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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32819	A serious examination of the independent's catechism and therein of the chief principles of non-conformity to, and separation from the Church of England / by Benjamin Camfield ... ; in two parts, the first general, the second more particular.	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1668 (1668)	Wing C383; ESTC R6358	213,588	410

subject of all other solemn instituted worship 2 Prayer vvith Thanksgiving 3 Singing of Psalms 4 Preaching the word 5 Administration of the Sacraments of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. 6 Discipline and rule of the Church collected and settled most of vvhich have also sundry particular duties relating to them and subservient unto their due observation 1 Matth. 28.19 20. Act. 2.41 42. 1 Cor. 12 28. Eph. 4.11 12. Matt. 18 17 18 19. 1 Cor. 4.17 7.17 Act. 14.23 Titus 1.5 1 Timoth. 3.15 2 1 Timoth. 2.1 Acts 6.4 Acts 13.2 3. 3 Ephes 5.19 Coloss 3.16 4 2 Tim. 4.2 Act. 2.42 1 Cor. 14.3 Act. 6.2 Heb. 13.7 5 Matt. 28.19 Matt. 26.26 27. 1 Cor. 11.23 6 Matt. 18.17 18 19. Rom. 12.6 7 8. Rev. 2.3 I will not dispute the number of these Gospel-institutions here enumerated but take them in order as they are reckon'd up applying as I pass the General Rule That nothing must be done in or about any of these institutions of Gospel-worship but what Christ hath commanded that others may see how well the Catechist keeps to his rule And then adding where the matter shall require it some truer accounts of the points discoursed on First then of the calling gathering and setling of Churches with their officers as the seat and subject of all other solemn instituted worship It may be to ordinary heads some difficulty to understand How setled Churches with their officers are the subject and seat of all other instituted worship since preaching of the Word reckon'd up by him as the fourth Gospel-institution must be premised in order to the calling gathering and setling of all Churches But I will not insist upon this scruple We will consider what is offered us 1. Of Churches 2. Of Church-officers And 1. Of Churches CHAP. II. The Catechist's general doctrine of Churches proposed Proofs from the Catholick Church or the National Church of the Jews impertinent to his particular Churches The Catechist's texts for Christ's institution and appointment of such particular Churches as the foundation-ordinance of Gospel-worship examined St. Cyprian's comment upon those words Where two or three are gather'd to-together in my name I am with them Particular Churches acknowledged to have been intended and approved by Christ though not in the Catechist's sense nor by the cogency of his arguments The proper difference between the Jewish and Christian Church stated Cat. p. 89. Q. WHat is an instituted Church of the Gospel Answ A society of persons called out of the world or their natural worldly state by the administration of the word and spirit unto the obedience of the faith or the knowledge and worship of God in Christ joyned together in an holy band or by special agreement for the exercise of the Communion of Saints for the due observation of all the ordinances of the Gospel p. 108. Q. By what means do persons so called become a Church of Christ Answ They are constituted a Church and interested in the rights power and priviledges of a Gospel-Church by the will promise authority and law of Jesus Christ upon their own voluntary consent and engagement to walk together in the due subjection of their souls and consciences unto his authority as their King Priest and Prophet and in an holy observation of all his commands ordinances and appointments Now in the explication of these Answers the Catechist declares First What Church he treats of p. 90. viz. Not the Catholick Church of Elect Believers nor the universality of Professors of the Gospel but particular Churches and these particular Churches p. 91. as opposed unto a National Church Those proofs then which relate to the Catholick Church which is the body of Christ are not to be reduced unto this matter Such as Ephes 2.19 20 21 22. Ephes 4.16 insisted on by him p. 115. and elsewhere p. 115. Those proofs also which are fetched from analogy as resemblance with the National church of the Jews are to this matter impertinent Such as Exod. 24.3 Deut. 5.25 referr'd to p. 92. And again with Josh 24.18 21 22. p. 112. p. 92. 112. Secondly His next work is to prove and demonstrate That such particular Churches are themselves an ordinance of the New Testament instituted and appointed by Christ And his proofs are these p. 94. First They are appointed and approved by Christ Matt 18.15 16 17 18 19 20. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone c. Then tell it the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican Verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven c. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them That this could not be the Church of the Jews p. 95. he takes pains to prove p. 95. A conceit I should think not very likely to come into any one's head about it And then concludes That no Society p. 97. but that of a particular Church of the Gospel could be here intended None I presume will deny but that particular societies of Christians were intended and are approved by Christ the only question is of such particular gathered and covenanting-Churches as the Catechist treats of and the onely thing I here examine is the pertinencie of his proofs for such And the truth is particular Churches are indeed here supposed by Christ but not in this place instituted and appointed Approved and allowed here they are but not here appointed but then this cannot be here inferr'd convincingly neither from the word Church which doth most probably here denote the Governours of the Church only the Church-representative as we are wont to speak the same with those You that follow those that have the power from God of binding and loosing v. 18. The Apostles and their Successors the rules of the Christian Assemblies to whom alone this power is given by Christ S. John 20.21 22 23 verses And for the last clause Where two or three are gather'd together in my name it may not be improper to add the words of St. Cyprian upon it against the Novatian Schismaticks who had it frequently in their mouths Let them not Nec se quidam vanà interpretatione decipiant quod dixetit Dominus Ubicunque fuerint duo aut tres Corruptores Evangelii atque interpretes falsi extrema ponunt superiora praetereunt patris partis nisi velit patris diaboli memores partem subdolè comprimentes Ut ipsi ab Ecclesia scissi sunt ita capituli unius sententiam seindunt Dominus enim cum discipulis suis unitatem suaderet pacem Dico inquit vobis