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A19362	An epistle or godlie admonition, of a learned minister of the Gospel of our sauiour Christ sent to the pastoures of the Flemish Church in Antwerp, (who name themselues of the Confession of Auspurge,) exhorting them to concord with the other ministers of the Gospell. Translated out of French by Geffray Fenton. Here may the christian reader lerne to know what is the true participatio[n] of the body of Christ, & what is the lauful vse of the holy Supper.	Corro, Antonio del, 1527-1591.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1569 (1569)	STC 5787; ESTC S108710	46,646	132

coolled oute of the diuine worde certeine speciall Textes importing oure charitable dueties and office vnto oure neighboure desiring you deare brethren to construe in the beste my intente tending simply and altogither to refute those Fables dreames and errours whiche I sée sundry with no smal diligence labor to support and mainteyne in the church of Christ wishing they participated rather with a spirite of humilitie and mildenesse in the correction of the opynions of others than to stryue to become inquisitors of other mens faith and much lesse to enter into sentence of iudgement ageynst suche as refuse their interpretations vntil they be assured by the spirit of God that such opinions are directly ageynst the heauenly word and that we haue witnesse in our conscience that God calleth vs to do it for then he himself wil cloth vs with the affection of his apostle who to gaine and reduce his brethren woulde not sticke almost to abandon his propre health euen so when wée féele suche a zeale moue Rom. 9. in vs euen then also shall we proue in our selues that God will blisse our enterprises Let vs then embrace peace and enterteine mutuall accord séeing that as there is nothyng that leuieth a more sharpe warre within vs than our owne discordes disdaines and partialities so of the contrarie if we marche vnder the ensigne of charitie supporting one an other in our infirmities it shall bée most harde eyther to breake our aray or put vs to flighte For as Salomon Eccl. 4. sayth The accorde of thrée strings is very harde to breake My litle childrē I am yet for a litle time with you you shall search me but as I sayd Iohn 13. to the Iews that whether I go they could not come I say also the same vnto you nowe giuing you this new commaūdement that you loue one an other as I say I haue loued you to the ende also that you loue one an other By this all men shall know that you are my disciples if you loue one an other That is the principall marke of oure christianitie all others that wée maye inuent may be folowed of the hypocrites but this is inimitable bicause it is peculiar only to the regenerate and those that bée renued by the spirite of God Bée you desirous of the moste exellent Cor. 12. 13. giftes and I wil shew you a way yet more excellent If I speke the languages of men and Angels and haue not Charitie I am as the mettall that soundes or Cimball that tynkes And if I haue the gifte of prophecie and knowe all secretes and euery science and if I had suche faith as I might transporte the mountaynes and haue not charitie I am nothyng if I distribute all my goodes to the reléefe of the poore and deliuer my body to be burned and haue not charitie it profiteth me nothyng Charitie is not easily incensed to anger but shée is mylde Charitie is not enuious Charitie is not insolente she swelleth not with anger she dothe not vse hir selfe dishonestly she searcheth not hir profite she is not despytefull she thinkes no euill Shée taketh no pleasure in iniustice but reioyceth in the truthe shée endureth all beléeueth all hopeth for all and suffereth all Charitie neuer falleth And a little after he sayeth These thrée thyngs remaine Fayth Hope and Charitie wherof the greatest is Charitie Those bée the effectes of Christian Charitie whyche is neyther vayne opinyon nor curtesye in outwarde shewe but rather a vertue bryngyng foorth wonderfull frutes Touchyng brotherly Charitie there is 1. Tessa 4. no great néede I write to you therof seing you are taughte of GOD to loue one an other for euen so you do towardes all your brethren whiche bée in Macedonie Brethren we exhorte you to surmounte more and more with diligence to liue peaceably If the vnction of the Spirite of God haue not yet taught you to loue your neighbors let vs feare that our doctrine is not rather learned of men than in the schoole of God He that sayeth he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darknes to this hour 1. Iohn 2. 3. who loueth his brother remayneth in the light and falles not but he that hateth his brother walketh in darkenesse and knoweth not whether he goeth for the darkenesse hath blinded his eyes By this are manifested the children of God and the children of the diuell Who so euer dothe not iustice and loueth not his brother is not of God for this is it you haue heard preached from the beginning that wée loue one an other not as Cain which was called wicked and killed his brother and for what cause did he kil him for that his woorks were wicked and his brothers were iust Brethren marueile not if your brother hate you in that we loue our brethren we know we are transferred from death to life who loueth not his brother dwelleth in death who hateth his brother is a murderer And you know that no murderer hath eternal life remaining with in him by this we know his charitie that he hath giuen his lyfe for vs we ought also to hazard our liues for our brethren And this is a most certeine and ample explication of the marke of oure christianitie which may serue as a touche stone to assure vs of our adoption Hate maketh quarels but charitie couereth Prouerb 10. Vers 12. al grudges This witnesse doth teache vs that the roote of dissentions debates is the default of christian charitie which doth not only couer outward sinnes but also the ignorances of the vnderstanding The furious mā moueth contention but Ibidem 15. Verse 17. 18. the pacient man appaiseth quarell this is a looking glasse wherin wée may behold the troublesome mynds of our tyme who vpon small causes will stirre vp strange quarels and debates Welbéeloued let vs loue one an other 1. Iohn for charitye is of God and who loueth is borne of God and knoweth God and hée that loueth not knoweth not God for God is charitie In this is manifested the charitie of God towards vs that he hath sent his only son intoo the world to the end we may liue by him In this is charitie not that wée haue loued God but bycause he hath loued vs and sent his son to bée the appointment for oure sinnes Welbeloued if God haue so loued vs we ought also to loue one an other Neuer any man hath sene God If we loue one an other God dwelleth in vs and his charitie is accomplished in vs by this we know that we dwell in him he in vs that he hath giuen vs of his holy spirit And a litle after If any say that he loueth God and hateth his brother he is a lyer for if he loue not his brother whome he séeth howe can he loue God whome he séeth not And we haue this commaundement of him that he that loueth God loueth also his brother This text hath no

aunswer me that the tyrannie of the papists is so abhominable that there is no hart possessed with any Religion whose pacience may endure so intollerable a yoke The tyrānie of the Papists vppon the spiritualtie and temporaltie into the church of God séeing they ar not contented to bury the benefites of Iesus Chryst to rob and vsurpe his dignitie to make themselues merchants of his blud and redemptiō to beguile and seduce the poore people and their consciēces sending soules to hell in place to draw them out of purgatorie and lastly as a full of their tyrānie haue subdued and put vnder their féete the Monarchs Emperours Kings Princes and Magistrates of the earth forcing them to an humilitie vpon their féete they haue vsurped Seigniories and principalities by violence and effusion of mans bloud to the ende to make themselues Princes and great Lordes and their children neuews and allies hauing attyred themselues gorgiously with stolne feathers like to Esops crow and where afore they were so simple that they had scarcely wherewith to fill their bellies nowe some of them are become Princes some Dukes Earles Marquisses others triumph at their pleasure deuouring the goodes of straungers all which is tollerable with them bycause that the Pope their father hath put them in possession of suche wealth iniustly vsurped And if any one kindeled with the grace of our Lorde be priuie to suche abuses and goeth aboute too discouer them too the people incontinent the Popes their Parentes and Allies with open mouth do call suche Preachers Heretikes Apostates bannished Strangers and people vnworthye of reléefe in a Common state and will enter foorthwith into deuise and trauaile and that with all diligence to commit them eyther to the fyre and fagotts or otherwise to extirpe them quite from the earth bycause they feare that the preachers of truth discoueryng their pot of roses as the prouerbe sayth and that the worlde vnderstanding their tirannies euery one will withdraw and take away his fether rightely belonging to him and so in the end the Crow will eftsoones become a crow and the simple and poore man returne to his first estate 86 Herevnto I aunswere and saye good brethren that you haue greate reason and I woulde in GOD the stones had mouthes to manyfest suche abuses But yet ther is necessary to our side a sober obseruation of modestie in the words we vse to speake for my part I dout not at all that the diligence of the Popes Cardinals The cause why the Papists and their allies make warre ageinst the Gospel with their parents and Allies is not rather to maynteyne their vsurped estates than the glorie and zeale of God for if they had any religion they would shew it in their life and cōuersation But alas all the worlde séeth that the greatest zealors and defendors of the Papists shew almost no feare of god the Popes themselues deride with open throate our Sauior Chryst according to the example of one that died not long since who hauing left behynde him many lordships to his children and nephews vsurped by tyrannie sayd in sort of railing or madde scoffing that this fable of Iesus Chryst had greately profited many houses who of shifting roysters and disordred people were become possessoures of large reuenues Marke this blasphemie consider what religion this holy S. Peter and vicar of Christ hadde in his heart who notwithstanding vsed his tymes and occasions so conueniētly as he forgat nothing that concerned his profite But my hope is in God that he wil distroy that Babylon and the tyrant Nemroth that defendeth hir his parents and Allies who to preserue their vsurpations raise war ageinst the children of GOD and murder them 87 Expectyng deare brethren this horrible iudgement and most assured punishment that will fal vpon them let vs vse pacience in the wrong they offer vs If they call vs heretikes bicause we wil not folow the faith of theyr Popes but imbrace that which Chryst hath taught vs. Let vs estéeme oure selues happie if they cal vs apostates bicause we be come foorth or rather the Lorde hath wonderfully deliuered vs from the Idolatries and superstitions of the Papistes Let vs accompt our selues neuerthelesse happie for my part I protest afore the Lord that it is to mée a title and surname of glorie and dignitie to be called Apostate of the Pope and the Antechryst of Rome If they call vs banished from oure countrey let vs rather reioyce than discomfort knowing that God hath not banyshed vs from his grace neyther is it Christe that hath throwne vs out of his spirituall kingdome but it is the inquisitours who wold eyther haue banished or burned vs per effigiem in performing their rage vppon the strawe and papers bicause they could not execute it vpon the flesh and bones of the membres of Iesus Christ Let vs giue thāks to God in that such banishments and persecutions procéede not to vs as being guiltie eyther of theft murder or treason to oure Prince and Magistrate nor atteynted of any other offence worthy of punishment but bicause we search the health of our soules in the simple and pure worde of God 88 If they call vs straungers let vs The children of God are neuer out of their owne countrey remembre that the heauenly Father which hath aduowed vs for his children is lorde of heauen and of earth And into what part so euer we shall go we be in the coūtrey of our father we be his propre inheritaunce as the Prophete sayeth in the Psalm 37. That the rightuous shal dwel in the earth and be lawfull possessors of the same Lette vs comforte oure selues in this that neyther oure running oute of the countrey nor oure absence from the lande of oure birth hath bin moued by any vsurpation of the possessions or goodes of other but onely to giue place to persecutions Suche fléeing awaye is not shamefull but rather honourable séeing wée are companyons of our head and redéemer Iesus Christe who from his childhood was a stranger in the countreys of the Egyptians shewing the persecutions of Herode 89 If oure persecuters do curse vs let vs blisse them if they search or séeke oure death let vs pray for their lyfe And whē ther shal come question to discouer their abuses tyrannies and extortions let vs vse it with sobrietie modestie and grauitie that it may appere euē to themselues that we are not led by any malice ageynst their persones but of a spirituall zeale to the glorie of God the aduauncement of the kingdom of Chryst chiefe of the church and to the health of the soules of the poore and simple people beguyled and seduced euen vntill now by the preachers of dreames and fables who vnder the colour of Iesus Chryste haue martired his church and being in deed very rauening Wolues doe name themselues pastors and shepeherdes of the troupe of God Lastely lette vs endeuer to liue in peace one with an other whether they

nede of interpretatiō but rather of proofe and examination wherein let euery man sounde and proue his heart whether these woordes be with hym or ageynst him Thou shalte not sée the Oxe or shéepe of Deut. 22. thy brother strayed out of the way hide thée from them but thou shalt bring them ageyn to thy brother And if thy brother be not thy neyghboure and thou knowe hym not then shalt thou leade them within thy house and suffer them to remain with thée vntill thy brother demaund them and then thou shalt restore them to hym thou shalt doo in lyke manner to his Asse to his garments and al the lost things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou founde neither must thou hyde them thou shalt not sée the Asse or Ox of thy brother falne in the way and hide thée from them but thou shalte helpe to lift them vp with him If the Lord commaunde that our charitie be shewed in the lifting vp of beasts let vs consider with stronger reason that his maiestie woulde that we haue care of the soules of our brethren neighbors whom if we sée strayed from the way of truth let vs labour to reduce them if they be falne into the pit of error let vs offer them our hands rather than to pronounce sentence of condemnatiō and pursue them euen vnto death Texts of the diuine worde exhorting vs to loue oure enimies and pray for such as persecute vs. Thou shalt not walke as a detractour amongest Leui. 19. the people thou shalte not dresse thy selfe ageynst the bloud of thy neyghbor for I am the Lord Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart correct thy neighbour and suffer no synne vpon him Thou shalt not reuenge nor kéepe malice ageynst the children of thy people but thou shalt loue thy neighbor as thy self for Iam the Lord. You haue heard that it hath bin said thou Math. 5. shalt loue thy neyghbour and hate thy enimie But I say vntoo you Loue youre enimies blisse those which curse you do good to suche as hate you and pray for those that runne vppon you to persecute you to the ende you be the children of your father that is in heauen for hée maketh his Sun shyne vppon the good and euill and sendes rayne vppon the iust and iniust For if yée loue those that loue you what reward haue you therefore The Paganes doe not they the like also And if you imbrace onely youre brethren what do you more Do not the pagans also the like Be you perfect as youre father is perfect that is in heauen Do not render to any euill for euil procure Rom. 12. honest things afore all men And if it may be at least as muche as is in you haue peace with al men Do not reuenge welbeloued but giue place to anger for it is writen To me belongeth vengeance sayth the Lord and I will giue it if then thy enimy bée hungrie giue him too eate if hée haue thirst giue him to drinke for in this doing thou shalte assemble coales of fier vpon his head Be not ouercome with euill but surmount the euill by the good Owe nothing to any man if not that you Rom. 13. loue one an other for who loueth an other hath accomplished the lawe whiche sayth Thou shalt not cōmit adultery thou shalt not kil thou shalt beare no false witnesse thou shalt not couet c. And if there be any other commaundement it is in effect comprehended in this word Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Truly if we had this stone of foundation of brotherly charitie in the buildings of oure life trafficks and contracts with oure neighbours all the partes of this spirituall house which God hath giuen vs incharge should be wel ordred and couched After the Lord hadde washed their féete Iohn 13. and taken ageine his garment and that he was set ageine at the table hée sayed vntoo them Know you what I haue done vntoo you you cal me Lord and maister and you say wel for so I am if then I that am Lord and maister haue washed youre féete you ought also to wash one an others féet For I haue gyuen you example that euen as I haue done you may also do Why haue not wée remembraunce of this holy ceremonie when wée celebrate the Supper of Chryste séeing that hée himselfe hathe prepared the harts of his disciples with this admonition afore he shewed or did institute the sacrament of their coniunction with him giuing them to vnderstande that he is not worthy to receiue Iesus Chryst which doth not applye his hart too washe the féete of his brethren I speake truth in Chryste I lye not my conscience bearing me witnesse by the holy Rom. 9. spirit that I haue greate sorow and continuall torment in my heart for I did desire to be separated with Christ for my brethrē which be my parents according to the flesh When we shal féele our hearts so wel touched with the spirit of god as S. Paul was let vs set vpon hardly to correct the errours and opinions of others and so long as wée are fleshely and guided rather by stomacke than spirituall zele let vs employ our tyme to pray to God for the ignorant Let vs be then as chosen vessels of God Coloss ● holy and welbeloued clad in the intrails of mercy humilitie gētlenesse and of a mynd of pacience supporting one an other and pardoning one an other if we haue quarel as Iesus Christ hath pardoned you euen so forgiue you others and besides all this bée attired with charitie the very bond of perfection And let the peace of God gouerne in your harts whereunto you are all called in one body and bée gracious The word of God dwell frutefully in you in all wisdom teaching and warning one an other in Psalmes songs and spiritual praises with grace singyng with youre hart to the Lorde whereby we shall sée how farre from these rules of charitie be they that in place to edifie the Church of Chryste doe rather procure hir confusion with their Debates and questiōs FINIS