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A05358 An excellent and learned treatise of apostasie made by the most reuerend and godly learned man M. Iohn de l'Espine minister of the word of God in the churche of Angers in the dukedome of Anjou. Directed against the apostates in the churches of France. Written first in the French tongue by the author him selfe, and now faithfully translated into English. The contentes of the booke appeare in the page following; Traité de l'apostasie. English. L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597. 1587 (1587) STC 15511A; ESTC S106904 98,822 213

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to passe their destruction as likewise contrarily Rom. 8.28 all helpe to saluation to those that loue God and are loued of him againe and there is no creature which doth not by and by make a couenant with vs when we are once firmely knit and vnited vnto him Hosea 2.20 I will euen mary thee vnto me in faith fulnes sayth the Lorde and thou shalt knowe the Lorde And in that daye I will heare sayth the Lord I will euen heare the heauens and they shall heare the earth the earth shall heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they shall heare Israell Whereby we may easily gather that all creatures draw neere vnto the children of god and do chearish them as soone as they see them come into fauour with God and contrarily that they slide backe and start aside from those who are bereaued of his grace For it is a generall rule which we ought euer to remember Leuit. 25. Deut. 28. namely that the grace and loue of God is the ofspring of all benediction and that his wrath on the other side is the fountaine of all male diction so that without the one nothing is blessed and with the other all things are cursed What then can these wretched Apostates doe who eating drinking going comming whether they sit or stand whether they walke or lye still are euer musing in their bed at the table within and without the house before and behind them of the wrath of God with a firebrand in his hand ready to consume them If they will turne aside Amos. 5.19 they shall meete with a Lyon as sayth the Prophet if they will returne thinking to flee and saue themselues on the other part there will by and by a Beare start out before their eyes and if to assure themselues on all sides they will come to their house againe and leane their hand on the wall they shall finde in it a Serpent whiche will ●ite them which is as much to saye as that ●hey can neither finde hole nor secret corner wherein they may hide themselues from the wrath of God which is exceeding fearefull ●o all those to whome he sendeth it as the Apostle sayeth He. 10.31 That it is a fearefull thing to fall into the handes of the liuing God Which may euidently appeare by the examples propounded vnto vs in the Scriptures Gen. 4.14 as in Caine who hauing slayne his owne brother for religion and fled from the face of God that is to saye hauing giuen him ouer and the Churche which was gathered together in his fathers house neuer had afterward a●ye reste of conscience but as a man vexed with furie went heere and there like a vagabound and runnagate with a fire whiche did consume him and with an vnquietnes of minde whiche suffered him not to reste in anye place 1. Sam. 18.10 Saule likewise when the spirite of God had forsaken him and was departed from him did not the cuill spiri● foorth-with come vpon him and since th● tyme neuer ceased to torment him vnti● he had throwne him headlonge into despaire Iudas also after he had betrayed Iesus Christ Ioh. 13. and that the Deuill by reason 〈◊〉 his couetousnesse had once entered into his heart and had drawne him awaye from th● true Churche whiche was the companye o● Iesus Christ and his Apostles to reconcile himselfe vnto the Priestes and Pharisies and to make him to enter againe into their Sinagogue had he euer any quietnes in his soule after that did he euer thinke of any thinge but onely howe he might destroye himselfe hopyng though in vayne by this meanes to rid himselfe out of that fearefull griefe wherewith his conscience was vexed and tormented And they of whome mencion is made in the Prophetes Apoc. 6.16 cap. 9. and in the Reuelation of Saint Iohn who hauing receiued the badge cognisance of the beast and hauing dronke of the cup of hir whoredomes abhominations not hauing repented seing themselues in the ende ouerwhelmed with the iudgementes of God for hauing euer beene coupled with Antichrist will they not say to the mountaines fall on vs and to the earth open thy selfe de●our and swallowe vs vp quicke to the ende ●●ey may escape by this meanes if it were pos●●le the great griefe and anguishe of minde ●herein they liue All which testifie plainely ●nto vs that the wicked who seperate them●elues from God and will exempt themselues ●●om his obedience are so pursued by his iu●tice that they can neuer take any good rest ●● their mindes Also the holy Scripture saith ●hat in whatsoeuer happy florishing estate they be whatsoeuer prosperitie they haue whatsoeuer riches or goodes they do possesse ●o whatsoeuer honours and dignities they are exalted and whatsoeuer delicacies and sweete pleasures they mioye yet notwithstanding they are neuer at rest nor at quiet in their mindes Esay 49. Psa 34.16 For as Dauid saith The face of the Lord is against them that do euill to cut of their remembrance from the earth And their conscience which waiteth continually on them as it were a Sargeat neuer ceaseth to threaten them and to set before their eyes continually the wrath of God and his arme which is alwaies stretched foorth to beat them downe And I pray you what other thing is hell eternal fire gehenna and the bottomlesse pit where the Deuill and the reprobate shall be condemned to remaine for euer then this horror and liuely apprehension and feeling of the wrath o● God which doth pearce and goeth clean● through them Iam. 2.19 As Saint Iames saith that th● Deuils beleeue there is a God and tremble There is nothing that causeth the Angels in heauen to be contented and happie but onely the feeling of God his loue towardes them which they read and plainely see expressed in his face and in the earth likewise there is nothing that doth comfort the children of God and vpholde them in all their afflictions but his great and incomprehensible loue towardes them which they see vnfolded in his word in his sacramentes and in the whole order of the church and aboue all in the face and death of his sonne That is it which Dauid desired aboue all things sal 4.6 as it appeareth Many say who will shew vs any good But Lord lift vp the light of thy countenance vpon vs. Thou hast giuen me more ioy of hart then they haue had when their wheat and their wine did abounde I will lay me downe and also sleepe in peace for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safetie And contrariwise there was nothing that he grudged at so much nor that grieued him so sore as when he sawe the libertie taken away by the tyrannie and violence of Saule from resorting with the people of God vnto those places whereas he ●iscouered his face vnto them Psal 42.1 As the hart ●rayeth for the riuers of water so panteth my ●ule