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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

A THEOLOGICALL DISCOVRSE 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 Speake these things and exhort and rebuke with all authoritie let no man despise thee saith S. Paul to Titus c. 2. v. 15. PATERE ET POTIRE SVRSVM LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Windet for W.P. Anno. 1590. TO THE MOST NOBLE and vertuous Lord the Lord Robard Deuoreux Earle of Essex RIght Honorable my very good Lord your fauourable affection hath bene euer so euident and your bountifull hand alvvaies so open vnto me that I can neuer vvillingly come vnto you vvithout some schollerly exercise or other The readiest at this instant though perhaps not the fittest altogither is a theologicall treatise or diuinitie Discourse vpon the chiefe or rather onely point of christian Religion vvhich I here offer vp if percase your Lordship vvill at the most fauourably admit it into your studie or at least affectionately allovv it as one small part of my dutie and thankfulnes for vvhich only cause I present it not in any other respect euen vpon former premisses heretofore since your Lordships being in Cambridge to this daie not for any future consequents hereafter the Booke desireth not your speciall patronage it is not vvorthie of so honourable a specialitie neither may I trouble your excellent Lordship vvith Theologicall peculiars and proprieties further then as they belong generally to all noble and true Christians In defending and maintaining the religion of their God and faith of their country as the principall ground and very roote of all their ovvne politicke defence and maintenance Herein I remember the common voice of schollers and souldiers of citizens and yeomen of gentlemen their betters That the Noble Earle of Essex is behind none but afore the rest euer ready and more forward then the forwardest in Gods battels and his Princes quarrels with horse and speare to ouerthrow ouerrun Gods foes and hir enemies euen in their owne gates euen in Portugale it selfe a gallant kingdome the most venturous place of such enemies euen at their most populous and royall cittie Lysbon approuing his vertue with as much and haply more felicitie absit assentationis suspitio neque enim soleo auribus verba dare then euer Alexander himself did his valiancy at the cittie Malla Q. Curtius l. 9. neuer vnready with good words and magnificent deedes to honour his Prince or ennoble his countrie when God and Right shall employ him neuer vnready to help any man no not any common man no not with hazarding of his owne person in common sight which I trust is garded with good angels and in truth no hazarding and now lately by vnhorsing himself he mercifully saued a poore wounded souldier from the mouth of the sword therein equall or somewhat comparable with the foresaid great Alexander in right manly nature and honourable disposition that so gratiously relieued and reuiued a silly frosen souldier in his owne chaire at the fire Valer. Maximus l. 5. c. 1. but assuredly euen beyond him adsit bonus candor bono lectori in brooking the rough sea water at Peniche neere Noua Lisbona more easily all day then he did the gentle riuer Cydnus at Tarsus in Cilicia one halfe quarter of an hower Q. Curtius l. 3. When I remember these such Honorable famous reports cōmonly deliuered of my vvorthie good Lord among many other men of Superiour qualitie I am right hartilie glad to see my lot in so faire a ground as to ovve dutie thanks to that Noble good Earle which is so couragious vvith his yeares knovvledge and so courteous vvith his knovvledge and yeares vvhich more and more increaseth that most excellent opiniō euer heretofore conceiued of him for moral and martiall proceedings vvhich vvith prosperous novv renovvned vertue fretteth enuie in peeces neuer teareth himselfe I pray God He may alvvaies vvith all blessed increase be like himselfe that for action is naturally borne Al Hart of his Noble Father for Instruction since his death is artificially made All Studious of his careful Tutor for higher direction counsell hath made al notable choise for ioyful successe vvill assuredly proue All Happie by Gods diuine assistaunce But I must not seeme long vvithout cause lesse I become tedious vvithout effect Novv therfore I most humbly beseech my Noble good Lord only to receiue this little Pamflet for an vnfained remembrance infallible proofe of my continual dutie thankfulnes desiring no further regard or revvard any vvay then his Honour in vvoonted fauour shal thinke good seeing It is old inough best at leysure to speake for it selfe vpon any contingent of confutation or disliking that may ensue With vvhich dutie I daily still and stil recommend your vertuous studies valiant acts to al good and admirable successe euen beyond the impeachment or compasse of doubtfull and deceitfull fortune through the blessed sonne of God the blessed lamb of God our blessed God our blessed Sauiour to the full fruition of his grace euermore redounding in your vvoorthie and noble mind Your Honours in all bounden duty R. H. T.D. Hexasticon siue gratulatio in Theologicon R.H. Cedite sectarum primates cedite puri Harueius patriae seruiet atque Deo Non curat fatuos nō christomastigas audit Non credit placitis principiisque nouis Perge liber certa ingenii praedictio recti Et patriae populo principibusque place Vnio gemmarum Regina Mat. c. 9. v. 37 38. Luke c. 10. v. 2. The haruest is great but the labourers are fevve pray ye therefore the Lord of the haruest that he vvould sende more labourers into his haruest A THEOLOGICALL Discourse of the Lambe of God and his Enemies IF I shoulde reason about the choise of a text to examine which is most fit for vs then at the first this ioyfull and marueilous peace in our daies setteth before mine eyes that sentence of Christ in the gospel by S. Iohn c. 13. v. 35. By this all men shall know that ye are my disciples if ye haue loue one to an other And then this whole realme which no doubt is in high fauour with God for hauing fed so many zealous confessors and constant martyrs of righteousnes as euen some of our selues may remember and the godly booke of Monumentes will euer witnesse layeth open vnto mee this saying of Christ in the gospell after S. Matthew c. 10. v. 39. He that looseth his life for my sake shall saue it These and other good causes of like effect call for other tenours and texts of Scripture Yet because peace by long quietnes bringeth securitie in our carnall natures and naturall bodies security by forgetfulnes breedeth a cold or coole faith

or will any peeuish vaine and factious tongue on that side once say for his life that maister Reformer knoweth in his wisedome better then did Salomon what is best belonging and behouefull to the Church Christs beloued spouse or may the zealous bounty of Christian Emperours the deuoute giftes of noble and godly Princes the liberall adoptions of magnificent and mightie men bestowing worldly goods on heauenly vses and bequeathing mortall heritages to immortal seruices may these lawfull and iust and successiue possessions priuiledges and charters and codicilles of ecclesiasticall endowmēt and maintenance be once abrogated ought all these liberties and prerogatiues to be made voyde to be disanulled and brought vnder then which none can be or should stand in more full strength and vertue for Bishops and vnder them Elders ought no lesse to bee reuerenced of all christened soules in the churches then fathers are of their children in the familie as Heresbachius writeth in his Christiana iurisprudentia But the liuing Lord of heauen and God of peace the God of our forefathers and king of all kinges preserue and arme his owne christian children from that outrage from that desolation from such abhomination standing in the temple of God where it ought not frō such heathen turkish martinish and carterly brutish rauine and make vs like his owne Moses like his owne Salomon like all his owne godly gouerners and Christian Princes and other good men of his owne in all ages not like any other vnlike them that maintaine seminaries of schisme and malignitie that hatch the Cockatrices egge and weaue the spyders webbe and woulde make men beleeue they are for their eating and wearing which in finall proofe would eate vp and weare them out to the poysoning and vndoing of thēselues of the whole Realme and of the whole world too as may easily appeare to them which can compare consequents and antecedents together Then looke not to them but looke into Gods owne holy and faultlesse booke the onely chiefe doctor and reformer of gouernment that is by Gods gracious prouidence more common among vs then it was with grandfathers in England by print by translation by expositiō meditatiō in which booke we know the euer lasting will and testament of God more then they did wherin we learne all that pertaineth to our direction and instruction for all spirituall and temporal iurisdictions and regiments whatsoeuer Here you haue and you reade or may haue and reade the Oecomenickes and Politicks of the Hebrew common-wealth which is the most auncient and excellent of all other as Sigonius wryteth in the yeares of his best and ripest iudgement when he had intreated vpon the Athenian and Roman common-wealth in his younger dayes and by which the most and best Nations of the earth haue bin taught and ruled to this present day in all good counsels in all great affayres in euery good intendment or order in personall and actionall and reall causes In this heauenly and righteous booke the same hande of Moses which gaue the Hebrews lawes from aboue and said Thou shalt not steale from the Clergie or Laitie thou shalt not couet thy neighbors house or any thing that he hath in the church or out of the church doth also institute and ordeyne that the measure of the sanctuarie should be much more then the measure of the congregation and the weight as much more againe the sanctuarie seruing God and his ministers the Elders of the Leuites and the high Priest set ouer them the other belonging to the people of Israël and other tribes only among themselues who reckoned in their accounts to the tribe of Leuie two for one and double for single as the sicle and talent of the Sanctuary was as much more as the sicle and talent of the congregation the cubite much more euen a hand breadth which is named a great cubite Ezech. c. 41. v. 8. c. 43. v. 13. Exodus c. 30. v. 13. Leuit. c. 27. v. 25. Num. c. 18. v. 16. Cenalis tomo 5. fol. 87 88 89. and tomo 9. fol. 133 134 c. Whose zealous example and godly deuotion all good men and women that loue God and his rulers ought readily to followe yea much more willingly and earnestly in this light of the trueth that shineth out among vs nowe then other did in time of ignorance next past whose reddinesse notwithstanding was more forwarde then our least we learning more and doing lesse then they be beaten with more terrible and wofull stripes according to Christs owne sentence in Luke c. 12. v. 47. Neyther yet Moses the soueraigne teacher and Lord of the Hebrews staied there but God bad him command the people of Israël and in them all true Israelites for euer to giue the cleanest the purest the fattest and lustiest of the sacrifices of lambs and goates and other cattell the tenths and first-fruites of all fruite vnto Gods vses Gods seruices Gods seruitors and euery thing that belonged to the church and sanctuary both liuing and dead both agent and instrument to bee appointed in the best and goodliest manner that could be deuised beside other certaine and determinate prescriptions giuen indefinitely by God himselfe agreing with that eternall statute of S. Paul 1. Cor. c. 14. where lastly he chargeth them in the name of the holy spirit which he verily beleeued to be in him both to keepe a good order alwaies and specially to haue a special care of adorning and bewtifying it with all seemely supplements or additions euen as the circumstance of the place or the time or the person may deserue and require In this consideration when the Hebrews vsed mettals for the sanctuary they were cleere and pure in the highest degree their wood must euer be that durable Sethim and the best or smoothest their oyle the sweetest and cleanest their frankincense the brightest their odors pleasantest their sacrifices males without blemish their flower similage and no meaner their fruits of the fairest trees the place of offring without all foulnesse the fatte must be the Lords and if any man eat it he shal be cut of from his people their musick choicest of all sorts harpes and trumpets and cymbals and organes and psalteries and other instruments together with lowde harty voices their vestures and garments of finest linnen and finest silke furnished with gold and precious pearle their workemen the most famous and cunning that could be gotten the churchmen without deformities of body comely and cleanly as it euidently and notably appeareth in Exodus from the 25. chapter to the 32 and in Leuiticus almost throughout and much elswhere For seeing these outward and momentany goods are not our but the good blessings of our God lent and giuen vs for his vse and glory then iudge I pray to whom they may so rightly or truly belong by way of dispensation as to Gods owne spirituall and temporall ministers which in all earthly and heauenly businesse and actions serue him and his