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A01236	A Christian confession of the late moste noble and mightie prince, Friderich of that name the third, Count Palatine by [ye] Rhein, one of the electours of the holy Empire, and Duke in Bauire: wherein constantlie and meekelie he departed out of this world the 26. of October in the yere of our Lord God 1576. Taken word for word out of his last will and testament. Whereunto is added the Lantgraue his answere to the French King; Proclamations. 1620-07-01	Friedrich III, Elector Palatine, 1515-1576.; Johann Casimir, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, 1543-1592.; Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse, 1532-1592.	1577 (1577)	STC 11348; ESTC S116026	25,880	96

and before hath deliuered vs from the sorowes and paine of hell So that from henceforth neither hell nor the deuill shal hinder or hurte vs in our saluatiō We beleue also with our heart that the third day he rose again from the dead And we are certainly persuaded first that by his resurrection hee hath ouercome death to the intent hee might make vs partakers of the righteousnes which he hath purchased for vs by his bitter passion and death And secondly that we also now by his power should bee resuscitated quickened to newnes of life And thirdly that the resurrection of Christe is a most certaine assurance vnto vs that as he is first risen vp againe from death so wee also at the last daye shal be raysed vp againe to life euerlasting And further wee also beleeue that Christ our Lorde truely and visiblie with his manifested manhoode which he had takē on him is ascēded vp into heauen there sitteth on the right hande of his heauenly Father that is to saye with heauēly and godly maiestie he sheweth him selfe vnto all the holy Angels and mē to be a head of his whole Church and from thence also truely and visiblie as he ascended vp hee shall againe come downe in the cloudes in the dominion and maiestie of his Father to iudge the liuing and the dead And yet notwithstanding wee confesse and acknowledge that albeit our Lord IESUS Christ true God and man according to his humane nature is now no more in earth but in heauen yet according to his Godhead maiestie grace and spirite hee neuer departeth from vs And wee litle esteeme that which is sayde by some that both the natures were so vnited and confounded in Christe as though his humane nature were in all places as the diuine is For seeing the diuine nature is incomprehensible and alwayes to bee found in all places it followeth necessarilie that it is both without the humane nature which was assumed also personallie vnited to the same euen as the diuine nature neuer left heauen when Christ was cōceaued in the wōbe of the blessed virgin And all this which our Lord Christ hath suffered and done we beleue and cōfesse that it hath bene done for the behoofe and benefit of vs that he thereby hath giuē him self vnto vs as our owne And besides the rest this comforteth vs most that we are assured that our flesh is alreadie in heauen that our Sauiour Christ Iesus sendeth down vnto vs frō thēce his holy ghost as a pledge By the inspiration power of whom we seeke the thinges which are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God his Father and not things here vpon earth Thirdly wee beleue and confesse that the holy Ghost with God the Father and God the sonne is a true only and eternall God secondly that he is giuē vnto vs to make vs partakers through a true faith in Christ of al his good giftes and benefites and further that he is our comforter and is with vs and will remaine with vs vntill the ende As touching the vniuersall Christian Church we beleue that the sonne of God hath out of all kinreds and generations of men chosen a congregation vnto him selfe for euerlasting life by the holie Ghost his godly word in the vnitie of true faith which frō the beginning of the world he hath gathered yet gathereth together preserueth defēdeth beleue also that we are a liuely member therof and so shall remaine eternally Of the communion of Saints we beleue and confesse that wee with al and euerie true beleuers as members of our Lord Jesus Christ haue a communion and societie in all his treasures and giftes and therefore we acknowledge that wee are debters of all such giftes as he hath imparted vnto vs to bestowe thē willingly and ioyfully to the profit helpe of others our commembers Wee beleeue and confesse also that God the Father for the satisfaction and ful paiment of Christ Iesus hath forgiuen and neuer will call to remembrance our sinnes or sinful inclinations and affections wherewith wee haue to fight all the dayes of our life but rather will giue and impute vnto vs the righteousnes of Christ Iesus So that wee neede not to bee afraid of the iudgement of God. Of the resurrection of the flesh we beleeue and confesse that not onely our soules when they shall be departed out of our bodies by temporall death are in the same instant takē vp and receiued vnto Christ their head but also that our flesh shal be in the last day vnited againe with our soules and made conformable vnto the glorious bodie of Christ Iesus Of life euerlasting we beleue and confesse that euen as now we feele in our hearts the beginning of an euerlasting ioy so after this life wee shall possesse an eternall blessednes which neither eie hath seene nor eare heard nor any mās heart can conceiue God bee alwayes thāked praised therfore and thereto helpe vs God the Father Sonne and holie Ghost one true and euerlasting god Amen And for asmuch as without cause we haue bene suspected of many as though we helde beleued not in such sort of the holy and blessed Sacraments as became good Christians wee haue thought good immediatly after the former Confessiō of our faith to set down also in writing our plaine Confession of those pointes We therfore beleue and cōfesse both with our mouth hearte and penne that all Sacramentes aswell of the olde as newe Testament were appointed and ordained by God him selfe to this end that they all should signifie and pointe as with a finger vnto the bloudie offering of Christ Iesus once accōplished vpon the crosse as vndoubtedly all the patriarches and faithfull fathers in the olde Testament herewith onely comforted them selues in faith when they killed their lambes other beastes that after the same sorte the seede of the woman the Lord Iesus should be slaine and make a full satisfaction and paiment for the sinnes of the whole worlde And therefore the holie Sacraments as many hundred yeres hitherto in the scholes hath bene taught to youth and yet is are onely Sacrae rei symbola inuisibilis gratiae visibilia signa that is to say visible signes or seales of a holy thing namely of the grace of God in Christ Iesus whereby we are assured and made certain of that which otherwise in Gods worde by God him selfe and his holy Prophets Apostles hath bene promised vnto vs And we beleue and holde stedfastly that the Lorde God thought chieftiest vpon the weaknes and infirmitie of mans nature and as the only knower and searcher of heartes vnderstoode how hard it was for the nature of man to beleue the naked worde of God which is preached and declared in the holy Gospel And therefore he would also represent and set before our eyes such things which we daily vse and are most knowen vnto vs to quicken stirre

and Sauiour and his most godlie worde the right touchestone we also through the helpe and assistance of almightie God minde to perseuere and continue vnto our last ende and beseche the almightie that he will not onely gratiously preserue vs and all our fellowe members in Christ Iesus from all contrarie errours and deprauations which by vnquiet and contentious persons and members are moued in matters of religion and brought into the Church but also mainteine keepe in vs his knowen veritie cōfort strengthen vs in all troubles and tentations and of his goodnes once in these latter daies open the eyes and hearts of all Christian people that we may haue a regarde not vnto traditions of men or priuate affections but only to his most godly worde as the truest and infalliblest line direction of our consciences and faithes and graunt vnto vs all grace that brotherlie Christian and due charitie may take place and dwell among vs. These sentences words following were distinctly spoken by the said prince Electour being of good vnderstanding memorie not long before his death after he had declared that hee persisted constant in his said confession which followeth First the saying of S. Paul 1. Timoth. 1. This is a most true and assured saying and worthy by all meanes to be embraced that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners of whom I am the chiefest The second saying to them which stoode by I haue liued lōg inough for you I must also once liue for my selfe The third The gracious Lorde call me when it shall please him I haue a ioyfull free conscience in the Lord Iesus whome I haue serued with all my heart and render thankes vnto him that I haue liued so long that in the churches and schooles vnder my dominion and charge the people haue bene directed taught from traditions of men to beleeue in him alone The fourth 2. Timoth. 4. I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth is layed vp for me the crowne of righteousnes Here foloweth the said christian confession ❧ In the name of the holie vndiuided Trinity of God the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost WE Friderich by the grace of God Count Palatine by the Rhein one of the Electours of the holy Romaine Empire Duke in Bauaria c. confesse and make knowē to all persons by these our letters c. ¶ First whereas we haue bene before all thinges Christianlie taught and resolued out of gods worde that both euerlasting and perpetuall and also the worldlie and temporall prosperitie peace quietnes concorde and good estate of all gouernements principalities countryes people aswell of such persons as are ordained heades magistrates as other inferiour members subiects haue their beginning increase and enriching and are most assuredly mainteined and preserued by this onely meanes when they shall set before their eyes and seeke to aduance god his holie worde and according to the same directe all their affaires and causes in this life as by a most true and infallible line which thing also the very heathen although they had no true vnderstanding of god yet by the light of nature ingraffed in them sawe and confessed after a sorte and from thence at the first these declarations and making of last wils which men commonly call testamentes tooke their beginnings But especially among the olde fathers patriarkes other religious persons they seeme to haue bene chiefliest made to this ende for that they woulde leaue after them vnto their children heires and successours a certaine token and witnesse whereby not only their said successours might assuredly vnderstand what religion and faith their forefathers were of which they had receiued out of gods worde by open testimonies and wherin they had liued holilye and vprightely and were gratiously mainteined defended and protected by almightie god and in the ende so died but also that their successors might haue more cause to be moued with like bondes and duetie to folowe the christian footsteppes of their predecessoures and to imitate their examples and according to the same to rule and mainetaine the people and countreys committed to their charge if they did looke for and desired to enioye such euerlasting and worldelie blessinges of almightie God as had bene bestowed vpon their fathers which thing appeareth by the last wordes vsed by some of the patriarches good King Dauid him selfe where he speaketh to his sonne Salomon after this sorte Be of good comforte and shewe thy selfe a man And attende or take heede vnto the charge of the Lorde thy God that thou walke before him in his wayes and keepe his precepts commaundements iudgements and testimonies as it is written in the lawe of Moyses that thou maist prosper in all that thou doest and whereunto soeuer thou turnest thy selfe that the Lord may confirme his word that he hath spoken ouer me and said If thy children shal take heede to their wayes that they walke before me in trueth and with all their hearts and with all their soules there shall not at anie time a man be wanting from my bodie to sit vpon the throne of Israel So also in like sort as a christian prince fearing and louing god and hauing in the making of our last wilmore regard in our heart to euerlasting and immortal things then to worldly and temporall matters which perish and folowe depende of the former we haue thought good for the honor of almighty god discharge and comforte of our conscience and for an vnfeined declaration to our louing and deare sonnes heyres and successoures whole posteritie and also of all our true and faithful subiectes and euerie other whatsoeuer to whom it may appertaine in this our fatherlie disposition testament and last will to make an open true declaration of our faith that euery one may haue certaine knowledge thereof whereto we haue bene the rather induced for that in these latter dayes diuers sundrie errours and debates in matters of religion haue bene moued by vnquiet and contentious persons wherewith both wee others in the time of our gouernment haue bene much troubled and some sectes factions haue bene raised in the church by certain persons going about to persuade simple men as though wee were priuie and consenting to their erronious opinions And to the intent that it do not onely appeare that the same our confession is only grounded built vpō the true rocke Christ Iesus our Lord sauiour his only word but also that therewith our deare children may be the more cōforted to persist stedfastly in such our christiā confession for no tēptaciō or troublesome storme whatsoeuer that might happen to the contrarie wherof god be thāked hitherto by his almighty help assistance in the time of our gouernmēt we haue both felt and ouercome many turned backe or made faynte hearted fearefull or negligent in their callings and

regard desire he had to the welfare safety preseruation of all his subiectes in generall For though diuers strāge news had bene brought to his excellēcie before yet notwithstāding he could neuer be persuaded to credit thē being of opiniō that the rumor had ben opēly deuised vpō some grief cōceiued against his maiesty vpō some pretēded purpose to defame his maiesty amongst the common people For which cause the message which his maiestie sent by the said Lord of Villequier grieued his excellencie verye much because it agreed wholy with that rumor report which he had heard before which before that time hee could not in any wise perswade him selfe to be true And although his maiestie bee not bounde to make his excellencie an accompt of his doings and actions and though his said excellencie desire nothing more then that the Kinges dealinges may be such as might be iustifiable to euery priuat person for the great good will and affection hee beareth to his maiestie yet notwithstanding his excellencie being giuen to vnderstand by the said lorde of Villequier what his will and intent is his said excellencie for the zeale he beareth to the preseruation of the King his maiesties honor can do no lesse but lay forth plainely before him what he thinketh in singlenes of hearte shewe vnto his maiesty with no lesse plainenes vprightnes then he vseth in al his doings what he is persuaded is most cōuenient not only for his honor the safety of his persō but generally for his whole state desiring his maiesty to take it in no worse part then hee doeth meane it And first his excellēcy can not think much lesse cā he be persuaded to beleue that any mā whatsoeuer hee bee either of honour or of good iudgemēt that desireth the welfare honor of his maiestie preseruation of his crowne would euer counsel him to breake the edict of pacification that was last made and disanul that which he had so solemnely sworne protested to keepe for euer inuiolably without breach in any point article whatsoeuer For first of al in so doing he hazardeth al his honor reputatiō al hope he might haue to grow greater hereafter in so much as there is no ornamēt so pretious wel beseeming either kings princes or other noble mē gentlemē of what degree qualitie soeuer thei be as to keep their faith promes inuiolably As on the otherside there is nothing the soūdeth more to their discredite dishonor or that which draweth the good willes peoples hearts frō them or is so preiudicious hurtefull to their greatnes as to speak one thīg in worde to doe an other thing in deede All historyes both ecclesiasticall and prophane all examples aswell ancient as moderne teach vs and witnesse vnto vs not onely how shameful a faulte this is in the sight of men but also howe displeasing it is to God himself who hath in former time poured out his iust iudgemēt vpon them that haue faulted in the same To which purpose his excellency cannot but lay before his maiestie amongst an infinite nōber of others the example of Ladislaus King of Hungarie Boheme and Polonie that dead is who because he suffred him selfe to bee perswaded by the Pope Cardinals vpō a wicked folish colour that he should be easily absolued afterwards to breake his promisse which he had giuen not to one that made profession of Christianity but to Amurates Emperor of the turkes enemy to the christiās did by the occasion not onely leese his kingdō but also his life what els soeuer he had in the world moreouer besides that his head was to the great dishonour shame of all christēdom caryed throughout al the townes of Asia As his excellēcy hath declared more at large this pitiful history certein other to the same effect to the said L. of Villequier being moued with the desire he hath to preuente the mischiefe which is like to ensue for the syncere affection which hee beareth to the weale of France only of purpose that they might serue for a looking glasse exāple of others not that he desireth in any wise that any such inconuenience shoulde befall to his maiestie which is a thing farthest from his thought as the said lord of Villequier can informe him and is well able for the sufficiencye that is in him to giue his maiestye a vewe thereof Who hath moreouer to wey consider diligentlye in him selfe what troubles incōueniences yea what bloodshedde hee is to looke for in his kingdome and what calamities are like to ensue thereof as also what yssue maye bee hoped for of those kinde of dealings for moreouer and besides that it wil bee a very harde matter for his maiestie to roote out not only those that are next of his bloode but also so manye thousand persons which are all his owne subiectes And desire nothing more then to employe both their life goods whatsoeuer els they might haue in this world for the seruice of his maiestie it is also greatly to be feared that the same men perceiuing nowe what his intent and purpose is being cleane out of hope for euer to come to any reconciliation or to purchase the fauour of their Prince and naturall Lord And seeing them selues clean shut out of all hope of quietnes hereafter be not in fine constrained for the preseruation of their liues and goods to resort to the last extreme remedie which may be very preiudicious both to his maiestie and also to the whole crown of France And also it wil bee very harde and a matter of great difficultye for his maiestie to kicke against the pricke and to plucke out of the heartes of his subiectes by force a knowen and perswaded trueth and to stoppe the course of the holy Gospel which the Lorde will haue spredde abroade euery day more and more yea though it were so that his maiestye were able as happely many men desire to root out al his subiects which make profession of the same reformed religion what shoulde his maiestie do otherwise therin but to the great hurte and decaye of his kingdome dismember one of his armes yea the best arme hee hath and so weakē him self more and more and bereue and spoile him selfe of his owne forces And though some persuade his maiestie that to haue two diuers Religions in his kingdom is the cause of those troubles dissesions which fall out there and in case he suffer thē both he shal not be able to keepe his subiectes vnder that obediēce which they owe to their superioures for proofe whereof they alleage the Princes Electors of Germany who wil not suffer within their territories the exercise of any religiō saue of that which they professe thēselues yet notwithstanding his excellēcie doubteth not but that his maiestie knoweth right wel that by the agrement made in