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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

and frinds praysing god who had done them this honour to suffer for his name Now are they grieuously tempted to mistrust the vprightnesse of the cause because they can not bée resolued on the opiniō that men ought to haue of the honorable death that so many godly Martyrs haue abiden through the crueltie of Antichrist his Supposts Héere behold an inestimable iniury done to the dead of whom the memory ought to be blessed for euer to the liuing to Christ him self for whose treuth they haue shead their blud And if I had long abidden emprisonment honger darkenes and rough handeling that to conclude this frayle flesh ouerwhelmed with so many miseries had made the spirit to yelde stoupe to such persecution it might wel haue sauered of some humane fraylty to haue moued compassion thereof But I at the very first rumour of the slaughter resolued to saue this myserable lyfe to dissemble yea to renounce the treuth Trew it is that not long before my minde was something disquieted touching the personall succession of the Church In so much that I stode in doubte whether it were not a dangerous matter to depart frō the church of Rome in the which I founde this succession Neuerthelesse this is the trewth that as sone as I had intelligence of that which was bruted the feare of death the loue of this lyfe and commodities therof seruing their turne of this my trouble of mind caused me to yeld more force thervnto then the thing required Insomuch that I was cleane out of tast with that doctryne in generall which for al that I neither did nor could doubt of But I lost all will and inclination to confesse and maynteine the same And albeit that I had rather haue escaped out of the Realme as in déede I had prepared my selfe ther vnto thā to haue stayed ther any longer that of myne own méere disposition without any maner of cōpulsion I had neuer the affection to bend my selfe against the doctryne Yet notwithstanding I was vtterly discouraged to take in hande the defence of the same I rather tooke this resolution to doe what soeuer was offered me at the instant to cleare me of al suspectiō euery wher wher I shuld passe So the great and righteous Iudge did not fayle on his part to handle me thereafter For hauing ben so many yeares together taught by him the nature of the Gospell of his sonne which is called the word of the crosse it had ben my part to haue ben the more and more assured of my vocation and of the trewth of his Church because I sawe the crosse continew still and the persecutions to grow dayly more violent But perceyuing the affliction to excéede the measure that I would haue prescribed to GOD I fell to doubte not of the doctryne in it selfe but of the Church in the respect of the personall succession For this cause GOD did iustly deliuer me to the desyer of myne owne harte to committe a faulte not onely foule and detestable but also cleane sounding ageynst reason and mans iudgement that is to say to immagine I had some reason not to confesse a trewth whereof I was fully perswaded Others that fal by infirmity doe acknowledge that they doe ageynst that they ought to do in inpugning deniyng a knowen and vndoubted trewth but I toke it to be a pointe requisite in my self to speake ageynst mine owne conscience and ageinst the assured knowledge of mine owne harte Thus in the iudgement of God those that thinke them selues wyse are prooued fooles neither did god in this beginning suffer mée to scape awaye so lightly but sithens I would néedes dally with him thinking that I should be easely set at liberty he payed me the iust reward of my first leudnes and treachery punishing the former offense by later enormities as ye haue vnderstoode The first prancke of my deloyaulty was that I did shewe my selfe not a hyreling that doeth Abandon hys charge when hée séeth the Woulphe come but I was my selfe a Woulphe yea a rauening Woulphe scatering and dissipating mine own propre flock For I wrote immediatly to the principalls of that assembly where I had ben admonishing them to acknowledge follow the church of Rome I dyd the lyke to myne owne famyly which I had before instructed in the feare of God and my little children consecrated to Iesus Christ were by this meanes plonged in the popish filthy polutions to prostrate them selues before the Idole of Idoles Being thus foundred in this first quagmyre I ceased not to wade from euill to worsse and after I had betrayed myne owne flocke myne owne flesh and bones and the little young imps that God had geuen me no maruell if I played so lamentable parts towards others Neyther then did this false dealing of myne kéepe it selfe within these bounds For I was brought to Paris to be tyed as a carthorse to the Charet wher Sathan sate in triumph ageinst the mēbers of Iesu Christ bringing them after him conquered and captiues These two young princes buds of the flower de Luce royall vertuously and faythfully instructed in the doctrine of the trewth consecrated to the glory of God called to be nurces of the Church of whome she might one day hope for some comfort perfection wer by me diuerted from the trew reformed Church brought as touching their persōs to go to Masse and consequently to set vp ageyne restablish that cursed Idolatry within the places and lymits of their dominion seigneury To be short they were by me deliuered vp as it wer to the tyrannical clutches grypes of Antichrist to sweare obedience to him and to make war ageinst the children of god For although they had great occasions to shrink considering the murders that they sawe committed the practises that wer vsed to terrefy thē and although that the brute was already spread that they went to Masse yet had they continewed pure and constant vntil my arriuall Wherfore ther is no doubt but that my tongue trayterous vntrew to my God did more preuayle with them then all the threates dangers and horrible slaughters which they hard and sawe dayly before theyr eyes whereof also if they be now wholly changed with a willing mynde to persecute the Gospell which God forbid I am alas the principal cause If they do that which they do ageynst their will they may chiefly laye the faute in me for that payne and anguish of mynde wherewith they be tormented Touching this poynte be ye aduertysed ye that reade this to praye to GOD for those personages that it will please him to take pytie vpon them and when he séeth good to repayre that inestimable losse In the meane season I was not without remorse and trouble in my conscience séeinge the pytteous woorke that was a building whereof I was an instrument or rather seing the ruine and subuersion of the Churche where I my selfe gaue the greatest blowes to

¶ 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 of his faulte penitent submissiō 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 ¶ Imprinted at London for Lucas Harison and George Bishoppe 1573. ¶ THE TRANSLATOVR TO THE READER AS of all the blessinges that vve receue here in earth there is none that doth so liuely expresse Gods inward fauour towardes man as cōuersion from sinne so truely there is none so dreadful a signe of his heauy reuenge as falling from fayth Mark but the history of the people of Israel and you shall finde that ther falling frō the lawe of God as it was the greatest sin which they cōmitted so was it the greatest plague that euer they had Their sickenes and pestilence was nothing their dearth and famine was nothing the losse that they endured by warre was nothing their captiuity and death was nothing in comparison of reuolting from God who had chosen them for his people This was a plague of al plagues Likewise if we consider of Gods benefites towards them neither their deliueraunce out of the land of Egipt neither their safe conduct into the land of promise neither their well gouerned common wealth nor all the victories obteyned ageinst their enemies may ons be compared with that that it pleased him to turne their hartes from sinne and Idolatry to the trewe honoring of his name This was a blessing of al blessings So that in these two poyntes chiefly is set foorth vnto vs both Gods iustice and mercy His mercy in cōuerting vs from sinne his iustice in leauing vs to our selues And surely there are perilous examples of renouncing and denying a professed treuth The tragicall histories of Frauncis Speyra and Iudge Hales are able to make a christiā cōsciēce to tremble No doubte it is cōmonly sene it is a iust plague that who so with his mouth belieth his conscience the same with his hand destroyeth him selfe Here I deny not but that God hath his secrete working beyond the reason and capacitie of man as by the pitifull discourse of this booke may easely appeare This mans fal was great his fact was detestable his mouth blasphemous his hart trayterous and iniurious to the blud of Christ yet notwithstanding al this did not God suffer him to sincke down into the pitte of dispeire but did rayse him vp ageine by the operation of his holy spirite Vndoutedly this is a rare exaumple like vnto the which many haue not ben seene in the church of god Therfore I would wish all such as are called to the testimony of the trewth to beware how grounding hereuppon they do tempt god in hope of the like fauour Let that hel and torment of conscience which they do here plainely see in this man terrify thē likewise frō denying the trewth He was sometime one of the chief ministers of the reformed church in Orleance and because I knew him my self and haue hard him preach ther sundry times I was the more willing at my frendes request to putte his booke into english hoping that all Christen men will reioyce as much at his penitent conuersion as they haue cause to be grieued at his reuolt I doubt not but there are that will scoffe at this matter and saye that he can not be of a sounde religion that hath turned his coate so ofte Of what religion then are these our men that haue turned alwayes with the time Let al turners with tyme learne of this man to returne a right It may be that some seke to shew now a more stedfastnes in error then in deed they haue ▪ to gaine therby the credite of constancy But alas it can not be called constancy to abyde in euil to continew in Idolatry to stick fast in ignorance This is obstinacy They shall neuer be accused of wauering that come out of Babel to dwell in Sion If this poore man had abidden still in the waye of perdition renouncing Christes veritie and betraying of Christians to Romish wolues oh what a heauy damnatiō had he procured to him self but God in his rich mercy hath better prouided for this loste sheepe Let all those therefore which are touched in harte with the care of gods trewth and do bewayle the ruinous decayes of Ierusalem iudge rightle hereof To conclude we may all see in this booke the liuely paterne of a trewe remorse here may we see how Saul doeth become Paul. VVhy should not the teares and mourning of Peter argue and declare the conuersion of Peter remember what a worthi father of our time when he came to the Fyre to be brent did to his hand that had subscribed to vntrewth The like maye wee hope of thys man that when tyme shall serue he vvill make both hand and tongue body life yea and all that he hath to feele the smart of that his deloyaulty Therefore good Reader be not hasty in condemning others but pray to God to strengthen thy selfe that thou mayest not fall and if thou doe fall that thou mayest ryse agayne to the glorye of GOD the edifying of hys Church and thyne owne saluation AMEN ¶ Hugh Suriaus fall and penitent Submission THe church of Christe hath had this custome of all antiquitie the the actes of Martyrs haue ben faithfully set down in writing namely their death their confession of fayth their disputing refutation of the doctrine of the aduersaries The reading of such histories did serue to confirme the faythfull in the faith to stirre them vp to the imitacion of the cōstancy vertue of those personages As we reade the same to haue ben obserued by S. Luke in the narration of S. Stephens death of all the other persecutions done sens against the church the selfe same diligence hath ben followed euen till our time wherin our Lorde hath had worthy members a great nūbre that haue for his name sake suffered death namely in our countrey of Fraunce first by forme order of iustice and by sentence of the Iudge to the ●●ath of fyre the most cruell horrible that may be deuised then afterward by murders committed without controlement last of al by the vnnatural slaughters lately executed through out the whole Realm wherof the trwe faithful histories shal in tyme to come beare witnesse signifying to posteritie how God hauing at the first but cropt as it wer certain first fruts of his field thought good now in these later dayes to make a great and plentifull haruest of his chosen In lyke case if ther haue ben any treason reuolt or notable breach of fayth committed by any one during the tyme of those persecutions men haue not ben slacke in noting such accidences to serue for an admonition to the faythful to consider with