i 16 A profitable Expofitiora For had the Apoftle Zahn (aid otherwife quàfeum ferret bonorumatgse fidelium Chriflianorum? what good and faithful! Cbri (ban coulcie have abiddcri it? uir flew 4poflolum Chrifis,& nonjcut eAntichriftsim intueretur ?Yea who wotdde haue lookedvpeïn'him as vpon an Apoftle ofChrift, and not as vpon a very Antichrift? What a notable teftimonie is this againit other mediators betide Chrift ?and how, happeneth it that our Papifts fee it not or thin lc e bettetofit, if they fee it? But I pray you heare the same Father againe in another place. Ang.Confeff. eminueniremq:zmereconciliarc ?An euendumnubi fiat, adanglos ?Atquaprece? tsb,'t o. Cap. quikesfacramentis ? W home ihoulde I find` to reconcile nice to thee ? Shoulde,I 4Z 43, goe to the Angels? with what prayer ?with what 1acraments? Haue, not many done thus, andbencdeluded with the ill Angell,. transforming hirnfelfe into an Angell of light ?Verax ergo/nee/hater Chrif m, the true mediator therefore is Chrift Iefus. And much more in thofe two good Chapters to this purpofe. Thefe proofes may fuffice in this briefe treatife,yet are there manymoe. Themfelues had mien by the mightie power of an able God to giue his tru eth paffage, a true fee - ling of the fafetie ofthe one, and the dam-Ter of the other, and theirwitneffe of it fhouldc truelyworke both with them and vs. With them to drawe them to a fwcet trueth,and'with vs to fttengthenvs where we ftand, fince the Lord bath made his enemies confefle the foundneffeof our faith. Caffander laid itofhis ownepra&ífe, Ego in meitprecibus non des Sanlosinuo- care,fed inuocationem diriga adDeum ápfum, are nomine Chrif is Hoc enzm tutus ex- áffimo. I, faith hee, doe not vfe to pray to any "ofthe Saints my felfe, burl direót myprayerstoGOD himfelfe, and that in the name ofChrift:for that Iiudge more fafe. An other of them againe :Tsai*/ & iucundiauloquoradmeumIefum,quam adalsquem Seazîleruns f iriturn. Both with more fafetie and comfort doe I fpeake vn- to my Iefus, than to any of the holy fpirites. Is not this fitange that our enemies t fhould confeffe our manner of praying to God alone by the mediation of his beloued fonne,both more fafeand more com- fortable, and for the fame caufes vfe it fo themfelues, and yet teach others other.. wife. Should faithful! teachers feeke to face themfelues, and make no confcience to kill others ? And is this to deale faithfully with the Lordes inheritance, the price of his fonnes blood, to teach them to doe, what not ,onely by knowledge in iudgemenr, but by inward feeling of confcience, they finde neither fo fafe nor comfortable, as the way we vfe, and themfelues alfo vfe ?, Woe andwoe again` mutt needes bee to loch, as euen againli their ownefeeling, dire& thepeople com_ t7oloff.z. td, mined to them;Ánd what madnes is this in vs, ifw a e fuffer our felues by any fub- For theft an. till perfuafions to bee led voto that which Mir teachers themfelues refufe for there gel worfhip" rs owneparte to ioyne with vs as in a courfe that is neither comfortable nor fafe. Let blamed(ueb vs hearken rather to the Apoftle, truedyaduertifingvsto fuffer none fuchasthefe, of prideae neither any man lining at his pleafure to brace rule ouer vs by (a) bumblenes of aouldboe minde, and worfhippingofangles, aduancinghienfclfeinthefethings which he ftr.igbt to God, and vie neuer faw, rafhly puftvp with this flefhly minde, and holdeth not the head, &c. smother yo. Foralluredly ifthe confcience ofall theirs were examined that delight in other dermeanes,be. mediators betide Chrift, to offer vp their prayers toGod, and to.fpeake for them, ( idcChrüt ,andandtrue..confeffionmade ofw hat they fin de, itwould appcaretovsallthatthis laid the other was humble- finne fpringeth of none other roote than of a perfuafion o that Chrift ts not fo pit- sesiof mind; tifull and ruetcifull, and willing to bee fpoken unto as other Saints and creatures Butfuchhe be tWhichhow blafphernous it is agairat himyto giue his creatures preheminence mitici` tc'e about him in any goodneffe,let euety feeling heart difcerne and iudge. Farre was Apofem the godly Father from fuch opinion of our Sauiour, when hee made him all in all, andemoeth, y and with truth laid` of him what all true Chriftians:firmly beleeue and hold; Ipj pare de os noficruni eft, per good patrilageu -'nor, oetaltás nofter per quern patrees videmus, dextra Ijaac & ani- noflra, per guano nos peritof erámur. .ma ¡áb Klee is our mouth wherewith we fpeake vnto God, our eye wherewith we fee God,
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