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A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

forme of worship Isa 37.3 and will oppose against the opposite or contrary things to Christ I say such Benjamins Isachars and Iudah's as these are fit for the building of the Church I may not expatiate upon the rest to tell you Levi is put next to Iudah and not so low as Simeon with whom he sinned in slaying the Sechemites because Levi after recovered his fall by slaying the idolaters Exod. 32. Thereby to signifie here that men that have shewed them-selves as the Levites did when Moses called Exod. 32. have stood for right of doctrine and a good conscience such ministers are fit for the building of the Church I will not now descend to the rest of the foundations In a sermon discourse we can give but tasts of things Fourthly Apertions i. e. Gates or rather gate-waies then gates For they are alwaies opan yet neverthelesse there are gates and usefully mentioned both touching the time when they stood so alwaies open viz. when all was new no feare of old orders that any lying in the old Adams condition might rush into the assemblyes of Christians and unto the Ordinances of Christ And touching the nature made of pearle A shell of a fish generated by the dew of heaven Most fitly to signifie Christ the loore and the way yea the one only doore because they all of pearle so generated even as Christ was generated of the dew of heaven i.e. The holy Ghost Compare Psal 110. vers 3. overshadowing Mary And be sure Christ will have a care of his Church not to admit on his part any polluted persons So that albeit it is necessarily noted that there were twelve gates in number for all are but one in kinde or matter to note that Christ hath made way for all the twelve tribes of Israel yet withall it is most appositly expressed that the keepers were 12 Angells i.e. The Angells of the Churches Revel 21.12 as called Revel 2.1 chap. 2. chap. 3. oft i.e. The faithful ministers to looke that no wicked Angels or men that is false teachers or foule practisers enter in set up a synagogue of Sathanneere Gods Church So that by all this continuall opening of the gates and yet continually watched is signified that the Churches time of reformation shall not bee a time of open hostiltie from outward potent enemies then the gates would bee shut but if liable to any enemies it will bee to the Hypocrites that will se●ne to come in as if honest and when in labour to dis●●be and defile And therefore these are watched and examined by the Angells upon any the least suspition marke no● the summe of all in relation to a reformation intended in these gates That if there be not able and holy ministers set in all the entrances of the Church and they without flattery or iniquitie doe not bring in men into the Church by Christ Christ is not by them advanced in all things and all things else doctrines ceremonies c. deposed in comparison of Christ and his doctrine and governement c. then that is not the holy citie here spoken of nor any part thereof Thus of the walls of the citie Secondly of the townes places or materiall parts of this citie The whore of Babylon sitteth upon seven hills sutable to her many abominations But holy Ierusalem the true worshipper of God-trinitie in unitie consists chiefely but of three i. e. Mount Aera the lower towne for trading and honest walking in mens severall callings Mount Moriah for the publike place of Gods worship For there the temple stood Mount Zion for the place of publike justice and reliefe of the oppressed for there was Davids throne And all these firmely compacted into one citie as in territories so in spirituall and civill agreement All these are sweetly sung of in Ps 122. out feet shall stand within thy gates O Ierusalem whether tribes goe up to the testimonie of Israel For there are thrones of judgement in regard of all which now so harmoniously united Iun. in Psal 122. civilly and spiritually it is called a compacted citie i. e. saith Iunius Before this these differed in structure of townes religion and civil administration for formerly there were three townes and a twofold religion and administration the one of the people of God the other of the Jebusites but now all these by all meanes compacted In conjoyning of townes in verse three In religion of minds ver 4. And in administration of justice ver 5. In all which union that union of three of three into one the King joyes and the people joy and all shall joy and prosper that can wish well to it See the title of the Psalme And verse 1. yea every verse of the Psalme For what politicke man if a just man and a godly man will not joy when kingdomes and Churches are made as well stronger and better as well as greater That quietnesse and righteousnesse and Godlinesse kisse one another Thus shall be the reformed state of the Church of the new Jerusalem There shall be mountaines thrones streets c. all compacted into one holy Hierusalem See Revel 21. There shall be no crying through injustice there shall ye no defilement through uncleanesse And Kings shall take contentment therein For they shall bring their glory and honour unto it And then all may see the Church beginnes to bee new when she so shines that princely glory admires her 3. Thing of this new citie are the streets which are said to be of Gold And their use is we know to bee an high way for the people This is another character of the reformed Church that the waies and conversation thereof in all her members shall be first solid according to the truth of God not quagmires and hollow earth of human inventions secondly pure not onely from sinne but from scandalls and appeareance of evill Phil. 4. Taking heede of what is not of good report And thirdly shining As Mat. 5. carry out good examples to all And studying what hath praise and vertue in it Phil. 4. 4 Thing is the temple For though it bee said Saint Iohn saw no temple yet hee saw that which was equivalent yea farre more eminent in stead of the Temple For the Lord God Almighty and the lambe are the Temple The Temple was but a type of Gods presence in Christ therefore removed when God the Antitype comes And not only the material Temple as the walls and buildings were overturned by Vespasian and Titus betweene 30 or 40. yeares after Christ but all the appendixes all the shaddowes yea all the darkenesse of those shaddowes to be removed i.e. All Jewish ceremonies and all Romish humane apish ceremonies that are the imitation of them If the temple was to bee done away much more the moveable tabernacle If divinely instituted Jewish ceremonies must be done away though not changed for 3000 yeares much more human lyable to change every day that like a tayler the

spirituall worship they themselves being carnall sensuall that God must create all new if he will have all new And this he will do as he did the world He created it by the word let there be let it be so So the Lord by the power of his word of his Gospel will direct and draw his owne Church and all the friends thereof to set up their new reformed worship and to draw men to that new life and conversation in and towards the Church which he calles here the new heavens and the new earth The Lord will in speciall manner inlighten and inliven men especially Ministers to write and discover what is this new state of the Church Master Brightmar on Rev. 21.9 Thinkes that some holy man shall set forth a booke wherein he shall make it plaine to all the faithfull that the glorie and Majestie of this Church shall bee most divine and heavenly But more likely a collection of men one or two out of every shire and County appointed by authority to meet and agree as one man to draw nakedly and barely out of the Scriptures those cleare truths concerning this new state as will not indure any quiddities or querckes and able to beare downe all contradictories opposed against them 2. These Heavens and Earth are said to have righteousnesse dwelling in them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which Heavens Earth dwells righteousnesse Therefore all these righteousnesses dwell in the one or the other First the doctrine of truth righteousnesse or right tenets Not the doctrines of lies legends fables flatteries 2. The Doctrine of Christs righteousnesse of justification by faith in him As with much struggle that doctrine was opened in the first founding of this new Church though long much Rom. 10.3 since that eclipsed so now it shall dwell abide in the setled new estate and never be banished from its free hold The doctrines of mans ability to keepe the law of justification by works c shall have no more place 2 Tit. 11.12 Thirdly the righteousnesse of piety or godly conversation every man shall have a care in his particular conversation to practise righteousnesse Fourthly the righteousnes of amitie charity shall dwell heare Isa 11.5.6 Men shall not be wolves tygers c. i. e. persecutors of their brethren Fiftly here shall be the righteousnes of Christs discipline Christ himselfe by the scepter of his mouth not of mers braines shall order and disposeall things Isa 11.3.4.5 He shall so settle his Church that the unrighteous not the righteous shall be smitten And in what Churches doe all these righteousnesses more evidently dwell then in those that come nearest to the Apostolicall founding of Churches See the Churches of Geneva Holland c. No cryes there by reason of persecution No cryings up there of human traditions Thus of the new world Next that this might not seeme to be a world without inhabitants the holy Ghost describes the holy citie which intimateth inhabitants in which as we shall see in the last place dwells the adorned spouse Secondly therefore we come to the holy citie Where we are to note 1. Civitas the Citizens 2. V●bs the Citie 1. The citizens And that these are here to be understood both the Apostle Peter intimateth in the text putting righteousnesse for righteous men And dwelling which relatively inferrs inhabitants As also the Apostle Iohn Revel 21. both in calling the new Hierusalem the adorned bride As also in saying God shall dwell with men in this holy citie and no lyer or abominable person shall enter therein Of these citizens note the Substance That is the societie of them 2. The quality Holy 1. The substance i. e. Societie Citizens constantly make a corporation a well governed body answerably this citie called the holy citie which hath great varietie of officers yet with great unity amitie and regularity As things digested in a predicament or table No opposition betweene things subordinate as we see in the wheeles of a clocke that wheele next the poyse being the first mover communicates motion to all the rest This corporation is governed by themselves among themselves that is according to their immediate particular lawes and priveledges The supreame magistrate runnes above them in the generall lawes for the whole kingdom i. e. The King and Parliament and Commonlawes are above them But otherwise their privilegia i. e. their privata leges their private lawes of their owne corporation are managed by themselves among themselves The foundation of the relation betweene each member of the corporation is internall the generall choose the particular And the particular accepts the priviledge and promiseth faithfulnesse and justice towards the generall The communion that is amongst them is such that they admit into their societie onely the good and they eject the degenerating that turne bad Just thus it is in the reformed Church of Christ every congregation is as a particular corporation First In it are all the sorts of officers appointed by Christ named often by Christ that the Church might not be ignorant I say al the officers to continue to the end of the world Ephes 4.11 Pastors and Teachers 1. Cor. 12.28 Teachers and helpes in government 1 Tit. 5. Elders or Bishops in every citie And Deacons two besides the elders 1 Tim. 3.1.2 c. to the end of the 13. Philip. 1.1 To all the Saints at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons Rom. 12.7.8 Are named Teaching and exhorting 1 Tim. 4.17 Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they that labour in the word and doctrine Secondly in and among them with great unitie and amity the goverment of themselves is by themselves touching all things done among them Mat 18.19 Observe well Two or three cannot may not d●e●● So the text But the Church Tell the Church saith Christ if more private admonition will not serve And if the offender will not hearken to the Church then let him bee excommunicated which Church throughout the New Testament the holy Ghost by the Apostles explaines to be every particular congregation So that from Christs time downeward it was so to be taken As the Church at Antioch Acts 13.1 And when they had preached at Derbe Lystra Iconi●m Antioch they ordayned them Elders in every Church Acts 14.23 And when he bad ●anded at Cesarea and gone up and saluted the Church Act. 18.22 He sent to the Ephesus and called for the Elders of the Church Acts 20.17 The Church at Aquila and Priscillas house Rom. 16 3. 1 Cor. 16.19 So the Church at Philemons house In hard times particular Churches were made up of religious families and other Christians there abouts joyned to them in their meetings So Peter Martyr Willet The Church at Corinth 1 Cor. 1.2 The Churches of Asia 1 Cor. 16.19 which Saint Iohn names to the number of seven Revel From the Apostles time 300. yeares hot persecution for the

most part So called by Homer and Virgil and Historians Hundredcitie Cret 1 Cor. 5.2 1 and 2 and 3 chap. Now it was much to have one congregation in a County or citie In Creet an hundred cities And severall Elders ordained in them all for every particular congregation Tit. 1. Innumerable things and places more might be spoken for this acception and meaning of the word and nature of a Church But to returne to the point Saint Paul is much troubled that the Church the congregation at Corinth were so careless e as that they had not mourned and removed the incestuous person And the Apostle exhorts them he being absent I say exhorts them to excommunicate him If the Apostle had beene a particular member of that congregation he must have beene present As in all instances naturall civill ecclesiasticall the member acts in the body whiles united no longer But being a transcendent eye over all congregations as we know he was an Apostle to all the world though absent he exhorts them to act Mat. 28.19 Act. 9.6.15 Act. 13.1.2 and to doe their duties among themselves towards themselves in the union and relation they stood So that still the particular Church or congregation is subject to Christs Apostles and all lawfull Synods orderly and lawfull gathered according to the Scriptures in the nation where the Church hath her being to rectifie them where they are wrong to excite them when deficent Or else they themselves manage and act and officiate among themselves their particular discipline and priveledges pertaining to their particular Church Thirdly The foundation of relation betweene the Church and her lawfull officers especially Ministers is internall i. e. from mutuall union of affections solemly interwoven and engaged twisted together The Church makes choise of her officers and Ministers Act. 13.1.2.3 1 Tim. 4.14 2 Tim. 1.6 and they imbrace their places and flock The Minister being ordained a Minister by the imposition of hands of the Ministers with prayer and fasting the congregation choose him to be their Minister by the elevation of their hands A thema● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tendo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pretensá manueligo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in quit Demosthenis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. populus ublatione manumte stabatur se babere decreta mea rata Acts 13. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. They gave their voyces to elect the Minister by the elevation of their hands or stretching forth their hands And so the Minister is charged to looke to his flocke as over which the holy Ghost had made him overseer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Minister is a Bishop to his congregation Act. 20. verse 17. verse 18. And the people are commanded to obey and submit to their Minister as to him that ruleth over and watcheth for their soules Observe over their soules not bodies Heb. 13.17 And are said to rule over them in the Lord to admonish not over them as men to constraine and so to bee highly esteemed of their flocke for that worke 1 Thes 5.13 The necessity of this inward foundation and roote of relation in things of the most spirituall and strongest combination appeares by paralleling other relations though but in naturall or civill things No husband Parent Master will suffer a wife child or servant obtruded on him or on contrary wife child or servant will admit of obtruded husbands parents masters as long as they be of age and in their witts How much lesse should obtrusion be in spiritualls Yet if these obtrusions be exercised we see the unprosperous event betray the unlawfulnesse of the attempt There is no love mutuall duty or edification following As wee see in all the obtruded offices in our Church which shewes much irregularity in the Hierarchie where many have the greatest acts of power yet not committed to them by the generall vote of the Church and much disorder in the ordinary ministers who ordinarily come in without the approbation and so without the affections of their people Fourthly and lastly touching the citie or society it selfe note the perfection of their communion They neither admit nor permit if after admission degenerated him that is unworthy neither officer nor member of the assembly congregation or particular Church See the Churches choice of an Apostle Acts 1. of Deacons Acts 6. See their rejection and admission of an unworthy member 1 Cor. 5. 2 Cor. 2. of their acceptation and admission of an unknowne or doubtfull brother and Minister Acts 9.26 27.28.29 c. to the end of 31. All which foure particulars diligently being observed in the reformed Churches of Geneva Low Countries c. how sound in Doctrine and holy in manners have they long time continued above other Churches And so wee come to the qualities of this societie Holy 2. This Civitas This spirituall citie is an holy one which is expressed with an Emphasis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That citie that same holy one Should seeme that the old heavens are uncleane in some measure As it is said in Iob. 15.15 The heavens were not cleane in Gods sight i. e. by reason of some uncleane but in their first thoughts in the heavens the lapsing Angells Job 4.18 So the Church below before renewed although in comparison with the dunghill of Hethenisme and the hell of Papisme it is called a heaven yet it is but as spotted clowded heaven Isa 30. in comparison of a sun-bright heaven As an old garment that may seeme very handsome yet much fuller of dust then a new one Holinesse becommeth Gods house at all times Psal 93.5 in all places much more his fairest house newly repayred This new Church shall be so holy 1. In regard of the more abundant and apparent presence of that essentiall holinesse God in Christ hee like as he made Moses face shine 2 Cor. 3. shall make the Church shine He like fire Revel 1. being among the golden Candlestickes shall make them glare When the Lord more specially is in the Tabernacle it is filled with his glory Exod. 40.34 As it was prophesied that the second temple should bee more glorious then the first because Christ should preach in it and bee personally present Haggi 2.9 So this new Church should be more holy then the old because the God of holinesse should he more specially presen there This is expressed verse 3. of this 21 of Revel And it is immediately annext to the speech of the holinesse of the new Church where also the reason is given why the Lord would bee more present in the Church thus renewed viz. because their was no more Sea i. e. of corrupt doctrine and traditions of men Those things that grieve God are removed 2. The rule of holinesse in the new Church should more rule and reigne i. e. The Scriptures When the Jewes shall come in knowledge shall bee much more increased Yea when the vaile of human traditions shall be removed

that the Church shall see that all in the worship of God that is not evidently from the word of Christ is not of Christs but of Antichrist then will the Lord reveale to her the full of the discipline of the Church The full freedome of the Gospel The scales must first fall from Saint Pauls eyes before he can see the Gospel to preach it Whiles our Church lay swadled and rocked in the unsetled cradle of humane inventions the face-cloth of ignorance lay over the eyes hundreds of truths lay hidden which now are talked of distinctly in every ones mouth So great an advantage of light doe they get that turne their faces towards the Sun-rising and their backes upon the darke climates of the old heavens 3. The scope and intention of the Church shall be to advance holinesse not to make her selfe great in honour and dignity among men but good with holinesse towards God Not to inrich her selfe with worldly pompe but with comfort and with conscience and the graces of the spirit Her doctrine her discipline her forme of worship c. all spread the winges to hatch up holinesse even as Saint John was carried by the Angell Revel 21.10 willingly to see what the Angell was eager to shew him from the top of an high mountaine touching the new state of the holy citie so sure the new Church must looke and aymes at holinesse and newnesse And not onely aymes and addresses all things to that purpose but also hitts the white For Fourthly the new Church is holy in practise and conversation Shee makes all her members in the common eye and charity of men to bee holy or else shee will not owne them for her children By this generall frame of holinesse in all her members Ministers and people she becomes all glorious For sanctification is a kind or degree of glorification Rom. 8. Therefore the Apostle wrappes it up in glorification in reckoning all the linckes of the chaine of salvation Psal 45. And the Church is said by holinesse to be all glorious within The Church is all glorious by justification But that is without her and about her She is wrapped in that as in a garment Rom. 13.14 But sanctification is within her as her proper qualitie as a Church Answerably Saint Iohn calles her holinesse and lightsomnesse with knowledge and reformation Verse 11. her having of the glory of God And that God was the light of the citie and the nations that were saved should walke in the light thereof And for all things that are contrary to this new holy Verse 23.24 and glorious estate shee cast out Revel 21. verse 4. verse 27. Fifthly and lastly holy in opinion and estimation The Church should be so really and universally holy making all her members at least outwardly and probably to imbrace holinesse that holinesse shall be in fashion and so in estimation among men It shall be no more a jeere but a joy As it s said by the Prophet many shall take hold of one Jew for religions sake so in this new Church much more shall men admire and esteeme her for holinesse So verse 24. The Kings of the earth shall bring their glory to the Church Revel 21. verse 24. And thus of the Civitas the citie the corporation of men Next of the V●bs the materiall citie of buildings c. whereof note 1. The forme or fashion 2. The matter or edifice The forme is considerable for two things 1. Quantitie 2. Figure 1. Quantitie As here the compellation or comparison Heavens signifies or intimates greatnesse For what is of created things extra calum ultimum without and beyond the utmost heaven So the geometricall dimention there in Rev. 21. delineated makes it by some accompts the greatest citie that ever was For if we reade the text according to the ordinary reading Verse 16. And hee measured the citie with a reede 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the some of twelve thousand furlones and understand them in a more plaine and obvious sence of the compasse of the citie that every side of the foure square was three thousand furlongs it will follow that this citie of the Church is twelve thousand round For every foure square is one hundred times as much every way from side to side as the length of that side is Supspose a foure square of 110. furlongs in each straight line of the sides of that square Th●s foure square measured all along over-thwart from side to side was 3000 furlongs ●●n King So Geographers And the whole plot of ground from each side to each side three hundred thousand furlongs which is beyond all other cities that ever wee reade of For old Babylon the great was but a village in comparison Every side of the square thereof being but 120 furlongs and so the whole plot of ground could be but foure thousand furlongs So Nineveh was not comparable for the text in the Prophet Ionah 3 3. was o● three dayes journey i.e. as the learned will have it the walles were three dayes journey about A dayes jurney being according to the civill law twenty miles So that every ●●●e square o● side of the quade●angle was 15. miles i. e. 15. 〈◊〉 eight furlongs i.e. 120 furlongs and so was just of the 〈◊〉 of old Babylon in the East and no more Not is Babylon in the West Babylon the new Rome comparable for at first it was but two miles in compasse now at last but a-leaven miles in compasse and in the middle age thereof but 50. in compasse so that it fall 10 miles short of the measure of the compasse of the walls of Nineve But if we reade as Arias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the summe of furlongs 12. times 12. thousand Then the citie is 44. thousand furlongs about and the whole flore a 100 times more And just as the state of the new Church under the notion or a citie is greater then other cities so under the notion of a Church greater then ever was any Church For the largest description of the former Church was but 144 thousand long and but 12. thousand broad But this renewed Church is by this last reading 144. Revel ● thousand in the whole square compassing it about And by the former reading 12 thousand in the whole square bouting the city And the whole floore or breadth every way 300. thousand measures For it makes no matter what you call them whether furlongs or c. The bare numbers sufficiently report the proportions And well may the new Churches proportion so exceed seieng this makes one maine difference that she shall be as wide as the world as wee said before nee●e upon before the Lord leave the worke And so she shall be as great as good i.e. greater and better both then ever any Church was 2. Figure Which is expressed first more indefinitly As if onely a square upon a flat i.e. square in regard of length and breadth