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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

and fellowship With the heart man beleiueth vnto Righteousnes vvith the mouth man confesseth vnto saluation After the heart hath once retained the sauing foundation of faith and the mouth hath once by confession thereof brought the bodie vnder the standerd of the Church marching there in equipage with yon ge and olde of the saued of the Gentiles what one reason have we to expect Re-repentance of such Re-regeneration of such after once they voluntarilie haue cast and cashierd themselues from the faith and fellowship of Iesus A man may liue lacking an arme or legge or hande but let him loose his head or heart lyfe is gone and no more so good as a mayined man Iude therefore denominates such Trees tvvise dead once before theyr spirituall birth then now by a willinge break-neck downefall twofold from faith and fellowship wherein they had bene planted yea he calls them trees pulled vp by the rootes accordinge to that of our sauiour Euery plant my heauenly father hath not planted it shalbe pulled vp by the rootes as if thereby we shold thinke at least feare that they are not destinate to a lyfe-plot in the vyne Iesus but so shred of from head ād body they are to expect in the next place to be burned ●…n fyre hauing the ernest thereof before hand seated 〈◊〉 And such was Alexander the Coppersmith his syn it semeth it was he who by Paul reiected in the first ep to Timothi against him in the second ep he thus imprecates The Lord revvard him according to his vvorks After which sort Ieremie imprecateth ch 18. 21. and so doth Dauid diuerse tymes Vnder the Maran-atha the heretick Cerinthus it semeth lay an therefore S. Iohn comming into the Bath where he found him he retired saying Let vs avvay least the Bath tumble dovvne So it is said he retired also vnbathed fyndinge Hebion in the Bath In like state it semeth Marcion stood who metinge Polycarpus the Angel of 〈◊〉 and sayinge Acknovvledg thovv vs vnto him the holy Pastor replies I acknovvledg I knoe the for the first begotten of Satan But what need more testimonie that such are to be imprecated against rather then precated for when we see Peter vpon euidence of Simon Magus his euell imprecate thus Thy mony perish vvith the which in english valueth Thovv thy mony goe togither into destruction Obiection He saw him eternally reprobate Ansvver Tis false for he willeth Simon to pray for himself wold not if so it vvere possible that the thought of his heart might be forgiuen But Simon desiringe the Apostles to pray for him the ho. Gh. shutteth vp the hystorie without one tittle sounding they did so Yea the ecclesiasticall histories do mention that vpon Simons persistance in euell attempting afterwards in 〈◊〉 to flie from the Capitol Peter shold fall downe and imprecate against the seducer vntill he fell downe and broke his neck What shold I say doth not our sauiour say of such that not the old v●…rleane spirit alone but accompanied with 7. worse he reenters such and therefore vtterly vnlike to be againe dispossessed I conclude therefore that Such as giue theyr fre-vvill to Satan for being torne vp from the foundation of Christian faith fellovvship therein they commit that fearfull horible syn against the ho Gh. Heb. 6. and 10. Hearken to the rest Assumption But all such of our English people as once vvere in teressed vvith the substance of faith receiued in England synce that haue forsooke that ground of Beleif togither vvith all spirituall fellovvship therein Euen all such haue forsaken the true beginnings of Christ fellovvship they had vvith the people of God therein Conclusion Therefore all such haue synned that fearfull horrible syn against the Ho. Gh. heb 6. 10. IF the Assumption be true no question is to be made of the Conclusion it growing naturallie from the Antecedent but the Assumption is true in the iudgmēt of all learned Protestants English Scottish Dutch French etc. therefore vnto all such the Conclusion must be true for they all do teach and professe the learned in England to deliuer a true foundation of faith and therefore by the voyce of such all such our English Apostates and Sthismatikes haue synned that fearfull and horible syn That the foraigne churches haue departed from Englād som in the maner of gathering the Church and all of them in the forme of disciplines exercise vttered in Math. 18. 15. 16. 17. etc. yet they all profes one and the same foundation and substance of the Ghospell charitablie hopinge as they ought say malicious Donatist what he can that notwithstanding men in ignorance and infirmitie but woe to him that sinnes against light reuealed do build stubble strawe tymber yet kepinge the foundation in a moritified estate such shalbe saued in theyr owne persons with the losse of theyr tras●… labour saued as priuate poore Christians obtayning no glorie for such ministerie yet as by the fyre hardly saued though saued And towching this sence I haue Ambrose manie in Theodorets tyme as also Caluin Seb. Munster Hemingius Beza and others nor can the scripture comparing it with that goes before be vnderstood of anie thinge but diuersities of doctrine good and bad The beginnings of faith wherein the Hebrues had bene catechised are syx Repentance Faith Baptismes Imposition of hands Resurrection Eternall iudgment Under Repentāce is contained mortification and Uiuification according to that fly euel do good called Repentance from dead works Under Faith is comprehended not only a generall consent vnto the history of god his word and works but also a particular plerophorie or full assurance of our reconcilation with God who through Christ Iesus God and Man and therefore fit to interceed betwene God and Man is pacified towards vs for syn as also through the vaile of his flesh the seede of woman our first fruites without which our lump could not be sanctified he hath made a new and liuing way into the Holy of holyes the hiest heauens sitting there at the right hand of Maiesty till all his enemies be made his foote stoole Under Baptismes is intimate purifications vnder the lawe and water-washing sacramentally vnder the Ghospell sealing vnto old and yong so baptised the purification of theyr sowles from syn only by the price of Iesus his blood wherein the garments of the saints are made white through which blood we alone conquer and triumph ouer all hellish powres Under Imposition of hands is insinuate the laying propheticall and sacramentall hands on the heads of men before the Law so did Iaakob with Ephraim and Manasseh on Animals and men vnder the lawe so did Moses with Ioshua and the Elders of the trybes on the Leuits and the Leuits on Animals sacrificed on the heads of diuerse vnder the Ghospell as our sauiour blessing infants like mough before baptised brought by beleiuers vnto him his imposing hands as

the promises He that holds this is happy forsaking it he is miserable Yea saith another before him To the beleiuer all things are possible And how shall it be otherwise when first it vniteth vs with Christ and thē from him by the conduit of faith all holines and diuyne giuings are as out of a treasurie deriued vnto vs. Where therefore the Law proclamd Do and liue the Ghospell before in and synce the Lawe frely crieth Beleiue and liue Obiection But we are vrged to works also in the newe church Answer But not to merit thereby for he that shall keep the whole lawe and but faile in one poynt is guiltie of all then what merit-monger can hold vp hand and cry vuguilty my Lord If he be iudged by God and the contrie he wilbe found guiltie but such works are Certificates from the spirit of Christ vnto his Church that so such a one may be acknowledged a member of the Catholicall bodie and communicate with the Church her spirituall treasure and therefore to the faithfull no Cawse but a Signe or Index of iustificatiō which causeth one to say GOD crowneth the righteousnes in his Sayints which he gaue vnto them Gratis kept Gratis perfected Gratis Wherevnto a successor addeth If a Man shold serue God a thowsand yeares that most feruently he shold not merit ex condigno of condignity to be half a day in the kingdom of heauen And in another place thus Works are of grace but not grace by works because that Grace is first whereby other things are valued Therefore no one by any meanes can be iustified by works but by faith which by grace goeth before All which substance of faith with manie golden and coloured sylk appendices of the Lo. his Tabernacles religion thowsands in England do teach as truly and learnedly as euer was taught synce the first age after Christ. From ād by whose ministerie diuerse of our people comming ouer hither did seme verily and with much comfort to haue received the same grounds at least couetinge with ernest affection to walk with such and only with such as were willing to build vpon the same foundation in the syncerity of IEsus although with infirmity in faith and manners for they had learned of none to fynd here Angelicall perfection But synce all this diuerse if theyr owne lips have spoken trulie of theyr owne hearts they have Ekousios frankly and voluntarily vnconstrayned outwardly giuing vp themselves to the spirit of fundamentall Apostacie and Schisme breaking the former bonds of obedience and casting the coards far away for Anti christian ioyning themselves frely som with A●…rius and Samosatenus making theyr Christ a meare creature and bare man Som ioyning to a Christ that tooke not the seed of woman ouerturning the Ghospell preached first in Paradise and this because they cannot and will not without a naturall reason beleiue that super-naturall worke and so they are one with the hereticall body of Valentinus Manes and Eutiches Others with Apollinaris do make a mixt confounded Christ. All of them condemned generally of the Catholicall Church aboue a 1000 Y. agoe in sondrie councels Herewith they beleiue frewill to holynes in the vnregenerate addinge iustification before god by works both poynts ordinarily more grosse then som Papists dare be seene in in a word flat Pelagians Unto the former they adde rebaptisation with Donatus and cut Children of from Baptisme with bloody Herod Makinge the Maiestrate with Seruettus a meere Scar-crowe without the church with such a rable of inventions raked out of the donghill of all heresies as if not 7. deuels but 7. score deuels were entred into them Therefore appearingly to vs ward they have synned that fearfull horrible syn agaynst the ho ghost But the Brounist teaching that neyther Clapham nor England teach the Ghospell of Iesus it fodeth on ignorant sowles with more boldnes to reiect all such faith and fellowship for Antichristian First I say to such Teachers that it were better for them to have a milstone hoong on their neck and they with Sherajahs scroule and stone violently throwen into the midst of Euphrates then such speach scandalous shold be vttered whereby silly-ones are turned out of the way Secondly what will they say is the substance of the ghospell for in the adiuncts the wisest shall euer be to seeke in somthing I knoe they insinuate to the simple and this theyr whole practise will witnes to theyr faces that to teach the former principles without subiectiō to the outward Church-government of Christ it is no Ghospell And wherein exists this In the ministery of Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons Widowes with theyr forme of installments etc. I answer the verie terme Outward if they were not forgetfull of Logick that is of Reasons rule it w●…ld teach them That which is outward yea so outward as somtymes seperable from his subject that is not essentiall or of the Ghospells substance but such is that outward government This may appeare from S. Paul who sayth the Ghospell was preached vnto Abraham Galat. 3. 8. as also the ghospell ver 17. was preached to that Patriarch 430. Y. before the lawe and yet no speach of outwarde church government Iohn Baptist preached the Ghospell yet ignorant as also the Disciples in theyr first sermons of this outward church government Nay our sauiour before tyme of Ascensiō Act. 1. 2. 3. cānot be thought to haue spoke a word of the Ecclesiasticall functions so did Peter and others in theyr sermons after his ascension when I ●…roe they preached Ghospell and yet no word of those matters If all the former preachings was the Ghospell and the forme giues being to a thinge thē those fanaticall spirits of ignorance or mallice blaspheame the ghospell Being driuen from that sconse they will say but thexternall church-order reuealed euery such sowle as will not be adiudged Antichristian that is against Christ must be only subiect to the outward Church-order prescribed by Christ. I answer First theyr concluding of euery sowle Antichristian which in anye thing is contrarie or against Christ it is a grosse abuse of the word vsed in scripture For so euery sowle shold be Antichristian Apostle is in english Messenger Euangelist a Good tydings-man shall we therefore say Euerie messenger is an Apostle and euerie one that tels vs good newes is an Euangelist In the large sence of the words we may so say but comming to examine these termes by the art of Theologie we say the words are restrayned to such ād such so also bringing the word Antichristian to be examined by the Apostles we shall fynd that such a sowle must be Anti-keimenos opposit in the foundatiō and so nothing so large as blynd Zeloist●… do vrge it Secondly I answer euerie sowle is bound to giue obediēce vnto euerie peece of god his will reuealed Then they adde But thexternall governmēt hath bene by som of their owne teachers as also by vs