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A68146	A theologicall discourse of the Lamb of God and his enemies contayning a briefe commentarie of Christian faith and felicitie, together with a detection of old and new barbarisme, now commonly called Martinisme. Newly published, both to declare the vnfayned resolution of the wryter in these present controuersies, and to exercise the faithfull subiect in godly reuerence and duetiful obedience.	Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?	1590 (1590)	STC 12915; ESTC S117347	120,782	204

keepe them from blame and shame before God seeing he came apparantly into the mids of his owne and his owne receiued him not But be they hote or key cold be they carefull or carelesse be they Gods friends or the Diuels feends be they one or other or neither or all Iohn preacheth to them all at once and teacheth one with another excepting against neither and accepting of al as of one he will graft this science of Christ into the true oliue and if the body cānot nourish it hee will remoue it into the wilde oliue tree he offereth them the sauour of life the Sauiour of the world but if they refuse him he turneth to the Gētiles if the children of the family will not eate their bread giue it to the poore that cry out for hunger at the dores if the true and next legitimate heyre be dead raise vp another heire by adoption if the common directest path be stopped vp all is plaine ground open way in the valley of Bethabara and God is not tide to any man or to any way vnlesse he be his man and it be his way for if once he be Gods chosen seruant and once in Gods booke of life if God shall once say Thou art my sonne and I wil be a father to thee then if euery haire of his head were a Cayn and euery pore of his body a Nymrod though euery drop of his bloud be an Ammon euery blast of his spirit the seuen spirits of Mary Magdalene his haires shal be washed his pores clensed his bloud purged his spirit purified and all his inward and outward man made a liuely sacrifice of a dead a holy oblation of a defiled an acceptable and gratious sauour of a putrified and noisome smell and in a word to Gods children chiefly is this doctrine appertaining which S. Iohn deliuereth here behold the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinne of the world to them specially is it spoken which are written in Gods eternall Register whose faith is euer liuely mouing working neuer idle A foundation surely grounded is not easily remoued but a building vpon sand is soone ouerturned that is bred in the bone wil neuer out of the body but an outward maladie is soone cured a Iewish father maketh a Iewish sonne as the scholler is taught so he beleeueth as the blinde is led so he walketh an owne counteth night as day and the Iewe loueth his owne darkenesse more then the light of Christ and the fault is not in the day but in the oule when Gods holy spirit forsaketh a man he goeth and wandreth he cannot tell whether but is compared to swine that tread vpon pearles to beasts that perish the Iewe will be obstinate in his superstition and wilfull in his blindnes as the Aethiopian will euer be blacke and the diuell a liar at euery hand a reprobate sense may be reproued but neuer amended a peruerse opinion wil very hardly leaue a peruerse and crooked minde superstitious premisses alwaies drawe after them superstitious conclusions Iewish and vncharitable presumptions make Iewish iudgements vnkind and vnchristian thoughts beget vnkind and vnchristian censures a preiudicate minde can neuer determine rightly a purposed inuectiue is commonly more affectionate then reasonable though a voice from heauen approue Christ the Iewish voice in earth will reproue him and his by hooke or by crooke probably or impudently euen Martinlike if the diuell once set in his pawe all the whole house will smell of his rankenes one morsell of leauen leueneth the whole lump of dowe then beware of the leauen of the Iewish Scribes and Pharisees that write vnrighteousnesse and boast of leesings Historians say that the crow and the ape suppose presume their yonglings are faire and so perhaps they are in their kinde but who else will say so besides the crowe and the ape Mercury in his methode imagineth selfe-loue to walke in a gallery beset and hanged with seeing glasses wherein she may view and vaunt hir owne pecock feathers I cannot stand now vpon this common place of wilfull and Iewish obstinacie mixed with hautie and Iewish self-loue the truest historie and poesie in the world is the historie and poesie of the Bible that teacheth the truest and surest beleefe and the truest beleefe neuer refuseth the right sentence or hopeth for more truthes then one faith tempered with charitie pearceth the cloudes and loue among brethren is a sweete smell in Gods nostrels the loue of Iesus is more sweet then the loue of all women for he shall neuer repent himselfe of his loue that loueth Iesus he came to vs as a frend he dwelt with vs as a brother he died for vs as a mother in trauell he rose for vs as a God he ascended for vs as a Captaine a captaine to leade and defend his christian Souldiers to loade and oppresse his Iewish enemies must therefore be loued with the loue of all frendes of all brothers of al children of all creatures of al seruants and souldiers in the whole world from the first day to the last There is but one world but one sunne but one king and but one Messias and Sauiour greater then the world cleerer then the sunne stronger then king great without fault cleare without spotte strong without change the world of ioy the sunne of righteousnes the king of peace let vs goe out of this world and dwell in that world walke in that light obey that king but first follow the counsel of Iohn-baptist and beholde behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sinne of the world and then dwel with him walke with him and obey him Thus for vpon the first part of this text which is the historie Now followeth the doctrine which the wicked heare and marke not or if they marke it they soon forget it if they remember the word it taketh no roote in their hearts or if it be rooted it rotteth and withereth at the last and scarcely bringeth foorth the least tokens of regeneration but geueth leaues and no fruite and is therefore cursed with Christes owne curse as the Fig-tree was cursed for bearing no figges Marke c. 11. ver 13 21. Who then must cheefly wey and examine this sentence of Iohn-baptist Let all those that delight in their saluation behold this lambe of God with louing eye and constantly perswade themselues that he taketh away the sinne of the world let all such as loue their owne liues consider this sentence throughly deepely from which al meditations and prayers are growen and vpon which all the bookes and volumes of holy writers and godly learned fathers are buylded written for as al their works belong to the two testaments the old and the new so the two testamentes are singularly belonging to this one sentence But to leaue the longest and largest obseruations it shall suffice to set downe a compendious and if God will a fruitfull exposition Behold saith the Baptist behold with ioy awake

peerelesse that we may hope for new artes new manners new worldes to preuent articall hyperboreall harmes and to winne goods by the sonnes of Arcturus whom perhaps they can guide by their learning and answere the question in Iobs booke cap. 38. v. 32. against the Moone in sending her to God her creator to complaine of the Sun for keeping the light from her at his certaine times against innocent Adam by geuing him both natures of male and female in Paradise before Eue was made and telling of his ingendring with the beasts of the field against Noa the Preacher of righteousnes by reporting of the Crowes ielosie toward him to let passe many such impudent fictions vnreasonable impieties senselesse things But the Iewes credit is little worth with Christians and themselues are weried and tyred with looking so long for a new Messias whereas they had the right lambe of God among them and most horribly slaughtered him without all pitie or mercie euen according to the spirituall visions and diuine predictions of the Prophets that euery scripture might be fulfilled and no iote of Gods word passe vnaccomplished Act. c. 4. v. 28. The first comming of this lambe in humilitie is as certainly past as his second comming in maiesty glory is not farre of God grant we be found ready at the great comming of the great bridegrome with the fiue wise virgins that were so well prouided with oyle in their lamps Math. c. 25. v. 7 10. As I haue lightly passed ouer the light and vaine Iewes so I hope I may also do with the Turks considering that the very name of Iew and Turke are alike odious among good Christians The Alcoran and Mahomets whole heape of learning is not vnknowne to some students where Mahomet is made a greater and a mightier prophet then Christ because he had a greater body and was girded with a sword where the lambe of the diuell or rather that woolfe of hell is preferred before the lambe of God because the beast wrought more wonders then Iesus where God is said to be but one onely single God in person without any wife and therefore without any sonne or daughter or any such issue because God is not able in his extraordinary power to beget a body without ordinary means where diuers notable histories and speciall parts of the bible are fabulously deliuered strangly corrupted because otherwise they serue not his purpose where the finger of the diuell hath incountred the finger of God and the spirit of Belzebub opposed it selfe against the spirit of Christ This horrible abhominable booke although it be read of some men yet I trust there is not any christian that maketh any better account thereof then it deserueth though Leo Nardus gather out of it a certaine Confirmation of our gospell in his tollerable vnnecessary deuise being in truth the very booke of the diuell vnder pretense of worshipping the one only true God whereas no man cōmeth to the father but he whom the sonne leadeth and guideth as many texts of scripture might be alleaged to that purpose Iohn c. 14. v. 6. Math. c. 11. v. 27. c. In this booke Sergius a false monke and a Nestorian heretike had his hand therein thinking to go beyond all Antichrists in oppugning and defacing the diuinity of Christ Sabel l. 6. Enne 8. but I hope there shal not greatly neede any long confutation in this place either of Mahometists or of Nestorians or of any like hereticks that denied the deity of Christ they haue bene materially and throughly confuted by the best diuines of al ages from time to time euē since the primitiue church to this day and these Sergianks and Alcoranks cannot endure long but they shall be stopped vp as wels without water and they are carried about with a whirlewinde and tempest and to them the blacke darkenesse is reserued for euer 2. Pet. c. 2. v. 17. God be praised this poison hath not greatly at any time infected this church of Englād or any special mēbers therof but hath alwaies bin reckoned among the most venimous scismes the most horrible apostasies the most abhominable heresies of other erroneous churches and little better account may iustly be made of Scaliger that suttle maister of late yeares suttle as a spinners web full of cunning and simply good for nothing and therefore hated of right wisdome which the heathen miscalled Pallas as the morall physitian Petrarke writeth l. 1. dial 7. who eyther in the pride of his name Iulius Caesar or of his wit or militarship accounteth the ministers of holy things in al countries and places like those Mahometicall impostors which deceiued the king of Moluccae with their Manucodiata a bird of paradise for dreaming and fayning many matters thereby to lead the people into vaine hope and maintaine their opinions or sects Exercit. 228.5 And little better account hath bene made of Iosephus the writer of the Iudaicall historie and himselfe a Iewish priest who reporteth of Iesus but as of another good wise man or a good prophet at the most because he could say no more then he knew or would not seeme to be wiser then his countrymen from whom both the turkish and all other vngratious violent doctrines had their beginning l. 18. c. 4. antiq Some other places of christendome haue bene more touched and plagued with these corrupt inuentions of Iudaisme Nestorianisme Mahometisme such like execrable apostasies and heresies robbing Christ of his diuinity and themselues of their saluation in denying him to be the lambe of God I pray God wee may euer continue cleare in the vniuersities and cities which are to be the nurseries of true doctrine and seminaries of true religion the tree of apostasie and heresie must not onely be hewen downe but plucked vp by the very rootes and burned in vnquenchable fire Math. c. 3. v. 10. Certaine ancient fathers in the primitiue Church were troubled with confuting the wicked ruffianly apostata Iulian Carion saith l. 3. who desperately opposed himselfe with might and maine with haue among yee my maisters the Nazarites during that short florish of his empire which vanished like a mist euen as Athanasius had prophesied of him against the holy one in Israel the blessed lambe of God and not onely fought against Christ with the tyrannicall armes of a bloudy Emperour but also with the sophisticall weapons of a broken rhetorician euer ready aswel to martyr the zealous confessor with the one as to confute the most zealous doctor with the other But himself in the end was striken with an arrow wonderfully as Achab was cōstrayned to crie out in a horrible and wofull agonie Vicisti galilaee ô galilean thou hast gotten the victory ô Christ I must needes confesse my selfe ouercome and so he gaue vp the blacke ghost Theod. l. 3. c. 25. and certaine fragments of his glorious and blasphemous stile are yet extant sufficiently confuted aswell by many learned christians as by that