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A17128	An embassage from heauen Wherein our Lord Sauiour Christ Iesus giueth to understand his iust indignation against al such, as being Catholikely minded, dare yeelde their presence to the rites and publike praier, of the malignant church, by Ralphe Buckham priest ...	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1611 (1611)	STC 4007; ESTC S115956	47,408	131

doe the workes of children if you be my seruants doe the vvorkes of seruants Haue accesse to my Priests frequent my Sacraments cleanse your soules by humble confession and penance haue in due reuerence my rights and ceremonies honour my seruice with your presence prostrate your selues before my holy Altar lifting vp pure hartes and handes Adore with zealous indeauour at the houre of my dreadful Sacrifice when propitiation for the liuing and dead when memory of your Redeemer is celebrated This seeke through fire and vvater through swordes and snares Let neither distance of miles nor friuoulous danger of places nor surmised peril of your owne persons impeach Godly indeauours what should I say more declare by your deuotion that you hunger and thirst saluation and that you set by nothing so much as by the exercises of your religion and the presence of me your Sauiour Aboue al flie the Synagogues of Sathan flie al prophane praiers al heretical cōuenticles al vngodly rites al participation with any thing that belongeth to the table and cuppe of Deuils This doe and then cal me Father of heauen and the Church Mother of earth I wil blesse you in life and shee shal present you to meat your death Here you straine courtesie here flesh and bloud reclaimeth the spirit taking the foile and the old man triumphing 14. Schismatikes justly repelled from the Sacraments some of you discharge themselues of their crimes by mystewards ouer rigorous austerity and by cōplaint of injury in being secluded from my sacred misteries vnderstand ye what ye aske oh ye hypocrites in this one thing only happy that your suite is suspended and prudently rejected by those which know that they are ordained for dispensers not for spenders and vvasters of my celestial prouision and that the childrens foode is not to be giuen to dogges nor pearles to be cast before swine why demaunde ye that which would augment your damnation which though most diuine yet would no more sanctifie you then it did Iudas nor more preuaile you then the Arke did profit the Philistian The sweetest conserues in vndisposed stomackes turne to gal and choller the most nourishing meates breede most annoy in infected bodies and nothing is wholsome where wanteth digestion What flower or herbe the Spider feedeth on turneth to venom be it neuer so pleasant and vvhat Serpents deuour turneth to poison be it neuer so wholsome How dare you proffer to approch to my Altar where so great a Majesty is resident vvithout sufficient examination and proofe of your worthinesse how can ye be proued vnlesse ye be purged how purged but by penance how admitted to penance and pardon either not acknowledging your guilt or not in purpose of amendment Wel then 15. Schismatiks are to be presumed for Heretikes and why among my Catholikes since you are not where shal I finde you where are your raunges being that you cleaue to Sectaries in actes of their Schismatical profession I pronounce you Protestants whose proceedings in departure from the faith though in priuate opinion or possibly in talke ye reproue yet by presence at their houses of Idolatry you in appearance honour by obeying you allow by example you further by deedes you confirme by dissembling you establish You goe thither as one of them you sit there as one of them you behaue your selfe reuerently as one of them The Caluinist taketh you for Proselites and as either conuerted or conformed not altogether abhorring their pretended religion not ouer resolute in the old faith and finally as persons not farre from their Kingdome The poore Catholike scandalized at your impiety frameth no other conceipt then that either you are quite peruerted to heresie or at leastwise that your faith is in the wane that your Sunne is set your deuotion done the light of your soule extinguished that you are lost sheepe distemblers Schismatikes and at the brinke of bottomelesse heresie And haue not thinke you the one and the other just reason of their censure You giue your hand though you vvith-hold your hart you weare the Deuils coate though you cal him not Lord you honour him though you hate him though you abhon● him yet you obey him 16. Those which goe to the cōuēticles of Heretical rites are justly and properly called Schismatikes Abhominable is Schisme and ●o●rible is the name of a Schismatike but why should this be a word of offence to whom the subject thereof and the sacrilege of so great a sinne is neither shame nor remorse Men are men not priuy to the secre●s of harts the vnderstanding censureth as by the senses is deliuered The Church therefore judgeth by that which shee seeth not by that which shee seeth not The deede as reason wil doth prejudice the contrary word and vpon the fact riseth sentence of faith When my Church in her first prime vvas nipped vvith sharpe persecution so that diuers blossomes sel from her branches those which through passionate feare condescended to Idolatry vvere by the Bretheren condemned as fallen from their faith rejected as Apostataes and denounced excommunicated neither receiued againe vvithout publike satisfaction and many yeares penance He that should keepe the Saterday holy and pray with Iewes in their congregation were to be supposed a Iew Euery man would exclaime against the fact vvithout caring for the cause He that entreth any of Mahomets meschits prayeth in his Temples or kisseth the bookes of his law is of euery Christian man defied for a Runnegate and of the Turkes priuileged for a Boserman no man inquiring whether loue of their Mahometry or dread of extremity whether carnal sensuality and liberty of their law or worldly prosperity did moue him fixing their eies vpon his outward action men let the intention repose it selfe in the prosound abisme of the hart what then should hinder why you also associating Heretikes in their actions yea principal and proper actions of their profession should not be blazoned for a sherents to Infidelity bearing the blot of depa●ters from my Church Catholike and consequently of Schismatical persons 17. Protestāts cannot be of the Catholike Church neither in their faith can be saluation I know I know what it is that lieth at your hart a mischiefe so corrupting your appetite that it destreth not good and your tast that it discerneth not euil a priuy poison but so pestiterous so benumming not the senses but the soule that if it be not exhausted an incureable letargy a mortal and euerlasting sleepe ensueth ye are not perswaded forsooth that the Protestants religion is so abhominable they are to precise which either make them Heretikes or thinke that Heretikes must needes miscarry What we be al Christians beleeue in one Sauiour expect one heauen and enjoy one redemption Haue not al men soules to saue little diffe●ences make no great square in the foundation we agree At leastwise whatsoeuer their liues be wicked and doctrine false their praiers and Churches must needs be of God because they

am prest to receiue you once more euen now inuite you againe to saluation As for the rest you haue heard I am sure and by authority authentical that I am a hard Lord reaping where I sowed not a seuere creditour that wil exact of vngrateful debtours the vttermost farthing a precise Iudge which wil examine and cal to accompt euery idle word A straight Prince Math. 25 which wil damne to vtter darkenesse an vnprofitable seruant a terrible God vvhich for negligences and omissions of smaller matters then exercise of religion and profession of faith wil denounce Goe ye cursed into euerlasting fire Haue I not flatly proclaimed that the way to heauen is straight the gate narrow and sew shal enter that scant the just shal be saued If it shal goe so hard vvith good Catholikes vvhat shal become of you if the flourishing and fruitful tree shal scant escape fire what shal the dry and vvithered stocke This if ye wil not now vnderstand to saluation the tempter shal beate it into your heades at your final houre to desperation 49. Schismatikes rely vpon humane wisdome My wordes I wast not able to perswade this wise and circumspect company vvho cast beyonde the Moone and thinke vvith their farre reach to surpasse my prouidence vvho deeme it a feate of the greatest folly that may be to venture goodes for grace their liuings for my loue to hazard terrene honour for hope of Celestial glory and a little temporal prosperity for eternal felicity This is the summe of your reckoning First and principally before the care of God and conscience I wil quietly enjoy my wealth and liue in estimation among al men to my power Shal I be in danger of want or seeke a straungers table vvho am now able to entertaine others Shal my enimies haue aduantage ouer me and treade me vnder feete Shal varlets and ribauldes possesse themselues of my substance which I haue so painefully gotten together and so carefully kept Shal I liue in prison and be vsed I know not how who now may goe where I list and sport at my pleasure Vnderstand what is true pollicy oh ye babes learne perfect prudence oh ye fooles that which you say is vanity and the practise thereof is meere maddenesse Pro. 1. 9. The beginning of wisdome if your vvisdomes wil consider it is my feare Eccles 12. and the accomplishment of wisdome is the awe of me This is the beginning and the end this is al in al. 1. Cor. 3. The wisdome of the flesh is foolishnesse before me Pro. 12. and the waies of the wicked shal finally deceiue them ye say ye are not blinde your owne wordes condemne ye Ioh. 9. and of them I take witnesse that ye erre not of simplicity and ignorance Beguile not your selues I am not to be jested vvith al. Measure your fore-sight Pro. 23. trust not ouer-much to your deuises which I wil bring to confusion Pro. 3. but haue confidence in me with al your hart Be no longer wise in wickednesse and simple in goodnesse Seeke first the Kingdome of he●uen and the righteousnesse thereof and al thinges else shal be supplied by me Rom. 8. The wisdome of the flesh is death but wisdome of the spirit is life eternal If ye abhorre to be a triumph to your enimies Let not the Deuil the chiefest foe of al braue me by the spoiles of your soules Now you are captiue now may your backe friendes scorne you now doe they treade vpon you when they haue made you yeeld vnto them and for feare of them to doe that which is both a shameful shift and which they know vexeth you to the hart For he is neuer ouercome vvhich maketh resistance but he whose courage failing recanteth as recreant Neither is your estimation to be stoode vpon as a matter of worth for honesty may be wel thought crackt where Christian duty to God hath taken her flight It cannot be expected that he wil be loyal to man who hath violated fidelity to his maker If you force not of this credit but intend authority gape after dignity loue superiority and delight to command are not your hartes guilty of abhominable ambition and testifie against you that ye loue the honour of men more then the honour of your Lord God Let your glory be to know me for to follow me is perfect worship Eccles 23. I am the glory of my people and they are my countenance Liberty you loue why then remaine ye the slaues of sinne ye are content to be the Deuils bond men and thral rather then ye wil be my seruants and to endure his heauy fetters rather then sustaine my sweet yoke Vse the liberty which I haue giuen you captiuate not your spirits and free-wil to the earthly inclination of sensuality And why should you preferre gold and siluer before me whereas I redeemed not you with corruptible mettel but with the last droppe of my bloud The earth is mine Luke 15. ye are mine husband-men and labourers al goodes are mine and ye are my Stewardes is it much for you to render to me my owne if I demande it you are rich enough if ye haue a good conscience Eccles 3. and most pestilent pouerty is in a wicked breast vvherein is no goodnesse Better is piety then pretious stones Pro. 30. it is the word of life and a Bay-tree alwaies flourishing Rom. 15. Eccles 27. Better is a little with piety then great treasures Many seeking riches turne away their sight from seing truth and easily make shipvvracke of their soules seeke not so eagerly that which is an impediment to the entry of my Kingdome 50. The great folly of Schismatikes But for asmuch as you thinke your selues so wise consider yet a little and you shal see much more of your foolishnesse which euery child may plainely discry and conuict you of folly what profiteth it you that my Church hath power to forgiue sinnes seing you haue no accesse vnto it that shee prayeth for her children both liue and dead seing ye be none of hers What auaileth it you that my Passion is a medicine to saluation seing ye apply it not vnto you that my holy Body sanctifieth and prepareth to glory seing ye neuer receiue it What booteth it you that the just shal shine like the Sunne seing ye for your schisme shal be as vgly as fiendes that to the righteous is prepared a Kingdome of glory seing ye be vvicked and deserue torment in Hel That there is a Heauen seing ye shal not enter into it Angels and Saints seing ye shal neuer enjoy their company Finally in vaine it is to you that there is a God into whose rest ye shal neuer enter and whose face ye shal neuer see ye haue mouthes and praise me not aright eares but neuer heare the Canonical praiers and voice of my Spouse eies ye haue and neuer behold me your Sauiour though