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A16736	The doctrine of the Gospel By a plaine and familiar interpretation of the particular points or articles thereof: with the promises, comforts, and duties, seuerally belonging to the same. VVhereunto is added, a declaration of the danger of not knowing, not beleeuing, or not obeying any one of them. Likewise, a rehearsal of the manifold heresies, wherein many haue erred contrary to them all. Diuided into three bookes. The first whereof, is of beliefe in God the Father ...	Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 364; ESTC S106811	1,499,180	1,052

THE DOCTRINE OF THE GOSPEL BY A PLAINE AND FAMILIAR INTERPRETATION OF THE PARticular points or Articles thereof with the Promises Comforts and Duties seuerally belonging to the same Wherevnto is added a declaration of the danger of not knowing not beleeuing or not obeying any one of them LIKEWISE A REHEARSAL OF THE MAnifold heresies wherein many haue erred contrary to them all Diuided into three Bookes THE FIRST WHEREOF IS OF BELIEFE IN GOD THE Father the first Person of the most holy glorious and vndiuided Trinitie one onely true God to be blessed and praised for euer 1. Cor 8 6. 〈◊〉 but one God euen the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one ●ord Iesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him Matth 11 27. 〈◊〉 man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1. Iohn 5 7. 〈◊〉 three the Father the Word that is the Sonne and the holy Ghost are one Seene and allowed T C VERITAS 〈◊〉 VVLNERA LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede 1606. THE INSCRIPTION Dedicatorie FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND edification of his Church TO the right worshipfull Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight my singular good Patron with the vertuous Lady Anne Bacon his wife And to the right worshipfull Sir Nathanael Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon and to Sir Edmund Bacon Knights and to the Right worshipfull Maister Edward Bacon one of his Maiesties worthie Iustices of the peace in Suffolke all louers of Pietie and Iustice and friendes to the Church of God through his rich grace blessed be his name for so great a mercy as a debt acknowledged most due vnto them and to the whole posteritie of their right honourable Father a most worthy and wise Patron of true Religion vpright Iustice and all good learning in his high place all his time a most worthy Paterne to bee imitated and followed of all that descend of him yea of all that succeed him in like Office of high dignitie For a token of gratulatorie-thankfulnes to God for so inestimable a blessing and with a holy desire to help forward their holy knowledge and the precious faith of their eternall saluation This second part of the Treasurie of Christian instruction containing a chiefe portion of the Doctrine of the Gospell is both from heart and hand willingly dedicated By their VVorships among other of the Ministers of the Gospel one most bounden in the Lord Robert Allen. TO THE REVEREND AND LEARNED MINISTERS OF THE holy word of God and to all true hearted Christians Grace and Peace in the Lord Iesus RIght well beloued worthy great loue and reuerence yea double honour in the Lord euen for the Lordes sake and for your diligent and painefull labour in his worke seeing I hold it my dutie to giue a reason to you of that which I haue done in the publishing of these writings which are nowe brought to your viewe and remaine subiect to your godly censures as you shall finde iust cause this I desire that you doe first of all fauourably consider on my behalfe that were it not besides my owne perswasion of Gods gracious assistance in his guiding and leading of me through this busines that I had beene incouraged by some of yourselues that is to say by Ministers of the word of very good learning and iudgement singularly zealous of Gods glorie and aboundant in loue toward his Church I would neuer haue presumed to haue offered these my labours to be examined of such as haue authoritie to licence the printing of Bookes much lesse would I haue presumed to haue published them as now they are And yet for all that that is though I was in such wife as is specified incouraged thus farre in hope of your good liking and of some good fruite to grow vnto the Church thereby how moderately and modestly I thinke of that which is done God he knoweth And therewithall how desirous I am that none vpon the sodaine shoulde bee offended at these superfluous labours as they may peraduenture seeme to some to be specially they being vndertaken by such an one as I am after the writings of so many excellent seruants of God in the ministerie of his Gospell I would gladly it might appeare to all by this my care to render you the reasons which preuailed with me herevnto First therefore this in all humblenes of minde I doe you to vnderstand that insomuch as by the mercies of God I haue beene a hearer of many of your owne selues who are yet liuing and also of some of those who haue died most blessedly in the Lord most worthy and excellent Preachers of the word and so haue beene a partaker of your manifold good gifts and graces to my singular instruction and comfort if I haue not beene failing to my selfe in so long a tract of time I thought with my selfe therefore that if through the rich mercy and goodnes of God I might be as the good Bee to draw honie out of so many sweete flowers as were before mee and bring the same together as it were into one hieue it might come to passe that through the blessing of God I might in processe of time performe some acceptable seruice to his Church So that this then is the first reason which I haue to alledge to shewe whence I haue beene imboldened to performe this seruice Secondly seeing it is so that in respect of my owne practise in the holy Ministerie I haue had more then ordinarie occasion in course of Catechising by the space of these 20. yeares past to goe oftentimes through the principles of Religion and that not onely in so briefe a manner as they might well be contracted for the better capacitie of the more simple in vnderstanding but also more largely for the benefite of such as were of better discretion and iudgement euen till this kind of exercise was thus farre forth augmented as you see therefore I thought I might not with any equitie conceale it either from such as hauing beene lesse exercised this way desire it for a helpfull supply vnto them or from those who hauing no neede of this helpe for any defect may neuertheles finde an occasion offered them of their owne more excellent thoughtes like as the knife is made sharpe by the rude and blunt wherstone when it is but a little whetted vpon it Thirdly I thought this dutie might the better beseeme me in the Church of God yea that God himselfe would the rather require it at my handes because it seemed good to his diuine Maiestie to imploy me from time to time in the course of my Ministerie toward the people of small villages by reason whereof I had the fewer auocations from my studies and so more leisure to write then many other Ministers of the word whom God had placed ouer greater townes and in popular cities Fourthly I haue beene the rather confirmed to thinke that it was the good will and pleasure of God that I should performe this

thou the king of the Iewes to whom our Sauiour said only Thou saiest it Mat. 27.11 Mar. 15.2 the which yet is more likely to be the same which hath bin set down already by the Euangelist Iohn as was obserued before Cōcerning the silence of our Sauiour we haue seene the reasons of it before Luke 22.67.68 for the same causes moued him thereunto at this time The groūd and history o● his examination accusation before Herod wherewith he was moued then And the rather now at this time because he had s●fficiently cleared himselfe in the former examination of Pilate before he c●me out this second time to the Iewes Wherefore though Pilate maruelled greatly we will not thinke it strang that our Sauiour should be so silent as he was seeing wee vnderstand from our Sauiour himselfe the excellent reasons and causes thereof But all this is but a continuance of the trouble and sorrowe of our Sauiour Christ to see the renewed fruits of the malice of the Rulers of the Iewes and to continue thus in his bonds And this also is specially to be obserued from the Euangelist Luke that they accuse him as of a great and capitall trespasse for that he tooke most diligent and vnweariable paines in preaching the Gospell of the kingdome of God in respect whereof no thanks which may be giuen to God or praise to our blessed Sauiour can be sufficiēt For say they He moueth the people teaching throughout all Iudea beginning at Galile euen to this place that is to the chiefe citie Ierusalē But in the heat of this raging vnreasonable accusatiō they had almost mard all For Pilate vpon the mention of Galile taketh aduantage to pick an occasion to rid his hands of the whole matter or at the least to breed delay For so the Euang Luke prosecuteth the story as it followeth in his 23. ch in the 6. 7. v. What are the Euangelists words Question let vs heare them Answer 6. Now when Pilate heard of Galile he asked whether the man were a Galilean 7. And when he knewe that he was of Herods iurisdiction he sent him to Herod who was also at Ierusalem in those daies Pilate indeed seeketh thus at the least for a while to rest himself it may be to gratifie Herod somwhat to trouble the Iewes who had begun to trouble him about the matter more then he would But howsoeuer Pilat easeth pleaseth himselfe by his polit●ke deuise the trouble of our Sauiour goe on and is multiplied by this tossing as it were from post to pillar as one may say THe which part of the holy storie is continued by the Euangelist Luke as it followeth from the beginning of the 8 verse to the end of the 12. Question Which are the wordes of the Euangelist Rehearse them Answere 8. They are these And when Herod saw Iesus he was exceeding glad for he was desirous to see him of a long season saith the Euangelist Luke because he had heard many things of him and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him 9. Then questioned he with him of many things but he answered him nothing 10. The high Priests also and Scribes stood forth and accused him vehemently 11. And Herod with his men of warre despised him and mocked him and arrayed him in white and sent him againe to Pilate 12. And the same day saith the Euangelist Pilate and Herod were made friends together for before they were enemies one to another Thus then we are come to new examination of our Sauiour Christ before H●rod and the sufferings belonging to the same by occasion of Pilates sending of our S●●iour vnto him vpon the sight of whom as the Euangelist writeth Herod was exceeding glad and that for two causes First because vpon former famous reports of great works done by him he had of a long season bin desirous to see him and secondly because he conceiued hope that he should now at his pleasure procure our Sauiour to worke some miracle before him For it seemeth the profane man thought that he should haue found our Sauiour C●r●st like to such as are ready to play their iuggling trickes or other strange feates to satisfie the vaine humors of their beholders And the rather did t●e proud m●n perswade himself that he should haue had our Sauiour at his beck because he was brought as a prisoner before him and in that respect might by his power and authoritie be either greatly hindered or furthered in his cause brought before him To this end he is very inquisitiue with our Sauiour Christ cōcerning many things as S. Luke writeth therewithal no doubt partly by faire flattering speeches by threatnings as the maner of such men is to frame our S Ch. to his minde and to get something from his owne mouth whereby he might take some aduantage against him But Herod is deceiued in his expectation All the vaine hope wherewith he fed himselfe a while before is frustrate For our Sauiour Christ in his excellent wisedome and vpon waightie considerations as wee shall consider by and by answereth the vaine man nothing at all Yea though as the holy Euangelist recordeth the high Priests also and Scribes stood forth and accused our Sauiour vehemently according to such things as Herod obiected against him Yet our Sauiour Christ was moued neither by the one nor by the other to answere any thing at all at this time for himselfe but let them talke to themselues and so answereth them in the best manner by patien● si ence Here vpon Herod being greatly disappointed and no lesse discontented despiseth our Sauiour Christ in his heart and accordingly both he himselfe and his souldiers also who were as forward as their maister for like maister like seruant they fall to open deriding and scorning of our most reuerend and blessed Sauiour And that especially vpon the false accusation of the Iew●s that he affected a worldly kingdome and gouernment ouer them As it appeareth by their kind of mockerie in that they cast some white peece of cloth about him as if he were some Candidatus or competito●r for the kingdome after the manner of such as stoode for offices in ●heir so●●mne elections a● Rome for they mocke him most contemptuously as being a goodly man to bee a king c. Thus they sport themselues in their owne most wicked and blasphemous fo●lie The conclusion of all was this that Herod being soone wearie of his part he returneth our Sauiour backe againe to Pilate so that as he had begun so he might make an end for all him Yet in such friendly manner and holding himselfe so singularly gratified by Pilate ●hat the same day he and Pilate being enemies before are now made friends This is the summe of this answereles examination of our Sauiour and of the sufferings accompanying the same by the contin●ance of his bondes and the tedious moléstations of his aduersaries su●drie waies But i● shall