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

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