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A84653	Severall queries concerning the church of Jesus Christ upon earth, briefly explained and resolved wherein is shewed and proved, 1. That there is a church of Jesus Christ upon earth. 2. What this church is? 3. How a people become a visible church? 4. That the churches in England were at first rightly constituted? 5. What manner of government Jesus Christ hath ordained in and for his church? 6. What manner of persons those ought to be, that may be continued in, or admitted into the church? 7. What is the duty of church members towards Jesus Christ their head, and one another. / By John Flowre M.A. preacher at Staunton in the county of Nottingham.	Flower, John, b. 1623 or 4.	1658 (1658)	Wing F1386; Thomason E2141_2; ESTC R208378	33,318	112

is much more in store for us than is as yet discoverable for eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it entred into the thought of man what God hath prepared for them that love and fear him Seeing we shall escape such condemnation and judgment thorough grace in so reforming our selves as before Heb. 12.1 O let us then lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us Josh 24.15 Let us of this Congregation imitate Joshua let us chuse with him let us say unto all the people and congregations round about us chuse you whom ye will serve chuse ye whether ye will reforme or not reforme your ways chuse you whether you will own us or disown us applaud us or hiss at us countenance us or contemne us joyn with us or separate from us strengthen us or labour to make our hands feeble say we do well or say we do ill Speak friendly to us or scoff at us yet we are resolv'd what we will do that we will leave Ashterch Basaam That we will say what have we to do with Idols And reforme and repent and engage our selves afresh to serve the Lord. Which that we may do let us put in practice the rules before laid downe First Assembling our selves together let us solemnly and sorrowfully confesse and bewaile our own sins and the sins of our forefathers before God 〈◊〉 9.6 let us say our God we blush and are ashamed to lift up our faces unto thee for our iniquities are increased over our heads and our trespasse is grown up unto the very heavens And having thus humbled our selves before God let us Secondly Renew our covenant with God our Covenant made so long since in baptisme which all of us have broken and backslided from let us say truth Lord other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us the devil the world the lusts of the flesh have ruled over us thou O Lord maist justly charge us to have forgotten thee and to have dealt falsly with thee in thy covenant and therefore because of all this we make a sure Covenant with thee for the time to come that we will have no other Lord besides thee that we will walke in a more professed subjection to all thy holy ordinances more carefully watching over our selves and one another that being clensed from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 we may perfect holiness in thy fear And having thus renued our covenant and engaged our selves unto the Lord to be his let us endeavour Thirdly to purge out from amongst us every thing that defileth and is unclean for a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump one Achan may distresse a whole Israel one incestuous person such as was in the Church at Corintb one adulterer drunkard or the like in a Church if countenanced and tollerated by the same and not reproved and dealt withall according to the rule of the Gospel may bring wrath and a judgment upon a whole congregation for by reason of such a tolleration and neglect of Gospel-discipline the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper may be profaned and abused as it was in the Church of Corinth for which cause the Lord punisht them with sicknesse and death for For this Cause saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 11.30 namely for the profanation of the Lords-Supper many are sick and weake among you and many sleep Therefore it much concernes every particular Church to purge out the old leaven that they may be a new lump and not to keep that feast with the old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness lest the Lord stretch out his hand against them Section XII BUt methinks I hear some say Ob. this Yoke is too straite this burden is too heavy these rules are too strict restraining us of all liberty and freedom we cannot drink and be merry but we must be reprov'd and To these I Answer Sol. First If the way be strait and strict 't is the more like to be Heaven way Mat. 7.14 for strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life If the way propos'd were large and broad you might well suspect it the way to hell and death Mat. 7.13 for wide is that gate and broad is that way Secondly To such pleaders for unbounded liberty I say Rejoyce O yong men in your youth Eccl. 9.11 and let your hearts be merry Let the harpe and the violl and the tabret and the pipe and wine be in your feasts But for all this know you shall come to judgement Thirdly To such I say cursed is he that saith The yoke is strait that Christ Jesus hath said is easie that the burden is heavy that he hath said is light Cursed is he that discourageth the People of the Lord Mat. 11.30 and brings an evill report upon the land of Canaan let their carcases rot in the wildernesse and let them not see the salvation of the Lord. Fourthly I say that the wayes and rules of the Lord to which we are bound to submit are not grievous his commandments are not grievous These restrain not so 1 Joh. 5.3 but that we have liberty sufficient liberty to eat to drink to meet freinds with friends and to rejoyce together yea if we be such as are received into favour with God and justified by Jesus Christ there 's then cause enough for us to rejoyce and be chearfull the Scriptures then give and encourage us to this freedome * Eccles 9.1 Go thy way eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart for the Lord now accepteth thy works Thus may it be said to any one that is truly a member of Jesus Christ The service of the Lord is not slavery but freedome But here is the madness and misery of men they account nothing liberty but what 's licencious they account it not liberty to eat and to drink unlesse they may eat to gluttony and drink to drunkennesse no liberty to be merry unlesse they may be prophane curse and swear But alass is this the liberty and freedome you so contend for Indeed this is hellish bondage hellish slavery Is this liberty to be overcome with wine and strong drink to have thy legs so bound thou canst not go thy tongue so tyed thou canst not speak Thy eyes so enflamed thou canst not see Thy reason and understanding so captivated and lost that t is hard to distinguish whether man or beast Is this liberty that thou canst not be merry but thou must mock God scoff at holinesse reproach the Saints O cursed liberty if this be it This is worse than that Egyptian bondage that made the Jews so sigh and cry under it and it would make thee also groan under it wer 't thou but in the least sensible of thy own condition T is the Lord

acceptable a work to God as this It is true that by being a true reformed refined Church of Jesus Christ you become engaged into many Duties as you have heard * before But for your encouragement consider also you become invested into many priviledges a few of which I shall by Gods help give you an account of First If you be truly Members of the Church of Jesus Christ Priviledge of a true Church then you stand to him in the relation of a Spouse a Wife then your Maker is your Husband I have espoused you to one Husband saith the Apostle meaning Jesus Christ The Church is called Cant. 4.8 the Love the Spouse of Jesus Christ Now by being the Spouse of Jesus Christ by being married unto him by Grace and so forsaking all our Beloveds for his sake as the world sin with all the lusts and pleasures of it as a wife forsakes all Beloveds as Father Mother to follow her Husband I say in so doing you become in vested into and interested in all the priviledges that belong to a Spouse or wife by the marriage of her husband First First priviledge a Spouse or Wife hath interest in all the relations Friends kindred of her Husband his friends are her friends his kindred her kindred his servants are her servants his possessions her possessions then if you be espoused to Jesus Christ if he be your husband if this mysticall knot be ried betwixt him and you then all his is yours all Christs is yours his kindred your kindred his father your father his God your God My Father and your Father my God and your God Joh. 20.17 Now you need not stand afar off with the fearfull Publican but come in boldly and say my God my Father Then his friends are your friends even all the Saints and members of Jesus Christ upon earth whether Pauls or Apollos or Cephases all are yours all pray for you all rejoyce over you all his friends will be your friends Then his servants become your servants his attendants become your attendants his servants and attendants are the glorious Angels Mat. 4.11 and these think it no debasement to wait upon the Spouse of their master are they not called the Saints Angels Mat. 18.10 Their Angels do alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven Then his possession become your possession Heaven Gods right hand glory fullness of joy pleasure for evermore all these you have a right unto by the right of your husband Jesus Christ Secondly A second priviledge T is a great priviledg not to need to fear in the most dangerous of times and seasons this is your priviledge if members of the Church of Christ you need never fear or be discouraged be the times never so evill or dangerous when the times look lowring threaten war famine pestilence and then what fear and shaking is there among worldly men men uninterested in Christ whose help and hope is onely in this life how do they then run to and fro ever at their wits end Their hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things that are coming on the earth as our Lord Jesus speaks Luk. 27.25 26. Thus shall it be now in these last times But if you be true members of the Church of Jesus Christ you need not fear nor be dismayed at any troubles or changes that hang over the world though there be signes in the sun in the moon in the stars though there be in the earth distresse of nations with perplexity though the sea and the waves roar yea though the earth be moved and the hills leape one against another Yet our Lord Jesus saith unto his Church and every member of it Luke 12.33 Fear not little flock for it is your Fathers will to give you a Kingdome Though your father shake the kingdoms of the world yet your kingdome shall remaine unshaken Therefore David Heb. 12.28 The Lord is my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid Ps 27.1 though an host should incamp against me my heart shall not fear though war arise against me in this will I be confident And again 't is the language of the Church professing her confidence in God Ps 46.2 We will not fear though the earth be removed and though the mountaines be carried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swellings thereof And again the Psalmist speaking of a member of Jesus Christ saith Ps 112.7 He shall not he afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixt trusting in the Lord. This is the priviledge of a Saint he needs fear no news he needs not be afraid of any tidings though they tell him the earth removes and the mountains shake yet he speaks not for his heart is fixt trusting in the Lord. Thirdly A third priviledge of a Saint If ye be true members of the Church of Jesus Christ youneed not fear the curse of the law you need not fear hell death judgment which is so terrible dreadfull to the wicked O what would not a wicked man give when he lieth upon his Death-bed and ready to give up the ghost terrified with approaching death and judgment I say what would not he give to be certaine of his freedome from condemnation that he might die the death of the righteous look death in the facewith boldness and comfort surely he would give a world if he had it for this priviledge which some have upon their death-beds confest All the true members of Jesus Christ though they may want worldly comforts and priviledges yet they have this priviledge which is worth a world fo all other they need not fear death or judgment their peace is made there is no Condemnation Rom. 1.8 to them therefore they cry O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory 1 Cor. 4.44 They look upon death with comfort and upon the grave without fear knowing that their Redeemer lives and that at the last day their bodies shall rise again to live for ever with the Lord. Fourthly A fourth priviledg If ye be true members of the Church of Jesus Christ you need not neither shall ye fear the greatest shaking that ever shall be I mean the shaking both of heaven and earth when Christ our Lord shall come to judgement yet once more and I shake not the earth but the heaven also Heb. 12.26 O when this last and great shaking shall be which to be neer at hand all these lesser shakings do portend when the earth shall burn as stubble under his feet and the Elements melt with fervent heat When there shall be a great earthquake and the Sun become black as sackcloth of hair and the moon become as blood and the stars fall from heaven and the heavens depart as a scrole when it is rouled together and every mountain and Iland