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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

Heretikes from whence that tryall of spirites which Saint Iohn commaundeth to all his children is had From hence that spirice of discretion and iudgement 1. Cor. 3. whereof all the seruaunts of God in some measure are partakers appeareth He that is spiritual saith the Apostle iudgeth all things and now all Christians are spirituall For they which haue not the spirite of Christ are none of his And all the sonnes of God are led with the spirite of God And they all by this holy bonde are knitte to their heade Iesus Christ And therefore the holy Ghost is called the bonde of peace They all can discerne light from darkenesse Christ from Belyall They are not without sence without spirite fleshly not hauing the spirit as are those false Prophets whereof S. Iude prophesieth as are those Idolaters of whom Dauid sayth Their Idols and grauen Images are without sence vnderstanding and so are they that made them and so are all they that put their trust in them And surely such was the insensiblenesse of many Idolaters in times past they were as voyde of true sence of God euen as the Image which they worshipped But the true Christians all haue hereof a féeling and vnderstanding and they must vse their sences they must trie their féeling they must vse their discretion The Lorde hath not giuen them these his graces in vaine What this varietie of iudgements and opinions doth onely beautifie the Church of God Hereof was the great glorie and beautie of Moyses Tabernacle of the diuersitie of oblations of the variety which euery one offred If they had all brought things of one kinde it had not béene so glorious and pleasant to the eyes Hereof when as they all agréed in the manner of their offering in this one thing that they offered willingly and fréely as for the matter not onely golde and siluer but also brasse not onely blew and purple but also scarlet not onely linnen and fine silke but also Goates haire were accepted and receiued All these being aptly ioyned together according to that forme which Moises sawe in the Mount did giue great glorie and beautie to this Tabernacle Salomons temple also contayned in it diuerse furnitures of nature diuerse functions and helpes of arte And hereof was the glorie of it contayned Ephes 4. what also meaneth that méeting of all men in vnitie of faith in the Church of Christ but the diuerse wayes and diuerse iudgements of many What meaneth this prophesyings of two or thrée in the Church and congregation and the iudgement of the rest but diuerse senses and sentences of holy Scripture what meaneth that prophesying or interpretation of scripture according to the Analogie of faith which Saint Paule maketh mention of 12. Rom. But that there is a certaine compasse of discenting varying in the Church of God so that it be within the boundes What meaneth that mariage garmentes of the Church her selfe 45. Psalme which Salomons wife no doubt did shadowe out vnto vs. The Quéene stoode on the right hande in a vesture of golde wrought about with diuerse colours and what meaneth that néedle worke that followeth all the glorie of the kinges daughter is within In a vesture of golde wrought with néedle worke shall shee be brought vnto the king What I say meane all these varieties all these diuersities all these néedle workes but wholely a diuersitie of iudgementes and as it were the soft stinginges of Bées one towardes an other which make the Lordes honny And yet al this without death without destruction without damnation Therefore in vaine crie our aduersaries and vrge this as Hercules dart Luther and Caluine do dissent concerning the Lordes Supper Therefore if Luther bee saued Caluine is damned Therefore in vaine doe many whisper this into the eares of the simple people they striue amongest them selues and that very bitterly of certaine rites and ceremonies of the Church of abuses of Ecclesiasticall matters of the garment of this Quéene Therefore their religion is nought and no credite is to be giuen to their Sermons therefore there is no trueth amongest them For say they there is but one trueth and that simple and peaceable In déede to confesse the trueth they striue of the vesture of the Quéene that is to saye of Sacrifices and Ceremonies but not of the life of faith they quarrell amongest them selues in déede of the building vppon of golde and siluer and precious stones but not of the foundation of Iesus Christ For truely besides faith in Iesus Christ all the other pointes of our religion are but the garmentes ornamentes exercises iewelles badges fruites companions waiting maydes of this our mother of true religion Not her substance not her life not her saluation And therefore first of all as concerning faith onely sayeth our Prophet Habakuck The iust shall liue by faith and the same saying the Apostle Saint Paule repeateth often after him The first to the Romaines the seuentéenth verse and the third Chapter to the Galathians and the tenth to the Hebrewes as an vndoubted trueth without any addition of workes or any thing else And our Sauiour Christ him selfe teacheth vs the same thing Hée that beléeueth in me though he were dead shall liue And hee that beléeueth not shall bée damned And also the Apostle Saint Iohn Hee that hath the sonne hath life But as concerning Sacramentes the Apostle Paule to the Galathians sayth as manie as are Baptised haue put on Iesus Christ And of good workes the same Apostle sayeth to the Collossians Put vpon you as the elect of GOD bowelles of mercie c. And to the Hebrewes of the same he sayth But wee hope better of you and thinges accompanying saluation Therefore workes accompanie saluation they are not saluation it selfe And godlinesse hee calleth the beste exercise and circumcision a seale of righteousnesse These names doe declare the nature of all these Then truth in déede is but one but as long as shée is here on earth shee is not without a veale without a mufler If truth were so easie to be mette withall then all labour of séeking of searching of studying was but in vaine If eyther the Church it selfe at anie time could embrace trueth in her perfect age absolute in all respectes then there should bee no increase of knowledge as long as we liue here in this worlde The which growing in knowledge that it should be in vs all the Apostles Peter and Paule doo verie earnestly exhort and commande If the millitant Church heere on earth coulde clyme vp to the highest degrée of knowledge then in vaine were that perfection in knowledge and not proper to the triumphant Church in heauen But as yet the Scriptures are to be searched of vs day and night besides the light which the fathers haue left vs They are written for our further learning and instruction As the Church of the Israelites had many mansions and going forwardes euen till it came to the boundes of the lande

of Canaan to that lande of the Lordes rest so no doubt the Churche of God shall haue as long as it is in this wildernesse vntill it come to the verye limitres of that spirituall lande of promise I meane the kingdome of heauen in this wildernesse though it haue some abode some stoppes some stayes as yet no continuall reste no continuall stoppe prefixed no not of knowledge In this vaile of darkenesse wee haue onely shadowes Images darke spéeches parables degrées gresings as it were of knowledge of thinges But on the toppe of a hill whether wee shall ascende there is a perfection of all thinges the absolute knowledge of the thinges them selues the verie naked face of trueth the highest degrée the verie crowne of vnderstanding and knowlenge her selfe Why therefore do we maruaile here the diuerse searchings of men after the diuerse degrées of knowledge and vnderstanding the diuerse leuelinges and roauings of many although at the marke ye sometimes beside the marke But as long as they shoote at one marke that is to say Iesus Christ as long as they tread his way of truth as long as they séeke for Iesus Christ and preach him as long as they beare no weapons against him and the saluation which he purchased with his owne bloud they are to be borne withall they are not to be condemned they are not to be forbiddē they are to be admitted as souldiers into his campe but besides all these things how vnequally they weigh all things here and how smally do they consider in all artes the Lordes diuerse wayes and iudgements Of Phisitions in diseases of the bodie diuerse medicines are prescribed in one disease Shall wee therefore condemne Phisicke Also of lawyers in the selfe same cause there are diuerse allegations diuerse proceedinges sometimes diuerse sentences shall we therefore abrogate lawes shall we not vse the helpes and counsailes of both these in our necessities and causes This varietie is mans frailtie from whence commeth that olde Prouerbe As many heads as many deuises as many men so many mindes Nay in my opinion this varietie is a certaine print or footesteppe of the Image of God left and is yet remayning in the minde of man That of the same matter of the same cause of the same theame two excellent wise well learned men shall neuer write thinke or speake the same things But diuerse and yet truth sondrie and yet excellent Of such sentences in the same causes of such diuerse handling of the same matter verie excellently of diuerse men wee haue many examples But to let this passe in this thing me thinkes the great wisdome of our heauenly Father most clearely appeareth who as in the faces of so many men being such a small part in so many countries thorough so many ages hath put a beautifull kinde of difference so that of countriemen of kinsmen of twinnes there is no two one like another in euerie respect And yet all their countenances very comely and beautifull euen so likewise in the minde of man he hath put a certaine comely and deuine difference that they shall thinke and speake and deuise diuersely and yet all to the purpose and yet cunningly and yet wisely Neither this thing onely clearely appeareth in all artes and in the workemanshippe of God the Father but also in the diuine inspiration and wonderfull framing of the holy scriptures by the holy spirite As in the writinges of the Prophets and Euangelistes there is a most beautifull harmonie So there is also a pleasant varietie and a wise diuersitie intermingled The fathers also had among themselues this varietie of opinions and diuerse interpretations of places of scripture as wee may see in their workes yet for all this those fathers which were at discention amongest themselues were not by and by Heretikes and damned and iudged to hell fire Our Sauiour Iesus Christ called himselfe a vine and all his branches And the Apostle S. Paule calleth him an Olife and vs all wilde Olifes which should be grafted in him Now wee see in the vine and in the Olife that all branches do not growe out straight nor of one side nor are all of like height but some are crooked some are straight some are heigh some are lowe some are stretched foorth some are bowed in yet all are fast in the roote all are fixed in the bodie all are partakers of the sappe and this diuersitie of the bowghes is the beautie of the trée So truly in the vine Iesus Christ in the true Olife although all his branches be not plaine although all his bowes be not straight although all his grafts be not lowe yet as long as they remaine in the vine as long as they are partakers of that sappe which commeth from the roote and as long as the wordes of Iesus remaine in them and by faith they are grafted in him yet they liue all both crooked and straight both stretched out drawen in both high and lowe and they flourish without doubt neither do they wither neither as they which hate the Gospell would gladly haue them are they cast out into the fire This crookednesse of the boughes as it is manifest in euery mans eies and apparant so they are not ashamed to confesse it with their owne mouthes but the roote is as certaine and the grafting in as sure and the vnitie or ioyning with the stocke no lesse manifest The faith of the Gospell is that thing by the which alone we are grafted into the truth As the Apostle teacheth vs plainely in the 10. of the Romaines An incredulitie or vnbeliefe is that thing by the which the Iewes although they were olde men and fathers and kinne to Christ Iesus according to the flesh were broken off Hereof then is the life of the bowghes wherefore although some of them be so farre stretched out a sunder that they cannot bee brought together although other some do growe a loft and will bowe to none being wise in their owne eyes although other some be crooked being made crooked of the craftie serpent and being turned out of the straight way of the lawe of the Lorde yet as long as they haue this grafting in of fayth as long as they drawe that liuely sappe from the roote as long as the wordes of Iesus remaine in them as long as they beléeue them loue them reade them muse on them day and night so long they are branches so long the children of Abraham so long boughes of the true Olife Let our aduersaries take héede here which doe offende at the very knotte of the grafting which deuide and part in sunder their fayth which do not sucke onely the sappe of Iesus Christ that is his words as necessary to their saluation but also the Popes colde water and the vaine doctrines of men and the vncertaine traditions of their fathers Let them take héede I say least they waxe rotten least the barke of the stocke do not couer them least they be not safe and