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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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