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A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

to shew his face in the presence of a Reformed Spaniard But what did his Worship he imployed a certaine Popish Swash-buckler who before in the same City of Saint Giles had slaine a man in the street Him hee suborned to doe me some notable affront and accordingly this knaue taking a very sleight occasion gaue me a blow on the care in the open street These are the concluding arguments of the Iudaits this their open-handed rhetorique this their close fist of Logique Nor must we thinke this strange in those who set forth cut throats for their Champions What should poore I doe in this case I did pocket vp this wrong as patiently as I could and when I had spent out my yeare there I craued leaue to be gone and that by the good aduice of a certaine friend who wished me to quit that place affirming vpon his knowledge that the Papists there did lay wait for me Being to depart our brethren of the Reformed Church there held me and earnestly intreated mee to stay but on the other side some tenne or fifteene Papists triumphed at my departure as though it had beene a signe of their conquest ouer me So departed I according to our Sauiours precept Mat. 10.23 If they persecute you in one Citie flye into another and was entertained in other Towns where I receiued conuenient stipend namely in Bouuer Bouuer Kaylaz and Kaylaz neere vnto Nismes whose inhabitants were all protestants Whilest I remained here I read ouer againe and againe a certaine French Treatise written by M. Peter Moulin called The Buckler of Faith In it I found many things which did cleare vnto mee the Doctrine of saluation vpon which passages I did dayly meditate and oftentimes saide to my selfe thus O yee my brethren Spanyards whom God hath indued with such depth of wit O would our Masters the Inquisitors would suffer you to take this Buckler into your hands to arme your selues with this shield against all the poisonous darts of the malignant enemy O would to God I might with losse of my life buy the happinesse to see you obey our Lord and Sauiour Iohn 5.39 bidding vs search the Scriptures rather then yeeld vnto the yoke of Antichrist the Lord of Lords who commandeth you the contrary and taking the Scriptures from you giueth you instead thereof stocks and stones to be adored and worshipped by you O would to God that there might shine in your eyes some glimpse of that light which guideth vs wretched men out of the kingdome of darkenesse into the glorious kingdome of the Sonne of God Colos 1.13 O that the same good God who is light and in whom there is no darknesse 1 Iohn 1 5. would say vnto you that which he said in the beginning and still saith to his elect Gen. 1 3. Let there bee Light Then surely you should not any longer bee darknesse but Light in the Lord Ephos 5.8 no longer wandering sheepe falling downe before Idols but returned to the shepheard and Byshop of our soules 1 Pet. 2 28 euen vnto Christ Iesus who is ready to betroath them vnto himselfe by true faith which worketh by charity Hos 2 25. But there is one that hindreth you from enioying this great benefit namely he that will bee accounted another Christ and omnipotent and yet in the meane either stealeth from you or chaungeth Gods Commaundements and will by no means suffer you to read and heare the holy Scriptures in your Mother tongue least you should vnderstand them and by the light of them discouer his tyranny Would to God that you that sit in darkenesse Luk. 1 ●9 in the shadow of death might bee enlightned by the Sun of righteousnesse arising vnto you Mal 4 2. that yee might go forth and grow vp as Calues of the stall shaking off the Popes heauy yoak which himselfe wil not touch so much as with his finger yeelding your neckes vnto the sweet yoake of Christ I would to God the Office of Inquisition or rather Inquination would suffer you to view engrauen in this Buckler a faire and pure Confession of Faith most agreeable to the Scriptures Then should you easily behold the falshood and deformity of your Religion which you would thereupon loath no lesse then now you detest our Religion being induced so to doe by your Preachers who decipher it vnto you as foule false and contemptible as it is in it selfe faire true and amiable Then should you see as cleare as the noone day That the Reformed Christians or Protestants whom ye call Heretiques because they will not thrust their necks into the Popes tyrannous yoake doe not as you dreame beleeue many things repugnant not onely against the Word of God but also against the light of reason Your clamorous Friers in their sermons ring in your eares that we beleeue the blessed Virgin Marie not to haue continued a Virgin after the birth of our Sauiour That wee haue corrupted or dismembred the Scriptures That there be no Sacraments in our Churches or at least that we beleeue that the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Body and bloud of our Lord are nothing else but naked and barren signes That we damne all good Workes That we admit no penance But as for our persons your people being misled and incensed by the barking of your Friers thinketh that we beare not the shape of men but are Monsters with Dogges faces or Hogges snowts That we liue barbarously and wildely in rude Cottages or Dennes These and such like guls they put vpon you which deserue rather our Laughter in contempt then our labour in refutation As for that one point concerning the raising a dishonourable opinion of the Virgin Marie let them looke to it who blush not when they reade that which before wee haue touched concerning worthy sir Allen so wooed courted by the blessed Virgin Considering and weighing with my selfe all these particulars and conferring with certaine learned and discreete Ministers of Gods Word as also with other well affected Gentlemen vpon their aduice and intreatie I was inflamed with a desire to translate the aforsaid Buckler of faith into the Spanish tongue And being resolued no longer to resist the motion of Gods Spirit which with sorrow I confesse my selfe to haue resisted for the space of a yeare I set my hand to this taske and hauing with foure moneths paines finished it I dedicated the same vnto the most Excellent Charles Prince of Wales being thereunto led by the first Author by whom the saide Treatise in the Originall French was dedicated vnto his Highnesse But when as a certaine honest man of Monpelier by whom I had sent Letters into Spaine to my bretheren vppon his returne thence had with an Oath affirmed vnto mee that hee heard my elder Brother speake these words All we his sixe Bretheren desire nothing more ernestly in the world thē his death speaking of me we would willingly giue

THE REFORMED SPANIARD To all reformed Churches embracing the true Faith wheresoeuer dispersed on the Face of the Earth In speciall To the most Reuerend Arch Bishops Reuerend Bishops and Worshipfull Doctors and Pastors now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London this yeare of our Lord 1621. Iohn de Nicholas Sacharles Doctor of Physicke wisheth health in our LORD First published by the Author in Latine and now thence faithfully Translated into English LONDON Printed by for Walter Burre and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane 1621. THE REFORMED SPANIARD Declareth the reasons and motiues by which he was induced to forsake the Romish Church ALthough I be by byrth a Spaniard and cannot deny but that with my Nurses milke I haue sucked in the corruptions of popery though my whole Infancy child-hoode and youth hath bene tainted with the dregges of such my education yet no sooner was I come to yeeres of discretion but I beganne to suspect the turning of bread and wine into the very substance of the Body and blood of our Sauiour to be a meere fiction much like both in want of ground in wicked illusions to the coyner thereof the Antichrist of Rome The beginning of my suspition was in that our Professor Bartholmew Hernandez a most learned man in his publique Lectures at Ilerda in Catalonia in the yeere of our Lord 1596. did teach vs being his Auditors to the number of aboue 200. that God by his ordinary power cannot put one and the same body in diuers places at the same instant of time This quoth he implyeth contradiction as at once supposing and not supposing a bodie For by taking away from any body the proper passion of a body namely the possessing one place thence followeth necessarily the destruction and abolishment of the forme nature and essence of the body it self Forasmuch as the property of occupying one place floweth of necessitie from the very forme and nature of a body nor can by Gods ordinary power be separated there-from without destroying the subiect it selfe on which it dependeth And that this confining to one place is a true property or proper passion of a body it is euident in that it suiteth with bodies vniuersally only alwaies and is reciprocated with a body But whether God by his absolute and extraordinary power whereby hee doth what he can do or atchiueth a work then which he cannot performe a greater or more perfect can do a work which contradicteth it selfe my said Master would neither auouch nor deny This quoth he is to mee a bottomelesse Sea whereinto I dare not launch with the smal cock-boat of my poore vnderstanding Yet withall he constantly affirmed that God neuer vsed this his absolute power but in one work only and that was the Incarnating of his Sonne Then which he said that God cannot produce a more excellent and more perfect exploit whereas in the production of this whol world and of the inuisible and visible creatures in the same it is otherwise For God if it had pleased him could haue created much more glorious Angels men more excellent and brighter or better heauens then these which he hath made Out of this Doctrine thus deliuered by our Master there arose in my minde no small scruple whence I forthwith though then but young reasoned with my self inferring this same Transubstantiation which presumeth to put the bodyof our Lord in many millions of places at the same instant of time not to be of God much lesse performable by the sacrificing Priests Verily thought I it neuer came from Gods ordinary power by which he doth nothing implying contradiction no nor from his absolute and extraordinary which as my Master would haue it was neuer vsed but in the worke of Christs Incarnation And so I concluded that Transubstantiation is no worke of Gods making To deliuer freely what afterward I thought my coniecture is that this my Master intending here to expresse himselfe cautelously did on purpose speake perplexedly For swallowing this pebble stone of Transubstantiation and being not able to concoct it he checked his stomacke downe as much as he could to keepe it from a dangerous vomit and in a word to tell his case he was faine to windevp himselfe in the snare of doubtfull words that he might escape the snare of the Spanish Inquisition The truth is this learned man who knew well enough white from blacke should boldly haue affirmed that Almighty God neither by ordinary nor extraordinary power can doe those things that are contradictory to thēselues therefore cannot set one and the same body in diuers places at the same instant And that not by reason of any want of actiue power in God who is omnipotent but by defect of passiue power in the creature if such fictions may be called creatures which cannot suffer their essentiall and concomitant properties be tome away from the maine stocke without the destruction of the whole nature and essence of the subiect which nathelesse is heere supposed to remaine entyre For what can be more absurd then if I shold say I present vnto you a man from whom I will notwithstanding take away the facultie of reason which is as much as behold here a man no man or speaking of a Geometricall circle I should instance in a circle whose beams I would imagine to be vnequalled one to the other I am deeply touched with sorow for that hearing this voyce whereby God cald me I notwithstanding did not cease to harden mine owne heart against it for the space of 9. yeares after stil keeping my wont of saying Masses of hearing auricular confessions and continuing a fierce maintainer of that erroneous Religion When I first put on the Cowle which I vndertooke in the order of Saint Hierome the most renowned in Spaine I was not full seuenteene yeares of age in which regard I may be the more excused if for want of ripenesse in iudgement I tooke not a fitter course for my soules health Yet at that age was I set in good forwardnesse in the Latine and Greeke Languages in Rhetorique and Poetry in Logique and the whole course of Aristotles Philosophie and moreouer I had made also some entrance into the studie of Physicke Beeing setled in the Monasterie I diuerted my selfe wholly to Diuinity and imployed me in the daily reading of the Scriptures Which that I might the more diligently attend I was sent to the famouse and rich Colledge of Saint Laurence in the Escuriall founded by King Philip the second and in presence of King Philip the third I sang that Masse which was my first hansell I nor may nor can conceale that all that long time whilest I was a Mass-monger I found no ioy no comfort no quiet in my minde nor peace of conscience by communicating in the Masse by that vnbloody sacrifice so called howsoeuer I had vsed more then ordinary diligence in fore-examining my selfe as