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A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

more I knew and yet persisted in my wickednesse against so strong a partie O infinite Ocean and superaboundant treasure of mercie What shall I say I poore naughtie worme yea dust opposed my self to that great GOD of heaven and earth by such kinde of grievous sins and hainous crimes as idolatrie taking away of his glorie spoiling him of his offices taking upon me his authoritie by forgiving of sins and such like and yet he out of his Fatherly love desisted not to do me good preserving me from many perils and dangers both in pest wars and travels roborating my memorie to receave and keep great diversitie of languages and strengthning my understanding to learne the experience and government of diverse kingdomes and Countreys Lord I continued to offend thee and thou continued to blesse me Deare Saviour who will consider these wonderfull works of thine on mee and not likewise confesse with me that thou art a father of mercie and GOD of all comfort That not only by nature but also by miscariage I was a childe of wrath but GOD who is rich in mercie for his great love wherewith he loved me even when I was dead in sins bath quickned me Now truely I see most loving Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wilt have 〈◊〉 on whom thou wilt have mercie and wilt have compassion on whom thou wilt have compassion And consequentlie I may proclame the Lord the Lord God mercifull and gratious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth and conclude this first point with the Prophet David that thy tender mercies are over all thy works For most meeke father although I have most grievouslie sinned against thee yet thou hast beene most mercifull unto me Glory Honour and Praise be unto thy holy Name therefore This my Confession and acknowledgement of the mercies of GOD towards me are not done by me to courage others in the continuance of their sins For that same GOD who out of his free mercie spared me for a time he destroyed with thunder from heaven that tyrannous apostate Julian in the heat of his sin crying out with despare Thou hast overcome O Gililean and suffered Judas to enter into desperation at the sight of the greatnesse of his sin and cut off his miserable life with his own hands I know that the Prophet sayeth though your sins be as skarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimsone they shall be as woole Yet Christ Jesus the master of all Prophets sayeth thereafter but except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish for as GOD is mercifull so is He likewise just That worthie Doctor Austine sayeth Humanum est peccare Diabolicum perseverare Angelicum resurgere It is a humane thing to fall in sin a devilish to persevere therein and an angelick or supernaturall to rise from it Therefore having in the first point of this discourse showne you how it hath pleased God to suffer me to fall by humane fragilitie and devilish perseverance in that monstruous sin of Poperie In this second I will Godwilling let you understand how it hath pleased God to raise me up from that Lithargie of superstitious idolatrie and heale my soul wounded with Poperie which was the second thing proponed by mee in the beginning Upon these words Heale my soule I might expatiat my self and amplifie this discourse largely with two considerations First inquiring wherein consisteth the health and perfection of mans poore wounded soule and secondly considering the nature and properties of the soule which is healed touching the first I might have to doe with three sorts of persons morale Philosophers scholastick Divines and erroneous Papists Showing the first that the perfection health and happinesse of our soul doth not consist in worldly pleasures riches sensuall lusts carnall concupiscences adoption of morall vertues speculation or contemplation of Gods creatures or in the dominion of the soule of man over his owne passions as many of them have had these severall opinions Discoursing with the second and trying whether or not that eternall felicitie and happinesse of our soules doeth consist in the actions of the understanding or of the will or of both and in what kinde And refuting the third in four points first Letting them see their errour when they imploy their Saints at Rome Loret Galatia and where they think expedient for health to their soule besides Christ or betweene them and Christ 2. Showing them that the Sacrament of Baptisme is not so absolute a salve but it leaveth behinde it the root and seed of sin fomitem peccati 3. Demonstrating to them that mans good works although they be tokens or symptomes yet are they not the cure and salve of the health of mans poore wounded soule And 4. That that true meane of the health of our soule Repentance is not to be defiled by their auricular confession and execrable satisfaction but is to be understood of a broken and contrite heart applying by faith the deare merits of that precious blood of Jesus Christ to our poore wounded souls But all these points of doctrine with their severall spirituall observations and uses I remit to an other time and place giving them Augustines resolution for all their questions Creasti nos Domine propter te inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te● Thou hast created us O Lord for thee and our soule is restlesse till it repose on thee O thou carnall minded and sensuall man look if thou hast this restlesnesse or not in thy soule Thou drunkard glutton adulterer fornicator usurer oppressoui invyer backbiter liar ambitious proud presumptuous angrie politick or atheist man and the rest of you whose end is destruction whose god is your belly and whose glory is in your shame who minde earthly things looke and consider neerely for it concerneth eternitie if yee expect the health of your soules from these your particular gods and idols or whence the Apostle expecteth it when hee sayeth For our conversation is in Heaven whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ And the Prophet in my text LORD be mercifull unto me heale my soul. Take heed I say take heed least it be said to you sometime as the Apostle said to the Romans what fruit had yee then in those things whereof yee are now ashamed for the end of these things is death Or as Christ our blessed Saviour said what shall it profite a man if he shall gaine the whole world and losse his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul That which I might have spoken of the nature and properties of the soul I passe for the present remitting the courteous Reader to the commentaries upon Aristotles books of the soul And coming to my particular I will show you how it hath pleased God in his owne appointed time to heale my soule from the pest of Poperie And

their studies they are sent into the countrie furnished with all things necessarie as apparels moneyes masse-graith and the like as they are thought of and have moyen at Court Of their seminaries there be five of our nation out of the countrie at Rome Paris Madrid Doway and Brounsberg and one promised by the Emperour in Osnabruck which the Swedens keepe for them of Irish some and many and great of English These Seminarists Jesuits and other Priests send their relation every year of all what passe in the countrie spirituall or temporall to the foresaid congregation wherein all treasons massacres and other bloudie mischiefs are hatched as the the histories of England France and Spaine can testifie This presupposed as an assured truth I spake first to thee Scotland my dear countrie that thou wrongest thy self mightily to suffer these scismes and divisions in thee which are now with great pitie to bee seene and shame to be heard That every one of you saith I am of Paul and I of Apollo c. Is Christ divided was Paul crucified for you or were yee baptized in the name of Paul One sayeth I am a Covenanter another I am not What meanest thou not covenanter wilt thou not subscribe the contract which thy Parents Godfathers and Godmothers as thy spirituall tutors made for thee at baptisme and promised to make thee subscribe the same being of perfect age seing it is for God and his truth only God is partie contracter the angels were witnesses and hell fire the penaltie take heed and fight not against God for as he is Al-seeing so is Hee Almightie and as Mercifull to have spared thee so long so is Hee Just to punish thy inexcusable wilfulnesse But some will say that there be great doctors not Covenanters and wherefore may they not likewise stand out as well as these learned men I answer first that they are but few and to my judgement for I have discoursed with some of them not the learnedest of the kingdome brought up in a town which was never yet cleansed from poperie and where I have seene an hundreth at Masse in one time within this few yeeres Secondly these Doctors suppose they be both good and learned as I know some of them are shall not answer for thee in that great day wherein there shall be had no respect of persons for assure thy self that Anima quae peccaverit ipsa punietur The soul that sinneth it shall be punished Thirdly what if these Doctors would maintaine poperie and hinder a reformation as their predecessors have done would thou follow God forbid that the doctors of that same town proceeded after this kinde in the time of the reformation it is manifest by our historie the words are these And shortlie after the Lords summoned the principall learned men of the realme foorth of the univesities of S. Andrewes Aberdeene Glasgow and other parts to give a reason of their faith and among other these of Aberdeene tooke upon them to dispute with John Knox John Willock and M. Goodman Neither is it to be thought that the historian a stranger wrote any thing out of partialitie in this point against that town more as against any other of the kingdome hee being alike stranger unto all My counsell now to you that are Covenanters is that Qui stat videat ne cadat Let him that thinke hee standeth take heed least he fall for the crown of glory is only for him that overcometh Qui perseveraverit usque in finem hic salvus erit He that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved Yeeld not in a word a syllab a jote least thou scandalize thy weak brother and give occasion to Rome to stand and expect thy returne she not so much as beginning a motion towards thee For they seeing your novations of Bishops Deanes Doctors kneeling at Sacrament crosse in Baptisme and the rest of these articles were in assured confidence that yee were turning to them againe and used commonly to say See so faine as they are to creep in to us again which did confirme all our people and made sundrie of yours to follow us If these points which sometime by the most part were thought allowable did so much harm to Gods church what their English masse canonicall inquisition and the rest of that almost banished trash had done if they had not beene preveened by that Al-seeing God judge yee And finally grant thou nothing that Rome desireth of thee for it hath no warrand from God and thou knowest no conformitie to be admitted betweene God and Dagon hold fast then that which thou hast least another take thy crown from thee And to you not Covenanters I say that of your Bishops I never saw any but one neither would I mourn albeit I never saw more of them in Scotland and I am their friend or enemie as they are Christs yea more I say if yee knew as vvell as they and I know even the draughts that are drawn against you the strength and policie of your enemies without and your inward enemies against this poor church of God I am cercertainly perswaded that yee would all subscribe that worthie Covenant before that yee went out of this Church or else I would hold you as internall papists for there bee both internall and externall I perceive you all curious to demand me a question if modestie could permit you to speak to wit what is this that I know more than other men let us say ye understand it and we will yeeld to reason To this lawfull question I answer that I know more than any Protestant in Scotland of this businesse for I was imployed in it the year of God 1632. and gave in among other points of my commission a petition to the foresaid Congregation at Rome and else where desiring them to advise upon the meanes for the reduction of Scotland to Rome diverse were proponed by these politick heads who studie only to destroy Kings and pervert kingdomes of many these few were most considerable First that they should all imploy their wits for the perversion of his Majestie our Soveraigne Lord and contribute for the levying of an armie under pretext of giving assistance to some confederate Prince and therewith to force libertie of conscience This opinion was rejected as dangerous till all things were surer and their faction stronger 2. That if they could not attaine to their purpose with his Majestie they should endeavour to get two Jesuits in our Prince his service for his Graces instruction and education in poperie 3. That pensions should be given by mediate wayes through the Vniversities and other parts where they might work their ends 4. Yet this was all thought little of by one of our Countriemen who advised them to set their whole mindes for the perversion of England which being neerer to them in points of doctrine forme of service worship and ecclesiasticall government they might work