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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64560	An apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it by ... William Lord Bishop of St. Davids.	Thomas, William, 1613-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing T975; ESTC R33829	87,104	244

First The Priests and Teachers were ignorant and unlearned Matth. 23. 16. Secondly They were wicked and ungodly Matth. 23. 3. Thirdly They had a corrupt and unlawful entrance into their Calling yea even the high Priest himself For whereas by Gods Ordinance he was to hold that Office during life their Office was bought and sold and made Annual John 11. 49. Caiphas was high Priest for that year And what were the people surely the most of them in all places were notoriously and obstinately wicked In Nazareth where he had lived most See what they were Luke 4. 28 29. All that were in the synagogue when they heard this doctrine were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him to the edge of an hill to cast him down headlong But were they better in other places He upbraided all the cities where most of his great works were done Wo be to thee Chorazin Wo be to thee Bethsaiada Matth. 11. 20 21. And were the people of Jerusalem any better You shall perceive that by that affection they shewed at the Passion of our Saviour when Pilate a Gentile made such an offer to them Luke 23. 18. All the multitude cryed at once Not him but Barabbas And Matth. 27. 25. When Pilate had washed his hands and protested Christs innocency Then answered all the people and said desperately His blood be on us and our children Thirdly The Worship it self that was used in the Church had many corruptions in it They used many superstitions the observation whereof they urged more strictly than the commandments and Ordinances of God Mark 7. 9. The Temple was prophaned and made a den of thieves Matth. 21. 12 13. The Discipline and Censures of the Church were shamefully abused John 9. 22. The Jews had decreed that if any did confess that Jesus was Christ he should be Excommunicated ipso facto The Doctrine was corrupt in many points as you shall find Matth. 5. 21 46. Some corruptions also were crept into the Administration of the Sacraments for they kept a day after our Saviour who observed the just time appointed by God John 19. 17. The day of his Passion was but the day of the Preparation to the Passover Thus have we seen how corrupt the state of the Church was And yet mark how our Saviour made no separation from it but communicated with it in the Worship of God 1. When he was an Infant he was Circumcised and by that Sacrament incorporated into the Church Luke 2. 21. 2. When his Mother was purified he was brought into the Temple and presented to the Lord and an oblation was given for him as for other children Luke 2. 22. 3. He was content to be a hearer of such Teachers that taught in the Church Luk. 2. 46. 4. He was every Sabbath wont to joyn in Publick Prayer with the Congregation that was at Nazareth Luke 4. 16. 5. He received the Sacrament of Baptism in a Congregation of the people Luke 3. 21. When all the people were baptized he was baptized also 6. He communicated in the Passover with the People and the Priests John 2. 13. 7. He allowed his Disciples to hear these Teachers Matth. 23. 12. Yea he commanded the Leper whom he had cleansed to go and shew himself to the Priest and offer his gift in the Temple Matth. 8. 4. The reasons why all men are bound to count such Assemblies true Churches as enjoy the Word and Doctrine of Salvation and may not separate from them for their corruptions are these 1. So long as God continues his Word and Doctrine of Salvation to a people so long it is evident God dwells among them and hath not forsaken them I will set my tabernacle among you By which he meaneth his solemn Worship whereof this is a principal part Levit. 26. 11 12. Psal. 76. 12. And till God hath forsaken a Church none may forsake it For shall we be holier and hate corruption more than the Lord It is no sufficient warrant for any to separate from a Church because it is guilty of such sins and corruptions as deserve God should forsake it and for which God hath threatned in his Word that he will forsake it till it may appear to us God hath indeed forsaken it and put in execution that which he hath justly threatned against it no man may forsake it Though Adultery either in Man or Wife be a just cause of separation and that the Bond of Wedlock should be broken so as the innocent party may justly forsake the offender yet till a Bill of Divorcement have past between them they still remain Man and Wife notwithstanding that sin The Woman whom her Husband hath wronged in that kind is called his Wife Mal. 2. 15. Esau justly deserved to loose the Prerogative of his Birth-right and Superiority he had over his Brother when he had despised and sold it Gen. 25. 34. And Saul to be deprived of his Kingdom yea God by his Decree and Oracle had said of Esau and Jacob The elder shall serve the younger Gen. 25. 23. and of Saul and David that he had rejected the one and appointed the other to Reign in his stead 1 Sam. 13. 14. and 15. 23 26 28. And yet till the Lord saw it good to put this Decree and Oracle in execution and actually to depose the one from his Birth-right and the other from his Kingdom Jacob acknowledgeth Esau his Superior his Lord Gen. 32. 4 5. and so did David Saul 1 Sam. 24. 7 9. So though a Church for the many corruptions in it be unworthy the name of Christs Church and be also such as the Lord hath threatned to make no Church yet till the Lord hath put this his threat in execution and takes away his Tabernacle and Worship from it it is still to be acknowledged and reverenced as the Church of Christ. 2. Because no separation may be made from those Assemblies where men may be assured to find and attain Salvation Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the Word of eternal life saith Peter to our Saviour accounting this as a sufficient reason why they might not leave him John 6. 68. But men may be sure to find Salvation in such Assemblies where the Ministery of the Word and Doctrine of Salvation is continued For the Word and Doctrine of Christ is called Salvation here and Heb. 2. 3. because it is the ordinary means ordained of God to bring men to Salvation Rom. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 21. Yea it is at one time or other effectual in all Gods Elect that do enjoy it James 1. 21. Calls it the engraftied word which is able to save your souls Use 1. To teach us what to judge of our Church and the Brownists that separate from it 1. We cannot deny it but there is just cause of fear that God may take away his Tabernacle from amongst us and remove our Candlestick Even the general decay of our first