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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18980	A briefe discourse of mans transgression [an]d of his rede[mption by Christ, with a particular surueigh of the Romish religion]	Clement, Francis.	1593 (1593)	STC 5399.8; ESTC S3116	50,810	106

we are the childrē of god 1 Ioh. 5 10. Rom 8. ve 9. 15. Eph. 1 13 we delight in the law of God take no pleasure in sin Heb. 11. 25. but are grieued with sin 2. Pet. 2 8. and say with S. Paul I do not the good thing which I would but the euil which I would not Rom. 8 19. And euery one whose heart and conscience can truly thus perswade him is vndoubtedly the elected child of God Where contrarily the reprobate delite in sin because they are of the world Ioh. 8 23. therfore loue the world Ioh. 15 19. the things of the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and pride of life 1 Ioh. 2. v. 15. 16. And shal receiue the wages of vnrighteousnesse as they which count it pleasure to liue delitiously for a season 2 Pet. 2 13. affections Col. 3 2. and consult no longer with flesh and blood but enter into counsell with thine owne soule for the apprehending of this eternall life which life for the maruellous excellencie thereof being that hid treasure that precious pearle Matth. 13. verse 44. 46 can not be sufficiently expressed by all the glory of the world The holy Ghost chusing out the most precious things that nature can affoord to describe vnto vs the heauenly Ierusalem our euerlasting citie saith thus The citie was pure gold like cleare glasse the foundations of the wall thereof were garnished with all maner of precious stones the gates of perle the streets of pure gold c. It needeth neither Sunne nor Moone to shine in it for the glorie of God did light it The people which are saued shal walk in the light of it the kings of the earth shall bring their glorie and honour vnto it Reu. 21 18 c. O how excellent things are spoken of thee thou citie of God Psa 87 2. The eye hath not seene nor the eare heard neither came into mans heart the glorious things which God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2 9. These maruellous things as Saint Peter saith the Angels desired to prie into 1 Pet. 1 12. For indeede the Angels receiued first knowledge of Gods eternal wisdome and purpose in Christ concerning these things by the Church Ephs 3 10. And euery creature with feruent desire wayteth when the sonnes of God shall be reuealed Rom. 8 19 shine as the sunne in the kingdome of their father Mat. 13 43. For although we be now the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus Gal. 3 26 yet doth it not now appeare what we shal be 1 Ioh. 3 2. because that through Christian mortification 2 Cor. 4. verse 10. 11. and 5 15. wee are in this world as dead and our life is hid with Christ in God but when Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall we also appeare with him in glorie Col. 3 3 c. For the Lord Iesus Christ shall chaunge our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie Phil. 3 21. and then we shall see him as he is 1 Ioh. 3 2. Moses vpō mount Horeb sawe but some glimse of the shadowed maiestie of God for else no man hath seene God in his essentiall glorie at anie time Ioh. 1 18 and the skin of his face so shone withall that neither the Israelites nor Aaron him selfe were able to looke vpon him vntil he had put a visour ouer his face Exod. 34 29 c. Elias also vpon the same mount at Gods visible presence couered his face with his mantell 1 King 19. verse 8. 13. And of all other Moses was once so hardie that he desired the Lord to shew him his very diuine maiestie but that request obtained would haue cost him his life and in mercie therefore it was denied him Exod. 33 18 c. But what speake we of mans disabilitie in this behalfe Neither the Angels them selues are able to behold the Lord in his full maiestie nor men to endure euen the sight of an angel as we see prefigured by the face and feeet-couering in Isayes vision Isa 6 2. Seeing then after this life we shall alway haue the fruition of this excellent and heauenly glorie which now neither men nor Angels can sustaine not vpon an earthly mountaine in a material Tabernacle with Peter Mat. 17 4 but in Heauen in that precious and heauenly Ierusalem Heb. 12 22. with God the Father the Sonne and the holy Spirit that most blessed and glorious Trinitie in whose presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for euermore Psal 16 11. together with all the goodly companie of Angels Zech. 3 7. Heb. 12 22. and holy Saintes Mat. 8 11. seeing I say we looke for new heauens and a new earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnes 2. Pet. 3 13. and for such a kingdome Luk. 12 32. for he is faithfull that hath promised Hebr. 10 23. what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse looking for and hasting vnto the cōming of the great day of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to iudgement giuing diligence that we may be found in him in peace without spot and blameles 2. Pet. 3 11 c. And in the meane time let Moses shewe vs the shortnes of this life Psal 90 10. And that couetous foole in S. Luke teach vs that the incerteinty therof is more daungerous then the shortnes Luk. 12 20. let vs vse this world as though we vsed it not 1. Cor. 7 31 for the fashion thereof is as chaungable as our garment Psal 102 26. Let the holy ghost perswade vs to carie our selues without couetousnes and to be content with those thinges Reade Mat. 6 25 c. and Psal 37. which we haue for he hath said I will not faile thee neither forsake thee so that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper neither will I feare what man can do vnto me Heb. 13. verse 5. 6. And for our continuall assured hope of the glorious life to come let vs reioyce in the Lord alway Philip. 4 4. Let vs cast away euery thing that presseth downe and the sinne that hangeth so fast on let vs runne with pacience the race that is set before vs looking vnto Iesus the author finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse despised shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God Hebr. 12. verse 1. 2. This Iesus being the fore-runner for vs is entred into heauen Hebr. 6 20. and gone to prepare a place for vs Ioh. 14 2. where we haue alreadie an interest by Christ our head as hauing our conuersation with him in heauen from whence we looke for the sauiour euen our Lord Iesus Christ Phil. 3 20. Who shall then separate vs frō the loue of Christ shal tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill

BRIEFE DIS●●●●●● 〈…〉 Imprinted at London by Richard F●●●●●●elling in the Blacke Friers near Lud●●●● MDXCIII TO THE CHRISTIAN Reader grace and peace in Christ Iesus WHen it pleased the Lord in a mercifull and gentle correction to lay his fatherly rod of sicknesse and mortalitie in Autumne last vpon this Citie of London the schooles there both publike and priuate soone after as it vvas requisite began to breake-vp VVhereupon the Teachers vvere generally at more leysure to follovv that course of practise after the diuerse studies of their seuerall professions vvhich euery one affected Among vvhom my selfe purposed likevvise to publish somevvhat of my priuate readings as leysure gaue leaue in diuinitie VVherein this discourse I entred the rather for the behoofe and benefite of my Scholers to vvhom as their young yeares vvere able and capacities apt to conceiue I haue vsed to interpret a portion of the nevve Testament by the space of an houre euery Saboth in the morning before Common prayer vvherby I might the better both traine them to * remember Eccles 12 1. novv their Creator in the dayes of their youth and instill into their tender minds the vvonderfull consonancie concord of many notable sentēces vvith the vvord of God vvhich novve and then met thē in their vveekly lectures of * The study of humanitie is a dead darke and erronious labor without the knowledge of Diuinitie wherby it is quickned enlightened rectified and so it becommeth easie pleasant and profitable to the students humanitie and vvithall bring thē in disliking of other discord and vnseasonable speeches vvhich commonly in some Poets are vvithout all modesty But besides these the learned vvell knovv vvhat excellent sayings most consonant and conspiring vvith the vvord of God are scattered in heathen authors Greeke and Latine vvhich it vvere a great fault in the maister either lightly to ouerpasse vvith silence as vnprofitable or to leaue his scholers ignorant of those maruellous lights of Nature vvhich the Lord had left among the Heathen to the intent that they should be vvithout * Rom. 1 4. excuse euen testimonies of his vvill according to his vvritten vvord vttered by their ovvne mouthes hovvsoeuer yet the same vvere quickly quenched and vtterly turned to mere * Ro. 1 21. Eph. 4 17. mataeologie and foolish thoughts through the vanitie of their darke hearts and mindes For albeit they had the Shepherds Kalender or Plovv-mans alphabet of the vvorld vvherein vvas vvritten in great capitall letters that euery vnlearned man among them might plainly read * Rom. 1 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that vvhich may be * In steed of this knowledge of god is publikely protested by an ancient Record the ignorance of God and that in a solemne Altar at Athens their chiefe Vniuersity of learning wisdom Act. 17 23. See the cause why Rom. 1. v. 21. 24. 28. known of God as the Apostle vvell noteth to the Romans vvhich might haue taught them as much in effect for the true and distinct knovvledge of the godhead as the Lavve and vvord of God did instruct the Ievves Rom. 2 15. For by the very sight of the visible heauens ouer their heads declaring the glorious excellencie of the maker Psal 19 1. they might euidently see and certainly discerne his * Rom. 1 20. deitie and Godhead likevvise his * 1. Cor. 1 21. wisedome the sonne of God * Psal 136 5. Prou. 3 19. and 8 27. c. Heb. 1 2. by vvhom the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all the creatures in them the secōd person in Trinitie And his * Rom. 1 20. eternall povver the holy Ghost * Genes 1 2. mouing and extending ouer all creatures * Hebr. 1 3. sustaining comforting and conseruing them the third person also in that diuine Trinitie Albeit I say they might clearely see that this God that created heauen and earth the sea and all things that in them are * Act. 14 15. c. left not him selfe vvithout vvitnesse amōg them in that he did them good * Matth. 5 45 made his sunne to arise vpon them and gaue them raine from heauen and frutefull seasons filling their hearts vvith food and gladnesse * Act. 17 25. c. giuing to all life and breath and all things for in him vve liue and moue and haue our being as also certaine of their ovvne Poets haue sayd yet vvere they so far from Dauids thoughts vpon the vievv of these heauens vvho in holy meditation confessed thus vnto God * Psal 8 3. c. VVhen I behold thy heauens euen the vvorks of thy fingers the Moone and the stars vvhich thou hast ordeined vvhat is man think I that thou art mindfull of him the son of man that thou visitest him c. that contraryvvise they * Psal 32 9. like the horse and mule vvhich vnderstand not * Rom. 1 25. turned the truth of God vnto a lye and vvorshipped the creature forsaking the Creator vvhich is blessed for euer And so vvhiles they * Rom. 1 22. 1. Cor. 1 22. professed them selues to be vvise they became starke fooles as the Apostle also vvitnesseth These heathen vve haue in this our Discourse declared vvho they vvere vvhat time they vvere seuered hovv long they continued separate from Gods people and by vvhom and hovve they vvere called and recōciled to their brethren againe Of them therfore here vvill I vvrite no more but this vvhen in the yeare of the vvorld 3577 Alexander the great had subdued the Medes and Persians many other nations as vve haue briefly touched in this treatise the Greeke tongue vvhich though 600 years before that time it vvas very famous and florishing as may specially appeare by Homers vvorks for all the honor both of learning and Nature yet then chiefly began to be generally studied in all the vvorld insomuch that euery nation as they vvere subiect to the Grecians so they coueted chiefly to come in fauour by speaking their language But after that the Romanes had brought vnder the Grecians vvere also conquerors of the vvorld the Latin tongue likevvise grevv to be cōmon among all nations vvhich held on til the coming of Christ VVherfore Pilat the Lord guiding his vvauering mind and pen both for the matter maner was not content to vvrite Christs Title in Luke 23. 38. Hebrue the Ievves tongue only but in Greeke and Latine the tongues of the heathen also that so it might appeare though Pilate thought of no such mysterie that asvvel the Gentiles heathen as the nation of the Ievves vvere to take notice reap benefit of Christs death and passion Novv the Theme or purport of my vvriting I desired such as might be both most necessarie for all sortes and least handled of any in particular VVhich thing in this kinde of studie in these our days vvherin mouing and vvorking in vs conceiue comfortable hope