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B12171	The voluntarie conuersion and seuerall recantations, of foure great learned men, professed fryers in sundry monasteries of Fraunce, from the errours of idolatrie and poperie, to the true religion established in the Reformed Church. 1. Master Iohn Le Vager, a priest in the Romane Church, conuerted at Mauns, Ianuary 6. 2. Master Iohn Forent, a fryer Carmelite, in the Court of Morthemard, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Poictiers, Iune, 9. 3. Master Denis Boucher, a Franciscane fryer, in the couent of Noisy, neere Paris, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Paris, Iuly. 6. 4. Master Daniell Dusert, Franciscan fryer at Mello, conuerted in the Church of Mello, December, 22. All conuerted this last yeare, 1603. as their seuerall discourses following at large doe testifie, vnder their owne hands. Truely translated, out of the French printed copies.		1604 (1604)	STC 5650; ESTC S114587	31,204	52

abhominations Apoca. 18. 4. and plagues Which I haue done according to my duety and the desire Concerning himselfe I haue of mine owne saluation which is no where offered but in the true Church and that is it which followeth her Spouse wheresoeuer he goes and heares his voice and listens to no strangers that is to say whatsoeuer is beside the doctrine contained in canonicall Scripture For we ought to hold him whosoeuer accursed that shall preach any other Gospell to vs according as Saint Paule aduiseth vs. And we say with TERTVLLIAN to them of the Romish Tertullian Church That they must shew their doctrin written in those canonicall bookes or else let them expect that malediction to fal vpon their heads due to such as eyther adde or diminish from that doctrine For as for other mens traditions whereon their Church is grounded and not vpon the Apostles foundation nor the holy mountaines of sacred Scriptures those traditions are falsly called Apostolicall as Nicephorus whom they haue among Nicephorus in lib. 12. C. 33. 34. 35. them doth plainely approue to them the contrarie in his book the 12. C. 33. 34 35. God open their eyes by the illumination of his holy spirit that they may see the brightnesse of his Gospell to betake themselues to the aforesaide mountaines whereon the true Church is builded and to reforme their doctrine which is to the contrary Giue vs also his grace to perseuer in his sacred vocation to his glorie and our owne saluation Amen Iohn Le Vager FINIS A CHRISTIAN DECLARATION OF IOHN FORENT HEERtofore a religious Fryer of the order of the Carmelites in the Couent of Morthemard and Curate of Castell Lusac Made publickly in the refor med Church of Poictiers on Sunday the 9. of Iune 1603. 2. Cor. 6. 18. Come forth from among the Infidels and separate your selues saith the Lood and touch no vncleane thing And I will receiue you And I will be a Father vnto you and yee shall be my Sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almightie AS all the stones that are to build one house are not brought together in one instant and they likewise laide readie on a heape will hardly serue for the constructure therof til by good and skilfull workemen they be disposed and made meete each one to serue in his due ranke or place Euen so our Lord God doth not gather his elect of whome he buildeth and erecteth his Church all at one instant time or season but according as his prouidence and predestination hath concluded in his eternal counsell and purposed for accōplishment therof in at al times He cals one while some at other seasons others and day by day by his blessed spirit of rude and vnapt members he fashioneth and disposeth them to enter into the building of his sacred Temple whereof his dearely beloued sonne is not onely the foundation whereon it is builded but also the master and corner stone knitting together the two walles of the seuerall people Iewes and Gentiles into one sole building which is his true Church It is now twelue yeares and more since it pleased God to beginne to make mee listen to his inward calling which from one day to another he confirmed to mee by the sacred Scriptures whereby continually hee solicited mee to come out of Babylon and enter into his celestial Sion But vntil this instant there ensued many repugnancies on mine owne behalfe taking it not to be expedient for my saluation for an infinite number of humane considerations and vaine scruples opposed themselues against my desire presuming to counterchecke those iust reasons which the spirit of God suggested to mee and euen like dreadfull Gyants or furious monsters guarding the prison gate wherein I was enclosed gaue me many great apprehensions and still continued me in the terrible assaults euen when I best hoped to escape away from them But in the end it pleased the mercy of him who deigned to chuse me among the number of his liuing stones for entrance into the building of his sanctuarie by little and little to free mee from those feares by assuring my courage arming me with his grace and furnishing me with stones to beate downe the one and with weapons to cut off the heades of the others So that now by the meanes of his ayde and fauour I see mine enemies confoūded my prison doore opened and the way laide wide open for mee to enter into the house of my father Further assuring me that albeit I haue greatly prouoked his anger in so long time of abusing his graces for mine enlargement and therefore I shewed my selfe the more vnworthy to beare the title of his sonne yet that he is so pittifull as he will be mooued in compassion towards mee and allow for acceptable the repentance wherewith he hath touched my heart and so if not as a sonne yet to receiue me into his house as one of his seruants For now I will take no more delight in those spirituall brothelries the pure chastitie of his vndoubted Church hath inuited and drawne me to her communion I will now swallow no more of those bitter-sweete baites which haue so long time abused my taste as now appeareth by this contrarie heauenly sauour I desire in the company of the Children of God to feede on liuing bread in the house of the Lord. The Onions Leekes and Garlike of Aegypt haue seemed most odious and stinking to me since I tasted of the celestiall Manna which the heauens haue rained downe vpon vs. Too long haue I suckt the putrified and venemous blood issuing from the impure dugges of that cruell woman made drunke with the bloode of the Martyres Apoc. 17. 6. High time was it therefore to relish now hence forward the sweete milke distilling from the pure pappes of our dearest mother Too long time hath the deadly cup of abhominations deliuered daily abroad by that horrid strumpet beene ouerlauishly quaffed on now therefore it behooueth the more carefully to experiment the sweete liquour of life in the Cuppe presented to vs by the modest spouse of Iesus Christ Hauing then hitherto borne the heauie burden which the tyranny of Antichriste charged my shoulders withall I holde it reasonable since it hath pleased God so gratiously to deliuer me that all the rest of my life should be imployed thus to lay my neck vnder the sweete and pleasing yoake of the iust rule and gouernment belonging to my legitimate and Soueraigne king And my tongue also which heretofore hath beene loose vnbound to blasphemies as also the preaching of dreames and lyes shall henceforth doe his office in singing the maruels of my God to blesse his holie name in the congregation of his Saints to preach his worde for the edification of his Church if it stand with his good pleasure to render mee worthy and capable thereof and also to giue him thankes for that it hath pleased him after hee gaue me knowledge of his trueth to