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A17128	An embassage from heauen Wherein our Lord Sauiour Christ Iesus giueth to understand his iust indignation against al such, as being Catholikely minded, dare yeelde their presence to the rites and publike praier, of the malignant church, by Ralphe Buckham priest ...	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1611 (1611)	STC 4007; ESTC S115956	47,408	131

be good and needes be good because they honour God Ah ingenious impiety how thou turnest and tossest to winde from thy accuser nay rather ah foolish stubborne blindnesse which wil not see that which is as cleare as noone day which taketh for one or as not much different those thinges which are as wide distant as the two poles of heauen To take your selues for a particular Church is vnpossible for a heedlesse multitude who haue neither Temple Altar Priest nor Sacrifice neither distict members nor any band of vnion Aswel you may thinke of going at the latter day neither to heauen nor to hel as to thinke in this life of a Neutrality Blinde you are if you perceiue not your selues to be seperated from my Church but if you imagine that those whom you cleaue vnto may be my congregation and that in their praiers holynesse or in their faith saluation may be found then are ye both blinde and impious Pro. 17. Take heede what you say to justifie the wicked is as detestable as to condemne the just Wil you diuide my Church whose especial marke and property is vnity or wil you giue me two Bodies mistical two Spouses vnspotted two chast Turtles two Citties on hilles two Kingdomes two Families two Pillars of truth Am I an adulterer or am I deuorsed from my loue To say that Protestants may by their profession be saued is either to make an other God beside me or to make me none to make an other summum bonum or to make me euil to league me with Lucifer or to make Iehonah Sathan to conclude me as authour of dissention or patron of impiety a double dissembler or a flat Heretike If I can haue two Churches so different in rites so contrary in doctrine so naturally and necessarily tending the one to the vtter extirpation of the other then giue me two heauens for them and contrary glories for their opposite deserts Diuide my God-head vvith furious Manes and defend one God good and an other euil or say that I am mutable good and badde by enter-change of places and enter-course of times If there bee two Churches prouide them of two Christes if there be two Moones finde them two Sunnes An other Sunne to lighten this other Moone an other Christ to illuminate this other Church an other Redeemer to wash her in his bloud an other Holy Ghost to Sanctifie her for I dyed but for one my diuine Spirit sanctifieth but one If on the other side 18. The perfect opposition and contrariety of Catholikes and Pro●t●stants you joyne Caluinists with Catholikes in one Church then set togither the Woolfe with the Lambe couple the Lyon vvith the Hart the Gos-hawke vvith the Partridge and they shal wel agree No no heauen and hel haue as much affinity as haue these ●wo religions and shal assoone shake handes the one being sure the other surmised the one infallible the other vnpossible the one founded by my selfe from the beginning and vpon a Rocke the other newly reared by mans imaginations cherished for pollicy hauing no other ground then flitting and foundring sand the one intituled by prescription the other setled in possession the one erected by diuine prouidence the other seazed by intrusion and to be briefe the one mine the other Belzebubs the one diuine the other Deuilish Where are my indifferent mates that can beare two faces in one hood carry fire in one hand and water in the other that can breathe both hotte and cold that can hold with the Hare and runne with the Hound Weather-cocks vvhich turne with the winde Camelions transforming their hew according to the present object which they see Let them vnfould the whole sardle of their fancies and bring me forth the golden meane which they so much commend Combine me fire and vvater in one bundle make me vnderstand oh ye Neuters how these two faiths can be recon●iled together or constitute one faithful company being so opposite that of necessity the one must be plaine blasphemy or the other Idolatry For as much as my dreadful Eucharist is irresragably beleeued by the one to be my true body not in figure but in verity not in conceipt but in re not in shadow but in substance not in faith only but by my personal presence and consequently is adored with due veneration whereas by Hugonots and other Heretikes it is injuriously reuiled vpbraided as an Idol torne spit at and troden vnder foote beastly Monsters as they are Of other maine differences consider vvith your selues the particularities in number of Sacraments in vse of Images in inuocation of Saints in forgiuenesse of Sinnes in heauenly Glory in Infernal paines in Iustification of the liuing in praying for the Dead in Faith Hope and Charity in Fastings and Praiers in Sinne and Merit in Predestination and Free-wil in Scriptures in Traditions and almost in the whole summe of Faith Shal Arius Nestorius and Eutiches with other old Heretikes be justly credited by vniuersal consent of al ages and by your owne verdicts to roare in the bottomelesse pit for one or two points for further they went not and stagger ye vvhat to thinke of them who haue tossed ouer euery stone reuersed the whole frame of faith and turned al vpside-downe Or is not rather their departure and diuision from my Church a sufficient vvarrant of their judgement though but in one point only they varied from the faith 19. How abhominable the Scriptures praiers and Churches of Heretikes a●● Caluinisme then being doctrine so diabolical what are the fruits thereof what are al thinges which depend vpon it or are annexed thereunto Haue this for certaine vvhatsoeuer concurreth with my saith concurreth with me and whatsoeuer hath affinity with heresie conspireth with Sathan who is the father of lying and fosterer of falshood You mistake much if you take their Scriptures to be my word Fie none of mine they are the word of the Deuil false adulterated poisoned peruerted ful of corruptions which belie me in euery leafe and make my spirit to speake thinges which I neuer thought oppugning my faith and church for whose maintenance and comfort they were inspired I disclaime from them as from a counterfaite copy and reuounce them as no deede of mine You erre if you thinke their praiers to be praiers whatsoeuer they say Hierom. in c. 4. Osee whatsoeuer they sing it is in my eares the howling of Wolues the bellowing of Bulles the screetching of Owles the mutual answering of night Rauens in the deserts Oh how illusion bewitcheth you if yo● deeme Ministers to succeede in the authority of my chaire and participate in my keies they are of heresie heresies pensioners officers of Antichrist his Heralds his Prolocutors his Scribes his Preachers his fore-runners his Apostles and the Angels of his Kingdome Lesse danger to the body is to sucke Adders egges then to the soule ministration of their prophane bread and better it were to swil the dregges of a fatal

doe the workes of children if you be my seruants doe the vvorkes of seruants Haue accesse to my Priests frequent my Sacraments cleanse your soules by humble confession and penance haue in due reuerence my rights and ceremonies honour my seruice with your presence prostrate your selues before my holy Altar lifting vp pure hartes and handes Adore with zealous indeauour at the houre of my dreadful Sacrifice when propitiation for the liuing and dead when memory of your Redeemer is celebrated This seeke through fire and vvater through swordes and snares Let neither distance of miles nor friuoulous danger of places nor surmised peril of your owne persons impeach Godly indeauours what should I say more declare by your deuotion that you hunger and thirst saluation and that you set by nothing so much as by the exercises of your religion and the presence of me your Sauiour Aboue al flie the Synagogues of Sathan flie al prophane praiers al heretical cōuenticles al vngodly rites al participation with any thing that belongeth to the table and cuppe of Deuils This doe and then cal me Father of heauen and the Church Mother of earth I wil blesse you in life and shee shal present you to meat your death Here you straine courtesie here flesh and bloud reclaimeth the spirit taking the foile and the old man triumphing 14. Schismatikes justly repelled from the Sacraments some of you discharge themselues of their crimes by mystewards ouer rigorous austerity and by cōplaint of injury in being secluded from my sacred misteries vnderstand ye what ye aske oh ye hypocrites in this one thing only happy that your suite is suspended and prudently rejected by those which know that they are ordained for dispensers not for spenders and vvasters of my celestial prouision and that the childrens foode is not to be giuen to dogges nor pearles to be cast before swine why demaunde ye that which would augment your damnation which though most diuine yet would no more sanctifie you then it did Iudas nor more preuaile you then the Arke did profit the Philistian The sweetest conserues in vndisposed stomackes turne to gal and choller the most nourishing meates breede most annoy in infected bodies and nothing is wholsome where wanteth digestion What flower or herbe the Spider feedeth on turneth to venom be it neuer so pleasant and vvhat Serpents deuour turneth to poison be it neuer so wholsome How dare you proffer to approch to my Altar where so great a Majesty is resident vvithout sufficient examination and proofe of your worthinesse how can ye be proued vnlesse ye be purged how purged but by penance how admitted to penance and pardon either not acknowledging your guilt or not in purpose of amendment Wel then 15. Schismatiks are to be presumed for Heretikes and why among my Catholikes since you are not where shal I finde you where are your raunges being that you cleaue to Sectaries in actes of their Schismatical profession I pronounce you Protestants whose proceedings in departure from the faith though in priuate opinion or possibly in talke ye reproue yet by presence at their houses of Idolatry you in appearance honour by obeying you allow by example you further by deedes you confirme by dissembling you establish You goe thither as one of them you sit there as one of them you behaue your selfe reuerently as one of them The Caluinist taketh you for Proselites and as either conuerted or conformed not altogether abhorring their pretended religion not ouer resolute in the old faith and finally as persons not farre from their Kingdome The poore Catholike scandalized at your impiety frameth no other conceipt then that either you are quite peruerted to heresie or at leastwise that your faith is in the wane that your Sunne is set your deuotion done the light of your soule extinguished that you are lost sheepe distemblers Schismatikes and at the brinke of bottomelesse heresie And haue not thinke you the one and the other just reason of their censure You giue your hand though you vvith-hold your hart you weare the Deuils coate though you cal him not Lord you honour him though you hate him though you abhon● him yet you obey him 16. Those which goe to the cōuēticles of Heretical rites are justly and properly called Schismatikes Abhominable is Schisme and ●o●rible is the name of a Schismatike but why should this be a word of offence to whom the subject thereof and the sacrilege of so great a sinne is neither shame nor remorse Men are men not priuy to the secre●s of harts the vnderstanding censureth as by the senses is deliuered The Church therefore judgeth by that which shee seeth not by that which shee seeth not The deede as reason wil doth prejudice the contrary word and vpon the fact riseth sentence of faith When my Church in her first prime vvas nipped vvith sharpe persecution so that diuers blossomes sel from her branches those which through passionate feare condescended to Idolatry vvere by the Bretheren condemned as fallen from their faith rejected as Apostataes and denounced excommunicated neither receiued againe vvithout publike satisfaction and many yeares penance He that should keepe the Saterday holy and pray with Iewes in their congregation were to be supposed a Iew Euery man would exclaime against the fact vvithout caring for the cause He that entreth any of Mahomets meschits prayeth in his Temples or kisseth the bookes of his law is of euery Christian man defied for a Runnegate and of the Turkes priuileged for a Boserman no man inquiring whether loue of their Mahometry or dread of extremity whether carnal sensuality and liberty of their law or worldly prosperity did moue him fixing their eies vpon his outward action men let the intention repose it selfe in the prosound abisme of the hart what then should hinder why you also associating Heretikes in their actions yea principal and proper actions of their profession should not be blazoned for a sherents to Infidelity bearing the blot of depa●ters from my Church Catholike and consequently of Schismatical persons 17. Protestāts cannot be of the Catholike Church neither in their faith can be saluation I know I know what it is that lieth at your hart a mischiefe so corrupting your appetite that it destreth not good and your tast that it discerneth not euil a priuy poison but so pestiterous so benumming not the senses but the soule that if it be not exhausted an incureable letargy a mortal and euerlasting sleepe ensueth ye are not perswaded forsooth that the Protestants religion is so abhominable they are to precise which either make them Heretikes or thinke that Heretikes must needes miscarry What we be al Christians beleeue in one Sauiour expect one heauen and enjoy one redemption Haue not al men soules to saue little diffe●ences make no great square in the foundation we agree At leastwise whatsoeuer their liues be wicked and doctrine false their praiers and Churches must needs be of God because they