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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

superstitious burial of the dead churching women and confirmation some of all which and other sorts of superstitions all the Daughters of Rome observe in homage to their mother of Abominations and in love of her whoredomes of the earth Thirdly in prohibiting Church-Covenants admission and excommunication of members election and dejection of Officers by the Church-power and in forbidding Baptisme without the cross c. and it and prayers without the Surplice and the Father to challenge his priviledges of Baptisme to his Infants and all to receive the Lords Supper every Lords day and at the Evening and at all without kneeling and the Surplice of any one and women to taste of the cup of blessing and in denying ordination to Rulers Distributers and Widows and prophecying to the gifted to teach exhort and comfort and to ask his doubts in the Congregation Fourthly in disordering all the Works of Divine Worship by Minister and people in mingling of their reading the Psalms and Prayers one verse by the one and another verse by the other and of singing with their reading and prayers and with the Lords Supper even in the very time of administration thereof and of prayer on their knees in the very act of receiving the same Fifthly in deifying the Ministerial Works far above their nature as in imputing to the Water in Baptisme to be the real blood of Christ and in ascribing to Baptisme washing away the guilt of sin ex opere operato and purging original sin and actual regenerating and to the Lords Supper real transubstantiation both of the bread into the body and wine into the blood of Christ and strange operations on the Sick in healing all Diseases and dispossessing them of divels by the very act of priestly administration yea they have ascribed the same unto the Cross it self in supposition that it is a Divine Institution or rather because it is a Bird of his own hatching and many the like wonders doth this Worlds-wonder work especially in Ordination which of every way the least Ministerial or Church-work he hath made by his omnipotency the Creatour of the Church Ministry and all things Ecclesiastical and Ministerial and himself the Creator Orderer and actor therof and of them all thereby Proofs of and Motives to incite to the knowledge and practice of the word-Worship FIrst from v. 2. which expresseth the word Worsh●p to be worthy of yea to exact our best Wits and most serious yea emphatical extensions thereof in these words But be ye transformed in the renovation of your mind Secondly from the parental or proper procreating cause thereof expresly said v. 2. to be that Will of God which to know we are bound by all the Bonds of allegeance love wisdome glory and what not that is naturally or spiritually good Yea this equalenting that word Worship v. 1. with that Will of God v. 2. the particulars whereof are v. 4. to 8. expressed to be our present Church-Worship then practised in the Churches doth more radically and deeply dignifie it than can without more than ordinary ability and industry yea without our transforming our selves not onely into that new and spiritual Nature according to our new and supernatural estate by Faith but especially into the renovation or rouzing up of that new mind and nature be understood and without a special degree of Sanctification be approved which is expressed i● the intervening words For all that is there meant by that Will of God is that Word-Worship v. 1. in the general and its particulars v. 4. to 8 and much more is all that is meant by that Word-Worship v. 1. that will of God v. 2. But there is nothing of a higher natute either divine instituted or created than Will absolute neither is any thing more identically essentially and reciprocally predicated of God than Will for whatsoever is an absolute Will is God and God is an absolute Will and what is God is a simple Will And I could never attain to a properer definition of God than this God is a Will well actuating it self But you will say that Will of God is there taken metonym●cè by the cause for the effect True yet it is therefore both a proper and a special effect of that Will of God by this rule What is in the second declared by a descendent Metonymie is a prime propriety or proceed of that superiour Neither is that here taken meerly denotatively of any thing as aforesaid but properly demonstratively and emphatically for that which of all other things is most properly willed of God and may most truly be said and be thereby best taken for the will of God without farther addition than of the demonstrative article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. That This shal be farther cleered in the next Porisma where I shew by all the instances of Scripture I can find where God is said to be forsaken and that other gods are worshipped in his stead and the like that those places are not meant of the person of God but consequently which by that same consequence well proveth our point because they had forsaken this his Word-worship and used another which using God there and that will of God here for his Word-worship then and now ought much to provoke us to that through-knowledge thereof and devote us to and in the use and enjoyment thereof and also justifieth the approved use of Worship which properly signifieth Lord-ship as before for the signs means marks and testimonies of Gods Lord-ship over us by a Metonymie of the end or signed for the mean and sign which soul of that word ought never to be separated from the body thereof though never so frequently used left we understand not our own words or neglect them If then we would know what of all other is most necessited and worthy to be known know that will of God and what it willeth approve also know God himself and that whereby and wherein he most manifesteth his Deity and accordingly apply it to thy soul and thy self to it as therein most approving Gods Lordship over us Thirdly from the 3 Divine Epithites of that Will good acceptable and perfect good to us therefore omit not your benefit of this high nature acceptable to God therefore expose your selves in the extent of your love and fear to please him of through and for whom are all things perfect in them both and it self in kind and degree therefore this is above all things worthy and necessited to be throughly known Herein are three proo●s all very effectual but I rather avoid tediousness through the plenty of matter than heap up petty colours or search for quantity of matter herein Fourthly from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which taken demonstratively must have reference to that Word-worship v. 1. which expresseth that will v. 2. to be the efficient cause of that Worship v. 1. and its particulars v. 4. to 8. and the joynt cause thereof with the word yea of

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 18 th Chapter of MATTHEW To which is added A Discovery of ADAM'S threefold Estate in Paradise viz. Moral Legal and Evangelical By THOMAS BREWER 1 Tim. 3.15 But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy self in the house of God which is the Church of the living God the pillar and ground of the truth See Gal. 6.1 Gen. 2.7 and v. 17. with Chap. 3.3 and v. 15. LONDON Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Eversden at the Sign of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1656. Gospel-Worship by Mr. Tho. Brewer THE EPISTLE TO THE READER READER IN the ensuing Treatises are represented to thy view a few of those many excellent Manuscripts penned by Mr. Thomas Brewer who besides many former and some long Persecutions endured under the Prelates suffered Imprisonment by the Bishops in the Kings-Bench Prison above the space of fourteen years for saying That because the Prelates did not derive their Offices from his Majesty as they ought therefore he durst not partake with them nor the Derivers of their Offices from them in the proper works of their Offices which in his Petition to the Lords of the Upper-house of Parliament 1640. he proveth Legal Loyal Reasonable and Seasonable a Copy whereof is herewith published for which cause they often deprived him of many of his Writings by which means and through transporting and transmitting c. some Papers pertaining to this Treatise are missing for the Author wrote very largly of these subjects yet is not any thing hereby deformed or obscured though abbreviated Whereby he was prevented from publishing these with divers others of his Works the which he intended who upon the presenting of the said Petition was released but about a moneth after dyed in a good old age and full of days Indeed his sufferings for the truth were very great and of long continuance but as his sufferings did abound so his graces and vertues did much more abound and like odours being crusht gave a more fragrant scent or like silver passing the fire were more refined But what need I to guild a Diamond or what needs he my commendation his Piety Learning Experience and Depth of Judgment are eminently known both in this and other Nations and are in part discovered in these ensuing Tracts which are not many broken fragments of others Writings patcht up together but profound studied matter extracted from the very nature and scope of the several Texts and Subjects whereof it treats and wherein was made good to the Author those Promises Prov 2.5 9. in a great measure most of which with many other of the like nature were the Authors own Experiences and Practises and Experimental Observations who in the time of his liberty was a frequent publisher of them himself at Leyden in Holland where he walked in communion with Mr. Robinson and also with Mr. Ainsworth also after the time of his restraint procuring liberty of his Keeper and sometimes in the Prison he taught them frequently in several Congregations in London which is well known to and testified by many of his Hearers yet living But for my own part I had onely the happiness to become acquainted with him the three last years of his life within which time although it was part of the time of his close Imprisonment I reaped much precious benefit from him by the opportunity of visites c. and like Apollos Act. 18.24 25. he was a man mighty in the Scriptures and being fervent in spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord. The truth of the matter published I am humbly confident is able to defend it self against all Adversaries though subject to be scandalized from which the best things are not free First here is a more ample foundation for and a more stately Edifice as it were pourtrayed out of Gospel-Worship which both regulates and improves grace than ever yet was published this 1300. years since Antichrist reigned for as Gen. 1. and Job 38. and 39. Chapter contains the whole and also the main particulars of the Creation Exod. 20. and Deut. 5. the summe of the Law Gen. 12.2 3. the summe of the Promises Dan. 2. the summe of the Prophesies Matth. 5 6 7. Chapters the main qualifications of Christs Disciples Matth. 6.9 c. Luke 11.2 The Pattern of all Prayer 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. The prime Signs and special Demonstrations of our Election Vocation and Salvation So these first 8. verses of the 12. Chapter to the Romanes as our Author saith well contain the whole body of Gospel Church-Worship And as Moses Exod. 25. to Chap. 40. and David 1 Chron. 28.11 gave exact patterns of the Tabernacle and Temple so here the Apostle Paul prescribes the like compleat pattern for this Spiritual Fabrick of Gospel-Worship of which the former were but Types and expressed so to be 2 Cor. 6.16 1 Tim. 3.15 R●v 21. compared with Lev. 26.11 Ezek. 37.26 27. This is the Central and Cardinal place of Scripture sanctifying the Divine Worship of the Word about which all other of this subject have their proper motion and use and whereon they depend as so many branches springing from this root and by which they are encorporated into one Order the want therefore of the clear understanding hereof is the cause of the seeming disjoyntedness of the Order of Worship and the long and much prevailing of Babylonisme thereby yea and errour and darkness yet so abounds that we have just cause to pray as the Psalmist doth Psal 43.3 Secondly in expounding the 18. Chapter of Matthew here is lively held forth that Meekness Love and Mercy which ought to be used for the recovery of a sin-sick-Saint Gal. 6.1 and on the contrary that pride railing and racking prosecuted both by the publike and personal Antichrist in such cases as Jam. 4.1 to 11. Thirdly and lastly here is set forth that three-fold or rather four-fold Estate of Adam in Paradise viz. Moral Legal Evangelical and Celestial his legal Estate or first Covenant of Works was saith the Author and what need be said more the first grand grandsire mystery of the Word and the Door key and Candle to all other Theologick Religious Personal publick and polemike the Epitomal Pattern of the Mosaical Law in folio and the Bridge garrison and Tutor unto the Gospel the Ladder and Key of Heaven These four Estates were founded in Paradise the first cultively the second epitomally the third personally the fourth inchoately so that this is the main hinge whereon the whole state of all mankind dependeth Now since this Work hath stuck so long in the Birth and having this opportunity now yet not till now put into my hands and withall considering the diversities of Judgments about and the many diligent enquirers after these things