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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18905	An abstract of fayth grounded on Moses, and applyed to the common Creede; plainely and briefly. By Henoch Clapham, in the beginning of his third yeares bands.	Clapham, Henoch.	1606 (1606)	STC 5328; ESTC S118540	16,421	46

c. doth appoynt a peculiar Oblation for the whole Congregation of Israel so sinning Let God then be true and euery man a lyer The Church of Israel was Nationall and in Exod. 19. called of the Lord an Holy Nation he hauing called and culled them from out all people vnto himselfe and so were a figure of the Church which Christ at his first comming into the world would gaine to himselfe out of all * Reuel 7. 9. Nations Tongues and Kindreds for woorshipping before his Throne And herein was Japhet returned to Shems Tabernacle as Noah foretold And the Prodigall Gentile repaired so to his Elder brothers inheritaunce namely that of the Jew as our Sauiour intimates in a Parable The Jew respecting the generall standeth without murmuring at the Gentiles acception Heauenly Father perswade him to come in that so thy Two people may become One for furthering thy glory This Catholique Church then is the whole body of people wheresoeuer * Catholique a greeke word in English Vniuersall and therefore not to be tyed to Rome or any one place citie or nation Catholiquely that is vniuersally spread vpon the whole face of the earth gathered from ludahs tribe vnto Shiloh himselfe as Jaak●b foretold in Genes 49. 10. when he sayd A Tribe shall not leaue ludah nor Lawgiuer from betweene his feete till Shiloh come then the people shal be gathered vnto Him that is to Christ. And whereas some vrge from the Epithet Holy that by holy Catholique Church is meant onely that part of the Church which is inuisible knowen onely vnto God each member wherof is Holy indeed I take it to be an errour First for that the auncient Writers who best vnderstoode their owne terme Catholique do vnderstande it of the visible Beleeuers wheresoeuer as may be seene specially in their forme of prouoking Heretiques Secondly the tearme Holy giuen vnto it doth no more proue that therefore euery soule in the Catholique Church is indeede Holy then the same tearme proueth all therefore in Israels people to be Holy indeed when as they be called an holy Nation For who in the Scriptures shal not perceiue that Israel howsoeuer Called to be Sainctes prooued still in fact and Fayth for the most part very prophane and Idolatrous And that is in deed a Sonne of perdition mounted in the Temple a body of Tares ouergrowing the Wheat-field Which not obserued of many it hath been cause of much errour in disputation about the visibilitie of the Church Euen as it followeth not because Jeroboam is a liuing man therefore euery member in him is liuing or hath life in it for his hand and some other parts may be dead and senslesse Then will some further obiect It followeth that as the Nationall Church of Israel and the Prouinciall Church of the Jewes had one visible Hie-priest ouer the whole so the Catholique Christian Church is to haue one visible Pastor ouer it I answere it followeth not First for that One may better rule ouer a Prouince or Nation then ouer the whole world Secondly for that God commaunded that people to repaire three times a yeare to that One place where that Hie-priest was to continue with the Arke of God but no such commaundement to vs. Nay God hath taken away that One place because in euery place he will be worshipped Our Melchi-esedek in repect of his Diuinitie is euery where therefore to be sacrificed too euery where and his Mandood is in the Heauens therefore Sur sum corda thither lift we vp our heartes As Christ is the onely head of this Church and this Church is the whole Corporation of Beleeuers of all Nations Kindreds and Tongues standing before his Throne so the life of this Church is his Spirit and the Spirit she receiueth * Galat 3. 2. 5. 8. by the preaching of Fayth Moses teacheth this euidently enough in not only introducing the Lord himselfe preaching the doctrine of Fayth to Adam and Heuah in Paradise and to other Patriarchs after but also in his giuing to auncient Mother Zion the whole Tribe of Leuj for discharging Ministeriall duties for information of Fayth besides that in desperate times he stirred vp Prophets of what Tribe soeuer without all Priestly forme of Ordination for informing Priest and people All which taking away Cerimoniall circumstaunces the Lorde doth to this catholique Church for trayning her through the worldes Wildernesse vnto the alotted Land of Promise heauenly Canaan In the meane time as the Church of Israel had her Captiuities vnder the which was an exercise of her patience and for gayning of libertie might vse no bodyly resistance euen so the Church of Christians hath her Captiuities which exact at her hands much more patience But as Jsrael deliuered by the Lords ministerie out of Aegipt had an Amalek to warr withal through all generations to the putting of his remembrance from vnder heauen Exod. 16. 8. c. And being freed from Babylon had enemies beyond the Riuer for resistaunce of whom they held a Sword in the one hand while they did the worke of the Lord with the other So the Christian Church vpon her deliueraunces hath her enemies with whom she must skirmish and against whom she must hold the swordes poynt while her people may buyld vp themselues an holy Temple Nehe. 4. 17. with 1. Cor. 6. 19. to the mightie God of Jaakob Section 5. ¶ Communion of Sainctes THe Church before being considered in the Catholique or generall or whole in these wordes Communion of * Sainctes by calling 1. Cor. 1. 2. though some amongst them were grosly Hereticall many Schismaticall and not a few Prophaine euen as in the Church of the Jewes some persecuted the Prophets and Christ himselfe thinking they did God good seruice Math. 21. 33. Sainctes or Holy-ones it is to be considered in the parts that is in her seuerall Societies and Corporations euen as from the Corporation of any whole Citie we descend to the consideration of particular Corporations or Companies included within the Cities vniuersall The Communion or Fellowship of Saincts by calling is to be considered as established or vnestablished Vnestablished as when some Beleeuers are gathered togeather in Citie or Familie but destitute of such spiritual functions as tend to absolute order And so two or three gathered together in Christs name haue him in the middest of them An Estabished Church is a competent company of Beleeuers * I say not Gathered for then no one should be a member that were not at the same season present gathering together in Christs name hauing and enioying such Ecclesiastique functions as be necessarily required for more orderly and sufficient administration of Word and Sacraments and Discipline Vnto which end the Apostle Paul is registred to haue gone too and fro establishing the Churches The Ecclesiastique functions appertayning to such orderly established Churches are of two sorts Bishops and Deacons as for Deaconistes they are rather to be serued then to serue