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Of romanizing recusants, and dissembling Catholicks. A counter-maund of a counterfeit embassage. Or, An answer to the posthume pamphlet of Ralfe Buckland sometime a popish priest secretly printed and published after his death about a yeere a goe.
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Sanderson, Thomas, 1560 or 61-1614.
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stubbornlie to the superstitious Novelties of their late fore-fathers faith who haue departed from the rule of my Religion whereinto their first christened Ancestors were converted by mine Apostles and their Coadjutors And wherein all their godly Predecessors both vertuously liued and happilie died before the patcheries of your Poperie came in They haue a shadow and shew of some late praecedent generations but the soundnes of Antiquitie from the purer times and truly Apostolicall who so ever sifteth their Moderne faith shal find they haue not for all their great cracks and brags Tertullianâ— de praescript aduersus haereses See Iude. Vers 3. And so Tertullian the ancieÌ„t spake well in that Dominicum verum quod prius traditum extraneum falsum quod posterius immissum The truth of the Lord was first deliuered to the Saints but forraine falshood crept in afterwards The false Embassador THese are they which nourish the sparkes of that fire which I came downe to kindle on earth c. Recusants highly to be commeÌ„ded for their zeale The Lord Christ THey are not praise worthie that praise themselues 2. Cor. 10.18 but they whome I the Lord doe praise Now I doe not allow your proude vaunting of your selues I know your workes and your waies that they are full of wickednes and hypocrisie Are you the men that nourish the fire which I came downe to cause to burne on Earth Luc. 12.49 No no yee know not of what spirit you are Luc. 9.55 For with the furious fire of a blind zeale which burneth in your breasts haue ye not inveÌ„ted kindled a subterraneal sulphureous fire to quench the light of Israell in this Realme and all the goodlie shining lampes thereof to the everlasting memorie of your perpetuall all shame Then at that time did you shew how you doe maintaine and vphold that my Law Exod. 20.13 Thou shalt doe no murder How so ever you presume of the rest when you intended attempted the most barbarous The Gunpowder treason tyranicall vnheard-of and Satanicall destruction of King Queene Prince and all the States the beautie and honour of this Kingdome in an hower Oh yee sonnes of Balaam and of Balack yee bastard generation and yee monsters of Moab Let my people sing Faux of Moab is destroyed and brought to silence in a night Piercie Catesbie and the rest of Moab are destroyed Ier. 48.10 and brought to silence in an jnstant And cursed shall hee bee that doth the worke of the Lord negligentlie or vnfaithfullie and with-holdeth his sword from the bloud of all the brood of Moab when her time and judgement shall be come For doe you glorifie my name that glorie in such workes being sorie for nothing more Papists sorie that the Gunpowder treason tooke no better effect Luk. 5. â—2 Ioh. 2.25 then that it hath not taken your wished and prayed for effect Dissemble it no longer for I know you hearts Therefore shall you be dishonoured for ever and the jndeleble blot of your noted infamie shall never be put out you shall be known for a spotted and pestilent generation so long as the world endureth Goe to now yee stars in the night yee greene Bayes in the winter yee fresh fountaines in the Deserts No no yee know your titles in mine Apostle Iude ve 12.13 in the Gospell well enough Cloudes without water carried about with euery wind whiff of vaine jmaginations Wells and pits dryed in the deserts barraine fig-trees if yee be greene in the midst of Sommer when the Winter cometh corrupt trees twice dead and plucked vp by the rootes wandring Starres fallen out of the jnferior heaven for whome is reserued the blacknes of darknes for euer For to be short ye walke in darknes and know not whither yee goe flatter not your selues your own sectaries doe not beleeue much lesse do they confesse that ye do well and your vowed enemies my true and faithfull servants and friends the English Protestants long agoe haue learned of me to repute and range you in the rancke of those who stand assuredlie in the state of condemnation The false Embassador Schismaticks haue no part with Recusants neither are of the same Church WIth these you may wish to consort in conscience To partake in profession of faith Yee may in bare tearmes auouch as much but shall neuer with reason be able to make it good c. The Lord Christ IF they haue no part with you how happie are they If they consort in conscience and partake in profession of a false beleefe with you they haue no part in me no part in Heaven but they most justly and aboundantlie deserue vnto themselues the vengeance of eternall fire â—ome out froÌ„ Recusants yee staggering Papists If they will come from among you wholie both in conversation and in Religion and follow mee faithfullie with my true professors serving me nor in the oldnes of the Letter with a servile feare Rom. 7.6 but in the newnes of the Spirit out of thankefulnes in loue from a pure heart a good conscience 1. Tim. 1 5. and Faith vnfained comming out from the Babel of your Superstitions Atheisines and Apostasies let them never care for your defectiue and infected merites For the kingdome of Heaven belongeth vnto mee by a double right Enheritance and Purchase In the one Bernard I was borne vnto it in the other I haue perfectlie deserved it through obedience and sprinckling of my precious and meritorious bloud 1. Pet. 1.2 and I will giue it them if they can apprehend it by a true and liuelie faith Rom. 4.4 c Ephe. 2.8.9 2. Cor. 7.1 without regard of any other merite provided alwaies if they doe their best without hypocrisie to walke before mee in righteousnes and true holines all the daies of their life Ephe. 4. â—4 Luk. 1.75 But ye perverted Runnagates because ye are become perverse Recusants and the shameles Apostates of my Church of England returne I advise you returne into my fold els I must saie vnto you as I spake vnto the Pharisees of old how can yee escape the damnation of Hell Mat. 23. â—â— The false Embassador Schismaticks are not Catholicks ANd are you indeed aske the Recusant and he reiecteth you aske the Persecutor and hee imbraceth you not Aske the Saints and Angels and they abhorr you I neuer yet tooke you for seruant of mine c. The Lord Christ. YOur meaning is your miscalled Schismaticks are not Romane Catholicks What if that be granted are they aught the worse But let me heare the proofe Aske the Recusants aske the persecutors you meane the Protestants aske the Saints and Angels and you adde of me I neuer yet tooke them for seruants of mine What opinion Recusants carrie of them neither doe they greatlie neither will I that they should at all regard The Protestants finding theÌ„ in their pauilions yet not acquainted
end is to be burned Your vnsavoury comparisons of the smale worme and contemptible Iuye are more agreeable vnto your selues Such eating vermins are your Iesuits that neble at my goodly vyne such clasping Iuye sucking out the sap of this my noble Plant and Tree which in my Paradise of England myne owne right hand hath Planted hedged and defenced Therefore as you counsell and commaund them in my name so do I with this onely difference that not the Protestants but you and your Church are in mine accompt the Haereticks the Babylon the Korahs companie and the Sodome And I would haue both them and you to know that as I am the mightie God and Sauiour of the world so that all my counsels are commaunds Among your selues the sonnes of men yee haue a Rule and men of wisedome haue great regard vnto it Potentiores cum rogant iubent And can you then jmagine that whatsoeuer I aduize must not carrie with it the force of a Commaund This then I say and commaund vnto your Schismaticks dissembling papists false-hearted catholicks Hypocrits weaklings Newters terme them what yee will be they as they are Phil. 3.1 to whome you haue directed this Embassage Beware of Dogs beware of euill workers beware of the Concision Flee the felowship of Romane Haereticks be not jnfected with the leuen of their Doctrine goe out of Babell come out from amoÌ„g them be yee separated and touch no vncleane thing no Idols no shrines no reliques no wafer-gods or the like I will receaue you Yf ye will not perish in the error of Balaam and the gaine-saying of Korah if yee will come from Antichrist and his Adhaerents myne Aduersaries camp and dwell among my Chosen if yee will loue me embrace and learne my true religion which they profes 2. Cor. 6.17.18 I wil be a Father vnto you and yee shal be my Sonnes and Daughters I am the Lord Almighty The Lords Conclusion HEtherto yee wicked Impes of antichrist I haue vouchsafed to lay abroad your folly and jmpiety in your owne vaine and even in mine owne words to controwle and Counter-mand your false Embassage and blasphemous Message which you haue divulged as from my selfe To the end that all the world may know how greatly I detest how deeply I abhorr your whoorish and even devilish jmpudency to abuse my person and breath out blasphemies in my sacred name Now because I see you reele and tumble backe againe into your former accusations of obstinacy and jngratitude to God of jmpugning the Catholick Faith § â—3 34.35.36 c. of greiuously abusing God and in all the rest of your declamation onely reason with them how they can excuse themselues from this your jmputation of joyning with my true professors alleadging many colours pretenses and excuses as ye suppose of this their fact whether they be guilty or no they are in this poynt wise and able and old enough let them answere for themselues If they answere you syncerely that the loue of truth hath drawne them herevnto never blame them any more For mine Apostle by my spirit hath commanded 1 Thes 5.21 1. Ioh. 4.1 Try all keepe the good Another Trie the Spirits whether they be of God or no. Prouided alwayes that they be not euer learning 2. Tim. 3.7 and neuer come to the knowledge of the Truth But if they do indeed as you haue layd the load vpon their consciences dissemble only tell a time shall serue to vnmaske themselues with me their God Lord with the world Alas alas are they such fooles to walke in Darkenes in my sight For the Darknes is no Darkenes to me Psal 139.12 the Darkenes and light to me are both alike But let them answere for themselues because yee doe prouoke them and I wil be the Arbitrator betweene you both For I will surely Iudge both them and you and all the world Iu. ep vers 14 15. at mine jllustrious Apparition in the Clouds when I shall come with Thousands of my Saints and I will giue sentence against all men and will take vengeance and rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds which they haue vngodly committed and of all their cruell speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against me FINIS Jgnatius epist 6. ad Philadel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Brethren be not deceiued if any man follow him that deuideth him-selfe from the truth he shall not inherit the Kingdome of God And yf any man withdraw not himselfe from a false teaching or a lying Preacher he shall be condemned into Hell For neither ought we to depart from the godly neither to haue conuersation with the vngodly