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A57540	Ohel or Beth-shemesh A tabernacle for the sun, or, Irenicum evangelicum : an idea of church-discipline in the theorick and practick parts, which come forth first into the world as bridegroom and bride ... by whom you will have the totum essentiale of a true Gospel-church state according to Christs rules and order left us when he ascended ... : published for the benefit of all gathered churches, more especially in England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Rogers ...	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?; Rogers, John, 1627-1665? Challah, the heavenly nymph.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1813; Wing R1805; ESTC R850	596,170	655

the Church viz. to speak object offer or vote with the rest which this Scripture nor no other as I know of doth in the least hinder but rather help being rightly considered For 2. He saith it is not permitted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by reason of the disorders and differences that then were in the Church it was thought inconvenient to allow womens liberty to preach publiquely whereby they brought but confusion into the Church as appears in the antecedent and subsequent words vers 33. and vers 40. so that the ill consequence was the cause of this rule of prudence not any positive command of Gods but he spake as in 1 Cor. 7.6 And it is a quest●on whether it be a standing precept So that from this very Scripture besides a hundred others I do verily beleeve that handmaids shall prophecy and have more publick liberty then now they have but however this does nothing at all disallow or deny them their common private proper liberty as members of Christs body equally with men I say as members though not as officers and so subjective to the whole 2. To women I wish ye be not too forward and yet not too backward but hold fast your liberty in Gal. 5.1 which the Apostle speaks as well to the sisters as the brethren Christ hath made ye free male and female ye are all one in Christ and ought to be so in the Church wherefore stand fast saies he that is keep your ground which Christ hath won and got for you maintain your right defend your liberty even to the life lose it not but be courag●ous and keep it And yet be cautious too festina lente not too fast but first be swift to hear slow to speak Jam. 1.19 unlesse occasion requires you your silence may sometimes be the best advocate of your orderly liberty and the sweetest evidence of your prudence and modesty as one saies Silentium saepissime addit foeminis gratiam et decus maxime apud viros cum de rebus seriis agitur and yet ye ought not by your silence to betray your liberty trouble your consciences lose your priviledges and rights or see the truth taken away or suffer before your eyes but I say be not too hasty nor too high for as the note that comes too nigh the margent is in danger to run into the text the next impression so spirits that run too high at first may soon fall into disorder and irregularity It is said when Cyrus was young his Grandfather made Sacas his overseer to order him both in his diet time and recreations but when he came to riper years he became a Sacas to himself and took not so much liberty as he had leave to do and as was allowed him by his governour Sacas And so indeed that may be lawfull to you that is not as yet expedient for you and rather then run into disorder and confusion hold your liberty a little in suspense and wave it on some occasions wherein you lawfully may but lose it not for all the world which Christ payed so great a price for and prepare for fairer gales As the Miller does for though he cannot command the winde yet he will spread his sailes out and open them in a readinesse when he is in hopes of its coming and so do you and when the winde blowes which begins your liberty with full sailes shall bring forth abundantly to serve all the countrey round In the mean time make much of the ordinances prize your hitherto liberty and practise accordingly And in a word I say to all Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder CHAP. IX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This last Chapter shewes what Church this Treatise mentions and clears it from all others and shewes wherein the Presbyterians and we disagree and wherein they and the Papists agree in most of the essentiall differences between them and us for Discipline Doctrine and Practise and proves this Gospell-Church-State the great promise and thing typified in the last daies and the Paradise on earth to be restored I Had thoughts now to have rested me for a while but I am jogg'd up again by the jarring noises which many make about the name of a Church I must now arise and wet my pen a little more before I conclude this Treatise or take my rest You have had the essentialia laid before you and in this first and second part have had the totum homogeneum of a true Church both what is to be done before and what in and upon embodying together but what is to be done after followes after in the third Part which I promise next if the Lord give me leave wherein you shall have I hope so the totum organicum of a true Church of Christ. But before that will be ready I must meet with some rough Opinionists who will bid me stand or at least with such who have the hands of Esau though the voice of Jacob and so the principles and practises of the Pope though the pretences and protestations of a Presbyter that will not let me passe thus without a full discharge and a violent volley upon me made up of wilde fire and not with the fire from above but I must force my way in the name and strength of the Lord and I shall lay before them before I leave them the rotten foundation they are built upon which without mercy may be their ruine and whose cause and quarrell it is they are engaged in and whose design they carry on against the Saints and servants of the most High And the Lord give them grace to consider and separate from it for else I dare confidently affirm they will be found fighters against God Act. 5. I shall first offer y●u what we mean consideration 1 by the Church of Christ where this discipline and order is set which we have handled and shall endeavour to take off all doubts and distractions which may else arise about the word for that Ecclesia est quid dam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 various Controversies have shot out from the word and name as well as the thing and nature of a true Church Formerly between the Pontifitians and Protestants and of late between the Presbyterians and Independents as will easily appear upon perusall of Mr. Rutherford's Right of Presbyteries Mr. Bailies Disswasive Mr. Prinns 12 Questions and Independency examined c. Mr. Ball 's late Treatise Vindiciae Clavium Mr. Hudson's Church Catholick visible cum multis aliis c. I take the name of Church two waies either strictly or at large proxime proprie aut remote late at large or more remotely and improperly it is to be considered either in respect to and with distinction from Infidels and Pagans or else collectively in respect of Christians amongst themselves in the first respect as opposed to Turks and Paynims all

p. 136 c. 12 l. 1 Wisdom hath sent out to all p. 198 c. 15 l. 1 Witness of the Spirit on his own knowledge p. 266 c. 2 l. 2 Witness what it is p. 353 354 c. 6 l. 2 Witness if without it what we must do p. 375 ib. Wives and children of faithful Ministers must be provided for after the death of those Ministers 30 Epist. Winter-time is nigh over to all the Churches p. 28 c. 3 l. 1 Whores children Parish Churches and how p. 552 553 c. 9 l. 2 Wolves look upward when they howl for prey p. 65 c. 5 l. 1 Women may and must speak in the Churches subjective p. 294 c. 4 l. 2 Womens right in Churches proved p. 464 465 466 c. 8 l. 2 Women have a good example p. 407 c. 6 l. 2 Women have preached p. 468 474 c. 8 l. 2 Women how and why they have equal liberty with men as Church-members 472 473 ib. Women excelling men p. 473 474 c. 8 l. 2 Women how and when they are not to speak 475 476 ib. A word to the three Nations p. 15 c. 2 l. 1 A word to the Churches p. 29 49 3 c. 4 l. 1 A word to all to come into Christ p. 80 c. 6 l. 1 A word to Saints to begin their Hallelujah apace p. 135 136 c. 12 l. 1 A word to Magistrates p. 1●9 c. 13 l. 1 A word both to Magistrates and Ministers p. 174 ib. A word to the builders of these days p. 197 c. 14 l. 1 A word to the Anabaptists in Dublin and Waterford· p. 334 c. 5 l. 2 A word to the wicked indeed p. 430 c. 6 l. 2 A word more to Church-members p. 455 c. 7 l. 2 A word to women p. 476 c. 8 l. 2 A word more to the Churches p. 510 511 521 c. 9 l. 2 Word preached makes not Churches p. 63 c. 5 l. 1 Word preached is not the indelible note of a true Church p. 79 c. 6 l. 1 Word of God must be the ground of our perswasion p. ●45 c. 1 l. 2 Word of God the instrumental cause of the will p. 261 c. 2 l. 2 Word converting and confirming 404 414 11 Exp. 6 2 Word awakens 397 411 419 420 422 426 ib. Word and Spirit twin testimonies p. 374 ib. Work of Churches too hard for men p. 139 c. 13 l. 1 Work of Ministers and Saints is by the Word to ruine errors p. 175 ib. Work of God in these days is to bring all into one p. 330 c. 5 l. 2 Workings under the Law heavy p. 415 c. 6 l. 2 Works how Presbyterians and Papists agree in them p. 473 477 478 c. 9 l. 2 Worship of God is in Spirit and Truth p. 1 c. 1 l. 1 Work that God is about in these days p. 24 25 26 c. 3 l. 1 The world will finde Churches too hard for them p. 90 c. 7 l. 1 World much convinced by publick imbodying p. 281 c. 2 l. 2 Worships that are false we must separate from p. 76 c. 6 l. 1 Y. Forty years hence of Christs coming to reign p. 24 c. 3 l. 1 Ynough and to spare we shall have ere long p. 36 c. 3 l. 1 Yron heads p. 160 c. 13 l. 1 Yron vide Iron Z. Zeal that is false fights against God in his Saints and Churches p. 340 c. 5 l. 2 One word for the Printer Honest friends FRown not for who shall throw the first stone you or I You that are without faults finde faults but make not faults I fear we shall meet with more Errata's at the end of our lives then at the end of these lines though here be many and more then my leasure can enter together into the list but being they are baggage it shall cost the less care onely this I believe that the miscarriages of the Press and mens practises with some mens malicious misconstructions will have alike look and language and may express Light a Lie Truth Ruth Mystery Mysty c. For for the most part their fault is to diminish and detract But it may be some men will read with a Romish gloss or glance as the Prelate or Presbyteer and then I look they that will willingly read as in Luk. 15 8. for domum everrit domum ever●it for when they should sweep the house they would pull it down So that instead of me●ding worth I must look for some to be rending words till they make them worse then they are it may be as bad as themselves a● last But to thee Honest Reader I wish with all my heart that I had more leasure to direct and you lift and light to correct I hope wee shall meet with some candid Christians and honest men who will amend in the life what is amisse in the leafe and with some patient well-minded Readers who will turn the other side to make it true sence for the Printers sake and sentence for the Publishers sake Passe by the Typographick errors for his sake and the Hypographick errors for mine For I could not follow the Presse and the Presse would not follow me And to be ingenuous I shall finde out some faults for you many from you but most in you that are ever and most finding fault Errata's in the Epistles PAge 17. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fourth month p. 30. line 27. r. deeply incumbent upon Magistrates p. 26. l. 1. r. Christ's p. 29. l. 29. r. you know what I p. 37. l. 18. margin r. redire i● principium p. 55. in margin against l. 6. obliterate the p 70. l 9. in margin r. the way to make it p. 64. l 19 r. him in i. e. in one p. 63 l. 37. r Churches p. 73. l. 37. r. do save p. 79. in verses l. ult r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Book p 5. l. 27 r. Policie p. ●4 in margent against l. 16. r. loose and l 24 r. because that they p. 15. l. 32. r. cheat us p. 16. l. 1. r. Discipline p. 17. l. 15 r. viz. in the Church p. 23. l. 7. r. and five and thirty dayes l. 29. r. that it is in p. 30. l. 3. r. that holds p. 34. in margent against 17. and 18. l. r. Form are least in Spirit p. 39. l 6. r. Sun p. 46. l. 21. r. Hermes p 50. l. 37. r. others and obliterare all p. 54. l. 14. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 56. in margent under object r. is n●t p. 63. l 7. r. p 59. and in p. 65. against l. 16 margent r. Churches which they have in p. 66. l. 14. r. sorts p 67. l. 28. r. they obliterate ye p. 69. l. 9. r. new Ranters or old Protestants p. 72. l. 23. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 109. l. 1. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 23. r. undeniable p 86 in margent against l. 25. r. love p 96. l. 1. Contents r. The second part of the s●cond c l. ●ast Contents r. any Church p. 139.

word is an adjunct separable and not a note essential and inseparable for certainly as sensitiva facul●as is in a man yet not the true note of a man because it is but a common adjunct and not proprium in quarto modo as wee say So preaching of the Gospel is in the Church but not the note of the Church as all the Popish and Antichristian Antagonists would have it because it is a common adjunct and others have it also But for the Sacraments as I said before they must be administred in due order and to due persons and in a due way of worship and Discipline otherwise without doubt Saints may and must remove and separate for Gods greater glory and their better and more spirituall edification as Psal. 55.6 And I said O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I flye away and be at rest I would hasten v. 8. my escape Why so would David separate so what is the reason see verse 11. Wickednesse is in the midst thereof Deceit and guile depart not from her streets Wherefore dearest Friends read with a resolution to submit and that yee may no more be separates from Christ nor Schismaticks to your owne poore soules the Father of our Lord Jesus fill your hearts with that Spirit which writes these things unto you Little Children Fathers and young men looke about you for wee live in these last dayes wherein we expect most Joel 2. plentifull out-powrings of that blessed Spirit which convinces the world of Truth Righteousnesse and Judgement Joh. 16.8 And to conclude thinke it not enough to have outward Ordinances in Parish-Churches though God knows they be but as Pharaohs lean kine eating up the Fat as the preaching the word the holy Sacraments c. why Sirs to let them loose and run ranging about without bit or bridle may be to your cost and it may be they may dash your brains out at last but it is Christ must curbe and correct and direct them that they may be administred in due order to you within his line and limitation and then they will be blessings It is upon record of Austin that he would not say his mother gave him milke but God by his mother so will God by these means and Ordinances feed and fatten your soules in Sion and in his particular Churches and Assemblies But alas a day how lamentably men live as to Christs order Ordinances so they be but rich and bear a religious outside as K. John once said of a Buck when he had opened it O it is fat and yet it never heard Masse So because many thrive and live in credit rich and accounted religious that are not of the Churches many make little of it but I hope the Lord will convince them by his light And so much for the first part of the Forme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zaba Chap. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Aguddah This shewes the second part of the second part of the Forme of Church-fellowship First that the Saints separate as before are to be knit gathered and united together into one Body THe first part of the Forme is well proved but it is likely not so well approved without the second doe second it viz. That the Saints separated from the worlds false-wayes and worships and from all Parochiall Churches unwarrantable Discipline and Directories doe forth-with set upon Christs owne way and worship Discipline and Doctrine delivered to the Saints for after they come out of Babylon they must hast away into Zion or else they will be lost in the Wildernesse For what is the cause of so much complaint all men with the Ministers make up and downe and deplorable out-cryes of many that are mixed and loud lamentations are heard out of the Wildernesse of many wooded wilder'd and wandring and at a most miserable losse And what is the reason of all this I pray that so many Professors that have been abundantly precise and strict in their practises and curious in their conversation and such free frequenters of the meanes daily and diligent followers of their Ministers and so exceedingly holy in times past have since their separating from Parishes and Popish Institutions and Injunctions forsaken all publicke Dispensations denied Ordinances followed Familisme and run on even to Rantisme And what is the reason of all this Indeed I am ready now to reprove those Ministers whom most imagine without reproofe though able and otherwise accounted eminently godly yet too too slack and remisse in setting forward the building of the Lords house that say it is time enough and what needs such hast whilst they themselves dwell in their seiled houses the Lords lyes waste and worne out of mind O sad Consider your wayes saith the Lord of Hoasts How can yee be content to sit at ease to hold good Livings and to feed upon the fat of the flock and yet so easily to neglect them as to let them stray in the Wildernesse Oh! are not such who make the sorest and saddest complaints of them they call Anabaptists Seekers Familists Ranters c. are not such very much the cause of their miscarriage For seeing Saints must separate from such false wayes and worships why doe they not lead them then into Christs owne wayes and worship according to Gospel-order but suffer the poore soules and out of honest zeale I am perswaded at first to be lost in strange and straying untrue and untrodden paths Truly truly in all my applications to some very learned godly and most eminent Preachers with all the pregnant and pressing Arguments I could provide for this purpose that I might prevaile with them for and perswade them unto this work of the Lord as Fellow-labourers with me therein I found their Answers they made me me thoughts ever to smell too much of the grease of great Livings or else of man-pleasing or else and for the most part of Tyth-oppressions they may thank themselves that so many run into erroneous wayes For besides a Segregation a visible aggregation to the Lord Christ in his wayes and worship with the Saints separate making up one body of Beleevers i● of an absolute and undeniable necessity and followes next which I now come to Such Saints as are separate from Parish-wayes and Popish worships c. being ashamed of them and of all the follies of those false Church-states are forth-with to see the forme and fashion of the Lords house and not before are they to enter in Ezek. 43.10 11. and this is the Lords Law ver 12. now to such I shall shew the forme which followes for in the formation of this new Creation Christian Beleevers are to become first one body secondly a body Independent as it is termed by most But to the first in this Chapter viz. That Saints separate as before from the multitude as Acts 19.9 it

unfeigned without flatteries Revel 14.5 having no guile or as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is no Hypocrisie falshood for mentiri is contra mentem ire reason 3 no defect of that nature Hebrew Mum Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is found in their mouths but it is found so in the multitudes Besides reason 4 because they are the Virgins that follow the Lamb Rev. 14.4 Virgins have the fin●st and sweetest voices and tunes and songs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hid and unknown to them without that are but men so Saints are hidden ones or as in Hebrew Porah the fruitfullest and followers of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into all conditions Now they know best the notes of high and low conditions and dispensations and they onely keep the tune best according reason 5 to the times they live in Besides they have grace in their hearts and have Christ dwelling in them richly and abundantly Col. 3.16 Now such in their praises to God which is their hardest and highest duty of a Christian do return of his own fulness and commodities in kinde grace for grace Joh. 1.16 and glorifie God Psal. 50.23 Whilst mixt Congregations abundantly abase God and rob him of his honor and in their best services and sacrifices bringing him rather the ratlings or what they can spare then the fatlings of their lives every day or the calves of their lips lives and loves Vse 1. It appears then by the bright beams of our Sun use 1 which shines in the Scripture-Elements in this Hemisphere of his Church here below That Parishes in this point are far from true Churches They fall short of the final cause not considering what conduces most to Gods glory but what is most for their advantage and gain this is the godliness of most Parochially opinionated In your Parishes prophane ones all sorts of sinners swearers drunkards whoremasters c. are all suffered as of their Churches which ought not to keep in or if they creep in ought to be cast out of Christs-Church wherein God is most to be glorified I say in such a Church as consists of Saints separated as before and that will not willingly or knowingly admit of or keep in carnal and openly sinful men c. Or thus The Members of Christs Church are the fittest to set forth the praises of God but the Members of that Church which consists of Saints separated and qualified as before are the fittest to set forth his praises Ergo c. Parishes are excommunicated for such a rabble-rout as have and yet do rob God of his due honor and praise and glory But Use 2. Better is the End of a thing then the beginning Eccl. use 2 7.8 Wherefore come forth ye that fear the Lord from those Dungeons of darkness those Babylons of unbelievers and lewd livers and Synagogues of Satan what is the fruit of those things whereof we are now ashamed And dearest hearts whom I bear in my bosom before my Father are any of you fond of Zion see that your End be good and then that the means be conducing and answerable thereunto The End though first and principal in your intention yet is the last and ultimate in the execution yea this End viz. the glory and praise of God is to be the Alpha and Omega the first and last of all or else our best will be but frustra agere bad in our building Wherefore Friend consider what is it we promise or propose to our selves sayes our Saviour Christ Luke 14.28 30 c. Which of you intending to build a Tower sits not down first to count the cost If he can finish it Least he be mocked and it be said he began to build but could not finish it This is but ordinary wisdom to weigh the End first and whither you can accomplish it or not or are fit to go through stitch with it or not or else what a scandal will you bring to the Gospel and dishonor to him whose name you profess Consider the End of your conversation Heb. 13.7 that is Look wishfully upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consider what is the end of your ways walking c. is all for Gods honor and glory 2. This must be the principal End of your entring into the Church of Christ to honor him with the same honor wherewith the Son honored the Father and you shall receive the end of your faith viz. salvation 1 Pet. 1.9 To conclude Sing praises sing praises like the Nightingale who spends whole nights in her kinde to sing forth the praises of God as if the day were too short every Man must be a Preacher every Creature a Text every Occasion a Doctrine every Blessing a Reason every Providence a Proof every Thanksgiving an Use Men and Angels the Auditors and the whole Sermon is Gods honor and glory And yet how many like unwise Archers shoot and know not at what mark And others vile wretches praise with their mouths but they are like Samsons honey out of the mouth of a Beast or like the Quarester that sung Gloria Patri in the Church and Carmina B●ccho in the Tavern others there be that would blazon our Christs Arms Herald like but it must be their own device But the best flower in these Gardens enclosed to make God a Garland with is the Coronation flower to lay all our crown and glory at his feet When Thales had learnt Mandrita the Philosopher an admirable invention of the motion of the Heavens Oh Sir sayes Mandrita how shall I requite you No way sayes Thales Milesius but by acknowledging you learnt it of me So the Lord requires of us to give him the glory of all we learn in his Churches by his Spirit of the motions of the Heavens CHAP. XIII 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alluph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the true Church rightly defined that Christ alone is the Master Builder Ruler Repairer Head of Gold Lord Law-giver without any other Partner Paramount Competitor or Corrival whatsoever THen the Reed which hath measured both the true and false Church state presents unto us as vaste a disproportion and difference in all particulars essential as is possible between Parishes and true Churches For from the Essential Material Formal Objective Organical and Final causes we finde the Church of Christ lies thus defined from the false Antichristian Church which also we shall define by the rule of contraries The true Church of Christ then is 1. A society of Believers sanctified in Christ Jesus 2. Separate from the world false-ways and worships united together into one Body Independent or having a plenary power within its self without the least subordination to any but Christ 3. having the special presence of God in the midst of her 4. and being gathered and ordered by Christs rule alone 5. all her Members freely