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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34020	Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England.	Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.; Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717.; Woodbridge, Timothy, 1656-1732.; Bradstreet, Simon, 1671-1741.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5399; ESTC W13238	38,537	52

Advertisement THe Reader is desired to take Notice that the Press in Boston is so much under the aw of the Reverend Author whom we answer and his Friends that we could not obtain of the Printer there to print the following Sheets which is the only true Reason why we have sent the Copy so far for its impression GOSPEL ORDER Revived Being an Answer to a Book lately set forth by the Reverend Mr Increase Mather President of Harvard Colledge c. ENTITULED The Order of the Gospel c. Dedicated to the Churches of Christ in New-England By sundry Ministers of the Gospel in New-England Prov. 18. 17. He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him Isa 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no Light in them Printed in the Year 1700. ERRATA ADvert l. ult r. it is Printed Ep. Ded. side 3 l. 29. r. ground S. 4 l. 7 r. wills l. 10. r. impose one l. 19. r. Anti-Synodalia S. 5 l. 3. r. voluminous S. 6 l. 6 r. banner S. 7 l. 5. r. sell l. 22 r. inartificial S. 8 l. 13. r. publickly Preached Gosp Ord. p. 9 l. 3 r that when p. 9 l. 16. r. invention p. 10 l. 9. r. notions p. 15 l. 33. r. stumble p. 17 l. 14. r altogether l. 32 that at p. 21 l. 11 r. of their ways p. 22 l. 14. r. Synodical l. 33. r. we leave the Author to be chastized p. 23 l. 10. r. without this p. 28 l. 27. r. Apostolical l. 28. r. one only excepted p. 29 l. 25. r. their persons p. 32 l. ult r. we 'l for once give our p. 34 l. 14 r. his book l. 16. r. were greater p. 37 l. antep r. ferre p. 40 l. 10. r. ●● Exemplary The Epistle Dedicatory To the Churches of Christ in N. England IT can incur no just Censure that we address our selves to the Churches of Christ here in the following Sheets inasmuch as they are but a Reply to a Book lately dedicated unto them Nor does our zeal we hope for Truth the Honour of God the Safety Peace Flourishing of these Churches come short of what our Reverend Author may be inspired with in his performance We make the same glorious Pretence with him to maintain defend the Order of the Gospel altho' we cannot allow what is suggested in the Title page That every Principle so strenuously contended for in that Treatise is either professed or practised by the Churches of Christ in New-England One part at least therefore of his Book the Reverend Author ought to have published in his own Name and not have obtruded it on the Churches here whose Practise never gave grounds to suspect them leavened with so gross thoughts as particularly his Doctrine of the Ordination of Ministers is We will not guess at the Authors secret aim or whom in particular he raises his Batteries against We'd charitably hope he has no private Interest to bribe him in this Affair and we hope for a like favourable and candid Construction of this Reply Indeed the Name prefix't to that faulty Treatise may be presumed with a multitude of prejudiced People to weigh down all the Reasons and Arguments which can possibly be brought for their Conviction And we have no such advantage to boast of yet are happy in this that we are not over-awed by any Name and the Truth we know is greater and more venerable than all things It s well known how liberal some men are of the odious brand of Apostates for every one who cannot digest the late published Orders but without arrogance 〈…〉 sume as more due the Title of Proficients and doubt not to make it out that our dissent from many of them is so far from a going back from any Gospel Truth or Order that it is rather a making progress and advancing in the Evangelical Discipline It is a groundless Calumny which is suggested That a latitude beyond what our Author contends for is but a betraying the liberties and priviledges which our Lord Jesus Christ has given to his Church or the Brethren of the Church These we profess to prize and stand for and would by no means lose But wherein do they consist not in the Brethrens challenging any part of the Ministerial Work Not in imposing upon others any thing which Christ has not imposed which is but a debarring Christians of the Priviledges they have a right to But they consist as we conceive in such things as these That our Consciences be not imposed on by Men or their Traditions Christ being the alone Lord of the Conscience 1 Cor. 7. 23. That Believers are through Christ freed from the guilt and dominion of Sin from the curse of the Law and from the sting and terror of Death That we have the liberties of Gods House and Ordinances therein communion with God That we may have the benefit of the gifts of his Ministers for edification and such like according to the Apostles Doctrine 1 Cor. 3. 22. Nor is that Objection less frivolous when if we appear less Rigid than others of the Reverend Authors severity we are reflected on as casting dishonour on our Parents their pious design in the first settlement of this Land No we reverence our Ancestors and the Memory of their divine Zeal and Constancy and would derive it as a Truth sacred to our Posterity that it was a religious Interest which carried them through all the amazing Difficulties Discouragements in that Undertaking But yet the particular design or end has been some-what differently conveyed unto us Some have carried it as if the great end were the Conversion of the Heathen and there have been great Complaints by some of late how this has been neglected and contradicted and another course taken up whereby instead of bringing the Heathen into the Church of God many whose Fathers and themselves were once of the visible Church are now strangely left out scarce any face of Religion remaining among them As for this we bewail it and look upon it as a Reproach to the Land and would therefore countenance no such Principles or Practices as have any tendency to such Apostacy Again some have made this the great Design to be freed from the Impositions of Men in the Worship of God wherewith they were sometimes burthened and as they sought freedom for themselves we cannot suppose they design'd to impose upon others In this we are risen up to make good their grounds The Reverend Mr. Willard in his Sermon of the sinfulness of Worshipping God with Mens Institutions p. 27. gives this as the errand of our fore-Fathers into this Wilderness namely to sequester themselves into a quiet corner of the World where they might enjoy Christs unmixt Institutions and leave them uncorrupted to Posterity and the gain-saying or counter working this is as he intimates to cast