Selected quad for the lemma: word_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	greek_a	latin_a	translation_n	3,103	5	9.6519	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12090	Christ, on his throne; not in popish secrets A prophecie of Christ, against his pretended presence in popish secrets; laid open in a sermon preached before his Maiestie at Wansted certaine yeares agoe, and since much inlarged, and (vpon request) preached else where. By Richard Sheldon, Doctor in Diuinitie, his Maiesties chaplaine. In the preface whereof, there is also a briefe inquirie made by him, into a late sermon, stiled, The communion of saints.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1622 (1622)	STC 22394; ESTC S117178	50,612	74

haue made their assemblies therefore to preach Christ in this sense to bee in secrets cannot bee a note or propertie of the Antichristian Synagogue either in the fourth or anie other degree of propertie The Rhemists are most eager to interpret this false preaching of Christs presence here and there in Secrets and in Penetralls or in closets to vse their owne phrase of such Heretikes as should pretend to tie the Catholicke Church to some one place or kingdome and for this purpose they make vpon the 24. of Saint Mathewes Gospell this marginall note out of Austine a razour wherewith to cut their own throates Whosoeuer saith Austin draweth Christ or his Church from the communion and fellowship August de vnit Eccles cap. 3. of all nations christened to one corner towne or Countrie beleeue him not thus Austine most trulie although not fullie with due respect be it spoken attaining the sense of this place With what reason then are our Pontificians to bee beleeued who drawe Christ and the Catholicke Church to one Citie to one Mother Cittie to vse Parsons wise phrase yea to one man the Pope whome they make in power and Authoritie to be a vice-Christ or an Anti-Christ and vertually to be and in efficacie to bee the whole Catholike Church Nos per ecclesiam intelligimus Gre●ser defenco Bellar Tom. 1. pag. 1450. Pontificem Romanum Wee by the Church vnderstandthe the Pope of Rome saith Gretser Which Tyrannicall supremacie and ambitious vniuersality or Catholicisme of his because the Persian Christened Churches doe reiect the Aethiopian detest the Grecian abhorre the Egyptian loath the Muscouian execrate euen as the diuell himselfe the Arabian scorne the Armenian condeme all reformed Churches hate accurse for this cause they are by the holie father and his reputed for Heretickes and Reprobate Schismaticks by him whose hands Esau-like are against all as the hands of all ought to be against him and so in true Christian wisedome and policie are except where hipocrisie ouer-aboundes or else where God for some other The yoke of Poperie greeuous sinnes may intend to bring in iugum exactoris the yoke of the Exactour Oppressour vpon a stiffenecked people or generation and so I adde my third principall reason My third reason I deduce out of the Energie and propertie of certaine other words here vsed by our Sauiour I obserue the Aduerb Behould twice repeated which as it is an Aduerb of admiration so it is alwaies demonstratiue and specializing of some singular matter requiring regard and consideration Iohn Baptist in those words Iohn 1. 36. of his Behould the lambe of God did demonstrate Christ to his disciples to bee admired and followed so these An argument from the energie of certaine words false prophetts by their behold hee is in the Penetrals doe inuite the faithfull to behould and beleeue on Christ being in a hidden obscure manner in such penetrals and doe not the Papists so I also weigh the Aduerbs here and there which euer doe designe some speciall circumstances of place as thoroughoutthe Scriptures is manifest And if to them wee adioine the specialties of the places the desert and the penetrals with the Pronowne hee in the third person demonstrating a singular person whereof speech was made or intended immediately before and withall adde the Verb Substantiue is affirming together with the Inteiection in designing he is in the Penetrals my intent will more manifestly appear that these false prophets were to teach the true Christ himselfe to bee in such penetrals of boxes cubbords arkes tabernacles Saues Promptuaries and such like Againe I obserue hee is not Christ is not taught by these false prophets to bee in anie one onely single place or secret alone but ioyntly and at the same time hee is taught to bee here and there in the deserts in the Secrets They say not in the Singular number in penetrali 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in some one secret one penetral but in the secrets in closets yea all readings and Translations the Hebrew Siriack Arabick Greek Latine English French Dutch c. haue the word in the Plurall number all of them thereby demonstrating that these false-prophets were to teach Christ to be at once and at one the same time in diuers Secrets Penetrals Closets Arkes Cubbords Yea the Arabick word signifieth fallacious and deceptious places in the Plurall number All which is done with such an infinite confusion in the Popish Churches that we may constantly inueigh against them that not onely according to the number of their temples and altars they haue multiplied the the Presences of Christ but also that for euery person and professing member of their Church they haue once or more often in the yere Christ corporally personally and substantially present in some secret or secrets of Arks Altars Tabernacles Cubbords Closets c. to bee beheld behould hee is heer behould hee is in this secret behould hee is in that secret to bee beheld I say seene and adored And this is done so punctually by them that as the like was neuer done by anie other since Christ his time so neither is it imaginable or conceiueable how anie false-prophets for anie time to come shall may or can more punctually fully and compleately act and performe the same Againe I note and obserue that our Sauiour tearmeth these false-prophets who were to teach such a mysterious and prodigious presence of him in Secrets to be pseudo-Christs false-Christs false-anointed ones false-anointed ones I say And doth not Christ in this his tearming and appellation of them designe to vs the verie Popish massing priests who and onely who for their powerfull consecrating and making of him to bee so present in Secrets are supersticiously anointed in their hands and fingers all ouer yea their altar-stones whereon their Chalices wherein their Patins wherevpon Christ is to be consecrated and made to bee in such secrets are not to bee reputed fit and apt for the same purpose except they be first anointed and being anointed they are so sacred that the vnanointed hands of the Laick may not touch them without great offense Neither can it bee replied and said that these false-anointed-ones mentioned by our Sauiour in the 24. verse are those verie Christs which shall bee pretended to bee in Secrets For it is most euident by the Text and Saint Hillaries interpretation with Thephilact and others that these false Christs are to bee the verie same with the false proprets who were to bee publike and in publike to preach a secret presence of the true Christ yea and for confirmation of the same were to doe such miracles that if it were possible the verie elect should bee in danger to bee seduced and drawne into errour Thus we obserue how all circumstances and the energie of all the words concur to our purpose against this point of Popish pseudo-Christianisme And so ceasing to adde more in this place wherof more anone I

Ill-giuen I will by Gods assistance with modesty beseeming a Christian examine these words and their true meaning and thereby euince that Christ by this his prophecie did specially ayme against the Popish Idolatry of their teaching himself to be in the desert Penetrals of Bread wine and of worshipping of him in their mystical deserts and penetralls so we come to declare what is meant here by these two words in Secrets or in Penetrals In Penetralibus in Penetralls in the Secrets I obserue first that the word vsed by Hutter in his Hebrew Math. is Hinneh Bahhadarim Bahhadarim of Cheder ●agninus in the sauro the verie Secrets or most Secrets For this purpose if wee looke into Pagninus in his Treasurie wee shall finde him affirming Cheder whence Bahhadarim to signifie aditum locum prorsus penetralem the most retired parte of anie place He addes sunt qui putent c. There are those who thinke that the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Mathew 24. is expressed by this word Cheder againe hee addes his reason why the South part of the world is called Cheder to wit because it is not knowen to vs. Further saith hee Ben Ezra affirmeth that the Starre which is in the Region of the South or the corner thereof is called Cheder because those who dwell in the North cannot nor doe not see the same The said Pagninus also sheweth there largely that the Hebrew word Cheder The force of the Hebrew word serueth for our purpose is vsed in sacred Scriptures to signifie the most Inmost and mostretired part of anie place so Iudges the 15. and 1. and 16. 9. and Canti 3. 4. to signifie the inward part of the bed chamber to signifie the inward places of the South not to bee seene nor knowne by vs so Iob 9. 9. and 37. 9. yea more to signifie the inmost of mans Soule the secretest part of mans spirit so Pro. 24. 4. to signifie the inmost secrets of the bellie so Prouerbs 18. 8. the inmost parts of death so Pro. 7. 27. By which it is most manifest that if the force and vigour of the Hebrew worde in this place bee followed the false Prophets which our Sauiour here aimeth at were to teach a presence of him so secret and inuisible not to be seene that it was onely to be beleev'd and vnderstood not sensible but to be beleeu'd not visible but intelligible and so doe the Papists And if it be obiected that our Sauiour vsed not the Hebrew word but spake in Syriack by the Syriack word also our intent is most manifest for the Syriack word Batauana may signifie the secretest of the chamber or the verie Secret of the bosome The popish priests carie Christ in the secrets of the bosome to hou sell ther sicke a secret vsed by the Popish Priests in England and else where carrying Christ in small pixes in the verie Secret of their bosomes to housell their sick penitents withall But ceasing to adde more out of the Hebrew or Syriack wherin I confess I haue no knowledge for what I herin haue I had onlie out of Pagninus by the direction of my Reuerend Brethren and learned Friends Master Salkile sometimes an Ignatian but now a Religious and learned Convert in the Church of England and also from Maister Walker Parson of Saint Iohn Euangelist in London I com to examine what is meant by the Greeke word vsed in this place Now the Greeke word vsed in this place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it makes more effectually forcibly for our purpose so the Greeke edition it selfe cannot bee reputed to bee other then most Autenticall and Canonicall by Protestant and Papist Our Greeke word then here vsed is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isocrat Plutarch others vsually take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for secret cellars to put victualls in Concerning the signification whereof if we make in quirie into Greeke Authours wee shall finde that the same word hath onely three most vsed significations in all which the same serueth singularly for our intent and purpose For first it may be taken for a secret chamber or close and locked parlour or secondly for a verie Ambry Buttery Saue or Cubbord to lay victualls in or thirdly for a locked Chest or Cubbord wherein treasurie vsually is reserued The first of these the pontificians will not denie for proofes and declarations of the two later I will not trouble my selfe with alleaging of the testimonies of diuers Authours The authoritie of Stephanus and Scaputa 〈◊〉 in ●n verb● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scapula 〈◊〉 L●●icon Gr●●o Latinum 〈…〉 verbo after him with the Lexicon Greco-Latinū set forth at Lions in the yeare 1602. shall suffice Now Stephanus his words are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passim obu●um Tameion for tamicion is euerie where to bee found in the vse of Greeke Authours Now that the later is taken in the sense wee require and affirme none so ignorant in the Greeks as to denie Againe he saith there that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken pro cella panaria et promptuario for a Saue Cubbord or Hutch wherein esculenta et poculenta reconduntur victualls for eating and drinking are reserued and here-hence it is that in the vse of Greek Authours the mas●uline word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken for a man-butler the feminine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a woman buttler And thus the sense intended is cleare in the v●e of Greeke writers let vs adde a word or two of the latine word vsed in the vulgar edition This word is penetralibus Penetrals The word penetra●ibus vsed in the vulgar edition signifies that part which is most secret the signification whereof euerie schoole-boie may be able to deliuer to wit that it signifies that place or part of place which is most in wardlie in ward most secretly secret and if I may so speake the very penetration of Secrecie it selfe a most apt word to signifie the holes and Secrets wherein ' Popish Priests in our Kingdome hide themselues with their supposed Christ from the search of Messengers commonly called Pursuiuants This word penetrale saith Calepine signifieth omnem partem interiorem domus vel templi euerie more inward part 〈◊〉 in dictio na●●o not of chamber onelie of the house or Temple here hence it is that the father of Eloquence calleth those Gods diuos Ci●●r 2. de natura●eo● Pen●trales Gods Penetrall which were worshipped in the Secrets of the Temples and in lower vaults Againe hee 〈…〉 cals the hidden and vnseene fires focos Penetrales Penetrall secret fires because most inwardly within and secret I shall not need to adde more in a point so cleare By this which hath beene deliuered most cleare it is that our Sauiour intendeth this his prophecie against some false-Christs and false-prophets who should teach the most The presence of Christ which these

false prophets were to teach was to be most secret hidden presence of him vpon earth that might be imagined and consequently for this purpose as it may be probably affirmed he directed the pen of the Hebrew Greek Arabick and Siriack writers yea and of the authour of the vulgar edition also to vse those words which do expresse and signifie the most secret manner of presence and being that can or may bee thought vpon such as cannot indeed be conceiued but onely beleeued beleue it not saith hee beleeue it not And were there euer anie or can there bee anie who haue preached or maie teach a more mysticall presence a more hidden secret and obscure being The Authour submits his opinion and interpretation to the Church vniuersall of Christ in pixes boxes chests church-arks and church sanes then the Papists at this daie doe and for along time haue done let others thinke what they please for my part submitting my iudgement to the censure of Christs vniuersall Church I thinke that our Sauiour in this his prophecie did specially aime at this point of Popish pseudo-christianisme And to thinke so I am induced by this one Christ in his prophecie aimed at the Popish pseudo-christianisme reason if I had no other to wit that seeing the Great and vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue was to teach and doth teach to the perdition of innumerable Soules and high contempt of Christs Maiestie a carnall corporall continued presence of Christ vpō earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lockt closets in church-arkes tabernacles saues cubbords and coffers there to bee beheld and adored there to be carried and adorned there to bee trulie praied vnto and inuocated De cons●●rat dis● 2. cap. ●go Berengarius there to bee eaten yea sensibly eaten as Berengarius his Recantation hath it maie it bee thought that Christ so prouident louing and al-wise a shepheard of his Church would in no place haue so detestable and execrable a practice foreshewed for the good instruction and safety of his people Yes doubtless And where or when may that more conueniently be done than in this place in which so many other properties signes and badges of the great Antichristian Synagogue are described A reply with answer If it be replied and said that Christ doth indeed in this place foretell a pretended presence of Christ to bee taught by diuers false Prophets but this pretended presence is not of Christ himselfe but of the great Antichrist who shall come in his owne name and deny the true Christ I answer How mostidle and triuiall must this obiection needs be in the iudgement euen of the Pontificians themselues who all acknowledge that Antichrists presence This prophecy is not to be vnderstood of any hidde presence of the great Antichrist himself Ribera viega in apocal Bell. l. 3 de Rom. pont c. 6. 7. 8. Alij shall be publike and glorious yea for three yeeres and a half the whole time of his durance as they imagine most triumphant And if he be to sit in the Temple of God carrying himself as if he were a God then most certainly his presence shall not be in Secrets and Penetrals but euen in the very most eminent view of the whole world Let it then rest proued that this Prophecy of Christ is to be vnderstood of all such false prophets false anointed ones of Antichrist who to vse Hillaries phrase shall lyingly teach Christ to be in many places thereby to draw the vexed and afflicted hee Hill can 25. in Mat. apud Aquin in cate in 24. Mat. meaneth persecuted Christians into the seruice and subiection of Antichrist And is not this that very thing which is in their daily practice the very cuppe of abomination wherewith they inchant and ●ull a-sleep the Princes and Nations of the earth And to conclude this point is not this their pseudo-christianisme of teaching true Christ to be in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Tabernacles Cup-boords and Arks the chiefest bait wherewith they negotiate the soules of the deceiued the cheefest scar-crowe whereby they endeauour to affright theirs from coming to vs for say they Behould we haue Christ truely and in personall presence with vs vpon our altars and in our arks but they meaning all reformed Churches haue nought else but a peece of bare leauened bread vpon their profane communion-tables Wherein they bely vs for the reformed Churches generally do acknowledge a true reall sacramentall presence of Christ effectually really working Christ really present by real operation thorough faith in him by faith in the worthy receiuers Angels are sayd truely and really to be not onely where they definituely are but also where they effectually work so Christs body is really not onely in the heauens where it is locally present but also in the sacred mysteries by the which it worketh effectually and really in the worthy receiuers And so I come to the ful declaration of our second point to weet that these false Prophets pointed at by our Sauiour were not to teach the presence of the great Antichrist nor of any other challenging himselfe to bee Christ and denying the true Christ our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ but of such who were indeed to teach a secret presence and coming of the true Christ himself vpon earth with a Behould beleeue it behould he is in the Secrets He is in the Penetrals he is that is Christ is reason First My first reason I frame out of a double reason and argument vsed by our Sauiour to perswade and confirme his faithfull against the beleeuing of these false Prophets and the receiuing of their doctrine Our Sauiours first argument is this If they shall say vnto you or thus When Mat. 24. v. 27 they shall say vnto you Behould Christ is in the penetrals or Secrets beleeue it not For as the lightning commeth from the East and shineth vnto the West so shall the coming of the Son of man be Now as clear as the heauens it is that this argument A reason that these false teachers were to teach the true Christ himself to be in the secrets of Christ is to bee vnderstood of a true and corporall presence of himself coming in person which supposed then our infinitely-wise Sauiour who without blasphemy cannot be impeacht of impertinent discourse must needs be thought to oppose this his publike personall presence and comming against all other pretended presence comings of him before the same and against some hidden and secret presence or coming of himselfe pretended by these false Prophets for if thus hee should haue spoken only against such Hereticks who would pretend to haue alone his spiritual presence by the teaching of his truth in their Conuenticles then Christ must bee thought thus to haue argued against them If anie false Prophets shall challenge my truth to bee onely taught by them and so my spirituall presence to be only with them beleeue it not For

as a certain Gentlewoman at Chichester some Mistris Brown wife of master Iohn Brown vncle to the now Lord Mountague Master Manger the priest twelue years agoe was wonted by signes to vnderstand what sins a dumb boy of hers had done and so to make for him a confession vnto the Priest who vsually gaue thereupon absolution to the boy Howsoeuer it bee if there want no other maner of conuersation than speech it can onely be said that the conuersation is lame and defectiue and not that there is no conuersation at all And so I adjoin a third answer Answer 3 Thirdly I answer that although some Readings haue that these false Prophets teach Christ to be in penetralibus in the penetrals as the Vulgar in Secrets as others in closets as the Rhemists in all which manner of places and secrets the Papists doo teach Christ to bee notwithstanding the Hebrew word vsed by Hutter in his Hebrew Testament and the Syriack vsed by our Sauiour as it may bee probably thought and the Greek word may properly signifie a more secret place than closet or parlour the very secret of the bosome the Secret of a hutch cupboard ambry arke tabernacle chest or any such like wherin victuals are put and wherein treasury is laid vp into all which manners of Secrets and Penetrals yea into pockets somtimes the Papists do put and place their Christ saying Behould he is there behould he is heer beleeue it though it may seem to be neuer so admirable and neuer so incredible And suppose it be onely to be vnderstood of closets a word vsed by the Rhemists I maruell what maner of conuersation popish Dames will acknowledge may bee betwixt man and man in their closets Surely Christ may there be reputed to bee locked vp onely like a poenas house God-ling or like some delicious pot of Conserues or Preserues And so I cease to adde any more for the remouing of this first Obiection Ob ∣ iection Second A second Obiection is made thus that our Sauiour in this prophecy doth foretell of some false-prophets who should denie him to be the true Messias and should teach another Christ against him Answer This obiection falleth easily by all which I haue shewed and proued aboue in my former reasons and is Page 10. 11 also refuted by the ioynt consent of all those who doe apply this prophecy to all Schismatikes and Heretikes all who as they doe acknowledge Christ to bee the true Messias so they pretend Christs spirituall presence to bee specially with them and denie the same to all others And surely if these false-prophets and Pseudo-Christs were to denie the Lord and Giuer of life Iesus I cannot see in what Math. 24. 24. Not another Christ but th● true Christ pretended to bee in Secrets danger the elect should bee to bee seduced For if the common Christian will haue in hate and abomination them who should teach another Christ surely in a far more high degree the elect cannot but execrate the same No no this pseudo-christanisme is a mysterie of iniquitie Christ himselfe must bee taught to be in Penetrals that thereby the elect if it were possible might bee drawen insteed of the true Christ sitting in the glory of his father to worship a false Christ a vanity a dreame and a fancy in the Secrets and Penetrals of bread and wine and so I adde a third Obiection thus Obiection 3 Christ in his prophecy foretelleth of some Pseudo-Christs and false-prophets which were to come immediatly before his coming to Iudgement and the consummation of the world to preach a presence of Christ then at that time onely Hee aymeth not therefore in this place at the popish teaching of Christs beeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the secrets of their Church-Arks Cupbords tabernacles Pixes c. for this doctrine of theirs hath beene a long time verie publike at least since the Generall councell of Con. Latera cap. Firmiter Laterane vnder Innocent the 3 for then the doctrine of Transubstantiation was first decreed as an article of the Romish Catholicke faith I answer It being most certaine that this is a mysterie of Antichrist it is also as certaine that the same was to endure for the whole time of his raigne Now then it is most manifest that the time of Antichrists Flourish and ruffe was to begin at that time when the diuell was to bee let loose which letting loose must needes bee vpon the verie point or about the accomplishing of the thousand yeares for which the diuell was Apoca. 20. to bee bound Which thousand yeres of the diuells binding whether beginning at the time of Christs birth or at the time of his passion or for some time after when the Gospel was more generally preached most cleare it is that at the period of the same 1000. yeares the Antichristian mystery Platina in vita Syluest 2. Benno card in vit Hildebr●di did most powerfully worke in the daies or thereabouts of Syluester the 2. a most notorious Antichrist a man of Sinne and Son of perdition if euer anie And then also and about that time the mysterie of transubstantiation and consequently of Christ beeing in hidden Secrets and Penetrals there to-bee seene adored and worshipped did begin more generally to bee spred abroad by false-Christs Conc. ●om sub Nicol. 2. et sub Greg. 7. Lantfrank lb. de cor por dom and false-prophets to the seducing and peruerting of the greatest part of the Church and then were the Elect in greatest danger to bee peruerted when the whole Church welnie in the daies of the Lateran Councell did fall into this apostasie and defection Which being so wee may not Conc. Lateran cap. 1. marueile that this pseudo-Christanisme doth continue for the whole tunc and time of Antichrists reigne and the Antichristian empire And although Christ seeme to some to speake of this This false teaching of christ 〈◊〉 secrets was to bee for long time in the world Amanif●st proofe Mat. 24. 34. Pseudo-Christianisme as though it were to happen immediatelie before his cōming to iudgement yet most certaine it is that this and most of those things which our Sauiour foretells in that chapter are so implicately intermixtly deliuered that the distinct and certaine times of diuers of them can hardly bee distinguished Onely this is most certaine that to vse Christs phrase this Generation to weet the state of the Church from his first till his second coming should not passe away vntill all things there by him spoken should be fulfilled and accomplished but for the certain seasons when they were to bee accomplished it is not there expressed Again I answer that all those Rhemists on this place Maldon Ianson almost all as many Pontificians doo who apply this Prophecie to the priuate Conuenticles of Hereticks in any time or age of the Church to the Donatists Arrians Pelagians c. cannot restraine the same to the