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A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

surer and with greater hope of prevailing then with his Countriemen whom he assured to be of a stubborn nature dangerous to be dealt with and great Puritans directly opposite to the church of Rome And therefore nothing more should be desired of them but conformitie in matters of religion with England which the English church would gladly wish as if she were a mother church whereof others did flow neither could his Countriemen deny it in respect of his Majesties Supremacie and of the union of the two Crowns and Kingdomes that they both might have but one Lord one faith one baptisme one King For the execution of his counsell he proponed mutuall intelligence to be procured betwixt England and Rome which shortly after was begun by an Italian priest a great politician well versed in the French tongue called Il Signor Gregorio who stayed more as an year and an half in London for that effect and with whom I conferred in his owne ludging in the Convent garden at London and with two great men of our nation and now continueth there himself with great grudge to both the kingdomes seeing this mutuall intelligence was never heard of betwixt Rome and us since the Cardinals Wolsey and Polus dayes neither is it necessarie as Statesmen may see Now not Covenanter is thy curiositie satisfied This I know and more looke thou to it in time and bee not one of these who for vanitie or other ends vvill bee thought singulare against Gods cause and thy ovvne promise in baptisme And I will end this discourse that my enemies say not that I minde to put dissension betwixt Protestants and CONE-formists letting our neighbours England and Ireland see some of the dangers wherein they stand of that Romane antichrist and his congregation de extirpanda fide First then yee stand both in danger as well as we of these our related dangers especially of that mutuall intelligence between Rome and England 2. Of your Countrie mens affection to Rome if they be papists for alleadged rights of the popes upon you both the one called Peters pennie the other called Peters patrimonie 3. Your extreame great number of Jesuits and other Priests extending in England to five or six thousand so that they are striving among themselves and writing books against other which I my self carried to Rome for Bishopricks in your Church As for Ireland it hath fifteene papists bishops alone This is a great danger 4. Your populous multitude of Papists in you both extending to many thousands so that I am of that minde that in England the people if not alreadie may shortlie desire a Generall Assemblie for libertie of conscience 5. The education of your Nobilitie at schooles in forraine countries who having drunke in the doctrine of iniquitie from their tender age are both more perverse in themselves and more dangerous bringing in their friends and neighbours by their Priests to perdition with them 6. That which is to be lamented of all that you have good lawes both of you against Papists and very good reason to execute them but alace money break them granting to all Papists a pecuniall libertie of conscience and present banishment to all these poore reformed Christians who will not conforme with you and that which is to be laughen or rather weeped at that yee would blinde peoples eyes with your searchers going on the one side to apprehend priests and punish papists and on the other side to have your customers to receave moneyes and give discharges for libertie of papistrie O God! who doth not evidentlie perceave these monstruous dangers and not oppose himself with all his power to them if there remaine but a sponk of true Christianitie in him Truelie who doth it not I must of necessitie think him an internall papist The last danger of all the three kingdomes is Pensions whereof we may consider four things 1. The giver 2. The persons to whom they are given 3. The quantitie of the summes 4. And the end wherefore they are given There is certainlie pensions given in the Countrie for priests and intelligencers and out of the Countrie for Semenaries and correspondents of these intelligencers but to come to the particulars 1. The givers are the house of Austria and the foresaid Congregation de extirpanda fide 2. The persons to whom it is given in Scotland to my knowledge are the Priests whereof I vvas one the man that goeth for it and the thesaurer or keeper I knovv the names and residences of the rest and had set them dovvn heere if I had not declared them sufficiently by vvrit alreadie And if there be given pensions to any other as to these the superiour vvith his counsellours and the Treasurer knovv it for me I knovv not but this I am assured of that there was more sent into the country than was bestowed upon the foresaid persons 3 The quantitie in cumulo is best known to them I being none of the Superiours counsellours in respect of my travels for the mission the quantitie that we who were Priests gote was an hundred crowns in the yeer from Rome and eighteene pence every day from Spaine besides our purchase by our Masses Confessions and Pardons which was more or lesse conforme to out imployment and the persons with whom we dealt 4. Lastly in a word the end of these gifts is pretended zeal and piety but truely intended Hierarchie of Rome and Monarchie of Spaine which may appear by the deposition of M. George Ker and the Jesuits Abercrumbie Crighton and Gordoun with three Noblemens letters intercepted with him and registrat in this town the year of God 1592. by his pensions given to us and his pretended rights over our native countries If this be not an evident danger to suffer so many forraine Princes pensioners in your bosome God see to it in his own time and give me grace that I may follow my sincere and heartie resolution that at the houre of my death I may say wirh the Apostle I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have keept the faith hence foorth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day c. And I shall be surely one of these to who my blessed Saviour shall say in that day Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world To this gratious Father vvith his blessed Son and the holy Ghost be all povver praise and glory honour and dominion for ever Amen FINIS Pet. Ribadineira in vita Sancti Barthol See the 4. chap. to the Ephes. 11. 22 23 24. Ioh. 1. 29. 1 Cor. 4. 9. Luke 15. 7. Ioh. 10. 16. Luk. 18. 13. Pfal 119. 176. Psal. 42. 4. Heb. 5. ● ● Matth. 7. ● 2. 5. Psal. 51. 4. Mat. 11. 28. Psal. 32. 5. Iohn 1. 9. Genes i. 27 Rom. 5. 10 Luk. 18. 13 Acts. 9. 5. Levit. 10. 2. 2 Sam. 6. 7 Numb 16. 32. Hag. 2. 6. 2 Cor. 1. 3. Ephes. 2. 4. 5. Rom. 9. 15 Exod. 34. 6. Psal. 145. 9 Euseb. Matth. 27. and 5. Isay 1. 18. Luk. 13. 5 August soliloq ● Phil. 3. 19. Ibid. V. 20. Rom. 6. 21. Marc. 8. 36 Matth. 20. 3. 5. 6. Matth. 4. 18 Matth. 9. 9 Acts. 9. 6. Ridab 2. 8 August Acts. 8. 30. Rom. 9. 16. In the histories of Swaden Pole Nota bene intelligenti pauca Iam. 4. 5. 7. 15. Mat. 10. 16 Gen. 21. 10 Rom. 9. 3. Col. 1. 24. 1 Cor. 2. 9. See Revel 21. 22. chapters Heb. 10. 14. 2. and 17. c. 18. See Heb. 10. Romans the 5. Acts 4. 12. Joh. 1. 29. 36. Psal. 9. 8. Luke 13. 3 1 Cor. 2. 2. Mat. 7. 23. Mat. 25. 41 August dc gra llb. arb Luke 22. 61 62. Mat. 9. 22. Ioh. 4. 15. Luk. 23. 40 41. Ioh. 20. 27 and 28. Act. 9. 4. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. Colos. 2. 8. 2 Thes. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 11 19 20. Colos. 2. 8. Mat. 7. 25 16 18. Rom. 9. 33 1 Cor. 10. 4 1 Pet. 2. 8. Revel 18. 4 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Ioh. 5. 39. 2 Pet. 1. 19. Act. 5. 29. Act. 4. 19. Mat. 23 4. Rom. 1. 16 Act. 24. 14. 16. Psal. 116. 13. 14. Luk. 15. 18 Psal. 116. 16. Psal. 41. 4. Psal. 124. 6 7. 8. Act. 9. 15. Act. 9. 12. Mat. 7. 20 Matth. 12. 24. Ioh. 8. 48. Thus Papists paint Austen 1 Cor. 9. 22 Rev. 8. 16. Rev. 3. 21. Math. 12. 30. Ephes. 4. 5 Rom. 8. 33 Ephes. 4● 13 14. 1 Cor. 1. 12. 13. Ezech. 18. 20. Hollins●ed pag. 495. Anno 1561. 1 Cor. 10 12. Mac. 24. 1 Sam. 5 Rev. 3. 11 13. 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. Matth. 25. 34.

therein I finde two things to be remarked the time and the causes of this my restored health As for the first it is evidently known that the Lord hath his owne time in calling of soules Calling some about the third some about the sixt some about the ninth aud some about the eleventh houre Peter and some other of his Apostles he called when they were busied mending and dressing their nets Others as Matthew waiting upon their customes greedie gaine and drosse of the world Some as Paul when they were persecuting his flocke Others by reading of holy Scriptures as was Augustine Some by publicke preaching as the most part of all Christians and others by private discourses as the Queene of the Ethiopians Eunuch Neither can there be given any other reason of this but the good pleasure of GOD For it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of GOD that sheweth mercie Who in his owne time without any of my deservings did call upon me when I was plunged in idolatrie my self and drawing others dayly to that same precipice taking up the dueties and customes of Caithnes as Chamerlaine where it is to be remarked that this dissimulation of apparels offices c. is a common policie of the Jesuits to the end some of them may be intelligencers in Kings Courts as I know two One as a Noble man and another as a Knight in London the first lives in Clarkenwall the second in Drurie-laine the one is provinciall and superiour of some five hundreth Jesuits in England the other a prime Scholler and Courteour Others go thus for perverting of Kings and kingdomes as with Sigismund late King of Pole they went as Hyducks or infantrie into Sweden for the perversion of that people which being detected the King and they were thurst out of his own righteous Kingdome for ever or as Demetrius Emperours of Musco who taking them in after that same manner lost his life and his empire as his wifes brother in law Constantine Koribut Duke of Visniovits in Pole related to my self and that hee had suffered three yeeres imprisonment for it in Musco which maketh him detest the Jesuits ever since Some of them go for their own re-establishment as P. Peter Cotton to get themselves in again in France after they were banished for attempting to kill and for wounding King Henry the fourth This is no calumnie for one was execute in Paris and all banished out of France and a pyramide of ignominie erected against them where the treature was execute for this businesse Some go dayly thorow Venice dealing with ambassadours and making friends to get in there againe others to acquite by indirect wayes the favour of Kings for they seeke no more but presence and accesse to pervert Kings and Princes Or if they can not prevaile they cut them off and are worse then the devill for resist the Devill and he will flee from you but they will not quite their point till they worke the mischiefe Beware therfore Kings and Princes beware kingdomes and common-wealths Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly are ravening woolves And thou Britaine especially Scotland my deare countrey the purest portion of Christs Church in the world this day assure thy self and I assure thee for I know it that thy good people are as sheepe in the mids of woolves be yee therefore heads and members thereof wise as serpents Casting out this bound woman and her Son by the execution of the Law of the kingdome ad amussim punctually not granting them a pecuniall libertie of conscience or any toleration whatsoever and GOD will help you yet notwithstanding yonr imminent dangers whereof I shall advertise you in the end of this discourse otherwise your liberties and kingdomes are lost and Antichrist hath prevailed Concerning the time likewise it is to bee considered that which an ancient remarks of Paul to wit that God did call him being a persecuter brought up among the learned at Gamaliels fleet knowing all their plots and conspiracies against Gods elect he might better being converted give antidots again their poyson for it he had done somuch out of blinde zeile for the defence of his Fathers traditions much more would he for the true service of GOD wish that he were an accursed from Christ for his brethren Even so thinke I truelie that my deare Saviour have dealt with me not calling me when I entred to their errours nor when I was drinking in their pernicious doctrine neither when I was imployed to worke the mysterie of iniquitie against the true Church of God but when I had learned all their tricks plots conspiracies devices and inventions for the extirpation of Gods true religion that being brought up at Vrbanus feet and knowing their malice I might the better with Gods grace provide remedics against their pernicious designes and as I had taken great paines for the atchieving of their malitious ends much more should I labour now in Christs vineyeard for the edification of Christs mysticall body the Church The Lord of his infinite mercie grant me his favourable assistance and powerfull grace thereto The second thing that I proposed was the causes of the health of my Soul and these are four materiall formall finall and efficient the first is the soul it self taken specificative the second is the same soul taken reduplicative ut sanata as healed the third or finall is that eternall joy and felicitie for the which before time God hath elected and in time created not only me but all these likewise who serve him with true sinceritie which felicitie the Apostle thus describeth the eye hath not scene nor eare heard neither hath entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him The fourth and last is threefold principall meritorious and instrumentall The principall efficient cause of the health of my soul was the blessed and holy Trinitie it being an action ad extra and all such are common to the three persons of the Trinitie as Divines teach The meritorious was the pretious blood of my sweet and loving Saviour Christ Jesus for it is through this only oblation that we are made holy and have eternall redemption By His will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all For by one offering hee hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified and their sins and iniquities will hee remember no more now where remission of these are there is no more offering for sin And the Apostle Peter sayeth Nei her is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved The whole new Testament proveth this trueth and yet the force of errour is so great that they who live in that Sodomitish Babylon do not perceave it but run headlong