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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10723	A true and a kinde excuse vvritten in defence of that booke, intituled A newe description of Irelande Wherein is freely confessed 1 The cause of the writing of that booke. 2 How that booke was brought into obloquy and slander 3 A reuocation of all ouersightes that through ignorance were published in that booke. 4 A bulwarke or defence of all truthes contayned in that booke. Pleasant and pleasing both to English, and Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. Seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 21003; ESTC S115925	41,531	58

suffered as they be in other wel gouerned Cities to serue the market which euery man doth admire is not suffered in Dublyne And now to speake without dissimulation there is nothing wherewith the city of Dublyne is more wounded with disgrace then in sufferyng so many filthie alehouses and in this bearing with the extortion of Bakers Thus you may see that although I haue glāced at abuses that are vsed by some that are ill yet it is without any impeachment of those that be good and therefore those fault-finders haue but discouered their malice and done me no disgrace The truth is the wholl drift of my Booke is against Popery how should it then be befriēded in Ireland where those that wil be afraid to reade it will make no conscience at all to slander it I know not whither I may tearme it to be blindnesse or obstinacie or blindnes and obstinacie ioyned both together in a people sencible and wise enough that yet are trayned to neglect the holy scriptures to reuerence visions lyes and fantazies that are led from the Church of God to the superstitious and abhominable Church of Idolatry that are wrested from the obedience of the Princes wholsome lawes that inciteth to vnitie and concorde to the durtie decrees and ordinances of a superstitious priest that leadeth to destruction that doth so neglect the means of their saluation that they will not search for the truth but are so maliciously blinde that they will not open their eyes to looke towardes the light that with the Iewes do throw stones at Christ and will driue him away when he commeth to preach that with the Nazarits will thrust him out of their citie with violent hands when he commeth to offer himselfe vnto them I know not what I should say of the people of Ireland whither it be through the confidence they haue in their priestes or in the distrust that they haue of their owne iudgementes or in the litle credite they haue in Gods promises that biddeth them seeke and they shall finde but something there is that maketh them afraid for they dare not looke on a booke that is either repugnant to their religion or that doth contradict Popery I haue not spoken these thinges against the Irishe tauntingly to vpbraide them but I speake it louingly to admonish them as the preacher that seeing some of his parishioners to frequent his Sermons more for fashion sake and to take a little nappe of sleepe in the time of his sermon then for any zeale or deuotion to the doctrine hee taught yet hee wished them still to come to Church although but to take their accustomed nap hoping in time to take some of them napping and so to awaken them with the power of Gods worde to make them more attentiue to those thinges that did so nearely concerne their saluation euen so say I let those that haue read ouer my former booke but to the end to picke quarrels against it to slander it with vntruthes let thē do so in Gods name with this that followeth let them read it ouer I care not with what pretence let them be angry still at mine honest meaning it may happen to enlighten some of their eyes that haue beene long blindfold and I care not to offend mame so I may please some 4 A Bulwarke or Defence of all truthes contayned in my Booke THe matter that I haue to defend is that al that I haue written against Poperie is true and hee that defendeth truth is armed with authoritie if all the world were against him and hath law full power to pronounce the Pope himselfe with al his Cardinals to be hereticks the brood of Antichrist and the ministers of Hell and damnation In my former booke I haue slightly touched the fruits of the Popes doctrine how it stirreth vp subiectes against their princes how it draweth to rebellions treasons murthers mutinies mischiefes and to all manner of impieties Now to fortifie this and to make it more manifest I will further approue how this poyson of the Popes doctrine inciteth the people from that trust they shoulde haue in God to affie themselues in Saints how it maketh men to flie from Gods mercie to other mens merits howe it excludeth Christ and setteth vppe a Pope-holy righteousnesse of workes and deseruings and to conclude howe it draweth from God to the Deuill and from that euerlasting life which Christ hath purchased for vs with the price of his bloude to the fire of hell and euerlasting damnation It is Popery that maketh newe relickes that setteth forth vnshamefast legendes that deuiseth false myracles whereby to deceiue the people that giueth them pardons for money for many thousand thousand yeares that promiseth them helpe in their needes and effect in all their desires that maketh open ma●tes of the giftes and graces of God that causeth men to runn from place to place from Saint to Saint from shryne to shryne to increase their offeringes and to deceiue the people They are papistes that bragge of reuelations of visions they walke in wonders aboue their reaches they take away Christ the mercie seate and will needes comprehend God in his maiestie by the iudgement of their reason and pacific him with their workes True Christian diuinitie setteth not God forth vnto vs neyther in his maiesty nor in any manner of similitude but streightly forbiddeth vs frō the curious searching of his maiestie which is intollerable to the body of man but much more to the mind wee must not therefore bee curious to search out the nature of God but diligent to know his will as it is set out to vs in Christ there is nothing more dangerous then to wander with curious speculation to search out God for as God in his owne nature is vnmeasurable incomprehensible and infinite so he is to mans nature intollerable Let him then that would bee in safety and out of perill brydle that clyming and presumptuous spirit and seeke to knowe God but according as by the scriptures he setteth himselfe forth to be knowne in his sonne our Sauiour Then hee that hath to deale in the matter of his iustification and desireth to knowe how God is to be found that iustifieth and accepteth sinners let him know there is no other but the man Iesus Christ that hath sayd himselfe No man commeth vnto the father but by me Iohn 14. He that seeketh any other way doth but wander and hee that searcheth any other knowledge is as far astray But to whom can we liken God or what similitude canne wee fashion vp that may resemble the brightnesse of his glory A most horrible Idolatry to figure out the Image of God the Father like an old man with a gray beard with a tryple crowne on his head like a Pope the holy Ghost they figure like a doue and the blessed trinitie with three faces Now for the Image of Christ there be so many similitudes as there be workemen to carue or to paint

sinne notwithstanding all those that were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world was layd are without spot of sinne in the sight of God so that they are both sinners and righteous if wee consider our rebellious members which as Saint Paul sayth are solde vnder sinne Rom. 7. then wee are greiuous sinners but contrary if wee beleeue that by the mercifull fauour of God hee hath freely giuen vs his Christ and with him all things so that we bee destitute of no gift as Paul doth testifie Rom. 8. then are wee righteous in his sight and our conscience at peace with God and what haue we then to doe with Purgatory But leauing a number of testimonies that might be cited out of the holy scriptures witnessing the promises let this suffice that is auouched by the Prophet Dauid whom his 32 Psalme sayth Blessed is he whose iniquitie as forgiuen And making exposition of his owne wordes hee proceedeth Blessed hee whose sinnes are couered Nowe who can couer his sinnes from the sight of God who setteth the most secret sinners that are in the light of his countinance that looketh into the very imginations of men that are nothing else but euill continually or wherewith may a man so couer his sinnes but that they will breake out for what can be hid from that peircing sight that seeth in man that he discerneth not in himselfe that did first knowe him before hee was created and hath iustly calculated and cast vp all his sinnes all his abhominations before they were euer acted or done But wherewith shall wee seeke to couer them what with good workes as Adam did with figge leaues it is hypocrisie and the holy hypocrit the proud Pharisee is more odible in the sight of God then the Publican or harlot How then shall we couer our sinnes for couered they must be and we must appeare holy and without spot in his sight how are they then to be couered they are then couered from God when they be couered by God then are they couered from his wrath when they be couered by his mercy and they shall bee couered by his mercy when they bee couered by the precious bloode of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who is our propitiation righteousnes hee that seeketh any other couerture then this seeketh but with Adam to hide himselfe in the thicket of a bush where the iustice of God will finde him out It followeth in the next verse Blessed is the man to whome God imputeth not his sinne and in whose spirite there is no guile but why is it not sayd heere blessed is he that hath not sinned at all or blessed is he that hath not offended or transgressed the law because it is sayd else where that all men are sinners the Apostle sayth If any man say he hath no sinne he is a lier c. Or why is it not sayd blessed is he that can so conforme himselfe from a sinner to become no sinner that by his owne works and merites can make himselfe holy Because the most righteous man sinneth seuen times a day yea that great Apostle Paul himselfe was left with a pricke in his flesh wherewith to exercise him the which when he prayed vnto God to haue it taken from him he was answered My grace is sufficient for thee He therefore can not be blessed that stands of his owne righteousnes but Blessed is he to whome God imputeth not his sinne in whose spirit there is no guile But who is now this blessed one or where is hee to bee found for if there be none blessed but he that hath a pure and a cleane spirit where shall we seeke him But let vs compare the wordes as they stand in the first verse it is sayd Blessed is he whose iniquitie is forgiuen Blessed is hee whose sinnes are couered it followeth in the second verse Blessed is he to whom the Lord imputeth not his sinne in whose spirit there is no guile Why then to him whose iniquitie is forgiuen to him the Lord imputeth not his sinne And to him againe whose sinne it hath pleased God to couer that man is reputed to bee of an vpright heart so that the wordes are expounded the one by the other those then are not blessed that thinke to couer their sinnes themselues but those whose sinnes are couered by the mercy of God And who are those whose sinnes it pleaseth God so to couer euen those that doe discouer themselues freely vnto him the man in whose heart there is found no guile Not him that doth make showe to be honest and yet is full of deceit as our Merit-mongers and Iustitiaries that will acknowledge no sinne but doe iustifie themselues by their owne deseruinges but blessed are those that will confesse their sinnes and righteous by consequence are those whome God hath iustified in forgiuing their sinnes imputing vnto them the righteousnes of his sonne for seeing we haue lost our originall righteousnes we haue not in vs any righteousnes greater then to confesse our vnrighteousnes neither can wee recouer any other righteousnesse to helpe vs then that the Father hath imputed vnto vs in his Sonne I haue hetherto prosecuted the impieties of popery howe it secludeth Christ burieth all the benefitts of his precious death and passion I might yet speake of many other abhominations that are hatched vp in the Romish Chruch as their adoring of Images their publicke seruice in an vnknowne tongue not vnderstood by the people their sacrificing of the sonne of God to his Father for the sinnes of the world their adoring the eliments of bread and wine with diuine honour in stead of Christ their shrift their releasing of soules out of Purgatory by prayers and pardons their inioyning of Priests to single life whereby they doe liue in whoredome and in loathsome and filthy vncleanes These with many other superstitions errours in doctrine might yet bee spoken of the which for the present time I omitt now what account God will exact for his name blasphemed his Sonne refused his sacramentes prophaned and his worde thus despised is much to be feared in the meane time let vs beseech the Father of glory to giue vs the spirit of wisedome knowledge and vnderstanding and so to inlighten the eyes of our minde that wee may knowe his wayes and bee led through faith vnto the knowledge of him that is all veritie FINIS