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A13971	The true Catholique formed according to the truth of the Scriptures, and the shape of the ancient fathers, and best sort of the latter Catholiques, which seeme to fauour the Church of Rome : the contents vvhereof are to be seene in the page following.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1602 (1602)	STC 24282; ESTC S536	568,047	636

and grace and euen then by and by after shall follow the iudgement Lumnius devicinitate extremi iudicii lib. 1. cap. 15. Lumnius a Papist concerning the comming of Elias Enoch writes thus That although they shall preach but three yeeres and a halfe yet that the day of iudgement shall be neuerthelesse vncertaine to the world Although saith he we beleeue that Elias shall come and although the remnant of the Iewes be said to be conuerted when as the fulnes of the Gentiles shall haue entred in yet we must thinke that this must be done secretly and by little and little So that all the world shall stand in doubt of the person of Elias and of the time of the conuersion of the Iewes euen as the world stood in doubt of the persons of Iohn and of our Sauiour Iesus Thus farre Lumnius But this his exposition agrées not with the rest of the papists Reu. 11.6 for they expound those two witnesses in the Reuelation literally to be meant of the persons of Elias and Enoch And that they shall haue power in the daies of their prophecies to open and shut heauen and to turne water into bloud If they shall do these euident signes surely no man can say that they shall come secretly These signes also are so manifest that no man can doubt of their persons Nay Saint Iohn there saith Vers 9. that all people and nations shall see their bodies lie dead in the citie that spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt and that they shall be glad of their deaths and shall send presents one to another because they were slaine For they shall vexe the people of the earth and not conuert the Iewes as they imagine These prophets then shall not come secretly when they come as Lumnius imagineth but all the world shall heare of them and hate them They shall be enemies to their carnall mirth and spirituall fornication How angrie will the adulterer be to be depriued of his pleasure so pleasant also is spirituall fornication to flesh and bloud These two witnesses then are the preachers of the gospell Mat. 24.12 which shall preach the gospell to all nations In testimonium and not in patrocinium for a testimonie of their condemnation not for a helpe of their saluation as the same Lumnius alleageth out of Hilarie Lum ca. 14. Reue. 10.11 Which vnder the type of Iohn in the chapter going before haue receiued the little booke yea from the hand of the Lord to preach againe to nations peoples tongues and many kings not Elias and Enoch Ferus also of the vncertaintie of the day of iudgement writes thus If you enquire of me the daie and howre I will not tell you In 24. ca. Mat. but if you will know the seasons and beginnings I will hide nothing from you I haue shewed you in many words how that that day is not vnknowen vnto me But I haue brought you to the gates onely thereof for he had said before know ye then that it is euen in the verie gates But it is for your profit that I will not open the gates vnto you least you should waxe carelesse For so it is written of me I am thy God teaching thee profitable things onely as much as might profit you I haue taught but that which might engender in you a false securitie I conceale from you Here therefore thou seest the cause why he would haue both the day of our death and of iudgement vnknowne vnto vs least we should be more slouthfull but being alwaies vncertain of this we should euer liue in feare should euer watch being careful as though we should be iudged the next day and that we should looke for him euerie day whō we know not when he wil come Thus far Ferus Here is then a Christians life euerie day to looke and waite for Christ and so to liue as though he should not liue til to morrow according to that saying of the heathen Philosopher Who being bidden to a feast against to morrow Surely said he I neuer thought that I should liue til to morrow these many yeeres And it is reported that Saint Ierome that in all his doings he thought he heard that last trumpet sounding in his eares Then Elias comming shall not giue Christians warning thereof thrée yéeres an halfe before it come as the Papists do teach In ca. 11. Mat. Ferus also writing vpon these wordes And if ye will receiue him he is Elias which is to come saith thus As though he should say that you may plainly see that there is no other prophet to be looked for of you who should shew you that Messias should come Iohn is that verie same Elias which Malachie promised vnder the name of Elias And in these words he makes answere to a question couertly all men were perswaded that Elias should come before Messias came whom because they saw not they doubted of Christ And therefore the Apostles when they saw the Lord transfigured said Wherefore do the Pharisees say that Elias must first come To whom he answered Elias is come alreadie But who this Elias was here he signifieth Iohn himselfe is Elias not in person but in spirit and power For as Elias with great zeale was zealous that he might bring the people of Israel to the true God and for this cause he spared not kings so Iohn by the same zeale endeuoured to bring the people vnto Christ After Iohn therfore no other thing is to be looked for but that great terrible day of the Lord. The which also followes in the same prophet Thus farre Ferus If after Iohn nothing is to be looked for but that terrible day of the Lord then not Elias and Enoch according to master Bellarmines assertion Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of Duresme thus writes in a Sermon put in print which he preached before king Henry the eight on Palme sunday vpon this text Let the same mind be in you that was in Iesus Christ These many yeeres past saith he little warre hath beene in these parts of Christendome but the Bishop of Rome either hath beene a stirrer of it or a nourisher of it and seldome any compounder of it vnlesse it were for his ambition and profit Wherfore seeing as Saint Paul saith in the four 10. chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthiās That God is not the God of dissension but of peace who commaundeth by his word alwaies peace to be kept we are sure that all those that go about to breake peace betweene Realmes and to bring them to warre are the children of the diuell what holy names soeuer they pretend to cloake their pestilent malice withall which cloaking vnder hypocrisie is double diuellishnes and of Christ most detested because vnder his blessed name they do play the diuels part And therefore since Christ is on our side let vs not feare thē at al but putting our confidence in Almightie God let vs

abide in Segor that is in lawfull matrimonie for it is better to enioy a meane good thing then to bee ouerthrowne among the cragges and rockes of lusts And of the drummes of these Virgins may that bee verified which Philippus de Diez citeth out of Athanasius To. 1. dominica in pass Who saith he affirmeth that the Idolaters did so wonder at those virgins which had consecrated themselues to God that euen by force they were constrained to confesse that they were the liuing Temples of God and that onely among the Christians was the true worship of God Wherefore manie of them being lightened with this diuine light banishing all their idolatrie were turned to the Catholike faith Thus farre Diez Such sounding drums had the virgins in those dayes that they did rouse euen Idolaters from their sléepe of sin by the rarenesse of their vertues And as fitly also may the faithfull doing good works bee compared to Musitians For Musitians haue their running points and those are the swéetest musicke So the faithfull are readie to giue 1. Tim. 6.18 Gen. 18 7. 2. Cor. 9.7 They run to the beasts with Abraham for a tēder young calfe for their poore strangers They giue cheerefully and God only loueth such giuers They saie not to their neighbour Go and come againe to morow and I will giue thee Pro. 3.28 if so be they haue it presently And these running points bee most pleasant musicke in Gods eares They also kéepe time which is a chiefe point in Musicke When there was no raine on the earth thrée yeares and sixe moneths then the widow opens her barrell and imparts some of her little oyle that was left to Elias 1. King 17.12 When the good Samaritane saw the poore man lie wounded by the high waie side then he did light off from his beast and bound vp his wounds and though he had as should séeme but two pence in his purse Luke 10.33 he gaue it him Hee passed not by him as the Priest and the Leuite did And this is to kéepe time This is to be one of Gods Musitians They which run verie swiftlie their running points on their instruments and kéepe time verie exactlie vnlesse also they runne here and obserue time also they please not God with their musick These are the Singers and Virgins and Musitians that waite vpon God And if this bée true it is likelie that God now walkes in his Sanctuarie verie euill attended vpon he hath few such Singers or Damosels or Musitians to attend vpon him But Dauid stayes not himselfe here to let vs haue a viewe of Gods waiting seruants onely but of his Noblemen also For there is no king but he hath both these to attend vpon him And first he comes to the generall dutie of all these seruants which is this Blesse or praise the Lord God in the congregations from the fountaine of Israel Psal 68.26 Here is the dutie of all Gods seruants to blesse and praise the Lord from the fountaine of Israel And what is that Surely Iesus Christ who is the fountaine of Israel For as S. Iohn teacheth vs He is the fountaine Ioh. 1.15 of whose fulnesse all we as emptie vessels haue receiued euen all the good things we haue that grace for grace Grace for grace euen still all our life as we did at the beginning The case here is not altered as the Papists imagine That the first grace is giuen vs fréely but after with that grace wee our selues merit the succéeding graces that we haue But Saint Iohn here plainly teacheth them that euen as at the first so we still receiue grace for grace And haue we not great cause then to praise God alwaies from this fountaine of Israel which yéeldes vnto vs all the good things wee haue euen dayly and that also fréely Here therefore is that in the Psalme which Saint Paul teacheth in his Epistles Giuing thankes alwayes for all things vnto God Ephes 5.20 euen the Father in the name of the Lord Iesus Christ vers 27. Now followe his Noblemen There is little Beniamin their ruler the Princes of Iudah their stone as Arias Montanus translates it the princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthali Here are Gods Noblemen and Princes And surely among these little Beniamin goeth the foremost and that is Christian humilitie For thereof also Christ himselfe begins his blessings in the Gospell Blessed are the poore in spirit Matth. 5.3 Matth. 11.19 for theirs is the kingdome of God And Learne ye this of me I am meek and lowly in heart As though he had euen come downe from heauen to teach vs this lesson For we reade not of anie other vertue that he saith Learne that of me as he speakes here of humilitie Knowledge without humilitie puffes vp and profites not 1. Cor. 8.1 And if faith haue not charitie and humilitie ioyned with it it builds not it profites not it is as a sounding brasse 1. Cor. 13.2 or tinckling Cymball nay it is nothing Then followes Iudah their stone And that is faith And therefore it maie séeme that our Sauiour as in all his doings Matt. 4 4. Matth. 21 1● he had a relation to the Scriptures so also after that Peter had made that same notable confession of our Christian faith and therefore was Iudah our Sauiour also called him a stone Matth. 16.18 alluding to this place of the Psalme He is not called a rock as the Papists would haue him but Petrus or Cephas Ioh. 1.42 which signifies a stone and agrées here with the Hebrue word Regem And hence also Peter called all Christians which nowe were also become Iudah by confession of this true faith 1. Pet. 2.5 liuely stones And surely not without cause are the faithfull called stones for they must be vnmoueable in the profession of their faith though euen as against Dauid Psal 3.6 the Deuill euen with ten thousand come against them as no doubt he will And therefore Saint Paul saith Wherfore my beloued be ye surely grounded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and vnmoueable that is 1. Cor. 15.58 be euen like stones in the profession of your faith and abounding euer in the worke of the Lord that is in that excellent work which the Lord Iesus so often commanded that is Christian Charitie Ioh 13.34 Matth. 22.39 Ioh. 15.12 Luke 22.31 Cant. 1.5 For Satan will sift euerie Christian euen as he did Peter the first Christian He will sift narrowlie all their words workes and thoughts They shall bee like Salomons tents they shall be set on the tenters they shall be tried to the vttermost what they will endure The next is The princes of Zabulon Now Zabulon signifieth a dwelling or familie and therefore I expound those to bée Princes of Zabulon in Gods Court who feare God and all their houshold When as God would reueale to Abraham the destruction of Sodome he saith thus Shall I