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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10723	A true and a kinde excuse vvritten in defence of that booke, intituled A newe description of Irelande Wherein is freely confessed 1 The cause of the writing of that booke. 2 How that booke was brought into obloquy and slander 3 A reuocation of all ouersightes that through ignorance were published in that booke. 4 A bulwarke or defence of all truthes contayned in that booke. Pleasant and pleasing both to English, and Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. Seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 21003; ESTC S115925	41,531	58

tallied vpon a payre of Beades that are presensented to Saintes Images and Idoles but the works of darknes of sinne and of damnation All such religion where God is worshipped without his word and commaundement is idolatry and the more holy it seemeth in outward showe so much the more dangerous this abstinency of the Papistes in forbearing of flesh and eating of fishe their praying vpon beades their worshipping of Saints their vowes their pilgrimages are all Idolatry We doe not reiect fasting and other good exercises as things vnnecessary but we say that by these exercises wee doe not obtayne remission of Sinnes and heerevpon the papistes both ignorantly doe iudge and slanderously doe reporte that wee speake against good workes Whether thou eate or not eate thou art neyther better nor worse saith the Apostle now if any man would say if thou eate thou sinnest or if thou abstaine thou art righteous hee should but shewe his ignorance it is a small matter to eate or not to eate but when a man doth beleeue that in abstaining hee meriteth heauen or is thereby the more holy heere God is denied and Christ is reiected and the blessinges of God thereby abused and to thinke that life or saluation or death and damnation dependeth in the obseruation heereof is a deuillish superstition and full of blasphemy It is truth the papistes doe fast they pray they watch they do lay crosses on them selues but by this they thinke to appease the wrath of God to deserue grace to worke their righteousnes to make themselues holy by this they take from God his Maiestie his diuinity his mercy And doe attribute the worke of their saluation to their owne merites and deseruings Our Sauiour in the 6. of Mathew reproued those workes that are not performed by faith but what workes bee those that hee there rebuketh euen such as are commaunded by the scriptures and such as euery true Christian must put in practise namely fasting praying deedes of almes for the Scriptures themselues being once corrupted with glosses as our papistes do accustome and as they haue made manifest in their Remish Testament is no more Gods word so those thinges that are commaunded by the Scriptures being once peruerted and alienated from their true vses are neyther to be accoūted for good workes or godly deeds now what are become of those merits of congruence before faith when fasting praying and almes giuing are reprooued Christe heere destroyeth not fasting praying and almes deedes but hee preacheth against the purpose and intent howe they were peruerted by the Scribes and Pharisees so we that do seeke our saluation in Christ onely doe not seeke to destroy the deeds of good workes as the papistes vntruely doe report but wee say that those that doe seeke their iustification in them as the papist doth teach are most iniurious to the bloud of Christ Turkes and Iewes doe giue almes as plentifully as any Christians doe yet it is abhominable for lacke of faith and knowledg of the true intent In the offeringes that were made by Abell and Caine wee see that though the workes that are performed by vngodly persons doe make as glorious a show as the deedes of the godly yet in the sight of God which looketh on the heart the deede is good because of the man and not the man because of the deede The wrath of God consumeth these holy and faithles workes as it did Nadab and Abihu And here if we did but turne our eies vnto the Pharisees which before the comming of Christ in his flesh had layed the foundatiō of freewill wheron they built their holy workes see what followed vpon feruency and zeale they thrust themselues out of the holy rest of forgiuenes of sinnes by faith in the bloud of Christ Mee thinkes the Pharisees and our papistes doe drawe together in one line for the Pharisees persecuted Christ because hee reprooued their holy workes and our papistes are as angry towards vs because we renounce their superstitious merites and seeke our iustification in the bloode of Christ Abraham beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnes then Abraham obtained not this righteousnesse before God through the workes of the lawe for at that time there was no law nor in foure hundred and odd yeares after then if there were no law there could be neither worke nor merit what then but the bare promise which Abraham beleeued and it was accounted to him for righteousnes Abell and Caine They offered their oblations vnto the Lord but the Lord had respect to the offering of Abell you see now sayth the papist that God hath respect to offerings and therefore works do iustifie but what blindnes is this that will not suffer them to see that God had first respect to the person of Abell which pleased the Lord because of his faith their workes were both one they both offered oblations what was then the difference Abell was faithfull and Caine an hypocrite presuming on his owne merit as our Papistes doe It is truth faith and good workes are neere neighbours for they still dwell together in a righteous man but as touchinge their office there is a great separation for the lawe can haue no dominion but ouer the fleshe and faith alone must dwell in the conscience and sending Moses away with his lawe there shee planteth Christ with his righteousnes for the bleeuing conscience must know of no law He that hath once receiued Christ by faith and knoweth that hee is his righteousnes and life doubtles he will not be idle but as a good tree he will bring foorth good fruite for the beleeuing man hath the holy Ghost and where the holy Ghost dwelleth it will not suffer a man to be idle but stirreth him vp to all exercises of piety and godlines and of true religion to the loue of God to the patient suffering of afflictions to prayer to thankesgiuing to the exercise of charity towards all men but these good works and this charity following faith doe neither forme nor adorne my faith but my faith both formeth and adorneth them Faith and workes therefore must be so taught as the one hee not confounded by the other for he that teacheth works onely as the papistes are accustomed then saith is lost if faith onely be taught then carnall men by and by begin to dreame that workes are not needefull Faith is the beleeuing of Gods promises and a sure trust and confidence of goodnes and truth and true faith is impossible to be had without the spirit of God for it is aboue all naturall power that a man in the time of affliction when God scourgeth him should then beleeue that God then loueth and prepareth for his good Faith giueth glory onely vnto God which is the greatest seruice man can doe vnto him for without faith God looseth his glory his wisedome his righteousnesse his truth and his mercy And to conclude there is neyther Maiestie nor diuinity remaining vnto God

hardeneth their hearts Then what are the Papistes but the destroyers of the kyngdome of Christ and the builders vppe of the kingdome of the Deuill And as witch-craft couenanteth with the Deuill so Idolatry couenanteth with God for thus many prayers for thus many Paternosters for thus many creedes for thus many Aues for thus many dayes of fasting for thus many masses for these and many other matters the workes of the flesh superstitious follies and that Idolatryes The Papistes doe imagine of GOD to bee but a marchant to sell them his heauenly graces for their stinking merits If the doctrine of the Papistes be true God nowe receiueth no more to his mercie but he receiueth vs to penance which commonly they linke together with holy workes but what holy workes such as feede them fat and pampers them in idlenesse and yet they would seeme to fayne that idoll their Pope to be so mercifull that for a little money there is neyther penance nor payne of purgatory nor fasting nor absteyning from any filthy sin eyther of whordome treason or murther but he forgiueth all and sendeth them to heauen and that with a trice And as they deale with God himselfe so they deale with the Saintes whom they woulde make as malicious and vengible as the Poets fayne their furies that tormentes the soules in Hell if their eues be not fasted their Images visited and worshipped with a Candle or some other offeringes which must bee perfourmed in those places that they themselues haue chosen to heare petitioners and to receiue their supplications so that there is no mercy remaining in God nor in his Saints but all resteth in the Pope alone And the Pope is not onely more mercifull then God but if a manne may beeleeue our papistes hee is more powerfull then God for God say they if a manne committe a sinne vppon due repentance hee forgiueth the offence onely but not the payne that is due to the offence sauing that hee turneth an euerlasting payne but to a temporall payne and appoynteth seuen yeares plunging in purgatorie for euery deadly sinne but the Pope absolueth all both a paena Culpa aswell from the payne that is due to the faulte as from the faulte it selfe And whereas God forgiueth no sinne but vpon due repentance the Pope neuer lookes after that money is the matter that hee standes vppon he that hath money shal haue a plenary remission for as many horrible sinnes as any man is able to commit let him choose whether he will repent or no he shall be forgiuen for a neede if a man be disposed to committe a horrible murther the Pope will giue him absolution before hand The whole doctrine of the Pope tendeth to couetousnesse to robbe the simple and ignorant people looke into their purgatory that onely serueth but to purge mens purses and wherefore serueth pardons but for the same purpose their offeringes to Sayntes but to fill their bellies their treatales and all other trash what are they but meere cosenages and flat robberies The infinite number of Popish priestes that be in Ireland doth make a great commoditie amongst the silly people of this only conceit that for a little money bestowed vppon them they will not onely vndertake to doe good workes for them but will also vndertake to stand between God and them and to take all their sinnes vppon themselues Thus powerfull is the Pope if our papists say true that he can forgiue more then any can offend but as for God they make him but an hypocrite to forgiue vs the fault but not the payne that is due to the fault but Pau● sayes he gaue himselfe for our sinnes if he gaue himselfe to death for our sinnes without doubt hee is no tyrant as the papistes woulde make him hee that will giue himselfe to death for vs will neyther condemne vs nor take pleasure in our torment What vnkindnesse in our papistes that without any authoritie of scripture will yet seeke to dispoyle God of his honor imagining that he hath not deliuered vs aswell from the paine as frō the sin and what blasphemy to thinke that Christs bloud was not sufficient to giue full remission to his faythfull aswell for the one as for the other or for what intent should the payne be reserued to satisfie towardes God when all the paynes of Hell are not able to purge one sinne or to satisfie for it which if it were in continuance of time the damned soules should be deliuered from Hell For our better vnderstanding let vs heere consider the sinnes which we doe commit if they should be measured by our selues that doe commit them they could be but finite for of men that are of themselues but finite how should come that which is infinite but transgression is increased according to the proportion of him against whom it is committed the sinnes which we commit then are against the infinite Maiestie of God in regard of whom our sinnes are truely infinite to an infinite offence then doth belong an infinite punishment which could neuer be borne nor remitted but of that which was likewise infinite God by his infinite grace hath giuen vs his sonne infinite as himselfe to beare it our Sauiour by his infinite power hath borne and swallowed vpour infinite paine and that further by his infinite obedience purchased for vs Gods infinite grace hee doth then forgiue vs that debt which another hath payd him hee doth furthermore forgiue vs that punishment which another hath borne for vs thus as in the sinnes which wee committ God had regard vnto himselfe against whom it was committed so in the satisfaction for the sinne he had the like respect to that which was done by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and thus against an infinite punishment hee hath opposed an infinite grace the punishment was infinite in respect of God grace was infinite for his sake that suffered who was likewise God and man but if Christ hath redeemed vs from the sinne and not from the paine as the papist would perswade then grace should loose his grace and we should still remaine in the state of damnation Me thinkes our papists should now be ashamed of their Pope that dates thus presume to eclips the glory of Gods mercy and the worthines of Christes satisfaction but alas what shoulde I speake of shame vnto them that haue forgotten to blush Christ hath chosen vs before the beginning of the world that we might bee holy and without spot in his sight Ephe. 1. If through his chosing and election we be without spot in his sight what buzzardly blindnes to suppose that hee will yet haue vs to be tormented in Purgatory as these popelings do beleeue But it will be sayde why who is so righteous but that hee may say his Pater noster of the which one part is Forgiue vs our trespasses as wee forgiue them that trespasse against vs And it is truth there liueth no man vpon earth without