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A86483	An examination of sundry Scriptures alleadged by our brethren, in defence of some particulars of their church-way. Humbly submitted to the sight and censure of any judicious divine: especially of such of the reverend godly-learned Assembly as vouchsafe to read it. By R. Hollingworth, M.A. of Magd. Col. Camb. Imprimatur, Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1644.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1607-1656.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2492; Thomason E24_6; ESTC R7700	24,410	32

signifie a dispersed multitude or company that possibly never did or could meet together hence we read of a church of Nations Gen. 35.11 church of evil-doers Psal 26.5 church of the dead Prov. 21.16 church of the Righteous Psal 1.5 And the people of Israel though divided into severall domesticall Assemblies to keep the Passeover are called one Church Exod. 12.46.47 But usually an Assembly or Concio is all one with Kahal or Ecclesia whether that Assembly was orderly or disorderly good or bad lesse or greater Jer. 50.9 a church of the Nations Ezek. 32.22 Asshur and his church Acts 19.39 40. lawfull church dismissed the church When all the Israelitish men women and children were together they were but one congregation which in the Dialect of the Translatours of the New Testament is all one with one church Acts 7.38 When all the Israelites did not meet for all the members of the Jewish Church did never meet after their setling in the Land of Canaan nor all the males save thrice every yeer they that met though scarce the half or third part of them that were of the Jewish Faith and Communion were notwithstanding called all the church the whole church Josh 9.18 19. 22.12 Ezra 2.64 And when there was a great Assembly then the Scripture tells us There was a great church I set a great church a very great church Nehem. 5.7 2 Chron. 7.8 30.13 Ezra 10.1 accounting no more persons of the Church but those that were then assembled yea Simeon and Levies assembly is called a Church unto which Jacobs honour should not be united Gen. 49.6 and those many that were gathered together praying in the house of Mary are called the Church though James and his Brethren were not there not it may be the tenth part of those which in our sense were of the Jewish Church Acts 12.12 cum 5 Yea 4 or 5. in a family joyning in the worship of God are called a Church Rom. 16.5 1 Cor. 16.19 Philem. v. 2. In this sence there were many Churches among the Jews The Scripture calls them Church or congregation often and sometimes in respect of their severall Synagogues Tribes and Families Congregations Psal 74.4.8 The phrase Churches of Judaea which were in Christ seems to imply that some Churches in Judaea were not in Christ 1 Thess 2.14 Gal. 1.22 No wonder therefore if that Christians of one Country meeting in severall Synagogues Jam 2.2 Heb. 10.25 Acts 19.8 9. 22.19 Acts 13.15 16 43. and Houses Acts 12.12 Rom. 16.5 do receive the denomination of Churches which in Scripture phrase is all one with assemblies See Answ to 2. many whereof we confesse were in Galatia Macedonia c. But more particularly you say there were Churches in Galatia Ergo they were Congregationall Answ Galatia was a large Country as is intimated Acts 18.23 The Galaetians in Saint Pauls time held all Paphlagonia a part of Phrygia Cappadocia and of all the neighbouring Countries round about which after their names were called Gallograetia or Gallatia containing in them the Cities and Churches of Antioch and Laodicea as Macedonia also did include Philippi Thessalonica Berhaea c. In England a far lesse Country then either of them in former times have been severall Churches at once and yet those Churches not meerly Congregationall but Nationall rather The Churches of Galatia might for ought you alleadge to the contrary be combined one to another as the Churches of England Scotland Holland France are respectively combined For the Apostle speaks of them as one lump 1 Cor. 5.6 cum Gal. 5.9 and wisheth the anathematizing or excommunicating of him that troubleth them Gal. 1.8 9. 5.10.12 and the restoring with the spirit of meeknesse both which I take to be Acts of Discipline (k) Cott. keyes v 8.9 doth so take them of a fallen brother Gal. 6.1 And the Churches of Macedonia were not so severall but they joyned in one to choose a brother which I conceive was an Authoritive act to go with Paul for the managing of the Churches contributions 2 Cor. 8.18 19. and the Churches of Judaea consisting of Myriads of people did come together Acts 21.20 21 22. to be satisfied of Paul concerning an accusation they had received against him and are called a Church Gal. 1.13 Acts 12.1 and an house Heb. 3.4 which title you say is not given to loose stones and timber but imports knitting and joynting one to another 5. When a Visible Church is to be erected the matter of it should be visible Saints and beleevers This is not unlike the Answ to 32. Q p. 8 9. 1 Cor. 1.2 True so it should when an Army is to be raised a city begun a family set up much more when a Church is to be erected or continued the matter of them should be visible yea reall Saints Beloved of God elect blessed c. Deut. 83.14 Isa 1.21.26 Acts 16.34 Rom. 1.7 Eph. 1.1 2 3 4. and we heartily wish thy were all such yet we dare not use unscripturall wayes and meanes for the procuring or preserving of Church-members-sanctity To be wise or holy above the rule is to be foolish prophane presumptuous superstitious could you shew us out of Scripture that the Church should examine persons that come to be admitted whether the work of Grace be wrought in their hearts or no and that they must make any other Declaration then profession of faith and repentance and that the congregation ought to reject such of whose sincerity and sanctity they are not satisfied and that the want of this care in the first constitution of a Church doth nullifie it or make it unlawfull for men to joyn to it or continue in it and that it is necessary to know that a Church was constituted of visible Saints which none but they that were present can know before he can in faith joyn to it or continue in it we should not differ about the sanctity of the Members If the Gospell and Christian Religion was brought into England in the Apostles times Church cov p. 37. then it was like it was constituted of Saints as well as the Church of Corinth If we look upon the latter constitution in Queen Elizabeths time many congregations of London and M for example had visible yea doubtlesse reall Saints which were sufferers all Queen Maries time to be the foundationalls thereof The Text in the 1 Cor. 1. shews rather what the members of the Church of Corinth were at the time of Pauls writing to them then that they were or ought to have been visible Saints at the first erection of that Church yet it shews not that all the Church-members he writes to were visible Saints for many known evill livers as the Incestuous person Drunken communicants Hereticks Schismatickes Fornicators were known members but the denomination of Saints is a parte meliore as we call a wheat-field a corn-field though we see weeds and tares in it much lesse doth it prove

especially within a Nationall Church It is an Argument you will not own Seven eight twelve may make a domesticall Church ergo they may make a congregationall If seven or eight may make a Church then two hundred persons in a city may well make twenty distinct Churches and by consequence so many Independent Judicatures 3. A visible Church in the New Testament consists of no more in number then may meet in one place in one Congregation The like you have Answ to 32 q. p. 9. 1 Cor. 11.20 14.23 If you seek for Congregations meeting for Prayer Answer hearing the Word Sacraments in one place or that they were called by the name of Church or that all Believers in some cities and countreys when they might did meet in one place I will not contend many such Churches or Congregations we have in England and the Believers in every Christian Church even in the Church of England and in the Jewish Church also might and did at first meet in one place To say nothing that all the people of the Jews being about six hundred thousand are called one Congregation and are frequently in the old Testament said to come together and that * One Myriad is ten thousand Myriads did come together Acts 21.22 How will you make out this Inference The Church of Corinth did meet in one place and so did Antioch Jerusalem therefore no Church in the New Testament must consist of more then can meet in one place To say there was a Church in Adams house and in Noahs and also in Philemons Aquila's and Priscilla's houses therefore the Church in the Old and New Testament must be Domesticall is an inconsequent Illation contrary to plain Scripture Is not the Argument as good if it run thus All the believing Corinthians were of the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 1.1 cum 2 Cor. 6.11 The Smyrnaeans and Laodiceans of the Church of Smyrna and Laodicea Coloss 2.1 4.16 Revel 2.8 3.14 whether they were more or fewer hence in every City and every Church seem to expound one another Acts 14.21 23. cum Tit. 1.5 Acts 16.4 5. And it cannot be shewed that any Church how numerous soever it grew was divided into two or more Churches or that there were more Churches then one in any citie or town therefore the Believers in any one citie or town may be but one Church whether they can meet in one place or no. Paul writes not onely to them which might and did meet in one place but to all that in every place not thorowout the world as appears 2 Cor. 1.1 written to the same persons 1 Cor. 5.1 2. cum 2 Cor. 2.1 2. neither is this a Catholike Epistle but in all Achaia call upon the Name of the Lord and therefore these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides that being but a Supposition they put nothing in being and may fitly be translated in id ipsum for the same or in one which though they met in an hundred places they might do Acts 4.26 cum Psal 2.2 1 Chro. 12.17 prove no more that those to whom Paul writ were of one Congregation then James calling the twelve tribes scattered abroad one Assembly Synagogue or Church James 1.1 cum 2.2 5.34 or Pauls mentioning the Hebrews assembling themselves together Heb. 10.25 doth prove that the scattered Hebrews were no more then one particular Congregation which might and did meet in one place especially seeing the Apostle writes to the Achaians 2 Cor. 1.1 1 Cor. 16.1 cum 2 Cor. 9.2 11.10 Now there were other Churches in that Region (f) Cotton Keyes p. 46. at least two Corinth and Cenchrea Rom 16.1 which I read was the Port of Corinth (g) R. M. and W. T. to C. H. p. 32. yea oppidum Corinthiorum navium statione celeberrimum ideo frequens valde populosum (h) Gual●… in Rom. 1. To say nothing of the Church whereof Gaius the Corinthian was the Host 1 Cor. 1.18 Rom. 16.23 3 Joh. Hence there is mention of Churches to which the women he writes to for he saith Your women not Women or all women did resort or how else could they keep silence in the Churches 1 Cor. 14.34 yet you hold not that two or three Churches in the New Testament must consist of no more then may meet in one place 4. The visible Church in the New Testament is not Nationall as the Jewish was hence we read of the Churches of Galatia Macedonia Judea not Church of Galatia 1 Cor. 16.1 c. 2 Cor. 8.1 c. We say not that the Christian Church is Nationall as was the Jewish Church viz. that it hath a Nationall Tabernacle Temple or House of God and solemn Worship peculiar to it to which all the Members or all the Males must sometimes resort towards which the absent are to pray and in which the Priests in their courses do minister unto God not say we that the Scriptures do mention a Nationall Church for the Supreme Magistrate was an enemy to Christian Religion Regis ad exemplum c. (i) M-to H. teacheth us thus to answer many of the people were of the same minde as it is this day in France and Spain and was in England in Queen Maries days Believers it is like were not so many as to bear the name of a Land or Nation nor could they have liberty safely and freely to meet in such great Assemblies as Nationall Synods Shew me a Nation of Magistrates and people converted and I will shew you a Nationall Church but if there could not then be a Nationall Church as in Queen Maries times our Church was not Nationall it is no wonder if there were none Vltra posse non est esse whether Nationall Churches be lawfull or unlawfull Arguments taken from the naked appellation of the word Church or Churches are very unsatisfactory because of the various acceptations of the words Kahal Gnedah Ecclesia Synagoga which we sometimes translate Church but should always translate Convocation or Congregation a company called out or gathered together The English word Church Saxon Cyric and Scots Kirk are derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Cambd. Rem or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Sir Hen. Spelm. which as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies the place of meeting Hence we read of Robbers of Churches or Temples Acts 19.37 Kahal whence our English word call is sometimes Metanymically understood of the place The Heathen enter into the Sanctuary which God had forbidden to enter into the Church Lam. 1.10 cum Deut. 23.3 Nehem. 13.1 To come together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is if it be rightly translated to come together in one place and so Ecclesia is opposed to the buildings or houses in which they did eat and drink 1 Cor 11.19 20 21 22 ult Synagoga is evidently taken for the place of meeting Luke 7.5 Acts 18.7 Neverthelesse the words Kahal and Gnedah do sometimes