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spirit_n	doctrine_n	ghost_n	holy_a	5,419	5	5.1111	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04576	Dauids teacher, or The true teacher of the right-vvay to heauen Discouering erroneous teachers and seditious sectuaries. Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September. 1609. By Ro: Iohnson, M. of Arts, chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne.	Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.	1609 (1609)	STC 14694; ESTC S107451	26,498	52

fast twice in the weeke I giue tithe of all that I possesse Nay he can number our sinnes also set them downe all for ciphers he will tell the couetousnesse whoredom pride enuie they are set down all for ciphers tush they are nothing And when our sinnes are increased that they oppresse our conscience then he will ad one figure vnto those ciphers and then the sinnes are on the other side innumerable intollerable impardonable So hee dealt with Caine My sinnes are more then can be forgiuen and therby driue vs to desperation But since his cunning and subtiltie is apparant I stand not vpon this my purpose is to shew you his Disciples who they are and they are many foure hundred false Prophets for one true Michea Now therfore the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets And among all the Deuils Disciples the Atheist is ranked in the first place The foole hath said in his heart there is no God He is ashamed to say so with his lips for then the Birds of the Aire and the least creature in heauen or earth would condemn him for a foole Secondly the foole hath said in his heart for he that confesseth him in tongue and denieth him in heart mind is a foolish Atheist Thirdly the foole hath said in his heart there is no God for when there is no sence and feeling in his heart and conscience of sinne which commeth by the transgression of the Law he denieth the law of God hee that denieth the law of God denieth also the Lawgiuer God himselfe And so the foole hath said in his heart there is no GOD. wee must not therefore learne of these teachers Ex quibus Doctoribus of what teachers shall we learne then shall we learne of the Hypocrite no for he is the Deuils disciple and will cry Lord Lord with his lips onely and denie him in his heart Pastillos Rufillus olet The Deuill and these smell alike they simbolize verie neerely in qualitie and condition they neuer part heere on earth and it is a chance if they part in hell giue him his portion with Hypocrites Math. 24. We must not learne of these teachers Teach me O Lord. Ex quibus Doctoribus of what teachers shall we then learne shall we learne of heretikes they are the Deuils disciples also and teach the doctrins of deuils In the first epistle of S. Paul to Timothie the fourth chapter and first verse the holy Ghost discouereth these Now the spirit speaketh euidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall giue heede vnto spirits of error doctrines of deuils which speake lies throgh hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with an hot yron we must not learne of these Teach mee O Lord Ex quibus of whome then shall wee learne shall we learne of the Pharisies they prefer their own righteousnes before the righteousnes of God in Iesus Christ shal we learn of the Saduces they deny the resurrection and affirme that there is neither spirit nor Angell shall wee learne of the great Turke nay his skill is to high for a Teacher God of heauen aud Barron of Turkey and yet there is sound difference betweene these two titles Ex quibus of whome then shall wee learne shall we learne of the Heretikes since Christ Shall we learne of the Manaches that put two-beginnings one of good another of euill or shall we learne of the Menandrians that affirme the world was made by Angels They teach not right for in the beginning God made heauen and earth Or shal we learne of the Arians which deny the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christ that he was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eiusdem essentiae cum patre God equall with the Father and of one and the same essence with the Father or of the Valentines which affirme Christ tooke not flesh of the Virgin Mary They teach false for the seed of the woman shall breake the Serpents head or of the Pelagians which say there is no originall sinne they teach falslie for beholde I was conceiued in sinne and borne in wickednes Of the Apolinarists which affirme Christ had a bodie without a soule and that the God-head did supplie the stead and roome of the soule they teach falslie for then Christ was not perfect man of a resonable soule and humane flesh subsisting Or of the Donatists that put an imparitie in the three persons of the Trinitie one to bee greater and lesse then another They teach falslie for in Trinitie none is afore or after another but the three persons are eternall and coequall We must not therefore learne of any of these for God neuer taught these Heresies which are the Doctrines of Deuils Teach me O Lord Ex quibus of whom then shall wee learne of that adulterate Church that Hydra of Rome with many heads and so many Heresies as they pernitiouslie teach and maintaine 1 That the Church cannot erre For let God be true and euerie man a lyar God did not teach them this 2 That the Church of Rome is the onely true Apostolike Church for then there were no other true Church 3 That the authoritie of the Church is aboue the authoritie of the Scripture for then the authority of the Church were aboue the authoritie of the holy ghost by whom the holy Scriptures were written 4 That they haue immediate power to forgiue sinnes for immediately none can forgiue sinnes but God onely 5 That there are seuen Sacraments for Christ neuer instituted but two onely 6 That there is Purgatory for then there is a third place 7 That workes doe iustifie vnto saluation for this is to ioin our works and merits with Christ. We must not learne of them these heresies God did neuer teach them Neither did hee teach 8 That Ministers should not marrie for then marriage is not honourable among all men 9 That praiers and inuocations of Saints is lawful for this is to rob God of his honor God did neuer teach these neither must we learne them of any teachers Ex quibus of whome then shall wee learne shall we learne of their Monkes their Monks of the Oliuet their charter-house monks or ex quibus ordinibus of what orders shall we be of shall wee 1 Of the order of the Gilberines 2 Of the order of the Humiliates 3 Of the order of the Iustinians 4 Of the order of the Ierominians 5 Of the order of the Canons regular 6 Of the order of the Frisonaries 7 Of the order of the Cruch-Friers 8 Of the order of the Grey-Friers 9 Of the order of the Black-Friers 10 Of the order of the White-Friers 11 Of the order of the Dominicke-Friers 12 Of the order of the Franciscan-Friers 13 Of the order of the Capuchian Friers 14 Of the order of the new Hermites Let vs heare no more for

shame for God did neuer teach any of these orders neither is their warrant in the Scriptures for the name of any such order Teach me O Lord. Ex quibus Doctoribus of what teachers then shal we learne God did neuer teach them any of these heresies or orders which in silence I might haue past ouer but hoc vnum this one thing I may not I cannot which both commandement dutie and conscience bindeth me to publish For I am sure God did neuer teach them those late published railing slanderous pasquils blasphemous apologies pernicious aphorismes foolish assertions of the late Paper-treason as I may so call it which of late was contexed against Gods truth and his ordinance We reade that Alexander was angrie with Aristotle for publishing bookes of Acroamaticall sciences which hee secretly had read to Alexander and so by publishing of them would make these arts common I doe not thinke but that Antichristian Alexander of Rome is now as angry with those his Disciples for publishing these bookes which heere in this place were of late fired and burned before your eies as was very fit that such light stuffe lighter then chaffe it selfe should bee burned bookes I say containing Acroamaticall enigmatical diabolicall super-diabolical positions For what doe you think of them doe you thinke them to be written onely as an answer to the booke of our learned and truely religious Soueraigne which by him of late was published intituled An Apologie for the defence of the Oath of Allegiance no For therein his Maiestie may yet trulie say as Cesar said of Pompie The victorie had beene our enemies if they had had a Captaine that could haue told how to ouercome Or what doe yee thinke of these bookes doe you thinke them to be written onely to depraue the state of our Church to disquiet the peace of our Sion to traduce slander her Ministers to seduce her people this were hard dealing enough or doe you thinke them to be written onely as a quib to our Gentlemen a scoffe to our Nobles and worthies of Israel and that which is most of all in derision of Cesars own selfe his second selfe his whole race royal not onely so for these diuelish positions and blasphemous Querries as they tearme them were flat blasphemie against the holie spirit of God Hee that offendeth the king may sometimes be pardoned nay he that sinneth against the Father and the Son may be forgiuen but hee that sinneth against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen And what now can be thought of these base pasquils and most idle assertions contriued without wit without art without discretion without iudgement without the feare of God without respect to his ordinance without head without taile It is much like the Embassage which the Romanes sent to Bythinia who hauing chosen three Embassadors the one of them hauing the gout in his feet the other his head full of great cuts gasps the third being but a foole Cato laughing said That the Romanes had sent an Embassage that had neither feet head nor heart And their Embassage by their bookes is much like vnto that without feet it standeth not by reason without head it wanteth iudgement without heart it wanteth vnderstanding And to helpe to grace this their Embassage they sent this shallow weake stuffe in as weak a vessell by a woman forsooth shee must haue the portage of these bookes It is reported by Plutarch that there were certain holy Geese that were kept in the Capitoll at Rome which with their noise did discouer the practise of the Gaules that were scaling the Capitoll It seemeth there was one of these holy Geese kept vnto this time in their capitoll of Rome which beeing sent hither hath discouered the practise of these pernitious Gaules that of long time haue laide siege to scale our Capitoll ouerthrow our peace ouerturne our gouernment extinguish the light of the Gospell extirpate our Christian profession eradicate our christian religian and haue laboured to ouerturne and cast downe all the foundations and pillers thereof For what is this else but with Rabsakeh to say Let not Hesekiah deceiue you nor make you to trust in the Lord saying the Lord will surely deliuer vs hearken not vnto Hesekiah for thus saith the king of Ashur make appointment and conditions of peace with me and come out vnto mee and let euerie man eate of his owne vine and of his owne Fig-tree So say these Idolatrous Rabsakehs Let not your Hesekiah deceiue you nor make you to trust in the Lord saying the Lord will surely deliuer vs hearken not vnto your Hesekiah for thus saith the great Ashur of Rome Make appointment and conditions of peace with me and come out vnto me and then let euerie man eate of his owne vine and of his owne Fig-tree But if these be their conditions of peace to set heauen and earth together by powder and paper let vs not hearken vnto them Teach me O Lord. Neither may this inke and paper treason so stop the powder treason that it shall yet be forgotten for God did neuer teach them that vnheard of impietie that matchlesse cruelty that infand villanie of the powder treason in the Parlament whereby they would haue brought vpon vs a diabolical domesday vnawares and vnprepared without the commission of God vpon vs all vpon Cedar and shrub king and subiect priest and people vpon all the worthies of Israel vpon all the graue Senators and counsellors vpon all the priests of the Lord vpon all the Prophets of Iuda vpon all the people of Israel Fight neither against great nor small saue only against the king of Israel was Arams charge But h●ere fight not onely against the king of Israel but also against the whole race royall of the king of Israel Let not the root escape nor the branch goe scot free but let all feele that fatall blow that cruell blow that merciles blow of these infernall Gunners Neither did this cruell feritie extend it selfe against the liuing onely but against the dead also That they which are asleepe in the Lord and are at rest from their labours should not rest from their labours God did neuer teach this Teach me O Lord. Thus we see all other teachers haue their defects but Dauids teacher hath none hee is perfect as his way is perfect and therefore as wee haue learned the Teacher who it is so let vs learne his way Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes This is the summe or totall in his request this is the way that wee must walke in and hee that is the way teacheth vs this way he that is the truth teacheth vs this truth he that is the life bringeth vs vnto this life This is the elects way this way leadeth to all happines Hac itur ad superos this is the way to heauen and herein obserue the narrownesse of the way Narrow is the way that leadeth to life and