IEHOVAH ¶ A free Pardon vvith many Graces therein conteyned graunted to all Christians by our most Holy and reuerent Father GOD almightie the principal high Priest and Bishoppe in Heauen and Earth First written in the Spanish tounge and there published by a Spaniard vnknowen yet as it seemeth the seruant of our sayde Holy Father And now Translated into the mother English tounge by Iohn Danyel of Clements Inne ¶ Printed at London by Thomas East for Andrew Maunsell and are to be sould at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot ¶ To the right honorable Syr Ambrose Nicholas Lorde Maior of the Citie of LONDON To the right vvorshipfull maister VVilliam Fleetewood esquire Recorder of the same To the right worshipful maister Edward Osborne maister VVoolston Dixie esquires and Sheriffes of the same To the right vvorshipful their brethren the Aldermen To the worshipful maister Norton the rest of the priuie counsell for the renowmed and worthy gouernment of the same and to euery of them grace and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ Amen WHen as right Honorable and right worshipful I had made an ende of this my trauaile in translateing this preatie pamphlet and Pardon generall to the receiuers of the same with my musinge mynde remembring with my selfe to whome I should dedicate so worthy a worke and coulde not thinke of any with in this noble Citie more fitter to be my patrōs defēdors in publishinge hereof beinge as I trust with you a poore mēber of one body whose head is Iesus Christ our Lord beholdīg the firmnes of the true faith in one of the mēbres of the same body the aucthor hereof spronge out frō among the principals of Pope Antechrists panyons in Spaine I hauing therin great cōfort ioy did presume to make you partakers of the same Because I doe see dayly euery one of you lyke worthy wightes heades and rulers of such a noble citie do practise and put in vre by all meanes possible suche good and godly acts orders for the good setting forth of Christs faith and true religion as maketh mee to thincke that thus in presuminge herein I do rather please you all then offend any Yf you take it in good parte I am therby encouraged to take a greter trauail in hand to the same effect I trust to the glory of god the treatise is very deuine the conclusion comfortable it is also short and therfore soone reade ouer wherfore I besech you most humbly to accept it with the good will of the geuer who will dayly pray for all you and yours that with faith yee maye florish and prosper in all godly doinges tyll th ende and in th ende that you may inherite the celestiall kingdome with al the benefitts in this Iubily contayned From my house in saint Brides churchyarde the. 13. of Ianuary 1576 ¶ Your honors and worships most humbly Iohn Danyell REmember dearely beloued that ye were not baptised in the name of men of Images nor yet of Idols that be dombe to be their seruauntes to honoure them contrary to the commaundements of God but in the name of Iesus Christ because you shold worship and serue him as he doeth commaunde but for all that since the tyme we were indewed with knowledge and the reason thereof we haue bene blynded and led astraye farre from our duties yet God hauing pitty vpon vs and willing to saue vs did so by his deuyne prouydence although by hys ryghteous iudgement he mighte worthely condemne vs wherefore let vs make no small accoumpt of this benefite of Pardone and Indulgence now offered vnto vs by that most Holy reuerend Father most worthy of prayse and glory for that we see he asketh no mony of vs for it as Antichrist doeth for his trash he demaundeth of vs nothing but that only we shoulde haue a sure fayth hope and confydence in the same for that he himselfe doth graunt it and geue it vs in his sonne Iesus Christ and therefore let vs not for the vayne feare of men leaue nor let slip the inioying of such pardons and graces with the benefite therof but accept thē gladly for as the Lord our god saieth we cannot be saued without them ¶ A short sum of all the Indulgences Graces Pardons graunted of god our most holy father by his sonne Iesus Christ to al faithful Christians in this Iubily mentioned and commanded to bee publyshed because that all those that doe repente them of their sinnes and tourn vnto him may inioy the benefites contayned in the same in this world the fauour of god and in the world to come life euerlasting WHen the fulnesse of time was come and the acceptable daye of our sauyng health according to the determinate wyll of god ordeined in his deuine coūsaile before the begynning and creation of the worlde our most holy and eternall father hauing pitty vppon vs of his mighty free will and bounteous lyberality did send his only begottē son to be borne of a woman and made subiect to the lawe because that by him shoulde be preached vnto vs the great and gracious reconsiliation made by him selfe betweene god the father and vs beeing as we were rebels and the children of rebels for that all by one had incurred the payne of a rebell to his deuyne maiesty by the which the Deuil Death had gotten empery rule and the vpper hand ouer vs absolutely and we made the slaues of sinne and did obey sinne and were made abhomynable and corrupted abhorrors of all righteousenes and louers of all kynde of wickednesse deade in sinne and buried in errors children of wrath by nature and subiect to the curses and malediction preached vnto vs as agaynst the ennemyes of gods truth so that as out castes and desperate people we were without remedy and ready to be cast into the prison of darcknesse and fyre of hell in the company of the deuill his Aungels of whom we did giue so wilful obedyēce But our blessed God and most holy Father as he is rich in mercy so is he willing to shew vnto vs his immēsible charity with the which although wee were his ennemies yet he loued vs to the end to deliuer vs from the power of darcknesse and clense vs from our sinnes to make vs partakers of his righteousenesse to destroy the Empery of the Deuyll by the potency mighte of the redeemer of the world and so to preserue vs from his iust wrath and indignation and or wicked condemned children of darcknesse to make vs children of lighte and so to bring vs to the kingdome of his beloued sonne Jesus Christ he did ordeyne that this his good wyll should be publyquely preached and declared vnto vs to this end after that Christe had accomplyshed and fulfilled the worcke of our redemtion and gloriousely tryumphed ouer all the ennemies of his glory to our
because hee might liue in and by him and herein consisteth the charity and loue not that we haue loued God but that he hath loued vs and sente his sonne to make an attonement for our sinnes Item he doth commaund that repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde be preched in his name throughout the whole world Item S. Iohn Baptist doth point vnto hym wyth hys finger and sayth Ecce illi◠hae illi behold ther the lambe of god which taketh awaye the sinnes of the world Item he that beléeueth in Iesus Christ the sonne of God shal haue life euerlastyng Item verily verily I say vnto you he that doth heare my word and beleue in him that sent me shal haue life euerlasting and shal not come into damnacion but is escaped from Death vnto lyfe Item as Moyses lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse Euen so shall the sonne of man be lifted vp because that all that beleeue in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for god so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne that al which beleued in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for God sent not hys sonne to condemne the world but that the world through him shoulde bee saued Item if any man sinne we haue an aduocate wyth our Father euen Iesus Christ the iust and righteous and hee it is that obtained grace for our sinns and not onely for ours but for the sins of all the world Item Sainct Iohn in his reuelation sayth that he did loue vs and dyd washe vs from our sinnes in hys bloud Item sainct Paule doth witnesse that Iesus Christ did make purgation for our sinnes and for the sinnes of all the world Item Sainct Peter sayth that it is Christ Iesus by whome wee haue remission of our sinnes and that by faith in him our hartes are purified made cleane from all kinde of wickednes Item the Augell Gabriell did pronounce vnto the holy virgin Mary that she shoulde conceaue and beare a sonne whose name shee shoulde call Iesus for that he shold saue his people from their sinnes and deliuer them from the condempnation the which they were in Item forasmuche as our eternall highe Priest is the onely wisdome of god and doth knowe the infinit vallew of these pardons and that we our selues cannot buye their for any thinge wee haue or can doe for that a thinge of such vallew infinit may not be bought the will of his Sacred Maiestie is to cōmunicate them most graciously and louingly vnto al sinners that féele their necessities and call to him for mercy without leuinge or takinge any mony for them for if that euerie one of vs were Lord of or ouer the whole world or such like if one would graunt his seigniory or Lordship for the least benefite contained in the same yet it could not be boughte for the valewe of the world may be known and the valewe thereof is vnspeakcable but for that he dothe knowe the greate pouertie and miserie in which wee liue yet by the greate and vnualuable riches of his mercy and for that he doth knowe our necessities better then we our selues and of his aboundant leue dothe commande for the health of our soules all his cōmissaries and officials the Prophetes Euangelistes and mynisters of peace that with great Instancie and earnesty they doe call to all people and cōmaund that they receyue this Iubily of grace without geuing for it any pēny of mony or other thing that perisheth By the Prophet Esay he doth publiquely cōmaūded in this maner all those that thirst let them come vnto the waters and those which haue no siluer let them make hast and come let thē buy and 〈◊〉 come and buy without siluer or any thinge this chaunge wyne for milke you spend and wast your mony but not in breade you spende your trauaile and receue no hire nor rewarde And because hee will that the immutabilitie of his truthe and the loue that hee hath towardes vs should be notorious he doth desire and cōmaunde that all the graces graunted in this Iubilie be for euer irreuecable with a priuilege sempiternall to as many as receiue the same and that it be not derogated by any other priuiledge or decree what so euer neither in death nor lyfe but that it haue alwayse full force effect and vertue to deliuer al them which receue the same from all euils presently and in the ende to deliuer them into the possessiō of the eternall and euerlasting riches of his heauenly kingdome But forasmuch as you Nom. my officials haue receued the grace of me by the gyfte of my holy Ghoste and haue geuen credit to my promisses and worde and haue receued my sonne Iesus Christ for your reconcilyatoure by the fayth that you haue in hym and his blondshedding which is the priuie signet and seale of my church the which I doe put to these presentes whereby I doe graunte vnto you all the graces pardons dispensations Indulgences priuiledges in this Iubily contayned In wittnesse whereof I haue cōmaunded these presentes to bee firmed with myne owne name and sealed with my seale as aforsayde and therefore for a signe that you haue receued the same you shall beare in your hartes the loue that you doe owe and that is due vnto your neighbours and shewe the same by your worckes Iehouah Item our most holy Father doth condempne all and as many as doe rebell and gainsaye any thing herein contained or that doeth the contrary and more ouer doth excommunicate them for euer from and out of his moste holy heauenly kingdome Here followeth the tenor of the excōmunication and cursse that the sprite of god which into say the holy Ghost doth pronounce against them their familliers fautors somnors and doers The holy ghost by the Prophet Dauid to all the enemies of the grace glorie of Christ that by any maner of meane or way what sooner doe defende stoppe and let the publicatiō of these pardons or the priuiledges therein contayned which are the onely fruites of the Gospell he doth cursse excōmmunicate and perpetually enclude the out of his kingdome in this maner O Lorde shed thy wrath vpon them and let the fury of thine Ire comprehende them there habitations be brought lowe and let no man dwell in theire tabernuckles let theire tables bee made a mare vnto themselues and let those thinges which shoulde haue bene for theire welth bee vnto them an occasion of fallynge let theire eyes be blinded that they see not and euer bowe thou downe theire backes let them fall from one wickednes to another and let them not enter into thy righteousnes let them be wipped out of the booke of the lyuinge and let them not be writtē in the booke of the righteoues constitute and set thou an euell Prince ouer them and let Sathan be still at
for all mankynde the which shal be sealed in their hartes by the holy ghoste the spirit of promyse for that quickned by it they should shew the fruites of holines and righteousnes with the which they do shew thēselues obedient to god and true and liuely members of Iesus Christ who doth say vnto all and to euery one in generall particuler I am I my self am he that doth race and blot out the wickednes and offences of my people for myne owne sake and I will neuer more remember their sinnes and by Ezechiell as truly as I liue saith the lorde I will not the death of a sinner but rather that he tourne from his wickednes and liue and by Saint Iohn I am the resurection and the lyfe he that beleueth in me although he be deade yt shall hee liue and whosoeuer that doth liue and beleue in me shall neuer dye and hee that thirsteth let him come to me and I will geue hym drincke and I am the lighte of the worlde and hee that foloweth me shall not goe in darckenes but shall haue the light of lyfe and therfore be doth graunt as followeth To all those that be of contrite hart that doe trust in his mercy in his bloud death and passion that they shal be partakers of the fruite of his redemption which is a full remissiō of all their sinns and offences for euer ITem to those which are meke pacient ' full of long suffering which suffer rather to be iniured and depriued of their goods and substaunce then to consent vnto sinne Idolatry abhomynable wickednes he doth pronounce and graunt vnto them that they shall inherite the earth and be in the numbre of his own children and seruauntes Item to those that hould Sathan and his seruauntes for blynd captyue and bonde to hell death and damnation and do giue fayth to all that is graunted in this Iubily he doth graunt vnto them a trew sight in his gospell and also doth set them cleare and at a francke and free liberty from that bondage Item to those which haue obeyed sin and were therefore banyshed and depryued of the ioyes of Paradice if now they beleeue in the gospel and be ruled by the same he doth graunt vnto them that they be restored wholy into a sure and firm hope to haue possesse them agayne and neuer more to bee depryued Item to those that for the hate they haue vnto wickednesse do mortify and kyll wyth the spirite the euill inclynations affections and concupiscences of the flesh conforme and accordyng to the profession that euery one by the holy ghost did make in his baptisme hee doth graunt vnto them a glorious victory in the end Item to those which alwayes are in warre and stryfe with them selues and do byde payne to resiste the sinne that is in them and in the world and to those that goe with griefe of mynde heauy and mornyng for the same hee doth graunte vnto all such all trwe celestiall and heauenly comforte wyth promyse that in the ende he him selfe will wype away the teares from thyir eyes and their heauinesse shal be tourned into ioye and their weepyng into laughter Item to those that do honger and thyrst for ryghteousenesse sake and that in all thynges do procure with all theyr hartes that which god doth commaund by his deuine worde hee doeth graunt vnto them plenty of ioy and heauenly delightes that neuer shall haue end Item to all those that be haue ben mercyfull and that haue pittied the afflicted with a christian affect burning with charity to succour them in theyr necessities he doth graunte vnto them Plenissima indulgentia a moste ful francke and free pardon and doth geue vnto them for euer his mercy to bée their patrone and defendour in iudgement with a ioy pardurable in the cōpany of his sayntes and chosen Item to those that are persecuted as christians for faith loue and righteousnesse he doth graunt vnto them the blessednesse of hys heauenly kingdome and that the sprite of his glory and grace shall rest vpon them and that they haue ioy and christian delightes in conscience while they shal be in this world and for euer Item to those that by Christ do beleue and trust in God and doe purify theyr soules with loue without fayning hee doth graunt vnto them a perseuerance by fayth in his gospell with a blessed ende Item to those that with the bowels of charitie will gyue their almes for the building and repayring of the lyuyng temples that Iesus Christ did redéeme with his moste pretious bloud which are the true pouerty faythfull afflicted he doth graunt vnto them full pardon and that they be sanctified by the holy ghost to be a temple for euer for hym to inhabite and dwell in Item to al those which are faythful and that doe know the truth hee doeth graunt liberty that with temperaunce and respect of charity had to all them that are weake in faith that they may indifferently all the dayes of the yeare with action of grace that is gyuyng of thankes vse and eate of all kynde of meates created of God therefore notwithstanding the vayne and foolish decrees and diffēces made had and mainteyned by and vnder false tytles of men without pitty the feare of God and his righteous deuine iudgment Item to all those which in theyr heauinesse of mynde and all their troubles do ronne and apply them selues onely to God call vpō him in the name and by the merites of Iesus Christ his onely sonne he doth graunt vnto them a spirituall health and comfort wyth an vnloading and setting at liberty of their burthened and troubled conscyences Item to all those that hould and accoumpt Iesus Christ for their onely sauiour high Priest Kyng and Prophet he doth graunt vnto them a full pardon and that no euyll shall preuaile against them but that they shal be partakers of hys euerlasting kingdome and glory Item for as much as it is necessary for the health and saluation of all christians and of euery one that is a chrystian to fulfill the first and moste holy sacred vow made in baptisme whyche is to loue alwaies righteousenes truth and godlynesse and to abhorre the contrary The onely law geuer which only can saue and spill bynde and loose for that they should be able to fulfill the same doth graunt to all men and wemen of what estate or condition soeuer they be being christians that they néede not haue nor kéepe the bond of continency for notwithstanding what soeuer vow or promyse of chastity or virginitie that they haue made yet they may freely take vpon them and enter in to the holy estate of matrimony to auoyde fornycation and to the ende that the holy temple of the Lord which is theyr bodyes be not prophaned contayminated and fall into perdition and so
be destroyed by his deuine potency and myght Item to all those which for the loue and obedyence they do owe vnto god wyll visitt them that are imprysoned the sicke the desolate widdowes and poore orfanes and according to theyr power and habilitie with pittie do relieue and helpe them he doth graunt vnto them a confirmation of that hope which they haue to inioy his holy and blessed kingdome which is prepared for them from the beginning of the world Item to those that with charity doe prouide for mainteine helpe succoure and comfort the needefull hungry and naked and that doth lodge the poore straunger he doth graunt a confirmation vnto them of the same hope that is help vnto them in their like necessities Item to all those that with a chrystian effect do teach the ignoraunte and comfort them that be heauy in mynde for good and righteous thinges he doth graunt Indulgentia plenaria Item to all those that are superiours and masters if they do make a christian profession in gouernment and that they with theyr inferriours and seruantes doe with equality in their degréese kéepe a christian lyfe lyke seruauntes of our lord almighty as redeemed a like by the blood of Christe he doth graūt vnto them Indulgentia plenaria Item to al those that accoumpt them selues dispensers or stewardes of spirituall and temporall goods and riches which they haue receaued of God if they distribute them to gloryfie hym and to helpe their neighboures he doth graunt vnto them a multiplication of the same goods and ryches so distributed and therewyth Indulgentia plenaria Item to all those that haue not firmly stoode to and loued the truth but haue beene beguyled and deceaued by the blynde doctryne of Antichrist and his mynysters and induced to followe the doctryne of Deuils whych are tradicions of men in place of the gospell and that now with a true feruent and harty desire are willingly reduced to trowe and deuyne obedyence and do know by the light of godly scriptures the errors superstitions guyles deceites idolatrise and other abhominations in the which they haue béene and doo renounce them withall their harts and hould the trwe god for theyr god do worship him in spirite and truth and let their whole trust depend and be vpon him his goodnesse and promise his high holynesse doeth graunte vnto thē such like pardon general because they may freely performe the same without feare of foule Antechristes excommunications of his inquysitors or other his mynisters because that for all them or any other sensor of theyr church whatsoeuer that is thondred out and doth flame agaynste them hys hollynes doth also graunt them absolution and doeth freely restore them to his fatherly grace that they in his Church maye haue a place for name and being of his faythfull children and that they liue in hope to possesse inioy the immortall inheritaunce not contaminated but incorruptible which is conserued and kept for them in the heauens Item to as many as be and desire to be faythfull seruauntes and disciples of Iesus Christ his deuyne maiesty and most reuerent holynes doeth graunt that with a stoute harte wythout feare of the aforesayd excōmunications or other decree whatsoeuer made by the said antichrist or his ministers that they may do reade in the Spanish French Italien English or other mother tongue or language the bookes of the olde and new testament and all other bookes of trwe and sound doctrine for that they may knowe howe to gouern themselues to liue hollily to know him and so to haue life euerlasting and herewith he doeth expressely commaund that they suffer not them selues to be depryued of this liberty vnder the paine of death perdition and damnation together with the enemies of his grace that do rebell agaynste his holy will and commaundements and that haue made the sayd excōmunication and decreese Item the same Lord Iesus Christ trwe interpreter of no wil of our most holy Father doth declare by these presents that all excōmunications and such lyke as be proceede from the sayd Antichrist chiefe and high priest of the man of same the sonne of perdition or from his inquisitor and false butcherly Bushops are trystes and of no validity nor effect because the offyce nor power to excōmunicate is not geuen to one that is blynd nor to a blynd and apotestaticall church embrewed with the blend of faithfull martirs and the sainctes of god our Lord and gouerned by the doctryne of desperation such as are the traditions of men but that office doth belong to such a one and to such a Church whose head is Iesus Christ to the apostles in his name and to all such as be their trew successors guided by the spirite of truth and that doe teach and liue by the trew doctrine of the gospell so pure as possible the rule lock and key to open and cōmunicate the kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers and to shut it agayne to all that do not beleeue and to the vnfaithfull rebels proceeding from and lyke vnto the Deuill and his members for whatsoeuer excōmunications they bee if they come not from the trwe courte or offyce which is Christes church if they be thondred out with booke bell and candell neuer so fiersly if they bee forged and formed by the free will and forsight of them that haue the name of pastors and yet in truth are very Idols and rauening wolues neuer so firmely yet it is not ratified nor allowed in the kingdom nor by the faithful of Christ but condemned and that with iust reason good right The Scribes and Pharisies were set in Moyses chayre and did set at naught the excomunications that Christ and his Apostles did preach and pronounce vnto and agaynst them yet we are taughte by the holy Ghost to abhorre them their examples and the like examples by whom soeuer they be shewed much more the examples of those Antechristes which are now the mockers of God and euen now do sit not in the chayre of Moyses but in the chayre of pestylence to entrap blinde and be the perdition of the people of Christ if they could and to be the trwe members mynisters of Sathan and enemies to the glory of Christ and of the bloud of the new testament To all those that do renounce these and such lyke false religions of perdition inuented by mē and with all their hartes doe imbrace the true healthfull saludable and celestiall religion that our Lord and holy Father Iesus Christ doth teache and by his spirite the Patriarcks apostles and Prophetes he doth graunte vnto them plenaria indulgentia and that they do inioy all the benefites moste blessed that are herein contayned Item all those that according to the church of God that he taught by the fathers of our faith the holy apostles and Prophetes doe beleeue that for all our sinnes veniall