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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

he doth plainlie amplie depaint point out all the abuses impieties superstitiōs idolatries of poperie which are gathered into their formes of abiuration so that they are made knowne to al euen to litle childrē vnlesse they be such as be blinded by the prince of darkenes Furthermore I haue not interprised here to dispute against those which admit no reasō nor no word of God but only custome the traditions of the fathers their opiniōs their dreams toyes the lawes ordinances statutes and tyrānous decrées of their Antichrist for this were but lost labour And surely I do not write properly to those men but vnto you my brethren do I speak to you I say which know these abuses by the word of God which haue condemned and detested thē which are conuict in your own conscience that al the pointes of doctrine contained in this abiuration are as manye horrible blasphemies against Iesus Christ and the doctrine of his Gospell except the Nicene créed the which these coseners haue set in the very beginning of this goodlye confession which they haue made to bleare the eies of the simple fooles as if their doctrine were conformable to this creede and as if we did reiect and reproue the same whereas contrariwise it is we that receiue it confesse and approue it in all points and throughout as being grounded vpon the word of God and on the other side they so pronounce it with their mouth in their execrable masse that they reiect the most part of those pointes that are contained in it and in the Apostles créede as wee coulde depaint out before their eies and make them touch with their finger if they had eies to see eares to heare and an heart to vnderstand that which shoulde bee set before them out of the word of God Forasmuch then as you are not ignoraunt of these thinges which you haue learned out of the word of God it shall bee inough for mee to touch them superficially to put you in minde thereof and by this meanes to represent vnto you in some sort the filthines fowlenes and deformitie of your fal to the end you may be ashamed therof and confounded in your selues yea so grieued that God maye bee glorified in your conuersion Firste of all consider I praye you howe manye impyeties and horrible blasphemies are comprised in the second article which foloweth immediatly after the recitall of the Nicene Créed You haue thereby protested to receiue and allow al the abuses errours superstitions idolatries and abhominations of the Church of Rome and to renounce the truth of God which hath beene taught you out of his word for you receiue the holie Scripture vpon such condition that it shall not be interpreted according to the Analogie of faith as S. Paule cōmandeth that is that it shal not be interpreted according to the Scripture it self Rom. 12. conferring one place with an other that there maie such sense be gathered thence as shal be agréeable to the groundes and articles of the christian faith but according to the sense interpretation which it shal please them to giue it which falsely taking to themselues the right and authoritie to interprete do ordinarilie and most manifestlie corrupt and peruerte the same for maintenance of their dreames inuentions So that by this one onlie article you haue promised to condemne as being false al the true and pure doctrine of your saluatiō which you haue learned out of the word of God interpreted by the word of God himselfe on the other side to approue all the corruptions lies and falshoode of the leauen of the Pharisies which is in the doctrine of Antichrist And what shal we call this but to turne light to darknesse to reiect Iesus Christ as a lier and to embrace Antichrist as being true Surely by agréeing to this one onelie article you haue so much as in you laie giuen as great aduantage to the enimies of the Gospell as if a man should deliuer vp into the handes of his aduersarie all his papers rightes and instrumentes giuing him leaue to turne them all to his most aduantage yea to interprete the lawes as he list and to pronounce such sentence as he shal think good as if he were both iudge plaintiffe And surely there is no errour so absurd no abuse so grosse no impietie so abhominable which Antichrist and his ministers doe not maintaine by this meanes against the trueth of God for when a man shall alleadge plaine places of scripture in defence of the trueth and to refute falshood and that the matter shall be made so plain and so euident of it self that they cannot tell what to answeare on the contrarie this shal be their last refuge to wit that our holie mother the church vnderstandeth these places otherwise and that the Scripture admitteth none other sense and interpretation no yet any other authority saue that which it pleaseth our holie father the Pope to bestow vpon it Thus wil they argue so that by making you allow and approue this article there resteth no more now but that they may fréely triūph ouer Iesus Christ and his doctrine in so much that it was not néedful to specifie the rest which follow the proofe whereof dependeth vpon the graunting of this alone Notwithstanding séeing that to the ende they might more strictly binde you vnto them they make a recital of the principal heads of their false doctrine examine thē al one after another and you shal ful wel know what reprehension your back sliding deserueth The third is no lesse pernicious thā the second For it foloweth vpō it as a general consequence drawing after it al the special consequences cōclusions which they make touching their inuentions humane traditiōs wherby they haue corrupted peruerted the pure seruice of God aswel in regard of the doctrine as of the ceremonies which they coulde neuer maintain defend were it not that their false gloses interpretations which they giue vpon the scriptures did help them Wherefore seing you haue graunted thē this that it belongeth to them to giue the Scripture such sense and interpretation as shal séeme best to them it followeth therevpon that you do likewise graunt to them that al the abuses al the dreames and toies al the ceremonies obseruations which Satā hath brought in into the church wherof some are altogether foolish friuolous ridiculous and other superstitious coupled together with impiety idolatry without hauing any ground in the scripture yea being directly contrary to the same for the most part and by the which also the puritie and simplicity of Christiā religion hath bin turned into a kind of Iudaism Paganism you graunt to them I say that al these bables al this filth abhominations are good and holie as being parcels of the seruice of God being established in the church by our Lord Iesus Christ his Apostles as also these lyers haue bin so shamelesse as to

too too great libertie which euerie man gaue himselfe to liue as he list shaking off the yoke of Ecclesiasticall discipline and not regarding anie admonitions whatsoeuer which were giuen made in the name of God you haue I saie bin often told that all these thinges woulde without al doubt prouoke the Lorde to wrath and would bring vppon vs some great calamities This was done to the ende euerie man might humble himselfe and preuent the wrath of God by true repentance and amendement this was to the ende euerie man might be readie and might make prouision for patience strength constancie faith hope and for other suche spirituall furniture Ephe. 6. whereof the Apostle speaketh this was in summe to the ende we might prepare our selues for the battel that we might begge of God those thinges which wee had not of our selues And without all doubt he would haue giuen vs it if euery man had béene readie and willing to doe his dutie But what we haue done quite contrarie we haue kept our old course haue become rather woorse than better we haue counted thē busie importunate felowes which threatned vs with the iudgments of God we counted thē too bitter and sharp which fought our saluation by telling vs the trueth we would haue had them to haue preached as we wold haue them we had itching eares we woulde haue had them fedde with some vanitie of mans eloquence for wee loathed the plainnesse of the word of God To make short there were in vs so manie wantes that in steade of preuenting the wrath of God wee did more inflame the same instead of preparing fortifying our selues that wée might indure this assaulte we became rechlesse and carelesse and at length so white liuered so cowardly and faint hearted that the more part béeing terrified with the verie sounde of the trumpe did yéelde themselues to the enemie without making anie resistance O what a shame was this Thē is your backsliding so much the more to be cōdēned seing you haue despised the admonitiōs wherwith your eares were beatē so long before And the which more is this tēpest came not at a sodain or at vnawares as that of the Massacre but lumbered a long time in the ayre before the clap came And he whom you had greatest cause to feare as touching men séemeth to haue bin raised vp of God to admonish you of that which you were to doe which was done by edictes and declarations sent abroade one after another as if he would haue said My friendes set your thinges in order and kéepe your selues frō that euil which is threatned vnto you But you haue neglected all that whether it were because you were drunken with some vaine hope which deceiued you or whether it were because you were resolued rather to sit vppon your own dunghils and to abide by your garlicke and onions of Egypt then to followe Iesus Christ anie more through the desertes and anie longer to beare his crosse which you loathed at length Which appeareth by this in that in stéed of preparing your selues to newe afflictions and of following Iesus Christ euen to the ende as al those ought to doe which are his true Disciples and desire to attaine to the reward of the high calling in stéed therof I saie you haue promised to your selues some rest and ease of the flesh but you were deceiued as al those shal be which so cast their accountes without their hostesse This was then your ouerthrow Now I doubt not but that manie cā say in trueth that they had many lets and were assailed by grieuous tēptations seeing they were charged with a family destitute of means To be short it may be that many other poore mē had manie lets hinderāces for this cause they are rather to bee pitied yet so it is that they are not excusable before god for al this they must al yeld thēselues as guiltie for howsoeuer it be whē it pleaseth the Lord to cal vs we must folow him wtout looking back without looking vpon the hardnesse of the waie by the which wee must goe The Israelites could not see with the eies of the fleshe howe the Lord did deliuer them out of the tyrannie and slauery of Egypt how they escaped out of that distresse wherein they saw thēselues hauing the mountains on the right hande on the left hauing the read sea before them and the hoast of the Egyptians behinde them also how the Lorde prouided for their necessities in the desert how he brought them into the promised land they saw none of these things I saie notwithstanding they followed the calling of the Lorde referring the euents and issues of al things to his prouidence which fel out wel which thē And thus ought those to haue done which alleage for their excuse the foresaid straites that is they shold haue shut their eies against al that which flesh blood coulde set before thē to turne them awaie and they should haue giuen vp thēselues to the prouidēce of this heauenlie father who feedeth the foules of the aire who knoweth wel the meanes how to prouide bread for his childrē which folow his calling not onelie the meanes but hath also a will to doe it as hee hath promised And indeede euen then when we see nothing which waye soeuer wee turne our eies but matter of dispaire thē principally doth our faith shewe it selfe when notwithstanding al lets hinderāces we trust in God hope contrarie to hope after the example of Abrahā So that al excuses which these men can alleage to the Lord cannot any way iustifie them But if the hinderances were such that they had no way nor means to escape out certain it is that this was an euident argument that the Lord called them to beare witnes of his truth therfore ought they rather to haue died the death thā to haue denied the sonne of God so shamefully To make short it behooued thē either to flie or els to suffer seing the Lord referred it to their choice and called them to doe either the one or the other Now if these mē be without excuse as they be indeede howe muche more those which cānot so excuse themselues if they wil speake trueth And yet were there any that shewed thēselues so slack so faint harted more redy to come to parle finally to yeld thēselues to the enimy Those to whom God had giuen more means to resist and stand stedfast those that might quicklie haue escaped the danger euen haue cōforted their poore brethren by incouraging them reaching them out the hād to draw them out of the mire filth those are they I saie which haue shewed themselues most cowardlie cold either because they had more to loose I meane more myre earth and lesse godlinesse feare of God or els because it grieued them to forgoe their pleasures and cōmodities to