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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87430	The judgement of foraign divines as well from Geneva as other parts, touching the discipline, liturgie, and ceremonies of the Church of England. Whereunto is added a letter from Mr. Iohn Calvin to Mr. Knox, concerning the English Common-Prayer, after he had purused the same. Now published for publick information and benefit.	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.	1660 (1660)	Wing J1176; Thomason E1040_16; ESTC R202627	12,660	32

will one day from heaven roughly revenge these manifest abuses wherewith the consciences of our brethren are troubled except speedy redress be had therein In the mean whiles the things which are not well done by the one party may be well enough tolerated as we think by those men which bear the thing which they cannot change Yet thus far as that they allow not the thing it self for good but do onely redeem their unjust disquieting by patience But if so be that they shall be forced not onely to tolerate this faction but also to approve this excommunication as lawful and be constrained to ask unlawful absolution to assent to this manifest abuse we then exhort them that they will rather suffer any kind of trouble then to do herein against their consciences But to what end is all this For verily we do promise our selves much better things then these yea of all things the best even at this pinch especially of that realm in which the restoring of Christian Religion hath been sealed and confirmed with the blood of so many excellent Martyrs also Onely we fear this least that which hath befallen so many Contries should happen to England to wit least because the due fruits of repentance are not brought forth the angry God should double our darkness the light of his Gospel being first taken from us Of this contents are our dayly Preachings in our Congregations and verily we think the same ought to be done of all Ministers of Gods word especially in these our dayes That they chiefly set forwards this principle of the Gospel which doth anpertain to earnest amendment of life For this point atchieved undoubtedly the Lord shall give both counsel and zeal and all things else which do necessarily appertaine to the accomplishment of the reparation of the Church already begun And before all we do require and with tears humbly crave that our good and right worshipful in the Lord the brethren of the English Churches all bitterness of mind set a part which we surely fear after what sort it hath on either fide forced this evil would patiently bear and suffer each other so long as purity of Christian doctrine it self and soundness of conscience doth remain Willingly to obey the Queens Majesty who is full of compassion and all other Prelates And finally that with all concord minds in the Lord if they manly set against Satan who seeketh all occasion of tumult and infinite calamities yea although they have not like judgment of all forts of Prelates at the first For this our writing God is our witness doth not tend to this purpose that either part should use it against other as that we should send it to you as an Apple of contention Although we have concerning these matters declared our judgments even simply as upon a supposed case God is our witness being overcome with the continual suit of our brethren And we joyne our daily prayers to the groanings of all the godly on that side the Seas that it may please the most merciful God having compassion on mans frailite to direct the Queens highness and all the Nobles of the Realm of England Also every prelate and finally cack workman of this spiritual building with his holy Spirit most effectuously so as the work of the Lord so often begun and so often stayed may happily be set forward to the great quietness and concord of all men not onely the old staines in the doctrine it self and Ecclesiastical discipline also being at length utterly done out but also all monstrousness offerers and which Satan newly seeketh to bring into the Church again driven away which vouchsafe to bring to pass through his holy spirit the most kind father in Jesus Christ his very son eternal and consubstantial with him in which persons we profess one God and not divers ought to be worshipped for ever Amen At Geneva the 24. October 1547. Your brethren in Christ to all your godlinesse most assured Theodorus Beza c. Jo. Gaiagnaezius Ge. Favergius Jo. Parnillus Slm. Golerlius Cor. Barlierdus Remundus Calvetus Jo. Tremlerus Car. P. Kuds Faverius Pet. Carpenterus Hen. S. Nicolas Coladonus Johan Pinaldus Egid. Causcus Vrb. Calvetus Fransc Portus Abden Dupleus A Coppie of the Letter sent to the Bishops and Pastors of England who hath renounced the Roman Antichrist and profess the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity The superintendent Ministers and Commissioners of charges within the Realm of Scotland To their Brethren the Bishops and Pastors of England who hath renounced the Roman Antichrist and do profess with them the Lord Jesus in sincerity desire the perpetual increase of the holy Spirit BY word and writ it is come to our knowledge reverend Pastors that divers of our dearest brethren amongst whom are some of the best learned within that Realm are deprived from Ecclesiastical function and forbidden to preach and so by you that they are straight to promote the Kingd me of Jesus Christ because their consciences will not suffer to take upon them at the commandement of the authority such garments as Idolaters in time of blindness have used in their Idolatry which brute cannot be but most dolorous to our hearts mindful of that sentence of the Apostle saying If ye bite and devoure one another take heed least ye be consumed one of another We purpose not at this present to enter into the ground of that question which we hear of either part to be agitate with greater vehemency then well liketh us to wit whether that such apparel is to be counted amongst things that are simple indifferent or not but in the bowels of the Lord Jesus we crave that Christian charity may so prevail in you we say the Pastors and leaders of the flock within that Realm That ye do not to others that which you would not others should do to you Ye cannot be ignorant how tender a thing the conscience of man is All that have knowledg are not a like perswaded your consciences reclaimes not at wearing of such garments but many thousands both godly and learned are otherwise perswaded whose consciences are continually stricken with these sentences what hath Christ Jesus to do with Belial What fellowship is there betwixt darkness and light If Surpluce Corner cap and Tippit have been badges of Idolaters in the very act of their Idolatry what hath the preachers of Christian liberty and the open rebuker of all Superstition to do with the dregs of the Romish Beast Our brethren that of Conscience refuse that unprofitable apparel do neither damne yours or molest you that use such vain trifles If you shall do the like to them we doubt not but therein ye shall please God and comfort the hearts of many which are wounded with extremity which is used against those godly and our beloved brethren Colour of Rhetorick or manly perswasion will we use none but charitably we desire you to call that sentence of pitty to mind Feed the flock of God which