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A18905	An abstract of fayth grounded on Moses, and applyed to the common Creede; plainely and briefly. By Henoch Clapham, in the beginning of his third yeares bands.	Clapham, Henoch.	1606 (1606)	STC 5328; ESTC S118540	16,421	46

Bishop is a terme corruptly deriued from the Greeke word Episcopus 2. Tim 3. which signifieth an Ouer-seer namely of soules In him is required Aptnes to teach which includeth Knowledge and Vtteraunce as also the spirit of Gouernment for his sufficient ruling of that Corporation Else-where he is called a Pastor in English a Shepheard or Feeder for that he is called to feed and guide that Flocke of Christes pasture In other places these Bishops or Pastors are tearmed Elders in respect of the many yeares they were ordinarily possessed with before they attained such orderly place of ouersight To haue one or moe of these in one particular Church is not of Substaunce but of Circumstaunce and therefore to be caryed as edifying Circumstances require But with this Prouiso that where moe then one be there one for order and comlynesse sake be called before the rest to ouersee vppon whom the burden of Doctrine and Gouernement may rest as it did in the Churches of * Reuel 2. 3. Asia written too by S. John where one vnder the terms Angel or Embassadour is charged principally with the Churches occasions As for the terme Doctor in English Teacher if it be considered apart from the Pastor it can imploy no other then him that is speciall attendant vnto the Schoole of * 1. Cor. 14. Prophecie that is the Schoole of Christian learning wherein people are trayned vp for supplying the Churches necessitie The terme Deacon is deriued from the Greekes and is in English Minister or Seruitour First for the seruice he was to doe to the Church Secondly towardes the Ouer-seer or Ouerseers To the first in cases of helping the poore To the second in assisting by his spirituall guiftes as necessitie shall call for it For the performance of all which duties it is required that they be full of the Holy-ghost Act. 63. 1. Tim. 3. and of Wisedome hauing the mysterie of Fayth in a pure Conscience such as can rule their owne Househouldes well c. The conclusion then of all this is that for the wel orderly gouernment preseruation of euery particular established Communion of Saincts there be some of best qualificatiō set apart so to attend on the sayd duties whilest the common people on the other hand do attend the duties of their common callings This being all and easie to be learned and obserued if people were not bent to contend about Words and Termes rather then Thinges what is there in it which Moses taught not Israel long since In the place of Pastors Israel had Priestes all their lippes bound to preserue Knowledge and equally attending the Alter howsoeuer one Priest principall as the Angell of the congregation In stead of our Deacons they had Leuites vnder the Priestes and for the businesses of the congregation The Bookes of Exod. Leuit. Numb and Deuteronomie doe largely declare this So Ceremonie and Circumstance is changed but the substaunce and equitie abide still The Word which they are to teach 1 VVord is the pure Word of God which was so perfect in Moses as it was a curse to him that should detract from it or add vnto it as reason euinceth when man shall alter Gods Word Deut 12. 32. All inuentions of men herein be but as the strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu or as the Leauen of the Pharises which poysoned the hearers The Sacraments in common to be administred 2 Sacraments are Baptisme and the Lords Supper Baptisme in Moses was represented by Ceremoniall washinges Purifications intending the Lambes blood whereby we are clensed The Supper was represented in the Paschall Supper and other Ceremoniall eatings intending the body and blood of Christ Jesus the Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the worlde whereby the Church is nourished by Faith in vnity So farre is it from being to be ministred as Antichrist doth for binding people in and to Rebellion and blood-shed The Discipline to be administred 3 Discipline Markes of an orderly established Church is either brotherly Admonishments and Rebukes according to the nature of the sinne be it priuate or publique or a Separating of the Sinner for his not repenting All these Moses teacheth when first he sayth in Leuit. 19. 17. Thou shalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour and suffer not sinne vpon him with other places the like And secondly when vnder ceremoniall Vncleannesses representing Sinne some were seperated more and some lesse But in cases of Blasphemie generall Apostacie and hy-handed Rebellions the Priest was to leaue him vnto the Magistrates sword like as for the Sinne against the Holy-ghost of the same Nature the soule is to be left to the Iudge of Heauen with an * 2. Cor 16. 22. Anathema maran-atha seeing they openly declare themselues to haue Apostated from louing Christ Iesus A sinne which the Hebrewes are taught to consist * Heb. 6. 1 2 3. 4. compare● with Chap 10. 25. c. first in a Free-departure from the groundes of true Religion once held with comfort Then secondly in a voluntarie Schisme from Fellowship or Spirituall communion with such beleeuers The first is a voluntarie reiection of Fayth The second a willing reiectiō of Charitie In which Desertions they must be held for not Louers of Christ Iesus and therefore fully Anathematized or accursed to vsward and left to the Lordes comming intended in the worde * In Chaldi● forme Marae is The Lord and Atha hee cōmeth N. is interposed for sound sake Maran-atha in English The Lord commeth namely with Fire to render vengeance Such is the Anathema too ignorantly shot out of the bosome of many Counsels as if they delighted to cloath themselues ipso facto with Execrations and curings The duetie of the whole Communion of Sainctes is first to * 1. Cor. 16. 13. 14. Heb. 3. 12. 13 watch ouer one another in Loue Secondly to administer of the store which God hath giuen them to the reliefe of the needy specially on the * 1. Cor. 16. 1. 2. first day of the weeke namely the Lords day that so their actions of worship towards God may be mixed with Charitie towardes their neighbour All the Law and the Prophets do teach that The whole Communion so vnited is a litle Citie compact in it selfe seated on a Rocke beauteous and inuincible Distraction in Fayth and Manners is called * 1. Cor. 11. 18. 19. Schisma Schisme in plaine English a Rending a sunder The making choyse of some opinion in Doctrine whereto a soule vnreasonably tyeth it selfe to the violating of Faythes foundation that is called Haeresie With this our Churches be canker-fretted to the harming of Fayth and with the former they be generally torne a sunder to the violation of Fayth and Charitie The Lord purge our Churches of these euils though as with violence of * Hellebore is a violent purger but rightly applyed is wonderfully effectuall Hellebore Section 6. ¶ Remission of Sinnes NOw followeth the

c. doth appoynt a peculiar Oblation for the whole Congregation of Israel so sinning Let God then be true and euery man a lyer The Church of Israel was Nationall and in Exod. 19. called of the Lord an Holy Nation he hauing called and culled them from out all people vnto himselfe and so were a figure of the Church which Christ at his first comming into the world would gaine to himselfe out of all * Reuel 7. 9. Nations Tongues and Kindreds for woorshipping before his Throne And herein was Japhet returned to Shems Tabernacle as Noah foretold And the Prodigall Gentile repaired so to his Elder brothers inheritaunce namely that of the Jew as our Sauiour intimates in a Parable The Jew respecting the generall standeth without murmuring at the Gentiles acception Heauenly Father perswade him to come in that so thy Two people may become One for furthering thy glory This Catholique Church then is the whole body of people wheresoeuer * Catholique a greeke word in English Vniuersall and therefore not to be tyed to Rome or any one place citie or nation Catholiquely that is vniuersally spread vpon the whole face of the earth gathered from ludahs tribe vnto Shiloh himselfe as Jaak●b foretold in Genes 49. 10. when he sayd A Tribe shall not leaue ludah nor Lawgiuer from betweene his feete till Shiloh come then the people shal be gathered vnto Him that is to Christ. And whereas some vrge from the Epithet Holy that by holy Catholique Church is meant onely that part of the Church which is inuisible knowen onely vnto God each member wherof is Holy indeed I take it to be an errour First for that the auncient Writers who best vnderstoode their owne terme Catholique do vnderstande it of the visible Beleeuers wheresoeuer as may be seene specially in their forme of prouoking Heretiques Secondly the tearme Holy giuen vnto it doth no more proue that therefore euery soule in the Catholique Church is indeede Holy then the same tearme proueth all therefore in Israels people to be Holy indeed when as they be called an holy Nation For who in the Scriptures shal not perceiue that Israel howsoeuer Called to be Sainctes prooued still in fact and Fayth for the most part very prophane and Idolatrous And that is in deed a Sonne of perdition mounted in the Temple a body of Tares ouergrowing the Wheat-field Which not obserued of many it hath been cause of much errour in disputation about the visibilitie of the Church Euen as it followeth not because Jeroboam is a liuing man therefore euery member in him is liuing or hath life in it for his hand and some other parts may be dead and senslesse Then will some further obiect It followeth that as the Nationall Church of Israel and the Prouinciall Church of the Jewes had one visible Hie-priest ouer the whole so the Catholique Christian Church is to haue one visible Pastor ouer it I answere it followeth not First for that One may better rule ouer a Prouince or Nation then ouer the whole world Secondly for that God commaunded that people to repaire three times a yeare to that One place where that Hie-priest was to continue with the Arke of God but no such commaundement to vs. Nay God hath taken away that One place because in euery place he will be worshipped Our Melchi-esedek in repect of his Diuinitie is euery where therefore to be sacrificed too euery where and his Mandood is in the Heauens therefore Sur sum corda thither lift we vp our heartes As Christ is the onely head of this Church and this Church is the whole Corporation of Beleeuers of all Nations Kindreds and Tongues standing before his Throne so the life of this Church is his Spirit and the Spirit she receiueth * Galat 3. 2. 5. 8. by the preaching of Fayth Moses teacheth this euidently enough in not only introducing the Lord himselfe preaching the doctrine of Fayth to Adam and Heuah in Paradise and to other Patriarchs after but also in his giuing to auncient Mother Zion the whole Tribe of Leuj for discharging Ministeriall duties for information of Fayth besides that in desperate times he stirred vp Prophets of what Tribe soeuer without all Priestly forme of Ordination for informing Priest and people All which taking away Cerimoniall circumstaunces the Lorde doth to this catholique Church for trayning her through the worldes Wildernesse vnto the alotted Land of Promise heauenly Canaan In the meane time as the Church of Israel had her Captiuities vnder the which was an exercise of her patience and for gayning of libertie might vse no bodyly resistance euen so the Church of Christians hath her Captiuities which exact at her hands much more patience But as Jsrael deliuered by the Lords ministerie out of Aegipt had an Amalek to warr withal through all generations to the putting of his remembrance from vnder heauen Exod. 16. 8. c. And being freed from Babylon had enemies beyond the Riuer for resistaunce of whom they held a Sword in the one hand while they did the worke of the Lord with the other So the Christian Church vpon her deliueraunces hath her enemies with whom she must skirmish and against whom she must hold the swordes poynt while her people may buyld vp themselues an holy Temple Nehe. 4. 17. with 1. Cor. 6. 19. to the mightie God of Jaakob Section 5. ¶ Communion of Sainctes THe Church before being considered in the Catholique or generall or whole in these wordes Communion of * Sainctes by calling 1. Cor. 1. 2. though some amongst them were grosly Hereticall many Schismaticall and not a few Prophaine euen as in the Church of the Jewes some persecuted the Prophets and Christ himselfe thinking they did God good seruice Math. 21. 33. Sainctes or Holy-ones it is to be considered in the parts that is in her seuerall Societies and Corporations euen as from the Corporation of any whole Citie we descend to the consideration of particular Corporations or Companies included within the Cities vniuersall The Communion or Fellowship of Saincts by calling is to be considered as established or vnestablished Vnestablished as when some Beleeuers are gathered togeather in Citie or Familie but destitute of such spiritual functions as tend to absolute order And so two or three gathered together in Christs name haue him in the middest of them An Estabished Church is a competent company of Beleeuers * I say not Gathered for then no one should be a member that were not at the same season present gathering together in Christs name hauing and enioying such Ecclesiastique functions as be necessarily required for more orderly and sufficient administration of Word and Sacraments and Discipline Vnto which end the Apostle Paul is registred to haue gone too and fro establishing the Churches The Ecclesiastique functions appertayning to such orderly established Churches are of two sorts Bishops and Deacons as for Deaconistes they are rather to be serued then to serue