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A29279 The gospel-pattern for the government of gospel-churches together with queries made on the assembly-propositions presented to the high court of Parliament / by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayne. Brayne, John. 1649 (1649) Wing B4326; ESTC R36508 9,013 18

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Nations Rev. 16.19 that is from Antichrist to Christ Which Minister Ministery and Means we have great cause to pray God to send we nor the world being like to see a day of true peace before his Ministry it being reserved for him and his Ministry to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children that is to let us know how they did worship God as yet hid from us and turne the hearts of the children to the fathers that is perswade us to worship God as they did which we are far off from to this very day Mal. 4.6 before which time I am verily perswaded there will be be no place for any other Government ever to be erected or set up Such mercy hath God for these last times and so near is the Kingdome of God at hand and as it were ready to be revealed Rev. 12.10 unto which the Lord stir up the Spirits of his Saints to enter that the Kingdome of Heaven may suffer violence and the violent take it by force that it may be in us and with us for evermore Amen SECT I. The Queries or things to be inquired into of the first Sect. Of the Church whether 1 Cor. 12.12 be not meant of the invisible Church only 1 WHither the Churches of the primitive times were not Patterns for the Churches to be constituted by to the end 2. Whether our Churches be constituted according to theirs consisting of visible Saints 3. Whether any if any children be ordinarily to be admitted into the Church-Society then those that are the children of visible Saints joyned in a Church way be meant 4. Whether by Rev. 18.4 be not required the same constituting of Churches now among us come out of Babel as was required 1 Cor. 6.18 of those who forsook the pagan worship of the devil or forsook Moses Ministry Acts 2.38 41. and whether any such way of constituting Churches hath been taken yet amongst us to prove our Churches true by 5. Whether untill it be so constituted the Church lie not in its waste desolate eremiticall condition under the abomination of desolation Dan. 9.27 6. Whether the Presbyterian way of Government and way of Worship be the way God ordained to restore her to her primitive State or do not rather make it desolate as before SECT II. 1. Whether the lack of the Evangelist Ministry in the Church be not one part of the Churches desolation and cannot but remaine so without it 2. Whether the Propositions fully containe the Gospel-Patterne for the ministry Or whether the ministry Ephes 4.11 be not only a Church-ministry or whether there was not to be a ministry to be exercised to men without the Church called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who prepared for Church-societ● Matth. 11.11 and 13. compared and distinguished by the Apostle 2 Tim. 1.11 and practised by the Apostles teaching in Synagogues 3. Whether the Order of the Gospel-ministry be yet discovered or whether any thing by our now ministry be done in Gospel-Order 1 Pet. 4.10 one Minister by the Gospel being to minister in his Ministry to another Minister for the building up of the Saints by degrees therein 1. Whether it be not Anti-Christian to alter any thing in the Governement exercise of Ministry or constitution of the Church now from what it was in the first setting up of the Gospel-Governement among the Jewes or what Scripture Authority have we to prove it lawfull to alter in any thing the formes thereof SECT III. On the Proposition concerning the Pastor Quer. 1. Whether 1 Pet. 5.2 3 4. Acts 6.2 3 4. are not applyed to the whole Church-ministry and whether it be not a destroying of the Church-Authority to appropriate it to one of them only against that Mat. 18.18 19 2. Whether Acts 20.26 36. were not only of him spoken as Apostle or Prophet the least he exercised was the Evangelists ministry here if anywhere 1 Cor. 1.17 extraordinarily Propositions for reading Scripture publickly 1. Luk. 4.16 Col. 4.16 prove the reading of the Scriptures but whether the Scriptures are to be read in the Church as under Moses Ministry I question 2. Whether the Gospel-Teacher and his Ministry cease not and the Church be not in desolation for the lack of it by this order of catechising as now used The Catechist also destroyed and his Ministry Proposition The Pastor is to dispence other divine mysteries 1. Whether the Pastor be to dispense the mysteries there spoken of 1 Cor. 4.12 of himselfe without the other ministry it being declared in the name of all 2. Whether we should not take care of Church-robbery and as the Proverbe is that we rob not Peter to pay Paul Paul would have those that wrought with him in the fellowship of the Gospel to be accounted of as stewards as well as himselfe in their part of stewardship and ministry with him Proposition The Pastor is to administer the Sacraments 1. Whether the Doctor being to teach the beginnings of Christ and being the initiating Ministry be not only to baptize and baptisme an Ordinance proper to his society only 2. Whether Paul 1 Cor. 1.17 and Peter Acts 10.48 did not leave this Ordinance ordinarily to those who wrought with them to do 3. Whether the Sacrament of the Lords Supper were administred but in the meeting of the whole Church 1 Cor. 11.20 when whether the Evangelist or Pastor should consecrate it the Evangelist being present is not questionable I thinke yet in this act I suppose the Pastor with the Doctor did help to administer it to their severall Societies Proposition That the Pastor is to take care for the Poore 1. Whether this being the proper office of the Deacon to do set up of God in the Church for the exempting of the Ministry from worldly affairs it be not contrary to that Acts 6.2 4 2. Whether Acts 11.30 1 Cor. 16.1.2.3.4 Gal 2.9.10 are not all concerning reliefe of the particular Estate of the Church at Jerusalem on an extraordinary ground Rom. 15.27 for that the Gentiles were debters to the Jewes 2 Cor. 8.4 he took it not on him but on much intreatie so that it is cleare this was not part of his Ministerial charge for woe be to him then if he had not done it willingly 3. Acts 4.34.35 proves nothing because done before the institution of Deacons in the Church Propos The Pastor hath a ruling power over the flock as a Pastor 1 Tim. 5.17 Acts 20.17.28 1 Thes 5.12 Heb. 13.7.17 1. Whether Ruling power be in any of the Church Ministers as divided or conjunctively that is whether an act done in Church-government by one of the Church-Ministery be a legal act Or whether it be necessary to make it lawfull there should be the joint consent of Evangelist Pastor and Teacher and whether these Scriptures prove not the same 2. Whether for any single Minister to take the whole authority of the Synedrie be not Antichristian and that which is in Scripture called a Lording it over