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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07586	A Christian letter, containing a graue and godly admonition to such as make separation from the church assemblies in England and elsewhere. VVritten in Latine, by that most Reuerend and learned man, Master Francis Iunius, diuinitie reader at Leyden in Holland, and translated into English, by R G..	Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602.; R. G., fl. 1602.	1602 (1602)	STC 7298.5; ESTC S91785	8,598	20

A CHRISTIAN Letter containing a graue and godly admonition to such as make separation from the Church assemblies in England and elsewhere VVritten in Latine by that most Reuerend and learned man Master Francis Iunius Diuinitie Reader at Leyden in Holland and translated into English By R G. AT LONDON Printed for Robert Dexter and are to be solde at his shoppe in Paules Churchyard at the Signe of the Brasen Serpent 1602. ❧ To the Christian Reader SVCH as of late yeares haue rent themselues from the holie seruice of God vsed in the publique congregations and Churches of England being destitute of any sound warrant from the worde of God haue sought from time to time so much the more earnestly as the manner of such is to shroude themselues vnder the shadowe of humane authoritie Hence it came to passe that master Francis Iunius a man of great learning and godlinesse was solicited by some of them as may appeare by these letters ensuing in the yeare 99. to be a fauourer of their erronious opinions and of their vnchristian disordered and vndutifull proceedings whose answere being deliuered by himselfe to a religious and worshipfull knight and so comming to my handes I haue presumed to communicate with thee by the motion of some godly and well disposed hoping that through the blessing of God and thy prayers it may prooue a good meanes to stay such as are wauering to confirme such as doe stand and to recouer such as are fallen For although he doe not enter into an exact discussing of the question with arguments obiections and answeres yet he vseth a very graue and godly admonition which is oftentimes of greater fruite then a long and learned disputation And whosoeuer doth diligently studie the booke of God shal finde that the holy Prophets Apostles do in manie places insist vpon a plaine simple asseueration of the truth rather the vpō multitude of proofs argumēts Besides if we obserue the story of the holy Martyrs of our own Church others we may perceiue that by the soūd profession of their faith and suffering for the same they haue glorified God and aduanced the kingdome of Iesus Christ aswell as others haue done by arguments and reasons And yet notwithstanding if thou do well obserue these letters of master Iunius thou shalt finde in them not vaine and emptie wordes but waightie and sounde reasons grounded vpon the holie Scriptures of god Thus praying thee to take these first fruites of my poore laboures in this kinde in good part and beseeching god to giue a blessing hereunto I bid thee heartily farewell in the Lord. Thine in the Lorde R G. ❧ Grace mercie and peace from God the father and our Sauiour Iesus Christ I HAVE receiued of late belooued brethren in Christ a little booke by one of your companie which is intituled A confession of faith of some English men banished in Belgia and haue knowne your desire partly by the speach of the same messenger partly by the preface of the writing But as concerning my selfe beloued brethren whom peraduenture yee haue thought meete to be appealed vnto a part I verily see not how much I can doe in this cause or how I can fit your purpose For I knowe that now long since euery man doth abound in his owne sense and that those that are otherwise minded are so farre to be borne with holding the heade and foundation till the Lord reueale things further vnto them I know it is my part not to play the busie body but that I should serue the truth and charitie in my standing and measure which the Lord hath bestowed vpon me in Christian modestie and simplicitie as farre as my skil and abilitie wil stretch vnto Certainely when I considered more diligently I thought nothing more commodious or more safe both for you and for my selfe publickly in all this matter then that we should embrace a holy silence Yf there be any thing wherein we be offended let vs commit our cause to the Lord the author of our faith and righter of our cause But because after a sort you will not suffer mee to be silent and to condole in secret for the woundes of the Church which is rent more then inough by actions thrust forth in publick in this our age I will declare faithfully and with a good conscience before God what I thinke beseeching him who is author of peace and truthe that he would leade both you and me alike into all trueth according to his promise also dispose each of our mindes and affections to interpret brotherly one anothers requestes answeres admonitions and finally all our duties although as it commeth to passe and is incident to man disagreeing from our sense and taste I obserue therefore that there are three chapters in your little booke wherein you desire our counsell and iudgement The first is that heade of doctrine which you professe in your little booke The second is the fact whereof yee haue accused the English Churches Lastly the third is the conclusion which you inferre by comparing that your doctrine with that practise of England namely that yee cannot with good conscience entertaine a communion with those Churches but that yee doe abhorre them with all your heartes Therefore I will speak briefely of these 3. things entreating you brotherly to take my answere in good part I maruell that the point of doctrine or little booke of your confession beloued brethren is sent ouer to me I maruell that it was sent ouer to all the studēts of holy Scriptures in all Christian Vniuersities for if there be a certaine consent of doctrine as you pretend it truely I do not see what need there was that you should set forth a newe confession in this present of holy and auncient doctrine But if there be a dissention peraduenture in the doctrine or rather a difference the same ought not to bee dissembled if so be that yee thought it necessarie that your doctrine should be declared Besides in that you send to mee yea that you send to the publicke viewe of the whole Church I maruell brethren yea I greatly maruell what your meaning should bee both in respect of the ende and the fact For if yee haue set it foorth to that end that yee might purge your selues I pray you brethren wherefore doe yee desire to purge your selues with so many soules who neuer could knowe you as yet to bee accused which can neuer take knowledge of the right or wrong of your accusation and who are not called vnto it by any lawfull means and that which is worse wherfore would yee haue that done before so many enemies to God and the Church who thirst after nothing so much as the bloode of the Church of God and doe reioyce that we vndiscreetly do cause a publishing of these woūds that by these wounds they might spoyle the Church that pretious bodie of Christ of the bloode of veritie and iuyce of charitie Finally why