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A68146	A theologicall discourse of the Lamb of God and his enemies contayning a briefe commentarie of Christian faith and felicitie, together with a detection of old and new barbarisme, now commonly called Martinisme. Newly published, both to declare the vnfayned resolution of the wryter in these present controuersies, and to exercise the faithfull subiect in godly reuerence and duetiful obedience.	Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?	1590 (1590)	STC 12915; ESTC S117347	120,782	204

of God for greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world they are of the world and therefore speake they of the world and the world heareth them we are of God hee that knoweth God heareth vs he that is not of God heareth vs not hereby know we the spirit of veritie the spirit of errour thus much S. Iohn in that place O let vs still and still more and more eschue abandon this spirit of error this spirit of the world this spirit of Antichrist and euer imbrace and acknowledge the spirit of truth the spirit of God the spirit of Christ O let vs for the loue of God for the loue of Christ for the loue of our owne soules euermore seeke the lambe of God follow the lambe of God behold and imbrace the lambe of God looke for the health of our bodies the saluation of our soules the safegard of both not in or from or by any other but only in and from and by the only lambe of God repose our whole beliefe trust and felicity in the lambe of God that taketh away the sin of the world that redeemeth saueth vs wretched and wicked sinners of the world that with his owne precious bloud hath paid the great ransome for the release of our miserable bondage and captiuity vnder the yoke of sinne and hath suffered that great insufferable passion due to vs sinners to bring vs vnto heauen vnto God vnto himselfe sitting on the right hand of the father in all maiestie power and glorie for euer and euer Thus you haue a short confutation of those vngratious worldlings that either with wilfull or no better then beastly violence or with witlesse desperate blasphemy or with fond and obstinate self-loue haue proued themselues the most indiscreet rulers the most vnskilfull writers the most vile and vngodly sinfull men that euer were called men or euer liued in the world I meane first those vngodly antichristian hellish Aristotelists Auerroists Plinians call them in word as they were in deed men of more subtilty then surety which denying the immortalitie of the soule accounting it no better then heat and breath mouing and remouing the body only haue ignorantly and preiudicially denied the finall cause of Christs sorrowfull humiliation and glorious resurrection which saued our soules from damnatiō and death in the nethermost noisome deadly pit the lake of torment the prison of misery and all thraldome world without end and defending the eternity of the world iudging it without beginning and without ending which vndoubtedly was fashioned finished in six daies as we surely proue by the Genesis of Moses the wonderfull prophet of God the wisest lawmaker in Israël the mightiest captaine of armes by the Hexaëmerons of diuers both Greeke and Latin doctors and fathers by our Apostolicke beleefe most stedfastly builded on God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth the sea and all that is in them at whose last comming the earth shall melt away like wax and the heauens shal be folded vp like a garment haue defaced with all their might the maiestie of Christs ascension and denied the eternitie of his last dreadfull iudgement both which wee reuerence and magnifie with all godly loue and Christian zeale hauing visiblie and faithfully seen the one with the Apostles eyes and vnfaynedly looking for the other with liuely heartes with spirituall hunger and thirst with desire to leaue this mad and drunken world to liue infinitely raigne with him in euerlasting life Then I meane those hypocriticall Pharisies those impious Iewes and Iewish confederats succeeding the heathenish infidels and pagans in course and time of yeares but farre before them in all wickednes sinne in euery notorious iniquitie and enormitie that did treacherously and sophistically seeke to vndermine Christ and to take him in his words that in the gall of bitternes and bond of impietie mocked and spitte at him and most grieuously and vniustly disgraced him in spite of heauen and earth of angels and men euen as God had appointed in his secrete ordinance and wonderfull prouidence before the foundation of the world was layd that in the pride and rage of Iudaisme in the height of anger and depth of malice whipped him like an outcast the sonne of God crowned him with thorns like a mad bedlem the innocent lambe of God nay led and perced and wounded him to death like a hurtfull beast the triumphant king of angels and men mightie Sauiour of the world But they soone felt the heauy intollerable hande of God for these so Iewish and diuelish abhominations and when their brasen faces would not blush nor their iron heartes relent the very stones of the temple were riuen asunder the faire vaile was rent in twaine frō the top to the bottom those sensles stones were more soft and pensiue then the Iewes the dead carcases were more tenderly and mercifully affected toward Christ crucified at his one and last exclamation in one hower then the elders of Iury were in all their life time which heard many heauenly admonitions diuers happy promisses sundry blessings and cursings yet liued and died in their gainesayings being at last themselues as stones and carcasses reiected throwne out and troden vpon hauing their children and cities vtterly destroyed and their land layd wast and those mockings and spittings that thorny crowne and vineger and gall those nayles and that speare and that crosse and all the rods and crosses that were laid vpon Christ haue euer since bene laide vpon them being esteemed the most odious abiects of all men the very roges and runnegates of the earth against whom all men haue set themselues euen as they oppose and set themselues against all men like Ismaëites and Edomites more vile in Gods eyes then dunge and clay on the ground and all good and godly Christians are inuincibly confirmed in Christian faith by the shamefull ouerthrow of those Iewish and christians which is come to passe according to the gospell of Iesus Christ for his kingdomes sake and our endlesse comfort and instruction to him therefore be prayse for euer Then I meane the Turkes and turkish religion or rather hereticall superstition that in steed of noble prophets on our side hath but one fugitiue monke but the same one false monke on their part to defend it against our so many learned and constant professours that hath no history for his defence and in that respect condemneth historians that could neuer get any sober and learned orator to maintaine his cause and therfore disaloweth the graces and power of rhetorick that cannot be defended by disputation and therefore forbiddeth all disputations that is forced against his owne will law to prefer Christ before Mahomet our mercifull king before his bloudie captaine for honest and honorable birth for vertuous and wonderfull acts for blessed and heauenly translation himselfe being borne basely and liuing vitiously and dying of lewd causes more like a ruffian

hundred foure score and fiue thousand Assyrians yea and the life of Sennacherib himselfe in the temple of Nisroch by the word of Esay but the sword of Gods angel and his owne sonnes by the praier of that good king Ezechias 4. Kings c. 19. Woe vnto that breach and derision of Gods Sabaoth that caused Gorgias to flie Lysias to be driuen out of Iudea the vanquishing of Ephron the astonishment and sorowfull sicknesse and suddaine death of Antiochus himselfe besides the deaths and deadly woundes of their captaines and souldiers by the arme of the honorable Machabees reuengers of Gods Sabaoth 1. Macha c. 4 5 6. and what surer plague hath Anger then hirselfe which killeth hir selfe with hir owne weapons And woe is likewise to this counterfait reformer that opposeth his Scriptum est against the clergy as the tempter his patterne opposed his Scriptum est against Christ for how can he escape the vengeance of God that maketh a iest of descant vpō our Messias the mighty lion of the tribe of Iuda because he is otherwile analogically called the meeke and louing lambe of God let him be sure he shall neuer flie from the presence of this lambe neither shall he euer hide his head safely from him whom he thus lambacketh and abuseth in his paltry reformatiue and ironicall discipline no more then Martin de Pester did in Gaunt that suddainly died in the heate of his secretariship going about to sweare men against the gospel or then Martin Sward did in England who died like a theefe among traitors when he would haue deposed king Henrie the seuenth by a set battel to install a counterfet in his place But in heauen all honour is giuen to this lambe of God that sitteth on the throne saith S. Iohn in his Reuelation and if the heauens obey him the earth cannot withstand him but all his tempting despising and ironising reformers shall laugh and perish be laughed at and such as know not or feare not the lambe of God shal be put to confusion for wishing him euil Neuertheles this glozing theologer and priuy vnderminer that would in these daies with his creatures dig vp our Church as moules and frogs haue in old time vndermined faire and strong townes according to some old and credible historians is in his earthly labours fennish coaxations persuaded for want of meekenesse and charitable insight that he doth God great seruice and honour to open his wide throate ô an Aristophanes might best handle him in his kinde to set vp a newe house in the old roome to take downe build vp that is well builded already as truly appertaining to him and his presumptuous scismaticks as the reforming of the temple of Ierusalem pertained vnto Herode or the burning of incense belonged to Vzziah who were both too bold lofty in heart and so perished in their confidence and vsurpatiō 2. Chron. c. 26. He might haue learned euen of Numa an heathen prince lege 23. That religion publicke is not subiect to any one or of king Martius lege 1. That religion is no priuate inuention and not exceed them in blind ignorance who thought in naturall reason that none is aboue God or mens soules to make them what he alone listeth as Plato by the same light of nature sawe that self-will in religion which he termeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the roote and originall of all mischiefs and inconueniences l. 10. de legibus a booke made purposely in honour of diuine matters according to the naturall light of so learned a philosopher He thinketh himselfe the preacher of humilitie and christian libertie as one Wall thought himselfe too in the daies of king Richard the second when as in plaine euident proofe he hindereth one special cause thereof I meane the authoritie and reuerence of Gods diuine lawiers and gospellers as he that readeth the third epistle of S. Cyprian will certainely iudge and would make them of true shepeheards very mercenaries of right patrons right beggers of mē in greatest account by law of nature by law of grace by all true law of reason consciēce men of small reputatiō triobolares mē of smal power of smaller abilitie of least soueraignty in vertuous exercises of christian magistracy of ecclesiasticall hospitalitie of godly correction So Iulian their Emperour tooke away the reuenues of the church that it might be the lighter and nimbler to flie into heauen as he said blessed are the poore for theirs is the kingdome of heauen whereas Christs pouertie is an example of humilitie as well for temporall christians as for spirituall vnles the laity will loose the name nature of christians and bequeath it onely to the clergy which is in the higher sort very poore needy in respect of those domesticall and politicall acts which are regularly belonging to them and in the lower sort with reuerence be it spoken of so good a company as that is or may be when God shall in mercy amend patrons most wofull and miserable in respect of that prouision which is necessary for him that would not be defectiue in his own profession If either be insufficient for life or learning altogither vnworthy of their liuing there are a great number sufficient enough that in peaceable and militar gouerment could supply their wants O sweet country and countrimen let the inheritance and succession remaine in the linage of teachers vnlesse you will haue learning leaue the earth and returne to heauen where aboue all principalities it is adored and is named no lesse thing then God then the word then maker and ruler ouer all For this reformer which is no better then a blinded and hardharted guide may say he loueth Christ the word but you and I and all good christians may hardly beleeue him because we must iudge of a tree by the fruite and neuer call it an apple tree that bringeth forth crabs wee must neuer imagine he can loue and allow Gods lawes which hateth and disaloweth the true preachers thereof and because I am assured that he cannot shew you or me or any Christian another rule and example of better credit then the law of the Lord and the gospell of his lambe both which are euer in building not in spoyling the church in helping euer not in beggering the brethren in dooing good to all companies and honest societies not in vndoing any in giuing to Caesar giuing to God not giuing that distinct part to Caesar that is due to God seing all that Caesar himselfe hath is due to God If this truth be vntruth if this light be darknesse yet all scismaticall Tees and such Cees and such Ems in the world can neuer disproue it shall we once thinke that this or that one man who is in some mens and womens supposes of a most od dispositiō and rare iudgement hath more knowledge in gouernment then Moses had the lawgiuer of Gods owne elect people so peculiarly and wonderfully called and chosen

of the deuill then a prophet of God as themselues confesse vnawares in their vaine Alcoran and doltish bible His more then triple Dodecamechany to the finall ruine of that tyrannicall kingdome and satanicall iurisdiction in Turky and to the building vp of Gods house in new Sion to the benefit of his housholders his children and seruaunts if they could once be so christianly wise to forgiue their owne quarrels and forget that is past and euer hereafter serue God please him by fighting his battels with a perfit loue and vnanimity among themselues with a perpetuall hatred and magnanimity against such enemies the souldiers of the flesh the sonnes of transgression now more then halfe wearied with their religion and euer remayning in suspition and ielousie one of another Now God for his owne sake make them euer like Oreb and Zeb and like to the princes of Zeba and Salmana the God of our fathers confound their huge armies and militar powers that they may fall vpon their owne swordes that their armes of flesh may be broken that all their beastly cruelties practised against good christians from Mahound to this present day may returne vpon themselues that they goe hence and be no more seene that their name may perish from among the children of men that we and all our posteritie may sing with the seuenth Angel mentioned in the Reuelation and with those great voices in heauen the kingdomes of this world are our Lords and his Christes and he shal reigne for euermore c. 11. v. 15. but the Saracens shall not ouerrule him the Paganisme of Sergius shal not deuour the Christianisme of the Apostles seeing the gospell is dispensed in all parts of the earth as much more then the Alcoran howsoeuer Luter in a furious imitation of Micheas hath rapt out the contrarie as if hee desired rather the name of a Prophet among the infidels then of a frend to Christians Then I meane the blasphemous high-minded swelling Greekes both Iulianists and Lucianists both Emperors and Schollers both mighty and learned men whose naughty ende hath prooued their beginning naught whos 's owne words of euident treason against God haue iudged and condemned them who are in account among godly wise men as the poysonous flyes or as dead dogs who haue vanished like a vapor and beene consumed like a smoke to nothing euen as it pleased the Lord so are these thinges infallibly come to passe by whom is reserued for their last sentence for their vngracious schollers for their frendes and fauourites a lake of brimstone a gnawing worme a consuming fire mingled with percing cold for euermore for thus were the Iewes cursed for their malicious blasphemie against Christ in the time of his earthly and corporall humiliation neither can these and other like them be in better estate which crie out and rayle against him in these dayes of his eternall heauenly exaltation as S. Augustine reasoneth truely vpon a text of S. Matthew And what is become of those wicked Romans which I thē named but shame and discredit reproach and confusion among all vertuous well disposed christians they might for their stile and phrase haue purchased our lyking for their graue and politike gnomes haue beene in good account among good men whereas now their malcontentship against Christianitie and their hauty and scornfull attemptes against Gods annoynted together with their disdainfull termes against our Christian profession and professors haue cast their works into great contempt that might els haue been in greatest price because no honest man will in confcience approue false famous libels or any graue man can scarcely euen in reason beleeue a lyer when he speaketh trueth much lesse when he telles his owne tales or any man shall not measure but like for like and vpon compulsion compare themselues with their enemies these sodaine slidinges with the others wilfull fallinges these suborned reproches with the others iudiciall penalties true conuictions vnchangeable executions If they had beene of so vpright a nature or of so ciuill nurture to report all well of them which did nothing ill or hurtfull to any but were innocent lambs of God they might haue otherwise then now they are beene reckened with the best sort of best writers and gotten our subscriptions as well as their owne friends commendations but seeing their venim was so great and aboundant to thrust out their stinges and spyt out their ranknes at godly and heauenly minded Christians they bewray the stocke and broode they came frō euen the spawne of that old serpent and seede of Satan and make vs al in good consciences freely to denounce and proclayme them enuyers deceyuers falsifiers to brand them with the marke of strong theeues for robbing Gods church to set them in the blacke booke of damned soules for defying and diffaming Gods owne militant teachers and messengers which preach the trueth which spend their liues in defence of the word which offer themselues a dayly sacrifice vnto him that gaue himselfe once a pure and perfect oblation for thē and all which honour both spirituall and temporall fathers without any grudging because of Gods ordinance and for conscience sake which studie and pray continually for the perpetuall glory honour of Gods Church Gods house Gods visible throne which perswade some and exhort all men to vertue to deuotion to loue of God and loue of man which drie vp their harts and braines day and night euen to the decay of their owne health and strength to heale the wounded and afflicted conscience to confirme and stablishe the faith of their countrey to abandon vncharitable disobedient opinions to bid men take heede of furious tedious self-will to remember they are as Gods small sheepefold in the midst of a Wolues forrest to bee as doues among themselues without harme and subtile serpents when the aduersarie commeth to magnifie God for his manifold benefites and to holde out the hand when he geueth his blessings and euer to behold and worship the blessed lamb of God that washeth away the sinnes of the earth But alas there are many strange errors abroad in the earth and there are too many headstrong mainteyners of old paradoxes and newfangled nouelties which either renew those antiquated trifles or giue them a colour a deuise and glosse of the makers which are their craftes maisters and bondslaues such men are girded and wrapped in with splene and brought vp cheefly in the chapters De contradicentibus and so wedded and giuen to alter all statutes and turkisse all states that they are become plaine turkish and rebellious vnnaturall countrimen and vnkind neighbours they doe not behold and follow the harmeles lambe of God that euer most gratiously helpeth offenders and bringeth them from deadly traines I haue hitherto tolde of open knowne and professed enemies I haue already confuted those notorious and famous antichristians such as with a wild and wide throate or infamous tongue and pen haue without al manner of colourable or