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A04767	Heavenly knowledg directing a Christian to ye assurance of his salvation in this life / written in Latin by Barthol. Keckerm. ; done into English by T.V.	Keckermann, Bartholomäus, ca. 1571-1608 or 9.; Vicars, Thomas. Treatise written to the glory of gods grace, against free-will.	1625 (1625)	STC 14897; ESTC S1099	106,438	362

of Christ by the Euangelists and Apostles as by his Pen-men or Notaries How is the Scripture diuided in respect of that authority it hath in prouing So it is diuided into the bookes which are Canonicall and those which are not Canonicall but Apocryphall Which doe you call the Canonicall Books Syst Theol. pag. 169. item p. 173. Hi constituūt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Those which are of vndoubted authority in prouing the Articles of Faith or which are the Square and Rule of our faith for Canonicall is deriued from Canon which signifieth as much as a Rule or Square Of what sort are the Canonicall books Of two sortes either of the Old or of the New Testament Which Books of the Old Testament are Canonicall The Canonicall Scripture of the old Testament is diuided into foure rancks Syst The. pag. 182. the first containeth the fiue Bookes of Moses the second those Bookes which are called Historicall as these Joshua Iudges Ruth the two Bookes of Samuel the two Bookes of Kings the two Bookes of the Chronicles the Bookes of Esdras Nehemiah Ester The third Bookes which are written in verse which are called Poeticall as these Job the Psalmes of Dauid the Prouerbs of Salomon Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs the fourth comprehendeth the Prophets which are either greater Prophets in number foure or lesser to wit twelue Which Bookes of the New Testament are Canonicall The Canonicall Scripture of the New Testament is diuided into the History of the Euangelists the Acts of the Apostles the Apostles Epistles and the Prophecy or Reuelation of John Which are called Apocriphall or not Canonicall Syst Theol. pag. 190. Which are not of infallible truth and authority in prouing the Articles of faith and consequently which are not the Rule and Square of our beliefe but containe precepts of life and historicall instructions Which are those Apocryphall Bookes Among the Bookes of the Old Testament as wee haue before said there are some found not to bee Canonicall such as the Booke of Tobias Iudith Wisedome which falsly is ascribed to Salomon Ecclesiasticus or Syracides the third and fourth bookes of Esdras all the Bookes of the Maccabees Baruch with Ieremy his Epistle the Prayer of Manasses the fragments of Ester the additions to Daniel as is the Song of the three Children the Historie of Susanna the Historie of Bell and the Dragon None of all these Bookes are to be found in the Hebrew tongue in which Language onely God would haue the Bookes of the Old Testament to bee written neither were they written by the Prophets or any person immediately called of God Neither doth Christ the Euangelists or the Apostles cite them at any time and to conclude there bee many vntruths in them Wherefore when the Papists vrge any thinge out of these Bookes against vs wee must answer that those Bookes containe not the infallible Word of God and consequently that they haue no firme force or validity in prouing How is the Scripture diuided in respect of the matter it handleth Into the Law and the Gospell for that part of Gods Word is called the Law wherein wee are taught what we ought to doe but the Gospell is that part of Gods Word wherein we are taught what we ought to beleeue and consequently wherein wee haue the remission of our sins promised vs by faith in Christ I haue heard sufficiently touching the diuision of the Word of God J pray you also instruct mee in the proprieties of it That will I willingly doe so I first admonish you that hereafter wee shall alwaies take the holy Scripture for the Canonicall Bookes onely and not at all for the Apocryphall VVhat is the first proprietie of the holy Scripture The first propriety is that it deriues all its authority from God alone Syst Theol. pag. 171. not from the assembly of godly men which is called the Church How proue you this I proue it by these reasons first the testimony of God hath not any authority from men The Scripture is the testimony of God alone Ergo. It hath none authority from men yea the most holy men that bee and consequently not from the Church which is nothing else but a company of godly and sanctified men The force and pith of the argument you shall finde 1 Ioh. 5.9 If wee receiue the witnes of men the testymonie of God certainely is greater Secondly that must needs be before the Scripture in naturall order of which the authority of the Scripture dependeth But the Church is not before the Word of God Ergo. The Maior proposition is euident because that which dependeth of another must needs come after that on which it dependeth The Minor is thus prooued That which is gathered gouerned regenerated by the Word or by the Scripture that is in order after the Scripture But the Church Ergo. The Maior is plaine the Minor is prooued by 1 Pet. 1.23 Wee are regenerated and borne anew by the word of God Iames 1.18 He hath begotten vs by the word of truth Ioh. 17.20 Which by their word shall beleeue in me Thirdly the foundation of any building depends not on the roofe or vpper roomes which are built vpon the foundation but contrarily those same vpper roomes and the roofe depend vpon the foundation but the Word of God is the foundation Ergo. The Maior is plaine in it selfe The Minor is confirmed by that Ephes 2.20 You are built vpon the foundation of the Profits and Apostles Obict The Papists obiect to vs that place 1 Tim. 3.15 Where the Church is said to be the pillar and ground of truth Whereto we answer Answ that this argument is sophisticall or a fallacie commonly called a Dicto secundum quid a dictum simpliciter For the Church is not called the piller and ground of truth in regard of it selfe but in regard of Christ the head who is that corner stone And further it is so called in regard it is the keeper of the Scripture Syst Theol pag. 181. forsomuch as God hath made the Church onely to haue to doe with the treasurie of his Word and in the Church as on the piller and doore of his house or pallace he hangeth those holy Tables which euery man must go thither to read No otherwise then the Magistrate hangeth vp on pillars and gates of his Court Tables containing in them his Lawes and Decrees to the end that his Subiects may there reade them as in a publike place Lastly the Church is called the Pillar of Truth in this respect because that God vseth the testimony of the Church as his instrument and meanes for the proposing teaching and expounding of the holy Scriptures vnto men for the Ministers of the Church are the conseruers of truth and the interpreters of the Scriptures yet not so as if the authority of the Scripture did depend on them but because God vseth them as his seruants and Ministers to propound and to beate into the memories of

whom God hath chosen as peculiar to himselfe that the vertues of him might be manifest who hath called you out of darkenesse into his admirable light See concerning this most comfortable doctrine to wit the vnion of the members with Christ the Head in the Syst of Diuinitie pag. 376. What sorts be the members of Christ of Calu. Instit lib. 4. cap. 3. De Ministerio Zanch. in Epist p. 135 in pracept 4. Obiection They bee of two sorts the Ministers of the Word and the Hearers Here the Papists challenge vs that we haue no lawfull Ministers in the Church and by consequence that there be no lawful sheep because say they where there are no true Pastors and Shepheards there can be there no lawfull or true sheepe But we deny the Antecedent Soluti where they say that in our Churches there be no lawfull Pastors because hee is a right Pastor who rightly and lawfully executes his charge which is done by the pure preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments But say they from whom had your Luther and Caluin their callings Wee answer That we depend not on Caluin and Luther but on the Prophets themselues and the Apostles As for Luther and Caluin they were neither Prophets nor Apostles But if they would know what kind of calling Caluins and Luther his was wee answer It was ordinary for Luther by the publike authority of the Vniuersitie at Witenberg was created Doctor of Diuinity and so was hee called to teach by an ordinary vocation Yea but the Vniuersitie at Witenberg it was Papisticall Answere True it was so at that time yet it called Luther to the sincere preaching of the Gospell For the Papists themselues say not that when Luther was called by them to teach that hee was called by them to teach heresies but to teach the Truth Therefore whē afterwards he taught the Truth he taught it being ordinarily called thereunto although hee taught it not according to the Popes minde and his Bishops Yea but hee taught errours of Papistrie before I answer that that fault of Luther made not his vocation voyd The same we say of Zwinglius Caluin and others which were created by Bishops where not withstanding it must bee considered that vnto that ordinarie calling there was somewhat extraordinarie adioyned to wit in that God set forth and adorned those first Miinsters of the doctrine of the Gospell with a singular vertue to discouer the fearefull abominations of Poperie for the rest of our Ministers which haue and yet do teach in the Reformed Church they were called ordinarily by them who haue authority and as yet to this day are so called Now I much desire to heare of the proprieties of the Church and first tell mee what kinds be the proprieties of the Church of They be oft two kinds some of them doe notifie and point out vnto vs where the Church is other are bare proprieties How many demonstratiue proprieties of the Church be there or how many bee the true markes of the Church Calu. Instit l. 4. c. 1. §. 9. There bee only two first the purity of Doctrine and Sacraments Secondly obedience and sanctity of conuersation answerable to the Word of God which is proued out of the tenth of Iohn 27. My sheepe heare my voice Mat. 28 v. 19. Goe and teach yee all nations baptising them Ioh. 15.14 Yee are my friends c. Ioh. 13.35 By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples Obiect c. The Papists say these are not the notes of the true Church for say they Syst Theol pag. 393. all hereticks can challenge to themselues thus much that they haue the pure word of God and the lawfull vse of the Sacraments Therefore I answer Soluti that that which is but by an accident doth not take away that which is per se Now it is but by accident that the heretiques take this vsurpation on themselues for what is there more excellent in the Church then the pure Word of God and the lawfull vse of the Sacraments But in setting downe the markes of the Church they doe not agree among thecselues See the 396 page of my Syst of Diuinitie Yet generally they say that these are those markes 1. Antiquitie Whereto I answer Obiect that if they brag of antiquitie Solut. simply the Diuell also is a most ancient Serpent neither is he in that regard any whit the better therefore we ought to seeke after antiquitie of true doctrine Id est verius quod prius id prius quod ab initio id ab initio quod ab Apostolis Tertul. which wee say and affirme to be in our Church in that namely her Note and Marke is the pure Word of God then which nothing is more anciēt But your Church doe they obiect began but with Luther some 80 yeares agoe Proleps Looke beyond Luther therefore it is not the true Church I answer that it is an vntruth that our Church did but begin then For our Church begunne presently in Paradice and was also in the time of the Prophets The second marke they make a continuall succession Obiect Pietatis successio proprie successio est astimanda Greg. Naz Non habent haereditatē Petri quifidem Petri non habent Ambros or a perpetuitie of doctrine in the Church and som condemning our Church as in which there hath beene no such continuall succession they insult ouer vs saying Where were your Churches before Luther those 600 yeares wherein you say the World was obscured by the darknesse of Poperie Whereunto we answer Solut. that the Church is sometime more clearely manifest Calu Instit lib. 4. c. 2. sometime it is more obscurely apparant if therefore by succession they vnderstand the state of the Church alwaies alike flourishing then we say that it is false that such a succession is a propriety and marke of the true Church Ecclesia est quae aliquādo obscuratur tan quam obnubilatur multitudine scandalorum aliquando tribulationum tentationum flucti bus operitur atque turbatur Cum Arriani c. Aug. for the visible state of the Church consisteth in religious-worship and in doctrine wherein the Church is not alwaies like vnto it selfe hauing her obscurings and as it were eclipses such as the Sunne and Moone haue and sometimes it is wrapped about with errours so that it cannot shew its head by any visible estate or ministerie whereunto the Scripture beares manifest testimony 1 King 19.18 where it is plaine that the estate of the Church was altogether obscured insomuch that Elias thought with himselfe that he alone was left aliue of all the members of the Church being priuie to none beside himselfe that worshipped God purely yet euen then the Lord said vnto him I haue reserued vnto my selfe seuen thousand Syst Theol. pag. 389. which haue not bowed their knees before Baal So in the time of Christ his liuing vpon the