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A18921	Errour on the left hand, through a frozen securitie Howsoeuer hot in opposition, when Satan so hears them. Acted by way of dialogue. Betw. 1 Malcontent and Romanista. 2 Mal-content Romanista & Libertinus. 3 Malcontent and Libertinus. 4 Malcontent and Atheos. 5 Malcontent and Atheoi. 6 Malcontent & the good & bad spirit. 7 Malcontent and Mediocrity. By Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1608 (1608)	STC 5342; ESTC S118641	38,052	122

he said Amen to a monstrous praier Good spir Hée said Amen hée knew not to what and such in effect was his confession But whatsoeuer Atheos intended by Nature poore Malcontent had in minde that there was a God to become vnto and that by Christ Iesus onely His head indéed was intoxicate with Vanity but not therefore the Verity pulled vp Besides whatsoeuer thou maiest suspect by his euill company he last day kept thou yet canst not proue that he had fréely resolued to forsake all charitable Communion with his brethren in the former grounds of faith This departure from Faith and Fellowship is not acted vpon a stickering giddy conceit but vpon mature deliberation and then also done vnconstrainedly and freely Bad spirit Let it be he haue not acted that sin fully yet if he liue but a little longer it will be come to the full Therefore the best to preuent it is to hang himselfe presently Good spir As thy selfe art so is thy counsell Bad spirit Let him not do that and yet hee hath sinned sufficiently for a thousand damnations Good spir Who knowes not Satan that one sinne is sufficient where grace from aboue comes not Therefore the third time I say The Lord which hath chosen this brand out of the fire euen he reproue thee Zach 3. 2. Bad spirit Nay wher thou cōmest thou meanst to be vmpire there is no talking with thee the last word thou wilt haue and therfore I go Good spir Malcontent Malcontent Malcon Who cals Malcontent Good spir One that wisheth thée well Malcon O but I wish not my selfe well nor can I for I haue sinned grieuously sinned my heart is disquieted within me Good spir Doest thou grieue Malcontent doest thou grieue Malcon O Lord I grieue because I cannot grieue Good spir Art thou burthened Malcontent art thou burthened Malcon Neuer did soule carry such a burthen Sinne vpon sinne sinne vpon sin and more sin and no end of sin Good spir Go then vnto Christ who can ease thee Malcon Sweet Christ I know can ease mee but will he ease me Good spir Doubtst thou whether he wil ease thee Neuer was Shepheard so willing to take vp the poore shéep on his shoulders that had spent the strength in the briers and so to bring it to the fold as he is willing to take vp a poore soule and to bring it home from wandring Let the Priest passe by and suffer the shéep to porish Let the Leuite passe by stretch out no hand to help yet Christ with the Samaritan and sooner then the Samaritan will bind vp thy breaches get thee vp on his shoulders settle thée in his Inne feed thee more tenderly then Ioseph fed weake Iaacob Malcon O but I cannot look him in the face I am ashamed my face is confounded there is nothing right in me Good spir The more thou dislikest thy selfe the better he likes thee downe vpon thy knees and pray if it be neuer so little yet pray Malcon Well so I am downe what shall I say my heart is cold my tongue is frozen Lord helpe me I cannot pray Good spir Call for his help and hée will help thée Malcon O sinne sinne stops my mouth I cannot pray heauenly Father for Christ his sake teach me to pray O here at this heart it is lies heauy as cold as lead Good spir With the poore Publican knocke y● same breast wherein sins spaune lieth Cast thy selfe vpon the earth shake vp thy vnto ward affections Malcont Hard heart wilt thou not melt melt heart melt Lord for thy sonnes sake take a way my hearts hardnesse my hearts vnbeleef my hearts vntowardnes Oh oh ho lord that I could pray as sometimes I haue prayed Good spir To desire grace is the beginning of grace and to sorrow because one cannot pray better is an infallible degree of true repentance Blessed are these that so hunger after righteousnes for they shal be satisfied A cō trite heart the Lord will not despise Malcon I hate Papisme I loth Libertinisme I abhor the very remembrance of Atheisme but a three fold cord of iniquity they be which cannot be easily broken Errour on the right hand is as Salomō teacheth in Eccl. 7. 18. a sin that cōsisteth in Being iust ouermuch and wise ouermuch whose iudgment is to make such Zeloists desolate but Errour on the Left hand is a Being wicked and foolish ouer much whose iudgement is to hasten a mans perishing before mature time Eccles. 7. 19. Good spir Thou meritedst to haue perished but God would not thou shouldst perish for his owne names sake for by thy conuersion he will haue his mercy made glorious and therefore being conuerted sée thou also do help to strengthen thy brethren Malcon It shall be my duty with Saint Peter so to do but will the Lord pardon me whia my sinnes be extreamly large Good spir Thy sins cannot be so large as his mercy is large For thy multitude of iniquities he hath a multitude of mercies and in the pardoning of thée much thou maiest loue him much Malcon Loue him Oh that I might die for him shed my bloud for him lose all that I haue in the world for him Good spir That affection of thine is the fruit of true loue And as S. Iohn saith God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Malcon O Lord I thanke thee for sparing me from suddaine death I haue mocked at that kind of praier heretofore but now Lord I see what a mercie it is not to be takē away suddainly how soeuer we should indeede alwaies so liue as alwaies ready to die but Lord we are not alwaies nay seldome so prepared and therefore an exceeding mercy of thineto giue a poore sinner some time to looke about him and to prepare for death but sweete Lord howsoeuer I feare tremble at the very remembrauce of Faction and Schisme I yet am so deeply plunged with scruples and doubts about sundry things in the Church of England as I know not what to doe without further direction Good spir Repaire to Mediocrity and so fare thou well Malcon GOD grant I may fare well for my poore soules health O Mediocrity I heretofore haue scorned thy precepts because I had no mind to keep any meane accounting all meane but an haulting betweene two opinions I go Lord I go Forthy sonnes sake blesse Mediocrity for speaking me for hearing Amen So be it The seuenth Dialogue between Malcontent and Mediocrity Medeoc WHo knocks there Malcon One that desires to speake with you Your seruant told mee sir that you were amongst your Bees and I haue made bold to interrupt your busines Medioc Neighbour Malcontent I pray you come neere Will you sit downe by me Me thinks from the consideration of this poore little creature many excellent meditations may arise Malcon But will they not sting a man that sitteth amongst them Medioc Not at all except a man prouoke

had to do with meere Infidels without the Church but ours with Christians within the visible face of the Church and therefore no such cause nor néed But as the Apostles hauing ordained Presbyters or Priests to euery Church for y● néere ouer sight thereof did notwithstanding care for all the Churches and visite them as opportunity was offred so it is y● duty of ours and their maine duty If any one faile herein Est quidem error personalis non legalis the fault is in the person not in the function confirmed by Law As for their Prerogariues what haue they wherein the Apostles exceeded not If they incarcerate persons by authority deriued lawfully from our Prince a thing which Infidelious Princes would not cōmit to y● Apostles nor yet to any Christiā is therfore y● sword vnlawful to a Christiā in the roome therof the King of kings collated a farre greater power vpon them In so much as thereby S. Paul●mot ●mot Elymas the sorcerer with blindnes and S Peter smote Anamas and Sapphira with present sodaine death When the times begun to be ordinarily Christian then the Lord tooke away that extraordinary prerogatiue and conferred vppon his Church the ordinary meanes for protection and correction of bodies A weake despised Church they would haue her who being destitute of extraordinary power would haue her robbed of that which is ordinary also The Prophets could foretell that Kings of the earth should bring their honour and glory vnto it and these cannot abide it Yes they will say we would haue the Church not her ministry to haue it I beleeue it they would haue themselues and their lay children euected and the ministry deiected Euen as they expound that precept Tell the Church to bee tell Tom Tynker tell Dick Cullion tell Ione the oyster-wench with all the rest of their Ignorants such a Sanhedrim the Iewes neuer had so y● bringing of glory and honour vnto the Church must not be at all or almost not at all to the ministerie for they be but vassalls but to her Laicall members as being the only vessels capable of glory honour They would haue all power and dignity in their owne hands that so the ministery standing both in Need Awe of them they might be topped and ouertopped at their pleasure not daring once in their Sermons to touch their corruptions as they wold not haue their good Masters and good Dames to withdraw their Almes from them So indeede it would come to passe as it did in Ezechiels time wee should be glad to preach for a crust of bread and an handful of barley Malcon Indeede sir I must needes say it would come to no better Experience euery where will giue testimony vnto it But I beseech you sir another question how shall wee cleare that the Surplice is not an Idolothyte Medioc By the definition of an Idolothyte for an Idolothyte is whatsoeuer is dedicate or consecrate to an Idoll by way of deuotion But none of our Surplices haue been so deuoted therfore none of them Idolothytes If any can fetch out a Surplice that hath beene by the Papists consecrated to their Idol-idle masse such a one may be termed an Idolothyte and it skils not though it were burnt As for ours they be not such though like to such no more then the Animal-offerings of Israel vnder the lawe were Idolothytes howsoeuer like to the oblatiōs of Aegypt out of which they made their exode and passage But that which is more if the idolatour had abused it may I not vse it The Apostle teacheth otherwise vnto the Corinthians he layes downe the case thus Of cattle offered vp to the Idols some part comes to the offerers and from them sometimes that part comes to the flesh market Some infidell buyes of it dresseth it and sets it before thee Let thy cōscience make no scruple to eate of it how soeuer it was Idolatrized for as the earth is the Lords not the Diuels so the fulnes thereof is his and created for the vse of his Yet this prouiso withall If any one at table with thée doe pointe at it and say certainly this is an Idolothyte I like it not then because of his consciēce not because of thine let it alone for the Lord hath things know besides in the earth for thee to feede vpon Otherwise thou eating of it and giuing thankes to God for it why should another speake end of thee Hence it is plains that the children of God may lawfully vse any creature in the earth howsoeuer it haue beene by others prophaned Only in case of anothers weaknes he is to forbeare euen from his owne right This Prouiso I know is the maine of all their speech who kéepe such a stir about the poore garmēt but in pressing this prouiso they must take with them this they must confesse themselues to bee but as yet very yong Christians and not fitted to be Pastors ouer flocks of people no more then they were fit for ministeriall function which were but Neophyts newly come from heathē Idolatry vnto Christianity for such were they of whom the Apostle speaketh And then it will followe first that they haue sinned in medling with the strongest function in the congregation being but as yet nouices in the faith Secondly that they deserue to be sharply censured for making their people weaker then they ●ound them who at first could brooke the Garment well but now must 〈…〉 as if it were an Idolothyte And if they say they knowe their owne Christian liberty therein but many about them will be offended I answere there be none about them that can as the former Neophyts plead tollerable infirmity All about them be Christians borne of Christian parents in the profession of Christianity for some thousand yeares and vpward Let them sée to it then if such their exception doe not growe not from infirmity but from wilful péeuishnes as willing to stick rather in their owne preiudged opinion then to ●eeled forward vnto Christ. With the Apostlo to the Colossians I say thus If they be dead with Christ from the ordinances of the world why as though they liued in the world are they burdened with traditions as touch not taste not hādle not wee say to shew the liberty wherewith Christ hath made thē free they ought to weare it They answere that they may not We say besides the former reason the Christian Princes commandement propounding it but as a garment for seemelines and order it ought to moue their conscience to the vse of it They answere it doth not Propoūd what we shall they still with the superstitious Colossians doe returne vs a not as if their only study were to crosse Christ to crosse a Christian King and to crosse the Churches affirmatiue with their Ethelothreskia their Negatiue Not. Malcon I wonder how reading that place to the Corinths so often as I haue so well as this last to the Colossians I could