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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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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.
c. doth appoynt a peculiar Oblation for the whole Congregation of Israel so sinning Let God then be true and euery man a lyer The Church of Israel was Nationall and in Exod. 19. called of the Lord an Holy Nation he hauing called and culled them from out all people vnto himselfe and so were a figure of the Church which Christ at his first comming into the world would gaine to himselfe out of all * Reuel 7. 9. Nations Tongues and Kindreds for woorshipping before his Throne And herein was Japhet returned to Shems Tabernacle as Noah foretold And the Prodigall Gentile repaired so to his Elder brothers inheritaunce namely that of the Jew as our Sauiour intimates in a Parable The Jew respecting the generall standeth without murmuring at the Gentiles acception Heauenly Father perswade him to come in that so thy Two people may become One for furthering thy glory This Catholique Church then is the whole body of people wheresoeuer * Catholique a greeke word in English Vniuersall and therefore not to be tyed to Rome or any one place citie or nation Catholiquely that is vniuersally spread vpon the whole face of the earth gathered from ludahs tribe vnto Shiloh himselfe as Jaakâ—b foretold in Genes 49. 10. when he sayd A Tribe shall not leaue ludah nor Lawgiuer from betweene his feete till Shiloh come then the people shal be gathered vnto Him that is to Christ. And whereas some vrge from the Epithet Holy that by holy Catholique Church is meant onely that part of the Church which is inuisible knowen onely vnto God each member wherof is Holy indeed I take it to be an errour First for that the auncient Writers who best vnderstoode their owne terme Catholique do vnderstande it of the visible Beleeuers wheresoeuer as may be seene specially in their forme of prouoking Heretiques Secondly the tearme Holy giuen vnto it doth no more proue that therefore euery soule in the Catholique Church is indeede Holy then the same tearme proueth all therefore in Israels people to be Holy indeed when as they be called an holy Nation For who in the Scriptures shal not perceiue that Israel howsoeuer Called to be Sainctes prooued still in fact and Fayth for the most part very prophane and Idolatrous And that is in deed a Sonne of perdition mounted in the Temple a body of Tares ouergrowing the Wheat-field Which not obserued of many it hath been cause of much errour in disputation about the visibilitie of the Church Euen as it followeth not because Jeroboam is a liuing man therefore euery member in him is liuing or hath life in it for his hand and some other parts may be dead and senslesse Then will some further obiect It followeth that as the Nationall Church of Israel and the Prouinciall Church of the Jewes had one visible Hie-priest ouer the whole so the Catholique Christian Church is to haue one visible Pastor ouer it I answere it followeth not First for that One may better rule ouer a Prouince or Nation then ouer the whole world Secondly for that God commaunded that people to repaire three times a yeare to that One place where that Hie-priest was to continue with the Arke of God but no such commaundement to vs. Nay God hath taken away that One place because in euery place he will be worshipped Our Melchi-esedek in repect of his Diuinitie is euery where therefore to be sacrificed too euery where and his Mandood is in the Heauens therefore Sur sum corda thither lift we vp our heartes As Christ is the onely head of this Church and this Church is the whole Corporation of Beleeuers of all Nations Kindreds and Tongues standing before his Throne so the life of this Church is his Spirit and the Spirit she receiueth * Galat 3. 2. 5. 8. by the preaching of Fayth Moses teacheth this euidently enough in not only introducing the Lord himselfe preaching the doctrine of Fayth to Adam and Heuah in Paradise and to other Patriarchs after but also in his giuing to auncient Mother Zion the whole Tribe of Leuj for discharging Ministeriall duties for information of Fayth besides that in desperate times he stirred vp Prophets of what Tribe soeuer without all Priestly forme of Ordination for informing Priest and people All which taking away Cerimoniall circumstaunces the Lorde doth to this catholique Church for trayning her through the worldes Wildernesse vnto the alotted Land of Promise heauenly Canaan In the meane time as the Church of Israel had her Captiuities vnder the which was an exercise of her patience and for gayning of libertie might vse no bodyly resistance euen so the Church of Christians hath her Captiuities which exact at her hands much more patience But as Jsrael deliuered by the Lords ministerie out of Aegipt had an Amalek to warr withal through all generations to the putting of his remembrance from vnder heauen Exod. 16. 8. c. And being freed from Babylon had enemies beyond the Riuer for resistaunce of whom they held a Sword in the one hand while they did the worke of the Lord with the other So the Christian Church vpon her deliueraunces hath her enemies with whom she must skirmish and against whom she must hold the swordes poynt while her people may buyld vp themselues an holy Temple Nehe. 4. 17. with 1. Cor. 6. 19. to the mightie God of Jaakob Section 5. ¶ Communion of Sainctes THe Church before being considered in the Catholique or generall or whole in these wordes Communion of * Sainctes by calling 1. Cor. 1. 2. though some amongst them were grosly Hereticall many Schismaticall and not a few Prophaine euen as in the Church of the Jewes some persecuted the Prophets and Christ himselfe thinking they did God good seruice Math. 21. 33. Sainctes or Holy-ones it is to be considered in the parts that is in her seuerall Societies and Corporations euen as from the Corporation of any whole Citie we descend to the consideration of particular Corporations or Companies included within the Cities vniuersall The Communion or Fellowship of Saincts by calling is to be considered as established or vnestablished Vnestablished as when some Beleeuers are gathered togeather in Citie or Familie but destitute of such spiritual functions as tend to absolute order And so two or three gathered together in Christs name haue him in the middest of them An Estabished Church is a competent company of Beleeuers * I say not Gathered for then no one should be a member that were not at the same season present gathering together in Christs name hauing and enioying such Ecclesiastique functions as be necessarily required for more orderly and sufficient administration of Word and Sacraments and Discipline Vnto which end the Apostle Paul is registred to haue gone too and fro establishing the Churches The Ecclesiastique functions appertayning to such orderly established Churches are of two sorts Bishops and Deacons as for Deaconistes they are rather to be serued then to serue