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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29276	The churches resurrection, or, The creating of the new heavens written by an unworthy gospel-minister, John Bryan.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4321; ESTC R23804	57,437	84

that he could make him partaker of his office by Ordination and Election of the Church Lastly What his office and his labor was is set down in the last words Shewing The office delegated to him was to teach the first Elements to Beginners But reserveth to himself the Instruction of the Perfect This agreed neerly to the Gospel Patern and was also practised in the Church of Alexandria before but on a better call from which Institution Origen like himself changeth and seeketh to destroy as after For Neoterics it is not my purpose to cite any but that ye may see Calvine on whose judgement and practice the foundation of the Presbyterie is laid thought otherwaies of it then those which succeed him do who for ought I understand did better discern the Estate of the Church under that way of Administration then those succeed him in it do or seem to do Calvine 1. Ep. Cor. 12.28 God hath set in the Church First Apostles Secondarily Prophets Thirdly Teachers he having spoken largely before and shewing much uncertainty or unresolvednesse how the differing Ministry is to be exercized in the Church in the end concludes thus Si quis dissentat facilè patior neque rixas propterea excitabo est enim difficile judicare de donis muneribus quibus tam dui jam orbata fuit Ecclesia nisi quòd vestigia tantùm vel umbra adhuc apparent If any saith he dissents I am well content nor will I therefore stir up contentions for it is hard to judge of the gifts and Offices of which the Church hath now been so long deprived so that the signes only or shaddowes as yet appeare of them If this be truth then we are to inquire further for the knowledge of the true forme of Church-discipline then Calvine went further then whom I think Presbytery proceeds not though with higher and greater confidence then he did go or were he living I presume would goe on his first discoveries from his owne words nor do I see any thing altered in the Offices or dispensations of them now under the Presbyteriall forme from that Calvine in his institutions hath proposed but rather in that we rest as in the full and perfect discovery of the way of God laying claime to a Jus Divinum for a conformation of it 14. I come now to speak a word of the Apostacy of Church-discipline in the Church Euseb 3. l. 26. cap. Vsque ad tempora Trajani virgo munda immaculata permansit Ecclesia corruptoribus veritatis divini verbi temeratoribus aut nunquam omnino extantibus aut etiam si qui fortè fuerant in occultis abditis hiatibus terrae delitescentibus ut verò Apostolorum chorus omnis illa aetas quae a Domino susceperat vivae voces auditum de hac luce discessit tum velut in vacuam domum falsae doctrinae impius se error immersit tanquam ubi nullus jam diutius census desensor existeret nudato ut aiunt capite corripientes arma mendacii oppugnare Apostolicam veritatem nituntur sed istud bellum intrinsecùs gerebatur Nicephorus Eccles hist l. 3. cap. 19. saith Heresies began about Ignatius time Euseb lib. 4. cap. 21. He saith Simon the son of Mary Cleophas was ordained Bishop Electus ab omnibus pro eo quód esset consobrinus Domini propterea autem tunc Ecclesia virgo vocabatur quòd nondum fuerat adulterini verbi subreptione corrupta sed Theobutes quidem quia repulsus non meruit Episcopatum ipse caepit in initio perturbare omnia corrumpere qui erat ex septem haeresibus in populo constitutis c. 1. Here is the time of the Churches continuance in it's purity or virgin estate 2. Here is the time and cause of it's Apostacy Theobutus an Heretike troubling and corrupting all things because he could not be advanced to the Episcopacy of Jerusalem Yet with the Apostle John we may say that Antichrist already wrought for in these times when the Church kept not the forme of sound words not calling their Ministers by their proper names they made way for Antichrist to rise in a unspeakable manner little thought they that their allusions to the legall Ministry and naming the Evangelist Pontifex from Aaron the Pastor Sacerdos from his sons and the Teacher Minister from the Levits was the name means and way by which Antichrist at his inthronment should take up The same may be said of Ignatius if the word Episcopus be not adulterous and put in for Evangelist which I suppose came thus to passe the whole Governments being rightly called Episcopacy as said of Judas Acts 1.20 Let an other take his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now in time the senior Presbyter or Government by way of eminency was called Bishop though à principio non fuit Hyreneus requires in Presbyters lib. 4. cap. 43. successionem Episcopatus Those wrote now mentioned here in this tract Clement Rom. whos 's 1. Epist is strangely corrupted and divers other spurious writings go under his name written long since vide Scult Anno 90. Ignatius Policarp Epist Anno 70. Dionysius Areopag who is questioned for his antiquity the very things he is questioned for prove it many waies And Scultetus after all the objections he had made against his antiquity saith Quiscunque autem Dionysius iste fuerit antiquus fuerit necesse est quòd ipsa ecclesiastica ordinationis forma docet c. In his Medulla Theolog. Patrum he is said to be about an 80. In the second Century corruptions began to increase much Justinus 130. Hogesippus 190. the 5. Books passe under his name now have only the History of the Jewes destruction and nothing of the Apostolicall traditions as the right Egisippus is said by Eusebius Nicephorus and others to have Ireneus 170. Clem. Alex. 200. Tertull. Anno. 200. some would 160. Tertull. de proscrip advers haeret complaines of the Lay Peoples taking the Ministry on them saith Qui hodie Presbyter cras Laicus Againe he shewes in his time began the corruption of the Church by a mixture of societies crying out Pariter adeunt pariter audiunt pariter erant quis Cathecumenus quis fidelis incertum est 1. See in the beginning it was only of Catechists and Believers that they came in one place together were taught together and prayed together what would he say of our Societies in which all altogether do these and more also receiving Sacraments also together 2. He calls these Societies only then the Societies of Heretikes 3. The devill of this was such he observes it was not knowne who was a believer who a Catecumenus may not we say to him as the Pharisees to Christ in saying this thou reproachest us also and no people ever were more guilty of reproach hence then we in this Kingdome are About this time in this Kingdome was set up the first Nationall Church in the world the first Archbishops and their suffragans