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A09819	The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W.; Partitionum theologicarum, logica methodo institutarum. English	Polanus von Polansdorf, Amandus, 1561-1610.; Wilcocks, Elijahu, b. 1576 or 7.	1595 (1595)	STC 20083.7; ESTC S121514	121,376	286

in preaching in administring the Sacraments in visiting the sicke and captiue and in other things pertaining to the holy ministery Thus farre concerning Deacons now concerning Deaconesses Deaconesses are widowes who serue to the vses of the poore and sicke Act. 6.11 Tim. 5.9 Hitherto concerning the Ministers of the church now concerning the hearers The hearers are all the rest of the saints in the Church besides the ministers whose duty is willingly to submit themselues to the ecclesiasticall discipline and to further it according to their ability with gifts labour and by what meanes soeuer they can Heb. 13.17 1. Tim. 5.17.18 Otherwise they are called ley men priuate men Thus farre concerning the proper gouernment of the church now concerning the common The common gouernment of the Church is that which doth pertaine to all the members of the whole body of the Church And that appeareth in the ecclesiasticall counsels for euery one may and ought to be heard in them so that it be done duely and in order Of counsels The ecclesiasticall counsell is an assembly instituted for the causes of the Church Otherwise it is called a Synode But the cause of calling together of counsels is two fold One that the Church may defend the sincere doctrine comprehended in the word of God against hereticks and approoue it by open testimony Act. 15. In this regard the Church is called the piller or ground of truth to wit whereof it is a faithfull witnesse 1. Tim. 3.15 The other that it might appoint lawes or rules of the ecclesiastical gouernment according to the diuers respects of times places and persons The counsell is generall or particular Generall is that which is gathered in the name of the whole Church as was that of the Israelites 1. King 18.19 and of the Apostles Act. 15.6 The particular counsell is that which is gathered in the name of some certaine church And that is called prouinciall or nationall when the chosen ministers of the church of one prouince or nation meete together The Synod of some choise of learned and godly men is to be gathered together by the authority of the magistrate We must not make any decree concerning the order and manner of conferring with the aduersaries except the magistrate be present or else men chosen by the magistrate The order must be according to method The positions must be definitions distributions short axiomes The manner of disputing must be alwayes by syllogismes But all things that are done by writing are to be subscribed with the very hand of those who are to confer or if they do rather choose to deale by speach the sayings of both parties are to be written by approoued notaries of good credit and chosen by the consent of either partie which afterward both parties may ouersee and confirme it by adding the subscription For this truly is the iust and sincere forme of conference that so falsehood may be preuented The positions of the conference which are propounded must be vndoubted and very few also let not liberty be giuen to wander from them neyther yet are all the iudgements and interpretations of priuate men to be defended but euery part must clearely propound and defend his owne iudgement for it is neither needefull nor necessary that all the iudgements and sayings of all men be approued by vs. For why should we defend the particular iudgement and authority of other men if we our selues be of another minde The controuersies after both parties heard are finally to be determined From which determination deciding the ciuil magistrats are not to be excluded but admitted to it For both Zenas the Lawyer is highly commended by Paul and ioyned with Apollo as equall with him Tit. 3.13 Hitherto concerning the true church now concerning the false Church The false Church is that which followeth a false religion A false religion is what religion soeuer is contrarie to the word of God deliuered in the holy Scripture Whosoeuer embrace this are the enemies of Christ and his kingdome or true Church The enemies are either open or dissembled The open enemies are those who do manifestly shew thēselues enemies to the name of Christians And they are both blasphemous Iewes and Gentiles The blasphemous Iewes are the open enemies of the christian religion who though Iesus Christ the promised Messias be already manifested yet looke for an other and speake euil of the Lord Iesus and his mēbers neither will they beleeue the Gospell concerning Iesus Christ In them especially we must consider both their reiection and also restoring The reiection of the Iewes is a most iust punishment which by God is layd vpon thē whilest he hath blinded and hardened them being vnthankefull towardes Christ and his Gospell and reiected them from his couenant that he might call and adopt the Gentiles in their stead Act. 13.46 Rom. 11. chap. almost throughout And that is neither generall nor perpetuall Rom. 11. Of therestoring of the Iewes The restoring of the Iewes is a benefite of God when God after that the fulnesse of the Gentiles is come in into the Church shall conuert the Iewes that they being kindled with an emulation of the mercy shewed to the Gentiles might embrace that Gospell which concerneth Christ and be ingraffed againe into the couenant of Grace made with Abraham and their fathers and might be saued Rom. 11.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31.32 Hitherto concerning the Iewes now concerning the Gentiles The Gentiles are open enemies to the Christian religion who worshippe false and counterfeit Gods And they be either Mahumets or other Pagans Mahumets are open enemies to the Christian religion who worship Mahumet and embrace the Alcoran deliuered vnto them by him They are also called Turkes Other Pagans are also besides the Mahumets which worship fained gods And thus farre concerning open enemies now concerning dissembled enemies The dissembled enemies of Christ and the true Church are those who vnder the name of Christ do fight against him and by many lying signes seduce men And they are eyther Antichristes or false Christs Antichrists are the dissembled enemies of Christ who euery manner of way are against the doctrine of Christ whose followers they professe themselues to be 1. Iohn 2.18.22 4.3 2. Ioh. vers 7. And the same are also called false Prophets Matth. 7.15 Antichrist is two fold for either he is against one part or other onely of the Christian doctrine or else almost against the whole bodie of it Of the first kind are all Heretikes Of Heretikes An Heretike is he who doth erre in the foundation of eternall saluation that is to say who doth fight against eyther the perfon or office of Christ and doth stubbornely perseuere in errour Many such haue been euen from the times of the Apostles and yet also there are some as Cerinthus Valentinus Marcion Sabellius Arrius Nestorius Ertiches Pelagius and others Of Antichrist Of the latter kind is that notorious aduersary of Christ who by an excellency

the elect is this Come yee blessed of my father and possesse ye the kingdome prepared for you before the foūdations of the world were laid Matth. 25.34 Of the finall sentence pronounced to the elect there are two parts the one concerning the bringing of the elect of the possession of the eternall inheritance and blessednesse the other concerning their glorification Of the glorification of the elect The glorification of the elect is a worke of God whereby he shall with eternall glory adorne all the elect after the generall resurrection of the dead This glorification pertaineth both to the body and to the soule Of the glorification of the body The glorification pertaining to the bodie is in that it shall be made spirituall that is to say because it shall leade a spirituall life free and deliuered from all the spot of the flesh such a one as the spirits themselues do leade furthermore incorruptible immortall lastly conformable to the glorious body of Christ For the bodyes of the godly shall not only be immortall and incorruptible but also strong impassible glorious spirituall 1. Corinth 15. Augustine to Crescentius As the naturall body is not a soule but a body so wee ought not to call the spirituall body a spirit but a body It is of Paul called the spirituall body then not a spirite for the spirite hath not a bodie that is to say flesh bones Therfore the spirite and the spirituall body are not one And Paul doth not say that the substāce of the body shal be changed in the resurrection but the qualities of the body and substance for so he writeth to the Corinthians that this body which is subiect to corruption may put on an incorruptible nature the mortall may put on immortality But sayest thou it shall not haue a matter subiect to perishing Who denieth it Yet it shall not want a matter Hath not euen the heauē an impassible matter void of corruption You except but we shall be like the Angels then we shall not be Angels for our flesh must rise againe and we in the same as Iob sayth shall see God our Sauiour If our bodies shall be changed into spirites then man shall not rise againe because man consisteth of bodie and soule and the bodie cannot passe into the spirite for they do not agree in matter By Paul a spirituall body is opposed to a naturall body but vnderstande by a naturall body a changeable and weake bodie for our bodie ceaseth not to be a naturall body although it be made immortall and impassible for euen the heauen is a naturall body which yet cōsisteth of a nature not passible nor vanishing The glorification pertayning to the soule shal be an enlightening of the soule with the full knowledge of the mysteries of God and with an vnchangeable vprightnes of the will Thus farre concerning the finall sentence to be pronounced to the elect now concerning the finall sentence to be denounced against the reprobate The sentence to be denounced against the rebrobate is this Goe ye cursed into the euerlasting fire which is prepared for the deuill and his Angels Hitherto concerning the generall raysing vp of the dead and the last iudgement now concerning the manifestation of the glory of God to all eternitie The manifestation of the glory of God to all eternitie shal thē be after that Christ shal deliuer the kingdome to God his father and Christ himselfe shall also in respect of his humanitie subiect himselfe to God his father that God the father may be all in all thinges 1. Cor. 15.24.28 Eph. 2.7 Hitherto we haue layd open faith concerning God now concerning the Church The Church is a companie of men professing a certaine religion Religion is a forme of worshipping God Religion The Church is two fold true or false Of the true Church The true Church is a company of men professing the true religion The true religion is that whereby the true God is rightly worshipped And that is onely one And in that alone men shall be saued But the true Church is vniuersall or particular this latter is visible the other inuisible Of the vniuersall Church The vniuersal Church is an inuisible company of the elect only to eternal saluation Matth. 8.11 Ioh. 10.16 Gal. 4.26 And that is also called the kingdome of Christ or of God in the Lords prayer And it is said to be inuisible because the elect cannot be knowne by mās iudgement but they are known onely to God 2. Tim. 2.19 The Lord knoweth them that are his Notwithstanding euery man for his owne part may by certain and infallible signes be well assured that he is elected concerning himselfe indeede he may certainely know it but concerning others he is to hope onely in the Prophets it is called the kingdome of the Messias Also a Lot Ephes 1.11 The lot or inheritance of the Lord to which not onely the Priestes but also the vnlearned pertaine And that is called vniuersall 1 Because it is the generall company of the elect who altogether make one mistical body 2 Because all that beleeue in God and are to be saued must be in this company for without the church there is no saluation 3 Because it comprehēdeth the whole body of the doctrine of the Prophetes and Apostles 4 Because it is dispersed through the whole face of the earth Esa 2.2.3 And it is onely one Ephes 2.14.15.16.17 The head of the vniuersal Church is Christ Iesus alone 1. Cor. 12.27 Ephes 1.22 4.15 5.23 Col. 1.18 2.10 And he hath no neede of a Vicar nor of a ministeriall head But the body of the vniuersall Church is misticall Rom. 12.5 1. Cor. 10.17 12.27 Eph. 1.22.23 4.4.12.16 5.23 Col. 1.15.24 The members thereof are onely the elect 1. Ioh. 2.19 Ioh. 10.14.27.28 And these members are both of the Iewes and also of the Gentiles And both these members are eyther in heauen or on earth Eph. 1.10 They are in heauen who are already departed in the faith of Christ They are on earth who beleeue in Christ and yet liue Thus farre concerning the vniuersall Church now concerning the particular Of the particular Church The particular Church is a visible cōpany of men in any place whatsoeuer who heare the sincere word of God and rightly vse the Sacraments among whom are many euill hypocrites and vnbeleeuers mingled and so shall be to the last day Mat. 13.24.47 Now that it is the true Church of Christ the essētiall notes of the true church do shew The essentiall notes of the true Church are properties by which it may be vnfallibly knowen which particular company being any where gathered together is the true Church of God And these notes are two the sincere preaching of Gods word and the right vse of the Sacraments The sincere preaching of Gods word is that when according to the forme of wholesome words all things necessary to eternall saluation are

THE SVBSTANCE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION SOVNDLY SET FORTH in two bookes by definitions and partitions framed according to the rules of a naturall method by Amandus Polanus professor of Diuinitie The first booke concerneth faith The second concerneth good workes The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed Translated out of Latin into English by E. W. This is life eternall that they know thee to be the onely verie God and him whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ Ioh. 17.3 Whatsoeuer I command you take heede that you do it Thou shalt put nothing therto nor take any thing therfrō Deu. 12.32 LABORE ET CONSTANTIA Imprinted at London by R. F. for Iohn Oxenbridge dwelling in Paules churchyard at the signe of the Parrot 1595. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HIS VERIE GOOD LORD THE LORD Edward Earle of Bedford and to the right honorable also and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Lucie his wife E. W. wisheth all growth of goodnesse in this life and in the end euerlasting blessednesse through Christ MAy it please your HH to vnderstand that hauing by my fathers appointmēt for exercise sake according to my poore skill translated out of Latin into English this worthy worke following and God hauing besides prepared a way when I did neither thinke nor know of it to bring it to light sight of men by putting it into Print I bethought my selfe as well as my want of yeares discretion would suffer me of some worthy persons patrōs to whom I might dedicate these my simple labours Amōgst many none came more oftē more iustly into my remēbrance thā your HH whose affectiō in the Lord to my father and some measure of Christian care for me in the world haue made me bold euen as it were to presume to dedicate these simple fruits of my first trauailes vnto you What reasons I haue besides those alledged to lead me thereto I shall not need largely to lay out Your HH zeale to Religion your fauours to me as also some declaration of all dutifull thankefulnesse from my selfe towards you for the same haue greatly prouoked me In whō though there be nothing as in regard of my selfe and paines taken herein that may commend it yet as in respect of the worke it selfe sure I am not by mine owne iudgement I protest for how weake and childish that is I very well know but by the sentence of sundry very learned men both for the soundnesse and sufficiencie of the things therein contained as also for the methodicall maner of handling the same there will be found much that may well beseeme your HH profession and place And so earnestly praying the good acceptation of that which is done that vnder your HH patronage it may be the better receiued amongst men and humbly beseeching the continuance of your HH fauours that so I may the better proceede in godlinesse and learning whereunto my parents though not able indeede of themselues to maintaine me therein haue vnfainedly dedicated me I my self haue willingly vowed my selfe and hartily crauing pardon for my boldnesse scapes this or any other way cōmitted I humbly end At Londō the first of this Ianuarie 1595. Your HH humble and dutifull as he is much bound Elijahu Wilcocks The titles of the common places handled in these Partitions 1 Of the word of God pag. 1.179 2 Of God pag. 2. 3 Of the attributes of God pag. 2. 4 Of the persons of the Deitie or of the holie Trinitie pag. 12. 5 Of the workes of God pag. 14. 6 Of the decree of God where also of the decree of Predestination pag. 16.17 7 Of Creatiō where of the image of God pag. 18.19 8 Of good and euill Angels pag. 20.21 9 Of man his state and free will pag. 21.22.23 10 Of the prouidence of God pag. 28. 11 Of good pag. 28. 12 Of euill pag. 29. 13 Of sinne pag. 29. and those that follow 14 Of the action of God pag. 36. 15 Of the instruments of God pag. 36. 16 Of Gods permission or sufferance pag. 40. 17 Of the conseruation of things pag. 42. 18 Of Predestination pag. 44. 19 Of the naturall manifestation of God where concerning the law of nature pag. 45. 20 Of afflictions the crosse pag. 46. and those that follow 21 Of Gods secret mouing of the wills pag. 49. 22 Of Gods gouerning of all humane actiōs pag. 50. 23 Of the supernaturall manifestation of Gods will pag. 51. 24 Of the law of God whereof the decalogue or 10. Cōmandemēts 52. those that follow 25 Of the ceremoniall and iudiciall law of God pag. 63 26 Of the Gospell pag. 63. 27 Of Christ of his person of his double state incarnation conception by the holy spirit of his personall vnion of the maiestie of the humane nature of Christ of the cōmunicating of the Idioms or properties of his birth obediēce suffering death burying descēsion to hell exaltation resurrection from the dead ascension into heauen sitting at the right of God his father pag. 64. and following 28 Of the office of Christ or of the office of the Mediatour pag. 78. and following 29 Of the foretelling of things to come pag. 82. 30 Of Gods promises pag. 84. 31 Of Gods threatnings pag. 86. 32 Of Gods calling pag. 87. 33 Of the couenant of God pag. 89. 34 Of the benefits purchased to vs by Christ pag. 89 35 Of the cōmuniō or fellowship with Christ pag. 91. 36 Of iustification where of forgiuenesse of sinnes pag. 93. 37 Of regeneration or sanctification where of repentance pag. 94. 38 Of adoption pag. 100. 39 Of the libertie of the sonnes of God where of Christian libertie and of things indifferent pag. 102. and those that follow 40 Of comfort vnder the crosse in death pag. 105 and so forward 41 Of diuine signes where of miracles and the Sacraments pag. 114. 115. and so forward 42 Of Baptisme pag. 132. 43 Of the Supper of the Lord. pag. 136. c. 44 Of the workes of God after this life where of the generall resurrectiō the last iudgement and glorification of the elect pag. 151. 152. and those that follow 45 Of the true Church where of true Religion pag. 155. c. 46 Of the Ministers of the Church pag. 159. 60. 47 Of the Ecclesiasticall power where of the power of order iurisdiction of the lawfull calling of Ministers of the power of the keyes of the Ecclesiasticall discipline of excōmunication pag. 163. 164. and so forward 48 Of Counsels pag. 170. 49 Of the false Church where of false Religiō of the enemies of Christ and his kingdome of the Iewes of their reiection and restitutiō of the Mahumetistes heretickes Anrichrist of the Church of Antichrist and of false Prophets pag. 172. 173. and following The second booke 50 Of good workes pag. 179. 180. Of things adioyned thereto pag. 180. 51 Of things disagreeing with good workes where of the feare of God of constancie prudence