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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67426	The Wallons consistory and excommunication	Le Clercq, Jacquemine.	1646 (1646)	Wing W621A; ESTC R25724	12,592	24

opression The Wallons CONSISTORIE AND EXCOMMUNICATION HAveing spoken untill now upon their threatnings and upon my condemnation now it shall onely be upon my Excommunication the first newes I heard of was uttered unto me with griefe and dolour but their desolation was not for the deed of my cause which they did know to be very just but upon him which hath pronounced that unjust condemnation never the lesse when I understood those words proceeding from a heart pierced with griefe saying it is done it is done and seeing their pale colur as persons strucken by death I was taken with an inward qualme but outwardly joyfull umwilling to adde more griefe unto their Infirmitie but I had alsoe great weaknesse withim me in somuch that I found my selfe like unto that woman which wee read of in the second booke of Kings the 4 Chapter This womans hunamite being in agony for the death of her Sonne shee said unto the Prophet did I desire a Sonne of my Lord did I not say doe not deceive me I was in that case at that time it seemed unto me that God had deceived me but the Lord by his mercy did not suffer me long thus for I recovered an other shee mate which is hope of an other woman at the 13 Chapter of the booke of Iudges it is Manoahs wife Mother of Samson her husband being frighted seeing the Angell to ascend with the flame he said we shall surely die because wee have seene God his wife said unto him if the Lord weare pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt offring and a meat offring at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would he at this time have told us such things as these so having received new hope I have revoked my vicious thoughts and submitted my selfe unto the will of God assuring my selfe that he hath not deceived me but hath caused mee to see great things when he hath received the offrings of my soule this makes me remember an other woman The reason I shall speake of her is because chastety was soo much oppressed by the elders judges of the people This woman is Susanna as wee read it in her History altough it is not Cannonicall yet from thence may be drawne comparisons sit for my cause for they were elders and judges and the People was subject to obey them altough theise Elders weare very wicked touching this woman But this must be noted that her combate was upon her corporall chastety and my cause is for my spirituall chastety can one say where this woman was when shee was thus assaulted her History tels us shee was in her husbands garden a like place was I in according as the spouse of our soule had commanded me at the 5 Chapter of Salomons song come into my Garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrhe with my spice it is most certaine that all the time I have bine persecuted by this kind of folke the which I have spoken of by my meditations I did enjoy the pleasure of that Garden we will leave now the wrongs done unto women by reason our perticulas hindrance is light unto us but the wrong done unto the disadvantage of the truth is in supportable unto us yet noe remedy heere we should have a miraculous work for the salt hath lost his savour how can wee shalt any body may see unlesse he be quite blind that there is heere a represensation of what our Lord Jesus Christ hath fore told us in the 24 Chapter of S. Mathew when he spake that before the great and terrible day of this second comming The Sunne shall be darkened and the Moone shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven now I pray you tell me if that Sunne of righteousnesse as Malachy calls him in his 4 Chapter with healing In his wings could it be more darkned when the truth is taken for an untruth and the untruth for the truth the Moone canne get light unlesse it be borrowed from that Sunne then must it be darkened and touching the Starres must wee not say to our great griefe that wee see them sall from heaven as wee have seene som yeares agoe when our Ministers with the elders have offered our children unto Baal without the consent of their Father and Mother and since occasion are carried worse and worse seeing they will offer the Fathers and Mothers and this they carry in forme and manner of Inquisition in forbidding them to maintaine the true Gospell by Excommunications and it is for that purpose that there are none of Christs Disciples among us and if there be any it is as Nicodemus by night or secretly for they thinke there is too much danger it was in the same manner of the crucifying of our Lord Jesus Christ the men were amazed and afrighted but theire were poore woman that followed him weeping and lamenting and also at the sepulchre Christ being risen directs his speech unto a woman for there weare no men to be found O what an honour is this for us that a woman should be the first messenger of the glorious resurrection of our Lord they are set by him in such an honorable degree that hee makes them to be has if it were the Apostle of the Apostles one may say unto me why should one speake at this time of the death of Christ and of his sepulchre for he is in his glory it is certaine but let us see if his truth is not in such a place O you conductours of this Church it is you which have placed a great stone at that sepulchres doore so that the truth cannot come out that stone is your Excommunication and the waight of it is your tyrannicall act teare out that Article and cause no more to lament for your poore gouvernment take againe your Discipline which you have put in oblivion and it doeth give you power enough it commands you to open heaven and to shut it againe by it alsoe may you cast out of your Church the evill livers and those also which continue in their vices but yet not those whom God hath given his feare do not cause the uncircumcised Philistines to rejoyce do not cause the beast to live againe for you must know that such sort of excommunications comes neere unto hers Remember what happened unto those elders in Susannas just cause which I have spoken of comparing the spirituall unto the corpotall I hope God will give you the grace to looke after these things Amen The woman hath written theise things chifely because the good English people those who have the feare of God should not take her to be Excommunicated but if they should happen to see her receive the holy Sacrament among them that they should not say unto her as Naomy sayd unto her Daughter in law according as wee read in the first Chapter of the booke of Ruth My Daughter returne unto thy people the woman would then answer humbly in in mildnesse as Ruth did my People is your People and my God is your God therefore send me not unto the People of my nation for they have forgotten the truth This hath bin done to the great griefe of the Wife of Michael le Clercq FINIS

the second booke of Samuel when the Citty Abel was besieged by Ioab a woman of the sayd Citty demanded of him if he would destroy a Mother in Israel som will wonder that a woman speaketh heere Chap 20.19 vers but seeing that it concerneth not onely a mother but a daughter and a mother together I call faith and charity soe for the faith is the mother and charity is the Daughter but the daughter is oblidged and bound to keepe and entertaine the mother and this entertainment cannot be done but by forgetting ones selfe following as St. John speaketh in his first epistle hereby perceive wee the Charity or Love of the sonne who layd downe his life for us Chap 3.16 v. and wee ought to lay downe our Lives for the bretheren hereby we see that it stould be distroying the mother and the daughter to cause Charity to begin at ones selfe as one will make us beleeve this is the first point yet hath he others that are very dangerous and strange as when he doth preach that wee must beare with the wicked untill such time that God gives him repentance wholly contrary unto the Doctrine of St. Paul who commandeth expresty to put away from among you the wicked person Corrintians first epistle Chap 5.13 verse is it not a lamentable thing when he doth preach unto us that God was anger'd against his Sonne altogether against the section of the 10 Sunday al 's Sabbath of our Catechisme if Father had beene anger'd against the Sonne it must follow that the Sonne must have bin a sinner Isaih 53. c. v. 4. a doctrine contrary and Erronious against the stay of our faith our God was anger'd against the charge that his Sonne hath taken upon him to witt our sinnes I speake now of the 4 point upon the Natures of our saviour Jesus Christ he hath preached unto us two natures but not three and being assembled with the people to examine those which were to answer touching their faith they were warned to keepe them selves from them which attribute 3 natures unto the Sonne of God as if it had beene an execrable thing this happened by reason Another Minister through his greate prudence and knowledge for the safegard and salvation of the people had made a distinction and difference touching the nature of the soule and that of the body I speake not touching the divinity for I beleeve there is not such an Athiest among us which would deny it but I speake of the nature of the dying body and of the nature of the soule scuffleing and striving without Dying those that will either deny th' one or th' other put them selves in great danger of their salvation for wee must have had the one and the other to be fully redeemed he doth preach unto us alsoe that one must confesse all kind of truth altough it should be against ones owne honour upon paine of eternall damnation yet Gods word doth give us knowledge what kinde of truth wee must confesse a truth for the advancement of his Glory and the good of our neighbour alsoe when charity doeth require it but there is such truth that would be hurtfull if it weare knowne and also the word of God doth forbid it this commeth neere the Oricullar confession we have understood in one of his prayers that our sinnes do offend God but they do not endanger the king Chap 12.25 verse against which wee read in the first booke of Samuel the Prophet warneth the people saying but if ye shall still doe wickedly yee shall be consumed both ye and your king I will yet set downe a thing which unto my thinking is blasphemy in saying that God is a Robber Chap 1.21 verse Job useth an other manner of speaking in saying the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord in the Proverbes the wise doth shew us that he that robbeth the poore afflicted the Lord wil pleade their cause and will spoile the soule of those that spoile them Chap. 22.23 verse by which words he doth give us to understand that the wicked shall not remaine unpunished and as such measure with he measureth he shall be like as wise measured with but shall our God be called a Robber therefore hath hee not at his command both the Robber and their Robberry without being called by that name a fearefull thing to understand these are the points which I have put forth to the end one should not mistake ownes selfe soe I will end and returne to my beginning which is unto the good deed of the woman because it derived from thence that Judas tooke occasion to commit his abominable deed if on these dayes a woman should commit or doe a good deed it should not be the cause that Christ should be betrayed Mark 14. c. v. 10. for he is no more subject unto such treason neither could that miserable Judas do it for hee is in his place it should be the woman then that should beare the punishment but what should be that punishment even the privation of the Sacrament and afterward excommunication but all this is not hurtfull unto the faithfull soule the corporall hand will find som hindrance therein but I will say with an Auncient Father wherefore makest thou thy teeth and mouth ready beleeve onely and thou shalt eat Christ it shall be the faith then which shall benifite her selfe therein I say that poore faith although weake and feeble being sustained by the spirit of fortification will be ready for this action shee wil keepe her 2 hands cleane the one to receive Christ unto her and the other to give her selfe unto him those two hands will have as much freedome as that which did write upon the wall I have heere written what I have said if one doeth say more they are false accusations but one must have patience to these things is the faithfull Christian bound these things have bin done unto the greene wood what will be done unto the dry those that doe Read this I intreate them to excuse mee untill the time of my Excommunication of the which I am threatned and then I wil write more if my God doth permit What I have written is not to dishnour the holly Ministeri to whom I am bound in dutyfull respect and obedience but I say that the word of God doeth command us not to hearken unto the Embassadour that publisheth not the message that his King hath enioyned him By me the Wife of MICHAEL le CLERCQ The Wallons CONSISTORIE and their SUSPENTION COnsidering that my opressions and greevances do increase from day to day by the furie of those that have taken me in hatred without a cause I would not faile of my promise because a while agoe I had given to understand the occasion of my troubles with promise to write more at the continuation of them but it seemeth unto som that what is written by a