A
SERMON
AGAINST
HALTING
betweene
two
opinions
.
1.
King
:
Cap:
18.
Ver.
20.
&
21.
So
Ahab
sent
to
all
the
children
of
Israell
,
and
gathered
the
Prophets
together
to
Mount
Carmel
:
And
Elias
came
to
all
the
people
,
and
saide
,
how
long
halt
ye
betweene
two
opinions
?
If
the
Lord
be
God
follow
him
:
If
Baal
be
hee
,
goe
after
him
.
And
the
people
answered
him
not
one
word
.
AMong
other
blessings
which
God
bestoweth
vpon
his
Church
,
a
good
Prince
is
one
of
the
greatest
,
being
set
ouer
his
people
,
for
the
defence
and
maintenance
of
true
religion
and
vertue
.
And
for
this
cause
it
is
,
that
the
Apostle
S.
Paule
willeth
vs
,
first
and
aboue
all
other
things
,
to
pray
for
Kings
,
and
for
all
that
are
in
authoritie
,
1.
Tim:
2.1.2
.
that
[
vnder
them
]
we
may
leade
a
quiet
and
peaceable
life
,
in
all
godlines
and
honestie
.
In
the
which
words
the
Apostle
setteth
downe
three
speciall
good
things
which
wee
enioy
vnder
the
gouernment
of
a
godlie
and
religious
Prince
;
namely
,
godlines
,
honestie
,
and
peace
,
which
being
ioyned
together
,
are
the
onely
supporters
and
vpholders
of
all
Christian
Common-wealths
and
Kingdomes
:
but
being
seuered
one
from
an
other
,
there
falleth
out
a
cleane
contrarie
sequele
.
For
what
is
godlines
without
honestie
,
but
plaine
hypocrisie
?
or
what
is
honestie
without
godlines
,
but
meere
heathnish
gentilitie
?
or
what
is
peace
without
honestie
and
godlines
,
but
carnall
securitie
?
Now
as
for
honestie
and
godlines
without
peace
,
there
can
bee
no
great
practise
of
either
of
them
both
.
It
was
a
great
hindrance
to
the
people
of
Israel
in
their
deuotions
,
when
by
the
crueltie
of
Pharao
they
might
not
be
permitted
to
goe
into
the
wildernes
to
serue
God
.
And
afterwards
in
the
captiuity
of
Babylon
,
they
were
forced
to
sing
the
Lords
song
in
a
strange
land
:
Peace
and
tranquilitie
are
euer
an
occasion
of
great
increase
and
edification
.
In
the
Acts
when
the
Churches
had
rest
thoroughout
all
Iudea
and
Galilie
,
and
Samaria
,
they
were
edified
,
Acts
,
9.31
.
and
walked
in
the
feare
of
the
Lorde
,
and
were
multiplied
by
the
comfort
of
the
holie
Ghost
.
Where
wee
may
see
how
in
a
quiet
and
peaceable
Church
,
daily
teaching
and
preaching
is
of
verie
great
force
to
plant
godlines
and
the
feare
of
God
in
mens
hearts
,
and
withall
,
discipline
of
manners
:
whereas
in
a
Church
which
is
vnder
the
crosse
,
it
falleth
out
still
for
the
most
part
,
that
ecclesiasticall
assemblies
are
hindered
and
forbidden
to
be
practised
.
Ministers
and
Preachers
are
either
imprisoned
,
driuen
away
,
or
put
to
death
:
Parents
,
and
fathers
of
Families
driuen
away
out
of
their
houses
;
whereby
such
houses
being
dissolued
,
children
are
bereaued
of
good
education
,
godlie
men
are
seuered
one
from
another
:
in
which
dissipation
sound
doctrine
is
not
to
be
had
:
Faith
languisheth
:
all
godly
exercises
in
training
vp
of
youth
lieth
still
,
and
all
other
godlie
and
Christian
meetings
quite
geuen
ouer
:
Farre
otherwise
then
it
was
vnder
the
raignes
of
Dauid
,
Ezechias
,
Iosias
and
Iehoshaphat
,
in
whose
dayes
the
people
enioyed
those
three
blessings
before
remembred
;
namely
,
godlines
,
honestie
,
and
peace
.
All
those
godly
and
religious
Kings
,
not
onely
by
words
encouraging
the
people
to
serue
God
,
but
by
their
examples
,
drawing
great
multitudes
to
imitate
the
same
zeale
and
feruencie
,
which
they
saw
to
be
in
such
Princes
vnder
whom
they
liued
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
when
God
in
his
anger
and
iust
indignation
sendeth
wicked
Princes
to
sit
in
place
of
iudgement
and
authoritie
,
religion
and
vertue
goeth
to
decay
,
Gods
honour
is
defaced
,
the
people
drawne
to
idolatrie
,
the
worship
and
seruice
of
God
prophanely
abused
:
the
truth
whereof
as
it
appeareth
by
diuerse
and
sundry
examples
of
wicked
Kings
in
the
holie
scriptures
,
so
in
none
more
plainly
then
in
King
Ahab
,
of
whome
I
shall
haue
occasion
heereafter
to
speake
,
of
whom
the
Scripture
thus
recordeth
,
that
he
solde
himselfe
to
doe
wickedly
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
,
that
hee
did
exceeding
abhominably
in
following
idolles
,
2.
King
:
10.30.31
.
according
to
allthat
the
Ammonites
did
,
being
prouoked
thervnto
by
Iezabel
his
wife
.
For
it
was
a
light
thing
for
him
to
walk
in
the
sinnes
of
Ieroboam
,
except
he
tooke
Iezabel
also
the
daughter
of
Ethbaal
,
king
of
the
Sydonians
to
wife
,
and
serued
Baal
,
and
worshipped
him
.
In
whose
dayes
what
an
hauocke
there
was
made
of
the
Saintes
and
seruants
of
God
,
what
an
increase
there
was
made
of
most
grosse
idolatrie
,
by
ioyning
Gods
worship
and
Baals
together
;
what
slaughter
of
the
Prophets
of
God
liuing
in
those
times
,
which
went
vp
and
downe
,
wandering
in
sheepes-skinnes
and
goates
skinnes
,
beeing
destitute
,
tormented
,
and
afflicted
;
and
for
the
safegard
of
their
liues
,
being
glad
to
wander
in
the
wildernesse
and
mountaines
,
and
dennes
and
caues
of
the
earth
,
Heb:
11.37
.
is
plainely
to
be
seene
by
the
complaint
and
request
of
the
Prophet
,
2.
King
:
19.14
.
which
hee
made
vnto
God
against
Israel
,
saying
,
O
Lorde
the
children
of
Israel
haue
forsaken
thy
couenant
,
cast
downe
thine
Altars
,
and
slaine
thy
Prophet
with
the
sworde
,
and
I
onely
am
left
,
and
they
seeke
my
life
to
take
it
away
.
(
Albeit
the
answer
of
God
said
vnto
him
,
I
haue
reserued
to
my selfe
seuen
thousand
men
,
Rom:
11.3.4
.
which
haue
not
bowed
the
knee
to
Baal
:
)
In
this
great
and
miserable
desolation
,
and
confusion
of
his
Church
,
the
Lord
remembring
his
people
of
Israel
,
when
they
little
looked
for
it
,
and
lesse
deserued
it
,
sent
Elias
the
Prophet
vnto
them
,
who
,
the
more
forciblie
to
drawe
both
the
King
and
his
Subjects
to
a
serious
consideration
of
their
sinnes
,
and
to
shew
how
greatly
the
Lord
was
displeased
for
their
idolatrous
worshipping
of
Baal
,
1.
King
:
17.1
.
tolde
king
Ahab
to
his
face
,
As
the
Lorde
liueth
,
before
whome
I
stand
,
there
shall
be
neither
deaw
nor
raine
these
yeares
,
but
according
to
my
word
:
which
indeed
according
to
the
saying
of
the
Prophet
came
to
passe
.
For
as
Elias
(
moued
by
the
instinct
of
Gods
holy
spirit
)
prayed
vnto
God
earnestly
that
it
might
not
raine
,
Iam:
5.17
.
so
according
to
his
prayer
,
it
rained
on
the
earth
,
for
three
yeares
and
sixe
moneths
.
By
meanes
wherof
,
the
famine
was
so
great
in
Israel
for
lacke
of
raine
,
that
man
and
beast
were
readie
to
perish
:
and
raine
they
could
haue
none
but
at
Elias
word
,
as
Elias
had
told
the
king
before
the
drought
beganne
.
At
the
ende
of
the
three
yeares
and
sixe
moneths
of
drought
,
1.
King
:
18.1
.
the
Prophet
Elias
was
commaunded
to
shewe
himselfe
to
king
Ahab
,
and
albeit
hee
was
greatly
disswaded
so
to
doe
by
Obadiah
,
whom
hee
met
in
the
way
,
yet
the
Prophet
was
resolute
,
solemnly
protesting
to
Obadiah
,
As
the
Lord
of
Hostes
liueth
,
in
whose
presence
I
stand
,
I
will
surely
shew
my selfe
vnto
Ahab
this
day
.
1.
King
:
18
:
15.
Meeting
therfore
with
Ahab
,
and
beeing
challenged
by
him
as
the
author
of
that
famine
,
and
troubler
of
Israel
,
he
discharged
himselfe
,
and
protested
before
the
King
,
that
God
plagued
the
whole
Land
,
because
hee
and
his
Fathers
house
had
forsaken
the
commaundements
of
the
Lord
,
and
followed
other
Gods
.
And
to
iustifie
his
speech
,
he
offered
to
prooue
before
all
Israel
,
on
the
danger
of
his
owne
head
,
that
the
king
and
the
Land
were
but
seduced
and
abused
by
the
Prophets
of
Baal
,
and
that
hee
would
prooue
by
no
worse
meanes
then
by
miraculous
fire
from
heauen
,
which
should
shew
them
whose
sacrifice
was
accepted
,
assuring
them
of
raine
aboundantly
after
their
conuersion
to
the
true
GOD
,
for
which
cause
at
this
time
hee
was
sent
vnto
them
.
To
this
the
King
gaue
his
consent
,
and
by
the
perswasion
and
motion
of
Elias
,
sent
by
his
Princely
authoritie
,
for
all
Israel
,
that
they
should
gather
themselues
together
in
mount
Carmel
,
together
with
the
Prophets
of
Baal
,
450.
(
which
were
dispersed
throghout
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
,
)
the
prophets
of
the
groues
,
400.
which
did
eat
at
Iezabels
table
.
The
King
,
&
the
chiefe
heads
of
the
people
of
Israel
,
and
the
prophets
of
Baal
,
being
thus
assembled
together
in
mount
Carmel
,
Elias
commeth
to
the
people
,
and
saith
thus
vnto
them
;
How
long
will
yee
halt
betweene
two
Opinions
,
&
c
?
In
the
which
words
of
the
Prophet
,
I
obserue
foure
speciall
things
worthy
of
consideration
.
Diuisio
.
First
,
he
reproueth
the
Israelites
for
their
halting
consciences
betweene
two
religions
.
Secondly
,
hee
declareth
vnto
them
that
they
cannot
serue
both
Baal
and
God
together
,
and
that
religion
is
not
a
thing
indifferent
.
Thirdlie
,
hee
exhorteth
them
to
constancie
in
religion
,
and
in
following
of
God
.
Fourthlie
,
the
successe
which
followed
this
reproofe
of
the
Prophet
.
In
the
reproofe
of
the
Prophet
.
I
obserue
these
foure
points
.
First
,
who
it
is
that
reproueth
,
Elias
.
Secondlie
,
the
persons
whom
he
doth
reproue
;
The
people
of
Israel
.
Thirdlie
,
the
person
before
whom
:
King
Ahab
.
Fourthlie
,
the
thing
he
reproueth
in
the
people
:
their
wauering
and
vnconstancie
in
matter
of
religion
.
In
the
person
of
Elias
,
The
person
of
Elias
.
wee
haue
to
obserue
the
great
zeale
,
constancie
,
and
boldnesse
,
which
should
bee
in
the
ministers
and
preachers
of
the
Gospel
.
For
vnto
them
it
belongeth
to
preach
the
preachings
the
Lorde
hath
bidden
them
,
and
to
proclaime
his
vengeance
against
sinners
,
yea
euen
to
stand
at
the
gates
of
paradise
with
a
flaming
sword
in
their
mouth
against
obstinate
and
vnrepentant
sinners
.
That
which
the
prophet
Micheas
saith
of
himselfe
,
Mich.
3.8
.
that
he
was
full
of
power
by
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
,
and
of
iudgement
,
and
of
strength
,
to
declare
vnto
Iacob
his
transgression
,
and
to
Iacob
his
sinne
,
was
as
truly
verified
in
his
owne
person
whom
neither
the
Courtlike
perswasions
of
the
Eunuch
that
went
for
him
,
nor
the
consent
of
400.
Prophets
,
nor
the
fauour
of
two
Kings
,
nor
the
danger
of
his
owne
head
could
driue
him
from
the
word
of
God
:
And
when
the
Eunuch
had
said
vnto
him
,
behold
now
the
words
of
the
Prophets
declare
good
things
vnto
the
King
with
one
accord
:
1.
King
.
22.13.14
.
let
thy
word
therefore
,
I
pray
thee
be
like
vnto
the
word
of
one
of
them
,
and
speake
thou
good
,
Micheas
answered
him
roundly
,
As
the
Lord
liueth
,
whatsoeuer
the
Lord
saith
vnto
me
,
that
will
I
speake
.
The
like
zeale
and
courage
we
reade
in
Scripture
to
haue
beene
in
Elizeus
the
Prophet
,
vnto
whom
when
King
Iehoram
,
Ahabs
son
had
sent
to
know
of
him
what
successe
his
battell
intended
against
the
King
of
Moab
was
like
to
haue
,
the
Prophet
very
boldly
answered
the
King
after
this
manner
;
What
haue
I
to
doe
with
thee
?
get
thee
to
the
Prophets
of
thy
Fathers
,
and
to
the
Prophets
of
thy
mother
,
2.
King
.
3.13.14
.
and
said
moreouer
vnto
him
,
as
the
Lord
liueth
,
in
whose
sight
I
stand
,
if
it
were
not
that
I
regarde
the
presence
of
Iehosaphat
the
king
of
Iudah
,
I
would
not
once
haue
looked
towardes
thee
nor
seene
thee
.
But
of
all
others
commended
in
scripture
for
zeale
and
courage
,
the
prophet
Elias
may
carie
the
praise
from
them
al
:
Of
whom
in
Ecclesiasticus
it
is
thus
reported
,
Ecclesiast.
cap.
48.1
.
that
he
stood
like
a
fire
,
and
his
words
burned
like
a
lampe
,
and
because
the
people
of
Israel
could
not
away
with
the
commandement
of
the
Lord
,
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
he
shut
the
heauen
,
and
so
brought
a
famine
vpon
them
.
He
was
appointed
to
reproue
in
due
season
,
and
to
pacifie
the
wrath
of
the
Lords
iudgement
before
it
kindled
,
Malac.
4.6
.
and
so
to
turne
the
hearts
of
the
Fathers
to
the
children
,
and
the
hearts
of
the
children
to
their
fathers
.
Vnto
the
which
place
the
Angell
Gabriel
prophesying
before
hand
vnto
Zacharie
,
what
manner
of
person
his
sonne
Iohn
Baptist
should
be
,
alludeth
,
saying
;
Luk.
1.17
.
that
he
should
goe
before
the
Lord
in
the
power
and
spirit
of
Elias
,
to
turne
the
hearts
of
the
fathers
to
the
children
,
and
the
disobedient
to
the
wisedome
of
the
iust
,
to
make
readie
a
people
prepared
for
the
Lord
.
O
that
all
the
Preachers
and
Ministers
of
this
kingdome
were
so
possessed
with
the
power
and
spirit
of
Elias
,
that
by
beating
downe
sinne
and
wickednesse
,
by
the
sword
of
the
spirit
,
and
by
giuing
knowledge
of
saluation
to
the
people
of
God
,
they
might
prepare
the
waies
of
the
Lord
by
pulling
downe
the
mountaines
,
by
raising
and
filling
vp
the
vallies
,
by
making
crooked
things
straight
,
by
making
rough
waies
smooth
;
By
the
mountaines
are
vnderstood
,
men
that
are
very
high
and
proud
in
the
opinion
of
their
owne
righteousnes
,
which
by
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
shall
abate
their
pride
,
and
so
come
to
Christ
.
By
the
vallies
are
meant
,
men
that
are
vtterly
despaire
of
all
men
,
and
altogether
liuing
in
dispaire
:
such
shal
be
raised
vp
to
the
fellowship
and
communion
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
:
By
crooked
things
are
signified
such
things
as
haue
beene
warped
and
writhed
sundrie
waies
,
Psal.
119.9
.
which
shall
be
made
straight
by
the
leuell
and
squire
of
the
Gospell
.
For
how
shall
a
young
man
(
saith
Dauid
)
clense
his
waies
,
but
by
ruling
himselfe
after
the
word
of
God
.
As
for
the
rough
waies
that
shal
be
made
plaine
,
they
are
called
rough
by
reason
of
the
thornes
of
manifold
vices
,
and
naughtie
desires
and
lusts
,
the
short
is
,
that
the
course
of
all
things
shal
be
changed
to
such
contraries
,
that
all
impediments
and
lettes
that
shall
hinder
the
course
of
the
Gospell
,
shall
be
broken
,
and
so
the
Preachers
of
Christs
sacred
word
&
Gospel
,
shall
make
readie
a
people
prepared
for
the
Lord
.
But
alas
we
are
fallen
into
these
miserable
daies
,
euen
the
worst
and
last
daies
,
that
we
are
so
farre
off
from
suffering
ourselues
to
be
reproued
when
we
sinne
,
that
we
doe
reioyce
when
we
doe
wickedly
.
Wee
cannot
abide
to
haue
our
faults
touched
.
Our
Pride
is
growen
as
high
as
the
Heauen
:
our
couetousnesse
is
sunke
as
deepe
as
hell
;
and
yet
wee
cannot
in
any
wise
suffer
ourselues
to
be
reproued
.
Wee
say
to
the
preachers
,
Peace
,
and
talke
not
vnto
vs
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
;
tell
not
vs
of
the
Scripture
:
Tell
not
vs
of
Christ
,
of
Peter
,
of
Paul
:
wee
bid
the
preacher
speake
vs
faire
,
and
we
bid
him
blesse
those
things
,
which
are
accursed
by
Gods
owne
mouth
.
Nay
,
manie
there
are
which
are
already
wearie
of
the
Gospel
,
and
wearie
of
their
preachers
,
they
call
them
Pulpit-men
of
the
spirite
,
Priests
,
and
I
know
not
what
,
as
though
themselues
had
nothing
to
doe
with
the
spirite
of
God
.
They
say
the
Preacher
is
too
busie
,
hee
medleth
with
that
he
knoweth
not
.
Yes
,
thou
foolish
man
,
he
knoweth
it
well
enough
.
He
knoweth
that
pride
is
pride
:
that
extortion
is
extortion
:
that
couetousnes
is
couetousnes
:
that
sacriledge
is
sacriledge
:
that
vsurie
is
vsurie
:
that
sinne
is
sinne
:
and
thou
,
and
thine
owne
conscience
knoweth
it
too
,
if
thou
wouldest
be
knowen
of
it
.
But
God
is
iust
,
and
as
the
extreme
disdaine
of
Gods
truth
,
and
his
holie
Gospel
,
deserueth
the
extremitie
of
Gods
vengeance
;
So
can
it
not
bee
without
speedie
,
and
earnest
repentance
,
but
that
this
Gospel
,
that
we
are
alreadie
so
wearie
of
,
shall
bee
taken
away
from
vs
;
euen
the
kingdome
of
God
,
which
is
the
true
vnderstanding
of
Gods
word
,
shall
be
taken
away
from
vs
:
And
then
,
what
can
there
remaine
,
but
blindnesse
and
ignorance
,
which
is
the
kingdome
of
the
diuell
.
But
this
is
the
only
comfort
that
Preachers
haue
in
this
great
contradiction
and
opposition
of
the
worlde
,
that
if
they
haue
a
carefull
endeuour
to
discharge
a
good
conscience
in
crying
out
against
wickednesse
:
and
lifting
vp
their
voices
,
like
a
Trumpet
against
the
disorders
of
common
life
,
God
Almightie
will
so
arme
all
such
zealous
preachers
,
with
such
an
inuincible
strength
and
constancie
,
that
all
the
powers
of
the
world
shall
neuer
be
able
to
ouercome
them
.
Bee
not
afraide
,
(
saith
God
to
the
Prophet
Ieremie
)
of
their
faces
,
for
beholde
(
saith
hee
)
I
haue
this
day
made
thee
a
defenced
citie
,
and
an
iron
pillar
,
and
walles
of
brasse
against
the
whole
land
,
against
the
kings
of
Iuda
,
and
against
the
Princes
therof
,
Ier.
1.18
.
against
the
Priests
therof
&
against
the
people
of
the
land
.
They
shall
fight
against
thee
,
but
they
shall
not
preuaile
against
thee
.
For
I
am
with
thee
,
to
deliuer
thee
,
saith
the
Lord
.
What
saith
S.
Cyprian
,
Shall
the
inuincible
Tents
of
Christ
,
defended
with
the
strength
of
the
Lord
,
Lib.
1.
Epist.
ad
Cornel
:
giue
place
to
the
terrors
and
threatnings
of
men
?
Shall
the
Church
yeeld
to
the
Capitol
?
Shall
the
outrages
of
madde
men
be
greater
then
the
iudgements
and
censures
of
ministers
?
No
,
God
forbid
,
it
must
not
be
so
.
For
,
are
not
the
preachers
the
lights
of
the
world
,
and
therefore
appointed
by
God
to
espie
faultes
?
are
they
not
the
voice
of
Iohn
Baptist
?
why
then
should
not
they
crie
out
against
sinnes
?
Seeing
therefore
,
they
are
the
seers
of
the
Lorde
,
they
must
not
be
blinde
:
and
being
the
Lords
criers
,
they
must
not
be
dumbe
,
nor
tongue-tyed
.
And
thus
much
touching
the
person
of
Elias
.
In
the
person
of
king
Ahab
,
I
note
how
stronglie
and
forciblie
an
euill
example
of
a
wicked
Prince
,
draweth
the
people
to
imitate
,
and
to
make
all
the
subjectes
with
whome
they
liue
,
as
like
vnto
them
in
naughtinesse
,
as
Bees
are
like
vnto
Bees
.
Regis
ad
exemplum
totus
componitur
Orbis
.
Wee
all
knowe
the
force
of
Example
,
Like
people
,
Esa:
24.2
.
like
Pri●st
:
like
seruant
like
Maister
:
like
maide
,
like
Mistris
:
like
buyer
,
like
seller
:
like
lender
,
like
borrower
:
like
giuer
,
like
taker
to
vsurie
.
So
that
the
greater
the
example
is
,
the
greater
autoritie
it
hath
to
draw
to
similitude
.
When
Abimelech
cut
downe
his
bough
and
bare
it
on
his
shoulder
,
then
all
the
people
did
so
and
followed
him
.
Iudi
,
9.48
.
1.
King
:
12.28
.
When
King
Ieroboam
made
two
golden
Calues
,
no
great
maruell
if
the
people
straight-waies
beganne
to
Sacrifice
in
Dan
and
Bethel
.
Dionysius
had
no
sooner
left
off
the
study
of
Philosophie
,
but
all
the
Courtiers
by
and
by
gaue
it
ouer
.
Princes
therefore
,
and
such
as
are
placed
in
higher
degrees
,
had
need
to
take
heede
,
and
diligently
to
beware
how
they
sinne
the
sinne
of
Ieroboam
,
which
not
onely
sinned
himselfe
,
but
caused
Israell
to
sinne
,
and
so
binde
two
sinnes
together
.
The
reason
is
,
because
the
verie
credite
,
and
countenance
,
and
prioritie
of
their
places
,
being
so
eminent
,
makes
others
the
bolder
to
sinne
,
because
they
sinne
with
such
actors
.
And
yet
this
may
seeme
strange
in
the
corruption
of
mans
nature
,
that
the
common
people
are
more
easily
giuen
to
follow
their
euill
examples
and
offences
,
then
ready
to
take
benefite
of
the
good
gouernement
of
godly
and
religious
Princes
.
2.
Chron:
17.6
.
Iehoshaphat
was
a
good
king
,
who
lifted
vp
his
heart
vnto
the
wayes
of
the
Lorde
,
walking
in
the
first
wayes
of
his
father
Dauid
:
yet
was
not
his
good
example
so
potent
and
forcible
to
retaine
his
people
in
the
profession
of
the
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
,
as
the
euill
example
of
Ahab
was
of
power
to
entice
his
Subiects
to
become
worshippers
of
Baal
the
Idoll
of
the
Sydonians
.
And
whereas
Iehoshaphat
in
pollicie
ioyned
affinitie
with
Ahab
,
and
gaue
his
Sonne
in
marriage
vnto
Athaliah
,
daughter
of
Iezabel
:
beeing
perswaded
that
by
this
matche
there
would
growe
a
perpetuall
peace
betweene
the
two
kingdoms
,
being
by
blood
so
neerely
conioined
together
;
and
withall
,
concerning
an
assured
hope
,
by
this
means
to
reduce
the
ten
Tribes
to
the
true
worship
of
the
God
which
then
flourished
in
Ierusalem
:
he
was
deceiued
,
&
so
farre
off
from
attaining
to
his
wished
and
desired
ende
,
that
the
Kings
of
Israel
stood
most
stifflie
in
maintenance
of
their
priest-mate
idolatrie
,
and
by
their
wicked
example
,
drew
almost
all
Iuda
to
the
same
most
abhominable
worship
of
Baal
.
For
as
the
storie
of
the
scripture
recordeth
,
Iehosaphat
was
no
sooner
dead
,
but
Iehoram
his
sonne
by
the
counsell
of
wicked
Athalia
his
wife
,
being
placed
in
the
kingdome
of
his
father
,
and
making
himselfe
strong
,
slew
all
his
brethren
with
the
sword
,
and
so
continued
to
walke
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel
,
2.
Chro.
21.4
.
the
reason
whereof
is
set
downe
by
the
holy
ghost
,
because
he
had
Athalia
the
daughter
of
Ahab
to
wife
,
but
the
Lord
plaguea
him
,
because
he
made
Iuda
and
the
inhabitants
of
Ierusalem
to
goe
a
whoring
,
2.
Chro.
21.13
.
as
the
house
of
Ahab
went
a
whoring
,
and
had
slaine
the
brethren
of
his
father
which
were
better
then
himselfe
.
So
that
after
many
calamities
that
befell
Iehoram
the
king
for
his
falling
away
from
God
,
the
Lord
smote
his
bowelles
with
an
incurable
disease
,
and
so
after
two
yeares
his
guttes
fell
out
with
his
disease
.
His
sonne
Ahaziah
partly
moued
by
the
example
of
his
father
to
commit
idolatrie
;
partly
egged
on
by
the
perswasion
of
his
mother
Athalia
,
who
counselled
him
to
doe
wickedly
,
and
principally
choosing
onely
such
to
be
his
counsellers
,
which
were
of
the
house
of
Ahab
,
which
were
indeed
to
his
destruction
,
going
with
Iehoram
his
vncle
the
sonne
of
Ahab
to
fight
against
Hazael
king
of
Aram
,
was
slaine
by
the
hands
of
Iehu
,
whom
the
Lord
had
annointed
to
destroy
the
house
of
Ahab
,
whose
destruction
came
of
the
Lord
,
because
he
ioyned
himselfe
with
goddes
enemies
.
After
his
death
Athalia
seeing
that
her
sonne
was
dead
,
to
the
intent
there
should
remaine
none
of
the
royall
progenie
of
Dauid
,
that
should
make
title
and
claime
to
the
crowne
and
kingdome
of
Iuda
,
she
arose
and
destroyed
all
the
kings
seed
of
the
house
of
Iuda
.
But
God
almightie
because
of
the
couenant
which
he
had
made
with
Diuid
,
and
because
he
had
made
a
promise
to
giue
a
light
vnto
him
,
and
to
his
sonnes
for
euer
,
stirred
vp
the
heart
of
Iehoshabeath
the
daughter
of
the
king
,
and
sister
of
Ahaziah
to
commiseration
,
who
tooke
Ioes
the
sonne
of
Ahaziah
,
and
stole
him
away
from
the
kings
sonnes
that
should
be
slaine
,
and
put
him
and
his
nurse
in
the
bedchamber
,
and
so
by
hiding
of
him
in
the
house
of
God
during
those
sixe
yeares
wherein
Athaliah
raigned
ouer
the
land
,
preserued
his
life
.
Thus
we
may
see
what
it
is
for
godly
Princes
to
ioyne
affinitie
with
the
house
of
Ahab
,
and
how
quickly
Iuda
and
the
inhabitants
of
Ierusalem
were
inticed
and
drawne
to
goe
a
whoring
,
as
the
house
of
Ahab
went
a
whoring
;
whereas
none
of
all
the
kings
of
Israel
could
euer
be
drawne
by
the
voyces
of
the
Prophets
of
God
sent
vnto
them
to
worship
the
Lord
in
Ierusalem
which
was
the
place
,
where
the
Lord
commanded
his
name
to
be
called
on
.
We
reade
how
the
Egyptians
notwithstanding
the
people
of
God
continued
many
yeares
among
them
in
Egypt
,
where
they
might
see
how
God
was
truly
to
be
worshipped
,
yet
for
all
their
conuersing
with
them
,
were
litle
or
nothing
the
better
for
them
:
but
plaine
it
is
,
that
the
Israelites
after
their
departure
from
Egypt
,
did
many
yeares
after
smell
of
the
leuen
of
Egypt
,
where
they
saw
before
their
eyes
both
calues
,
sheepe
,
and
oxen
worshipped
in
stead
of
gods
,
which
caused
them
many
times
to
commit
most
grosse
,
&
abominable
idolatrie
,
the
reason
why
the
nature
of
man
is
so
pliable
to
learne
all
manner
of
wickednesse
(
for
dociles
imitandis
turpibus
&
prauis
omnes
sumus
)
,
is
because
the
nature
of
sinne
is
such
,
so
potent
&
strong
,
that
easily
and
quickly
,
it
creepeth
,
and
corrupteth
,
which
in
good
things
a
man
shall
hardly
see
.
A
litle
sowre
will
spill
a
great
deale
of
sweete
,
but
it
is
no
small
store
of
sweete
,
that
will
take
away
but
a
litle
bitternesse
.
A
litle
blacke
wil
marre
a
great
deale
of
white
:
but
it
is
not
so
in
the
contrarie
.
It
is
not
so
easie
for
a
drop
of
water
to
quench
a
great
fire
,
as
it
is
for
a
litle
sparke
to
burne
vp
a
whole
citie
.
By
this
which
hath
beene
alreadie
said
,
it
may
sufficiently
appeare
how
strongly
the
euill
example
of
wicked
Princes
doth
induce
,
and
draw
the
common
people
to
imitate
such
vices
as
they
see
in
their
Princes
vnder
whom
they
liue
.
And
let
this
suffice
to
haue
obserued
in
the
person
of
Ahab
.
Touching
the
people
whom
the
Prophet
reproueth
in
this
,
for
their
halting
consciences
,
and
doubling
in
matter
of
religion
,
we
may
see
the
pronenesse
and
inclination
of
mans
corrupt
kind
and
nature
to
the
most
abominable
vice
of
idolatrie
.
True
it
is
,
that
mans
nature
at
the
first
had
vnderstanding
graunted
to
the
end
that
the
truth
might
be
learned
by
them
,
and
the
true
worship
of
the
one
God
,
the
onely
Lord
and
maker
of
all
.
But
the
diuels
malice
craftily
came
in
place
,
and
caused
men
to
forget
their
owne
estate
,
and
the
maiestie
of
God
for
their
owne
imaginations
.
So
that
flesh
delighting
in
her
owne
deuises
,
hath
made
vs
prone
aboue
all
other
faultes
,
to
superstition
and
wicked
worshippings
.
Sundrie
lawes
and
ordinances
almightie
God
deliuered
to
his
people
to
be
kept
:
yet
concerning
none
other
matter
,
did
he
giue
either
mo
,
or
more
earnest
,
and
expresse
lawes
than
those
that
concerned
the
true
worshipping
of
him
,
and
flying
of
idolles
,
and
images
and
idolatrie
,
and
yet
it
is
strange
to
consider
how
the
Iewes
the
onely
chosen
people
of
God
,
notwithstanding
they
were
so
often
,
and
earnestly
warned
,
so
dreadfully
threatned
concerning
images
;
so
many
times
and
so
extreamely
punished
therefore
,
should
yet
for
all
this
,
like
blinde
men
without
all
knowledge
and
vnderstanding
dishonour
and
diminish
the
high
maiestie
of
the
liuing
God
by
the
basenesse
and
vilenesse
of
sundrie
and
diuerse
images
of
dead
stones
,
and
stockes
,
and
mettalles
to
whom
they
bowed
and
gaue
worship
.
The
meanes
how
the
people
of
the
Iewes
fell
to
such
grosse
idolatrie
,
was
partly
by
the
inclination
of
their
owne
corrupt
nature
,
and
partly
occasioned
by
the
gentiles
and
heathen
people
dwelling
round
about
them
,
which
were
idolaters
:
for
thus
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
testifieth
of
them
,
that
they
were
wont
to
say
,
Eze.
20.32
.
we
will
be
as
the
heathen
,
and
as
the
families
of
the
countries
,
and
we
will
serue
wood
and
stone
.
We
see
how
the
Iewes
forced
Aaaron
afore
his
brother
Moses
could
descend
from
the
mount
,
to
make
them
a
golden
calfe
:
Vp
say
they
to
Moses
,
Exod.
32.1
.
and
Aaron
,
make
vs
goddes
that
may
goe
before
vs
.
Ezechiel
affirmeth
,
that
when
the
Israelites
were
yet
in
Egypt
,
they
had
rebelled
against
the
Lord
,
and
had
not
cast
away
the
abominations
of
their
eyes
,
nor
yet
forsaken
the
idolles
of
the
countrie
.
Yea
when
they
were
in
the
land
of
Canaan
,
they
had
no
sooner
tasted
of
the
sweetnesse
thereof
,
but
when
they
saw
euery
hie
hill
,
and
all
the
thicke
trees
,
they
offered
there
their
sacrifices
,
Eze.
20
28.
and
there
they
presented
their
offerings
of
prouocation
:
there
also
they
made
their
sweete
sauour
,
and
powred
out
there
their
drinke
offerings
.
We
may
reade
and
see
in
the
booke
of
Iudges
,
that
notwithstanding
God
sundrie
times
most
grieuously
plagued
them
for
their
idolatrie
;
yet
still
they
went
a madding
after
their
idolles
.
We
see
that
after
the
zealous
kings
Ezechias
and
Iosias
had
reformed
religion
,
and
reduced
it
to
his
ancient
puritie
,
the
people
were
so
prone
to
the
contrarie
,
that
immediately
the
people
after
their
decease
,
returned
to
their
vomite
againe
.
Yea
when
the
ten
tribes
were
brought
to
Captiuitie
for
seruing
God
otherwise
then
he
would
,
the
tribe
of
Iuda
was
not
by
this
their
brethrens
plague
amended
:
nor
when
they
were
brought
vnder
yoke
themselues
,
they
considered
any
whit
,
the
cause
of
their
distresse
,
which
was
the
forsaking
of
the
Lord
their
God
.
When
they
were
in
Babylon
,
they
went
as
neere
as
they
could
to
the
rites
of
gentilitie
,
and
returning
againe
into
the
land
of
promise
,
vnder
Antiochus
they
fell
againe
.
Such
is
,
and
such
hath
alwaies
been
the
violent
perswasion
of
errour
,
and
such
is
the
force
of
superstition
,
that
assoone
as
euer
occasion
is
ministred
,
our
corrupt
nature
inclineth
to
it
,
desiring
alwaies
of
our selues
to
attemper
goddes
seruice
to
our
outward
senses
.
That
blessed
impe
,
our
late
Iosias
,
K.
Edward
the
6.
was
no
sooner
departed
this
life
,
but
the
common
people
of
the
land
,
as
though
they
had
neuer
heard
of
God
,
neuer
heard
any
Preacher
that
shewed
them
the
good
and
right
way
,
were
mad
after
pilgrimages
,
pardons
,
&c:
with
other
such
idle
toyes
.
No
maruaile
then
,
if
al
men
generally
being
as
wel
inclined
of
their
owne
corrupt
nature
to
spirituall
fornication
as
to
carnall
,
and
that
the
nature
of
man
is
no
otherwise
bent
to
worshipping
of
images
(
if
he
may
haue
them
,
and
see
them
)
then
to
whoredome
and
fornication
in
the
company
of
harlots
,
no
meruaile
I
say
,
if
so
many
occasions
being
ministred
partly
by
the
Priests
and
Iesuites
remaining
in
prisons
,
and
lurking
in
diuerse
parts
of
this
kingdome
,
and
partly
by
the
comming
in
of
forraine
Embassadours
into
this
land
,
which
are
in
right
permitted
to
haue
the
free
vse
and
exercise
of
the
present
Romane
Religion
,
there
are
so
many
of
our
people
,
specially
of
women
(
a
sex
euer
too
credulous
and
apt
to
beleeue
)
which
are
like
the
idolatrous
Iewes
,
euen
mad
in
running
to
heare
and
see
a
Priest
say
Masse
,
which
Masse
they
are
strongly
borne
in
hand
,
that
it
is
the
most
precious
treasure
,
and
inualuable
iewell
that
euer
Christ
left
to
his
Church
,
that
the
want
thereof
is
to
be
redeemed
not
onely
with
the
losse
of
an
100
markes
,
but
with
the
losse
of
an
100.
thousand
liues
.
But
to
speake
of
the
Masse
,
as
the
truth
of
the
thing
requireth
,
and
as
hereafter
I
will
more
largely
proue
,
this
I
say
,
that
the
popish
Masse
,
as
now
it
is
vsed
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
is
a
very
sea
of
abominations
,
a
gulfe
,
a
hel
of
iniquitie
,
the
vilest
villaine
that
euer
crept
into
the
Church
of
God
,
being
so
many
waies
derogatorie
to
the
death
and
bloodshedding
of
Iesus
Christ
,
wherein
poore
simple
soules
are
forced
to
attribute
diuine
honour
to
a
peece
of
breade
,
which
the
Papists
teach
them
to
call
their
Lord
and
their
God
,
and
also
made
beleeue
that
the
very
hearing
of
a
Masse
is
auailable
vnto
them
ex
opere
operato
,
that
is
,
onely
because
it
is
said
and
done
;
and
lastly
,
that
the
Masse
in
all
respects
of
power
and
vertue
is
as
auailable
and
effectuall
for
the
remission
of
sinnes
,
as
was
the
sacrifice
of
Christ
vpon
the
crosse
,
the
absurditie
of
which
positions
shall
receiue
a
iust
confutation
,
when
I
come
to
lay
downe
such
arguments
and
proofes
as
may
be
produced
out
of
the
word
of
God
,
for
the
disprouing
of
their
daily
Sacrifice
of
their
Masse
.
Hauing
thus
farre
spoken
of
the
person
of
Elias
,
and
of
the
person
of
Ahab
,
and
of
the
people
,
whom
the
prophet
Elias
thus
reproueth
;
The
thing
hee
reproueth
.
it
remaineth
now
that
I
speake
of
the
speciall
thing
which
hee
reproueth
in
them
:
that
is
,
their
halting
betweene
two
opinions
,
not
being
resolued
whether
God
were
the
Lord
,
or
Baal
.
Which
may
seeme
the
more
strange
,
that
this
people
which
were
the
seede
of
Abraham
,
the
Lords
owne
inheritance
,
the
dearly
beloued
of
Gods
owne
soule
,
a
people
whome
the
Lorde
had
chosen
among
all
Nations
,
to
be
a
precious
people
to
himselfe
,
aboue
all
people
on
the
earth
,
in
Name
,
praise
,
and
glorie
:
A
people
that
so
many
times
,
and
so
solemnlie
had
protested
,
God
forbid
wee
should
forsake
the
Lord
our
God
,
to
serue
other
Gods
:
the
Lord
our
God
we
will
serue
,
and
his
voyce
wee
will
obey
:
that
this
people
(
I
say
)
should
stand
in
doubt
,
whether
that
GOD
that
had
wrought
so
many
miracles
for
their
deliuerance
,
which
had
brought
them
out
of
the
Land
of
Egipt
,
with
a
strong
and
a
mightie
hand
,
which
had
led
them
,
and
fed
them
in
the
wildernes
with
Manna
from
heauen
,
for
the
space
of
40.
yeares
,
preseruing
them
in
all
the
way
which
they
went
,
and
destroying
their
enemies
before
them
,
&
lastly
in
the
ende
,
bringing
them
into
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
whether
he
were
the
onely
true
God
to
be
worshipped
and
followed
,
or
rather
Baal
,
in
so
much
,
that
when
the
prophet
Elias
had
said
vnto
them
,
If
the
Lorde
be
God
followe
him
:
if
Baal
be
hee
,
goe
after
him
.
Silence
was
the
onely
answere
they
made
him
,
being
not
able
otherwise
to
answere
him
one
word
.
Vnto
this
base
irresolution
the
people
were
thus
desperately
brought
;
partly
being
moued
through
feare
of
so
great
and
mightie
a
Prince
,
and
so
greatly
aduancing
the
worship
of
Baal
,
as
king
Ahab
did
,
by
the
inticement
and
prouocation
of
his
wife
.
So
that
perceiuing
how
both
the
King
and
Queene
,
and
almost
all
the
Nobilitie
,
being
wholly
affected
&
addicted
to
the
worship
of
Baal
,
by
reason
of
the
weakenesse
and
infirmitie
of
their
faith
,
were
not
able
to
resolue
in
themselues
,
what
they
might
doe
,
or
how
they
might
belieue
,
standing
in
a
mammering
this
way
and
that
way
,
one
and
the
same
man
would
somtimes
worship
the
Lord
,
and
an
other
while
Baal
,
and
sometimes
both
together
,
being
perswaded
that
religion
was
a
thing
indifferent
,
and
that
it
did
not
matter
how
they
serued
God
,
if
they
had
any
care
at
all
to
serue
him
,
whether
they
serued
him
alone
,
or
serued
him
with
anie
other
.
But
little
did
this
people
vnderstand
that
religion
is
not
as
euerie
common
matter
of
mans
life
:
but
a
thing
to
be
measured
,
not
by
opinion
,
but
by
truth
;
to
be
chosen
,
not
by
example
,
but
by
iudgement
;
to
be
holden
,
not
for
companie
,
but
for
conscience
sake
.
In
this
irresolution
and
wauering
inconstancie
of
the
people
of
Israel
,
wee
may
as
in
a
glasse
,
beholde
and
see
our selues
,
euen
the
state
and
condition
of
our
owne
people
;
how
manie
there
are
yet
in
our
dayes
,
which
notwithstanding
they
haue
bene
bred
and
brought
vp
in
this
religion
,
which
by
Gods
great
mercy
this
day
is
professed
in
the
Church
of
England
,
yet
partly
by
the
corruption
of
their
owne
nature
,
partly
led
by
the
mouing
perswasions
of
recusant
Papists
,
but
specially
being
inticed
therevnto
,
by
those
false
impostors
&
deceiuers
of
the
world
,
I
meane
the
Priests
and
Iesuites
,
beginne
to
call
the
truth
of
our
religion
into
question
,
standing
in
a
maze
,
what
they
may
doe
,
whome
they
may
followe
,
what
they
may
belieue
;
sometime
in
loue
and
liking
of
our
religion
,
otherwhile
againe
,
being
wearie
of
the
Gospell
,
imbracing
the
Romane
religion
,
falsely
called
by
the
name
of
the
Catholike
Religion
,
and
so
daily
wauering
betweene
two
opinions
,
declare
themselues
indeed
to
bee
of
no
Religion
.
For
whom
as
my
daily
prayer
to
God
is
and
shall
be
,
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
graunt
them
a
solide
and
strong
perswasion
in
the
profession
and
defence
of
the
true
,
and
onely
ancient
Catholike
faith
of
Christ
deliuered
vnto
vs
in
the
holy
scriptures
of
God
,
and
withall
,
such
a
measure
of
heauenly
wisedome
,
that
they
may
be
able
to
discerne
things
that
differ
one
from
another
,
and
to
giue
a
sound
iudgement
betweene
that
which
is
counterfaite
,
and
the
true
Catholike
faith
and
religion
of
Christ
.
So
I
could
wish
,
that
they
would
consider
with
mee
,
and
that
they
would
seriously
ponder
with
earnest
and
vpright
aduisement
these
fewe
reasons
,
or
motiues
,
which
here
I
will
set
downe
,
which
may
serue
in
steed
of
so
many
seuerall
demonstrations
,
to
proue
that
this
same
doctrine
we
preach
this
day
in
all
the
reformed
churches
of
Christendome
,
is
the
verie
truth
of
the
Gospel
of
Christ
.
First
,
I
would
haue
them
but
to
weigh
the
beginnings
and
proceedings
of
our
religion
,
how
in
a
manner
,
all
the
trauels
of
our
aduersaries
haue
come
to
nought
,
and
how
no
bodie
driuing
it
forward
without
any
worldlie
helpe
,
it
hath
taken
increase
,
and
by
little
&
little
is
spread
ouer
into
all
countreys
And
verilie
it
cannot
chuse
but
carrie
great
weight
of
perswasion
,
to
moue
the
conscience
of
any
man
,
to
see
so
many
kingdoms
and
countries
ioyne
together
in
the
profession
and
obedience
of
one
truth
.
And
there
is
no
doubt
but
euen
this
day
,
manie
thousandes
are
the
sooner
led
to
humble
themselues
to
the
Gospell
of
Christ
,
for
that
they
see
(
to
the
vnspeakeable
griefe
of
the
Pope
and
his
fauourites
)
the
whole
world
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
whole
Church
of
God
is
contented
,
so
willingly
and
so
humbly
to
imbrace
the
same
.
Againe
,
let
them
but
consider
,
that
they
haue
seene
with
their
owne
eyes
,
how
the
Gospell
which
hath
bene
preached
vnto
them
,
and
which
somtimes
with
ioy
they
haue
receiued
,
euen
amiddes
so
many
stormes
and
tempests
,
through
death
and
persecution
,
notwithstanding
the
abundance
of
innocent
Christian
blood
,
which
hath
beene
shed
ouer
all
the
world
,
hath
had
a
strange
and
wonderfull
increase
,
so
that
the
more
our
religion
hath
beene
persecuted
,
the
more
still
it
hath
increased
,
and
this
was
euer
reputed
by
the
ancient
fathers
,
to
be
the
proper
priuiledge
and
excellencie
of
truth
,
about
all
other
sects
,
to
come
out
of
persecution
as
gold
out
of
the
fire
,
more
bright
,
more
illustrious
,
more
eminent
then
before
.
A
third
motiue
or
forcible
inducement
to
iustifie
the
truth
of
the
Gospel
now
preached
,
may
be
this
,
euen
the
due
consideration
of
that
vniuersalitie
of
learning
,
and
sauing
knowledge
,
wherewith
God
hath
blessed
these
daies
of
ours
,
more
plentifully
,
and
in
greater
measure
then
in
former
times
he
hath
done
.
In
so
much
that
whereas
the
Prophet
Esay
speaking
of
that
aboundance
of
knowledge
,
which
should
be
vnder
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
in
the
time
of
grace
,
hath
these
words
,
Esa.
11.9
.
The
earth
shall
be
full
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
,
as
the
waters
that
couer
the
sea
:
and
likewise
the
Prophet
Ioel
,
Ioel.
2.28
.
I
will
powre
out
my
spirit
vpon
all
flesh
,
and
your
sonnes
and
your
daughters
shall
prophecie
:
Your
old
men
shall
dreame
dreames
,
and
your
yong
men
shall
see
visions
,
and
also
vpon
the
seruants
,
and
handmaides
will
I
poure
my
spirit
.
We
may
truly
say
in
this
accepted
time
,
and
this
day
of
saluation
,
that
these
scriptures
are
fulfilled
in
our
eares
,
euen
our
enemies
being
iudges
,
who
haue
confessed
that
the
word
of
God
was
neuer
in
any
age
so
plainely
taught
and
deliuered
,
as
in
this
time
wherein
we
liue
,
that
we
may
truly
and
iustly
say
,
applying
the
words
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
to
ourselues
,
blessed
are
the
eyes
which
haue
seene
those
things
which
we
haue
seene
,
there
hauing
beene
many
millions
and
thousands
of
our
forefathers
,
which
detesting
the
Antichristian
pride
,
&
other
loose
behauiour
of
the
Romane
Clergie
,
endeuouring
to
serue
the
Lord
after
the
prescript
of
his
owne
word
,
desired
to
haue
seene
,
but
one
of
the
daies
which
we
haue
seene
and
could
not
:
who
although
with
Lot
,
they
vexed
their
righteous
soules
in
the
middes
of
a
spirituall
Sodome
,
yet
like
Sea-fish
,
which
is
alwaies
most
fresh
in
salt-water
,
they
kept
themselues
vnspotted
of
the
world
,
and
would
not
spot
their
soules
with
such
horrible
contaminations
,
wherwith
the
whole
world
almost
was
defiled
in
those
times
of
great
darknesse
and
superstition
.
The
conclusion
is
this
;
that
seeing
ouer
all
the
Christian
world
,
where
the
Gospell
hath
had
free
passage
,
all
those
places
wheresoeuer
the
sound
thereof
is
heard
,
are
full
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
;
and
that
on
the
other
side
,
where
poperie
preuaileth
,
there
is
nothing
but
ignorance
and
superstition
,
the
truth
with
tyrannie
&
crueltie
being
kept
vnder
,
by
reason
of
the
Spanish
inquisition
,
that
this
is
a
verie
strong
motiue
to
perswade
,
that
the
Gospell
this
day
preached
in
the
reformed
Churches
of
Christendome
,
is
the
infallible
and
vndoubted
word
of
God
.
Fourthlie
,
it
was
euer
reputed
and
accounted
for
a
speciall
fruite
of
the
Gospel
,
to
teach
people
obedience
to
their
Gouernours
,
to
vpholde
the
State
and
Maiestie
of
Kings
and
Princes
,
into
whose
hands
God
hath
committed
the
sword
of
publike
authoritie
.
Now
our
aduersaries
cannot
chuse
but
see
,
and
all
the
Christian
world
can
witnesse
with
vs
this
day
,
that
in
all
these
places
where
at
this
present
through
Gods
goodnes
and
mercy
,
the
truth
of
the
gospel
is
taught
,
all
such
places
are
become
more
obedient
to
superior
powers
then
euer
they
were
before
.
That
there
is
greater
maiestie
to
be
found
,
lesse
arrogancie
and
tyrannie
:
the
Prince
more
honoured
,
the
Common-wealth
and
Church
in
far
greater
quiet
,
then
in
former
time
of
corruption
,
when
neither
the
Prince
knewe
what
belonged
to
him
,
nor
the
subiects
knewe
what
properly
belonged
either
to
Caesar
,
or
vnto
God
.
And
verilie
one
reason
to
perswade
anie
mans
conscience
,
that
poperie
is
not
of
God
,
may
be
this
:
that
whereas
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospel
is
a
doctrine
of
obedience
,
which
Christ
both
taught
and
acted
;
his
Apostles
both
by
precept
and
practise
confirmed
:
&
whereas
the
whole
current
and
streame
of
antiquitie
runneth
the
same
way
,
that
all
manner
of
persons
,
yea
the
BB.
of
Rome
themselues
for
many
hundred
yeares
together
,
did
acknowledge
the
Emperour
for
their
Lord
,
liege
Lord
and
Maister
;
the
doctrine
of
the
present
Church
of
Rome
perswadeth
flatly
to
disobedience
and
plaine
rebellion
.
It
teacheth
that
the
people
vpon
the
Popes
warrant
may
lawfully
beare
armes
against
their
soueraigne
:
that
by
dispensation
from
the
Pope
,
they
may
lawfully
renounce
their
allegiance
,
yea
further
vpon
the
Popes
iubet
,
they
may
lay
violent
hands
vpon
him
.
And
so
the
Iesuites
haue
deliuered
it
for
the
resolute
and
vndoubted
iudgement
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
that
it
is
a
thing
both
lawfull
,
and
meritorious
to
kill
and
to
murther
Christian
Princes
professing
a
contrarie
religion
to
the
doctrine
and
faith
of
that
Church
,
poperie
therfore
that
professeth
,
not
a
lawfulnes
onely
,
but
a
merite
in
such
desperate
attempts
,
contrarie
to
the
manifest
voyce
of
God
,
Thou
shalt
not
kill
,
doth
clearely
conuince
it selfe
,
and
shew
it selfe
to
be
a
religion
of
the
diuell
,
and
not
of
God
.
Let
this
then
suffice
for
a
conclusion
of
my
fourth
motiue
,
to
shew
,
that
this
is
the
alone
propertie
of
the
Gospel
,
wheresoeuer
true
religion
flourisheth
,
to
season
the
hearts
both
of
young
and
old
with
true
subiection
and
Christian
obsequiousnesse
to
the
higher
and
superiour
powers
.
Fiftly
if
long
peace
,
wealth
and
prosperitie
to
the
outward
blessings
of
God
(
as
vndoubtedly
they
be
)
whereby
he
declareth
his
speciall
fauour
vnto
that
Prince
and
kingdome
,
which
feare
him
,
and
worship
him
sincerely
,
and
with
whom
he
is
well
pleased
,
according
to
his
word
and
promises
in
the
scriptures
,
that
this
must
be
an
argument
both
of
the
singular
fauour
of
god
to
all
protestant
Princes
that
haue
imbraced
the
Gospel
,
and
of
the
sincere
religion
professed
by
them
wherewith
he
is
well
pleased
.
For
of
all
the
Kings
of
Iuda
,
who
euer
more
abounded
with
all
peace
and
worldly
felicitie
then
those
who
were
most
religiously
addicted
and
affected
to
the
seruice
of
God
,
as
Iosias
,
Ezechias
,
Iehosaphat
,
Dauid
,
Salomon
?
Thus
the
Lord
spake
to
king
Iehoiaekim
by
his
Prophet
Ieremie
;
Iere.
22.15
.
Did
not
thy
father
Iosias
eate
and
drinke
and
prosper
when
he
executed
iudgement
and
iustice
?
and
was
not
all
this
because
he
knew
me
,
saith
the
Lord
?
What
Prince
was
there
euer
in
the
world
either
more
honoured
or
feared
then
Constantine
the
great
was
after
he
had
once
receiued
the
Christian
religion
?
all
the
kingdomes
this
day
possessed
with
protestant
Princes
,
all
the
free
cities
and
Common-wealths
of
Heleutia
,
neuer
were
in
more
riches
or
setled
tranquilitie
:
neuer
so
potent
,
nor
so
orderly
gouerned
as
they
be
at
this
day
,
religion
there
hauing
so
free
a
passage
,
and
course
among
them
as
it
hath
,
and
to
come
neerer
home
to
our
owne
daies
,
if
we
doe
but
consider
with
our
owne
selues
the
long
,
peaceable
and
prosperous
raigne
of
our
late
dread
soueraigne
Queene
Elizabeth
,
the
very
ioy
of
Christendome
,
whose
land
in
her
daies
,
was
a
sanctuarie
to
all
the
world
groning
for
the
libertie
of
true
religion
,
we
shall
perceiue
that
from
the
beginning
of
her
most
happie
raigne
vntill
the
day
of
her
dissolution
,
by
gods
singular
goodnesse
,
this
kingdome
of
great
Britaine
,
hath
enioyed
more
vniuersall
peace
,
the
people
of
the
land
encreased
in
greater
numbers
in
more
strength
,
with
greater
riches
,
and
lesse
sicknesse
,
the
earth
hath
yeelded
more
fruits
,
and
generally
al
kind
of
worldly
felicitie
hath
more
abounded
since
,
and
during
the
time
of
the
Popes
thunders
,
bulles
,
curses
and
maledictions
,
then
in
any
other
long
time
before
,
when
the
Popes
pardons
and
blessings
came
yearely
into
the
Realme
,
as
they
did
in
Queene
Maries
daies
.
And
thus
much
for
proofe
that
the
outward
blessings
of
God
,
which
he
hath
bestowed
vpon
such
Kings
and
Princes
,
and
states
as
haue
embraced
the
Gospel
of
his
sonne
Christ
Iesus
,
are
vndoubted
arguments
and
demonstrations
of
the
true
and
sincere
religion
professed
by
them
.
The
last
motiue
to
perswade
any
Christian
man
,
not
wilfully
blinde
to
embrace
the
religion
this
day
professed
in
the
reformed
Churches
,
is
with
an
vnpartiall
eye
to
consider
the
great
,
strange
and
maruelous
things
,
which
the
Lord
hath
done
for
the
honour
and
aduancement
of
the
Gospel
in
such
places
where
it
hath
bene
receiued
.
Is
it
not
strange
that
Martine
Luther
hauing
his
enemies
so
many
,
so
malicious
,
so
mightie
,
should
notwithstanding
after
nine
and
twentie
yeares
preaching
,
die
quietly
in
his
bed
,
in
peace
both
of
body
and
minde
,
and
be
buried
with
that
honour
,
that
fewe
of
his
ranke
and
sorte
was
euer
before
?
Who
could
euer
haue
thought
that
after
such
a
straunge
and
a
most
cruell
massacre
in
France
about
the
yeare
1572.
there
should
haue
beene
remaining
so
much
as
any
one
Protestant
aliue
?
and
yet
notwithstanding
all
that
crueltie
,
though
fewe
in
number
forsaken
and
destitute
of
all
worldly
assurances
,
being
brought
as
it
were
to
nothing
,
haue
yet
strangely
and
indeed
miraculously
lifted
vp
their
heads
againe
to
the
terrour
and
confusion
of
their
proudest
enemies
.
Againe
how
can
we
conceiue
it
possible
,
that
the
citie
of
Geneua
should
euer
be
able
to
hold
out
so
long
against
so
many
intended
inuasions
and
plottes
by
the
Duke
of
Sauoie
entending
their
vtter
ruine
and
desolation
,
but
that
the
hands
of
their
armies
were
strengthened
by
the
hand
of
the
mightie
God
of
Iacob
,
their
strong
redeemer
,
who
maintaining
their
cause
against
the
rage
of
their
enemies
,
compassed
them
about
with
many
ioyfull
deliuerances
,
hiding
them
as
it
were
a
shaft
in
the
quiuer
of
his
most
carefull
,
and
mercifull
prouidence
.
What
was
purposed
and
intended
by
that
inuincible
Nauie
of
the
Spaniards
in
88.
the
Christian
world
can
witnesse
,
that
it
was
nothing
else
but
to
bring
this
noble
Realme
of
England
into
slauish
bondage
.
And
did
not
almightie
God
the
sonne
stand
vpon
our
gard
by
getting
himselfe
honour
vpon
Pharao
,
and
vpon
all
the
Egyptians
,
euen
vpon
that
great
Armado
,
which
had
beene
so
long
in
preparing
,
so
that
their
Altar-God
,
their
Crucifix
God
,
their
Capitolian
God
,
were
not
as
our
God
,
our
enemies
being
iudges
,
sundrie
of
the
souldiours
of
Spaine
confessing
,
that
during
all
the
time
of
the
fight
at
sea
,
Christ
had
shewed
himselfe
a
plaine
Lutherane
.
But
let
vs
looke
a
litle
further
into
the
exceeding
fauour
of
God
shewed
in
particular
to
the
late
Queene
Elizabeth
,
how
many
and
sundrie
times
was
her
dearest
blood
sought
,
and
how
neere
the
bloudie
traitours
haue
beene
to
the
very
execution
of
their
diuelish
designements
,
some
of
them
and
more
then
once
or
twice
,
in
neerest
and
priuate
places
with
their
murderous
weapons
in
their
hands
,
and
yet
behold
how
still
they
were
preuented
,
the
Lord
striking
them
with
such
a
suddaine
trembling
of
heart
,
and
astonishment
of
minde
,
that
they
had
neuer
the
power
once
to
lay
violent
hands
vpon
her
?
If
all
this
doe
not
suffice
for
proofe
of
the
truth
on
our
side
,
and
not
with
the
Papists
,
let
goddes
speciall
fauour
miraculously
shewed
to
the
Kings
maiestie
that
now
is
,
and
his
exceeding
blessings
vpon
this
our
countrie
by
his
most
happie
entrance
vnto
this
crowne
,
and
successe
to
this
kingdome
,
be
to
vs
as
it
is
indeed
,
an
argument
that
the
religion
professed
this
day
,
is
the
true
religion
acceptable
to
God
,
&
conformable
to
his
word
:
but
as
God
in
all
ages
hath
shewed
his
power
in
the
miraculous
and
gracious
deliuerance
of
his
Church
,
and
protection
of
his
holie
and
eternall
truth
,
so
did
it
neuer
more
cleerely
shewe
it selfe
,
then
in
the
wonderfull
and
mighty
deliuerance
of
our
gracious
K.
Iames
,
the
Queene
,
the
Prince
,
and
the
rest
of
the
royall
braunches
,
together
with
the
Nobilitie
,
Clergie
,
and
the
Commons
of
this
Realme
,
by
the
pouder-Traytors
,
the
papists
,
appointed
as
sheepe
for
the
slaughter
.
And
let
thus
much
be
sufficient
to
haue
spoken
touching
the
strange
and
wonderful
things
which
almighty
God
hath
shewed
in
these
last
daies
,
for
the
honour
of
his
Gospell
,
for
the
better
satisfaction
of
them
which
as
yet
stand
in
doubt
,
whether
the
Gospel
we
preach
,
be
the
onely
true
&
Catholike
faith
of
Christ
.
But
besides
those
men
which
stand
at
a
stay
,
and
are
not
yet
resolued
,
which
religion
,
I
meane
ours
or
the
papists
is
truest
,
ther
is
risen
another
generation
of
men
,
that
are
of
opinion
,
that
there
is
no
reall
difference
between
the
doctrine
of
the
present
Romane
church
,
&
the
religion
of
the
protestants
,
&
so
make
a
fauorable
compromission
,
that
the
questions
of
religion
betweene
vs
might
easily
be
accorded
,
which
I
take
to
be
a
thing
altogether
impossible
,
the
Papists
standing
in
such
termes
of
opposition
against
vs
as
they
doe
.
I
remember
my selfe
preaching
at
a
certaine
countrey
parish
,
some
three
yeeres
agoe
,
a
simple
countrey
man
commeth
vnto
me
,
and
thus
beginneth
to
question
with
me
:
Syr
,
your
preachers
make
vs
simple
men
of
the
countrey
belieue
,
that
there
is
a
wonderfull
great
difference
betweene
the
new
&
old
Religion
.
Pray
Sir
,
saith
he
,
what
oddes
is
there
betweene
Our
Father
,
and
Pater
noster
?
None
at
all
,
said
I
,
but
onely
this
,
that
the
one
is
in
Latine
,
and
the
other
in
English
.
You
haue
answered
right
(
saith
he
,
and
so
I
am
perswaded
)
that
there
is
no
other
difference
at
all
betweene
the
Masse
&
our
English
Communion
,
but
onely
that
the
one
is
in
Latin
,
the
other
in
English
.
And
of
this
opinion
it
seemeth
ther
be
manie
,
which
thinke
and
are
perswaded
,
that
our
religion
,
and
the
religion
of
Rome
,
are
all
one
for
substance
.
For
satisfaction
therefore
of
them
which
thinke
our
English
Communion
and
the
popish
Masse
all
one
for
substance
,
I
will
set
downe
certaine
reall
differences
,
whereby
it
may
euidently
appeare
,
that
the
doctrine
of
the
popish
Masse
,
neither
hath
,
nor
can
haue
any
agreement
at
all
with
the
Lordes
supper
.
I
speake
at
this
time
to
men
of
great
vnderstanding
&
knowledge
,
iudge
yee
what
I
say
.
First
,
whereas
all
the
seruice
and
sacraments
in
S.
Pauls
time
,
were
done
in
the
congregation
,
in
a
knowne
language
,
the
whole
seruice
of
the
Masse
is
saide
either
in
the
Greeke
or
Latine
tongues
,
not
vnderstood
of
the
common
vulgar
people
.
Christ
both
gaue
bread
,
and
likewise
commanded
them
saying
,
Drinke
yee
all
of
this
;
the
Church
of
Rome
will
at
no
hand
suffer
and
permit
the
Lay-people
to
drinke
of
the
Cup
,
calling
them
Heretikes
,
and
Calixtions
,
that
desire
to
receiue
the
Cup
together
with
the
bread
,
in
the
celebration
of
the
Lords
Supper
.
By
Christs
institution
the
Priest
and
the
people
should
both
communicate
together
:
but
in
their
Popish
Masse
the
Priest
is
suffered
to
eate
and
drinke
all
alone
,
the
people
standing
by
,
and
not
partaking
the
Lords
supper
with
him
.
Christ
at
his
Maundie
instituted
a
Sacrament
of
thanksgiuing
,
and
commaunded
vs
by
eating
and
drinking
to
be
partakers
of
his
bodie
that
was
wounded
,
and
of
his
blood
which
was
shed
the
next
day
,
for
the
remitting
and
pardoning
of
our
sinnes
.
But
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
turned
this
Sacrament
into
a
Sacrifice
.
And
whereas
the
Sonne
of
God
saide
,
Take
this
and
eate
it
in
remembrance
of
mee
,
the
Church
of
Rome
saith
,
take
and
offer
this
to
bee
a
propitiatorie
sacrifice
for
the
quicke
and
the
dead
.
Christ
tooke
the
bread
in
his
hands
,
blessed
it
,
and
gaue
it
to
his
Disciples
:
but
hee
did
not
say
,
looke
vpon
it
,
kneele
,
and
knock
vnto
it
,
and
worship
it
with
diuine
honour
,
all
which
the
church
of
Rome
commandeth
to
be
done
in
their
popish
Masse
:
but
as
Christ
took
the
bread
,
so
he
left
it
bread
,
whereas
the
popish
Priest
takes
bread
,
and
coniureth
it
away
,
by
breathing
vpon
it
.
Lastly
,
Christ
ordained
his
last
Supper
,
and
instituted
this
Sacrament
of
his
bodie
and
bloud
,
to
this
ende
,
that
we
should
continually
remember
his
death
vntill
his
second
comming
,
and
for
that
cause
it
is
called
Eucharistia
.
And
whereas
Eusebius
saith
,
that
Christ
commaunded
vs
to
offer
vp
a
remembrance
of
his
death
in
steed
of
a
Sacrifice
,
the
popish
church
not
contenting
themselues
with
this
sacrifice
of
praise
,
and
thanksgiuing
,
wherein
we
celebrate
the
remembrance
,
and
as
Nazianzene
calleth
it
,
A
figure
of
that
great
mysterie
of
the
death
of
Christ
,
they
hold
that
their
Masse
,
which
they
call
The
daily
Sacrifice
of
the
Church
,
is
not
a
commemoratiue
,
but
a
reall
sacrifice
,
not
a
figure
and
remembrance
of
that
which
is
past
,
but
the
thing
it selfe
:
that
the
sacrifice
Christ
offered
vpon
the
Crosse
,
and
theirs
in
the
Masse
is
all
one
:
that
the
same
bodie
of
Christ
which
was
borne
of
the
Virgin
Marie
,
and
which
was
offered
vp
,
vpon
the
Crosse
for
our
Redemption
,
is
the
very
same
,
euen
idem
numero
,
with
that
which
is
offered
vp
by
the
Priest
,
to
God
the
Father
in
the
Masse
,
for
the
remission
of
sinnes
.
By
these
materiall
differences
,
which
here
I
haue
set
downe
,
it
is
plainely
manifest
,
that
the
popish
Masse
doth
in
manie
things
varie
&
swarue
from
the
institution
of
Christ
,
as
most
plainly
is
to
be
seene
,
in
the
11.
cha:
of
1.
Corint
:
vers.
23.
where
the
Apostle
at
large
doth
describe
the
whole
order
and
institution
of
the
Lords
Supper
.
And
thus
it
is
euidently
to
be
perceiued
,
that
the
Masse
as
now
it
is
vsed
,
is
nothing
else
,
but
an
heape
of
sinfull
deuises
,
and
abuses
,
inuented
by
Sathan
and
broached
by
Antichrist
,
to
deface
&
frustrate
the
Lords
supper
:
where
besides
their
fruitelesse
praiers
,
and
superstitious
ceremonies
,
their
priuate
and
halfe
communion
subuerteth
the
Lordes
institution
:
their
sacrifice
derogateth
from
his
death
and
bloud-sheading
:
their
adoration
of
bread
and
wine
,
conuinceth
them
of
hainous
Idolatrie
.
But
to
proue
that
Protestancy
and
poperie
cannot
be
reconciled
:
First
,
the
Papists
themselues
bold
the
differences
betweene
vs
to
bee
such
:
that
it
is
impossible
for
any
Protestant
to
be
saued
.
Againe
,
all
the
grounded
diuines
of
the
Protestants
religion
insist
vpon
the
same
difference
.
That
sundry
points
of
poperie
doe
quite
raze
the
verie
foundation
of
Christian
religion
.
Marke
(
saith
Bishop
Iewell
to
D.
Harding
)
What
yee
were
lately
,
and
what
yee
would
now
seeme
to
bee
:
what
way
yee
trode
then
,
and
what
way
yee
treade
now
:
the
difference
is
no
lesse
then
betweene
light
and
darkenesse
;
life
and
death
;
heauen
and
hell
:
so
great
a
change
(
saith
hee
)
would
require
some
good
time
of
deliberation
.
Which
asseueration
of
that
worthy
Bishop
,
how
agreeable
it
is
to
the
truth
,
and
consonant
to
the
practise
of
the
ancient
Catholike
church
,
and
Doctors
thereof
,
who
would
neuer
yeeld
,
I
will
not
say
in
an
opinion
,
but
not
so
much
as
in
a
forme
of
speech
,
or
in
the
change
of
a
letter
,
sounding
against
the
orthodoxall
faith
:
and
whether
there
bee
not
in
sundry
fundamentall
points
of
faith
,
great
and
many
differences
betweene
Rome
and
vs
,
let
it
be
duely
considered
by
these
instances
following
.
The
first
maine
point
of
Catholike
doctrine
,
which
the
Papists
goe
directly
against
,
is
the
doctrine
of
free
iustification
by
faith
alone
,
which
doctrine
D.
Bishop
in
his
Epistle
dedicatory
to
the
K.
Maiestie
,
setteth
down
as
a
maine
heresie
,
that
Luther
layed
for
the
ground
of
his
religion
:
namely
,
that
a
man
is
iustified
by
faith
alone
.
But
I
demaund
of
any
sober
Papist
,
not
too
much
wedded
to
the
preiudice
of
his
own
opinion
,
what
other
,
or
what
better
foundation
could
any
man
lay
,
then
that
which
is
already
laid
,
which
is
Iesus
Christ
,
which
doctrine
is
the
very
life
and
soule
of
the
Church
.
For
this
was
the
Catholike
faith
of
the
church
of
Rome
,
when
S.
Paule
wrote
his
Epistle
vnto
them
,
that
a
man
is
iustified
gratis
,
Rom.
3.24
.
for
God
a
mercie
,
for
nothing
,
and
that
by
the
grace
of
God
without
the
workes
of
the
law
.
Quite
contrarie
to
which
doctrine
of
the
Apostle
,
the
Papists
hold
iustification
by
workes
of
grace
,
auouching
that
we
are
not
iustified
before
God
,
onely
by
the
merites
of
Christ
,
but
also
by
our
owne
doings
,
affirming
that
good
workes
are
truely
and
properly
meritorious
,
and
the
causes
of
our
saluation
,
and
that
heauen
is
as
truely
the
reward
of
good
workes
,
as
hell
is
the
stipend
of
euill
workes
:
that
good
workes
doe
fully
satisfie
the
law
of
God
,
and
worthily
deserue
eternall
life
:
and
that
good
workes
wrought
and
done
in
the
state
of
grace
,
are
so
farre
meritorious
,
as
that
God
should
be
vniust
,
if
he
rendred
not
heauen
for
the
same
,
charging
the
iustice
of
God
,
not
in
respect
of
his
promise
,
as
the
Apostle
doth
,
but
in
respect
of
merite
,
and
desert
of
workes
.
Where
we
clearely
perceiue
and
see
,
that
there
is
a
great
difference
betweene
the
Church
of
Rome
and
vs
,
euen
in
the
principall
Article
of
our
faith
touching
the
Saluation
of
our
soules
;
we
beleeuing
stedfastly
,
that
it
is
to
be
ascribed
to
the
merites
of
Christ
,
they
expecting
it
for
the
merit
of
their
workes
.
Another
substantiall
point
of
the
Catholike
faith
the
Papists
directly
impugne
,
in
maintaining
a
daily
reall
sacrifice
of
the
body
of
Christ
in
their
Masse
for
the
sins
of
the
quicke
and
dead
,
which
they
hold
to
be
a
very
soueraigne
,
true
,
and
propitiatorie
sacrifice
,
&
in
all
respects
of
power
and
vertue
,
as
auailable
,
and
as
effectuall
as
was
the
sacrifice
on
the
crosse
for
the
remission
of
sinnes
.
For
the
disproofe
of
which
most
wicked
and
blasphemous
assertion
,
there
be
sundrie
arguments
and
proofes
to
be
produced
out
of
the
word
of
God
.
First
if
Christ
could
haue
bene
offered
more
then
once
,
then
must
he
likewise
after
haue
suffered
.
Heb.
9.25.26
.
But
now
in
the
end
of
the
world
he
hath
appeared
once
to
put
away
sinne
by
the
sacrifice
of
himselfe
.
Heb.
9.26
.
Therefore
he
cannot
now
any
more
be
offered
in
the
Masse
.
Againe
,
that
thing
is
in
vaine
and
to
none
effect
,
where
there
is
no
necessitie
it
should
be
done
:
but
to
offer
vp
any
more
sacrifice
propitiatorie
for
the
quicke
and
the
dead
,
there
is
no
necessitie
:
the
reason
whereof
the
Apostle
giueth
to
be
this
,
because
Christ
hath
offered
one
sacrifice
,
and
with
that
one
sacrifice
,
and
offering
vp
of
himselfe
,
hath
consecrated
for
euer
them
that
are
sanctified
,
Heb.
10
12.14
.
This
must
then
be
the
conclusion
,
that
there
is
no
necessitie
why
we
should
offer
vp
Christ
any
more
for
remission
of
sinnes
.
Thirdly
,
the
reason
why
the
Priests
of
the
old
law
did
yearely
repeate
their
sacrifices
was
this
,
because
those
sacrifices
yearely
offered
,
could
neuer
take
away
sinnes
,
Heb.
10.11
.
But
the
sacrifice
of
Christ
once
offered
hath
sanctified
the
commers
thereunto
:
for
wee
are
sanctified
euen
by
the
offering
of
the
bodie
of
Iesus
Christ
once
made
,
Heb.
10.10
.
Therefore
seeing
that
Christ
by
that
one
oblation
of
himselfe
hath
purchased
for
vs
eternall
redemption
,
Heb.
9.12
.
there
needeth
no
more
propitiatorie
sacrifice
to
be
made
for
sinne
.
Where
there
is
remission
of
sinnes
alreadie
obtained
,
there
is
no
more
offering
for
sinne
,
there
needeth
no
more
sacrifice
to
be
offered
,
Heb.
14.18
.
But
Christ
hath
beene
offered
once
to
take
away
the
sinnes
of
many
,
Heb.
9.28
.
and
by
his
owne
blood
he
hath
entred
once
to
the
holy
place
to
obtaine
eternal
redemption
for
vs
:
Heb.
9.12
.
Therefore
the
Masse
cannot
be
a
propitiatorie
sacrifice
for
sinnes
,
seeing
alreadie
by
the
death
of
Christ
we
haue
remission
of
sinnes
.
Lastly
,
without
blood
and
shedding
of
blood
,
there
is
no
forgiuenesse
of
sinnes
.
Heb.
9.22
.
But
in
the
daily
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
there
is
no
shedding
of
blood
,
for
they
call
their
Masse
an
vnbloodie
sacrifice
.
Therefore
in
the
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
there
is
no
remission
of
sinnes
,
and
so
by
consequent
the
Masse
can
be
no
true
propitiatorie
sacrifice
.
Thus
we
see
how
the
doctrine
of
the
popish
Masse
is
ex
diametro
repugnant
to
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostle
,
and
to
the
whole
order
and
institution
of
the
Lords
Supper
.
A
third
very
materiall
and
substantiall
point
of
the
Christian
Catholike
faith
impugned
this
day
by
the
present
Romane
Church
,
is
this
,
that
contrarie
to
the
expresse
words
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
thou
shalt
worship
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
him
onely
thou
shalt
serue
:
Math.
4.10
.
contrarie
to
the
commandement
which
the
Angel
gaue
to
Iohn
,
when
he
fell
at
his
feete
to
worship
him
:
See
thou
doe
it
not
,
Reue.
19.10
.
I
am
thy
fellow
seruant
,
and
of
thy
bretheren
which
haue
the
testimonie
of
Iesus
,
worship
God
:
contrarie
to
the
examples
of
Peter
and
Paul
and
Barnabas
,
Act.
14.15
.
Which
vtterly
refused
all
manner
of
adoration
,
Paul
and
Barnabas
renting
their
clothes
crying
out
to
the
people
of
Lycaonia
,
O
men
why
doe
ye
these
things
?
We
are
euen
men
subiect
to
the
like
passions
,
ye
be
,
and
preach
vnto
you
that
ye
should
turne
from
these
vaine
idolles
vnto
the
liuing
God
,
which
made
heauen
and
earth
,
and
the
sea
,
and
all
things
that
in
them
are
:
Act.
10.25
.
and
Peter
speaking
to
Cornelius
,
(
Who
at
his
first
meeting
of
him
fell
downe
at
his
feete
and
worshipped
him
)
said
thus
vnto
him
,
taking
him
vp
,
stand
vp
:
for
euen
I
my selfe
am
a
man
,
contrarie
to
the
continuall
and
constant
practise
of
the
ancient
Catholike
primitiue
Church
of
Christ
,
which
as
S.
Hieron
witnesseth
,
did
neither
worship
Sunne
nor
Moone
,
nor
Angell
,
nor
Archangell
,
nor
Cherubin
,
nor
Seraphin
,
nor
any
other
name
,
that
is
named
either
in
this
world
,
or
in
the
world
to
come
,
least
they
should
serue
the
creature
in
steed
of
the
creator
,
who
is
God
blessed
for
euer
:
contrarie
to
the
determination
of
Gregorie
the
great
and
first
of
that
name
,
who
also
himselfe
was
Bishop
of
Rome
,
and
therefore
his
voice
to
be
accounted
as
an
oracle
of
God
,
who
albeit
hee
did
well
like
the
hauing
of
images
in
the
Church
,
yet
he
vtterly
condemneth
the
idolatrous
worshipping
of
them
alleaging
for
proofe
thereof
the
place
of
scripture
before
named
,
Lib.
7.
episto
.
cap.
109.
thou
shalt
worship
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
him
onely
shalt
thou
serue
.
All
this
I
say
notwithstanding
the
Church
of
Rome
this
day
,
euen
in
this
cleare
light
of
the
Gospel
maintaines
and
defends
the
worship
and
adoration
of
Angels
:
the
worship
of
Saints
departed
:
the
worship
of
the
images
of
the
trinitie
:
the
worship
of
the
crosse
and
crucifixe
:
the
worship
of
images
which
they
set
vp
in
their
Churches
,
to
the
intent
the
people
may
attribute
diuine
honour
vnto
them
,
and
lastly
the
worship
of
their
breaden-God
,
their
sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
as
they
terme
it
,
whom
they
call
their
Lord
and
their
God
,
crying
out
to
a
peece
of
bread
,
O
Lord
,
O
God
,
O
Lambe
of
God
that
takest
away
the
sins
of
the
world
,
haue
mercie
vpon
vs
,
and
receiue
our
praiers
.
And
verily
were
there
no
other
cause
to
induce
all
good
Christians
to
depart
from
the
fellowship
and
communion
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
this
one
doctrine
of
adoration
,
wherein
they
teach
the
common
people
to
call
the
sacrament
their
Lord
and
God
,
and
so
by
giuing
the
honour
of
God
to
a
creature
that
is
no
God
,
to
commit
grosse
and
manifest
Idolatrie
,
this
point
alone
were
cause
sufficient
for
them
to
detest
both
them
and
their
religion
for
euer
.
Iere.
2.27
.
For
what
oddes
I
beseech
you
is
there
betweene
those
blind
Iewes
,
which
said
to
a
stocke
,
thou
art
my
father
,
&
to
a
stone
thou
hast
begotten
me
,
and
those
wilfull
and
blind
Papists
which
cry
vpon
the
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
in
substance
a
base
and
corruptible
creature
,
Lord
I
am
not
worthie
,
Lord
be
mercifull
to
me
a
sinner
:
O
Lord
,
O
God
,
O
Lambe
of
God
receiue
our
praiers
.
The
one
sort
the
H.
Ghost
hath
traduced
for
a
memorable
,
and
detestable
crew
of
idolaters
;
and
so
may
we
by
the
like
reason
,
and
vpon
as
good
ground
and
warrant
condemne
all
the
Papists
liuing
this
day
for
most
vile
and
shameful
idolaters
,
for
adoring
and
worshipping
a
peece
of
bread
.
O
most
horrible
idolatrie
!
Tully
himselfe
being
an
heathen
man
could
say
,
Who
was
euer
so
very
a
foole
,
De
natu
.
deorum
.
as
to
beleeue
the
thing
he
eateth
to
be
his
God
?
The
very
children
in
Grammer
Schoole
can
tell
vs
,
that
the
heathens
that
adored
Bacchus
and
Ceres
,
which
first
found
out
,
and
taught
the
vse
of
breade
and
wine
,
whereas
before
they
had
fed
on
achornes
,
and
dranke
water
:
yet
notwithstanding
they
were
neuer
so
foolish
,
or
so
besotted
as
to
giue
godly
honour
to
bread
and
wine
.
By
this
then
,
which
hath
bene
alreadie
spoken
,
it
is
clearely
proued
,
that
there
is
no
compatibilitie
betweene
Protestancie
&
Poperie
,
and
that
the
diuersitie
betweene
vs
,
is
of
so
materiall
and
needfull
points
,
that
if
they
be
right
,
wee
are
wrong
:
if
wee
be
right
,
they
are
wrong
:
both
they
and
wee
cannot
be
both
together
Catholike
members
of
the
true
Church
.
The
reason
why
wee
cannot
account
Papists
for
members
of
the
true
Church
,
is
,
because
they
maintain
sundry
points
which
go
directly
against
the
Christian
faith
,
they
doe
not
content
themselues
onely
with
Christ
,
nor
with
his
Sacraments
,
but
set
vp
other
mediatours
in
heauen
,
other
doctrines
and
sacraments
on
earth
.
Besides
that
,
as
I
haue
alreadie
proued
,
they
adore
the
creatures
of
bread
and
wine
,
in
steede
of
Christ
.
They
bow
their
knees
to
painted
&
carued
images
:
they
ioyne
nature
with
grace
:
mans
merites
with
Gods
mercies
:
vnwritten
verities
with
holie
scriptures
:
their
owne
satisfactions
with
the
blood
of
Christ
,
and
so
directly
impugne
sundrie
fundamentall
points
of
the
Christian
faith
,
which
generally
otherwise
they
will
seeme
to
hold
.
Obiect
:
But
I
heare
some
man
saying
vnto
mee
,
if
the
case
be
such
,
the
differences
so
great
betweene
the
religion
of
the
Papists
and
our
religion
,
how
is
it
possible
that
any
Recusant
papist
now
liuing
can
be
saued
?
Solut
:
I
answer
,
that
as
in
the
rebellion
which
Absolom
made
against
his
Father
Dauid
,
there
were
manie
true
subiects
of
Dauid
,
that
went
after
Absolon
,
to
take
his
part
in
their
simplicity
,
2.
Sam:
15.11
.
as
the
scripture
recordeth
,
knowing
nothing
,
whervnto
the
trecherous
plottes
of
Absolon
did
tende
.
So
no
doubt
charitie
moueth
mee
to
thinke
that
there
are
manie
in
this
Kingdome
,
honest
men
,
blinded
with
some
opinions
of
poperie
,
as
in
the
questions
of
the
real
presence
,
or
in
the
number
of
7.
Sacraments
,
or
in
the
doctrine
of
Auricular
confession
,
or
some
such
schoole
question
,
not
knowing
or
belieuing
all
pointes
of
poperie
,
which
indeed
is
the
very
mysterie
of
iniquitie
.
Of
such
I
say
,
that
in
the
simplicitie
of
their
harts
,
thinke
of
the
Popes
doctrine
,
no
otherwise
then
Dauids
subiects
did
of
the
rebellion
of
Absolon
;
I
will
not
dispaire
,
but
verily
hope
that
such
may
be
saued
,
notwithstanding
their
misperswasion
in
some
points
of
religion
,
which
doe
not
destroy
any
article
of
faith
,
and
Christian
beliefe
.
But
as
for
the
rest
of
our
wilfull
recusant
papists
,
which
both
erre
in
the
foundation
,
&
hate
the
truth
of
the
Gospell
reuealed
vnto
them
,
which
hate
instruction
,
and
stop
their
eares
against
the
word
,
we
offer
vnto
them
,
holding
the
infallibilitie
of
the
Popes
iudgement
;
the
vniuersalitie
of
his
jurisdiction
and
power
,
to
dispose
of
the
Kingdomes
of
the
world
,
which
belieue
free
will
to
performe
,
and
to
do
the
actions
of
vertue
without
assistance
of
speciall
grace
:
which
holde
and
maintaine
perfections
of
inherent
righteousnesse
,
satisfactions
,
merites
of
condignitie
,
propitiatorie
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
:
which
giue
Gods
honour
to
images
,
maintaine
iustification
by
works
,
and
such
like
,
of
such
I
say
,
I
may
without
breach
of
charitie
affirme
,
that
if
they
so
liue
,
and
so
die
,
in
the
armes
of
the
whore
of
Babylon
,
they
can
neuer
be
saued
.
Obiect
:
But
the
Papists
replie
vpon
vs
,
and
further
obiect
,
that
if
the
case
of
recusant
papists
be
such
,
why
then
(
say
they
)
we
must
likewise
condemne
all
our
forefathers
to
the
pit
of
hell
,
who
helde
none
other
but
the
same
opinions
wee
holde
this
day
.
Solut
:
Touching
our
forefathers
,
we
both
speake
and
thinke
of
them
,
as
charitie
leadeth
vs
to
thinke
:
we
take
not
vpon
vs
to
know
either
the
faith
or
repentance
of
them
,
that
died
before
our
time
,
and
therefore
we
commit
their
iudgement
vnto
God
.
We
say
with
the
Apostle
,
2.
Tim:
2.19
The
foundation
of
God
standeth
firme
and
sure
,
hauing
this
seale
,
The
Lorde
knoweth
who
are
his
:
and
according
to
the
scriptures
thus
wee
belieue
of
them
all
,
that
such
as
helde
the
onely
foundation
which
is
Christ
Iesus
,
in
a
true
&
liuely
faith
,
were
all
saued
,
although
they
built
vpon
this
foundation
,
chaffe
,
straw
,
or
wood
:
and
doubt
not
therefore
,
1.
Cor:
3.15
but
that
manie
thousands
of
our
ancestours
,
euen
in
those
times
of
great
blindenesse
and
corruption
,
holding
onely
the
same
foundation
Iesus
Christ
were
saued
,
and
so
died
the
seruants
of
God
:
notwithstanding
they
were
misled
and
carried
away
with
sundrie
errours
and
superstitions
,
for
want
of
due
knowledge
of
the
word
of
God
,
which
their
pastors
and
leaders
should
haue
instructed
them
withall
.
But
for
a
further
answere
to
this
obiection
,
I
say
,
that
the
case
of
our
recusant
Papists
liuing
at
this
day
,
and
the
case
of
our
fore-fathers
,
liuing
in
times
of
great
corruption
are
not
peers
,
nor
nothing
like
at
all
.
The
disparison
is
this
:
our
fore-fathers
liued
in
a
time
of
great
blindnes
,
wherein
there
was
a
generall
decay
of
learning
,
wherin
all
good
liberall
Arts
and
learning
were
abolished
.
The
skie
growing
euen
darke
with
the
mistie
fogges
of
ignorance
,
when
their
pastours
and
leaders
were
not
onely
Sir
Iohn
lacke
Latines
,
but
S.
Iohn
lacke
honesties
,
who
could
neither
speake
Latin
,
nor
reade
English
,
nor
vnderstand
the
articles
of
our
faith
,
nor
any
part
of
the
scriptures
,
clowdes
without
raine
,
lanthorns
without
light
,
salt
without
sauour
,
blinde
guides
,
dumbe
dogges
,
that
(
as
one
saith
)
seeme
to
haue
their
soules
giuen
them
in
steede
of
salt
to
keepe
them
from
stinking
;
and
what
maruell
then
,
if
the
people
being
ledde
by
such
blinde
guides
,
became
blinde
themselues
,
and
fell
into
sundrie
errours
?
But
as
for
our
recusant
papists
,
they
liue
in
the
learnedst
age
that
euer
was
,
since
the
time
of
the
Apostles
,
when
as
the
word
of
God
and
knowledge
of
sauing
truth
,
was
neuer
so
plentifull
and
flourishing
as
now
it
is
.
Againe
,
the
errours
of
our
fore-fathers
proceeded
of
meere
simplicitie
and
want
of
iudgement
.
Lib.
I.
de
bap.
cap.
18.
Of
whome
I
may
say
the
same
that
S.
Augustine
saide
of
Cyprian
and
his
colleagues
,
erring
in
the
doctrine
of
Rebaptization
;
That
if
they
had
bene
in
his
time
,
when
vpon
exact
and
full
discussion
of
things
,
it
was
resolued
otherwise
,
they
would
haue
bene
of
an
other
minde
:
So
verilie
,
if
our
fore-fathers
,
whose
zeale
was
exceeding
great
,
and
a
religious
care
to
serue
God
,
had
liued
in
these
latter
times
,
and
had
seene
the
true
groundes
of
our
religion
,
they
would
most
willingly
haue
embraced
the
same
truth
we
professe
this
day
:
many
thousands
of
them
in
their
life
time
,
desiring
to
haue
seene
&
heard
those
things
which
wee
to
our
vnspeakable
comfort
haue
both
heard
and
seene
.
And
howsoeuer
manie
of
our
fore-fathers
were
in
some
points
deceiued
,
yet
it
is
manifestly
to
be
proued
that
the
worthiest
and
best
learned
men
in
former
times
thought
no
otherwise
then
wee
doe
in
all
substantiall
pointes
of
Christan
beliefe
,
complaining
euen
as
we
doe
of
the
intolerable
burdens
which
the
Popes
laid
on
them
in
those
dayes
,
wishing
the
remouing
of
such
things
as
wee
haue
remoued
.
But
as
touching
the
errours
of
our
obstinate
and
wilfull
recusant
Pap
:
they
proceed
of
meere
obstinacie
,
pertinaciously
defending
most
dangerous
errours
,
Hee
that
is
deceiued
,
Cypri
.
ad
Iuba
.
and
erreth
of
simplicitie
may
be
pardoned
:
but
after
the
truth
is
once
reuealed
,
who
so
neuerthelesse
continueth
in
his
former
errours
wittingly
and
willingly
,
sinneth
without
pardon
of
ignominy
,
as
being
ouer
borne
by
presumption
and
wilfulnesse
.
And
this
I
take
to
be
the
very
case
of
all
our
recusant
Papists
this
day
.
So
great
an
oddes
there
is
betweene
simple
errour
and
wilfull
defence
.
Verily
for
my
part
I
am
perswaded
,
that
there
is
neuer
a
sober
and
learned
papist
in
this
land
,
that
can
denie
(
if
he
will
truly
say
,
and
as
he
thinketh
in
his
owne
conscience
)
but
that
we
are
come
as
neere
,
as
possible
we
could
to
the
Church
of
the
Apostles
,
and
Catholike
Bishops
,
which
Church
was
sound
and
perfit
,
and
spotted
with
no
kind
of
idolatrie
,
and
haue
directed
according
to
their
customes
and
ordinances
,
not
onely
the
doctrine
this
day
professed
in
the
Church
of
England
,
but
also
the
sacraments
,
and
forme
of
common
praiers
,
and
diuine
seruice
established
here
among
vs
:
the
psalmes
we
sing
,
are
Dauids
:
the
bookes
we
reade
are
canonicall
:
the
prayers
we
make
are
consonant
to
the
rule
and
proportion
of
faith
,
and
true
godlinesse
.
And
so
it
appeareth
,
that
our
whole
leiturgie
with
great
iudgment
,
and
reasonable
moderation
,
was
purposely
so
framed
,
out
of
the
grounds
of
religion
,
wherein
both
sides
doe
agree
,
that
the
papist
himselfe
might
resort
vnto
it
,
without
any
scruple
or
scandall
,
if
faction
more
then
reason
did
not
preuaile
.
A
third
difference
betweene
our
forefathers
,
and
our
Romish
recusants
is
this
:
our
forefathers
neuer
for
their
part
euer
vnderstood
the
mysterie
of
popish
iniquitie
,
but
in
singlenesse
of
their
hearts
embraced
the
generall
doctrine
of
the
Gospel
,
concerning
saluation
by
faith
in
Christ
:
those
damnable
and
treasonable
positions
which
the
Church
of
Rome
proposeth
to
be
holden
,
as
verities
of
the
Catholike
faith
,
were
neuer
knowne
in
the
daies
of
our
forefathers
,
that
is
,
these
fundamentall
points
of
popish
religion
,
viz:
that
the
Pope
is
gods
vicegerent
here
on
earth
,
and
therefore
superiour
to
the
King
of
England
.
That
it
is
the
Popes
power
to
depose
the
King
of
England
,
and
depriue
him
of
his
crowne
.
That
the
Pope
may
absolue
his
subiects
from
their
oath
of
allegiance
to
him
.
That
at
the
Popes
commandement
,
the
people
are
to
take
armes
against
him
.
That
it
is
both
lawfull
and
meritorious
before
God
,
to
kill
,
and
to
murther
any
Christian
Prince
,
if
he
fall
into
tyrannie
or
misbeliefe
.
The
secrets
of
this
occupation
were
neuer
so
much
as
heard
of
in
those
daies
,
I
meane
this
king-killing
,
and
Queene-killing
Doctrine
of
the
papists
,
for
proofe
wherof
I
will
alleadge
vnto
you
one
famous
and
memorable
example
as
I
find
it
recorded
.
In
the
wofull
warres
with
the
Barons
,
when
King
Iohn
was
viewing
of
the
Castell
of
Rochest
held
against
him
by
the
Earle
of
Arundel
,
he
was
espied
by
a
very
good
Arcubalaster
,
who
told
the
Earle
thereof
,
and
said
that
he
would
soone
dispatch
that
cruell
tyrant
,
if
he
would
but
say
the
word
.
God
forbid
,
vile
varlet
(
quoth
the
Earle
)
That
we
should
proue
the
death
of
the
holy
one
of
God
.
What
said
the
Souldiour
,
swearing
a
monstrous
oath
,
he
would
not
spare
you
,
my
Lord
,
if
he
had
you
at
the
like
aduantage
?
No
matter
for
that
quoth
the
Earle
,
Gods
good
will
be
done
,
and
he
will
dispose
thereof
,
and
not
the
king
:
an
answere
fitting
and
beseeming
that
most
noble
Earle
far
contrarie
to
the
practise
of
our
powder-Traitors
,
and
likewise
contrarie
to
the
practise
of
the
late
popes
of
Rome
,
who
haue
beene
so
farre
off
from
sauing
,
and
sparing
the
life
of
Christian
Kings
and
Princes
,
that
as
Pope
Hildebrand
gaue
the
first
president
,
they
haue
hired
Assacinours
to
murther
them
,
&
to
lay
violent
hands
vpon
them
,
as
it
is
plainely
to
be
proued
by
the
practise
of
Pius
quintus
,
Gregory
the
thirteenth
,
Sixtus
quintus
,
who
not
onely
resolued
that
parricide
of
Princes
was
lawfull
,
but
promised
both
earthly
and
heauenly
recompence
to
such
as
would
offer
their
seruice
to
kill
and
murther
them
.
The
truth
whereof
is
clearely
to
be
iustified
by
the
letters
of
Cardinal
Como
written
to
William
Parrie
,
wherein
contrarie
to
the
manifest
voice
of
God
himselfe
,
Thou
shalt
not
kill
,
he
encourageth
him
to
the
slaughter
of
his
liege
Ladie
and
Mistrisse
,
as
to
an
honourable
and
holy
exploite
.
The
last
difference
and
oddes
which
I
obserue
betweene
our
forefathers
,
&
our
Romish
recusants
is
this
,
that
they
,
as
they
were
generally
forward
and
very
zealous
in
that
religion
which
they
professed
,
so
were
they
as
carefull
to
seeke
all
the
good
meanes
they
could
to
come
to
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
:
they
fasted
often
:
they
praied
much
,
they
were
most
diligent
resorters
to
the
house
of
prayer
,
knowing
that
it
was
the
place
that
God
himselfe
had
made
choise
of
to
haue
his
name
called
on
:
they
would
reade
all
such
good
bookes
as
possible
they
could
come
by
,
for
their
better
instruction
in
the
knowledge
of
God
:
and
as
it
is
recorded
,
and
storied
of
many
of
them
they
would
sit
vp
all
night
in
reading
and
hearing
,
not
caring
for
any
expenses
or
charges
,
so
they
might
attaine
to
come
by
such
bookes
in
english
as
they
descried
:
they
would
not
sticke
some
of
them
to
giue
fiue
markes
for
a
Bible
to
reade
in
,
and
many
of
them
most
willingly
would
giue
a
loade
of
haie
for
some
few
Chapters
of
Saint
Iames
,
or
Saint
Paul
in
English
.
And
therefore
wee
conceiue
this
good
hope
of
them
,
euen
of
all
such
,
who
sought
so
carefully
to
vse
al
the
good
meanes
;
whereby
they
might
attaine
to
the
sauing
knowledge
of
truth
,
although
deceiued
in
some
points
,
yet
that
they
had
mercy
shewed
vnto
them
,
and
doe
rest
in
peace
with
God
,
and
that
the
same
God
,
who
gaue
them
some
measure
of
knowledge
,
and
would
require
of
them
according
to
that
which
they
had
,
and
not
according
to
that
,
which
they
had
not
,
did
receiue
them
into
the
number
of
his
blessed
and
elect
.
But
the
case
of
our
recusants
is
a
cleane
other
case
.
They
refuse
almost
al
manner
of
conference
with
learned
men
:
they
will
not
,
nor
in
deed
dare
,
onely
for
the
feare
of
displeasing
the
Popes
holinesse
,
resort
to
our
Churches
,
as
for
11.
yeares
together
,
in
the
raigne
of
the
late
Queene
of
most
precious
and
worthie
memorie
,
all
the
papists
of
this
kingdome
did
,
and
that
without
any
scruple
of
conscience
,
vntill
they
had
receiued
a
countermand
from
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
commanding
them
vpon
paine
of
the
blacke
curse
to
come
no
more
to
the
Church
:
they
are
forbidden
to
reade
the
Scriptures
:
the
Bishops
in
Queene
Maries
daies
,
caused
it
not
onely
to
be
accounted
heresie
,
but
to
be
proclaimed
fellonie
for
any
lay
man
to
haue
an
English
Bible
in
his
house
,
for
his
priuate
solace
and
comfort
:
the
learned
treatises
written
by
our
men
,
they
permit
not
their
Disciples
once
to
reade
,
but
interdict
them
euen
to
many
of
their
Seminarie
Priests
;
no
maruaile
then
if
taking
this
course
,
the
Iesuites
and
Priests
keepe
their
lay
followers
in
a
perpetuall
ignorance
of
true
religion
,
hauing
once
framed
them
to
this
principle
,
that
it
is
a
deadly
sinne
,
either
to
reade
the
bookes
of
the
Protestants
,
or
to
heare
their
sermons
,
or
to
be
present
at
their
seruice
,
or
to
communicate
with
them
in
any
religious
dutie
whatsoeuer
.
And
let
thus
much
be
spoken
touching
the
Prophets
reprouing
of
the
Israelites
for
wauering
and
halting
betweene
two
opinions
:
It
followeth
in
the
next
part
to
make
proofe
vnto
you
,
that
God
and
Baal
cannot
both
be
ioyned
together
in
one
seruice
.
There
is
a
speech
of
Socrates
greatly
commended
by
S.
Augustine
,
De
consen
.
Euang.
Li.
1.
cap.
18.
vnumquemque
deum
sic
coli
oportere
,
quomodo
seipsum
colend
m
praeceperat
.
That
is
,
euery
God
was
to
be
honoured
,
as
u
he
himselfe
had
giuen
in
commandement
.
Vpon
which
principle
the
ancient
Romanes
in
the
time
of
Tiberius
the
Emperour
grounding
themselues
,
albeit
they
did
admit
the
religion
of
all
other
gods
,
yet
by
no
meanes
they
could
be
induced
to
receiue
the
religion
of
the
God
of
the
Hebrewse
.
The
reason
was
this
,
they
saw
it
necessarie
that
either
all
their
idolls
must
be
excluded
,
and
onely
the
true
worship
of
God
entertained
:
or
hee
onely
not
admitted
,
the
rest
to
be
honored
.
For
by
the
word
of
God
they
found
they
could
not
agree
together
,
and
contrarie
to
his
word
they
would
not
seeke
to
serue
him
,
and
therefore
chose
rather
to
bee
without
Christ
altogether
,
then
to
worship
him
and
others
with
him
against
his
will
and
commaundement
.
And
verilie
God
will
take
it
in
better
part
that
thou
deuote
thy selfe
to
any
religion
,
be
it
neuer
so
bad
,
then
to
make
a
hodge podge
of
religion
,
and
so
to
haue
a
mixture
of
good
and
bad
religion
together
,
insomuch
that
I
am
perswaded
that
the
worship
of
Mahomet
lesse
offendeth
God
,
then
when
such
as
are
by
profession
Christians
,
shall
giue
diuine
honour
to
a
piece
of
bread
.
Eze.
20.39
.
As
for
you
ô
house
of
Israel
,
(
saith
God
by
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
)
goe
you
and
serue
euery
one
his
Idol
,
seeing
you
will
not
obey
me
,
&
pollute
my
holie
altar
no
more
with
your
giftes
,
and
with
your
Idolls
.
Where
the
Prophet
intimateth
,
that
God
had
rather
that
the
Israelites
should
bee
professed
Idolaters
,
then
to
pretend
his
holie
name
with
such
corruptions
.
True
religion
will
admit
no
mixture
,
but
is
simple
.
God
himselfe
said
,
Thou
shalt
not
let
thy
cattell
gender
with
diuers
kindes
.
Leui
:
19.19
.
Thou
shalt
not
sowe
thy
fielde
with
mingled
seede
:
neither
shall
a
garment
of
diuers
colours
come
vpon
thee
:
signifying
that
wee
must
sticke
to
one
religion
,
which
indeed
requireth
the
whole
man
,
and
cannot
endure
any
doubling
in
the
worship
of
God
,
nor
any
blending
of
Iudaisme
,
and
Christianisme
together
:
nor
any
reconciliation
at
all
betweene
Christ
and
Belial
:
betweene
the
table
of
the
Lorde
,
and
the
table
of
diuels
:
betweene
God
and
Melchom
:
It
is
not
possible
that
one
wombe
should
containe
Iacob
and
Esau
:
one
house
the
Arke
and
Dagon
:
one
temple
prayer
and
merchandise
:
one
heauen
Michaell
and
the
Dragon
,
and
so
God
hauing
ordained
his
Law
stricktly
to
be
kept
without
declining
either
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left
,
giueth
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
hee
himselfe
will
be
serued
alone
,
without
corriualles
of
his
glorie
,
with
all
our
heart
,
strength
,
and
soule
.
Sonne
(
saith
God
)
giue
mee
thine
heart
:
Pro:
23.26
.
and
let
thine
eyes
delight
in
my
wayes
:
but
Sathan
willing
to
part
stakes
with
God
,
crieth
out
with
the
Harlot
,
Nec
mihi
,
nec
tibi
,
sed
diuidatur
:
Let
honour
and
glorie
,
and
worship
bee
neither
mine
nor
thine
,
1.
King
:
3.
but
let
it
be
diuided
.
But
the
Lorde
our
God
beeing
a
iealous
God
,
will
not
be
crowded
in
a
corner
of
the
heart
,
but
he
will
haue
either
all
thine
heart
,
or
no
part
at
all
,
either
all
glorie
,
or
no
glorie
:
aut
Caesar
,
aut
nullus
.
And
so
we
are
taught
by
the
word
of
God
in
Deuteronomie
:
Deu.
61.4.5
Heare
ô
Israel
,
the
Lord
our
God
is
Lord
only
;
&
thou
shalt
lette
the
Lorde
thy
God
with
all
thine
heart
,
and
with
all
thy
soule
,
and
with
all
thy
might
,
that
is
:
we
must
loue
God
sweetely
,
strongly
,
perseuerantly
.
Loue
God
with
all
thine
heart
,
that
is
,
kindely
and
affectionately
.
Loue
God
with
all
thy
soule
,
that
is
,
wisely
and
discreetly
.
Loue
God
with
all
thy
might
,
that
is
,
stedfastly
and
constantly
;
Let
the
loue
of
thine
heart
inflame
thy
zeale
towards
him
:
Let
the
knowledge
of
thy
soule
guide
it
with
discretion
:
Let
the
constancie
of
thy
might
and
strength
confirme
it
:
That
is
,
let
thy
loue
bee
feruent
,
circumspect
,
and
inuincible
.
So
that
thou
maiest
say
with
the
Apostle
,
I
am
perswaded
,
that
neither
death
,
nor
life
,
nor
Angels
,
nor
principalities
,
Ro:
8.38
.
nor
powers
,
nor
things
present
,
nor
things
to
come
,
nor
height
,
nor
depth
,
nor
any
other
creature
,
shall
bee
able
to
seperate
mee
from
the
loue
of
God
,
which
is
in
Christ
Iesus
my
Lorde
.
Out
of
that
which
hath
bene
already
spoken
touching
this
point
of
mingling
Gods
worship
with
the
worship
of
any
other
,
this
conclusion
or
corollarie
may
be
deriued
,
which
is
this
,
that
if
either
thou
serue
God
with
my
other
,
as
Saints
,
Angels
,
or
anie
creature
,
which
the
Papists
doe
.
Or
if
thou
serue
him
alone
,
any
other
way
,
then
he
prescribeth
,
thou
louest
him
not
,
but
thou
doest
hate
him
,
yea
,
extreamely
hate
him
,
and
shalt
finde
at
his
hands
the
reward
of
a
deadly
enemie
.
Strange
therefore
must
needs
seeme
to
bee
this
Doctrine
of
the
Papists
,
wherein
they
teach
,
that
wee
may
honour
God
,
as
wee
our selues
can
best
deuise
.
That
if
our
intent
be
good
,
and
our
meaning
be
good
,
it
skilleth
not
how
,
or
in
what
manner
wee
worship
him
:
That
these
kindes
of
worshippings
of
God
,
which
come
of
our
owne
heads
,
without
the
expresse
commandement
of
God
,
are
the
more
agreeable
vnto
him
,
the
more
they
proceede
of
our selues
.
Which
doctrine
of
theirs
is
the
maine
proppe
of
all
idolatrie
,
and
the
very
roote
of
all
superstition
.
For
the
wayes
of
God
are
not
as
our
waies
:
his
thoughts
are
not
as
our
thoughts
:
hee
hath
bridled
our
deuotion
,
and
hath
taught
vs
to
worship
him
not
in
such
sort
as
may
seeme
good
in
our
eyes
,
but
onely
as
hee
hath
commanded
vs
.
God
commanded
Moses
to
build
the
tabernacle
,
according
to
that
order
and
forme
shewed
him
in
the
mount
,
neither
durst
Moses
adde
or
diminish
any
thing
,
or
to
doe
more
or
lesse
,
then
God
appointed
him
.
Certaine
it
is
,
that
our
good
meanings
make
not
our
doings
good
.
Neither
is
our
zeale
a
rule
whereby
wee
may
measure
out
either
our
Faith
,
or
our
good
workes
,
but
onely
the
knowne
will
and
pleasure
of
God
.
There
wanted
no
good
intent
,
or
good
meaning
either
in
the
Israelites
,
when
they
made
a
golden
calfe
:
Exod:
3.2.4
or
in
Nadab
and
Al
thu
,
when
they
offered
strange
fire
:
or
in
Saul
,
when
he
spared
king
Agag
:
or
in
Vzza
,
Leuit:
10.2
.
1.
Sam:
15.22
.
2.
Sam:
6.6
.
1.
King
:
12.28
.
when
he
put
his
hand
to
the
Arke
to
holde
it
:
nor
in
Ishu
,
when
hee
would
needs
ioyne
the
worshipping
of
Ieroboams
golden
Calues
,
with
the
worship
of
the
true
God
of
Israell
:
and
yet
we
see
how
that
iealous
God
which
could
neuer
abide
to
be
worshipped
otherwise
then
hee
himselfe
had
giuen
in
commandement
,
executed
his
fierce
wrath
vpon
them
all
,
for
their
confected
religions
,
and
halting
consciences
.
And
this
for
all
the
world
,
is
the
very
guise
and
manner
of
worship
the
papists
vse
:
True
it
is
,
they
worship
God
,
and
they
worship
Christ
,
but
not
according
to
his
prescript
,
but
in
ioyning
the
worship
of
other
creatures
with
the
worship
of
the
only
true
God
,
they
proue
themselues
to
be
plaine
Idolaters
,
holding
this
for
a
most
certaine
doctrine
,
that
the
Crucifixe
is
to
be
worshipped
with
the
very
selfe-same
worship
,
wherewith
Christ
himselfe
is
to
be
worshipped
.
The
difference
then
betweene
the
Papists
and
vs
,
in
the
doctrine
of
the
worship
and
seruice
of
God
,
consisteth
both
in
the
manner
and
the
matter
of
Gods
worship
.
In
the
manner
of
Gods
worship
,
wee
vpon
iust
grounds
doe
varie
from
them
,
because
that
whereas
God
being
a
Spirite
,
loueth
only
such
worshippers
,
as
worship
him
in
spirite
and
truth
,
and
to
that
ende
would
haue
religion
it selfe
to
be
free
vnder
very
sure
and
most
manifest
ceremonies
of
diuine
seruice
,
and
therefore
hath
deliuered
vnto
vs
some
fewe
in
steed
of
many
,
and
the
most
easie
to
be
done
,
Iohn
:
4
,
29.
Aug.
de
doct.
Chri.
l.
3.
c.
9.
most
honourable
for
signification
,
and
most
cleare
and
pure
to
bee
obserued
.
The
religion
of
the
Papists
is
so
loden
with
ceremonies
,
presumptions
,
&
deuises
of
men
,
that
their
manner
of
worshipping
of
God
in
their
Temple
,
is
become
now
altogether
Iewish
and
carnall
,
consisting
in
nothing
else
but
altogether
in
outward
and
ceremoniall
exercises
,
in
the
doctrine
whereof
,
ther
is
neither
faith
nor
spirit
,
nor
any
working
of
the
holie
Ghost
almost
required
.
Touching
the
matter
of
Gods
worship
,
wherein
we
differ
from
the
Papists
,
thus
it
stands
,
wee
teach
and
hold
,
that
onely
God
the
Father
,
God
the
Sonne
,
and
God
the
holie
Ghost
,
are
to
be
worshipped
with
diuine
honor
,
and
no
creature
besides
:
grounding
our selues
vpon
this
principle
and
maxime
in
diuinitie
,
that
adoration
is
due
onely
to
God
,
and
therefore
that
God
onely
is
to
be
worshipped
.
Lu:
4.
Deu:
6.
De
vera
religi
.
cap.
54.
And
so
S.
Augustine
saith
,
It
is
very
well
recorded
in
the
Scriptures
,
that
man
was
prohibited
by
an
Angel
to
worship
none
,
but
onely
God
,
vnder
whom
hee
himselfe
was
a
fellowe
seruant
.
And
therefore
hee
saith
;
Ecce
vnum
Deum
colo
,
Behold
,
I
worship
and
adore
none
but
God
alone
.
And
thence
he
deriueth
the
name
of
religion
,
quòd
ei
vni
religet
animas
nostras
,
because
it
religeth
our
soules
onely
to
him
:
But
the
papists
(
as
before
hath
beene
alleadged
in
their
seruice
)
ioyne
with
the
worship
of
God
,
the
worship
of
Angels
,
the
worship
of
the
Crucifix
,
the
worship
of
images
,
the
adoration
of
the
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
as
they
call
it
,
whereunto
they
ascribe
diuine
honour
and
worship
.
Hauing
thus
farre
proued
vnto
you
that
God
and
Baal
cannot
both
be
serued
together
,
no
more
then
God
and
Dagon
can
stand
together
,
it
remaineth
now
in
the
third
place
that
I
intreate
of
the
Prophet
Elias
his
exhortion
to
the
people
wherein
he
exhorteth
to
constancie
in
religion
and
following
God
.
Part.
3
3.
Part.
Constancie
,
preseuerance
and
continuance
in
the
true
knowledge
of
God
,
are
vertues
required
of
all
such
as
intend
to
lead
a
godly
,
and
a
Christian
life
,
and
finally
resolue
to
finish
the
period
of
their
liues
in
defence
and
maintenance
of
the
true
religion
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Math.
24.13
.
Reue.
3.11
.
He
that
continueth
to
the
end
shall
be
saued
.
Behold
saith
God
to
the
Angell
of
the
Church
of
Philadelphia
,
behold
I
come
shortly
:
behold
that
which
thou
hast
,
that
no
man
take
away
thy
crowne
.
And
in
the
2.
of
the
Reuelation
,
thus
the
sonne
of
God
speaketh
to
the
rest
of
them
of
Thiatyra
,
which
knew
not
the
deepenesse
of
Sathan
,
I
will
put
vpon
you
none
other
burden
,
but
this
,
holdfast
that
which
you
haue
vntill
I
come
.
Reue.
2.24.25
.
Heb.
10.23
.
And
the
Apostle
to
the
Hebrewes
giueth
vs
this
aduise
and
counsell
,
that
we
should
keepe
the
profession
of
our
hope
without
wauering
,
so
that
being
rooted
and
grounded
in
true
knowledge
,
and
built
vpon
the
foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
,
Iesus
Christ
himselfe
being
the
head
and
chiefe
corner
stone
,
we
should
not
henceforth
be
children
any
more
wauering
and
carried
about
with
euery
blast
of
doctrine
,
Ephe.
4.14
.
by
the
deceit
of
men
,
and
with
craftinesse
,
whereby
they
lye
in
waite
to
deceiue
.
The
diuell
knowing
full
well
what
this
hope
of
our
saluation
is
,
ceaseth
not
continually
to
bend
his
force
against
the
foundation
and
fortresse
of
our
faith
.
And
surely
,
if
Sathan
by
his
principall
Ministers
the
Iesuites
and
Seminarie
Priests
,
can
once
shake
the
ground
worke
whereon
we
build
our
health
and
Saluation
(
which
is
the
affiance
in
Christ
our
God
,
and
credite
to
his
word
)
if
he
can
but
once
perswade
vs
to
retire
from
that
hold
and
ground
we
stand
vpon
,
as
vpon
an
vnmoueable
rocke
,
then
hath
he
wonne
his
desire
:
then
enters
he
with
banners
displaied
vpon
vs
,
tossing
vs
vp
&
downe
with
euery
blast
of
doctrine
,
and
beateth
vs
downe
to
the
pit
of
damnation
.
For
the
easier
compassing
of
this
his
wicked
designement
,
some
be
perswaded
by
arguments
,
and
by
reasons
to
forsake
their
faith
,
and
so
by
this
meanes
draweth
them
to
sundrie
heresies
and
errours
:
others
he
forceth
by
torments
and
persecutions
quite
to
giue
ouer
their
hold
:
others
againe
he
winneth
,
and
allureth
to
himselfe
with
baites
of
pleasures
to
denie
Christ
:
and
so
Iulian
perceiuing
that
torments
could
not
preuaile
to
cause
the
Christians
to
reuenge
their
profession
,
gaue
them
the
greatest
roomes
and
honours
of
his
kingdome
,
euen
as
Sathan
when
he
could
not
by
argument
ouercome
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
offered
him
all
the
kingdomes
of
the
world
,
if
he
would
fall
downe
before
him
and
worship
him
.
The
onely
powerfull
meanes
to
withstand
all
the
forcible
assaults
of
Sathan
is
,
whensoeuer
he
offereth
vs
to
runne
to
the
walles
of
faith
,
betaking
our selues
each
man
to
his
defence
,
as
in
the
certaine
truth
of
gods
eternall
testament
.
2.
Thess.
2.15
.
1.
Cor.
16.13
,
Stand
fast
,
saith
the
Apostle
to
the
Thessalonians
,
and
keepe
the
traditions
,
which
ye
haue
beene
taught
.
And
to
the
Corinthians
to
the
same
purpose
he
saith
watch
ye
,
stand
fast
:
and
quite
your
selues
like
men
,
and
be
strong
.
Let
the
feare
of
the
Lord
be
vpon
you
.
Sticke
fast
vnto
the
Lord
,
and
cleaue
vnto
him
with
a
perpetuall
couenant
which
shall
neuer
be
forgotten
.
Three
waies
there
are
whereby
we
may
grow
to
this
resolution
:
first
by
remembring
the
intolerable
paines
of
hell
if
wee
doe
reuolt
;
secondly
by
thinking
of
the
vnspeakable
ioyes
of
heauen
,
if
wee
continue
firme
:
Thirdly
looking
vpon
such
who
haue
suffered
before
vs
,
and
to
propose
them
vnto
vs
for
examples
of
imitation
.
And
so
to
shew
the
like
constancie
in
cleauing
vnto
God
which
they
did
.
We
haue
recorded
in
scripture
the
examples
of
Dauid
;
of
the
three
children
,
of
Eleazar
and
sundrie
others
who
for
the
zeale
they
bare
to
the
religion
of
their
God
,
were
resolute
to
indure
most
cruell
torments
.
The
Apostle
to
the
Hebrewes
mentioneth
such
,
who
being
strong
in
faith
,
when
they
were
tried
by
racking
,
yet
would
not
,
or
cared
not
to
be
deliuered
that
they
might
receiue
a
better
resurrection
.
Heb
11.35
.
We
haue
againe
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
Histories
,
the
examples
of
eighteene
hundred
thousand
Christians
in
the
time
of
the
tenne
primitiue
persecutions
which
were
done
to
most
cruell
deaths
,
onely
because
they
would
not
forsake
their
Christian
religion
.
And
to
come
neerer
home
to
our
owne
daies
we
haue
examples
of
our
owne
brethren
in
Queene
Maries
daies
,
who
for
the
zeale
they
bare
to
the
house
of
God
,
were
content
to
yeeld
their
backes
to
the
scourge
,
their
neckes
to
the
tormentours
,
their
bodies
to
the
furious
flames
of
fire
,
their
soules
with
ioy
into
the
hands
of
him
that
made
them
.
Concerning
whom
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
euery
true
member
of
the
Catholike
Church
,
may
wish
from
her
very
heart
,
that
his
soule
might
die
the
death
of
those
righteous
persons
,
and
that
his
latter
end
might
be
like
vnto
theirs
.
This
is
then
the
exhortation
which
Elias
giueth
to
those
wauing
and
wauering
Israelites
,
which
could
not
resolue
whether
God
or
Baal
was
to
be
worshipped
,
if
God
be
the
Lord
,
follow
him
,
cleaue
fast
vnto
him
,
and
serue
him
with
all
the
desire
of
your
hearts
:
but
God
is
the
Lord
,
yea
the
onely
Lord
,
therefore
he
onely
is
to
be
worshipped
.
It
is
the
Lord
onely
that
formeth
the
light
,
and
createth
the
darkenesse
:
it
is
he
that
hath
made
all
things
,
which
hath
spread
out
the
heauens
alone
,
and
stretched
out
the
earth
by
himselfe
,
it
is
he
that
can
foretell
things
before
they
come
to
passe
:
it
is
he
alone
that
can
say
my
counsell
shall
stand
,
and
whatsoeuer
I
will
haue
come
to
passe
,
shall
come
to
passe
:
it
is
he
that
bringeth
Princes
to
nothing
,
and
maketh
the
iudges
of
the
earth
as
vanitie
:
yea
it
is
the
euerlasting
God
that
hath
created
the
ends
of
the
earth
,
and
bringeth
out
all
their
armies
by
numbers
,
and
calleth
them
all
by
their
names
:
And
therefore
he
onely
is
the
Lord
.
As
for
Baal
,
if
he
be
a
God
,
let
him
plead
for
himselfe
against
him
that
cast
downe
his
Altar
,
Iudi.
6.31
.
saith
Ioas
the
father
of
Gideon
,
after
that
his
sonne
had
destroyed
the
Altar
of
Baal
,
and
cut
downe
the
groue
that
was
by
it
.
Baal
can
giue
you
nothing
:
he
can
doe
neither
good
nor
euill
,
and
therefore
he
is
no
god
:
though
a
man
cry
vnto
him
,
yet
cannot
he
answere
him
,
nor
deliuer
him
out
of
his
tribulation
and
therefore
he
is
no
God
.
The
Papists
are
much
grieued
with
vs
,
because
we
will
not
acknowledge
the
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
to
be
our
Lord
,
and
our
God
,
and
thereupon
cast
this
vniust
aspersion
vpon
vs
,
and
falsely
charge
vs
,
that
We
call
the
bodie
of
Christ
an
abominable
idoll
.
True
it
is
indeed
that
we
call
that
an
abominable
idoll
.
Which
they
terme
the
body
of
Christ
,
and
vnder
that
pretence
fall
downe
before
it
to
worship
it
,
and
call
it
Lord
and
God
,
in
doing
whereof
what
other
thing
doe
they
but
make
a
God
of
a
peece
of
bread
,
and
vnder
the
name
of
the
bodie
of
Christ
,
set
vp
an
Idoll
in
the
Church
of
God
.
But
as
for
the
bodie
of
Christ
wee
haue
euermore
confessed
with
Chrysostome
that
it
is
worthie
of
the
highest
honour
,
1.
Cor:
Homil.
14.
as
being
inseparablie
ioyned
to
his
God-heade
in
one
person
,
sitting
now
at
the
right
hand
of
God
:
and
wee
adore
it
,
and
worship
it
,
euen
as
the
bodie
of
the
sonne
of
God
:
not
onely
for
the
turning
of
an
hand
,
as
the
Papists
vse
to
do
,
while
the
priest
is
able
to
hold
vp
the
Sacrament
,
and
that
with
doubt
of
our selues
whether
wee
doe
well
or
no
,
which
thing
is
vtterly
vncomfortable
,
and
dangerous
,
and
full
of
terrours
to
the
conscience
:
but
we
worship
that
blessed
and
glorious
bodie
,
as
that
blessed
Martyr
S.
Stephen
did
,
being
in
heauen
,
at
the
right
hand
of
the
power
of
God
,
and
therefore
without
doubt
or
danger
;
and
that
at
all
times
,
and
for
euer
:
and
we
belieue
,
and
thus
wee
teach
,
that
Iesus
Christ
,
euen
in
the
nature
and
substance
of
our
flesh
,
is
the
Lord
in
the
glorie
of
God
the
Father
.
Howbeit
we
say
Christs
bodie
is
one
thing
,
the
Sacrament
another
.
The
Sacrament
is
an
earthly
thing
,
Christs
bodie
an
heauenly
thing
:
the
Sacrament
is
corruptible
,
Christs
bodie
is
glorious
:
the
Sacrament
is
receiued
into
our
bodies
,
Christs
body
is
only
receiued
into
our
soules
,
and
entreth
not
into
our
bodies
.
S.
Luke
reporteth
how
that
the
Disciples
of
Christ
being
abashed
at
Christes
suddaine
presence
among
them
,
Luk:
24
38.39
.
and
through
feare
,
supposing
they
had
seene
a
spirite
or
Ghost
,
our
Sauiour
spake
vnto
them
in
this
manner
:
Why
are
yee
troubled
?
and
wherefore
doe
doubts
arise
in
your
hearts
?
behold
mine
handes
and
my
feete
,
for
it
is
I
my selfe
:
handle
mee
,
and
see
me
:
for
a
spirite
hath
not
flesh
and
bones
as
yee
see
me
haue
;
and
so
shewed
them
both
his
hands
and
his
feete
.
Euen
so
verily
,
the
Sacrament
it selfe
,
if
it
could
speake
,
would
speake
in
this
manner
,
at
the
time
of
the
eleuation
to
the
standers
by
:
why
doe
such
thoughts
arise
in
your
harts
,
as
to
thinke
that
I
am
your
Lord
and
God
?
Why
stand
ye
thus
gazing
,
thus
knocking
your
breasts
,
and
bending
your
knees
to
me
.
Handle
me
,
taste
me
,
and
looke
vpon
me
,
and
see
whether
I
haue
not
all
the
naturall
properties
of
true
bread
:
that
is
,
whether
I
haue
not
the
very
forme
,
shape
,
sauour
,
smell
,
colour
,
and
weight
of
bread
.
As
for
the
bodie
of
Christ
,
it
cannot
bee
broken
with
hands
,
or
grated
with
teeth
,
or
conueied
into
the
bellie
,
as
you
see
that
I
am
.
The
bread
of
life
cannot
be
felt
,
seene
,
or
tasted
,
or
discerned
by
any
outward
sence
,
as
you
see
that
I
am
:
and
therefore
belieue
them
not
which
teach
you
otherwise
,
for
I
am
bread
,
I
am
no
God
.
Quarta
Pars.
Hauing
thus
farre
spoken
of
the
exhortation
of
the
Prophet
Elias
,
wherein
hee
exhorteth
them
to
be
constant
in
religion
,
and
constant
in
the
confession
of
him
,
which
is
the
onely
true
God
:
it
remaineth
now
in
the
last
place
to
shewe
vnto
you
,
what
the
successe
was
,
which
insued
vpon
the
Prophets
reproofe
,
which
at
the
first
was
thus
,
that
the
people
answered
him
not
a
word
,
standing
in
doubt
,
whether
hee
were
the
onely
God
or
no.
But
a
little
afterwards
,
when
they
saw
how
miraculouslie
the
fire
of
the
Lord
fell
,
and
consumed
the
burnt
offering
,
and
the
wood
,
and
the
stones
,
and
the
dust
,
and
licked
vp
the
water
which
was
in
the
ditch
,
1.
King
:
18.38
.
being
moued
with
this
strange
and
miraculous
worke
of
God
,
they
were
sodainly
changed
in
their
opinions
,
and
falling
on
their
faces
,
cryed
out
,
the
Lord
is
God
,
the
Lord
is
God
:
Where
we
may
see
,
that
howsoeuer
it
may
be
,
that
God
permitteth
his
owne
people
for
some
certaine
time
,
to
fall
into
manie
dangerous
errours
,
yet
such
is
his
great
mercie
towards
them
,
that
first
or
last
he
calleth
them
home
againe
,
and
will
not
suffer
them
finallie
to
perish
,
as
here
hee
dealt
with
his
owne
people
of
Israell
.
There
is
no
one
thing
more
commonly
obiected
by
Papists
against
the
religion
of
the
Protestants
,
then
that
,
as
they
say
,
wee
haue
no
miracles
in
our
church
.
If
your
Church
be
the
true
church
,
if
the
doctrine
you
teach
be
the
true
Catholike
faith
of
Christ
,
where
bee
your
miracles
,
(
say
they
)
and
where
bee
those
signes
and
wonders
among
you
,
which
may
proue
vnto
vs
,
that
your
religion
is
of
God
?
To
the
which
objection
I
answere
with
Chrysostome
,
Opere
imperfecto
.
Hom:
49.
that
there
was
a
time
wherein
of
olde
it
was
knowne
by
miracles
,
who
were
true
Christians
,
who
were
false
,
and
where
a
man
might
finde
the
true
Church
of
God
indeede
:
but
now
saith
hee
,
the
working
of
miracles
is
quite
taken
away
,
and
is
rather
found
among
them
that
are
false
Christians
.
Which
speech
of
that
learned
father
is
truely
verified
this
day
in
the
church
of
Antichrist
,
where
the
Papists
can
make
their
Crosses
to
speake
,
their
Idolles
to
goe
,
their
images
to
weepe
,
to
sweate
,
to
laugh
,
to
shift
themselues
from
place
,
to
light
their
owne
lamps
:
Yea
,
the
vnholy
fathers
of
the
societie
of
Iesus
,
to
set
a
glorious
countenance
of
their
miracles
,
tell
vs
in
great
sadnes
,
that
with
their
holie-water
,
they
haue
calmed
the
Sea
,
chased
away
mice
out
of
the
countrey
,
and
haue
made
barren
women
to
conceiue
,
and
beare
children
.
But
against
such
miracle-mongers
,
saith
Augustine
,
My
God
hath
armed
mee
,
saying
,
Tractat
:
in
Ioh:
13.
in
the
latter
dayes
there
shall
arise
false
Prophets
,
working
signes
and
wonders
,
to
deceiue
the
very
Elect
of
God
,
if
it
were
possible
.
True
it
is
,
the
Apostles
wrought
miracles
,
but
it
was
thereby
to
confirme
the
Gospel
,
they
preached
,
as
the
Euangelist
writeth
,
The
Lord
wrought
with
them
,
Mar:
16.20
&
confirmed
the
word
with
signes
that
followed
.
And
the
Apost:
to
the
Hebrues
likewise
saith
,
that
saluation
at
the
first
began
to
be
preached
by
the
Lord
,
&
was
confirmed
vnto
vs
by
them
that
heard
him
(
meaning
the
Apostles
)
bearing
witnes
thereunto
with
signes
&
wonders
,
&
with
diuers
gifts
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
Heb:
2.3.4
.
according
to
his
will
.
In
the
first
beginning
then
,
and
gathering
of
the
church
,
miracles
were
necessarie
.
But
as
when
wee
goe
about
to
plant
a
tree
,
so
long
we
water
it
,
vntill
we
see
it
hath
taken
root
,
but
when
it
is
once
substantially
grounded
,
and
branches
spread
abroad
,
wee
take
no
more
paine
to
water
it
.
So
likewise
,
as
long
as
the
people
of
the
world
were
altogether
faithlesse
,
this
meanes
of
miracles
for
confirmation
of
doctrine
,
was
of
Indulgence
graunted
then
.
But
when
once
spirituall
instruction
had
taken
better
place
,
the
corporall
signes
surceased
straight
.
The
kingdome
and
Church
of
Christ
was
planted
in
the
power
of
doctrine
and
miracles
by
the
power
of
the
holie
Ghost
.
Now
therefore
it
is
against
faith
,
if
any
looke
for
miracles
againe
to
confirme
the
Gospell
,
which
is
alreadie
so
confirmed
,
that
if
an
Angell
from
heauen
,
should
preach
vnto
vs
any
otherwise
,
then
that
which
hath
bene
preached
vnto
vs
,
let
him
be
accursed
.
Seeing
then
the
doctrine
this
day
taught
,
professed
,
and
preached
in
the
Church
of
England
,
is
the
verie
same
doctrine
which
Christ
himselfe
deliuered
to
his
Apostles
,
and
they
,
to
their
aftercommers
,
there
needeth
no
other
confirmation
by
miracles
to
be
wrought
by
vs
.
Thus
haue
I
with
what
perspicuitie
and
breuitie
the
proportion
of
the
time
allotted
vnto
mee
would
permit
,
runne
ouer
this
portion
of
holy
scripture
.
The
Lorde
giue
a
blessing
vnto
the
wordes
which
you
haue
heard
this
day
with
your
outward
eares
out
of
my
mouth
,
and
by
the
secret
working
of
his
holy
spirite
,
giue
such
force
vnto
them
,
that
they
may
become
fruitfull
in
the
hearts
of
you
all
.
And
forasmuch
as
the
Lord
in
these
Halcion
,
and
happie
dayes
of
ours
,
hath
dealt
with
vs
in
farre
greater
mercie
,
then
hee
hath
done
with
any
other
nation
besides
,
in
that
wee
haue
of
his
great
clemencie
these
many
yeares
together
enioyed
with
libertie
of
bodie
,
and
freedome
of
conscience
,
the
greatest
ioy
and
felicitie
that
euer
betided
any
people
,
euen
the
sincere
preaching
of
his
most
sacred
word
and
Gospell
,
with
the
right
and
due
administration
of
his
Sacraments
,
with
health
,
peace
,
libertie
,
and
quietnesse
,
vnder
the
wise
,
godly
,
and
most
peaceable
gouernment
of
his
chosen
seruant
Elizabeth
,
our
late
Queene
and
Mistrisse
,
&
now
at
this
time
vnder
the
gouernement
of
our
most
gracious
Soueraign
Lord
King
Iames
,
whose
life
the
Lord
preserue
,
and
long
continue
among
vs
:
that
considering
how
the
Lord
hath
multiplied
his
graces
,
and
blessings
vpon
vs
,
that
we
may
euermore
continue
constant
and
stedfast
in
the
profession
of
his
eternall
truth
,
that
what
opposition
soeuer
we
find
in
the
world
of
fawning
flatterie
or
persecuting
crueltie
,
that
we
neuer
suffer
our selues
to
be
remoued
from
the
same
,
but
that
we
may
striue
for
the
truth
euen
to
death
,
holding
fast
that
which
we
haue
vntill
the
comming
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
:
that
we
neuer
halt
or
double
in
matter
of
religion
,
nor
waue
betweene
two
opinions
,
but
that
wee
may
stedfastly
cleaue
vnto
the
Lord
all
the
daies
of
our
life
,
that
wee
neuer
admit
any
fellowship
,
or
communion
with
the
Church
of
Rome
,
knowing
that
the
whole
religion
of
poperie
,
wherein
it
differeth
from
vs
,
is
nothing
else
but
a
most
wicked
apostacie
from
the
ancient
faith
.
So
that
being
confirmed
and
strengthened
,
and
established
in
that
Gospel
,
which
hath
beene
preached
vnto
vs
,
which
we
haue
receiued
,
wherein
we
continue
,
and
which
is
able
to
saue
vs
,
we
may
euery
day
more
and
more
,
grow
in
grace
,
and
in
the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
,
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
to
the
which
Christ
Iesus
,
together
with
the
father
,
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
ascribed
all
power
,
glory
,
dominion
,
and
Maiestie
,
both
now
and
euermore
;
Amen
.
FINIS
.