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A33462	Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Marshall, Valentine.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656. Tentations.	1658 (1658)	Wing C471; ESTC R5922	60,793	168

a lamp Psal. 119. 105. See 2 Reg. 22. 16. and 23. 2 25. 6. If our hearts be so well be sprinkled with the blood of Christ See Heb. 9. 19. and Exod. 24. 7. 7. If we be so humbled under the sense of that body of death we have about us See how it was with Josiah 2 Chron. 34. 23 30. when his heart was touched with the wickednesse of the time He read and so shall we when we have a sense of the sinne that is in us This Man of God in this short but sweet and elaborate discourse that followes hath cleared the way daintily for poor plain Christians to build upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles in those Translations that God in his great mercy hath set before them Here 's the price put into * the hand where 's the heart to use it we can but call on men 'T is God must perswade Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Shem. He was touching a little and but a little upon mans imperfections and upon the working of grace whilest it is here in this life and God took him to the place where the soules of the just are made perfect where grace is compleated in glory This brief and pithy piece hath lien longer upon mine hand then I am well-pleased with This I can say 1. It was written in his fast hand and so it was the longer work ere it could be pickt out perfectly by my selfe and some others that best knew his writing He was like * Bucer in this he his own selfe could not reade his own hand sometimes in a moneth after he had writ it 2. I have been letted by sicknesse much upon my selfe and some also in those that be near me besides some other urgent occasions 3. Not being cut out for work of this nature I had the more ado to satissie my selfe in this that 's let abroad such as it is at the last I have been more large by farre then I intended but 't is for a friend to whose memory I owe as much as Philemon did to Paul more then I can pay 2. 'T is for a man of men the Phoenix of his Age as 't was said of * Beza 3. Besides 't is all that I intend in this kinde to trouble the world withal God grant his blessing may attend it I remain Thine in Christ Jesus VAL MARSHALL Elmore May the 20. 1658. A Resolution of certaine Cases to cleare some doubts concerning my former Writings 1. Of the Scriptures IN all buildings the maine is to settle the Foundation First of all next to Christ the foundation is laid upon the Prophets and Apostles So Paul are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets meaning the foundation which the Apostles and Prophets laid Laid where In their doctrine contained in their Writings So Doctor John Rainolds the famous Hence that of Christ search the Scriptures for in them ye think to have eternal life By which place it is put beyond all Queries and Question that the Scriptures are the foundation of Religion sith in them is said Ye think and ye think well in it to have eternal life So again ye erre saith Christ to the Sadd●ces not knowing the Scriptures And again Apollos shewed and convinced the Jewes publickly by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ and once more all Scripture is given by inspiration by the breath of God Now by Scripture is meant the Word of God written Written then Printed now by the way note and grant that written and printed come all to one written then printed now so then by Scriptures we meane the Word of God written Now here the first case is What ground there is that we should ground our selves on the Scriptures sith for a matter of two thousand years the Church was without Scripture and many went to heaven when there was before Moses no Scripture at all and the Christian Church was best and purest before the New Testament was written at all This was pleaded in the Councel of Trent to justle out the Scriptures and to place Traditions in the place of the Scriptures All this should not shake and totter the heart of a Christian Before Moses the Lord did teach by tradition without Scripture and the Church did by the providence of God walk by as certaine rules then as now For this they who will may see Dr. Abbot against Bishop Many Reasons are given why then the written word was not necessary as 't is now as that the Church was in families after it came to be all one Nation over now over all Nations As also that the Patriarchs then had a spirit we have not Anabaptists say they have an infallible spirit which Wotton calls a lewd opinion yet they say this as onely for themselves But sure the Patriarchs and the Church under the Patriarchs had a certain and infallible rule to walk by which was to them as the Scriptures are to us Their rule was the Word of God but not written ours is the same Word of God but written It is enough that the Law hath now tied us to the Word of God written And for the Apostles time the Apostles men immediately inspired being living and other infallible men not Apostles as Mark Luke there was no such necessity to have the Word of God written as there was after Wherefore they did provide for this ere they died and committed the Word of God to writing when there should be no such men to consult with Let us then sit down by the Scriptures the Word of God written as the onely sure card and rule to guide us in all matters of faith and life For if we leave this once there is nothing but Sea and Aire no place for this poor Dove this poore soul of ours to rest her foot without which when and where to stay none can tell That then we may not run from opinion to opinion from Christ to Christ from Church to church till we have run our selvs out of all our onely sure way is to flie to the Scriptures to the written VVord of God as to an Anchour that so we may have hope if hope then faith Before we go further we must take it as cleare that by Scriptures Christ and his Apostles do meane the VVord of God written Our enquiry is What written word Not the Original Copy for that was in the Ark and there onely and not to be seen of every body if of any body but the high Priest and I know nothing but those Tables perished with the Temple Nor can it be that when he did call upon them to search the Scriptures he did send them to the Ark which then was not I doubt not but he meant by the Scriptures the writings of Moses the Prophets Now who can think that Christ and his Apostles did turn over the Church and people of God to the Scriptures written by Moses and the

CAPEL'S REMAINS Being an useful APPENDIX to his Excellent TREATISE OF Tentations Concerning the TRANSLATIONS of the HOLY SCRIPTURES Left written with his own Hand By that incomparably learned and judicious Divine Mr. RICHARD CAPEL Sometimes Fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford With a Preface prefixed Wherein is contained an Abridgement of the Authors Life By his Friend Valentine Marshall LONDON Printed by T. R. for John Bartlet at the Gilt Cup on the South-side of Pauls over against the Drapers and at the Gilt Cup in Westminster-Hall 1658. TO THE Christian Reader Reader HAving nothing of mine own that I count worthy of the publick view I was fully resolved to have quit the Stage as the mute person in the Comedy without being known to any save some private friends only and most of those also in or about that private little corner wherein the great God of Heaven hath seen it fit to make use of me But now I am enforced to launch further into the deep then ever I expected intended or desired by being importuned to set these a few lines which could not in civility be declined before this Posthumus-piece of the dearest and usefullest friend whilest he was here amongst men that I had in the whole world out of mine own family Concerning whom there 's need to say little His Works in print already sufficiently praise him in the Gates and have got him great place in the hearts of a many seen in the Theory but much more room in the breasts of all such as are any way versed in the Practical part of Divinity But as he writ things worthy to be read so he did things worthy to be writ b with Beza Something then would be set out partly to do him right that 's not to be buried in Oblivion c Heb. 13. 7. But principally 1. For the honour of that great God that gave him such rare endowments and continued them in their full beauty to his very * last breath 2. For the provoking of us that knew him to a more lively and fresh d emulation of those eminent vertues that we both saw and knew that he shone so bright in 3. For the stirring up of all such as be at a further distance to a more thorow sense and feeling of the heavy hand of God laid upon us all in the removal of this able and excellent instrument We live in a e stupid Age The greatest stroakes of God if any whit remote scarce make the least dint Those that cut to the quick usually be doft too soon We reade of some that f mourned long for their dead 'T was three yeares g full ere Isaac could be comforted after the death of a good mother though of a very great age Jacobs pathetick expressions cloathed with such aggravating circumstances Gen. 48. 7. so h long after the decease of his dear and good wife Now how near it sate his heart The losse of * good men especially of good note is much to be bewailed There 's that goes to the ground with them that 's not easily had again Who will takeup their * vertues 'T will be along work ere the like can be rear'd in their steads They give the greatest check to sin Judg. 2 7. 10 11 19. the chiefest lift to good Psal. 75. 3. 2 Chro. 11. 17. They keep off stormes Gen. 19. 22. Numb. 16. 45. Be they taken away 't is from some i i evil to come 'T is well observed by some what a number of our prime and choice old Standards we have lost of late dayes If the Lords hand be stretch't out further yet in this kinde we may be left to green heads to those that be little better then * children and what can we expect then but to be cast into a very sad condition k Tu●ie tells us of a flourishing Common-wealth that was quickly overthrown by men of that stamp We that had our abode by this renowned Champion look upon his death as a most bitter blow to us It concernes us more we know it too then all the world besides We cannot but see our own sin haling and pulling this great burden upon us We did not know what we did enjoy whilest we had him to put on ornaments upon us better then those of gold upon our apparel We have cause enough to lift up our voices and to weep over him again and again too as they did over l Abner and Achilles over his m Patrecl s he 's not buried to this day nor will he be in haste As often as any new trouble is started in body or minde and begins to sit close to us to ours our wound bleeds afresh and we cannot but indulge our selves in it as B●za did after * Calvin was gone to rest hoping our heart shall be fitted for the due and desired effect of it at the last But when all comes to all we must learn to submit to the only wise God and endeavour now to fetch that from the fountain that we have lost in the Cistern 'T is besides my purpose to set out a Narrative of his life or to dwell upon that that may savour of glorying in the flesh He was very farre from that with famous * Ursinus all his life long and he hath better things to embellish him now after his decease And yet he was not behind in matters of that kind if there were any list to look that way He was * borne in Glocester of good Parentage descended from an ancient family of the Gentry of his own name in Herefordshire and of Alliance to the Lord Capel but he had learnt with brave Philpot to tread that under his feet * His father was a stout man and an Alderman of the City a fast friend to Mr. Tho. Prior first and afterwards to Mt. John Work●an having had a principal hand in the drawing of him thither both of them mine ancient and faithful friends and men of great sufficiencie for the preaching of the Gospel and instruments that the Lord made much use of for the advancing of the true saving knowledge of himself and for the setting up of the real and substantial power of godliness in that city during their times His elder brother is an Alderman there at this day His Youth is quite out of my reach His eminency for Learning was great whilest he was yet in the University of Oxford where he was Fellow of Magdalene-Colledge and had the breeding up of some there that proved excellent Scholars Dr. Frewen by name a thankful man to him for his education and famous Mr. Pemble who ended his dayes at his house His attendance at Court upon the chiefest Favourite in the dayes of that learned King King James of famous memory would have put him on in the way of preferment if his thoughts had been that way bent where he continued till the death of Sir

let in sin but rather this is against sin So Paul I do that I would not I do not do what I would there is no question but there is some ignorance some not knowing of him when any sinne is sinned Master Anthony Burges speech I think is in the right All sins saith he are called because all sinners are ignorant of something they should know there being no sinne which doth not proceed from some errour in the practical judgement For although a man sin wilfully and advisedly so that there is no other cause of the malice but the malice it self as Austine speaks of some of his sins yet even then there is an errour in that mans conscience Thus he and to this I subscribe So that it is not faith nor knowledge which dwelleth in us is the cause why we sin but as Paul speaks of himself it is sin which dwelleth in us Not I as I but sinne that dwelleth in me So then a man borne of God when he treads beside the line he may say it is not I but sinne that dwells in me so in this sense it is a truth that he that is borne of God as born of God doth not sin nor cannot sin This is pious and truth but under correction I do not think it to be the square meaning of this text What then some think it to be this He that is borne of God sinneth not that is sinneth not as the devil did who ve se 8. of this chapter sinneth not sinned but sinneth from the beginning And this is like to be the mind of this text for that it is said in the same verse before He that committeth sinne is of the Devill That I think is too short which some say that the proper sense of this Text is he that is born of God sinneth not that sinne of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost In a word then the full meaning is that he that is borne of God doth not commit sinne that is he doth not make it his practice his occupation his work he doth it when he doth it besides his minde and when he doth it he is besides himself in that particular as the Prodigal was It is long of some fits in his disease when he doth it not onely as his act but as his work who give themselves over to be sould and servants to sin So Paul so Christ Matth. 7 23 Depart from me all ye that work iniquity Therefore Saint John speaks of such who are not regenerate whose desire is to sin and are afire to commit it For otherwise all the regenerate do sin so this our Apostle If we say we say we have no sin we seduce our selves Nor do they sin onely of infirmity but sometimes they fall into greater sins even into some of the greatest sins but this is not unto death as our Apostle saith So that such as are born of God sin they may sin they do and sometimes great sins but to go on in a course of finning to the death this they do not that they cannot do because they are born of God The onely shew of exception that can be taken is that Adam who is called they say Luke 3. ult. the son of God did sin and might as the state stood with him unto death And the Angels called the sons of God Job 2. 1. did a many of them sin unto death But we read not that these were said to be borne of God or that they had this seed remaining in them They were called the sons of God in respect of that that holinesse wherein they were created but the regenerate that are said to be borne of God are so said not onely in respect of the image of God but of Christ and the grace of regeneration which is rooted in Christ which as it cannot die in Christ the roote so it cannot wither away in Christians the branches The sap which is still alive and fresh in Christ is by the Spirit of Christ kept so alive in them that albeit it do not keep them from sinning yet it doth so preserve them that they cannot sin unto death they are so the members of Christ that he will not suffer any of his true members to sin all their spiritual life away Quest N. 2. How can a regenerate man sin since grace is predominant and the infused Theological habits of faith hope and charity are stronger then their sins Answ 'T is true they are so and should always shew themselves to be so And Divines make this difference between moral vertues acquired and spiritual habits and graces that for habits moral we may use them as we will that they are under the free Power of our wills but for habits and graces infused into our wills the seat of them our wills are rather under them and their power Then thus under the power and determination of God that there is a force in them to rule and over-rule all In this the string is in the hand of God and therefore it is said in the Word of God that he it is that doth make us walk in his wayes and keep his Lawes Had we a fulnesse of created graces as the Angels had yet if God stand by and leave us to them and our selves and do not uphold us we may fall for all them though there be nothing from without or from within to push us down the mutability only of our own free will might do it in us as it did in the lapsed Angels But those habits or divine qualities being lost in Adam in whom we all sinned such as are regenerated and born againe have supernatural graces of redemption which albeit they be not so full yet are more firme then those of creation were Those of God as Creator were lost those of God in Christ our Redeemer can never be so lost but as the same St. John saith There is a seed remaining in them which doth so keep spiritual force up in them that they cannot sin unto death Quest But how then is the spirit stronger then the flesh and the infused habit of grace may be said to have a ruling hand over our will Answ It hath such a rule many ways but in this one thing the power of the Spirit appeares above the power of the flesh for that the Spirit doth ever bring us first or last one way or other to repent of the works of the flesh but the flesh is never able to make us sorry for and repent of the fruits and acts of the Spirit No man is sorry for his vertues all good men are for their vices FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for John Bartlet and to be sold at the Gill-Cup on the south side of Pauls over against the Drapers A Volume of Dr. Tho. Taylors in Fol. Dr. Harris works in fol. A supplement to the former Edition in 4. His threefold state of man 12. Sibs excellency of the Gospel 12. Christs Exaltation in 12. The