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A69250	Newes from France containing tvvo declarations of two new conuerts from the Church of Rome to the reformed churches of France: the former made by Master M. du Tertrf [sic], Lord de la Motthe Luyne, late preacher amongst the order of the Capucins vnder the name of F. Firmin, &c. at Saumur on the 27. of May last: the latter by the Marquise Boniuet, Lord of Creuecœur, &c. at Rochell on the seuenth of August last. Both translated out of the seuerall French copies into English by E.M. of Christ-Church in Oxford. Whereunto is added an English letter sent from Paris by an English gentleman to his friend in England, touching the late surprisall and imprisonment of the Prince of Conde, which happened on the 22. of August last.; Declaration and manifestation, of the chiefe reasons and motives of the conversion of Master M. du Tertre, Lord de la Motthe Luyne.	Bonnivet, Henri Marc de Gouffier, Marquis de, d. 1589. Declaration de Henri-Marc de Gouffier. aut; Meetkerke, Edward, 1590-1657, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 7372; ESTC S117179	43,123	84

resort and haue our refuge to the Saints and blessed ones and that a thousand other such like things which you beleeue and your Doctors teach and preach ought to be held for Articles of faith there not being any trace or ground of them in the sacred Scripture the true rule of that which ought to be beleeued and done Not being able I say to perswade my selfe that that was the true Church in the which the true faith and the doctrine of the Gospell was held and taught wherein the manners life and actions were so contrary and opposite vnto them and the corruption so great and vniuersally diffused and extended throughout But those were but small light and vaine Ideaes which went no farther by reason of the negligence as I beleeue in the which the watchings which I bestowed on my studies and other businesses kept me asleepe as also by reason of the age whereof I was which for that time did not giue me more liuely conceits thereof for want of some body that might haue heartened them on farther as indeed I was bred in the midst of them who beleeued and did the quite contrary Thus did my simplicitie hatch my ignorance wherein I liued fiue or six whole yeers since this first glimpse of light which did kindle in my soule and heart this desire and affection of the truth and to returne to this first spring and originall of the faith and manners of the Apostles and Disciples of the Sonne of God our Sauiour yet of that very Sauiour from whom by processe of time euen your Church hath swarued At the end of which yeeres finally it hath pleased that supreme goodnesse and maiestie which doth impart and communicate his graces and fauours to whom he thinkes good yea oftentimes to least worthy and capable subiects and makes the splendor of his euerlasting light to cast his beames on those soules that are deepest plunged into the obscuritie of darknesse to poure out on mine the amplitude and greatnesse of his heauenly and diuine benedictions and to make mee to see abundantly purely and to the full in their owne essence and naturall day both the truth and falshood and to harden strengthen and encourage my minde for to embrace valorously the one and to reiect the other against all the obiects and representations of humane reason the attractiue and alluring perswasions of nature the impetuous assaults of flesh and bloud and the strong suggestions and temptations of the deuill and the furious and bloudy combats of hell Whereupon I am and shall alwayes be obliged vnto him ouer and aboue all the obligations which I owe vnto him already in number almost infinite and I doe blesse praise wil praise him to al eternitie yea all the holy Angels of heauen and iust men of the earth which whereas the enuious hatefull and ill willers haue their foreheads wrinkled will be glad for me and reioyce at my departure and conuension This my change then hath no other scope and aimeth purely and simply as I haue already said at nothing but the glory of my God and the assurance of my saluation which I haue truly found out and sweare and protest that I could not haue attained vnto and wrought out in that state wherein I was vnderstand I pray you and hearken to the reasons thereof The two grounds and foundations of all Christian religion and consequently of euerlasting saluation are faith and charitie without which neither one nor the other can remaine and continue standing faith I say in Christ He that beleeues in me saith he shall not come into iudgement but he that beleeueth not is already condemned Not any faith whatsoeuer but such as God and the holy Scripture doe demand and require of vs not languishing dead grounded on humane inuentions and traditions but purely and simply on Gods word animated and quickned by the spirit of grace accompanied with good workes Charitie not fained dissembled in shew only but as the Apostle saith proceeding from a pure and cleane heart from a good conscience from an vnfained faith and a loyaltie not counterfeted The same S. Paul speaking of the first in the 1. Epist to the Corinthians chap. 3. saith it clearely and in very expresse termes According to the grace of God which is giuen vnto me as a wise master-builder I haue saith he laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon But let euery man take heede how he buildeth thereupon for other foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Christ Now if any man build vpon this foundation gold siluer c. Where you see cleerely how vnder the metaphore and comparison of a materiall edifice and building which that it may be firme sound and lasting hath necessarily neede of a good strong foundation of firme and hard stones laid very farre and deepe in the ground he declareth signifieth and giueth cleerely to vnderstand that the true faith and beleefe in Iesus Christ our Sauiour such as he teacheth and sheweth vs in his writings is the true sure and onely foundation and the solid and setled ground-worke of all Christian religion and consequently by a necessary sequele of euerlasting saluation according to my proposition which for this first point remaines enough by this place and sufficiently proued As also no man doth deny it and call it in question but all generally doe admit and receiue it for a certaine and assured ground Let vs come to the proofe of the second point thereof to wit of Charitie I had need of more time then the shortnesse of this discourse can affoord mee for to relate all the places of holy Scripture making for this purpose That namely is manifest and cleare by the very words of our Sauiour when as being asked of that Doctour of the Law or Scribe and Pharisie which was the first the greatest and chiefe commandement thereof and hauing made answer that it was to loue God with all his heart with all his soule c. and his neighbour as himselfe he addeth that in these two points were comprised and contained closed and shut vp the whole Law and the Prophets and consequently by a necessary sequele and infallible conclusion all religion grounded and saluation established as on two solid and firme foundations without the which neither one nor the other as I haue already said can remaine and continue standing Now let vs see whether those two grounds and bases of saluation be or can be found in your Church and in the state and condition from whence I am departed to the end that from thence you may know and iudge whether I haue had iust cause and lawfull occasion to doe this or no and that the tongues that make themselues malicious and slanderous may cease from their calumnious assaults and pursuits And to begin with the faith and beleefe in Iesus Christ wee haue amongst many others three things to be considered in him 1. his person 2.

the Law And in the fift chapter verse 1. Therefore being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ There is iustification by faith And as for the imputation of the merit of Christ hee sheweth it there also in the fourth chapter when as telling how God had imputed to Abraham his faith for righteousnesse hee addeth Now in that that this was imputed to him for righteousnesse c. This faith is not an idle imagination or false illusion and perswasion or fantasticall speculation in the beleeuers braine as your Doctors doe slanderously say but an holy assurance and firme confidence in the bounty and mercy of God by the which we beleeue that according to the truth of his infallible promises hee will be gracious and mercifull vnto vs in Iesus Christ his Sonne freely for his sake pardoning vs all our faults Such a beleefe is not idle nor fruitlesse in those who haue it but fructifieth vnto all manner of good workes righteousnesse godlinesse holinesse loue c. Not for to merit and obtaine that pardon which is already wholly gotten but for to shew towards God that we acknowledge this so vnestimable a benefit This faith is not from our selues but is a speciall gift of God who hath giuen vs freely through his Sonne not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer for his sake as saith S. Paul Philip. 1.29 God hauing thus iustified vs freely through faith in his Son he sanctifieth vs also through his spirit which is the second benefit that wee haue obserued to be gotten for vs in Iesus Christ and which he hath merited and obtained for vs by his death as we haue said and doth bestow it vpon vs by the vertue and efficacie of his Spirit of regeneration and sanctification by the which mortifying daily more and more the naturall corruption in which we all are borne he makes vs by little and little to renounce and to die to all sinne for to liue to righteousnesse and holinesse all the dayes of our life vntill that in the end he doe sanctifie vs fully when as after this life hee shall receiue vs into that other in his heauenly glory This is briefly that which concernes these two great benefits of our Lord accordingly as the Scripture and Gods holy word doe shew and teach vs. It is a pitifull thing to see after how many sorts and manners Satan hath lamentably spoiled sophisticated falsified peruerted and corrupted in your Church by your Pastors and Doctors this doctrine being so wholsome and full of comfort touching these two benefits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour first by extenuating as much as they could and can the greatnesse of these graces and fauours secondly by taking from him and robbing him of all what they can for to attribute it to the merits either of themselues or of others and to their owne satisfactions and papall Indulgences They extenuate the greatnesse of grace two wayes first by lessening and diminishing the greatnesse of our offence and sinne secondly by debasing the excellencie and perfection of Christs merit They doe lessen and diminish the greatnesse of sinne first in denying that originall sinne deserues eternall death contrary to that which the Apostle teacheth vs to the Rom. 6.23 that the wages of sinne is death and to the threatning of the Law which sounds thus Cursed is he whosoeuer doth not continue and perseuere to obserue all things written and deliuered in the booke of the Law Secondly by their distinction of sinnes veniall and mortall teaching that there are some pettie sinnes which doe not deserue eternall death and damnation but rather pardon which is directly against that very sentence of S. Paul that the wages of sinne is death and that menace of the Law Cursed is hee c. They debase the excellencie of Christs merit when they teach first that he hath not satisfied for those sinnes and offences which they call veniall but onely for those that are mortall contrary to that which Saint Iohn hath in his first Catholike Epistle chap. 1.7 That the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Secondly that as for mortall sinnes he hath only changed the eternall into a temporall punishment which is by them affirmed and maintained not onely without any ground vpon the holy Scripture but also is much repugnant to the goodnesse and mercy of God who in so doing would pardon but by halfes Thirdly that by the death of Iesus Christ wee obtaine only remission of the guilt and not of the punishment which is as much as openly to mocke with God and to disanull altogether the merit of our Lord for what is it I pray you to remit and pardon the guilt but not the punishment As if a Master should say to his seruant a Lord to his subiect a King to his vassall that had grieuously wronged and offended him Goe thy wayes I pardon and forgiue thee thy fault but I will punish thee howsoeuer when I see time for that that thou hast done according as thou deseruest What pardon would that be nay would it not rather be a mocking of him It is euen so with God according to them They doe take from Iesus Christ and rob him as much as in them lieth of the glory of his merit for to attribute it to the merits of another when as refusing the true pardon of God by faith in the bloud of his sonne they will themselues deserue of God by the power of their workes this pardon and the fruition of life euerlasting wherein they doe iust like a wicked malefactor who being in the hands and power of his Iudge ready to be executed would refuse the grace and pardon of his Prince and would make no vse of it but would thinke that hee could merit yea would stifly maintaine that hee had iustly merited by his good deeds both his freedome and the expiation of the punishment which was prepared and made ready for him and to be one of the chiefe officers and best furnished houshold-seruants of his Lord wherein besides the intolerable arrogance whereof they cannot nor you cleare themselues they fall into a grosse foule and palpable ignorance first in that they thinke that they can of themselues doe any worthy thing and such as can deserue at Gods hands that which they thinke they doe deserue although notwithstanding it stands so that of our selues as of our selues we are not able to thinke any thing but all our abilitie is and proceeds from God as speaketh the Apostle in the second to the Corinthians chap. 3. yea euen all the most iust actions of man which God worketh in him through his grace are so marred infected and tainted with our naturall corruption that they are all as saith Esay 64. as a menstruous cloth Secondly when as for a refuge they say that those good workes which they doe are not from themselues but from the grace of God working in them for it is

to admit receiue and acknowledge the Sonne of God Iesus Christ our Sauiour in whom as the Apostle saith are laid vp all the treasures of the diuine knowledge and wisdome of the Father for their true Prophet and Law-giuer or at the least to thinke him vnfit insufficient who neither knew nor could but what say I nay malicious who would not declare and giue vs to vnderstand the will of his Father and his purpose concerning the seruice and obedience which hee would haue and which we ought to render him yea most vniust to tie and binde vs and that on paine of eternall death and destruction to obserue a law which he had not made knowne vnto vs. Which are three blasphemies none of them lesse damnable then the other the which notwithstanding before you perceiue or thinke of it your Doctours and Prelates doe make you lamentably run into by this false peruerse and wicked doctrine which they set before you to beleeue two-fold worse then you yea three-fold and an hundred-fold who therefore also shall be punished for it a thousand times more grieuously A King and Pastor ordained of God and established ouer his Church for to feede order guide and gouerne it by his diuine spirit as a soueraigne Monarke head and Pastor thereof and to keepe maintaine conserue and defend it against all his enemies visible and inuisible by his almighty arme and his strong and forcible hand and to make her finally arise and come to the hauen of euerlasting saluation of felicitie and blisse I haue beene saith he himselfe through the mouth of his ancestor and grandfather Dauid anointed and consecrated King by him to wit his eternall Father vpon his holy hill of Sion In Esay 16. Ierem. 23. in S. Luke 1. He shall raigne saith the Archangell to the Virgin ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome there shall be none end And he himselfe last of all in S. Matthew 28. speaking to his Disciples after his glorious and triumphant resurrection did ascertaine and assure them that all power was giuen him both in heauen and in earth And in a thousand more places and passages of the Scripture he is called and himselfe also stiles himselfe by the title of Pastour Now those of your Church doe depriue and disrobe him of these honourable charges and glorious offices for to make them ouer to a mortall fraile and perishable man whom they admit and receiue into his place acknowledging him for their soueraigne chiefe Pastour and Gouernour as if this King of infinite glory and maiestie and true Shepheard of our soules were not able and sufficient for to feede order guide and gouerne them attributing and transferring by a horrible and detestable blasphemie to him the titles qualities and conditions which befit and pertaine to the Sauiour only as he is the Bridegroome vniuersall Head and Pastour of the Church c. which is nothing else to speake properly and truly but to plucke and driue away Christ from his kingly seat and throne and to set therein another to take from his head the crowne and Miter and out of his hands the Scepter for to giue them to the Pope For if he be head of the Church Christ shall be so no longer else shee would be deformed monstrous and two-headed If all power hath beene giuen vnto him in heauen and in earth as hee impudently boasteth then truly it will altogether be taken away from Christ for as Alexander said very well to Darius as learned Plutarch reporteth and witnesseth euen as the heauen is enlightned but by one Sunne from whom all the other starres and planets receiue and keepe alike by meere and simple dependance and communication their light and splendour and there cannot be two of them in like manner in a kingdome there can be but one King and there cannot be suffered to be two otherwise the Royaltie would be imperfect and the Empire subiect to perpetuall troubles and continuall warres and would quickly beginne to fall to decay and vtter ruine To be short if the Pope be the generall only and vniuersall Pastour and Bishop of the Church to whom the Sonne of God hath giuen and committed all his authoritie care and diligence in ruling gouerning ordering disposing establishing of lawes and setting downe rules to the consciences with a bond of yeelding to him all obedience and submission as to himselfe what then hath he more to busie himselfe withall here below in his Church Truly hee hath vtterly depriued himselfe of his kingdome and disrobed himselfe of his pastorall office and charge hee is now no longer any thing else in their reckoning but a meere cypher and o in Arithmeticke which is a blasphemie not only to say but euen to thinke the which notwithstanding these wretches make you to commit and vtter though you thinke not or neglect to haue regard of it But to what a pitifull and deplored state would the Church be brought hauing for her chiefe Pastours and vniuersall Gouernours men that of their nature are weake feeble wretched and blinde who scarce are fit to rule guide and gouerne themselues their workes and actions From thence it is that are sprung and haue had their source so many disorders irregularities and Corruptions in your Church as is to be seene at this day But it is no wonder for as Iesus Christ our Sauiour saith very fitly If the blinde will vndertake to guide and direct other blinde men in their way what can be hoped and looked for but that they shall stumble on their faces to the ground and finally all of them haue a deadly downefall No no there are no others besides that soueraigne King and glorious Monarke the eternall almighty and diuine Gouernour and Shepheard of our soules who can only rule the whole body of the Church haue an eye ouer all giue order for all things as being wholly wise cleere-sighted prouident yea Wisdome and Prouidence it selfe by the meanes whereof the eternal Father doth gouerne guide and dispose of all things It is he who is the true shepheard and bishop of our soules saith Saint Peter The Lieutenant generall and vice-roy of God his Father saith Saint Matthew Who hath giuen him all power authority and might in heauen and in earth And hauing brought all things vnder his feet saith Saint Paul hath set him ouer all things for to be head to his Church A true and soueraigne Priest after the order of Melchizedeck anointed and consecrated by the eternall Father before all worlds The Lord hath sworne saith the kingly Prophet speaking to this purpose and will not repent him Thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizedeck The Apostle S. Paul confirmes and repeats this many and diuerse times in the Epistle to the Hebrewes 5.7.8.9.10 For to offer vp to him in time according to the office and duty of the high Priest his precious body and bloud

beholden and indebted to them whence it is not very hard to consider acknowledge and iudge whether the true humilitie which is essentiall to Christianitie and so beseeming it yea the fairest and richest ornament of a true beleeuer can be in them who not onely maintaine and wilfully defend such a doctrine but doe glory therein and doe oppugne and persecute euen to the fire and bloud those which on the contrary forsaking themselues and all that can come from their owne strength and merits haue no other refuge prop foundation and assurance for their eternall saluation then in the meere bountie grace mercy and free pardon of God in Iesus Christ his Sonne his merit and intercession Hee should neuer haue done that would relate shew and set to view all the abuses and errours touching the points of faith necessary to saluation Gather only and iudge out of that little which the shortnesse of the time this discourse giues me leaue to speake whether the first ground and foundation of saluation premised and supposed to wit a true faith and beleefe in Iesus Christ such as the Scripture declareth and requireth of vs is and can bee found in your Church in which is taught and preached a doctrine so diametrally contrary and opposite to it yea against all reason and whether I haue had iust cause and occasion to withdraw my selfe from thence and you also are bound to doe the like in case that you and I desire to worke out our saluation But that which is worse and more to be lamented euen with teares of bloud if it were possible is that for the most part amongst those of your Church there is no more any faith or law or God or religion at all but by a lamentable euent permitted notwithstanding by Gods prouidence for the iust punishment of their deserts are fallen into a grosse ignorance of matters of God I will not say into Atheisme and is fulfilled in them compleatly and in all points that which the Apostle S. Paul hath sometimes spoken of the Gentiles Pagans and Idolaters in the first to the Romans namely that hauing knowne God they glorified him not as God neither were thankfull but became vaine in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened professing themselues to be wise they became fooles and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to a corruptible man c. And who then would not withdraw himselfe from men so blinded and giuen ouer to errour and the darkenesse of ignorance Now if their faith be such or for to speak aright more properly their vnbeliefe so great what can bee hoped and looked for of the other I meane of the manners of their life indeede it is very likely that such as is the doctrine such will be the life and manners namely peruerted and corrupted c. And this is it which now in order I am to shew to you and set to your view Let vs begin with charity the loue and affection towardes God and our neighbour the true ground of all Christianity and the second firme and assured foundation of eternall saluation as wee haue said and declared before As for the first the true testimony the certaine and vndoubted proofe thereof amongst many that might be giuen and alleaged is an heartie and louing zeale and affection to his honour worship and seruice and to the true obseruing of his lawes and ordinances and the entire and perfect fulfilling of his holy will as farre as our weakenes and frailtie can suffer vs and the estate and condition of our corrupt and infected nature can permit and beare it If you loue mee saith our Sauiour speaking of this loue to his Apostles and Disciples and to vs in their persons and in the 14. of S. Iohn keepe my commandements He that hath my commandements and keepes them hee it is that loues mee And this hee repeats many and diuers times and amongst others that well beloued and fauoured Disciple in the second Chapter of his first Catholike Epistle confirmes it He that keepes his word the loue of God saith he is truely accomplished and perfected in him As on the contrary the true and infallible signe of the want the defect of the loue of God is not to care for to keepe and obserue his lawes and precepts as besides reason it selfe which is cleere and plaine for it our Sauiour in the same place before alleaged of the Euangelist Saint Iohn doth say Hee that loueth mee not saith he doth not keepe my words and the same Saint Iohn in the fore-cited places He that saith I haue knowne him and yet doth not keep his precepts and commandements he liar and the truth is not in him As for Gods honour worship and seruice it is double and of two sorts externall outward and of the body such as he prescriheth vnto vs in his word namely that Liturgy or outward and publike seruice wherewith hee will be honoured euen publikely in his Church consisting of the duties of piety and the externall actions of religion which doe shew and testifie some humilitie deiection submission affection and acknowledgement of the minde towards his diuine maiesty Internall inward in the soule and inmost part of the minde by a true acknowledging of his immense and infinite excellence perfection and greatnesse and of the sundry and innumerable obligations wee owe him with an humble submission a most deiected humilitie and low deiection before his supreame maiesty honouring adoring fearing respecting cherishing and louing him with all the strength and power of our soules the faculties of our mindes and the affections of our hearts as our onely blisse and chiefe master and Lord from whom we hold by meere dependance and free bountifull and liberall communication all what wee are what wee haue and what wee can at any time challenge looke and hope for both in this life and in the other referring in the meane time and giuing ouer our selues and all what belongs to vs or concernes vs our liues persons goods health honours affaires and other the like wholly to his diuine prouidence to the end that he may do with them as he shall thinke fitting and according to his pleasure and sacred will as belonging wholly to him with a true confidence certain firme hope and an vndoubted assurance of his diuine goodnesse infinite mercy and promises of saluation and this is the chiefe honour worship and seruice that God wishes desires and demaunds of vs as sheweth very wel the Sonne of God himselfe Iesus Christ our Sauiour answering to the question of the Samaritan woman The true worshippers saith he shall worship the Father in spirit and truth and such are those he desires demands and seekes after And hee giueth the reason thereof Because God is a spirit therfore his worship ought to be spirituall internall and in the truth of the heart answerable to his nature by so much more noble

excellent perfect and compleate then the externall and corporal by how much the soule surpasseth and exceedeth the body in excellent perfection and noblenesse free vnuiolable in the libertie and power of euery one and such as cannot be hindered as the externall and corporall by any indeauour or change whatsoeuer For hee that is lame of his whole body hee that lies in his bed grieuously and mortally sicke hee that is clogged with irons both on hands and feet and kept prisoner in the bottome of an obscure and darke dungeon hindered from making or shewing any signe of outward seruice and corporall reuerence may haue his heart and soule lifted vp and deuoted vnto God and may serue honour and worship him spiritually as did Ionas in the belly of the Whale and in the deepe of the waters and bottome of the sea Manasses in his prison the diseased with the palsye in his bed and couch and the good theefe hauing all the members and parts of his body fast bound and tied This being as the cause and the mother which bringeth foorth and ingendereth the outward and bodily which is as it were the scum which arises and proceeds from the boyling of the fire of the inward and spirituall deuotion to be short this of it selfe alone is good and perfect retaining and carrying with it his worth and value yea and in necessitie sufficient But the outward and corporall is so farre from being alone good and sufficient that it is rather a delusion and Mascarado it is that hypocrisie so much cryed out vpon blamed and condemned by the Sonne of God our Sauiour in those who with their strange behauiour and countenance and with some gestures actions and ceremonies doe thinke they can flatter God and discharge their dutie towards him doing it onely with the tip and end of the tongue with their mouth and edge of their lips without any heart deuotion affection or spirit This people saith he honoureth me with their lippes but their heart and spirit is farre from mee This is iust so as the Iewes did who at the passion of our Sauiour did kneele before him saluted him King and Prophet but in derision and mockery Now who knowes not how far the most part those of your Church are remooued but what do I say almost quite depriued and disrobed of that heartie and louing zeale and affection to the obseruing of Gods lawes and commandements to the fulfilling of his sacred will and to the true worshippe and seruice which hee desires demaunds and seekes at our hands daily experience makes vs see it with our eye and touch it with the finger and indeede we should bee quite void both of eyes and vnderstanding if wee did neither see nor perceiue it it is the least of their thoughts and the least of their cares whereof they make no esteeme no reckoning preferring the edicts commandements and ordinances of a mortall fraile and perishable man to those of that supreame and diuine maiestie of that glorious eternall and almighty monarch yea esteeming lesse of these then of their owne irregular passions and affections corrupted appetites filthy concupiscences and insatiable desires and for the most part standing vpon and contenting themselues with the onely meere externall and corporall honor worship and seruice with vsing strange behauiour and ceremonies making faces offering of cierges being present at Masses offices and seruices rightly diuiding their beads running ouer their houres saying the seuen Psalmes the prayers for the deceased vttering many words and vocall prayers babbling and muttering them all the day long in an vnknowne language and words not vnderstood without deuotion without attention without affection of the heart the wil or the minde speedily postingly with hast and onely for fashion sake neuer or very seldome lifting vp their mindes to the consideration of the excellent greatnesse and diuine perfection of that supreame maiesty or of their owne vilenesse basenesse worthlesnesse and nullity in comparison to him and to the innumerable obligations they owe him for to bring foorth the actions of deepe humility and lowe subiection of true and hearty and inward acknowledgement of the feruent and ardent loue of the honour respect and high reuerence they beare to the God of bountie and King of infinite glory greatnes and maiesty with an intire forsaking of our selues and totally and perfectly submitting vs to his diuine prouidence disposition and will which notwithstanding is the true honour worship and seruice as I haue already sayd that he wills demaunds and seekes at our hands and that alone is pleasing and acceptable vnto him him and not onely haue not any true confidence certaine and firme hope and in fallible assurance in his diuine goodnesse and infinite mercies and promises of saluation or any refuge to him in their necessities but euen rather doe blame reprehend and condemne on the contrary such as doe so at the least your Doctors giuing by a blasphemy no lesse horrible and detestable then worthy of all manner of punishment to this holy heartie and firme confidence and assurance in the bounty and mercy of God the name and title of diuillish pride and presumption And they goe themselues mistrustfully and send likewise others in the troublesome chances that happen and come vpon them to others besides him for to be guarded freed and deliuered there-from expresly against the Scripture and the plaine words of our Sauiour by which hee inuiteth vs so louingly to betake our selues vnto him when wee shall feele our selues wearied and heauy laden with affliction and anguish with a certaine and assured promise to ease vs imagining the whilest and thinking that by the meanes of this meerely externall worship they are not onely quitted and discharged and that they haue well and fully satisfied their dutie towards God but also that for it he is beholden to them and remaines in their debt No no this is not that which he requires demands and seekes of them but rather their spirits and the affections of their hearts God is a spirit saith our Sauiour and hee that will serue honour and worship him he must doe it in spirit and truth of heart and such are those whom he seekes demands and lookes after He is so farre from being pleased and delighted with this outward and meerely corporall honour seruice and worship that on the contrary he detests and hates it and infinitely and extremely abhorres it as we haue said But how indeed can he like it being without heart affection deuotion or attention of the minde which is that which he loues cherishes commends and esteemes most in all of vs And besides it being for the most part nothing but a meere humane inuention not onely without his expresse word and commandement who notwithstanding ought not to bee serued at the pleasure and discretion of men but according to his will reuealed and manifested in his said word but also expresly and formally contrary to it as is the Masse