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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

Disseparatists Jude 19. or proper Brownists or makers of offences or soul-killing sins more then the word hath made and makers of division or separation thereupon even from true Christians yea true Churches which the word never allowed nor instituted the former which is the 5. point is practised in the said un-Mosaical uncivil un-Messiacal and antichristian courses opposite to Christs instituted Church-order Mat. 18.15 in all the eight points thereof especially to this convincing course our fift part and the sixt of which next in both which abominations and false Church-orders are practised by true Churches in their members telling each other of each others faults main and mean and thereupon separating the reproached as vile Heathens and Publicanes at one hour with the same and reproach raised as if their so reproaching were a judicial tryal and that an authoritive sentence and that a soul-killing and disbrothering execution even all four so soon as the first is spoken by the reproacher yea as if all were done in himself so soon as it is suspected by him Secondly in both these desolations are practised against Christs said instituted membral course of four degrees i. e. 1. certain knowledge 2. due convincing 3. resolvednes of his irrepentance and 4. thereupon proceeding in an executory course of taking Witnesses to testifie it to the Church which onely hath discommunicative power that it may duly separate the otherwise uncurable brother for those four are slighted omitted and rejected by this rejecting or rejectible course and spirit which the word termeth desolating Thirdly confusions of the successive order of these four degrees is practised in one Church-members separating censuring testifying and lastly upbraiding another with sin and in his neglect of Christs precise order prescribed him herein Which 3. practises of 1. abominations or false institutions 2. of desolations of true Institutions and 3. of confusion or Babelism are severaly at least joyntly the quarto modo properties of Antichrist either publike and stative viz. of a false Church-state or personal and membral viz. of the possessed with the evil Spirit of Antichrist 1 Joh. 4.3 whether of Professours at large or of Christs Church-worshippers in state though unmortified in affections and actions especially in matters of the fift sixth and ninth Commandements which the sixth and next point will plainly and plentifully shew This sixth Jngredient into this Divine Saint-healing Medicine is brotherly and tender privacy in all the rest in these words between thee and him alone This therefore sorteth with all the rest in their joynt proper soul and of this whole Chapter viz. in meek-love-mercy and in opposing their and its opposites viz. proud-rail-racking the three parts of both those words answering to the three said distinct parts of this Chapter the former in the positive respect the latter in the opposite The two first parts of the former expresly the last part inclusively in the last part of the latter and the two first parts of the latter word inclusively in the two first parts of the former the last expresly in the last part of the Chapter from v. 20. This sixth part of this soul-saving and sinne-purging sealed receit Job 33.16 sorts also with the other five in their divine and word-holy body as they are instituted parts of Christs Scripture-worship so that the omitters and slighters hereof are Desolators of that Divine Worship and the practisers of any other in its stead though in their conceit much better are abominators thereof and the disorderly users thereof are confusers thereof and so sorters with that Babylon i. e. confusion that abomination and desolation Dan. 11.31 12.11 Mat. 24.15 Mar. 13.14 called also that man of sinne that sonne of perdition 2 Thes 2.3 that Usurper over and Opposer against all called God v. 4. Dan. 11.36 that Antichrist that Beast that Abaddon c. and so gross breakers of the first second fifth and sixth Commandements The gross and flat opposite to this part both in that soul and this body is one Church-members reproaching and speaking evil of another which also in a fifth respect is the proper and prime breach of the ninth Commandement viz. as it tendeth to his discredit for it breaketh the first as it usurpeth over opposeth against Christ the Institutor of that order and means and the commander and commander of that meek-love-mercy and against God his Father and sender It is a breach of the second in all the particulars of this second respect of this sixth Ingredient especially as it forsaketh and desolateth this part of Christs Church-Discipline and erecteth a false one in its stead and so abominateth it and sinneth in the like transgression with Adam who did yea could sinne onely in matter of Divine Institution for when by his shame his sinne was shewn God thence concludeth that he had eaten of the forbidden Institution Gen. 3.10 11. and as it usurpeth over and opposeth against Christs church-Church-power authority and jurisdiction instituted for as it proudly deposeth or opposeth the persons enrighted thereto and practising thereof it breaks the fifth and as it ariseth from anger malice or an evil mind it breaks the sixth Commandement Matth. 5.21 to 26. If it be above just cause and onely inward it is against the first degree of v. 22. If it extend to external insinuations and general reproaching it cometh under the 2. degree of that sinne and judgment but if it proceed to the least sort of particularizing of matter of a brothers discredit though it be but of his wisdome it is expressed to be of the highest sort of sins and judgment at least of that Commandement yet Jam. 4.11 12. expresseth it to be a reproaching and censuring of the Word of God it self and an usurpation of Gods Law-giving Supremacy and an opposition against God that is alone able to save and to destroy and thereupon thundereth against this reproacher with Who art thou that judgest another brother which last word is expressed v. 11. and sheweth the true nature and high degree of this sinne of reproaching without it the other two parallel places of Matth. 5.21 and 18.15 were not its true parallels and without this peculiar institutedness or instituted peculiarity of this privacy in present consideration the other two would seem somewhat harsh In brief mark the holy institutedness of this sin-hiding or rather sin-healing privacy Mat. 18.15 the holy estate of a brother in all three places the holy nature of the Law Jam. 4. and of Christianity Matth. 5. and the oppositness of Antichristianity to all three even in falsness of institution against the Gospel and in evilness of order against the moral Law and of nature generate and regenerate against the first and second Adam and their Posterity and you shall therein see the heavenly vertue of this privacy and hellish vility of its privative in dealing with our brothers sins even that the former is an healing and the latter an helling of our brother and his

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-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-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

true Divine Worship as any of them And therefore also the thousands of extatical exaggeratings execratings and abominatings the World yieldeth no fit words herein against it self of false Worship and Worshippers ought to have their full force against confusion and disorder in the body members and functions of Divine worship as against other sins of omission or commission therein especially since the especial propriety of Antichristianisme consisteth therein as the proper frequent title therof Babylon confusion Rev. 17.11 14 18. understanding observation and experience of its courses and the nature of its type the confusion of the tongues of the world and the orders of Gods worship in Babylon do severally and more joyntly evince But if these degrees wherein the Scripture preferreth it before the membral matter of worship in its manner of handling them both be added thereto how can we be less zealous and jealous herein than therein yea those degrees are not dark strained nor small neither are they all that might be gathered as the very extent of v. 3 4 5 6. above v. 1 2. sheweth but the introduction of the membral matter it self of the Church its offices and their works in way of apportioning and limiting each work and office of the Church yea of the Church it self by its proportionableness to those works and offices doth inestimably dignifie the observation of this distinctness and bound-mindedness in Gods Worship and force us to sympathize with the Holy Ghost in our intentness thereon and therein or if these things will not no means will untill the time of reformation and restitution cometh mean while the discerners hereof must exercise their Faith in receiving these priviledges of Faith their obedience in working these works of Gods worship their understanding in discerning what God hath thus distinctly determinated their temperateness in actuating their graces without excess or defect in these special tryals of boundedness and sound-mindedness their patience in waiting for the fruit of their sincere endeavours herein patiently and possessing their souls in patience both which these of all other will most exercise their godlyness in true zeal for and godly jealousie against what GOD herein proposeth as their special objects their brotherly-love in exercising all these sixe graces in this matter for the good and benefit of their Brethren therein remembring that the godlyest zeal of Gods honour which ought to eat up us and all that is ours is not to eat up what is our brothers i. e. our dealing with them herein as they are able to hear and bear And lastly their natural love to all as naturally good in walking holily therein to win unto Christ those that are without Christ and not giving just offence to those that are without knowing that we once were such and that these Ordinances are services of God and his servants and not knowing who though now without belong unto the election of God nor how we fall into their danger by sin or otherwise For if these things be in us and abound in this special matter we have a special testimony of our Election promise of our perseverance in the works and fruits of godlyness and unto eternal happyness 2 Pet. 1.5 to 8. where also the contrary is annexed to the defect thereof Now therefore of some of those glimpses in the close as of the distinctness of the four Offices to be exercised in the Church-Congregation with their distinct functions and fruits and also of their roots yet as of one subjective ortive root unto one objective Lordive fruit by one ejected project of by and for the one Deity yet according to its Trinity GOD. FOr first God as the Father willing himself to be our Father sent Christ as God-man to make us his sons and servants by the Spirits proceeding from both their will and order to operate that compleat entity unity community coity or eternal fruit of all CHRIST Whereby secondly Christ as Mediator became our Prophet to teach us our Priest as personally to cause so setly to preserve exhort and as our powerful King to effect command and commend our preservation of nature according to the Law by the Gospel unto Heaven CHVRCH-OFFICES Whereby thirdly he had right power to institute the Teachers office the Exhorters Comforters or Priestly office the Rulers Orderers Shepherds Rectors or Kingly one and the Preservers Distributers Providers office authorized state and right FVNCTIONS Whereby fourthly they had right officially ministerially to teach to exhort provoke affect our sons nature to Gods service to rule order shepherd our many stations of both and to provide for our naturewhile we submit to all three ABILITIES To all which fiftly the Spirit enableth them by light sight and might to teach by the Spirit of grace and wisdome to exhort and provoke and the gift of discerning of spirits and of ruling to rule and the gift of instinctive brotherly simplicity indulgently to provide for us GRACES Sixthly To our son-like receiving of gracious serving in holy knowledge sincere tender devout gracious heart and affections Christian approvable words deeds and life constant fosterers provision unto our preservation and personal content GLORIES Seventhly all these are in their subjective native ortive heavenly nature projective stative ordive heavenly typical order ejective exertive dative cordive power objective dotive lordive end glory scope upshot in of by and for glorified heavenly illuminations gracious motions infusions sonlike sincerity perfect pure unreprovable conversation with God and Saints compleat internal supernal external eternal means and end of intent and content comfort glory divineness of wit will work and weal. FINIS THE EXPOSITION OF The 18. Chapter of Matthew WHEREIN Proceedings in cases of Offences both positive and opposite are cleerly demonstrated Gal. 6.1 Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted See 2 Cor. 2.6 7 8. 2 Thes 14 15. LONDON Printed for Henry Eversden at the Sign of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1656. The Scripture text or Divine Word or Conscience-warrant of Church-power Jurisdiction or Discipline true and in Gods account both in the warrant and warranted in respect of Christ and his Worshippers and false or humane of Antichrist of two sorts stative and personal or on both sides of Christs all persecuted by the World as Christ and the two Theeves on either side of him by Pilate with their Metaphrase and Exposition in brief 1. Of that of Christ and his instituted peculiar worshipping Ministerial or separate Church of Separates 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. in the literal warrant and its opening to Christians Matth. 18.15 to 20. VER 15. 1. BUT that is rather then he one of these little ones v. 14. which referreth us to v. 10. and that to v. 2. should perish by his dejected softness or childishness 2. If As a grievous unexpected casual and rare matter 3. A Brother An