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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Brethren and Clergy of this Nation Dublin June the 27th 1589. Your True and Loving Friend John Armachanus Upon the receit hereof this Philip beholding the Clergies Invitation together with the Sum being 50 l. English which Adam our Brother aforesaid and my self had sent him for his supply in his journey upon the first conveniency made towards Ireland first coming into the Netherlands where meeting with a Vessel bound for Waterford he there landed being civily entertained by our Brother Thomas Whitherhead the then Bishop of that Diocess He landed on the 22 th of October following after the Date of this our Epistle where this Philip tarried for some certain days discoursing with the Bishop wherefore he came over hither as also shewing him our encouragement our Brother conveyed him sending a Guide along with him to Drogheda Of which I having notice sent word to the Mayor and Corporation to receive him kindly which was accordingly performed Some few days after this his kind reception at Drogheda this Philip Corwine being minded to make an open manifestation of his true and hearty Conversion desired me to give notice beforehand to the Town and Corporation that he intended God willing to make a Recanting Speech and to declare therein the Reasons why he fell from the Church of Rome and the Causes of his Adherence to the Protestant Faith Which Speech was declared in St. Peters Church where he chose this following Text for his Discourse THE TEXT Acts the 9th Ver. the 14th and 15th And he fell on the Earth and heard a voice saying unto him Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me And he said who art thou Lord And the Lord said unto him I am Jesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Beloved Brethren HEre Saul who became afterwards an Apostle of Jesus Christ breathed forth threatnings and slaughters against the Church of Christ supposing and intending to have persecuted her with much rage and fury thereby to have spilt innocent Blood which he at that time thirsted after This furious Intention of his declareth how much a man is led by rashness envy and malice and also by a rash and blind zeal before he can obtain the true knowledge of good Man purposeth but God disposeth even so did this Sinner My self when I departed last this Kingdom which was upon the coming in of our Graciour Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth to the Crown of these Realms departing hence with a blind zeal full of contention proposing to my self how I might have persecuted the Church of England now Established by her Sacred Majesty and her Parliaments of these Realms Intending according to my ability to have fallen thereon with as much fury as Saul when he journeyed towards Damascus to have persecuted the poor Christians It is true I had several good proffers unto me by my deceased Uncle Hugh late Archbishop of Dublin but rejected them being at that time puft up with the cruel Zeal of Rome as ever St. Paul was with Judaism against Christianity supposing with my self it to have been a meritorious act if I could but have extinguished the light of the holy Gospel which the Lord hath been pleased to restore again unto these Nations which for several Ages now past through the Policies of Rome hath been detained from our Ancestors both to the diminishing of Gods Glory and to the detriment of many millions of Souls Rome and her Emissaries thus contriving purposely to be the abler to usurp over Kings and Princes and to Rule their Subjects after their power But of late the Lord hath opened the eyes of Princes and made them hearken to a Princely admonition Be wise therefore O ye Kings and he Learned ye who be Judges of the Earth During my Travel into Spain and into Italy where I beheld the Slavery of the common sort of those parts and what hardships they endure I compared comprehending in my mind these Slaveries to the liberties of her Majesties Subjects of these her Dominions and to the great Blessings of God that though he had for a while taken away the Truth yet he had permitted the ancient Laws and Liberties to Rule and Flourish amongst our Ancestors which was a great sign that he intended to have restored these Nations again to the Truth as he did the Children of Israel after a long thraldom These cogitations ran in my mind upon my return from Rome journeying back to Sevil which upon my first insight of the Romish cruelty caused me to say within my brest that doubtless the Protestants of England were in the way of Salvation because their Lives were so agreeable to their Faith Secondly beholding the horrid Wickedness and Cruelties imposed on the poorer sort I then recollected the Persecutions of the Primitive Fathers and Christians under the Heathen Emperor and said within my self O Christ thou art merciful but how unmerciful are thy pretended Vicars naming the Popes of Rome which assume to themselves that Title which their Predccessors formerly gave to all Kings and Princes within their several Dominions During mine abode at Rome before I returned into Spain eight persons were condemned to die for no other Crime than for saying Christ was their only Mediator between God and them and that neither Saint nor Angel was able to mediate between God and them Upon saying of these words they were brought into St. Peters Church to confess their Crimes as they imputed them where they were to kneel before the Images therein but with the three Children they resolved rather to endure the Flames of the Fiery Oven than to bow to an Image or to go from what they had declared they unanimously spake in the Italian Language these words If a Saint or Angel cannot remit our Crimes much less an Image which is but dedicated to either This strong Union Resolution and Courage of these eight persons being neither daunted nor flinching at Romes fury started several standers by especially pinched my Conscience being a Spectater of these Massacres that I fell into a deep melancholy fit being then ashamed that the Church of Rome should be guilty of so cruel a Fact This melancholiness encreasing more every day then other and still running in my mind to divert my self I took St. Hierome's translation of the Bible and opening the same mine eyes beheld this very Text of Scripture which I here chose for my Recantation So whereas Paul was Converted by the voice saying unto him Why persecutest thou me c. Even after the same manner was I to the Truth recalled miraculously lighting on the same words though I heard not the voice Taking this saying so soon into consideration after this Massacre I thought still to divert my self into some other Text and opening the same Book I let mine eyes light on the xciv Psalm which thus beginneth O God the Lord the Avenger O God the Avenger shew thy self clearly