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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07101	The loue of the soule Made by G.M.	Martin, Gregory, d. 1582.; Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. Treatyse of Christian peregrination. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 17504; ESTC S105435	10,171	54

and my very louing Sisters I haue giuē you certaine generall markes to learne the true Church To write all were infinite because all bookes are full of our religion I trust hereafter to instruct you in euery point as you would desire and I pray GOD giue you grace that you may desire it All at once would be too tedious in the meane time remember these two thinges When your religion began and by whome how it came at length into England This is the yeare of Christ a thousand fiue hundred eightie and three Luther begane to preach within these fiftie yeares If he preached the truth all before him were deceaued where was the Church of Christ in all the world for a thousand fiue hundred yeares before and how is Christ true of his promise that said I will remaine with you for euer the holy Ghost shal teach you all truth the gates of hell shal not preuail against it But for our Church that is to say the Catholick Church we can shew how it is growne and continued from the Apostles vntill this day and neuer fayled we can recken you from time to time Councels Bishops Doctours infinite numbers of good Christians of all ages that were all of our faith and of our Church Can your Ministers deny but that Saint Chrisostome alloweth praying to Saintes Or that S. Ierome calleth the Bishop of Rome Supreame head of the whole Church vnder Christ Or that S. Austin praied for his mother being dead Or that he honoured the Reliques of S. Steuē Or that S. Gregory saide Masse Or that S. Ambrose saith before the wordes of consecration it is bread and wine but after the wordes are spoken by the Priest it is the very body and blood of Christ or that all Christians in S. Austins time did worship the blessed Sacrament Or that the second Councell of Nice did many hundred yeares alow the vse of Images for the memorie and representation of Christ his Saintes condemning Image breakers Or that Saint Bernard was an Abbot and had Monkes vnder him as in Catholicke Countries now a daies can they denie but that all this is true and dare they deny these vertuous Fathers and Doctors of the Church to be now Saints in heauen O my good Sisters that you could vnderstand their bookes and theire writinges that you might your selues see what they say and what wonderfull men they were endued with the spirite of God exceedingly aboue other euen good men much more then your licentious leaders I doubt not but you would suspect your new Doctors and follow these you shoulde perceaue they had the Scriptures at their fingers ends they knew right well the meaning sense therof night and day by fasting and praier and chaste life beseeching God that they might vnderstand and truely expound his worde O what a difference is there betweene them and these new preachers Sisters I appeale to your consciences whether will you or ought you to trust in the expoundinge of Scripture your yong vnlearned and fleshly ministers or these auncient most skilfull and most vertuous Fathers When Christ saied Take eate this is my Body All these Fathers say and agree that it was his Body in very deed your ministers tell you it was but Bread and Wine When Christ sayed to Peter Thou art Peter that is a rocke on this rocke wil I build my Church Mat. 16. These Fathers say that Peter was made head of the Church and after him all his successors in the See of Roome where Peter was the first Bishop Your Ministers tell you that Peter had no more preheminence then the other Apostles and therfore the Bishoppe of Roome hath no more authoritie then an other Bishop hath Whē Christ said to his Apostles Receaue yee the Holy Ghost what soeuer yee doe loose in earth shall be loosed in heauen what soeuer ye do binde in earth shall be bound in heauen These Fathers say that Christ gaue to his Church autoritie to remitt sinne by the ministrie of the Priest to all such as do truely repent and therefore will haue the people go to confession your ministers haue taken that comfortable Sacrament of Pennance away altogether When Raphael the Angell saith in the twelfth chapter of Tobias That he did offer vp Tobi as praier to Almightie God And when in the second booke of Macchabes the 15. chap. Onias the Priest saith of Ieremie being dead This is hee that prayeth much for his people and for the holy Citty these Fathers say that the Angels and Saintes do pray for vs and that we may pray to them your ministers do not stick to say that these bookes of Toby and the Machabees are scant good Scripture Many other thinges like vnto these I could reckon but I should be too long fearing least I should weary you these fewe are sufficient to giue you to tast of such markes as may shew you the Catholicke Church These and many other greate reasons doe keepe all good Christians within the church These things make so many Catholicks partly to haue suffered death partly to haue died in prison partly to continue in prison so manie yeares partly to forsake theire pleasant countrie theire deere friends and to liue to their conscience among strangers being thought of many worldly men to be very fooles for so doing but they knowright wel that the wisdome of this world is foolishnes before GOD. And Christ saith He that loueth father mother sister brother better than me is not worthy of me Mat. 10. Sisters geue me leaue to tell you somewhat of my selfe not for any bragge but the more to moue you and to giue God all the praise for his great goodnes towards me It pleased my Parents to bring me vp in learning as you knowe as I was not the best so I was at all times not counted the worst amongst my fellowes and companions some small estimation I had in Oxford aboue my desert more afterwardes when it pleased the Duke to make me though vnworthy Tutor to the Earle his sonne as long as his grace did prosper I liued in his house to my conscience without trouble when he was in the Tower and other men ruled his house I was willed to receiue the Communion or to depart if I woulde haue yeelded I had very large offers which I need not tell It pleased God to stay me so with his grace that I chose rather to forsake all then to doe against my beleefe against my knowledge against my conscience against the lawe of Almightie God For a time I lay secretlie in England afterwardes I came beyond the Seas into these Catholicke countries out of schisme and heresie for the which I doe thanke Almightie GOD much more then for all the estimation that I had or might haue had in England Whatsoeuer my estate is heere I doe more esteeme it then all the riches of England as it now standeth And were I so