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A69250	Newes from France containing tvvo declarations of two new conuerts from the Church of Rome to the reformed churches of France: the former made by Master M. du Tertrf [sic], Lord de la Motthe Luyne, late preacher amongst the order of the Capucins vnder the name of F. Firmin, &c. at Saumur on the 27. of May last: the latter by the Marquise Boniuet, Lord of Creuecœur, &c. at Rochell on the seuenth of August last. Both translated out of the seuerall French copies into English by E.M. of Christ-Church in Oxford. Whereunto is added an English letter sent from Paris by an English gentleman to his friend in England, touching the late surprisall and imprisonment of the Prince of Conde, which happened on the 22. of August last.; Declaration and manifestation, of the chiefe reasons and motives of the conversion of Master M. du Tertre, Lord de la Motthe Luyne.	Bonnivet, Henri Marc de Gouffier, Marquis de, d. 1589. Declaration de Henri-Marc de Gouffier. aut; Meetkerke, Edward, 1590-1657, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 7372; ESTC S117179	43,123	84

the Law And in the fift chapter verse 1. Therefore being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ There is iustification by faith And as for the imputation of the merit of Christ hee sheweth it there also in the fourth chapter when as telling how God had imputed to Abraham his faith for righteousnesse hee addeth Now in that that this was imputed to him for righteousnesse c. This faith is not an idle imagination or false illusion and perswasion or fantasticall speculation in the beleeuers braine as your Doctors doe slanderously say but an holy assurance and firme confidence in the bounty and mercy of God by the which we beleeue that according to the truth of his infallible promises hee will be gracious and mercifull vnto vs in Iesus Christ his Sonne freely for his sake pardoning vs all our faults Such a beleefe is not idle nor fruitlesse in those who haue it but fructifieth vnto all manner of good workes righteousnesse godlinesse holinesse loue c. Not for to merit and obtaine that pardon which is already wholly gotten but for to shew towards God that we acknowledge this so vnestimable a benefit This faith is not from our selues but is a speciall gift of God who hath giuen vs freely through his Sonne not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer for his sake as saith S. Paul Philip. 1.29 God hauing thus iustified vs freely through faith in his Son he sanctifieth vs also through his spirit which is the second benefit that wee haue obserued to be gotten for vs in Iesus Christ and which he hath merited and obtained for vs by his death as we haue said and doth bestow it vpon vs by the vertue and efficacie of his Spirit of regeneration and sanctification by the which mortifying daily more and more the naturall corruption in which we all are borne he makes vs by little and little to renounce and to die to all sinne for to liue to righteousnesse and holinesse all the dayes of our life vntill that in the end he doe sanctifie vs fully when as after this life hee shall receiue vs into that other in his heauenly glory This is briefly that which concernes these two great benefits of our Lord accordingly as the Scripture and Gods holy word doe shew and teach vs. It is a pitifull thing to see after how many sorts and manners Satan hath lamentably spoiled sophisticated falsified peruerted and corrupted in your Church by your Pastors and Doctors this doctrine being so wholsome and full of comfort touching these two benefits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour first by extenuating as much as they could and can the greatnesse of these graces and fauours secondly by taking from him and robbing him of all what they can for to attribute it to the merits either of themselues or of others and to their owne satisfactions and papall Indulgences They extenuate the greatnesse of grace two wayes first by lessening and diminishing the greatnesse of our offence and sinne secondly by debasing the excellencie and perfection of Christs merit They doe lessen and diminish the greatnesse of sinne first in denying that originall sinne deserues eternall death contrary to that which the Apostle teacheth vs to the Rom. 6.23 that the wages of sinne is death and to the threatning of the Law which sounds thus Cursed is he whosoeuer doth not continue and perseuere to obserue all things written and deliuered in the booke of the Law Secondly by their distinction of sinnes veniall and mortall teaching that there are some pettie sinnes which doe not deserue eternall death and damnation but rather pardon which is directly against that very sentence of S. Paul that the wages of sinne is death and that menace of the Law Cursed is hee c. They debase the excellencie of Christs merit when they teach first that he hath not satisfied for those sinnes and offences which they call veniall but onely for those that are mortall contrary to that which Saint Iohn hath in his first Catholike Epistle chap. 1.7 That the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Secondly that as for mortall sinnes he hath only changed the eternall into a temporall punishment which is by them affirmed and maintained not onely without any ground vpon the holy Scripture but also is much repugnant to the goodnesse and mercy of God who in so doing would pardon but by halfes Thirdly that by the death of Iesus Christ wee obtaine only remission of the guilt and not of the punishment which is as much as openly to mocke with God and to disanull altogether the merit of our Lord for what is it I pray you to remit and pardon the guilt but not the punishment As if a Master should say to his seruant a Lord to his subiect a King to his vassall that had grieuously wronged and offended him Goe thy wayes I pardon and forgiue thee thy fault but I will punish thee howsoeuer when I see time for that that thou hast done according as thou deseruest What pardon would that be nay would it not rather be a mocking of him It is euen so with God according to them They doe take from Iesus Christ and rob him as much as in them lieth of the glory of his merit for to attribute it to the merits of another when as refusing the true pardon of God by faith in the bloud of his sonne they will themselues deserue of God by the power of their workes this pardon and the fruition of life euerlasting wherein they doe iust like a wicked malefactor who being in the hands and power of his Iudge ready to be executed would refuse the grace and pardon of his Prince and would make no vse of it but would thinke that hee could merit yea would stifly maintaine that hee had iustly merited by his good deeds both his freedome and the expiation of the punishment which was prepared and made ready for him and to be one of the chiefe officers and best furnished houshold-seruants of his Lord wherein besides the intolerable arrogance whereof they cannot nor you cleare themselues they fall into a grosse foule and palpable ignorance first in that they thinke that they can of themselues doe any worthy thing and such as can deserue at Gods hands that which they thinke they doe deserue although notwithstanding it stands so that of our selues as of our selues we are not able to thinke any thing but all our abilitie is and proceeds from God as speaketh the Apostle in the second to the Corinthians chap. 3. yea euen all the most iust actions of man which God worketh in him through his grace are so marred infected and tainted with our naturall corruption that they are all as saith Esay 64. as a menstruous cloth Secondly when as for a refuge they say that those good workes which they doe are not from themselues but from the grace of God working in them for it is

his sacred and spotlesse flesh vpon the altar of the Crosse as a pleasing sweet smelling and acceptable sacrifice to his diuine Maiesty iustly prouoked against vs for our crimes and offences for to asswage and appease him to reconcile vs with him to deliuer and set vs free from the power of the Diuell and from the writ whereby wee were bound ouer to euerlasting paines torments of hell and to bring vs againe gloriously to the happy fruition of the kingdome of heauen In the Ps 65. Esa 33. in the first of S. Peter 23. to the Rom. 3. Heb. 10. and a thousand the like Hence it is that he is called and stiled by the same Apostle our Saluation Redemption Sanctification c. For to offer vnto him I say according to the forenamed duty and office of the High-Priests prayers supplications and requests continually to intercede for vs and to stand vs in stead of an Aduocate towards his diuine Maiesty Ier. 30. Zachar. 1. Rom. 3.5.8 Ephes 2. Hebr. 7.8.9.18 Ioh. 4. This he doth effect and accomplish very faithfully and will continue so to doe vnto the end and consummation of the world Now your Church doth take from him and carries away the one and the other of his charges and offices after many waies and manners but especially in two First when as she presumes to reiterate this Sacramēt doth fondly imagine that she offers vp again euery day at the Masse the body of Iesus Christ for the sinnes and saluation of the liuing dead by meanes wherof the anger and wrath of the eternal father is asswaged and appeased and men find and obtaine mercy so that with you the Masse is a propitiatory and impetratorie sacrifice Whence it followes plainely that that first oblation and sacrifice of our Sauiour made on the tree of the Crosse by the effusion of his precious and diuine bloud was not sufficient but wholly imperfect as the Apostle to the Hebrewes 7.10 argueth and gathereth very well from the ancient sacrifices of the old Law the which because they had not the force and efficacy fully to wipe away sinnes were therefore reiterated many and sundry times but the sacrifice of the Sonne of God hauing had that vertue power and efficacy hence it is that it ought in no waies to be reiterated and offered vp againe hauing beene more then able and sufficient euen the first time to blot out and to quit the sinnes of the whole world yea of a thousand worlds if so many there had beene This notwithstanding your Church denies by those pretended imaginary vnbloudy as she calls them oblations and sacrifices which she repeateth euery day shewing enough thereby that shee doth not beleeue the first to haue beene sufficient impairing in this manner the authority credit and dignity of this only High-Priest according to the order of Melchizedeck Read I beseech you and take paines to consider heedfully the 7.9 10. of the Epistle to the Hebrewes and you shall see more cleerely how your faith and beliefe in this matter and doctrine of your Church is farre different and contrary to that of the Apostle Saint Paul and of the first beleeuers of the primitiue Church Secondly shee taketh from him the office and charge of mediatour c. when as to his disparagement she sets and appoints almost an infinite number betweene God and men the Virgin Saint Peter c. the which she commands to be called vpon and teaches that reciprocally they vnderstand our prayers and make intercession for vs to his diuine Maiesty c. Now if this were true it would follow thence by a necessary consequence that Iesus Christ our Sauiour were not alone the only and sufficient Mediatour Intercessour and Aduocate for men towards his Father which not only is most false but altogether blasphemous directlie against the Scriptures in the fore-alleaged places to the Hebrewes 7. and 10. and a thousand other the like all which I omit of purpose as also a more ample proofe of this truth because the time vrges me and the shortnesse of this discourse forces compels mee to passe it by in silence and to come to the third thing which I haue said is to bee considered in Iesus Christ our Sauiour to wit his singular and not to bee equalled benefits and graces and fauours which so louingly hee hath communicated vnto vs and wee haue receiued from him in so great abundance that so I may shew and make plaine vnto you how your Church and your Prelates and Doctours and you with them doe likewise erre and faile greatly and fouly therein and in the humble hearty and louing acknowledgement which we ought to haue towards that bountifull Lord. His offices are many and in a great number as I haue said yea almost infinite and hee would neuer haue done that will recount them and stand vpon each of them in particular but they may all notwithstanding be reduced to these two specials and particulars which he hath purchased vs by his death and passion and merited by the effusion of his precious bloud our Iustification and Sanctification which God promiseth to his people in that new couenant which he foretelleth by Ieremy 31. and 32. that hee was to make with them rehearsed by the Apostle to the Hebrewes 8. and the 10. Behold saith the Lord I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Iuda a new Couenant which is this I will put my Law in their vnderstanding and will write it in their hearts there is sanctification and I will forgiue their vnrighteousnesse and I will remember their iniquities and sinnes no more There is Iustification The first then of these benefits is our iustification which is the meerely free remission pardon which God giues vs of all our offences and sinnes witnesse S. Paul Rom. 4. who following Dauid Psalm 32. doth place the iustification and happinesse of man in this remission as also Dauid denounceth the happinesse and blisse of that man to whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes c. This pardon is gotten and deserued for vs by the merit of Iesus Christ our Sauiour in as much as he offering himselfe for an offering and sacrifice of good and sweet sauour to his Father on the tree of the Crosse hee hath thereby fully satisfied his diuine iustice for all our sinnes as S. Paul teacheth vs Rom. 3.23 and 24. Being iustified freely c. and S. Iohn in his first generall Epistle 1.7 The bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne And in the second chapter verse 2. For he is the propitiation for our sinnes This benefit of iustification is communicated by God through the free imputation of the merits of our Sauiour to the true beleeuers apprehending and receiuing them through a true and liuely faith working by charitie as the Apostle teacheth vs to the Rom. 3.28 Therefore wee conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of

beholden and indebted to them whence it is not very hard to consider acknowledge and iudge whether the true humilitie which is essentiall to Christianitie and so beseeming it yea the fairest and richest ornament of a true beleeuer can be in them who not onely maintaine and wilfully defend such a doctrine but doe glory therein and doe oppugne and persecute euen to the fire and bloud those which on the contrary forsaking themselues and all that can come from their owne strength and merits haue no other refuge prop foundation and assurance for their eternall saluation then in the meere bountie grace mercy and free pardon of God in Iesus Christ his Sonne his merit and intercession Hee should neuer haue done that would relate shew and set to view all the abuses and errours touching the points of faith necessary to saluation Gather only and iudge out of that little which the shortnesse of the time this discourse giues me leaue to speake whether the first ground and foundation of saluation premised and supposed to wit a true faith and beleefe in Iesus Christ such as the Scripture declareth and requireth of vs is and can bee found in your Church in which is taught and preached a doctrine so diametrally contrary and opposite to it yea against all reason and whether I haue had iust cause and occasion to withdraw my selfe from thence and you also are bound to doe the like in case that you and I desire to worke out our saluation But that which is worse and more to be lamented euen with teares of bloud if it were possible is that for the most part amongst those of your Church there is no more any faith or law or God or religion at all but by a lamentable euent permitted notwithstanding by Gods prouidence for the iust punishment of their deserts are fallen into a grosse ignorance of matters of God I will not say into Atheisme and is fulfilled in them compleatly and in all points that which the Apostle S. Paul hath sometimes spoken of the Gentiles Pagans and Idolaters in the first to the Romans namely that hauing knowne God they glorified him not as God neither were thankfull but became vaine in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened professing themselues to be wise they became fooles and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to a corruptible man c. And who then would not withdraw himselfe from men so blinded and giuen ouer to errour and the darkenesse of ignorance Now if their faith be such or for to speak aright more properly their vnbeliefe so great what can bee hoped and looked for of the other I meane of the manners of their life indeede it is very likely that such as is the doctrine such will be the life and manners namely peruerted and corrupted c. And this is it which now in order I am to shew to you and set to your view Let vs begin with charity the loue and affection towardes God and our neighbour the true ground of all Christianity and the second firme and assured foundation of eternall saluation as wee haue said and declared before As for the first the true testimony the certaine and vndoubted proofe thereof amongst many that might be giuen and alleaged is an heartie and louing zeale and affection to his honour worship and seruice and to the true obseruing of his lawes and ordinances and the entire and perfect fulfilling of his holy will as farre as our weakenes and frailtie can suffer vs and the estate and condition of our corrupt and infected nature can permit and beare it If you loue mee saith our Sauiour speaking of this loue to his Apostles and Disciples and to vs in their persons and in the 14. of S. Iohn keepe my commandements He that hath my commandements and keepes them hee it is that loues mee And this hee repeats many and diuers times and amongst others that well beloued and fauoured Disciple in the second Chapter of his first Catholike Epistle confirmes it He that keepes his word the loue of God saith he is truely accomplished and perfected in him As on the contrary the true and infallible signe of the want the defect of the loue of God is not to care for to keepe and obserue his lawes and precepts as besides reason it selfe which is cleere and plaine for it our Sauiour in the same place before alleaged of the Euangelist Saint Iohn doth say Hee that loueth mee not saith he doth not keepe my words and the same Saint Iohn in the fore-cited places He that saith I haue knowne him and yet doth not keep his precepts and commandements he liar and the truth is not in him As for Gods honour worship and seruice it is double and of two sorts externall outward and of the body such as he prescriheth vnto vs in his word namely that Liturgy or outward and publike seruice wherewith hee will be honoured euen publikely in his Church consisting of the duties of piety and the externall actions of religion which doe shew and testifie some humilitie deiection submission affection and acknowledgement of the minde towards his diuine maiesty Internall inward in the soule and inmost part of the minde by a true acknowledging of his immense and infinite excellence perfection and greatnesse and of the sundry and innumerable obligations wee owe him with an humble submission a most deiected humilitie and low deiection before his supreame maiesty honouring adoring fearing respecting cherishing and louing him with all the strength and power of our soules the faculties of our mindes and the affections of our hearts as our onely blisse and chiefe master and Lord from whom we hold by meere dependance and free bountifull and liberall communication all what wee are what wee haue and what wee can at any time challenge looke and hope for both in this life and in the other referring in the meane time and giuing ouer our selues and all what belongs to vs or concernes vs our liues persons goods health honours affaires and other the like wholly to his diuine prouidence to the end that he may do with them as he shall thinke fitting and according to his pleasure and sacred will as belonging wholly to him with a true confidence certain firme hope and an vndoubted assurance of his diuine goodnesse infinite mercy and promises of saluation and this is the chiefe honour worship and seruice that God wishes desires and demaunds of vs as sheweth very wel the Sonne of God himselfe Iesus Christ our Sauiour answering to the question of the Samaritan woman The true worshippers saith he shall worship the Father in spirit and truth and such are those he desires demands and seekes after And hee giueth the reason thereof Because God is a spirit therfore his worship ought to be spirituall internall and in the truth of the heart answerable to his nature by so much more noble