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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78088	A brief view of Mr. Coleman his new-modell of church government, delivered by him in a late sermon, upon Job 11.20.	Byfield, Adoniram, d. 1660.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6378; Thomason E307_8; ESTC R200340	30,341	36

is by God divelved on the Magistrate If you can finde that either in the Scriptures or warrantable records of the Church I beseech you bring it forth and let the world see you are not alone in venting of this new Divinity to which the Christian world hath been a stranger for so many hundred yeeres Lastly for the full clearing of this truth to all who are willing to receive the truth I desire it may be taken notice of whether the Christian Magistrate● have challenged Church Government as a worke proper unto their place If Iesus Christ have divolved it upon that calling why then should not Christian Magistrates have owned so much and challenged their right therein which we reade not that they did We reade indeed of many pious Emperours to whom the welfare of the Church was dear and whose care of the Government of the Church appeared many wayes They 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eus●b dovit Constant 424. saw that the officers instituted by Christ in the Church should attend their places in Governing of the same yet they never took upon them the worke of Government it selfe that famous speech which fell from Constantine the Great in the presence of divers Bishops is well known v●t quidem intra templum ego autem extra templum a Die ●onstitutu● sum Episcopus● His meaning was that God had appointed him to see them fulfill the work to which God had called them unto in his Church his Imperiall place bound him to see that done by them but not to fulfill it himselfe For he clearly distinguishes between the administration of the affaires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 within and without the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was far from him He kept himself where he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where God had set him Secondly we reade that when the Church was troubled with Imperatorum manu ●● episcoporum confilio beretici reprimebantur Gr. Naz. any unruly Member that would not submit himselfe to Her Government such by the power and authority of the Magistrate were reduced to order For by the Imperiall power and Counsels of Bishops heretick●s have been suppressed As Arius was banished by Constant M. Thirdly we find further that when a question hath had much debate in the Church and yet was brought to no finall conclusion the Emperour heard the cause debated and so put an end unto the same as appears in the case of Caecilian and his adversaries which being twice heard in Episcopall Synods the paries not resting in their resolutions at length it was heard and determined before the Emperour but what did he therein onely hearing the cause fully discussed he made such as were refractory give way unto the truth but he did not determine it himselfe Fourthly Emperours were so far from challenging any Power in Ecclesiasticall Government as proper to their places that when it was exercised upon themselves by Church Officers they willingly submitted to it Let that memorable instance of Theodosius witnesse it It is storied of him that having caused in his fury 7000. Thessalonians to be slaughtered afterwards comming to the Church of Millain● Ambrose goeth forth to meet him and after T●eod 5. 17. a long speech denies to admit him yea bound him with that heavy sentence of Excommunication with which he stood bound for eight moneths This godly Emperour did not tell Ambrose he had no power to do it He pleaded not that it did belong to his Imperiall Crowne to determine who should be shut out or admitted into the Churche nay rather he acknowledged to R●ssinus a principall Officer of his Court the equity of the sentence he could tell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him He kn●w well that is Ambrose of whom he is speaking what was the Office of Priests and what was proper unto Kings Doth it not appear by that memorable passage that that Christian Emperour was not of your mind to think the Government of the Church was his let as you suppose No he durst not assume that to himselfe which you affectionately strive to lodge in them who never sought it but your bolt is soone shot and forward you are to grant that to the Magistrate which Christian Magistrates never owned nor challenged as their due I beseech you if they had a Divine right unto it why did they not exercise it We have heard that what they did as the Religious Kings of old David J●hosaphat Ez●kiah c. they were carefull to see Church Government exercised by such as were appointed thereunto by the Lord If any were disobedient they drew forth their authority against them to make them stoope unto it which gave occasion to the Bishops when they humbly sued to Arcadius to have Iohn banished to say Ecclesiasticall and Civill affaires or duties differ Niceph. 13. 20. The care of the one they say is commended to the Emperor the administration of the other to Church Officers May not all this now observed from the Scripture and read in the constant practise of Christian Magistrates let you see that Gods Church hath ever given the Magistrate that wherewith God hath honoured his place which was his due and that the Magistrate ceast to require more Their care was to move in the sphere wherein God had placed them neither would they go beyond it in stretching their authority to do that whereunto they were not called of the Lord. Now to your construction of Governments mentioned 1 Cor. 12. 28. wee 'll briefly examine what you say herein and that is onely this Christ hath placed Governments in his Church and you find● no institution of other Governments besides Magistrates of Magistrates you doe Rom. 13. 1. 2. Sir that Christ hath placed Governments in his Church with the Scriptures affirming it I fully agree As also that there are Civill Magistrates to whom obedience is to be yielded by all I likewise do agree but that there are no other Governments in the Church but the Civill Magistrate I cannot assent to that assertion Nay I conceive your inference from that Text 1 Cor. 12. 28. which Magisterially you lay downe without the least shew of proose where Governments are mentioned therefore the Civill Magistrate must be understood it is an inconsequence and to me of no more validity then his was who said that Tenterton steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands because these Sands were first discovered when the structure of the steeple was first begunne It s very probable to me that you do expound this Scripture just as a Divine well knowne to you once preaching at the taking of the Covenant did expound Cant. 6. 4. where he brings from a Rabbi a rotten exposition Which was so improbable th●● himselfe sayes of it he doth not deliver it as the true sence of the place yet it did not dislike him because it seemed pretty Or you do herein as he did who when he preached that Hezechiah was the first man that ever was