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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85035	A triple reconciler stating the controversies whether ministers have an exclusive power of communicants from the Sacrament. Any persons unordained may lawfully preach. The Lords prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2472; Thomason E1441_2; ESTC R202064	51,442	150

A TRIPLE RECONCILER Stating the CONTROVERSIES Whether Ministers have an Exclusive power of Communicants from the Sacrament Whether Any persons Unordained may lawfully Preach Whether The Lords Prayer ought not to be used by all Christians By THOMAS FULLER B. D. LONDON Printed by Will. Bently for John Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard Anno Dom. 1654. TO THE Right Honorable and truly virtuous Lady ANNE Vicountess BALTINGLASS the blessings of this life and a better MADAM THis my Book addresseth it self to you as once the Dove to NOAH in the Ark bringing an Olive branch with three sprigs in the mouth thereof It is of a Peaceable nature desires to be a Peace-maker betwixt the opposite parties in the three Controversies handled therein My humble request to you is that with NOAH you would be pleased to put forth your hand and receive it into the Ark of your protection I know what success commonly attends all Umpiers Arbitrators that often they lose one sometimes both of their friends betwixt whom they intercede Meek Moses could not escape in this kind but when seeking to atone two striving Israelites the partie who did the wrong fell with foul language upon him I expect the like fate from that side which doth the most injurie and am prepared to undergo their Censure which I shall do with the greater alacritie if these my weak endeavors may find your favourable acceptance The Lord bless your Honor with your Noble Consort and sanctifie your former sufferings which a National calamitie hath cast upon you that your last days may be your best days both in temporal and spiritual improvement is the dayly desire of Your Honors truly devoted servant THOMAS FULLER THE FIRST RECONCILER LEVITICUS 13. 3. And the Priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean The words contain an Examination and the Priest shall c. Condemnation and pronounce him c. WHich words we will handle first Literally of Corporal leprosie then Analogically to shew by proportion how far Ministers under the Gospel are inpowered to pass censure on the goodness or badness of men so to admit or exclude them Gods ordinance 2. Be it here premised that the leprosie we speak of called the plague of leprosie is not what proceeded from natural causes or distempers in which cases the patient might be more properly sent to the Physitian but was immediately inflicted by Gods hand dedecus medicinae and a principall if not peculiar disease to the Jews not finding in the Acts that the Apostles when preaching to the Gentiles out of Palestine cured any of that disease 3. I will not stir a step farther before I raise one observation Great is gods goodness that we English men generally live now in the happy ignorance of the heigth of leprosie I say generally a Leper is a rarity some few in Cornwell caused as Physitians conceive from the frequent eating of fish new taken out of the sea I say new I confess there is Lazars Bath but though the Bath be there thanks be to God but few Lepers Indeed some hundred years ago when the holy war was continued by the English our intercourse with eastern people in Palestine made the leprosie here epidemical and Hugh Orwell a Bishop of London dyed thereof Anno 1085. But with the end of that War ended the leprosie of England as to the generallity and malignity thereof Every scab or scurf or scale observing Tydes in the body is not presently the leprosie but know as the Jews had a disease we have not so we have a disease the Jews had not excuse me for naming it you may easily conceive what I would willingly conceal it is the last rod that God made therewith to whip wantonness and which he handselled on the French at Naples two thousand miles from this place How came this malady to climb and clamber over the high aspiring Alpes when got into France England being an Island secured from the diseases of the continent how came it to swim over into England did wicked Forreigners bring it hither or wanton English fetch it thence how ever it was so it is and is a disease so much worse than leprosice as sin is worse than suffering transgression worse than affliction 4. Now shall we make a brief paraphrase on every word the Priest not every ordinary Levite but either Aaron or one of his Sons Quest Why was not this power rather committed to a corporation of Priests as being too great a charge to be trusted in one person why were not a vestry of Lay-Elders admitted as Assistants herein And the Priest herein was a Type of Christ who was to be but one Individual Person and therefore a single Priest alone was employed therein Shall look on him But what if he were blind as in the case of Eli 1 Sam. 4. 15. And the Commission of trying was granted to the High Priests or one of his Sons as it is vers the 2. who in such a case was to officiate for his Father Look Herein 2. things conteined the inspection of the eye and the circumspection of the judgement For the latter the Priest might not proceed on his own Arbitrary principles but was confined to Gods directions prescribed unto him and principally he discovered it by 3. signes 1. Depression by the subsidency or the sinking of the malady when it intrenched it self in pits and holes made in the flesh 2. Diffusion when the malignity thereof contained not it self to the first place but dilated it self over the body 3. Discoloration when the hair therein was turned white arguing the debility of nature white commonly a colour of innocence now of infection commonly the livery of chearfulness now of sadness a black white sable and sorrowfull Now whereas the Priest was to look on the Party trusting no other evidence than his own eyes we learn mens censures must not go on heare-says but be grounded on their own knowledge I will go Gen. 18. 21 down and see whether they have done altogether c. And Pronounce him the Priest must not be sceptical and suspend his verdict but must give sentence to condemn or acquit Pronounce That is positively and publickly he was not to mutter his sentence as the Popish Priests in the mass the words of consecration no Clandestine dealing in matters of publick concernment Unclean Not as the Apostle saith no unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven but ceremoniously unclean so as to be expelled publick society Question How came it to pass that the Priest was not infected therewith seeing sometimes such was the pestilent malignity of the leprosie as to taint the clothes yea the walls of the house Hard walls scarce penetrable to a bullet yielded to the impression of leprosie Answer he was secured by his calling and employment obeying gods command in his vocation Doctrine A lawfull calling is the best Armour against an infection One in his calling is armed out