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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19412	Tvvo very Godly and comfortable letters, written ouer into England The one to a Godly and zealous Lady: wherin the Annabaptists errour is confuted and the sinne against the Holye Ghoste plainly declared. The other an answer to a Godly merchants letter: written for his comfort, being greeued with the heauye burden of sinne wherin is declared the true confession of sinne: Written by T.C.	Cottesford, Thomas.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1589 (1589)	STC 5841.5; ESTC S116355	22,933	120

Chrysostō vpon the fifth chap. of Mathew fifteen Homely filthinesse of sinnes but that they fall not againe a freshe into them it perteineth to the cure and laboure of the Apostles And Chrisostome vppon the .viij. Chapter in the liij Homilye sayth The bondage of sinne is moste greeuous from it onlye God can deliuer vs. For no man hath power to forgiue sinne saue onlye God We are reconciled and Austen in his booke called Enchiridion the 32. chap. brought in fauour againe with God thorow Christe which is the mediatour that of Enemyes wee might be made Sonnes And in the xix Chapter Neither shoulde wee bee deliuered thorowe him as 〈…〉 lye the mediatoure of God and man Christ Iesus if hee were not also God But when Adam was made that is to wit a righte man hee needed no mediatour But when as sinne did seperate and sunder mankinde far from God we must be brought in fauoure againe with God by a mediatour and a meane which was onelye borne without sinne liued and was slame vnto the rising agayne of the fleshe and to euerlasting life Beware thou shew any Chrisostom of Lazarus in the 4. Sermon man thy sinnes leaste hee cast them in thy teeth and reuile thee for them Neither doo thou confesse thee vnto thy fellowe-seruaunt that hee mighte tell thy faultes abroade but to him which is the Lord and Maister which also suffered for thee to him that is kinde and gentle and then shewe thy woundes vnto him which is a Physition And a little after he saith God will that thou shouldst tel not that thou shouldst be punished but be released and iustified Seeing that wee knowe Chrisostom of repentance in the fourth Homely these thinges let vs alwaies flee for succour vnto God which bothe will and maye take awaye all our greefes and sinnes If at any time wee must get anye thing of men by praier we must first meete with the Porter and entise the flatterers the iesters and the Plaiers and Skoffers and oftentimes goe a greate waye There is no such● thing in God ye may easily get by praier of him hee will graunt you your petitions and Prayers without any money or cost Saint Ambrose saith Peter mourned and wept because hee erred as a Ambrose vpon Luke man I finde not what hee sayde I knowe that hee wept I reade of his teares but I reade not of his satisfaction Thou needest no helpers nor Aduocates with God neither anye greate Chrisostom in the Homely of the going forward of the Gospell running about to flatter other men but thoughe thou bee alone and haste no Patrone or Aduocate and makest thy Prayer thy owne selfe vnto God doubtlesse thou shalt obtaine thy purpose For God dooth not so easilye heare when other praieth for vs as when wee praye our selues although wee be full of muche euill and vnrighteousnesse Thus haue I declared vnto you after my slender gifte of knoweledge bothe the Iudgement of the Aunciente Fathers of the Primitiue church and what I haue read learned in holye Scripture touching the confes 〈…〉 of sinnes Besides al these former fortes of confession there was also vsed in the primati●e Church an open Confession which they that had béene excommunicated Another Confession for greate and ha●nous sinnes made before the whole congregation at such time as they were restored againe to the same But because this is now out of vse it is the more to be lamented I will héere speake no more of it But wheras in the latter ende of your letters you instantlye desired me to write vnto you what I thinke of the eare Confession that is so straitlye commaunded among the papistes Truelye to vtter my Conscience plainelye vnto you in few woordes Abuses of eare Confession I thinke it bringeth manye a simple soule to the hazarde of damnation For doubtlesse there are manye shamefull abuses therein of which I wil by the grace of God rehearse two or thrée which are intollerable First it is commaunded of necessity Through which abhominable commaundement the simple common people for lacke of good instruction thinke for so are they deceiued by false teaching that without eare confession they cannot bee saued So this opinion of necessitye of the one partie and the compulsarye lawes made of stincking Papists for the maintenance of the same on the other partye I knowe this certainlye bringeth very manye to perplexed and doubtfull straites of conscience which if it be not in time remoued by y● sw●te promises of grace i●●hrist will doubtlesse d●ine thē to desperation Secondarilye it is no 〈…〉 le bondage of Christ●n ●eus consciences to ●empell the● to number ●ll their sinnes particularly with al due circumstances of time person and place and how many times euerye sin was committed Which opinion perswaded to the vnlearned People is not vnlike to bring many of their soules vnto the diuells daunger For they thinke themselues bounden in Conscience for so are they coruptly taught to confesse euerye sin perticularlye by it selfe and ●● open and declare to their ghostlye father euerye circumstaunce of the same And yet sometime for feare and sometime for shame they confesse not all but concealeth and hideth some offence Which not confessed oppresseth their weake and féeble Consciences sometime thrée or foure yeeres or more and so all that space they thinke themselues because of that concealemente to bee in the state of damnation and quite out of Gods fauor And manye times if the thinge were thorowelye knowne it is scantlye so waighty a matter as the eating of an egge vpon a Fridaye so deepelye are the Popishe traditions printed in their tender Consciences estéeming the breache of them to be a greater offence thē idolatrye blasphemye periurie theft slaunder or any transgression of Gods holy commaundements Whiche thinge oughte to make all the Babilonicall Bishoppes ashamed but y● they are past all shame already because they suffer Gods people to be so drowned in ignoraunce that they can not discern the commaundements of God frō the dirtye dregs of Papisticall traditions And albeit the holy scripture alloweth these sorts of Confession that I haue spoken of before in this Epistle yet for all that the prowdest Papiste of them all cannot finde in holye Scripture these woordes or sentences To his owne Curate whatsoeuer he is all Sinnes perticularlye all circumstances such like trash For all these are nothing else but Pedlarye patches of Papistrye Which I pray God maye bee purged againe and banished out of Christendome and that shortlye Finally beside the aforesaide abuses of eare Confession the common sorte of people are therewith two manner of wayes deceiued Firste because they thinke that their Confession is the cause of forgiuenesse of their sinnes by reason whereof they blotte out the blessed benefite of the passion and death of Christe our onely Sauiour which is the onlye obtayner of Grace and Mer●ys for the Sinnes of all mankinde Secondarilye because they are fullye perswaded that the Penaunce that is that Fasting Praier or alme 〈…〉 enioyned them of their ghostlye Father is the due satisfaction and full recompensation to God equiuolente for their sinnes past which they haue confessed to the Préeste And so for lacke of knowledge and instruction they are therin vtterlye deceiued For sure it is that to God no man is able to satisfie for Sinne for that satisfaction hath onlye our Sauiour Christ wrought in hys paynefull 〈◊〉 ●● but ●● will at this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them ouer 〈◊〉 Thus 〈◊〉 haue I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you of the Confession of sinnes to declare vnto you my conscience and simple Iudgmente therein according to your requeste in you 〈◊〉 Letters written vnto mée by NICHOLAS NERIN from Roane in Fraunce the eight day of IANVARIE And ●● you accepte of my rude writing and collection in this matter I shall by the grace of God doo mine endeuour likewise in other matters of holye Scripture to shewe you heereafter my small and slender knowledge and iudgement Thus the liuing God increace in you dayly more more faith charitie meekenesse godlinesse and pacience Amen From Copyn Hauen in Denmarke the 3. of Februarye ¶ If you write againe to me write to Geneua for thitherwards by Gods grace I intend to goe shortly Yours in the Lord. T. C. 〈◊〉 by Eaward Allde for Edward White and are to be solde at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gun