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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

therefore that loues God must spare no paines to keepe her chast If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning my pulses beating my lungs breathing let his tongue cleaue to the roofe of his mouth who preferres not Ierusalem in him mirth that is the welfare of Christs flocke before all other ioyes in the world besides This glory of ours my brethren so David calls it and all other the instruments God hath lent vs of his glory and our husbandry if they be not kept in vse they will become vnserviceable shall be eaten vp with the rust Wee are called by God into his vineyard which if we dresse not with diligence prune uot with care and wisely vnderprop by our good example the Master will come pull vs out by the poles of our heads and put vs to tread the great wine-presse of the wrath of God Christ compared his Disciples to a cittie that is set on a hill we may also compare them to the hill or mount whereon the cittie stands 1. Montes are eminentiores terrae partes more seene and obiect to mans eye then plaines lower places so in that height of place wherein they were set to be seene of all more integritie and pietie was required then in the ordinarie ranke of professours 2. The grass springs purer more wholsome for pasture on those tops and heights of hills so the Lords flocke and sheepe of his pasture feed better and fat sooner by Pastors examples then by private persons Tum demum exempla probantur Quando rex aliis quod inbet ipse facit Thirdly the dewe and moisture which falls from heaven vpon Hermon descends from thence vpon the plaine of Bashan clothing her vallies so thicke with grasse that they laugh and sing so from those mountaines of Mir●h Incense drop and distill the dewe of heavenly doctrine godly consolation and saving grace such as causeth the Saints to reioyce for their glory to sing lowd vpon their beds This was prefigured in the law by the golden bell pomegranate placed about the skirts of Aarons robe The pomegranate signified the sweet savour of Christs death the golden bell the Gospell preached the ioint mixture of them both did intimate thus much that God would make manifest the savour of his knowledge the saving knowledge of his sonnes sufferings by his Aarons and preachers in every place Now what is the doctrine which Timothy must teach and take heed vnto for matter the truth of God without traditiō for measure fully keeping naught backe for manner in a holy boldnesse discreet roundnesse in loue with diligence applying himselfe to the hearers capacitie with desire of Gods glory and their good His words thus guided by knowledge backt by truth tempered with loue applyed with discretion and forced from a knowne watch over his owne waies shal be like apples of gold in pictures of silver like the words of the wise which are as goads nailes fastned by the Masters of the assemblies As goades they shall rowse them out of the sleepe of sinne as nailes fasten and ioyne them close to Christ their head Hee shall be vnto them the sweet savour of God vnto salvation they an acceptable sacrifice vnto Christ by his admonition But where is this truth found in the Turkes Alcoron or Popes Canon No but with him alone who saith of himself I am the way wherein walking we stray not the truth which imbracing we erre not and the life without which we die although we liue a spirituall death in a naturall life To this Christ all both Prophets and Apostles send vs as the welspring of life and Christ to the Scriptures search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me Where he is so far from impeaching that authoritie sufficiency which the Iews gaue vnto the Scriptures that he doth not only as it were countenance and covertly commend that their opinion but openly argue and reason therefrom Notwithstanding the Church of Rome doth not only wrest corrupt misconstrue contradict and disanull these Scriptures but teach for doctrines mens precepts Rome was sometimes a famous Church her faith was published throughout the whole world sed quantum mutatur ab illa How farre is she fallen from her first loue for her children haue committed two evills They haue forsaken the fountaine of living waters which refreshed the Saints hearts in their necessity with sound comfort and digged them pits that cā hold no water to comfort her now revolted brood withall S. Paul taught and Rome receaued it that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the law The Romanists maintaine a iustification by workes and a merit of the same without the faith which Paul meant 1 Against the professed and profound disputes of our Apostle there and elsewhere 2. Against the end of good workes supreame which is Gods glory 1. Cor. 1 21. subordinate being ordained for vs to walke in Eph. 2. 10. By walking therein to winne others 1. Cor. 7. 14 witnesse our faith I am 2. 18. Testifie our thankfulnesse Luk. 1. 74. 75. and settle vs in the assurance of our salvation 2. Pet. 1. 10. 3 Against the law and Prophets Moses proposing a reward of mercy not merit to them that loue God and keep his Commandements Exod. 20. 6. David deriving expresly all reward therefrom Psal. 62. 12. and pronouncing him a happy man to whom the Lord imputes righteousnesse without workes as one interprets who could neither mistake his meaning misconstrue his scope nor erre in right conference of the Scriptures Rom. 4. 6. 4 Against the tenor and title by which the state of salvation is firmely holden which is the adoption of sonnes no earned hire of mans service since the seed of the bond-woman cannot inherit with the free-borne Gal. 4. 30. 5 Against the light of reformed reason since wee afford 1. nothing vndue for he made vs and not we our selues yea and made vs againe both in our redemption and renovation Psal. 100. 2. Nothing proper he working in vs as subiects by vs as instruments both wil and worke Phil. 2. 13. 3. Nothing profitable for what can wee doe so well as to deserue of him to whom our weldoing doth not extend Psal. 16. 4. Nothing proportionable to Gods bountie whether we doe or suffer obey or beare for what is a light and momentary affliction to that glory which for first weight cannot bee countervailed by a world of woes 2 Cor. 4. 17. Secondly for eternitie admits neither abatemēt limit nor intermission Rom. 8. 18. Thirdly for excellency surpasseth all that eye hath seene eare hath heard or any heart of man can conceaue 1. Cor. 2. 9. Fourthly so farre as no speech can vtter because it is vnspeakable 6 Against the drift and

Church and her children onely haue fellowship 1 Iohn 1. 3. i●yneth with such 〈◊〉 ●●●taine and keepe Christs doctrine The Father will haue the Sonne heard Math. 17. 5. the 〈…〉 the Sonne is an essentiall marke and sure of signe Christs sheepe Iohn 10. 27 and the 〈…〉 the promised Tutor and teacher of the Church for euer Iohn 14. 26. subscribes to that truth 〈◊〉 Christ hath tau●ht inspiring vs with the true effects thereof so that they who ●bey the F●th●rial ●●ring his Sonne the Sonne in hearkning to such as he sends Luke 10. 16. and where the inward w●●k● of Gods spirit concurres with the outward word of reconciliation there men increase with the 〈◊〉 of God Col. 2. 19. whereas they who practise their owne devices placing great 〈◊〉 in their vse whilst they despise Gods owne device and spurne against his appointed meanes haue neither promise from the Father of spiritual thrift who teacheth but by the Sonne nor furtherance from the Son who clenseth but by his w●rd Iob. 15. 3. nor assurance or assistance from that spirit wh●ch 〈◊〉 and prospereth such onely as the Father hath planted the Son purged with his heauenly du● The Papacy is a hotch potch composed of the shreddes of other heresies ● King 5. Rev 22. 18. Tradition discountenanced 2. Tim. 3. 15. Rom. 15. 4 Ioh. 20. 31. 2. Pet. 1. 12. 13. 2. Pet. 1. 2. 1. Cor. 15. 2. Luk. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Gal. 1. 6. 7. There is no likelyhood that God would haue so many things of greatest necessitie reserved to the publication of the putatuie deitie of the Pope which hee hath not revealed by his sonne u Can ought be added to that is perfect May addit ●o be made without marring it Dare any mar where addition is as dangerous as it is needlesse Doth the spirit delude vs calling that perfect wherein so many things lacke and those of necessary vse How much safer were it to fasten on the written truth which sufficeth to salvation then to forge vntrue writings and vnwritter truths to the destruction of 〈◊〉 soules Therefore they alone richly and fully afford things needfull to bring vs there to Mat. 10. 19. * The same things for substance being penned which were preached 1. Papists preaching the Pope his decretaline doctrine which is besides and contrary to S. P. Gospell cannot keep without compass of the cu●se 2. Their Romanū Evangelium a Gospel framd on the Popes owne anvile A● 1592. ascribes to certaine holy beads and the like trumperies with the vse of some Ave Maries Pater nosters or our Ladies Psalter asmuch as P. Gospell giues to the bloud of Christ. viz. remission of sinnes to all men in every place Can any Christi is heart but abominate such blasphemies and yet behold more abominations then these 3. A Iesuits Gospell broaching such blasphemies as neither earth nor heauen can heare without trembling and astonishment Here Maries milke is mingled with Christs blood as the Soveraignst salue for a sicke soule and which yet is more horrible and hellish if ought can be the milke is pr●ferred as more pretious Vbera dextrâ vulnera prensabo levâ Ver. 9. 2. Pet. 1. 21. 2. Tim. 3. 16. 17. Psal. 63. 4. 1. Scriptures prescribe fully and precisely both what for matter we are to ●oe and decline Tit. 2. 11. 12. Prov. 2. 9. Prou. 10. 18. 2. Cor. 10. 4. 5. Col. 4. 6. Eph. 5. 3. 4. Psal. 119. 9. Isa. 50. 4. No man can rightly praise or prize this pearle who is not acquainted with Davids practise Ps. 119. Solomons direction and our Saviors search Iohn 5. His preparation must bee reverence humiliti● his insinuation attention his cōpanion industrie his guid and prayer the spokesman and the commentarie a By this sea-card may every wise Christian so guide stere his owne vessell whether in slorm or calme as to awake with god in the morning to walke all day long vnder his protection to ly downe in peace cōmune with him in the night season Prov. 22. Deut. 33. 12. * Sad. advers Monach. Butdeg 1. Ioh. 1. 4. Ioh. 20. 31. Mischiefes accompany traditions and their Patrons Luk. 1. 1. 2. 3. ● b Scriptures the sole and sufficient guid to heauen therfore they but wearie their bodies spend their spirits who walke in by paths the faster they run the farther they are out of the way since they run not so as they that obtaine Secondly Act. 14. 3. Phil. 2. 16. Act. 13. 26. Heb. 5. 18. Rom. 5. 10. Thirdly Fourthly Papists a peremptory blood they dare giue God the lie 1. Tim. 4. 1 3. Fiftly c As Ancells and Saints with invocation Images with adoration Beads and other hallowed toyes with a power that is proper to faith and repentance The blessed mother of our Saviour with 1. prayers 2. A power over her sonne to command him 3. In matters of mercy to manage them And. 4. The milke of her breast with 〈◊〉 equall vertue and efficacy to Christs blood Stap. in praes 〈◊〉 rel princ doct The papacy is pitched vpon the sand of mans fancie since it finds no sure footing in the word Sixtly Sess. 6. Decr. 1. Non minus meretur inter Ethnicos c. St. in Luc. 10. 16. Cap. de eccl porro si plus vivere 〈◊〉 c. Luth. in Gal. 1. 7. 4. 6. God indeed doth dignifie privi●edge his Church but with such caution reservation that be e●pects and enacts of her the authoritie of a law-giver lam 4. The subiectio of aspouse Ps. 40. 10. 11. 12. The homage belonging to a Lord. Mal. 1. 6. The honour and power that pertaines a head Eph. 4. 15. d Made by Bristow in his Motiues * Set out by Gregory the thirteth Tit. 1. 14. Articulos fidei soluit Pontifex maximus Episcopus vniversalis Caput Ecclesiae Dominus Deus noster Papa Seuenthly Iam. 4. 12. Whatsoeuer des●●nds from the lynes of mans braine is monsbane in Gods busines * Math. 15. 9. In which kind● none haue so much pes●ered the Church as they whose traditions are 1. dissonant to the truth 2. for varietie infinite 3. in vse fruitles 4. in effect dangerous 1. impeaching the authoritie 2. implying an insufficiency and 3. shouldring out of the exercise of Gods word Marke 7. 8. Rom. 10. 2. Verse 13. The secret of the Lord is amongst them that feare him The true seruice of God consists not in bodily exercises which profit not but in the exercises of godliues the practice wherof is most hard burthensome in truth impossib●e to the natural mā Rom. 7. 8 Such is the curbing of our irregular wils and breaking the clods of our vntowardnesse A voluntarie and cheerfull resignation of our selues to Gods vsage Luke 9. 23. bow euer it standwith our temporall comfort a delight in holy exercises which by nature we cannot rellish Psal. 119. 97. a keeping of the heart in such plight as may command good motions and haue dominion ouer vnruly passions which Chirst cals a kingdome Luk 17. Salomons conquest a great one too Prov. 16 32. a daily fostering of saith with a constant fruition of her fruits attendāis Ioy peace loue thanksgiuing equabiliue of mind in estates a propension willingnes to dopart hence at Gods pleasure breaking out sometimes into a desire of dissolution Phil 1. 23. a forsaking of the world not locally in habitation as they do who confine themselues to some Frierie but spiritually in affection as they who re●ouace that corruption which is in the world through lust vsing it as though they vsed it not 2 Pet. ● 4. 1 Cor. 7. 31. Rhem. vpon 2 Tim. 4. 8. Gal. 3. 1. 5. 4. Papists pretending blasphemously that they fulfill the Law doe disanull the law by their superstitious devices Papa perturbat omnia Poperie out of a transcendent prerogatiue can godly transgresse all bounds of nature religion humanitie and ciuill societie forbidding the performance of promises couenants oaths declaration of truth vpon oath to these who worship the God of their fathers after the manner which they call heresie † Maio●sū c. I sit as a Queen shall see no mourning Rev. 8. 7. * 1 Pet. 4. 11. See Gualter on Mat. 15. 19. Mar. 7. 7. 1 Cor. 9. 16. Math. 5. 19. Math. 26. 15. 1 Cor. 4. 4. Act. 20. 20 24. 2. Tim. 4. 7. 8. Math. 25. 21. Math. 24. 46. 47.

equall recompence to vnequall labours with a due reseruation of that iustice which giues to euery one his owne nay then their eyes had not beene euill and envious as was obiected but Gods distribution in giuing to them their pence too who came in the last houre had beene partiall and vnrighteous 12 Against the truest touch-stone of the trueth of doctrine for if the glorie of God cannot be communicated to any creature without a curse Isa. 45. 8. compared with Ierem 17. 5. then the point wherein they differ from St Paul is a Popish device hewen out of the invention of mans braine since it diuides Gods honour and imparts the incōmunicable glory of the Creator to the creature 13 Against the experience and profession of Patriarkes Prophets Apostles and other the men of God who never stood on like tearmes with their Maker I am not worthie said Iacob of the least of all the mercies c. much lesse did he thinke himselfe worthy fully worthy as the Romish Pharises are opinioned of themselues of euerlasting life Dauid the man after Gods owne heart appeales from the iustice of God to his mercy Enter not c. Iob who had letters of commendation from God himselfe not onely debarrerh himselfe of the plea of innocency before Gods Throne If I iustifie my selfe my owne mouth shall condemne me If I say I am perfect it shall also proue me perverse but debaseth and beateth downe all imagination thereof in others how should man be iust with God if hee will contend with him hee cannot answere him one of a thousand That priviledged Apostle so abundant in labours so much in perils and more then a conquerour in all yet out of himselfe a regenerate person to bee found in Christ renounceth his owne righteousnesse to be invested with the rich mantle of Christs merit 14 Against their owne forces affronting them for suis ipsa Romaviribus ruit the division of languages is the confusiō of Babel Decet parabola gratiam non debitum esse c. the Parable teacheth vs that whatsoeuer God giueth vs it is of grace not of debt saith a deuout Friar Ferus vpon the Parable Math. 20. In his iudgement 1 life eternall is a reward of mercy no recompence of mans merit 2. He drawes the reasons from the imperfection and disproportion of the reward and our workes alleadging for proofe Isa. 64. Rom. 8. 18. 3. Touching the word Merces he giues this caveat Quod si audis mercedem polliceri scias non ob aliud esse debitum quàm ex promissione divina Gratis promisit gratis reddit 4. of merit he ouerthroweth all imagination and disalloweth the very name If therefore thou thinkest to attaine and retaine the fauour of God let no mention of merit walke through thy lips Their Angelicall Aquinas vpon Tit. 3. 5. seconds him thus Ponit rationem salutis excluditur ratio praesumpta includitur v●ra praesumpta quod propter merita nostra simus saluati quam excludit cum dicit non ex operibus c. Rom. 11. 5. Deut. 9. non propter iustitias c. vera ratio ●st sola miserati● dei Iam. 3. 22. Luc. 1. Didacus Stella a starre which sometimes beautified the Romish firmament subscribes to this truth when hee desires not to bee looked on in himselfe without the respect and reflexion of Christs righteousnes Looke not on me but first behold thy onely Sonne If thy eyes looke angerly on our sinnes and behold me at the first fight I shall die I am vndone but if thy eyes behold thy Sonne and through him mee at his backe I shal be safe the beames of thy eyes passing by thy Sonne shal be meekned and made gentle in him and so modified come vnto mee place therefore betweene thee and me him thy Sonne his crosse his blood his passion his merits that so thy iustice passing through his blood and merits when it comes to me it may be gentle and full of mercy Lastly Against Gods open reiection and resolute ●oome passed vpon all such workes as want warrant for their matter out of his word right forme for manner which is faith working by a lowly loue and aime not at Gods glorie the Spheare which giues motion to all godly actions as their principall end Seeing then the Papists exercise themselues chiefly in matters not commanded or if at any time they so doe yet is not done after the minde and prescript of the Commander since the end whereat they aime is a mistaken marke of their owne setting vp to wit desert of Gods favour and their owne iustification seeing all or some or one of these dead flies is alwayes found to corrupt the ointtment of the Popish Apothecaries God will not in mercy crowne much lesse in iustice admit the merit of any such as not onely disrobe him of a part of that glory which is solely and wholly due vnto him and which he will not giue to any other but make him withall a chiefe recepter of their theft and robbery Secondly Saint Paul preached the certaintie of mans saluation making it the end of our free iustification by faith Th●y call this a diuelish faith cloathing them with curses as with a rayment that subscribe vnto it The pulses of Poperie beat so doubtfully about the assurance of God● fauour and particular certaintie of saluation whereof yet St Peter would haue vs to be perswaded and with all diligence to seeke certificate that she descries her selfe to bee not diseased onely but dead dead through distrust and infidelitie The pens and tongues of her champions crosse so palpablely the maine drift and scope of the Scriptures in this head point that they proclaime the things wherein they are exercised to be no ●a●●ers of true godlinesse because men are not built vp the●eby in the knowledge of their owne saluation the confirmation whereof is one subordinate end of weldoing 2 Pet. 1. 10. as Pauls hearers were when he grounded the defence and tryall of his doctrine vpon their experience and proficiency in this very point which if they had not attained so certainely as they could not therein be deceiued then had his preaching done them no good his provocation had beene frivolous and to no purpose examine your selues c. to countervaile or out-countenance this truth of particular assurance they haue excogitated a numberlesse number of toyes and vntruths to turne men out of the way to peace and tranquillitie of minde they haue traced out by paths tending to destruction and discruciation of mens soules and the multiplication of their sorrowes Such are Purgatorie pardons pilgrimages sale of superfluous workes Beades Granes Rosaries Medals with the like hallowed things things of great value and rare vertue in their fancies who sit in Popish darkenesse and the Romane cell of death But why do our adversaries so traduce this doctrine to induce their

doubtfulnesse and distrust The children of this world are wise in their generation amongst whom none haue beene found more wise more worldly then the Romish crew to support and prosper their avaritious and ambitious hopes Demetrius and the siluer-smiths haue gotten their goods by this craft therefore Diana of the Ephesians must bee great If the maide at Philippi be dispossessed of her divining spirit then farewell the hope of her Masters gaines Should not they then couer the light which otherwise would discouer them Is it reason they abiure such charmes as haue beene and still are of power to coniure wauering and vnstable spirits within the bounds of their Churches circle and cause them stoope to the lure of their insatiable lucre Quis nisimentis inops Were they not reasonlesse if they should not I say not onely willingly recept and receiue but as they doe ēxtort and steale such golden oblations Accipe nunc Danaum insidias crimine ab vno Disce ●m●es See heere the deceitfull dealing of these treacherous Graecians and by this one we may discerne the rest St Paul taught godlinesse to be great gaine but the Paules Popes of Rome haue since reversed or at least inverted that sentence by making gaine godlinesse and godlinesse a pretence vnder the covert and colour whereof they might with lesse suspition or if it were possible generall consent and conniuencie aspire to Satans stile that as D●us mundi supreme god of this world they might raigne and rule the same at will Thirdly he by an instance drawne from his owne person proueth mans obedience to labour with defect in this life and his perfection to be imperfect whom yet I suppose to haue beene perfecter then their lord god the Pope is They on the other side doe and ouer-doe they doe all commanded and that perfectly to satisfaction they ouer-doe so farre as to spare superfluities and ouerplus of oyle to supply the wants of such foolish Virgins as will buy at their rate of fiue kindes of righteousnesse that raigne in the world 1. The imaginarie iustice of some conceited ones 2. The ciuill carriage of men morally good 3. The glorious shew of counterfeite Israelites 4. The fained perfection of Popish professours 5. The sincere endeavour of true Nathanaelites the first in opinion is last in Gods acceptation and the last first but who they Avant selfe-soothing iust ones the wings of your hopes are clipt which letts you to soare you are not they Repent ciuill worldlings they were as honest as so who were but corrupt branches before they beleeued Howle yee hypocrites though you shine like glowormes yet haue you not that holinesse without which no man can see the Lord. Purge you purge you Romane Catharists the sounder and purer you seeme opinatiuely and in your owne conceit the more impure and dangerously sicke you are He was purer and perfecter then so who was pained and complained Miser homo O wretched man c. His wayes were likewise directer then yours yet not so direct as was deseruedly wished that he could fully and perfectly keepe whereof you notwithstanding falsely boast Gods righteous iudgments God alone is that light which admits no mixture of darkenesse but if any man say that he hath no sinne hee sinnes so saying deceiues himselfe depriues his soule of pardon his conscience of true peace and turnes the truth of God into a lie which saith that in many things wee offend all the most renewed in many the vnregenerate in all For your ouer-deeds they exile you by an Ostracisme from the common-weale wel-fare of Gods Israel They are therefore but fig-leaues wherewith you labour to couer your owne and others nakednesse and the more you couer the more you discouer the guides which haue misled you namely nature and tradition It is a carnall conceit bred and brought vp in the wombe of our corruption I haue observed all these things from my youth And where humane edicts stand for diuine statutes men may easily ouer-weene The gate is straite that leades to life whereat tradition can not enter it is so fraught with that which God requires not the way likewise thereto is narrow which nature through blindnes cannot finde for except a man be borne againe c. Reioyce true Christians though you cannot doe through frailtie that good which ye would through Gods grace your defects are couered your desires shal be accepted the good ye would doe shal be imputed the euill you ha●e and through strength of corruption or violence of temptation are haled to shal be discharged seeing there is no condemnation to them though the reliques of sinne remaine in them that are in Christ. St Paul commanded euery soule to be subiect vnto the higher powers the reason because there is no power but of God They arme subiects against their lawfull Soueraignes They commaunde the slaughter of Christian Kings as an act meritorious and Canonize the agents for Saints such seede they cast into the Lords field such tares are sowne by the man of sinne and his Emissaries Such is the salt wherewith the falsely surmised Peter of Rome or rather the salt-Peter wherewith wrought to the temper of their sierie passions they haue attempted to blow vp States How is the faithfull Citie become an harlot it was full of iudgement and iustice lodged therein but now they are murtherers Her faith is turned into infidelitie her piety into aspiring policy her profession into faction her godlines into ga●ne so that where the seed was vncorrupt the soile once good Infaelix lolium steriles dominātur avenae By reason hereof that they consent not to the wholesome words of the Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according vnto godlines What for want of good seed the word partly taught what for excesse of darnell their owne additions so many monstrous births are brought forth by the whoore of Babylon the purple harlot which opens her quiuer to euery arrow Add to her wresting and misconstruction of Scriptures this further that she doth Noua pascua quaerere amnes Gadd after and guide her louers to other pastures and streames then that greene pasture wherein Dauid fed those still waters which refreshed him chusing rather to bathe in the puddle of her owne inventions then to wash in Bethesda Gods poole delighting more to defile her selfe with the one then with the Syrian Leper to be clensed by the other Whose impudencie is such that out of Luciferian pride of spirit incident to none but the Antichrist she challengeth to be heard before the Scriptures whose impiety is so great that she dare speake where they command silence and that vpon paine of the greatest paine that God can impose Why did St Paul send this Epistle to Timothie left at Ephesus about the Lords businesse since it containes