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B12171	The voluntarie conuersion and seuerall recantations, of foure great learned men, professed fryers in sundry monasteries of Fraunce, from the errours of idolatrie and poperie, to the true religion established in the Reformed Church. 1. Master Iohn Le Vager, a priest in the Romane Church, conuerted at Mauns, Ianuary 6. 2. Master Iohn Forent, a fryer Carmelite, in the Court of Morthemard, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Poictiers, Iune, 9. 3. Master Denis Boucher, a Franciscane fryer, in the couent of Noisy, neere Paris, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Paris, Iuly. 6. 4. Master Daniell Dusert, Franciscan fryer at Mello, conuerted in the Church of Mello, December, 22. All conuerted this last yeare, 1603. as their seuerall discourses following at large doe testifie, vnder their owne hands. Truely translated, out of the French printed copies.		1604 (1604)	STC 5650; ESTC S114587	31,204	52

2. Iohn 2. 12. 13. 14. names sake Againe I write vnto you Fathers c. Also I write vnto you young men c. And then I write vnto you babes Doe they not likewise teach that it is not lawfull to reade the holy Scriptures as also not to pray or cal vpon the name of God but in the Latine tongue and make a very strict obseruation thereof And is not this contrarie to the spirit of God speaking thus by his blessed Apostle I had rather in the church to speake fiue words with mine vnderstanding that I might also 2. Cor. 14. 19. instruct others then ten thousand words in a strange language In the Church of Rome they also teach that some others beside Iesus Christ haue beene exempted from sinne but doe they not lye in so saying when the Apostle speaks thus Wherfore as by one man sinne entred into the world and by sin death Rom. 5. 12. and so death went ouer all men forasmuch as all men haue sinned Beside this they maintaine that man hath free will as easily to saue himselfe as to perish contrary to the instruction of saint Iohn Baptist saying A man can receiue nothing except it bee giuen him from heauen And the Apostle also saith It is GOD Iohn 3. 27. Phil. 2. 13. which worketh in you both the will and the deede euen of his own good pleasure Moreouer they erre greatly teaching that our workes are meritorious to saluation before God against that which the Prophet Esay saith All our righteousnesse is like the filthy Esa 64. 6. clouts of a menstruous woman And against that also which Damel saith Wee doe not O Lord present our supplications before thee for our owne righteousnesse but for thy great tender mercies Dan. 9. 18. Do not they likewise maintaine that wee are iustified and saued by the workes of the Lawe and not by faith and the mercie of God onely Contrarie to the Apostles wordes By Ephes 2. 8. 9. grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God Not of workes least any man should boast himselfe Contrarie also to this to Timothie That God hath saued vs and called vs with an holy calling not according to our works 2. Tim. 1. 9. hut according to his owne purpose and grace which was giuen to vs through Christ Iesus before the world was Contrary likewise Rom. 3. 28. to this to the Romanes Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the Lawe Is it not common speach also as well in their writings as also in their preachings that we ought to stand doubtful of our saluation Contrarie to Saint Paule to the Hebrewes saying Let Heb. 4 16. vs goe boldly to the throne of grace that we may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede Contrarie also to his writing to the Romanes where he saith For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor Rom. 8. 38. 39. depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And contrarie also to his writing to the Corinthians That God hath sealed vs 2. Cor. 1. 22. and hath giuen the earnest of his spirit in our hearts Doe they not defend and manifestly against the worde of God thas we haue other Mediatours and Aduocates then Iesus Christ to wit both hee-Saints and she-Saints Contrarie to Saint Paule writing thus For there is one God and one Mediatour betweene God and man which is the man Christ Iesus 2. Tim. 2. 5. Contrarie likewise to the Euangelist Saint Iohn in two seueral places of his Gospell Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the father in my Iohn 14. 13. Iohn 16. 23. name he will giue it vnto you Thus falling from errour to errour they ordaine appoint that we must call vpon those Saints and declare to them our miseries and necessities which no man can do but meerely in vaine because both he-Saints and she-Saints can take no acknowledgement of our wants according to the saying of the Prophet Esay Abraham is ignorant of vs and Iacob knowes vs Esa 63. 16. not thou O Lord art our Father and our Redeemer thy name is for euer How doe they labour likewise to perswade the world concerning the necessity of prayers for the dead or those faithfull soules which they say are enclosed in Purgatorie directly contrary to our Lord and Sauiours owne words as the Euangelist sets downe VVhosoeuer beleeueth in the Sonne shall not Iohn 3. 18. be condemned And in the first Chapter of the same Gospell Verily verily I say vnto you he that heareth my word and beleeueth Iohn 5. 24. in him that sent mee hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but hath passed from death vnto life Continually they preach that there is another kinde of Purgatorie then that which is contained in the bloud onely of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Quite contrarie to the blessed Apostle writing thus If we acknowledge our sinnes hee is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnese And as it followeth in the 1. Iohn 1. 9. second Chapter of the same Epistle We haue an Aduocat with the Father to wit Iesus Christ the Iust And hee is the propitiation 1. Iohn 2. 1. 2. for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world Why then it is most false that there is a third place beside Paradise and hel where the soules of the faithfull departing from this world are to be tormented before they can be brought to heauen Contrarie to the Prophet Esay who saith The iust man dying enters into peace and rest Esa 57. 1. 2. And in the wisdome of Salomon it is written The soules of the righteous are in the hand of God no torment shall touch them Sapi. 3. 1. Also saint Iohn the diuine saith in the Apocalipse Blessed are Apoc. 14. 13. the dead which hereafter die in the Lord. Euen so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them In like manner they teach that to obtaine remission of our sinnes we must make an account of them and number all our sinnes in auricular confession by which hellish cordes they strangle the conscience binding it to impossible things Acding to the saying of the Prophet Dauid That his sinnes surmounted Psalm 40. 12. in number the haires of his head Again he saith Who can vnderstand all his faults cleanse me O Lord from my secret Psalm 19. 12. faults Yet not thus contented they teach beside that by the greatnesse of our bodies punishments and contritions we may gain remission of our sins life euerlasting Against that which S.

neuerthelesse fruitlesse 1. Cor. 14. 13. The Church of Rome forbiddeth praying in the Church in any other language then in Latine wherein the greater part of the people and many of of the Priests themselues doe vnderstand nothing therefore their intelligence must of necessitie bee fruitlesse The doctrine Apostolical holdes That mariage is honorable amongst all and the bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge Heb. 13. 4. And that To auoide fornication let euery man haue his wife and let euery woman haue her own husband 1. Cor. 7. 2. That the Bishoppe should be the husband of one wife and the Deacon likewise 1. Tim 3. 2. 8. Hee pronounceth them also Apostates from the faith abusers lyers and hypocrites as shall forbid mariage 1. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3. The Romane doctrine saith that mariage is pollution approuing and allowing the opinion of one of her Popes Siricius who qualifying the case in this maner prohibited and forbad mariage to Bishops Priestes and Deacons tolerating notorious whoredomes to the whole worlde and permitting publick Stewes or Burdelles that daily pay trybute therefore to the Pope By all these Antitheses we may easily iudge the difference that is betweene the doctrine of Christ and that of the Romane Church and by these meanes discerning it to bee a Church without God execrable and accursed thinke it meete that all such as woulde bee saued shoulde separate themselues from it Now after shee had thus transgressed against the commandements of God and instituted others quite contrarie to them in their places After she hath renounced the doctrine of the Sonne of God deliuered by his Apostles and caused in their steede the traditions and constitutions of men meerely opposite to them all to be wholly embraced and receiued There then remained no more but to make a breach of the Sacraments which our Lord Iesus did leaue to his Church to confirme and seale by them in the hearts of the faithfull the truth of his promises and vnder the signes of visible thinges to exhibite and giue them intirely all his best blessings Now if shee shewed her selfe so audacious and bolde in the two former points it will appeare that she hath declared her selfe no lesse presumptuous and headstrong in this third For ouer and aboue her annihilating the Sacraments especially that of the Lords Supper abolishing the signes without which it can be no Sacrament three things being required in all Sacraments to wit the word the signe and the thing signified She hath contaminated and prophaned the same by her additions or diminutions She hath added to the water in Baptisme Salte Spettle Oyle and Creame without any one worde of God to warrant the same She hath cut off from the Laitie as she tearmes them the Cup the moitie of the Sacrament of the Supper and which best representeth vnto vs the death and passion of our Lord which wee ought to remember and the washing of our soules from sinne which we ought to seeke after c. contrarie to his owne expresse worde that saith Drink yee all of this Now God hath most exactly enioyned vs that wee shall haue care of fulfilling what he hath commaunded vs and that we shall not be so bolde as to adde any thing or diminish any thing this was not a temporall commaundement giuen to the Iewes onely for his enduring is eternall and hee addressed the same to his Church euen to the end of the worlde If it were not lawfull to adde to or omit any of the ceremonies ordained by Moses concerning the eating of the Paschal Lamb which was one of the Sacraments to the Iewes why should it bee permitted now on the behalfe of our Sacraments And if any one that misprised the Lawe of Moses dyed the death without any mercie what farre worse torments then doth hee deserue that shall treade the sonne of God vnder his feete The Church of Rome tramples with her foule feete vpon him when shee addeth to and diminisheth from his worde when she despiseth his doctrine and deliuers another when she prophanes his Sacraments and when so enormously shee transgresseth the commaundements of God It followes then that shee is to expect most rigorous punishments and such as will not participate in her plagues must keepe themselues from partaking in her sinnes and least they bee infected to quit themselues of her in due time I adiure then all those in whose soules resides any sparke of pietie of zeale to the glorie of GOD and of affection to their owne saluation that they weighing these reasons and not beleeuing euery spirit but approuing the spirites whether they bee of GOD or no propose to themselues that many false Prophets are come into the world 1. Iohn 4. 1. And forasmuch as by the sacred Scripture which is as a candle set vpon a candlesticke to illuminate all those that enter into the Lords house and whereby all falsities Idolatries blasphemies heresies sacriledges abuses superstitions heerein alreadie specified and infinite other follies and grosse absurdities which the Church of Rome hath conceiued in her crazed braine voide of all wisdome yet after shee hath once infanted them they are nourished brought vp in so greate an estate as they haue almost obscured the true seruice of GOD and euen very neere hand suffocated the whole doctrine of saluation shee may bee easiliest discouered yet notwithstanding shee hath beene so subtile as to forbid the people the reading of them knowing verie well that if they bee read the pot of Roses would be discouered and all the world abandoning her would sende forth an open cry vpon her as after an enraged wolfe that hauing broken the pales of the Churches Parke sought to loose and destroy the poore flock of the Lord. Neuerthelesse shee could not so cunningly prouide for her owne affaires but GOD discouered her parts of shame and laide open her abhominations to the whole worlde for the light of his Gospell now shining euery where all the nookes and corners are wide open and the masque wherewith shee shadowed her deformed countenance hath beene rent off from her face and there is no one if hee bee not wilfully blinde but may see and perceiue her turpitude And yet for all this beeing thus publikely knowne quite contrarie to the imitation of all shamelesse strumpets perceiuing they can no longer bee couered yet shee hath cast downe all shame and contemning all whatsoeuer suffereth her selfe to bee carried into the depth of all iniquitie Shee is become like to her owne Images that haue eyes yet see nothing eares and heare nothing at all Shee hath stopt her eares like the Adder as not willing to heare the voice of her husband who called her to better vnderstanding by the admonitions of such as bemoned her mishappes desired her reconciliation She hath altogither shut her eyes because she would not see the light of trueth taking nothing else more opposite against her hart then the bright splendour thereof Beeing no way

Paule writeth to the Romans For I count that the afflictions of Rom. 8. 18. this present time are not worthy of the glory which shal be reuealed to vs. They erre also in teaching the superstitious obseruation of certaine daies contrarie to the reprehension made by the Apostle to the Galathians saying Ye obserue daies and moneths Galat. 4. 10. and times and years And a mighty abuse they commit teaching the superstitious distinguishing of meats disagreeing with the Apostles doctrin to the Colossians where he saith Let no man condemne you in Colos 2. 16. meat or drinke or in respect of an holy day or of the new Moone or of the Sabaoth daies They deceiue themselues also in forbidding mariage to Ecclesiasticall persons contrarie to that which the spirit of God speakes without exception of age degree or condicion whatsoeuer saying Mariage is honorable among all and the Heb. 13. 4. bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge And this we adde hereto of the Apostle Now the spirit speaketh euidently that in the latter daies some shall depart from the 1. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3. faith and shall giue heede vnto spirits of errour and doctrines of diuels Which speake lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences seared with an hote Iron Forbidding to marrie and commaunding to abstaine from meats They pile errour vpon errour teaching that there are seauen Sacraments in the Church For it is most certaine that in regard the Sacraments are Seals of the mercies of God to saluation it necessarily ensueth that none other can giue vs or promise vs saluation neither doth it appertaine to any but to God onely to seale vs the same promise which he hath ratified to vs by those speciall seales Wherefore hauing none other but Baptisme and the Supper of our Lord to confirme seale so great a benefit vnto vs it followes in meere iustice that we ought to acknowledge none but these two onely for Sacraments And not to make any addition to them of Confirmation Mariage Penance Orders and extreame vnction considering that these things hauing no visible signe of Gods ordinance neither any promise annexed to them of eternall saluation which are the essentiall conditions of Sacraments cannot be reckoned to be any such And how ridiculous likewise doe they shewe themselues when they teach that the vertue efficacie of the Sacramēts doth depend vpon the intention of him that is to administer them when as quite contrarie the power and strength of them depends only vpon the ordinance of God on the faith of him that is to vse them Moreouer their instruction also is very erronious that the pretended Sacraments of Confirmation and of the Orders Ecclesiasticall are more worthy and excellent then either Baptisme or the Lords Supper Because say they that by Commation Orders the indclible or neuer to be razed out Character as they call it is thereby imprinted in the soules of them that receiue them And likewise because they are adminstred by persons much more excellent to wit by Bishops only whereas both Baptisme and the holy Supper doe imprint no Character at all and may be ministred by simple Priests Ouer and beyond all these they teach that the bodie and bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ are cōtained vnder these kinds that is to say the accidents of Bread and Wine contrarie to the Article of our faith which saith That Christ shall not descende at all from heauen but when he comes at the latter day to iudge both the quicke and the deade And contrarie to that which S. Peter saith in the Actes of the Apostles That the heauens must containe him vntill the time that all things be restored But by Act. 3. 21. this doctrine they will haue Iesus Christ to be enclosed vnder the natures of Bread and Wine and make him thereby inuisible impalpable and filling many places at one and the same instant whereby they rob him of his humane nature wherein sinne onely excepted hee was made in all thinges like vnto vs. On the other side taking away vniustly from the Lay people to wit such as are not Ecclesiasticall persons the Cup of the Lord which hee protested to bee the newe Testament in his bloud shed for the remission of many goe they not against the vniuersall commaundement of Iesus Christ where he saith Drinke yee all of it and do they not thus violate the testamentarie Math. 26. 27. institution of the Sonne of God But the errour of errours thrust into this Sacrament is when they teach that in the Eucharist in their Masse there is a sacrifice Heb. 9. 25. 26. expiatorie for the liuing and for the deade Iesus Christ being euery day crucified againe infinite times by the hands of the Priest Contrarie to that of the Apostle in the Hebrewes Not that he should offer himselfe often as the high Priest entred into the Holy place euery yeare with other bloude For then must he haue often suffered since the foundation of the world But now in the end of the world hath hee appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe And in the tenth of the same Epistle hee saith Loe I come to doe thy will O God By the which Heb. 10. 9. 10. will wee are sanctified euen by the offering of the bodie of Iesus Christ once made Whereby we learne that the sacrifice which our Lord Iesus once onely offered is alone sufficient soly perfect and of perpetuall continuance to expiate our sinnes without any reiterating or renewing as hauing no imperfection whatsoeuer neither can by length or succession of times become fruitlesse or vnprofitable as they would gladly make vs beleeue who according to their owne doctrine doe daily crucifie the Lord anew And what nature can but iustly complaine when they maintaine that we ought to fall downe and prostrate our selues before Images contrary to the second commandement giuen by God himselfe Thou shalt make thee no grauen Image c. Thou shalt not bow downe to them neither serue them c. But aboue Exod. 20. 4. 5. all he that hath any care at al of the glorie of his Lord and maker cannot but feele himselfe stirred with holy zeale when he lookes into their ouerdaring boldnesse that they durst and yet dare cut quite away the second Commandement from the Lawe of the Soueraigne Creatour both of Heauen earth In briefe since in the Romane Church vnder the Popes authoritie so many errours are defended and maintained both by fire and bloud against God his holy word and commaundements and beyond al other against the merits and benefits ensuing onely by our Sauiour Christ Iesus wee may seriously enter into consideration if he deserue not truely to bee called the man of sinne the sonne of perdition that opposeth and aduāceth himselfe against all that is called God or tendeth to his honour For he sitteth as God in the Temple of God shewing him selfe

teacheth vs the will and league hee hath made with his people which wee shoulde alwaies haue before our eyes on our foreheades and in our handes to meditate thereon both day and night to accomplish the same on our behalfe As concerning my selfe I acknowledge and confesse that I haue beene trained vp in the Romane Church and haue followed the errours and superstitions therein vsed being caried His protestation concerning himself and the errors wherein he hath liued long only by custome regarde of antiquitie and the goodly outward shew deliuered For looking and contemplating it with the eye of flesh it appeared to me to be to be the true Church erected for perpetuall continuance defended on all sides as being rich potent cloathed with golde purple and scarlet tryumphing ouer all her enemies aduersaries adored by the Kings and Princes of the earth commaunding Emperours holding dominion ouer many nations and prospering euen against the children of God thrusting the true Church into the desert wildernesse But all this was according to the Prophecie of S. Iohn in his Apocalipse where he at large describeth Antichrist Apoc. Chap. 11. 12. and his Babilon Now in this perplexitie in this conflict of opinions which we daily see about the matter of Religion according to the commandement of God I consulted with the diuine Oracle and withdrewe my selfe to the mountaines of holy Scripture By whose testimonie Iesus Christ repulsed the Tempter and confirmed his Apostles after his resurrection By them our Fathers stoned all heretiques and besides them whatsoeuer is spoken is heresie and execration although it be an Angell that Galat. 1. 8. deliuers it or an Apostle according as Saint Paule teacheth vs. God will haue obedience by them and not sacrifice Hee will not Deut 12. 4. 2 Sam. 15. 22. Math. 15. 6. Iohn 10. 4. 5. be serued according to the commandement and traditions of men He acknowledgeth them to be his that abide in his worde He tels vs also that such as are of his flocke doe heare his voice and knowe it and will not listen to a strangers See heere the infallible markes of the true Church indeed But the Church of Rome in steede of listening to this word and obeying it in Of the church of Rome steede of following the kings high way which is taught vs by the aforesaid mountaines reuolts turnes after her owne waies following her owne fantasies and not the commandements of the Lord. And so hath quitted her alliance that wee may iustly say of her that which the Prophet spake of the holy citie of Ierusalem How is the faithfull citie become an harlot She was full of equitie and iustice lodged in her her gold is turned into drosse and her wine is mingled with water And first of all for example she will needes haue Idols and Idols and Images Images contrarie to the commandement of God and to shift off this sinne with an excuse she glosseth a difference between an Idoll and an Image And yet the prohibition extendeth Not to make any resemblance of any thing which is in heauen aboue Exod. 20. 4. 5. neither in the earth beneath nor in the waters below to serue or worship them And so themselues doe cut their owne throats for they say that the Image which they place in their Temple is the similitude of that same partie in heauen aboue And if there be any difference betweene Idoll and Image an Image is for ornament represented in an history an Idoll that which is proposed in the Temple to bee worshipped euen as their pretended Images are THOMAS AQVINAS one of their Thomas Aquin. greatest Doctors testifieth the same in 3. Sentent dist 2. That in 3. sentent Dist 2. the Image ought to be honoured with the selfe same adoration as the partie that it representeth And in the booke tearmed Decisiones Decisio Rotae Rotae where the question is demanded to wit whether the Image in the Image-makers shoppe be to be worshipped or no He answers plainely no for it is exposed there to publick sale but in the Temple it is placed to be worshipped and the selfe same instruction is giuen by the C. venerabiles de Cons dist 3. C. Venerabiles de Cons dist 3. Vpon the aforesaid holy mountaines we finde but one God onely to call vpon in our afflictions and necessities And Iesus Christ himselfe saith vnto vs Come vnto me all yee that are wearie and heauie laden and I will ease you The Church of Math. 11. 28. Rome sends vs to so many hee-Saints and shee-Saints as there be daies in their Calender and though it be written I wil not impart my glorie to any other yet dare they communicate to all such Saints as themselues haue canonized the office of an intercessour or mediatour betweene God and vs which office is onely proper to Christ and dependeth vpon his eternall sacrifice made For as Saint Paule saith He is entred into very heauen Heb. 9. 24. to appeare now in the sight of God for vs. If any sinne saith 1. Iohn 2. 1. saint Iohn we haue an Aduocate with the Father euen Iesus Christ the Iust In like manner Iesus Christ by one onely sacrifice made once vpon the Crosse hath abolished the sinnes of all Heb. 10 14. beleeuers for euer so that there is no further neede of sacrificing being once made thus perfectly But the Church of Rome as if the sacrifice of Christ were imperfect and insufficient hath ordained another for remission of sinnes both to the dead and Masses for the liuing and the dead liuing which they cal the Masse and hath substituted so many successours for the sacrificing againe of Iesus Christ as there be Priests that vse to say Masse Contrarie to that which is written Thou art a Priest eternally for euer after the order of Heb. 7. 21. MELCHISEDEC not hauing any successour at all in his sacrifice as the same blessed Apostle Paule teacheth vs. And so in other points of our Religion the Church of Rome hath wholly peruerted thē namely in Christs institution of his Peruerting of the Sacraments Of Baptisme Sacraments As in Baptisme they make an addition thereto of Oyle of Salt and of Spettle transferre by meere mockery this holy mystery to bels Baptizing them as if they were of Gods elect and to be ranked among the faithful Likewise the holy Supper which Iesus Christ instituted to make a serious Of the Lords Supper commemoration of his death and passion whereby he purchased eternall life for vs bearing the curse of our sins vpon himselfe and in that respect after his benediction made he brake the bread saying This is my bodie to the end we might thereby Luk. 22. 19. be instructed that as bread nourisheth our bodies euen so his wounded bodie deliuered vp vnto death for vs doth nourish our soules vnto eternall life receiuing the same by Faith and as

be filled with statues Images Idols and pictures whereto incensings and honours must be done and before whome they must fall prostrate although they be vaine things the works of mens hands Finally the holy Spirit doth assure vs that the sacred Scriptures are diuinely inspired that they are apt to enstruct correct 2. Tim. 3. and conuince and that they can make a man wise before God to saluation The Pope and his partakers taking themselues to bee more wise then the holy Ghost doe not onely say that the sacred Scriptures are obscure but also that they be insufficient and like vnto a sword cutting with two edges That they haue a nose of wax which heretikes forme after their owne pleasure and wherewith they serue their owne turne to confirme their heresies These are such blasphemies as none but a diuell durst vtter considering that Iesus Christ himselfe in many places doth authorise the holy Scriptures referring all to their Iohn 5. Luke 4. subiectionhat ought men then to doe but followe his example in all things which concerne religion and the seruice of God VVhich if they of Popishe spirit would doe so many traditions and humane doctrins should not be seen directly against the word of God As is that of Purgatorie prayer for the dead Indulgences vowes and pilgrimages auricular confession and others so full of superstitions and Idolatries and neuer were heard so many blaspemies Namely as when the title of honour of the holy Father or of his holinesse which appertaineth to none but God onely is attributed and giuen to a mortall man a poore and miserable sinner The Sacraments of the Church which are but two instituted by our Lord Iesus Christ are they not broken and prophaned when we see them to bee augmented and added vnto with fiue other bastard Sacramēts All which hauing no institution commaundement or promise in the word of God we cannot neither ought wee to make any vse of them My masters these things with many others haue incited me to forsake the places where they are taught and commanded to leaue the large and spacious way which leadeth to perdition Mat. 7. to follow the hard and narrow path full of thornes and afflictions which conducteth men to our Lord Iesus Christ at the end whereof vnspeakable felicitie is found I set downe my rest then the grace of God assisting me to imbrace with you the profession of true Christianitie and therein purpose to liue and die VVhich I sweare protest and promise before God and all this holie assembly And to renounce as at this instant I haue renounced altogither al the false doctrines superstitions and Idolatries of Poperie namely that false counterfaite and blaspheamous sacrifice of the Masse quite contrarie to the merits death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ Vpon whom only I wil lay the foundation of my faith and cast Anker there with vndoubted hope of life eternall and perpetuall blessednesse I pray God with all my heart to grant me grace heerin and entreate you all my Masters according to your charitie to bee helpefull heerein to mee with your holy praiers to him To whome with the Sonne and the holy Ghost bee all glorie and honour for euermore Amen This present declaration was with a loude voice pronounced in the presence of the whole reformed Church of Paris congregated at Ablon after the end of the Sermon On Sunday the sixt day of this present moneth of Iuly 1603. By me DENIS BOVCHER and thus signed D. Boucher FINIS A DECLARATION MADE BY MAster DANIELL DVSERT a natiue of Cinte-gauelle neere to Tholouse and heretofore a Religious Fryer according to the Order of Saint Frances Contayning his abiuration of the Doctrine of the Romish Church and his protestation to liue and dye in the Faith of the reformed Church Made publickly by himselfe in the Church of Mello the 22. day of December 1603. I Render thanks to God that after so long time of wauering in faith and plunging in the errours of the Romane Church being altogither led by the cūning Doctours of that profession and brought into such an estate as being wholly subiected vnder the power of the Prince of darknesse hee hath yet at length by the vertue and efficacie of his blessed spirit giuen me to knowe that the doctrine preached in the said Romane Church is as farre off from the true Euangelicall doctrine as earth is from heauen that such as follow that track are out of the way of their saluation For proofe whereof it is a matter most certaine That out of Christs Church there is no saluation at all Now that is the Church of Christ which heares his voice therefore since the voice of Christ that is to say his word is not heard among them of the Romish Church it must needs follow that they are neither of his Church nor yet of his flock And to shew apparantly that the voice of Christ is not heard in the saide Romane Church we will proceede in approuing the same by the manifest Antithesis and opposition which is betweene the Romish doctrine and that of Christ contained in the sacred Scriptures And first of all the Church of Rome teacheth that the holy Scriptures doe not containe all the doctrine of our saluation Which is quite contrarie to the Apostles instruction who plainely saith That hee had knowen the holy Scriptures of a childe which are able to make wise vnto saluation through the 2. Tim. 3 15. faith which is in Iesus Christ For the whole Scripture is giuen by diuine inspiration and is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse That the man of God Chap. eod v 16. 17. may he absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes It appeareth then that they erre in teaching that beside the doctrine of holy Scripture the traditions of men are necessarie to saluation Directly contrary to our Lord Sauiours instruction where he saith In vaine they worship me teaching for doctrine Math. 15. 9. the traditions of men They teach also that the same Scriptures are so obscure and doubtfull as we cannot clearely gather the doctrine of saluation by them Contrarie to Saint Peters speaches saying Wee 2. Pet. 2. 19. haue also a most sure word of the Prophets to the which yee do wel that yee take heed as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place They say moreouer that it is not lawfull for Lay men as they vse to call such as are of other condition then Ecclesiasticall persons to reade or meditate in the holy Scriptures Against the commandement of Christ who exhorteth all men generally in this manner Search diligently the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and Iohn 5. 39. they are they which testifie of mee And Saint Iohn doth not hee addresse his Epistle to all sortes of ages saying Little children I write vnto you because your sinnes are forgiuen yee for his

as if hee were God as saint Paule writeth to the Thessalonians 2. Thes 2. 4. of him For first of all they say That he hath right aboue right and beyond right that he may dispense against the foure 1. Dic. Non. dec de la Rose Ex●r de M. 12 2. Clement 5. Clement 3. Can. si papa 4 In Constale Bonis Ex de Maior et obedien S. 10. 6. Euangelists the Epistles of Saint Paule and the foure first generall Councels Secondly that he can command the Angels to open and shut the heauens to giue pardon for many hundreds and thousands of yeares Thirdly that he hath a charter of condemning soules into hell Fourthly that he hath the two swords temporall and spirituall whereby hee may conferre of kingdomes and Estates dispense with subiectes oathes of fidelitie commaund ouer kings and Emperours and make them to fall before his feete Is this any thing else then to lift himselfe aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped So by consequent hee makes himselfe no Lieutenant of Christ who saide That his kingdome was not of this world and fled away Luk. 19. 14. when they would haue made him king In briefe is this the beeing of S. Peters successor who cared neither for gold nor siluer as he protesteth of himselfe in the Acts of the Apostles Act. 2. 45. 1. Pet. 5. 1. 2. 3 4. And who prayed in all modestie the Elders To feede the flocke of Christ Not as if they were Lords ouer Gods heritage but that they might be examples to the flocke To the end that when the chiefe sheepeheard shall appeare they might receiue an incorruptible crowne of glorie It followes not by his behauiour that he should be the Vicar of Christ nor the successour of Saint Peter much lesse then is he worthy to sit in the Temple of God and make himselfe honoured as a God Therefore before I conclude addressing my selfe to you my Masters of the Romane Church Beholde heere the important motiues and grounds which haue moued me to forsake your said Church following the Lords commaundement in the Reuelation Goe out of Babilon my people that yee bee not partakers Apoc. 18. 4. of her sinnes and that yee receiue not of her plagues And not as I protest here before God on any inconstant humour doe I this for affection to noueltie for reuenge against any one of you neither to auoide any punishment to bee inflicted on my selfe as in your own soules you are my faithful witnesses Nor yet to procure any repose or carnall liberty to my selfe but only for giuing the glorie due to God to attaine the saluation of mine owne soule Praying to the Almighty who hath deigned thus to visite mee in his mercie that it would please him to extend the same goodnesse towardes you and deliuer you out of that deadly sinck of ignorance And so to him that is King of Kings immortall inuisible and our onely wise God bee all honour and power ascribed eternally Amen D. Dusert WE whose names are hereunder written the Pastour and Elders of the reformed Church of Mello in Poictu doe testifie that this day being the 22. day of December 1603. Master Daniell Dusert a natiue of Cincte-gauelle in Languedoc and heretofore a Religious Fryer of the Order of Saint Frances called the Reformed Order in the Couent at Tholouse did come of himselfe before vs and declaring that hee hauing taken good notice of the errours of the Romane Church being contrarie to the conformitie vsed in the Church reformed and the sacred Scriptures desired that we would lend him a hand to entertaine him among the nūber of that holy flock Vpon this declaration made we examined him on the principall Articles of true Religion and finde in him that he comes not any way polluted among vs nor suffers himselfe to be transported in in this his change by giddie inconstancie nor seekes to exempt himselfe from the austerities vsed in the Religion he professed before nor yet to procure him any Licence to carnall libertie In breefe he hopes not to attaine among vs any honours and treasures of the world Christ calling his followers here on earth to the Communion of the Cup of his Crosse and his sufferings To these protestations he hath added withall that hee hath no other aime but the quiet of his conscience and saluation of his soule And after he had publickly made his abiuration of the doctrine of the Romish Church and solemnly protested to liue and die in that of the Church reformed according to the Articles before openly pronounced we receiued him as a member thereof and gaue him this present attestation to stead him vpon any neede thereof Giuen at Mello the day and yeare aboue written B. Manceau Pastour of the saide Church René de la Court Esquire Lord of Boullay D. Chollet created at Mello Gracian Lord of Vergne Nourry P. Tauerneau Elders FINIS