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A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

c. whose waters cast vp myre and dirt so these by the foame of their mouthes and wordes doe cast vp the dirt of their hearts Our Sauiour Christ sheweth the reason Math. 12. 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh as their heart is wicked and corrupt so are their words First then this note fitly agreeth to all Error 36. popish writers for let a view be taken of their bookes therein shall you finde cursing rayling proud boasting presumptuous Papists rayl●rs words blasphemous speaches so that their manner of style and writing doth easily bewray their enuious spirit wherewith they are pricked forward they call vs heretikes reprobates accursed worse then turks with such like opprobrious tearmes as also while they defend the grossest errours of poperie as of the carnall presence purgatorie adoration of images works of supererrogation and such like they foame out their owne shame Secondly we are taught euery man to gouerne his tongue to refraine lying slandering swearing for what doe these else then bewray their filthie shame neither shall escape vnpunished as Psal. 52. 4. Thou louest all words that may destroy so shall God destroy thee for euer and therefore Prou. 14. 3. it is said that in the lippes of fooles is a rodde of pride that is his proud foolish tongue is a rod to whip himselfe As wandring starres to whome is reserued the blacknes of darknes for euer That is Doctr. 4. horrible and euerlasting darkenes Here then the doctrine is that they which doe erre themselues and mislead others as they delighted in darknes so shall be punished with euerlasting darknes This the Apostle sheweth thus alleadging out of the Psalme Destruction and calamitie are in their waies the way of pease or truth they haue not knowne Rom. 3. 17. They are ouerwhelmed with destruction because they peruerted others with their errors Such was that great seducer Simon Magus to whome S. Peter saith Thy money perish with thee c. thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this busines Act. 8. 21. For like as wandring starres doe sometime loose their light beeing ouershadowed of the funne and as falling starres are extinct like a torch quenched in waters Reuel 8. 10. so are false teachers compared and they haue the key of the bottomlesse pit to open it to themselues and others Reuel 9. 1. The reason is giuen by the Apostle 1. Ioh. 1. 5. God is light and in him is no darkenesse therefore they which delight in error and darknesse can haue no accesse vnto God First we see the ende of all seducers and false teachers whether Papists or others the deuill that deceiued and false prophets shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Reuel 20. 10. Secondly neither giue you eare to false and erroneous doctrines to be as wandring starres to wander from one doctrine to an other to your owne confusion The 11. lecture vers 14. And Enoch also the seauenth from Adam prophecied of such saying c. The Apostle hauing first discou●● and descried the sinnes and corruptions of these seducers v. 8 9 10. and then amplified the same by examples v. 11. by similitudes and comparisons v. 12 13. he returneth againe to shew the certentie of their iudgemēt which as he did first by the former examples of Gods iustice against the incredulous Israelits v. 5. the apostatat angels v. 6. the wicked cities of Sodō Gomorra v. 7. so now he doth verifie the same by an ancient prophesie of Enoch contained v. 14 15. Where we haue to cōsider of the Prophet here named to be Enoch the seauenth frō Adam then of the prophesie which is of Gods finall iudgement both of the forme and manner thereof The Lord commeth with thousands c. and of the matter or subiect first God shall rebuke or conuince both of their wicked deedes and cruell words and then he shall giue iudgement and sentence against them First then seeing Enoch so long agoe euen Doctr. 1. fowre thousand sixe hundred yeare since prophecied of the comming of the Lord to iudgement when as yet the world had not beene destroied by waters we doe The certentie of the day of iudgement see the certentie of this day of the Lord that it shal surely come Thus the prophets beleeued Behold saith Esay The Lord will come like fire his chariots like whirlewind that he may recompence his anger with wrath and his indignation with the flame of fire for the Lord will iudge with fire Isay 66. 16. Thus the Apostles preached as S. Paul testifieth Behold he will appoint a day wherein he will iudge the world in righteousnesse Act. 17. 31. A president of this iudgement day we haue 1. King 22. 19. I saw the Lord saith Michaiah sitte on his throne and all the hoast stand about him on his right hand and on his left And Dan. 7. 9. I beheld till the thrones were set and the auncient of daies did sit c. v. 10. a fierie streame issued from before him thousand thousands mustered before him the iudgement was set the bookes opened such shall be the comming of Christ to iudgement For like as the husbandman in the euening calleth his labourers to paie them their hire Matth. 20. 8. the master reckoneth with his seruants Math. 25. 19. the rich man taketh account of his steward Luk. 16. 2. so the Lord hath appointed a day of reckoning wherein he wil call all men to account The reason why God hath purposed a generall iudgement is grounded vpon his iustice 2. Thess. 1. ● It is iust with God to render tribulation to those which trouble you and to you which are troubled rest when the Lord Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels First then whereas some take occasiō to reiect the authoritie of this book because it citeth a testimonie out of the booke of Henoch which was Apocryphal as Hierome Catalog scrip testifieth and the Papists by this that of Michael v. 9. which are not found in the Canonicall scripture doe inferre that there are many trueths to be found which are not written in scripture Our answer then is this first that there are many Apocriphal books of obscure and vncertaine authoritie as the Acts of Peter the gospell and reuelation of Peter a gospell to the Hebrewes the epistle of Barnabas the trauaile of Paul and Tecla and such other whereof Hierome maketh mētion and among the rest there was the Catalog scrip booke of Henoch cited by Origen yet this testimonie is not alleadged out of any Hom. 34. in nu●er such obscure booke but either deliuered by faithful tradition or else extant in some booke of authoritie which is nowe perished as we read of other bookes in scripture nowe lost as the booke of the battels of the Lord cited by Moses Numb 21. 14. the booke of Iasher or the righteous Iosua 10. 13. the bookes of Nathan Gad Iddo

other prophets mentioned in the Chronicles Secondly our answere to the Papists Error 37. Of the prophecie of Henoch is this 1. that although some bookes of scripture be wanting yet these remaining are sufficient 2. that although this prophecie of Henoch were deliuered by tradition yet is it agreeable and consonant to scripture which euery where testifieth the same this maketh not then for traditions contrarie or repugnant to scripture such as are their vnwritten traditions Thirdly this text conuinceth Atheists that expect no such day of iudgement who herein are worse then some of the heathen who beleeued a iudgement after this life which they say was committed to the Iudges Minos Rhadmanthus Aeacus of this opinion was Plato they erred In Gorgia in the manner for God hath committed all iudgement to his sonne but they granted the thing But it is safe for vs to stand in awe of Gods iudgement and to be in expectation of this day as the Apostle saith Knowing the tenour of this day we perswade men 2. Cor. 5. 11. as one of the Fathers hath fitly resembled it thus That like as schollers comming to render their lesson to their Master which they had receiued I● s●hola●● esses acciperes ●on redderes aut cum expe●●● teddere si●● metu ●●is plagarum ●modo ergo accepimus poste● statuemur corā magistro vt ration● redda●us de omnibus quae accepimus Aug. Ps. 93. Doct. 2. doe it not without feare so we should tremble to thinke of this daie when we shall giue account vnto God of all things giuen vs in charge Behold the Lord commeth with thousands of Saints c. or with his holy thousands that is the holy Angels with their royall host shall accompanie our Lord Christ to iudgement and his holy Saints also shall waite and attend vpon him beeing eftsoones at his comming receiued vp to glorie We see then the prerogatiue of the Saints that they shall not stand like malefactours at the barre before the tribunall seate of Christ to be iudged with the wicked but shall presently receiue honour in the sight of those which are damned This is that which S. Paul saith that they shall be caught vp in the cloudes and meete Christ in the aire 1. Thes. 4. 17. A president of this we haue Reu. 14. 1. where the Lambe stādeth vpō Mount Sinai with an 144. thousand that were marked in the foreheads Like as the virgins make haste to meete the bridegrome Math. 25. 1. and as the eagles gather togither where the carcasse is Math. 24. 28. so the Saints shall be foorthwith gathered to Christ. The reason is giuen by our Sauiour Iohn 12. 26. where I am there shall my minister be the saints then as Christs ministers shall waite and attend vpon him First then by this that hath beene said we may easily recōcile two places of scripture which haue much troubled the Fathers the one Psal. 1. 6. The wicked shall not rise vp or stand in iudgement and the other Ioh. 5. 24. He that beleeueth shall not come into iudgement If neither the beleeuers nor the wicked shall come to iudgement then it would followe that none at all should come Hilarie therfore and Origen thinke that neither the godly faithfull nor the wicked infidels shall be iudged the one being cleared the other condemned in their owne conscience but they which are inter impios piosque medii as in the midst between Hilar in Psal. ● Origen in 3. lib. ●ob the godly and vngodly which are in the faith yet liue not thereafter But S. Paul taketh away this sense saying We must all appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ. Godly vngodly good and bad S. Ambr. 2. Cor. 5. 10. Serm 20. in Psal. 119. thinketh that the righteous only shal come into iudgement quia ●estinant innoxij ad iudiciū because the guiltles innocēt make haste to iudgement as not fearing it the wicked doe tremble at it and dare not come neare it but the Apostle saith otherwise that the wicked aboue all other shall not escape the iudgement of God Rom. 2. 3. But the places are better thus reconciled the beleeuers shal not come into iudgment that is as Augustine expoundeth iudicium condemnationis the iudgement of condemnation and the wicked shall not stand in iudgement that is in that iudgement which the righteous shall receiue as it followeth in the next words nor sinners in the assemblie of the righteous And to this purpose Ambrose well saith He will not house fellowshippe of iudgement betweene the Non vult cōmune sanctis cum di●boli sociis iudic●i e●●econso tium Serm 20 in Psal. 116. Saints and the wicked which are companions of the deuill they shall receiue each their sentence and iudgement apart For first the Saints shal be gathered togither Psal. 50. 5. and to them shall be pronounced the ioyfull sentence Come ye blessed inherit the kingdome prepared for you Math. 25. 34. afterward shall followe the fearefull iudgment of the wicked v. 41. Depart from me ye cursed So then we refuse Origens conceit which vpon these wordes Psalm 37. 34. When the wicked shall perish thou shalt see Hom. 5. in Psal. 〈◊〉 inferreth that the Saints shall first see the wicked condemned and then they themselues shall be exalted But the contrarie is gathered out of the Gospell Luk. 13. 28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham Isaack and Iaacob c in the kingdome of God and your selues thrust out at the doores the exaltation of the Saints in the sight of the wicked shal goe before The prophet then in the fore-recited place either speaketh of the experience which the righteous shall haue in this life when they see the destruction of the wicked or els it may well be that the Saints though first exalted may yet see and behold the iust condemnation of the vniust as Abraham and Lazarus did see the rich man in torment as he sawe them in glorie Luk. 16. Secōdly the opinion of the papists may here also be refuted who affir me that the Rhemists Error 38. How the ●aint● shall iudge the world Saints shall giue sentence with Christ misvnderstanding the Apostle where hee saith the Saints shall iudge the world 1. Cor. 6. 2. For the Apostle in so saying meaneth not that God hath committed the iudgement of the world to the saints for then he should be contrarie to Christ who saieth that the father hath committed all iudgment to the sonne Ioh. 5. 22. But the Apostles and saints are said to iudge the world because their life and doctrine shall be a condemnation to the world as Christ saith His word shall iudge in the latter daie Ioh. 12. 48. And Origen doeth well interprete this place thus Not Non Paulus ●pse●ed opus Pauli quod faci●●at in Euangelio iudicabit Paul himselfe but Pauls worke and labour in the Gospell shall

iudge them Or by this phrase the Apostle onely doeth expresse the great honour that Christ shal giue vnto Hom. 11. num his saints as Psal. 149. 9. That they may execute vpon them the iudgement that is written such honour haue all his saints for like as Salomon sitting in his throne placed his mother in a seate at his right hand 2. King 2. 19. and as Iehu tooke Iehonadab by the hand vp into his chariot yet neither Salomon makes his mother nor Iehu the other partners in the kingdome though they thus honoured them Neither doth Christ make his Apostles his fellowe iudges though they shal sitte in thrones but hereby Cohaeredes Ch●istus non solum in partem haereditatis sed in consortium pocestatis accepit in 8. ad Rom. their great honour is signified And so Origen is to be vnderstood saying Christ hath taken his coheires not onely to be partners of the inheritance but fellowes with him of his power Thirdly this is much to the comfort of the faithfull that howsoeuer they are despised in the world yet the Lord will aduance them as our Sauiour saith Feare not Luk. 12. 3● little stocke it is your fathers pleasure to giue you a kingdome That we should now so arme our selues with faith so labour for the peace of conscience so loue the appearing of Christ that at his comming we may stand forth with ioy and confidence and so decline the waies of the wicked here that we may escape their iudgement at that day and may be associate and gathered to the blessed companie of the Elect that Christ may be honoured in vs and the rest of the thousands of his Saints Amen vers 15. To giue iudgement against all men c. That is all vngodly men high Doctr. 3. or low great or small none shall be exempted from the iudgement of that day So the Lord saith by the prophet Ieremie 25. 30. The Lord shall roare from aboue and thrust out his voice c. v. 31. The sound shall come to the ends of the world for the Lord hath a controuersie with all nations and will enter into iudgemēt with all flesh c. And therfore the Lord is said when he commeth to iudge to stretch out his hands as one that swimmeth Isa. 25. 11. that is his iudgements shall extend to all and like an ouerflowing riuer that goeth ouer all the bankes and passeth through and commeth vp to the necke Isa. 8. 8. so shall be the indignation of that day none shall escape it no more then the wicked people of the olde world could preserue themselues from the flood The gyants and great men before the flood could not deliuer themselues by their strength Gen. 6. 4. and Pharaoh for all his power was ouerwhelmed in the sea Exod. 14. and the rich glutton could not be exempted from hell by his riches The reason is taken from the great power of God Who is like me or who is the shepheard that is any ruler so mightie that can stand before me Ier. 49. 19. First then we see that the mightie and great Potentates in the world shall be iudged euen the great Antichrist of Rome Antichrist iudged whome his clawbackes and flatterers call an other God on earth and that he is not to be iudged of any and though he should carrie a thousand soules with him to hell no man is to say vnto him why doe you so yet God shall iudge him For the deuill the beast and false prophet shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Reuel 20. 10. Yea the Lord shall iudge the gods of the heathen Venus Iupiter and other Tunc Venus cum prolesu● exhibebitur ignitus Iupiter adducetur Hier. ad Heliodor whome they worshipped as Gods shall be brought to iudgement before that great God who is to be feared aboue all gods 1. Chron. 16. 25. Secondly seeing the greatest Potentates of the world cannot escape the wrath of that day this should keepe men in feare and awe and thus to reason with themselues as the men of Samaria did concerning Iehu Two kings could not stand before him how then shall we stand 2. King 10. 4. If then the mightie states of the world shal not be exempted thou foolish simple man why dost thou flatter thy selfe in thy sinnes dreaming of impunitie To rebuke all the vngodly among them of Doctr. 4. all their wicked deedes c. And of all their cruell or hard speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him c. From hence it is inforced that wicked men shall not onely giue account for their We shall answer for idle words vngodly workes but be accountable also for their blasphemous tongue and impious words This our Sauiour Christ testifieth Matth. 12. 36. that of euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement for by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified that is discerned and declared to be iust and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Agreeable to this is that of Saint Paul that euery man shall receiue according to that he hath done in his bodie whether it be good or euill 2. Cor. 5. 10. but words as well as workes are things done by the bodie the one by the hands the other by the mouth and tongue and therefore euen men shall answer for their words It was the iust condemnation of Core Dathan and Abiram for speaking insolent and rebellious wordes against Moses and Aaron Numb 16. 3. And the Scribes are iudged worthie of euerlasting condemnation for speaking blasphemie against Christ our Sauiour Mat. 3. 28. The reason is rendred by our Sauiour Matth. 12. 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Therefore an euill tongue is iustly punished because besides the euilnesse thereof it bewraieth a corrupt heart like as bitter waters doe shew the fountaine to be impure and therefore the Psalmist compareth a cruell and deceitfull tongue to the sharpe arrowes of a gyant and to coales of iuniper Psal. 130. 4. that like as arrowes sent out of a strong mans bow goe with great force and violence and as iuniper coales are feruently hote and continue long such are wicked wordes forced out of an euill heart and set on fire by the malice thereof First then by this doctrine we may discerne Error 39. of what spirits the Papists are that with most cruell wordes and reuiling Papists bitter raylings speeches doe blaspheme the Gospel and the professours thereof as one most wickedly Harding calleth vs a p. 359. Cananites b 18. Apostataes c 342. sathanical d 510. detestable blasphemers deuillish rabble with such other vngodly tearms others of them blaspheme vs with Rhemists the names of e Iam. 5. sect 5. miscreants f Rom 1● v 33. reprobates worse then g Act. 8. sect 10. Simon Magus h Arthur de invocat sanct

the end the deuills shall be saued seeing the Scripture saith they are kept in euerlasting chaines 2. Against the Papists that make diuers Error 16. degrees of hell and two of them the Limbus patrum and Purgatorie they say are but for a time here we see the chaines of hell are euerlasting and that there is no hell but for euer 3. Here is a lesson of feare and terror that if God spared not the angels if they could not escape Gods iudgement how much lesse shall men though neuer so mightie escape 4. A lesson of comfort that the deuill is chained and fettered he is able to doe vs no more hurt then the Lord permitteth he could not without leaue hurt the swine Mark 5. v. 7. Sodome and Gomorrha and the cities about them which in like manner c. Doctrine Like sinnes deserue like punishment and partakers in euill shall be partakers in reward These cities were Admah and Zeboim Deut. 29. 23. which perished in the flames of Sodome and Gomorrha Testim Reuel 18. 4. Goe out of her that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and receiue of her plagues Exempl Gen. 49. 5. Simeon and Leui as they were brethren in euill so are they partakers in the same punishment vers 7. they are deuided in Israel For Simeon had his lot vnder Iudah Ios. 19. 1. and Leui was dispersed among the tribes Obadiah v. 14. 15. the Edomites because they did partake with the Assyrians in the destruction of Ierusalem are partakers also of their destruction Exorn. Eccl. 9. 12. Like as fishes running into the net togither are taken togither and birds in the snare so the wicked confederating themselues shal be enwrapped in the same iudgement of God when it commeth Reason For as it standeth with Gods iustice that they which haue laboured together in Gods seruice should be rewarded together Luk. 22. 28 29. so on the other side it is iust that they which sinne together should be punished together Applicat 1. Against the Papists who beeing idolatours as the Israelites were Error 17. Papists idolaters why should they not feare the same punishment 1. Cor. 10. 7. But they will answer they are not such idolatours for they doe not worship an image but as it hath relation to the Saint whose image it is Ans. No more did the Israelites thinke that the golden calfe was the God that brought them out of Egypt but a memoriall of him because they did sacrifice such beasts vnto God as it may appeare Exod 32. 5. To morrow saith Aaron shaeli be an holy day laiehovah to the Lord Iehova Neither were the people so blockish to thinke that a calfe could bring them out of Egypt nor Aaron so wicked to worship a calfe 2. We learne that euery man should take heede of those sinnes which he seeth before his eyes to be seuerely punished why should he thinke himselfe to be exempted Nabal slaine for his couetousnes and erueltic 1. Sam. 25. the Israelites for their gluttonie adulterie the blasphemer was stoned Leuit. 24. Dathan and Abiram for their murmuring and rebellion Numb 16. Herod for his pride deuoured of wormes Act. 1● why should not couetous persons adulterous drunkards blasphemers feare the same punishments Are set forth as examples or for an ensample Doctrin 3. Doctrin That Gods iudgements vpon men for sinne are not onely executed as punishments of their wickednesse but to be ensamples to admonish others Testimon Prouerb 19. 25. If thou smite a scorner the foolish will beware that is the simple will be warned by anothers punishment Prou. 24. 32. I considered it well c. Examp. Gen. 38. 11. Iudah prouideth for his sonne Selah by the example of Er and Onan whome God killed for their wickednesse but contrariwise Lamech is set forth as a prophane person Gen. 4. 23. that would not be warned to take heed of murther by Cains example This example of Sodome and Gomorrha is often repeated in the scripture as most famous Deut. 29. 23. Ier. 20. 16. 49. 18. Hosh. 11. 8. Exornat Like as a visible marke was set in Caine that all men should take warning by him Lots wife was turned into a pillar of salt to be a perpetuall monument to all posteritie vt te suo exemplo condiret to season thee with her example as Augustine saith Aitiolog Psal. 111. 4. God hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance This is the ende why God sheweth his iudgements in the world that other may be learned like as the lightening and the raine falleth in the wildernesse Iob. 38. 26. and the hayle in the forrest Isay 32. 19. that men may take heed as a man will correct his seruant that his child may be warned so God punisheth the wicked to admonish his owne children Applicat 1. Against the Papists that Error 18. keepe backe these examples from the peoples Scriptures not to be kept frō the people knowledge and shut vp the scriptures in a straunge tongue as the Pharises did shutte vp the kingdome of heauen Math. 23. 13. 2. Against the carnall securitie of those which make no vse of Gods examples vpon others but the righteous will be admonished Isay. 26. 9. But the wicked wil not behold the high hand of God See what Christ saith Luk. 13. 4. Vnlesse ye repent ye shall likewise perish Uers. 7. Committed fornication and followed Doct. 4. strange flesh suffer vengeance of euerlasting fire c. Here the Apostle sheweth some of the cheife sinnes of Sodome fornication and that sinne of vncleannesse which is against nature which yet hath the name of Sodome such as the Apostle describeth to haue beene the sinne of the Gentiles Rom. 1. 27. This the Apostle calleth strange flesh other sinnes also are described Ezech. 20. 29. pride fulnesse of bread idlenesse vnmercifulnesse Doctrin These sinnes are worthy and rewarded with euerlasting damnation Testim 1. Cor. 6. 9. Neither fornicators c. shall inherit the kingdome of heauen what is their reward then they shall be cast into the lake of fire Reu. 21. 8. Examp. In the rich man that led his life in all carnall pleasure and wantonnes he is tormented in hell flames Luk. 16. God iudged the old world for their sinnes who nowe are in prison that is in hell 1. Peter 3. 20. Exornat Like as magistrates haue here their prisons to the which they commit offenders as Math. 18. 34. So hell is Gods prison Aitiolog The reason why God punisheth the sinnes of men with euerlasting fire and destruction is both in respect of the maiestie of God who is offended and his euerlasting will transgressed as we see sinnes committed against the prince are most grieuously punished 1. Sam. 2. 25. as also in respect of themselues because they haue a will to sinne euer if they could liue euer as Gregorie saith Adiusticiam dei pertinet vt nunquam careant supplicio qui carere noluerunt peccato It