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B12171	The voluntarie conuersion and seuerall recantations, of foure great learned men, professed fryers in sundry monasteries of Fraunce, from the errours of idolatrie and poperie, to the true religion established in the Reformed Church. 1. Master Iohn Le Vager, a priest in the Romane Church, conuerted at Mauns, Ianuary 6. 2. Master Iohn Forent, a fryer Carmelite, in the Court of Morthemard, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Poictiers, Iune, 9. 3. Master Denis Boucher, a Franciscane fryer, in the couent of Noisy, neere Paris, conuerted in the Reformed Church of Paris, Iuly. 6. 4. Master Daniell Dusert, Franciscan fryer at Mello, conuerted in the Church of Mello, December, 22. All conuerted this last yeare, 1603. as their seuerall discourses following at large doe testifie, vnder their owne hands. Truely translated, out of the French printed copies.		1604 (1604)	STC 5650; ESTC S114587	31,204	52

2. Iohn 2. 12. 13. 14. names sake Againe I write vnto you Fathers c. Also I write vnto you young men c. And then I write vnto you babes Doe they not likewise teach that it is not lawfull to reade the holy Scriptures as also not to pray or cal vpon the name of God but in the Latine tongue and make a very strict obseruation thereof And is not this contrarie to the spirit of God speaking thus by his blessed Apostle I had rather in the church to speake fiue words with mine vnderstanding that I might also 2. Cor. 14. 19. instruct others then ten thousand words in a strange language In the Church of Rome they also teach that some others beside Iesus Christ haue beene exempted from sinne but doe they not lye in so saying when the Apostle speaks thus Wherfore as by one man sinne entred into the world and by sin death Rom. 5. 12. and so death went ouer all men forasmuch as all men haue sinned Beside this they maintaine that man hath free will as easily to saue himselfe as to perish contrary to the instruction of saint Iohn Baptist saying A man can receiue nothing except it bee giuen him from heauen And the Apostle also saith It is GOD Iohn 3. 27. Phil. 2. 13. which worketh in you both the will and the deede euen of his own good pleasure Moreouer they erre greatly teaching that our workes are meritorious to saluation before God against that which the Prophet Esay saith All our righteousnesse is like the filthy Esa 64. 6. clouts of a menstruous woman And against that also which Damel saith Wee doe not O Lord present our supplications before thee for our owne righteousnesse but for thy great tender mercies Dan. 9. 18. Do not they likewise maintaine that wee are iustified and saued by the workes of the Lawe and not by faith and the mercie of God onely Contrarie to the Apostles wordes By Ephes 2. 8. 9. grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God Not of workes least any man should boast himselfe Contrarie also to this to Timothie That God hath saued vs and called vs with an holy calling not according to our works 2. Tim. 1. 9. hut according to his owne purpose and grace which was giuen to vs through Christ Iesus before the world was Contrary likewise Rom. 3. 28. to this to the Romanes Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the Lawe Is it not common speach also as well in their writings as also in their preachings that we ought to stand doubtful of our saluation Contrarie to Saint Paule to the Hebrewes saying Let Heb. 4 16. vs goe boldly to the throne of grace that we may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede Contrarie also to his writing to the Romanes where he saith For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor Rom. 8. 38. 39. depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And contrarie also to his writing to the Corinthians That God hath sealed vs 2. Cor. 1. 22. and hath giuen the earnest of his spirit in our hearts Doe they not defend and manifestly against the worde of God thas we haue other Mediatours and Aduocates then Iesus Christ to wit both hee-Saints and she-Saints Contrarie to Saint Paule writing thus For there is one God and one Mediatour betweene God and man which is the man Christ Iesus 2. Tim. 2. 5. Contrarie likewise to the Euangelist Saint Iohn in two seueral places of his Gospell Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the father in my Iohn 14. 13. Iohn 16. 23. name he will giue it vnto you Thus falling from errour to errour they ordaine appoint that we must call vpon those Saints and declare to them our miseries and necessities which no man can do but meerely in vaine because both he-Saints and she-Saints can take no acknowledgement of our wants according to the saying of the Prophet Esay Abraham is ignorant of vs and Iacob knowes vs Esa 63. 16. not thou O Lord art our Father and our Redeemer thy name is for euer How doe they labour likewise to perswade the world concerning the necessity of prayers for the dead or those faithfull soules which they say are enclosed in Purgatorie directly contrary to our Lord and Sauiours owne words as the Euangelist sets downe VVhosoeuer beleeueth in the Sonne shall not Iohn 3. 18. be condemned And in the first Chapter of the same Gospell Verily verily I say vnto you he that heareth my word and beleeueth Iohn 5. 24. in him that sent mee hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but hath passed from death vnto life Continually they preach that there is another kinde of Purgatorie then that which is contained in the bloud onely of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Quite contrarie to the blessed Apostle writing thus If we acknowledge our sinnes hee is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnese And as it followeth in the 1. Iohn 1. 9. second Chapter of the same Epistle We haue an Aduocat with the Father to wit Iesus Christ the Iust And hee is the propitiation 1. Iohn 2. 1. 2. for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world Why then it is most false that there is a third place beside Paradise and hel where the soules of the faithfull departing from this world are to be tormented before they can be brought to heauen Contrarie to the Prophet Esay who saith The iust man dying enters into peace and rest Esa 57. 1. 2. And in the wisdome of Salomon it is written The soules of the righteous are in the hand of God no torment shall touch them Sapi. 3. 1. Also saint Iohn the diuine saith in the Apocalipse Blessed are Apoc. 14. 13. the dead which hereafter die in the Lord. Euen so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them In like manner they teach that to obtaine remission of our sinnes we must make an account of them and number all our sinnes in auricular confession by which hellish cordes they strangle the conscience binding it to impossible things Acding to the saying of the Prophet Dauid That his sinnes surmounted Psalm 40. 12. in number the haires of his head Again he saith Who can vnderstand all his faults cleanse me O Lord from my secret Psalm 19. 12. faults Yet not thus contented they teach beside that by the greatnesse of our bodies punishments and contritions we may gain remission of our sins life euerlasting Against that which S.

deliuer me out of the denne of Lyons lodge mee in the fold among his owne flocks Moreouer to craue pardon of him for my hainous transgressions committed in that since the time when hee gaue me a taste of his truth I stoode out like a Rebell to the light thereof resisting the blessed Spirit and deferring ouer-long the time of my conuersion But to the end that such as haue hitherto heere held mee for a member of the Church of Rome may not preiudicately conceiue that I haue thence dismembred or cut off my selfe lightly and without a great reason or subiect it is expedient that I deliuer the principall cause which heerunto hath moued me and that is nothing else but this sole reason That out of the Church of God there is no saluation For euen as during the time of the Deluge all those men that found themselues to bee out of Noahs Arke were drowned euen so all they that are out of the Church shall perish and no one person shall obtaine the eternall inheritance if first of all he haue not God for his Father and there is no man can haue him for his Father except he haue the Church for his Mother And forasmuch as the spirit of God hath giuen mee to knowe that the Church of Rome is not his Church but only this the true reformed Church desiring to bee saued I haue quitted the one to enter into the bosome of the other And although I can by many reasons approue and clearely shewe that the Church of Rome is not the Church of God yet for auoyding of prolixitie I will produce but three onely the verie least whereof is sufficient to perswade mee vndoubtedly and all such as are endued with the vnction which teacheth all thinges that that Church can not any way bee it The first is that euery congregation which abolisheth the commaundementes of God to establish other that are contrarie to them doth by this meanes breake the affinitie which it had with God and forsaking the same can no way bee the Church of God The Church of Rome hath abrogated or abolished the commaundements of God and hath established others quite contrarie to them by which meanes she hath broken the band of alliance with God and so forsaken God It ensueth then that it cannot be the Church of God Now for better iustifying the minor of this argument wee neede to regarde nothing else but what God hath required of a Church for approbation to bee his by the two first commandements of the Lawe For the first he will bee knowne of her to bee God onely and as such a one to bee serued honoured and adored forbidding to haue any other Gods before him or to giue them any part of his glorie Exod. 20. 3. The Church of Rome hath so farre failed in the keeping of this commaundement as shee hath altogether practised the contrarie receiuing an innumerable multitude of Gods vnder the name of Saints by the Pope Canonized which is as much to say as Deified and to them hath attributed and rendered the selfe same honour seruice and adoration which onely ought for GOD to bee reserued For shee inuokes and calles vpon them makes vowes to them buildes Temples to them erectes Altars ordaines feastes celebrates diuine honour and seruice to them all which thinges doe appertaine to none but God onely And shee is not contented to forge straunge Gods in this maner of the Saints soules whome they beleeue to bee in heauen although a great number of them helde by her for Saintes may bee buried in hell but shee delves into the bowels of the earth and opens Sepulchers where their supposed bodies are interred to make her newe Gods of their bones of their hayre of their habites and other such like trashe which shee hath caused to bee enchased into golde and siluer and so set vpon Altares or caried about on their shoulders in processions and make the people to kisse them vpon their knees Wherein assuredly shee hath exceeded the Iewes who albeit they were maruellously enclined to the forging of straunge Gods yet were they neuer so brutish as to canonize the holy Prophets neither to giue any honour to the bones of deade men for what sanctitie soeuer they might haue beene commended in their liues Perhaps they builded goodly Sepulchers to honour their memorie but they neuer did any religious seruice to them The bones of Eliseus might haue prophecied after his death if by their touch a deade bodie had beene raised yet all the honour done to them was to couer them with earth there to awaite the sound of the Trumpet when the soule which before had giuen life to them shoulde returne againe to reinuest them If she haue showen her selfe impious and ridiculous in these matters already recyted then well may she be iudged altogether senselesse in trāslating the diuinity into a morsel of bread adoring it for Iesus Christ creating to her selfe daily a million of new Gods If she haue thus transgressed against the first commandement it will appeare she hath carried no more respect to the second whereby God expressely forbiddeth the making of any grauen Image or the resemblance of any thing whatsoeuer either aboue in heauen heere belowe on the earth or in the waters vnderneath the earth nay more not to fall downe before them or vse any manner of seruice to them Exod. 20. 4. 5. But this charge hath she taken from the peoples remembrāce and most maliciously hath cut it quite away from the number of the commandements in the Houres which is a booke of praiers by her ministers prouided for the vulgar sort and yet to the end that there might still remaine the full number of ten they haue seuered the last and made two of it All her Temples hath she filled charged her Altars with the Images of men of Diuelles of horses of hogges of dogges and other resemblances and to them hath made incensings offerings set cādels burning before them and her adherents haue prostrated thēselues before them Nay so strāgely hath she herein proceeded that in the second Counsell of Nice she caused it there to be absolutely decreed that these Images should be adored excommunicated al such as did or beleeued the contrarie and that decree doth shee obserue to this present day Wherein apeareth a contrarietie most manifest betweene God who forbiddeth flatly the adoration of Images and the Church of Rome that commaunds men to adore them Now as she doth excommunicate euery one that doth not worshippe them so on the other side God curseth all such as doe so or fall downe before them Deut. 27. 15. Let euery man then in this point be well aduised which malediction ought most to be feared eyther that of God or the other of the Romane Church And though I should consider no other reason to perswade me that she is not the true Church of God yet this alone were more then sufficient But now another presents

be filled with statues Images Idols and pictures whereto incensings and honours must be done and before whome they must fall prostrate although they be vaine things the works of mens hands Finally the holy Spirit doth assure vs that the sacred Scriptures are diuinely inspired that they are apt to enstruct correct 2. Tim. 3. and conuince and that they can make a man wise before God to saluation The Pope and his partakers taking themselues to bee more wise then the holy Ghost doe not onely say that the sacred Scriptures are obscure but also that they be insufficient and like vnto a sword cutting with two edges That they haue a nose of wax which heretikes forme after their owne pleasure and wherewith they serue their owne turne to confirme their heresies These are such blasphemies as none but a diuell durst vtter considering that Iesus Christ himselfe in many places doth authorise the holy Scriptures referring all to their Iohn 5. Luke 4. subiectionhat ought men then to doe but followe his example in all things which concerne religion and the seruice of God VVhich if they of Popishe spirit would doe so many traditions and humane doctrins should not be seen directly against the word of God As is that of Purgatorie prayer for the dead Indulgences vowes and pilgrimages auricular confession and others so full of superstitions and Idolatries and neuer were heard so many blaspemies Namely as when the title of honour of the holy Father or of his holinesse which appertaineth to none but God onely is attributed and giuen to a mortall man a poore and miserable sinner The Sacraments of the Church which are but two instituted by our Lord Iesus Christ are they not broken and prophaned when we see them to bee augmented and added vnto with fiue other bastard Sacramēts All which hauing no institution commaundement or promise in the word of God we cannot neither ought wee to make any vse of them My masters these things with many others haue incited me to forsake the places where they are taught and commanded to leaue the large and spacious way which leadeth to perdition Mat. 7. to follow the hard and narrow path full of thornes and afflictions which conducteth men to our Lord Iesus Christ at the end whereof vnspeakable felicitie is found I set downe my rest then the grace of God assisting me to imbrace with you the profession of true Christianitie and therein purpose to liue and die VVhich I sweare protest and promise before God and all this holie assembly And to renounce as at this instant I haue renounced altogither al the false doctrines superstitions and Idolatries of Poperie namely that false counterfaite and blaspheamous sacrifice of the Masse quite contrarie to the merits death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ Vpon whom only I wil lay the foundation of my faith and cast Anker there with vndoubted hope of life eternall and perpetuall blessednesse I pray God with all my heart to grant me grace heerin and entreate you all my Masters according to your charitie to bee helpefull heerein to mee with your holy praiers to him To whome with the Sonne and the holy Ghost bee all glorie and honour for euermore Amen This present declaration was with a loude voice pronounced in the presence of the whole reformed Church of Paris congregated at Ablon after the end of the Sermon On Sunday the sixt day of this present moneth of Iuly 1603. By me DENIS BOVCHER and thus signed D. Boucher FINIS A DECLARATION MADE BY MAster DANIELL DVSERT a natiue of Cinte-gauelle neere to Tholouse and heretofore a Religious Fryer according to the Order of Saint Frances Contayning his abiuration of the Doctrine of the Romish Church and his protestation to liue and dye in the Faith of the reformed Church Made publickly by himselfe in the Church of Mello the 22. day of December 1603. I Render thanks to God that after so long time of wauering in faith and plunging in the errours of the Romane Church being altogither led by the cūning Doctours of that profession and brought into such an estate as being wholly subiected vnder the power of the Prince of darknesse hee hath yet at length by the vertue and efficacie of his blessed spirit giuen me to knowe that the doctrine preached in the said Romane Church is as farre off from the true Euangelicall doctrine as earth is from heauen that such as follow that track are out of the way of their saluation For proofe whereof it is a matter most certaine That out of Christs Church there is no saluation at all Now that is the Church of Christ which heares his voice therefore since the voice of Christ that is to say his word is not heard among them of the Romish Church it must needs follow that they are neither of his Church nor yet of his flock And to shew apparantly that the voice of Christ is not heard in the saide Romane Church we will proceede in approuing the same by the manifest Antithesis and opposition which is betweene the Romish doctrine and that of Christ contained in the sacred Scriptures And first of all the Church of Rome teacheth that the holy Scriptures doe not containe all the doctrine of our saluation Which is quite contrarie to the Apostles instruction who plainely saith That hee had knowen the holy Scriptures of a childe which are able to make wise vnto saluation through the 2. Tim. 3 15. faith which is in Iesus Christ For the whole Scripture is giuen by diuine inspiration and is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse That the man of God Chap. eod v 16. 17. may he absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes It appeareth then that they erre in teaching that beside the doctrine of holy Scripture the traditions of men are necessarie to saluation Directly contrary to our Lord Sauiours instruction where he saith In vaine they worship me teaching for doctrine Math. 15. 9. the traditions of men They teach also that the same Scriptures are so obscure and doubtfull as we cannot clearely gather the doctrine of saluation by them Contrarie to Saint Peters speaches saying Wee 2. Pet. 2. 19. haue also a most sure word of the Prophets to the which yee do wel that yee take heed as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place They say moreouer that it is not lawfull for Lay men as they vse to call such as are of other condition then Ecclesiasticall persons to reade or meditate in the holy Scriptures Against the commandement of Christ who exhorteth all men generally in this manner Search diligently the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and Iohn 5. 39. they are they which testifie of mee And Saint Iohn doth not hee addresse his Epistle to all sortes of ages saying Little children I write vnto you because your sinnes are forgiuen yee for his