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mercy_n	faith_n	grace_n	repentance_n	2,335	5	7.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05358	An excellent and learned treatise of apostasie made by the most reuerend and godly learned man M. Iohn de l'Espine minister of the word of God in the churche of Angers in the dukedome of Anjou. Directed against the apostates in the churches of France. Written first in the French tongue by the author him selfe, and now faithfully translated into English. The contentes of the booke appeare in the page following; Traité de l'apostasie. English.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.	1587 (1587)	STC 15511A; ESTC S106904	98,822	213

began to come to himselfe againe and to returne to a good iudgment S. Peter likewise who by the doctrine works and example of Iesus Christ had a long time bene instructed and informed in his company in which he had bene borne-withall i● his ignorance and other infirmities and receiued infinite fauors of his maister Mat. 26.69 neuerthele● he denied him and at such time as he ought to haue bene nearest vnto him to haue assisted and comforted him Nowe all these aforesayd had for a time left God and were worthye through their ingratitude and disloyaltie to haue bene vtterly reiected of him but he did not execute the rigour of his iudgement against them Luk. 15.4 nor rewarded them as they had deserued because in deede they were his children but hath sought them himselfe as poore silly lost sheepe which were altogether ready to perishe if he by his great mercy and grace had not soone preuented them And all this good did betide them because he had neither giuen them ouer nor forgotten them as he had bene forgotten of them because this deepe roote of the good pleasure of God did still reserue and retaine in it some sappe and iuice to keepe them from withering and dying But the Apostates who willingly and of set purpose not being forced by any constraint haue reuolted from God Heb. 6.6 of whome we see so great a number in these latter daies what hope can remaine in them sithence they can not be renewed againe by repentance Heb. 10.26 seeing there remaineth no more sacrifice for their sinnes and se●ng they crucifie againe vnto themselues the sonne of God and make a mocke of him the Apostle doth propound vnto them nothing els but a fearefull looking for of iudgement and violent fire which shal deuoure the aduersaries Moreouer being no more participant of the prayers of the Church or of the prayers of Iesus Christ Ioh. 17.9 who going to his death declared that he prayed not for the world and by consequent they were excluded from the Communion of saintes what hope is there of their saluation I know well enough that the most part of them doe iest at those things which we say and that they doe not beleeue either the word of the Apostle or ours But they ought to note that which S. Paule speaketh 1. Cor. 10.22 namely that neither we nor they are stronger no nor so stronge as God that we should preuaile against him Matth. 5.18 Also the heauen and earth shall perish but one iotte of it shall not passe till all be fulfilled and to conclude that which the wise man sayth that men commonly make great discourses in their mindes but whatsoeuer they thinke the counsaile of God getteth the vpper hand and what imagination soeuer we haue to the contrary he remaineth stable firme and immoueable If then the Apostates hauing cast themselues out of the Church doe giue no more place or authoritie to the worde of God or to any admonition which may be made vnto them in his name it is time lost to speake vnto them as experience teacheth euery day those that will yet make proofe thereof And what shewe or likelihood soeuer they make that they haue a desire to returne to vs againe they do it either to deceaue vs or to content in some sort those of whom they haue yet some regard and not for any good wil they beare vnto it Let vs therefore leaue them in their filth following the counsaile of Sainte Iohn He that is vniust let him be vniust still Apoc. 22.11 he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still Let those notable sayings of the Prophet neuer be blotted out of our harts Blessed are the people that be so Psa 144.15 Psal 33.12 yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lorde And this likewise Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord euen the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance As also this Psal 73.27 They that withdrawe themselues from thee shall perish thou destroyest all those that goe a whoring from thee As for me it is good for me to drawe neere vnto God therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all thy workes That the Apostates are euer pursued by the iustice of God which suffereth them not to haue any rest in their consciences Chap. 5. VVHen we sayd that the Apostates hauing left God are also in like maner reiected of him It must not be vnderstood generally as though God were altogether departed from them for filling all things as the Prophets save there is no part of the worlde which is not replenished with his essence but we vnderstand onely that he is separated from them as touching his grace his mercy his spirite his sanctification faith remission of sinnes repentance and all meanes of their saluation For as concerning the power wrath and iustice of God they can not so escape but that they shall be pursued incessantly For there is no meane betweene the mercye and wrath of God Ioh. 3. and it is necessary that whosoeuer doth disdaine his grace should in the ende taste of the rigour of his iustice But now the case standeth so that the wrath of God abideth vpon vs vntill such time as it be turned away and auoided by a true faith in the Gospell Heb. 10. that is stronge and stable vnto the ende The Apostates then who all at once haue not onely made shipwracke of their faith but also of the Gospell of God of Iesus Christ and of all religion haue they not day and night waking and sleeping the sword of the wrath of God continually hanging ouer their heades Numb 22.23 but as Balaam his asse perceiued the sword which pursued him before his maister who rode vpon him so such men are so blinded by the Deuill and their owne lustes that they can not perceiue the iudgements of God which are at their heeles and follow them steppe by steppe O that their eies were open as the eyes of Elisha and his seruant 2. King 6.17 then should they see about them millions of deuils ready to destroy them as the seruants of God saw themselues enuironed with an infinite multitude of Angels to defend and saue them though in deede they thinke nothing lesse they being vnto them inuisible neuertheles they ought to consider the danger to be so much the greater because hidden enemies are euer more dangerous then those who are altogether open and knowen So the Deuils and all the gates of hell yea and all the creatures which are in heauen and in earth be enemies vnto those that are enemies vnto God and to those from whome he hath withdrawen his fauor and there is not one of them which doth not with all her might and maine striue and contend to bring