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Heavenly knowledg directing a Christian to ye assurance of his salvation in this life / written in Latin by Barthol. Keckerm. ; done into English by T.V.
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Keckermann, Bartholomäus, ca. 1571-1608 or 9.; Vicars, Thomas. Treatise written to the glory of gods grace, against free-will.
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HEAVENLY KNOWLEDG The second Edition with Addition Pro. 14.6 Knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstand Ecclus. 6.35 Be willing to heare euerie godly discourse Lett Christ be magnified in me whether it be Christ is to me life Death is to me gaine London Printed for Thomas Jones 1625. The Chaire KNOWLEDG The Priests lipps should preserue Knowledg Malach The Church DEVOTION My house shal be called ye. house of Prayer Matth. REPENTANCE Baptisme 1. Pet. 1.20 21. FAITH the Lords supper 1. Cor. 10. â— 4 This paines whatsoeuer it be is Dedicate TO THE SERVICE AND GOOD of the Church of God vnder the Patronage and Protection of the thrice Worthy and Religious my much honoured Friends The Right Honourable Countesse of Deuonshire A vertuous Woman indeed like Her that was righteous before God and walked in all the Statutes and Ordinances of the Lord without reproofe Luke 1. The Lady ANNE NEVIL Paralell to that Gracious Gentlewoman of her Name Annah the mother of Samuel famous for her zeale in the Spirit 1. Sam. 1. The Lady ANNE FETTIPLACE comparable to none better then that Good Annah the Widdow A President of Pietie and deuotion Luk. 2. Mistresse MABELL BLENERHASSET This is that Elect Gentlewoman whom I loue in the truth not onely for that Oyle of Grace in Her selfe but for that Oyntment of Goodnesse powred vpon Mee Quod spiro placeo si placeo ejus est That I breath and liue and write and please if I doe so it is from her I must acknowledge it euer with thanks next vnder God and my Parents T. V. A PARENETIQVE DIRECTED ESPECIALLY TO THEM that call themselues Catholicks In the Septuagint of Sixtus 5. his Edition Pro. 27.21 you haue this sentence which is not in our Bibles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An honest and vpright heart will quickly seek after knowledge and information of the Lord. Howsoeuer then the scornefull take pleasure in scorning and the fooles hate knowledge Pro. 1.22 yet bee sure thou apply thine heart to instruction and thine eares to the words of Knowledge Pro. 23.12 GOod Reader ther bee now some yeares 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 known to haue been a man rarely qualified and beautified with admirable endowments the characters whereof are to be seene in his writings a man by whose exquisite skill and exact endeauours I perswade my selfe we should haue had if the thred of his life had beene a little more lengthned that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Fathers dreamed of liuely portayed fully perfected But I list not to stand any longer on this theame this only I will adde that it is hard to say whether the Authour 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 roote in Christ Iesus to further the simplest of my Country-mens grouth in all godlines wishing that they would not think light of my labours In templo Dei offert vnusquisque quod potest aurum argentum lapides prociosus alii byssus purpura coccuÌ„ offerunt nobiscuÌ„ benè agitur â—â—tulerimus pelles capraruÌ„ pilos et tameÌ„ Apostolus coÌ„temptibiliora nostra magis necessaria 〈◊〉 Hier. in prolog Galeato slender though they be for whose sakes they were primarily vndertaken And those are all vnlettered and Ignorant persons which are either such as haue liued vnder the Gospell and that so long that Heb. 5.12 for their time they might haue beene teachers but by reason of their grosse and dull eares they be but babes in vnderstanding and haue neede to be instructed in the very first Principles of Religion or they bee such as do 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 seek for knowledge as for gold Pro. 2.4 my paines whatsoeuer it bee I am perswaded will not altogether be lost But for the latter I am a fear'd I shall but be accounted to sing a song to deafe cares For such alasse is the bewitching Cup of that Whore of fornications Reu. 17.1.2 although her vanity and vilenesse be as open as the Sun that shee not only keepeth fast in bondage whom shee hath once lull'd asleepe D.D. Halls Quo vadis p. 15 1. edition entangleth also euery day more and more louers the Lord of Heauen permitting the Diuell of Hell seducing the Locusts of the infernall pit assayling both by Sea and Land to gaine vnto them Proselytes Such is the impudence of this whorish presumptuous woman of Rome Iere. 3.3 Ezec. 16.30 that she doth not after the manner of other women For other Harlots are wooed Ezec. 16.3 Ezec. 23.4 but shee doth wooe others haue gifts sent vnto them from their Louers but she 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 D D. Carriers Apostacie D D. Hakewels Answ to the 2. letter pag. 25. in that perceiuing his ambitious hopes to quaile at home he would try his fortune there where Abbyes and Bishopricks 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 Iesuites and Seminaries men that haue deuoted themselues to all ill seruices Liu. alicubi Quibus quâ—stui sunt animi superstitione capti that is as Saint Peter seems to me elegantly to expresse it Through couetousnesse with fained words make merchandise of mens soules 2 Pet. 2.3 and so in fine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not onely peruerting but subuerting sillie soules as the word imports Act. 15.24 And surely such as the mistresse is such are her messengers she of a most impudent face they of most impudent carriage she a strumpet queane they her bastadly brood These DD. Hals Quoâ—vadis Page 70. Panders 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-speede to forraine Nations What State is not haunted with these ill spirits yea what house yea what soule c. DD. Halls Censure of Trauell Pag. 57. We see the proofe of their importunity at home No bulwarke of Law no Barres of Justicâ— though made of three trees can kâ—epe our rebanished fugitiues from returning from intermedling Id. Ibid. Pag. 56. His Holinesse knowes full well what a sweete morsell he
lost when this Kingdome shakt off his tyrannicall yoake and therefore for regaining hereof Reu. 16.13 hee blowes ouer whole Iesuites like Apricocks heretofore here and there one succored in a great Mans house now you may haue them in euery Countrie village I. D so that wee may say I feare me of them as Rob. Grosthead a good B. of Linâ— in Hen. 3. dayes said of the Popes Legats So many disguised daily come into the Realme that the very names of them recited wold be tedious for any man to heare Fox Mar. p. mihi 326. swarmes of these Locusts into England where sitting theeuishly in 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 Mat 21 15 two times more the Chidren of darknesse then they themselues are Which indeed how can it otherwise fall out sithence their doctrine and their doings bee both of darknesse The Doctrine of the Papists a doctrine of darknes Their doctrine as it is a hotchpotch of beggerly rudiments like a beggers cloake full of patches some of Iudaisme some of Turcisme some of Paganisme some of Pelagianisme and in some what is it else but a Vt quicquid passim in variis regionib est sordiuÌ„ tandeÌ„ per diuer so flumina in mare vnum deportatur it a quicquid blasphemia ruÌ„ in variis ac diuersissimis sectis reperitur totuÌ„ id confluxit in RomanaÌ„ colluuiem Tilleman Hesbus compound of errours so in nothing more does it bewray it selfe to be raked out of the pit of darknesse then that it will not abide the light of Gods Word to bee tryed by For what 2 Cor. 6.14 Communion hath darkenesse with light are not these two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heereupon well knowing what would betide them Iuel Apolog pag 116. The ReligioÌ„ of Papistrie is like a Curtaine made to keepe out the light B.R. if the Gospell should cleerely shine forth in al mens hearts they muffle the vnderstanding of the simple people giuing them to wit that all is Oracles that they speak not giuing them once leaue or leasure yea which is more interdicting them to search the holy Scriptures with the Act. 17.11 Noblemen of Beraea and to see whether those thinges 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 Apolog. ecclesiae Anglic pag. 147. Iewell isti tenebris Wee trust and desire to bee tried by the light of Gods Word they put their confidence in darkenesse Vt latro crucem ita isti horrent verbuÌ„ Dei Iuel wherupon it is that a thiefe stands not in more feare of the Gallowes then they doe of the Scriptures We labour to plant knowledge in all saith the reuerend and my much honoured My Lord of Chichester in his Preface to his Booke entituled Directions to know the true Church 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 eueryday onely their care is to blind you and keepe you Ignorant Jf the light of knowledge might freely shine to the world Popery would soone bee ashamed of it selfe saith D D. Halls Que vadis p. 3â— 1. Edâ—â— another worthy in our Church And not to bee infinite in this kinde M. Anton. de Dominis who was once welcommed by vs from the Tents of Antichrist and is ours still if couetousnesse the roote of euill and hypocrisie the colour of good hath not put out both his eies confesseth in that little book 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 tearmes Scripturae summa apud nos ignoratio M. Anton. de dominis Archiep. Spalat that there is nothing whereof the Papists are more ignorant then of the Scriptures Nay a certaine Bishop of Italy was not ashamed to tell Claudius Espencaeus Master Sheldon ex Claud. Espenc Coment in cap 1 Epist ad Titum 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 Decretalls the which Booke though full of lies contradictions impertinences yet because it is the Popes booke it must bee respected whilest the holy Scripture lieth as it were in the streets neglected And therefore to barre their â—educed followers vtterly from this godly exercise of reading they beare them in hand that to reade the Scripture is very perillous Quia experimento manifestuÌ„ est si sacra Biblia vulgari lingua passim sine Discrimine permittantur plus inde ob hominum temeritatèm ditrimenti quam vtilitatis oriri idcirco c. Index lib. prohibit confect a deput Concilii Trident. reg 4. Quid quod populus non solum caperet fructum ex Scripturis sed etiam caperet detrimentum acciperet enim facillime occasionem errandi tum in doctrina fidei tum in praeceptis vitae morum Bellarmin Lib. 1. de verbo Dei cap. 15. see DD. Hakewells Answer Likewise to D D. Car. second letter Pag 11. and the cause of erring from the faith Sed execratione ac detestatione dignior est ista vox quam responsione Hiper de quotid â—lectione S. Script lib. 1. pag. 175. Wicked impostores 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 Vehementer ab istis disseÌ„tio qui nolint ab idiotis legi diuinas literas in vulgi linguam transfusas fiue quasi Christus taÌ„ inuoluta docuerit vt vix â pauculis theologis possint intelligi siue quasi religionis Christanae prasidium in hec situm fit sinesciatur c. Erasm in Paracles ad Christian philosophiae studiuâ— read and vnderstood bâ— vs Blasphemous wrethes â— if God who can neither bâ— deceiued nor deceiue caâ— sing his holy Will to be peâ—ned both as touching hâ— owne Worship and also â— touching the meanes of maâ— Saluation and that so poweâ—fully and yet plainely witâ— all that hee should seeke herâ— by to Neque adeo 〈◊〉 humanus suit Deus vt voluerit huius rei ignorâ— tione per omnes aetates homines torqueri cum 〈◊〉 que vllum in Sacris Scripturis passus est esse locuâ— quem si accuraté pensitemus interpretari non posâ—mus Aug. Steuchius in Genes cap. 2. entrap