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death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

to shew his face in the presence of a Reformed Spaniard But what did his Worship he imployed a certaine Popish Swash-buckler who before in the same City of Saint Giles had slaine a man in the street Him hee suborned to doe me some notable affront and accordingly this knaue taking a very sleight occasion gaue me a blow on the care in the open street These are the concluding arguments of the Iudaits this their open-handed rhetorique this their close fist of Logique Nor must we thinke this strange in those who set forth cut throats for their Champions What should poore I doe in this case I did pocket vp this wrong as patiently as I could and when I had spent out my yeare there I craued leaue to be gone and that by the good aduice of a certaine friend who wished me to quit that place affirming vpon his knowledge that the Papists there did lay wait for me Being to depart our brethren of the Reformed Church there held me and earnestly intreated mee to stay but on the other side some tenne or fifteene Papists triumphed at my departure as though it had beene a signe of their conquest ouer me So departed I according to our Sauiours precept Mat. 10.23 If they persecute you in one Citie flye into another and was entertained in other Towns where I receiued conuenient stipend namely in Bouuer Bouuer Kaylaz and Kaylaz neere vnto Nismes whose inhabitants were all protestants Whilest I remained here I read ouer againe and againe a certaine French Treatise written by M. Peter Moulin called The Buckler of Faith In it I found many things which did cleare vnto mee the Doctrine of saluation vpon which passages I did dayly meditate and oftentimes saide to my selfe thus O yee my brethren Spanyards whom God hath indued with such depth of wit O would our Masters the Inquisitors would suffer you to take this Buckler into your hands to arme your selues with this shield against all the poisonous darts of the malignant enemy O would to God I might with losse of my life buy the happinesse to see you obey our Lord and Sauiour Iohn 5.39 bidding vs search the Scriptures rather then yeeld vnto the yoke of Antichrist the Lord of Lords who commandeth you the contrary and taking the Scriptures from you giueth you instead thereof stocks and stones to be adored and worshipped by you O would to God that there might shine in your eyes some glimpse of that light which guideth vs wretched men out of the kingdome of darkenesse into the glorious kingdome of the Sonne of God Colos 1.13 O that the same good God who is light and in whom there is no darknesse 1 Iohn 1 5. would say vnto you that which he said in the beginning and still saith to his elect Gen. 1 3. Let there bee Light Then surely you should not any longer bee darknesse but Light in the Lord Ephos 5.8 no longer wandering sheepe falling downe before Idols but returned to the shepheard and Byshop of our soules 1 Pet. 2 28 euen vnto Christ Iesus who is ready to betroath them vnto himselfe by true faith which worketh by charity Hos 2 25. But there is one that hindreth you from enioying this great benefit namely he that will bee accounted another Christ and omnipotent and yet in the meane either stealeth from you or chaungeth Gods Commaundements and will by no means suffer you to read and heare the holy Scriptures in your Mother tongue least you should vnderstand them and by the light of them discouer his tyranny Would to God that you that sit in darkenesse Luk. 1 ●9 in the shadow of death might bee enlightned by the Sun of righteousnesse arising vnto you Mal 4 2. that yee might go forth and grow vp as Calues of the stall shaking off the Popes heauy yoak which himselfe wil not touch so much as with his finger yeelding your neckes vnto the sweet yoake of Christ I would to God the Office of Inquisition or rather Inquination would suffer you to view engrauen in this Buckler a faire and pure Confession of Faith most agreeable to the Scriptures Then should you easily behold the falshood and deformity of your Religion which you would thereupon loath no lesse then now you detest our Religion being induced so to doe by your Preachers who decipher it vnto you as foule false and contemptible as it is in it selfe faire true and amiable Then should you see as cleare as the noone day That the Reformed Christians or Protestants whom ye call Heretiques because they will not thrust their necks into the Popes tyrannous yoake doe not as you dreame beleeue many things repugnant not onely against the Word of God but also against the light of reason Your clamorous Friers in their sermons ring in your eares that we beleeue the blessed Virgin Marie not to haue continued a Virgin after the birth of our Sauiour That wee haue corrupted or dismembred the Scriptures That there be no Sacraments in our Churches or at least that we beleeue that the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Body and bloud of our Lord are nothing else but naked and barren signes That we damne all good Workes That we admit no penance But as for our persons your people being misled and incensed by the barking of your Friers thinketh that we beare not the shape of men but are Monsters with Dogges faces or Hogges snowts That we liue barbarously and wildely in rude Cottages or Dennes These and such like guls they put vpon you which deserue rather our Laughter in contempt then our labour in refutation As for that one point concerning the raising a dishonourable opinion of the Virgin Marie let them looke to it who blush not when they reade that which before wee haue touched concerning worthy sir Allen so wooed courted by the blessed Virgin Considering and weighing with my selfe all these particulars and conferring with certaine learned and discreete Ministers of Gods Word as also with other well affected Gentlemen vpon their aduice and intreatie I was inflamed with a desire to translate the aforsaid Buckler of faith into the Spanish tongue And being resolued no longer to resist the motion of Gods Spirit which with sorrow I confesse my selfe to haue resisted for the space of a yeare I set my hand to this taske and hauing with foure moneths paines finished it I dedicated the same vnto the most Excellent Charles Prince of Wales being thereunto led by the first Author by whom the saide Treatise in the Originall French was dedicated vnto his Highnesse But when as a certaine honest man of Monpelier by whom I had sent Letters into Spaine to my bretheren vppon his returne thence had with an Oath affirmed vnto mee that hee heard my elder Brother speake these words All we his sixe Bretheren desire nothing more ernestly in the world thē his death speaking of me we would willingly giue