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A02435	A description of the Church of Christ, with her peculiar priuiledges, and also of her commons, and entercommoners With some oppositions and answers of defence, for the maintenance of the truth which shee professeth: against certaine Anabaptisticall and erronious opinions, verie hurtfull and dangerous to weake Christians. Maintained and practised by one Master Iohn Smith, sometimes a preacher in Lincolneshire, and a companie of English people with him now at Amsterdam in Holland. Whome he hath there with himselfe rebaptised. By I.H.	Etherington, John, fl. 1641-1645.	1610 (1610)	STC 12567; ESTC S118987	75,210	130

and it answereth to Ierufalem which now is and she is in bondage with her children But Ierusalem which is from aboue is free which is the mother of vs all c. The meaning is That as there were two feeds euen from the beginning the seed of the serpent and the seede of the woman Gen 3.15 figured by Adams two first sonnes Gen. 4.3.4 Caine and Abell Caine going before with his sacrifice Abell comming after with his The one the sonne of the serpent the other the childe of woman the one the childe of the lawe of death the other the childe of the Testament of life for these two Testaments were before either Caine or Abell came to offer their sacrifice and were figured by the two trees that were in the midst of the Garden Gen. 2.9 the Tree of knowledge of good and euill representing the law oftenne commanddements For to the tenne comandements the tree of knowledge of good and euill one curse belonged viz. Reu. 2.7 Thou shalt die the death And the Tree of life representing the Testament and fruite of life as the Lord himselfe proueth when he saith To him that ouercommeth wil I giue to eate of the tree of life which is in the middest of the Paradise of God And as God did set before Adam life and death to chuse and he chose death to himselfe and all his posterity Gen. 2.16.7 so yet still and againe God hath set the same before vs as Moyses saith Behold Deut. 11.26 Deut 30.11.12.14.15 I haue set before you life and death curse and blessing to chuse And as Adam chose death euen so his generation for the most part chuse rather death cursing Rom 10.6.7.8 then life and blessing and are the bond-womans children and so will be like Caine and Ishmael I say as God did prefigure the two Testaments Gen. 19.10.12 and the two seeds to Adam and his feed vntill Abraham So did he then renew his couenants to Abraham figuring them by Agar and Sara and their seed by Ishmael and Isaack Which thing me thinks you M. Smith should not be ignorant of seeing you take such great matters vpon you Now these two sonnes doe not represent the naturall Iew Deut. 10.17 Iob. 34.19 Act. 10.34 35. and the naturall Gentile but the Spirituall Iewe and the Spirituall Gentile for God respects not of what Nation a man be of so he feare and seeke him his couenant shall be vnto him wheresoeuer he be as the Apostle proueth saying Rom. 2.14.15.16.26.27.28.29 If the Gentile doe by nature the things contained in the law that is be circumcised in heart he shall be found a Iew when the Iew circumcised in skinne but not in heart shall be found a Gentile For he is not a Iew that is one without but hee is a Iew that is one within and that is not circumcision that is on the skinne but that which is in the heart And these are the two seedes figured by the two sonnes Ishmael and Isaack and are not tyed either to times or places or Nations but are in all times and of all Nations wheresoeuer lesse or more Now the mothers of these two Children are said to be Hagar that is Sinai Gal. 4. and Sara that is Sion Ierusalem from aboue The one representing the Testament of commandements the other the Testament of mercy the one death the other life the one cursing the other blessing and these are the onely two Testaments of God And whether of these two you make circumcision to be the seale or signe of I cannot tell To be a seale of the promise of life or of any thing pertaining thereunto you flatly deny And to bee a seale of the commandements or of the curse pronounced with them Is as contrary as cursing blessing For circumcision was giuen to Abrahā as a seale of the righteousnes of faith Rom. 4.5 Psal 32.1.2 Rom. 4.11 which God performed not onely vnto him but to all his spirituall children as wel Iewes as Gentiles not only since Christs death but long before Not that circumcision did seale all Abrahams naturall Children to be the Children of promise nor yet any one of them nor Abraham himselfe But it was giuen as a seale not of their faithfulnes to God nor yet to seale their saluation vnto them but to seale God his faithfulnes in his promise to all those of Abrahams Children that vnhardned their hearts like Abraham Rom. 8.15 Whether male or female Iewe or Gentile which hee sealed in their hearts by his spirit of promise whereby they all cryed Abba Father And as the rayne-bow doth confirme Gods faithfulnes to the world not mans faithfulnes to God Euen as Baptisme now is a seale not of euery ones saluation that receiueth it but a seale of Gods faithfulnes in his Couenant of mercy made to all Abrahams seed baptised and circumcised in heart like him which he sealeth vnto their hearts by his spirit of promise not by baptisme And so baptisme doth come indeed truely in the roome of Circumcision not that Circumcision was a type of baptisme but they are both types of one truth which is Circumcision or baptisme in heart As Hagar and Sinai were of another truth Euen of the Testament of Commaundements which was giuen vpon mount Sinai which gendreth or increaseth bondage Which answereth to Ierusalem Ierusalem to it not because it should be so but because they would bee so Chusing rather to be Hagars sonnes Children to Sinai which begetteth and bringeth forth to death Heb. 3.16.17.18.19 Heb. 4.2 then children of Sara and mount Sion which bringeth forth to life For as it is written the Gospell and word that is preached vnto vs was also preached vnto them but the word which they heard profited not them for they when they heard it prouoked him yet not al but with whom was he displeased forty years euen with those that hardned their hearts and wold not heare his voice Euen Hagars sonnes And as Dauid cryeth out to them of his tnne Psal 95.8 saying To day if ye wil heare his voice harden not your hearts as in the prouocation For the most of all Abrahams naturall seed which possessed the earthly Ierusalem and earthly Canaan did chuserather to bee the children of death and bondage figured by the bond woman and Sinai Then to be children of life and liberty figured by mount Sion and the free woman being all for the most part of them Rom. 10.3 ignorant of the righteousnes of faith sought altogether to establish their owne righteousnes framed according to the Law of commandements as they pretended which neither they nor their fathers did euer keepe Ioyning therewith the strict obseruation of the Ceremoniall law supposing their whole life and saluation consisted therein which were both giuen to another end then that which they intended For the Law of commandements was giuen Rom. 7.8 not

right and inheritance challengeng them the field and setting vp a flagge of defiance against the Citie of truth and the God of Israell Behold here comes one the least of ten thousand that doth accept the challenge seeing others doe hold their peace and although hee know not how to beare armes in the field as the manner is yet he promiseth in the name of the God of Iacob with a sling and a stone to bring their champion on his knees for all his stout words that his army who trusted in him may be glad to take their flight and you enioy your Citie in peace And thus most noble Citizens farewell Your faithfull friend till death I. H. To M. IOHN SMITH and to the Companie with him at Amsterdam in Holland AH Master Smith I would for your owne sake you had not written with such affirmation Many things which you haue also made so publike the which you can neuer call home againe although you your selfe doe finde them false whereby also you haue made your selfe more vnable and vnwilling to reuoke them though they be proued so Much better therfore had it bene for you to haue left that Paper vnstained by your hand that should paint forth an vntruth and neuer haue set Pen to write but to the vnchangeable truth of God of which you neuer neede repent and whereof the Church of Christ is the piller Considering also how great a danger euery one doth fall into that is found to adde or diminish from or to the intent and purpose of the word of God I would therefore you had beene better aduised before you had published your bookes You thought your selfe as fully satisfied when you were of another minde You know or at the lest there be that know them that haue three foure nay fiue times changed their Religion that thought themselues as fully satisfied euery time as you thnike your selfe now what they are now some of them I wil not say And if euery man should publish bookes so often as they change their mind how many Religions then should spring from one man and he perhaps be author of so many sects what heapes of bookes are there at this day of seuerall opinions Make therfore no more matter for the fire there is straw and stubble enough already Speake truth for the day of burning is at hand And whatsoeuer you do looke to the maine leaue not the foundation as some haue done Hold fast the beginnings least you neuer come to the endes And I pray God deliuer you from the Curse of Sinai and her sonnes Hagars children And bring you all vnto the blessings of mount Sion and into the rest and freedome of her children euen Saraes sonnes and daughters Your friend I. H. ¶ The Contents of that which followeth 1 A Description of the heauenly Ierusalem with her priuiledges and of her stability and of her Commons and intercommoners 2 A veiw or search of Master Smiths Church with a discouery of the vnsoundnesse and Ruinousnes thereof 3 An examination of a principall answere of his wherevpon many of his other reasons doe depend against the Baptisme of Children and the confutation thereof with sufficient reasons and proofe for the lawfulnes of Baptizing them and that the Baptizing of Children cannot be the marke of the Beast 4 Of the Commonalty and Commons of Christians in generall and wherein specially they are to be distinguished and how the Commoners ought to carry themselues toward the little speciall ones and how the speciall do and ought to walke towards the Commoners 5 Of Christian libertie and of the lawfulnes of the Authority of Magistrates and how all subiects are bound to obey 6 Of Faith and Repentance 7 A Reprehension of Master Smith for his bold Challenge 8 An exhortation to him and his company 9 A short description of the contentions of these times 10 Of Sions Restauration the fall of her greatest enemy and of her euerlasting glory To Master IOHN SMITH and to the Companie with him at Amsterdam in Holland ANd least I runne into your fault and fall into the same daunger with you as of my selfe I haue no strength to stand more then you By the grace and assistance of my God I will take heede and though I haue not the skill of the learned Disputers of this world yet I hope the Spirit of Trueth will so direct me that I shall rather say I know not then set downe and affirme that for trueth which shall be found a lie This therefore I say and write not respecting what you haue said nor regarding your many Arguments to the contrarie That the Church which the Lord doth build consisteth of liuing stones 1. Peter 2. Mat. 16.18 And the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against that Church or any one of the stones thereof Reuel 20.6 but it shall stand and preuaile against Hell and the snares of the second death so that not one shall perish that is of this holy Temple For this Church of Christ and euery stone thereof 1. Pet. 2.4 7. is framed and fashioned from aboue he himselfe is the foundation and chiefe corner stone And all the stones of this building are his brethren reborne and made a new not in shew but in very trueth not for a time but for euer not one of them shall euer fall off They are all of them euerlasting as is their foundation whereon they rest and whose strength doeth stay them vp Matt. 16.19 Great priuiledges hath this Church aboue all other for to it hee hath giuen the keyes of the Kingdome of heauen to open and shut to binde and loose And where two or three of this vniuersall Church of Christ Matt. 18.18 20. consisting of stones of life are gathered together in his Name hee hath promised and will not faile to be in the midst of them And whatsoeuer they binde in earth is bound in heauen and whatsoeuer they loose on earth is loosed in heauen And where two of them shall agree in earth vpon any thing whatsoeuer yee shall desire it shall bee giuen you saith he of my Father which is in heauen This Church is one Ephe. 4.5 6. the Faith is one the Baptisme is also one and the same in euery stone thereof not on the skinne but in the heart Their Rocke is Christ that their one Lord he is the Prince of their Faith and Hope and his Father is their one God and Father alone who is aboue all and through all and in them all praised for euer Gal. 4.26 And this is Ierusalem from aboue which Saint Paul saith is the mother of vs all and is free And this and all of them are those little ones whom the Lord said whosoeuer shall offend It were better that a Milstone were hanged about his necke Matt. 18.6 and that he were drowned in the depth of the Sea so precious in his sight are they all And whosoeuer shall giue but a cup

to the end it shold bring any man to saluation by working thereafter but to make more plaine and manifest mans cursed and lost condition Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.19 And the law of Ceremonies As circumcision the Pascall Lambe Gal. 3.21 The land of Canaan Ierusalem the Temple the Altar the Priesthood the Sacrifices and Ceremonies whatsoeuer Were not giuen them to the end that in them and by the obseruation of them they should gaine life and saluation But they were giuen for a time to teach Israel the substance contained in the Testament of life And did preach vnto the faithfull seed of Abraham the spirituall land of rest Gal. 4.2 which they entred into by vnhardening their hearts and hearing the voice and Testament of mercy with all the children of Hagar I meane the vncircumcised in heart vtterly reiected as they doe still to this day Mar. 13.30 Mat. 24.34 for the same generation remaineth still euen the bond-womans children and their mother also And I am in feare of you Master Smith and of your children for you haue runne your selues vpon the same rocks with thē iustifying your selues vpon your carnall obseruations framing a carnall regeneration and faith which may faile men like vnto them which put confidence in works and obseruations of ceremonies which neuer could saue them And as the bondwoman and her children did increase and get the vpper hand in the Church of the Iewes so that the bondwoman got the name of the married wife and of child bearing and the free woman with her children troden in the dust and as a widow forsaken was she accounted and as a woman that had neither husband nor children euen so it is now And as Ierusalem that then was did an swere to Sinai and Hagar the mother of bondage In somuch as her children did match theirs in hardnesse of heart and vnbeliefe persecuting the sonnes of the free woman as Ishmael did Isaac and Esau Iacob Gen. 21.9 Gen. 27.41 and as they did in the wildernesse whose carcases fell I say as Ierusalem persecuted the Prophets and killed them scoffing and deriding the free womans children Yea though hee were their King euen Dauid Luke 23.35 Mat. 23.29.30 or Christ himselfe the free womans eldest sonne and is therefore saide to bee in bondage with her children as Hagar was with her sonne And as they doing the same workes that he did were cast out with her sonne from inheriting the promise with the childrē of the free woman euen so it is now For the Serpents seed is yet aliue the bond-woman hath many sonnes though the free woman hath few or none to be seene Ismaels brethren haue had the vpper hand a great while euen among Christians as they had among the Iewes And their mother hath the praise of child-bearing still as shee had then And Ierusalem from aboue the free woman and her children despised and troden vpon like a streete as they were wont to be Reu. 11.2 by such like obseruers and Pharisaicall boasters who pretend obedience and sacrifice as much as euer did they who are likewise in most cursed bondage and must also bee cast out with them and shall not inherit with the free-womans children nor enter into rest with them But lerusalem from aboue is free As she euer was from the beginning and is the mother of vs all euen of Abell Henoch Abraham Dauid the Prophets the Apostles and all that euer are and shall bee saued And although shee be as no body and no where in comparison Esa 5 4.1 Yet as Esaiah said vnto her in his daies and as Paul said vnto her in his time Gal. 4.27 so be it said now and still Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children breake forth and cry in ioy thou that bearest not for the desolate hath many moe children then she that hath an husband And this is the trueth of the matter These are the two Testaments And these are the two seeds To wit the law of Commaundements giuen vppon mount Sinai which gendereth to death and bondage And the law of life giuen on mount Sion which gendereth to rest and liberty And the cursed generation of Caine and Ismaell the seede of the one and the blessed generation of Abell and Isaack the seede of the other And so the Scriptures and truth is the same from the beginning to the end of the world And the two Testaments do remaine still yea euen that Testament figured by Hagar and Sinai and the children of bondage figured by her sonne And the curse also doth still remaine and is not taken away by the Crosse of Christ from any of Hagars children But onely from the children of Sara the faithfull seede And Circumcision was not a seale nor signe of any other couenant whatsoeuer but of the Circumcision of the heart and the righteousnesse of faith and mercy couenanted first to Adam then to Abraham and so from time to time renewed And at last confirmed by the Mediator himself and by his death vpon the Crosse who hath made all things cleare and manifest vnto vs if we had but spirituall eies to see them But hee came to saue and to seeke out all the lost sheepe leauing the ninety and nine euen all Hagars proude sounes who thought them selues wise and safe enough Euen so now This is the iudgement which the Lord hath sent into the world Ioh. 9.39 and it is meruailously seene this day The blinde doe see and they that see are made blinde Not the rich nor the full but the poore and the empty receiue the Gospel And now Master Smith whereas you would disproue the argument drawne from circumcision to proue the baptising of children by your doubtfull speech of mistaking the couenant and by your vnsound distinguishing the two Testaments which is your first and principall ground whereon many of your other reasons doe depend It may now be well seene that you are the man that doe mistake For I pray you tell me where you will bestowe circumcision and of what Testament will you make it a seale If you take it away from the new I estament made with Abraham and his seed by promise Will ye bestowe it on the law of commaundements giuen on mount Sinai and the sonnes therof I pray you then which doth it seale vnto them perfect holinesse which they neuer had but altogether the contrary Or did it seale the curse which saith Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all these thinges to doe them which indeede most iustly did belong to all such seruants to sinne and bondage and rebels to grace As all Abrahams carnall seede borne after the flesh were I think you dare not affirme any of these But it should seeme you meane it sealed a blessing vnto the carnall seed and not a curse Say you so M. Smith Then where are you now you haue left the olde Testament For therein lieth no blessing But cursed is euery man