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A07822	Salomon or A treatise declaring the state of the kingdome of Israel, as it was in the daies of Salomon Whereunto is annexed another treatise, of the Church: or more particularly, of the right constitution of a Church.	Morton, Thomas, of Berwick.	1596 (1596)	STC 18197.7; ESTC S112936	159,289	238

zealous of the law yea Paule by the counsell of the Church at Ierusalem did goe about to make the Iewes beleeue that he also did liue according to the law of Moses Act. 21.26 and therefore we must thinke that he warneth the Galathians that if nowe in so great light of the gospell which teacheth the abrogation of the ceremoniall lawe and after so much teaching and so many admonitions they did still remaine blinde and obstinate yea and did turne backe againe to the or●ers of the lawe that then it was an euident signe that they were as yet destitute of the true knowledge and obedience of the gospell For if this had beene the first time wherein they had beene taught Christ he woulde easelie haue winked at this greate errour of ioyning the lawe and the gospell togither Likewise as concerning that detestable heresie of Arianism● we may well thinke the authours spreaders beginners furtherers and maintainers of it to haue beene men destitute of the spirit of God and that this heresie is especially in these ages a fearefull signe of eternalll reprobation Yet we are not to thinke so hardlie of those who were corrupted with it ●fter that it had ouerspred the greatest part of the worlde and so were caried away with the multitude to euill although it were in that time also a fearefull token of a reprobate minde for as in a common infection of the aire we cannot iudge of the state of mens bodies by popular diseases and deathes whenas both strong and weake men are in the same case so neyther in the common raigning of anie heresie can we perfectly discerne the state of mens mindes and soules by that token forsomuch as God doth sauesome euen by pulling them out of the fire And therefore we are charitably to hope the best of them who liue in grieuous errours not of wilfull blindnesse but of simple ignorance and not to doubt but that ignorant heretikes beeing religious and zealous seruers of God are in farre bett●r state as touching their saluation then they who professing the sincere doctrine of the gospell doe in their prophane liues denie the power thereof But that heretikes are to be accounted members of the Church we shall haue occasion to declare when we come to the corrupt state of a Church So that to conclude this pointe we doe and that as we trust and are perswaded by the worde of GOD giue the name of members of the Church and of christians to all that doe in outwarde profession holde the foundation of religion The which although in effect it be the same both before and since the time of the Gospell yet it hath some difference in respect of the diuersitie of the times For before Christ was exhibited in the flesh this was the foundation of religion I put my whole trust and confidence for my happinesse in the Messias whome God hath promised to sende for the redemption and saluation of the people of the seede of Dauid This foundation did the Church of the Iewes professe when Christ came and therefore euery one of that people was a member of the Church howsoeuer they did togither holde grosser heresies then the papistes doe at this day But since the comming of Christ this is to holde the foundation of religion I beleeue Iesus the sonne of Mary to be the sonne of God the promised Messias the Lord and Sauiour of the worlde and that in him onely saluation is to be had as it is more briefely set downe by the Apostle 1. Cor. 3.11 Another foundation can no man lay but that which is laid to wit that Iesus is Christ. To the which doctrine all opinions and assertions which are contrary are pernicious heresies and such as bring certaine damnation 2. Peter 2.1 There were many false prophe●s among the peop●e as there are fals● teachers among● you which bring in damnable heresi●s to wit these denying the Lorde Iesu● who bought them these bring vpon themselues swift damnation that is may certainly be accounted for damned As for the heresies of those who doe confesse the lord Iesus as they are more waighty and doe nearer approach to the grand heresie of those who do not confesse the Lord Iesus so they are more dangerous yet of themselues not beeing ioyned with obstinate and wilfull blindnesse not so desperate Sect. 5. Of those who dissemble their profession BVT before we leaue this point this question may me moued whether as the outward profession of faith without the trueth thereof in heart so the inwarde faith of the heart without out ward profession be sufficient to make a man a true member of the catholicke Church We answere that where true faith is there necessarely is also some outward seruice of God and some confession of the mouth by praier or some other meanes which be it neuer so little is sufficient to make a man a member of the catholicke Church But as for open and publicke profession of our faith before men true faith being weake may be destitute thereof so we read Iohn 12.40 that many of the chiefe rulers beleeued in Christ but neither did nor durst professe him before men these are members of the catholicke Church which is in visible but not of any particular Church vnlesse they doe professe their faith before others beside themselues So that outward profession of the faith although it be secrete and priuate maketh a man a member of the catholicke Church and open profession maketh vs members of the visible Church But it may be obiected against this whole doctrine that if the outward profession of the gospell be sufficient to make a true member of the Church then the diuels which confessed Iesus to be the sonne of God● are truely christians We answere that this confession was extorted from them by the power of God and sometimes came from the malice of their nature that so they might procure danger to Christ but they doe not by faith relie themselues on God in Christ for happinesse neither doe they professe themselues to be his seruantes and that they are to loue him and labour to glorifie him as all christians doe So then as many are members of the misticall bodie of Christ and of his Church which are not as yet members of his visible bodie which is the visible Church militant heere on earth they not beeing as yet called to the knowledge of the gospell so many are called to be members of the Church who are not chosen Sect. 6. Who are without the catholicke Church AND thus we see what manner of seruing God is ment in the definition the other wordes which follow haue their vse for in that we require the seruice of the true God we exclude all heathenish and pagan people from being members of the Church because as it is Rom. 1.23 they passing by the creator worship creatures as Gods And lastly we adde these wordes in Iesus Christ because there is no true seruing of God the

giftes to men some to be Apostles some Euangelistes c. Secondlie he imparteth to them graces tending to their owne saluation as a kinde of faith of repentance of spirituall ioy loue and in generall whatsoeuer grace is in the true beleeuers the like may be found in an hypocrite and that not onely in shew and appearance but also in trueth Marke 4.16 hypocrites receiue the word with ioy Yet there is this difference in the faithfull these graces are sincere euident effectuall constant and perpetuall but in hypocrites they are obscure in small measure vnprofitable and temporarie yea mixed with much hypocrisie So that both faithfull and hypocritical men are ioyned to Christ and to the Church by the bond of the spirite for where there is one spirite there is also one body but the one to Christ as to their sauiour the other to him as to their Lord the one to the Church in heauen the other to the Church on earth the one by a mightie worke of the spirite the other after a light manner the one for a time the other for euer Sect. 4. That heretikes are members of the catholicke Church BVT although it were granted that hypocrites are members of the Church so many of them as both holding the whole trueth of Christian religion and also leading a life in outward appearance correspondent thereunto doe fully professe the seruice of God yet it might be doubted what we shoulde thinke of them in whome this profession is in a great part wanting as it is in all those who either leade a life or maintaine some heresie contrarie to their owne profession and to the word of God The answere for both kindes seemeth to be this That they who professe Iesus Christ to be the sauiour of the worlde and themselues to be his seruantes readie to obey his will and worde although they doe indirectly by wickednesse of life or heresie in doctrine deny their owne profession yet are to be accounted Christians and true members of the Church heere on earth It is true indeed that no man can be saued who is not iustified by faith nor yet haue faith who is not sanctified from a wicked life yet men of dissolute liues yea tho they be by excommunication cut off from the body of the visible Church that is from all particular Churches yet they remaine members of the catholicke Church from the which no censure can separate saue onely death Likewise as touching ignorant men who liue in the Church and yet knowe scarce any one point of the doctrine of Christ although they be in an euill estate in regarde of their saluation yet they are to be accounted Christians because of their profession But there is greater question made of heretikes who doe maintaine some grieuous heresie and that about the foundation of religion as they who thinke erroniously of the ●rinitie of the person or natures of Christ of the māner of our iustification of the nature of the sacramente● or of ●ny other such waighty point of doctrine whether these are to be accounted christians and members of the Church We answere that such are as it seemeth to be accounted christians although their heresies be both many and grieuous yea such as if they were throughly vrged would by necessarie consequence of argument ouerthrow faith and all religion And to make instance in the grossest and most blasphemous heresie that euer was inuented to wit the heresie of Arius who denied by diuinity of Christ this doth almost directly ouerthrow christianity for if Christ be not God he is not a sufficie●● mediator then our faith is in vaine This would follow plainely of that heresie and yet such was their blindnesse that maintained it that they did togither maintaine and professe zealously the whole doctrine of the gospel beside and did beleeue obey and honour Christ as the onely sauiour of the world The which dot● appeare by that confession of faith which Ariu● the chiefe maintaine● of that heresie did exhibite to Constantine Wherein although he doth dissemble his heresie yet it sheweth what he and his followers held in the test of the doctrin● of the gospell 〈◊〉 4. pag. 13.42 yea this heresie was co●mon in the Church of the I●wes before the comming of Christ for it is euident tha● verie ●ewe of them did thinke that the Messias shoulde be God For what was thought of Christ euen of many of his disciples we may gather by the wordes of Cleophas L●ke 24. Hast thou not heard of Iesus of Nazareth who was a prophet c. Yea it might be plainly shewed that many of the Church both before the comming of Christ and also after did not thinke that the Messias should be God And not to ouerpasse in ●●lence popery the most common heresie of our times wherewith the Church both is now most annoied and hath in times past bene lamētably oppressed and almost cleane ourthrowen it doth consist of so many grieuous errours that most men do thinke it not to be an heresie but a false religion and the maintainers professours of it to be alienates from ●he common-wealth of Israel which is the Church of God as namely of those great heresies of idolatry transsubstan●iation the sacrifice of the Masse ment iustification by workes freewill and inuocation of saints yea of many other great errours insomuch that we may say of them the wordes of the prophet from the top of the 〈◊〉 to the sole of the foot there is no whole part but all full of loath some and dangerous ●ore● And therfore it is no maruaile that they seem● to many to haue in them no life of christian faith but to be dead rotten stoc●s yea to haue no outward profession of christianity But yet if due consideration be had how far ●he nature and name of a Church and of christians doth stretch it selfe it wil appeare that we may truely account the● christians and so consequently members of the Church and that because they doe still professe hold and maintaine the chiefe fundamental pointes of religion of God of Christ of hi● d●ath and passion of the resurrection and all the rest contained in that summe of religion called the Apostles Creede so that although by 〈…〉 they doe wound and in a manner kill themselues yet in regarde of the trueth which they keepe there rema●neth 〈◊〉 them some life of Christianity and so are fitly compared to a man who although he both lacke many partes of his body and also haue the rest corrupted with pestilent diseases y●t draweth breath and therefore is not a dead 〈◊〉 but a liuing man The reason by the which we are perswaded to thinke that papistes and other heretikes doe stil retaine the name of christians is this for that faith and especially a generall and historicall faith the profession whereof is sufficient to make a man be accounted a christian may be lodged in a mans minde together with such errours as

and of the iudgementes of God that by this meanes they may be driuen to Christ and euen compelled to imbrace the doctrine of the gospell For as the iron must first be made hote in the fire before it will receaue any newe fo●me so must the hard heart be mollified in the furnace of the wrath of God before it will receaue the doctrine of faith and therefore it is needfull that there should by this meanes a way be made for the doctrine of the gospell for men must first be made to see their sinnes and the punishment of eternall death due vnto them before they can learne the vse and necessitie of Christ and of his righteousnesse For the phisition commeth not to whole men neyther doth the surgeon lay his plaisters but vpon wounded and brused members Thus did Iohn goe before Christ in the spirit of Elias to prepare the people for the Lord Luk. 1.17 and thus Christ prepared the young man Math. 19.21 and Peter the Iewes Actes 2.37 who when they were pricked in their heartes by hearing their sinnes they came to the Apostles saying men and brethren what shall we doe And Paul the men of Athens Act. 17.31 and lastly thus did God himselfe by a feareful earthquake prepare the iaylor Actes 16.30 and according to these exmples all other vnbeleeuers are to be conuerted by bringing them to a sight of their sinnes and a sense of the anger of GOD and that especially by mentioning and vrging those sinnes which are most hainous in their owne eyes and by the confession of all men which they can least excuse and whereof they are most ashamed Yea the doctrine of the lawe ought to goe before because it will more easelie be receaued and beleeued forsomuch as it is naturall to men being ingrafted in euerie mans minde since the first creation of man For although it were by the fall of Adam greatlie diminished obscured and peruerted yet there remaineth a confused and darke knowledge of good and euill of right and wrong and also of the rewarde belonging to obedience and the punishment of death due to sinne Rom. 1.32 the Gentiles knowe the lawe of God that they who committe sinne are worthy of death Yea of this knowledge commeth a conscience in infidels sometimes excusing them altho●gh falsely but for the most parte accusing them for their sinne before God So that this their knowledge of the lawe and conscience of sinne may easely be inlightned and stirred vppe by the preaching of the lawe whereas the doctrine of faith is contrarie to naturall reason and therefore harde to be perswaded Thus we see the first parte of the ministerie of the worde to wit that whereby infidels are to be prepared for the gospell This being done then the doctrine of christian religion is briefely and summarelie to be propunded euen as the Apostles did vse to preach Christ. The summe of whose sermons was this that saluation is to be had by faith in Iesus Christ the sonne of God and the redeemer of the world The trueth of this doctrine is to be proued by such testimonies as are of most force as the lawe and prophetes are with the Iewes out of the which we see that Christ and his Apostles doe continually proue that which they speake Likewise as touching the gentiles although the maine points of the gospell be contrarie to humane reason and therefore not to be grounded thereon yet we are not destitute of many helpes and euident argumentes drawen out of their owne poets philosophers prophetisses and oracles whereby the probabilitie trueth and necessitie of the gospell may be declared euen to the heathen The which who so desireth to know may see them in those bookes which are written for the demonstration of the trueth of christian religion both in the first ages of the Church as also in these latter times Especially the vanitie of that false and idolatrous worship is to be laid open vnto them that so they being as it were driuen from that may be constrained to seeke the true religion as hath beene declared Sect. 4. How men conuerted to the faith ought to be ordered SO many of them as can be wonne by this means to beleeue the trueth of the doctrine deliuered are vpon confession of their faith to haue baptisme administred vnto them to be a seale of their faith to themselues and a badge of their profession to others and so to be separated from the rest as those of whom the Church is to consist Yea although they doe not at the first expresse the power of religion in true repentance and a christian life yet if they doe beleeue that to be the true religion of GOD and be content to professe the same then are they to be accounted members of the Church So we reade Actes 8.16 that many of the Samaritanes were baptised and so receaued into the Church whenas none of them had receaued the holy ghost but onely beleeued in the name of Iesus as they were taught So the Eunuch was baptised Actes 8. vpon this confession I beleeue that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God For euen as they who labour in digging mettals out of the earth doe at the first ●ake for golde whatsoeuer doth glister and afterward purge the pure golde from the corrupt drosse and from all base mettall and as fishers take for fishe whatsoeuer commeth to the net but afterwarde separate the good from the bad Math. 13.47.48 so at the first the ministerie receaueth all that seeme to beleeue but in processe of time it separateth the hypocrite from the beleeuer and the wicked from the godly although not perfitly But before the administration of baptisme the summarie doctrine of it must be taught that so it may be receaued with greater fruite to wit that this sacrament was appointed by God himselfe as Iohn the first minister of it doth testifie Iohn 2.33 to be in his church a badge and common liueray of all his seruants whereby they are to professe his name and to be knowen from vnbeleeuers and also for their owne edification that by baptisme they may be confirmed in beleeuing the doctrine both of the law and of the gospell and further that it belongeth cheifly to the doctrine of the law in that by drowning vs in water it putteth vs in remembraunce of that eternall death whereunto we were subiect before as the Apostle teacheth Rom. 6.4 and that it is of the same nature and vse with circumcision the which did vnder the law both distinguishe the Iewes as gods people from all other nations as prophane and also set before the eies of the receauers eternall death as the other ordinarie sacrament of the passouer did eternall life for the one sacrament was of a bloudy signification wounding the body and so threatning death but the other graue the comfortable nourishment of life and so doe baptisme the Lords supper differ Lastly that both baptisme and circumcision although they