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A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

by the mouth of Saint Paul Therefore being iustified by faith we haue peace with God Which of the ancient Fathers haue constantly maintained any other Purgatorie whereby our soules should be purged before they enter into Heauen but the blood of our Lord and Sauiour who as Saint Paul speaketh By himselfe purged our sinnes Who as Saint Iohn speaketh Loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes by his owne blood And Paul againe If the blood of Bulles and Goates and the ashes of an Heiser sprinkling the vncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the bloude of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God Who euer of the Ancients for the first fiue hundred nay sixe hundred yeares did beleeue or teach that the Bishop of Rome is the head of the vniuersall Church hauing power to depriue Kings of their Kingdomes to assoile Subiects from their sworne Allegiance and to dispense with Vowes lawfully made vnto God to admit whom he please into the catalogue of Saints to impose lawes vpon the vniuersal Church to pardon sinnes as a Iudge to set free foules out of Purgatorie to pronounce absolute and supreame iudgement without all possibility of appeale in matters appertaining vnto Faith so that he may auouch himselfe to bee out of all hazard of errour and heereupon that he might lawfully bee called by the high style of diuine Maiestie the Spouse of the Church and a god vppon earth This and much more to that purpose was eloquently vrged in the hearing of my saide Brother by Maister Falcarius cutting downe the tares of errours by the sharpe sickle of his Arguments whereby he drew teares from my Brothers eyes And yet all this notwithstanding when my Brother did see mee so firmely setled in the Religion which I haue now vndertaken that hee could no whit preuaile to draw me backe about foure dayes after he returned homeward full of sorrow together with my Cosen no lesse loaden with greefe my selfe the while with dry eyes and chearefull spirit beholding them at their departure Two yeeres after this I tooke the degree of Batchelar in Physicke in the famous Vniuersity of Monpelier and three yeeres after that hauing employed my time in studying and practising Physicke I was promoted Doctor in that faculty in the flourishing Vniuersitie of Valence in Daulphinee not in the ordinary cursory forme but passing the rigor of examination as appeareth by my Testimoniall Letters Hauing taken this degree I practised Physicke neere vnto Monpelier and in other parts of France being rewarded by publique pension and whereof I boast not with good measure of reputation So that by the blessing of God to whom onely be the honor I atchieued many cures of diseases hard to be iudged of and almost vncurable Whilst I practised Physique at Saint Giles neere Nismes Nismes Arles and Arles vpon publique pension there did betide me that which I am willing to relate for Gods glory There preached in that Citie a certaine Iudaite I should prophane the most blessed name if I should stile that sect by the name of Iesuite a man eloquent enough but aboue measure clamorous and spitefull against those of the Reformed religion This man by name Rampala in his Sermon vpon All Saints day expounding the answere made vpon that question of S. Iohn Who are those that are clothed in white robes Reuel 7.8.9 13. and whence came they These are they which came out of great tribulation and washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lambe Heere Sir Rampala layeth about him in this manner O my beloued soules take heede lest ye be seduced consider I pray you the answer of the Angel he saith not It was use the Angel but one of the Elders these are they which came out of faith onely which is the Doctrine of the Hugonots so they call the Reformed Christians in France but which came out of great Tribulation Let vs not therefore bee Infidels like the Hugonots among whom there is no Sacrament to be found no repentance no good workes which last wordes this valiant Actor thundred out with shamelesse confidence and set them forth with the Theatricall Ornament of clapping his handes one against the other After Sermon three or foure Papists of my acquaintance asked me how I liked this Rampala wherto I answered that hee might be an eloquent man but surely he was vterly ignorant of our confession of faith which is euident in that he imputed to vs a Doctrine cleane contrary to that which we professe Forsooth we haue neuer a Sacrament What a lowde lye is this we haue both the Sacraments which were instituted by our Sauiour Baptisme the holy Supper but as for the other fiue which the Church of Rome calleth Sacraments vpon her owne inuention we deeme them no better then bastards He said that we haue no repentance This is very false We beleeue the Gospell enioyning repentance in those words Luke 13 3 Mat. 3.2 Vnlesse ye repent ye shall perish and againe Repent for the Kingdome of heauen is at hand Our Ministers do daily inculcate vnto vs these words of the Gospell Exhorting vnto repentance and requiring the same He said that we make noaccount of goodworks This is a meere slander We beleeue with Bernard that good works are the way to the Kingdome of Heauen but not the cause of our reigning in that Kingdome Lib. 4. de Iusti cap. 1. Wee acknowledge this your Master Bellarmine acknowledgeth by vs that good workes are necessary vnto saluation not that they are the efficient or meritorious causes thereof for the free mercy of God for the merits of Christs passion by faith in him doth procure and bring forth that saluation in vs but because they doe testifie the same and are liuely euidences thereof Nay moreouer we beleeue that iustifying faith cannot by any meanes subsist without good workes which if they be wanting in any man we with Saint Iames the Apostle call his faith a dead faith Iam. 2.20.27 Rampala when it was told him what I had said became my enemy hated me The Gouernor of that City being an honest an learned Gentleman and though himselfe following the Popish parts neither a persecuter nor a contemner of those of the Reformed Religion intreated me to come to his garden and to bring with me some one of my own Religion that there I might confesse with Rampala either by opposing or answering I answered the said Gouernour that I tooke kindely his offer and would be ready to encounter Rampala there Accordingly I came accompanyed with one whom I chose of the Reformed Religion by name Master Marcot an Apothecary a learned honest and zealous man there we expected Rampala diuers times to meet vs in that field but no Rampala appeared It seemeth his stomacke serued him not to enter the lists or

call vpon him if all places did not ring againe with his name nay if this Saintling did not beat and banish out of the Churches not onely God and Christ which perhaps seemeth a small matter to the Romanists but also the Virgin Mary her selfe Francis and Anthony and all the rest of the Saints of the higher forme Charles the Emperor who of old was called Charles the Great because he vanquished the Saracens must now come downe and be called Charles the little in comparison of this new Charles Borrhomaeus who thus triumpheth hauing put to flight not his enemies but his friends and fellow-Saints And why may not we thus by way of reprehension mocke at the common mockery of the world but now it is time for me to awaken out of this extasie I remained in Rome about a Month all which while still me thought I heard the voyce of Christ saying vnto me Come forth come forth out of Babylon I come out on Gods name and passe ouer to Mompelier where God shewed me his aboundant mercie in the middest of his Church and strengthened my heart with the grace of his holy spirit So that eight yeares sithence I there put off my Monkish cowle and abiuring the grosse errors of the Romish Church I did publikly embrace the vndefiled faith of the true and Reformed Religion not without the expresse ioy of in a manner all that City And because I could not then speake the French tongue I did by the aduice of all the Pastors there apply my selfe not to the holy ministery which my losse I yet with many sighes deplore but vnto my olde intermitted study of Physicke But behold while I was thus sayling in the depths of Hyppocrates and Galen a violent tempest ouertaketh me and that was this My Father a man spent with age being fourescore yeeres olde and taking it very heauily that I had fled to the enemies of faith and heretiques so they dreamingly deeme of vs sent to Monpelier one of my elder Brethren together with a Cosen Germane of mine Priest both who for the space of eight daies did beleager mee first with faire intreaties and plentifull teares then with Arguments drawne from Diuinity and Philosophy thirdly by rewards and offers of worldly goods lastly by threats and terrible obiurgations to beate mee off from my found intent and holy resolution I think it not amisse heere to relate their language Thou hast said they twelue Neeces now mariageable which will neuer get husbands so long as thou remainest an hereticke for those who before were willing to marry them now start backe saying God forbid that we should take to wife those that are a-kin to an Hereticke Returne returne to our religion if not for conscience for we know that you are a lerned man and haue not rashly nor without shew of reason left vs yet for the honor of our stocke and blood which thou hast branded with the foule spot of infamy by forsaking the Romane Church embracing a new religion which with all the Professors thereof for they are but a few in number the King of Spaine is resolued to abolish and ruinate Returne therefore to the holy Mother Church at least for the loue and reuerence you owe to our aged Father who euer sithence the time hee heard that you were become an hereticke lieth sicke and bed-ridde pining away with griefe and sorrow Heereto I answered as became a Christian But because they would giue mee no patient audience nor affoord themselues any time to weigh my answer I vsed a very honest slight to bring my brother to the house of Falcarius a very worthy Minister of Gods Word who for the space of an whole houre did make a cleere demonstration of the falsehood of the Romish religion and truth of the Reformed out of the Tenets of them both My brother making obiection of nouelty against the Reformed religion and want of Calling and of Antiquity in Caluin and Beza and other such like Pastors M. Falcarius according to his admirable faculty made answere Sir What Religion call you new ours you are farre wide Our Religion is the most ancient if the Gospell of our Sauiour if the Epistles of Paul and of other the Apostles in a word if the new Testament if the Prophets and the whole old Testament do teach the true religiō needs must you confess that our religion is most ancient for we beleeue nothing but that which wee reade in the old and new Testament that which is drawen thence by necessary consequence Call your Religion I pray you call it new For almost euery Pope when hee commeth new into the Chaire doth impose vpon you new precepts and traditions taken out of his vnwritten word to bee beleeued and awefully obserued by you vnder paine of mortall sinne and what lawes one Pope layeth vpon you to be kept as soone as hee is gone his way by disease or by poyson another doth cancell Mat. 26. Paul 1 Cor. 11. Is not the Communion vnder both kinds very ancient being instituted by our Sauiour himselfe We with the primitiue Church and with the most ancient Fathers doe retaine the same and acknowledge both kindes to be necessary to the essence of this Sacrament Is not the worship of idols and images a new thing and forbidden very instantly in the second Commandement of the decalogue We obey this diuine prohibition but ye obey the Pope commanding adoration of Images against the expresse Word of God Is not the doctrine of Transubstantiation a nouelty crept into the Romane Church not aboue foure hundred yeeres agoe This we constantly reiect because it is repugnant to Gods word implieth a thousand contradictions and maketh those to be Idolaters that are at Masse Those words in the Scripture This is my body are to be vnderstood in the same sense and manner with those That Rocke was Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 that is to say a Sacramentall pledge whereby Christ was represented and exhibited to them Or as those words of the Patriarch Ioseph expounding Pharaohs dreame Gen. 41. v. 26. Those seauen faire kine are seauen yeeres Where the word Are is by the consent of all the Doctors taken for signifie The same Patriarch expounding the dreame of Pharaohs Butler Gen. 40.12 Those three branches are three dayes that is doe signifie them when as the Scripture saith Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular are we therefore transubstantiated into the very body of Christ are not these speeches spiritually to bee vnderstoode hereto may be added that the Hebrew tongue hath no verbe which signifieth to signifie and therefore instead thereof vseth the verbe substantiue Sum. Therefore our Sauiour speaking vulgarly could not say this signifieth my body but instead thereof said This is my body Which of the Fathers that florished the first fiue hundred yeeres after Christ did euer beleeue that we are iustified by the works of the Law and not by Faith as the holie Ghost speaketh