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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18915	The discription of a true visible Christian right confortable & profitable for all such as are distressed in sowle about present controversies in the churche. Dravven by He. Cl. but published by occasion (as will appeare in the epistle) by Io. I.	Clapham, Henoch.; Joope, John.	1599 (1599)	STC 5337; ESTC S111143	14,116	32

amongst mē there is giuen no other Name vnder heauen vvherby vve must be saued And therefore not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name we giue prayse As he came thus to saue his people euen all the father had giuen him accordinge to election not works so Of that nomber this Sovvle beleiveth it to be The former beleif and Confession is only Generall and so farre togither with many particulars flowing from thence the devels and many of reprobate mankinde do comprehend to the effecting and making vp of a true visible Christian therefore is required A particular application of the former mercy exhibited in Christ Iesus The first beleif and confession it is of Logitians termed the Generall or Matter whereof a visible Christian consists but this seconde namely the particular or personall application of the former it is termed the Difference or Forme because it differenceth the thing from other things by his forme euen as the forme of an howse doth difference the howse from tyber and stone lying loose and vnapplyed togither which in such vnmortised estate may be termed the matter of an howse but not called an howse because the different forme is lackinge Both the parts of this definition nor is any thing truly defined without them two blessed Paul layeth downe for himself thus Christ Iesus came into the vvorld to saue synners that is the Generall the Difference foloweth thus of vvhome I am cheife that is the Annoynted Saviour came to saue his people that lay captiued in Syn of which nomber he was thus to saue I beleiue my self to be One Which poynt of apprehēding fayth as it is the fre worke of God his spirit through the ministry of the ghospell so the same Apostle testifies that the testimony to be giuen vnto all the true Christians saying The same spirit beareth vvitnes to our spirit that vve are the Children off GOD. I knoe very well that our iustification with God it lyeth rather in our being comprehended of Christ then in our comprehending of him so farre is all merit from vs but it is impossible we shold be comprehended of Christ and neuer haue intelligence thereof by his word and spirit for Christ is not tongueles and he lookes the Saued shold prayse his father for such a mercy and impossible as before that such can be possessed of the spirit ād not vtter theyr faith vnto others So much for faith Generall and Particular Now followeth the fruites Secondly such a sowle professeth it self willing to stand subiect to the saviours lawes as by the Ministry of the word shalbe revealed vnto it Having Hope of salvation administred by the ministrie of faith such a Sowle cannot but promise obedience to the Author and Finisher of his sayth Christ Iesus as also to square obedience vnto his Saviours hests alone The equity whereof Ioshua the figure of Iesus who is to seat vs in heauēs Canaan where he is gone to prepare Mansions for his trybes he vrgeth it to Israel the type of the Catholike Church who willingly agayne and againe to the Lo. his Minister professed themselues bound to the Lord alone and that him alone they wold serue And the holy man David for tyinge the ronagate heart vnto dutifull obedience he bynds it to the Goodabearinge thus I haue sworne and will performe it that I will keep thy righteous iudgments And because such a vowe may be currant I adde And this only for bringing glory to the father in heauen Obedience is not promised to the end the promiser shall merit thereby for our Merit-obedience fully and wholely abideth in Christ but that by such orderly cariage specially God may receive glorie from the mouths of Many who beholde such conversation according to that our Saviour Let your lighte so shyne before men as they may se your good works glorify your father which is in heauen And that of the Apostle Paul Whatsoeuer ye do do all to the glory of God So that vowe of obedience and obedience it self all is alone to be referred vnto the Lord his glorie seing his Glory is the end of all things Thus much touching a visible Christian vnbaptized who by reason of such fayth and avowed allegiance cannot but couet baptisme nor may be denyed Baptisme Who as he is by the ministrie of Som begotten vnto the fayth so is he not to refuse the seale of his fayth by such ministrie euen as the Males vnder the lawe received Circumcision by the ministrie of theyr Parents And such subiection is due vnder payne of being cut of from Israel I meane such refusers of Baptisme by the ministry of such as haue begot them notwithstanding all other protestations of fayth and obedience they are to stand excommunicate to the Church because they rebell agaynst the glorious seale of entring into the Church for so they cast themselues out of the Covenant whereinto they were entred by such a spirituall Parent NOW touching the Baptized somwhat The former two poynts of fayth and confession they being essentiall to vs-ward for visible Christianity they at no hand may be lacking in the Baptized Wherevnto I also adde being so com vnder the outwarde Couert of the Church it is of absolute necessity that they be found in the Catholike Church holding communion with som particular congregation although the same assembly be as a member passing corrupt and vlcerous Touching spirituall defects we are to admonish but not in paine of death to forsake the fellowship according to that of the Ho. Gh. vnto the Hebrues Let vs consider one another to provooke vnto loue to good works not forsaking the fellowship we haue amongest our selues as the maner of som is but let vs exhort that somuch the more because ye se the day draweth nere For if we syn willingly that is forsake the fayth and fellowschip afore spoke of after we haue received knowledge of the truth there remayneth no more sacrifice for synnes Now though the cawse of a Schismatike yet retayning the fayth in opynton it be not so incurable as his who schismes both from the Church and apostates from the fayth yet that meere schismatike withdrawes vnto perdition And therefore as the Lords sowle shall haue no pleasure in such so the Author of that epistle cleares himself and others of such iudgment thus But we are not they which withdravve our selues vnto perdition but followe faith vnto conservation of the sowle Nor doth Iohn 〈…〉 e them otherwise then s●●ing Euen now are many Anti-christes they vvent out from vs but they were not of vs for if they had bene of vs they would haue continued with vs. Nor can they be otherwise then opposit vnto Christ seing they are opponed to the Body of Christe though it may be cloked with a zeale agaynst the vlcers in Iobs body I meane the corrupted Church For if there can be no true

yea in all those that were pricked in the heart at Peters sermon at Iohn Baptists sermon or at the preachinge of anie who haue begotten faith by the blessed worde By the way therefore to say that the Church which consistes of manie beleiuers it hath bene somtymes wholy invisible it is passing false For as none can be members of Christ without faith and there cannot be such apprehendinge iustifying faith without preaching of the Evangell and that cannot so be preached of anie except they be sent of God so all this cannot be without externall Confession of the same faith according to that of Peter and Iohn we cannot but speak the things which we haue seen heard Now what is it that such do confesse they beleiue That Iesus Christ son of the liuing God is com As before his comming it was required man shold beleiue He shold com for so was he darkly preached to Adam more plainly to Abram but far more openly by the Prophets to auncient mother Zion so synce his manifestation it is required mankynd confesse they beleiue He is com The not beleif whereof is cawse the Iewes stand reiected Nor can they be regraffed into the body of the Church vntill they se and confesse lamenting-wise that already He is com and pearced But vpon such sight ād confession they shall haue the fountaine opened vnto them for syn and vncleannes to the expellinge of the false prophet The literall vayle of Moses so removed the Catholike bodie of Israel shall so be saued And whereas the Gentiles labour and are like still to labour of spirituall errour by the leaues then of that naturall tre the faithfull of the nations shalbe healed Who therefore wisheth an end to contentiō arising from such errour let them pray that the kingdom may quicly be restored to that naturall Israel Which Iesus in english Sauiour must be confessed the Christ in english Annoynted in hebrue Messiah that is that blessed One which from Adams fall was frely promised of God to be sent in tyme for sauinge his people from theyr synnes Which work of salvation he accomplished by prophecy sacrifice and invisible powre weakly fore-figured by the annoynted Prophets Preists and Rulers giuen to Auncient Israel For how can anie be sayd to haue faith in him that confesse not they beleiue him to be that One which saueth his people as the Lord had appoynted Nor can this be without beleyuing him to be the Son of the liuing GOD the beleif whereof is sayd not to com by the Revelation off flesh and Blood but by our father which is in heauen And vppon the confession of this Philip baptised the Eunuch Nor is this to be marvayled at seing the epithet Livinge it distinguisheth the true GOD from all false Gods and the beleiving Iesus to be his Son sent for sauing such as com vnto God by him it is to flesh and blood vnreasonable And that we se in the Iues who held it blasphemy or an euell speach in him to make himself the Son of God To haue made himself the Son of God but only in regard of this obedience to God that they wold not terme an euell speach for they thought so of themselues and theyr princes but teaching himself so to be Son as he is and euer was one with the father that is the same for essence and eternity of essence that they helde blasphemie The impossibility of beleiving this Son-ship is to be considered in the following words Com in our Nature This nature of Man body and sowle assumed of him this the Iues sawe but that nature whereby he was the only begotten of the father figured in Isaac thonly begotten of Abram hy-father that the naturallcy sawe not and therefore beleiued not The humaine nature was not in question amongst the Iues for that they verily sawe ād felt without ani guiste of faith but to acknowledge this visible nature assumed of the former invisible nature that required the fathers revelation as the humaine nature the mothers declaration And this nature was figured by the Ramme that was sacrificed for Isaac And both of them foretyped by the two Hegoates whereof the One died Body in his kynd and the sowle in his kynde both being but Man and death otherwise raigning ouer both which a late writer shold haue obserued before herein he had so easilie contradicted the Auntients that One died for satisfying Iehouah for Israels synnes although with Ionah it came out of the earths wombe not feeling corruption thother scaped but the Sowle which som wold haue only to be typed hereyn it by lot was with the bodie caught and throwen into the Seas off God his boyling indignation so far was it from scapinge thother scaped carying Syn as Captiuity captiue into the place cut of from the habitation of Synners And yet in this same humaine nature touching the manner of generation the reason of faith is also required For that cawse I adde By the holy Ghost his ouershadowing c. As by the spirit of God his mouth ech treature first had existence so for causing this glorious manhood in the first fruites of our nature that was to be vnited with the Godhead for euer the same eternall spirit called also the spirit of Christ because he procedeth both from Father and Son he ouershadowes the Virgin and is Agent to her seede patient for the Manhoods existence That womans seede shold conquer the Head of the serpent that in Abrams seede not seedes all Nation̄s shold be blessed that a virgin shold conceiue and bring forth a Son whose name shold be Gnimmanuel c. God with vs wonderfull Counsailour the might God the euerlasting Father Prince of peace c. all this was preached of old but the mysterie touching the manner of his Conception that was concealed till his comminge And yet this mysterie was before preached vnder couert shadowes For as our Sauiour him self was foretyped in Isaac Samson and Samuel so we se theyr mothers Satah Monahs wife and Hannah to bring forth not by naturall course though Nature not reiected but by promise and Grace Touching the end of whose comming this must be confessed That it vvas for the absolute salvation of his people That he came to saue it was noted from his name Iesus but it must be confessed that his worke is absolute that this that to the beginning continuance and endinge thereof he hath no One to help or vpholde that according to that his speach in Isaiah I am mighty to saue I haue trod the vvynepresse alone of all the people hearken Meritmonger there vvas none vvith me And I looked and there vvas none to help and I vvondred that there vvas none to vpholde therefore myne ovvne arme helped me my vvrath it self sustayned me And this is the same which Peter teacheth thus Nor is there salvation in any other for