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A06135	A sermon preached at Torceter in the countie of Northampton the 8. of Iune, Anno Dom. 1588. at the visitation of the right reuerend Father in God, the Bishop of Peeterborow, by Iohn Beatniffe preacher of the woord of God in Brackley.	Beatniffe, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 1662; ESTC S116644	12,021	38

as follow our fantasies such as will not we vtterly condemne them whereas there bee many hundreds yea many thousands besides vs this was Elias fault O Lord saith he they haue broken down thy Altars and slaine thy Prophets and I onely am left and they seeke my life to take it away he thought there had not bin left vpon the earth one man that feared God but himselfe but marke responsum Domini harkē what the Lord saith Reg. 19.18 I haue reserued to my selfe seuen thousand men that neuer bowed their knees to Baal mark this wel there be more of the church then we bee aware of therefore let vs feed in hope and labor in hope incoraging all discoraging none but let vs feede the flocke of God visible and inuisible true false Of these two Churches it is necessary to speake a litle beginning with the false church that the other may be the better discerned the false church I cal those which either openly set their selues against the childrē of God or those which perswade themselues that they be of the church are not of both these sorts ther be many The one sort are they of whom Dauid speaketh of Psalm 26. I haue hath hated the congregation of the wicked and I wil not sit with the vngodlie Numb 15 Such were Corah Dathan and Abiram and the two hundred and fifty men that were with them men of renowne and famous in the congregation Gene. 11. Such were they that builded Babel euery of these were a congregatiō a church but a false church a church that openly fighteth and setteth it selfe against the Church of God The other sort are they which bragge that they be the seed of Abraham the children of promise but they deceiue themselues for they do not the works of Abraham they speak much but they do litle they look like Lambes but they bee rauenning Wolues outwardly they appeare bewtifull but inwardly they be full of dead mens bones He is not a Iew which is a Iew outward Rom. 2. but hee is a Iew which is hid within Of these face-makers and outward Religious persons speaketh Leo Ecclesiae nomine armamini sed contra ecclesiam demicatis Leo. yee arme your selues with the name of the church but yee fight agaynst the Church These say they are Iewes but they are not but are the congregation of Satan These be the false church Reg. 2.9 these must be taught if at any time God will giue them grace to repent that they may be brought to the true church and so be saued in the day of the Lord. Now let vs proceed vnto the true church which is in God hereby it is knowen it is not in man but in GOD this is the true church this is the society of all the true faithfull sainctes and elect of God This church consisteth of Faith Hope Loue and of the Spirit of Christ This we cal the catholicke church which is spread ouer the face of the whole world Then the catholicke church is not at Rome no no they are much deceiued that say so or beleeue so it is not tyed to one place or to one people but it is the company of all the faithfull that haue bene from the beginning of the world that are now shal be vnto the end of the world Ierom sayth Ecclesia Christi in toto orbe ecclesias possidens spiritus vnitate coniuncta est habet vrbes legis prophetarum euangelij apostolorum non est egressa de finibus suis i. de scripturis The church of Christ which possesseth all the churches in the world is ioyned together in the vnity of the spirit and it hath the cities of the law and of the Prophets of the Gospell and of the Apostles it doth not goe beyonde her boundes that is the Scriptures This Church hath in it pure and sounde doctrine euen the same which came from Christe and sent abroade throughout all the worlde by the Apostles which excludeth all other doctrines and precepts of man it hath also the true and liuely vse of the Sacraments it hath vnity and catholicke consent touching the chéef points of christian religion This church because it often erreth sometime by ignorance as Paul before his conuersion 1. Tim. 1.13 sometime by temptations as Abraham when for feare of his life he fel to dissembling or by infirmitie 2. Sam. 10.4 as Dauid when hee committed adulterie ought to bee fed with doctrine and be kept in with wholsome correction And therefore ouer this church hath God placed Bishops and hath commaunded them to ouersee it and to feed it faithfully and dilligently let those therefore watch that they may giue their fellow seruants meat in due season Blessed is that Seruant whome hys Maister shall find so doing Math. 24. Verily I say vnto you he will make him ruler ouer all his goods Therefore feed the flock this appertaineth to vs ministers God hath made vs pastors and wee haue a flocke euen a church in God the father begotten of the word born of the word and now must be nourished brought vp and instructed by the word That wee haue such a church here in England as I haue here described there is no question at all to be made neither do the godly doubt of it But for the better comfort of the church and that they may haue in a readines at all times to stop the mouth of the Anabaptist to ouerthrow the Papist and tread vnder feet the Secturian I wil prooue it most plainly by the way of an argument where the Gospell is truly preached where the Sacraments be according to Christ his institution reuerently administred where there is vnitie and catholicke consente touching the cheefe points of christian religion wher Christ is acknowledged the head of the church there is the true church in God the Father but the church of England hath vseth holdeth and acknowledgeth al these things ergo in England there is a true church in God the Father The chiefest reasons that the Anabaptistes Papistes and Scismatickes vse in defacing of our church are these first that our ministers bee not lawfully called 2. that we want discipline 3. that wee haue no lawfull prayers in our church and therefor no church These reasons though they be weake and most weake yet are they péeuish and very daungerous and therefore I thinke it necessarie to confute them Touching the first wher they say we haue not a lawful ministery I answere we haue yea and such a ministery as is sent of God and lawfully called by man I prooue it thus wheresoeuer there is a Church in God the Father there is also a lawful ministerie But wee haue a Church in God the Father as before is prooued ergo a lawful ministerie This argument in plainly prooued by the words of Ieremie Ier. 3.14.15 O yee disobedient Children turne againe sayth the Lord for I am you Lord and I