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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

euery where admonish and exhort vs to follow him the Schoolemaister and singular example of holie life For hee hath not as Paule saith called his vnto vncleanes and loosenesse of life but vnto holines Neither was he made only vnto the faithfull as he writeth to the Corinthians their wisedome and righteousnes but also their sanctification and redemption For as by his wisedome and righteousnes hee driueth away the naturall darkenesse of mans minde and doeth kindle in them the light of the true knowledge of him selfe and his father and forgiuing of our sinnes doeth endue and adorne vs with his righteousnes wherwith we beeing couered do please the Father So he doeth giue vs his holie Spirit which doth renue our mindes that they may haue holie desires and pure affections whiche at last may bring foorth holy workes And touching the effectes of the holy Ghost in the faithfull and endeuour of holy life it is euerie where entreated in the Epistles of the Apostles but chiefly in the Epistle to the Romans the 6. 7. 8. Chapters the same is handeled diligently and largely And the very same also doth Iames and Iohn in their Epistles of purpose teach The desire therefore and indeuour of a holie and new life oughte so to bee coupled with true fayth in Christ that it is a harder matter or as impossible to plucke one of them from another as it is to separate light from the Sunne and heate from the fire For Christ as the same Apostle witnesseth gaue him selfe for vs that he might deliuer vs from all iniquities and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good workes And verely if the Philosophers doe discourse of maners and deliuer preceptes not so much to make men skilfull as good howe vnséemely a thing were it that Christian Philosophie should goe no further then to infourme mens minds with the knowledge of godlines making no account of leadinge a godlye and holie life Whosoeuer hath faith hee must féele in him selfe Christ so working by his holie Spirite that hee truely say that which the Apostle doth I liue yet not I any more but Christ liueth in me For as the bodie hauing a soule doeth receiue and feele his force and actions So hee that is ingraffed into Christ and is made his member can not but bee partaker of his Spirite life and holines For the which cause the Apostolike and Catholike fayth calleth the bodie or fellowship of the church the communion of Saintes plainly declaring those only to appertaine vnto that fellowship which doe minde an holie life and doe bende and endeuour them selues hereunto that they become suche as Paule exhorteth the Thessalonians to be that is wholy sanctified sound in Spirite and such as are kept blamelesse in bodie and soule vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ They that are otherwise minded and doe otherwise leade their life and neuertheles say they be of the fellowship of Iesu doe varie from them selues and their life doth manifestly reproue their tongue of a lye CAP. XI That there appeareth not in this newe fellowship of Iesu any endeuour of holie life I Doubt not but the title or drifte of this chapter will seeme vnto many at the first sight not only strange but also vnreasonable and no lesse then if I shoulde goe about to proue heauie things to go vpward and light things downward For where as I say that I doe not finde in this vpstart kinde of monkes integritie of life and endeuour of holines I shall séeme vnto a great many to doe no otherwise then if I should say that I finde no light in the Sun or whitenes in Snowe So verely is the outwarde visor or shewe wont to dasell their eyes which gaste thereupon and doe not withdrawing the same looke into the matter more narowly Of these therefore I request that they would suspende their iudgement a while and remoue all preiudices out of their mindes and to iudge of the matter hearing attentiuely the reasons which I shall bring First of all I say that I do worthily find wanting in these brethren plaine dealing and good meaning namely in those thinges that they write against vs as which in the most waightie controuersie of iustification cease not wrongfully to burthen vs or rather the truth it selfe to the intent to make it not only suspected but also hated of all men with that hainous and rancke slaunder of naked or bare fayth and voide of good workes And yet these men cannot but know what our mind and iudgement is which haue by flattery● declared and set downe in wrytinge a thousand times by our men They doe easilie perceiue that we doe allow that faith and doe attribute vnto it only that effecte of iustifying which the Apostle doth define to be effectuall by loue and fruitfull by good works and so that we doe not separate the good fruites from the good tree although in that effecte it be discerned from them When one reasoneth of the sun fire and a man doth not he reason of the sunne that shineth fire that heateth and a man that liueth albeit in flatte wordes it be not added neuertheles euery man doth distinguish them one from another by their effectes Therfore let these masters cease to slaunder vs if they will perswade vs that they are louers of the truth and desirous of holynes for to cauill much more to lie and slaunder is the part of the enemies of godlynesse and trueth But letting this passe let vs come to the examination of the rest of their life I will not here charge them all by rehearsing those thinges which I haue oft times heard and vnderstoode to be almost in euery mans mouth before their eyes and in their handes that certaine gréeuous offences haue bene lately committed of some which are of this order of companions They would perhaps make answere that the wickednes of some ought not to be preiudiciall to the whole felowwippe euen as no wise man doth condemne the Apostleship for the falshode treason of Iudas Moreouer I am not so curious and desirous to prie into other mennes liues that I should desire to touche those thinges that are done within priuate walles I leaue such things first vnto God who will once make manifest things that are hid in darcknes as the Apostle witnesseth nexte vnto time the mother of truth as they vse to say lastly vnto them that are in those cloysters or dennes and abide willingly amongest them which if they would happely also might bring to light those thinges that as they are soule to commit so should be shamefull to speake and to heare I will onlye make mention of those thinges which the very Sun doth behold and are in euery mannes eyes First that the hatred of the worlde is ioyned with the true loue of godlynes it is as certaine as that the Sun doth shine at high

euerlasting and this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne hath life he that hath not the sonne hath not life Christ also himselfe hath so depainted and expressed it in that proper allegorie of the vine and the braunch that euerye man may easelye perceyue it And hetherunto doth plainlye belong that the Apostles call him in some places the sauiour of the world Now this title in Gréeke as it very well agreeth with the Hebrue name name whereof I haue spoken before so is it so great if we beléeue Cicero a fitte witnesse herein that it cannot be vttered and expressed with one latine worde For it noteth him that bringeth health or saluation Neither forceth it that this title is geuen somtime to the father and is also yeelded vnto men as to the Iudges of the old people and the ministers of Gods word Rom. 11. and 1. Tim. 4. For that which draweth nothing eyther from the office or honour of Christ but rather streyneth that which hath beene sayde hereof For it is manyfest that the Father as the chiefest fountayne of saluation from whom all saluation floweth vnto the Sonne and is as it were committed vnto him of verye good right is called a Sauiour But as touching men this honour is for no other cause geuen vnto them then for that they are chosen and appoynted by our Sauiour Christ that he might distribute and poure abroade vpon others by them as his in strumentes that power of sauing which he hath of his own and resting in himself which thing the author of the Epistle to the Heb. 2 Chap. séemeth vnto me verye fitly to haue noted and layd downe in naming him the Prince of our saluation Now that which this wryter vsing a manner of spéech which the Hebrues are acquainted with doth signifie as it were with one word We reade that Peter Act. 5 ver 31. did part in two when he had mainteyned this cause before the high Priestes of the Iewes Him hath God lifte vp with his right hand to be a Prince and Sauiour and so foorth By these most sure groundes for to alleadge any more it is néedelesse I thinke that doth sufficiently appear which I purposed to declare that without the felowship of Christ there remayneth no hope of saluation vnto any man Wherby it is euidently proued that they are vtterly deceiued and erre very farre which séeke elswhere or otherwise saluation Wherefore I neyther must neyther will reprooue this new order of Friers if they speak in earnest and beléeue that they see●e saluation in Iesu and bee willinge to draw it thence as from a continuall welspring but I accounte it a very vnreasonable thing for a man to goe about to drawe all that to himselfe alone and to challenge it as his owne which is common with him to al mē of what state and condition soeuer they be and therewithall that they are fowly deceyued if they thinke it cannot be had without that kinde of life which they haue newly deuysed vnto them selues Lastly I take them to be very far deceyued in this that they take another way to obteyne saluation of Iesus then he himselfe hath layd downe and declared CAP. VII That to the intent true felowship be had with Iesus the way that he hath declared is to be followed IT is the part of a trustye and wise Phisition not only to shew the sick person a fitte and wholesome medicine but also diligently to delyuer the maner and how to receaue the same especially if he perceiue he hath to doe with one that is vnskilfull and ignorant of Phisicke For as it is an easie matter herein to misse so it is well knowen to be very dangerous and dayly experience prooueth the same Therfore the holy Ghost to the intent he might performe the parte of a true teacher and most faithfull Phisition vnto the elect and sufficiently prouide for their saluation vnderstandinge well how great not only the vanitie but also the blindnes of mannes mind is especially in seking and prouiding for their own saluation thought it not sufficient to set foorth and poynte out a true sure and necessarye medicine but also thought good to declare plainly and largely how the same is to be vsed Wherfore it behoueth al those that are in déede desirous of their own saluation to resolue with themselues that not only the remedy against sin which the heauenly Father doth offer in Christ is to be unbraced of them ●●t that therewithall they must in euery poynt folow the way to receyue the same which he hath layde downe For they are very much deceiued and altogether erre which imagine other wayes and meanes or being deuysed of others séeme they neuer so plausible and playne accepte of the same Certainlye they tyre themselues in vayne which runne out of the way and as he sayd it is better to haste in the way then to runne space out of the way for it is so farre of that they should euer come vnto the true ende that in steade of saluation they procure to themselues grieuous destruction The holie Ghost doeth most plainly teach and that not in one place that the father is knowne of no man and that no man commeth vnto him but by the teaching and leading of the sonne who not without cause calleth him selfe as the life and trueth so the way also thereunto For so the same spirit teacheth that no mar comineth or is receiued into the fellowship or communion of the sonne but by the motion and leading of the Father God is faithfull saieth Paule to the Corinthians by whom you are called into the fellowship of his sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde Herehence it appeareth that there is no comming to this fellowship for any man but by the Fathers calling And it is not méete that any should be called but hée that heareth his voice and foloweth it that is to say that heareth him speaking and obeyeth his counsell and goeth after him being guided as it were by his hand Which thing Iohn doeth plainly shewe in the beginning of his Epistle teaching that he declareth to the Church that which he had séene and heard that they might haue fellowship not onely amonge themselues but also with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ The voyce therefore of the Gospell is the way whereby we haue enterance vnto this holie and healthfull fellowship By it the Father calleth those whom he hath giuen vnto his Sonne before the foundation of the world was laid and bringeth and assembleth them vnto their shepheard And that voyce of the Father soundinge clearely from heauen conteineth the effect of the heauenly voice This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him By these fewe wordes but verie significant hee noteth both the end and sheweth the way For the end or scope vnto the which wée must leauell as it were with both

A Defence of the Olde and True profession of Christianitie against the new and counterfaite secte of Iesuites or fellowship of Iesus Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman borne in Borges Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus and how farre off they are from the thing signified thereby and what their profession and purpose is in truth otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande ¶ VBIQVE FLORESCIT LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolf and Henry Kirkham and are to be solde at the little North dore of Paules at the signe of the Blacke Boy To the Right Honourable his verie good Lorde the L. Fraunces Russell Earle of Bedforde Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell T. G. wisheth encrease of grace true zeale and knowledge together with all spirituall giftes in Iesus Christ AS our Sauiour Christ Right Honorable hath buylded his Church which he hath so dearely bought and purchased vpon him selfe the onely sure rocke and foundation thereof then the which as th Apostle sayth no other can be layde So on the other side hath Satan alwayes sought nothing more then to vndermine shake and if it were possible to ouerthrow the same For he well perceiueth that so long as this spirituall house glorious buylding standeth firmly and surely grounded and founded vpon Christ the euerlasting trueth the way and the life contayned in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles whiche they not onely haue deliuered to the Church by liuely voyce but as the faithfull Notaries and Secretaries of the holy Ghost haue also registred and cōmitted to writing in the sacred Scriptures for the continuall comfort and instruction thereof it remayneth vnremoueable and inuincible agaynst hell gates and all the formes and tempests raysed agaynst it by him and all his instruments Wherefore he layeth all his batterie and bendeth all his forces agaynst this foundation labouring by falsehood and lyes whereof he is the father to corrupt depraue alter obscure and deface the Gospell of Christ and the worde of life and thereby to subuert and ouerturne or at the least to weaken and shake the fayth of the faithfull resting wholle therevpon This hath bene euer from the beginning his practise and is at this lay and shal be vntill his kingdome be vttterly remoued and taken away Wherefore he is fitly named by Christ a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning For as by lyes he laboreth eyther to extinguish and abolish eyther to discredite and peruert the trueth of the worde So doth he therby intende and purpose the murdering and destruction of mankinde both body and soule For the which cause our Sauiour Christ as a moste wise and prouident and therwithall louing and carefull head and gouernour of his people foreseeing the daungerous and malicious attempt of his and their aduersaries giueth warning thereof vnto them before hande that they might not be founde vnprouided and vnfurnished when they should be assaulted and so by securitie and carelesnes loose the field and the victorie Therefore as well Moses and the Prophets before the comming of Christ inspired with his spirite as also at his comming in flesh he him selfe and his Apostles do giue vs a watchworde and often admonishe vs to auoyde and take heede of false Prophets false Apostles and false teachers though they worke signes and myracles and come in sheepes clothing that is make neuer so great a shewe of the true Prophets of God in outward apparāce yea though they following the steppes of their father Satan who transformeth him selfe the sooner to deceiue into an angell of light turne them selues into the Apostles of Christ Herehence is it that the Apostle Paule chargeth the Galathians not to beleeue an Angell cōming from heauen but rather to holde him accursed if he should teach vnto them any other doctrine then that which at his mouth they had recevued In which words he implieth a high and a waightie reason to wit that the trueth of the glorious Gospell of Christ is such and so great that not onely no humayne authoritie and waye of perswasion whatsoeuer should moue vs to forsake the same but that no angelicall or heauenly messenger whatsoeuer shoulde perswade vs to the contrarie thereof To the same purpose Iohn willeth the faithfull no● to beleeue euery spirite but to trye the spirites whether they be of God because many false Prophets are entred into the world But albeit this warning and ca●eat agaynst false Prophets be in diuers places giuen vnto vs yet then especially doth our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles labour to stirre vp the godly to a more continuall and earnest watchfulnes and warynes when they foretell of the state of the later dayes wherein we liue by howe muche they foresawe those times should be more perilous then any other in the which Satan perceiuing his time and kingdome to be short should rage most violently and vse most extreme tyrannie and put in vre most straunge and vnwonted practises to driue them from the onely foundation Christe Take heede sayth our Sauiour speaking of these later times that no man deceiue you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Cristes and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the very elect beholde I haue tolde you before Paule the Apostle likewise sayth that in the later tymes which he therfore calleth perilous men should depart from the fayth and should giue heede vnto spirites of error and doctrines of diuels which should speake lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with a hote yron that moreouer some should haue a shewe of godlines but should denie the power thereof from which he willeth vs to turne awaye that as Iames and Iambres resisted Moses so should these resist the truth being men of corrupt mindes and reprobate concerning the fayth Peter also Iude declare that there should be false teachers which should priuily bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that had bought them and that many should folow their destructions by whom the waye of trueth should be euill spoken of and should turne the grace of God into wantonnes and deny God the onely Lordae and our Lorde Iesus Christ But that is chiefly to be considered and marked which the Apostle Paule writeth of Antichrist and his comming For before the later day he sheweth that there should come an Apostacie and departing from the faith and that the man of sinne should be disclosed euen the sonne of perdition which is an aduersary and exalteth him selfe agaynst all that is called God and is worshipped so that he shall sit as God in the temple