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A75899	An admonitory letter vvritten by an old minister of the new combinational church, and sent to divers ejected minsters of those parts in which he lives. In which is not boldly and barely affirmed, but also offered fairly to be confirmed by unanswerable arguments. I. The right constitution of a combinational church. II. The corruptions that crept in upon it from the parochial, cathedral, provincial, national, and oecumenical Roman church. III. Who were the heads of these several churches, and what were the qualities of them. Published I. For to inform the ignorant. II. For to reduce the errant.		1658 (1658)	Wing A599; Thomason E934_1; ESTC R207674	9,007	16

godliness I was really perswaded that a little pains might prove not only acceptable but advantagious to a person that was so puzzled about that particular for to hear and to have it not alone boldly and barely affirmed but also fairly and firmly confirmed by unanswerable arguments that it fell to that foul and fearful degeneration under which it now doth or should groan and for which it hath good cause to grieve by no fewer then by five distinct degrees whereof the first was into a Parochial the second into a Cathedral the third into a Provincial the fourth into a National and the fifth was into an Oecumenical or a Roman Catholique Church The first rise of the rottening of the Church was its falling from a pure though poor Presbyterial Church which in respect of its Primitive constitution was composed and made up of living stones namely lively Members and laborious Ministers being fastned and firmly knit unto the Lord Jesus as their only head by faith and one to the other by a Fraternal covenant of servent love according to the pattern which was proposed and prescribed in both Testaments Isa 44.5 Jer. 50.5 Ezek. 20.37 Zach. 11.7 10 14. 2 Cor. 8.5 Ephes 2.13 19 22. Coll. 2.2 19. 1 Pet. 2.5 Into an impure and unpolished Parochial Church at that time when ceasing to elect and ordain either a Teather a Pastor a Ruler or Deacon and Deaconess or Widow in conformity to the heavenly Canon Rom. 12.7 15.4 16.1 compared with 1 Tim. 3.1 Tit. 1.5 6. it was well content to admit and accept of a Parson a Vicar a Warden an Overseer of the poor and a Midwife by which wisedom of the flesh being no better then enmity against God within a short time after the dayes of the Apostles Christs spiritual house and growing as well as living Temple was turned and transformed into a carnal and dead Town or apostatizing Parish the very beginning and breeding of which Parochial Church is seen to have been in the time of Polycarpus and Ireneus one of them being an Elder of the Church at Smyrna and a Disciple of John the Evangelist and the other a Pastor at Lyons and a Disciple of that Polycarpus as any man may easily perceive that will peruse what is to be observed in Eusetius his Ecclesiastical History the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of the fourth Book with the three and twentieth and four and twentieth of the fifth Book The second degree of the Combinational Churches corruption was the Cathedral Churches generation which did presume to alter and to elevate the places and appellations of the Teacher Pastor Ruler and Deacon into those unscripture-like titles of Lord Bishop Dean Chancellor and Arch Deacon who ventured to usurp the Power of excommunication against the Members and Ministers of many congregations in their Synods and Councils contrary to what was practiced in that Orthodox Pattern Act. 15.24 which is laid down and left as well for the imitation as information of after-Ages whose work it was by Scripture-proofs to confute souls-subverting positions and to confirm Christian Doctrines without using any manner of authority to censure any mans person being that that is the expresse priviledge of the Presbyterial Church 1 Cor. 5.4 5. 2 Thess 3.15 The Babe-age of which usurpation is made mention of as newly appearing in the world by what was exercised by Alexander of Alexandria against Eusebius of Nicomedia as well as against Arrius in the reign of Constantius and Constance the sons of Constantine the Emperor as 't is to be seen in Socrates Scholasticus the second book the third chapter compared with the two and thirtieth chapter of the second Book or Evag. the sixth chapter of the first Book The third degree of the Presbyterial Churches degeneration was its climbing up to the style of a Provincial Church whose Pastor was not afraid nor ashamed to assume the name and Office of Arch Bishop and Metropolitan leaving the servile and subservient titles of Prebend Surrogate and Vicar general as terms good enough to the inferiour officers his underlings of which proud and profane Pest-house that Austin who was sent from Gregory the last of good Bishops and the first of the evil Popes of Rome is reputed and recorded to have been the Father and Founder in this land even then when he was both st●fly and stoutly opposed by the Monks of Bangor in the year of our Lord 596. and in the reign of King Ethelbert witness Fox his Martyrology page 119. together with the rest of the English Historians and Evagrius lib. 2.8 The fourth famous degree of the Combinational Churches infamous defection was its notable naughty inlarging its self into a National Church when and whence without coutroversie arose that Jewish imitation and irregularly religious observation of five frivolous and foundationless customs and traditions of which the first was of National times as the fisty years festivals or holy working dayes Cursed-mass Candle-mass The second was of National places as the consecrated Meeting houses Porches Chancels and Church-yards The third was of National persons as the Universal Preachers Office-Priests and Half Priests or Diocesian-Deacons The fourth was of National pious performances as stinted Worship Choristers singing of Psalms with all the Rubrique postures And the fifth was of National payments or spiritual profits as Offerings Tithes and Mortuaries All which faithless and fantastical fashions were the illegitimate legal off-spring of National Parliaments in this and the neighbour Nations witness the publique Acts Statutes and other Ordinances in that behalf The fifth and highest degree of Church-deformity is the Oecumenical Church otherwise called Roman Catholike the which in the apprehension of I know not how many Kingdoms is the very best though in the judgement of Christ Jesus in the Scriptures it is the very basest because the beast●est and the most blasphemous of all the Bastard-Church constitutions that ever were till now witness what is written Rev. 13.1 3 5 6. Whose Pastors and other Presbyters yea sin-pardoning Pope Cardinals Abbots with others were owned and acknowledged for to be and thereby not a few if not of the summoned Councels yet in several Synods in sundry countries insomuch that Churches abominable iniquities were so encreased over their heads and their trayterous trespasses were so egregiously grown up to heaven as that the long-forbearing Lord could no longer forbear but was put upon it and as it were necessitated for to take vengeance on their inventions as on Aarons golden calfe and Samuels grievous connivency at the evils of his sons spoken of Psal 99.6.8 Much respected Sir MAy not any one to whose Inwards the knowledge of these particulars is come ingeniously confess that his very soul is clearly convinced of the mighty and manifold corruptions which have crept into are cherisht within and contested about by many yea by too too many Christians of too too many Churches And may not I though a stranger to my neerest

An Admonitory LETTER VVRITTEN By an Old Minister of the New Combinational Church and sent to divers Ejected Ministers of those Parts in which he lives IN Which is not boldly and barely affirmed but also offered fairly to be confirmed by unanswerable Arguments I. The right constitution of a Combinational Church II. The corruptions that crept in upon it from the Parochial Cathedral Provincial National and Oecumenical Roman Church III. Who were the Heads of these several Churches and what were the qualities of them PUBLISHED I. For to inform the Ignorant II. For to reduce the Errant LONDON Printed by J. G. for Richard Lowns at the White Lion in Paul's Church-yard 1658. An Admonitory LETTER VVRITTEN By an Old Minister of the New Combinational Church and sent to divers Ejected Ministers of those Parts in which he lives Reverend Sir THat that glorious God who is the giver of all Grace as well as of every good and perfect gift would never be weary of conferring on you or of continuing in you or yet of encreasing by you those real and rich gifts and graces which he out of his good wil meer goodness was pleased to endue adorn your precious soul withal for the dayly use and exercise whereof his main aim and uttermost end was his own service and your own solace to heave you up higher in holiness and happiness as I am hopefully perswaded in my very heart then most of your Companions or Acquaintance Kindred or Country and that at the least by the head and shoulders is one of those many motions which I have frequently and unfeignedly found my self moved and that as I trust from the highest Heavens for to make unto the Hearer of prayers and the granter of requests 1. An humble motion for you this motion is my humble motion for you That you wou'd call to your remembrance and also seriously consider and lay to heart what I in the judgement of rational charity am bound to conceive you cannot chuse but know by what Christ did reveal to you and by what you did likewise receive from Christ namely how our God in Covenant hath thought meet to constitute three several sorts of visible Churches and no more to be owned and acknowledged as his to be founded and found successively on earth from the beginning of the world to the end of the same Whereof the first was the Oeconomical or Domestical the second was the National or Judaical and the third was the Presbyterial or Combinational Church You your self are not at all any thing ignorant I suppose that the foremost of these sorts did exist in and was confined unto those Ages alone which were before the Mosaical Law or that the next had its being and that precisely during those very days which were under the force of that Law either of which spaces of time consisted of two thousand years or neer about and that the hindermost sort did not begin to be untill after the utter abolishment of the said Oeconomical Law In which third and last kind of Church-government every child of man that is an ingenious child of God and a conformable member of Christ either really hath for the present or else earnestly longs and desires to have for the future both a name and a nail according to what is promised to the believing Gentiles and was performed to the believing Jews Isa 56.2 Ezra 9.8 That you would be pleased to spend sometimes a few of your second and morning thoughts in the mature perusing pondering and applying of what is thus humbly put before your eyes and proposed to your judicious consideration is a second Motion which I make bold to acquaint you with 2. An hearty motion to you This Motion is my hearty Motion to you That some others especially such of yours whom it may most neerly concern to be well seen and skilled therein may have it made known unto their souls by your self how and where you shall see cause and think fit that the first visible Church which was constituted by the wise builder thereof was a domestical Church being outwardly guided and governed by the first born of the family who were the types and shadows of Christ Jesus in the several houses of professing Saints and did continue from Abel and Adams days to the time of Moses and Aarons pilgrimage in the Wilderness of Sin as doth plainly appear to all that deliberately do weigh both what is expressed aad what is necessarily implyed in Gen. 4.4 compared with Exod. 12.17 That the Church of the second sort was a National Church consisting meerly of Jewish persons and their Proselytes for its Members who were instrumentally enlightened and led by the Priests and Levites as their only ordinary Ministers the which kind of Church-Government lasted among them from the life of Moses to the death of the Messia● and no longer as it is exceeding plain and clear to any one that can find in his heart advisedly to compare the several testimonies of the old and new Testament together which will contribute pregnant light to this particular point such as are Exod 19.6 Numb 8.10 Deut. 7.7 with Gal. 4.9 10. Col. 2.14.17 Heb. 7.12 And that the Church of the last and longest constitution was a Presbyterial or Combinational Church whose commendable opinion and practice and that without any ground of contradiction in the best judgement of unbyassed believers it is quietly and cordially to subject the earthly erring and unruly will of every creature therein unto the heavenly infallible and uncontrolable will of Christ who peremptorily wills and enjoyns all his professed subjects and professing Church-Members to be indoctrinated and disciplined by the prescribed ministry of those Presbyters or Teaching and Ruling Elders that are of their own voluntary Election and regular Ordination whose office-extent reacheth from Christs Ascention to the Creations Dissolution as it is witnessed by what is written Acts 6.5 14.23 Rom. 12.7 8. 1 Cor. 12.8 28. Ephes 4.7 14. Rev. 2.6 5.6 19.4 That you would resolve in his strength whose you are and in whose hand your life and whole time also is to reveal and manifest unto some of yours somewhat at least of that much which the loving and liberal Lord and lender of pounds and Talents did see good to commit to the care of your conscience 3. An harmless motion by you is a third Motion which I was stirred up for to spread before you This Motion is my harmless Motion by you In case that the frequent pondering of this profitable point which is of so much concernment to be throughly versed in should puzzle any one that begins for to question how where or when did the Christian Church which at the first was Presbyterial and Pure become so corrupt and polluted as that scarce is the Skeleton fashion or face thereof as much as to be perceived the more is the pity in most places or as yet amongst most professors of