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A17128 An embassage from heauen Wherein our Lord Sauiour Christ Iesus giueth to understand his iust indignation against al such, as being Catholikely minded, dare yeelde their presence to the rites and publike praier, of the malignant church, by Ralphe Buckham priest ... Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611. 1611 (1611) STC 4007; ESTC S115956 47,408 131

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doe the workes of children if you be my seruants doe the vvorkes of seruants Haue accesse to my Priests frequent my Sacraments cleanse your soules by humble confession and penance haue in due reuerence my rights and ceremonies honour my seruice with your presence prostrate your selues before my holy Altar lifting vp pure hartes and handes Adore with zealous indeauour at the houre of my dreadful Sacrifice when propitiation for the liuing and dead when memory of your Redeemer is celebrated This seeke through fire and vvater through swordes and snares Let neither distance of miles nor friuoulous danger of places nor surmised peril of your owne persons impeach Godly indeauours what should I say more declare by your deuotion that you hunger and thirst saluation and that you set by nothing so much as by the exercises of your religion and the presence of me your Sauiour Aboue al flie the Synagogues of Sathan flie al prophane praiers al heretical cōuenticles al vngodly rites al participation with any thing that belongeth to the table and cuppe of Deuils This doe and then cal me Father of heauen and the Church Mother of earth I wil blesse you in life and shee shal present you to meat your death Here you straine courtesie here flesh and bloud reclaimeth the spirit taking the foile and the old man triumphing 14. Schismatikes justly repelled from the Sacraments some of you discharge themselues of their crimes by mystewards ouer rigorous austerity and by cōplaint of injury in being secluded from my sacred misteries vnderstand ye what ye aske oh ye hypocrites in this one thing only happy that your suite is suspended and prudently rejected by those which know that they are ordained for dispensers not for spenders and vvasters of my celestial prouision and that the childrens foode is not to be giuen to dogges nor pearles to be cast before swine why demaunde ye that which would augment your damnation which though most diuine yet would no more sanctifie you then it did Iudas nor more preuaile you then the Arke did profit the Philistian The sweetest conserues in vndisposed stomackes turne to gal and choller the most nourishing meates breede most annoy in infected bodies and nothing is wholsome where wanteth digestion What flower or herbe the Spider feedeth on turneth to venom be it neuer so pleasant and vvhat Serpents deuour turneth to poison be it neuer so wholsome How dare you proffer to approch to my Altar where so great a Majesty is resident vvithout sufficient examination and proofe of your worthinesse how can ye be proued vnlesse ye be purged how purged but by penance how admitted to penance and pardon either not acknowledging your guilt or not in purpose of amendment Wel then 15. Schismatiks are to be presumed for Heretikes and why among my Catholikes since you are not where shal I finde you where are your raunges being that you cleaue to Sectaries in actes of their Schismatical profession I pronounce you Protestants whose proceedings in departure from the faith though in priuate opinion or possibly in talke ye reproue yet by presence at their houses of Idolatry you in appearance honour by obeying you allow by example you further by deedes you confirme by dissembling you establish You goe thither as one of them you sit there as one of them you behaue your selfe reuerently as one of them The Caluinist taketh you for Proselites and as either conuerted or conformed not altogether abhorring their pretended religion not ouer resolute in the old faith and finally as persons not farre from their Kingdome The poore Catholike scandalized at your impiety frameth no other conceipt then that either you are quite peruerted to heresie or at leastwise that your faith is in the wane that your Sunne is set your deuotion done the light of your soule extinguished that you are lost sheepe distemblers Schismatikes and at the brinke of bottomelesse heresie And haue not thinke you the one and the other just reason of their censure You giue your hand though you vvith-hold your hart you weare the Deuils coate though you cal him not Lord you honour him though you hate him though you abhon● him yet you obey him 16. Those which goe to the cōuēticles of Heretical rites are justly and properly called Schismatikes Abhominable is Schisme and ●o●rible is the name of a Schismatike but why should this be a word of offence to whom the subject thereof and the sacrilege of so great a sinne is neither shame nor remorse Men are men not priuy to the secre●s of harts the vnderstanding censureth as by the senses is deliuered The Church therefore judgeth by that which shee seeth not by that which shee seeth not The deede as reason wil doth prejudice the contrary word and vpon the fact riseth sentence of faith When my Church in her first prime vvas nipped vvith sharpe persecution so that diuers blossomes sel from her branches those which through passionate feare condescended to Idolatry vvere by the Bretheren condemned as fallen from their faith rejected as Apostataes and denounced excommunicated neither receiued againe vvithout publike satisfaction and many yeares penance He that should keepe the Saterday holy and pray with Iewes in their congregation were to be supposed a Iew Euery man would exclaime against the fact vvithout caring for the cause He that entreth any of Mahomets meschits prayeth in his Temples or kisseth the bookes of his law is of euery Christian man defied for a Runnegate and of the Turkes priuileged for a Boserman no man inquiring whether loue of their Mahometry or dread of extremity whether carnal sensuality and liberty of their law or worldly prosperity did moue him fixing their eies vpon his outward action men let the intention repose it selfe in the prosound abisme of the hart what then should hinder why you also associating Heretikes in their actions yea principal and proper actions of their profession should not be blazoned for a sherents to Infidelity bearing the blot of depa●ters from my Church Catholike and consequently of Schismatical persons 17. Protestāts cannot be of the Catholike Church neither in their faith can be saluation I know I know what it is that lieth at your hart a mischiefe so corrupting your appetite that it destreth not good and your tast that it discerneth not euil a priuy poison but so pestiterous so benumming not the senses but the soule that if it be not exhausted an incureable letargy a mortal and euerlasting sleepe ensueth ye are not perswaded forsooth that the Protestants religion is so abhominable they are to precise which either make them Heretikes or thinke that Heretikes must needes miscarry What we be al Christians beleeue in one Sauiour expect one heauen and enjoy one redemption Haue not al men soules to saue little diffe●ences make no great square in the foundation we agree At leastwise whatsoeuer their liues be wicked and doctrine false their praiers and Churches must needs be of God because they