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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

the Father and the Sonne be all honour prayse power and dominion nowe and for euer Amen God saue the Queene THE RECANTATION of THOMAS CLARKE made in an other publike assemblie and congregation after the hearing of Diuine seruice and a Sermon made by M. MVNSEY Preacher and before the holy Communion which together with others I there and then receiued on Easter day being the 15. of Aprill 1593. I There standing before the dreadfull throne of almightie God and the face of the present congregation humblie confessed my selfe to haue bene for the space of these fiue yeres last past a traitour to God an enemie to his holy Church and Gospel a professor of the errors and deuilish opinions of papistrie and consequently a rebellious tratour to my Soueraigne prince and deare countrie Howe that about fiue yeres past I departed my natiue countrey and went into forraigne landes beyonde the seas without the leaue or authoritie of any Magistrate wherby I incurred the danger of the lawes prouided and instituted for the same cause How that being beyond the seas I suffred my selfe to be perswaded by the counsaile of lewd and seditious men to take vpon me the gawling yoke and ouerswaying burthen of popish priest hoode and for that cause I went into the kingdome of France to the Vniuersitie of Rhemes where I studied certaine yeres was then made priest shortly after was by the President of the English Seminarie Colledge at Rhemes sent into England to the ende and intent to withdrawe the peoples heartes from the true seruice of God and their dutifull obedience towardes their prince vnto the pernicious and damnable errors of papistrie and the tyranical subiection and slauerie of the Pope Whom together with diuers of his antecessors successors I acknowledged to be that cōtinuate whore of Babilon and that antichrist whom Saint Iohn hath most liuely painted foorth and described in his Reuelations In this danable businesse aforesaid I confessed y t I had laboured for the space of two yeeres cōmitting dayly more and more high treason against God my Souerainge and most gratious Queene affirming that w tout all doubte I had obstinatly died in that wicked damnable estate as many of my coate and profession had done before if by Gods will I had bene apprehended in any search or by any other meanes before the grace of God had lightened the blindnes of my vnderstanding which by his holy prouidence and tender mercy was in due time powred and that aboundantly into the festered woundes of my gasping soule For being forcibly touched with the diuine finger of Gods holy spirite I began to reuiue and manifestly to see my desperate estate and deuilish madnesse Then was I taught by Gods holy spirite and the reading of holy Scriptures that I ought to be subiect and obedient to my soueraigne prince That mans iustification and righteousnesse commeth not of himselfe by his owne merits but that it is the free gift of God through faith in Iesu Christ That praying to Images is flat Idolatrie That praying to Saintes Purgatorie mens traditions and such like are damnable errors and derogatorie to the honor of God That in Christs holy supper we doe eate his flesh and drinke his blood spiritually through faith not grosly and carnally as before I helde That the dayly offering vp of Christ in the masse is damnable and derogatorie to the death and passion of Christ Lastly I confessed my selfe to be heartily sory for hauing herein so highly offended God my Soueraigne and the world humbly crauing pardon for the same And there I did from the bottome of my heart soule abiure and renounce the Pope and al his tyrannicall power iurisdiction abhorre and detest the masse and al the heape of his wicked errors and damnable opinions whatsoeuer as wel those which I haue not here mentioned as those which I haue here touched by testimonies of holy scriptures briefly confuted And with all reuerence of soule and sinceritie of conscience I then did now doe and for euer by Gods grace will embrace the true faith and wholsome doctrine of Iesus Christ This done I desired the people to say for me the Lords prayer which they did to the ende I might easely obtaine of God truely to bee inserted into his mysticall body and made a liuely member of his holy Church that I might bee a woorthy partaker of his heauenly table and that I might hereafter faithfully walke all the dayes of my life in the true light of his holy Gospel Moreouer I then certified the assembly do now by these presents verifie y ● I vndertooke not this present matter either constrayned or for feare of torture the Magistrates well knowing y t mans faith is not to be wrested by violence or for the auoiding of any displeasure or for hope of fauour or for any sinister cause whatsoeuer but simply and sincerly for y ● honor of God who hath wroght in me this wonderfull worke for the edifying of his Church satisfying of the world This clause I openly protested to y e people after my speech being demanded by the preacher aforesaid in the pulpit thereof as also of this viz. that I had receiued neither frō y e pope nor frō any of his agents nor any mā no dispensatiō licence bull or facultie to dissemble my conuersion neither that I euer as yet heard of any such thing to haue bin granted if there were I acknowledged my simplicitie to be such that I was not accompted a man sufficient to haue so prodigious a matter committed to my trust and charge This is the sūme effect of my speaches to the people And whatsoeuer I then said I do presently confirme in and vnder myne owne hand writing And if this my present acte and that which I haue already performed seeme not sufficient to the eies and iudgments of the wise to testifie the sinceritie and true meaning of my inward repentant soule I am further readie dutifully to perfourme whatsoeuer within my power shall be demaunded at my handes and am willing to spende my life for my Soueraignes safety and my countries good against whome I haue so vnduetifully and vnnaturally rebelled Imprinted at London by the Deputies of CHRISTOPHER BARKER Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Mat. 7. Rom. 14. 1. Pet. 3. Iohn 5. Mal. 2. Iohn 3. Psalme 116. Mat. 11. Rom. 11. Psal 118. Psal 21. Psal 123. Exod. 20. Numb 34. Deut. 27. Wisd 13. Tert. de Idol Psal 118. Reuel 14. Eccle. 9. Matth. 11. Ioh. 14. 1. Tim. 2. Heb. 8. Heb. 10. 1. Pet. 3. Rom. 3. Iosh 3. Mat. 7. Dan. 9. Mat. 24.

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