ii timo iii. d. for all the wordes of god are pure cleane and he is ashelde vnto all them y t put their turst in hym Wherfore friste knowe this that no prophicy in the holy scripture hath any priuate interpretation for the scripture cam not by the wyll of man but holy mene of god spake as they were moued by the holy goste y ◠ii peter i. d. and euen so nowe y e thynges of god knoweth no māe but y ◠sperit of god which sperit sercheth althynges euen the bottom of goddes secretes wherby we knowe the thynges that are geuen to vs of god whiche thynges also wee speake not withe wordes whiche mans wysdome or lernynge teacheth but withe wordes which the holi gost doth teache i. cor ii c. praynge alway in sperit for grace merci peace from god our father and frome our Lorde Ihesus Christe to be with all them whiche loue the profession of his gosple vnfaynedly Wherfore oure faythfull prayers beynge mad to god for the vnyersal assystaunce of his graces our moste bounden duty is to pray for the preseruatyon of the moste Royall estate of the Kynges maieste my Lord protectors grace and all other of y ◠kinges most honorable Coūsell that the kynges highnes procedynges maye prosperusly take good effect to y e glory of almyghty god to the kynges honor and to the encrease of all godlynes in y e vtter dystructiō of y ◠who le Incorporatiō and power of all marckt prest hod and to restore the people of god within all his realmes and dominions again frely in to the true lebertie of y e gosple of christe lyke as the godly Kyng Iosias beyng yong of age in the begynynge of his time distroyed all the preestes prophites of baall of other false goddes and also restored the people beynge Iewes to the true worshippynge of god after the lawe of moyses As we reed the iiii kynges xxiii and the .ii. of cronicles xxxiiii Wher with al god was well pleased and is alway with all Kynges hygh powers which seke his glory and the deposition vtter suppression of all suche tirannous Ipocrires as all our markt mē be which in tim past hath caused Kinges other high powers to assist thē to execut their abhomīable deuelish tirani to maītayne al other of their abhomynations which doth fare exced all other abhominations y t any man mai read of in y e holy scriptures y e hath beenn sence y e begynynge of the worlde both for long continuaunce and also for great delusion namely it doth fare exceed the abhominations of the prestes and prophites of baal for wher baales prestes be fore the raygne of the sayd godly king Iosias caused y ◠people to worshipe Idoles our markt men haue bothe caused y ◠people to worshipe many mo Idoles then euer baalles prestes did be lyke wyse worshipped themselues as Idoles and be also named the ministers of the gosple of christe although they delite in habōndance of temporal possessiones hauynge names of dignitie lyke tēporall Princes and rulers cleane contrary to the doctrine of christe math xx d. xxiii v. mark x. ◠luke xxii c Iohn xiii v. Pet. v. a. Whiche is an open presūptuōs blasfemi of y e gosple and like as baalles prestes procured y e death of many of the true prophets of god so haue our markt mē procured and sougth the death of all maner of people whiche profeste y e true religyon in christ lyke as baales prestes dyd cōtrary to y e ordynancis of god wrytten in the lawe of moyses so haue our marked mōsters don yet dayli doth so fare forth as thei dare for fere of the temporall power cleane contrary to all the ordynaūcis of chryst wrytten in the gosple and yet wold stil be naēd to be the ministers of christe be cause they can talke of goddes worde and haue many crafty argumētes sophystycall dysputations therof and therfore thei say thei know god but with their dedes thei deny him Cit. the fyrst chap. b. hauynge but a similitude or vayne shadowe of godlynesse but haue openly denied the power therof the .ii. of Cim iii chap. a. wherby they ar plainly knowne to be the chyldren of the deuyll and dampnacion Ihon. viii f and the first epistle of Ihon. iii. b. Wherefore God sayth by the Prophet Esa i the .xiiii. chap. e. Let there be a waye sought to destroye theym which be in their fathers wyckednesse that they come not vp agayn to possesse the land And it is also writē in the Psalmes cxxxvii b O daughter of habilō happie shall he be that rewardeth the as thou hast serued vs blessed shall he be that taketh thy chyldren throweth theim against the stones for the tyme is come that whosoeuer wil not receyue the trewe doctrine of Christ shal be destroyed from amonge the people Actes iii. d. And the vngodly transgressors suche as are become vnfaithfull vnto the Lorde must all together be vtterly destroyed Esa i. g. For the Lorde Ihesus shal shew himselfe from Heauē with the Angelles of his power with flamyng fyer which shall render vengeaunce vnto theim that knowe not God and that obey not vnto the gospell of our Lorde Ihesus Christ whiche shall be punyshed with euerlastynge dampnacion frome the presence of the Lord and from the glorie of his power The seconde to the Thessalonyans the fyrste Chapiter d. In whiche power he is now come in spirit to be glorified in his Sayntes and to be magnified in al them which beleue The second to the Thessaloniās the first chap. d. which is the bynding of Satan and the fyrst resurrection spoken of in the Apocalipses the xx chapiter a. b. that is where as the trewe professyon of the Gospell hath ben so moche persecuted hated euer synce the Apostelles tyme that no man myght be suffred opēly to folow it Now God wyll glorifye all theim that loue it for euer and euer thoroughoute all posterities Esai lx c. And wyl clerely destroy the whole power of all the enemyes thetof Esay lx b. O consyder this ye that forget God Psalm l. d. And holde you styll in the Lorde abyde paciently vpō him yet a lytle whyle and the vngodly shall be cleane gone Psalm xxxvii b. wherfore put nothyng to the woordes of God lest he reproue thee then thou be founde a lyer Prouerb the .xxx. a as all our markt men be therfore kepe alwayes in remembraunce and submyt your selues to the cōmaundementes of god Deut. iiii a. xii d. where he sayth you shall put nothyng vnto the wordes which I commaūde you neither take ought therfrom for if any man shall adde any thīg to the holy scriptures God shal adde vnto hym the plages that ar writtē therin And if any man shal minish any parte therof God shal take away his parte out of the boke of lyfe Apoc. xxii d Neuerthelesse suche
we looke for oure Sauiour Iesus Christ Phillippians the .iii. Chapiter d. For wee confesse our selues to be as straungers in this lyfe vsyng the thynges of the worlde as though we vsed them not the first to the Corinthyans the .vii. Chap. e. Not doyng our bodely labour with the respecte of our owne lucre but for that we woulde not lyue idely also to haue wherwith to help the impotent membres of Christ neyther louyng the worlde nor the thynges of the worlde but receiuyng all nedefull necessyties of the bodye in worldly thynges geuyng God thankes withoute any scrupulosytie or grudge of conscience For al the creatures of God ar good nothyng to be refused if it be receyued with thankes geuing i. Timo. iiii a. For lyke as God doth forbyd all men from the louyng inordinate vsyng of worldly thinges so lykewise dothe hee permit all his electe people their bodily necessities of all worldly thynges when soeuer of two euyls the one can not be auoided God permitteth the lesse for the eschewing of the greatter in all earthly thinges Mat. xii a. Mar. ii d. Luk. vi a Gen. xix b. Wherfore the scriptures sayeth i. epist of Ihon. ii chap. e. If ye know that Christ is righteous ye know also that euery one which foloweth righteousnesse is borne of hym for euery one which loueth Christ loueth also all people whiche be regenerate in Christ Ihon. v. a not only in wordes but in actu all deedes ep Ihon. iii. c. for all people which doth the contrary be the children of the deuyll ep Ihon. iii. b. By whose delusyon our Markte men haue so long disceiued vs for the iust proufe whereof if it maye please the Kynges maiestee by the godly godly aduyse of my lorde Protectors grace and other of his honorable couÌ„sel to graunt and permit like libertie to some one of them being of smal reputacioÌ„ learnyng which be now regenerate with the spirit of Christ as was graunted to Elias in the tyme of Ahab Kyng of Israhell as we reade the thyrde boke of Kynges the xviii chap. That lyke tryall as was beetwene the sayde Elias and all Baals prophetes bi the offring of sacrifice may be now openly and only by the holy scriptures written after the trew litterall sence betwene one suche of the elect in Christ the whole multitude of our markt ministers that lykewyse al the multitude of them nowe may confer their lernyngê together or seuerally whether thei lyst then to be openly plainly knowen sene whether thei can shew the word of God written after the trewe litteral sence for the cleare discharge of their conscience for their doctrine conuersacion ye or no and if they can not all men ought to refuse to dispise their doctrine how clerkely or eloquently soeuer it be vttered and none otherwyse to accepte them but as the mynisters of the deuyll and the Beast whose marke thei beare ii Corin. xi c. Iude. c. d. e. And on y e other side if the coÌ„piler hereof a poore lay man of small litterature be not able by godê assistauÌ„ce only by the power of the Spirite of Christ to shew the word of God writteÌ„ in the true literal sence both for the cleare discharge of his owne conscience conuersacion also of all other that be regenerate in Christ let it bee death vnto him Wherfore in so muche as the people beyng present with kyng Ahab conuerted confessed God when they saw that he sent fyer from heauen to consume that Sacrifice which Elyas offred wereful certified that he alone was the true Prophet of God and that Baals Prophetes beyng ccccl. were all false teachers because their Sacrifice which they had offred remayned whole vnbreÌ„t Howe muche more then nowe shoulde the worde of God written be a sure vndoubted tryall in the playne literall sence for all Christen men to beleue and so therby also to knowe who be the true ministers of the gospel of Christ who be the disceyuers of the people Wherfore if suche tryall may be permitted in maner afore sayde who so euer should then mistrust it to be a good a sure tryall worthy to be belened of all people his blyndnesse were very wonderfull because wee haue no certaintie of the trut he but by the holy scriptures as thei be written vnto vs and by the gyfte of the holyghost Wherfore if our marked men hauyng much lernyng had also the gyfte of the holyghost in them as they haue not it were not possible for any man to disproue their doctrine and conuersacion with the holy scriptures written which wer ordeyned preserued vnto vs by the holy ghost Wherfore the cleare confutacion of them and also of their doctrine conuersacion with the holy scriptures written by one man of small literature shall manifestlye declare the incomprehensible power of God Deuteron xxxii e. agaynste whom nothynge can preuayle in whose doctrine lyke as he that fulfylleth the whole lawe yet fayleth in one poynte is gyltye in all Iames. ii c. So lykewyse he that hath a faythe to beleue parte of the holy scriptures in the literall sence as they bee written vnto vs beleueth not all his faythe is vnperfecte For Christ promysed not that any man should be saued for the beleniÌ„g of parte of the gospell but for the beleuyng of all thynges whiche he promysed therein dooyng all thynges also in spirit which he coÌ„mauÌ„ded in the establishment therof mat xxviii d. Whervuto the promyse of euerlastyng lyfe is made and not otherwise for God doth abhor all vaine hope Ieremy ii g. which is not establysshed in a perfecte faythe wholly agreable vnto hys word Ephesians the .iiii. chapiter c. Wherfore if we shoulde beleue any mans opinion to be good godly doctrine in any thynge more or lesse then is written within the holi scriptures or in any thing contrarye to the true literall sence thereof whereby shuld we know whose opinioÌ„ we ought to beleue For euery part of the holy scripture spoken by the holigost for our instructioÌ„ is of lyke aucthoritie and may no more be altered from the literall sence in one place then in an other But I speake not of the parables which christ spake to the hygh learned Scribes Phariseys the predesessors of our marked men to whom thei do succede in lyke power of the Beast beyng of a long tyme ascended oute of the bot homlesse pit Apoca xiii a. and. xvii b. But I speake of the plain declaracioÌ„s which Christ made of al parables to his Disciples For he declared all thynges plainly vnto them Mar. iiii c. And so lykewise all other partes of the holy scriptures be euident and playne to all them whiche haue the same gyste of the holyghost which the holy scriptures were spoken by Ihon. xvii c. d. Howe beit if any parte therof be altered from the true meanyng of the literall sence we are vncertayne
¶ THE HARVEST IS AT HAND VVHERIN THE TARES SHALL BE BOVND AND cast into the fyre and brent Math. xiii D. G VUherfore here the worde of the Lorde O ye gentiles preache in the iles that lie farre of and saie he that hath skatered Israel shall gether hym together againe and shall kepe him as a sheperde doeth his flocke for the lorde hath redemed Iacob tidde hym from the hand of the violent they shall come and reioyce vpon the hils of Syon and shall haue plentiousnesse of goodes whiche the lorde shall geue theim and their conscience shal be as a well watered garden for they shall no more be hungrie and whan it is new builded and set vp on this facion it shall neuer be broken nor cast downe any more Ieromi 31. B. B. Neuerthelesse wo be vnto them that calle euill good and good euill whiche make darkenesse lyghte and light darkenesse Esaie the .v. D. The contentes of this voke wherin is mēcioned the policy of popyshe Prestes what wee oughte to pray fore and a comparison betwen them the prestes of baal also diuers textes and sentēses of the holy scripturs to put mē in remembraunce of the wrath of god to com agaynst al vngodly people declarynge also what man is of him selfe in the olde Adam what y e Lawe is wherfore it was geuen what Christ hath done for vs what promys he hath made and to whom and who be the true ministers of his gossple and also who be the deceyuers of the people and an hūble peticion desyred of y e kynges maiestie and a discouerynge of titud of antichristes likwise abrefe declaracion of y e Ioyfull tyme to come with ageneral absolucion for oure fayned speritualtie whome I doo most cōmonly name in the proces here of markt mene or marckt mōsters not onely because they are marcked in their bodies somtimes weare disguysed mōstrus garmētes but because their doctrine is marked also for y t that they wold haue the people to beleue part of the holy scriptur as it was spoken and writtē vnto vs and som other partes therof they wolde not haue them to beleue in the true litterall sence but wolde haue the people to beleue it receiue it only as they do marke it appoynt it out vnto thē and wher as soumtimes do also name them marked mōsters it is because they are soo shamles so far waxen in their abhomynacions that they dare do al vnspekable myschefe Ose vi c. wherfore because no man knowyng the word of god may iustly withe out offence name thē to be any of y e people of god therfore I name them by suche names as be moste agreable to their conuercaciō know ynge y t all they whiche hath bene of the marke and be nowe truly cōuerted perceiueth this to be true wherfore none of them whiche knoweth true godlynes ☞ wylbe offended ☜ ☞ To the reader ☜ Grosely compyled withoute any clearkly Eloquēce by Iohn Champneys an vnlearned laye mane borne in the countie of Somerset alytyl besydes brystowe haueynge more affection in the playne settynge fourth of y ◠troth then in alonge Sophystycall Ipocrystishe tale craftily vttered wherfore I desyre you to beare with my rudenes in that y t I haue so grosly gathered certayne places of y e holy scriptures and haue euen so lykewyse written thē herein to put such men in remēbrance as be of god and yet dothe not muche excersyse thē selfues neither in readyng nor hereyng of the holy scriptures that by the mean hereof I mai partli moue them to vse more diligence ther in and also to be more earneste to god in their faythful prayer for the assistaunce of his grace both to attayne spiritual power therby to lyue acordenge to the true relygiō of y e gosple of christ and also to haue the true vnderstandynge of his worde by the gyft of the holy goste in aperfyt fayth beynge establyshed in anvndouted hope of all thynges promysed therein and not to be of awauerynge mynd and so be desceaued by the sophistical ipocrytishe doctrine w t our markt monstres of their owne mindes doth set forth but vtterly to abhōre and dyspyse it gal Lyke as all men which be of god moueth and procureth one another to seke the true knowleage of all godly leuynge onely of god by assistaunce of his grace in y e holy scriptures other in hearynge or readynge therof accordyng to y ◠cōmānde ment of god both in the old testament and also in the new Esai xxxiiii Iere. ii f. Iohn v. c. Col. iiii d. Tim. ii a. and iiii b. So likewise our shameles mōsters wolde haue men to beleue that their clerkly sophistical doctrīe should sufficiently instructe the people in the knowlage of the holy scriptures for they them selues know not what the regeneracion of y e spirite of christ is but what the deuel and the subtiltie of mans wit by out warde nynge knoweth y t many of thē be perfect in and therby they set foorth their doctrine Wherfore I haue rudly in this litill botke set furth the trouch as it is written in the holy scriptures in a witnes against their clerkly sophistical cōueiaunce knowyng perfectly y t all people whiche be of the elect of god regenerate in christ doth delit more in eueri part of the truth being neuer so rudely writen or spoken then they doo in aclerkly sophisticallye although he be neuer so pleasantly vttred how be it our markte men set them foorth apase for now that they perceiue y t the highe powers wyll not suffer them to vse their old abhominacions they set foorth newe Ipochritish doctrin to bringe their children aslepe and so to kepe them out of the way how be it if the childern did knowe perfetly what nurscis thei be that rocke them they wolde slepe no more in their cradels but wolde rather ly in y e bare playn groūd w t the electe people of god i christe amōg whom god sayth bi y e prophite Esai xxxiii c. ye shall not se people of astrange tounge to haue so diffuse alangauge that it may not be vnderstande neyther so strange aspeche but that it shal be perceued for al that be the true ministers of christ and haue his sperite in thē as saint paule and wother the appostles had dispise their out warde holynes and clerckly lernynge as saint paul did philipp iii. b. for sainct paul beynge lerned wold in no wise precahe or wryte any thynge cōsernynge the gosple of christ after y e maner of outward lernynge i cor iib. and gala i. c Wherfore be ware of y ◠doctryne that is be syde this for to make mani bokes it is an ēdles work preacher xii d. but all scripture geuen by inspiration of god is profitable to reach to improue to amend to instruct in rightuousnes that the mane of god may be perfite prepared vnto all good workes the