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A73751	The rocke of religion. Christ, not Peter As it was deliuered in certaine sermons vpon Math. 16. ver. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20. Summarily contracted out of that which was more largely handled in the parish of S. Anthonline by George Close the younger, one of the readers there.	Close, George.	1624 (1624)	STC 5433.5; ESTC S124804	70,602	246

the binding and loosing which God in all ages hath exercised in his Church by the Ministery of Moses and all the Prophets as by his Apostles in the time of grace and of the Gospell so we safely conclude that the power to forgiue or retaine sinnes is not properly giuen to men k 1 Cor. 9. 18. cap. 2. 5. 3. 6 7. but to the word of God and his diuine Sacraments whereof men are but the Ministers to plant and water to teach exhort reproue and correct but the effect is of God which giueth power to his Word and Sacraments as the Sunne to mollifie waxe and harden clay to minister the l Acts 10. 44. 2 Cor. 3. 3 6 8. spirit of grace or Satan to possesse reprobates And to conclude and close vp this poynt of the Keyes whether we vnderstand the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church or both as it may bee safely so extended yet wee ascribe vnto God the effectuall power onely to loose or retaine sinnes Vse 1 But let no man despise the Ordinance of God in the administration of his Word and Sacraments or the iust censures of the Church for the contempt of any of them God himselfe reuengeth as an indignitie done vnto himselfe and so the excommunicate person shut out of the Church by Paul and the Congregation was sayd to be deliuered to Satan who hath great dominion ouer vnbeleeuers and contemners of Gods word and holy Ordinances and there were many fearefull examples in the Primitiue Church of diuers excommunicate persons taken with frenzy and ouertaken with strange iudgments wherby God wrought a feare in the Church to offend presumptuously against his Ordinances So m Actes 5. 3 5 11. Ananias and Saphira censured by Peter for their hypocrisie were immediately strucken to death and cut off by a consteruation of the body from the grace of life and by an eternall malediction of the soule from the life of grace And also n Act. 8. 20 21 Simon Magus being discouered and cut off from the Church was filled with all iniquitie and returned to his Sorceries and the Deuils seruices againe o 2 Sam. 7. 15 1 Sam. 13. 14. and 15. 26. and 16. 14. and 19. 23. Saul being denounced by Samuel to be cut off by the sentence of God an euill spirit possessed him who notwithstanding when he was in the Assemblies of the Church Prophets did also prophesie with them It is safe therefore to bee in the Assemblies of Gods Saints where the Spirit of God hath his residence on the contrary it is a fearefull thing to bee in the Congregations of the wicked p Num. 16. 21 24 30 32. 27. 3. as the complices of Corah Dathan and Abiram which were swallowed vp into destruction and went downe quicke to hell with them To be cast off from God which raigneth in the Assembly of the Saints q 1 Cor. 5. 4 5 11. is to bee cast vnto Satan which rageth out of the Church Let such as neglect the publique Assemblies of Christian Congregations or reiect the word of God or his diuine Sacraments there ministred consider how fearefully they offend against God and their owne soules which refuse to vse that Key whereby the kingdome of grace heere and of glory hereafter is so effectually opened vnto them The Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen Doct. In that the Word of God is called the key of the kingdome of Heauen it teacheth vs the great power and efficacie thereof being as Augustine affirmeth Potens Instrumentum the powerfull Instrument for the encrease of Gods Church and Kingdome It is most true that this great power promised was as graciously performed by Christ vnto his Apostles which brought greater workes to passe by this their Ministery in conquering the whole world and subduing the consciences of men to the obedience of God than all the Potentates and prudent men of the earth were able by their power and policie to performe Demosthenes among the Greekes and Cicero among the Latines renowned for their Eloquence Solon for his wisedome Aristides for his Iustice Plato for his diuine Philosophy Aristotle for his profound knowledge Alexander for his Prowesse Caesar and Pompey for their power famous in their generations in all the world yet neuer attayned any such conquest ouer Satan or the world as these poore Preachers Fishermen and Fishers of men brought to passe by the vertue of these Keyes and Commission of Christ wherby they surpassed all Conquerours for the vniuersall largenesse and constant continuance of Christs kingdome vpon earth Let Tamberlaine the Tartar and the Turkish Ottomans boast of their great Atchieuements yet they came short of the bounds of their Territories as Christes Kingdome was inlarged from Sea vnto Sea vnto the endes of the earth of these it was prophesied and by these it was performed r Psal 19. 4. Luke 1. 3● Rom. 10. 18. Their sound went out into all the world and their voyce vnto the endes of the earth It is a false bragge of Turkish or Romish Emperours Iupiter in Coelis Caesar regit omnia terris for they neuer had any Empire of comparable extent with this nor of answerable subiection themselues were Lords of men and slaues of vices and it was truely verified which the dogged Diogenes tolde Alexander That he was not a Conquerour but a drudge of the world hee ouercame not the world but the world ouercame him and hee was a slaue to so many Lords as hee was subiect to vices Pride Excesse and Drunkennesse ouerthrew him and his kingdomes were diuided and fayled in the next Generation but of this King and Kingdome it is sayd ſ Isai 53. 8. Act. 8. 33. Who can tell his Generation Mans Lawes and subiection extended but to the body goods and estates of men in this world t 2 Cor. 10. 4 5 Christes Kingdome is ouer Satan Sinne Death Hell and Damnation and ouer the Soules and Consciences of men u Hebr. 4. 12. to bring euen the most rebellious thoughts of the heart into subiection vnto God yea it preuailed mightily against all the powers of the world w Apoc. 17. 14. which by most grieuous persecutions set themselues against it but it was no more possible for them to suppresse it then x Apoc 7. 1 to stay the winds that they should not blow vpon the face of the earth or that the breath of God should be restrayned It is recorded by Ruffinus Ruffin lib. 2. Cap. 5. that when the Christians in Edessa a Citie of Mesopotamia were banished by the Emperors commaundement yet they had their meetings in the Fields Woods and by the Riuers to heare and practise the Word of God wherewithall the Emperour being enraged strucke the Captaine with his fist in fury demaunding why he did so permit them the Exercise of their Religion contrary to his Edict and Commaundement Wherevpon the Captaine vpon the next day resolued to dispatch them but beholding

their constancie and bold resolution to suffer Martyrdome for Christ and his Gospell hee stayed his course and returning to the Emperour offers to obey passiuely but not actiuely relating vnto him what he had heard and seene And heereupon the Emperour was appeased and stayed his hand from further persecution Whereupon Augustine reporteth truely of them Ligabantur saith hee includebantur torquebantur tamen multiplicabantur They were fettered imprisoned tormented and yet they multiplyed Plentifull and pregnant are the proofes of holy Scripture of the power and vertue of these Keyes to open our knowledge to y 1 Cor. 4. 15. Phile ver 10 Iames 1. 18. Gal. 3. 6. and 4. 19. 1 Pet. 1. 23. beget vs Gods children to regenerate our willes to assist vs in afflictions to minister consolation to our consciences and to keepe vs from the pit of destruction If the Glutton will not haue his brethren come into that place of torment Abraham will direct him to z Luke 16 27 29 to 31. heare Moses and the Prophets hee will not send Lazarus nor any other from the dead vnto them for they would not beleeue Lazarus nor Christ which raised him from the dead but a Iohn 12. 10 11 would againe haue put that Lazarus to death because for his sake many beleeued on Christ Vse 1 What shall wee more say but search for these Keyes finde them and vse them to vnlocke Heauen and shut vp Hell gates vnto vs. Vse 2 For Confutation of the Romane Catholiques Peters pretended Successors which seeke for the Key of Primacie and hauing gotten the Popedome they build not Tabernacles but Palaces of pleasure sumptuous and glorious put on pontificall Robes which are rich and precious prouide their Kitchens like Diues dayly Dyet both rare and delicious are attended with Traines magnificent and pompous they haue turned their spirituall Armour into weapons of worldly Warfare to ouerthrowe Townes and Towres Cities and Seigniories not wicked thoughts and deeds but walls and Bulwarks In a word they haue changed Peters Keyes into Pauls Sword or rather into Peters Sword drawne out against Gods Forbid Their owne Italian Stories verefie this of Pope Iulius Secundus that he lay in the Campe with his Souldiers at the siege of Mirandula hauing nothing like a Bishop except it were his name and some attire of a Prelate When shall the World or the Flesh or the Deuill bee ouercome and subdued by their gluttonous Dyet gorgeous Attire painted Pictures Musicall Instruments sweet Perfumes goblets of Wine and courtly Curtezans the best of which can no more comfort or conuince the Conscience than Holy-water terrifie the Deuill In their holyest Exercises the simplicity of Christ is despised their pallats cannot rellish other Sacramentall Bread then Sugred Wafers mixed Wines charmed Holy Waters exorcised Oyles Prayers pattered vpon Pearles and perfumed Beades and for these haue they taken away the Key of knowledge which our blessed Sauiour commended and committed to his Church Ministers and people Let Master Harding in his blasphemous and popish Paradoxes seeke to maintaine that the Scripture is but a spirituall dumbnesse a dead Letter and an vnprofitable thing for the people yet wee will hold and maintaine that which Christ Peter Paul and all the Apostles taught and practised viz. b Iohn 5. 39. Actes 17. 11. Luke 4. 16 c Deut. 6. 7. Ioshua 1. 8. Psalm 1. 2. Act 13. 14 15 27. To haue the Scriptures read and interpreted euery Sabboth day Saint Jerome was of opinion and affirmeth that all the Maidens about the Elect Lady Paula to whom Saint Iohn wrote his second Epistle were dayly set to reade yea to bee conuersant in reading of the Scriptures Augustine is of the same mind saying Nec solum sufficiat quod in Ecclesia diuinas Lectiones auditis sed etiam in domibus vestris aut ipsi legite aut alios legemes requirite It is not sufficient to heare what is publikely read in the Church but also that you reade or heare others reade in your priuate houses The Nicene Councell decreed that no house should be without a Bible which was a matter chargeable and difficult in those dayes before there was any vse of Printing which now may be had at the tenth penny Origen saith Vtinam omnes faceremus quod scriptum est serutamini Scripturas Would to God that wee all did as it is written c Iohn 5. 39. Search the Scriptures Chrysostome accordeth thereunto and cryeth out to the Laitie Comparate vobis Biblia animarum pharmaca seculares Prouide you Bibles you Seculer men the Physicke of your soules How contrary to all these is the profession and practise of the Popish Synagogue which like cruell Saul will deny Gods people to taste of this d Psal 19. 7 8 119. 103. hony and hony-combe but as the Ape ath her owne young ones in ●dmiration aboue all other the ●ost beautifull beasts and birds ●o they doate vpon their owne ●nuentions Decrees Decre●als Canons Constitutions Li●urgies and Legends not onely permitting them to bee read and practised of all their Spirituall ●nd Secular Disciples but ex●oll them for vse aboue the Ca●onicall Scriptures commend ●hem and commaund them vnto ●heir Catholikes whereas the ●he Word of God is like the forbidden fruit e Gen. 2. 17. that no man may touch or taste without danger of death f Gen. 3. 24. that Tree of life is kept with a flaming Sword not by an Angell but by the Deuill that no man may come at it to eate and liue for euer O vanitie of vanities Popish dregges shall describe vs Cathotholiques and the Euangelicall Doctrine shall proscribe vs Heretiques giue me leaue to shoot an Arrowe against them out o● an o●hers Bow which hath hi● the marke long before me Tales regunt Petri Naues Tales gerunt Petri Claues Mr. Gostick● in the Anatomy of Ana. S●ph Sacriledge Et ligandi potentiam Hi nos docent sed indocti Hi nos ducunt sic nox nocti Indicat scientiam Such Peters Ship do stere guide Such Peters keyes to them haue tid● To loose and to bind These must teach vs which lacke sight These must leade vs in darkenight Which are selfe blind Yet we will not cease to tell them what God hath threatned by Moses g Deut 17. 18. Cursed are they that lead the blinde out of the way and h Math. 15. 14. Luke 6. 39. If the blinde leade the blinde both shall fall into the ditch euen the pit of perdition They deale with the people as the desperate mad ones mentioned by the Prophet Amos saying Tace ne recorderis nominis Domini i Amos 6. 10. hold your peace and remember not nor speak vnto vs in the name of the Lord and especially such as were guilty of grosse Idolatry as the Papists are could at no hand abide the Word of God that was so contrary to their abominable superstitions and therefore they said