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A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

incurre feare to indure the discōmodities disturbāces of banishment such like things They could wel finde in their hearts to goe into paradise by that large wide way gate but Iesus christ saith that this is the waie that leadeth to destruction that the narrow waie strait gate leade to eternall life So that these men are the more guilty before God the lesse excuse they haue But furthermore you wil obiect that I am too rigorous and that I haue no regarde to mans infirmitie that there is none so good but he doth offend c. I answere that your fault cannot be sufficientlie exaggerate it is so monstrous and scandalous and it is most necessarie that you be brought to the sight of your maladie and miserie that you maie be cured And as for the infirmitie of our flesh I know I praise God that it is greater than I can expresse the Lord knoweth it better than we and he taketh pitie and compassion thereon but yet for al that he wil not take our excuses which wée alleage for paiment for it ariseth from a corrupt fountaine that is from sinne yea it is sinne in it selfe and principallie hee condemneth it when wee nourish it cherish it and entertaine it in our selues when wee take pleasure and flatter our selues in it when we wil make a buckler of it to couer and defend our faultes we ought rather whē we procéed against our selues to begin here that is first of al to condemne our infirmitie as beeing a fruite of our corruption and afterward our sluggishnes and slacknesse in that we despise the means which God setteth before vs to strengthen our selues with al in the power of his spirite If during the time of your prosperitie at which time the Lorde graunted you grace to take some rest or at least to take some breath you had wel known your infirmity and that this knowledge ingendering in you a distrustfulnesse of your selues had stirred you vp to craue help at Gods handes euen the strength of his spirite you should not haue fallen into this inconuenience If you saie that the loue of your fathers mothers wiues and children their prouocations their cries their teares the desire of their good and commoditie and the feare you had to leaue them opē to all manner perils and dangers or to suffer and indure anie harme if you alleage I saie that al these thinges were of great force to make you stagger and to abate your courage I graunt that these are great trials namely to those that haue a tender heart and that a man must be furnished with singular strength from aboue that he may be able to ouercome al those things I saie moreouer that this humane natural affectiō is laudable approued of God whē it is wel ruled for he that careth not for those that belong vnto him is worse than an Infidel saith the Apostle 1. Tim. 5 but I saie therwithall that this affection hath not onelie béene disordered in you Deut. 6. Mat. 24. but also strāgely disordered vnbrideled For you know what that meaneth which the Lord requireth at our handes that we loue him with all our heart strength thought and vnderstanding that is to say that there be nothing in the world neither without nor within vs that may be able to turne vs aside how little soeuer from the intire and perfect loue which we owe vnto our God and father moreouer that we loue nothing in this world of all that which we can and ought to loue no not our selues but onely in him and for his sake or to speake plainely that there bee nothing which we loue properlie but him alone You know also what Iesus Christ saith that if we preferre the loue of our fathers mothers wiues children brethren sisters and of our owne life before the loue which we owe vnto him yea if we hate not all these thinges for the loue of him we can not bee his disciples and we are not worthie of him This was then a marueilous excessiue and disordered affection that carried you away so farre as to make you forget the loue of your God and father and of your sauiour and redéemer Iesus Christ Furthermore I aske you this question what greater good and commoditie yea what greater honour you could desire and procure for your wiues and children then to shew them an example of true godlines and of the feare of God of patience and Christian constancie To carry thē with you if néed had beene into some place of safetie where God might be called vpon serued and honored And there to learne in good time to beare the crosse of Iesus Christ that they might haue this honor together with you namely to weare the liuerie and coller of his order that you might together be partakers of this blessing of the sonne of God Ma● 5. Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen and of that whereof S. Paule speaketh that if wee suffer with him we shall raigne with him and shall be glorified with him furthermore how could you better saue them from danger and prouide for their safetie and your owne then to bring them to this stronge dungeon of the house of God that is into the church which is without rifts and frée from vndermining and which is founded vpon a rocke and garded by the celestial armies which lye incamped round about Mat. 16. Psal 34. Ps 125. being couered and inuironed on euery side with the fauour of the almightie being garded fortified and defended by the inuincible force of the spirit of God To be briefe what better thing could you do for those that are of your bloud and for your own soules then to further and procure the saluation the life and the eternall felicitie of you all But you haue taken a cleane contrarie course for you haue procured their perdition their dishonour and eternall confusion together with your owne and haue drawen them and your selues into farre greater danger then if with your owne handes you had deliuered them vp to the moste cruel bloudie cutthroates of the world or els if you had committed them to the mercie of Lyons Tygers and Beares or of other bruit beastes which are mercilesse For first of al of what benefites fauours blessings of God haue you depriued your selues together seing you haue cut your selues off frō the church of Iesus Christ from the communion of saints wtout which there is no blessednes felicitie saluation neither anie life whatsoeuer but all vnhappines cursednes death ruine and destruction What duetie haue you done to edifie them when you shewed them the example of your cowardlines trecherie and disloialtie What account will they make to come to Christian religion séeing you make so small account thereof What reuerence will thy giue to Iesus Christ and his doctrine seeing you renounce the same so cowardlie

offence of his Church and to your owne vtter destruction vnlesse you repent To you it is I say that I direct this my worke particularlie that I may louingly and brotherlie conferre with you touching the offence which you haue committed beseeching you in the name of the liuing God that you would find some spare time to reade it pondering together with me the reasons which shall be therein set downe before your eyes out of the word of God And that not onelie to the end you may approue the same as all those will not sticke to doe which will not flatter them selues nor stubbornlie withstand the trueth of God but aboue all that hauing approued the same there may be in you an holie resolution accompanied with the effect thereof that is in summe that you may with speede repaire by a true and readie conuersion that fault which you haue committed Which being well considered and weighed as it ought together with the circumstances thereof you shall full well know and shall be inforced to graunt that it is nothing so small and light as the enimies of your saluatiō would make you belieue namely the diuel the flesh and the worlde which indeuour moreouer to cast you into a déepe sléepe and so to besot you that you may not anie longer haue anie feeling of your faults but may more and more plunge your selues in filth mire that you may there continue and finally become Antechrists a people without God and without religion that is to say being wholie become slaues to Sathan as is befallen to more people in our countrie of Fraunce then were to be wished through the iust iudgement of God Furthermore when you shall well perceiue the greatnes and hugenes of your fall it must needes come to passe that you shall see the horrible fearefull iudgements and vengeance which the Lord bringeth vpon all those who through their slacknesse an disloyaltie haue beene the cause that his holie name hath béene profaned and their neighbors offended Which knowledge may serue to bring you to a true deiection and humilitie before the maiestie of God not that you may faint and sinke down vnder your burden and so fall into despaire through the consideration of your transgressions and by the sight of Gods iustice but rather that being by this meanes humbled in the presence of God you may be the better brought to draw neare vnto him or rather to speake more properly to prouoke him to draw nearer to you according to that which the Prophet saith that The Lord is nigh vnto those that are comfortles beaten downe and broken in hart and saueth them that be of a contrite spirite euen through the feeling of their sinnes and iniquities so that a man may truelie say that such humilitie is as it were the first gate or dore to enter in vnto the throne of the grace and mercie of God who is in such sort iust to punish sinners in his wrath euen those which are obstinate and which harden their harts when they heare his voice and abuse his patience that he is also readie to show mercie he is pitifull gentle and merciful to all those which being conuict in their conscience and hauing accused themselues before God returne vnto him without faining throwing them selues as it were into the armes of his most bountifull father to secke for grace at his hands These are my brethren the principall points which I mean by the grace of God to laie open vnto you in this my present writing that is a briefe collection of that which you must doe that you may escape the iust wrath and indignation of the Lord and bee reconciled to him This is that which I require at your hands for the glorie of God and for your owne benefit and saluation this is that which all your brethren members whom God hath preserued desire and craue daylie at the hands of God with gronings sighes and most feruent praiers This is that which the Angels of heauen looke for at your handes that they may reioyce and praise God for your conuersion Briefly this is that whereunto you are called and inuited by the goodnesse and clemencie of our heauenlie father who stretcheth out his armes vnto you to imbrace you as his children Wherfore it standeth you vppon to looke to it for the case so standeth that you must now either honour or dishonour God you must either be saued or else condemned Now forasmuch as my desire is to help comfort you therein I wil take paine through Gods help to make these things more plaine somewhat more largely in order to deduct them First of al then if you be desirous to come to the true knowledge of your fault that you may detest the same obtaine pardon for it at the handes of God you must beware that you weigh it not in a false ballance such as is that of Satans the flesh the world the sworne enimies of our saluatiō for these shal not be your iudges at the last day but you must peyze thē in the seales of the wil of God which is declared vnto vs in his word for that is the onlie most certaine and most perfect rule whereto all our actions must be referred wherwith they must al be hedged in and according to the which alone men shal bée iudged of the Lord. I know full well that all those which haue forgotten themselues in this case forsaking the profession of true religion that they may raunge themselues vnder the banner Antichrist must not be placed in one the same ranke For one sort is so fallen that they are as it were out of all hope euer to be able to rise againe of which sort are that heape and rabble of hypocrites which had intruded themselues into the Church of God making a show that they would folow Iesus Christ and make profession of his Gospell notwithstanding forasmuch as they neuer had anie sparkle of true godlines neyther anie will to renounce their concupiscences and the vanities of this world that they might dedicate cōsecrate thēselues to God to follow Iesus Christ to reforme their life according to the doctrine of his Gospel it is come to passe that their hypocrisie is discouered for séeing they could not so long as they professed religion giue their lustes the bridle and run into al filthinesse dissolutenes and infamous facts giue ouer themselues to their delights and filthy pleasure satisfie their ambitiō couetousnes enioy their ease delicates cōmodities of this life take their pastime and so liue in such rest according to the flesh that they might not bée disquieted or troubled any maner of way Briefly seing they coulde not serue two maisters which were quite cōtrary the one to the other that is to say God the Diuell they forsook God gaue thēselues to follow the world which is as it were the diuels bawd other some staid not til they might be