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A60205	A confession of faith of James Salgado, a Spaniard, and sometimes a priest in the Church of Rome dedicated to the University of Oxford : with an account of his life and sufferings by the Romish party, since he forsook the Romish religion.	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing S375; ESTC R13433	10,044	21

it was disperst over the whole World in every Nation and in every Profession of Christians And although it did not appear outwardly in the sight of men as it did not in Elijahs time who thought himself the only man alive that remained of all the Faithful yet at the same time it was in the world like Wheat in a good quantity of Chaff or as the Lilly among the Thorns For Protestants are not of the same Opinon as Donatists were of old that the Church can be confined to any one Corner of the World as they said it was to Africa but that it is diffused every where throughout the whole World because GOD in every Nation has those that are his Neither are we so cruel as to reject even the Papists themselves though not as such from the Communion of the Church seeing we know very well that though their Church is not a Church in moral sence yet in a Physical or Natural one it is that is to say though she be not a good yet she is a true Church Neither do we deny her a pastoral Office which belongs to Ordination of Ministers or Administration of the Holy Sacraments A Wife does not lose the Title and Denomnation of a true Wise although she be dishonest Now the Church in a Mystical sense is compared to a married Woman For this cause seeing I found the true Church to consist only amongst those of the Reformed Religion and that from those very Notes which are commonly attributed unto such a Church viz. from the purity of Preaching Gods Word and a due administration of the Sacraments although Bellarmine has fifteen other marks more or less I resolved with my self as I did intend before to joyn my self to this Body and have renounced the Romish Conspiracie to betake my self to the true Doctrine of Christ Which now I do here sincerely and Faithfully profess before GOD and Jesus Christ and do most earnestly beseech all my Brethren that they would embrace the same Opinion with me and believe this my confession and that they would receive me as a living Member of our Saviours Body and that they would also add some comfort to one that earnestly longeth for the Salvation of his Soul that they wouldembrace me in their Arms and receive me into their Bosom who have fervently desired with many Prayers to enter into the same Covenant with the Faithful And now O God who hast been pleased to illuminate me by thine Infinite Grace be pleased also to continue me in the same that as I have now made a sincere Profession of thy Truth so I may remain stedfast therein and never turn away mine Eye from thy truth Grant that with Holy David in thy Light I may see Light and at last having finished my Course and kept the Faith I may behold thee in thy Heavenly Kingdom Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly To thy self with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Praise and Glory World without End Amen James Salgado A Spaniard and sometimes Priest of the Church of Rome FINIS AN ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE SUFFERINGS Since I forsook the ROMISH-RELIGION IN A Letter to Dr. H.S. SIR AT your request I shall add to my former Confession an account by what steps I was induced to forsake Popery and withall some small Story of my Life and Troubles for the Reformed Religion The first thing that startled me and made me withdraw from the Covent in which I had lived in Priests Orders three years was the dissention betwixt the Popish Doctors themselves and that in such things as themselves say Salvation depends upon for whilst some of them make it necessary to Salvation to belive that the Church is infallibly govern'd by the Holy Ghost and therefore the ultimate Resolution of Faith must be the Determinations of the Church I found others did doubt of this and dispute against it Whilst I was thus laying things together in my mind under great dissatisfaction I resolved to leave Spain my Native Country and go into France where I hoped for greater freedom of speech for at home I found it was dangerous to move any thing how modestly soover against received Points Coming then to Paris I had many hot Disputes with those of my own Order with as little satisfaction as in Spain But at last I betook my self to some of the Ministers of the Church at Charentin by whom I was very Christianly entertained and amongst them the Reverend Monsieur Drelincourt took great pains to answer my doubts and I came forward to close with the Truths of the Reformed Religion and he was concern'd for my safety and advised me fourthwith to go into the United-Provinces But first I had in their Consistory renounced Popery viz. anno 1666. When I was come to the Hague I had a most courteous reception by that Excellent Person Monsieur Samuel Maretz he used his endeavour to settle me there and for my livelihood put me upon the teaching the Spanish Tongue But when that could not succeed because of my ignorance of the Durch Language though I was well enough able to teach those that understood Latin French or Italian he gave me advice to return to Paris There I was forced to lye privately amongst the Members of the Reformed Church being afraid to be known to others But the Queen of France a Spaniard by Birth had brought over with her many of her Country-men who too well knew me and narrowly enquired after me By their means I was taken sent back into Spain put into the Inquisition in the Province of Estremadura and the City of Clarena there I lay a year and was monthly examined but at last made an escape When I had gone almost a hundred Leagues as far as Origuela I was laid hold on by the Fryers of my own Order and sent by them to Murcia where I lay five years in Prison having neither Books nor Society except of tormenting Priests I was at last brought before the Bishop and other Officers of his Court where for the Scandal as they call'd it I had given I was sentenced to the Galleys When they had publickly read my Crime during which time they made me hold a Black-Candle in my Hand the Sentence was executed upon me In the Galleys for a years space I endured the miseries that attend Slaves at the Oar Chains Nakedness Stripes Thirst Hunger Vermine and Sickness which they termed a Leprosie till at length the Chyrurgion and other Officers of the Galley where I was interceded with the Inquisitor-General for me as a person not only useless but noysome to thom and the other Slaves He hereupon sent me into the Hospital at Murcia after my Cure I stayed some months in the Covent but never returned to my Habit because my Impenitence as they termed it hindered my Absolution From thence I made a second escape into France and after I had stayed about a year at Lion not finding my self safe I came into England what assistance I have had here both to establish me in the Reformed Religion and for my subsistance you well know Other passages Historical which are in my Confession I here omit Likewise what thoughts it pleased God to comfort me with in my distresses what temptations I endured and how through the Grace of God I overcame them I cannot in the narrow room of this Leaf set down neither had thus much of me ever come in Print but at your request and if any doubt be made of these things you or any others that have Correspondent about Murcia may please to satisfie your selves as to a considerable part of them To that then I refer you and am Sir Yours James Salgado FINIS