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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08201	Abrahams faith: that is, The olde religion VVherein is taught, that the religion now publikely taught and defended by order in the Church of England, is the onely true Catholicke, auncient, and vnchangeable faith of Gods elect. And the pretensed religion of the Sea of Rome is a false, bastard, new, vpstart, hereticall and variable superstitious deuise of man. Published by Iosias Nicholls, an humble seruant and minister of the gospell in the Church.	Nichols, Josias, 1555?-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 18538; ESTC S113254	207,023	348

And in that day shal their waters of life go out from Hierusalem halfe of them toward the east sea and halfe of them toward the vttermost sea and shal be both in sommer winter And the Lord shal be king ouer all the earth in that day shall there bee one Lord and his name shal be one What is this fountaine but Christ which is of the house of Dauid and what is the opening of this fountaine and flowing of waters but the preaching of the gospell as the prophets also say k Esai 2.3 The law shall go forth of Sion and the word of the Lord out of Hierusalem What is this east and vttermost sea this one Lord and king of all the earth But that the Church should be made vniuersall and one in Christ being of one faith throughout the world And they note out the visible markes of the church first the preaching of Gods pure word where prophesying of the church of the gentils it is said l Micah 4.2 Many nations shall come and say come and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord and to the house of the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his waies and we will walke in his pathes c. And concerning the sacraments Christ a Malac. 3.3 shall sit downe to trie and fine the siluer hee shall euen fine the sonnes of Leui and purifie them as golde and siluer that they may bring offeringes vnto the Lord in righteousnesse c. Whereby is taught that where God gathereth his Church by Christ there he placeth his word and there he teacheth them to worship him aright which as it was by offeringes in the law so it is by sacraments in the gospell therefore by these thinges they are to bee discerned For when these thinges fayled and the people b Esai 5 24. Hier. 16.10.11 Hos 8. 1. 2. cast of Gods word and his ordinaunces in sacrifices and sacraments God cast them out of his sight and out of his grace as a people without the true markes of Gods church In the gospel this vniuersality and vnity in the nature of the church is taught where Christ saith c Ioh. 10.16 other sheepe I haue also which are not of this fold them also must I bring and they shall heare my voice and there shal be one shepheard and one fold Where when he saith other sheepe not of this fold he signifieth that in election and promise the gentiles should bee of the Church this noteth the vniuersalitie and when he saith hee will bring them and they shall heare his voice he vnderstandeth their calling and ingrafting into the same church in the same vnitie of faith And lastly it should be but one as one folde vnder shepheard which he expoundeth where he sendeth d Math. 28.19 his Apostles to teach all nations The end whereof as the Apostle e Eph. 3.6 teacheth is that the gentils shold be inheritors also and of the same bodie partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospell For which cause it is said g Gal. 3.28 There is neither Iewe nor Grecian bond nor free ther is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Iesus that is to say there is no exception of countrie estate or sex but if they beleeue in Christ Iesus they are all of the same true and catholike church as citizens of the same citie children of the same house stones of the same building built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe corner stone The outward markes are set vpon this church thus when the Apostles preached a Act. 2.41.42 Then they that gladly receiued his worde were baptized and the same day were added to the church about three thousand soules and they continued in the Apostles doctrin and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers Where you may see that the doctrine of the Apostles which is the woord of God and the sacraments are markes of seperation to discerne the church of Christ frō others Hereof it is that S. Paul cōmendeth the church of Colosse to haue the right badge of gods people where he said that in his spirit he saw b Colos 2.5 there good order stedfast faith in Christ for amongst other things the due administratiō of the sacraments was a good note of their good order as in the contrary the c 1. Cor. 11.17 20.34 Corinthians are reproued that the right preaching profession of Christ sheweth their stedfast faith the Romanes and the Thessalonians are greatly extolled by this marke that d Rom. 1.8 1. Thess 1.8 their faith was published throughout the whole world spread abroad in all quarters And that you may perceiue the vertue of these markes and first for the preaching of the pure word of God harkē what the holy Apostle affirmeth when the ministers e 1. Cor. 14.24.25 prophesie that is preach If there come in one that beleeueth not or vnlearned that is who neuer knewe the difference of the church of God from others he is rebuked of all men he is iudged of all that is all the preaching ministerie by the pure word of God do shew him his wretched and euill estate and so are the secrets of his hart made manifest and so hee will fall downe with his face and worshippe God and say plainely that God is in you of a truth What is all this but that he discerneth by the preaching that they are a people among whom God dwelleth that is to say the visible church of God The like he teacheth vs of the sacraments where he saith f 1. Cor. 10.21 You cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of the diuels c. which words manifestly teach that the sacraments are such a marke proper to the church that they which be in the church and partakers therof must seperate themselues from all pollutions of idolatrie and abominations of the heathen and wicked men and to be knowen to bee of the visible church of God by the right vse and celebration of Christes holie misteries as it is also written a 1. Cor. 11.26 As often as you eat this bread and drinke this cup ye shew the Lords death till he come When then the true English Christian shall see that both in profession and practise the church of England hath the verie nature of of the true church of GOD and also by the true markes it is visibly knowen and discerned to be a right member of the vniuersall bodie of Christ he shall haue great cause to glorifie almightie GOD that hath vouchsafed him that mercie and honor to be of that fellowship which is with God the father and with his sonne Iesus Christ agreeing with Abraham Moses the Prophets and with Christ and his Apostles The eleuenth article of the exercises in religion in generall how to be vsed in the church 11. Wee ought

the power and working should remaine distinct in that verie manner and order as is before declared in Baptisme and all the other sacraments Now if any man would here presse vpon mee the change of times that therfore the sacraments of the new testament haue more power and vertue in the worke wrought then they of the old as though that now such a grace were in the outward action of the minister ministring the Sacraments in due forme as was not in the sacraments of the old testament I answer that this can not be shewed by any wordes of the new testament For if they alleadge that baptisme is intituled by the verie worke it signifyeth as it is called c Tit. 3.5 The washing of the newe birth and the bread in the Lordes supper is thus expressed by Christ This is my bodie Wee may answere that so and in the same sence circumcision is called the couenant and the lambe the passeouer And as in the old testament God openeth his minde when hee calleth the same circumcision by the name of a signe So here doth the new Testament expresse the same meaning as where Christ is said to sanctifie cleanse his Church d Ephes 5.26 By the washing of water through the word Where the water is not vnderstoode to doe any thing of it selfe but as it is ioyned to the word as a signe and seale therof for Christ teacheth directly that it is the a Ioh. 15.3 word that cleanseth vs. And as I shewed before Saint Peter saith It is not the putting away of the filth of the flesh that is the outwarde washing of water that saueth vs. And againe Christ calling the cup the new testament in his bloud doth also to open his mind adde this as oft as wee drinke it we should doe it in remembrance of him And least we should dreame of a further power in our sacraments then in them of the old Saint Paule doth of purpose teach the contrarie to the Corinthians shewing that the read sea and the cloud was vnto Israel that which baptisme vnto vs saying b 1 Cor. 10.1 They were all baptized vnto Moses in the cloud and in the sea And that Manna and the rock was that vnto them which the Lords supper is vnto vs saying And did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spirituall drinke for they dranke of the spirituall rock which followed them and the rocke was Christ Which may further appeare by his reason notwithstanding these sacramentes they were ouerthrowne in the wildernesse therefore they were but outward signes and seales effectuall onely in the beleeuers Vers 6.11 as is expounded Heb. 4.2 which being compared vnto vs by an equall comparison when he saith These are ensamples to vs c. And againe Now all these came vnto them for ensamples were written to admonish vs. It must needs bee that he maketh the vertue of the sacraments of both times equal seeing that giuing the same termes to those sacraments which are giuen vnto ours he inferreth that if we doe as they did wee shall haue the same punishment And it soundeth that way that he saith a little c Vers 16.17 after that we by eating of our sacrament of the Lords supper are partakers of the bodie and blood of Christ and all members in one bodie And that they which b vers 18. eat of their sacrifice were also partakers of the alter that is of the good graces of God in Iesus Christ of whom the c Heb. 9. 9. cap. 13.10.15 alter was a figure Therefore it cannot be that a greater grace or vertue should bee in the sacraments of the new Testament aboue the sacraments of the old And where as some thinke that in the Lords supper the bread is changed into the bodie of Christ and so consequently there should bee a great difference from the old sacraments this may not onelie be ouerthrowne by this that Christ followeth the same order and termes in instituting of these which were vsed in the institution of the other as is alreadie sufficiently declared but also because the holie ghost by diuers other arguments doth make this most apparant namely that the signe remaineth distinct from the thing signified and neuer changed into the same First hee saith d 1. Cor. 11.26 As often as yee eat this bread and drinke this cup ye shew the Lords death till hee come Where note first that in teaching vs the meaning of this Sacrament hee telleth vs that it is a shewing of the Lordes death a great oddes then from being his bodie For it is one thing to shewe his death and an other thing to make it his bodie and least it might bee taken that both might concurre hee openeth himselfe saying Till he come thereby teaching that this is an outward testimonie of his death till hee returne from heauen where he now is for it cannot be said til he come if he be there in presence yet more fully when he saith by eating this bread c. we shewe his death c. which maketh it manifest that this eating and drinking is the Sacramental signe and this shewing of his death is the signification and the reason till he come that is because he is absent in bodie he hath left this sacramēt as a pledge and seale of his death till he come againe in his bodie and therefore he calleth it bread a ver 26.27.28 three times in this place and that euen then when it is eating after the woords as they say of consecration And last of all it is to be considered that there is no ground or reason reueiled by God in his woord that the same maner of speech in the same kinde of thing in the new Testament should differ from the old in signification and vse Secondly when he saith This cup is the new Testament in my bloud why may wee not as well take the cup to be changed into his bloud as to say the bread is changed seeing there is no more exception in the one then there is in the other Thirdly if the heauens must containe him as saint b Act. 3.21 Peter saith vntil the time that al things be restored and that no where it is reueiled that the consecrating of the bread and wine is accepted how can there be his bodily presence And to conclude if he shall so come as he was seene goe into heauen as the Angell c Act. 1.11 taught the Apostles and that wee must d Math. 24.26.27 not beleeue them which say He is in secret places but as Christ teacheth hee shall come as the lightning commeth out of the East and shineth vnto the West Then it must needs follow that we cannot conster or vnderstand this any otherwise but as the sacraments of the old Testament so our sacraments of the new Testament are onely signes and seales of the couenant of mercie in Christ Iesus which

it is not of the willer nor of the runner but that we be saued it is of God which hath mercie Tenthly to confesse that pardon is geuen to them that aske according to the grace and mercie of God not according to their merites seeing the Apostle sayth that repentance it selfe is the gift of God where he saith of certaine men least God should giue them repentance which catholike faith is contrary to the new religion of Rome in those things First for the preparation vnto grace and workes of condignitie for they say then grace were no grace Secondly for the concurrence of free will to worke with the grace of God so to merite for they giue all to Gods grace and all pardon and saluation to Gods free mercie Loe here christian reader thou seest that the papists can tell vs of the particuler originall of the most part of their trumperie that the old christian churches in their counsels determinations were protestants touching the authoritie of Bishops and prouinces touching mariage eating of flesh priuate masse and receiuing the communion touching the holie scriptures and the reading of them touching weomens Baptisme and appeales to Rome and touching the grace of God freewill and merite therefore the heresie of the church of Rome being gathered since those primatiue times must needs be of a new generation lately sprong vp and come abroad into the worlde 5 And that thou maist yet further see Poperie hath lost the life breath of christianitie how they haue lost the verie life and breath of all religion and so are cleane fallen away from being any member in Christs church and to haue no part in the communion of Saints as in any sort to be called Gods visible people I wil shew thee fiue other points which are fundamentall and so farre of the foundation of christian religion that without them no man can be a mēber visible nor inuisible of the catholike church wherein thou shalt see that the protestant was the ancient true primatiue christian church of God Fiue fundamental points of christianity rased by poperie the papist a verie apostata comming in deed of a contrarie race euen of the very stocke of antechrist The first is of adoring God only the second of the condition of the couenant with God on our behalfe the third of the seales of the couenant the fourth of the writings of the couenant the fift of the soueraigntie and headship of Christ ouer his church And that these are foundamental consider with me that in the * 2. Idolatrie first they breake the spiritual wedlocke with God which giue his worship and honor to idols and images as thou mayst see God in a Cap. 16. Ezechiel complaining and saying Thou hast taken thy faire Iewels of my gold and of my siluer which I had giuen thee and madest to thy self images of men and diddest commit whooredom with thē c. * Merits of workes 2. In the second when they ioine workes and the fulfilling of the commandements with faith for they shut themselues from the righteousnes in the couenant whereby they should reioice with God as the Apostle saith b Rom. 4.2 If Abraham were iustified by workes he hath wherein to reioice but not with God yea they abrogate the grace of God and make Christ die in vaine as the same Apostle teacheth saying c Gal. 2.21 I doo not abrogate the grace of God for if righteousnes be by the law then Christ died without a cause * 3. Sacramēts In the third they annihilate and ouerthrow Christs institution in the seales of the couenant by their transubstantiation and vnbloudie sacrifice adored and make but a fanatical body of Christ and an imaginatie manhood where as Christ saith d 1. Cor. 11.24.25.26 Doe this in remembrance of me and Saint Paul expoundeth it saying As often as yee eate this bread and drinke this cup ye shewe the Lords death till he come For if he bee contained in heauen as Saint Peter e Act. 3. 21. saith till the restoring of al things and that this sacrament is to remember and shewe his death till hee come what is it but a newe institution when they say it is turned into his person and adore him as present and what can that bodie or manhood which is in heauen bee in the sacrament really and corporally any otherwise but in fansie and imagination seeing in the same till he come to iudgement he is in heauen In the * 4. Scriptures fourth they blot out the writinges of the couenant when as Christ a Mat. 15. sayth They make the lawe of God of none effect by their traditions while they equall their own deuises with the written word of God make it in sufficient to saluation and set the church which shoulde bee ruled by it and obedient to it to be aboue it the people aboue the lawe and the ladie vnder the handmaide * 5. Supremacy Lastlie they commit treason against the person of Christ when they set the pope in his place without his assignement that a mortall man shoulde bee head of the vniuersall Church and bodie of Christ For Christ onely is called b Eph. 1.22.28 1. Cor. 3.11 The head in all thinges ouer his Church and the foundation thereof excluding all other Nowe then seeing that there can bee no foundation of Christianitie nor Church of God where the couenant is broken by spirituall whooredome and where there is no reioicing with God and the grace of God and Christ death is made vaine and where the seales of Gods letters patentes and his glorious image which is Christ is defaced and his holie writinges blotted and abased and man aduanced in the chaire of the son of God and office of Christ it must needes followe that they being guiltie in these thinges there cannot bee any part of the visible Church of Christ amongest them I thinke it therefore good to take some more paines in these fiue points that thou maist see howe that in the first primatiue ages the Catholike truth was to be founde amonge the Christian protestants and that the popishe heresie in these pointes came vppe afterwardes to bee openlie seene and closelie grewe vnder them Consider therefore good Christian reader what I say and the Lord giue thee the spirit of true discretion and wisedome in all that thou readest First in the question of adoring God the papist thinke they doo not commit fornication because they haue a fine shift to say they doe not adore the image as to account it their God to put their trust in it but onely reuerence it as a representation of God by bowing before it kissing it praying before it c. they adore him which the image representeth And they thinke themselues verie wel discharged from idolatry seeing their images are not dedicated vnto diuels and false Gods but vnto the true God Christ and his Saints