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A18924	The syn, against the holy ghoste made manifest from those grounds of faith, which haue bene taught & received by the faithfull in Engla[n]d, & that for those 40.y. togither vnder the prosperovs raigne of my Soveraigne Lady and Quene Elishabet. Which may serue for a rayning in of the heady, & yet for a spur to slouthfull spirits: by Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1598 (1598)	STC 5345; ESTC S117149	23,663	26

I teach vnto yow and euen for that both I and yow do owe much praise to the hiest Stand in the ways behold ask for thold way vvhich is the good way If the old way be the good way of god contained in the Bibles Canon then what are the vvays wherin sowles must stand while they enquire for that good way Is it anie thinge but the voices of the faithfull in al ages who haue trod forth the way of life before vs And this is it causeth Christ to direct his Loue no otherwise but by bidding her If she were ignorant to get her forth by the steps of the flocks who had trod the tract before her And for this cawse also is it that the Church is called The piller ground of truth Manie cold be contented I drewe such a Carde of antiquitie for clearing the life of faithfull in Succession who yet with Iob haue bene ouerron with an outward scab sowle vntoucht of Satan but they shold knoe it vnreasonable to bid the Israelite make brick and then deny him strawe And yet yow and I haue gone a warfare at our owne charges though euer we cānot all things but the lord knoeth what is necessarie Meane tyme as we are debtors to all so let vs as we may cast our breade on all waters or sorts of people for after many days we shall fynd it And so besuchinge yow to hold fast least another take the crowne I desire the Lord his sauing spirit to dwell for euer in our spirits So be it ¶ To his beloued Tho. whicks and Ri. Carter 〈◊〉 sauing guiftes of the Spirit Amen NOt knowing if so we shall liue to behold one anothers face againe in this lyfe let me supplie the wast paper with those few lynes Returninge from the funerals of my excellent gracious frend Mistris Anne Ogle I was motioned to conflict with your neighbour Romanist prisoners But considering I had no orderly callinge so to doe yow knoe how vnwilling I was Yet afterwards perceiuing a nere frend of myne his foote snarled in theyr grin which amazd me more then all Romish learning could I not only was willinge but also made challendg yet vnder hand-writing that so any beholder thereof they might more orderlie iudge The Doctor agreed Under his hand for shaking my ministrie he put downe this I ●…esis All true Ministers of the Ghospel are only raised vp within the present established church of Rome Hereto I opposed drawing his argument into forme vrging him to proue the Maior All such Ministers are only raised vp in the established church of Christ for that I denied secondlie That Romes Church euer was or is that only church which also I denied To the Minor but skipping ouer the word Only he said somthing And therto I excepted first by calling into question ād not vnworthily if euer Romes Church was truly established Secondly though that shold appeare I denied the present church of Rome to retaine the Auncient Apostolike faith And here I propounded theyr hallowing water wax Bells for driuing away deuels etc. Purgatory fyre for cleansing away sin theyr constituting Sts. departed Mediators wherevnto I now adde Sauiors theyr postinge ouer one mans works for supplying anothers lack which they terme works of Super-erogation ād the church her treasure set of sale in leaden Buls in theyr yeare of Iubile with a Fifte doctrine I now remember not for I lefte the writings behind in Marshland Hereat the Doctor sterued callinge me falsifier etc. denying theyr church to teach those doctrines As for the Major proposition though in 3. sondry writs I prouoked him which first in order shold haue bene handled in Nature or Art yow knoe in neuer one of his papers he wold somuch as looke that way he perceiuing it I doubt not to be an Iron too hot for his fingring And so Clapham remaines vntouched ād interessed with a ministrie of the ghospell although my god knoweth I knoe my self most vnworthie and cold be glad thereof to be disburdened It now remaineth to be examined if so I charged theyr church falslie And therein I refer my words to be compared with all Romish writers manie before but specially since theyr cursing cursed Councell of Trident Neptunes thre-tynd forke for hurling one sea of errour vpon another But I knoe he knoes the charge most true only till he had trapped som sowles and fettered them fast he wold not haue such trumpery discouered This was it which caused him speak so plausibly Viz The common seruice book could neuer beget faith and yet themselues make most of it theyr owne that faith is begotten only by preaching and yet themselues first introduced domb priests that they haue the office of Elders but yet none that in the same Congregation assisteth a Pastor as also that of Deacons although none to waite on the Loue-tables nor occupied about the poore such couert speach he vsed till one was foulie snarled Yea such was his fetch in bellowing out against my Biblio-thecaes 14. chap. sainge first there were no such words in Hierom then being let se them crying forth I had not truly translated them afterwards saing I had misalleadged them as if I had collected two real bodies of Christ whereas therewith Hierom and Augustine I only collect two manner of presences not substances And yet being in place togither his vnblushing forehead made me abashed and that to his ytching eared auditorie stood against me for victus victa victum But such seing I knoe they will not se when they knoe an Auncient to make against them as for example A Romish mate at table of our right Woo. frend he in a brauerie knowing none there able in that to conuict him wold proue that the Beasts nomber 666. it cold not arise as protestāts wold from the word Latinus He accomptinge 666. wold not arise and did not som hearer say he had sufficientlie confuted I do not think but he well knewe that auncient Ireneus said yes and yet himself of the Latine empire But you must knoe that the father as also Iohn did write in Greeke and so the word not Latinus but Lateinos from whence results the nomber thus L 30. A 1. T. 300. E 5. I 10. N 50. O 70. S 200 And so the Cock crewe before the victory The same nomber artseth from Ecclesia Italica thus E 5. C 20. C 20. L 30. E 8 S 200. I 10. A 1. I 10. T 300. A 1. L 30. I 10. C 20. A 1. Their Paris Genebrard he labours to disgrace such calculation by propounding the name Luter But not fynding the nomber in Greeke he turnes it into hebrue Character but yet it will not reatch he bumbasts it therefore with another L so makinge it Lulter for tentoring out 666. But if the Malice of France wold haue the nomber out of an hebrue word let him count

Romijth R 200. O 6. M 40. I 10. I 10. TH 400 and so the Beast at least for one of the Lamb-like hornes of the Latine Italian Romish Church All this but by the way for curbing of peuis spirits in theyr willinge wilful ignorance But a iudgment iust inough specially vpon such as once initiated with the foundamentall truth haue synce that vncoustrained yea frely forsaken the faith and fellowship they had thereyn Our English Harding who once wished his voyce as Osney bells for ringing out Romes trumperie he afterwards neglecting his standing fell and became a patroene to all theyr drudgerie euē to theyr very Stewes Those that of curiositie will as did Heuah confer with the Serpent it is iust with God to leaue such to the powre of the Tempter The wyseman wills vs not to heare the instruction which causeth to erre from the words of knowledge And our Sauiour denies that his sheep will followe or acknowledge a straungers voyce If God shall take me away before I publikly handle the vn-masking of Antichrist ex professo let the former tractate remaine a goade in your sides for kepinge yow watchfull to your ways Which if and I hope all good then though a 1000. fall on the right hand by ouer-lashing zeale and a 1000. on the left hand by Laodiceaes lukewarmnes ye shall stand to the praise of the Eternall and your owne neuer dyinge happines And so with my hartie salute to euerie our christian frends I leaue yow and them to the mercifull guardure of the hiest To the Apostaticall schismaticall Factious THe faithfull beleiue that Iesus his kingdom excelleth that of Moses in this that once established it is neuer remoued though false prophets cry Lo here Lo there as if for manie hundreds of yeares it had bene vanished and now begon to peep vp head in the desert and therefore haue learned not to goe out of the Catholike Arke Thow who in an ouerweninge of thine owne witte and holynes thinks al fooles and filthie sauing thy Pharisaicall self knoe O painted tombe whose out side is fairest but the kingdom of god rather within that wheresoeuer thow goes in that estate the dreadfull vengeauce of God pursues the for the Ey which mocketh the father and despiseth the Mothers instruction the vally-rauens shall pick it out and the yong Eagles eat it Till O ye Factious ye haue ripened further matter against yow I for the present conclude thus with the prophet Behold all ye haue kindled a fyre are hemmed in with the sparks Walk in the light of your fyre in the sparks ye haue kindled this shall ye haue of myne hand Ye shall lye downe in sorowe Who wold saue som as by pulling them out of the fyre HE. CLAPHAM Escapes in printinge Leafe ❧ ij backside lyne 22. for Sowles read Selues In ❧ iij in the margin for Mare ethan is c read Mare-atha n is c. In Bij in the margins top on the leafes backside read Centurie 5. in ch of faith GOD PRESERVE OVR QVENE ‡ Because vvith Esa●… they may vvith tears seek repētance but not fynd it Heb 12. 17. * 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Pet 2. 4. 5. † Cyprian 〈◊〉 large proueth this in h●…s B. of Prelates 〈◊〉 plicity | No Intercession as anone ❧ 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. † 1 Ioh. ●● ‡ Ch. 5. 14. Ver. 16. ‡ 1 Tim. 2. 1. c. * Ps. 51. 17. ‡ Iustin Martyr vvith Tryphō the Iuc * greek is teleiaj mo●aj † Math. 24. 24. 1 Tim. 4 1. c. 2 Ep. 3. 1. c. Iude 4. c. Reuel 8. 10. 11. 9 1. c. * Ioh. 8. ‡ Mareethan is interposd for sound sake | Iude. 1● * Tit. 3. 10. 11. * ●…xestraptaj 〈◊〉 it i●… his mynd 〈◊〉 ‡ The story vvritten by Gribal du●… y. 1548. published by Hen. Pantaleon * Rom. 10. 10. † Isa. 49. 22. M●…th 15. 13 * Ioh. 15. 6. Heb 6. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. 2. ‡ 〈◊〉 in his Eccles. ●…ist book 4. ch 14. Epiphanius in ker 30. Act. 〈◊〉 ‡ Math. 12. 45. ●… Cor. 3. 11. 12. c. This scripture held fast it ouerturne●… all o●… 〈◊〉 ●…ons And this founda tion I can proue euer ●…o haue prevailed against Hel-gates so consequently the Churh ●…uervisible ‡ Coloss. 2. 2 ●… Tim. 1. 15. Rom. 5. 1. * Gen. 3. 15. Galat. 4. 4. Heb. 2. 16. ●…0 ●…0 ‡ Heb. 9. 10. 1 Pet. 1. 18. 19. Reu. 7. 14. † Nomb. 8. 10. compared vvith Nehem. 10. 29 so in al generall actions the Elders of the Tribes are alone vsed much more in this Se our Conclusion 6. ‡ Reu. 12. 11. * Szegedi●… Fenner c. ‡ Institut b. 4. c. 19. sect 28. † Against Parmenian the Donatist q. 2. ch 12. ‡ Heb. 7. 7. Eph. 2. 1. 5. 5. 14. Rev. 20. 6. * They hold the glorie but for 1000 yeares † vvho hold all Deuell all shalbe finally saued ‡ 2 Thess. 2 4. 1 Ioh. 2. 18. 19. Reu. 1●… 11. * Gen. 17. 10 11. Leuit. 2. 12. Rom. 11. 1●… Act. 2. 39 16. 31. according to Gen. 17. 27. * Rom. 4. 10. 11. Col. 2. 11. 12. Mark 16. 16 * This Ministry not held the Ro manist is but badly ansvvered ‡ Math. 24 23. 24. 28. Iob. 39. 30. 3. 32. 33. Galat. 3. 1. * Rom. 10. 14. 15. Gal. 3. 2. Rom. 8. 32. ‡ Leuit. 2. 〈◊〉 Chrysostom in ●… homely offai●… hope 〈◊〉 All●…dged by Centueie * Cyprian 〈◊〉 3. to Qui●… ch 4●… Iam. ●… 〈◊〉 ‡ Fulgentius to Monimus b. 1 Anshelm of the measute of the crosse Galat. c. 2. Al those ●…aresies not only resisted by severall faithfull vvriters but also Anathe matized in sondry provinciall generall counsel●… * This root of bitterne●… must be puld vp or it ●…vill defi●… many ‡ Doctors of the ghospell yet they knoe the ghospell Form●… 〈◊〉 esse The very vvord Antichristian falsely applied it hath kindled the fyre vvhich Satan vvill neuer suffer to be quenched So●…ers of that seed had need repent in sack 〈◊〉 † Mat. ●… 〈◊〉 Iam. ●… 〈◊〉 Against 〈◊〉 b. 7. ch 8. the like plētifully vnto Cres co the Grāmaria●… ‡ 1 Tim. ●… 22 Tit. 15. Act. 6. 6. ●… 14. 23. cheirote●…è santes signi fying ordination by hans seing scripture neuer speaketh of Election by lifting vp hands ‡ 〈◊〉 cleon is the Male gender he that is mercifull so they censure others for lack of Chr. ministry yer they knoe ●…is ministrie * Against the 9. comma●…ndement Psal. 129. 5●… c. * Isa. 65. 50 ‡ 2 Ioh. 10. * Gal. 1. 8. 9. † Eusebiu●… b. 5. c. 12. o●… eccl hist. * Leuit. 14. 42. * 44. 45. ‡ Socrates eccles hist. booke 3. ch 11. Math. 15. 13. † Luke 21. 36. heb 3. 12 13. 1 Pet. 4. 7 ‡ Prov. 26. 16 * Rom. 1●… ●… * eccl 7. 18. ‡ Pro. 13. 9. † Zech 1. 11 | Reuel 〈◊〉 11. * Prou. 24. 33. 34. * Pro. 28. 14 ‡ Psa. 2. 11. † Vincentius in his 〈◊〉 of ●…aer ch ●…7 ‡ 1 ●…or 14. 32. * Ior. 6. 16. | Cant. 1. 7. * 1 Tim. 3. 15. ‡ Except vvhat once vvas administred by six out of England † Eccl. 11. 1. * So Ieroin vnderstands it comparing it vvith 〈◊〉 1●… 15 * Tovvards thend of our Lo. 〈◊〉 1597. ❧ First proposition Minor the second proposition th●… third is Cōclusion fo●… an argume●… in forme called aso 〈◊〉 Syllogismo it existeth o●… 3. propositions ❧ Pighiu●… chap. 6. of 〈◊〉 1. of ecclesiasticall hierarchi c. Also the Moguntine councel * Episcop Roffensis against Luther Biel in exposition of Masse Lection 56. D. ‡ Romaine breuiarie of Peter Paul Pope Sixtus his prayer to many saiuts Prayer to S. Blaze c. * Vigueriue in his theologicall institut ch 16. approued of 〈◊〉 ‡ Held in our Lords y. 1545. Tridēt in English a triple toothed instrument such as Poets attribute to the Sea-god * vvhere I speak of Chr. his presence in the supper chapter 14. ‡ impudentlie yovv knoe affirming I had neuer seē Ierom * Reu. 13. 18 * Episcop of Lions in our Lo. y. 180. in his 2. b. 25. ch ‡ Greek Epsilon La●…cinos is in English a Latine * greek Eta Ecclesia Italica is Italique Chur. ❧ Martin Luther vvill not yeild the 666. except they doble rib him * In english Romish † Reade our Ieuels conflicts vvith that Apostate ❧ prou 19. 27. * Iohn 10 5. * Heb. 12. 27 28. Psal 45. 6. Mark 13 22. Luk. 17. 23. ❧ ●…uk 1●… 20. 21. psal † prou 30. 17 ‡ Isa. 30. 11. 〈…〉