and
             by
             Gods
             prouidence
             without
             any
             impediments
             or
             defects
             of
             nature
             :
             I
             was
             baptized
             in
             the
             parish
             Church
             of
             Saint
             Giles
             ,
             and
             confirmed
             by
             that
             excellent
             Prince
             Ferdinand
             Viceroy
             of
             Arragon
             ,
             and
             Arch-bishop
             of
             
               Caesar
               Augusta
            
             .
             From
             my
             infancy
             with
             my
             parents
             great
             care
             and
             industry
             I
             was
             trained
             vp
             in
             the
             doctrine
             and
             religion
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             and
             with
             my
             yeares
             my
             knowledge
             thereof
             was
             much
             increased
             ,
             and
             I
             did
             reuerence
             the
             same
             with
             such
             honour
             and
             ardency
             ,
             as
             no
             other
             religion
             appeared
             vnto
             me
             so
             profitable
             or
             pleasing
             .
          
           
             My
             father
             departed
             out
             of
             this
             life
             when
             I
             was
             but
             16
             yeares
             of
             age
             ;
             but
             my
             mother
             as
             she
             was
             carefull
             I
             should
             be
             brought
             vp
             and
             instructed
             after
             the
             customes
             of
             the
             Romish
             Church
             (
             for
             she
             was
             full
             of
             zeale
             and
             deuotion
             ,
             )
             so
             was
             I
             taught
             Musicke
             and
             Military
             discipline
             ,
             and
             other
             exercises
             of
             body
             ,
             to
             my
             age
             best
             fitting
             and
             agreeable
             .
             I
             was
             still
             sollicitous
             to
             reade
             bookes
             of
             Christian
             Religion
             ,
             and
             to
             take
             counsell
             and
             be
             conuersant
             with
             such
             men
             as
             seemed
             to
             me
             to
             be
             honest
             ,
             and
             learned
             :
             So
             that
             desire
             of
             further
             knowledge
             daily
             increased
             in
             me
             .
             The
             respect
             therefore
             of
             all
             temporall
             goods
             being
             laid
             aside
             ,
             I
             wholly
             
             applied
             my selfe
             to
             be
             in
             the
             number
             and
             societie
             of
             them
             ,
             whom
             they
             of
             Rome
             call
             and
             account
             Religious
             :
             and
             contrary
             to
             my
             mothers
             minde
             ,
             or
             the
             good
             will
             of
             my
             brethren
             and
             kinsfolkes
             ,
             I
             followed
             the
             Religion
             of
             S.
             Francis
             ,
             and
             with
             all
             alacrity
             and
             willingnesse
             of
             heart
             ,
             I
             entred
             the
             Monastery
             of
             Iesus
             .
             Which
             when
             my
             mother
             heard
             of
             ,
             she
             was
             moued
             with
             much
             sorrow
             ,
             and
             both
             by
             her
             words
             and
             deeds
             shewed
             that
             I
             had
             greatly
             displeased
             her
             .
             Yet
             she
             loued
             me
             dearly
             ,
             &
             alwaies
             hoped
             of
             me
             to
             be
             a
             refuge
             &
             succour
             to
             her
             age
             .
             Hauing
             therefore
             takē
             coūsell
             ,
             accompanied
             with
             a
             Noble
             woman
             (
             her
             sisters
             daughter
             )
             she
             came
             to
             the
             Couēt
             ,
             with
             an
             intent
             to
             alter
             my
             purpose
             ,
             &
             both
             of
             them
             
             laboured
             byall
             that
             prayers
             or
             intreaties
             ,
             or
             faire
             promises
             ,
             might
             effect
             ,
             to
             draw
             me
             frō
             that
             vndertakē
             resolution
             .
             But
             I
             was
             so
             constant
             in
             my
             deuotion
             of
             that
             Monasticke
             life
             ,
             as
             neither
             my
             mothers
             lamentations
             ,
             or
             large
             gifts
             proffered
             vnto
             me
             ,
             could
             work
             alteration
             of
             my
             mind
             .
             So
             for
             that
             time
             she
             departed
             ,
             but
             vpon
             further
             counsell
             and
             aduice
             taken
             ,
             she
             came
             thither
             againe
             with
             a
             great
             troupe
             attending
             her
             ,
             with
             purpose
             in
             deed
             to
             haue
             taken
             me
             away
             by
             force
             and
             violence
             .
             Which
             when
             I
             and
             the
             religious
             men
             of
             the
             Monastery
             perceiued
             ,
             we
             hindred
             their
             determinations
             ,
             so
             as
             my
             mother
             by
             no
             meanes
             could
             obtaine
             her
             purpose
             .
             But
             she
             tooke
             it
             so
             grieuously
             ,
             that
             for
             the
             space
             of
             many
             dayes
             she
             fell
             into
             an
             extreme
             phrensie
             .
          
           
             Hauing
             recouered
             her
             health
             and
             senses
             againe
             ,
             she
             still
             continued
             her
             meanes
             and
             deuices
             to
             change
             my
             mind
             ,
             and
             vsed
             the
             same
             almost
             a
             whole
             yeare
             ,
             so
             that
             at
             length
             she
             compelled
             me
             to
             forsake
             the
             Monasterie
             .
             Neuerthelesse
             I
             promised
             such
             as
             I
             left
             behind
             me
             ,
             to
             returne
             againe
             with
             what
             speed
             I
             might
             possibly
             .
             But
             I
             became
             somewhat
             forgetfull
             of
             my
             promise
             ,
             by
             reason
             that
             at
             that
             time
             ,
             my
             countrey
             presented
             vnto
             me
             many
             obiects
             of
             pleasure
             and
             delectation
             .
             For
             there
             were
             great
             triumphs
             and
             solemnities
             for
             the
             celebration
             of
             the
             mariage
             of
             Katherine
             daughter
             to
             king
             Philip
             the
             second
             ,
             with
             Charles
             Duke
             of
             Sabaud
             :
             with
             which
             my
             mind
             was
             much
             caried
             away
             and
             distracted
             .
          
           
           
             But
             my
             former
             purpose
             and
             my
             continued
             deuotion
             vrging
             me
             ,
             I
             performed
             my
             promise
             ,
             and
             with
             great
             ioy
             of
             those
             Religious
             men
             that
             expected
             me
             ,
             I
             returned
             backe
             to
             the
             Monastery
             ,
             where
             I
             liued
             a
             while
             in
             much
             gladnesse
             and
             contentment
             .
             But
             after
             a
             certaine
             time
             I
             left
             the
             Monastery
             againe
             ,
             by
             some
             occasion
             of
             businesse
             ,
             and
             retaining
             my
             first
             religious
             purpose
             ,
             I
             be
             tooke
             my selfe
             to
             the
             Religion
             of
             the
             holy
             Trinity
             ,
             and
             was
             receiued
             in
             the
             Conuent
             of
             
               Caesar
               Augusta
            
             in
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1585.
             
             I
             made
             choice
             of
             this
             Order
             ,
             for
             the
             singular
             deuotion
             thereof
             .
             The
             Prelate
             and
             other
             religious
             men
             of
             the
             same
             Monasterie
             for
             many
             causes
             were
             desirous
             of
             my
             continuance
             amongst
             them
             .
             I
             therefore
             began
             to
             apply
             my
             studies
             to
             humanity
             ,
             till
             at
             Valence
             by
             the
             diligence
             of
             my
             Tutor
             ,
             and
             my
             owne
             great
             labour
             ,
             I
             attained
             to
             some
             perfection
             of
             Logicke
             and
             Philosophy
             .
             Afterwards
             I
             was
             sent
             to
             that
             famous
             vniuersitie
             of
             Illerd
             :
             where
             I
             wholly
             dedicated
             my selfe
             to
             Diuinitie
             ,
             and
             hauing
             passed
             the
             seuerall
             termes
             and
             courses
             of
             Disputations
             ,
             Exercises
             ,
             and
             Lectures
             ,
             I
             was
             commended
             to
             be
             one
             of
             the
             best
             in
             Theologie
             .
             For
             which
             I
             gaue
             God
             hearty
             thankes
             :
             for
             these
             beginnings
             broughtme
             in
             the
             end
             to
             know
             those
             things
             which
             my
             soule
             euer
             thirsted
             after
             .
          
           
             These
             foundations
             layd
             ,
             I
             was
             so
             well
             esteemed
             of
             ,
             that
             I
             was
             called
             to
             the
             Ministery
             ,
             contrary
             to
             their
             owne
             orders
             and
             institutions
             ,
             which
             forbid
             any
             man
             that
             dignity
             vnder
             the
             age
             of
             33
             yeares
             .
             But
             the
             Prouinciall
             did
             willingly
             dispence
             with
             me
             ,
             and
             so
             I
             was
             made
             Minister
             of
             the
             Monastery
             of
             Liria
             :
             About
             three
             yeares
             after
             ,
             I
             was
             made
             Minister
             of
             another
             monastery
             of
             higher
             dignitie
             ,
             called
             
               Nuestra
               senora
               de
               las
               sogas
            
             ,
             in
             which
             time
             by
             occasion
             of
             some
             contrary
             occurrents
             that
             befell
             concerning
             our
             Order
             ,
             by
             certaine
             learned
             Prelats
             ,
             and
             very
             great
             men
             ,
             I
             was
             chosen
             Embassadour
             to
             the
             Reuerend
             Generall
             of
             our
             Order
             ,
             abiding
             then
             at
             Paris
             :
             which
             I
             discharged
             ,
             by
             Gods
             assistance
             ,
             though
             with
             great
             danger
             of
             my
             life
             .
             After
             I
             had
             obtained
             the
             presence
             of
             our
             Generall
             ,
             he
             lent
             such
             attention
             to
             the
             
             complaints
             deliuered
             by
             me
             ,
             that
             he
             dispatcht
             me
             with
             expedition
             and
             order
             for
             such
             as
             were
             troublesome
             and
             ignorant
             of
             obedience
             :
             and
             gaue
             me
             full
             power
             ,
             and
             orders
             ,
             for
             the
             reading
             of
             Diuinity
             .
          
           
             Graced
             with
             all
             these
             titles
             ,
             and
             additions
             of
             dignity
             ,
             and
             preferment
             ,
             I
             returned
             againe
             into
             Spaine
             :
             But
             I
             had
             not
             long
             stayed
             there
             ,
             when
             vpon
             instance
             of
             other
             weighty
             occasions
             that
             concerned
             our
             Order
             ,
             I
             was
             sent
             againe
             to
             the
             Generall
             ,
             with
             two
             other
             graue
             Ministers
             in
             my
             company
             .
             Him
             I
             found
             so
             kind
             ,
             and
             louing
             ,
             and
             so
             respectiue
             of
             me
             ,
             that
             whatsoeuer
             belonged
             to
             the
             gouernment
             of
             the
             Prouince
             ,
             I
             obtained
             at
             his
             hands
             .
             He
             created
             me
             at
             that
             time
             both
             Maister
             and
             Doctor
             (
             which
             with
             vs
             is
             a
             matter
             of
             much
             honour
             and
             commodity
             .
             )
             But
             after
             my
             returne
             into
             the
             Prouince
             (
             which
             containes
             vnder
             it
             the
             kingdomes
             of
             Arragon
             ,
             Valence
             ,
             Catalonia
             ,
             and
             Mallorica
             )
             by
             commandement
             which
             I
             had
             receiued
             from
             the
             Generall
             ,
             there
             was
             a
             Conuocation
             had
             for
             the
             election
             of
             the
             Prouinciall
             ;
             and
             the
             choice
             fell
             to
             
               M.
               Stephen
               Bertiz
            
             ,
             a
             Noble
             man
             ,
             of
             verie
             great
             learning
             ,
             and
             my
             especiall
             good
             friend
             .
             He
             for
             the
             loue
             he
             bare
             me
             ,
             made
             me
             chiefe
             Secretary
             of
             the
             Prouince
             .
             A
             little
             while
             after
             the
             religious
             men
             of
             our
             Monastery
             of
             Dertasa
             ,
             made
             me
             Minister
             (
             which
             in
             the
             Order
             of
             the
             holy
             Trinitie
             ,
             is
             as
             high
             a
             place
             as
             theirs
             is
             ,
             who
             in
             the
             orders
             of
             other
             monasteries
             are
             called
             Priors
             ,
             Wardens
             ,
             Abbots
             ,
             Prelates
             ,
             &c.
             )
             and
             created
             me
             also
             the
             chiefe
             of
             the
             house
             .
             That
             I
             might
             not
             seeme
             vnthankfull
             ,
             I
             tooke
             vpon
             me
             that
             charge
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             Colledge
             of
             the
             same
             City
             I
             was
             made
             Doctor
             .
             Afterwards
             (
             vnknowne
             to
             me
             )
             both
             by
             the
             Church
             and
             Citizens
             of
             Vernauen
             ,
             farre
             enough
             distant
             from
             my
             house
             ,
             I
             had
             the
             charge
             giuen
             me
             of
             their
             Church
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             preaching
             of
             the
             Lent
             sermons
             .
             And
             that
             I
             might
             wholly
             consecrate
             my selfe
             to
             preaching
             and
             reading
             ,
             and
             not
             be
             hindered
             by
             any
             other
             care
             of
             rule
             or
             gouernment
             ,
             (
             which
             is
             much
             contrary
             to
             the
             profession
             of
             learning
             )
             I
             left
             the
             monastery
             of
             Dert
             ,
             and
             resigned
             my
             office
             of
             ministery
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             monastery
             also
             of
             Valence
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             chiefest
             
             monastery
             of
             all
             the
             Prouince
             ,
             where
             are
             resident
             to
             the
             number
             of
             50
             Preachers
             ,
             Doctors
             of
             Diuinity
             ,
             and
             others
             most
             approued
             men
             for
             learning
             ,
             there
             was
             an
             assembly
             had
             for
             the
             election
             of
             one
             that
             should
             be
             Minister
             &
             Head
             of
             that
             monasterie
             ;
             and
             the
             26
             day
             of
             April
             ,
             in
             the
             yeare
             1601
             ,
             that
             lot
             fell
             to
             my
             share
             .
             So
             consequently
             all
             the
             goods
             &
             riches
             of
             the
             monastery
             were
             put
             into
             my
             hands
             and
             possession
             ,
             as
             well
             of
             siluer
             and
             gold-plate
             ,
             as
             of
             other
             precious
             ornaments
             ,
             treasure
             ,
             and
             sums
             of
             money
             ,
             with
             which
             the
             same
             monastery
             is
             richly
             furnished
             :
             For
             it
             hath
             yearely
             to
             be
             laid
             forth
             and
             distributed
             by
             the
             Minister
             4000
             crownes
             a
             yeare
             .
             In
             the
             time
             that
             I
             was
             Minister
             of
             Valence
             ,
             I
             was
             often
             created
             visitor
             of
             the
             houses
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             fulnesse
             of
             power
             made
             Vicar
             Prouincial
             of
             all
             the
             foure
             kingdomes
             .
             And
             lastly
             ,
             the
             8
             day
             of
             Nouember
             in
             the
             yeare
             1602
             ,
             with
             generall
             and
             Apostolique
             power
             was
             constituted
             visitor
             of
             certaine
             monasteries
             within
             the
             limits
             of
             the
             Prouince
             .
             I
             was
             greatly
             beloued
             of
             the
             Generall
             ,
             and
             other
             Prelats
             and
             Religious
             men
             of
             that
             Order
             which
             in
             times
             past
             I
             professed
             ,
             and
             was
             well
             accepted
             with
             Ecclesiastical
             gouernors
             .
          
           
             
             But
             as
             S.
             Paul
             saith
             ,
             
               God
               forbid
               that
               I
               should
               reioyce
               but
               in
               the
               crosse
               of
               our
               Lord
               Iesus
               Christ
               ,
               whereby
               the
               world
               is
               crucified
               vnto
               me
               ,
               and
               I
               vnto
               the
               world
               .
            
             In
             the
             knowledge
             wherof
             ,
             &
             in
             the
             glory
             of
             the
             crosse
             of
             Christ
             ,
             I
             would
             not
             delay
             ,
             but
             pay
             my
             first
             fruits
             vnto
             the
             Lord
             ,
             who
             saith
             ,
             
               Thou
               shalt
               not
               be
            
             
             
               slacke
               to
               pay
               thy
               first
               fruits
               .
            
             Which
             is
             nothing
             else
             ,
             but
             to
             auert
             and
             turne
             from
             the
             way
             of
             wickednesse
             ,
             and
             to
             follow
             and
             imbrace
             the
             way
             of
             the
             Lord.
             
          
           
             If
             for
             this
             alteratiō
             of
             my
             estate
             ,
             I
             should
             make
             any
             reckoning
             of
             this
             world
             :
             alas
             ,
             how
             many
             shold
             I
             see
             to
             rise
             against
             me
             ▪
             my
             friends
             are
             become
             my
             enimies
             ,
             my
             kinsfolks
             strangers
             ,
             all
             leaue
             and
             forsake
             me
             ,
             all
             dispise
             me
             ,
             and
             call
             me
             heretique
             :
             but
             I
             will
             answer
             with
             the
             Prophet
             
               Dauid
               ,
               My
            
             
             
               father
               and
               mother
               haue
               for
               saken
               me
               ,
               but
               the
               Lord
               hath
               taken
               me
               vp
               .
            
             I
             will
             not
             striue
             to
             please
             them
             ,
             as
             Paul
             saith
             ,
             
               If
               I
               should
            
             
             
               yet
               please
               men
               ,
               I
               were
               not
               the
               seruant
               of
               Christ
               .
            
             I
             had
             rather
             displease
             men
             ,
             then
             follow
             lies
             and
             vntruths
             with
             them
             ,
             seeing
             
             the
             Prophet
             Dauid
             doth
             encourage
             vs
             ,
             saying
             :
             
               O
               yee
            
             
             
               sonnes
               of
               men
               ,
               how
               long
               will
               ye
               turne
               my
               glory
               into
               shame
               ,
               louing
               vanitie
               ,
               and
               seeking
               lies
               ?
            
             I
             now
             desire
             to
             continue
             in
             this
             truth
             ,
             that
             the
             curse
             of
             God
             may
             not
             be
             laid
             vpon
             me
             ,
             who
             saith
             ,
             
               Cursed
               is
               euery
               man
               ,
               that
               continueth
               not
               in
               all
               things
               ,
               which
               are
            
             
             
               written
               in
               the
               booke
               of
               the
               Law
               ,
               to
               do
               them
               :
            
             And
             so
             with
             the
             Prophet
             ,
             
               I
               rather
               chuse
               to
               be
               an
               abiect
               in
               the
               house
               of
               my
               God
               ,
            
             where
             his
             Gospell
             is
             sincerely
             taught
             ,
             
               then
               to
               dwell
               in
               the
               tabennacle
               of
               sinners
               ,
            
             where
             the
             Gospell
             is
             obscured
             ,
             and
             made
             
             darke
             with
             fables
             ,
             and
             false
             interpretations
             .
          
           
             For
             euen
             as
             the
             sundry
             and
             various
             expositions
             of
             the
             law
             make
             the
             law
             doubtfull
             and
             obscure
             ;
             so
             the
             Gospell
             is
             darke
             ,
             and
             made
             intricate
             by
             many
             intepretations
             .
             I
             now
             therefore
             loue
             ,
             and
             imbrace
             the
             truth
             .
             Now
             God
             hath
             made
             me
             partaker
             of
             his
             goodnesse
             ,
             and
             his
             passion
             was
             not
             in
             vaine
             for
             me
             .
             Now
             hath
             his
             goodnes
             extended
             it selfe
             to
             cōmunicate
             those
             things
             vnto
             me
             ,
             as
             were
             determined
             for
             me
             in
             the
             beginning
             .
             In
             times
             past
             I
             was
             Saul
             ,
             a
             persecutor
             of
             
             the
             true
             Church
             ;
             &
             as
             he
             went
             about
             to
             destroy
             the
             true
             doctrine
             of
             Christ
             ,
             so
             did
             I
             likewise
             both
             in
             my
             priuate
             &
             publick
             Sermons
             &
             Exercises
             endeuor
             to
             put
             downe
             &
             annihilate
             that
             sound
             doctrine
             of
             the
             true
             reformed
             Church
             .
             But
             now
             through
             the
             infinite
             mercy
             of
             God
             ,
             I
             haue
             (
             as
             Saul
             did
             )
             fallen
             to
             the
             earth
             ;
             and
             as
             he
             at
             Damascus
             ,
             so
             haue
             I
             at
             Rupell
             found
             Ananias
             ,
             who
             hath
             taught
             me
             what
             to
             do
             ,
             and
             remoued
             the
             scales
             from
             mine
             eyes
             that
             hindred
             my
             sight
             and
             vnderstanding
             .
          
           
             I
             looke
             to
             be
             persecuted
             ,
             and
             expect
             false
             censures
             and
             iudgements
             to
             be
             passed
             vpon
             me
             :
             but
             what
             do
             I
             respect
             them
             ?
             Did
             not
             Aaron
             speake
             against
             his
             brother
             Moses
             ?
             
             And
             did
             not
             God
             himselfe
             admonish
             Hieremiah
             to
             take
             heed
             of
             his
             kinsfolkes
             ,
             saying
             :
             
               For
               euen
               thy
               brethren
               ,
               and
               the
            
             
             
               house
               of
               thy
               father
               shall
               deate
               vnfaithfully
               with
               thee
               ?
            
             Did
             not
             Peters
             friends
             also
             contend
             against
             him
             ,
             because
             he
             went
             in
             to
             men
             vncircumcised
             ,
             and
             did
             eate
             with
             them
             ?
             So
             (
             me
             thinkes
             )
             I
             see
             how
             they
             contend
             and
             cry
             out
             against
             me
             .
             〈◊〉
             God
             ,
             who
             (
             as
             Dauid
             saith
             )
             is
             the
             father
             and
             helper
             of
             
             orphanes
             and
             fatherlesse
             ,
             will
             not
             rest
             to
             defend
             and
             protect
             me
             .
             Oh
             my
             Lord
             God
             ,
             of
             whom
             the
             Prophet
             hath
             said
             ,
             that
             
               thou
               wilt
               saue
               ,
               &
               preserue
               them
               ,
               that
               put
               their
               trust
               in
               thee
               ,
            
             My
             whole
             hope
             and
             confidence
             is
             in
             thee
             ,
             &
             I
             stand
             in
             need
             of
             thy
             aid
             and
             defence
             .
             Be
             vnto
             me
             (
             oh
             Lord
             )
             as
             a
             shield
             ,
             and
             buckler
             against
             those
             roaring
             Lyons
             that
             go
             about
             to
             
             deuoure
             me
             .
             And
             as
             thou
             didst
             deliuer
             Moses
             out
             of
             the
             hand
             of
             
               Pharaoh
               ,
               Susanna
            
             from
             false
             iudgement
             ,
             and
             Daniel
             from
             the
             Lyons
             denne
             :
             so
             deliuer
             me
             from
             their
             hands
             .
             Giue
             vnto
             my
             soule
             the
             grace
             and
             gift
             of
             perseuerance
             ;
             and
             grant
             that
             they
             who
             are
             yet
             blind
             may
             haue
             their
             eyes
             opened
             ,
             and
             at
             length
             attaine
             to
             the
             knowledge
             and
             wisedome
             of
             the
             truth
             ,
             made
             knowne
             in
             thy
             Gospell
             .
             In
             respect
             of
             thee
             (
             oh
             my
             God
             )
             I
             make
             account
             of
             nothing
             :
             I
             leaue
             and
             forsake
             all
             things
             ▪
             and
             hope
             not
             for
             any
             thing
             but
             thy
             glory
             .
             The
             honours
             which
             I
             had
             in
             mine
             owne
             countrey
             ,
             I
             vtterly
             despise
             ;
             the
             dignity
             which
             I
             haue
             hitherto
             possessed
             ,
             I
             am
             quite
             forgetfull
             of
             ;
             and
             forgo
             my
             
               quondam
               Prouinciall
            
             ,
             who
             ordained
             me
             to
             be
             his
             successour
             .
             My
             friends
             and
             all
             my
             kindred
             for
             thee
             I
             contemne
             ,
             and
             willingly
             reiect
             for
             euer
             .
          
           
             
             For
             those
             things
             that
             were
             aduantage
             vnto
             me
             ,
             the
             same
             I
             account
             losse
             for
             Christs
             sake
             ,
             and
             do
             iudge
             them
             to
             be
             dung
             :
             that
             I
             might
             win
             Christ
             ,
             and
             be
             found
             in
             him
             ,
             
               with
               S
            
             Paul.
             
               And
               I
               will
               follow
               the
               true
               doctrine
               of
               Christ
               :
               saying
               ,
            
             If
             any
             man
             
             come
             to
             me
             ,
             and
             hate
             not
             his
             father
             and
             mother
             ,
             and
             wife
             ,
             and
             children
             ,
             and
             brethren
             ,
             and
             sisters
             ,
             yea
             and
             his
             owne
             life
             also
             ,
             hee
             cannot
             be
             my
             Disciple
             .
          
           
             I
             confesse
             vnto
             thee
             my
             Lord
             and
             my
             King
             ,
             and
             I
             giue
             praise
             vnto
             thee
             my
             God
             ,
             and
             Sauiour
             ▪
             for
             that
             thou
             hast
             deliuered
             me
             from
             perdition
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             tongues
             of
             them
             that
             speake
             lyes
             .
             Be
             a
             succour
             vnto
             me
             ,
             and
             a
             tower
             of
             defence
             in
             the
             face
             of
             mine
             enimies
             ,
             that
             I
             may
             constantly
             abide
             the
             slaunders
             and
             backbitings
             ,
             wherewith
             I
             know
             they
             swarme
             and
             are
             full
             .
             Wherefore
             oh
             most
             merciful
             God
             and
             louing
             Father
             ,
             who
             in
             the
             multitude
             of
             thy
             mercies
             dost
             put
             out
             of
             thy
             remembrance
             the
             sins
             and
             iniquities
             
             of
             such
             as
             confesse
             vnto
             thee
             ▪
             by
             the
             grant
             of
             thy
             pardō
             make
             void
             the
             imputation
             of
             all
             former
             offences
             .
             Looke
             fauourably
             vpon
             thy
             seruant
             ,
             and
             giue
             vnto
             me
             that
             with
             true
             confession
             ,
             and
             contrition
             of
             heart
             ,
             begge
             remission
             of
             my
             sins
             .
             Refresh
             and
             renew
             in
             me
             (
             oh
             Father
             )
             whatsoeuer
             the
             diuelish
             fraud
             and
             deceipt
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             hath
             distained
             and
             corrupted
             ;
             and
             win
             a
             member
             of
             thy
             redemption
             ,
             to
             the
             body
             and
             vnity
             of
             the
             true
             reformed
             Church
             .
          
           
             We
             the
             Pastours
             ,
             Seniours
             ,
             and
             Deacons
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rochel
             ,
             whose
             names
             are
             here
             vnderwritten
             ,
             do
             witnesse
             and
             make
             it
             knowne
             ,
             that
             
               Martin
               Bartox
            
             hath
             made
             a
             summary
             confession
             of
             our
             faith
             ,
             and
             publickely
             discouered
             ▪
             &
             vtterly
             renounced
             the
             errours
             of
             the
             Romish
             Church
             ,
             before
             a
             great
             company
             of
             Gods
             faithfull
             seruants
             ,
             being
             then
             present
             ,
             reioycing
             and
             congratulating
             his
             conuersion
             :
             we
             witnesse
             further
             ,
             that
             we
             haue
             seene
             and
             heard
             to
             be
             performed
             ,
             whatsoeuer
             is
             herein
             made
             mention
             of
             ,
             or
             set
             forth
             .
             From
             this
             Citty
             of
             Rochel
             :
          
           
             
               
                 Pastors
                 
                   
                     I.
                     Merlnius
                  
                   
                     H.
                     Colomozius
                  
                   
                     S.
                     Loumaeus
                  
                   
                     L.
                     Cerclerus
                  
                
              
               
                 Seniors
                 .
                 
                   
                     Chalmotius
                  
                   
                     Cl.
                     Heralts
                  
                   
                     I.
                     Farnoulius
                  
                   
                     I
                     Bodierus
                  
                   
                     I.
                     Dournes
                  
                   
                     Durantius
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 Deacons
                 .
                 
                   
                     I.
                     Agrestsns
                     .
                  
                   
                     A.
                     Maquinus
                  
                
              
            
          
           
             FINIS
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A02641-e230
           
             Mich.
             7.
             8.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             2.
             
          
           
             Gene.
             39.
             
          
           
             Ionas
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             2.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             12.
             
          
           
             Gen.
             33.
             
          
           
             Gen.
             41.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A02641-e670
           
             Math
             11
             28.
             
          
           
             Esa
             .
             1.
             18.
             
          
           
             Ioh
             12.
             3.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             22.
             
          
           
             Gal.
             2.
             11.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             15.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             15.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             19
             :
          
           
             Luk.
             15.
             
          
           
             Iohn
             .
             5.
             12.
             
             Iohn
             .
             5.
             24.
             
             Rom.
             3.
             24.
             
             Iohn
             .
             3.
             13.
             
             Ephe.
             2.
             6.
             
             Col
             1.
             13.
             
          
           
             Dan.
             9.
             
          
           
             2.
             
             Thes
             .
             2.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A02641-e1760
           
             
               Atha
               .
               in
               Symb.
            
             Psal
             .
             2.
             7.
             
             Hebr.
             1.
             3.
             
          
           
             Ioh.
             1.
             15.
             
          
           
             Atha
             .
             in
             Symb.
             
          
           
             Idem
             .
             in
             Symb.
             
          
           
             Num.
             23.
             19.
             
          
           
             Malac.
             2.
             6.
             
             Gen
             1.
             1.
             
             Hebr.
             1.
             2.
             
             &
             11
             ▪
             3.
             
             Ioh.
             1.
             3
             
          
           
             Luk
             ▪
             18.
             19
             
             ▪
             Tho
             1.
             q6
             ▪
             Ar.
             2.
             2.
             
               in
               Aug.
               vt
               supra
            
             .
             Hebr.
             2.
             16.
             
             Mat.
             1.
             16.
             
             Luke
             2.
             1.
             
             
               Dio
               de
               .
               di
               ▪
               no.
            
             Ioh.
             1.
             14.
             
          
           
             Math
             1.
             16.
             
             Luke
             2.
             1.
             
             Ari.
             1
             ▪
             
               de
               coel
               .
               text
            
             32
             &
             2.
             text
             .
             17
             
               tom
               ▪
            
             2.
             
             Gal
             4.
             5.
             
             Gen.
             3.
             6.
             1.
             
             Cor.
             15
             ▪
             22.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             5.
             12.
             
             
               Quisquis
               P.
               filij
               ver●
               P.
               ad
               l.
               i●
               .
            
             Gal.
             4.
             5.
             
             Ioh.
             3.
             16.
             
             Rom.
             5.
             9.
             
             Luke
             19.
             10.
             
             Math
             ▪
             18.
             12.
             
          
           
             Col.
             2.
             3.
             
          
           
             Math.
             17.
             5.
             
          
           
             Irenaeus
             cap.
             34
             lib.
             4.
             aduers
             .
             heres
             .
          
           
             Lib.
             2.
             
               anim●
               text
            
             .
             4.
             
             &
             6.
             10.
             2.
             
          
           
             Aug.
             de
             Trini
             .
             lib.
             3.
             cap.
             10.
             
          
           
             Chr.
             P●ze
             .
             P.
             8.
             in
             disp
             .
             coen●
             Domini
             Ioh.
             Cal.
             lib.
             4.
             cap
             ,
             17
             Sect
             
               12.
               
               &
               13.
            
             vsque
             ad
             20.
             
             Ft
             in
             eodem
             lib
             &
             ca.
             Sect.
             18.
             
          
           
             The
             4.
             cause
             of
             his
             seperation
             .
          
           
             Cal.
             lib.
             4.
             cap.
             17.
             a
             Sect.
             14.
             vs
             .
             ad
             50.
             
          
           
             Math.
             18.
             
          
           
             Tho.
             3.
             
               p.
               q.
            
             ●8
             Ar.
             2.
             5.
             
          
           
             Deut
             ▪
             1.
             9.
             
             &
             12.
             32.
             
          
           
             Rcu
             ▪
             22.
             18
             ▪
             
          
           
             Luke
             .
             21.
             33.
             
          
           
             Hebr.
             7.
             7.
             
          
           
             Gen.
             27.
             27.
             40.
             48.
             15.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             1.
             25.
             
          
           
             Tho.
             3.
             
             
               P.
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             ●6
             .
             5
             5.
             
          
           
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             25.
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             25.
             
          
           
             2.
             
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             Isa
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             Act.
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             11.
             
          
           
             The.
             3.
             75.
             8.
             
          
           
             2.
             
             Kin.
             22.
             10.
             11.
             12.
             
          
           
             The
             fifth
             cause
             of
             his
             separation
             .
             Luk.
             1.
             36.
             1.
             
             Pet.
             2.
             22.
             
          
           
             Ioh.
             1.
             15.
             
             Ephes
             .
             1.
             22.
             
             Colos
             .
             1.
             18.
             
          
           
             Colos
             .
             2.
             10.
             
          
           
             Ephes
             .
             1.
             21.
             
          
           
             Psal
             .
             8.
             8.
             
          
           
             Ephe.
             1.
             21.
             
          
           
             Math.
             4.
             11.
             
          
           
             Sexta
             Synod
             .
          
           
             Ambr.
             l.
             de
             incar
             .
             Dom.
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             .
             7.
             
          
           
             Luk
             2.
             
          
           
             Ioel.
             2.
             
          
           
             Cant.
             8.
             2.
             
          
           
             Isa
             .
             55.
             4.
             
          
           
             Math.
             5.
             
             Iohn
             7.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             2.
             
             Act.
             1.
             
          
           
             1.
             
             Cor
             6.
             
             The
             first
             cause
             of
             his
             separation
             from
             the
             Romish
             Church
             .
          
           
             The
             second
             cause
             of
             his
             separation
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             Tim.
             2.
             
          
           
             Io.
             Caluin
             in
             ini
             .
             tio
             Institut
             .
             Ep.
             ad
             Regem
             .
             Fran.
             
          
           
             Heb.
             2.
             
             Psal
             .
             118.
             105.
             
             Psal
             .
             32.
             
             Psal
             .
             108.
             
             Luke
             15.
             
             Idem
             .
             Wild
             9.
             
             Eccles
             1.
             5.
             16.
             14.
             37.
             
             Luke
             1117.
             
          
           
             Math
             1.
             1.
             
             Eccles
             4.
             30.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             17.
             3.
             
             Math
             ▪
             18.
             15.
             16.
             17.
             
             Leuit
             ▪
             19.
             7.
             
          
           
             The
             third
             cause
             of
             his
             separation
             .
             1.
             
             Cor.
             11.
             26.
             
             &
             per
             totum
             cap.
             
          
           
             The.
             3.
             2.
             67.
             ar
             .
             1.
             ad
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             Math.
             18.
             4.
             
             Idem
             20.
             26.
             
             Marke
             10.
             43.
             
             Luke
             22.
             25.
             
          
           
             Iohn
             13.
             15.
             
             Luke
             22.
             26.
             
          
           
             Iohn
             6.
             15.
             18.
             46.
             
          
           
             Plat.
             in
             his
             Pon●
             
          
           
             Math.
             28.
             18.
             
             Ioh.
             17.
             2.
             
             Hebr.
             2
             8.
             
             Ezec.
             37
             22.
             
             Ioh.
             18.
             33.
             
             Math.
             2.
             2.
             
             Mar.
             15.
             26.
             
          
           
             Ioh.
             8.
             37.
             
          
           
             ●
             .
             Decret
             .
             Greg.
             tit
             .
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             can
             .
             Lib.
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             decret
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             tit
             .
             33.
             
          
           
             Plat.
             &
             Illescas
             in
             vitis
             Pa●r
             .
          
           
             
               Cal.
               cap.
            
             6.
             7.
             11.
             
          
           
             The
             6.
             cause
             of
             his
             separation
             
          
           
             Hebr.
             1.
             3.
             
          
           
             Heb.
             9.
             14.
             
             Ephe.
             1.
             7.
             
          
           
             Psal
             .
             116.
             5.
             6.
             
          
           
             Cal.
             lib.
             3.
             
             Cap.
             4.
             
             Chrysoft
             .
          
           
             Amb
             ▪
             Ca
             9.
             in
             Lucan
             ,
             lib.
             6.
             
          
           
             Eph.
             5.
             10.
             
             &
             .
             1
             ▪
             ca.
             5.
             11.
             
             &
             10.
             
          
           
             a.
             Thes
             .
             5.
             6.
             
          
           
             Tit.
             2.
             10.
             11.
             
          
           
             Gal.
             1
             ▪
             8.
             
          
           
             Ezech.
             23.
             31.
             
          
           
             Idem
             16.
             20.
             2.
             
             Cor.
             6.
             17.
             
             Apoc.
             18.
             4.
             
             Isa
             .
             52.
             11.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             1.
             16.
             
          
           
             Aug.
             in
             Manich.
             
          
           
             Hil.
             1.
             lib.
             Trin.
             P.
             5.
             à
             principio
             .
             Amb.
             lib.
             1.
             ad
             Grat
             ▪
             ca.
             
               5.
               7.
            
             antemedium
             .
          
           
             Leg.
             disput
             .
             Atha
             .
             &
             Artij
             in
             con
             .
             Ni●●
             .
          
           
             Ioh.
             3.
             17.
             
             &
             4.
             25
             
             ▪
             Act.
             3.
             19.
             
             Hebr.
             2.
             19.
             
             Gen.
             1.
             1.
             
             Ioh.
             1.
             3.
             1.
             
             Col.
             16.
             
             Pro.
             8.
             22.
             
             Apoe
             .
             3.
             14.
             
             Psal
             .
             32.
             9.
             
             Ioh.
             3.
             4.
             
             Luk.
             2.
             11.
             
             
               Idem
               .
               in
               eod
            
             .
             Mat.
             3.
             5.
             
             Luke
             3
             ▪
             Acts
             10.
             
             Ioh.
             11.
             1.
             
             
               S.
               Hierome
               lib.
               contra
               .
               Helui
               .
               de
               perpe
               .
               virgi
               .
               Mar.
               Amb.
               sup
               .
               Luc.
               li.
            
             2.
             ca.
             1.
             
             
               S.
               Aug.
               in
               Serm.
            
             14.
             
               de
               nat
               .
               Do.
               S.
               Tho.
            
             3.
             
               p.
               q.
            
             28.
             ar
             .
             1.
             2.
             3.
             4.
             1.
             
             Tim.
             6.
             
             Acts
             3.
             13.
             
             Rom.
             4.
             
             Phil.
             2.
             
             Ephe.
             4.
             
             Acts
             2.
             
             Apoc.
             1.
             
             Acts
             13.
             
             Ioh.
             10.
             18.
             
             Rom.
             8.
             11.
             
             Acts
             2.
             24.
             
             Mar.
             16.
             19.
             
             Luke
             24.
             51.
             
             Psal
             .
             109.
             1.
             
             Ephe.
             4.
             9.
             
             Luke
             21.
             21.
             
             Ma.
             .
             25.
             31.
             
             Rom.
             2.
             6.
             
             Apoc.
             22.
             12.
             
          
           
             Ad
             conuentumm
             
          
           
             Gal.
             6
             ▪
             14.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             22.
             29.
             
          
           
             Psal
             26.
             10.
             
          
           
             Gal.
             1.
             10.
             
          
           
             Psal
             .
             4.
             3
             ▪
             
          
           
             Gal.
             3.
             10.
             
          
           
             Psal
             ▪
             83.
             11.
             
          
           
             Act.
             11.
             2.
             
          
           
             Num.
             21.
             1.
             
          
           
             Hierem
             ▪
             12.
             6.
             
             Acts
             11.
             3.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             14
             ▪
             30.
             
             &
             15.
             4.
             
             Dan.
             13.
             63.
             
             &
             14.
             39.
             
          
           
             Phi.
             3.
             7.
             
          
           
             Luke
             41.
             26.
             
             Math
             ▪
             10.
             37.