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Henoch Clapham his demaundes and answeres touching the pestilence methodically handled, as his time and meanes could permit.
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Clapham, Henoch.; Re., Pere.
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1604
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STC 5343; ESTC S108006
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thus From the Pestilence good Lord deliuer vs Al true prayer is to be made in Faith for what is not of faith is sinne and as Saint Iames vrgeth in chap. 1. 6. to bee made without wavering as we would haue assurance to obtayne our request This doctrine so sâ— is the doctrine of the Heads of our Church enioyned vnder the payne of Excommunication and may not Clapham teach it without inprisonment As also in ferre necessarily therevpon that in the lacke of such faith the very Elect may iustly perish of the Pestilence Yea that the lacke of such sayth is cause of any Adversitie inflicted vpon vs Vnfold this Riddle that can for I can not Augustine is bold and the scriptures so teach him to impute the correctorie cutting off of Moses his lyfe before he came into the promised lande to Titubatio Fides the stumbling of fayth And no marvayle that lacke of such fayth should put away temporarie favoures when as it is said of our Savior in whom wantes neither Habilitie nor Will that he did not many great workes in his owne couÌ„treyâ— for their vnbeliefes sake Math. 13. 58. What doth all this doctrine tend vnto but to the humbling of vs in our wantes who haue made our selues vnworthy of and vnsufficient to apprehend promise temporarie so well as that is of an eternall nature as also to the iustifying of God in all his proceedings The contrary doctrine causeth man to arrogate to much to him selfe and to giue vnto God to little But let vs heare how another Divine writt last Pest time He having said there be two sortes of death the one after the comon course of nature the other before the time stumble not at the latter phrase for the scriptures approve it of this latter he thus saith Another way death may happen to a man before the tyme by reason of his great and grievous sinnes as the Lord hath threatned by Moses that If his commaundements be not kept he will cause Pestilence to raigne Whereout it is certayne that when they be kept the Plague bydeth out Likewise saith the Lord in the Commandements Honor thy Father and Mother c. out of the which it is certayne that his life which doth them not shal be shortned Afterwards the same Writer speaking of the promise in the 91. Psalme he addes thus Of this vntimely Death only speaketh this Psalme and promiseth the faith full Christian men that they shal be free from it For froÌ„ the right appointed death into the which we haue consented in Baptisme we neither can nor shal be deliuered Wherefore if a vertuous Christian man dy of the plague it is certainly his very houre appointed him of God which he cannot prevent But doubtles there dy of it many sinners also beside which might well live longer if they repented So farre He. From whose wordes the collection is evident namely that none dy of the plague sent out from God but vpon their disobedience be they Believers or Sinners And then every Divine must graunt that Error in Fact proceedeth from error in Faith as from want of faith exhibited in his threatnings or promises Let this my Iudgement then remayne good by Authoritie from Scripture from Writers and the imposed Obedience of the Church of England how so ever pooâ—e I must therefore be derided slaundered oppressed Quereâ— Haue the wicked then at any time such a Faith as whereby they be delivered from the Pestilâ—nce CHAP. IX Answ. THis dâ—maund hath his Answere before in the seaventh Chapter namely that the wicked may bee possessed of any kinde of Faith saving that which we call the Iustifying Faith the Faith whereby the eternall saving promisses are apprehended The wicked may cast out Devills worke miracles and what not that bringes with it onlie som temporarie blessing but all this not to be so reioyced in as to haue the Name writteÌ„ in HeaveÌ„ Here I could note which is not much observed that Pharaoh Nechâ— the vncircuÌ„cised King of Aegypt was countenanced of God by faith in a temporarie what time the godly Iosiah King of Iudah was checked by vnexpected death for not believing Pharaoh-Necho though he no Prophet nor Prophets sonne nor we heare not by what meanes hee had such skill but I passe by it only let it check all sortes of infidelitie in vs. And because this position is vniversally graunted of all sortes of Divines be their Sect what it shall it shall not neede heere any discourse In my traduced Epistle and Section 4. I say of the wicked escaping in middest of strongest Pestilence First it is not because they have any promise but because it pleaseth God both to them and vs to be in many things many times better then his promise So I speake of the wicked in generall for their escape as also of any promise in scripture as vnto them not belonging that is properly and blessedly Afterwardes in the same Section I adde Secondly the wicked so escaping are ordinarily such as haue walked boldly thorough the Sicknes bragging of their faith in God touching deliuerance froÌ„ the Pestilence shewing plainly that they had of faith in God for apprehending promise of deliuerance though they have not had faith for apprehending things spirituall and eternall So far And herein appeareth that the conclusion is inferred not in respect of all wicked escaping in middest of the pests-heat but of some certaine wicked namely such as gloried first in their hope and trust walking thorough it without feare Now their speach behaviour compared with the Event the 91. psalme propounding a tempoâ—rarie cover to such as had hope in God what shall let seeing I can iudge but by externalls that I may not thinke such to haue had that faith which apprehendeth that temporarie True it is that all promises in proprietie and blessedly are made to the children of God whither we respect Christ the sonne of God by nature or the sanctified mankind the sonnes of God by Adoption but yet it followeth not that therefore God coÌ„municateh none of the things so promised to the wicked God hath commaunded both sortes of Faith to goe togither the one for the good of the body the other for the soule and sinne it is to parte them but yet as he is called the Saviour of all men specially of the belieuers so hee saueth the wicked in somtiâ—es of affliction and vouchsaffeth his temporarie Sunne and rayne to pleasure and profit them For there is no grace that can be seuered from sanctification as may be seene in Balaam Saul Iehu Iscariot c. but it may be found with the wicked be it corporeall or spirituall If we say that the Lords disposing of Temporaries are Then There and To whome he will I answere â—uen so is the disposing of Eternals Then There and To whome hee will for as the wind bloweth so the Spirit worketh at his pleasure as our Sauiour teacheth the vnlearned