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england_n	high_a	lord_n	privy_a	2,935	5	10.5102	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08846	A full declaration of the faith and ceremonies professed in the dominions of the most illustrious and noble Prince Fredericke, 5. Prince, Elector Palatine published for the benefit and satisfaction of all Gods people ; according to the originall printed in the High Dutch tongue ; translated into English by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19130; ESTC S1329	121,244	211

A FVLL DECLARATION OF THE FAITH AND CEREMONIES PROFESSED IN the dominions of the most Illustrious and noble Prince FREDERICKE 5. Prince Elector Palatine PVBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT AND SATISFACTIon of all Gods people ACCORDING TO THE ORIGInall printed in the High Dutch tongue Translated into English by Iohn Rolte LONDON Imprinted for William Welby at the Swan in Pauls Church yard 1614. D R W M BEVERIDGE B P of S T ASAPH RECTE FACIENDO SECURUS TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sr. EDVVARD COKE LORD CHIEFE IVSTICE of England one of his Maiesties most Honorable priuy Councel● Grace and peace be multiplied by the knowledge of God and of Iesus our Lord. NAoman Captaine of the hoast of the King of Syria Right Honourable a great man with his Master and Honorable hearkening to the report of a little captiue maid of the land of Israel obtained not onely the cure of the leprosie of his bodie but also of his soule and therefore he did not only confesse the God of Israel to be the onelie true God but he required two mules burthē of the earth of that land vowing he would neuer after offer burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods but vnto the Lord. The good acceptance whereof with the mercie and prouidence of God therein considered Right Honourable mooued mee the rather to make answere vnto some such demands as haue been propounded vnto me here in my fatherland about the fruitfulnesse of that good land where are the vpper springs and the nether springs which it hath pleased God to alot to the Othoniel and Achsah of our times the sonne in law and daughter to Caleb the the noblest Prince and longest liuer of all the people of Israel who hath seene the Lords wonders and deliuerances in Egypt the red Sea Wildernes and land of Promise Preserue them still O Lord from all the Canaanites c. among whom they liue and make them all for strength of body wisedome constancie and yeares like vnto Caleb and with Othoniel to subdue the enemies of Israel And not hauing any better meanes then this whereby to giue content I haue now presented my little cake and offered my two mites to the Lords seruants and treasurie being all that I had The former being A faithfull Admonition of the Prince Elector Palatines Churches aduising to vnity And this A full Declaration of their faith So as that this is not onely an Apollogie of the former as appeareth in the 8. Chapter but is able to giue full satisfaction to all such honest people as desire to know what to trust to in them For which end they first published the same as appeareth in the 1. Chapter and which I only aimed at in translating it For as for peace haters nothing wil satisfie them God-fearing people then finding what they seeke for I trust none will blame mee for that I haue taught it to speake English in so plaine a stile the Lord knowing that I haue done it so faithfullie as possibly I could The causes moouing me to bee so bold as to put your Honors cognisance vpon this Prince Electors man are for that it hath pleased God to mooue the heart of our dread Soueraigne to assigne your Honour a generall charge to doe iustice to the oppressed and to defend the fatherlesse the widow and the stranger And therefore as I serued in the former to the Table of the Right Honourable Oliuer Lord S. Iohn as a dish of Renish Grapes that so others might the more willingly taste thereof so by your Honours good acceptance also of this tree into your Orchard it may spread it selfe the further in the vineyard which God hath planted in this Iseland And so that good land may haue two faithfull and Honourable witnesses sufficient to auouch the truth against any that shall bring an euill report vpon the same And though he be now so homely apparrelled in an English shepheards weede the fault thereof is to be ascribed to me for I assure my selfe had a Ionathan got his acquaintance he would haue honoured him more yet as he now is I trust your Honour shall reape no disgrace by him for he was borne in Ishaies house and he is strong valient and wise and the Lord is with him wherefore as he fought with the Lion and the Beare in his father-land so dare he with his 5. smooth stones taken out of the Lords brooke encounter Goliah a-abroad if he heare him blaspheme the Lord and his hoast which he shall be the better able to doe and himselfe take no harme being so honourably harnished And no doubt but he shall find some opposition abroad it so being that his brethren the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah hate him at home because his father loueth him more then them and because his workes are good which is the common case of all the dearest children of God Who now also is more feeling of a strangers case then your Honor But why doe I still call him a stranger the whole citie knowing that hee is a vertuous man and a prosolite and therefore hath not onely taken our God for his God but our people for his people surely the heart of none but Marah will refuse him Yet whatsoeuer entertainment he finds yea although it should bee such as may discourage him hee hath kept the words of Gods patience and done that which appertained to him and he will not for all that dispaire or renounce the confession of the truth as Prince Frederick of blessed memory did formerly answere those that thought to daunt him though the whole world should leaue him Now the God of Israel vnder whose wings he is come to trust recompence his workes more and more with a full reward And the same al sufficient God remember your Honor and wipe not out the kindnes that you haue shewed on the house of our God and on the offices thereof Your Honours most humble at command IOHN ROLTE THE EPISTLE TO THE READER CHristian Reader that which Suetonius reports concerning Caligula that hee had wont to say that he commended nothing so much in his nature as impudencie and obstinacie may truly be verified of certaine refractorie persons in this age of ours who professing the same faith and religion which we do and calling thēselues Protestants yet cease not stiflie to maintaine some certaine errours though they be neuer so clearely conuinced and to slander their brethren and religion though they iustifie and explaine themselues neuer so apparantly and that which is yet a greater signe of impudencie and obstinacie the more they are perswaded and exhorted by all louing and brotherlie meanes to vnitie and amitie the more they rage and spit out the venome of their mallice against the perswaders This vncharitable dealing as it appeareth in most of the writings of those who call themselues Luthers disciples So in none more then in their proceedings against the Ministers of Prince Fredericke Elector his Church for after that the●● had in a Christian