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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07515	A description of new Jerushalem being the substaunce of two sermons deliuered at Paules Crosse. Containing, a briefe discouery and conuiction of certayne doctrines held of Romanists and Brownists against the Catholike and Apostolike faith. / By Henoch Clapham..	Clapham, Henoch.	1601 (1601)	STC 5336.5; ESTC S91453	37,377	126

his eldest sonne finishing this mans seed in Iehoiachin from the front of whose name Iehouah remoueth Compare 2. King 24.6 with Ier. 22.24.28 c. according to Greek for me Ieconias in Math. 1.11 Iah as a signet from his finger terming him Coniah pulling heerewith Nathan the other sonne of Dauid his family into the line by adoption beginning with Salathiel and so to Zerubbabel and then downe by his eldest sonne Abiud vnto Christ S. Luke beginning with Ioseph the supposed father of Iesus hee steppeth vpwarde to Zerubbabel by the line of his second sonne Rhesa and so from him directly vpward to Dauid not by Solomons house which ended with the captiuitie but by Nathans line the line of adoption This paines haue the two Euangelists taken for manifesting the church her visibilitie from the beginning of the worlde vnto Messiahs comming The Typicall church so ouerturneth our aduersaries doctrine for that was alwayes visible Secondly they alleadge certaine scriptures against the new churches visibilitie the seeming strongest whereof be these first Reuelat. 12. where by the woman they truely vnderstand the church whereof the virgin Mary was an arch-member and from her lodging in the wildernesse for a time two times and halfe a time they vnderstand some long time wherein the church should be hid from the sight of al be inuisible I answer scripture must be expounded from scripture not by vnreasonable fancies for where haue they any one scripture which By being in the wildernesse doth vnderstand Inuisibilitie Rather lette them vnderstand that the holy-ghost puttes vs hereby in mind of the anciēt church of Israel fed in the wildernesse and as Moses sayth Exod. 19.4 Deut. 32.11 carried as vpon the wings of an Eagle a figure of the worlds state through which the Church heere is to passe in her pilgrimage spirituall Now who will say that Israel was inuisible in the wildernesse Or that they could be considered but onely according to secret Election The flat contrary followeth Such ill happe haue these men in their allegation of scripture Another scripture is that before alleadged in Reu. 6. whence they would conclude an apostacie of the whole church I answer again scripture must expound scripture Compare this wyth Isaiahs prophecie chapt 24. last verse as also with 34. chap and 4. verse with other like places and it onely implyeth a darke desolation of all church beauty and orderly constitution whereby God testifieth his anger against rich and poore one an other The Moone therefore is seene coloured like blood whereby each meaneth a general persecution and blodshed in the church which cannot be if the church were inuisible And to this purpose marke howe in the twelfth chapter when the red dragon assayled the Church wyth all his might hee yet drewe downe but a third parte of the stars some were reserued to shine in the Church God euer in that reuelation shewing mercy to a remnant whē otherwise the viols of his wrath were powred out vpon the malignant multitude This theyr winde shaketh therfore no hauer Another scripture is Reu. 13. where say they all do take the beasts mark T is vntrue for the holy-ghost thus sayth All that dwell vppon the earth shall worshippe him marke the exception whose names are not written in the Booke of the life of the Lambe c. And because such there shall be he afterwardes concludeth Here is the patience of the Saynts So that Saints there shall be who wyth patience shall conquere And that is more plainely declared in the 11. chapter where all the tyrannous raigne of the beast choose whether that beast be the body of cruell Emperours or the sonne of perdition GOD also hath his Prophetes by whose ministerie the oyle of God his sauing grace is conueyed vnto his people Thus these men talke no men so much of the booke of Reuelation before any one of the Seales be vnclasped vnto them They should now at last learne to meddle lesse with this booke seeing the holy ghost leaueth so fearfull a curse vpon these that adde their owne idle fancies therto Reu. 22.19 An other scripture they alleage namely 2. Thess 2. whence they affirme the Churches whole departure from the Faith I answere First the auncient writers did ordinarily vnderstand Ierom ad Algasiam Tertull. de resurrect ca. 24. August de ciuitat l. 20. it of a generall Reuolt from Romes Empire which then had ruledome ouer the Nations of the earth And that indeed is verie plainly fore-told by S. Iohn in Reuel 17.16 Later writers in respect of some after circumstances do take it to be an Apostacie generall from Faith but none that stinke not of heresie do from thence conclude a flat Nullitie of the Church A generall desolation there should be as before in the Reuel but not a falling away in euery particular member For this is an absurd forme of argumentation Many or the most shall fall away therefore euery one shall fall away The man of sin with his army abhominable should enter into this new Citie and Temple of God yea rather rise vp in the midst thereof sowing his perfidious doctrine and planting his Idolatrous bottomles pit-inuentions but yet neuer essentially subdue those soules vnto him whose names were written in the Lambs booke Spot them he might with many superstitions but neuer subuert them in the Substance of their Faith and Obedience as In my Antid as also in my Visible Christian els where I haue in writing plainlie euinced If during Antichrists raigne there should be no visible people of God then Antichrist should be no more Antichrist seeing Christ had none in opposition against him Anti-christ must euer haue some to warre against and there must euer be some to wage battaile against Antichrist Otherwise fire would drop from Heauen and the world thereupon be presently consumed seeing there were none in the earth who had the word of Couenant in their mouths Such Nouices are ignorant of the promise sealed by the Father vnto Messiah the Churches Redeemer Isa 59.21 My spirit saith he that is vpon thee and my words which I haue put in thy mouth shal not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of thy seedes-seed saith Iehouah from henceforth euen for EVER And to this purpose when the sacred Reu. 7.1 c. winds of God breathed by the foure Euangelists were to be held back in an vnknowen tongue the Lord taketh order for many Iewes and moe Gentiles that they should notwithstanding carie not onely in their heart but also in their foreheads the visible marke of true Christianitie Bulling part 2. in annot tabulae 5. Bullinger in his Epitome of times hauing spoken of the most accursed times wherein Pharises Saduces Esseni crept into the Iewish Church he addeth Interim non dubium est c. Meane time it is not to be doubted that true doctrine continued vncorrupted amongst the litle remnant