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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18909	Bibliotheca theologica: or, a librarye theological containinge, 1. A generall analysis or resolution: 2. A breife elucidation off the most sacred chapters off Elohim his Bible: drawen for the vse of yonge Christians, specially off the poorer sorte, vnable to purchase variety off holy-men theyr wrytinges: by Henoch Clapham. Nihil primum perfectum.	Clapham, Henoch.	1597 (1597)	STC 5331; ESTC S114484	83,218	88

all Sects I cannot se how I ought to swarne from them in anye one poynt essentiall what heresy is there in these days whose grounds they then ouerturnd not Our English Brownisme is but flat Donatisme he that knoes the Son may fetch the Father out by his face in the Arguments off Parmeneanus Petilianus Cresconius the Grammarian and such other Vermine strangled longe synce by holy Augustine Large Anabaptisme grewe also out off Donatus for makinge all other ministry voyde besides theyrs it must then folowe that only themselues could administer Baptisme The holy Father then tels Parmenean lib. 2. cap. 12. that they ought aswell make voyde the Sacrament off ministeriall ordination for iff th●one was good both stood good iff the one voyd the other also and so Donatus and his sectary Ministry who had and could haue no other Ordination then first they from them that also shold be voyde and so themselues deliuer no baptisme rightly Our Donatistes must learne also iff theyr Ordination in the English church be fully frustrate then also theyr Baptisme If Baptisme remaine good then also the Ordination And iff the Ordination be fully nothinge then they are like for euer to minister without Ordination except priuate laynien may impose hands which is flatly false as I haue shewed in Our booke off In Conclusions As for Artianisme Iudaisme and other our Factions theyr doctrines not only Augustine but many others haue cut the stringe off theyr bowe that iff the Deuel were not on men theyr Bowe shold haue bene burnt or euer it had bene stroong againe But not to digresse farre from the purpose of my Proeme the holy Reader must not be offended though in this Matter off Matters I consult with those Auncient my Betters who haue so valiantly fought the Lord Battels and sealed the sanctifying truth with theyr latest breathinge There is not A Sectary in these days but he reionceth in the writinges off his owne faction and why shold not the faith full be as carefull to vphold the Men●ornall off the just Let vs be faithles hereyn yet God will haue his owne Captaynes though dead theyr Ensignes displayd in his temple when the memoriall off the wicked shall rotte Shewe me One off Arrius or Donatus or Pelagins or any off the sophisticall auncient Heretikes theyr Bookes iff now can No God hath cased them from the fate off the earth that were it not the holy Fathers do mention them and theyr stuffe as the sacred scriptures remember Achan Iudas and theyr stealth we shold not haue knowen somuch as theyr rotten Names This Argument iff there were no more it vrgeth me to celebrate the Memoriall of the anncient ●ighteous verily here withall beleiuinge that my writings though off thowsands most vnworthy they shall ourline the Fartions and be as an Aegles fether to other fethers A finall consumption For euery plant our heauenly father hath not plained it shal be pulled vp by the ●ootes Whereas somtimes I alleadg som Iewe or prophane writer it is but in such A case as the parti may without prejudice be a fit witnes Hierom or serom all is one beinge off Ruff●nus vnto Magnus charged with the like as with ●●ryme he vnto the Romayne Grator alleadgeth Pauls practise there withall sainge that he first according to the lawe pareth theyr nailes washeth them ●●● and then why may he not matry with the captine of the Gentiles and also by occasion take by Goliahs sword for cuttinge off the vncircumcised head off the Owner what he might say I also for my selfe may say whereunto I adde vnto the pure are all things pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleuinge nothing is pure but euen theyr myndes and consciences are defiled The Scriptures I here alleadge for Canonicall they are thes off the Old and new testament which are vsually off Protestant Churches receiued for the Only Canon or Rule off Faith For the Olde testaments bookes there is cheifest cōtrouersie and discontētment Som off the Bookes called Apocrypha are by Rome and som others made regular for Faith off vs not and good reason why Iosephus in his first booke againstte Appion hath this There are not vvih vs thovvsands of bookes discrepant and fightinge in themselues but only bare tvvo and tvventy And then A litle after he tels the Atheist Appion that the writings from Arrayezxes tyme till then these vvere our Apocrypha there was not like faith to be giuen vnto them as vnto the former 22 because with them there was not like certaine successiō of Prophets Origen on ps 1. and Eusebius from him do witnes that the Hebrues only acknowledged 22. Hierom not inferiour to any for Hebrues iudments he in his Prologo Galeato doth tell vs the same sainge that the 22. bookes answeringe the 22. letters they were thus called and into thre Orders disposed 1. Breshith Eenes●s 2. Velleshemoth Erod 3. Vaijkta ●euit 4. Vaidabber Nomb. 5. Elleh haddebarim Dent. 6. Iehoshuag●●en-Nu● Ios 7. Shophtim Iudges 8. Shemuel Ruth 9. Melacim Sam. 1. and 2. 10. Ieshagniah Kings 1. and 2. 11. Iirmiah Isa 12. Iechezekel Ier. 13. Tere-gnasar Ezek. 14. Iob. the 12. 15. Dauid lesse proph 16. Mishle Psal 17. Koheleth Prou. 18. Shir hasharim Eccl. 19. Daniel Cant. 20. Dibre haiamim Chro. 21. Gnezra Esrah 22. Ester Nehem. Vnder the which he suffireth Quicquid extra hos est c. whatsoeuer is besides these bookes they are to be ●ut amongst the Apocrypha And touchinge the Apocryphal writinges Augustine thus writeth in his 15. booke off the City off ap God and ch 23. Omittamus igitur earum scripturatum fabulas quae Apocryphae noninantur c. Let vs passe by the fables of those Scriptures vvhich are called Apocryphal because that theyr hidde begininge appeared not to the Fathers from vvhome vnto vs the Authority of the true-speaking Scriptures by most sure and euident succession hath com For in the Apocrypha although there be found som verity yet by reason of many vntruthes they are not of Canonical Authority Ruffinus in his exposition off the Symbole affirmeth the former bookes to be the Canon off the old testament from whose fountaine we were to drawe the drinck of God Som off thy rest he saith were Ecclasiasticall but not Canomicall But touching this poynt I neede say no more seinge our vvhitakres in his first off the six Questions controuerted with Bella●mine hath set such A fyre in theyr Coate as I troe they shall neuerin Englande but smell off the smoke hereafter But had neither late nor auncient Christian writers euer disclamed them it is sufficient that Zion mother church off the Gentiles she neuer Named them He●ers tongue they knewe not Iudah nor Israel euer cir●●m●cised them nor had the Apostles euer comaundement t● baptise them Som off them as Ecclesiasticus VVisdome Baruch Machabees they may be vsed well prouided not for rule off faith but for Esdras Tobit Susanna Bel ludeth I knoe not iff