point I shall speake somewhat in the next part Thus much shall suffice to haue spoken of him which sitteth on the horse which is Iesus Christ our king and onely captaine The next and last generall head to be spoken of is the armie of Christ The beast and his armies fight against Christ and his armie The Church of Christ is called by many names but here in the matter and time of warre it is called an armie Likewise Salomon sayth of it that it is terrible as an armie with banners Paul vsing the same Metaphore will haue vs put on the armour of light and saieth that the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mightie through God to cast downe holdes and willeth vs to put vpon vs the whole armour of God that we may be able to stand against the assaults of the deuill and of himselfe he witnesseth that he had fought a good fight and finished his course So that there is a warre and armour and weapons and fighting that belongeth to gods people and they altogether make an armie The Church of England is an excellent and noble band of this armie Wee are Christs souldiers we beare his colours he rideth before vs and among vs vpon the white horse he is our captaine and we are his armie Two kinds of enemies we haue that labour to perswade thēselues the world that we are not Christs armie the Papists and the Barrowists Against the Papists we haue maintained that the sound teaching of the word of God and the lawfull administration of his Sacraments are the most sure ensignes whereby his armie is knowen and that we haue these among vs and they are effectuall in vs. When we allege that which Christ saith My sheepe heare my voyce and a strangers voyce they will not heare That which Esaie hath To the lawe and to the testimonie if they answere not according to this it is because there is no light in thē When we allege these and the like places we obtaine that the true and sound setting forth of the worde of God is a most certaine signe and note of the Church That which Paul hath If any man preach another gospel let him be accursed That which Iohn saith He that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God and if any man bring not the doctrine of Christ receaue him not declareth that a false doctrine of the gospel and Christ destroyeth the Church especially if the errour be in the foundation which is our iustification by faith in Christ and all those things which doe necessarily depend vpon it Therefore the Apostle saith Other foundation can no man lay then that which is layed euen Iesus Christ And againe Ye are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone For this cause Paul doth so carefully and oft stand vpon the clearing of this article of our iustification by faith in Christ in so manie of his Epistles The true doctrine of the Gospel is thus founde to be the note yea and seede of the Church That the right and lawfull administration of the Sacraments pertaineth to the description and declaration of the Church we may easisily confirme Our Sauiour ioyneth the Sacraments to the worde Goe teach all nations baptizing them The Apostle doeth the like when hee sayeth Christ hath clensed his Church by the washing of water through the worde And of the other Sacrament it is sayde Doe this in remembraunce of mee And drinke yee all of this And the first Church gathered together after Christes ascension is thus described They that gladly receaued his worde were baptized and the same day there were added to the Church about three thousand soules and they continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and praiers These things by the benefite of God we haue the trueth of the Gospell and the whole new and olde Testament in all points of substance of doctrine truly taught and set footh in this lande the sacraments also are rightly administred Wherefore we haue the true notes of the Church These are the true notes of the Church such notes as are also causes of it for the word and sacraments doe beget and nourish faith by which we are vnited to Christ as to the heade Many other things agree to the Church as good workes mutuall loue true repentance shunning of idolatrie a right inuocation of the name of God and the like But these are partes and effects and ornaments of the former and concurre together with them for the word taught must be vnderstood to be fruitfull and so the sacraments to worke in mens soules and both to be of power or els they are no longer tokens to vs that wee are of the Church of God These things thus vnderstood are the true and sufficient markes whereby he that hath spirituall eyes may see the Church of God These by the speciall working of Iesus Christ we yet retaine in such sorte as they bring foorth fruite in mens hearts and liues God grant they may continue with vs and be more effectuall to worke amendment in all As for those marks wherby the Papists would haue the Church to be discerned they are deceitfull they can not point it out Antiquitie hath erred Vniuersalitie hath bin corrupted Vnitie may be in falshood Succession in place may be without succession in trueth their other marks are of like nature The worde and Sacraments rightly set forth and receaued and bringing forth fruite can neuer deceaue vs but bring vs directly to the true Church of Iesus Christ. But what shal we say to them that make discipline a necessarie marke of the Church because our Sauiour saith Baptize them teaching thē to obserue whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you The obseruation that our Sauiour speaketh of is not of some certaine forme of outward gouernement but generally of obedience to faith to loue and to the whole lawe and Gospell As for that discipline by Elders in euery parish it will not be found in those wordes of Christ. The Church can not well stand without all ecclesiasticall gouernement Yet it seemeth it did so stand in the captiuitie of Babylon but without that forme it may very well stand and florish and so hath done in this and former ages in many places Wherefore the worde and sacraments remaine as the markes in generall whereby the Church may be discerned But the Barrowists and such of whome they haue learned their principles descend into a more speciall and neere description of the Church The worde and Sacramentes are not such notes with them as can point out a Church What then is the Church of Christ in their account diuerse of them haue gone about to describe it but one especially would seeme to doe it most fully therefore he describeth it in these wordes at large The true planted and rightly established Church of Christ is a companie of faithful people separated from the
be that folow it Let thē therfore boast of the greater number yea nūber not naked but armed furnished instructed to fight We grant it them It was theirs much more then it is and yet is theirs more then I hope it will be heereafter The holy ghost hath giuen them the multitude for a time A great number was signified to adhaere to the beast when it is said He caused the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast And againe He deceiued them that dwell on the earth And yet more He caused that as manie as woulde not worship the image of the beast should be killed And further He made all both small and great rich and poore free and bond to receiue a marke in their right hand or in their forehead and that no man might buy nor sell but he that had the marke or the name of the beast or the number of his name Thus in the thirteenth chapter the greater number is shewed to appertaine vnto the beast In the seuenteenth chapter it is called the great whore the great citie and it is said moreouer The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people and multitudes and nations and tongues And to omit many other places heere at last it is said I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to fight Should we then doubt whether their side be the side of Antichrist because their fauourers are many Nay thereby we are made the more certaine of it Another note they haue by which they thinke to further their part which is vnitie It is a good token of Christes disciples if they loue one another but to consent and to conspire together is not proper to the good but agreeth to the wicked also The heathen agreed all in their generall superstition and no falling out greatly among them for it The Turks haue but two parts or sects and ech sect agreeth and holdeth strait together All the Israelites agreed to make the Golden calfe the tenne tribes consented to the setting vp of the calues in Dan and Bethel And what maruell then if all the West parts of the world haue consented together to worship and maintaine the Romish beast Iohn saith the tenne kings haue one minde and shall giue their power and authoritie to the beast And heere it is said Their armies were gathered together to fight They were not dispersed and scattered but gathered together in one purpose and in one meaning to fight against Christ and his armie The common sort of Papistes seeme to care for no point else in religion but onelie this The Spanish and Italian and French and the ignorant English papists seeke scarse any further into the cause but onely stand vpon that head and branch that the Holy ghost hath set downe that is to fight against Christ and his armie As for all other pointes of religion it is their greatest religion not to search into religion Thus the Holy ghost in two wordes setteth downe much of that whereupon they stand and which in our dayes we see fulfilled These are the generall notes of their armies gathered out of these words In that there are armies named we may well gather that they are of moe kindes then one They themselues diuide their whole multitude into the Spiritualtie and Laitie So by their owne diuision they haue two kindes of armies one of great learned men lawyers diuines and other professours of learning and another of captaines and souldiers and armed men and generallie the rest of the people Such an armie as the first is especially of priestes Lib. 4. epist 38. Gregorius Magnus assigneth vnto Antichrist Rex superbiae propè est quod dici quoque nefas est sacerdotum ei praeparatur exercitus The king of pride is neere at hand and that which is an heinous thing to speake an armie of priests is prepared for him And this he spake agreeable to this reuelation For Iohn sayth I saw three vncleane spirites like frogges come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet For they are spirites of deuils working miracles to goe vnto the kinges of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battell of that great day of God almightie Yea and their indeuour was not in vaine for they did gather them together In this chapter it is sayd The beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him whereby hee deceiued them that receiued the beastes marke These spirits this false prophet are set downe to note their first and most dangerous kinde of armie They call themselues the spiritualtie and this scripture calleth them spirits How could it come neerer The other name of false prophets is taken from the state of the Olde Testament for as then false prophets alwayes opposed themselues against the true prophets so now their priests and monkes and the rest of their religious rabble against the true preachers of the Gospell But why doeth hee terme them the false prophet and not false prophets when it is euident that they are many Is it for their consent in this matter of gainesaying or is it not rather for that in euery age and for ech profession of lawe and diuinitie they haue one especially vpon whose wit and learning they all depend for their law Gratian for their diuinitie Lumbard after him in one age Aquinas and against Luther Eckius in this time Bellarmine for so in ech age they seeme to sucke their learning and all their arguments and quiddities from the breast of some one aboue all the rest But for what cause soeuer it is termed in the singular number false prophets pertaine to the state ecclesiasticall and they are the greatest doers in these warres Nowe consider all the states in the world besides and see where there is authoritie yea or almost any dealing for warre matters put in the hands of them to whome the matters of religion directlie are committed Among all those that professe the Gospell in all kingdomes of Christendome there is scarse any one in a kingdome admitted to councell about those thinges much lesse doe they contriue warres and stirre them vp or almost intermeddle in them Amongst the Turkes they haue not to deale in it their religious persons are not the procurers of their warres by running from one prince to another They shake a speare and vse some wordes in their owne temple to stirre vp the people to fight against Christians but otherwise they contriue not the warres In the Tartarian gouernment the affaires of the warres are not in such mens hands So that in this poynt the Papists onely are fully answerable to this prophesie and the Turkes come next vnto them but yet they are but babes to them in this exercise Let the name of the false prophet be common to Mahomet and his
Some are of opinion that the white horse is set as a token of the last iudgement and that Christ is here described to come vpon a white horse to iudge the world In such a sense a white cloude is giuen to him wherein he shall come But it may seeme rather that this description pertaineth not to the last iudgemēt First because in iudgement hee is said commonly to sit vpon a throne as in the next chapter and in Daniel And Paul saith We shal all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ Now a throne or a seate and a horse haue a cōtrary signification For the one pertaineth to quietnes the other to motion This descriptiō setteth forth Christ as mouing going forward and not as resting and ending all Secondly the space of time that is betweene this viage wherein Christ thus rideth and the iudgement will not suffer this to be vnderstoode of the last iudgement For as some thinke there shal be after this battel ouerthrowe of the Beast here mentioned a thousand yeres or a great long space before the iudgemēt or the end of al. Because after this Iohn reporteth that he did see Satan bound a thousand yeres and then let loose for a season I speake not of the Chiliasts which imagined a thousand yeeres of happie life here on earth after the resurrection But Morelius thinketh there may be a thousand yeeres or a long time before the last iudgemēt after this ouerthrowe of Antichrist for this should not be his finall ouerthrowe but that he should renewe his strength somewhat againe and fight yet against the saintes of God which Iohn seemeth to meane when he saith in the next Chapter that Gog and Magog whose number was as the sande of the sea were gathered and compassed the beloued citie fire came downe from heauen to consume them These and other things which I will nowe recite make many thinke that the white horse here spoken of pertaineth not to the last iudgement What then may this white horse be It is the Gospell that being published and made knowne to the world carieth Christ abroad according to it hee ouercommeth the beast This runneth swiftly this carieth him from place to place vpon this he rideth as vpon the winges of the winde For he is described here by those thinges which yet pertaine to the publishing of his name among men to the furtherance of his knowledge and vanquishing of his enemies and enlarging of his Church vpon earth To this it appertaineth that he is said to be faithfull and true in his promises to his elect that hee iudgeth and fighteth righteously for his people in a righteous cause and while they embrace righteousnes that he hath many crownes vpon his head kings yeelding their crownes to him which before they submitted to the Pope that he is called the word of God as yet reuealing his secrete counsell that his garment is dipt in blood making daily great slaughters of his enemies and that a sharpe sword commeth out of his mouth euen his iust decree against the wicked In the sixt Chapter the white horse hath receaued the like interpretation of the most Interpreters Thus Iohn sayeth I behelde and loe there was a white horse and he that sate on him had a bowe and a crowne was giuen vnto him and hee went foorth conquering that hee might ouercome There by the white horse is meant the Gospell with the bowe hee shot the arrowes of his worde his threatnings and grieuous iudgements and wounded his enemies He went in the first age after his ascension conquering and conuerting the world to himselfe and still had more and more to conquer because hee neuer wanted enemies And nowe towards the ende hee mounteth on the white horse and againe rideth gloriously in the sight of his people This horse that is his Gospell is saide to be white First because without all vaile or couer it sheweth foorth the full purpose of Gods good will vnto men for by it wee see God as in a glasse and are made to knowe his fauour most clearely Secondly because it teacheth and bringeth to vs iustification and forgiuenes of sinnes which being laid holde on by faith maketh vs white in the sight of God Thirdly because it doth commend vnto vs an innocent a pure life all the staines and blacknes of sinne being washed foorth And last of all because Christ by it sheweth himselfe victorious triumphant for a white horse was vsed in triumph Thus is Christ described by riding vpon a white horse The beast and his kings and their armies fight against him while he is thus sitting on the white horse They cannot fight against him as he is in heauen they cannot reach to his person there Neither shall they haue any minde to fight against him as he sitteth or commeth to iudgement but their fiercenes being then banished they shall tremble at his presence But as he sitteth on the white horse as hee is made knowen to the world in his Gospell by which hee maketh vs white forgiuing our sinnes and chaunging our liues so the beast fighteth against him It will bee too late to fight when he commeth in iudgement Then the beast himselfe shall haue no courage to fight But nowe the meanest souldier the basest Seminarye that is vnder the beaste euery busie schismatike will encounter him and his whole armie while hee sitteth on the white horse Therefore in these daies they are so sawcie with him and his horse and all his armie Of this that Christ onely is captaine and generall on the one side it followeth that they which will be saued must cleaue to him alone for their saluation Euery thing that is against him or seemeth to steppe into his place must be remooued The Popes supremacie the sacrifice of the Masse adoration of images inuocation of saintes confidence in workes all these must be reiected and wee must cleaue onely to Christ for saluation His people are known by hauing him to be their leader and not by a Pope or a city or any one earthly power ruling ouer them Againe it is to be concluded that seeing Christ commeth no way to his Church but sitting vpon the white horse and that horse is his Gospell therefore all men that will receaue him and his benefites must submit themselues to be taught by his word and seeke to knowe his Gospell he that receaueth not his word can not receaue him Now would it seeme meete to shew seeing the Gospel is this white horse that Christ doeth sit on whether hee commeth vnto vs vpon it being read or being preached and whether the learned and preaching ministers onely bee this white horse or also the vnlearned and readers may be accounted such as beare forth Christ vnto his people I thinke Christ commeth by the one and by the other and each of them doeth beare him foorth albeit he doeth ride more gloriously swiftly in the sound of learned preaching But of this
say not as they alleage that the childe shall beleeue but that it doth in way of Sacrament and outwarde profession in as much as it is offered to baptisme which is Sacramentum fidei and is borne of parents that are professors of Christian faith And as for the procuring of these thinges in action in the childe there is none that vnderstandeth I thinke anie furder then as it maye lye in them conueniently and as neede shall require But what can there be in the Font to corrupt baptisme more thē in the Church wals to corrupt prayers and scriptures and and preaching and all Women are not purified as though they were otherwise vncleane but they giue thankes for their deliuerance and for the increase of mankinde and the Church In giuing thankes for Gods benefites there is not anie fault Confirmation is retained as a meanes to procure the instructing of the children or as a tryall of it not as a newe baptisme nor as anie Sacrament nor as that which shoulde conferre grace otherwise then by prayer to God for it Baptisme by women is not warranted by the booke nor allowed to bee put in practise About the Lordes supper they haue manie cauils as that it is soulde for two pence a head that the institution is broken and changed in the deliuerie that there is a stage-like dialogue betweene priest clarke and people that there are newe Apocryphall lawes and iniunctions added the Priest to stand at the Northside of the table the people to kneele verse and Collect that there is popish and idolatrous houseling of the sicke that there is popish visiting and pardoning of the sicke with this Sacrament These are hainous thinges The Sacrament they say is sould for two pence who selleth it who buieth it so He is to giue that whether he receaue or no It is no price of the Sacrament but a poore alowance to the Minister The institution is not broken in the deliuerie The wordes of institution are then vsed when the bread and wine are set apart for the vse of the Sacrament and so much set apart for it as is vsed in it The wordes in the deliuerie are to applie them to the persons to stirre vp their faith the institution was past before For the speeches vttered by the Minister and clearke and people there is no fault in the matter but they condemne the forme They thinke the Minister must vtter all that is spoken the people must onely say Amen That they are commanded to saye and they are not forbidden to saye more How can that sound of the multitude bee made in the praysing of God compared to the sound of many waters and of mightie thunders if the people saye nothing in Gods seruice Their owne speach maketh them more attentiue and stirreth vp their mindes the rather The finding fault with standing kneeling and such necessarie and seemelie gestures proceedeth of infinite curiositie and most froward peeuishnes We can not be together but we must haue some place some gesture and these are the fittest Last of all as prayers and the worde of comfort so likewise the Sacrament may be giuen to the sicke There is no pardon otherwise giuen to him by it then to other men at other times If hee beleeue and repent he hath forgiuenes by faith in Christ and it is sealed and confirmed to him by the Sacrament Thus much of the particular faultes which they are most offended with Moreouer besides these they carpe at comminations which are nothing but sentences of scripture and how bitter soeuer the curses are yet they are the curses of God against such as offend They finde fault with a seuenfold repetition of the Lordes prayer at one meeting some of them are oft omitted with tossing of Psalmes and sentences to and fro like tennis balles which is a prophane speach and the thing is not commanded and it may well be practised so they reade and speake in such sorte that all men may heare and vnderstand These are the chiefe thinges with which they finde fault in the booke The most of them are circumstances and as it were the shels the kirnel is the confession of our sinnes the asking of thinges necessarie to soule and bodie for the common state and our selues the praysing of God for his benefites the setting forth of Gods will his worde and testament These are the substance of the booke and of Gods worship They make a buzzing about mens eares with trifles and vanities for the most parte and for these they will turne all vpside downe which are such things in deede many of them as it would not come into our mindes once to speake of them if their exclamations and outcries did not stirre vs of necessitie to it Yet there is one thing pertaining to Gods worship among vs which they can not submit themselues vnto An othe is a parte of the honor we giue to God when vpon iust cause in the trueth wee call his name to witnes this we do by laying the hand vpon the booke of holy scripture The othe is taken in the name of God that gaue his worde to his Church by the promises and threatnings that he in it hath made vnto vs the booke is kissed and touched in signe thereof otherwise by the dead paper or ynke or couer wee are not willed neither ought we to sweare and this hath neither impietie nor idolatrie in it no more then if a man did lift vp his eyes or his hands to heauen when he doth it in more vehement expressing of his sincere and earnest meaning in it Thus much of the fourth note of their Church Gods true worship for corruption whereof they accuse vs falsely The fift note of the visible Church they make to bee the obeying of Iesus Christ as their king priest and prophet Thus should Christ be receaued or else he is not receaued at all to anie benefite First then they goe about to shewe that wee acknowledge not Christ to bee our king wee receaue him not as king they saye because wee reiect his gouernment and stand vnder the Antichristian yoke of popish gouernement There be many things which pertaine to Christs gouernement and reigne as hee is king which wee haue yea all thinges that are necessarie and substantiall partes of that his office First the spiritual gouernement in the soule by which hee reigneth in vs to the peace of conscience and the vanquishing of Satan and the beating downe of sinne and ignorance is founde among vs and wee specially reioyce in it Of this it is sayde the kingdome of God is within you and that the kingdome of God is not meate and drinke but peace and righteousnesse and ioy in the holy ghost and that wee are translated from the kingdome of darkenes to the kingdome of light Secondly his worde read and preached reprouing sinne and teaching righteousnes is among vs. Of this it is saide the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter and for
Church altogether Nowe then how shall we knowe whether a thing be popish and Antichristian or no By the names that can not be Names of their nature be indifferent the thinges contained in the names as they are vsed of vs must be examined And how shall we finde whether they bee popish and Antichristian If they serue to promote poperie then are they popish then are they Antichristian But if they further Christs glorie his kingdome then may they bee retained in the Church of Christ and we hauing them bee his Church Therefore if none of these offices nor courtes nor Ministers helpe to maintaine idolatrie or the Popes supremacie or mens traditions against the written worde or free wil against the grace of Christ or mens merites against iustification by faith or the Idole and sacrifice of the Masse or pilgrimages or purgatorie or prayer for the dead or auricular confession or satisfactions for sinnes by penance or indulgences or the keeping of the worde of God from the people in an vnknowen tongue or such like if they doe not maintaine vice nor iniustice nor heresie among vs but are directed to roote out poperie to keepe vs in the true faith to aduance the worde of God to establish our iustification by faith to further repentance and good workes to punish sinne to define that which is equall and right to keepe the common peace of the Churche then are they not popish seeing they are bent and exercised to the ruine of poperie but they are Christian and holie and appertaining to the Church of Christ for as much as they further the kingdome and glorie of Christ our Sauiour All that are zealous striue for two thinges wherein all men are to put to their helpe by counsel by credite by authoritie by power and by all lawfull meanes that bee in them One that the worde of God maye bee more diligently and commonly taught the other that sinne may bee more seuerely and generally punished If these two may by this gouernement bee more set forwarde much of these troubles and contentions will be easier stopped There is no fault in the names or in the offices but they may helpe forward these or any good things Wherfore they be not simplie popish or Antichristian but in the abuse they were in the right vse they are now holie Christianlike Now let vs see what scripture doth condemne these names and offices Two places are brought out against thē One out of the Psalme The kings of the earth band themselues and the princes are assembled together against the Lord and against his Christ let vs breake their bands and cast their cords from vs. But do our gouerners all the people in this estate band themselues against the Lord and against his Christ doe they not band themselues for the glorie of the Lorde and of Iesus Christ It might be done I knowe more plentifullie yet this gouernement setteth forth Christ onely to vs with his benefits to saluation Christs deitie Christs gospel Christs sacrifice Christs iustice Christs kingdome by this is aduanced Wherefore they band not themselues against Christ neither do they say let vs breake their bands cast their cordes frō vs but rather they willinglie receaue the bands yea the chaines of Christ if neede be We are contēt that his lawe binde our feete hands eyes and hearts also but we cast off their bands because we cast away their gouernement by Elders They are not the bandes of Christ they are but small threeds that wil easily bee broken Luke 19.14 The other place which they alleage against those titles offices is in Luke Now his citizens hated him and sent an embassage after him saying we wil not haue this man to reigne ouer vs. These places that were spoken of the obstinate Iewes that hated the name faith of Christ of the heathen idolaters that worshipped false Gods and would not acknowledge Christ to be God of the Mahometicall sect that reiect Christs gospel denie his redēption of the Antichristian popish rable which keepe his name and denie his efficacie sufficiencie in redeeming vs those I saye they bring against them that acknowledge all which they thēselues doe for sufficiencie of saluatiō for infalliblenes of his truth and for all his benefites onelie because wee yeeld not to thē for a certaine forme of outward gouernment But they must proue more euidentlie that those thinges are euill or else we will not be terrified by those places but that we may safelie say that that true Church of Iesus Christ is with vs euen in this gouernmēt To returne againe to their other notes which remaine whereby they will describe a visible church of Christ they say that Christs Church must be gouerned by his own lawes takē out of the olde newe Testament and no other They thinke as it seemeth that no lawes neede more to be made for any thing but that the lawes of Moses shoulde stand be sufficient to determine all matters Or if for ciuil matters they will admit more yet for punishments in matters Ecclesiasticall it is certaine they will acknowledge no more nor anie other Their groundes for this opinion are these scriptures First out of Saint Matthewe Mat. 17.5 This is my beloued sonne heare him It extendeth to matters of doctrine and saluation and all that hee hath taught but not to matters of gouernement Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall in particular For hee hath not made such lawes The next is out of the Epistle to the Hebrewes Heb. 3.6 Hee is Lorde of the house 1. Cor. 2.16 therefore hee is to bee obeyed in so much as hee hath set downe Particular ordināces he hath not prescribed for gouernmēt but left it free Thē they bring this out of the Epistle to the Corinthians We haue the minde of Christ hee meaneth for matters of saluation and the worship of God but not for particular actions that must be considered in gouernement After this commeth that to the Galathians Gal. 3.15 A mans testament when it is confirmed no man doth abrogate or addeth to it Paul speaketh of iustification by faith whereto works as a cause of iustification must not be added nothing there of outward gouernement Now as for their other places 1. Tim. 6.13 they inferre not that in the worde are sufficient lawes set downe for all thinges but that such as are commanded should be obserued as that to Timothie I charge thee that thou keep the commandement without spot and vnrebukeable vntil the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ That which Paul hath set downe as a commandement to be kept or hath so declared that must be kept for euer But who can saye that Paul hath set downe lawes for all things in that Epistle Ephe. 4.11 And that to the Ephesians doth not conclude their purpose Hee hath giuen Apostles for the worke of the Ministerie and gathering together of the Saintes til we all meete