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A08844	A faithfull admonition of the Paltsgraues churches to all other Protestant churches in Dutchland. That they would consider the great danger that hangeth ouer their heads as well as ours by the Popedome, and therefore Christianly and brotherly cease the priuate vnnecessary and now too much growne strife vvith vs. Together with a short abstract of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots published in print at Tubing. Published by authoritie. According to the original printed in the Electors palsgranes [sic] country at Nustadt, vpon the Hardt, Englished by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19129; ESTC S114063	23,398	47

A FAITHFVLL ADMONITION OF THE PALTSGRAVES Churches to all other Protestant Churches in Dutchland THAT THEY WOVLD CONSIder the great danger that hangeth ouer their heads as well as ours by the Popedome and therefore Christianly and brotherly cease the priuate vnnecessary and now too much growne strife with vs. TOGETHER WITH A SHORT ABSTRACT of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots published in print at Tubing Published by Authoritie According to the Originall Printed in the Electors Palsgraues Country at Nustadt vpon the Hardt Englished by IOHN ROLTE Imprinted at London by Edward Griffin for George Gibbes and are to be sould at his shop in Poules-church-yard at the signe of the Flowerdeluce 1614. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE OLIVER Lord St. Iohn Baron of Bletso his Maiesties Lieutenant of the County of Huntington the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and heereafter the Crowne of glory ABRAHAM the Prophet roote of true nobility Right Honourable hasted to performe dueties of loue euen to strangers and noble Nehemias stayed not vntill his poore brethren spake to him but with Moses had his affections amongest Gods afflicted ones abroad though they themselues abounded in earthly comforts Wherefore I make no doubt of your Honours fauourable acceptance of these my small endeuours not for my labours being of no worth neither my person also of no respect but of your honours godly disposition thereby the better to see how it standeth with the people of God elsewhere The present is small and also plaine being serued in so homelily in an earthen dishe With which presumption of mine I trust your honour will beare I being neither Prophet nor a Prophets sonne but a heardman and gatherer of wild figges and lighting yet in my liuing abroad on this small bunch of Rhenish grapes which though it be not that goodly one brought out of that land manifestly notifying the fruitfulnesse thereof to wit the renowned Prince Frederike his Catechisme vsed in all the Churches schooles of his Excellency and also all the Netherlands reformed Churches yet is it of the same grouth and both watered and warmed ripe by the Spirit and Son of God from heauen as well appeareth herein by their cōstancy to the truth of God manifested to them out of his holy word by their meeknesse towards their brethren who yet are too vnnatural to them and also by their vigilancie to preuent the subtle stratagems of the arch-enemy of Iesus Christ intended against them and the rest of the Churches of God And therefore if your honour be pleased to suffer it onely to bee set at the lower end of your table though vnder the couert of some of your goodlier seruices I make no doubt but others wil thereby be encouraged the rather to tast thereof and so find it as wholesome for their soules as they haue done in Germany I assuring my selfe that no sound body can take any hurt thereby Which I only ayming at and praying for desire the Lord of light to encrease your daies in honour to the further comfort of his Maiesties subiects in this part of the land and after you to make your sonnes like vnto the sonne of Barzillai to stand before our Dauid to follow your steps as wel in inward as outward graces to the glory of God and further comfort of his seruants Your honours most humble at command IOHN ROLTE Epistle to the Reader CHristian Reader and beloued in the Lord amongst many friuolous and slanderous imputations which our aduersaries the Papists lay vpon our Religion this is none of the meanest nor vnusuallest that wee cannot be the true Church which is as a Cittie at vnitie in it selfe because of the manifould dissentions diuisions which are nourished amongst vs for they thus cast in our teeth that the Doctrine of Luther was no sooner bred borne but it deuided it selfe like a Hidra into many heads Lutherans Caluinists Anabaptists Libertines Swelckfeldians Arians c. which to be a mere calumniation of theirs deuised as many other things else by them to the discredit of our religion may appeate by many reasons three or foure whereof I will onely propound to thy indifferent censure in this short Epistle First therefore their calumnie doth appeare in that diuerse of those sects which are named as springing from Luthers roote are none of ours neither euer were of vs. We abhorre detest them as much if not more then they themselues They sprung from the Diuel and not from Caluin and Luther to wit the Anabaptists Libertines Swenckfeldians and Arians against whom both Luther and Caluin haue writtē expresse treatises that the world may know how farre they were from approuing their damned errors and how our aduersaries make no conscience of open lying and slandering our religion and persons so that they may discredit vs aduantage themselues thereby Secondly if vnity in all things be a certaine marke of the true Church and diuision a marke of the false Church then was there neuer true Church in the world for there was neuer any yet in the perfect vnitie of opinions that in it there were not many sects and diuisions Irenaeus an excellent and holy father telleth vs as much when he saith tanquam ex nucleo nucis oliuae nascitur oleaster sic ex medio ecclesiae extiterunt hereses that is as from the kernell of the sweete Oliue springeth the wilde so out of the midst of the Church springeth heresies Thus was it in the Church of Corinth Galatia Thessalonica and the rest to whom Paul wrote his Epistles where there were many sects and diuisions and many exorbitant opinions touching things indifferent the Lords supper and the resurrection of the body Circumcision the second comming of the Lord c. Likewise after and in the Apostles times how the primatiue Church was pestered with Heritikes the Simonians the Nicolaitans the Ebionists the Cerinthonians and such like Who knoweth not the like may be showne of all ages successiuely Neither was there euer such a vnity to be found in any Church vpon earth that there were no heresies nor opposition of opinion lurking therein Thirdly if this be a iust exception against vs then much more may it take hould of them whose diuisions are both more in number and weightier in consequent then ours are for example they cannot agree whether the Pope can erre in the faith or no nor whether the counsell be aboue the Pope or the Pope aboue the Counsell nor whether a man may be certaine of his standing in the state of grace or no. All matters of great moment Againe it is notoriously knowne to all men how the Iesuites and secular Priests differ in iudgement about the Popes coactiue power in the temporall affaires of Princes and how of elder yeares their diuinitie was diuided into three families Thomists Scotists Occamists Thomas against Scot and Scot against Thomas and Occam against both And againe who knoweth not how the Romish doctors differ in iudgement about the

from them or what grounds they maintained against them To what manner of end these things will at last reach vnto we intreat all vnderstanding people to consider And when yet they will not thinke vpon it who ought most of all to thinke vpon it then the Lord God grant that the Princes and Lords together with their peacelouing councells may for that end once open their owne eies It is high time and if it come not to passe speedily then will the mischiefe which the Pope hath intended against vs most assuredly not long be kept out from vs. The God of Peace who hath euer hetherto taken his Church into his fatherly protection hee bee pleased furthermore also to take pitty vpō the same and to stirre vp godly people who may rightly consider and take to hart what that is that Christ saith Mat. 6.5 happy are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God To the almighty true God and Father together with the sonne and holy Ghost the onely and alone true God be thanks honour and praise both now and for euermore Amen A SHORT ABSTRACT TAKEN out of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots which was put in print at Tubingen by Doctor LVCAS OSIANDER DOctor Lucas Osiander published a booke at Tubingen vnder this title Warning about the Iesuits bad practises bloodthirsty plots c. In the which booke euen from the Iesuites owne pictures writings hee manifestly noteth and testifieth that the Iesuites together with the Popes confederates haue wholly concluded that they will no more dispute with vs out of the word of God but would consume and destroy all those with fire and sword by the helpe of the worldly potentates who were fallen from the Pope And that they are determined to put in practise such their bloud thirsty plots and bad practises so soon as may possibly be brought to passe that most especially in our beloued fatherland the Dutch Nation In the same booke are two things most especially to be marked the one is that the Papists are euen as great enemies to the Lutherans as to the Caluinists and desire to consume and destroy the one side as wel as the other the other is That the religious peace would nothing at all stay the Papists from their intents when they can but come to practise them These two things doe not all men in Dutchland beleeue but Doctor Lucas Osiander doth constantly beleeue them as indeed the truth is not otherwaies Doctor Lucas Osiander his words are as follow Pap. 5. Although Satan be a thousand fold more subtle spirit and much more secret and crafty together with the children of this world in their practises then the children of light in their businesse yet for all that our Lord God oftentimes so blindeth Satan that he cannot in all things bee secret and close in the wickednes which hee goeth about but hee tickleth himselfe so with his intended practises that men of vnderstanding can marke yea and as it were lay hold on what he hath in his mind Euen so hath Satan in the abouenamed paintings of his trustie beloued the Iesuites so let his sharpe clawes peepe out that a man may gripe how they haue hitherto practised that the highest and chiefest Potentates in Christendome if they would follow their mindes might fall vpon the Euangelicall Protestant States of the Augsburges Confession and distroy them and consume the faith of the Euangelicall professors for it is manifest by the counsel of Trent in the which our Christian Euangelicall Religion is most vnreasonably railed on and condemned for herisie and in like manner out of the manifould poisenous writings of the Iesuites which they haue these diuers yeares published against the sound Doctrine of the Agusburges confession what people they hould for heritickes and for enemies of the Christian Churches in their opinion which in their mindes as wilde beasts should destroy the vineyard of the Christian Churches which also should bee strangled and distroyed according to the Iesuites desires by great and high intituled Potentates And the Iesuites vnderstand by the same beasts The Iesuits haue sworne the death of the Lutherans as well as the Caluinists not onely those who are fallen from the Romish Religion and yet agree not rightly with the Augsburges confession but all those who will not haue to doe with the Papists Religion misdoings and Idolatrie And especially those who haue bound themselues constantly to the Christian Augsburges confession and therefore they haue also put vnder the beasts some of those ensignes which the Protestant Princes vse to beare in their Armes And when they should get the gace into their owne hands they would out of all doubt hold the one as the other and destroy them all who would not acknowledge the Pope of Rome for the vicar of Christ nor worship him for their earthly God c. Also Pag. 10. If the Iesuites had but one drop of Christian bloud in them and one sparke of the meeke spirit of Iesus they would not onelie in right not hate vs or persecute vs but loue vs with all their hearts and in time of necessity euen wager their verie liues for vs. As Iohn teacheth in his Epistle where he saith wee should euen lay downe our liues for the brethren therfore the Iesuites haue no reasonable cause to persecute vs if they were true Iesuites that is were faithfull Christians And though there be here and there some Christians N. B. The Caluinists are also true Christiās most especiallie in France and the low Countries who are found to haue falne from the Pope and neuerthelesse doe not agree with vs in euery article of Christian religion whose error we indeed cannot also allow of as being against the holy Scripture yet is not this any Christian way or meanes to helpe the Church of God and to maintaine pure Religion that the same should be destroyed with the sword And the Iesuites should in all reason consider that looke how often the same Christians defend one Erronious Article that they the Iesuites haue alwaies tenne Erronious Popish Articles which they both beleeue and hold which yet they shall neuer be able to defend to the end of the world and therefore they might very well carry water with them vpon one colestaffe And besides that consider that vnder the aforenamed Christians there are certaine thousand simple people who haue neuer bene better instructed that if they heard of a better religion in their Lands they looking to it thēselues would take it in thankfulnes And so there is a great number vnder them like to those of whom the Lord said to the Prophet Ionas that they know not the difference betwixt the right hand or the left And therefore if the Iesuites had that Christian loue by which Christ willeth that his disciples should bee knowne in their hearts they would not cast out the child with the bath or rend vp the good wheat with the weeds much lesse so lay their platformes that the childe should be murthered in the mothers bellies as is manifested by their prouocations in France at Paris Orliance and other places vpon Bartholmew day Anno. 1574. c. practised where no woman with child was spared But the Iesuites would gladly begin the play with those simple Christians who are not in al things sufficiently informed N. B. The Iesuites would begin with the Caluinists that so they might end it with the Lutherans M. Lucas Ostanders glosse The Iesuites esteeme one Euangelist Christian as the other whereby they might end it with those who do in euery point hold the pure doctrine of the Augsburges confession For the Iesuites esteeme the one as they doe the other Who will not make himselfe partaker of their Idolatry iugling and false Romish Religion hee is adiudged of them to death These Christians which faile men ought to informe out of the word of God and make them to vnderstand better the truth but for the cause of Religion which they doe neuerthelesse maintaine quietly and reasonably should they not be put to death Also page 14. If we had no better testimony against the Romish Antichrist the Pope that hee is from his Father the Diuell yet were it sufficiently witnessed by this that he hath in the cause of Religion stirred vp so much shedding of blood and yet at this present day doth most eagerly prouoke and desire to driue on the Potentates thereto that they might staine their hands in the innocent bloud of honest Christians And to effect this The Iesuites care for no religious peace hee vseth his Scoutwatches the Diuels posts the Iesuites who vnder the shew of great holinesse possesse the hearts of many people and desire to bring the matter to that passe that a fearefull cutting of throats and butchery might be set abroach in Dutchland and other kingdomes the peace of Religion be broken and that the stronger should put the weaker in the sacke In like manner also before this time one that thought himselfe a Lawyer but a bad and false Christian Doctor George Eder mocked the Religious peace in manifest writing put in print and drue the same onely to a toleration which neither could nor should be of force Such folke hath the subtill Diuell kept till the last ende of thē game and made his cards of helps that through them he might set a worke misery and necessity And therfore whilest there is not onely so much to be gathered out of the abouenamed pictures of the Iesuites but also out of their writings practises and plots that their intent and purpose reacheth to that end to destroie the Protestant Religion and Estates By this it is manifest that the murthering spirit namely the Diuellrideth them and will not let them keepe holy day till that they when the Lord shall tolerate them haue set a worke a fearefull bloodbath Therefore is it much better to hould nothing then to be such people who desire to ouerthrow the peace of Religion and also the worldly peace and to be set a worke to the furthering of Misery and necessity FINIS