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A75971
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The agreement of the associated ministers of the county of Essex: proposed to their particular congregations, and to all such of the county that love the churches peace; with a word of exhortation to brotherly union.
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1658
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Wing A776; Thomason E955_2; ESTC R207612
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is wrought in us by the Word and the Spirit of God That Faith is that Grace whereby we believe and trust in Christ for remission of sins and Life Everlasting according to the Promises of the Gospel that whosoever believeth not in the Son of God shall not see Life but shall perish eternally That they who truly repent of their sins do see them sorrow for them and turn from them to the Lord and that except men repent they shall surely perish That a godly life is conscionably ordered according to the Word of God in Holiness and Righteousness without which no man shall see God That the Sacraments are Seals of the Covenant of Grace in the Blood of Christ that the Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord that the outward Elements in the Lords Supper are Bread and Wine and do signifie the Body and Blood of Christ crucified which the worthy Receiver by Faith doth partake of in the Sacrament which Christ hath likewise ordained for the remembrance of his Death that whosoever eateth and drinketh unworthily is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord therefore that every one is to examine himself lest he eat and drink Judgement to himself not discerning the Lords Body That the Souls of the Faithful after death do immediately live with Christ in Blessedness and that the Souls of the Wicked do immediatly go into hell torment that there shall be a Resurrection of the Bodies both of the Just and Unjust at the last day at which time all shall appear before the Judgement-Seat of Christ to receive what they have done in the Body whether it be Good or Evil and that the Righteous shall go into Life Eternal and the Wicked into Everlasting Punishment 3. Because some persons through want of Education weakness of apprehension bashfulness and other impediments are unable to express their minds in fit and composed words and yet others by roat can easily speak more than they understand we will therefore use the most familiar means by easie questions and discourse to discern the meaning of such not taking any for ignorant for want of apt expressions nor accepting every one for competently knowing who verbally can recite the fore-mentioned particulars but so far as we can discover we will make their ignorance or knowledge it self the ground of our proceeding Unblameable Conversation and Scandal 1. SCandalous sinners we agree cannot be admitted to the Lords Supper without great sin and judgement to themselves danger by their example of leavening the whole lump defiling the Ordinance and very great dishonour to Christ therefore we resolve not to receive any of what degree or quality soever that is proved such before satisfaction be given the Church by evidence of serious Repentance 2. We will not reject any from our own private apprehensions and suspitious or others bare report but where the matter of fact shall have some evident proof 3. Because all sins are not alike evil nor of a scandalous nature therefore we shall distinguish of such sins and accordingly proceed 4. We agree that no person ought to be judged scandalous for sins of such meer infirmity and daily incursion that all the Saints daily are subject to mourn for and strive against 5. But such we agree are scandalous persons who continue in any course or way of open wickedness whatsoever and particularly are evidently guilty of any of those wayes of sin mentioned in Scripture as marks and characters of wicked persons being utterly inconsistent with Holiness saving Faith true Repentance new Obedience and coming up to the terms of the Covenant of Grace sealed by this Sacrament and thereby appearing in open rebellion against Christ the Ordainer of it such as Idolaters Sorcerers Fornicators Drunkards Lyars and any such kind of evil livers 6. We agree that a person is scandalous by not only a way or course of open wickedness but likewise by any one single act or work of manifest wickedness whereby the people of Christ have that evil example set before them and may be drawn into the like Rebellion and disobedience against Christ such as a single act of Fornication Drunkenness Blasphemy Idolatry or any the like immorral and flagitious act To this we add for further evidence that innumeration of scandals by the Assembly in their Church-Government The words are as followeth All scandalous Persons hereafter mentioned are to be suspended from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper that is to say all persons that shall blasphemously speak or write any thing of God his holy Word or Sacraments all Renouncers of the true Protestant Religion professed in the Church of England and all persons who shall by preaching or writing maintain any such Errours as do subvert any of those Articles the ignorance whereof doth render any person excluded from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper an Incestuous person an Adulterer a Fornicator a Drunkard a prophane Swearer or Curser one that hath taken away the life of any person maliciously all Worshippers of Images Crosses Crucifixes or Reliques all that shall make Images or Pictures of the Trinity or of any person thereof all Religious Worshippers of Saints Angels or any meer creatures any person that shall profess himself not to be in charity with his Neighbour all persons in whom malice appeareth and they refuse to be reconciled any person that shall challenge any other person by word message or writing to fight or that shall accept such challenge and agree thereto any person that shall knowingly carry any Challenge by word message or writing any person that shall upon the Lords day use any Dancing playing at Dice or Cards or any other Game Masking Wakes Shooting Bowling Playing playing at Foot-ball Stool-ball Wrestling or that shall make resort to any Playes Interludes Fencing Bull-baiting Bear-baiting or that shall use Hawking Hunting or Coursing Fishing or Fowling or that shall publikely expose any wares to sale otherwise then is provided by an Ordinance of Parliament of the sixth of April 1649. Any person that shall travell on the Lords Day without reasonable cause any person that keepeth a known Stew or Brothel-house or that shall solicite the chastity of any person for himself or any other any person Father or Mother that shall consent to the Marriage of their Children to a Papist or any person that shall marry a Papist any person that shall repair for any advice to any Witch Wizard or Fortune-teller any person that shall menace or assault his Parents or any Magistrate Minister or Elder in the execution of his office any person that shall be legally attained of Barrotry Forgery Extortion or Bribery Thus the Rubrick before the Communion in these words If any be an open and evil liver so that the Congregation by him is offended or have done wrong to his Neighbour by deed or word the Curate having knowledge thereof shall advertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lords Table