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A10399	Tvventy nine lectures of the Church very necessary for the consolation and support of Gods Church, especially in these times: wherein is handled, first, in generall concerning first, the name; secondly, the titles; thirdly, the nature, fourthly, the diuision of the true Church: secondly, of the visible Church ... and lastly, the application of it to all Churches in the world so farre as they are knowne to vs. By that learned and faithfull preacher, Master Iohn Randall, Batchelor of Diuinity, pastor of Saint Andrewes Hubbart in little Eastcheape, London, and sometimes fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford. Published by the coppie perfected and giuen by the author in his life time; carefully preserued and adorned with notes in the margent, by the late faithfull minister of Christ, Master William Holbrooke.	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1631 (1631)	STC 20683; ESTC S115641	423,199	550

intendment as the thing it selfe tending directly to the damage and hurt of the Church and yet God so ouer-rules them as that they are meanes of the being of the Church as first hearing or reading the Word or some other good bookes with intent to deride or scoffe or cauill at them as we reade of one Virginius a Bishop of Rome who being set to write against Caluin and ●eading ouer Caluins bookes for that end hee saw the light so cleare against him that hee was conuinced and would write no more against him so that whereas he read ouer his books with intent to cauill at them God so ouer-ruled it that against his owne intendment he became a member of the true Church thereby Secondly the sinnes of Gods chosen why a man would thinke that they should tend directly to the hurt and damage of the Church yet God doth so ouer-rule the sinnes of his chosen as that he makes them causes of the being of the Church Thus God ouer-ruled the sinne of Saul in persecuting the Church to the making of him to be of the Church Act. 9.4.5 Thirdly the falling away of others from the faith is sometimes ouer-ruled by God to bee a cause of the raising of others to bee of the Church And this is the estate of vs all at this day the Iewes they fell away and through their fall saluation is come to the Gentiles as the Apostle shewes Rom. 11.11 Fourthly persecutions of the faithful that is so ouerrul'd by God as that it is made helpefull to the being of the Church Why what is more hurtfull to the Church euen to the destruction of it than this And yet this is sometime so ouer-ruled by God as against its owne bent and intendment it is a cause of the being of the Church for the cruelty of the Persecutors makes those that are of any humanity to detest them and their courses as also the constancy and holinesse of the Martyrs that are persecuted won the hearts of many euen of strangers yea of their aduersaries many times to the truth Examples of this wee haue had at home in our owne Land When were there euer more fruitfull times of the Churches increase in this Land than in Queene Maries bloody dayes at least euer since by occasion of those persecutions Lastly sometime the scattering of the Church in time of persecution is occasionally by the ouer-ruling hand of God a meanes of scattering the seed of the Word into many places and so of causing many Churches as in Act. 8.4 there was great persecution and the Word was scattered abroad what could hurt the Church more than this Yet this was so ouer-ruled by God as that hee made it a meanes of the propagation of his Church in many places whereas before it was in Iudea onely by this meanes it is come into Samaria too But all these are by-causes and therefore wee doe onely point at them and so passe them by yet this is worthy herein to bee taken notice of the wonderfull power wisdome and mercy of God that brings light out of darknesse and makes whatsoeuer pleaseth him euen besides and against its owne bent and intendment seruiceable meanes for the being of his Church The other sort of causes which were the first are such as cause the Church directly and of themselues and these are more proper and materiall than the other First then take the Church in a comparatiue sense as it is compared to a building and so the causes are to be apprehended thus As a building hath foure principall causes so hath the Church first in a building there is the foundation secondly the builders thirdly the matter of the building fourthly the forme So in Gods Church there is these foure causes of it first the foundation and that is Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid which is Iesus Christ and metaphorically the Prophets and Apostles as they teaching Christ 1 Cor. 3.10 As a skilfull master-builder I haue laid the foundation saith the Apostle Ephes 2.20 and are built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Iesus being the head corner-stone c. Secondly the builders and they are the Teachers for so they are called 1 Pet. 2.7 The stone which the Builders refused c. that is which the Iewish Teachers refused And 1. Cor. 3.10 the teachers are called Master Builders Thirdly the matter of the building and they are Saints by calling liuing stones for so the faithfull are called 1 Pet. 2.5 liuely stones a spirituall house And in the 1 Cor. 3.9 they are called Gods building Lastly the forme of the building and that is the laying and the coupling of the faithfull together Ephes 2.21 22. In whom all the building coupled together groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord in whom yee are also built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit And thus the Church is to be apprehended in a comparatiue sense as it is compared to a building Againe take the Church absolutely in it selfe and then it hath an efficient cause an instrumentall cause a materiall cause a formall cause and a finall cause First it hath an efficient cause from which it hath her being for that is the efficient cause of a thing from whence a thing hath that being which it hath Now the efficient cause from whence the Church hath her being is God himselfe he is the Author of it Act. 2.47 The Lord added to the Church c. so that God himselfe is the efficient cause of the Church Secondly the instrumentall cause or meanes of the being of the Church and they are of two sorts either outward or inward outward as first the Ministers of God they are the instrumentall causes whereby we are brought to beleeue as in the 1 Cor. 3.5 and these are sometimes ordinary sometime extraordinary ordinary that is when they haue an ordinary Calling as most Ministers if not all haue in these dayes extraordinary that is then when they are extraordinarily called as the Prophets and Iohn Baptist and the Apostles were The next outward instrumentall cause of the Church is the Word Ioh. 20.31 These things are written that ye might beleeue 2 Thes 2.14 whereunto he called you by our Gospell And in the 2 Cor. 5.19 both these outward instrumentall causes of the Church are laid downe together God hath committed vnto vs saith the Apostle the Word of reconciliation Then the Sacraments they are the next outward instrumentall causes or meanes of the being of the Church and first Baptisme Rom. 6.4 Know yee not that all we that haue been baptized into Christ haue been baptized into his death And the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 10.16 The Cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ The Bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the body of Christ By Baptisme we are made members of

may also haue fellowship with vs and that our fellowship may also be with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ and both these our communion with him and his with vs are by right Cant. 6.2 I am my Welbeloueds and my Welbeloued is mine and likewise by possession 1. Ioh. 4 13. We dwell in him and he in vs. And this communion is so neare and intire that it passeth into a plaine vnion so that the faithfull and Christ are made one as we may see Ioh. 17.21 That they all may be one as thou O Father art in me and I in thee euen that they may be also one with vs. Gal. 3.28 For ye are all one in Christ Iesus Now we must know that this vnion is spirituall 1. Cor. 6.17 He that is ioyned to the Lord is one Spirit It is true that we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh but it is in a spirituall manner To open the matter more fully and distinctly the communion being of him with vs and of vs with him let vs consider of each seuerally that so it may be the more perfectly discerned and first let vs consider of his communion with vs and that in these two particulars first in regard of our selues secondly in regard of those things that belong vnto vs. First in regard of our selues for we are his 1. Cor. 3.23 Yee are his Now wee are his first because wee were giuen vnto him of God Ioh. 17.2 And secondly because we haue giuen our selues to him 2. Cor. 8.5 but gaue your owne selues first to the Lord c. Rom. 6.13 giue your selues vnto God And thirdly because hee hath bought vs and paid downe a price for vs 1. Cor. 6.14 20. Yee are not your owne for yee are brought with a price And fourthly because hee hath seized on vs already for his owne by his Spirit Rom. 8.9 The Spirit of God dwelleth in you if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ the same is not his 1. Ioh. 4.13 Wee dwell in him and hee in vs because he hath giuen vs of his Spirit Secondly he communicates with vs in respect of those things that belong vnto vs and are ours hee taking them as his owne as first hee tooke our flesh and nature Heb. 2.14 Secondly our infirmities Heb. 4.13 Matth. 8.17 Thirdly our sufferings and punishment Isai 53.4 He was wounded for our transgressions 1. Pet. 3.18 for Christ hath once suffered for sinne the Iust for the vniust c. Fourthly our sinnes 1. Pet. 2.24 Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the Tree Fifthly our prayers and all our good endeauours he communicates with vs in them also not onely as they comming first from him and he stirring vs vp to them which is rather our communion with him then his with vs but also taking them at our hands and dignifying them and couering the infirmities of them and presenting them as his owne to God the Father Rom. 8.34 Who is also at the right hand of God making request for vs Reuel 8.3.4 Hee is that Angell that offers vp the prayers of the Saints and the sweet sauour of them ascends vp to God out of his hand thus hee communicates with vs. Secondly we communicate with him and that first in regard of himselfe secondly in regard of the things that are his First in regard of himselfe he being ours Rom. 1.3 Iesus Christ our Lord. 1. Tim. 1.1 of God our Sauiour and of our Lord Iesus Christ our hope Ephes 2.14 our peace And ●e is ours first as he is giuen to vs of God for God giues him as freely vnto vs as euer hee gaue vs to him Isai 9.6 Vnto vs a Sonne is giuen and secondly as hauing giuen vs the pledge of his Spirit in assurance that he is wholly ours as if it were vnderhand and Seale 2. Cor. 1.22 who hath sealed vs and giuen the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts So in the second place we communicate with him in regard of all the things that are his as his wised●e righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1. Cor. 1.30 Take it thus first whatsoeuer he had God-head Man-hood body blood life spirit office nature person all is ours Secondly whatsoeuer he did his preaching praying miracles conuersing with men sending his Spirit his resurrection ascension sitting on Gods right hand his comming to Iudgement all is ours Thirdly whatsoeuer he suffered contempt hunger stripes reproches death hell Gods wrath all is ours Fourthly whatsoeuer hee hath obtained by his doings and sufferings life mercy grace glory all is ours Rom. 8.32 We haue all things together with him c. Hee is the heyre and we are fellow-heyres Rom. 8 17. yet this is to be vnderstood in some different sort the things wherein we communicate with him are in him without stint but they are not so in vs but in some degree or measure We will reduce this communion to these two Heads for howsoeuer we haue right to all that is Christs yet wee communicate in them in a diuers manner we communicate in some things by way of merit and in some other things by way of power first some things are communicated to vs by way of merit procuring the things to vs that are duee to him and these are ours by imputation as glory Ioh. 17.22 23. And the glory thou hast giuen me I haue giuen them c. and this is our iustification Secondly other things are communicated to vs by way of power effecting the like in vs and this is ours by actuall infusion and possession as the Spirit Rom. 8.2 and life Gal. 2.20 Thus I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in me c. And this is our sanctification For the first Christ purchaseth and merits forgiuenesse of sinnes and righteousnesse and glory for vs and this we communicate in by imputation for our iustification For the second Christ by his power infuseth into vs his Spirit and life and makes vs spirituall Kings and Priests to God his Father and this is actually ours for our sanctification so wee are made holy by his holinesse not onely because it is impudent to vs for our iustification but also because it is infused to vs for our sanctification Reas 1 Now we come to the Reasons of the point and they are these The first reason why there is such a neere communion betwixt Christ and vs is this because Christ is the Head and we are the members therefore as the Head communicates to the members and they to the Head so doth hee to vs and we to him both giuing and taking Ephes 1.22 23. As the head conueyes spirit and life to all the members so doth Christ conuey spirit and life to all the faithfull and this is it the Apostle speakes Rom. 8.2 The law of the spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus hath freed me from the law of sinne and death Reas 2 Secondly Christ

the Apostle exhorts vs Iam. 1.12 My Brethren count it exceeding ioy when ye fall into diuers Temptations Fourthly as we must not take it heauily but reioyce in it so we must prepare and arme our selues for it before hand As a man that is to fight against his enemies will fit and prepare and arme himselfe to the Battell so must we Our enemies will be sure to be prepared against vs and therefore if we be not prepared against them how shall we be able to withstand them and therefore we must be continually preparing our selues to incounter with sinne and Satan and all our spirituall Enemies As we must prepare our selues to this Battaile So fiftly we must carry our selues resolutely and valiantly in this fight and see that we fight a good fight of faith as fighting the Lords Battails Thus Ioshua incouraged the people to warre because they fought the Lords Battails Now to fit vs and to helpe and direct vs in this warfare Consider these particulars First what enemies they are that we fight against Our enemies are many euen a world of enemies the Dragon and all his Angels the World and all her Children and Darlings the flesh and all the wisedom and sense thereof for all that is enmity against God Sinne Death Hell all come with open mouth to deuoure vs. This is it the Apostle saith Ephes 6.12 Wee wrestle not against flesh and blood that is not onely against flesh and blood but against Principalities and powers against worldly Gouernors the Princes of the darknes of this world against spirituall wickednesses which are in high places Marke how the Apostle sets them out in all their Terror and power marching as it were with their Colours displaied in all their Ruffe Brauery And this he doth not to dismay or discomfort vs but to incourage vs and to whet vs on that we seeing how many and how strong and how resolute our enemies be we should labour to be as resolute as they Secondly we are to consider what weapons we are to vse we must put on the whole Armour of God Ephes 6.11 And specially we must labour to be furnished with these two parts of this Armor Prayer and Watchfulnesse nothing is more necessary to a Souldier in time of warre then watchfulnesse for if he fall asleepe his enemy comes and kills him or else if his Colonell comes and findes him hee kils him Therefore the Apostle 1. Pet. 5.8 exhorts vs to watchfulnesse Bee sober and watch for your aduersary the Diuell like a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whom he may deuoure But what kind of watching is this This is not to watch with a Bille on our shoulder but it is to watch ouer our owne hearts Thirdly we are to consider how far forth we are to fight euen to the death not onely of sinne but euen to the death of the body too if neede bee Reuel 2.10 Bee thou faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the Crowne of life And we must resist euen vnto blood Heb. 12.4 wee must fight till wee stand vp to the knees in blood and not yeeld to sinne wee must fight till we ouercome wee must not onely fight but we must fight so long so hard so happily that wee may ouercome But how shall we ouercome if we fight till death if we die in the fight I answer Wee may ouercome for all that for that death is but to the outward man It is the Spirit and inward man that ouercommeth and therefore though we be slaine yet we ouercome Reuel 2.1 Fourthly wee must consider what helpes and forces wee haue on our sides surely more then are against vs we haue such an Army that all the world cannot yeeld the like wee haue God and Christ and the holy Spirit and all the holy Angels to helpe vs we haue the prayers and wel-wishings of all the faithfull in heauen and earth we haue the Word the Sacraments the examples of Christ himselfe and all the faithfull to incourage vs. And who would not fight hauing all these to fight for him and with him And who would or can doubt of the victory seeing we haue all the powers and forces of heauen and earth to assist vs and to take part with vs Onely the powers of hell are against vs and how can they hurt vs Fiftly and lastly we are to consider with what minde wee are to come into the field and to defend our selues Not for fashion nor for company nor to bee seene nor to get profit but we must come with this mind to obay and to glorifie God to maintaine his Lawes and kingdome and to vphold that spirituall life that God hath endued vs withall and to destroy and keepe vnder the power of Satan and the malignant Church and not with any sinister intention whatsoeuer And thus if wee obserue these Rules they will be good meanes to fit vs to this warfare and to direct vs in it as also to helpe vs to ouercome The third Vse is for singular comfort to all Gods children Vse 3 that howsoeuer wee suffer many Conflicts here yet all our afflictions and tribulations and Conflicts shall one day be rewarded and recompenced plentifully with a Crowne and that in heauen as wee suffer with Christ here so wee shall raigne with him hereafter Therefore let vs see that wee bee fighters in this Battell and that wee fight a true fight else wee shall haue no such reward But if wee doe thus fight wee are sure to haue our Reward What then though sinne tirannize the Conscience th●eatens the world persecutes and the Diuell sometimes puts vs to the worst yet our comfort is we shall certainly haue the victory and so a Crowne at last Therefore let vs not thinke much to endure troubles here for a while for we shall be conquerors yea more then Conquerors faith the Apostle Rom 8.34 35. We are more then Conquerors he doth not say yee shall be but you are already more then Conquerors through him that loued vs. Lastly this shewes vs how much we gratifie Satan and wrong the Lord when we yeeld vnto sinne we betray him and his cause and his glory as much as in vs lies into his enemies hands yea we fight against God for Satan Hee that is not with me saith our Sauiour is against mee yea we wrong our selues exceedingly leauing the glorious and honourable Colours of the Lord that made vs and fighting vnder Satans Banner And so much for this Point and for this Lecture The eighth Lecture of the Church IN handling the diuision of the Church which was the fourth generall Head I shewed that it was partly of the name partly of the thing it selfe Of the name we spake fully For the diuision of the thing it selfe I shewed you that it must not bee vnderstood so as if God had many kinds of Churches for the Church is but one as I haue formerly prooued But this diuision is a distinction which puts

by vs are a priuiledge to vs Consider what is or might be against vs wee are freed from it and looke what is or may be for vs that we haue liberty in for the first what is or might be against vs that we haue freedome frō for the Son hath made vs free Iohn 8.36 First Gods Iustice was agianst vs to hurt vs and to condemne vs for our sins wee are sinners and God is Iust and hates sin and how can we stand before him But that we haue this priuiledge by Christ that hee hath fully satisfied for all our sinnes and so wee are freed from this danger so that now to vs in Christ God is a mercifull Father not a Iust Iudge yea Christ hauing satisfied the Iustice of God to the full for vs we may reuerently challenge the Lord in the Name of Christ that he cannot punish vs hauing punished one for vs and so Christs merits being all-sufficient haue purchased all good things for vs so that now Iustice is for vs to giue vs that which is due to Christ not against vs to giue vs our owne deseruings Secondly the Law is against vs and like Saul breathes out threatnings against the Church of God saying If thou doest not this thou shalt dye but this is satisfied too Christ tooke on him the curse of the Law and so redeemed vs from it Galat. 3.13 Next to the Law comes sinne that had defiled vs and exposed vs to Gods wrath and kept vs vnder as slaues and seruants that we could doe nothing but sinne here is our priuiledge euen the blood of Christ that cleanseth vs and frees vs from all our sins so that the filth doth not appeare in vs the guilt is not imputed to vs and the dominion is ended so that it doth not raigne in vs Rom. 6. After sinne comes death for the reward of sinne is death and death had seized on vs for her owne wee Death destroyes him that had power of death which is the diuell and sets vs at liberty so that we may now say with the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.56.57 The sting of Death is sinne the strength of sinne is the Law but thanks be to God who hath giuen vs victory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Afterwards comes in hell for her share and opens her mouth to swallow vs downe quicke Hell that house of horror that should haue beene by right the house of our perpetuall habitation and aboade but Christ Iesus hee hath triumphed for vs ouer Hell and Condemnation so that now there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.1 Lastly the diuell who is the ground of all these forces hee had fingered vs and got vs within his clutches and wrapt vs vp in chaines and fetters as his captiues and bond-slaues Christ Iesus hee comes and looseth the workes of the diuell 1 Ioh. 3.8 hee breakes these chaines and subdues Satan so that we may say with the Prophet Psalme 124.7 the snare is broken and wee are deliuered These are great and rare priuileges I would haue you wisely to consider of them For who so is wise will ponder on these things that they may vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord wee should labour to know these things and to make vse of them and to stand fast in this liberty and not to be intangled againe in the yoake of bondage In the second place consider what was or could be for vs and all that wee haue freedome into we haue bold accesse vnto the Throne of Grace and an entrance vnto God the Father through our Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 5.2 Ephes 2.18 wee may goe boldly and safely to God and tell him our wants and begge supply we may talke familiarly with him as a man doth with his neighbour as Iob speakes wee may come vnto God and say Thou art my Father and my maker despise not the worke of thy hands so we may goe to our Lord Iesus Christ and say with Thomas My Lord and my God hee by sight wee by faith so likewise we may goe to the holy Spirit and say thou art my Sanctifier and Comforter and I am thy Temple suffer not Satan to defile mee with sinne So likewise we may haue free accesse to the Word and to the Sacraments and to all Gods promises and we may lay our hands on them and challenge them for our owne So likewise wee may also reach out our hands to all the creatures as being our peculiar right and lastly when we are on our death-beds wee may with our Sauiour Christ and with Stephen sweetly and comfortably commend our spirits into the hands of God and say Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth this is an excellent priuiledge that at the houre of death when wee are assaulted with many sore temptations wee may throw them all from vs and safely commend our soules into Gods hand and if there were no other priuiledge but this it were enough to make vs desire to be of the Church The eighth Priuiledge is the power that is conferred vpon vs to admit or reiect to binde or loose c. but this is to be spoken by it selfe in the eighth generall head following The last sort of Priuiledges are in matters of future Certainties I say matters of future Certainties not of possibilities that is too weake a word in this sense possibilities are for men as that the sonne shall haue this and this after his fathers decease and yet the sonne may be disappointed many wayes but with God future possibilities are vndoubted Certainties they are as surely ours as if we had them already Now these are first perfection of all grace now we haue them but in part 1 Cor. 13.9.12 but hereafter wee shall haue them in perfection The second thing is the resurrection of the body but that you will say is common to the wicked too It is true they shall rise too but they shall not be able to stand in iudgement Psalme 1.5 they shall rise to condemnation as our Sauiour saith Ioh. 5.29 It were better for them to lye still the graue is better then hell so that it is no Priuiledge to them to rise Thirdly wee shall stand dreadlesse and fearelesse before the Iugdement Seat of God alas now wee are afraid of euery qualme how shall wee stand dreadlesse then I answer Then wee shall know God to be our Father in Christ wee shall know that our peace is made beforehand wee shall haue the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ to couer vs and then there shall be no sinne in vs this is it that will make vs stand dreadlesse whereas the wicked for want of this shall tremble and quake and call to the mountaines to fall vpon them and to the hills to couer them Lastly we shall haue euerlasting glory life and happinesse in heauen inioying the fellowship of God and Christ and the holy Spirit and the blessed

and all wee haue yet wee must bee sure to defend our Faith and maintaine our Religion a good Souldier will looke to defend his head specially so must wee looke to Christ that he and his Gospell be defended whatsoeuer become of vs so did the Martyrs Reuel 6.9 they were killed for the Word of God and the Testimony they maintained The second work to be done in this fight is offensiue we must fight against our Aduersaries and here our first reach must be to winne them if it bee possible But if wee cannot doe this then secondly we are to seeke to ouerthrow them in their courses and practices yea and in their persons too if wee haue a warrantable calling from God Thirdly wee are to stop their mouthes that they may not iustly be opened against vs and the best meanes to do this is by our holy Conuersation so saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 2.15 that it is the Will of God that by well doing we put to silence the Ignorance of foolish men Secondly we must consider in this fight how wee must doe it first it must be done in a simple wisdome so our Sauiour teacheth vs Matth. 10 16. Behold I send you as sheepe among wolues bee therefore wise as Serpents and innocent as Doues policy and wisdome is necessary in euery ●ight and ●o it is in this but let vs take heed wee turne them not into craftes and subtilties but let them bee such as may come from a single and simple heart secondly all we doe in mannaging this Battaile must be done in holinesse we must still be consulting with God by Prayer as Dauid did Psal 69.13 when the wicked spake against him hee made his Prayer to God and Psal 109.4 he saith for my friendship they were mine enemies but I gaue my selfe to Prayer Thirdly it must be done in meekenesse after the example of our Sauiour of whom the Apostle saith 1 Peter 2.23 that when hee was reuiled reuiled not againe when he suffered he threatned not but committed it to him that iudgeth righteously wee must not render euill for euill nor curse for curse but contrariwise we must blesse as the same Apostle teacheth vs 1 Pet. 3.9 Fourthly that we doe must be done in pitty and compassion though they haue no pitty on vs nor on thēselues yet we must pitty them because wee see them running to hell and destruction and that Satan hath them in his Clutches thus our Sauiour had pitty on Ierusalem though they were his bitter enemies and wept for them Luk. 19 41. and thus he had compassion on them that crucified him Luk. 23.24 Father forgiue them they know not what they doe here was a compassionate heart indeed Fifthly wee must doe it in obedience to Gods Ordinances as being our portion so did Ierem. chap. 10.19 wee is me saith hee for my destruction and my greiuous plague but I thought it is my sorrow and I will beare it Sixthly we must doe it in zeale for the Lord of hoasts as Dauid did Psal 69.9 the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee vp And so our Sauiour in Ioh. 2.14 when hee saw men defile the Temple of God with buying and selling he made a whip of small cords and draue them all out and this hee did in zeale to Gods house vers 17. Seuenthly wee must doe it with cheerefullnesse and good courage quit you like men saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 16.13 Eightly it must be done in Faith so saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 5.9 whom resist stedfast in the Faith Ninthly it must bee don● with watchfulnesse Be sober and watch 1 Pet. 5.8 Tenthly it must be done in the name of the Lord of Hoasts that is in his power and in his strength Psal 118 10 11 12 13. the Prophet saith all Nations haue compassed me but in the Name of the Lord shall I destroy them they haue compassed me they haue compassed mee but in the Name of the Lord shall I destroy them c. And thus he encountred Goliah in the Name of the Lord of Hoasts 1 Sam. 17.45 we must disdaine all other matters and say as the same Prophet doth Psal 20.7 some trust in horses and some in Charriots but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God Eleuenthly It must be done in the blood of the Lambe Reu. 12.11 that is in a true conformity to the Death of Christ when they oppose vs we must labour what we can to be made therby cōformable to the death of Christ this is the way to ouercome in the blood of the Lambe Tweluethly we must doe it by giuing them no aduantage but wee must preuent them euery way as they euery way attempt vs wee must be both able and ready to satisfie their carnall reasons and to vnmaske their religious Pretences and to defeate both their open and secret practices Reas 1 The Reasons of the point are these first it is a good cause wee haue in hand therefore let vs not marre it with ill handling many of the faithfull relying vpon indirect and vnlawfull courses haue suffered shamefull foiles but when they haue followed Gods directions not one amongst twenty that haue beene foiled therefore wee must fight a good fight because the cause is good Reas 2 Secondly Gods glory is the chiefe matter wee fight for and there is no hope to get glory to God but by good meanes and by practising his owne Instructions Reas 3 Thirdly we seeke our own good and safety of soule and body and therefore it is most warily and religiously to be laboured in and we must contemne all meane● in this fight to procure good to our selues except they be procured by such meanes as are pleasing to God Reas 4 Fourthly wee haue a promise from God of a happy victory and of a Crowne of Glory if we fight a good fight and therefore let vs not make our selues vncapable of it either by neglecting any good course in this fight or by practising any euill courses therein Fifthly This fight is for the pulling downe of Satans Reas 5 kingdome which wee cannot doe but as wee are endued with Gods owne strength and armed with Gods owne weapons Dauid had a sore enemy of Saul and in the 1 Sam. 24.5 6 7. wee may reade that he had a fit opportunity to be eased of him if hee would haue laid his hands on the Lords anointed but hee knew that was not the way it was none of Gods courses and therefore he forbare it and except wee may doe it in God it were better not to be done at all Lastly the Crowne of Righteousnes is laid vp for vs but Reas 6 conditionally that we fight a good Fight and not otherwise 1 Tim. 4.7 8. The vses of the point are these This should teach Vse 1 vs in the first place to examine our selues whether our hearts bee thus affected our practices thus framed in fighting the Lords battels against our enemies let vs see whether we haue

vnto the time of reformation which being by Christ abolished are not fit for true worshippers which must worship God in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.24 their continuall smiting of their brests crossing of themselues numbring of their prayers lifting vp the hoast Signes Gestures Pictures and infinite such like trash some borrowed from the Iewes some from the heathen idle complements superstitious impious vnseemely most of them are vnprofitable scarce any of them warrantable indeede they are a meer foppery as many beholders haue iudged euen by sense and reason when they haue not beene besotted with their iuglings neither are they onely carnall that is full of shadowes and Ceremonies but they are carnall too that is as being most agreeable to flesh and blood what more carnall perswasion then this that a pardon for sinnes may be bought with money that a Priest may absolue vpon auricular confession that if a man haue no merits of his owne yet for money hee shall haue out of the Church Treasury the merits of Saints that after death hee may be relieued with prayers of the liuing that many sinnes are veniall and pardonable in their owne nature that if a man giue to Churches Hospitalls or monasteries or the like hee shall goe to heauen yea that which in shew is most labour to the flesh yet indeede is meerly carnall as their whipping of themselues almost to death there is no spiritualnesse at all in it it is but the blood of the body for the sinne of the soule the Prophet scoffes at such like dealing Micha 6.7 The truth is this that euery naturall man had rather be scourged and die then vndertake the spirituall combate against his beloued sinnes and the Papists vse that to be excused of this as they folishly imagine and they measure out Religion for the most part by natural reason grounds of Philosophy so that we see they haue a carnall Religion Secondly they haue a wil-worship that is a seruice for the most part of ●heir own deuising their pilgrimages praiers abstinence from diuers meats voluntary pouertie works of supererogation their Masses Satisfactions Holy daies fasting daies all these and many more are meerely mens inuentions so that God may say to them as he doth to the people of Israel Esa 1.12 Who required these things at your hands so that vpon the point we see that they serue please thēselues but they serue nor please not God at all Thirdly they haue policies in their Religion for the maintenance of their outward state their purgatory praiers for the dead Images and Reliques of Saints erected in their Churches to be offered vnto are meerely a meanes to inrich their owne Coffers and to vphold the honour of the triple Crowne and to maintaine the Beast in her Scarlet colours when they sell a man a pardon for his sinnes or so many yeeres release from purgatorie for some round summe of money doe yee not thinke they laugh at him when he is gone euen as our cheaters doe when they haue gulled some poore simple hearted man They know these can doe no good and yet they practise this for policy Machiauel held it and these practise it that Religion is meerely a matter of policie to keepe men in awe and to maintaine a state cursed wretches haue they none to make a scoffe at but God and his Religion and seruice Is this to serue God no it is to make God to serue them and abuse and change his word to their vile purposes Secondly as they erre and are foulely corrupted in the carriage of Gods worship in generall so are they also in the particular parts of it for first the word which was purposely deliuered to the Church for their light to walke by this is purposely obscured by the Papists that to the people it is a darke light they see little or nothing by it The word is to be preached there is little preaching among them or if there be any they preach faction traditions and commandements of the Church and the Word of God least of all As for any other publike minstration of the Word it is altogether in an vnknowne tongue without any profit or edification to the people well yet if the people might haue accesse to the Word as the Bereans had that they might heare the Pharises but yet beware of their Leauen it were somewhat but they are kept farre enough from that they shall learne no more but what the Priests and Iesuits teach them they are likely to be good Christians then and they must take all vpon their words a sure ground to build vpon this is a notable policie to cloake their errors that the people may not discerne them and a great dishonour to God to suppresse and smother vp his owne ordinances and to put that Candle vnder a Bushell which himselfe hath put on a Candlesticke that it might giue light to all in the house and a notorious wrong to Gods people to sterue them of the food of life and to keepe them hood-winkt that they might not see with their owne eyes into the euidences of their owne right and matters of their owne saluation Secondly the Sacraments not to speake of the number of them increased by them from two to seuen though I know there is no authority in the world can make a Sacrament but those Christ Iesus himselfe hath ordained But euen in Christs own Sacraments they are full of abominations as first in Baptisme they adde oile salt spittle and exorcismes and I know not what toyes and toyes are loathsome in Gods Seruice but in the Lords Supper their corruptions are not onely in the outward Barke as they are in Baptisme but in the very sap hart there is adoration of the Sacrament as of God himselfe and defrauding of the people of the one halfe of it and the making of it a Sacrifice propitiatorie for the quicke and the dead and the making of Christs owne body by the hands of the Priest all these are wicked deprauations either of the nature or right vse of this holy Sacrament Thirdly for their Discipline they haue scarce any thing sound in that the Lawes they rule by are Canons and Lawes of their owne making and not found in the Scripture the ouerseer is the Pope armed as well with a Temporall as with a spirituall sword the power of the keyes that also is horribly abused by them in binding excommunicating true Beleeuers Christian States and Princes that will not submit to the Popes yoke in stead of obstinate offenders against Gods Law and so in loosing absoluing offenders for money and for fauour yea and before repentance too because before the fact whereto if wee adde their dispensations and reseruations whereby they haue an absolute power to free whom they will see now if there be any fouler carriage in any heathen State in the world Fourthly for their prayers they are