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             Antidoton or a soueraigne remedie against schisme and heresie: gathered to analogie and proportion of faith, from that parable of tares. Matth.13. Aug.ep.3.Nullorum disput.&c. We ought to haue no men their disputations (although men Catholike and praise worthie) in that count as we haue the canonicall scriptures: so that it should be vnlawfull for vs to improue and refuse some things in their writings, if happily we finde that they thought otherwise then the truth hath. Such a one am I in other mens writings, and so would I haue others to vnderstand of my writings.
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           ANTIDOTON
           :
           OR
           A
           SOVERAIGNE
           REMEDIE
           AGAINST
           SCHISME
           AND
           HERESIE
           :
           Gathered
           to
           Analogie
           and
           proportion
           of
           Faith
           ,
           from
           that
           Parable
           of
           Tares
           .
           MATTH
           .
           13.
           
        
         
           
             Aug.
             ep
             .
             3.
             
             Nullorum
             disput
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             We
             ought
             to
             haue
             no
             men
             their
             disputations
             (
             although
             men
             Catholike
             and
             praise
             worthie
             )
             in
             that
             count
             as
             we
             haue
             the
             Canonicall
             Scriptures
             :
             so
             that
             it
             should
             be
             vnlawfull
             for
             vs
             to
             improue
             and
             refuse
             some
             things
             in
             their
             writings
             ,
             if
             happily
             we
             finde
             that
             they
             thought
             otherwise
             then
             the
             truth
             hath
             .
             Such
             a
             one
             am
             I
             in
             other
             mens
             writings
             ,
             and
             so
             would
             I
             haue
             others
             to
             vnderstand
             of
             my
             writings
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           Imprinted
           by
           Iohn
           Wolfe
           .
           1600.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           Principall
           positions
           proued
           in
           the
           discourse
           of
           the
           Parable
           .
        
         
           
             1
             That
             the
             kingdom
             of
             heauen
             (
             Math.
             13.24
             .
             )
             it
             is
             not
             vsed
             for
             the
             state
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             but
             of
             the
             new
             Testaments
             Church
             .
          
           
             2
             That
             the
             Church
             is
             Catholike
             ,
             and
             in
             some
             measure
             euer
             visible
             in
             this
             life
             .
          
           
             3
             That
             the
             Church
             of
             Christ
             was
             planted
             here
             in
             England
             ,
             in
             the
             Apostles
             times
             :
             and
             continued
             notably
             vncorrupted
             till
             about
             ,
             Anno
             Domini
             .
             600.
             
          
           
             4
             That
             Anti-christianitie
             (
             or
             the
             marke
             of
             the
             beast
             )
             it
             is
             not
             considered
             in
             separable
             accidentall
             corruption
             in
             faith
             or
             manners
             :
             but
             in
             that
             is
             essentiall
             and
             fundamentall
             .
          
           
             5
             That
             the
             Tares
             in
             this
             Parable
             are
             wicked
             within
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             visible
             to
             the
             gouerners
             thereof
             .
          
           
             6
             That
             the
             Tares
             are
             onely
             such
             wicked
             as
             cannot
             with
             Churches
             peace
             and
             safetie
             be
             pulled
             vp
             .
          
           
             7
             That
             such
             Tares
             are
             of
             holy
             pollicie
             to
             be
             permitted
             :
             and
             yet
             no
             defilement
             to
             spirituall
             communion
             .
          
           
             8
             Brounistes
             outward
             ordination
             ,
             proued
             more
             against
             Christes
             rule
             ,
             then
             euer
             any
             was
             before
             .
          
           
             9
             That
             difference
             of
             torment
             and
             measure
             of
             glorie
             ,
             abideth
             the
             damned
             and
             saued
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           TO
           THE
           RIGHT
           HONORABLE
           HIS
           VERIE
           GOOD
           LORD
           ,
           SIR
           EDMVND
           ANDERSON
           KNIGHT
           ,
           Lord
           Chiefe
           Iustice
           of
           her
           Maiesties
           court
           of
           the
           common
           Pleaes
           .
        
         
           THree
           mightie
           men
           ,
           bringing
           of
           a
           Bethlehems
           waters
           vnto
           Dauid
           ,
           he
           powres
           it
           foorth
           before
           the
           Lorde
           (
           not
           quenching
           bodies
           thirst
           therewith
           )
           because
           it
           was
           purchased
           with
           liues
           hazard
           .
           Vnto
           your
           Lordship
           I
           humbly
           present
           a
           moitie
           of
           waters
           drawne
           from
           mysticall
           
             Beth-lehem
             (
             the
             house
             of
             Bread
             ,
          
           the
           Church
           of
           Christ
           Iesus
           )
           and
           they
           not
           purchased
           with
           lesse
           then
           the
           hazard
           of
           my
           bodie
           and
           soules
           saluation
           .
           If
           your
           Lordship
           shall
           deeme
           it
           good
           they
           be
           powred
           forth
           before
           the
           Lord
           for
           erudition
           to
           the
           soule
           ,
           it
           is
           that
           I
           couet
           ,
           and
           which
           some
           thirstie
           soules
           desire
           with
           great
           appetite
           .
           Dutie
           calleth
           me
           to
           offer
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           experience
           I
           haue
           of
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           tendring
           my
           good
           ,
           it
           emboldens
           my
           presentation
           .
        
         
           b
           Pythagoras
           hauing
           instituted
           his
           Puple
           in
           the
           first
           place
           to
           worship
           (
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           
             the
             immortall
             God
          
           ;
           he
           in
           the
           second
           place
           inioyneth
           that
           he
           reuerence
           (
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           
             preexcelling
             Heroiks
          
           .
           Which
           Heroicall
           Personages
           are
           of
           auncient
           Hesiode
           couched
           in
           his
           fourth
           age
           (
           c
           after
           them
           of
           Golde
           ,
           Siluer
           ,
           Brasse
           :
           
           but
           before
           that
           of
           yron
           obdured
           )
           and
           determined
           for
           such
           ,
           as
           had
           care
           of
           executing
           iudgement
           and
           Iustice
           by
           Land
           and
           Sea
           :
           maintaining
           and
           vpweilding
           the
           same
           by
           magnanimious
           and
           martiall
           valour
           :
           for
           the
           which
           they
           are
           tearmed
           there
           ,
           Semi-Dijsts
           :
           but
           in
           sacred
           writ
           ,
           d
           Gods
           :
           because
           his
           word
           is
           e
           committed
           to
           such
           in
           his
           Church
           .
        
         
           When
           I
           remember
           the
           vnion
           of
           your
           Lordships
           house
           with
           that
           of
           the
           right
           Woo.
           Moon-suns
           (
           a
           family
           to
           whom
           I
           haue
           owed
           much
           from
           my
           young
           yeares
           )
           I
           then
           methinks
           see
           Wisdome
           and
           Warre
           conioyned
           :
           without
           either
           of
           which
           ,
           no
           common
           wealth
           can
           endure
           :
           and
           by
           the
           continuance
           of
           both
           which
           ,
           my
           simplicitie
           hath
           been
           sheltred
           ,
           and
           my
           innocencie
           shielded
           .
           So
           that
           I
           (
           if
           any
           )
           haue
           cause
           to
           auow
           allegiance
           (
           not
           
             Tam
             Marti
             quam
             Mercurio
          
           ,
           but
           )
           to
           the
           Christian
           subiects
           of
           Wisdome
           and
           Valour
           .
           The
           schedule
           I
           present
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           exposition
           of
           that
           f
           Parable
           of
           Tares
           ,
           propounded
           by
           our
           Lord
           and
           Master
           
             Christ
             Iesus
          
           .
           Wherein
           is
           considered
           ,
           first
           ,
           the
           glorious
           estate
           of
           the
           New-testaments
           Church
           ,
           first
           planted
           throughout
           the
           world
           by
           the
           Ministerie
           of
           the
           Apostles
           :
           then
           secondly
           ,
           the
           corruption
           thereof
           through
           Ministers
           sleepie
           negligence
           :
           yea
           ,
           the
           corruption
           so
           deeply
           setled
           therein
           ,
           as
           well
           it
           might
           be
           in
           these
           latter
           times
           Reformed
           ,
           but
           neuer
           quite
           purged
           of
           visible
           euill
           (
           nor
           Replanted
           )
           vntill
           the
           Sonne
           of
           man
           in
           his
           great
           day
           of
           haruest
           ,
           doe
           that
           by
           the
           ministerie
           of
           his
           Angels
           .
           A
           doctrine
           so
           necessary
           ,
           as
           without
           the
           knowledge
           thereof
           ,
           a
           man
           shall
           either
           rush
           on
           the
           error
           of
           the
           right
           hand
           (
           through
           desperate
           vn-bridled
           Zeale
           )
           or
           on
           that
           on
           the
           left
           hand
           ,
           through
           a
           frozen
           cold
           securitie
           .
        
         
           Such
           being
           my
           dutie
           ,
           and
           such
           my
           presentation
           ,
           I
           humbly
           so
           remaine
        
         
           
             Your
             Lordships
             dutifull
             Suppliant
             ,
             HENOCH
             CLAPHAM
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           TO
           ALL
           SVCH
           SPECIALLY
           ,
           AS
           whose
           soules
           distressed
           with
           our
           ages
           controuersies
           ,
           doe
           desire
           resolution
           drawen
           from
           reason
           and
           experience
           .
        
         
           IF
           he
           be
           accursed
           by
           the
           law
           ,
           
           that
           sets
           the
           blind
           out
           of
           his
           way
           ,
           what
           better
           is
           his
           state
           that
           heareth
           the
           worde
           of
           an
           oth
           ,
           and
           (
           though
           he
           can
           )
           will
           not
           giue
           in
           testimony
           of
           the
           truth
           ?
           Sure
           ,
           he
           shall
           beare
           his
           iniquitie
           .
           These
           two
           lawes
           haue
           enforced
           me
           ,
           first
           publikely
           to
           preach
           ;
           then
           secondly
           to
           publish
           the
           sequell
           in
           print
           .
           And
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           as
           the
           former
           two
           decrees
           of
           mount
           Sion
           ,
           they
           concerne
           neerer
           then
           many
           .
        
         
           In
           my
           first
           looking
           after
           religion
           ,
           
           my
           lot
           was
           to
           associate
           such
           onely
           ,
           as
           onely
           tasted
           and
           affected
           another
           kind
           of
           ministerie
           ,
           which
           (
           as
           they
           said
           )
           yet
           we
           had
           not
           in
           England
           .
           And
           that
           they
           tearmed
           the
           ministerie
           of
           Pastor
           ,
           Doctor
           ,
           Elders
           ,
           Deacons
           ,
           Widowes
           ,
           due
           to
           euerie
           particular
           Church
           .
           Those
           words
           I
           soone
           learned
           :
           as
           also
           ,
           that
           the
           Pastor
           was
           to
           exhort
           ,
           the
           Doctor
           to
           teach
           or
           deliuer
           doctrine
           ,
           the
           Elders
           to
           gouerne
           and
           exercise
           the
           disciplinall
           cens●res
           in
           common
           with
           Pastor
           and
           Doctor
           ,
           the
           Deacons
           onely
           to
           attend
           poore
           and
           loue-feastes
           ,
           the
           widowes
           to
           wait
           on
           the
           sicke
           .
        
         
           That
           platforme
           once
           swallowed
           ,
           I
           then
           was
           easily
           perswaded
           that
           our
           Bishops
           ,
           their
           Ordinations
           and
           all
           ministerie
           standing
           vnder
           them
           ,
           it
           was
           Antichristian
           ,
           and
           an
           Image
           of
           the
           beast
           .
           And
           looke
           how
           many
           corruptions
           ,
           so
           many
           markes
           of
           the
           beast
           ,
           which
           whosoeuer
           receiued
           in
           forehead
           or
           hand
           ,
           
           euen
           all
           such
           should
           drinke
           of
           the
           cup
           of
           the
           wine
           of
           God
           his
           wrath
           .
        
         
           
           All
           this
           so
           hanging
           togither
           ,
           except
           I
           would
           practise
           contrarie
           to
           my
           perswasion
           ,
           (
           as
           many
           deceitfully
           haue
           done
           )
           out
           of
           the
           land
           I
           must
           ,
           as
           I
           loued
           my
           libertie
           .
           I
           did
           so
           .
           First
           into
           the
           Low-countries
           I
           went
           ,
           Afterwards
           into
           Scotland
           .
           After
           that
           againe
           into
           the
           Low-countries
           .
           Then
           again
           into
           Scotland
           :
           And
           once
           againe
           into
           Netherland
           ,
           &c.
           
           Sometimes
           haled
           by
           this
           faction
           ,
           sometimes
           pulled
           by
           that
           faction
           .
           But
           (
           the
           Lord
           being
           mercifull
           vnto
           me
           )
           howsoeuer
           I
           was
           notablie
           distract
           about
           externall
           Church-gouernment
           ,
           yet
           (
           as
           all
           my
           printed
           bookes
           will
           testifie
           )
           I
           kept
           me
           euer
           fast
           vnto
           the
           maine
           point
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           
           vnto
           the
           foundation
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           I
           had
           before
           here
           receiued
           :
           and
           had
           in
           Lancashire
           for
           some
           two
           yeares
           publikely
           ministred
           ,
           being
           before
           (
           now
           some
           nine
           yeares
           since
           )
           ordained
           fully
           thereto
           by
           Bishop
           Wicham
           then
           Bishop
           of
           Lincolne
           .
        
         
           About
           some
           fiue
           years
           since
           ,
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           giue
           me
           an
           earnest
           desire
           to
           search
           antiquitie
           ,
           
           if
           happily
           that
           way
           I
           might
           find
           any
           assured
           footing
           of
           scriptures
           sence
           ,
           touching
           externall
           Church
           orders
           .
           Togither
           with
           this
           desire
           ,
           the
           Lord
           afforded
           me
           plentie
           of
           bookes
           ,
           first
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           after
           in
           Netherland
           .
           The
           more
           I
           read
           those
           writers
           that
           liued
           in
           the
           first
           400
           years
           ,
           the
           more
           I
           perceiued
           the
           former
           scales
           to
           fall
           from
           mine
           eies
           .
           And
           as
           the
           light
           of
           the
           faithfull
           increaseth
           till
           it
           be
           perfect
           day
           ;
           so
           ,
           togither
           with
           my
           last
           returne
           for
           England
           ,
           the
           foggie
           mist
           was
           risen
           and
           fled
           ,
           the
           Sunne
           of
           righteousnesse
           shined
           vpon
           me
           :
           and
           that
           (
           to
           the
           praise
           of
           God
           be
           it
           spoken
           )
           in
           such
           euidence
           of
           scripture
           ,
           as
           I
           hope
           my selfe
           enabled
           to
           draw
           (
           as
           on
           a
           table
           )
           an
           euident
           Idea
           and
           shape
           of
           that
           miscarying
           way
           ,
           if
           so
           men
           will
           waigh
           it
           in
           simplicitie
           of
           spirit
           .
           Yet
           this
           must
           here
           be
           done
           but
           briefly
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           an
           epistle
           .
        
         
           
           Pastor
           and
           Doctor
           are
           distinguished
           by
           them
           (
           from
           Rom.
           12.7.8
           .
           )
           by
           exhortation
           and
           doctrine
           .
           The
           Doctor
           is
           to
           be
           first
           exercised
           in
           doctrine
           ,
           the
           Pastor
           in
           the
           second
           place
           is
           to
           exhort
           from
           that
           doctrine
           .
           From
           hence
           then
           must
           needs
           follow
           :
           first
           ,
           that
           the
           Doctor
           is
           aboue
           the
           Pastor
           ;
           seeing
           the
           Pastor
           
           but
           buildeth
           vpon
           the
           doctrine
           of
           his
           Doctor
           :
           Euen
           as
           the
           Apostles
           laying
           the
           foundation
           ,
           then
           were
           in
           an
           higher
           office
           then
           the
           Euangelistes
           or
           Pastors
           that
           but
           builded
           on
           the
           Apostles
           ground
           .
           And
           for
           this
           consideration
           ,
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           would
           not
           worke
           vpon
           others
           building
           .
           The
           order
           then
           must
           be
           thus
           ;
           
             Doctor
             ,
             Pastor
          
           .
           And
           in
           Rom.
           12.7
           .
           Doctrine
           indeed
           is
           put
           before
           exhortation
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           if
           doctrine
           and
           exhortation
           distinguish
           them
           ,
           then
           it
           shall
           be
           as
           verily
           sinne
           for
           the
           Doctor
           in
           his
           exercise
           to
           meddle
           with
           exhortation
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           Pastor
           to
           meddle
           with
           doctrine
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           for
           Vzzah
           an
           inferiour
           Leuit
           to
           touch
           the
           Arke
           of
           God
           (
           though
           in
           a
           danger
           to
           fal
           )
           which
           medling
           with
           the
           Arke
           distinguished
           Aarons
           family
           ,
           from
           the
           other
           two
           Leuits
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           then
           it
           skilleth
           not
           though
           the
           Pastor
           be
           a
           man
           of
           no
           learning
           (
           for
           all
           the
           learning
           to
           speake
           of
           ,
           lieth
           in
           a
           deliuerie
           of
           the
           scriptures
           naturall
           sense
           ,
           with
           a
           drawing
           out
           of
           his
           proper
           doct●ines
           )
           and
           to
           exhort
           ,
           is
           so
           farre
           inferiour
           to
           doctrine
           ,
           as
           the
           application
           of
           the
           medicine
           (
           to
           a
           seen
           sore
           )
           doth
           vtter
           no
           such
           knowledge
           ,
           as
           the
           prouision
           and
           composition
           of
           the
           medicine
           .
           If
           they
           say
           ,
           the
           Pastor
           is
           to
           exhort
           ,
           but
           not
           onely
           ,
           he
           may
           also
           teach
           :
           the
           like
           (
           say
           I
           )
           with
           as
           good
           reason
           may
           be
           spoken
           of
           the
           Doctor
           ,
           not
           onely
           to
           teach
           ,
           but
           principally
           .
           Which
           toyish
           order
           of
           teaching
           &
           exhorting
           ,
           as
           no
           reformed
           Church
           abroad
           is
           acquainted
           with
           it
           (
           for
           they
           acknowledge
           no
           sole
           Doctor
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           schooles
           )
           so
           their
           distinction
           of
           
             Not
             onely
          
           ,
           but
           principally
           ,
           as
           it
           may
           be
           vsed
           likewise
           in
           the
           following
           offices
           ,
           so
           let
           vs
           see
           how
           much
           it
           maketh
           for
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           Elders
           they
           distinguish
           by
           Ruling
           (
           from
           1.
           
           Tim.
           5.17
           .
           )
           as
           the
           Pastor
           and
           Doctor
           ,
           
           by
           the
           word
           and
           doctrine
           .
           Here
           say
           they
           ,
           are
           both
           sorts
           of
           Elders
           :
           Rulers
           in
           the
           first
           place
           ,
           teachers
           in
           the
           second
           .
           First
           ,
           touching
           the
           term●s
           (
           word
           and
           doctrine
           )
           doctrine
           being
           onely
           that
           which
           is
           drawne
           from
           the
           word
           ,
           here
           so
           is
           no
           speech
           of
           the
           Pastor
           and
           his
           exhortation
           :
           and
           so
           no
           double
           honour
           for
           the
           Pastor
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           if
           by
           Ruling
           in
           the
           first
           place
           ,
           be
           meant
           onely
           a
           gouerning
           of
           the
           Church
           without
           doctrine
           ,
           then
           the
           deliuerer
           of
           the
           word
           and
           doctrine
           last
           mentioned
           ,
           he
           must
           be
           debarred
           Rule
           ▪
           rule
           appertaining
           to
           the
           
           first
           ;
           doctrine
           ,
           to
           the
           second
           .
           If
           it
           be
           replied
           ,
           that
           the
           Pastor
           and
           Doctor
           also
           are
           to
           rule
           though
           not
           principally
           :
           so
           others
           may
           aswell
           reply
           ,
           the
           Elders
           are
           not
           onely
           (
           though
           principally
           )
           to
           be
           exercised
           in
           Ruledome
           ,
           for
           they
           also
           may
           teach
           .
           That
           the
           Elders
           might
           onely
           rule
           ,
           not
           teach
           ;
           though
           they
           make
           him
           a
           Bishop
           (
           in
           english
           Ouerseer
           )
           yet
           they
           will
           vnderstand
           him
           vnder
           the
           word
           Deacon
           :
           for
           thus
           it
           is
           in
           the
           demonstration
           of
           discipline
           .
        
         
           
           Offices
           simple
           are
           
             
               Bishops
               
                 
                   Pastors
                
                 
                   Doctors
                
              
            
             
               Deacons
               or
               Church-seruants
               
                 
                   Ouerseers
                
                 
                   Distributors
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           Marke
           well
           ,
           how
           first
           he
           maketh
           two
           sorts
           of
           Bishops
           (
           Pastors
           and
           Doctors
           )
           then
           two
           sorts
           of
           Deatons
           ;
           Ouerseers
           and
           distributors
           .
           First
           ,
           a
           right
           plaine
           man
           may
           obserue
           ,
           that
           to
           make
           an
           Ouerseer
           (
           or
           gouerning
           Elder
           )
           to
           be
           a
           Church-seruant
           ,
           it
           is
           verie
           ridiculous
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           to
           make
           Bishops
           one
           in
           the
           first
           diuision
           ,
           &
           Ouerseers
           another
           in
           the
           second
           diuision
           :
           it
           is
           to
           make
           a
           difference
           between
           I
           and
           I
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           difference
           where
           none
           is
           .
           For
           Bishops
           and
           Ouerseers
           are
           all
           one
           :
           Bishops
           being
           the
           Greeke
           word
           ,
           and
           Ouerseers
           the
           English.
           The
           diuision
           so
           of
           the
           offices
           ,
           not
           onely
           void
           of
           diuinitie
           and
           art
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           verie
           common
           sense
           .
           Yet
           a
           correction
           due
           to
           the
           sons
           of
           God
           ,
           when
           they
           seeke
           to
           bring
           in
           their
           owne
           inuentions
           .
           But
           to
           what
           purpose
           haue
           they
           thrust
           the
           word
           Ouerseer
           vnder
           the
           word
           Deacon
           ?
           Because
           forsooth
           in
           1.
           
           Tim.
           3.
           they
           would
           not
           vnderstand
           the
           office
           of
           Elders
           in
           the
           word
           Bishop
           :
           because
           it
           is
           there
           required
           ,
           that
           euerie
           Bishop
           (
           or
           Church
           ouerseer
           )
           he
           should
           be
           
             Apt
             to
             teach
          
           :
           and
           they
           would
           haue
           Elders
           of
           another
           stampe
           .
           Whereas
           that
           in
           1.
           
           Tim.
           3.1.2
           .
           (
           together
           with
           Act.
           20.17
           .
           where
           Elders
           are
           by
           vers
           .
           28.
           expounded
           Ouerseers
           or
           Bishops
           ,
           on
           all
           which
           the
           Apostle
           enioyneth
           teaching
           as
           he
           before
           had
           )
           it
           plainly
           euinceth
           ,
           that
           all
           Ouerseers
           are
           to
           be
           exercised
           in
           teaching
           .
           By
           both
           which
           plaine
           places
           ,
           that
           more
           obscure
           place
           in
           1.
           
           Tim.
           5.17
           .
           (
           
             They
             that
             rule
             well
             are
             worthie
             double
             honour
             ,
             specially
             they
             that
             tyre
             themselues
             in
             the
             word
             and
             doctrine
          
           )
           it
           must
           be
           vnderstood
           ,
           either
           of
           one
           and
           
           the
           same
           sort
           of
           Elders
           in
           the
           Church
           ;
           whereof
           all
           deseruing
           well
           ,
           some
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           more
           trauaile
           )
           deserue
           better
           :
           or
           else
           (
           whereto
           I
           rather
           condescend
           )
           the
           first
           is
           spoken
           of
           Ouerseers
           to
           a
           particular
           Church
           :
           the
           latter
           (
           for
           Kopiontes
           importeth
           we
           ari●omenes
           by
           trauelling
           to
           and
           fro
           ,
           as
           in
           
             Iohn
             ,
             Ch.
          
           4.
           vers
           .
           6.
           )
           it
           implieth
           such
           Elders
           as
           
             Paul
             ,
             Iohn
             ,
             Peter
          
           ,
           &
           others
           that
           trauelled
           from
           place
           to
           place
           ,
           hauing
           care
           ouer
           many
           churches
           .
        
         
           Touching
           the
           Deacons
           (
           who
           are
           to
           be
           employed
           onely
           in
           and
           about
           the
           poore
           and
           tables
           )
           I
           take
           that
           onely
           were
           better
           (
           as
           before
           )
           turned
           into
           principally
           :
           
           and
           that
           by
           reason
           of
           more
           sufficient
           teachers
           present
           ,
           as
           also
           such
           occasion
           about
           the
           tables
           and
           poore
           ,
           as
           was
           in
           Ierusalem
           at
           the
           time
           of
           their
           first
           institution
           .
           But
           that
           there
           is
           no
           time
           nor
           place
           for
           the
           Deacon
           to
           preach
           and
           baptize
           ,
           the
           scripture
           affordeth
           not
           that
           .
           The
           contrarie
           appeareth
           in
           Philip
           ,
           preaching
           and
           baptizing
           in
           Samaria
           ,
           before
           the
           Apostles
           came
           thither
           to
           promoue
           him
           into
           an
           Euangelists
           place
           :
           or
           yet
           the
           Angell
           had
           called
           him
           to
           any
           busines
           with
           the
           Eunuch
           .
           Besides
           ,
           seeing
           the
           scripture
           requireth
           such
           a
           one
           to
           hold
           the
           mysterie
           of
           faith
           ,
           to
           be
           full
           of
           the
           holy
           ghost
           ,
           and
           of
           wisedome
           ,
           it
           plainly
           argueth
           ,
           it
           is
           ,
           because
           he
           may
           assist
           in
           that
           busines
           .
           And
           seeing
           (
           by
           all
           probability
           )
           those
           seuen
           Deacons
           were
           of
           the
           70
           disciples
           (
           for
           then
           they
           were
           in
           that
           Church
           ;
           and
           be
           sure
           that
           the
           people
           would
           choose
           the
           best
           )
           it
           cannot
           be
           auoided
           ,
           but
           Deacons
           must
           be
           fitted
           that
           way
           :
           that
           so
           ministring
           well
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           preferred
           in
           time
           to
           a
           greater
           degree
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           Widowes
           in
           1.
           
           Tim.
           5.
           
           there
           is
           no
           controuersie
           :
           but
           that
           they
           should
           be
           concluded
           from
           Rom.
           12.8
           .
           (
           
             he
             that
             is
             mercifull
          
           )
           that
           is
           ,
           worse
           then
           childish
           .
           For
           euerie
           child
           knows
           that
           He
           is
           not
           a
           She.
           The
           Brownists
           to
           couer
           this
           foppery
           ,
           they
           say
           not
           Widowes
           ,
           but
           Relieuers
           :
           that
           so
           vnder
           this
           new
           word
           they
           may
           steale
           into
           y
           ●
           Church
           ,
           Widowers
           :
           so
           well
           as
           Widowes
           .
           Yet
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           they
           should
           attend
           on
           sicke
           ,
           as
           scripture
           speaketh
           of
           no
           such
           matter
           ;
           so
           ,
           if
           we
           remember
           that
           she
           must
           not
           be
           vnder
           60.
           years
           aged
           ,
           as
           also
           one
           that
           hath
           no
           helpe
           from
           her
           kindred
           ,
           it
           should
           seeme
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           she
           is
           rather
           receiued
           to
           be
           ministred
           vnto
           ,
           then
           to
           minister
           .
        
         
         
           Vnder
           excellent
           termes
           ,
           thus
           odde
           inuentions
           of
           men
           haue
           beene
           broached
           .
           
           First
           ,
           condemning
           things
           at
           home
           which
           they
           soberly
           vnderstand
           not
           :
           
           secondly
           ,
           applauding
           things
           abroad
           ,
           which
           scripture
           and
           antiquitie
           neither
           vnderstand
           .
           Yet
           because
           first
           abroad
           ,
           and
           now
           at
           home
           I
           resist
           those
           nouelties
           according
           to
           knowledge
           :
           the
           Brownists
           abroad
           sparse
           notable
           vntruthes
           against
           me
           (
           witnes
           those
           ,
           to
           whom
           my
           treatise
           of
           the
           sinne
           against
           the
           holy
           ghost
           is
           dedicate
           )
           and
           the
           seditious
           at
           home
           quickly
           sup
           vp
           the
           euomitings
           of
           the
           Brownist
           ,
           that
           so
           thereby
           they
           may
           defile
           me
           and
           my
           ministery
           .
           The
           Pharisee
           an
           enemie
           to
           the
           Sadducee
           ;
           the
           Sadducee
           to
           the
           Pharisee
           :
           but
           both
           will
           ioyne
           in
           one
           confederacie
           against
           the
           truth
           .
           
           Further
           then
           I
           haue
           sound
           reason
           ,
           I
           desire
           not
           to
           be
           accepted
           :
           but
           if
           my
           reasons
           be
           equiualent
           to
           the
           waights
           of
           the
           sanctuarie
           ,
           cast
           not
           the
           precious
           pearle
           away
           because
           of
           the
           propounders
           basenes
           .
           The
           Apostle
           would
           know
           no
           one
           of
           the
           Lords
           people
           (
           no
           not
           Christ
           )
           according
           to
           the
           flesh
           :
           what
           art
           thou
           then
           to
           hold
           the
           faith
           in
           respect
           of
           persons
           ?
        
         
           Nine
           sermons
           I
           publikely
           and
           largely
           deliuered
           in
           Southwarke
           by
           London
           ,
           vpon
           the
           Parable
           of
           tares
           .
           That
           I
           haue
           drawn
           into
           the
           compasse
           of
           one
           sermon
           for
           thy
           good
           .
           Common
           doctrines
           of
           ordinarie
           course
           I
           here
           haue
           omitted
           ,
           holding
           me
           (
           for
           the
           most
           part
           )
           vnto
           certaine
           grounds
           of
           controuersie
           ,
           by
           the
           which
           disquieted
           soules
           may
           be
           setled
           .
           I
           choose
           this
           Parable
           before
           other
           scriptures
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           a
           ground
           of
           grounds
           for
           direction
           vnto
           Churches
           state
           and
           condition
           :
           the
           verie
           scripture
           which
           many
           peruert
           to
           their
           owne
           ruine
           :
           and
           yet
           (
           
             ni
             malè
             memini
          
           )
           the
           first
           scripture
           whereby
           I
           recouered
           my
           standing
           .
           Pray
           in
           humilitie
           yet
           thou
           read
           .
           Read
           without
           preiudicate
           affection
           .
           Ponder
           what
           thou
           readest
           :
           But
           giue
           no
           definitiue
           sentence
           ,
           before
           thou
           haue
           read
           the
           whole
           .
           What
           here
           may
           be
           deliuered
           too
           succinctly
           ,
           that
           (
           if
           God
           will
           )
           may
           once
           be
           deliuered
           more
           largely
           .
           Meane
           time
           ,
           be
           thankefull
           vnto
           God
           for
           this
           ,
           and
           helpe
           me
           with
           thy
           prayers
           .
        
         
           
             
               The
               Lords
               most
               vnworthie
            
             ,
             Henoch
             Clapham
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Math.
           13.24
           .
           Another
           Parable
           put
           he
           forth
           vnto
           them
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           SEeing
           speech
           is
           here
           of
           a
           Parable
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           considered
           ,
           first
           ,
           whether
           the
           word
           carie
           with
           it
           mo
           senses
           then
           one
           in
           Canonicall
           writ
           :
           and
           then
           ,
           in
           what
           sense
           it
           is
           peculiarly
           vttered
           .
        
         
           For
           varietie
           of
           sense
           ,
           I
           rest
           well
           resolued
           in
           that
           auncient
           collection
           of
           the
           Greeke
           father
           Chrysostome
           :
           who
           vpon
           the
           48.
           
           Psalme
           according
           to
           the
           Septuagints
           or
           Greeks
           account
           (
           for
           they
           ioyne
           the
           9.
           and
           10.
           
           Psalms
           in
           one
           ;
           with
           vs
           and
           the
           Hebrew
           distinctly
           two
           :
           and
           then
           for
           keeping
           the
           number
           of
           150.
           psalmes
           ,
           they
           cut
           the
           147.
           psalme
           into
           two
           :
           beginning
           their
           148.
           with
           the
           12.
           verse
           ,
           
             Laud
             the
             Lord
             O
             Ierusalem
             ,
             &c.
          
           which
           account
           the
           old
           Latine
           also
           obserueth
           )
           on
           the
           same
           48.
           psalme
           ,
           he
           collecteth
           two
           senses
           from
           the
           olde
           Testament
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Septuagints
           version
           :
           and
           other
           two
           senses
           in
           the
           new
           Testaments
           Greeke
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           foure
           senses
           in
           the
           whole
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           olde
           Testament
           ,
           he
           first
           obserueth
           it
           for
           a
           Rebuke
           or
           opprobrie
           :
           as
           where
           in
           psalme
           44.
           we
           read
           ,
           
             Thou
             hast
             set
             vs
             for
             a
             Parable
             ,
          
           that
           is
           ,
           for
           a
           by-word
           or
           marke
           of
           rebuke
           .
           And
           in
           Iudges
           14.14
           .
           it
           is
           taken
           for
           a
           Riddle
           :
           where
           of
           
             Samson
             Be-dan
          
           (
           sprong
           of
           Dan
           )
           it
           is
           written
           ,
           
             Out
             of
             the
             eater
             came
             sweet
             ,
             &c.
          
           which
           in
           vers
           .
           12.
           is
           termed
           well
           a
           Riddle
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Greeke
           ,
           a
           Parable
           .
           In
           the
           new
           Testament
           lieth
           other
           two
           senses
           ,
           which
           
             Hysteron
             proteron
          
           (
           for
           methode
           sake
           )
           I
           rehearse
           thus
           .
           In
           Hebr.
           11.19
           .
           (
           speech
           hauing
           passed
           of
           Abraham
           his
           offering
           Isaac
           )
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           
             That
             from
             the
             dead
             he
             receiued
             him
             (
             En
             parabole
             )
          
           in
           a
           Parable
           or
           type
           ;
           or
           (
           as
           we
           haue
           it
           well
           )
           
             after
             a
             sort
          
           .
           The
           fourth
           sense
           is
           that
           which
           here
           in
           Mathew
           is
           vsed
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           for
           a
           Similitude
           :
           as
           if
           he
           should
           haue
           said
           ,
           
             Another
             similitude
             Iesus
             he
             put
             forth
             vnto
             them
             .
          
           Wherin
           if
           we
           obserue
           ,
           first
           the
           partie
           which
           propounds
           
           the
           parable
           ;
           then
           secondly
           ,
           the
           parties
           to
           whom
           it
           is
           propounded
           ,
           it
           shall
           carrie
           with
           it
           his
           proprietie
           of
           edification
           .
        
         
           The
           propounder
           is
           Iesus
           ,
           in
           plaine
           English
           ,
           a
           He
           that
           was
           appointed
           to
           saue
           his
           people
           from
           their
           sin
           :
           appointed
           by
           God
           the
           father
           to
           saue
           the
           whole
           Israel
           of
           God.
           The
           heroicke
           condition
           of
           his
           person
           (
           essentially
           God
           ,
           essentially
           man
           ,
           by
           true
           distinction
           of
           natures
           ,
           constituting
           but
           one
           person
           ,
           Mediatour
           Christ
           )
           it
           may
           cause
           vs
           with
           more
           reuerent
           attention
           to
           listen
           his
           similitude
           .
           For
           sentences
           deliuered
           by
           persons
           of
           state
           ,
           they
           ordinarily
           stand
           for
           Maximes
           of
           mightie
           consequent
           .
           And
           if
           we
           consider
           his
           inestimable
           loue
           towards
           his
           people
           ,
           that
           may
           moue
           vs
           more
           :
           for
           who
           will
           not
           be
           vrged
           by
           a
           sweet
           and
           trustie
           friend
           ?
           But
           if
           it
           be
           remembred
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           not
           onely
           our
           mightie
           friend
           ,
           but
           also
           He
           ,
           whom
           the
           Prophets
           call
           b
           Counsailor
           ,
           and
           the
           c
           Wisedome
           of
           God
           in
           whom
           the
           whole
           worke
           of
           Creation
           restes
           ,
           surely
           ,
           this
           may
           be
           a
           furtherance
           ,
           (
           not
           onely
           to
           attention
           ,
           but
           also
           )
           to
           perswasion
           for
           a
           readie
           receipt
           of
           those
           words
           of
           wisedome
           .
        
         
           Touching
           the
           parties
           to
           whom
           this
           Sauiour
           of
           ours
           speaketh
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           multitude
           ,
           his
           disciples
           not
           exempted
           .
           The
           Parable
           vnexpounded
           ,
           is
           principally
           because
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           concerning
           whom
           the
           scripture
           had
           foretold
           d
           
             That
             in
             hearing
             they
             should
             not
             vnderstand
             ,
             and
             seeing
             they
             should
             not
             perceiue
             ,
             because
             of
             the
             fatnes
             of
             their
             hearts
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           So
           that
           our
           Sauiour
           vseth
           not
           Parables
           so
           ,
           but
           when
           he
           hath
           warrant
           of
           scripture
           :
           nor
           fat
           hearted
           and
           insensible
           soules
           are
           not
           so
           spoken
           vnto
           ,
           but
           when
           scripture
           will
           be
           so
           verified
           vpon
           them
           .
           Our
           Sauiours
           enigmaticall
           speeches
           may
           teach
           vs
           to
           obserue
           the
           times
           (
           and
           so
           Origen
           and
           others
           do
           read
           ,
           Rom.
           12.11
           .
           
             Seruing
             (
             Kairô
             )
             Time
          
           ,
           not
           
             (
             Kuriô
             )
             the
             Lord
          
           )
           considering
           ,
           e
           
             A
             word
             spoken
             in
             his
             place
             ,
             is
             like
             Apples
             of
             Gold
             and
             pictures
             of
             Siluer
             .
          
           Vnto
           some
           ,
           holy
           mysteries
           are
           to
           be
           sealed
           :
           but
           vnto
           leane
           hearted
           disciples
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           will
           not
           play
           the
           hogs
           and
           dogs
           with
           pearles
           ,
           the
           written
           mysteries
           of
           God
           are
           to
           be
           reuealed
           .
           His
           truthes
           are
           not
           like
           Isis
           and
           Osyris
           mysteries
           in
           Aegypt
           ,
           who
           are
           to
           be
           locked
           vp
           in
           the
           bosomes
           of
           their
           sacred
           priests
           .
           Indeed
           ,
           the
           priests
           of
           spirituall
           Aegypt
           do
           locke
           vp
           all
           from
           the
           people
           in
           an
           vnknowen
           
           tongue
           ,
           saying
           :
           that
           f
           
             The
             people
             are
             swine
             and
             dogs
             ,
             and
             holy
             things
             are
             not
             to
             be
             giuen
             vnto
             them
             .
          
           But
           no
           people
           are
           we
           to
           terme
           so
           ,
           who
           minister
           an
           outward
           hope
           (
           though
           mixed
           with
           infirmitie
           )
           of
           being
           truly
           desirous
           to
           heare
           and
           vnderstand
           ,
           not
           for
           cauillation
           but
           for
           edification
           .
        
         
           And
           seeing
           a
           Parable
           or
           similitude
           expounded
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           plainest
           doctrine
           or
           forme
           of
           teaching
           of
           all
           others
           (
           seeing
           it
           hath
           allusion
           to
           common
           naturall
           things
           ,
           where
           with
           man
           is
           well
           acquainted
           )
           as
           also
           ,
           considering
           with
           the
           plainnes
           there
           is
           an
           eloquence
           naturall
           ioyned
           for
           beautification
           thereof
           vnto
           the
           eye
           of
           nature
           ;
           it
           should
           teach
           all
           ministers
           herein
           sometimes
           to
           be
           exercised
           ,
           as
           was
           Salomon
           that
           great
           preacher
           of
           Israell
           :
           for
           of
           him
           (
           carying
           a
           representation
           of
           our
           Iesus
           )
           it
           is
           thus
           written
           :
           g
           
             The
             wiser
             the
             preacher
             ,
             the
             more
             he
             taught
             the
             people
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             caused
             them
             to
             heare
             ,
             and
             searched
             forth
             and
             prepared
             many
             Parables
             .
             The
             preacher
             sought
             to
             find
             out
             pleasant
             words
             and
             an
             vpright
             writing
             ,
             euen
             the
             words
             of
             truth
             .
          
           Yet
           ,
           seeing
           Parables
           of
           themselues
           doe
           not
           naturally
           conclude
           or
           proue
           ,
           but
           onely
           explaine
           and
           illustrate
           doctrine
           alreadie
           proued
           (
           euen
           as
           in
           all
           schooles
           the
           axiome
           runs
           :
           
             Similia
             illustrant
             non
             probant
          
           :
           Similies
           do
           beautifie
           ,
           but
           proue
           not
           )
           therefore
           Parables
           must
           be
           no
           further
           pressed
           then
           may
           be
           found
           consonant
           to
           the
           analogie
           or
           proportion
           of
           faith
           .
           And
           for
           this
           cause
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           termed
           as
           one
           well
           termed
           Aliegories
           ,
           namely
           ,
           h
           
             Sawces
             which
             none
             eate
             alone
             ,
             but
             for
             seasoning
             of
             meat
             .
          
           So
           much
           briefly
           for
           the
           terme
           Parable
           ,
           now
           to
           the
           matter
           so
           termed
           .
           It
           followeth
           in
           the
           text
           .
        
         
           Vers.
           24.
           
           
             The
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             is
             like
             ,
             &c.
          
           ]
           Euerie
           comparison
           consisteth
           (
           as
           Greekes
           speake
           )
           of
           his
           Protasis
           and
           Apodosis
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           of
           his
           proposition
           and
           reddition
           .
           The
           proposition
           is
           the
           thing
           propounded
           ,
           the
           reddition
           is
           the
           application
           thereof
           .
           Here
           we
           haue
           to
           resolue
           the
           Parable
           thus
           :
           
             Looke
             how
             it
             befalleth
             a
             field
             first
             sowen
             with
             wheat
             ,
             where
             into
             afterwards
             steps
             the
             enemie
             and
             scattereth
             his
             tares
             ,
             &c.
             
             Euen
             so
             it
             befalleth
             with
             the
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             .
          
           In
           the
           12.
           
           i
           Chapter
           of
           this
           present
           Euangell
           ,
           our
           Sauiour
           propoundeth
           a
           person
           out
           of
           whom
           the
           vncleane
           spirit
           goeth
           ,
           but
           afterwards
           returneth
           to
           a
           stronger
           
           possession
           of
           that
           soule
           :
           he
           then
           applieth
           it
           to
           that
           generation
           saying
           :
           
             Euen
             so
             shall
             it
             be
             with
             this
             wicked
             generation
             .
          
           But
           his
           methode
           here
           contrariwise
           ,
           
             euen
             so
             it
             shall
             befall
             the
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             ,
             As
             vnto
             a
             field
             sowen
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Placing
           that
           in
           the
           first
           place
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           former
           president
           should
           naturally
           come
           in
           the
           second
           place
           .
           And
           this
           to
           teach
           vs
           ,
           to
           vse
           and
           not
           to
           vse
           a
           naturall
           methode
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           our
           Christian
           libertie
           herein
           ;
           not
           to
           make
           our selues
           slaues
           to
           one
           forme
           ,
           when
           Christ
           hath
           made
           vs
           free
           .
           And
           yet
           this
           no
           cloake
           for
           ignorant
           bablers
           ,
           who
           oft
           speake
           despitefully
           of
           methode
           ;
           not
           because
           they
           know
           what
           it
           is
           (
           for
           it
           may
           be
           they
           are
           void
           of
           all
           Art
           and
           learning
           )
           but
           because
           literature
           hath
           no
           such
           enemie
           as
           ignorance
           .
           But
           let
           vs
           come
           vnto
           the
           thing
           compared
           .
        
         
           
             The
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             is
             like
             ,
             &c.
          
           ]
           To
           the
           sense
           of
           these
           words
           ,
           first
           seuerally
           ,
           then
           ioyntly
           .
           The
           word
           Kingdome
           (
           as
           is
           also
           the
           Hebrew
           and
           Greeke
           )
           it
           is
           deriued
           of
           the
           word
           King
           ,
           as
           being
           the
           thing
           where
           abouts
           a
           King
           is
           exercised
           .
           And
           which
           more
           is
           ,
           I
           take
           it
           to
           be
           compounded
           of
           King
           and
           Doome
           ,
           (
           and
           so
           by
           contraction
           Kingdome
           )
           because
           hereabouts
           a
           King
           doth
           exercise
           his
           doome
           or
           iudgement
           .
           Vnto
           which
           kingdomes
           Constitution
           is
           required
           ,
           first
           a
           King
           ;
           secondly
           a
           People
           ;
           thirdly
           Doome
           ,
           iudgements
           or
           lawes
           ;
           fourthly
           ,
           an
           Execution
           therof
           according
           to
           equitie
           .
           Which
           I
           passe
           by
           ,
           as
           ordinarie
           common
           places
           .
        
         
           Touching
           the
           word
           Heauen
           (
           or
           rather
           as
           it
           is
           in
           the
           originall
           k
           (
           
             Ouranôn
             )
             Heauens
          
           in
           the
           plurall
           number
           )
           it
           is
           sometimes
           taken
           for
           the
           ayre
           (
           as
           when
           we
           say
           ,
           
             Frigidum
             Coelum
          
           ,
           a
           colde
           heauen
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           cold
           ayre
           :
           or
           as
           the
           birds
           are
           said
           of
           l
           Moses
           to
           flie
           in
           the
           open
           stretching
           forth
           of
           the
           heauens
           )
           sometimes
           it
           is
           taken
           onely
           for
           stretched
           out
           spheres
           ,
           globes
           or
           seuerall
           circles
           wherein
           the
           stars
           be
           .
           Of
           which
           ,
           some
           be
           termed
           in
           the
           Greeke
           ,
           m
           Planets
           ,
           in
           english
           ,
           Wanderers
           ,
           because
           of
           their
           swift
           and
           speedie
           motion
           :
           and
           those
           be
           seuen
           in
           number
           ,
           wherof
           the
           Moone
           (
           the
           lowest
           )
           and
           the
           Sunne
           (
           the
           middlemost
           )
           are
           principall
           to
           vs
           ward
           for
           operation
           .
           But
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           restrained
           from
           n
           Smiting
           those
           that
           put
           their
           confidence
           in
           Israels
           God
           :
           not
           (
           as
           o
           
             the
             heathen
             doe
          
           )
           fearing
           the
           heauens
           face
           as
           a
           
           God.
           The
           other
           heauens
           are
           eyther
           the
           firmament
           wherein
           all
           the
           common
           stars
           be
           (
           commonly
           termed
           fixed
           )
           whereto
           Iehouah
           willeth
           p
           Abraham
           to
           cast
           his
           eye
           ,
           telling
           him
           ,
           so
           infinite
           should
           his
           seed
           bee
           .
           In
           which
           firmament
           are
           the
           stars
           ,
           whereof
           the
           Lord
           speaketh
           to
           Iob
           ,
           namely
           ,
           
             Plejades
             ,
             Orion
             ,
             Matzaroch
             ,
             Arcturus
             .
          
           Or
           else
           they
           be
           heauens
           inuisible
           ,
           beyond
           the
           reach
           of
           our
           sight
           ,
           whereof
           to
           dispute
           it
           is
           not
           fitting
           this
           place
           .
           Yet
           so
           farre
           as
           God
           reuealeth
           his
           workes
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           so
           farre
           we
           may
           search
           ,
           and
           with
           humilitie
           enquire
           for
           our
           comforts
           :
           yea
           ,
           that
           so
           thereby
           we
           may
           so
           much
           the
           more
           be
           pricked
           to
           praise
           him
           in
           his
           workes
           :
           so
           much
           for
           the
           words
           seuerally
           ,
           now
           ioyntly
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Kingdome
             of
             heauen
          
           ,
           it
           being
           a
           phrase
           not
           fully
           found
           in
           those
           syllables
           ,
           in
           any
           one
           place
           of
           the
           olde
           Testament
           ,
           we
           are
           to
           seeke
           the
           originall
           vse
           thereof
           in
           the
           newe
           .
           The
           first
           Preacher
           of
           this
           phrase
           ,
           it
           is
           
             Iohn
             Baptist
          
           in
           this
           present
           gospell
           ,
           and
           Chap.
           3.2
           .
           where
           he
           cries
           ,
           
             Repent
             ,
             for
             the
             kingdome
             of
             heauen
             is
             at
             hand
             .
          
           In
           which
           speech
           he
           hath
           relation
           vnto
           that
           kingdome
           whereof
           Daniel
           speaketh
           ,
           Chap.
           7.14
           .
           giuen
           by
           the
           ancient
           of
           daies
           vnto
           One
           like
           the
           sonne
           of
           Man
           :
           which
           in
           vers
           .
           22.
           
           &
           27.
           he
           communicates
           with
           the
           Saints
           of
           the
           most
           high
           ,
           a
           kingdome
           after
           the
           receipt
           and
           possession
           thereof
           ,
           appointed
           to
           endure
           for
           euer
           .
           Whereunto
           if
           we
           adde
           that
           to
           the
           Hebrewes
           ,
           touching
           the
           remouall
           of
           the
           olde
           heauens
           and
           earth
           (
           that
           is
           ,
           q
           of
           the
           Iewish
           Church
           and
           pollicie
           )
           that
           so
           a
           new
           kingdome
           might
           be
           receiued
           of
           the
           faithfull
           that
           should
           neuer
           be
           shaken
           ,
           it
           shall
           so
           appeare
           euidently
           ,
           that
           the
           kingdome
           of
           heauen
           here
           spoken
           of
           ,
           it
           is
           no
           other
           thing
           then
           the
           state
           of
           the
           newe
           Testaments
           Church
           ,
           whereto
           
             Iohn
             Baptist
          
           prepared
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           baptized
           .
           Yea
           ,
           that
           this
           conclusion
           is
           Catholike
           and
           subscribed
           vnto
           of
           all
           ,
           euerie
           one
           that
           is
           read
           ,
           can
           well
           enough
           testifie
           .
        
         
           The
           state
           of
           new
           Testaments
           Church
           it
           being
           so
           called
           ,
           we
           therby
           may
           collect
           the
           grosse
           darkned
           iudgement
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           who
           takes
           it
           rather
           for
           a
           kingdome
           of
           hell
           ,
           then
           of
           heauen
           :
           and
           the
           rather
           because
           the
           appendices
           of
           this
           kingdome
           or
           Commonwealth
           are
           like
           to
           Iesus
           incarnate
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           r
           
             Out
             of
             a
             drie
             ground
             ,
             void
             of
             for
             me
             and
             beautie
          
           ▪
           according
           to
           naturall
           insight
           ;
           
           and
           therefore
           a
           Kingdome
           like
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           not
           of
           this
           world
           :
           but
           rather
           alotted
           to
           hang
           on
           the
           Crosse
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           world
           .
           And
           for
           this
           cause
           ,
           the
           Psalmist
           saith
           that
           ,
           s
           
             The
             Kings
             daughter
             is
             all
             glorious
             within
             .
          
           And
           so
           our
           king
           h●mselfe
           saith
           t
           that
           
             this
             kingdome
             is
             within
          
           ,
           &
           not
           to
           be
           seen
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           or
           heretikes
           by
           
             Lo
             here
             ,
             Lo
             there
          
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           by
           outward
           appearances
           :
           on
           which
           externall
           show
           the
           Pre●●sian
           Pharisee
           then
           rested
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           seeing
           the
           olde
           Testaments
           kingdome
           once
           shaken
           ,
           it
           gaue
           place
           to
           this
           new
           kingdome
           and
           that
           for
           euer
           and
           euer
           :
           we
           first
           ought
           to
           obserue
           the
           former
           kingdomes
           basenes
           in
           comparison
           of
           this
           .
           Euen
           as
           we
           know
           the
           firmamentall
           starres
           to
           be
           inferiour
           for
           light
           vnto
           the
           Sunne
           ,
           by
           reason
           their
           shine
           is
           darkenes
           ,
           when
           once
           her
           beames
           irradiates
           our
           Hemi-●phere
           .
           v
           
             For
             if
             that
             which
             should
             be
             abolished
             was
             glorious
             ,
             much
             more
             that
             which
             rema●neth
             is
             glorious
             .
          
           Nor
           can
           this
           be
           remembred
           without
           compassionating
           our
           elder
           brother
           the
           Iew
           :
           w●o
           (
           poore
           soule
           )
           not
           perceiuing
           the
           abolishment
           of
           the
           first
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           lawes
           letter
           ,
           hanging
           as
           a
           vaile
           before
           his
           eies
           )
           he
           therefore
           abhorreth
           communion
           with
           the
           second
           .
        
         
           x
           Standing
           with
           the
           elder
           brother
           without
           ,
           grumbling
           and
           grudging
           at
           his
           yonger
           brother
           ,
           feeding
           of
           the
           slaughtered
           Bullocke
           within
           Shems
           tent
           .
           Nor
           maruell
           I
           much
           at
           them
           ,
           for
           many
           come
           within
           in
           part
           ,
           they
           do
           in
           some
           part
           stand
           without
           ,
           saying
           :
           They
           dare
           not
           touch
           ,
           they
           dare
           not
           tast
           ,
           they
           dare
           not
           handle
           ,
           they
           dare
           not
           pray
           in
           a
           Synagogue
           ,
           y
           
             Which
             al
             perish
             with
             the
             vsing
             ,
             according
             to
          
           (
           the
           destinie
           of
           )
           
             commandements
             and
             doctrines
             of
             men
             .
             Which
             things
             indeed
             haue
             a
             shew
             of
             wisedom
             in
             a
             voluntary
             religion
             and
             humblenes
             of
             mind
             ,
             and
             in
             not
             sparing
             the
             bodie
             ;
             but
             they
             are
          
           (
           in
           troth
           )
           
             of
             no
             value
             ,
             saue
             for
             satisfying
             the
             flesh
             .
          
           For
           if
           we
           be
           risen
           with
           Christ
           ,
           nothing
           to
           the
           pure
           can
           be
           vnclean
           (
           if
           not
           of
           meat
           ,
           z
           going
           with
           in
           vs
           ,
           though
           vnder
           the
           law
           it
           was
           otherwise
           ,
           much
           lesse
           of
           stones
           and
           timber
           without
           vs
           )
           for
           all
           the
           creatures
           of
           God
           are
           sanctified
           vnto
           them
           by
           the
           word
           and
           praier
           :
           and
           it
           is
           lawfull
           a
           
             In
             all
             places
             to
             hold
             vp
             hands
             ,
             prouided
             it
             be
             without
             wrath
             and
             doubting
             .
          
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           this
           kingdome
           being
           of
           an
           euer-enduring
           nature
           
           and
           no
           more
           to
           be
           remoued
           ,
           it
           not
           onely
           ●utteth
           off
           these
           heretikes
           that
           from
           Revel
           .
           14.6
           .
           d●●●eare
           themselues
           in
           hand
           ,
           that
           this
           word
           of
           the
           kingdome
           s●all
           be
           vtterly
           abolished
           ,
           and
           another
           new
           Gospell
           preached
           .
           For
           as
           b
           Paul
           commaunds
           vs
           to
           hold
           that
           Angell
           accursed
           that
           brings
           another
           Gospell
           ,
           so
           that
           is
           nothing
           else
           but
           a
           renual
           of
           our
           Gospels
           preaching
           more
           vniuersallie
           :
           by
           the
           which
           a
           way
           is
           prepared
           to
           Babylons
           downefall
           .
           Which
           might
           well
           begin
           with
           our
           Wicliffe
           ,
           and
           be
           continued
           through
           the
           midst
           of
           the
           Church
           by
           Luther
           and
           others
           .
           As
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           the
           perpetuitie
           of
           this
           kingdome
           it
           cutteth
           off
           such
           new
           gospellers
           ,
           so
           besides
           that
           ,
           it
           c●n●inceth
           many
           of
           ignorance
           :
           who
           contrarie
           to
           scripture
           ,
           all
           antiquitie
           and
           experience
           doe
           affirme
           ,
           that
           there
           hath
           beene
           no
           visibilitie
           of
           the
           Church
           for
           former
           hundreds
           of
           yeares
           .
           Besides
           that
           ,
           such
           a
           position
           is
           opposite
           to
           all
           those
           scriptures
           ,
           Psal.
           72.5.17
           .
           Isa.
           59.21
           .
           Math.
           16.11
           .
           1.
           
           Tim.
           3.18
           .
           Reuel
           .
           11.2.3
           .
           (
           for
           as
           the
           Centurists
           well
           reason
           ,
           if
           it
           continue
           vnder
           Antichristes
           tyrannie
           and
           exaltation
           ,
           much
           more
           after
           )
           but
           also
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           embasing
           of
           this
           kingdome
           before
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Moses
           .
           For
           ,
           was
           not
           the
           ancient
           Church
           (
           the
           figure
           and
           type
           hereof
           )
           was
           it
           not
           alwaies
           visible
           ?
           No
           ,
           saie
           our
           ignorant
           Reformists
           and
           Schismatikes
           .
           The
           Church
           was
           inuisible
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Elias
           .
           But
           the
           Lord
           saith
           no
           :
           c
           First
           ,
           by
           rebuking
           the
           Prophet
           ,
           pronouncing
           vnto
           him
           that
           there
           were
           7000.
           in
           Israell
           that
           did
           no
           outward
           homage
           vnto
           Baal
           .
           Nor
           let
           a
           man
           iudge
           otherwise
           it
           could
           be
           ,
           seeing
           not
           onely
           there
           were
           plentie
           of
           Prophets
           when
           Obadiah
           hid
           them
           by
           50.
           and
           50.
           in
           a
           caue
           ;
           but
           also
           ,
           d
           there
           were
           schooles
           of
           Prophets
           what
           time
           Elias
           was
           readie
           to
           be
           rapt
           vp
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           recordeth
           Elijah
           to
           haue
           spoken
           against
           Israel
           ,
           not
           against
           Iudah
           .
           For
           as
           he
           knew
           that
           good
           Iosaphat
           at
           that
           time
           raigned
           in
           Iudah
           ,
           so
           he
           wel
           knew
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           not
           only
           the
           church
           visible
           ,
           but
           also
           mightily
           reformed
           .
           Nor
           can
           I
           but
           wonder
           that
           man
           can
           read
           the
           third
           Chapter
           of
           e
           Luke
           ,
           where
           the
           principall
           starres
           of
           the
           Church
           from
           the
           first
           Adam
           to
           the
           second
           are
           genealogically
           numbred
           ,
           and
           yet
           after
           the
           reading
           thereof
           ,
           not
           to
           see
           that
           euen
           in
           them
           the
           Church
           was
           ay
           visible
           .
        
         
         
           But
           those
           peruerters
           vnable
           to
           answer
           those
           scriptures
           ,
           they
           will
           now
           presse
           me
           with
           men
           (
           although
           at
           no
           hand
           we
           may
           presse
           them
           with
           men
           )
           and
           that
           thus
           :
           
             To
             teach
          
           the
           Church
           ay
           visible
           ,
           is
           to
           teach
           Poperie
           ,
           and
           all
           our
           learned
           men
           haue
           alleadged
           this
           of
           Elijah
           against
           that
           doctrine
           ,
           &c.
           
           I
           answer
           ,
           it
           is
           false
           :
           not
           onely
           all
           ancients
           euer
           hold
           the
           Churches
           Euer-visibilitie
           ,
           but
           also
           ,
           all
           learned
           men
           of
           our
           age
           ,
           (
           amongst
           the
           rest
           read
           Caluin
           his
           
             Institutions
             ,
             booke
          
           4.
           
           Chap.
           2.
           
           Section
           .
           12.
           and
           Chap.
           7.
           
           Sect.
           25.
           
           
             Peter
             Martyr
          
           in
           his
           
             common
             places
             ,
             Classis
          
           .
           4.
           
           Sect.
           41.
           place
           6.
           the
           foure
           Centurists
           in
           Centurie
           1.
           booke
           2.
           
           Chap.
           4.
           
           Also
           our
           Nowell
           on
           the
           Article
           ,
           
             Communion
             of
             Saints
             ,
             &c.
          
           )
           to
           which
           purpose
           our
           mē
           against
           the
           Romanists
           haue
           commonly
           vrged
           that
           of
           Tertullian
           (
           f
           
             Vbitres
             ,
             Ecclesia
             est
             ,
             etiamsi
             Laici
          
           )
           A
           Church
           is
           where
           but
           three
           be
           ,
           although
           they
           be
           Lay-people
           .
           They
           haue
           not
           alledged
           Elijahs
           complaint
           against
           Israel
           for
           prouing
           al
           nullity
           of
           Churches
           visibility
           (
           for
           that
           is
           not
           the
           question
           betweene
           vs
           and
           Papists
           )
           but
           it
           is
           alledged
           against
           visible
           Constitution
           of
           Church
           in
           Israel
           .
           The
           Romanists
           vrging
           their
           Church
           for
           vniuersall
           ,
           and
           ay
           constituted
           according
           to
           the
           first
           patterne
           of
           externall
           pollicie
           ,
           we
           affirme
           that
           the
           new
           Testaments
           Church
           sometimes
           looseth
           such
           visibilitie
           of
           vniuersalitie
           and
           externall
           constitution
           :
           euen
           as
           the
           ancient
           Church
           her
           figure
           did
           .
           If
           we
           consider
           typicall
           Israel
           ,
           first
           we
           see
           her
           great
           and
           glorious
           going
           out
           with
           army
           of
           banners
           .
           Anone
           ten
           parts
           fall
           away
           ,
           though
           midst
           these
           ten
           God
           ay
           stirred
           vp
           Prophets
           and
           prouoked
           some
           to
           an
           essentiall
           obedience
           at
           home
           ,
           destitute
           of
           Iudahs
           sacrifices
           ,
           and
           Church
           pollicie
           .
           Anone
           the
           two
           tribes
           goe
           into
           Babel
           ,
           and
           Ierusalem
           is
           trampled
           vnder
           foote
           for
           many
           sabaoths
           .
           Yet
           the
           Church
           visible
           (
           true
           Iewes
           and
           true
           Prophets
           )
           though
           Priest
           and
           Teraphim
           ceased
           .
           Anone
           they
           returne
           backe
           by
           Cyrus
           ,
           but
           still
           trampled
           vnder
           foot
           by
           Persians
           ,
           Grecians
           ,
           Seleucians
           .
           And
           all
           out
           of
           order
           when
           Messiah
           came
           :
           yea
           ,
           high-priests
           made
           by
           Herod
           ,
           that
           were
           not
           of
           Aarons
           line
           ,
           as
           Iosephus
           g
           recordeth
           :
           and
           we
           may
           well
           credit
           a
           Ie●e
           when
           hee
           testifies
           their
           owne
           shame
           .
           So
           say
           we
           vnto
           the
           Romanistes
           ,
           it
           hath
           fared
           with
           Christ
           his
           Church
           Catholike
           trod
           vnder
           foot
           for
           1260.
           yeares
           ,
           
           (
           as
           
             Iacob
             Brocard
             ,
             Fr.
             du●lan
             ,
             Iunius
             ,
             Napeir
          
           haue
           well
           obserued
           )
           during
           which
           time
           our
           Church
           was
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           Babel
           :
           and
           the
           man
           of
           sin
           exalted
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           it
           .
           Which
           point
           obserued
           ,
           it
           not
           onely
           stoppeth
           the
           Romanists
           mouth
           demaunding
           of
           vs
           ,
           what
           are
           become
           of
           Grandfathers
           and
           Grandmothers
           ?
           but
           also
           it
           dammeth
           vp
           a
           foule
           stream
           that
           carieth
           many
           head-long
           into
           Schisme
           ,
           expecting
           euerie
           sect
           a
           new
           forme
           of
           Churches
           beginning
           .
           Whereas
           alas
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           reformed
           and
           purged
           ,
           but
           no
           more
           is
           to
           be
           planted
           as
           at
           first
           it
           was
           by
           the
           Apostles
           ▪
           For
           as
           the
           beginning
           of
           plantation
           was
           euer
           practised
           by
           miraculous
           ministers
           (
           witnesse
           Moses
           and
           Aaron
           to
           Israel
           ,
           and
           the
           Apostles
           to
           the
           new
           Testaments
           kingdome
           )
           so
           besides
           that
           ,
           it
           was
           to
           incommend
           vnto
           such
           Churches
           new
           lawes
           for
           the
           substance
           therof
           ,
           which
           before
           they
           had
           not
           .
           As
           for
           vs
           Christians
           ,
           we
           receiued
           such
           a
           kingdome
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           substance
           thereof
           ,
           it
           hath
           euermore
           preuailed
           against
           infernall
           powers
           .
        
         
           And
           gladly
           I
           would
           know
           of
           our
           Schismatikes
           ,
           if
           so
           the
           Being
           vnder
           Romes
           gouernment
           ,
           it
           simply
           or
           essentially
           caused
           all
           such
           to
           be
           limmes
           of
           Antichrist
           ;
           and
           that
           to
           be
           the
           beastes
           marke
           for
           the
           which
           all
           such
           should
           drinke
           of
           the
           wine
           of
           God
           his
           wrath
           ,
           I
           would
           then
           demaund
           of
           them
           :
           First
           ,
           where
           the
           Church
           then
           for
           1000.
           yeares
           hath
           been
           visible
           ;
           and
           so
           consequently
           ,
           what
           assurance
           they
           haue
           that
           their
           present
           faith
           for
           the
           substance
           therof
           hath
           preuailed
           ?
           They
           can
           make
           no
           answer
           but
           against
           all
           scripture
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           I
           would
           know
           of
           them
           why
           the
           corrupt
           gouernment
           of
           Rome
           should
           make
           all
           vnder
           it
           Antichristian
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           h
           Nicolaitans
           ,
           Balaamits
           ,
           Iesabels
           disciples
           ,
           and
           all
           Anabaptists
           they
           should
           not
           be
           to
           vs
           as
           well
           true
           visible
           Christians
           ?
           Seeing
           these
           were
           and
           are
           (
           in
           the
           Brownistes
           iudgement
           )
           vnder
           the
           true
           externall
           Church-gouernment
           of
           Christ
           ?
           Is
           Romes
           gouernment
           stronger
           for
           euill
           ,
           then
           Christes
           for
           good
           ?
           Either
           here
           they
           must
           answer
           blasphemously
           ,
           or
           else
           they
           must
           grant
           truly
           ,
           
             That
             the
             essence
             or
             Being
             of
             true
             Christianitie
             and
             Antichristianitie
             ,
             it
             res●eth
             not
             in
             outward
             Church-gouernment
             ,
             but
             in
             an
             obedience
             and
             subiection
             to
             a
             foundation
             of
             faith
             truly
             Christian
             or
             Antichristian
             .
          
           And
           for
           this
           cause
           ,
           as
           Antichrist
           is
           2.
           
           Thess.
           2.4
           .
           termed
           (
           i
           Anti-k●im●nos
           )
           a
           
           a
           layer
           of
           an
           opposite
           foundation
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           his
           false
           fundamentall
           doctrine
           which
           is
           his
           marke
           :
           euen
           as
           it
           is
           not
           outward
           Church-gouernment
           which
           marketh
           therfore
           out
           a
           true
           Christian
           (
           for
           heretikes
           oft
           haue
           that
           skin
           of
           the
           sheepe
           )
           but
           a
           firme
           biding
           by
           the
           foundation
           ,
           as
           the
           Apostle
           noteth
           to
           the
           k
           Corinths
           .
           And
           this
           ground
           is
           it
           wheron
           Master
           Caluin
           stādeth
           ,
           whē
           he
           beleeues
           the
           saluation
           of
           diuers
           Ancients
           liuing
           in
           too
           to
           corrupted
           ages
           .
        
         
           But
           here
           the
           Romanists
           will
           say
           ,
           
             Then
             you
             Protestantes
             are
             gone
             out
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             inasmuch
             as
             you
             are
             departed
             from
             vs.
          
           I
           answer
           ,
           we
           departed
           but
           from
           a
           notable
           foundation
           of
           faith
           opposite
           to
           the
           very
           grounds
           of
           the
           gospell
           .
           Which
           opposite
           ground
           as
           it
           was
           long
           in
           laying
           ,
           so
           it
           was
           fully
           setled
           by
           thē
           in
           that
           infamous
           l
           Councell
           of
           Trident.
           Besides
           ,
           we
           doubt
           not
           but
           we
           haue
           left
           some
           true
           Christians
           in
           that
           Church
           (
           witnes
           such
           as
           amongst
           themselues
           ,
           they
           daily
           persecute
           )
           euen
           as
           the
           many
           thousands
           of
           Iewes
           left
           Daniel
           and
           some
           others
           behinde
           in
           Babell
           ,
           what
           time
           they
           returned
           vnto
           Ierusalem
           .
           But
           as
           those
           of
           the
           returne
           could
           not
           be
           called
           schismatikes
           from
           Daniel
           (
           first
           because
           the
           time
           of
           captiuitie
           was
           expired
           :
           secondly
           ,
           because
           Daniel
           should
           haue
           done
           better
           to
           haue
           followed
           them
           ,
           then
           they
           to
           haue
           returned
           vnto
           him
           )
           euen
           such
           is
           our
           case
           .
           First
           ,
           it
           was
           m
           decreed
           (
           and
           experience
           will
           manifest
           that
           )
           how
           we
           should
           be
           for
           1260.
           yeares
           captiued
           :
           then
           that
           the
           beast
           should
           begin
           to
           kill
           faster
           then
           before
           (
           the
           reason
           was
           ,
           because
           now
           the
           Prophets
           were
           more
           zealous
           then
           afore
           )
           whereupon
           a
           tenth
           part
           of
           the
           Beasts
           Citie
           or
           congregation
           should
           fall
           away
           from
           him
           :
           their
           kings
           and
           rulers
           now
           hauing
           in
           their
           heart
           to
           be
           auenged
           by
           fire
           on
           that
           purple
           whore
           ,
           which
           before
           had
           made
           them
           drunken
           as
           swine
           .
           Our
           King
           Henrie
           began
           that
           worthie
           worke
           :
           his
           princely
           son
           Edward
           continued
           it
           happily
           :
           but
           our
           soueraign
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           hath
           not
           only
           brought
           her
           own
           people
           vnder
           the
           banner
           of
           Iesus
           ;
           but
           hath
           lent
           her
           princely
           hand
           vnto
           Churche's
           all
           abroad
           ;
           countenauncing
           and
           assisting
           them
           with
           mon●e
           ,
           men
           and
           sacred
           counsaile
           .
           So
           that
           it
           was
           well
           said
           of
           
             M.
             Penry
          
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospell
           was
           more
           beholden
           vnto
           Queene
           Elizabeth
           ,
           then
           vnto
           all
           the
           Princes
           in
           Europe
           .
           Against
           which
           Elizabeth
           who
           so
           shall
           arise
           ,
           let
           their
           forehead
           
           with
           Miriam
           be
           smitten
           with
           leprosie
           ;
           and
           not
           for
           seuen
           daies
           but
           seuen
           yeares
           (
           yea
           for
           euer
           )
           let
           them
           be
           abandoned
           the
           Commonweale
           of
           England
           .
           This
           briefly
           for
           the
           Churches
           perpetuitie
           ,
           and
           for
           essentiall
           Christianitie
           touching
           faith
           &
           manners
           ,
           euen
           through
           the
           midst
           of
           Antichristes
           pride
           and
           tyrannie
           .
           Other
           things
           will
           be
           necessarily
           met
           withall
           in
           the
           comparison
           following
           .
           So
           much
           for
           the
           thing
           compared
           .
        
         
           
             Like
             to
             a
             man
             which
             sowed
             good
             seed
             in
             his
             field
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Not
           to
           vrge
           here
           the
           care
           good
           householders
           should
           haue
           to
           see
           their
           fields
           ,
           vineyards
           ,
           gardens
           sowen
           and
           planted
           with
           that
           which
           is
           good
           ;
           that
           so
           they
           may
           not
           onely
           returne
           peeces
           of
           siluer
           to
           themselues
           ,
           as
           the
           n
           vineyard
           of
           Baal-H●man
           did
           vnto
           Salomon
           :
           but
           also
           propound
           hereby
           good
           vnto
           the
           countrie
           ,
           as
           resemblances
           of
           God
           his
           care
           to
           create
           all
           good
           &
           verie
           good
           :
           passing
           by
           that
           ,
           let
           me
           directly
           come
           vnto
           the
           precise
           sense
           of
           the
           Parable
           .
           For
           the
           vnderstanding
           whereof
           ,
           let
           vs
           heare
           what
           exposition
           our
           Sauiour
           himselfe
           giueth
           hereon
           .
           In
           verse
           37.
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             He
             that
             soweth
             the
             good
             seed
             is
             the
             sonne
             of
             man.
          
           And
           in
           the
           next
           verse
           ,
           
             And
             the
             field
             is
             the
             world
             ,
             and
             the
             good
             seed
             they
             are
             the
             children
             of
             the
             kingdome
             .
          
           A
           certaine
           poore
           soule
           once
           ignorant
           how
           any
           open
           wicked
           might
           vpon
           any
           occasion
           be
           suffered
           once
           to
           grow
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           he
           makes
           such
           an
           exposition
           here
           ,
           as
           whereby
           he
           may
           shut
           Tares
           quite
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           for
           thus
           he
           writes
           ,
           o
           
             Did
             not
             God
             at
             first
             make
             the
             world
             ,
             and
             all
             things
             in
             the
             same
             good
             ?
             was
             it
             not
             corrupted
             ,
             &c.
          
           to
           this
           question
           I
           answer
           ,
           it
           is
           true
           ,
           he
           did
           so
           :
           but
           this
           is
           not
           consonant
           to
           this
           place
           :
           for
           the
           Sonne
           of
           man
           is
           not
           God
           the
           Creator
           ,
           but
           God
           the
           Redeemer
           ,
           neuer
           called
           Sonne
           of
           man
           vntill
           he
           was
           incarnate
           .
           So
           that
           here
           is
           no
           speech
           of
           worlds
           Creation
           ,
           but
           of
           Christ
           Iesus
           incarnate
           :
           who
           by
           his
           owne
           ministerie
           and
           the
           ministerie
           of
           his
           Apostles
           did
           plant
           the
           childrē
           of
           the
           kingdome
           or
           new
           Testaments
           Church
           in
           the
           face
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           :
           and
           this
           by
           preaching
           the
           word
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           termed
           also
           the
           immortall
           seed
           of
           God.
           For
           here
           is
           no
           comparison
           framed
           to
           the
           world
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           kingdome
           of
           heauen
           ,
           the
           state
           of
           the
           new
           Testaments
           Church
           .
        
         
           Where
           he
           addeth
           (
           and
           all
           our
           Schismatikes
           from
           him
           )
           that
           
           here
           is
           no
           speech
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           because
           our
           Sauiour
           saith
           ,
           
             And
             the
             field
             is
             the
             world
             ,
          
           I
           would
           first
           demaund
           what
           they
           meane
           by
           the
           world
           ?
           By
           
             the
             world
          
           ,
           they
           can
           not
           vnderstand
           the
           wicked
           ,
           seeing
           before
           they
           say
           ,
           
             God
             made
             the
             world
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           But
           God
           made
           not
           man
           wicked
           (
           except
           to
           Brounisme
           they
           adde
           Manichisme
           )
           therefore
           by
           the
           worlde
           ,
           they
           must
           meane
           the
           circuite
           of
           the
           earth
           ,
           wherein
           Christ
           planted
           his
           Kingdome
           p
           from
           one
           corner
           and
           sea
           vnto
           another
           .
           Touching
           the
           tares
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           own
           place
           .
        
         
           The
           Father
           hauing
           from
           mount
           Sion
           proclaimed
           his
           Sonne
           Regent
           from
           the
           Sunnes
           rising
           to
           his
           going
           downe
           ,
           the
           Sonne
           labours
           the
           plantation
           of
           this
           his
           possession
           ,
           by
           sowing
           the
           same
           Gospell
           ,
           which
           of
           yore
           was
           preached
           to
           Dauid
           ,
           to
           Abraham
           ,
           and
           first
           of
           all
           to
           q
           Adam
           in
           Paradise
           .
           For
           the
           which
           ,
           as
           Matthew
           produceth
           the
           Gospell
           from
           Dauid
           and
           Abraham
           (
           because
           it
           was
           written
           in
           Hebrue
           ,
           and
           specially
           for
           the
           Iewes
           ,
           who
           altogether
           bragged
           of
           Abraham
           and
           Dauid
           )
           so
           ,
           Luke
           (
           respecting
           Iew
           and
           Gentile
           and
           all
           )
           he
           ioyneth
           the
           Church
           of
           peculiar
           faithfull
           on
           the
           one
           hand
           with
           God
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           with
           Iesus
           :
           because
           without
           respect
           of
           person
           ,
           the
           Iesus
           was
           in
           Paradise
           first
           preached
           by
           God
           to
           Adam
           .
           This
           Gospell
           (
           not
           yea
           and
           nay
           but
           Amen
           ,
           Christ
           yesterday
           ,
           to
           day
           and
           the
           same
           for
           euer
           )
           by
           it
           the
           Sonne
           of
           man
           begetteth
           sonnes
           for
           his
           Kingdome
           ,
           a
           Kingdome
           vnable
           to
           be
           shaken
           and
           remoued
           :
           except
           that
           Christ
           her
           foundation
           can
           be
           remoued
           .
        
         
           To
           omit
           common
           places
           here
           (
           touching
           the
           
             Seede
             of
             God
             ,
             state
             of
             Vnregeneration
             ,
             Regeneration
             ,
             &c.
          
           )
           obserue
           wee
           here
           the
           fulnesse
           of
           time
           for
           Iaphets
           people
           (
           the
           nations
           or
           Gentiles
           )
           their
           comming
           vnto
           Shems
           tent
           (
           whereof
           Noah
           arising
           as
           a
           Giant
           from
           wine
           ,
           by
           the
           abundance
           of
           spirit
           did
           fore-prophecie
           )
           but
           this
           receipt
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           a
           graffing
           in
           of
           the
           wild
           Oliue
           ,
           is
           done
           (
           oh
           the
           wisedome
           of
           God
           )
           with
           a
           cutting
           off
           of
           the
           naturall
           Oliue
           (
           Shems
           people
           )
           who
           after
           the
           fulnes
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           be
           come
           in
           ,
           are
           againe
           vniuersally
           to
           be
           receiued
           into
           the
           open
           state
           of
           saluation
           .
           That
           the
           Iew
           should
           first
           be
           exalted
           by
           reason
           of
           faith
           in
           Messiah
           ,
           and
           the
           Gentile
           glorified
           that
           way
           in
           the
           second
           place
           ,
           q
           Irenaeus
           vnderstood
           it
           typically
           by
           Thamars
           twynnes
           .
           The
           ancient
           r
           Tertullian
           vnderstood
           the
           case
           
           to
           be
           figured
           vnder
           Rebeccaes
           twinnes
           .
           The
           same
           doth
           s
           Augustine
           .
           As
           for
           t
           Theodoret
           ,
           he
           conceiues
           also
           Lea
           and
           Rahel
           to
           be
           types
           of
           Iewes
           and
           Gentiles
           ,
           the
           latter
           to
           be
           more
           acceptable
           to
           our
           
             Iaakob
             Israel
          
           ,
           preuailer
           with
           God
           :
           and
           in
           u
           another
           place
           ,
           vnder
           Zara
           and
           
             Phares
             ,
             Thamars
          
           twinnes
           .
           And
           vsually
           vnder
           x
           Gedeons
           fleece
           &
           floore
           (
           the
           one
           de●ed
           from
           heauē
           ,
           when
           the
           other
           stood
           drie
           )
           the
           ancients
           vnderstood
           the
           same
           mysterie
           :
           and
           thereunto
           doth
           Chrysostome
           applie
           the
           6.
           verse
           of
           Psal.
           72.
           
           And
           touching
           the
           recalling
           of
           the
           Iewes
           (
           after
           fulnes
           of
           Gentiles
           come
           in
           )
           as
           they
           y
           were
           not
           ignorant
           ,
           so
           
             Gregorius
             Papa
          
           (
           after
           whose
           time
           presently
           ,
           euen
           fully
           in
           the
           Lords
           yeere
           666.
           
           Machomed
           in
           the
           East
           &
           vniuersall
           Pope
           in
           the
           West
           ,
           that
           two
           horned
           power
           was
           exalted
           )
           he
           is
           plentifull
           in
           this
           z
           testimonie
           .
        
         
           The
           Church
           being
           at
           first
           shut
           vp
           amongst
           the
           Iewes
           (
           elder
           brethren
           by
           grace
           from
           Shem
           ,
           but
           Gentiles
           (
           a
           Iaphets
           people
           by
           nature
           )
           now
           the
           Church
           was
           to
           enlarge
           her
           tents
           and
           to
           stretch
           her
           coardes
           vniuersally
           through
           the
           earth
           :
           for
           which
           cause
           it
           is
           called
           Catholike
           and
           Vniuersall
           ;
           so
           it
           cutteth
           the
           throat
           of
           hereticall
           Donatists
           ,
           that
           would
           shut
           it
           vp
           in
           a
           corner
           of
           Affricke
           ,
           or
           in
           some
           chamber
           in
           London
           ,
           or
           in
           some
           citie
           of
           the
           Low-countries
           .
           Nay
           ,
           let
           the
           Pope
           of
           Donatisme
           say
           ,
           that
           he
           hath
           some
           of
           his
           sheepe
           in
           the
           Low-countries
           ,
           some
           in
           diuers
           holes
           in
           England
           ,
           some
           in
           Ireland
           (
           no
           Pastor
           or
           Bi●●op
           in
           England
           hath
           so
           large
           Iurisdiction
           )
           yet
           for
           all
           this
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           we
           remember
           that
           article
           of
           faith
           ,
           
             I
             beleeue
             there
             is
             an
             holy
             catholike
             Church
          
           (
           an
           article
           grounded
           on
           Scriptures
           enow
           )
           wee
           dare
           not
           say
           but
           his
           Church
           is
           a
           faction
           gone
           out
           of
           the
           catholike
           Arke
           (
           though
           our
           Sauiour
           a
           forbids
           going
           out
           vnto
           such
           desart
           and
           corner
           Gospels
           and
           Christs
           )
           and
           by
           reason
           of
           such
           schisme
           (
           although
           with
           such
           arguments
           as
           were
           able
           almost
           to
           ●educe
           the
           elect
           ,
           couering
           their
           thorne
           and
           thutle
           schisme
           with
           shee●ish
           skin
           or
           conuersation
           )
           by
           reason
           (
           I
           say
           )
           of
           such
           schisme
           ,
           and
           vniuersal
           condemning
           all
           they
           depart
           from
           for
           onely
           visible
           limmes
           of
           Satan
           and
           Antichrist
           ,
           we
           must
           beleeue
           they
           in
           such
           estate
           are
           exposed
           to
           the
           ouerflowing
           wrath
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           This
           Gospell
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           as
           the
           Apostles
           had
           commission
           granted
           and
           giuen
           for
           sowing
           throughout
           the
           earth
           ,
           so
           
           the
           sound
           thereof
           went
           quickly
           through
           the
           earth
           .
           And
           no
           maruell
           ,
           for
           now
           a
           Daniels
           stone
           was
           to
           roule
           all
           abroad
           :
           first
           ,
           for
           battering
           downe
           opposite
           power
           ,
           secondly
           ,
           for
           setting
           vp
           a
           kingdome
           which
           should
           neuer
           be
           destroyed
           ,
           the
           little
           stone
           so
           becomming
           a
           great
           mountaine
           .
           And
           though
           we
           Brittaines
           (
           tearmed
           of
           their
           word
           b
           Brith
           ,
           painted
           :
           because
           our
           people
           painted
           and
           dyed
           their
           bodies
           monster-like
           ,
           as
           indeede
           wee
           were
           a
           most
           sauage
           Nation
           )
           though
           we
           were
           couched
           here
           in
           an
           vttermost
           coast
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           registred
           to
           God
           his
           praise
           and
           our
           comfort
           ,
           that
           c
           this
           Prouince
           was
           first
           of
           Prouinces
           in
           receiuing
           the
           Gospell
           openly
           ,
           as
           Sabellicus
           testifies
           .
           d
           
             Polydore
             Virgil
          
           maketh
           Coyl
           the
           king
           here
           a
           receiuer
           of
           the
           faith
           in
           our
           Lo.
           y.
           182.
           
           But
           the
           holy
           faith
           planted
           in
           our
           land
           before
           by
           Ioseph
           of
           Arimathaea
           ,
           who
           with
           some
           others
           came
           hither
           ,
           obtained
           a
           mile
           of
           ground
           neere
           Wels
           ,
           afterwards
           called
           Glascon
           .
           And
           this
           by
           ancient
           Gildas
           testimonie
           should
           be
           in
           the
           yeere
           of
           Christ
           ,
           60.
           
           e
           Who
           also
           saith
           that
           they
           suffered
           a
           notable
           persecution
           here
           by
           Diocletian
           Romes
           Emperour
           .
           The
           excellent
           Theodoret
           writeth
           ,
           f
           that
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           (
           presently
           after
           deliuerance
           out
           of
           his
           first
           captiuitie
           at
           Rome
           )
           hee
           came
           then
           hither
           .
           This
           Apostle
           in
           his
           second
           Epistle
           to
           Timothie
           and
           last
           Chapter
           ,
           he
           remembreth
           one
           Claudia
           an
           excellent
           christian
           woman
           then
           at
           Rome
           ,
           whom
           Martial
           the
           Poet
           affirmeth
           to
           be
           of
           Brittaine
           ,
           thus
           :
        
         
           
             Claudia
             g
             caeruleis
             cum
             sit
             Rufina
             Britannis
             edita
             ,
             cur
             Latiae
             pectora
             plebis
             habet
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           the
           ancient
           Registers
           haue
           so
           vniformely
           consented
           in
           this
           point
           (
           namely
           ,
           that
           Britannia
           in
           the
           Apostles
           times
           it
           receiued
           the
           holy
           faith
           :
           as
           also
           that
           the
           Ministers
           were
           maried
           ,
           nor
           after
           600.
           y.
           (
           what
           time
           Austin
           the
           Monke
           came
           hither
           from
           Rome
           )
           could
           or
           would
           giue
           any
           hope
           of
           yeelding
           therein
           to
           Romes
           perswasion
           ,
           whose
           Cities
           Ministerie
           then
           was
           much
           gone
           out
           of
           the
           way
           )
           this
           point
           I
           say
           ,
           is
           so
           vniformely
           witnessed
           ,
           as
           our
           Schismatikes
           may
           so
           well
           aske
           me
           what
           assurance
           I
           haue
           that
           here
           was
           a
           king
           Henry
           ,
           as
           demaund
           what
           assurance
           I
           haue
           of
           the
           other
           .
           And
           this
           comfortable
           point
           I
           haue
           the
           rather
           vrged
           ,
           because
           some
           too
           ignorantly
           seeke
           the
           beginning
           
           of
           a
           Church
           here
           within
           these
           hundred
           yeeres
           ▪
           and
           the
           Schismatikes
           impudently
           affirme
           ,
           that
           they
           themselues
           are
           the
           first
           visible
           Church
           sprung
           vp
           in
           England
           .
           The
           founder
           whereof
           was
           Browne
           .
           Which
           man
           ,
           if
           so
           he
           had
           been
           stirred
           vp
           by
           God
           to
           such
           a
           miraculous
           worke
           ,
           not
           onely
           he
           should
           haue
           been
           vpheld
           in
           that
           worke
           (
           as
           Moses
           and
           Aaron
           to
           the
           old
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Apostles
           to
           the
           new
           Church
           :
           for
           God
           neuer
           forsooke
           his
           principall
           Church-planters
           )
           but
           also
           ,
           he
           should
           haue
           begun
           that
           worke
           with
           a
           better
           miracle
           ,
           then
           by
           alluring
           seruants
           from
           their
           masters
           ,
           children
           from
           their
           parents
           ,
           wiues
           from
           their
           husbands
           ,
           k
           with
           whom
           they
           had
           smitten
           couenant
           ,
           although
           to
           their
           bodies
           hurt
           and
           affliction
           .
        
         
           Thus
           the
           seed
           of
           the
           kingdome
           vniuersally
           preuailed
           ,
           maugre
           the
           malignitie
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           .
           l
           Eusebius
           recordeth
           that
           
             Tiberius
             Caesar
          
           hearing
           of
           the
           excellent
           things
           of
           Iesus
           ,
           he
           motioned
           vnto
           Romes
           Senate
           ,
           that
           Iesus
           might
           be
           enrolled
           in
           the
           number
           of
           their
           gods
           .
           The
           Senate
           replied
           ,
           that
           now
           they
           could
           not
           consent
           to
           that
           ,
           because
           the
           people
           alreadie
           had
           begun
           such
           a
           blaze
           ,
           
             They
             hauing
             not
             first
             approued
             the
             same
             .
             Which
             no
             doubt
          
           (
           saith
           Eusebius
           )
           
             was
             done
             for
             this
             end
             ,
             that
             the
             wholsome
             doctrine
             of
             diuine
             preaching
             it
             should
             not
             need
             the
             allowance
             and
             commendation
             of
             men
             .
          
           And
           surely
           (
           were
           it
           not
           that
           with
           God
           euerie
           thing
           is
           possible
           ,
           as
           also
           that
           the
           euent
           makes
           the
           thing
           manifest
           )
           how
           hard
           a
           thing
           should
           it
           be
           to
           thinke
           ,
           that
           the
           field
           of
           the
           world
           ouergrowen
           with
           Idols
           and
           diuels
           ,
           it
           should
           by
           so
           weake
           an
           instrument
           as
           preaching
           (
           and
           that
           of
           a
           Iesus
           crucified
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           so
           meane
           persons
           as
           he
           sent
           out
           )
           it
           should
           (
           I
           say
           )
           be
           subdued
           vniuersally
           in
           so
           small
           time
           ,
           vnto
           the
           obedience
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ?
           But
           this
           was
           ,
           that
           so
           the
           word
           of
           auncient
           prophecie
           it
           might
           be
           fulfilled
           .
           So
           much
           for
           the
           Churches
           vniuersalitie
           .
           It
           followeth
           .
        
         
           Vers.
           25.
           
           
             But
             while
             men
             slept
             ,
             there
             came
             his
             enemie
             and
             sowed
             Tares
          
           m
           
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             the
             wheat
             ,
             and
             went
             his
             way
             .
          
           The
           enemie
           that
           soweth
           those
           Tares
           (
           saith
           our
           Sauiour
           ,
           vers
           .
           39.
           )
           is
           the
           diuell
           :
           and
           in
           the
           verse
           before
           ,
           the
           Tares
           are
           the
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           or
           Church
           .
           As
           the
           son
           of
           man
           did
           not
           sow
           his
           children
           but
           by
           begetting
           them
           through
           the
           doctrine
           of
           truth
           ;
           so
           the
           diuell
           
           doth
           not
           create
           or
           sow
           these
           his
           children
           ,
           but
           by
           causing
           them
           to
           be
           such
           through
           the
           doctrine
           of
           vntruth
           .
           And
           this
           his
           fact
           of
           vnhappines
           is
           said
           to
           be
           done
           of
           him
           while
           men
           slept
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           while
           the
           Church
           (
           and
           specially
           the
           Ministers
           thereof
           )
           they
           were
           secure
           and
           watched
           not
           .
           The
           Apostle
           n
           Paul
           knowing
           by
           faith
           in
           this
           doctrine
           ,
           that
           after
           his
           departure
           Wolues
           would
           enter
           into
           his
           Church
           (
           yea
           ,
           that
           of
           their
           owne
           selues
           some
           should
           arise
           ,
           speaking
           peruerse
           things
           for
           drawing
           disciples
           after
           them
           )
           he
           tels
           them
           the
           way
           of
           preuenting
           this
           euill
           ,
           namely
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           watch
           ouer
           themselues
           ,
           and
           ouer
           the
           flocke
           (
           for
           God
           neuer
           exacteth
           our
           seeking
           his
           glorie
           (
           nor
           can
           we
           )
           by
           the
           neglect
           of
           our
           owne
           soules
           :
           though
           some
           would
           closely
           teach
           the
           contrarie
           ,
           namely
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           doe
           euill
           to
           themselues
           that
           so
           good
           might
           come
           thereof
           ,
           whose
           damnation
           is
           due
           )
           for
           drowsie
           sleepines
           (
           which
           after
           came
           to
           passe
           )
           it
           would
           cause
           confusion
           enter
           and
           arise
           to
           the
           disturbance
           of
           all
           good
           .
        
         
           That
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           the
           diuell
           soweth
           this
           tarish
           doctrine
           (
           though
           he
           doth
           it
           onely
           by
           his
           ministers
           )
           we
           must
           maruell
           thereat
           nothing
           at
           all
           .
           When
           the
           wicked
           were
           to
           cast
           some
           of
           the
           Smyrnians
           in
           prison
           ,
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           saith
           ,
           o
           
             The
             diuell
             shall
             cast
             some
             of
             you
             in
             prison
             .
          
           A
           King
           is
           said
           to
           doe
           that
           he
           doth
           by
           his
           Embassadour
           ;
           nor
           must
           the
           factors
           of
           Sathan
           thinke
           much
           to
           be
           called
           Sathan
           ,
           p
           when
           as
           to
           Peter
           for
           an
           excellent
           dehortation
           our
           Sauiour
           saith
           vnto
           him
           ,
           
             Come
             behind
             me
             Sathan
          
           :
           as
           for
           Iscariot
           ,
           he
           was
           plainly
           termed
           Diuell
           .
           But
           this
           and
           some
           other
           common
           places
           I
           passe
           by
           ,
           and
           come
           (
           for
           that
           I
           specially
           professe
           herein
           )
           vnto
           the
           points
           in
           controuersie
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           euer
           accorded
           vpon
           ,
           that
           the
           Tares
           are
           wicked-ones
           ,
           but
           what
           kind
           of
           wicked-ones
           ,
           as
           also
           whether
           within
           the
           Church
           or
           without
           ,
           therein
           is
           much
           dissonancie
           .
           Libertines
           say
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           the
           whole
           bodie
           of
           wicked
           people
           in
           the
           Church
           :
           and
           so
           from
           our
           Sauiours
           speech
           (
           
             Let
             them
             grow
          
           )
           they
           would
           haue
           all
           excommunication
           ouerthrowen
           ,
           and
           all
           wicked
           that
           wil
           ,
           be
           admitted
           vnto
           the
           holy
           supper
           .
           Others
           ,
           that
           they
           be
           heretikes
           ,
           who
           are
           to
           be
           permitted
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           ,
           if
           so
           happily
           they
           may
           become
           wheat
           by
           repentance
           .
           Others
           ,
           (
           whereof
           hereafter
           )
           
           they
           vnderstand
           them
           to
           be
           such
           wicked
           only
           as
           are
           permitted
           of
           godly
           pollicie
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           not
           for
           loue
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           wheat
           or
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           .
           Touching
           their
           place
           ,
           the
           Browniste
           affirmes
           them
           to
           be
           without
           the
           Church
           ;
           because
           our
           Sauiour
           saith
           ,
           
             Let
             them
             alone
          
           :
           applying
           the
           Apostles
           speech
           thereto
           ,
           q
           
             What
             haue
             I
             to
             doe
             ,
             to
             iudge
             them
             that
             are
             without
             ?
          
           Others
           amongst
           our selues
           hold
           them
           to
           be
           hypocrites
           ,
           or
           such
           wicked
           in
           the
           Church
           as
           are
           not
           of
           vs
           seene
           .
           Amongst
           which
           ,
           r
           One
           great
           scholler
           writeth
           thus
           :
           
             I
             grant
             it
             no
             shame
             to
             the
             Churches
             to
             haue
             hypocrites
             ,
             for
             as
             much
             as
             the
             iudgement
             of
             man
             cannot
             discerne
             them
             :
             and
             of
             them
             &
             no
             other
             is
             the
             Parable
             of
             Tares
             ,
             which
             forbiddeth
             weeding
             vntill
             the
             day
             of
             haruest
             .
          
           And
           in
           s
           another
           place
           ,
           he
           taketh
           vp
           a
           great
           Doctor
           for
           saying
           they
           are
           visible
           wicked
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           accounting
           it
           in
           him
           
             A
             bewrayall
             of
             great
             ignerance
          
           :
           but
           the
           good
           man
           too
           zealously
           vttered
           his
           owne
           ignorance
           herein
           ,
           as
           will
           appeare
           .
        
         
           When
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           Tares
           are
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           the
           wheat
           (
           and
           the
           wheat
           is
           in
           the
           Church
           )
           it
           presently
           conuinceth
           those
           that
           say
           ,
           they
           are
           without
           .
           And
           when
           as
           it
           followeth
           .
        
         
           Vers.
           26.
           
           
             And
             when
             the
             blade
             was
             sprung
             vp
             and
             brought
             forth
             fruit
             ,
             the
             Tares
          
           APPEARED
           also
           .
           It
           hereby
           plainely
           ●nough
           appeareth
           ,
           that
           so
           verily
           as
           the
           wheat
           appeared
           ,
           so
           verily
           the
           Tares
           appeared
           .
           The
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           appearing
           such
           by
           their
           fruit
           ,
           the
           children
           of
           Sathan
           that
           way
           appearing
           also
           .
           Nor
           appeares
           this
           lesse
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           the
           Ministers
           after
           are
           grieued
           at
           the
           Sight
           of
           them
           :
           and
           for
           that
           doe
           interrogate
           ,
           if
           so
           they
           may
           pull
           them
           vp
           ?
           If
           they
           had
           been
           without
           ,
           it
           would
           not
           so
           haue
           troubled
           the
           minds
           of
           those
           that
           were
           within
           :
           and
           if
           they
           had
           been
           hypocrites
           or
           inuisible
           wicked
           ,
           it
           could
           not
           haue
           troubled
           them
           at
           all
           .
           Those
           errors
           are
           by
           the
           Parable
           it selfe
           plainely
           ouerturned
           .
           But
           more
           plainely
           (
           if
           God
           permit
           )
           it
           shall
           appeare
           by
           conference
           of
           other
           scriptures
           .
           when
           as
           I
           come
           to
           examine
           our
           Sauiours
           words
           ,
           
             Let
             both
             grow
             together
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Meane
           time
           obserue
           ,
           that
           two
           sundrie
           seeds
           are
           sowen
           ,
           &
           thereof
           ariseth
           two
           sundry
           sort
           of
           people
           within
           the
           Church
           .
           The
           first
           not
           onely
           within
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           
             of
             it
          
           also
           :
           and
           therefore
           termed
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           .
           The
           other
           within
           the
           
           Church
           ,
           but
           
             not
             of
             it
          
           ,
           and
           therfore
           termed
           children
           of
           the
           wicked
           .
           Contrarie
           seeds
           ,
           so
           haue
           contrarie
           effectes
           .
           The
           house
           of
           Cloë
           in
           Corinth
           ,
           by
           the
           fruit
           shewed
           thēselues
           to
           be
           true
           members
           ;
           others
           by
           vnbeleeuing
           the
           resurrection
           did
           show
           themselues
           to
           be
           troublous
           members
           :
           or
           rather
           a
           corrupt
           humour
           in
           the
           bodie
           that
           deserued
           to
           be
           purged
           .
           And
           surely
           ,
           as
           we
           would
           be
           deemed
           followers
           of
           the
           sonne
           of
           man
           in
           a
           care
           of
           planting
           good
           ,
           so
           we
           must
           endeuour
           our selues
           to
           sow
           onely
           good
           seed
           .
           If
           we
           come
           into
           pulpit
           with
           vnresolued
           opinions
           ,
           we
           must
           leaue
           behind
           vs
           an
           vnresolued
           people
           ,
           staggring
           ,
           reeling
           and
           caried
           away
           with
           euerie
           wind
           of
           doctrine
           .
           But
           if
           we
           sow
           tarish
           doctrine
           in
           the
           pulpit
           ,
           let
           vs
           know
           that
           the
           diuell
           will
           water
           it
           blade
           and
           fruit
           .
           If
           we
           will
           watch
           ouer
           the
           flocke
           ,
           we
           must
           first
           watch
           ouer
           our selues
           :
           yea
           ,
           take
           heed
           to
           our
           tongue
           ,
           least
           it
           be
           set
           on
           fire
           from
           hell
           ,
           and
           so
           conuert
           the
           Churches
           peace
           into
           a
           flame
           .
        
         
           Who
           would
           haue
           thought
           that
           Sadduces
           (
           deniers
           of
           the
           resurrectiō
           )
           should
           haue
           appeared
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Iudah
           ?
           But
           the
           Leuites
           (
           some
           of
           them
           )
           leauing
           the
           altar
           ,
           and
           betaking
           them
           t
           to
           Iudahs
           crowne
           and
           scepter
           ,
           the
           Lord
           therefore
           did
           punish
           them
           with
           vnbeliefe
           ,
           who
           should
           haue
           taught
           others
           the
           true
           beliefe
           .
           Who
           would
           haue
           thought
           that
           in
           the
           Asian
           Christian
           Churches
           such
           notable
           heresies
           could
           haue
           risen
           ?
           who
           would
           haue
           thought
           that
           in
           our
           Brittaine
           Churches
           so
           many
           horrours
           should
           haue
           risen
           ?
           But
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           wondred
           at
           :
           first
           because
           our
           Sauiour
           foresaw
           and
           forespake
           hereof
           ,
           when
           as
           he
           thus
           assimilated
           his
           kingdome
           of
           heauen
           .
           Not
           saying
           it
           should
           be
           so
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           but
           it
           should
           be
           so
           in
           the
           Church
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           as
           through
           other
           Churches
           ,
           so
           through
           ours
           this
           sleepie
           ministery
           hath
           passed
           ,
           wherby
           an
           entrance
           hath
           been
           made
           ,
           &
           a
           way
           paued
           vnto
           an
           Ocean
           of
           euils
           .
           And
           that
           which
           worse
           is
           (
           of
           those
           that
           would
           be
           deemed
           Reformers
           )
           many
           proue
           Deformers
           :
           and
           if
           in
           zeale
           they
           haue
           once
           stepped
           ouer
           shoes
           ,
           they
           count
           it
           credit
           rather
           for
           Constancie
           sake
           to
           slosh
           in
           ouer
           boots
           ,
           then
           with
           Augustine
           to
           write
           a
           booke
           of
           Retractations
           ;
           or
           with
           v
           Nathan
           to
           return
           vnto
           Dauid
           and
           confesse
           that
           the
           speech
           of
           Temples
           building
           ,
           it
           was
           a
           speech
           without
           booke
           .
           These
           kinde
           of
           
           Constantines
           I
           haue
           met
           with
           abroad
           ,
           and
           now
           find
           no
           such
           enemies
           at
           home
           .
           Let
           the
           secret
           Pharisaicall
           practices
           of
           some
           witnes
           that
           ,
           euen
           what
           time
           I
           was
           publikely
           (
           to
           the
           comfort
           of
           distressed
           soules
           )
           exercised
           in
           Southwarke
           vpon
           this
           present
           parable
           .
           But
           the
           Lord
           rebuke
           Sathan
           .
           If
           I
           being
           once
           ouer-caried
           with
           their
           tarish
           doctrine
           ,
           doe
           now
           go
           before
           them
           in
           pointing
           out
           ,
           and
           remouing
           such
           scandales
           (
           &
           all
           this
           without
           Magistrates
           constraint
           ,
           or
           worlds
           allurement
           ,
           witnesse
           my
           writings
           abroad
           published
           before
           in
           forraine
           parts
           )
           then
           let
           them
           not
           thinke
           scorne
           or
           take
           it
           for
           a
           discredit
           to
           follow
           :
           least
           euerie
           faithfull
           Minister
           that
           commeth
           after
           ,
           do
           both
           by
           word
           and
           writing
           cast
           the
           doung
           of
           their
           solemne
           assemblies
           in
           their
           faces
           .
           If
           they
           looke
           to
           be
           saued
           by
           holding
           the
           foundation
           ,
           they
           must
           not
           be
           vnwilling
           to
           suffer
           the
           losse
           of
           their
           timber
           ,
           hay
           ,
           and
           stubble
           ,
           when
           the
           fire
           of
           God
           in
           his
           spirit
           and
           word
           do
           offer
           to
           burne
           it
           .
           By
           the
           practise
           of
           the
           law
           ,
           our
           own
           hand
           should
           first
           be
           vpon
           the
           beast
           ,
           and
           this
           done
           voluntarily
           :
           but
           if
           men
           vpon
           a
           good
           meaning
           will
           couer
           those
           cattell
           of
           Agag
           ,
           yet
           they
           shall
           bleat
           ,
           crie
           out
           and
           pursue
           them
           vnto
           destruction
           .
           It
           followeth
           in
           the
           text
           .
        
         
           Vers.
           27.
           
           
             Then
             came
             the
             seruants
             of
             the
             householder
             and
             said
             vnto
             him
             ,
             Master
             ,
             sowedst
             thou
             not
             good
             seed
             x
             in
             that
             thy
             field
             ,
             from
             whence
             then
             hath
             it
             Tares
             ?
          
           28.
           
           
             And
             be
             said
             ,
             the
             enuious
             man
             hath
             done
             this
             .
          
        
         
           Two
           questions
           are
           propounded
           by
           the
           seruants
           vnto
           the
           householder
           ,
           whereof
           this
           is
           the
           first
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           answer
           .
           For
           the
           householder
           or
           master
           of
           the
           field
           ,
           it
           is
           plaine
           before
           to
           be
           the
           sonne
           of
           man.
           Touching
           the
           seruants
           ,
           some
           take
           them
           to
           be
           Magistrates
           in
           the
           Commonwealth
           :
           some
           take
           them
           to
           be
           Ministers
           in
           the
           Church
           :
           I
           vnderstand
           it
           to
           be
           spoken
           of
           both
           ,
           and
           so
           both
           will
           well
           inough
           fit
           ,
           first
           the
           Analogie
           and
           proportion
           of
           faith
           ;
           secondly
           ,
           it
           accordeth
           aptly
           vnto
           the
           experienced
           state
           of
           Church
           and
           Commonwealth
           ,
           though
           principally
           of
           Ministers
           .
        
         
           Then
           ,
           when
           ?
           After
           the
           field
           (
           through
           Ministers
           and
           Magistrates
           sleepie
           securitie
           )
           was
           ouergrowen
           with
           Tares
           or
           〈◊〉
           wicked
           ones
           :
           Then
           (
           as
           out
           of
           a
           sleep
           )
           Magistrates
           and
           M●●●sters
           
           do
           arise
           :
           they
           ouersee
           the
           Catholike
           Church
           :
           they
           spie
           not
           onely
           offensiue
           things
           in
           the
           world
           (
           whereof
           no
           maruell
           )
           but
           also
           in
           the
           kingdome
           or
           new
           Testaments
           Church
           .
           They
           grieue
           at
           the
           sight
           ,
           and
           troubled
           they
           are
           in
           their
           soule
           about
           the
           present
           Confusion
           .
           All
           this
           notably
           and
           comfortably
           laying
           downe
           ,
           that
           in
           those
           last
           dayes
           God
           would
           not
           onely
           stirre
           vp
           zealous
           Ministers
           for
           Church
           reformation
           ,
           but
           also
           excellent
           Magistrates
           (
           as
           were
           
             Zerubbabel
             ,
             Nehemiah
          
           and
           others
           )
           for
           the
           reformation
           of
           Iudah
           .
        
         
           Nor
           was
           this
           vnseene
           of
           Iohn
           in
           Patmos
           ,
           
           what
           time
           the
           Angell
           of
           God
           telleth
           Iohn
           (
           in
           the
           solitarines
           of
           his
           spirit
           )
           that
           the
           ten
           hornes
           (
           or
           ciuill
           powers
           )
           which
           once
           had
           subiected
           themselues
           vnto
           the
           whorish
           Citie
           (
           Metropolitane
           then
           of
           the
           earth
           )
           what
           time
           they
           lay
           asleepe
           by
           drinking
           her
           spirituall
           fornications
           ,
           they
           finally
           should
           awake
           ,
           
             And
             hate
             the
             whore
             ,
             and
             shall
             make
             her
             desolate
             and
             naked
             ,
             and
             shall
             eat
             her
             flesh
             and
             burne
             her
             with
             fire
             .
             For
             God
             hath
             put
             into
             their
             hearts
             to
             fulfill
             his
             will
             and
             to
             do
             with
             one
             consent
             ,
             for
             giuing
             their
             kingdome
             vnto
             the
             Beast
             ,
             vntill
             the
             words
             of
             God
             be
             fulfilled
             .
          
           But
           those
           wordes
           of
           God
           (
           for
           the
           time
           of
           their
           sleepe
           )
           once
           fulfilled
           ,
           they
           arise
           (
           as
           did
           
             Henry
             ,
             Edward
          
           and
           Elizabeth
           in
           England
           )
           setting
           fire
           on
           the
           whore
           for
           burning
           vp
           her
           abominations
           .
           And
           therefore
           thrice
           abominable
           those
           spirits
           ,
           that
           by
           word
           or
           writing
           proclaime
           them
           Schismatikes
           (
           as
           do
           the
           Papists
           )
           or
           Suborners
           of
           the
           beasts
           kingdome
           (
           as
           doe
           blind
           Reformists
           ,
           Brownists
           ,
           Anabaptists
           and
           Arrians
           )
           .
        
         
           Touching
           the
           Ministers
           ,
           seeing
           vnto
           them
           the
           more
           excellent
           charge
           of
           the
           Church
           is
           giuen
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           more
           those
           euils
           creepe
           in
           through
           their
           predecessours
           negligence
           ,
           by
           so
           much
           the
           more
           those
           their
           successours
           are
           stirred
           vp
           in
           an
           holy
           fierie
           zeale
           for
           remouing
           of
           present
           euils
           .
           Such
           a
           one
           was
           z
        
         
           For
           this
           purpose
           let
           the
           yong
           Student
           read
           the
           succession
           of
           Doctors
           ,
           written
           by
           Simon
           de
           Voyon
           .
           William
           of
           S.
           Amour
           a
           doctor
           of
           Paris
           .
           After
           him
           Laurence
           an
           English
           man
           and
           doctor
           also
           there
           .
           Then
           
             Iohn
             Wicliffe
          
           here
           in
           England
           :
           and
           with
           him
           ,
           Sautre
           a
           Priest.
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           a
           Bohemian
           ,
           first
           student
           in
           Oxford
           .
           
             Ierom
             of
             Prage
          
           also
           a
           Bohemian
           :
           with
           multitudes
           not
           onely
           of
           Ministers
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           inferiour
           callings
           ,
           whom
           God
           stirred
           vp
           in
           all
           parts
           for
           recouerie
           of
           a
           better
           Ierusalem
           ,
           then
           that
           in
           Iudea
           of
           Beniamin
           .
        
         
         
           But
           marke
           that
           those
           seruants
           of
           Christ
           ,
           they
           trust
           not
           to
           their
           owne
           iudgements
           herein
           :
           and
           therefore
           ,
           they
           runne
           vnto
           Christ
           to
           be
           enformed
           ,
           by
           what
           meanes
           all
           this
           euill
           is
           come
           .
           Who
           ,
           as
           they
           seeke
           to
           him
           ,
           so
           from
           him
           they
           receiue
           a
           ready
           and
           faithfull
           answere
           .
           Who
           hauing
           vnderstood
           by
           the
           word
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           that
           all
           this
           was
           the
           worke
           of
           Satan
           in
           his
           ministers
           ,
           what
           time
           men
           lay
           asleepe
           in
           securitie
           (
           euen
           as
           a
           Garden
           sowen
           and
           planted
           with
           good
           ,
           it
           bringeth
           forth
           readily
           weedes
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           after
           a
           little
           time
           of
           rest
           )
           vpon
           this
           assurance
           ;
        
         
           
             Then
             the
             Seruants
             said
             vnto
             him
             ,
             wilt
             thou
             then
             that
             wee
             goe
             and
             gather
             them
             vp
             ?
             29.
             
             But
             he
             said
             ,
             No
             :
             least
             while
             ye
             goe
             about
             to
             gather
             the
             Tares
             ,
             ye
             plucke
             vp
             the
             wheat
             with
             them
             also
             .
          
        
         
           The
           second
           Interrogatorie
           and
           his
           answere
           followeth
           .
           The
           question
           propounded
           by
           the
           same
           seruants
           (
           Magistrates
           ,
           Ministers
           ,
           zealous
           people
           )
           the
           answere
           is
           returned
           by
           the
           same
           Housholder
           and
           Master
           of
           the
           Church
           Christ
           Iesus
           .
           By
           those
           holy
           hearted
           seruants
           their
           second
           demaund
           (
           
             Wilt
             thou
             that
             we
             goe
             and
             gather
             them
             vp
             ?
          
           )
           it
           plainly
           appeareth
           ,
           that
           they
           not
           onely
           were
           grieued
           to
           see
           the
           Church
           pestred
           with
           such
           tarish
           companions
           ,
           but
           also
           that
           they
           had
           a
           zeale
           burning
           in
           them
           ,
           for
           rooting
           them
           vp
           :
           and
           yet
           discretion
           ioyned
           with
           zeale
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           will
           not
           walke
           herein
           by
           any
           conceit
           of
           their
           owne
           ,
           but
           onely
           by
           the
           rule
           of
           their
           Master
           Christ.
           Griefe
           at
           such
           tares
           (
           I
           doubt
           not
           )
           there
           is
           in
           many
           :
           zeale
           also
           for
           tearing
           vp
           such
           tares
           ,
           I
           doubt
           not
           also
           there
           is
           in
           many
           :
           but
           a
           true
           contentment
           to
           passe
           by
           their
           owne
           conceipt
           ,
           and
           to
           search
           out
           their
           Masters
           meaning
           for
           reformation
           ,
           it
           resteth
           in
           ouer-few
           .
           Hee
           will
           walke
           by
           this
           rule
           ,
           another
           by
           that
           rule
           for
           reformation
           of
           faith
           and
           manners
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Brownist
           ,
           Anabaptist
           and
           Arian
           ,
           they
           will
           walke
           by
           no
           rule
           for
           reformation
           of
           this
           wheat
           field
           ,
           and
           purging
           it
           from
           weedes
           :
           but
           at
           one
           choppe
           ,
           they
           hew
           downe
           all
           for
           Antichristian
           ,
           and
           will
           haue
           no
           visible
           Christian
           to
           be
           found
           in
           this
           confusion
           of
           the
           field
           .
           Tut
           say
           they
           ,
           labour
           we
           for
           curing
           Babel
           (
           misapplying
           a
           Ieremies
           speech
           thereto
           )
           we
           would
           haue
           cured
           her
           ,
           but
           could
           not
           ,
           therefore
           my
           people
           
             Go
             out
          
           .
           And
           so
           ,
           when
           they
           haue
           separated
           from
           all
           ,
           condemned
           all
           (
           good
           and
           bad
           ,
           Church
           and
           Babel
           :
           condemning
           the
           substance
           
           of
           faith
           and
           manners
           in
           all
           ,
           because
           of
           some
           disputable
           accidents
           ,
           or
           at
           most
           ,
           because
           of
           some
           accidentall
           euils
           )
           they
           must
           euery
           head
           beginne
           a
           new
           field
           ,
           a
           new
           Church
           ,
           and
           all
           new
           .
           And
           because
           all
           are
           not
           of
           one
           mind
           ,
           therefore
           euery
           one
           begins
           a
           Church
           (
           spicke
           and
           span
           new
           )
           of
           a
           sundry
           fashion
           .
        
         
           The
           Brownist
           keepes
           the
           Baptisme
           he
           hath
           in
           our
           Church
           ,
           but
           denieth
           the
           Ministeriall
           ordination
           ;
           appointing
           their
           lay-people
           to
           lay
           hands
           on
           Ministers
           heads
           ,
           and
           so
           blesse
           them
           to
           their
           ministeriall
           office
           :
           alleadging
           the
           practise
           of
           Israels
           people
           ,
           laying
           their
           hands
           on
           the
           Leuits
           heads
           Nomb.
           8.
           
           Whereas
           alas
           ,
           that
           was
           but
           their
           forme
           of
           Approbation
           ,
           not
           of
           Ordination
           .
           For
           when
           the
           people
           (
           or
           Elders
           of
           the
           people
           )
           had
           laid
           on
           hands
           ,
           the
           Leuits
           thereupon
           might
           not
           administer
           before
           the
           Lord
           :
           for
           their
           Ordination
           and
           blessing
           resteth
           to
           the
           high
           Priest
           :
           and
           thereupon
           came
           the
           holy
           Canon
           ,
           b
           
             Without
             all
             contradiction
             ,
             the
             lesser
             is
             blessed
             of
             the
             greater
             .
          
           For
           in
           Nombers
           8.
           it
           followeth
           ,
           that
           Aaron
           tooke
           the
           Leuites
           ,
           filled
           their
           hands
           with
           oblation
           ,
           with
           his
           hands
           did
           shake
           them
           before
           the
           Lord
           :
           and
           so
           (
           after
           benediction
           )
           did
           set
           them
           to
           the
           Altars
           worke
           .
           And
           this
           hath
           c
           
             Peter
             Martyr
          
           well
           obserued
           and
           distinguished
           .
           And
           indeed
           ,
           the
           ancients
           made
           This
           (
           not
           Teaching
           )
           to
           be
           a
           cause
           of
           distinction
           betweene
           Episcop
           &
           Presbyter
           (
           or
           Bishop
           and
           Priest
           :
           for
           these
           words
           are
           of
           the
           former
           Greeke
           corrupted
           )
           namely
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Bishop
             might
             ordaine
             ,
             the
             Elder
             not
          
           )
           for
           so
           Chrysostome
           (
           hauing
           said
           that
           d
           Elders
           are
           vnderstood
           vnder
           the
           word
           Bishop
           1.
           
           Tim.
           3.1
           .
           hee
           after
           saith
           :
           
             Inter
             episcopum
             &
             presbyt
          
           .
           &c.
           
             Betw●ene
             a
             Bishop
             and
             Elder
             there
             is
             almost
             no
             difference
             .
             For
             by
             Ordination
             alone
             ,
             they
             are
             their
             superiours
             :
             and
             this
          
           (
           power
           )
           
             onely
             they
             are
             thought
             more
             to
             haue
             ,
             then
             haue
             the
             Presbyters
             ,
          
           or
           Elders
           or
           Priests
           .
           Therefore
           (
           passing
           by
           Priestes
           ,
           as
           all
           of
           them
           figures
           of
           Christ
           )
           they
           casting
           eye
           vnto
           Church-order
           ,
           they
           ordinarily
           cause
           resemblance
           alike
           to
           be
           had
           betweene
           Bishop
           &
           Presbyter
           ,
           as
           was
           of
           old
           time
           betweene
           the
           high
           Priest
           and
           the
           ordinarie
           Priests
           :
           and
           the
           resemblance
           of
           common
           Presbyter
           and
           Deacon
           ,
           to
           lie
           in
           such
           difference
           as
           was
           betweene
           the
           ordinarie
           Priest
           and
           common
           Leuits
           .
           And
           indeede
           ,
           the
           trueth
           is
           such
           :
           though
           such
           as
           despise
           ancient
           record
           and
           reading
           do
           (
           as
           
           some
           doe
           at
           home
           )
           make
           sacred
           Ordination
           a
           friuolous
           ceremonie
           .
           Whereby
           the
           Brownists
           of
           common
           inferiour
           lotte
           ,
           they
           haue
           learned
           to
           bid
           their
           father
           (
           hee
           that
           begot
           them
           to
           that
           faction
           )
           to
           kneele
           downe
           ,
           and
           they
           t●●
           begotten
           children
           wil
           lay
           hands
           on
           &
           blesse
           their
           father
           :
           an
           Ordination
           more
           opposite
           to
           Christ
           for
           outward
           forme
           (
           &
           that
           is
           it
           they
           speake
           of
           )
           the
           if
           the
           Pope
           should
           blesse
           a
           man
           inferior
           .
           For
           they
           (
           
             ek
             dramétr●u
          
           )
           ful-but
           to
           Christs
           Canon
           ,
           do
           appoint
           the
           lesser
           to
           blesse
           the
           Greater
           :
           whereas
           in
           the
           other
           ,
           the
           Greater
           blesseth
           the
           lesser
           .
           But
           hereof
           I
           haue
           spoken
           in
           another
           Treatise
           .
        
         
           Touching
           the
           Anabaptists
           ,
           they
           stand
           not
           partaking
           in
           the
           matter
           (
           as
           doth
           the
           Brownist
           )
           but
           they
           exusflate
           or
           blow
           off
           our
           Baptisme
           ,
           so
           well
           as
           Ordination
           ,
           saying
           :
           
             All
             that
             floweth
             from
             Antichrists
             ministers
             ,
             it
             must
             be
             Antichristian
             .
          
           And
           so
           ,
           one
           baptizeth
           e
           himselfe
           (
           as
           Abraham
           first
           circumcis●d
           himselfe
           :
           mary
           ,
           Abraham
           had
           a
           commandement
           ;
           they
           haue
           none
           ,
           nor
           like
           cause
           )
           and
           then
           he
           baptizeth
           other
           .
           But
           largely
           did
           Augustine
           confute
           this
           Rebaptization
           and
           Re-ordination
           in
           dealing
           against
           the
           Donatists
           ,
           saying
           of
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           f
           
             The
             Catholike
             Church
             held
             it
             vnlawfull
             to
             repeat
             them
             .
          
           As
           for
           Cyprians
           r●baptizing
           such
           as
           had
           beene
           baptized
           by
           heretikes
           ,
           g
           as
           he
           left
           such
           practise
           free
           vnto
           others
           their
           iudgement
           ,
           imposing
           no
           law
           on
           any
           (
           as
           appeareth
           in
           his
           epistles
           to
           Iubaian
           and
           Stephen
           Romes
           Bishop
           )
           so
           the
           same
           opinion
           after
           was
           retracted
           by
           the
           Bishops
           .
           And
           in
           a
           detestation
           of
           such
           rebaptization
           it
           was
           which
           caused
           h
           Chrysostome
           thus
           to
           write
           :
           
             Qui
             secundo
          
           &c.
           
           
             He
             that
             the
             second
             ●ime
             baptizeth
             himselfe
             ,
             he
             the
             second
             time
             crucifieth
             Christ.
             
          
        
         
           Touching
           our
           English
           Arrians
           ,
           they
           deny
           all
           Baptisme
           and
           Ordination
           ,
           till
           new
           Apostles
           be
           sent
           to
           execute
           those
           parts
           to
           the
           Gentiles
           ,
           and
           Elias
           the
           Thisbite
           do
           come
           for
           that
           end
           vnto
           the
           Iewes
           .
           Thus
           (
           not
           to
           speake
           of
           other
           their
           doctrines
           )
           euery
           sectarie
           and
           schismatike
           hath
           his
           sundry
           Church
           and
           fashion
           of
           constitution
           :
           all
           of
           them
           (
           in
           trueth
           )
           notable
           schismatikes
           from
           the
           Common-wealth
           of
           Israel
           :
           as
           
             Moab
             ,
             Ammon
             ,
             Edom
          
           ,
           and
           others
           made
           brea●h
           from
           the
           orderly
           seede
           of
           Abraham
           .
           But
           let
           them
           goe
           ,
           the
           seruants
           of
           Christs
           fielde
           ,
           they
           consult
           with
           
           their
           Master
           ,
           and
           from
           him
           they
           receiue
           this
           answere
           :
           Do
           not
           teare
           vp
           the
           tares
           ,
           let
           both
           grow
           togither
           vntill
           the
           last
           haruest
           &c.
           so
           farre
           is
           he
           from
           bidding
           them
           to
           go
           out
           ,
           or
           yet
           pull
           them
           vp
           .
        
         
           Two
           notable
           questions
           do
           arise
           from
           hence
           :
           first
           ,
           
             Whether
             perm●ssion
             of
             open
             wicked
             in
             the
             Churches
             fellowship
          
           (
           for
           such
           be
           those
           tares
           )
           
             it
             do
             not
             ouerthrow
             the
             Rule
             of
             excommunication
             taught
             in
             Matth.
          
           18.17
           .
           &
           1.
           
           Cor.
           5.
           
           Or
           if
           it
           do
           not
           ,
           how
           then
           those
           places
           can
           be
           reconciled
           ?
           Secondly
           ,
           
             How
             the
             permission
             of
             these
             shal
             not
             pollute
             ,
          
           seeing
           some
           open
           wicked
           do
           pollute
           in
           1.
           
           Cor.
           5.6
           .
           and
           Galat.
           5.9
           .
           Touching
           the
           first
           ,
           I
           answere
           :
           
             Permit
             vnto
             Doomesday
          
           ,
           and
           
             Excommunicate
             before
             Doomesday
          
           ,
           they
           are
           as
           easily
           reconciled
           ,
           as
           Dauids
           worde
           and
           practise
           is
           found
           good
           .
           When
           for
           his
           word
           it
           is
           written
           ,
           i
           
             That
             he
             would
             not
             suffer
             a
             wicked
             man
             in
             his
             family
          
           :
           and
           yet
           for
           his
           practise
           ,
           k
           
             he
             suffered
          
           Ioab
           
             in
             his
             family
          
           ,
           leauing
           the
           slaughtering
           of
           him
           to
           Salomon
           his
           sonne
           succeeding
           .
           And
           in
           a
           word
           it
           is
           thus
           :
           Those
           that
           can
           be
           excommunicate
           without
           harming
           the
           wheat
           (
           that
           is
           ,
           without
           rending
           Churches
           peace
           and
           vnitie
           )
           those
           are
           to
           be
           excommunicate
           :
           but
           such
           are
           to
           be
           permitted
           (
           not
           for
           loue
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Lords
           wheat
           )
           as
           the
           excommunicating
           of
           whom
           would
           rend
           the
           Church
           in
           peeces
           .
           The
           contrary
           practise
           is
           ,
           to
           be
           peni-wise
           ,
           pound-foolish
           .
           Nor
           is
           this
           resolution
           new
           ,
           but
           ancient
           :
           for
           Augustine
           to
           the
           l
           Donatist
           hereof
           writeth
           thus
           :
           
             Ipse
             Dominus
          
           &c.
           
           
             To
             the
             seruants
             willing
             to
             gather
             the
             tares
             ,
             the
             Lord
             hi●selfe
             saith
             :
             Suffer
             yee
             both
             to
             grow
             vntill
             the
             haruest
             :
             The
             cause
             hee
             premiseth
             saying
             :
             Least
             peraduenture
             while
             ye
             would
             collect
             the
             tares
             ,
             together
             with
             the
             same
             ye
             pull
             vp
             the
             wheat
             .
             Wherein
             he
             sufficiently
             sheweth
             ,
             when
             such
             cause
             of
             feare
             is
             not
             (
             but
             a
             certaine
             safetie
             altogither
             of
             the
             graine
             with
             certaine
             stabilitie
             ,
             abideth
             :
             that
             is
             ,
             when
             as
             euery
             such
             one
             his
             crime
             is
             knowne
             to
             all
             ,
             and
             to
             all
             appeaereth
             execrable
             ,
             insomuch
             as
             it
             hath
             no
             one
             ,
             or
             not
             such
             defenders
             through
             whom
             a
             Schisme
             may
             fall
             out
             )
             then
             (
             Non
             dormiat
             seueritas
             disciplinae
             )
             Let
             not
             disciplines
             seueritie
             sleepe
             .
             Then
             this
             may
             well
             be
             done
             without
             spot
             of
             peace
             and
             vnitie
             ;
             as
             also
             ,
             without
             detriment
             to
             the
             wheate
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Wherein
           he
           concludeth
           ,
           a
           practise
           of
           disciplines
           seueritie
           ,
           when
           Churches
           peace
           and
           vnitie
           may
           be
           preserued
           ,
           but
           otherwise
           
           not
           .
           Nor
           is
           this
           permission
           a
           stranger
           in
           scripture
           ,
           no
           more
           then
           the
           practise
           of
           excommunication
           .
           For
           as
           in
           1.
           
           Cor.
           5.
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           vrgeth
           a
           
             putting
             out
          
           :
           so
           the
           Apostle
           Iohn
           m
           Diotrephes
           the
           affector
           of
           preeminence
           ,
           a
           pratler
           ,
           a
           busie
           bodie
           ,
           and
           one
           that
           would
           neither
           himselfe
           harbour
           such
           as
           came
           from
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           nor
           yet
           suffer
           others
           .
           The
           Apostle
           promiseth
           (
           
             if
             hee
             come
          
           )
           to
           lay
           him
           out
           in
           his
           colours
           ,
           intending
           thereby
           no
           doubt
           to
           prepare
           a
           way
           for
           his
           casting
           out
           :
           but
           meane
           time
           hee
           permits
           him
           ,
           inasmuch
           as
           he
           bids
           them
           not
           deliuer
           him
           to
           Satan
           .
           Such
           tares
           were
           the
           factious
           teachers
           in
           Galatia
           Churches
           (
           ioyning
           Circumcision
           and
           Baptisme
           together
           &c.
           )
           whom
           the
           Apostle
           in
           those
           wordes
           (
           
             Would
             to
             God
             they
             were
             cut
             off
          
           )
           doth
           secretly
           permit
           ,
           in
           that
           he
           dare
           not
           (
           as
           in
           another
           n
           case
           )
           giue
           it
           in
           command
           .
           And
           when
           to
           the
           Corinthes
           he
           writes
           ,
           
             I
             feare
             when
             I
             come
             againe
             ,
             my
             God
             abase
             me
             among
             you
             ,
             and
             I
             shall
             bewaile
             many
             :
             of
             them
             which
             haue
             sinned
          
           ALREADIE
           ,
           
             &
             haue
             not
             repented
             of
             their
             vncleannes
             and
             fornication
             &
             wanto●nes
             which
             they
             haue
             committed
             :
          
           here
           the
           Apostle
           not
           wishing
           the
           Corinthes
           to
           deliuer
           such
           to
           Satan
           (
           as
           in
           1.
           
           Cor.
           5.
           he
           willeth
           the
           incestuous
           to
           be
           giuen
           vp
           ,
           for
           whose
           behoofe
           no
           one
           with
           face
           could
           stand
           )
           but
           plainly
           seeing
           (
           yet
           after
           a
           sort
           halfe
           winking
           at
           )
           those
           notable
           euils
           ,
           he
           giueth
           notice
           (
           as
           Augustine
           also
           hence
           vrgeth
           )
           that
           it
           was
           because
           of
           their
           tarish
           clasping
           condition
           .
           And
           for
           no
           loue
           to
           the
           tares
           ,
           but
           for
           loue
           of
           Church
           and
           Common-wealthes
           peace
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           Dauid
           permitted
           Shimei
           of
           Beniamins
           quarrelling
           tribe
           fauourite
           to
           Saul
           :
           as
           also
           suffered
           bloody
           Ioab
           to
           liue
           all
           his
           dayes
           ,
           for
           that
           otherwise
           he
           might
           haue
           brought
           all
           the
           souldiers
           on
           his
           necke
           ,
           for
           auenging
           the
           death
           of
           their
           worthy
           Generall
           .
        
         
           Now
           (
           if
           a
           Tares
           condition
           be
           considered
           )
           can
           any
           other
           conclusion
           be
           vrged
           ?
           for
           it
           is
           not
           ,
           as
           many
           weeds
           who
           may
           be
           seuered
           without
           daunger
           :
           but
           as
           it
           growes
           vnder
           the
           leaues
           of
           wheat
           vnseene
           ,
           like
           an
           hypocrite
           at
           first
           ,
           so
           it
           〈◊〉
           after
           bewraies
           it selfe
           by
           the
           fruit
           :
           but
           then
           so
           clasping
           the
           w●eat
           by
           running
           about
           it
           ,
           as
           it
           cannot
           be
           pulled
           vp
           th●n
           ,
           but
           〈◊〉
           ●resent
           danger
           to
           the
           wheat
           .
           And
           such
           varietie
           of
           ●aladies
           ●●●etimes
           fall
           in
           mans
           bodie
           ,
           whereof
           some
           may
           be
           purged
           ●●d
           
           some
           limmes
           cut
           off
           without
           the
           liues
           destruction
           :
           but
           some
           of
           such
           nature
           and
           in
           such
           p●rts
           ,
           as
           they
           cannot
           be
           remoued
           ,
           but
           with
           depri●ation
           of
           life
           .
           And
           for
           this
           cause
           (
           namely
           for
           preseruation
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           auoiding
           some
           great
           euil
           ensuing
           )
           we
           oftentimes
           permit
           that
           we
           like
           not
           .
           Nor
           is
           he
           fit
           to
           gouerne
           a
           family
           (
           much
           lesse
           a
           Church
           )
           that
           walketh
           not
           by
           this
           rule
           &
           consideration
           .
           If
           any
           now
           demand
           what
           if
           Diotrephes
           repent
           ,
           or
           for
           want
           of
           repentance
           he
           be
           by
           Iohn
           in
           after
           time
           cast
           out
           ,
           is
           such
           a
           one
           yet
           a
           Tare
           ?
           Two
           answers
           are
           hereto
           framed
           .
           The
           first
           is
           ,
           yea
           :
           as
           Simon
           was
           surnamed
           Leper
           (
           because
           once
           a
           Leper
           )
           so
           may
           such
           a
           one
           be
           called
           a
           Tare
           ,
           because
           once
           a
           Tare
           .
           The
           second
           answer
           I
           giue
           thus
           :
           if
           either
           of
           the
           former
           things
           fal
           out
           ,
           he
           may
           be
           said
           to
           haue
           stood
           (
           for
           the
           former
           clasping
           season
           )
           as
           a
           tare
           ,
           but
           now
           he
           bewraies
           himself
           not
           to
           ,
           be
           such
           :
           Euē
           as
           ,
           the
           o
           incestuous
           person
           was
           deliuered
           vp
           to
           Satan
           for
           leauen
           &
           a
           seruant
           to
           Satan
           ,
           who
           p
           after
           proued
           a
           man
           of
           true
           spirit
           &
           holines
           .
           The
           Parable
           (
           as
           other
           Parables
           )
           it
           must
           not
           be
           stretched
           beyond
           the
           purpose
           of
           our
           Sauiour
           made
           manifest
           by
           other
           consent
           of
           scripture
           :
           and
           so
           I
           haue
           proued
           Augustines
           collection
           to
           be
           found
           &
           irrefragable
           .
           If
           any
           reply
           ,
           only
           those
           open
           wicked
           ones
           are
           Tares
           as
           die
           Tares
           (
           because
           it
           is
           after
           said
           ,
           they
           shall
           by
           the
           Angels
           in
           the
           great
           haruest
           be
           gathered
           vp
           )
           ●so
           could
           add
           ,
           because
           Tares
           are
           bid
           to
           grow
           vntil
           the
           last
           haruest
           ,
           therfore
           none
           are
           Tares
           that
           liue
           not
           vntill
           the
           last
           haruest
           .
           As
           also
           ,
           by
           that
           reason
           we
           should
           neuer
           know
           who
           are
           Tares
           vntill
           death
           :
           and
           so
           to
           no
           purpose
           commaunded
           to
           
             let
             them
             grow
             togither
          
           ,
           seeing
           after
           death
           they
           can
           no
           more
           grow
           togither
           .
           To
           auoid
           such
           foolish
           consequents
           ,
           the
           proprietie
           of
           a
           Parable
           must
           therfore
           ay
           be
           heeded
           .
        
         
           The
           former
           conclusion
           remembred
           ,
           downe
           fals
           the
           Libertines
           collection
           ,
           who
           would
           haue
           all
           publike
           wicked
           permitted
           :
           seeing
           here
           is
           not
           speech
           of
           all
           euill
           ones
           ,
           but
           of
           a
           kind
           of
           euill-ones
           which
           cannot
           with
           kingdomes
           children
           their
           good
           be
           pulled
           vp
           ,
           or
           cut
           off
           ,
           by
           Magistrate
           or
           Minister
           .
           Euen
           as
           in
           the
           Parable
           of
           the
           q
           fiue
           foolish
           virgins
           ,
           he
           declareth
           not
           open
           wicked
           ,
           but
           hypocrites
           (
           seeing
           they
           had
           their
           lamps
           and
           lights
           and
           went
           to
           meet
           the
           bridgroome
           so
           well
           as
           the
           other
           fiue
           .
           Nor
           was
           their
           foolishnes
           discouered
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           vntill
           they
           
           had
           slep
           the
           sleep
           of
           all
           flesh
           (
           good
           and
           bad
           )
           and
           were
           raised
           againe
           by
           the
           shout
           of
           the
           Archangell
           )
           so
           euerie
           Parable
           hath
           his
           owne
           propriety
           .
           Here
           also
           falleth
           to
           ground
           all
           such
           as
           haue
           with
           Chrysostome
           and
           Erasmus
           vnderstood
           them
           to
           be
           heretikes
           ,
           whom
           the
           Magistrates
           should
           permit
           to
           growe
           ,
           vntill
           happily
           they
           might
           become
           wheat
           .
           Yet
           Chrysostome
           addeth
           :
           r
           
             Non
             prohibet
             ,
             &c.
             
             Our
             Sauiour
             forbiddeth
             not
             to
             dissipate
             the
             conuenticles
             of
             heretikes
             ,
             the
             stopping
             of
             their
             mouthes
             ,
             to
             cut
             off
             all
             libertie
             of
             speaking
             :
             onely
             he
             forbids
             the
             killing
             of
             them
             .
          
           But
           as
           he
           hath
           no
           warrant
           hence
           of
           preseruing
           heretikes
           liues
           ,
           so
           he
           hath
           warrant
           inough
           from
           many
           places
           ,
           for
           scattering
           the
           assemblies
           ,
           stopping
           their
           mouthes
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           surely
           ,
           the
           Magistrate
           can
           neuer
           be
           thought
           to
           be
           zealous
           for
           the
           Lord
           ,
           when
           he
           beares
           (
           as
           the
           ordinarie
           States
           of
           Germanie
           doe
           )
           a
           sword
           for
           their
           ciuill
           matters
           ,
           but
           none
           for
           the
           Lords
           religion
           .
           To
           ground
           also
           here
           falleth
           the
           Anabaptistes
           doctrine
           of
           Christians
           vnlawfulnesse
           for
           bearing
           and
           exercising
           the
           sword
           against
           trangressors
           :
           seeing
           (
           say
           they
           foolishly
           from
           hence
           )
           they
           may
           liue
           to
           become
           true
           Christians
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           diuers
           fantasies
           here
           fall
           downe
           (
           as
           Dagon
           before
           the
           Arke
           )
           nor
           meruell
           ,
           seeing
           tymber
           ,
           hay
           and
           stubble
           is
           in
           the
           Lords
           day
           appointed
           to
           burne
           ;
           that
           so
           ,
           gold
           ,
           siluer
           ,
           and
           precious
           stone
           it
           may
           be
           discouered
           for
           only
           sutable
           to
           the
           foundation
           of
           this
           heauens
           kingdome
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           the
           second
           question
           ,
           
             How
             the
             permission
             of
             such
             Tares
          
           (
           or
           tarish
           persons
           )
           
             they
             shall
             not
             pollute
             the
             fellowship
          
           ?
           That
           such
           permission
           is
           not
           sinne
           or
           pollution
           to
           the
           permitters
           ,
           it
           appeareth
           if
           but
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           Christ
           not
           onely
           aduiseth
           ,
           but
           also
           commaundeth
           such
           permission
           for
           the
           peace
           &
           good
           of
           his
           wheat
           ,
           or
           true
           sonnes
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           If
           first
           such
           open
           wicked
           vpon
           due
           sight
           and
           search
           be
           found
           (
           not
           thistles
           ,
           da●ke
           or
           such
           separable
           weeds
           :
           for
           it
           is
           presumed
           that
           such
           the
           seruants
           here
           had
           and
           would
           pull
           vp
           ,
           but
           )
           Tares
           ,
           or
           to
           vs
           ward
           in
           a
           tarish
           estate
           :
           and
           if
           in
           the
           second
           place
           we
           permit
           those
           Bastards
           for
           the
           childrens
           sake
           onely
           ,
           then
           such
           permission
           is
           no
           pollution
           to
           vs
           that
           haue
           so
           seene
           ,
           sought
           and
           permitted
           .
           First
           ,
           because
           our
           Sauiour
           enioineth
           such
           sufferance
           ,
           and
           who
           dare
           make
           him
           a
           counsailour
           to
           euill
           ,
           a
           maintainer
           of
           sinne
           ?
           Secondly
           ,
           if
           the
           
           s
           Apostle
           touching
           sinne
           in
           his
           owne
           flesh
           resisting
           his
           will
           (
           or
           law
           of
           the
           mind
           )
           hauing
           will
           present
           with
           him
           ,
           but
           wanting
           meanes
           to
           performe
           that
           is
           good
           :
           if
           notwithstanding
           this
           vnrulines
           of
           the
           flesh
           ,
           he
           proclaimes
           himselfe
           deliuered
           from
           this
           sinne
           (
           or
           bodie
           of
           death
           )
           by
           Christ
           ruling
           in
           him
           by
           his
           spirit
           ,
           &c.
           
           If
           I
           say
           ,
           sinne
           dwelling
           in
           him
           ,
           he
           is
           not
           therfore
           seruant
           to
           sinne
           but
           to
           Christ
           ,
           because
           a
           better
           spirit
           or
           lawe
           ruleth
           in
           him
           :
           much
           lesse
           can
           another
           mans
           sinne
           pollute
           me
           or
           my
           new
           man
           created
           in
           Christ
           ,
           who
           is
           so
           farre
           from
           being
           led
           captiue
           by
           his
           sinne
           ,
           as
           I
           hate
           it
           ;
           and
           as
           meanes
           by
           God
           are
           giuen
           vnto
           me
           in
           my
           place
           ,
           do
           labour
           the
           slaughter
           of
           his
           sinne
           and
           expulsion
           thereof
           :
           and
           when
           such
           meanes
           of
           remouing
           him
           is
           lacking
           to
           me
           ,
           yet
           the
           good-will
           of
           remouing
           such
           a
           scandale
           is
           neuer
           lacking
           .
           Keeping
           thus
           my
           heart
           and
           conscience
           cleane
           ,
           all
           things
           that
           are
           without
           ,
           are
           to
           me
           cleane
           &
           pure
           .
           But
           if
           the
           conscience
           be
           priuie
           to
           a
           liking
           of
           the
           scandale
           ,
           and
           negligent
           in
           vsing
           the
           fit
           meanes
           God
           hath
           granted
           for
           remouing
           such
           a
           scandale
           ,
           then
           he
           is
           pollution
           vnto
           me
           ,
           and
           my
           soule
           is
           attainted
           with
           his
           sinne
           .
           The
           one
           and
           the
           other
           of
           those
           conclusions
           ,
           haue
           their
           ground
           also
           from
           that
           to
           Titus
           1.15
           .
           and
           in
           Marke
           7.18.19.20
           ,
           21.22.23
           .
           But
           it
           will
           be
           obiected
           ,
           in
           those
           two
           scriptures
           speech
           is
           onely
           of
           indifferent
           things
           :
           I
           answere
           ,
           the
           doctrine
           is
           generall
           ,
           and
           therefore
           appliable
           not
           onely
           to
           those
           indifferencies
           there
           mentioned
           :
           for
           nothing
           (
           whatsoeuer
           )
           is
           without
           can
           be
           pollution
           to
           vs
           ,
           prouided
           there
           arise
           not
           in
           our
           heart
           a
           liking
           or
           consent
           to
           such
           euill
           ,
           nor
           yet
           of
           vs
           be
           permitted
           ,
           when
           apt
           meanes
           are
           granted
           for
           remoual
           ,
           at
           least
           for
           bridling
           such
           euill
           .
           Touching
           this
           point
           ,
           it
           is
           thus
           written
           in
           t
           Origen
           (
           whether
           by
           him
           or
           another
           I
           contend
           not
           )
           
             Illud
             tacendum
             non
             est
             ,
             &c.
             
             That
             neither
             is
             to
             be
             concealed
             ,
          
           (
           namely
           )
           
             that
             the
             knowen
             wicked
             hurt
             the
             Church
             ,
             if
             so
             be
             that
             ,
             either
             power
             of
             prohibiting
             them
             the
             Communion
             be
             lacking
             ,
             or
             some
             reason
             of
             conseruing
             peace
             do
             hinder
             .
             It
             is
             plain
             that
             this
             is
             not
             hurtful
             to
             a
             man
          
           (
           namely
           )
           
             That
             there
             is
             some
             wicked
             man
             (
             yea
             ,
             a
             knowne
             wicked
             )
             present
             with
             thee
             at
             Christ
             his
             Altar
             :
             though
             he
             be
             not
             prohibited
             ,
             prouided
             by
             a
             good
             conscience
             discontented
             with
             him
             ,
             he
             be
             separated
             from
             him
             .
             Manifest
             therefore
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             to
             run
             with
             a
             thiefe
             ,
             it
             is
             no
             other
             thing
             then
             
             eyther
             to
             steale
             with
             him
             ,
             or
             with
             a
             pleasing
             heart
             to
             accept
             of
             his
             stealth
             .
          
           And
           that
           the
           Church
           hath
           euer
           been
           so
           minded
           ,
           consider
           not
           onely
           her
           recordes
           for
           iudgement
           ,
           but
           also
           for
           her
           continuall
           practise
           .
           Whatsoeuer
           therefore
           in
           any
           of
           my
           writings
           may
           seeme
           to
           conclude
           oppositiuely
           ,
           I
           desire
           it
           may
           be
           reduced
           hither
           ,
           where
           so
           fully
           and
           plainely
           I
           haue
           discussed
           the
           q●estion
           .
           Nor
           let
           any
           distinguish
           here
           (
           against
           the
           streame
           of
           the
           whole
           Church
           )
           between
           common
           communion
           ,
           and
           the
           communion
           in
           the
           Lord
           his
           supper
           :
           for
           ,
           besides
           the
           Ancients
           their
           meaning
           is
           plaine
           ,
           we
           are
           to
           consider
           ;
           first
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           is
           commaunded
           by
           suppers
           administration
           to
           set
           forth
           Chri●tes
           death
           till
           he
           come
           :
           secondly
           ,
           if
           no
           Tare
           may
           be
           permitted
           thereto
           ,
           and
           there
           will
           be
           Tares
           vnto
           the
           worlds
           end
           ;
           then
           it
           followeth
           that
           the
           supper
           must
           neuer
           be
           administred
           .
           If
           it
           be
           replied
           ;
           though
           they
           be
           not
           excommunicate
           ,
           yet
           they
           may
           be
           debarred
           the
           supper
           ;
           I
           answere
           ,
           if
           Churches
           peace
           can
           be
           so
           preserued
           ,
           they
           ought
           so
           to
           be
           restrained
           .
           Euen
           as
           in
           a
           familie
           ,
           a
           wise
           householder
           or
           faithfull
           steward
           v
           
             He
             will
             give
             the
             meate
             in
             due
             season
             :
          
           and
           not
           onely
           that
           ,
           but
           also
           grant
           vnto
           some
           leaue
           to
           feast
           ,
           when
           (
           for
           correction
           sake
           )
           he
           appointeth
           some
           others
           to
           fast
           .
           A
           figure
           whereof
           vnder
           the
           law
           was
           this
           ,
           and
           that
           vncleannes
           ,
           for
           the
           which
           they
           were
           seuered
           for
           a
           season
           :
           x
           euen
           as
           the
           Magistrats
           s●ord
           a
           figure
           of
           our
           excōmunicating
           sword
           ;
           killing
           them
           in
           the
           flesh
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           rise
           and
           liue
           againe
           in
           the
           spirit
           .
           But
           if
           they
           cannot
           with
           peace
           and
           Churches
           vnion
           be
           restrained
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           rather
           suffered
           to
           Grow
           in
           their
           euil
           ,
           then
           (
           by
           hindering
           the
           Lords
           raine
           and
           sacramentall
           showers
           )
           the
           wheat
           should
           be
           hindered
           in
           their
           grouth
           .
           Let
           them
           grow
           togither
           (
           saith
           our
           Sauiour
           )
           vntill
           the
           haruest
           :
           though
           to
           the
           one
           sort
           ,
           word
           ,
           sacraments
           ,
           fellowship
           shall
           be
           a
           sauour
           of
           life
           vnto
           life
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           other
           a
           sauor
           of
           death
           vnto
           death
           :
           euen
           a
           sit
           was
           vnto
           such
           as
           brought
           oblations
           vnto
           the
           tabernacle
           ,
           wherof
           some
           by
           the
           faithfull
           Priest
           were
           freely
           admitted
           :
           others
           against
           his
           wil
           (
           as
           Ioab
           &
           Shimei
           )
           but
           admitted
           ,
           because
           otherwise
           by
           the
           sword
           they
           could
           not
           be
           peaceably
           cut
           off
           .
           So
           much
           for
           this
           point
           :
           it
           followeth
           .
        
         
           Vers.
           30.
           
           
             Let
             both
             grow
             togither
             vntill
             the
             haruest
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             time
             
             of
             haruest
             I
             will
             say
             to
             the
             Reapers
             ,
             gather
             ye
             first
             Tares
             ,
             and
             binde
             them
             in
             sheaues
             to
             burne
             them
             ,
             but
             gather
             the
             wheat
             into
             my
             barne
             .
          
        
         
           As
           our
           Sauiour
           will
           haue
           the
           tares
           to
           grow
           togither
           with
           his
           children
           in
           the
           Church
           (
           &
           this
           vntill
           the
           great
           haruest
           of
           God
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           as
           is
           expounded
           vers
           .
           40.
           vntill
           the
           end
           (
           namely
           of
           all
           things
           )
           what
           time
           he
           will
           send
           forth
           his
           Angels
           for
           gathering
           all
           those
           offensiue
           ones
           forth
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           vers
           .
           41.
           )
           As
           I
           say
           ,
           our
           Sauiour
           willeth
           so
           long
           sufferance
           of
           the
           tares
           ,
           so
           hence
           we
           are
           to
           obserue
           the
           forme
           of
           speech
           (
           
             Let
             them
             grow
             togither
             vntill
             the
             haruest
          
           )
           whence
           some
           conclude
           euery
           tare
           his
           particular
           haruest
           at
           the
           time
           of
           his
           death
           ,
           as
           also
           a
           generall
           haruest
           of
           all
           in
           the
           end
           of
           the
           world
           .
           Touching
           such
           particular
           haruest
           here
           is
           no
           speech
           (
           although
           it
           be
           true
           from
           other
           scripture
           ,
           that
           the
           tree
           falling
           into
           the
           cold
           nipping
           y
           North
           it
           shall
           there
           lie
           )
           the
           speech
           here
           is
           onely
           of
           the
           great
           vniuersall
           haruest
           ,
           wherein
           finall
           doome
           is
           giuen
           to
           all
           .
           If
           any
           say
           ,
           but
           all
           the
           tares
           which
           haue
           been
           some
           100.
           yeares
           since
           are
           dead
           ,
           &c.
           
           I
           answer
           ,
           our
           Sauiour
           promiseth
           to
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           that
           in
           executing
           their
           commission
           ,
           he
           would
           be
           with
           them
           vnto
           the
           end
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           lo
           they
           died
           and
           ceased
           preaching
           and
           baptizing
           1500.
           yeares
           since
           .
           The
           Apostle
           charged
           Timothie
           to
           keepe
           the
           commaundement
           vnspotted
           till
           the
           appearance
           of
           Christ
           Iesus
           ,
           and
           Timothie
           fell
           on
           sleepe
           about
           1500.
           yeares
           since
           also
           .
           As
           in
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Timothie
           ,
           the
           whole
           bodie
           of
           ministery
           succeeding
           in
           that
           worke
           ,
           it
           is
           vnderstood
           ,
           so
           in
           the
           tares
           first
           considered
           amidst
           the
           wheat
           ,
           there
           is
           vnderstood
           the
           whole
           corporation
           of
           such
           wicked
           in
           succession
           vnto
           the
           worlds
           end
           .
           A
           bodie
           of
           sinne
           or
           corporation
           of
           wicked
           ,
           Christ
           Iesus
           speaketh
           vnto
           ,
           when
           he
           thus
           saith
           to
           the
           Pharisees
           :
           
             Fulfill
             the
             measure
             of
             your
             sins
             ,
             &c.
             that
             vpon
             you
             may
             come
             all
             the
             righteous
             blood
             of
             Abel
             the
             righteous
             ,
             z
             vnto
             the
             blood
             of
          
           Zecharias
           (
           
             the
             sonne
             of
          
           Barachias
           )
           
             whom
             ye
             slew
             between
             the
             Temple
             and
             the
             Altar
             .
          
           From
           whence
           is
           apparant
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           righteous
           doe
           make
           but
           one
           mysticall
           bodie
           whereof
           Christ
           is
           the
           blessed
           h●ad
           ;
           so
           ,
           all
           the
           vnrighteous
           make
           their
           mysticall
           bodie
           of
           sinne
           ,
           whereto
           Sathan
           is
           an
           accursed
           head
           .
        
         
           
             Let
             them
             grow
             together
             vntill
             the
             end
             ?
          
           If
           they
           could
           be
           
           withdrawne
           from
           ,
           as
           
             Moses
             ,
             Aaron
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           faithfull
           of
           the
           congregation
           did
           withdraw
           their
           tents
           from
           a
           
             Korah
             ,
             Dathan
          
           and
           Abiram
           (
           whose
           sin
           lay
           not
           as
           B●ownists
           would
           haue
           it
           ,
           in
           a
           forme
           of
           outward
           calling
           diuers
           from
           the
           rule
           prescribed
           :
           but
           first
           ,
           their
           sin
           lay
           in
           murmuring
           against
           the
           chiefe
           Magistrate
           Moses
           ,
           and
           the
           high
           Priest
           Aaron
           :
           secondly
           ,
           in
           making
           a
           mocke
           of
           Sanctification
           and
           holinesse
           :
           thirdly
           ,
           in
           rising
           vp
           rebelliously
           ,
           for
           lifting
           vp
           themselues
           into
           place
           aboue
           the
           holy
           chosen
           of
           God
           :
           whereas
           ,
           other
           supreame
           Magistrate
           then
           Moses
           might
           not
           be
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           high
           Priest
           then
           Aaron
           ,
           during
           their
           liues
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           whole
           people
           would
           haue
           giuen
           vnto
           them
           the
           best
           forme
           of
           outward
           calling
           they
           could
           deuise
           .
           )
           If
           I
           say
           ,
           the
           open
           wicked
           could
           be
           cald
           departed
           from
           (
           as
           that
           rebellious
           ●rue
           vpon
           the
           Lords
           direction
           was
           departed
           from
           )
           then
           we
           are
           so
           to
           do
           :
           but
           if
           the
           case
           be
           tarish
           ,
           then
           we
           are
           to
           suffer
           such
           children
           of
           Belial
           to
           grow
           togither
           with
           the
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           vnto
           the
           very
           end
           of
           all
           things
           .
           For
           separation
           in
           such
           case
           ,
           it
           is
           (
           as
           b
           Cyprian
           wel
           saith
           )
           first
           a
           vendicating
           of
           that
           authoritie
           to
           our selues
           ,
           which
           the
           Father
           hath
           giuen
           to
           his
           Sonne
           alone
           :
           and
           secondly
           ,
           it
           is
           but
           a
           proud
           obstinacie
           and
           sacrilegious
           presumption
           (
           
             quam
             sibi
             furor
             prauus
             assumit
          
           )
           which
           a
           wicked
           frenzie
           assumeth
           to
           it selfe
           .
           Which
           speech
           of
           Cyprian
           ,
           old
           Augustine
           borroweth
           and
           oft
           applieth
           against
           Donatus
           .
        
         
           
             Let
             them
             grow
             togither
             till
             haruest
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           If
           tarish
           wicked
           ones
           shall
           grow
           vntill
           the
           vniuersall
           haruest
           of
           all
           the
           worlde
           ,
           held
           and
           kept
           in
           the
           ende
           and
           vp-shot
           of
           this
           worlde
           ,
           it
           is
           for
           those
           causes
           :
           first
           ,
           for
           the
           humiliation
           of
           the
           wheate
           or
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           by
           hauing
           such
           Canaanitish
           pricks
           in
           their
           eies
           and
           sides
           ,
           able
           to
           vexe
           the
           very
           soule
           of
           Lot
           ;
           and
           also
           able
           to
           torment
           their
           soules
           with
           like
           sorrow
           ,
           as
           were
           Ezekiels
           people
           that
           mourned
           continually
           for
           the
           wi●kednesses
           committed
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           Zion
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           they
           are
           permitted
           c
           being
           filthy
           ,
           to
           become
           more
           filthy
           :
           and
           beeing
           vnrighteous
           ,
           to
           become
           more
           vnrighteous
           (
           for
           Iohn
           must
           herein
           be
           vnderstood
           to
           speake
           of
           the
           wicked
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           such
           as
           Iudes
           spotted-ones
           in
           the
           feasts
           of
           Loue
           :
           and
           those
           in
           Corinths
           Church
           ,
           whereof
           Paul
           
           saith
           ,
           d
           
             And
             if
             any
             be
             ignorant
             ,
             let
             him
             be
             ignorant
          
           )
           that
           so
           fulfilling
           and
           vpheaping
           the
           measure
           of
           sinne
           ,
           they
           may
           afterwardes
           haue
           the
           more
           notable
           fall
           ,
           &
           breake-necke
           downe-fall
           .
           Were
           it
           not
           for
           this
           haruest
           ,
           as
           the
           faithfull
           of
           all
           others
           were
           most
           miserable
           ,
           so
           those
           grapling
           tares
           triumphing
           ouer
           the
           Lordes
           people
           ,
           they
           were
           of
           all
           men
           most
           blessed
           .
           But
           ,
           yea
           I
           say
           againe
           But
           there
           is
           a
           day
           comming
           ,
           a
           blacke
           day
           ,
           a
           gloomie
           day
           ,
           a
           day
           of
           terrour
           and
           horrour
           to
           all
           the
           children
           of
           Belial
           .
        
         
           A
           haruest
           must
           haue
           reapers
           ,
           &
           the
           reapers
           here
           be
           Angels
           .
           The
           greatnesse
           of
           the
           Reapers
           ,
           it
           argues
           the
           greatnesse
           of
           the
           haruest
           .
           Nor
           maruell
           that
           both
           Haruest
           and
           Reapers
           be
           great
           ,
           when
           as
           the
           great
           GOD
           is
           the
           sender
           forth
           of
           those
           Angels
           ,
           and
           people
           are
           the
           matter
           that
           must
           be
           reaped
           .
           This
           Haruest
           is
           represented
           vnto
           e
           Iohn
           in
           Patmos
           ,
           vnder
           the
           reaping
           of
           Grapes
           with
           a
           sharpe
           sickle
           ;
           and
           there
           by
           the
           ministerie
           of
           an
           Angell
           commanded
           so
           to
           by
           another
           Angell
           which
           had
           authoritie
           ouer
           fire
           .
           As
           it
           is
           very
           true
           ,
           that
           Christ
           hath
           all
           absolute
           power
           giuen
           him
           ouer
           fire
           ,
           water
           and
           euery
           creature
           ,
           so
           I
           well
           like
           the
           iudgement
           of
           such
           as
           teach
           that
           the
           elements
           are
           committed
           by
           the
           Lord
           vnto
           the
           Angels
           ,
           for
           vsing
           the
           same
           against
           the
           wicked
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           behoofe
           of
           his
           children
           .
           Touching
           whose
           ministration
           
             Peter
             Martyr
          
           hath
           this
           :
           f
           
             Redeo
             itaque
             ad
             ipsos
             Angelos
             &c.
             
             I
             returne
             vnto
             the
             Angels
             themselues
             ,
             by
             whose
             ministerie
             also
             I
             affirme
             ,
             that
             God
             gouerneth
             physicall
             or
             naturall
             things
             .
             For
             by
             their
             meanes
             vndoubtedly
             the
             celestiall
             g
             Orbes
             are
             turned
             about
             :
             and
             admirable
             thinges
             be
             produced
             in
             Nature
             .
             For
             which
             cause
             it
             is
             elegantly
             written
             ,
             That
             God
             himselfe
             is
             carried
             by
             the
             Cherubims
             .
          
           Here
           saith
           our
           Sauiour
           ,
           the
           Sonne
           of
           man
           shal
           send
           forth
           his
           Angels
           ,
           how
           doth
           this
           agree
           with
           that
           of
           Paul
           ,
           h
           
             The
             Lord
             himselfe
             shall
             descend
             from
             heauen
             with
             a
             showte
             ,
             with
             the
             voyce
             of
             the
             Archangell
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             trumpet
             of
             God
             ?
          
           By
           which
           showte
           our
           Sauiour
           afterwards
           in
           the
           Gospell
           saith
           ,
           i
           all
           the
           wise
           and
           foolish
           Virgins
           shal
           awake
           and
           be
           gathered
           to
           iudgement
           .
           Touching
           the
           sending
           forth
           of
           Angels
           (
           or
           as
           Iohn
           hath
           in
           his
           Reuelation
           ,
           an
           Angell
           )
           as
           also
           touching
           those
           tearmes
           ,
           a
           Showte
           ,
           the
           voyce
           of
           a
           Trumpe
           ,
           I
           take
           them
           to
           bee
           borrowed
           phrases
           adapted
           to
           haruest
           and
           sleepe
           .
           For
           a
           haruest
           ,
           there
           must
           be
           Gatherers
           :
           for
           
           raising
           people
           out
           of
           sleepe
           ,
           there
           must
           be
           some
           showte
           or
           loud
           voyce
           :
           euen
           so
           ,
           for
           gathering
           this
           spirituall
           haruest
           ,
           and
           for
           awaking
           the
           spirituall
           sleepers
           in
           the
           earths
           bowels
           ,
           there
           must
           be
           a
           Gathering
           and
           a
           Noise
           :
           but
           touching
           the
           forme
           of
           all
           this
           in
           proprietie
           ,
           I
           take
           it
           ,
           we
           now
           are
           vncapable
           .
           Yet
           (
           as
           in
           another
           place
           )
           Lazarus
           his
           soule
           is
           by
           Angels
           ministerie
           conuayed
           into
           Abrahams
           bosome
           :
           and
           well
           inough
           also
           may
           be
           iudged
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           that
           the
           Gluttons
           soule
           was
           conuayed
           into
           hell
           (
           according
           to
           that
           speech
           vnto
           another
           Miser
           ,
           
             Thou
             foole
             ,
             this
             night
             They
             shall
             take
             away
             thy
             soule
          
           )
           so
           it
           may
           well
           be
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           ministerie
           of
           Angels
           ,
           the
           soules
           vnited
           to
           their
           bodies
           for
           ful
           doome
           ,
           they
           shall
           be
           presented
           vnto
           iudgement
           .
           But
           yet
           this
           ministerie
           a
           power
           in
           mediatly
           deriued
           from
           the
           Archangell
           (
           k
           Christ
           Iesus
           )
           according
           to
           that
           in
           Iohns
           Gospel
           chap.
           5.28
           .
           
             The
             houre
             shall
             come
             ,
             in
             the
             which
             all
             that
             are
             in
             the
             graues
             shall
             heare
             his
             voyce
             ,
          
           that
           is
           (
           as
           before
           )
           the
           voyce
           of
           the
           Sonne
           of
           man
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           of
           Christ
           Iesus
           in
           our
           nature
           appearing
           .
        
         
           
           Now
           must
           Cerinthus
           (
           if
           before
           death
           he
           repented
           not
           )
           now
           must
           he
           come
           forth
           and
           make
           his
           answere
           ,
           for
           teaching
           that
           Iesus
           was
           not
           borne
           of
           Marie
           ,
           otherwise
           then
           by
           knowing
           Ioseph
           her
           husband
           carnally
           .
           That
           he
           was
           not
           Christ
           ;
           but
           that
           Christ
           came
           vpon
           him
           in
           the
           forme
           of
           a
           Doue
           .
           And
           that
           Iesus
           suffered
           ,
           but
           Christ
           fled
           away
           &c.
           
           Against
           whose
           abominable
           opinion
           touching
           Iesus
           his
           onely
           being
           man
           ,
           Iohn
           is
           said
           to
           haue
           written
           his
           Euangell
           :
           which
           indeed
           affordeth
           arguments
           ,
           specially
           for
           proofe
           of
           his
           Diuinitie
           .
        
         
           Now
           must
           the
           l
           Nicolaitans
           that
           died
           such
           ,
           come
           forth
           &
           answere
           for
           their
           communitie
           of
           women
           .
           As
           also
           the
           Carpocratians
           for
           denying
           saluation
           to
           the
           flesh
           :
           with
           others
           their
           followers
           ,
           holding
           it
           of
           the
           diuell
           :
           giuing
           it
           vp
           to
           all
           filthinesse
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           therby
           to
           be
           auēged
           on
           the
           body
           ,
           their
           soules
           prison
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           m
           Ophitai
           (
           who
           taught
           the
           Serpent
           which
           deceiued
           Eue
           ,
           was
           Christ
           :
           who
           by
           that
           meanes
           made
           a
           way
           for
           reuealing
           himselfe
           after
           to
           mankind
           .
           And
           for
           this
           cause
           worshipped
           the
           serpent
           for
           Christ
           &c.
           vpon
           which
           the
           Church
           gaue
           them
           that
           name
           Ophitai
           or
           Serpentinists
           .
           )
           Now
           must
           they
           come
           forth
           and
           know
           to
           their
           shame
           ,
           that
           they
           worshipped
           the
           diuel
           of
           hell
           in
           stead
           of
           Christ.
           
        
         
         
           The
           n
           Montanists
           ,
           who
           held
           Montanus
           for
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           condemned
           mariage
           for
           filthinesse
           &c.
           now
           those
           blasphemous
           filthy
           tongues
           must
           come
           out
           and
           bee
           tormented
           with
           Diues
           tongue
           in
           hell
           fire
           .
        
         
           The
           o
           Arians
           (
           who
           taught
           that
           there
           was
           a
           time
           wherein
           God
           was
           not
           a
           Father
           ,
           nor
           the
           Sonne
           a
           Sonne
           :
           that
           the
           Sonne
           was
           not
           of
           one
           substance
           with
           the
           Father
           ,
           but
           of
           another
           nature
           ;
           a
           creature
           and
           meere
           man
           :
           tearmed
           God
           onely
           in
           regard
           of
           office
           ,
           as
           Magistrates
           be
           ,
           &c.
           
           Now
           must
           they
           stand
           forth
           before
           that
           God
           who
           will
           to
           them
           indeed
           proue
           no
           Father
           ,
           but
           a
           consuming
           fire
           .
        
         
           The
           p
           Macedonians
           ,
           who
           taught
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           not
           to
           be
           God
           ,
           but
           a
           seruant
           trudging
           about
           the
           businesse
           of
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son
           ;
           those
           now
           must
           to
           iudgement
           .
           And
           wel
           shal
           they
           know
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           taught
           because
           they
           had
           not
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           .
        
         
           The
           q
           Anthropo-morphits
           (
           so
           called
           ,
           for
           attributing
           to
           God
           in
           proprietie
           ,
           the
           very
           shape
           and
           proportion
           of
           Man
           )
           they
           shal
           in
           this
           great
           day
           well
           vnderstand
           that
           they
           spoke
           and
           conceiued
           of
           spirituall
           things
           ,
           but
           carnally
           as
           bare
           naturall
           men
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           r
           followers
           of
           Apollinaris
           ,
           they
           must
           answere
           for
           teaching
           Christ
           to
           ass●me
           onely
           a
           liuing
           bodie
           without
           a
           reasonable
           soule
           ,
           substituting
           the
           Diuinitie
           in
           place
           of
           a
           soule
           :
           making
           a
           confusion
           of
           Diuinitie
           and
           humanitie
           (
           as
           if
           Christ
           were
           neither
           God
           nor
           man
           ,
           but
           a
           third
           thing
           mingled
           )
           euen
           as
           wine
           and
           water
           mingled
           ,
           is
           no
           more
           wine
           nor
           water
           ,
           but
           a
           mixture
           or
           mingle
           mangle
           .
        
         
           s
           Pelagius
           faction
           (
           holding
           man
           naturally
           to
           haue
           in
           his
           power
           to
           will
           and
           do
           well
           :
           )
           they
           now
           shal
           find
           ,
           that
           they
           both
           are
           supernaturall
           and
           diuine
           gifts
           .
        
         
           t
           Now
           the
           sect
           of
           Eutyches
           (
           who
           held
           that
           Christ
           assumed
           no
           nature
           of
           ours
           :
           the
           Anabaptists
           doctrine
           in
           these
           dayes
           )
           they
           shall
           in
           this
           day
           learne
           ,
           that
           that
           body
           and
           soule
           shall
           be
           damned
           ,
           the
           first
           fruites
           whereof
           were
           not
           first
           assumed
           by
           Christ
           Iesus
           .
        
         
           The
           u
           Mono-thelites
           (
           so
           tearmed
           for
           teaching
           that
           Christ
           Iesus
           had
           onely
           one
           will
           )
           they
           in
           this
           day
           shall
           be
           taught
           to
           their
           shame
           ,
           that
           Christ
           had
           two
           wils
           vnconfounded
           :
           the
           one
           peculiar
           vnto
           his
           Godhead
           ,
           which
           was
           (
           as
           the
           nature
           was
           )
           Infinite
           :
           
           the
           other
           peculiar
           to
           his
           manhood
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           it
           was
           )
           finit
           .
           The
           first
           Will
           strong
           as
           God
           ,
           the
           second
           infirme
           as
           man
           ,
           but
           infirmity
           without
           sinne
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           all
           the
           wicked
           (
           tares
           or
           other
           weeds
           )
           they
           must
           now
           be
           seuered
           from
           the
           Lord
           his
           wheat
           :
           and
           that
           which
           more
           is
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           collected
           and
           bound
           vp
           in
           sheaues
           .
           Not
           in
           one
           sheaue
           but
           sundrie
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           measure
           of
           their
           euils
           .
           One
           faction
           in
           one
           sheafe
           ,
           another
           faction
           in
           another
           sheafe
           :
           but
           all
           prepared
           for
           one
           hell
           ,
           for
           one
           fire
           ,
           euerlastingly
           burning
           .
        
         
           Yet
           (
           though
           but
           one
           hell
           ,
           one
           fire
           of
           wrath
           )
           scripture
           seemeth
           to
           imply
           (
           by
           vniuersall
           consent
           of
           the
           Church
           )
           that
           the
           measure
           of
           torment
           shal
           be
           x
           diuersly
           proportioned
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           proportion
           and
           qualitie
           of
           sinne
           in
           the
           subiect
           .
           Nor
           dislike
           I
           a
           certaine
           Ancient
           his
           iudgement
           touching
           this
           ,
           namely
           ,
           that
           as
           in
           creatures
           all
           apt
           to
           burne
           ,
           yet
           some
           feede
           the
           fire
           more
           then
           the
           other
           (
           as
           for
           example
           :
           oylie
           and
           gummie
           timber
           ,
           more
           then
           fewell
           of
           a
           diuers
           nature
           )
           euen
           so
           ,
           of
           sinners
           damned
           ,
           all
           capable
           to
           burne
           :
           but
           the
           same
           fire
           and
           torment
           more
           enlarged
           by
           the
           subiect
           it
           worketh
           vpon
           ,
           as
           his
           sinne
           shall
           be
           more
           large
           and
           notable
           .
           Sin
           (
           be
           it
           more
           or
           lesse
           )
           is
           so
           considered
           as
           the
           subiect
           whereon
           the
           burning
           wrath
           of
           God
           shal
           haue
           matter
           to
           feed
           vpon
           for
           euer
           .
           And
           this
           is
           the
           way
           ,
           whereby
           the
           iustice
           of
           God
           against
           sinne
           ,
           it
           shall
           be
           declared
           a
           Iustice
           for
           euer
           .
           In
           this
           day
           ,
           the
           Originists
           (
           who
           haue
           taught
           that
           diuell
           and
           all
           shall
           once
           come
           out
           of
           that
           fire
           and
           be
           saued
           )
           they
           shall
           find
           that
           sinne
           in
           the
           damned
           neuer
           dies
           (
           nay
           ,
           I
           rather
           thinke
           that
           it
           is
           encreased
           :
           if
           so
           sinne
           can
           be
           enlarged
           in
           hell
           :
           seeing
           sinne
           vnmortified
           ,
           is
           budding
           &
           bringing
           forth
           more
           euil
           in
           thought
           word
           ,
           worke
           )
           and
           so
           consequently
           ,
           the
           y
           gnawing
           worme
           neuer
           to
           die
           ,
           that
           fire
           neuer
           to
           be
           put
           out
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           tares
           (
           the
           most
           politicall
           wicked
           )
           together
           with
           the
           whole
           corporation
           of
           Satan
           ,
           they
           thus
           shal
           find
           in
           the
           end
           ,
           their
           glorie
           turned
           into
           shame
           ,
           &
           their
           temporarie
           heauen
           into
           an
           eternall
           hell
           .
           So
           the
           Lord
           his
           wheat
           or
           children
           of
           the
           kingdome
           (
           for
           though
           the
           other
           were
           
             in
             it
          
           ,
           yet
           they
           were
           not
           
             of
             it
          
           )
           they
           are
           in
           this
           great
           day
           gathered
           into
           the
           Lords
           barne
           .
           Though
           they
           grew
           together
           here
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           seuered
           there
           .
           The
           wicked
           shall
           not
           stand
           in
           the
           assembly
           of
           the
           
           righteous
           :
           nor
           after
           that
           day
           ,
           shall
           the
           soule
           of
           any
           righteous
           Lot
           ,
           be
           combred
           and
           galled
           with
           Sodome
           .
           The
           Iebusits
           gall
           vs
           heere
           ,
           but
           they
           drinke
           gall
           and
           wormewood
           for
           it
           there
           .
           We
           contentedly
           suffer
           here
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           appointed
           that
           we
           shall
           be
           glorified
           there
           .
           Into
           the
           Lords
           barne
           ,
           Abrahams
           bosome
           ,
           Paradise
           ,
           heauens
           glory
           we
           shall
           all
           be
           receiued
           :
           and
           there
           for
           eternitie
           placed
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           there
           is
           more
           or
           lesse
           measure
           of
           torment
           for
           the
           wicked
           ;
           so
           ,
           shall
           there
           not
           be
           a
           diuersitie
           of
           glorification
           in
           Christ
           Iesus
           his
           members
           ?
           The
           vniuersall
           streame
           of
           antiquity
           concluding
           affirmatiuely
           ,
           I
           dare
           not
           ioyne
           with
           them
           that
           conclude
           negatiuely
           .
           Besides
           ,
           the
           scriptures
           they
           vrge
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           I
           cannot
           see
           them
           otherwise
           applied
           then
           aptly
           and
           fitly
           .
           For
           our
           Sauiours
           words
           in
           Iohn
           ,
           z
           
             In
             my
             fathers
             house
             are
             many
             dwelling
             Mansions
             (
             if
             it
             were
             not
             so
             I
             would
             haue
             told
             ye
             )
             I
             go
             to
             prepare
             a
             place
             for
             you
             .
          
           Where
           they
           reply
           that
           these
           seuerall
           mansions
           are
           to
           be
           vnderstood
           here
           in
           the
           Church
           :
           I
           answer
           ,
           that
           cannot
           be
           :
           for
           the
           sundrie
           mansions
           must
           be
           considered
           in
           the
           place
           whither
           Iesus
           was
           repairing
           (
           namely
           ,
           in
           heauens
           glory
           )
           and
           not
           in
           the
           earth
           whence
           he
           was
           departing
           .
           Which
           better
           appeareth
           in
           that
           after
           he
           preoccupates
           this
           questiō
           of
           the
           Apostles
           (
           
             What
             shall
             become
             of
             vs
             meane
             time
             ?
          
           )
           whereto
           he
           answereth
           their
           thought
           ,
           saying
           :
           
             Though
             I
             go
             to
             prepare
             a
             place
             for
             you
             ,
             I
             will
             come
             againe
             .
          
           And
           where
           the
           auncients
           do
           alleadge
           that
           of
           
             Paul
             :
             There
             is
             another
             glorie
             of
             the
             Sunne
             ,
             and
             another
             glory
             of
             the
             Moone
             ,
             and
             another
             glory
             of
             the
             Stars
             ,
             (
             for
             one
             Starre
             differs
             from
             another
             in
             glory
             )
          
           a
           
             So
             also
             in
             the
             resurrection
             of
             the
             dead
             .
          
           If
           any
           here
           reply
           ,
           that
           this
           is
           to
           be
           vnderstood
           of
           the
           first
           resurrection
           (
           which
           is
           here
           )
           from
           sinne
           ,
           he
           speakes
           openly
           against
           the
           generall
           and
           scope
           of
           the
           Chapter
           :
           which
           was
           to
           teach
           the
           resurrection
           of
           our
           bodies
           (
           not
           soules
           )
           against
           some
           that
           in
           the
           Church
           denied
           it
           .
           Againe
           ,
           if
           they
           say
           that
           the
           comparison
           is
           between
           earthly
           and
           heauenly
           bodies
           ,
           in
           this
           place
           it
           is
           apparantly
           false
           :
           for
           here
           he
           concludes
           :
           Looke
           what
           difference
           in
           the
           glorie
           of
           Starres
           ,
           (
           though
           all
           glorious
           )
           euen
           such
           difference
           in
           the
           resurrection
           of
           bodies
           ,
           though
           all
           glorious
           :
           for
           before
           the
           resurrection
           ,
           no
           bodie
           is
           glorious
           .
           And
           surely
           ,
           were
           it
           we
           considered
           but
           the
           state
           of
           a
           bodie
           (
           where
           we
           see
           all
           the
           members
           excellent
           ,
           yet
           a
           difference
           
           of
           excellency
           :
           and
           yet
           the
           difference
           no
           cause
           of
           emulation
           in
           the
           bodie
           ,
           because
           ech
           member
           hath
           that
           which
           is
           fitting
           his
           own
           place
           )
           as
           also
           ,
           if
           we
           consider
           that
           all
           the
           beauteous
           order
           of
           God
           it
           lieth
           in
           distinctions
           ,
           it
           must
           help
           to
           perswade
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           mysticall
           bodie
           there
           be
           an
           Identitie
           (
           or
           One-nes
           )
           touching
           the
           generall
           ,
           
             Eternall
             life
          
           :
           yet
           there
           must
           be
           distinction
           or
           difference
           touching
           the
           measure
           of
           glorification
           .
        
         
           Where
           the
           aduerse
           minded
           do
           alledge
           that
           b
           Parable
           of
           the
           workmen
           ,
           brought
           into
           the
           vineyard
           ,
           some
           at
           the
           third
           houre
           ,
           some
           at
           the
           sixt
           ,
           some
           at
           the
           ninth
           ,
           some
           at
           the
           eleuenth
           ,
           agreeing
           ,
           &
           so
           giuing
           to
           euery
           man
           a
           penie
           :
           and
           so
           hence
           affirme
           that
           no
           one
           differs
           in
           the
           measure
           of
           glory
           ;
           all
           obtaining
           but
           one
           and
           the
           same
           price
           ,
           
             a
             peny
          
           :
           I
           answer
           :
           a
           Parable
           being
           a
           figuratiue
           doctrine
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           expounded
           by
           that
           which
           is
           lesse
           figuratiue
           ,
           or
           plainly
           proper
           .
           The
           Apostle
           hauing
           taught
           the
           Corinths
           so
           plainly
           of
           a
           difference
           (
           not
           between
           corruptible
           and
           incorruptible
           bodies
           ,
           but
           )
           between
           glorie
           and
           glorie
           of
           bodies
           risen
           ;
           it
           shall
           be
           preposterous
           after
           so
           plain
           assertion
           ,
           to
           conclude
           the
           contrary
           from
           a
           darke
           phrase
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           c
           
             Augustine
             ,
             Chrysostome
          
           and
           a
           thousands
           besides
           them
           haue
           deliuered
           a
           better
           sense
           of
           the
           peny
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           how
           it
           importeth
           onely
           
             Eternall
             life
          
           .
           Which
           eternall
           life
           though
           one
           ,
           yet
           vttering
           it selfe
           in
           more
           or
           lesse
           glorie
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           place
           ech
           member
           then
           enioyeth
           in
           this
           mystical
           glorious
           bodie
           .
           Some
           here
           bring
           forth
           fruit
           an
           hundred
           fold
           ,
           some
           sixtie
           ,
           some
           thirtie
           .
           Vnto
           those
           of
           fruits
           an
           hundred
           fold
           ,
           d
           Ambrose
           referreth
           the
           glory
           of
           the
           Sun
           ;
           vnto
           those
           of
           60
           the
           glorie
           of
           the
           Moone
           ;
           and
           vnto
           those
           that
           bring
           forth
           fruits
           thirtie
           fold
           ,
           he
           sweetly
           referreth
           the
           glory
           as
           of
           commō
           stars
           .
           And
           surely
           ,
           as
           the
           contrarie
           perswasion
           doth
           effect
           in
           men
           a
           remisnes
           and
           slouthfulnes
           in
           the
           Lords
           worke
           ;
           so
           ,
           the
           beliefe
           of
           this
           doctrine
           is
           (
           as
           a
           goad
           )
           in
           our
           sides
           for
           stirring
           vs
           forward
           in
           the
           works
           of
           the
           vineyard
           :
           for
           out
           of
           the
           vineyard
           or
           Churches
           fellowship
           ,
           no
           promise
           of
           peny
           or
           eternall
           life
           .
        
         
           Which
           point
           remembred
           ,
           as
           it
           will
           cause
           his
           people
           to
           maintaine
           Churches
           vnitie
           ;
           so
           ,
           the
           tares
           also
           remembred
           (
           hauing
           place
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           yet
           finally
           damned
           )
           it
           may
           force
           vs
           to
           make
           our
           election
           sure
           by
           good
           works
           .
           Not
           to
           make
           it
           sure
           vnto
           God
           by
           good
           works
           ,
           but
           vnto
           our selues
           ,
           as
           a
           certaine
           e
           Romanist
           well
           granteth
           .
           These
           be
           his
           words
           ,
           
             Per
             illa
             verba
          
           2.
           
           Pet.
           1.10
           .
           
             haberi
             non
             potest
             ,
             
             &c.
             By
             those
             words
             of
             Peter
          
           (
           2.
           
           Ep.
           1.10
           .
           )
           
             it
             cannot
             be
             vnderstood
             that
             election
             should
             be
             ,
             because
             of
             workes
             following
             :
             but
             that
             by
             perseuerance
             in
             good
             workes
             ,
          
           
           
             Predestination
             which
             is
             immoueable
             ,
             it
             may
             be
             showen
             certaine
             to
             vs
             ,
             by
             a
             coniecturall
             certaintie
             .
          
           As
           for
           all
           time
           spent
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           or
           euilly
           spent
           within
           the
           Church
           ,
           what
           shall
           we
           count
           it
           but
           time
           lost
           ?
           A
           certaine
           heathen
           could
           wel
           say
           :
           g
           
             There
             is
             no
             cause
             why
             thou
             shouldest
             thinke
             any
             old
             ,
             because
             of
             his
             gray
             haires
             or
             wrinckles
             .
             He
             hath
             not
             for
             that
             loued
             long
             ,
             but
             been
             long
             .
             For
             I
             pray
             thee
             :
             thinkest
             thou
             that
             he
             hath
             sailed
             much
             ,
             who
             (
             after
             his
             putting
             forth
             of
             the
             hauen
             )
             is
             by
             a
             sore
             tempest
             driuen
             here
             and
             there
             ,
             and
             by
             force
             of
             winds
             diuersly
             rushing
             ,
             is
             all
             that
             while
             but
             come
             round
             about
             ?
             Such
             a
             one
             hath
             not
             sailed
             much
             ,
             but
             hath
             been
             tossed
             much
             .
          
           Nor
           let
           vs
           thinke
           such
           vnfruitfull
           and
           time
           onely
           lost
           ,
           but
           (
           which
           more
           is
           )
           a
           building
           vp
           of
           fagots
           for
           our
           owne
           burning
           :
           the
           breeding
           of
           a
           viper
           in
           our
           bosome
           :
           the
           laying
           of
           sondry
           stepping
           stones
           to
           eternal
           damnation
           .
           Wheras
           ,
           in
           holy
           expence
           of
           time
           ,
           we
           gaine
           more
           and
           more
           assurance
           by
           those
           fruits
           of
           faith
           ,
           that
           our
           life
           is
           laid
           vp
           and
           hid
           in
           Christ
           ,
           vntill
           his
           appearance
           .
           With
           whose
           appearance
           ,
           as
           our
           glory
           shall
           begin
           ,
           so
           neuer
           shall
           it
           end
           (
           though
           wicked
           Chiliasts
           haue
           pronounced
           it
           to
           be
           but
           of
           a
           thousand
           yeares
           durance
           )
           but
           as
           verily
           as
           we
           are
           by
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ioyned
           to
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           and
           the
           Sonne
           to
           the
           Father
           :
           so
           verily
           we
           cannot
           be
           any
           more
           pulled
           from
           the
           possessed
           glory
           ,
           then
           the
           spirit
           can
           be
           rent
           from
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           and
           the
           Sonne
           from
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           father
           from
           himselfe
           .
           To
           which
           glorious
           Trinitie
           in
           Vnitie
           ,
           all
           kingdome
           ,
           power
           ,
           and
           glorie
           be
           giuen
           for
           euer
           .
           Amen
           .
        
         
           
             Theodoret
             on
             Ezek.
             chap.
             last
             .
          
           
             
             An
             ende
             being
             put
             heere
             vnto
             my
             speech
             ,
             we
             desire
             such
             as
             shall
             reade
             this
             booke
             ,
             if
             so
             they
             find
             any
             thing
             herein
             interpreted
             by
             vs
             ,
             worthy
             the
             tra●ell
             ,
             they
             therefore
             would
             praise
             the
             Lord
             of
             All.
             But
             if
             the
             gayne
             answere
             not
             the
             Expectation
             ,
             or
             that
             they
             find
             not
             fruit
             answereable
             to
             the
             labour
             ,
             that
             then
             they
             would
             pardon
             the
             imbecillitie
             of
             Nature
             :
             but
             yet
             would
             embrace
             the
             minds
             alacritie
             ;
             recompensing
             our
             labours
             with
             their
             prayers
             :
             begging
             (
             of
             the
             Sauiour
             of
             All
             )
             remission
             of
             our
             sinnes
             :
             with
             whom
             ,
             togither
             with
             the
             Father
             and
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             ,
             be
             glorie
             for
             euer
             and
             infinitly
             euer
             ,
             Amen
             .
          
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A18908-e200
           
             a
             2.
             
             Sam.
             2●
             .
             16.17
             .
          
           
             b
             
               Pythag.
               in
               his
               golden
               Epiks
               :
               the
               very
               exordium
               .
            
          
           
             c
             
               Hesiod
               in
               his
               opera
               and
               Die.
               
            
          
           
             d
             Psal.
             82.1.6.7
             .
          
           
             e
             Iohn
             .
             10.34.35
             .
          
           
             f
             Mat.
             13
             24.
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A18908-e610
           
             A
             notable
             Motiue
             to
             the
             publication
             hereof
             .
          
           
             A
             ground
             of
             the
             Authors
             aberration
             .
          
           
             The
             authors
             voyages
             ,
             yet
             he
             could
             be
             resolued
             .
          
           
             The
             time
             when
             ,
             and
             Bishop
             by
             whom
             he
             was
             ordained
             to
             Presbyteral
             function
             .
          
           
             A
             meanes
             for
             his
             setling
             and
             reducement
             .
          
           
             Pastors
             and
             Doctors
             ,
             their
             late
             description
             of
             offices
             ,
             too
             to
             fantastical
             and
             new
             .
          
           
             Their
             Lay-Elders
             as
             fond
             .
          
           
             An
             inartificiall
             diuision
             in
             the
             Demonstration
             of
             Di●●
             .
          
           
             Their
             Deac●●
             mutilation
             .
          
           
             Widowes
             too
             childishly
             c●ncluded
             from
             Rom.
             12.8
             .
          
           
             How
             the
             former
             affected
             ,
             do
             cary
             themselues
             towards
             the
             Author
             reclaimed
             .
          
           
             How
             the
             former
             affected
             do
             cary
             themselues
             towards
             the
             Author
             reclaimed
             .
          
           
             An
             equall
             petition
             for
             reading
             the
             sequell
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A18908-e1470
           
             a
             Math.
             8.21
             .
          
           
             b
             Isa.
             9.6
             .
          
           
             c
             Pro.
             8.
             
             &
             9.
             
             Psa.
             104.24
             .
          
           
             d
             Vers.
             14.
             &c.
             
          
           
             e
             Prou.
             25.11
             .
          
           
             f
             Hosius
             de
             expresso
             verbo
             Dei.
             
          
           
             g
             Eccle.
             12.9.10
             .
          
           
             h
             Zuingl
             .
             on
             his
             52
             art
             .
          
           
             i
             Mat.
             12.43.44.45
             .
          
           
             k
             So
             the
             Hebrew
             (
             Shammajim
             )
             plural
             .
          
           
             l
             Gen.
             1.20
             .
          
           
             m
             Iude.
             13.
             
          
           
             n
             Psal.
             121.6
             .
          
           
             o
             Ier.
             10.2
             .
          
           
             p
             Gen.
             15.
             
             ●
             .
          
           
             q
             Heb.
             12.27.28
             .
          
           
             r
             Isa.
             53.2.3
             .
          
           
             s
             Psal.
             45.
             
          
           
             t
             ●uke
             .
             17.
             
             ●0
             .
             21
             .
          
           
             v
             2.
             
             Co.
             3.11
             .
          
           
             x
             Luke
             .
             15.25
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             y
             Col.
             2.22.23
             .
          
           
             z
             Mark.
             ●
             .
             15
             .
          
           
             a
             1.
             
             Tim.
             2.
             
          
           
             b
             Gal.
             1.
             
             ●
             .
             c.
             
          
           
             c
             Rom.
             11.3
             ▪
             4.5
             .
          
           
             d
             2.
             
             King.
             2.
             
             ●
             .
             5.7
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             e
             Luke
             3
             23.
             &c.
             
          
           
             f
             Tertul.
             exhort
             .
             ad
             castitat
             .
          
           
             g
             Alleaged
             also
             by
             Eusebius
             in
             his
             ecclesiast
             hist.
             b.
             1.
             chap.
             7.
             
          
           
             h
             Reuel
             .
             ●
             .
          
           
             i
             Gra●●ed
             by
             Master
             Greenwood
             pr●●ace
             to
             〈…〉
             .
          
           
             k
             1.
             
             Cor
             3.
             see
             ●aluin
             there●n
             .
          
           
             l
             Held
             in
             Anno
             Dom.
             1545
             
          
           
             m
             As
             the
             auncient
             Prophets
             had
             a
             certaine
             terme
             of
             ye●rs
             ●o
             the
             ancient
             Church
             her
             〈◊〉
             so
             Iohn
             hath
             in
             〈◊〉
             11.
             those
             daies
             (
             as
             their
             daies
             )
             so
             many
             〈◊〉
             .
             So
             well
             vnderstood
             of
             ●a
             .
             Broc●r●
             .
             ●
             .
             Iunius
             ,
             〈◊〉
             Ian
             ,
             Napeir
             .
          
           
             n
             Canti●
             .
             8.11
             .
          
           
             o
             M.
             Bar.
             in
             his
             Disc.
             pag.
             19.
             
          
           
             p
             Psal.
             2.8
             .
             &
             a
             16
             ,
             ●7
             ,
             &
             72
             ,
             8
             ,
             ●6
             ,
             &
             ●9
             25
             which
             was
             neuer
             ve●ified
             in
             ●aui●
             ,
             ●●lomon
             or
             any
             but
             ●hrist
             .
          
           
             q
             Gen.
             ●
             .
             15
             .
             whereto
             Paul
             relates
             Gal.
             4
             4.
             
             &
             Iohn
             Reuel
             .
             12.
             
          
           
             q
             Iren.
             aduers.
             haeres
             .
             l.
             4.
             ch
             .
             42.
             
          
           
             r
             Tert.
             l.
             1.
             cont
             .
             Iud.
             
          
           
             s
             Aug.
             ciuit
             .
             dei
             .
             l.
             16.
             
          
           
             t
             Theod.
             qu.
             89
             
          
           
             u
             qu.
             95.
             
          
           
             x
             ●ierom
             ad
             Pauli●●●
             d●
             ins●●
             .
             monachi
             .
          
           
             y
             Origen
             vnderstands
             it
             vnder
             Baruc●
             triumph
             ,
             in
             Iudg.
             5.2
             .
          
           
             z
             Greg.
             moral
             .
             l
             9
             &
             supcant
             .
             7.3
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             a
             Origen
             on
             Iosua
             ,
             〈◊〉
             ▪
             
          
           
             a
             Mat.
             24.
             
             ●3
             .
             24
             .
             ●6
             .
             ●uke
             17.23
             .
          
           
             a
             Dan.
             2.
             
          
           
             b
             Ca●bden
             in
             Brit.
             
          
           
             c
             Chemnitius
             out
             of
             Sabellicus
             .
          
           
             d
             Polyd
             l.
             2.
             hist.
             Angl.
             
          
           
             e
             Gildas
             sapiens
             de
             excidio
             Britanniae
             .
          
           
             f
             Theod.
             l.
             9.
             de
             cur
             .
             Graec.
             affect
             .
          
           
             g
             Hence
             it
             also
             seemeth
             that
             Brittains
             dyed
             their
             bodies
             with
             woad
             .
          
           
             k
             Psa.
             15.
             
             ●
             1.
             
             Pet.
             3.
             
             ●
             .
             1.
             
             Tim.
             6.1
             .
             ●
             .
             1.
             
             Pet.
             ●
             .
             18
             .
          
           
             l
             Euseb.
             eccl
             .
             hist
             b.
             2.
             c.
             ●
             
          
           
             m
             The
             Gre●●●
             is
             :
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             n
             Act.
             20.28.29
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             o
             Reuel
             .
             2.10
             .
          
           
             p
             Math.
             16.
             
          
           
             q
             1.
             
             Cor.
             5
             .
             1●
             .
          
           
             r
             T.
             C.
             his
             reply
             to
             Doct.
             W
             pag
             241.
             of
             part
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             s
             1.
             
             Part.
             p●g
             .
             34.
             
          
           
             t
             For
             this
             doe
             read
             the
             state
             of
             Maccabees
             in
             Ben-Gorion
             .
          
           
             v
             2.
             
             Sam
             7.
             
          
           
             x
             
               En
               sô
               so
               agrô
            
             .
          
           
             Reuela
             .
             17.12
             13
             14
             15
             16
             17
             18.
             
          
           
             z
             He
             florished
             Anno.
             Dom.
             1260.
             
          
           
             a
             Ierem.
             51.9
             .
          
           
             b
             Hebr.
             7.7
             .
          
           
             c
             Pet.
             Mar.
             on
             1.
             
             Sam.
             7.
             
          
           
             d
             So
             do
             all
             Ancients
             .
          
           
             e
             I
             knew
             one
             such
             ,
             and
             sundry
             can
             witnes
             it
             .
          
           
             f
             Aug.
             cont
             .
             Parm.
             l
             2.
             cap.
             ●2
             .
          
           
             g
             See
             for
             this
             ,
             Hierom
             aduers
             .
             Lucifer
             .
          
           
             h
             Chrysost.
             on
             hebr
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             i
             Psal.
             101.
             
          
           
             k
             1.
             
             King.
             2.
             
          
           
             l
             Aug.
             cont
             .
             Parm.
             l.
             3.
             whom
             Iohannes
             Wolphius
             followeth
             in
             his
             answere
             to
             certaine
             questions
             touching
             the
             Church
             .
          
           
             m
             ●
             .
             Iohn
             9.
             
          
           
             n
             1.
             
             Cor.
             5.
             
          
           
             o
             1.
             
             Cor.
             5.
             
          
           
             p
             2.
             
             Cor.
             2.
             
          
           
             q
             Math.
             25.
             
          
           
             r
             Chrysost.
             hom
             .
             47.
             on
             .
             Math.
             
          
           
             s
             Rom.
             7.15.16
             &c.
             That
             the
             Apostle
             speaketh
             in
             the
             person
             of
             the
             Regenerate
             ,
             those
             so
             vnderstand
             :
             
               August
               in
            
             2.
             
             
               Lib.
               contra
               〈◊〉
               l.
               Pelag
               .
               &
               Tho.
               Aqu●nas
               in
               Rom.
            
             7.
             alleaging
             this
             of
             Aug.
             (
             for
             before
             he
             alleaged
             another
             ●ense
             from
             Aug.
             l.
             3.
             quaest
             .
             )
             saying
             that
             
               Me●ior
               ista
               expositio
               sit
               .
               Ierom
               (
               ad
               Cresiphont
               .
               ad●ers
               .
               Luci●
               .
            
             )
             so
             vnderstands
             it
             :
             accounting
             the
             opinion
             of
             perfection
             to
             the
             Manechists
             :
             and
             ordinarily
             all
             our
             late
             writers
             so
             take
             it
             .
          
           
             t
             Origen
             on
             Exod.
             20.
             
             &
             ●
             .
             comm
             .
          
           
             v
             Math.
             ●4
             .
             4●
             .
          
           
             x
             Aug.
             b.
             5.
             ch
             .
             ●9
             .
             of
             quest
             .
             on
             Deut.
             So
             hath
             Hierom
             to
             H●liodore
             .
          
           
             y
             Eccles.
             11.3
             .
          
           
             z
             Math.
             ●
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             a
             Nomb.
             〈◊〉
             
          
           
             b
             Cyprian
             .
             l.
             3.
             epist.
             4.
             
          
           
             c
             Reuel
             .
             22.
             
             ●●
             .
          
           
             d
             1.
             
             Cor.
             14.38
             .
          
           
             e
             Reuel
             .
             15.18
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             f
             Pet.
             Mart.
             on
             1.
             
             King.
             5.
             
          
           
             g
             Spheres
             or
             heauens
             .
          
           
             h
             1.
             
             Thess.
             4.16
             .
          
           
             i
             Matth
             25.
             
          
           
             k
             Iombard
             l.
             4.
             dist
             .
             43.
             
             B.
             
          
           
             Cerinthus
             .
          
           
             l
             Nicolaitans
             Carpocratians
             .
          
           
             m
             Ophita●
             
          
           
             n
             Montanists
             
          
           
             o
             Arians
             .
          
           
             p
             Macedonians
             .
          
           
             q
             Anthropomorphits
             .
          
           
             r
             Apollinarists
             
          
           
             s
             Pelagians
             .
          
           
             t
             Eutychians
             .
          
           
             u
             Monothelite
             .
          
           
             x
             Reue.
             18.6
             .
          
           
             y
             Isa.
             66.24
             .
             Reuel
             .
             14.11
             .
          
           
             z
             Iohn
             .
             14.2.3
             .
          
           
             a
             This
             clause
             in
             proprietie
             is
             the
             end
             of
             the
             verse
             .
          
           
             b
             Ma●●
             .
             28.1
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             c
             Aug.
             hō
             .
             67.
             on
             Iohn
             .
             Chrysost.
             or●
             Math.
             20.
             
          
           
             d
             Amb.
             on
             1.
             
             Cor.
             ●●
             .
          
           
             e
             Io.
             Vigueriu
             in
             Instit.
             The
             olog
             .
          
           
             
               Praedestinatio
               ●uae
               immobili●●st
               ,
               quadam
               ceritudine
               conie●
               Iurali
               nobis
               erta
               ostendatur
               .
            
          
           
             g
             Seneca
             in
             ib.
             
               de
               vit
               .
               c
               ●reu
               .
               cap.
            
             8.
             
          
           
             Thus
             I
             speak
             with
             ●he
             holy
             Greeke
             Fa●her
             .
          
        
      
    
  

