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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

God and a preserver of Christians by Divine Institution and therefore precisely commanded and commended by Christ both in the affirmative as our portion to use it as his sanctified means of his worship and our benefit and in the negative forbidding as more than his Divine Worship and our Portion all other courses means and manner of exercising this first part of Divine Church-government and means of winning our straying brother lest he perish by those rotting sins which are the onely matter immediatly moving us to those meanes and manner for their purging away and healing our sick brother There are therefore 8. main and plainly distinct parts of this verse 15. 1. The first is the state and encorporate order which enrighteth both Agent and Patient to the end means and manner prescribed viz. a Church-membership In these words thy brother against thee with v. 17. tell the Church 2. The second is the case wherein that end mean and manner are to be exercised viz. in the case of the Patients corrupting sin endangering his brotherhood in sin against thee 3. The third is the Agents personal knowledge of that his sinne viz. If thy brother sin c. not thou hear or suspect 4. The fourth is the end of our using the expressed Church-means and manner of purging that sinne from tha● brother viz. his recovery in these words thou hast won thy brother with v. 13 14. The fifth is the means i. e. convincing-reproof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 convincingly reprove him 6. The sixth is the instituted manner of our using that mean for that good of that our brother viz. all privacy and brotherly tenderness toward his soreness touchiness and good name between thee and him alone 7. The issue and success which is two-fold either good and pertinent to our case and verse viz. If he recover repent and return i. e. If he hear thee or bad and referring us to the next verse and case and not of p●esent observation 8. The eighth is the comfort and commendation of the Agent expresly and tacitly of the Patient thou hast won thy brother DOCTRINE The Doctrine which ariseth from the whole body of the first part of this The first degree of Christs Church-Discipline for his curing his sick Saints exacteth all these Ingredients 1. A Church-brotherhood both in the Agent and Patient 2. Sin in the Patient destroying that Brotherhood 3. The Agents knowledge of 4. And endeavour to cure the sin 5. By convincing-reproof 6. With all indulgent privacy 7. And expectation of success 8. And comfort The Proofs of each of these eight requisits are expressed in the Exposition of Christs express plain and sole-instituting Precept hereof more than which is not in Institutions to be expected much less exacted what is shall be supplyed in the uses USE 1. The first Use therefore must be for the confutation of the contrary tenent from whence the contrary practice groweth which is in its place to be dehorted reproved threatned and adjudged 1. Those that hold against the first are especially our Non-Conformitans called Professours and Puritans who hold no other brotherhood hereto requisite but that of the mystical union with Christ by personal Faith manifested by profession and fruits thereof but to what Church do they fit that party or cause which is the prime scope of the agent and to it are all the said particulars to be reduced and if the mark or aim be mistaken all Subordinats to it must needs be wrong their mark is not the Church of England their aim drift scope and endeavour is not for it and yet other Church they hold not much less labour for wherefore they erring in the very subject and object all their instituted Discipline and Church-dealing must needs be other than Christs and so in part and whole Antichrists at least the same in nature with his though not in act aim intent or possession his nor accepted by him and so they have no thanks for their labour and devotion either from Christ or Antichrist and so are of all most miserable in this matter suffering as busie-Bishops and Reproachers 1 Pet. 4.15 Use 2. They that erre in the 2d particular are the holders that every sinne in judgment word endeavour or act is the disease here meant But what meant Paul then to say Him that is weak in the faith receive unto you c. Rom. 14.1 expressing that weakness in the Faith to be in holding and practising the Mosaical holy days and in abstaining from the legally forbidden meats in obedience and conscience to Gods command by Moses which was then abolished and to prove and press that doctrine so plainly and plentifully through that Chapter unto Chap. 15.7 and there to conclude the same with the same Exhortation illustrated This is much confirmed Act. 21.20 to 26. 16.3 18.18 Why is Josephs omission of this first part commended as a point of his justness toward God and Christian indulgence toward Mary as to a true holy and tender-hearted Saint though his knowledge of her supposed sinne did neer over-weigh them all and gave him a strong appearance that it was a sinne destroying Church-brotherhood and her instituted Church-state the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being or as being a just or righteous man c. and not being willing c. prevent all evasion in this point that every sinne of a brother known to another brother necessiteth not this instituted or Church-dealing which point is very frequently and fervently pressed in the word 1 Pet. 4.8 Prov. 10.12 1 Cor. 13.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 love roofeth all things Gal. 6.2 Mat. 6.14 15. Mar. 11.25 26. Obj. But you seem guilty and loving of some sins in putting them out of this case Answ The truth is I so love Gods divine Discipline that I cleave close thereto though I thereby incur your suspicion But it rather seems that you more affect absoluteness of Will and licentious injuriousness than Christs institutions and obedience to them wherein a Christians summum bonum and content consisteth Eccles 12.13 But I respect not personal upbraidings but reall arguments in this material case Michals scornings 2 Sam. 6.16 to 22. I scorn and honour Moses his periods to all his instituted practises i.e. As the Lord commanded Moses The third ingredient unto this divine medicine viz. the curers due and certain knowledge of the the disease or sin of his brother is 1. proved necessary Joh. 7.51 Doth our Law condemn a man before it hear him and know what he hath done was it so evident that the Law of Moses though in Christs time much corrupted by the Scribes and Pharises did not upon any report or presumption but onely by judicial hearing and testimony by two Witnesses at the least and testified in presence of the accused and answered by him condemn any man how dare any Church of the Gospel do so lest to his power he make the Gospel of Christ worse then the Law of Moses But by