to our vnspeakeable ioy in the Lord and thervvithall be induced to glorifie God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ vvho hath called vs out of ignorance sinne and error into his maruellous light and translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne To vvhich kingdome the Lord Iesus vvho alone hath redeemed vs conduct and bring vs by a true and liuely faith in the merites of his death and passion to vvhom vvith God the Father and the holy Spirit be giuen all honour dominion povver and glorie for euer From my house in Turnmill streete the 4 of NoueÌ„ber in the yeare of the ioyfull incarnatioÌ„ of Christ our redeemer 1592 and the yeare of the vvorld 5502. F. Clement THE CREATION TRANSGRESSION AND REDEMPTION OF MAN In perusing this Treatise courteous Reader I pray you take the Bible and turne to euery place here quoted which meeteth you in the reading so shall you reap double profit of your paines and greatly confirme your conscience in the assurance of the word of God GOD the Creator MAN the transgressor Christ being God Man the Redeemer THe Lord God the father the Sonne and the holy Spirit being one and the same god in substance essence and nature yet three distinct persons in the self same diuine nature being also without beginning and from all eternitie at the a Time began at the creation The Angels also were then created as stately witnesses of Gods will for the seruice of the elect Heb. 1. 14. beginning to manifest him selfe by his workes as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 1. vers 19. 20. in sixe dayes created heauen and earth the sea and all the creatures in them and last of all in the b Which is out Friday so to the day of mans creatioÌ„ being also supposed the day of his transgression most aptly answereth the day of his redemptioÌ„ which we commonly call good Friday sixt day of the creation he made man male and female after his owne image and likenesse c The soul of maÌ„ is a spirituall diuine thing inspired in maÌ„ by the breathing of the Almightie therefore is immortall Gen. 2. 7. Iob. 33. 4. Eccle. 12. 7. which being separate froÌ„ the bodie it self alone but after the general iudgemeÌ„t together likewise with the body immortal shal either rest in eternal ioy or abide in endles wo Ioh. 5. 29. breathing in their faces the breath of life whereby they became liuing soules Gen. 1. and 2. effectually blessing them and commanding them to multiply and to subdue the earth to rule ouer the fish of the sea the foules of heauen and the beasts of the field which came therefore willingly to submit them selues to Adam who as their soueraigne gaue them seuerall names as pleased him Gen. 1 28. 2. 19. Psal 8 6. c. And in Eden or Paradise a garden most goodly and pleasant for waters and all fruteful trees the Lord God set Adam and the woman permitting them free libertie to eate of all the trees in Paradise saue onely of one tree whereof he forbad them to eat most certainly telling them that whensoeuer they should eate thereof they should die the d By Adam sinne entred into the world death by sin goeth ouer all men because all men haue sinned Rom 5 12 for it is appointed vnto meÌ„ that they shal once die and then cometh the iudgment Hebr. 9 27 but they that liue til the last day shal in a moment in sted of death be changed from mortall to immortall 1. Cor. â—5 ver 52. 53. death Gen. 2. 8. c. and 3. 2. c. Thus Adam and Eua our first parentes being â—reated right perfect and most innocent â—ully furnished with all goodly gallantâ—esse of bodie and heauenly ornaments â—f the mind bearing all the rule and soâ—eraigntie in theÌ„ both of the earth it self â—nd of all the creatures therein Psal 8 4. c receiued all these most excellent and â—nestimable iewels at the Lords hand to â—heir owne keepe and custodie both for â—hem selues and for their posteritie for euermore hauing also free-will and libertie in them selues either to stand and abide in the perfection of the diuine likenesse of righteousnesse holinesse godly knowledge wherein they were made or to fall therefrom at their owne wil and choise they through the subtiltie of the enuious e Because Moses had not meÌ„tioned the creatioÌ„ of the Angels nor SataÌ„s fal which was not before the 6. day as we see by that suruey Gen. 1. 31. but either on that day or very shortly after as Io. 8 44. therefore he speaketh of the subtiltie of Satan vnder the name of a serpent which for his naturall wilinesse was a fit instrumeÌ„t both for Satan to deceiue man by for Moses to represent vnto the rude Israelits the spirituall craftinesse of the Deuill Serpent the deuil most vnthaÌ„kfully f This transgressioÌ„ of AdaÌ„ was a most grieuous sin for he brake not simply the Lords coÌ„mandement but verie confidently crediting SataÌ„s lies which Eue reported vnto him most wickedly grudged at his creator and conceiued an hatefull indignation against God for that he had forbidden him the eating of that frute by eating whereof as he was wickedly perswaded he should be like vnto God and coequall with his Creator All this is eâ—idently gathered by Satans perswasion that they should be as gods by transgression likewise of Gods deriding Adams proud presumption in thinking by his trespasse to become as God him selfe Gen. 3. vers 5. 22. And where S. Paule saith that Adam was not deceiued 1. Tim. 2 14 he speaketh not that either to excuse or to extenuate Adams sin but onely to admonish women of their dulie deserued subiection vnto their husbands Gen. 3. 16. because their grandmother Eue being first deceiued her selfe through the subtilty of the serpent 2. Cor. 11 3 became also Satans instrument to deceiue the man Gen. 3 6. Reade Eccles 25 26. transgressed the Lords commandement in eating of the forbidden frute more beleeuing the lying serpent then their gracious Creator and so wilfully running into the iust punishment of eternall death due to them selues and to all their posteritie for the same most iustly bereft depriued for euer both them selues their of-spring of all these heauenly ornaments and Lordly prerogatiues But our gratious and wonderfull louing God most mercifully caused Huand-cry to be made after these wofull wights to arrouse sinfull Adam out of the bushes whither he had vainely fled to hide himself and after conference with him as well to let him see him selfe excuselesse as to conuince him of most vnkindnesse at length g To the end that man might alway remember feele this disobedience the Lord imposed a curse vpon the whole course of Nature as touching mans vse Gen. 3 17 froÌ„ which the very creature groneth vnto this present to be deliuered Rom 8 20 c. which shall be by sire at doomesday
Abraham Ioh. 8 56 well near a 1000. years before saw Christ crucified and foretold what speeches he should speake vpon the crosse Psal 22 1. Mat. 27 46. Ps 31 5. Luke 23 46. Also of Iudas his treason Psalm 41 9. Ioh. 13 18. and cursed end Ps 109 8. Act. 1 16. Likewise how the scoffing scribes priestes pharisees elders should mocke Christ Psal 22 vers 7. 8. Mat. 27 43. and the sauage souldiers deale with him Psal 22. vers 16. 18. and 69 21. Mat. 27 48. Ioh. 19 34. Luke 24 44. He spake also of his re Now let vs consider that like as this seede Christ Iesus being the day-spring from an high to visite vs Luke 1 78. and the true light of the world Ioh. 8 12. A light to be reueiled to the gentiles as was Numb 24. 17. prefigured by the starre Mat. 2 1 c. and the glorie of the people of Israel Luke 2. 32 is called the Sunne of righteousnesse to arise with health vnder his wings vnto them that feare the Lord Malac. 4 2. Euen so after the manner of the rising of the Sunne we haue seene Christes manifestation vnto the world for the Sunne being readie to arise first sendeth forth some small glimse of his brightnes whervnto we may compare the misterie of that aphorisme The seede of the woman shall breake the serpents head Gen. 3 15. Then it enlargeth the same brightnesse with more light to which Noahs prophecie may be likened Blessed be the Lord God of Sem Gen. 9 26. Afterward ascending higher and approching nearer vnto vs it putteth forth his glimmering beames of clearer light whereto we may resemble the plainer promises coÌ„cerning Christ communicated with those after-ages of Abraham Genes 12. vers 2. 3. of Isaak Gen. 26. vers 3. 4. of Iacob Gen. 28. 14. of Dauid 2 Sam. 7 12 c. At length it discouereth it selfe and appeareth out openlie whereunto Christes birth and natiuitie answereth Mat. 2 1 c. and lastlie it mounteth vp aboue the earth most gloriouflie in lightning quickning and coÌ„forting the earth all things thereupon And to this accordeth Christes exaltation and lifting vp from the earth whereby himselfe was glorified Ioh. 12 23. drew all men vnto him vers 32. gaue them power beleeuing in his name to be the sonnes of God Ioh. 1 12. And in this wise the holie Scripture seemeth to manifest vnto men from the beginning of the world the eternall purpose and decree of God touching Christ our redeemer As may also appeare by those metaphoricall speeches drawen from the sunnes arising often vsed in the Scriptures as Deut. 33 2. Micah 5 2. Mal. 4 2. wherefore the Apostle calleth Moses law a vail or couering 2. Cor. 3 14 And Saint Peter likeneth the same law and old testament i. the scriptures written before the comming of Christ vnto a light that shineth in a dark place 2 Pet. 1 19. But contrariwise in the same verse he nameth Christ or the preaching of Christ crucified that is the new testament the day-dawne and day-star which as Zacharie Iohn Baptists father prophecied should giue light to them that sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death and guide our feet into the way of peace Luke 1 79. And concerning Christes dissoluing and losing the works of the Deuill in man that thing he effected through his passion as he was man 2. Cor. 13 4. 1 Pet. 3 18 4 1. by his resurrection as he was God Ioh. 10 18. 1 Cor. 6 14. and 15 15. The Apostle in a wonderfull breuitie wrappeth vp both these effects saying Iesus Christ was deliuered to death for our sinnes and s As the Action of Isaaks offring being a figure of Christes was 3. daies in finishing for the third day he was after a sort raised from the dead Gen. 22 4. Heb. 11. 19. so the space of Christes offring himself was three daies from his death to his resurrection Mat. 16. 21. 1 Cor. 15 4 rose againe for our iustification Rom. 4 25. As also yet more wonderfullie he abridgeth the whole summe of christian Religion thus God is manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirite seene of Angels preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the world and receiued vp in glorie 1 Tim. 3. 16. Hauing spoiled the principalities and powers and made shew of them openly Read Mat. 12 40. Hos 6 â— 13 14. and triumphed ouer them in his crosse Col. 2 15. EueÌ„ destroying through death him that had the power of death that is the deuill that he might deliuer all them which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage Heb. 2. vers 14. 15. we reade in holy scripture of three speciall and famous t Three notable deliuerances of Gods church and all at one time of the yeare deliuerances or redeÌ„ptions with their iust times and moneths of the yeare by most certaine cumstances described 1 Abrahams calling out of Chaldea from idolatrie into the land of an mundi â—709 promise Gen. 11 31. 12 1. and 15 13. Exod 12. vers 26 40. 2 Israels redemption out of Egypt Exod. 12 41. Gal. 3. vers 16. 17. 3 The deliuerance of the Iewes from Babylon by Cyrus king of Persia Ezra 1 1 c. 2 Chron. 36 10. Dan. 9. vers 2. 21 c. All which were done at the spring of the yeare to shadow and represent vnto vs this fourth and generall redemption of man-kinde from Satan sinne hell death c. wrought by Christ what time the paschall lambe a type of Christ the verie lamb of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world was to be killed and eaten Exo. 12. vers 6. 8. Mat. 26 18. For from thâ— going out of the commaundement of Cyrus touching the Iewes returne home againe vnto the death of Christ the Angâ— Gabriel whose ministerie the Lord vseâ— in the message of Christes humanitie aâ— here to Daniel to Zacharias Luke 1 19â— to the virgin Marie vers 26. 27. And noâ— doubt to Ioseph thrise Mat. 1 20. and 2. vâ— 13. 19 certifieth Daniel that there shalâ— be 70 weekes which after the propheticall weeke a day for a yeare as Ezech. 4â— 6 conteine 490 yeares Dan. 9 24 c but Christ was to be killed in the mids oâ— the last weeke Dan. 9 27. then were therâ— iust 487 yeares And according to thâ— time of the Angels apparence to Daniel vers 21 about the euening sacrifice which in praier and oblation was froÌ„ the ninth hower to the twelfth as likewise at thâ— ninth hower Christ gaue vp the ghost Mat. 27. vers 46. 50. The Iewes diuiding the day from sun-rise to sun-set into 12 howers Ioh. 11 9â— began their euening praier at the ninth hower that is as we accompt at three oâ— the clocke after-noone Act. 3 1. which coÌ„tinued three howers eueÌ„ till the euening â—acrifice of the lambe was offered at twiâ—ght Exod. 29 41. what time also Christs
these Marchants haue most falslie belied the Iewes for the old testament so they themselues haue verie despitefullie i The Papistes blasphemouslie miscall the holie scriptures why blasphemed the new testament and holie scriptures and all because they tell vs how these iugling marchantes cosen the world terming theÌ„ a nose of waxe a shipmans hose an ynken gospel to be of no better authoritie then Aesopes fables and most wickedlie censuring the holie Ghost the composer of Dauids Psalms with that prophane verse Scribimus indocti doctique poâ—mat a passim Whole bookes of verses commonlie Aswell th' unlearnt as learnt write we This is that Torch-blasing-star wormwood which infecteth the pure waters of Gods word with his bitter blasphemies whereof they die that drinke it Reuel 8 11. refusing the waters of life Iohn 4 10. Therefore turne away from such saith the holie ghost 2 Tim. 3 5. And go out of her my people that you be not partakers in her sinnes and that yee receiue not of her plagues Reuel 18 4. And here because we are come to S. Iohns Reuelation which contemeth a generall prophecie of all the afflictions generall and particular that the Church of Christ shall endure till the last day and by most euideÌ„t tokens pointeth at Rome froÌ„ whence those euils should issue let vs giue the Catholiks a tast of that their filthie cage Reuel 18 2 by viewing the intercourse of Gods scourge among the Rome wicked The k Nimrod ChaÌ„s nephew built Babylon and Ninive of the AssyriaÌ„s by which two countries Gods church of the Iewes indured manie times most cruell tyrannie at length miserable captiuitie Israel by the AssyriaÌ„s anno mundi 3264. 2 King 17 6. and 122. yeares after Iudah by the Babylonians ibid. 24. 10 c. Ier 50 17. wherefore the Lord assureth his church to be especiallie reueÌ„ged of these two Mic. 5 6. Babylonians the most ancient afflicters of the church of God GeÌ„ 10. verse 8 10 hauing a long time tirannized in the world at length by the prouidence of God grew to such an head that they ouercame manie and mightie nations Ierem. 25 27 in so much that they presumed and preuailed against the Lords people leading them away captiues and destroying their citie and temple in reuenge whereof they were vanquished of the Medes and Persians Iere. 50 28. 51 11. Dan. 5 vers 30. 31. The Macedonians subdued the Medes Persians Dan. 7 6. and 8. vers 5. 6. 7. 20. 21. The Seleucians or Asians suppressed the Macedonians Dan. 7 7. The Romanes foiled the Seleucians Dan. 11. vers 30. 44. Finallie the Romanes by litle and litle through mutuall dissention and ciuil discord hauing altered and diminished their owne state first begin to persecute Christ in his swadlings infancie forcing him to be layd in a manger Luke 2 7. Secondly they most vniustly exacted Tribute of him being the great kings sonne and therefore free Matth. 17 24 c. Thirdly they condemned him to death Matth. 20 19. Iohn 11 48 18 35. 19 15. Act. 4 27. Reuel 11 8. And lastly they l This notable destruction and desolatioÌ„ by the Romanes as well for the auncient prophecie so long before as for some future straunge euent our Lord him selfe aduiseth vs euerie one to consider Mat. 24 15. destroyed the Citie and Temple Dan. 9. 26. Luke 21 20 as the Babylonians had done before and why shall they not haue the Babylonians reward eueÌ„ vtter destruction for the same Read Zech. 14. ve 1. 2. 3. The holy Ghost calleth this ougly cage and cursed citie Rome for the filthinesse thereof Sodome and for her crueltie to Christs Saints Egypt and in respect of Pilate the Roman Deputie that deliuered Christ to death Ioh. 19. vers 15. 16 he calleth it the place where our Lord was crucified Reu. 11 8. And euen like as the former BabiloÌ„ in the East parts of the world most cruelly afflicted Gods people the Iewes Isa 47 6. Ier. 50 17 so this Citie in the West S. Iohn calleth Babylon Reu. 16 19. 18 2 c. which by the spirit of prophecie he saw should no lesse cruelly persecute the Saints seruaÌ„ts of Christ And for this similitude of Rome with BabyloÌ„ S. Iohn calleth Rome or rather Antichrist the king of that Antichristian vsurpatioÌ„ Isa 21 2. Iere. 51 25. by the Hebrue word abaddon destroyer Reu. 9 11 as the prophets Isay Ieremy had many hundred years before called old Babylon the king therof And because John wrot to the Greek churches of m This was Asia minor where Iaphets sons inhabited among whom S. Paule had long before this time planted the Gospell Act. 19. vers r. 10. 26. 20 18 c And were thus through pietie perswaded to dwel in the Tents of Sem. Gen. 9 29. as likewise for pollicie they were perswaded 500 years before to dwell and confederate with Sem against Babylon Isai 21 2. Gen. 10. vers 2. 22. Antichrists characterie name Asia Reâ— 4 he interpreteth the hebrue in their own tong Apollyon destroyer as S. Paule likewise calleth him the son of perdition or destruction 2 Thes 2 3. And S. Peter respecting their whole corporation nameth them priuy-inbringers of the heresies of destruction 2. Pet. 2 1. Wherefore Irenaeus or some graue father in that age haue wisely as the holy Ghost aduised Reu. 13 18 gathered his characterie name of the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both which exactly containe that number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 666 the Beastes name the former noting Rome the Citie and language of Antichrist the latter Italie his peculiar Church and countreye VVhich Citie the Angell telleth Iohn is built vpon seuen mountaines Reuel 17. vers 9. 18. As also Virgil Georg. 2. 1 Trist El. 4 3 7. and most plainly Ouid more then once doth witnesse Rome to be Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus imperij Roma deumque locus My home is Rome imperiall the place of gods no doubt Which from seuen mountains doth behold the whole world round about This Romish Babylon papall corporation S. Iohn calleth not a Virgin as yet the Prophet Isai named old Babylon Isai 47 1 but an abhominable whorish woman who for her filthie n Because Antichrist must sit in the teÌ„ple of God i. presume authoritie ouer matters of Christian faith religion 2 Thes 2 4 And haue a shew of godlines 2 Tim. 3 5. the holie spirit to helpe our infirmities speaking euideÌ„tly as S. Paul testifieth 1 Tim. 4 1. which S. Iohn calleth spirituallie Reuel 11 8 layeth out in open plaine termes the name Mysterie written in the forehead of Antichrist calling it Great Babylon the mother of whoredomes and abominations of the earth Re. 17. 5 fornications and whoredomes far more impure then Babylon was far vnfit for so puer a name Reuel 17. vers 3.