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A18908 Antidoton or a soueraigne remedie against schisme and heresie: gathered to analogie and proportion of faith, from that parable of tares. Matth.13. Aug.ep.3.Nullorum disput.&c. We ought to haue no men their disputations (although men Catholike and praise worthie) in that count as we haue the canonicall scriptures: so that it should be vnlawfull for vs to improue and refuse some things in their writings, if happily we finde that they thought otherwise then the truth hath. Such a one am I in other mens writings, and so would I haue others to vnderstand of my writings. Clapham, Henoch. 1600 (1600) STC 5330; ESTC S111140 38,797 50

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ANTIDOTON OR A SOVERAIGNE REMEDIE AGAINST SCHISME AND HERESIE Gathered to Analogie and proportion of Faith from that Parable of Tares MATTH 13. Aug. ep 3. Nullorum disput c. We ought to haue no men their disputations although men Catholike and praise worthie in that count as we haue the Canonicall Scriptures so that it should be vnlawfull for vs to improue and refuse some things in their writings if happily we finde that they thought otherwise then the truth hath Such a one am I in other mens writings and so would I haue others to vnderstand of my writings LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe 1600. Principall positions proued in the discourse of the Parable 1 That the kingdom of heauen Math. 13.24 it is not vsed for the state of the world but of the new Testaments Church 2 That the Church is Catholike and in some measure euer visible in this life 3 That the Church of Christ was planted here in England in the Apostles times and continued notably vncorrupted till about Anno Domini 600. 4 That Anti-christianitie or the marke of the beast it is not considered in separable accidentall corruption in faith or manners but in that is essentiall and fundamentall 5 That the Tares in this Parable are wicked within the Church and visible to the gouerners thereof 6 That the Tares are onely such wicked as cannot with Churches peace and safetie be pulled vp 7 That such Tares are of holy pollicie to be permitted and yet no defilement to spirituall communion 8 Brounistes outward ordination proued more against Christes rule then euer any was before 9 That difference of torment and measure of glorie abideth the damned and saued TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HIS VERIE GOOD LORD SIR EDMVND ANDERSON KNIGHT Lord Chiefe Iustice of her Maiesties court of the common Pleaes THree mightie men bringing of Bethlehems waters vnto Dauid he powres it foorth before the Lorde not quenching bodies thirst therewith because it was purchased with liues hazard Vnto your Lordship I humbly present a moitie of waters drawne from mysticall Beth-lehem the house of Bread the Church of Christ Iesus and they not purchased with lesse then the hazard of my bodie and soules saluation If your Lordship shall deeme it good they be powred forth before the Lord for erudition to the soule it is that I couet and which some thirstie soules desire with great appetite Dutie calleth me to offer it and the experience I haue of your Lordship tendring my good it emboldens my presentation Pythagoras hauing instituted his Puple in the first place to worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the immortall God he in the second place inioyneth that he reuerence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preexcelling Heroiks Which Heroicall Personages are of auncient Hesiode couched in his fourth age after them of Golde Siluer Brasse but before that of yron obdured and determined for such as had care of executing iudgement and Iustice by Land and Sea maintaining and vpweilding the same by magnanimious and martiall valour for the which they are tearmed there Semi-Dijsts but in sacred writ Gods because his word is committed to such in his Church When I remember the vnion of your Lordships house with that of the right Woo. Moon-suns a family to whom I haue owed much from my young yeares I then methinks see Wisdome and Warre conioyned without either of which no common wealth can endure and by the continuance of both which my simplicitie hath been sheltred and my innocencie shielded So that I if any haue cause to auow allegiance not Tam Marti quam Mercurio but to the Christian subiects of Wisdome and Valour The schedule I present it is an exposition of that Parable of Tares propounded by our Lord and Master Christ Iesus Wherein is considered first the glorious estate of the New-testaments Church first planted throughout the world by the Ministerie of the Apostles then secondly the corruption thereof through Ministers sleepie negligence yea the corruption so deeply setled therein as well it might be in these latter times Reformed but neuer quite purged of visible euill nor Replanted vntill the Sonne of man in his great day of haruest doe that by the ministerie of his Angels A doctrine so necessary as without the knowledge thereof a man shall either rush on the error of the right hand through desperate vn-bridled Zeale or on that on the left hand through a frozen cold securitie Such being my dutie and such my presentation I humbly so remaine Your Lordships dutifull Suppliant HENOCH CLAPHAM TO ALL SVCH SPECIALLY AS whose soules distressed with our ages controuersies doe desire resolution drawen from reason and experience IF he be accursed by the law that sets the blind out of his way what better is his state that heareth the worde of an oth and though he can will not giue in testimony of the truth Sure he shall beare his iniquitie These two lawes haue enforced me first publikely to preach then secondly to publish the sequell in print And so much the more as the former two decrees of mount Sion they concerne neerer then many In my first looking after religion my lot was to associate such onely as onely tasted and affected another kind of ministerie which as they said yet we had not in England And that they tearmed the ministerie of Pastor Doctor Elders Deacons Widowes due to euerie particular Church Those words I soone learned as also that the Pastor was to exhort the Doctor to teach or deliuer doctrine the Elders to gouerne and exercise the disciplinall cens●res in common with Pastor and Doctor the Deacons onely to attend poore and loue-feastes the widowes to wait on the sicke That platforme once swallowed I then was easily perswaded that our Bishops their Ordinations and all ministerie standing vnder them it was Antichristian and an Image of the beast And looke how many corruptions so many markes of the beast which whosoeuer receiued in forehead or hand euen all such should drinke of the cup of the wine of God his wrath All this so hanging togither except I would practise contrarie to my perswasion as many deceitfully haue done out of the land I must as I loued my libertie I did so First into the Low-countries I went Afterwards into Scotland After that againe into the Low-countries Then again into Scotland And once againe into Netherland c. Sometimes haled by this faction sometimes pulled by that faction But the Lord being mercifull vnto me howsoeuer I was notablie distract about externall Church-gouernment yet as all my printed bookes will testifie I kept me euer fast vnto the maine point that is vnto the foundation of the Gospell I had before here receiued and had in Lancashire for some two yeares publikely ministred being before now some nine yeares since ordained fully thereto by Bishop Wicham then Bishop of Lincolne About some fiue years since it pleased God to giue me an earnest desire