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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

euery where admonish and exhort vs to follow him the Schoolemaister and singular example of holie life For hee hath not as Paule saith called his vnto vncleanes and loosenesse of life but vnto holines Neither was he made only vnto the faithfull as he writeth to the Corinthians their wisedome and righteousnes but also their sanctification and redemption For as by his wisedome and righteousnes hee driueth away the naturall darkenesse of mans minde and doeth kindle in them the light of the true knowledge of him selfe and his father and forgiuing of our sinnes doeth endue and adorne vs with his righteousnes wherwith we beeing couered do please the Father So he doeth giue vs his holie Spirit which doth renue our mindes that they may haue holie desires and pure affections whiche at last may bring foorth holy workes And touching the effectes of the holy Ghost in the faithfull and endeuour of holy life it is euerie where entreated in the Epistles of the Apostles but chiefly in the Epistle to the Romans the 6. 7. 8. Chapters the same is handeled diligently and largely And the very same also doth Iames and Iohn in their Epistles of purpose teach The desire therefore and indeuour of a holie and new life oughte so to bee coupled with true fayth in Christ that it is a harder matter or as impossible to plucke one of them from another as it is to separate light from the Sunne and heate from the fire For Christ as the same Apostle witnesseth gaue him selfe for vs that he might deliuer vs from all iniquities and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good workes And verely if the Philosophers doe discourse of maners and deliuer preceptes not so much to make men skilfull as good howe vnséemely a thing were it that Christian Philosophie should goe no further then to infourme mens minds with the knowledge of godlines making no account of leadinge a godlye and holie life Whosoeuer hath faith hee must féele in him selfe Christ so working by his holie Spirite that hee truely say that which the Apostle doth I liue yet not I any more but Christ liueth in me For as the bodie hauing a soule doeth receiue and feele his force and actions So hee that is ingraffed into Christ and is made his member can not but bee partaker of his Spirite life and holines For the which cause the Apostolike and Catholike fayth calleth the bodie or fellowship of the church the communion of Saintes plainly declaring those only to appertaine vnto that fellowship which doe minde an holie life and doe bende and endeuour them selues hereunto that they become suche as Paule exhorteth the Thessalonians to be that is wholy sanctified sound in Spirite and such as are kept blamelesse in bodie and soule vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ They that are otherwise minded and doe otherwise leade their life and neuertheles say they be of the fellowship of Iesu doe varie from them selues and their life doth manifestly reproue their tongue of a lye CAP. XI That there appeareth not in this newe fellowship of Iesu any endeuour of holie life I Doubt not but the title or drifte of this chapter will seeme vnto many at the first sight not only strange but also vnreasonable and no lesse then if I shoulde goe about to proue heauie things to go vpward and light things downward For where as I say that I doe not finde in this vpstart kinde of monkes integritie of life and endeuour of holines I shall séeme vnto a great many to doe no otherwise then if I should say that I finde no light in the Sun or whitenes in Snowe So verely is the outwarde visor or shewe wont to dasell their eyes which gaste thereupon and doe not withdrawing the same looke into the matter more narowly Of these therefore I request that they would suspende their iudgement a while and remoue all preiudices out of their mindes and to iudge of the matter hearing attentiuely the reasons which I shall bring First of all I say that I do worthily find wanting in these brethren plaine dealing and good meaning namely in those thinges that they write against vs as which in the most waightie controuersie of iustification cease not wrongfully to burthen vs or rather the truth it selfe to the intent to make it not only suspected but also hated of all men with that hainous and rancke slaunder of naked or bare fayth and voide of good workes And yet these men cannot but know what our mind and iudgement is which haue by flattery● declared and set downe in wrytinge a thousand times by our men They doe easilie perceiue that we doe allow that faith and doe attribute vnto it only that effecte of iustifying which the Apostle doth define to be effectuall by loue and fruitfull by good works and so that we doe not separate the good fruites from the good tree although in that effecte it be discerned from them When one reasoneth of the sun fire and a man doth not he reason of the sunne that shineth fire that heateth and a man that liueth albeit in flatte wordes it be not added neuertheles euery man doth distinguish them one from another by their effectes Therfore let these masters cease to slaunder vs if they will perswade vs that they are louers of the truth and desirous of holynes for to cauill much more to lie and slaunder is the part of the enemies of godlynesse and trueth But letting this passe let vs come to the examination of the rest of their life I will not here charge them all by rehearsing those thinges which I haue oft times heard and vnderstoode to be almost in euery mans mouth before their eyes and in their handes that certaine gréeuous offences haue bene lately committed of some which are of this order of companions They would perhaps make answere that the wickednes of some ought not to be preiudiciall to the whole felowwippe euen as no wise man doth condemne the Apostleship for the falshode treason of Iudas Moreouer I am not so curious and desirous to prie into other mennes liues that I should desire to touche those thinges that are done within priuate walles I leaue such things first vnto God who will once make manifest things that are hid in darcknes as the Apostle witnesseth nexte vnto time the mother of truth as they vse to say lastly vnto them that are in those cloysters or dennes and abide willingly amongest them which if they would happely also might bring to light those thinges that as they are soule to commit so should be shamefull to speake and to heare I will onlye make mention of those thinges which the very Sun doth behold and are in euery mannes eyes First that the hatred of the worlde is ioyned with the true loue of godlynes it is as certaine as that the Sun doth shine at high