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B12171	The voluntarie conuersion and seuerall recantations, of foure great learned men, professed fryers in sundry monasteries of Fraunce, from the errours of idolatrie and poperie, to the true religion established in the Reformed Church. 1. Master Iohn Le Vager, a priest in the Romane Church, conuerted at Mauns, Ianuary 6. 2. Master Iohn Forent, a fryer Carmelite, in the Court of Morthemard, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Poictiers, Iune, 9. 3. Master Denis Boucher, a Franciscane fryer, in the couent of Noisy, neere Paris, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Paris, Iuly. 6. 4. Master Daniell Dusert, Franciscan fryer at Mello, conuerted in the Church of Mello, December, 22. All conuerted this last yeare, 1603. as their seuerall discourses following at large doe testifie, vnder their owne hands. Truely translated, out of the French printed copies.		1604 (1604)	STC 5650; ESTC S114587	31,204	52

it selfe before me which is of no lesse weight and substance and that is it which Saint Iohn saith Whosoeuer transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God He that cōtinueth in the doctrine of Christ hee hath both the Father and the Sonne If there come any to you and bring not this doctrine receiue him not into your house neither bid him God speede 2. Iohn 9. 10. And Saint Paule saith Though wee or an Angell from Heauen doe preach vnto you otherwise then that which wee haue preached vnto you let him bee accursed c. Galat. 1. 8. 9. The Church of Rome hath not continued in the doctrine of Christ but hath announced receiued another Gospell contrarie to that which the Apostles preached Therefore shee hath not God shee ought not to be receiued nor acknowledged nor yet to be saluted but held as execrable and accursed Wherefore then if she haue not God she is not the Church of God euen no more then the bodie of a man when the soule is separated from it can then be called or said to be a man If also she be accursed she is not the Church of God because the Church of God is euermore blessed and therefore whosoeuer will bee saued ought necessarily to forsake her and ranke himselfe there where God abideth It shall be easie for mee to approue the assumption of this argument by the conference of the doctrine of Iesus Christ which the Apostles preached with that which the Pope and all his doctors and preachers Romanists doe holde and preach in the Church of Rome and I wil begin at the very foūdation of the Church The doctrine Apostolical teacheth Other foundation can no man lay then that which is laide which is Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 3. 11. Whereupon himselfe was desirous to build his Church saying Vpon this Rock which is Christ the stone which the Romane builders haue aswell refused as the Iewes did will I build my Church Math. 16. 18. The Church of Rome hath taken her selfe from vnder this foundation and will needes bee grounded on that of Saint Peter But I referre to their opinion who cannot bee so vnprouided of iudgement how well the Church should bee defended against the powers of hell if shee had not a more solide foundation then that of Saint Peter who at the voice of a silly young mayden was in such sort shaken as all that was builded on him was neere hand ouerturned If so weak a winde did totter that foundation what then could the terrible stormes do which Sathan and his Angels which are the powers of the ayre vented out of hell against the Church of God The Apostles taught That wee are saued and iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus by Faith in his bloud Rom. 3. 24. 25. And not by workes least any man should boast himselfe Ephes 2. 8. 9. which are the three causes of our iustification and saluation the efficient whereof is the grace or mercie of God the materiall is Iesus Christ in his bloude and the instrumentall faith in him The Church of Rome doth dogmatise the quite contrarie that wee may acquire iustice and Paradise by our good works and be iustified before God by them The doctrine Apostolicall testifieth That by the bloude of Christ wee are redeemed 1. Pet. 1. 19. Apoc. 5. 9. purged Hebre. 1. 3. washed and cleansed from all our sinnes Iohn 1. 29. Apoc. 1. 6. The Church of Rome holdes that wee may redeeme our sinnes by almes fastings pilgrimages celebration of Masses and such like thinges That there is another purgatory beside the bloud of Christ whereby hee satisfied to GOD for the paines which were due vnto vs and wherein wee are purged cleansed and washed from all soyle of sinne to appeare pure and vnpolluted before the face of God The same doctrine of the Apostles proposeth vnto vs one sole Mediatour Aduocate and Intercessour betweene God men to gaine grace and remission of their sinnes to wit Iesus Christ 1. Tim. 2. 5. 1. Iohn 2. 1. the Church of Rome doth attribute this office to Saints The Apostles taught that before the comming of Iesus Christ there were many Priests or sacrificers made because by death they were impeached from enduring so succeeded one another But Iesus Christ because he endureth euer hath an euerlasting Priesthode Hebre. 7. 23. 24. and because he had no neede of any successour therefore there was no neede also to offer daily sacrifices for sinne For he did it once for all offering vp himselfe and by this oblation onely the efficacie wherof is daily recent before God he hath consecrated to perpetuitie those that shal be saued He. 9. 10. The Romane Church holds the Pope for soueraigne sacrificer as if Christ to whom this office onely appertaineth were dead and he of necessitie ought to be his successour She acknowledgeth also all the Priests of Popery not only to be sacrificers whose office shee faith is daily to offer sacrifice in the Masse for the sins of the liuing and of the dead but likewise O blasphemie aboue all blasphemies the most execrable she cals them creatours of the Creator Stella clericorum The Apostles deliuered testimonie That Christ was the Prince of Pastors and Prince of the Kings vpon earth 1. Pet. 5. 2. 4. Apoc. 1. 5. Attributing to him the soueraigne authoritie as well spiritually ouer the Church as temporally ouer the kingdomes vpon earth expressely allowed and giuen him the Father The heathen for thine inheritance and all the ends of the earth for possession Psal 2. 8. himselfe also declaring when he was to ascend vp into heauen that all power is giuen vnto me both in heauen and earth The Church so much as in her lyeth despoyleth him of this authoritie and giues it to the beast mounted vpon the earth which representeth the Pope acknowledging him to haue two hornes like vnto those of the Lambe Apoc. 13. 11. to wit soueraigne authoritie spiritual ouer the Church when she proclaimeth him vniuersall head of the Church soueraigne high Priest prince of Bishops receiuing the lawes ordinances proceeding from the Dragon preferring them before those of Iesus Christ who proceeded from the eternall Father Shee hath also graunted him soueraine authoritie temporall ouer the Kingdoms of the earth in regard she beleeueth that it is in his power to dispossesse kings of their thrones and to giue them to others that all kings doe hold their Realmes by faith and homage to the Sea of Rome and that the Emperour himselfe ought not to be held as a lawfull Emperour if hee be not first approued confirmed by the said Sea that he haue first acknowledged made ordinarie submissions to the beast adored him and falling downe before his feete kissed his Pantofle The Apostles taught That such as prayed in a strange tongue not vnderstanding the same although they prayed in spirit yet their intelligence was

THE VOLVNTARIE CONVERSION AND SEVERALL RECANTATIons of foure great learned men professed Fryers in sundry Monasteries of Fraunce FROM THE ERROVRS OF IDOLATRIE and Poperie to the true Religion established in the Reformed Church 1. Master Iohn Le Vager a Priest in the Romane Church conuerted at Mauns Ianuary 6. 2. Master Iohn Forent a Fryer Carmelite in the Couent of Morthemard conuerted in the Reformed Church of Poictiers Iune 9. 3. Master Denis Boucher a Franciscane Fryer in the Couent of Noisy neere Paris conuerted in the Reformed Church of Paris Iuly 6. 4. Master Daniell Dusert a Franciscan Fryer at Mello conuerted in the Church of Mello December 22. ¶ All conuerted this last yeare 1603. as their seuerall discourses following at large doe testifie vnder their owne hands Truely translated out of the French printed Copies ¶ Imprinted at London by Richard Bradocke for W. Iones dwelling at the signe of the Gun neere Holborne Conduit and are to be solde by W. Aspley in Paules Church-yard 1604. TO HIS WORTHILIE RESPECTED KINDE FRIEND Master George Gibson Citizen and Marchant Taylor of London IN regard of your many kindnesses and no other meanes remaining in mee of requitall except such as my condition alloweth I send you this small labour of mine being the seuerall conuersions of foure learned men from Popish errour and blinde superstition The fame of them hath beene farre extended in regard of the learned handling of each discourse which vpon consideration I am sure good iudgements both haue and will confesse no lesse I desire you to accept my good will and burie all defects in the honestie of mine intent toward you till better occasion may afford me a larger measure of loue on your behalfe This should haue been accōpanied with another excellent Treatise of a great Duchesses conuersion in the kingdome of France a learned Epistle of hers to her Lord and husband declaring her souls high comfort in her forsaking Idolatry and the maine Paradoxes of Popery very learnedly discouered but wanting leasure in regard of other very serious imployments I am enforced to let it rest till more apt opportunitie But I hope within short time to perfect it which then shall helpe to supply what wanteth in this toward you Till when as heretofore so shall I still remaine your poore wel-wishing friend any way by you to be vsed or commanded A PROFESSION OF FAITH MADE IN THE reformed Church of MAVNS the sixt day of Ianuary 1603. by Master IOHN LE VAGER sometimes a Priest in the Church of Rome AS it is vndoubtedly true that God most powerfully by his infinite goodnesse hath called vs all to the knowledge of his holy name to be his people and his Church whereon only he hath bestowed the treasures of his mercies and out of which there is no saluation at all so certainly if wee be desirous of this goodnesse and would participate of his blessings and mercies it behooueth vs to trauaile and study in the search of this Church to ioyne and incorporate our selues into the same And therefore let vs not imitate the heretique EVTICHVS who saide That as he had learned of his Fathers and beleeued in the Faith wherein he Concil Calced Act. 2. was borne euen so hee desired to dye Or as AVXENTIVS the Arrian who said That as he had learned from his infancie so Hillarius in 1. Epist ad Aux hee beleeued and would doe still Or as the Iewes thus speaking to Ieremie Wee and our Fathers haue done thus Or as our aduersaries Ier. 44. 17. at this day doe who tels vs that thus our fathers liued and beleeued To all which God thus answered by his Prophet Ezechiel Walke not yee in the ordinances of your Fathers neither obserue their waies nor defile your selues with their Ezech. 20. 18. 19. Idols I am the Lord your God walke in my Statutes and keepe my iudgements and doe them Search the Scriptures saith our Iohn 5. 39. Sauiour Christ to the Iewes And in the Gospel of S. Matthew also foretelling vs of the euil times which now are come vpon vs he doth aduertise vs that there shall be a desolation and reuolt in his Church and that many false Prophets shall arise who Math. 24. 11. shall come disguised in sheepes cloathing as now adaies wee see the like doone by our Monkes Capuchines and Iesuites who disguise themselues in habits of simplicitie of pouerty of sanctitie humilitie and leaue their owne common garments the better to seduce beguile poore simple people who suffer thēseues willingly to be led by their outward appearances according to the example of the ancient hypocritical Pharisies with their Philacteries and outward ceremonies Math. 23. 5. We haue a further admonition yet that when wee see this Math. 24. 5. cōfusion amongst false Prophets they wil say Heere is Christ others there is Christ as these dissemblers now vse to doe saying He is heere vnder the Cabinet in our faire guilded Temples where he yet workes strange miracles See heer the Iewes False miracles among the Fryers in Paris in Italy and elswhere Math. 24 16. Launce that pearced his pretious side it is heere on this Altar See heere a handkercher or napkin coloured with his bloode But I say that God commandeth vs in this confusion of deceiuing Prophets not to beleeue thē but that we should fly to the mountaines By which mountaines he insinuateth vnto vs that we should withdrawe make diligent search in the sacred Scriptures on the foundations whereof hee hath builded his Church So doth saint Iohn Chrysostome instruct speaking vpon that place When yee shal see the abhomination of desolation standing in the holy place the Lord commandeth vs saith he Math. 24. 15. Chrisost in opere imperfect that al Christians such as desire to holde a firmnesse in true faith should retyre themselues to the holy Scriptures for if they goe to any place else they will be scandalized and perish as not vnderstanding what the true Church is and so may easily fall into the abhomination of desolation crept into the holy places of the Church Origen in like manner saith Those soules that are ignorant of Origen in Mat. C. 24. the word of trueth and iustice and by that occasion are easily seduced cannot abide without seduction at the verie sight of the abhomination of desolation in the holy place Saint Hierome likewise saith At the comming of the Messias the people that had slept vnder their teachers enstructions went to the mountains Hierom. in Prophet C. 3. of the Scriptures and there found the old mountaines the mountaines of the Prophets and the mountaines of the new Testament And euen as flesh and bloud hath not reuealed Iesus Christ vnto vs but the Father which is in heauen so ought wee not to seeke for his Church according to our corporal sense but with the eyes of faith in the holy Scriptures wherein God himselfe speakes vnto vs and

abhominations Apoca. 18. 4. and plagues Which I haue done according to my duety and the desire Concerning himselfe I haue of mine owne saluation which is no where offered but in the true Church and that is it which followeth her Spouse wheresoeuer he goes and heares his voice and listens to no strangers that is to say whatsoeuer is beside the doctrine contained in canonicall Scripture For we ought to hold him whosoeuer accursed that shall preach any other Gospell to vs according as Saint Paule aduiseth vs. And we say with TERTVLLIAN to them of the Romish Tertullian Church That they must shew their doctrin written in those canonicall bookes or else let them expect that malediction to fal vpon their heads due to such as eyther adde or diminish from that doctrine For as for other mens traditions whereon their Church is grounded and not vpon the Apostles foundation nor the holy mountaines of sacred Scriptures those traditions are falsly called Apostolicall as Nicephorus whom they haue among Nicephorus in lib. 12. C. 33. 34. 35. them doth plainely approue to them the contrarie in his book the 12. C. 33. 34 35. God open their eyes by the illumination of his holy spirit that they may see the brightnesse of his Gospell to betake themselues to the aforesaide mountaines whereon the true Church is builded and to reforme their doctrine which is to the contrary Giue vs also his grace to perseuer in his sacred vocation to his glorie and our owne saluation Amen Iohn Le Vager FINIS A CHRISTIAN DECLARATION OF IOHN FORENT HEERtofore a religious Fryer of the order of the Carmelites in the Couent of Morthemard and Curate of Castell Lusac Made publickly in the refor med Church of Poictiers on Sunday the 9. of Iune 1603. 2. Cor. 6. 18. Come forth from among the Infidels and separate your selues saith the Lood and touch no vncleane thing And I will receiue you And I will be a Father vnto you and yee shall be my Sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almightie AS all the stones that are to build one house are not brought together in one instant and they likewise laide readie on a heape will hardly serue for the constructure therof til by good and skilfull workemen they be disposed and made meete each one to serue in his due ranke or place Euen so our Lord God doth not gather his elect of whome he buildeth and erecteth his Church all at one instant time or season but according as his prouidence and predestination hath concluded in his eternal counsell and purposed for accōplishment therof in at al times He cals one while some at other seasons others and day by day by his blessed spirit of rude and vnapt members he fashioneth and disposeth them to enter into the building of his sacred Temple whereof his dearely beloued sonne is not onely the foundation whereon it is builded but also the master and corner stone knitting together the two walles of the seuerall people Iewes and Gentiles into one sole building which is his true Church It is now twelue yeares and more since it pleased God to beginne to make mee listen to his inward calling which from one day to another he confirmed to mee by the sacred Scriptures whereby continually hee solicited mee to come out of Babylon and enter into his celestial Sion But vntil this instant there ensued many repugnancies on mine owne behalfe taking it not to be expedient for my saluation for an infinite number of humane considerations and vaine scruples opposed themselues against my desire presuming to counterchecke those iust reasons which the spirit of God suggested to mee and euen like dreadfull Gyants or furious monsters guarding the prison gate wherein I was enclosed gaue me many great apprehensions and still continued me in the terrible assaults euen when I best hoped to escape away from them But in the end it pleased the mercy of him who deigned to chuse me among the number of his liuing stones for entrance into the building of his sanctuarie by little and little to free mee from those feares by assuring my courage arming me with his grace and furnishing me with stones to beate downe the one and with weapons to cut off the heades of the others So that now by the meanes of his ayde and fauour I see mine enemies confoūded my prison doore opened and the way laide wide open for mee to enter into the house of my father Further assuring me that albeit I haue greatly prouoked his anger in so long time of abusing his graces for mine enlargement and therefore I shewed my selfe the more vnworthy to beare the title of his sonne yet that he is so pittifull as he will be mooued in compassion towards mee and allow for acceptable the repentance wherewith he hath touched my heart and so if not as a sonne yet to receiue me into his house as one of his seruants For now I will take no more delight in those spirituall brothelries the pure chastitie of his vndoubted Church hath inuited and drawne me to her communion I will now swallow no more of those bitter-sweete baites which haue so long time abused my taste as now appeareth by this contrarie heauenly sauour I desire in the company of the Children of God to feede on liuing bread in the house of the Lord. The Onions Leekes and Garlike of Aegypt haue seemed most odious and stinking to me since I tasted of the celestiall Manna which the heauens haue rained downe vpon vs. Too long haue I suckt the putrified and venemous blood issuing from the impure dugges of that cruell woman made drunke with the bloode of the Martyres Apoc. 17. 6. High time was it therefore to relish now hence forward the sweete milke distilling from the pure pappes of our dearest mother Too long time hath the deadly cup of abhominations deliuered daily abroad by that horrid strumpet beene ouerlauishly quaffed on now therefore it behooueth the more carefully to experiment the sweete liquour of life in the Cuppe presented to vs by the modest spouse of Iesus Christ Hauing then hitherto borne the heauie burden which the tyranny of Antichriste charged my shoulders withall I holde it reasonable since it hath pleased God so gratiously to deliuer me that all the rest of my life should be imployed thus to lay my neck vnder the sweete and pleasing yoake of the iust rule and gouernment belonging to my legitimate and Soueraigne king And my tongue also which heretofore hath beene loose vnbound to blasphemies as also the preaching of dreames and lyes shall henceforth doe his office in singing the maruels of my God to blesse his holie name in the congregation of his Saints to preach his worde for the edification of his Church if it stand with his good pleasure to render mee worthy and capable thereof and also to giue him thankes for that it hath pleased him after hee gaue me knowledge of his trueth to