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A01148	The conuersion of a most noble lady of Fraunce In Iune last past, 1608. Madame Gratiana, wife to the high and mightie lord; Claudius, Lord of Tremoille; Duke of Thouars; peere of Fraunce, and Prince of Talmonde. A most Christian epistle, written by her, to the ladyes of Fraunce, to resolue them in the cause of her conuersion from popery, to the the profession of Gods Gospell: and aduising them to imitate her religious example. Truely translated out of French.	Tremoille, Charlotte Brabantina, Duchess of, 1580-1631.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 11262; ESTC S102563	29,611	56

a meere imagination of For the promise wherein Iesus Christ offered vnto vs his body and bloud vnder the signes of bread and wine appertaineth to none else as hath beene already prooued but onely vnto the faithfull that receiue the same by faith in the lawfull communion of the Euchariste celebrating the mysterie according to the manner as our heauenly Maister did ordaine it Wherfore they which imagine to haue any other thing then common bread without the lawful vse of our Lords Supper are but abused and beleeue meere dreames as it can be no otherwise because they faile of the promise For seeing that Iesus Christ promised vs to giue vs his body in the Sacrament when the faithfull should communicate together after his institution we may not be so vain or idle-headed as to seeke it elsewhere or according to our fantasies Let such men therfore be admonished that they cannot excuse themselues of idolatry both before God and men when they are made to worshippe as if God himselfe were substantially present a round cake of bread which is lifted vp to be seen aboue the shoulders of the Priest and with exceeding great deuotion to be reuerenced and adored of all there present But Ladies I haue held ye somewhat long in this point because it is of such maine importance yet perswading my selfe to haue said sufficient albeit not halfe so much as I could I will proceed to discouer another wicked Idolatry which they procure the poore people to commit euen without so much as thinking theron And that is wheras in their Masse they should obserue the communion in that kinde as our Lord Iesus Christ did first institute it by inniting the people to communicate with the Preist they fly from his example and indeed once a yeare they are contented to doe so and that is at Easter for then the people shall bee permitted to communicate and yet it is but of one moitie onely of the Sacrament wherein likewise they intermingle many fond inuentions yea and all the accustomed superstitions of their ordinarie Masses without expounding or declaring any part of the mistery to the people According to the institution of our Lord in the Sacrament they should inuite the people and breaking the body of Christ after his example it should be truely giuen to the faithfull Communicants according to the promise of our Sauiour Notwithstanding all this they will obserue their owne deuised manner wherein they can no way exempt themselues from being Idolaters and making the people to commit Idolatry in their giuing worship to the bare signe The reason is because Iesus Christ in the Sacrament gaue his bodie to be lookte vpon with our soules eyes and not to be superstitiously adored in the bread which is no more but the outward signe and by faith to bee eaten to euerlasting life For worthy Ladyes Christ did not say looke vpon this bread then take eate and worship it but he simply said Take eate this is my body Therefore whereas the Sacrament should bee a helpe to list vp the vnderstanding of the faithfull vnto heauen where Christ Iesus is and no where else as concerning his true body from thence giues himselfe in powerfull vertue to enioy and possesse the soules of the faithfull vnder those formes by himselfe assigned your Romanists doe abuse the Supper very vildlie and take it in a quite contrary nature for they are onely pleas'de with looking vpon the bare signe and worshiping it taking the thing it selfe for that which is meerely signified thereby answerable to their doctrine of Transubstantiation meerely forged against the true nature of all Sacraments They seeke not to eleuate mens vnderstandings to the place where Christ sitteth at the right hande of his Father but to lift vp their eies to their God-like Idoll Whereas Christ without all doubt in instituting this Sacrament neuer addressed his promise to the bread and wine simply thereby to make them become his body and bloud as hath beene before declared But to the faithfull communicants and so thereby to assure them that he would giue them the true participation and communion of his body answerable to that which the blessed Apostle S. Paule saith he being a most faithfull expositor of this misterie The Cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the bodie of Christ Me thinkes honorable Ladies these words should resolue you that Christ hath comprised nothing else vnder these signes and elements of bread and wine but what was behoouefull for the faithfull communicants to whom the plaine signification directeth it selfe and whereof true faith dooth make them partakers to vnice themselues spiritually with a meruailous efficacy into the glorious body of our Lord Iesus Christ to participate in the end of all his benefits and deriue from him life and immortality In these fewe words vertuous Ladies you may behold both what we teach and beleeue that our feeding on Christ is by faith onely that is in beleeuing the words of our Sauiour in the vse of the Sacrament wherby we are drawne much neerer to him and more stricktly vnited and incorporated euen by the incomprehensible vertue of his spirit to communicate and partake of all the benefits of his death and to be renewed by him and nourished vnto euerlasting life vntill such time as he shall put vs into full possession that is at the departure of our soules from this world and when our bodyes shall arise againe at the day of our generall resurrection This is the fruit which we make account of and are perswaded to gather out of this Sacrament and wherevnto faith serues vs as the onely instrument Euen as with hand eyes and mouth to beholde take and eate Iesus Christ without any need of his forsaking the heauens or of his reall appearance vnder the formes of bread and wine and so to communicate himselfe vnto vs. Wherefore to go and adore the signe as if the signe onely were Iesus Christ himselfe Or that hee should descend downe from heauen and be newely formed for one of these twoo must needs ensue by their transubstantiation which we mayntaine to be flat Idolatry Neuerthelesse we are taught in Scripture that Iesus Christ ought to be adored in the Sacrament and we doe dayly and religiously worshippe him as being most especially present in the holy action euen in our spirits and faith to vnite vs vnto him and to impart his blessings to vs when the Supper is celebrated according to his institution and wee endeuour to haue it so stil continued and ministred among vs. But the manner of our worshippe and adoration is in hauing our soules eleuated vp to heauen and thither true faith is our onely conduct there to behold him as our soueraigne assurance We looke not for him in the naked elemēts of bread and wine

according to the verie words vsed by the Priest may be caried by the hands of his holy Angell into the high Altar before Iesus Christ As if Iesus Christ himselfe had forsaken Heauen stood in neede to be caried thither againe and by the hands of an Angell O honorable Ladies what a blasphemie is this against him that hath all power subiected vnder his feete and sitteth for euer at the right hand of God his Father Also in the Priests Memento for the dead he prayeth for them that alreadie are sleeping in the very height of peace that God would giue them a place of peace refreshing But to what purpose is this when the parties are possessed of such a peacefull place alreadie why should they mooue any such place afterward in vaine There are many other things louing Madames the collection whereof would be very tedious vnto you and which you may see very learnedly confuted ech point by point in the Booke which I shewed you at our last meeting called the Anatomie of the Masse printed for your more easie vnderstanding in our owne language more then thirtie yeares since and neuer all this while answered by the contrarie side But come we now to the especiall point concerning the confidente and peruerse opinion wherein I my selfe haue sinned too often and which you hold as no meane Article of faith That the Masse is a worke meritorious to cancell all our sinnes Ex epere operato as themselues vse to say Which is as much to say as that by the vertue of that worke the labour is performed without making mention of his faith and repentaunce for whom the Masse is sayd and is therein assisted Heereby you may perceiue good Ladies that the efficacie of the death of Iesus Christ whereof by true faith we are all made pertakers is now attributed to a work done by man yea may as wel be applied to the dead as the liuing By which means the Sacraments shall but profit them only which communicated in true saith and repentaunce But then this cannot be spoken thus of them that are deceased and departed out of this world because they haue no more communion with the liuing whereby to participate of their Sacraments As for the Sacrifice of Iesus Christ that is saith the Apostle through faith in his bloud which makes vs partakers of the propitiation thereby obtained Now the dead can haue neither faith nor repentaunce but are gone as they placed before the end of their faith either for the saluation of their soules or to be punished in hell for their incredulitie Iouerslip a great many blasphemies which deserue ech one to be seuerally spoken of For you haue tolde me that some things you giue credit to and others you doe not especially any thing which you conceite to be damnable But you being heerein gouerned only by your Priests opinions you hang your selues on their sleeues and are neuer the neerer when you shall come to make your account And your excuse concerning those prayers which they sing or say in their Masse that they are in Latine and you vnderstand them not but beleeue them to be good and holy Trust me worthy Ladies it is idle and friuolous for you ought to vnderstand them and may if you will thereby to examine and trie the spirits whether they be of God or no. You haue them published in printed bookes and so haue had for many yeares together And the Scriptures themselues remaine for your further instruction which though they forbid you the reading of them yet be you rulde by him that saith Search the Scriptures it is they that doe beare true witnes of me But leauing all other there is one most signall and apparant and such a blasphemie whereof I knowe you are almost daily partakers being present at Masse For both common opinion and intention as well of the Priest himselfe as the persons there in place doe run in this current That it is an absolute sacrifice which is there performed by him wherein all remission of sins is to be sought for and all prosperitie as well of the bodie as of the soule For they auouch it to be the selfe same sacrifice of Iesus Christ which they but renew againe to receiue a further fruite thereby and so they reiterate the same as often as they doe either sing or say Masse euen according as it was done vnder the Lawe But what saith the blessed Apostle to this The law hauing the shadow of good things to come not the very image of the things can neuer with those sacrifices which they offer yeere by yeere continually sanctifie the commers thereunto And it is imposisible that the bloud of Bulles and Goates should take away sinnes For would they not then haue ceased to haue bin offered because that the offerers once purged should haue had no more conscience of sins This is then the reason wherfore euery Priest appeareth daily sacrificing oft times offereth one manner of thing which can neuer take away sinnes But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinne sitteth for euer at the right hand of God And wherefore one sacrifice only Because saith he in the verse following that by that alone sacrifice he hath consecrated for euer them that be sanctified There is nothing deare Ladies more cleare and euident then these words of the holy Apostle to manifest openly That the sacrifice of Iesus Christ whereby we were once for all redeemed and sanctified cannot neither ought to be reiterated or renewed Therefore in Poperie when they doe enterprise to reiterate or renew or continue the same for they make vse of all these seueral tearmes is it any thing else but a meere renouncing of that only sacrifice remaining fresh in full strength and vigour which Christ once offred vpon his Crosse to sanctifie all beleeuers And the fruite heereof is daily presented to vs in the preaching of the Gospell and we reeeiue the same by a true sanctified faith in him only For to this end was the sacred ministerie of Gods word instituted by God himselfe in his Church and not for any nouell order of sacrifices as your soules heauie enemies doe make you to beleeue I knowe honorable Ladies and haue had such particular interest in some of you during the time of our often conuersing in this manner together that in hart you are far off from these grosse prophanations and haue assured me in soule you doe much greeue thereat Let me then perswade you not to come in such places where the Sonne of God is so highly iniuried be not led by their outward appearaunce of deuotion which serues but to beguile and abuse the simple Euen as is vsed in our ceremonie of meeting and manner of courtship in the streetes or else where a good looke is giuen or an affable conge allowed when falshood and trechery lurketh oftentimes in the hart Make

allegations No nor by continued succession of Popes and Prelates whereof you heare what daily boast they make But her glory and triumph is in the puritie of doctrine which is as the onely soule of the Church and in the sincere administration of the Sacraments all consonant and agreeing with the voyce of her great sheepheard and Bishop of our soules our Lord Iesus Christ And hee faith That his sheepe do know his voyce and they will not listen or follow a stranger This Ladyes is the true touchstone of iudgement whereby to discerne Golde from corrupted mettall to know the true Church from the false And not by Crosses by Miters Cardinals bonnets or height of Steeples That Reuerend and worthy Bishop of Thouars who hauing forsaken the Sinagogue of Sathans and by his great learning and industrious paines discouered such a hideous heape of abhominations vsed and maintained in the church of Rome hee next vnto Gods good spirit which was the principall and onely motiue was the secondary meanes of my conuersion as God haue the glory for it hee hath preuailed with diuers other Lords and Ladyes beside and in time may prooue to shake the proude Empyre of the Pope His learned labours so lately printed wherein hee opens all the pack of paradoxicall Poperie against Bellarmine and all the Romaine faction of Iesuites conuincing them by their owne arguments and writing I am bold worthy Ladies to send you with this Epistle And where I comfarre too short of such sufficiencie as in such a cause as this is required peruse his paines for your further satisfaction being printed in your owne natiue tongue for your better apprehension and so plainely set downe as it cannot but bee easily vnderstood of you Thus haue I noble Ladyes both briefely and as the nature of an Epistle would permit me declared the grosse absurdities and abuses in the Masse the blasphemies Idolatries and sacriledges therein committed that God in his good time may open your eyes and let you see the way out of that brutish Babylon I haue also in a meane measure shewed you the order and gouernement of our reformed Church as well for the Ministerie and doctrine thereof as also for the neere affinitie and true forme which therein is continually vsed and obserued with the example of the chiefe Schoole-maister Iesus Christ himselfe and confirmed by his blessed Apostles As if it would please God to rancke you with vs the truth should make more manifest to you For heere is nothing done palliated or in secret conspiring to betray poore peoples opinions and deceiue their soules All our actions are openly exposed euen to the apparant view of God and men yea euen in all things that concerne the order and policie of Gods Church Heere women and the weakest capacities may vnderstand whatsoeuer is done or said for here is no strange Language vsed among vs. And S. Paul saith Strange tongues are for a signe not to them that beleeue but vnto Infidels that beleeuenot I confesse honorable Ladyes that my discourse hath extended it selfe beyond the purposed limitation but indeed the merit of the subiect handled may pleade my pardon one way and the endeared affection I beare to you with desire of your conuersion for your soules sauing health I trust will safely support me the other way If God haue chosen me as his meanest instrument to worke but the very least measure of your better instruction his name haue the glory and his powerfull word the deserued praise which carries much more weight and efficacy then mens smoothest eloquence or the very subtillest arguments produced to the contrary whether it bee of antiquitie or vniuersalitie of Counsels of Traditions or whatsoeuer else If now this day you will listen to his voyce and not harden your hearts If you be not carelesse of his gift by me his vnworthy seruant offred vnto you If you close not vp your eyes against the cleare light that shineth euery where If you quench not the spirit which God himselfe hath kindled in you All will redound to your endlesse consolation and you bee renowmed to future posterities Feare therefore deare Ladyes this heauie threat of the diuine wisdome Because I haue called and you haue refused I haue stretched out mine hand and you would not regard But haue despised all my counsell and would none of my correction I will laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare commeth Then shall you call vpon mee but I will not answere they shall seeke me earely but they shall not finde mee c. From Thouars this 1. of Iune 1608. FINIS After her conuersion she wrote this Epistle Luke 2. 38. A vertuous acknowledgment of a godly Lady She takes on her to note the abuses in the Masse Her course intended in this Epistle Christ his office of Priesthood transferred to men Hebr. 7 9. 23. 24. 25. 26. Hebr. 9. 24. 25. 26. Iesus Christ is the only Sacrificer without any successor or Vicar Hebr. 9. 26. Heb. 5 4. 5. The popish Priests must shewe their warrant out of Scripture No man can offer as Christ hath offered Hebr. 10. 13. 14. 18. No mention is made in Scripture of any new or continued offering Rom. 5. 1● Hebr 9. 14. She dealeth not with euerie particularerror in the Masse The Priests confession Sacrifice offered before consecration for the redemption of soules liuing The Priest in his Memento The Priests prayer after the consecration The Priests Memento for the dead The Anatomie of the Masse printed in French The Masse ameritorious worke to deface all sinnes Concerning the dead Rom. 3. 25 1. Pet. 1. 9 Iohn 3. 18. Of the prayers said or sung in the Masse Iohn 5. 19. The Priest and peoples opinion present at Masse Hebr. 10. 1. 2. 3. The meaning of the holie Apostle Some perticular Ladies not altogether popish The fruite of the Sacrifice in the Masse Hebr. 10. 9 Some of them say Make this in my remembrance and so they would haue it Luke 22. 19 The Euāgelists record of our Sauiours words Lu. 22. 19. 1. Co. 11. 25. The meaning of Christs words in the Sacrament 1. Co 11. 26. Her admonition to the Ladies concerning the exposition of S. Paule An excellent note well worth the observation Concerning the Greeke word Poiein and the Siriaque Habad Idolatrie in holding vp the bread to be adored as God How Christ promised vs to be partakers of his body and bloud Luke 22.19 Christs commandement is in the first place Christs words to his Disciples is to all be faithfull to the worlds end The promise is made to all and not to the Apostles onely 1 Cor. 10. 17. Take away the communion and the promise is ended The right vse of the Sacrament wherein it consisteth What is don in the Masse How consecratiō ought to be done How the Priest makes his consecration in the Masse Doubt and question may arise vpon such priuie whispering Mark this