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A14583	An epistle sent by Monsievr de Vrillac, advocate in the Parliament of Paris; to Monsievr de Vrillac his father, vpon the occasion of his conuersion. Faithfully translated into English, accoriding to the French copie; By C.C.	Vrillac, Monsieur de.; C. C., fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 24893; ESTC S101817	11,766	24

on by the hand of his grace and strengthened my weakenesse to hearken to the words of our Sauiour Who so loueth father or mother more then me is Mat. 10. 37. not worthie of me As also to that answere which he made him which said I will follow thee Lord Luke 9. 61. but first giue me leaue to take leaue of those that are at mine house None that putteth his hand to the plough Verse 6● and looketh backe is fit for the kingdome of God Then I considered that God called me to the same condition vnto which he called the Father of the faithfull Goe out of the countrie and from Gen. 12. 1. thy kindred and from thy Fathers house to goe into a countrie which I will shew thee I thought that if I was bound to respect the father of my body I was much more bound to respect the Father of my spirit and that it was better to obey God then men Act. 4. 19. And the better to alay this bitternes I comforted my selfe the sweetnes of the gracious promises of my good God I will receiue you and will be 2 Cor. 6. 18. a father vnto you and you shal be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2. Cor. 6. Whence I came to conclude thus with my selfe I forsake my fathers house but I enter into the house of God I estrange my selfe from my naturall parents but I enter into that high and noble alliance and spirituall kindred which is named in heauen and in earth of which Iesus Christ is the head When Ephes 3. 15. Psal 27. 10. my father and my mother forsake me the Lord will gather me vp Add also that with this consolation I comforted my selfe thus namely that I entred not into a Church which vnder pretence of piety teacheth me to cast off the bands of naturall respects and dutie but which commands all Christians to nourish within them the cordial affections of true Exod. 20. charitie instructing children to honour their father and mother in all things in the Lord. The Ephes 6. honour and loue which I owe you are too fast engraued in my breast to be blotted out The bands wherwith I am knit vnto you are too strong to be broken and my desire to acknowledge your fauours shall neuer die in me till I die Now I nothing doubt but you will witnes with me how blamelesse my conuersation was during the time I conuersed amongst you I was also inflamed with a most ardent affection to make it appeare vnto you that it was neither rashnes nor lightnes which caused mee to change Religion But I onely suffered my selfe to be vanquished by the power of truth the motions of Gods holy Spirit to which purpose you know I endeuoured my selfe in your presence to maintaine this truth agaiust such Doctors as you approued of which I often did in particuler conferences hauing learned that God perfects his prayse by the mouth of babes Mat. 11. 25. and perfects his power in our weakenesse For as God hides his secrets from the wise and prudent reueales 2 Cor. 12. 9. them vnto little ones So hath the Truth greater Mat. 11. 25. force in the mouth of a childe then a lye in the mouth of all the Doctors in the worlde But the miseries of these times not permitting me to enter into such disputes without exposing my person to manifest danger and not minding to enter into the Church of GOD through trouble As also that disputations now adayes are rather lowd then fruitfull because they dispute onely to dispute striuing rather for victory then truth I thought it euery way better and more to edification to set downe my reasons of this my alteration and change by writing to which the grace of God assisting me I will without ceasing endeuour now that God of his mercy hath giuen mee to arriue in such a place where it is lawfull both to speake and write the truth For I hold my selfe still bound to giue you an account of my proceedings and I should thinke my selfe happy if this little light which God hath communicated vnto me might something enlighten your darkenesse then should I willingly yeelde my Spirit to God that gaue it if I might see you with my selfe walking the way to life and happinesse In expectation whereof I beseech the great God and father of mercies that hee will make vs all mind one and the same thing in Christ that he will replenish you with the ioyes and comforts of his holy Spirit granting vs all the grace that after wee haue glorified him a little while heere on earth wee may be glorified with him for euer in heauen euen with that glory which hee hath prepared for vs before the foundation of the world So prayeth he who craues that you will alwayes beleeue it euen vnto the altar Your most humble most affectionate and most obedient Sonne de VRILLAC From SEDAN this 3. of August 1621.

things to be losse vnto me for the excellent knowledge of Iesus Christ my Lord. For whose sake I haue depriued my selfe of all things and doe iudge them to be dung that I may winne Christ The like is sayd of all the Apostles who vse this speech to Christ We haue lest all and followed thee Mat. 19. ●● And that which most comforted me was the answere of our Sauiour Verily I say vnto you that whosoeuer hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother for my sake and the Gospels shall receiue an hundred folde as much and shall inherite eternall life And therefore euen as the Apostles forsooke their Nets to follow Iesus Christ I also put from me these vaine cares and the deceitfull hopes which intangled my minde and with the royall Prophet I concluded O Lord thou art my portion Psal 119. 55. I haue determined to keepe thy law And that as Christ saith Those are blessed which heare the Luke 11. 28. word of God and keepe it As also with Mary I haue chosen the good part which shall not bee taken Luke 10. 42. from me I sayd in my selfe what though I possesse not great things here on earth yet shall I bee rich in thee and an inheritour of the kingdome which God hath promised to those that loue him I shall possesse that pearle of inualuable price to wit the knowledge of the Gospell and the graces of the Spirit I shall be adorned with Iesus Christ the riches of Israel and the glory of our hope And I shall obtaine a treasure in heauen where the moth corrupteth nor and where theeues neither breake Mat. 6. 20. through nor steale If I lacke honor among mortall men God will single me out as among his Mal. 3. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 9. most precious Iewels I shall enter into the royall Priesthood and I may boast that I am descended of the most auncient nobilitie that may be seeing the titles of Gods house and familie are more auncient then heauen and earth and if I forsake worldly pleasures I shall haue spirituall gladnes I shall reioyce in God my Sauiour with a Ioy vnspeakeable 1 Pet. 1. 8. and glorious and as Dauid taking his flight into the Deserts comforted himselfe in the expectation of the kingdome which God had promised him so will I comfort my selfe in looking for those eternall felicities which God hath reserued for me among the Angels To be short if with Iesus Christ I haue not whereon to rest my head I will reioyce that in Iesus Christ I haue peace of Conscience that God is the portion of Psal 16. 5. mine heritage and of my Cup alwayes O Lord Psal 84. 1. of hosts how amiable are thy dwelling places my foule ceaseth not greatly to long yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God For a day in thy Verse 10. Courts is better then a thousand else-where I had rather be a doore-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse Now if my flesh were loth to forsake her commodities shee thought it yet more strange to betake her selfe vnto such an vnpleasing condition shee thought it folly and madnesse to enter into a path all paued with thornes and filled with afflictions she set before me the reproch of the Gospell but especially in these woefull times in which pietie is heresie and wherein it is counted a dishonour to serue Christ But according to the Apostles example I shooke off this Viper without Act. 28. taking any hurt I beleeued that I ought to contemne this contempt according to the saying of the Apostle I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Rom. 1. 1● Christ seeing it is the power of God to saluation to all that beleeue I thought it better to share with Gods children in the words reproach then to be had in execration before God and his Angels and willingly to be made the ofscouring of the earth seeing so I might be made heauens delight I thought it folly to imagine I should reape before I had sowed to ouercome without conflict and to be crowned before I had run my race to the end and that it is impossible to partake of the excellencie of Christs crosse without feeling the weight of it seeing the paschall Lambe was to be Exod. 12. 8. eaten with soure herbs and the bread of the Lord like that of Boaz must be eaten with dipping it in Ruth 2. vineger I consider that seeing the kingdome of Iesus Christ is not of this world it were extreame folishnes in me to seeke the world in his kingdome or to thinke of rest in his kingdome who is the enemie of our Father or not to make profession of the Gospell til persecutions be ended or to set before vs Iesus Christ without his Crosse or a Gospell without reproach To tarry till God had traced out a new way to heauen and till the worlde and Satan should cease to bee for the enmitie of the old Serpent which began in the earthly Paradice Gen. 3. will neuer haue an ende till wee become to the heauenly I also thought that ther is no afflictiō for the Gospell which Iesus Christ hath not fore-told that such as are enrolled for seruants in his armie must accept it vpon condition that whosoeuer will come Luke 9. 23. after me must deny himselfe and take vp his Crosse and follow me Iesus Christ tels vs that if we will enter Mat. 7. 23. into life eternall wee must passe through the straight gate and this is that aduantage which in this life he tels his Apostle he must take for his patrimonie I will shew him how many things hee must suffer for my sake A lesson which the Apostle sets vs Act. 9. 16. al to take out saying By many afflictions we must enter Act. 14. 22. into the kingdome of heauen and 2. Tim. 3. All that 2 Tim. 3. 12. will liue godly in Christ Iesus must suffer persecution I shake of delicacie when I cast mine eyes vpon Daniel who chose rather to be cast into the Lyons den then to giue ouer lifting vp his hands to heauen vpon those three worthies who chose rather to bee exposed to the mercy of the fiery furnace then to bow before an Idol and vppon so many cloudes of witnesses who were willing rather to shed their blood then defile themselues with Idolatrie And aboue all I was astonied in beholding Iesus Heb. 12. 2. Christ the author and finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and despised the shame For the seruant is not greater then his Iohn 13. 16. master nor the Ambassader greater then hee that sent him Seeing our head was crowned with thornes and was offered vinegar to drinke all streaming ouer with blood what a vile shame is