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A10620	An animadversion to Mr Richard Clyftons advertisement Who under pretense of answering Chr. Lawnes book, hath published an other mans private letter, with Mr Francis Iohnsons answer therto. Which letter is here justified; the answer therto refuted: and the true causes of the lamentable breach that hath lately fallen out in the English exiled Church at Amsterdam, manifested, by Henry Ainsworth.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1613 (1613)	STC 209; ESTC S118900	140,504	148

filthy potion that is in it frō the Beasts counterfeyt Lambs horns as wel as from his Lions mouth and Bears pawes We may not in the truest Church in the world partake with their synns yet is not every true Church that synneth Babylon Secondly she being in this forlorn estate she is but a lump of syn a man of syn a child of perdition the Beast is not one person but the whole kingdom M. Iohnson himself hath acknowledged more then once that the man of syn is the false Church religion of Antichrist compared to the body of a man and consisting of all the parts togither Now to the defiled and unbeleeving nothing is pure their sacrifices are abominable their prayers are turned to syn We acknowledg therfore no good or holy thing in Antichrists synagogue as touching her use of it Thirdly we renounce not any good thing because that harlot dooth chalenge abuse it but we practise Gods ordinances as he hath cōmanded condemning utterly the profanation of them by Antichrist 7. They further allege that the Church of Rome was at the first set in the way of God since which time she is fallen into great apostasie as Jsrael did in which estate she hath kept sundry truthes and ordinances of God as Israel also did Which causeth a twofold consideration of her estate 1. in respect of the ordinances of God still reteyned among them 2. and of the mixture of their own abominations Jn regard of the one to acknowledge the truth and church of God there in regard of the other to observ their apostasie and confusion against Antichrist and for this mixture to separate from them and to practise every ordinance of God which was and is in that church leaving onely their corruptions least we fal into Anabaptistrie and other evils I answer they doo but roll the first stone saying the same things comparing Antichrists church with Israel wheras the holy Ghost compareth it with the gentiles even the most vile the Sodomites Aegyptians Babylonians and hethen Romans as before I have shewed In all which nations there were many truthes ordināces of God reteyned abused which truthes made them no true Church unless we wil say al the world was Gods true Church But I wil folow their particulars The Church of Rome they say was at first set in the way of God I answer ther was at Rome such a Church in Pauls time but the Romish Church now is a Beast since that time sprung out of the bottomless pit a Catholik monster dispersed as they feign through earth heaven and purgatorie as before I shewed such a Church Paul never saw but by the spirit of prophesie foretold of it That Church then was Saints worshiped God this Church now is an habitation of Divils and worshipeth Divils Since that time say they she is fallen into Apostasie True say I even soon after Pauls time for then the mysterie of iniquitie did work and many Antichrists were gone out whiles the Apostles lived For which their Apostasie like Israels when they would not repent as Christ threatned some that were new fallen into such synns the candlestick the Church was removed the Church of Rome as Paul forewarned for unbeleef was cut off among others and for a punishment of their Apostasie God delivered the East Churches into the hands of Mahomet and the West Churches into the hands of that false-horned beast Antichrist even as Israel and Iudah of old for their like synns were delivered into the hands of the Assyrians and Babylonians And this Paul prophesied that ther should be a departing frō the faith before that Man of syn should be disclosed and because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved therfore God would send upon them that Adversarie with Satans power and strong delusion to beleev lyes that they might be damned Thus Mahomet Antichrist were Gods 2 plagues to bring not onely the death of body but of sowl upō thē that loved not the truth but departed frō it For when the great mountayne which is the kingdom of Babylon Antichrists monarchie burning with the fyre of ambition and strife was cast into the sea that is among peoples and nations then the living creatures that were in the third part of the sea so corrupted and bloody dyed lived not agayn for a thowsand yeres as did the godly which worshiped not the beast Although therfore we may truely call the state of Mahometisme and Antichristianisme apostasie yet we are taught of God to understand such apostasie as was among the hethens in Sodom Aegypt and Babylon and so Rome is caled not onely figuratively as somtimes the Iewes are caled people of Gomorrah but spiritually that is in deed and effectually for the spirit and life so to speak of all their abominations are in her most powrful and apparant So their comparison with Israel falleth too short in mesure though Israel also when they forsook God and his Church and builded new Temples were not Gods true Temple or Church as before is proved Their cōsideratiō in respect of Gods ordinances to acknowledge the church of God there is a speculatiō of their own not of God For the stealing abusing Gods ordināces mixing thē with their own inventiōs maketh not a people Gods people or Ch any more thē a true mās mony in a theefs purse maketh the theef an honest mā If it were so then the hethens when they sacrificed swine were to be condemned but when they sacrificed bullocks and sheep were to be approved as Gods Church for they kept Gods ordinance asvvel as Rome with their sacrifice of the Mass. When they worshiped idols they were to be condemned but when they worshiped the true God in their ignorant manner they were to be justified as his people so when they kept the feasts of new moons they were to be praised as Gods Church for it was an ordinance of his but when they kept their Bacchanalia to be disclaimed for heretiks And what wil this come unto at the last but to justify the Divil as he is a creature of God and transformed into an Angel of light but to condemn him as he is a black Divil and Apostate from his original Their fear least they should fall into Anabaptistrie is before defrayed but as some mariners to avoid Charybdis have falln into Scylla so these to shun the shelves of Anabaptistrie have run their ship upon the rocks of Poperie 8. Their next double consideration is about the covenant of God made with his people For oftē the people on their part break the covenāt when the Lord doth not so on his part but stil counts them his people calls thē to repentāce folowes them somtime with judgm t somtime

Ministerie though with corruptions how wil they be able to bear out such as are excōmunicated for so great contempt and errour 3. Thirdly as Antichristians doo excōmunicate such as they should not so doo they baptise such as they ought not even open impenitent Idolaters and their seed the generation of Vipers which Iohn Baptist would refuse Yea Mr Iohnson himself hath sayd of a better estate then Romes that Gods covenant is sacrilegiously violated whiles it is sayd to the open wicked in delivering them the seals of Gods covenant Thou art righteous Therfore if the Popes excōmunicatorie bulls are but bubbles because they are unjustly executed his baptisme also will be found but a fiction no true seal of salvation to such as receive it of him Finally touching circumcision I think it cannot be manifested that any people 's fallen from God and his Church using it colourablie for a religious action as al Antichristians and heretiks doo baptism at this day did or were bound to cutt their foreskin the second time if they came unto the truth of God as for example the Colchians Aegyptians and Aethiopians whom histories mentiō to be circumcised or the Samaritans whom Mr Iohnson acknowledgeth to have stil vsed circumcision Hereunto we may add out of the Iewish records how they hold that Al have leav to circumcise yea though it be an uncircumcised person or a servant or a woman or a child circumcising in the place where ther is no man But an hethen may not circumcise at al yet if he doo circumcise ther is no need to return circumcise the second time If this rule stand we shal not need to repeat our outward washing in baptism though given us by Antichrist or any other aliants from the church covenant of promise Of the Church of Rome The Church of Rome being acknowledged by al that fear God to be the throne of Antichrist Mr Iohnson himself having professed that the hierachie and Church-constitution of Antichrist is the most detestable anarchie of Satan that ever was yet imitating now M. Gifford M. Bernard and other professed enemies of the truth he pleads for that Church after this manner The Apostle expressly teacheth that Antichrist should sit in the Temple of God 2. Thes. 2 4. And by the Temple understanding the Church of God it wil folow that Antichrist should sit in the Church of God and is there to be sought and found and not among Jewes Turks Pagans c. neyther that Antichrist takes away wholly the church of God and every truth and ordinance of the Lord c. I answer truth errour are closely couched togither in this their plea for the discerning wherof we are to consider first how Antichrists church is described in Gods word secondly what the state of the church of Rome is at this day The Antichristian synagogue is by the holy Ghost caled a Beast which signifyeth a kingdom it is named also a great citie which noteth the largenes of that politie and kingdom It cometh up out of the earth as being of this world which Christs kingdom that cōmeth down from heaven is not and therfore is caled a man of syn and a great whore whose head is Abaddon or Apollyon the destroyer of others and himself the son of perdition and they that follow him are the children of damnation This wicked generation warreth against the Lamb Christ and against the saincts blasphemeth Gods name tabernacle and them that dwel in heaven ●hat is the true Church whose conversation is heavenly Yet doo they all this mischeif under shew of Christian religion therfore this beast hath horns like the Lamb Christ this whore is arayed with purple skarlet guilded with gold precious stones and pearles as if she were the Queen and spowse of Christ she hath peace offrings Vovves as if she were devowt in Gods service bread and waters as ready to refresh the weary sowls Her doctrines sweet amiable lye● spoken in hypocrisie but yet confirmed with signes and miracles as if they came from heaven her power and efficacie great prevayling over the many and the mighty the Kings Princes of world deceiving al nations with her inchantments and if it were possible Gods very elect her continuance and outward prosperitie long her end miserable consumed with the spirit of the Lords mouth and abolished with the brightnes of his cōming and for her destruction the heavens shall rejoyce and sing praises to God Now for to find the accomplishment of these things we are directed by the now Romish religion to a Catholik or Vniversal church one part wherof lives on earth an other under the earth and a third part in heaven 1. On earth is the whole multitude of such as are named Christians through the world united as a catholik body under one visible head the Pope who with his 2 horns like the Lamb pretendeth to be Christs Vicar in the Kingdom Preisthood and is professed of his vassals to be that tri●d precious corner stone that sure foundation in Sion Jsa 28.16 and it is declared defined and pronounced that it is of necessity to salvation for al men to be subject unto him Vnder this Captain are three bands of souldiers the first clergie men as Bishops Preists Deacons Subdeacons and the rest of those shavelings the second Lay men as Kings Pinces Nobles Citizens and Commons of al sorts and vocations the third sort is both of the Clergie and Laitie caled Monks or Regulars 2. Vnder the earth or in Purgatorie fyre are the sowles they say of al such as dye with venial synns whose payns are to be holpen by prayers and masses sayd for them by such as are alive on earth 3. In heaven are the sowls of men departed in the popish fayth and delivered from purgatorie some of which the Pope canonizeth for Saincts whom the people on earth are religiously to honour and pray unto as their mediators with God This church on earth cannot err in things which it commandeth men to beleev o● doo whither they be expressed in scripture or not therfore men must beleev in her and trust her in al things for the truth of the faith as touching us relyeth upon her authoritie and she hath power to make lawes which doo bind and constreyn mens consciences These things premissed I come to our Opposites arguments Their first reason from 2. Thes. 2.4 is unperfectly alledged for the text there sayth of the man of syn that he dooth sit as God in the Tēple of God wherupon their conclusion must be that Antichrist sitteth as God in the church of God And if they can prove that he is the true God I wil yeild that his temple is the true temple his Church the true