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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

more I knew and yet persisted in my wickednesse against so strong a partie O infinite Ocean and superaboundant treasure of mercie What shall I say I poore naughtie worme yea dust opposed my self to that great GOD of heaven and earth by such kinde of grievous sins and hainous crimes as idolatrie taking away of his glorie spoiling him of his offices taking upon me his authoritie by forgiving of sins and such like and yet he out of his Fatherly love desisted not to do me good preserving me from many perils and dangers both in pest wars and travels roborating my memorie to receave and keep great diversitie of languages and strengthning my understanding to learne the experience and government of diverse kingdomes and Countreys Lord I continued to offend thee and thou continued to blesse me Deare Saviour who will consider these wonderfull works of thine on mee and not likewise confesse with me that thou art a father of mercie and GOD of all comfort That not only by nature but also by miscariage I was a childe of wrath but GOD who is rich in mercie for his great love wherewith he loved me even when I was dead in sins bath quickned me Now truely I see most loving Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wilt have 〈◊〉 on whom thou wilt have mercie and wilt have compassion on whom thou wilt have compassion And consequentlie I may proclame the Lord the Lord God mercifull and gratious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth and conclude this first point with the Prophet David that thy tender mercies are over all thy works For most meeke father although I have most grievouslie sinned against thee yet thou hast beene most mercifull unto me Glory Honour and Praise be unto thy holy Name therefore This my Confession and acknowledgement of the mercies of GOD towards me are not done by me to courage others in the continuance of their sins For that same GOD who out of his free mercie spared me for a time he destroyed with thunder from heaven that tyrannous apostate Julian in the heat of his sin crying out with despare Thou hast overcome O Gililean and suffered Judas to enter into desperation at the sight of the greatnesse of his sin and cut off his miserable life with his own hands I know that the Prophet sayeth though your sins be as skarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimsone they shall be as woole Yet Christ Jesus the master of all Prophets sayeth thereafter but except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish for as GOD is mercifull so is He likewise just That worthie Doctor Austine sayeth Humanum est peccare Diabolicum perseverare Angelicum resurgere It is a humane thing to fall in sin a devilish to persevere therein and an angelick or supernaturall to rise from it Therefore having in the first point of this discourse showne you how it hath pleased God to suffer me to fall by humane fragilitie and devilish perseverance in that monstruous sin of Poperie In this second I will Godwilling let you understand how it hath pleased God to raise me up from that Lithargie of superstitious idolatrie and heale my soul wounded with Poperie which was the second thing proponed by mee in the beginning Upon these words Heale my soule I might expatiat my self and amplifie this discourse largely with two considerations First inquiring wherein consisteth the health and perfection of mans poore wounded soule and secondly considering the nature and properties of the soule which is healed touching the first I might have to doe with three sorts of persons morale Philosophers scholastick Divines and erroneous Papists Showing the first that the perfection health and happinesse of our soul doth not consist in worldly pleasures riches sensuall lusts carnall concupiscences adoption of morall vertues speculation or contemplation of Gods creatures or in the dominion of the soule of man over his owne passions as many of them have had these severall opinions Discoursing with the second and trying whether or not that eternall felicitie and happinesse of our soules doeth consist in the actions of the understanding or of the will or of both and in what kinde And refuting the third in four points first Letting them see their errour when they imploy their Saints at Rome Loret Galatia and where they think expedient for health to their soule besides Christ or betweene them and Christ 2. Showing them that the Sacrament of Baptisme is not so absolute a salve but it leaveth behinde it the root and seed of sin fomitem peccati 3. Demonstrating to them that mans good works although they be tokens or symptomes yet are they not the cure and salve of the health of mans poore wounded soule And 4. That that true meane of the health of our soule Repentance is not to be defiled by their auricular confession and execrable satisfaction but is to be understood of a broken and contrite heart applying by faith the deare merits of that precious blood of Jesus Christ to our poore wounded souls But all these points of doctrine with their severall spirituall observations and uses I remit to an other time and place giving them Augustines resolution for all their questions Creasti nos Domine propter te inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te● Thou hast created us O Lord for thee and our soule is restlesse till it repose on thee O thou carnall minded and sensuall man look if thou hast this restlesnesse or not in thy soule Thou drunkard glutton adulterer fornicator usurer oppressoui invyer backbiter liar ambitious proud presumptuous angrie politick or atheist man and the rest of you whose end is destruction whose god is your belly and whose glory is in your shame who minde earthly things looke and consider neerely for it concerneth eternitie if yee expect the health of your soules from these your particular gods and idols or whence the Apostle expecteth it when hee sayeth For our conversation is in Heaven whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ And the Prophet in my text LORD be mercifull unto me heale my soul. Take heed I say take heed least it be said to you sometime as the Apostle said to the Romans what fruit had yee then in those things whereof yee are now ashamed for the end of these things is death Or as Christ our blessed Saviour said what shall it profite a man if he shall gaine the whole world and losse his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul That which I might have spoken of the nature and properties of the soul I passe for the present remitting the courteous Reader to the commentaries upon Aristotles books of the soul And coming to my particular I will show you how it hath pleased God in his owne appointed time to heale my soule from the pest of Poperie And

ABJURATION OF POPERIE BY THOMAS ABERNETHIE Sometime Jesuite but now penitent Sinner and an unworthie Member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland at Edinburgh in the Grayfrier Church the 24. of August 1638. EXOD. 23. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evill Matth. 7. 13 14. Enter yee in at the strait gate for wide is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there bee that finde it VERITAS JINCET TANDEM Printed at Edinburgh in King James his College by George Anderson 1638. To the courteous Reader COurteous Reader in these subsequent pages excuse I pray thee the shortnesse of the matter and the rudenesse of the style and attribute that to my calling being long a Souldiour and this to my education which hath beene more out of my native Countrie than in it and make thy use of the matter which I have set downe for thy well rather than to censure the defect of my language Farewell LORD bee mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee PSAL. xli THis day right Honourable Reverend and Welbeloved in our common Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus is keeped very solemne and holy by these who equalize yea prefer some of their fabulous saincts dayes to the Lords owne day in respect of the relation they say it hath to the Apostle Bartholomew who being excoriat should have suffered martyrdome on such a day but of You is solemnized to the end Yee may behold a poore wretched sinner pull off and throw away his old skin of Popish Idolatrie and superstition that he may compeare in the sight of God and men with a new garment of righteousnesse dyeed in the blood of that immaculat Lambe who taketh away the sins of the world I know that my presence for this action will be no small subject of admiration to you all that heare and see me this day for truelie I finde it to my self so that I may justly say with the Apostle I am made a spectacle unto the world and to Angels and to men To the wicked world a spectacle of indignation and hatred for quiting it and taking me to the precious blood of my Saviour Christ To the good Angels at the conversion of a sinner To men of compassion and admriation In you I perceave this admiration to be joined with joy and gladnesse considering the diligent care of your sweet LORD and loving Master in bringing home your lost brother upon the shoulders of His mercie to His owne sheepfold in me poore Publican with shame and confusion of face beholding my long suffering God and you from whom I have gone alace too long astray In you with pitie and compassion to view me thus cruelly tormented with so many ravening wolfes in me with indignation for suffering my self to be deceaved so long with these infernall theeves In you with praise and thanksgiving to see me brought home againe alive in me with feare and trembling of my Saviours wrath for going and straying so long astray Now to give satisfaction in some measure to your admiration I will let you understand the cause thereof that is my cursed life in Poperie and how it hath pleased my gratious God to convert me from it exponing these few words of the royall Prophet Lord be mercifull unto me heale my soul for I have sinned against thee In which words yee may perceave that the Prophet having gone astray touched with remorse of conscience first he returneth to his God with unfeined repentance and beggeth pardon for his sins Lord be mercifull unto me Next because his soul was deadlie wounded he prayeth earnestlie for the health of it heal my soul And thirdlie he gives the reason of his petition for I have sinned against thee In imitation of this mightie King now turned a humble supplicant I minde Godwilling to show you these things following 1. How I have wounded my soule and sinned by following of Poperie I have sinned against thee 2. How it hath pleased God of his only mercie to heale my soul in his own time Heale my soul 3. I shall crave pardon first of God then of my deare Countrey-men in Scotland of you that bee heere present and of all these who professe with sinceritie the reformed Religion according to Gods written word saying LORD be mercifull unto me 4. And lastlie I shall answere to some idle objections against this my sincere confession and heartie resolution Concerning the first point the words containe foure things worthie of consideration 1. The person that hath sinned in the word I 2. The person against whom the sin is committed in the word thee 3. The sin it self in the word sinned and 4. the madnesse of a sinner to oppose himselfe agoinst so strong a partie as GOD in the word against Neither will I insist upon the word have supponing this confession of the Prophets and mine to be of bygone sins whereof remorse of conscience draweth us to a confession nor minde I to be curious exponing the literall anagogicall tropologicall or other senses of the words because I intend only to make a relation of my life in Poperie with an abjuration of the same and not a preaching knowing that no man should take that calling upon him but he who was called of God as was Aaron But to come to the words this particle I first showeth the qualitie of the person that sins I that am a King quoth the Prophet have sinned against thee which consideration doeth likewise aggravate my sin for I may say I who was brought up of honourable parents with a most religious Minister of Gods word for the space of six years have sinned renouncing that Heavenly doctrine which I learned of them I who had exponed my life in the wars to all hazards whereto that calling is subject sundrie years in Germanie for the overthrow of Poperie was not a year out of the wars till in my travels passing through Italie I was made a prey in Florence by an English Jesuite called Thomson or Gerard both to his religion and profession This word may likewise serve for reproof to those who delight more in descriving their neighbours sins than confessing their owne forgetfull of our Saviours words Judge not that yee be not judged for with what judgement yee judge yee shall be judged And thereafter Thou hypocrite first cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clear lie to east out the moat out of thy brothers eye The second thing considerable heere is the person offended against whom I have sinned and this is God Almightie for against GOD are all sinnes which are committed either mediatly or immediatly against thee only have I sinned and done thïs evill in thy fight The words may serve for confutation and admonition confutation of