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A20995	A lamentable discourse of the fall of Hughe Sureau (commonly called Du Rosier) from the truth: & his shamefull offence to the church togither with confession ... & remorse Seruing for a notable example to al the world of the fraieltie & vntowardnesse of man, & of the great and vnmeasurable mercie of God to his chosen.; Confession et recognoissance de Hugues Sureau dit du Roisir, touchant sa cheute en la rapaut'e, & les horribles scandales par luy commis. English	Du Rosier, Hugues Sureau.	1573 (1573)	STC 7369; ESTC S118725	19,223	58

haue good cause to tremble at that which our Lord hath denounced that at the great day he will be ashamed of those that are ashamed of him his word before men Let my exaumple serue you for a glasse and haue a dilygent eye to your selues you that haue abode vpright till this present sée that you kéepe preciously that so singuler a benefite that God hath so carefully kept for you suffer not that vncorruptible crowne to bée taken from you but constantly finish your course knowing that he that contineweth to the ende shall be saued And you alas that are the greatest number who eyther by myne exaumple are slipte out of the way or by myne occasion confirmed in your reuolt take héed the Deuil doe not bewitch you to make you fynde that swéete which is bitter to call lighte darkenes and darknes light bu kéepe the séede of the feare of God which is yet remayning in your harts nurrish and cherish it as a languishing fyre wayting the meanes to escape out of the captiuity more griouous then that of Egipt and vsing the same when .. God shal offer them vnto you ▪ Especially your grace Syr that haue receyued thys good and holye instruction from your youth in the trewe knowledge of GOD. Remember the fayth that was in your mother and Grandmother Quéenes of Nauarra And as Sainct Paule doeth by suche exaumples exhort his Timothe so thinke the same to apperteyne to you to the end that you may be as well heyre to the fayth of those holy Ladyes as you haue succéeded them in the Realme And pardon mée the iniury that I haue done to you humbly beséeching you in the name of GOD that as I haue ben a pestilent instrument to peruert you so nowe my exaumple may serue to conuert you to the lord You also moste noble Prince be myndfull of the zeale godlines and constancy in trewe religion whereof you haue séene the liuely paterns of your late of worthy memory Grandmother Father and mother I haue serued you in steade of a wicked spirite and euill counseler but lette not that which was sayed in tyme of force and violence beare so much sway and authoritye wyth you that for the same you should forgette the holye instructions which haue ben gyuen yow by aduised deliberation many years before Compare the presente estate whereunto you be now brought receyuing no comfort or edificatiō at al of that which your Amner doeth read or sing before you in his Portesse or Massebooke with the when you were present at the holy exhortatiōs and enterpreting of Gods word where you your self did help to sing prayses vnto his name And for as muche as manye may be kepte back in this reuolt through the reasons that they then vnderstood of mée at sundry tymes and in sundry places or els through certeyne writings that haue ben scattered abroad touching the trewe Church and by what markes she oughte to be discerned by the which at that time I went aboute to conclude that the Church of Roome deserued this title I beséech al Christian readers not to stay vppō those reasons so vayne and of so small importaunce Trew it is that see that time yea and somewhat afore I had be shakē therwithall as I haue confessed But sens hauing withdrawē mi self into these parts I haue learned and found out that they are but abuses and fallacyes easye to bée discouered and refuted for the which let it be graunted that they had greater appearance of sound reasons yet can not I be excused but that I did leudly and villenously to refuse to witnesse that treuth with my mouth which I did verely beléeue in my harte to exhort those that I could ageinst my cōsciēce to go to Masse and to yéeld obediēce to Antichrist Now as I doe by this present writing make open confession of my to too haynous enormity for a piece of amends and reparation of the offence publikely geuen so am I determined God willing to write of this matter of the Church to take away all doubt and scruple from the wauering cōsciences that be not yet fully resolued for that they haue hard the sayd reasons To conclude being now at full liberty to stick boldly without feare to that Church which in my harte I doe alowe of I protest before god to recognyse and acknowledge that for the trewe Church whiche hath for the rule of her fayth the holy scripture of the old newe Testament the olde conteyned in the lawe Psalms and Prophets as our Lord him self doeth deuide it the newe in the writinges of the Euangelistes and Apostles anowyng for trewe markes of the Churche not the succession of persones and of menne but of the Doctryne of the Prophetes and Apostles Sithens it is manyfest that we can not acknowledge any for the house of GOD but that which is the piller and staye of the treweth nor anye to bée of the folde of Christ but those only that heare hys voyce and follow him and that shée is the trewe Spouse that hath Christ for her Spouse briefely that it is necessary to goe out of that Church wherein one can not abyde wythoute renouncyng of Iesus Christ and to be shorte without losse of bodye and Soule by dishonoring and offending of GOD. According whereunto I doe also embrace the confession of Fayth published in the name of the reformed Churches of Fraunce acknowledging and auowing the same to be a Christian confession by the conformitye and agréement that it hath with the holy Scripturs and ioyntly the Ecclesiastycall discyplyne to bée the conducte and gouernement of the people of god Wyth lyke assuraunce I holde and beléeue with all my harte and confesse as well by mouth as by writyng that those which for thys reformation haue a fewe yeares sence suffered death eyther by order of Iustyce or by the late blouddy murders more cruell then those of the Gotes or Vandales are trewe and blessed Martyrs of Iesus Christ dead for hys name and his holy trewth And for the commendation and prayse of them together for their comfort and consolation that are yet liuing women children parentes and frindes this sentence of Sainct Paule to the Thessalonians maye by good right be applyed yée are made followers of the congregacions of GOD that are at Iudea in Iesus Christ because yée haue suffered the selfe same thynges by them of your owne natyon as they dyd by the Ievves Who likewyse haue kylled the Lorde Iesus and their owne Prophetes and haue banyshed vs they please not GOD and are aduersaries to al men not suffering vs to speak to the Gentils for their saluation to the ende that they may dayly heape vp their sins for the wrath of god is come vppon them to the vttermost Wherfore O ye faithful pastors of the Christian Church Stewards of the misteries of god that hath giuen you the word of reconciliation to the end that ye maye be Ambassadors for Christ ye that sometymes

frustrate of myne intent knowing that I muste now play a part on the greatest stage in all Fraunce to confesse and defend infinite things which I had heretofore by word of mouth and writing condemned yea and did yet condemne in my hart Notwithstanding hauing already made the first breach into my cōscience by the which Sathan had made his entrey I left him the full peaceable possession of the whole minding now to doe al thinges wholy to the lyking of men laying asyde the reuerence of God and the respect of his glory Being brought to Paris and presented before the King I declared the selfe same abouesayd auowing the Romish church to be the trew church and sundry dayes together in the presence of the king of Nauarra and the prince of Conde I maynteyned the same cause agreing with the Sorbonists in that point principally and refelling that which some of the king of Nauarra his officers men fearing God did alledge to the contrarie that the Reformed church was the trew church and their religion the trew religion Furthermore touching the controuersies and points of doctrine commenly debated in some I spake lewdly and against myne owne conscience euen as they are taught in popery of other some as principally of the Masse the oblation and the presence of Christs body I made some doubt and contradiction being vrged therto by the force of the trewth but immediatly I let go and abandoned all that euer I had truely spoken by a false collusion I suffered them to cōclude as they wold them selues hauing beside that serued therin ageinst myne owne cōscience for a miserable instrument to lead those young Princes to goe to Masse by that means to worship a false God to tread vnder their féete the only sacrifice of Christ his death And sithens I haue fallen in hand with this conference and disputation I wil giue you good aduertisement of an edict published in the name of the king of Nauarra for that they haue not bene contented ther to Chronycle my name calling but they haue followed therin the custome of the Papists who can not simply recyte that which is happened without some addition For there it is sayed that ther were certeyne other ministers of the Citie of Orleance that dyd ioyntly confesse with me them selues to be vanquished by the force of the Popishe Doctors argumentes in so muche that they should renounce and forsake the doctrine before tyme preached to the reformed Churches in Fraunce Which I doe testify and maynteyne to you to be false for there was neuer any but my self The other Ministers of the sayd congregation were better assisted of God then to haue committed such an offence Being then these twoo Princes through my false perswasions drawen in a short space to the profession of Poperye with the submissions to the same required I abode a certeine tyme at Paris during the which I was lead vp and downe as a byrde to the call to certeyne noble Ladyes and Gentlewomen of the religion who not long before had hard me preache the word of God or els had knowen mée in particuler communication to haue exhorted thē to perseuer in the doctryne of the gospel who were al maruelously abashed to sée me thus transformed into an other shape they could not be perswaded that in that which they vnderstoode of mée I spake as I thought Neuerthelesse I tolde them all indifferently that I spake euen as I did beléeue in my hart touching the opinion so stifly maynteyned of me that the Romish Church was the Catholyke Church beside other poyntes the do depend therof And not cōtent to serue their turn at all assayes that did thus employe mée here and there I went of myne owne accord to diuers of myne acquayntance or els to those that them selues did séeke me or by fortune mette with mée to whom generally I gaue this counsel to acknowledge this Church albeit that I did graūt her to be full of superstitions and errors so that shée had more then néede of a reformation with sundry such other counselles of false Nicodemites and Temporizers or to speake vprightly of ypocrits and enemyes to God by outward profession And when I founde any displeased with them selues for the faute that they had commited to their great grief I dyd by and by laye before them the foresayde reasons lulling them a sléepe therwithall and laying Pillows vnder their elbows as sayeth the Prophet Ezechiel Namely I went one day of purpose to a certeyne good and vertuous Lady fearing god and to her daughter boothe nobly descended To conclude I left no body with whō I might talke familiarly that I did not corrupt with this pernicious counsell saying that albeit the body of the Lord be not in that which is shewed at the masse yet notwithstanding that on might lawfully knele downe to it because there is a certeyne remnant and trace of the trewe Sacrament of that precious body and that in beholding the Sacrament although it differ farre from the institution of Christ the administratiō of the auncient church it suffiseth to lift vp our hatts to heauen in which place only is the trewe liuing body where our Lord ●deth reigne sitteth at the right hand of God his father Thus in this place did I moderate al absurdities and went about to playster this old ruinous buylding of popery to make there appeare a certeine likelyhoode of a goodly tabernacle And so I did entyce ageinst my conscience al those that I could to goe to masse the very heape of all Idolatry and renouncing of Iesus Christ yea I wrote letters to Madame de Buillon at Sodan by the commaundement of the Duke Montpensier her father to drawe her to the same opinion making her a sorowfull and simple recompence ▪ for the curtisy liberality receiued at hir hands as wel by me as by diuers others during the troubles of the yeare of our Lord God 1568. And albeit that I felt in my selfe the condemnation of myne owne conscience for the poynts now a dayes in controuersie and that no reasons could content me to approue the doctrine ceremonyes and exercise of the popish religion and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that diuers persons had ben so bolde to reprooue me of my faultes to represent the iudgements of God before myne eyes to cyte me before the tribunall seate of Iesus Christ where all men must appeare yet notwithstāding I was therwith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sléepe that I mynded not to make my abode any wher but at Paris now and then ther came vppon me a certeyne grief of mynd to thinke of that which was past with the remēbraūce of the inuocation and seruice of God of the pure administratiō of the sacraments the preachyng of the word and diligent practise of discipline and I made comparison therof with the life cōuersation and exercyse of the Priests and Monkes But I was so wholy in the possession of the Prince of this world