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A78118 Certain queries, propounded to the churches of Christ; and all that fear God, and love the appearing of King Jesus Barber, Edward, d. 1674? 1650 (1650) Wing B692A; ESTC R230844 19,314 16

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some Prophet and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers And whether as the false church is rejected and the true erected the false Ministerie be not to be forsaken and the true received and consequently false Baptisme renounced and the true assumed According to Ier. 51.6 to the 10. The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse come and let us declare in Zion the Work of the Lord our God And 2 Cor. 6.17 Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you compared with Revelat. 18.4 Come out of her my people pertake not of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues Quere 17. Whether Abraham had not a carnall or temporall covenant made to his carnall seed the Promise being of carnall or temporall things sealed to them with a carnall seal Gen. 17.13 Also a second or new covenant made with him and his Spirituall seed concerning spirituall things even the kingdome of grace and glory Hebrews 8.7 to the 12 whereof the Holy spirit of Promise is the seal And thus as I conceive things are proportionable Two covenants Gal. 4.24 Two seeds verse 23 Ishmael of Abraham and Hagar which typed the carnall seed And Isaac of Abraham and Sarah which typed the Spirituall seed These had likewise two Seales Circumcision Gen. 17.11 and the Holy spirit of promise 2 Corinth 1.22 Ephesians 1.13 1 John 4.13 But now under the Gospell the carnall Commandement together with the subject is done away by the crosse of Christ 2 Coloss 14. Blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nayling it to his crosse And infteed thereof we have a spirituall covenant typed by the carnall Also the Spiritual seal the Holy spirit of Promise signified by the carnall seal likewise a Spirituall Infant a new born Babe in Christ in whom Christ typed by the male is newly formed signified by the carnall Infant These had also two states and conditions promised the naturall seed the Land of Canaan Genesis 17.8 but the Spirituall seed the Kingdome of Heaven Genesis 17.19 Romans 9.7 8. Galatians 3.7 8 9. Romans 2.7 Mark 10.30 And whether the Admission of Children to Baptisme and so into Church-fellowship by anothers faith either Parents or Godfathers and Godmothers as they call them be not contrary to the Scriptures Which cleerly shewes that men are saved by their own faith and not by the faith of others Habakuk 2.4 Romans 1.17 Hebrews 10.38 John 1.12 13. and 3.3.5 2 Cor. 5.16 17. Quere 18. Whether it may not be said of Infants sprinkling as at the mariage of England and Scotland Where every one is charged to examine themselves as they will answer at the day of judgement If they know any cause why they may not lawfully be joyned together then to speak Because such as are joyned together otherwise then Gods Word doth allow are not joyned together by God neither is their Matrimonie lawfull So of Infants Baptisme or Sprinkling it may be said That those that are baptised or rather sprinkled otherwise then Gods Word doth command Matthew 28.19 20 were never baptised into CHRIST Galathians chapter the third verse twenty seven Neither is their Baptisme lawfull Ephesians chapter four verses four and five There is one Body and one Spirit even as yee are called in one hope of your Calling one LORD one Faith one Baptisme Quer. 19. Whether under the Gospel the Church and Civill state bee not two distinct things as bodies or corporations Independant of themselves by Gods divine ordination as is largely shewen by Master Hancoke in the three Kingly Estates Or Light for the Ignorant That is the civill state the true Ecclesiastacall State and the false Eclesiastical state whether the 3 part or civil state which was noted in speech between Mr Selden and Master Grimstone to be but Iure Humane having power from God only over our Estates Liberties lives and that which is externall as is noted by Luther and therefore are called Fathers of our flesh Heb. 12.9 have any authothority from God to settle Religion which is Iure Divino And setled already by the Parliament of Heaven with a curse denounced against all that adde or diminish and therefore not to be altered but by the same authority and Parliament of Heaven by which it was enacted Mat 28.18 19 20. Revel 22.18.19 Qu. 20. Whether it be not a Humane Invention and not Gods Ordinance for one to go up into a pulpit and there speake an houre or more and deliver what he please without questioning by any of the Assembly though never so erronious or judging by them whose due it is or adding if truth or whether these Scriptures prove not the contrary Act. 13.16 17.11 1 Cor 14.31 32. For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learne and all may be comforted and the spirits of the prophets are subiect to the prophets for God is not author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints And Pet. 14.10 As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God And as every member that hath any gift is to administer the same for Gods Glory and the peoples good so the power of determinig is onely in the particular Church where it is done they being the freeest Independent body under heaven whose power resteth in the body not in the Officers Mat. 18.20 and 28.20 Act. 1.21 to the 26. Quer. 21. Whether the servants of Christ are not to preach by vertue of a gift given Ephes 4.8.11 being called thereunto by the Church of which they are members as Acts 13.3 And not by arts learned at the Universitie or Authority gotten from Bishops or any others And whether those priests that hinder beleevers from exercising those gifts or those books from printing which are plainly proved by Scriptures be not a part of the Four angels Revel 7.1 that hold the four winds that they should not blowe upon the earth which causeth separation when men may not deliver truth nor contradict errours the Word of God being as David saith Psal 39.3 Like a fire within the breast of his Disciples they beinig as the Lawvers that take away the key of knowledge and enter not in themselves but hinder those that are entring Luke 1152. Quere 22. Whether it can be properly said that the Ministers of Englang doe convert any to the faith of Christ and obedience of thegospel by their preaching seeing they take it for granted before they sprinkle the Infant that it is regenerate and borne Anew whereas before it was the Childe of wrath but the godfathers having profest repentance and faith and desired baptisme or having one of the parents a beleever as they now say the Minister saith he receivs the childe into the congregation of Christ
are they which Iustifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed before men is abomination in the sight of God And this made the Fathers as they call them say the blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the Church Quere 30. Whether in all Ages since Christ there hath not been a people though few in number and despised who walked neerer in practice to the order of the gospel and institutions of Christ then was the generall profession of the Nation as 1 Kings 18 19. and 19.10 14. and Mat. 7 13 14. Revel 7 and 13.3 and 14.1 to the 6. Quere 31. Whether those Priests or Ministers that are so forward for pulling downe of stone and woodden crosses pictures surplices common prayer book and to stand for the liberty of the Subject yet hold the Ordination received by the anthority from Rome with church state tithes and baptisme or rather Infants sprinkling also prohibiting the libertie of conscience and the very institutions of Christ are not guilty of that who which christ pronouneth to the Scribes Pharisees and hipocrites for that they pay tithe of Mint Annis Commin but omitted the wheightier Matter as the Law Iudgement Mercy and Faith these saith he ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone ye blinde Guides which straine at a Gnat and swallow a Cammell Mat. 23.23 24. Luk. 11.42 Quere 32. Whether under the Gospel there ought to be requiring or paying Tithes any more then Altar-Sacrifice Priests and a High Priest as the Lord commanded Exod. 20.24 and chapter 28. or Whether the Aronicall Priesthood with those Administrations ended not in christ as is cleere in the seventh of the Hebrews or whether under the Law the Priest took any more then the tenth of the increase and that as Stewards out of which they relieved the poore the fatherlesse the strangers and the Widowes as in Deut. 14.29 And how far they that would have tithes now comes short of them in deeds of mercie and performing dutie Quere 33. Whether marriage be not a civill Ordinance belonging to all men Heb. 13.4 And ought to be performed by the civill Majestrate and therefore by all the Disciples of Christ to be brought from that Antichristian practice where they have made it part of their Marchandize to uphold their Kingdome to its proper place of the civill Majestrate it being Gods Ordinance among all as Gen. 2.18 to the 24. Ruth 41. to the 13. Qu. 34. Whether it be not as truly Antichristian and destructive to the rule of the Gospel and the Institutions of Christ to have two Baptismes the one dipping of actuall beleevers the other Sprinkling of Infants As it would be destructive to the Law of the Land And to the common wealth to have two Parliaments or two powers governing at once And whether the power of Christ rests not in the body not in the officers as the power of the civill State according to Mat. 18.18 19 20. Acts 1.21 to the 26. 1 Cor. 5.4.5 Quere 35. Whether the Ministers of Christ after the Apostasie are not to Preach by the same power and Authority and in the same manner as being sent out by the Church of which they are members as Paul and Baruabas Act. 13.2.3 And whether every beleever be not to stand for the Prerogative of Christ and the Liberty of the Church as well as members of a Common Wealth are to stand for the Prerogative of the King Priviledges of Parliament and Libertie of the Subject according to Gal. 5.1 stand fast therfore in the Libertie wherin Christ hath made us free And be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage Quere 36. Whether the Advice Lately given by the 21 Ministers to perswade people from entring into Church-Fellowship and communion for the present were not contrary to the Scripture and the practice of the Saints as Psal 18.43 44. Assoone as they hear of me they shall obey me Psal 110.3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power and Cant. 14. Draw me we will run after thee Quere 37. Whether the Civill Magistrate under the Gospel hath any charge from God over the Soules of the Subjects or whether their authority be not onely in things civill and therefore are called fathers of their flesh Heb. 12.9 Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 2.13 Furthermore we have had Fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits and liue Their soules being onely under Subjection to God in Christ as Mat. 28.18 Where Christ saith all power in heaven and earth is given unto me now where it is alleadged that under the Law the Kings did reforme and set up the worship of God To this I Answer what they did doe they did as Types of Christ or commanded by the Prophets But under the Gospel it is said of Zion the church of Christ that the Kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour unto it Revel 21. verse 24. And therefore as is acknowleded by Luther and others that the Authority of the Magestrate is onely over the body estate and life and that which is externall but over the Soule God will have none to beare rule but himselfe the duty of the Majestrate being to support them as their Subjects in well doing Quere 38. Whether in a Reformation of Religion things are not to be reduced to the Primitive Institutions and not to other Churches Reformations as in Ezra 5.11 Nehemiah 8.1 to the eighth verse And Galatians 1.8 9. and Revelation 11.1 Where the Angel commands to measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that Worship therein And the first of the Corinthians chap. 11. verse 23. the Apostle delivers that to the Church which he had recived of the Lord. Quere 39. Whether it hath not been the practice of the false Prophets under the Law and in the time of the Gospel for their owne ends to side with the times and to be more in number then the true Prophets or Ministers of the Gospel As in Eliahs time 1 Kings 18.22 Where Eliah a Prophet of God alone in appeareance but Baals Prophets four hundred and fiftie likewise in King Henry the eights daves Edward the sixth Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth what turning siding and time-serving As also when the Bishops was in their power what cringing and stooping hiding and running their countries whereas the true ministers of the Gospel were ever the same though never so few in number yet not variable nor changing with times or State Governement although they went through never so great persecutions which was a part of their portion as Mark 10.3 Phil. 1.29 Where the Apostle exhorts the Philippians in no thing to bee terrified by their adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of Salvation and that of God For unto you it is given in the behalfe of