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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85035	A triple reconciler stating the controversies whether ministers have an exclusive power of communicants from the Sacrament. Any persons unordained may lawfully preach. The Lords prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2472; Thomason E1441_2; ESTC R202064	51,442	150

such a height as to make it a sacrament The Church of England under Episcopacie retained it so far as an ancient and usefull custom appropriating the exercise thereof to Bishops alone The present discipline hath utterly abolished both Bishop and the use of Confirmation However something analogical thereunto may and must be continued The Primitive Christians being wise in the appointing though after-ages were superstitious in the abusing thereof and the more confirmation is neglected the more ought a serious examination of youth in this kind be continued and practised In a word there is a way to examin people committed to the care of the Ministers which may be done without any dangerous noyse and without the least suspition of pragmaticalness and yet to the great glorie of God quiet of the Minister and edification of the Church This examining consisteth not in summoning people before them and sounding them with Question and Answer but in the solid and faithfull preaching the sincere Word of God which carrieth a secret searching power along therein Heb. 4. 12. For the word of God is quick and powerfull and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Thus by prophecying that is by preaching of Gods Word 1. Cor. 14. 23. If there come in one that believeth not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth I say let us take off for a time from the other and more practice this examination as least subject to exception Trie it but for a time and you shall see what success it will find and fright unworthy persons from the Sacrament with a more awfull reverence than your actual secluding them for not submitting themselves to re-examination To conclude I may compare the first high acting of Presbyterians to men running in a race It is impossible for a Racer to stop just at the mark he must either over-run it or else can never come at it But when past the mark necessarily transported with his own fierceness beyond the same he will return to it again to shew that that place and no further was the intended end of his endeavours Whilest you contested with Episcopacie your Corrival and were seven years since in the height and heat of your contention therewith much may be pleaded for your passion if it transported you in some actions beyond the just standard and proportion of your judgements But seeing now it hath pleased God that you have run your Adversarie quite out of distance and have attained that you strove for it will be no shame nay it will be your honor to abate and remit of your former eagerness and coolly and calmly to return to the place which you over-shot in the Paroxcism of that contest This is the humble advise and desire of him who hath no private ends therein but the advancement of Gods glorie and the good of his Church Amen Dum Spiro Spero THE SECOND RECONCILER ACTS 13. 15. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and Brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on THis Chapter presents us with four principal remarkables The solemn separation of Paul and Barnabas for the Ministerie five pious persons are mentioned vers. 2. all in humane likelihood equally probable for the employment Barnabas Simeon Lucius Mahanaem and Saul of these God leaves the three middlemost takes the first and the last even so Father because it pleaseth thee Then have we the three first adventures of Barnabas and Saul in there Ministerie whereof the first proved prosperous the second with the Jews at Antioch had sad success the third with the Gentiles in the same place came off with comfort We Ministers must not be elated with good success but fear the worst nor dejected with bad but hope the better In their first adventure they confounded Elimas the Sorcerer and Saul converted Sergius Paulus the wise Deputie of Cyprus By the Laws of Herauldry whosoever fairly in the Field conquered his Adversary may justifie the wearing and bearing of his Arms whom he overcame Here Saul had conquered Sergius Paulus overcome his ignorance vanquished his infidelitie no wonder then if he assumeth his name and henceforward is called Paul in all the historie his next voyage ends sadly and sorrowfully with Blasphemie and Persecution from the Jews at Antioch though it began Comically and courteously with this fair invitation in my Text and after the reading of the Law and the Prophets c. The words contain a principal part of the Jewish Liturgie or if that displease their Directorie wherein their solemn Sabbath-service is plainly presented unto us I confess there is no mentiō of prayer an essential part of Gods worship among them my house shall be called the house of prayer which is omitted in the Text not as if it were omitted by the Jews but because St. Luke hasteneth with all convenient speed to the Doctrinal part as leading the nearest way to the matter in hand Some persons account this verse their Master-piece hoping hence by their cunning Chymistrie to extract a Licence general for all men to preach though the words well understood are so far from their building any advantage thereon that they batter down both their opinions and practice We will first clear the same from the incumbrances of all difficulties and then extract natural and profitable observations from them Law and the Prophets Law taken largely conteineth all the Prophets Prophets taken largely comprise all the Law 2. Pet. 1. 20. No Prophesie of Scripture is of private interpretation Yea Moses the Prophet Paramount was the penner of the Law Deut. 34. 10. And there arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face But when the Law and the Prophets are distinguished so as to devide the old Testament betwixt them as Luke 16. 20. they have Moses and the Prophets then by Law is meant the Pentateuch or five books of Moses by Prophets all the rest of the old Testament not onely such parts as foretel what was to come but also which historically relate what was past The Rabbins tell us that the five books of Moses were divided into fiftie three Perasoth or Divisions each whereof conteined one hundred thirtie six verses and one of them was read every Sabbath-day beginning at the first Sabbath after the feast of Tabernacles if any say there being but fiftie two Sabbaths in the year what did they with the odd Perasoth or Division I can give no certain account save that it is probable they doubled their office the last Sabbath hemming it as