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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08846	A full declaration of the faith and ceremonies professed in the dominions of the most illustrious and noble Prince Fredericke, 5. Prince, Elector Palatine published for the benefit and satisfaction of all Gods people ; according to the originall printed in the High Dutch tongue ; translated into English by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19130; ESTC S1329	121,244	211

zeale of truth and peace set forth their Faithfull Admonition wherein they cleared their doctrine● from many slanderous imputations ●●d ofter●d the hand of fellowship and brotherhood to then ●ouersaries notwithstandiag their disagreement in some points and laboured also to winne them to peace by all louing and kind protestations yet diuers of a more turbulent nature amongst them haue not spared to exagitate that booke and accuse the writers thereof of fraudulent dealing both in deliuering some and concealing other of their doctrines and in a word to condemne them more then euer they did before for which cause those godly men of the Prince Electors Church were constrained to write this second booke called A full Declaration of their faith and ceremonies that they might stop the mouthes of their malicious aduersaries and shew to the world that they hold no such damnable errours as they impute vnto them My purpose is not commend this small vollume vnto thee for it will commend it selfe if thou please to peruse it with an indifferent eie my intent is onely to shew thee how vsefull it may be to the Church of God The ends of the first writing of it were these first that the world might know what they hold concerning the matter of religion and how sound their faith is in all fundamentall points thereof Secondly that the mouthes of their aduersaries the rigid Lutherans might be stopped who cease not maliciously to lay vnto their charges strange and blasphemous doctrines which they neuer thought nor taught And thirdly that all men might perceiue how those that falsely call themselues Luthers disciples doe swarue more from Luthers opinion then these doe except in one thing onelie which is the doctrine of the sacrament for albeit Luther spake many things in the beat of contention which might seeme to afford some ground to their opinions yet when that heate was cooled and his speeches proceeded from better aduisement hee is so farre from patronizing such paradoxes that none is more contrary vnto them then himselfe is these were ends of the first writing this booke And as for the translating it wanteth not lawful and commendable vses for first we may here see what cause we haue to blesse God for the religeous care of our dread soueraigne in matching his only daughter a princesse peerelesse with a Prince of that soundnesse in religion as the Prince Elector is thereby discouering his singular loue to the truth and his vpright heart to God when as neither masses of treasure nor height of honour did so much preponder at in his royall heart as did true religion and the aduancement of the Gospel and the glory of God What is to marry in the Lord if this be not and what can be a truer token of a religious heart then this is policie councelleth to strengthen states and kingdomes by conioyning them together by marriages And in this respect not only religion is often not regarded but euen natures law contemned as experience sheweth in many places of Christendome and especially in the house of Austria But our religeous Soueraigne esteeming it no policie but vanitie which is not grounded vpon the feare of God the roote of true wisdome hath preferred true religion aboue all and laboured to strengthen himselfe rather in the Lord then in the world Albeit there be neuer the lesse no disparagement in that happie match either in honour he being descended from Kings and Emperours and the principall Elector Emperiall Or in wealth and power his dominion being both great and large able to answere his stoutest enemie in the face if need should require or in gifts of nature of which this whole land and especially Cambridge graced by his highnesse presence are eye and eare and heart witnesses notwithstanding religion was his Maiesties chiefe motiue and so being it giueth vs all his subiects that feare God cause both to praise God for his Maiesties happy raign ouer vs and to lay downe our liues and goods at his feet to giue him contentment and to pray to God with earnest deuotion for the continuing of his life and raigne As also to hope that as his Maiesty hath begun this first happy mariage of his royall issue in the Lord so hee will not swarue from the said rule in the second of him who is the breath of our nostrels and the only radiant starre of our horrison Secondly this Treatise may serue to aduertise vs that we are not alone in the profession of our faith nor doe separate our selues from other reformed Churches but ioyne the hands of fellowship and friendship with the Churches of Germany yea of France the Low-Countries Denmark and all other reformed Churches of the world which howsoeuer they differ from vs in some ceremonies yet in substance of faith we runne all one way and mind one thing And touching Ceremonies being nothing but externall accidents and ornaments of religion that they are not so obstinately maintained by any of vs as if the life of religion should consist therein or that we are not ready to alter and change the fashion of them if necessitie either in respect of charitie or scandall should so require And as for the difference betwixt the Lutherans and Caluinists that they are not so great nor so many as our aduersaries would make them and as the world take them to bee excepting onely a few strange positions broched defended by some of a more rough and bitter spirit of that sect who as they swarne from the standert of their Captaine Luther so are condemned of their owne pewfellowes to whom God hath vouchsafed a more mild and peaceable heart This is plainely discouered in this booke and not onely this but also with what spirit of meekenesse these good men the Authors of this booke are inspired who being reuiled scorned and contumeliously railed vpon by those rough and rigid false disciples of Luther reuiled not againe but after the example of Christ referre the righting of their wrongs to him that is the rightfull Iudge of heauen and earth and by all gentle and louing perswasions labour to winne them to the truth Lastly it may stand vp as a bulwarke against the malicious slanders of our rancored aduersaries the Iesuites and other of the Romish crew and this as in many pointes so especially in these two that the Protestant Church for want of a vissible Iudge indued with infallibillety of iudgement and impossibilitie of erring is rent and torne in peeces into so many sectes as there are particular Churches and almost persons And that we if not professedly yet by consequents hold this damnable doctrine that God is the author of sinne both which slanders are so clearely dispelled in this tract that none can choose but subscribe to the same who is not either mufled with ignorance or blinded with mallice For touching the first here they may see how though we be disioyned by distance of peace yet we accord together in the vnitie of