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A description of new Jerushalem being the substaunce of two sermons deliuered at Paules Crosse. Containing, a briefe discouery and conuiction of certayne doctrines held of Romanists and Brownists against the Catholike and Apostolike faith. / By Henoch Clapham..
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Clapham, Henoch.
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his eldest sonne finishing this mans seed in Iehoiachin from the front of whose name Iehouah remoueth Compare 2. King 24.6 with Ier. 22.24.28 c. according to Greek for me Ieconias in Math. 1.11 Iah as a signet from his finger terming him Coniah pulling heerewith Nathan the other sonne of Dauid his family into the line by adoption beginning with Salathiel and so to Zerubbabel and then downe by his eldest sonne Abiud vnto Christ S. Luke beginning with Ioseph the supposed father of Iesus hee steppeth vpwarde to Zerubbabel by the line of his second sonne Rhesa and so from him directly vpward to Dauid not by Solomons house which ended with the captiuitie but by Nathans line the line of adoption This paines haue the two Euangelists taken for manifesting the church her visibilitie from the beginning of the worlde vnto Messiahs comming The Typicall church so ouerturneth our aduersaries doctrine for that was alwayes visible Secondly they alleadge certaine scriptures against the new churches visibilitie the seeming strongest whereof be these first Reuelat. 12. where by the woman they truely vnderstand the church whereof the virgin Mary was an arch-member and from her lodging in the wildernesse for a time two times and halfe a time they vnderstand some long time wherein the church should be hid from the sight of al be inuisible I answer scripture must be expounded from scripture not by vnreasonable fancies for where haue they any one scripture which By being in the wildernesse doth vnderstand Inuisibilitie Rather lette them vnderstand that the holy-ghost puttes vs hereby in mind of the anciēt church of Israel fed in the wildernesse and as Moses sayth Exod. 19.4 Deut. 32.11 carried as vpon the wings of an Eagle a figure of the worlds state through which the Church heere is to passe in her pilgrimage spirituall Now who will say that Israel was inuisible in the wildernesse Or that they could be considered but onely according to secret Election The flat contrary followeth Such ill happe haue these men in their allegation of scripture Another scripture is that before alleadged in Reu. 6. whence they would conclude an apostacie of the whole church I answer again scripture must expound scripture Compare this wyth Isaiahs prophecie chapt 24. last verse as also with 34. chap and 4. verse with other like places and it onely implyeth a darke desolation of all church beauty and orderly constitution whereby God testifieth his anger against rich and poore one an other The Moone therefore is seene coloured like blood whereby each meaneth a general persecution and blodshed in the church which cannot be if the church were inuisible And to this purpose marke howe in the twelfth chapter when the red dragon assayled the Church wyth all his might hee yet drewe downe but a third parte of the stars some were reserued to shine in the Church God euer in that reuelation shewing mercy to a remnant whē otherwise the viols of his wrath were powred out vpon the malignant multitude This theyr winde shaketh therfore no hauer Another scripture is Reu. 13. where say they all do take the beasts mark T is vntrue for the holy-ghost thus sayth All that dwell vppon the earth shall worshippe him marke the exception whose names are not written in the Booke of the life of the Lambe c. And because such there shall be he afterwardes concludeth Here is the patience of the Saynts So that Saints there shall be who wyth patience shall conquere And that is more plainely declared in the 11. chapter where all the tyrannous raigne of the beast choose whether that beast be the body of cruell Emperours or the sonne of perdition GOD also hath his Prophetes by whose ministerie the oyle of God his sauing grace is conueyed vnto his people Thus these men talke no men so much of the booke of Reuelation before any one of the Seales be vnclasped vnto them They should now at last learne to meddle lesse with this booke seeing the holy ghost leaueth so fearfull a curse vpon these that adde their owne idle fancies therto Reu. 22.19 An other scripture they alleage namely 2. Thess 2. whence they affirme the Churches whole departure from the Faith I answere First the auncient writers did ordinarily vnderstand Ierom ad Algasiam Tertull. de resurrect ca. 24. August de ciuitat l. 20. it of a generall Reuolt from Romes Empire which then had ruledome ouer the Nations of the earth And that indeed is verie plainly fore-told by S. Iohn in Reuel 17.16 Later writers in respect of some after circumstances do take it to be an Apostacie generall from Faith but none that stinke not of heresie do from thence conclude a flat Nullitie of the Church A generall desolation there should be as before in the Reuel but not a falling away in euery particular member For this is an absurd forme of argumentation Many or the most shall fall away therefore euery one shall fall away The man of sin with his army abhominable should enter into this new Citie and Temple of God yea rather rise vp in the midst thereof sowing his perfidious doctrine and planting his Idolatrous bottomles pit-inuentions but yet neuer essentially subdue those soules vnto him whose names were written in the Lambs booke Spot them he might with many superstitions but neuer subuert them in the Substance of their Faith and Obedience as In my Antid as also in my Visible Christian els where I haue in writing plainlie euinced If during Antichrists raigne there should be no visible people of God then Antichrist should be no more Antichrist seeing Christ had none in opposition against him Anti-christ must euer haue some to warre against and there must euer be some to wage battaile against Antichrist Otherwise fire would drop from Heauen and the world thereupon be presently consumed seeing there were none in the earth who had the word of Couenant in their mouths Such Nouices are ignorant of the promise sealed by the Father vnto Messiah the Churches Redeemer Isa 59.21 My spirit saith he that is vpon thee and my words which I haue put in thy mouth shal not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of thy seedes-seed saith Iehouah from henceforth euen for EVER And to this purpose when the sacred Reu. 7.1 c. winds of God breathed by the foure Euangelists were to be held back in an vnknowen tongue the Lord taketh order for many Iewes and moe Gentiles that they should notwithstanding carie not onely in their heart but also in their foreheads the visible marke of true Christianitie Bulling part 2. in annot tabulae 5. Bullinger in his Epitome of times hauing spoken of the most accursed times wherein Pharises Saduces Esseni crept into the Iewish Church he addeth Interim non dubium est c. Meane time it is not to be doubted that true doctrine continued vncorrupted amongst the litle remnant
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kelohim Vnto this City and people appertaine the priuileges of grace in this life the exhibition of glory in the other life In a word al the things of God are for these people called to be As gods for in his presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at his right hand are pleasures for euermore Psal 16.11 Much contention about our Lordes yeere 666 was betweene Rome and Constantinople for supremacie vniuersall Rome woulde bee chiefe because it had beene the antient seate of the Emperours Constantinoples Bishop woulde haue it because Constantine the first christian Emperour hadde of Bizantium made it Constantino-polis and so inuested it with his owne name making it also an emperors seate Marke that neither of them could alleadge then any Donation from Constantine If there had beene then such a Donation as now they tell vs of howe greatly would it haue helped Romes plea But as neuer of these Auntients it is once mentioned viz. Eusebius Entropius Ruffinus Socrates Theodoret Euagrius Paulus Diaconus Beda Orosius Zonaras Nicephorus Nor of Ierome Damasus Athanasius Basil Ambrose Optatus Mileuitanus Gregorius Nissenus Gregorius Nazianzenus Augustine Chrysostome nor of the Romaine Bishoppes in the Councells which then had beene of much moment so * See Auentinus lib 2 de rebus Boiorum Pius secundus Pope a man very expert in Antiquities he laughed this toy to scorne accounting it fabulam inanem a vayne fable * Naucl. in generat 11 suae cronograph Nauclerus fathers it on Isidore but in his antient Books no such thing found And no sooner start vp this Fict-donation but the lerned opposed This did Marsilius Patauinus in his Defender of Peace So dooth Laurentius Valla in his Declamation So didde Antoninus Archiepiscopus Florentinus 1. Part. tit 8. c. 2. §. 8. in his historie So doth cardinall Cusanus in his Catholike Concordance l. 3. c. 2. sent vnto Basils Councell So doth Aeneas Siluius afterwards Pope in his dialog So doth Raphael Volateran in the life of Constantine Hierony Paulus Cattalanus doctor of both laws and chamberlaine to Pope Alexander the sixt in his booke entituled Practica cancellariae Apostolicae Vltrich Hutten writing to Pope Leo the tenth vppon Valla his booke hee saieth plainly that the Donation was forged per pseudopontifices Orientis by the Easterne false-popes not to speake of Luther and others But to finish that point what time Bizantiums Bishop begunne to labour for such vniuersall headship Gregorius Magnus bishop of Rome he that in humiliation first tooke the title Seruus seruorum he is bolde hereupon to * Li. 4 c. 34. write thus Ego fidenter dico c. I constantly affirm whosoeuer calles himselfe vniuersall priest or desires so to be called in that his puft vp estate hee fore-runneth Antichrist and in his 39. Epistle hee tearmeth it Nomen blasphemiae a title of blasphemie which title soone after Gregories time was by bloudy Phocas giuen to the Pope of the seauen hilled citty And thus where on Rome before was written Roma aeterna censured by Hieron in epist ad Algasiam Ierome for a name of blasphemy nowe by their owne Popes censure that Citties Arch-priest hath to himselfe assumed no better Thus their clay yron will not be ioyned together no baulme will cure this Babel But wil the faythfull know what Citty is Eterne That is this new Ierusalem the City of the Saints Hellish power may oppresse it but neuer suppresse it Wilt thou knowe what City is supreame That is this Ierushalem from Heauen heauenly Wilt thou know to what Bishop al supremacie vniuersall is due That is to Christ Iesus who himselfe is Iehouah and hath obtayned a name aboue all Names and he is the head of the Churches bodie Coloss 1.18 he is the beginning and first borne of the dead that in ALL THINGS he might haue the preeminence And this vniuersall supremacie was figured darkly vnder the Hie-priest of Ierushalems Temple who had such dignitie ouer that shadowing Church as none but he might enter the most holy place only to him in the last place were difficult matters brought for decision and by his death were such set free as before for vnawares bloodshed had taken sanctuarie All which beeing shadowes of good things to come the bodie whereof was Christ Heb. 10.1 and 9.11.12 Coloss 2.17 now we are to consider al anew as beseemeth that which is substantiall not ceremoniall Thus the Citie and the Citizens are the same and Iehouah is There one with the same though not the same In this Citie he dwels gouerning the Citizens subduing all their senses all their affections the whole man to himselfe And round about this Citie he causeth his Angels to pitch their tentes of defence Nay which more is Ps 125.2 Zech. 2.5 as the mountaines were round about the typicall Ierushalem so is Iehouah himselfe as a consuming fire round about his people henceforth and for euer To the Citizens a comfort but to their aduersaries a terrour For the Aduersaries they must know that they band not themselues only against Man but against armies of Angels yea against the God of hostes himselfe for Iehouah is There He that toucheth these Citizens he toucheth the apple of his eye he dasheth himselfe against a wall of consuming fire Reuel â—0 â— 7 8.9 Against this Citie doth Gog the cloked aduersarie and Magog the Open enemie together with their innumerable army convene in One but after they haue compassed the tents of the Saints and the beloued Citie round about behold fire shall come downe from heauen and deuoure them It is no bourding with Saints Against God his Citie in her Maiesties dominions how haue couered and vn-couered enemies risen vp at home abroad by land and by Sea but what was their end The Egyptian Pharaoh of Spaine his Chariot-armadoes slunke into the Seas channels the windes of God fought against them and dashed their huge rigged fleete asunder I allude to Iudg. 5.28 c. Rome the mother of Spaines Sisera she looked out at a window and cried thorough the lattise why is the Chariot so long a comming why tarrie the wheeles of his chariots Romes wise Ladies answered her yea she answered her selfe with her owne wordes thus haue they not gotten and they deuide the spoil the Crowne Earledomes and Church reuenewes of England Euery man hath a mayde or two Sisera hath a pray of diuers colours a pray of sundry colors made of needle worke of diuers colors of needle work on both sides for the chiefe of the spoile But sorrie fooles through God his goodnes a woman a Virgin Queene she triumphed ouer Sisera For domestick aduersaries who haue banded together I allude to 1. King 1. for annointing Adonijah but poore soules they haue consumed themselues as wax before the Sunne Deborahs prayer in Iudg. 5.31 So let all thine enemies perish ô Lord but they that loue him shall be as the