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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

in this Article two things The vse and power of this word and the true touchstone how we may know or where we may find this word The first is touching religion that Gods word is the only rule thereof which onely teacheth the doctrine of righteousnesse and saluation And this is verie well to be seene in the storie of Abraham that he had no sauour of religion before God taught him by his word neither can wee find that he added any thing of his owne And this will euidently appeare if you consider how God first preached vnto him a Gal. 3.8 Gen. 12.1.2.3 the gospell and so from b Cap. 15. 17 18. time to time reuealed more and more vnto him and that God acknowleged him to bee a c Gen. 20.7 prophet such an one as would d Cap. 18.19 command his sonnes and his houshold after him that they keepe the way of the Lord. What is all this els but that God by his word taught him the true religion and godlinesse what he should beleeue and doe As for Moses he maketh the word of God so absolute a rule that the Church ought not e Deut. 4.2 to put any thing to it nor take any thing from it and the prophets are also verie confident in this point saying f Prouerb 30.5 Euerie word of God is pure put nothing to his word least hee reproue thee and thou be found a lyer And the reason of this perfection is plaine because it maketh g Cap. 2.1.9 a man to vnderstand righteousnes and iudgement and equitie and euerie good path and to exclude all mens inuentions from ordaining any part of religion God saith by his prophets that h Esai 29.13 The wisedome of the wise shall perish because their feare toward God was taught by the precept of men Which Christ intepreteth to this sence i Mat. 15.9 That they worshipped God in vaine teaching for doctrines mens preceptes If this suffice not then let vs heare this point in expresse wordes of the Prophet k Psal 19.7 The law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule So likewise our Sauiour Christ in the gospell gaue to his Apostles and Church no other thing but the l Ioh. 17.8 worde which God his father gaue him pronouncing that this is m Vers 17. The truth by which they should be sanctified n Cap. 15.3 made cleane o Cap. 8.31.32 and free from sin p Cap. 5.24 and by hearing thereof they might haue euerlasting life Therefore the Apostles finding the absolute sufficiencie thereof doe forsake all wisedome of men for the same calling it the words of eternall life q Cap. 6.68 Hereof it is that Saint Iames saith r Cap. 1.19 Be swift to heare and slow to speake because wee men must not put forth our owne wisedome in matters of faith and religion but submit our selues to learne of God as he after expoundeth saying ſ Vers 21. Receiue with meeknesse the word that is grafted in you which is able to saue your soules And thereupon Saint Paule condemneth all shewes of t Coloss 2.22.23 wisedome in voluntarie religion after the commandement and doctrines of men giuing charge that no man u Vers 8. spoile vs through philosophie and vaine deceite according to the traditions of men according to the rudiments of the world and not after Christ And the ground of this is this that in x Vers 3. Christ are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge Now as touching the second point which is the touchstone to trie the word of God where and how to find and know it This is The holy inspired writinges of the olde and new Testament wherein is contained all the word of God touching religion necessarie for the Church and Gods elect to know for their saluation Which although it were not written in the time of Abraham and of the fathers but after by Moses the Prophetes the Apostles and Euangelistes yet is it so absolute a rule and canon that wee ought not to beleeue any thing of faith and religion touching saluation to be or to haue beene the word of God which may not be rightly gathered taught or proued confirmed or allowed by the writings of Moses and the prophets in the old testament and in the new testament by the Euangelistes and Apostles of Iesus Christ And this will appeare verie euidently to the conscience of all faithful and wise hearted Christians if they consider what the spirite of God teacheth in all these times For the first a most glorious writer was the a Deut. 5.22 finger of God writing the ten wordes in two tables Then Moses by his direction wrote all the b Exod. 24.4 words of the Lord and a little before his death he wrote the whole c Deut. 31.9 law and deliuered it to the priestes the sonnes of Leui. So that then and from thenceforth the law written became the canon of the Church and the onely rule to measure religion by as may appeare because it was published in this sort d Deut. 27.26 Cursed bee he that confirmeth not all the wordes of this law to do them e Cap 30.10 which is interpreted to bee the commandementes and ordinaunces of the Lord written in the booke of the law And Ioshuah being of the same times knowing it to bee such an absolute rule chargeth the people a little before his death to f Ioshua 23.6 obserue and do all that is written in the booke of the law of Moses that they turne not there from to the right hand nor to the left By which it appeareth that in his time the writinges of Moses were this touchston to know the word of God as it were the arke of God wherein the tables of the couenant written with the finger of God were kept which will somewhat more be seene if you consider with me that in Moses writings and in and by nothing els we learne all the word of God reuealed and made knowne to the Church not onely touching the creation and olde world but also concerning Abraham Isaack Iacob and whatsoeuer God spake would haue to be knowen to be his word in his time which hee committed to writing for the perpetuall vse of the people of God And after him God added the pen of the prophets for the more perfect manifestation of this word and misterie of Gods will and yet so as nothing in substance did differ from the written law of Moses Therefore the prophetes pronounce the same writinges to be a most perfect Canon not to be added to nor taken from saying after this maner a Esa 8.20 To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in thē And againe b Malach. 4.4 Remember the law of Moses my seruant which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel the

a protestant in diuers places about this matter denying transubstantiation with all the holie martyrs which suffered in Queene Maries time saying a Vpon Ps 98. Non hoc corpus quod videtis c. yee shall not eate this bodie which you see and drinke that bloud which they shall shead which shall crucifie mee I haue commended vnto you a certaine mysterie which beeing spiritually vnderstoode shall quicken you and againe b De ciuitate dei lib. 21. cap. 20. Non solo sacramento sed re ipsa manducauerunt corpus Christi in ipso eius corpore cōstituti They eate not in the Sacrament alone but in verie deede the bodie of Christ beeing set in his verie bodie shewing thereby that there is no way of eatinge Christ but spirituallie and that the wicked eate the Sacrament of Christs bodie but not Christs bodie indeede hauing no faith to bee set in him and as hee knewe no reall presence in the sacrament so he knew no adoration nor sacrifice but a memoriall of thanksgiuing as where he c Ad. P. diaconum saith In this sacrifice there is thanksgiuing and a remembrance of the flesh of Christ which he offered for vs and againe d Contra Faustum Manicheum per victimas similitudinum the flesh and bloud of this sacrifice before the comming of Christ was promised by the sacrifices of resemblances in the sacrifice of Christ by the truth of the same after the ascention of Christ it is celebrated by the sacrament of remembrance what a merueilous protestant was hee whose sacrifice was a remembrance his adoring was thankesgiuing and transubstantiation in a mysterie and not in deed But me thinketh father Barnard wil be a protestant also for he e De diligend Deo saith that these woords qui manducat carnem meam c. hee which eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath life eternal is as much as to say who so doth meditate vpon my death and by my example mortifie his members which are vpon the earth hath eternall life that is if you suffer together you shall raigne together Transubstantiation came vp as yesterday But here I need not so much to trouble thee with fathers seeing this deuise of transubstantiation was hatched lesse then 400. yeres a goe and that f Anno 1215. Read the acts of the counsel and decreet all lib. 3. tit 41. cap. 5. in a counsell of Lateran vnder pope Innocent the 3. there you shall finde Francis and Dominicke the head springs of two religions to be great helpe to the pope there shalt thou find auriculer cōfession and mysterium fidei thrust into the institution in the masse Hereupon Honorius the 3. espying in looking vpon this new glasse of transubstantion that Christ was made to come out of heauen into the sacrament thought it reason to giue him reuerence therefore he a 16. cap. 10. deuised and ordained the Eucharist should be lifted vp and adored and reserued in reuerent maner But it is to be merueiled that Honorius was so hastie before it was perfectly resolued whether the water were transubstantiated with the wine For the forsaid Innocent the third b 16. cap. 6. illa probabilior iudicatur quae asserit aquam cum vino in sanguinem transmutari doth but probablie coniecture that it is so and he saith the schoolemen agree not whether it be so or no. But howsoeuer it is apparant by these testimonies that this filthie and abominable idoll of transubstantiation with his adoration is a new borne monster adored by them which turne the glorie of God into things corruptible Therefore God giueth them ouer into a reprobate sense to beleeue lies because they receiued not the loue of the truth to trust in those things which if they could see they would be a feard of their very table is made a snare and their prosperity their ruine The fourth foundamentall point is of the writings of the couenant 4. Of the scriptures namely the Holie scriptures inspired by Gods spirit Let vs heere what the auncient protestantes professed in the primatiue flower of the christian Churches among the Gentils Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons in France a verie auncient protestant c Aduers heres lib. 2. ca. 47 protesteth that the Scriptures are perfect for they are spoken by the woord of God and by his spirit and againe d lib. 3. cap. 12. The thinges which the Scriptures shewe or teach cannot bee shewed but by the Scriptures And hee teacheth that e lib. 5. No small punishment belongeth to them which adde or take away from the Scriptures And lastlie hee f lib. 3. cap. 2. sheweth that it is a shift of the heretikes when they are conuinced by the Scriptures to accuse the Scriptures and to say that by the Scriptures the truth cannot bee found of them which know not the tradition Heere you see that Irenaeus maketh these boasting papistes heretikes who vnder colour of the insufficiencie of Scripture do foist in their traditions affirming that they ought not to interpret the scriptures by their sence or magisteriall power but by the declaration of scripture it selfe and lastlie that they are to bee punished for adding vnwritten verities traditions canons and decrees and such like tumperie to the perfect Scriptures In the next age of protestants commeth vp that great scholer Origen and he a In Ezech. homil 7. protesteth against the popish doctrin thus They which teare the Scriptures sowing those things doe rent the words from the words and make feined points of doctrine doo serue idols c. and a little after Let vs follow no man and if we wil follow anie Iesus Christ is set before vs to be followed the acts of the Apostles are described and we know the doings of the prophets by the holy volums or writings that patterne is sure that example is sound which who so desireth to follow doth walke without danger In the next age of protestants standeth vp Basilius Magnus and with open mouth denounceth b De vera ac pia fide against the arrogant pride of Rome If the Lord be faithful in all his words and all his cōmandements faithful established for euer euer done in equitie and truth without doubt this wil be a most manifest argumēt of infidelity a most certain sign of prid if any man wil reiect any of those things which are writtē or bring in any of those things which are not written Seing our Lord Iesus Christ hath said my sheep here my voice a little before the same said they wil not follow a strāger but wil flie from him because they know not the voice of strangers In the next age Chrysostome steppeth forth protesteth for the sufficiēcy of the holy scriptures a Vpon Ioh. cap. 8. saying If we would diligētly search the scriptures wee might be able to attaine saluation But Saint Augustine a little before him beateth down

especially famous men for profession of religion with these things are the schooles of diuines earnestly occupied Mark heere good reader and consider what an vgly and fearefull monster this would haue beene if God had not come downe and cut him off with this two edged sword of his holy worde For beside all these before how many other new thinges came forth in the same generation First because Iohn Husse was put to death by the counsel of Constance against and contrarie to the Emperours letters pattentes of safe conduit there came foorth this new head of blasphemy Fides non seruanda haereticis promise is not to be kept with an hereticke And no maruell for b Platina Pope Alexander the sixt hauing by three Cardinals in Latine French Italian giuen full remission of sinnes to all the army of the French vnder Charles the 8. comming into Italie for the recouerie of Naples against their returne did way-lay them to haue cut them off with Maximilian K. of the Romans Ferdinand K. of Aragon Lodouich Sforce duke of Millan Secondly P. Pius the 2. made a new order of Scribes Abreuiators Paul the 2. made a law that none should weare scarlet bonets but the Cardinals and gaue euerie Cardinall a peece of scarlet to couer their Mules And he wold haue made their hattes of redde silke but that some sage Cardinals shewed him that the encrease of the pompe of the Church destroyed the Christian faith Sixtus the 4. ordained and increased many feastes The conception of the virgin Mary and the presentation the feast of Anna the mother of Marie the feast of S. Ioseph and of S. Francis a Baleus in vita Clementis octaui Nicholas Egmundanus master of Louen and a Carmelite did teach and write that the Pope was Lord of all thinges in heauen in earth and vnder the earth And Paul the third Pope of that name being an old man found out a new kind of religion to the encrease of Gods worship he consecrated a little bowle of wood with his Popall blessing to gratifie a noble matron that she might carrie it hanged it on her necke against diuers griefs The late counsell of Trent hath hatched many new thinges First that the b Sess 4. decret 2. vulgar translation in publike readings disputations preachings and expositions to bee autenticall whereof c Preface of Test Rhem. ariseth great disputation against the Greeke and Hebrew text contrarie to the ancient decree which d Distinct 9. cap. vt veterū Gratian auowcheth That the truth of the old Testament should be examined by the Hebrew and of the new by the Greeke And e Sess 7. with an heauie and pittifull curse they establish these schoole trickes 1. That the Sacraments of the new Testament conferre grace 2. By Baptisme Confirmation and orders a Charecter is imprinted in the soule 3. The intention of the priest is required to the making of the Sacrament 4. Iohns Baptisme hath lesse vertue then that which Christ commanded his Apostles and such like out of this forge commeth the newe forging of the e Printed at Paris Anno 1577. masse booke set foorth by Pius the 5. and a f Printed at Paris An. 1583 newe Callender which was done by pope Gregorie the 13. wherein the times of the yere and of the feastes and the course of the Sunne is set in his right order that we may know nothing in heauen and in earth to be safe from the presumption and proud arrogancie of this triple crowned beast and this holie prelate hath made a g Printed at Antwerpe An. 1589. new Martyrologe or Legend according to this new Callender And for the better garding and keeping of their high tower of confusion they haue a set watch called Index expurgatorius to charme all writers both newe and olde and to fray them that they lift not vp their voice so much as one woord against their superstitious follie and a Read Martin Remnicius ex amen concili Triden parti 1. pag. 1. and his booke called doctrinae Iesui tarum pag. 1. c. Baleaeus in vita Paul 4. here withal sprang vp a new religion of armed souldiers to fight their battails breeding secretly about Anno 1536. but shewe themselues openly in their colledge at Rome Anno 1553. and since in diuerse places and they goe into all nations to stirre vp the kings of the earth the princes and people to make warre against the Saints our Englishe soile hath been assayled by this newe broode vnder the name of Iesuits and Seminarie priests But as the groweth of this monster is strange and fearefull and that in it newe religions haue risen vp sodainly like padstooles as b De inuentor rerū lib. 7. ca. 3. Polydor virgill saith so from 600. yeres after Christ vntill our time it could not come to his full groweth yea although the Trident Councell seemeth to licke him and shape him as the beare doth his whealps to some handsome forme of perfection For there are many things which are not yet come to their birth and many which stay at the verie birth and are not yet deliuered As namely first those 14. controuersies of those two woorthie doctors of their popish Apostasie that is to say the angelicall doctor Thomas of Aquine and the subtil doctor Scotus the Duns For one saith God is vnto vs an end super natural and the other saith God is vnto vs an end Natural The one saith that Blessednes is meerely an effect super natural and cannot naturally be had The other saith that Blessednes may be had naturally and that it is naturall and such like Which a F. Constantius Saruanus cōciliatio c. printed at Rome 1589. a verie worshipful Cardinall laboureth to reconcile vntil the churches determination and minde may be knowen And this verie Cardinall addeth a very great encrease of this newe spawne called directorium theologicum which hath many worthie conceits of Logick and Philosophie which perhaps one day may take life being by their magisteriall power There are in these scholes deuines infinite and verie deepe questions which their mother church hath not yet by determination brought forth and acknowledged as her children as namely such as this is b Petri Tartareti reportata quest 2. distinct 10. deinceps whether Christ being verie man in the Ost or sacrament in one place can see him selfe when he is made being the verie same Christ and man in many other places and whether that so many thousands made at one instant in many places might not be an armie of men to meete and fight a battaile in one field c. Don Iohn a Bononia professor of diuinitie in his c Printed at Louan Anno 1554. booke of predestination and reprobation dedicated to Charles the Emperor and king of Spaine telleth vs that the church hath not set downe what is to be beleeued or receiued of all Christians touching that