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A95869	Christ and the Church: or Parallels, in three books. In the first ye have the harmony between Christ and the foregoing types, by which he was fore-shadowed in the Old Testament, both persons and things. In the second the agreement between Christ and other things, to which he is compared in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In the third the agreement between the Church and the types, by which it was foreshadowed in the Old Testament; and other resemblances, by which it is set forth in the holy Scriptures. By Henry Vertue, M.A. rector of Alhallows Hony-lane.	Vertue, Henry, d. 1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing V274; Thomason E975_1; ESTC R203902	335,049	439

yet but one Christ And to come lower there are many Sun-beames yet but one Sun one Light many branches and arms of a tree yet but one tree so in the Church there are many members yet but one body 2. In the multitude and variety of members though the body be but one yet it hath many members the body is not all eye nor all ear but there be eyes ears hands feet c. And these are greatly different each from other some are more honourable others lesse some stronger others weaker some have more excellent abilities and serve for more noble uses then others So is it in the Church the body of the Church is but one but the particular members of it are many and they greatly different some are set in higher place neerer to Christ the head others lower at a greater distance and more remote from him Accordingly some are furnisht with more excellent gifts and laid out for more noble employments then others As in a great Family there are divers members greatly different some neerer to the Master of the Family some more remote there are Children nearer then any Servant and among the Servants one is Steward and another is a Scullion in the Kitchin And in an Army the Army is one yet there are Multitudes and several Companies of Souldiers and they different in Use and Honour one from another there are Captaines Lievtenants Sergeants and common Souldiers some neerer in place to the General of the Army and some more remote So in the Church it is according to the wise disposition of God hear Saint Paul Rom. 12.6 Having gifts different according to the grace that is given to us And again 1 Cor. 7.7 Every man hath his proper gift of God one after this manner and another after that Yea hear him largely disputing of this subject 1 Cor. 12.4 Vers 5. Vers 6 Vers 8 9 10 11. There are diversities of gifts There are diversities of Administrations There are diversities of operations To one is given the word of wisedome to another the word of knowledge to another faith c. All this concernes the variety of gifts which arises from and is according to the variety of members of which he adds Vers 17.18 If the whole body were an eye where were the hearing and if all were hearing where were the smelling But now God hath placed the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him And finally in the application of the comparison he speakes more plainly Now ye saies he to the Christians at Corinth are the body of Christ and members in particular Vers 27.28 29. And God hath set some in the Church First Apostles secondarily prophets c. Are all Apostles c. 3. The resemblance holds in the usefulness of the members There is not any the least member of the natural body Natura nil facit frustra which hath not its use it s made for some purpose or other Nature doth nothing in vain much lesse the God of Nature To say nothing of the eyes and ears the very feet are useful to the body and so is any other member that may be least of all set by hear we the Apostle confessing as much The eye cannot say to the hand Vers 21.22 I have no need of you nor the head to the foot I have no need of you Nay much more those members of the body that are more feeble are necessary In the Commonwealth the greatest cannot miss the meanest there is not the Noblest Personage to whom the meanest day-labourer or Artificer is not useful In the Army the Common Souldier is of use to the General so in the Church the meanest Christian is of use to the Church and to the most eminent members of it he is useful not as the eye or ear yet at least as the foot to the natural body the poorest member of the Church hath received some ability or other in some measure or other by which in some way or other he may be useful not by Preaching not by Ruling yet by his pious Examples or fervent Prayers for the Church and the principal members of it the poor Mouse may be useful to the Lion being bound with cords by gnawing the cords asunder and setting him at liberty so may the Christian of least account in the Church be beneficial to them of highest Note and Place by his prayers procuring at the hands of God his enlargement from distresses into which he may be brought as did those Christians assembled for Saint Peter Act 12. Rom. 15.30.31 Eph 6 19 1 Thess 5.25 2 Thess 3.1 2 or fitnesse for and blessing and success in his great and important affaires St. Paul acknowledging this doth frequently and earnestly desire the help of the Churches in their prayers to God for him 4. The Resemblance holds further in the point of sympathizing The Members of the natural Body sympathize each with other both in good and evil Of this the Apostle says Whether one member suffers 1 Cor. 12.26 all the members suffer with it or whether one member be honored all the members rejoyce with it If the Foot be foul the Hand wipes it if one treads on the Toe not the Toe but the Tongue cries out Why do you tread on me but if any notorious wrong be offered to the Body or any Member of it ye shall have the Voyce lamenting the Eye weeping the Heart sighing the Hands pleading the Head hanging down and every part compassionate No less is there a sympathizing between the Members of the Body in respect of any good betiding the whole Body or any Member of it Hath any sick man obtained health ye shall have every Member expressing joy in it's own way for the health of the Body so restored No less is it so in the Church of God The prosperity of the Church or of any Member of it affects every true and living Member of the Church and puts joy into him as if it were his own prosperity The dejected and afflicted estate of the Church doth no less fill them with sorrow and heaviness This we see required by the Apostle Rejoyce with them that rejoyce Rom. 12 1● mourn with them that mourn And so we see it often practised Look upon Nehemiah that godly Courtier it fared well with him he was Cup-bearer to the great King Artaxerxes he wanted no conveniency for his own particular and yet Neh. 1.3 4 When report was made to him of the distresses of Jerusalem he sat down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven And when the King asked him Why is thy countenance sad 2 2● 3 seeing thou art not sick mark his Answer Why should not my countenance be sad when the City the place of my Fathers sepulchres lies waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire This was the affection of the godly Jews

By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down yea we wept when we remembered Sion Psalm 137.1 2 3 we hanged our Harps upon the Willows and when they that led us Captives required of us to sing one of the Songs of Sion we answered How shall we sing the Lords Songs in a strange Land And then they add Verse 5 6 If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Acts 7.58 59 and 8. 2 Acts 12.5 Saint Steven is stoned and the whole Church made lamentation Saint Peter is imprisoned and the Church prays On the other side the Gentiles obtained mercy Acts 11.18 and the Saints at Jerusalem glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life So they were affected with Saint Pauls Conversion They heard says the Apostle that he which persecuted us in times past G●l 1.22 23 now preaches the Faith which once he destroyed and they glorified God in me Let us then learn to carry our selves towards our Fellow-Christians as to our Fellow-Members 1. We all make one Body under one Head Christ therefore let us take heed of Schism and Disunion and endeavor to keep Unity The Apostle urges it upon this ground Endeavoring says he to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Eph. 4 3 4 for there is one Body and the sequel is good We are all of us one Body and shall we rend our selves one from another God forbid Harken we rather to Saint Paul Beseeching us in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ That there be no Divisions among us 1 Gen 1.10 but that we be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgment The counsel is good for us to take which Joseph gave to his Brethren Gen. 45.24 See that ye fall not out by the way It 's good for every one of us to say one to another as Abraham to Lot Gen. 13.8 Let there be no contention between me and thee c. for we are Brethren yea for we are all of us one Body of Christ and every one of us Members one of another Remember we That God whom we call Father 2 Cor. 13.11 is the God of Love and Peace and Christ whose Members we profess our selves to be is the Prince of Peace Isai 9.6 Heb. 7.1 and the King of Salem the King of Peace and the Gospel which we profess the Gospel of Peace Eph. 6.15 Col. 3.15 and that we are called unto Peace in one Body What then will better become us then the study of Peace Remember that our mutual Jars will make our Enemies sport and our concord will not a little vex them for by it we shall put them out of hope of prevailing against us Insuperabiles si inseparabiles we shall be invincible if we be inseparable A single Arrow is soon broken not so a bunch of Arrows fast bound together and onely our mutual disagreements will put them in hope to spoil and mischieve us one after another Let Moab Edom 2 Chron. 20 and Ammon rise each against other and they overthrow one another Jehosaphat shall not need to strike a stroke It 's a received Maxim of Enemies Divide them Divide impera and so get the upper hand of them Let us not then give them so great advantage against us but rather as the Apostle advises us Let us minde the things that make for Peace Rom. 14.19 Let us not be ready to do wrong but be ready to put up wrongs and for peace sake part with our Rights in apparent injuries forgive in doubtful things make the fairest constructions and listen not to Tale-bearers Rom. 16.17 and as the Apostle advises Mark them that cause Divisions and avoyd them Thus let us do 2 Cor. 13 1● and the God of Love and Peace shall be with us 2. Let us be profitable and serviceable one to another in the faithful employment of the Talents which we have received So are the Members of the natural Body so let us be Having the Wealth of the World let us be ready to distribute Having Wisdom be we ready to give advice and counsel to others that need and crave our help this way So according to our abilities let us warn them that are unruly 1 Thess 5.14 comfort the feeble-hearted and support the weak Let us consider one another to provoke to Love and good Works Heb. 10.24 Can we do no more yet at least having the Spirit of Prayer let us employ it for the behoof of the whole Church and of one another Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Psal 122.6 Remember That as the Eye hath a faculty of Seeing the Ear of Hearing the Hand of Working the Tongue of Speaking the Feet of Walking not for themselves alone but for the good of the whole Body and each of other So the Gifts that God hath bestowed on us he hath given not for ostentation nor for our own private use onely 1 Cor. 12.7 but to profit withall therefore so let us use them Thus shall we honor Christ our Head and God our Father We hear what the Apostle says of Alms-deeds The Ministration of this Service abounds by many Thanksgivings to God and this holds equally true of the employment of our several Abilities for the profit of others And so we shall provide for our own Comfort for as to that unprofitable Servant that hid his Talent in a Napkin Mat. 25.28 30 it 's said Take the Talent from him and Cast him into outer darkness so to any one that is faithful in the employment of his Talent for the good of others it shall be said Well done good and faithful Servant Verse 23 Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. 3. Let those Members of the Church that are of highest note learn not to despise but to have in good esteem their Brethren and Fellow-Christians though they be not so richly gifted or laid out to so noble employments as themselves for there is not the meanest but hath his Gift in his measure and so not the meanest but is profitable in his way It 's so in the natural Body It is so much more in the Church Hear the Apostle The Eye cannot say to the Hand I have no need of thee 1 Cor. 12.21 22 nor the Head to the Foot I have no need of thee Nay much more those Members of the Body that seem to be more feeble are necessary Therefore let not the rich despise the poor nor the strong the weak nor the ablest Minister the meanest Hearer but if we see in them the Evidences of Faith and Holiness whatsoever they are in other respects let us embrace them and give them the right Hand of Fellowship God