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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18923	A manuel of the Bibles doctrine for law and Gospell, letter and spirit, signe and thing signified reduced to the first chapter of Leuiticus: Wherewith (occasionally) be plainely considered, and briefelie concluded, the most mayne questions wherewith the christian churches be combied. By H.C.	Clapham, Henoch.	1606 (1606)	STC 5344; ESTC S114490	51,700	285

All the sacrificiall presents for wee speake now only of the first ch they wer to be Tamim integrall perfect I knowe the word is of sūdry tur●…ed immaculat or vnspotted And true it is such sence it hath therfore the word made attribute to beasts not to birds be caus the 1 might be had without spots the 2 not But seeing that is not the words first and neer sence as also for the holy-ghost elsewhere alludeth hereto as in Mala. 1 13 14 Hebr. 7 26 it causeth mee to take the word more largelie that is for a creature in his kind perfect not torn rēt lame diseased c And indeede such a one was Christ shall I say in his body why the prophet Isaiah in chap. 53. insinuates that there should be no beautye in him for which he shold be desired true but that was as there appeareth when our infirmities shold be vpō him he whipped buff●…ted spit vpon for our sakes what beautye could thē appear who otherwise was wh●…te and ruddy the chiefest of tē thousand But in his soule was al perfectiō a reasō why his bodye in the graue could feel no corruptiō for if Adams soul had not first sin'd his body could not haue corrupted so that the moral law could not cōmand that perfectiō that was not in him and indeed such a priest sacrifice it besemed vs to haue And is the churches head thē perfect oughte not his mysticall body the church to be perfect Yes we are called in ma 5 to be perfect as our heauēly father is And can wee in this life then be perfect We can not and yet we can We cannot in our selues for when we wold do good euill is presente leading vs captiue Rom 7. but through Christ wee can do all things who was made sin that we might bee made the righteousnes of God in him 2. Cor 5 21 But by what equity doth god command the fulfilling of the morall law in our selues if so we cannot do it and the law curseth such as doe not all the things in it By a double equity once for that hee set mankind ou●… of his hands enabled to keepe the lawe of perfection Being now runne bank-rupt through his own defalt it is iust with God notwithstanding to craue the debt for our wilfull pouertye is no cause why he shold cast aside his Iustice. Again he commaunds perfection to his Sons disciples because they haue a new and a liuing way whereby they may attaine perfection and that is by true faith fastned vpon him Because that no soule cā be iustified by the morall lawe but by the lawe of faith they can therfore it is that the holye ghoste saieth thus The law mad●… nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope made perfect By so much is Iesus made a surely of a better couenant wherefore he is able als●… perfectly to saue them that come vnto God by him heb 7 19 22 25 O happy couenant of Grace ●…ar exceeding the couenant of works This Martin Luther looking deeply into it causeth him for prefer ring of the latter to d●…sanul Moses in a sort and indeed in respect of any true Peace a soule can haue by the law of moral works Moses may be bid giue place and his two Tables bee put by for thereby we can neuer be iustified and so consequētly neuer comforted neuer saued By the name Ies●…s and by no other name vnder heauen are wee to obtaine saluation This beeing vngainsayably true how wicked be the Romanistes that teache Iustification with GOD by workes And how woonderfullye ouerseene are some amongst vs that ordinarily propounds the laws perfectiō so to the harts of their hearers as they often leaue them marked for reprobates in beeing found breakers thereof I know that the Lawe is holye and pure and that wee are to striue after conformity thereto but to pres it as som in their Ignoraunce often presse it and I woulde no lamentable presidentes thereof had passed is to lead people from christ in conforming themselues to the Law to do it rather of a slauish feare which kinde of obedience is vnacceptable then of Loue to the lawes holinesse It were good the Church were either purged of such fantastiques or at least of theyr fantastique preachinges tending indeede to Hereticall puritanisme the very iustification of Ronanists Anabaptistes ●…amilists Will people neuer vnderstand But to other particulars Section 11. SEcondly the sacrifices of this Holocaust were to be brought-vnto the do●…e of the Tabernacle wher the Prieste was to receiue the same In other sacrifices destinated to some particular necessity as in the 4 Chapter the Presenter was to confesse his or theyr sinne with their hand or handes vppon the head of the Sinne offering To bring the oblation to the doore is generallie taken for presenting our deuotions vnto Christ who calls himselfe the dore in S. Iohn 10 9 The note is profitable but I knowe not howe proper To bring it vnto the dore of Con uention was to bring it vnto the face of the Congregation that all so might knowe not onely that he was an Israelite called to the same Hope in Messiah but also that so he might send vppe his sacrifice with theirs euen in the same holy communion Nor doth the equity thereof but abide for euer For besides our priuate deuotions wee must publiquely also conuene and so with one hearte and mind praise the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ. For saith the Apostle If any withdraw himselfe my soule shall haue no pleasure in him making in the next wordes such withdrawing to bee an argument of perdition and opposite vnto faith As for the confession of sin it remaineth still to bee made vnto the hy-priest of our profession Christ Iesus but not to any minister necessarilye in the eare as Romanists wold haue it For marke that all heere was done at the doore of Conuention where other of the people might take notice of the sin so well as of the sacrifice for nothing here is once noted to be done in Huggermugger as the lasciuious vndermining Romanistes doe in their Cloisters It rather argueth publique confession for publique sinne The hand laid on the sinne offrings head intimated they re faith in Messiahs death for the forgiuenesse of sinn Nor without the hande of faith is that sacrifice made ours It is not sufficient sacrifice for sinne but for my sinne so well as for any other Wee muste therefore put the hande of our faith vpon Iesus Christe our Heade and say Christ came into the worlde to saue sinners of whome I am chiefe and yet one of the poore members to whome hee is an Head If thy sinnes were as red as the scarlet-lace for there-to doubtles Isaiah had reference hee will make them as white as anye wool This is a better couenant then that of works Hic requiescas in vmbra 3. Thirdly

the nomber a fewnes 2 in obseruatiō easines 3 in their signification worthines as for Antichristianisme it properly in S. Paul S. Iohns sense consisteth not which to few haue marked either in an Antithesis or opposition vn to christs external order or yet in an opposition to the Iudicial or moral law Euē such oppositiōs are hainus wicked but do not therefore cōclude Antichristianism al euil euen in the members of christ is condēnable but they not therfore Antichristiā nor it antichri stianisme Antichristianity in the newe testaments sence is an opposition to the newe couenant of Grace called of the apostle another gospel that is glad tydings in som other then in christ And such were they that went out wherof S. Iohn speaketh seking iustifica tion by another meanes then christ as by the obseruatiō of the moral law or the law of Ceremonies or the like This ●…oint held and it is easie to be held Antichrist being Antike●…nos the layer of an opposite foundation it quasheth to ground all our fanatique spirites that make any thing in our church yea all our Church it selfe to bee Antichristian because of some morall wants or somwhat otherwise euill onely in theyr fancie I woulde they would once smite their hand on their thigh and saye what haue I done But for pressing this one pointe some yeares passed I haue therefore beene pricked in the eyes euer since therefore to God I leaue such saying Heauenly Father forgiue the 〈◊〉 for they know not what they doe for thy Sons sake suffer not thy people to be ●…onger captiued of them 5. The last question may be this when shal ceremonies altogither end I answer whē the world is cōsumed the heauens earth analysed or more plainly ceremonies shal cease when Faith ceaseth Faith ceaseth when wee haue fully got the thing we faithed or beleeued for ceremonies bee but as a waggon for conuaiing faith to his iournies end Faith beeing the apprehension of things vnseene for I speake of the most excellent kind of faith when once they and wee come togither into full possession and that is not till wee attaine heauens glory then Faith stinteth Being come to the period or ful point it can reach no further nor hope that held the thing beleued and hoped for And in this respect it is that Charitie in the 1. Cor. 13. is preferred before hope faith they then ceasing but loue towards god and our fellow members continuing for euer And for such continuāce eternall it is also that God neuer cal led by name of faith or Hope is called of saint Iohn by the name of Loue or Charitie O God of Abrahā Isaac Iaakob a god of the liuing that liue vnto thee eternally but more speci ally ô thou the father of our Lord Iesus Christ whome in respect of Adams fall thou didst appoint to be a new and a liuing a way for iustification and saluation vnto all such as shoulde come vnto thee by him Heauenly father wee haue broken thy Lawe actually in our selues so well as originally in our fore-patents and therefore haue deserued that all the curses of the Law should fall vppon vs so far bee wee from beeing able to bee iustified by doing the workes of the Law And therefore flying from all hope of health by that old Law Do and liue we come vnto thee by the newe and liuing way Beleeue and liue eternally We belieue ô Lord helpe our vnbeliefe Increase our faith for apprehension of all the promises sealed vpp in Christ with Yea and Amen for they be all true and hee the waye trueth and life Keepe vs in this wildernesseworlde with our backes vpon slauish sinful AE gypt wherein too long we serued Sathan worse then Pharaoh and giue vs to keepe our face still towardes heauens Rest better thē Canaās rest vntil we attain that new land wherein shall dwel only righteousnes And in falling in this worlde vouchsafe as thou didst to Moses to giue vs sighte from aboue for discerning seuerall lots and inheritaunces in that rest for if there were not seuerall mansions ô Father in thy house thy Sonne would otherwise haue tolde vs but loe hee is gone before to prepare a place for his people Giue vs grace to see and in seeing giue vs to exulte in thee with care of becomming more conformeable vnto thee To that end blesse the Ministrye of thy Sonnes Gospell vnto vs that so his loue may constrayne vs tó loue the dooing of all his commaundementes Blesse Gouernours and Gouerned High and lowe ritche and poore with a divine care to doe not onelye the holye and righteous duties that appertaine to them as they be christians but also as they be christiās of such and such places that so thy name may bee more generally bonored amongest vs and in thy sauing mercies sealed vp in Christe Iesus this greeuous pestilence maye bee farre remooued from vs. Heare vs for the sake of thy sonne our sole Sauiour whom in worde and sacrementes thou hast exhibited mercifullye vnto vs. To whome with thee and the blessed spirit three distinct persons but one true and euerliuing GOD bee all kingdome power and glorye ascribed both by Angells and men this time and for euer Amen Faults escaped Page 1. line 10. min reade mind pag 3. lin 6. sheh read isheh page 7. line 16. Noah the read Noah through the floud the c. page 14. lin 1. vah read vaf pag. 15. line 9 Euangel read Euangels pa. 24. lin 1. fourth read and fift pag. 34. lin 19. a read as page 70. line 11. god reade good pag. 93. lin 9. waits read waights pag. 133. line 20. Ma. read Mathe vv pag. 136. lin 15. ar read far pag. 144 lin 10. not suf read not only a suff pag. 169. lin 14. meetnes read meeknes pag. 171. lin 14. liue reade line pag. 178. line 1. meri reade merit pag. 189 line 9. vs read as A reason of this Epistle This certaine were more then now would be knowne for som are turred for meer aduantage 〈◊〉 in co●…ners t●…ey be mar tins disciples still Som yet in the ministry as Fa'coners do lead the people hood winked they know not whither looking for their day as the Papistes for theyr day hauing one speeche in publique another 〈◊〉 priuate A prety iest ●…o the shame of partiall spi ●…ts Three sondry Sects vnder one Gener●…ll head of reformation a Iehouah Iebrue oberua●…ions b Adam a Korban b Iehouah c Korban d Gnólah e Tamim f Hebr. The son of the Beef a G●…ólah sheh b Reia●…h ●…icoach c Ièrèk d ●…nólah ish●…h a Helr The 〈◊〉 of the pigeon b Kir c The feathers about the m●… a Iude 6. Gen. 3. 15. c. Shem liued 600 years Eab●…s in his 2. b. 2. 〈◊〉 Exodus 〈◊〉 t●…ache Neoph●…t to no●…ber the times better Leuiticus What it in ●…endeth Ceremonial persons Rom. 1. Psal. 19. 1. Nom. 3.