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A13257	A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Churche. Perused and allowed accordinge to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Confessio Helvetica Posterior. English.	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Old, John, fl. 1545-1555.	1568 (1568)	STC 23554; ESTC S118060	120,110	316

methode and all other thinges beinge set in their places the natiue expositions maye be knowen And if God His expositiō and the hard wordes cōmune places graunt me that I may hereafter adde hereunto twoo other thinges whiche I am about nowe that is to say a breife exposition of the wordes that offer thē selues in the texte commune places beside euery one noted with a word in their proper places then truly shall I thinke that I haue done some thynge worthie trauell But it may please god once to graūt these In the meane seasō most noble Lords I thought it good to writte and dedicate vnto you chiefly that haue embraced true Religion in Fraunce my natiue countrie all that whiche God hath giuen met bothe that I might shewe forthe some token of a thanckfull minde for what dooe we not allowe vnto you whiche with the bucklers of your own bodies haue defēded the poore miserable shepe againste the rage of the Wolues and also that I maie cōfirme you more and more to perseuer in this heroicall fortitude and stoutenes whiche becometh your noble courage Lo then most noble Prince those holy teachers of that heauēlie doctrine for the defēce wherof thou haste not doubted to offer thy life I saie to so many and so great perilles and daungers Lo vnto you honourable and noble Lordes those holie misteries of that eternal wisedome the whiche the more that you shall knowe the more glad shall you bee though you bee driuen to shedde your blood again for him whiche hath redemed you with his moste precious blood These are the excellēt ensignes of the victorie of your faithe and zele euen before the verie Angelles of heauen in the settyng vp whereof yet would to God O would to God I saie like as your desire was you might onelie haue vsed Spirituall weapons But now when peace is restored you haue greate nede of a spirituall constancie and an inuincible power and force of faithe that this woorke that you haue begonne maie bee finished with your euerlastyng laude and praise And the Lorde will minister this vnto you by the continuall and diligente hearyng of his woorde and meditatyng of the same For that whiche meate is vnto The exercise in gods word necessary our bodies the same do these heauenlie dainties minister to our myndes that is to say not onely that we should liue by the liuelie iuice of theim but also that we should grow and encreace to full age whiles at the length we be made perfite at that last daie And here I dooe desire your honours that you would vouchsafe with quiet myndes to heare certain thinges of me whiche belong to your charge If so bee that Beleue faithfull teachers that bring no thinge but Gods worde you be fullie perswaded that we whō you haue heard and of whom you are begotten in the Lorde doe teache true and holie thynges I beseche you suffer not your selues to be drawen from Beware of crafty hypocrites thēce one iote And I haue great cause thus to admonishe you For though I doe knowe the fortitude of your myndes yet doe I also knowe how greate the craft is of certain that lie in waite to berciue you of your saluacion and what is their impudencie and malice I doe not speake of those opē and knowen enemies of the truthe but I doe meane those Sinons and craftie coūterfaictes Sinon a Greciā vnder the pretence of religiō betraied Troye who partely would haue a certaine meane and mingled religion I knowe not how and partely waite for the occasion to sowe discorde emōges you by those infortunate discordes and controuersies about the Lordes Supper What saie thei is it all one to transforme the Churche and to reforme it Wer our fathers al blind Are these felowe that come we knowe not whence onely wise Are not these the' that all the beste learned dooe call Sacramētaries and vtterly abhorre All true gospellers are ready to geue accomptes Now what we haue to aunswer herevnto you are not ignoraunt and wée will neuer refuse to shewe the causes before the whole worlde of this that thei cal a trasformacion But it is wōder if al menne doe not see what these menne goe about seyng some of them dooe seruice to those that are openly the moste deadly enemies of the Gospell Beware of crafty tourne cotes of Christ others are notorious by plaiyng so oftē the Apostatates others of them haue vttered al their life long vnto the whole worlde their inconstancie and their babblyng and that thei haue no iudgemente at all seyng in thirtie yeres space thei haue not yet learned that menne maie not halt nor wauer in religion These are thei that I admonish you chiesly to take heede of and you shal be safe from them if you stedfastlie continewyng in that faithe that you haue receiued of your faithefull Pastours whiche is sealed with the bloode of so many martyres whereof a plaine and euidente confession is published will either presently chase awaie these poisoned plagues or if that you haue determined ones to heare theim then that you dooe heare theim before suche Pastours by whom their craftes may bee opened and their lyes conuinced and confuted Neither is there any cause why Ther muste nedes be controuersies contrarieties alwayes these cōtrouersies should trouble you For the Lorde hym self our maister hath diligentlie admonished vs that this is the condicion of this Churche and the continuall experience of al tymes doeth confirme the same Thus in our tymes did the Anabaptistes arise beyng deuided into many sectes Thus at this daie dooeth the stubbernnesse of certaine in defendynge moste manifest errours so boile forthe that thei openlie dare dissolue the twoo natures of Christ with Nestorius and confounde the properties with Eutyches whose pestilente bookes I dooe forewarne you are alreadie translated into Frenche In other places as in Polonia the cursed Tritheits that imagine three Gods are risen vp and haue almoste destroyed the countrie and Sathan styll forgeth other secrete misteries againste the whiche it is necessarie that you doe resiste and stande stedfaste by the sinceritie and pure simplicitie of Christian doctrine But nowe because that neither the Ecclesiastical Discipline necessary offences wherewith the wrathe of GOD is many tymes prouoked nor the heresies whereby the true doctrine is oppressed can bee taken awaie in due tyme excepte a true and lawfull order of Ecclesiasticall discipline bee appointed therefore I dooe require this of you by the name of the soonne of GOD I craue this thing I saie of you that you dooe not reiecte this discipline as any inuencion of man but that you would establishe it with al diligéce and earnest affection and kepe and retaine it being ones established The redressinge of maners is the one halfe of the scriptures as the ordinaunce of GOD without the whiche the whole buildyng muste come to ruine of necessitie For what Is not this the