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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18354	Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ...	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 4934.3; ESTC S282	90,005	150

hauing the forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2. Tim. 3. The Beast in the Reuelation is described with two hornes like the Lambe but withall hauing the voice of a Dragon Chap. 13. The woman which sits vpon many waters is an Whore and inticeth with dalliances like another Dalilah and with a Cup of abomination makes drunke the Inhabitants of the earth Chap. 17. Her Army are Locusts whose faces are as the faces of men whose haire as the haire of women but looke either within and then see teeth as the teeth of Lions or behinde and behold there tayles like vnto the tayles of Scorpions Chap. 9. Lastly would you see the manner how his poisonous doctrine is to gayne vpon the Church Then as before you beheld not the faces of Nero's so neither must you here expect the marches of Iehu's Away with that fond imagination of Bellarmine and other Romanists who imagine that Antichrist must defer his warre vpon the Church vntill the end of the World and that he must dispatch all his conquests and finish his reigne within the short space of three yeeres and an halfe No Saint Iohn tells vs that Antichrist was alreadie come and Saint Paul that in his dayes the misterie of iniquitie did alreadie worke but how not that the seruants of the housholder could take notice of it for that hee that did let would let saith he vntill he were taken away and then and not till then should that wicked one be reuealed 2. Thes 2. For as it is true in morallitie that nemo repentè fit pessimus no man at the first push becomes extreamly bad so the Apostle saith it shall fare with these Seducers they shall not renounce the truth at once but decline from the sinceritie of it by degrees growing as the Text hath it worse and worse deceiuing and being deceiued 2. Tim. 3. 13. What therefore is obserued touching the methodicall disposition of the seuen Churches in the Reuelation though it cannot be typically or prophetically applied as some haue fondly imagined to any Churches in particular yet the Rōanists who by these parts vnderstand the whole may obserue the same in the seueral states and conditions of the Church vniuersall If Ephesus the first and mother Church of lesser Asia leaue her first loue chap. 2. verse 4. this defect of loue in Smyrna the second Church begets counterfeit professors them which say they are Iewes and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan v. 9. Smyrnas counterfeits in Pergamus the third Church proue Balaams and cast a stumbling blocke to those of the couenant euen the Orthodoxe beleeuers pointed out by the Children of Israel v. 14. Now what is but a stumbling blocke in Pergamus the third Church procures a tolleration for Iesabell to preach it in Theatira the fourth v. 20. and loe what in Theatira the fourth is preached and as it were sowed the same springs vp in Sardis the fifth and choakes a great part of the good corne and the precipe to the Angell that is the Bishop thereof is strengthen the things which remaine that are ready to dye chap. 3. verse 2. Whereby wee may note the difference betweene the particular heresies of Arius Nestorius and the like whose Authors and beginners the Papists brag that they can assigne and this generall defection or falling away vnder Antichrist of which they challenge vs to nominate the time and Authors For first those backslidings were of them of whom S. Iohn saith they went out from vs but they were not of vs and therefore making a rent and separation from the Church were the more remarkeable this of Antichrist who is to sit in the Temple of God is to be of those who were of vs and went not out from vs and therefore making no visible rent from the Church must needes be the lesse noted Secondly those being but of some few left Sentinels enough behinde to eye them this was to be vniuersall of the Sentinels and Watchmen themselues euen of the starres which the Dragon was to pul down from heauen with his tayle and if the Watchmen themselues sleepe who shall discouer the approach of the enemie Thirdly those made open inuasion vpon the truth and oppugned the bulwarkes of Faith with hostile furie as Arius the diuinitie of Christ Macedonius the diuinitie of the Holy Ghost and the like this is a claudestine conspiracie and opposeth of the faith not directly but obliquely not formally but virtually not in expresse termes but by consequences and therefore vntill the trumpets sounded the alarum and the thunders in the Reuelation gaue warning few sufpected it Lastly those were like the gourd of Ionas which sprang vp in a night this was like the tares first but a seede then a blade and lastly a fruit and therefore approching by vnsensible degrees was the lesse obserued and discouered And to apply these things more home to the Church of Rome let any speake whether the tower of this second Babell mounted not by the same steps and ascents vnto the battlements How many things at the first were but stumbling blockes that in time became staires to lift Iesabel into the Pulpit how many positions in the infancie of the Gospell vnknowne that after a while were disputed then sided and at length ratified and confirmed What opinions that at first were but dogmata scholae tenents of the scholes that in their riper age were made dogmata Ecclesiae Constitutions of the Church lastly dogmata fidei Articles of faith What errors but Pigmies in their birth that became grand heresies and sonnes of Anak in their grouth So that wee may truly say of the master builders which vpon a foundation happily of gold of siluer layed rowes of stone or bricke and their prentises which thereon aduanced a second storie of slime or rubbish as Vincentius Lyrinensis did of the Donatists building their heresie vpon the authoritie of Cyprian O maruailous change of things the authors of the opinions are iudged Catholickes but the followers thereof are Heretickes the masters are pardoned but the schollers or learners are condemned the writers of the bookes shall without doubt be the Children of the Kingdome but Hell shall be the place for the abettors and maintainers thereof And truly it is an obseruation no lesse iudicious then true of Albaspinus Bishop of Orleans that scarce any error hath crept into the Church which tooke not its originall and sourse from the ancient approued Discipline of the Church not that the institution was bad but that the application is now amisse the seruants of the Housholder made the lawes but the seruants of the enemie added the glosse Hearken what Ferus a Friar saith vpon the eighth of Iudges speaking of Gedeon There was saith he a double sinne in Gedeon both in that he made an Ephod contrary to the Word of God and in that seeing the abuse thereof he tooke it not away Now who sees