false thorow hypocrisie and haue their conscience marked with an hote iron forbidding to marrie and commaunding to abstaine from meates vvhich God hath created to be receaued vvith giuing of thankes of them which beleeue and knevve the trueth Now ioyne these two prophecies together and note diligently the cause maner increase and force of Antichrists kingdome and then it shall be the better perceaued The cause why God permitteth the wicked to deceiue the people was for that they did not receaue the law of the trueth but loathed Gods word when they had it They writ it not in their heartes neither brought forth the fruits of the spirite but of the flesh To speake all in one worde They had as we haue much godly teaching and brought foorth much vngodly liuing Of verie duetie godly liuing must followe godly teaching otherwise Gods plague and vengeance followeth his word where and when soeuer it be taught But amongest all the plagues of God this is the greatest that he taketh away his word from the people and suffereth them to be fed with lies and Canterburie tales or fables After which sorte and maner the wicked haue come and entered into the Christian generation yea and haue sit in the holy place and seate of Moyses pretending to teache the holy word of God They haue set I say in the seate of Moyses not by teaching the law and the prophets but by name and place whereby the people not able to discerne the true session from presumptuous vsurpation haue bene deceiued with false myracles lying powers and wonders By the which feates they haue increased and growne into the greater number For when by the helpe of the deuill with their coniurations charmes and diuers other false fleightes they wrought myracles and wonders in diuers and sundrie places Then the people regarding not the simple word of God forsooke their faith and ranne a gadding from place to place to gaze vpon signes and wonders Manie beleeued lies because many taught lies Lying powers were on their side few durst speake the trueth and the simple lacked good instruction some therefore departed from the faith The sorce of Antichristes kingdome is well noted of Paul in that hee saith his comming shalbe with all lying power in that they shall forbid mariages command to abstaine frō meats and c. y t is to say After that the multitude hath bin well pampered and fed with their lies blinded with their coniurations and stablished with false miracles then shall they be able to make lawes in the defence of their deuilishe doctrines and openly to withstand and resist the trueth and Gospel as Iannes and Iambres Pharaoes coniurers withstoode Moyses Men they are sayth Paul of corrupt mindes and lewd as concerning faith Peter witnesseth with Paul saying They shall purely bring in damnable sects euen denieng the Lord that hath bought them bring vpon themselfes swift damnation many shal follow their damnable waies by whome the way of trueth shall be euill spoken of No maruaile for hypocrisie and outward shew of holynesse hath seemed so gay in the simple folkes eyes yea and yet doth to some so that as the trueth saith if it were possible the verie elect should be deceiued Iude also beareth record to the trueth with Paule and Peter shewing that they be deceaued with dreames defile the fleshe despise rulers and speake euill of them that be in authoritie murmurers complainers walking after their owne lustes whose mouthes speake proud thinges These saith he are makers of sectes fleshly hauing no spirite Conferre these same now together with the popish antichristian church of Rome and beholde if you can see the kingdome of Antichrist anie where so manifest and plaine Hath anie power in all the world since Christes ascention into heauen lift vp it selfe so high into the temple of God and aduanced it selfe as God like vnto this vsurped premacie and tyrannie of Rome Who hath more oppressed Gods booke resisted the Gospel and slandered the way of trueth then the pope and his rable Who hath wrought with suche deceaueable signes and myracles who hath fed vs with more lyes then that false prophet of Rome Read a leafe or two of Legenda aurea or the booke called Festinale and you shal finde good stuffe I warrant you Which bookes were woont to be read and taught vs moste principally concerning matters of religion Yea almost wee had no other in English I speake that I haue knowne heard and seene Within these xxiii yeares they were alledged in Sermons and read in the churche openly and had in more price amongest vs and better receaued then the holy Scriptures be of some Also they were then better studied and more willingly taught of curates in some places then Gods booke is now of manie of them Forget not I pray you to call to memorie how we were deceiued with images pilgrimages reliques false myracles iuglinges charmes witchcraftes coniurations iubilies stations holy water fire ashes palmes palme crosses saint Iohns Gospel images of waxe Walsinghame broches saint Iames shelles saint Priarke his staffe maister Iohn Shornes bat saint Cornelius horne pardons pardon beades beades Ladies Psalters dyrges treutals Requiem Masses c. Who denied the Lord that had bought then more manifestly then they that taught these romish dreames Whosoeuer denieth the death of Iesus Christ to be a whole perfect oblation sufficient for all sinne denyeth the Lord that hath bought them But they that taught or beleeued the aforesaid dragges and such like to be expedient for the obtaining of Gods fauour remission of sins denieth Christ and his death to be sufficient Wherefore so long as men sought remission of sinnes and Gods fauour in such phantasticall deuises of men it cannot be denyed but in so doing they denied the Lord that bought them To say trueth men little remembred the oblation of Christ by deathe vppon the crosse For not manie yeares agone euen when Masses satisfactory florished to affirme Christes oblation by death vpon the crosse once offered for all to be sufficient for remission of sinnes to all them that beleeue was so farre out of memorie that it was counted abhominable heresie because Masse and it could not stand together In time of anguishe trouble or sickenesse was Christes death sought to for quietnesse of conscience No our Lady of Wilsdon our Lady of Walsingham maister Iohn Shorne and confession to some holy fryer some holy relique Masse of Recordare or masse of the v. wounds For vnto these masses bishop Clement and Bishop Boniface had giuen great vertue through pardons and candels if the deuill transforming himselfe vnto Raphael the arch-angel be a true messenger Also if death approched then was Masse of Scala coeli Trentals Aniuersarijs and masse of Requiem with our Lady Masse ready to be sold for mony and song to send the soule to the Deuill with
The Epiphanie of the Church GATHERED OVT OF THE HOLY Scriptures declaring and plainly shevving both the Church that cannot but erre and also the Church that cannot erre VVITH SO EVIDENT NOTES and manifest signes of either of them that no man reading it needeth be in doubt which he should beleue Written by R. P. in the yeare of our Lord God 1550. And now published in this yeare 1590. for the benefite of all such as desire the trueth concerning the church LONDON Printed by Roger Ward dvvelling at the signe of the Pâ—â—sse in the Little Old-baily 1590. VNTO THE REVEREND FATHER in God and honourable Lord Nicholas Ridley bishop of London his humble Richard Phinch the vnworthie minister to the small congregation of â—astham wisheth grace peace and health with increase of godlinesse in Iesu the onely health and peace-maker c. AFter I perceiued very reuerend father that your good trauell amongest vs had not so good successe as the vnfaithfull superfluous doinges of other sometimes doe obtaine I not onely mused with my selfe what should be the cause but also studied with my whole indeuour to do that lay in me though not able to helpe good affaires forward yet at the least not to hinder them For certaine ouerthwart persons preteÌ„ding to cleaue earnestly vnto the faith of the church when in very deed they do nothing els but sticke vnto their owne wils in folowing euill custome coueted diuers wayes to obscure the praise of your diligent labor Being moued thereto partly because you examined theÌ„ by the scriptures and partly for that you gaue in your visitation iniunctions to take away the principall monuments of superstitions euen the altars of the popish masse Ah God helpe to be tried by the Gospel vvas a strange matter vnto them that were occupied onely in their pye portuase and ordinalles but more strange vnto them that were woont to heare of nothing at visitations but of paying of mony and most strange vnto them that were neuer examined before not so much as whether they beleeued in God or no. This vnwont maner strangenesse made your godly indeuors of some not to be so thankfully receiued albeit of the honest most thankfully taken as they woorthely deserued of all insomuch that for my part I hearkened for nothing but for some congratulation of my brethren toward you and the people looked for reformation of enormities for the open punishment of great crime and for the plaine setting forth of Gods word preaching of the same after your visitation But as I haue heard nothing of the one honest persons excepted so do the people vvait stil for the other Wherfore to speake simply I thinke God recompenseth the omission of the one vvith the losse of the other for praise hath beene vvont to follovv vertue as the shadovv doth the body Furthermore that noble king of famous memory no lesse prudent then godly minded king Henry the 8. put forth vnto vs in the yere of our Lord 1536 a booke of articles vvherein the signification of certaine ceremonies vvhich before vvere done he plâ—â—â—…ly declared sensing kneeling offering to images vvorshiping of the same vvere forbid and also the name of purgitory vvas cleane taken avvay But hovv thankefully those things vvere then of some receiued their setting forth teaching of the same plainly shevved I do vvell remember that many vvere as loth then to forgoe theyr purgatory as they be novv vnvvilling to take dovvne their altars the monuments of the same that it was as strange a thing to say on Ashvvednesday Memento homo c. in English notvvithstanding the said booke of articles vvilling the same as it is novv to be examined in the Nevv testament by a godly bishop In the same yere also came forth godly iniunctions commanding parents and gouernours to teach their youth the Lords prayer the Articles of the faith the coÌ„mandements of almighty God in English vvhich themselues had not learned therfore the curats vvere charged to recite one clause or article one day another on another day of the same vntill the vvhole vvere learned This yere likevvise by the authority of the same iniunctions the Bible Gods booke vvas set vp in the quiere to be read both in Latine and English vvhich thither vvas so vvell vvelcome so much regarded and so diligently studied that he had good leaue to depart from thence into the body of the church For in the yeare of our Lord God 1538. the magistrates were faine to renew the same iniunctions and speake more plainely who commanded the said Gods booke to bee set vp in some conuenient place in the Church and no man to be discouraged from reading of the same in English They charged all curates againe to teach the Lordes praier the articles of the faith and the commandementes of God and that they shoulde examine euerie person comming to auriculer confession in the same and heare them say the Lordes praier the articles c. particularly And also make or cause to be made one sermon euerie quarter in euerie one of their cures O Lord God what an eye sore torment of minde was this vnto them that were obstinate and wayward but what a sweete comforte to the simple that were willing to disburden their conscience If god had then as he hath now sent vs some godly learned Bishops that vvoulde haue taken paines to visite their cures and to haue examined howe these matters had gone forward they should haue perceaued many a false cast to haue bin plaied vnder the couerlet in the shifting houses And some simple folke woulde haue saide that their ghostles fathers had giuen them counsell to stick vnto their old primer and to beware of the newe and specially of the testament Diuers proclamations about this time were also set forth concerning Gods matters but alas they were so vnwillingly handled and so vnthankfully receaued that God had almost taken his word from vs againe At the length about the yeare of our Lord God 1544. the suffrages were put forth in english which likewise were so wel welcome to some that the kings maiestie then was constrained to write vnto certaine prelates concerning the same whome he aduertised not to be so slacke in putting the said praiers in practise as they were inserting forth his former articles iniunctions Thus God hath wrought among vs by a little and a litle to bring vs to knowledge that at the leÌ„gth vve might willingly embrace his holy word Againe forsomuch as of late Gods booke was in some places almost forgot in some places runne out of the church into the chancel to hide himselfe amongest the popish bookes and of some so safely laid vp that a man might wright vpon him with his finger Ecce nunc in puluere dormio Therefore almightie God moued the heart of our moste naturall liege Lord and dearely beloued mayden king to lift vp the same Gods booke once again out of the dust Who
in the yeare of our Lord God 1547. set foorth by hys royall visitation godly homilies the paraphrase of that learned father Erasmus to the great comfort of the simple that be willing to learne also godly iniunctions meaning thereby to root vp all superstition abuse and idolatry to set vp gods word in their place Wherein he commanded not onely to take awaie all superstition and idolatrie but to take away and vtterly to extinguish and destroy all monuments of superstition idolatrie cap. 28. But how diligently putoffes haue practised their pollicie to hinder this his godly purpose it is better to lament it with teares then to rehearse it in letters Last of all to put all out of doubt and to make a perfect concord we haue a booke of cōmon praier with an order in the same for reading of Gods booke set forth in English by the same aucthoritie and stablished by act of parliament And least anie person would be so foolish mad to looke for the romish ragges againe one statute at the last parliament abolisheth and condemneth for euer all other popish bookes of the old seruice Notwithstanding some people be yet dased in those Gods matters that they know not vvhat to doe Maruaile not therefore deare father though the vngodly sorte doe misconster and euill interpret your godly trauaile For they crie for a law they must haue a law to lead them from euerie superstition by name els they vvill not obey But if they loued obedience quietnesse and had but one sparke of reuerend feare either toward God or their prince or anie desire of godly knovvledge there hath inough and inough againe bin said cōcerning matters of religion and also set forth both by order and law There be articles inough iniunctions inough proclamations inough commandements inough exhortations inough lessons inough and lavves inough if they vvere vnderstoode vvillingly embraced reuerently obeyed Albeit for them that be self vvilled frovvard contentious obstinat dul harted nothing vvil serue Therfore to none may be better applied this prophecy of Esay then vnto these Who saith They that be such must haue after one lesson another lesson after one commandement another commandement after one rule another rule after one instruction another instruction there a litle there a litle For he that speaketh vnto this people is euen as one that vseth rudenesse of speeche a strange language If anie man say vnto them loe this is the rest wherwith ye may ease hym that is wearie this is the refreshing they will not harken Therfore the word of the Lord lesson vpon lesson commandement vppon commandement rule vpon rule instruction vpon instruction there a little and there a litle shalbe vnto them an occasion of stumbling that they may goe on and fal backward be brused tangled and snared Wherefore heare the worde of the Lord yee mockers ye that haue rule of this people O vvould God I might haue ouerleapt this sentēce that goeth before that iustly novv it might not besaid They are out of the way by reason of wyne yea farre out of the way are they by reason of strong drinke These things my moste reuerend father haue inforced me to presume to doe that vvhich is aboue the strength both of my vvit and learning but not aboue my good vvill that is to collect out of Gods scriptures a simple and plaine manifestation of the Church in English or a manifest opening or shevving of the Church naming it the Epiphanie because that vvord albeit borrovved of the Grecians is frequented already among vs english men in the same signification The obscuritie misunderstanding and ignorance onely of this argument article hath bene and also is the cause of much obstinacie contention and disobedience For vntill it pleased almightie God to open vnto me by his holy spirit and vvorde this article credo ecclesiam c. vvith the right meaning of the same according to the scriptures I vvas as stiffe in the popish traditions taking them for good customes and ceremonies of the fathers as I am now earnest in Gods booke and taught them vvith so good a zeale but not according to knovvledge as I doe novv the Gospell Wherefore taking of the same remedy vvherof I tooke hurt euen of Credo ecclesiam as they that be hurt of scorpions be vvoont to do I can do no lesse but vvrite and set forth the same vnto and for such as be stoong vvith the same sting and venomed vvith the same poison Whose nature is not to hurt but vvhere it findeth bloud No more Credo ecclesiam hurteth but suche as cleaue too much to humaine reason and naturall vvit I trust they vvill not mislike that thing that loue constraineth me to doe for their sakes If they doe they shall find me as readie to defend the same by the word of god against all popish bablinges as I haue bene to vvrite it So that your godly learning misliketh it not vnto vvhome vvith all other godly learned I humbly submit the same beseeching you to accept in good part my small industrie as the first fruites of my pen and iudge thereof as god shall put in your minde to vvhome be all thanke praise and glory Amen Your humble Richard Phinch ¶ THE EPIPHANIE OF THE CHVRCH BEcause I couet rather to profite with homely and playn speech then to please with sweete faire words I will speake liberally but yet simply of the Church for their sakes and vnto them that be deceaued with euill custome bewitched with popish iuglings charmed with mens inuentions and beguiled with their owne wittes which resist the trueth of Gods holy word kicke against the pricke and grope at noone and cannot see the light for the sunne In whose mouth is euer Churche Church whose feete are dayly wandring vnto the church and their eyes gasing continually vpon the Church yet can they neyther finde nor see the Church because themselues be none of the Church What is so much alleadged of the babling papistes what so oft frequented of the common people and so manifest in all mens eyes as the Church Notwithanding for want of teachers of the Scriptures few doe know the Church Such is the knowledge among the silly people in verie manie Churches now a dayes Church in the English Bible is commonly called congregation For ecclesia a worde borrowed of the Greeke toonge which may be translated into Englishe eyther Church or congregation Church with vs is a common worde signifiyng the place as well as congregation whereunto the same assembleth for some honest or godly purpose It is written that all the people were gathered togither which made their prayers all the night long in the Church Our common places appoynted for prayer preaching and administration of the sacraments be so well knowne by this name Church that there needeth no example hereof Other whiles Church signifieth the whole multitude of people both of good and bad
mirth because hee might be sure of weeping and gnashing of teeth when hee commeth there Yet did not the poore sillie people selling their owne soules to the deuill and giuing their monie vnto his ministers perceaue that they were made a marchandise whereof prophecied Peter saying Thorovv couetousnesse shall they vvith fained words make a marchandise of you The onely wifelesse life of the Romish anointlinges so bewitched the vnlearned peoples eyes that they stoode in admiration of them iudging them more then men and thought all had bene well whatsoeuer they had sayde or done To keepe this their estimation in the peoples opinions they procured their champions to fight manfully with their lawes and tormentes against the mariages of priestes And nowe that they doe perceaue that force will not serue them they priuily whisper in the eares of the people that mariage is whoredome and an vncleane life Whereby they do condemne all honest married persons of adulterie yet doe not manie foolish people perceaue how they that teache such heresie and diuelishe doctrine goe about to lowt them in their liuing For they are not ashamed to make God the author of vncleannesse to accuse Christ of bawdrie and to condemne all men of sinne so that themselues might still be counted angels and not men This do all they that speake thus euilly of matrimony Whereof God himselfe was the author And Christ honoured it both by his corporall presence and first myracle turning water into wine whereby he declared that the wel alowed matrimonie and condemned adulterie But these fellowes disalowing Gods institution and aduaunsing their owne inuention turne wine into water contrary vnto Christ that is to say They dishonour holy matrimonie which is sweete and pleasant in the sight of God and make much of stincking adulterie euer abhorred and condemned of God and all good men They admit rather an harlot for money dispensed withall contrarie to the commandementes of God then a wife according to Gods scriptures which sayth If they cannot abstaine let them marrie yea some of them are not ashamed to say that it is more lawfull for a priest to haue six whores then one wife And some also pretend so good fellowship that they would sooner lend their owne wiues they say vnto the Priest then to grant that he shuld marrie Also they count it a deed of charitie and a good worke to make a priest a cookold as they terme it and in so doing they think to please God and doe him good seruice Whether a man might beleeue them in these their sayinges without an othe I leaue it for other men to iudge Of this I am sure that this their cupshot doctrine brawled in their conuenticles and whispered in corners their liberall fellowship and good worke that proceedeth of their burning concupiscense not of charitie hath brought in the contempt and violating of holy matrimonie and the people to a wonderfull loosenesse of liuing Wherein they ioy not a little thinking it to be a good meane to set them vp againe like Gods in mens consciences But in the meane while they shal be deuils and spirites of error according to the prophecie of Paul before said in that they doe forbid the mariage of priestes Also who hath brought in so manie sectes into y e world as these romish wraklinges haue done Of which sorte be these Moonks Chanons Friers Prebendaries Canons Nuns Sisters Auckars hermites brother hoods bawds beades-men I should say fraternities craftily naming thē holy religious How these haue bin deceiued w t dreams c. I appeale to their owne consceence Let them take heede that it be not marked with the hote iron of burning concupiscence If it be I leaue them this also for a token of their maisters marke to make them knowne by euen that they burne in malice against al them that speake the trueth If you aske me to what purpose this rable serueth and what good they doe in the publike weale of the Lord Forsooth I must desire the prophet to make answere for me who saith They are not in the trauaile of men neyther are they plagued like other folk Yes sir they take great paines in prayer and in massing Of whome therefore it may be more truely spoken as followeth They stretche forth their mouth vnto heauen and there toonge goeth through the worlde Therefore fall the people vnto them and thereout sucke they no small aduauntage Beholde these sinfull and wealthie men in the world haue obtained riches Loe these be the mouthes that speake proud thinges before rehearsed What prouder thinges can be saide than to affirme that they can with fine words create their creator of a peece a bread and offer him for the sinnes of the people when they haue done Whereby they haue sucked no small lucre and game from the people But their lucre beginneth now to decay and their idle life is perceaued to be vnneressary Which idle life the God that they doe make hath and must maintaine or els they will perceiue their state cannot remaine This maketh them to be so stiffe necked against the setting forth of Gods worde and against the right administration of the sacramentes This maketh them to studie so diligently to keepe vp their altar and to maintaine their good friday masse with the which they can beguile the people well inough as they handle it Yea to say the trueth they can doe more with this then they could do with masse of Requiem scala coeli Recordare or anie other of that sorte Wherefore I beseeche them for the passion of Iesus Christ If there bee anie consolation in Christ If there bee any comforte of loue If there bee anie fellowship of the spirite If there be anie compassion and mercie Let them halt no longer on both partes Let them blow no longer hote and cold But let them make the tree good and his fruites good or els make the tree euill and his fruite euill To speake plainely vnto them Let them not make a mingle mangle and hodge podge of the Lordes supper anie longer But let them minister it simply and plainly at the Lordes table as Christ hath left it and as the booke of Scriptures doe truely meane and not after their olde popish fashion as they doe making it a sacrifice for sinnes both of quicke and dead offering it at burialles and monethes mindes after their olde maner whereby they make it abhomination of desolation For as the sacrifice of the popish masse was the verie desolation departure and forsaking of Christes oblation by death vpon the crosse once offered for all So is this funerall sacrifice as they vse it the verie abhomination of the same desolation Therefore let them looke better vpon holy scriptures written for our learning and followe the rules and right meaning of the same and not their popish rules and ceremonies otherwise then is there meant and
doe hope by the increasing of sinne to bring the word of God in hatred and them selues in estimation 1. Tim. 4. The fift note of Antichrist The carracter of Antichrist The occupation of Antichrists brood Psal 83. 73. The sixt note of Antichrist With their good friday masse priests serue both the Pope and Gods people Dan. 9. The abhomination of desolation in the holie place Masse forbidden by proclaimation Masse for the dead condemned by act of parliament The altars taken away by the kinges maiesties iniunctions The papistes deserue nothing but scoffes Leuit. 9. The newe testament Heb. 7. 10. Heb. 9. 1. Pet. 3. Heb. 10. Heb. 9. Rom 6. Heb. 9. Christ made a perfect oblation for sinnes once and that vppon the crosse and not vpon an altar 1. Pet. 2. Christ bare our sinnes on his owne body Christ with his death hath wholly healed vs. Act. 13. Act 10. 43. Our couenant with God is to beleue remission of our sins thorow the death of his sonne Iâ—sus Christ Heb. 10. 16. 17. 18. How long the altars ought to haue continued Iohn 19. 30. Heb. 9 Ephes 5. The finall end of all sacrifice for sinnes What the altars and sacrifice for sinne now doe testifie Esay 53. Heb. 7. 17. Psal 10. 4. Heb. 7. 8. To maintaine the masse and altars is great blasphemie and abhominable heresie Iohn 21. 15. Marke 16. 15. Mat. 28. 19. Psal 12. Prouerb 29. Reuel 17. 14. A monstrous Reuel 17. The seuenth note of an The kings authority is next vnto Gods lâ—ft only to his correction Psal 109 Numb 16. Psal 54. Treason will out Eccles 10. This text is after the traÌ„slation of the Hebrues by Iohn Campâ—â—se Rom. 13. 1. 2. Gods word condemneth all them that rebell in word or thought against the king Math. 7. 15. Mat. 15. 14. Mat. 16. 4. Mat. 12. 34. Mat. 23. 27. The 8. note of Antichrist The 9. note of Antichrist The 10. note of Antichrist The 11. note The 12. note The 13. note The 14. note Coloss 2. And the 15. note of Antichrist A true prophecie prouing Antichrist to be come Act. 20. 29. Mat. 7. 13 14. Habac. 2. 5. Luke 9. Note Iohn 10. Iohn 14 6 1. Iohn 5. Psal 118. 1. Iohn 1. 1. Iohn 2. Habbak 2. Rom. 1. Heb. 10. Luke 12. Mat. 10. Psal 32. 1. Cor. 1. Mat. 3. Rom 3. Rom. 4. Mat. 1. Iohn 10. Ephes 2. Gen. 6. cen 12. Gen. 18. Iohn 1. Iohn 1. Math. 16. Iohn 17. Math. 13 Luke 14. Iohn 14. Rom. 8. Psal 44. Rom. 8. Heb. 5. Psal 119. Three sure signes of the holy catholike church Faith Heb. 11. Heb. 11. Markâ— 9. Luke 17. The first thing that faith worketh in vs. Luke 18. Luke 7. Luke 5. Luke 7. The second thing that faith worketh in vs. Rom. 5. Rom. 5. The third thing that faith worketh in vs. Loue. Gal. 5. Ephes 5. Iohn 13. Hope feare Rom. 8. 1. Iohn 4. The office of true faith The spirit of Christ Rom. 8. Faith loue the spirit of God be together in euery true Christian Math. 7. 2. Cor. 4. Luke 6. The first note of Christes church Rom. 10. Luke 6. The second note of Christes church 1. Iohn 4. 1. Iohn 2. 1. Iohn 3. Iohn 13. The third note of Christes church Rom. 8. The sure signes of the holy Catholike church be gathered out of Cods booke Manifest signes of the church The first maâ—…est note of Christes church Mat. 10. 28. Marke 6. 6. Iohn 21. Math. 28. Luke 12. Iohn 14. Marke 16. Luke 10. The Gospel is a witnesse to all the world Dan. 12. Mat. 24. Iohn 3. A plaine token of the holy catholicke Church Actes 2. When the deuill had men fast by false faith hee cared not for their euill life The second manifest note of Christes Church Math. 10. Luke 12. Christ propheciyng of the discord that would be thorow the preaching of the gospel taketh vpon him the salt of others Math. 26. Luke 22. The banner of Christ goeth euer with his Church as the shadow goeth with the body Mat. 10. Luke 9. 2. Tim. 3. Mat. 10. Iohn 15. The third manifest note of Christes Church