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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Paschal lamb was slaine Rahabs howse out of which places whosoever were found when the LOrd came to iudgment loe without all mercie they perished as straungers to the common wealth of Israel And this is it the Spirit teacheth in those words Not for saking the fellowship that we haue among our selues as the maner of som is but let vs exhort●… one another that somuch the more because we se the day draweth nere for if we syn voluntarily vnderstanding the former doble syn spoken of after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more Sacrifice for synnes but a fearfull expectation of iudgment violent fyre which shall devoure the aduersarie The collection of the whole is this Those that once haue bene illuminate and tasted of God his good word so far as they haue bene interessed with the ground and principles of the Gospell therewithall enioying fellowship with Noah and his few sowles in the Arke notwithstāding som vncleane creatures within if now they voluntarily reiect the word of Noah they once beleiued and so willinglie leap out of the churches bosom it is impossible to vs ward but they drowne vnable to be recouered by our prayers or theyr vnseasonable repentance Yea only we can expect the convayance of such soules to be pent till last iudgment in the prison infernall where now the sowles are who mocked Christ his spirit preaching of old in Noah for 120. y. togither Blessed Iohn hauinge taught that Christ Iesus is our sole reconciliation that the same death effecteth in vs loue towards God and our brother anone he teacheth that we haue assurāce of synnes remissiō in our sowles and in our brethren by being stirred vp by his spirit to pray in faith called parrhesia a trust leaning on a promise but therewithall he intimates a certaine kynd of syn for the which a brother hath no promise to pray There is a syn to death I say not that he shold ask forgivenes for that And what is this but what is taught to the Hebrues There remaineth no sacrifice for such Prayers supplications intercessions we are commaunded to offer vp for all sorts of people for that Dauid foresawe to be ghospels sacrifice and thus saith A glorious auntient of the Ghospell supplications thanksgiuings are the sole perfect sacrifices pleasing God that Christian hearts haue learned only to offer them but for those that syn this syn to death I say not saith Iohn thow art to pray for that Som haue taught this syn to be finall desperatiō thē Iohns speach might implie prayer for a penitent person dead but no prayer for him we se to dy impenitent and this Rome liketh well Others graunt the syn seable in this life and so both the former scriptures imply and hereof two iudgments the better sort adde vnto all is said vnto the Hebrues a willing malitious persecuting the knovven truth because it is the truth This I can hardlie beleiue to be in anie but the deuell himself But if it can be I say it doth not simplie cause this syn to be but more to be for such a syn we shall not be able to proue in manie ages whereas the holy writ affirmeth that in the latter days begon in thapostles tyme manie shold depart from the faith hauing seared consciences teaching doctrines of deuels with Iannes and Iambres ordeyned of old to destruction etc. and therefore this syn no such Rar'auis black swā as manie haue made it thorough too much pitie which hath brought with it much detriment vnto the lords city The worser sort the Brownists though I knoe not that he was euer so stupid hath babled that euerie syn which brought the body vnder Death by Moses his lawe that is this syn Iohn speaketh of A collection of bloody crueltie rather beseming Bull the hang-man then anie that wold be demed disciples to Iesus But such was the old condemned heresie of Nouarianus Our sauiours practise with the woman taken in the act of adulterie it argued another spirit and so did the censure of excommunication practised by Corinth against the incestuous fornicator which being for humbling the flesh therefore before not humbled and recouering the spirit yet steeping vnder the ashes of senslesnes must needs togither with the pronunciation admit prayer for him as for a brother not vtterlie but almost gone in a spirituall trance But because they wold scorne to be thought to learne anie thing of Clapham though secretlie somtimes the greatest of them are forced to leane towards me let them learne of S. Paul two excommunications the first whereof 1 Cor. 5 existing for a season viz Till the flesh be humbled the second enduring to death chap. 16. 22. called in Syriak phrase Maran-atha in English The Lord commeth And this is of like value with the Hebrues Cherem or creature accursed Iosh. 7. 11. 13. And this is the syn the Author to the hebrues teacheth as also Iohn terming it a syn to death because excommunicate to the narall death for whome he will not say pray for whome to the hebrues the church cannot sacrifice for whome S. Paul appointeeth the denunciation The Lord commeth whereto S. Iude borowinge Henorhs prophetie addeth Behold the Lord commeth to iudgment because such synners are euer to heare of Iudgment no more of the Ghospell which they willinglie haue torne vp by the rootes and despitefullie reiected And so and no otherwise I thinke those scriptures can of vs be reconciled When thapostle speaketh of an Heretike gone from the truth For of an Heretike neuer possessed therewith he cānot speake he cōmaundeth vs to Reiect him after ōce or tvvise admonition adding a reason Knovving that he that is such is turned ouer sinneth on autokatakritos being damned of him self Will an Heretike tell vs he damnes himself Noe how thē do we knoe he is damned of himself no otherwise but because he is obstinate in som principle cōtrarie to that of the Gospell he once beleiued So in this generall willinge apostacie from the rudiments of Christ such will not vpon our dealing with them acknowledge they syn against Conscience nor do I thinke theyr Conscience in the present state doth euer condemne them but comparinge it with the former waking estate this present state is accompted condemned yea for euer to be dispared of nor maruell we that such as from heart and mouth voluntarily vomited vp faith and fellowship they shold be vnto vs a people dispaired of more then an arme or legge of the bodie droppinge downe rotten rype of itself is depriued of all physik as Ministringe no hope of recouerie And therefor this syn not committed of Peter nor yet of Frances Spiera Lawyer of Citadella For howsoever with the mouth thorough feare of man they denyed Christ and true faith yet the heart neuer gaue consent fully to the mouth much lesse did they voluntarily shake of both faith