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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19839	[Daniel Ben Alexander. The converted Jew of Prague in Bohemia, baptized in the Reformed Church of Rouen, the 12. of Aprill. 1621. First written in the Syriacke and High Dutch. Translated out of High Dutch into French by Samuel Lecherpiere. And out of French into English by Tho. Drewe.]	Alexander, Daniel Ben.; Drewe, Thomas, fl. 1621.; Drue, Thomas, fl. 1616-1653, attributed name.	1621 (1621)	STC 6266; ESTC S119309	13,900	28

those things which were conceal'd to them and my selfe also I departed from Prague and tooke my way into Poland hoping from those Rabbies there to haue had more instructions but their answeres were all one And moreouer I was by them inioyned to silence Then continuing my reading and conferring the New and Old Testament together neglecting the Talmud wherein before I spent my time in vaine I became resolued vtterly to forsake the Iewish Religion and to become Christian for which cause I retired my selfe to Damsik where Iewes are prohibited to liue and from thence I embarked for Amsterdam and so was resolued to goe for Rome which Citty I had heard to be the Mother Church of Christendome and that there the Pope caused Sermons to be made weekely for the conuersion of Iewes Thus to bring my soule to rest I trauailed my body and passing on intending to take my course through France and so to Rome My iourney was by accident stayed God in his pitty not suffering me to fall from one euill into a worse for by the way hauing a desire to conuerse with some religious man that could speake the high Dutch or low and hoping by that meanes to get some letters of commendations wherewith I might haue presumed of a welcome in Rome and meeting with one by chance after Communication and that I had directly made knowne what I was as also what I desired to be he forthwith gaue me counsell to be Baptized which I with some time of pausing refused but he desiring to know my reason I gaue him this that I would know my foundation ere I began to build and likewise haue more sound knowledge in Christianity ere I altogether forsooke that faith that I was bred in He willing to doe me curtesie conferred with mee touching many and mayne points of his Religion which I could by no meanes beleeue whereupon demaunding of him if the Church of Rome taught the same Doctrine he answered me yes it doth I finding it disagreeing both to the New and Old Testament could not imagine that to be the true Church which taught such false Doctrine I then more troubled in minde intended to finde out some Minister of the Reformed Church whom hauing sought I found Gods name be blessed for it the heauenly foode the spirituall Manna of which hee that feedeth shall neuer more hunger And heere beloued giue mee leaue according to promise to giue you my reasons for forsaking the Church of Rome First for that contrary to the expresse will of God in the second Commandement Exod. 20. They make to themselues grauen Images they prostrate themselues before them and worship them giuing them the glory belonging to God onely who saith I am the eternall that is my name I will not giue my glory to another nor my praise to grauen Images 2. Because they doe adore and worship others then God contrary to the saying of our Lord Iesus Christ Math. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue 3. For that they beleeue that they may be saued by the name of other creatures contrary to that Acts 4. so spoken by Saint Peter touching our Sauiour Christ. Neither is there saluation in any other for among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued 4. Because they take from the Merites of our Sauiour in his Death and Passion and teach that men are iustified by their owne workes Gal. 2 21. For if righteousnes bee by the Law then Christ dyed without cause And in the 16. Knowe that a man is not Iustified by the workes of the Law but by the Faith of Iesus Christ. And Ephas 2.9 Not of workes least any man should boast himselfe 5. Because in the Church of Rome the men of the Church as they say haue power to forgiue Sinnes But God speakes Isa. 43. I euen I am hee that putteth away thine iniquitias for mine owne sake and will not remember thy Sinnes 6. Because the Church of Rome confesseth with the Christian reformed Church That our Sauiour tooke Flesh onely of the Virgin and yet make they to themselues out of Bread a Iesus Christ of Flesh as they say to bee their dayly Sacrifice 7. Because the Church of Rome offendeth in saying that they Sacrifice the Sonne of God for the sinnes of the Liuing and the Dead against that which St. Paul saith to the Heb. 9.14 which through the Eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God ' And 10.14 For with one offring hath hee consecrated for euer them that are Sanctified 8. Because in the Romish Church they haue taken from the Sacrament of Baptisme which is for the remission of Sinnes in Iesus Christ and teach in the same Church a remission of Sinnes by Fastings Pilgrimages and the like which I neither beleeue nor finde warranted by any place of Scripture 9. Because in the Church of Rome they holde some Meates created good by God for some certaine times poluted and vncleane against the saying of St. Paul 1. Tim. 4.4 For euery Creature of God is good and nothing ought to bee refused if it bee receiued with Thankesgiuing 10. Because the Church of Rome prohibiteth people to Marry which God hath not forbidden and St. Paul cals that a Doctrine of Deuils 1● Tim. 4.3 Forbidding to Marry and commanding to abstaine from Mea●es which God hath Created c. 11. Because in the Church of Rome they teach other Purgings then by the Blood of Iesus Christ against that which is spoken in ● Heb. 12. By his owne Blood entred hee once into the Holy plac● and obtained Eternall remission for vs. And Iohn 1.7 The blood of Iesus Christ cleaseth vs from all Sinnes 12. Because I beleeue a man ought not to worship what hee Eateth nor to eate that hee worshippeth nor that any thing wee eate can bee God This appeareth vnto mee not onely impious but horrible in the Church of Rome which teacheth that a mortall Man eateth his Creator These reasons with many more hindred my Iourney to Rome or to take my Baptisme from that Church or Ministers thereof who teach thinges so repugnant to the worde of God Neither would I ioyne my selfe to the Anabaptists my reason was Because they deny the true humane Body of our Sauiour Iesus Christ saying hee tooke no part of the Flesh of the Virgin Mary But onely past through her Body as water through a conduit without participating of any of the substance And so consequently sinning against the Article of our Beliefe which saith that hee was borue of the Virgin Mary so that taking away his Humanity they make him not alike vnto vs in all thinges Sinne excepted as the Apostle hath auerred him I therefore vtterly renouncing all Impieties and all Doctrines contrary to the word of God imbrace the holy Christian Faith to liue and dye according to Gods holy word not the traditions of men For which cause I know I shall bee abandoned

of Father Mother Brothers Sisters and hated of all my Nation for the Blessed name of Christ who hath Prophesied that the Father shall bee against the Sonne and the Mother against the Daughter But that threatning of his doth astonish mee when he saith Hee that shall loue Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of mee and hee that shall deny me before men I will deny him before my Father which is in Heauen My soules desire is for those of my Nation that it would please God in the bowels of his great mercy to take from them the vale that hideth the Truth from them to open their eyes to change their blinde zeale which is without vnderstanding and to bee as mercifull to them as to me hee hath bin to the end they bee not condemned before the Throne of his Maiesty that they may cease to Blaspheme his holy Name O redeeme them O Lord that are the lost Sheepe of Israel for thou hast not forsaken thy people for euer There are amongst them many that haue not bended their knees to Baal Wherefore O Lord conuert them that are to be conuerted not looking vpon them in thy Iustice but in thy great Mercy for thine owne sake for thine owne promise for thy Couenants sake to the end thy Name may be euerlasting Blessed Amen Welbeloued Christians whome I beleeue to be the assembly of the Faithfull and of the house of God I am heartily sorry that I cannot in your owne Tongue make knowne to you this my Confession I haue writ it in the Siriacke and it is translated in my name into your Language I protest not onely before you but before God that knowes the secrets of all hearts and heares this my protestation that his Grace assisting me I will liue and dye a Christian and so bee it vnto me in his great day of Iudgement as I beleeue what I confesse before his holy Assembly whome I humbly beseech that in Christian charity they would receiue me for a member of them as one of the Disperced sheepe of the house of Israell and that my name may bee written in your memories as I verily beleeue God hath registered it in his Booke of Eternall Life Amen ROM 11. Vers. 26.27.28 26. And so all Israel shall bee saued as it is written The deliuerer shall come of Sion and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob 27. And this is my Couenants to them when I shall take away their Sinnes 28. As concerning the Gospell they are enemies for your sakes But as touching the Election they are beloued for the Fathers sakes This Confession being thus made the said Daniel was Catechized by the Minister who answered in his owne person as followeth A Catechisme Question WHAT Demaund you in the Christian Church Answer I demaund the holy Baptisme for remission of Sinnes Quest. In name of whome will you be Baptized Answ. In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Quest. Doe you Beleeue that IESVS CHRIST is the Eternall Sonne of God true God and true Man Answ. I doe beleeue he is Quest. Beleeue you him to bee the Messias promised in the Olde Testament Answ Yes I beleeue it Quest. Doe you vnderstand the Confession of Faith in the Christian Church Answ. Yes Quest. Repeat it Answ. I Beleeue in God the Father Almighty c. Quest. Doe you promise to remaine constant in this Confession all the Dayes of your life Answ. Yes the grace of God assisting me Quest. Doe you renounce the Iewish Religion their Ceremonies and errours as also all their heresies Answ. I renounce them with all my heart Quest. Doe you receiue the new Testament as a fulfilling of the Olde and the Doctrine of the Euangelists and Apostles for the worde of God as also those of the Prophets Answ. Yes so I beleeue Quest. Doe you renounce the World the Flesh and the Deuill Answ. I doe God of his Grace make you able to fulfill all this for his Glory and your owne soules health Amen There is more Ioy in Heauen for one conuerted sinner then for Ninety and nine that neuer went astray This Confession of Faith was made in the presence of the Christian reformed Church of Roane the 12 th day of Aprill 1621. at Queuilly Witnesses hereunto wee whose Names are hereunder written in whose presence it was done Samuel de Lecherpiere Iohn Maximilian de Langle Peeter Erondell Ministers of the Worde of God in the Reformed Church of Roane FINIS