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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

in great reputation amongst others which were reputed as torches and lanternes to giue light to others I say when the poore simple people which were but weake saw you generally turne your backes so cowardlye surely it was vnto them marueilous offensiue a very great discouragement so that a great many did yéeld when they were tried and fel through your occasiō And surely it is no thankes to you that all of them did not the like for surelye I will speake this to your shame that many amongst you haue bene so miserable and cursed as to be Sathans to others tempting and pricking them forward to do as you did O cursed wretches was it not inough for you to destroy your selues vnlesse you must also become giltie of the destruction and ruine of your poore brethren And now assuredly you are such if you and they die in this estate You oppose your selues yet after another sort against the aduauncement of Gods glorie and of the kingdome of his sonne Iesus Christ yea you hinder it so much as in you lyeth for you haue done what you can to spoyle the the poore church of Iesus Christ of Pastors forasmuch as you do not only gréeue them but also dishonour and disfame them so that they must néeds be ashamed confounded by meanes of you For séeing you do so miserably and cowardly reuolt from Christian religion and renounce the truth of god which they haue preached vnto you do you not secretly or rather openly declare that you count thē as false prophets seducers which haue deceiued you fed you with lyes Now God is witnes your owne conscience doth reproue you of the contrarie But notwithstanding séeing their hope to bee frustrate that they are so simply rewarded at your hāds for their paines yea that they haue euil repaied vnto thē for good shal not this discourage them from imploying thēselues hereafter about the worke of your saluation Assuredly if they had not greater regard to the glory of God then to your vnthankfulnes if they were not more desirous of your saluation then you your selues they would quite giue ouer all it may be there will be some that will do so indéed also many young men which would haue dedicated themselues to the studie of diuinitie that they might serue in the ministrie will begin to loath the same through your fault So that it is to be feared that it will come to passe that there will very few be found which will till and sow in such euill ground wherof they shall reape so small fruites And what can we expect from that but beastly brutish ignorāce such as was sometimes and is as yet in poperie corruption of the pure seruice of God and finally miserable desolation Now the Lord wil not leaue of to finish his worke and to send labourers into his haruest when hee shall sée time Yet so it is that you shall neuerthelesse be alwaies giltie of the foresaide euils in as much as they be fruites and effects of your cowardlines and vnthākfulnes howsoeuer the Lorde do turne them to some other end by his infinite goodnes You sée then howe manye monstrous crimes are coupled with your fault fal but yet this is not al for there be an infinite number of other sins that depende thereupon whereof I touch only the most notorious and that without vsing anye great discourses and amplifications as néed doth require that I may paint out the same vnto you for I content my self with setting thē down only for auoiding prolixitie Notwithstanding it standeth you vpon to thinke vpon them and to weigh thē wel that you may be brought to detest thē otherwise they shal be ordered before your face in the great day of the Lord. Consider then I pray you the ouer and besides that which hath bene touched heretofore you haue committed and do commit such an euill as is no smal one for by your backslyding you condemne not only those which stand as yet at this day through the grace of God in the profession confession of the Gospell as if they were fooles and senseles or els mad men but you doe also condemne all those which are dead in our Lord and principally a great number of the faithfull seruants of God and of holy martyres who haue sealed with their owne bloud that doctrine which you haue abiured and which did choose rather to loose their goods honours and other commodities of this life to be banished and chased frō their owne houses to be depriued of their fathers mothers wiues children kinsfolke frends to be cast in prisō amongst serpents and toades to be bound chained beaten railed vpon racked and tormented by tormentors and to suffer all manner cruelties and torments yea they chose rather to die the most cruel deaths that could be inuented then to pollute them selues in the superstitions idolatries of poperie which you allowe now by your reuolting do miserably defile both your soules also your bodies You condemne all those I saye as if they had bene vndiscréete men or some wicked heretikes on the contrarie you iustify the carnal and tyrānous barbarisme of tyrants persecutors of vniust iudges and cruel tormētors who haue murthered and put them to death And yet your owne conscience telleth you that they suffered for righteousnes sake and gaue their liues for the name of Iesus Christ and that they are therefore blessed as Iesus Christ pronounceth them to be On the other side that those which put them to death are accursed vnhappie and detestable yea very instrumentes of Satan for whom there is prepared an horrible iudgement the vengeance of God which they shal not escape howsoeuer it be long a comming Therefore you are so muche the more without excuse before God séeing that you condemne those whom you know to be iust and innocēt and approue and iustifie those whom you know to bee wicked and vngodly He which condemneth the iust and iustifieth the wicked they are both alike abhominable before the Lorde saith Salomon If you saie that you intende no such thing you saie nothing touching this matter which I doe not willingly beleeue but I aunswere also that the Lorde doth not iudge men according to their intentions if they bée not ruled according to his worde Know you then that that which you haue done and do as yet so long as you continue reuolts maketh you guiltie of al the innocent blood which hath bin shed vntil this day by the executioners and Souldiers of Satan and of Antichrist and of al the iniuries and outrages which the enemies of GOD and of his trueth haue committed and doe as yet committe dailie against the poore members of Iesus Christ who cannot but count you his enemies so long as you are on their side which make warre against him What answere will you make to all these points when you shal appeare before the iudgement seat

his matters so about that hee can take from you all feeling of your offence and all perceiuing and vnderstanding of the iudgement and vengeance of God he wil suggest vnto you by the flesh and the world diuers excuses wherewith you may cloake and lessen the same making you beléeue if possibly he can that it is not so horrible as men say it is or els he will giue you his accustomed cuppe of slumbering besméered with some hope to returne to God againe when the tyranny is ouerpast but he will beware that he do not tel you that all that which he doth tendeth to draw you awaie by little little from the obedience of God your father that he maie hale you to eternall destruction but on the contrarie he wil perswade you if he can that hereby you prouide for your good and comfort Notwithstanding you know that he is a lier and disceiuer for when he went about to blind the eies of our first parēts he told them your eies shal be opened and when he sought to make them deuils like to himselfe he said vnto them you shal be Gods and intending to make them subiect to the first and second death he promised them immortalitie and life saying you shall not die Beware then how you giue eare to his deceitfull and wicked counsels to the inticements and inchauntments of this inchaunter who is an enimie to your saluation but rather hearken to the voice of that Soueraigne Phisition who will not onelie make you feele and knowe your griefe the daunger wherein you are and the meanes whereby you maie prouide for your curing but will also heale you him selfe if your selues be not a stop and hinderance to it First of all then my brethren I moste earnestlie beseech and beseech you againe in the name of this great God and father of mercy that you will earnestlie consider how many waies your fault deserueth condemnation before God You know that the most vile vice and that which both most of all deserue to bee punished by all lawes both diuine and humaine is this to wit if a childe do so degenerate that he withdraw himself from submitting himselfe to a good father and mother yea denyeth them to be his parents and doth become a seruaunt and slaue to a straunger that is euen their verie deadly enimie and in whose house he shall be constrayned to heare a thousand speeches tending to their dishonor and reproche or if a subiect bee so vnthankefull vnfaithfull disloyall and trecherous to his natural Prince at whose handes he had receiued manie benefites and great honour as to reuolt from his obedience and to band himselfe with his mortall enimie which maketh open war against him And yet you haue dealt thus For the Lorde had sometimes graunted you such fauour as to drawe you out of Sathans family whose slaues you were by nature that he might adopt you in his sonne Iesus Christ that hée might make you sit at his own table and traine you vp as his owne children and make you inheritours of his kingdome but you are departed out of his house and hauing denyed him to bee your father you haue quite forsaken him that you might become slaues to Sathan in whose Synagoge your eares shall bée polluted with infinite and horrible blasphemies against the Maiestie of God You had a good mother which is the Church of Iesus Christ which had conceiued you in her wombe by the incorruptible séede of the word of God which had brought you forth not without great panges and thrals of afflictions and persecutions had giuen you sucke with her two breasts which are the olde and new testament and which had brought you vp and noursed you with great care bearing your infirmities and couering and wiping awaie your filth and in lieu of all this you haue forsaken her denying her to be your mother and haue euen as it were throwne your selues into the armes of a straunge strumpet or rather of that great whore of Babilon which in stéed of giuing you good and wholesome nourishment giueth you to drinke the poison of her vncleannes and abhominable whoredomes that your soules maie thereby be infected and destroied and she ceaseth not to make deadlie war against your chast mother the spouse of Iesus Christ and to murther all her children Furthermore you had a good king and Soueraigne Lord euen Iesus Christ the eternal sonne of God who loued you so dearelie that he gaue himselfe vp to death for your sakes which were his enimies who had deliuered you from the tirannie and slauerie of the deuill who had redéemed you not with gold or siluer or anie other corruptible thing but by his own pretious bloud which he shedde for you and not onelie so but had ouer and besides graunted you so great honor as to make you his fellowes that hee might make you partakers of his graces of his glorie and of his celestial kingdome and yet for all this as soone as hee summoned you to the combate of the crosse that he might make you go the selfe same way which he had gone before you to the ende that after the victorie hée might giue you the crowne of glorie and immortalitie you turned your backes and forsooke him yea you renounced him if not al at least the greater part of you by the most execrable abiuration which that infernall Dragon did euer spue out of his stinking mouth against the Maiestie of God and that which more is you haue inrolled your selues vnder the captaine of all impietie which is Antichrist of Rome the sworne enimie of the sonne of God and of your saluation Sée what an heape of backslidinges disloyalties and most vile vnthankefulnes here is But now I do wel perceiue that those which will not giue glorie to God nor giue eare to his worde but take counsell of Sathan to confirme themselues in their errour will not bee vnprouided of replies and will not bee ashamed some such there bee to séeke to couer or lessē their fault alleadging that olde saying of time seruers and of certaine backsliders which knowe ful wel yea in their hearts condemne the abuses impieties superstitions and Idolatries of Poperie and are constrained to confesse the truth to wit that that is the verye true religion which we professe through the grace of God Notwithstanding because they are afraid to beare the blows they will not march on vnder the banner of Iesus Christ but to the end they maye applye themselues to the worlde they follow the banner of Antichrist Moreouer if a man come to admonish them and to tell them their duetie they replye that albeit they serue the deuill with their bodies yet they cease not to be Christians and children of God forasmuch as they reserue him the chiefe which is the Spirite wherewith they serue and honour him and though they haue forsaken the church of Iesus Christ and are fallen from their profession of the Gospell and haue renounced religion