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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20995	A lamentable discourse of the fall of Hughe Sureau (commonly called Du Rosier) from the truth: & his shamefull offence to the church togither with confession ... & remorse Seruing for a notable example to al the world of the fraieltie & vntowardnesse of man, & of the great and vnmeasurable mercie of God to his chosen.; Confession et recognoissance de Hugues Sureau dit du Roisir, touchant sa cheute en la rapaut'e, & les horribles scandales par luy commis. English	Du Rosier, Hugues Sureau.	1573 (1573)	STC 7369; ESTC S118725	19,223	58

haue good cause to tremble at that which our Lord hath denounced that at the great day he will be ashamed of those that are ashamed of him his word before men Let my exaumple serue you for a glasse and haue a dilygent eye to your selues you that haue abode vpright till this present sée that you kéepe preciously that so singuler a benefite that God hath so carefully kept for you suffer not that vncorruptible crowne to bée taken from you but constantly finish your course knowing that he that contineweth to the ende shall be saued And you alas that are the greatest number who eyther by myne exaumple are slipte out of the way or by myne occasion confirmed in your reuolt take héed the Deuil doe not bewitch you to make you fynde that swéete which is bitter to call lighte darkenes and darknes light bu kéepe the séede of the feare of God which is yet remayning in your harts nurrish and cherish it as a languishing fyre wayting the meanes to escape out of the captiuity more griouous then that of Egipt and vsing the same when .. God shal offer them vnto you ▪ Especially your grace Syr that haue receyued thys good and holye instruction from your youth in the trewe knowledge of GOD. Remember the fayth that was in your mother and Grandmother Quéenes of Nauarra And as Sainct Paule doeth by suche exaumples exhort his Timothe so thinke the same to apperteyne to you to the end that you may be as well heyre to the fayth of those holy Ladyes as you haue succéeded them in the Realme And pardon mée the iniury that I haue done to you humbly beséeching you in the name of GOD that as I haue ben a pestilent instrument to peruert you so nowe my exaumple may serue to conuert you to the lord You also moste noble Prince be myndfull of the zeale godlines and constancy in trewe religion whereof you haue séene the liuely paterns of your late of worthy memory Grandmother Father and mother I haue serued you in steade of a wicked spirite and euill counseler but lette not that which was sayed in tyme of force and violence beare so much sway and authoritye wyth you that for the same you should forgette the holye instructions which haue ben gyuen yow by aduised deliberation many years before Compare the presente estate whereunto you be now brought receyuing no comfort or edificatiō at al of that which your Amner doeth read or sing before you in his Portesse or Massebooke with the when you were present at the holy exhortatiōs and enterpreting of Gods word where you your self did help to sing prayses vnto his name And for as muche as manye may be kepte back in this reuolt through the reasons that they then vnderstood of mée at sundry tymes and in sundry places or els through certeyne writings that haue ben scattered abroad touching the trewe Church and by what markes she oughte to be discerned by the which at that time I went aboute to conclude that the Church of Roome deserued this title I beséech al Christian readers not to stay vppō those reasons so vayne and of so small importaunce Trew it is that see that time yea and somewhat afore I had be shakē therwithall as I haue confessed But sens hauing withdrawē mi self into these parts I haue learned and found out that they are but abuses and fallacyes easye to bée discouered and refuted for the which let it be graunted that they had greater appearance of sound reasons yet can not I be excused but that I did leudly and villenously to refuse to witnesse that treuth with my mouth which I did verely beléeue in my harte to exhort those that I could ageinst my cōsciēce to go to Masse and to yéeld obediēce to Antichrist Now as I doe by this present writing make open confession of my to too haynous enormity for a piece of amends and reparation of the offence publikely geuen so am I determined God willing to write of this matter of the Church to take away all doubt and scruple from the wauering cōsciences that be not yet fully resolued for that they haue hard the sayd reasons To conclude being now at full liberty to stick boldly without feare to that Church which in my harte I doe alowe of I protest before god to recognyse and acknowledge that for the trewe Church whiche hath for the rule of her fayth the holy scripture of the old newe Testament the olde conteyned in the lawe Psalms and Prophets as our Lord him self doeth deuide it the newe in the writinges of the Euangelistes and Apostles anowyng for trewe markes of the Churche not the succession of persones and of menne but of the Doctryne of the Prophetes and Apostles Sithens it is manyfest that we can not acknowledge any for the house of GOD but that which is the piller and staye of the treweth nor anye to bée of the folde of Christ but those only that heare hys voyce and follow him and that shée is the trewe Spouse that hath Christ for her Spouse briefely that it is necessary to goe out of that Church wherein one can not abyde wythoute renouncyng of Iesus Christ and to be shorte without losse of bodye and Soule by dishonoring and offending of GOD. According whereunto I doe also embrace the confession of Fayth published in the name of the reformed Churches of Fraunce acknowledging and auowing the same to be a Christian confession by the conformitye and agréement that it hath with the holy Scripturs and ioyntly the Ecclesiastycall discyplyne to bée the conducte and gouernement of the people of god Wyth lyke assuraunce I holde and beléeue with all my harte and confesse as well by mouth as by writyng that those which for thys reformation haue a fewe yeares sence suffered death eyther by order of Iustyce or by the late blouddy murders more cruell then those of the Gotes or Vandales are trewe and blessed Martyrs of Iesus Christ dead for hys name and his holy trewth And for the commendation and prayse of them together for their comfort and consolation that are yet liuing women children parentes and frindes this sentence of Sainct Paule to the Thessalonians maye by good right be applyed yée are made followers of the congregacions of GOD that are at Iudea in Iesus Christ because yée haue suffered the selfe same thynges by them of your owne natyon as they dyd by the Ievves Who likewyse haue kylled the Lorde Iesus and their owne Prophetes and haue banyshed vs they please not GOD and are aduersaries to al men not suffering vs to speak to the Gentils for their saluation to the ende that they may dayly heape vp their sins for the wrath of god is come vppon them to the vttermost Wherfore O ye faithful pastors of the Christian Church Stewards of the misteries of god that hath giuen you the word of reconciliation to the end that ye maye be Ambassadors for Christ ye that sometymes

haue taken me for your fellow in the work of the Lord continew in that holy vocation wayting for the rewarde promised in that great day wherin those that haue instructed many to righteousnes shall shyne lyke stars God hath preserued the greatest part of you whole and sound so well that ye haue not ben at all apprehended or els ye haue gotten out of the enemyes handes without any thing done that might séeme vnworthy the conscience of a Christian man A fewe are fallen and bent ageynst the Gospell and I miserable wretch was the first in that small numbre I haue darkned and defaced the beuty and excellency of that heauenly doctrine that I had my selfe sometyme preached But ye know the assured foundation wherō it is grounded Accursed be he that shall announce any cōtrary thing yea were he an Angell in heauen O ye happy and blessed of God that haue in your harts the testimony of an vnspotted conscience to haue walked in sincerity and playnnes blessed that shal heare at the later daye enter into the ioye of thy Lord thow good and faythfull seruant for that thou hast increased the talents committed to thée whereas I haue not onely buried in the earth the talent that I had but haue employed the same in making warre ageynst the trewth God graunt you the grace to cōtinew and gyue a happy successe to your godly trauells Assist me with your prayers that the heauenly father may receyue me now that I returne to him after this horrible sliding and reuolt and pardon me my so grieuous enormity O Lord almighty and wholy wise how easy is it for thée to entrappe the crafty in their deceypte O how thy iudgements be iust and righteous Who knowest ech one of all our works And seest what we doe To good to pure to cleane of harte Thou shewest thy goodnes to To thy beloued and electe Thy loue thow doest reserue And thow doest vse the wicked men As wicked men deserue Euen so hast thou drawen out of the bottome of my hart that which was ther hyd not suffering that I should beguylé the world any lenger For hauing determined to abandō my charge and to slipps thens couertly for certeyne doubts and difficulties that I had in my mynd to the end to continew as it were a neutre touching thy outward professiō thou hast iustly cast me of to myne owne sens By that meanes gyuing more force to myne owne illusions thē reuerēce to thy word I am fallen where I well deserued For in steade of being but a forsaker of the charge where thow haddest placed me I became a formall enemy reproouing and cōdemning it of the other syde being willing to authoryse and alowe the vocation of them that doe teache popish scysmes and errors thow diddest cause me to come so neare it that I was driuen to be better acquaynted with them then I desyred Such was the punishment that thou diddest cast vppon thy people in tymes past who when they wold not kéepe them selues pure frō idolatry after long sufferance thou diddest in the end deliuer thē vp into thy enemyes hand who brought them into Babilon where they were lothed with the fight of false Gods. But the same did serue this people to take these idoles in such disdayne and horror that they neuer fell into that faute ageyne after their returne into Ierusalem Euen so my GOD graunt me this grace that the displeasure grief that I haue of so greate a faute doe engendre in my soule such a hate and detestation of the euill that I haue committed that I may bestowe my whole lyfe in lamenting and bewayling the same crauing thy mercy to the end that thou mayest forgyue it me Thou hast brought me meruelous lowe punishing the pryde wherwith I was fully infected and the conceyte that I had of my self as thou art accustomed to take from him that hath nothing euē that which he thinketh to haue To thée be all glory and to me confusion of face Notwithstandinge my God who hast put in my harte the affectiō to acknowledge the danger of the horrible and euerlasting perditiō where into I did throw my self hedlong restore me thy spirite that may comfort me and gyue me hope of mercy And in this tyme of extreame affliction graunt me the grace to follow the exaumple of thy seruaunt Moyses who chose rather to be afflicted with thy people then to enioye for a time the pleasures of sinne estéeming the reproch of Christ to be greater ryches then the treasors of Egypte Thy Church is at this day straungely oppressed and threatned with an vtter and perpetuall ruyne and destruction but by thy ayde and assistance I doe mind to accompany her and to drinke my parte of her afflictions praying thée to this ende O Lord to make me féele in what miserable estate they be that doe withdraw them selues towards the enemyes of thy trewth euen then when they thinke themselues most in thy fauour Strengthen maynteine this desyre in me to the end that if I be once more called to the profession of thy name I doe abandon my selfe in sacrifyce for that godly quarrell as I am bound Take compassion of thy poore and desolate Church and mollefy the strypes wherewithall at this day thou hast stroken her Appease thy wrath towards thy people for whom thy deare sonne hath shead his bloud and with thy spirite fortify those that are at this day vnder the Crosse for thy sacred trewth giuing them hope ageynst all hope and making them inuincible ageynst all the assaults and violent enforcements of thy aduersaryes Amen FINIS Cranmer The white Cr●sse Heidelberg ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas East for Lucas Harison and George Byshop