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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

apple and presently haue his eyes opened and become a God in knowledge A fault beloued that died not in Paradise but liues still neuer more then in these daies where knoledge Diuinity do budd and blossome and ripen all in a trise like Aarons rod as if we were suddenly inspired from heauen or we our selues had a clouen tongue at command The treasures of wisdome and knowledge are not all gathered in one day haddest thou a more excellent wit and gifts more famous then young Timothy of whom Prophesies went what a notable instrument he was like to prooue 1 Tim. 1.18 yet Timothy must so belabour it that his stomacke shall bee the worse for it and his body subiect to many and often infirmities 1 Tim 5.23 Dost thou relie vpon Gods speciall grace and assistance neuer so much as S. Paul did not I but the grace of God with me yet Pauls bookes and parchments must not be forgotten for all the spirit A man would thinke that visions and reuelations were neuer more rife then in these daies to see a young Diuine plunge himselfe out of one Church into another Determine Religions and challenge Moses and Aaron as if himselfe in a trice had throughly digested the volume of Gods booke and drunk vp the whole current of the ancient Fathers but if Paul will be a planter of Religion he must take spade and mattocke digge deepe and labour more aboundantly then they all yea and spend a more precious humour then the sweate of his browes Librorum helluo makes the best Diuine Ezek 2.8 by Eating of the booke and not of an apple doe wee attaine to Diuine knowledge howsoeuer Adam will touch and tast haue his eyes opened And by this time it remaines to enquire what is become of him Behold saies God he is become like one of vs. And thus far shal suffice for the 1. point of Adams purpose and aspiring minde to become a God Now followes the shamefull mille of his purpose that in trueth hee became nothing lesse then like one of vs which is truely expressed in the manner of speech being Ironicall Behold the man is become like one of vs. 2 Ecce Adam behold the man Quid superbis puluis cinis Diabolus superbit sed non puluis cinis saith St. Angustine It had beene a wonder if Lucifer the brightest of Angels had become a God being but a creature but for man Dust and ashes a peece of clay taken from vnder the feet of beasts to be extolled amongst the gods this was exceeding wonderfull This man is become such a god that attired in skinnes turned out of the Garden the bruit beasts had they the tongue of Balaams Asse might haue saluted him in good sooth without a figure Behold the man is become like one of vs shrowded in a Leatherne hide from the parching heate of the Sunne and the pinching frost of the night like one of vs nay respecting his condition farre worse then one of vs Quanto peius est fieri quam nasci belluam farre better it is to be a beast by natures priuiledge then by degenerating to be compared to beasts worse then that sent to the schoole to learne of beasts by Salomon to the Conies and Pismiers for wisedome and prouidence by a greater then Salomon to the Rauens and Fowles of the ayre for trust and confidence in God by Ieremy to the Oxe and Asse for knowledge and religion Ierem. 3.2 The Oxe hath known his Owner and the Asse his Masters Cribbe but my people haue not knowne nor Israell vnderstood This is that goodly Godhead almighty God meanes in this figure vpon which phrase of speech it is worth the while a little to pauze Behold saith God he is become but how came hee factus est sed quis fecit Vers 44. In the two and thirty chapter of the booke of Exodus when the Israelites went a madding after a Calfe which Aaron had fashioned for a God Moses put Aaron to his Apologie who made this narration for himselfe They gaue me their golde I cast it into the fire and thereout came this calfe what Aaron became that a calfe by hap hazard without hands or did it make it selfe a calfe theront came this calfe Aaron was ashamed to say hee had made a God that the God of Israel should bee the worke-man-ship of his hands wherefore he passeth that ouer in silence and sayes I cast the gold into the fire and thereout came this calfe in like manner God in this place to make the wonder greater neither expressing the Authour nor manner of this Metamorphosis onely Behold the man is become like one of vs notwithstanding that may bee easily gathered by the allusion and reference of this sentence to that of the serpents in the fifth verse Eritis sicut Dij his meaning is that man was a God of the Diuels making who finding our parents of a Thrasonicall and swelling disposition aspiring towards a Deity comes vpon them like Gnatho with Eritis sicut Dij yea you shall be Gods a practise so performed of all hands as it is become a maine piller of Sathans Kingdome Parasitatio quam facilis quam pestifera an easie part the Coblers Crow will conne that yet neuer playd without a Diuell Peter no sooner saluted our Sauiour in this smoothing dialect but presently he discouered a Diuell Get the behinde me Sathan Sathan neuer mooued the tongue of Beasts but to sooth and flatter Almighty God neuer opened the mouth of dumbe beasts but to reprehend and the simplest Asse in seruice shall stand his master in better stead in this kinde then the nimblest tongued Serpent that walkes in this garden art thou then placed in a Paradise of pleasure abounding with all delights mans heart can desire beware the serpents poyson that will make thee to swell bigger then the skinne will holde to stretch thy selfe beyond thy selfe till thou consume as smoke that vanisheth by encreasing Art thou a Caesar vpon eath parting thine Empire with Iupiter himselfe Caue àsalutatoribus these are the Crowes that pecke out thine eyes being aliue and make thee stone-blinde that thou shalt not bee able to know or discerne thy selfe Art thou set vpon the Candle sticke of the Church to giue light to all that are in the house of God art thou determined in shining to others to consume and spend thy selfe for Sions sake Looke to thy followers there was a Parasite amongst the Disciples pul'd Christ by the sleeue tooke him aside bade him fauour himselfe T is a world to see what preheminence this profession hath gotten in the world no state so holy or absolute no person so base or of small worth whom this Court holy-water hath not besprinkled If all thy earings gold or siluer or what euer pluck'd from men women and children by violence and extortion will but raize a Goulden Calfe The whole host of Israell will play the Parasites or that

ship in prophanesse as well as superstition 2 Many come within the compasse and suffer vs to cast our nets ouer them but they runne themselues so deepe into the mudde that the nette cannot get vnder them In the 33. Eze. 33.31 of this Prophecy verse 31. Sonne of Man my people sit before thee and heare thy words but they will not doe them for eyther they make themselues merry or else their heart runnes after couetousnesse They runne into the mudd of pleasure and pelfe of this world that wee cannot catch them 3 Now the third and best sort are caught and so long as the nette is dragged the same way that they swimme they come currently forward but when they perceiue how they be restrained of their former liberty and how their consciences are intangled in this net they giue a ierke and breake net and all Wee had neuer more neede to sit and mend our nets for let vs twist them as soundly out of holy writ and weaue them as strongly as possibly we can Psal 2.3 these sonnes of Belial who cannot abide a negatiue will breake them They will heare vs preach out of the two Tables while the bellowes hold they will deuoure whole Gomers of Manna and yet neuer the better liking but Aarons rod they cannot endure to heare of it though their soules haue surfeted neuer so much of sinne though their Consciences be neuer so dangerously wounded as much of the Samaritanes oyle as you will to heale it presently and draw a skinne ouer it but for that sharpe wine to scoure the wound for that Corasiue Diuinity to eate out dead workes for the Churches Physicke by Contrarie they will perish before they can take it After they haue suffered their mindes to wander after their eyes in the corners of the world and to feede vpon vnlawfull vanities tell them of afflicting their soule and crucifying their affections and lusts of confining their thoughts vnto deuotions and the Meditation of vnpleasing obiects Death Hell Anger to come of Dauids daily Vowes of striuing of labouring of watching vnto Prayers with all perseuerance Ephes 6.18 After they haue corrupted themselues in the seruice of Mammon tell them of Zaccheus his restitution and Almes-deedes for all their mis-deedes that all may bee cured by the contrary and made cleane vnto them Luk. 11.41 Luk. 11.41 After they haue pampered their flesh and fulfilled the lust of it tell them of the Corinthians reuenge vpon themselues for so offending such a gracious God 2 Cor. 7.11 of Pauls not beating the Ayre 1 Cor. 9.26 Psa 102.9 Luk. 7.38 but beating downe his body of Dauids ashes for Bread and mingling his drinke with weeping of the sinfull womans Poenitent Bath and her Towell and of that destruction of their flesh that their spirits might bee saued in the day of the Lord Corin 5.5 Doe but shew them this rod they are presently gone and Aaron is not able to hold them except Moses helpe him To heare of Discipline either voluntarily inflicted by themselues or necessarily imposed by others is detestable If there must needes bee a Rod they will chuse Moses Rod though it turne Serpent and sting them like a Scorpion rather then Aarons though it bud and blossome and would become in the end neuer so fruitfull and comfortable to their soules It was Aarons rod and not Moses which God commanded Moses Num 17.10 and not Aaron to preserue in the Arke The first time that I finde this Rod missing in the Arke of God was in Salomons dayes 1 Kin. 8.9 in the happy and peaceable dayes of Salomon and then was Plenty Peace and Liberty the abuse whereof brought an iron rod for want of Aarons Rod Rehoboams Scorpions the renting of the Tribes leading into captiuity turned Salomons Canticles into Ieremies Lamentations and all for want of Aarons rodde for if wee would iudge our selues wee should not bee iudged 1 Cor. 11.31 O Cherub Protectour vouchsafe to looke downe into this Arke of God consider the want of this rod in these quiet peaceable Salomons dayes Aarons rod is missing in the Arke of God our Church in her book doth still complaine of the want of this Rod Vntill saith Shee the discipline of the Primitiue Church may bee restored againe which thing is much to bee wished c. In steede whereof is a Commination against sinners as much regarded of the people as Bell Booke and Candle But had we that discipline which the Fathers of the Primitiue Church had who respected not so much the multitude of professours as the truth of their deuotion had we I say that seuere discipline in these dissolute daies which they had and power to execute it and grace to vse it aright men would quickly bee weary either of those sinnes which they now commit with greedinesse or of that counterfeit profession of Christianity This is the Fan that Iohn Baptist speaketh of Mat. 3.12 which would purge the flower and seuer the chaffe from the good corne for want of this there is no triall or manifestation either of faith by workes or of Repentance by the exercise of mortification but as by a vaine dead faith so by a slight vnsound Repentance wee deceiue both our selues and others so consequently there is no feare no awe no remorse of conscience And were it not that the mercy seat is aboue the Arke that the inuincible mercy and long suffering of God in Christ is aboue all his workes wee should soone feele the want of this Rod. But the seat of God amongst vs is a mercy seat and his oracles is the comfortable voyce of the Gospell of Christ which defendeth vs and the whole Church It was the voyce of him that dwelt in the Bush which preserued the Bush from burning though it was all of a flaming fire and it is the voyce of the Gospell of Christ which hath preserued this Church from fire and powder The annoynted therefore as he hath already with his Cherubs quill so let him euer after with both his wings defend protect and couer this Gospell so long as the heauens couer the earth with his owne wings they be his let him then suffer none to plucke them lest the Church of God bee left naked and vncouered They be a paire of wings let him keep them in their due proportion Moses and Aaron bee brethren it were vain to contend for seniority who was the elder brother they are brethren God leadeth his people by the hand of Moses and Aaron If we see any one Psal 77.2 hee or shee beat their hands one against another presently we imagine there is a distempered person let the annoynted Cherub to bring vs in temper prune and proportion his owne wings that in their due places and bounds they may bee both stretched out to protect the Church of Christ 4 Thus far we haue presumed to ascend yet one step higher to conclude with the voyce of the