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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13565	The recantations as they were seuerallie pronounced by VVylliam Tedder and Anthony Tyrrell (sometime two seminarie priests of the English Colledge in Rome and nowe by the great mercie of almightie God conuerted, vnto the profession of the Gospell of Iesus Christ) at Paules Crosse, the day and yeere as is mentioned in their seuerall tytles of theyr recantations vvith an epistle dedicatorie vnto Her Maiestie and their seuerall præfaces vnto the reader, contayning the causes that mooued them to the same.	Tedder, William.; Tyrrell, Anthony, 1552-1610? Recantation or abjuration of Anthonie Tyrrell.	1588 (1588)	STC 23859.3; ESTC S4937	25,091	50

such as heard me not shall onely peruse this dombe Letter I knowe not howe they may stande perswaded of my true and faithfull meaning and the more hardlie they may be incensed against me when perhaps they shall heare of my former Lybelles and Letters written in the defence of the Pope and all Seminarie Priests at such time as I was returned vnto the Pope again that hauing written so vehemētlie in their behalfe in reproofe of my selfe and myne owne confessions with protestations that all that I had doone was but in deepe hypocrisie dyssimulation and now affirming the cleene contrary may yet suspect me of double dealing and stand in doubt what to beleeue For if I did saie true then I must dissemble now and if I saie true now I coulde not but write falshoode then For thy better satisfaction in this point good Christian Reader least thy good opinion of mee might be carried awaie by the fraudulent practise of the enemie againe I haue sette downe the true causes that moued me first to reiect the Pope hoping that they be such as no honest or good man may denie them which beeing found to be true in the sight and knowledge of euery man I leaue it then for the indifferent Reader to iudge whether I had iust cause to forsake the Pope as I did whether I haue written anie slaunder against him His dooings beeing far worse then that I haue alreadie spoken and whether I had good cause to suspect his religion sith that our Sauiour saith That euerie Tree is knowne by his fruite and the fruites that the Pope yeeldeth beeing nothing els but horrible practises and Treasons I see not but that the Tree as I said in my recantation together with the body and braunches is to be hewen downe As for my Lybels and writings that I haue penned and made in his defence the more they rome with protestations the more a wise man hath cause to suspect them for surelie they come all from that foule spirit which first was throwne out and beeing returned againe he brought seauen worse then him selfe to hold more sure possessiō But consider good Christian Reader the wonderfull power and mercy of almightie GOD in this one onely thing Had I beene assured that I had setled my former fayth and Religion vppon a stable grounde had not my conscience cryed out against mee at what time the finger of GOD did effectuallie touch mee woulde I thinke you after that I had wilfully forsaken the fauours and mercies of my Prince the libertie of my Countrey the possibilitie of preferments and after I had so desperatlie committed my selfe vnto the open shame and obloquie of the world to the daunger of death in the extreamitie of sicknes when I could hope for no life haue repented mee of that which I had doone and make such a ditection of my faulte such a publique recantation as I haue doone verilie I thinke no wise or reasonable man woulde euer thinke it and therfore if this be not a sufficient and a strong argument to prooue my vnfained repentaunce I can but crie with the Prophet Iudica me Deus er discerne causam meam Iudge me O Lorde and dyscerne my cause I can but referre the matter vnto thee heauenlie Iudge that in the latter day must iudge me and all man kinde and thus much touching the fulnes of satisfaction Now lastlie I thought good to sette out this Praeface for to encounter the enemie who as I heare hath published in Print my former Lybels subscrybed with mine owne hande for the which I giue by these presents al the world to vnderstand that whatsoeuer I haue written heeretofore in the defence of the Pope it hath beene in the time of my seduction in the zeale of Papistrie and therefore those wrytings are not to bee regarded of anie wise or godlie person And truelie the Papists haue deceiued thēselues in the publishing of those Pamphlets for if Charitie coulde not haue perswaded thē to conceale them me thinkes that policie shoulde for they doe but minister matter vnto me to aunswer them wherin I shall be constrained to lay open their nakednes which otherwise I thought to haue couered they heape moe coales on their owne heads then they bee aware of I saie no more at this time vntill I vnderstand further what they haue doone And thus hauing absolued so much as I thought necessarie to ad by waie of Praeface I doe referre thee gentle Reader vnto the Recantation it selfe crauing pardon if I haue troubled thee ouer long From my chamber at S. Katherins the 31. of December Anno. Domi. 1588. Your paenitent Countryman and wel-willer in the Lorde Anthony Tyrrell ❧ The recantation or abiuration of Anthonie Tyrrell c. COnsidering the notorious outragious trespasse after so many mercifull remissions that not many monthes passed I publiquelie committed at this place right honourable worshipfull and welbeloued in the dispersing of certaine infamous Lybels to the great dishonor of almighty GOD contempt of true Religion displeasure of my Prince scandall and offence vnto all good and godly Christians reioycing of Gods enemies and mine own eternall rebuke and infamie I was a fearde least that my name for euer had béene blotted out of the Booke of life and that no place had béene left mee in thys world for true repentance But beholde such hath béene the effect as I hope of some mens good prayers such hath béene the great fauour shewed me in the tolleration of my leude and haynous fact such hath béene the excéeding clemencie of my gracious Prince and Soueraigne but aboue all such hath béene the infinite mercie of almighty GOD in the renuing and perfecting this act of my conuersion that I doo not onely inwardlie féele an assured hope of Gods euerlasting pardon forgiuenes but outwardly also I séeme to sée a most comfortable resemblaunce that all you which haue had iust cause to hate and contemne me will yet be mooued with compassion May it please you therefore to vnderstande that I am come hether as GOD is my witnes not of anie compulsion or for feare of any temporal punishment or hope of worldly preferment much lesse induced thereunto by anie false hypocrisie or dissimulation but onely the frée mercy of almightie GOD so moouing me to confesse my fault to craue forgiuenes to renounce those errors that I haue holden mayntained from my childhoode of the Sinaguoge of Sathan I meane of the Church of Rome and to reunite my selfe vnto the auncient Catholique and Apostolique Church of Christ whereof this Church of England is a part béeing purged and reformed of all herisie Idolatrie and superstition But least you shoulde meruaile by what wylfull follie I was seduced or rather by what madnes I was mooued to fall into that Apostacie hauing twise before renounced the Pope that I woulde so impudentlie returne vnto him againe To yéeld you some satis-faction in that point these may bee also

to lette you vnderstand that the chéefest cause as néere as I can coniecture was the wonderfull prouidence of almighty GOD who suffered mee to fall into the profound depth of all iniquitie that the bottomles depth of my extreame miserie might call and cry for succor and helpe vnto the bottomlesse depth of Gods infinit mercie and that out of that huge heape and masse of sinne shame and confusion wherein most miserablie I had enwrapped my selfe he might pick out matter for to set foorth the honor and glory of his holy name For such is the goodnes of almightie God that he suffereth no euill so great to be committed but that hee worketh out some great goodnes of the same eyther in shewing his iust iudgment and iustice in the punishing of sinne or his excéeding mercie and clemencie in the pardoning of sinne or his omnipotent power that he alone out of such euill causes is able to produce these notable and good effects Perhaps also he would that I should be an example vnto other men of his iustice and of his mercie of his iustice that no man presume of his owne power and strength least that he fal as miserably as I haue doone of his mercie that no man dispayre bee hys offences neuer so gréeuous and manie for were hee drowned and dead in sinne GOD is able to reuiue him againe as hee hath doone me whose name bee praysed for euermore Let me yet if you please adde another cause which more properlie concerneth my selfe which was mine owne peruerse and corrupt affection For béeing by the great mercie of almightie God safely brought out of Sodome and that mine eyes were opened that I did behold sée the manie deformities of the Church of Rome yet corrupt affection brought mee to gyue eare vnto false perswasiō and false perswasion made me most miserablie with Lots wife to looke backe againe For hauing béene brought vp all the dayes of my life in Papistrie and trained in the Schooles of the Papists whereby my knowledge was greatlie peruerted with the groundes of their Religion it could not be but that I must néedes bee infected with a great contagion and according vnto the saying of the Poet Quo semel est imbuta recens Horat. seruabit odorem testa diu With what liquor a new vessell first is seasoned of the same it will haue a taste a long time after So my vessell hauing in mine infancie euen to these late yéeres béene filled with no other liquor then that I had drunke out of the Church of Rome I was the more easily corrupted when I did fall into the companie of Papists againe And not beeing so thankfull vnto almighty GOD for the benefite of his grace as I should nor so carefull to conserue my selfe from the danger of sinne out of one sin GOD suffered me to fall into another insomuch as peccatum for the most part est causa et paena alterius peccati one sin is the cause and punishment of another and beeing fallen into an extreame obstinacie with what furious madnes I came hether vnto the Crosse it is not vnknowne howe héere I behaued my selfe there were many eye witnesses from hence I was carried vnto Newgate where I gloried in that I had doone from thence vnto the Counter in Woodstréet where I remained twentie foure wéekes close prysoner in that obstinacie that no perswasion or good entreatie could conuert me in so much as if in all that time I had béene called vnto my tryall as many of my qualitie and condition haue béene I thinke verilie that I had ended my life as obstinatlie as any of them Sed nouit Dominus qui sunt eius GOD knoweth who are his chosen and whome God hath determined to saue no man can take from him Behold I was during the time of mine imprysonment visited by the hand of God with an extreame sicknes I languished of the infirmitie vnto the verie death for so manie as did beholde me in my greate maladie thought that I shoulde neuer haue escaped with life at that time I hadde all the consolations and comforts that Papists could yéeld mee and some that shal be nameles comforted me with the Popes pardons Indulgences saying that I was a happy man and that my name should be memorable among the Papists when I were dead and gone But all these consolations at that time coulde nothing at all comfort mee I remembred what was written Maledictus homo qui confidit in homine Cursed is hee that putteth his trust in man and hath not his confidence in God alone It pleased the Lorde to touch me with remorse I lifted vp my soule vnto Iesus Christ the Sauiour of mankind I cried with the Prophet Dauid Peccaui and behold Transtulit Dominus peccatum meum God hath pardoned forgiuen me my sinne and therefore I may verie well conclude with the Prophet and say A Domino factum est istud et est mirabile in oculis nostris Thys is the Lords dooing and it is meruailous in our eyes Thus haue you hearde a breefe confession of my fault the causes of my fall and the wonderfull mercy of almightie God in raysing me vp againe May it please you with the like patience to fauoure mee in hearing of the rest and I shall dispatch it with al the breuitie that I can And first of all as touching mine errours that I haue to renownce I must confesse that I did neuer holde any in perticuler but those generall groundes of false doctrine which all Papists for the most parte doo holde which for that they are many and almoste innumerable I knowe not better where I may begin then by setting the Axe vnto the roote of the Trée that euery Tree that bringeth not foorth good fruite together with the body and braunches may bee hewen downe The Trée of all iniquitie is the Pope the roote from whence springeth all false doctrine heresie and sedition is his vsurped Primacie For whilst hee may gouerne like a God vppon earth hee forgetteth ●hat there is any God in heauen Hys pryde in thys ●oint is too intollerable for he clymeth with Lucifer aboue the Heauens insomuch as the saying of the Prophet Esay may very well bee applyed vnto hym which although it be meant of Nabuchodonozor yet is it not vnproperly applyed vnto this his Cosen Germaine the wordes are these Ascendam super altitudinem nubium et similis ero altissimo I will ascende aboue the height of the Clowdes and I will bee like vnto the most highest Who ascendeth aboue the Clowdes if not the Pope who extendeth his authoritie aboue the Heauens Dooth not hee alone canonize Saints Doth not he alone make Martyrs bee they neuer so rancke and wicked Traytors He maketh himselfe coequall with GOD in forgiuing and pardoning of sinne hee alone hath power and authority to censure the holy Scriptures for they are not Canonicall without his making they may haue no other interpretation but of