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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the Papists errour who confesse their sins to earthly men and not to God receiving forgivenesse of their Priest I said and not to God whereat I know they will take exceptions but they need not for millions of them confesse who scarcelie know any other God but the Priest who hath his stile booke of interrogatories where to they answere and thereafter are absolved moreover although they know GOD yet I am perswaded that confessing to the Priest they confesse not to GOD because GOD desires not the Priests help for he sayeth Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavie loaden and I will give you rest c. and yee shall finde rest unto your soules And the Royall Prophet sayeth I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquitie have I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions unto the LORD and thou forgavest the iniquitie of my sin The ●poore Publican said not Ghostlie father but GOD be mercifull unto me a sinner And John giveth us this assurance that if we confesse our sins he is faithfull to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse Thirdlie all the Jesuits that ever have written scholastick divinitie agree in one voice that the remission of the confessed sins to the Priest is done by the contrition of the heart which contrition must preceed as they confesse the Priests absolution either by prioritie of time or of nature and therefore absolution and confession of and to Priests are altogether unnecessarie except it be to informe that Man of Sin of all his clients intentions of heart and actions whatsoever for they must confesse to their Parish Priest all their thoughts words and deeds once at least in the yeere under the paine of eternall condemnation or else to gather in moneyes by restitution almes penance for great sins to the Cloisters and such like ends but heere I will not insist upon the knaverie of auriculare confession hoping in GOD to let it be better known heereafter to the world They serve for admonition of my ingratitude towards my good GOD and gratious Lord against the Lord I have sinned who elected me to glory before the foundation of the world who created me in time to thy owne similitude and likenesse who by withdrawing of thy helping hand might have redacted me to nothing againe and yet by thy Divine providence thou hast conserved me so long from many perils and dangers and given me so large time of repentance who furnished me with good education and bestowed severall good gifts of nature upon me O more than brutish ingratitude Thou gave thy only begotten Son for my sins when I was thine enemie and I have gone about to destroy thy glory and his kingdome but yet my comfort is that If when we were enemies we were reconcealed to GOD by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life Thirdly I must relate the sins themselves which I have committed against this gratious GOD. Alace LORD I have sinned against thee neglecting that precious time of my youth wherein I imployed more my understanding to learning then my will to pietie attending rather to become a good scholler then a good Christian conferring more with Aristotle and his followers than with Christ and his Apostles I have sinned by curiositie exposing my self in forraine Countries especiallie in Italie to occasions in conference and disputing with the Jefuits who knew cunninglie how to circumveene me and can worke their owne ends I have sinned by weake and inconstant facilitic yeelding too soone to their alluring delusions I have sinned using too much diligence in drinking the cup of their pestiferous doctrine the space of nine yeeres both in Italie and France where I studied three yeeres to their deceitfull philosophie foure yeeres to their sophisticall divinitie and two yeeres to their hypocriticall superstition or superstitious hypocrisie in their Novitiate at Rome I have sinned desiring so earnestlie after my studies to returne to my countrey for seducing of others as I had beene seduced my self using all the tricks and conceats which the wit of man or hell could affoord me to deceave the Godly True it is that I had rare masters in this calling and good help to performe my duetie to wit an ample power to difpense with all things both to my self and others I have sinned imploying my wits and travels to seduce GODS elect the space of two or three years for the most part in the North amongst my friends in and about Aberdeene Elgin and Ban●ff as likewise in Cathnes where I lived more as an yeare Chamerlane and Baillie to my Lord of Berriedail this office I made choice of that by the frequent varietie of people I might worke my owne ends without suspicion I have sinned by wresting of Scriptures perswading others to believe that whereof I had no evidence in GODS word I have sinned distilling my braines to finde out meanes make great journeyes to obtaine them and propone them to high personages for the extirpation of GODS true religion in Scotland I have sinned by not living so duerifully to my GOD these three yeeres bygone for so long time have I beene a seeming member of the true reformed Church of God as became a true and sincere reformed Christian These and many more are the grievous sins wherewith loaden with the Publican I stand afar of not worthie so much as to lift up mine eyes unto heaven but smitting my breast say GOD be mercifull unto me a sinner Fourth and lastly the word against drawes me to a consideration of my madnesse opposing my self against so strong a partie as God What! knew I not that it were hard for me to kicke against the pricks Knew I not poore Nadab and Abibu notwithstanding they were the sons of Aaron were destroyed for offering strange fire And there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord. Knew I not that Vzzah was smote to death for laying his hand of good intention to uphold the Ark from falling being shaken with the oxen that drew it And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and GOD smote him there for his errour aud there he died before the ark of GOD. Knew I not that Corah Dathan and Abiram although they were Levits were swallowed up quicke for murmuring against Moses And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that pertained unto Corah and all their goods Knew I not thy almightie power by the Prophet speaking this of thee And I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land Knew I not that thou art the GOD of hosts having infinite multitude of Angels for thy souldiours with all the rest of thy creatures as instruments of thy just wrath and indignation against sinners O intolerable madnesse of mine This all and much

ABJURATION OF POPERIE BY THOMAS ABERNETHIE Sometime Jesuite but now penitent Sinner and an unworthie Member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland at Edinburgh in the Grayfrier Church the 24. of August 1638. EXOD. 23. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evill Matth. 7. 13 14. Enter yee in at the strait gate for wide is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there bee that finde it VERITAS JINCET TANDEM Printed at Edinburgh in King James his College by George Anderson 1638. To the courteous Reader COurteous Reader in these subsequent pages excuse I pray thee the shortnesse of the matter and the rudenesse of the style and attribute that to my calling being long a Souldiour and this to my education which hath beene more out of my native Countrie than in it and make thy use of the matter which I have set downe for thy well rather than to censure the defect of my language Farewell LORD bee mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee PSAL. xli THis day right Honourable Reverend and Welbeloved in our common Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus is keeped very solemne and holy by these who equalize yea prefer some of their fabulous saincts dayes to the Lords owne day in respect of the relation they say it hath to the Apostle Bartholomew who being excoriat should have suffered martyrdome on such a day but of You is solemnized to the end Yee may behold a poore wretched sinner pull off and throw away his old skin of Popish Idolatrie and superstition that he may compeare in the sight of God and men with a new garment of righteousnesse dyeed in the blood of that immaculat Lambe who taketh away the sins of the world I know that my presence for this action will be no small subject of admiration to you all that heare and see me this day for truelie I finde it to my self so that I may justly say with the Apostle I am made a spectacle unto the world and to Angels and to men To the wicked world a spectacle of indignation and hatred for quiting it and taking me to the precious blood of my Saviour Christ To the good Angels at the conversion of a sinner To men of compassion and admriation In you I perceave this admiration to be joined with joy and gladnesse considering the diligent care of your sweet LORD and loving Master in bringing home your lost brother upon the shoulders of His mercie to His owne sheepfold in me poore Publican with shame and confusion of face beholding my long suffering God and you from whom I have gone alace too long astray In you with pitie and compassion to view me thus cruelly tormented with so many ravening wolfes in me with indignation for suffering my self to be deceaved so long with these infernall theeves In you with praise and thanksgiving to see me brought home againe alive in me with feare and trembling of my Saviours wrath for going and straying so long astray Now to give satisfaction in some measure to your admiration I will let you understand the cause thereof that is my cursed life in Poperie and how it hath pleased my gratious God to convert me from it exponing these few words of the royall Prophet Lord be mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee In which words yee may perceave that the Prophet having gone astray touched with remorse of conscience first he returneth to his God with unfeined repentance and beggeth pardon for his sins Lord be mercifull unto me Next because his soul was deadlie wounded he prayeth earnestlie for the health of it heal my soul And thirdlie he gives the reason of his petition for I have sinned against thee In imitation of this mightie King now turned a humble supplicant I minde Godwilling to show you these things following 1. How I have wounded my soule and sinned by following of Poperie I have sinned against thee 2. How it hath pleased God of his only mercie to heale my soul in his own time Heale my soul 3. I shall crave pardon first of God then of my deare Countrey-men in Scotland of you that bee heere present and of all these who professe with sinceritie the reformed Religion according to Gods written word saying LORD be mercifull unto me 4. And lastlie I shall answere to some idle objections against this my sincere confession and heartie resolution Concerning the first point the words containe foure things worthie of consideration 1. The person that hath sinned in the word I 2. The person against whom the sin is committed in the word thee 3. The sin it self in the word sinned and 4. the madnesse of a sinner to oppose himselfe agoinst so strong a partie as GOD in the word against Neither will I insist upon the word have supponing this confession of the Prophets and mine to be of bygone sins whereof remorse of conscience draweth us to a confession nor minde I to be curious exponing the literall anagogicall tropologicall or other senses of the words because I intend only to make a relation of my life in Poperie with an abjuration of the same and not a preaching knowing that no man should take that calling upon him but he who was called of God as was Aaron But to come to the words this particle I first showeth the qualitie of the person that sins I that am a King quoth the Prophet have sinned against thee which consideration doeth likewise aggravate my sin for I may say I who was brought up of honourable parents with a most religious Minister of Gods word for the space of six years have sinned renouncing that Heavenly doctrine which I learned of them I who had exponed my life in the wars to all hazards whereto that calling is subject sundrie years in Germanie for the overthrow of Poperie was not a year out of the wars till in my travels passing through Italie I was made a prey in Florence by an English Jesuite called Thomson or Gerard both to his religion and profession This word may likewise serve for reproof to those who delight more in descriving their neighbours sins than confessing their owne forgetfull of our Saviours words Judge not that yee be not judged for with what judgement yee judge yee shall be judged And thereafter Thou hypocrite first cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clear lie to east out the moat out of thy brothers eye The second thing considerable heere is the person offended against whom I have sinned and this is God Almightie for against GOD are all sinnes which are committed either mediatly or immediatly against thee only have I sinned and done thïs evill in thy fight The words may serve for confutation and admonition confutation of