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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

Heb. 10.26 If we sinne willingly after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth there remayneth no more sacrifice for sinnes But a fearefull lookyng for of Iudgement and violent fire whiche shall deuoure the aduersaries To the Reader THere is some space of time expired since that I purposed to write some litle treatise of Apostasie and especially since the slaughter committed on Saint Bartholomewe his day in the which there chaunced a most horrible fearfull reuolting in all our Churches so that of three partes two of them at the least slipped backe of those which in the beginning entered into it with so great readinesse and courage that it seemed they would continually abide in it without a mind euer to departe whatsoeuer temptation shoulde offer it selfe vnto them Neuerthelesse I had hitherto deferred the same hoping that the feare being ouerpassed which as a storme and vehement wind had carried them away from the sheepefold and hauing had leisure to settle themselues and gather their wits together they might either of themselues returne or else be easily called backe againe by the voice of their pastors But perceiuīg that the most part of the Apostates do not only slumber harden themselues in their sins but also become contemners of God and blaspeme without shame his word and the true religion and not content with this striue by all meanes to withdrawe those from the house of God which continued stedfast in his seruice and to hinder those that desire to enter into it againe I deemed it not meete to dissemble any longer but to be necessary to put in execution the charge which God hath giuen his seruants whom he hath placed in the Church not onely to pronounce remission of sinnes to all those who by a liuely faith vvill lay hold of it through the preaching of the Ghospell but also the vvithholding of the same from all those vvho vvith an hard and obstinate heart do stillre●ect the vvordes and promises of saluation Which must not seeme strange seeing the Ministers of the Ghospell be not onely ordained to vnloose absolue those that beleeue but also to binde and condemne those that remaine obstinate in their infidelitie For vvhich cause God seeing the stubbornnes and hardnes of the Ievves doth send vnto them his Prophet Esay to blind and harden them yet more Esay 6.9 Go saith he and say vnto this people ye shall heare in deede but ye shall not vnderstand ye shall plainely see and not perceiue Make the heart of this people fat make their eares heauy and shut their eyes least they see with eyes and heare with eares and vnderstand with their hearts and conuert and he heale them Which afterward was oftentimes alledged against the Iewes by Iesus Christ Matth. 13. Mark 14. Luk. 8. Acts. 28. Rom. 11. his Apostles to condemne their obstinacy And as Moses publishing the law said to the people that in it he set before their eies life death according to their obedience or disobedience towardes the same so S. Paule writeth that the one the other are represented in the Gospell according as the men to whom it is preached are faithfull or vnfaithful We are 2. Cor. 2.15 saith he vnto God the sweete sauour of Christ in them that are saued and in them that perish that is to say to the one the sauour of death vnto death to the other the sauour of life vnto life And Iesus Christ also as Simeon said to the Virgin is not he as well appointed for the fall as for the rising againe of many in Israell Luk. 2.34 And as he is to some sanctification and saluation is he not likewise to others a blocke of stumbling and of offence a snare and a net vnto all those which abide in vnbeleefe If then it chance that any Apostates or delayers of time vvill spare so much leisure as to reade this treatise I desire them that it may be with great attention and that vvithout any passionate or preiudicate minde they vveigh all the reasons and argumentes of the same setting alvvayes that before their eyes vvhich Iesus Christ spake to his Apostles that vvhatsoeuer they shoulde binde on earth by his vvorde shoulde be ratified firmly bound in heauē To the end they may not deceiue themselues in their discourses vaine imaginations esteeming the thoughtes of God to be as their thoughts his waies as their wayes cōtrarie vnto that which the Prophet sayth Let all of vs therefore giue place vnto the worde of God and let vs beleeue that it shall be sure for euer endure eternally And considering that by the decree and irreuocable ordinance of God it is necessary that all knees should bende to do homage vnto Iesus Christ let vs rather choose to acknowledge and embrace him nowe for a Sauiour and welspring of life then in the ende be constrained to auouche him and finde him as the Deuils a iudge that will not be intreated and a consuming fire A TREATISE OF APOSTASIE MADE BY M. I. DE L'ESPINE MInister of the word of God in the Churche of Anger 's The Preface Chap. 1. THE inconstācie of men is a thing which cannot be but most wonderfull vnto those who will cōsider it well which may be perce●ued diuers wayes but especially in the varietie and alteration of their purposes affections and in that they can not find any state of life in this world whiche may either wholly satisfie their humor or in which they an abide and rest any long time for being by ●and by glutted with the thing whiche they ●resently enioye they do either with grief de●re that which is not any more in their power ●r els long for those thinges which they could ●ot as yet obtaine and when they haue obtai●ed them they will loath them aswell as those which earst they had enioyed And are like vnto those who hauing a queasie stomake finde nothing wel seasoned for their tooth or as sick bodies whiche are not able to finde any good resting place in bed wheresoeuer they be layd And although God by an especiall fauor doth call some of them into his house Heb. 6.4 and bringing them into his church doth adopte thē into his familie to lighten thē and to make them taste of the heauenly gift and of the good word of God to make thē partakers of the holy ghost of the powers of the world to come which is a cōdicion the best that can be chosen or desired in the world and the which alone is able to bring contentement and a perfect felicitie to all those that can obtaine it Neuerthelesse there are some so crooked froward that hauing tasted of it do in the ende loath and disdaine it aswell as the other Though in deed the dwelling in the house of God be so happy a thing Psal 84. that the silly doorekeepers of the same ought to account themselues more happy for hauing a

vse to come vnto him Chap. 10. IN the couenant which God hath made with his people he doth promise to geue vnto thē his spirit his word which are two things vnseperably knitt together to worke the saluatiō of men as it is written in Esay Esay 59.21 This is my couenāt with them saith the Lord my spirit that is vpō thee my words which I haue put in thy mouth shall not departe out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of the seed of thy seede sateth the Lord frō hēceforth for euer For as in the bringing forth of the frutes of the earth the seed is first requisite afterward the husbandmā tilleth the earth maketh it fit to receaue the seed cast theron so in the regeneratiō of mē the word of god which is an immortal seed is first necessary then the spirit who as an husbādmā prepareth our hearts to receiue it to make it fructifie in them But the Apostates haue it at this day in disdaine contēpt 1 Pet. 1.23 2 Cor. 2.16 nay ther is nothing more odious vnto thē It is vnto thē the sauor of death vnto death and the cause of it is that as the euil doer taketh no plea sure to heare the sētēce wherin his death is pronounced vnto him nor to se the gibet wheron he must be executed so these traitors can not abide to heare the worde of God wherin their condemnation is written wherein they see the gallowes set vp wheron they must be hanged and punished for there disloyalty They are like vnto those that are sicke of the drowsie euill who will not be awaked but dye in their sleepe and as they doe exasperate themselues against those that woulde come nighe their bed and twitch them by the eare to hinder them from sleping therby to deliuer them from death wherevnto they runne by sleepe so the Apostates woulde neuer meete with anie that might awake them and tell them of their disease and laye before them the great dangers wherein they are and if by chaunce they fall in companie where their fault is shewed them and the great offence which they haue geuen vnto the Church of God they will either bringe them to another matter or else by and by geue them the slipe finally they are like vnto ill pay maisters who cannot ab●de to heare any talke of their debtes because they will not discharge them And like vnto those who had rather die then to heare the newes of death leaste they shoulde take some fearefull conceite thereof The occasion then that causeth the worde of God to be so odious vnto them is not in it selfe which as the Prophet sayeth Is sweeter then the honie and the honie combe Psal 19.10 But in that they do reiect it who because they haue their heartes full of gall can not taste nor feele the sweetenes thereof As those who haue some inflammation in the roofe of their mouth can not eate breade nay they abhorre it though it be the best foode and most sauorie that may be founde for among all other meates there is not one wherewith in time we are not wearied glutted be it neuer so daintie notwithstanding any sauce prepared for the seasoning thereof yet we are neuer weary of the taste of breade Nay there is not so much as sugar and honie but they seme vnsauorie of an ill taste without it And as those who hauing sore eyes can not abide the light though it be the pleasantest and most delectable thinge that can be desired although the onely cause which maketh them to flie it is not in it but in the euill disposition and desease of the eye which can not receaue it In like manner that that causeth the Apostates to haue in such abhomination the word is nothing but their owne desease for that at this present their eares and heartes are vncircumcised They go often to the sermons of these paltrie friers taking pleasure to heare their blasphemies lyes and slauerings and do feel themselues like rauens or filthy beasts on carrions and rotten things hauing more delight in that then to eat the foode of Angels and to refresh themselues with the pure word of God which as a sweete breath proceeding from the mouth of God doth quicken all those on whome it is breathed And they are like vnto those that grudged at the stincking garlick which they had left in Egipt Num. 11.5 and preferred it before Manna that was sent them downe from heauen And vnto Adam who gaue more credit vnto the speach of the Deuil then to the word of God chosing rather to tast of the tre of knowledg of good euil against the expresse commaundement which had bene giuen vnto him and by that meanes make himselfe mortall wretched for euer then to enioye peaceably the fruite of the tree of life and in obeying the wil of god to become he and his children happy for euer and vnto Esau who esteemed more a messe of pottage then the birthright wherevnto were annexed the promises of the couenant of God Gen. 25 33 Luk. 8.37 and by consequent a certaine and euerlasting happines And to the Gadarens who had a greater care of the losse of theire hoggs Mar. 5.17 then of Iesus Christ and his word to which are adioyned all manner of temporall corporall and spirituall blessings And vnto Iudas who loued rather thirty peeces of siluer with a gibbet and a miserable death then saluation and an assured happines with Iesus Christ for the Apostates are as much or rather more wretched then all those aboue named because that departing willingly frō the church they do depriue thēselues not onely of the participation that they shoulde haue therein of the treasures Coloss 2 Iohn 1. and knowledge of the wisedome of god which are bestowed geuē as a pledge vnto it but also of the fulnesse of Iesus Christ that is to say of all the goodes which his father will distribute vnto vs by his meanes by his grace which they loose by their sliding back which is worst Heb. 10 the hope also of euer recouering it againe for the meanes thereof is wholly taken away from them when as they loose the fruition of the word of God which is called in the Scripture The word of reconciliatiō 2 Cor. 5. because it is the instrument which God doth vse to reconcile vnto vs him and to adopte vs for his children and to regenerate vs and make vs new creatures Gen. 1. And as in the beginning god vsed his word onelie to create the heauen the earth and all that is contained in them so whē he woulde renue the worlde and draw it from the corruption whereunto it was fallen by the sinne and disobedience of our parents he hath wrought it by his worde which he hath sent vs in these latter dayes first by his