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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08844	A faithfull admonition of the Paltsgraues churches to all other Protestant churches in Dutchland. That they would consider the great danger that hangeth ouer their heads as well as ours by the Popedome, and therefore Christianly and brotherly cease the priuate vnnecessary and now too much growne strife vvith vs. Together with a short abstract of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots published in print at Tubing. Published by authoritie. According to the original printed in the Electors palsgranes [sic] country at Nustadt, vpon the Hardt, Englished by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19129; ESTC S114063	23,398	47

vow of single life the lent fast auricular confessiō whether these be of diuine institution or ecclesiasticall onely as also about mariage after diuors originall sinne and the conception of the Virgin Mary about all these matters there is such contention amongst them and oftentimes with such bitternesse that they would euen seeme to deuour one another Lastly it is a wonder to see with how many idle controuersies their doctrine of transubstantiation is enwrapped one houlding this another that scarce two of them agreeing all things the verse is well knowne which I shall heere set downe Corpore de Christi lis est de sanguine lis est Lis est de modo non habitura modum If varietie of opinions now marre the forme of a Church then is their Church vtterly spoyled and put out of fashion rather then ours wherein for one controuersie with vs there are tenne with them I dare bouldly auouch and those of no trifles but of main points of their Religion Lastly if we consider aright the diuisions that are in our Church betwixt the Caluinists and the Lutherans we shall easely perceaue that they are both few in quantitie and in qualitie such as ouerthrow no fundamentall article of the faith And this to be so this short treatise will plainely and briefely discouer vnto thee if thou please to bestow but an houre or two reading vpon it The Authors thereof are Germanes the translator a man not professing schollership but exercised in traficke of marchandise and therefore thou in wisedome wilt accept his wholesome bunch of Rhenish grapes though clad with a plain and easie garment made of homespun thred I am perswaded that his zeale to Gods Church and his loue to the peace of Zion moued him to vndertake this taske and in my iudgement this his good intent cannot but in some measure take some good effect for this short tract may serue thee for three excellent purposes First to discouer the malice of our Romish aduersaries who by mustering vp our diuisions would faine proue vs to haue no veritie amongst vs because we haue no vnitie whereas our differences are here made manifest to be not many in number nor of anie great moment that is such as concerne the wals and windowes of our faith but not the foundation Secondly thou maist also here take view what the maine differences are betwixt the Lutherans and the Caluinists that thou maist be able to iudge how the vnitie of faith is not broken betwixt them and that both ioine together in the seruice of one Christ and against his great enemie Antichrist And Lastly it may serue also as a meanes to calm the heat of the moderne quarrels in our Church which haue beene pursued on both partes with too too much violence of spirit for here both sides may learne this wholesome and short lesson that seeing they builde vpon one foundation therefore though they meete not in opinion yet they would meete in brotherly loue and laying aside all rancour and violent courses ioine their forces against the common aduersarie And this is the principall drift of this short discourse Now the God of peace sāctisie vs al throughout both in body soule and spirit that they may bee kept blamelesse to the comming of our Lord Iesus and giue vs grace that wee may hould fast the vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace Thine in the Lord Thomas Beard Minister of Gods word in the towne of Huntington Pag. 4. lin 25. read is not A FAITHFVLL ADMONITION of the PFALTZGRAVES Churches To all other Protestant Churches in DVCHLAND BEloued brethren all you that call vpon the name of the Lord Iesus with vs and desire to be saued by his death and bloodshedding as well as we you know how our true Lord and Sauiour so heartily councelled vs to peace Ioh. 13.34.35 Ioh. 17.11.21 And how feruently hee commanded at his departure out of this world that wee should agree one with another that so the whole world might know that hee was sent of God You know also how Paul saith 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 12.12.13.14 that wee who beleeue in Christ are all together one body and should loue together as members of one body and one beare with the infirmities of another And he that doth not so 1. Cor. 11.16 but hath delight in contention hee is no true member of the Church of God For the congregation of God hath no pleasure in contention How come we then to it Louing brethren that wee haue now contended together so many yeares with such bitternesse which well beseemeth not the very heathen and that for such questions without the knowledge whereof a man may well bee saued It being so that many thousands are since dead on both sides who vnderstood neither the one nor the others meaning aright and yet are neuerthelesse saued being dead in Christ What intend we then by so shameful a separation about such questions whereon saluation dependeth not One thinketh that the bread is to be broken at the Supper the other that it may well be left vnbroken How many thousand people are saued who haue eaten the bread brokē at the Supper How many thousand people are saued also who haue eaten the bread at the Supper vnbroken Is that then such a matter for which one should condemne an other so vnchristianly as formerly the Wittenbergers condemned vs and as now the Darmstatters condemne vs anew True it is the Darmstatters and Wittenbergers accuse vs as if wee had begun such condemning and had outlawed to Hell all such as doe not breake the bread at the Supper But the Lord knowes it that they doe vs wrong They would indeed inforce it from this for that we hold the breaking of bread for needfull Now it is most certaine wee hold the breaking of bread as needfull for we take it that Christ required it so to bee to accomplish his commaund is then needfull And therefore we beleeue that they do erre who hold the breaking of bread for a free indifferent thing which one may as wel leaue vndone as done But that wee should condemne any man for such an error that wil neuer be found in any of our writings but almost euery where the very contrary is holden by vs in this matter Epist 2. Beza writ at least 30 yeares agone that one who dwelt in such a place where the breaking of bread were not in vse was not therefore to refraine the Supper For although it be an errour to leaue the bread vnbroken yet is it not such an errour for which a man should be houlden a heathen which a man doth when he refuseth to cōmunicate with him that houldeth the contrary But it is such an errour which a man for christian loue sake must beare withal in them that commit it as with many more others also The like also writes Doct. Parens in his remembrance of breaking bread and saith that we do not