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A10957	The English creede consenting vvith the true, auncient, catholique, and apostolique Church in al points, and articles of religion, which euerie Christian is to know and beleeue that would be saued. The second part, in most loyal manner to the glorie of God, credit of our Church, and displaieng of al hæresies, and errors, both olde and newe, contrarie to the faith, subscribed vnto by Thomas Rogers. Allowed by auctoritie.; English creede. Part 2	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1587 (1587)	STC 21227; ESTC S116387	55,407	97

Baptist. Inioined to preache not in one or a fevve places but ouer the whole vvorlde so were th'apostles but not Iesus Christ. 2 Of men as they be who are sent of men not auctorized thereunto by the vvord of God that to the disquieting of the good estate of Christ his Church such In Th'apostles time vvere the false Apostles In our daies are the S. Augustine saith Al which are thus sent are Liars And their calling is vnlawful Annabaptistes Iesuites Seminarie priests 3 By men so in the primi●lue Church by Th'apostles vvere Pastors and Elders ordained vvho by the same auctoritie ordained other Pastors and teachers VVhence it is that the Church as it hath bine so it shal ●●l th' end of the vvorlde ●e prouided for They who are thus called haue povver neither to vvorke miracles as Th'apostles had no● to preach and minister the Sacraments vvhere theie vvil as Th'apostles might but the●e are tied euerie man to his charge vvhich the●e must faithfullie attende vpon except vrgent occasion do enforce the contrarie The calling of theis men is tearmed à general calling and it is th' ordinarie and in theis daies the lawful calling allowed by the word of God So ●e●●fie with vs the true Churches else-where in the vvorld Confession of Heluet. 1. art 17. Heluet. 2. cap. 18. Bohem. cap. 9 France art 31. Fland. art 31 Ausburg art 1● VVittemb art 20. Sueaue art 13 This truth manie vvaies hath bine resisted For there be which thinke There is no calling but th'extraordinarie and special calling in theis daies Al are to be taken for which are not sacrificing Priestes annointed by the Antichristian Bishops of the Romish lynagogue VVolues Hie●lings Lai-men Intruders That so manie as are sent by the Church are sent of the holie Ghost vvhen vve knovve hovve often times the CHVRCHE sendeth for Laborers idle workmen Frendes enemies Phisitions murtherers True Pastors vvolues and Apostataes Theie maie take the charge of Congregations and yet performe no duetie That no Bishop or Minister should remaine still in one place but vvander An error of the Familie 6 Though it bee in the power of them which haue publique auctoritie in the Church t' appoint Ministers in the Congregation yet maie theie admit neither whom they wil nor as they wil themselues but they are both deliberatelie to chuse and orderlie to cal such as theie haue chosen This made Th'apostles Elders in the primitiue Church Straightlie to charge that suddenlie hands should be laid vpon no man 1. Tim 5. 22. To make special choise oftwaine where of one was to be elected into the place of Iudas Acts. 1. 23. By election to ordaine Elders in euery church and by To commend them to the Lord. Acts. 14 23. Praier Fasting Laieng on of hands 1. Tim. 4 14. to consecrate them To describe who were to be chosen called For theie are to be Men not ●oies VVomen 1. Tim 2. 12. Men of good behauior 1. Tim. 3. 2 c Not incontinent Not giuen to vvine Not strikers Not couerous Not proud 1. Pe● 5. 3. Titus 1 7. Not froward Not i●e●ul No giuers of offence 2. Cor. 6 3. Men of special gifts Apt to teach 1. Tim. 3. 2. Able to exhort Tit 1. 9. VVise to diuide the vvord of God a●ight 2. Tim. 2. 15. Bold to reproue 1. Tim. 5. 21. Tit. 1 9. VVilling to take paines Matt. 9 38. 2. Tim 4 2. VVatchful to ouersee Acts. 20 28. Patient to suffer Acts. 5 41. 2. Tim. 4 8. Constant to endure al maner of afflictions 2. Cor. 11 23. c. They who are ●o chosen called maie fightlie be numbred among the lavvful ministers On th' other side in an error they remaine vvhich thinke That the due election and calling of Ministers according to the vvorde of God is of no such necessitie to the making of Ministers That women maie bee In vvhich error the Pepuzians vvere Elders Bishops That à special care is not to bee had both of the life and of the learning of men or that vviked men of euil life or ignorant men vvithout learning or Asses of no gifts or loitere●s vvhich do no good or fauourers of superstition vvhich do great hurt are to bee admitted into or maintained in the holie ministerie That they are causes vvhich in deede a● none to keepe men fró the Ecclesiastical function as if men They may not bee priests say the Papists Be maried Haue had certaine wiues Haue not al outvvarde gifts of the bodie thogh endued with heauenlie talents Haue bine baptized of haeretiks c Theis ought not to busie themselues about the word saie the Familists Haue not bine trained vp in the Familie Are not Elders in the Familie of Loue. This do the Churches protestant by their publike Confessions approue Hel. 2. c. 18. Hel. 1. ar 25. Bohem. c. 9. Franc. ar 3. 1. Fland. art 31. Ausb art 14. VVitt. ar 20. Sueau ar 13. 24. ARTICLE Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people vnderstand not IT is à thing plainlie repugnant to the worde of God and the custome of the primitiue church to haue publike praier in the church or to minister the Sacraments in à tongue not vnderstanded of the people The Propositions Publique praier and the Sacraments must be ministred in á knowen tongue This article needeth smal proofe For who so is perswaded as al true christians of vnderstanding are that what is done publiklie by á strange language in the Church not vnderstood of the people Profiteth not the Congregation 1. Cor. 14 ver 6. 9. 14. Aedifieth not the weake 1. Cor. 14. ver 4 17 26. Instructeth not th' ignorant 1. Cor. 14. 19. Inflameth not the zeale 1. Co 14. 9. Offendeth the hearers 1. Cor. 14. ver 7. ●1 Abuseth the people 1. Cor. 14. ver 1. 16. Displeaseth God Matth. 15. 8. Bringeth religion into contempt 1. Cor. 14. 23. Easilie wil thinke that where the praiers be said or the Sacraments administred in à tongue not vnderstood of the people there The word of God is not regarded The custome of the primitiue churche is not obserued This article as al true Christians doe beleeue so some by pub Confessions doe graunt Con. of Helnet 2. c. 22. VVittem cap. 27. Ausburg de Misca art 3. Sueaue c. 21. But there is nothing so apparent which hath not by some aduersaries bine denied So contrarie to this article Some as the Marcosians at the ministration of Baptisme haue vsed certaine Hebrue wordes not to aedifie but to terifie and astonishe the mindes of the weake and ignorant people Some theie be the papists wil haue al seruice praiers and Sacraments that throughout the world ministred in an vnknowen tongue And among theis papists There bee which holde that the lesse theie vnderstande the more deuout the people wil be For ignorance is the mother of deuotion There bee which write that praiers not vnderstood of the people are acceptable of Satan I

found in Israel to serue the Lord their God 2. Chro. 34. 33. VVith the K. of Nihiuch for th'auoiding of th'imment vengeance of God Ionas 3. 7. c. Proclaime a general Fast. Command euerie man to turn from his euil waie and from the wikednes that is in his handes Herun to subscribe the Churches ptotestant Confe of Heluet. 1 ar● 26. Heluet. 2. c. 30 Basil. art 7. Bohem. cap. 16. France art 39. Flan. art 36. Saxon. art 23. VVitte cap. 35. The Papists as in other pointes so herein discēt altogether from the true Church of God For thei teach that No Queen No King None Emperor Hath anie ●ucto●tie to deliberate or define in m●tters of Religion or to make anie lawes for th'aduancemēt of the same religion yea vvhat Prince soeuer doth so he shal bee damned saie theie vndoubtedly except theie do repent 4 Th' office of the ciuil Magistrate hath in part alrea die bin declared in this article in part also this proposition she vveth namely that hee is to restraine and if need be to punish the disturbers of the quiet peace of his Common-vvealth and that if occasion do require By force of armes if th' enemies of his State be Foraine Domestical And theie gathered together be Manie Mightie To this end principallie theie haue Men Munition Subsidies Tributs Thus against th' enemies of God good men vvent of Israel Iudah The valiant Iudges The noble and puissant Kinges Princes By executing of wholsome lawes vpon the Goods Cattel Lands Bodies Of their disobedient subiects For he is the minister of God to take vengance on him that doeth euil Rom. 13. 4. Therefore Princes are to be feared Not of them vvhich do wel Rom. 13. 3. Of such as doe vvickedlie Rom. 13. v●● 3. 4. Theie vvhich haue profited in the schoole of Christianitie novvhit doue heereof Confe of Heluet 1 ar 24. 26 Heluet. 2. c. 30. Basil. art 7. Bohem. cap. 16. France art 39. Flan. art 36. Ausb ar 16. Saxon. art 23. But The Cresconians are of an opinion that the Magistrates ar to punish no malefactors Rabanus drea meth that magistracy is not th'ordinaunce of God for the good but an humane inuention for the hurt of man Th'anab aptists deliuer that before the resurrectiōther shalnot be anie magistrats for al the wiked shal be rooted out The like fancie haue the Fam. of Loue. The Papists think that the Cleargie are not to be punished or corrected of the ciuil magistrate 5 The Bishop of Rome did he Preach the Gospel 1. Cor 9 v. 16 17. 1. Tim. 4 2. Mat. 28. 19 Labor in the Lorde his haruest Mat. 9 38. Diuide the word of God a●ight ● Tim. ● 15. Minister the Sacraments instituted by Christ that syncerelie Matt. 28 19. 1. Cor. 10 16. Shew by his life the goodfruits of à godly Bishop 1. Tim. 3 2. c. Tit. 1 7. c Doubtles hee were worthie of double honor by the word of God 1. Tim 5. 17 yet wil not the same worde of God were he neuer so holie religious warrant him anie iurisdictiō within this realme much lesse when hee doth execute no part of à Christian but euerie part of an Antichristian Bishop In corrupting the doctrin of the truth with errors cursed opinions In defacing the sacramēts of the church by supersticious ceremonies In persecuting the Church of Christ with fire and sword In making marchandise of the soules of men thorough couetousnes 2 Pet. 2 3. In pl●ieng the Lorde ouer gods heretage 1. Pet. 5. 3. In sitting in the temple of God as God shewing himself that hee is God 2. Thes. 2 4. In exalting himself against al that is called god or that is worshipped 2. Thes. 2 4. In respect of which fruits of impietie the pope of Rome He is described in the holie scripture to be verie Antichrist euē The wikedman That man of sinne The son of p●idition Th' aduersarie of God 2. Thes. 2 3. c. Hee was openlie proclaimed Antichrist by à councel in France in the raigne of Capet He is called by the godlie learned The prince among al the children of pride Verie Lucifer The Basiliske of the Church The plague of the world Neither the head nor the taile of the Church of God His iurisdiction hath bine and is banished out o● Englande by manie kings parliments namelie by K. Edwarde the 1. 3. 6. Richard the 2. Henrie the 4 8. His pride and intollerable supremacie is renounced by al the true seruants of God by mouth and writing Confel of Hel. 1. 2. 18 Helue 2 c. 17. 18. Boh. c. 8. 9 Fland art 28. 31. VVittem art 31. Ausburg touching abuses 1 art 7. And that vpon good cause he is thus detested it appeareth as by that alreadie setdowne so by that which the Papists themselues giue out of their holie father as namelie that The pope is In supremacle Abel In gouerning of the A●ke Noah In patriarkship Abraham In Order Melchisedech In dignitie Aaron In auctoritie Moses In iudgement Samuel In zeale Helias In humilitie Dauid In power Peter In respect of his vn●tion Christ. The general pastor The common father of al Christians The high pastor of Gods vniuersal Church The prince of Gods people God In title God euen the Lorde God the Pope For power god By him kings raigne He maie iudge al but must be iudged of none He can do what him list as wel as God except sin He hath vniuersal iurisdiction ouer the whole world Vpon paine of damnation al christians are to yeeld obedience to the Pope 6 As the natures of men be diuers and sometimes in some countries more abund than in other so are the punishments to bee imposed vpon malefactors according to the quantitie and qualitie of th'offēce and anie countrie and realm maie punish offendors and that with death is the laws thereof do so command and the case requireth For Al that take the sword shal perish with the sworde Matth. 26 52. Gouernors are sēt of the king 1. Pet. 2 14. For The punishmēt of euil doers The praise of them that do wel A wise king scattereth the wiked and causeth the wheele to turne ouer them Rom. 20 26. The magistrate Rom 13 4. He beareth not the sworde for nought He is the minister of God to takeven geance on thē that do euil In regarde wherof in some places before the magistrats are borne Rods to correct them which be reformable To cut of such as are past recouerie and rotten mēbers Axes Hatchets Halberds Swords but not bare and naked but in the scabberd to signifie That theie are to haue death which deserue the same yet cōmeth the magistrate to that execution vrged therunto by necessitie rather than willinglie VVhich punishments do testifie to the world that God is al iust which wil haue Some sinnes more seuerelie punished than others The magistrat to cut of dangerous and vngodly members God is merciful and hath à care

maie punish Christian men with death for heinous and grieuous offences 7It is lawful for Christian men at the commandement of the Magistrate to weare weapons and serue in the warres The Propositions 1 The Queenes Maiest hath the chiefe power in this realme of Eng. and other her dominions 2 The Queenes Maiestie hath the chiefe gouernement of al states Ecclesiastical and ciuil in al causes within her dominions 3 The ciuil Magistrate maie not execute th'ecclesiastical duties of preaching and of ministring the Sacraments 4 The ciuil Magistrate is to restraine with the material sword and to punish malefactors whosoeuer theie bee 5 The Bishop of Rome hath no iurisdiction in this Realme of England 6 By the lawes of this Realme Christian men for hainous and greuous offences maie be put to death 7 It is lawful for Christian men at the commaundement of the Magistrate to weare wepons and serue in the wars ● Diuers sundrie bee the forms of cōmon weales and magistracie For some where Manie the●e of th●n seriot people bear the swaie as in à Democratie A sevve and that of chois and the best mē do gouerne as in an Aristocratie One man or woman hath the prae●minence as in à Monarchie Such is the gouernement of this realme at this present VVhat soeuer the state be the worde of God ●ea cheth vs that There is no power but of God The powers that be are ordained of god Vvhosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rom. 13. v. 12. VVe must Be subiect and obedient to the principalities and powers sit 3 ● Submitt our selues vnto al manner ordinance of man for the Lordes ●ake 1. Pet. 2. 13. Praie for kings and for al that be in auctoritie 1. Tim. 2. v. 1. 2. Giue to all men their dutie Rom 13. 7. Tribute to whom tribute Custom to whom custome Feare to whom feare Honor to whom honor is due But of the regiment of Kings and Queenes special mention is made By the prophet ●saie saying chap. 49. ●3 Kings shal be thi nowri shing Fathers Quee nes shal bee thie nurces By Saincte Paule who exhorteth that supplications and praiers bee made for Kinges 1. Tim 2. 1 c. By Peter For hee calleth the King the Superior or him that hath the chiefe power as our Queene Elizabeth hath in he● dominions 1. Pet. 2. 13. Of this iudgement al●o be other Christian Churches Confes of Helue ● art 26. Heluet. 2 cap. 30. Basil. art 7. Bohem. ca. 16. and in the conclus Fland. art 36. Ausburg art 16. 17. Saxon. art 23 Sueau in the perorat whereby thei with vs and we with them do condemne th'opinions Of the Manichies Fra●ricel lians Flagelli●eries whiche altogither simplie condemne Magistracie Of the dreamers which Despise gouernement Speake euil of them which are in auctoritie Of Th'anabaptists that holde howe Christians are not to be magistrats Of al thē which dreame or disalowe the Regiment of women 2 VVe ascribe that vnto our Queene by this proposition which is giuen to euerie king and Queene in their dominions by the vvorde of God as appeareth In that theie are Fortitles Gratious Lords Luke 22 25. Rom. 13. ver 3 4. Princes The Ministers of God The nurses of the Church Isa. 49 23. Gods Psal. 82 1. For auctoritie the chiefe 1. Pet. 2. 13. which moueth Saint Paule t'exhort that supplieations c be made for al men but first for Kings as for the chiefe 1. Tim. 2 1. By the comaundement of God vnto al states and callings without exception Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher power c. Rom. 13 1. c. Submit your selues c. vvhether it be to the King as vnto the superior or vnto gouernors that are sent of him c. 1. Pet. 2. v. 13 14. By the famous examples Of the high Priest Aaron who calleth Moses his Lord. Exod. 32 22. Abimelech which termed Saul his Lord. 1. Sam. 22 12. Of Iosaphat who appointed Iudges Leuits and Priests 2. Chro. 19 5. c. Of Ezechias He sent to al Israel and Iudah that theie should come to the house of the Lord at Ierusalem to keepe the Passeouer c. a. Chro. 31. 2. He appointed the courses of Priests Leuits by their turnes 2. Chro. 31 2. He commanded The Priests the sons of Aaron to offer sacrifice c. they obeid him 2. ch 23 21 Al the cōgregation to bring offrings they brought them 2. Chro. ●9 31. The same do the churchesreformed attribute to Christian magistrats Confes. of Helue 1. art 26. Heluet. 2 cap. 30. Basil. art 7. Bohem. ca. 16. Fland. art 36. Ausburg art 16. 17. Saxon. art 23. Sueaue in the Perorat This being so hovve dare the papists as they do saie that The kings excellencie of power is in respect of the Nobilitie and laie Magistrates vnder him and not in respect of Popes Bishops or Priests as they haue rule of soules Kings princes bee 〈…〉 neuer so great must bee subiect to some Bishop Priest Praelate The whole Clergie ought to bee free from paieng tribute No man is to bee subiect to his temporal Prince superior in matters of religion or regiment of his soule but in such things onelie as concerne the publike peace policie The Papists now in Englang bee dulie discharged from subiection and the Prince from dominion by the soueraignt auctoritie of the common pastor of Religion whiche is the Pope 3 K. Ezechias saide vnto the Priestes and Leuites of his time My sonnes be not deceaued for the Lorde hath chosen you to stand before him to serue him and to be his Ministers and to burne incense 2 Chron. 29. 1● So do we saie The Lord hath appointed à companie to teach the people to celebrat the Sacramentes to handle the keis of the coelestial kingdom in somuch that he that shall praesume to doe theis things not called there unto and that lavvfullie though he be à King hee maie feare that punishment vvhich ●el vpon Vzzah 2. Chro. 26. 19 Notvvithstanding Kinges Queenes Princes in their places maie yea and must as occasiion serueth VVith K. Salomon Build an house for the Lord ● Chron. 1. 1 Set the courses of the Priests to their offices c. ● Chron. 8 14. VVith K. Ezekiah 2. kin 8. 4. Breake th images Cut down the groues Take avvaie the hie places ● C●h 31 v. 2 4. Appoint the courses of the Priests and Leuites Inioine al the people to minister sustenāce for the Priests and Leuites Thus did Ezechiah throughout al Iudah and did wel and vprightlie and trulie before the L. his God 2. Chro. 31. 20 VVith K. Iosiah Put-downe and burne the horses of the Sunne 2. Kin. 23. 11 Breake-dovrne the houses of the Sodomites 2 King 23. 7. Purge Iudah and Ierusalem 2. Chron. 34 3 from the Hie places Groues Karued images Moltē images c. Appoint the Priestes to their charges c. 2 Chro. 35. 2. Compel al that are