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A74986	An antidote against heresy: or a preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Arminians, &c. and their pestilent errours. Shewing the authors of those errours, their grounds and reasons, the time when and occasion how they did arise; with general answers to their arguments taken out of holy scripture and the ancient fathers. Written to stay the wandering and stablish the weak in these dangerous times of Apostasy. / By Richard Allen, M.A. sometime Fellow of Penbrooke [sic] Colledge in Oxford.	Allen, Richard, b. 1604 or 5.	1648 (1648)	Wing A1045A; Thomason E1168_2; ESTC R208803	57,457	159

house or the place of divine worship It seems to come of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or by contraction of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords or the Lords house the material temple is Gods house Joh. 2.16 Matth. 23.21 and so are the Saints too 1 Pet. 2.5 Eph. 2.22 But the word that properly signifies the congregation or assembly of the Saints and is so often in the New Testament translated Church is Ecclesia and this also is applied by S. Paul to the place of divine worship or meeting place 1 Cor. 11.18 22. The name of Church then is not so peculiar to the Saints but that it belongs also to the place of their publick meeting and therefore they are much to blame that make such a needless ado about the word in derision calling our Churches Steeplehouses c. But taking the word only for the assembly or company of the faithful we affirm First That there is and ever hath been a Church upon earth the Church continued from Adam in Abel Seth Enoch Noah and their families till Abraham In his posterity to Christ and then the walls of the Church were enlarged by pulling down the partition wall and calling in the Gentiles Matth. 28.19 Acts 2.47 Revel 2. 3. Churches were gathered and confirmed by the Apostles men set apart for the work of the Ministry Acts 11. 13. and those ●lso had authority given them to sepa●ate and ordain others also to the same work Tit. 1.5 and so to continue successively in all ages as it hath done to this day And now where the same Gospel is truly preached the same Sacraments duly administred Beleevers professing the same Faith and submitting to the same ordinances as at this day are in England Scotland c. there is a true Church of Christ as was in the Apostles times Secondly The true Catholick Church is the company of Gods Elect only whereof it is said that Christ gave himself for it Eph. 5.25 This is the Church of the first born who are written in heaven Heb. 12.22 The body of Christ Col. 1.18 The houshold of God Eph. 2.23 In which is no condemnation and out of which is no salvation and of this Church hypocrites or wicked men are not members for what fellowship hath Christ with Belial 2 Cor. 6.16 This Church is both invisible and invincible the gates of hell shall not prevail against it Mat. 16. Thirdly many are in the Church that are not of it outwardly called not inwardly from whence ariseth that distinction of the visible and invisible Church The invisible are the Elect only so called because their faith whereby and the body whereinto they are incorporate are both invisible The visible Church is the whole company of those that joyn in one outward league and profession The ground of this distinction is laid by our Saviour Mat. 20 16 and hereunto belongs that parable of the tares Mat. 13. whereby we are warned that although tares may grow i. wicked men or hypocrites may live in a visible Church yet not to condemn it or separate our selves as the manner of some is lest we forsake and condemn a company of Gods chosen but to esteem it for all that as a true Church for the better or more principal part i. the Elect that are in it even as S. Paul calls the Church of Corinth a Church of God though there were Hereticks Fornicators and incestuous persons among them Fourthly As the Church is the body of Christ so Christ is the head of the Church Col. 1.18 Eph. 5.23 And there can be none other because none else can give life sense and motion to that body and so the Pope cannot be head of the Church Not a temporal or secular head because the kingdom of Christ that is his Church is not of this world Not a spiritual head because he cannot give spiritual life and grace Nor a ministerial head because he cannot minister the Word and Sacraments to all Churches in the world neither doth it to his own pastoral charge and there can be no other reason why he should be called a ministerial head but for this ministry He cannot be the L●eutenant General or Vicar of Christ for a Lieutenant supposeth the absence of him whose place he holdeth but Christ is always present with his Church himself and so there is no room for the Popes Vicarage Fifthly The Churches of Asia and Judea who are now faln and become no Churches are sufficient witnesses to this truth that no Church on earth is priviledged or freed from errour Not the Church of Rome specially being guided by such a head as the Pope is who being but a man may err that man of sin and cannot but err most of their Popes for many hundred of years have erred both in matter of Faith and manners their own Histories testifie that they have been Negromancers Conjuers Blasphemers Hereticks Athiests Adulterers Murderers incestuous persons c. They have done and do sti● deny Christ persecute his Church condemn his truth deride his Gospel tu● his holy ordinances into ridiculou● Mock-shews and therefore the Churc● of Rome can no longer juggle and hide her abominable errours under the pretended infallibility of such a miscrea●● 2. Although Christ hath and ever had 〈◊〉 Church visible upon earth some companies of Beleevers making profession of the same common Faith yet it hat● and may come to pass that either through the infirmity of some that cannot discern it the malice of others that will not acknowledge it or throug● persecution being driven into corners the Church may lie hidden as it did i● the days of Elias 1 King 19.10 th●● it may not be visible to every eye 〈◊〉 the Papists ask then where was the tru●● Church before Luther and Calvin 〈◊〉 the Roman Church were not it We answer it was in the wilderness and yet in those darkest times of Popery it was not so over-shadowed but that the very flames of persecution did discover what and where it was plainly discerning the true sheep of Christ from those hellish wolves 3. The marks or notes of the true Church are the same whereby it was at first called and gathered sc the preaching of the Word and administration of the Sacraments those 15. substituted in their place by the Romanists are uncertain and may most of them agree with a Synagogue of Satan as well as a Church of Christ as Antiquity Multitude Miracles c. For that old Serpent had a Synagogue from the beginning and the primitive Church was a true Church though not ancient Christs Church is a little flock and Antichrist come shal with lying wonders c. Sixthly The Church is a spiritual Commonwealth and the communion of Saints is spiritual not temporal in levelling the mounds of private possessions and laying all things common Object It is said Act. 4.32 they had all things in common Sol. It is answered Act. 5.4 whiles it remained was it not thine own and after

AN ANTIDOTE Against HERESY OR A Preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists Anabaptists Arrians Arminians c. and their pestilent Errours Shewing the Authors of those Errours their grounds and reasons the time when and occasion how they did arise with general Answers to their Arguments taken out of holy Scripture and the Ancient Fathers Written to stay the wandering and stablish the weak in these dangerous times of Apostasy By RICHARD ALLEN M. A. sometime Fellow of Penbrooke Colledge in Oxford Pro. 23.23 Buy the Truth and sell it not London Printed by John Macock and are to be sold by Nathaniel Brooks at the sign of the Angel in Cornhil TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT Grace and Peace be multiplyed Right Honorable DIfferences in the Church have always caused differences in the Commonwealth and differences in the Commonwelth do commonly widen those differences in the Church Differences in Religion did cause these unhappy and unnatural Wars and these Wars have not ended but encreased them For notwithstanding the Solemn League and Covenant to extirpate all Popery Heresie Schism c. and in pursuance thereof your late pious Ordinance to stop their farther growth besides the excellent labours of many learned men yet Heresies are encreased above number like the unruly waters the more they are stopt the more they rage and swell And indeed Heresie Prophaness Barbarism and Atheism it self have always and in all places followed war as close as famine or pestilence do times of war and confusion being as fit times for the envious man to sow his tares in as times of peace sleep or security And now for composing these differences The Italians in a proverbial speech use to say that Hard to Hard never makes good stone-wall Meaning that in any difference there must be some yeelding or else there can never be any firm uniting In matters of Religion I have v●ntured to do something my calling thereunto engaging me with extream longings to see peace and truth settled amongst us These poor labors I humbly present unto your Honors hoping your Honors will take in good part what is intended to a good end though perhaps it may come much short of it and accept the work though small seeing the smallest stone will help to repair the greatest breach Your Honors humbly devoted RICHARD ALLEN monster that neither of the Swords yet could tame or cut off But when I heard the most horrid Blasphemies and saw the monstrous Heresies that every day new-sprang up to the high dishonor and displeasure of Almighty God the reproach of his truth saddening the hearts and dejecting the minds of his people the enemy in mean space riding in triumph and treading down all before him Setting aside all doubts and fears at last I finisht and publisht this small book partly inclined thereunto to yeeld some account of my late unpleasing leisure but chiefly for discharge of my duty and a double engagement that lay upon me 1. As a Christian being all bound as the Apostle exhorts us Jude 3. To contend earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints 2. As a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which we are bound more specially to defend and not to give place to false teachers No not for an hour that the truth of the Gospel may continue Gal. 2.5 Besides the solemn Covenant to extirpate all Heresie Schism and Prophaness and whatsoever is contrary to sound doctrine And now right worshipful I present you with it such as it is being engaged also thereunto by the many favors and kindnesses I have received of you whereof be pleased to tak this as an acknowledgment I hope it may prove some help to discover the manifold sleights and impostures of false Prophets and Deceivers that are entered into the world that privily bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them And many follow their pernicious ways but my prayers are always for you that yee may ever escape their snares Your Worships much obliged Nephew Richard Allen. A TABLE OF THE HEADS OR CHAPTERS Chap. I. OF the holy Scripture Page 1. Chap. II. Of the Blessed Trinity Page 14. Chap. III. Of the Creation Page 26. Chap. IV. Of Providence Page 29. Chap. V. Of the Fall of Man and Original Sin Page 35. Chap. VI. Of Freewil Page 40. Chap. VII Of the Person of Christ Page 44 Chap. VIII Of the Office of Christ Page 48 Chap. IX Of the Death of Christ Page 50 Chap. X. Of the Resurrection of Christ Page 54 Chap. XI Of Predestination Page 56 Chap. XII Of Vocation Page 64 Chap. XIII Of Justification Page 73 Chap. XIV Of Sanctification Page 78 Chap. XV. Of the Moral Law Page 84 Chap. XVI Of Good Works Page 87 Chap. XVII Of Death and Burial Page 90 Chap. XVIII Of the Resurrection of the flesh Page 94 Chap. XIX Of Glorification in Heaven Page 96 Chap. XX. Of Hell Page 98 Chap. XXI Of Purgatory Page 99 Chap. XXII Of Images Page 102 Chap. XXIII Of the Church Page 106 Chap. XXIV Of the Sacraments Page 115 Chap. XXV Of Baptism Page 119 Chap. XXVI Of the Lords Supper Page 126 Chap. XXVII Of Reformation Page 134 Chap. XXVIII Of Toleration Page 143 The Preface GOD never wrought miracle to convince Atheism because his ordinary works convince it For the Invisible things of him even his eternal power and Godhead are clearly seen and understood by the works of the Creation Rom. 1.20 And indeed never any people was heard of so barbarous but did acknowledg a God and though otherwise rude and voyd of all civility yet did profess and practise some Religion The very nature of man it self so far abhors direct Atheism that the Heathen made them Gods of wood and stone rather then have none at all and gave Divine Honours not to men only like themselves but even to base and vile creatures rather then be without a Religion The Devil then not able to root up this perswasion of a Deity so deeply and strongly fastened in the hearts of all men by nature from Atheism he turned to Heathenism from denying to multiplying the heavenly Deity and with a multitude of false Gods abused the world almost 4000. years But When the fulness of time was come God sent his Son a light to lighten the Gentiles who with the beams of his glorious truth so scattered this universal fog of Paganism that those lying vanities were shortly discovered mens consciences convinced of their former gross ignorance and turned from dead Idols to serve the living God And now this old Serpent is put to a new shift which the Father of lies was not long to seek of but driven from Heathenism betakes himself to Heresie for the worship of false Gods setting up false worships of the true God wherein he multiplied so exceedingly that now there are as many false worships as before were false Gods To trace this crooke●

Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel doth not acknowledg us Eccles 9.5 The dead know not any thing Job 5.1 Call now if there be any that will answer and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn If Paul were a Mediatour then the rest of his fellow Apostles were so too and if there be many Mediatours then S. Paul's saying 1 Tim. 2.5 doth not hold good that there is but one Mediatour c. August lib. 2. Cont. Epist Parmen cap. 8. Christ is Mediatour according to both natures according to his humane he suffered and dyed by the power of his divine he overcame death and rose again without his humane nature he could not suffer without his Divine to give price and value to his sufferings he had not satisfied therefore it is said God purchased his Church with his own blood Acts 20.28 Both natures did work in this Office of Mediatourship each of them doing his own proper work and yet both together producing but one common effect CHAP. IX The Death of Christ. Truth THe Office of Christ as Mediatour consists of three parts whereof his Priesthood is principal and of his Priesthood that oblation he made of himself upon the Cross whereby as the only Sacrifice for sin he pacified the wrath of God and redeeming our souls from eternal death purchased for us the favou● of God and life everlasting Errours Adversaries to this truth are 1. Arrians and Socinians who affirm Th● Christ by his death did not satisfie for our sins 2. Papists who say That Christ by his death indeed satisfied for our sins and for the eternal punishment due unto us for them but for the temporal punishment we must satisfie out selves either in this life or else hereafter in purgatory 3. Arminians affirm That Christ dyed for all men as well those that perish as those that are saved for Cain and Judas as well as Abell and Peter From whence 4. Another riseth That a man whom Christ dyed for may perish The death of Christ being the consummation and total sum as it were Antidote of all his sufferings from his cradle to his grave is therefore commonly taken for the whole satisfaction that he made unto God for our sins To the Adversaries we say First That Christ by his death did satisfie for our sins Isai 53.5 8 10. His soul was made an offering for sin c. Mat. 20.28 A ransom for many 1 Cor. 5.7 A Sacrifice for us Rom. 4.25 He was delivered to death for our sins And 5.10 We were reconciled by his death 1 Pet. 2.24 He bare our sins in his own body on the tree Object But Micah 7.18 God forgives iniquity because he delights in mercy If Christ satisfie for sin how is it mercy Sol. Christs merits and Gods mercy stand and agree together very wel Christ hath satisfied and yet we are freely forgiven because God exacts nothing of us but of Christ It is free to us we payed nothing and though Christ made satisfaction yet still our sins are freely forgiven us because Christ himself for whose sake our sins are forgiven us was freely given us Secondly Christ satisfied not only for eternal but temporal punishment aso For otherwise 1. It could not stand with Christs all-sufficient Sacrifice who trod the wine-press of his Fathers wrath alone and none helped him Isai 63.3 if we must satisfie for some part our selves 2. It cannot stand with Gods mercy who forgives us freely for Christs sake 3. It cannot stand with his Justice when the fault is forgiven in exact any punishment but they confess Christ hath satisfied for the fault fully therefore in Justice there can be no punishment left for us to undergo Thirdly Christ dyed not for all but only for the elect Mat 1.21 He shall save his people John 10.15 I lay down my life for the sheep And 17.9 I pray for them I pray not for the world c. Fourthly A man that Christ hath dyed for can never perish John 10.15 And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish c. 1 Pet. 1.5 They are kept the Power of God unto salvation and what is able to controll that power Object But Christ is a ransom for all 1 Tim. 2.6 Dyed for every man Heb. 2.9 For the whole world 1 John 2.2 Sol. By world is meant the world of Gods Elect so it is taken John 6.33 and John 17.9 for the reprobate only By all understand all sorts and degrees of men all Countries and Nations not the whole multitude of mankind but the amplitude of grace only August Tract 45. in Joan. He spared not his own Son but delivered him for us all Rom. 8.32 For all whom for the elect as it follows v. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect ●ld Cont. Donat. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself and the son of man came not to judg the world but to save it but the world is not reconciled unto God nor saved unless by world ye understand the Church which is both reconciled and saved Id. Epist. 48. Tom. 2. The whole world lyeth in wickedness i. the tares that grow all the world over And again Christ is a propitiation for the sins of the whole world i. for the wheat that likewise grows all world over CHAP. X. Resurrection of Christ Truth CHRIST did truly rise again from death and took his body flesh and bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature wherewith he ascended into Heaven and there fitteth at Gods right hand until he return again to judgment at the end of the world Errours David George the Father of the Family affirmed That Christs body was dissolved into ashes and so rose no more as of old Apelles said It was resolved into the four Elements whereof it was at first compounded 2. The Swenkfeldians affirm That it is quite layed aside 3. The Vbiquitaries That it is every where even as his Godhead is every where 4. There be at this day who affirm That it is in the Sun an old heresie of the Manichees and Seleucians who affirmed That Christ in his ascension left his body in the Sun taking their ground for it from Psal 19.5 He set his tabernacle in the Sun as they read It is no great matter to beleeve that Christ dyed this the Jews Heathen Antidote and all wicked men beleeve but the faith of Christians is the Resurrection of Christ August in Psal 120. This one point is the very lock and key of all Christian Religion For 1 Cor. 15.14 If Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain our faith is also vain we are still in our sins But Mark 16.6 He is not here he is risen 1 Cor. 15.4 He was seen of Cephas then of the twelve then of five hundred brethren at once Acts 2.31 Neither did his flesh see corruption Mark 16.19 He was received into Heaven and sate at

Papists themselves could never yet agree about the place where the pains what or the time how long it shall last and that the infallible Doctour of the Porphyry Chair cannot resolve it nor will of his charity release them without money as they say he can for money we leave it as a heathenish and sottish invention and if there be no purgatory then pardons and prayers for the dead are of no use and howsoever the pardons of a sinful man or the man of sin cannot be of any value An Irish Gentleman and a Papist being upon a former agreement to pay a certain sum of money to a Priest for Masses said for delivering his fathers soul out of purgatory brought the money and laid it down But quoth he to the Priest be ye sure now that my fathers soul is clear out Yes I 'le warrant you quoth the Priest Nay then quoth the Gentleman by my troth I have even done a childs part if he be out let him take heed how he comes there again and so putting up his money gave the Priest the baffle Countermining one cheat with another If all Papists would serve their Priests so and Pope too it would prove the best Antidote against this Heresie For money is the fuel that feeds this fire if it be fire and not water as some learned Papists have doubted it is CHAP. XXII Of Images Truth THe worship of Images Reliques the Cross c. are not only vain unwarrantable and contrary to Gods Word but also heathenish and abominable Idolatry Errours The Papists not only erect and adore Images themselves but also accurse and condemn as Hereticks to the fire yea to hell fire all those that will not do the like 2. The Pseudo-Lutherans retain Images in their Churches esteeming them not onely as Ornaments but also as lay-mens books to edifie admonish and put them in mind of some heavenly things but yet allow them not to be worshipped doing herein like the Turks who in the sack of Constantinople seeing the Temple of Saint Sophia a goodly structure and the marble pillars enameled and filleted with the pictures of Saints were loth to deface such goodly pieces though Images are contrary to their Law and Religion but only put out their eyes Images were creeping in apace here in England and I saw once the assumption of our Lady wrought upon the Communion Table or Altar cloth as it was called in a Church held in Commendam by Bishop Goodman of Glocester which I note above all other because it is a fabulous legend that the Papists themselves scarce admit The old heathen Romans for a long time had no Images Antidote accounting it sacriledg to present heavenly things by earthly forms seeing we cannot possibly any way attain unto the knowledg of God but in mind and understanding Plut. in Vita Numae The Turks have none nor the Jews as contrary to Gods Law The ancient Christians would not suffer an Image so much as in the Church-porch so jealous they were of Idolatry stealing in The Papists think they quit themselves of Idolatry when they say they worship not the Image but the Saint or diety in the Image But the same excuse is made by Plutarch for the heathen Idolaters who were none of them so sottish to take the Images of wood and stone for Gods able to help them God forbad not only graven Images to be worshipt but also himself to be worshipt in the Image If we make an Image of the true God to worship then we fall either 1. into Idolatry by worshipping the Image or 2. Errour and Heresie by ascribing to God a bodily shape which he hath not Abulensis in Deut. cap. 4. The Images of Saints are not to be worshipt because the Saints themselves are not to be worshipt The worship of Angels is expresly forbidden Col. 2.18 and the Angels themselves forbid it Rev. 19.10 22.9 with this Reason because they are our brethren and fellow servants Much less the Sains whose greatest honor is to be but as the Angels Mat. And the liveliest picture of Christ is in the Scriptures there he is painted before our eyes Gal. 3.1 A man may look upon a Crucifix as long as he lives and never the wiser never the holier In the Bible you have a speaking picture of Christ in a distressed brother a living Crucifix in the holy Supper a more lively Image of his death passion then any painter can devise and shew us those holy Mysteries that a picture can never do Images though not worshipped yet are not useful but hurtful in the place of Gods Worship the picture of Christ is so far from putting us in mind of him that it draws our minds from him tying our imagination to a corporal object Few pray before an Image but they pray likewise unto it a secret belief stealing into their minds that when they look upon it they think it hears them August Enarrat in Psalm 113. And therefore another says it is Diabolicae deceptionis inventum one of the Divels Arch-cheats CHAP. XXIII Of the Church Truth THe Church is the body of Christ or the Church is the whole company of Gods Elect called and gathered by his holy Word and Spirit out of all mankinde from the beginning to the end of the world into one fellowship with Christ and communion one with another And although many are called and but few chosen many are joyned unto the Church that are not united unto Christ hold outward communion with the Saints that have no inward fellowship with the Son of God yet we are in charity to account all those for members of the true Church that are outwardly called and accordingly make profession of the true Faith until the Lord the searcher of all hearts who alone knoweth who are his do make the truth appear as he shall do at the great day of his appearing Errours Adversaries to this truth are 1. Those that say there is no true Church upon earth as the Seekers do 2. Those that would have the visible Church to be voyd of sin and sinners as the Anabaptists Familists Brownists and all Separatists 3. That will have the true Catholick Church to be a mixt company of good and bad together as the Papists do 4. The same Papists to the great contumely and reproach of Christ advance their Pope to be head of the Church 5. To uphold their Antichristian Synagogue among many other they maintain three special errours that are the very props and pillars of the same sc That the Church cannot err That the Church is alwayes visible That the Word and Sacraments are not proper marks of the true Church 6. The Anabaptists abuse the communion of Saints in the Church to bring in a community of goods in the civil state and make all things common The word Church Antidote Chyrch or Kirch we borrow of the Duch among whom it is commonly taken for Gotteshause Gods