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A06193	The mysterie of mankind, made into a manual, or The Protestants portuize reduced into explication application, inuocation, tending to illumination, sanctification, deuotion, being the summe of seuen sermons, preached at S. Michaels in Cornehill, London. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiesty, and pastor elect, and allowed by authority of superiours of the English Church at Hamborough in Saxonie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1619 (1619)	STC 16689; ESTC S105401	92,048	356

THE MYSTERIE OF MANKIND Made into a Manual OR THE PROTESTANTS Portuize reduced into Explication Application Inuocation tending to Illumination Sanctification Deuotion being the summe of seuen Sermons Preached at S. Michaels in Cornehill London By William Loe Doctor of Diuinity Chaplaine to his sacred Maiesty and Pastor Elect and allowed by autho●ity of Superiours of the English Church at Hamborough in Saxonie 1 Cor. 3. 23. All are yours and yee Christs Christ God LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop for George Fayerbeard and are to be sold at his shoppe at the North side of the Exchange 1619. TO THE MOST CATHOLIKE and most Christian Monarch IAMES by Gods especiall appointment of great B●ittaine France Ireland King Defendor of the faith DRead Soueraigne The blessed cōpany of holy ones that houshould of faith that Spouse of Christ and Church of the liuing God which is the pillar and ground of all truth is so grieuously gastered and so continually infested with hellish Athisme misled Papisme and misperswaded Separa●isme especially in these last worst ages of the world that had not God of his exuberant mercies set vp your Highnesse among vs for a blessing as another Ioshua to succeede Moses and as another Solomon to sit vpon the throne of Dauid to the supportatiō of the Church of England It is verily beleeued of many wise and iuditious that the doctrinall principles of Christian Religion had not onely beene sore-shaken within your Maiesties Realmes as they are to the hearts-griefe of many thousands among your bordering neighbours but also a most wofull and lamentable distraction and open diuision would before this time haue broken forth to to the vtter ruine and razing of the verie foundations of the blessed peace and established discipline of the church within these your Maiesties Territories But magnified for euer be our God who hath remembred vs in mercy and hath directed your Maiesties royall and enlarged heart not onely to take care of things Quae sunt ante pedes but also amidst other your Highnes many and manifold cares of your most Christian gouernment longe prospicere as to haue an eye what manner of growth your Seminaries of Marchants haue beyond the Seas at Hamborough Middleborough and other places for asmuch as they are the men in all likelyhoode who are to bee of your Maiesties great Chamber the Citie of London and to sit neere about the Sterne in future ages Therefore most dread Sou●raigne It beeing almost a whole year sithence I was by the worthy and auncient Companie of Merchant-Aduenturers elected and by the most reuerend Archbishoppe of Canterbury allowed to be Pastor of the English Church at Hamborough I thought it my bounden duty before I departed and in some part of recompence for my long stay to leaue behinde mee a token of that seruice o●seruance duty loue and alleagia●ce which I owe vnto your Maiestie and vnto the Church of England wheresoeuer the Lord di●pose●h of me The doctrine and discipline of which Church I shall endeauour to maintaine pro modulo meo euen to my last breath think my selfe an happy m●n to bee the sonne of so famous and Christian a Catholike Church Some of the compilers of whose deuout Letu●gie haue shed their bloud for the testimony of the Lord Iesus which bloud I haue alwayes thought to bee the best bloud in the world A measure of which modell of mine I here humbly prostrate at your Highnes feet heartily beseeching Almighiy God to preserue your Highnesse and your most royal seede to be glorious instruments of his Church to crown your Maiesty and your Princely Progenie with his sauing mercies in Christ Iesus Your Maiesties most humble s●ruant and Subiect WILL LOE 1 TIM 3. 16. Without controuersie Great is the mysterie of Godlinesse God manifested in the flesh Iustified in the Spirit S●ene of Angels Preached vnto the Gentiles Beleeued on in the world and receyued vp in glory A PREFACE OF Pacification to all Christian Tearmers and Trauellers from the reuerend Iudge Itinerant Iustice of Oier and Determiner vnto the poorest Clyent that iournyeth within the foure seas of Great Britaine Mercie be multiplied in Ch●ist Iesus BLessed and beloued in the Lord for I cannot giue you a more honourable title if I should studie to giue you ten thousand be of what ranke or condition your will Hearken Vpon the Lords day beeing the third day after our Sauiours sufferings two disciples trauelling from Ierusalem to a village called Emaus as they walked on their way they talked of Iesus And as they thus communed Iesus himselfe drew neere and went with them and afterward questioning with them opened vnto them the Scriptures tarries with them sits witb them blesseth their meat eats with them giues them a super substantial blessing for he openeth their eyes and they know him A perf●t president for you beloued in the Lord and a blessed direction as you tra●aile for we aree all Viatores looke as big as we will not comprehensores if wee haue company to conf●rre and talke of the Lord Iesus for you see if you bee but two in company hee will make the third if you commune concerning him in feare and reuerence yea your conference shall not bee fruitlesse For what is the sequell Eu●n knowledge of the holy Scriptures they shall bee opened vppon such conference Christ his comfortable company by the holy Ghost will be affoorded for albeit according to his Es●e Naturale he is in heauen yet secundum esse personale he is euery where by his breath and fauour in his chosen Moreouer hee will sit with you vpon the throne of Iustice to direct your hearts aright you shal partake of his blessings with healtb and saluation hee will blesse you in your store hee will enlighten your minds encline your wils rec●ify your desires and you shall know him whom to know is eternall l●fe For this cause I haue often bowed the knees of my heart vnto the God of heauen for you all and haue presumed to reduce the summe of all into this little Manuall as the Protestants portuize to carry in his hand in his bosome and to accompany him in your trauels as Paul had his parchments with him which casually he left at Troas and whereof it seemed hee had an especiall care Let not the prudent Iudge disdaine or despise that I become his remembrancer for the time is come that wee must looke to our Christian principles seeing many are gone so farre to question long receiued truthes in the spirit of subtiltie and error as if the Metempsycosis of the Pythagorists were reuiued and the soule of Iohn Duns Scotus were entred into the bodyes of suruiuing schollers to trouble the world with nicities and to lose themselues in miserable extrauagant wandrings It was a good rule therefore that Irenaeus gaue That we should diligently heede neuer to bee transported beyond the limits of Doctrinall Principles which indeede is a glosse of that of

reuelations that 's meerely Anabaptisticall God in an engine Vpon what then Euangelical Esay the Lordes Prophet tels vs That our faith must bee founded vppon Gods Oracle the Scriptures and Christ the sonne of God biddes vs Search the Scriptures and Saint Peter a chiefe pillar of the Church sayeth Wee shall doe well to heede that certaine end of Prophesie as vnto a light that shineth in a darkplace vntill the day dawne and the day starre arise in our hearts But stay who then shal be iudge of the scripture that our faith may bee setled with iudgement for as much as most Heretikes auouch scripture Shall Christians iudge betweene Christians in cases of controuersie no they are too partiall because they are parties Shal Pagans no they are not capable of holy mysteries shall Iewes no they are enemies of Christ. What then Shall wee knocke at heauen gates that Christ Iesus may come downe and decide these doubts What neede that Wee haue him in the Gospell sayth Cyprian wherein if we exercise our selues diligently by conferring scripture with scripture and expounding according to the Analogie and rule of our faith beeing guided by the iudgement of holy reformed Church which acknowledgeth no other guid but onely the Euangelicall and Apostolicall writings nor any other rocke to builde vpon but Iesus Christ nor any other City of refuge to flie vnto then the word of God which as Dauid sayth is a Lampe vnto our pathes for our liues a light as S. Peter sayth in darkenesse for our knowledge a ballance for our decision to weigh the light from the ponderous sayth S. Augustine a touch stone for our tryall as sayth S. Chrysostom to discern the currēt from the counterfeite and in a word as Constantine in the Nicene counsell sayde of all sufficiencie for our ful satisfaction and the onely deuoyment of all controuersies for our resolution wee shall doe well This being added that we pray earnestly with Dauid That God would open our eies that we may see the wōders of his Law Otherwise they that are conceyted in their owne singularity and priuat spirite either for doctrine of faith or direction for manners Sathan stands at their right hand and the thinges that should haue beene for their good are occasion of their falling These thinges beeing so what meanes the cursed malignants of our Church of England to trouble mens mindes with niceties the breeders of controuersies whence many monsters of opinion and thousand of fancies doe dayly arise which entangle the simple in many wofull Laborinthes as to demaund of vnsetled soules where was your Church hid vntill of late some hundred yeares since What Emperor raigned when it came forth or on what day was it hatched What age did the Religion you professe arise in What is become of our Forefathers These and the like interrogatories are as introductions and preambles to insnare and entangle the simple with needlesse questions and quiddities As if Petrus Valdus Lugdunensis Iohn Wicleefe Husse Luther and others such reformers did at any time endeauour to beget or set vppe a new Church whereas the truth is they onely diligently labored by the word of God and by the power thereof to reforme that Church which by mens traditions and deuizes was most miserably deformed and defaced and to reduce it to its former splendor and integrity Alwayes saluting that church though much deformed by the louing Sister And doubtlesse wee know many pious and chaste Matrones who iustly may be ashamed of their owne sisters enormious courses and exorbitant conditions Neyther did they vse any other means in seeking reformation but by yeelding onely and lamenting sayd Oh how is that faithfull City become an harlot It was full of iudgement and iustice lodged therein but now they are murtherers Thy siluer O sister is become drosse thy wine is mixed with water For these and the like important consideratiōs of the great defect miserable reuolt and dāgerous obliquities of those times they had learned Apostolicall counsel To haue no fellowship with such doings but to reproue them rather Were these and their followers then to bee accounted enemies and to be scornefully branded with the names of Waldenses Wicklefiās Hussites Lutherans and other the like disgracefull tearmes as if they had beene Nouelists because they tolde the truth God forbidde George Cassander the choyce diuine of his time said well and iuditiously when he gaue his sentence of the dissentions of the Church both to Ferdinand and Maximilian the Emperours acknowledging that in the beginning many were iustly stirred vp by a godly zeale earnestly to reproue and reforme some apparāt abuses in the church and that the principall cause of the Churches calamity and distraction was not to bee imputed to those who sought reformation but rather to such as ruled the stern who beeing puffed vp with disdaine and scorned to be rebuked proudly and peremptorily despised and disdayned those that modestly meekely and iustly did but admonish and aduertise them And hee thought that there could bee no firme nor constant concord in the Church vnlesse they beeganne to reforme who first gaue the occasion of distraction to witte that those of the Churches Gouernement must abate theyr rough rigor and sternnes yeeld somewhat for the peace of the church and by listening to the petitions and counsels of many godly and well disposed men should reforme the apparent errors and abuses crept into the church and conforme them according to the rule of Gods word and the primitiue integritie from which they were in many things declined If the case were come to this who would not embrace that sacred peace of the church wherewith the angells of heauen congratulated mankinde in the incarnation which Christ left as his legacie to his peculiar people when hee was to forsake the world and the Apostles as their principall doctrine enioyned to the Christian Church Euery one you say is ready for peace but what if we cannot haue it Then must we make peace as Saint Iames speaks by our diligence by our sufferance What if wee make peace once and it depart Then must wee follow peace as Paule commands What if it abandon vs Peter wisheth vs to seeke it and ensue it What if it will not come as Abrahams seruant sayde of Rebecca after wee haue sought it and ensued it Surely then must wee studie to bee quiet For what good Christian is not of worthy Constantines minde who desired of God to passe his dayes free from trouble and vexation And of Iouians who sayd this by chance touching a queroulous libel of the Macedonians I hate contentions and strife and those that are giuen to peace and concord I deerely loue and reuerence Oh what hellish furie hath enraged the malignant Church to stirre vp strife and controuersie against vs not onely all the day long but euen for time and times euen many ages The Arrians and Circumcellians neuer more raged against the Orthodoxe then Rome hath against vs. For