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A51699	A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M., M.A.; Cloud of witnesses. Part 1	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1665 (1665)	Wing M329; ESTC R21709	379,698	602

which cover his most filthy part This is not onely my saying but the Prophet Isaiah who saith He that preacheth lies is the tail behind Then said he unto them all Christ saith in his Gospel Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye close up the Kingdome of Heaven before men neither enter ye in your selves nor suffer any other that would enter into it but ye stop up the wayes thereunto by your own Traditions The Arch Bishop telling him That none should preach in his Diocess yea in his Iurisdiction that make division or dissention among the poor Commons He answered Both Christ and his Apostles were accused of sedition-making yet were they most peaceable men But Daniel and Christ prophesied That such a troublesome time should come as hath not been yet since the worlds beginning and this prophesie is partly fulfilled in your dayes c. Christ saith also If these dayes of yours were not shortned scarcely should any flesh be saved therefore look for it justly for God! will shorten your dayes Being asked what he said of the Pope He said As I said before so say I again That he and you together make up whole Antichrist After the Arch Bishop had read the Bill of his Condemnation the Lord Cobham said with a cheerfull countenance Though you judge my Body which is a wretched thing yet am I certain and sure ye can do no harm to my soul no more then could Satan to the soul of Iob. He that created that will of his infinite mercy and promise save it I have therein no manner of doubt And therewith he turned himself to the people and said with a loud voice Good people for Gods love be well ware of these men for they will else beguile you and lead you blind-fold into Hell with themselves for Christ saith plainly unto you If one blind man lead another they are like both to fall into a ditch After this he fell down upon his knees and before them all prayed thus for his enemies Lord God Eternal I beseech thee of thy great mercy sake forgive my pursuers if it be thy blessed Will Here it is observable That Arch Bishop Arundel that passed Sentence of Death against Lord Cobham did feel the stroke of Death and had the Sentence of God executed upon him before the Death of this famous Martyr The Arch Bishop died Feb. 20. 1414. and this condemned Lord survived his Condemner three or four years Oom Wonter Oom writes thus from his Prison at Antwerp Wellbeloved Brother and Sister whom I love dearly for the Truths sake and for your faith in Christ Jesus These are to certifie you that I enjoy the comfort of a good conscience c. Whosoever will forsake this present evil world and become followers of their Captain Christ must make account to meet with many persecutions for Christ hath told us aforehand that we should be hated persecuted and banished out of the world for his Names sake and this they will do because they have neither known the Father n●r me But be not afraid for I have overcome the world St. Paul also witnesseth the same thing saying All that will live godly in Christ Iesus must suffer persecution and to you ie it given to suffer c. And doth not our Lord Iesus say Blessed are you when men persecute you and speak all manner of evil falsly c. Now whereto serveth all this but to bring us into a conformity with our Lord and Master Jesus Christ for Christ hath suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps He endured the Cross and despised the shame c. and became poor to make us rich By him also are we brought by faith into that state of grace wherein we stand rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. Wherefore be not afraid of the fiery trial that is now sent among us to prove us for what father loving his child doth not correct it Even so doth the Lord correct those whom he loves for if we should be without correction whereof all true Christians are partakers then were we bastards and not sons And therefore Solomon saith Despise not the chastning of the Lord c. Fear not then to follow the footsteps of Christ for he is the Head and we are the Members We must after his example through many tribulations enter into Heaven Let us say with St. Paul Christ is unto me in life and death advantage and O wretched creatures that we are who shall deliver us from this body of death It is a good thing to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord and to bear the yoke in ones youth c. The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord He is their strength in the time of trouble Wherefore giving all diligence let us adde to faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness c. Out of my Role Dec. 11. 1562. Origen When he was but seventeen years old his Father being carried to Prison he had such a fervent mind to suffer Martyrdome with him that he would have thrust himself into the Persecutors hands had it not been for his Mother who in the night time privily stole away his clothes and his very shirt also whereupon more for shame to be seen naked then for fear to die he was constrained to remain at home yet when he could do no more he wrote to his Father in Prison thus See O Father that you do not change your resolution for my sake His fame was so great that the Emperour Severus sent for him to come to Rome and commanded the Provost of Egypt to furnish him with all things necessary for his journey The Provost was very carefull to provide a Ship and divers Garments c. But Origen would receive no part thereof no not so much as hose or shoes but went in a single Garment of Cloth and bare foot went to Rome and when at his arrival there were brought to him a Mule and a Chariot to use which he liked best he answered That he was much less then his Master Christ who rode but one day in all his life and that was on a silly she Ass and therefore he would not ride except he were sick or decrepid as his legs might not serve him to go When he was brought into the presence of the Emperour and his Mother they saluted him and rejoyced much to see him Being demanded what he professed he answered Verity The Emperour asking him what he meant thereby It is the Word said he of the Living God which is infallible The Emperour asked which is the Living God and why he so called him Origen answered That he did put that distinction for a difference from them whom men being long drowned

pour upon the diligent hearers of his Word as was in David who desired being a King Rather to be a door-keeper in the House of God then to dwell in the tents of the ungodly lamenting nothing so much the injuries done to him by his Son Absalom which were not small as that he was deprived of the comfortable exercises in the Tabernacle of the Lord which then was in Sion Neither doth there appear in such persons that greedy desire whereof Isaiah makes mention which ought to be in the Professours of the Gospel who never would cease or rest till they should climb up to the Lords hill meaning the Church of Christ saying one to another Let us ascend to the hill of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach us his wayes and we shall walk in his footsteps for the Law shall come forth of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem Which zeal the Prophet doth not mention in vain but to shew what a thirst and earnest desire should be in true Christians and how the same appeareth in seeking and resorting to those places where it is set forth in greatest abundance and perfection as was after Christs Ascension in Ierusalem And as that zeal shewed them to be of Christ by the like must we be judged Christians also that if we flee for Christ the places whereunto we flee may bear witness for what cause we are fled Neither is it a sufficient excuse which many alledge that they believe to be saved by Christ that they have sufficient knowledge of their duty and the rest they can supply by their own diligence I dare say their faith is not so much but they had need to desire with the Apostles Lord encrease our f●ith And if they will so confess why do they forsake the chiefest means that God hath ordained which is the open Congregations of his people where his Word the fountain of Faith is most purely preached and where the godly Examples of others may be a sharper spur to prick them forward and as for the knowledge and diligence of such there may be no buckler to defend their doings for if they have those gifts whereof they boast where may they better bestow them then in the Church of God except they will say they are born to themselves and have the gifts of God which he would have common to others applied to their own private fancy which is to lap them up in a clout and not to put them forth to the vantage of the owner as did the unprofitable Servant and as do all they to whom God hath given either learning counsel or worldly substance who either for the strength of Cities pleasantness of the air tra●fick or merchandize or for any other worldly respect or policy do absent themselves from the Congregation and company of their poor Brethren where Christ hath advanced his Standard and blown his Trumpet If God then give you not strength at the first to stand in his Profession to the death nor that you cannot be quiet in conscience abiding in your Countrey you see how his mercy hath given you liberty to kill and what places he hath appointed you to flee unto that is where you may do good to your selves and others where ye may be free from Superstition and Idolatry where your faith may be encreased and not diminished and your selves strengthened and confirmed and more strongly armed But if you in tarrying will neither stand manfully to Christ your Master but betray him doing as the Papists do nor yet with thanks use this remedy that God hath granted to our infirmity to resort to his Churches godlily instituted what answer shall ye be able to make to his Majesty when he shall call for an account of your doings How shall you avoid his wrathful indignation now ready to be poured upon his enemies For in taking part with their impiety you must be partakers of their Cup likewise Neither is this any new or hard Doctrine that may exceed your capacity but may rather be termed your A. B. C. and first Principles wherein none ought to be ignorant That if we will be Christs Scholars we must learn to bear his Cross and to follow him not to cast it off our shoulders with the enemies and run from him Be no more deceived in so plain a matter If the Lord be God follow him if B●al be God go after him Let not the example of any lead you into errour for men are but mortal Trust in the Lord for he is a sure rock Trust not your own shifts for they will deceive you Mark the end of others and in time be warned These Lessons are hard to the flesh but ea●●e to the spirit The way of the Lord is a strait path but most faithful sure and comfortable From Geneva this first of Ian. An. 1558. Goose. Iohn Goose burnt in England An. 1473. being prest by the She●●ff of L●ndon to recant and so deliver himself from death answered That for his Religion he was at a pass and neither could nor would recant the same When the Sheriff gave him some meat of which he did eat heartily he said to the standers by I eat now a good and competent Dinner for I shall pass a sharp shower before I go to Supper Gordius When a solemn Feast was celebrated in Caesarea in honour to Mars Gordius a Citizen thereof who had been a Centurion and had chosen exile for sometime in the heat of Persecution left the Desert wherein he lived in exile and got him up into the chief place of the Theater and with a loud voice cried out Behold I am found of them that sought me not and to those that asked not for me have I openly appeared The Sheriff asking him who he was from whence he came and for what he came thither I am come said he to publish that I set nothing by your desires against the Christian Religion but that I profess Jesus Christ to be my hope and safety The Sheriff threatning him with all kind of torments It would be to me a damage said he if I should not endure divers torments for Christs Cause When he was tormented he lifted up his eyes to Heaven saying The Lord is my helper I will not fear the thing that man can do unto me I will learn no evil for thou Lord art with me He blamed the Tormentors if they favoured him at all The Sheriff promising great things if he would deny Christ It lieth not in you said he to place any in Authority which be worthy to have a place in Heaven When he was led out of the City to be burnt many with tears beg'd him to save himself but he said Weep not I beseech you for me but rather for those that bring us to the fire and thereby purchase Hell fire to themselves Truly I am ready for the Name of Christ to suffer

men it is impossible for humane wisedom to comprehend the Doctrine of God for which cause Christ saith Father I thank thee that thou hast hid these secrets from the wise men of the world and hast revealed them unto Babes When those two Malefactors that were coupled with him brake Prison and fled he might have escaped but fearing his flight might be imputed to the godly Christians in the City he would not fly When he was advertised of his Sentence He thanked God for advancing him to so high an honour as to be counted worthy to suffer for his Name As he passed forth from the Court viewing the people who waited to see him he said See here how this wicked world rewards the poor Servants of Christ. Whilst I gave my self to drunkenness c. I was never in danger of these bands lifting up his hands which were bound I was then counted a good fellow and at that time who but I But no sooner began I by conversion to ask after a godly life but the world made war upon me and became my enemy persecuting and imprisoning me and now lest of all sending me to the place where I must pay my last debt But the Servant is no better then his Lord for seeing they persecuted him no question they will persecute us At the Stake he said Brethren I fight under the Standard and in the quarrel of my great Lord and Captain Christ. I am now going to be crucified follow you me when God of his goodness shall call yo● to it He was burnt Nov. 4. An. 1560. Hierome I find two of this Name 1. Mr. William Hierome Vicar of Stepney near London Being accused for preaching against Magistrates he affirmed as before he had preached That 〈◊〉 Magistrate of himself could make any Law or Laws 〈◊〉 bind the infe●i ur people unless it were by the power and authority of his or their Princes to him or them given but onely the Prince Adding If the Prince make Laws consenting to Gods Laws we are bound to obey them and if he make Laws repugnant to the Laws of God c. yet we are bound not violently to resist or grudge against him At the Stake he gave the following Exhortation to the people I say unto you good Brethren that God hath b●ught us all with no small price neither with gold nor silver nor other such things of small value but with his most precious blood Be not unthankful therefore but do what you can to keep his Commandments i. e love your Brethren If God hath sent thee plenty help thy neighbour that hath need give him good counsel if he lack Bear your Cross with Christ. Let all Christians put no trust nor confidence in their works but in the blood of Christ to whom I commit my soul beseeching you all to pray to God for me and for my Brethren here present with us c. 2. Mr. Hierome of Prage When he was brought Prisoner to Constance several of the Bishops said unto him Hierome why didst thou fly and didst not appear when thou wast cited He answered Because I could not have any safe conduct c. and I would not my self be the occasion of my perils and danger but if I had known of this citation although I had been in Bohemia I would have returned again When certain cried out Let him be burned let him be burned He answered If my death doth delight and please you in the Name of God let it le so When he was welcomed to Prison by a Friend of Mr. Hus saying to him Be constant and fear not death for the Truths sake of the which when you ●ere at liberty you did preach so much goodness He answered Truly Brother I do not fear death and for●smuch as we know that we have spoken much thereof in times past let us now see what may be known or done in ●ffect Vitus asking him how he did He answered Truly Brother I do very well After a long sore imprisonment he was forced to recant and consent unto the death of Mr. Iohn Hus that he was justly condemned and put to death but his hopes of freedome thereupon were disappointed for they caused him to be carried back unto the same Prison but not so straitly chained and bound as before After his Recantation and Consent to the death of Mr. Hus he refused to answer to any Questions propounded to him in private except he might be brought before the Council They supposing he would confirm his former Recantation sent for him May 25. An. 1416. When he was brought before them he began with Prayer to God beseeching him to give him Spirit ability and utterance which might most tend to the profit and salvation of his own soul. Then he spake unto them thus I know that there have been many excellent men which have suffered much otherwise then they have deserved being oppressed with false witnesses and condemned with wrong judgement as Socrates Plato Anaxagoras Zeno Boetius Moses Ioseph Isaiah Daniel and almost all the Prophets c. Iohn Baptist Christ Stephen and all the Apostles who were condemned to death not as good men but as seditious stirrers up of the people and contemners of the gods and evil doers This was the old manner of ancient and learned men and most holy Elders that in matters of Faith they did differ many times in Arguments not to destroy the Faith but to find out the Verity So did Augustine and Hierome dissent As for Mr. Hus he was a good just and holy man to his knowledge and much unworthy that death which he did suffer At last he added That all the sin● that ever he had committed did not so much gnaw and trouble his conscience as did that onely sin which he had committed in that most pestiferous fact whenas in his Recantation he had unjustly spoken against that good and holyman and his Doctrine and especially in consenting to his wicked condemnation Concluding that he did utterly revoke that wicked Recantation which he made in that cursed place and that he did it through weakness of heart and fear of death and that whatsoever he had spoken against that blessed man he had altogether lied upon him and that it did repent him with his whole heart that ever he did it Being again brought forth to have judgement given him and prest to recant what he had before spoken in open audience in commendation of Mr. Wickliffe and Mr. Hus He said unto them I take God to my witness and I protest here before you all that I do believe and hold the Articles of the Faith as the holy Catholick Church doth hold and believe the fame but for this cause shall I now ce●oondemned for that I will not consent with you to the condemnation of those most holy and blessed men aforesaid whom you have most wickedly condemned for their detesting and abhorring your wicked and abominable life

Evening-Tide that you may receive your penny which is more worth then all the Kingdomes of the Earth but he that called us into his Vineyard hath not told us how sore and how fervently the Sun shall trouble us in our labour but hath bid us labour and commit the bitterness thereof to him who can and will so moderate all afflictions that no man shall have more laid upon him then in Christ he shall be able to bear unto whose merciful tuition and defence I commend both your souls and bodies Yours with my poor Prayer J. H. In a Letter to a Merchant of London I thank God and you for the great help and consolation I have received in time of adversity by your charity but most rejoyce that you be not altered from truth although falshood cruelly seeketh to disdain her Judge not my Brother truth by outward appearance for truth now worse appeareth and is more vilely rejected then falshood Leave the outward shew and see by the Word of God what is truth and accept truth and dislike her not though man call her falshood As it is now so it hath been heretofore truth hath been rejected and falshood received Such as have professed truth have smarted and the friends of falshood laughed them to scorn The one having the commendation of truth by man but the condemnation of falshood by God flourishing for a time with endless destruction the other afflicted a little season but ending with immortal joyes Wherefore dear Brother ask and demand of your Book the Testament of Jesus Christ in these woful and wretched dayes what you should think and what you should stay your selves upon for a certain truth and whatsoever you hear taught try it by your Book whether it be true or false The dayes be dangerous and full of peril not onely for the world and worldly things but for Heaven and heavenly things It is a trouble to lose the treasure of this life but yet a very pain if it be kept with the offence of God Cry call pray and in Christ daily require help succour mercy wisdome grace and defence that the wickedness of this world prevail not against us In his Letter to Mrs. Wilkinson I am very glad to hear of your health and do thank you for your loving tokens but I am a great deal more glad to hear how Christianly you avoid idolatry and prepare your self to suffer the extremity of the world rather then to endanger your self to God You do as you ought to do in this behalf and in suffering of transitory pains you shall avoid permanent torments in the world to come Use your life and keep it with as much quietness as you can so that you offend not God The ease that cometh with his displeasure turneth at length to unspeakable pains and the gains of the world with the loss of his favours is beggary and wretchedness In his Letter to Mr. Hall and his Wife The dayes be dangerous and full of peril but let us comfort our selves in calling to remembrance the dayes of our Fore-fathers upon whom the Lord sent such troubles that many hundreds yea thousands died for the testimony of Jesus Christ both men and women suffering with patience and constancy as much cruelty as Tyrants could devise and so departed out of this miserable world to the bliss everlasting where now they remain for ever looking alwayes for the end of this sinful world when they shall receive their bodies again in immortality and see the number of the Elect associated with them in full and consummate joyes and as vertuous men suffering Martyrdome now rest in joyes everlasting their pains ending their sorrows and beginning their ease so did their constancy and stedfastness animate and confirm all good people in the truth and gave them encouragement to suffer the like rather then to fall with the world to consent unto wickedness and idolatry Wherefore my dear Friends seeing God hath illuminated you in the same true faith wherein the Apostles and Evangelists and all Martyrs suffered most cruel death thank him for his grace in knowledge and pray to him for strength and perseverance that ye be not ashamed nor afraid to confess it Ye be in the truth and the gates of Hell shall never prevail against it nor Antichrist with all his Imps prove it false they may persecute and kill but never overcome Be of good comfort and fear God more then man This life is short and miserable happy be they that can spend it to the glory of God In his Letter to Mrs. Warcop I did rejoyce to understand that you be fully resolved by Gods grace to suffer extremity rather then to go from the truth which you have professed As you be travelling this perillous journey take this Lesson with you practised by the Wise men Matth. 2. Such as travelled to find Christ followed onely the Star and as long as they saw it they were assured they were in the right way and had great mirth in their journey but when they entred into Ierusalem whereas the Star led them not thither but to Bethlem and there asked the Citizens the thing that the Star shewed before they were not onely ignorant of Bethlem but lost the sight of the Star c. The Word is the onely Star that sheweth us where Christ is and which way we may come unto him But as Ierusalem stood in the way and was an impediment to the Wise men so doth the Synagogue of Antichrist that beareth the Name of Ierusalem i. e. the Vision of Peace and among the people now is called the Catholick Church standeth in the way that Pilgrims must go by through this world to Bethlem i. e. the house of bread or plentifulness and is an impediment to all Christian Travellers yea and except the more grace of God be will keep the Pilgrims still in her that they shall not come where Christ is at all and to stay them indeed they take away the Star of Light which is Gods Word that it cannot be seen Ye may see what great dangers hapned unto these Wise men whilst they were learning of Lyars where Christ was 1 They were out of their way And 2 They lost their Guide and Conductor If we come into the Church of men and ask for Christ we go out of the way and lose also our Conductor and Guide that onely leadeth us streight thither Sister take heed you shall in your journey towards Heaven meet with many a monstrous beast have salve therefore of Gods Word therefore ready you shall meet husbands children lovers and friends that shall if God be not with them be very le●s and impediments to your purpose You shall meet with slander and contempt of the world and be accounted ungracious and ungodly you shall hear and meet with cruel tyranny to do you all extremities you shall now and then see the troubles of your own conscience and feel your own weakness you shall hear

to preach his Truth so he will strengthen me to suffer for it to the edification of them who have by his working taken fruit thereby and so I desire you and all others that favour me for his sake likewise to pray for it is not I without his mighty helping hand that can abide that brunt but I have trust that God will help me in time of need which if I had not the Ocean I think should have divided my Lord of London and me by this day for it is a rare thing for a Preacher to have favour at his hand who is no Preacher himself and yet ought to be I pray God both he and I may discharge our selves he in his great Cure and I in my little One to Gods pleasure and safety of our souls Amen In his Reply to Sir Edward Baynton's Answer Truly I were not well advised if I would not either be glad of your instruction or yet refuse my own reformation but yet it is good for a man to look before he leap First you mislike that I say I am sure I preach the Truth saying in reproof of the same God knoweth certain Truth Indeed none knoweth certain Truth but God and those which be taught of God as faith Paul for God revealeth it to them and saith Christ They shall be all taught of God As to my arrogancy either I am certain or uncertain that it is Truth that I preach If it be Truth why may I not say so to encourage my Hearers to receive the same more fervently and pursue it more studiously If I be uncertain why dare I be so bold to preach it If your Friends in whom you trust so greatly be Preachers after Sermon I pray you ask them whether they be sure that they taught you the Truth or no. If they say they be sure you know what followeth if they say they be not sure when shall you be sure that have such doubtful Teachers Our knowledge here you say is but dark as through a Glass What then Therefore it is not certain and sure I deny your Argument by your leave yea if it be by Faith it is most sure for the certainty of Faith is the surest certainty as Duns and other School-Doctors say There is a great difference between certain knowledge and clear knowledge for that may be of things a●sent that appear not this requireth the presence of the object or thing known It is true there are too many that have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge there are also who have knowledge without zeal holding the truth in unrighteousness and there are that have lost the spiritual knowledge of Gods Word which they had before because they have not ensued it nor promoted the same but rather with their mother wits have impugned the wisdome of the father and hindred the knowledge thereof which therefore hath been taken away from them To him hath not that also which he hath i. e. seems to have shall be taken away To abuse that which a man hath or not to use it well is as not to have it It behoveth every Preacher to have so deep and profound knowledge that he may call this or that Truth which this or that he taketh in hand to preach for Truth and yet he may be ignorant in many things both this or that as Apollo was but such things whether this or that he will not attempt to preach for the Truth There be many things in Scripture in which I cannot discern certainly verum falsum no not with all the exercise I have in Scripture nor yet with the help of all Interpreters I have to content my self and others in all scrupulosity that may arise but in such I am wont to wade no farther in the stream then that I may either go over or else return back again having ever respect nor to the ostentation of my little wit but to the edification of them that hear me as far forth as I can neither passing mine own nor yet their capacity It is but foolish humility willingly to continue alwayes an infant still in Christ for though Paul would not have us to think arrogantly of our selves and above that which it becometh us to think of our selves yet he biddeth us so to think of our selves as God hath distributed to every one the measure of faith He that may not with meekness think in himself what God hath done in him and of himself as God hath done for him how shall he or when shall he give due thanks to God for his gifts Every opinion or manner of teaching which causeth dissention in a Christian Congregation is not of God by the Doctrine of St. Iohn but not every thing whereupon followeth dissention causeth dissention An occasion is sometime taken and not given The Galatians having for Preachers and Teachers the false Apostles by whose teaching they were degenerate from the sweet liberty of the Gospel into the sour bonds of Ceremonies thought themselves peradventure a Christian Congregation when Paul writ his Epistle unto them so that the false Apostles might have objected to Paul that his Apostleship was not of God forasmuch as there was dissention in a Christian Congregation by occasion thereof while some would renew their opinions by occasion of the Epistle others would opine as they were wont to do and follow their great Lords and Masters the false Apostles who were not Heathen but high Prelates of the Professors of Christ. I would also learn of your Friends whether St. Hieromes Writings were of God which caused dissention in a Christian Congregation What were they that called him falsarium and corrupter of Scripture and for envy would have bitten him with their teeth Unchristen or Christen What had Unchristen to do with Christian Doctrine They were worshipful Fathers of a Christian Congregation men of much more hotter stomacks then right judgement of a greater authority then good charity But Hierom would not cease to do good as he saith himself for the evil speaking of them that were naught giving in that an ensample to us of the same And I pray you what mean your Friends by a Christian Congregation all those trow ye that have been Christened But many of those be in worse condition and shall have greater damnation then many Unchristned for it is not enough to a Christian Congregation that is of God to have been Christned but it is to be considered what we promise when we be Christned to renounce Satan his works his pomps which thing if we busie not our selves to do let us not crack that we profess Christs Name in a Christian Congregation in one Baptism And whereas they adde In one Lord I read Not every one that saith Lord Lord c. And why call ye me Lord Lord and do not that I bid you And whereas they adde In one Faith St. Iames saith Shew me thy Faith by thy Works And the Scripture saith