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A67426
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The Wallons consistory and excommunication
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Le Clercq, Jacquemine.
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1646
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Wing W621A; ESTC R25724
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opression The Wallons CONSISTORIE AND EXCOMMUNICATION HAveing spoken untill now upon their threatnings and upon my condemnation now it shall onely be upon my Excommunication the first newes I heard of was uttered unto me with griefe and dolour but their desolation was not for the deed of my cause which they did know to be very just but upon him which hath pronounced that unjust condemnation never the lesse when I understood those words proceeding from a heart pierced with griefe saying it is done it is done and seeing their pale colur as persons strucken by death I was taken with an inward qualme but outwardly joyfull umwilling to adde more griefe unto their Infirmitie but I had alsoe great weaknesse withim me in somuch that I found my selfe like unto that woman which wee read of in the second booke of Kings the 4 Chapter This womans hunamite being in agony for the death of her Sonne shee said unto the Prophet did I desire a Sonne of my Lord did I not say doe not deceive me I was in that case at that time it seemed unto me that God had deceived me but the Lord by his mercy did not suffer me long thus for I recovered an other shee mate which is hope of an other woman at the 13 Chapter of the booke of Iudges it is Manoahs wife Mother of Samson her husband being frighted seeing the Angell to ascend with the flame he said we shall surely die because wee have seene God his wife said unto him if the Lord weare pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt offring and a meat offring at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would he at this time have told us such things as these so having received new hope I have revoked my vicious thoughts and submitted my selfe unto the will of God assuring my selfe that he hath not deceived me but hath caused mee to see great things when he hath received the offrings of my soule this makes me remember an other woman The reason I shall speake of her is because chastety was soo much oppressed by the elders judges of the people This woman is Susanna as wee read it in her History altough it is not Cannonicall yet from thence may be drawne comparisons sit for my cause for they were elders and judges and the People was subject to obey them altough theise Elders weare very wicked touching this woman But this must be noted that her combate was upon her corporall chastety and my cause is for my spirituall chastety can one say where this woman was when shee was thus assaulted her History tels us shee was in her husbands garden a like place was I in according as the spouse of our soule had commanded me at the 5 Chapter of Salomons song come into my Garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrhe with my spice it is most certaine that all the time I have bine persecuted by this kind of folke the which I have spoken of by my meditations I did enjoy the pleasure of that Garden we will leave now the wrongs done unto women by reason our perticulas hindrance is light unto us but the wrong done unto the disadvantage of the truth is in supportable unto us yet noe remedy heere we should have a miraculous work for the salt hath lost his savour how can wee shalt any body may see unlesse he be quite blind that there is heere a represensation of what our Lord Jesus Christ hath fore told us in the 24 Chapter of S. Mathew when he spake that before the great and terrible day of this second comming The Sunne shall be darkened and the Moone shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven now I pray you tell me if that Sunne of righteousnesse as Malachy calls him in his 4 Chapter with healing In his wings could it be more darkned when the truth is taken for an untruth and the untruth for the truth the Moone canne get light unlesse it be borrowed from that Sunne then must it be darkened and touching the Starres must wee not say to our great griefe that wee see them sall from heaven as wee have seene som yeares agoe when our Ministers with the elders have offered our children unto Baal without the consent of their Father and Mother and since occasion are carried worse and worse seeing they will offer the Fathers and Mothers and this they carry in forme and manner of Inquisition in forbidding them to maintaine the true Gospell by Excommunications and it is for that purpose that there are none of Christs Disciples among us and if there be any it is as Nicodemus by night or secretly for they thinke there is too much danger it was in the same manner of the crucifying of our Lord Jesus Christ the men were amazed and afrighted but theire were poore woman that followed him weeping and lamenting and also at the sepulchre Christ being risen directs his speech unto a woman for there weare no men to be found O what an honour is this for us that a woman should be the first messenger of the glorious resurrection of our Lord they are set by him in such an honorable degree that hee makes them to be has if it were the Apostle of the Apostles one may say unto me why should one speake at this time of the death of Christ and of his sepulchre for he is in his glory it is certaine but let us see if his truth is not in such a place O you conductours of this Church it is you which have placed a great stone at that sepulchres doore so that the truth cannot come out that stone is your Excommunication and the waight of it is your tyrannicall act teare out that Article and cause no more to lament for your poore gouvernment take againe your Discipline which you have put in oblivion and it doeth give you power enough it commands you to open heaven and to shut it againe by it alsoe may you cast out of your Church the evill livers and those also which continue in their vices but yet not those whom God hath given his feare do not cause the uncircumcised Philistines to rejoyce do not cause the beast to live againe for you must know that such sort of excommunications comes neere unto hers Remember what happened unto those elders in Susannas just cause which I have spoken of comparing the spirituall unto the corpotall I hope God will give you the grace to looke after these things Amen The woman hath written theise things chifely because the good English people those who have the feare of God should not take her to be Excommunicated but if they should happen to see her receive the holy Sacrament among them that they should not say unto her as Naomy sayd unto her Daughter in law according as wee read in the first Chapter of the booke of Ruth My Daughter returne unto thy people the woman would then answer humbly in in mildnesse as Ruth did my People is your People and my God is your God therefore send me not unto the People of my nation for they have forgotten the truth This hath bin done to the great griefe of the Wife of Michael le Clercq FINIS
dispute wee have ought against our Brother and so remaine but I hope that at other times they will shew their zeale to maintaine the truth some feare had fezed them seeing the rigor that was used towards those which did maintaine it untill now I remaine oblidged unto the command of the Apostle which I have spoken in the beginning to wit I direct my speach unto women and doe Intreate them not to reject my Instruction seeing the Apostle doeth command me O women have you never read the 4 Chapter of the Gospel of S. Iohn I pray you to read it heedfully and you shall find a marvellous consolation from the sacred mouth of our Lord speaking unto the woman that was a Samaritane and all others that shall beleeve in him you doe not find that the Lord misuseth this woman because shee tooke pleasure in his word but to the contrary he takes occasion to aske drinke of her because he would give unto this woman the water of life o good God who would beleeve such a thing of thine owne word should not say so that thou shouldest conferre so friendly with a woman a woman that was not of his people shee was of a meane condition for shee came to draw water shee was a great sinner for the Lord said unto her thou hast had five husbands and him whom thou now hast is not thy husband but above all to be noted that the Lord said unto her woman beleeve me the woman then ought to beleeve shee ought then to speake when one will wrong her faith at the 10 Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans the Apostle saith that one beleeveth of heart unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation the woman alsoe ought to write in such an occasion It is the practice of a true martyre and also of the feminine sect those pore and weakest vesels having bine sustained and strengthend by him that hath made unto them all that promise that their enemies are often fled all ashamed and confused O women seeing then that at this present one will for bid what the word of God doeth command Mat. c. 25. v. 9. one will put out our light or lampe let us not suffer it for at the comming of our spouse wee should be without light let us remember that there is nothing more exalted in the word of God then the womans faith for Jesus Christ speaking unto the woman of Canaan said unto her Mat. c. 15. v. 28. O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt O what a maruellous thing it is that the Sonne of God suffered him selfe to be overcome by the faith of a woman for he hath granted her request wee ought not to find it strange that the Sonne of God loveth so much that faith let us rather Worship that infinite love with joy and comfort let us not be affraid of the greatnesse of the combats for the victory shall be so much the more glorious let us remember that this combat had his beginning ever since the world began witnes that lamentable shipwrack of our first Mother do you know where this Auncient serpent made his enterance to begin this warre he entered in Eden that place was the celestiall Paradis there was in that place but Justice and all hollynesse Gen 3.2.6 shall wee marvell now that this serpent is entered in our Eden that is to say in the Church where there is but sinne that reighneth if one will doe you any shame it is is because you desire to live in the feare of God I know one doeth make som signe as if they would follow the Discipline the same they doe among the Scribes and Pharisees that Renouned consistory did not crucifie Christ alone but crucified 2 theeves with him Mat. c. 2.9 v. 38. this hath som colour towards the Ill advised and brutall world this is the subtilty of the Divel to cause more reproach to be done unto the faithfull they will find out an evill liver causing them to have like punishment it is easie to know in what forme Sathan made his entrance into the Church it is in a humaine forme according as I have perceived but the worst I can perceive is that he will have his Raigne there not onely in a Corner but in the Chaire seeing hereseis are to be established it is now more then time that the faithfull should make a crye like unto the crye of the Prophets sonnes according as wee read in the fourth Chapter of the second booke of Kings o man of God death is in the Cauldron but wee must say o God death is entered in thy Church o my God may not I say death seeing that by my condemnation I should have deffamed a doctrine but my writing sheweth faithfully that I have but onely spoken against eronious Doctrine but not against the true Doctrine Never the lesse it is from thence that my condemnation was drawne then may I very well say death seeing one must beleeve in hereseis to remaine in the Church for him that doeth beleeve in Heresies can hope nothing but death O lamentable thing to understand o if that holy woman hath had so much occasion to lament and crie for the taking of the Arke 1. Sam 4. v 19. and for this thing she demanded where is the Glory o that we have at this day a great deale more occasion to crye O Lord for thy Glory is goeing into Captivitie O Hanna Mother of Samuell wherefore didst thou weep so much to have a Sonne 1. Sam c. 1. v. 19. if thou wert in theise present times and that one would hinder thee to be the Mother of the Sonne of Glory weare it not to say I am descended into the Gulfe and never the lesse we are brought unto that extreanuty that Some sayes him selfe at the 3 Chapter of the Gospell of S. Marke and at the 12 Chapter of the Gospell of S. Mathew whosoever shall doe the will of my Father the same is my Brother and my Sister and my Mother to doe thee will of God to be Mother of Christ now all that which is done without faith is sinne then it must befaith which must worke this conception Let us then pray the Lord that he may give us the grace to the end wee may heare that gratious word the which he hath pronounced him selfe unto that poore woman which was Diseased with an issue of Bloud thy faith hath made the whole O that the Mother of Samuel had occasion to Answer mildly unto the high Priest for he spake upon her Person but here the truth is oppressed o what greefe it is unto me to heare the gowne spoken of for I feare that it will be found in this perticular full of sinne I hope I shall make it appeare in time I pray unto the Lord he may please to be judge and witnes altogether By me the Wife of MICHAEL le CLERCQ in my