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A18924	The syn, against the holy ghoste made manifest from those grounds of faith, which haue bene taught & received by the faithfull in Engla[n]d, & that for those 40.y. togither vnder the prosperovs raigne of my Soveraigne Lady and Quene Elishabet. Which may serue for a rayning in of the heady, & yet for a spur to slouthfull spirits: by Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1598 (1598)	STC 5345; ESTC S117149	23,663	26

THE SYN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOSTE Made manifest from those grounds of Faith which haue bene taught received by the Faithfull in Englād that for those 40. y. togither vnder the prosperovs raigne of my Soveraigne Lady Quene ELISHABET Which may serue for a rayning in of the heady yet for a spur to slouthfull Spirits By HENOCH CLAPHAM ¶ Eccles. 7. 18. Be not just ouer-much nor make thy self much wyse wherefore sholdst thow seeke to be desolate 19. Be not wicked ouer-much nor be thow foolish why sholdst thow dy in thy vn-tyme ¶ At AMSTERDAM 1598. To his faithfull Brethren a poore Remnant of the ever visible Catholike and Apostolicke Church Abraham Crottendine Iohn Ioope Hugh Armourer Christopher Symkins Thomas Farrat Abraham Wakefeild c. Grace Mercie and peace be multiplied from God the father through the Mediation of Ie. Chr. his Son by the instillation of his adopting spirit into theyr spirits Amen REformists in England caried of erst with true zeale for reparing the walls of Ierushalem the praise of the whole earth they in the heat of their labour ouer-caried in som speach as Such such ecclesiasticall functions ordinatio●…s administrations c. they are merely Antichristian badges of the beast others theyr zealous hearers herevpon and in the fore-front of such Mr. Rob. Brovv●…e taking such assertions for sound Theologicall arioms do conclude thus Then not only that but all flov●…ing from that it must also be meerly Antichristian for a bitter fountaine can send fo●…th no svve●…t vvate●…s as is the roote such is the braunches Wherevpon fearing the iudgment denounced against the Beast his people Revel 14. 9. 10. 11. they seperate not only from visible euell but also from visible good as all Anti-christian Having thus confusedlie seperated from Confusion it remaines they begin all anewe wherevnto Minister●… must be no ministers vntill they have a newe Ordination from such separists alleadging all former election and ordination to be meerly Antichristian from the abuse of such scriptures Math. 7. 16. 2 Cor. 14. 15. 16. vvith 2 Thess. 2. 3. c. wherevpon which Donatus d●…iest not attempt nor yet Rob. Br. Ia●…men abusing Nomb. 8. 10. thereto must Iay on hands and so contrarie to the Ghospell his Canon Heb. 7. 7. they wold without all contradiction have the Greater to be blessed of the Iesser for theyr publike gathering togither vnto this action it causeth them not cease being lay men no move then theyr hands publikely baptising or administring the Io. his Supper doth cause them therin to be anie more then lay-people Others go on furder saing Is it possible to receive laufull baptisme a laufull foundation of faith from the Ministers and apostaci●… of Anti-christ alleadging therevnto the former scriptures and so se●…ke out newe baptisme newe foundation of faith reiecting frely and voluntarily the former so 〈◊〉 I feare that horible syn which I make the argument of the sequell Yow haue learned I hope that the Aduersarie 2 Thes. 2. 4. is not only adverse vnto manie good things but also to the very foundation of the Ghospell The word there is Anti-●…eimenos which is adverse foundationed Nor can that Head or Body be such that is not an holder or cliuer to another foundation then that Iesus Christ layd When Iohn hath taught Euery man to haue syn in him then that he vvhich synneth is of the Devell we do not thereon inferre Therefore euery man of the devell because we expound synneth or committeth syn by Syn raigninge essentiallie in the committer as in the Devel who synneth from the beginning so neither though euerie sowle is in somthings against Christ do we therefore say Euerie sowle is Anti-christian but only that sowle in whose membtrs syn domineers nor onlie that but also is one in the foundation of faith opposit to Christ for Antichrist is Ciuil or spirituall and it is the spirituall whereof all the controversie is who is Keimenos foundationed Anti asmuch as ok 〈◊〉 full-but to Christ his foundation and therefore not for separable Accidents called the Man of syn which in english valueth A lump of syn or essence of syn The not being Cathechized in this one poore begining of Christ it hath caused Many ●…eachers to lay false grounds where●…n others buildinge there is no end of wandring Som ●…onninge not onlie into Mr Br. first course but also further and worse then that further yea so far as diuerse I feare haue committed the horible syn against the holy Ghost Heb. 6. and 10. That I labour to proue in the sequell which I incommend vnto your Brotherhood for a ●…igne to the Catholike Church of my soules syncerity as also for a meanes to keepe you waking and watchfull to the holy way god hath placed yow in So much for that now to the Argument Proposition All such as voluntarily forsake the grounds true beginings of Christ therewithall the fellowship spiritual they haue with the people of god therein all such do syn that fearfull horrible syn against the holy Ghost which is spoken of in the Epistle to the Hebrues Chap. 6. 10. FOr the manifestation hereof let vs heare the scriptures speak In Heb. 6. tis thus Leauing the doctrine of the begining of Christ let vs be lead on to perfection not laying againe the Foundation of Repentance from dead works of faith towards God of the doctrine of Washings Imposition of hands of the Resurrection from the dead of Eternall Iudgement For it is impossible that they which were once lightned haue tasted of the heauenly guifte were made partakers of the ho. gh and haue tasted of the good word of God and of the powers of the world to com If they fall away shold be renued againe by Repentance seing they crucify agai●…o themselues the Son of God make a Mock of him Falling away from the former light they for that are said to crucifie againe Christ and to deride him after a sort with those which bidde him saue himself if he will saue others And indeed what do such Apostate schismaticall spirits lesse when they put Christ to begin theyr new-birth againe as of yore and that from the very foundation In the 10. chap. the substance of this doctrine is called Faith vers 22. because the whole lump is seasoned by the first fruites Faith and in ver 23. called Hope because it ministred Hope of salvation And herein ver 24. 25. they had Fellowship with the faithfull In which terme Fellowship is plainly implied Charity sāctified in the body mysticall of Iesus for as that Bodie is the Temple of the ho. gh so in the same fellowship is Loue and all actions of Loue only sanctified to saluation This causeth Luke to say Act. 2. 47. The Lord added vnto the Church he speaks onlie of the visible church frō day to day such as should be saued And hereto accordeth the types Noahs 〈◊〉 the Howse wherein the

and fellowship With the heart man beleiueth vnto Righteousnes vvith the mouth man confesseth vnto saluation After the heart hath once retained the sauing foundation of faith and the mouth hath once by confession thereof brought the bodie vnder the standerd of the Church marching there in equipage with yon ge and olde of the saued of the Gentiles what one reason have we to expect Re-repentance of such Re-regeneration of such after once they voluntarilie haue cast and cashierd themselues from the faith and fellowship of Iesus A man may liue lacking an arme or legge or hande but let him loose his head or heart lyfe is gone and no more so good as a mayined man Iude therefore denominates such Trees tvvise dead once before theyr spirituall birth then now by a willinge break-neck downefall twofold from faith and fellowship wherein they had bene planted yea he calls them trees pulled vp by the rootes accordinge to that of our sauiour Euery plant my heauenly father hath not planted it shalbe pulled vp by the rootes as if thereby we shold thinke at least feare that they are not destinate to a lyfe-plot in the vyne Iesus but so shred of from head ād body they are to expect in the next place to be burned ●…n fyre hauing the ernest thereof before hand seated 〈◊〉 And such was Alexander the Coppersmith his syn it semeth it was he who by Paul reiected in the first ep to Timothi against him in the second ep he thus imprecates The Lord revvard him according to his vvorks After which sort Ieremie imprecateth ch 18. 21. and so doth Dauid diuerse tymes Vnder the Maran-atha the heretick Cerinthus it semeth lay an therefore S. Iohn comming into the Bath where he found him he retired saying Let vs avvay least the Bath tumble dovvne So it is said he retired also vnbathed fyndinge Hebion in the Bath In like state it semeth Marcion stood who metinge Polycarpus the Angel of 〈◊〉 and sayinge Acknovvledg thovv vs vnto him the holy Pastor replies I acknovvledg I knoe the for the first begotten of Satan But what need more testimonie that such are to be imprecated against rather then precated for when we see Peter vpon euidence of Simon Magus his euell imprecate thus Thy mony perish vvith the which in english valueth Thovv thy mony goe togither into destruction Obiection He saw him eternally reprobate Ansvver Tis false for he willeth Simon to pray for himself wold not if so it vvere possible that the thought of his heart might be forgiuen But Simon desiringe the Apostles to pray for him the ho. Gh. shutteth vp the hystorie without one tittle sounding they did so Yea the ecclesiasticall histories do mention that vpon Simons persistance in euell attempting afterwards in 〈◊〉 to flie from the Capitol Peter shold fall downe and imprecate against the seducer vntill he fell downe and broke his neck What shold I say doth not our sauiour say of such that not the old v●…rleane spirit alone but accompanied with 7. worse he reenters such and therefore vtterly vnlike to be againe dispossessed I conclude therefore that Such as giue theyr fre-vvill to Satan for being torne vp from the foundation of Christian faith fellovvship therein they commit that fearfull horible syn against the ho Gh. Heb. 6. and 10. Hearken to the rest Assumption But all such of our English people as once vvere in teressed vvith the substance of faith receiued in England synce that haue forsooke that ground of Beleif togither vvith all spirituall fellovvship therein Euen all such haue forsaken the true beginnings of Christ fellovvship they had vvith the people of God therein Conclusion Therefore all such haue synned that fearfull horrible syn against the Ho. Gh. heb 6. 10. IF the Assumption be true no question is to be made of the Conclusion it growing naturallie from the Antecedent but the Assumption is true in the iudgmēt of all learned Protestants English Scottish Dutch French etc. therefore vnto all such the Conclusion must be true for they all do teach and professe the learned in England to deliuer a true foundation of faith and therefore by the voyce of such all such our English Apostates and Sthismatikes haue synned that fearfull and horible syn That the foraigne churches haue departed from Englād som in the maner of gathering the Church and all of them in the forme of disciplines exercise vttered in Math. 18. 15. 16. 17. etc. yet they all profes one and the same foundation and substance of the Ghospell charitablie hopinge as they ought say malicious Donatist what he can that notwithstanding men in ignorance and infirmitie but woe to him that sinnes against light reuealed do build stubble strawe tymber yet kepinge the foundation in a moritified estate such shalbe saued in theyr owne persons with the losse of theyr tras●… labour saued as priuate poore Christians obtayning no glorie for such ministerie yet as by the fyre hardly saued though saued And towching this sence I haue Ambrose manie in Theodorets tyme as also Caluin Seb. Munster Hemingius Beza and others nor can the scripture comparing it with that goes before be vnderstood of anie thinge but diuersities of doctrine good and bad The beginnings of faith wherein the Hebrues had bene catechised are syx Repentance Faith Baptismes Imposition of hands Resurrection Eternall iudgment Under Repentāce is contained mortification and Uiuification according to that fly euel do good called Repentance from dead works Under Faith is comprehended not only a generall consent vnto the history of god his word and works but also a particular plerophorie or full assurance of our reconcilation with God who through Christ Iesus God and Man and therefore fit to interceed betwene God and Man is pacified towards vs for syn as also through the vaile of his flesh the seede of woman our first fruites without which our lump could not be sanctified he hath made a new and liuing way into the Holy of holyes the hiest heauens sitting there at the right hand of Maiesty till all his enemies be made his foote stoole Under Baptismes is intimate purifications vnder the lawe and water-washing sacramentally vnder the Ghospell sealing vnto old and yong so baptised the purification of theyr sowles from syn only by the price of Iesus his blood wherein the garments of the saints are made white through which blood we alone conquer and triumph ouer all hellish powres Under Imposition of hands is insinuate the laying propheticall and sacramentall hands on the heads of men before the Law so did Iaakob with Ephraim and Manasseh on Animals and men vnder the lawe so did Moses with Ioshua and the Elders of the trybes on the Leuits and the Leuits on Animals sacrificed on the heads of diuerse vnder the Ghospell as our sauiour blessing infants like mough before baptised brought by beleiuers vnto him his imposing hands as