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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33486	The converted capuchin, or, The recantation of Father Basil after he had continued nigh forty yeares a fryer of that order and perswaded many Protestants to the Romish-beliefe : with his answers to those reports framed against him since he left his convent at Roüen to be one of the reformed church at Sedan / English according to the French copy.; Declaration du sieur François Clouet, cy-devant appelé Père Basile de Rouen, où il déduit les raisons qu'il a eues de se séparer de l'Eglise romaine. English	Basile, de Rouen, d. 1648?	1641 (1641)	Wing C4738; ESTC R23037	16,013	23

made a vow to keepe the Rules and Institutions of Saint Francis which bind not the Friers to study sacred letters but command in expresse termes That those of the fraternity which are unlearned need not to study to learne them but ordaine in the second chapter that they should be clad in old tayments and that they might peece them with sacke-cloth and other peeces on Gods blessing Being thus fastned to this Order I thought with my selfe that in observing it I should do workes of Supererogation by which I supposed to doe more good than God commanded me and so to merit a degree of glory in Paradise above that common to the Saints which had no more perfection here than meerely to fulfill the Law of God In the interim this perswasion dwelt in my soule that true Religion which leads to salvation comes from God not humane invention To the end therefore I might strengthen my selfe in the beleefe of the Romish Church and be furnished with answers to gain-sayers I desired to know as exactly as I might what Jesus Christ and his Apostles Founders of Christian religion taught us as it is contained in holy Scriptures but in reading them glory be to God it happened cleane contrary to my purpose and intendment His Prayer upon his Conversion O Lord my God and my Creator who from all Eternitie knowest those that are thine owne which no power can wrench from thy holy hands how copious hath bin thy bounty to me thy poore servant thou hast dealt with me ó Lord according to the greatnesse of thy Compassion by reducing my soule from death my eies from superstitious tears my feet from falling Thou didst suffer me to spend neere forty yeares in an erronious religion which I supposed conformable to thy holy Word and have as obstinately defended it not slighting the least occasion tending to the persecution of thy Church But O my eternall God it was my ignorance did it and I now beg thy pardon with an heart contrite and humbled before thy glorious face Thou hast put me to the test O Lord by a sore disease which I thought would have put an end to my being in this world but thy goodnesse contented it selfe to depresse my body that thou mightest raise up my soule in giving a good issue to my heavie triall I have been fully sensible of thy benefits Oh Eternall what shall I render unto thee for them that am but dust and ashes in thy Divine presence I will sacrifice unto thee a sacrifice of thanksgiving I will invocate thy holy Name I will pay my vowes in the presence of thy people in thy Temple and employ the rest of my dayes in the service and edification of thy Church Give O Father of Mercy the same grace which thou hast bestowed on me unto them that shall reade this my Declaration and particularly my God and my blessed Father I beseech thee with teares of true sorrow to have pitie upon those whom I have helped to erre from the right way perswading their revolt from thy holy Church O suffer them not to be deprived of the participation of the blood and merits of thy Son Christ Jesus but touch thou their hearts with a sorrow such as may conduce to a true repentance in them Have likewise mercy upon so many poore soules as goe astray for want of instruction prick them forward with the goad of thy feare stirre in them a desire to know thy truth by reading thy holy Word let thy relieving hand draw them out of the mire whereinto they are fallen by originall sinne regenerate them O good God unto a newnesse of life by the workings of thy holy Spirit nor lay thou to their charge the hatred they beare me for reverencing thy holy Name But grant rather that they acknowledging the sanctity of the doctrine which I have embraced which is the very same Jesus thy Son brought from heaven on earth they may clearely see how they are abused and abhorre those superstitions which inveterate wont makes them thinke to be none that they may detest the impiety of their seducers who being blind may else be throwne into the pit unlesse thou open their eyes by the beames of thy holy Spirit Let them not depend longer upon humane traditions but receive thy Word for the onely guide of their faith and Jesus Christ their Mediator and Sacrificer so that having led a life here in the confession of thy most holy Name and the profession of that truth contained in thy most holy Word wee may together everlastingly blesse thee in thy holy Tabernacle in Heaven Amen A Refutation of calumnies which were put upon mee I Should conclude my Declaration thus with giving of thanks which I am bound to render the divine goodnesse for having not only taken from me the horrid and darke veile of my blindnesse and called mee to his marvellous light but also for the courage he hath given me to withstand all the assaults that corrupt nature and humane respects could bring against my resolution did I not feele my selfe obliged to adde these lines in defence of my innocencie which I understand to be abused by the enemies of true religion Yet if the interest of God and his holy Church could set apart my owne interests herein I would make it my glory to despise these disgracefull aspersions for the love of my Redeemer who hath given me himselfe for an example But such separation not being possible I will genuinely and without sharpnesse represent that which may serve to wipe away these reproaches which they have published against me protesting that all the revenge I will take for these injuries is to entreat God with a good heart for the salvation of them which are the authors that he would please by his goodnesse and the efficacie of his holy Spirit to break the bands of that Error wherewith they are so strongly bound that he would be gracious to them as he hath been to me and putting off that vaine industry to be reputed holy among men they may subject themselves to the Word of God to the end they may be saved The first Calumny I Learn by letters of my friends that they accuse me for drawing out of the purses of divers persons above two thousand pound sterling under pretext of Pius uses and that now I serve my owne turne with it to the prejudice of them for whom it was appointed The grossenesse of this Calumny hath discovered it selfe so much the better for who is it but knowes that Capuchins handle no money nor doth any body use to offer them any unlesse that craving almes at a doore unawares they put a double in their scrip as they would to an Eremite but the Capuchins do never receive it Their Order permitting them to receive a bottle of Wine a Capon or things of like kind but not one Double or Denier as doe others who professe poverty If any man have received this summe of money for me

of him For can any man of judgement bee perswaded that he is no honest man that avoids Idolatry and superstition to embrace a true Religion the Reader may judge by this sparkle the rest of the Stuffe To conclude this small apologie and to refute what can be objected against the sincerity of my intentions in the work of my conversion I present unto you this last reason which deserves to be well weighed Adversity is a triall whereby God is acquainted with the fidelity of his children I have passed by it twice since my conversion the first by a feeblenesse of body which came upon me before I came hither the second by a violent disease a while since which brought me so low that I verily thought to dye 'T is then or never that we should deale sincerely with God and manifest the true resentments of the soule Is it credible that a man that hath separated himselfe from the Romish Church for no other end but to take a fuller swinge in dishonest liberty that he was not seazed at the instant with some terrour of Gods judgments or shewed not a misrule in his conscience tormented with remorse by some words or deeds But I may truly averre that I never before felt my heart at more ease which being filled with heavenly comfort seeing my selfe freed from papisticall heresie and brought into a religion wherein I could not dye ill since that I apprehended by a lively faith the merits of my Saviour the premisses of life eternall which he hath made to all them that confesse and beleeve his holy Name It is very true that in this estate I was seazed with an exceeding griefe for my life passed and the breaches I made in the Church of God in the time of my ignorance I cannot think on without great griefe and discontent the great number of those whom I have perverted in being the cause they deserted the true Religion But this confidence I have that if they be the chosen of God he will raise them up from their fallen estate and be mercifull unto them This disease was very profitable unto me for besides the exercise of humility and patience under the Lords fatherly chastisements the frequent visits of Pastors which came to comfort and pray with me made me sensible how sweet and powerfull are those consolations that are drawen from the doctrine of the Gospell in comparison of signing with the crosse anealing sprinkling of holy water among which there is not one sillable of true comfort But the principal effect of this triall is that by it I was the more strengthened in my resolution for I find my selfe more stable and more resolved than ever to persevere in that holy religion which I have embraced freely without constraint with a heart void of pride or ambition or malice Such issues are the undoubted markes of Gods spirituall calling And for so much as they who endevor to shake my stability by contumelious reports or make me bow by promises or flatteries shall doe better hereafter to consider their owne consciences and speedily seeke after the means to get forth from the errours wherein they are ensnared than to labour the change of this my unchangeable resolution protesting unto them that by the grace of God I will rather suffer thousands of tortures than breake the vow I have made unto my God to live and dye in the confession and profession of the faith into which he hath brought me of his pure mercy FINIS Answ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} due to God only