from my familie Haue not I ordained Sacraments for your speciall comfort A Sacrifice c. The Lord Christ HEre you lay vpon your friends a threefold accusation in my name but I haue not accused them of Deniall Contempt and Resistance of God in yeelding to the Profession of a Protestant Your service is not my seruice your Coate my liuerie your Synagogue my familie your pitcht field my Campe and Colours or the Protestants pavilions mine Aduersaries Tents yee are my Adversaries and your Tents are the tents of vngodlines your Campe and Colours are opposite vnto mine To enter your familie to weare your liverie to doe service in your assemblies is to forsake and denie mine But they doe well that doe the contrarie Againe I haue Commanded all my professors to loue mee aboue all to confesse my Name my faith and Church and to striue for the truth even vnto bloud But your Religion is not the Truth your Faith and Church are none of mine so that they cannot despise and disobaye mee that depart froÌ„ you For your 5. 5. SacrameÌ„ts thrust in by papists which Christ never ordained see Sect. 13. Sacraments added vnto my Baptisme and holie Supper I never ordained as necessarie to Salvation or significant symboles of my death Passion Your infernall Sacrifice of the Masse He. 10.10 c. as not onlie an jdle and odious repeticion of my pretious death But a most jmpious and blasphemous derogation from the All-sufficient and eternall merite thereof I hate and abhorr as an Antichristian Idoll They haue doon well that haue with-drawen themselues from it and entred into the Congregations of my faithfull Protestants despizing and refraining your tedious Multiplicitie of Ceremonies altogether ridiculouslie both Superstitious and Profane obseruances for herein they haue honoured and obayed me Lastlie then let other Romanized English bee discomforted let their courage faile and the number decrease on your part let the false-Catholicke cause be weakened and the enemie thereof be fortified they doe well who are a meanes of this and please mee best of all that come from among you so farr it is that they oppugne and assault me The false Embassador Schismatickes wilfully deceaue them selues YOu flatter your selues notwithstanding all these iniuries soothing your consciences c. The Lord Christ NAy never perswade them vnto that For having builded vpon a false foundation how can you choose but inferr a false and presumptuous conclusion Your foundation was that they are * Sect. 1. erring Soules departing from my Church joyning with Heretickes * Sect. 4. denying despizing and oppugning mee which they will never graunt you which I will never yeeld you yet thereof you would haue them to be perswaded And to that end forsooth would rouze vp their Consciences and sound the bottome of their hearts to search and see their dissimulation That they are Romanists in heart and dissemble their faith I cannot approue it that they vnite themselues vnto the Protestants I will not blame it that they doe so onlie in a colour to saue their Lands and goods I doe not justifie it that they therfore must be concluded for deniers despizers oppugners of me The Popish Priest t keth vpon him to judge his brethren contrary to the commandement of Christ Mat 7.1 and my faith of truth in conversing with the Protestants and comming to their Seruice and Churches how should I jnferr it yet you take vppon you to prooue it The false Embassador DOe yee not as Peter denie your selues to bee of my Company c. By Peters denyall is prooued that Schismaticks deny Christ Not contented with eschewing the exercise of the Catholicke faith and participation with the faithfull in profession of conscience yee make no Scruple to frequent the rites of a false beleefe c. The Lord Christ NO sir they doe not Doubtfull Catholicks may come to Protestant Churches to 〈◊〉 theÌ„selues Recusant Papists perseuere in erroneous Contumacie For yee Recusant Papists are none of my companie my followers my inheritance my â—ooke the household of faith my Children and the like as you stile your selues To denie your companie your Religion and false Catholicke Church is not to renounce mee their God Redeemer and Saviour and to denie my holie Name and Maiestie Therefore let this whole comparison betwixt Peters deniall of me and theirs as yee suppose goe for naught and cancelled Onlie I would haue you remember The Pope is onlie the presumed successor of Peter that your holie Father the presumed Successor of this Apostle and all his followers haue learned well his Apostasie but cannot find the waie to returne repent goe out with him weepe bitterlie My blessed * Mat. 16.17 Apostle had hee not slipped from mee in the high Priests Hall * Mat. 26.58 his continuance in the profession of my name had beene true Christian constancie But your perseverance in your erroneous hereticall and jdolatrous course can be no lesse theÌ„ profane contumacie and wicked desperation Happie then are they who eschew the exercise of your Catholicke faith and participation in profession of Conscience with such mis-beleeuers as yee are Happie who frequent the Rites of my true friends the Protestants and partake with them in the sacred profession of their Religion Be it known vnto you Protestants onlie are true Catholicks and to all men They onlie are accepted of me for true Catholicks and remaine firmelie vnited to the Church my Spouse and all the rest whatsoever they professe commit the Acts of heresie Nay are absolutelie either mis-beleevers or vnbeleevers Hereticks of Christendome or Panim Infidels The false Embassador DAre yee then saye that Catholicke Recusants are not my proper flocke c. Schismaticks are not of the Catholike Church The Lord Christ. NAy dare yee saie they are I say they are the heard of Antichrist Recusant Papists Foxes Wolues the wilie * Canti 2.15 Foxes the wild Bores that destroye my vine yea the * Matt 7.15 ravening Wolues that prey vpon the soules of men If your conceaved Schismaticks be not of their band nor members of their Church and brother-hoode it is the better for them For no companie is or can be mine which imbraceth their erroneous and false Catholicke Faith which pursueth their traiterous murderous and vnnaturall course of life The false Embassador The assured ground where-vpoÌ„ Recusants stand REcusants to stand vppon an assured ground none can iustly denie or with reason call their saluation in question who cleaue stedfastlie to their fore-fathers Faith c. First christened Auncestors c. The Lord Christ NO can indeed Ah yee spirits of presumption stand they vpon the assured ground of my Apostles doctrine in my word Popish foundations traditions and shew of Antiquitie No they are weakelie builded vppon the sand of humane traditions Therefore I even I doe call their saluation in question They cleaue not stedfastlie but
from the precept c. Dissembling in religion is abhominable Reuealed you are to your owne shame and to my griefe c. The Lord Christ DIssimulation and double dealing I hate in euery thing and in acts of Religion I vtterly abhorre you need not proue it by the Prohibitions in the law Deut. 22 10.11 of wearing a garment of linsey woolsey ploughing with an Oxe an Asse sowing a field with diuers kind of seeds Prou. 10.9 or by the parable of Salomon He that walketh vprightly walketh safely or boldly But will yee then remember how I cannot but detest your popish aequiuocation and mentall reseruation which is nothing else but flat lying hypocrisie As for those of your popish opinions which conforme themselues vnto the Protestants herein they must needs offend me in that they beleeue with you and professe with them for I would haue them not only professe as they doe but also change their Faith as long as they beleeue the doctrine of your Antichristian Synagogue me they cannot please For as they are Christians and know full well that my Commaundement Deut. 13.1 not to hearken vnto a Deceauer belongeth vnto all so my wil is further that they should take knowledge how that you Papists are the false-prophets of these times who compasse sea and land to make one proselyte and to draw as many as you can vnto that new strange and false doctrine of your romish faith vsing all diligence and diabolicall crafts you can in imitation of the diuell himselfe the great compasser of the earth either to perswade Iob. 1.7 or else to enforce them to fall downe and worship the whoore the beast and the false prophet Apoc. 19.20 and him only to serue I say euen that new and strange abhominable Idoll Anâ—â—e EudaemoÌ„ etiaÌ„ apolog pro Hen. Garnet pag. 137. 138. the Lord your God the Pope of which Title and Blasphemy some of you are now ashamed As touching the doctrine of the Protestants shew in what one point it is not ancient and Apostolicall that you call it new They tell you and haue prooued it oft vnto you Popish new doctrines that your Canon Idoll of the Masse your Carnall presence and transubstantiation in the holy Supper your interdiction of the Cup to the Laitie your adding of salt and spittle oyle and creame in the Ceremonie of Baptisme and many other points of your beleefe where neuer heard of in myne Apostles times or in many yeares after But ye exclame and cry out vppon them new Doctrine new Faith new Ghospell yet are yee not able to say and prooue it of any point thereof This is new How is it then that you are so malapert with my Ghospell and the truth of christianitye which they professe to begin the originall thereof both foolishly and falsely slaunderously Luther Caluin and blasphemously from Mart. Luther and Iohn Caluin Remowned and worthy Instruments of my glory they were in their time and valiant oppugners and expugnators of your Antichristian haeraesies But no first founders or Authors of my aeternall truth and ghospell Moreouer Caluins Idoll who or what is that I pray you The Popes Idoll is the Masse And which are the Calamities of this present tyme whereof yee prate The hand of Iustice is to remisse and ouerslack vppon you as appeareth in that you are so bold to speake and write and print your paltry Pamphlets and seditious Libels at your pleasure Wherfore neuer tel your supposed Schismaticks that They are reuealed to their owne shame and to my griefe neither Call vppon them any more to confesse your Faith by a conuersation pleasing you but learne your selues at length to profes Syncerely the true faith by a godly life or I will make it shortly knowne to all the world to your owne perpetuall shame and horror that yee are the men who haue greiued and vexed me with your calumnious exclamations against my Saints and jdolatrous abhominations against my selfe The false Embassador ADmit that neither reason nor rule of conscience suggested vnto you Schismaticks contemne the authoritie of the Church nor that I expresly exacted of you such firme confession of faith yet ought not the authoritie of my Church c. Nor to my Vicar on earth c. The declaration of my generall Councell at Trent c. The Lord Christ. WHat a doe is here will ye neuer giue ouer railing and slaunder how long shall I suffer you Oh yee disobedient and jmpudent Generation I tell you againe your Church your Priests your Vicar your Councell at Trent are none of mine I renounce you all your Church for the Synagogue of Sathan your priests for the ministers of Beliall your Vicar for a deceaver an jdolater a grand false Prophet as Balaam your councell at Trent for a private Conventicle of Popish Prelats and Priests of your owne faction Foolishly then and ridiculously doe you charge your Schismaticks of contempt of my Church my Spouses voyce and admonition Madly doe you censure them for worse then Heathens and Infidels and divelishly do you accurse them all It is jndeed as sacrilegious as Idolatry to obay your Church to enter your haereticall Conuenticles to giue external consent to your detestable rites But to frequent the service of the Protestant Churches the Ecclesiasticall assemblies of my true Saints is so well pleasing vnto me that had these harkned vnto your Priests who called them there-from I should haue held it grieuous sacriledge by consent betweene them both had they refrayned and refused the pardon of life vpon so godly a condition viz to communicate with my Church of England I should haue found them guilty of their own bloud as now I doe these Priests I had a godly Bishop that gaue them a godly rule Augus Dulcitio ep 61. Jdem ad Festum ep 167. if they had had the grace to haue kept it Causa non paenafacit Martyrem the cause not the punishment maketh the Martyr And my selfe haue pronounced them blessed that suffer But Mat. 5.10 Addidit magnam differentiam quae vera Sacrilegio pietas Secâ—rnatur Aug. cont ep Permeniani lib. 1. 1. Reg. 18.28 Santons Hagies propter Iustitiam in a righteous cause or for righteousnes sake But tell mee now how farr vnlike herein were these your Papists to the Priests of Baall that cut and launced their bodies and those phantasticall Santons or Hagies as they call them among the Turks and Moores that disoculate and wound and even kill themselues in the madnes of their Superstition Also I know I know your Pope not my Vicar is after a fashion so solicitous for soules that hee spareth neither care nor cost yet not to saue them but to destroy and murther them so that hee most aptly resembleth even Sathan himselfe the great compasser of the Earth as his jesuitical vasals also doe those their famous Praedecessors the Pharisees Mat. 23.15 that compassed both Sea
stubbornlie to the superstitious Novelties of their late fore-fathers faith who haue departed from the rule of my Religion whereinto their first christened Ancestors were converted by mine Apostles and their Coadjutors And wherein all their godly Predecessors both vertuously liued and happilie died before the patcheries of your Poperie came in They haue a shadow and shew of some late praecedent generations but the soundnes of Antiquitie from the purer times and truly Apostolicall who so ever sifteth their Moderne faith shal find they haue not for all their great cracks and brags Tertullianâ— de praescript aduersus haereses See Iude. Vers 3. And so Tertullian the ancieÌ„t spake well in that Dominicum verum quod prius traditum extraneum falsum quod posterius immissum The truth of the Lord was first deliuered to the Saints but forraine falshood crept in afterwards The false Embassador THese are they which nourish the sparkes of that fire which I came downe to kindle on earth c. Recusants highly to be commeÌ„ded for their zeale The Lord Christ THey are not praise worthie that praise themselues 2. Cor. 10.18 but they whome I the Lord doe praise Now I doe not allow your proude vaunting of your selues I know your workes and your waies that they are full of wickednes and hypocrisie Are you the men that nourish the fire which I came downe to cause to burne on Earth Luc. 12.49 No no yee know not of what spirit you are Luc. 9.55 For with the furious fire of a blind zeale which burneth in your breasts haue ye not inveÌ„ted kindled a subterraneal sulphureous fire to quench the light of Israell in this Realme and all the goodlie shining lampes thereof to the everlasting memorie of your perpetuall all shame Then at that time did you shew how you doe maintaine and vphold that my Law Exod. 20.13 Thou shalt doe no murder How so ever you presume of the rest when you intended attempted the most barbarous The Gunpowder treason tyranicall vnheard-of and Satanicall destruction of King Queene Prince and all the States the beautie and honour of this Kingdome in an hower Oh yee sonnes of Balaam and of Balack yee bastard generation and yee monsters of Moab Let my people sing Faux of Moab is destroyed and brought to silence in a night Piercie Catesbie and the rest of Moab are destroyed Ier. 48.10 and brought to silence in an jnstant And cursed shall hee bee that doth the worke of the Lord negligentlie or vnfaithfullie and with-holdeth his sword from the bloud of all the brood of Moab when her time and judgement shall be come For doe you glorifie my name that glorie in such workes being sorie for nothing more Papists sorie that the Gunpowder treason tooke no better effect Luk. 5. â—2 Ioh. 2.25 then that it hath not taken your wished and prayed for effect Dissemble it no longer for I know you hearts Therefore shall you be dishonoured for ever and the jndeleble blot of your noted infamie shall never be put out you shall be known for a spotted and pestilent generation so long as the world endureth Goe to now yee stars in the night yee greene Bayes in the winter yee fresh fountaines in the Deserts No no yee know your titles in mine Apostle Iude ve 12.13 in the Gospell well enough Cloudes without water carried about with euery wind whiff of vaine jmaginations Wells and pits dryed in the deserts barraine fig-trees if yee be greene in the midst of Sommer when the Winter cometh corrupt trees twice dead and plucked vp by the rootes wandring Starres fallen out of the jnferior heaven for whome is reserued the blacknes of darknes for euer For to be short ye walke in darknes and know not whither yee goe flatter not your selues your own sectaries doe not beleeue much lesse do they confesse that ye do well and your vowed enemies my true and faithfull servants and friends the English Protestants long agoe haue learned of me to repute and range you in the rancke of those who stand assuredlie in the state of condemnation The false Embassador Schismaticks haue no part with Recusants neither are of the same Church WIth these you may wish to consort in conscience To partake in profession of faith Yee may in bare tearmes auouch as much but shall neuer with reason be able to make it good c. The Lord Christ IF they haue no part with you how happie are they If they consort in conscience and partake in profession of a false beleefe with you they haue no part in me no part in Heaven but they most justly and aboundantlie deserue vnto themselues the vengeance of eternall fire â—ome out froÌ„ Recusants yee staggering Papists If they will come from among you wholie both in conversation and in Religion and follow mee faithfullie with my true professors serving me nor in the oldnes of the Letter with a servile feare Rom. 7.6 but in the newnes of the Spirit out of thankefulnes in loue from a pure heart a good conscience 1. Tim. 1 5. and Faith vnfained comming out from the Babel of your Superstitions Atheisines and Apostasies let them never care for your defectiue and infected merites For the kingdome of Heaven belongeth vnto mee by a double right Enheritance and Purchase In the one Bernard I was borne vnto it in the other I haue perfectlie deserved it through obedience and sprinckling of my precious and meritorious bloud 1. Pet. 1.2 and I will giue it them if they can apprehend it by a true and liuelie faith Rom. 4.4 c Ephe. 2.8.9 2. Cor. 7.1 without regard of any other merite provided alwaies if they doe their best without hypocrisie to walke before mee in righteousnes and true holines all the daies of their life Ephe. 4. â—4 Luk. 1.75 But ye perverted Runnagates because ye are become perverse Recusants and the shameles Apostates of my Church of England returne I advise you returne into my fold els I must saie vnto you as I spake vnto the Pharisees of old how can yee escape the damnation of Hell Mat. 23. â—â— The false Embassador Schismaticks are not Catholicks ANd are you indeed aske the Recusant and he reiecteth you aske the Persecutor and hee imbraceth you not Aske the Saints and Angels and they abhorr you I neuer yet tooke you for seruant of mine c. The Lord Christ. YOur meaning is your miscalled Schismaticks are not Romane Catholicks What if that be granted are they aught the worse But let me heare the proofe Aske the Recusants aske the persecutors you meane the Protestants aske the Saints and Angels and you adde of me I neuer yet tooke them for seruants of mine What opinion Recusants carrie of them neither doe they greatlie neither will I that they should at all regard The Protestants finding theÌ„ in their pauilions yet not acquainted