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A18920	Errour on the right hand, through a preposterous zeale Acted by way of dialogue. Betweene 1 Mal-content and Flyer. 2 Flyer and Anabaptist. 3 Anabaptist, & Legatine-arrian. 4 Flyer and Legatine-arrian. 5 Flier, Legaine-arria[n] & Familist. 6 Flyer and Familist. 7 Flyer and Mediocritie. Whereto is also added, certaine positions touching Church and Antichrist: as without the true holding thereof, it is impossible for a zelous soule, to auoyde either schisme or faction. By Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1608 (1608)	STC 5341; ESTC S118639	27,520	96

It shall be but as some of you haue done before vs. Let the Recordes be searched Secondly when the particulars shal be by you or any your side produced we shall giue in a reasonable answere Mal-con Nay sir which is more M. Henrie Barrow drawing a Description of the true Church when he comes to deliuer the Canons of discipline he in that sheete of Paper doth after the Excommunication place that Canon of the Apostle in 2. Thess. 3.15 Yet count him not as an enimie but admonish him as a brother because he beleeued that excommunication was a power to edification not to destruction Your Congregation then some yeares after his death do reprint it putting to it the olde date corrupting his method falsifying his Will by placing the sayd Canon before Excommunication because after the casting out you would rid your handes of all tendernes and compassion as delighting in nothing more then in bitternesse against the soule distressed The Apostle can say Though it be but a mans Couenant or Will when it is confirmed no man doth abrogate it or addeth any thing thereto But you haue done that which No man that is no honest man would doe in so causing his Will to speake contrary to his meaning Flyer Mal-content I cannot beleeue that thou sayest Mal-con But I beleeue it and the Copies will prooue it Besides that I know him which reprooued that euill at the comming foorth of the second Aedition at A. at the charges of Arthur B●llet Whereas the first was printed at D. where other Writings also of the same man were then printed But in a word M. Flyer there be diuers of vs are minded eare long to leaue the Church of England but with these prouisoes First to ioyne with your congregation we dare not and that because of the many bloody vnrepentant censures lying vpon the neck of your Church as M. G. Io. hath layde downe plainely in his Booke against your Societie Secondly in departing the Church of England We are minded notwithstanding to hold many of them Disciples to the true Christ and so doubtlesse wee shall finde some succour from them Flyer I thought Mal-content thou wouldst discouer thine hypocrisie Thy flying from Babel shal be yet with applauding some in Babel that so out of Babel thou mayst haue some maintenaunce I see that thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the band of iniquitie Either hold the Church of England as the sayd Protestant doth for a true Church with some wantes for which notwithstanding the Church is not to be forsaken or hold with vs. A true Church it was neuer or if some time it were it now is no more a true Church then y e Church of Rome Halt not therefore betweene two opinions If Iehouah be y e Lord follow him but if Baal be the Lord then follow him Mal-con Maister Flyer I neither hold your side for Iehouah nor the Church of England for Baal But for your side I hold it as an Errour on the right hand and the other side as an Errour on the left hand In m●dio quorum consist●● virtus In midst whereof I stand and betweene which I meane to walke Flyer Mal-content thou wouldst faine ●alke betweene the barke and tree and ●ot be pincht Thou wouldst be one ●ith vs as afore if the King would ●iue thee leaue and now we are as an ●rrour on the right hand Againe thou 〈◊〉 one of these dayes without the ●inges leaue take leaue of the Popish Antichristian gouernement and yet iustifie many bearing that marke of the Beast in hand forehead for Disciples of the true Christ. Iwis thou holdes thou knowes not what and they be seduced that swallow thy doctrine But be thou and some as yee shall I haue no small hope that thousands in England that now stand on the tiptoe will ere long fall flatly on our side Heare you not of Teachers and people in the farthest partes of Lincolne-shire and Nottingham-shire c. who are flatly already seperated Mal-con I heard of it th' other day by a London-Preacher who sorroweth much for a Gentlewoman of place who is sayd to be absolutely gone from the Church But as I know some of them Teachers and specially him that is sayd there to haue baptized one of their Children in a Barne so my hope is that their Seperation is not so far as yours but one with that which I purpose Flyer You purpose you know not what Besides that moe and new ●indes of Seperation will cause the 〈◊〉 Protestant to be more stiffe in his standing and the Time-seruer will thereby take occasion to stout at vs all Mal-con Then come backe vnto vs. Flyer Nay come you forwarde vnto vs and so become more perfect But stay is not this Grauesend hard by Mal-con It is Flyer Then be we husht for feare some ouer-heare vs that may giue intelligence to the crabbed Searchers For the trueth is I am with the next wind to goe to Sea and I feare none beere so much as that kind of cattle and busy-body prying into this and peering into that that a man can hardly haue a Swordes scabberd lined with French-crownes bowed as D. Arthur Billet had or an olde clumperton paire of Shooes whose soles be lyned with Angels as my brother George Clayton the Brick-layer had but they will either by a priuie search finde them or the feare a man shal be put vnto while they be about these will be so terrible as a sicknesse worse then the Sea-sicknesse will sodainely surprize him Mal-con Were it not at the first you denied cōmunion with me in Prayer which makes me suspect you disdaine all fellowship with me at Table I would willingly inuite you to a ioynt of Meate and a pint of Wine before our parting Flyer For that sir it is but felowship Ciuill whereas the other is Spirituall We may eate drinke with a Turke but not pray with a Turke Mal-con Will it please you then sir to take a Dinner with me Flyer I will and I thanke God for it who will haue Elias fed if but by the ministerie of an vncleane Rauen. Mal-con Doe you then hold me vncleane and yet the Rauen I take it was not vncleane till he was dead Flyer In your present standing you are dead in sinne and you and all your actions vncleane Mal-con Are we so Then doubtlesse the Cooke is vncleane and the Victuals vncleane and you by eating them should be vncleane and therefore go shake your eares for your Dinner And if you doe further prouoke mee it is like I shall make the Searchers acquainted with you and your cleane Nobles And yet they being coyned by men vncleane they shal be vncleane also Packe and be quiet for feare I prouoke some to shaue you of all your vncleannesse THE SECOND DIALOGVE Betweene Flyer and Anabaptist Anabapt HOW farre do you trauaile sir Flyer No further then Middleburghe to night Anabapt You come newly from Sea doe you

th● whole corporation of such people a● teach an opposite ground to the ground of the Gospell wherevpon vnhappily they may build much other euill but all that is of the By no● of the Mayne and yet condemnable also With which By or euill accidentes the truest Church and Christian in this life hath is and shal be more or lesse cumbred and yet no● ●●erefore Antichristian seeing she and ●ey be sound in the foundation of ●●e Gospell For the Foundation ●eld there may be Straw and other ●ooleries through ignoraunce or ●eaknes buylded vpon it ●othing ●utable to the ground and yet the ●uilder saued though as the Apostle teacheth it be as by the Fyre But a contrary foundation layd and held till the end it auayleth nothing what Golde and Siluer was builded vpon it for the foundation sinketh and man and all standing vpon it perisheth 5 This Man of sinne then must be considered not onely in the whole as one Corporation but also in the partes or members which concurre to the beeing of that Body and both of them according to their Place or situation The principall members of that body are registred of S. lo●n in his Apocalips to haue the Seauen hilled Citie Rome for their place The members in subordination to the former are of him compared to Waters for their multitude variable noy●● of language because that Rome w●● to haue people of many Language● subiect to the Doctrine that shoul● flow from that Sea What soule the● soeuer whether in the Church of England or other true Church shall submit it selfe to Antikeimenisme it longeth to the Romish-head And whatsoeuer soule within the territories of Rome shall submit it selfe to the contrary foundation which is in Christ Iesus such a one appertaineth to that body whereof Christ is the head and indeed is a fellow member with vs. For euery one that walketh eateth and sleepeth in a Kinges Court is not therefore of that Court no● euery one that dwelleth and hath ordinarie communion with a Kingdome is therefore one with that King in the foundation of subiection None therefore can ius●ifie all within a true vsible Church nor condemne all that be within the Beastes visible Kingdome seeing all Within it are not essencially Of it Beeing one in the foundatiō one is so Essencially of it but ●f seuered in the fundamentall poynt of obedience then such a one is but a member Accidental●y And Accidents specially proceeding of weaknesse may burne and be consumed without detriment to the foundation or him that in humility resteth vpon it 6 Which ground held the Romanist is easily answered Hee asketh Where our Church was 200. yeares since I answere As there might be some part of the Church in some part of the earth though to vs vnknowen euen as wee are vnknowen to some partes of the earth so our Church hath been where their Synagogue hath been and many of the members of it still persecuted by them Besides they were to come into the Church as Tares came into the Wheat-field by way of vsurpation not right And this the Apostle foretolde when he sayth that the Antikeimenist should sit in the Temple of God God reared a spirituall Temple at Rome as appeareth in the Apostles Epistle to that Church but afterwardes the Man o● sinne entred into the Lords House and there not only laboured to ouerturne the foundation laid in Christs-blood but also layd a contrary ground as fast as he could pull vp the other Vpon which that Church became for constitution like vnto the ten Tribes of Isra●l when their Calues were reared vp Which Calfe since in the time of the Romanistes is turned to a Bull howsoeuer we with Iudah cannot meet with the Popes Bull but we baite him The veritie of all this will better appeare when hauing read the Epistle to the Romanes it shal be examined whether wee or they be furthest departed from the veritie of that Doctrine which that Church first held And then I am sure that their part of the Cake is like to prooue dough Amen But as for the Romanist he fals into the errour of the left hand and that kind of errour may come to be touched in his season Thus briefly touching the Church and that her aduersary Anti-christ THE SHEPHEARDS Elegiaque Epilogue YOu Shepheards of our Lawnes leaue off your layes Alacke for woe these be no ioying dayes While many of our Sheepe do peake aside Staring for Daintrels in their height of pride O welladay then prowling Reinard teares And learing Wolues do take them by the eares And from their iowles do squeaze the crimsen die Where-with life endes Accurst Phlebot●mie Or if you needes must strayne an Oten-pipe O let ' be greene so shall it cry and shrike And bubble foorth some iucy fainting teares Which may procure some mones of all it heares A neede of Iakobs Staffe if e're to beat Backe these blood-suckers which make Lambes their mea● Poore Lambes their meat alacke and welladay Wring hand in hand in roume of Roundelay Aminta'● Crowne f●● she was worth a Crowne Her Head I found last day aback the Downe There litle Lucrece with her specked powle Was fleest of all her Wooll poore pretty sowle But as she ready was to gasp last breath I came goodha● and rescued her from death Black VVill that time was joorring of the Fox And so escapt with losse alone of locks Great Megge was tangled in a cursed Bryer Bald-pa●ed all like to an holy Frier That lately had been in the Pollers hands I troe she will no more come in these bands But ayes me man aback the Poplar tree Where Shepheards eate their shaled Pease with glee And in the Trench about that Table square Compact of Dazy soddes but now all bare There there woes mee three Tups haue left their lyues With sundry seores of their poore Lambs and Wyues Heere lyes a lock and there a scrap of skin The botthom of the Trench the bloods lyes in And then vile sacriledge the vpper seat Where Vmpire of the Shepheards sits at meat There there the Wolues haue trampeled and trod And cast their Gorge vpon the Royall sodde Yee Shepheards of our Lawnes it resteth All Ioyne heart and hand for keeping of our Stall Wee negligent haue been indeed too long While cruell Cattle are become too strong Wee sing of matters farre beyond the Sun While all this mischiefe heere at home is don I feare I feare that some in Shepheards pay Be one in night with Wolues with vs ● the day Iwis our Maister can but take it euell His Sheepe through lacke of food run to the Deuell Not euery Sonet is for selfe-same turne For some c●use ioy and some enforce to moorne Strow strow that fodder fore your Charges faces Which may them keepe from foraigne vncou●h places And with your eye so lead them in the way As sylly-soules they may no longer stray They may no longer stray but able bee Through all their flattring stratagems to see Meane time I moorne I moorne Maryahs stray Returne that Sheepe ô Lord ô Lord I pray Returne I humbly pray Returne them all That truly long vnto our Maisters stall FINIS Errata Page 25. lyne 20. read implying Pag. 33. line 17. read Midianite Pag. 34. line 12. read calling Pag. 46. line 11 read Antichri●t Page 53. line 4 read peaceable Math. 24●23 c. Math. 7.15.16 c * This phrase is vsed in Prouerbs 10.21.31 18.20.21 c. Isai. 65.5 2. Tim. 3.6 * Ezek. 3.6 Gala. 3 1● * A beeing * Io. L. a Weauer * Ioh. 6 68 * 2. Thess. 2.4 * Gal. 1.6 7 8 9. § Math. 13 24. c * 1. Cor. 11.29 c. * 2. Tim. 2.5 * Luke 3.23 c. Math. 16.18 ch 28.20 Reu. 12 17. ch 21 2-3 Gal 4.26 * Math. 13. 24. See for this my Antidoton * 1 Cor. 3 16. 2. Cor. 6.16 * 1. King 12. 18. * As Elias Eli●●a Hoseih Amos Ionah with others * In Reuel 14.6 it would be turned The euerlasting Ghospel rather then An eue●lasting Gh●spel * Gal. 2.16 * 1. Cor. 3. 11 12 13 14 15. * 1. Cor. 3.15 * 2. Thess. 2. 3. 2. Thess 2.4