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A72940	A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almost of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the English Seminarie or Colledge at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18533; STC 18533.5; ESTC S113205	57,669	199

father of lights You see in these places of scripture God telleth vs playnly we cānot be saued by any other neither by this Saint nor that Saint saue onely by Iesus Christ Thus much out of the scriptures Now let vs see what the Doctors speake against your praying vnto Saints First I wil begin with Augustine in his second booke and 8. chap. against the Epist of Parmenian Saint Paul maketh not himselfe a mediatour betweene God and the people but requireth that they pray all one for another being all the members of Christ If Saint Iohn would saye This haue I written vnto you that you sinne not and if you sinne you haue me your mediatour before God and I will intreate for your sinnes as Parmenian the heretique in a certaine place made the Bishop a mediatour betweene God and the people what good and faithfull christian man could abide him Who would looke vpon him as the Apostle of Christ or rather who would not thinke him to bee Antichrist Also vpon the 108. Psal All praier that is not made vnto god by Christ not only doth not put away sin but also is turned into sinne Item in his 3. booke of freewil Wee are not cōmanded to goe to any creature that we may be made blessed but to the creator maker of al things of whom if we be perswaded otherwise then the trueth is we are deceiued with a damnable error Itē in his booke of the spirit the soule 29. cha The soules of thē that are dead are there where they do not see neither heare what thinges are done or chaunce in this life Such is their care for the liuing that they know not what we do euen as our care is for the dead that wee knowe not what they doe Item in his tenth treatise vpon Iohn My mother whome you haue called blessed therefore is blessed because she hath kept the worde of GOD and not because in her the word was made fleshe Item in his booke of the remission of sinnes the 14. chap. The Apostle said truely Bee you folowers of me as I am of Christ He neuer durst saye Bee you iustified of mee as I am iustified of Christ None is iust but Christ iustifying Therefore he sayd He that beleeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodly his fayth is counted for righteousnes Who is so bolde therefore to saye I iustifie thee which may not bee said of the Saints but of the holy of holiest that said Beleeue in God Ioh. 14.7 beleeue also in me Againe in his first treatise vpon the Epistle of Iohn From hence commeth schismes when men say We are righteous we make holy the vnholy we doe iustifie the wicked we doe pray we do obtaine Item in 84. treatise vpō Iohn Though we dye brethren for brethren yet the blood of no Martyrs is shed for the forgiuenesse of sinnes which thing Christ hath done for vs. Ambrose vpon the 1. chapter of the Romanes But we obteine Gods fauour from whome nothing is secret as knowing what euery man is meete to haue wee neede no spokesman but a deuout minde for whatsoeuer such a one speaketh vnto God God wil answere him Chrysost in his 2. hom of the woman of Canaan Tell mee woman sith thou art a wicked and sinfull woman how durst thou go vnto him I know sayth shee what I do Beholde the wisedome of the woman she prayeth not vnto Iames she entreateth not Iohn she goeth not vnto Peter shee did not get her selfe to the company of the Apostles shee sought for no mediator but for all these things she tooke repentance for her companion which did fulfill the roome and place of an aduocate and so shee did goe to the high fountaine Item in his sermon of going forward of the Gospel There is no neede of a Porter of a Mediator or minister no neede of Aduocates with God nor of any running and gadding about for to speake fayre vnto other for although thou be alone and without an aduocate and praye vnto God by thy selfe thou shalt obteyne thy petitions Cyrill in his booke of right faith He was taken vp into heauen but as God he is shewed to graunt the petitions of them that worship him if they make their prayers in his name For why is it more meete to giue Saints their asking and to graunt them their petitions then for him which is onely by his owne nature truely God Leo Bishop of Rome in his 81. Epistle Although the death of many Saintes hath bene precious in the sight of the Lorde yet the killing of no Innocent hath bene the propitiation for the worlde The righteous receiued but gaue no crownes and out of the valiantnes of the faithful are grauen examples of patience not giftes of righteousnesse For their deathes were euery one singuler to himselfe and none of them did by his ende paye the debt of another forasmuch as there is our Lord Christ in whom all are crucified all dead and buryed and raised vp againe Erasmus in his booke called the Preacher If any man lacke wisedome let him aske it of God and not of the Saints So much against praying vnto Saintes Here in the first parte of my declaration I haue as you knowe declared a true report of the wickednesse of Rome I beganne with the Cardinals liues proceeded to the Priestes Monkes and citizens and ended with the Pope Seeing you know these reportes to be true for your owne saluation returne to the trueth Bee not obstinate and frowarde in your false opinion You are courteously and gently intreated yet are you neuer the better but rather the worse like Frogs that keepe a great crooking sturre against the light of the Sunne so do you against the glorious and comfortable beames of Christ his Gospell Be satisfied with trueth and abuse not the mercifull lenitie of our gracious Soueraigne lest that the Lordes discipline be restored which shall restraine your spreading poyson and auoyde the hazard whiche otherwise should happen not onely to the church of God amōg vs which might not thriue amidst such pestilent cōbersome weeds but euen to the endāgering which the Lorde of glorie turne from vs of this florishing common weale her Maiesties most royal person crowne dignitie Your malicious cursed practises as cocatrices haue brought forth hatched great dangers to the cōmon weale already If you should be set at libertie without recantatiō escape vnpunished winked at fauoured and spared greater mischiefe shal insue your treasonable practises to the ruine and desolation of this blessed lande which God of his mercie turne awaye from vs. What pestiferous bookes haue our English fugitiues thrust foorth vnto vs defacing Gods holy trueth the Queene her royall Maiestie many of her honorable counsell and sundry of her louing and faithfull Subiects Haue thei not also procured Antichrist Pope Pius Quintus to excōmunicate our Redoubted Soueraigne al thē that cōtent themselues christianly quietly to liue vnder

therein euen vnto the ende of my life that I may neuer swarue from his heauenly trueth vnto blindnesse and errour Psal 125.5 wherewith once seduced by false prophets I was holden captiue But nowe hauing the assistance of Gods holy Spirit the trueth of his sacred worde and perfect loue of the faithfull on my side I passe not what wicked Papistes speake or do against me their immoderate and vnciuill bitternesse proceeding from the furious and stormie passions of their poysoned heartes I may well lament but restraine I can not therefore I say Let the Papists here in England fret and fume and say of my name what euill or slaunder they can deuise let them write their letters to Rheims in Fraunce and from thence to Rome with the poste and certifie all the English Scholers there that the Popes scholer their owne companion and fellow student is reuolted from papistrie hath left the Pope in plaine fielde and quite denyed him protested against his blasphemies and renounced the deuilish dregges of all his Idolatrie So soone as these letters shal come to viewe Robert Parsons sometimes of Bailyol Colledge in Oxford they will name one Father Parsons Iesuite a Prophet or Southsayer for that he at Rome in the English Seminarie in a certaine exhortation made to the schollers prophecied that one or other of that company my selfe being then present amongest them shoulde degenerate from their faith and be the ouerthrowe of that colledge he confirmed also the profe thereof by example beginning with Christ and his Apostles Mat. 26.16 Luk. 22.4 Ioh. 6.71 pyking out Iudas one of the colledge of Christ that forsooke his master and then from the colledge of the Apostles he named Nicholaus that reuolted Actes 6.5 Apoc. 2.6 Nowe will their diuines declayme in the refectory pulpit of my sudden sequestration and estranging from their brotherly societie The triall and experience of their rash iudgement hatred and enuie mocking scoffing had pronounced against others giueth me sufficient notice that I shall incurre their like rayling and misreport I knowe that I cannot be voyde of their imagined slaunders in iudging me to be the first begotten sonne of the deuil I cannot escape their sinister exposition of all things to the worst wherefore I must arme my selfe with patience and seeing through Gods goodnesse I am reduced from the miserable captiuitie of blindnesse and errour to the true vnderstanding and knowledge of Gods holy trueth I neede take no great thought for their conceiued choller slaunderous speach and rayling wordes of Sathans prompting sithens they haue dealt so maliciously with my betters And as for their holy father the Popes curse with booke bell and candell it shall not grieue me at all neither will I take one vnquiet nappe for al his banning and cursing and seeing I haue renounced his Popish church wherein I neither heard the worde of God syncerely taught the Sacraments rightly administred nor the Name of God duely called vpon Seeyng that I say I forsooke the idolatrous church of Rome and haue so gone from it Dan. 6.23 3.26 as Daniel went out of the lyons denne and the three children out of the furnace and am come to that Church wherein the most earnest Papistes them selues can not deny if they will say truely and as they thinke in their owne conscience but all things be gouerned purely and reuerently in this true Church of Christ I haue a desirous minde to profit my louing countreymen according to the Talent which God of his bountifulnesse shall giue vnto me in preaching vnto them his holy word in exhorting them vnto watchfulnesse and prayer against Romish doctrine which is builded vpon false miracles and traditions of men beeing the fantasticall deuises of their busie braine for lucre and ambition sake fynally in warning them vnto amendement of life that both by their faith and conuersation Gods name may be glorified If thou art a member of that church the spouse of Christ whereof he is head and not Antichrist the Bishop of Rome it needeth not then good christian Reader much to entreat thee to take in good part this vnlearned declaration of my reconcilement made as it were ex tempore my selfe being in prison and wanting bookes to the great impediment and hinderance of this my discourse The beneuolence of the Papistes I seeke not for if I shoulde it were but in vaine I can not obteine it for that I haue with vpright conscience made a true rehearsall of such thinges as I haue seene at Rome yet not all nor the twentyeth part thereof but here one thing and there another and so fewe thinges in all and this I adde in the ende if they can not afforde one good worde by mee yet for good fellowshippe sake let them then say Requiescat in pace but let it be a solemne dirge for Aristotles soule who neuer knew the true God but euer liued in gentility blindnes of the trueth that he may be deliuered out of Purgatory where they hold him to be so that we may haue conference with him know of him whether it be substantiall true diuinitie such as he taught and set forth in writing or els whether it be Plato his diuinitie who was an Heathen or Gentile and which of them is best and as for the diuinitie which Christ preached and was deliuered by the Apostles and receiued of the faithfull they are not acquainted with God euermore enflame and direct me with his holy Spirit that the zeale of his trueth may throughly pearce and possesse my heart that I may safely walke in the wayes of righteousnes holines al the dayes of my life vtterly abandon detest all hypocrisie idolatrous superstition I. N. A declaration of Gods benefites towardes me a wretched sinner HOwe prouident a patrone and bountifull a father the Lorde of life hath bene vnto me his vnthankeful and rebellious childe his sundry and manifolde benefits doe testifie and this my vnfeyned reconciliation to the true Church doeth verefie the same yea the continuance of his louing kindenesse was herein principally declared for whereas mine owne natural corruption wrought dayly in me the banishment out of his fauour and the danger of reprobation he notwithstanding in consideration of my frailtie neuer withstoode to helpe me in all dangers both bodily and ghostly and to plucke me out of the pit of perdition whereinto the haynousnesse of my offences haled me by violence Oh gratious God howe shall I a sinner conceiued in sinne and brought vp in iniquitie worthily aduance the excellencie of thy loue who shal giue me a heart to conceiue this thy kindnesse whence shal I haue vtterance to sound out thy mercie Of my self because I am a vessell of wrath subiect to sinne death hel condemnation I can not conceiue so perfect a worke thou therefore which art the euerlasting fountaine of all goodnesse Ier. 2.13 Iam. 1.17 giue it me oh giue