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A34380	A Continvation of the histories of forreine martyrs from the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth, to these times : with sundry relations of those bloudy massacres executed upon the Protestants in the cities of France, in the yeare 1572 : wherevnto are annexed the two famous deliverances of our English nation, the one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the Gunpowder Treason in the yeare 1605 : together with the barbarous cruelties exercised upon the professors of the Gospell in the Valtoline, 1621.		1641 (1641)	Wing C5965; ESTC R21167	283,455	124

this chaine and thus fettered with Irons I doubt not but they have given such a reason of their faith that whosoever shall read their answers and weigh the same without partiality must néeds judge thereof even as wée doe And for my owne part I am ready to make it good before any whom it conceres that the doctrine I now hold and 1. Tim. 6. 3. Deut. 12. 32. teach is according to godlinesse taken out of the pure fountaines of the holy scriptures without adding diminishing or varying any way therefrom Bishop We reade that in all times men have béen wont to shelter themselves under the Title of Gods word in so much that all the old heresies maintained by heretiques have run to this covert so as great héed is to be taken lest under this pretence men rush into errors La Grange I am not ignorant sir hereof in regard that Satan knows how to transform himselfe into an Angel of light thereby to establish his delusions causing darknesse thereby to be taken 2. Cor. 11. 14. Iohn 14. 17. for light But the holy Ghost who is the Spirit of truth hath in such wise discovered his jugglings that none are deluded thereby but those who at noone day close their eyes that they may 2 Cor. 4. 4. not behold the light Bishop Doe you thinke that the holy Ghost hath given you such an illumination that the truth should only be revealed to you and to none other La Grange God forbid sir I should have any such thought I am not of the minde of those dreamers who at this day bragge of their having particular revelations of the holy Spirit He means the Anabaptists and their like Eph. 2. 20. But I speake of an ordinary and generall revelation such as is taught us out of the Bible which we call the holy Scriptures according as it is therein declared unto us by the Prophets and Apostles This was the effect of the Bishops first communication with de la Grange after which hée was heard to say twice or thrice to the Kings Commissioners that hée had no will to meddle any further with him Being called for to be examined elsewhere before the said Commissioners Peregrine tooke his leave of the Bishop entreating him to intercede for him that hée might be eased of his irons alledging that the Prison was strong enough and sufficiently garded The second time they met together the Bishop having a prompt memory made a rehearsall of what passed betwéen them the day before and after began thus with the said Peregrine Bishop Séeing that which I hold as touching the Sacrament of the Altar is agréeable to the Scriptures confirmed so long since by the consent of all the ancient fathers wherefore doe you not agrée with us therein Had you rather hold with these Novelists as with Calvin and with the confession of Auspourge Grange Sir I am neither Calvinist nor Papist I am a Christian and what I hold concerning religion is taken out of Christs doctrine who to the only Doctor of his Church What Calvin hath taught conformable to the word of God I am of the same minde with him and whereas you call your Religion the old Religion and ours the new it troubles me not at all since the Father of lies hath long since forged the same to disgrace the truth and to establish and maintaine the multitudes of falshoods and absurdities of your Tenents which you hold For example because Christ in giving his disciples bread in the Sacrament said This is my body thence they would make us beléeve that the bread is become the body of Christ as if the verbe est signified a change of the bread into another substance which is found in no language whatsoever Bishop We maintaine not the Transubstantiation of the bread from this Verbe est knowing that the Hebrews use the Participle of the Present tense in stead of a Verbe but rather from hence because Christ said This is my body La Grange I told * For they had many disputes touching this point which are not here inserted you that Iesus Christ in his Supper gives us that body which was conceived by the holy Ghost in the wombe of the virgin Mary which was crucified dead and buried raised againe the third day and is ascended into heaven yet wee utterly deny that there is any change made of the bread Therefore if you would have us beéeve it let us have some proofe of scripture for it Bish To speake properly the Transubstantiation of the bread cannot be proved by the Word of God and yet we must beléeve it for the reasons above said La Grange Your glorying then that you have the Word of God on your side is as you sée come to nothing And why have you then burned so many of Gods saints for denying that which you cannot maintaine by the scriptures For our parts we should blush to affirme that the substance of bread remaines after the words of consecration if we could not prove the same from the very forme of the institution of the sacrament wherein Christ tooke bread and having given thankes hee brake bread and gave to his Disciples bread and they tooke and did eat bread yea Saint Paul rehearsing 1 Cor. 11. 23 26. 17. the institution calls it bread thrice Bish You know that in the Hebrew Tongue bread is taken for the remainders of what was eaten Paul therefore in that place speakes of those viands which the Corinthians did eate in their Love-feaste reproving their abuse So also howsoever Paul calls it bread there and that in the second of the Acts of the Apostles mention is Act. 〈◊〉 42. made of the breaking of bread all this serves not your turne La Grange I grant that bread is taken in the Scripture in this sence but be it that bread be taken for the meat that was left yet you reade not that the substance was changed into the substance of other meate or lost the property thereof It is certaine that the Scripture useth not this phrase of breaking of bread in the use of the Lords supper for nothing for thereby we are given to understand that it is not a signe onely in appearance or shew but the true substance of bread Bish Let it be what it will wee hold close to the words of Iesus Christ where he saith This is my body and therefore also beéeve what wee speake I care not if I be deceived in this matter nor for bearing reproofe for the same either Vnderstand the words sacramentally and all is wel before God or men for before God himself I will pleade thus Lord thou hast said it and I beleeve it La Grange We rest in the same thing also but withall we have an eie unto Christs meaning and intent which was to establish a sacrament we also receive from his mouth the same words as well as you but sacramentally where the outward signe beares the name

my friends for their love expressed toward me and salute them kindely with an holy kisse in the Lord. Your humble and obedient sonne Iohn Ioris of Asschen Thus were these two witnesses of Iesus Christ executed the fourtéenth of April 1567. ¶ A worthy answer of a constant Martyr called Guy de Brez Anno. Dom. 1567. GUy be Brez a Minister of the Gospell being committed prisoner into the Castle of Tournay was visited by many Ladies Gentlemen onely out of a desire to sée him in regard hee was a man so highly estéemed Some at the first view scoffed others railed on him but others were moved to take pitty and compassion on him Among the rest the Countesse of Ren accompanied with certaine Gentlewomen comming into the prison and at the first entrance beholding the iron chain to which he was fastned Master Guy said she I wonder how you can either eate drinke or sléepe in quiet for were I in your case the very terror thereof would goe nigh to kill me O Madam said he the good cause for which I suffer and that inward peace of conscience wherewith God hath endued me makes me eate and drinke with greater contentment than my enemios can which séeke my life yea so farre off is it that my bonds or chaine doe any way terrifie me or breake off my sléepe that on the contrary I glory and take delight therein estéeming them at an higher rate than chains and rings of gold or any other jewels of price whatsoever for they yéeld me much more profit Yea when I heare the ra●ing of my chaine me thinkes I heare as it were some swéet instrument of Musicke sounding in mine eares not that such an effect comes méerely from my chaines but in regard I am bound therewith for maintaining the truth of the Gospell ¶ The same Martyr in a Letter to his wife acquaints her with Gods gracious dealing with him in all his assaults SPeaking of his apprehension he shewes how carnall reason began to play its part against the providence of God for saith he these thoughts came througing into my head What meant we to go so many in company together as we did had it not béen for such and such we had never béen discovered nor taken Vnder such like cogitations I lay for a while saith he even in a manner overwhelmed till by the assistance of Gods holy Spirit my minde was raised up to meditate on Gods providence After which my heart began to féel wonderfull rest and contentment saying thus in my selfe O my God the day and houre of my birth was before ordained by thee and ever since thou hast preserved and kept me in great perils and dangers and hitherto delivered me out of them all And if now the houre be come wherin I must passe out of this life into thy kingdom thy holy will be done I cannot escape out of thy hands yea though I could yet Lord thou knowest I would not seeing all my felicity depends upon conforming my will unto thine From these considerations I received no small consolation and therefore deare wife rejoyce with me I pray you and blesse our good God for these his mercies towards me for he doth nothing but that which is equall and right You have béene privy to and acquainted with all the travels crosses and persecutions which have befallen me yea and have your selfe béene partaker with me therein when you accompanied me in my voyages during the time of my exile and now after all these you sée my welbeloved in the Lord how he holdeth forth unto me his hand of providence to drive me home to himselfe into his blessed kingdome I now lead you the way and when his will is you shall follow me thither Our separation shall not be for ever it will not be long ere we be gathered under one head Iesus Christ This world is not the place of our rest no heaven is our home this is but the place of our banishment Let us therefore aspire after our true countrey namely heaven and long to be received into the Mansions of our heavenly father where we shall sée our head and Brother our husband and Saviour Iesus Christ with the noble triumphant assemblies of the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and so many millions of Martyrs to whom I hope shortly to be gathered having finished the course of that administration which I have received of the Lord Iesus Wherefore deare wife be you comforted in the meditation of these things Take into your consideration the honour the Lord doth you in giving you a husband who is not only called to be a Minister of Christs Gospel but also so highly advanced of God as to be accounted worthy to partake of the crowne of martyrdome It is an honour which the Angels in heaven are Angels not capable of being Martyrs not capable of I now rejoyce in my sufferings my heart leapeth within me in my afflictions I finde nothing wanting unto mee I am filled with the abundant riches of my God yea so far am I comforted therewith that I have sufficient store not onely for my selfe but to impart thereof also to as many as I have opportunity to speake unto Which bounty and favour I beséech my Eternall Lord God to continue to me his poore prisoner yea I am perswaded that he will perform it unto the end for by good experience I féele that he never forsakes them that trust in him I Gods goodnes to his afflicted children is oft above and beyond their expectation could never have imagined that God would have béene so gracious as he hath béen to me his poore creature I now taste of the fidelity and bounty of Christ my Saviour I am here taught to practise what I have preached unto others Yea let me not be ashamed to confesse that when I heretofore preached I spake but as a Parrat in regard of that which I have now better learned by proofe and experience I have profited more in the schoole-house of this prison than ever I did in all my life before Prisons prove Gods schoole-houses to the faithfull for I have the holy Ghost who is my constant instructor and schoolmaster teaching me how to handle my weapons in this fight of afflictions Satan on the other side who is the sworne enemy of all Gods Elect compasseth me about on every side as a roaring Lyon thinking to devoure me But he who hath said Feare not I have overcome the world puts as it were new courage into Iohn 16. 33. Rom. 16 20. 2 Cor. 12. 9. me and then I sée the Lord bruising Satan under my féet féeling the power of God perfected in my weakenesse And thus the Lord causeth mee one while to féele my infirmity and weakenesse that so I may take knowledge how I am but a poore earthen Vessell even weakenesse it selfe to humble mee that God may have all the glory It is profitable for the godly sometimes to feele their