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A08844	A faithfull admonition of the Paltsgraues churches to all other Protestant churches in Dutchland. That they would consider the great danger that hangeth ouer their heads as well as ours by the Popedome, and therefore Christianly and brotherly cease the priuate vnnecessary and now too much growne strife vvith vs. Together with a short abstract of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots published in print at Tubing. Published by authoritie. According to the original printed in the Electors palsgranes [sic] country at Nustadt, vpon the Hardt, Englished by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19129; ESTC S114063	23,398	47

Doe this in remembrance of me that is take this bread and eat it in remembrance that I as the true heauenly breade gaue vp my body for you euen to death on the crosse and haue spilt my bloud for the forgiuenes of your sinnes and shall be vnto you a true meat drinke to euerlasting life which meat and drinke neuerthelesse you must eat by true faith and let slip into your hearts that it may comfort wash quicken your selues both in life and death Admit now that we did erre with such a construction of ours yet did not such an error concerne the grounds of saluation for Saluation dependeth not in the bodily eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ but saluation standeth in the spirituall eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ as D. Luther confesseth himselfe therefore and if indeede we did erre about the bodily eating and drinking of the bodie and blood of Christ yet neuerthelesse did we not ouerthrow the ground of saluation with such an error Wherefore they haue no sufficient and vrgent cause for this points sake namely for so much as concerneth the holy supper wherefore they should condemne vs as heathens and with such condemning any longer hinder the highly needefull agreement of the Protestant Churches Intruth it were well to be wished Rom. 12.16 Rom. 15.5 1. Cor. 1.10 that we were all of one mind and vsed one forme of reasoning euen all of vs together of all and euery point of Christian Religion as also the Apostle Paul in diuers places most truely admonisheth vs therunto But it is vnpossible that wee can euer bring it perfectly to that passe in this life 1 Cor. 13.9 For we know but in part and God giueth alwaies more light in spirituall matters to one then to another as a man may notably see in the writings of the old fathers whereof not anie of them agreede in all things together If then wee shall not loue one another before and as brethren hould together till such time as we haue one vnderstanding and meaning altogether in all godly matters then shall wee neuer in this life loue one another and hould together as brethren Now then this is the very Pith of the whole Christian Religion that we doe out of a pure hart and a good conscience and faith vnfained first loue God who gaue his sonne to death for vs and then also our selues that we loue each other Therefore Paul giues vs not onely this commaund that wee should bee of one minde in all things and should be diligent to vse one forme but he giues vs also yet another commaundement to this effect that though there were some difference found in vs about the vnderstanding of godly matters we should not breake the bond of loue and part the vnity of the spirit but beare patiently the one with the others ignorance and weakenesse Paules words are these Phil. 3.15.16 Let vs therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if yee be otherwise minded God shall reueale euen the same vnto you Neuerthelesse in that whereunto we are come let vs proceede by one rule that we may minde one thing That is the commaundement of the Apostle Paul namely that we seperate not our selues for one point or other but giue place to God whosoeuer he bee that at the present houlds any vnfit thing to make it more knowne vnto him in his time And in the meane time walke peaceably as is saide according to the common rule or ground of Christianity wherein by the grace of God we do agree This command of the Apostle Paul louing brethren wee intreate you to consider and to begin from this time forth to liue brotherly and peaceably with vs. We do not desire that you should for our sakes be silent in any thing you hold to be truth or not to confute our grounds if you can do it But onely this is our desire that you would for those errors sake which we hould in your opiniō of the holy supper not so shamefully raile vpon vs and condemne vs in your sermons and writings When you shall but doe so then is the peace readily accomplished For we desire not to condemne you But when you liue godlily according to the knowledge which God hath giuen vnto you then hould wee you for children of God for brethren in Christ Iesus for all the errors which wee are perswaded that you haue about the holy supper And therefore it resteth in you louing brethren you can helpe the Churches of God if you so please And there is iust cause why you should please being it is so Gods pleasure and also our great necessitie requires it for it is vnpossible that ours namely the Protestant Churches should be able long to stand if we do not quickly make peace one with another and lay downe the vnhappie contention that hetherto hath beene betwixt vs. For by such strife doe we make our selues naked of all armor which wee should haue both from God and man against the Pope Psal 133. It so being that God will not assist the contentious but if wee agree and call vpon him with an humble spirit then will he bestow vpon vs his grace and blessing And indeede the power of the Protestant Princes and States is also not sufficient to counteruaile the Popedomes if they seuer themselues into two or three sides and the one part shall helpe to rippe vp the other As touching the common man he vnderstands almost nothing any more now of the abominations of the Popedome for that he heares almost nothing else from the Pulpet but onely railings vpon the Caluinists yea he heares that according to their teachers suggestions the Papists are not by much so bad as the Caluinists and therefore is it not possible that in the time of necessity hee should haue a sound zeale to fight against the Popedome but in time he will hould as much of one Religion as of another And grant it that we should neuer be bodily set vpon by the Papists yet are we at this very present so set vpon by them spiritually as neuer before the like The Iesuites plot subtilely day and night how they may make their bad cause good with serpent-like writings and on the contrary side bring our good cause into all euill suspicion not onely to the common man but also and that most especially to all great Princes We in the meane time are together by the eares and the youth of the Protestants study almost nothing else but how the Lutherans may match with the Caluinists and the Caluinists with the Lutherans that is God be mercifull vnto vs almost all the diuinity in our times of the Protestants and should not a man also find a great number amongst the Preachers who doe not well and groundedlie know whereon dependeth the certaine grounds of strife betwixt vs and the Papists and wherfore our forefathers did separate themselues

vow of single life the lent fast auricular confessiō whether these be of diuine institution or ecclesiasticall onely as also about mariage after diuors originall sinne and the conception of the Virgin Mary about all these matters there is such contention amongst them and oftentimes with such bitternesse that they would euen seeme to deuour one another Lastly it is a wonder to see with how many idle controuersies their doctrine of transubstantiation is enwrapped one houlding this another that scarce two of them agreeing all things the verse is well knowne which I shall heere set downe Corpore de Christi lis est de sanguine lis est Lis est de modo non habitura modum If varietie of opinions now marre the forme of a Church then is their Church vtterly spoyled and put out of fashion rather then ours wherein for one controuersie with vs there are tenne with them I dare bouldly auouch and those of no trifles but of main points of their Religion Lastly if we consider aright the diuisions that are in our Church betwixt the Caluinists and the Lutherans we shall easely perceaue that they are both few in quantitie and in qualitie such as ouerthrow no fundamentall article of the faith And this to be so this short treatise will plainely and briefely discouer vnto thee if thou please to bestow but an houre or two reading vpon it The Authors thereof are Germanes the translator a man not professing schollership but exercised in traficke of marchandise and therefore thou in wisedome wilt accept his wholesome bunch of Rhenish grapes though clad with a plain and easie garment made of homespun thred I am perswaded that his zeale to Gods Church and his loue to the peace of Zion moued him to vndertake this taske and in my iudgement this his good intent cannot but in some measure take some good effect for this short tract may serue thee for three excellent purposes First to discouer the malice of our Romish aduersaries who by mustering vp our diuisions would faine proue vs to haue no veritie amongst vs because we haue no vnitie whereas our differences are here made manifest to be not many in number nor of anie great moment that is such as concerne the wals and windowes of our faith but not the foundation Secondly thou maist also here take view what the maine differences are betwixt the Lutherans and the Caluinists that thou maist be able to iudge how the vnitie of faith is not broken betwixt them and that both ioine together in the seruice of one Christ and against his great enemie Antichrist And Lastly it may serue also as a meanes to calm the heat of the moderne quarrels in our Church which haue beene pursued on both partes with too too much violence of spirit for here both sides may learne this wholesome and short lesson that seeing they builde vpon one foundation therefore though they meete not in opinion yet they would meete in brotherly loue and laying aside all rancour and violent courses ioine their forces against the common aduersarie And this is the principall drift of this short discourse Now the God of peace sāctisie vs al throughout both in body soule and spirit that they may bee kept blamelesse to the comming of our Lord Iesus and giue vs grace that wee may hould fast the vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace Thine in the Lord Thomas Beard Minister of Gods word in the towne of Huntington Pag. 4. lin 25. read is not A FAITHFVLL ADMONITION of the PFALTZGRAVES Churches To all other Protestant Churches in DVCHLAND BEloued brethren all you that call vpon the name of the Lord Iesus with vs and desire to be saued by his death and bloodshedding as well as we you know how our true Lord and Sauiour so heartily councelled vs to peace Ioh. 13.34.35 Ioh. 17.11.21 And how feruently hee commanded at his departure out of this world that wee should agree one with another that so the whole world might know that hee was sent of God You know also how Paul saith 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 12.12.13.14 that wee who beleeue in Christ are all together one body and should loue together as members of one body and one beare with the infirmities of another And he that doth not so 1. Cor. 11.16 but hath delight in contention hee is no true member of the Church of God For the congregation of God hath no pleasure in contention How come we then to it Louing brethren that wee haue now contended together so many yeares with such bitternesse which well beseemeth not the very heathen and that for such questions without the knowledge whereof a man may well bee saued It being so that many thousands are since dead on both sides who vnderstood neither the one nor the others meaning aright and yet are neuerthelesse saued being dead in Christ What intend we then by so shameful a separation about such questions whereon saluation dependeth not One thinketh that the bread is to be broken at the Supper the other that it may well be left vnbroken How many thousand people are saued who haue eaten the bread brokē at the Supper How many thousand people are saued also who haue eaten the bread at the Supper vnbroken Is that then such a matter for which one should condemne an other so vnchristianly as formerly the Wittenbergers condemned vs and as now the Darmstatters condemne vs anew True it is the Darmstatters and Wittenbergers accuse vs as if wee had begun such condemning and had outlawed to Hell all such as doe not breake the bread at the Supper But the Lord knowes it that they doe vs wrong They would indeed inforce it from this for that we hold the breaking of bread for needfull Now it is most certaine wee hold the breaking of bread as needfull for we take it that Christ required it so to bee to accomplish his commaund is then needfull And therefore we beleeue that they do erre who hold the breaking of bread for a free indifferent thing which one may as wel leaue vndone as done But that wee should condemne any man for such an error that wil neuer be found in any of our writings but almost euery where the very contrary is holden by vs in this matter Epist 2. Beza writ at least 30 yeares agone that one who dwelt in such a place where the breaking of bread were not in vse was not therefore to refraine the Supper For although it be an errour to leaue the bread vnbroken yet is it not such an errour for which a man should be houlden a heathen which a man doth when he refuseth to cōmunicate with him that houldeth the contrary But it is such an errour which a man for christian loue sake must beare withal in them that commit it as with many more others also The like also writes Doct. Parens in his remembrance of breaking bread and saith that we do not