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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

a reward vnto any man that would make an end of him When I saw that as long as I remained in France I was in daily danger of my life I betooke my selfe hither into England as into the Hauen of safetie with intent that my selfe who had beene in Spain a bad Physitian of soules in France by Gods blessing a good one of bodies might in England becom a good Physitian in special to my selfe of body and soule by securing them both vnder the Gouernement of the most gracious King Iames the most powerful defender of the sincere vnpolluted faith resoluing to yeeld all obedience vnto such a King professing the Reformed Religion and withdrawing my selfe from Papists whose company is wont to breed infection some-where within his Maiesties Dominions either to exercise my function of Ministery or to practise Physicke and by one or both of these to maintaine my selfe in diet cloathing by my honest labor Neither thought I fit to come hither vnarmed and therfore brought I with me this buckler which I haue already preseted to that most noble Prince Charles the rising Morning-Starre of Great-Brittaine which my small present his Highnesse according to his wonted gentlenesse did most graciously accept And now haue I learned by experience that to be true which al the world witnesseth namely that no eloquence can expresse that pietie towards God and zeale for Gods house which is found in the most mighty King of great Brittain and the most excellent Prince the liuely Image of his renowned Father vpon both whom Nature seemeth to haue powred out all her endowments and ornaments culled out from all others But now I betake my selfe to you Fathers of this Church most Reuerend Archbishops Reuerend Bishops Worshipfull and well-deseruing Doctors and Pastors to you I addresse my selfe who are the salt of the earth Mat. 5. the light of the World a City set vpon an hill to this Synode I flye as to a City of refuge not as a Man-slayer but contrariwise my selfe hauing of late very hardly escaped slaughter Namely in the moneth of February lately past being in London and walking in Pauls there meeteth me as by chance one vnknowne to me but certainely a slieknaue who entering into conference with me about matter of Physicke intreateth mee that I would take the paines to visit a certaine woman which lay sicke of a sore disease and forsaken of other Physitians as vncureable This hee diuers times vrged soliciting me foure dayes together and promising me a large reward Poore I in my simple credulity yeelded thereto he leades me along the streetes for the space of an howre and an halfe then at length we finde the house and therein the sick woman where after much questioning conferring about her disease I tarried supper vpon on the intreaty of him that brought mee thither who at Supper said Grace in Latine Presently after eight of the clocke at night we depart thence Then he making as though he would as hee had promised guide me backe to my chamber leadeth mee cleane another way beyond the Citie wals out of the broad streets through by-lanes and narrow allies into desert places and into the fields Sometime he stops his pace and standeth still sometimes he listneth carefully and when I aske him the cause thereof I listen saith he to heare if any man come by of whom I may aske the way to London which verily I haue lost and know not where I am But verily he lyed for his listning was for nothing else but that he might haue me sure to set vpon mee far enough from any to helpe me I call God to witnesse that when I thus wandred with him in the darke my mind did fore-boad some mischance vnto me whereupon I lifted mine eyes to heauen and armed my selfe as well as I could with repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Iesus Christ Acts 20.21 Now then about ten of the clocke in the night hauing gotten me into such a place as he desired namely in the great fields called S. Iameses he on a sudden flies vpon me with his naked dagger and grieuously wounded me neere the left ventricle of the heart from whence come those two principall vessels of life the one called the veiny Artery and the other Aorta and presently running away left me there halfe dead This wound being giuen me in an extreame cold night and being in depth as much as eight fingers breadth yet not directly but obliquely pearcing was dangerous enough especially when as I knew not where I was nor whom to call on for helpe being vtterly ignorant of the English tongue and surely I had neuer seene the mornings light had not a certaine good Samaritane that very night powred wine and oyle into my wound that is vnlesse the renowned Doctor Mayern his Maiesties most worthy principall Physition being as much replenished with mercy and charity as with knowledge and experience had reached forth vnto me his helping hand and for three weekes space entertained me in his house had speciall care of my recouery Though this wound be healed yet the scarre thereof remaineth and euer will so long as I liue whereof I am so farre from being ashamed it hauing been inflicted vpon me in hatred of the reformed Religion that I rather reioyce in it say with Saint Paul Gal. 6. v. 17. I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus Paphnutius who was present at the Councell of Nice hauing one of his eyes boared out and his ham-strings cut for his cōstant profession of Christianity was not thought to be deformed but rather more beautified by these markes Afford vnto me I pray you reuerend Fathers vnto me the meanest and basest Professor yea and Confessor of the Christian reformed Religion a place in this your Synod not by way of locall presence but by admission into your good opinion and fatherly loue Paphnutius after he had receiued those prints and seales of Christian constancy ceased not to professe and confesse Christ the more feruently verily I am so farre from being discouraged by this dangerous conflict from walking still in that path of pure Religion which I haue set into that this same Dagger is become a goade or spurre vnto me whereby I am pricked on to runne more couragiously and swiftly in the rest of that race which I haue vndertaken Now therefore God thus putting me forward it the more behooueth mee to whet my pen against the errors of papistry and to doe my best for maintaining the honour of all reformed Churches against the calumniations of the Spaniards who are zealous but not according to knowledge and father vpon vs another manner of Confession of faith cleane contrary to that which we professe Wherefore I intreate all you Pastors and Doctors of the reformed Churches by the bowels of Gods mercies to take especiall care and order that the true Confession of your sincere Faith may be made knowne to foraigne people who are miserably deceiued in this behalfe namely to that end there may be published some small Treatises translated or written in the vulgar languages of the people of Spaine Italie France and other Nations I for my part and poore faculty am ready and willing to imploy herein my paines by day and night euen to my last gaspe This this enterprise I say doth neerely concerne the glory of God the sauing of soules the maintaining of the honour of the most gracious King of great Brittaine defender of the Faith as also the shielding of your own reputations from the slanders of the Papists Whose reuilings and forged calumniations against you by no other meanes can be refuted then by that course which here is wished and offered by Him that againe recommends himselfe to your charitable and fatherly embraces Iohn de Nicholas Sacharles Doctor in Physicke FINIS