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A07769	A vvoorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian religion, written in French: against atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Iewes, Mahumetists, and other infidels. By Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessie Marlie. Begunne to be translated into English by Sir Philip Sidney Knight, and at his request finished by Arthur Golding; De la verité de la religion chrestienne. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1587 (1587)	STC 18149; ESTC S112896	639,044	678

rather to Christes Church and his natiue Countrie vnto my charge declaring vnto me how it was his meaning that the same being accomplished should bee dedicated vnto your Honor a matter so acceptable vnto me both in respect of the charge it self and of the partie that imposed it vpon me and of the person to whom it was intended that although in respect of the toylesome and tedious troubles wherewith I was then pressed and am yet still in maner oppressed I could haue found in my heart to haue forborne the vndertaking of so great a taske at that tyme yet notwithstanding I gladly tooke it vpon me by the goodnesse of God haue faithfully performed it to the vttermost of my skill In his name therefore as an executor of his will in that behalf I humbly offer this excellent worke vnto your good Lordship as his and not myne VVherein if any words or phrases shall seeme straunge as in some places perchaunce they may I doubt not but your good Lordship will impute it to the rarenesse and profoundnesse of the matters there handled not accustomed heretofore to bee treated of in our language For the auoyding of which inconuenience as much as might be great care hath bene taken by forming and deryuing of fit names and termes out of the fountaynes of our owne tongne though not altogether most vsuall yet alwaies conceyuable and easie to be vnderstood rather than by vsurping the Latin termes or by borrowing the words of any forreine language least the matters which in some cases are misticall enough of themselues by reason of their owne profoundnesse might haue bene made more obscure to the vnlearned by setting them downe in termes vtterly vnknowne vnto them VVherefore forbearing to withhold your Honor with any further processe of words frō reading the matter it selfe which may much more delight you I referre both my selfe and it to your fauourable acceptation VVritten the 13. day of May 1587. Your good Lordships most humble alwaies at your commaundement Artbur Golding To the right high mightie Prince Henrie king of Nauarre Souereigne of Bearne and a Peere and chief Prince of the bloud royall of France IN this wretched time Sir wherein vngodlinesse which was woont but to whisper men in the eare and to mumble betweene the teeth hath bin so bold as to step into the pulpit and to belke out blasphemies against God and his Gospell I take vpon mee though a new kind of hardinesse as in respect of the small abilitie that God hath put into mee to conuince hir euen by hir owne principles and peculiar records that if I cannot make hir to come backe againe to a better mind I may at leastwise yet make hir hold hir peace for shame and keepe close hir venim in hir hart A right great enterprise and in the iudgement of most men ouerhard but yet such as wherein I see great helpes to imbolden me namely the World Man the open examples of all ages and at one Woord God himselfe who neuer faileth those which seeke his glorie and all that euer he hath vttered concerning himselfe as well in the creating as in the go●ering of all things The world for that it is as a shadow of Gods brightnesse and Man for that he is his image and likenesse And both of them for that if it appeare euen by the philosophers themselues that the World was made for man how greatly then are we bound vnto the Creator thereof How great is the dignitie of this creature and what else is his shooteanker and his welfare but to sticke wholly vnto God Soothly he for whom the world was made must needes bee made for more than the World He for whome so durable and substantiall a thing was made must needs be made for another than this fraile and wretched life that is to wit for the euerlasting life with him that is the euerlasting And that is the foundation of all Religion For Religion to speake properlie is nothing else but the schoole wherein we learne mans dutie towards God and the way to be lincked most straightly vnto him Againe in the world we see a stedie and fastsettled order and euery creature to do seruice in his sort Onely man withdraweth his dutie shrinking from God and wandring away in himselfe He that is most indebted is lothest to pay and least able to pay He for whome the highest thinges are made is become a bondslaue to the basest and vilest thinges And the Recordes of all ages are as inditements against all mankind prouing him to be vnthankfull to God a murtherer of his neighbors a violater of nature and an enemie to himself Shall not he then which instead of dooing his dutie is not asbamed to offend God stand in dread of the death which wayteth vpon him for his offence ●es for what is God but Iustice What is Iustice but a iudgement of duety And before that iudgement who dareth appeare What remedy than is there both for Gods glorie and for mans welfare but that the debt be discharged by release and the Iustice satisfied with free fauour The duty therfore of trew Religion is to conuict vs by the Law and to iustifie vs by grace to make vs feele our discase and there with all to offer vs remedy But who shall purchase vs this grace so necessarie for mans welfare Either the world as we thinke or else man Nay what is there in man I say euen in the best man which burneth not before Gods Iustice and which setteth it not on fire And what shall become of the world then if man for whom it is created be vnable to stand soothly it is the welbeloued sonne of God that must stand for all the righteous for the vnrighteous the mightie for the vnmightye the rich for the poore the dearling and the welbeloued for them that are in the displeasure and curse of God his father and the same say I is our Lorde Iesus Christ. The foole sayth the Psalmist hath said in his heart There is no God And a Heathen man hath passed yet further saying Hee that denieth the one God and his prourdence in all thinges is not onely witlesse but also senselesse And his so saying is because the world which offereth it selfe continually vnto vs replenisheth our wittes with the knowledge of God euen in this respect that with one view of the eye we see this vniuersall masse furnished with so many and so diuerse thinges linked one to another and tending all to one marke Traly I dare say and by Gods grace I dare vnder take to prooue that whosocuer will lay before him wholly in one table so as he may see them together with one view the promises and prophesies concerning Christ the comming of our Lord Iesus and the proceeding of his Gospell he shall not be able to deny euen by the very rules of Philosophie but that he was sent of God yea and that he was God himself Howbeit in this