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<P> Temple-defilers defiled, VVherein a true Vi&s;ible CHURCH OF CHRIST Is de&s;cribed.</P>
<P>The Evils and pernicious Errours, e&s;pecially appertaining to <HI>Schi&s;me, Anabapti&s;me</HI> and <HI>Libertini&s;me,</HI> that infe&s;t our Church, are di&s;covered.</P>
<P>And Directions to pre&s;erve from the &s;in and puni&s;hment of TEMPLE-DEFILING, DELIVERED In Two <HI>Sermons</HI> preached at the Lecture in <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Thames,</HI> Feb. <HI>20. &amp; 27. 1644.</HI> out of <HI>1</HI> Cor. <HI>3. 17.</HI></P>
<P>BY RICHARD BYFIELD Pa&s;tor in Long-Ditton, Surrey.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Mal. 3. 1, 2.</BIBL> The Lord cometh &s;uddenly to his Temple.&mdash;But who may abide the day of his coming?&mdash;For he is like a Refiners fire, and like Fullers &s;ope.</Q>
<P>Miror quod non cogitant, po&s;&s;e aliquem aliquando utrumque (novum &s;cilicet, vetu&s;que Te&s;tamentum) legere, &amp; divina ope intellectum utrumque laudare: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">raudemque i&s;torum atque malitiam vel dolere tanquam hominum, vel cavere tanquam Haereticorum, vel irridere tanquam imperitorum &amp; &s;uperborum. <HI>Aug. Tom.</HI> 6. <HI>l. contra Adimantum Manichaei di&s;cipulum. cap.</HI> 13.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Field</HI> for <HI>Ralph Smith,</HI> at the &s;ign of the Bible in Cornhill, neer the Royall-Exchange. 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Wor&s;hipfull, and the re&s;t Dearly Belo|ved in CHRIST JESUS, the Auditory at the Le|cture in <HI>Kingston</HI> upon <HI>Thames</HI> in <HI>Surrey.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT is the mighty worke of God, be&s;et with wonders of fatherly Providence, that you enjoy againe a Thur&s;|daies Lecture, Preached by &s;ome of the Mini&s;ters, now &s;tanding on their feet by the &s;pirit of life from God entring into them who upheld it heretofore, untill Prelaticall u&s;urpation with furious tyranny &s;u&s;pended them, and <HI>&s;poiled their Ne&s;t,</HI> as their proud threats phra|&s;ed their malicious Phari&s;aicall Act a little before they had fully acted it. The fourth Commandement mu&s;t be turned up by the rootes, the power of godline&s;&s;e, and of faithfull Preaching, with Prayer in the Holy Gho&s;t, as bad, with them, as Preaching; the undeniable enemies of the Prelati|call Kingdome, Crown, and Dignity mu&s;t all be outed, Lectures by godly Mini&s;ters that de&s;ired to be found faithfull may not b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> endured: and now for this work, that was their day. Their power through their intere&s;t in the Royall favour was &s;uperlatively great, their Hierarchy fa&s;t|ly rooted in the ancient Lawes, and grown up with the body of the King|dome, Parliaments exploded, the Vniver&s;ities theirs; All preferment in their hands, thou&s;ands of their Enemies gone in Colonies to the Indies the utmo&s;t ends of the earth, many great and choice wits with them, &s;ome of them profound Schollers, &s;ome with them preferred by them to the choi&s;e&s;t Sees for ancient fame and pre&s;ent maintenance, as good men, and of as good report, even among the godly, as ever any Age had, all the re&s;t of them painted Tombs, goodly Phari&s;ees to &s;ee to: And their old friend Rome had got no little ground among us, by matching one of his Daughters here, and for all the Reformed Churches beyond &s;ea, they were brought very low. What wi&s;dom of man would not have thought, but that in &s;uch a day they &s;hould undoubtedly have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad the day. For my part, I &s;ate down under their unju&s;t illegall Sentence, with this &s;aying to &s;ome of my acquaintance yet alive through Gods mercy: <HI>There is no coming in for me again, but with the breaking of the whole State, An alteration that mu&s;t change the Kingdom and the Laws thereof.</HI> I &s;ate down willing to &s;ee <HI>the way of God in his work;</HI> the de&s;ires of my &s;oul were towards him in that hour and power of darkne&s;&s;e, I drew a &s;mall draught of it for my own direction. Little did I think the return of our captivity had been &s;o neer, and who could conceive the glory and terrour of it? Neverthele&s;&s;e, in the time of that four yeers and four weeks &s;u&s;pen&s;ion and &s;eque&s;tration that I &s;uffered, my thoughts, among other things, were on that Text in Zach. 2. 13. <HI>Be &s;ilent, O all fle&s;h, before the Lord, for he is rai&s;ed out of his holy ha|bitation.</HI> In which, collecting the &s;ignes of the Lords ari&s;ing, I &s;aw the
<PB REF="3"> ruine of the&s;e Luciferian V&s;urpers, yet not conceiving it to be &s;o neer, in &s;uch unparalleld wayes of high providence, with &s;uch well founded pro|ceedings of legality that hath &s;lain all them, and ca&s;t out their carc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es, and their worm dyeth not, and their fire is not quenched, and they are an ab|horring unto all fle&s;h, With &s;uch &s;treams of blood, with &s;uch executions <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon a &s;en&s;uall Nobility, Gentry, &s;eat of Iudges, &s;hop of Lawyers, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nke of Civilians, and &s;infull body of a Malignant Commo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alty; Of which we may &s;ay not without a&s;toni&s;hment and high <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rai&s;es, What hath God wrought? Mu&s;t this be the way of Vindica|tion of the Mini&s;teriall Liberty, of &s;uch a mi&s;erable &s;infull worme as I am? From the Lords right hand went a flame of that fiery Law for us: A fiery Law is the Decalogue of the ten Command|ments called; the fourth Commandment is then a flame of the fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3. 2.</NOTE> and it hath fiered the State and habitations of the&s;e tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors; that &s;entence warmed and refre&s;hed my heart, and touched my tongue in that winter &s;ea&s;on, and now &s;hould fire us with Gods prai&s;es, for the time draweth on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pace of the Churches Hallelujahs.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 19.</NOTE></P>
<P>I write this, that you may not forget how we come to preach again un|to you at all.</P>
<P>But now when I came to preach to you at this time; not only neighbour|hood of habitation, and former ancient relation to you, and my unfeigh|ned de&s;ire to do you good by imparting &s;ome &s;pirituall gift, but your de|&s;ires, your divi&s;ions, and the care of the Churches, which towards you <HI>came upon me,</HI> becau&s;e of your divi&s;ions; did much move me. I had no thought at all of making the&s;e Sermons publique; your import<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ity brings them forth; that word, <HI>Paul, Apolles, Cophas, all the Mini&s;ters ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> your<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> that word bound me. Being bound, two things more facilita|ted my yeildance, when I dur&s;t not with&s;tand the &s;uitablene&s;&s;e of the &s;ubject to the times, and the di&s;ea&s;edne&s;&s;e of the Congrega<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion of <HI>King|&s;ton,</HI> to which I was once, though mo&s;t unworthy, a Teacher; this year di&s;ea&s;e is, The Lord help and heal, the di&s;ea&s;e of the Church of <HI>England;</HI> through grievous poverty grown upon her, under the impo&s;itions and op|po&s;itions of her Diotrephe&s;&s;es, the Spring of the year of glorious Go&s;|pel-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iberty coming on, there appears a <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hiria&s;is,</HI> &s;he begins<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hiria&s;is.</NOTE> to &s;warme with Vermine; this ari&s;eth from want of concocting the whole&s;ome food of &s;ound Doctrine, even the truth, which is after God|line&s;&s;e: if we feed favourly on the &s;olid &s;ub&s;tantiall truths that concerne <HI>faith and love,</HI> which is in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, and not turn a&s;ide after watery tra&s;h, that food will quickly &s;et us &s;ound, and &s;o nouri&s;h us, that we &s;hould ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> off, and rid us of the&s;e <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Pht<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ires,</HI> the&s;e Lice, and Wormes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phthires.</NOTE></P>
<P>Wa&s;h you with the waters from under the Sanctuary, and that is Sove|raigne to kill them, and clear the body, and clean&s;e the skin of the Church. Ile reach you &s;ome that flowes out of one vein of Scripture it r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ls the wayes and &s;pirit of &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ducers.</P>
<P>Their wayes are &s;uch as the&s;e:</P>
<P N="1">1. To draw the heart from, and to de&s;troy the fundamentall truths; the<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Tin.</HI> 2 18. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> fir&s;t truths, pretending they are low, dry and &s;aple&s;&s;e in compari&s;on of their depths, and their high &s;peculations, giving metaphoricall, and farre
<PB REF="3"> fetcht meanings and interpretation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; as <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> and <HI>Phil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us</HI> did upon the Article of the Re&s;urrection; &s;aying, it was pa&s;t already, or annexing to tho&s;e foundation truths, opinions which overthrow them by con&s;e|quence, laying one foundation in appearance, and another in deed, as the Apo&s;tle implieth in 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 11. So the Papi&s;ts do about the Article of Chri&s;ts A&s;cen&s;ion into Heaven, when they teach his corporall reall pre|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the Ma&s;&s;e; of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e kindes of Seducers the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, that their word will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as doth a Canker.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 17.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2. To beguile by Paralogi&s;mes or d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ceitfull rea&s;onings, and &s;ophi&s;ti|call<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 2. 4. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Iam.</HI> 1. 22. <HI>Nitor &s;er p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o, non Argumento,</HI> Ambr. de &s;pi|ritu Sancto. <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 4. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Rom.</HI> 16. 18. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 13. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Eu&s;tachius di|cit</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>e&s;&s;e</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 10. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Gal</HI> 3. 1. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> arguings; when upon mi&s;conceived principles of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, &s;aid as pre|mi&s;es, wrong conclu&s;ions are drawn; like <HI>Satan</HI> their Father, who be|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">les mens hearts by a &s;elf de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">it, when they &s;et up a profe&s;&s;ion of the wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">, hear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t often, and thereupon conclude they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re ble&s;&s;ed, though they neglect the practi&s;e and obedience <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">&punc; again&s;t this ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d of the u&s;efull Art of Logicke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">it is &s;afe to re&s;t upon the plain Scriptures and a|void the &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ilty of Argument, brought to lead from plain truths.</P>
<P N="3">3. To u&s;e per&s;wa&s;ive and enticing words, that they might induce to their errours; and the Morall Philo&s;ophy of Heathen Authors about <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ue, naturall abilities, and the chief good, which po&s;te us of Chri&s;t, and true con&s;olation through Fai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">in him, the&s;e en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ing words are al&s;o e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ther the &s;welling words of Vanity, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d of w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">dy o&s;tentation, or good words and f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir &s;peeches.</P>
<P N="4">4. To inchant the people through a mournfull behaviour, the old g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e of mo&s;t of the, orders of Fryars and Monkes and the new gu&s;&s;e of many with us, in 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 23. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. He u&s;eth a word for Seducers&punc; that &s;ignifieth an Incha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and lamentation.</P>
<P N="5">5. To lead us out of the common b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aten high way; when affectation of a Notion, and of a curious <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">each makes men innovate word<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and phra&s;es formerly received in the Church, as be&s;t expre&s;&s;ing the &s;en&s;e of Scripture.</P>
<P N="6">6. To bewitch with fa&s;cinations; that is, to delude &s;imple mindes with gle&s;ings of &s;ome &s;peciall care of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m, abou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ome point of truth pre+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nded, as witches do doe eyes of the body, that they thinke verily, they &s;ee that which they do not &s;ee, and do not &s;ee that which is ab&s;olutely ne|ce&s;&s;ary they &s;hould &s;ee and know; the&s;e be witchings are mo&s;t dangerous, when the mi&s;t is ca&s;t over the &s;oul with jugling pretexts of &s;hewing you Chri&s;t and F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee grace in a more excellent manner, till you know neither Chri&s;t no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Free-grace.</P>
<P N="7">7. To wre&s;t and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y things that are &s;treight and plain.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Act.</HI> 8. 9. <GAP DESC="foreign">. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 3.</NOTE></P>
<P N="8">8. To lead people to the admiration of their per&s;ons: (another way of bewitching) bringing them into a&s;toni&s;hment, and a trance upon the conceit of the great power of God in them, and &s;ome in&s;pirations of the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P N="9">9. To corrupt mens mindes from the &s;implicity that is in Chri&s;t, by adding or dimini&s;hing &s;omewhat of the purity of the Go&s;pel, whereby we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all from the obedience of faith, as the Serpent dealt with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ve.</P>
<P N="10">10. To alleviate the threats of Gods word with vain words and to pro|mi&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 5. 6. 2 <HI>Pet</HI> 2. 19</NOTE> liberty; and turn Gods grace into wantonne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P> The&s;e are the chief path<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Seducers, and for the &s;pirit that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rrieth<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> that of Miracles and lying Wonders of S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tan, in</HI> 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.</NOTE> them, it is an unruly &s;pirit, a &s;elf-willed &s;pirit, a proud &s;pirit, a giddy incon&s;tant unquiet &s;pirit, a &s;elf-&s;eeking &s;pirit, a &s;pirit of timorou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and ba&s;e fear, not of love, power, and a &s;ound minde, a &s;pirit of earthly mindedne&s;&s;e, a &s;pirit captived to mens per&s;ons, a &s;pirit that creeps into hou&s;es, and leads &s;illy wom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n captive, laden with divers lu&s;ts, and a do|ting &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Of their dotages and deceits, I &s;hall give you two in&s;tances, the one is this, that they conceive they have a great light, and a new light; when their new great light, is either &s;ome old errour rai&s;ed from Hell again and new painted, or &s;ome matter of opinion which is very doubtfull, and controver&s;all, or &s;omewhat of le&s;&s;er moment, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rged and pur&s;ued with &s;uch zeale that the great things of the Law and Go&s;pel are neglected, the very di&s;po&s;ition of the Phari&s;ees of old: But if any &s;ay, &s;hould we not &s;eek an increa&s;e and growth in our light; and do not we look for it? yes, in &s;ome &s;en&s;e we do, and we ought to grow in knowledge; but this is not to be under&s;tood of any light of new truths, there are no new truth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to<NOTE PLACE="marg">No new truths.</NOTE> be revealed; yet the light may increa&s;e exceedingly in the more full di|&s;tinct, and &s;hining knowledge of received truths, in the clearing and ful|filling<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>We expect a new and great light, increa&s;|ing in</HI> 8. <HI>things.</HI></NOTE> of &s;ome prophe&s;ies; in the power of practi&s;e when Chri&s;tians in name &s;hine in holine&s;&s;e, power of faith and godline&s;&s;e, expre&s;&s;ed in their lives, as &s;o many great lights in the frmament of the Church; in taking a|way the various contentions and quarrels, that now darken and offu&s;cate the mindes of men; Satan chained up more from deceiving: in the fur|ther manife&s;tation of Gods judgements upon enemies of all &s;orts, which thing doth exemplifie and illu&s;trate the things we do already know: In the increa&s;e of the number of able and faithfull Teachers, and knowing holy profe&s;&s;ors: and in clearer re&s;olution of &s;ome ob&s;cure places of Scrip|ture, together with a more perfect union of the Church of Chri&s;t on earth, which will be full of Grace, Maje&s;ty, and Terror; now not one of the&s;e is found in or by the means of our men that boa&s;t of their new light, for why do not they &s;hew it to us?</P>
<P>Another In&s;tance of their do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing deceivable &s;pirit is this, that they can|not be brought to mea&s;ure them&s;elves and their tenets by the &s;tandard of the Scripture without &s;huffling: It were a plain and ea&s;ie way to &s;ee the truth in any matter in que&s;tion about Religion, if men did not love to doat: thus, propo&s;e the tenet nakedly; &s;ee whether there be any plain Scripture for it; if there be not, we need go no further: if there be, but yet &s;ome other Texts &s;eeme to &s;ay again&s;t it, or a que&s;tion may be moved a|bout the &s;en&s;e; hold the Analogy of Faith and rule of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &s;ee the tenour of the Scriptures, and accordingly produce Arguments, and an&s;wer Objections; as for Example, There are ari&s;en among us &s;ome that utterly deny the Baptizing of Infants of Profe&s;&s;ors of the Faith of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t; now how ea&s;ily might this matter be re&s;olved, among men of quiet and Chri&s;tian &s;pirits? They &s;ay, Infants ought not to be bap|tized: What one Text in all the Scripture &s;aith &s;o? Not one. What Ar|guments can they alledge? Not one that reacheth the matter in hand; for they all go no further then this, that per&s;ons of age ought fir&s;t to pro|fe&s;&s;e
<PB REF="4"> their Faith, and then receive Bapti&s;me: but not this, that they only ought to receive Bapti&s;me; how dare men &s;ay, they mu&s;t be excluded, when God &s;aith no &s;uch word? on the other &s;ide&punc; doth not the Scripture plainly take-in &s;uch Infants into the Covenant, and acknowledge them members of the Church of God: The Infant I&s;raelites were not born Heathens, without, were circumci&s;ed, were meant as part of Abrahams &s;eed; the Nations to whom the Go&s;pel comes, and who do receive it, are now of the &s;ame body with the Iewes, partakers of the &s;ame promi&s;e, the grace of God is larger under the New-Te&s;tament, which it were not, if &s;uch a part, as the millions of infant-Chri&s;tians that die before they come to years, were cut off from it? The Children of believers are ho|ly, whole hou&s;holds were baptized: Chri&s;t ble&s;&s;ed Infants upon this ground, Becau&s;e of &s;uch was the Kingdom of God; that is, not onely Heaven, but the Church of the new Te&s;tament, which is called the King|dom of God; there is this ground why tho&s;e that are of age that repent &s;hould receive Bapti&s;me, becau&s;e the promi&s;e is to them, and the promi&s;e is to their children, therefore their children have the like ground, on which they ought to receive Bapti&s;me: the&s;e with the like Arguments are &s;trong and unan&s;werable, were it not that the&s;e per&s;ons doted, and in their Pride will re&s;olve to be contentious? Let not any think that a &s;mall er|rour which &s;huts out from Chri&s;t and his Church millions of his Mem|bers, which runs again&s;t the con&s;tant tenour of both Te&s;taments, which confines and impri&s;ons the Grace of God in the New-Te&s;tament, which makes the grace of Chri&s;t the &s;econd <HI>Adam</HI> not to reach one &s;ort and con|dition of men, over whom &s;in and death pa&s;&s;eth by and from the fir&s;t <HI>A|dam,</HI> which evertes and de&s;troyes at one blow all the Churches of Chri&s;t in the whole world: All this doth this unchri&s;tian error of the Anabap|ti&s;ts do: The like might be &s;aid concerning Church Government, whether the Hierarchy or Independency, or Presbytery be of Chri&s;t in the Scripture? It might &s;oon be determined were it not for a &s;pirit of Dotage, Pride, and Contention, but I leave that to the A&s;&s;embly, where it depends and is in Agitation: I hold you from the peru&s;all of the Sermons, which you heard with much attention; I have written &s;ome particulars in the enume|tation of Temple-Polluters under the &s;econd Doctrine, which time cut off from delivering, as I then told you, the re&s;t you have as near as I could &s;et down, &s;ave that one thing throughout the Sermons the Printer could not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nde any Characters or Letters to expre&s;&s;e; that is, the &s;pirit with which they were delivered with lively voice. You have the In&s;trument and Stick; I cannot help you to the Rozin: The Spirit of God make &s;upply thereof, while you read them, &amp; in that &s;uperabundant mea&s;ure. Take me into your prayers, and let me be in your e&s;teem, what I de&s;ire for ever to be whiles remaining in the fle&s;h; Even</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From my hou&s;e in Long-Ditton <DATE><HI>April 7. 1645.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours in the &s;ervice of your faith <HI>RICHARD BYFIELD.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<P>Errata, <HI>Page</HI> 5. <HI>line</HI> 14. <HI>read</HI> converted <HI>for</HI> committed. <HI>p.</HI> 6. <HI>l.</HI> 24. <HI>r.</HI> worlds end <HI>for</HI> world, and. <HI>p.</HI> 23. <HI>In the Title r.</HI> Temple Defilers <HI>for</HI> Hereticks. <HI>l.</HI> 6. <HI>r.</HI> Cavillers <HI>for</HI> Cavaliers. <HI>p.</HI> 25. <HI>l.</HI> 6. <HI>r.</HI> continue <HI>for</HI> contemne.</P>
<PB REF="5">
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="sermon">
<PB N="1" REF="5">
<HEAD>Temple Defilers De&s;troyed.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>1 COR. 3. 17.</BIBL>
<Q>If any man defile the Temple of God, him &s;hall God destroy.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV2 TYPE="exordium">
<P>_THE circum&s;tantials of this Text, may profitably &s;erve for our <HI>Exordium,</HI> or entrance; they are three; <HI>who</HI> &s;peaks, <HI>how</HI> he &s;peakes, and <HI>to whom.</HI></P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. <HI>Who</HI> &s;peaks: <HI>Paul</HI> an <HI>Apo&s;tle</HI> of <HI>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> therefore it is a Go&s;pel &s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce: <HI>Paul</HI> the <HI>Doctor of the Gentiles,</HI> therefore you Gentiles ought to hear him: <HI>Paul the mouth of Chri&s;t,</HI> the Pen-man of the Holy Gho&s;t, and therefore he that de&s;pi&s;eth this word, de&s;pi&s;eth not man, but Chri&s;t, but the Spirit, but God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. <HI>How</HI> he &s;peaks; Fir&s;t by way of <HI>denunciation</HI> of judgement: The Go|&s;pel hath fire in it; the Preachers threaten <HI>de&s;truction;</HI> yet the Preachers thereof no <HI>legall</HI> Preachers, for our God is a con&s;uming Fire; it is true, life and immortality are brought to light by the Go&s;pel; and it is no le&s;&s;e true, then Hell fire and Damnation is Language peculiar to the Go&s;pel: never any Preached in &s;o frequent and plain termes the flames of Hell, and that unquenchable fire, as did our Lord Je&s;us, who was &s;ent of God, Anointed with the &s;pirit, that oyle of gladne&s;&s;e to preach the Go&s;pel to the poor, to heal and binde up the broken hearted; that meek Lambe of God, who&s;e office it was to &s;peak a word in &s;ea&s;on to the weary &s;oul: How often hath he Hell and Hell fire in his mouth in one Sermon? <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. 22. 29, 30. Three times in one breath, with amazing illu&s;trations, <HI>Mar.</HI> 9. 43. 45. 47. At another time, all his di&s;cour&s;e almo&s;t be&s;et (as Paradi&s;e with a flaming &s;word) with as &s;ore, as plain and equivalent expre&s;&s;ions; <HI>utter darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> where &s;hall be weeping, and gna&s;hing of teeth; <HI>the Pri&s;on out of which there is no coming by any means till they have paid the utmo&s;t farthing; the lo&s;&s;e of the &s;oul cutting a&s;under, and appointing them their portion with hypocrites; in no ca&s;e any entry into the Kingdom of heaven; no reward of their Father which is in Heaven:</HI> Will any
<PB N="2" REF="6"> dare to deny that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t was an Evangelicall Preacher? And it &s;tands with all rea&s;on that &s;uch Preaching &s;hould be for Go&s;pel times; for the greater and more glorious are the manife&s;tations of Gods grace, the grea|ter and more glorious are the manife&s;tations of Gods grace, the greater is the &s;in, and the heavier the wrath and condemnation due to the refu&s;ers, <HI>Heb.</HI> 12. 25 29. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he abu&s;ers, the turners of &s;uch grace into la&s;civiou&s;ne&s;&s;e and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntonne&s;&s;e: No marvell then if that Mini&s;try of the New Te&s;tament, that is, as a mirrour to &s;hew us the glory of grace with open face, do with as great plainne&s;&s;e of &s;peech &s;et Hell before us in open view; Heaven is the more Heaven to them that &s;ee what Hell is: It is not unbe&s;eeming an Apo&s;tle, a Tea|cher of Grace and of the Go&s;pel, to denounce the judgements of God: <HI>Paul</HI> here &s;peaks by way of threatning. Secondly, he &s;peaks by way of <HI>Argu|mentation.</HI> 1. Again&s;t building up the Church with wood, hay, and &s;tubble, <HI>ver.</HI> 12. By which is meant, not Doctrine Hereticall, bla&s;phemous and im|pious, though that be wor&s;e that ruines the foundation; but vain, curious, unnece&s;&s;ary, doubtfull, tending to jangling, &s;trife and divi&s;ions; perhaps true, but unprofitable, like the Genealogies, in the which the Jewes were curious or el&s;e erroneous and of ill con&s;equence, though not in it &s;elf impious: Such in a word as &s;uites not with the foundation, &s;uch as is not like gold, &s;il|ver, and precious &s;tones; the&s;e only are fit for this building, &s;uitable to Chri&s;t the foundation; the Apo&s;tle rea&s;ons again&s;t their bringing &s;uch &s;tuffe to Gods building, and in this ver&s;e, bringeth his Argument from the greatne&s;&s;e of the &s;in, and the certain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y of the puni&s;hment: Their &s;in is the defiling of Gods Temple, their puni&s;hment &s;hall be de&s;truction. 2. Again, his Argument a|gain&s;t &s;uch ill Church workes, lyeth al&s;o again&s;t Schi&s;me, Divi&s;ions and Factions in the Church, as appeareth to the diligent and intelligent Reader by that in the <HI>chap.</HI> 1. <HI>ver.</HI> 10. 12. and in this <HI>chap.</HI> 3. <HI>ver.</HI> 3, 4, 5. The Apo&s;tle is &s;till about the cure of this one di&s;ea&s;e, and this ver&s;e we are upon, argues again&s;t it, as a Temple-pollu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er, and de&s;tructive to tho&s;e that are guilty of it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="section">
<P N="3">3. <HI>To whom</HI> he &s;peaks:</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>To the Church of Corinth, called to be Saints,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 2. Con&s;ider it.</P>
<P N="1">1. He &s;peaks not to them without, there were within the Church too ma|ny defilers of Gods Temple.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;peaks not to a party in that Church, the hou&s;e of <HI>Cloe,</HI> a choice party &s;eparating from the faulty party, making up a new Church, l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t they &s;hould be pollu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed in holding Church Fellow&s;hip with them that were &s;uch &s;inners: The hou&s;e of <HI>Cloe</HI> knew how to&s;tand free from partaking with them in their &s;ins, and yet retain Go&s;pel Union to &s;eek a Medicine, and not make a rupture: The Apo&s;tle guided by the &s;pirit of Vnion, love, and a &s;ound minde, breathes forth nothing to make Rents, but what ever might be to
<PB N="3" REF="6"> make up breaches: He directs not the Epi&s;tle to the hou&s;e of <HI>Cloe,</HI> that &s;tood &s;ound, and untoucht, though they gave him notice of the evils that infe&s;ted the Church at <HI>Corinth:</HI></P>
<P>But 1. To the whole company of Profe&s;&s;ors of Chri&s;tianity in that great City, to the whole &s;ociety of Chri&s;tians there.</P>
<P>2. And that al&s;o to &s;uch a &s;ociety as were enriched in gifts and graces &s;o, that he fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t breaks out in the mention of them with &s;olemne Thank&s;giving to God, they were enriched in every thing by <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> in all utterance, in all knowledge, they came behinde in no gift, as in <HI>chap.</HI> 1. <HI>ver.</HI> 4. 5. 7. Yet many of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;e fell into this &s;in of Schi&s;me; the&s;e mu&s;t take heed how they walk on in that &s;in, for they may fall under this de&s;troying judgement of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. To the <HI>whole and &V;niver&s;all Church of God,</HI> ver. 2. of chap. 1. <HI>All in e|very place that call upon the name of Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, both theirs and ours:</HI> One Lord in common of one vi&s;ible Church in all the world, which is one body under that one head, par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">icular vi&s;ible Churches are not &s;o many Independant Churches, tho&s;e that &s;o teach, m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke Je&s;us Chri&s;t mon&s;trous. The Papi&s;ts make Chri&s;ts Church a Mon&s;ter, in that they hold that Chri&s;t is the head of the Church (which is mo&s;t true) and yet withall, that the Pope is the head of the Church: The Church then is a body that hath two heads.</P>
<P>And tho&s;e make Chri&s;t yet more mon&s;trous, that &s;etting up &s;o many Inde|pendant Churches, as there be Chri&s;tian Congregations in the world, which they call each, &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">verally the my&s;ticall Body of Chri&s;t, do make Chri&s;t a head that hath &s;o many bodies; but there is but one Body; all particular Churches make up one Church and vi&s;ible univer&s;all &s;ociety; in which Church, he &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h not Churches, <HI>God hath &s;et Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, Miracles, gifts of healings, helps, Governments, diver&s;ities of Tongues.</HI> There|fore many of us al&s;o mu&s;t beware of that and &s;uch like &s;ins of Divi&s;ions that defiled the Church at <HI>Corinth;</HI> for the Ax of this Sentence in this Text is by the Apo&s;tle laid al&s;o to every of our roots.</P>
<P>While therefore the&s;e words are handled according to the truth, Look not on me, as if I &s;pake of my &s;elf: look not off your &s;elves, ble&s;&s;e not your &s;elves under the vain thoughts of Go&s;pel-Grace, that you will hear, and only that, or Go&s;pel-graces and gifts wrought in you, or your freedom from o|ther gro&s;&s;e-&s;ins, as if this of falling into divi&s;ions were no &s;in; but con&s;ider who &s;peaks: How, and to whom: And the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t make all &s;aving to you, though for the pre&s;ent it &s;hould not &s;avour you.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="substance">
<P>The <HI>Substance</HI> of the Text hath three words to be opened,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The Temple of God]</HI> He means not hereby the materiall Temple in <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> fir&s;t or &s;econd, nor the Tabernacle built in the wilderne&s;&s;e: but
<PB N="4" REF="7"> the latter end of this ver&s;e &s;heweth clearly he means Chri&s;tians, <HI>which Temple are ye:</HI> every particular Chri&s;tian, <HI>every of you and ye,</HI> the Church of Chri&s;tians both then at <HI>Corinth,</HI> and al&s;o every where: not only the Chri&s;tian that hath truth of grace, and is &s;o inwardly as well as out|wardly, but the Chri&s;tian by outward calling, for to the&s;e he wrote al&s;o, not only every particular member but chiefly the Church, the Society: This word <HI>ye</HI> referred to all in <HI>Corinth,</HI> called to be Saints, and to <HI>all in all the world, that call on the name of the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> doth fully evince thus much. They are called Gods Temple, (continuing the Metaphor of a build|ing) con&s;idered &s;everally, and in a Church-&s;ociety, with Relation to the typicall Temple, to &s;hew that the truth of that type is now remaining.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Defile, De&s;troy]</HI> The Greek word is but one; in divers ten&s;es it &s;igni|fieth both to Defile and De&s;troy, to corrupt and violate, the Greek is thus <GAP DESC="foreign"> The tran&s;lation would render the Originall more naturally, if we retained one Engli&s;h word, either thus: <HI>If any man defile the Temple of God, him &s;hall God defile;</HI> or thus, <HI>If any man de&s;troy the Temple, him will God de&s;troy:</HI> It is an Elegancy, and not barely &s;o, but pregnant in in&s;truction, for it teacheth that the puni&s;hment of &s;uch offenders &s;hall be in ju&s;tice pro|portioned to their offence, Defiling for defiling, violence for violence, degree for degree; if they'le be dilapidating, and corrupting Gods hou&s;e, they &s;hall have enough of it: God will dilapidate and corrupt them.</P>
<P N="3">3. If <HI>any man, him]</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>If any</HI> do it, <HI>that &s;ame man</HI> &s;hall feel it, whoever he be, Teacher or hearer, of high e&s;teem for place in the Church, or for gifts and graces, <HI>this man</HI> God will certainly meet withall: this his &s;in &s;hall finde him out.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="doctrines">
<P>Now from hence ari&s;e three Doctrines worth; our through peru&s;all and attention.</P>
<P N="1"><LABEL>1. <HI>Doct.</HI></LABEL> Every Chri&s;tian profe&s;&s;ing the true Faith, much more every true Profe&s;&s;or of that true Faith, is the Temple of God: And every particular vi|&s;ible Church or Society of the&s;e Profe&s;&s;ors, and the whole Church or univer|&s;all &s;ociety of Chri&s;tians profe&s;&s;ing the true faith are the Temple of God: This from the word <HI>Temple,</HI> in the &s;en&s;e here u&s;ed.</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>2. <HI>Doct.</HI></LABEL> Many there are, yea many within the vi&s;ible Church, that are defilers and Violaters of this Temple of God.</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>3. <HI>Doct.</HI></LABEL> God will certainly puni&s;h every and all the defilers and violaters of this his Temple, with puni&s;hments proportionable to their &s;in in violating and defiling the &s;ame.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="doctrine">
<P>For the fir&s;t of the&s;e,</P>
<P>Note the difference I put between a Profe&s;&s;or of the true Faith, and a true profe&s;&s;or of that true Faith: One may profe&s;&s;e the truth, and not truly pro|fe&s;&s;e it, he may be a hypocrite in his profe&s;&s;ion: A Profe&s;&s;or is vi&s;ible, and
<PB N="5" REF="7"> profe&s;&s;ion of the Faith may be di&s;cerned by men from profe&s;&s;ion of fal&s;hood; but a true Profe&s;&s;or, and the truth of his profe&s;&s;ion is to be de&s;ired and pray|ed for, but is not &s;o ea&s;ily di&s;cerned; God onely that &s;earches the heart can infallibly judge of this.</P>
<P>Again I u&s;e the word <HI>Society,</HI> as the Genus of a Church, not an <HI>A&s;&s;embly;</HI> for a Church is no le&s;&s;e a Church when the A&s;&s;embly is di&s;mi&s;&s;ed, then when they are A&s;&s;embled in the u&s;e of any Ordinance of God: Nor a <HI>Congrega|tion,</HI> that word is too narrow, it agreeth not to all the kindes, but the word Society, that agrees to a particular vi&s;ible Church, and to the whole vi&s;ible Church, to the Church in a hou&s;e, the Church in a Village of one Congre|gation; the Church in a City, con&s;i&s;ting of many Congregations, as the Church of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> of <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> of <HI>Corinth:</HI> the Church in a Kingdom or Nation, committed to the profe&s;&s;ion of the Faith of Chri&s;t: the Church in the whole world, the Church in her Officers gathered together to hear complaints; the Church in her Members a&s;&s;embled to wor&s;hip and &s;erve the Lord according to the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t. It is weak and a poor quar|rell (my opinion is, it is &s;o) to deny a <HI>National Church</HI> under the New Te&s;ta|ment (for under the old its beyond all que&s;tion) and to plead there is no o|ther vi&s;ible Church then <HI>Congregationall.</HI> The Church at <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> was not Congregationall in that &s;en&s;e; that is, it did not con&s;i&s;t of one Congrega|tion that could meet in one place, all the Members of it have one Pa&s;tor preach to them at one time, and u&s;e other Ordinances of Wor&s;hip, as the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper, Bapti&s;me, Publique Prayer, and fellow|&s;hip together; twelve Apo&s;tles were not able to di&s;charge to them the duty that belonged to the word and Prayer, without the help of &s;even Deacons to take off them the care of di&s;tributing of the Church-Almes, <HI>Act.</HI> 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. It is hard to make clear proof that the word <HI>Church</HI> in all the Hi&s;tory of the New Te&s;tament is given to a Congregation: I de&s;ire to &s;ee it; And why may not a Nation profe&s;&s;ing the Faith, be called a Church, as well as all the world of Profe&s;&s;ors be called a Church? Why not now as well as under the Old Te&s;tament? The word Church is applicable to every Society of men that profe&s;&s;e the faith of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t. We read of Churches in the New-Te&s;tament, becau&s;e we have &s;everall Societies and Nations of men converted, and become the people of God.</P>
<P>And whereas I hear of &s;ome that &s;ay, did ye ever hear of Nations conver|ted in the Scripture; tho&s;e be &s;trange conver&s;ions, the conver&s;ions of whole Nations? I an&s;wer, did you ever read the Scripture, and yet pa&s;&s;e by tho&s;e famous prophe&s;ies concerning the Church under the New Te&s;tament: <HI>All Nations whom thou ha&s;t made &s;hall come and wor&s;hip before thee, O Lord; And &s;hall glorifie thy name,</HI> P&s;a. 86. 9. Again, <HI>In the la&s;t dayes, the mountain of</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="8"> <HI>the Lords hou&s;e &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed in the top of the mountains,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 2. 2, 3, 4. <HI>And all nations &s;hall fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w unto it, and many people &s;hall go, and &s;ay, Come ye and let us go up,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>And he &s;hall judge among the Nations.</HI> And again, Zac. 8. 20, 21, 22. <HI>There &s;hall come people and the inhabitants of many Ci|ties, and the inhabitants of one City &s;hall go to another, &s;aying, Let us go &s;pee|dily to pray before the Lord, and to &s;eek the Lord of Ho&s;ts I will go al&s;o; Yea, many people, and &s;trong Nations &s;hall come to &s;eek the Lord, and pray before him:</HI> It is a &s;trange thing you &s;ay, The Lord &s;peaks of it indeed as a &s;trange work: <HI>Who hath heard &s;uch a thing? Who hath &s;een &s;uch things? Shall a Nation be born at once? E&s;a</HI> 66. 81. Yet <HI>Zion</HI> doth &s;o; To what purpo&s;e were that com|mand, <HI>Go teach all Nations, and Baptize;</HI> if a Nation might not receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me? or can any doubt of &s;uch an effect of Preaching the Go&s;pel when Chri&s;t hath promi&s;ed to his Mini&s;ters preaching to Nations, that <HI>He will be with them to the end of the world:</HI> Who can deny whole Na|tions imbracing the Go&s;pel, that have not lo&s;t their &s;en&s;es: the Nation of <HI>England</HI> at this day, and the Nation of <HI>Scotland</HI> profe&s;&s;e the truth of Chri&s;t, and now in their repre&s;entative bodies are all for Reformation, for the power of godline&s;&s;e, for the rooting out of Popery, Here&s;ie, Schi&s;me, Prelacy, Prophanene&s;&s;e, and in this work count not their lives and livelyhoods dear unto them: Moreover &s;ince I am upon this point, let me propo&s;e this Ar|gument for a Nationall Church.</P>
<P>He that hath all power given to him of God in Heaven and earth, and out of the fulne&s;&s;e of that power, &s;aith, Teach all Nations, and Baptize them, and promi&s;eth his pre&s;ence to the World, and to make the Nations obedient to the Faith, and to receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me, doth in &s;o doing &s;et up properly one Church of all the Nations in the world; that receive the Go|&s;pel and Bapti&s;me, and make Nationall Churches of the &s;everall Nations that receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>But Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath all power given him of God, in Heaven and Earth and out of the fulne&s;&s;e of that power, &s;aith, <HI>Teach all Nations, and Baptize them;</HI> and promi&s;eth his pre&s;ence to the worlds end, to make the Na|tions obedient, and to receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>Therefore IESVS CHRIST doth in &s;o doing, &s;et up one Church of all Nations that receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me, and make Nationall Churches of the &s;everall Nations that receive the Go&s;pel and Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>I have degre&s;&s;ed &s;omewhat, but let it pa&s;&s;e: Whether there be a Natio|nall or Congregationall Church or no; this is &s;ure, every Society of Chri|&s;tians profe&s;&s;ing the true Faith is a Church, and the Temple of God; which
<PB N="7" REF="8"> now we come to prove, for that is requi&s;ite that both branches of the fir&s;t Doctrine be made good by clear Scripture.</P>
<P>The fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, that every Chri&s;tian profe&s;&s;ing the true Faith, e&s;pecially the true Profe&s;&s;or, is Gods Temple; read the 16. ver&s;e of this Chapter, and <HI>chap.</HI> 6. 6. 19. Where the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God?</HI> What, know you not this? Every Chri&s;tian (profe&s;&s;ion an&s;wereth our out|ward call) is called to this honour to be Gods Temple; this is the dignity to which ye are called, Chri&s;tians, this is your high and holy calling; And the true Chri&s;tian is &s;o indeed.</P>
<P>For the &s;econd Branch of the Doctrine; That the vi&s;ible Church is Gods hou&s;e, be&s;ides this Text, the ninth ver&s;e of this Chapter is full; <HI>We are labourers together with God</HI> (&s;peaking of Gods M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;ters; and then of the Hearers and Profe&s;&s;ors) ye are Gods building: The whole Church, and every particular Church is Gods Temple, as is mo&s;t apparant by that in <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 21, 22. in <HI>ver.</HI> 21. Speaking of the whole Church, bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h of Iewes and Gentiles he &s;aith, <HI>In whom</HI> (that is, in Ie&s;us Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t) <HI>all the building fuly framed together, groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord,</HI> in ver. 22. Speak|ing of the vi&s;ible Church at <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> he proceeds and &s;aith, <HI>In whom</HI> (that is, in Chri&s;t Ie&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">) <HI>you al&s;o are builded together, for an habitation of God through the Spirit.</HI></P>
<P>To unfold this a little:</P>
<P>The Temple Materiall had a double u&s;e, a <HI>Morall,</HI> and a <HI>Ceremoniall;</HI> the <HI>Morall</HI> U&s;e was this, it was the place of Publique A&s;&s;emblies, the place of Publique Prayer and Preaching of the word; &s;o the Synagogues in &s;everall Towns among the Iewes, were the hou&s;es of God: The P&s;almi&s;t complains, <HI>They have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the land: P&s;a.</HI> 74. 8. Our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and the Apo&s;tles taught the word in the Temple and Sy|nagogues: The Go&s;pel was there on mount <HI>Zion</HI> to take its beginning: And thus there be, and ought to be in every &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tled Chri&s;tian State.</P>
<P><HI>Hou&s;es for Publique wor&s;hip,</HI> and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are the <HI>hou&s;es of God,</HI> they may be called <HI>Churches;</HI> the Apo&s;tle calls the Publique place of Chri&s;tian A&s;&s;emblies, the <HI>Church,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>When you come together in the Church;</HI> and again, <HI>What, have ye not Hou&s;es to eat and to drink in? Or de&s;pi&s;e ye the Church of God, and &s;hame them that have not?</HI> The Church is oppo&s;ed to their private hou&s;es, the u&s;e of which was to eat and drink in, but the u&s;e of the Church was to wor|&s;hip God in: What &s;en&s;e can there be in the&s;e words, if place be not oppo|&s;ed to place? The word <HI>Synogogu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ignifies an A&s;&s;embly, <HI>Iam.</HI> 2. 2. yet the publique places where the A&s;&s;emblies of the Iewes, met for the Word and Prayer, The holy Gho&s;t calls <HI>Synagogues;</HI> the Chri&s;tian A&s;&s;embly is called <GAP DESC="foreign"> a Church, and the publique place of &s;uch an A&s;&s;embly,
<PB N="8" REF="9"> is by the &s;ame &s;pirit, and rightly by true Chri&s;tians called a Church.</P>
<P>It is ba&s;e, and from a &s;pirit of foul-tonguedne&s;&s;e, to call it a &s;teeple-hou&s;e; it is a familiar trophe, and mo&s;t &s;ignificant to call the thing containing by the name of the thing contained: And on the contrary, do you not &s;ay &s;ignifi|cantly, the Pot boiles, when you meane the Broth in the Pot: And you have not bread to finde your hou&s;e: And we call tho&s;e publique places of Iudi|cature where publique Courts u&s;e to be kept, by the names of tho&s;e Courts, as the Common-Pleas, the Chancery, the Court of Wards; it is no abu&s;ive or improper &s;peech.</P>
<P>That <HI>Place</HI> is <HI>Publique,</HI> whereunto any one may re&s;ort, without leave of any, and without danger of being a tre&s;pa&s;&s;er, and liable to an action of Tre&s;pa&s;&s;e: Such is this place we are now in, but &s;uch is not this or that mans Hou&s;e, Parlour or Barne: Chri&s;t requireth, and loveth the publike: Wi&s;dom cries without, in the &s;treets, in the chief place of concour&s;e, in the opening of the ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es, <HI>Prov.</HI> 1. 20. 21. Though the private meetings of Chri|&s;tians, u&s;ed Chri&s;tianly have a promi&s;e, yet Gods glory and power was ne|ver &s;o &s;een there, as in the publique, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 63. 2. nor have they &s;uch a promi&s;e, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28 20, 21 And publique Ordinances are for the publique, not for the private; thus of the Morall u&s;e of the Temple: The <HI>Ceremoniall</HI> u&s;e, was for Sacrifice, for receiving all the in&s;truments and furniture of the worldly Sanctuary in all it was, for &s;ignification and for &s;hadow; &s;o the thing &s;ig|nified, the truth remains though there be no Temple.</P>
<P>God hath now four Temples, Heaven; the Heaven of the ble&s;&s;ed, <HI>Heb.</HI> 8. and 9. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 11. Chri&s;t, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2. 21. the Chri&s;tian; the Church. The two la&s;t are meant in this Text.</P>
<P>See, beloved, your calling, your dignity; it is no &s;mall moment, to pre&s;erve from all manner of &s;in; if we knew our dignity, we would not deba&s;e our &s;elves; we would avoid all unworthy acts, all carriage that is below us: this is your dignity, every Chri&s;tian is Gods Temple, the true Temple the &s;ub&s;tance of that &s;hadowi&s;h Temple: The Temple had four things con|&s;iderable.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>The Fabricke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>The Furniture.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>The Glory.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>The Mini&s;tery that &s;erved there.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>1. <HI>For the Fabricke,</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. There were the doors, or Porch, the gates very glorious: The&s;e &s;ig|nified the hearts of the faithfull made glorious by faith to receive Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 24. 8, 9. <HI>Rev.</HI> 3. 20.</P>
<P N="2">2. There was the holy place, and the holy of holies an&s;werably.</P>
<P N="1">1. The bodies of Chri&s;tians are Gods Temples, his holy place, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 19.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="9" REF="9"> 2. The Soules of the humble, and poor in &s;pirit, that tremble at Gods word, are the holy of holies, or the mo&s;t holy place, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 66. 1, 2.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>2. <HI>For the Furniture.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The mercy-Seat, or propitiatory is Chri&s;t and his blood apprehended by faith, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Rom.</HI> 3. 25. God &s;et forth Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to be a Propiti|atory<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Properly notes the in&s;trument of propitiation, and fitly agrees to Chri&s;t by whom God is appea&s;ed and pacified.</HI></NOTE> through faith in his blood, by faith is Chri&s;t brought into, and dwells in our hearts: Faith in Chri&s;ts blood; is that which &s;ets up this Mercy-&s;eat in the Temple of every particular Chri&s;tians heart: Chri&s;t by Faith in his blood is the Propitiatory, he that believeth in Chri&s;t to have Redemption, Remi&s;&s;ion, and &s;alvation only through his blood &s;prinkled and applied to his &s;oul and con&s;cience by Faith, and therefore draweth near, layeth hold on Chri&s;t, and applyeth his death and &s;acrifice unto him&s;elf, he hath the Mercy-&s;eat &s;et up in his &s;oul: otherwi&s;e though there be a Chri&s;t, though there be blood for expiation; though both Chri&s;t and his blood be propo&s;ed of God, yet there is no Temple nor Mercy-&s;eat &s;et up to thee, or me, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t not, or I have not this Faith in Chri&s;ts Blood.</P>
<P>This Propitiatorie, <HI>Ex.</HI> 25. 17. 1 <HI>Kin.</HI> 8. 9. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 4. or <HI>Golden Cover</HI> was put above upon the Ark of the Te&s;timony, which Ark was a Coffer in which was put the two Tables of &s;tone, in which the Law was written, this Ark was the Symbole of Gods gracious pre&s;ence among the people of the Iews, it was made of Shittim-wood, overlaid within and without of pure gold. Two Cherubims covering the Mercy-&s;eat with their wings were &s;et on the two ends of the Mercy-&s;ea; from above this Mercy-&s;eat, from between the&s;e Cherubims God gave his Oracles &amp; An&s;wers, and he was known and prayed unto under this name and notion; O thou that dwelle&s;t between the Cherubims; <HI>P&s;.</HI> 80. 1. this &s;ignified God in Chri&s;t reconciling the world to him&s;elf, not imputing the tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ions &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re&s;pa&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s again&s;t his holy Law, but accepting their per&s;ons &amp; im|perfect obedience to his Commandments pre&s;ented to him through Chri&s;t the Mediator, and in Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, beholding them with favour &amp; acceptation, &amp; pa&s;&s;ing by their &s;ins, as expiated &amp; covered, in whom al&s;o their Prayers are heard, an|&s;wers are given to them, their hearts find &amp; feel him teaching &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uling them; &amp; the holy Angels attend on the~, guard them&punc; &amp; are their mini&s;ters; now in the believer this pre&s;ence of <HI>God</HI> in Chri&s;t on a throne of grace is &s;et up in his heart.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Altar of incen&s;e placed before the vaile that was by the Ark, be|fore the Mercy-&s;eat, <HI>Ex.</HI> 30. 1. 6. 2. This &s;ignified Chri&s;ts interc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion, and the Golden Cen&s;er, and Odours of his meritorious &s;acrifice, with which he appears before God, as our high Prie&s;t, <HI>Rev.</HI> 8. 3. this Altar, Cen&s;er, Odours, and high Prie&s;t; the Believer through the word of Faith even the Go&s;pel receiving and imbracing, pre&s;ents him&s;elf, and all he doth to God there|with, that God may &s;mell a &s;avour of re&s;t towards him; he offereth
<PB N="10" REF="10"> all to God in Chri&s;ts name, in the hands of this con&s;ecrated Prie&s;t, and on this Altar that can &s;anctifie his gift, he puts his prayers into this Golden Cen&s;er. The vertue al&s;o of Chri&s;ts interce&s;&s;ion is in him in the &s;pirit of Prayer.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Altar of burnt-offering, &s;ignified Chri&s;t bearing our &s;ins, and making reconciliation, in who&s;e &s;acrifice of him&s;elf a whole burnt-offering, is found ful &s;atisfaction, a perfect ran&s;om and price, &amp; plentuous and eternall Redemp|tion. This Altar, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13 10. <HI>&amp;</HI> 10 5. 8, 9, 10. is &s;et up in the Chri&s;tian, who by Faith, pre&s;ents before God this Lamb and his Redemption for his Iu&s;ti|fication, and while he apprehends this Redemption in his &s;oul, offers, through Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t him&s;elf, a whole bhrut offering to God and all other his &s;pirituall &s;acrifices.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Table of &s;hew bread, on which were &s;et new every Sabbath weekly twelve Cakes with pure incen&s;e, repre&s;enting the twelve Tribes of I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l which &s;tood on the Table continually before the Mercy-&s;eat in the pre&s;ence of God, which as it &s;ignifieth the gracious favour and the eyes of God in Chri&s;t over the righteous, &s;o al&s;o how the Chri&s;tian liveth conti|nu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly, as in the pre&s;ence of God, reconciled, and reconciling him to him through Chri&s;t: his heart &s;aith with <HI>David,</HI> Thy loving kindne&s;&s;e is before mine eyes, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 26. 3. and I have walked in thy truth. And this con&s;tant pre|&s;ence as before God reconciled only through the blood of his Son, rai&s;eth the incen&s;e and &s;weet odours of holy motions pre&s;ented al&s;o before God in Chri&s;t continually, and look as God feedeth him with Chri&s;t the bread of life, and furni&s;heth a Table be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m, &s;o the Believer keeps a furn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hed Table, <HI>Cart.</HI> 1. 12. <HI>&amp;</HI> 7. 12 <HI>&amp;</HI> 8. 2. of the fruits of the Spirit in which God in Chri&s;t is delighted, this Table &s;tood on the North-&s;ide in the Ta|bernacle.</P>
<P N="5">5. The Candle&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ck of pure Gold, with &s;even Lampes burning was on the South-&s;ide right again&s;t the Table of Shew bread. This is the Word of God, written in the heart of the true Chri&s;tian, burning and &s;hining in &s;a|ving knowledge, with the &s;even lampes of his &s;pirit, even manifold gifts and graces: in the light of this Word ingrafted, by which the Holy Gho&s;t dwels in them, they &s;erve God in Chri&s;t with their &s;pirits in the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zen Laver to w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h in, is the very fountaine of godly &s;orrow, and of renewing grace, <HI>E&s;a,</HI> 1. 16. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 26. 6. <HI>Act.</HI> 26. 18. the &s;pirit of &s;anctification, which is opened in the heart of a beleever; it is the &s;anctifi|cation in them by faith which is in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, whereby their &s;oules are &s;prinkl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d from an evill con&s;cience, and their bodies wa&s;hed with cleane water, that &s;o they may draw neare with a true heart in full a&s;&s;urance of faith, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10. 20.</P>
<P>This is the furniture of Gods hou&s;e.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="11" REF="10">
<HEAD>3. <HI>For the Glory.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Glory that fills this hou&s;e of God, is God in the pre&s;ence of his Grace, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Ye are the Temple of the living God,</HI> as God hath &s;aid, <HI>I will dwell in them, and walke in them, and I will be their God, and they &s;hall be my people,</HI> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 16.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>4. <HI>For the Mini&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Mini&s;ters that &s;erve in this hou&s;e, they are beleevers, they are both the Temple and the Prie&s;ts, as the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, coming unto Chri&s;t, <HI>Ye are built up a &s;pirituall hou&s;e, an holy Prie&s;thood, to offer up &s;piri|tuall &s;acrifice, acceptable to God by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5.</P>
<P>In the&s;e foure re&s;pects is the beleever the Temple of God, and every one that is called, though but outwardly, is called, that he might be a partaker of this heavenly honour, of which honour, unbeliefe and impenitency doe deprive him. Who can &s;ufficiently expre&s;&s;e the Dignity of the true belee|ver, who can &s;ufficiently bewaile the &s;tate of the Chri&s;tian that is &s;o only in profe&s;&s;ion, who while he &s;eemes to give him&s;elf to God in words, keepes his heart a &s;tye for Sathan, keeps open hou&s;e for the Devill.</P>
<P>Thus we &s;ee how every Chri&s;tian is Gods Temple.</P>
<P>The Church is al&s;o Gods Temple, even the Church vi&s;ible. It is true, that as the Temple and Tabernacle had three parts, the outer Court for the people, the Holy Place where the Prie&s;ts did their Office, and the Holy of Holies into which the High Prie&s;t only entred; &s;o they did type out the vi&s;ible Church as the outer Court, where are good and bad; the Holy Place, the true Saints and Beleevers, and Heaven the Holy of Holies. But here the vi&s;ible Church, in the whole and in every particular vi&s;ible Church is called the Temple of God.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>1. <HI>For the generall qualities, or adjuncts.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Vnity;</HI> There was but one Temple, &s;o the Church is one, <HI>Cant.</HI> 6. 9. There is but one body, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 12. though there be diver&s;ities of gifts, of operations, and of admini&s;trations, though there be divers members: this diver&s;ity makes for Unity, for if they were all one member where were the body, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 19. unto every one is given &s;ome mea&s;ure of Grace from Chri&s;t the Head, which being improved in our fit and proper place in the body, according to the effectuall working in the mea&s;ure of every part maketh increa&s;e of the body, unto the edifying of it &s;elfe in love, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4. 4. 7. 16. Diver&s;ity of gifts makes for growth, as well as for unity, if love with lowline&s;&s;e and meekne&s;&s;e doe act and carry us.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Sanctity,</HI> The Temple of God is holy, &s;o the Church are a &s;ociety or community &s;eparated from the world; they are <HI>without,</HI> we have nothing to doe to judge them; that is, to proceed with them that are the <HI>fornicators</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="11"> <HI>of this world,</HI> or the covetous, or the like with Church-cen&s;ures: The&s;e are <HI>within,</HI> the&s;e that are <HI>called Brethren,</HI> and are yet fornicators, or covetous, or Idolater<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, or drunkards, or &s;uch like: the&s;e that are <HI>fornicators of the Church,</HI> the&s;e we judge. If we doe neglect this Di&s;cipline, the Apo&s;tle doth not &s;ay, &s;eparate you that are Saints indeed, &s;et up a new Church, but blames us, &s;aying, <HI>Doe not ye judge them that are within?</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 12. and in|joynes <HI>reformation,</HI> not a <HI>&s;eparation</HI> for &s;uch a fault, &s;aying, Therefore put away from among your &s;elves that wicked Per&s;on. It is a lamentable thing to read in the Church of <HI>Corinth,</HI> the Temple of God which is holy, this mixture, brother Fornicator, brother Drunkard, brother Idolater, &amp;c. yet &s;o it was<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg">Aug. Tom. 7. cont. Ep. Parmen. l. 2. c. 1. <HI>Qui&s;quis vel quod pote&s;t arguendo corrigit, vel quod corrigere non pote&s;t, &s;alvo pacis vinculo exclu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">it, vel quod &s;alvo pacis vinculo excludere non pote&s;t, aequitate improbat, firmitate &s;upportat, hic e&s;t pacificus, &amp; ab i&s;to maledicto immunis quod Scriptura dicit, vae his qui dicunt, quod nequam, e&s;t bonum, &amp; quod bonum, e&s;t ncquam.</HI></NOTE>, &s;o it hath been in the Primitive pu|re&s;t times; if it be &s;o now, be not &s;o offen|ded, as to run out of your little wit, while you are running from pollution; run not from Gods Temple, while you flee the touching of the unclean thing; rather let your holi|ne&s;&s;e be accompanied with love, your love with &s;everity, your &s;everity with tolerance and longanimity, your long-&s;uffering with zeal, your zeal with compa&s;&s;ion, and all with meekne&s;&s;e of wi&s;dome.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>2. <HI>For the Structure.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The Temple was built on mount Zion, which was fir&s;t a &s;trong hold of the Jebu&s;ites, but conquered and taken by <HI>David,</HI> was called the city of <HI>Da|vid,</HI> and becau&s;e a mountain, therefore &s;trong and &s;teddy. So Chri&s;t hath no Church but what he gets by &s;piritual conque&s;t, they were before calling a Fort of Jebu&s;ites, but our <HI>David</HI> &s;ubduing the &s;trong holds of Satan, brings them to God, the Rock of Ages, <HI>I&s;.</HI> 26. 4. <HI>Jer.</HI> 17. 5. 7. the only Iehovah, and on him, that is, on him, as he hath named &amp; revealed him&s;elf in his holy word, are they built.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Temple had goodly foundations, &s;o the Church is built on Chri&s;t the Foundation-&s;tone, elect and precious, tryed and &s;ure, on whom, who|&s;oever beleeveth, &s;hall never be confounded. It is built on the foundation of the Apo&s;tles and Prophets, (Apo&s;tles are the highe&s;t Office and Calling that ever was in the Church, and therefore named fir&s;t) not upon their Per&s;ons, but upon their Doctrine, called the foundation, becau&s;e it layeth Chri&s;t the Foundation, and layeth him out, and &s;ets him in his proper place, to the full, in two &s;orts of fundamentall truths, the Law and Go&s;pel; or as it is in <HI>Re|vel.</HI> 14. 12. The <HI>Commandments of God,</HI> and the <HI>faith of Je&s;us:</HI> The Church is the Communion of Saints, that keepeth the&s;e two: This is the Zion of God, oppo&s;ed to Antichri&s;tian Babylon: There is not a clearer Text in all the Bi|ble, nor more lively di&s;tingui&s;hing, it concerns our dayes; well is this
<PB N="13" REF="11"> Book of Prophe&s;ies called the <HI>Revelation,</HI> not onely becau&s;e it opens and re|veals the Prophe&s;ies of things to come, all Prophe&s;ies; but al&s;o becau&s;e it carries &s;uch beams and rayes of light&s;ome doctrinall truth, wherewith it is be&s;pangled, and &s;hines in &s;everall parts of it, to enlighten the times which the Prophe&s;ies concern.</P>
<P N="3">3. The walls of the Temple were conjoyned by corner-&s;tones: Chri&s;t Ie&s;us is the chief corner &s;tone, that holds both parts of this &s;pirituall buil|ding, both Iews and Gentiles that are called, fa&s;t together, &s;o that they do concorporate, <HI>Eph.</HI> 3. 6.</P>
<P N="4">4. The &s;everall &s;tones in this Temple, or curtains, with tapes, and loops, and tenons, po&s;ts and &s;ockets, are the &s;everall members variou&s;ly gifted, and yet united in the unity of profe&s;&s;ion, and of the &s;pirit, and of faith, and of Bapti&s;me, and in the bond of Peace.</P>
<P N="5">5. The outer and inner coverings are the double condition of the Church, the inward, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 45. 14. comely and glo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ious; the outward, black, and tann'd with afflictions and per&s;ecutions, <HI>Cant.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. 5.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Temple had pillars and walls; and the vi&s;ible Church, in re&s;pect of the Mini&s;tery of it, is the pillar and ground of truth, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 17 <HI>Gal</HI> 2. 9. <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 19. The Officers and Members in the Church, are the &s;u&s;tainers of the fabrick and the body.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>3. <HI>But for the Furniture chiefly is the Church of God, his holy Temple. For.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. There being retained, held, and held forth, the Doctrine of Reconci|liation by Chri&s;t alone, that one Mediatour, that God is onely to be found gracious to a &s;inner in Chri&s;t, fully &s;atisfied in his blood, which is belonging to no &s;inner, but to him that beleeveth; here is the true Mercy-&s;eat, God in Chri&s;t: We need not &s;ay, O thou that dwelle&s;t between the Cherubims! but know, and pray to God, as the God &amp; Father of our Lord Ie&s;us: Here being taught, that Chri&s;t is true God and true Man in one Per&s;on; here is the Ark over laid with gold, the true fle&s;h of Chri&s;t, under which his God-head was covered, is the Vail between the Holy-place, and the Holy of Holies.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Doctrine of Chri&s;ts &s;acrifice on the Cro&s;&s;e, and of his interce&s;&s;ion in heaven, is both the Altars, the Altar of whole burnt-offering, and the Altar of incen&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Tables of the Covenant in the Ark, the Manna, and Aarons rod by it, this is in the Church that &s;ets up Chri&s;t, the Bread of Life, the onely Pro|phet that teacheth to profit, and the high Prie&s;t over the hou&s;e of God, whom we ought to obey.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Candle&s;tick, is the light of the Word, the Law and Go&s;pel, that all in Gods hou&s;e may walk in the light of the Lord, and &s;ee to do his work.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="14" REF="12"> 5. The Laver is the Doctrine of Regeneration and Iu&s;tification by Chri&s;ts blood and &s;pirit.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Golden In&s;truments and ve&s;&s;els for Incen&s;e-offering, and &s;prink|ling with the re&s;t, are the gifted Mini&s;ters, gifted with pa&s;torall and teaching aptne&s;&s;e and abilities, and &s;anctified for the applying of Chri&s;t and his bene|fits by their Mini&s;tery, which gifts Chri&s;t giveth; but the Church upon due triall acknowledgeth, owneth, receiveth, confirmeth with her te&s;timony, and honoureth.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>4. <HI>For the glory inhabiting there.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="4">4. God in Chri&s;t is there, giving the ble&s;&s;ing and life: The name of that City is Iehovah-Shammah, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 48. 35. or, The Lord is there.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="5" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>5. <HI>For the cover on it all.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="5">5. There is over every &s;uch a&s;&s;embly, and over the whole Zion of God, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4. 5, 6. a &s;peciall Protection, a &s;peciall Direction, and a &s;peciall &s;afety to them that &s;hrowd there from the heat, and from the &s;torm: This is the de|fence upon all the glory.</P>
<P>Now from this branch of the Doctrine, and from this true and plain ex|plication of the &s;ame, we may de&s;cribe, or direct to the infallible note of the true Church on earth, and of a true particular vi&s;ible Church.</P>
<P N="1">1. Where ever Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is held for the foundation and corner-&s;tone, and the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apo&s;tles touching the faith of Ie&s;us, and the Commandments of God that concern holine&s;&s;e and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, there is the true Church, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 19, 20. What ever Society of men, a&s;&s;ocia|ting in a religious way, do hold Chri&s;t and the Prophets and the Apo&s;tles Doctrine for faith and holine&s;&s;e, that Society is a particular vi&s;ible Church, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 22.</P>
<P N="2">2. In what ever particular Society, religious, there is to be found all the furniture of the Temple (all the glory, the Mercy-&s;eat, the two Altars, the Table of Shewbread, the Candle&s;tick, the Laver) that is a true particular vi&s;ible Church. It is the Temple of God, therefore the Church of God. Who can deny that that is Zion, where it can be truly &s;aid, the Tabernacle of God is with the&s;e men.</P>
<P>Behold, he dwelleth with you, you of <HI>Kingstone,</HI> for of you it may truely be &s;aid, Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men.</P>
<P>And to remove all things that may mi&s;lead your judgements, let us looke upon that Prophe&s;ie in <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 1. and forwards to v. 14. It concernes the &s;tate of the Church during the reigne of Antichri&s;t, in which Prophe&s;ie, &s;o farre as pertaineth to our pre&s;ent purpo&s;e two things are beyond all doubt, and the more to be heeded. Fir&s;t, that the outer Court, and the Holy City, that is, the Church vi&s;ible is given to the Gentiles, even the Antichri&s;tian, or Popi&s;h Gentiles, and they &s;hall tread it under foot forty and two
<PB N="15" REF="12"> moneths, which is, one thou&s;and two hundred and &s;ixty daies Propheticall, that is, &s;o many yeares; this is the time of Antichri&s;ts reigne. Secondly, that this is the time and &s;pace in which the two witne&s;&s;es, that is, the &s;mall but &s;ufficient number for te&s;timony to confirme any truth; I &s;ay the &s;mall num|ber of Chri&s;ts faithfull Mini&s;ters (for the&s;e two witne&s;&s;es are expre&s;ly cal|led <HI>two Prophets,)</HI> v. 10. and their worke is expre&s;ly and preci&s;ely named to be <HI>Prophecying,</HI> v. 3. Now the Magi&s;trate and his worke, by the &s;word and Edicts is never in all the Bible called by the&s;e names, the Scripture appropri|ates this manner of witne&s;&s;ing to the Go&s;pell, and again&s;t errours, to the Mini&s;ters and their worke alone, which is <HI>Preaching of the Go&s;pell,</HI> Mark 16. 15. 1 Cor. 1 17. if this be not the work of their Office, they have no work; Chri&s;t &s;ends them to Preach, and in compari&s;on of this, not to Baptize) this &s;mall number is to Prophe&s;ie in &s;ack-cloth.</P>
<P>Now this time being not expired, for Antichri&s;t is not yet de&s;troyed, the &s;even V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ls are but in pouring out, the &s;tate of the vi&s;ible Church is this, to be inf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ted and polluted dive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ly with many Gentiles, as we &s;ee by wofull experienc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; there is no Prote&s;tant Church in the chri&s;tian world but is mi&s;e|rably trodden upon at this day by Papi&s;ts, their bloudy rage, their errours, and &s;uper&s;titious inventions, the errours of other Hereticks and Schi&s;maticks; all which are appertaining unto, and are of the frye of Antichri&s;t, as the Apo&s;tle <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;aid of the errours of his time; there are many Antichri&s;ts al|ready: to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tered, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd torn, and &s;oyled will be the face of the vi&s;ible Church untill Antichri&s;t be down. Againe, the number of faithfull Mini&s;ters will not be very great, nor their e&s;tate any other then a &s;tate of mourning; they &s;hall yet Prophe&s;ie in &s;ack-cloth, even &s;o long till the one thou&s;and two hundred and &s;ixty daies or yeares be accompli&s;hed; they that &s;ay otherwi&s;e &s;hift as they can, they will feele this to be a truth, for the time of this burden is not yet expired. Is Antichri&s;ts reigne expired when Papi&s;ts &s;o &s;warme, &s;o pre|vaile with many Kings that are Prote&s;tant, that they wa&s;te Germany, Ire|land, Scotland, England, be&s;ides other parts, and yet the Pope &s;its in Rome?</P>
<P>I &s;hall adde here but that of learned and godly <HI>Chemnitius</HI> in his Com|mon Places.<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg">Chemnit. Loc. Theol. De Eccle&s;. loco. cap. 3. Sect. 3. <HI>Mi&s;er caetus, in qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> multae &s;unt infirmitates, quoque non tan|tum per&s;ecutionibus &amp; cruce premitu, &s;ed etiam offendiculis &amp; &s;candalis de|formatur.</HI></NOTE> That the Church may be a mi&s;erable Society, or company, in which there are many infirmities, and which is not only pre&s;&s;ed with Per&s;ecutions and the Cro&s;&s;e, but al&s;o is deformed with &s;tum|bling-blocks and &s;candals; of which we ought not to judge by the outward &s;hew, but by and according to the Word. The Church Vi&s;ible is the company of tho&s;e that imbrace Chri&s;ts Go&s;pell, and rightly u&s;e his Sacraments, in which company God by the Mi|ni&s;tery
<PB N="16" REF="13"> of the Word workes powerfully, and regenerates many to life eter|nall, in which &s;ociety notwith&s;tanding, there are many,<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg">Et Sect. 5. 2 Tim. 2. 20. <HI>In Eccle&s;iae caetu multi &s;unt non &s;ancti.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Non-&s;ancti,</HI> not holy, but yet con|&s;enting with the godly in the point of true Doctrine. Thus of the fir&s;t Doctrine.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="doctrine">
<P>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">econd Doctrine is this, That there are many, yea many within the vi&s;ible Church, that are defilers and violaters of this Temple of God. If it had not been &s;o, in vaine had been the Apo&s;tles rea&s;oning; if it would not be &s;o, in vaine were this &s;entence written and left regi&s;tred in the Canon of the New Te&s;tament. The Apo&s;tle did not deale this blow in the ayre, and fight with &s;hadowes; and that we may not &s;o doe, and only beate the ayre and lo&s;e our labour, let us inquire who are they that &s;tand guilty of this &s;in; the thing is filthy and odious, and no man will willingly owne it though he will not be taken off but will willingly doe it. To come then to charge the guilt of this great &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon the particular offenders.</P>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<P N="1">1. <HI>All &s;candalous Chri&s;tians.</HI> I begin with you, for though you are not the fir&s;t intended by the Apo&s;tle in this Text, yet you de&s;ervedly goe in the front, you make and cau&s;e others to defile and wrong the Church by Schi&s;mes. The offence you give makes them for&s;ake the fellow&s;hip of the Church of God, to which you doe belong, you are many waies guilty of this Temple-pollution, for the pre&s;ent you may be ranked into three &s;orts.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fornicators, Adulterers, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffeminate and uncleane per&s;ons, the&s;e defile their owne bodies, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 15, 18, 19. they take the member of Chri&s;t and make it the member of an Harlot; the&s;e defile the Church of God: this is a Leaven, a little of which leaveneth the whole lumpe, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 6. it is a leaven to be purged ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by Church-cen&s;ures.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Covetous, Raylers, Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ortioners, Drunkards, Theeves, Swearers, that feare not an O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h, the prophane, unholy, malicious, and all unrighte|ous per&s;ons, the&s;e make Gods hou&s;e a d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nne of Theeves; they that live in the&s;e and the like &s;ins again&s;t the holy Law of God, and yet come before him as his people, and cry, <HI>The Temple of the Lord,</HI> and re&s;t in the name and priviledges of Chri&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ans, the&s;e live as if they were delivered to doe tho&s;e abominations, <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r.</HI> 7. 4 8. they are abominable polluters of Gods Temple.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Hypocrites, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat pretend the glory of God, and good of the Church, but under that colour drive a trade, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2. 14, 15. of the Publiq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and of godline&s;&s;e make a m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rchandize for their own filthy lucre. Such a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e tho&s;e pretenders to Reformation now among us, that make up their private e&s;tates out of the Publique, being carried with &s;elf-&s;eeking; they dread not the ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mples of Councellors, Nobles, Iudges, Prelates, Gen|try, that now before their eyes lye under Gods avenging hand; their car|ca&s;es,
<PB N="17" REF="13"> for they are ca&s;t out, and nought of them remaines but their dead contemned bulkes, and on them their Worme feedes and dyes not, and the fire is not quenched; the&s;e their mi&s;erable carca&s;es they may goe out and &s;ee, and looke upon the contempt that God hath and doth poure upon them, for the abu&s;ing of their power to their owne lu&s;ts, and for making a prey of the Publique, and yet they greedily follow the way of &s;uch Balaa|mites. All that are intru&s;ted and imployed for the publique in this great &s;ervice of &s;eeking Reformation, &s;et them feare, le&s;t, if found in the like &s;inne, they &s;hould fall into greater condemnation. The Lord is a jealous God.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<P N="2">2. All that <HI>make Schi&s;mes and divi&s;ions</HI> in the Church, (the context &s;hew|eth this; the&s;e are properly and directly intended here by the Holy Gho&s;t. In the Church of Corinth many &s;tood guilty of this &s;in, their factious &s;tudies rented them into Sects. 1. By contentious &s;iding, falling into parties accor|ding to their Teachers whom they affected, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 12. 2. By affectation of humane wi&s;dome, and fooli&s;h admiration thereof in the Preaching of the Go&s;pell, <HI>Ch.</HI> 17. &amp; 2. 1. 4. 3. By building Heterogeneall &s;tuffe, of a divers kind, and un&s;uitable, as wood, hay, and &s;tubble, upon the foundation, <HI>Ch.</HI> 3. 12. 4. By undervaluing their faithfull Teachers, <HI>Ch.</HI> 4. 1. and neg|lecting their <HI>&s;pirituall Father</HI> that had begotten them in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, through the Go&s;pell, <HI>ver.</HI> 15. of <HI>Chap.</HI> 4. had you, &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, ten thou&s;and in|&s;tructers, yet I am your Father, you have not many fathers; this unnatural|ne&s;&s;e in matters of Grace is found in &s;ome of this place; that Mini&s;ter that begot you, you ca&s;t off, he continuing in his integrity; and you heap to you in&s;tructers, yet I thinke not &s;o many as yet that we &s;hould reckon them by the thou&s;ands. 5. By over-valuing them&s;elves, <HI>Ch.</HI> 4. 8. 10. in their owne conceit, they were full, rich, and reigned as Kings without their faithfull Teachers; they were wi&s;e, &s;trong, and honourable: now they were in the right, now their joyes and light abounded, but without us, &s;aith the Apo|&s;tle; I would, &s;aith he, yee did reigne, this their happy e&s;tate was but in their conceit.</P>
<P>The&s;e things made them be puffed up one again&s;t another, 1 <HI>Corin|thians,</HI> 4. 6.</P>
<P>Of this &s;in are they al&s;o guilty that fall under that admonition, in <HI>Rom.</HI> 16. 17. that make divi&s;ions and offences contrary to the Doctrine of the Apo|&s;tles; the Greek Prepo&s;ition &s;ignifieth both contrary and be&s;ides, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Sig|nificat, praeter &amp; contra;</HI> the peace of the Church, and the purity of Do|ctrine is &s;infully violated by tho&s;e that <HI>divide,</HI> and <HI>lay &s;tumbling blocks</HI> in the waies of Chri&s;tians, by contending for any thing that is again&s;t or be&s;ides Scripture-truth. The Scripture is the Rule by which we di&s;cerne of Divi&s;ion and offence-makers.</P>
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<P> Schi&s;me is a &s;in that &s;tickes fa&s;t: the Apo&s;tle &s;pends in one Letter foure Chapters u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on it, for this di&s;cour&s;e begun in the fir&s;t, is continued to the fifth Chapter. The greatne&s;&s;e of this &s;in the Apo&s;tle &s;heweth many wayes.</P>
<P N="1">1. Schi&s;mes divide Chri&s;t; &s;o this &s;in is parricide. <HI>Is Chri&s;t divided?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Schi&s;me giveth Chri&s;ts honour to another, &s;o it is Sacriledge. <HI>Was</HI> Paul <HI>crucified for you?</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. It breakes our faith in Bapti&s;me, &s;o it is perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e. <HI>Were yee Bap|tized in the name of</HI> Paul? <HI>Chap.</HI> 1. <HI>v.</HI> 13.</P>
<P N="4">4. It is a glorying in men, <HI>Chap.</HI> 3. 21. and to glory in men, that fir&s;t proves men c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nall, for it fills men with envying, and &s;trife, and divi&s;ions, and tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is to walk as men, not as chri&s;tians, <HI>Ch.</HI> 3. <HI>v.</HI> 3, 4. <HI>Ob.</HI> Some of them were ready to &s;ay, Why &s;pend you your time about this matter, why come you not to us with meat? we are &s;trong, we are &s;pirituall, teach us &s;ome deep My&s;teries, and hig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er Doctrines. <HI>Sol.</HI> The Apo&s;tle prevents this and layes it upon them&s;elves; their Rudity, their rawne&s;&s;e required his plaine&s;&s;e&punc; they kept him to be laying of the Principles: his faithfulne&s;&s;e and Pa&s;torall di&s;cretion and wi&s;dome kept him fa&s;t to this way of di&s;pen&s;ing the Truth to them. Were they &s;pirituall that thus &s;trove and &s;tood divided? They were carnall, they were babes: the &s;poone was fitter for them then the knife, they were not fit to be their owne carvers, <HI>v.</HI> 1, 2, 3. Secondly, this glory|ing in men makes as if the Mini&s;ters were Lords of our Faith, whereas they are but <HI>Mini&s;ters,</HI> v. 5. Thirdly, it makes as if our profiting did depend on the Mini&s;ters, whereas they are only planters and waterers: it is Gods gi|ving the increa&s;e that doth the deed, <HI>v.</HI> 6, 7. Fourthly, all Mini&s;ters are but one, though &s;ome are gifted above others, &s;ome labour more than o|thers, they are all but Servants in one Worke, imployed in Tilling Gods Field, in building Gods Hou&s;e, <HI>v.</HI> 8 9.</P>
<P N="5">5. Schi&s;mes are of our owne &s;pirit; the Spirit of God is not factious <HI>Ch.</HI> 3. <HI>v.</HI> 16.</P>
<P N="6">6. They wrong Gods Temple, as in the text in hand, dividing it when it is but one, prophaning it when it is holy.</P>
<P N="7">7. Schi&s;me is the bad effect of two evill cau&s;es: 1. Self-confidence, Anthadie, and boa&s;ting, as the Apo&s;tles words &s;hew: <HI>Let no man deceive him&s;elfe, if any man thinke he is wi&s;e, Acts</HI> 8, 9. 2. Vaine admiration upon vaine wi&s;edome, <HI>ver.</HI> 18. every one with <HI>Simon Magus</HI> would faine be <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ome great one.</P>
<P N="8">8. It is derogatory both to the Chri&s;tians honour, and to Gods order, <HI>v.</HI> 21. All is the Chri&s;tians, he is Chri&s;ts, and Chri&s;t is Gods.</P>
<P>Thus <HI>Paul</HI> here &s;ets out the greatne&s;&s;e of the &s;in of Schi&s;me and Divi&s;ions, to which I &s;hall adde but that one word of the &s;ame <HI>Paul,</HI> in <HI>Gal.</HI> 5. 19, 20.
<PB N="19" REF="14"> that it is a manife&s;t worke of the fle&s;h; <HI>the workes of the fle&s;h are manife&s;t, which are divi&s;ions.</HI> Their waies of deceit in &s;owing divi&s;ions are excellently deciphered in <HI>Rom.</HI> 16. <HI>v.</HI> 18. they are not ea&s;ily di&s;cerned, for they paint with two colours; 1. They glory they are the <HI>Servants of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> 2. They u&s;e <HI>good words, and faire &s;peeches,</HI> their tongues meere &s;ugar; ble&s;&s;ing, Grace, goodne&s;&s;e in their lips with &s;uch &s;oberne&s;&s;e, gentlene&s;&s;e, meekne&s;&s;e, lowline&s;&s;e, in&s;inuations of faire &s;peech, as one would not thinke but God and goodne&s;&s;e were confined to that &s;ort of people; the&s;e catch the &s;imple, but indeed <HI>they &s;erve their owne bellies;</HI> they have the teeth of Li|ons, with tho&s;e Locu&s;ts, <HI>Rev.</HI> 9. 8. though they have the hair of women.</P>
<P>Now this &s;chi&s;maticall &s;pirit is in all things mo&s;t dangerous, becau&s;e it agrees every way, and takes wonderfully with corrupt nature, which is full of &s;elf-love, pride, and dotage.</P>
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<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<P N="3">3. <HI>All Hereticks;</HI> the&s;e ruine the foundation, tho&s;e before mentioned make rents in the walls and fabrick of the Church. Here&s;ie is wor&s;e than Schi&s;me; that of our Apo&s;tle imports &s;o much, where he &s;aith, 1 <HI>Cor,</HI> 11. 18, 19. <HI>I heare that there be divi&s;ions among you, and I partly beleeve it, for there mu&s;t be al&s;o Here&s;ies among you.</HI> Al&s;o &s;heweth that Here&s;ie is a greater evill than Schi&s;me, when he &s;aith, there mu&s;t be <HI>al&s;o</HI> or <HI>even</HI> Here&s;ies, he &s;peakes of &s;omewhat more than that was &s;ignified by the word Schi&s;mes. Here&s;ie is an election or chu&s;ing to ones &s;elfe an opinion, not only contrary to the Doctrine delivered in Scripture, but al&s;o contrary to that Doctrine which is of the &s;ub&s;tance of faith and holine&s;&s;e. Here&s;ie is a perver&s;e Do|ctrine, Schi&s;me in the deed of a perver&s;e &s;eparation; he that denyeth or teacheth contrary to any Article of Faith, and yet will hold communion with a Church profe&s;&s;ing the true faith, he is guilty of Here&s;ie, but not of Schi&s;me: he that beleeveth all the Articles of Faith, and holds a pure con|fe&s;&s;ion, and yet will not communicate with a true Church in holy duties, he is guilty of Schi&s;me though not of Here&s;ie, in the Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Galathians, Gal.</HI> 5. 20. <GAP DESC="foreign">, the&s;e are two di&s;tinct workes of the fle&s;h, <HI>Di|vi&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Here&s;ies.</HI></P>
<P>The foundation-truthes on which Zion <HI>Rev.</HI> 14. 12. is laid, are the <HI>Com|mandements of God,</HI> and <HI>the faith of Ie&s;us.</HI> Babylon the great, the Mother of Harlots, who is to be de&s;troyed, oppo&s;eth the Keepers of the&s;e, labours to demoli&s;h the&s;e. Papi&s;me or Popery, it is not any one lone Here&s;ie, but a bo|dy of many Here&s;ies, the &s;inke of Here&s;ies, <HI>A My&s;tery of iniquity;</HI> Here&s;ies therefore in a My&s;tery, a cunning &s;erpentine inva&s;ion of Chri&s;t, and his Faith, and Wor&s;hip, under the name and title of the Church of Chri&s;t, his Faith, his Spirit, his Honour, his Wor&s;hip; therefore for this <HI>man of &s;inne,</HI> I &s;hall &s;et him by him&s;elfe next after the&s;e Temple-violaters, the&s;e Hereticks,
<PB N="29" REF="15"> not as not guilty of Here&s;ie, but as guilty in a higher degree. And here let me mention only tho&s;e that we are mo&s;t in danger of and troubled with at the pre&s;ent: the&s;e Hereticks, polluters of the Temple of God are.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Antinomians: they over-throw the Law Morall, they hold that Chri&s;t came to aboli&s;h it, that a beleever hath nothing to do with keeping the Commandements, that the Go&s;pell takes away all obedience to the Com|mandements; they are again&s;t all urging of doing of duty of Humiliations, of Repentance for &s;ins after Iu&s;tification, of praying for pardon of &s;in by a bele<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ver, they hold that the Law ought not to be Prea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hed to beleevers, with a great deale more of the like pernicious Leaven: all which &s;avoureth of ignorance, pride, and conceitedne&s;&s;e, and of affectation of licentiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and lawle&s;&s;e liberty: the &s;pirit of Libertini&s;me in&s;pireth the&s;e men.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Anti-Sabbatarians: They evert the fourth Commandment; tea|ching that it is Ceremoniall, and &s;o taking away all con&s;cience of &s;in again&s;t the Commandment of God, (though no day be kept a Sabbath in the week) and thereby all preaching, and attendance on duties of Gods Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hip, publike and priva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Lords day, in con&s;cience to Gods Command|ment laid a&s;ide, they at one blow lay flat all that would uphold the power of godline&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Germane Anabapti&s;ts, that hold that a Chri&s;tian ought not to be a Magi&s;trate, that Chri&s;tians may not take the &s;word, nor wage war; the&s;e evert the fifth Commandment; I call them the Germane Anabapti&s;ts, for there divers Sects of them, are, and have been for this hundred of ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs pa&s;t; through Gods ju&s;t judgement, their errours, &s;ome of them, begin to &s;pread in England; the&s;e gho&s;ts can pa&s;&s;e the Seas, and &s;wim thorow the billows and waves of mighty waters; they are in their fir&s;t &s;pawning to be looked unto; for who knows unto what de&s;tructive Principles and Practi|ces &s;uch giddy &s;elf-willed &s;pirits may run? <HI>Bellarmine</HI> &s;landerou&s;ly calls them <HI>Proles Lutherani&s;mi,</HI> the off-&s;pring of Lutherani&s;me; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey are, inde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, the off &s;pring of hell, for hell it &s;elfe is moved, when God rents the heavens, and comes down to the great work of the Reformation of his Church. Satan that &s;ent the&s;e Furies out to defame the work of Re|formation, which God began by <HI>Luthers</HI> glorious Mini&s;tery, he is Satan &s;till and &s;ends the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uries among us for the very &s;ame end.</P>
<P>For the pre&s;ent, I will name no more that are again&s;t the Command|ments of God. Again&s;t the faith of Ie&s;us I &s;hall onely mention two:</P>
<P N="1">1. The A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">minians, that teach univer&s;all grace, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the falling away of the Saints, and deny that the efficacious working of internall grace from Gods Spirit is nece&s;&s;ary to conver&s;ion, and to the begetting of faith in a &s;inner: They teach that the grace of conver&s;ion is re&s;i&s;tible, that we cannot have a&s;&s;urance, and the like.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="21" REF="15"> 2. The Socinians, which, among other damnable errours, run into the&s;e two: Fir&s;t, they deny the Deity of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, who is the great God, our Saviour, God ble&s;&s;ed for ever. Secondly, they deny that Chri&s;ts death was for &s;atisfaction, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 5, 6. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 24. or for merit, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 18. 19. <HI>Act.</HI> 20. 28. and that it was a price, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 20. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2 6. of our redemption, but onely hath in it the nature of an example how we &s;hould &s;uffer, that Chri&s;t is our Redeemer, not by being a ran&s;ome, or paying a price, or as our Surety <HI>Heb.</HI> 7. 22. making &s;atisfaction, but onely by leaving us an example, that we &s;hould follow his &s;teps: The foregoing Texts of Scripture are expre&s;ly again&s;t this mo&s;t helli&s;h here&s;ie.</P>
<P>The&s;e, and the like to the&s;e, are <HI>Dogs, Wolves in Sheeps skins, evill workers,</HI> the <HI>Conci&s;ion,</HI> as tho&s;e that urged Circumci&s;ion are called, <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 2. they are to be named with &s;uch names of di&s;grace, as tell truly what they are, that all may beware of them: they cut them&s;elves, &amp; others that hearken to them, off from Chri&s;t, and from his Church: in<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jucunda pro&s;onoma&s;ia conjunxit inter &s;e</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>conciditur e nim qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d di&s;cerpitur, &amp; plan&egrave; di&s;trahi|tur: circu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ciditur, quod, &s;upervacaneis re&s;ectis, purgatur,</HI> Bullinger. in locum.</NOTE> this re&s;pect all the hereticall teachers are the <HI>Conci&s;ion,</HI> they are <HI>evill-workers,</HI> for they &s;hould build up the Church of God, but they pull it down and de&s;troy it: like dogs they bark at the truth, they grin at Orthodox Mini&s;ters, and fa&s;ten on the &s;imple the fangs of their poi&s;oned doctrine: There's the Wolfe; be|ware, and thrice beware.</P>
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<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="subsection">
<P N="4">4. <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> and the <HI>Spirit of Popery,</HI> which hath turned Zion into a Babylon; I mean Rome-Chri&s;tian, into Rome-Antichri&s;tian, and it is now a cage of unclean and hatefull birds, a den of bea&s;ts, a &s;tie of foule &s;pirits. This Spirit of Antichri&s;t di&s;covers it &s;elf in four things:</P>
<P N="1">1. In Self-exaltation, and Domination over the Church, that the Pope might &s;it in the Temple of God, as God, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2. 4. 5.</P>
<P N="2">2. In Apo&s;tacy from the faith, that the <HI>man of &s;in</HI> might be the head of the Church: thus he becomes the head of that Apo&s;ta&s;ie, and of the Popi&s;h Apo&s;taticall Synagogue, farre from the Apo&s;tolicall Church of which Chri&s;t is head.</P>
<P N="3">3. In &s;pirituall fornication and adultery, which is Idolatry, Super&s;tition and Will-wor&s;hip: thus the Popi&s;h Synagogue is the Whore of Babylon.</P>
<P N="4">4. In lyes taught in Hypocri&s;ie, and doctrines of Devills, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 1, 2, 3.</P>
<P N="5">5. They defile and de&s;troy Gods Temple, that by pernicious errours de|&s;troy, and ever either of the two great ordinances of God, the <HI>Magi&s;tracy</HI> and the Mini&s;tery; the Authors, the fautors, cheri&s;hers, or nur&s;es, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he recei|vers, abettors, or applauders of &s;uch errours: the&s;e &s;trike the very <HI>Pillars</HI> of the Temple.</P>
<DIV5 N="1" TYPE="sub-subsection">
<P N="1"><PB N="22" REF="16"> 1. For <HI>Magi&s;tracy,</HI> tho&s;e that erroneou&s;ly teach that Magi&s;trates have nothing to doe in the fir&s;t but only in the &s;econd Table of the Law, that they are to pre&s;erve the Peace, and judge about <HI>meum</HI> and <HI>tuum,</HI> mine and thine, but for Religion, and Gods Wor&s;hip, and Doctrine, they have not to doe with their power in tho&s;e. But God &s;aith, <HI>I will give Kings to be thy nur&s;ing fathers, E&s;a</HI> 49. 23. as &s;peaking of the Church under the New Te|&s;tament. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 122. 9. <HI>becau&s;e of the hou&s;e of the Lord, I will &s;eeke to doe thee good.</HI> And againe, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 101. 8. <HI>I will betimes cut off evill do|ers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom the City of God.</HI> Re&s;tauration of the true Wor&s;hip and Religion, and the demoli&s;hing and extirpation of the fal&s;e, were the chiefe prai&s;es of godly Princes, <HI>A&s;a, Ieho&s;aphat, Hezekiah, Io&s;iah,</HI> and of <HI>Nehemiah</HI> the renowned reformer, <HI>Neh.</HI> 13.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Obj."> That's the Old Te&s;tament.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Sol."> What, are the Damned Manichees again rai&s;ed from Hell? Shall we againe be haunted with the Gho&s;ts of the old Here&s;ies, &s;entenced to the bot|tomle&s;&s;e Pit, one thou&s;and four hundred yeares agoe, for rejecting the Old Te&s;tament?</P>
<P N="2">2. Doe you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">old the New Te&s;tament to be in force? you mu&s;t then re|ceive the Old. The New Te&s;tament is not to be received but as it agrees with the Old. Chri&s;t bids, <HI>Search the Scripture,</HI> Ioh. 5. 39. 46. meaning the Old Te&s;tament, which then was only written; he &s;aith, <HI>Had yee believed</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>yee would have believed me.</HI> He that refu&s;eth the Old Te&s;tament, where his lu&s;t &s;erves him, will doe as much for the New. The Evangeli&s;ts writing of Chri&s;t that we might believe on him, runs thus; <HI>this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was written.</HI> The Apo&s;tles in their Epi&s;tles confirme all they &s;ay in matters of faith, and holy life out of the Old Te&s;ta|ment: as to in&s;tance in two or three places for all, the great point of faith, in 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 4, 5, 6, 7. the great point of holine&s;&s;e of life, in 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 15, 16. the great duty of obedience to Parents, in <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 6. 1, 2, 3. read the Texts. The Scripture of the Old Te&s;tament will furni&s;h a Mini&s;ter of the New Te&s;tament, the man of God, and make him ab&s;olute, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 15, 16, 17. It is for every Chri&s;tian a more &s;ure word, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 19. 21. than voyces from Heaven; it is a light that &s;hineth in the dark, untill Chri&s;t the Day|&s;tarre dawn in the heart of him that takes heed to it.</P>
<P N="3">3. But let us come to the New Te&s;tament, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 4. 3. Magi&s;tracy is the <HI>Ordinance of God, &s;et up for the puni&s;hment of evill-doers,</HI> when Bla&s;phe|my, and Idolatry, fal&s;e wor&s;hip, Here&s;ie, Prophane&s;&s;e, and cur&s;ed Oathes are not evill-doing, then let the Magi&s;trate have nothing to doe with the fir&s;t Table: it is <HI>Gods Ordinance for the prai&s;e of them that doe well;</HI> when the &s;eeking of the Lord Iehovah, the u&s;e of Chri&s;ts holy In&s;titutions, the
<PB N="23" REF="16"> profe&s;&s;ion of his holy Name and Faith, the &s;anctification of his Holy Day' and in a word, when Piety cea&s;eth to be well-doing, then let the power of Magi&s;tracy cea&s;e about matters of the fir&s;t Table: the Magi&s;trate is the <HI>Mi|nister of God for thy good;</HI> O Chri&s;tian, as thou art a Chri&s;tian, he is <HI>to thee</HI> for good.</P>
<P>1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 2. 5, 6. Out of this Text note to &s;top the mouthes of all Cava|liers. 1. The end of Magi&s;tracy is not only that thou mai&s;t, who art a Chri|&s;tian, lead a peaceable and quiet life, but the end of that end, that thou mai&s;t lead it in all <HI>godline&s;&s;e</HI> and hone&s;ty.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the better attaining to this end, thou art bound to pray all manner of Prayer for Kings, and all in Authority; this duty he cannot doe that holds this errour.</P>
<P N="3">3. The rea&s;ons on which this rule and exhortation is grounded, doe reach out all their &s;trength to this, that the Magi&s;trate may (being con|verted to the Truth) not only looke to that part of his duty to be the father of the Country, and Common-wealth, but the Nu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ing-father to the Church; not only to &s;ee the Peace be kept, but to &s;ee that Piety flouri&s;h, <HI>all Godli|ne&s;&s;e:</HI> the Rea&s;ons are the&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. God will have <HI>all</HI> men, <HI>i. e.</HI> all &s;orts of men to be &s;aved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. Pray for them, that coming to the knowledge of the truth they may the better u&s;e the Sword, to maintaine the truth, and re&s;traine and debellate fal&s;hood.</P>
<P N="2">2. This is good and acceptable in the &s;ight of God our Saviour, that your prayers &s;hould be the meanes to bring in Kings, and Parliaments, States, and all in Authority, to uphold Godline&s;&s;e out of an heart truely inlighte|ned, and inflamed with the love of Godline&s;&s;e: you plea&s;e not Chri&s;t if you pray not for them out of &s;uch a principle, and to &s;uch an end.</P>
<P N="3">3. There is but one God, both of Kings and Magi&s;trates that are yet with|out, and abu&s;e their power again&s;t all true godline&s;&s;e: and of you; why &s;hould yee doubt but that he will heare your Prayers, and at your Prayers give you Magi&s;trates, that &s;hall make it their honour to u&s;e their power for God, to attaine his main end, that is, your Godly life, as well as your peace|able and hone&s;t life, as they received it from God; who hath ordained Ma|gi&s;tracy for the attaining of that main end?</P>
<P N="4">4. There is but one Mediator between God and men, who gave him&s;elfe a ran&s;ome for all, that te&s;timony in proper &s;ea&s;ons. Chri&s;t mediates for Ma|gi&s;trates, is a ran&s;ome for Magi&s;trates, is that te&s;timony which is as well te&s;tified to Magi&s;trates as any other; and if any &s;ay we have prayed long and prevailed little, you mu&s;t know there are proper &s;ea&s;ons, full &s;ea&s;ons for this te&s;timony to be di&s;pen&s;ed, and to make that di&s;pen&s;ation effectuall,
<PB N="24" REF="17"> therefore pray, pray all manner of Prayers for their thorough conver&s;ion, that they may glory more to &s;ee their Dominions all Godly, under that one God, through that one Mediator, by that one Go&s;pell that witne&s;&s;eth of this Grace, by one Faith, one common Faith, in that only ran&s;ome of Chri&s;t, in one way of his true Wor&s;hip; then to &s;ee their Dominions rich, and peaceable. Why under this one God, and this one Chri&s;t feeding among you, may you not rai&s;e up to you &s;even Shepheards, and eight Princes of men? &s;ay all, yea, by Prayer of faith we &s;hall doe it.</P>
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<P N="2">2. For the <HI>Mini&s;tery,</HI> they de&s;troy and prophane Gods Temple, by their errours diver&s;ly;</P>
<P N="1">1. Everting the <HI>Lords owne Canons</HI> for the Examination and Ordination of Mini&s;ters, or Bi&s;hops by the <HI>Presbytery.</HI> The Epi&s;tles to <HI>Timothy</HI> and <HI>Titus</HI> were written to order Gods hou&s;e; 1. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 15. there are drawn by the Holy Gho&s;t the Church<HI>-Canons,</HI> the <HI>Con&s;titutions</HI> of the Church of the New Te&s;tament, Chri&s;ts <HI>Directory,</HI> by the hands and Mini&s;tery of that elect Ve&s;&s;ell, <HI>Paul</HI> the Apo&s;tle. In the&s;e Canons the <HI>Presbytery,</HI> that is, the &s;ociety of Teaching-Elders, or Bi&s;hops <HI>(Paul</HI> knew no other Bi&s;hops) the A&s;&s;embly of the Elders (&s;o the word is u&s;ed in <HI>Act.</HI> 22. 5. where our la&s;t Tran&s;lation reads it, <HI>the e&s;tate of the Elders)</HI> the Elder-&s;hip, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 24. &amp; 5. 22. &amp;. 3. 2. 9, 10. <HI>Tit.</HI> 1. 5. 9. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 2. hath the <HI>charge of Exami|nation</HI> of tho&s;e that are to be made Mini&s;ters, and the <HI>power of Ordination</HI> by impo&s;ition of hands; they that are to be made Mini&s;ters mu&s;t be <HI>apt to teach,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 2. and they mu&s;t be <HI>ordained</HI> by <HI>laying on of hands, Tit.</HI> 1. 5. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5. 22. their aptne&s;&s;e to teach mu&s;t be tryed and examined, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 10. having &s;poken of Bi&s;hops before, and now &s;peaking of Deacons, and that concerning their holding the My&s;tery of Faith, he &s;aith, and let the&s;e <HI>al&s;o</HI> fir&s;t be proved, <HI>al&s;o,</HI> that is, as well as tho&s;e that de&s;ire the office of a Bi&s;hop: they mu&s;t fir&s;t be Examined touching their aptne&s;&s;e and ability to Teach; &s;o mu&s;t the Deacons al&s;o about their holding of the My&s;tery of Faith in a pure con&s;cience. Now this Charge of Examination lyes upon the faithfull men, the Presbyters that are able to teach others, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 2. and the power of laying on of hands, or of ordination is in the Presbytery. We find this order of men, but we finde no other in the&s;e Epi&s;tles that have any charge over the Hou&s;e of God, the Church of the living God: Now tho&s;e overthrow the&s;e Canons, and defile the Hou&s;e of God, that take Ordination away, that take it out of the hands of the Presbytery, and put it into the hands of the People, or any other, that take away this Presbytery, that &s;et up Mini&s;ters, or run into the Mini&s;tery, and will not &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the tryall of the A&s;&s;embly, and e&s;tate of the Teaching-Elders the Mini&s;ters, that are oppo&s;ite to the Government by the Presbytery; the&s;e are the everters of the Lords owne Canons.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="25" REF="17"> 2. Subverting the <HI>Lords owne Ordinance</HI> for the Mini&s;tery, that tho&s;e that Preach the Go&s;pell &s;hould live of the Go&s;pell, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9. 13, 14. they would have them get their livings by the Plow, or by Trades. The Apo&s;tle charg|eth <HI>Timothy,</HI> and in him all Timothies, all Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell <HI>to give them&s;elves wholly</HI> to Reading, to Exhortation, to Doctrine, that their profi|ting may appeare to all; and to contemne in them (who can doe &s;o, and drive a trade, and follow another calling) the Apo&s;tles called to be <HI>Fi&s;hers of m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n;</HI> left their Nets, and applyed not them&s;elves to catch F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h. If the Mini&s;ters be <HI>doing this,</HI> (they need take care of no more, nay this is that deed to which the Promi&s;e is) <HI>He &s;hall both &s;ave him&s;elfe, and them that heare him,</HI> 1 Tim. 4. 13, 15, 16. They Object, the Apo&s;tles did worke with their hands. <HI>Sol.</HI> 1. They had immediate and infallible a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Holy Gho&s;t in their Mini&s;tery, 1. So have none now. 2. But that is not all, they wrought not ordinarily, but in a ca&s;e, as it appeares in the 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 9 12. to cut off occa&s;ion from them which de&s;ired occa&s;ion, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 13, 14. and in that place where he &s;aith, I robbed other Churches to doe you &s;ervice; that is, he took maintenance of others while he Preached to them: what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ver he did, it is evident he had power to have lived wholly of the Go&s;pell, and that is the Lords Ordinance, which the Church mu&s;t &s;tand to, and be bound by, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9. 14, 15. they would have the Mini&s;ters maintenance by Almes, and Contributions, <HI>Mat.</HI> 10. 10. <HI>Luk.</HI> 10. 7. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5. 18. but it is <HI>hire,</HI> not Almes: can you make Wages and Almes to be the &s;ame? It is a due, and as truely earned as what&s;oever any laborer gets at his fingers ends. They cry down Tythes as Popi&s;h and Iewi&s;h: but that way of main|tenance is neither Popi&s;h nor Iewi&s;h, which was before the Law. <HI>Melchi&s;e|dech</HI> took Tythes of <HI>Abraham,</HI> and of <HI>Levi</HI> in <HI>Abrahams</HI> loynes, and <HI>Mel|chi&s;edech</HI> was not a Prie&s;t of <HI>Aarons</HI> Order; our Lord Je&s;us is the Prie&s;t af|ter <HI>Melchi&s;edechs</HI> order. <HI>Iacob</HI> promi&s;ed maintenance of Gods Publique Wor&s;hip, by paying Tythes.</P>
<P N="3">3. Confounding <HI>the Lords order,</HI> who hath in&s;tituted a Mini&s;tery to Preach the Go&s;pell, <HI>Mark</HI> 16. and to teach, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28. 19, 20, 21. and they give power to every Member to Preach, abu&s;ing that Text in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. 31. yee may all Prophe&s;ie one by one; it &s;peakes of the Prophets in that Church, not the Members, read the Text, <HI>v.</HI> 29. let the Prophets &s;peak two or three, and let the other judge, <HI>v.</HI> 32. and the Spirits of the Prophets are &s;ubject to the Prophets: yee may all Prophe&s;ie, that is, all the Members that were Prophet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, not all the members as members; tho&s;e that had the gift of Prophe&s;ying, not tho&s;e that had not the gift: Now the truth of the place is, there were then in the Church extraordinary gifts, as of Healing, of Mira|cles, of Tongues, of interpretation of Tongues; and &s;o of Prophe&s;ying, that
<PB N="26" REF="18"> is, either fore-telling things to come, or of unfolding the Prophe&s;ie of Scrip|ture that concerned the pre&s;ent times of the Church, with a &s;peciall gift of dextrous application, and accommodation of the Expo&s;ition of the Prophe|&s;ie to the e&s;tate of the Church for comfort, for exhortation, and for edifica|tion; tho&s;e that had the&s;e gifts ought to u&s;e them for the good of the Church, but with order, and with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the tryall and judgement of the A&s;|&s;embly of the Prophets in the Church. The&s;e gifts are cea&s;ed now, yet if any &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y they have them, l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t them &s;hew their gift, according to the Apo&s;tles Rule, yeeld to the tryall of the &s;ame; and if they have any &s;uch gift, we will ble&s;&s;e God that now al&s;o gives &s;uch gifts to the children of men; we will open our Pulpits for you, but becau&s;e they can bring forth no &s;uch thing, but rai&s;e from the Dead, and from Hell old Here&s;ies, and errours, and trouble the people with trifles, and endle&s;&s;e Di&s;putes, that tend not to edifi|cation in the Faith; we reject them, and yeeld not to them any Authority to meddle with the worke of the Mini&s;tery: but ob&s;erve, while they per|vert this Text, peru&s;ing the words, <HI>let the other</HI> Prophets <HI>judge, the Spirits of the Prophets are &s;ubject to the Prophets,</HI> ere ever we are aware, we are faln upon a Judicatory, a Presbytery, an A&s;&s;embly of Prophets.</P>
<P N="4">4. D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;troying <HI>the provi&s;ion for an able Ministery,</HI> deba&s;ing Learning and Univer&s;ities; under the Old Te&s;tament there were the Schooles of the Pro|phets, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 2. 3. 7. which &s;ome think took their beginning in the times of <HI>Eli,</HI> and <HI>Samuel.</HI> The Levites had their Schooles, in&s;tituted by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> pre&s;erved by the Iudges and Kings, continued in the Babyloni&s;h Captivity, propagated to the daies of our Saviour, and an end put to them by the de&s;truction of Jeru&s;alem by the Romans. Out of the&s;e Schooles came their learned Rabbies, and their Scribes, and others; 1. <HI>Paul</HI> was brought up at the feete of <HI>Gamaliel.</HI> Chri&s;t had his Schoole, in which were the Apo&s;tles, and &s;eventy two Di&s;ciples. The Apo&s;tles oppo&s;ed the Schooles of the Liber|tines, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, <HI>Act.</HI> 6. 9. they in&s;tituted Schooles in Antioch, and Alexandria, and other Provinces. The&s;e opinionative per&s;ons &s;ay, that the Apo&s;tles were unlearned Fi&s;her-men. We an&s;wer, that part of that power from on high, which the Apo&s;tles were commanded to expect, and to tarry at Ieru&s;alem till they were indued with it, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24. 49. was the gift of the Holy Gho&s;t inabling them to &s;peak all Languages, <HI>Act.</HI> 2. this &s;upplied abundantly from heaven that defect of learning, and did make them learned above all that can be attained in Schooles and Univer&s;ities; they had their Commi&s;&s;ion before to go and teach all Nations; but were not to &s;et out upon the execution of their Commi&s;&s;ion untill they were fitted in this manner: he that can &s;hew the like gift of the holy Gho&s;t, we &s;ay no Schools are required for the help of &s;uch; but if from Heaven the Holy
<PB N="27" REF="18"> Gho&s;t be not thus given, let them u&s;e the ordinary helpes which God af|fordeth; if any refu&s;e, &s;hew &s;uch gifts and we &s;hall ble&s;&s;e God. The Langua|ges, the Greek and Hebrew are needed to under&s;tand the originall t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">x<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and derive our Doctrine from the fre&s;h and pure fountaines; the Latine is al&s;o needfull, that we may not only the better receive the benefit of the gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts given to the Fathers, and Writers of former ages (for all gifts are given of God to profit the Church withall) but al&s;o be acquain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed with the Liberall Arts and Sciences: that the Ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s are needfull in a Mini&s;ter is cleare; hereby the Mini&s;ter ought to be able to convince and confute errours, and to main|taine the truth by di&s;putation, as well as to teach it, and to comfort, exhort, and rebuke, he is to &s;top the mouthes of Hereticks and Deceivers; this he cannot doe without the helpe of the Arts, e&s;pecially of Logick, whereby he di&s;cernes the fallacies of &s;educers, and can open the truth out of the Scrip|tures, which are delivered in a rationall di&s;cour&s;e. Who have been the fa|mous In&s;truments of God, to confute all the Hereticks of old? Who have cut the &s;inewes of <HI>Harding, Stapl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ton, Bellarmine,</HI> and other Popi&s;h Wri|ters? not any other &s;ave men famous for Learning. Did you ever heare of &s;uch &s;ervice done for the Church of God by any of the illiterate Anabap|ti&s;ts and Sectaries, though they have boa&s;ted of the Spirit? yet I &s;ay not that Learning gives Mini&s;teriall gifts, much le&s;&s;e Grace; but without Learning the Mini&s;tery would be but lame in many re&s;pects: therefore the enemies of a learned Mini&s;tery are the friends of Popery, and all Here&s;ies, of ignorance and blindne&s;&s;e, and the enemies of the truth and Go&s;pell, of the light and comfort of the Church of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="5">5. Novices, newly converted ones at the be&s;t taking upon them to Preach, and permitted &s;o to doe; this is to defile Gods Hou&s;e by prophaning the Mini&s;tery. Holy <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, <HI>not a novice,</HI> 1 Tim. 3. 6. <HI>le&s;t, puffed up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the Devill;</HI> the&s;e five waies our Novel|li&s;ts &s;trike the pillar of the Mini&s;tery: thus of a fifth &s;ort of Temple-defilers.</P>
<P N="6">6. I proceed to others, which though they might be ca&s;t, many of them, under the head of Schi&s;me, yet becau&s;e they are now late-&s;prung, and trou|ble the Church of God, I &s;hall let them beare a di&s;tinct numeration, as &s;o many &s;everall orders of Defilers, though not di&s;tinct &s;orts and kinds; there|fore, <HI>&s;ixthly,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>that keep out of the Church</HI> any of the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, tho&s;e that keep Gods Hou&s;hold-&s;tuffe in any part of it out of his Temple, as tho&s;e that deny <HI>Paedo-Bapti&s;me,</HI> or the Baptizing of the Infants of tho&s;e that profe&s;&s;e the faith of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t; the Scripture for Baptizing of &s;uch Infants (be&s;ide many others urged by many) is that in <HI>Acts</HI> 2. 39. <HI>For the Promi&s;e is unto you, and to your children:</HI> from the&s;e words with the former ari&s;eth this Argument; <HI>To whom&s;oever the Promi&s;e belongs, to them</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="19"> <HI>Bapti&s;me doth belong;</HI> the truth of this is in the rea&s;oning of the Apo&s;tle, who requires them to receive Bapti&s;me upon their Repentance profe&s;&s;ed, becau&s;e the Promi&s;e is to them; this ground is Apo&s;tolicall and Divine. But <HI>to the children of Profe&s;&s;ors of the Faith doth the Promi&s;e belong;</HI> this is the very &s;en&s;e of the words of the 39. ver&s;e, therefore <HI>to the children of the Profe&s;&s;ors of the Faith doth Bapti&s;me belong:</HI> tho&s;e that deny the&s;e infants Bapti&s;me call them common, whom God calls <HI>holy,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7. 14.</P>
<P N="7">7. Tho&s;e that keepe out the members of Chri&s;t, not admitting Saints, every way as gracious as them&s;elves, unto the fellow&s;hip of the Church, unle&s;&s;e they will yeeld to their Church-way; not admitting Profe&s;&s;ors of the true Religion, that have knowledge, are not &s;candalous, are not refracto|ry to any the Holy Ordinances of Chri&s;ts Wor&s;hip, becau&s;e they &s;ee not in them truth of Grace, or that which may &s;avour to the &s;en&s;e of Chri&s;tians, that the worke of Grace in the New-birth is truely begun in them &s;o farre as man can conceive. Where is the Rule given for <HI>this vi&s;ible grace,</HI> as they call it, by which rule the non-admitted may &s;ee that he is ju&s;tly proceeded with|all, according to the Word of God, that &s;o, though he have no Grace, yet all that will u&s;e their rea&s;on may &s;ee by vertue of &s;uch cleare Texts of the Word, their power is rightly u&s;ed for his non-admi&s;&s;ion, that the u&s;e of it may be to edification, not to de&s;truction? 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13. 10. for which end all Church-power is given of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="8">8. They that <HI>Di&s;-church</HI> the true Churches of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, becau&s;e they are faulty in Di&s;cipline, or in Government, and chiefly to di&s;church them when they thir&s;t after, pray for, u&s;e all meanes God affords them for Refor|mation.</P>
<P N="9">9. Tho&s;e that would introduce into a Chri&s;tian Church and State <HI>a Tole|ration of all &s;orts of Religions,</HI> or all &s;orts of Opinions in Religion, under the name of <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience;</HI> The&s;e Scriptures are fully again&s;t it. The Angel of the Church of <HI>Ephe&s;us</HI> is commended by our Lord Je&s;us for his patience, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2. 2. <GAP DESC="foreign"> and that he could not <HI>bear</HI> them which were evill, and tried tho&s;e that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aid they were Apo&s;tles, and were no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and found them lyars. It is condemned in the Angel of the Church of <HI>Thyati|ra,</HI> that he <HI>&s;uffered,</HI> or <HI>tolerated</HI> that woman <HI>Iezebell</HI> to teach &amp;c. And Chri&s;t &s;aith to the Angel of the Church in <HI>Pergamos,</HI> I have a few things again&s;t <HI>thee;</HI> becau&s;e thou ha&s;t there, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2. 12. 14, 15, 16. them that hold the Doctrine of <HI>Balaam,</HI> and the Doctrine of the <HI>Nicolaitans.</HI> He is not charged with &s;o great a fault as a toleration; but <HI>there</HI> they were, and <HI>there</HI> he &s;hould not let them be: his connivence, or invigilancy, or remi&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e in not executing his power, mu&s;t be repented of; or el&s;e, Chri&s;t will fight a|gain&s;t him: from that place in <HI>Ieremiah,</HI> chap. 32. 39. this Argument is full
<PB N="29" REF="19"> of power. What&s;oever God hath promi&s;ed, and is a branch of the Covenant of Grace with his people, to be made good chiefly in the time of the New Te&s;tament, all Chri&s;tians ought to &s;eek and a&s;pire after. To give his people one heart, and one way, in his fear, for the good of them and their Chil|dren, God hath promi&s;ed, and it is &s;uch a branch of his Covenant; therefore this all chri&s;tians ought to &s;eek and breath after. To &s;eek after a toleration of divers wayes in Religion, is not to &s;eek after one heart and one way in godly fear; and &s;o not to &s;eek after that branch of Promi&s;e and Covenant made to Gods people, and to be made good, chiefly in the times of the New Te&s;tament: therefore to &s;eek after a toleration of divers wayes in Religi|on, is that which ought not to be in any Chri&s;tian. Adde to this, that in Phil. 1. To &s;tand fa&s;t in one &s;pirit with one minde &s;triving together for the faith of the Go&s;pel, is the conver&s;ation becoming the Go&s;pel, e&s;pecially in times of terrible Adver&s;aries: and to &s;tand thus united, unterrified, is an e|vident token of the Adver&s;aries perdition, and of our &s;alvation: And that of God, <HI>Phil.</HI> 1. 27, 28. to fall into Divi&s;ions, and plead for tolerations of Opi|nions of divers mindedne&s;&s;e in one faith, is not to &s;tand fa&s;t in one &s;pirit with o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e minde, &s;triving together for that one faith of the Go&s;pel, and it is not to &s;tand thus united, unterrified; therefore to fall into Divi&s;ions, and plead for tolerations of opinions of divers mindedne&s;&s;e in faith, is not the conver&s;ation becoming the Go&s;pel, e&s;pecially in times of terrible Adver&s;a|ries, and is not an evident token of the Adver&s;aries perdition, and of our &s;al|vation; and that of God. What is it then? It is an evident token of the Adver&s;aries prevalency, and of our &s;uccumbency under the pre&s;ent judge|ment as yet: And of the further wrath of the Almighty, and that from a ju&s;t God. I have heard of &s;ome that &s;ay, this is that which can never be, that all Chri&s;tians &s;hould be of one heart and way; let &s;uch believe in him that is faithfull, and hath promi&s;ed, and not di&s;honour and weary God by unbelief. God hath heretofore made good this Article of his Covenant. In the fir&s;t primitive Chri&s;tian Church, they were all, the <HI>multitude of them that believed, of one heart,</HI> and of <HI>one &s;oul, Act.</HI> 4. 32. <HI>they continued &s;tedfa&s;tly</HI> in this holy unity, <HI>Act.</HI> 2. 42. 44. 46. There were two glorious fruits and con|comitants hereof: <HI>Fear came upon every &s;oul, Act,</HI> 2. 43. <HI>and great grace was upon them all, Act.</HI> 4. 33. Now the &s;ame God that hath thus powred out his owne holy, and one &s;pirit, the &s;pirit of unity by the Preaching of the Go&s;pel, can do the &s;ame again. His Covenant is the &s;ame. The great God delights to do great things; the fruits would be alike excellent, nothing more full of Grace and amiablene&s;&s;e, or of terrour and dread. Hence al&s;o a|ri&s;eth a &s;trong Argument, that no Chri&s;tian &s;hould plead for toleration, for all ought to &s;eek for Gods Church in the Reformation of it; the utmo&s;t
<PB N="30" REF="20"> conformity to the fir&s;t pure&s;t Primitive Church of Chri&s;t, when &s;he was as a heap of Whea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;et about with L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llies. True liberty of Con&s;cience lieth in &s;weet communion in the unity of faith, and in the perfect bond of love; the &s;ouls of beli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vers knit together, and cleaving one to another, as <HI>Ionathans</HI> did to <HI>David,</HI> unanimo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ly &s;ubject to Gods Law; all other Liberty is the Liberty of lu&s;t.</P>
<P N="10">10. There are al&s;o that will not joyn in Prayer with any other, though th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y be Chri&s;tians, unle&s;&s;e they know them to be godly, and that they be of their judgement and way: they refu&s;e to pray with us, no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> only in our pub|lique Congregations, but in our private or occa&s;ionall meetings. The Lords P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ayer directs us to Pray, <HI>Our Father: Our,</HI> re&s;pects the whole com|munity of Profe&s;&s;ors of Chri&s;ts name, and not any Segregated part: It taketh in all that call on the name of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. What &s;pirit are they of, that can deny to pray with tho&s;e that &s;ay, <HI>Za.</HI> 8. 21. Come, let us go &amp; &s;eek the Lord, &amp; pray before him? Not of the &s;pirit of one that is a Iew inwardly; Holy <HI>Paul</HI> among Sea men and Mariners, who are none of the be&s;t; among &s;oul|diers, pri&s;oners for &s;everall &s;orts of wicked deeds, Heathens of &s;everall Nations and Religions, prayed as the mouth of them all, or with them all, be&s;eeching them all to take meat: he took bread, and &s;olemnly prayed, as the Text &s;aith, <HI>He gave thanks to God in the pre&s;ence of them all,</HI> Act. 27. 35. Chri&s;t hath broken down the partition Wall, and now none are to be called <HI>common, Act.</HI> 10. 11, 12, 14, 15. or <HI>unclean:</HI> The Go&s;pel is to be preached to every creature, to all Nations, therefore prayer is to be made with every creature, with all Nations; to whom we may preach, with them we may pray and ought: yea, prayer to God is not only an <HI>in&s;tituted</HI> wor&s;hip, but natu|rall, or <HI>of the Law of Nature.</HI> The&s;e Doctrines of divi&s;ion rent and tear the Church of Chri&s;t, and this now mentioned is a pricking Bryar, and grieving Thorne.</P>
<P N="11">11. Like to the&s;e al&s;o are tho&s;e that make up Churches of tho&s;e of their own opinion, and &s;eparate from others that do hold the unity of Faith, and the Rule of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: But who can &s;eparate from tho&s;e that are of the &s;ame Faith, and not break fellow&s;hip with the Lord Ie&s;us?</P>
<P>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fferences in opinions &s;hould not di&s;&s;under us in affections, much le&s;&s;e make divi&s;ions &s;eparate us into Church-wayes again&s;t C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urch-wayes; the &s;ame Faith, and the &s;ame Commandments for holine&s;&s;e &s;hould be more po|werfull to cement us in one Church, then difference in opinions through pe|tulancy to put every opinion into practice; note, this &s;hould be of force to loo&s;e us in the building, or lay us in a frame, who&s;e cemen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and morter, who&s;e mould and fa&s;hion is from a con&s;piring in an opinion: the&s;e con&s;piracies in
<PB N="31" REF="20"> opinion joyned with &s;eparation from other Churches that hold the faith of Ie&s;us and the Commandments of God, are no right gathering of Churches; they are Conventions, &s;infull, and Schi&s;maticall, and unlawfull, carnall, and proud &s;eparations; they that hold one Faith ought in lowline&s;&s;e of minde and forbearance of one another, in love to indeavour to keep the unity of the &s;pirit in the bond of peace, <HI>Eph.</HI> 4. 2, 3.</P>
<P N="12">12. In like manner, it is a violating of Gods Temple to &s;eparate, becau&s;e &s;ome wicked livers are not ca&s;t out of the Church, the place abu&s;ed is that in 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 14&punc; 15, 17. To &s;eparate, to come out from among them, is not to &s;epa|rate or come out from the Church and Temple of God, but from Idols, from Belial, from Infidels, from Darkne&s;&s;e, from Unrighteou&s;n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e; that they from whom we ought to &s;eparate, are Idolaters, Infidels, Belia|li&s;ts, Heathens, of whom it is &s;aid, ye were once Darkne&s;&s;e, Unrighteous ones, and they are not the Church and Temple of God: to &s;eparate in the Apo&s;tles &s;en&s;e, is, <HI>not to touch the unclean thing;</HI> that is, to have no commu|nion with them in their Idolatry, in their unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of any kinde; but other communion with them is not condemned, and if he will come to the Ordinances of wor&s;hip of the true God with the Church, we may and ought to admit him to Communion with us in all Ordinances that are for conver&s;ion, and this is not to touch the unclean thing; I dolatry and unrigh|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e is the unclean thing, which we may not touch; but the man is not the unclean thing, the &s;eparation commanded and the coming out from them is not to be <HI>un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">qually yoked together with them;</HI> the Greek is elegant, lively, &s;ignificant, <GAP DESC="foreign">, it is a Simile taken from the Plough, where the Teeme that drawes the &s;ame plough is by yokes and paires of Draught-cattell, Oxen or hor&s;es, or the like, which are yoked in the &s;ame yoke, and &s;o do draw each his part of the &s;ame Plough: to be yoked together is to draw one part in the &s;ame Draught; which is in the &s;en&s;e of the Apo&s;tle to be joy|ned in the &s;ame communion, and coun&s;ell of the wicked, in which they draw the Plough of their wickedne&s;&s;e; be the wickedne&s;&s;e, Idolatry, unrighte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, drunkenne&s;&s;e or any other to have Communion with an Ido|later in his Idolatrous wor&s;hip, coun&s;ell to uphold that wor&s;hip, or &s;uch leagues of neare&s;t conjunction voluntarily cho&s;en and run into, which may be a temptation to entice one to Idolatry; this is to be unequally yoked with the Idolater: It is to have fellow&s;hip with them<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hoc non e&s;t con&s;entire mal&egrave; facientibus, e&s;&s;e cum eis in eccle&s;ia, &s;ed mala facta co|rum approbare atque laudare.</HI> Aug. Tom. 7. Contra. Epi&s;t. Parmen. l. 1. c. 3.</NOTE> in the unfruitfull works of darkne&s;&s;e, that the Apo&s;tle di&s;&s;wadeth us from, and not from the fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t in his fruitfull Ordinances, and with his people in duties of publique wor&s;hip of the true God, becau&s;e an ince&s;tuous brother is there pre&s;ent, and
<PB N="32" REF="21"> through none of thy approbation of his wickedne&s;&s;e, or of his pre&s;ence, but through neglect of the Church, and tho&s;e officers in whom the power, and execution of the power lyeth for excommunication of &s;uch &s;candalous bre|thren, is &s;uffered to be there. La&s;tly, he truly in the Apo&s;tles &s;en&s;e doth &s;eparate from the unclean thing, that clean&s;eth him&s;elf from all filthine&s;&s;e of fle&s;h and &s;pirit, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7. 1. That is, purifying from all his &s;ins inward and outward, and not he that to avoid communion with the world, &s;huts him|&s;elf up in a Mona&s;tery, lives an Hermite in a wilderne&s;&s;e; nor he that to avoid Communion with Swearers, and Drunkards, for&s;aketh the A&s;&s;emblies of Orthodox Chri&s;tians: u&s;ing Chri&s;ts own Ordi|nances of the Word and Sacraments, to hold fellow&s;hip with Swearers and Drunkards in their Swearing, and Drunkenne&s;&s;e, and drunken meetings, is to go to plough with them, and to tumble with them in the filth; but to hold the fellow&s;hip of the Go&s;pel, if the&s;e come to the &s;ame a&s;&s;emblies with us, and &s;it there as Gods people, is to hold Communi|on with Chri&s;t, and they have fellow&s;hip with us outwardly in Chri&s;ts Plough and yoak; we have none with them, but with Chri&s;t and his Saints, and with them in the Profe&s;&s;ion and duty of Saints.</P>
<P N="13">13. But now the &s;ame Text doth condemne, as Temple-Defilers, tho&s;e that are unequally yoked together with unbelievers in Idolatrous wor&s;hip, and Idolatrous fea&s;ts, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 17. that have communion with them in the Idol-&s;ervice: What fellow&s;hip hath the Temple of God with Idols? Tho&s;e that &s;eparate not from &s;uch, that is, from the a&s;&s;emblies of Idolaters, they partake of the table of Devils, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 21. and cannot partake of the Lords Table. Tho&s;e that &s;eparate not from the Popi&s;h a&s;&s;emblies, and that &s;eparate not from their fal&s;e Catholick Church, do al&s;o touch the un|clean thing, and &s;in again&s;t the Apo&s;tles command for &s;eparation. We mu&s;t &s;eparate from them that hold not Chri&s;t, in all things, wherein they hold not Chri&s;t, and no farther.</P>
<P N="14">14. It is a &s;ore pollution of the hou&s;e of God, to &s;et up mens Commande|ments and inventions for Doctrine, <HI>Matth.</HI> 15. 9. <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 18. 20, 21, 22. The&s;e be the births of mens fle&s;hly mindes, which are begotten and quick|ned by a &s;pirit of Whoredomes: The&s;e are heathens brought into Gods ho|ly Temple.</P>
<P N="15">15. The prophanation, pollution, or contempt of Gods Ordinances, Di&s;cipline, or Government, is the defiling and wa&s;ting of Gods Temple; hitherto you may referre the prophanations of the Lords Supper in divi|ded Communions, and in comming without examination and &s;elfe-judg|ing, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.</P>
<P N="16">16. Ranke with the&s;e &s;uch as di&s;grace the publique and &s;olemn A&s;&s;emb|lies,
<PB N="33" REF="21"> either troubling them by barbarous confu&s;ion, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. 26. <HI>Every one hath a P&s;alm, an interpretation, a Doctrine, a Revelation.</HI> Our new di&s;turbers boa&s;t of a fal&s; gift in the&s;e particulars; though they have not, yet they will have an Interpretation, a P&s;alm, a Doctrine, a revelation: they cannot have the face yet to &s;ay, a <HI>Tongue;</HI> and if they may not have liberty to &s;peak in the publick A&s;|&s;emblies, having no &s;uch gift, they will deny their pre&s;ence to the Publick, &amp; fling di&s;honour upon them all they can: or el&s;e de&s;pi&s;ing the Church, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 22. or place of the Publick a&s;&s;emblies: like unto the&s;e are &s;uch al&s;o as puldown Churches, and &s;et up their Chamber-meetings. <HI>David</HI> complaineth, <HI>they have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the Land,</HI> P&s;al. 74. 8. It was the <HI>Cen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uri|ons</HI> Luk. 7. 4, 5. high commendations to our Lord Ie&s;us, <HI>he is worthy, for he lo|veth our Nation, and hath built us a Synagogue.</HI> Such al&s;o as deny the mainte|nance, <HI>Neh.</HI> 13. 10, 11. of the publick Mini&s;tery, &s;olemn wor&s;hip, and places for publick wor&s;hip: &s;uch as devour things Holy, and Con&s;ecrated, or convert them to private u&s;es. Abhorre&s;t thou Idols, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 22. and yet committe&s;t thou &s;acriledge? Why &s;hould any <HI>Tobiah</HI> live in the chambers of the Tem|ple, <HI>Neh.</HI> 13. 5. and eate up the Tythes, all which belonged to Gods in|&s;tituted Mini&s;tery?</P>
<P>There yet remaine foure notorious Temple-Defilers, that make Gods hou&s;e their prey, it &s;hall &s;uffice to name them.</P>
<P N="17">17. Per&s;ecutors, Tyrants, and oppre&s;&s;ours of Gods Heritage; of whom we have that mournfull complaint, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79. 1, 2, 3. O God! the Heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy holy Temple have they defiled: they have laid Ieru&s;alem on heapes: the dead bodies of thy &s;ervants have they given to be meat unto the Fowles of the Heaven, the fle&s;h of thy Saints unto the bea&s;ts of the earth: their bloud have they &s;hed like water round about Ie|ru&s;alem, and there was none to bury them. This is exemplified in the Anti|chri&s;tian rage of Papi&s;ts, and other our enemies at this day in the&s;e three Kingdomes, e&s;pecially in Ireland.</P>
<P N="18">18. Hinderers of Reformation, and of the Reformers God rai&s;eth up; the&s;e like <HI>Iannes</HI> and <HI>Iambres</HI> with&s;tand our <HI>Mo&s;e&s;&s;es,</HI> I meane <HI>all the Stick|lers for any errour,</HI> and the <HI>re&s;isters</HI> of that ble&s;&s;ed worke of the Nationall Covenant, whereby the&s;e three Kingdomes may become one according to Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. Shall Hell, that now opens her mouth wide, &s;hall Satan, that can make u&s;e of a <HI>Peter,</HI> and make him a Satan, <HI>Mat.</HI> 16. 23. &s;hall heights or depthes, of white or black Devills, &s;wallow up that Covenant, or dead that Covenant-care, which cannot but make Rome and its Conclave to &s;hake? why is not our Covenant pro&s;ecuted?</P>
<P N="19">19. Sen&s;uall Separati&s;ts, <HI>Iude</HI> 19. that walke after their lu&s;ts; Mockers, that jugling with the Scriptures broach bruiti&s;h-damnable Tenets, &s;uch as
<PB N="34" REF="22"> that, that the &s;oule dyeth with the body, whereas it <HI>goeth to God that gave it,</HI> and is either as <HI>Dives's</HI> was, pre&s;ently &s;ent to Hell, and is there in torments; or el&s;e, as <HI>Lazarus's</HI> in <HI>Abrahams</HI> bo&s;ome, as <HI>Pauls</HI> with Chri&s;t, as the beleeving Thiefes in Paradice, as all beleevers <HI>pre&s;ent with the Lord,</HI> clothed upon with their hou&s;e from Heaven, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of an hou&s;e not made with hands, eternall in the Heavens, 2 <HI>Corinthians</HI> 5. 1, 3, 6, 8, Scoffers, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 3, 4, 12. that by their impo&s;tures would illude the Do|ctrine of the la&s;t Iudgement, and &s;ay, where is the Promi&s;e of his coming? and take off from the hearts of the unwary and un&s;table, <HI>the terrour of the Lord,</HI> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 11. and the looking for, and ha&s;tning unto the coming of the day of God. Di&s;ea&s;ed fancifull minds that have itching eares, and will not endure &s;ound Doctrine, but heape teachers to them&s;elves, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 3, 4.</P>
<P N="20">20. The Machiavilian Politicians in a Chri&s;tian State, many degrees out|going old famous <HI>Achitophel,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16. 21, 23. the Seditious, that love to make divi&s;ions, and &s;ow di&s;cords, and plant an inveterate <HI>odium</HI> in the hearts of King, and Prince, and people, again&s;t all the godly and faith|full in the Land, with all evill Coun&s;ellors again&s;t the Lord, <HI>Nah.</HI> 1. 11. <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 3. 2. and flattering bloody Edomiti&s;h Doegs, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 52.</P>
<P>Beloved, what a griefe is it to think that by the ennumeration of particu|lars, not this Doctrine alone &s;hould be &s;o clearely and fully demon&s;trated by twenty &s;everall &s;orts of off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndors, that there are many Temple-defilers with|in the Temple of God, but al&s;o that in our Engli&s;h Church and Temple, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch Temple-vermine &s;hould &s;warme at this day? wherefore to de&s;cend to &s;ome &s;hort application.</P>
<P N="1">1. Prayer becomes us with complaints to God, that dwells in his Temple; Prayer, that he would looke downe from Heaven and behold, that he would not make us to erre from his waies, and harden our hearts from his feare, but returne for his &s;ervants &s;ake: that he would rent the Heavens and come down with demon&s;trations of zeal, &s;trength, and &s;ounding of bowels, with terrible unexpected workes of wonder, with Go&s;pell-ble&s;&s;ing, that he would not be wroth very &s;ore, nor hold his peace at the&s;e things, nor afflict us very &s;ore. Pray, O remember not again&s;t us former iniquities, let thy mercies &s;peedily prevent us, for we are brought very low. Prayer, with fa&s;ting, and deepe humiliations become all that love Gods hou&s;e in the&s;e our daies, untill God rai&s;e up &s;ome <HI>Nehemiahs</HI> that they may clean&s;e, <HI>Neh.</HI> 13. 8. Gods Temple.</P>
<P N="2">2. We &s;hould not be &s;candalized hereby, but remember that in the great hou&s;e of Gods Church there are Ve&s;&s;els of &s;everall &s;orts, and rather be purging our &s;elves from the&s;e, then for&s;aking and de&s;erting the true Church of God: if a man purge him&s;elfe from the&s;e, he &s;hall be a ve&s;&s;ell unto ho|nour,
<PB N="35" REF="22"> 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 17. 20, 21. &s;anctified and meet for the Ma&s;ters u&s;e, and Pre|pared unto every good worke.</P>
<P N="3">3. And then the zeale of Gods hou&s;e &s;hould eate us up; though there be many things in the&s;e troublous times that befall us, or may feare us, and di|&s;tre&s;&s;e us from without, yet the care of all the Churches &s;hould &s;omewhat come 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 28, 29. upon us, e&s;pecially upon Chri&s;ts faithfull and pain|full Mini&s;ters; whatever befalls the Churches we &s;hould lay it to heart as if it befell our &s;elves: the fire of con&s;uming zeale for Chri&s;ts honour, the Go&s;|pells purity, the Churches &s;afety &s;hould melt and fa&s;hion us to that of ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Paul, who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. La&s;tly, attending to our owne growth in Faith, Prayer, love and hope, we &s;hould have compa&s;&s;ion of &s;ome, making a difference, <HI>Jude</HI> 21. 22, 23. and others &s;ave with feare, pulling them out of the fire: hating even the Garments &s;potted by the fle&s;h: not hating the men, but hating the filthy af|fections and lu&s;ts, which pollute the man, and come from the fle&s;h, mans na|ture corrupted, hating them fir&s;t in our &s;elves, all envie, and vye in Religion, vaine-glory, &s;elf-&s;eeking, &s;elf-love, pride &s;pirituall, &s;trife, emulation, vari|ance, &s;elf-plea&s;ing in our gifts and parts, and di&s;-union of heart, &amp;c. for who can number all? but wi&s;edome, love, and &s;incerity will by the&s;e direct enough. Thus of the &s;econd Doctrine.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="doctrine">
<P>The third Doctrine is this; that God will certainly puni&s;h all defilers, and violaters of his Temple with puni&s;hments proportionable to their &s;in: they are not all of a &s;ort, nor all alike guilty: and God that will doe no man wrong, that he &s;hould have the lea&s;t ground of entring an action again&s;t him, the righteous God will deale out his puni&s;hments accordingly.</P>
<P>What puni&s;hments, you will &s;ay, or how doth he puni&s;h the&s;e &s;inners?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="An&s;."> Their workes &s;hall peri&s;h, though them&s;elves may be &s;aved, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 13. 15. yet &s;o as by fire, the fire of the Word and Spirit in the day of the Go&s;pell, in the powerfull opening and application of the bright and burning truthes thereof: &s;uch a day as this, when now you are before the Lord, hearing this Text Preached upon: this fire &s;hall the&s;e defilers pa&s;&s;e through, and their errours, and their ill worke they have made in Gods building, their wood, hay, and &s;tubble burne to a&s;hes, and their per|&s;ons humbled and purified be &s;aved; the Lord grant it, you need no other Purgatory, you will thinke this hot enough; and this or none will doe the deed. The Pontificians would faine finde their Purgatory-dreame in this Scripture, and they &s;hall finde their Purgatory to purifie or con&s;ume them, not the Purgatory they &s;eeke, but the Purgatory God hath prepared for &s;uch Temple-wa&s;ters, and Temple-defilers, &s;uch foule bea&s;ts; this is the breath of Chri&s;ts lips, this is the brightne&s;&s;e of his coming, which &s;hall con|&s;ume
<PB N="36" REF="23"> and de&s;troy that man of &s;in: they are in Purgatory, and the fire now burnes hot upon them, and &s;o it will upon all the re&s;t of the Temple-polluters afore-named. Doe you not &s;ee the Angels of God, many of the Seraphims, <HI>E&s;a</HI> 6. 6, 7. with live-coales in their hands, taken with the Tongs from off the Altar, and laying them upon the mouthes of many faithfull able Mini&s;ters, many an <HI>E&s;ay?</HI></P>
<P N="2"><MILESTONE N="2"> They &s;hall faile of their ends, their folly &s;hall be manife&s;t to all, 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 9. that is, all the Elect; but evill men, and &s;educers will waxe wor&s;e and wor&s;e, deceiving, and being deceived; they &s;hall not yet deceive the Elect. You'le &s;ay, many of the choice&s;t Chri&s;tians cleave to them, and many of them are the precious &s;ervants of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, we cannot be otherwi&s;e per&s;waded: for them, I &s;aid but even now, they may be &s;aved, but their workes &s;hall peri&s;h, them&s;elves &s;hall be &s;aved, yet &s;o as by fire: and for the re&s;t, marke it, that was their ayme to get the choice Chri&s;tians, tho&s;e who&s;e hearts are for Chri&s;t and Heaven, their de&s;igne is mo&s;tly upon any in whom any worke of Grace appeares. So have all deceivers ever, that they might glory in their fle&s;h, as our Apo&s;tle according to the wi&s;dome given unto him hath written, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 13. but they &s;hall not compa&s;&s;e their end, they'le returne, perceiving the &s;trangers voice; the&s;e gracious &s;oules thought it had been Chri&s;ts voyce which they heard in the&s;e men, in the&s;e their errours: but finding at length their mi&s;take, and under the &s;heeps-skin of gifts and graces perhaps, &s;hew of Scripture, manife&s;tation of the Spirit, finding the bloody wolfe of errour and fal&s;hood, that &s;oul-murtherer, they will embrace the truth, and follow Chri&s;t: perhaps hearing this you will for a while be froward (for who can be willing to think he is in an errour, or is deceived?) but Chri&s;t, and his Father hold you in their hand, and you cannot wre&s;t your &s;elves thence. Another end they have, they would be great, and of &s;ame in the Church of God: but their folly &s;hall be manife&s;t to all, not only to the Elect, but to all that will not deny the light of their rea&s;on, and doe hold the Scripture in the Word of God, and &s;o &s;hall fall in their e&s;teem in mens hearts within the Vi&s;ible Church: our Saviour hath &s;aid it, they &s;hall be lea&s;t in the Kingdome of Heaven, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. 19. of no e&s;teem in the Church of Chri&s;t, although for a while they beare the bell. See the t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uth of it in all the Hereticks, Schi&s;maticks, Novelli&s;ts, Per&s;ecuters, and the like of all for|mer ages; they have no name of memoriall left, but a rot is upon their memory. Another end they have, and that is to &s;pread and propagate their Opinions and waies, that they might with the Phari&s;ees and Herodians of old, <HI>leaven all the lump of Gods people;</HI> but their folly &s;hall be manife&s;t, and that manife&s;tation of their folly&punc; &s;hall &s;et them their bounds, <HI>they &s;hall pro|ceed no further,</HI> Thus have all the ancient Here&s;ies, and Schi&s;mes of the Pe|lagians,
<PB N="37" REF="23"> Donati&s;ts, and the like been bounded, and the infection &s;tayed: &s;o God defiles Church-defilers, they faile of their ends.</P>
<P N="3"><MILESTONE N="3"> There are for them from God apportioned Plagues in this world, they make rents, and trouble Gods building, the repairing of his hou&s;e; God will trouble them, the&s;e <HI>Achans:</HI> God will &s;catter them in <HI>Iacob,</HI> and di&s;per&s;e them in <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> They break, and teach the breaches and violations of Gods Commandements the lea&s;t of his Commandements, that of his day, they &s;hall be e&s;teemed nothing in the Church, be lea&s;t in the Kingdome of Hea|ven. Scandalous Brethren &s;hall have their Mil&s;tone, workers of iniquity &s;trange puni&s;hments; Here&s;ies and divi&s;ions &s;warm, God hath his Ea&s;t wind whereby he can &s;weep away tho&s;e Locu&s;ts, and ca&s;t them into the Red Sea. Per&s;ecutors have their doom notably in this life, be&s;ides hereafter. Re|member <HI>Antiochus,</HI> of whom you reade in the &s;econd of <HI>Maccab.</HI> 9. chap. Remember <HI>Herod</HI> eaten up with wormes, <HI>Act.</HI> 12. 23. Remember the He|retique <HI>Arrius,</HI> that voided his bowels with his ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rements in a common Iakes; and all other Heretiques and Schi&s;matiques, and the Plagues upon Papi&s;ts, mentioned in <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. and 18. chapters.</P>
<P N="4"><MILESTONE N="4"> It is not the lea&s;t of puni&s;hments to give them over to their &s;everall pernicious wayes, that he that is filthy, &s;hould be filthy &s;till; the &s;piritually proud, &s;hould be &s;o &s;till: where God &s;aith, they are joyned to Idols, Let them alone: They are Vain-glorious, Let them alone: They are given to errours and to make divi&s;ions: Let them alone: Thus you &s;ee how God will de&s;troy the de&s;troyers of his hou&s;e.</P>
<P>The certainty of this ju&s;t proceeding of the Lord, appears in four things, which are as &s;o many rea&s;ons or grounds of this Doctrine.</P>
<P N="1">1. It is the vengeance of his Temple, <HI>Jer.</HI> 51. 11. <HI>&amp;</HI> 50. 28, which is a &s;ore vengeance; in the execution whereof, the Lord Pleadeth the cau&s;e of Zion throughly, to give re&s;t to his Church, and di&s;quiet his enemies, who&s;e &s;pirit can &s;u&s;tain it &s;elf in the day of Vi&s;itation, when the Lord &s;hall &s;ay, <HI>Behold, I am again&s;t thee?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly, the Argument is &s;trong here from the le&s;&s;e to the greater; God hath &s;aid, and will not repent of his word, concerning Death and the Grave: O Death, I will be thy Plague, O Grave I will be thy de&s;truction, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 13. 14. Becau&s;e they offered to touch the bodies of his Saints, which are his Temple, and de&s;troyed his holy place. Shall God &s;ay thus of Death and the Grave, and re&s;olve that Repentance &s;hall be hid from his eyes? In this thing he will never alter his purpo&s;e that he determined. And &s;hall he not much more be the plagues and de&s;truction of &s;oul-polluters, of d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;troy|ers of his Church, of rophaners of the Communion of his Saints and people.</P>
<P>Thirdly, the Temple of God is holy and inviolable, therefore the &s;in of
<PB N="38" REF="24"> Prophaning and wa&s;ting of it, is provoking and execrable,</P>
<P>Fourthly, God is a jealous God, and the vindicator and avenger of his glory: &ldquo;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Zelo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es et vindex gloriae &s;uae.</HI></NOTE> no gifts will pacifie jealou&s;ie: no power can &s;helter and &s;ave from the jealou&s;ie of the Lord of Ho&s;ts. It is he, the mighty one of Jacob, the holy one of I&s;rael, that &s;aith, <HI>Zach.</HI> 8. 2. I am jealous for Zion with great jealou&s;ie: and I am jea|lous for her with great fury.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="application">
<P>I have done with the explication and confirmation of the third Doctrine: the application re&s;pecting the pre&s;ent Doctrine, and the whole Text, I &s;hall draw up under two &s;orts of u&s;es:</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Of Information.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Of Exhortation.</HI></ITEM>
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<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="application">
<P N="1">1. We may from hence inform our Iudgements in four truths.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, what is the Chri&s;tian u&s;e of the Ceremoniall Law: the practice of it is out of date, and deadly; but it is not cut out of the Bible:<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Non ob&s;ervamus, non quia damnata &s;ed quia mutata &s;unt, non ut res ip&s;ae quae &s;ignificabantur perirent, &s;ed ut <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ign<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uis&punc; quaque temporibus convenirent.</HI> Tom. 6. Aug. oratio|ne cont. Iud. c. 3.</NOTE> God hath left it as part of Ca|nonicall Scripture, that we may reade it, preach and hear it, that comparing the things them&s;elves with tho&s;e &s;hadows, we may with plea&s;ing delight imbrace the body of tho&s;e &s;hadows: here are al&s;o Emblems, Similitudes, and expre&s;&s;ions of Gods own devi&s;ing, out of Gods own mint, which with &s;afety and profit, we may and ought to u&s;e. This fancifull age may here plea&s;e their fancy, and yet re|tain and grow more in the &s;oundne&s;&s;e of faith and love which is in Chri&s;t Ie&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P>Secondly, that there is the &s;ame God in both Te&s;taments, the &s;ame Chri&s;t,<NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Evacuatur in Chri&s;to, non vetus Te&s;tamentum, &s;ed volamen ejus, ut per Chri&s;tum intelligatur, &amp; quia &s;idenu|d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">tur, quod &s;ine Chri&s;to ob&s;curum, &amp; quia adopertum est, non igitur per Do|mini gratiam tanquam inutilia ibi le|gerentur, ablata &s;unt, &s;ed tegmen po|tius quo utilia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">gebantur.</HI> Aug. Tom 6. ad Honor: Contra. Mani|chaeos <HI>de</HI> util. Credendi. 63.</NOTE> the &s;ame Covenant, though there be different wayes of Mini&s;tery, and degrees of manife&s;tation and clarity; that place in <HI>Heb.</HI> 8. 8. 10. taken out of <HI>Jer.</HI> 31. 31, 32, 33. which &s;peaketh of a new &amp; old Covenant, is thus to be under&s;tood; not of two Covenants differing in &s;ub&s;tance; not of the two Covenants, the Covenant of workes, and the Covenant of Grace; but of one and the &s;ame Covenant of Grace di&s;tingui&s;hed in their different manner of Admini&s;tration; the one in Cere|monies, Types, &s;hadows, to &s;ignifie and lead to Chri&s;t that was to come; the other in the &s;ub&s;tance of &s;pirituall things them&s;elves, the body, the truth, ex|hibiting Chri&s;t now already come: this place is much abu&s;ed through in|advertency. Here al&s;o we &s;ee that a proof out of the old Te&s;tament is as
<PB N="39" REF="24"> much Go&s;pel if rightly applied, as any in the New-Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>Thirdly, that the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel ought to preach Gods wrath to evill Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>Fourthly, that they ought to preach wrath not only to tho&s;e Chri&s;tians of evil life and manners, but al&s;o to tho&s;e of evil Doctrine, of errors in Re|ligion, of Pride, di&s;&s;en&s;ions, and faults in that kinde; where they are not yet fallen to notorious Hereticall Doctrine, the&s;e are threatned in this Text by the Apo&s;tle.</P>
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<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="application">
<P N="2">2. We &s;hould be exhorted and per&s;waded to our duty, even tho&s;e duties which are to be pre&s;&s;ed unto, that we may e&s;cape this &s;in and puni&s;hment, they re&s;pect our &s;elves and others.</P>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="sub-subsection">
<P N="1">1. For our &s;elves, let us &s;ee how far in any kinde we are guilty, and be humbled for the &s;ame in confe&s;&s;ions and godly &s;orrow; and then do as <HI>Paul,</HI> who preached the Faith which once he de&s;troyed, <HI>Gal.</HI> 1.. 23, 24. Build up the Temple, which once we de&s;troyed, that all the gracious that &s;ee or hear of it may glorifie God in us.</P>
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<P N="2">2. For others, the&s;e duties lie charged upon us to e&s;cape pollution and de&s;truction.</P>
<P N="1">1. We mu&s;t try the &s;pirits, the Doctrine of tho&s;e Teachers, that &s;ay they teach by the &s;pirit; they bring the doctrine of Gods &s;pirit, not of their own &s;pirit, we mu&s;t not receive what they &s;ay, upon tru&s;t, but try it, 1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 4. 1.</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t marke tho&s;e that cau&s;e divi&s;ions and offences contra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y to the doctrine received, and avoid them, <HI>Rom.</HI> 16. 17. <HI>Ob.</HI> They &s;eek to &s;et up the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. <HI>Sol.</HI> v. 18. They &s;erve their own bellies, ob&s;erve them well, and you will finde it; again, they &s;eek to draw away di&s;ciples after them, and not to bring men to be di&s;ciples to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 20. 30. <HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But may we not hear them in their &s;eparated meetings? <HI>An&s;.</HI> That is not to avoid them, you are by the command of the Apo&s;tle to avoid and decline them, but by this you incourage them, and feed their proud humour, who glory in having their meetings frequented.</P>
<P N="3">3. We mu&s;t place all in their due place, Mini&s;ters in their place, fathers let them be fathers; and evil workers and dogs in their due place; that is, <HI>with|out, Rev.</HI> 22. 15. Let no man corrupt your mindes from the Go&s;pel, and its Simplicity.</P>
<P N="4">4. We mu&s;t hold the unity of Faith and love, that we may with one minde and mouth glorifie God, <HI>The Father of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Rom. 15. 5. 6. 7. If we have bitter &s;trifes and envyings (the never failing fruits of erroneous opinions and divi&s;ions) let us not glory that we are true Chri|&s;tians, and lie again&s;t the truth, as we do in &s;aying &s;o; to per&s;i&s;t in &s;uch evils proveth that we are no true Chri&s;tians, <HI>Iam.</HI> 3. 14, 15, 16, 17.</P>
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<P><NOTE N="&ldquo;" PLACE="marg">Paraeus in Loc. Quid gravius ho|die eccle&s;iam affligit, cur&s;um evan|gelij magis remoratur, quam Schi&s;ma|ticae doctorum contentioues? Viderint i&s;ti quid &s;e mancat: nos di&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mus tem|plum D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i reveren ter &amp; in pace exor|nare Doctrin&acirc;, fide, vit&acirc; pur&acirc;. Vt enim &s;ui templi va&s;tatores, tyrannos, Haereticos, Schi&s;maticos deus de&s;truat; Ita fideles, Architectos, cultores, &amp; defen&s;ores gratia, &amp; benedictione cumulabit, juxta promi&s;&s;ionem: Ego me diligentes diligo: Honorantes me honorabo.</NOTE> What is there in the world that doth more heavily afflict the Church at this day, that doth more retard the cour&s;e of the Go&s;pel than the Schi&s;maticall contentions of Teachers? Let the&s;e men &s;ee what abides them: as for us, let us learne with fear and trembling and in all peaceablene&s;&s;e to adorne the Temple of God with &s;ound doctrine, the power of Faith and the purity of an holy life: For as the Lord will de&s;troy the de&s;troyers of his Temple, Ty|rants, Heretiques, Schi&s;matiques and the re&s;t of the Litter of all the Foxes, the little Foxes, So he will Crown with his Grace and ble&s;&s;ing all Ma&s;ters, builders, Repairers, Beautifiers, faithfull Labourers and Defen|ders thereof according to his Promi&s;e: <HI>Tho&s;e that love me I ever love, and tho&s;e that honour me I will honour.</HI></P>
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