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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04766	Ouranognōsia. Heauenly knowledge A manuduction to theologie. Written in Latin by Barthol. Keckerm. done into English by T.V. Mr. of Arts.	Keckermann, Bartholomäus, ca. 1571-1608 or 9.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638. Briefe direction how to examine our selues before we go to the Lords table.	1622 (1622)	STC 14896; ESTC S103956	89,591	228

A Manuduction TO Theologie Written in Latin by Barthol Keckerm done into English by T. V. Mr. of Arts. Pro. 14.6 Knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstand Ecclus. 6.35 Be willing to heare euerie godly discourse Printed by Aug. Math. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An vpright heart seeketh after knowledge TO THE SERVICE AND GOOD OF THE Church of God vnder the Patronage and Protection of the thrice worthy and religious his much honoured Friends The Lady Anne Neuill Wife to the Right Honourable Lo. B. of Chichester The Lady Anne Fetiplace of Chilrey in Barkshire AND His much esteemed Cousin Mistris Mabell Blenerhasset wife to the Right Worshipfull Master Thom. Blenerhasset Esqui●e and one of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Cumberland T. V. Consecrateth himselfe and his labours in this Translation A PARENETIQVE DIRECTED ESPECIALLY TO THEM that call themselues Catholicks GOod R. there be now some yeres past since I gaue the onset to the Translation of this Booke a Booke of small volume but of great valour of a little price but very precious The Author himselfe is famous well knowne to haue beene a man rarely qualified and beautified with admirable endowments the characters whereof are to bee seene in his writings a man by whose exquisite skill and exact endeauors I perswade my selfe we should haue had if the thred of his life had beene a little more lengthened that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our fathers dreamed of liuely portrayed fully perfected But I list not to stand any longer on this theame this only wil I ad that it is hard to say whether the Author doth more commend the Workes or the Workes the Author In this little Theologicall Tract wherein summarily are deliuered the heads of Christian Religion I haue trac'd his steppes with all diligence and faithfulnesse and that out of a longing desire from my hearts root in Christ Iesus to further the simplest of my Country-mens growth in all godlinesse wishing that they would not thinke light of my labours slender though they bee for whose sakes they were primarily vndertaken And those are all vnlettered ignorant persons which are either such as haue liued vnder the Gospel and that so long that for their time they might haue beene teachers but by reason of their grosse and dull eares they bee but babes in vnderstanding and haue need to bee instructed in the very first Principles of Religion or they be such as doe liue in the bondage and captiuitie of more then Egyptiacall darkenesse of Popery who being beclouded with the myst of erroneous doctrine haue not as yet had the cleare beames of the Gospell shining in their hearts With the former sort or at lest such of them who seeke for knowledge as for gold my pains whatsoeuer it bee I am perswaded will not altogether be lost But for the latter I am afear'd I shal but bee accounted to sing a song to deafe eares For such alasse is the bewitching Cup of that Whore of fornications although her vanitie and vilenesse bee as open as the sun that shee not onely keepeth fast in bondage whom shee hath once lull'd asleepe but entangleth also euery day more and more louers the Lord of Heauen permitting the Diuel of Hell seducing the Locusts of the infernall pit assayling both by Sea and Land to gaine vnto them Proselytes Such is the impuq●●ce of this whorish presumptuous woman of Rome that shee doth not after the manner of other women For other harlots are wooed but shee doth wooe others haue gifts sent vnto them from their louers but shee sendeth to her louers gifts and faire promises of preferments and promotion if they will take part in her whoredomes And this to giue one instance for all that learned and religious Doctour thinkes to haue beene the chiefest motiue of DD. Carriers Apostacie in that perceiuing his ambitious hopes to quayle at home he would trie his fortune there where Abbeys and Bishoprickes and perhaps Cardinalships are promised to such as with more diligence then others negotiate for the Pope Her Proctors and Factors shee sets about this worke are the Iesuits and Seminaries men that haue deuoted themselues to all ill seruices Quibus quaes●ui sunt animi superstitione capti that is as Saint Peter seemes to mee elegantly to expresse it Through couetousnesse with fained words make merchandise of mens soules and so in fine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not onely peruerting but subuerting silly soules as the word imports Act. 15.24 And surely such as the mistresse is such are her messengers shee of a most impudent face they of most impudent carriage she a strumpet queane they her bastardly brood These Pandars to their owne mother for the enhansing of her power and the enlarging of her pompe according to their commission get themselues with all ill-speed to forraine Nations What Sta● is not haunted with these ill spirits yea what house yea what soule c. DD. Halls Censure of Trauel p. 57. We see the proof of their importunitie at home No bulwarkes of Law no barres of Iustice though made of three trees can keepe our rebanished fugitiues from returning from intermedling Id Ibid. pag. 56. His Holinesse knowes full well what a sweet morsell hee lost when this Kingdome shakt of his tyrannicall yoke and therefore for regaining hereof hee blowes ouer whole svvarmes of these Locusts into England where sitting theeuishly in the blind corners of our streets they entrap the simple folke and lurking in their secret dens of darknesse they ensnare the poore and wauering minded making them being once caught in their grin two times more the children of darknes then they themselues are Which indeed how can it otherwise fal out sithence their doctrine and their doings be both of darknes Their doctrine as it is a hotch potch of beggarly rudiments like a beggars cloak full of patches some of Iudaisme some of Turcisme some of Paganisme some of Pelagianisme in sum what is it els but a compound of errours so in nothing more does it bewray it selfe to bee raked out of the pit of darkenesse then that it will not abide the light of Gods Word to be tryed by For what Communion hath darkenesse with light are not these two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heereupon well knowing what would betide them if the Gospel should cleerely shine forth in all mens hearts they mufflle the vnderstanding of the simple people giuing them to wit that all is Oracles that they speake not giuing them once leaue or leasure yea which is more interdicting them to search the holy Scriptures with the Noblemen of Beraea and to see whether those things bee so as they speake them Let our late worthies who haue descried the imposture of the Church of Rome let them speake in this case and heare their verdict Nos luci fidimus saith blessed ●ewel isti

tenebris Wee trust and desire to bee tried by the light of Gods Word they put their confidence in darkenes whereupon it is that a thiefe stands not in more feare of the Gallowes then they doe of the Scriptures Wee labour to plant knowledge in all saith the reuerend and my much honoured Lord of Chichester and are desirous that euery man may know the things needfull for his saluation they labour to hold all in ignorance their hope is not in the goodnesse of their cause for they see the ruines of Babylon falling euery day onely their care is to blind you and keepe you ignorant If the light of knowledge might freely shine to the world Popery would soone be ashamed of it selfe saith another worthy in our Ch. And not to bee infinite in this kind M. Anton. de Dominis who was once welcommed by vs from the Tents of Antichrist and is ours still if couetousnesse the root of euill and hypocrisie the colour of good hath not put out both his eyes confesseth in that little booke wherein he expresseth the reason of his departure out of the Ch. of Rome the Prodromus to his larger and more fruitfull labours that this closing vp of the Scripture from the people gaue him occasion to suspect their religion and to feare his estate and to thinke on conuersion freely professing there in these termes Scripturae summa apud nos ignoratio that there is nothing whereof the Papists are more ignorant then of the Scriptures Nay a certaine Bishop of Italy was not ashamed to tel Claudius Espencaeus a famous Pontifician that the learned men of Italy it selfe were afraid to study the holy Scriptures least thereby they should become Heretiques and that therefore they employed themselues in commenting vpon the Popes Law-bookes Decrees and the Decretals the which booke though full of lies contradictions impertinences yet because it is the Popes booke it must be respected whilest the holy Scripture lieth as it were in the streets neglected And therefore to barre their seduced followers vtterly from this godly exercise of reading they beare them in hand that to read the Scripture is very perillous and the cause of erring from the faith Sed execratione ac detestatione dignior est ista vox quam responsione Hiper de quot id lectione S. Script lib. 1. pag. 175. Wicked impostors as if God our heauenly Father who hath made his Will and Testament and hath reuealed it by writing vnto vs his children would not haue it read and vnderstood by vs Blasphemous wretches as if God who can neither bee deceiued nor deceiue causing his holy will to be penned both as touching his owne worship and also as touching the meanes of mans saluation and that so powerfully yet plainly withall that he should seeke hereby to entrap and enfold his glorious Creature Man the Creature of his good-will with the mists of ignorance and errour Farre bee it from the thought of euery good Christian once to thinke that from such a good tree should come such bad fruit that from such a blessed cause should proceed such a disastrous effect that from the light should flow darkenes from the reuerend reading of the Scriptures errors As for their Doings that they also are of darknesse it would if I should particularize them require a large volume But to single out and to instance in one wherein they much resemble their prince of darkenesse the deuill who hath been a murtherer from the beginning Let their cruell and barbarous butchering of so many Saints of God meerely in the matter of Religion let the bloudie stabbing and violent murthering of so good and gracious Kings which shewed themselues like good Ezekias forward and bent to reformation Let the diuell in the Vault who was the contriuer of that matchlesse Treason and the Powder Pioners that should haue beene the Actors of the intended Tragedie let all these speake if they belong not to darknesse if they bee not the sonnes of the night Quo male agit odit lucem Aske the Powder-plotters if they hated not and shunned the shining light least their deeds should haue beene reprooued censured condemned as they were and as it fell out happily to this State and Country by the watchfull eye of his prouidence who is the keeper of our Israel and neuer slumb●rs nor sleepes but is alwayes ready at hand to shend and defend his people whom he hath set his loue vpon euen for his owne mercie and goodnesse sake howbeit we haue by our sinnes deserued to be cassier'd out of his fauour to bee ouertaken with imminent dangers and to be ouerturned with the power and powder the fire and fury of our enemies But euer loued and blessed bee his mercifull goodnesse and patience that he hath not giuen vs ouer as a prey vnto their teeth Their snare was broken and our soule was deliuered O let this mightie and wonderfull deliuerance bee written on the posts of our gates let vs be euer talking of it to our neighbours and friends to our children and strangers that all with ioynt mouth and consent of heart may praise the Lord God of Israel for euer Now I doe from my soule desire that the blindfolded Papists and ignorant Catholiques as they will be termed would but a little consider of these Doings of this Doctrine and then tell me if they be not nuzled in most pernicious heresie and most tyrannically held vnder the very power of darknesse it selfe They that haue but the least spink of ingenuitie will bewray betime and will timely bewayle their woeful estate These to vse the words of the words of the Prophet shall remember one day their wayes and all their doings wherein they haue been defiled and they shall loath themselues in their owne sight for all their euills that they haue committed And they shal know that the Lord is God when hee hath wrought in them this conuersion for his owne Names sake not according to their wicked wayes nor according to their corrupt doings But for the ignorant obstinate obdurate Papist who will not heare and vnderstand and bee conuerted who spurnes at the very motion of Reformation and being settled on his lees groweth bold and impudent in the cause for who so bold as blind Bayard Let him bee ignorant let him be mis●ed let him bee misled still These men shall one day know that there hath beene many Prophets among them who are cleare from the bloud of all men and they shall find that their bloud must rest vpon their owne hard hearts and stiffe-neckes What Sir may some of them say doe you so hastily include vs all in the pit of confusion because wee professe another Religion I tell you truely wee haue as good hope to come to heauen as your selfe Doe wee walke in any other saue in the steps of our forefathers and progenitors Do