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A18948	The recantation of Thomas Clarke (sometime a Seminarie Priest of the English Colledge in Rhemes; and nowe by the great mercy of God conuerted vnto the profession of the gospell of Iesus Christ) made at Paules Crosse, after the sermon made by Master Buckeridge preacher, the first of Iuly, 1593. Whereunto is annexed a former recantation made also by him in a publique assembly on Easter day, being the 15. of April, 1593	Clarke, Thomas, seminarie priest of the English college at Rheims.	1594 (1594)	STC 5366; ESTC S118981	19,358	48

Image of the brasen serpent in the wildernes Which obiection he answereth in this sort One and the selfe same God hath by his eternall lawe forbidden any Image to bee made and also by his extraordinarie and speciall commandement the Image of a serpent to be made If thou be obedient to the same God thou hast his lawe make thou no Image but if thou haue a regard to the Image of the serpent afterwards made by Moyses then doe thou as Moyses did make not any Image against the law vnlesse God command thee as hee did Moyses What neede we to stand vpon moe proofes herein these I take for this time sufficient to confirme the trueth of the matter And herein I assent and consent to the true doctrine of Christ his vniuersall Church affirme the doctrine of the Romane Church herein to be false and erronious and therefore I vtterly renounce and abiure it Touching prayer for the dead which adhereth to another absurditie like to it selfe which is Purgatorie although out of the decrees of Councels and olde Fathers many profes seeme to be deducted for the mainteining therof yet in the whole processe of holy Scriptures which as the Prophet Dauid saith are lanternes vnto our feete and lights vnto our paths I finde no warrant for either of them but contrariwise that they are both vaine and friuolous As for example in the Reuelations it is said Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours c. If euery soule that dieth in the Lord bee blessed then there are none that die in the Lorde in Purgatorie where there is no blessednesse but according to their opinion all miserie and calamitie euen as in hell it selfe Secondly it is said that they rest from their labours If then they rest from their labours it must needes followe that they are not in Purgatorie where as they themselues say are extreme labours though not actiue yet passiue Whereupon I inferre two things First that no saued soule goeth to Purgatorie which is meant by those which die in the Lord for euery one that dieth in the Lord by sufficient testimonie of this place is blessed which cannot be but in possessing the vision and sight of God in whome onely the dead haue and enioy all blessednesse the which none can haue and enioy but onely those which are saued as also rest from all and all maner of labours which cannot bee had nor found in Purgatorie being as I said before according to the aduersaries opinion a place of torment and vnrest and this place of Scripture attributing both blessednesse and rest and that immediately after their death to all that die in the Lord that is the seruants of the Lord it must needes be that euery such soule is in heauen not in Purgatorie Secondly I inferre that there is no such place as Purgatorie because there is no vse of nor for any such place For all the creatures things and places which God made hee made them for some ende vse and purpose for he made nothing in vaine and in all the Scriptures we neither finde mention made of Purgatorie nor vse for any such place which no doubt would haue bene done if the place had bene and of such necessitie as the aduersaries affirme it to bee either by Christ himselfe or his Apostles who haue left vs written all things necessarie for our saluation therfore I may safely conclude that there is no Purgatorie That praiers auaile not the dead because I haue bene so tedious before I wil only alledge one example out of Ecclesiastes The dead saith he knowe nothing at all and they haue no more portion for euer in all that is done vnder the sunne If it bee so then in praiers they haue no portion If they haue no portion in prayers then in vaine doe they pray for the dead Thus wee see this their doctrine both of praier for the dead and Purgatorie to be false and superstitious and therefore I renounce and abiure it Prayer to Saints as Mediatours betweene God and vs I finde to derogate from the sole mediation of Christ by these testimonies of holy Scripture Come vnto me saith Christ all ye that are laden and wearie and I will ease you Also in another place I am the way the trueth and the life no man commeth to the father but by me And S. Paul to Timothie There is one God and one Mediatour betweene God and man euen the man Christ Iesus which gaue him selfe a ransome for all men c. In all which places wee finde no mention made of this or that Saint but of Christ himselfe Therefore this doctrine also as false and erronious I abiure and renounce Concerning the propitiatorie sacrifice of the Masse for the liuing and the dead I affirme that it is iniurious and derogatorie to the death and passion of Christ for our aduersaries will haue Christ to be dayly offered both for the liuing and the dead But S. Paul saith that Christ needed not to be dayly offered or often times to offer for the peoples sinnes as the Priestes of the olde law did for now saith he In the end of the world he hath appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe c. And in another place hee saith That with one oblation hee hath consecrated for euer those that are sanctified c. And S. Peter saith that Christ hath once suffered for sinnes the iust for the vniust that he might bring vs to God c. Wherefore this one oblation of Christ I confesse to bee solely propitiatorie and sufficient for my sinnes and for the sinnes of ten thousand worldes if there were so many and I abiure all other propitiatorie sacrifices and oblations whatsoeuer as blasphemous and iniurious to this Moreouer I find in the olde Testament no mo Sacraments prefigured and in the new no mo instituted by our sauiour Christ who onely had power to institute them then two that is to say the sacrament of Baptisme and the Lordes supper and the other fiue I finde to be made sacraments by the presumptious inuentions of men therfore as their vaine institutions and fantasies I abiure renounce them as sacraments Iustification is an other great poynt which the aduersaries make to consist of two partes that is to say of Faith and of our owne woorkes and merites but the Scriptures allowe not workes as causes and reteine only faith as the instrumentall cause of our iustification for the Apostle saith There is no difference all haue sinned and are depriued of the glory of God are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesu c. And it followeth in the same Chapter Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the woorkes of the law c. And in another place he saith By grace

the Father and the Sonne be all honour prayse power and dominion nowe and for euer Amen God saue the Queene THE RECANTATION of THOMAS CLARKE made in an other publike assemblie and congregation after the hearing of Diuine seruice and a Sermon made by M. MVNSEY Preacher and before the holy Communion which together with others I there and then receiued on Easter day being the 15. of Aprill 1593. I There standing before the dreadfull throne of almightie God and the face of the present congregation humblie confessed my selfe to haue bene for the space of these fiue yeres last past a traitour to God an enemie to his holy Church and Gospel a professor of the errors and deuilish opinions of papistrie and consequently a rebellious tratour to my Soueraigne prince and deare countrie Howe that about fiue yeres past I departed my natiue countrey and went into forraigne landes beyonde the seas without the leaue or authoritie of any Magistrate wherby I incurred the danger of the lawes prouided and instituted for the same cause How that being beyond the seas I suffred my selfe to be perswaded by the counsaile of lewd and seditious men to take vpon me the gawling yoke and ouerswaying burthen of popish priest hoode and for that cause I went into the kingdome of France to the Vniuersitie of Rhemes where I studied certaine yeres was then made priest shortly after was by the President of the English Seminarie Colledge at Rhemes sent into England to the ende and intent to withdrawe the peoples heartes from the true seruice of God and their dutifull obedience towardes their prince vnto the pernicious and damnable errors of papistrie and the tyranical subiection and slauerie of the Pope Whom together with diuers of his antecessors successors I acknowledged to be that cōtinuate whore of Babilon and that antichrist whom Saint Iohn hath most liuely painted foorth and described in his Reuelations In this danable businesse aforesaid I confessed y t I had laboured for the space of two yeeres cōmitting dayly more and more high treason against God my Souerainge and most gratious Queene affirming that w tout all doubte I had obstinatly died in that wicked damnable estate as many of my coate and profession had done before if by Gods will I had bene apprehended in any search or by any other meanes before the grace of God had lightened the blindnes of my vnderstanding which by his holy prouidence and tender mercy was in due time powred and that aboundantly into the festered woundes of my gasping soule For being forcibly touched with the diuine finger of Gods holy spirite I began to reuiue and manifestly to see my desperate estate and deuilish madnesse Then was I taught by Gods holy spirite and the reading of holy Scriptures that I ought to be subiect and obedient to my soueraigne prince That mans iustification and righteousnesse commeth not of himselfe by his owne merits but that it is the free gift of God through faith in Iesu Christ That praying to Images is flat Idolatrie That praying to Saintes Purgatorie mens traditions and such like are damnable errors and derogatorie to the honor of God That in Christs holy supper we doe eate his flesh and drinke his blood spiritually through faith not grosly and carnally as before I helde That the dayly offering vp of Christ in the masse is damnable and derogatorie to the death and passion of Christ Lastly I confessed my selfe to be heartily sory for hauing herein so highly offended God my Soueraigne and the world humbly crauing pardon for the same And there I did from the bottome of my heart soule abiure and renounce the Pope and al his tyrannicall power iurisdiction abhorre and detest the masse and al the heape of his wicked errors and damnable opinions whatsoeuer as wel those which I haue not here mentioned as those which I haue here touched by testimonies of holy scriptures briefly confuted And with all reuerence of soule and sinceritie of conscience I then did now doe and for euer by Gods grace will embrace the true faith and wholsome doctrine of Iesus Christ This done I desired the people to say for me the Lords prayer which they did to the ende I might easely obtaine of God truely to bee inserted into his mysticall body and made a liuely member of his holy Church that I might bee a woorthy partaker of his heauenly table and that I might hereafter faithfully walke all the dayes of my life in the true light of his holy Gospel Moreouer I then certified the assembly do now by these presents verifie y ● I vndertooke not this present matter either constrayned or for feare of torture the Magistrates well knowing y t mans faith is not to be wrested by violence or for the auoiding of any displeasure or for hope of fauour or for any sinister cause whatsoeuer but simply and sincerly for y ● honor of God who hath wroght in me this wonderfull worke for the edifying of his Church satisfying of the world This clause I openly protested to y e people after my speech being demanded by the preacher aforesaid in the pulpit thereof as also of this viz. that I had receiued neither frō y e pope nor frō any of his agents nor any mā no dispensatiō licence bull or facultie to dissemble my conuersion neither that I euer as yet heard of any such thing to haue bin granted if there were I acknowledged my simplicitie to be such that I was not accompted a man sufficient to haue so prodigious a matter committed to my trust and charge This is the sūme effect of my speaches to the people And whatsoeuer I then said I do presently confirme in and vnder myne owne hand writing And if this my present acte and that which I haue already performed seeme not sufficient to the eies and iudgments of the wise to testifie the sinceritie and true meaning of my inward repentant soule I am further readie dutifully to perfourme whatsoeuer within my power shall be demaunded at my handes and am willing to spende my life for my Soueraignes safety and my countries good against whome I haue so vnduetifully and vnnaturally rebelled Imprinted at London by the Deputies of CHRISTOPHER BARKER Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Mat. 7. Rom. 14. 1. Pet. 3. Iohn 5. Mal. 2. Iohn 3. Psalme 116. Mat. 11. Rom. 11. Psal 118. Psal 21. Psal 123. Exod. 20. Numb 34. Deut. 27. Wisd 13. Tert. de Idol Psal 118. Reuel 14. Eccle. 9. Matth. 11. Ioh. 14. 1. Tim. 2. Heb. 8. Heb. 10. 1. Pet. 3. Rom. 3. Iosh 3. Mat. 7. Dan. 9. Mat. 24.