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A13641 Texeda retextus: or The Spanish monke his bill of diuorce against the Church of Rome together with other remarkable occurrances.; Hispanus conversus. English Tejeda, Fernando de, fl. 1623. 1623 (1623) STC 23923; ESTC S118367 21,226 44

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which inclosedst him in thy womb whom the heauens could not containe Pray for vs. Thou which onely didst bring forth without sorrow Pray for vs. Thou which didst breake the head of the craftie Serpent Pray for vs. Thou who firmely didst retain faith in his passion Pray for vs. Thou whose body saw no corruption Pray for vs. Thou who art assumed into heauen in thy glorified body Pray for vs. Thou that art exalted aboue the quire of Angels Pray for vs. Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Sonne of God Pray for vs. Thou that reconcilest vnto vs God angry with vs Pray for vs. Thou that art called on by a thousand attributes and titles Pray for vs. Be thou fauourable vnto vs Heare vs Lady From euill and the danger of euill Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy immaculate conception Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy holy Natiuity Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy comfortable Annunciation Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy ioyfull visitation Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy most pure purification Defend vs. By thy glorious Ascention Defend vs. By thy triumphant Coronation Defend vs. and afterward That thou wouldest bee pleased to grant concord and peace to thy whole Church We beseech thee to heare vs. And beneath O Daughter of the high God Defend vs. Thou that art the Mother of the Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the world We beseech thee to heare vs. Thou that art the Spouse of the Holy Ghost We beseech thee to helpe vs. An Encomiasticall Letanie to the blessed Virgine the Mother of GOD gathered out of the sacred Scriptures and holy Authors First of all sung in the great Church of the Citie Valentia when as the holy Image of that Virgine named Del Puig famous and renowned for her frequent miracles both on Land and Sea in the time of Warre and Peace was brought in great state into Valentia at that time when as the inuincible Armada was sent to inuade England which was on the 17. day of Iuly being Sunday in the yeere of our Lord God 1588. VVEe beseech thee to heare vs sinners that thou wouldest obtaine true repentance for vs. We beseech thee that thou wouldest take care to preserue the Apostolicke See and all the orders of the Clergie in the true Religion We beseech thee that allaying all stormes thou wouldest conduct * What successe and effect this prayer had ●ide the Christmas hangings in the great Chamber at Thue-hall safely the Catholicke Fleet of the Catholicke King to the much desired and wished-for Hauen We beseech thee that thou wouldest grant victofry to the Catholicke Fleet of the Catholicke King ouer most barbarous and sauage heretickes We beseech thee to enlarge those Christians that are still oppressed with the yoke and tyranny of the English that they may freely professe their faith and conscience We beseech thee that thou wouldest astonish and smite the hearts of the stubborne and obstinate heretickes of England with feare and trembling We beseech thee that thou wouldest giue wisedome and courage to those faithfull souldiers that fight for the Catholicke faith We beseech thee that thou wouldest cause those holy Churches which are either vtterly ruinated or impiously prophaned to be re-edified and restored to the honour of God and to the honor of holy men and women That thou wouldest be instant with God by prayer that the kingdome of England the darkenes of blindnesse being dispeld may be reduced to the ancient and Catholicke faith and to the obedience of the Church of Rome We beseech thee to heare vs. That thou wouldest be pleased to preserue all Spaine from the contagion of euill especially this Citie most deuoted to thy seruice We beseech thee to heare vs. That thou wouldest be pleased to obtaine peace in loue for thy whole Church We beseech thee to heare vs. Moreouer This likewise excited me to detest Popery that it presumptuously dares contrary to the expresse commandement of God set before the people all sorts of Images to be worshipped and adored The ground of my dislike hereof was not onely because God hath prohibited it but because I very well knew and was certainely perswaded that this their adoring and reuerencing of such images is the Lacquy and Page of the grossest Idolatry wherefore I thought it most meete that these Images of Popery should be handled as we reade the Brasen Serpent was by Hezekiah for if Moses erected that Serpent in the Wildernes not without his especiall warrant frō God yet neuerthelesse because the people in long tract of time fell to the worshipping of this Image King Hezekiah detesting and abhorring this their Idolatry commanded it to be taken downe and cut in peeces with farre better reason should the Images of Popery set vp contrary to Gods commandement bee remoued and cut in peeces who haue for their author and maintainer not Moses the seruant of God but the Pope who is Christs enemy And experience shewes and their writings giue me euidence that they haue degenerated so farre as not onely to adore these Images but also to haue forsaken their Creator that they might settle and fixe their hope and confidence wholly on them as this ensuing Eglogue taken out of the fore-cited Spanish Booke will make it most plaine to the Reader A gratulation of this Sacred house to the blessed Virgin the Mother of God for her returne I Lay comfortlesse being destitute of thee my light most glorious ornament as a dead body deuoyd of life and motion me thought I heard euery one saying vnto me Where is that pretious gold which Princely hands haue laide vp in thee Where are these infinite riches Where is that bottomelesse depth of graces Where is the Ocean of miraculous cures Where is that louely Image of the blessed Virgin the Mother of God To whom I replyed she is gone she is gone that imparted wonderfull holinesse vnto me that hath made mee a most renowned Church shee is gone guarded and attended with Angels and Saints she I say who hath made me an euer flowing fountaine of miraculous cures a remedy against diuels the onely refuge to all that flye vnto me but she who seemed to be absent from me in body was present with me by her wonderfull miracles for shee which was manifested to our ancestors as with starre lights now by miraculous lights sent from heauen vnto me hath testified how much shee loues me All haile therefore my life light honour and ornament now comming vnto mee for in this thy most happy and fortunate returne there is sprung vp a new light to all the inhabitants of this Citie honour ioy and exaltation Welcome thou that art full of grace Welcome thou Sea of ioy Welcome thou only ease in troubles Welcome thou that art the onely salue for al the hearts sore Welcome holy Virgin through whose meanes alone we see the Kingdome of Valentia is brought and vnited to the Kingdome
TEXEDA Retextus OR THE SPANISH MONKE His Bill of Diuorce against the Church of ROME Together with other remarkable Occurrances IMMOTA LONDON Printed by T.S. for Robert Mylbourne and are to be sold at his Shop at the great South dore of Pauls 1623. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND worthy Knight Sir Edward Conway one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell and his Maiesties SECRETARIE SIR THe sinne of Ingratitude hath euer beene ranked by men of ingenious and liberall education in the first place amongst the of-scouring and scum of vices whose iudgement and opinion herein I professe I alwaies approued To wipe off then and cleare my selfe from the aspersion of this foule enormitie I haue on aduised deliberation presumed to consecrate and offer vp vnto your memorie this small Treatise concerning my vnfained conuersion vnto Christ as a pledge and token of my thankefulnesse for many benefits and fauours plentifully conferred on me For your most eminent and conspicuous vertues whereof I oft haue had experience especially your wisedome bountifulnesse courtesie your feruent zeale to the reformed religion and pietie which so attend and guard your person that you can hardly be seuered or abstracted from them promise and assure me that this small Treatise giuen and consecrated on the Altar of an honest and sincere heart will be most gratefull and acceptable to your Honour Your Honours most humbly deuoted Ferdinando Texeda through the mercy of God a Conuerted Spaniard V.D.M. To the Christian Reader SAint Ierome relating Iacobs Vision Epist ad Ager 11. in which he saw Angels ascending and descending on a Ladder reaching from the earth to heauen gathers these profitable and comfortable lessons from thence That no man should despaire of grace to recouer him from sinne for Iacob saw Angels ascending nor yet any presume of his owne strength for Iacob saw Angels descending as well as ascending his owne words are Videbat scalam per quam ascendebant Angeli et descendebant vt nec peccator desperet salutem nec iustus de sua virtute fecurus sit The Church of Christ in this respect resembles the Sea which what it looseth in one place it alwaies gaines in another And therefore let no weake Christian be scandalized at the reuolt of so many now a dayes to Popish errors and superstitions For the spirit speaketh expresly That in the latter times 1 Tim. 4.1 some shall depart from the faith giuing heed to seducing Spirits and doctrines of Diuels yea that many shall follow their pernitious waies by reason of whom the way of truth shall be euill spoken of 2 Pet. 2.2 When therefore we see the truth of these Prophecies fulfilled in the falling away of many from the truth euen this their falling away from the truth ought to confirme vs in the truth the rather because wee finde by experience that the Apples that fall from the tree with the least shog De simplicitate praelatorum or smallest puffe of winde are rotten at the core This was Saint Cyprians obseruation long agoe Nemo aestimet bonos de Ecclesia posse discedere triticum non rapit ventus nec arborem solidâ radice fundatam procella subuertit inanes paleae tempestate iactantur inualidae arbores turbinis incursione euertuntur Let no man imagine that good men can depart from the Church The winde blowes not away the Corne neither doth a storme throw downe a tree that hath sure rooting in the earth it is but light chaffe which the winde scattereth abroad and they are but hollow and rotten trees which are ouerturned with a blustring winde And Saint Austen and Saint Gregory make good this obseruation of Saint Cyprian by excluding all those from the number of Christs Disciples and the true Sonnes of God whose reuolt and apostacie euidently proues their hypocrisie Saint Austen speakes definitiuely Decorrept et 〈◊〉 9. Qui non habent perseuerantiam sicut non verè discipuli Christi ita nec verè filij dei fuerunt etiam quando esse videbantur et ita vocabantur Those who perseuer not in the truth as they were neuer the true Disciples of Christ so neither were they euer truely the Children of God no not when they seemed so to be and were so called also And Saint Gregory is as peremptory It may trouble saith he a weake Christian Moralium in ob l. 34. cap. 13. that this Leuiathan hath such power vt aurum hoc est viros sanctitatis claritate fulgentes quasi lutum sibi vitijs inquinandum subijciat That he can trample Gold vnder his feete like dirt that is men shining with a bright lustre of sanctitie by defiling them with viciousnesse Sed citiùs respondemus quia aurum quod prauis Diaboli persuasionibus sterni sicut lutum potuerit aurum ante oculos dei nunquam fuit et qui seduci quandoque non reuersuri possunt quasi habitū sanctitatisante oculos hominū videantur amittere sed eam ante oculos dei nunquam habuerunt But we readily answere That that gold which by the wicked perswasions of the Diuell could be thus trodden vnder foot by him like dirt was neuer gold in the sight of God and whosoeuer may so be led away from the true Church that they neuer returne thither backe againe well they may seeme to lose an habit and shew of sanctitie before men but the truth is in the eyes of God they were neuer indued with any sanctitie at all If this suffice not to keepe the weake from stumbling at this rocke of offence I meane the Apostacie of seeming Saints and reuolt of outward professors of the truth let them consider in the last place that this losse of the Church if it be any is in some measure repaired by the daily accesse of new conuerts Not to goe farre for instances at this present for an Italian Apostata we haue a Spanish Conuert for a loose Bishop we haue a strict Augustine Monke the former lately left Christ to follow his preferments in the Court of Antichrist the latter hath left all his hope of preferments in this world and stript himselfe of all his temporall meanes to follow Christ naked whose solid motiues set downe in this short and pithy relation if thou weigh diligently thou canst not but afford this treatise a like commendation to that which Homer giues Diomedes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A little Man but a great Souldier For thou shalt finde in it arrowes taken out of the Romish Quiuer drawne to the head against the Romish faith besides diuers rarities touching the fopperies and ridiculous superstitions of that Church There are not many leaues in this Treatise but there is much fruit yet this is but a tast The Author hath furnished already a Table richly with such kinde of fruit to which he wil shortly inuite thee In the meane while let this stay thy stomacke and if any thing herein please thy appetite blesse God for the Author if