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A85925
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A letter from Sr. Balthazar Gerbier Knight. To his three daughters inclosed. In a nunnery att Paris.
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Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.
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1646
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called uppon Châ—ist Iesus in vvhose name the Peace had bin Svvorne adiured him to reuenge him uppon those that had taken his name in vayne for in his name he vvould fight That miracles are vvraught by Protestants theire are seuerall examples butt that they are not so frequently boasted off and forstalled among them is because of theire comon Tenents that Miracles are ceassed finding no use of them the Châ—istian doctrine being established and Miracles being prosmissed in the latter dayes as a marke of Antichrist by the expression of Lying vvonders The true markes of Gods Church are true LOVE and CHARITI For theire by you shall knoue true Christians Christ Iesus saith iff you Loue one annother thereby you shal be knoune to be myne And the effect of that true LOVE is the unction from the Holly Gost vvich S. Ihoan speakes of tvvice vvheresoeuer that onction is to be found theire you shall finde the true Church and no vvere elsse Christ Iesus said that his Kingdome vvas not off this vvorld vvich is full of hate striffe and malice Can theire be a thing further of from Loue then to condemne Christians to Hell and that for bare opinions Can theire be a more sinfull insolent presumption then to exclude Heauen the source off mercy and compassion to any penitent Sinner that runes to Christ Iesus that puts all his hopes in him that beleeues in him that thirsteth after him as the heart panteth after the vvater brookes Can theire be a greater deprauednesse then that vvich Teachers breath forth of disobedience tovvards Souueraines suppeâ—iours and Parents taking no other grounds for such lessons then difference of opinions Can theire be a more inpertinent Tenent then to sustayne that Christians should be damned iff they do not beleeue and do all vvhat the particullar Sea of Rome doth determine since it is no more fre from errors then other Sects But that i may come home to you my Children iff you could take off those spectacles through vvich you looke novv vvich shue all things reuerst then vvould you see your Duty Then vvould you see next unto to Seruice and reuerence due to God your Heauenly father vvhat your Duty is to your Parents vvhereuppon you vvould conclude that those vvho persuaded you to sett aside obedience to Parents do delude you vvith pernicious Tenents among the rest that you cannot do your Duty to Parents nor se them vvithout indangering your Saluation your one vvords Neither can hose blanchers in your last letter to me any vvayes fre you of his Iust Censure that you conclude your Parents to be in the number of the Damned and so argue you to professe à Sect voide of all Christianity since you haue no LOVE nor CHARITI and that you do transgresse the Diuine precepts of Christ vvho forbids that vve should Iudge one annother Iudgment belongs to God and to none else for he saith Iudgment is mine you vvould see indeed that the pretended opening off your EYES proues a â—hutting upp of your spiritual EYES Certailny iff you could Seriously meditate on your said vvords vvithout any inuitations or any of my arguments conclude all this to be true As i haue suid before you haue bin duely and carefully instructed in the principles of the true CHRISTIAN beleefe and helt to its practise as much as lay in your Parents to do you my Daughter SVSANNE you must likvveise acknovvledge the same truth in your one particullar and for the-care I had to place you according to your one desires vvith a most virtious Princesse the Duchesse of TRIMOVILLE reputed for an example of Piety yet you vvere seduced by the same Spirits of Diluzion vvho had vvraught on your tvvo other Sisters vvho moued you to runne from the said Duchesse as they had runne from me and all this you Knovve on a pretence of vvorldly preferment for so you vvritte to me vvhen you gaue me notice of the pretended opening of your EYES as that of your tvvo other Sisters Allas poore Susanne could you not reflect on your name iff you forgatt your profession and resist the Tempters you felt no finger of GOD to tutch your EyES Allas poor Children these falce pretences caÌ„not excuse you And you my poore daughter MARIE it s but to Manifest that your escappe from your PareÌ„ts vvithout theire Knovvledge vvas resolued on fievv dayes after that the eldist of you vvho pulled you as a sheepe is dravvne to slavghter held in quality of God Mother a Child in the protestant Church att Charenton It is certayne that neither she nor any one of you did since that time see any Heauenly vision nor heared you any expresse voyce of God nor Angel call you from your profession and beleefe nor could you in so feevv dayes study any controuersses that could argue to your minds that you had liued in blindnesse unto that uery instant You my daughter MARIE vvere said to haue att your first being among the Engâ—isâ— Nunns almost conuerted somme by those principles of the Religion you haue bin Babtised in taught and profest and that you did ever say you vvould be no NVNNE But allas you to soone fell avvay from the said principles yet are you some vvay excusable bycause you are the Iongest and that you vvere Kept in so strickt a prison by your guardiens that you vvere not permitted to reade my letters nor receaue the vvholsome Councell sent you Butt you my eldist daughâ—er Elizabeth you vvere reported to procede vvith so much bouldnesse so much forgetfulnesse to your Parents so much iniustice to your selffe and insiuillity to many that did vvish you vvel euen against the persson of the reuerend Bâ—â—hop of London Derry and against other Diuines as that you vvould not after theire first visitations afforde them any fitt impartiall hearing All this youâ— did vvith breach of Diuine lavvs the Lavv of Nature the fondamentall Lavvs of the land and the Lavvs of Nations vvhen you vvould be carried and maintayned against your Parents vvith a Strong hand vvith armed men vvho did vvast you to a Nunnery vvith Pistols vvich vvere seene by a vvhole multitude and offered to be discharged against my men that did runne to stop your Coach follovved by me your father vvho vvas constrayned by the Suddannis of the Surprisall to runne a foote through the durt of the streets of Paris in prosecution of you my Children to try iff I could rescu you frome the Lyons pavves follovving you to the gates of the Monnastery vvitch vvere shutt against me and vvhere you vvere detayned Thus on my particullar hath bin practised an iniustice vvithout example since all Parents are permitted to haue free acces to theire Children in a neuter place yet they be admitted to take any religious orders All vvich considered you may see hovv falacious that reason is vvich you say in one of your letters to me to haue bin te ground vvorke of vvhat you do in hese vvores Viâ—z My reason hath alvvayes shevved and conuinced me that they direct vvhat is most good c. To vvich I must repeate my former ansvveare that your REASON be the touch-stone of theire directions your reason being falacious and contrary to the Diuine reason exprest in the Diuine vvord then off necessity theire Councell agreeing vvith your REASON must be as eronius as your REASON and consequently both deserue to be refoâ—rmed by the Ordinances of God vvich commands Obedience unto Parents ordinances that are infaâ—ible your One REASONS indeed are the effect of your one Motions iff there fore your Motions be subiect te erre vvhy not your REASON And vvhere you are novv taught to beleeue or att least to vvritte as of late you did that you are in an extreame rest and security c. I must againe tell you that theire are no Ateists but rests securer and quietter in consience then you can be for they haue no scruple though they doe neuer so vvickedly and therefore your preteÌ„ded security is butt à siprituall Letargy Liuing vnder your Parents roofe you did behold those vvhose predecessors shedd theire bludd for the defence of Religion the same that your Parents haue euer profest and vvherein you vvere Babtised instructed and vvich you also did publikly professe the same Religion for vvich yout Father sufferd euen in his mothers vvombe she flying the bluddy persecutions You ranne avvay not for Religion butt from Religion You had Coatches to transport you from your Duty You could neuer since like Ioseph make readdy à Charet to transport you to your Duty to visitte your Parents and receaue theire blessing he vvent to gossen and carried his tvvo Sonnes vvith him you vvould not come your selffe the lenght of à feeld nor permitt your tvvo sisters to come Vvell poore Children the God of mercy and compassion open the EyES of your Soules and minds truely so to looke on your selues as that you may duely consider vvhence you are come hovv you are gone forth from the unitie into dissention that you haue forsaken te Doctrine of LOVE and layd hold on OSTENTATION not considering that the Doctrine of Christ is nothing else butt a BROTHERLEy LOVE vvhereby God bindeth him selfe unto us in Christ and vve to him That all teaching must ay me att that as also all all ovvr villing liuing and doing and that vvhosoeuer teacheth and doth othervvayes is BABEL and a meere FABLE a carued vvorke of pride in iâ—… profitable Iudgings and disturbings of the vvorld and hipocrisie of the Diuill vvherevvith he blindeth simpliciti vvhen he talkes of OPENING of EyES May you so do your Duty to God and to your Neighbours the first vvheroff your Parents are that you maybe assured in his infalible promisses to all penitent Sinners that turne unto rightiousnesse to see the true light that enlightned euery man that commeth into the vvorld And that finally you may heare spoken unto you come yea blessed of my father inheritte the Kingdome prepared for you from the fondation of the vvorld the vvishes of your louing Father BALTHAZAR GERBIER Paris the 4. of May 1646.