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A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

ABJURATION OF POPERIE BY THOMAS ABERNETHIE Sometime Jesuite but now penitent Sinner and an unworthie Member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland at Edinburgh in the Grayfrier Church the 24. of August 1638. EXOD. 23. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evill Matth. 7. 13 14. Enter yee in at the strait gate for wide is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there bee that finde it VERITAS JINCET TANDEM Printed at Edinburgh in King James his College by George Anderson 1638. To the courteous Reader COurteous Reader in these subsequent pages excuse I pray thee the shortnesse of the matter and the rudenesse of the style and attribute that to my calling being long a Souldiour and this to my education which hath beene more out of my native Countrie than in it and make thy use of the matter which I have set downe for thy well rather than to censure the defect of my language Farewell LORD bee mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee PSAL. xli THis day right Honourable Reverend and Welbeloved in our common Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus is keeped very solemne and holy by these who equalize yea prefer some of their fabulous saincts dayes to the Lords owne day in respect of the relation they say it hath to the Apostle Bartholomew who being excoriat should have suffered martyrdome on such a day but of You is solemnized to the end Yee may behold a poore wretched sinner pull off and throw away his old skin of Popish Idolatrie and superstition that he may compeare in the sight of God and men with a new garment of righteousnesse dyeed in the blood of that immaculat Lambe who taketh away the sins of the world I know that my presence for this action will be no small subject of admiration to you all that heare and see me this day for truelie I finde it to my self so that I may justly say with the Apostle I am made a spectacle unto the world and to Angels and to men To the wicked world a spectacle of indignation and hatred for quiting it and taking me to the precious blood of my Saviour Christ To the good Angels at the conversion of a sinner To men of compassion and admriation In you I perceave this admiration to be joined with joy and gladnesse considering the diligent care of your sweet LORD and loving Master in bringing home your lost brother upon the shoulders of His mercie to His owne sheepfold in me poore Publican with shame and confusion of face beholding my long suffering God and you from whom I have gone alace too long astray In you with pitie and compassion to view me thus cruelly tormented with so many ravening wolfes in me with indignation for suffering my self to be deceaved so long with these infernall theeves In you with praise and thanksgiving to see me brought home againe alive in me with feare and trembling of my Saviours wrath for going and straying so long astray Now to give satisfaction in some measure to your admiration I will let you understand the cause thereof that is my cursed life in Poperie and how it hath pleased my gratious God to convert me from it exponing these few words of the royall Prophet Lord be mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee In which words yee may perceave that the Prophet having gone astray touched with remorse of conscience first he returneth to his God with unfeined repentance and beggeth pardon for his sins Lord be mercifull unto me Next because his soul was deadlie wounded he prayeth earnestlie for the health of it heal my soul And thirdlie he gives the reason of his petition for I have sinned against thee In imitation of this mightie King now turned a humble supplicant I minde Godwilling to show you these things following 1. How I have wounded my soule and sinned by following of Poperie I have sinned against thee 2. How it hath pleased God of his only mercie to heale my soul in his own time Heale my soul 3. I shall crave pardon first of God then of my deare Countrey-men in Scotland of you that bee heere present and of all these who professe with sinceritie the reformed Religion according to Gods written word saying LORD be mercifull unto me 4. And lastlie I shall answere to some idle objections against this my sincere confession and heartie resolution Concerning the first point the words containe foure things worthie of consideration 1. The person that hath sinned in the word I 2. The person against whom the sin is committed in the word thee 3. The sin it self in the word sinned and 4. the madnesse of a sinner to oppose himselfe agoinst so strong a partie as GOD in the word against Neither will I insist upon the word have supponing this confession of the Prophets and mine to be of bygone sins whereof remorse of conscience draweth us to a confession nor minde I to be curious exponing the literall anagogicall tropologicall or other senses of the words because I intend only to make a relation of my life in Poperie with an abjuration of the same and not a preaching knowing that no man should take that calling upon him but he who was called of God as was Aaron But to come to the words this particle I first showeth the qualitie of the person that sins I that am a King quoth the Prophet have sinned against thee which consideration doeth likewise aggravate my sin for I may say I who was brought up of honourable parents with a most religious Minister of Gods word for the space of six years have sinned renouncing that Heavenly doctrine which I learned of them I who had exponed my life in the wars to all hazards whereto that calling is subject sundrie years in Germanie for the overthrow of Poperie was not a year out of the wars till in my travels passing through Italie I was made a prey in Florence by an English Jesuite called Thomson or Gerard both to his religion and profession This word may likewise serve for reproof to those who delight more in descriving their neighbours sins than confessing their owne forgetfull of our Saviours words Judge not that yee be not judged for with what judgement yee judge yee shall be judged And thereafter Thou hypocrite first cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clear lie to east out the moat out of thy brothers eye The second thing considerable heere is the person offended against whom I have sinned and this is God Almightie for against GOD are all sinnes which are committed either mediatly or immediatly against thee only have I sinned and done thïs evill in thy fight The words may serve for confutation and admonition confutation of

surer and with greater hope of prevailing then with his Countriemen whom he assured to be of a stubborn nature dangerous to be dealt with and great Puritans directly opposite to the church of Rome And therefore nothing more should be desired of them but conformitie in matters of religion with England which the English church would gladly wish as if she were a mother church whereof others did flow neither could his Countriemen deny it in respect of his Majesties Supremacie and of the union of the two Crowns and Kingdomes that they both might have but one Lord one faith one baptisme one King For the execution of his counsell he proponed mutuall intelligence to be procured betwixt England and Rome which shortly after was begun by an Italian priest a great politician well versed in the French tongue called Il Signor Gregorio who stayed more as an year and an half in London for that effect and with whom I conferred in his owne ludging in the Convent garden at London and with two great men of our nation and now continueth there himself with great grudge to both the kingdomes seeing this mutuall intelligence was never heard of betwixt Rome and us since the Cardinals Wolsey and Polus dayes neither is it necessarie as Statesmen may see Now not Covenanter is thy curiositie satisfied This I know and more looke thou to it in time and bee not one of these who for vanitie or other ends vvill bee thought singulare against Gods cause and thy ovvne promise in baptisme And I will end this discourse that my enemies say not that I minde to put dissension betwixt Protestants and CONE-formists letting our neighbours England and Ireland see some of the dangers wherein they stand of that Romane antichrist and his congregation de extirpanda fide First then yee stand both in danger as well as we of these our related dangers especially of that mutuall intelligence between Rome and England 2. Of your Countrie mens affection to Rome if they be papists for alleadged rights of the popes upon you both the one called Peters pennie the other called Peters patrimonie 3. Your extreame great number of Jesuits and other Priests extending in England to five or six thousand so that they are striving among themselves and writing books against other which I my self carried to Rome for Bishopricks in your Church As for Ireland it hath fifteene papists bishops alone This is a great danger 4. Your populous multitude of Papists in you both extending to many thousands so that I am of that minde that in England the people if not alreadie may shortlie desire a Generall Assemblie for libertie of conscience 5. The education of your Nobilitie at schooles in forraine countries who having drunke in the doctrine of iniquitie from their tender age are both more perverse in themselves and more dangerous bringing in their friends and neighbours by their Priests to perdition with them 6. That which is to be lamented of all that you have good lawes both of you against Papists and very good reason to execute them but alace money break them granting to all Papists a pecuniall libertie of conscience and present banishment to all these poore reformed Christians who will not conforme with you and that which is to be laughen or rather weeped at that yee would blinde peoples eyes with your searchers going on the one side to apprehend priests and punish papists and on the other side to have your customers to receave moneyes and give discharges for libertie of papistrie O God! who doth not evidentlie perceave these monstruous dangers and not oppose himself with all his power to them if there remaine but a sponk of true Christianitie in him Truelie who doth it not I must of necessitie think him an internall papist The last danger of all the three kingdomes is Pensions whereof we may consider four things 1. The giver 2. The persons to whom they are given 3. The quantitie of the summes 4. And the end wherefore they are given There is certainlie pensions given in the Countrie for priests and intelligencers and out of the Countrie for Semenaries and correspondents of these intelligencers but to come to the particulars 1. The givers are the house of Austria and the foresaid Congregation de extirpanda fide 2. The persons to whom it is given in Scotland to my knowledge are the Priests whereof I vvas one the man that goeth for it and the thesaurer or keeper I knovv the names and residences of the rest and had set them dovvn heere if I had not declared them sufficiently by vvrit alreadie And if there be given pensions to any other as to these the superiour vvith his counsellours and the Treasurer knovv it for me I knovv not but this I am assured of that there was more sent into the country than was bestowed upon the foresaid persons 3 The quantitie in cumulo is best known to them I being none of the Superiours counsellours in respect of my travels for the mission the quantitie that we who were Priests gote was an hundred crowns in the yeer from Rome and eighteene pence every day from Spaine besides our purchase by our Masses Confessions and Pardons which was more or lesse conforme to out imployment and the persons with whom we dealt 4. Lastly in a word the end of these gifts is pretended zeal and piety but truely intended Hierarchie of Rome and Monarchie of Spaine which may appear by the deposition of M. George Ker and the Jesuits Abercrumbie Crighton and Gordoun with three Noblemens letters intercepted with him and registrat in this town the year of God 1592. by his pensions given to us and his pretended rights over our native countries If this be not an evident danger to suffer so many forraine Princes pensioners in your bosome God see to it in his own time and give me grace that I may follow my sincere and heartie resolution that at the houre of my death I may say wirh the Apostle I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have keept the faith hence foorth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day c. And I shall be surely one of these to who my blessed Saviour shall say in that day Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world To this gratious Father vvith his blessed Son and the holy Ghost be all povver praise and glory honour and dominion for ever Amen FINIS Pet. Ribadineira in vita Sancti Barthol See the 4. chap. to the Ephes. 11. 22 23 24. Ioh. 1. 29. 1 Cor. 4. 9. Luke 15. 7. Ioh. 10. 16. Luk. 18. 13. Pfal 119. 176. Psal. 42. 4. Heb. 5. ● ● Matth. 7. ● 2. 5. Psal. 51. 4. Mat. 11. 28. Psal. 32. 5. Iohn 1. 9. Genes i. 27 Rom. 5. 10 Luk. 18. 13 Acts. 9. 5. Levit. 10. 2. 2 Sam. 6. 7 Numb 16. 32. Hag. 2. 6. 2 Cor. 1. 3. Ephes. 2. 4. 5. Rom. 9. 15 Exod. 34. 6. Psal. 145. 9 Euseb. Matth. 27. and 5. Isay 1. 18. Luk. 13. 5 August soliloq ● Phil. 3. 19. Ibid. V. 20. Rom. 6. 21. Marc. 8. 36 Matth. 20. 3. 5. 6. Matth. 4. 18 Matth. 9. 9 Acts. 9. 6. Ridab 2. 8 August Acts. 8. 30. Rom. 9. 16. In the histories of Swaden Pole Nota bene intelligenti pauca Iam. 4. 5. 7. 15. Mat. 10. 16 Gen. 21. 10 Rom. 9. 3. Col. 1. 24. 1 Cor. 2. 9. See Revel 21. 22. chapters Heb. 10. 14. 2. and 17. c. 18. See Heb. 10. Romans the 5. Acts 4. 12. Joh. 1. 29. 36. Psal. 9. 8. Luke 13. 3 1 Cor. 2. 2. Mat. 7. 23. Mat. 25. 41 August dc gra llb. arb Luke 22. 61 62. Mat. 9. 22. Ioh. 4. 15. Luk. 23. 40 41. Ioh. 20. 27 and 28. Act. 9. 4. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. Colos. 2. 8. 2 Thes. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 11 19 20. Colos. 2. 8. Mat. 7. 25 16 18. Rom. 9. 33 1 Cor. 10. 4 1 Pet. 2. 8. Revel 18. 4 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Ioh. 5. 39. 2 Pet. 1. 19. Act. 5. 29. Act. 4. 19. Mat. 23 4. Rom. 1. 16 Act. 24. 14. 16. Psal. 116. 13. 14. Luk. 15. 18 Psal. 116. 16. Psal. 41. 4. Psal. 124. 6 7. 8. Act. 9. 15. Act. 9. 12. Mat. 7. 20 Matth. 12. 24. Ioh. 8. 48. Thus Papists paint Austen 1 Cor. 9. 22 Rev. 8. 16. Rev. 3. 21. Math. 12. 30. Ephes. 4. 5 Rom. 8. 33 Ephes. 4● 13 14. 1 Cor. 1. 12. 13. Ezech. 18. 20. Hollins●ed pag. 495. Anno 1561. 1 Cor. 10 12. Mac. 24. 1 Sam. 5 Rev. 3. 11 13. 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. Matth. 25. 34.