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A68236	The third booke of commentaries vpon the Apostles Creede contayning the blasphemous positions of Iesuites and other later Romanists, concerning the authoritie of their Church: manifestly prouing that whosoeuer yeelds such absolute beleefe vnto it as these men exact, doth beleeue it better then Gods word, his Sonne, his prophets, Euangelists, or Apostles, or rather truly beeleeues no part of their writings or any article in this Creede. Continued by Thomas Iackson B. of Diuinitie and fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 3	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 14315; ESTC S107489	337,354	346

High Priest of our profession Christ Iesus who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him euen as Moses was in all his house For this man is counted worthie of more glory then Moses in as much as hee which hath builded the house hath more honour then the house Now Moses verily was faithfull in all his house as a seruant for a witnesse of the things which should be spoken after but Christ is as the sonn● ouer his owne house whose house wee are If seuerally wee sort our people or Ministers with theirs as the Apostles successors with Aarons the preheminence both wayes is ours Notwithstanding this excesse of our Ministers glory whether ordinary or extraordinary compared with the like of theirs is not so great as the preeminences of Christs flocke aboue the people of the Synagogue Yet must all excesse of in spirituall graces which the ordinary hearers of the Gospell haue the ordinary hearers of the law be subducted from that prerogatiue which wee that are Christs messengers haue in respect of Aarons successors ere we can take a right account of our own authority ouer our flock committed to vs in comparison of theirs ouer the ancient people Computatis computandis our soueraignety will proue lesse not greater as our aduersaries confusedly reckon without their host Their pretended glosses that all such places of Scripture as make for the authority of Moses chaire conclude á fortiori for Saint Peters because the New Testament is more glorious then the old are as if a man should argue thus The ancient Roman and moderne German are States far●e more noble then the Turkish or Moscouitish therefore the Romane Consuls had more absolute authority ouer the people or the present Emperour ouer the Princes and States of Germany then the Turke hath ouer his Bashawes or the Moscouit ouer his Vassals 3 The glory of a common weale or praise of gouernement consists in the ingenuitie or ciuill libertie not in the slauery or seruile condition of the gouerned or in their voluntary obsequiousnesse to wholesome lawes proportioned to common good not in their absolute subiection to the omnipotent will of an vnruly Tyrant subiect to no law but the law of sinne Our Sauiours authority ouer his Disciples was more soueraigne then is befitting any to vsurpe or challenge ouer his fellow seruants his kingdome more glorious after his resurrection then before yet a little before his suffering hee saith to his Disciples Yee are my friends if ye doe whatsoeuer I command you Henceforth call I you not seruants for the seruant knoweth not what his Master doth but I haue called you friends for all things that I haue heard of my Father haue I made knowne to you It is the very conceit of the base degenerate dissolute sottish later heathen Romane more delighted in such gaudy shewes as his luxurious Emperours made happily once or twice in their whole raigne then in the valour and vertue of his victorious free-born Ancestors that to this day swims in the Iesuites braine and makes him dreame the royalty of Christian Priest-hood or glory of the Gospell should consist wholly or chiefly in the magnificent pompe of one visible high Priest or Oecumenicall Bishoppe for garnishing of whose Court the whole Body of Christ besides must bee content to spend their liues goods or substances and as his occasion shall require to pawne their very soules as younglings will bee at any cost or paines they can deuise to decke vp a Lord of the Parish a victor in a Grammer schoole or as merry fellowes wil be ready to spend more then their incomes will defray to haue a gallant Lord of misrule of their owne making 4 But they demand Wherein doth the Pope aspire aboue the pitch of Moses throne He desires but to he reputed an infallible teacher and was not Moses such yet not such after the same maner He approued himselfe perpetually infallible because alwaies found most faithfull in all affaires belonging to God but had it beene possible for him to haue worshipped the golden Calfe to haue eaten the offerings of the dead or to haue ioyned himselfe to Baal-Peor The Leuites and such as claue vnto the Lord in these Apostasies would haue sought Gods will at more sanctified lips then his at least for that time were If then wee consider him not as he might haue been but as indeed hee proued the peoples obedience vnto him was de facto perpetuall and compleat yet but conditionally perpetuall but conditionally compleat or perpetually compleat vpon their sight and vndoubted experience of his extraordinary familiarity with God of his intire fidelity in all his seruice The Pope would bee proclaimed so absolutely infallible by irreuocable pattent or inheritance as no breach of Gods commandements no touch of disloyalty to Christ in actions might breede a forfeyture of his estate or estrange Christian consciences from yeelding obedience to him euery way as compleat and absolute as that which the people of God performed vnto Moses or Christians doe yet vnto their Sauiour Whence though we admit Moses infallibility and his to be the same yet the difference betweene the absolutenesse of their authority or the tenour or holds of this same infallibility would be such as is betweene a Tenant at will or one that enioyes a faire estate perhaps all his life time yet onely by continuance of his Lords good liking of his faithfull seruice a Freeholder that cannot by any act of fellony murther treason or the like forfeit his interest in as large possessions 5 Againe albeit the authority gotten or manner of holding it were the same yet the manner of getting it in Moses and the Pope is not alike The one profers no miracle for the purchase no signe from heauen no admirable skill in expounding Gods word his calling hee professeth to bee but ordinary and in this respect say his followers hee was to succeed Saint Peter Moses not such nor so affected his miracles were many and great the signes tokens of his especiall fauour with God almost infinite his calling extraordinarily extraordinary otherwise that obedience the people performed to him had beene no lesse then desperate Idolatry as the challenge of the like without like proofe euidence of such fauour with God is no better then blasphemie or Apostasie Hence saith S. Austen the people of Israel did belieue Moses lawes were from God after another maner then the Lacedemonians did Lycurgus lawes were from Apollo For when the Law which enioines the worshippe of one God was giuen vnto the people it did appeare as farre forth as the diuine prouidence did iudge suff●cient by strange signes and motions whereof the people themselues were spectators that the creature did performe seruice to the Creator for the giuing of that Law But wee must belieue as firmely as this people did Moses that all the Popes iniunctions are giuen by God himselfe without any other signe or testimonie then the Lacedemonians

and had no need that any should testifie of man He knew such as vpon these glimpses of his glory were presently so stifly set to belieue in him vpon hopes of being fed with dainties or mighty protection against the Heathen would bee as violently bent against him euen to crucifie him for a seducer after they had discouered his constant endeuours to bring them both by life and doctrine vnto conformity with his crosse mortification humility contempt of the world patience in affliction with other like qualities despiseable in the worlds eyes yet maine principles in his schoole and elementary grounds of saluation so his countrimen of Nazareth sodainly admiring the gratious words which proceeded out of his mouth after hee begunne to vpbraid them with vnthankefulnes as speedily attempt to throw him headlong from the toppe of the hill wherein their City was built By this it may appeare that of the Iewish people in ancient times some did sinne in beeing backeward others in an immature forwardnesse to belieue propheticall doctrines But the fountaines or first heads whence these swift motions of life were depraued in the one was inordinate affection or intrinsique habitual corruption the roote whence such deadnesse was deriued into the actions of the other was hardnes of heart precedent neglect of Gods word and ignorance of his wayes thence ensuing Which presupposed the parties so affected did not amisse in not beleeuing the true Prophets without examination but in not abandoning such dispositions as disenabled them for belieuing all parts of truth proposed with constancy and vniformity making them fitte instruments to be wrought vpon by seducers Hence saith our Sauiour I come in my fathers name and ye receiue me not if another shall come in his owne name him will yee receiue How can yee belieue which receiue honour one of another and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone Nor Propheticall nor Apostolicall nor Messiacall much lesse could Papall authority make them belieue the doctrine of life intirely and sincerely whilest their hearts were heardned whose hardnes though might easily haue been mollified by laying Moses law vnto them while they were young and tender 4 It is a rule as profitable for our owne information in many points as for refutation of the aduersarie that the commendation of necessary meanes is alwaies included in the commendation of the end which how good or excellent soeuer it bee our desires of it are preposterous all earnest endeauours to attaine it turbulent vnlesse first addressed with proportionable alacrity to follow the meanes that must produce it sober spirites alwayes bound their hopes of accomplishing the one by perfect suruey of their interest in the other as minds truly liberall determine future expences by exact calculation of their present reuenewes Euen in businesses of greatest importance though requiring speediest expedition a wise man will moderate his pace according to the quality of the ground whereon hee goes otherwise the more haste may cause worse speed The Iewes were as wee are bound to belieue truthes proposed without delay but both for this reason most strictly bound to a continuall vniformity of practising diuine precepts already knowne without dispensing with this or that particular though offensiue to our present disposition without indulgence to this or that special time without all priuiledge sought from the pleasure or displeasure of men both bound so to frame our liues and conuersations as to bee instantly able to discerne the truth proposed not by relying vpon their authority that propose it but for it selfe or from a full and liuely though a quicke and speedy apprehension of immediate homogeneall consonancie betweene the externall and the internall word For if any part of Gods word truly dwell in vs though secret it may bee and silent of it selfe yet will it Eccho in our hearts whilest the like reuerberates in our eares from the liue voice of the Ministery Thus had the Iewes hearts beene truely set to Moses law had their soules delighted in the practise of it as in their food they had resounded to the Prophets call as a string though vntouched and vnable to beginne motion of it selfe will yet raise it selfe to an vnison voice or as the soules of heauen answere with like language to others of their owne kind that haue better occasion to beginne the cry In this sense are Christs sheepe said to heare his voice and follow him not euery one that can counterfeit his or his Prophets call 5 The issue of all that hath beene said is that none within the precincts of these times whereof wee now treat from the Law giuen vnto the Gospell were bound to belieue Gods messengers without examination of their doctrine by the precedent written word Onely this difference there was such as had rightly framed their hearts to it did make this triall of Prophetical doctrines as it were by a present taste which others could not without interposition of time to worke an alteration in their distempered affections For this reason do the Prophets alwayes annex Mosaicall precepts of repentance to their predictions of future euents as knowing that if their hearts to whom they spake were turned to God their sight should forthwith bee restored clearely to discerne the truth For further manifestation of the same conclusion it appeares sufficiently from sundry discourses in the former booke that Israels incredulity vnto their Prophets was finally to bee resolued into their neglect their imperfect or partiall obseruance of Moses precepts Wherefore not the liue voice of them whose words in themselues were most infallible and are by the approbation of time with other conspicuous documents of Gods peculiar prouidence preseruing them in diuine estimation so long become an vndoubted rule of life vnto vs but the written word before confirmed by signes and wonders sealed by the euents of times present and precedent was the infallible rule whereby the propheticall admonitions of euery age were to bee tried and examined 6 The words of the best while they spake them were not of like authority as now written they are vnto vs nor were they admitted into the Canon but vpon iust proofe of their diuine authority That one speech which Esay vttered was an axiome so well knowne as might bring all the rest to bee examined before admission To the Law and to the Testimony if they speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them For Gods will already knowne and manifested to the proples consciences was to ouersway the contrary proposals of knowne Prophets though neuer so peremptory Nor was it impossible for Prophets to auouch their owne conceites vnder the name of diuine Reuelations more immediatly sent from God then the Pope pretends witnesse the man of God that went from Iudah to Bethel seduced by his fellow Prophets fained reuelation from an Angell counselling him to diuert into his house contrary to the Lords commandement giuen before The

of the Messias did a many of that City conceiue faith from the womans report but moe because of his own words And they said vnto the woman Now we belieue not because of thy saying for wee haue heard him our selues and know that this is indeed the Christ the Sauiour of the world From the like but more liuely experience of his discouering secrets did his Disciples make that confession Now know wee that thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should aske thee By this we belieue that thou art come out from God 16 The manifestation of this Propheticall spirit did giue life vnto his greatest miracles in working faith for his Disciples belieued in him after his resurrection because he had foretolde his reedefying the temple in three dayes space Which speech of his the foolish Iewes not knowing his body to bee the true temple wherein their God did dwell after a more excellent manner then betweene the Cherubins take as meant of the materiall Temple which had beene 46. yeeres in building But saith Saint Iohn Assoone as he was risen from the dead his Disciples remembred that he thus said vnto them and they belieued the Scripture and the word which Iesus had said Nor did they compare these two together by chance for our Sauiour often inculcated this Methode as of purpose to imprint the former oracle of Isaiah in their hearts To assure them of his going to his father he expresly tels them Now I haue spoken vnto you before it come that whē it is come to passe yee might belieue Foretelling the persecution of his Disciples he addes These things haue I told you that when the howre shall come ye might remember that I told you them That glory likewise which God had professed hee would not giue to any other he foretels should bee giuen him and so demands it as if He that did glorifie and He that was glorified were both one Father Glorifie thy Name Then came there a voice from heauen saying I haue both glorified it and will glorifie it againe How had hee glorified it before By glorifying this great Prophet who did fully expresse but farre exceede Moses in all thinges wherein former Prophets did resemble him but came farre short of him When was hee so glorified At his transfiguration vpon Mount Tabor which none without sacrilegious impiety could haue foretolde as likely to befall himselfe saue hee alone that had not as Moses onely seene the similitude of the Lord but being in the forme of God thought it no robbery to bee equall with him Yet this Prophet of whom we speake though like to his Brethren in shape and substance to assure them hee should come in the glory of his father foretelles his Disciples that some of them should not die vntill they had seene the Kingdome of God come with power which was accomplished in that transfiguration where as Saint Peter witnesseth He receiued of God the father honour and glory when there came such a voyce vnto him from the excellent glory This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased Yea so wel pleased as for his sake the world might henceforth know how ready he was to heare all that through faith in his name should call vpon him euen such as had displeased him most For this cause the Codicill annexed to the diuine will and Testament here signified immediately after to be sealed with the blood of this best beloued soune was that reciprocall duety before intimated in the Law Heare him as is specified by three Euangelists For more publike manifestation of his Maiesty as then reuealed but to a few was that glorious commemoration of it lately mentioned celebrated againe in the audience of the multitude This voice saith our Sauiour came not because of me but for your sakes And in that place againe after his wonted predictions of things should after come to passe as of his victory ouer death he testifies aloud to all the people that he was the great Prophet foretold by Moses sweetly paraphrasing vpon his words And Iesus cried and said He that belieueth in me belieueth not in mee but in him that sent me And if any man heare my words and belieue not I iudge him not for I came not to iudge the world but to saue the world Hee did not accurse such as would not acknowledge his authority or derogated from his person or miracles nor needed he so to do for he that refuseth him and receiueth not his words hath one that iudgeth him the word which he had spoken it shall iudge him in the last day This was that which Moses had said And whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my words which he the great Prophet shall speake in my Name I will require it of him to wit in the last day of accompts For I haue not spoken of my selfe but the Father which sent me hee gaue me a commandement what I should do and what I should speake And I know that his commandement is life euerlasting the things therefore that I speake I speake them so as the Father said vnto me VVhat is this but that speech of Moses improued to it ful value according to the circumstances and signes of those times and as it concerned the Lord and Prince of Prophets I will raise them vp a Prophet frō among their brethren like vnto thee and will put my wordes in his mouth and hee shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaund him 17 This being the last conference our Sauiour was willing to entertaine with the Iewes this his last farewell giuen in Moses words warrants mee to construe that speech of S. Iohns though hee had done so many miracles before them yet belieued they not on him as I haue done the like before to wit that not his miracles considered alone but with Mosaicall and Propheticall writings or common notions of the Messias thence conceiued or especially as they concurred with his owne predictions did immediatly condemne the Iewes Vnder the name of workes his words are comprehended such at the least as foretell his admirable works or in generall all those solemne inuocations of his Fathers name in such predictions as had hee not beene the sonne of God would rather haue brought speedy vengeance from heauen vpō his head then such glorious testimonies of his Diuinity And to me our Sauiour seemes to call his very words works in that speech to Philip Beleeuest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me the words that I speake vnto you I speake not of my self but the father that dwelleth in mee hee doth the workes Howsoeuer as all the workes of God were created by this eternall word so did his words giue life vnto his greatest workes his Diuinations were to his miracles as his humane soule was to his body And no question but the conception of their faith