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A02043	Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith briefely set forth for the comfort of the godly, and the better instruction of the simple and ignorant. Also hereunto is annexed a briefe and cleare confession of the Christian faith, conteining an hundreth articles, according to the order of the Creede of the Apostles. Written by that learned [and] godly martyr I.H. sometime Bishop of Glocester in his life time.; Briefve et claire confession de la foy chrestienne. English.	Baker, John, minister.; Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Garnier, Jean, d. 1574. Briefve et claire confession de la foy chrestienne. English.	1581 (1581)	STC 1219; ESTC S110441	203,151	484

be placed in their roumes to put ordayne others that are better in their places The other power is temporall that is to say the magistrate which hath authority ouer externe and ciuill thinges to render according to right to euery man that which of right to him appertayneth The lxxviii Article I beleeue that the magistrate is an ordinance of God set in his church for the defence of the good godly and to chasten punish the wicked And also to the magistrate must be giuen tribute honour reuerence obedience in all thinges that be not in any wise contrary to Gods worde And I doe vnderstand this not only of the faithful Magistrate but also of the infidell wicked Tyrant vnto whome wee must obey as vnto the Lorde in all thinges so that he command nothing contrary to the word of God For then wee ought rather to obey God then man after the example of the Apos●les Peter and Iohn The Lxxix Article I beleeue that to the magistrate it doeth appertaine not onely to haue regarde vnto the common wealth but also vnto ecclesiasticall matters to take away and to ouerthrowe all idolatrie false seruing of God to destroy the kingdome of Antichrist and all false doctrine to promote the glorie of God to aduance the kingdome of Christ to cause the word of the Gospel euery where to be preached and the same to maintayne vnto death to chasten also and to punish the false prophets which lead the poore people after idoles and strange gods and in steade of the Gospell preache and teach the fables and traditions of men to the dishonour of God and Christ his Sonne and to the great decay of the whole Church To such a magistrate euery person of what estate degree or condition so euer hee bee ought to be subiect and him in all honest and reasonable things to obey because he representeth the person of a great Lord before whom euery knee ought to bowe And the same must not be forgotten in our prayers to the ende that the Lord may vouchsafe to guide and direct all his wayes that vnder him we may liue in godly peace tranquillitie The Lxxx. Article I beleeue that the magistrate as also the vse of othes and such like is the ordinance of the Lord for to leade the imperfection of man in his corrupt nature after his fall The which the faythfull after that hee hath assaied all other meanes may holily iustly vse in matters of controuersie which may chance betweene him and his neighbour to set an order and to make peace in al things And therefore hee that in necessitie will not vse this way ought rather to be iudged an Anabaptist then a Christian The Lxxxi Article I beleeue that the Magistrate holily may minister an othe vnto the faithfull in iudgement for the knowledge of the trueth and to make an ende of all controuersies matters in variance betweene man and man the which othe ought to bee taken in the onely name of the liuing God because it is the thirde commandement of the first table And albeit the perfection required to be in a Christian ought simply to vse yea yea and nay nay without any swearing neuerthelesse the faithfull may holily vse an othe in place time with discretion in the feare of the Lord for things honest iust and true for the verifying of the trueth when the honour of God or the sauing of a mans neyghbour dependeth vpon it or else not For the man that accustometh to sweare shall be filled with iniquitie and his house shall not bee without the plague And I confesse also that as euery othe vowe and promise made according to Gods worde be it to God or to men doeth binde and ought to be kept and obserued without breaking euen so those that are made without and contrary to Goos worde and commandement as are the religious vowes and such like which promise things impossible and contrary to the word of God doe not binde a man in any wise but with a good conscience may bee violated and broken For in wicked promises in foolish and vndiscrete vowes the faithfull wise and sage may change their purpose The Lxxxii Article I beleeue and confesse that marriage is an honorable estate amongst all men and the bedde vndefiled is holy and ought not to be broken It is instituted and ordayned of God for the bringing forth of children and to eschew fornication from the which estate of marriage none ought nor can be restrayned if there be no iust and lawfull let by the word of God but the same ought to be free to euery bodie of what estate sort or condition soeuer the same bee of for it is much better to marrie then to burne And for that cause all what soeuer they be men or women which haue not the gift to liue vnmarried ought to marry to the intent the Temple of the holy Ghost that is to say our bodies may not bee polluted and defiled The Lxxxiii Article I beleeue also that the forbidding of marriage for certaine persons likewise the forbidding of certaine meates the difference of dayes garmentes and such like is the deuilish doctrine of Antichrist and wholie against the Christian libertie of the Gospell taught by Iesus Christ the which deliuereth vs from all outwarde ceremonies of the lawe and setteth vs at libertie to vse all things with giuing GOD thankes So that it bee not done to the hurt of our neyghbour For all thinges are made holy by the worde of God and prayer to him that knoweth and receyueth the trueth Therefore to compell the Christians to these things is but to take from them and to robbe them of their Christian libertie and by tyrannie to set them vnder the curse of the lawe from the which Christ by his death passion hath deliuered them and it is one true marke and note to knowe Antichrist by The Lxxxiiii Article I beleeue that the pure and true seruice of God doeth not consist in these ceremonies outward things neither in babbling much and mumbling of long prayers neyther in crying and braying in the Church like Asses or the Priests of Baal but in spirituall things as liuely and true faith in God and his worde taught by Iesus Christ his onely Sonne which is of power and worketh through charity toward our neighbour true and perfect calling vpon Gods name with due obedience to his commandementes in humblenes of spirit according to his worde For as God is a Spirit so will he be worshipped and serued in spirite and trueth The Lxxxv. Article I beleeue that all Gods seruices without Gods worde and contrary to his commandement is idolatrie and iniquitie I cal idolatrie after the fashion of the Prophets not onely that which is done vnto the honor of an Idole or strange gods but also that which is done to y● honouring of the liuing God contrary to his word and commandement And

the vnbeleeuers the wicked and reprobate that beleeue not For as the Manna in the desert was to some sowre to other some a good and pleasant meate and as Christ is to some a stumbling stone to be offended at is appointed for the fall of the wicked the rising vp of the godly euē so the word of the Gospel to some is a sauor of death vnto death to other some a sauor of life vnto life The which worde of the Gosp●● I receiue and take only to be my guyde according to the same to dye and to liue The Lvi Article I beleeue that the reading of the same word Gospel ought not neither can it be prohihibited forbiddē frō any maner of person of what estate sort or condition so euer the same be of but it ought to be cōmon vnto al the world as wel to men as women yea and y● in a vulgar or cōmon language which all do vnderstande because it is ordayned appointed for al. And likewise the promises of God which are therein cōtained do apperteine vnto al. And therefore Antichrist his members do exercise great cruell tyrānie vpon the faithful children of God as wel in that they take frō thē vtterly do forbid thē to reade the same worde in stead thereof set before thē dreames lies Canons dānable traditions as also because vpon payne of deadly sinne and eternall damnation they both forbid command things that in deede are but indifferent which maner of theirs is the only note marke to know Antichrist by The Lvii. Article I beleeue that this holy doctrine of the Gospel in the very time by God appointed ●as confirmed and approoued by heauenly ●iracles as wel by Iesus Christ himselfe the Prophets and Apostles as also by other good faithfull ministers of the same Gospell that after such a sort that for y● cōfirming thereof there is now no more need of newe miracles but rather we must content our selues with that is done simply and playnly beleeue only the holy Scriptures without seeking any further to be ●aught watching still taking heede to our selues that we be not beguiled deceiued with the false miracles of Antichrist wherewith the worlde at this day is stuffed which miracles are wrought by the woorking of Satan to confirme all kinde of idolatrie errors abuses and iniquities and thereby to blinde the poore and ignorant The which thing the Lorde God suffereth iustly to be done because they woulde not receiue the spirite of trueth to be saued yea God suffereth them to receyue the spirite of lying which hath power to deceiue to the ende they should be damned because they haue allowed lying iniquitie and haue refused righteousnesse and trueth The true miracles then are wrought by the only power of God for the confirming of his doctrine are wrought for the infidels sakes and not for the faithfull But the preaching and true receyuing of the holy worde of God is only giuen and ministred to the faithfull and to those that beleeue The Lviii Article I beleeue also the holy sacraments which are the seconde marke or badge of the true Church to be the signes of the reconciliatiō great atonement made betweene God vs thorow Iesus Christ They are seales of the Lords promises are outward visible pledges gages of the inward faith are in nomber only twayne that is to say Baptisme and the holy Supper of the Lorde The which two are not voyde and emptie signes but full that is to saye they are not onely signes whereby some thing is signified but also they are such signes as doe exhibite and giue the thing that they signifie in deede as by Gods helpe we will declare hereafter But as touching all the other fiue sacraments which with great abuse and superstition are receiued and vsed in the papisticall church that is to say Confirmation confession mariage absolution otherwise called the sacramēt of the priesthood and extreme vnction or anneling I saye that all these were ecclesiasticall ceremonies the which the holie fathers in their time vsed holily without any superstition euen as by their exāple the same may be vsed this day so that it be done without any errour abuse and superstition and that in no wise it be hurtfull to the Christian libertie of the Gospell the which doeth deliuer our consciences from all outward beggerly ceremonies by man ordeined and deuised without the word of God The Lix Article I beleeue that baptisme is the signe of the newe league and friendship betweene God and vs made by Iesus Christ and it is the marke of the Christians nowe in the time of the Gospel as in time past circumcision was a marke vnto the Iewes which were vnder the Lawe Yea Baptisme is an outward washing done with water therby signifying an inward washing of the holy Ghost wrought through the blood of Christ The which baptisme ought as well to bee giuen and communicated to litle children as to those that be great according to Iesus Christ his ordinance once for all without any rebaptising This baptisme is the redde sea wherein Pharao that is to saye the deuill with his army of sinnes are altogether drowned and the Israelites passe thorowe it safely and afterward walking thorowe the desert of this worlde in great sorowes vexations and troubles doe vse daily for their comfort the heauēly Manna which is the holy woorde of God vntill thorowe death they may enter into the heauenly land of promise The lx Article I beleeue also that baptisme is the entry of the church a washing into a newe birth and a renewing of the holy Ghost whereby wee doe forsake our selues the deuill the flesh sinne and the worlde For being once ridde of the olde man with all his concupiscences wee are clothed with the newe man which is Iesus Christ in righteousnes holines with him we dye are buried in his death to the ende that with Christ we may rise from death to the glorie of the father And euen likewyse being thus new borne wee should walke in newenes of life alwayes mortifying in vs that which is of vs that thereby the body of sinne may bee vtterly destroyed and plucked vp by the roote The lxi Article I beleeue that this baptisme ought to be ministred not with oyle salte spittell and such like baggage but onely in cleane and fayre water and that in the name of the father the sonne and the holy Ghost according to the institution and ordinance of God without chaunging any thing therein putting any thing thereunto or taking any thing there fro and the same also to be vsed in a vulgare and common language that all the people may vnderstande for what so euer is done or sayd in the Churche of Christ ought to bee vnderstande and knowen of all that bee faithfull By this baptisme we are changed and altered from children of wrath

counsell and the spirit of the feare of the Lord because it giueth al these qualityes vnto men and doeth teache vs the what good gift soeuer we haue we haue it frō the holy ghost the giuer of al and whatsoeuer we lacke we should seeke it likewise of the same spirit none other The holy Apostle rekoning vp the diuersities of the giftes of the holy spirit affirmeth alwayes That it is one and the selfe same spirit that giueth these things as the gift of wisedome of knowledge of faith of healing of miracles of prophecie of discerning spirites of tongues of interpretation of tongues al these thinges sayethe he worketh one and the same spirit distributing to euery man seuerally as he wil 1. Cor. 12. This doeth also teache vs that this spirit hath most plentifull store of giftes to enriche the body of the Church of Christ and that there is no want or lacke in him A great cōfort vnto vs to knowe whither to resort incōtinently for any good gifte to haue it forthwith For Christ hath promised this holy spirit to them that seeke aske and knock for it Luke 11. Doest thou feele thy selfe to lacke fayth or hope or loue or sanctification of life or any good and necessary gift to edifte Gods Church withall Pray to this holy spirit vse the ordinarie meanes he willeth thee as hearing the word prayer labour and study and this spirite shal be giuen thee This spirit was so necessary that our sauiour promised to send it aboue all things to his disciples to comfort them with when he departed from them For he breathed vpon them and said Receiue yee the holy ghost Ioh. 20. And afterwarde sent it downe more plentifully vpon them in the likenes of fire and clouen tongues Act. 2. Wher with they were not a little cōforted in their miseries troubles against their aduersaries which were not able to resist them speaking with this holy spirite Act. 6. This spirit is sayd to haue diuers names appellations in the scriptures to comfort vs withal in tētations He is called the spirit of trueth to teache vs the trueth and to leade vs into all trueth He is called also the cōforter because he dothrefresh cōfort our hearts nothing more thē in tētations aduersities as Paul found it true in the 2. Cor. 1. Cap. he is called the power of God because he worketh al things nothing is vnpossible vnto him sōetime he is named the autor of light because he doth illuminate enlightē our darke blind hearts with the bright sunbeāes of his wil pleasure Briefely he is the wel foūtaine of al goodnesse whereat we must draw al things needeful for vs in this life This being so it stādeth vpō euery one of vs to labour by all meanes possible to haue this spirit dwelling abiding with vs for euer For surely the necessitie of him is great the vse of him aboue most precious gold siluer pearls Psal 19. Dauid vnderstoode this right wel to be so for hee prayeth that God woulde not take away his spirite from him but stablish him with his free spirit Psal 50. For where the spirit of the Lord is there is libertie and freedome from the seruice of the deuill from the slauery of sin We are by nature al of vs the children of wrath damnatiō earthly minded alwayes groueling to the ground being ouerloden burdened with the weight of our sinnes except we be raysed lifted vp by this spirit euē as the soule maintaineth vpholdeth the weake brittle body It cōmeth to passe then in vs no otherwise thē we see it by experience in bladders the which if they be empty cast into the waters for the weight of thē they sinke foorthwith are drowned But if they be blowen filled with wind wherewith they be made light they flyt aboue the water swim Euē so it fareth with vs How heauie we are with sin our cōsciences if we examine thē wel wil tel vs. Wherefore we cānot but sinke being tossed in the waues of the sea of this world drowned with the inordinate desires passiōs affectiōs of this life being altogether voyde of this spirite which should beare vs vp frō these surges tēpests of this life But now if we be filled replenished with this heauenly spirit thē shall we swim aboue triumph ouer sin wickednesse not be drowned with it Wherfore Paul wel weying with himselfe this dāger if we were destitute of the holy ghost willeth vs that we should not be drūke with wine wherin is excesse which maketh vs so heauie drowsie that we sinke but saith that should be filled with the spirit which causeth vs to mount vp to heauē Therefore is it that he so oftē times cōmādeth vs to walke in the spirit to do the works of the spirite which are loue ioy peace long suffering gētlenes goodnesse faith meekenes tēperāce We are with out this spirit as a ship in the sea without a gouernour or as a mā without his eyes in most dangerous case for tell me I pray you what is the cause why so many now a dayes run headlong to all wickednesse abominatiōs some to whoredōe some to couetousnes some to drūkēnes some to pride some to theft robberies some to one sin some to another what is the reasō I say but only this because God hath not giuē his holy spirit vnto thē to defēd thē frō these euils mischiefs And this cause doth S. Iude render in his Epistle for hauing rekoned vp the natural properties conditions of the wicked reprobate namely that they were despisers of gouernment autoryty as the Anabaptistes are defilers of the fleshe liuing in pleasure murmurers complayners walking after their owne lusts speaking proud things flatterers such like In the end hee addeth this as the cause mother of al these sinnes the not hauing of the spirit meaning in deede that because God hath not giuen thē his holy spirit therfore they were such kind of mē as he there painteth forth in their colours such as we dayly se here with vs. And yet for al this God is not boūd to any man to giue him his spirit as Paul proueth Rō 11. neither do they humble thēselues to aske his grace by earnest hearty praier for thē should they haue it Iam. 1. By the lacke and want of this spirite in other men wee may easily see what a benefite we haue by him to keepe and defende vs so mercifully euery houre in all our waies and actions of our life If this spirit leaue vs neuer so litle while to our selues then we fal into an hundred mischāces and euils as we see in Moses a singular man being left to his owne will and choyse but a litle he fell twise together to doubt and distrust of the power of the Lorde whether he were

the outward signes whereby the Church of Christ may bee knowen from the temple of idoles I am not ignorant that there are other signes as the holy Ghost and faith which because they are inwarde and knowen to God and euery mans owne conscience I let them passe I onely speake here of the visible signes and markes of the church whereby it is manifested vnto men such as the worde and Sacramentes be If then these be the signes of true Christians let vs that are English men vse them diligently let vs in season and out of season heare the worde with reuerence embrace it let vs withal confirme it in our hearts as with a seale by the reuerent receiuing of the sacraments of our Lorde Iesus Christ This ground being layde that the Church is knowen by the worde of Christ and his Sacramentes beyng vsed as hee ordayned them we can not acknowledge the Church of Rome to be this Catholike Church of Christ for shee hath not these markes in her forehead For it is most manifest that shee hath burned this worde of Christ in the fire and refused it and in steade of it sette vp the worde of man the decrees of Popes and constitutions of their owne as the liues of Saintes in their Legende which is full of abominable lies they mainteyne their own traditions aboue this worde and haue them in greater estimation so that the neglect of their owne trumpery as to eate flesh in Lent or to breake their fasting dayes is more seuerely punished by them and made a greater matter then the open contempt of Gods Lawes For the adulterie of their Priestes Friers and their Nunnes was counted but a light matter no sinne with them Here we see what all the worlde may iudge of them and these thinges to bee true experience it selfe doeth testifie And if at any time they gaue the people the worde which is called of Paul the sworde of God wherewith all Christians ought to fight and therefore shoulde be common as well to the laytie as the Cleargie as they tearme them If I saye they gaue it at any time vnto them yet they gaue it as a sworde in the sheath that is in the Latine tongue wherein they vnderstoode nothing at all contrarie to the expresse wordes of Paul saying That all thinges shoulde bee done to edification in the Church and that hee had rather speake fiue wordes in a knowen tongue then fiue thousande without the vnderstanding of the people 1. Corinth 14. I saye these men are guyltie of the death of the Lordes people which sende them out to fight with their enemies and yet take awaye their weapons and swordes from them and so leaue them naked and bare to the spoyle of the enemie This did the Churche of Rome when it first tooke away here with vs the scriptures and worde of God in English from the people and fedde them with toyes fables of Beuis of South Hampton and such like fabulous bookes which were inuented by the deuils instruments to keepe the people from reading of the holy Scriptures And no maruayle if they did so that is take away the worde from them for they knewe well ynough that if the people had the Scriptures in their owne tongue they woulde quickly see and perceiue their knauery and treacherie that they so closely vsed in corners But when they had put out the candle they played many sluttish partes and no man sawe them although the Lorde then winked not at them but hath in his good tyme disclosed them to their shame his name be praysed therefore We see then that this false church of Rome hath dealt with the Scriptures and the people as the Philistins handled Samson for they put out his eyes and then they led him whither they woulde so the Papistes when they had subtilly put out the eyes of the people in taking from them the light of Gods worde and the Gospell of Christ they brought them where they listed made thē beleeue what they woulde They thought good to be ill ill good they called sweete sowre and sowre sweete light darkenesse and darkenesse lyght and all because they had not the word which was the true light vnto their paths and a lanterne vnto their feete Psal. 119. Then was it altogether thought good and godly to goe on pilgrimage to offer to Saintes to praye to them to haue images in Churches to beare candles to kisse the Pax to goe on procession with a thousand such trumperies which we were delited with as yong children in toyes and trifles whereas now we willingly cōdemne them and are ashamed of them because we haue the light which hath made them manifest and sheweth vnto vs that we henceforth be no more children wauering caryed about with euery winde of doctrine by the deceite of men and with craftinesse whereby they lye in wayte to deceyue vs But let vs follow the trueth in loue and in all things grow vp into him which is the head that is Christ Ephes. 4. ver 14. 15. By these thinges we see that Rome is not the true Church because it hath forsaken the worde of God whereby the Church is gathered together as men to battell by the sound of a drumme or trumpet Nowe as they haue done in the word in mangling it so haue they in like maner corrupted and altered the true vse of the Sacramentes both in adding vnto them and taking away from them not being contented with the simplicitie and that order that Christ vsed them in To Baptisme haue they added of their owne spittle creame and salt with such like trash the cuppe haue they taken away from the common people and say it was ordayned for the Priestes onely when as our sauiour Christ sayde Drinke ye all of this Matth. 26. They say not al but the Priests onely so that when Christ sayth one thing they say another contrary vnto it Furthermore they worship the bread and say that it is turned into the bodie of Christ become God where they commit both idolatrie in worshipping a creature as the bread and blasphemie in that they say it is God Seeing then they haue not these marks for their church let vs see what markes they shewe vnto vs. First they say that their Vniuersalitie or multitude is a signe of the Catholike Church but this is vtterly false confuted both by the testimonies and authorities of the scriptures and also by many examples out of them For first if multitude make the Catholike Church then the Turkes and Pagans shall be the Church sooner and before the Papistes as the euent doeth shew for they are moe in number then the Christians or their pretended Catholikes which yet I thinke they will not graunt to be the Church But they will say Among the Christians the greatest number are the Church If this be so then sayde not our sauiour Christ truely when hee called his Church a little flocke saying Feare not