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A25343 Ancient truth revived, or, A True state of the antient, suffering Church of Christ, commonly (but falsly) called Brownists, living in London, and other places of this nation wherein I. Is shewed (in the preface) the state of the gospel-church, from the time of Christ's ascension, to the end of the world, gathered out of the book of Revelations, II. The confession of our faith, grounded on the doctrine of the apostles and prophets, III. By vvhom the gospel vvas first preached in this island, IV. Our practice in the worship of God, according to the practice of the primitive church, with an explanation of every ordinance, and vvho have right to administer the same, V. The first day of the week proved to be the gospel-sabbath. 1677 (1677) Wing A3076; ESTC R40283 61,216 57

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See Isa 32.15 Acts 2.17 18. 10.45 Ezek. 39.29 After the manner of rain or sprinkling Isa 52.15 Now some have the Spirit poured on them in a greater measure than others some were in the Church Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors some Teachers and all differing in the measure of the Spirit received yet all were baptized of the Spirit yea the whole Church were by one Spirit baptized into one Body though some but Babes in Christ yet all had the Baptism of the Spirit Now therefore who dare presume to limit the Spiritual Baptism to say none were baptized with the Spirit but them that had the greatest measure After this manner in respect of measure are we to understand the Baptism of Suffering one suffering more another less as for example some suffer reproaches Heb. 13.13 others suffer reproaches and loss of goods others suffer reproaches loss of goods and liberty Esay 51.14 Rev. 1.9 2.10 Others suffer all the aforesaid and loss of life Rev. 12.11 Acts 12.2 Then who dare presume to say that they that did not suffer in the greatest measure as loss of Life did not partake of the Baptism of Suffering Now then Water-Baptism being one and the same Word in signification must be understood to agree with the former Baptism especially of the Spiritual Baptism after which manner the Lord himself baptized the Children of Israel in the Cloud and in the Sea When the Clouds poured forth water upon them Psal 77.17 yet they went through the Sea on dry foot The manner of which Baptism the Apostle Paul would not have the Church of God ignorant of saying All our Fathers were baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea 1 Cor. 10.2 Surely the manner of John's Baptism in Jordan and Enon and Philip on the Eunuch was after this manner in casting water after the manner of Rain or Sprinkling on them for Israel was not deprived of any sense when they were baptized in the Sea as of seeing hearing and breathing c. contrary to the Order of God's Creation as these in our days that are baptized by dipping Neither were they in the Sea nor in Jordan as we read of stript of their Apparel to one thin Covering which is not modest seemly nor of a good report for a Woman to appear before any Man besides her Husband in such a dress under the pretence they cannot be baptized with their Garments on surely if one may cover that part of the Body that he believes must be baptized with one Covering he may with more for without doubt that part of the Body that is to be baptized ought to have no Covering on it for if it hath a Covering they baptize the Covering and not the Flesh For as the Face representeth the whole Person as Hagar fled from the Face of Sarah Gen. 16.6 8. that was from her Person and Moses fled from the Face of Pharaoh was the like So likewise the sorrow of Man's labour which Sin brought is signified by the sweat of the Face Gen. 3. Likewise when Jacob set his Face to go to Mount Gilead from Laban it represented his Affection and Actions with desire So when Jacob sent a Present to Esau it was to appease him that is his Face Gen. 32.20 So when Lot intreated for Zoar Gen. 19.21 God is said to accept his Face in granting his request So then the Face that representeth the Person which being bare in the Red Sea was that part of the Body that was baptized washed or sprinkled And thus the Word in Water Baptism agreeth with the Spiritual by pouring forth or sprinkling and as the former Seal of the same everlasting Covenant of the Gospel Gen. 17. Heb. 13.20 was set on that Part of the Body the Instrument of Generation to teach them Regeneration of Nature even of the whole Man born in Sin Psal 51.7 And that the derivation of the Covenant might be to the Seed of the Faithful who are thereby holy Ezra 9.2 And though the Lips and Ears are said to be uncircumcised in some respects Exod. 6.3 Jer. 6.10 yet the whole Body is said to be circumcised as being done on a part signifying the whole Even so in Baptism Water is cast upon the Face as a Sign or Signal of Death or that we were worthy to die as when the Servants of King Ahasuerus understood by the King's words that Death was determined against Haman they a covered his Face as a Signal of Death Even so by reason of Sin we come short of the b glory of God and our Faces are vailed or covered under the c condemnation of the Law until Christ by his Baptism fulfilled the Righteousness of the Law for us In sign whereof have we water cast upon our faces as a sign that we were not only worthy to die and so e baptized for the dead but that Christ by his Death hath f washed us from our sins in his Blood so that by his g Righteousness imputed to us we with unvailed or h open faces behold the Glory of the Lord and are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory by the Spirit of the Lord. a Esth 7.8 b Rom. 3.23 c 2 Cor. 3.7 8. d Mat. 3.15 e 1 Cor. 15.29 f Rev. 1.5 g 1 Cor. 1.30 h 2 Cor. 3.18 Moreover Satan hath yet used in these last and perilous days wherein Deceivers grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived another slight to peryert the Gospel of Christ in contending about words to no profit saith the Apostle that is to limit or confine the signification of the word baptize to one signification in the English tongue only to dip the whole body in water and account all other senses unlawful contrary to all the Learned that have translated the Scriptures into English or wrote Dictionaries and also contrary to the Analogy of Faith in the Scriptures Therefore the Learned in translating the holy Scriptures durst not limit many words but rendred them in such terms as the Godly may by the help of the Spirit of God rightly divide the true sense and meaning of the same As for example the Greek word Ecclesia for Church signifying few or many is rendred Congregation or gathering together by holy Covenant in the Name of Christ to become the Lord's People who are sometimes a little flock Luke 12. even but two or three Mut. 18.20 sometimes three thousand and more Acts 4.4 Yet both few and many are a Church comprehended in the word Ecclesia and so in the Hebrew word Kahal for Church Likewise the Greek word for Worship Latria and Latrevo sometimes taken largely when in Worship all God's * Ordinances are persormed and sometimes strictly when only † to bow down and supplicate unto God is Worship Again the word Saviour sometimes signifieth Christ Luk. 2.11 Sometimes he makes those Ministers as Instruments to save persons by his Doctrine Obad. v. 21. 1 Tim. 4.16 So likewise the word Elohim sometimes is
them misled in their understandings by some that now keep the seventh Day for the time of Gospel-Worship and also by others who though they say the seventh Day is abolished yet do believe that Christ hath appointed no peculiar Day for his Gospel-Worship and others that say every Day is alike to them and keep no Day conscionably at all only meet for fushions sake when others do partly by that opportunity to draw People to their way and also for fear if they open their Shops they should be punished by the Magistrate First We direct our Words to those that say Christ under the Gospel appointed no peculiar day for his Worship Such ought to know That as it stands not to the Honour of Kings and Princes and Masters of Servants to appoint their Subjects and Servants their Work and leave the Time to their Discretion when they think good to do the same How much more doth it not stand with the Honour of our Lord Jesus Prince of the Kings of the Earth Lord of Lords and only Lawgiver to his Church or Subjects having appointed new Ordinances for his Worship that he should leave the Time to their Pleasure when they shall think good to perform the same And were it so as they suppose that Christ hath appointed no peculiar day for his Worship when as he hath commanded his Church not to forsake the assembling of themselves together and promised his Presence to be with them which if the time is not by his appointment but theirs is not this to make the Lord to wait on his Subjects pleasure and not they on his when he shall meet with them and not when they should meet with him which is contrary to the Order of God both in Grace and Nature even against the Honour and Prerogative of a King over his Subjects of a Master over his Servants bringing a Babel or Confusion both in Church and State and an Article of the Romish Faith about the time of God's Worship who say they are bound to believe as the Church believes in this and many other things 2. We are to know that the living God is a God of Order but it was not his Way and Order from the very beginning of the Creation to appoint Man his Work and leave the Time to his Discretion for Adam by Creation was only Lord of the Earth and all things therein but by a Covenant Estate made between the Lord and himself he was made Heir of Heaven by Promise confirmed to him by two Sacramental Signs set before them one called the Tree of Life representing Christ the now Tree of Life in the spiritual Garden of his Church Rev. 22.1 the Way and no other to Heaven from the beginning Acts 4.12 The other called the Tree of Knowledg signifying the a Law now in the spiritual Garden of God the Church of Christ by which is the knowledge of Sin which Tree of Knowledg in the figure was then forbidden Adam and his Wife to touch or meddle with the fruit thereof as we are now by the Law by eating or believing that by the works or fruits thereof we can be made happy eternally And thus Adam and his VVife b willingly covenanted with their Creator to serve and obey the Pleasure of his VVill but the Lord left not the Time to their c discretion but after he had ordered them six days for their bodily Exercise in d dressing of the Garden and such like civil Employments did also appoint them a Sabbath of holy Rest in his Service to imploy their Minds in the Meditation of God's Love to them in the benefit of the Sacramental Signs aforesaid and likewise to praise the Lord for all his Mercies in all the VVorks of his Creation made for their e sakes and also to teach them that by the Time of God's Service instituted by the Lord for them that it was a Sign to them the Lord had sanctified them a Rom. 7.7 b Gen. 3.2 c Gen. 2.3 d Ver. 15. e Deut. 4.19 f Ezek. 20.12 3. After Man's Fall Moses the first VVriter of holy Scripture ending his first Book called Genesis or Generations with Israel going into Aegypt a Figure of Man's Captivity by the Fall of Adam and his Generations in him Rom. 5. beginneth his next Book called Exodus or Departure upon Israel's being called to depart out of Aegypt and by the Covenant of Grace after they were come out made with them in Christ they became the Lords People a holy Nation Exod. 19. Unto whom the Lord after gave his Law with Ordinances for his VVorship But here we are to note he did not leave the Time to their Discretion when they thought good to do the same but appointed them the Seventh-day Sabbath afore given to the first Adam by the Lord and to Israel by the hand of Moses and hereupon the Holy Ghost witnesseth of Moses that he was faithful in the House of God as a Servant who being a Figure of Christ in his Prophetical Priestly and Kingly Offices appointing both the Ordinances for Worship and also the Time And as Christ who is said to be like unto Moses yea more than a Servant to wit a Son and faithful in his own House inasmuch as he hath not only appointed new Ordinances for his Worship but also a new Time and so in nothing was he inferiour to Moses as those people would make him that say he hath appointed no particular Day for his Worship under the Gospel But Christ's Disciples were better acquainted with the mind of the Lord and knew that the day of Christ's Resurrection was the Gospel Sabbath Therefore on the first Day did they assemble together to Prayer and Religious Duties Christ himself appearing among them after he was risen justifying their Faith and Practice in proclaiming peace unto them John 20.19 4. Accordingly did the Apostle Paul practise by the Spirit of Faith who coming to Troas with his Company abode there seven days and did not assemble with the Disciples there to perform Christ's Ordinances for Worship till the first day of the Week whose example is written for our learning Phil. 3.17 Acts 20.7 Vpon the first day of the Week the Disciples came together to break Bread that is to communicate in the Lord's Supper as a remembrance of Christ's Death who died for their Sins and rose the first day for their Justification And likewise the Ordinance of Contribution commanded on the first Day not to be neglected but perform'd because it is an odour of a sweet-smelling Sacrifice to the Lord in the Church of God and therefore are Deacons appointed to attend on that work to gather the free-gift of the Saints then cast into the Lord's Treasury in his Spiritual Temple of living stones that the Deacons may according to the Wisdom of God given them distribute it to the maintenance of the Minister and relief of the poor Saints Now then if God's way is to be preferr'd as it is the best then
46.10 Psal 33.11 Prov. 19.21 b Gen. 45.5 6 7 8. c Mat. 10.29 40. d Eph. 1.11 e Eph. 1.3 4 5 6 7 10 11. f Mat. 25.34 2 Tim. 1.9 Acts 13.44 g 1 Tim. 5.21 h Col. 1.14 17 18 19 20. i Jude v. 4 6. Rom. 9.11 22. Exod. 9.16 Mat. 25.41 Prov. 16.4 2 Pet. 2.10 Rom. 2.5 IV. In the a beginning God made all things of nothing very good and created Man after his own Image b and likeness in Righteousness Holiness and c Truth but straight way after by the subtilty of Satan using the Serpent for his Instrument himself with his Angels having sinned before and kept not their first e Estate and left their own habitation soon seduced f Eve then Adam being seduced did wittingly fall into Disobedience g Fearfulness and Unbelief by transgressing Gods Law the Reward of that Sin was eternal Death as it is written The Fearful and Vnbelieving have their part in the Lake of fire and brimstone which is the second Death Which Death came upon h all and reigned over all yea even over the Infants also which have not sinned after the manner of Adam's transgression to wit actually yet are they accounted Lyars i from the womb begotten in Adams likeness k after his own image and so by nature children of wrath servants of sin and l subject to death and all other calamities due for sin in this world and for ever m Gen. 1. Col. 1.16 Heb. 11.3 Isa 45.12 Rev. 4.11 b Gen. 1.26 27. Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 c Eccles 7.3 d Gen. 3.1 4 5. 2 Cor. 11 3. e Jud. v. 6. 2 Pet. 2.4 John 8 44. f Gen. 3.1 2 3. 1 Tim. 2.14 g Gen. 3.8 Rev. 21.8 h Rom. 5.12 18 19. i Psal 58.3 k Gen. 5.3 John 3.6 Eph. 2.3 l Rom. 6.23 Eccles 3.2 Heb. 9. 27. V. All Mankind being thus fallen a and become altogether dead b in sin and subject to the eternal wrath of God both for original and actual sin or corruption yet the Elect all and only are redeemed c not all Nations in the world but some out of all as it is written in praise of Christ saying Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation These he quickneth raiseth up and saveth not of themselves neither of works lest any man should boast himself but wholly and onely by God of his grace and mercy through faith in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption that according as it is written He that rejoyceth should rejoyce in the Lord. a Gen. 3.15 Rom. 5.12 b Eph. 2.1 c Rev. 5 9. Eph. 1.3 7. 1 Pet. 1.2 18. Rom. 11.5 Acts 13.48 Rom. 3.24 2 Tim. 1.9 d Eph. 2.1 8. 1 Cor. 30. 31. 2 Cor. 5.21 Jer. 23.5 6. and 9.23 24. VI. Touching his Person the Lord Jesus of whom Moses and the Prophets wrote a and whom the Apostles proved from their Writings in their preaching to be the everlasting Son of God the everlasting Father b and Prince of Peace the brightness of his Glory coequal and coeternal with God and with the holy Ghost by whom he made the Worlds and by whom he upholds and governs all the Works he hath made And when the fulness of c time was come was made Man of a Woman of the Tribe of Judah d of the seed of David e and Abraham to wit of Mary the blessed Virgin f by the holy Ghost coming upon her and the power of the most High overshadowing her and was also in all things g like unto us sin only excepted a Gen. 3.15 49.10 Jer. 23.5 6. Psal 2.6 7 12. Joh. 5.46 Acts 3.33 b Pro. 8.22 John 1.1 2 3. Isa 9.6 7. Heb. 1. Col. 1.15 17. c Gal. 4.4 d Heb. 7.14 Rev. 5.5 with Gen. 49.9 10. e Rom. 1.3 9.5 Gal. 3.16 f Isa 7.14 Luke 1.26 Heb. 2.16 g Heb. 4.15 Isa 53.3 4. 9. Phil. 2.7 8. VII Touching his three Offices Mediator a Prophet and King Jesus Christ is the only Mediator of the New Testament even the eternal Covenant b of Grace between God and Man to be perfectly and fully the Prophet c Priest and King of the Church of God for evermore a 1 Tim. 2.5 Heb. 9.15 John 14.6 Acts 4.12 b Acts 13.20 Dan. 9.24 25. c Heb. 1.2 d Heb. 2.1 2. and 7.24 and 12.24 Psal 110.1 2 4. Isa 9.6 7. Acts 5.31 Isa 55.4 Dan. 7.13 14. Luk. 1.32 33. This Office of Mediatorship Prophet Priest and King of his Church is so proper to Christ as neither in the whole nor any part thereof can it be transferred from him to any other 1 Tim. 2.5 Heb. 7.24 Isa 43.11 VIII Touching his Prophecy Christ hath perfectly a revealed out of the bosom of his Father the whole Word and Will of God that is needful for his servants either joyntly or severally to know believe or obey he also hath and doth speak to his Church by or in his own Ordinances by his own b Ministers and Instruments only and not by any false c Ministry or disorderly performance of his Ordinances at any time a John 1.18 John 12.49 50. and 15.15 John 17.8 Deut. 18.15 18 19. Acts 3.22 23 24. Mat. 17.5 Eph. 1.8 9. 2 Tim. 3.15 16. b John 13.20 Luke 10.16 Mat. 10.40 41 Eph. 4.7 8 11 12 13. c Mat. 7.15 16. Mat. 24.23 24. 2 Pet. 2. 2 Tim. 4.3 4. Rom. 10.14 Rom. 16.17 1 Tim. 6.3 Jer. 23.21 John 10.1 Rom. 9.3 IX Touching his Priesthood Christ being consecrated a hath appeared once to put away sin by the offering and b sacrifice of himself having fully performed and suffered all those things by which God through the blood of his Cross in an acceptable Sacrifice might be reconciled to his Elect having broken down the middle c wall of partition finished and removed all Rites Shadows and Ceremonies in the Law is now entred within the Vail into the Holy of Holies that is to the very Heaven and d Presence of God where he for ever liveth and sitteth at the right-hand of Majesty appearing before the face of his Father to make intercession for-such as his Father hath given unto him in the Covenant of Grace and come to the Throne of Grace by that new and living way making his Church or People a Spiritual e House an Holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptably to God through him Neither doth the Father accept or Christ offer unto the Father any other f Worship or Worshippers a Jo. 17.19 Heb. 5.7 8 9. 9.26 Rom. 5.19 Isa 53. 1 Pet. 1.2 18 19. b Eph. 5.2 Col. 1.20 c Eph. 2.14 15 16. Dan. 9 24.-27 Heb. 9. and 10. chap. Rom. 8.34 d Eph. 2.16 17 18. e 1 Pet. 2.3 Rev. 1.5 6. Rom. 12.1 12. Mark 9.49 50. f Mal. 1.14 John 4.23 24. Mark 7.6 7 8. Esay 1.12 X. Touching his Kingdom a which is not of this World when he was risen from the