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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

call vpon him if all places did not ring againe with his name nay if this Saintling did not beat and banish out of the Churches not onely God and Christ which perhaps seemeth a small matter to the Romanists but also the Virgin Mary her selfe Francis and Anthony and all the rest of the Saints of the higher forme Charles the Emperor who of old was called Charles the Great because he vanquished the Saracens must now come downe and be called Charles the little in comparison of this new Charles Borrhomaeus who thus triumpheth hauing put to flight not his enemies but his friends and fellow-Saints And why may not we thus by way of reprehension mocke at the common mockery of the world but now it is time for me to awaken out of this extasie I remained in Rome about a Month all which while still me thought I heard the voyce of Christ saying vnto me Come forth come forth out of Babylon I come out on Gods name and passe ouer to Mompelier where God shewed me his aboundant mercie in the middest of his Church and strengthened my heart with the grace of his holy spirit So that eight yeares sithence I there put off my Monkish cowle and abiuring the grosse errors of the Romish Church I did publikly embrace the vndefiled faith of the true and Reformed Religion not without the expresse ioy of in a manner all that City And because I could not then speake the French tongue I did by the aduice of all the Pastors there apply my selfe not to the holy ministery which my losse I yet with many sighes deplore but vnto my olde intermitted study of Physicke But behold while I was thus sayling in the depths of Hyppocrates and Galen a violent tempest ouertaketh me and that was this My Father a man spent with age being fourescore yeeres olde and taking it very heauily that I had fled to the enemies of faith and heretiques so they dreamingly deeme of vs sent to Monpelier one of my elder Brethren together with a Cosen Germane of mine Priest both who for the space of eight daies did beleager mee first with faire intreaties and plentifull teares then with Arguments drawne from Diuinity and Philosophy thirdly by rewards and offers of worldly goods lastly by threats and terrible obiurgations to beate mee off from my found intent and holy resolution I think it not amisse heere to relate their language Thou hast said they twelue Neeces now mariageable which will neuer get husbands so long as thou remainest an hereticke for those who before were willing to marry them now start backe saying God forbid that we should take to wife those that are a-kin to an Hereticke Returne returne to our religion if not for conscience for we know that you are a lerned man and haue not rashly nor without shew of reason left vs yet for the honor of our stocke and blood which thou hast branded with the foule spot of infamy by forsaking the Romane Church embracing a new religion which with all the Professors thereof for they are but a few in number the King of Spaine is resolued to abolish and ruinate Returne therefore to the holy Mother Church at least for the loue and reuerence you owe to our aged Father who euer sithence the time hee heard that you were become an hereticke lieth sicke and bed-ridde pining away with griefe and sorrow Heereto I answered as became a Christian But because they would giue mee no patient audience nor affoord themselues any time to weigh my answer I vsed a very honest slight to bring my brother to the house of Falcarius a very worthy Minister of Gods Word who for the space of an whole houre did make a cleere demonstration of the falsehood of the Romish religion and truth of the Reformed out of the Tenets of them both My brother making obiection of nouelty against the Reformed religion and want of Calling and of Antiquity in Caluin and Beza and other such like Pastors M. Falcarius according to his admirable faculty made answere Sir What Religion call you new ours you are farre wide Our Religion is the most ancient if the Gospell of our Sauiour if the Epistles of Paul and of other the Apostles in a word if the new Testament if the Prophets and the whole old Testament do teach the true religiō needs must you confess that our religion is most ancient for we beleeue nothing but that which wee reade in the old and new Testament that which is drawen thence by necessary consequence Call your Religion I pray you call it new For almost euery Pope when hee commeth new into the Chaire doth impose vpon you new precepts and traditions taken out of his vnwritten word to bee beleeued and awefully obserued by you vnder paine of mortall sinne and what lawes one Pope layeth vpon you to be kept as soone as hee is gone his way by disease or by poyson another doth cancell Mat. 26. Paul 1 Cor. 11. Is not the Communion vnder both kinds very ancient being instituted by our Sauiour himselfe We with the primitiue Church and with the most ancient Fathers doe retaine the same and acknowledge both kindes to be necessary to the essence of this Sacrament Is not the worship of idols and images a new thing and forbidden very instantly in the second Commandement of the decalogue We obey this diuine prohibition but ye obey the Pope commanding adoration of Images against the expresse Word of God Is not the doctrine of Transubstantiation a nouelty crept into the Romane Church not aboue foure hundred yeeres agoe This we constantly reiect because it is repugnant to Gods word implieth a thousand contradictions and maketh those to be Idolaters that are at Masse Those words in the Scripture This is my body are to be vnderstood in the same sense and manner with those That Rocke was Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 that is to say a Sacramentall pledge whereby Christ was represented and exhibited to them Or as those words of the Patriarch Ioseph expounding Pharaohs dreame Gen. 41. v. 26. Those seauen faire kine are seauen yeeres Where the word Are is by the consent of all the Doctors taken for signifie The same Patriarch expounding the dreame of Pharaohs Butler Gen. 40.12 Those three branches are three dayes that is doe signifie them when as the Scripture saith Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular are we therefore transubstantiated into the very body of Christ are not these speeches spiritually to bee vnderstoode hereto may be added that the Hebrew tongue hath no verbe which signifieth to signifie and therefore instead thereof vseth the verbe substantiue Sum. Therefore our Sauiour speaking vulgarly could not say this signifieth my body but instead thereof said This is my body Which of the Fathers that florished the first fiue hundred yeeres after Christ did euer beleeue that we are iustified by the works of the Law and not by Faith as the holie Ghost speaketh