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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18920	Errour on the right hand, through a preposterous zeale Acted by way of dialogue. Betweene 1 Mal-content and Flyer. 2 Flyer and Anabaptist. 3 Anabaptist, & Legatine-arrian. 4 Flyer and Legatine-arrian. 5 Flier, Legaine-arria[n] & Familist. 6 Flyer and Familist. 7 Flyer and Mediocritie. Whereto is also added, certaine positions touching Church and Antichrist: as without the true holding thereof, it is impossible for a zelous soule, to auoyde either schisme or faction. By Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1608 (1608)	STC 5341; ESTC S118639	27,520	96

would pray you to walke home with me to take part thankfully of such as God shall send for the present Flyer I thanke you sir. Hauing gotten the Citie againe on my backe methinks I am as the Prodigall that hauing left a company of filthy Swine behinde him hath got his Fathers house on his bead where he may feed comfortably and sleepe safely CERTAINE POSITIONS NECESSARILY to be held for auoyding errour first touching the Church secondly Antichrist Touching the Church 1 THE Church of God had a visible beeing vpon Earth from Adam vnto Christ or else S. Lukes draught of the Genealogie were to small or no purpose 2 The Church of God from Christes time hitherto hath and to the worlds end shall ha●e as true a visibilitie as the former Christ hauing no lesse care ouer his Church in her Ful-age then he had before in her Non-age 3 But as the Church of the olde Testament was not alwayes alike visible so neither this of the new Testament 4 For as the Church is compared to the Moone so in the Moone we see much change inowe more and inowe lesse seeable and lesse glorious And howsoeuer sometimes she be quite latent and hid to some part of the Earth yet to some otherpart of the Earth she is euer patent and visible And euen so it is with the Church in this life 5 And as she is compared to a Wheat-field in the middest whereof some enemie doth secretly sowe Tares So she consisting of the Children of the Kingdome shall haue to her griefe Children of the wicked in midst of her bosome Howsoeuer at the first plantation by the Apostles through all Nati●ns she was excellently visible yet afterwardes her Field is ouergrowne with euill to the vexation of waking Ministers And so she is to continue with grieuance of spirit till the great Haruest time that there can be a seperation made without violence v●●o her body 6 As she was represented by Salomons Temple which is inowe all beauteous and rich Inow robbed and spoyled anone consumed to the Earth but afterwardes as Ezekiel saw raysed vp with greater glory Euen so the Church in her beginning was glorious by Kinkes bringing their Crownes to it she became Rich. Afterwards sacrilegious persons fleeced her of her Plate carrying it into the house of their God Belly not Bell. And in the end she shall be layde flat with the Earth and passe as refyned through Fire But an happy Resurrectiō shal be made to the augmentation of her glory-eternall And that and no other is her Re-plantation 7 Idolatrie set vp in the Hy-places of Israel from the time of their Schisme from Iudah till their deportation it neuer caused a Nullitie of the Church howsoeuer a Diminution And therefore it was that the Lord not onely called Israel his people but also raysed vp Prophets vnto them continually hauing also amongst them whole schooles of Prophets and Prophets children euen in the corruptest times The same may be sayd of Iudah when Idols were reared vp in the Temple The like also may be remembred of Israel in Aegipt Ezek. 20. 5. c. The reason is rendred sometimes for the sakes of a few he spareth many Sometimes againe he will not take the aduantage against her for his owne names sake 8 Sometimes the Church restes in orderly constitution as in Iude● sometimes shaken out of order as was the Apostolicall Church at Ierusalem and caryed away captiue as the Iewes were for seauentie yeares And yet whether in Constitution or out of Constitution ordred or disordred she was true●y visible Secundum Maius Minus A lesse priuiledge the Church of the New Testament cannot haue 9 That Commaundement in Math. 18. Tell the Church is an affirmatiue iniunction as is that Three times a yeare euery male shall come to Ierusalem As these three times a yeare could not be obserued when they were in Captiuitie so neither the Church could be told but when she was vnscattered and in some tollerable constitution Commaundements Affirmatiue do not alwayes binde but Negatiues doe No euill forbidden may be done at any time but many Affirmatiues enioyned may sometimes be lawfully vndone because the occasion or meanes of doing them is lacking The Romanistes therefore presse that Dic Ecclesiae to no purpose 10 The Church so alwayes hauing some visible face it must ineuitably follow that Hel-gates neuer preuayled against her And so by consequent that that doctrine of Fayth in Christ which Peter peached in Math. 16. it neuer fayled in the Church but of some of her members haue been held and preached truely and effectually and so that is the Euerlasting Ghospell spoken of in the Reuelation which in the last times maugre the Beast is preached as farre as the Heauens extend Touching Antichrist and Antichristianisme 1 ANtichrist implyeth either one that is opposite vnto Christ or one that taketh falsely vpon him the place of Christ. If he take vpon him the place of Christ it is as the counterfaite Lambe in Reu. 13. to dispense saluation by a contrary meanes as is the doctrine of Iustification before God by Workes the Ghospell saying the contrary Not by Workes but by Fayth 2 As he is opposite vnto Christ so specially and in Scripture-sense in a manner onely for that he teacheth a contrary Ghospell that is A glad tydinges contrary to that of Christ and so it comes to the former according to his title Antike●menos obserued from the 2. Thess. 2.4 giuen also in 1. Cor. 16.9 to such as opposed to the foundation of Fayth preached by the Apostle Sottish therefore be such Schismatiques as haue taught that euery euill is Antichristianisme They may as well say that euery one of Gods Children hath Antichristianisme in him and in sinning whatsoeuer sinne he is an Antichrist And as foolish haue they been who conclude all vnder any Apostaticall Pope to be damned as lymmes of Antichrist when as vnder the most corrupt regiment many howsoeuer ignorantly stayned with sundry euils haue held the Ghospels foundation euen the doctrine of Iustification most truely and soundly Sed vno m●lo concesso sequuntur Infinita 3 Antichristianisme so properly vnderstood is a matter of Doctrine not of Discipline a matter of Fayth not of externall Policie And not of any Doctrine or any Fayth but a Doctrine opposite to that Fayth which is to be had in Christ Ies● onely for perfect iustification An● that aduerse Doctrine is as that stin● of the Locust-scorpion in Reuel 9● which exceedingly payneth the se●duced soule bringing it to plaine des●peration For howsoeuer the doctrin● of Iustification by Workes doth look● amiably at the first blush yet whe● that soule shall lay her Workes to th● ballance of the Law it shal be so farr● from finding comfort in it as it shal● dispaire seeke by vntimely death● to strangle the Remembrance of it 4 The Antichrist or Antikeimenis● considered then as one Man is