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The harvest is at hand, vvherin the tares shall be bound, and cast into the fyre and brent. [...]
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Champneys, John, fl. 1548.
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hertes to abhorre dispyse her Neuerthelesse they haue geuen her kyngdome and power vnto the Beast vntyll that tyme the wordes of god be fulfilled Apo. the .xvii. d That is nowe in the dayes of the voyce of the seueÌ„th Angell whiche begynneth to blowe in which tyme the mistery of God shal be openly publysshed as he preached by hys seruantes the Prophetes Apo. x. chap. b. That is that the elect people of God shall onely with the spirite of Christ the worde of God written clearely confute and confound the abhominable cauteilous delusion of all markte men ii Thes ii chap. b. Whose power ascended oute of the bothomlesse pytte and shall nowe be distroyed with all the glori therof for the whole beast shall be taken and confounded and come to nought Esaye the xxviii a. and the Apocalipses the .xix. Chap. d. So that they shall be hated and abhorred of all flesh Esaie the .lxvi. g. For the tyme is come that God wyll vtterly distroye theim because they haue distroyed the godlye people of the earth the Apoca. the .xi. chap. d. Wherfore they shal be cast into the great wyne fat of the wrathe of almightye god Apo. xiiii d. For their cauteilous delusion shall preuayle no longer but shall be vttered to all men the seconde of Tim. the seconde Chapter v. For the lyght of Israell shal be the fier and his Sanctuary shall be the Flame and it shall kyndle and burne vp his thornes bryers in one day Esaie x. d. That is that the spirite of Christ which is the onely true lyght of all the electe people of GOD shall so lyghten and kyndle knowledge in his electe high powers ministers that with the holy scriptures written whiche is their onely sanctuary thei shal clerely confute and confounde all imaginacions of Marked men which is signified by the bryers and thornes because thei be the most noious vn pfitable trees that groweth lyke as Marked men be the most falsest and deuelish people that lyueth And where it is said that they shal be burned in one daye that signifieth that they shall be vtterly confouÌ„ded now at this present tyme in the appearaunce of the second comyng of Christ accordyng to the saiyng of s Paule ii Thess ii chap. b. And also agreyng to the other scriptures before meÌ„cioned in that he half so that iniquitee shal be taken a way out of the earth and righteousnesse shall reigne amonge the people the .iiii. of Esdras xvi e Psal xlvi b. lxxvi a. For God sayth by the Prophet Esai ii chap. a. and Micheas iiii a. In the later dayes it wyll come to passe that the hyl of the Lordes house shall be set vp hygher then any mouÌ„taynes or hylles yea the people shall preasse vnto it and the multidude of the Gentyles shall hast theim thyther saiyng Come let vs go vp to the hyll of the Lorde and to the house of the God of Iacob that he may teach vs his ways and that we may walke in his pathes This shall the Heathenysh markte men see and be a shamed Micheas vii c. For the earth shal be full of the knoweledge of the Lordes honor Abucuc ii c. And all the Ilandes of the people shall worship him euery man in his place Sophony the .ii. c. And God wyll make his people to haue a good name and a good reporte amonge all people of the earthe Sophony iiii d Therfore thus sayth the Lorde of hostes let your handes be stroÌ„g you that now here these woordes by the mouthe of the Prophetes and be lyuynge in the earth in those dayes zachari viii v. For the power only of the spirite of Christ shall reigne ouer al the earth so that ther shal be none other sauyour named vpon the earth but only Christ Wherfore men shall go about the whole earth as vpon a fielde zachary the .xiiii. chapiter c. And as for all rule power and myght that is vnder heauen it shall bee geuen to the holye people of the moste hyghest whose kyngdome is enerlastynge yea all powers shall serue and obey hym Danyell the .vii. Chapiter g. For God wyll make his people glorious for euer and euer and ioyfull thoroughoute all posterities Esaie lx c. Thus shall the hand of the lorde be knowen amongest his electe people and his indignacion among hys enemyes Esaie lxvi e. For all maner of people which by grace haue gotten the victorye of the beast of his image and of his marke of nombre of his name shal syng the song of Moses the seruaunt of God and shall also syng the song of Christ saiyng Great and merueilous are thy workes lord God almigty iust trew ar thy wayes thou king of sayntes who shall not feare the o lord glorify thy name Apo xv a. For al thendes of the world shal remembre themselues be turned vnto the lorde al nacioÌ„s shal worship before hi Psal xx f. Wherfore be glad ye righteous and reioyce in the lorde be ioyfull all ye that be of a true hert Psalme xxxii c. For the Temple of God shal be open and the Arke of his Testament seene therin Apo. xi d. That is that the people shall conuerte to the Gospell haue cleare conscieÌ„ce to god hauyng his worde for a wytnesse which is the Arke of Christes Testament For vnto theim whiche haue the Lorde before theire eyes strength shal be increased Esay xl g. Wherefore God sayth also by the Prophet Esay to all Markte men the .xli. f. Stand at your cause and bring furthe your strongest grounde shew openly what scriptures ye haue in the true literall sence to deferde your doctrine and coÌ„uersacion with all For your subtyl argumentes maye take no longer place because the scripture sayeth the fyrste of Timothie the .vi. chap. d. your study therin is a false science and nought and so be al you that vse it in any thynge concernynge the doctryne of the holye Scriptures Wherefore nowe shewe your selues as coÌ„firmable to the plaine truthe of the holye Scriptures written when ye shall fortune to comen thereof as the deuyll your fyrst prouincial dyd when he was confuted by christ mat iiii v. For in so muche as he beyng the aucthor of that profession of your incorporacion dignitee and power confessed the truthe of Christ of his Apostles Mat. viii d. Luke viii d. Actes xvi d. after that he was ones confuted with the scriptures written Be not you no longer more comberous and obstinate agaynst the truthe therof now then the deuil was at that tyme and alleged other thynges to be ment in the holy scriptures then is expressed in the true literall sence therof For if ye do all men wyl know shortly that you ar worse more worthy of condempnacion then the deuyll is for belyke he had not so muche falshed orels he was not so folyshe when he tempted Christ by the scriptures to allege other meanynges therin then was expresse in the letter therof neither he defended not his owne imaginacioÌ„s agaynst the holy scriptures written as all you markte men haue done a longe tyme. Wherefore nowe froÌ„ hencefurth suffer the people of God wholly to pourge oute your olde rotteÌ„leuen for other wise we can not be new dowe in Christ for a lytle of your leuen sowreth a great peece of dowe i. Corin. v. b. For your salte hathe lost his saltnes wherfore there may nothing be seasoned therewith for it is neither good for the lande nor yet for the donghyll Luke xiiii g. That is that all you markte men which haue taught and affirmed doctrine agaynst the power of the spirite of Christ whiche all the electe people of God dothe receyue shal not be forgeuen neither in this lyfe nor in the lyfe to come Mat. xii d. Mark iii. d Luke xii cha b. Which is ment by youre salte that hathe loste his saltenesse And where the Scriptures sayeth that it is neither good for the lande nor for the donghyll By the lande is signified doctrine for the people and by the donghyll is signified temporall worldly businesse so that your doctrine counsell is not good nor meete to be receiued amoÌ„g the people neyther in the doctrine of the gospell for their instructioÌ„ neither yet in temporall matters For Christ sayth Mat. v. b. It is good for nothynge but to be cast out and trodden downe of men For who so euer fauoreth any of you which blasphemeth the spirit of christ is a partaker of your yll ii Epist of Ihon. c. Wherfore God coÌ„maundeth all his electe people to departe out of your company to seperate them selues clearely from you and not to touche any of youre vnclennesse Esaie lii c. ii Cor. vi c. the first Timo. vi b. Apo. xviii b. For your shame shall be discouered and your preuye abhominable delusioÌ„ shal be sene For God wyll aduenge hym on you and wyll shew no mercy to you as he doth to other people Esaie xlvii a. For you are the people whom god hath appointed to his wrath within the IlaÌ„des of this part of the world wherby the name of the Lorde myghte be feared Esaie lix b. Wherfore we ought to haue no more in nombre of you to remayne as ministers of the gospeil but euen so many as Elias suffered of Baals Prophetes to liue when he had confounded them by offeryng of Sacrifice the thyrd of the Kynges xviii g Howe be it it is to be thought that Baals Prophetes had not so much sophisticall conueiance to make theire excuse at that tyme as you Markte men haue now orels subtyll excuses were les regarded at that tyme then they be nowe for your abhominacion crafty delusion dothe farre excede and is much more then hath ben found in any maner of people synce the begynnyng of the worlde The particulers partly wherof by Gods assistence shal be more playnly expressed in another booke here after this Finis The worde of the Lorde remayneth for euer ☞ ✚ ☜ God saue the Kyng my Lord Protector the Nobilitie and all those which vnfainedly loueth the gospel The grace of our Lorde Iesus Christ be with vs all Amen Imprintyd at London by Humfrey Powell dwellyng Aboue Holburne Londuit Cum priuilogio ad imprimendum solum AN. Do. 1548. Man Lawe 〈◊〉 Knowsege Pelicion Ioyfull tyme. Nâ—tâ— Abâ—osucion
baptised and receyued faythe in Christ long before they receyued the gyfte of the holy gost as we reade in the Actes the .viii. chapiter c. the xix a. Howe be it their knoweledge was alwayes vnperfecte vntyll that tyme they were regenerate wyth the Spirite of christ i. cor iii. a. viii a. For his Spirite is the oyle whiche the wise Uirgins shal take in their lampes of fayth to meete with the trwe Bridegrome Christ Mat. xxv a. And is also y e oyntmeÌ„t which techeth vs all godly knowledge Ep. IhoÌ„ ii d. wherfore s Iames. v. c. wold that the people which wer disesed shuld anointed ther with which ointment cometh most comenly vpoÌ„ the elect people of God by praier in fayth and by laiyng on of handes of the electe ministers of God in Christ in lyke maner as we reade Act. viii chapter c In which chapiter is also mencioned the request of one SimoÌ„ which offered the Apostles money to haue had lyke power to haue geuen the Holy Ghoste to whom he woulde by the laiyng on of his handes Notwithstandyng the Apostles refused hys money and also declared vnto him that he had no part of that ministracioÌ„ Neuertheles synce that tyme our markte moÌ„sters hauynge the full power of the Beast in theim haue ordeyned other thynges in stede therof to minister to sycke people aske y e ministers of Christ no leaue And doo vse also to minister to theim in chyldhod a certayne oyle or grease which is coÌ„menly called the Confirmacion of their Baptysme makynge the ignorant people to beleue that that is the gyft of the holy gost lyke as Mahomet made the people to beleue that the holy gost in the lykenes of a doue taught hym what doctrine he shoulde teache the people Howbeit the delusion of Mahomet ê preestes now at this present tyme is not so muche to be merueyled at as the delusioÌ„ of our markte men because Machometes preestes doo liue according to their profession also th 〈…〉 doctrine is agreable to those Scriptures whiche bee written vnto them but our marked meÌ„ liue cleane contrary to the true professioÌ„ of the gospell and contrary to the example of Christ of all his Apostles also ministreth crafty doctrine coÌ„trary to the holy Scriptures written Wherfore the acceptyng of them as trew ministers of the Gospell is not onely a declaracion of ignorance in godly knowledge but also a declaracion of blyndnesse of naturall reason For howe may reason conceyue truthe to be in them in whome so muche falshed is founde Wherefore what worldly affectioÌ„s so euer we haue to them we ought only to be ruled by the worde of God written vsyng them but lyke as natural meÌ„ do vse the membres of their naturall bodyes For a natural man which hath rotten teethe in hys head that dothe neuer rest from paynfull ache wyll seeke a remedy but if he canne haue none he wyll haue hys rotten teethe drawen out of his head rather then to haue all his bodye continuallye disquyeted And euen so lykewyse our Marked men are lyke vnto rotten teeth for they can not minister the woorde of God as they ought to doo And as for the spiritual ache which al godli people haue bi them we see playnly that the hyghe powers haue soughte as muche the reformacioÌ„ of them as may be yet they be as craftye as euer they were disguisyng themselfe with sophisticall hipocrisy either new or olde as fast as euer thei did the deuyl is as familier with them as euer he was Wherfore God send vs remedy of them shortly Howbeit most men be in lyke case with theim as women bee with their Parrottes for women vse muche diligence to make theire Parrottes to speake yet with all their diligence they canne not make them to talke so reasonabli as a resonable creature can And no more can no man make those ministers which be onely appoynted by meÌ„ to declare the true meanyng of the woorde of God so playnly and truly as it ought to be whatsoeuer be deuised for them For the true vnderstandyng of the holy scriptures is as dyffuse to theim as the wordes of a clasped booke which no man openeth Esaie xxix c. For God hath sent them strong delusioÌ„ that they should beleue lyes because they receyued not the loue of the truthe but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse ii Thess ii chap. c. For they ar cloudes without water trees withoute fruyte at gatheryng tyme beig twise dead wherfore god shal plucke them vp by the rootes For they are lyke the ragynge waues of the sea fomynge oute theire owne shame They ar the wandering starres to whome the myste of darkenesse is reserued for euer Iude. d. For in so much as God promysed but one Ihesus to be Christ Gala. iii. c. A full satisfaction redemption and sustificacion of all his electe people from synne Ebrues x. c. As is before mencioned all men may see and perceyue playnly what shamelesse Antechristes all our Markte men bee whiche haue taughte the people to beleue in others satisfactions other instificacions and other remissioÌ„ of syn deniyng also the power of the Holy Ghost saiyng that the spirite of Christ was insufficient without outwarde learnyng to discerne the true meanyng of the holy Scriptures when the electe people of God dyd heare them or reade them whiche is an open blasphemy of the holy gost which Christ saith shall neuer be forgeuen Mat. xii c. Marke iii. b. Luke vii b. Wherfore whosoeuer trusteth vpon their conuersion sheweth himselfe to mistrust the trew literall sence of the holy scriptures spoken by Christ written for our instruction For lyke as God is mercifull accordyng to his promyse so is he righteous accordyng vnto his worde and thereby shall iudge the worlde Ihon. xii g. And by his worde declareth also al thinges nedefull to be knowen to his people before it come to passe Amos. iii. b. iiii d. Whiche the worlde canne not perceyue For what worldly man in the Primatiue Church dyd beleue that it was the wyl of god that al his elect people in Christ should be persecuted hated of all nacions of men vntyll that tyme wherin God wyll glorifie the gospel whiche tyme is also manifestly declared in the holy scriptures both by the Prophetes and also by the Apostles neuertheles all worldly people bothe learned other are as ignoraunt therof as the hygh learned Scribes Phariseis were of Christ For the deuyll being chaunged into the likenes of an Angel of light bath geueÌ„ his power vnto marken men hys ministers Apoca. xiii a. By whome all earthely people haue beÌ„ disceiued whose incorporacion and power the holy scripture calleth the beast because the spirituall whore of Rome which corrupted all the people of the earth with her fornicacioÌ„ dyd syt vpon their doctrine was maintayned therby Apo ca. xvii a. Whose abhominacion God hathe disclosed to dyuerse Kynges and hyghe powers and hathe put in their