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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25343	Ancient truth revived, or, A True state of the antient, suffering Church of Christ, commonly (but falsly) called Brownists, living in London, and other places of this nation wherein I. Is shewed (in the preface) the state of the gospel-church, from the time of Christ's ascension, to the end of the world, gathered out of the book of Revelations, II. The confession of our faith, grounded on the doctrine of the apostles and prophets, III. By vvhom the gospel vvas first preached in this island, IV. Our practice in the worship of God, according to the practice of the primitive church, with an explanation of every ordinance, and vvho have right to administer the same, V. The first day of the week proved to be the gospel-sabbath.		1677 (1677)	Wing A3076; ESTC R40283	61,216	57

of many to wit Luther and Calvin at that time casting of the little Book the Light of Gods written Word revealed by his Spirit to them called all to come and see both by their Preaching and Printing found out not long before the Judgment of the great Whore So not only many of Gods Elect were enlightned and did forsake her but also Kings did begin to hate her as God promised As King Henry the 8th of this Nation who destroyed out of this Land the Lord Abbots and Cardinals And after him that worthy Prince his Son Edward the Sixth sent away a great part of the Swarms of Locusts to wit Jesuits Monks aand Friars of all sorts black white and gray and turned their Monasteries into Hospitals But as the Temple after the Captivity out of old Babylon was forty six years in building by reason of wicked hinderances to wit Tobias Sanballer and his Crew So was the Lords spiritual Building of which the former was a Figure hindred in Queen Maries days until Queeen Elizabeths days of happy memory according to the Lords Promise was put into her heart with her honourable Council who by the authority given her did as with a Besom sweep away abundance of those poysoned Locusts and Scorpions that had by the Doctrine of See the Epistle to Mr. Bacon 's Book entituled the Reliques of Rome or 17 Errors in Queen Elizabeths days sent packing to Rome from whence they had their birth but some are crept in here again Free-will and the like stung and venomed every Conscience that they could bear no wholsom Doctrine Which Locusts that came out of the bottomless Pit we shall not presume to interpret lest their Brethren be angry but rather hope we may without offence to any only give you the Judgment of the learned Ministers in Queen Elizabeth's days who in the margent of the great Bibble in quarto and in folio published by the Queens authority have on Rev. 9.3 expounded the Locusts to be false Teachers Hereticks worldly and subtile Prelates with Monks Friars Cardinals Arch-Bishops Bishops Doctors Batchelors Masters that forsake Christ to maintain false Doctrine Moreover in this Queens days the Lord to help forward his spiritual Building raised many famous Instruments To mention one to an hundred namely Henry Barrow John Greenwood John Penry Henry Ainsworth John Robinson John Turner who by the sence of the little Book which was sweet in their mouths but bitter in their bellies that is a wo to them if they did not publish the same made manifest both by their Preaching and * See H. Barrow 's Discovery his Answer to Giff. Greenwood against read Prayer Jo. Penries with the Examination of the two former and their Answers Ainsworth's Counterpoison his Defence of Holy Scripture his Arrow against Idolatry his Communion of Saints his Annotations on the 5 Books of Moses with the Psalms Canticles Robinsons Justification of Separation The Confession of Faith sent to many Vniversities in several Nations Turner's heavenly Conference for Sions Saints VVriting according to the golden Reed given to measure the spiritual Building the Doctrine of the Temple Altar and VVorshippers VVhich Phrase of Temple and Altar is taken from the Prophets the Record of the Temple built after the Captivity which Christ when he was come in the flesh taught us it signified his Humanity John 2.19 21. God manifested in the flesh The b Altar figured the Doctrine of his Oblation and Mediation for his Church and the whole measuring the Temple Altar and VVorshippers signifying the Restoring of the Christian Religion from the Apostacie of Antichrist and more particularly the Temple figured Christ truly professed for his Person and Doctrine of true Christianity and the Constitution of his Church therein and the Altar the Doctrine of his Oblation and c Mediation for his Church and the VVorshippers are faithful Christians which worship God in Spirit and in Truth and not according to the appointment of Mahomet nor the appointment of the Pope but according to the appointment of the Lord Jesus the only Lord and Law-giver to his Church and Arch-Bishop of our Souls contrary to the Heresies and Abominations of Antichrist who together with all that obey his Orders in the service of God make up one Body together the Man of Sin a 1 Cor. 9.16 b Rev. 6.9 Heb. 13.10 12. Lev. 4.7 c Rev. 8.3 So that by these and the like Servants of the Lord aforesaid whose Doctrine wrought effectually in the hearts of God's Elect so that there were many famous true Churches planted in this Nation and other Parts for whose sake the Blessing of God promised was on this and other Nations as it is written a I will make them saith the Lord and the Places round about my Hill a Blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in his season and there shall be showers of blessings inwardly and outwardly Love to God walking after him in his b Commands and one to another in neighbourly c Love and Unity which sweet and heavenly Work of God among Christians in this Nation the Aged that remember former days 50 or 60 years ago or more can witness to the same and lament the want thereof now So that when God raiseth up his true Ministers to hold forth his Truth as it is in Jesus it did prepare all degrees to Mercies But on the contrary now these Mercies are despised God in his just judgment sendeth in his Wrath upon lukewarm Professors or Christians strong delusions in the increase of false Teachers by their Errors to prepare all Degrees that are led away by them to Judgment And this was wofully experienced of old in the Church of e Israel as among Christians now After the Lord had delivered them out of Captivity had built both City and Temple and restored his true Worship when Christ came to begin his Ministry among them they were so corrupted in thirty years time that there was scarce Faith f found in Israel let this Age mind that The Temple was made a House of h Merchandise God's Law made void by their Tradition and the rest perverted from the true i meaning by the glosse of the Pharisees and they divided into divers Sects some Pharisees some Sadduces and some Herodians And though these Sects were divided one against another yet all could agree together against Christ as the Psalmist complained k They generally despised all the Counsel of Christ who sought to reclaim them being faithless They who seem'd to be affected with Christ when Christ taught them the Doctrines of Faith because by Nature they could not understand them they then l forsook him VVhich is the general state of Professors now who cannot endure any Doctrine except it sute with their natural capacity And in the end the Jews with the Romans crucified him and killed and persecuted afterwards his Servants for which God's Judgments hastened on them m as Christ foretold So that Josephus faith that Titus

than the preaching of the Word inasmuch as it assureth and confirmeth the same unto the Faithful as the very name of a Seal and use of Sealing in the Scripture teacheth John 3.33 Eph. 1.13 4.30 Jer. 32.10 2 Tim. 2.19 John 6.27 As in earthly Affairs it skilleth not what hand writ the Condition of a Covenant but heed is to be taken that the Seal is fixt by him that hath authority to confirm the same how much more abundantly in this weighty work should this care and heed be taken in Sealing of our everlasting Covenant wherein is contained all the Promises of God in Christ to us of our eternal Inheritance which is confirmed to us by the administration of Sacramental Signs Moreover there is the like for Baptism as were the figures in the Law for it is written of the Levites and Priests of the Tribe of Levi they shall teach Jacob thy Judgments and Israel thy Law they shall put Incense before thy Face and burnt-Offerings upon thy Altar continually which are noted to be particular works of the Priests that came of Levi and is joyn'd to them with their teaching the Law yet it was lawful in Israel for any that could of what Tribe soever to preach prophesy or expound the Scriptures but when Vzziah would have burnt Incense on the Altar it was told him that it appertained not to him but to the Priests that were consecrated thereunto 2 Chro. 26.16 17. And as the Word might be preached by any in the Church yea and things figured by Incense to wit Prayer Luk. 1.10 performed by all but the Figures themselves administred by none save such as God hath thereunto consecrated even so now the Word may be pubished or preached by Men out of office in the Church as aforesaid but the Sign or Seal which seals the same may be administred only by them whom Christ hath called to the Work of his Ministry even Pastors and Teachers Eph. 4.11 Again the Comparison made by the Apostle of the honour of the Levitical Priesthood not taken of any but the called of God as was Aaron And the calling of Christ to the Office of his Priesthood may teach us the like for Christ's Ministry is more honourable than that of Aaron therefore the insealing Ordinances of Water-Baptism and the Lords Supper belongeth to Men in Office to wit Pastor or Teacher Ministers under Christ Eph. 4.10 11. as aforesaid Again John for his Office and Work surnamed the Baptist was called and sent of God for the performance of his Ministry before Christ came and that not for preaching only but in special and by name for Baptizing as it is written He sent me to baptize therefore called the Baptist which Title belongeth to no Christian since no not to the Apostles though they did baptize Therefore in the first Institution of the Seal of the New Testament the Lord commended the same to his peculiar sent Messenger to teach us that none may administer them but those that are called and sent to that end And this the Jews acknowledged both in resorting to John for the Seal which they needed not if any other might have given the same and also by the Question which some demanded of him Why baptizest thou if thou be not the Christ nor Elias nor tha Prophet By which it appears that they held it unlawful for any to baptize but a Prophet of God Except therefore that we should hold the Baptism of Christ to be inferior to the Baptism of John we must look that such as baptize be sent and authorized by him And not as those that call themselves Baptists who assume to themselves that title which no Christian in the Apostles days durst but 't is like they do it to cover their disorderly allowance and practice they use that many among them that can preach may baptize though not in office of Pastor or Teacher Let such beware of the presumption of Corah Numb 16.15 30 31. 1 Cor. 4.6 in presuming above what is written be not laid to their charge in running upon the Administration of Christ's Ordinance before they were sent as after is noted how John Smith did baptize himself by dipping and from him they that call themselves Baptists received Baptism by succession a woful and sinful pattern Again Paul though he had this work included in his Apostleship or extraordinary Office yet it may be thought because it was not expresly mentioned at his Calling he thought himself not so much bound to baptize as to preach the Gospel for that Christ had not sent him to do it 1 Cor. 1.17 Now if Baptizing be not a work for which some are call'd and sent but that all may do it out of office to what purpose doth the Apostle urge this that Christ had not sent him to baptize Moreover the Sects in Corinth give light in this point for some followed Paul some Apollo some Cophas taking occasion as it seems by the persons that baptized them unto whom they leaned more than unto others for which cause Paul was glad because he had baptized so few of them lest any should say he baptized in his own name 1 Cor. 1.11 14 16. Also the Sacraments of the Old Testament were administred by Men call'd of God thereto As the Ark was a figure of Baptism built by Noah a Priest and Preacher of a Righteousness 1 Pet. 3.20 21. Circumcision administred by Abraham a Prophet and Patriarch and Priest Gen. 17. The private Passover by the Elders and Fathers of Families the publick Passover in the place which the Lord did chuse and that by the Ministry of Priests and Levites The Israelites unto Moses the Man of God were baptized and fed with spiritual meat and drink and to this day the Jewish Priests circumcise all their Children in their Synagogues in Germany and other places So Christ the Master did eat the Passeover with his Disciples he it was that took the Bread blessed and brake it and gave it to his Disciples at his last Supper Mat. 26.26 These things Paul urged to be minded in the Church for to what purpose are Officers chosen in the Old and New Testament but that a special Work belongeth to them which every one are not to take of themselves to do but he that is called of God lest they be guilty of as great a Judgment of Leprosy as Vzziah's Body 2 Chron. 26.16 21. in their soul's procuring God's Wrath under a good pretence as Vzza 1 Chron. 13.10 11. Numb 4.15 sealing God's Judgment and not his Favour unto them If it be objected by any that Baptism was administred by Philip a Deacon Ananias a Discipse by the Men of Cyprus and Cyrene and the like We answer That Philip baptized when he was a Deacon cannot be proved the contrary appeareth by the Deacon's Office which was to serve Tables Acts. 6.2 but Philip when he baptized was a Minister of the Word and named expresly an Evangelist Act. 21.8 which was