in Adam all die both just and unjust so in Christ shall all both believers and unbelievers rise though unto punishment III. ARTICLE There 's one Lord Jesus Christ I do believe By whom all things their beings do receive The only natural Son of the most High Yet born of Mary in virginity And so considered is as David's Son And Off-spring for to sit upon his Throne Yet as he is the Son of God he 's Lord And Root of David and th' Eternal Word This is he whom the Father freely sent In his great Love into the World who went As freely and to death for all he gave Himself that all to life recourse might have The witness of Antiquity The World being all at peace Christ according to the precedent Prophecy was born in Bethlehem Judah being openly Man of the Virgin his Mother and secretly God of God his Father Christ Jesus the substance of Israel and the son of David God's Son of God taking on our Man without wasting Godhead ordained Faith to be a pass for man to God by his mean that was both God and Man IV. ARTICLE God's will is not that any man should perish Wherefore that dying mankind he might cherish His Son the Lord of all hath given Order The Gospel should be preached in each Border to ev'ry Creature and to every Nation To wit that God holds forth Non-imputation Of sins so that men shall not die because Christ dy'd not for them but because his Laws And Word which calls for Faith in his rich Death Men do reject and so themselves bequeath To Infidelity Hence it is clear That to all men at sometime doth appear So much of Grace as if they rightly mind it It holds forth Life to them that they find it The test of Antiquity God would have all men to be saved but if they come to him he so would it not as that he would save them against their will Christ in mercy was born for all but the unfaithfulness of Hereticks is the câ—use that he that was born to all is not born for all In respect of the greatness of the price the Blood of Christ is the Redemption of the whole World V. ARTICLE Concerning those whom Christ appoints for such As are the Pastors of the Gospel-Church I do believe that they must first be added Unto the Church as were those who were gladded With Peters words and growing in their stations In gtacious gifts and good qualifications And throughly tryed by their exereising Their gifts the holy Scripture so advising Such men the Church may chuse them ordain To minister as Pastors in Christ's Name By laying on of hands with holy prayers Assigning them to their respective cares To gather Churches or to feed and guide them But as for such who for a while abide them In humane Schools only to be instructed In humane Arts and so to be inducted Without Repentance and Baptism succeeding With growth in Grace unto a Parish feediâ—n Or rather to feed on their large Revenue Than to gain souls to Truth there to continue Such I do say no Teachers ought to be But should be taught the Christian A. B. C. The rest of Antiquity Eusebius all edging the Epistle of Alexander Bp of Jernsalem against Demetrius saith Thou saist it was never seen that the lay and secular people should dispute of the Faith in the presence of the Bishops I marvel what moved thee to affirm a Lie so evident inasmuch that as often as there is found any man that is sufficient and apt to give good counsel and to instruct the people the Bishops have accustomed to desire him to do it as the Bishop of Mâ—oâ— did Enelpius c. And there is no doubt but that the other Bishops may do the like in their Diocesses when they find any one which is a man fit to profit the people Ye drive them from God's Word and will let no man come thereto till he have been two years Master of Arts. First you nurse them up in Sophistry and in bene fundantum and there corrupt their judgments then they begin not at the Scripture but each one chuseth himself a Doctor severally c. VI. ARTICLE Touching the way of man's Justification Before the Lord in order to Salvation I say it is by Faith in Christ our Lord That is with heart believing that sweet word Which shews to man in Christ there is remission Of sins for all through faith through contrition For which great cause Christ worthily bespeaketh Their chief affections and their fouls so breaketh Wholly to yeeld to Christs most just Commands And to deny all Self which Christ withstands And eke with godly sorrow do commit Themselves to Christ's Grace to depend on it Such like believing men are justifi'd Their Faith will Righteousness be found when try'd The test of Antiquity The Medicine of the Soul is the only propitiation for the sins of all that is to believe in Christ How virtuous soever the antient righteous persons have been they were not saved but by Faith It is manifest that such as have Faith in Christ shall not be saved unless they have the Life of Faith VII ARTICLE There is but only one most holy Spirit Which God doth give such richly to inherit As do obey his Voice that they thereby May have the Grace themselves to mortify And be enabled in the Truth to stand Immovably thout which no mortal hand Can do the work of God and that we may Honour the Father and the Son each day Who is the Author and the Consummator Of all our Faith And John that Revelator Doth say this Father Son and holy Spirit Are One and so the Name of God they merit The fruits which follow this great gifts reception Is growth in ev'ry grace and sins rejection Wherefore we say these have it not received Who are of Love that Spirit fruit bereaved Or destitute so as they such deny A quiet life that would live peaceably The test of Antiquity That Spirit being the Fathers and the Sons is properly in Scripture called the Holy Spirit It is neither Father nor Son but personally distinct from both and this Trinity is one God Behold the sign and token whereby ye shall know those that are of God from the evil and wicked Those are the wicked which do kill and lead into captivity the which all those that are of God have not done nor do O Lord God these are the chiefest and first that persecuted thee whom men see to love the highest seats and rooms in thy Church and which bear the greatest rule They have taken the Ark of Zion they have occupied and used the Castle and have afterward frankly and by power set all the City on fire Their conversation is miserable The subversion of thy People is pitiful Now holy Orders are given for occasion of most
impos'd upon us The test of Antiquity Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers He that enjoyneth this to every soul whom hath he exempted from subjection to Earthly Powers I may not demand or ask these things but of him of whom I know I shall obtain them I am his Servant and am killed for his Doctrine And do offer the best and greatest Sacrifice which he hath commanded Trajan the Emperor did send to Pliny to make enquiry of the manner of the Christians Life and afterwards to persecute them them Pliny writ again That after he had throughly enquired with most cruel torments until such time as he delivered them into the Hangmans hand to see them executed yet he never did find any other thing but that they accustomed to assemble at certain times to sing praises unto Christ as unto God Thus have I of my Faith confession made To which the test of th' Antients I did add Not that I think there 's any such like plea Drawn from Antiquity which more doth weigh Than doth the Holy Text which I have brought In proof of every point nor is there ought So truly Antient as their divine sayings But sith some tell us tales to your dismayings As though there 's nothing in Antiquity Which standeth with that Antient Verity Which now I hold I for this cause have brought These Witnesses to shew that whilst thou thought Antiquity was on thy side thou dost In very deed of empty nothings boast For sith I can from thine own Allegations Out of the Fathers bring such clear quotations For what I hold then doubtless I might shew Yet many moe and them both full and true For what I hold and had I th' skill which thou Hast in the Antients writings might them show And herein I could wish that men of parts Who love the Truth might so improve their Arts. Cathederal As touching this thy tedious Confession To speak to ev'ry point would be oppression Unto my patience Then wait my pleasure For I to answer it must take some leisure But I remember thou didst me detect As one inconstant But that 's thy defect Jayle Sith to thy charge I laid Inconstancy I 'le make 't appear For when the Papacy Possession took of the Commanding Pow'r Thou then turn'd Papist as 't was in an hour When Protestants got head thou didst the same When Neuter N O L thou promptly bore his frame Cathederal Why must we not subject unto the Pow'rs We are not their Commanders they are ours So that if they command we must obey Tho Pa. Prel Pres or a compounded way The Mass-book Comon-Pray'r-book or else neither If so the King command I 'le observe either Jayle God's Worship never stood on such a pin To turn with Man's breath either out or in God's Faithful Ones in this case did withstand The things that mighty Kings did oft command And yet as Kings they ever them obeyed And for their peace and good devoutly prayed Cathederal This point with others hath been controverted What I hold and what thou holdst is asserted We will therefore appeal to him for tryal Who doth no falshood own nor give denial To any Truth And now for a Conclusion I do conjure thee pray against Delusion Jayle That is my pray'r but I 'le not pray with thee Till in the Truth we shall united be Which we may be if we our selves deny And learn of God in due humility Which when thou dost in Truth 't is in my mind Not here but in the Jayl I shall thee find Cathederal What! is the Jayl and Truth so near united This dreadful doctrine will make men affrighted And few will find the Truth for if 't be so There 's few to seek the Truth to Jayl will go Now fare thee wel keep that place as thy treasure And I 'le keep this and here enjoy my pleasure Jayle Adiâ—u Cathederal go take thy fill Of Organ-Musick And sith 't is God's will I 'le back to that unpleasant Cell of mine Where some Truth 's known which else would never shine In its bright splendor Also there our God Doth shew himself a Father by his Rod. CHAP. VII The Arg. The Jayl doth soberly reflect upon the Conference And several things to that effect having some reference MY Muse thou' rt now return'd into the Jayl And canst not with the Minster yet prevail To bow her ear to Truth that it might win Her to the Antient Truth and from Romes Sin Now sith in this place of disconsolation None can deprive thy heart of meditation Let us reflect upon what sights wâ— have seen In yonder Minster who as some great Queen Doth seem to sit in joy in pomp and pleasure With wealth mirth other such like treasure But yet in this Reflection let us give Precedency to Christ's Church which doth live This day in Jaylâ— in holes and dens of Thieves VVhose life though such yet there is nought that grieves A sinful Generation more than that Her being here 's not wholly extirpate Lord I have viewed thy most holy House Thy Church as it at first erected was And with the beauty thereof I was moved There to sit down as th' place I chiefly loved In which Church I have seen my Saviour sweet Rise up and wash his poor Disciples feet There have I seen such as do minister Deny themselves of all things sinister There were thy Servants clâ—d like other men Their Instruments of Musick were not Tin There have I seen thy Servants generally Perform their Duty all in Charity There have I seen thy Spirit giving Graces Whereby each one were fitted for their places There have I seen those Graces exercised And none for doing so have been despised Nor persecuted But each one required To seek with choicest gifts to be inspired There did I see a holy Discipline The exercise whereof made Zion shine And many other precious things I saw In point of observation of God's Law And having heard the Minster laid great claim Unto thy Churches Interest and Name And yet by her most earnest procuration Some men she did surprize by captivation And lock't them up within my gates because They would not cease to keep thy Antient Laws At this I marvelled and therefore went To see what her pretence and practice meant For I suspected deeply by these doings Her feet were stray'd from Zions Antient goings Because from those men I could nothing gather That shew'd them guilty of what she would father On them to wit that they were Peace-disturbers Wheras in truth 't was cause they were Vicecurbers Which caus'd them to be shut within my barrs Under pretence of Law turn'd into snares Now when I came into the Minster walking I veiwed certain men which there were talking Gallants of all sorts they appear'd to be And seem'd to live in mirth and melodie On my right-hand there ' spide I a Convention From whence proceeded very hot contention For Money-matters
Then I went to th' Quire Where I saw many men in black attire These took a little room one after other And hereupon I did a little hover To see the period of that Conventicle Or-Private Meeting staying there a little I saw their black all covered with white And some so drest they did me somewhat fright For they had things upon them of the shape Of black Sheep-skins which hung down as the cape Of Cloaks save that they reached to their hamâ— Where hung a black tail like unto a Rams Some others had long shreds of black upon them Like Hanging-sleeves which hung down al along With cov'red Caps such as I never saw them ' Mongst men that feared God kept his Law And some had red clothes girt about their shoulders Which seemed very strange to some beholders And chiefly for because the Protestants So frequently against the Pope descants With merry songs because of such like dressings As th' Papists use when they go to Mass-blessings Yet thus array'd themselvs did now address them Into the Quire pray'd the Lord to bless them And by and by I heard some Pipes resounding Unto the Singers Voicâ—s quite confounding At which indeed I stood as 't were amazed And on these roaring Instruments I gazed As also on the Quire of Singing-Boyes Until my head was ' stonish'd with the noise For little else in truth could I retain And so I thought to tarry there 't was vain Lord this I speak to thee as not but knowing How they behave themselvs but whilst thus showing Their strange deportments I do oft propose Vnto my self such Questions as those What if our Lord should come and view these men And hear their Musick and demand of them Who 't was commanded them thus to be drest And use those Pipes when they came to be blest What Answer could they make This I must say Were my case theirs I 'd blush and run away If that be true which some men do conjecture That John yet lives and should come to their Lecture Could John suppose this Church was of his founding Or would he close with th' Pipes mellodious sounding Or bear a part i' th' Song which these men sing Or would he not as one amazed fling Out of their Quire Doubtless all wise men think The last most likely except those that wink At that clear Light which John hath set before him In Christs behalf how men ought to adore him Imagine Peter should among them stand In 's Fishers coat and there but take in hand A Text to open would not such a sight Put these brave Gallants to a ghastly fright But were this Generation truly lighted They would see much more cause to be affrighted At those who love to walk in Garments long As did the Pharisees which us'd to wrong The People of God's Word and took the Key Of Knowledg quite away lest men should weigh And ponder their Devices and Traditions And so discern their peccant Superstitions Admit a pious Christian should come In Shepherds russit-garb into their Room And having of the Fathers free Donation Receiv'd a proper gift of Exhortation Would not these Queristers strait thrust him thence Should he his Gift but offer to dispense And for his Coat-sake Truth would be dispised A trick by Satan heretofore devised Lord see to what a pass poor mans inventions Hath brought us sith they serve but for preventious To us from exercising of our Talents Unless we be array'd like these brave Gallants Lord at this door of man's Imaginations Hath crept in many great Prevarications Under the specious name of Decency And honouring of thy Name more reverently But these pretences those ill fruits have born Mens wayes have got th' applause and thine the scorn It is so at this day O Lord behold it For men are grown too lofty to be told it Though they the bitter fruits thereof do feel And must feel more and more until they reel Into the ditch For this Lord thou hast said Shall be the end of such as void have made Thy holy Word that they their own Tradition May here observe though unto their perdition Unless it please thee by thy Gospel-sentence To call them timely unto true Repentance FINIS * ×’ ב × Î±. β. γ. Aug. De Civ Dei lib. 18. cap. 43 44. 2 Cor. 3. First Argum. from Antiquity See the London Apology Printed in the Year 1648. Featly against Fisher Mat. 3. See the Vulgar Catechisme in the Common-Prayer-Book * Viz. A Sucking-Child Acts 10. 36 37. Rev. 3. 17 2. Cor. 5. 19 20. Rev. 18. 3 Jâ—h 3. 8. Certam Relig. Bell. de Bapt. S. N. Antidote T. B. End to Controv. Mat 28. 19. Acts 16. Act. 2. 38 39. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Acts 16. 14 15 32 23 34 40. 1 Reason 2 Reason Tertul. chap. 39. Augustin Vives Grotius judgment on points controv p. 91. See Den contra Marshal See a book called a wel grounded Treatise of Bapt. August Contess Isa 29. 15 1 Cor. 1. 29 26 27 28. a Jerom in Mar 28 b Justin Mart. in Orat. ad Autho. pium c Athâ—n Serm 3. contra Arian d Haim in Mat 28 e Rab. decret f Beda in Act. 19 g Strig in Act. 8. h Euseb Eccles hist l. 6. i Basil l. 3. cont Eunomi k Aug. ad Salcot l Cyp. Epist ad Magnus Fab. 5th part fâ—l 107. Fox Acts Mon. See vulg Catechise in Com. pâ—ayer-book 1 Pet. 1. 5. 2 Cor 4. 5 1 Cor. 8. 6 Isa 40. 28 Athanasin Symb. Aug. de Civitar Dei chap 11. and chap. 24. Gen. 1. 31 Eccles 7. 29. Gen. 2. 27 3. 17 18 19. Aug cont Advers l. 1. c. 16. Ambros in 1 Cor 15. 22. Luke 20. 24. Rev. 22. 16. 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. Heb 2. 9. 1 Joh. 2. 2. Aug. de Civitat Dei l. 18. c. 46. lib. 1â— cap. 11. lib. 11. c. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 4 Mark 16. 25. 2. Pet. 2. 1. Joh. 3. 18 3. 17. 1. 7. Act. 17. 30 1 Joh. 5. 10. Heb. 3. 10 18 19. Ambr. in 1 Tim. 2. Ambr. l. 3 de Fide cap. 4. â—ug tom 7. Artic. falso Act. If. 22 23 24. Acts 11. 19 20. 13 2 3 1. 23. 1 Cor. 1. 19 21. 1 Cor. 2. 1 4 5. Rom. 2. 21. Eusâ—◠〈◊〉 l. c. 11. Eccius Book of Obead fol. 19. Rom. 5. 1 2 Cor. 5. 15. Rom 4. 22 23 24 Rom. 3. 25 26. Aug. in verb Dom serm 40. Aug. lib. cont Felag c. 21. Greg. l. 6 ep 15. Eph. 4. 4. Act 5. 31. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Gal 5. 22. 23. Aug. de Civ Dei l. 11. c. 10 Rupert in Apoc. c. 13. Bernard serm conver Paul Joh. 3. 16. Eph. 1 4. 2 Thess 2. 13. Rom 9. 11 Psal 4. 3. Amb. in Tit. 3. Jerom apol ad Ruffin August Jude 4. 2 Thess 2 10 11 12. Rom. 2. 9 10 11. Amb. l. 2. de vocat Gent. c. 1. c. 2. Aug 1 Cor. 15. 22. Mat. 19. 14. Aug cont ad vers Aug. Mat. 28. 19 20. Mark 16. 16. Acts 2. 38 Acts 8. 12 18. 12. Gal. 4. 22 23 24. Matth. 3. 8 9. Eph. 5. 11 Jerom in Mat. 28. Council of Worms chap. 5. Wilfrid Strabo de rebus Eccles c. 26 Heb. 6. 1 2. Acts 8. 12 5 17. Acts 19 6. 2 Tim 1 6 Rom. 8. 13. Jerom ad Lucif Aug de Bapt. l. 3. c. 16. Eras paraph on Heb. 6. 1 2. Act. 2. 42. Hillary contra Auxent Tertull. Apol. c. 29 Heb. 12. 14 Isa 1. 11 12 15 16 Aug. de Civ Dei l. 21. c. 25 Prosp in l. de sent Act. 14. 23 Ezek. 34. 2 3. 2 Cor. 12 14. Ezek. 34. Hieronâ— ep ad Evag Con. Carthageneâ—s can 22. Con. Cahil c. 6. Con. Carthag can 51 53. 1 Cor. 9. 17. ver 11. Gâ—l 6. 6. Aug. in Psal 13. Bâ—rnard Tit. 3. 10 11. 2 Thess 3. 6. Rom. 16. 17. Decret Greg. 5. tit 39. cap. 59. Aug de Bapt. l. 3. c. 13. Joh. 15. 1 2 3 4. 5 1 Tim 1. 5 6 7. John 15. 6. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. Aug. de corep gra c. 13. Bernard ep 42. â— Cor. 9. 7 1 Cor. 8. 11 12. Acts 6. 1 2 3 4 5. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. 1 Pet. 3. 3 Job 31. 14 Iâ—noc 3. dec Greg l 1. c. 14. Lactant. Fiâ—mian Aug. ep c 6. con cabil c. 6 Isa 26. 19 Act. 24. 15 1 Cor. 15. 21 22 42 43 44 49 Aug. de Civ Dei l. 22. c. 21. 2 Tim. 4. 1 Heb. 7. 27. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Aug. de Civ Dei lib. 20. c. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21. Aug. de Civ Dei l. 21. c. 2. Acts 1. 3. Luke 24. 51. Acts 1. 9 10 11. Col. 3. 4. Reâ— 19. 16. Psal 22. 28. Zech. 14. 9. Psa 72. 4 Rev. 5. 10 13. 15. 1 Cor. 3. 22 23. Dan. 7. 27 Rev. 2. 26 27. Lâ—dovic Vives coment on Aug. de civit Dei l. 20. c. 7. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. Joh. 20. 31 Isa 8. 20. Jerome Tom 6 in Jer. c. 9. Amb. de incarnat c. 9. Aug. in Psal 6â— Mat. 7. 12 13. 29 30 38 39 Hill cont Auxent Chrisost Hom. 47. in Mat. 13. August ep 58. Lactant. Firmian Divin Instit lib. 5. cap. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 14. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 13. Act. 5. 29. Lâ—odens Ep cont Paschal 2 Tertull. Apol. c. 30 Plin. lib. 10 ep 317 1. 2. 3. 4.