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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18948	The recantation of Thomas Clarke (sometime a Seminarie Priest of the English Colledge in Rhemes; and nowe by the great mercy of God conuerted vnto the profession of the gospell of Iesus Christ) made at Paules Crosse, after the sermon made by Master Buckeridge preacher, the first of Iuly, 1593. Whereunto is annexed a former recantation made also by him in a publique assembly on Easter day, being the 15. of April, 1593	Clarke, Thomas, seminarie priest of the English college at Rheims.	1594 (1594)	STC 5366; ESTC S118981	19,358	48

master that is to God before whose tribunall we shall all stand and giue an account euery one for himselfe let vs not therefore sayth he any more iudge another but iudge this rather that no man put a stumbling blocke or an occasion to fall in his brothers way My meaning herein thou mayest easily gather and God grant thou may vse it to the benefite of thine owne soule and Christes small flocke The second cause that mooued me to the publishing heereof was the good that might hereby grow to those that be but lightly infected with Papistrie that by my example seeing my conuersion and reading my Recantation they may be mooued to consider for the safetie of their soules the great perill and imminent danger wherein they doe continually liue and so they may call to God for the heauenly vnction of his holy spirit and the precious gift of his grace that may cure their wounds and leade them to the perfect knowledge of his pure trueth And those that perticularly by my doctrine example haue erred or doe goe astray may by these meanes which I heartily aske of God for his sonne Iesus Christ his sake be reduced againe into the right way and for mine owne part I shall for euer heereafter haue the testimonie of a better conscience that I haue not bene negligent herein to performe the duetie of a good Christian in putting such in minde of their estates and shewing them the meanes the like wherof if they aske it as they should God doubtlesse will not denie them of my conuersion If I had contented my selfe with the vttered matter and not haue proceeded any further to publish the same the world might haue layed some blame on me and reprehended me for lighting of a candle and putting it vnder a bushell but being put on a candlesticke and left indifferently to giue light to all not presently but for posterity I shall be I hope in this behalfe free from the calumniation of any Consider I pray thee deare Christian if thou bee a Papist or any thing addicted that way that thou canst not imagine any sinister cause for the which I should as they say haue turned my coat the greatest cause of all things which thou canst thinke of is worldly wealth which on that side I neuer wāted nor any thing els that was cōuenient either for my pleasures or necessities and therefore I had no cause for that to forsake them if I had not bene induced thereto by further consideratiōs means thē is the regard of worldly cōmodities but cōtrarywise as thou shalt more largely vnderstand in my recantation they were the onely things that for a lōg time withheld me frō embracing the pure waters that spring to euerlasting life But perchance thou wilt say I hoped for better then I had beleeue me no I neither hoped for better nor haue so good notwithstanding if I should be driuen to beg my bread let all the papists in the world know that I will not forsake the kingdome of heauen for this worldes good neither doe I make my bodily life more precious then my soule for what would it profite me to winne the whole world and to lose my soule or what exchange should I make with God for my soule I know they would receiue me againe if I would like a dog returne yet to my vomite but farre be that from me better it were for me neuer to haue bin borne then once to thinke on any such matter and I hope God that hath done thus mercifully by me and delt thus mightily with me hath not nor will not bestow his grace in vayne vpō me but will perfect his worke so effectually begun The last cause that moued me to publish these presēts was to assure the aduersaries to whose hands I am sure they wil come that I neither haue done nor hereafter wil doe any thing against thē of malice but in all my procedings I haue will deale as charitably as I can not betraying the trueth of God which I preferre before the estimation of the whole world neither would I haue any mā to think that I speak as though I did any thing at all relie vpō their good opinions of me for that I am assured they hate me as the deuil and will not sticke to employ all the labour they can to deface and discredite both me and my calling But let them not spare their enuious carping will demonstrate in them the lying spirite that ouerruleth them and euery one that is not as blinde as themselues will soone perceiue their legier de maine and although their buzzing will obtaine place in the eares of their complices and fautors who are alwayes ready to bandie the balls which their leaders tosse so farre as the slanderous blastes of their wicked mouthes will cary them yet I hope the force of them flie they neuer so stiffely shall not bee able to make winke the least child in Gods Church much lesse ouerthrow him Moreouer I doe heartily desire euery Christian reader to weigh with good consideration these presents Yf thou be already infected with error and blindnesse pray to God that he will bestow vpon thee the cleare light of his truth persist not wilfully in wickednes but take occasion hereby to sift and try the spirit that is aswell in thy selfe as in thy teachers if thou be ignorant and vnlearned builde not thy faith vpon the credite and good opinion of other men say not as I know many haue and doe say I am not able to render an accompt of this or that thing but I know it is true I must beleeue so because this learned man or these diuines and good men beleeue so aske them they are able to giue you an answere both for themselues me it is a weake building that hath so shallowe and vncertaine a foundation and a simple faith is it that is pinned so slenderly to other mens sleaues the Apostle Saint Peter biddeth thee to bee able and readie to render an account of thy faith to euery one that shall demand it at thy hands I meane not that thou art so exactly bound as he that teacheth both thee and others but in some good measure according to thy abilitie and the talent that God hath lent thee thou art bound to knowe what thou beleeuest in whom thou beleeuest what thou art bound to beleeue Build not therefore thy faith vpon the faith of other men for that foundation cannot chuse but faile thee but erect thy building vpon the immooueable rocke Christ Iesus of whom the scriptures doe most plentifully beare witnesse Art thou learned search the scriptures for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life and they are they that testifie of me c. Art thou vnlearned goe to thy Pastor goe to him that hath charge of thy soule and receiueth instruction from God for thee The Priestes lippes shall preserue knowledge thou shalt seeke the law at his mouth for