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A86016	The agreement of the associated ministers & churches of the counties of Cumberland, and VVestmerland: with something for explication and exhortation annexed.	Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.	1658 (1658)	Wing G774; Thomason E498_3	47,341	61

doth not onely call for ministerial help and advice in a more especial manner but also gives opportunity and advantage for counsel or reproof therefore wee resolve to be as diligent in visiting the sick and afflicted as other labours greatness of our charge and ability to go abroad will suffer us and that not only the rich and those that desire us but also the poor and those that send not for us 8. Seeing we are in Scripture commanded to love all men and as much as in us lieth to follow Peace with all and yet warned to reserve our Brotherly kindness and delight for those that walk holily therefore we resolve in our Society as well as in dispencing of Ordinances to put a difference between the precious and the vile and though we intend not to deny that Charity Help Civility and Duty that we owe unto the Scandalous yet will we bestow our love of complacencie onely on those that order their conversations aright lest by intimacie with wicked men we strengthen the hands of evill doers grieve the hearts of the godly and ensnare our own souls 9. Seeing the sins of Sabbath-breaking Swearing Fornication and Drunkenness are so abominable in the sight of God and men and yet so frequent we resolve besides the reproving of these sins in publike and private to endeavor to bring such Offenders to the punishment of the Law in thosed cases provided 10. We will instruct our people publikely concerning the nature of the discipline of Christ shal press the necessity of their submission to it according to the Rule of Scripture 11 Because it hath been the commendable practise of the Saints of old in order to the Reformation of the Churches publikely and solemnly to renew the Covenant with God and because in this Age temptations to Apostacie and back-slidings from the faith are strong and frequent and because our hearts are so ready to start aside from the Power of Discipline that we daily stand in need of all possible Obligations to submission therefore we resolve to require from our people an assent to the Truths of Christ contained in a short Confession of Faith hereunto annexed and a Profession of their consent to submit unto and accept of the terms of the covenant of Grace to take the Lord for their God to walk in his Wayes to fear love honor and obey him with all their heart and with all their might and to submit to Discipline and Government Yet 1. We are so far from resolving to satisfie our selves with the bare recital and repetition of the words of the Profession c. that we shall endeavour to make the people not onely to profess with Understanding but so far as we can with feeling Apprehensions of what they speak 2. Neither do we intend strictly to bind all to the same circumstances of professing their consent but if any professing owning the substance shall scruple at any particular circumstance we resolve to use towards such all possible meekness and condiscention 12. Besides a professed competent Knowledge of the fundamentals of Religion we resolve to require an unblameable conversation in all those whom we shall admit to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper both these being necessary for the discovery of peoples present fitness and right * in foro Ecclesiae to the actual enjoyment of that Ordinance 13. Because the Ordinances of God may on the one hand be prophaned by the sinful neglect and carelessness of the Church-guides and because on the other hand people may be wronged by a rash and groundless exclusion therefore in the judging and determining of peoples present fitness for that Sacrament we resolve to set before us these following Rules both in point of Knowledge and Scandal In Point of Knowledge 1. Because the truth of Grace is utterly inconsistent with a total ignorance of the Fundamentals of Religion and because such persons not being able to discern the Lords body would eat and drink judgement to themselves therefore we resolve not to admit any that upon trial shall be found to be such to the Sacrament of the Supper 2. We shall not reject any as ignorant that have a competent Knowledge of those heads of Divinity mentioned by the Assembly in the form of Church-Government pag. 28. All such persons who shall be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ought to know That there is a God that there is but one everliving and true God Maker of Heaven and earth and Governor of all things that this onely true God is the God whom we worship that this God is but one God yet three distinct persons the Father Son and Holy Ghost all equally God That God created man after his own image in Knowledge Righteousness and true Holiness That by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned that thereby they are all dead in Trespasses and sins and are by nature the children of wrath and so lyable to eternal death the wages of every sin That there is but one Mediator betwixt God and man the Man Christ Iesus who is also over all God blessed for ever neither is there salvation in any other That he was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary that he died upon the cross to save his people from their sins that he rose again the third day from the dead ascended into heaven sitteth at the right hand of God and maketh continual intercession for us of whose fulness we receive all grace necessary to salvation That Christ and his benefits are applied onely by faith that faith is the gift of God and that we have it not of our selves but it 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 believes 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 righteousnses 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 Baptism 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 left he eat and drink judgement to himself not

shall pass upon them according to their works † whereby the righteous shall be adjudged to eternal life in heaven and the wicked to eternal death in hell * I do heartily take the Lord to be my God a and chief good b and Iesus Christ to bee my onely Saviour and Redeemer c and the Holy Ghost to bee my Sanctifier d giving my selfe up wholly to this one God to love him with all my heart with all my soule and with all my might e to obey him sincerely and faithfully f in all his Lawes contained in the Holy Scriptures g though never so cross to my desires or interest of Credit Pleasure and Profit h and all this to the death i And in particular I consent and resolve in the strength of Christ to hold constant Communion with the Church of CHRIST in the publike VVorship of GOD k and to submit unto the Discipline and Government which CHRIST hath ordained l for his own glory and his peoples good m and that I may have the opportunity of the injoyment of these priviledges for the advancement of mine obedience I resolve and promise to submit n to the Ministeriall guidance and oversight exercised according to the Rules of the VVord in this Congregation and to the brotherly advice and admonition o of fellow-Christians here TO ALL That proses the Name of the LORD JESUS IN THE COUNTIES OF Cumberland and Westmerland BOTH Magistratates and People They that shall appear against the carnal interests and corruptions of men in the confident expectation of a calm Sea and a generall acceptance do forget that they deal with men whose distempers usually are awakened to the most vigorous angry opposition by the sma●● of a searching though never 〈◊〉 and necessary medicine Or that they deal with English men pardon the expression whose former contentions and dis-satisfactions make their passions the more ready to take up Armes and become quarrelsome Or that they deal with Satan who will the more best it himselfe to kindle and blow the fire because hee knowes such undertakings are principally against his interest are Kingdome Yet they who shall be affrighted from their duty by the report of Giants and walled Cities difficulties that attend it shew so much unfaithfulness in regard of their duty so much blockish regardlessness of Gods Honour and the Churches good which are of far more value then all our lives if it should cost us so much so much sordid basenese of spirit as not daring to disquiet those humours which if reuzed might hazard them in their esteem peace or maintenance so much Atheisme and unbelief as if the great JEHOVAH were not able to bear them out and to give unexpected success to contemptible beginnings or at least to reward them plentifully for their toyle and care That they declare before all the world their unworthiness of that high Trust and those honourable Titles of Overseer Guide Ambassador Steward Stars and Angells which are then most glorious to a spiritual eye when most scorned and vilified by the World Upon these and such like Considerations we have put our selves upon these Resolutions which herewith are presented unto you WE who have engaged our selves in this undertaking have we hope throughly considered what in all probability it may cost us that while we look for reproach contradiction which yet we would not willingly finde our opposers may find that undaunted courage in our prosecution of this Work which they would not readily have looked for The great distance of this from the first undertaking and Report of our Agreement doth necessarily draw forth this brief Account of its Birth and Progress About three yeers ago some of us joyned together in an Expedient much of this nature which we propounded to some of our Brethren of different perswasions in these things but it took not whereupon we resolved to prosecute it among our selves and made some Progress in it At which time VVorcestershire Association with Mr. Baxters Explication came forth Upon this we began to conceive more probability of some reconciliation at least of different judgements in matters of Church-Government then formerly because we hoped the prejudice which possibly might arise from our single attempt in a business of that nature would be much removed when they saw we were not alone and that the way was led by others of so much worth and ability we therefore resolved to take up our former design again and to propound it to the whole Ministry of the County in general To that end several Meetings were desired and at last we agreed in these following Propositions which were cheerfully subscribed by several both of the Presbyterian and Congregational Judgement During the agitation of these things some of us were much affected to observe 1. The Assent of men both able and judicious and such as had throughly studyed the Congregational Way and from whom in proprobability opposition might have been expected in case these things had been inconsistent with these Principles 2. That Prejudice which like a hateful Monster impoysons the best things seeks Fuel from its own ignorance and blindness and from the very distance which it self caused like a Fiery Oven devours all that 's cast into it and musters up all the Passions to fight against it knows not what hath the greatest hand in hindering the Unity and and Concord of Brethren 3. That the best way to cure it is friendly and brotherly debates especially after it hath tyred it self with its own Activity and evaporated something of its Fury 4. That the Churches Peace if by all parties seriously laid to heart is a very forceable medium to infer a conclusion of Unity Yet all was not done when we had proceeded thus far Action the life of all was yet behinde Satan is enraged and surely that must needs be good which he so furiously opposeth and endeavours to stiffle it in the birth to effect which he disgorgeth from his hateful stomack a swarm of Quakers these at that very time when all things were ready for practice come upon us like a furious Torrent all is on fire on the sudden many are unsetled the foundations shaken and some apostatize here we are beaten off and are forced to lay other things aside that we might more fully binde our selves to quench these flames After a while this storm abates and we begin to think of our former Work But the last Parliament was then sitting and because something of that nature was expected from them it was advised we should yet a little forbear till we might see the issue The Parliament being ended we encountered with an other Demurrer which was this The providence of God so ordered things that many Ministers in this County were unfixed supposing they should be necessitated to remove and several did remove to other Counties so that we were again forced to let all alone expecting what way