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A50298	The rending church-member regularly call'd back to Christ and to his church, or, A sober answer to certain questions of a company of discontented and covenant-deserting brethren in which are laid down clear grounds of solid conviction ... / by Marmaduke Matthews ...	Matthews, Marmaduke, 1606-1683?	1659 (1659)	Wing M1325; ESTC R32419	20,458	55

writting of Church-Letters who hath no name in Christs church-Church-Book of life which is the honour of holy ones Isa 4.3 He that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem And Rev. 22.19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophesie God shall take his part out of the Book of life and out of the holy City and out from the things that are written in this Book 10. The tenth and last is that which knocks loudly at the gates of godly hearts to be weekly contributing and openly bringing their Tribute royal rent and spiritual Subsides to the Lord of their soil and souls on the Lords day as they are directed to do who would be deemed free Members of a reformed Church in the Scriptures of truth Deut. 16.10 16 And thou shalt keep the Feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a Tribute of a free will-offering of thy hand which thou shalt give to the Lord thy God according as he hath blessed thee And verse 16. They shall not appear before the Lord empty Also 1 Cor. 16.1 2. Let every one upon the first day of the week lay by him in store as God hath prospered him And vers the 1 As I have given order to the Churches of Gallatia so do you Is not Jesus Christ the King of the blessed Gentiles as well as of the believing Jews And is not he as worthy of Subsidy as of Sovereignty Or are those persons likely to present him with voluntary contribution that do not list themselves among his skirmishing and contending Souldiers or sworn Subjects in his visible Camp and Kingdom As 't is prov'd that none but such believing Christians as come under the bond of the Covenant amongst Church Members are in an uncondemnable posture or as yet in a capacity to observe and keep either every one or any one of those ten aforementioned remarkeable Gospel Precepts so 't is as plain that all those Persons which are not compleatly come to that promotion together with such Professors of godlinesse as do not firmly continue and persevere in that place cannot warrantably without presumption make use of as to apply to themselves any one of ten mercifull and memorable Gospel Promises although there case and condition should never so much require or their souls desire the same They are these 1. The Promise of a Place among excelling Saints 2. Of pardon of sin under Seal 3. A princely prizing of Christians as Christians 4. Prosperity of Spirit 5 Freedom from fear 6. A New Name 7 Childrens good education 8. Spiritual Joy 9. Outward goods 10 and lastly A Promise of a true title to Divine Teachers and reformed Pastors The first whereof is the Promise of a place amongst Saints that excell in vertue such as Christ doth professe his delight is in as 't is shewn in that golden prophetick Psalm Psal 16.3 concerning which happinesse he hath past his Royal Word in both his Testaments namely in Isaiah 56.3 c. Let not the son of the stranger that hath joyned himself to the Lord say The Lord hath separated me from his people nor let the Eunuch say I am a dry tree For thus saith the Lord to the Eunuches that keep my Sabboths and chuse the things that please me and take hold on my Covenant even unto them will I give in mine House and within my walls a Place c. Is the preferring to such a place such a Priviledge and appertaining to such contrite-hearted persons as do so take hold on Christ who is the summe and substance as w●ll as the Surety of the Covenant of Grace as that they both make and keep Cov●n●●● with God among his holy and Houshold Servants then tell me I pray what evil else or lesse then downright exclusion or direfull keeping out and staying off from coming to Christs Church-Camp can be the expectation of carelesse wretches and unclean waiters among Church-neighbours according to that awkening and wounding Commination Rev. 21.27 There shall not enter into it i. e. the reformed Church any thing that defileth nor any thing that worketh abomination or maketh a lye And what save disconsolate excommunication from Communion and continuance in Christs spiritual Kingdom will be the Portion of unconstant and unconscionable walkers therein If Christs own mouth may be credited which doth manifest as much Mat 8.11 c. Many shall come from the East and West and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven Is' t no grief to non-comers to any Church of Christ that they have no place there Or is' t no disgrace to non-continuers in Church-communion that the red Dragon and rending Devil hath with his fawning tayl or fro●●●●● teeth drawn or drag'd them thence 2. The second is the Promise of pardon under Seal or a feeling assurance of forgivenesse of sins which is sweetly spoken of in several Scriptures as Isaiah 33.20 24. Look upon Zion the City of our Solemnities their eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation and the Inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquities Of which special favour Christ himself speaks very fully Mat. 26.26 c. And as they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it c. And he took the cup and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the New-Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Is such an unfeigned assurance ordinarily found in any souls save only in such as have a name or a nail in Christs spiritual House whereof his loyal and visibly holy Houshold Servants are the lively stones Would you O my friends have Christ to give you a full and free forgivenesse of all your former sinnes while you sinfully and wilfully withhold or withdraw your personal presence from the Lords soul-feasting Supper Can ye possibly receive Christs sealed pardon and withall keep your selves out of the reach of Christs sealing appointments Can you procure under his hand a non-obstante or toleration for your absence from his House and non-appearance at his door posts Farre be it from you to confound the Ordinances of the Lord with the Lord of Ordinances and to say That the creating-Ruler and his created Rules are not to be distinguished but are the same I do beseech you for his sake whose your souls are let that be the frantick conception if they will needs have and hold it only of those deplorable Objects of pitty I mean the * These creatures when they came first swarming from the North were called Quakers CONFOUNDERS and of such unreasonable fellows as have no Faith or are worse then Infidels in forsaking the Faith which they professe to have God forbid that you should be any of that sort or sect that dare apply the sacred Institution of