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A69250	Newes from France containing tvvo declarations of two new conuerts from the Church of Rome to the reformed churches of France: the former made by Master M. du Tertrf [sic], Lord de la Motthe Luyne, late preacher amongst the order of the Capucins vnder the name of F. Firmin, &c. at Saumur on the 27. of May last: the latter by the Marquise Boniuet, Lord of Creuecœur, &c. at Rochell on the seuenth of August last. Both translated out of the seuerall French copies into English by E.M. of Christ-Church in Oxford. Whereunto is added an English letter sent from Paris by an English gentleman to his friend in England, touching the late surprisall and imprisonment of the Prince of Conde, which happened on the 22. of August last.; Declaration and manifestation, of the chiefe reasons and motives of the conversion of Master M. du Tertre, Lord de la Motthe Luyne.	Bonnivet, Henri Marc de Gouffier, Marquis de, d. 1589. Declaration de Henri-Marc de Gouffier. aut; Meetkerke, Edward, 1590-1657, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 7372; ESTC S117179	43,123	84

the Law And in the fift chapter verse 1. Therefore being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ There is iustification by faith And as for the imputation of the merit of Christ hee sheweth it there also in the fourth chapter when as telling how God had imputed to Abraham his faith for righteousnesse hee addeth Now in that that this was imputed to him for righteousnesse c. This faith is not an idle imagination or false illusion and perswasion or fantasticall speculation in the beleeuers braine as your Doctors doe slanderously say but an holy assurance and firme confidence in the bounty and mercy of God by the which we beleeue that according to the truth of his infallible promises hee will be gracious and mercifull vnto vs in Iesus Christ his Sonne freely for his sake pardoning vs all our faults Such a beleefe is not idle nor fruitlesse in those who haue it but fructifieth vnto all manner of good workes righteousnesse godlinesse holinesse loue c. Not for to merit and obtaine that pardon which is already wholly gotten but for to shew towards God that we acknowledge this so vnestimable a benefit This faith is not from our selues but is a speciall gift of God who hath giuen vs freely through his Sonne not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer for his sake as saith S. Paul Philip. 1.29 God hauing thus iustified vs freely through faith in his Son he sanctifieth vs also through his spirit which is the second benefit that wee haue obserued to be gotten for vs in Iesus Christ and which he hath merited and obtained for vs by his death as we haue said and doth bestow it vpon vs by the vertue and efficacie of his Spirit of regeneration and sanctification by the which mortifying daily more and more the naturall corruption in which we all are borne he makes vs by little and little to renounce and to die to all sinne for to liue to righteousnesse and holinesse all the dayes of our life vntill that in the end he doe sanctifie vs fully when as after this life hee shall receiue vs into that other in his heauenly glory This is briefly that which concernes these two great benefits of our Lord accordingly as the Scripture and Gods holy word doe shew and teach vs. It is a pitifull thing to see after how many sorts and manners Satan hath lamentably spoiled sophisticated falsified peruerted and corrupted in your Church by your Pastors and Doctors this doctrine being so wholsome and full of comfort touching these two benefits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour first by extenuating as much as they could and can the greatnesse of these graces and fauours secondly by taking from him and robbing him of all what they can for to attribute it to the merits either of themselues or of others and to their owne satisfactions and papall Indulgences They extenuate the greatnesse of grace two wayes first by lessening and diminishing the greatnesse of our offence and sinne secondly by debasing the excellencie and perfection of Christs merit They doe lessen and diminish the greatnesse of sinne first in denying that originall sinne deserues eternall death contrary to that which the Apostle teacheth vs to the Rom. 6.23 that the wages of sinne is death and to the threatning of the Law which sounds thus Cursed is he whosoeuer doth not continue and perseuere to obserue all things written and deliuered in the booke of the Law Secondly by their distinction of sinnes veniall and mortall teaching that there are some pettie sinnes which doe not deserue eternall death and damnation but rather pardon which is directly against that very sentence of S. Paul that the wages of sinne is death and that menace of the Law Cursed is hee c. They debase the excellencie of Christs merit when they teach first that he hath not satisfied for those sinnes and offences which they call veniall but onely for those that are mortall contrary to that which Saint Iohn hath in his first Catholike Epistle chap. 1.7 That the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Secondly that as for mortall sinnes he hath only changed the eternall into a temporall punishment which is by them affirmed and maintained not onely without any ground vpon the holy Scripture but also is much repugnant to the goodnesse and mercy of God who in so doing would pardon but by halfes Thirdly that by the death of Iesus Christ wee obtaine only remission of the guilt and not of the punishment which is as much as openly to mocke with God and to disanull altogether the merit of our Lord for what is it I pray you to remit and pardon the guilt but not the punishment As if a Master should say to his seruant a Lord to his subiect a King to his vassall that had grieuously wronged and offended him Goe thy wayes I pardon and forgiue thee thy fault but I will punish thee howsoeuer when I see time for that that thou hast done according as thou deseruest What pardon would that be nay would it not rather be a mocking of him It is euen so with God according to them They doe take from Iesus Christ and rob him as much as in them lieth of the glory of his merit for to attribute it to the merits of another when as refusing the true pardon of God by faith in the bloud of his sonne they will themselues deserue of God by the power of their workes this pardon and the fruition of life euerlasting wherein they doe iust like a wicked malefactor who being in the hands and power of his Iudge ready to be executed would refuse the grace and pardon of his Prince and would make no vse of it but would thinke that hee could merit yea would stifly maintaine that hee had iustly merited by his good deeds both his freedome and the expiation of the punishment which was prepared and made ready for him and to be one of the chiefe officers and best furnished houshold-seruants of his Lord wherein besides the intolerable arrogance whereof they cannot nor you cleare themselues they fall into a grosse foule and palpable ignorance first in that they thinke that they can of themselues doe any worthy thing and such as can deserue at Gods hands that which they thinke they doe deserue although notwithstanding it stands so that of our selues as of our selues we are not able to thinke any thing but all our abilitie is and proceeds from God as speaketh the Apostle in the second to the Corinthians chap. 3. yea euen all the most iust actions of man which God worketh in him through his grace are so marred infected and tainted with our naturall corruption that they are all as saith Esay 64. as a menstruous cloth Secondly when as for a refuge they say that those good workes which they doe are not from themselues but from the grace of God working in them for it is

brightnesse Now all what before hath beene said being as it is and that no man as I thinke of iudgement and reason and that will neuer so little open his eyes to the light can be ignorant heereof or call it in question or honestly deny it Iudge and that I pray you without trouble and passion but with a quiet and settled minde and in the serenitie of your conscience Iudge I say whether I haue had any iust matter and occasion to doe what I haue done desiring to worke out my saluation And whether it bee without cause that I haue separated and withdrawne my selfe from you and your company for to vnite and ioyne my selfe to the societie of the faithfull and true Disciples of our Sauiour and to the true Church without the which there is no hope of saluation And I am certaine and assured as I haue told you in the beginning that you shall finde me as farre remoued from hastinesse precipitation inconstancie and inconsideratenesse of minde and other the like things which inconsiderately and in somewhat too hot a moode you haue obiected to me as I come neere to the truth Now may it please Gods supreme Maiestie to enlighten lighten your mindes with the m●●de and p●●●●ing beame of his diuine light for to dispose you so that you may know it and with mee participate of the grace fauour and heauenly benediction wherewith it hath pleased his goodnesse and pure mercy without any merit of mine to preuent me satiate and fill mee so sweetly this I desire of him with all mine heart and as farre as the desires and affections of my soule can attaine vnto as also that he will strengthen confirme and encourage daily more and more my spirit that I may against all the endeuours and assaults of men of the deuill and hell continue perseuere and die holily in this happy vocation So bee it Soli Deo Gloria Faults escaped thus to be amended PAg. 1. lin 4. for de reade du p. 2. l. 7. r prouidence p. 4. l. penult dele and. p 6. l. vlt. for I desire it r. But be it so p. 8. l. 11. after wine interpose in the Sacrament of the Eucharist p. 18. l. 19 r. Archangeli Gabriel p. 21. r. l. 29. for 23. r. 2.3 p. 22. l. 5. for 18. Ioh. 4. r. 15. Ioh. 2. 4. p. 34. l. 17. r if I would discouer p. 38. l. 24. in fine r. in p. 41. l. 27. r. excellence p. 43. l 2. r. for l. 27. r. deceased p. 44. l. 11. for nf r. of l 18. dele him l. 19 r. infallible p. 46. l. 7. in marg r. 1. Eiusdem p. 47. l. 15. dele and. l. 16. r. sung A DECLARATION OF HENRY MARC DE Gouffier Marquise of Boniuet Lord of Creuecoeur c. Made in the Consistorie of Rochell in the presence of the Pastors and Elders of the said Towne as also of Monsieur de la VIOLETTE and THEVENOT Pastors of the Churches of Marans and Benet on Wednesday being the third of August 1616. The which very same protestation likewise hath beene made by the said Lord Marquise in the presence of the whole Church of ROCHEL on Sunday being the seuenth of the said moneth after the morning Sermon in the great Church At ROCHELL Printed for H. HAVLTIN by CORNELIS HERTMAN 1616. LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter dwelling neere S. Austens gate at the signe of the Pide-Bull 1616. The French Printer to the Reader BEcause that otherwise this page had beene left emptie I haue thought good to set in it the Epitaph of the late Lord of BONIVET Admirall of France as I haue found it in Du-Bellay LA France le Piémont les Cieux les arts Les Soláats le Monde out faict comme six parts De ce grand Boniuet Car vne si grand chose Dedans vn seul tembeau ne pouuoit estre enclose La France en a le corps qú elle auoit esleué Le Piémont a le coeur qú il auoit esprouuē Les Cieux en out l' esprit les Arts la memoire Les Soldats le regret le Monde la Gloire The English whereof is the very same which wee finde to be the Epitaph made vpon the death of our Country-man the noble and thrice-worthy Knight Sir Philip Sidney and therefore I haue thought good to leaue it as it was mutatis mutandis the names onely altered FRANCE and PIEMONT the Heauens and the Arts The Souldiers and the World haue made sixe parts Of noble BONIVET for none will suppose That a small heape of stones can BONIVET inclose His body FRANCE hath had for she it fed And PIEMONT his bloud in her defence shed The Heauens haue his soule the Arts haue his fame All Souldiers the griefe the World his good name THE TRANSLATOR to the READER COurteous Reader I haue made bold after this former Treatise yet a while to trouble or rather to delight you with this ensuing shorter yet no lesse zealous discourse The neerenesse of both their arguments may in some sort challenge a neerenesse of place and I hope shall obtaine at your hands a like acceptation I will say no more onely giue me leaue to adde this obseruation of Gods continuall watchfulnesse ouer his Church We haue seene of late what troubles what broiles what feares of a generall deuastation haue beene and it is to be feared are scarce yet ended in that our neighbour Country Many small Treatises and Pamphlets that were daily througed as it were to the Presse doe giue hereof a sufficient testimonie so that wee might in a manner say as it is in the first chapter of Iob often repeated Whiles hee was yet speaking another came and said c. While one booke of bad newes was yet a printing another came and brought vs worse newes Whilest the matters of their Common-wealth stand thus see how God on the other side prouides for his Church and daily addes to it such as shall bee saued Not many moneths since wee haue heard of the happy conuersion of the Duke de Candale one of the Peeres of France and with him of a many likewise that were of his retinue This newes was scarce downe but behold this other Treatise comming forth declaring the conuersion of a Gentleman though not equall to the former in birth yet if wee may beleeue the Romanists as farre aboue him in regeneration as they esteeme a spirituall vocation to exceede the temporall And whiles he was yet speaking another came I meane whilest this booke at least the translation thereof was yet in the Presse another came namely this present Declaration of Marquise Boniuet c. So that wee haue cause still to blesse God for his goodnesse who though with those builders in Nehemiah hee hath for a while had his sword girded on his loines for to strike by way of punishment his people yet at the same time hee kept in the