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A00748	The epiphanie of the church gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, declaring and plainly shevving, both the church that cannot but erre, and also the church that cannot erre : vvith so evident notes and manifest signes of either of them, that no man reading it, needeth be in doubt which he should beleue / written by R.P. in the yeare of our Lord God 1550 ; and now published in this yeare 1590 for the benefite of all such as desire the trueth concerning the church.	Finch, Richard, minister of East Ham.	1590 (1590)	STC 10877.5; ESTC S4676	36,955	52

vnite as one by loue gouerned with one and the same spirit of trueth Finally if these signes of the holy catholicke Church be not yet euident and plaine inough vnto you to knowe the same perhappes because you your selfe be none of the Church marke yet diligently the effectes that follow First the simple and plaine setting forth of the worde of God both in writing and preaching with the administration of Christes sacramentes according to the same Secondly the murmuringes complaininges conuenticles vprores and tumultes of the wicked against the same Thirdly the persecution and patiently suffering of the verie elect of God for the same as the elect of God taketh nothing from his holy wordes but wholly sticketh vnto the same without anie of their owne addit●ons So doe they alwaies sincerely open the same vnto the worlde and haue their whole delight in making it knowne vnto men Whereof they haue of their maister Christ a speciall commandement so earnestly giuen vnto them as though hee had required of them that alone binding them as they loued him to teache feede and preach vnto his sheepe And as he required of them this teaching and preaching of the Gospel most earnestly so did he most often put them in memory of the same This was the principall and great commission that he gaue them after his resurrection saying All power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth Go ye therefore and teache all nations baptising them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holie Ghost teaching them to obserue all thinges whatsoeuer I haue commanded you Other thingee then Christ hath commanded to be taught may not bee taught by Christes commission who saith also The holy hhost shall teache you What All thinges and bring all thinges vnto your remembrance whatsoeuer I haue said vnto you Againe that they might be sure of theyr vndeceaueable rule he saith Preache the gospell to all creatures vnto thē that thus do He saith further He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and hee that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Because the children of perdition walking in the broad way despise the narrow way of the Gospell and teachers of the same they doe commit high treason against Christ and against God for that they doe not regard but contemne the great commission of God the Gospel of his sonne Iesus Although this Gospel should be for a time troad vnder feete and sealed vp as it was prophecied and as we haue seene it yet should it be a witnesse to all the world Christ saith This Gospel of the kingdome shalbe preached in all the worlde for a witnesse to all nations and then shall the end come The gospel is a witnesse of Christ and his Church to al nations in the world To the wicked it is a witnesse that they loue darkenesse more then light because their workes are euill To the godly it is a sure stay and witnesse that they are of the holy Catholicke Church and members of Christ This is a plaine token of the holy catholicke church that wheresoeuer this gospel is set forth in y e mother toong and countrie speache and sincerlie taught there bee the true members of Christes Church Example hereof we haue in the preaching of the same by the Apostles at Hierusalem in whome the holy Ghost so wrought that they spake to euerie man many beeing there of diuers and strange languages in their owne mother toonge and countrie speeche The true ministers of the worde in whome the holy Ghost speaketh euer teache the people in their owne language that they vnderstand and not in a strange toonge that they knowe not We may therefore be glad and ioy to haue seene and heard the same Gospel here in England set forth in our mother toonge preached according to Christes promise and sincerely taught O it is a worlde to behold the subtiltie of Sathan working in these wicked worldlinges When hee feeleth by preaching of the Gospel that his counterfeit religion is espied and that his lies and false miracles will serue to blinde and deceaue the people no longer then he bestirreth himselfe then hee seeketh out his trustie friendes and setteth them a worke to stirre the people to murmuringes tumultes and vprores to the end that by deuisions debates and discordes he may eyther face out the Gospel or els for that he looseth some in their faith hee might winne moe by their euill life Whereby albeit against their wil both the deuill and his ministers doe giue an euident testimonie of the Gospel For Iesus Christ the wisedome of God the father knowing that it would be so shewed that it should be so both by his wordes and example taking vpon him that the wicked would lay to his charge saying Thinke not that I am come to send peace into the earth I came not to send peace but a sword For I am come to set a man at a variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lavv and a mans foes shalbe they that be of his owne houshold And he prophecieth also saying Suppose yee that I am come to send peace on the earth I tell you nay but rather deuision For from hence forth there shalbe fiue in one house deuided three against two and two against three The father shalbe deuided against the sonne and the sonne against the father The mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother The mother in lawe against her daughter in law and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lavv In this phrase of speache Christ shewed not himselfe to be the authour and cause of discord and diuision but hee rather declared in their owne wordes their false standers Hee knewe right well that the wicked woulde resist the gospell with lyes staunders and tumultes and when they had thorow their owne malice craftily raysed such tragedies then they would disburdening themselues lay it to Christes charge and to his holy word or ministers of the same Thus hath it bene in out time The wicked hating the Gospel haue stirred vprores and vnquietnesse amongest the people and then they haue burdened the Gospel and preacher withall Thus the Scribes and Pharisees with their Disciples moued the people against Christ whereby they made vnquietnesse and then they accused Christ of blasphemie heresie making of discention traitours and blasphemous heretickes neither true to God nor the Prince For this cause Christ knowing before vouchsafe to bewray their malice taking vpon himselfe the person of discord when in verie deedele is the berie peacemaker because he knewe they woulde so iudge him and reporte him to be as wee can witnesse they haue doon wherfore wee must needes beleue this his prophesie nowe that we haue heard it and seen it fulfilled

a monstrous beast This monstrous beast hath lift vp borne and mainteined the whore of Babylon which is the church of antichrist This monstrous beast hath put vp her hornes heere in England against the word of God and faine would rule the same againe if the deuill could bring it to passe whose labour is in vaine for we know the trueth of Gods word proceedeth euer from God and therefore hath God set it forth amongst vs by his owne vicegerent a mayden king our liege lord and supreme head in his dominions next vnder Christ and that by act of parlement with the consent of the nobility of the realme and the lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons of the same Let Sathan therefore leaue off with all his wicked instrumēts which go about to perswade the silly people that Gods booke and this new learning as they call it is heresie whereby they slander theyr godly magistrates and speake euill of them that be in authority Which theyr customable so doing auaileth them nothing for when they haue prooued it heresie which thing they shall as easily bring to passe as to prooue light darkenesse and darkenesse light then must they also compell all them that haue set it forth and all them that willingly receiued the same to do open penance for theyr manifest heresie as they say Thus to speake euill of them that be in authority is one of their proper markes whereby they be knowen to be of Antichrists brood which hath by conspiracy caused rebellion euer against such gouernors as haue done any thing against theyr tyranny and excommunicated cursed and deposed emperours and kings that haue displeased theyr hypocrisie whose authority as it is next vnto God so hath God left the correction thereof vnto himselfe and neither vnto priest nor people God commandeth saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harme If it be not lawfull to touch Gods anoynted kings Gods officers Gods lieutenants Gods vicegerents that be appoynted by God to rule in his sted let them take heed that do vsurpe theyr sword for vndoubtedly Gods vengeance will fall vpon them Example hereof we haue in Chorah Dathan and Abiram which rose vp against Moses with other men of the children of Israel euen two hundreth and fiftie that were captaines of the multitude great famous men in the congregation but Gods vengeance fell vpon them for the earth opened and swallowed them downe aliue Yet these rebels were not of the base and lower sort of the people but captaines and famous men Consider then if God cannot abide this rebellion and vsurping of the sword of iustice in a captaine surely he will not suffer it in a souldiour If not in a famous or noble man verely he will not leaue it vnplagued in one of the lower subiects no he will not let it escape vnpunished in whom whensoeuer it be because it is high treason against himselfe Though they worke craftily and secretly yet will theyr false traitourous hearts bewray themselues before they be ware if Gods word as needes it must be true Be not thou so bold as once to thinke or imagine euill against the king or that thou wilt reprehend the prince although thou be alone in thy priuie chamber for it will come out if not otherwise surely the birds that flye in the ayre will not suffer it to be hid Heereby it appeareth that the word of God reproueth yea condemneth all maner of persons of what state condition or degree soeuer they be that in word or thought do arise vp rebell or resist the kings authority specially in setting foorth Gods worde For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordeined of God whosoeuer therefore resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God but they that resist shall get vnto themselues damnation These are Gods words and not mine Againe as almighty God would that we should neither hurt nor harme his true prophets preachers of his word so Iesus Christ the sonne of God giueth vs a speciall commandement to beware of antichrists prelats calling them false prophets saying Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are rauening wolues Wolues are wrapped in sheepes clothing when tyrants rule in the place of shepheards vnder the titles of holy fathers worshipfull doctours honourable prelats c. These Christ painteth vnto vs by the names of Blinde guides Froward generation Adulterous generatiō Pharises Sadduces Hypocrites Generation of vipers Serpents Adders brood Painted sepulchres Painted wall c. who saith he do binde together heauie burdens and grieuous to be borne and lay them on mens shoulders but they themselues will not heaue at them with one of their fingers All their workes do they for the intent that they may be seene of men Also they goe in long religious apparell they must be had in reuerence and saluted with names and titles of dignity they shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men both by their example and doctrine condemning the iustifying faith for heresie They vse long prayers with lippe labor for lucres sake they be very curious in ceremonies and trifles but in great matters as iudgement mercy and fayth they haue little regard they see quickly a moat in another mans eye but will not looke on the beame in their owne they are great intanglers of mens consciences with meates drinkes holy dayes and mens traditions finally they haue as before hath beene said theyr consciences marked with the hoat yron of burning malice enuy and hatred against all them that loue Gods word forbidding to marry and commanding to abstaine from meats which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thanks of them that beleeue know the trueth These and such like be theyr fruites these be theyr workes ye shall know them sayth Christ by theyr works That those should enter into the Church after that the Gospell was preached by the apostles Paul playnly sheweth saying I am sure of this that after my departing shal grieuous wolues enter in among you not sparing the flocke This is the Church that cannot erre Furthermore that you may the better perceiue know the Church that cannot erre from the Church that cannot but erre you shall vnderstand there be but two wayes The way of the Spirits of truth Faithfull Godly Children of God Members of Christ Holy Catholike Church The way of the Spirits of error Vnfaithfull Vngodly Children of the deuill Members of the deuill Wicked Church of Antichrist Call them by what names you will Christ calleth the one The broad way and the other The narrow vvay saying Enter in at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat But strait is the gate and narrovv is