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A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

surer and with greater hope of prevailing then with his Countriemen whom he assured to be of a stubborn nature dangerous to be dealt with and great Puritans directly opposite to the church of Rome And therefore nothing more should be desired of them but conformitie in matters of religion with England which the English church would gladly wish as if she were a mother church whereof others did flow neither could his Countriemen deny it in respect of his Majesties Supremacie and of the union of the two Crowns and Kingdomes that they both might have but one Lord one faith one baptisme one King For the execution of his counsell he proponed mutuall intelligence to be procured betwixt England and Rome which shortly after was begun by an Italian priest a great politician well versed in the French tongue called Il Signor Gregorio who stayed more as an year and an half in London for that effect and with whom I conferred in his owne ludging in the Convent garden at London and with two great men of our nation and now continueth there himself with great grudge to both the kingdomes seeing this mutuall intelligence was never heard of betwixt Rome and us since the Cardinals Wolsey and Polus dayes neither is it necessarie as Statesmen may see Now not Covenanter is thy curiositie satisfied This I know and more looke thou to it in time and bee not one of these who for vanitie or other ends vvill bee thought singulare against Gods cause and thy ovvne promise in baptisme And I will end this discourse that my enemies say not that I minde to put dissension betwixt Protestants and CONE-formists letting our neighbours England and Ireland see some of the dangers wherein they stand of that Romane antichrist and his congregation de extirpanda fide First then yee stand both in danger as well as we of these our related dangers especially of that mutuall intelligence between Rome and England 2. Of your Countrie mens affection to Rome if they be papists for alleadged rights of the popes upon you both the one called Peters pennie the other called Peters patrimonie 3. Your extreame great number of Jesuits and other Priests extending in England to five or six thousand so that they are striving among themselves and writing books against other which I my self carried to Rome for Bishopricks in your Church As for Ireland it hath fifteene papists bishops alone This is a great danger 4. Your populous multitude of Papists in you both extending to many thousands so that I am of that minde that in England the people if not alreadie may shortlie desire a Generall Assemblie for libertie of conscience 5. The education of your Nobilitie at schooles in forraine countries who having drunke in the doctrine of iniquitie from their tender age are both more perverse in themselves and more dangerous bringing in their friends and neighbours by their Priests to perdition with them 6. That which is to be lamented of all that you have good lawes both of you against Papists and very good reason to execute them but alace money break them granting to all Papists a pecuniall libertie of conscience and present banishment to all these poore reformed Christians who will not conforme with you and that which is to be laughen or rather weeped at that yee would blinde peoples eyes with your searchers going on the one side to apprehend priests and punish papists and on the other side to have your customers to receave moneyes and give discharges for libertie of papistrie O God! who doth not evidentlie perceave these monstruous dangers and not oppose himself with all his power to them if there remaine but a sponk of true Christianitie in him Truelie who doth it not I must of necessitie think him an internall papist The last danger of all the three kingdomes is Pensions whereof we may consider four things 1. The giver 2. The persons to whom they are given 3. The quantitie of the summes 4. And the end wherefore they are given There is certainlie pensions given in the Countrie for priests and intelligencers and out of the Countrie for Semenaries and correspondents of these intelligencers but to come to the particulars 1. The givers are the house of Austria and the foresaid Congregation de extirpanda fide 2. The persons to whom it is given in Scotland to my knowledge are the Priests whereof I vvas one the man that goeth for it and the thesaurer or keeper I knovv the names and residences of the rest and had set them dovvn heere if I had not declared them sufficiently by vvrit alreadie And if there be given pensions to any other as to these the superiour vvith his counsellours and the Treasurer knovv it for me I knovv not but this I am assured of that there was more sent into the country than was bestowed upon the foresaid persons 3 The quantitie in cumulo is best known to them I being none of the Superiours counsellours in respect of my travels for the mission the quantitie that we who were Priests gote was an hundred crowns in the yeer from Rome and eighteene pence every day from Spaine besides our purchase by our Masses Confessions and Pardons which was more or lesse conforme to out imployment and the persons with whom we dealt 4. Lastly in a word the end of these gifts is pretended zeal and piety but truely intended Hierarchie of Rome and Monarchie of Spaine which may appear by the deposition of M. George Ker and the Jesuits Abercrumbie Crighton and Gordoun with three Noblemens letters intercepted with him and registrat in this town the year of God 1592. by his pensions given to us and his pretended rights over our native countries If this be not an evident danger to suffer so many forraine Princes pensioners in your bosome God see to it in his own time and give me grace that I may follow my sincere and heartie resolution that at the houre of my death I may say wirh the Apostle I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have keept the faith hence foorth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day c. And I shall be surely one of these to who my blessed Saviour shall say in that day Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world To this gratious Father vvith his blessed Son and the holy Ghost be all povver praise and glory honour and dominion for ever Amen FINIS Pet. Ribadineira in vita Sancti Barthol See the 4. chap. to the Ephes. 11. 22 23 24. Ioh. 1. 29. 1 Cor. 4. 9. Luke 15. 7. Ioh. 10. 16. Luk. 18. 13. Pfal 119. 176. Psal. 42. 4. Heb. 5. ● ● Matth. 7. ● 2. 5. Psal. 51. 4. Mat. 11. 28. Psal. 32. 5. Iohn 1. 9. Genes i. 27 Rom. 5. 10 Luk. 18. 13 Acts. 9. 5. Levit. 10. 2. 2 Sam. 6. 7 Numb 16. 32. Hag. 2. 6. 2 Cor. 1. 3. Ephes. 2. 4. 5. Rom. 9. 15 Exod. 34. 6. Psal. 145. 9 Euseb. Matth. 27. and 5. Isay 1. 18. Luk. 13. 5 August soliloq ● Phil. 3. 19. Ibid. V. 20. Rom. 6. 21. Marc. 8. 36 Matth. 20. 3. 5. 6. Matth. 4. 18 Matth. 9. 9 Acts. 9. 6. Ridab 2. 8 August Acts. 8. 30. Rom. 9. 16. In the histories of Swaden Pole Nota bene intelligenti pauca Iam. 4. 5. 7. 15. Mat. 10. 16 Gen. 21. 10 Rom. 9. 3. Col. 1. 24. 1 Cor. 2. 9. See Revel 21. 22. chapters Heb. 10. 14. 2. and 17. c. 18. See Heb. 10. Romans the 5. Acts 4. 12. Joh. 1. 29. 36. Psal. 9. 8. Luke 13. 3 1 Cor. 2. 2. Mat. 7. 23. Mat. 25. 41 August dc gra llb. arb Luke 22. 61 62. Mat. 9. 22. Ioh. 4. 15. Luk. 23. 40 41. Ioh. 20. 27 and 28. Act. 9. 4. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. Colos. 2. 8. 2 Thes. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 11 19 20. Colos. 2. 8. Mat. 7. 25 16 18. Rom. 9. 33 1 Cor. 10. 4 1 Pet. 2. 8. Revel 18. 4 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Ioh. 5. 39. 2 Pet. 1. 19. Act. 5. 29. Act. 4. 19. Mat. 23 4. Rom. 1. 16 Act. 24. 14. 16. Psal. 116. 13. 14. Luk. 15. 18 Psal. 116. 16. Psal. 41. 4. Psal. 124. 6 7. 8. Act. 9. 15. Act. 9. 12. Mat. 7. 20 Matth. 12. 24. Ioh. 8. 48. Thus Papists paint Austen 1 Cor. 9. 22 Rev. 8. 16. Rev. 3. 21. Math. 12. 30. Ephes. 4. 5 Rom. 8. 33 Ephes. 4● 13 14. 1 Cor. 1. 12. 13. Ezech. 18. 20. Hollins●ed pag. 495. Anno 1561. 1 Cor. 10 12. Mac. 24. 1 Sam. 5 Rev. 3. 11 13. 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. Matth. 25. 34.

worke well according to their owne wayes but they must have a good fat Subject to worke upon and this for the Jesuits policie The second shall bee answered after the third To the third then I have likewise answered before and now answere againe First because I finde the reformed Church of GOD in Scotland to bee furthest from Popish idolatrie and neerest to Apostolicall puritie Secondlie because that I was never am not neither ever God-willing shall bee a lukewarme Laodicean especially seeing that my Saviour Jesus Christ promiseth To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with mee in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in His Throne What madnesse I pray you were it in a Mariner for to come out of a sunken ship to enter into another which is sinking and may have a tight one In a prisoner relieved out of a low pit to cast himselfe into free ward having his libertie in his option In a sensible man fled from a pestiferous towne to reteere himselfe to another where the same sicknesse hath taken encrease when hee may have with great ease a palace of pleasure voide of all kinde of suspicion of any infection whatsoever None truely I thinke would bee so madde and destitute of judgement but he who going out of this valley of miserie to the heavenly mansions would stay and take in purgatorie for his winter quarters Yet they say that it were well done to conforme to a middle religion between Protestants and Papists because extremeties are to be avoided and mediocritie embraced To these I answere that if they had studied their Logick as well as their Politicks they had known that of the four logicall oppositions there is one called Contradictoria which will admit no middes Inter propositiones contradictoria● non datur medium such is the state of the matter between us and Rome they say that we are hereticks we deny it they can not prove it seeing we believe the Scriptures which are given by divine iuspiration and are able to make the man of God perfect unto all good workes We say that the Pope is Antichrist they deny it but we can prove it out of the prophet Daniel the Apostles Paul and John and so foorth in all the rest of controversies betwixt them and us so that there can be no composition no more than betwixt light and darknesse God and Beliall For Christ saith plainlie He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Therefore there is no mediocritie heere And the reason of this is because as the Apostle averreth there is but One Faith in respect of its formall object Gods written word the authoritie whereof is from the Author God himself and so is divine and what is contradictorie to it is not divine nor to be believed to salvation And therefore no meeting nor trysting with Rome If it be said that the Papists believe many points common with us as the Trinitie Incarnation c. and therefore that they must have faith and so faith will not be indivisible I answere that they have a materiall faith as Turks and Jewes likewise have but not a formall faith which depending upon the authoritie of God revealed unto us in his word only and no other faith can be profitable for salvation The second branch of this politick objection is their doubt of my out coming from Rome to wit that it was to stir up diffension betwixt Reformists and CONE-formists for the Papists and Jesuits profite To these I answere first that their Critick spirits proceed more out of Philosophicall and Mathematicall than out of Christian or Thologicall grounds in this their censure of my sincere proceedings Philosophie teacheth them that Quic quid reciptur ad modum recipientis recipitur whatsoever is receaved it is receaved according to the measure of the receaver And Mathematicians in their Opticks teach that the visible speces passing from the object to the organe which receaveth them take upon them the colour of the mids where through they passe which daylie experience confirmeth and therefore according to their dispositions and affections they judge of me as their passions transport them but not as Christian charitie exhorteth them for the Scripture teacheth that it is Christ that justifieth who is he that condemneth Secondlie I answere that as God is my witnesse they wrong me pitifully for as the Lord knoweth I desire one Lord one Faith one Baptisme not only in Britaine but likewise thorow the whole world and that we think alwayes the same till we all come in the unitie of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we hencefoorth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every winde of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they ly in wait to deceave Now to let you see that my conversion is not to make dissension betwixt you I will brieflie let you understand how the Papists ly in wait to deceave you And that it may be seene that I am not partiall I speake to all the three Kingdomes of Scotland England and Ireland minding to show you all three that Papists ly in wait to deceave you by two meanes seminaries and pensions yet it is first to be remarked that the ground of both is that Councell in Rome called Congregatio de propaganda or rather extirpanda fide a congregation of propagating or rather extirpating of Faith This Congregation hath a most sumptuous Palace in Rome and extreme rich the members of it are the Pope as head of the Church his nephew Cardinall Francis Barbarine as his Lieutennant diverse others Cardinals the Generals of severall Orders the great Master of the inquisition and some Doctors all as judges they conveene every fryday or ofter as they please the end of their meetings is to finde out meanes to bring all people and Nations under the popes dominion for thus end they have sundry meanes such as their Seminaries of diverse nations and their pensions The Semenaries are furnished with youths out of their severall Countries by Jesuits who have the care of them These youths are of two sorts the one called Convictores because they pay for their entertainment and these are Noble Barons and Gentlemen Sons sent thither by their popish parents to be brought up for diverse ends The other are called Seminarists and these have their food raiment studies books c. all the time of their studies out of these colleges with condition that after they have stayed three moneths in one of these Colleges they must make a vow to take priesthood upon them and to returne to their severall Countries when they shall be found fit by the Jesuits their Masters to the end they may seduce others as they were seduced themselves And therefore after