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A18922 Henoch Clapham his demaundes and answeres touching the pestilence methodically handled, as his time and meanes could permit. Clapham, Henoch.; Re., Pere. 1604 (1604) STC 5343; ESTC S108006 28,520 38

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HENOCH CLAPHAM His Demaundes and Answeres touching the Pestilence Methodically handled as his time and meanes could permit 1. Iohn 4. 1. Try the spirits whether they are of God 1. Thessa. 5. 21. Try all things keepe that which is good 1. Iohn 3. 16 Hereby haue we perceaved loue that the namely Christ layd downe his life for vs therefore we ought also to lay downe our liues for the brethren Phil. 2. 4. Looke not every man vpon his owne things but every man also on the things of other men 1604. To the Church of God wheresoever dispersed Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father vnto Sanctification of the Spirit through obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ apprehended with true faith Grace peace be multiplied vnto you all Amen CHristian Reader it was wy lot to light vpon these few leaves And being pervsed by som that had in times past bin acquainted with the author him self And so finding in this canvasing cōference such sound satisfaction for matters of doubt which in the other Epistle of the pestilence were short brief learned and scholerlike reasons still striving to bring out the kernel of knowledge which lay couched vnder the shell of obscuritie And the further he ripped and reached to make Gods glorious power knowen which others so long had masked it caused many questions to bee mooved which in this canvasing conference is answered to the full I my self being an eare-witnes to som part of that doctrine which was as strange to many at the first as it was to the men of Athens in Mars street which counted Paul but a babler because he preached vnto them Iesus and the Resurrection But I heare the Author is in prison And why Because som Ministers complayned that he preached a doctrine which they could neither begin nor end past the boundes of their knowledge But Henoch wher are thine accusers hath the finger of God written their faults easie to be read doe they not stand out to accuse thee Then I hope the learned will not condemne thee that haue trod out the corne before thee in the same path So was the doctrine of possession likewise distilled out of the cloudes and so high past every lay mans reach that the layety were driven to their Pastors for satisfaction in the doubt of that doctrine because the Priestes lippes should preserue knowledge but they being found nonresidence in those studies one made answer thus I am no Prophet I am no Apostle Miracles are ceased c. These hearers could not be at the beginning ending of all these Sermons which was the cause they rested vnsatisfied and so they began to expounde the doctrine them selues according to those parcels which they had gleaned by peece meale from the author never vnderstanding the Author as he meant But whosoever thou be that will take vpon thee to say all before thou heare all shall be sure to lye all And so damnable speaches were bruted abroad before either of the doctrines were finished but the last Sermon of possession made all plaine and so plaine that since that time to the glory of God be it spoken I never heard of any about London nor elswhere that were so extraordinarily possessed But ordinary wicked persons that are never dispossessed of a wicked tongue like the Athenians which gaue them selues to nothing els but either to tell or heare som Newes but in the end M. Marbery set in foot to maintaine the same doctrine vpon Christes Temptation in the Wildernes affirming that If no going in no coming out So did the last Sermon of the Pestilence make all attentiue hearers satisfied These circumstances considered I tooke it for duty once towards the Church who is the piller and ground of truth as also for profitable acquaintance heretofore had with the Author I could do no lesse but diuulge it And so much the rather for that therein is cleared what in all points is to be held touching the Pestilence A doctrine hetherto over-confusedly and slenderly handled of many If my iudgement fayle me not Thine in Christ Iesus Amen P. R. The Authour to the Reader THE last great Pest-time I speak of the Great plague in London for otherwise it is now the greatest Pest-time in the country and throughout his Highnes Dominions it pleased God to give me affection and strength to continue hold out my Ministerie to the end publikelie teaching and privately comforting the Lords poore flocke abyding in the Citie of London as occasion here and there night and day was administred what time the Citie was much infirmed for Civill governement and well-nigh emptied of due ecclesiasticall cure Satan The accuser of our brethren maligning the happy successe of my labors he gets som vnwise Spirits to bruite abroad that Clapham taught The plague not to be infectious and that All that dyed of the plague were damned as dying without faith The first accusation came readily to the present Lo. Bb. of London but the second it seemeth not so For about som 34. wekes after my first Cōmitment the said Lo. BB. and Sir Edward Stanhope in Court did publikely affirme that they had not heard of that bruite before what time I my selfe then first vttered it in their court that so then in the face of all by-standers it might be checked so well as other slaūders forged only for obscuring myne innocency The BB. beleeving the first tale he without sending for me or talking with me caused me to be taken euen presently vpō a Sermons ending wherin I had opposed to such insensible reportes and so was conveyed to the Clinck prison Passing by some inter-currentes which in som other my writings are layde downe he at the eleven weekes end convented me thē signifying that I had bene imprisoned for teaching That the plague was not inf●ctious as also for publishing An Epistle concerning the Pestilence and that in contempt of the booke of Orders for the Wednesdayes fast authorized by the King To both I answered Negatiuely if so by Plague they vnderstood not that stroke of the Angel termed of the Holy-Ghost Deber but that which grew from corruption of the Creature Well to the Gate house prison I was sent and to my booke and the contentes I should answere in another place To passe by the second Convention it being to no other end then the former the weeke before the Archb. death I was called to Lamboth There after assurauce had of certaine Articles their compasse I tooke my othe to answer truly to them The next Monday at the Registers office I did so The answere was sent to the BB. of Londō He seeing it made not to his purpose did not convent me but without all adoe he let me ly in prison still as afore My wordes nor writings prevayling any whitt I complayned to the King on Easter monday who appointed the same to be conveyed to the BB. And he thereto