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A68501	The reformed Spaniard to all reformed Churches, embracing the true faith, wheresoeuer dispersed on the face of the earth: in speciall, to the most reuerend archbishops, reuerend bishops, and worshipfull doctors, and pastors, now gathered together in the venerable Synode at London, this yeare of our Lord, 1621. Iohn de Nicholas & Sacharles, Doctor of Physicke, wisheth health in our Lord. First published by the author in Latine, and now thence faithfully translated into English.; Hispanus reformatus. English	Nicolás, Juan de.	1621 (1621)	STC 18530.5; ESTC S101132	17,466	35

call vpon him if all places did not ring againe with his name nay if this Saintling did not beat and banish out of the Churches not onely God and Christ which perhaps seemeth a small matter to the Romanists but also the Virgin Mary her selfe Francis and Anthony and all the rest of the Saints of the higher forme Charles the Emperor who of old was called Charles the Great because he vanquished the Saracens must now come downe and be called Charles the little in comparison of this new Charles Borrhomaeus who thus triumpheth hauing put to flight not his enemies but his friends and fellow-Saints And why may not we thus by way of reprehension mocke at the common mockery of the world but now it is time for me to awaken out of this extasie I remained in Rome about a Month all which while still me thought I heard the voyce of Christ saying vnto me Come forth come forth out of Babylon I come out on Gods name and passe ouer to Mompelier where God shewed me his aboundant mercie in the middest of his Church and strengthened my heart with the grace of his holy spirit So that eight yeares sithence I there put off my Monkish cowle and abiuring the grosse errors of the Romish Church I did publikly embrace the vndefiled faith of the true and Reformed Religion not without the expresse ioy of in a manner all that City And because I could not then speake the French tongue I did by the aduice of all the Pastors there apply my selfe not to the holy ministery which my losse I yet with many sighes deplore but vnto my olde intermitted study of Physicke But behold while I was thus sayling in the depths of Hyppocrates and Galen a violent tempest ouertaketh me and that was this My Father a man spent with age being fourescore yeeres olde and taking it very heauily that I had fled to the enemies of faith and heretiques so they dreamingly deeme of vs sent to Monpelier one of my elder Brethren together with a Cosen Germane of mine Priest both who for the space of eight daies did beleager mee first with faire intreaties and plentifull teares then with Arguments drawne from Diuinity and Philosophy thirdly by rewards and offers of worldly goods lastly by threats and terrible obiurgations to beate mee off from my found intent and holy resolution I think it not amisse heere to relate their language Thou hast said they twelue Neeces now mariageable which will neuer get husbands so long as thou remainest an hereticke for those who before were willing to marry them now start backe saying God forbid that we should take to wife those that are a-kin to an Hereticke Returne returne to our religion if not for conscience for we know that you are a lerned man and haue not rashly nor without shew of reason left vs yet for the honor of our stocke and blood which thou hast branded with the foule spot of infamy by forsaking the Romane Church embracing a new religion which with all the Professors thereof for they are but a few in number the King of Spaine is resolued to abolish and ruinate Returne therefore to the holy Mother Church at least for the loue and reuerence you owe to our aged Father who euer sithence the time hee heard that you were become an hereticke lieth sicke and bed-ridde pining away with griefe and sorrow Heereto I answered as became a Christian But because they would giue mee no patient audience nor affoord themselues any time to weigh my answer I vsed a very honest slight to bring my brother to the house of Falcarius a very worthy Minister of Gods Word who for the space of an whole houre did make a cleere demonstration of the falsehood of the Romish religion and truth of the Reformed out of the Tenets of them both My brother making obiection of nouelty against the Reformed religion and want of Calling and of Antiquity in Caluin and Beza and other such like Pastors M. Falcarius according to his admirable faculty made answere Sir What Religion call you new ours you are farre wide Our Religion is the most ancient if the Gospell of our Sauiour if the Epistles of Paul and of other the Apostles in a word if the new Testament if the Prophets and the whole old Testament do teach the true religiō needs must you confess that our religion is most ancient for we beleeue nothing but that which wee reade in the old and new Testament that which is drawen thence by necessary consequence Call your Religion I pray you call it new For almost euery Pope when hee commeth new into the Chaire doth impose vpon you new precepts and traditions taken out of his vnwritten word to bee beleeued and awefully obserued by you vnder paine of mortall sinne and what lawes one Pope layeth vpon you to be kept as soone as hee is gone his way by disease or by poyson another doth cancell Mat. 26. Paul 1 Cor. 11. Is not the Communion vnder both kinds very ancient being instituted by our Sauiour himselfe We with the primitiue Church and with the most ancient Fathers doe retaine the same and acknowledge both kindes to be necessary to the essence of this Sacrament Is not the worship of idols and images a new thing and forbidden very instantly in the second Commandement of the decalogue We obey this diuine prohibition but ye obey the Pope commanding adoration of Images against the expresse Word of God Is not the doctrine of Transubstantiation a nouelty crept into the Romane Church not aboue foure hundred yeeres agoe This we constantly reiect because it is repugnant to Gods word implieth a thousand contradictions and maketh those to be Idolaters that are at Masse Those words in the Scripture This is my body are to be vnderstood in the same sense and manner with those That Rocke was Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 that is to say a Sacramentall pledge whereby Christ was represented and exhibited to them Or as those words of the Patriarch Ioseph expounding Pharaohs dreame Gen. 41. v. 26. Those seauen faire kine are seauen yeeres Where the word Are is by the consent of all the Doctors taken for signifie The same Patriarch expounding the dreame of Pharaohs Butler Gen. 40.12 Those three branches are three dayes that is doe signifie them when as the Scripture saith Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular are we therefore transubstantiated into the very body of Christ are not these speeches spiritually to bee vnderstoode hereto may be added that the Hebrew tongue hath no verbe which signifieth to signifie and therefore instead thereof vseth the verbe substantiue Sum. Therefore our Sauiour speaking vulgarly could not say this signifieth my body but instead thereof said This is my body Which of the Fathers that florished the first fiue hundred yeeres after Christ did euer beleeue that we are iustified by the works of the Law and not by Faith as the holie Ghost speaketh

mischiefe as that for the preuenting thereof there should be suffred a disclosure of any one thing related in auricular confession which so rigorous institution of Confession is an inuention of his owne Verily often musing of these things Amaz'd I stood my hayre did start vpright Virgil. My voyce durst not come forth for deepe affright Vpon these and other like motiues I decreed resolued to depart out of Babylon as soon as euer I could get any cleanly opportunity Yet was there remaining one euill spirit vnconquered by me which bare a very strong hand ouer me and that was doating adoration of the Virgin Mary a disease which had long bin my bosome-darling and being bredde in my bones would very hardly come out of my flesh So deepe a deuoto of our Lady was I so duly and daily did I pray vnto her so reuerently was I woont to adore and adorne her Images whereof I had no lesse then sixe or seuen to furnish my Chamber offering vnto them sometime Flowers otherwhile the choisest fruites I could get and withall very frequently vsing those words in the Romane Breuiary fraught with blasphemies Haile Queene the Mother of mercy All haile our life our ioy our hope And O thou our Aduocate turne vnto vs those thine eyes full of pitty And those Free vs from all danger thou blessed euer-virgin thou happy gate of heauen thou Queene of heauen thou Mistresse of the whole world I was so deeply dyed heerewith that I had much adoe to quit my selfe of this habite which I had gotten by so many and so feruent actions of this kinde neyther should I euer haue shaken it off vnlesse I had with many teares prayers for long time craued assistance at Gods hands who being thus called vpon did in his mercy heare me and set me free from this spirit of error in this manner The ouer-sight and care of the Library of our Monastery beeing committed to my charge so that no man could but by my leaue borrow or carry any booke out of the Librarie into his Camber I was wont euery Saterday to view ouer all the books to set euery of them in his order Which when I did according to my custome I found one time vnder a deske amongst some cast bookes a certaine Spanish booke bearing this Title Two Treatises The first concerning the Pope and his Authority The second concerning the Masse and the holines thereof At the first sight I thought this book to haue beene made by a Papist but assoone as I had read ouer the Epistle to the Reader I was taken with more ioy then I was able to expresse I iudged that I had found no small treasure I kept it as a most precious pearle I shewed it to no man I read it all ouer Among other things I found there a certain history taken out of Trithemius in manner following In the yeere of our Lord 1470. one Allen of the Frocke a Dominicall Friar deuised and composed the Rosary of our Lady which neglecting the Gospel of our Lord and Sauiour hee preached abroad and so this Booke was published wherein are related many myracles of the Virgin Mary wrought by vertue of this Rosary A little after the beginning the Authour telleth a Tale that Once vpon a time the blessed Virgin Mary came into the Chamber or cell of this Friar Allen and hauing made a ring of a locke of her owne haire she by deliuery of it betroathed her selfe vnto him kissed him and offered to him her paps to be handled and sucked by him and finally conuersed with this sweete Fryar Allen as familiarly as the spouse is wont to doe with her mate Who hath the patience to read or heare this Out vpon such ribald blasphemies and blasphemous ribaldries Verily I blush for shame whilst I write out these things But I yeelde from my heart all praise to Almighty GOD for that presently vpon reading this homely Tale the former deuotion which I bare to the Virgin Mary grew key-cold The truth is I presently beheld a certaine new light shining out of the Gospel of our Sauiour whence I was fully instructed that we haue onely one Aduocate with God the Father namely Iesus Christ 1 Ioh. 2.1 but as for an Aduocatresse we finde there no newes of any such Euer since this my life seemed irkesome vnto me because I had no fit opportunity to make an escape and to repaire to some place where I might freely publish that Religion which I had entertained into my heart I was then surprized with a violent disease of that sort which we Physitians call acute per decidentiam In the height consistence of which sicknesse I vowed vnto God that if I recouered I would forthwith adioyne my selfe vnto the true Christians which worship God in spirit and truth Ioh. 4.23 As soone as I made this vow I began to recouer and for the sooner regaining of my health I did get leaue to goe to the place where I was borne and to remaine there for two months Thither I went there I remained and recouered my perfect health This my appointed time being expired my Father brethren and kinsfolk thinking that I had returned to our Monastery I conueied my selfe to a Port in the Mediterranean Sea called Caulibre there I tooke ship thence went too Rome with intent to see whither Christian Religion do flourish more in that City which is called the Head of the world then in Spaine as also that I might beholde the worlds wonders which are at Rome which if I had not seene verily I shold haue euer longed to behold them What shall I say Scarse found I in Rome any thing that did not giue me offence and scandall What is there at Rome that filleth all mens eyes and eares but the Popes diuine power the Popes Holinesse the Popes Indulgency Pardons and Iubilees Nothing at Rome is trumpeted out with more ful mouth then the most Holy Father the Head of the Church God vpon earth But as for the seauen headed Beast that is by the Angels interpretation seuen-hilled City and as for that Woman Reuel 17.9 with whom the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication that is by the same interpretation that great City Reuel 17.28 which hath dominion ouer the Kings of the earth of these and such like Prophesies bent directly enough against the grand-children of Romalus there is no newes now to be heard among the Romanes Walking there viewing the Churches Lord what ougly superstition doe I behold As one waue crowdeth another so doe their new Saints shoulder out the olde A fresh yesterdaies Saint there is that hath already gotten three new Churches at Rome new built and founded vnto him and their wals from top to the floare garnished with pictures and tablets dedicated to him Of this vpstart I would not speake if the Romanes would at any time leaue speaking of him and cease with so lowd throats to