small reputation that it is demaunded whether any good thing could come from the same Luke 4.31 From thence forced to retire himselfe vnto the rocke of Capernaum Luke 9 58. not hauing an house wherein to put his head Luke 23. afterwards as a principall malefactour crucified betwixt two theeues The Disciples were dealt withal much like to their Master Acts. as is to bee seene partly in the Actes of the Apostles Ecclesiasticall histories and partly in the histories of those times wherein Nero Domitian Dioclesian and other tirants of the like disposition liued But yet no time so bloudie as since the child of perdition was borne and hath vsurped tyranicall iurisdiction For the Church could conuey it selfe into no corner of the wildernes but this bloudhound hath found it out to pursue and persecute it what bloud by him hath been shed and what murders committed in these latter dayes France and Flanders England and Scotland can sufficiently recorde And this is the way wherein the whole Church truly Apostolike being in this world Corint 6.5 Heb. 11.38 Apo. 12.14 as waifarers and wanderers hither and thither must walke the same being foretold vnto the last day Churches preseruation Yet behold the conquering lambe Christ Iesus standing on mount Sion is more mightie to defend then the prince of darkenes to destroy the Lord of Hosts cannot forsake his tabernacle Psal 84. and though the little barke of his Church be tossed to and fro amids the seas of this troublesome world yet he which holds the sterne is able to commaund both winde and sea wherefore although from time to time it hath been hoysed to and fro with winde and waues yet the Lord hath been continually assistant to the same so as it hath neuer been ouerwhelmed neither can bee For proofe whereof see how the creator in the person of him who after was made our redeemer and deliuerer in person did runne after those two forlorne children Adam and Eue after they had fallen away from him through infidelitie applying vnto that deadly wound so soone as it was made a remedie of immortalitie farre more excellent then that whereof they had depriued themselues and all their posteritie Looke further and behold Abraham Genesis Isaac and Iacob mightely preserued notwithstanding the infinit and daungerous by-wayes wherein they walked Exodus for the space of foure hundred yeares amidst most prophane people multiplied vnto the number of sixe hundred thousand persons beside women and children Looke againe and behold the indauntable insolencie of proud Pharao vanquished by frogs by flyes by lice at the shaking of the rod of one of the seruants of the Lord of Hosts Behold afterward the Church pursued on drie land by an huge multitude of the Egyptians swallowed vp of the red sea which was as a wall on either side of the people of Israell Behold what memorable and maruellous things did hee for his people in the wildernes how hee sent bread from heauen how with the stroke of a small rodde the most hard rocks cleaue to water almost fortie yeeres long this whole multitude See and consider how it arriued at the riuer Iordane passing the riuer on drie ground Iosua 3.6 making the high walles of Ierichoe to fall downe before it battering downe dashing in peeces trampling vnder feete thirtie Kings beyond Iordan how victoriously they were placed in the land of Canaan how they beate down their enemies sometime with an oxe goade Iudg. 3.31 Iudg. 7.20 Iudg. 15.15 1. Sam. 5.4 as did Samgar the sonne of Anath sometimes with pitchers as Gedeon sometime with the iawe bone of an asse as Sampson God suffered the arke to be taken prisoner but it was to thâ— ouerthrow of the Philistians Dagon vnder the raigne of King Saul the Church did abide many a cold blast but he raised vp his seruant Dauid a King prophet to refresh the same who left hiâ— successor King Salomon a figure of the true Salomon King of peace and eternall sonne of Dauid Now to passe beyond Salomon weâ— shall finde the Lord no lesse assistant tâ— his Church then before yea euen vntâ— the consummation of this world weâ— shall finde the nearer the time anâ— tearme appointed of God approchetâ— for the execution of his promises thâ— more ardent affection will he shew to his Church who although many timeâ— he scourgeth and afflicteth the same Why the Church is afflicted he dealeth but euen as the husbandmaâ— doth with his corne which the ofteneâ— it is winnowed and sifted so much the more purer it is Neither doth he set hiâ— enemies on worke to ruinate and destroy his Church but as it were to vnthaw his people waxen stiffe and be nummed through ouermuch ease and to vnburden his Church of a greaâ— number of villanous prophane persons â—â—ept into the same For when the Chalâ—â—ans laid Iury waste led the people captiue vnto Babilon insomuch as the Church seemed vtterly rased yet how captiue and prisonerlike soeuer they were behould the Lord present with his Church behould the royall edicts for the worshipping of the God of Daniel behould the tirant Nabuchadnezzar not being content to be the chiefest amongst men made the vilest amongst beastes behould Babilon it selfe captiue Israell restored and reestablished with great priuiledges and restitution of their holy vessels And thus if wee proceed we shall euidently see how the Lord hath bin present with his Church in the spirit of comfort assistance and deliuerance how hee hath beaten downe that great mount of the Romane monarchie and daylie bloweth to ruine the beast moulded vpon this patterne and seated in the temple of God vpon the verie same seuen hilles The declaration whereof one Chapter cannot afford nay the life of one man after an other can hardly performe it But to let passe forren lands and to speake of the great loue that the Lord hath shewed towards the Church and common wealth of England Gods great mercies to England I may truly say happie are we if we continue happie and blessed are we aboue alâ— other people if we be still blessed of the Lord who if insurrection hath been moued hath suppressed it if conspiracie hath been intended reueiled it 〈◊〉 treason hath been attempted confounded it if war by forrain foes threatned hath deliuered vs from it wee dwelâ— still in saftie though threatned by Spanish tiranny we triumph in garlands oâ— oliues though threatned to weare the wreaths of Cypres we sing te deum with cheareful hearts though forren cruelty haue threatned a mournfull miserere O theÌ„ let vs neuer forget the good things that hee hath done for vs the great kindnes that hee hath shewed to let his Church Tell it to your children and them tell it to their posteritie from one generation to another euen the good things that the Lord hath don for England vnder the regiment of a gratious princesse yea tel it how by his
How the papistes play the traitors against the priesthood of Christ For first demaund of them how the fruites of this originall rancour are washed away they wil tel you by the sufferings of Iesus Christ Wish themselues further to declare their meaning then the diuell sheweth his hornes that before appeared like an Angell and there ariseth by and by a smokie distinction out of the bottomlesse pit Popish distinction of sinnes mortall and veniall of sinnes some mortall some veniall whereby the glorie o◠Christ his passion is darkened For veniall sinnes say they deserue but temporall punishment whereof a man by some displeasance of them is washed with an holy water sprinckle or a Bishops blessing or with saying à mea culpa or by some petite penance c. Thus these Catholicke physitions in steed of vsing one purgatiue remedie without which euerie sinne becommeth deadly cast mens soules into a lethargie depriued of all true sense and motion as the emperiall Practickes vse the medicine which they call Narcoticall that is to say Popish distinction of sinnes going before Baptisme and after such as benumme and dead the diseased vntill they become past feeling They haue a second distinction of sinnes going before baptisme and of sinnes committed after as also between the guilt and the paine satisfactorie Popish distinction betwixt guilt plaine satisfactorie and all to this end to derogate from Christes worke of our redemption and to make that which proceedeth from vs of some worthinesse and merit How sinnes going before Baptisme are pardoned according to the schoole of Rome and how after which they call a worke of condignitie As for sinnes going before Baptisme they grant that they are pardoned throughly in regard of the guilt and the paine and that by some meanes of the vertue of the sacred water with the action it selfe of Baptisme But as for the sinnes committed after baptisme the guilt and trespasse is pardoned the paine satisfactorie remaines to be paid partly in this life partly after death but in a coyne which hath the Popes image and superscription In this life by pater nosters Note well aues pilgrimages fastings foundations and other paines imposed in eare confession after death he must pay the remainder in purgatorie Yea but he that is there they say can merit no longer what shall become of the poore soule then Why he must be fetcht out of the fire by praiers and good works of the liuing And what good works are those Masses Requiems Dirges holy water and such great deuotions But how many shall fetch them out They cannot tell that yet they haue taxed seuerall mortall sinnes at a certaine number of daies and yeares But what if he be come out alreadie Tush that is not the losse of a requiem or masse It shall be set vpon the tale of another score to be allowed other But who hath the bestowing of them For sooth the merchant royall of pardōs the Pope holy father Cold comfort for poore papistes But what shall become of the poore that is able to giue nothing to haue these great deuotions after his death Mary he were best to merit well in his life for no peny no Pater noster vnlesse it please the Merchant to bestow an almes of his ouerplusse Then if all this be sound wherto serueth the satisfaction of Christ O sir wot you not why to make all these afore named pretie trinkets auaileable and to send you for a season into purgatorie where as you should haue gone into hell for euer O treason Besides the spirit of lying hath so controuled and countermaunded the obligation once made for all by Iesus Christ that he hath borne men in hand that the same must euery day be really and actually reiterated And whereas the supper of the Lord was ordained True vse of the Lords Supper first that we should be made partakers of that mysticall vnion of Iesus Christ together with all his merits vnto eternall life and secondly to celebrate with solemne thankesgiuing his onely and holy sacrifice once for all made they insteed of this haue thrust in their Masse wherein they say their priestes make a full satisfacton both for the quick and dead Popish priests do more by their Masse then Christ by his merits if you list to beleeue them which Masse of theirs is of greater efficacy then the first oblatiō which the sacrificer himselfe offered vpon the crosse seeing in his as they say the paine satisfactorie is reserued still to be paied but theirs maketh an entire satisfaction O intollerable treason Alas O Lord how long wilt thou beare it The second point of our redemption is sanctification The protestāts doctrine concerning sanctification It is also called regeneratiō or new birth because by it we become new mē as touching the qualities of the soule For as man made not himselfe at the first but the power of God the creator no more is man able to make himselfe a new creature but this is by the power of him who is made vnto vs sanctification 1. Cor. 1.30 For the bringing of this to passe we teach that the corruption of nature in the first Adam is abolished in the flesh of the high priest the second Adam in whom wee being vnited by faith fulfill the law by meerely free imputation 1. Cor. 1.30 Secondly the Lord Iesus Christ drawing vs vnto him by his holy spirit formeth in vs both to will and to doe Ephe. 1.18 Psal 51.12 2. Cor. 5.17 Act. 26.18 Ephes 5.8 enlightening the eies of our vnderstanding framing a cleane heart within vs making vs from the head to the foot new creatures bringing vs out of darkenes into light and from death vnto life Altogether the Catholicke Sophistes contradict this truth Ephes 2 1.5 The sophists absurdities touching new birth teaching that our nature is not wholly slaued vnto sinne but onely feebled by the fall of the first man And so they make our nature but like a lame man and the grace of God as a paire of crutches to establish their owne merits Againe they say that originall sin is really abolished by the water of outward baptisme with the words and the Chrisme c. as much say they of actuall sinnes going before baptisme Note well and loth them in those that are of ripe discretion before they be baptised prouided alway that they be not in mortall sinne Thus first they see not our originall malady Secondly they sophisticate the remedie both in making a miserable mingle-mangle of mans pure naturals Gods supernaturall grace Thirdly in giuing power to a sound of words sprinkling of water And lastly in substituting their own toies in the place of the Lord Iesus Fie on thē presumptuous traitors Protestants doctrine touching Christ his intercession There is yet his intercession which is so called because the vertue and power of his sacrifice is alwaies before God Secondly
of God were vnauaileable Indeed mans reason perceiued that some meanes was needful to make attonement but what it was reason was too shallow to finde out The Platonists haue busied themselues about many clensings but to small purpose others say it must bee done by abstinence good behauiour Iupiters mysteries c. Hierocles said that religion is the studie of wisdome which consisteth in perfecting and cleansing our selues that men may be at one with God which perfection also standeth in confession of sinnes as he saith but alas whereas in religion we looke for life vpon confession followeth death Then to finde a planke to saue vs from shipwrack religion sheweth three persons in vnitie of one essence coeternal and coequall in all respects the Father as the ground and wellspring the Sonne as the euerlasting word and wisdome of the Father and the holy Ghost as the bond of loue whereby the Father and the Sonne are linked together The one of these must make attonement for God himselfe must be faine to step in betwixt his Iustice and his mercie and as he created vs at the first so to create vs new againe and as he created vs in fauour so now to acquite vs from wrath and as he vttered his power and wisdome in making vs so now to vtter his wisdome and goodnes in repairing vs. But yet beholde a mysterie this infinite godhead is not to discharge our disobedience These speeches are vnderstoode by a communicating of properties as the like Acts 20.28 otherwise then with obedience nor our vndesert otherwise then with desert nor our pride otherwise then with lowlines neither is he to purchase grace but by punishment nor a crowne but by suffering neither life but by death Therfore would hee abase himselfe that hee might obey serue that he might deserue stoope downe beneath himselfe that hee might become lowly become weake that he might suffer become mortall that he might die Therefore was it behoouefull that our mediatour should be God and man man to be borne vnder the law God to performe the law man to serue God to set free man to humble himselfe to the vttermost God to exalt himselfe aboue all things man to suffer God to ouercome man to die and God to triumph ouer death And sythence it pleased him of his infinit goodnes to be humbled for vs himselfe no way bound needs must his obedience become a discharge for the disobedience his desert a discharge of the vndesert his sufferings a satisfaction for the stubburnnes of them that beleeue in him Now then if religion should but send vs to the true God what were that more then the sending of an offender to the Iudge or a laying of stubble to the fire considering that God is infinitly good and man infinitly euill Secondly and if in religion we should but reade the will of the creator what haue we yet found since mankinde is corrupt from his roote and rotten at the core but our owne enditements arraignements and condemnations Therefore this third note of religion by making satisfaction for sins by the death of Christ is the verie substance and in shape of it without the which it should be altogether vnprofitable Now all this serueth first to shew you the tyrannie of Sathan ouer mankinde and the horrible darkenes whereinto it is plunged being destitute of the aide of Gods word and his holy spirit Secondly how greatly we are bound to receiue our gracious calling and to promote Gods holy religion by which we are brought to that soueraigne good for the which wee were made and created and without the which hauing all things else yet are most miserable for proofe whereof hast thou the authoritie and soueraigntie of a Prince Let Princes say whether one rebellion of their subiects doe not more vexe them No welfare to be found in this world than all their honorable triumphs can reioyce them Art thou exalted to honour let honourable persons say whether they bee not spitefull or spited doing mischiefe or receiuing mischiefe ouermating or ouermated Honour is but vertues shadow a winde that makes many swell but cannot satisfie Art thou rich and wealthie Let Merchants say what wealth is worth since sea can drowne it fire consume it pyrates and robbers bereaue vs of it To loue riches is to doe as children doe which take their greatest delite in pins and checkstones or as fooles which should deeme the goodnes of an horse to consist in his strappings Art thou beautifull Let the daughters of vanitie say whether the sunne doth not tanne it or a starre doth not blemish it or sickenes doth not waste it or olde age doth not weare it Beautie is but a vaine thing and gladdeth more the beholders then the hauers Art thou strong and healthie Let al the world say whether mans bodie be not subiect to a thousand diseases fraught with frailties within wrapped in miseries without vncertaine of life sure of death Now what are all these and the rest but resemblances of the apples that grow about Sodome pleasant to the eye and prouoking to the appetite but vanishing into smoke being touched with the teeth Therefore it is onely true religion that leadeth Prince and people noble and vnnoble rich and poore to true felicitie and reuniteth them vnto God Happie be that day and blessed from aboue in the which God gaue vs this token of his fauour let that moneth be respected of God and let it be the head of the yeare let all such as loue their saluations blesse that day wherein they were redeemed from the darkenes of Sodom and of Aegypt and the day starre of righteousnesse appeared vpon them yea let it be made the beginning of the supputation of yeares as we reade that the Iewes reckened their yeares from the yeares of Iubilee and from the finding of the law in Iosiahs time for then commeth the true yeare of Iubilee the yeare of freedome and deliuerance from bondage when the Gospell which is the glad tidings of saluation commeth vnto vs. Furthermore Temporall blessings haue accompanied religion that nothing might bee wanting to make vs with ioye to receiue Gods holy religion beholde since the Church hath begun to flourish and to spread her boughes throughout the whole land the common wealth hath neuer been endowed with more ornaments of â—eace neuer lesse vexed with incombeâ—ances of warre neuer like adorned with â—ountifull blessings Why when our â—eighbour nations haue been infested â—ith martiall horror clattering of arâ—our thundering of shot when infants haue been drawne out of their mothers wombes By looking a broad better behold your blessings at home and dragged from their nurses breasts when their wiues and daughters haue been rauished their countries wasted their cities sacked their houses fired their temples defaced with many more such spectacles of dread and horrour yet England hath remained still victorious without contention and thou famous London her Queene citie confident without trouble so that
should follow the scepter and peace should follow plentie there should be no distrust of secret treason nor feare of forraine inuasion But aboue all see that you nourish in them a strong perswasion of Spanish loue and an earnest desire of Indian gold that euen as Philip made the Athenians beleeue that he pretended enmitie against the Plotenses and Olynthians when he meant to ride vpon the backe of all Grecia so must you make them beleeue that the purpose of the Spaniard Beleeue them that list is onely to reforme religion and to passe no further And thus there being a coniunction of English plots with Spanish practise how should we but preuaile except sonnes with my elder brother Baalam we haue laboured to curse where the Lord neuer cursed and detested where the Lord neuer detested and I your olde father be constrained in the end to roare with Iulian the Apostata saying vicisti Galilaee vicisti I say no more vnto you but walke closely and keepe your selues in tenebris for your predecessors I know not whether to ascribe it to angrie stars the influence of the heauens neglect of oportunitie want of secrecie by too great securitie haue had so sinister successe that in stead of supplanting a kingdome they haue broken their neckes at Tyburne and in stead of reconciling sowles to our Romish faction Not so but iust reward of treason their heads haue been vnited to an halter This crueltie haue they sustained for my sake whom therfore I haue crowned with martyrdom as your elder brother Campion the rest the remembrance of whom in whose endeuours I haue heretofore placed my hope of effecting that whereunto I now imploy your selues doth but increase my sorrow and griefe CHAPTER 5. Certaine semblances betwixt the Foxe and the Lyon Antichrist and Mahomet in broaching their damnable doctrines and leuying nations to their lawes FOr as much as the couert enemies against the Church do most of all deceiue simple people by shrowding their deformities vnder the mantle of deuotion I haue thought it pertinent to set downe these semblances following betwixt the Pope Mahomet the which throughly pondered of euerie Christian man are sufficient to bring him to a full detestation of the Romish religion This Mahomet was an Arabian souldiour and tooke wages of the Emperour Heraclius to serue him in his wars In a mutinie he was chosen to be a commaunder of a rebellious host so base a vassall was he that the people of Mecha who worship him at this day condemned him to death for his murders and robberies Mahomets coÌ„fession of himselfe Yea he confesseth himselfe what he was namely an Idolater an adulterer giuen to leacherie subiect to women in such manner as it is a shame to report This is that prophet without prophesying The first semblance in their manners that lawmaker without miracles that irreligious former of religion that man without God which hath by his ignorance choked the truth and by his violence inforced falshood That many of the Popes haue bin as desperate and damnable varlets as euer was Mahomet Some Popes as verie varlets as euer was Mahomet the legends written by their owne secretaries doe beare witnesse Amongst whom that monster Boniface the eight carieth the bell of whom themselues giue testimonie that he entered like a Foxe ruled like a Lion and died like a dog Whosoeuer listeth to rake in the dounghil of Popes shall finde some of them to be starke Atheistes as Paul the third some blasphemers and sodomitical knaues as Iulius the third some whoremasters as Iohn the 12. who abused his fathers concubines some necromancers as Syluester who was made Pope auxilio diaboli by the aide of the diuell Yea so holy are these vnerring fathers that one being demaunded why in their suffrages they praied not for Cardinals and Bishops that saith he is to be vnderstood vbi oramus pro schismaticis haereticis where we pray for schismatickes and heretikes The meanes whereby Mahomet deceiued the world were as followeth This new Captaine many could not abide his manners were so monstrous besides he was vexed with the falling sicknes therefore to redeeme himselfe from this contempt pretended a diuinitie in his doings faining himselfe to conferre with God and so to be rauished out of himselfe and that he was no more a prince elected through fauour of souldiers but a messenger of the Almightie Hauing laid this foundation politickely he beginneth to make a mingle-mangle of all religions For to allure the Iewes he exalted Moses and retained circumcision not to estraunge the Christians he confessed Christ to be the spirit word and power of God to please the Nestorians he said that Christ was not verie God nor the sonne of God but that he had indeed the soule of God The Foxe laieth a foundation for his absurdities and blasphemies The second semblance in the ground plot of enlarging theit kingdomes much like that of the Lion for as Mahomet coosened the world in making it beleeue that he entered communication with God when he fell into his fit of the falling sickenes so the Pope whilest he maketh thousands beleeue that he is Gods vicar as the other made his beleeue that he was and is Gods messenger and that he cannot erre in giuing sentence though he may slip as a priuate person poisoneth the Church with pestilent opinions and draweth whole cart-lodes of soules after him into hell fire The groundworke once laid that the Pope cannot erre then like to Mahomet beginneth hee to make an hotch-potch of heresies as to worship Christ and other saints with the Carpocratians to worship the virgine Marie with the Collyridians to paint God like an old man with the Anthropomorphits to hold freewil and a possibilitie to fulfill the commandements with the Pelagians to restraine meats to daies and times with the Montanistes and Manichees to condemne mariage with the Tatians and Cataphrygians and in many pilgrimages praier to the dead Iustification by workes to shew himselfe a right Mahometane The third semblance is in the likelihood of their blasphemies against Christ The third semblance in broaching their blasphâ—mies for Mahomet fearing I say least that he should alienate the Christians confessed Christ to be the spirit word and power of God but not verie God nor the sonne of God and himselfe to be the seruant of Christ but yet so that in the end he preferreth himselfe before him and maketh himselfe the last refuge for mankind to flie vnto The Pope denieth not the person of the great sonne of God for then should he not be Antichrist but yet if you marke well how he degradeth him of his dignities you shall see that Christ is much alike beholden to them both and that euerie one may vnderstand what his flatterers giue him and what he chalengeth Let vs heare what is written Christopher Marcellus said to the Pope and it pleased him well Tues alter Deus in terris
he to doe it Euen the Leuites euen those which ought to haue been the mirrours of all pitie and compassion euen the priestes which God had dedicated to himselfe must be the executors of his rigor And vpō whom Euen vpon their owne kinsmen Thus the mildest man that euer was behaued himselfe against Gods enemies for he was zealous in the cause of the highest This was much but Asa Asa did as much as he For he put away the Sodomites and banished the Idolaters out of the land he remoued Maacha his mother and tooke the crowne from her head because she offered sacrifice to Priapus and gaue commandement that whosoeuer would not worship the Lord God of Israel should be slaine from the greatest to the smallest This was much but Iehu did as much as Asa For he killed all the Prophets of Baal and suffered not one of them to liue he defaced the Temple of their Gods and made a draught house of it for euer What wonderfull things did those good Kings Ezekias and Iosias in their daies The one spared not an Idolater in the land the other being but a young prince was so zealous in the behalfe of his God that he put the idolatrous priestes to death burnt their bones and sacrificed them vpon their owne Altars as the bookes of the Chronicles and Kings of Iuda do declare These are good presidents for Christian princes to follow neither was there more need at any time to draw the sword against prophaners of the Lords seruice For there is sprung vp a mightie generation of wicked and disloyall men to disturbe vs of disobedient and vntoward children to prouoke vs of deceitfull and halting hypocrites to disquiet vs of Romish Baalims stragling extrauagants to withdraw vs from the worship of our God The third Reason Papistes conuicted of high treason HIgh treasons are in their true natures offences against the highest Maiesty for treason is called crimen laesae maiestatis that is tending either to the destruction of their persons or defacement of their dignities But the papistes although they denie not the person yet debase they the authoritie of the sonne of God Therefore papistes are guiltie of highest treason How many and how horrible treasons they commit against Iesus Christ it will be too long to rehearse yet because euerie one to whose vew these my labours shal be offered may see how iustly they are conuicted I will but glance at some of the chiefest First of all therefore vnderstand you I speake to the vulgar sort which doe not so thoroughly cōceiue of these matters that the Apostolicall Church of Rome hath degraded our Lord Iesus of all his degrees Christ degraded of all his dignities by the Catholiks his dignitie royall his state propheticall and his priesthood In respect of his dignitie royall wee say that vnto him alone it appertaineth to commaund and forbid Iohn 13.13 1. Cor. 5.4 Apoc. 3.7 to iudge and absolue hauing the keyes to open to shut so that it is not lawfull for any no not for the Angels themselues to make a law to bind the conscience nor to establish in any point cōcerning the substance of it the gouernment of the Church The reason is euident because we are forbidden to ad or diminish any thing from the commaundementes of the lawgiuer as also to make new ordinances Deu. 4.2.12.32 Esay 29.13 Coloss 2.8 1. Cor. 7.23 and all the commandements of man in the matter of this spirituall kingdome are once for all declared to be nullities Now these traitours incroch vpon his prerogatiues Papistes traitours against Christ his roiall dignitie Christ more be holden to Pilate then to the Papistes Math. 26. by ordering the estate of the house of this king contrarie to his owne expresse will in eclipsing some of his lawes in establishing others altogether new So that Christ may seeme to be much and more beholden to Pilate then to these kind of teachers for he writ him king of the Iewes though he knew not what he did for which cause the Pharisees were angrie with him but these write him king of the Church yet they crown him with thornes and giue him a reed in steed of a scepter As for his propheticall soueraigne authoritie by the spirit of whom all the auncient Prophets spak who afterwards plenarily in his owne person declared the will of his father hath since his ascending into heauen vntill he returne not to teach but to iudge continued to declare the same vnto the world by his faithfull Apostles how is it possible more in this point to betray him whom we are bound to heare in paine of extermination Papists traitors to Christ his Propheticall state and how then first by falsifying that which he preached both by adding to and clipping from and secondly by forbidding his word to be read vnto all nations kindreds in a knowne language fearing say they least men should become heretikes that is least light ingender darkenes and truth lying and what is this but neither to enter themselues Math. 5. The priesthood of Christ according to the scriptures nor yet to let others and to hide the light vnder a bushell The third office which is his priesthood consisteth in two principal points In our redemption in his intercession our redemption hath two parts expiation and sanctification In expiation behold foure speciall points first that the word betokeneth a full and entire paiment of all that is due vnto God Secondly that which is due is death according to the sentence giuen by God himselfe Gen. 2.17 Rom. 5.12.6 23 vnderstanding by death not onely the separation of the soule from the bodie which is called the first death Genesis 3.19 whence followeth putrefaction of the bodie in the graue but the second death also which is the frightfull yre and malediction of God reuenging with all perpetuitie sinne in the bodie and soule of the sinner which horrible state is eternall in the diuell and the damned Thirdly this expiation betokeneth not the payment for one sinner but for all sinners I meane the elect which haue been are or shall be to the ende of the world not of one sinne but of all sinnes except that against the holy ghost which is vnpardonable Fourthly this paiment was to be offered by him who in respect of himselfe should be no way bound to this malediction but a pledge suretie for others Now of sinnes or debts to be paied there be two kindes Hebr 7.22 some originall some actuall originall sinne must be considered in two diuers respectes first touching the corruption of the whole man which is as it were the essence of this sinne Secondly touching that which followeth it namely that which makes vs children of wrath worthie of the curse of God from our conception This is it we teach and build out of the word of God In this behold how many waies the papistes play the traitors