THE
Repentaunce
of
IOHN
HAREN
,
and
his
Conuersion
from
the
Church
of
Rome
to
the
true
Church
of
God
,
openly
published
and
made
by
him
in
the
French
Church
,
remayning
in
Wezell
,
in
the
presence
of
the
wise
and
discreete
Senat
of
the
same
place
,
the
7.
day
of
March
.
Anno.
1610.
MY
Lordes
,
and
louing
Breathren
in
the
Lord
,
at
my
comming
out
of
my
sorrowfull
Prison
,
wherein
I
haue
been
violently
holden
for
the
space
of
eight
yeares
&
vpwardes
,
for
suckering
your
Churches
:
passing
by
this
towne
of
Wezell
,
to
goe
〈…〉
friendes
,
I
haue
imboldned
my selfe
to
salute
you
,
and
to
giue
you
to
vnderstand
many
thinges
which
concerne
the
honour
and
glory
of
God
,
the
edification
of
his
Church
,
and
the
saluation
of
my
soule
.
Truely
,
if
it
were
not
for
the
assurance
that
I
haue
of
your
pietie
towards
God
,
and
Christian
charitie
towards
your
Neighbours
,
I
durst
not
haue
been
so
bold
,
as
I
am
at
this
present
,
to
certifie
you
of
the
miserable
estate
,
whereinto
my
sinnes
haue
brought
mee
;
but
assuring
my selfe
,
that
you
will
be
imitators
of
the
Mercie
of
God
,
and
of
the
Grace
of
his
Sonne
,
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
;
who
desireth
not
the
death
of
a
Sinner
,
but
that
he
should
conuert
and
be
saued
;
it
maketh
me
doe
that
vnto
you
,
which
the
diseased
person
doth
vnto
the
Phisition
;
which
is
,
to
discouer
the
Griefes
of
my
heart
,
and
the
Wounds
of
my
soule
.
Beloued
breathren
,
in
mee
you
see
and
behold
the
paterne
and
spectacle
of
the
iust
Iudgement
of
God
vpon
man
,
who
hauing
acknowledged
Iesus
Christ
for
my
Sauiour
,
trode
his
Word
vnder
my
feete
,
and
made
no
account
of
his
holy
Ordinaunces
;
and
therefore
God
as
a
iust
Iudge
,
set
me
vpon
the
scaffold
of
his
Wrath
and
Indignation
;
because
I
would
seeme
to
be
Wise
in
my selfe
,
forgetting
the
indignitie
and
miserie
of
my
estate
,
I
haue
grieued
the
holy
Ghost
,
which
had
registred
mee
in
the
Cathalogue
of
the
blessed
;
certainely
I
had
been
most
happie
,
if
at
the
issuing
foorth
of
my
Mothers
Wombe
,
I
had
been
buried
,
without
euer
seeing
the
light
of
this
World
,
seeing
that
by
my
sinnes
,
I
haue
subiected
my
vncertaine
dayes
,
vnto
so
many
outrages
and
griefes
:
For
▪
is
there
any
man
that
hath
receiued
more
benefites
at
the
holy
and
liberall
handes
of
God
our
Father
,
then
I
?
Who
from
my
youth
vpwardes
,
was
brought
vp
and
nourished
in
the
most
excellent
Schooles
that
are
in
Christendome
;
hauing
had
a
Father
,
that
spared
no
thing
to
bring
me
vp
in
Learning
,
Vertue
,
and
Pietie
,
and
that
shewed
me
an
example
of
Constancie
and
Fidelitie
;
hauing
suffered
death
for
professing
the
name
of
the
Lord
.
But
,
as
if
God
had
done
me
wrong
,
to
continue
his
graces
and
great
mercies
vnto
me
,
I
became
the
most
filthy
&
beastly
Apostate
that
euer
was
in
the
World
;
I
say
the
most
filthy
:
for
,
consider
I
pray
you
,
the
Apostacies
which
were
in
times
past
in
the
auncient
Church
,
specially
during
the
tenne
great
Persecutions
from
Nero
to
Constantine
the
great
;
and
the
eleuenth
,
which
was
vnder
Iuhan
that
wicked
Apostate
,
which
caused
so
many
Reuoltes
in
the
Church
,
and
when
so
many
great
persons
made
shipwracke
of
the
Fayth
.
Consider
also
the
Apostacies
that
haue
been
committed
in
our
dayes
,
and
you
shall
see
,
if
you
can
finde
the
like
to
mine
?
That
a
Seruant
of
God
,
nourished
and
brought
vp
at
the
feete
of
true
Doctors
,
the
Sonne
of
a
Martire
,
one
that
preached
the
Ghospell
17.
or
18.
yeares
,
and
that
with
edification
in
the
time
of
Persecution
,
when
the
Swordes
of
Tirantes
made
all
publike
places
in
the
Netherlandes
redde
with
humaine
blood
,
I
reputed
my selfe
not
onely
happy
to
beleeue
and
anounce
Iesus
Christ
;
but
with
the
losse
of
my
goodes
to
indure
all
sortes
of
oprobyes
and
slaunders
for
his
name
;
in
,
and
by
whom
I
beleeued
and
spake
.
And
yet
neuerthelesse
afterward
,
with
so
great
scandale
,
hauing
made
my selfe
a
Disciple
of
Antechrist
,
Who
would
not
be
abashed
,
and
abhorre
such
an
offence
?
And
therefore
it
is
,
that
I
openly
cry
out
and
confesse
,
that
my
Sinne
is
not
like
vnto
other
mens
sinnes
;
for
if
any
man
sinneth
by
ignoraunce
or
infirmitie
,
hee
shall
finde
a
Mediatour
which
will
pray
for
him
,
and
it
shall
be
pardoned
:
but
who
shall
be
my
Mediatour
?
I
haue
offended
God
and
all
his
Seruantes
;
I
haue
scandalized
his
people
,
and
haue
made
my selfe
vnworthy
of
the
commiseration
of
honest
men
:
Therefore
the
dolors
of
death
eternall
haue
compassed
me
about
,
and
the
tempestes
of
my
iniquitie
haue
abashed
me
;
for
the
Arrowes
of
Almightie
God
haue
wounded
my
soule
in
such
maner
,
that
no
part
of
my
Flesh
,
nor
any
of
my
Vaines
are
whole
,
so
much
my
mischiefe
increaseth
:
my
Heart
panteth
and
beateth
in
my
breast
with
griefe
,
my
Bones
are
weakened
by
reason
of
the
great
distresse
,
which
I
indure
by
meanes
of
my
wicked
action
.
Behold
how
those
that
abandonate
them-selues
vnto
Vanities
,
are
forsaken
of
God
,
and
of
their
owne
grauitie
.
It
is
a
horrible
thing
to
fall
into
the
handes
of
the
liuing
God
,
and
to
abiure
his
Trueth
,
once
knowne
.
What
shall
I
doe
?
shall
I
despaire
?
Must
I
at
my
departure
out
of
this
life
,
attend
and
expect
the
reward
of
Cain
and
ludas
,
and
say
with
those
miserable
Apostates
;
My
Sinnes
are
greater
then
the
Mercie
of
God
?
No
,
I
will
not
despaire
;
for
I
know
,
the
eternall
God
is
good
;
that
his
Mercie
surmounteth
all
the
Heauens
,
that
he
desireth
not
the
death
of
a
Sinner
but
rather
that
he
should
repent
and
be
saued
;
and
that
incessantly
he
pardoneth
and
forgiueth
his
elect
.
He
pittieth
true
repentant
sinners
,
be
they
neuer
so
miserable
and
great
offenders
:
and
where
Sinne
aboundeth
,
his
Grace
super-aboundeth
.
I
haue
met
with
my
Mediatour
the
Sonne
of
God
,
my
soueraine
Sacrificator
,
who
can
and
will
haue
compassion
of
my
infirmities
:
but
more
then
that
,
his
voyce
and
his
example
sommon
,
induce
;
yea
and
lead
me
to
approch
When
a
man
of
credite
speaketh
,
wee
beleeue
him
:
how
much
more
then
ought
we
to
beleeue
the
mouth
of
him
that
can
not
lie
?
It
is
hee
that
sanctifieth
my
afflictions
,
to
the
ende
that
they
should
not
bee
the
entry
vnto
eternall
paine
.
I
haue
likewise
set
before
mine
eyes
,
an
infinite
number
of
examples
of
his
pietie
towardes
Sinners
.
The
poore
Publican
casting
downe
his
eyes
to
the
ground
,
crauing
I
call
to
minde
great
and
inorare
sinnes
,
cruelties
,
and
wicked
Apostasies
committed
against
God
,
and
his
Prophets
by
King
Manasses
,
who
neuer
the
lesse
being
Prisoner
in
Babilon
,
and
finding
his
Conscience
to
be
much
pressed
with
the
feeling
of
his
wickednes
,
after
he
had
confessed
his
faultes
vnto
God
,
he
was
receiued
into
mercie
.
Jonas
flying
away
from
the
face
of
God
&
from
his
presence
in
Tarsis
,
because
he
would
not
follow
his
vocation
,
was
cast
into
the
Sea
;
and
after
being
miraculously
deliuered
out
of
the
Whales
belly
,
went
to
Ninine
to
declare
his
Commission
.
All
these
examples
haue
made
me
know
,
that
God
is
exceeding
good
to
those
that
seeke
him
;
who
pardoneth
all
our
infirmities
:
hee
is
so
good
,
that
hee
will
neuer
reward
vs
according
to
our
sinnes
,
for
he
is
prompt
to
Mercie
,
and
slow
to
Anger
;
and
hee
is
the
perfection
of
all
goodnesse
.
Vp
then
my
soule
,
and
prayse
God
:
and
thou
Sathan
my
aduersarie
,
present
no
more
vnto
mee
the
inormitie
of
my
apostacie
,
thinking
to
astonish
my
conscience
,
for
the
mercifull
God
of
my
continuall
complaintes
,
hath
heard
my
voyce
,
he
hath
receaued
my
request
,
and
hath
graunted
me
more
then
I
asked
him
:
All
my
enemies
shall
be
ashamed
and
confounded
,
neither
could
Sathan
be
And
therefore
being
in
this
sortresolued
,
I
determine
to
doe
two
thinges
:
The
one
following
the
example
of
Secondly
,
I
haue
sayd
within
my selfe
,
I
will
seeke
the
face
of
God
:
But
where
shall
I
find
it
,
but
there
where
his
Word
is
faythfully
preached
,
and
the
Sacramentes
truely
administred
?
This
Church
so
well
marked
,
was
once
my
Mother
;
she
conceaued
and
brought
me
foorth
to
Christ
my
Sauiour
:
she
had
giuen
me
many
faire
&
great
prerogatiues
;
for
she
had
committed
vnto
me
the
keeping
of
her
Spouses
Flocke
;
but
I
was
one
of
those
foolish
Shepheardes
,
(
of
whom
the
Prophet
Ezecheel
in
his
13.
Chapter
of
his
Reuelations
speaketh
,
)
which
follow
their
owne
fantasies
,
and
haue
no
care
to
execute
their
Offices
and
Vocations
;
and
therefore
God
,
the
iust
Iudge
,
was
angrie
with
me
;
he
dispoyled
me
of
his
fauours
,
which
were
the
singuler
giftes
&
graces
wherwith
he
had
indowed
me
in
my
youth
;
and
hath
made
me
eate
with
Beastes
,
as
he
did
the
Prodigall
Child
:
Yet
I
can
not
forget
the
loue
which
once
she
bore
me
;
and
therefore
I
haue
aproched
vnto
her
againe
,
hoping
that
she
will
be
a
follower
of
the
bountie
of
God
to
wardes
me
asking
two
things
of
her
:
The
one
,
that
she
will
vouchsafe
to
pray
vnto
God
for
me
;
for
as
issue
of
all
enterprises
dependeth
vpon
the
fauour
of
God
,
(
without
the
which
we
can
doe
nothing
,
)
it
is
reason
and
very
fitte
to
begin
so
holy
a
worke
,
with
the
inuocation
of
his
holy
name
:
The
other
,
that
in
this
great
perturbation
of
Spirit
whereunto
my
intemperaunce
hath
brought
me
,
she
will
vouchsafe
to
giue
me
counsell
and
aduise
,
for
that
from
hence-foorth
I
will
no
more
be
wise
in
mine
owne
conceite
,
but
onely
in
God
;
in
whom
consisteth
the
spring
of
Life
and
Wisedome
.
I
was
then
in
an
obscure
and
blacke
Prison
,
wherein
Antechrist
of
Rome
had
caused
me
to
be
cast
without
any
hope
euer
to
come
out
againe
.
My
Accusations
were
;
That
beeing
Seruant
to
the
Dutchesse
of
Cleaue
,
I
had
been
a
Fauteur
&
Mediator
for
the
Churches
which
our
Lord
had
assembled
in
the
Dukedomes
of
Inlyers
,
Cleaue
,
and
Bergh
,
hindring
diuers
sinister
enterprises
pretended
against
them
.
The
rigor
which
they
vsed
against
me
was
great
,
and
my
life
was
in
danger
,
if
the
hatred
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
persons
,
which
were
the
cause
of
my
mischief
,
had
had
as
much
place
and
force
,
as
the
benignitie
and
prudence
of
the
noble
Princesse
of
Lorraine
had
power
to
defend
and
preserue
me
from
their
cruelties
.
Being
in
my
sorrowfull
Prison
,
abandoned
of
all
the
World
,
when
it
seemed
that
I
was
at
the
poynt
of
death
;
and
that
Heauen
and
Earth
had
conspired
togeather
,
and
agreed
to
worke
my
ouerthrow
and
destruction
,
I
desired
my
God
,
to
let
me
know
the
cause
of
his
wrath
and
anger
conceaued
against
me
;
who
sufficiently
made
me
vnderstand
by
his
holy
Spirit
,
that
my
apostacie
was
the
only
cause
thereof
.
I
lamented
my
euill
;
I
fainted
vnder
the
burthen
of
my
anguish
;
I
washed
my
Bedde
with
teares
,
and
watered
my
Couch
with
weeping
;
and
without
longer
delay
,
I
made
a
Vow
agreeable
and
pleasing
vnto
God
:
which
was
,
that
if
he
would
vouchsafe
to
deliuer
me
out
of
Prison
,
and
to
restore
me
to
my
friendes
againe
,
that
in
the
first
reformed
Church
,
according
to
the
word
of
God
,
which
I
should
come
vnto
,
I
would
certifie
vnto
it
my
affliction
,
&
my
desire
;
which
was
,
to
cry
God
mercie
,
&
to
extirpe
the
Scandale
proceeded
of
my
Apostacie
,
by
the
way
of
humilitie
&
repentance
.
The
Lord
which
doth
all
things
iustly
,
heard
my
Prayer
,
he
receaued
my
request
,
he
graunted
my
desire
,
he
brake
my
bands
,
and
of
a
Prisoner
,
made
me
free
.
It
is
reason
therefore
that
I
performe
my
Vowes
:
I
haue
not
done
like
Ionas
,
who
in
stead
of
going
to
Niniue
the
great
Citie
,
tooke
the
way
to
Tarsis
:
nor
Sodoma
&
Gomora
,
was
turned
into
a
Piller
of
Salt
.
Our
Lord
also
saith
,
That
hee
which
putteth
his
hand
to
the
Plough
,
&
looketh
backe
,
is
not
good
for
the
kingome
of
heauen
:
therfore
I
esteemed
the
things
of
this
world
,
hurtfull
and
a
hinderaunce
vnto
the
couers
of
my
vacation
:
&
taking
my
way
straight
to
this
Church
which
had
ingendred
me
in
Christ
,
with
teares
in
my
eyes
,
and
griefe
of
heart
,
not
so
much
with
the
feeling
of
my
temporall
afflictions
,
as
for
that
I
haue
offended
:
I
asked
two
things
of
her
;
the
one
,
if
that
the
way
of
Repentance
should
yet
be
open
vnto
me
?
and
the
other
,
what
penaunce
I
deserued
,
or
should
submit
my selfe
vnto
,
to
deface
the
euill
which
I
had
committed
?
Shee
made
me
answere
;
that
God
neuer
shutteth
the
Gate
of
his
Church
against
any
man
,
truely
repenting
:
and
hauing
considered
my
teares
and
complaintes
,
and
the
effectes
of
my
contrition
,
she
did
charitably
comfort
and
instruct
me
.
I
am
with
ioy
and
gladnesse
of
spirit
come
out
of
Babilon
,
Mother
of
Confusion
,
which
had
lifted
me
vp
in
pride
against
God
and
his
Church
;
which
fostered
in
my
foule
,
not
onely
a
perpetuall
dolour
and
anguish
,
but
an
executioner
which
neuer
let
me
rest
in
peace
night
nor
day
.
For
the
which
,
infinitely
I
thanke
my
God
,
that
in
my
old
age
,
and
before
I
goe
downe
into
the
Sepulchre
,
after
hee
had
fatherly
punished
mee
with
so
long
and
horrible
Imprisonment
;
he
hath
this
day
restored
me
to
my
Mother
his
Church
,
to
be
a
Temple
and
Habitation
of
his
Spirit
:
in
the
vertue
whereof
,
I
beseech
him
to
blesse
and
sanctifie
my
steppes
to
his
glorie
,
and
to
make
me
capiable
to
be
,
and
continue
his
most
humble
and
obedient
seruant
.
Oh
happie
Prison
,
which
hath
deliuered
my
soule
from
destruction
!
and
taking
me
by
the
hand
,
to
lead
and
conduct
me
by
the
pathes
of
Iustice
,
to
the
Peace
of
the
Elect
:
Who
would
not
admire
the
great
effectes
of
the
prouidence
of
God
,
who
in
most
desperate
thinges
,
can
withdraw
the
shadow
of
darknesse
,
to
illuminate
and
direct
our
vncertaine
steppes
,
to
follow
his
will
?
Behold
how
it
happeneth
many
times
,
that
that
which
we
thinke
would
be
most
hurtfull
vnto
vs
,
turneth
vnto
our
great
profit
.
For
the
Prison
,
out
of
the
which
I
am
deliuered
,
without
any
blot
of
mine
honour
,
hath
done
that
in
me
,
which
the
Prison
in
Babilon
sometimes
wrought
in
King
Manasses
:
So
that
I
will
not
cease
euery
day
to
giue
thankes
vnto
our
good
God
,
who
euen
in
the
multitude
and
greatest
force
of
my
afflictions
,
did
alwayes
support
and
vpholde
my
Soule
in
such
libertie
,
that
it
seemeth
that
how
strong
and
great
soeuer
my
troubles
were
,
they
had
power
onely
to
ouercome
and
master
my
particular
Passions
,
and
to
eleuate
my
Spirit
to
Heauen
;
to
make
me
so
much
the
more
capiable
to
obtaine
of
God
the
assuraunce
of
his
mercie
,
by
dispoyling
me
of
the
transitorie
&
corruptible
thinges
of
this
world
,
to
the
end
to
eleuate
and
stirre
mee
vp
to
thinges
glorious
and
eternall
.
For
as
much
trouble
and
disquietnesse
as
my
imprisonment
procured
vnto
my
bodie
,
so
much
and
more
force
and
resolution
it
added
vnto
my
soule
.
It
is
true
that
Pietie
is
weakened
,
by
too
great
Felicitie
:
but
the
Crosse
and
Persecution
accompanied
with
a
good
Conscience
,
maketh
it
become
an
assured
Bulwarke
against
all
the
effortes
and
forces
of
the
Diuell
.
And
in
trueth
we
see
,
that
those
whom
God
punisheth
grieuously
in
this
world
,
for
the
most
part
are
they
,
whom
he
instructeth
most
fauourably
;
in
such
maner
,
that
to
speake
properly
,
the
euils
which
God
sent
me
,
and
which
I
indured
patiently
,
were
no
euils
vnto
me
,
but
sharpned
and
stirred
vp
my
spirit
to
soueraigne
good
.
Certainely
that
which
Plato
sayth
,
is
very
true
;
That
those
that
are
in
griefes
and
anguishes
,
haue
the
functions
and
faculties
of
the
Soule
more
excellent
,
then
in
time
of
prosperitie
.
But
that
which
maketh
me
most
to
woonder
,
is
,
that
as
much
as
my
afflictions
separated
me
from
the
House
of
God
,
and
the
companie
of
the
Faithfull
;
so
much
it
seemeth
,
that
they
augmented
and
increased
the
former
affection
which
I
had
,
to
reunite
my selfe
thereunto
,
and
to
leaue
Papistrie
.
A
good
man
,
can
not
shunne
aduersities
;
but
hee
may
well
surmount
and
vanquish
them
:
and
Although
he
seemeth
vnto
men
,
to
be
wholly
abandoned
and
reiected
;
so
it
is
,
that
in
the
middle
of
his
troubles
,
he
alwayes
enioyeth
a
perfect
felicitie
,
the
which
hath
sworne
to
be
so
loyall
vnto
him
,
that
whatsoeuer
hapneth
vnto
him
,
shee
is
alwayes
with
him
,
shee
is
alwayes
within
him
,
and
maintayneth
his
Soule
in
such
an
estate
,
that
in
what
condition
soeuer
shee
findeth
her selfe
to
be
,
shee
is
alwayes
like
vnto
her selfe
,
being
so
highly
eleuated
aboue
the
accidentes
of
humaine
thinges
,
that
shee
can
not
receiue
any
hurt
or
disgrace
.
Seing
then
that
the
word
of
God
teacheth
vs
,
that
hee
which
hath
publikely
offended
the
Church
,
ought
to
confesse
and
acknowledge
his
fault
openly
;
and
for
that
the
Order
of
Ecclesiasticall
discipline
in
the
Church
of
God
practiseth
the
same
:
I
haue
desired
that
my
returne
into
the
House
of
God
,
should
be
publikely
made
,
and
in
the
middle
of
this
notable
congregation
of
the
Children
of
God
,
in
this
Towne
of
Wezel●
;
and
that
not
onely
because
of
the
knowledge
which
I
haue
of
so
many
Prerogatiues
which
our
Lord
hath
giuen
it
,
as
being
the
auncient
receptacle
of
poore
afflicted
Christians
;
hauing
purged
it
from
the
darkenesse
of
errours
&
ignorances
of
the
Romish
Wolfe
,
for
the
space
of
70.
yeares
and
more
;
and
miraculously
defended
and
preserued
it
from
a
thousand
and
a
thousand
outrages
,
ambuscadoes
,
and
sinister
enterprises
of
Tirantes
;
whereof
I
am
partly
an
eye-witnesse
.
And
thus
much
more
,
for
that
I
know
that
at
this
present
,
and
in
this
notable
companie
,
there
are
yet
many
of
you
that
know
,
that
the
subiect
and
ground
of
the
anger
of
those
that
persecuted
mee
,
proceedeth
from
this
;
that
duering
the
time
of
my
continuance
in
the
seruice
of
the
noble
House
of
Cleaue
,
I
did
charitably
succour
the
afflicted
Churches
,
which
Antechrist
and
his
supporters
sought
and
inforced
them selues
to
ruinate
and
ouerthrow
.
Knowing
then
,
that
with
the
cause
of
my
afflictions
,
the
cause
of
fauouring
of
your
Churches
(
and
particularly
of
that
which
our
Lord
hath
assembled
in
this
Towne
,
)
was
ioyned
:
I
assure
my selfe
,
that
you
will
haue
compassion
of
the
griefes
which
I
feele
at
my
heart
,
for
hauing
offended
God
,
that
in
respect
of
me
,
you
will
doe
as
God
presently
doth
;
who
hauing
opened
the
eyes
of
my
vnderstanding
,
hath
taken
my
sinnes
and
cast
them
behind
his
backe
:
hee
hath
throwne
them
into
the
deepe
Sea
,
that
he
might
not
lay
them
any
more
to
my
charge
:
whereof
not
onely
the
holy
Ghost
beareth
me
witnesse
,
but
by
the
ordinarie
ministerie
which
it
hath
pleased
him
to
establish
in
his
Church
,
giueth
me
euident
and
manifest
assurances
,
beseeching
you
to
haue
pittie
on
mee
;
and
casting
from
before
your
eyes
the
scandale
which
I
haue
committed
:
restore
me
to
that
alacritie
of
spirite
which
in
times
past
my
heart
enioyed
,
when
holding
each
other
by
the
hands
,
we
ascended
with
ioy
to
the
Mountaine
of
the
Lord
,
seeking
the
God
of
lacob
,
with
Songes
and
Thankes-giuing
,
because
he
had
made
vs
members
of
his
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
;
whereby
in
this
temporall
life
you
shall
do
that
which
God
doth
in
the
spirituall
life
,
in
comforting
the
afflicted
,
and
such
as
are
truely
stricken
with
vnfeigned
sorrow
&
remorse
of
their
sinnes
:
for
as
by
his
goodnesse
and
bountie
he
relieueth
and
strengthneth
them
;
so
he
that
loueth
clemencie
and
mercie
,
maketh
himselfe
worthy
and
capiable
both
of
the
Joue
of
God
,
and
the
world
.
Let
your
hearts
then
be
mooued
with
my
sigthes
,
&
by
bereauing
your selues
of
the
remembrance
of
my
faultes
;
therein
shew
your selues
as
strong
as
my
wickednesse
is
great
:
my
brused
bones
shall
reioyce
,
my
tongue
shall
openly
sing
the
prayse
of
the
Lord
;
my
closed
lippes
shall
open
againe
,
highly
to
thunder
foorth
his
Iustice
:
I
will
teach
his
wayes
to
those
that
transgresse
,
to
the
end
that
such
as
haue
done
,
as
I
haue
done
against
the
Lord
,
may
willingly
conuert
.
I
am
assured
that
you
will
graunt
my
request
,
for
I
perceiue
your
bowels
to
be
mooued
and
proane
to
mercie
;
your
countenaunces
are
witnesses
vnto
me
of
your
charitic
;
and
your
teares
,
of
the
griefe
you
haue
in
your
hearts
.
I
likewise
will
neuer
beleeue
that
there
is
any
man
in
this
holy
assemblie
,
that
will
be
an
Imitator
of
the
rudenes
and
inhumanitie
of
the
brother
of
the
Prodigall
child
,
that
Therefore
that
I
may
no
more
fall
into
those
snares
and
nettes
,
I
haue
withdrawne
my selfe
into
the
house
of
God
,
into
the
fort
of
the
Lord
,
to
be
made
his
household
Seruant
,
and
a
member
of
his
Sonne
,
willingly
forsaking
the
raigne
of
the
Pope
;
whose
doctrine
&
religion
,
to
say
truth
,
is
no
other
thing
but
auncient
paganisme
,
mixed
with
Iudisme
,
and
couered
with
the
cloake
of
Christianitie
;
which
treadeth
vnder
foete
the
knowledge
of
the
soueraigne
God
,
and
the
mercies
of
his
sonne
Christ
Iesus
.
For
when
men
make
the
simple
people
beleeue
,
that
the
Sonne
of
God
(
in
whom
consisteth
the
wel-spring
of
life
)
hath
not
fully
satisfied
the
Iustice
of
God
his
Father
,
but
hath
onely
obtayned
the
first
grace
for
vs
;
that
is
to
say
,
the
occasion
or
cause
of
Merite
;
and
that
it
resteth
now
in
vs
to
be
carefull
not
to
lose
the
occasion
,
to
obtaine
the
rest
.
Is
it
not
a
most
impudent
boldnesse
,
to
dispoyle
Iesus
Christ
of
his
vertue
,
seeing
the
Scripture
witnesseth
for
him
;
that
all
those
that
beleeue
in
him
,
are
iustified
?
And
those
hel-houndes
teach
,
that
there
proceedeth
no
other
benefite
vnto
vs
from
him
,
but
onely
that
hee
hath
made
vs
an
ouerture
and
way
to
be
iustified
;
contrarie
to
the
But
tell
me
I
pray
you
,
What
thing
is
more
agreeable
to
the
Christian
fayth
,
then
to
acknowledge
and
confesse
our selues
to
be
destitute
of
all
vertue
,
to
be
clothed
therewith
by
God
:
voyde
of
all
goodnesse
,
to
be
filled
therewith
by
him
:
slaues
to
sinne
,
to
be
deliuered
by
him
:
blind
,
to
be
illuminated
by
him
:
weake
,
to
be
sustained
by
him
:
to
bereaue
our selues
of
all
maner
of
glory
,
that
he
onely
may
be
glorified
,
and
we
in
him
?
Further
,
what
is
more
proper
vnto
Faith
,
then
to
assure
our selues
that
God
is
our
benigne
and
louing
Father
;
when
Christ
is
acknowledged
to
be
our
Brother
and
Mediatour
,
then
to
expect
all
good
and
prosperitie
from
him
,
whose
loue
and
fauour
is
so
much
shewed
&
extended
vnto
vs
,
that
he
spared
not
his
Sonne
,
but
exposed
him
vnto
death
for
vs
:
then
to
rest
in
a
certaine
assurance
and
hope
of
saluation
,
and
of
life
eternall
,
when
we
know
that
Christ
hath
been
giuen
vs
by
the
Father
;
in
whom
such
treasures
are
hidden
?
But
these
thinges
are
repugned
by
the
Papistes
,
who
say
,
that
such
certaintie
of
assurance
,
cannot
be
without
arrogancie
&
presumption
:
But
as
we
must
not
presume
of
any
thing
to
be
in
our selues
;
yet
we
must
presume
of
all
thinges
in
God
,
for
in
trueth
we
are
not
for
any
other
cause
bereaued
of
all
vaine
glorie
,
but
onely
to
the
end
that
we
should
be
glorified
in
him
.
On
the
other
side
,
behold
and
see
with
what
affection
those
miserable
and
ignorant
persons
(
I
speake
specially
of
Ecclesiasticall
persons
)
are
mooued
and
ledde
:
they
easily
permit
both
them selues
and
others
,
to
be
ignorant
,
negligent
,
and
carelesse
of
the
true
Religion
,
which
is
taught
vs
by
the
holy
Scriptures
,
and
which
ought
to
be
resolutely
and
firmely
held
among
all
men
;
and
thinke
that
it
is
no
great
matter
what
Fayth
euery
man
holdeth
;
nor
whether
he
holdeth
with
God
or
Christ
:
so
that
with
an
inueloped
or
imposed
Fayth
(
as
they
tearme
it
)
they
submit
their
censures
to
the
iudgement
of
the
Church
,
and
care
not
though
the
glory
of
God
be
poluted
by
euident
Blasphemies
,
so
that
no
man
speaketh
a
word
against
the
authoritie
of
our
Mother
the
holy
Church
;
that
is
,
(
according
to
their
meaning
,
)
the
Sea
of
Rome
:
And
therefore
they
fight
and
contend
with
such
rigour
and
boldnesse
for
the
Masse
,
Purgatorie
,
Pilgrimage
,
and
such
trifles
,
in
such
maner
that
they
denie
,
that
true
pietie
can
be
obserued
,
if
all
those
thinges
be
not
beleeued
and
holden
for
infallible
rules
of
our
saluation
;
although
they
prooue
nothing
by
the
word
of
God
:
Wherefore
I
pray
you
,
but
onely
because
their
Belly
is
their
God
,
the
Kitchin
their
Religion
,
and
the
World
their
Paradise
;
which
being
taken
away
,
they
are
not
onely
perswaded
that
they
can
be
Christians
,
but
which
is
more
,
no
men
:
and
although
some
of
them
liue
delicately
and
in
great
aboundance
,
and
others
liue
barely
and
votarely
in
pouertie
gnawing
of
Crustes
,
neuerthelesse
they
liue
all
by
one
Pot
:
which
without
such
aydes
,
would
not
onely
waxe
cold
,
but
wholly
be
frozen
vp
:
And
therefore
he
which
among
them
,
hath
most
care
of
his
Belly
,
is
the
most
zealous
in
their
Fayth
.
To
conclude
,
they
haue
all
one
selfe-same
purpose
and
intent
,
either
to
maintaine
their
Kingdome
,
or
their
Bellies
:
and
there
is
none
of
them
that
sheweth
the
least
apearance
in
the
world
of
true
zeale
,
and
yet
they
cease
not
to
Slaunder
,
and
with
Fire
,
Sword
,
Water
,
and
all
other
mischiefes
,
to
pursue
and
persecute
the
doctrine
of
Trueth
;
either
to
make
it
odious
,
or
suspected
.
But
if
we
were
permitted
to
speake
as
boldly
and
as
well
as
they
,
I
am
perfwaded
that
their
hotnesse
,
wherewith
they
boyle
so
terribly
against
vs
,
would
be
somewhat
cooled
:
for
to
say
trueth
,
that
which
the
blind
world
at
this
day
honoureth
in
those
idle
Bellies
,
is
onely
a
faigned
vizard
of
Hipocrifie
,
which
vnder
the
shadow
of
the
Church
,
would
hide
their
couetousnesse
,
to
beare
rule
;
seeking
for
the
Church
of
God
,
in
the
beautifulnesse
of
Houses
,
and
other
exteriour
ornamentes
;
thinking
that
the
vnion
of
the
Faythfull
,
consisteth
and
is
contayned
in
those
exteriour
thinges
,
which
are
transitorie
and
corruptible
;
and
not
rather
in
righteousnesse
and
trueth
.
Wherefore
according
to
the
word
of
God
,
we
hold
the
Sea
of
Rome
to
be
the
Seate
of
Antechrist
,
which
eleuateth
and
opposeth
it selfe
against
that
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
which
vnder
a
false
title
of
Religion
,
at
this
day
tiranniseth
ouer
all
the
world
,
liuely
representing
But
some
men
will
obiect
,
and
aske
mee
;
Did
not
you
before
your
reuolt
,
know
these
great
impieties
and
mischiefes
,
viz.
that
all
the
Romane
sect
is
but
a
King
dome
of
Vntruethes
,
where
the
name
of
the
eternall
God
is
villanously
prophaned
,
and
the
Lordes
honour
impudently
giuen
vnto
Idoles
?
I
answere
,
that
I
knew
it
,
hauing
a
hundred
and
a
hundred
times
published
and
preached
it
vnto
the
World
▪
but
in
trueth
I
confesse
,
that
I
neuer
did
so
pertinently
vnderstand
,
nor
marke
so
well
the
horrible
Sacrileges
of
Antechrist
,
as
I
did
while
I
conuersed
familiarly
with
them
in
Rome
,
where
euery
man
attendeth
his
owne
profite
and
pleasures
,
and
not
the
seruice
of
Iesus
Christ
.
We
must
not
then
feare
that
by
leauing
the
Church
of
Rome
we
diuorce
our selues
from
the
Church
of
God
;
for
the
communion
of
the
Church
was
not
ordained
to
that
end
,
that
it
should
be
a
place
for
to
draw
vs
to
idolatry
,
impietie
,
ignorance
of
the
true
God
,
and
other
wickednes
:
but
rather
to
retaine
vs
in
the
feare
of
God
▪
and
in
the
obedience
of
the
truth
.
We
do
truly
withdraw
our selues
from
Poperie
,
and
not
from
the
Church
;
we
shun
and
flie
from
idols
,
but
not
from
the
true
Church
;
we
will
withdraw
our selues
from
the
tyrannie
of
the
Pope
,
and
not
from
the
true
Christian
common
wealth
;
from
the
plague
,
and
not
from
life
:
ready
to
reunite
our selues
with
them
,
when
Antichrist
,
and
the
mischiefe
which
he
hath
brought
into
it
,
shall
be
driuen
away
.
In
the
meane
time
the
house
of
God
shall
be
my
habitation
,
the
Lord
my
portion
,
and
his
Sonne
my
Pastor
:
he
will
cause
me
to
rest
in
his
parkes
of
assurance
,
he
will
restore
my
afflicted
soule
,
and
will
preserue
me
,
if
it
pleaseth
him
,
from
the
bloudy
hands
of
those
that
seeke
my
vtter
ruine
and
ouerthrow
.
All
you
that
haue
done
as
I
haue
done
,
and
haue
suffered
your selues
to
runne
headlong
into
mischiefe
,
and
which
as
yet
liue
in
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
,
with
a
contaminated
and
defiled
conscience
,
and
vnquietnesse
of
spirit
(
for
I
thinke
and
beleeue
certainly
that
it
is
impossible
for
a
man
that
hath
knowne
the
impieties
of
Papistrie
,
where
the
bloud
of
Christ
is
bought
and
sold
,
where
his
onely
propitiatorie
sacrifice
offered
for
our
sinnes
,
is
esteemed
to
be
insufficient
to
deface
them
;
where
the
merits
of
men
are
equalized
with
the
merits
of
Iesus
Christ
:
I
beleeue
that
his
soule
is
alwayes
in
paine
,
and
that
if
he
stayeth
long
there
,
in
the
end
he
will
feele
an
executioner
in
his
conscience
,
which
will
neuer
suffer
him
to
liue
in
peace
night
nor
day
:
)
I
beseech
you
most
humbly
in
the
name
and
fauour
of
Iesus
Christ
,
to
abandon
and
leaue
the
synagogue
of
Sathan
,
and
to
reunite
and
ioyne
your selues
to
this
Church
of
God
,
vnited
and
conioyned
in
faith
with
the
Patriarchs
,
Prophets
,
and
Apostles
,
in
the
word
of
God
;
which
is
faithfully
preached
,
and
the
Sacraments
duly
and
purely
administred
.
It
is
into
his
lap
that
I
yeeld
my selfe
,
it
is
vnto
the
guard
of
his
pietie
that
I
haue
recourse
:
beseeching
him
with
all
humilitie
to
receiue
and
admit
me
into
the
communion
of
his
children
,
hauing
determined
to
liue
with
them
(
by
the
power
of
my
God
)
all
the
dayes
of
my
life
.
I
likewise
desire
those
,
on
whom
God
hath
powred
his
grace
(
hauing
miraculously
preserued
them
in
his
Church
,
with
constancy
and
perseuerance
,
without
hauing
diuorced
themselues
,
or
committed
apostacie
as
I
haue
done
:
)
to
praise
God
with
all
their
hearts
,
and
continually
to
giue
him
thanks
;
for
it
is
a
most
great
miracle
,
which
proceedeth
not
from
their
owne
force
and
vertue
,
but
from
the
holy
and
liberall
hand
of
God
our
Father
.
Wherefore
let
them
perseuere
in
louing
of
God
,
and
flie
from
finne
and
vices
;
and
being
of
a
good
courage
,
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
will
fall
,
and
that
of
Iesus
Christ
shall
be
established
:
but
before
that
hapneth
,
the
diuell
will
enforce
himselfe
more
then
euer
he
did
,
to
make
warre
against
the
Church
.
Behold
wherefore
,
if
euer
the
children
of
God
haue
had
need
of
prudence
and
wisedome
surely
to
direct
their
vncertaine
paths
according
to
the
word
of
God
,
it
is
now
in
this
pitifull
and
sorrowfull
time
,
wherein
Satan
,
enimy
vnto
all
righteousnesse
and
godlinesse
,
seemeth
to
haue
so
much
authoritie
euen
ouer
the
elect
,
that
if
they
were
not
miraculously
aided
and
defended
by
the
holy
and
liberall
hand
of
God
our
Father
,
they
should
not
onely
be
vtterly
cast
downe
,
but
the
earth
would
soone
be
reduced
vnto
the
same
state
that
Sodome
and
Gomorra
was
in
times
past
.
Let
prayer
therefore
,
accompanied
with
true
repentance
,
be
our
refuge
vnto
him
,
who
will
neuer
forsake
his
inheritance
,
and
that
will
cause
the
assaults
of
Antichrist
to
perish
,
as
he
once
drowned
Pharaoh
in
the
sea
.
To
make
an
end
,
I
beseech
you
pray
vnto
God
for
me
;
and
if
any
one
among
you
haue
any
bookes
,
which
in
times
past
haue
beene
printed
in
my
name
,
in
diuerse
languages
,
bookes
full
of
iests
,
lies
,
and
false
suppositions
;
I
desire
they
may
be
burnt
and
consumed
to
ashes
.
I
will
not
likewise
passe
ouer
in
silence
,
that
in
the
confutation
of
those
bookes
,
and
in
some
histories
,
wherein
mention
is
made
of
my
fall
,
there
are
some
clauses
ignorantly
set
downe
;
which
I
impute
not
so
much
to
the
inconsiderate
zeale
of
the
Authors
,
as
to
mine
owne
fault
,
which
God
would
iustly
punish
and
correct
,
hauing
placed
me
vpon
the
scaffold
of
his
wrath
and
indignation
,
as
I
had
most
iustly
deserued
.
If
you
aide
me
with
your
prayers
vnto
God
,
and
if
you
be
imitators
of
that
great
mercy
which
he
hath
shewed
this
day
vnto
me
,
which
I
beseech
you
beare
in
minde
;
I
will
praise
God
for
your
pietie
,
and
pray
vnto
him
to
continue
his
mercy
towards
you
and
yours
,
with
long
life
and
happy
dayes
.
The
prayer
of
king
Manasses
when
he
was
prisoner
in
Babylon
.
O
Lord
Almightie
,
God
of
our
fathers
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Iacob
,
and
of
all
the
righteous
seed
of
thine
elect
;
which
hast
made
heauen
&
earth
with
all
their
ornaments
,
which
hast
bound
the
sea
by
the
word
of
thy
commandement
,
which
hast
shut
vp
the
deep
,
and
sealed
it
by
thy
terrible
and
glorious
name
,
whom
all
doe
feare
,
and
tremble
before
thy
power
:
for
the
Maiestie
of
thy
glory
cannot
be
borne
,
and
thine
angry
threatning
towards
sinners
is
importable
,
but
thy
mercy
is
vnmeasurable
and
vnsearchable
;
for
thou
art
the
most
high
Lord
,
of
great
compassion
,
long
suffering
,
and
most
mercifull
,
and
repentest
for
mans
miseries
.
Thou
,
O
Lord
,
hast
promised
of
thy
great
mercy
,
to
giue
grace
of
repentance
and
mercy
vnto
those
that
haue
sinned
against
thee
,
and
hast
appointed
repentance
vnto
those
that
are
sinners
,
that
thou
mightest
saue
them
by
the
greatnesse
of
thy
compassions
.
Thou
therefore
,
O
Lord
which
art
the
God
of
the
iust
,
hast
not
appointed
repentance
vnto
the
iust
,
as
to
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Iacob
;
nor
for
those
that
haue
not
sinned
against
thee
;
but
for
me
that
am
a
sinner
,
for
I
haue
sinned
aboue
the
number
of
the
saud
of
the
sea
;
my
transgressions
are
exceeding
many
,
and
I
am
not
worthy
to
behold
and
see
the
height
of
the
heauens
.
For
the
multitude
of
mine
vnrighteousnes
,
I
am
bowed
downe
with
many
and
great
sinnes
,
and
cannot
lift
vp
my
head
,
neither
haue
any
release
,
but
onely
in
thy
free
mercy
:
for
I
haue
prouoked
thy
wrath
,
and
done
euill
before
thee
,
I
haue
not
done
thy
will
,
neither
kept
thy
commaundements
,
but
haue
most
wickedly
committed
sinne
and
iniquitie
in
thy
presence
,
and
wilfully
multiplied
sinne
vpon
sinne
.
Now
therefore
,
O
Lord
,
I
bowe
the
knees
of
my
heart
,
beseeching
thee
of
grace
and
mercie
.
I
haue
sinned
,
O
Lord
,
I
haue
sinned
&
done
euill
before
thee
;
but
I
humbly
beseech
thee
forgiue
me
,
O
Lord
,
forgiue
me
,
and
destroy
me
not
in
the
multitude
of
mine
vnrighteousnesse
,
be
not
angry
with
me
for
euer
by
reseruing
euill
for
me
,
neither
cast
me
into
the
bottomlesse
pit
of
hel
:
for
thou
art
the
God
,
euen
the
God
of
them
that
repent
.
And
in
me
,
I
beseech
thee
,
shew
foorth
thy
goodnesse
,
in
sauing
me
that
am
vnworthy
,
in
the
multitude
of
thy
great
mercie
:
and
I
will
praise
thee
all
my
life
long
for
euer
;
for
all
the
powers
of
heauen
praise
thee
,
and
thine
is
all
glory
for
euer
and
euer
.
Amen
.
The
Conuersion
of
a
Doctor
in
Spaine
.
SEeing
Almighty
God
,
who
is
the
chiefest
goodnesse
and
felicity
,
and
maketh
his
grace
and
goodnesse
communicable
to
other
things
,
hath
participated
himselfe
in
things
we
see
not
and
touching
the
Diuinity
,
to
the
Son
by
generation
(
contrary
Atha
.
in
Symb.
Psal.
2.
7.
Hebr.
1.
3.
to
the
opinion
of
Arrius
,
and
Samosatenus
,
)
and
to
the
holy
Ghost
by
proceeding
(
contrary
also
to
Macedonius
,
and
Eunomius
,
arch-heretiques
)
euen
according
to
his
infinite
Essence
,
without
any
distinction
or
deuiding
of
the
same
,
and
to
be
equall
with
him
in
deity
stance
.
(
viz.
)
of
the
Father
,
of
the
in
Aug.
vt
supra
.
Hebr.
2.
16.
Mat.
1.
16.
Luke
2.
1.
Dio
de
.
di
▪
no.
Ioh.
1.
14.
distinction
of
persons
would
be
taken
away
.
But
God
(
who
is
only
good
)
did
participate
himselfe
vnto
men
,
when
he
communicated
his
word
full
of
grace
&
truth
.
He
took
not
vpon
him
the
nature
of
Angels
(
as
Paul
saith
)
but
humane
nature
.
In
this
first
communication
God
is
in
himselfe
,
but
in
his
second
(
after
a
sort
)
without
himselfe
.
Such
a
one
did
Dionysius
Areopagita
regard
him
to
be
,
when
he
said
.
This
we
dare
speake
for
truth
,
that
almighty
God
suffered
on
earth
by
the
power
and
force
of
charity
,
viz.
he
was
not
in
himselfe
.
Of
this
participation
S.
Iohn
writes
,
and
the
other
Euangelists
.
de
coel.
text
32
&
2.
text
.
17
tom
▪
2.
Gal
4.
5.
Gen.
3.
6.
1.
Cor.
15
▪
22.
And
seeing
God
made
nothing
in
vaine
,
this
communication
also
was
made
for
some
purpose
.
For
it
was
to
take
away
the
sinne
committed
by
our
first
parents
,
and
by
propagation
(
Christ
accepted
)
past
ouer
and
transmitted
vnto
mankind
.
By
reason
whereof
(
as
Paul
saith
)
we
are
all
borne
the
sonnes
of
wrath
,
because
we
all
sinned
in
Adam
.
Wherefore
the
right
which
we
had
to
the
inheritance
of
eternall
life
before
the
fall
of
Adam
,
we
afterwards
lost
;
as
the
Lawyers
teach
.
But
God
,
that
(
as
a
father
)
loueth
vs
the
Quisquis
P.
filij
ver●
P.
ad
l.
i●
.
Gal.
4.
5.
Ioh.
3.
16.
Rom.
5.
9.
Luke
19.
10.
Math
▪
18.
12.
sonnes
of
adoption
,
decreed
in
his
vnchangeable
counsell
,
to
send
forth
his
Sonne
,
made
of
a
woman
,
and
made
vnder
the
law
(
for
what
loue
exceeds
the
loue
of
a
father
?
)
that
we
might
receiue
the
adoption
of
the
sonnes
.
And
(
as
Iohn
witnesseth
)
God
so
loued
the
world
,
that
he
gaue
his
onely
begotten
Son
,
&c.
by
whose
coming
,
and
participation
Saint
Paul
saith
,
We
are
saued
from
wrath
,
and
redeemed
.
The
Sonne
of
God
is
also
communicated
vnto
vs
,
that
he
might
instruct
vs
in
his
holy
wisedome
and
vnderstanding
;
are
had
all
the
treasure
of
wisedome
and
knowledge
.
For
he
was
the
chiefe
Maister
,
and
teacher
,
when
he
was
appointed
by
God
the
Father
,
that
all
should
receiue
&
vnderstand
from
him
the
doctrine
of
truth
:
for
thus
God
spake
of
him
:
This
is
my
wel-beloued
Sonne
in
whom
I
am
well
pleased
,
heare
him
.
Besides
;
Let
a
man
examine
himselfe
,
and
so
let
him
eate
of
this
bread
,
&c.
By
which
it
manifestly
appeares
,
that
it
continues
to
be
bread
.
And
the
very
Priests
of
Rome
themselues
after
consecration
of
the
Sacraments
(
which
according
to
their
opinion
is
euen
the
body
of
Christ
,
&
not
bread
)
vse
the
signes
of
the
crosse
vpon
the
same
Sacrament
,
calling
it
an
holy
✚
Sacrament
,
a
pure
✚
Sacrament
,
an
vndefiled
✚
Sacrament
,
the
sanctified
✚
bread
of
eternall
life
,
and
the
cup
of
✚
euerlasting
saluation
.
So
that
they
name
it
bread
,
and
yet
are
contrary
to
themselues
.
The
same
truth
teacheth
that
holy
father
Irenaeus
:
saying
.
Now
it
is
no
common
bread
,
but
the
Eucharist
,
consisting
of
two
things
:
that
is
,
earthly
,
and
heauenly
.
In
which
words
he
expresly
teacheth
,
the
bread
to
remaine
there
still
.
Moreouer
the
forme
of
the
body
of
Christ
is
the
soule
;
for
Aristotle
saith
,
that
Anima
est
actus
corporis
anim●
text
.
4.
&
6.
10.
2.
physici
potentiâ
vitam
habentis
.
But
it
cannot
be
said
that
the
substantiall
forme
of
bread
is
conuerted
into
the
soule
.
Therefore
the
same
substance
of
the
bread
remaineth
.
Further
,
if
the
substantiall
forme
of
bread
be
conuerted
into
the
body
of
Christ
,
it
would
then
follow
,
the
body
of
Christ
to
consist
of
two
formes
,
which
is
most
false
.
Also
the
Accident
without
the
substance
cannot
be
ministred
or
giuen
;
but
there
the
Accidents
are
seene
,
tasted
,
smelt
&c.
Therefore
the
substance
is
giuen
.
The
refuge
of
the
Papists
is
to
make
it
a
miracle
,
by
which
the
whitenesse
of
the
bread
continues
,
and
other
accidents
thereunto
belonging
.
But
it
is
a
false
reply
;
for
it
is
not
found
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
neither
was
it
needfull
that
Christ
should
worke
such
a
miracle
.
Saint
Augustine
saith
:
These
things
may
be
honoured
,
as
religious
but
to
worke
wonder
or
astonishment
they
cannot
,
as
miraculous
.
Also
the
accidents
are
alwaies
destroyed
by
the
corruption
of
the
substance
.
But
(
as
I
will
make
manifest
hereafter
)
the
very
accidents
of
bread
are
destroyed
in
time
,
therefore
transubstantiation
of
the
bread
is
not
giuen
.
By
reason
whereof
the
Papists
at
their
times
renew
such
sacrifices
,
reserued
in
their
Vestries
,
or
other
places
appointed
to
keepe
their
holy
things
,
and
reliques
:
that
is
,
euery
weeke
in
Sommer
time
:
but
in
the
Winter
time
at
15
daies
.
And
this
is
done
to
take
away
the
scandall
of
their
corruption
:
Therefore
Transubstantiation
is
not
giuen
.
In
a
matter
so
plaine
,
and
euident
,
I
neither
desire
to
spend
much
time
,
nor
to
be
too
tedious
,
or
troublesome
to
the
readers
.
12.
&
13.
vsque
ad
20.
Ft
in
eodem
lib
&
ca.
Sect.
18.
But
if
any
shall
be
desirous
to
reade
more
concerning
this
point
,
let
them
looke
vpon
Christophorus
Pezeline
,
and
Iohn
Caluin
,
who
very
manifestly
and
learnedly
teach
the
truth
,
and
make
it
cleare
and
apparant
to
the
eyes
and
vnderstanding
of
such
as
are
blind
and
ignorant
.
Of
the
Corporall
absence
of
Christ
in
the
Sacrament
.
Caluin
,
)
&c.
but
to
expresse
For
Christ
doth
thus
admonish
vs
by
Math.
Chap.
18.
(
before
cited
:
)
If
thy
brother
trespasse
against
thee
,
go
and
tell
him
his
fault
betweene
thee
,
and
him
alone
:
&c.
If
he
heare
thee
not
,
t●ke
yet
with
thee
one
or
two
witnesses
:
If
he
will
not
vouchsafe
to
heare
them
,
tell
it
vnto
the
Church
.
The
Church
of
Rome
to
these
words
of
Christ
,
addeth
(
praeter
causam
fidei
,
but
for
faith
or
religions
sake
:
)
so
that
they
take
away
and
cut
off
the
meaning
of
the
Gospell
,
and
contradict
Christ
himselfe
,
so
charitably
admonishing
,
and
exhorting
.
So
do
they
contradict
Saint
Hierome
,
Saint
Ambrose
,
and
many
other
holy
Fathers
,
and
many
times
adde
and
detract
from
the
very
words
of
the
holy
Scripture
:
as
manifestly
appears
in
that
vnchristianlike
booke
intituled
,
the
Index
expurgatorius
.
But
now
to
returne
to
our
purpose
:
The
Church
of
Rome
to
the
words
of
Christ
:
saying
,
This
is
my
body
,
addeth
(
for
)
which
Christ
neuer
pronounced
,
nor
Saint
Peter
,
whatsoeuer
p.
q.
●8
Ar.
2.
5.
Thomas
affirmeth
.
And
if
the
Priest
pronounce
not
(
for
)
among
the
Papists
he
sinnes
hainously
.
Also
the
Church
of
Rome
addeth
,
that
the
bread
of
consecration
ought
to
be
vnleauened
:
which
precept
was
neither
deliuered
by
Christ
nor
his
Apostles
.
The
Greeke
Priests
do
vse
leauened
bread
.
Therefore
it
may
be
said
,
that
if
they
be
various
in
the
matter
,
there
can
be
no
truth
found
in
the
forme
.
For
the
determinate
matter
,
hath
her
determinate
forme
;
and
the
determinate
forme
also
her
determinate
matter
.
But
they
adde
and
diminish
at
their
pleasures
,
contrary
to
the
rules
and
commandements
of
God
:
who
saith
,
You
shall
not
adde
to
the
word
that
I
speake
vnto
you
,
nor
take
from
the
same
.
And
moreouer
,
What
I
command
thee
that
onely
doe
,
neither
adde
thou
any
thing
,
nor
diminish
.
God
reprehends
such
as
are
bold
and
audacious
in
this
behalfe
:
saying
,
I
protest
vnto
every
man
,
that
heareth
the
words
,
&c.
If
any
man
shall
adde
,
&c.
See
how
God
reproues
the
bishop
of
Rome
&
all
his
Popish
Priests
&
complices
that
walk
against
Gods
cōmandemērs
;
for
the
word
of
the
Lord
endureth
:
and
he
himselfe
saith
,
Heauen
&
earth
shall
passe
away
,
but
my
words
shall
not
passe
a-away
.
Therefore
that
God
,
that
true
and
euerlasting
God
,
will
send
vnto
them
sodaine
ruine
and
destruction
.
Amongst
other
ceremonies
which
the
Papists
do
vse
,
one
is
after
consecration
of
the
bread
,
to
blesse
the
same
bread
with
the
signe
of
the
crosse
,
and
certaine
words
,
&c.
Now
I
demand
of
them
,
if
it
be
lawfull
for
the
creature
to
blesse
the
Creator
?
For
benediction
(
as
Saint
Paul
saith
)
is
alwaies
from
the
greater
to
the
lesser
,
The
lesser
is
blessed
of
the
greater
,
as
he
affirmeth
in
expresse
words
.
Hebr.
7.
7
For
the
father
giues
his
blessing
to
the
sons
,
as
Isaac
did
to
Iacob
,
They
haue
turned
the
truth
of
God
into
a
lye
,
and
worshipped
and
serued
the
creature
much
more
then
the
Creator
.
Neither
ought
we
to
beleeue
that
Christ
is
in
their
hands
,
when
the
words
are
pronounced
by
them
.
For
many
are
consecrating
the
Sacrament
at
once
,
and
the
body
of
Christ
being
but
one
in
number
,
is
not
in
many
sacrifices
.
For
the
body
of
Christ
is
natural
,
and
keepeth
a
place
,
and
is
not
giuen
in
many
places
at
one
time
.
But
the
Papists
reply
to
this
,
saying
;
that
the
body
of
Christ
is
there
sacramently
,
not
P.
q.
●6
.
5
5.
totally
.
But
this
is
a
very
idle
distinction
,
and
a
slanderous
boldnesse
:
to
say
they
haue
Christ
(
in
that
manner
)
in
their
hands
at
the
Sacrament
.
For
if
(
as
they
confesse
)
Christ
haue
a
chiefe
place
in
heauen
,
and
yet
is
in
the
Sacrament
with
the
same
really
as
he
is
heauen
,
it
would
follow
.
God
in
times
past
who
was
figuratiuely
in
the
Arke
,
was
The
Lord
was
very
wroth
,
and
smote
him
in
the
same
place
for
his
fault
,
and
there
he
died
by
the
Arke
.
Therefore
Dauid
that
day
feared
the
Lord
,
and
said
,
How
shall
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
come
to
me
?
and
durst
not
bring
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
to
himselfe
.
If
this
be
so
,
how
dare
the
Romish
Priestes
pronounce
Christ
himselfe
with
his
Diuinity
and
Humanity
to
descend
into
their
hands
?
Or
if
the
true
body
of
Christ
were
in
the
sacrifice
,
or
the
sacrifice
it selfe
were
the
true
body
of
Christ
,
how
comes
it
that
brute
beasts
haue
place
there
?
For
many
times
the
flies
goes
vpon
it
,
and
other
insensible
creatures
,
as
is
daily
seene
and
made
manifest
.
And
I
my selfe
often
celebrating
the
Masse
,
haue
seene
flies
vpon
the
Sacrament
consecrated
,
and
made
holy
.
Therefore
we
may
not
beleeue
the
true
body
of
Christ
to
be
there
.
Sometimes
also
by
negligence
of
the
Priests
,
part
of
the
sacrifices
haue
fallen
vpon
the
ground
,
and
bene
troden
vnder
foote
.
And
I
am
a
faithfull
and
true
eye
witnesse
,
that
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1595
in
a
Church
,
which
the
Order
of
the
most
holy
Trinity
hath
at
Turol
,
whereof
I
was
chiefe
,
a
certaine
religious
man
(
as
they
call
him
)
celebrating
the
Sacrament
,
turned
the
chalice
vpside
downe
,
and
the
consecrated
wine
(
as
they
say
)
was
part
sprinckled
on
the
earth
,
and
part
shed
vpon
the
Altar
.
And
for
these
mischaunces
there
are
certaine
rules
set
downe
in
the
Missall
of
Rome
,
ordaining
punishments
to
such
Priests
by
whom
they
happen
or
befall
.
Also
in
the
Emperours
Cathedrall
Church
of
S.
Paul
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1580.
the
theeues
stole
away
a
siluer
Casket
,
where
the
consecrated
Sacrifices
were
vsually
kept
,
and
threw
the
sacrifices
themselues
vpon
the
ground
and
vpon
the
Altar
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1586
,
in
the
Monastery
of
S.
Sauiour
at
Fraga
,
theeues
a●so
tooke
away
the
chest
where
the
Sacrifices
were
kept
,
and
they
were
throwne
vp
and
downe
.
Therefore
we
may
not
beleeue
the
body
of
Christ
to
be
there
.
For
if
(
as
they
grant
)
the
body
and
bloud
remaine
vnder
those
formes
,
so
long
as
they
continue
vncorrupt
;
and
if
also
laid
vpon
the
ground
(
as
is
aforesaid
)
they
be
vncorrupt
,
and
so
are
troden
vnder
foote
;
then
Christ
must
likewise
be
troden
vnder
foote
,
which
is
a
most
grosse
absurdity
.
Sometimes
also
as
I
haue
seene
)
wormes
haue
bred
in
those
their
sacrifices
.
If
then
we
hold
their
opinion
,
it
must
needs
be
that
they
beingendred
out
of
the
body
of
Christ
,
not
out
of
the
bread
,
because
there
(
as
they
say
)
the
bread
is
not
.
Haec
de
Accidentibus
.
Because
if
by
miracle
(
as
they
hold
)
they
continue
and
abide
of
themselues
,
then
they
ought
to
be
kept
by
miracle
without
any
corruption
;
for
there
is
no
greater
reason
for
the
one
,
then
for
the
other
:
nor
of
the
body
of
Christ
.
Otherwise
the
body
of
Christ
should
change
the
forme
,
and
the
very
wormes
should
partake
of
the
body
&
bloud
of
Christ
,
and
from
thence
haue
originall
beginning
;
which
is
most
false
and
vnworthy
.
Therefore
it
is
to
be
said
,
that
nothing
is
there
more
then
the
bread
it selfe
.
Moreouer
,
let
there
be
two
sacrifices
of
bread
put
together
,
sod
,
and
made
at
one
time
,
of
one
meale
,
fire
,
and
water
;
and
let
the
one
be
consecrated
and
made
holy
,
and
the
other
vnconsecrated
,
and
we
shall
see
their
corruption
to
be
alike
.
It
therefore
followes
,
that
the
one
hath
no
more
in
it
then
the
other
,
neither
is
the
body
of
Christ
more
in
the
consecrated
forme
of
bread
then
in
that
which
is
vnhallowed
.
Sometimes
also
poyson
(
as
they
say
)
is
put
into
that
Sacrament
,
that
so
men
may
be
bereaft
of
their
liues
;
as
it
is
read
of
the
Emperour
Henry
the
7
,
and
of
Pope
Victor
the
third
,
whereof
the
first
losse
his
life
by
the
Sacrament
of
bread
poysoned
by
his
Consessour
:
the
last
,
by
wine
transsubstantiate
.
Therefore
we
must
conclude
,
that
the
body
of
Christ
is
not
there
,
or
otherwise
the
body
of
Christ
to
be
the
instrument
of
sin
,
and
the
meanes
of
euill
;
which
is
blasphemy
.
This
corporall
absence
,
Christ
hath
manifestly
shewne
,
The
poore
you
shall
haue
alwaies
with
you
,
Me
you
shall
not
haue
alwaies
.
Christ
also
speaketh
of
the
absence
of
his
humanity
,
(
for
his
Diuinity
fils
both
heauen
and
earth
:
)
in
which
humanity
he
shall
not
come
vnto
vs
till
the
day
of
iudgement
.
Moreouer
the
Papists
affirme
,
that
the
matter
of
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
ought
to
be
determinate
.
They
are
also
possessed
with
many
mad
imaginations
,
saying
,
this
is
a
true
Proposition
,
Out
of
bread
becomes
the
body
of
Christ
.
And
this
also
is
false
:
Of
bread
becomes
,
or
is
made
,
the
body
of
Christ
.
These
are
words
of
exceeding
folly
and
dotage
,
and
are
differing
and
repugnant
to
themselues
,
although
Thomas
expound
them
supernaturally
.
In
conuersions
also
,
that
which
is
conuerted
is
corrupted
,
and
that
into
which
the
conuersion
is
had
,
is
begotten
and
ingendred
:
Thus
after
their
opinion
we
must
say
that
Christ
is
so
begotten
and
ingendred
;
which
is
an
heresie
.
The
Diuell
getteth
much
,
and
enlargeth
his
power
and
number
by
the
idolatry
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
which
he
still
perswades
them
to
maintaine
;
and
so
they
will
,
vntill
it
shall
please
God
of
his
infinite
goodnesse
and
mercy
to
open
their
eyes
,
and
make
their
vnderstanding
perfect
,
that
they
may
truly
see
and
reade
the
booke
of
God
,
for
they
yet
liue
in
error
and
darknesse
.
But
if
they
would
looke
vpon
,
and
heare
the
booke
which
Hilkiah
the
high
Priest
found
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
they
would
do
as
that
godly
king
Iosiah
did
in
the
18.
yeare
of
his
Monarchy
:
who
as
But
the
Pope
takes
vpon
him
to
do
this
;
for
if
any
come
vnto
him
,
and
desire
the
reliques
of
some
Saint
,
as
of
Hermolaus
,
or
any
other
,
he
will
answer
that
he
hath
none
,
because
his
bones
are
dispersed
:
But
he
takes
the
bones
perhaps
of
some
reprobate
and
wicked
person
,
and
blesseth
them
,
and
baptised
in
the
name
of
Hermolaus
,
he
deliuereth
them
to
him
that
makes
suite
for
the
same
;
and
then
the
bones
of
him
are
worshipped
,
whose
soule
in
hell
is
cruciated
.
And
thus
it
begets
scandall
and
contradiction
,
that
the
bones
of
any
wicked
or
idle
persons
,
are
the
bones
of
some
Saints
or
others
,
at
his
pleasure
.
I
obserued
the
power
,
couetousnesse
and
tyranny
of
the
same
Pope
:
I
beheld
his
exceeding
pompe
and
pride
,
and
with
these
things
,
and
many
more
of
this
nature
,
my
minde
was
much
tormented
.
For
seeing
Christ
is
the
fulnesse
of
all
grace
,
in
that
he
endues
the
Church
with
spirituall
grace
and
vnderstanding
;
we
ordaine
him
to
be
the
head
thereof
,
He
hath
made
all
things
subject
vnder
his
feete
,
and
hath
appointed
him
ouer
all
things
to
be
the
head
of
the
Church
.
And
seeing
both
Men
and
Angels
are
ordained
to
He
hath
set
him
at
his
right
hand
in
the
heauenly
places
,
farre
aboue
all
principality
,
and
power
,
and
might
▪
and
domination
,
and
euery
name
that
is
named
not
in
this
world
onely
,
but
also
in
that
that
is
to
come
,
and
hath
put
all
things
vnder
his
feete
.
And
so
S.
Matthew
saith
,
Behold
the
Angels
came
and
ministred
vnto
him
.
And
albeit
the
Angels
themselues
lacke
faith
(
Quia
non
per
fidem
sed
per
speciem
ambulant
)
and
the
Church
is
the
congregation
of
the
faithfull
,
neuerthelesse
Christ
is
their
head
.
There
fore
besides
that
diuine
wisedome
which
Christ
had
from
the
beginning
,
he
had
also
a
humane
knowledge
God
did
assume
the
perfection
of
humane
nature
in
the
flesh
,
tooke
vppon
him
the
sence
of
man
,
but
not
the
pride
of
carnall
sensualitie
.
But
to
the
sence
of
man
appertaineth
an
humane
knowledge
created
.
Therefore
in
Christ
is
giuen
that
experimentall
in
the
Lord
your
God
,
for
he
hath
giuen
you
the
raine
of
righteousnesse
,
&c.
And
the
spouse
saith
,
I
will
leade
thee
and
bring
thee
into
my
mothers
house
,
and
there
thou
shalt
instruct
me
.
And
Isaias
,
I
haue
giuen
him
for
a
Prince
,
and
a
maister
vnto
the
people
,
comprehending
these
two
things
,
namely
,
that
he
was
a
Redeemer
and
a
Maister
:
for
whereas
he
termes
him
a
Prince
,
he
meanes
him
to
be
a
Redeemer
;
but
calling
him
Maister
,
he
signifies
him
an
instructer
or
teacher
.
Christ
therfore
is
endued
with
all
these
sciences
,
by
which
men
were
instructed
by
him
;
as
out
of
Mathew
,
opening
his
mouth
,
he
taught
his
Disciples
,
and
out
of
Iohn
,
Iesus
ascended
into
Luke
,
They
found
him
sitting
in
the
Temple
,
&c.
By
two
wayes
then
he
taught
the
people
,
that
is
,
by
example
,
and
Seeing
therefore
Christ
came
to
teach
mankind
,
and
to
Indice
expurgatorio
.
For
whatsoeuer
seemed
to
taxe
the
errors
of
the
Priesthood
,
the
same
by
commandement
of
the
Inquisitors
,
and
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
was
forthwith
razed
out
and
extinguished
.
The
word
of
God
is
not
tied
or
limited
:
but
Iohn
Caluine
hath
rightly
I
am
an
eye
witnesse
(
saith
he
)
of
the
tyranny
of
the
Bishops
,
and
Inquisitors
;
for
I
haue
often
heard
very
learned
men
preach
amongst
them
:
but
because
those
things
that
haue
bin
preached
,
were
displeasing
to
the
tyrannous
Inquisitors
and
Bishops
,
the
same
preachers
and
learned
men
haue
bene
compelled
euen
in
the
same
Church
(
and
that
against
their
owne
consciences
)
by
their
commandements
and
authoritie
to
speake
against
themselues
,
and
to
preach
another
doctrine
,
contrary
to
the
truth
.
For
instance
whereof
,
Father
Lobo
,
a
famous
preacher
,
whose
name
is
well
knowne
in
Spaine
and
Italy
,
at
Rome
in
the
beginning
of
Pope
Gregory
the
13
,
in
his
Sermon
was
heard
to
vtter
these
words
:
It
is
of
more
weight
and
efficacie
,
and
of
greater
profit
and
vtility
with
God
,
to
heare
his
word
,
then
the
Masse
.
But
the
same
preacher
forthwith
by
the
commandement
of
that
great
beast
(
the
Pope
)
was
compelled
to
make
his
publicke
recantation
;
and
yet
for
all
this
,
he
was
depriued
of
his
authoritie
of
preaching
,
and
enioyned
to
other
penances
.
Let
God
arise
,
and
iudge
his
cause
,
who
saith
,
Viuus
est
sermo
meus
,
My
word
is
a
liuing
word
;
and
Dauid
(
lest
he
should
fall
)
did
place
the
word
of
God
,
A
Lanterne
vnto
his
feete
:
by
which
also
the
heauens
were
Christ
also
calleth
them
happy
and
blessed
,
that
heare
the
word
of
God
.
What
the
word
of
God
makes
loose
and
free
,
that
these
tyrants
do
bind
and
tye
to
limits
and
compasse
.
When
Iohn
Baptist
was
in
prison
,
he
preached
the
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1597.
Valentine
Cortazer
being
Inquisitor
,
the
twentieth
day
of
Iune
comming
to
visit
the
city
of
Liria
,
entred
the
same
in
his
accustomed
pompe
and
vanitie
,
and
did
impose
vpon
me
the
charge
and
duty
of
preaching
a
Sermon
of
Faith
.
And
vpon
Sonday
the
22
day
of
the
same
moneth
and
yeare
,
Aderat
Inquisitor
Ecclesiae
pro
Tribunali
,
sitting
in
great
maiestie
,
and
(
as
the
manner
is
)
Lecto
mandato
praeceptorum
de
accusatione
,
I
ascended
the
place
of
preaching
,
and
hauing
saluted
the
Inquisitor
began
my
Sermon
.
After
I
had
past
ouer
many
things
in
praise
and
commendation
of
the
Inquisitors
and
Inquisition
,
I
spake
thus
to
the
Auditorie
.
Remember
(
deare
brethren
)
and
be
mindfull
of
those
words
which
I
spake
vnto
you
in
Lent
time
,
in
a
Sermon
touching
brotherly
correction
(
for
two
Lents
I
was
their
Preacher
.
)
You
are
bound
(
as
I
then
told
you
)
euery
one
of
you
to
correct
,
and
admonish
your
brother
secretly
betweene
you
and
him
.
But
if
after
Hauing
made
an
end
of
my
Sermon
,
I
was
inuited
by
the
Inquisitor
with
all
kindnesse
and
courtesie
to
take
my
dinner
with
him
;
which
being
ended
,
he
began
to
fall
into
commendation
of
my
Sermon
,
but
vtterly
to
condemne
that
brotherly
admonition
,
saying
,
That
it
is
not
admitted
in
matters
of
faith
,
with
which
the
Inquisition
hath
to
do
,
and
takes
notice
of
.
I
replied
with
the
very
words
of
Christ
in
defence
thereof
,
but
was
compelled
to
hold
my
peace
,
and
the
Sonday
following
constrained
to
preach
of
him
that
they
hold
and
terme
accursed
,
in
the
presence
of
the
Inquisitor
,
and
lay
open
his
mind
and
pleasure
against
Gods
word
,
and
to
say
that
brotherly
correction
had
no
part
or
place
in
such
matters
,
as
were
contained
in
the
Edict
.
Do
but
see
,
and
behold
how
the
word
of
God
is
tied
,
and
bound
by
these
people
of
Antichrist
.
And
this
whilest
I
was
one
of
their
number
,
and
company
,
drew
my
mind
into
diuerse
and
sundry
distractions
.
Of
Transubstantiation
.
MY
soule
also
was
grieuously
troubled
about
Transubstantiation
As
aften
as
you
shall
eate
of
this
bread
,
and
drinke
of
this
drinke
,
&c.
Againe
,
Whosoeuer
shall
eate
of
this
bread
,
&c.
Also
by
this
it
followes
,
that
the
Pope
doth
falsly
intrude
himselfe
to
be
the
head
of
the
Church
,
as
is
proued
by
this
reason
.
The
Primitiue
Church
,
and
that
which
flourished
for
many
yeares
,
knew
no
other
head
but
Christ
,
nor
had
any
vniuersall
Bishop
.
But
the
Primitiue
Church
(
euen
according
to
the
opinion
of
the
Papists
)
was
the
true
Church
:
Therefore
the
true
Church
ought
to
knowe
or
acknowledge
no
head
but
Christ
,
nor
any
vniuersall
Bishop
.
It
is
also
thus
proued
by
authority
.
Gregory
Bishop
of
Rome
wrote
against
Iohn
Patriarch
of
Constantinople
,
saying
:
He
that
shall
name
himselfe
the
vniuersall
Bishop
,
may
be
called
the
forerunner
of
Antichrist
.
And
the
Councell
of
Carthage
forbiddeth
the
Bishop
of
Rome
to
be
called
the
vniuersall
Bishop
(
as
Gratianus
witnesseth
)
in
these
words
:
But
now
,
no
not
the
Bishop
of
Rome
may
be
called
vniuersall
.
What
should
I
speake
of
the
Synode
of
Chalcedon
?
whose
arguments
are
so
many
and
so
euident
against
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
that
the
same
must
either
needs
fal
from
her
high
pride
and
dignity
,
or
the
whole
authority
of
her
Councell
be
vtterly
suppressed
;
as
here
manifestly
appeares
,
in
that
the
same
Synode
is
held
and
celebrated
,
onely
by
the
Emperors
command
,
without
either
the
presence
,
or
authoritie
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
:
as
in
those
times
euen
vnto
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
900
(
as
Cusanus
witnesseth
)
their
Councels
were
not
vsuall
to
be
assembled
but
by
the
direction
of
Caesar
.
And
Pope
Leo
(
as
Thomas
affirmeth
)
following
the
same
custome
,
Christ
the
true
Bishop
,
as
in
this
world
he
took
vpon
him
And
whosoeuer
will
be
great
among
you
,
let
him
be
your
seruant
.
Christ
euer
taught
and
exercised
humility
,
saying
,
I
haue
left
you
an
example
,
euen
as
I
do
,
so
also
do
you
.
Christ
had
not
where
to
lay
his
head
,
and
will
not
one
Pallace
suffice
the
Bishop
of
Rome
?
Christ
refused
the
condition
of
Regall
dignity
,
being
offered
,
and
will
not
one
Crowne
content
the
Bishop
of
Rome
?
Is
it
not
enough
that
he
possesseth
Italy
,
vnlesse
with
his
triple
Crowne
he
command
the
world
?
Christ
departed
away
into
a
mountaine
himselfe
alone
,
that
they
should
not
make
him
a
king
,
declaring
Boniface
the
third
was
the
first
that
tooke
vpon
him
the
name
of
vniuersall
Bishop
,
about
the
yeare
600
;
which
name
was
neither
giuen
him
by
Christ
,
nor
from
heauen
,
but
by
that
tyrant
and
parricide
Phocas
the
Emperour
.
From
that
troublesome
fountaine
did
arise
the
great
floud
of
Papistrie
,
and
that
proud
name
had
first
beginning
.
And
yet
in
those
dayes
the
Popes
did
not
,
as
now
they
do
,
presently
ascend
to
the
top
and
height
of
dignity
,
but
by
degrees
did
steale
into
rule
and
dominion
.
For
Boniface
the
8
Baldus
Antoninus
Arch-bishop
of
Florence
,
Salo
,
and
many
others
,
doe
maintaine
by
their
false
doctrine
,
saying
▪
that
Emperours
and
Kings
are
but
the
Popes
substitutes
,
and
that
the
Bishops
of
Rome
had
both
the
power
of
spirituall
and
temporall
gouernement
.
They
ground
their
false
opinion
vpon
the
power
of
Christ
,
which
power
they
pretend
to
haue
as
his
Vicars
:
for
Christ
saith
,
All
power
is
giuen
vnto
me
,
both
in
heauen
and
in
earth
:
But
I
demand
this
of
these
Antichrists
;
that
if
they
imitate
Christ
in
this
,
why
they
do
not
follow
him
in
humility
?
For
although
Christ
had
the
power
of
rule
and
command
,
yet
he
in
respect
of
his
humility
vsed
them
not
,
but
rather
affirmed
his
kingdome
not
to
be
of
this
world
.
But
if
the
Pope
do
not
imitate
Christ
,
he
is
not
his
Minister
,
his
Vicar
,
nor
successour
.
As
the
lewes
boasted
before
Christ
,
that
they
were
of
the
seed
of
Abraham
,
so
the
Pope
glories
in
the
succession
of
Christ
,
and
of
Peter
.
But
the
same
answere
that
Christ
giues
vnto
the
Iewes
,
he
giues
also
to
the
Pope
▪
as
you
may
read
in
Iohn
8.
Chap.
the
37
verse
,
to
the
very
end
But
the
Pope
saith
,
they
are
called
the
Seruants
of
seruants
,
and
so
named
for
their
humility
.
So
that
may
suffice
.
To
this
I
answere
,
that
vnder
a
faire
shew
lye
hid
foule
intents
.
He
carries
the
name
of
humility
,
but
his
deedes
are
cleane
contrary
.
Is
he
the
seruant
of
seruants
,
that
holdeth
his
foote
forth
for
Kings
and
Emperous
to
kisse
,
and
do
reuerence
to
?
Is
he
the
seruant
of
seruants
,
that
is
carried
vpon
mens
shoulders
?
Is
he
the
seruant
of
seruants
that
makes
such
daily
boast
of
his
kingdome
and
authority
?
Is
he
the
seruant
Sedition
and
controuersy
oftentimes
troubles
the
minds
of
such
as
aspire
vnto
that
vaine
dignity
,
and
contend
for
the
Papall
seat
and
authority
and
the
place
in
which
stands
much
scandall
,
when
schismes
,
and
deuisions
arise
in
the
Church
,
in
the
very
act
of
election
.
Many
times
this
fals
out
,
for
proofe
whereof
reade
Plato
If
then
the
election
of
this
present
Pope
,
Clement
the
8.
be
diligently
examined
,
it
was
in
like
manner
very
irregular
,
&
the
people
did
much
murmure
at
it
.
By
reason
whereof
(
vnlesse
I
be
deceiued
)
the
Diuines
are
very
doubtfull
concerning
his
election
,
For
at
Vall-Solet
.
a
(
place
where
the
king
of
Spaines
Court
is
)
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1602.
Theses
Theologicae
apparuerunt
,
teaching
Pope
Clement
the
8.
not
to
be
held
a
true
Bishop
,
which
doctrine
(
amongst
many
other
)
father
Bazquez
maintained
,
being
one
of
the
society
of
the
Iesuits
:
which
comming
straight
way
to
the
eares
of
the
Bishop
,
he
caused
both
him
and
them
to
be
presently
called
beforehim
.
And
because
amongst
many
other
reasons
that
haue
moued
me
to
this
separation
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
this
of
the
vsurped
power
of
the
Pope
hath
of
long
time
bene
the
chiefest
,
I
thought
it
my
part
to
say
something
of
his
tyranny
,
&
of
his
name
and
hypocrisy
.
But
for
that
this
little
labour
hath
bene
onely
vndertaken
by
me
to
satisfie
mine
owne
minde
,
and
to
make
some
declaration
thereof
vnto
others
;
lest
I
should
be
tedious
and
troublesome
to
the
Readers
,
I
will
for
this
time
pretermit
the
further
handling
of
these
things
,
yet
(
God
willing
)
in
their
place
and
time
shall
they
be
particularly
expressed
more
at
large
;
imitating
the
doctrine
of
Saint
Paul
,
who
after
his
owne
conuersion
did
conuert
his
brethren
;
which
Christ
also
our
heauenly
Schoolmaister
doth
teach
vs
:
saying
to
Peter
:
Now
thou
art
at
length
conuerted
,
strengthen
thy
brethren
.
And
I
my selfe
conuerted
,
am
bound
in
duty
to
do
the
same
,
yet
in
the
meane
time
reade
Doctour
Caluin
,
li.
4.
Institut.
Cap.
6
7.
&
11.
Cal.
cap.
6.
7.
11.
Of
Purgatory
,
and
the
Sacraments
.
INsomuch
as
I
am
now
determined
to
imbrace
the
truth
of
the
reformed
Church
,
I
do
with
stedfast
resolution
,
is
the
purger
of
our
sinnes
,
and
sitteth
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Maiestie
in
the
highest
Besides
hell
and
heauen
,
there
is
no
middle
place
found
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
where
our
soules
should
rest
,
or
be
detained
.
The
opinion
which
the
Papists
hold
of
Veniall
sinnes
,
and
the
ceremonies
,
by
which
the
same
is
absolued
,
I
wholly
disalow
,
as
vile
,
and
excreable
;
nor
is
there
any
other
then
mortall
sinne
,
which
is
onely
washed
away
The
Lord
is
mercifull
,
and
righteous
:
and
our
God
is
full
of
compassion
.
The
Lord
preserueth
the
simple
:
I
was
in
misery
and
he
sauedme
.
I
reiect
also
the
Sacrament
of
Confirmation
,
and
the
rest
which
the
Pope
hath
ordained
,
and
onely
reuerence
and
embrace
the
Sacraments
of
Baptisme
,
and
the
Lords
Supper
,
instituted
by
our
Sauiour
.
By
this
I
am
instructed
in
the
rules
of
Christ
,
and
by
this
I
am
more
and
more
strengthened
,
and
confirmed
in
him
.
Of
Auricular
confession
.
AVricular
confession
,
(
which
the
Papists
call
the
Sacrament
of
Penitence
)
is
very
foolish
.
For
this
tyrannicall
confession
,
is
neither
found
in
the
law
of
nature
,
nor
in
the
Law
of
God
:
but
in
the
diuell
and
the
Popes
kitchin
,
to
increase
their
fare
,
and
delicacies
.
Neither
did
the
Apostles
Iohn
Baptist
:
as
Caluin
directly
proueth
.
And
Chrysostome
also
maintaineth
:
whose
words
(
Con.
3.
t.
2.
Pag.
1371.
)
are
these
:
Why
dost
thou
blush
and
art
ashamed
to
tell
thy
sinnes
?
Take
heed
thou
reueale
them
not
to
any
man
,
lest
he
vpbraid
thee
;
nether
confesse
them
to
thy
fellow
seruant
,
lest
he
publish
them
:
but
vnto
him
which
is
the
Lord
,
who
hath
care
and
charge
ouer
thee
.
And
againe
,
Tell
thy
faults
only
vnto
me
priuately
,
(
God
here
speaketh
,
)
that
I
may
heale
thy
disease
,
and
deliuer
thee
from
sorrow
.
Which
words
(
because
they
are
repugnant
and
contrary
to
that
great
beast
)
are
by
the
commandement
of
the
Inquisitors
taken
away
and
blotted
out
in
the
booke
,
called
Index
expurgatorius
.
Many
in
the
same
manner
of
confession
haue
reuealed
their
sins
willingly
to
their
Confessours
,
and
the
Confessour
to
the
Iudges
,
and
others
.
A
certaine
Bishop
of
Girona
in
the
time
of
Iames
the
second
king
of
Arragon
(
being
his
Confessour
)
reuealed
his
confession
to
the
Pope
,
and
the
king
forthwith
cut
out
his
tongue
.
I
my selfe
can
faithfully
witnesse
,
that
being
many
times
present
at
the
talke
&
communication
of
Confessours
,
they
haue
so
foolishly
behaued
themselues
,
and
so
openly
in
their
talke
reuealed
the
sinnes
that
haue
bene
confest
vnto
them
priuately
by
the
penitents
;
that
their
names
and
persons
haue
easily
become
knowne
to
me
,
and
perhaps
to
many
others
,
that
haue
heard
the
conference
.
And
although
there
be
diuers
lawes
ordained
by
the
Pope
to
punish
Confessours
thus
offending
;
they
yet
commit
this
crime
of
reuelation
,
and
(
which
is
worse
)
without
a
summe
of
money
,
the
Penitents
haue
no
grant
of
absolution
,
as
appeares
in
the
bookes
of
Taxes
,
&c.
By
which
feare
,
many
euen
in
the
very
act
of
confession
do
conceale
the
truth
,
till
they
be
compelled
to
confesse
the
same
.
I
could
speake
much
of
this
matter
,
and
point
it
out
with
my
very
fingar
,
but
I
will
obserue
my
oath
,
and
with
good
aduice
forbeare
to
relate
it
.
In
this
matter
of
auricular
confession
,
the
Confessours
are
wont
to
seduce
,
and
auert
the
minds
and
affections
of
women
from
God
,
and
to
turne
and
conuert
them
to
their
owne
lusts
and
filthinesse
.
To
proue
this
true
,
I
present
(
as
witnesses
)
those
Confessours
that
haue
bene
punished
by
iudgement
of
the
Inquisition
,
for
such
abhorred
and
abhominable
wickednesse
;
and
such
as
haue
bene
adiuged
to
punishment
,
and
by
sentence
of
the
Prelats
and
others
,
for
being
found
guilty
of
the
like
misdemeanours
.
For
by
auricular
confession
,
many
monstrous
enormities
arise
,
and
are
begotten
.
To
auoid
the
imputation
of
tedioulnesse
,
I
will
not
continue
to
make
any
longer
discourse
,
or
discouery
of
the
errours
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
But
with
all
my
heart
,
with
all
my
minde
,
and
with
all
my
soule
,
I
reuerence
and
confesse
all
things
whatsoeuer
our
new
reformed
Church
doth
allow
and
embrace
.
And
if
any
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
shall
vpbraide
me
that
I
haue
falsely
and
perfidiously
fallen
Lord
to
whom
shall
we
flie
?
Thou
hast
the
words
of
euerlasting
life
.
For
the
faith
of
the
Church
is
commanded
chiefly
to
be
sought
for
,
in
which
if
Christ
haue
habitation
,
it
may
vndoubtedly
be
chosen
and
followed
:
But
if
the
people
be
perfidious
,
and
the
maister
an
heretique
,
and
deforme
and
disfigure
the
dwelling
place
;
the
fellowship
and
communion
of
such
heretiques
is
to
be
abandoned
,
and
such
a
Synagogue
to
be
auoided
.
We
must
shake
off
the
dust
from
our
feete
,
lest
the
drought
of
our
barren
vnfaithfulnesse
prepare
and
make
the
way
sandy
,
and
hard
to
the
true
progresse
and
passage
of
our
mindes
and
vnderstandings
.
So
if
there
be
any
Church
(
as
he
saith
afterward
)
that
renounceth
the
true
faith
,
and
doth
not
keepe
and
obserue
the
foundation
,
and
ground
of
the
Apostles
preaching
,
it
is
to
be
left
and
forsaken
▪
that
it
beget
not
the
corruption
of
vntruth
.
Seeing
then
I
haue
found
Christ
onely
,
and
his
doctrine
dwelling
in
the
reformed
Church
,
and
haue
seene
that
erronious
teachers
do
deforme
&
disgrace
the
habitation
of
the
Church
of
Rome
;
I
haue
deseruedly
left
the
one
,
that
I
may
cleaue
to
&
embrace
the
other
:
&
that
according
to
the
commandement
Do
not
company
together
with
idolaters
.
And
againe
:
Haue
no
fellowship
with
the
vnfruitfull
workes
of
darkenesse
,
but
euen
reproue
the
rather
.
And
what
more
vnfruitfull
worke
is
there
,
then
to
embrace
false
doctrine
,
and
heresie
?
In
another
place
:
We
command
you
brethren
,
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
that
ye
withdraw
your selues
from
euery
brother
that
walketh
inordinately
,
and
not
And
to
Titus
,
Reiect
him
that
is
an
heretique
,
after
once
or
twice
admonition
.
And
the
Apostle
moreouer
saith
thus
.
If
any
preach
the
Gospell
vnto
you
otherwise
then
you
haue
heard
and
receiued
it
,
let
him
be
accursed
.
And
a
little
before
that
:
Although
any
,
yea
an
Angell
from
heauen
should
teach
you
any
other
doctrine
then
that
we
haue
preached
vnto
you
,
let
him
be
accursed
.
But
I
will
no
longer
stay
vpon
those
places
of
the
Prophets
,
wherein
the
people
is
oftentimes
exhorted
to
leaue
,
and
go
out
of
Babylon
,
which
I
know
the
Church
of
Rome
both
imitates
and
followes
.
Let
it
not
be
obiected
vnto
me
by
any
aduersary
,
that
I
haue
denyed
my
baptisme
by
which
I
am
consecrated
to
almighty
God
:
for
I
onely
renonunce
the
vaine
ceremonies
vsed
therein
by
the
Bishops
,
without
authority
of
holy
Scriptures
.
The
vertue
whereof
I
know
to
depend
on
God
,
&
not
in
man
that
administers
the
same
vnto
me
.
Seeing
then
it
is
the
part
of
a
louing
mother
,
not
onely
to
bring
vp
her
children
in
the
obedience
and
feare
of
God
,
but
to
instruct
them
also
,
and
nurse
them
vp
with
the
food
of
his
heauenly
word
▪
and
so
vnite
them
to
Christ
:
as
I
haue
bene
consecrated
to
God
by
baptisme
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
so
in
the
same
I
haue
bene
seduced
from
Christ
by
humane
inuentions
.
I
haue
therefore
worthily
,
and
of
right
,
made
choice
of
that
Church
,
in
which
the
true
baptisme
is
sincerely
administred
,
and
the
sound
doctrine
thereof
is
faithfully
deliuered
to
such
as
are
baptised
,
through
the
whole
course
of
their
liues
.
Besides
I
perswade
my selfe
(
and
that
truely
)
that
I
am
more
deepely
bound
to
God
the
Father
,
God
the
Son
,
and
God
the
holy
Ghost
,
(
being
three
Persons
yet
onely
God
)
then
the
Church
of
Rome
,
which
hath
forsaken
and
rebelled
against
that
faith
which
the
Apostles
in
times
past
so
highly
commended
in
her
,
and
against
whom
that
imputation
of
reproach
may
worthily
be
had
,
which
was
once
laid
vpon
the
Church
of
the
Iewes
in
these
words
:
And
their
sonnes
whom
they
beare
vnto
me
,
they
haue
offered
to
Idols
,
to
be
deuoured
.
And
againe
in
the
same
Prophet
:
They
haue
played
the
whores
,
and
bloud
is
in
their
handes
,
and
with
their
idols
haue
they
committed
adultery
And
what
is
it
else
to
commend
the
inuocation
of
soules
?
the
adoration
of
images
?
the
obseruation
of
Purgatory
?
and
of
Pardons
?
They
glorie
of
the
workes
of
Supererogation
,
the
rules
and
examples
of
men
that
are
sinners
:
as
Francis
,
Dominicke
,
Bruno
,
Celestine
,
Ignatius
,
Loyola
,
and
others
,
and
especially
to
thurst
yong
men
and
women
against
their
wils
into
a
monastery
?
What
is
this
else
(
as
I
say
)
but
to
be
consecrated
to
idols
,
and
to
superstitious
And
because
(
as
it
is
well
knowne
vnto
me
)
the
Papists
thinke
we
walke
not
after
the
right
decrees
and
determinations
of
the
true
Church
,
neither
beleeue
those
things
,
which
are
to
be
beleeued
:
I
will
therefore
,
seeing
(
as
God
hath
commanded
)
I
am
separated
and
come
from
among
them
,
relate
those
things
,
which
we
faithfully
hold
and
I
am
not
ashamed
of
the
Gospell
of
Christ
,
for
it
is
the
power
of
God
vnto
saluation
to
euery
one
that
beleeueth
.
Before
all
things
we
beleeue
in
God
,
the
Father
Almighty
,
maker
of
heauen
and
earth
,
and
in
his
Word
,
begotten
of
the
Father
;
and
in
the
holy
Ghost
,
proceeding
from
them
both
,
to
whom
their
due
and
distinct
properties
are
to
be
attributed
:
in
which
(
according
to
Essence
)
we
neither
separate
the
Sonne
,
nor
the
holy
Ghost
from
the
Father
:
nor
(
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
the
Manicheys
)
diuide
the
Father
from
the
Sonne
,
or
from
the
holy
Which
vnitie
and
trinitie
(
as
Hilary
,
Ambrose
,
and
many
5.
7.
antemedium
.
others
teach
)
cannot
perfectly
be
comprehended
by
naturall
reason
;
but
is
apprehended
by
faith
,
as
many
other
hidden
mysteries
of
God
,
of
which
S.
Paul
speaketh
:
Oh
the
deepnesse
of
the
riches
both
of
the
wisedome
and
knowledge
of
God
.
How
vnsearchable
are
his
iudgements
,
and
his
wayes
past
finding
out
?
All
honor
be
giuen
to
the
blessed
Trinity
,
being
one
God
,
and
to
whom
is
equall
glory
in
three
Persons
,
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
Arrius
,
that
blasphemously
takes
away
the
Of
Christ
the
Sonne
.
Idem
.
in
eod
.
Mat.
3.
5.
Luke
3
▪
Acts
10.
Ioh.
11.
1.
S.
Hierome
lib.
contra
.
Helui.
de
perpe
.
virgi
.
Mar.
Amb.
sup.
Luc.
li.
2.
ca.
1.
S.
Aug.
in
Serm.
14.
de
nat.
Do.
S.
Tho.
3.
p.
q.
28.
ar.
1.
2.
3.
4.
1.
Tim.
6.
Acts
3.
13.
Rom.
4.
Phil.
2.
Ephe.
4.
Acts
2.
Apoc.
1.
Acts
13.
Ioh.
10.
18.
Rom.
8.
11.
Acts
2.
24.
Mar.
16.
19.
Luke
24.
51.
Psal.
109.
1.
Ephe.
4.
9.
Luke
21.
21.
Ma.
.
25.
31.
Rom.
2.
6.
Apoc.
22.
12.
WE
beleeue
in
Iesus
Christ
,
his
onely
begotten
Sonne
,
the
Redeemer
and
Mediator
of
mankind
:
through
whom
in
the
holy
Ghost
he
created
all
things
in
the
beginning
;
not
that
he
redeemed
mankind
without
the
Father
,
which
sent
his
Sonne
to
be
the
Redeemer
of
the
world
;
or
without
the
holy
Ghost
,
by
whom
man
is
conceiued
and
annointed
:
but
because
the
only
person
of
the
Sonne
tooke
vpon
him
humane
nature
,
and
by
his
death
and
passion
payd
the
price
of
our
redemption
;
and
is
but
one
person
(
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
Nestorius
,
that
maintained
two
.
)
We
beleeue
also
that
Christ
was
borne
of
the
virgine
Mary
,
according
to
humane
nature
it selfe
,
by
the
inspiration
of
the
holy
Ghost
;
and
we
beleeue
(
with
the
Catholicke
Church
)
that
she
was
a
virgin
before
the
birth
,
in
the
birth
,
and
after
the
birth
,
against
Heluidius
,
whom
S.
Hierome
vtterly
disallowes
,
so
doth
S.
Ambrose
,
S.
Augustine
and
S.
Thomas
.
We
beleeue
also
that
Christ
our
Lord
,
suffered
vnder
Pontius
Pilate
,
was
crucified
,
dead
and
buried
,
and
descended
into
hell
,
and
the
third
day
rose
againe
:
not
by
anothers
meanes
,
as
Lazarus
,
and
others
,
but
by
his
owne
proper
power
and
vertue
;
because
he
was
God
,
which
according
to
Diuinitie
was
cause
of
his
resurrection
,
as
Iohn
saith
:
No
man
taketh
it
from
me
,
but
I
lay
it
downe
of
my selfe
.
I
haue
power
to
lay
it
downe
,
and
haue
power
to
take
it
againe
.
We
confesse
also
that
he
ascended
into
heauen
,
&
sate
at
the
right
hand
of
his
Almighty
Father
,
which
ascension
Christ
made
not
according
to
his
diuine
nature
(
which
was
neuer
out
of
heauen
)
but
as
he
was
man
,
for
so
he
entred
into
heauen
,
and
by
his
owne
power
ascended
.
We
confesse
further
,
that
with
great
Maiestie
and
glory
he
shall
come
to
iudge
both
the
quicke
and
the
dead
:
and
to
reward
euery
man
according
to
his
workes
:
which
are
all
matters
of
faith
,
and
to
be
beleeued
,
and
are
taught
in
the
reformed
Church
.
With
true
faith
we
imbrace
the
Apostolicke
Creed
,
the
Creed
of
Nice
,
and
Athanasius
:
And
so
to
that
Church
,
whose
confession
I
find
to
be
agreeing
and
conformable
to
the
holy
Scriptures
,
I
wholly
yeeld
and
subscribe
vnto
.
But
lest
any
man
should
thinke
,
that
either
for
want
,
and
necessitie
,
or
for
any
horrible
offence
committed
,
and
so
for
feare
of
punishment
,
I
haue
left
,
and
separated
my selfe
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
I
will
make
short
repetition
of
what
hath
befallen
vnto
me
,
through
the
whole
course
of
my
life
,
euen
from
my
infancie
:
not
led
by
ostentation
,
or
vaine
glory
,
but
that
in
remembring
them
,
I
may
be
the
more
drawne
to
giue
humble
and
hearty
thankes
vnto
almightie
God
,
who
hath
had
such
pity
and
compassion
on
me
.
I
was
borne
at
Caesar
Augusta
(
which
is
the
chiefest
place
of
the
kingdome
of
Arragon
.
)
The
day
before
the
Calends
of
February
,
at
two
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
,
and
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1567.
of
honorable
parentage
both
by
father
and
mother
,
as
is
well
knowne
in
my
countrey
,
and
by
Gods
prouidence
without
any
impediments
or
defects
of
nature
:
I
was
baptized
in
the
parish
Church
of
Saint
Giles
,
and
confirmed
by
that
excellent
Prince
Ferdinand
Viceroy
of
Arragon
,
and
Arch-bishop
of
Caesar
Augusta
.
From
my
infancy
with
my
parents
great
care
and
industry
I
was
trained
vp
in
the
doctrine
and
religion
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
with
my
yeares
my
knowledge
thereof
was
much
increased
,
and
I
did
reuerence
the
same
with
such
honour
and
ardency
,
as
no
other
religion
appeared
vnto
me
so
profitable
or
pleasing
.
My
father
departed
out
of
this
life
when
I
was
but
16
yeares
of
age
;
but
my
mother
as
she
was
carefull
I
should
be
brought
vp
and
instructed
after
the
customes
of
the
Romish
Church
(
for
she
was
full
of
zeale
and
deuotion
,
)
so
was
I
taught
Musicke
and
Military
discipline
,
and
other
exercises
of
body
,
to
my
age
best
fitting
and
agreeable
.
I
was
still
sollicitous
to
reade
bookes
of
Christian
Religion
,
and
to
take
counsell
and
be
conuersant
with
such
men
as
seemed
to
me
to
be
honest
,
and
learned
:
So
that
desire
of
further
knowledge
daily
increased
in
me
.
The
respect
therefore
of
all
temporall
goods
being
laid
aside
,
I
wholly
applied
my selfe
to
be
in
the
number
and
societie
of
them
,
whom
they
of
Rome
call
and
account
Religious
:
and
contrary
to
my
mothers
minde
,
or
the
good
will
of
my
brethren
and
kinsfolkes
,
I
followed
the
Religion
of
S.
Francis
,
and
with
all
alacrity
and
willingnesse
of
heart
,
I
entred
the
Monastery
of
Iesus
.
Which
when
my
mother
heard
of
,
she
was
moued
with
much
sorrow
,
and
both
by
her
words
and
deeds
shewed
that
I
had
greatly
displeased
her
.
Yet
she
loued
me
dearly
,
&
alwaies
hoped
of
me
to
be
a
refuge
&
succour
to
her
age
.
Hauing
therefore
taken
counsell
,
accompanied
with
a
Noble
woman
(
her
sisters
daughter
)
she
came
to
the
Couent
,
with
an
intent
to
alter
my
purpose
,
&
both
of
them
Hauing
recouered
her
health
and
senses
againe
,
she
still
continued
her
meanes
and
deuices
to
change
my
mind
,
and
vsed
the
same
almost
a
whole
yeare
,
so
that
at
length
she
compelled
me
to
forsake
the
Monasterie
.
Neuerthelesse
I
promised
such
as
I
left
behind
me
,
to
returne
againe
with
what
speed
I
might
possibly
.
But
I
became
somewhat
forgetfull
of
my
promise
,
by
reason
that
at
that
time
,
my
countrey
presented
vnto
me
many
obiects
of
pleasure
and
delectation
.
For
there
were
great
triumphs
and
solemnities
for
the
celebration
of
the
mariage
of
Katherine
daughter
to
king
Philip
the
second
,
with
Charles
Duke
of
Sabaud
:
with
which
my
mind
was
much
caried
away
and
distracted
.
But
my
former
purpose
and
my
continued
deuotion
vrging
me
,
I
performed
my
promise
,
and
with
great
ioy
of
those
Religious
men
that
expected
me
,
I
returned
backe
to
the
Monastery
,
where
I
liued
a
while
in
much
gladnesse
and
contentment
.
But
after
a
certaine
time
I
left
the
Monastery
againe
,
by
some
occasion
of
businesse
,
and
retaining
my
first
religious
purpose
,
I
be
tooke
my selfe
to
the
Religion
of
the
holy
Trinity
,
and
was
receiued
in
the
Conuent
of
Caesar
Augusta
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1585.
I
made
choice
of
this
Order
,
for
the
singular
deuotion
thereof
.
The
Prelate
and
other
religious
men
of
the
same
Monasterie
for
many
causes
were
desirous
of
my
continuance
amongst
them
.
I
therefore
began
to
apply
my
studies
to
humanity
,
till
at
Valence
by
the
diligence
of
my
Tutor
,
and
my
owne
great
labour
,
I
attained
to
some
perfection
of
Logicke
and
Philosophy
.
Afterwards
I
was
sent
to
that
famous
vniuersitie
of
Illerd
:
where
I
wholly
dedicated
my selfe
to
Diuinitie
,
and
hauing
passed
the
seuerall
termes
and
courses
of
Disputations
,
Exercises
,
and
Lectures
,
I
was
commended
to
be
one
of
the
best
in
Theologie
.
For
which
I
gaue
God
hearty
thankes
:
for
these
beginnings
broughtme
in
the
end
to
know
those
things
which
my
soule
euer
thirsted
after
.
These
foundations
layd
,
I
was
so
well
esteemed
of
,
that
I
was
called
to
the
Ministery
,
contrary
to
their
owne
orders
and
institutions
,
which
forbid
any
man
that
dignity
vnder
the
age
of
33
yeares
.
But
the
Prouinciall
did
willingly
dispence
with
me
,
and
so
I
was
made
Minister
of
the
Monastery
of
Liria
:
About
three
yeares
after
,
I
was
made
Minister
of
another
monastery
of
higher
dignitie
,
called
Nuestra
senora
de
las
sogas
,
in
which
time
by
occasion
of
some
contrary
occurrents
that
befell
concerning
our
Order
,
by
certaine
learned
Prelats
,
and
very
great
men
,
I
was
chosen
Embassadour
to
the
Reuerend
Generall
of
our
Order
,
abiding
then
at
Paris
:
which
I
discharged
,
by
Gods
assistance
,
though
with
great
danger
of
my
life
.
After
I
had
obtained
the
presence
of
our
Generall
,
he
lent
such
attention
to
the
complaints
deliuered
by
me
,
that
he
dispatcht
me
with
expedition
and
order
for
such
as
were
troublesome
and
ignorant
of
obedience
:
and
gaue
me
full
power
,
and
orders
,
for
the
reading
of
Diuinity
.
Graced
with
all
these
titles
,
and
additions
of
dignity
,
and
preferment
,
I
returned
againe
into
Spaine
:
But
I
had
not
long
stayed
there
,
when
vpon
instance
of
other
weighty
occasions
that
concerned
our
Order
,
I
was
sent
againe
to
the
Generall
,
with
two
other
graue
Ministers
in
my
company
.
Him
I
found
so
kind
,
and
louing
,
and
so
respectiue
of
me
,
that
whatsoeuer
belonged
to
the
gouernment
of
the
Prouince
,
I
obtained
at
his
hands
.
He
created
me
at
that
time
both
Maister
and
Doctor
(
which
with
vs
is
a
matter
of
much
honour
and
commodity
.
)
But
after
my
returne
into
the
Prouince
(
which
containes
vnder
it
the
kingdomes
of
Arragon
,
Valence
,
Catalonia
,
and
Mallorica
)
by
commandement
which
I
had
receiued
from
the
Generall
,
there
was
a
Conuocation
had
for
the
election
of
the
Prouinciall
;
and
the
choice
fell
to
M.
Stephen
Bertiz
,
a
Noble
man
,
of
verie
great
learning
,
and
my
especiall
good
friend
.
He
for
the
loue
he
bare
me
,
made
me
chiefe
Secretary
of
the
Prouince
.
A
little
while
after
the
religious
men
of
our
Monastery
of
Dertasa
,
made
me
Minister
(
which
in
the
Order
of
the
holy
Trinitie
,
is
as
high
a
place
as
theirs
is
,
who
in
the
orders
of
other
monasteries
are
called
Priors
,
Wardens
,
Abbots
,
Prelates
,
&c.
)
and
created
me
also
the
chiefe
of
the
house
.
That
I
might
not
seeme
vnthankfull
,
I
tooke
vpon
me
that
charge
,
and
in
the
Colledge
of
the
same
City
I
was
made
Doctor
.
Afterwards
(
vnknowne
to
me
)
both
by
the
Church
and
Citizens
of
Vernauen
,
farre
enough
distant
from
my
house
,
I
had
the
charge
giuen
me
of
their
Church
,
and
of
the
preaching
of
the
Lent
sermons
.
And
that
I
might
wholly
consecrate
my selfe
to
preaching
and
reading
,
and
not
be
hindered
by
any
other
care
of
rule
or
gouernment
,
(
which
is
much
contrary
to
the
profession
of
learning
)
I
left
the
monastery
of
Dert
,
and
resigned
my
office
of
ministery
.
In
the
monastery
also
of
Valence
,
which
is
the
chiefest
monastery
of
all
the
Prouince
,
where
are
resident
to
the
number
of
50
Preachers
,
Doctors
of
Diuinity
,
and
others
most
approued
men
for
learning
,
there
was
an
assembly
had
for
the
election
of
one
that
should
be
Minister
&
Head
of
that
monasterie
;
and
the
26
day
of
April
,
in
the
yeare
1601
,
that
lot
fell
to
my
share
.
So
consequently
all
the
goods
&
riches
of
the
monastery
were
put
into
my
hands
and
possession
,
as
well
of
siluer
and
gold-plate
,
as
of
other
precious
ornaments
,
treasure
,
and
sums
of
money
,
with
which
the
same
monastery
is
richly
furnished
:
For
it
hath
yearely
to
be
laid
forth
and
distributed
by
the
Minister
4000
crownes
a
yeare
.
In
the
time
that
I
was
Minister
of
Valence
,
I
was
often
created
visitor
of
the
houses
,
and
with
the
fulnesse
of
power
made
Vicar
Prouincial
of
all
the
foure
kingdomes
.
And
lastly
,
the
8
day
of
Nouember
in
the
yeare
1602
,
with
generall
and
Apostolique
power
was
constituted
visitor
of
certaine
monasteries
within
the
limits
of
the
Prouince
.
I
was
greatly
beloued
of
the
Generall
,
and
other
Prelats
and
Religious
men
of
that
Order
which
in
times
past
I
professed
,
and
was
well
accepted
with
Ecclesiastical
gouernors
.
God
forbid
that
I
should
reioyce
but
in
the
crosse
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
whereby
the
world
is
crucified
vnto
me
,
and
I
vnto
the
world
.
In
the
knowledge
wherof
,
&
in
the
glory
of
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
I
would
not
delay
,
but
pay
my
first
fruits
vnto
the
Lord
,
who
saith
,
Thou
shalt
not
be
slacke
to
pay
thy
first
fruits
.
Which
is
nothing
else
,
but
to
auert
and
turne
from
the
way
of
wickednesse
,
and
to
follow
and
imbrace
the
way
of
the
Lord
.
If
for
this
alteration
of
my
estate
,
I
should
make
any
reckoning
of
this
world
:
alas
,
how
many
shold
I
see
to
rise
against
me
▪
my
friends
are
become
my
enimies
,
my
kinsfolks
strangers
,
all
leaue
and
forsake
me
,
all
dispise
me
,
and
call
me
heretique
:
but
I
will
answer
with
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
My
father
and
mother
haue
for
saken
me
,
but
the
Lord
hath
taken
me
vp
.
I
will
not
striue
to
please
them
,
as
Paul
saith
,
If
I
should
yet
please
men
,
I
were
not
the
seruant
of
Christ
.
I
had
rather
displease
men
,
then
follow
lies
and
vntruths
with
them
,
seeing
the
Prophet
Dauid
doth
encourage
vs
,
saying
:
O
yee
sonnes
of
men
,
how
long
will
ye
turne
my
glory
into
shame
,
louing
vanitie
,
and
seeking
lies
?
I
now
desire
to
continue
in
this
truth
,
that
the
curse
of
God
may
not
be
laid
vpon
me
,
who
saith
,
Cursed
is
euery
man
,
that
continueth
not
in
all
things
,
which
are
written
in
the
booke
of
the
Law
,
to
do
them
:
And
so
with
the
Prophet
,
I
rather
chuse
to
be
an
abiect
in
the
house
of
my
God
,
where
his
Gospell
is
sincerely
taught
,
then
to
dwell
in
the
tabennacle
of
sinners
,
where
the
Gospell
is
obscured
,
and
made
For
euen
as
the
sundry
and
various
expositions
of
the
law
make
the
law
doubtfull
and
obscure
;
so
the
Gospell
is
darke
,
and
made
intricate
by
many
intepretations
.
I
now
therefore
loue
,
and
imbrace
the
truth
.
Now
God
hath
made
me
partaker
of
his
goodnesse
,
and
his
passion
was
not
in
vaine
for
me
.
Now
hath
his
goodnes
extended
it selfe
to
communicate
those
things
vnto
me
,
as
were
determined
for
me
in
the
beginning
.
In
times
past
I
was
Saul
,
a
persecutor
of
I
looke
to
be
persecuted
,
and
expect
false
censures
and
iudgements
to
be
passed
vpon
me
:
but
what
do
I
respect
them
?
Did
not
Aaron
speake
against
his
brother
Moses
?
For
euen
thy
brethren
,
and
the
house
of
thy
father
shall
deate
vnfaithfully
with
thee
?
Did
not
Peters
friends
also
contend
against
him
,
because
he
went
in
to
men
vncircumcised
,
and
did
eate
with
them
?
So
(
me
thinkes
)
I
see
how
they
contend
and
cry
out
against
me
.
〈◊〉
God
,
who
(
as
Dauid
saith
)
is
the
father
and
helper
of
orphanes
and
fatherlesse
,
will
not
rest
to
defend
and
protect
me
.
Oh
my
Lord
God
,
of
whom
the
Prophet
hath
said
,
that
thou
wilt
saue
,
&
preserue
them
,
that
put
their
trust
in
thee
,
My
whole
hope
and
confidence
is
in
thee
,
&
I
stand
in
need
of
thy
aid
and
defence
.
Be
vnto
me
(
oh
Lord
)
as
a
shield
,
and
buckler
against
those
roaring
Lyons
that
go
about
to
Pharaoh
,
Susanna
from
false
iudgement
,
and
Daniel
from
the
Lyons
denne
:
so
deliuer
me
from
their
hands
.
Giue
vnto
my
soule
the
grace
and
gift
of
perseuerance
;
and
grant
that
they
who
are
yet
blind
may
haue
their
eyes
opened
,
and
at
length
attaine
to
the
knowledge
and
wisedome
of
the
truth
,
made
knowne
in
thy
Gospell
.
In
respect
of
thee
(
oh
my
God
)
I
make
account
of
nothing
:
I
leaue
and
forsake
all
things
▪
and
hope
not
for
any
thing
but
thy
glory
.
The
honours
which
I
had
in
mine
owne
countrey
,
I
vtterly
despise
;
the
dignity
which
I
haue
hitherto
possessed
,
I
am
quite
forgetfull
of
;
and
forgo
my
quondam
Prouinciall
,
who
ordained
me
to
be
his
successour
.
My
friends
and
all
my
kindred
for
thee
I
contemne
,
and
willingly
reiect
for
euer
.
with
S
Paul
.
And
I
will
follow
the
true
doctrine
of
Christ
:
saying
,
If
any
man
I
confesse
vnto
thee
my
Lord
and
my
King
,
and
I
giue
praise
vnto
thee
my
God
,
and
Sauiour
▪
for
that
thou
hast
deliuered
me
from
perdition
,
and
from
the
tongues
of
them
that
speake
lyes
.
Be
a
succour
vnto
me
,
and
a
tower
of
defence
in
the
face
of
mine
enimies
,
that
I
may
constantly
abide
the
slaunders
and
backbitings
,
wherewith
I
know
they
swarme
and
are
full
.
Wherefore
oh
most
merciful
God
and
louing
Father
,
who
in
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
dost
put
out
of
thy
remembrance
the
sins
and
iniquities
of
such
as
confesse
vnto
thee
▪
by
the
grant
of
thy
pardon
make
void
the
imputation
of
all
former
offences
.
Looke
fauourably
vpon
thy
seruant
,
and
giue
vnto
me
that
with
true
confession
,
and
contrition
of
heart
,
begge
remission
of
my
sins
.
Refresh
and
renew
in
me
(
oh
Father
)
whatsoeuer
the
diuelish
fraud
and
deceipt
of
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
distained
and
corrupted
;
and
win
a
member
of
thy
redemption
,
to
the
body
and
vnity
of
the
true
reformed
Church
.
We
the
Pastours
,
Seniours
,
and
Deacons
of
the
Church
of
Rochel
,
whose
names
are
here
vnderwritten
,
do
witnesse
and
make
it
knowne
,
that
Martin
Bartox
hath
made
a
summary
confession
of
our
faith
,
and
publickely
discouered
▪
&
vtterly
renounced
the
errours
of
the
Romish
Church
,
before
a
great
company
of
Gods
faithfull
seruants
,
being
then
present
,
reioycing
and
congratulating
his
conuersion
:
we
witnesse
further
,
that
we
haue
seene
and
heard
to
be
performed
,
whatsoeuer
is
herein
made
mention
of
,
or
set
forth
.
From
this
Citty
of
Rochel
:
-
Pastors
-
I.
Merlnius
-
H.
Colomozius
-
S.
Loumaeus
-
L.
Cerclerus
-
Seniors
.
-
Chalmotius
-
Cl.
Heralts
-
I.
Farnoulius
-
I
Bodierus
-
I.
Dournes
-
Durantius
.
-
Deacons
.
-
I.
Agrestsns
.
-
A.
Maquinus
FINIS
.