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A85988	A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G704; Thomason E939_4; ESTC R202212	152,383	185

death was the complement and utmost His whole life was a continual passion and he was most active in his most passive Obedience He laid down his Life of himself-freely and shewed his active Power in his giving up the Ghost That perfection of his Merits excludes the least Ingrediency of mans Merits Our Obedience is required indeed and rewarded of Grace not for its worth or proportion The Childs duty is required not to merit his Inheritance by but to shew his Ingenuity The Beggars reaching of his hand is a condition yet no merit of the Gift 8. His Prophetical Charge is undermined First By the Errors forenamed Secondly By the Popish pretences of Infallibility in their Church Pope or Councel Thirdly By the immediate Revelations and infallible Oracles of Enthusiasts Quakers Behmenists pretending extraordinary acquaintance with God and Spirits besides above and against his Word Fourthly By the Perfectionists of divers sorts who pretend to a sinless state wherein they need no further teaching Fifthly By such as despise Christs Prophets and Apostles Pastors and Teachers extraordinary and ordinary Messengers of his AGainst such a disease improve this Antidote to vindicate the Lords Infallibleness and to detect the cheats of all Impostors pretending thereto You will see thereby that Christs Spirit alone is the supream infallible Judge speaking to us by his written word è Cathedra coeli That we need no other infallible Judge on earth That every Christian in his place whether private or publique Civil or Ecclesiastical hath a Judgement of discretion to regulate him in his own Acts by the Scripture Rule That Churches and Counsels have an Authoritative Judgement of direction to the several members under their respective Charges still in subordination to Christs writen Word That yet there is no need of any Infallible immediate and sinless assistance or spirit in any mortal man now since the Canon of Scripture our perfect Rule was compleated by John the Beloved Apostle That all pretenders to such infallibility since the Apostles days have successively bewrayed their notorious Impostures and contradictions both notionally and practically That Popish Bishops and Councils Enthusiastical Behmenists and Quakers have hitherto been found guilty of such absurd falshoods and blasphemous extravagancies that they sufficiently confute themselves That Paul himself after all his Raptures knew but in part complaining stil of his own and others weakness and insufficiency That Peter himself failed and was reproved by him openly That there is indeed a perfection of sincerity and Truth begun below in the Regenerate and a perfection of Growth which is comparative progressive But that a sinless perfection of fulness is reserved for the Glory of Heaven not enjoyed before mans dissolution That Christ therefore is the grand Prophet who teaches his people stil by his Word and Spirit the Will of God for their Salvation gradually That being taught all needful things by his Anointing who writes his Law upon their heart they need not to be taught by any Sect-master in a Pharisaical way so as to pin their faith upon any mans sleeve upon his own credit but must attend Christ who teaches from Heaven by men and Means That no meer mans word is to be believed upon his own credit but that all Doctrines must be examined by the Scriptural Teachings of Christ That those spirits and persons who pretend to bring Infallible Oracles and a new Gospel are cursed of the Apostle for shaking off Christ and his Gospel That all Christs servants are to be heard so far as they keep to his scriptural Commission but no further That Christ himself is received or rejected so far as his Embassadors following his Instruction are owned or slighted It s the common and ominous Symptom of Error to despise the Ministers of Christ though Godly and Learned and prefer their own Imaginations before the plain Word of God The Gospel is to us the only Glass of Heaven wherein the Glorious Revelations of Gods Image are made out to transform us into the likeness thereof gradually through his Spirit 9. The Kingship of Christ is much abused 1. by the Errors forenamed 2. By Libertines and Ranters of all sorts 3. By the Pontifician Supremacy pretended to be over all things and persons in the Pope as Peters Successor 4. By Quakers and others slighting the Christ above under pretence of a Christ within 5. By sensual pretenders and abusers of a fifth Monarchy Against these Rebellious Tenets the Grace and Knowledge of Christ will satisfie us that Christ Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who must Reign even in the midst of all enemies till they be made his footstool That he will destroy all such who refuse to stoop to his Golden Scepter but chuse to live in the kingdom of Darkness under the Rule of sin and Satan That Conscience is his seat Royal in mans soul which is by Sin Satan and self usurped from him That he will surely recover his Right if not in mercy yet in his just wrath That pretence of conscience to shake off his Rule is the highest Treason under his Pavilion That to shelter any sin or Error under that covert is but to cloath Traytors in his robes of state That he will not save where he doth not Rule and will not be our Priest if he be not our King That to desire or plead Liberty to sin is to set up Hell in Rule among men under the habit of Heaven That the more of Christ is in any soul the more obedience in true faith and Love is given to him That to set up a Pope or any other meer man for a supream Head over the conscience is to set up a sinful wretch in the Throne of Christ That his Jealousie will not endure long such a Rebellion That Peter never had any Supremacy of Power or Authority what ever priority of Order and Age may be granted by some That Peters being at Rome is very uncertain and yet to be proved though many affirm it That if his being there were fully granted yet his fixed charge and continuance there shall need as much proof That upon supposal of his setling there yet must it be shewed that he acted there such a Supremacy That if that also were clear it must be shewed also that his full power was made over to his successors there more then to any other Minister of Christ at Antioch or elsewhere That in case that should be proved likewise they must demonstrate a clear succession from that time till now which is impossible And if that could be yet they must evince their succession in Doctrine also else all the former will only prove Papacy to be the Man of Sin got into Gods Temple the grand Antichrist and the scarlet Whore riding on

worse Retention of evil wasting of good do both testifie the method of help Indications thus being so various it s no wonder if the cure be slow both in Church and State Purgations total and particular must attend diet rest and all due help Both the Patients care and all Assistants will be as needful as the Physitians skil Politick Physitians and Ecclesiastical had need look to Christ for skil strength success Choice and cordial Preservatives Alexipharmacks are often needed where malignity doth infest mens souls Industrious Care and painful attendance will be found herein of exceeding need The Ladies hand and the Eagles eye with the Lions heart will help very much in all such dressings Seek therefore and wait for that Soveraign Aid without which no means can find a Blessing Observe his Precepts taking what he gives carefully forbearing what he doth forbid Fear to displease Christ our Gospel Phoebus that must teach and prosper Aesculaps labours That Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing wings to all such as love and fear him above All. Neglect then no means appointed by him abuse not the means by resting thereon His All-sufficient Grace believe and expect for his own Glory in each of his Wayes If he make you smart it s for your good that you may be healed on the best account Here is an Antidote fitted to our Case the good Lord bless it to you and to me Be helpful to me that I may help you at the Throne of Grace so shall we find him our present help still His Grace will sure be sufficient for us and his strength shall be perfected in weakness I shall as heartily rejoyce in your good as if it were mine and shall design to be through the Renewed supplies of Christs Holy Spirit Your Affectionate Servant for his sake in all Gospel-work CLAUDIUS GILBERT From my study in Limrick 11. 11. Januar. 23. 1656. PREFACE Christian READER ERROR is the Epidemical disease of this Age exactly considerable in its Nature and Descent in its Species and Degrees in its Cause and Effects in its Symptoms and Cure We shall but touch those things which others have elaborately handled to usher in the Scope and Substance of the following discourse 1. The Nature and Idea thereof consists much in a sinfull straying of mans Judgement from the Truth of God into falshood 1. Mans Judgement is the proper Subject and Seat thereof we meddle not now the Angels Failures from whence it casts a malign Influence upon all other Powers and Parts 2. It s Genus is straying or wandring So the Greek properly imports a slipping and sliding from Truth into falshood and by-ways 3. It s difference lies in both the terms First From which it swerves i. e. The Terminus à quo from the Truth of God Secondly To which it leads the Terminus ad quem into falshood So it s distinguished from bare Ignorance both negative and privative Error being a soul-sickness an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a disorderly Distemper disposing to evil positively both habitual and actual as it deprives of and indisposes to that good r●specting the Souls health It differs also from Scruples and doubts which are but uncertain motives from Truth and weaker Inclinations to falshood as the grudgings and Rudiments of spiritual diseases It s likewise differenced thereby from Heart-Hypocrisie and verbal lies Secondly Errors Descent fetches its Extract from the Prince and Father of Lies who abode not in the Truth but drew thousands of glorious Angels who kept not their first state into Error and Apostacy His Serpentine spawn by dub●ous Queries was soon cast into our first Parents where it quickly bred Error and all sin That unhappy Breath so strongly infected them that this sinfull disease is become hereditary to all their natural Posterity This wofull Leprosie hath been thus propagated from our Head Adam to all his Issue through the loins of sinfull parents It cleavs to mans Nature and hath been in all ages successively communicated by a wofull Series in all sorts more or less As the Leprosie cleaving to the Wall could never be totally removed till the Wall it self was quite pulled down So doth this Plague cleave to mans soul till mans dissolution Adam received at once the seed of corporal and spiritual Diseases and death in the same moment that he began to sin he began to die according to Gods Word from whence the progress of a dying life in him and all his till Grace begin that spiritual Life below that Glory compleats above Israel had contracted their wofull Leprosie from that Aegypt that enslaved them so is our spiritual Leprosie contracted from that mystical Aegyt which hath poisoned us so desperately and infests still the Canaan-State of Christs militant Church As Truth is a most diffusive Good so is Error a most diffusive Evil. Error like a stone thrown into the water rises in Circles each Circle begetting another and growing still wider till they all quite lose themselves in the end Like Cadmus Brood they start up suddenly and as soon fall foul each on other 3. The Species and Sorts of Error are multiplicious like the diseases that trouble the body As there are various sorts and denominations of divine Truths so are there as many distinctions of Errors The specifical difference of each Error is measurable still by the dimension of that Truth it opposes and strayes from and of that falshood into which it slides The Truth of God is the conforty of his Thoughts Words and Works to his own glorious Essence The Truth of man is the due conformity of man to that Truth of God whether mental verbal or practical Error is accordingly diversified in its general acceptation but properly to our purpose it is restrained to the Iudgement and distingushed from other sins which are verbal or practical Errors flowing from mans Will and affections more directly That Truth of God is especially considerable in matters of Religion either fundamental or juxta-fundamental or more superficial and circumstantial Error is accordingly discernable in its several wandrings from that Truth The Scripture of Truth declares the same in all their specifical variations Tue Fundamentals of Religion are summed up in the Articles of our Faith called the Apostles Creed because extracted out of their writtings which Symbol hath been successively explained by the several Confessions of the primitive Churches as the Nicene and Athanasian Creed as also of the Reformed in Germany and France Belgium and England c. As there are varieties of Weeds and poisons about the earth which peculiarly offend the several parts of the Body some being more hurtfull to the head some to the Stomach c. So do various Errors offend the several parts of Truth whence various designations are given to them 4. The Gradations and Degrees of Error admit also of a variable

2 c. 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. Iud. 3. 22 23. 2 Tim. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2. c. Tit. 3. 10. 2 Ioh. 7. 8 9. 10. Gal. 1. 8. About these see at large Epiphan Augustin Euseb Socrat. Concilior Tom. Danaeum Chamier Iunium Paraeum Simpsons History of the Church History of Socin Anatom of Socin Cheynels Trinunity Centuriat Magdeb. a Testimony born to Christ by the London Ministers with Lyfords Explanation thereof c. Phil. 3. 10. Mal. 4. 2 Col. 2. 9. Iohn 1. 3. Heb. 1. 2 3. Heb 3. 4. Mark 2. 7 8 9 10. Luke 6. 8. Revel 2. 23. Ioh. 15. 24 26. Rom. 1. 4. Heb. 4. 6. Iohn 20. 28. Matth. 4. 10. Iohn 10. 30. About this read Beckmans exercit against Behmen The History of Familists the answers to Quakers by many godly Ministers Hornebeck de Anabapt German Epiphan de haeret Augustin Danaeum Bishop Vsher of Christs Incar c. Downames Body of Divinity c. Heb. 2. 16. Iohn 1. 14. Heb. 4. 15. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Esay 53. 10. Luke 22. 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi grumosus sanguis largiter defluens Matth. 23. 46. So far as Scripture teaches to Allegorize as Galat. 4. It s very useful so as still to retain the proper sence of the place But to strain Allegorles to the destroying of Truth is a dreadful wresting and wracking of Scripture all sorts of monstrous Errors in every Age. See Epiphan Euseb August Socrat. Daneus Calvin Centur. Magdeb. Simpsons Hist of the Church Chamier Panstrat Hornebeck de variis heretic Chemnit exam Ames Bell. Ener Anatom of the Mass by Mornay Anatomie dela Messe par Mousieur du Moulin Willets Synops Perkins Reform Catholick Iun. Antibellarm Not. Books against Quakers Pagets Heresiogr Mat. 26. 38. Luk. 24. 39. Act. 1. 9. 11. Act. 3. 21. The Seulicians of old shewe'd their Enmity to Christ as modern Noonists in faigning a distinctive dissiolution of Christs humane nature 2 Cor. 5. 16. Ioh. 6. 63. Histor Concil Euseb Epiphan Augustine Baron Annal. Gentur Magdeburg Chamier Phanstr Anat. of Socin Histor of Socin Iun. de Trin. Cheynels Triunity Calvin Paraeus Esay 7. 14. Heb. 1. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 5. 1 Iohn 5. 7. Iohn 14. 26. Iohn 15. 26. Mat. 3. 17. Phil. 2. 6. Ioh. 1. 14. the schoolmen Mornaeus de veritate religionis Christi and many others are large on this Subject shadowing out this mysterie by Similes from mans intellect from the Sun c. About this read Concilior Tom. Euseb Danaeus Calvin Magdeb. centur Simpsons History Zonar Sleidan comment Bulinger Histor David George Pagets Heresiogr Luther against Enthus Hornebeck de haeret Cha●mier Panstr 1 Pet. 1. 21. Rom. 8. 9 11. 2 Chro. 13. 14. Revel 1. 4 5. 1 Kin. 22. 22. Mat. 18. 31 32. Mar. 9. 29 Heb. 6. 4 5 6. Heb. 10. 27 28. 29 Ioh. 5. 16. About these at large see Hornebeck Danaeum de haeret Paraeum Iunium c. Anatomy of Socinianism Ostorod Catech Cracov c. See Bellarmin Concil Trident. Becan c. Chemnit Exam Chamier Panstrat Ames Bellar. Enervat Willets Synops Nouveaute du Papism Pard Moulin Mysterie of Iniquity by Mornay Rainold Whitaker Fox Monum Pagets Heresiogr See the Quakers Books and Confutations Heb. 9. 22 23. Heb. 9. 23. ons of the Leapers cleansed and the living and dying bird mentioned Levit. 14. 5 6 7. c. and the two propitiatory Goats the one dying the other escaping Lev. 16 7 8 9 c. Ioh. 6. 53 63. Heb. 7. 25. Esa 63. 3. Lev. 16. 17. The Grecians had propitiatory Oblations by devoting of men called therefore Obominals to expiate for the peoples sins the Devil being still Gods Ape in counterfeiting and spoiling his Worsip by humane Inventions and mimical innovations among Pagans and Papists Luke 17. 10. God would have but one Altar and one Door to which Sacrifices should be brought Lev. 17. 3 5. * Ier. 23. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Priests were to put off their own Garments and put on that sacred Vesture which was to serve all the Lords Servants successively typifying Christs Righteousness comming into his special presence for Acceptance and Oblation Christs Oblation is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mercy-seat or Propitiation that must cover our best Duties and Works Ier. 33. 16. The Church being the Spouse and Body of Christ leaves her own name to borrow his * 1 Cor. 1. 30. * 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gods high Priest alone was to enter into the most holy place to explate and Intercede About this read you may Bellarmin Concil Tridentin Gratian. Lombard Aquinat Becan Chamier Panstr Chemnit Exam. Ames Bell. Enerv. Willets Synops Armachan Nov. Bishop Potter Bishop Davenant is hitaker Rainold Bishop Iewel Jun. Not. Antibell Calvin Institut Luther in Gal. c. About this you may see Davenant Wootten Bradshaw Burges Baxter Downam Quisquis domus partem super arena fundat totius ruinam certò periclitatur ipsius etiam partis quae rupi videbatur affixa Heb. 10. 14 18. Heb. 7. 12 23 24. 1 Joh. 4. 2 3. Totus Christus Salus nostra adae ●uatum fidei Objectum totalis obedientia Christi propitiatio adae quata ad illam complendam Solutem Ioh. 10. 17 18 good works are well stiled via R●gni non causa regnandi You may see for this Concilior Tom. Bellarmin Baronii Annal. Chamier Chemnit Exam. Beckmans Exerc History of the Church Calvin contr Fanat Hist of Famil Hornbeck de haeret Authority Impartialty and Infallibility the properties of a supream Iudge belong only to the Lord the Spirit and to his Word Heb. 12. 25 26. 1 Cor. 10. 15. 1 Cor. 5. 12. Act. 15. 28. Act. 16. 4. Rev. 22. 18 19. 2 Cor. 13. 12. Gal. 2. 11. Phil. 3. 12 15. Heb. 12. 23. Ioh. 15. 15. Ioh. 20. 31. 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. Ioh. 1. 18. 1 Ioh. 2. 20 27. Ier. 31. 33. 1 Thess 5. 19 20 21. Heb. 12. 25 26. Mat. 10. 40. Luke 10. 16. Gal. 1. 7. 8. Act. 3. 22 23. Mal. 2. 7. Eph. 4. Luke 10. 16. 2 Cor. 3. 18. For this read Hist of Germ. Anab. Pagets Heresiogr Danaeus de haeret Chamier Panstr and Supplem The Books against Quakers Subject to Christ by Thom. Sheph. Downam de Antichrist c. Rev. 19. 16. Psal 110. 1 2 c. Luke 19. 27. Esa 33. 22. Esa 32. 1. 2. 1 Cor. 15. 25. Act. 15. 15 16. Ezek. 21. 27. Hag. 2. 6 7. 2 Thess 2. 3 4 7 8. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3 c. Rev. 13. Rev. 17. Rev. 11. Rev. 12. See to this purpose the several places against Quakers Familists by Gataker Featly Rutherford Burges Baxter Farmer The New-Castle Ministers Paget Baily c. Beckmans Exercit Baxter of the sin against the Holy Ghost Compare them with the relation given of the old Valentinians Basilidians Gnosticks Carpocratians c. by Epiphan August Euseb Socrat. Sozomen Theodoret. Magdeb. Centur. History of the Church