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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

their cōsultations The first shal be that ther is no saluation but in the church As the Prophet sayth Ioel. 2.32 And it shal come to passe that whosoeuer shal cal one the name of the Lord shal be saued for in moūt Sion in Ierusalē shal be deliuerāce as the Lord hath said in the rē●ant whom the Lord shal cal Esay 4.5 Esay saith as much The Lord shal create vpō euery place of moūt Siō vpō the assemblyes therof a cloud smoke by day the shining of a flaming fire by night for vpon al the glory shal be a defence a couering shal be for a shadow in the day for the heat a place of refuge a couer for the storme for the rayne So doth Zachary in his song Luc. 1.68 Blessed be the Lord god of Israel because he hath visited redeemed his people That we may thē be made partakers of the saluation which god the Father doth offer vnto vs in his sonne we must be vnited vnto him made members of his body that is to saye that we be adopted into the houshold of Abraham with whom the couenant hath bene made and associated by faith with the holy vniuersall church which cā not be done except we beleue the communion of the Sainctes and vntil such time as we be ioyned with thē in the publicke assemblyes wherein the word of God is preached the Sacramentes administred the order kept in confessions prayers and open thankes geuinges and in the discipline and censures which are made of maners to put in authoritie the practise and vse of the worde of God and to meete with those corruptions which otherwise easily enter into the Church and alter it The second Axiome is Luke 12. that in thinges which God doth commaunde we ought not to delaye nor to be slowe to put them in execution But alwayes to haue our loynes girded vp and houlde in our handes the burning lampe to be readye to goe euery where whether it shal please him to send vs. And to do readily that which he cōmaundeth vs Rom. 1. Heb. 11. Gen. 12.4 For true faith is euer accompanied with this ready obedience as we see by experience in Abraham the Father of the beleeuers who was ready to departe out of his countrey and leaue all his commodities yea and to sacrifice his owne sonne in whom he put the effect and truethe of the promise Gen. 22.3 as soone as God had commaunded him And that is it which Iesus Christ teacheth vs to aske of his Father to wit Mat. 6.10 that his will should be done in earth as it is in heauen That is to say that he do graunt vs the grace that we be as ready and willing to doe his will as the Angells which are in heauen who haue no sooner receaued the commandement of God but euen in the verye instaunt they put it in execution for God loueth not those dodgers which bargayne and aske still more dayes of aduise to deliberate vpon that which he commaundeth them whether they should do it or not For sithens he is the Soueraigne Lord commandeth nothing but that which is reasonable and for the profit of those whome he will employ in his seruice must we take counsell whether we should obey him or no in that which he doth commaunde vs and to be more hastie or slower in accomplishing his will then are senseles creatures which doe not come short or go beyonde in anie one litle point of that which the creatour doth command them Psal 23.5 Exod. 4.14 Ier. 1.7 The Scripture teacheth how God was greeuously prouoked against Moses Ieremy and Ionas in that they were wayward in taking the charge and commission which he was to giue them in obeying that which he commaunded them And the great daunger wherein Ionas fell because because he would haue fledde away Ion. 1.4 to the end he might haue exempted himself from going to Niniuye whether God would haue sent him doth shew plainly enough the iminent perill to which they lay open themselues who delay so long to enter into the Church to obey in that the calling of god who doth summone inuite them so willingly vnto him Esay 65. hauing euery day from morning to night his armes stretched forth to receaue and embrace them comming vnto him And are they not amased at that which Iesus Christ spake vnto him that would haue followed him but vpon that condition that he would suffer him Luk. 9.62 first to go bid them farewell which were at his house No mā sayeth he to him that putteth his hand to the plowe and looketh backe is apt for the kingdome of God The thirde Axiome that we ought neuer to let flippe the occasion of weldoing nor a receauing the benefite that God doth set before vs when occasion offreth it selfe but apply our selues immediatly vnto it and vse it lest that it being once lost it cannot be possiblye recouered againe That is it which Christ Iesus sayde speaking vnto the Iewes Yet a litle while is the light with you Ioh. 12 35. walke while ye haue light least the darknesse come vpon you for he that walketh in the darke knoweth not whether he goeth admonishing them thereby that they should take heede of reiecting of the grace which God offred vnto them in him by him that if they did it being taken from thē they could no more come by it which they haue foūd in deed for hauing not receiued the light then when it was offred they haue bene vtterly depriued therof and are yet at this day So that since fifteene hundred yeares ago there hath not beene in the whole world a people more wretched than that because they haue not knowne the time of their visitation Luk. 19 44 and haue not receyued the great benefites which God would haue bestowed on them then whē they were offered those that were bidden to the wedding of the kings son did excuse them selues Matt. 22 5. the one alledging their merchandize the other their domesticall busines and the rest those impediments which they had they were so farre from satisfiyng and contenting the king by these excuses that contrariwise his anger beeing more extremely kindled against those that had not made any account of the honor fauour that he did vnto them he pronounced them vnworthy of his liberalitie and of euer being receiued into his house Mat. 25.10 The foolish virgines because they had not the care to light their lamps in due time were ouertaken by the comminge of the bridegroome and excluded out of the hall where the banket was made which dothe teache vs not to imitate the slouthefull who gaspe and wringe their handes or hange downe their armes then when they shoulde worke in the time of neede But to followe the example of the Ant who earelie and betimes maketh her prouision foreseeing that in