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A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

seller of purple to attend to the things which S. Paul spake They then that haue eares to heare vnderstand can not but acknowledge without doubting that faith is the mouth of the soule by which we receiue faluatiō the merit of the Lords death and passion that faith is the onely gift of God and therefore whofocuer glorifieth himself Psal 27. let him glorifie in the Lord and say with Dauid the Lord is my light and my saluation But some do argue against the word of God in these termes Faith doth not abolis● workes Seing that grace abolisheth merit works are abolished likewise and so the Gospell abolisheth workes and the law by faith S. Paul did fore-see this obiection and aunswered thereto so carefully that none except the ignoraunt or enemies of the Gospell can make accompt thereof Neuerthelesse the Pope stands on it so stifly and esteemes it so highly that in consideration and vnder colour of it and his auarice together he hath brought in this goodly doctrine of the merite of workes contrary to the Gospell as by the premisses here-aboue appeareth Rom. 3.4 After Saint Paul had set downe this obiection he proueth more manifestly than afore that by faith we are saueck and stayeth firmely on this argument that Abraham receiued the promise of saluation by faith before the circumcision and long time yer the law was geuen so that the promise saith he belongeth to the faithfull and not to the workers of the law which law was geuen onely to the successors of Abraham after faith and the promises and so he leaueth vs to conclude that as the law was geuen to the successors of Abraham after the promises made to Abraham because of his faith euen so the faithfull ought to receiue the law not making it the cause of the promises and hand-fast of their saluation but shewing by their obedience thereto that the promises belong to them as being successors of them to whom the promises were made as being successors of Abraham yea children of the heauenly father whose voice they ought to know and vnderstand yelding them selues willingly to be guyded and gouerned by his holy spirite to the obedience of his commandements The sonne is a sonne afore he obeyeth his father but he sheweth by his obedience that he is the truesonne so the faithfull and elect afore workes afore their obedience appeareth be the children of God Works cannot bring them this title or qualitie it is the gift of God and commeth not of works saith S. Paul Ephesa but by workes they shewe themselues to be faithfull in deede and by the obedience they yeeld to God when he hath certified them of his wil they shew themselues to be the true and faithfull children of God S. Rom. 6. Paul is not content herewith but pursueth yet more euidently the ouerthrow of this obiection For hauing proued afore that wee are saued by grace and not by works it followeth what shal we say then shall we continue stil in sinne that grace may abound God forbid how shall we that are dead to sinne liue yet therein know ye not that all we which haue bene baptized into Iesus Christ haue bene baptized into his death wee are buried then with him by baptisme into his death that like as Christ was raysed vp from the dead by the glory of the father so we also should walke in newnesse of life and in the same Chapter what then shall we sinne because we are not vnder the law but vnder grace God forbid know ye not that to whomsother ye geue your selues as seruants to obey his seruants ye are to whoth ye obey and a little after but now being freed from sinue and made seruants vnto God ye haue your fruite in holmes and th' end euerlasting life Thus yee see that faith destroyeth not workes Contrariwise the Scripture commandeth vs that we oboy God to shew foorth the glory and holines of his house to shew and confirme our owne and our neighbors faith to shew that we feare loue and honor God that we belong to him are regenerated by him are his children seruants and this ought we to seeke in works and not our saluation Workes goe not afore election they follow it they follow adoption they follow faith they follow the sure trust of saluation The commaundemēts of God are directed to them that are of his house not to strangers so that we must be of his house before we may vnderstand or do them The commaundements are not they that make the children but they are the children that doo the commandements of their father But now behold how we learne what is th' end of good works 1 Pes. 2. It is written that it is the will of God that by wel doing we may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes but as the seruants of God 2. Pet. 1. Againe geue euen all diligence thereunto ioyne more ouer vertue with your faith and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlines with godlines brotherly kindnes and with brotherly kindnes charitie Saint Iohn saith hereby we are sure that we know him if we keepe his commandements he that saith I know him and keepeth not his commaundements is a lier and the truth is not in him he that saith he remaineth in him ought euen so to walk as he hath walked 1. Ioh. 4. 1. Ioh. 5. If any man say I loue God and hate his brother he is a lyer Wee know that whosoeuer is borne of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe the faithfull should liue no more after the concupiscences of men 1. Pet. 2. but according to the will of God They must haue their conuersation honest that they which speake euill of them as of euill doers may by their good works which they shall see glorifie God in the day of the visitation True it is that the scripture seemeth in some places to ascribe saluation to works for the holy Ghost sometimes vseth indifferently all these termes election grace faith works and accepteth th' one for th' other expresly to shew vs that th' election grace faith and works are inseparable and as it is written that works done without faith auaile nothing so true works bring with them faith cōsequently th' election and grace purchased by the passion of our Sauiour Sometimes also the holy Ghost speaketh in this maner to rebuke them that abuse faith running after a bastard vaine and idle faith leauing the lawfull true and working faith At other times hespeaketh so applying himselfe to nouices and children in the faith For so S. Iames highly extolled workes Iac. 2. but that was vpon occasion to confound them that abused faith and thought they should continue vnprofitable and idle in faith As also S. Paul opposing himselfe against them

liken me that I I should be like him saith the holy one we ought not to think saith S. Paul that the Godhead is like vnto gold Act. 17. or siluer or stone grauen by art and the inuention of man It is high time than for vs to giue ouer all these images and content our selues with the Word which is the true image of God it is in vayne to looke for any liuely shew or feeling at the dead works of mens hands it is the holy Ghost that imprinteth in our myndes all right knowledge and from whom we feele all true comfort let vs craue it of him and leaue crouching to images Let vs not make our selues more wise thē th'Apostles to seeke for meanes to perswade which they haue neither sought nor cōmaunded there is yet among vs great likelihood of idolatry the feare of sinne therfore ought to ouer-rule our wisdome Let that suffice vs which the word doth teach Col. 3. Let our conuersation be in heauen saith Saint Paul let not our soules lye groueling on earthly thinges The true knowledge and adoration of the the faithfull is in spirit as Dauid and Iesus Christ say Psal 51. Iohn 4. and take we heed of prouoking the ielousie of God lest we feele th' effect of his threatnings let vs condemne images which offend God and make the silly people hainously to sinne let vs take this sclander and offence quite out of the Church and say with Isay images shal be broken all to peeces The Pope willeth vs to call vpon Angels and Saincts as mediators and intercessors Whether we ought to pray to or call vpon Angels and Saincts and for that end to direct to them our prayers with himnes praises and all other kindes of deuotion We finde no such matter in the holy Scripture but doo finde the scripture against it both in substance of sence and forme of words The Israelites vnder the law were not yet so assured of the bountie grace and familiaritie of God towards men as we are at this day since the comming of our Sauiour They durst not come nigh the mountaine they durst not touch the Arke of the couenant they durst not enter into the Oratorie into the sanctum sanctorum the most holy place fearing to be swallowed vp of death according to the threatnings made and experiences seene of them they had heard no speach in a manner but of the seueritie and iustice of God all that they had seene and heard of the Lord was but terror astonishment and trembling as saith S. Paul Heb. 12. They had most worthy and famous persons by whom many miracles were done in their sight of whom it seemed they held their religion the knowledge of God the law honor life rest goods as Moses Iosua Gedeon Dauid Salomon Elias Eliseus many others But aboue all they had Moses who had by the power of God miraculously brought them out of the bondage of Aegypt that made them on drie foote passe woonderfullie through the red sea that prouided them bread flesh and drinke in the wildernes deliuered them the law of the Lord with whom they saw him familiarly talke that brought them to the land of promise and many times while he liued called on God for them and appeased him what great power vertue and high degree of knowledge the Israelites attributed to Moses aboue all others except the Messias is knowen Howbeit we find not that after his death they directed any prayers to him they made neither to him nor to others any bowing or seruice that I speake not of diuine worships which ye shew euery day to an infinite multitude of Saincts The Israelites sought him after his death neither in heauen or earth they called not on him as their Mediator or intercessor they made no images of him to whom they might bring candles make prayers and sing hymnés with crowching and deuotion but here-against the holy Ghost aduertiseth vs that he was buried in the valley of Nebo in the land of Moab Deut. 34. and that none knew his Sepulchre to this day least the people should fall into idolatrie towards him because of the miracles which the Lorde did by him Th'Israelites called not on Abraham Isaac and Iacob for whose sake the Lord chose them for his people And we that are Christians by the grace of God that are come to the hil of Sion Heb. 12. as saith S. Paul and to the heauenly Ierusalem the Citie of the liuing God to the company of many millions of Angels to the congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen and to God who is iudge of all and to the spirits of the iust sanctified and to Iesus Christ the Mediator of the new Testament that cannot doubt of the goodnes gentlenes and familiaritie of our God of our Mediator that know his office and his will as hauing liued and conuersed with him in this world as hauing heard and touched him yet notwithstanding doo call vpon Saincts and Angels we leaue the Lord to run after them we adore the sepulchres bones and garments of Saincts wee shrine them in siluer and golde we enrich them with pretious stones we preach and commend them more than Christ wee runne after stockes stones and metall we carry them more solemnly than that which we thinke to be the Lords body wee salute them we kneele on the ground before all these things Thus we beseech the Angels and Saincts to make request for vs and honor them in spirit and in flesh in dust and rottennesr there aboue in heauen here beneath on earth in their bones sepulchres garments in as deuout manner as we are able We receiue nor holde it of the Israelites nor of th' old Testament neither holde we it of the new nor yet of the Apostles or Primitiue Church whereunto we should haue chiefe regard to rule our deuotions by It is written Act. 3. that after S. Peter and S. Iohn had healed him that was a creeple from his birth the people amazed thereat did run to them and that S. Peter beholding the same said to the people ye men of Israel why maruell ye at this or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs as though by our owne power or holines we had made this man to walke the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of our fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus and a little after his name hath made this man sound whom ye see and know through faith in his name and the faith which is by him hath geuē to this man perfect health it is written Act. 10. that Saint Peter being entred into the house of Cornelius the Centurion Gornelius cast himselfe downe at his feete to adore or worship him but Saint Peter tooke him vp saying arise I also my selfe am a man Act. 17. Saint Paul and Barnabas hauing healed a creeple in Listra being a Citie of the countrie of Lycaonia the

people ran to them to haue sacrificed to them th'Apostles rent their garmentes and leaped into the middes of the people crying and saying ô men why do ye these things we are euen men subiect to the like passions that ye be Apoc. 19.22 It is written that th'Angell said twise to S. Iohn as he was kneeling twise before him to haue worshipped him see thou do it not I am thy fellow seruant and one of thy brethren which haue the testimony of Iesus worship God Now if th'Apostles haue reproued such as looked on them with admiration meaning to giue them euer so litle honour for that which they did as of S. Peter and S. Iohn is noted how should they allow them that kneele before their images bones sepulchres and garments before their soules that be in heauen not onely to looke on them with wonder but to do them the same worships and seruices praiers and praises which belong to none but the God of glory If they haue groaned wept cried and rent their garments because some would haue sacrificed to them if Angels and Apostles haue stayed and letten them that would haue kneeled before them how may it be concluded that the honour done at this day in the popish Church to Saincts and Angels is holy and agreable to God if they haue condemned and refused such worshippings while they were in this world at this day being in heauen they will condemne it more earnestly for now they are more ielous of the honour of their Master then they could be during their aboad in this life How may they be pleased then with so many worshippings not deuout alone but superstitious with all as are made to thē their bones ashes and garments They are so far from fauouring vs because of these honours that contrariwise they disalow them and haue cause as in S. Iohn is written to blame vs in Gods presence for all these abuses Iohn 5. in that we beleeued not their wordes whereby they forbade vs al these will-worships 1. Cor. 1. S. Paul rebuketh the Corinthians very sharply for allotting themselues patrons after their owne fancies one said I am of Paul I of Apollo said another 1. Cor. 3. the third of Cephas the fourth of Christ Are ye not carnall saith he what is Paul then what is Apollo but seruants by whom ye beleeued 1. Cor. 1. is Christ deuided was Paul crucified for you it is of God that ye are in Iesus Christ and not of men He sheweth them further that it is not man whom they must regard but Christ that they must not boast themselues in men that they must ascribe nothing to men that God doeth all and in the end concludeth whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death whether they be things present or things to come euen all are yours and ye Christs and Christ Gods Is not that which ye do now adaies in your Church the selfe same sinne of the Corinthians There is no realme no countrie no towne no parish no mistery vocation fraternitie societie no familie no man that hath not chosen some particular Sainct for his Patron whom he most mindeth And by such patronages ye make more streict diuisions among you then did the Corinthians ye go on euen to armes euen to murthers and seditions for each of you to maintaine the honour and greater might as ye suppose of your Sainct and patron striuing who may faine most fables and follies of their miracles I am of S. Denis saith one and I of S. Peter saith another another is of S. Martin another of S. Mark another of S. Austin another of S. Bernard another of S. Francis another of S. Iames another of S. Antony another of Iesus In summe each order of religion hath his patron it is ordinary to heare euery order vaunt that there is no holines and might but in their sainct there is no saluation but in him all th 'others be deceiuers all men are deceiued saue they if these Patrons haue the same zele which th'Apostles had they will be so farre from succouring you that they will accuse you before God of all these follies and superstitions they will vtterly disauow all these impieties which you intrude vpon them without their will or warrant But yet why call we on Saincts Angels as mediatours intercessors who taught vs it The Lord forgate not to teach how we should pray he neuer did put vs in remembrance to call on Angels Saincts he bad vs direct our prayers to God and call him our father he assured vs to obteyne whatsoeuer we should aske in his owne name he made no mention of the name of Angels and Saincts the Prophets and Apostles treated in like sort of prayer in many places yet they neuer remembred this calling on Saincts shall we thinke then that the holy Ghost did forget or enuy vs a thing as ye say so necessary to our saluation we were better to beleeue that this calling on Saincts is not necessary It standeth not so with Gods commaundementes as with the commandements of men men know one another men oftentimes in their commandements do swarue from reason and from that which may and should be and therefore their commaundements may be altered amended or enlarged but we may not presume so much on the commaundements of God the iustice and holinesse of them is aboue vs all and therefore hath he told vs that he will be serued according to his word not after our traditions why seeke we then Angels and Saincts to bring vs to God seing he hath not commaunded it why should we vse these ceremonies of the Courts of this world as though we might not haue accesse to the King of kings without the mediation of some whom we suppose to be highly in his fauour why should the Pope driue vs into the daunger of idolatrie and disobedience to Gods worde vpon a wrong supposall that our petitions to God are to be followed like our suites to earthly Princes But it sufficeth vs say ye to find in the Scripture that saincts and Angels pray for vs and seing they pray for vs it is to be presumed that it is not euill done to sollicite them to continue in this good office and to that end to shew our thankfulnesse towards them so farre as we are able Thus being emboldened vpon this presumption alone ye will do know more then is appointed you ye venture beyond and against the commaundements of God ye adde by your worldly wisedome and fleshly reasons to the wisedome of God hazarding rather to be idolaters then be content therewith this woulde require a longer discourse notwithstanding it shall suffice me at this time to tell you that your wordes would cary some shew of reason if we found not in the Scripture any charge giuen vs not to call on reuerence and pray to Saincts and Angels but we read how th'Apostles and Angels