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A04540 A Christian plea conteyning three treatises. I. The first, touching the Anabaptists, & others mainteyning some like errours with them. II. The second, touching such Christians, as now are here, commonly called Remonstrants or Arminians. III. The third, touching the Reformed Churches, with vvhom my self agree in the faith of the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ. Made by Francis Iohnson, pastour of the auncient English Church, now sojourning at Amsterdam in the Low Countreyes. Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618. 1617 (1617) STC 14661; ESTC S107828 395,581 331

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apostasie and so to be a notorious harlot and idolatresse vvhich all the people of God ought to forsake and to vvitnesse the trueth thereagainst euen unto death Yet being also desirous as I signified erewhile about an other matter that in al these things the truth may be found out what vve can and fynding that the Prophets vvhich accounted * Esa 1 21 Ier. 3 3 20 Eze. 16 35 Hos 2 2 5 Ierusalem Israell to be harlots and pronounced ” Esa 57.3 4 5. Ier. 2 and 7 and 44 ch Hos 2 4. and 4 12. the children of Iudah and Israel to be the sonnes of the sorceresse the seed of the adulterer vvhore the children of transgression a seed of falsehood inflaming themselves vvith idols under every green tree slaying the children in the valleyes going a vvhoring from under their God Yea “ Ezec. 23 2 43. c with 16 2 3 44. c both of them Aholah and Aholibah Israell and Iudah to be the daughters of one mother who committed whoredomes in Egypt in their youth and afterward in the land of Canaan grew old in adulteries euen such as should be judged by * Ezec. 16 38. the Lord ‡ and 23 4● by righteous men after the manner of adulteresses after the manner of womē that shed blood because they were adulteresses and blood was in their hands c. did yet notwithstanding in other respects acknowledge them also to be the people of God the house of Jacob the Lords vineyard and heritage the dearly beloved of his soule the virgin daughter of Zion the children of Israell beloved of the Lord as a vvoman that is beloved of her husband though an adulteresse the congregation of the Lord the house of Israell c. Esa 1 3. and 2 6. and 3 12. and 5 1. and 48 1. Jer. 2 4 11 13. and 12 7 10 Lam. 1 15. and 2 13. Ezech. 4 5 6. Hos 3 1. and 4 1. and 5 1. Amos 5 1. and 7 2 8 15. Mic. 2 5. and 3 1 3 5. and 6 2 3. These things I say considered I haue thought it not amisse here also to obserue somevvhat touching the Apostate churches of Christians and now more particularly touching the church of Rome by this occasion And this the rather that I may stirre up others more able seriously to consider of this matter for the further searching out and clearing of the truth therein and because my self haue heretofore ben drawen to write somewhat of these things already Which together vvith that I shall here annex I doe still leaue to be examined by the word of God Neyther wil the searching of this matter proue unprofitable if it be done religiously but will be of good and necessarie use both for the more sound convincing of the Papists and for preventing manifold errors and evils whereunto the Anabaptists and others are subject in this behalf Now therefore to proceed and come to the Objection aforesaid 1. First I take an argument from the Baptisme had in the churches aforesaid thus The Baptisme had in the church of Rome * I speake of the outward baptisme it self not of the additions corruptions thereabout is the Lords baptisme the signe seale of his covenant the ordinance of God had in that Church from the Apostles times before Antichrist there arose Rom. 6 2 3. and so is true baptisme vvhich is from heauen and not of men that one Baptisme which perteyneth to the body of Christ Eph. 4 4 5. which the Lord hath giuen to his church and not man whereof a number of Martyrs and other Christians haue ben and yet are partakers which such as leaue Antichrists corruptions ought not to leaue and renounce but still to reteyne it as being the Lords and such as wherevvith they may lavvfully come to the Lords supper vvhereas no unbaptized person may eat thereof As I haue shevved † Pap. 27 34. c here before touching these particulars at large Therefore the Church of Rome is the Church of God and under his covenant and hath some of the Lords postes ordinances yet remaining in it though mixed with their own inventions c. And if the church of Rome be thus then the church of England much more which is already much purged by the mercy of God frō the apostasie iniquitie abominations of the church of Rome Otherwise also what vvill become of these men themselues who eyther haue no other Baptisme but that vvhich they had in the churches aforesaid or if they take another unto themselues run a vvhoring after their owne inventions vvithout any vvarrant of the word of God as I haue shewed here before pag. 27 c. 2. If the churches of Rome and England be not under the covenant of God but divorced from the Lord c. then is there no salvation for any in those churches For out of the covenant of God there is no salvation They vvhich haue not God to be their God in Iesus Christ cannot be saved And they vvhich are not under the covenant of God haue not God to be their God in Iesus Christ Esa 43 11. with Act. 4 12. and Gen. 12 3. and 17 7. Act. 2 38 39. and 3 25 26. and 15 11. and 16 31. Joh. 14 6. 2 Cor. 6 14 18. Rom. 9 24 25 26. and 11 25 26 27. Gal. 3 8 15 18 26 29. 1 Tim 2 5. Now touching these churches themselues great difference is to be observed For the church of England the case is far more evident and vvithout al colour of question seeing they doe freely and fully acknowledge justification by faith onely in Iesus Christ without any opinion of the merit of works or intercession of Saints departed c. For the church of Rome there is farre more difficultie where both the merit of works intercession of Saints and the Popes pardons purgatorie with many other notable errors are taught and defended Yet considering that they professe and hold * Rhemes Annotat. upō 1 Tim. 2 5. Christ by nature to be truely both God and man to be that one eternall Priest and redeemer which by his sacrifice and death upon the crosse hath reconciled us to God and payed his blood as a full and sufficient raunsome for all our sinnes himself without need of any redemption never subject to possibility of sinning againe to be the singular advocate and Patrone of mankind that by himself alone and by his owne merites procureth all grace and mercy to mankind in the fight of his Father none making any intercession for him nor giueing any grace or force to his prayers but he to al none asking or obteyning eyther grace in this life or glory in the next but by him Considering I say that thus they professe although herevvith they haue many great errors and corruptions as I noted before by which they are generally seduced and perverted yet vvho dare say but that God
as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11 24 25. By which meanes our faith is the more strengthned our hope increased our mutuall loue nourished and vve still stirred up with all thankfulnes to ascribe unto God the praise of our salvation in Iesus Christ In vvhich respect also it may fitly be called the Eucharist or Thankesgiving 1 Cor. 10.16 18. and 11.23 26. compared vvith Mat. 26.26.27.28 Mar. 14.22 25. Luke 22.19.20 Act. 2.41.42 and 20.7 vvith Numb 28.9.10 Ezech. 44.15.16 4. And note here hovv the Papists and Lutherans doe much urge though diversly the having of Images for the better remembrance of Christ and to be in stead of books for the unlearned people c. whereas Christ hath appointed himself to be described and his people to be taught and put in remembrance of him not by Images but by his Gospel and Sacraments Mar. 16.15 Gal. 3.1.8 Mat. 26.28 and 28.18.19.20 1 Cor. 10.16 and 11.23 26. And therewithall let it be observed whether that Images vvere not then most of all brought into the churches and private houses under the pretences aforesaid vvhen the diligent teaching of the Gospell and often celebration of the Lords Supper did by degrees decay and cease more and more in the parishionall churches among the people So as the Ministers becomming themselues dumbe non resident or slothfull the Images though also dumbe vvere made to supply their place being novv set up to be the peoples teachers and remembrancers another way in stead of the liuely preaching of the vvord careful observation of the Lords supper for the continuall shevving forth and memoriall of his death from time to time Which therefore may the more stirre up the churches novv being reformed not onely to abandon the foresaid Images but also diligently to use both the preaching of the Gospel often communicating at the Lords Table the better to meet with the corruptions of later times and to returne to the intier practise of the churches that vvere in former ages 5. Furthermore the Lords supper being rightly considered is answerable not onely to the Passeover but to the other Feasts also and sacrifices had at Ierusalem And the Prophets speaking of the times of the Gospel under the termes of the shadovves of the Lavv foretold that from one Nevv moone to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh should come to vvorship before the Lord at Jerusalem c. Which by the practise aforesaid carefully observed vve may performe and enjoy in Christ who is the truth body of all those types and shadovves And how othervvise it is or can outwardly be performed aright and ansvverably to the prophecies and shadowes aforesaid should by al churches heedfully be observed Esa 66.23 Ezec. 44.15.16.24 and 45 18 25. and 46 1 11. Zach. 14 16 19. vvith Col. 2.16.17 Act. 2.42 and 20 7. Rev. 1 10. 1 Cor. 10.16 18. and 11.23 26. Besides that the Lords day and the Lords supper at the Lords Table doe fitly agree together both for the termes and for the things themselues thus spoken of Rev. 1.10 compared vvith 1 Cor. 10.16.17.21 and 11.20 and Act. 20.7 Another question there is about the time of the day vvhen the Lords supper should be celebrated vvhether in the morning or euening c. Some think it should be in the euening or after noone because Christ at first with his disciples did eat it at euen after the Passeover vvhereupon it vvas called the Lords supper Touching which on the other hand may these reasons be observed and the like 1. That the having of it then at euen vvas upon speciall occasion because it follovved the celebration of the Passeover which was kept at euen Which occasion ceasing the time is left free Christ having not appointed it or any set time thereunto Mat. 26.17 26. c. 2. So Christ and his disciples eate it then with unleavened bread by the occasion aforesaid and the feast of unleavened bread then also observed Which now being ceased as vve are not therefore bound to the use of unleavened bread so neyther are vve bound to that circumstance of time but may as freely use another time as other common and usuall bread therein Mat. 26 17 26. Mar. 14 12 22. vvith Exod. 12.8.15.18 c Act. 2.42 and 20.7 1 Cor. 10 16. 3. In like manner at the first celebration of the Passeover in Egypt they eat it standing with staues in their hand as ready to depart from thence and sprinkled blood upon the lintell side posts of their doores keeping within not going out of their houses because that night the Lord vvould passe through to smite the Egyptians and seeing the blood on their doore posts would passe over them and not destroy their first borne vvith the other Exod. 12.7.11 13.22.13 Which occasions ceasing vvhen aftervvard they vvere in the land at rest they eat it sitting sprinkled not their doore posts vvith blood neyther vvere bound to keepe vvithin but might goe out of their houses as we read that Christ vvith his disciples sate dovvne to eat it and then aftervvard went out of the house that night to the mount of Oliues c. Mat. 26 19.20.30 This sheweth forth the Lords death already done as those typed out his death then to come 4. Moreover the Lords supper as by other occasion I noted here before is so to be considered as not onely succeeding the Passeover but as ansvvering also to the other Feasts and Sacrifices then had in Israell Which were observed aswell in the morning as at euening Not to speak of the Shevv bread still being on the pure Table before the Lord other the like ordinances had in Israell Which in the perpetuall equitie thereof may haue their use being hereunto fitly and vvisely applyed according to the proportion of faith Ioh. 1 29 36. 1 Cor. 5 7. and 10 16 17 18. Luke 22 7 20. compared vvith Lev. 1 7. and 23 chap. and 24 5 9. Numb 15 1 2 29. and 28 29 chap. Deut. 16 1 17. Heb. 13 8 16. Hos 14.2 Mal. 1 11. Zach. 14 16 19. Esa 66 23. Rev. 13 8. 5. Finally the auncient practise of the churches of Christ ever synce the Apostles times confirmeth the same yet more unto us As when in the Acts of the Apostles it is vvritten that upon the first day of the week the disciples came together to break bread Act. 20 7. Where in that he saith they came together that day to this end we must either think that they met but at euening for it or grant that they had and might haue it at other times besides Which Iustine Martyr makes manifest whose words I noted here before besides the continuall practise of the Church ever since throughout all ages vvhich is carefully to be regarded in all such things as are not repugnant or disagreeing to the vvord of God CHAPTER XV. Touching the having of a Fast and the Lords supper