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A72059	The confession and publike recantation of thirteene learned personages, lately conuerted in France, Germanie, and the Lowe-Countreys, from poperie, to the Churches reformed wherein they haue zealously and learnedly set dovvne the reasons that moued them therevnto. The names and degrees of the conuerts. 1. Godefrid Rabin ... 2. Simon Palory ... 3. Iohn Colleij ... 4. Melchior Roman ... 5. Iohn Norman ... 6. Father Abraham ... 7. Antony Ginestet ... 8. Signeur Lewis ... 9. Father Edmon ... 10. Leonard Theuenot ... 11. Sir Francis ... 12. Francis Goupil Angeuin ... 13. Lewys du Boys ... Translated out of the French and Dutch printed copies, by I.M.; Eight learned personages lately converted (in the realme of France) from papistrie, to the Churches reformed.	W. B., fl. 1601.; J. M., fl. 1602.	1602 (1602)	STC 1074.5; STC 20598; ESTC S115544	99,696	118

vntollerable punishments And againe there want not in these kinde of affaires and businesses gildings aromaticall sauours pretious ornaments admirable stones impostures illusions of signes and wonders Fained miracles as well in the tombes where the reliques are laide as in the images and statues erected which often times by artificiall motions do produce teares to the end that through such kinde of spectacles and sights the eyes of the spectators might be deceiued a thing so familiar and common that such deceiuers haue many times beene by the lawes punished To be shorte without entring further into this bottomlesse pit of a matter so lamentable I will onely say that golde siluer fauours and liberalities with the Pope can worke much for raising such persons into this reputation of holinesse and deification which comes not from the spirit of sanctification but from the authoritie of a sinfull and mortall man For a testimonie whereof note but the thundring brute and fame within Rome in many kingdomes and within the couents of Monkes touching the inuention of the Iesuites who haue offered 50000. crownes employed the credit of Potentates and sundry Princes that Ignatius their patron and first founder may be canonized But his cursed remembrance was so fresh that neither he nor any of his disciples could yet attaine thereunto Vpon these purposes of cunning deuises I will not forget the trickes of the Portugall Nun Miracles so famous in respect of the effects which the diuell wrought in her person Shee while she prayed was lifted vp into the ayre and there stayed without any visible prop. She bare vpon her head the thornes and likewise the wounds of Iesus Christ in other partes of her body by meanes whereof many Princes Dukes Lordes and a number numberlesse of people came from farre countries to see and adore her But the Lord of truth in the end discouered this fraudulent and diabolicall deuice and the Inquisition being forced by the euident light of the truth repressed it These are the Saints and Ladyes forsooth their conception and bringing foorth and their qualities on whome the Papists hope and at whose hands they looke for succours both in life and death Wherefore I vtterly renounce them and doe onely put all my trust and confidence in my Creator As for the absence of my parents and countrey I must and will yeelde most heartie thankes to God almightie for that hee hath not placed mee in the vniuersall number but in the particular number hauing withdrawne me from the bondage of the deuill from the worshipping of Idoles from the inuention and errours of men and in their steede hath communicated vnto mee the inestimable guifts and graces of his holy Gospell And this is very well explained in Genesis 12. when GOD commaunded Abraham to come from his countrie from the house of his father that hee should forsake the world and his owne lustes and affections and onely seeke a peaceable and quiet life of the minde Saint Ambrose expounding that place saith that he should conuerse in heauen to the ende that leauing the conuersation and managing of worldly matters he should speake with God and fasten all his thoughtes vpon him Saint Paule saith to the Hebrewes Chap. 11. that Abraham went foorth not knowing whether hee should go insinuating thereby that as soone as God had commaunded him to go forth Abraham straight wayes obeyed him not seeking answeres or excuses he went and knew not whether for that he knew not the place hauing no person with him for his guide but onely his own humble obedience to Gods diuine prouidence He had a sonne whom the Lord commanded to be sacrificed in the Mounte of More● which signifieth the Mount of deuision there he was ready with his sonne I sack to haue kilde him God might haue charged him to haue sacrificed his son in his owne house but he ordained that he should come forth of his house should go to the Mount of deuision with his sonne alone which is not without a mistery For God meant thereby to note vnto vs that we should sacrifice in the fire of his diuine loue our owne sonnes videlicet our appetites and carnall desires for the performance whereof there is no place more fit and conuenient then a strange country hauing left our Parents and ritches behinde vs. This is the high Mount of diuision where the deuout soule vieweth many more misteries then those who abide belowe in the valley at the foote of the Mount at the house of their Parents without climing vp to God-warde with all their thoughts and affections Saint Chrisostome saith that absence from ones countrey is more ritch then citties and more glittering than the vniuersall world And speaking of Abraham in his 13. Homily vpon Genes saith Thinke I pray you with what loue the Patriarke affected tranquillity seeing he kept it so many yeares And Dauid saith I had rather be the meanest in the house God then conuerse in the pallaces of sinners Where Saint Chrisostome by the house of God vnderstandeth a strange land and a seperation from the world Iacob seeing himselfe ouerwhelmed with miseries persecuted by his brother Esau forsooke his originall conuersation went from his fathers house into a strange country and taking his way toward Aran he wandered so solitary and meditating that being come thither and finding himselfe weary he sat down and falling a sleepe saw in a dreame a heauenly ladder the one end whereof touched the skies and the other the earth whereupon was the vniuersall Creator the true sonne of Iustice the brightnesse that illuminateth soules and consumeth all darkenes In the absence of the visible sunne there appeared vnto him a sunne inuisible the beame of the sunne that gaue light vnto his body forsaking him there came vnto him the beames of the Sun that brought light to his soule changing an outward brightnesse into an inward light The Sunne that had created him did shyne vnto him Iohn 1. vz. the Sunne increate from whose light proceede all other lights as from an euerlasting light the fountaine of life and saluation Who by the said vision gaue Jacob to vnderstand that from him should come the Messias our blessed redeemer that the first degree or steppe of this ladder was Abraham the second Isaack the third Jacob himselfe and so forward all the rest recounted by Saint Math. Chap. 1. vntill Iesus Christ the sonne of the virgine who was at the end of the ladder opening the gates of heauen which before were shut God was able to haue shewed him this mistery in his fathers house frequenting his friends and kinsfolkes but he shewes not himselfe but to those that are alone and haue shaken handes with worldly vanities By these arguments may be seene that the life of a stranger hath a farre more excellent contemplation seeing his meditations are profitable then the dayly and fond studies of the greatest Papistes and Sophisters In the desart of Madian Exod. 3 Chap. Moses was

that they are thus hardely dealt withall contrary to all reason and equitye of conscience In some of them I haue found true simplicity ioyned with modesty the sweetenesse of their demeanure and manye other vertues which are the true notes and infallible effects of a right Christian by meanes wherof I am not nor ought to giue any credit to the detractions or vncharitable speeches of the world For my conscience hath brought me back to this point that the trueth of Religion depends not of mens conuersation but of the will of one onely God which by his word he hath made manifest vnto vs. I pray the brethren of my Order and also all other to consider all these reasons I haue not forsaken them to iniurye or wrong them in any point nor to bring any scandall vnto them If I coulde haue remained among them with tranquillity of conscience If I did not thinke to offend God by continuing in this profession wherein I haue beene norished so many yeares surely I had yet beene with them Brethren it is not my will nor intention to offend you I perswade my selfe likewise that there is none can iustly reproue me of my comportment and behauiour I was neuer culpable of drunkennesse of adultery or any other such misdemeanour I was no prophane person among you but haue shewed my selfe zealous in maintayning and aduancing your order You know that through my diligence and care two of your decayed and ruinated Monasteries haue beene reedified the one neere Troye in Campane the other in the country of Mayne I haue followed your businesses and affaires in all trauaile and vigilancie and I know you are not ignorant how that I haue had issue to your contentment I haue so well demeaned my selfe among you that I purchased vnto you many rents yea and forgiuen you some Wherefore I beseech you and exhort you in Gods name and with all the affection of my will that with a spirite of meekenesse and feare of God you doe examine if I haue not done holyly and religiously to laye holde vpon the true word of God directed thereunto by his spirite And if you finde that it was not my duetie to haue done otherwise then that you would rather take the selfe same resolution in hand and following my steps direct your course to the hauen of eternall life whereunto I hope to come with all the true faithfull and elect then to be moued against me and to slaunder Before my departure I would gladly haue laide open my deliberation and the reasons whereon I grounded my selfe I would haue exhorted you to take in hand the same resolution with me I would haue imbraced you and witnessed that I desire all manner of good vnto you but the most part may then imagin to what great daunger I had exposed my selfe and the small hope left me to haue profit therein O my Lord Iesus confirme in me this resolution suffer me not to yeeld vnto the assaults combats which are or may be made against me helpe my vnbeliefe increase the faith within me make me conceiue that assurance of Abraham who beleeued in hope against hope arme me with thy promises deliuer me from the snares of my cruel enimies make me good Lord in effect to feele that thou art with me wilt be as thou hast assured Abraham my most liberall guerdon I seeke my saluation giue me Lord Iesus an assured place of retrait in the holy Ierusalem spare me in the temptations of the worlde but if it shall please thee to exercise me therein fill me I beseech thee with the spirit of constancy to the end that finally hauing carried away the victory I may enter into Paradice with thy most happy seruants Amen He forsaketh not the church that with his body goeth out from her Chrisost in Math. ho●● 46. but he that with his spirit and minde renounceth the foundations of Ecclesiastical truth leaueth her We be gone out frō her with our body but they from vs with their spirit we haue left with them the foundations of the walles but they with vs the foundations of the Scriptures we haue left and gone away from them according to the apparances of men they frō vs according to the iudgemēt of God therfore the Christiās corporal do persecute trouble vs that are spirituall But to thē is properly addressed that which the lord saith O Hierusalem Hierusalem thou that killest the Prophets c. Reade saith S. Ierome the Apocalips Hieron ad Marcel viduam and consider that which is there written of the womā clothed in Scarlet with blasphemy written vpon her forehead of the seauen Mountaines or hils of the great waters of the miserable end of Babilon This is that rocke of Trapeius so many times beaten with thunder from God for that it was displeasyng in his eyes Come out from among them my people sayth the Lord that you be not partakers of her sinnes and wounds flye from Babilon let euery one saue his soule for shee is fallen shee is fallen and is becme the hachitation of Diuelles and a refuge of vncleane spirits The declaration and conuersion of Maister Iohn Colleij sometimes a Preacher a Caputchin and a Gardian of the Couent of Saint Omer publikly by him made in the Church of Sedan on Sunday the 4. of March 1601. THE Kingly Prophet or rather our Sauiour Iesus Christ vnder the figure of Dauid most deare brethren in the 22. Psal hauing prayed the almighty to deliuer his life from the sworde his desolate soule from the power of the dogge from the Lyons mouth from among the hornes of Vnicornes doth promise if he heare him to declare his holy name to the brethren to praise him in the middest of the great congregation and to make his vowes vnto him in the presence of those that feare him If the sonne of God himselfe hath vouchsafed to make this vowe how much more am I bound being a miserable sinner and hauing obtayned of Gods eternall bounty my spirituall deliuerance to declare and exalt the name of the euer-liuing God among you my brethren to render vnto him my vowes in this great congregation and assembly of you which feare the Lord to the end that those who heretofore haue receiued the like grace as my selfe hauing beene drawne out of darkenesse and brought into the true light may haue matter and occasion to remember the benefit by them receiued from God and therefore yeeld vnto him innumerable thankes alwayes laying before themselues that as God is a most liberall bestower of his benefits so hee is a most seuere exactour in expecting thankes for the same which doubtlesse is the true meane to obtaine the continuance and encrease ingratitude being nothing else but an obstacle that hindreth the streames of his flowing mercie And deare brethrē in the Lord I make no doubt but that many of you are throughly acquainted with my former conuersation profession and likwise with my

of the minde in the elect as through the efficacie of faith which is a presence of things absent a vision of things inuisible an hypostasis of the misteries of eternall saluation Loe this is the truth of this sacrament contrary to mans tradition But time will no more suffer me to repeate the erronious absurdities of this tradition Purgatory Now of Purgatory which they dote vpon it is contrary to the washing and purging of Christ his precious bloud shed vpon the crosse applyed through vertue and secret operation of the spirit and receiued through a liuely faith But these are but Monkish absurdities to imagyne that the vnspeakable dignity of the Sacrifice of Christ is not perfectly able to blot out our offences to reconcile soules vnto God and to iustyfie before the throne of iustice it is surely a great deminyshing of his mercy grace vnspeakeable fauour a too much eclypsing of the inmatchable glory of the Ocean of his compassions I leaue behinde for breuity sake a Chaos of like errours most humbly beseeching the Lord to haue mercy vpon the ignorant to enlighten thē in his knowledge and to confound those that maliciously warre against the truth I will be no longer a captiue in Babilon thus to haue no remembrance of Sion nor remember my selfe And for that I cannot sing the Lords song in a strange land in this pernicious Babilon nor vpon her bankes which do ouerflow with abhominations I will make riuers of mine eyes with a sweete remembrance and contemplation of the spirytuall Ierusalem notwithstandyng all aduersityes which clense vs from vitious imaginations from all superstitions and idolatryes and to the ende I may worship one onely GOD and beleeue in his gospell renouncing all humane inuentions which faith is gyuen vnto vs by the holy ghost through the preaching of the holy Gospell as it is witten in Saint Iohn 3. Mathew Chap. 16. To the Romans Chap. 10. and in the Actes Chap. 16. and in many other places which to shun prolixity wee will not now name This profit therefore commeth of tribulations And surely I may well say that which I my selfe haue experimented a few dayes past wherein I was tormented with an infinite number of imaginations caused in respect of the absence of my parents to see my selfe in a strange countrey to here the Papistes murmure and ordinarily speake against me with threats and slaunders but howsoeuer I did pray vnto the Lord for those that persecuted me and for mine owne comfort and consolation for it was the true meane to fortifie me the more in the trueth of the Gospell as at this present I do with my eyes behold fresh comforts and new effects of the holy ghost in my soule bidding me perseuer in the obedience of the worde of life This was the purpose of Esay who saide O Lord in tribulations we will seeke thee and of the Prophet Dauid Fill their faces with shame and reproch then they will seeke thy mercifull name By the mouth of the Prophet Osee saith GOD himselfe In their troubles and anguishes they shall rise vp and acknowledge me By Ezechiell My Zeale shall be taken from thee and J will cease and will no more be angry with thee God giueth vs manifestly to vnderstand in this place that hee is angrye the more with vs when hee doth not punish and chastice vs with tribulations for then he sheweth not the loue he beareth vnto vs. Saint Iohn saith in the Apocal chap. 3. that those whom he loueth he chastiseth a great consolation doubtlesse Esay Chap. 43. When thou shalt passe through the waters the riuers shall not couer thee and when thou shalt tread vpon the fier it shall not burne thee This is represented vnto vs in Exodus 14. when the Hebrewes passed through the red sea in Daniel 3. when the young men of Babilon were cast into the burning flames God could well haue hindred them from casting the three innocent young men into the fire but he the more to shew his mighty glory and for the saluation of his own people suffered them to be throwne into the fier without receiuing any dammage or hurt In like maner the Lord doth shew greater mercy vnto me in chastising me with tribulations giuing me patience and spirituall strength then if he had deliuered me from the outragious ignominies and aduersities aboue said For I well knew that when I was in tranquillity and rest he had as it were forgotten me but so soone as hee laide his crosse vpon me I knew that I was his creature bought with the inestimable price of his owne bloud who hath iustified me through his vnmeasurable mercy and heauenly grace Thus much dooth the scripture teach vs when it saith that the King of Babilon saw three young men walke in the middest of the fiery flames singing praises vnto God that they were accompanied with an other resembling the sonne of God For tribulation taken with patience procureth God to come to vs and be our defender being free and loose from papisticall dignities and ambitions who with inuentions of rich Altars beautified with idolles of golde and siluer with many thousands of other superstitions doe hinder men from attaining to the true knowledge of the Gospell or grace The imitation of the Apostles Actes 5. causeth wise men to reioyce in their afflictions standing in great feare of prosperity Saint Ierome compareth tribulation to Jonas his whale when others thought she swallowed him vp to kill him she swallowed him vp to saue him Saint Gregory saith that like as perfumes layd vpon coles declare their force and good smell so men doe shew the fortitude of their vertues passing through the flouds of aduersity Saint Barnard saith that as woll is to be carded wherwith fine and pure cloth is to be made so must the life of the iust bee tormented to the end their knowledge prooue more excellent Saint Chrisostome saith that vertue surmounteth in patiently abiding that affection is the true hauen of heauen Saint Gregory prooues it God himselfe in Saint Mat. Chap. 7. saith that the way that leadeth to life is straight narrow but that which leadeth to death is very large thereby meaning to inferre that those who would obtaine glory must first passe through many tempests difficulties And surely it will be an vnspeakable contentment vnto vs if wee consider that those passages are by Iesus Christ who is the way of glory and let vs not wonder if they be set with thornes but rather thinke and consider of him who hath first passed them and whither hee at last resorted In the booke of Wisdome it is written that the Lorde had made knowne the right way together with his kingdome vnto the iust O Lorde I beseech thee at this present to shewe me the right way that I erre not For I doe stedfastly beleeue that Iesus Christe liuing in mee abolisheth the curse of the lawe condemneth sinne mortifieth death he alone is peace