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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07516	Sommons to doomes daie sent vnto his beloved England, as a memoriall of his deepe printed loue and loyaltie. / By Henoch Clapham..	Clapham, Henoch.	1595 (1595)	STC 5345.7; ESTC S91454	27,025	82

SOMMONS TO Doomes daie SENT VNTO HIS BELOVED ENGLAND AS A MEmoriall of his deepe printed Loue and Loyaltie By HENOCH CLAPHAM EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY RObert Walde-graue Printer to the Kings Majestie An. 1595. Cum Priuilegio Regio SCHOLASTICIS LArgè spatiari Rhetoris est strictè autem Dialectici Hoc proprium Academicorum Scholis illud Rostris Medium inter vtrunque hoc potius vt ἔυαγγελὶας Prophetae accommodatius hic studui Lineae si quae occurrunt otiosae error verò hujus saeculi loquacis maximè fluitans illas ego repudio nec probo Facilius autem est destruere quam astruere nec difficilius labeculae non serpente connivere quàm labiorum labem vt nè dicam luem in aliorum lucubrationes evomere Quid tum peto vt aequo si non placido legatis animo vel saltem pacato haec mea qualiacunque deponatis hoc summissè petitur ac flagito Valete H. C. THE EPISTLE SWEET ENGLAND wishing all true happines to thee and my soueraigne Queene ELI●●●●TH whose bloo●●●●ersaries intestine a●●●●rane God in due time convert or confounde Being vrged to voyage from thee for a season I haue heere commended vnto thy reading this mite of a mountaine of Good will Forewarning is a fore-arming neither will my sommoning thy soule howsoeuer harshe at first proue otherwise than healthfull at last Some in whome is small good Zeal but more malice will considering my person wring what sences they list from my sentences that so they may snarle behinde my back But let such learne that Loue will judge the best but Malice never spake well Some in whome Zeale overmatcheth knowledge will è contra affirme that I haue not plainlye ynough rebuked sinne c. Let such learne that I haue learned that there is one manner of Rebuke in the Church of the olde Testament another Rule in the Church of the newe Testament one maner of dealing with persons within the visible Church another wisedome towardes them that are without He that followes one rule for forme of rebuke may aswell confound the first and latter ministrie This not obserued causeth much teaching but no good done Wordes vttered according to knowledge discretiue * Prov. 25.11 are like apples of golde pictures of silver Accept it with no worse meaning than I offer it then neither shalt thou disdaine to receiue it nor I repent the guift and so beseeching the Lordes blessing to accompanie my labour I end Edinburgh 1595. Fulgura sic flammas qui terris servat iniquis Anglorum Sωter semper vbique siet Thy humble petitioner vnto God for thy good HENOCH CLAPHAM SOMMONS TO DOOMES-DAIE 2. PET. 3. vers 10.11 10 But the day of the Lord wil come as a Theefe in the night in the which the Heauens shall passe away with a noise and the Elements shall melt with heat and the Earth with the vvorkes that are therein shall bee burnt vp 11 Seeing therefore that all these things must be dissolued what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation and godlines THE holy Apostle PETER writing vnto all wheresoever that had obtained the like precious faith even the precious faith of Christianitie doth vnto all and so consequentlie vnto vs if wee be Christians deliuer many saving doctrines and wholesome exhortations grounded vpon their doctrines for the further confirmation of faith and increasment of sanctification Amongst which this one namly a Caueat and warning peale of the destruction of the whole worlde by fire and the great day of Doome is not least vrged but of all the rest most forciblie in this Chapter propounded and pressed and especially in these two verses now read Before the handling of which two verses it shall be vnto me neither grievous nor to you vnprofitable that I summe vp the precedents of the chapter In the two first verses the blessed Apostle stirreth vp the Readers of his Epistle to receiue the ensuing doctrine into the puritie of their mindes for indeede a corrupt minde will but mock there at and the rather they are mooved therevnto because the doctrine should be no newe or strange doctrine but even such a doctrine as before had bin delivered First by the holy Prophets secondly by the Apostles of our Lord Saviour which doctrine he calleth a Commandement because it was not a lesson left to learne or beleeue at a christians leasure or plesure but enjoyned vpon every Christians neck by the holy Prophets before Christ came by the blessed Apostles after Christ come a commaundement to the Church of the old Testament and a commaundement to the Church of the newe Testament and therefore not such a lesson as may be beleeved and vnbeleued received and refused at mens pleasures but a commaundement sent vnto all that study puritie of minde and do awaite the comming of our Sauiour In the thirde and fourth verses hee foretels the pure minded of certaine adversaries to the saide doctrine and this he doth first by setting down their time of arising namely In the latter daies secondly by giuing vnto them an Epithet drawn from the qualitie of their speach vz. Mockers thirdly setting downe a Synopsis or compendium of their speache which is this Where is the promise of his comming for since the Fathers died all things continue alike from the beginning of the Creation as though they should say You write and you talke of Christs comming vnto Iudgement saying that there shall bee an end of all these worldly thinges I cannot tell the old ancient Fathers they died and so do we die others came in their roomes and so doth there in ours and not onely that but such creatures as were then such are nowe daies moneths and years turne about departing and comming againe in a worde I see nothing changed but all things alike now as of old and therfore I cannot beleeue that the saying The World shall bee consumed and the Christ shall come vnto Iudgment that it is any thing else but a tale of Robin-hood and therefore I will walke on in the waies of mine owne heart and in the delight of mine owne eies making my heauen heere whilest I liue heere for after death I cannot beleeue there is any account no nor life no more then of a dead Dog and pitted caryon All these and such like blasphemies the holy Apostle accompts no better than a Mock and the persons themselues Mockers namely of God and his word In the 5. and 6. verses the Apostle rendreth a reason of their Atheisme Infidelitie namely that they are willingly ignorant of what That they are willingly ignorant how the heauens had their beeing by the word of the Lord for they think the Heavens to come of themselues as also ignorant howe the earth by the same word of ELOHIM was separate from the waters and had his foundation as the Psalmist saith laid vpon the waters Psal 24.2 and therefore by the same worde of God brought aboue the Earth