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B05828	The catalogve of the Hebrevv saints, canonized by St. Paul, Heb. 11th further explained and applied.	Shaw, John, 1614-1689.	1659 (1659)	Wing S3032; ESTC R184043	112,894	165

necessarily to be others from them premised 2. The Apostle ayming in this induction to bring down the series of the faithfull till the present Age must necessarily in this his induction and deductions thence still descend from the first times pitched on then the succeeding till the present be taken in which course is both agreeable to an induction as such and to this scope and conclusion from it Thus it is apparent he begins at Abel and so passeth to Enoch his Successor in the Faith So to Noah Abraham the Patriarkes the Judges the Kings and Prophets and so downwards still to the following Generations which was the time of the Maccabees they succeeding the Prophets and Kings and so I think that these miseries set down here relate unto these Persecution which the Lewes after their return endured under Autiochus Epiphanes one of the Successors of Alexander the Great in Syria about two hundred years before the comming of the Messiah in the Flesh The Records of whose mischievous designes and horrid cruelties are reserved in the Books of the Maccabees which because they have fallen under suspition censures and severities I shall by the way and the digression may perhaps be usefull adde something in rescrence to those Writings And first I shall suppose and grant That they are not any part of the Writings of Moses and Prophets commended to us in the New Testament as the Oracles of God and Dictates of his Spirit And secondly That the Lewes had not any such esteem of them and therefore never received them into their Canon of Holy Writ But then in the next place it is most certain That they have been and still are generally reputed and taken for an History which may be very usefull in the Church of God though not for the confirmation of any Article of Faith or deciscion of any controversie in Pointe of Religion yet for the edification of the Church to bring down the Church Story after the Writings of the Prophets till Christ and his Apostles lived And therefore the Church of God hath judged them worthy to be incerted in our Bibles and annexed to the Books of the Prophets as a confirmation and continuation of the Historicall part of the Old Testament to acquaint us with the State of the Affaires of the Church then and as Christs comming And yet to prevent mistakes have noted them with the marke of Apocrypha and by that Character hath excluded out of the number of Canonicall Books But 3. These times seem rather to be intended by the Apostle because even to that very time of his Writing these Hebrews had a continued fresh remembrance of the cruell miseries the Jews suffered under that Antiochus Lastly There is a very great and perfect resemblance in the punishments inflicted by that Tyrant with those here specified which will the better appeare by taking a cleare and distinct Cognisance and survey of them first in Generall then in Particular 1. The Persecution was for Religion as was pretended it was Death for the Iewes to observe the Law of God it was Death not to consorme to this Tyrants Idol-service 1 Maccab. 1. and all these Persecutions are usually hot and violent because men thinke they doe God good service when they manage with sury the Devills cause and then the highest and severest Punishments which malice can invent or fancy are but the innocent executions of justice and such were these Punishments of all sorts which have been discovered for here is mention of torments contumelies imprisonments exiles death it selfe and severall sorts of dishonorable cruell deaths For 2. Here we finde that some were tortured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 's beaten with Clubbs or bastinadoed till they died a● we Reade of the good old man Eleazar for the indeed good old cause Gods Religion and Lawes 2 Maceabes 6.28.29.30 the punishment was to binde the miscrable Patients to a great Logg of Wood or Timber made as I suppose most like a Ships windlesse and for such an use and there distand and racke them and when they were thus distended to a certaine and to the height every part was sesible of the Racke and Strappadoe then they were beaten with Cudgells till they dyed Yet being thus tortured it is further reported of them that they accepted not deliverance That they c. They sleighted those overtures and conditions of dismission and liberty which were tendered them depending on Gods Promises for eternall life not daring to hazard Eternity for a miserable temporall subsistence and being very willing to lose their life to save it Others had tryasts of erne● meckings and seourginge nothing was overseen or omitted to render them odious and miserable some will take a mocke who will not endure a stroake others a stroake who yet will not abide a mocke these tormentors therefore to make sure work tryeth them both wayes if the one sayle to provoke and distresse them the other will prove and they are called cruell mockings because nothing more piereing or pressing to a free and generous spirit for they are usually an affliction upon an affliction it is to overloade the oppressed and to kill the wounded Hence Ishmael● mocking of Isaas Gon. 11.9 is expressed Persecution Galat. 4.29 David esteemed a reproach an oppression a killing oppression as with a Sword in his boxes Psal 42.9.10 And his great complaint Psal 44.13.14 Psal 79.4 was That he was a reproach a scorne and derision to be a by-word and shaking of the Head among the People And the uttering and speaking hard things is ●●iled breaking his people in pieces Psal 94.4.5 But if there be not cruelty enough in mockings there is smart and sname too ignoming sufficient in scourgings a punishment proper onely to the baser and more contemptible sort of Offenders Others againe had tryall of Bends and Imprisonment that is cruell Imprisonments not barely confinements or restraints not onely close Imprisonment but like Josephs their fect were hure with fetters they were laid in Iron Psal 105.18 They were stoned they were sawne asunder You shall finde the barbarons execution of these 2 Maceabes 7. throughout They were tempted This finds some variation for tempting sometimes imports the most cutting piercing griefes and anguishes such as not onely carry with them great pain but a quicke and subtle apprehension also of that pain and sorrow therefore great sorrows or rather the sharpe sense and feeling of them is abstractedly called temptations Heb. 2.13 He suffered being tempted that is he sadly and passionately resented So Heb. 4.15 He was tempted that it as is evident from the precedent terme of opposition noted by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was touched touched to the quick deeply with the feeling of our infirmities and then according to this notation of the Word the sense is They had such a sharps sense of their sad condition that as Christ so their soules were sorrowfull exceeding sorrowfull even unto Death Sometimes it signifies gaining and

Confessions and Registers Catechismes and Testimonies of their fore-fathers Faith and their own to the Councell of Nice upon diligent search and inquiry found it contrary to the generall belelfe of the whole Chuch since the first Plantation He who would take the pains for further satisfaction herein let him consult St. Austin lib. 7. de Baptis cont Den. c. 53. Nobis tutum est in c. l. 2. c. 4. Quomodo potait c. 2. In respect of Place for if the Doctrine have not received a good report from all Places it is not qualified for a Catholique inasmuch as the same Faith which was delivered and received in one Place in any Apostolike Plantation was likewise found in all other Plantations it being one and the same Faith which all the Apostles taught all the World over the same in Germany Britaine France which was in Spaine Affricke and Egypt the middle World and in Asia and the whole Orient or East of the World even as the same Sun shines through them all And to this Tertullian gives his Testimony at large lib. de Praefeript advers Haeret. cap. 20. Statim igitur Apostoli c. Presently therefore the Apostles having testified the Faith first in Judea according to their Commission they took their Journey over the World and promulgated the same Doctrine of the Faith to the Nations c. whereunto accords fully his follower Saint Cyprian lib. de Vnitate Eccl. Ecclesia Domini luce perfusa c. The Church having received light from her Lord diffused and spread abroad his beames farr and wide Vnum tamen lumen est and yet it is the same light which is in every Church thus diffused And the same Tertullian seconds this also in his following Chapter Si haec ita sint c. making this deduction if these things be thus then it is plain Every Doctrine which agrees with the Apostolicall Churches as the Roman Ephesian Antiochian Alexandrian Hierosolymitan the Mothers in respect of the Daughter Churches Metropoles originals whence the Faith sprung forth and issued is to be adjudged true as holding that which the Churches received from the Apostles the Apostles from Christ and Christ from God Reliquam vere omnem Doctrinam de mendacio prajudicandum c. and that all other Doctrine is under the prejudice of being false which is contrary to the truth of the Churches of the Apostles of Christ of God And so again in the 36. and 37. Chapters of the same Book where he proves they are onely the true Charches of Christ who follow the Faith of those Mother Apostolicall Churches 3. In respect of Time not as if the true Faith had in all Ages been Universally received for then Haeresie had never prevailed and got the upper hand for Arrianisme did so in Constantine his time and the Goths and Vandals Arrian Princes Ruled in the West and Anastasius the Emperour of the East was an Eutychian Heretike but that this or that was received in the first or purest and though in after ages by one or more it was opposed and oppressed yet even then there were such who by having recourse to the first Ages have discovered these guilty of novelty and have constantly asserted proved and vindicated the ancient Doctrines and Christianly suffered for them and so by little and little the Church at last recovered and gained the possession of her former Doctrines That then which by diligent search is to be found in the Monuments and Testimonies of the first Age for that is truely so called Antiquity hath this qualification but that which is of latter date falls short of it that is a new Faith which commenced since the Faith was once delivered to the Saints and so that Church which hath not the consent of Primitive Antiquity is in respect of those Doctrines wherein she varieth from it and doth stand convicted of Heresie and Schisme because it is not part of the Depositum Quod tibi creditum non quod à te inventum Vin. Lyr. cap. 27. For no man or Society of men ought to commend any thing as a point of Faith to Posterity which cannot be evidenced from Antiquity derived from the Apostles times a proficiency or growth in Faith there ought to be so it be in eodem genere in the same kinds issuing from the same root but all addition of after inventions are the notes of Heresie and Schisme And having thus far proceeded let us see what Doctrines or Observations or some of them may deserve or can challenge this Testimony of these all or all the Christian Churches so that we may conclude this to be the Faith and usage of the Universall Church of Christ and for the credenda alwayes supposing the sacred Scriptures which is the most certain and safe Rule both for Credenda and Agenda points of Faith and practise as having obtained the highest report from these all nothing so universally attested and approved as they it will be hard to prove or produce an universall Testimony for any Doctrine or Point of Faith besides those which are contained in the Creed nay indeed impossible inasmuch as this hath the repute of an abridgement or full Epitome of all Fundamentall Truths necessary to be known or beleeved by all Christians to salvation composed by the Apostles themselves for the preservation of the unity of the Faith nothing but this hath Primitive Antiquity and full consent of all called generally Regula fidei una sola immobilis irreformabilis the one onely immoveable and unreformable Rule of Faith that all might have a short summe of those things which are of meer beleife and are dispersedly contained in the Scripture So Valentia himselfe 1. 2. Dist 1. qu. 2. p. 4. in fin and so probably conceived to be that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 1.13 That forme breviate or summary of wholesome words or sound Doctrine that depositum or trust Timothy received 1 Tim. 6.20 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 common Faith Tit. 1.4 Pufillis magnisque communis Aug. Ep. 57. ad Dard. See Davenant in lib. De pace inter Evangelices procuranda pag. 9.10 c. Et in adhortatione cap. 7. throughout And for the agenda these either immediately relate to the worship of God or the Discipline and Government of his Church And supposing the Scriptures as the standing Law both for matters of Faith and Practise Use which is the best Interpreter of the Law is the best Directory for our Practise and when the Texts of holy Scripture are in these eases interpreted by the perpetuall practise of the Church according to the premised considerations then the Interpretation is the more authentique and worthy beleise and the proofes grounded thereupon more cogent and convincing according to that determination of the Nicone Councill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let ancient customes stand in strength of this kind is the observation of the Lords day Whereupon it is Observed by that Noble and Learned