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A75847	Gospel publique worship: or, The translation, metaphrase, analysis, and exposition of Rom. 12. from v.1. to 8. Describing, and prescribing, the compleat pattern of gospel-worship. Also, an exposition of the 18th. chapter of Matthew. To which is added A discovery of Adam's three-fold estate in paradise, viz. moral, legal, and evangelical. / By Thomas Brewer.	Brewer, Thomas, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing A4429; Thomason E1654_1; ESTC R208992	154,122	337

or principally in the work to be done according to the divers abilities of the gifted Secondly Church Ministry is expresly divided into five particulars by the disjunctive and proper distinctive conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the latter is in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which cannot be translated she that pittyeth because both the article the substantive are the Masculine Gender Nor he that pittyeth because the work is receivedly proper to the Church-widow and so it should be false English and therefore must they be translated the pittyer or shewer of mercy denotating a known Church-office and not only properly or principally a working gifted mercifull and pittying Officer or Member that is so to do more than any other of the Church whether Officer or Member more and more plain and exact proofs of what kinde you wil I think cannot be shewn in any place of Scripture for any point of instituted worship so that we must admit it or dismiss the second Commandment with the Papists professedly or with other hierarchicall or prophane and carnall worshippers so much as we can and dare † Mediate * Near. ¶ Apportioning ordering and confining the Offices to the Powers and the Powers to the Offices i. e. the Functions of the Offices not considered as abilities and that either as existing inherent or acting in the Members prerequisites to the Church-Offices or Actions or causes of the benefit of the Church but only as the portions of faith measured out by God to every Officer v. 3. the bounding proportions of faith v. 6. the distinct and not one work or function of the many members v. 4. and the appropriated paralelled charged adaequated and proper designations of and to every Office v. 7 8. for those five expressed contain in and under them and intend all the passive and exequatable Ordinances of the Church either as such viz. the Sacraments which as signes are teaching and as conveyers and seals perswade and unite us and the thing exhorted and sealed to And the censures and orderings of the Church-actions are parts of ruling or else as concurring to their being viz. the collections for the poor unto distribution in which respect teaching as a power or act subordnate may be used by the Exhorter without breach of Christs order in the distinctness mentioned it coming here under the respect and nature of exhortation it being upon right understanding of that nature and reason intended to that end but I know no other Functions that can be brought under the Exhorters for excommunication that he may administer the Sacraments only to worthy persons cometh not unto this case First because he administereth to the Church in whose power is Excommunication and to persons not as such but as Members of the Church and so it cometh not within his Office to judge of their particular unworthiness much less upon that judgement to excommunicate them Secondly because his personall discomfort toucheth not his ministeriall Function they being of clean different natures and considerations Thirdly Excommunication is an Institution and so not to be by the Light of nature found much less ordered as an essential or subordinate unto any thing without authority from the Word expresly or under an expressed Reason which is equivolent but teaching is a Naturall subordidinate to Exhortation and so used in our case which also is a fourth Argument though v. 7. it be made also the instituted Function of the Teacher but that in our and the like case it is otherwise is evident both by the Scriptures and the Precepts and practise of Naturalists boasting and self-p●●ising is a sin and folly resting in that nature and end and more forbidden than teaching is the Exhorter in the case of giving matter to the Corinthians to rejoyce of him and answer the false Apostles he Paul doth it and yet denyeth that he doth it 2 Cor. 5.12 because he doth it as a necessary and proper subordinate to that end and on the contrary eating meat otherwise lawfully was a sin to the Heathen being done in way of worship of Idolls and that not only the idolatrous intent but even the eating it self was sinfull is evident 1 Cor. 10.21 because it was a sin for the Corinthians to eat that meat in their feasts though without that intent for that intent having made that eating a true subordinate to their worship it was now the same Communion with Devils with the Corinthians The Precepts of Logicians are plentifull in this case both of their Prince Aristot 2. Phys And of their soundest accutest and most methodicall and judicious Pillars Zeb a rel lib. de Constit Scaliger de subtilitate Exercit 307. Cap. 26. Keckerman sustem Log. Lib. 2 Cap. The practise hereof is most current in all civill Courts and courses in the world In England tryalls of right to Lands Goods are peculiar to the common Pleas and of personall actions to the Kings Bench yet by way of tryall of Actions Titles of Lands and Goods may be and are lawfully daily tryed and so may Actions in the Common Pleas and both in the Chancery under the respects peculiar to each court The truce between the Low-Countreys and Spain was n●ver supposed to be broken by their warring together in Cleveland hurts to any possession of the City of Amsterdam are to be tryed punished by the Burgemasters yet by way of tryall of any persons right thereto they may be desided by the Court of Skepins A Woman is forbidden to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14. yet in the case of confession of Faith she may teach all the Principles of Religion in the Congregation and as a witness speak and ask therein for it is the right Reason Respects and Order of Actions which is their soul and life and not their acts that make them lawfull and on the contrary unlawful and so our answerable knowledg and intention of them that maketh them so to us but the simple acts are meer matter and so passive and so neither under the state of good nor bad for Murder Adulterie Robbery c. are not evill because of their actions of killing a man lying with a woman taking goods from a man c. but because they are either not Gods subordinate means to out intended ends of revenge pleasure profit c. or else because as such means they are not committed to us nor permitted as might be cleared if present occasion required only let me not be mistaken to compare teaching with the act of killing and generating in the originall estate of things for then were they simply unlawfull but not teaching neither speak I here of teaching as a ministerial Function for so it is simply unlawfull to any but the Teacher or the end of Exposition Analysis Metaphrase and Extraction of Doctrines but as an ability and action duly subordinate and necessarily prerequisite to Exhortation without which it cannot he and so may by the Exhorter be used as a Passenger may eat

be active in the active priviledges and seals and to receive actual assurance thereof themselves The third is of Males of age and discretion enrighted thereby both to the nourishing and trading Church-priviledges and also to the Church-power of voting whereby their voices are to be accepted The fourth is of Prophets or membral or integral Teachers enrighted to use and exercise their personall abilitie of Speaking to Edification Exhortation and Comfort in the exercise of Prophesie to edifie the Church These are the integral parts of the Church The first of the Organicall is the Teacher whose Ministeriall Office is Ministerially to teach inform prove disprove and administer the Teaching Seals for knowledge The second is the Exhorter whose instituted office is to exhort dehort comfort reprove and terrifie by the preaching the Word and administration of the Sacraments as Seals thereof unto the Sanctification of the Church The third is the Ruler whose office is to order Church-actions and other Church-estates and offices in their execution and pronounce the Church-sentences of Admission Excommunication Ordination Deprivation for good behaviour The fourth is the Distributer Deacon or Helper whose Office is to receive and distribute the alms of the Church to provide Meeting-places Bread Wine and Water with their fit Vessels for the Sacraments for provision The fift is the shewer of mercy Mercier 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Widow or Woman-Deacon whose office is to keep the Sick and supply their naturall wants in Food Physick Warmth and other helps for their preservation The first three of these Offices are called by one common name of Bishops Act. 20.28 because their Office is set to oversee take care and charge of the Church in all Spirituall means of knowledge grace and honest behaviour for the benefit of the Church thereby Secondly they are Feeders Shepherds or Pastours Act. 20.28 for their duty to feed nourish and physick the Church by all means of information reformation and preservation spirituall for its benefit thereby They thirdly are also called Elders Presbyters or Ancients Act. 20.17 for their duty to be grave staid discreet and to be examples to the younger sort and by their experience and habit of knowledge vertue and gravity to benefit the Church The other two are also joyntly called Deacons and Helpers for their office of service to the Church and help to the other three offices in the mentioned particulars that nothing be wanting to the Church and its overseeing offices These are the nine sorts of Church-members Portions Proportions Gifts and Graces Rom. 12.3 to 6. enrighted there by to receive the benefits of Christ and do his speciall works allotted to his Church for his speciall worship and their good The first four as children women men Prophets have by their Church-membership an addition to their Personal Saintship of publike right to the duty and benefits of Divine Worship the second Commandement and the second Petition for their grace and exercise The last five as Church-officers have a farther priviledge and duty by their instituted offices to purchase a good degree in the Faith and to be promoted to an higher work and so to expect a greater blessing here and hereafter These are the particulars of the reall parts of Divine Worship c. and their subsequents the immediate previal thereof is the power of the Church sanctified by the Word of the Apostles of the Christ of God to enright those estates in those works for those ends The immediate previal cause of the first four is the actuated Covenant of the Saints to be a Church whereby they are made members thereof and therewith enrighted to receive and do their distinct works unto those benefits But of the last five it is the Church-power electing and ordaining them into those Offices enrighting them to those administrations for the Churches and their own edification exhortation and comfort and for Gods Worship Therein are two doubts whether Election or Ordination be the proper and predominant informing cause 1. But Church-Election is the procreating act in the Spirituall Nature of things 2. Giving the Office and Right 3. To administer 4. To God and the Church For Ordination is onely a Ministerial and no immediate and proper church-Church-action but one Minister hath no power sanctified by God to procreate another as under the Law but is onely as the Midwife to help in the birth of that office c. Secondly Church-election according to the express pattern of the Church its Power Offices and their choice and working set Rom. 12.1 to 8. createth giveth right charge unto the Officers elected to work for the Church but Ordination is onely a necessited act appointed by the body to manifest and compleat its choise by some ceremoniall act instituted to that end without any reall or arbitrary Power in the Ordainer c. The second doubt is Whether the consent of the chosen be essentially requisite but it is onely by conveniency and for the bene esse the efficient Power being in the Church to chuse its Officers c. but not to contract The superiour and remote previals and precedent Causes efficient material formal and intentionall are many but the chief are mentioned already The Uses are first in the generall of all the parts to observe their concordance in one Root even the Church from which they receive their Being Life and Power The four first by their admission The five last by their Election to do and receive good Then their agreement with each other in thei fraternity and portions Children having the same Church-membership with the other 8 women the same right with the last 7 to the Word Sacraments and Prayer Men the right to Church-power with the last 6 and Prophets so true a right to speak in the Church to the edification exhortation and comfort thereof as the three sorts of Bishops Pastours and Elders though not with the like measure charge authority and blessing Likewise the Teacher hath charge and authority over all both integral and ministerial members in matters of knowledge proof disproof and motives to knowledge The Exhorter over all in matters of Exhortation Comfort and their Opposites The Ruler in matters of order and government Also the Distributer hath charge to serve all Church-members in matters of provision and help in Church-services and the Widow in matters of preservation Secondly observe their speciall distinctness according to their diversity of gifts graces and proportions commanded Rom. 12.3 6 7 8. to every one of the Church in particular 1. The Under-aged to rest in their being estated in the Church and their passive priviledges of Baptisme and measure of the Word Prayer and Order and not to usurp above their giftedness with natural activeness 2. The Women not to meddle with any kind of authority order or power their inferiority of Sex dis-inabling them therein by a naturall disproportion thereto 3. Adulti and of active discretion not enabled to speak as Prophets must according to