saluation he made to sounde throughout the whole world that trumpette of the predycation of his grace and mercy towardes vs sending his legattes and Apostles to preach his pardon generall by his gospell to all those and vs that had bene traitors and rebels vnto him and his glory for that beleeuyng the grace and doctryne that on his behalfe was pronounced vnto them and vs they with vs and we with them should be absolued made free from all maner of Synnes bothe veniall and mortall and the punishments for the same the which they had broughte themselues and vs into This mercy although it were generall to all yet it did take effect but only in those which did truely beleeue with fayth and that did leaue of the seruice of sinne and did submit them selues with all their hartes to truth righteousenes and holynesse of lyfe for it hath bene séene in our age that men haue bene deceaued forgetting of him who is the fountayne of lyfe and wysdome in whome doeth consiste all trewe health and trusting in vayne thinges we haue lyued like vnbrideled horses in vnrighteousenesse and abhomynable Idolatryes by the cause whereof be and haue bene wars honger pestelence and many other ordynary chastisementes common and perticuler in and through al Christendom the which are testimonies that the wrath of god is iustly inflamed against vs and that the last day of his deuyne iudgement is at hand our moste holy and sempiternall high prieste with desire of our health and saluation and for that by trwe repentaunce we should conuert vnto hym to be made partakers of the lyfe euerlasting moued by his mercy doth charge and commaund now anew that this Iubily in the which is declared the fruit of his death which is the full pardon of all our sinnes and offences be preached to all christians throughout the whole world because that those which by true repentaunce and amendment of lyfe do receaue it be and are reconfiled and put in peace with God and so by consequente sette frée from all euils presente and to come the tenor whereof doth followe ¶ This is the Iubily and full pardon of sins a Culpa et Pena most graciously granted to the church of god dispersed throughoute the whole world BY the auctority of our most holy Father God almighty supreme hed and prouyder for all creatures and in the name of Iesus Christ his sonne the great pastoure and Bishop of our soules and by the vertue of the holy ghost maister and conseruer of the true church it is enioyned and expresly commaunded by the vertue of holy obedience to vs al and to as many of vs as haue receaued the Sacrament of holy baptisme that we reade and vnderstad and that we giue to vnderstand from one to another euery one according to the Talent or gifte that wee shall receaue hereby to preache the nature and propertie of him who doth call vs from darcknes to his admirable light and these immēsible graces the great priuiledges graunted therin perpetually to all the faithfull seruaūtes of Christ to as many as wil be and do receiue him and doe beleeue and truste firmely in the lyfe euerlasting gotten only by the sheading of his most pretious blood for that it is he that is that christ that from the beginning was promysed by god the father to our forefathers to be their sauiour and a sauioure of their séede and descendents by whose vertue strength and power should be destroied that old serpent by whom they their seede and discendēts were brought into the state of perdition the which he did conclude by his death and did appeasethe wrath of god and satisfie to his iudgemente for our sinnes and offences and by hys righteousenesse did obteyn for vs most copious plentious and eternal redemtion and pardon generall for our sins a Culpa et Pena as his most holy Father had decreed and ordeined from before the beginning and creation of the world and afterward to the ende to conuide or inuite vs to the receite of our health and discouering of his ryches and mercy though we be vnworthy yet he notwithstanding did loue vs by his sonne Iesus Christ and dyd promyse vs by his saints and seruants the prophets that in whatsoeuer tyme and place although our sinnes wer neuer so great and in number to the sandes of the sea yet if we did cal vpon him with a penitent heart truste in his mercy and desire pardon and forgeuenesse at his handes yea euen then of his great loue we should be so truely pardoned and restored to hys grace and frendshyppe as if we had neuer offended nor sinned againste him with promyse neuer to remem them agayne notwithstanding they were neuer so greate nor greuous because that Iesus Christe being become man in the parson of our flesh and in all thinges lyke vnto vs did take vpon him our sinnes and so by vs was brought vnder curses and malediction for that he tooke vppon his shoulders our sinnes and did suffer moste cruell death for them vpon a tree and by the infinite power and vertue of the Sacrafice that he tooke vpon him selfe to offer vpon the crosse he did blot out and destroy all our offences and sinnes wholy and did obteyne by his merites onely so riche and plentyfull a liberty for vs. Low the father of all mercy and god of all comfort and consolation to certifie vs of his good will with that which he will saue and take vs from the captiuity and bondage of the devill hauing established in his holy church this inestimable treasure of redemption of reconciliation and grace gayned onely by hys onely begotten sonne hee dothe now most liberally open it vnto vs for that as many as will may enioy the same and receue the benefit thereof euery one with hauing of a sure fayth and affiance that the bloud of the lambe without spott was shed and once offered for the sinnes of all mankynde to be a true oblation for the same and that there nedeth no other satisfaction nor absolution before god but onely it And therfore for as much as this is onely pardon for sinn it is now publyshed by the infinite mercy of god which doth pardon vs by one onely Iesus Christ whose bloud was shed to the same end and ther is no health in none other but in him because there is none other name vnder heauen giuen vnto men by the which they should be saued but onely his he will that all beleuers haue and houlde the same by and for his proper wisdome righteousnes santification and redemption because as he is god and redemer of all generally so is he of euery one particularly and therfore he will that euery one of hys in particular shall take haue hould and enioy the gracious redemption and pardon obtayned and bowght wyth christes bloude
IEHOVAH ¶ A free Pardon vvith many Graces therein conteyned graunted to all Christians by our most Holy and reuerent Father GOD almightie the principal high Priest and Bishoppe in Heauen and Earth First written in the Spanish tounge and there published by a Spaniard vnknowen yet as it seemeth the seruant of our sayde Holy Father And now Translated into the mother English tounge by Iohn Danyel of Clements Inne ¶ Printed at London by Thomas East for Andrew Maunsell and are to be sould at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot ¶ To the right honorable Syr Ambrose Nicholas Lorde Maior of the Citie of LONDON To the right vvorshipfull maister VVilliam Fleetewood esquire Recorder of the same To the right worshipful maister Edward Osborne maister VVoolston Dixie esquires and Sheriffes of the same To the right vvorshipful their brethren the Aldermen To the worshipful maister Norton the rest of the priuie counsell for the renowmed and worthy gouernment of the same and to euery of them grace and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ Amen WHen as right Honorable and right worshipful I had made an ende of this my trauaile in translateing this preatie pamphlet and Pardon generall to the receiuers of the same with my musinge mynde remembring with my selfe to whome I should dedicate so worthy a worke and coulde not thinke of any with in this noble Citie more fitter to be my patrōs defēdors in publishinge hereof beinge as I trust with you a poore mēber of one body whose head is Iesus Christ our Lord beholdīg the firmnes of the true faith in one of the mēbres of the same body the aucthor hereof spronge out frō among the principals of Pope Antechrists panyons in Spaine I hauing therin great cōfort ioy did presume to make you partakers of the same Because I doe see dayly euery one of you lyke worthy wightes heades and rulers of such a noble citie do practise and put in vre by all meanes possible suche good and godly acts orders for the good setting forth of Christs faith and true religion as maketh mee to thincke that thus in presuminge herein I do rather please you all then offend any Yf you take it in good parte I am therby encouraged to take a greter trauail in hand to the same effect I trust to the glory of god the treatise is very deuine the conclusion comfortable it is also short and therfore soone reade ouer wherfore I besech you most humbly to accept it with the good will of the geuer who will dayly pray for all you and yours that with faith yee maye florish and prosper in all godly doinges tyll th ende and in th ende that you may inherite the celestiall kingdome with al the benefitts in this Iubily contayned From my house in saint Brides churchyarde the. 13. of Ianuary 1576 ¶ Your honors and worships most humbly Iohn Danyell REmember dearely beloued that ye were not baptised in the name of men of Images nor yet of Idols that be dombe to be their seruauntes to honoure them contrary to the commaundements of God but in the name of Iesus Christ because you shold worship and serue him as he doeth commaunde but for all that since the tyme we were indewed with knowledge and the reason thereof we haue bene blynded and led astraye farre from our duties yet God hauing pitty vpon vs and willing to saue vs did so by his deuyne prouydence although by hys ryghteous iudgement he mighte worthely condemne vs wherefore let vs make no small accoumpt of this benefite of Pardone and Indulgence now offered vnto vs by that most Holy reuerend Father most worthy of prayse and glory for that we see he asketh no mony of vs for it as Antichrist doeth for his trash he demaundeth of vs nothing but that only we shoulde haue a sure fayth hope and confydence in the same for that he himselfe doth graunt it and geue it vs in his sonne Iesus Christ and therefore let vs not for the vayne feare of men leaue nor let slip the inioying of such pardons and graces with the benefite therof but accept thē gladly for as the Lord our god saieth we cannot be saued without them ¶ A short sum of all the Indulgences Graces Pardons graunted of god our most holy father by his sonne Iesus Christ to al faithful Christians in this Iubily mentioned and commanded to bee publyshed because that all those that doe repente them of their sinnes and tourn vnto him may inioy the benefites contayned in the same in this world the fauour of god and in the world to come life euerlasting WHen the fulnesse of time was come and the acceptable daye of our sauyng health according to the determinate wyll of god ordeined in his deuine coūsaile before the begynning and creation of the worlde our most holy and eternall father hauing pitty vppon vs of his mighty free will and bounteous lyberality did send his only begottē son to be borne of a woman and made subiect to the lawe because that by him shoulde be preached vnto vs the great and gracious reconsiliation made by him selfe betweene god the father and vs beeing as we were rebels and the children of rebels for that all by one had incurred the payne of a rebell to his deuyne maiesty by the which the Deuil Death had gotten empery rule and the vpper hand ouer vs absolutely and we made the slaues of sinne and did obey sinne and were made abhomynable and corrupted abhorrors of all righteousenes and louers of all kynde of wickednesse deade in sinne and buried in errors children of wrath by nature and subiect to the curses and malediction preached vnto vs as agaynst the ennemyes of gods truth so that as out castes and desperate people we were without remedy and ready to be cast into the prison of darcknesse and fyre of hell in the company of the deuill his Aungels of whom we did giue so wilful obedyēce But our blessed God and most holy Father as he is rich in mercy so is he willing to shew vnto vs his immēsible charity with the which although wee were his ennemies yet he loued vs to the end to deliuer vs from the power of darcknesse and clense vs from our sinnes to make vs partakers of his righteousenesse to destroy the Empery of the Deuyll by the potency mighte of the redeemer of the world and so to preserue vs from his iust wrath and indignation and or wicked condemned children of darcknesse to make vs children of lighte and so to bring vs to the kingdome of his beloued sonne Jesus Christ he did ordeyne that this his good wyll should be publyquely preached and declared vnto vs to this end after that Christe had accomplyshed and fulfilled the worcke of our redemtion and gloriousely tryumphed ouer all the ennemies of his glory to our
for all mankynde the which shal be sealed in their hartes by the holy ghoste the spirit of promyse for that quickned by it they should shew the fruites of holines and righteousnes with the which they do shew thēselues obedient to god and true and liuely members of Iesus Christ who doth say vnto all and to euery one in generall particuler I am I my self am he that doth race and blot out the wickednes and offences of my people for myne owne sake and I will neuer more remember their sinnes and by Ezechiell as truly as I liue saith the lorde I will not the death of a sinner but rather that he tourne from his wickednes and liue and by Saint Iohn I am the resurection and the lyfe he that beleueth in me although he be deade yt shall hee liue and whosoeuer that doth liue and beleue in me shall neuer dye and hee that thirsteth let him come to me and I will geue hym drincke and I am the lighte of the worlde and hee that foloweth me shall not goe in darckenes but shall haue the light of lyfe and therfore be doth graunt as followeth To all those that be of contrite hart that doe trust in his mercy in his bloud death and passion that they shal be partakers of the fruite of his redemption which is a full remissiō of all their sinns and offences for euer ITem to those which are meke pacient ' full of long suffering which suffer rather to be iniured and depriued of their goods and substaunce then to consent vnto sinne Idolatry abhomynable wickednes he doth pronounce and graunt vnto them that they shall inherite the earth and be in the numbre of his own children and seruauntes Item to those that hould Sathan and his seruauntes for blynd captyue and bonde to hell death and damnation and do giue fayth to all that is graunted in this Iubily he doth graunt vnto them a trew sight in his gospell and also doth set them cleare and at a francke and free liberty from that bondage Item to those which haue obeyed sin and were therefore banyshed and depryued of the ioyes of Paradice if now they beleeue in the gospel and be ruled by the same he doth graunt vnto them that they be restored wholy into a sure and firm hope to haue possesse them agayne and neuer more to bee depryued Item to those that for the hate they haue vnto wickednesse do mortify and kyll wyth the spirite the euill inclynations affections and concupiscences of the flesh conforme and accordyng to the profession that euery one by the holy ghost did make in his baptisme hee doth graunt vnto them a glorious victory in the end Item to those which alwayes are in warre and stryfe with them selues and do byde payne to resiste the sinne that is in them and in the world and to those that goe with griefe of mynde heauy and mornyng for the same hee doth graunte vnto all such all trwe celestiall and heauenly comforte wyth promyse that in the ende he him selfe will wype away the teares from thyir eyes and their heauinesse shal be tourned into ioye and their weepyng into laughter Item to those that do honger and thyrst for ryghteousenesse sake and that in all thynges do procure with all theyr hartes that which god doth commaund by his deuine worde hee doeth graunt vnto them plenty of ioy and heauenly delightes that neuer shall haue end Item to all those that be haue ben mercyfull and that haue pittied the afflicted with a christian affect burning with charity to succour them in theyr necessities he doth graunte vnto them Plenissima indulgentia a moste ful francke and free pardon and doth geue vnto them for euer his mercy to bée their patrone and defendour in iudgement with a ioy pardurable in the cōpany of his sayntes and chosen Item to those that are persecuted as christians for faith loue and righteousnesse he doth graunt vnto them the blessednesse of hys heauenly kingdome and that the sprite of his glory and grace shall rest vpon them and that they haue ioy and christian delightes in conscience while they shal be in this world and for euer Item to those that by Christ do beleue and trust in God and doe purify theyr soules with loue without fayning hee doth graunt vnto them a perseuerance by fayth in his gospell with a blessed ende Item to those that with the bowels of charitie will gyue their almes for the building and repayring of the lyuyng temples that Iesus Christ did redéeme with his moste pretious bloud which are the true pouerty faythfull afflicted he doth graunt vnto them full pardon and that they be sanctified by the holy ghost to be a temple for euer for hym to inhabite and dwell in Item to al those which are faythful and that doe know the truth hee doeth graunt liberty that with temperaunce and respect of charity had to all them that are weake in faith that they may indifferently all the dayes of the yeare with action of grace that is gyuyng of thankes vse and eate of all kynde of meates created of God therefore notwithstanding the vayne and foolish decrees and diffēces made had and mainteyned by and vnder false tytles of men without pitty the feare of God and his righteous deuine iudgment Item to all those which in theyr heauinesse of mynde and all their troubles do ronne and apply them selues onely to God call vpō him in the name and by the merites of Iesus Christ his onely sonne he doth graunt vnto them a spirituall health and comfort wyth an vnloading and setting at liberty of their burthened and troubled conscyences Item to all those that hould and accoumpt Iesus Christ for their onely sauiour high Priest Kyng and Prophet he doth graunt vnto them a full pardon and that no euyll shall preuaile against them but that they shal be partakers of hys euerlasting kingdome and glory Item for as much as it is necessary for the health and saluation of all christians and of euery one that is a chrystian to fulfill the first and moste holy sacred vow made in baptisme whyche is to loue alwaies righteousenes truth and godlynesse and to abhorre the contrary The onely law geuer which only can saue and spill bynde and loose for that they should be able to fulfill the same doth graunt to all men and wemen of what estate or condition soeuer they be being christians that they néede not haue nor kéepe the bond of continency for notwithstanding what soeuer vow or promyse of chastity or virginitie that they haue made yet they may freely take vpon them and enter in to the holy estate of matrimony to auoyde fornycation and to the ende that the holy temple of the Lord which is theyr bodyes be not prophaned contayminated and fall into perdition and so
and others that the bloud of Iesus Christ is the onely maker cleane the clenser and purgatory purger of them and that there is not cannot nor may not be any other and that we haue no neede of any other but he vnto them and such lyke is graunted by our almighty most holy Father indulgentia plenaria and that they receyue the benefite of his passion and so made cleane of all theire sinnes Item to all those that are studious and desirous to heare and so worcke according to the word of God whych is the onely rule for to please him by to knowe the trwe Church to bee enioyned incorporated with Chryst his moste mighty holynes dothe graunte vnto them that they shal be blessed for euermore Item to all those that notwithstanding the excōmunications Barbarian and Turkish defenses and decreese and other tyrannicall and Pagan cruelties of antechrist and his ministers do and will loue receiue incurre cōmunicate defend helpe with counsell sustenance and charitable intreatise the faythfull members of Iesus Christ and whiche by the mercy that they haue receaued at his handes doe acknowledge him to be their onely health and saluation and be immitators and followers of him in lyfe and doctrine doe ronne away from the errors and other abhomynable abuses in the which they haue lyued contrary to the gospell and for the same be and haue bene abhorred and persecuted by the children of darcknes and of the world his almighty holines and deuyne magnificence doeth promyse and graunt vnto them that they shal be beloued receiued gwarded kept comforted prospered deliuered from their ennemies holpen in all their troubles and necessities and at the last day alowed and accepted before the father and his holy Aungels for faithfull confessoures of his truth and righteousnes and in the end of al enriched with the eternall riches of his celestiall blessednesse Item to all those that doe and wyll beleeue in Iesus Christ with all theyr hartes and all their powers and wyll lyue with doing worckes of fayth with a firme hope and trust in Christes merites and righteousenesse as is commaunded by the gospel he doth graunt vnto them millions of millions yeres of pardon for all their sinnes A pena et culpa and also peace and rest in conscience with promyse that after their departure out of this world they shal presently enter into a full possession of the eternall kingdome of Christ Iesus Item to all and euery one and to whatsoeuer parson or parsons that wil imbrace Christ and his righteousenes with a trwe fayth and hope therein if they be in the article of death whether it be by signes tokens or wordes so it be from the bottome of their hartes and doe faythfully beleeue that Christ Iesus made a full satisfaction to God the Father for the sinnes of all mankynde his most high holinesse doeth grant vnto them Plenissima indulgentia a most free pardon remission and absolution from all their sinnes and are set at libertie fully for all paynes and punishmentes due for the same Item because the sainctifier of al men is of nature mercifull and doth loue and wil the saluation of all these which he did redeeme with his moste precious blood He doth graunt and it is his almightines moste holy wyll that if it chaunce that any such parson or parsons so in tharticle of death do not dye at that instant time wherein they so called them selues to their duties that for their so pure hartes and mindes towardes him they shall not onely inioy thabsolution aforesayd but also for euer after during life be continued in the same with health of body and soule in this world and in the world to come life euerlasting for God our holy Father is not onely so redy to pardone at the hower or article of death but also at euery hower whensoeuer his seruants will call vpon him with a penitent and pure hart Item to all those which by vsurping vsury by vnsaciable gayne in buying and selling by fraudulent deuises or any other vnlawful meanes haue obteined and gotten into their handes the goods and riches of this world if those vsurping vsurors insaciable gayners fraudulent deuisors and vnlawfull doers being abhomynable sinners doe from the bottom of their hartes repent for the same and professe in their lyues and doctryne amendment of life and doe seeke to make some restitution eyther by rendring back againe or reconsiliation to them which they haue so hindred he doth graunt vnto them that they shall rest in his tabernacle and dwel in his holy hill for S. Augustine sayth Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituatur oblatum sinz are not to be forgeuen without restitucion ¶ The witnesses of the old and new Testamente to testify the truth and strength of this Iubily In the booke of Genesis and in many other places of the Law and testamente of scriptures Moyses and others doe restify that al nations of the earth shold be blessed saued by Iesus Christe the sonn of Dauid of the seede of Abraham and that they shoulde receyue by hym an eternal and celestial benediction or blessing Item saynt Peter doth testify that al the Prophetes beare testimony of Iesus Christ and that whosoeuer beleeueth in him shal receue remission of sinnes in his name Item S. Mathewe doth testify that Iesus Christ did say of himselfe my comming into the world was not to be serued or ministred vnto but to serue and minister vnto others and to gyue my lyfe for the redemption of many Item Ecce hae aqui behold this is my blood which is shed for the remission of sinnes and vnto one that was sicke of the Palsy he sayd thy sinnes are forgeuen thee for that I see there is faith in thee Item to a woman that was a sinner goe thy wayes in peace thy sinnes are pardoned also to a woman that was sick to a leper to many other he saide the same Item vnto the father which had a chylde possessed with a dombe spirite if thou couldeste beleeue all thinges were possyble vnto thee for vnto him that beleeueth all thinges are possible Item saincte Luke in many places doth testefy the like in effect and in the firste chapter he sayth Blessed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raysed a mighty saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid as he spake by the mouth c. Item the Aungels doe witnesse the same saying feare not to the Shéepheards Ecce hae aqui behould I bring and preach vnto you glad tidinges and great ioy which shal be to all people for this daye is borne vnto you a sauyour whiche is Iesus Chryste the Lorde Item S. Iohn sayth in this is the loue and charity of God shewed vnto vs in that he doth send his only begotten sonne into the world