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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

would haue thought that Sadduces deniers of the resurrectiō should haue appeared in the Church of Iudah But the Leuites some of them leauing the altar and betaking them to Iudahs crowne and scepter the Lord therefore did punish them with vnbeliefe who should haue taught others the true beliefe Who would haue thought that in the Asian Christian Churches such notable heresies could haue risen who would haue thought that in our Brittaine Churches so many horrours should haue risen But it is not to be wondred at first because our Sauiour foresaw and forespake hereof when as he thus assimilated his kingdome of heauen Not saying it should be so in the world but it should be so in the Church Secondly as through other Churches so through ours this sleepie ministery hath passed wherby an entrance hath been made a way paued vnto an Ocean of euils And that which worse is of those that would be deemed Reformers many proue Deformers and if in zeale they haue once stepped ouer shoes they count it credit rather for Constancie sake to slosh in ouer boots then with Augustine to write a booke of Retractations or with Nathan to return vnto Dauid and confesse that the speech of Temples building it was a speech without booke These kinde of Constantines I haue met with abroad and now find no such enemies at home Let the secret Pharisaicall practices of some witnes that euen what time I was publikely to the comfort of distressed soules exercised in Southwarke vpon this present parable But the Lord rebuke Sathan If I being once ouer-caried with their tarish doctrine doe now go before them in pointing out and remouing such scandales all this without Magistrates constraint or worlds allurement witnesse my writings abroad published before in forraine parts then let them not thinke scorne or take it for a discredit to follow least euerie faithfull Minister that commeth after do both by word and writing cast the doung of their solemne assemblies in their faces If they looke to be saued by holding the foundation they must not be vnwilling to suffer the losse of their timber hay and stubble when the fire of God in his spirit and word do offer to burne it By the practise of the law our own hand should first be vpon the beast and this done voluntarily but if men vpon a good meaning will couer those cattell of Agag yet they shall bleat crie out and pursue them vnto destruction It followeth in the text Vers. 27. Then came the seruants of the householder and said vnto him Master sowedst thou not good seed in that thy field from whence then hath it Tares 28. And be said the enuious man hath done this Two questions are propounded by the seruants vnto the householder whereof this is the first together with the answer For the householder or master of the field it is plaine before to be the sonne of man Touching the seruants some take them to be Magistrates in the Commonwealth some take them to be Ministers in the Church I vnderstand it to be spoken of both and so both will well inough fit first the Analogie and proportion of faith secondly it accordeth aptly vnto the experienced state of Church and Commonwealth though principally of Ministers Then when After the field through Ministers and Magistrates sleepie securitie was ouergrowen with Tares or 〈◊〉 wicked ones Then as out of a sleep Magistrates and M●●●sters do arise they ouersee the Catholike Church they spie not onely offensiue things in the world whereof no maruell but also in the kingdome or new Testaments Church They grieue at the sight and troubled they are in their soule about the present Confusion All this notably and comfortably laying downe that in those last dayes God would not onely stirre vp zealous Ministers for Church reformation but also excellent Magistrates as were Zerubbabel Nehemiah and others for the reformation of Iudah Nor was this vnseene of Iohn in Patmos what time the Angell of God telleth Iohn in the solitarines of his spirit that the ten hornes or ciuill powers which once had subiected themselues vnto the whorish Citie Metropolitane then of the earth what time they lay asleepe by drinking her spirituall fornications they finally should awake And hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burne her with fire For God hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will and to do with one consent for giuing their kingdome vnto the Beast vntill the words of God be fulfilled But those wordes of God for the time of their sleepe once fulfilled they arise as did Henry Edward and Elizabeth in England setting fire on the whore for burning vp her abominations And therefore thrice abominable those spirits that by word or writing proclaime them Schismatikes as do the Papists or Suborners of the beasts kingdome as doe blind Reformists Brownists Anabaptists and Arrians Touching the Ministers seeing vnto them the more excellent charge of the Church is giuen by how much more those euils creepe in through their predecessours negligence by so much the more those their successours are stirred vp in an holy fierie zeale for remouing of present euils Such a one was For this purpose let the yong Student read the succession of Doctors written by Simon de Voyon William of S. Amour a doctor of Paris After him Laurence an English man and doctor also there Then Iohn Wicliffe here in England and with him Sautre a Priest Iohn Hus a Bohemian first student in Oxford Ierom of Prage also a Bohemian with multitudes not onely of Ministers but also of inferiour callings whom God stirred vp in all parts for recouerie of a better Ierusalem then that in Iudea of Beniamin But marke that those seruants of Christ they trust not to their owne iudgements herein and therefore they runne vnto Christ to be enformed by what meanes all this euill is come Who as they seeke to him so from him they receiue a ready and faithfull answere Who hauing vnderstood by the word of the Lord that all this was the worke of Satan in his ministers what time men lay asleepe in securitie euen as a Garden sowen and planted with good it bringeth forth readily weedes of all sorts after a little time of rest vpon this assurance Then the Seruants said vnto him wilt thou then that wee goe and gather them vp 29. But he said No least while ye goe about to gather the Tares ye plucke vp the wheat with them also The second Interrogatorie and his answere followeth The question propounded by the same seruants Magistrates Ministers zealous people the answere is returned by the same Housholder and Master of the Church Christ Iesus By those holy hearted seruants their second demaund Wilt thou that we goe and gather them vp it plainly appeareth that they not onely were grieued to see the Church pestred with such tarish companions but also that they had a zeale