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A82301	The English Catholike Christian, or, The saints utopia: by Thomas de Eschallers de la More, an unprofitable servant of Jesus Christ: of Graies-Inne barrister, and minister of the Gospel of eternall salvation. In the yeer of grace and truth, 1640. A treatise consisting of four sections. 1 Josuah's resolution. 2 Of the common law. 3 Of physick. 4 Of divinity.	More, Thomas, d. 1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing D884; Thomason E556_21; ESTC R205814	40,520	48

suffice to be s●id at this time of the faculty and Science of Physick a profession I confesse that is altogether out of the Sphear of my Theory and out of the Verge of my activity and practise SECT IV. Of the Science of THEOLOGY BUt finding my soule in greater need of Physick than my body I shall passe by the other Schools and read my last Lecture in Divinity Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth while the evill dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Eccles 12.1 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God that gave it Vanity of vanities all is vanity And moreover because the Preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and set in order many Proverbs The Preacher sought to finde out acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth The words of the wise are as the goades and as nailes fastned by the Masters of Assemblies which are given from one Shepherd And further by these my son be admonished of making many bookes there is no end and much study is a wearinesse to the flesh Let us heare the conclusion of the whole matter Feare God and keep his Comandements for this the whole duty of m●n For God shall bring every work into iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill Eccles 12. 8 9 10. c. True Christians endeavour to go forward toward the marke of Christian perfection But if we should returne back into Egypt or desire to live in Babylon we should declare our selves neither studious of perfection nor of Christian Religion nor carefull to maintaine the reputation of our Nation How long shall we waver betwixt two Religions If God be God and his written Word be Truth then we are to follow him and to found our faith upon his Word If the Pope be the supreme God of this world and his determinations true then we are to follow the Pope and his Decretals No man Certes can allow Popery but he must condemne the Apostolicall Religion of Jesus Christ professed in this Church of England What communion saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. hath light with darknesse what concord hath Christ with Beli●l what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols As many therefore as believe that the Papists walke in darknesse and follow Antichrist living in idolatry ●nd infidelity wound their consciences if they grant any toleration or consent to it The test trust needs runne into the same danger unlesse they can answer the reasons brought to prove the Pope Antichrist and Papists to be false worshippers of God or else plaine Idolaters See 2 Thes 2. and 1 Tim. 4. And the 13.14.17 and 18 Chap. of the Revel we are to pronounce them Anathema which preach beside that which the Apostle preached as himselfe teacheth us Galat. 1. But the Papists preach the Pope and his decretaline doctrine which is both besides and contrary to the Gospell preached by Paul Christian Religion never called the Pope the foundation the head or the spouse of the Church as Bellarmine in his books de Pontif. Roman and other Papists do It is not therefore safest to retaine Christian Religion built on Christ Jesus and to reject Popery built on the Pope No religion is to be tolerated that leaveth the rule of faith that is the holy Scriptures which of all are called Canonicall and seeketh defence and succour out of other rules as Traditions popish Determinations School-mens Distinctions and such like leaden and Lesbian rules But Papists deny Scriptures to be the onely rule of faith as Bellarmine l. 4. de verbo Dei Cap. 4. and others commonly teach Thus we see how miserably the Papists are deluded and led into vanity by their blinde guides But touching faith and assurance of our salvation we Protestants with a joynt consent hold this Doctrine that True faith is a knowledge firme and certaine of the good will of God towards us which being founded upon the truth of his free promise in Christ is both revealed to our mindes and sealed in our hearts by the Holy Ghost This is Eternall life to know thee to be the only very God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ John 17.3 Againe which mysterie hath been hid saith Saint Paul Col. 1.36 since the world began and from all ages but now is made manifest unto his Saints And Col. 2.2 That their hearts might be comforted and they knit together in love and in all riches of the full assurance of understanding to know the mysterie of God even the Father of Christ And 2 John 3.14 And we know that we are translated c. We know All which places you see evidently prove faith to be a knowledge so doth even reason for how can we believe things which we know not Saint Peter knew it could not be and therefore joyneth faith and knowledge saying And we believe and know that thou art That Christ the Son of the living God For he yeildeth a reason why he and other of the Apostles believed in Christ namely because they knew that he was the Son of God Which being so it necessarily followeth that they believe not to whom those things are unknown that he hath revealed in his Word And therefore that tale of Popery concerning implicita fides an ignorant faith is most foolish for faith and knowledge are so knit together that they cannot be separated Trust perfectly in the grace that is brought unto you in the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 Perfectly to trust excludeth doubting 1 John 5.13 14. We know we know c. excluding doubting I am perswaded that neither death nor life c. shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8.38 The knowledge which we have by hope grounded upon Gods promises is so sure that it cannot be deceived as it is plaine Rom. 5.5 The perswasion that the Apostle hath in other places is also grounded upon good Arguments but here Rom. 8. upon the immutable Decree of God And it is good reason to prove that every Christian man which is endued with faith and hope may and ought to be infallibly assured that he is justified and shall be saved because the Word of God and his promise to all that believe in him and in faith call upon him cannot faile but be most infallibly true That we shall also persevere in the favour of God and so consequently that we are predestinated to eternall life the Apostle doth most plainly prove in this Chapter wherefore by the Spirit of Adoption and the effects of Gods grace agreeable we may have certaine knowledge that we shall inherit Gods Kingdome which none shall do but they that continue unto the end and were appointed unto it before the

The English CATHOLIKE CHRISTIAN OR The SAINTS Vtopia By THOMAS de Eschallers de la MORE an unprofitable Servant of Jesus Christ Of Graies-Inne Barrister and Minister of the Gospel of eternall salvation In the Yeer of Grace and Truth 1649. A Treatise consisting of four SECTIONS 1 JOSVAHS Resolution 2 Of the Common LAW 3 Of PHYSICK 4 Of DIVINITY Josh 24.15 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Deut. 32.45 46 47. Luke 6.31 1 Pet. 4.8 Prov. 19.29 Heb. 13.1 1 John 4.7 8. Eccles. 12. vers 13 14. Rom. 12. Chap. Chap. 13. Read these Chapters and texts of Scripture with diligencehumility and integrity of heart in the name and fear of God S●●●● Amen LONDON Printed by R. Leybourn in Monks-well street and are to be sold at Graies-Inne 1649. To his most excellent MAJESTY CHARLES King of Great Britain France and Ireland DRead Sovereign my Lord the King may it please your Highness onely once to look over this ensuing Treatise and it will not repent thee ô King to peruse it and read it again and again entituled a Protestation concerning the Church and Common-wealth of England written almost six yeers since viz. in June 1641. by a loyal-hearted subject and a faithfull servant now in all humility prostrate beneath your Majesties feet May your favour descend as dew upon the grass and let me not behold the messengers of death in your countenance A shrub may grow neer unto a Cedar High and low great and small The rich and poor meet together The Lord is the maker of them all I would put a knife to my throat were I man given to appetite or desirous of dainties I am not called to sit and eat with a Ruler but to attend and wait untill I have delivered mine errand to the King it behoveth me therfore to consider diligently what to say Many will intreat the favour of the Prince and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts But I was born for adversity have bin trained up in afflictiōs have eaten my bread in sorrow and do desire to appear my self a true Nathanael an upright Loyalist at all times Not subjection alone but duty my dread Lord comandest my greatest observance and most obedientiall gratitude for I am a branch spronted from a root this many ages hath grown spread flourished lived and revived in the light of the countenance and sun-shine days of divers Kings of England your Royall Progenitors whose Princely bounty and most munificent constant favours unto mine Ancestors hath been as a cloud of the latter rain videlicet Sir Hugh de Pounts un chivaler que vint de Normandie ove le Conquerour transacto regimine Regis Haroldi Secundi Laurentius de la More qui erat in exercitu Willielmi Bastardi Regis in Conquestu suo Regni Angliae c. Dominus Galfridus de Scalariis miles Sir Thomas de Eschallers Sir John de Chalers Knights Scalarii isti sunt editi atavo Galfridi senioris Hardwino de Scalariis Domino totius Baroniae de Caxton in Comitate Cantabrigiae tempore Willielmi Regis Angliae c. And Sir Thomas de la More Knight who was a Courtier in the Reigns of Edward the First Edward the Second and Edward the Third and was a Servant and wrote the life of King Edward the Second And my Grandfather who was Servant to King Henry the Eighth and divers others of my Ancestors who received most Princely rewards and gifts from their Masters the Kings of England and had great possessions and lands given unto them in the County of Oxon. c. Now therefore if I should not in most humble manner acknowledge this great munificence and pay my due tribute of Loyalty for such Royall favours I should be branded with the blackest note of Infamy and be chronicled ingratefull Moreover as I am a member of the body of Christ my supream Head Christian duty binds me not onely to pray for Kings and all that are in authority but to labour with my hands and assay all lawfull means possible for the building up and repairing of the breaches which all our sins have made in that mystical Temple the Church of God If David hath committed a great wickednesse and sinned secretly and the Prophet tell him Thou art the man he must presently confesse I have sinned against the Lord and the Lord will put away his sin and he shall not die Psal 51. 2 Sam. 12. If Peter denie his Master and the Lord looke back in mercie upon him he cannot but goe forth immediately and weepe bitterly If God hath humbled Ahab King of Israel Nebuchadnezar King of Babylon the Ninivites and Manasseth King of Judah that Mirrour of mercie and miracle of Gods unchangeable love and everlasting kindnesse and good will towards sinfull men they shall make an humble acknowledgement of their transgressions repent and turn unto the Lord with fasting weeping and mourning And the Lord will turn away his fierce wrath he will cancell his decree of temporall punishment and reverse his judgements denounced against them If that wise King Solomon multiply his whoredoms commit Spirituall Fornications and Idolatry he must become an Ecclesiastes in recantation of his vanities If King Saul make an unadvised adjuration to hinder the victory to retard the successe and weaken the hands of those that fight the Lords Battels Shall Jonathan die who hath wrought salvation in Israel God forbid the people may rescue him that he die not If Joab Captain of the Host advise a disconsolate son-lamenting King to speak comfortably unto his Princes his people his friends and servants that being ashamed have gotten themselves by stealth into their Cities and habitations The Ki●● will presently arise and sit in the gate that all the people throughout all the Tribes of Israel and Judah may be at strife to bring the King back to his house If the people say unto him Thou shalt not goe forth to Battell for if we fly away they will not care for us neither if halfe of us die will they care for us but now thou art worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the City the King will give them a gracious Answer and say unto them what seemeth you best I will doe If the Prophet Jeremy counsell the captiv'd King by yielding to save his life let him obey the voice of the Lord so it shall be well unto him and his soule shall live A wicked man hardeneth his face but as for the upright he directeth his way There is no Wisdome nor Understanding nor Counsell against the Lord. Let no man presume to touch Gods people the Servants the Prophets the Anointed of the Lord for he reproved Kings for their sakes Let no man speak evil of those things which he knoweth not lest he perish in the gain-saying of Core Let no wicked Pharoah exalt himselfe against Gods people lest the Lord