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A42424	The conversion of Philip Corwine, a Franciscan fryar, to the reformation of the Protestant religion, anno 1589 formerly written by John Garvey, sometime Primate of all Ireland ; being a copy of the original remaining amongst James Usher, late Primate of the same, his papers, and now entered amongst Sir James Ware's manuscripts ; published for the good of the Protestant Church of England by R.W., Gent.	Garvey, John, 1527-1595.; Ware, Robert, d. 1696.	1681 (1681)	Wing G278; ESTC R37392	10,115	19

parts and also to bestow on so true a Convert who indeed ought to have been cherished But being troubled with a Flux which seized on him continuing for several weeks before he expired at last it took him out of this World upon the third of September 1590. having during his sickness received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and continuing a true Churchman unto his end During that small time whilst I was so happy as to converse with him I delighted in his conversation and several times discoursed with him touching the late Grand Council of Trent and of what things that Council had done as touching the Protestants of these Her Majesties Realms to which he seriously related as I took the words from his own mouth at several times upon discourse as follows 1. That the Council had Enacted in their Litany to be said upon every Good Friday as also upon any great Fast proclaimed or to be proclaimed to Curse all Heretical Kings Princes and States personally naming them amongst whom he assured me they have named her Majesty and also all their Heretical Subjects obeying their Commands and Powers 2. That Her Majesties Kingdoms of England and Ireland are to be given to any Prince or Nation Conquering them especially to Spain as He married the Queens Sister yet to the first who shall attempt it Ireland being not to be disposed of in case of Conquest but to be restored to the Ancient Race lineally descended of the Princes of that Nation They swearing unto the Chair of St. Peters to own that See the Chief Head thereof as it is called Insula Sacra upon Record 3. That every Roman Catholick in England or Ireland having two or more Sons of any Quality or Estate should train them up in either of these Callings or Trades Doctors of the Law Lawyers Physitians Clerks Agents Vintners Inn-keepers Apothecaries Grocers Brewers Victuallers c. for several Causes best known to the Mother Church as being most convenient for her Aid in service when ever required 4. That all Deeds held by Roman Catholicks or other Ecclesiastical Lands be Entred and Reposed privately under the Signet of Rome the Party enjoying the same until the Catholick Faith be restored then such Deeds appearing upon Record the possessor if Catholick to be reprieved out of Hereticks Estates 5. That all Oaths taken by compulsion or otherwise are of no force or tye as the translation of their Bible is heretical and false therefore the Catholick swearing thereupon is all one as upon any common Book the Catholick esteeming the same so to be his Oath though false is no sin 6 That no Catholick marry with any Heretick unless it be upon great necessity or advancement for the Catholick who affirms before-hand he or she doth it for no other intent but to advance the Roman Faith and so to continue to the end Then by a Dispensation from the Confessor vowing to continue stedfast and to perform the promises confessed before the Marriage to be granted and permitted 7. That Dispensations be granted to the Wise and Learned sort of Catholicks for Oaths for Religion for Place for Office or otherwise provided that the Party shall four or more times in the year confess unto any Secular or Regular he is in his heart a Romanist and so after upon Confession to testifie the certifying thereof to shew signal assurance of their fidelity to the See of Rome 8. That any of these sorts permitted or so licensed shall in all Protestant Courts of Princes give monthly Intelligences more or less as signal assurances of their stedfastness to the See of Rome 9. That Excommunication or a perpetual Curse light upon the Families of all those of the Mother Church who will not promote or assist by means of Money or otherwise Mary Queen of Scotland to the Crown of England 10. That all Roman Catholicks be and shall be obedient to those Archbishops or other Popish Priests set over them privately as if they were openly ruling over them and to relieve them pay tribute or tax proportionably for the advance of the Mother Church 11. And lastly that under-hand they propose a Match for the Queen of some Catholick Roman King or Prince or if she dye to set up Mary Queen of Scotland or some other Romish Prince for the advancement of the Mother Church These and several other like passages I heard from this good and glorious Convert who during his life after his Recantation made great progress in the conversion of others and that not in vain having converted the Mayor of Drogheda his Wife and several others in the Town before his death I dare not say that he was poysoned but there was much suspition as if the Fryers had done something to him for he was ever and anon arguing with them in Disputations FINIS Acts 13. 50. Phil. 3. 6. The Evil Event of Immoderate Zeal Vide Alexand. Ross his View of Religions Ovid lib. 2. The Archbishop of Armagh maketh the Archbishop of Dublin acquainted with this Letter This Converts return to Ireland The Convert designs to make an open Recantation With what Intention the Convert went before his Conversion towards Rome The Converts Offers which he rejected as also the Policy of Rome in absconding the Truth of the holy Gospel Philip Corwine his sensibility of the Laws of England how near they be to the Truth to what other Country Laws are He compares Romes tyranny to the heathen Persecutions and sets forth how they rob Kings of their Titles The cruel Martyrdom of eight persons at Rome for the Truth How their Union amazed the Convert and was a means of his Conversion to the Truth How the Convert thought to divert himself and was prickt in conscience His second shift to divert himself and how he lighted on the xciv Psalm being sutable for persecution and tribulation How the Convert resolved to leave Rome supposing thereby to divert himself but still was troubled in mind How the Spanish Inquisition troubled this Convert How the Convert was rebuked by the two Franciscans for his Commiseration to the poor Innkeeper How the Convert returned into the Garden to bewail himself Here the Convert receives comfort and is stedfast to his end Ezekiel cap. 18. ver 27 28. How he was altered and gave God thanks for his deliverance How he concealed his Conversion And how he confesseth he wrote the Letter before mentioned Thus he concludes with this Rapture The Converts death The projects of the Council at Trent against Engl. confessed to Archbishop John Garvey of Armagh by this Convert A good reason why Papists Oaths against Protestants should not be credited

THE CONVERSION OF PHILIP CORWINE A FRANCISCAN FRYAR To the Reformation of the PROTESTANT RELIGION Anno 1589. Formerly Written by JOHN GARVEY Sometime PRIMATE of all IRELAND Being a Copy of the Original Remaining amongst James Usher late PRIMATE of the same his Papers and now Entred amongst Sir JAMES WARE' 's Manuscripts Published for the Good of the Protestant Church of England by R. W. Gent. DUBLIN Printed by Jos Ray at Colledge-Green for a Society of Stationers 1681. TO THE READER ZEal the Mother of all Religions caused the devout and otherwise honourable Women to persecute St. Paul the same stirred up St. Paul to persecute Christ before he had knowledge of him Thus was the Zeal of this Convert which a Reverend Father of the Protestant Church wrote to be reserved for future Memory This Narrative I shall lay before Protestant and Papist upon two accounts First That all men may behold the Danger of immoderate Zeal against those of another Judgment Secondly To shew how that Zeal and Knowledge ought to walk together 1. Immoderate Zeal saith Nazianzen was in his time the cause of great Broyls and Troubles insomuch that Truth it self hath been stretched too far so that by a vehement dislike of Errour on one side men have run into an Errour on the other as Dionysius and Alexandrinus did being too fervent against Sabellius for these two first laid the Ground of Arrianisme 2. Zeal without knowledge may well be compared to Phaeton in the Poet who took upon him to drive the Chariot of the Sun but yet through his inconsiderate Rashness set the world in a flame St. Bernard hits full on this point in these words Discretion without Zeal is slow paced and Zeal without Discretion is strong headed let therefore Zeal spur on Discretion and Discretion reign in Zeal Thus the Zeal of this Convert having joyned with the knowledge of the holy Scriptures became a lively Faith in Christ not choosing Saint or Angel to plead his Cause but the best of Advocates Christ Jesus who is the only Mediator between God and Man R. WARE The Conversion of Philip Corwine a Franciscan Fryer to the Reformation of the Protestant Religion Anno 1589. PHilip Corwine Nephew unto Hugh Corwine late Archbishop of Dublin supposing our Predecessor John Long late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland had been then living wrote this Epistle following which came to my hands thinking it had been to me directed my Name being John and his Successor within a little time after the Expiration of our said Predecessor I opened it Reverend and Worthy Father AFter my long and tedious Travels wandring like a Jew finding no settlement ever since the Reformation of the Church of England revived and was appointed to be observed by our Gracious Soveraign the Queen and Her High Court of Parliament I departed from Ireland into England from thence into Spain and so into Italy being ambitious to visit Rome purposely to behold her Modes and Forms but being not satisfied with the Passages and cruel Objects which I there beheld I returned into Spain and took up my Lodging in St. Francis his Monastry in the City of Sevill where I have hitherto remained expecting your Gracious acceptance and encouraging of a Prodigal Son to come home to the Church of Christ For were it no other then the Tyranny of the Romish Church and the large Indulgences which she hath sent abroad into most Nations for to massacre those whom she esteems Heretical purposely to advance her Coffers and to raise up her luxurious Appetite it would be for a rational man a sufficient president to lay before him what an Idol or rather what a devouring Dragon he and his Ancestors have hitherto worshiped I acknowledge I have feared this Monster beyond my Creator or Redeemer and depended upon his sinful Indulgences more than on the bitter Passions of my Saviour Jesus for which I only crave mercy from above whose Power is most infinite Also I have from my youth upward wandred in the paths of Idolatry worshiping of Stocks and Stones framed into humane shapes by the Art of Man whose Eyes behold neither my Bowing or my Kneeling whose Ears heard not my Petitions nor their Mouths able to return me an Answer therefore I cannot but lament both for the precious time which I have lost and for the Happiness of which I have all this while been bereaved all thus justly happening unto me through my perverseness in not embracing those comfortable Offertures which my Gracious deceased Uncle Hugh late Archbishop of Dublin proposed unto me in case I had adhered unto the Protestant Faith as it is now according to the Apostolick manner established Yet knowing your Fatherly Clemency and pious Inclinations by your former Correspondence with my deceased Uncle I shall returne with the Prodigal Son and come over if I may be so happy to receive your Encouragement and so end the residue of my days to Gods Glory and mine own Salvation Sevill March 29 th 1589. Your trusty and obedient Servant Philip Corwine To the Reverend Father in God John Archbishop of Armagh Upon the Receit of this Epistle rejoycing to embrace especially the Reformation of so understanding a Man as this Convert was I returned an Answer yet beforehand I shewed this his Epistle unto our Judicious and most Learned Brother in Christ Adam now Archbishop of Dublin and Chancellor of Ireland with whom I consulted and then We gave him all the encouragement imaginable and sent him this Answer following by a Portugal Merchant then going from Dublin to Waterford and from thence being bound for Spain To Mr. Philip Corwine in St. Francis his Convent at SEVILL Mr. Corwine YOur Epistle is Welcome though not coming to the hands of that Reverend Father in God John our Predecessor who lately departed this life to obtain an everlasting one in the Kingdom of Heaven although he was deprived of this happy offerture of yours by his death yet was it as acceptable to me his Successor who with the rest of our Brethren in Christ do rejoyce at your Recantation in a manner as the Angels and Saints of Heaven do at the Repentance of a Sinner which causeth his Soul to enter therein Whatever you expected from our Predecessor shall be granted by his Successor your humble Servant who embraces any one who desires to become a Member of Christ and one of his Flock My weak endeavours shall not be wanting neither shall the ability of our Church here be slack to assist you accordingly I and our Brother Adam now Archbishop of Dublin and Chancellor of this Kingdom have unanimously embraced your Learned Epistle and in token thereof we have sent you this small testimony of our affection towards your journal expences Therefore let this be unto you an assurance of your kind reception by us the Clergy here And for the future Brotherly Love and Correspondency between You and Vs your