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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18980	A briefe discourse of mans transgression [an]d of his rede[mption by Christ, with a particular surueigh of the Romish religion]	Clement, Francis.	1593 (1593)	STC 5399.8; ESTC S3116	50,810	106

c. are in all the iust ministers of Gods word alway shal be Mat. 18. verse 17. 18. 1 Cor. 5 4 c. 2 Cor. 2. verse 7. 15. and 10 4. 1. Tim. 5. verse 20. 24. Iud. vers 22. 23. Yea though their priuiledge were good as we see it counterfet and common yet must it either be personal or locall or mixt of both If it be personal it perished with Peter if locall what place shall euer be of so great priuiledge prerogatiues as was mount Sion Ierusalem what special couenants Sions prerogatiues what excellent promises had she God hath layd his foundations among the holy mountaines the Lord loued the gates of Sion aboue all the habitations of Iacob Of Sion it shall be said many are borne in her and the Most-high shall stablish her c. Psal 87 1 c. For the Lord hath chosen Sion and loued to dwell in it saying This is my rest for euer here will I dwell for I haue a delight therein c. Psal 132 13 c. And the Iewes were not a litle proud hereof Ier. 7 3 c. but Gods promises to Ierusalem were conditionall if thy sonnes keepe my couenant c. Psa 132 12. for else it should be serued as Shilo was Ierem. 7 14. Ierusalem should be counted as Sodome Ezech. 16. verse 48. 53. Reade 2 King 23 27. and Sion for their sake should be plowed as a field and Ierusalem become as heaps Micah 3 12. And touching local worship our Sauiour hath taught vs in his communication to the woman of Samaria that the true worshippers of God should looke for none Ioh. 4. verse 20. 21. 23. for men may and must pray in euery place listing vp pure hands without wrath and * Mat. 21. verse 21 22. Iames 1 6. doubting 1 Tim. 2 8. 1 Cor. 1 2. To come then to their Church how is their church the Church of Christ seeing they reiect the word of God as they do Our Sauiour reasoneth thus against the Iewes He that is of God heareth Gods wordes ye therefore heare them not because ye are not of God Ioh. 8 47. If all men be bound to allow this reason as vpon pain of damnation they are howe is the Church of a This is meant of their visible out ward Church for else there are among them many no doubt who fearing God and embracing his word abhorre the Beast detest his religiō as were in that corrupt time of Ahab 1 king 19 ver 10. 18. Rom. 11 ver 3. 4. And good Obadia a chiefe officer in Ahabs Court 1 king 18 〈◊〉 and in S. Paules time they of Neros houshold at Rome Phil. 4 22. Rome a member of the Church of God sith it refuseth to heare his woord as wee see by practise in their a Recusants are to bee compelled to come heare the word of God Lu. 14 23. by these examples Iosh 24 23 c. 2 Chro. 34 33. Ezra 7 26. Ne. 10. ve 1. 28 c. And by these warrants Exod. 22 20. Nom. 9 13. Deut. 13 12 c. 17 2 c. Isa 8 20. Zec. 13 2 c. for like as by their refusing to heare Gods word they shew them selues not to be of God as our Lord testifieth Ioh. 8 47 euē so through the same refusall their prayer and diuine seruice is abhominable in Gods sight as the holy Ghost witnesseth Prou. 28 9. And euen to worship the liuing God otherwise then he prescribeth in his word is all one thing vnto him as to serue Idoles and strange gods onely as we may see Exod. 32. ve 1. 4 c. and 1 king 12 28. and 2 king 17. verse 28. 29. 32 c. where those calfeworshippers in shew of the Calfe pretended the worship of the true God as plainly appeareth by Aarons Holy-day to the Lord Exod. 32 5. and by Ieroboams craftie tendering the peoples farre iourneyes to worship God at Ierusalem 1 king 12 28. Also in Ezech. 43. verse 7. 8. and Zephan 1 5. they mingled their image-worship with Gods seruice And therefore Act. 7. verse 43. 44. Gods Tabernacle is called the Tabernacle of Moloch because the Iewes in the wildernesse worshipped God with Moloch the Idoll of the Ammonites Leuit. 20 2 c. Amos 5 25. for what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idoles 2 Cor. 6 16. And because our Recusants are Idolaters and Image-seruers and therefore can spiritually neither see nor vnderstand as the holy Ghost testifieth Isa 44 18. Psalm 115 8. 2 Thes 2 10 c. they are the more to be constrained and pitied by compulsion 2 Tim. 2. verse 25. 26. Iude verse 23. Recusants in other open contempts Which thing doubtlesse they do because the word is not marked with the marke name and image of their Beast and the number and print of his name Reuel 13. verse 16. 17. and 14 11. which is to be read in Latin to carrie the priuate exposition of their Church to be mingled with the wormwoodish and bitter waters of their Church-traditions c. Reu. 8 10 c. And because also that they take their Church to be aboue Gods word for the holie Scriptures lie vnder the checke forsooth of their Church But the word of God shall iudge them in the last day Ioh. 12 48. dare they then controll their iudge Exo. 22 28. Againe how may their Church ouer rule the holy Scripturs sith it is Gods word that must either approue it the Church of Christ or conuince it the synagogue of Satan Ioh. 7 17. Rom. 6 17. 1 Io. 4 1. 2 Ioh verse 10. And we haue seene in the beginning of this Treatise that the time was and that since mans Creation when there was no Church at all viz. whē Adam and Eue being Satans bondslaues were hid in the bushes and til they heard the word of the promise of redemption they were no members of Gods Church But by faith onely in that word of God they were regenerate into the Church of Christ as Saint Peter speaketh 1 Pet. 1 23 Therefore the doctrine of the Catholikes is most absurd to teach that the Church being begotten by the immortall seed of Gods word may after dare like a malapert impe to controll or infringe the authoritie of that word and to presume to ouer rule it But we sillie soules cannot see that their b The Papists pretend Christs promise for this spirit Ioh. 14 26 but our Lord promiseth that the holy Ghost should suggest onely that which himself had taught reade the place now Christ and his Apostles taught nothing but out of the law and the Prophets Luk. 24 44. Act. 26 22. Therfore their spirit teaching otherwise is a cosoning counterfet priui-prōpt-spirit instructeth their Church of higher and more excellent things then the holy Scriptures auouch among which I trowe are these That their Pope cannot erre That the Virgine Marie and Saints departed this

we are the childrē of god 1 Ioh. 5 10. Rom 8. ve 9. 15. Eph. 1 13 we delight in the law of God take no pleasure in sin Heb. 11. 25. but are grieued with sin 2. Pet. 2 8. and say with S. Paul I do not the good thing which I would but the euil which I would not Rom. 8 19. And euery one whose heart and conscience can truly thus perswade him is vndoubtedly the elected child of God Where contrarily the reprobate delite in sin because they are of the world Ioh. 8 23. therfore loue the world Ioh. 15 19. the things of the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and pride of life 1 Ioh. 2. v. 15. 16. And shal receiue the wages of vnrighteousnesse as they which count it pleasure to liue delitiously for a season 2 Pet. 2 13. affections Col. 3 2. and consult no longer with flesh and blood but enter into counsell with thine owne soule for the apprehending of this eternall life which life for the maruellous excellencie thereof being that hid treasure that precious pearle Matth. 13. verse 44. 46 can not be sufficiently expressed by all the glory of the world The holy Ghost chusing out the most precious things that nature can affoord to describe vnto vs the heauenly Ierusalem our euerlasting citie saith thus The citie was pure gold like cleare glasse the foundations of the wall thereof were garnished with all maner of precious stones the gates of perle the streets of pure gold c. It needeth neither Sunne nor Moone to shine in it for the glorie of God did light it The people which are saued shal walk in the light of it the kings of the earth shall bring their glorie and honour vnto it Reu. 21 18 c. O how excellent things are spoken of thee thou citie of God Psa 87 2. The eye hath not seene nor the eare heard neither came into mans heart the glorious things which God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2 9. These maruellous things as Saint Peter saith the Angels desired to prie into 1 Pet. 1 12. For indeede the Angels receiued first knowledge of Gods eternal wisdome and purpose in Christ concerning these things by the Church Ephs 3 10. And euery creature with feruent desire wayteth when the sonnes of God shall be reuealed Rom. 8 19 shine as the sunne in the kingdome of their father Mat. 13 43. For although we be now the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus Gal. 3 26 yet doth it not now appeare what we shal be 1 Ioh. 3 2. because that through Christian mortification 2 Cor. 4. verse 10. 11. and 5 15. wee are in this world as dead and our life is hid with Christ in God but when Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall we also appeare with him in glorie Col. 3 3 c. For the Lord Iesus Christ shall chaunge our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie Phil. 3 21. and then we shall see him as he is 1 Ioh. 3 2. Moses vpō mount Horeb sawe but some glimse of the shadowed maiestie of God for else no man hath seene God in his essentiall glorie at anie time Ioh. 1 18 and the skin of his face so shone withall that neither the Israelites nor Aaron him selfe were able to looke vpon him vntil he had put a visour ouer his face Exod. 34 29 c. Elias also vpon the same mount at Gods visible presence couered his face with his mantell 1 King 19. verse 8. 13. And of all other Moses was once so hardie that he desired the Lord to shew him his very diuine maiestie but that request obtained would haue cost him his life and in mercie therefore it was denied him Exod. 33 18 c. But what speake we of mans disabilitie in this behalfe Neither the Angels them selues are able to behold the Lord in his full maiestie nor men to endure euen the sight of an angel as we see prefigured by the face and feeet-couering in Isayes vision Isa 6 2. Seeing then after this life we shall alway haue the fruition of this excellent and heauenly glorie which now neither men nor Angels can sustaine not vpon an earthly mountaine in a material Tabernacle with Peter Mat. 17 4 but in Heauen in that precious and heauenly Ierusalem Heb. 12 22. with God the Father the Sonne and the holy Spirit that most blessed and glorious Trinitie in whose presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for euermore Psal 16 11. together with all the goodly companie of Angels Zech. 3 7. Heb. 12 22. and holy Saintes Mat. 8 11. seeing I say we looke for new heauens and a new earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnes 2. Pet. 3 13. and for such a kingdome Luk. 12 32. for he is faithfull that hath promised Hebr. 10 23. what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse looking for and hasting vnto the cōming of the great day of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to iudgement giuing diligence that we may be found in him in peace without spot and blameles 2. Pet. 3 11 c. And in the meane time let Moses shewe vs the shortnes of this life Psal 90 10. And that couetous foole in S. Luke teach vs that the incerteinty therof is more daungerous then the shortnes Luk. 12 20. let vs vse this world as though we vsed it not 1. Cor. 7 31 for the fashion thereof is as chaungable as our garment Psal 102 26. Let the holy ghost perswade vs to carie our selues without couetousnes and to be content with those thinges Reade Mat. 6 25 c. and Psal 37. which we haue for he hath said I will not faile thee neither forsake thee so that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper neither will I feare what man can do vnto me Heb. 13. verse 5. 6. And for our continuall assured hope of the glorious life to come let vs reioyce in the Lord alway Philip. 4 4. Let vs cast away euery thing that presseth downe and the sinne that hangeth so fast on let vs runne with pacience the race that is set before vs looking vnto Iesus the author finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse despised shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God Hebr. 12. verse 1. 2. This Iesus being the fore-runner for vs is entred into heauen Hebr. 6 20. and gone to prepare a place for vs Ioh. 14 2. where we haue alreadie an interest by Christ our head as hauing our conuersation with him in heauen from whence we looke for the sauiour euen our Lord Iesus Christ Phil. 3 20. Who shall then separate vs frō the loue of Christ shal tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill