be called Gods and Lordes many Sonne There is but one true God One true God although there bée thrée distincte persons of that one true GOD I cannot make further relacion of his Godhead then that he hath spoken and called himselfe thus I am that I am I am Exod. 3 I am sayth he to Moyses haue sent thée This God appered vnto Abraham Exod. 6. Iehoua Gene. 17 Isaac and Iacob as an almightie God and in my name saith hée Iehoua was I not knowen vnto them I am the almightie God behold I am Almighty True God Deut. 7. Eod. Mightie Terrible Deu. 9. A consuming fier Deu. 32 The Lord thy God is a true God God is among you a mightie and terrible GOD. The Lord thy God is a consuming fyer he shall consume and bring the enimies downe before his face I alone am God and there is else none I kill and make a liue He is a God of truth without wickednesse right and Iust is he Without sinne He is an holy an Ielious God Iosua 24 and can not beare with iniquitie and sinne The righteous god trieth the harts reines Psal 7. VVhat is God The Lord is my stony rocke and defence my sauiour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horne also of my saluation and my refuge Psalm 14 He maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire 139. If I clime vp to heauen he is there if I goe downe to hell he is there also Pro. 5. Euery mans waies are open in the sight of his God and he pondreth all mens goinges Pro. 15. Hell with her paine is knowne vnto this God how much more then the hearts of men â—eremi 10 I am euen I am the Lorde of hosts and besides mée ther is no sauiour The Lords â—ame the lord is a true God a liuing God and an euerlasting King Eod. The name of GOD is the Lorde of hosts Dan. 4. There is none that may resist his hand or say why dost thou this Daniel 7 He sat him downe and his clothing was as white as snowe and the haires of his head like the pure wooll his throne like the fyery flame and his wheles as the burning of fyre The second â—erson a thousand serued him and tenne thousand times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened and the beast slayne Math. 1. Thou shalt call his name Iesus quia is saluum faciet populum a peccatis suis For he shall saue the people from their sines In the beginning was the worde Io. 1. and the word was with God and God was the worde And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs. The spirit of God came vpon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Third person The Lord GOD and his spirit Esay 48. hath sent me I will power downe of my spirit vpon all flesh Ioel. 2 Procedit Apatrie Rom. 8 Procedit a filio Io. 16. and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie He that hath not the spirit of Christ he is none of his When the spirit of truth commeth whom I will send from my father he will lead you into all truth This spirit certyfieth our spirit Rom. 8. that we be the sonnes of God Trinitie Math. 3. When Iesus was baptised hée came straight out of the water and heauen was open vnto him and the spirit of God came downe like a Doue light vpon him and ther came a voyce from heauen which said this is my beloued Sonne In whom I am well pleased Gen. 19. The Lorde appeared vnto Abraham and he lift vp his eyes and looked and loe thrée men stode by him â—3 seme one worshipped and he ranne to méete them at the Tennte Doore and fel to the ground and saide Lorde I besech thée goe not from thy seruant Esay 6. The Cherubin songe holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Io. 5.3 persons one God Ther be thrée that beare record in heauen the father the sonne and the holy ghost and these thrée are one Spirit water blod There be thrée that beare witnesse vppon earth the spirite and water and blood and these thrée are one Reuel 22 And concluding that these thrée persons the father sonne and holy ghost are consubstantiall and coequall Alpha and Omega without beginning or ende Father Prayer I besech this holy and blessed Trinitie one true and euerlasting GOD to continue his mercie and goodnesse towards vs his people for his owne name sake Amen Sonne And I doe most earnestly entreate his maiestie to giue vs grace to put off the olde man which is corrupt and to put on the newe man taking holde of his mercie by faith and so continue neuer looking backe but still procéeding from vertue to vertue till we enioye that kingdome prepared for the elect and chosen by this blessed Trinitie Amen Father Goe forwarde sonne tell me how man at the beginning knew the will and good pleasure of his God before the Lawe was written that he might doe thereafter and liue Sonne When the Lorde made man at the béeginning Gen. 1 he made him after his owne Image that was iust so that he knewe how to eschue euill do good for it was grafted in him when he was called of God Free will For the Lorde sent fyre and water lyfe and death before man Eccle. 15. that he might reach his hand to which he would Father And what did man being Iust and in that frée choise Sonne Gene. 3 He chose death and left life He became obedient to the subtyll serpent the Diuell and disobedient vnto his God As appeareth when God had made man and woman he placed them in Paradise where they should haue liued and all their posterytie in Ioye and filicitie for euer they had frée wil and libertie ouer all the trées and hearbes in that garden Tree of knowledge Gen. 3. and all other things whatsoeuer except the trée of knowledge of good and bad which the Lord commaunded that they should not vpon paine of death touch Father Could they not be content with all the fruites of the garden and abstayne from that one trée and so be blessed for euer Sonne No Father they forsooke their blessednesse and chose to be cursed to leue life and take death they forsooke their inherytance in heauen and chose to be fier brands in hell they cast off the Image of GOD and toke vppon them the Image of the Diuell The diuells â—mage Father Tell me by what meanes this came to passe Sonne When the Lord had thus blessed them with all blessings Gen. 3 the Diuell and Sathanas hating their happie state from which hée was fallen A lyer Serpent subtiller then any beast Came as a Serpent to Eua and demaunded why they eate not
aunswere to euery man that asketh me a reason of the hope that is in me that with méekenes feare hauing a good cōcience that whereas they back byte mée as an euill doer they may be ashamed that falsly accuse my good conuersation in Christ demaund therefore what pleaseth you and I will according as Gods holy spirit shall teach me aunswere to the same Father In whome doest thou beléeue and whom doest thou worshippe Sonne Acts. 24 I aunswere with Saint Paull and confesse vnto you that after the way which some called heresie so worship I the God of my fathers beléeuing al things that are written in the Law and Prophets and haue hope towards God that the resurrection of the dead shall be both of iuste and vniust and therefore I study to haue alwaies a cleare conscience towardes God and towards men Father Shew mée if thou hast read perfectly the whole booke of God Sonne Psalm 1. Yea father I may say with Dauid my delight is in the Lawe of the Lorde and in his word haue I exercised my selfe day and night Father Are all thinges necessary to saluation contained in that booke of life called the Byble Sonne Yea truly father Io. 5. search the Scriptures saith Christ for in them ye thinke ye haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of mée and yet ye will not come vnto-mée that ye might haue life Saint Iames saith Iames. 1 Suscipite insitum verbū quod potest saluare animas vestras receiue with méekenesse the worde which is grafted in you being able to saue your soules Many signes truly did Iesus in the presence of his disciples Io. 20. which are not written in the Byble but so many are written that may learne vs to beléeue that Iesus is Christ the sonne of GOD and that in beléeuing wée may haue life through his name Saint Peter sayth 1. Peter 2 although wée sée not Christ yet wee doe beléeue and reioyce with ioye vnspeakable glorious The end of faith is saluation receiuing the ende of our faith euen the saluation of our soules Io. 15. Christ Iesus himselfe saith that we are cleane through the words which he hath spoken vnto vs. Peter the Appostel rose vp and saide ye men and brethren Acts. 15. ye knowe that GOD did choose among vs that the Gentiles by my mouth should heare the worde of the Ghospell and beléeue and GOD which knoweth the hearts bare them witnesse and gaue vnto them the holie ghost euen as he did vnto vs and put no difference betwixe vs and them Purified by faith séeing that with faith he purified their hearts Saint Paull saith to Timothie continue thou in the thinges which thou hast learned which also were committed vnto thée knowing of whome thou hast learned them 2. Tim. 3 And for as much also as of a Childe thou hast knowen the holie Scriptures which are able to make thée learned vnto saluation through the faith which is in Christ Iesu for all Scriptures giuen by inspiration of GOD is profitable to teach Scripture makes men perfect in righteousnesse to improue to amēd to enstruct in righteousnesse that the man of God may bée perfect and prepared vnto all good workes Whereby you may plainelie perceiue Father that all thinges néedefull to saluation both to the Iewes and Gentiles Conclusion bonde and frée is contained in the written worde of GOD. Father Me thinkes that by these proues the holie Scriptures contained not onelie all thinges necessary for Saluation but also all other thinges néedefull for the good gouernement of a Christian life Sonne It is so Father as if it please God you shall heare afterwarde in the declaring of the duties of all estats and degrées of people for what blasphemy were it to the holy spirit of God to say that God hath left his word will and Testament vnperfect Father Is there nothinge then left out of Scripture for manne to teach that is néedefull many rites ceremonyes ordinances and inuentions of manne haue béene added thereto and taughte as things most requisite euen in my time Sonne Deu. 4. No father the Lorde saith you shall put nothing vnto the worde which I commaund you Prou 30. neither doe ought there from put thou nothing vnto his wordes least he reproue thée and thou be found a lyer Reuel 22. I testify saith Saint Iohn vnto euery man that heareth the prophecie of the Lords booke if any man shall adde vnto those thinges God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in that booke and if any man shall minish of the words of the prophecie of that booke God shall take away his parte out of the booke of life and out of the holy Cittie and from the things that are written in that booke who then dare be so bould father to thrust in among the ordinances and statutes of our heauenly father mans inuencions and constitutions séeing there hangeth Gods vengeance and eternall punishment ouer the heades of such ready to destroy soule and body when the Lorde commaundeth and to cast them into hell fire that neuer quecheth Father Séeing that the Scripture is the word of saluation why doe so many in these dayes refuse to heare or reade the same Recusants Sonne Christ Iesus saith Io. 8. he that is of God heareth Gods wordes they therfore heare them not because they are not of God To those Recusants saith Christ further Io. eod why doe you not know my spéech euen because you cannot abide the hearing of my worde Yée beléeue not my wordes Io. 10. because you are not of my shéepe for my shéepe heare my voyce and I know them Recusants none of his sheepe and they follow mée and I giue vnto them eternall life and they shall neuer perish neyther shall anye man plucke them out of my handes He that heareth you saith Christ to his disciples heareth mee Luke 10 and he that heareth mée heareth him that sent mée Recusants despise Christ and he that dispiseth you despiseth mée and he that despiseth mee despiseth him that sent mée The Quéene of the South shall rise at the daye of iudgement Luke 11. with this nation and condemne it for she came from the vttermost partes of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon and beholde a greater then Salomon is héere Luke 14 Nemo virorum istorum qui vocati sunt gustabunt cenam meam None of these saith Christ that were called and refused to come shall tast of my Supper Acts. 3. The time will come sayth the Apostle That euerie soule that wil not héere that same Prophet shall bee destroyed from among the people 1. Io 4. Recusants are not of God neither know him We are of God saith Saint Iohn hée that knoweth God heareth vs he that is not of God heareth vs not hereby knowe we the spirit of God and the
Saint Paull sayth 1. Cor. 12 yée are the bodie of Christ and members one of an other The Church saith the Prophet Ose Oscas 2. is married vnto the Lorde in righteousnesse in equitie in louing kindnesse in mercie and also in faith There is neyther Iewe nor Gentile Gal. 3. bonde nor frée man nor woman but all one in Christ Iesu As the body sayth Saint Paull is one and hath many members 1. Cor. 12 and all the members of one body though they bée many yet are but one bodie euen so is Christ for by one Spirite wee are all Baptised to make one body whether wée bée Iewes or Gentiles whether wée bée bonde or frée and haue all drunke of one spirit Rom. 12. For as we haue many members in one body and all members haue not one office so we being manie are one bodie in Christ and euerie man among our selues one an others members Ephe. 1. Christ the head we his members Christ saith Saint Paull is made aboue all thinges the heade of the congregation which is his body and the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Ephe. 2. Ye are not strangers and forrenners but Citizens with the saintes and of the housholde of God and buylt vppon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets The true Church Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone In whom what building so euer is coupled together it groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lorde in whome ye are also buylt together to be an habitation of God through the holy Ghost Ephe. 4. Let vs follow the truth in loue and in all things that grow in him which is the heade euen Christ Head 2. Thes 2 They that are chosen to saluation sanctified by his spirit through beliefe of the truth What is the Church 1. Tim. 3 whervnto they are called by the Gospell and so obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ The house of God the congregation of the liuing God 2. Tim. 3. the Pyller and ground of the truth Christ hath rule ouer the house whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence the reioycing of that hope vnto the ende Saint Peter sayth that the Church of God is a chosen generatiō 1. Peter 2. a royall priesthoode an holy nation a people which are wonne that should shewe the vertues of him that called them out of darkenesse They that heare the voyce of God indéede and kéepe his appointment Exod. 19. are chosen aboue all nations to bée the Lordes owne people a kingdome of priestes Deut. 7. and an holy people The true Church Whereby father you may sée that the faithfull which heare the voice of God and kéepe the Lords appointment are members of the misticall bodye of Christ and Christ Iesus their heade whereby they are made an holy Temple Father Is there my sonne some that are not of this true Church of God Christ being the head Sonne Yea Father for true is that saying The diuels Chaplen where God hath a Church Sathan hath commonly a Chappell Father Tell mée in few wordes who are of the Diuels Church Sonne Exod. 19. 2. Thess 2 They that refuse to heare the voyce of God in déede and deny to kéepe his appointment that beleeue not the trueth wherevnto they are called by the Gospell that buyld not vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the head corner stone The malignant Church for any other foundation can no man lay then that which is layde which is Iesus Christ Father My Sonne I perceaue that there bée many that are Recusantes and refuse to heare Gods voyce deny his holy lawes beléeue not the truth which is Christ and that buylde not vpon this rocke but vpon the constitutions of men and traditions of Elders flatly denying as I think their owne saluation whome the Lorde in his good time call home out of Sathans holde that there may be one foulde and one shepheard But procéede Sonne to shewe mée who is the head of the Church of God next and immediatly vnder Christ the chiefe head Sonne Euery Emperor King or prince King supreme head within their seuerall Empyres or kingdomes Father What sayest thou then to those that chalenge Supremacy ouer Kings as they say by the succession of Saint Peter Sonne Let Saint Peter aunswere that hymselfe 1. Peter 2 who being inspyred with Gods holy spirite did foresée that many woulde séeke honour ambition and promotion and desire to bée called Rabbi contrarie to Christs words preuented them in these words Submitte your selues vnto al māner of ordinaunces of man for the Lords sake whether it bée to the King King chief head as vnto the chiefe head eyther vnto Rulers as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euill doers but for the loue of them that doe well Nay 1. Peter 2 in an other place he concluding vpon the dutie of all the true seruaunts of God sayth honour all men Honor Kings Titus 3 loue brotherly felowship Feare God honour the King Saint Paul willeth Titus and all ministers and Preachers to warne all subiectes that they submitte themselues to their King and Prince and that they also obey all the officers ordayned by them Father Kings are the ordinance of God Well doth the Apostle S. Peter shewe who is the heade of Christes members which as he sayth is the king therefore tell me by whome are kinges ordayned Sonne Rom. 13. Saint Paul saith that there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordayned of God Wisd 6. Heare O ye kinges and vnderstand O learne ye that be iudges of the earth giue eare ye that rule the multitude and delight in much people for power is giuen you of the Lord and the strength from the highest 1. Kings 9 The Lord told the prophet Samuell in his eare And saide to morrow this time will I send a man out of the lande of Byniamin him shalt thou anoynt to be king ouer my people of Israell that he may saue my people out of the handes of the Philistines 1. King 10 Samuell tooke a vessell of oyle and powred it vpon the heade of Saull and kissed him and said the Lord hath anoynted thée to bée king ouer his inheritance Dauid saide to his wife Michell the Lord hath chosen me commaunded me 2. King 6 to bée a ruler ouer all the people of the Lorde euen ouer Israell Thus saith the Lord of hostes vnto Dauid 1. Cro. 17. I tooke thée out of the pastures when thou wentest after shéepe that thou shouldest bée king ouer my people Israel Salomon the third king of Israell said to the Lord 2. Cro. 1. thou hast made me a king ouer a people which is like the dust of the earth in multitude Salomon said ◠Kin. 3. O Lord my God it is
God in righteousnesse and true holinesse So that Father man was created after gods Image that is iust faythfull vndefyled fruitfull a noble vine righteous and holye for all that the Lorde made were excéeding Good Father RedemptioÌ„ What sayest thou of our redemption Sonne Euen as the Lorde God doth elect and create man Psalm 31 so doth hée redéeme man and none other For Dauid saith Psalm 49 into thy handes I commend my spirite for thou oh Lord hast redéemed mée No man may deliuer his brother nor make agréement vnto God for him for it cost more to redéeme their soules So that they must let that alone for euer I am hée sayth the Lorde Oseas 7. that redéemed them and yet they dissembled with mée The spirite of the Lord sayth Christ vpon mée because he hath annoynted mée Luke 4. to preach the Ghospell to the poore hath he sent mée to heale the broken harted to preach deliuerance to the Captiue and sight to the blinde fréelie to set at libertie those that are brused and to preach the acceptable yéere of the Lord. Wée haue redemption through his bloud Ephe. 1. euen the forgiuenenesse of our sinnes Our Lord Iesus Christ hath giuen himselfe for vs Christs blood redemed vs. to redéeme vs from all vnrighteousnesse Redeemed of loue Rom. 5. God setteth out his loue towards vs séeing that while we were sinners according to the time Christ died for vs much more then now we are iustified by his bloud shall be saued from wrath by him for when we were enemies we were reconsiled vnto God by his bloud much more séeing that we are reconsiled we shall be preserued by his life 1. Peter 1 Redeemed by the blod â—f Christ â—nely We were not saith saint Peter redéemed from our vayne conuersations with corruptable thinges as siluer or golde but with the precious bloud of Iesus Christ as of a Lambe vndefiled Father Sanctificaâ—ion What saith the worde of God of our sanctification Sonne â—o 3. Christ himselfe saith except a man be borne of water and of the holy Ghost hée cannot enter into the kingdome of God â—o 17 Prayer of Christ to â—anctifie â—is church O father of heauen sanctifie them saith Iesus Christ through the truth for the word is truth and I doe not onely pray for my disciples alone but for all those also which shall beléeue their preaching that they may all be one Cor. 1. To them saith Saint Paull that are sanctified by Iesu Christ called Saints Sanctfied by Iesu Christ 1. Cor. 6. Iesus and his spirit sanctifieth Titus 3 peace and grace We are washed we are iustified wée are sanctified by the name of Iesus Christ and through the spirit of our God The Lord according to his great mercy hath saued vs by the fountayne of the new byrth and renewing of the holye Ghost which he hath shewed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour Father Let me heare now by whome we are preserued saued and defended Preserued saued defended of whome we haue our being Sonne Euen by that great and mightie Iehoua Gen. 7 the Lord of hostes For the Lord called Noa into the Arke and his houshold wherin they might be saued when he destroyed the world with the deluge The Lord said vnto Isaac feare not Gen. 26 I am with thée and will blesse thée multiply thy séede for my seruant Abrahams sake I will be with thée Gen. 40 and will be thy kéeper in all places whether thou goest and will not leaue thée till I performe my promise Gene. 40. The Lord was with Ioseph and gotte him fauour in the sight of the Lord of the pryson and shewed him mercy Exod. 13 The Lord went before the people of Israell in the day in a piller of a cloud and in the night in a piller of fier Exod. 29. I will dwell among my people and will be their God Deu. 33 The eternall God is thy refuge and vnder the armes of thine euerlasting shalt thou liue Iosua 1 I will be with thée said God and will not forsake thée I will be with thée whether so euer thou goest Psalm 17. The Lord is the sauiour of all them that trust in him Acts. 17 And concluding in God we liue moue and haue our béeing and are all his generations Father Gyfts That we are defended saued and preserued by our God and mercifull father I perceaue but procéede and tell mée of whome we haue all our meate drinke apparell siluer gold ritches possessions wisedome knowledge learning with all other good guifts Sonne Saint Iames thus aunswereth Iames. 1 that euerie good guift and euerie perfect guift is from aboue and commeth downe from the Father of light and further saith Wisdome if any man lacke wisdome let him aske of him that giueth it euen God It is the Lorde God that giueth the substance Deu. 8. Riches It is the Lord God that giueth an heart to perceiue eyes to sée and eares to hear Deu. 29. The Lord saide to Salomon 3. Kin. 3. aske what thou wilt and I will giue it thée All thinges vnder heauen are mine sayth the Lorde Iob. 41. God giueth vnto man that is good before him wisdome vnderstanding Eccle. 2 and gladnesse but to the wicked the Lord giueth werinesse and superfluous care to heape riches for other men All that a man eateth and drinketh Eccle. 3. Meate Drink yea whatsoeuer a man earneth of all his labour the same is the guift of God God giueth vnto man riches Ecclesi 6 goods and honor so that he wanteth nothing that his heart can desire When I perceiued that I could not kéepe my selfe chast Wisdome Chastetie without God gaue it me I stooped to the Lord and besought him Wisd 9. Who can haue vnderstanding of thy meaning Holy ghost a guift of God except thou giue him wisdome and send thy holy ghost from aboue that the ways of them that be vppon earth may be reformed that men may learne the things that are pleasant vnto thée Luke 11 Your heauenly father shall giue his holy spirit to him that asketh of him Wisd 3. Faith Vnto the elect shall be giuen the special guift of faith And the most acceptable porcion in the temple of God 1. Cor. 4. Who preserueth thée or what hast thou that thou hast not receyued Gen. 8 The Lord gaue to man that he should Subdue the earth and haue dominion of the fish of the sea and foule of the ayre And of euery liuing thing vppon earth 2. Peter 1 And closing this with Saint Peters wordes According to his Godly power he hath giuen vnto vs all thinges that pertaine vnto lyfe and Godlynesse Father God one Sonne who is this God of whom wée receaue all goodnesse is he but one or many for many there be that
loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Io. 16. By this shall ye be knowne to be my disciples if ye loue one an other If we examine our selues we shall finde whether we be in the faith or not 1. Cor. 15. for the Appostle saith proue your owne selues know you not that Iesus Christ dwelleth in you except ye be reprobates and he in whom Christ dwelleth 2. Cor. 5 hath crucified the flesh with affections and lustes and is a new creature in Iesus Christ So that if we be the Children of God Rom. 8. and loue one an other Gods holie spirit will certifie vs thereof Father Any man may perceiue then Religion who is a man of God and sincere religion Sonne Yea Io. 4. he that worshippeth one true God in spirit and truth and loueth all men friend and foe and hath crucified the olde man and put vppon him the newe and is become a new creature in Iesus Christ Pure religion and vndefiled before God the father is this Iames. 1 to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their aduersitie and to kéepe himselfe vnspotted of the world Father Almes Is it a signe of men that be of perfect religion to helpe the fatherles widows and poore let mée héere how we ought to helpe them Sonne Deu. 15. If any of your brethren among you be poore saith God within any of your gates in the land which I giue you thou shalt not harden thy hearte nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother Giue and lend but open thine hand and lend him sufficient for his néede Daniel 4 Oh King saide Daniell be content with my counsell that thou maist redéeme thy sinnes with almes and thine offences with mercie to poore people for this shall be an healing of thine error Tobi. 4. Giue almes of thy goods and turne neuer thy face from any poore man then the face of the Lorde shall not be turned away from thée Be mercifull after thy power if thou hast much giue plentiouslie If thou hast little doe thy deligence to giue of that little for so gatherest thou thy selfe a good reward in the day of necessitie for almes deliuereth from sinne and death Almes rewarded and suffereth not the soule to come in darkenesse The mercie that a man sheweth is as it were a purse with him Eccle. 17 the grace that is giuen to man preserueth him as the apple of an eye The bread of the néedy is the life of the poore he that defraudeth him of it Eccle. 34 is the child of death When thou giuest thine almes Math. 6. let not thy left hand know what the right hande doth that thine almes may be in secret And the Lord which séeth in secret Rewarded shal rewarde the openlie Whosoeuer hath this worldes good 1. Io. 3 and séeth his brother haue néede and shutteth vp his compassioÌ„ from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him Father What sayest thou to those that are vnmercifull vnto the poore and will not suffer them somuch as to gather the eares of corne and to gleane in their fields Sonne I say they are wicked people Leuit. 19. not yet receiued to be of Christs church nor members thereof for the Lord commanded thus When ye reape downe your corn fields Gleaning you shall not gather that which is behind in the haruest but thou shalt leaue it for the stranger and poore I am the Lord. Leuiti 23. When you gather in your corne field thou shalt not make anie after gathering of thy haruest neither shalt thou make cleane riddance of the field but shalt leaue it to the poore and stranger Father Company Tell me what company wée ought to vse if we be new creatures what companie eschue Sonne Exod. 23 The Lorde saith thou shalt not let the wicked dwell in the land lest they make thée sinne against mée 2. kings 22 With the Godlie thou shalt be Godlie with the pure thou shalt be pure with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnesse Iob. 31. He that ioyneth himselfe to wicked coÌ„pany shall not destruction come vppon him Ecclesi 13. Who so toucheth pitch shal be filed with all he that is familyer with the proude shall cloth himselfe with pride Beare not the yoake with the vnbeléeuers 2. Cor. 6. what fellowshippe hath light with darkenesse what concorde hath Christ witst Beliall wherefore come out from among them and touch no vncleane thing We require you brethren 2 Thess â— in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye withdrawe your selues from euerie brother that behaueth himselfe inordinatelie and not after the institution that ye haue receaued of vs. Father Whose companie then must we vse Sonne I am a companion saith Dauid Psal 119 of them that feare the Lorde and kéepe his commaundements I will goe among the wise Pro. 13 and learne wisedome With the holie thou shalt be holie Psalm 18 with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect and with the cleane thou shalt be cleane Thou maiest not dwell with vayne persons Psalm 2â— neither haue fellowshippe with the deceitfull I haue hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the vngodlie Father Mariage Let me heare something of marriage because thou hast omitted that point Sonne Gen. 1 God the father did institute marriage in Paradise and ioyned Adam and Euaâ— in mariage together and saide growe and increase and replenish the earth â—o 2. Christ himselfe his mother and his disciples were presents at a marriage in Cana a Cittie of Gallelie where he turned the water into wine for confirmation thereof Tobias 6. Take her in the feare of God and more for children then for lust that in the séede of Abraham Mariage â—er procreâ—tion of â—hildren thou mayest possesse the blessing of Abraham Father There be almost none that denie marriage but that it is lawfull for seculer people lay men to marrie but not priestes and ministers what saith the scripture therefore to them Sonne â— Cor. 7. Mariage â—or auoiâ—ing of â—inne Thus saith Saint Paull to auoide fornication let euerie man haue his owne wife and euerie wife her owne husband If they cannot abstayne let them marrie it is better to marrie then to burne Haue we not power to leade about a-woman a sister aswell as other Apostles 1. Cor. 9 and as the brethren of the Lord The Apostles maried and Cephas eyther I and Barnabas onelie haue not power this to doe Honorabile est inter omnes coniugium Heb. 13 et thorus immaculatus Marriage is honorable among all men and a bed vndefiled but as for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge Father Thou speakest generally of all men that all may marrie but tell me by expresse words perticularlie of Bishops or Ministers marriage Sonne A
saide vnto Moyses I will be with thy mouth and teach the what thou shalt say Ioel. 2. I will saith the Lorde powre out of my spirit vppon al flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames and your younge men shall sée visions Micheas 3 I am full of strength and the spirit of the Lord full of iudgement and bouldnesse to shew the house of Iacob their offences and the house of Israell their sinne 1. king 19 The spirit of God came vppon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Math. 10. Christ tould his disciples and saide it is not you that shall speake but the spirit of my father that shall speake within you Luke 12. The holy ghost shall teach you what you shall say Io. 16. When the spirit of truth commeth he shall leade you into all truth Feare not what you shall say for it shal be giuen you in the same houre what ye shall speake Father If the spirit of truth speake by the mouth of his true messengers then it is likelie that the spirit of error I meane Sathan speaketh by the false Prophets Seminaries and seducers of Gods people Sonne True it is father 1. King 1â— For an euill spirit sent of God came vppon Saull I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets 3. king 2â— And deceiue kinge Ahab that he may goe to warre in Ramoth Geliad and so be slaine They are of their father the Diuell Io. 8. his lusts will they follow saith Christ he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth The diuell speaketh by Seminaries for ther is noe truth in him when he speaketh a lie hée speaketh of himselfe for he is a lyer and the father of the same thing take héede father of these seducers by whom the diuel speaketh This false spirit spak to Eua Gen. 3. that if she eate of the trée of knowledge shée should not die the death but bée as God knowing good and bad so many deceiued now by this serpent dye the death Father â—an What saist thou by Man what is hée and to what ende shall he come Sonne Psal 144 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth awaie like a shadowe Psal 90. When the Lord is angrie all our daies are gone we bring our yéeres to an ende as it were a tale that is tould â—ames 4. The life of man is euen a vapour that appeareth a litle time and then vanisheth awaie Gen. 3 Man is dust and into dust thou shalt bée tourned againe â—ob 7. Hath man anie certaine time vppon earth are not his daies like the daies of an hired seruant â—ob 10 The Lorde made man of moulde and shall bring him to dust againe â—ob 14. Man that is borne of a woman hath but a shorte time to liue and is full of miserie â—od While he liueth his flesh must haue trauell and while the soule is within him he must be in sorrow Isay 40 All flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof is euen as the flower of grasse the grasse is withered the flower falleth awaie euen so the people are as grasse when the breathe of the Lorde bloweth vppon them Statutum est omnibus hominibus semell mori Heb. 9. it is appointed that all men shal once dye Remember his iudgement Eccle. 38 thine also shal be likewise vnto thée yesterdaie vnto me to day Father I sée plainelie by these partes by dalie experience that all men must dye and that none can escape the hande of death therfore what saist thou to the death of the righteous Sonne The soules of the righteous Wisd 3. are in the hands of God and the paines of death shall not touch them The righteous shal shine as the sparks of fire in the read bushe Eod. and shall iudge the nations and haue dominion ouer the people and their GOD shall reigne for euer Psal 65 Blessed is the man whom the Lords choseth and receiueth vnto him he shall dwell in his court he shal be satisfied with the pleasure of his house euen of his holie Temple Psalm 72 The Lord shall deliuer their soules froÌ„ falshod and wrong For deare is the blood of his Saintes in his sight Father I perceiue that the righteous are alwaies preserued but what becommeth of the wicked Sonne Psalm 9 The wicked shal be turned into hell and all the people that forget God Macha 2. Fear not an vnrighteous mans words for his glorie is but donge and wormes to day he is set vp to morow he is gone Iob. 24. Some men there be saith Iob that remoue other mens land markes and rob them of their cattell and kéepe the same for their owne The lyfe and end of the couetous and wicked that take the asse of the fatherlesse and take the widowes Oxe for a pledge that thrust the pore out of the way that reape downe the corne that is not their owne they are the cause that so manie men are naked and bare The eye of the aduouteâ—er waiteth for the darknesse and faith no man seethe him but shortile are they gone and pluckt out of the way vtterlie pluckt off as the eares of corne Vppon the vngodlie shall the Lorde raine fire and brimstone storme tempest Psalm 10 this shal be their porcion to drinke Father What saist thou to purgatorie Purgatory out of which mens soules are deliuered by the prayers of holy Priests Sonne I say the Scripture maketh mencion of no such thing But of heauen and hell Christes blood and Saint Iohn sheweth by what meanes we are purged and clensed Io. 1. The blood of Iesus Christ clenseth vs from all sinne Through mercie and faith are sinnes purged Pro. 15. Almost euerie thinge is by the Lawe purged with blood Heb. 9 and without blood-shedding is no remession The blood of Iesus Christ doth purge our consciences from dead works Eod. to serue the liuing God Iesus Christ loued vs and purged vs from our sinnes in his blood Reuel 1 and made vs Kinges priestes vnto God the Father to him therefore bée glorie and dominion for euer more Father that was a false doctrine which was of purgatorie as you may sée and made to fill Priests purses Father What profit could that bring to Priests Sonne Mark 12 It brought much worldlie riches and Gods curse withall as Christ saith beware of the scribes which loue to goe in longe clothing and loue salutations in market places DamnacioÌ„ to theÌ„ that deuoure widowes houses with prayer and the chiefe seates at feasts and in the congregations which deuoure widowes houses vnder a pretence of long praier but they shall receiue greater damnation Math. 23. And Christ saith in the xxiii of S. Mathewes Gospell wo vnto
Bishop saith Saint Paull must be blamelesse the husband of one wife 1. Tim. 3. Bishops maried and one that ruleth his owne house well and that hath children in subiection with reuerence The wiues of the ministers must bée honest not euil speakers but sober 1. Tim. 3 Ministers married and faithfull in all thinges Let the Deacons be husbands of one wife 1. Tim. 3 Decons married and such as rule their children well and their owne householdes Father I perceaue that all the Apostles almost were married and I sée that Bishoppes Ministers and Deacons and all others may lawfullie marrie why then was mariage made vnlawfull for Priestes Sonne â— Tim. 4 Because that those that forbed the same were led by the spirite of errour which thing Saint Paull did foreshew and sayd that the spirit of God spoke euidentlie that in the latter daies many should depart from the faith Mariage â—orbid forbidding to marrie and to abstaine from meates both which the Lord had ordayned Father Baptisme Procéede and tell me what thou saiest of Baptisme Sonne Math. 28 It is an holie Sacrament instituted by Iesus Christ for he sent his Apostles to preach and to Baptise goe into all the world and preach the Ghospell to all creatures and Baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holie Ghost Father Wherefore was this Sacrament instituted by Iesus Christ Sonne To be a seale of his promise Acts. 1. for Sacraments are seales of Gods promisses Iohn saith Christ baptised with water Io. VVater the holy ghost Rom. 6. but ye shall be Baptised with the holie Ghost after these fewe daies All we which are Baptised in Iesu Christ are baptised to die with him wée are buried then with him by baptisme for to die for like as Christ was raised vppe againe from death by the glorie of GOD the father euen so we all should walke in a newe life By his mercie saith Saint Paull he saued vs by the fountayne of the newe byrth and renewing of the holie Ghost Titus 3 which he shed on vs abundantlie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Abraham receaued the signe of circumcision Rom. 4. as a seale of the righteousnesse of faith that he should be the father of all that beléeue though they were not circumcised So that you may sée father that Baptisme is a seale to assure vs of the spirite of God whereby we are regenerate and fullie certified to haue all our sinnes washed away Father Children â—hat dye â—efore bapâ—isme I pray thée sonne tell me what thou thinkest of Children that die before they be Baptised for in olde time we iudged them to be condemned and buried manie in prophane places and not in the accustomed place of buriall Sonne Gen. 17. Consider Father I pray you that the Lord promised to Abraham that he should be father of manie nations and that kings should come out of his loynes and that in his séede all nations of the earth shoulde be blessed and he gaue him this signe of circumcision as a seale thereof Rom. 4. Faith was reckened for righteousnesse to Abraham before he was circumcised so that children being borne of christian and faithfull parents dying without baptisme are at no daunger but in the hands of God for Abraham was compted righteous before he was circumcised Acts. 10. Peter the Apostle being sent to Cornelius preached vnto him to his friends famely euen while he was preaching the holy ghost fell on them all the heard the preaching Peter said caÌ„ any man forbid water that these should not be baptised which haue receaued the holy ghost aswel as we and he commaunded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. Holy ghost giuen before baptisme You may perceaue father that they were endued with the holie ghost before they were baptised Euen as baptisme nowe saueth vs not the putting away the filth of the fleshe 1. Pet. 3. but in that a good conscience consenteth vnto God through Iesus Christ The sonne of man came to saue that which was lost therefore despise them not Math. 8. Those that are elected Reuela 1. hath Iesus Christ loued and washed from their sinnes in his bloud Non est voluntas coram Patre vestro qui est in coelis vt pereat vnus de pusillis istis Mark 18 I baptise saith S. Iohn Math. 3 with water vnto repentance but Christ baptiseth with the holie Ghost and with fier so that all that the minister can doe is but baptise with water besides prayer but Christ either before or after can baptise with the holie spirite and therefore father to iudge them to be condemned whome Iesus Christ hath elected created and washed by his bloud regenerat by his holy spirit is abominable Father If childreÌ„ may be saued without baptism then it is but foolishnesse to vse the same Sonne This Sacrament father was instituted and commaunded by Iesus Christ and therefore to be receaued for as I said before Math. 28 he commaunded his Disciples to goe into all the world and preach the ghospell and baptise in the name of the Father the Sonne and of the holie Ghost Which Sacrament was a seale that the Ghospell being the power of God Rom. 1 shoulde bring saluation to all those that should beléeue Mark 16 He that beléeueth and is baptised saith Christ shall be saued and he that beléeueth not shal be damned he that beléeueth not be he baptised or not baptised circumcised or vncircumcised shal be damned Rom. 3. The circumcision or washing of the heart is true circumcision and washing Father What saiest thou to the Sacrament of the Lords supper by reason I perceaued you doe graunt to no moe Sonne Father there be but two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper And of Bptisme I haue spoken and this other was also the ordinaunce of Iesus Christ instituted in the same night that he was betraied he tooke bread and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and gaue to his disciples and saide take eate this is my body and he tooke the cup and thancked and gaue it them saying drinke ye all of this for this is the blood of the new Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Father What was ment by this Sacrament Sonne It did signifie the deliuerance of his disciples of all faithfull Math. 26 Mark 14 Luke 22. out of the bondage of Sathan and prison of the Diuell for this night saith Christ shall my body be slaine and my blood shed out for the remission of sinnes for this night shall the shepperd of the shéepe be smitten Luke 2â— and the shéepe scatered but behold afterward will I goe before you into Gallalye Father Why did Christ institue this Sacrament Sonne First to helpe our weaknesse being dull and slow to the vnderstanding of heauenlie thinges he giueth
Law-giuer the Lord is our King and he himselfe is our Sauiour the lame menne runne after the pray there lyeth no man that sayeth I am sicke but all euill is taken away from the people that dwell there â—say 35 They shall florish pleasauntly and bée ioyfull and euer be giuing of thanks more and more â—hanks â—ueing euerlasting ioye shal they haue pleasure and gladnesse shall be among them and as for all sorrow and heauines shall vanish away â—say 60. The Lord himselfe shall be their euerlasting light and their God shall be their glorie â—zech 37 Their children and their childers children shall dwell in that lande for euermore â—hrist and my seruant Dauid shall be their euerlasting prince and I will be among them for euermore â—uke 5 Reioyce and be glad for great shall your reward be in heauen They shal be equall saith Iesus Christ with the Angells Luke 20. and are the sonnes of God for asmuch as they are the children of the resurrection for all men liue vnto him They shall eate and drinke with Iesu Christ in his kingdome Eod. 23 and sit on seats iudgeing the twelue Tribes of Israell They shall giue prayse glorie Rom. 2 and immortalitie to God They shall alwaies be with the Lord saith Saint Paull 1. Thess 4 They shall be Kinges and Priestes of Christ Reuel 20 and shall raigne with him a thousande yeares And concluding that which hath no ende with the words of Saint Paull 1. Cor. 2. the eye hath not â—â—â—e the eare hath not heard neyther hath it entred into the heart of man the ioye that God hath prepared for them that loue him Father Thou hast brought euerie thing to perfection which I desired to knowe let vs ende therefore with makyng ouâ— humble hartie prayers vnto God thanking his Maiestie for all his gracious and mercifull benefites therfore beginne thou and I will pray with thée Sonne A Prayer O Lorde Iesus Christ the Sonne of the euerliuing God by whom all things were made are ruled and gouerned as of thy loue for our redemption thou diddest not disdayne to be our mediatour and to take vpon thée our nature in the wombe of a most blessed Virgin purelie and without sinne by the operation of the holy spirit that both â—hou mightest in thine owne person woâ—derfully beautifie and exalt our nature and worke the same in vs also for abolishing the guiltinesse of sinne by redemption then sinne it selfe by death and last of al death by raising again these our bodies that they may be like to thine owne glorious and immortall bodie according to the power wherewith thou art able to subiect all thinges vnto thée And as of thy loue for our redemption thou becamest manne and that most poore and afflicted vppon earth by the space of thrée and thirtie yéeres in most humilitie payest the price of our raÌ„some by thy most bitter death passion for the which I giue most heartlie thanckes vnto thée so of the same thy loue towards vs in thy good time thou wilt come againe in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie with flaming fire with thousandes of Saints with Angels of power with a mightie crye shout of an Archangell and blast of a Trumpe sodenlie as a lightning that shineth from the East when men thincke least euen as a thefe in the night when men be a sléepe Thou wilt so come â—â—us sodenlie in the twinckling of an eye all men that euer haue béene be or shalâ—â— with women and Children appearing before thy tribunall seate to render an accompt of all thinges which they haue thought spoken or done against thy Lawe openly and before all Angels Saints and Diuells and so to receiue the iust rewarde of thy vengance if they haue not repented and obeyed thy Ghospell and so depart from thée to the Diuell and his Angells into hell fire which is vnquenchable and of paines intollerable easeles endles hopels euen from the face of thy glorious and mightie power But if they haue repented and beléeued thy Ghospell if they bée found watching with their lampes and oyle in their handes if they be found redie appareled with the wedding garment of innocencie if they haue not hardened their hearts and hourded vp the treasure of thy vengance in the daye of wrath to be reueled but haue vsed the time of grace the acceptable time the time of saluation that is the time of this life in the which thou stretchest out thine hand and spreadest thine armes calling and crying vnto vs to come vnto thée which art méeke in heart and lowlie for thou wilt ease all that labour and bée heauie laden If they haue visited the sicke and prisoners comforted the comfortlesse féed the hungrie clothed the naked lodged the harborles If they haue not lodened their hearts with gluttonie and surfeting and carelesnesse of this life If they haue not digged and hid their Tallent in the ground doing no good therwith but haue béene faithfull to occupye thye guiftes to thy glorie and haue washed their garments in thy blood by harty repentance Then shall thy Angels gather them to gether not as the wicked which shall bée collected as fagots and cast into the fire but as the good wheate that is gathered into thy barne Then shall they be caught vp to méete the in the Cloudes then shall their corruptable bodie put on incorruption then shall they bée endued with immortalitie and glorie thâ—â— shall they bée with thée and goe wheythâ—r thou goest then shall they hreae come â—lessed of my Father possesse the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning and then shall they bée sette on seates of Maiestie iudgeing the whole worlde then shall they reigne with thée for euer then shall God bée all in all with them to them then shall they enter and inherite heauenlie Ierusalem and the glorious restfull land of Canaan wher it shal alwaies be day and neuer night where is no manner of wéeping teares infirmities hunger cold sicknesse enuie mallice nor sinne but alwaies ioye without sorrow mirth without measure pleasure without paine heauenlie harmony most pleasant melody saying and singing holie holy holie Lord God of hosts finally the eye hath not séene the eare hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man that they shall then inherite and most surelie enioye although héere they be tormented prisoned solicited of Sathan tempted of the flesh and entaÌ„gled with the world where through they are enforced to crye come Lord Iesu oh gracious GOD let vs finde such mercie with thée that we may repent beléeue hope and looke for these thinges with full fruition of those heauenlie ioyes which thou hast prepared for al them the feare thée And so rest with thee for euermore graunt this oh Lord and sauiour Iesu Christ for thine owne name sake Amen Father I Thought it my dutie sonne to bring thée vp in vertue and knowledge and in the feare of God whereof I haue apposed thée and I thanck GOD thou hast profited well God graunt that thou increase from vertue to vertue vntill thou be a perfect member of Iesus Christ so that through thée God our heauenly father may be glorified his kingdome increased Sathan abolished superstition and Idolatary rooted out the coÌ„mon welth beautified thy brethren and neighbours releaued and I comforted and graunt that all people kindreds and tongues may in the fearefull day of the Lorde be found stable and vnblameable in holinesse and so reigne with thée God our heauenlie father in his eternall kingdome through the blood of the laâ—be Iesus Christ who liueth and â—igneth one true eternall immortall and euerliing GOD world without ende Amen Sonne Graunt this O Lorde and heauenlie father for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Father Well sonne depart apply thy studye the God of my fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob blesse the and prosper thy labour in the Lorde Amen FINIS Aucthor Elizabetha diu valeat vigeatque regendo O Lord of Hosts defend with hand The gracious princesse of this land Keepe her from all her foes bloody I the beseech most hartelie And graunt her strength power might Vertue and grace to hauâ— a sight Of the O king of glory good That for vs all shed or thy blood And thus I stay my hand and penne Beseeching all to say Amen EINIS quod Lister Printed at London by Thomas East 1588.