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A10958	The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. English creede.	1607 (1607)	STC 21228; ESTC S116041	208,079	284

places assuredly neither had the ceremonies of the old lawe bin as they are now abolished neither would the apostles euer haue giuen such presidents of altering them vpon speciall reasons as they haue done For the said Apostles changed the times and places of their assembling together the people of God meeting and the Apostles preaching sometimes on the weeke sometime on the Sabboth daies sometimes publikely in the Temple in the synagogues and in the Schooles sometimes priuately in house after house and in chambers sometimes in the day time sometimes in the night Neither kept they the same course in the ministration of the Sacraments For as occasion was offered they both baptized in publike assemblies and in priuate houses before many and when none of the faithfull but the minister onely and the party to be baptized were present and ministred likewise the Supper of the Lord in the day time and at midnight in the open Churches and in priuate houses So nothing therefore be done against the word of God traditions and ceremonies according to the diuersitie of countries and mens manners may be changed and diuers Of this iudgement with vs be all reformed Churches The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth They are greatly deceiued therefore which thinke that The Iewish ceremonies prescribed by God himselfe for a time vnto the Iewes are to be obserued of vs Christians Such were the old Heretikes the false Apostles the Cerdonites the Cerinthians and the Nazarites and are the Familists The traditions and namely the tradition and ceremonie of the seuenth day for the Sabboth the manner of sanctifying thereof must necessarily be one and the same alwaies and in al places Hence the demi-Iewes our English Sabbatarians affirme first touching the sanctification of the seuenth day howe It is not lawfull for vs to vse the seuenth day to any other end but to the holy and sanctified end for which God in the beginning created it So soone as the 7. day was so soone was it sanctified that wee might know that as it came in with the first man so must it not goe out but with the last The Sabboth or seuenth day of Rest which hath that cōmendation of antiquitie ought to stand still in force All the Iudaicall daies and Feasts being taken away onely the Sabboth remaineth And next concerning the forme and manner of keeping the day they deliuer that Wee are bound vnto the same Rest with the Iewes on the Sabboth day As the first seuenth day was sanctified so must the last be Wee be restrained vpon the Sabboth from work both hand and foote as the Iewes were Euery ecclesiasticall minister in his charge necessarily must preach and make a sermon euery Sabboth day euery man or woman vnder paine of vtter condemnation must heere a Sermon every Sabboth day Euery pastor in his charge must execute the discipline and Presbyteriall gouernment in his parish euery Sabboth day Last of all deceiued by be the Romane Catholikes which are of opinion how the ceremonies of their Church are vniuersally and vnder the paine of the great curse necessarily to be vsed in all places and countries 2. Proposition No priuate man of a selfe will and purposely may in publike violate the traditions and ceremonies of the Church which by common authoritie be allowed and are not repugnant to the word of God The proofe from Gods word Great is the priuiledge great also the libertie and freedome of Gods Church and people For they are deliuered From the curse of the Lawe From the Law of sinne and of death From all Iewish rites and ceremonies And from all humane ordinances and traditions whatsoeuer when they are imposed vpon the consciēces of men to be obserued vnder paine of eternall condemnation Notwithstanding the Church and euery member thereof in his place is bound to the obseruation of al Traditions and Ceremonies which are allowed by lawfull authoritie and are not repugnant to the word of God For hee that violateth them contemneth not man but God who hath giuen power to his Church to establish whatsoeuer things shall make vnto comenesse Order and Edification This of our godly brethren in their published writings is approoued The adversaries vnto this truth Notwithstanding say the Anabaptistes The people of God are free from all lawes and owe obedience to no man are not to be bound with the bands of any iurisdiction of this world say the Brownistes are freed frō the obseruation of all rights and eccles ceremonies say certaine ministers of the praecise faction both in Scotland and England Againe there be of the Clergie who rather then they will vse or obserue any rights ceremonies or orders though lawfully ratified which please them not will disquiet the whole Church forsake their charges leaue their vocations raise stirs and cause diuisions in the Church as did many when it was in Germanie about the Rheme Frankeland and Sneauland whereby most lamentable effects did ensue and doe the refractorie ministers in the Church of England at this day the more is the pittie The principall author of all these tragicall suries about ceremonial matters was Flacius Illyricus whose preachings were that rather thē ministers should yeeld vnto the seruitude of ceremonies they should abādō their calling giue ouer the ministery to the end that Princes magistrates euē for fear of vprores and popular tumults might bee forced at the length to set their ministers free from the obseruation of all ceremonies more then they were willing to vse themselues 3. Proposition Ceremonies and traditions ordained by the authoritie of man if they be repugnant to Gods word are not to be kept and obserued of any man The proofe from Gods word Of ceremonies and traditions repugnant to the worde of God there bee two sorts whereof some are of things meerly impious wicked such was the Israelites calfe and Nebuchadnezars idoll and bee the Papisticall Images Reliques Agnus-deis and Crosses to which they doe giue diuine adoration These and such like be all flatly forbidden Others are of things by God in his word neither commaunded nor forbidden as of eating or not eating Flesh of wearing or not wearing some Apparrell of keeping or not keeping some daies holy by abstinence from bodily labour c the which are not to be obserued of any Christian when for sound Doctrine it is deliuered that such workes either doe merit remission of sinnes or bee the acceptable seruice of God or doe more please then the obseruation of the lawes praescribed by God himselfe or be necessarilie to be done insomuch as they are damned who doe them not We must therfore haue alwaies in minde that we are bought with a price and therefore may

Mosaicall decalogue is naturall morall and perpetuall is their doctrine 4. Proposition The Iudiciall lawes of the Iewes are not necessarily to be receiued or established in any Common wealth The profe from Gods word The truth hereof appeareth by the Apostles decree which sheweth wherevnto onely the primitiue church necessarily was tied By the Apostles doctrine which enioyneth Christians to yeeld obediēce vnto the ordināces of their lawfull gouerners and commanders whosoeuer By the Apostles example and namely of the blessed S. Paul who tooke benefit and made good vse of the Romane and Emperiall lawes Adversaries vnto this truth This truth neither is nor euer was oppugned by any Church Only among our selues some thinke vs necessarily tied vnto all the Iudicials of Moses as the Brownists For they say The lawes Iudiciall of Moses belong as well vnto Christians as they did vnto the Iewes Others that wee are bound though not vnto all yet vnto some of the Iudicialls as holdeth T.C. and Philip Stubs 5. Proposition No Christian man whosoeuer is freed from the obedience of the law Morall The proofe from Gods word Thinke not that I am come to destroy the Lawe or the Prophets I am not come to destroy them but to fulfill them For truly I say vnto you saith our Sauiour Christ till heauen and earth perish one iot or one title of the law shall not scape till all things be fulfilled whosoeuer therefore shall breake one of these least commandements and teach men so shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen c If thou wilt enter into life keepe the commandements c. Thou shalt nor kill thou shalt not commit adulterie thou shalt not steale thou shalt not beare false witnesse Honour thy father and thy mother Doe wee make the lawe of none effect through faith God forbid yea we establish the Lawe Circumcision is nothing and vncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the Commandements of God The publike confessions of the Churches of God in France and Belgia agree with this Doctrine The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Whereby are condemned as most wicked and vnsond the opinions Of the Manichies who found fault with the whole Lawe of God as wicked and prooceeding not from the true God but from the Prince of darkenes Of Brownist Glouer whose opinion was that Loue now is come in the place of the tenne commandements Of Iohannes Islebius and his followers the Antinonies who will not haue Gods lawe to be preached nor the consciences of sinners to be terrified and troubled with the iudgements of God Of Banister among our selues who held how it is vtterly euill for the Elect so much as to thinke much lesse to speake or heare of the feare of God which the Law preacheth 8. Article Of the three Creedes 1 The three Creedes Nicene creede Athanasius creede and that which is commonly called the Apostles creede ought thoroughly to be receiued and beleeued For 2 they may be prooued by most certaine warrants of holy Scripture The propositions 1. The Nicen Athanasian and Apostolicall Creedes ought to be receiued and beleeued 2. The three creedes viz. the Ni. Athan. and of the Apostles may be prooved by the holy Scripture 1. Proposition The Nicen Athanasian and Apostolicall Creedes ought to be receiued and beleeued THis Proposition the Churches of God both aunciently and in these daies doe acknowledge for true The adversaries vnto this truth Therefore much out of the way of Godlinesse are they which tearme the Apostles Creede A forged patcherie as Barrowe doth and Athanasius Sathanasius creede so did Gregorius Paulus in Polouia and in the newe Arrians and Nestorians in Lituania My selfe some ●8 yeares agoe heard a great learned man whose name vpon an other occasion afore is expressed to whose acquaintance I was artificially brought which in private conference betweene him and my selfe tearmed worthy Zanchius a Foole an Asse from his booke de tribus Elohim which refuteth the newe Arrians against whose sounders the Creedes of Athanasius and Nicene were deuised Him attentiuely I heard but could neuer since abide for those wordes in deede I neuer sawe him since 2. Proposition The three Creedes viz. the Ni. Athan. and of the Apostles may be prooued by the holy Scripture The proofe from Gods word Than this assertion nothing is more true For the Creedes I meane these three Creedes speake first Of one and the same God whom wee are to beleeue is for essence but one in persons three viz. the Father the Creator the Sonne the Redeemer the holy Ghost the sanctifier Next of the people of God which we must thinke and beleeue is The holy and Catholike Church The communion of Saints Pardoned of all their sinnes And appointed to arise from death and to enioy eternall life both in body and soule Aduersaries vnto this truth Therefore wee are enemies to all adversaries of this doctrine or any whit of the same in them comprised whether they be Atheists Iewes Sadduces Ebionites Tretheites Antitrinitarains Apollinarians Arrians Manichies Nestorians Origenians Turkes Papists Familists Anabaptists or whosoeuer 9. Article Of Originall or Birth sinne 1 Originall sinne standeth not in the follwing of Adam as the Pelagians doe vainely talke but 2 it is the fault corruption of the nature of euery man that naturally is engendred of the offspring of Adam whereby man is very far gone from originall righteousnesse and is inclined to evill so that the flesh lusteth against the spirit and therefore in euery person borne into the world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation 3 And this infection of nature doth remaine yea in them that are regenerated whereby the lust of the flesh called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhich some doe expound the wisedome some the Sensuallitie some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subiect to the law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeue and are baptised yet the apostle doth confesse that 4 Concupiscence and Lust hath of it selfe the nature of sinne The propositions 1. There is Originall sinne 2. Originall sinne is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery man c. 3. Originall sinne remaineth in God his deere children 4. Concupiscence euen in the regenerate is sinne 1. Proposition There is Originall sinne The proofe from Gods word In the holy Scripture we finde of Originall sinne the cause the subiect and the effects the cause thereof is Adams fall partly by the subtill suggestions of the deuill partly through his owne freewill and the propagation of Adam his corrupted nature vnto his seede and posteritie Except a man be borne againe he cannot see the kingdom of God saith our Sauiour Christ As by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death

from Gods word THat Christ was pure from sinne it is abundantly to be seene in the holy Scriptures For Hee was both conceiued and borne without sinne Hee appeared to loose but not to fulfi●l the workes of Satan He liued and was tempted yet without sinne and did no sinne knewe no sinne nor had any sinne in him He died a guiltlesse and iust man euen by the testimonie of Paul Peter Stephen yea of his advsrsarie and iudge Pilate As ours such is the confessions of the purer Churches m. Errors Adversaries to this truth Cursed therefore before God are the Iewes which said that Christ was a violator of the Sabboth That hee taught being not lawfully authorized therevnto That he forbad tribute to be giuen vnto Caesar That hee was the destroyer of the law That he ouerthrew all religion and moued the commons vnto rebellion In this state with the Iewes are The Marcionites which said that he dissolued the Law the Prophets and all the workes of God The Saturnians which blazed that his comming into the world was to ouerthrow the God of the Angels Our newe Heretikes viz. Matthew Hamant in England which divulged that Christ was a sinfull man and an abominable Idol and Leonardus Vairus among the Papists which hath written that Christ was Veneficus or a common poisoner of men and women 2. Proposition All men besides Christ though regenerate be sinners The proofe from Gods word All mē either be regenerate or vnregenerate the vnregenerate be all sinners vnrighteous sin in whatsoeuer they do The regenerate also be not without their sinnes both originall and actuall Besides there is no man iust in the earth that doth good and sinneth not saith the preacher yee cannot doe the same things that ye would Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners of whome I am cheife saith S. Paul In many things we sinne all is S. Iames saying and S. Iohn If we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues the truth is not in vs Pray therefore Forgiue vs our debts A truth beleeued and confessed by all Churches expressedly by some The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Many adversaries hath this truth had and hath as the Papists the Manichies the Catharans the Donatists the Pelagians Familie of Loue Marcionites Adamites and Carpocratians For The Papists say that the blessed virgin was pure from all sinne both Originall and actuall For these are their owne wordes Our Lady neuer sinned Our Lady sinned not so much as venially in all her life she exactly fulfilled the whole Law that is was without sinne Also of S. Francis they write that for virtue and Godlines he was like vnto Christ and hath fulfilled euery iot of the Law The Manichies and Catharans thought they could not sinne so much as in thought The Donatists dreamed how they were so perfect as they could iustifie other men Some were of opinion as the Pelagians and Familie of Loue how they were so free from sinne as they needed not to say Forgiue vs our trespasses Which Familie also teacheth how there be men liuing as good and as holy as euer Christ was An error of Christopher Vitels a cheife Elder in the said Familie and that Hee which is a Familist is either as perfect as Christ or els a very Deuill Some deemed themselues as pure as Paul Peter or any men as the Marcionites yea as Adam and Euah before their fal as the Adamites yea as Iesus Christ himselfe as the Carpocratians 16. Article Of sinne after Baptisme 1 Not euery deadly sinne willingly commited after Baptisme is sinne against the holy Ghost and vnpardonable VVherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sinne after Baptisme 2 After we haue receiued the holy Ghost we may depart from grace giuen and into sinne and by the grace of God wee may rise againe and amend our liues And therefore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sinne as long as they liue heere 3 or denie place of forgiuenes to such as truly repent The propositions 1. Euery sinne committed after Baptisme is not the sinne aganst the holy Ghost 2. The very regenerate may depart from grace giuen and fall into sinne and yet rise againe vnto newnesse of life 3. No men vtterly are to be cast off as reprobates which vnfainedly repent 1. Proposition Euery sinne committed after Baptisme is not the sinne against the holy Ghost The proofe from Gods word THough euery sinne in it selfe considered deserueth damnation yet is there a sinne which shall be punished with many and a sinne which shall be punished with few stripes a sinne vnto death and a sinn not vnto death a sinne against the Father and the Sonne which shall be forgiuen and a sinne against the holy Ghost which neuer shall be forgiuen So in their extant confessions witnesse the Churches in Bohem Saxonie and Heluetia Errors adversaries vnto this truth Diuerslly hath this doctrine bin oppugned For Some haue thought all sinnes to be like and equall as the Stoikes Pelagians and Iouinians Some haue taught as Manes the heretike how none of the godly fathers and others from the beginning of the world till the 15. yeare of Tiberius the Emperour though earnestly they did repent were saued but were all punished alike with vtter confusion Some giue out that such persons be vtterly out of Gods fauour and condemned which depart out of this world either afore they are baptized as the Papists doe or afore they come vnto yeares of discretion as Hieranites did 2. Proposition The very regenerate may depart from grace giuen and fall into sinne and yet rise againe vnto newnes of life The proofe from the word of God That the Regenerate may fall into sinne and yet rise againe it is a doctrine grounded vpon the Scriptures For in them wee euidently may see that fall they may partly by the admonitions of our Sauiour vnto the man healed of the Palsie and vnto the adultresse of S. Paul vnto the Ephesians Colossians Hebrewes and Timothie and of S. Peter vnto all the godly and partly by the examples of Dauid Salomon Peter who egregiously and very offensiuely did fall and that they doe fall it is most euident by the fift petitiō of the Lords praier were nothing els to prooue the same but see afore 9. art Prop. 3. art 12. prop. 2. art 15. propo 2. Next that being fallen they may rise againe and be saued it is apparent both by the exhortations of the Angell vnto the Churches of Ephesus Pergamus and Thyatira and by the examples of Peter who denied and

yet afterward confessed his master Christ and of all the disciples who fled and yet returned This both granted is and published for truth by the Churches The adversaries vnto this truth Vnto this truth subscribe will not Either by the Catharans Nouatians Iouinians which thinke Gods people be regenerate into a pure and Angelicall state so that neither they be nor can be defiled with any contagion of sinne Either the Libertines whose opinions were that Whosoeuer hath Gods spirit in him cannot sinne Dauid sinned not after he had receiued the holy Ghost Regeneration is the restoring of the estate wherein Adam was placed afore his fall Or the Papists who are of minde that The workes of men iustified are perfect in this life No man which is fallen into sinne can rise againe and be saued without their Sacrament of Penance S. Francis attained vnto the perfection of holines and could not sinne at all 3. Proposition No men vtterly are to be cast off as reprobates which vnfainedly repent Such as doe fall from grace and yet returne againe vnto the Lord by true repentance are to be receiued as members of Gods church and this by the Scripture is verefied For there wee read that God would haue all men saued God is alwaies readie to receiue the penitent into fauour For there is ioy in heauen for the sinner that conuerteth Christ is grieued when sinners will not repent He shall saue a soule from death and hide a multitude of sinnes which conuerteth a sinner from going astray out of his way The Lord would haue no man to perish but al men to come to repentance If wee acknowledge our sinnes he is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to clense vs from all vnrighteousnesse Hee exhorteth his erring people to repent and doe their first workes neither refuseth hee the sinner that repenteth as appeareth in the example of the Prodigall sonne and of the debter God then being so gratious and mercifull man after his ensample is both by all good meanes to prouoke sinners vnto repentance and they testifying the same to receiue them into fauour So did S. Paul will the Galatians Brethren saith hee if a man be fallen by occasion into any fault yea which are spirituall restore such one with the spirit of meekenes considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted So did hee enioyne the Corinthians when hee saide If anie hath caused sorrowe the same hath not made me sorie but partly least I should more charge him you all It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many So that nowe contrarywise yee ought rather to forgiue and comfort him least the same should be swallowed yp with ouermuch heauinesse When also he said Receiue him meaning Ouesinus And so teach the Churches Errors and Adversaries vnto this truth Adversaries vnto this truth are they First which leaue nothing but the vnappeasable wrath of God to such as doe sinne after Baptisme as as did both in old time the Montanists and Nouatians and of late yeares Melchior Hoffman the Arch Heretike of his daies and the Anabaptists in Germaine and the Barrowists among our selues in England Next who say that being once regenerate sinne is cut away as with a Rasor so that the godly cannot sinne and therefore neede no repentance so did the Messalians and doe the Familie of Loue Lastly the desperate whose sinnes being either most infinite or abominable they thinke how God hee neither can nor will forgiue them such in times past were Kaine and Iudas in our fathers Franciscus Spira and one Doctor Kraus and in our daies Bolton euen hee that first hatched that sect in England which afterward was tearmed Brownisme 17. Article Of praedistination and election 1 Predestination to life is the euerlasting purpose of God whereby 2 before the foundations of the world was laid he hath 3 constantly decreed by his councell secret to vs to deliuer from curse and damnation 4 those whome he hath chosen 5 in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to euerlasting saluation as vessells made to honour wherefore they which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God 6 be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season 7 they through grace obey the calling they be iustified freely they be made sonnes of God by adoption they be made like the image of his onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ they walke religiously in good workes at length by Gods mercie they attaine to euerlasting felicitie 8 As the godly consideration of Predestination and our election in Christ is full of sweete pleasant and vnspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feele in themselues the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the workes of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing vp their minde to high and heauenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirme their faith of eternall saluation to be enioyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their loue towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is amost dangerous down fall whereby the Deuill doth thrust them into desperation or into rechlesnes of most vncleane liuing no lesse perilous then desperation Furthermore 9 wee must receiue Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth vnto vs in holy Scripture and 10 in our doings that will of God is to be followed which wee haue expresly declared vnto vs in the word of God The Propositions 1. There is a Predestination of men vnto everlasting life 2. Predestination hath bin from euerlasting 3. They which are predestinate vnto saluation cannot perish 4. Not all men but certaine are predestinate to be saued 5. In Christ Iesus of the meere will and purpose of God some are elected and not others vnto saluation 6. They who are elected vnto saluation if they come vnto yeares of discretion are called both outwardly by the word inwardly by the spirit of God 7. The Predestinate are both iustified by faith sanctified by the holy Ghost and shall be glorified in the life to come 8. The consideration of Predestination is to the godly wise most comfortable but to curious and carnall persons very dangerous 9. The generall promises of God set forth in the holy Scriptures are to be embraced of vs. 10. In our actions the word of God which is his his revealed will must be our direction 1. Proposition There is a predestination of men vnto euerlasting life The proofe from Gods word That of men some be predestinate vnto life it is a truth most apparent in the holy Scripture by the testimonie both of Christ himselfe who saith To sit at my right hand and at my

are to be admitted into the ministery They are causes which indeede are none to debarre men from the ecclesiasticall function as if men haue bin twice married an error of the Russeis be married haue had certaine wiues haue not receiued the Sacrament of Confirmation haue bin baptized of Heretikes these may not be Priests say the Papists or if either they haue not bin trained vp in the Familie or be not Elders in the said Familie of Loue 24. Article Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people vnderstand not It is a thing plainely repugnant to the word of God and the custome of the primitiue Church to haue publike prayer in the Church or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not vnderstood of the people The proposition Publike praier and the Sacraments must be ministred in a tongue vnderstood of the common people The proofe from Gods word THis assertion needeth small proofe For who so is perswaded as all true Christians of vnderstanding are that what is done publikely in the Church by a strange language not vnderstood of the people profiteth not the Congregation edifieth not the weake instructeth not the ignorant inflameth not the zeale offendeth the hearers abuseth the people dipleaseth God bringeth religion into contempt easily will thinke that where the praiers be said or the Sacraments administred in a tongue not vnderstood of the vulgar sort neither is the word of God regarded nor the custome of the purer primitiue Church obserued This article no church doth doubt of and very many by their extant Confessions doe allow Aduersaries vnto this truth But their is nothing either so true or apparent which hath by all men at any time bin acknowledged So contrary to this truth In old time the Ossens made their praiers vnto God alwaies in a strange language which they learned of Elxeus their founder and the Marcosians at the ministration of Baptisme vsed certaine Hebrew words not to edifie but to terrifie and astonish the mindes of the weake and ignorant people In these daies the Turkes performe all their superstitions in the Arabian language thinking it not onely vnmeete but also an vnlawfull thing for the common sort of persons to vnderstand their Mahometane mysteries The Iacobite preists doe vse a tongue at their church ministrations and meetings which the vulgar people cannot comprehend The diuine Lyturgie among the Russians is compounded partly of the Greeke and partly of the Sclavonian language The Papists will haue all diuine Seruice Praiers and Sacraments and that throughout the world ministred onely in the Latine tongue which but fewe men of the common people doe vnderstand some of them holding that It is not necessary that wee vnderstand our praiers and that praiers not vnderstood of the people are acceptable to God and all of them maintaining that hee is accursed whosoeuer doth affirme how the Masse ought to be celebrate onely in a vulgar tongue 25. Article Of the Sacraments Sacraments ordained of Christ 1 be not onely badges or tokens of Christian mens profession but rather they be 2 certaine sure witnesses and effectuall signes of grace and Gods good will toward vs by which he doth worke inuisibly in vs 3 and not onely quicken but also strengthen and confirme our faith in him 4 There be two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospell that is to say Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Those fiue commonly called Sacraments that is to say 5 Confirmation 6 Penance 7 Orders 8 Matrimony and 9 extreame vnction are not to be compted for Sacraments of the Gospell beeing such as haue growen partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures but yet haue not like nature of Sacraments with Baptisme and the Lords Supper for that they haue not any visible signe or ceremonie ordained of God 10 The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed vpon or to be carried about but that wee should duely vse them 11 And in such onely as worthily receiue the same they haue a wholesome effect or operation but they that receiue them vnworthyly purchase to themselues damnation as Saint Paul saith The propositions 1. The Sacraments ordained of Christ be badges or tokens of our profession which be Christians 2. The Sacraments be certaine sure witnesses and effectuall signes of grace and God his good will toward vs. 3. By the Sacraments God doth quicken strengthen and confirme our faith in him 4. Christ hath ordained but two Sacraments in his holy Gospell 5. Confirmation is no Sacrament 6. Penance is no Sacrament 7. Orders is no Sacrament 8. Matrimonie is no Sacrament 9. Extreame vnction is no Sacrament 10. The Sacraments are not to be abused but rightly to be vsed of vs all 11. All which receiue the Sacrament receiue not therewithall the things signified by the Sacraments 1. Proposition The Sacraments ordained of Christ be badges or tokens of our profession which be Christians The proofe from Gods word THe Sacraments are badges or tokens both of Christians and of Christianitie Of Christians For by them are visibly discerned the faithfull from Pagans and Christians Iewes Turkes and all prophane Atheists Of Christianitie For as Circumcision in the old Lawe was a token how the corrupt and carnall affections of the minde should be subdued and that the Lord required not so much an outward of the Body as an inward circumcision of the heart so Baptisme telleth vs that being once dead vnto sinne wee are to liue vnto righteousnes that all wee which haue bin baptized vnto Iesus Christ haue bin baptized into his death c. and must walke in newnesse of life c. for wee haue put on Christ by Baptisme And as the Paschall Lambe was to the Iewes a token that the flight of sinne should alwaies be fresh in memorie and that it should be celebrated not with old Leauen neither in the Leauen of maliciousnes but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and truth so the participation of one Loafe and of one Cuppe in the Lord his Supper doth commend vnto our consideration a sweete concord a brotherly vnanimitie and a constant continuance in the true worship of God without fauouring of Idolatrie in ay respect This doe the godly in al their Churches and throughout the word both teach and testifie The Adversaries vnto this truth Vngodly therefore and in a cursed state are they which equall other things with the Sacraments to discerne Christians from Pagans So the Iacobites imprint the signe of the Crosse on their Armes Foreheades c. to be knowen for Christians which contemne the Sacraments as of none account Soe doe the Anabaptists Ther be saith D. Sarania which hold how the Sacraments were to be administred onely at the first plāting of the Church by the

and by thy feete all the Angels Archangells Patriarches Prophets Apostles Euāgelists Martyrs Confessours Virgins Widdowes Infants heale thee The Minister therof vsually is a priest but may be any other Christian. The effect of annoiling is to purge and put away veniall sinnes committed by mispending of our senses as also sinnes forgotten In this antichristian doctrine many errors be contained For In respect of the matter the Papists make of greasie matter a spiritual ointment whereas there is none ointment spirituall but the holy Ghost In respect of the forme the onely propitiator and mediatour betweene God and man Christ Iesus is blasphemed and the merit and power of his death ascribed vnto greasie oile Besides Christ is not acknowledged for the onely Sauiour of mankinde and Physitian of our soules but other Physitians be called vpon besides him In respect of the minister they hold how any mā hath power to forgiue sinns which belongeth vnto God alone also that other men yea women and not the minsters of the word onely may be minsters of the Sacraments In respect of the effect they teach vs which is vtterly vntrue that neither all sinnes be mortall nor that Christ hath cleansed such as be his from all their sinnes by his pretious blood 10. Proposition The Sacraments are not to be abused but rightly to be vsed of vs all The proofe from Gods word In the word of God the right vse of the Sacraments and the ends of their institution are euidently set downe For Concerning Baptisme Christ hee saith Teach all nations baptizing them c Hee that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued Touching the Lord his Supper saith our Sauiour of the Bread take eate c. and of the Cup Drinke yee all of it and S. Paul The cup of blessing which wee blesse is not the communion of the blood of Christ The bread which wee breake is not the communion of the body of Christ This truth doe the Chruches reformed by their Confessions subscribe vnto The errors adversaries vnto this truth Then greatly doe they sinne who either doe not vse the Sacraments either at all as doe the Schwenfeldias or minister them but vnto whome they list so is Baptisme of the Seruetians and Anabaptists ministred onely vnto elder persons denied vnto Infants and so is the same Sacrament of the Marcionites ministred vnto single persons but denied vnto married folkes or doe abuse them So abused is baptisme by them who baptise things without reason yea some times without life or sense so haue the Papists baptized both Bells and Babels as the greater Bell of S. Iohn de Lateran at Rome by Pope Iohn the 14. who named it Iohn after his owne name and the great Bell of Christ church in Oxford which D. Tr●sham the Vice chancellor named Mary Babells as the Duke of Aluar cheife Standare which hee vsed in the Lowe countries was baptized by Pius Quintus An. 156● and called Margaret by the said Pope and so the Cataphrygians baptized the dead bodies of men Againe Baptisme was Baptized by the Marcionites when they baptized the liuing for the dead also by the No●uatian and Papists when they rebaptized infants afore baptized as they tearmed them by Heretikes And so abused was the Lords Supper by certaine Heretikes condemned in a Councell at Carthage whose manner was to thurst the Sacrament into the mouthes of dead men and is by the Papists whose gift is to vse it magically as a salue against bodily si●knes and aduersitie also to carrie the same about pompously and superstitiously in the open streetes to be adored of the beholders 11. Proposition All which receiue the Sacraments receiue not therewithall the things signified by the Sacraments The proofe from Gods word Wee read in the holy Scripture that Some persons doe receiue the Sacraments and the things signified by the Sacraments which are the remission of sinnes and other spirituall graces from God and so receiued was the Sacrament of Baptisme of Cornelius and the Lords Supper of the good disciples and the godly Corinthians Some againe receiue the sacraments but not the things by them signified so receiued was Baptisme of Sunon Magus and the Lords Supper of Iudas and so receiue the Atheists Libertines and impenitent persons And some receiue not the Sacraments at all and yet are partakers of the things by the Sacraments signified such a communicant was the Theife vpon the Crosse This maketh vs to conceiue well both of those men and womē which would and yet cannot communicate in the publike and Christian assemblies and of the children of Christian parents which depart this world vnbaptized Furthermore it is apparent how Saluation is promised to such as are baptized yet not simply in respect of their baptisme but if they doe beleeue Againe S. Paul faith whosoeuer shall eate the bread or drinke the cuppe of the Lord Vnworthily shall be guiltie of the body and blood of Christ And this the purer Churches euery where doe acknowledge The adversaries vnto this truth The Papists therefore be in a wrong opinion which deliuer that The Sacraments are not only Seales but also causes of grace and The Sacraments doe giue grace euen because they be deliuered and receaued ex opere operato 26. Article Of the vnworthinesse of the Ministers which hinder not the effect of the Sacraments Although in the visible Church the euill be euer mingled with the good and sometime the euill haue chiefe authoritie in the ministration of the word and Sacraments yet forasmuch as they doe not the same in their owne name but in Christs and doe minister by his commission and authoritie 1 wee may vse their ministerie both in hearing the of God and in the receiuing the Sacraments Neither is the effect of Christs ordinance taken away by their wickednes nor the grace of Gods gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightly doe receiue the Sacraments m●nistred vnto them which are effectuall because of Christs institution and promise although they be ministred by euill men Neuerthelesse it appertaineth to the discipline of the Church that 2 enquirie be made of euill ministers and that they be accused by those that haue knowledge of their offenses and finally being found guiltie by iust iudgement be deposed The propositions 1. The effect of the word and Sacraments is not hindred by the badnes of ministers 2. Euill Ministers are to be searched out convicted and deposed but orderly and by the discipline of the Church 1. Proposition The effect of the word and Sacraments is not hindered by the badnes of Ministers The proofe from Gods word OF the ministers ecclesiasticall the Church is to conceiue neither to sinisterly as though their vnworthines could make the word and Sacraments the lesse effectuall to such as worthily doe heare and receiue them nor on the

were not Gods ordinance for the good but an humane institution for the hurt of men Many haue a fancie that before the generall Resurrection there shall be no magistrates at all because as they dreame all the wicked shall be rooted out Of this minde are the Anabaptists and Familie of Loue 5. Proposition The Bishop of Rome hath no iurisdiction in this realme of England nor other of the kings dominions The proofe from Gods word The Bishope of Rome did hee according to the will of God preach the Gospell labour in the Lords haruest diuide the word of God aright minister the Sacraments instituted by Christ that sincerely shew by his life conuersation the good fruites of a godly Bishop doubtlesse he were worthy of double yea of triple honor Yet will not the word of God were hee neuer so holy and religious warrant him any Iurisdiction out of his Diocesse especially not within this Reamle much lesse when he doth perform no part of a christian but euery part of an antichristian Bishop in corrupting the doctrine of the truth with errors and cursed opinions in polluting the Sacraments of Christ by superstitious ceremonies in persecuting the Church and Saints with fire and sword in making marchandise of the soules of men through couetousnes in playing the Lord ouer Gods haeritage in sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himselfe that he is God and in exalting himselfe against all that is called God or that is worshipped In respect of which fruites of impieties the said Bishop of Rome in the holy Scripture is described to be very Antichrist that wicked man the man of sinne the sonne of perdition and the aduersarie of God He was openly proclaimed Antichrist by a Counsell in France in the raigne of Hugh He is tearmed by the truly and godly learned The Basiliske of the Church neither the Head nor the Taile of the Church His iurisdiction hath bin and is iustly renounced and bannished out of England by manie Kings and Parliaments as by K. Edward the 1.3 and 6 by K Richard the second by K. Henrie the 4.6 and 8 by Q. Elizabeth and by our most Noble K. Iames. His pride and intolerable supremacie ouer all Christian people is renounced and condemned aswell by the mouthes as wrightings of all the purer Churches and that deseruedlie The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth But with the Papists the Bishop of Rome hee is forsooth for supremacie Abell for gouering the Arke Noah for patriarchship Abraham for order Melchisedecke for dignity Aaron for authoritie Moses for iustice Samuell for zeale Helias for humilitie Dauid for power Peter for his vnction Christ the generall Pastor the common Father of all Christians the high Pastor of Gods vniuersall Church the Prince of Gods people for title God euen the Lord God the Pope for power God For By him Kings raigne hee may iudge all men but must of none be iudged hee can doe what him list aswell as God except sinne His iurisdiction is vniuersall euen ouer the whole worlde Him vppon paine of eternall damnation all Christians are to obey And by his soueraigne authoritie both all Papistes in England were discharged from their obedience and subiection vnto Q. Elizabeth and the same Queene disabled to gouerne her owne people and dominions 6. Proposition By the lawes of this Realme Christian men for hainous and greeuous offences may be put to death The proofe from Gods word As the natures of men be diuers and some sinnes in some countries more abound then in others so are the punnishments to bee imposed vppon malefactors according to the quantitie and qualitie of their offences and any countrie and Kingdome may punnish offendors euen with death if the Lawes thereof and their offence doe require it For All that take the sword shall perish with the sword Gouernors bee sent of the King for the punnishment of euill doers A wise King scattereth the wicked and causeth the wheele to turne ouer them The magistrate beareth not the sword for nought and is the minister of God to take vengeance on them that doe euill Which punishments testifie to the world that God is iust which will haue some sinnes more seuerely punnished then others and the magistrates to cut off dangerous and vngodly members God is mercifull and ●●th care both of his seruan●s and of humane societie God is all wise and holy in that he will haue it knowne who are iust who wicked who holy and who prophane by cherishing and preseruing of the one and by punishing and rooting out of the other Our Godly and Christian brethren in other countries approoue this doctrine The aduersaries vnto this truth The aduersaries of this doctrine be diuers For Some are of opinion that no man for any offence should be put to death Such in old time were the Manichies and the Donatistes and such in our daies be the Anabaptistes And some doe thinke that howsoeuer for other offences against the second Table malefactors may bee put to death yet for haereticall and erroneous opinions in points of religion none are so to suffer Of this minde are the Familistes For They hold that no man should bee put to death for his opinions They blame M. Cramner and Ridley for burning Ioane of Kent for an haereticke It is not christianlike that one man should persecute another for any cause touching conscience Is not that punnishmen● sufficient say they which God hath ordained but that one Christian must vexe torment belie and persecute another 7. Proposition It is lawfull for Christian men at the commandement of the Magistrate to weare weapons and serue in warres The proofe from Gods word There is saith K. Salomon a time of warre and a time of peace and Princes are by warre and weapons to represse the power of enemies whether forraigne or intestine For they are in authoritie placed for the defence of quiet and harmlesse subiects as also to remoue the violence of oppressors and enemies whatsoeuer they bee For these causes haue they Horses prepared for the battell Tributes paide them aswell of Christians as others and Subiects to serue them in their warres of what nature soeuer Cornelius being a Christian was not forbidden to play the Centurion or bidden to forsake his profession nor the Souldiers that came vnto Iohns baptisme willed to leaue the warres but to offer no violence vnto any man This truth is graunted by the Churches The adversaries vnto this truth Many are against this assertion whereof some doubt of the truth thereof as Ludouicus Viues Others denie it altogether as vntrue So did in ancient time the Manichies whose doctrine was that no man might goe to warre Lactantius thought it altogether vnlawfull for a good man or a Christian either

And touching the other sweare may we not either by Baal or by strange Gods or by the Lord and by Melchom that is by Idols or by any creatures But our Oathes must bee made in the Name of the Lord as the Lord liueth and all is to be done in truth iudgment and righteousnes and when the magistrate calleth vs therevnto All Churches ioyne with vs in this assertion and some testifie the same in their publique wrightings The errors and aduersaries vnto this truth Many bee the aduersaries one way or other crossing this truth For 1. Some condemne all swearing as did the Esseis who deeme all swearing as bad as forswearing and doe the Anabaptistes which will not sweare albeit thereby both the glorie of God may bee much promoted and the Church of Christ or Common-weale furthered 2. Others condemne some kind of Oathes and will not sweare though vrged by the magistrate but when themselues thinke good So the Papistes no man say they ought to take an Oath to accuse a Catholicke a Papist for his religion such as by Oathes accuse Catholickes that is Papists are damned So the Puritans oftentimes either will take none oath at all when it is ministred vnto them by authoritie if it may turne to the molestation of their Brethren or if they sweare finding their testimonie will bee hurtfull to their cause they wil not deliuer their mindes after they be sworne 3. Others hauing taken the Oath doe fowlie abuse the same as the Knights of the post like the Turkish Seiti Chagi who for a Ducket will take a thousand false Oathes afore the magistrate as also the Iesuits who in swearing which is little better then forswearing doe vti scientia that is cunning and equiuocations as also doe they who conscionablie and religiouslie keepe not their faith such are the forenamed Papistes For say they An Oath taken for the furtherance of false religion as they take the profession of all Protestantes to be bindeth not Againe Faith is not to bee kept with Haeritickes Which assertion little differeth from the opinion of some Puritanes who teach that promise or Faith is not to be kept when as perhaps by the not erecting of Presbyteries in euerie parish Gods honor and preaching of his word is hindered Subiects be discharged from their Oath of allegeance and may gather forces against their leige Soueraigne if hee eterprise any thing to the hurt of his Realme or of the Romish religion was a determination of the Sorbonistes in a certaine conventicle of theirs at Paris And that magistrates by their Subiects may be brought vnder the obedience of Lawes was a conclusion of certaine Scottish ministers in a priuate Conventicle of Edinburgh Seditiosi non sunt qui resistunt principibus politicum aut ecclesiasticū statū perturbantibus Nā qui resistit Principi seditioso seditiosus non est sed seditionem tollit saith a Frenchman yea saith an Englishman whose workes by T. C. are highly approoued and commended Hunc tollant uel pacifice vel cum bello qui ea potestate donati sunt vt regni Ephori vel omnium ordinum conuentus publicus Subiects may not respect their oathes made vnto such Princes which trouble the state of the Church or Common-weale Finally whatsoeuer Princes be good or bad if they bee Women say some oathes of allegeance vnto them are not to be kept Their words be these First aswell the States of the kingdome as the common people they ought to remooue from honour and authoritie that monster in nature so call I woman in the habit of man yea a woman against nature raigning aboue man Secondly if any presume to defend that impietie they ought not to feare first to prononce then after to execute against thē that is to say against women gouernours the sentence of death If any man be afraid to violate the oath of obedience which they haue made to such monsters let them be most assuredly perswaded that as the beginning of their oathes proceeding from ignorance was sinne so is the obstinate purpose to keepe the same nothing but plaine rebellion against God Last of all whereas euery minister of the word and Sacraments at his ordination doth sweare to obey his Diocesan in all lawfull matters certaine Gentlemen of the Puritane faction write thus vnto the Bishops of the Church of England and printed the same viz. The Canon law is vtterly void within the realme and therfore your Oath of Canonicall obedience is of no force and all your Canonicall admonitions not worth a rush D. Hilar. contra Constantium August Non recipit mendacium veritas nec patitur religio impietatem The truth admits no lie neither can religion abide impietie 1. Tim. 1. v. 17. Vnto the king everlasting immortall inuisible vnto God onely wise be honour and glory for euer and euer Amen FINIS The Printer to the Reader Gentle Reader many faults escaped the Author being absent and the coppie somewhat darke which if it please thee to correct take this direction The former number sheweth the page the latter the line m. the margen d. dele certaine figures are twice printed and so both in the table and here twice quoted Pag. 2. lin 30. who flatly 3.5 the inhabitants 8. liniaments 23. horae b. 4.36 Saturninus Menander Cerin 6.28 Eunome us 29. Tretheites 7.2 These did 6. Seruetus 19. Priscilianists 9.4 d. the. 10.32 Harmon 11.20 Valētiniās p 16.11 As man and. 20.4 d were 13. Him God 22.8 tures teach 23.9 assumed 29.14 precepts offendeth no lesse then if he contemned Gods expresse commandements k. And. 22. adversaries 30.24 Castellio 31.6 Barcobas Barcolf 24. all the. 34.16 Bethlehem 35.16 the redde sea 37.12 sacrifices 39.10 Antinomies 6. d. 0.40.11 d. in 17. for his 46.1 m. Carranza 47.15 may doe 48.22 naturall 49.22 d and the mind 23. the body 29. reveale 52.10 or Loues 53.1 m. Horae 8. scandere 9. for thee 54.17 the profit 55.3 as the. 8. Villauincentio 22. destitute 53.33 violating 35. them by the papists 58.19 they doe 61.7 as not 65.10 and fall 66.20 Hieracites 67.15 d. by 68.25 yee 33. vp 35. Onesimus 69.5 d. as 14. d. most 71.12 d. his 72.24 Hieracites 73.24 whom hee 74.24 Catabaptists 25. misery 32. Bolseck 77.36 Antinomies m. execut of iust 79.7 Hieracites 80 5. can away 81.12 or which are 84.3 be held 4. The obs 85.5 they revolted 19. Desider Burdegal 9217. Viguerius m. Theol. 95.18 because 96.21 d. a 97.30 Pius 5.100.31 they 103.11 embrace 104.6 interpretation 14. Villauincence 21 examinent vt 27. fetcht m. Hervaeus 106 m. next im 13. Festivalls 16. in the 107.29 the odde 108.3 Cusan 16. Heare 18 d. the 22. d. the. 110.34 disciplin● 111.5 Iobelaea of the Sci. 35. Cyrillus 112.8 to summon 23. Turon 114.24 Selneccerus 115.17 Paphnutius 27. d. h. 31. erre