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A47083	Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.	Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing J996_VARIANT; ESTC R39317	390,112	653

Gods Truth resisting God therein and preferring man before him which is Papistry or making the Pope an Idol And the Papists on the contrary say they obey the Pope as Christs Infallibe Vicar on Earth in his decisions and thereby Christ himself by consequence and enjoy Peace and Union agmonst themselves as the reward of this Submission And that Protestants are guided by a Private spirit which cannot be seen or met under the colour of Christ and Scripture and are led and Imbroyled by it in Eternal Sects and Divisions which is a Fanaticism that cannot be of God And I suppose both sides will easily subscribe this repetition of their Case and main exceptions against each other to be faithful and true and agreeing with their minds Now there are Three Questions to be run over to find out the true wherein we differ The first of Right the second of Opinion the third of Fact The first or Questio juris whether in the General or the Abstract without relation to parties or circumstances whether I say by way of Major Proposition Truth as Gods mind is to be follow'd by the heart and errour to be shunned as contrary to his mind and the nature of our souls is out of question and by both agreed to The second that each side believe and suppose in their minds and perswasions their own Opinion to be Truth and their Adversaries to be an errour is also yeilded to and that the Opinion of the one or the other that is Gods mind too as well as mans mind is not the Private Opinion of man but the absolute Catholick Truth of God to be followed by all hearts which is a rule and measure to end the controversie by the Question therefore between us is of Fact or the Assumption and Minor Proposition What parties Opinion is the mind of God too whose Facts and principles agree with the right rule and guide who do as they should do or to put it in the words of my Text which party doth whatsoever it doth from the heart as unto the Lord and not unto men or who to men and therefore not from the heart unto the Lord or by way of Simile which Dyall most agrees with the Sun it being pre-allowed 1. That the Sun goes right 2. That the Dyall which best agrees with it is truest For the further clearing hereof the heart as I have shewed cannot be alone without its guide and confident to advize it no more than Ivie without an Oak or Wall to bear it or a stone without its weight and Bias towards its Center As of solitary persons it 's said they are either Angels or Beasts because of the objects the soul is sure to entertain though solitary so the heart can never be alone but through heed or heedlesness and want of grace will of necessity chuse a God true or false either Christ or bosom sin or a man of sin to be led by The will and design of the first if chosen for an head and Soveraign will be Gods glory and the souls bliss of the second the desires and satisfactions of the flesh of the third Secular Power and Authority over every thing that is called God 2 Thess 2.4 The Laws of Christ are in holy Scriptures of sin In the carnal fancy of the man of sin in blind obedience and strong delusions The force and Co-ercive Power of the first lyes in life and Death Eternal of the second in carnal joyes and sorrows which in fleshly minds make Jubiles and Earth-quaks equal to Heaven and Hell as to them of the third in false Salvation to his Catholicks and false damnation to his Hereticks as Satan was ever the Ape of the Almighty Christ will not admit of any Soveraign in the heart before or beside himself which is observed to be the reason he could not be received according to the desires of the Senate in the days of Tiberius into the number of their Gods at Rome for all were to be quitted to admit him but bosom sin is more Civil will allow of Religion to co-habit with it but if it offers to contradict or controul it must quit and pack the man of sin will admit both of sin and Christ will indulge and dispense with sin that may advance his Grandeur and by all means admit of Christ for Interest and Lustre to his designs and ambition but if sin or Truth shall offer to clash with or Impede his secular ends and Master Interest the one shall be discontinued the other excluded for expedience and all to give place to the Soveraign who is own'd To let pass the servitude and slavery of the heart to sin Rom. 6.12 Against which as our greatest misery and Captivity we stand upon our Christian Watch and Warfare throughout our whole life I 'le Instance in the slavery of the heart to a man of sin which is like unto the former and is the everlasting breach and difference between Protestancy and Popery and will fully discover and prove the point in Question who obey the right or the wrong Superiour of the heart who Christ and who a man that is contrary unto him The true Christian Church in her Christs Cross and her Baptismall vow doth bind and teach her Children to die to this world and its Pomps and Vanities and to live to Heaven and Christ But the Romish Church or its Rulers which is the same with them insists on nothing more than secular Grandeur and domination in this present world and on nothing less that on Christian Truths when they stand in contrariety to the former The first fundamental Article in the Popes Religion is Romes greatness and his own Supremacy and Perogative over all orders of men guarded with spirituall Lightning and Thunder-bolts as Paradice with a flaming Sword with the motto Noli me Tangere any Article of the Creed or precept of the Dialogue or Institution of Christ himself shall be sooner spar'd or dispensed with or dismissed yea Heaven and Earth shall pass away with them before any one jot of the Rights and acquisitions of the Triple Crown whether rightly or wrongly come by shall be curtailed or diminished in the least All Errours that favour this Interest must be believed to be Orthodox Truths all wickedness that promotes it Meritorious all Truths that oppose it to be Heretical and damnable by those that have surrendred that intire obedience and submission of heart and Judgement to a mortall guide which was due to none but the immortall Lord in my Text For as where sin rules the heart all virtue and sobriety shall be judged folly and Impertinence And miserable debauchery true Liberty and pleasure so where the man of sin gets into the same Throne all Truths that cross him shall be Heresies all errours that please him and advance his Interest shall become Orthodox Truths and Catholick traditions and no truce or accommodation can be settled between the subjects of either till such Antagonist

transpos'd the Husband loves himself in his Wife and the Wife her self in her Husband 1 Cor. 7.4 Jonathan loved David more than Jonathan And David loved Jonathan more than David by their dwelling in one another in their hearts 1 Sam. 18.1 And this in agreeableness to that indelible principle of self-preservation which preserves it self not where it is not but where it is But no where is this strife and ecstasy of love and the mutual exchange of hearts and beings more visible than between Christ and true Christians These swarming out of their Tabernacles of clay after him in Heavenly affections and dayly Martyrdom and he much more aforehand with them in dying for them all in whole and in and with every one over again apart As appears by his expostulation from Heaven when pinch'd by Saul in his members on Earth Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Act. 9.5 where love was express'd like that between the friendly pare in the Poet but with the tone and effect of Omnipotence Me me adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum nihil iste nec ausus nec meruit As if our Saviour had said Saul Saul what mean you It is not poor Christians that you hale and persecute for what have they poor sheep either done or deserv'd but for their excess of love towards me It s Me that am their Head where the pain is felt and judg'd it is Me that have at this time darkned the Sun with the Glory of my appear●●ce to you that you are so hot to have me strangled in my Infancy once more and think you your self able to carry on this War against me an●●●●●e And he trembling and astonish'd made no other return but Lord what wilt thou have me do Which manifested to the whole World as well as to St. Paul the Divinity of that voice and vision Nothing less could have chang'd in an Instant the superlative zeal of an Israelite for Moses Law to run on a suddain in a contrary stream no less assistance could make his Ministry and Writings to be seen ever since by all Ages to out-do the Sun in usefulness and Glory as St. a Chrysost Hom. 3. c. 1. Epist ad Philipp Chrysostome proclaimes in a Panegyrick on the Consideration the most elegant strain perhaps in all his works upon the occasion of his choosing rather to abide in the flesh for the use and need of Christians by a laborious Ministry than to be with Christ in bliss and rest which was far better for himself Phil. 1. 23 24. Transitive love or charity to others on Earth being more his delight and perfection than immanent self-love in Glory So contrary is self-love and especially terminating in Carnal and Worldly bliss and advantage to the Spirit of a Christian being therein the lively Copy of the Son of God beginning man's Salvation and making Eternal Glory his own by merit which he had before by Inheritance Phil. 2.6 9. by loving others before himself and preferring death and reproach for our Redemption before the continuance of his Beatifical Glory which he had with the Father before the World began Joh. 17.5 rather than mankind should lye for ever under wrath For the u●most arrival of all Christian perfection is to be as b Chrysost Hom. 10. in cap. 3. Philip. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 second Christs in the imitation of his vertues And Christ is never exactly transcrib'd nor his Image drawn to the life in any Soul where immanent self-love is not obliterated and transitive self-love or Charity or the love of our selves in Christ and all his members for his sake is not induc'd in its place Where Christ is not exemplified in three conformities In his death in his life in his Redamation In the death of his Cross in our death to this World and the Flesh and self-love and lust all Crucified to us and we to them Gal. 5.24.6 14. In his life and exaltation in the transmigration of our hearts and affections in the consequence of his Grace and the power of his Resurrection after him to Heaven Phil. 3.10 11 20. Col. 3.1 2. And which is never failing and is in the Scripture phrase the new man or image of God or in Cicero's Dialect Persona Christiani the new Christian person in us that is to be preserv'd and adorn'd thence forward by Congruous Conversation as the life and support thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 1.27 Only let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ In his Redamations and counter-descent into our hearts from Heaven by his Holy Spirit to fill our vacuities and expirations and to maintain the exundations of our Charity after our beloved with new supply and Divine force term'd by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.19 And if ensurance of Salvation be the point in question neither obedience to the Pope nor being within the Pale of Rome can effect it to the Conscience nor any thing else but this Spirit of Christ born in our hearts as the loving Wife her Husbands picture at her breast which alone can secure and prove it to us and that in a high measure of satisfaction because by Divine Institution and undertaking ordain'd to be the seal of our Salvation and the earnest of our Inheritance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until the Redemption of the purchased possession as it is expressed Eph. 2.13 14. being as the Turfe at taking possession standing for all the rest of Land or the Livery and Seisin of Heaven in its first fruits left in our hands on Earth The earnest which secures our bargain and contract to us as fully and effectually as if we had it in our possession and without this earnest to produce which steps ever into the heart as its love steps out after Christ and that ever according to the proportion of our Faith and serious view of Christ in its benefits and beauty for ignoti nulla cupido what the eye never sees the heart never covets we have no evidence or title to Son ship nor consequently to Inheritance Rom. 8.14.17 For it s expresly affirm'd If any one have not the Spirit of God he is none of his v. 9. And Christ in us thus by his Spirit and the flesh dead in us by consequence v. 9. is our hope of glory which is the whole Mystery of the Gospel Col. 1.26 27. Whereby every true Christian is re-born and conceived by the Holy Ghost as Christ was and rais'd up from the death of sin by that Spirit dwelling in him which rais'd up Christ from the dead v. 11. and predestinated to suffering in conformity to Christ image v. 30.18 and like Glory by like Suffering v. 17. which is St. Pauls predestination and calling according to Gods purpose v. 28 29. whereby all that own him before men by suffering are his Elect as they that to save themselves deny him Reprobates Mat. 10.32 33. which Spirit of