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A16160	A discourse occasioned vpon the late defeat, giuen to the arch-rebels, Tyrone and Odonnell, by the right Honourable the Lord Mountioy, Lord Deputie of Ireland, the 24. of December, 1601. being Christmas Eaue and the yeelding vp of Kinsale shortly after by Don Iohn to his Lordshippe: by Raph Byrchensha Esquire, Controller Generall of the musters in Ireland. Seene and allowed.	Byrchensha, Raph.	1602 (1602)	STC 3081; ESTC S104603	17,462	36

A DISCOVRSE occasioned vpon the late defeat giuen to the Arch-rebels Tyrone and Odonnell by the right Honourable the Lord Mountioy Lord Deputie of Ireland the 24. of December 1601. being Christmas Eaue And the yeelding vp of Kinsale shortly after by Don Iohn to his Lordshippe By RAPH BYRCHENSHA Esquire Controller Generall of the musters in Ireland Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos Seene and allowed LONDON ¶ Printed for M. L. and are to be sould in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde 1602. ¶ To the Right Honourable L. Charles Blunt Baron of Mountioy Captaine of the Castles and Forts of Porchmouth L. Deputie of Ireland and knight of the most Honourable order of the Garter BY your Lordships and the rest of the Councels Letters at Kinsale bearing date the 27. of Decemb. last 1601. directed to the right H. the Lord Chauncelour and the rest of the priuie Councel here your Lordshippe aduertised your happy and blessed successe by Gods most gracious prouidence obtained ouer the Arch-rebels Tyrone Oddonell and the rest of the rebels and Spanish inuadours vpon Christmas Eaue being the 24. of December which most famous victorie and great hand of the Almightie I had aduertisement the sixt of this present that 14. Priests of the rebels were dispersed abroad to perswade and incense the vulgar and common sort that the rebels Spanyards receiued no such losse or damage as your Lordships said Letter deliuered nor as the common brute most confidently conceiued and knew to be by which practise they meant the more soūdly to holde in and continue their faction Whereupon I thought it both reasonable and discourse agreeing to the nature of trueth to make knowne to the world that the rebels losse damage was not lesse then your Lordships said Letter mentioned but in higher measure and greater preiudice to thē then that Letter expressed wherby the world may see the falshood and deceipt of these beastly Priests the drift of these rebels and traitours to drawe vnconstant men and wauering subiectes to their cursed purposes I confesse I haue very coldly barely handled this subiect and rather dimmed and diminished the worth dignitie thereof then beautified and adorned the same with matter or method wherein I humbly beseech your Lordshippes pardon as also in my boldnes in presuming vpon so nice an argument But pearles and precious stones require no ornaments to set them forth neither doth the originall cause of my writing neede or aske any florish my selfe or any other mortall man can make in the same being a worke directed and purposed by the power strength of Iehoua the great God of heauen and earth and effected performed by your Lordships valour and worthinesse being Gods instrument appointed for the accomplishment thereof which are matters more then sufficient in themselues to recōmend the cause to the world And so in all humble manner I wil leaue my poore labour to your Lordships Honourable liking and fauourable censure and your Lordships person to be protected vnder the blessed wings of the Almighty From my house in Dublin the 30. of Ianuary 1601. Your Lordships most humble in all duty and seruice Raph Birchensha ¶ To the Reader whether counterfeit or dissembling Papists open or publike Recusants or what kinde of Papists soeuer BEcause the Subiect whereupon I chiefly haue framed this discourse aimeth only to lay open the mercifull hand of God lately shewed to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie and performed by her loyall and faithfull Subiect the L. MOVNTIOYE L. Deputy of this Land against the insolent traiterous and rebellious vsurpation of Tyrone Odonnell and all other open and discouered rebels And that among other his coloured and shadowed courses for his rebellion this principally was one namely to reforme religion and for his and their conscience sake Whose religion if he haue any at all as I assure my selfe he hath none is but meere Athisme and himselfe a damned slaue in hell without harty repentance and speedy conuersion And for that the religion whereof he makes outward shew profession is according to the Romish Church taught deliuered and brought hither into this Realme of Ireland from the shambles slaughter-house of soules I meane the Church of Rome and maintained defended and earnestly vrged by Antichrist the Pope of Rome that man of sinne and by his fugitiues runnagates and traiterous male-contented subiects of all Princes in Christendom flocking still thither I meane his Seminaries Iesuits Priests and Fryers Who closely creepe and steale into this Land in disguised and counterfeited manner and by whom infinite soules of men haue beene and are seduced and drawne away from the true worship of God and obedience of his will to follow tradition superstition and mans inuention to the great danger of their soules without speedy amendment In regard whereof it may please you with patience and in brotherly loue and affection which euery faithfull and true Christian ought to haue the one with the other but with a single eye and well disposed hart consider of these speciall points insuing by which the Church of Rome is made so glorious and which heads are also so stifly and stoutly maintained and taught by that side and then to iudge and censure whither the Church of Rome be the true spouse of Christ or no or whether on the contrarie it be not the false Church and the apparant sinke and synagogue of Sathan First then whereas the Church of Rome will haue their Church to be knowne to be the true Church by the visibilitie antiquity and multitude thereof and so to be seene with the outward eye and pointed at with the finger yet you shall finde that visibilitie antiquitie and multitude are not the markes of the true Church but a little flocke few in number and yet of greatest antiquitie as by these places foorth of Gods word may appeare For I pray tell me where the Church was visible when being assembled at Ierusalem there arose Act. 8. 1. a great persecution against it insomuch as they were all dispearsed and scattered And let them tell me where or how the Church was visible when Christ was smitten and all the rest was scattered and Matth. 12. 17. hid and concealed themselues Doth not S. Iohn in his Reuelation Reuel 12. 6. 7. testifie expresly That the Church of Christ signified there by a woman fled into a desert or wildernesse where she had a place prepared for her of God and where she could not for a certaine season be found of the persecutors Where was the Church in the time of Elias the Prophet When he said They haue forsaken thy couenant 1 Kings 19. c. they haue destroyed thine Altar and slaine thy Prophets with the sword and I am left alone Againe it is written in the 2. of 2. Kings 16. Kings the 16. that vnder the raigne of Achas there was taken a patterne of the Altar of the Idolaters of Damascus and Vrias

the Ministers of his Gospell all such dominion ciuill iurisdiction saying thus vnto them The Kings of the nations raigne ouer Mat. 20. 25. 26 Mar. 10. 42. 43. them and they that be great among them beare rule or dominion but it shall not be so with you Ninthly the Pope of Rome holds that he hath power to forgiue sinners But the Scribes in the Gospell could say none can forgiue Mar. 2. 7. Iob. 14. 4. Esay 45. 11. sinnes but God Iob saith Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse there is not one And Esay saith speaking in the person of God I euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake and will not remember thy sinnes And Paul confidently affirmeth when he saith Who shall lay any thing to the charge Rom. 8. 33. 34. of Gods chosen it is God that iustifieth who shall condemne it is Christ which is dead yea or rather which is risen againe who is also at the right hand of God and maketh request also for vs. Againe The Lord is slow to anger and of great mercy and forgiuing Num. 14. 18. Exod. 34. 7. iniquitie And in Exod. 34. God speaking in his owne person said that he reserueth mercie for thousands forgiuing iniquity and transgression and sinne besides infinite places to like purpose Tenthly the Church of Rome doth teach that the Scriptures containe not all things necessary to saluation but their vnwritten traditions 10 must as they say be all receiued with equall and like authoritie for so hath the Councell of Trent determined But S. Iohn saith that These things are written that yee may beleeue and that in beleeuing yee may haue life eternall And S. Paul saith that The Scriptures are profitable to reprooue to teach and correct to instruct 2. Tim. 3. 15. and perfect the man of God and further that The Scriptures are able to make men wise vnto saluation and God himselfe doth say Yee shall put nothing to the word which I command you Deut. 4. neither take ought there-from Againe Whatsoeuer I command Deut. 12. you that take heed you doe put nothing thereto nor take ought there-from And S. Iohn in his Reuelation saith that If any man shal Reuel 22. adde to this thing God shall adde vnto him the plagues which are written in this booke and shall take away his part out of the booke of life I might yet adde further touching the offices of Christ. for that the Church of Rome will yeeld that the office of Christ consisteth in these three points namely that he is both a Prophet a Priest and a King which in words they will acknowledge but in deeds and veritie they doe not For how miserably and wickedly the Church of Rome hath mangled and defaced the reuealed will of this sacred Prophet their vnwritten traditions popish canons and their owne deuises makes too apparant Touching his Priesthood which consisteth in two things namely the offering vp of himselfe once for a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice and his intercession to his Father which remayneth to the worlds end is so pitifully defrauded abused and dishonoured by them as no pen with any modestie can set downe as by their Purgatorie pickepurse their propitiatorie masses for the quicke and the dead the blasphemous titles attributed to the Virgin Mary namely they call her the Queene of heauen the gate of Paradise their life sweetnes the treasure of grace the refuge of sinners the mediatrix of men and not onely to her but to saints departed they intreat with like intercession and holde them their mediators Touching how they deale with Christ in his rule and gouernement the Pope he will raigne in mens consciences he will be tituled with Holy vniuersal mother Church which cannot erre Holy father the Pope Bishop vniuersall Prince of Priests Supreame head of the Church Vicar of Christ The admiration of the world c. Touching his iurisdiction he chalēgeth to himselfe both the swords that is both the keyes of the spiritualtie and the Scepter of the laitie not onely subduing all Bishops vnder him aduancing himsefe aboue kings and Emperours causing some of them to lie vnder his feet some to hold the stirrop kings to lead his horse by the bridle some to kisse his feet placing and displacing all degrees of people pretending power and authoritie to inuest Bishops to giue benefices to spoyle Churches to giue authoritie to binde lose to call generall Councels to set vp religions to canonize Saints to take appeals to binde consciences to make lawes to dispense with the law word of God to deliuer from purgatory and to command Angels c. Whereby appeares as he presumeth to go beyond Christ in this world so would he if he knew how also expulse him from heauen And now gentle Reader in equall ballance single eye and honest heart censure whether the Church of Rome be the spouse of Christ or no whether the word of God allow warrant his doings I cannot stand longer to inlarge of his doctrine which is most iniurious to Christ his Church nor lay downe his life which is most detestable to all men that hath any sparke of the true knowledge of Gods word but abruptly hasten to an end because you may perceiue I haue but in briefe past ouer the particulars for to discourse of these points would aske large volumes not doubting but all indifferent men may hereby behold vpon what rocke these Arch-rebels build their rebellion if it be true as they say that it is vndertaken in regard of religion their conscience also that all men of what cōdition soeuer who hath ben is lead still on to dāce after the pipe of priests Iesuits and Seminaries who outwardly carry a shew of godlinesse but inwardly are rauening and deuouring Wolues may see what ground and warrant they find in Gods word to approoue and allow their actions and liues indefending maintaining and setting foorth the kingdome of their master Antichrist the Pope the diuels sworne champion whose creeping in corners whose oyled mouthes whose outward holines whose monstrous hypocrisie whose masses whose dirges whose beades whose crucifixes whose prayers whose vowes whose whippings whose crosses Agnus deis and perswasions hath but hitherto brought foorth rebellion disobedience to Prince breach of Lawes and gouernment burning wasting spoyling robbing and in generall almost an vtter ruine and waste of Ireland Therefore in the feare of God now come from them and while it is yet day walke as it becommeth the Children of light turne from these seducers their cursed doctrine and superstitious ceremonies and imbrace the pure milke of Gods most blessed word and willingly readily and thankefully come to heare the same preached and taught which will be the perfect path for to lead you the strong sterne to guide you the lanterne to light you and the meane by the mercy of God to saue your soules For