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A09088	The second part of the booke of Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution. Or a Christian directory, guiding all men vnto their saluation. / VVritten by the former author R.P..; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 2.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. First booke of the Christian exercise.	1592 (1592)	STC 19382; ESTC S126315	217,410	610

had taught them The gospell he preached was not after man neyther receiued he it of man but by reuelation from Iesus Christ. Hee brought them no fancies visions dreames interpretations of Scripture hatched in his owne braine but the pure and sincere doctrine receyued by reuelation from GOD hymselfe and faythfully deliuered vnto them without hacke or mayme as he receiued it Therefore S. Ierome vppon that place considering how all Hereticks haue iugled with the Scriptures frō tyme to tyme sayth That Marcion and Basilides and other Heretiques the contagious botches and plague sores of the church haue not the Gospell of God because they haue not the Spyrite of GOD without which that which is taught groweth to be mans Gospell Thys maketh that learned Father to resolue vpon the matter that it is a dangerous thing peruersly to expound the holy Scriptures for by thys meanes that is by wrong and peruerse interpretation that which is Gods Gospell is made mans Gospell et quod peius est and that which is worse sayth thys holy Father it is made the deuils Gospell For discerning therefore of thys kynde of most pernicious people and theyr deuilish dealing and least we should be carried away with euery winde of docdrine by the wilinesse of men GOD hath ordained in hys Church Apostles Doctors Prophets Pastors Interpreters whom he hath so guyded and gouerned frō time to time with hys holy Spyrit that they haue beene able by the Scriptures to represse and beate downe whatsoeuer errours and heresies haue been raysed vp by the enemies of Gods truth contrary to the analogie of fayth rule of charitie that is to say beside the true sence and meaning of the Canonicall Scripture When there rose vp certaine seditious fellowes among the Iewes in the Primatiue Church making som contention about theyr ceremonies as did Simon Magus Nich●las● Cerinthus Ebion and Meand●r that were Heretiques They were refelled and conuinced out of the scriptures by the Apostles and their Schollers Martialis Dyonisius Areopagita Ignatius Policarpus and other who were no doubt directed and guided by the Spyrit of GOD. Afterwarde when Basilides Cerdon Marcion Valētinus Tatianus Apelles Montanus and diuers other troubled the Church wyth monstrous heresie they were cōfuted by Iustinus Martyr Dionisius Bishop of Corinth Iraeneus Clemens Alexandrinus Tertullian their equales who in all theyr controuersies had recourse vnto the Scriptures and beeing instructed and ledde by the spyrite of trueth preuailed mightilie against theyr aduersaries And so downward frō age to age vnto our dayes whatsoeuer heresie or different opynion hath sprung vp contrary to the doctrine of Christ and hys Apostles it hath beene checked and controlled by the Watchmen spiritual Pastors and Gouernors of the Church who alledged alway the cōsent of y e scriptures for decyding of al doubts and were most graciously guided by the Spyrite of GOD in all theyr actions And heereof it is that the worde of God is called the sword of the spirit because as it was giuen by inspiration at the first so beeing expounded by the direction of the same Spirite it is most liuely and mighty in operation sharper then any two edged sword and entering through euen to the deuiding a sunder of the soule and the Spyrit of the ioynts and the marrowe and it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hart This is that spyriual sword wherwith our Sauior Christ preuailed against sathan the head Lord maister of all Heretiques who notwithstanding pretended scriptures for his deuillish purposes And the Apostle Paule beeing furnished with thys onely weapon dysputed against the peruerse and ouer-thwart Iewes which dwelt at Damascus and confounded them proouing by conference of Scriptures that thys was verie Christ. Now as it was expedient that the Gospels should be written that we learning the truth foo●th of them should not be deceyued by the lyes of her●sies so was it necessary that the same gospels shold be preached for the confirmation of fayth And heereof it is that the Apostle Saint Paule Rom. 10 sayth that fayth cōmeth by hearing the word of God because the word preached is the ordinary meanes to beget and increase faith in vs for the which cause also it is called the incorruptible seede whereby we are borne a newe and whereby the Church is sanctifyed vnto the Lord. Wherfore to conclude this point seeing that the holy Scriptures are that most infallible and secure way mentioned by Esay seeing they are the rule and leuell both of our faith and lyfe containing in them sufficient matter to confute errour confirme the truth able to make a man wise vnto saluation and perfectly instructed vnto euery good worke this ought to be the duty of y e faythful that I may vse the words of Basil to be thorowly perswaded in his mind that those things are true and effectuall which are vttered in the Scripture to reiect nothing thereof For if whatsoeuer is not of fayth be sinne as sayth the Apostle and if fayth commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God without doubt when any thing is without the holy Scripture which cannot be of fayth it must needes bee sinne And therefore to speake as S. Augustine speaketh if any I will not say if wee but which S. Paule addeth if an Angel from heauen shal preach eyther of Christ or of his church or of any other thing which pertaineth to faith or to the leading of our lyfe otherwise then we haue receiued in the holy scriptures of the Law and the Gospell let them bee accursed Now if forsaking al by-pathes of mens inuentions and traditions we wil search diligently in the scriptures wherein we thinke to haue eternall lyfe we shall see that they testifie of nothing so much as of the promises of God in Christ Iesus who as he is the ende of the law for righteousnes to euery one that beleeueth so doe they send vs directly and as it were lead vs by the hand like a carefull Schoole-maister vnto hym teaching vs to apprehend and lay hold on hym with the hand of fayth and to apply hym with hys gifts graces vnto our selues and our own saluation So that fayth is made the meanes and as it were the Conduit to conuay Christ himselfe his death buriall and resurrection and all the rest of his benefits vnto vs which the Apostle witnesseth Colos. 2.12 Yee are buried saith he with hym thorow Baptisme in whom ye are also raised vp together through the sayth of GOD effectually working who raised hym from the dead Whereof it ensueth that all the faythfull doe not only obtaine y e benefit of Christes death and buriall by theyr Baptisme whereby they die vnto sinne but also doe receiue and enioy the fruite effect of his resurrection by a liuely faith wherby they are quickned and raised vp vnto righteousnes in thys life

the multitude of Propheci●s which are dys●ersed thorowe out the whole Scripture I might shew how Daniell fore-tolde to Baltasar King of Babylon in the midst of hys tryumph as in the hearing of all hys Peeres the destruction which insued vpon him the verie same night after I myght heere alledge how the same Daniel in the first yere of Darius the Median in the beginning of that second Monarchie of Medians and Persians fore-told howe manie Kings should raigne after him in Persia and how the last who was the fourth after him and hys name also Darius should fight against the Grecians be ouercome by a Grecian King which was Alexander and how the Kingdome also of the Grecians should be deuided and torne in peeces after Alexanders death and not passe to his posteritie as Iustine other Heathen writers doe testifie that it was by Antigonus Perdiccas S●leuchus Antiochus Ptolomaeus and other Captaines of Alexander that deuided the same among themselues aboue a hundred yeeres after Darius was dead I might declare also how the same Daniell fore-saw and fore-told the four great Monarchies of the world and described the same as distinctly as if he had lyued in them all and as by experience we finde since to be true I myght alledge the particuler description of the fight betwixt Darius and Alexander sette downe by Daniel vnder the names of the great Ramme the fierce Gote with one horne which Goate himselfe interpreteth it to be meant of a Grecian King that should conquer the Persians And therfore Alexander as Iosephus reporteth comming to Ierusalem about a hundred yeeres after and hearing the Prophecie of Daniell interpreted vnto him by Iaddus the high Priest assured himselfe that he was the man therein signified so after long sacrifice doone to the God of Israel of whom he affirmed that he had appeared vnto him in Macedon and had exhorted him to take thys war in hand and after he had bestowed much honor many benefits vpon the high Priest Inhabitants of Ierusalem he went forward in his war against Darius with great alacritie had y t famous victorie which all the world knoweth A hundred such prophecies more which are as plaine as euident and as distinct as thys I might alledge of Elias Elizeus Samuel Dauid Ezechiel the twelue lesser Prophets and of other which I haue not named And in very truth the whole Scripture is nothing els but a diuine kind of body replenished throughout with the vital spirite of prophecie euery day some prophecie or other is fulfilled though we marke it not and shal be vnto the worlds end And the myracle of this matter is yet more increased if wee consider what manner of people they were for the most part by whom these Prophecies of hydden thinges wer● vttered to wit not such men is could gather the fore-sight of things by Astronomie or Astrologie that is by contemplation of the starres as some fond Gentiles did pretende though Ptolomie denie that anie such thing can be fore-told but onelie by inspiration from God neyther yet were they so sharpe witted as to attaine to Prophecie by strange imaginations as most vainly Auerroes and his fellowes hold that some men may nor finally were they so delicatly fedde as by ●xact dyet and rules of Alchimie to come to Prophecie● as Alchimists dreame that a man may doe that Appolonius Thyanaeus dyd who by stillified meates as they speake came to be stillified himselfe and so by helpe of hys Glasse called Alchimusi to soretel some matters affaires to come Our Prophets I say knew none of these fantasticall deuises beeing for the most part poore simple and vnlearned men as in particuler was recorded that Dauid was a sheepeheard Amos was a keeper of Oxen Yea oftentimes they were Women as Marie the sister of Aaron called in the Scripture by the name of Prophetesse Debora the wife of Lapidoth Hanna the Mother of Samuell Elizabeth the Mother of Iohn Baptist Anna the Daughter of Panuell and finally the most holy and blessed virgine Mary with the daughters of Phillip and manie such other both in the old and new Testamēt who prophecied strangely nor could possibly receiue such fore-knowledge of things to come but onely from the Spirite of the lyuing GOD and by inspiration of the holy Ghost which is a manifest demonstration of the excellencie of Holy-writ and of the certainty contained therein The eyght proofe of Scriptures AND nowe albeit this myght seeme sufficient in the iudgment and conscience of euery reasonable man as the Iew supposeth to proue that the Scriptures be only ●rō God consequently by them that there is a GOD yet hath he one reason more to confirme theyr sinceri●ie which I will alledge in this place there-with make an ende His reason is that although these holy writings which proceede of Gods spirite doe not take theyr testimony or confirmation frō man yet ●or more euidence of the truth God hath so prouided that al the principall most strange and wonderfull things recounted in scrip●ure should be reported also and confirmed by Infidels Pagans Gentiles and Heathen Writers themselues albeit in some poynts they dyffer from the Scriptures in the manner of theyr narr●tion for that they adioyne superstitions thereunto Which maketh the more for approbation of the things for that heereby it appeareth they tooke not theyr stories direc●ly ●rom the Bible but by tradition and most auncient antiquities of theyr owne The Creation of the world FIrst thē he sheweth that the creation of the World which is the meruaile of all meruailes with the infusion of mans soule from God is ●oth graunted and agreed vpon by all those Heathen Phylosophers that haue beene cited before albeit the particularities be not so sette downe by them as they are in Scriptures and by all other that doe see in reason that of necessitie there must be yeelded som Creator of these things The floode of Noe. NExt to thys the flood of Noe is mencioned by diuers most auncient Heathen Wri●ers as by Baerosus Chaldaeus Ieronimus Egyptius Nicholaus Damascenus Abydenus and others according as both Iosephus and Eusebius doe proue And in Bresile and other Countries dyscouered in our age where neuer teach●rs were known to be be●ore they talke of a certaine drow●ing of the World which in tyme past happened and doe say that this was left vnto them by tradition from tyme out of minde by the first inhabitants of those places The long life of the first Fathers OF the long life of the first Patriarches according as the Scripture reporteth it not onely the former Authors but also Manethus that gathered the Historie of the Egiptians Molus Hestiaeus y t wrote the Acts of the Phaenicians Hesiodus Hecataeus Abderida Helanicus Acusilaus and Ephotus do testifie that those first inhabitants of the world

shal for euer ouer-throwe and destroy death he shall open the eyes of the blynde and the eares of the deafe hee shall not cry nor contende nor shal he accept the person of anie man but in truth shal he bring forth iudgement He shal not be sorrowfull nor turbulent c. And finally in the forty nine Chapter he alledgeth the wordes of God y e Father vnto Christ touching hys commission in thys sort It is too-little that thou be to me a seruant to rayse vp the trybes of Iacob and to conuert vnto mee the dregs of Israell Behold I haue appointed thee also for a light vnto the Gentiles● that thou be my saluation vnto the vttermost parts of the earth Daniels prophecie of Christ. AND to conclude thys matter without alledging more Prophecies for the same which in truth are infinite throughout the Bible Daniell that liued in the end of the captiuity of Babilon a lyttle before Aggaeus Zacharias and Malachias who were the last Prophets that euer florished among the Iewes almost fiue hundred yeeres before the natiuity of Christ this Daniel I say reporteth of hymselfe that being in Babilon and hauing fasted worne sack-cloth and prayed long vnto GOD there came the Angell Gabriell vnto him at the time of the euening sacrifice fore-tolde hym not onely of the deliueraunce of the people of Israell from the captiuitie of Babilon out of hand for that the seauentie yeeres of their punishment fore-told by Ieremie were nowe expired but also he tolde him further that the time of the vniuersall deliueraunce of man-kinde from the bondage and captiuitie of sin was now shortned and that after seuentie Hebdomades which as shal be shewed after make vp iust the time that passed from the rebuilding of the Temple of Ierusalem after theyr deliueraunce from Babilon vnto the byrth of Christ there shoulde be borne the Sauiour of the world and be put to death for the redemption of man-kind The Angels wordes are these I am come to shew thee O Daniell for that thou art a man of good desires And therefore doe thou marke my speech and vnderstande this vision The seauentie Hebdomades are shortned vpon thy people vpon thy holy Cittie to the end preuarication may be consumed and sin receiue an ende to the ende iniquitie may be blotted out and eternall iustice brought in her place and to the end visions and prophecies may be fulfilled and the SAINT OF SAINTS annoynted Know thou therefore and marke that from the end of the speech for rebuilding of Ierusalem vnto Christ the CAPTAINE there shal be hebdomades seauen and hebdomades sixtie two and after sixty two hebdomades Christ shall be put to death and the people which shall denie him shall not be his people I myght passe on further to other Prophets and make no ende if I would alledge what might be sayde in thys behalfe for that the whole Scripture runneth all to thys one poynt to fore-tell and manifest Christ by signes figures parables and prophecies and for thys cause was it principally written But that which is already spoken shall bee sufficient for our first consideration whereby is seene that among the Iewes from age to age Christ was prophecied and fore-told together with the eternitie of his kingdome that should be spirituall The second Consideration NOwe followeth there a seconde consideration of the qualitie of Christes person of no lesse importance then the former and wherein the latter Iewes doe more dyscent from vs that is of the God-head of the Messias promised I say the latter Iewes or Rabbines are different herein frō vs as also they are in many other poynts articles wherin theyr auncestors that were no Christians did fully agree Euen as all Heretiques are wont to doe that first breake in one poynt then in another from the true Catholique fayth of Christ to followe mens traditions and so doe run on from one to one making themselues in al things as dislike as they can for hatred of that vnitie whereunto theyr pride wil not suffer them to return So is it in the generation of thys reprobate people who first agreed with vs in all or most poynts touching Christ to come and denyed onely the fulfilling or applycation thereof in Iesus our Sauiour but afterward their vngracious of-spring being not able to stand in that issue against vs deuised a newe plea and be tooke themselues to a far higher degree of impietie affirming that we attribute many thinges vnto Iesus that were not fore-tolde of the Messias to come among other that he should be GOD and the sonne of God and the second person in Trinitie c. But heerein no doubt these obstinate and gracelesse men do shew themselues both ignoraunt of theyr own scriptures disagreeing from the writings of theyr owne fore-fathers For as for scriptures it is euident by all or most of the Prophets alledged before that Christ or the Messias must be GOD the son of God indued with mans nature that is both God and man So in Genesis where he is called the seede of the Woman it is apparent that he shal be man and in the same place when he is promised to crush the deuil and to breake his head who can doe thys but onely God Likewise when he is called Germen Iehouae the seede of our Lorde God hys God-head is signified as is his man-head also when in the same place hee is named the fruite of the earth Who can interprete these speeches That his kingdom shalbe euerlasting That he shall endure vntill the Moone be taken away and after That God bega●e him before Lucifer was created That no man can tell or recount his generation That all Nations and Angels must adore him That hee must sitte at the right hand of God And many other such speeches pronounced directly and expresly of the Messias who I say can vnderstand or interprete them but of God seeing that in man they cannot be verified And as for the last of these testimonies cōcerning Christes sitting at hys Fathers right hand three of our Euangelists doe report that Iesus did blancke diuers of the learnedest Pharisies with alledging onelie these words of Dauid The Lorde said to my Lord sit at my right hand vntill I put thine enemies as thy footstoole For saide Iesus if Christ be Dauids sonne how did Dauid call him hys Lord signifying heereby that albeit the Messias was to be Dauids sonne according to his man-head yet was he to be Dauids Lord according to his God-head And so doe both Rabbi Ionathan and the publique Commentaries of the Hebrues interprete thys place Micheas is plaine And thou Bethleem out of thee shall proceede a RVLER in Israell and his going foorth is frō the beginning from the dayes of eternitie Thys cannot be vnderstood of any mortall man that euer was or shall