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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89681	An apology for the discipline of the ancient Church: intended especially for that of our mother the Church of England: in answer to the Admonitory letter lately published. By William Nicolson, archdeacon of Brecon.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing N1110; Thomason E959_1; ESTC R203021	282,928	259

of Christ either really hath for the present or else earnestly longs and desires to have for the future both a name and a naile according to what is promised to the beleeving Gentiles and was performed to the beleeving Jews Isa 56.5 Ezra 9.8 such a naile was Eliakim the Type of Christ Isa 2. An hearty motion to you 22.23 Upon this you move me to spend sometimes a few of my morning thoughts maturely to peruse ponder and apply what is by you set before my eyes and propose to my consideration And I assure you I am not now to begin to do it for I could present you if I pleased with many animadversions on this subject many years since collected I am not such a stranger in Israel to be ignorant of these things which are obvious to any one that hath been conversant but meanly in the Scriptures however for your monition I thank you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SECT III. The Letter NExt you begin to enlarge upon your distinction and move first That some others especially such of yours whom it may more nearly concern to be well seene and skill'd therein may have made known unto their souls by your that is my self how and where you shall see cause and think fit that the firt visible Church c. This motion I embrace and it shall be perform'd But whom you note out by such of yours I know not If you meane those of my own Order I know many of them as well if not better seene and skill'd in these things already than my self so that this were operam oleum perdere however they shall have notice of it But if you meane of the common sort it hath been so often inculcated by me into them that to do it again is actum agere Yet by the way give me leave to intimate that I am not pleased with the phrase Such of yours for it seemes to me to be distinctive and among Protestants I never liked these pronowns Yours and Ours they border too near upon separation which I would not have amongst us who are all one in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.15 We may in some things think otherwise and yet belong to the same fold God in his good time will reveale the Truth away then with these termes of distance Yours and Ours Now I proceed with your words The Letter The first visible Church which was constituted by the wise Builder thereof was a Domestical Church being outwardly guided and governed by the first borne of the family who were types and shadowes of Christ Jesus in the several houses of professing Saints and did continue from Adam and Abels dayes to the time of Moses and Aarons pilgrimage in the wildernesse of Sin as doth plainly appear to all that do deliberately weigh both what is exprest and what is necessarily implyed in Gen. 4.4 compared with Exod. 12.7 Answer IN the substance I agree with you But I pray take it not ill that I cleare up some expressions that may be mistaken 1. You say the first visible Church is Domestical and did so continue from Adam to Moses That at first the discipline and government of the Church began and continued in certaine families cannot be doubted but that it so continued till Moses dayes is not easie to conceive because as families multiplied there must be a multiplication of these Chu●ches as there was of houses whence it will follow that every eldest sonne must be King and Priest in his own house and then what will become of the prerogative of the first-borne Gen. 27.29 who during life was to be Lord over his brethren Better therefore I conceive it is to say that this reglement was Paternal and that all the several families were to depend on him durante vitâ both for instruction and discipline For while the first father liv'd he was 1. a Prophet to teach 2. A Priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sacrifice intercede to blesse and give thanks 3. A Prince to rule and punish Thus Adam as a common father guided the Church for nine hundred and thirty years Seth the sonne of Adam was his fathers assistant for five hundred years and taught his children who were then the Church to call on the name of the Lord Gen. 4. and continued that charge one hundred and twelve years after his fathers death Enosh did the like to Seth and all the heirs of the promise to the fathers God alwayes stirring up the spirits of some excellent men to preach in his Church while their fathers yet liv'd and guided the number of the faithfull as for example Enoch that prophesied three hundred years Gen. 5.22 2 Pet. 2.5 Gen. 5.27 first under Adam and after under Seth in whose dayes he was translated So Noah a preacher of righteousnesse began under Enoch and held on for six descents till the year the flood came the very year his grandfather Methusalem died I would call these then extraordinary and immediate Prophets raised up by God to instruct his Church during the time of their fathers principality and priesthood Noah after his grandfather Methusalems death govern'd the Church for three hundred and fifty years and left the reglement to Sem who succeeding his father in the Covenant and adopted into the dignity of the first-borne govern'd the Church one hundred fifty and two years after his father even till Abraham was dead Isaac dimme and Jacob fifty two years old and therefore might be the Melchizedech Gen. 14. Heb. 7. the Priest of the most high God The next that succeeded Sem was Jacob by Gods especial choise too Esau having sold his birth-right As for Abraham and Isaac they could not lay claime to the●e rights of primogeniture Sem being yet alive Call'd indeed Abraham was and promised to inherit it but possessed of he was not because Sem out-lived him he therefore is called a King and the Priest of the most high God In Jacob this primogeniture was estated among whose sonnes God divided the honours and dignities of Sem 1 Chron. 5.1 appointing the Scepter and seed to Judah the Priesthood to Levi the double portion to Joseph which never were again conjoyned in any but in Christ Jesus the onely Priest that ever succeeded according to the order of Melchizedech By whom the Church was after Jacobs and Josephs decease governed in Egypt is not so certaine but very probable it is that it was done by the fathers and heads of the twelve tribes over which I conceive Judah was the chief Gen. 49.8 according to the tenor of Jacobs blessing Thy fathers children shall bow down before thee The summe of this is that when the people of God increased and multiplyed into a Nation and diverse Nations for ought we know as before the flood they did and when after the flood they did the like it is not so proper to call it a Domestical Church that was so farre extended And if the instruction

thereof was Domestical because every father was to teach his houshold and off-spring yet the government thereof was Paternal He that was set over the rest being to be a father to the rest and to performe all Natural Civil and Ecclesiastical offices to them and they again to do all duties to him by which they are bound by the fifth Command Honour thy father 2. Your next words are that this Domestical Church was guided and governed by the first-borne of the family But this must be understood with a graine of salt for this though for the most part yet is not alwayes true for what will you say to Abel who was younger then Cain to Sem younger brother to Japheth as Junius intimates in his notes Gen. 5.32 and proves chap. 10. verse 21. which is therefore thus dubiously rendered by our Translatours Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder even to him were children borne What will you say to Jacob to Ruben when his primogeniture was lost Necessary then it is that you limit your words that they carry this sense God did consecrate the first-borne of the family as holy to himself to be Priest in his Church and increased their dignity with this princely prerogative that they should be Lords over their brethren and honoured by their mothers children as succeeding their fathers in the government and priesthood unlesse they were rejected from that honour by Gods secret counsels or manifest judgements and others named by God himself to sustaine that charge Thus the clause is clear and true 3. Againe you say that these were types and shadowes of Christ Jesus in the several houses of professing Saints What then is every professing Saint a King a Priest a Prophet in his own house This I dare not assent to and I hope you will not there were no more words to be made of a Presbyterial Church if this were true for every man might officiate at home and need not subject himself to any Presbytery he might baptize administer the Sacrament c. being authoriz'd by this Type I should rather then say that these were types and shadowes of Christ Jesus who is the King Priest and Prophet in his Church and yet executes all these offices for her good and salvation then make them types of professors in their several houses who nor may nor can ex officio undertake these functions It follows 4. As doth plainly appear to all that do deliberately weigh what is expressed and what is necessarily implyed in Gen. 4.4 Exod. 12.7 These texts I have deliberately weighed and finde not in them neither expressed nor yet necessarily implyed what you produce them for In Gen. 4.4 I reade that Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect to Abel and to his offering but can any man either expressely or by necessary implication ever prove from hence that the first visible Church was a domestical Church or that it was governed by the first-borne of the family that they were types and shadows of Christ Jesus in the several houses of professing Saints Or that this Church did continue from Adam and Abels dayes to the time of Moses and Aarons pilgrimage in the wildernesse That Abel sacrificed to God that the offering he brought was of the best that God respects loves and is reconciled to the person before he accepts his gift and service may easily be collected from hence But I cannot discerne which way to deduce from this text any of the former propositions This text you compare with Exod. 12.7 When I thus reade and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eate it An injunction I finde here concerning the use of the blood of the Paschal Lamb but not a syllable that can be drawne to your purpose But the best is that what you say for the substance is so clear in the book of Genesis that no man need question it Let the mistake be but notified and we agree and therefore I proceed SECT IV. The words of the Letter THe Chuch of the second sort was a National Church consisting meerly of Jewish persons and their Proselytes for its members who were instrumentally enlightned and led by the Priests and Levites as their ordinary Ministers the which kinde of Church-government lasted among them from the life of Moses to the death of the Messias and no longer as it is exceeding plaine and cleare to any one that can finde 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 Num. 8.10 Deut. 7.7 with Gal. 4 9 10. Coloss 2.14.17 and Heb. 7.12 The Replication THe substance of this Paragraph is agreed on also To wit that the Jews with the Proselytes were a National Church taught and led ordinarily by the Priests and Levites extraordinarily by the Prophets and when they ceased and the Urim and Thummim God spoke sometimes to us so by the Bath Col or silia vocis And that kinde of government began with Moses and ended at the death of the Messias or a little after as I hinted before and rather encline to think For I am sure actually till then it did not howsoever it ought to have done Christs death upon the Crosse putting an end to all the rites and sacrifices of the Ceremonial Law Many things I could here observe about their Proselytes their Priests and Levites their whole government which yet I passe by as not so necessary to the present question One thing onely give me leave to tell you that some of these texts are not so conclusive to your purpose as you conceive For first out of that of Exodus that the Jews were a holy Nation and people will easily be deduced and as much may be said of the Christians is as evident if you compare the place with the first of Peter 2.9 for to this place of Exodus I make no doubt the Apostle alludes when he affirmes of the Christian Church that it is a chosen generation a royal priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar priesthood c. I would gladly know why I may not out of these words as well conclude a National Church of Christians as you do out of the other a National Church of Jews and Proselytes And then your National Church will not be proper to the Jewish State but communicable to the State of Christianity also 2. Out of Heb. 7.12 you conclude rightly that the Priesthood being chang'd there must be a change of the Law that the Ceremonial Law of Moses was quite abolished no more sacrifices to be offered legal purifications to be observ'd no nor dayes moneths times years in a Jewish sense to be kept up Gal. 4.9 10. In a Jewish sense I say for this