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A73751	The rocke of religion. Christ, not Peter As it was deliuered in certaine sermons vpon Math. 16. ver. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20. Summarily contracted out of that which was more largely handled in the parish of S. Anthonline by George Close the younger, one of the readers there.	Close, George.	1624 (1624)	STC 5433.5; ESTC S124804	70,602	246

erre or to doe euill with a multitude so neither can that Popish paradox be any warrant vnto vs that we should beleeue as the Church beleeueth except wee know the grounds of the Churches Beleefe much lesse can a generall conceit of the common multitude which is commonly full of phantasie and errour rather then truth and iudgement settle vs in any peace of Conscience touching our hope and saluation in and by Christ Vse 1 The first vse serueth for reprehension I know it is an vsuall fault of most men that they had rather erre in a generall opinion which they haue phantasied then to seeke out what is the most certaine and constant truth which they should imbrace for their owne benefit health and saluation wee are most of vs therein too ready to imitate Peter which being required by Christ to testifie his louing him more then others as hee protested by doing more duty then others but he asketh t Iohn 21. 21. 22. What Iohn shal do And so many think they make a good Apology for themselues to maintaine their errours if they can auouch one Doctor or Authour or the generalitie of the people to hold such opinions But u Heb. 2. 4. the Just shall liue by his faith that is by his owne faith And the Exorcists were rightly disgraced by the Deuill which mocked their coniurations in the name of Iesus whom Paul preached w Acts. 19. 15. 16. the euill Spirit knew Iesus to bee the powerfull Sonne of God and Paul his faithfull Seruant and Minister but what was that to them which neither knew nor followed the Doctrine of Iesus and Paul hee easily preuayled against such professors and tare them in pieces vse 2 Wee should euer therefore heare this voyce of Christ sounding in our eares Whom say yee that I am This Peter himselfe obserueth and afterwards deliuered it as a Rule to others with which I will conclude the point x 1. Pet. 3. 15. Bee readie alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you Text. Whom doe yee say that I am Obserue heere hee doth not say Quem creditis but quem dicitis Whom doe ye beleeue but Whom say ye that I am Not that faith is not required but that it is not sufficient to beleeue vnlesse they also confesse Christ and herein there is another Doctrine of Christ and of his Apostles commended vnto vs namely Doct. That what wee haue beleeued wee must also make confession thereof According to that of the Apostle y Rom. 10. 10. With the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse an● with the mouth man confesseth vnto saluation Implying that the way to bee saued is to beleeue with the heart that we are saued onely by Christ and to confesse the same before the world Vse 1 The first vse serueth to crosse two contrary opinions and practises of some First of such which thinke it sufficient to keepe their consciences vnto themselues and dissemble both with God and man as hypocrites Neuters and Nulli fidians Secondly others as afterwards was exemplified in Peter himselfe z Math. 26. 22 33 34 70 7● 74. who professed more loue and zeale to Christ then any other of his Disciples but in time of temptation his faint heart fayled him and hee fell more grieuously then any other of the Christian Professors and the offence was the greater because his Lord and Master had forewarned him and the rest of his Disciples and giuen them speciall precepts and cautions a Math. 10. 32 33. beware of denying or not confessing him before men lest hee should iustly deny them before his Father in heauen which yet not onely Nicodemus b Iohn 9. 22. 12. 42. and other faint-hearted Disciples did lest they should be excommunicated for the profession of Christ c Math. 26. 56. but Peter and all the rest forsooke him when hee went to his Passion and was conuented before the Rulers of the Iewes and Gentiles Vse 2 Hast thou faith then testifie thy faith by thy confession and for thy better direction note this distinction Confession of Christ is not onely Verball but Reall for to confesse him with thy mouth and to deny him in thy deeds is the worst deniall of all for it is a manifest abnegation of his power and goodnesse Our blessed Sauiour the paterne of all humilitie beeing sometimes demaunded to confesse of himselfe what hee was whether the Messias or the Prophet d Act. 3. 24. to whom all the Prophets from Samuel to that time gaue witnesse he chose rather to confesse and witnesse himselfe to bee Christ by his workes then by his words and therefore in the sight of such as were sent to inquire of him a Confession what he was he did many great works which no other but Christ could doe agreeably to the Prophesie of Isaiah e Isai 61. 1 c. Opening the eyes of the blinde the eares of the deafe the mouthes of the dumbe and raysing the dead f Math. 11. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Luc 7. 21. 22. Iohn ● 3. 6. and then concludeth that his workes testifie of him what he was and they that would not beleeue his wordes should yet beleeue him for his workes sake The testimony of the life is stronger then of the lippes and workes haue their eloquence in the silence of the tongue vse 3 Lastly seeing our Sauiour exacteth iustly an Account and Confession of the Apostles proficiencie what they had attained vnto aboue others in the knowledge of him it conuinceth the ignorance and backwardnesse of Seraphicall Doctors which not only professe to haue learned but to haue taught the sacred Theology concerning the Dignitie Authoritie and Offices of Christ when they shall find many of inferiour degrees of Learning onely professing themselues Schollers and Learners and not Masters and Teachers which yet in soundnesse of knowledge and practise of pietie shall out-strip and runne before these Church-Rabbins When g Iohn 3. 4 4. 5 10. Nicodemus a Doctor in Israel is palpably blind in the doctrine of Regeneration which the sinfull Canaanite Marie Magdalen and other silly women the followers of Christ h Iohn 7. 40. both knew and practised more then they i Act. 18. 25 26 yea Aquila and Priscilla which were Tent-makers and Mechanicks could instruct the eloquent Preacher Apollos to vnderstand more perfectly the Mysteries of Religion concerning Christ Now omitting many other obseruations which might bee drawne out of this Context and the reasons which mooued many not so freely to confesse Christ as they ought Let vs looke into that Confession which Peter in the name of the rest maketh who was not restrained with vulgar errour or feare as those which hauing k Act. 13. 27. the Prophets dayly read amongst them yet were blinded with wilfull ignorance in misapplying them or stumbled at that stone of Authoritie and Greatnesse of men that they

nobis indeed but Iack-an-apes to a man what should we multiply profes in so plaine a matter to proue them k Math 7. 15. wolues in sheepes cloathing making hauocke of the flocke hauing l Gal. 1. 8. another Gospel than Paul or Peter taught and therefore accursed other Mediators besides Christ and aboue to command him and so much derogating and abasing the dignitie and authority of Christ m 1. Tim. 2. 5. Heb. 12. 24. 7 25. Iohn 10. 7 8 our sole Mediator Intercessor and Sauiour that plainely pointeth and painteth them out to be Antichrists Note All this while we dispute of the works of the vssible Church wherein notwithstanding may be Wheate and Chaffe Sheepe and Goates true Professours and Hypocrites but the inuisible Church hath her inuisible markes as Gods prescience and election n 2. Tim 2. 19. the Lord knoweth who are his faith in the heart o Acts 16. 14. all such shall be saued whose hearts the Lord opened to beleeue the Gospel regeneration and renewing by the holy Ghost vnto sanctimony righteousnes loue sobrietie and all vertues p Rom. 6. 5 6 8. 2. to 15. fashioned to the image of Christ and God which was defaced by Adams transgression and our owne actuall rebellion making vs dead in trespasses and sinnes but q Colloss 2. 22. 2. 13. ● 9. 10. Gal. ● 24 Ephes 2. 1. 2. 5. 12 by Christ through faith are renewed made new men new creatures aliue vnto God adopted Children of God receiuing the Spirit of God as the pledge of our adoption and inheritance of these we cannot iudge truely because Hypocrites haue a maruailous resemblance to the children of God r Math. 7. 21 Luke 13. 25 26 they prophesie worke Miracles heare Gods word fast pray professe build Synagogues and performe many outward resplendent good workes so as Salomon could not by any outward thinge discerne the Reprobate from the Elect f Eccles 9. 2. 3. it apeareth saith hee that it commeth alike to all to him that sacrificeth as to him that sacrificeth not t Mich. 6 7. Hypocrites sacrificed thousands of Rams and streames of Oyle yea they offered the fruite of their bodies for the sinne of their soules and the Pharises u Luk 18. 11. c. can boast of many good workes when yet w Math 21. 31 penitent Publicans Harlots and sinners goe into Heauen before them Saint Paul as touching the Law liued x Phil 3 5 6 vnblameably when as yet he was no member but a y 1. Tim 1. 13 Persecutor of the visible Church till hee was called and conuerted by the voice of Christ z Rom 2. 17. 25 c. 1. Cor 10. 1 ● 5. and hee reasoneth strongly against them which boast themselues to bee the Church and people of God because they haue the outward tokens and Testimonies of the Church a Gal. 4 22 23. 28 20 37. 9. Abrahams seede are the children of Promise but in Isaack not the carnall progeny which persecute the Children borne of the spirit b Rom. 2. 25 26 c. outwardly Iewes but in truth are not their circumcision for want of faith becommeth vncircumcition and the eating of the Pasouer with leauened hearts did polute it and brought the wrath of God vpon them as c Acts 8. 13. 18 to 23. Simon Magus was acursed after he had receiued the outward Sacrament of baptisme and was full of the gall of bitternesse hypocrisie and all iniquitie d 1. Iohn 2. 19. many are in the Church which are not of the Church as e Mat. 13. 27. Tares and Wheat f Cap. 25. 32 33. Goates and Sheepe g Cap. 13. 48. 49. Fish good and bad are drawne together into a visible Church out of the Sea of this world but the good shall be preserued and the reffuse cast away and reiected foolish Virgins h Matt. 25. 2. 3. 10 11 12 c. haue no entaince though they pretend to waite for the Bridegroomes comming but are not religiously prepared as the wise with oyle in their lampes i Mat. 13. 30. when the good wheate is gathered into the garner the chaffe shall be burned with vnquenchable fire so our blessed Sauiour as well in sundry pregnant parables as declaratiue and plaine propositions k Mat. 3. 9. 12. Iohn 8. 39. Gala. 3. 7 16. Cap. 4. 22. 28. Rom. 4. 13 14 would driue vs from this vaine confidence which the Iewes had in boasting they were Abrahams seede and rested vpon the carnall ceremonies of the Law and the materiall Temple and Tabernacle all which the blessed proto-Martyre Saint Steuen largely answereth and confuteth l Act. 7. 2. 44 48 by an history call relation shewing vnto the Iewes that the Temple Law and Ceremonies must giue place to Christ Vse 2 Hauing then so sure a word of Prophesie as the Gospell and holy Scriptures to guide vs let vs which professe Christ neither stagger with Thomas m Ioh. 20. 25. we see and feele such visible and sensible signes n Gal. 3 3 and hauing begun in the spirit seeke to end in the flesh for it is too apparant and palpable that the Romish Religion and markes of their Church are altogether outward and carnall and wholy tende to delight and delude the senses and leaue the soule without any spirituall edification let vs therefore o Ioh. 1. 45. with Nathaniel seeke the Messiah and come to finde him by the guiding of Philip and the Apostles which inuite vs to come and see whom euen him of whom Moses and the Prophets did write Iesus of Nazareth and if hee make a question if any good come out of Nazareth or as the Pharises affirmed that p Ioh. 7. 41 42 out of Galile ariseth no Prophet yet the Scriptures expresse the contrary in both for q Mat. 2 23 Isay 9. 1 2 Luke 1. 26. he shall be called a Nazarite and not onely r Luke 4. 34. the Deuils acknowledge him a Nazarite but Pilate wrote the inscription of his crosse ſ Iohn 19. 19. Iesus of Nazareth the King of the Jewes to this Touchstone Christ himselfe directeth vs t Iohn 5. 35. search the Scriptures u Luk. 16. 29. Moses and the Prophets are left to keepe men out of Hell the place of torment and Peter sendeth vs w 2. Pet. 1. 19. to this sure word of prophesie and the beloued Apostle commendeth this assurance of saluation to the elect Lady x 2. Ioh. 9 10. to continue in the Doctrine of Christ without which they are without God that is are no Church at all nor members of Christ Vse 3 To draw then to a conclusion of these words I will build my Church these markes either of a Church or building wee require our aduersaries to shew in their Church which boast of faith and yet debarr the preaching and reading of the word of God