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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14464	An epistle to the faithfull necessary for all the children of God: especially in the s[o] dangerous dayes. Written by Maister Peter Viret in french, and englished by F.H. Esquier.; Epistre envoyée aux fidèles conversans entre les chrestiens papistiques. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; F. H., Esquier.	1582 (1582)	STC 24779; ESTC S104301	66,070	144

not doe like the cowardly Souldyers who will kil all as they sitte at table but when they come to the businesse to giue blowes they are the first that fiye away and cause others to be afrayd and go hyde them selues If we be truely faythfull it is necessarie that we confesse Iesus Christ opēly and that we die rather as the Prophets Apostles and Martyres did then to forsake him and commit Idolatrie superstition or any acte that hath any appearance of it If Iesus Christ had once many such champions which would be prodigall of themselues and liues with so holy a prodigalitie as they were Antichrist would soone be ouerthrowne Iesus Christ shoulde shortly raigne ouer al the earth or death would diminishe and kill moe of our enemies then the death of Sampson killed of the Philistians we see what happened in the Iud. 27. tymes of the Apostles and Martyrs if they had been so daintie as we are and had been so fearefull of their skinne the religion of Christe had not been so much encreased in so smal a tyme Luk. 18. but it is harde especially in our time wherein faith almost faileth vpon earth according to the prophesie of our Sauiour Christ to finde men of such fayth and constancie What remedie is there then herein if we can Sect. not come to this high degree and to this christian persecution of the martyrs and if wee dare not openly confesse Iesus Christ with the danger of our life and wee feele not in our selues such constancie to suffer death for his name let vs come at the least to the next degree let vs be secret schollers with Nichodemus and Ioseph of Arimathea And if we shewe not our selues so openly yet at the least let vs do no dishonour to Iesus Christ nor consent vnto his aduersaries in partaking at the table of diuels if wee find our selues weaker thē Nichodemus if we for feare of loosing our goods our estimation liues we be constrained too much to dissemble and to communicate with Idolaters yet at the least let vs not iustifie but condēne our selues in that wherein we fayle let vs acknowledge our ouer great infirmitie the ouer burning loue that we beare to our selues to the goods and dignities of this world more thē to Iesus Christ his word let vs acknowledge in what euill bondage we are let vs confesse that it is a punishment and iudgement of God vpon vs because of our sinnes as it was vpon the people of Israel in Egypt Babylon let vs pray to God that he will encrease our faith to ouercome our infirmitie and let vs confesse our faultes and sinnes vnto him and aske him pardon and mercie for the same let vs weepe and waile vnder this heauie burthen and vnder this great tyrannie of Antichrist which presseth vs so sore let vs aske ayd succour and deliuerance at his hands rather then to excuse and iustifie our selues and so much to please our selues and hee will see our teares and heare our sighes and grones by which he wil be moued to pitie and compassion for to deliuer and succour vs as he was moued by the like of the people of Israel But in the meane time those which remaine in Sect. such miserie so ouercōe by the infirmitie of their fleshe that they are constrayned to communicate with idolaters what excuse can they haue seeyng they knowe well they doe euill doe they not sinne against the holy Ghost this is a question that some wil make and a doubt that tormenteth many consciences if al sinnes that we commit knowing that wee do euill were sinne against the holy ghost we should commit fewe the were not sin against the holy ghost the adulterie murder of Dauid and the denial blasphemy and periurie of Saint Peter should bee sinnes agaynst the holy ghost for they were not ignoraunt that that was forbiddē of God but it is an other thing to sinne of certayne malice and in despite of God and in contempt of his woorde and to sinne through ignoraunce or through infirmitie of the fleshe which displeaseth vs and wee cannot ouercome it But we must not so far stretch out this skinne Sect. of mans infirmitie that we wil wholly couer defēd our selues by it giue our selues to vnderstand that sin is not sinne for in stead of lessoning the sinne wee may aggrauate it and may well make it irremissible as the sinne vnto death for there is no great difference between the hypocrites the contemners and mockers of God and betweene the blasphemers which sinne against the holy ghost they are almost cosen germans wee see also by experience that from one of the degrees man falleth into the other for many of those which become Atheistes and Epicures and men without God which haue at the first had some knowledge of the truth and nowe blaspheme it they are fallen into these pits by degrees for they haue fayned to themselues a Iesus Christ after their owne fancie without amending their life and without any repentance they haue dallied with him and haue made it an art to blaspheme him wherefore they haue altogether lost him and God with him whom without him we cannot haue And therefore sinne is no more to them sinne nor blasphemie blasphemie for Iesus Christ is no more to them Iesus Christ nor God to them God Let vs learne to feare the Lord by others Sect. losse and to flee such curse and fury of God let vs beware that seeing Iesus Christ hath driuen that wicked spirit out of our body that wherewith he threatneth the Iewes befall not vnto vs that is that he returne not thither with seuen others woorse then the first and that the latter thinges be not worse then the first for it followeth not if all sinnes be not sinnes vnto death and as great and as wicked the one as the other that yet they be not sinnes sufficient to bring vs to eternall damnation if God of his mercy tooke not pitie of vs and did pardon them vnto vs let vs not thinke that wee are not bound to acknowledge and confesse them and to pray euery day O heauenly father forgiue vs our sinnes enter not into iudgement with thy seruant reprooue vs not nor correct vs in thine anger and furie lead not vs into temptation but deliuer vs from euill I condemne not Dauid nor S. Peter as Sect. touching their persons nor the Israelites which worshipped the Images of Nabuchodonozer in such sort as I condemne them for reprobates but I allow not therfore the murder of Dauid nor the denial of S. Peter nor the idolatrie of the Israelites but do condemne them as sinnes greeuous and greatly displeasing to God and worthy of eternall death if God of his grace had not pardoned them Yet because the persons acknowledged their faultes and asked him mercy for the same their sinne was not imputed vnto them I haue also like