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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16897	The apologie of George Brisset, Lord of Gratence Written vpon consideration of the inhumane murther of the late French king, and sent to Monsieur Tauraine, a counsellor in the Court of Parliament of Brittaine in France, Lord high Steward of the councell of Nants; where the said noble man, with many others of account, were conuerted from the Church of Rome, and become true Christian catholicks, to the great ioy of all good Christians. Translated out of French into English.	Brisset, Georges.; Tauraine, Monsieur.	1610 (1610)	STC 3791; ESTC S106652	10,830	32

THE APOLOGIE OF GEORGE BRISSET LORD OF GRATENCE Written vpon consideration of the inhumane murther of the late French king and sent to Monsieur Tauraine a Counsellor in the Court of Parliament of Brittaine in France Lord high Steward of the councell of Nants where the said Noble man with many others of account were conuerted from the Church of Rome and become true Christian Catholicks to the great ioy of all good Christians Translated out of French into English VIRESCIT VVLNERE VERITAS Printed for VVilliam Barley and Iohn Baily 1610. The Translator to the Reader THis short discourse includes in it much substance and layeth open the principal errors by which the trayterous Papists haue so long gouerned the common-wealth of France shewing how their reasons are badly grounded ill applyed and worse deriued for their purpose Therefore I wish euery man would haue so much care of his soules health as to imitate this new Conuert in the searching of Gods word and doubtlesse then many would receiue true comfort and discerne light from darknesse and bee no more misse-led with that vncharitable rule of Popery viz. That it is not lawfull for artificers and trades-men and those that bee ignorant people to search into the Booke of God By which meanes these Papists haue faire aduantage to muffle their scholers in any error were it neuer so grosse where hauing their faith tied to another mans report they must needs stand in danger of damnation And that many more should not be seduced into the like opinion here is by an inspiration from God an Apologie made by a French gentleman trained vp all his time from his infancie in Poperie now reduced to the true knowledge of God reuealed in his holy word by searching out his saluation in the diligent reading and meditation thereof AN APOLOGIE OF GEORGE BRISSFT Lord of Gratience WHen I had throughly considered right noble Sir how that Rome continually striues to build vp the glory of her kingdome with the bloud of Princes and to make by the same a legend ful of sainted murtherers I grew more desirous of my souls health then before And that the changing of my religion may make in you no ill impression of me but that you would still hold me in the same estimation I haue here set downe in writing the motiues and reasons which haue induced me so to do intreating you to beleeue that I haue not bin led vnto it by any humane or worldly consideration For I haue shut mine eies to many faire promises and aduantages which were offered me by the church of Rome and haue lost the loue of many persons which notwithstanding I will not ceasse to honor and loue but principally your selfe whose vertue and discretion I haue alwaies highly esteemed Which doth not onely giue me hope that you will the better tast my allegations which I haue here briefly set downe but also that many thousands hereby may returne out of the mists of Popery into the light of truth in the which God be theirs my guide And as my soule therein hath gained content so I wish all mis-led beleeuers in that bewitching religion of popery be summoned call their intellectual senses together and examine their consciences whether saluation consisteth vpon the similitude of visible things wherein I haue bene in former times nusled or the contemplatiue cogitatiōs of inward thoughts wherunto I am now reduced be the better Therfore as an induction to this my Christian Apologie I wish all true Catholickes to become true alleagiants to their Princes and not to let the blind Bayard of Babylon with the vaine glory of his outward ceremonies bewitch you And so with honest truth to the world feruent faith in Christ Iesus I begin The time I was right honourable worshipfull and well beloued friends one of the number of the most zealous to the Romane religion I had notwithstanding this perswasion with my selfe that religion is not subiect to men how great and learned soeuer they be but that they themselues are subiect to religion also that religion is the rule of saluation giuen of God to men and to which euery man ought to bee subiect and that it is not lawfull for any one to exempt himselfe or to change or diminish any thing therein And thereupon demanding of some Church-men which I had best conceipt of if this rule was giuen of God they answered me that it was in the sacred booke of God called the Bible and that there is no other booke besides which may be named the word of God Following therfore this counsell after I had prayed to almighty God to giue me grace to profite therein I painfully endeuoured my selfe to reade that booke and hauing chearefully read ouer all the Gospell I was wonderfully astonished to finde nothing therein concerning the most part of those things which had bene taught me And that it is not in the Bible commanded at all to inuocate the Saints nor to render any seruice to images nor to sacrifice Iesus Christ nor to pray to God without vnderstanding what we say and that it speakes nothing of Purgatory nor of Lent nor of Masses nor of Merits nor of Monkes nor of religious Orders nor of the precedencie of the Church of Rome nor in briefe of any of all those things almost which were taught me in the time ignorance blinded me which things I then thought had bene expresly commanded in that Booke of the word of God Furthermore I found in the same diuers passages which did seeme to me to be flat contrary to these things Hereupon repairing my selfe to some of the same Church-men they answered me and said that it was not lawfull for me to reade the holy Scripture nor to search after things which surpassed my capacity but to be directed by them also that the Catholike Romane Church had so ordained to whom the holy Scriptures belongeth saying that she is the pillar and ground of truth 1. Tim. 3. vers 15. VVho heareth not the Church let him be vnto thee as a heathen man or a publicane Matth. 18. And that Iesus said to Saint Peter I haue prayed that thy faith may not faile thee Whereby it appeareth that the Church of Rome founded vpon Saint Peter cannot erre in the points of faith as they of the Romane sect affirme Whereupon aduisedly pondering these things in my minde I said I beleeue that Iesus Christ dyed for me and that the promises contained in the booke of the word of God doe appertaine vnto me as well as to Clergie-men wherefore then should I not presume to see these things which appertaine vnto me Contrariwise if I had books of loue or of tales and fables they should not be taken from me but now these men would bereaue me of the booke which they themselues say is the booke of Gods word Adde to this if it be for none to reade but the learned neuer any man should prepare himselfe to reade it seeing hee