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A29279 The gospel-pattern for the government of gospel-churches together with queries made on the assembly-propositions presented to the high court of Parliament / by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayne. Brayne, John. 1649 (1649) Wing B4326; ESTC R36508 9,013 18

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Nations Rev. 16.19 that is from Antichrist to Christ Which Minister Ministery and Means we have great cause to pray God to send we nor the world being like to see a day of true peace before his Ministry it being reserved for him and his Ministry to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children that is to let us know how they did worship God as yet hid from us and turne the hearts of the children to the fathers that is perswade us to worship God as they did which we are far off from to this very day Mal. 4.6 before which time I am verily perswaded there will be be no place for any other Government ever to be erected or set up Such mercy hath God for these last times and so near is the Kingdome of God at hand and as it were ready to be revealed Rev. 12.10 unto which the Lord stir up the Spirits of his Saints to enter that the Kingdome of Heaven may suffer violence and the violent take it by force that it may be in us and with us for evermore Amen SECT I. The Queries or things to be inquired into of the first Sect. Of the Church whether 1 Cor. 12.12 be not meant of the invisible Church only 1 WHither the Churches of the primitive times were not Patterns for the Churches to be constituted by to the end 2. Whether our Churches be constituted according to theirs consisting of visible Saints 3. Whether any if any children be ordinarily to be admitted into the Church-Society then those that are the children of visible Saints joyned in a Church way be meant 4. Whether by Rev. 18.4 be not required the same constituting of Churches now among us come out of Babel as was required 1 Cor. 6.18 of those who forsook the pagan worship of the devil or forsook Moses Ministry Acts 2.38 41. and whether any such way of constituting Churches hath been taken yet amongst us to prove our Churches true by 5. Whether untill it be so constituted the Church lie not in its waste desolate eremiticall condition under the abomination of desolation Dan. 9.27 6. Whether the Presbyterian way of Government and way of Worship be the way God ordained to restore her to her primitive State or do not rather make it desolate as before SECT II. 1. Whether the lack of the Evangelist Ministry in the Church be not one part of the Churches desolation and cannot but remaine so without it 2. Whether the Propositions fully containe the Gospel-Patterne for the ministry Or whether the ministry Ephes 4.11 be not only a Church-ministry or whether there was not to be a ministry to be exercised to men without the Church called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who prepared for Church-societ● Matth. 11.11 and 13. compared and distinguished by the Apostle 2 Tim. 1.11 and practised by the Apostles teaching in Synagogues 3. Whether the Order of the Gospel-ministry be yet discovered or whether any thing by our now ministry be done in Gospel-Order 1 Pet. 4.10 one Minister by the Gospel being to minister in his Ministry to another Minister for the building up of the Saints by degrees therein 1. Whether it be not Anti-Christian to alter any thing in the Governement exercise of Ministry or constitution of the Church now from what it was in the first setting up of the Gospel-Governement among the Jewes or what Scripture Authority have we to prove it lawfull to alter in any thing the formes thereof SECT III. On the Proposition concerning the Pastor Quer. 1. Whether 1 Pet. 5.2 3 4. Acts 6.2 3 4. are not applyed to the whole Church-ministry and whether it be not a destroying of the Church-Authority to appropriate it to one of them only against that Mat. 18.18 19 2. Whether Acts 20.26 36. were not only of him spoken as Apostle or Prophet the least he exercised was the Evangelists ministry here if anywhere 1 Cor. 1.17 extraordinarily Propositions for reading Scripture publickly 1. Luk. 4.16 Col. 4.16 prove the reading of the Scriptures but whether the Scriptures are to be read in the Church as under Moses Ministry I question 2. Whether the Gospel-Teacher and his Ministry cease not and the Church be not in desolation for the lack of it by this order of catechising as now used The Catechist also destroyed and his Ministry Proposition The Pastor is to dispence other divine mysteries 1. Whether the Pastor be to dispense the mysteries there spoken of 1 Cor. 4.12 of himselfe without the other ministry it being declared in the name of all 2. Whether we should not take care of Church-robbery and as the Proverbe is that we rob not Peter to pay Paul Paul would have those that wrought with him in the fellowship of the Gospel to be accounted of as stewards as well as himselfe in their part of stewardship and ministry with him Proposition The Pastor is to administer the Sacraments 1. Whether the Doctor being to teach the beginnings of Christ and being the initiating Ministry be not only to baptize and baptisme an Ordinance proper to his society only 2. Whether Paul 1 Cor. 1.17 and Peter Acts 10.48 did not leave this Ordinance ordinarily to those who wrought with them to do 3. Whether the Sacrament of the Lords Supper were administred but in the meeting of the whole Church 1 Cor. 11.20 when whether the Evangelist or Pastor should consecrate it the Evangelist being present is not questionable I thinke yet in this act I suppose the Pastor with the Doctor did help to administer it to their severall Societies Proposition That the Pastor is to take care for the Poore 1. Whether this being the proper office of the Deacon to do set up of God in the Church for the exempting of the Ministry from worldly affairs it be not contrary to that Acts 6.2 4 2. Whether Acts 11.30 1 Cor. 16.1.2.3.4 Gal 2.9.10 are not all concerning reliefe of the particular Estate of the Church at Jerusalem on an extraordinary ground Rom. 15.27 for that the Gentiles were debters to the Jewes 2 Cor. 8.4 he took it not on him but on much intreatie so that it is cleare this was not part of his Ministerial charge for woe be to him then if he had not done it willingly 3. Acts 4.34.35 proves nothing because done before the institution of Deacons in the Church Propos The Pastor hath a ruling power over the flock as a Pastor 1 Tim. 5.17 Acts 20.17.28 1 Thes 5.12 Heb. 13.7.17 1. Whether Ruling power be in any of the Church Ministers as divided or conjunctively that is whether an act done in Church-government by one of the Church-Ministery be a legal act Or whether it be necessary to make it lawfull there should be the joint consent of Evangelist Pastor and Teacher and whether these Scriptures prove not the same 2. Whether for any single Minister to take the whole authority of the Synedrie be not Antichristian and that which is in Scripture called a Lording it over
differing instruments which are to give a distinction in sounds that it may be known what is piped or harped one of these was not to do that pertained to the others Ministry Acts 10.48 1 Cor. 1.17 These all as a Church-Ordinance are to be called for of the sick in time of sicknesse who are to pray for them James 5.14.15 as to governe and to teach them in health At the administration of the Lords Supper the whole Church under this threefold ministry are to meet in one place and partake thereof together 1 Cor. 11.20 singing Psalmes reading the word Col. 2.19 Luk. 4.16 1 Thess 5.27 collect for the poor 1 Cor. 16.1 2. As these assisted the Evangelists in the worke of Ministry so are they to assist him also in Governement So that Governement is the proper worke of the whole Church-Ministry and is not to be exercised but by them all it being joyntly committed of Christ to them to rule and the People commanded of God to obey them so only and nowhere otherwise Acts 20.28 1 Cor. 4.1 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Thess 5.12 That Ecclesiasticall Governement pertaines to these only appears Heb. 13.7 they are to obey those only that have spoken the word to them ver 17. because they watch for their souls and are to give accompt to God for them who have as much committed to them to doe as can be done hereby Eph. 4.12 14. Hence an act of Church-Government done by any other then these is not done according to the Gospell or if done by one without a meeting of all in a Confession is not to be judged Authoritative The Church may question the Rulers when they do in Ministry or Government go against the Rule Acts 11.3 4. Ecclesiasticall Government consists chiefly in these things In the orderly doing of things 1 Cor. 14.33 40. ordering the Saints lives 1 Thess 5.14 2 Thess 3.6 In the admitting of members Acts 2.41 Matth. 13.30 Acts 17.4 as members were fitted to passe them from society to society 2 Cor. 3.18 Evangelically predicted Psal 84.7 done by tryall of gifts 1. Cor. 14.31 Ordination of Ministers 1 Tim. 4.14 for preventing scandals Matth. 13.41 Rom. 14.13 among the members 1 Cor. 12.25 and 8.9 and offending the world Col. 4.5 1 Cor. 10.32 to cast out the profane and hereticall Matth. 13.41 1 Cor. 5.4 5. 1 Tim. 1.20 Titus 3.10 to restore the humbled 2 Cor. 2.8 suspension from society 2 Thess 3.14 for a time who are to be accompted as brethren but those are excommunicated as Heathens Ruling Elders had their severall charges committed to them for the right ordering of temporall things in the Church under Christ Deacons had their Election of the People and Ordination by the Imposition of hands of the Presbytery Acts 6.36 who are to be in all compleat constituted Churches seven for number ver 3. who were to distribute in each society the Saints contributions to their poore brethren according to the nature of their severall necessities compare ver 1. and 3. two of which were for each Church-society and one to have respect to those of the Preachers meeting without the Church The helping Governour spoken of 1 Cor. 12.28 Rom. 12.8 his Ordination is of the Church without Imposition of hands by the Presbytery 1 Cor. 6.4 that that qualifieth him is his wisedome v. 5 that for which he is ordained to be a Judge v. 4. the things he is to judge of are things of this life small matters of wrong between brother and brother and then whence this officer is to be and that is set downe to be from among themselves a member of the same Church ver 5. whose authority is confirmed by Conclusions drawne from the greater to the lesse ver 2.3 who are to be honoured in the Church and obeyed 1 Tim. 5.17 Object This Church-Magistracie serves to destroy the authority of the Civil Magistrate Resp The Church-Magistrate is to be subject to the Civil Magistrate as to the higher Power Rom. 13.1 is not to rule by the command of the sword at all but by the Word only and so cannot prejudice that Authority and was set up to prevent going to Law 1 Cor. 6 7. not before Heathens only but any other and is far lesse then what is granted ordinary Incorporations when no Society deserves more ample freedoms under Magistracie then the Church for whose sake God blesseth a people It was a priviledge that the Church enjoyed under the Heathen Emperours untill made waste in the desolations of the Church Nor can the office be made void by any change of States it being ordained by Divine institution and so to be a part of the Churches perpetual Government so that the Church cannot be rightly governed whiles this Governour is not set up to govern by according to the mind of Christ in 1 Cor. 6. And were Churches to be collected in this Kingdom as they shall and ought to be there is the same reason for them now that ever there was and that Church-government that destroyeth this Church-governour is not of God nor of the Gospel Nor can there be produced out of all the Gospel any Institution or discovery of the Helping governours office but in this place and it cannot be that a Governour belonging to the government of the Gospel should not have authority from the Gospel to rule by and Instructions how to do it and how this authority should be conferred on him which is of none nor no where but of this officer in this place who hath his authority of God and not of man and therefore may not be suppressed The way God had to set up this government was by the Apostles called and sent of God to preach the Word by which they made Disciples and gathered the believing Iewes into a Society according to the way aforesaid which Church was called the Mother-church where the Presbyterie of that Church did ordain holy and fit men for the Ministry and did send them forth to gather other Churches in Iudaea and in the places thereabout 1 Cor 14.36 The Apostle Paul and Barnabas with their other helpers as in all the Epistles did first set up the gospel-Churches in the chief cities of the Nations who sent out thence to other cities of the same country in like manner and to such other places as in those times would admit of the Gospel-government which did thus continue untill Antichrist that abomination of desolation had destroyed the visible frame of the churches government in all the world Now God having ordained a resurrection of Churches to be under the Ministry of the seventh Angel who receives his trumpet from God Rev. 8.2 by which he comes to restore rightly the true Ministry into the Church by whom a true Gospel-Church shall be erected who shall be mother of many daughter Churches which shall be called therefore the New Ierusalem spoken of Rev. 3.12 21.2 by whose Ministry is foretold to be the fall of the Cities of the