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A73751	The rocke of religion. Christ, not Peter As it was deliuered in certaine sermons vpon Math. 16. ver. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20. Summarily contracted out of that which was more largely handled in the parish of S. Anthonline by George Close the younger, one of the readers there.	Close, George.	1624 (1624)	STC 5433.5; ESTC S124804	70,602	246

the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ u 1 Cor. 3. 12. in whom only consisteth the whole strength of the building though weake wood and timber be built thereupon so as looking into our selues and the examples of Gods best beloued Children yea Peter himselfe after this promise how foulely they haue falne we may euer finde cause of feare and distrust but lifting vp our eyes vnto God the stablenesse of his counsels and certaintie of his promises we may rest safely in confidence of his word which hath said w Ios 1. 5. I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee x Iohn 5. 24. hee that beleeueth in him shall not perish for euer He it is that doth nourish the holy fire in vs and keepes vs vnto the end y Iohn 13. 1. for whom hee loueth he loueth euerlastingly z 1 Ioh. 3. 9. and the seede of God abideth in the elect that being borne of God they sinne not vnto condemnation a Rom. 8. 1. for there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus which walke not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Christ prayed for b Luke 22 31. Peter and he prayed also for vs c Ioh 17. 2. 12. 20 24. and for all that should beleeue in his name that none of his might be lost neither is any able to take them out of his Fathers hand which is stronger and greater then all and loueth vs in Christ as hee loued him before the foundations of the world were laid against these the gates of Hell cannot preuaile for they haue the Lords priuie Seale not seene nor knowne to men but d 2. Tim. 2. 19 the Lord knoweth his Vse 2 Secondly this Doctrine iustly impugneth that error of the Romanists holding opinion that the visible Church and the pretended successors of Peter cannot erre whereas the contrary is apparantly verified in the Scriptures that Peter himselfe did erre and therefore though it bee true that the inuisible Church that is the elect of GOD cannot erre finally yet the visible Church consisting both of good and bad may erre as appeareth through the whole History of the Bible and in the primatiue times particular Churches haue erred witnesse Corinth Galatia Philadelphia Pergamus c yea the Church of Rome it selfe whether wee regard the Head or the Body hath grieuously erred First as touching the Head Romish Bishops haue erred and diuers of them became Heretickes Scismaticks Antipopes Negromancers Sodomites and what not Marcellinus sacrificed to the Idols of the Gentiles Leberius was an Arrian Nicholas changed the decrees of Iohn the two and twentieth Gregory of Pelagius Innocentius of Gregory yea in those things which belong to faith Cardinall Ragusanus proueth that the Pope may erre and did in the great Schisme at Rome Cardinall Cusanus affirmeth the Pope may fall from the faith the Councell of Basill auoucheth that the priuiledge of not erring belongeth not to the Popes more then other Bishops Secondly and as for generall Councels which haue a more liuely representation of the whole Church and where the Bishops of Rome haue been present may yea they haue erred one repealed the Actes and Decrees of another and there can bee no correction without errour the Councell of Nice defended Images that of Constantinople was against them the third Councel of Carthage saith that he is Antichrist that calleth himselfe an vniuersall Bishop the Councell of Rome and Trent say and maintaine the contrary therefore except there be more Truths then one Councels may erre and the Pope may erre and consequently the whole visible Church may erre and the truth is e Isa 9 17. many hypocrites making a great shew of godlinesse haue fallen away from grace and the truth of the Gospell become Apostatates in faith and Satanists in conuersation and yet the Church standeth For f Rom 3. 4. Psal 116. 1● Titus 1. 2. Hebr 6. 18. let God be true and all men lyers in his truth it standeth and Satan a lyer from the beginning cannot ouerthrow it g 2 Thess 2. 9. Antichrists deceiueable delusions and lying wonders cannot preuaile against it Verse 19. And I wil giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind vpon earth shall be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heauen Vpon such a sure and grounded confession of Peter proceedeth a twofold promise of Christ 1. as is formerly laid down that hereupon he will lay an vnmoueable foundation of his Church that the gates of h●ll should not bee able to preuaile against it 2. that he would for the gouernment thereof commit to his Apostles and Ministers the Spirituall keyes of the kingdome of heauen with a power to bind and loose in such manner as he would ratifie in heauen their proceedings in earth according to the tenure of his Commission wherby hee had so authorized them to execute his power in his Church In these wordes obserue two things First Datum The donation wherein consider 1. who is the giuer 2. to whom 3. what was giuen Secondly Applicaum The Application in these wordes whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth c. Doct. Concerning the first in as much as hee saith I will giue it teacheth vs That Christ is the giuer of the keyes who onely had this power from heauen as the heire of God the Messiah and Mediatour betwixt man and God who h Heb. 2. 3. Psal 8 6. 1 Cor. 15. 27. Iohn 17. 2. Phil. 2. 9 10. put all thinges in subiection vnder him in heauen and earth and so the Apostle affirmeth that Christ first receiued this power from God his Father to bee made the head of his Church and onely had right to giue and communicate such power vnto his Church thus Christ expresseth it in the Gospel i Math. 11. 27. 28. 18 19. All power saith he is giuen me in heauen and in earth and thereupon he groundeth his commission to send his Apostles into all the world this point is not onely verified by apparant and plentifull texts of holy Scriptures but euen our aduersaries in words not greatly contradict it howsoeuer in their practice and in effect they haue paralelled sundry of the Saints with him as the Turkes and Infidels haue wholly dethroned him and placed their false prophet and abominable idole Mahomet before him and aboue him but because they deny the principles of faith and religion wee will not contend nor spend much time in disputing with them but willingly acknowledge and subscribe to the Soueraignty and absolute power of Christ as disposer of all things in heauen and earth Vse And let the true Church and Spouse of Christ heare and obey his voyce and deriue her subordinate power from him alone which hee then promised and afterward gaue vnto her to execute for him for wee must note that he then instantly gaue not Note 1 but speaking in the future

vnto Ieremie k I●re 11. 21. 18. 1● 44. 16 17. The word which thou hast spoken to vs in the name of the Lord we will not heare it of thee but wee will doe whatsoeuer thing goeth out of our owne mouth as to burne Incense to the Queene of heauen c. And yet these desperate Rebells against God in maintaining their Idolatries were neuer so impudent as the Papists to blot out the second Commaundement of the morall Law of God for that it left them without all excuse and could not be auoided by any glossographical Interpretations Rome had some soundnesse of Religion in the dayes of the Christian Emperours till the Imperiall Popes confounded all things Constantine the Great caused the Bible to be written out and sent it to all Kingdomes Prouinces and Cities within his Dominions as the great Apostata Iulian from whom the Papistes haue drawen this ther paradox obiected it as a great fault that their women were so expert in holy Scriptures Vse 3 Euery man or woman that hath a Legacy bequeathed vnto them in Gods Will and Testament will and ought to be carefull to reade in that Booke and to inquire out what portion it is that the Lord hath bequeathed vnto them and it is our chiefe happinesse that wee haue a written Will of God and that therefore wee goe not about to suppresse it and introduce a nuncupatiue will of vnwritten Traditions as the false Catholickes endeuour to doe who by their owne Traditions striue to make the Commaundement of God of none effect It was a great blessing which the Lord promised by the Prophet l Isai 55. 1 2. 3. That they should drinke of these pure waters freely and plentifully as also it was the threatening of a grieuous curse m Amos 8. 11 12. That hee would send a famine not of bread but of his Word and how heauie hath the wrath of God appeared in powring these forewarned Iudgments vpon the famous Churches of Asia and Greece n Apoc. 2. 5. in remoouing the Candlesticke of his Word and suffering a barbarous Mahometan Tyrant to trample them vnder his filthy feet and so the Church of o Ierem. 7. 4. Rom. 11. 21. the Iewes as well as of the Gentiles hath lost her light p 1 Cor. 10. 12. And let vs that thinke wee stand take heed lest we fall There are two remarkeable sinnes mentioned in sacred Writ which are noted to bee euer the forerunners of the forementioned iudgement namely First the barrennesse and emptinesse of good workes Secondly contempt of Gods Word and Ministers Concerning the first it is notably expressed of old as well in the parable of Isaiah as of Christ himselfe q Isai 5. 2 to 6. serem 2. 21. Mark 12. 2. to 10. Math. 21 33. to 42. Luke 20 9. to 17. of the Vineyard let out to Husbandmen which not rendring the due rent and fruits to the Lord and Owner were threatned as in short time after it came to passe both in the old Church and Temple in Jerusalem destroyed by the Assyrians and Chaldeans as lastly by the Romanes for the Lord of the vineyard the God of Israel had planted fenced and dressed it with all diligence and sent Messengers to require the fruites but it brought foorth either no fruite or naughtie fruite no wine but wilde grapes and therefore was worthily r Math. 21. 19 20. cursed for both barrennesse and badnesse Secondly the wickednesse of the Iewes was yet worse and more resembled our Romish Vineyard in killing Gods Messengers which were sent vnto them and will not haue Christ but Antichrist to raigne ouer them And this we may obserue by the way that as Christ would honour the Ministery of the Apostles by committing these Keyes of knowledge and authoritie vnto them so the Antichristian rabble contrarily cast all contempt as well on the Gospel it selfe debarring Gods people of that Key of knowledge as also persecuting the Preachers of the Gospell with all contempt And this is the occasion that Almighty God often taketh away the other Key vse of the Word for the contempt thereof and as ſ 1 Sam. 3. 1. Visions and diuine Reuelations were rare and the Word of God precious because it was rare in the dayes of Eli so t Numb 11. 6 men loathed Manna when it was plentifull as wee doe the Gospell complaining that wee haue too much of our Fathers blessing as if the honour of the Ministery consisted in putting downe the exercise of it for which cause the Lord threatned by the Prophet Amos u Amos 8. 11 to send a famine of his Word and this is to vs a good and necessary caueat now in the time of our plentifull haruest when the Lord hath sent such store of Labourers into his Vineyard that we bee not like the Papists who keepe no mediocritie in the due estimation of their Ministers as the Apostle w 1 Cor. 4. 1 2 requireth but either they aduaunce them too high and make them Lords ouer their faith or else cast all contempt vpon them if they preuaricate neuer so little their Traditions x Math. 15. 6. which they extoll and preferre before the precepts of the Gospell and Commaundements of God And so much may suffice to bee declared concerning the Donation of the Keyes the Application of them followeth in the last part of the verse And whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth shall bee bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose in earth shall be loosed in heauen Doct. Obserue the admirable Sympathy and the Cooperation of God with the Ministers Office man preacheth and God blesseth and establisheth his Doctrine whether hee preach Iudgement or Mercie Now for the more euident demonstration of this truth wee affirme y Ezek. 33. 7 8 9 c. that if the Minister of God see and perceiue a peruerse and obstinate sinner to walke and goe on in his wicked waies and thereupon denounceth against him Gods iust Iudgements out of his holy Word if hee yet persist impenitent the Minister may lawfully pronounce condemnation against him and he thereby so bindeth him that God in heauen ratifieth the curse which is contained and pronounced out of his Word but if such a sinner shal● feare and tremble and hearken vnto the Word of God and repenting himselfe confesse his sinnes to God and make it also so appeare vnto Gods Minister he may then from God pronounce vnto him remission and absolution of his sinnes which are most surely forgiuen of God in heauen and the Minister is said z Iam. 5. 19 20 to haue saued his soule which went astray though his saluation be of God alone Thus the Prophet a 2 Sam. 12. 5 11. Nathan brought Dauid to confesse himselfe the childe of death hauing continued aboue two yeares in his sinne vnrepented of but as soone as hee had drawne him to the knowledge and acknowledgement of his offence

and sawe the true and vnfallible signes of his vnfayned repentance hee doubted not to declare from God his pardon and absolution b Verse 13. and that his sinne was taken away This is the binding and loosing which the Prophet Ezekiel speaketh of in his third Chapter from the seauenteenth Verse to the two and twentyeth as also in the three and thirtieth Chapter from the first Verse vnto the tenth and and though this power of binding and loosing was apparantly heere giuen to the Ministers of the New Testament yet the effect thereof was the same in the olde Couenant in Christ and to the beleeuers in him for c Hebr. 13. 8. Hee was yesterday and to day and the same for euer d 2 Cor. 1. 20. In whom all the promises of God are Yea and Amen certaine constant vniforme and for all times and ages alwayes reseruing this power to the Ministers of his Word who are likewise restrayned of all power which is not by the Word for as the Prophet Isaiah speaketh e Isai 44. 26. Hee confirmeth the wordes of his Seruants and performeth the Counsells of his Messengers wherevnto accordeth the saying of the Iust man Iob f Iob 33. 23. If there bee a Messenger to declare vnto man his righteousnesse then will the Lord haue mercie vpon him Thus God bindes all m●n to himselfe and men vnto men also for men cannot saue men without God and God will not ordinarily saue men without men If hee will saue Cornelius g Act. 10. 5 22 hee must send for Peter and heare of him words whereby he may bee saued Vse 1 First this serueth to induce vs that as wee honour God so wee should reuerence his Ministers h 2 Cor. 5. 18 19 20. to whom hee hath committed the Worde of Reconciliation Vse 2 Secondly let vs here marke what a reuerend respect both Ministers and people ought to giue to the Ordinances of God exercised in his Church for if they preach Christ as they are commaunded it is not they that speake i Marke 13. 11 Math. 10. 20. But the Spirit of my Father sayeth Christ that speaketh in them And so the people ought to receiue it not as the word of man but of the euerliuing God and so for the Sacraments likewise that wee looke not so much on the outward Elements of Bread Wine and Water which otherwise are things of common vse in themselues but respect chiefly the Institution of God which maketh them holy and consecrated Mysteries by his Word to bee effectuall food vnto our Soules and meanes of Saluation howsoeuer in the things themselues and manner of administring them there seeme great simplicitie which might make them contemptible to carnall men k 2 Kings 5. 12 13 14. as Naaman esteemed nothing of the waters of Iordan to haue any more power then Abana and Pharphar Riuers of his owne Countrey Damascus but when hee did it in the Word of the Lord and by the Ministery of Gods Prophet Elisha then that word ioyned with the Element made it vnto him an holy and effectuall Sacrament and so not euery Lambes blood l Exod. 12. ● 11 13 23 27. but that of the Paschall Lambe which was ordayned by God was a true representation of Christ and a Seale vnto the Church that the Destroyer passeth ouer Gods people which passeth heauy vengeance and destruction vpon the vnbeeleeuing Egyptians and so likewise the promise is not made to euery man that God will ratifie in heauen whatsoeuer hee shall pronounce on earth but this power hee appropriateth to his Ministers which haue a lawfull Calling and Authoritie to preach his Word wherein the effect lyeth and not in the persons of the Ministers or people without the approbation of Christ to whose ordinance the whole honour and efficacie is to bee ascribed Vse 3 Thirdly let vs all heerein learne to iudge wisely betweene the Minister of the Word and the Word of God it selfe from whence the Ministers power is deriued The Ministers are men like vnto our selues sinners weake mortall and must dye but the Word of God is pure strong an immortall seed and endureth for euer It seemeth the people in the Prophet Zacharies time made such obiections against their Prophets to excuse themselues in not obeying them m Zach. 1. 5 6. The Prophets say they are dead as well as our Fathers for all were sinners to whome God answereth by the Prophet and by way of concession graunteth it to be true That their Fathers were dead and the Prophets were dead but yet his word spoken vnto them by the Prophets tooke hold of them and that was not dead but doeth abide for euer and the after Generations sawe the accomplishment thereof in the appoynted time Ieremiah was dead in the time of the Captiuitie but his Prophesie remained and at the end of seuentie yeares they found the due accomplishment thereof Let the Ministers bee weake men mortall and corruptible yet Gods Word still abideth immortall and incorruptible n 2. Tim. 2. 9. The Minister may be restrained bound and in prison but the Gospell is not bound that winde is not restrayned nor in prison o Hebr. 4. 12 but it is still mightie in operation p Apoc. 7. 1. who can stay the raine that it should not fall to moysten the earth Neither can the Word of God more than the Dewe of Heauen bee restrayned but it shall bee dispersed q Isa 55. 10 11 to accomplish his will that sendeth it or as an Arrow which a man shooteth though hee that shot it stand still or dye in the act yet the Arrow flyeth vnto the marke at which it was aymed And it is true that power is giuen vnto them Ministerially to shut Heauen r Apoc. 11. 4 5. 2 King 1. 10. and fire proceedeth out of their mouthes which destroyeth the enemies of Gods Trueth and Grace Note Yet it must alwayes bee vnderstood that this binding and retaining sinnes is onely of impenitent Transgressors of Gods Lawe ſ Prou 26. 2. else the Curse that is causelesse shall not come but God may and will blesse t Num. 22. 12 18. 23. 8 20. where Balaam and the false Prophets would curse God promised to Abraham to u Gene. 12. 3. curse those that cursed him whome God had blessed w Gene. 27. 29. and that hee would curse them that cursed Iaakob It shall fare with them as it did with Goliah x 1 Sam. 17. 43. which cursed Dauid in the name of his Gods but Dauids God blessed him and brought the curse vpon Goliah himselfe and all his Gods could not saue him So likewise the Apostle interpreteh his owne meaning and sheweth how Ministers absolue sinners where it is said y Actes 5. 31. That Repentance and remission of sinnes should bee preached in his Name for without repentance in the beleeuer there is no absolution to bee pronounced by the