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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.

that I did heare and when I heard I was vnwilling to heare I would not heare At the length when God had brought me to heare in some good measure he taught me to consider of diuers things the which for breuities sake I will omitte to speake of in this place by consideration he bread in me a doubting of the estate of my soule by doubting he wrought a desire of the cleare knowledge of his trueth the which as then I had no meanes to atteine but by the secret manuduction of his holy spirite and the reading of holy scriptures by bothe which it pleased his heauenly Maiestie of his accustomed mercie to reforme my strayed iudgement and thus by little and little he taught me as it were the first rudiments of his true faith and at the last he caused me absolutely to resolue to come forth of Babylon But such was the malice of the deuill the auncient enemie of mankinde that seeing and enuying this my resolution he cast such a stumbling blocke in my way that for a whole yeeres space I was not able to moue it much lesse to remoue it This blocke in deede was heauy and very heauy consisting of two woods of life and of death First he layed before me the terror of death the rigor of the lawes and my iust desertes in transgressing the same against this I opposed my voluntary submission presidents that had escaped the like danger and haue before me occupied this place and most of all her Maiesties clemencie and most gracious mercie vsed towardes all especially to men of my coate and profession This part of his stumbling blocke being but a little stirred he assaulted me presently with a second thing of no lesse importance then the first which was mine owne estate in this maner That admit my life were spared yet I had not to looke for any liuing or maintenance and hauing of my selfe none I should by recanting bring my selfe to pouertie and misery and be of none accompt Whereas now I wanted nothing I could wish for and was reputed amongst the best Against this I had nothing to oppose but onely an vncertaine hope as I thought of her Maiesties bountie and the wisdome and charitable care of her honorable counsaile for the prouiding for of such manner of persons Briefely after the deuill had throughly wrought in me the feare and vncertaintie of both life and liuing therein he left me miserablie deiected and wrestling in so much that for a great space after I remained here and there in the countrey for vpon this my resolution I quite forsooke the chiefe place of my vsuall staye and abode but could proceede no further till at the last in place where I was in my secrete chamber word was brought me of the taking of one of my coate whom I wel knew These newes bread in me such a present feare that from thenceforth I could not be in quiet Wherefore with as much conuenient speede as might be I prouided for my iourney towards London whither being come because I was in the place as it were a meere stranger and being acquainted with no one to whom I durst impart my minde in a matter so dangerous I was by reason of my feares aforesaid constrained to deferre my submission vntill it would please God either to offer me fit opportunitie thereto by some one or other or that he should endue me with sufficient courage and fortitude to peforme my determinate purpose the which at the length of his great goodnes he graunted me but making me to knowe withall that his honour and glory must alwayes be sought of me whether it be for my temporall auaile or disaduantage Thus at the last he hath deliuered me from all mine enemies for which great worke and mercie of his what haue I but with the prophet Dauid to say Benedictus Deus qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium laqueus contritus est nos liberati sumus Blessed be God which hath not giuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth Our soule is escaped euen as a birde out of the foulers snare the snare is broken and we are deliuered It followeth touching the a●iuration of those errors which once I held but now detest that I speake somewhat To stand vpō euery particular it is not my meaning neither doe I purpose to make any long discourse vpon those poynts which I will touch also I meane to speake but of a fewe things because this time will not suffer me to handle many neither these fewe as I would If my order in placing the poynts handled seeme preposterous to the learned I preferre their iudgements and desire them to pardon my wants and accept herein my dutifull labours Furthermore if at the first I shall attempt to put the axe to the roote of the tree whereon the rest of the branches growe I shall at once ouerthrowe both the one and the other and because I will leaue my selfe more scope though otherwise I could finde sufficient I will beginne with some particular branches and so descend to the bodie and roote but whether I beginne at the toppe or in the middle it is no great matter for my meaning is to destroy all though not in all yet in my selfe First therefore to speake of the worshipping of Images which the aduerse part holdeth for great pietie and religion I can finde no warrant therefore in holy writ but contrarily I finde it expresly forbidden with fearefull curses therefore threatned as in the second commandement of the first table it is forbidden in these wordes Thou shalt make thee no grauen Image neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth thou shalt not bow downe to them nor serue them Also when ye are come ouer Iordan c. ye shal driue out all the inhabiters of the land before you and destroy all their pictures and breake asunder all their images of mettall c. That worshippers of Images are accursed we reade in Deu. these words Cursed be the man that shal make any carued or molten Image which is an abominatiō vnto the Lord. Also in another place Miserable which may import so much as to say accursed are they among the dead is their hope that call them gods which are the works of mens hands golde and siluer and the thing that is inuented by arte c. Many other places I could alledge against the making and worshipping of images but I will omit them onely I will rehearse vnto you the wordes of Tertullian vpon this matter so I will passe further God saith he hath forbidden an Image aswel to be made as to be worshipped c. And a little after hee goeth forward in this sort Some one or other to mainteine idolatrie will say Why then did Moses make the

ye are saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should boast himselfe whereby it is euident that mens merits auaile not to iustification and therfore this doctrine of the aduersaries together with the rest I renounce and abiure As for the authoritie of princes in matters Ecclesiasticall for in Temporall I knowe no doubt had not Iosua Dauid Salomon and other Kings and Rulers power to commaunde and intermeddle in causes Ecclesiasticall Did not Iosua cōmand and appoint the Priests and Leuites how and in what manner they should carry the Arke of God and by warrant from Gods owne mouth direct and gouerne them in the bearing thereof ouer the waters of Iordan Did not God often times manifest the disposing of holy things to the Kings rather then to the Priests which in no case he would haue done if his will had bene that they should haue had no dealings in such kind of causes As for the examples of Dauid Salomon because the wordes of text are too long to recite I referre the Christian audience to the perusing of these places of scripture viz. 1. Chron. 13. 15. 16. chap. the 7. 8. and 9. Chap. of the third booke of Kings according to some translations according to other some the first booke By these and diuers other testimonies both of the olde and new Testament I haue sufficient warrant to acknowledge not onely the right and authoritie of my dread soueraigne in causes Ecclesiasticall within all her Maiesties Dominions but also of all Christian kings and Princes in their proper landes and Realmes and the contrary doctrine as ful of lurking poyson I renounce and abiure And here I will ende with the Pope as the roote and body from whence whereon all branches of errors and superstitions do grow but because I haue already plainly declared vnto you his grossenesse or rather impudencie in doctrine I shall haue lesse occasion to stand vpon himselfe for by the fruite we are to iudge what the tree is It is impossible saith Christ that a man should gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles euen so it is impossible that a man should draw vertuous and wholesome doctrine forth of an infected fountaine such an one as the Pope is who seeketh his owne glory and mainteineth his glory by his owne doctrine neglecting or rather contemning both the glory doctrine of Christ Whose insolent pride and vsurping authoritie ouer all Christian kings and Princes as also his deuilish madnesse in opposing himselfe against God and his Church by sowing the seede of false doctrine in the hearts of people make me to confesse him to be that abomination of desolation sitting in the holy place which was prophecied by Daniel and mentioned of our Sauiour Christ himselfe in S. Matthewes Gospel Wherefore as an infectiue poyson and creeping canker I loath detest and abiure him renounce his authoritie from hencefoorth vtterly reclayme from the whole heape and masse of all his confused errors and deuilish opinions whatsoeuer aswell those hereafter to bee inuented and published as those already by him his taught and authorised Also I denie that he hath any power authoritie or iurisdiction ouer our soueraigne and gracious Queene Elizabeth or ouer any of her Highnesse subiects and liege people either in causes Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and in defence of this doctrine in particular as also of all the poyntes of true religion taught in this Realme and by her gracious Maiestie aucthorised I now my selfe and whatsoeuer from henceforth I shalbe able to performe And I am heartily sorie that euer I offended in professing the contrary my merciful God my dread Soueraigne my deare countrey First therefore with penitent heart prostrate soule before the tribunall of the Almightie I desire his diuine Maiestie for his mercies sake and for his onely some Iesus Christ his sake to regard mee at this present with his merciful eyes and from henceforth to guide and protect mee with his mightie hand that I may alwaies rest vnder the shadow of his wings and at the dreadfull day of his iudgement that he impute not vnto mee my grieuous sinnes and transgressions but that he wil burie them in the sacred and precious wounds of his deare Sonne and couer them with the vaile of his holy mercies Secondly I beseech my soueraigne and gracious Queene to pardon my ignorances presumptions and whatsoeuer besides I haue offended in eyther against her or her Maiesties godly lawes proceedings with bended knees beseeching her Highnesse to accept of my humble and voluntarie submission and to admit me again into the number of her Maiesties loyall subiects and from hencefoorth I vowe vnto her Maiestie my true seruice and duetifull obedience Furthermore I craue pardon of all men in generall whom I haue any wayes scandalized and offended but most especially those whome by erronious doctrine I haue mislead praying heartily to God that they al may be so sincerely cōuerted as my selfe am Lastly I humbly beseech this honourable Christian assembly to pardon my confessed crime and to accept mee as a member of your mystical body vnder our head Iesus Christ And for that I doubt not but that your deuout mindes are readily mooued thereunto I wil omit to vse any further instigation therein but will leaue the matter wholy to the motion and working of Gods holy spirit in all men To conclude for as much as I haue bene credibly enfourmed by some and haue further found it extant in writing that some in this our Realme and in other places haue promised sworne subscribed and for a time vsed the holy Sacraments in the Church deceitfully against their owne conscience minding hereby first vnder the externall cloake of religion to corrupt and subuert secretely Gods true religion within the Church and afterward when time hath serued became open enemies and persecutors of the same vnder vaine hope of the Popes dispensation deuised against the worde of God to his great confusion and their double condemnation at the day of iudgement being willing for mine owne part so farre foorth as in me lieth to take away all suspition of such hypocrisie dissimulation and double dealing with God and his Church I protest before the dreadfull Maiestie of Almightie God who is the searcher of all hearts that my heart and minde doe fully agree with my vttered speaches Moreouer that I haue not nor euer had any dispensation Bull or any maner of facultie for any such purpose Also that I haue not bene moued to this present act by any constraint or rigor vsed or for any worldly respect or hope of gaine or other sinister cause whatsoeuer but onely by the meere perswasion of conscience through the knowledge and loue of Gods true religion begun in my heart by the holy Ghost the profection and perfection whereof I leaue to the mercifull working of his diuine power to whome with