IEHOVAH ¶ A free Pardon vvith many Graces therein conteyned graunted to all Christians by our most Holy and reuerent Father GOD almightie the principal high Priest and Bishoppe in Heauen and Earth First written in the Spanish tounge and there published by a Spaniard vnknowen yet as it seemeth the seruant of our sayde Holy Father And now Translated into the mother English tounge by Iohn Danyel of Clements Inne ¶ Printed at London by Thomas East for Andrew Maunsell and are to be sould at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot ¶ To the right honorable Syr Ambrose Nicholas Lorde Maior of the Citie of LONDON To the right vvorshipfull maister VVilliam Fleetewood esquire Recorder of the same To the right worshipful maister Edward Osborne maister VVoolston Dixie esquires and Sheriffes of the same To the right vvorshipful their brethren the Aldermen To the worshipful maister Norton the rest of the priuie counsell for the renowmed and worthy gouernment of the same and to euery of them grace and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ Amen WHen as right Honorable and right worshipful I had made an ende of this my trauaile in translateing this preatie pamphlet and Pardon generall to the receiuers of the same with my musinge mynde remembring with my selfe to whome I should dedicate so worthy a worke and coulde not thinke of any with in this noble Citie more fitter to be my patrōs defēdors in publishinge hereof beinge as I trust with you a poore mēber of one body whose head is Iesus Christ our Lord beholdīg the firmnes of the true faith in one of the mēbres of the same body the aucthor hereof spronge out frō among the principals of Pope Antechrists panyons in Spaine I hauing therin great cōfort ioy did presume to make you partakers of the same Because I doe see dayly euery one of you lyke worthy wightes heades and rulers of such a noble citie do practise and put in vre by all meanes possible suche good and godly acts orders for the good setting forth of Christs faith and true religion as maketh mee to thincke that thus in presuminge herein I do rather please you all then offend any Yf you take it in good parte I am therby encouraged to take a greter trauail in hand to the same effect I trust to the glory of god the treatise is very deuine the conclusion comfortable it is also short and therfore soone reade ouer wherfore I besech you most humbly to accept it with the good will of the geuer who will dayly pray for all you and yours that with faith yee maye florish and prosper in all godly doinges tyll th ende and in th ende that you may inherite the celestiall kingdome with al the benefitts in this Iubily contayned From my house in saint Brides churchyarde the. 13. of Ianuary 1576 ¶ Your honors and worships most humbly Iohn Danyell REmember dearely beloued that ye were not baptised in the name of men of Images nor yet of Idols that be dombe to be their seruauntes to honoure them contrary to the commaundements of God but in the name of Iesus Christ because you shold worship and serue him as he doeth commaunde but for all that since the tyme we were indewed with knowledge and the reason thereof we haue bene blynded and led astraye farre from our duties yet God hauing pitty vpon vs and willing to saue vs did so by his deuyne prouydence although by hys ryghteous iudgement he mighte worthely condemne vs wherefore let vs make no small accoumpt of this benefite of Pardone and Indulgence now offered vnto vs by that most Holy reuerend Father most worthy of prayse and glory for that we see he asketh no mony of vs for it as Antichrist doeth for his trash he demaundeth of vs nothing but that only we shoulde haue a sure fayth hope and confydence in the same for that he himselfe doth graunt it and geue it vs in his sonne Iesus Christ and therefore let vs not for the vayne feare of men leaue nor let slip the inioying of such pardons and graces with the benefite therof but accept thē gladly for as the Lord our god saieth we cannot be saued without them ¶ A short sum of all the Indulgences Graces Pardons graunted of god our most holy father by his sonne Iesus Christ to al faithful Christians in this Iubily mentioned and commanded to bee publyshed because that all those that doe repente them of their sinnes and tourn vnto him may inioy the benefites contayned in the same in this world the fauour of god and in the world to come life euerlasting WHen the fulnesse of time was come and the acceptable daye of our sauyng health according to the determinate wyll of god ordeined in his deuine coūsaile before the begynning and creation of the worlde our most holy and eternall father hauing pitty vppon vs of his mighty free will and bounteous lyberality did send his only begottē son to be borne of a woman and made subiect to the lawe because that by him shoulde be preached vnto vs the great and gracious reconsiliation made by him selfe betweene god the father and vs beeing as we were rebels and the children of rebels for that all by one had incurred the payne of a rebell to his deuyne maiesty by the which the Deuil Death had gotten empery rule and the vpper hand ouer vs absolutely and we made the slaues of sinne and did obey sinne and were made abhomynable and corrupted abhorrors of all righteousenes and louers of all kynde of wickednesse deade in sinne and buried in errors children of wrath by nature and subiect to the curses and malediction preached vnto vs as agaynst the ennemyes of gods truth so that as out castes and desperate people we were without remedy and ready to be cast into the prison of darcknesse and fyre of hell in the company of the deuill his Aungels of whom we did giue so wilful obedyēce But our blessed God and most holy Father as he is rich in mercy so is he willing to shew vnto vs his immēsible charity with the which although wee were his ennemies yet he loued vs to the end to deliuer vs from the power of darcknesse and clense vs from our sinnes to make vs partakers of his righteousenesse to destroy the Empery of the Deuyll by the potency mighte of the redeemer of the world and so to preserue vs from his iust wrath and indignation and or wicked condemned children of darcknesse to make vs children of lighte and so to bring vs to the kingdome of his beloued sonne Jesus Christ he did ordeyne that this his good wyll should be publyquely preached and declared vnto vs to this end after that Christe had accomplyshed and fulfilled the worcke of our redemtion and gloriousely tryumphed ouer all the ennemies of his glory to our
because hee might liue in and by him and herein consisteth the charity and loue not that we haue loued God but that he hath loued vs and sente his sonne to make an attonement for our sinnes Item he doth commaund that repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde be preched in his name throughout the whole world Item S. Iohn Baptist doth point vnto hym wyth hys finger and sayth Ecce illi◠hae illi behold ther the lambe of god which taketh awaye the sinnes of the world Item he that beléeueth in Iesus Christ the sonne of God shal haue life euerlastyng Item verily verily I say vnto you he that doth heare my word and beleue in him that sent me shal haue life euerlasting and shal not come into damnacion but is escaped from Death vnto lyfe Item as Moyses lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse Euen so shall the sonne of man be lifted vp because that all that beleeue in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for god so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne that al which beleued in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for God sent not hys sonne to condemne the world but that the world through him shoulde bee saued Item if any man sinne we haue an aduocate wyth our Father euen Iesus Christ the iust and righteous and hee it is that obtained grace for our sinns and not onely for ours but for the sins of all the world Item Sainct Iohn in his reuelation sayth that he did loue vs and dyd washe vs from our sinnes in hys bloud Item sainct Paule doth witnesse that Iesus Christ did make purgation for our sinnes and for the sinnes of all the world Item Sainct Peter sayth that it is Christ Iesus by whome wee haue remission of our sinnes and that by faith in him our hartes are purified made cleane from all kinde of wickednes Item the Augell Gabriell did pronounce vnto the holy virgin Mary that she shoulde conceaue and beare a sonne whose name shee shoulde call Iesus for that he shold saue his people from their sinnes and deliuer them from the condempnation the which they were in Item forasmuche as our eternall highe Priest is the onely wisdome of god and doth knowe the infinit vallew of these pardons and that we our selues cannot buye their for any thinge wee haue or can doe for that a thinge of such vallew infinit may not be bought the will of his Sacred Maiestie is to cōmunicate them most graciously and louingly vnto al sinners that féele their necessities and call to him for mercy without leuinge or takinge any mony for them for if that euerie one of vs were Lord of or ouer the whole world or such like if one would graunt his seigniory or Lordship for the least benefite contained in the same yet it could not be boughte for the valewe of the world may be known and the valewe thereof is vnspeakcable but for that he dothe knowe the greate pouertie and miserie in which wee liue yet by the greate and vnualuable riches of his mercy and for that he doth knowe our necessities better then we our selues and of his aboundant leue dothe commande for the health of our soules all his cōmissaries and officials the Prophetes Euangelistes and mynisters of peace that with great Instancie and earnesty they doe call to all people and cōmaund that they receyue this Iubily of grace without geuing for it any pēny of mony or other thing that perisheth By the Prophet Esay he doth publiquely cōmaūded in this maner all those that thirst let them come vnto the waters and those which haue no siluer let them make hast and come let thē buy and 〈◊〉 come and buy without siluer or any thinge this chaunge wyne for milke you spend and wast your mony but not in breade you spende your trauaile and receue no hire nor rewarde And because hee will that the immutabilitie of his truthe and the loue that hee hath towardes vs should be notorious he doth desire and cōmaunde that all the graces graunted in this Iubilie be for euer irreuecable with a priuilege sempiternall to as many as receiue the same and that it be not derogated by any other priuiledge or decree what so euer neither in death nor lyfe but that it haue alwayse full force effect and vertue to deliuer al them which receue the same from all euils presently and in the ende to deliuer them into the possessiō of the eternall and euerlasting riches of his heauenly kingdome But forasmuch as you Nom. my officials haue receued the grace of me by the gyfte of my holy Ghoste and haue geuen credit to my promisses and worde and haue receued my sonne Iesus Christ for your reconcilyatoure by the fayth that you haue in hym and his blondshedding which is the priuie signet and seale of my church the which I doe put to these presentes whereby I doe graunte vnto you all the graces pardons dispensations Indulgences priuiledges in this Iubily contayned In wittnesse whereof I haue cōmaunded these presentes to bee firmed with myne owne name and sealed with my seale as aforsayde and therefore for a signe that you haue receued the same you shall beare in your hartes the loue that you doe owe and that is due vnto your neighbours and shewe the same by your worckes Iehouah Item our most holy Father doth condempne all and as many as doe rebell and gainsaye any thing herein contained or that doeth the contrary and more ouer doth excommunicate them for euer from and out of his moste holy heauenly kingdome Here followeth the tenor of the excōmunication and cursse that the sprite of god which into say the holy Ghost doth pronounce against them their familliers fautors somnors and doers The holy ghost by the Prophet Dauid to all the enemies of the grace glorie of Christ that by any maner of meane or way what sooner doe defende stoppe and let the publicatiō of these pardons or the priuiledges therein contayned which are the onely fruites of the Gospell he doth cursse excōmmunicate and perpetually enclude the out of his kingdome in this maner O Lorde shed thy wrath vpon them and let the fury of thine Ire comprehende them there habitations be brought lowe and let no man dwell in theire tabernuckles let theire tables bee made a mare vnto themselues and let those thinges which shoulde haue bene for theire welth bee vnto them an occasion of fallynge let theire eyes be blinded that they see not and euer bowe thou downe theire backes let them fall from one wickednes to another and let them not enter into thy righteousnes let them be wipped out of the booke of the lyuinge and let them not be writtē in the booke of the righteoues constitute and set thou an euell Prince ouer them and let Sathan be still at
saluation he made to sounde throughout the whole world that trumpette of the predycation of his grace and mercy towardes vs sending his legattes and Apostles to preach his pardon generall by his gospell to all those and vs that had bene traitors and rebels vnto him and his glory for that beleeuyng the grace and doctryne that on his behalfe was pronounced vnto them and vs they with vs and we with them should be absolued made free from all maner of Synnes bothe veniall and mortall and the punishments for the same the which they had broughte themselues and vs into This mercy although it were generall to all yet it did take effect but only in those which did truely beleeue with fayth and that did leaue of the seruice of sinne and did submit them selues with all their hartes to truth righteousenes and holynesse of lyfe for it hath bene séene in our age that men haue bene deceaued forgetting of him who is the fountayne of lyfe and wysdome in whome doeth consiste all trewe health and trusting in vayne thinges we haue lyued like vnbrideled horses in vnrighteousenesse and abhomynable Idolatryes by the cause whereof be and haue bene wars honger pestelence and many other ordynary chastisementes common and perticuler in and through al Christendom the which are testimonies that the wrath of god is iustly inflamed against vs and that the last day of his deuyne iudgement is at hand our moste holy and sempiternall high prieste with desire of our health and saluation and for that by trwe repentaunce we should conuert vnto hym to be made partakers of the lyfe euerlasting moued by his mercy doth charge and commaund now anew that this Iubily in the which is declared the fruit of his death which is the full pardon of all our sinnes and offences be preached to all christians throughout the whole world because that those which by true repentaunce and amendment of lyfe do receaue it be and are reconfiled and put in peace with God and so by consequente sette frée from all euils presente and to come the tenor whereof doth followe ¶ This is the Iubily and full pardon of sins a Culpa et Pena most graciously granted to the church of god dispersed throughoute the whole world BY the auctority of our most holy Father God almighty supreme hed and prouyder for all creatures and in the name of Iesus Christ his sonne the great pastoure and Bishop of our soules and by the vertue of the holy ghost maister and conseruer of the true church it is enioyned and expresly commaunded by the vertue of holy obedience to vs al and to as many of vs as haue receaued the Sacrament of holy baptisme that we reade and vnderstad and that we giue to vnderstand from one to another euery one according to the Talent or gifte that wee shall receaue hereby to preache the nature and propertie of him who doth call vs from darcknes to his admirable light and these immēsible graces the great priuiledges graunted therin perpetually to all the faithfull seruaūtes of Christ to as many as wil be and do receiue him and doe beleeue and truste firmely in the lyfe euerlasting gotten only by the sheading of his most pretious blood for that it is he that is that christ that from the beginning was promysed by god the father to our forefathers to be their sauiour and a sauioure of their séede and descendents by whose vertue strength and power should be destroied that old serpent by whom they their seede and discendēts were brought into the state of perdition the which he did conclude by his death and did appeasethe wrath of god and satisfie to his iudgemente for our sinnes and offences and by hys righteousenesse did obteyn for vs most copious plentious and eternal redemtion and pardon generall for our sins a Culpa et Pena as his most holy Father had decreed and ordeined from before the beginning and creation of the world and afterward to the ende to conuide or inuite vs to the receite of our health and discouering of his ryches and mercy though we be vnworthy yet he notwithstanding did loue vs by his sonne Iesus Christ and dyd promyse vs by his saints and seruants the prophets that in whatsoeuer tyme and place although our sinnes wer neuer so great and in number to the sandes of the sea yet if we did cal vpon him with a penitent heart truste in his mercy and desire pardon and forgeuenesse at his handes yea euen then of his great loue we should be so truely pardoned and restored to hys grace and frendshyppe as if we had neuer offended nor sinned againste him with promyse neuer to remem them agayne notwithstanding they were neuer so greate nor greuous because that Iesus Christe being become man in the parson of our flesh and in all thinges lyke vnto vs did take vpon him our sinnes and so by vs was brought vnder curses and malediction for that he tooke vppon his shoulders our sinnes and did suffer moste cruell death for them vpon a tree and by the infinite power and vertue of the Sacrafice that he tooke vpon him selfe to offer vpon the crosse he did blot out and destroy all our offences and sinnes wholy and did obteyne by his merites onely so riche and plentyfull a liberty for vs. Low the father of all mercy and god of all comfort and consolation to certifie vs of his good will with that which he will saue and take vs from the captiuity and bondage of the devill hauing established in his holy church this inestimable treasure of redemption of reconciliation and grace gayned onely by hys onely begotten sonne hee dothe now most liberally open it vnto vs for that as many as will may enioy the same and receue the benefit thereof euery one with hauing of a sure fayth and affiance that the bloud of the lambe without spott was shed and once offered for the sinnes of all mankynde to be a true oblation for the same and that there nedeth no other satisfaction nor absolution before god but onely it And therfore for as much as this is onely pardon for sinn it is now publyshed by the infinite mercy of god which doth pardon vs by one onely Iesus Christ whose bloud was shed to the same end and ther is no health in none other but in him because there is none other name vnder heauen giuen vnto men by the which they should be saued but onely his he will that all beleuers haue and houlde the same by and for his proper wisdome righteousnes santification and redemption because as he is god and redemer of all generally so is he of euery one particularly and therfore he will that euery one of hys in particular shall take haue hould and enioy the gracious redemption and pardon obtayned and bowght wyth christes bloude
and others that the bloud of Iesus Christ is the onely maker cleane the clenser and purgatory purger of them and that there is not cannot nor may not be any other and that we haue no neede of any other but he vnto them and such lyke is graunted by our almighty most holy Father indulgentia plenaria and that they receyue the benefite of his passion and so made cleane of all theire sinnes Item to all those that are studious and desirous to heare and so worcke according to the word of God whych is the onely rule for to please him by to knowe the trwe Church to bee enioyned incorporated with Chryst his moste mighty holynes dothe graunte vnto them that they shal be blessed for euermore Item to all those that notwithstanding the excōmunications Barbarian and Turkish defenses and decreese and other tyrannicall and Pagan cruelties of antechrist and his ministers do and will loue receiue incurre cōmunicate defend helpe with counsell sustenance and charitable intreatise the faythfull members of Iesus Christ and whiche by the mercy that they haue receaued at his handes doe acknowledge him to be their onely health and saluation and be immitators and followers of him in lyfe and doctrine doe ronne away from the errors and other abhomynable abuses in the which they haue lyued contrary to the gospell and for the same be and haue bene abhorred and persecuted by the children of darcknes and of the world his almighty holines and deuyne magnificence doeth promyse and graunt vnto them that they shal be beloued receiued gwarded kept comforted prospered deliuered from their ennemies holpen in all their troubles and necessities and at the last day alowed and accepted before the father and his holy Aungels for faithfull confessoures of his truth and righteousnes and in the end of al enriched with the eternall riches of his celestiall blessednesse Item to all those that doe and wyll beleeue in Iesus Christ with all theyr hartes and all their powers and wyll lyue with doing worckes of fayth with a firme hope and trust in Christes merites and righteousenesse as is commaunded by the gospel he doth graunt vnto them millions of millions yeres of pardon for all their sinnes A pena et culpa and also peace and rest in conscience with promyse that after their departure out of this world they shal presently enter into a full possession of the eternall kingdome of Christ Iesus Item to all and euery one and to whatsoeuer parson or parsons that wil imbrace Christ and his righteousenes with a trwe fayth and hope therein if they be in the article of death whether it be by signes tokens or wordes so it be from the bottome of their hartes and doe faythfully beleeue that Christ Iesus made a full satisfaction to God the Father for the sinnes of all mankynde his most high holinesse doeth grant vnto them Plenissima indulgentia a most free pardon remission and absolution from all their sinnes and are set at libertie fully for all paynes and punishmentes due for the same Item because the sainctifier of al men is of nature mercifull and doth loue and wil the saluation of all these which he did redeeme with his moste precious blood He doth graunt and it is his almightines moste holy wyll that if it chaunce that any such parson or parsons so in tharticle of death do not dye at that instant time wherein they so called them selues to their duties that for their so pure hartes and mindes towardes him they shall not onely inioy thabsolution aforesayd but also for euer after during life be continued in the same with health of body and soule in this world and in the world to come life euerlasting for God our holy Father is not onely so redy to pardone at the hower or article of death but also at euery hower whensoeuer his seruants will call vpon him with a penitent and pure hart Item to all those which by vsurping vsury by vnsaciable gayne in buying and selling by fraudulent deuises or any other vnlawful meanes haue obteined and gotten into their handes the goods and riches of this world if those vsurping vsurors insaciable gayners fraudulent deuisors and vnlawfull doers being abhomynable sinners doe from the bottom of their hartes repent for the same and professe in their lyues and doctryne amendment of life and doe seeke to make some restitution eyther by rendring back againe or reconsiliation to them which they haue so hindred he doth graunt vnto them that they shall rest in his tabernacle and dwel in his holy hill for S. Augustine sayth Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituatur oblatum sinz are not to be forgeuen without restitucion ¶ The witnesses of the old and new Testamente to testify the truth and strength of this Iubily In the booke of Genesis and in many other places of the Law and testamente of scriptures Moyses and others doe restify that al nations of the earth shold be blessed saued by Iesus Christe the sonn of Dauid of the seede of Abraham and that they shoulde receyue by hym an eternal and celestial benediction or blessing Item saynt Peter doth testify that al the Prophetes beare testimony of Iesus Christ and that whosoeuer beleeueth in him shal receue remission of sinnes in his name Item S. Mathewe doth testify that Iesus Christ did say of himselfe my comming into the world was not to be serued or ministred vnto but to serue and minister vnto others and to gyue my lyfe for the redemption of many Item Ecce hae aqui behold this is my blood which is shed for the remission of sinnes and vnto one that was sicke of the Palsy he sayd thy sinnes are forgeuen thee for that I see there is faith in thee Item to a woman that was a sinner goe thy wayes in peace thy sinnes are pardoned also to a woman that was sick to a leper to many other he saide the same Item vnto the father which had a chylde possessed with a dombe spirite if thou couldeste beleeue all thinges were possyble vnto thee for vnto him that beleeueth all thinges are possible Item saincte Luke in many places doth testefy the like in effect and in the firste chapter he sayth Blessed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raysed a mighty saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid as he spake by the mouth c. Item the Aungels doe witnesse the same saying feare not to the Shéepheards Ecce hae aqui behould I bring and preach vnto you glad tidinges and great ioy which shal be to all people for this daye is borne vnto you a sauyour whiche is Iesus Chryste the Lorde Item S. Iohn sayth in this is the loue and charity of God shewed vnto vs in that he doth send his only begotten sonne into the world