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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

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

partners of their damnation How long shal the light of reason and conscience sleepe how often must ye be admonish●d that right beleeuers must not participate with Infidels that I can haue no society with Belial nor my cup vvith the cup of Deuils If light and darkenesse can loue If I joyne in any respect with Lucifer if euer any mercy loue or amity any league or consent be betweene him and me then let Catholikes adhere to Heretikes If no such thing can possibly be but that eternal enmity bee sworne betweene vs why then should children of Hierusalem come to the solemnities of Babylon they which looke to be heires of heauen make pact with hel expecters of life euerlasting marchandise for their temporal with accursed death He that runneth with the theefe fornicateth with the adulterer murthereth with the Tyrant is in no case to be excused no not although they doe it for feare more then for affection to the sinne Shal they then vvhich professe heresie with Heretikes bee found cleare Of like I had no reason to forbidde you their company 31. Schismatikes are infected with heresie and not with pure Schisme only for you are prouident and discreet firmely grounded in the Catholike faith stronge Rockes vvhome no vvaues nor tempestes can moue vveake vvreatches and so much the vveaker by how much you presume more of your selues and rely more vpon your owne indeauours then vpon my grace how feeble ye are your actions giue better testimony then your imaginations Are ye they which can liue in the fire and not be scorched in the flame and not be smothered wade vp to the lippe in the surges of the Sea and not be ouerwhelmed handle pitch and not be defiled eate and drinke conuerse contract not only bargaines but marriages disport discourse play pray liue and die vvith Heretikes and yet sound at my terrible examen neither attached with their infection nor touched with contagion I fore-warned my auncient and first people that if they vsed the conuersation of Infidels among whom they dwelt Ios 23. they should finde them stumbling blockes of scandal by giuing occasion of ruine and prickes to their eies in putting out the inward light of faith what by example what by custome and perswasion Experience proueth this true in them and the euent argueth it more true in yourselues Are not most of you infected some with one heresie some with another I haue to charge you withal besides going to Church how soeuer you thinke your selues to be some-what vertuous and Godly Rarer then a white Crow is he to be found among you who either cancelleth not fasting-daies by his owne authority or dispenseth not with meates prohibited as often as he list or doubteth not of some article of faith if not of al One improueth Confession another Purgatory this man inuocation of Saints or vse of Images that man praiers for the Dead or the office in Latin There are that suppose Antichrist shal not be one singular person but includeth a company or a succession Many doubt nothing of this yet acknowledge no vnion of the Church vnder one head visible or detract from the authority of Councels and decrees Ecclesiastical Most of you feare least the gates of hel haue preuailed against my Rocke least the spirit which I gaue her haue not fulfilled my promise neither taught her al truth but that shee may diuersly erre The stench of the damnable memory and the fume of their brimstone ascendeth from the bottomlesse lake who of Schismatikes haue at last become flat Heretikes yea Persecutours yea and of an il beginning made a vvorse ending 3● By what meanes Schismatikes grow to be Heretikes vvhence al this not because the longer ye liue the skilfuller ye waxe in Diuinity the carefuller of your soules more desirous of heauen or are oftner visited with inspirations celestial but because ye vvaxe weary of expecting my pleasure in that I come not at your appointment but let my secret and eternal prouidence haue the determinate course ye thinke I haue either forgotten my Church or cast her off supposing quite contrary to Christian doctrine that aduersity is an absolute signe of my indignation and of a reprobate religion Waxing more and more in loue vvith the world ye haue lesse sence and feeling of remorse by neuer talking with Priests nor conferring of matters touching the spirit by being loden with secret sinnes which either you wil not acknowledge or minde not to forsake or cannot be indured to reforme by restitution and satisfaction it commeth to passe partly through the nature of such negligence partly through my just permission for your vngratitude toward me that you beginne to loath the religion vvhich checketh your humour and assureth not heauen to sinne and iniquity Amidst these your sensual carnal and worldly affections heresie buszeth about your eares plausibly inuiting you to her cuppe of pleasure Thus lying open to the enimy and destitute of my grace and protection you are made a pray to the roring Lyon vvhile with conuersing among Heretikes ye become like them in life Becomming like them in conditions you quickly delight in their sutable doctrine Poyson poyson lurketh in their company as in domestical Adders and in the familiarity as in Cocatrice eies What though at the first ye be not Conquered He which loueth peril shal perish therein vvhat though their arguments be but weake and foolish Drops of raine in continuance pearce the hardest stone a smal worme in time decaieth the roote of the fairest Vine and contemptible Yui● being let alone ouer-creep●th and ouer mastereth in time the tal●st tree Flee therefore society of Heretikes asmuch as you may euen in temporal businesse because of your peril and because my counsaile is so to doe F●ee it absolute in fact of religion not for peril only but for sinne not because of my aduise only but for my commandement sake Flee Babilon flee Chore flee Sodome flee from the aduersary campe in time as ye wil at the day of my victory at the day of your death at the great day of judgement not be taken for enimies 33. The obstinacy of Schismatikes and ingratitude towardes God Perceiue ye not for al that I can say or doe the horror of your offence oh ye my traitours and rebels how long shal I cry out to a people which haue stopped their eares and alleage reason to them which say they wil not vnderstand how long shal I preach repentance to them which repel knowledge and catch hold vpon euery simple shift as vpon a staffe to sustaine their halting and trembling consciences The eare discerneth wordes and the eies coulours the mouth tastes This rude wilful people hath reason and yet discerueth not iniquity They repel al outward admonitions for fea●e they should be conuicted secret inspiration of contrition they reject as melancholly remorse of conscience they hate as a hart sore Shal I for this hold my peace and leaue to lay open their