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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01025	Four sermons which doe manifest the true sence of the 1. Epistle to Timothie 6. Chaper 13. 14. 15. [and] 16. verses of that chapter. Preached by the reverend divine Mr. Iohn Forbes late preacher to the Companie of Merchant-Adventurers in Delft. Published by S.O.	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 11129; ESTC S114866	51,274	78

FOVR SERMONS Which doe manifest the true sence of the 1. Epistle to Timothie 6. Chapter 13. 14. 15. 16. verses of that Chapter Preached by the reverend divine Mr. Iohn Forbes late preacher to the Companie of Merchant-Adventurers in Delft Matth. 15. 9. But in vain they worship me teaching for doctrines mens precepts Psalm 31. 6. I hate them that hould of superstitious vanityes Psalm 119. 113. I hate vain inventions but thy law doe I love Mark 8. 35. Whosoever will save his life shall loose it but whosoever shall loose his life for my sake and the Gospells he shall save it Published by S. O. Anno 1635. To the READER CHristian Reader seeing the Holy-ghost hath lefte us an honourable memory of Davids worthies who helped him to attaine his Kingdom who was but a type of our King Iesus Christ I think it necessary to manifest some of those famous doctrines this servant of Christ Mr. John Forbes taught in his life time touching the right of Christ Iesus which God the father gave him to ordaine all things in his Church This truth of God he witnessed more than 30. yeares not onely unto the losse of his living and unto bonds but also unto banishment for defending that it is not lawfull for anie Prince or Potentate to commaund anie human devises for to compell them to be used in the worship of God and for mainteyning this endured these great tryalls And about 4. years after he was chosen preacher to the Compaine of the English Merchant Adventurers and after he had served them 22. years he was displaced by our King and shortly after the Lord tooke him out of this world he having served in the Ministery 42. years he now as or hope is is with the assembly of those which have been killed for the Word of God and testimonie which they mainteined who doe cry How long Lord which art holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on the persecutours of thy truth But this doctrine is thought strange unto the world for the Papists doe say that the Pope hath authority to institute ceremonies in the Church which he himselfe doth judge fit and our prelates with their doctours doe affirme that Princes and Potentates of the world have authority with the assembly of their Bishops to institute ceremonies rites and orders such as they doe judge fitting to worship God by and they are indued with deep Philosophie and learned arts which I doe confesse are good so as they be allwaies ruled by divine truth but otherwise we are commaunded to avoyd them Col. 2.18 And the Holy-ghost calleth them when they are not according to divine truth the deep learning of Sathan as he hath in this epistle manifested Against them both this servant of IEsus Christ doth clearly manifest that no human devises or ceremonies that Christ hath not appointed for his worship may be used in his worship for God the Father hath placed him farre above all principallities and powers and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that that is to come as the Holy-ghost doth shew us in manie places and that Christ is King and ruler in his Church Pilate and Caesar were content that Christ should be accounted High priest of his church and that he should be their Prophet but for him to affirme he is a King that cost him his life Caesar could not indure it So in this age princes cannot indure that his church should receive no ordinaunces and decrees but those that the Apostles established for they will have their own superstitions used in the worship of God yet here the Holy-ghost doth sereously condemn it and that Christ must have the whole preheminence in his worship and that his ministers must maintein this as they will answer it at his glorious appearing to judge all the world these sermons doe manifest this strait charge hee received from the Holy-ghost to withstand all Human superstitions which are brought into Gods worship they were taken by pen by one of his ordinary hearers the chief of these I had in writing two years before he departed this life and I shewed them to him and I tould him I would publish them without naming anie authour he answered if I did publish them the adversaryes would know it to be his worke to which I answered that then I would not publish them except I did survive him If all the sermons this reverend divine taught out of this epistle were published it would be proffitable unto this generation and to that to come for he doth manifest that as God by Moses ordayned him to be his penman to order his church under the law So Christ hath made this Apostle his penman to appoint what ordinaunces his church must practise untill his second appearing and that with the straitest charge we doe read of that his servants may not admitt of anie other devices to be brought into his worship as they wil answere it at the great and dreadfull appearing of all the world before Jesus Christ with his holy Angells to recompence all opposers of his truth according to their works This Author doth mention that in all Ages God hath had his faithfull witnesses as in the 48 page appears and Mr. Foxe hath instanced manie and here I think fitt to ad some others in the dark time of Popery which hee hath not Two Preachers in France one named Peter Breves the other is called Hendrick van de Tollhouse they were well known in France and of good estimation for their great learning and they did much bewaile the Apostacy of the church and they spared no man of any degree whatsoever they were affirming that they were fallen from the estate of grace and from Christ and they affirmed the Pope to be the Prince of Sodom and the Citty of Rome to be the Mother of all abhomination that all the Bishops were cruel Wolves they detested the doctrine of Transubstantiation and affirmed the masse prayer for the dead was Idolatrie before God and that Images the Crosse might not be prayed unto nor suffered in the Churches That the Priests manner of singing was mockery before God● that praying to Saincts and vowing of Chastity and their manner of building Temples and observing of Holydayes were superstitious and wicked and all humane inventions in Gods worship wicked Idolatrie These mē continued in their preaching twenty years and having great resort coming to their preaching of all sorts estates at last they were apprehended by the Popes commaund by a Legate of his and Peter Brise was burned at St. Ioils the other was apprehended committed to prison but what came of him we finde not but there followed great persecution many of their Disciples went to their death joyfully Look the 65. and 66. Letters of Barnod to the Earle of St. Ioylls There wrote against them Peter Abbott af Clugnam which Barnod did record