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A02610	A sermon preached in the cittie of Glasco in Scotland, on the tenth day of Iune, 1610 At the holding of a generall assembly there. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1611 (1611)	STC 12739; ESTC S103775	17,702	37

Caluin Concerning the forme of prayer saith he and Ecclesiasticall rites I doe very well like that they should be certaine in a prescript order and that the Pastors be not sufferd to swerue from it aswell for the help of the simple as also that a consent of all Churches may be held and lastly to preuent the rashnesse of those that affect nouelties The Ministerie was ordained for this end as the Apostle doth teach vs Ephes 4.14 that wee should no more wauer like Children and be carried too and fro with euery blast of doctrine whereby it appeareth that the spirit of God hath fastned vs to the publike ministerie the better to hold vs in a constant loue of the truth And therefore addressing our selues vnto it let vs also reioyce to goe into the house of the Lord. A matter as some will obiect easie to be said and done amongst the Israelites because first the Tabernacle afterward the Temple were visible known to be destinated to the worship of God Now the house of God is not so conspicuous nor commonly knowne doubts and questions are still moued which is the Church That these allay no part of your forwardnesse heare I beseech you how they may be cleared and heare it not from me but from S. Augustine Inter nos Donatist as quaestio est vbi sit Ecclesia quid ergo facturi sumus in verbis nostris eam quaesituri an in verbis capitis sui Domini nostri Iesu Christi Puto quod in illius potius verbis eam quaerere debemus qui veritas est optime nouit corpus suum Nouit enim Dominus qui sunt sui Nothing is sought for with more endeuor then the Church and nothing mistaken with greater error The cause is apparant for that wee seeke it in the markes that wee frame of it to our selues and not in the notes that Christ hath giuen vs to know it by Men would haue the Church to be conspicuous and visible but wee cannot make that a marke of the Church vnlesse wee infringe an article of our Faith I beleeue the Catholike Faith When I see a thing there needes no faith for it Faith in the Apostles doctrine is of things inuisible that cannot be seene Succession is as much vrged for knowledge of the Church and it is plaine enough that the ancient fathers did vsually alledge their continued succession of Bishops against Heretiques But the principall point of their allegation consisted in the succession not of place or person but of doctrine which the good Bishops had kept in a long descent from the Apostles times Percurre Ecclesias apud quas ipsae adhuc Cathedrae Apostolorum praesidentur sonantes vocem representantes faciem vniuscuiusque Amplitude and diffusion is made another marke of the Church and that had beene a very deceiueable cognisance when the Arrian heresie ouerswayed all But may it not now be returned in preiudice of those that alledge it who sees not the fall of great Babilon and the waine or abatement of the Bishop of Rome his Hierarchie Last of all Antiquitie is brought for a note of the Church and if that were a certaine or perpetuall euidence then was the Church ancient as soone a● it began Augustine found the vncertaintie and invaliditie of these markes that men deuise and saith nolo humanis documentis sed diuinis oraculis sanctam Ecclesiam demonstrari The markes that Christ hath giuen to the Church will be surer first because he is truth secondly because hee knoweth his owne body best this is a firme Maxime that the Lord knoweth who are his Mat. 28. when he sent his Apostles to subdue the world by gathering him a Church three things were giuen them in charge first that they should preach the Gospell vnto euery creature secondly that they should baptise them in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost thirdly that they should teach those that beleeued and were baptised to obserue all that hee had commanded Behold the things that the Maister of the house commanded to be in his house are not they true markes of the house first the sincere doctrine of the Gospell secondly the right administration of the Sacraments thirdly that forme of discipline I meane not any certaine manner for that was neuer yet proued which may bring obedience to Christs commandements let them that vnchurch vs so easily at their pleasures ioine issue with vs vpon these markes and they shall see that we haue no cause through the grace of God to shun the triall The Church of Rome hath the Word of God indeed contained in their Bibles we deny it not but as Hierome saith of certaine Heretiques so we say of it Heretiques corrupt the truth of the Gospel with their false constructions and are like our worst kind of brewers that make wine water whereas cleane contrary our Sauiour turned water into wine so they haue the gospell but not truely expounded nor taught sincerely First because they refer not their constructions to the glory of God according to the rule of our Sauiour qui quaerit gloriam meam verax est but the church of Rome attributing saluation to their owne merits aduancing free-will extenuating originall sinne c. seeke not the glory of God but their owne gaine therefore they are not true There is another reason of their vntrue constructions because they interpret not the Scripture according to the proportion of faith as Paul willeth Rom. 12 Let him that prophesieth do it according to the proportion of faith As all gold was not holy but that only which belonged to the temple so euery sense that is without compasse of Scripture though it shine and glister with neuer so much sharpnes of wit yet is it not holy By the same spirit that the Scriptures were written by the same they must be interpreted and vnderstood this is the golden rule to know truth from error Scripture must be interpreted by Scripture not alwayes literally not alwayes allegorically not alwayes anagogically not alwayes tropologically but the darker places by those that be more plaine or easie And as Tertul writeth oportet secundum plura intelligi pauciora ne vnus sermo multa alia subuertat secundū omnia potius quam aduersus omnia intelligendus erit Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my Church if we looke to the proportion of faith Christ vndoubtedly is that pretious rocke not Peter as they would haue it for the Church cannot be built but by faith and that may not rest vpon Peter or any other creature Againe Vnto thee will I giue the Keyes of the kingdome of heauen hereupon they would perswade the world that the power of their Keyes which is Ecclesiasticall should locke vp and let loose the power of the sword and ciuill Magistrate If you will iudge hereof by the Analogie of faith you shall see the bounds and limits of both powers Paul