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An abstract of fayth grounded on Moses, and applyed to the common Creede; plainely and briefly. By Henoch Clapham, in the beginning of his third yeares bands.
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Clapham, Henoch.
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STC 5328; ESTC S118540
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Iesus are sealed vp vnto Eternall life If he reply these places and many moe doe teach necessarily Eternall life but his meaning was that the phrase of Eternall life was not vsed of Moses Thereto I answere so the Sadducie may denie all the artificiall tearmes of Diuinity which the Prophets Apostles all haue introduced in the wisedome of Gods spirit And so he may carpe at all Religion at euery mans writing contending about Tearmes till he haue forgotten the thing and matter it selfe This Eternall life is a full fruition of God all glorious * 1. Iohn 3. 2. seeing him as he is and enioying that sight for euermore When Satan sayd Yee shal be as Aelohim Gen. 3. he spoke as did Caiphas a truth against his purpose vnderstanding For God that called Light out of Darknesse hath out of Death fetched Life yea such a Life as whereby euery of the Saued shal be as God though not God by God his beeing so all in all Vnto this Eternall life is opposite eternall Death This prouided for the Diuell and his Angels and all misbeleiuers as the former prouided for true Beleiuers vnited to their Head Christ. The Diuell and his are thrust out of the Creed because thrust out from the presence of Gods glory Let them all that would partake in that Glory labour their assurance thereof by a true working Fayth I beleeue Lord helpe my vnbeleife Amen Such hath been and such is my Fayth Whatse're the close Seducer sayth The sundry Bookes I erst haue writ To all the world will witnesse it Erubescas nonnè Satana Epilogue to the Christian Reader OVr Sauiour hauing to doe with the Sadducies who admitted no other Scripture for Canonicall sauing the writinges of Moses hee by Moses answereth them as being sufficient for proouing any Article of Fayth which had in after times been taught by the Prophets Himselfe or his Apostles seeing Himselfe came but to fulfill the Law which caused Isaiah to bid his Hearers Goe to the Law as the Apostles were interpretours of Law and Prophets Nor for other purpose was it that our Sauiour sayd thus to the Jewes Had yee beleeued Moses yee would haue beleeued mee John 5. 46. 47. for he wrote of mee But if yee beleeue not his writinges How shall yee beleeue my words The matters of Saluation were perfect in Moses howsoeuer there was more light in the expositions of the Prophets and most light in the labours of the Apostles Wherevpon I conclude that nothing is to be held for an Article of Religion as essentiall vnto Saluation which cannot be made good out of Moses Which one lesson if it had been well learned it had preuented the manifold Schismes which a number run into partly about Quiddities touching the Godhead partly about Externall forme of Church discipline and partly about Ceremonies of order and comlynes by such meanes violating the Fayth breaking the bondes of peace and loue wrathfully eger about circumstaunces euery Sect in their humour till substaunce of Fayth and the groundes of Charitie be neglected tything with the Pharises Mynts and Anise at the best neglecting meane times Barútera tou nomou the waightier thinges of the Law as Iudgement Mercie and Fidelitie while thus one doth bite another one is consumed of another Manasses eating vp Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses Galat. 5. 5. Isa. 9. 20. 21. and both against Judah The Lord redresse it and giue vs grace to do all thinges in loue Amen PRay for mee Friends pray for my constancie That in true Faith Clapham may liue die So shall his life and death be for thy good While some sticke vp vnto the knees in Mudde Feeding on earth digging with Moâ—es to hell God do encrease our Fayth and Loue. Farewell Pergite ¶ To the fainting Friend Thou weary art of doing good Though I the same to losse of Blood Reward is ioyn'd with Constancy When Iudgment whips Apostacy Memor esto vnde excideris Resipisce ¶ To the Enemie Do wring and wrest do rayle and rend Yet I will blesse vnto the end Domine ne statuas Ei hoc peccatum FINIS The Printer The Auther being a farre off some faults may haue passed mee I pray you impute them to meere ignoraunce
vee in Gen. 42. 2. Ben-â—orion accoÌ„plisheth 210. yeares Aerédh el-Beni abel Sheóâ—ah I wil go downe to my Sonne moorning to Sheol that is the place of all flesh arguing the full estate of the dead called also Being gathered to the Fathers What he should doe in the place of the damned triumphing in his soule more then in his body seeing our triumph is in both I know not Nor haue the 4. Euangelists laying downe a plaine and open Narration of Iesus once spoken it For the speach of Jonahs and Christes being 3. dayes in the Whales belly and earth that argues his bodyes captiuitie like as that of Jonas it being an estate of Humiliation rather then of Triumph To mee that argument seemeth sound Whither Christ repaired he went to bring comfort But to the Hell of the damned he could bring no comfort Therefore to the Hell of the damned he repaired not If any approoue not my Iudgement more then I do his I desire him notwithstanding to be at peace with mee as I with him Non omnia vidimus omnes Euery dissent must not breed a rent Christ bare our infirmities and Charitie will make vs willing to beare one anothers infirmitie fulfilling so the law of Christ. But such is the miserie of our dayes as euery dissent in iudgement though but about circumstances begetteth a Schisme to the pursuing of one another to the losse of life Heauenly Father for thy Sonnes sake plant more loue amongst vs. Section 3. ¶ I beleeue in the Holy-ghost WIth the auncient Church Credo in spiritum sanctum I beleeue vpon the Holy-ghost And because affiance is to be setled vpon him as vpon the Father vpon the Sonne therefore the Holy-ghost God euen One with the Father and the Sonne howsoeuer proceeding from the Father the Sonne as the Sonne had his begetting of the Father but both of an vnutterable manner for what can we resemble to the highest The Easterne and Greeke Church standeth seuered in this poynt from vs of the West but therefore to be anathematized of which Anathema hereafter it seemeth vnto mee to proceed from zeale beyond measure seeing in the Primatiue Church some were ignoraunt Act. 19. 1. 2. If so there were an Holy-ghost and yet were helde Disciples and Beleiuers As in the externall worke to vs ward the Father is sayd to Create rather then to Redeeme or Sanctifie and the Sonne rather to Redeeme then to Create or Sanctifie so the Holy-ghost to Sanctifie rather then to Create or Redeeme And for that it is the worke of the Father and Sonne by the Holy-ghost to hallow the Creature namely mankind elected therefore Moses introduceth Habel seuered from Kain in the holy worke of Oblation Habel was begotten by the same Adam and brought foorth by the same Heuah but did the worke of Fayth which Kain did not And why because he was not onely acted by this Holy spirit for so the wicked oft be but for that he had receiued the same Spirit as an earnest penny of Adoption as all of * Math. 20. compared with Chap 21. 33. the kingdome of Grace in this life do at what howre soeuer they obay their calling which Spirit as he is holy so he sanctified his thought worde and worke whereby he is sayd to please God And no maruaile seeing the Father cannot but like the fruites of his owne Spirit euen as vpon his Suruay of the sixe dayes worke 1. Iohn 2. 20. 27. he saw and approued all to be good and very good The operation of this Spirit for mollifiyng the hard heart of man is resembled by the Leuiticall Oyntment His vertue of sweetning the soule and of making our Prayers redolent and sauorie in the nosethrils of our heauenly Father is typed out in the Legall Perfume the counterfayting and false application wherof is adiudged to death So dangerous a thing is it for any hypocritically to counterfaite holines where the powre is lacking or to misapply the things of the Spirit to the prophanation thereof Exod 31. c. Moses tearmeth him Ruach Iohn 3. 8. Winde not onely for filling all things but also for his free breaâ—hing Graces when and where he will for the beginning and perfecting of our RegeneratioÌ„ or new-birth The Father of Heauen for his Sonnes sake vouâ—hsafe to powre on our 〈◊〉 plenteously of his Spirit for the glory of his owne name Amen 1 So farre touching Fayth in God the Father Sonne Holy-ghost 2 Now followeth what is to be beleiued touching his Church 1 First in respect of her selfe once in the whole Catholiquâ— then in the parts Communion 2 Secondly touching her benefites 1 First in respect of this life and that 's Remission of sinnes 2 Secondly after this life 1 the Resurrection of the flesh 2 Eternall life Section 4. ¶ The holy catholique church IT is not sayd I beleeue in Ecclesiam Sanctam in or vpon the Church for that were to make her the Rocke of our saluation and equall with God no more then it can be sayd afterwards I beleeue in the remission of sinnes c. Nor can Credo Ecclesiam catholicam be truly turned I beleeue the Catholique Church for then euery Grammarian knoweth it should be Ecclesiae catholicae But as in the three last clauses the verbe * Esse to be Esse is vnderstood as Credo Remissionem peccatorum Esse I beleeue Remission of sinnes to bee Resurrection of the flesh to bee Eternall life to bee so the wordes are plainely to be resolued thus I beleeue that there is an Holy Catholique Church a Comunion of Sainctes Forgiuenesse of sinnes c. All which cleareth that the penners of this Creede were farre from teaching man to builde his Conscience vpon men no not vpon the holy Catholique Church It will be obiected that of Israel it is sayd in Exod 14. 31. Vajaamiâ—û baibâ—uah vâ—emosheh gnabhaô and they beleeued in Jehouah and in Moses his seruant I answere First Learned men both on Christs Antichrists side do turne it Crediderunt Domino Moseh They beleeued the Lord and Moses not pressing the letter Beth which often importeth in Secondly it may well be said that they beleeued in Moses respecting the Word of the Lord which Moses brought immediately from the Lords mouth to their eares and yet be farre enough from setling Fayth vpon Moses who afterwards was found in vnbeleife about the Rocke in Exod. 17. Euen as S. Peter soone after his holy confession was found in like state touching Christ the * Math. 7. 24. 25. 1. Cor. 10. 4. Rocke of our Saluation It wil be againe obiected that the Church being Conuened in the name of Christ is to be beleeued so well as Moses I answere t is true for Moses was not beleeued otherwise then hee brought the Lords warrant so neither is the Church And because the Congregation or Church can and sometimes will erre through ignoraunce therefore the Lord by Moses in Leuit. 4. 13.