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A69006	A booke which sheweth the life and manners of all true Christians and howe vnlike they are vnto Turkes and Papistes, and heathen folke. Also the pointes and partes of all diuinitie, that is of the reuealed will and worde of God are declared by their seuerall definitions and diuisions in order as followeth. Also there goeth a treatise before of reformation without tarying for anie, and of the wickednesse of those preachers, which will not refourme them selues and their charge, because they will tarie till the magistrate commanude and compell them. By me, Robert Brovvne.	Browne, Robert, ca. 1550-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 3910.3; ESTC S109446	65,269	61

A Booke WHICH SHEWETH THE life and manners of all true Christians and howe vnlike they are vnto Turkes and Papistes and Heathen folke Also the pointes and partes of all diuinitie that is of the reuealed will and worde of God are declared by their seuerall Definitions and Diuisions in order as followeth ROBERT BROVVNE MIDDELBVRGH ¶ Imprinted by Richarde Painter 1582. 6 Whiche be the three persons God the Father God the Sonne begotten of the Father from euerlasting and after an vnspeakeable manner whiche also is called IESVS CHRIST God the holy Ghoste proceeding of the Father and of the Sonne 6 What dreames and imaginations haue the Heathen of sundrie persons in the Godhead They haue their Baals Popes fatherhoode in mischiefe They haue their sonnes also children of their Gods as mightie Gyaunts subtile wretches which drawe frō their fatherhoode a course and force which is mischeeuous They haue also their seducing and wicked spirites which they say are of God 6 A person is a difference of the Godhead in the names and working in one mutuall agreement The Father is a person of the Godhead which is and worketh by his Sonne begotten of him from euerlasting in a mysterie vnsearcheable The Sonne is a person of the Godhead which is and worketh with his Father who begate him from euerlasting The holy Ghost is a person of the Godhead which is and worketh from the Father and from the Sonne 7 Howe is God all sufficient and most blessed His all sufficiencie and moste blessed state appeareth by his incomparable Maiestie by the shewe of his wonderfull glorie 7 How do the Heathen Gods vanish and haue their wantes and harmes They are vile and nothing worth They are vnprofitable and can doo nothing except they be helped of others 7 The all sufficiencie and blessednesse of God is his perfect state whereby he wanteth nothing nor hath neede of anie thing to better the same but all things haue neede of him and haue their beeing by him 8 Howe is his Maiestie incomparable Because he was neuer made nor created nor seene of mortall man Because he staineth and confoundeth all things being compared with him And because he is onely infinite 8 Howe doo they shewe them selues vile and nothing worth They are made handled and led by others They are worse then their makers more vile then they whiche handle and vse them They are limited by others whiche rule them 8 The Maiestie of God is his incomparable excellencie or greatnes whereby he differeth frō all thinges in a wonderfull mysterie and stayneth and confoundeth them being compared with him 9 Howe is he infinite He is and cōtinueth from euerlasting to euerlasting He is vnchaūgable w tout corruptiō He is incomprehensible and contained of nothing 9 How are they Limited Their beginning is vile their ende is worse They chaunge and fade away They are caughte and taken in their corruption 9 His infinitnes is a perfection of his Maiestie whereby he limiteth all thinges and is limited of nothing and therefore he limiteth time and place vnto all things and their working chaunges 10 Howe hath God shewed vnto vs his wonderfull glorie First by his power almightines Secondlie by the name of Chieftie which he hath by his power Thirdlie by his holines in vsing his power 10 Why are they vnprofitable can do nothing except they be helped Because of their weaknes and deadnes in them selues Because they are maistered haue their basenes Because they are misled and do fault by their weakenes 10 His glorie is the shew of his excellencie in all his workes His power and almightines is a perfection of his excellencie wher by nothing is to hard for him and he bringeth to passe whatsoeuer he wil. 11 How is God knowen by his power and almightines By his creating of all things By his vsuall guiding of all By his meruailes wonders which he sheweth besides vse 11 How are they weake and dead in them selues They haue their making marring They are driuen drawne by their course and destinie Their best woorke is triflinge to no profit 11 His creating is a worke of his allmightines whereby he made all things of nothing His guiding is a woorke of his power in vsing all things to serue his purpose that nothing chaunceth but by his will and commaundement His maruailes and wonders are his extraordinarie workes teaching man that he hath power ouer all his workes to vse them against their nature to doo him seruice and set foorth his glorie 12 Howe is hee knowen by the chieftie whiche he hath by his power He is Lord and Ruler of all He is God and Possessor of all He hath the honour and prayse of all 12 Howe are they maistered and haue their basenes They are seruile and slauish They are the curse and the euill of those that seeke to them They are the shame and skorne of the wiser 12 His Chieftie is the power which he hath to vse all things as he will His Lordship is his chieftye wherby he hath all things subdued and obedient vnto him His Rule and Gouernement is his Lordship in vsing the obedience of all things to do his will His possessing of all is his Lordshippe in vsing their seruice for his purpose and will His honour is the chieftie which he hath by the homage and seruice of all 13 Howe is hee knowen by his holines in vsing his power He sheweth his holines in perfect wisdome Allso in his iustice righteousnes Allso in his goodnes and grace 13 How are they misledde faultie by their weaknes Those men or euill spirits which haue bene made Gods haue their fondnes or foolishnes Also their vnrighteousnes Also their hurtfulnes and harming 13 His holines is the right and perfect vse of his power to do all things most vprightly and innocently His wisedome is his holines by the perfect vse of all vnderstanding 14 What say you of his wisdom By his wisedome hee knoweth all thinges He is perfect in counsaile He worketh all things in theyr due manner 14 What say you of their fondnesse and foolishnes Thei haue their ignorāce blindnes Also their rashnes and lightnes Also their euill handling marring of matters 14 His knowledge is that point of his wisdome wherby nothing is hydd and secret from him but he hath thorowly found out the same His counsaile is his minding and pondering of all things from euerlasting according to knowledge 15 What saye you of his counsaill He mindeth and searcheth oute all thinges from euerlasting He remembreth and counteth them He foreseeth purposeth all things 15 How doo they shew them selues no godds by their lightnesse and rashnesse Their may carelesnes and dulnes be spied in them Also forgetfulnes Also vnwarines and headdines 15 His deuising and serching out of

our selues and our seede to be of the church is a duetifulnes in seeking holines and happines by Christe in his Churche which onely wee haue by a couenaunt to be vnder his gouernement in the Church and by obeying thereto Our profession and submission to his Iawes gouernement is the keeping of our couenant by leading a godly and Christian life 39 How must Baptisme be vsed as a seale of this couenaunt They must be duelie presented and offered to God and the church which are to be Baptised They must be duelie receiued vnto grace and fellowship 39 How do they make Baptisme a pledge and seale of gracelesnes mischiefe They are brought to bee baptised vnto Antichrist and his popish parishes Then also in stead of due receauing there is a gracelesse forceing and rauening of them vnto damnation 39 Baptisme is a Sacrament or marke of the outwarde church sealing vnto vs by the wasshing of our bodies in water and the word accordingly preached our suffering with Christ to die vnto sinne by repentance and our rising with him to liue vnto righteousnes and also sealing our calling profession and happines gotten by our faith in the victorie of the same Iesus Christ. 40 How must they be presented and offered The children of the faithfull though they be infantes are to be offered to God and the church that they may be Baptised Also those infantes or children which are of the householde of the faithfull and vnder their full power Also all of discretion which are not baptised if they holde the Christian profession and shewe forth the same 40 How are they geuen vp vnto popish parishes The children of the wicked and vnfaithfull are offered by godfathers and godmothers and brought to their parishes The parentes and gouernours haue no authoritie to present them They hould not the christian profession nor shew forth the same 40 Presenting and offering of persons to be baptised is a duetifulnes in the parentes and gouernours which offer or in the parties which offer themselues whereby they seeke their saluation by ioyning with the church in one christian communion The due receyuing vnto grace and fellowship is a duetifulnes of the Church in partaking with those in one Christian communiō which are meere for the same 41 How must they be receaued vnto grace and felloshippe The worde must be duely preached in an holie assemblie The signe or Sacrament must be applied thereto 41 What is their gracelesse forceing and rauening of them A lawe doth binde the preist and people to a popish reading or to a dead frutelesse forme of wordes The signe is made a superstitious trifting colouring of abominations 41 By preaching the worde of Baptisme we vnderstande not the blinde reading or fruitles prating thereof at randome but a due teaching bylawful messengers of our redemption mortifying and raysing with Christ 42 How must the word be preached The preacher being called and meete thereto must shewe the redemption of christians by Christ and the promises receaued by faith as before Also they must shewe the right vse of that redemption in suffering with Christ to dye vnto sinne by repētance Also the raising and quickning again vpon repentance 42 What is their dead reading or frutelesse forme of teaching A blind guide or priestlie Preacher by a shewe of reading or telling a redemption by Christ doth snare thē with the abominations of Antichrist They lead them to a desperate hardning by the wicked guiding of their parishes or charges They are vtterlye withdrawne from goodnes to sett them selues on mischeefe and wickednes 42 Our redemption is defined before Our sufferings and raysing do followe after to be handled 43 Howe must the signe be applied thereto The bodies of the parties baptised must be washed w t water or sprinckled or dipped in the name of the Father and of y e Sonne and of the holy Ghost vnto the forgeuenes of sinnes and dying thereto in one death and burial with Christ. The preacher must pronounce thē to be baptised into y e bodie and gouernement of Christ to be taught to professe his lawes that by his mediatiō victorie they might rise againe with him vnto holines happines for euer The church must geue thankes for the partie baptised and praye for his further instruction and traininge vnto ●aluation 43 How is the signe made a superstitious trifle They blasphemously abuse the name of god in baptising thē wherby they further come vnder the fierce wrath of god his bitter curse to be more desperatlie hardened in their sinnes Thei are pronounced to be baptised into their wicked fellowship and gouernment to be taught to professe with some lawes of Christ the lawes of antichrist especially to be set on mischiefe and left helplesse therein The parishe with a false worship and idoll seruice geue thankes and pray vnto God as to an idoll wherby there is a further increase of wickednes miserie to the partie baptised 43 Baptising in the name of God is a due applying of the signe of washing or sprinckling to the worde duelie preached by him which is knowne to be sent of God Baptising into the bodie and gouernement of Christ is when the parties Baptised are receyued vnto grace and fellowshippe by partaking with the church in one Christian communion Thankes giuing and Prayer doo followe after to be spoken of here they be mencioned by occasion Hitherto of the first gathering and planting of the Church 44 How must it be further builded accordinge vnto churche gouernement First by communion of the graces offices in the head of y e church which is Christ. Secondly by communion of the graces and offices in the bodie which is the church of Christ. Thirdly by vsing the Sacrament of the Lords supper as a seale of this communion Hitherto of supplanting of the true Church 44 How do they establish their false church gouernmēt in stead therof They are first vnder one chiefe Antichrist the Pope or vnder other Antichrists which resēble him or sprang vp of him and receaue their image and markes They draw corruptions and partake wickednes one with an other in one common plague They make their supper of communion a pledge seale of their wretched confusion 44 The communion of graces is a mutuall vsing of friendshippe and callings to pleasure and be pleasured in all christian charitie Christ is the Sonne of God made by his Father the Heade and Lorde of the Church because he hath anoynted and filled him with his Spirit and hath giuen him an office and charge and the fulnes of all graces to worke our saluation Antichrist is the childe of the Deuill filled with the spirit of delusion and hypocrisie who hath an vsurped office ouer false christians named the church of God and by the strength of his Lawes gouernement and superstitious ceremonies doeth ouerthrowe their redemption by Christ. 45 Howe hath