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A18908 Antidoton or a soueraigne remedie against schisme and heresie: gathered to analogie and proportion of faith, from that parable of tares. Matth.13. Aug.ep.3.Nullorum disput.&c. We ought to haue no men their disputations (although men Catholike and praise worthie) in that count as we haue the canonicall scriptures: so that it should be vnlawfull for vs to improue and refuse some things in their writings, if happily we finde that they thought otherwise then the truth hath. Such a one am I in other mens writings, and so would I haue others to vnderstand of my writings. Clapham, Henoch. 1600 (1600) STC 5330; ESTC S111140 38,797 50

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his Sonne Regent from the Sunnes rising to his going downe the Sonne labours the plantation of this his possession by sowing the same Gospell which of yore was preached to Dauid to Abraham and first of all to Adam in Paradise For the which as Matthew produceth the Gospell from Dauid and Abraham because it was written in Hebrue and specially for the Iewes who altogether bragged of Abraham and Dauid so Luke respecting Iew and Gentile and all he ioyneth the Church of peculiar faithfull on the one hand with God and on the other hand with Iesus because without respect of person the Iesus was in Paradise first preached by God to Adam This Gospell not yea and nay but Amen Christ yesterday to day and the same for euer by it the Sonne of man begetteth sonnes for his Kingdome a Kingdome vnable to be shaken and remoued except that Christ her foundation can be remoued To omit common places here touching the Seede of God state of Vnregeneration Regeneration c. obserue wee here the fulnesse of time for Iaphets people the nations or Gentiles their comming vnto Shems tent whereof Noah arising as a Giant from wine by the abundance of spirit did fore-prophecie but this receipt of the Gentiles a graffing in of the wild Oliue is done oh the wisedome of God with a cutting off of the naturall Oliue Shems people who after the fulnes of the Gentiles be come in are againe vniuersally to be receiued into the open state of saluation That the Iew should first be exalted by reason of faith in Messiah and the Gentile glorified that way in the second place Irenaeus vnderstood it typically by Thamars twynnes The ancient Tertullian vnderstood the case to be figured vnder Rebeccaes twinnes The same doth Augustine As for Theodoret he conceiues also Lea and Rahel to be types of Iewes and Gentiles the latter to be more acceptable to our Iaakob Israel preuailer with God and in another place vnder Zara and Phares Thamars twinnes And vsually vnder Gedeons fleece floore the one de●ed from heauē when the other stood drie the ancients vnderstood the same mysterie and thereunto doth Chrysostome applie the 6. verse of Psal. 72. And touching the recalling of the Iewes after fulnes of Gentiles come in as they were not ignorant so Gregorius Papa after whose time presently euen fully in the Lords yeere 666. Machomed in the East vniuersall Pope in the West that two horned power was exalted he is plentifull in this testimonie The Church being at first shut vp amongst the Iewes elder brethren by grace from Shem but Gentiles Iaphets people by nature now the Church was to enlarge her tents and to stretch her coardes vniuersally through the earth for which cause it is called Catholike and Vniuersall so it cutteth the throat of hereticall Donatists that would shut it vp in a corner of Affricke or in some chamber in London or in some citie of the Low-countries Nay let the Pope of Donatisme say that he hath some of his sheepe in the Low-countries some in diuers holes in England some in Ireland no Pastor or Bi●●op in England hath so large Iurisdiction yet for all this so long as we remember that article of faith I beleeue there is an holy catholike Church an article grounded on Scriptures enow wee dare not say but his Church is a faction gone out of the catholike Arke though our Sauiour forbids going out vnto such desart and corner Gospels and Christs and by reason of such schisme although with such arguments as were able almost to ●educe the elect couering their thorne and thutle schisme with shee●ish skin or conuersation by reason I say of such schisme and vniuersal condemning all they depart from for onely visible limmes of Satan and Antichrist we must beleeue they in such estate are exposed to the ouerflowing wrath of God This Gospell of the kingdome as the Apostles had commission granted and giuen for sowing throughout the earth so the sound thereof went quickly through the earth And no maruell for now Daniels stone was to roule all abroad first for battering downe opposite power secondly for setting vp a kingdome which should neuer be destroyed the little stone so becomming a great mountaine And though we Brittaines tearmed of their word Brith painted because our people painted and dyed their bodies monster-like as indeede wee were a most sauage Nation though we were couched here in an vttermost coast yet it is registred to God his praise and our comfort that this Prouince was first of Prouinces in receiuing the Gospell openly as Sabellicus testifies Polydore Virgil maketh Coyl the king here a receiuer of the faith in our Lo. y. 182. But the holy faith planted in our land before by Ioseph of Arimathaea who with some others came hither obtained a mile of ground neere Wels afterwards called Glascon And this by ancient Gildas testimonie should be in the yeere of Christ 60. Who also saith that they suffered a notable persecution here by Diocletian Romes Emperour The excellent Theodoret writeth that the Apostle Paul presently after deliuerance out of his first captiuitie at Rome hee came then hither This Apostle in his second Epistle to Timothie and last Chapter he remembreth one Claudia an excellent christian woman then at Rome whom Martial the Poet affirmeth to be of Brittaine thus Claudia caeruleis cum sit Rufina Britannis edita cur Latiae pectora plebis habet c. In a word the ancient Registers haue so vniformely consented in this point namely that Britannia in the Apostles times it receiued the holy faith as also that the Ministers were maried nor after 600. y. what time Austin the Monke came hither from Rome could or would giue any hope of yeelding therein to Romes perswasion whose Cities Ministerie then was much gone out of the way this point I say is so vniformely witnessed as our Schismatikes may so well aske me what assurance I haue that here was a king Henry as demaund what assurance I haue of the other And this comfortable point I haue the rather vrged because some too ignorantly seeke the beginning of a Church here within these hundred yeeres and the Schismatikes impudently affirme that they themselues are the first visible Church sprung vp in England The founder whereof was Browne Which man if so he had been stirred vp by God to such a miraculous worke not onely he should haue been vpheld in that worke as Moses and Aaron to the old Church and the Apostles to the new Church for God neuer forsooke his principall Church-planters but also he should haue begun that worke with a better miracle then by alluring seruants from their masters children from their parents wiues from their husbands with whom they had smitten couenant although to their bodies hurt and affliction Thus the seed of the kingdome vniuersally preuailed maugre the malignitie of the