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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13261	A Christian loue-letter sent particularly to K.T. a gentlewoman mis-styled a Catholicke, but generallie intended to all of the Romish religion, to labour their conuersion to the true faith of Christ Iesus. By Iohn Swynnerton, Gent	Swynnerton, John.	1606 (1606)	STC 23558; ESTC S120777	49,016	88

hope and if iudiciall eies impartially discerne berwixt vs assure my selfe that the impuritie and blemishes thereof by such opposition of mine so substantially warrantable may the sooner be reuealed and by yourselfe whom it so neerelie concernes the better discerned and the rather do I begin with disclosing the substance of mine owne profession because we are bound to sind the true faith of christ in our selues before we examine the want therof in others and ought readilie to giue a reckoning of the same if either authority that is sufficient inioyne or causes that are substantial as in this case shal induce vs therunto MY religion vnderstand me I praie you Is the true worship of the euerliuing God 2. Sect. I know it is the true worship of God because it is that manner and forme of worship which is agreeable to his blessed wil I know it is agreeable to his wil because it is framed acording to the prescription of his holy word And I know it to be framed according to his word because I learne the same out of his owne booke which containeth nothing but his word deliuered first by his owne voice to our fore fathers after indighted by his owne al-sufficient wisdome penned downe by his owne chosen seruants the prophets and Apostles sealed and confirmed with the precious bloud of his owne deere sonne and from age to age through persecution through captiuitie thorough the most powerfull occurrents that euer Sathan deuised for impugning the same by his owne woonderfull prouidence so mercifully preserued to be food for the soules and direction for the liues of his elect here on earth while the world endureth which booke we therefore intitle the sacred scriptures commonly the Bible so that my Religion is a worshipping of god after his owne will reuealed by his owne word comprized in his owne booke and therfore as I first said a true worship of the euerliuing God And is it not iudge you the wisest course we can take for the vnderstanding the wil of our God without which we are no better then the beasts that perish and which necessarilie wee must attaine vnto before we can do it as we must doe it before we receiue that which you call the wages of wel-doing To read diligentlie this book to search reuerently these scriptures and to haue continuall recourse vnto this word which may be called the trusty Embassador that faithfullie deliuereth the reuealed councels of God the holy mouth that truely vttereth the oracles of his blessed sanctuarie which is the word of life the worde of truth as true as himselfe his owne word and therefore the best reuealer of his will and most absolute describer of that platforme after which hee delighteth to be worshipped I will not by way of inference as I go along roue at any marks of your profession til I haue in som perfecter sort measured out mine owne else could I me thinks with an arrow drawne out of this quyuer pierce euen the quickest vaine of those vnwarranted Decretals and humaine Traditions of yours But let your thoughtes a while be bestowed in consideration of what I say touching mine owne religion which earst I desined to be The true worshipe of the euerliuing God Wherein least you should mistake in thinking I deale Pharasaically or attribute perfection of impossibility vnto my selfe who being but flesh am therefore full of sinne and thereby disabled for that righteous cariage and the perfourmance of those holy offices which properly belong to the seruice of him who is all righteousnesse and true holines it selfe conceiue I pray you how I vnderstand my selfe and desire to be vnderstood therein I confesse that all men are sinners and my selfe as sinfull as any man I might saie more sinful for I must iudge my selfe seuerely and of others charitably besides I knowe mine owne wickednesse and my sinne is euer before me The Angels of heauen that excell in strength may keep o happy happie are they that while the commandments of the Lord but the inhabitants of the earth that are composed of weakenesse doe nothing but breake them In a word I am one of Adams crooked brats My workes are impure and all my righteousnesse as a polluted cloute So that to doe true worship to that Euerliuing God as I professed of my selfe I am not able for a sinfull lumpe of fleshe I finde it impossible Who am I said Moyses in a timerous distrust of his owne abilitie Exod. 3 xi that I shold go vnto Pharo Thē what am I maie I better expostulate from the certaine knowledge of my disabilitie to worship the Euarlasting God What am I that am a thousand times inserior to that Moses to worship him truelie who is ten thousand nay innumerable and vnimaginarie millions of degrees superior to that Pharo But the same God who in respect of his owne desert being the perfection of all thinges and all perfection before thinges had being requireth such exact seruice from me knowes whereof I am made for I am a worke of his owne handes and remembreth that I am but dust the substance of my forefathers vnskilfull how for I am no better then a beast in my owne knowledge and vnapt if I were skillfull so to serue him My hearte by nature being continually so misdisposed And out of the great storehouse therefore of his vnualuable compassion hath he sent me a full supplie to all my desects and plainelie directed me how to adresse my selfe for the manner of seruice which must purchase his acceptation for as he gaue encouragement to Moses and taught him with his owne word what to saie vnto and howe to carrie himselfe before Pharo It hath pleased him in like sort to imbolden mee in my greatest seare and by the perfect rule of the same powerfull word to instruct me after what sorte to appeare before him and how to demeane my selfe in the presence of his Maiestie his sacred word I saie still the spirit of truth expounding the same vnto me is my instruction Hence I learne which is the lesson that all christians should be perfect in the knowledge of Iesus christ and him crucified to know him to be perfect God and perfect Man my maker my sauiour my mediator My maker as he is God my Sauiour and mediator as he is God and man this is all I desire to knowe and may be wel enough for that learned Apostle of his notwithstanding his miraculous conuersion aboundant inspiration and heauenly vision by his own testimonie knew no more as he needed not the docctrine thereof being indeede the verie summe and scope of the whole scriptures This knowledge whosoeuer hath though he knowe nothing else knoweth all thinges as who so wanteth the same though hee knowe all thinges else maye bee saide to knovve nothing This is that christall sountain from whence the pure Waters of life do flovv and they that drinke soundlie thereof shall neuer thirst This is that fixed Helice which