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A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

Secondly more distinctly and exactly that it was measured with a reede 12 thousand furlongs and the length and breadth and hight were equall First from the more indefinit expression observe that however it was a square whiles it is expressed under the notion of a citie And the Church is a round a round heaven and a round earth whi●es expressed under the notion of a world the round to signifie the laboriousnesse of the Church labor agricolae currit in orbe 1 Cor. 3.9 the Church is Gods husbandry her worke is never at an end She must continually move here propter qui●tem that she may rest whe shee is above the rowling heavens To signifie that the Church thus renewed shall be capeable of all truthes and conteine and know and teach all truthes of doctrine of discipline of manners and practise then too As a circle saith the Philosopher is the most capacious figure that is The square to signifie that as according to the Philosopher a square is the most setled and solid fast standing figure so the Church thus renewed refined in doctrine Heb. 12.26 discipline and manners shall never bee shaken any more never altered in the substance of either no not of her discipline that hath beene liable to so many changes but only in degrees to as much better as may be Secondly from the more distinct expression that the Church is as much in altitude as latitude as high as broad this signifies that as the Church is growne eminent in holinesse and high in heavenly mindednesse so shee is seene of men and esteemed and esteemed and highly extolled with the respect she hath from them So that Hier●salem is the praise of the whole earth according to promise Isay 62.7 So that as King David preferred it above his chiefe joy Psal 137 6. So all Kings shall bring their honour to it Revel 21 24. All shall as the Psalmist delight to tell the towers thereof Psal 48.12 i. e. joy to finde all perfect nothing missing All shall lay downe all forget all even the cunning of their right hand in comparison of the Church as Psal 137. Christ in this his comming shall as at the last day be admired of all that beleive 3 Thes 1.10 Thus of the forme or fashion Next of the matter oredifice which includes the Walles Townes Streets● Temple or publike place of worship The walles are confidesor their Situation Foundation Superstruction Apertions First her situation 1. The walles are without the citie 2. Containe all the citie 3. Are conformable to the fashion of the citie 1 Without the citie to signifie that no annoyances things or persons should come neere the citie of the reformed Church Mat. 27.33 without the walls are the dunghills without Hierusalem is Golgotha the place of dead mens sculls The forme of execution of offenders was to carry them out of the citie Heb. 13.12 and so to punish them The civill punishment carrying in it a character of the spirituall excommunication Phil. 3.2 The Church is warned to beware of Dogges i.e. Those Mat. 7.6 For they are of the concision and are evill doers as the Apostle intimates They have their dogges nature and skinne still in and on in heart and in life for they are evill doers biters as well as barkers And how shall the Church better beware of dogges then as the house-holder by shutting them out of doores So the prophesie runnes Revel 22.15 without there shall bee dogges which are described by their dogge-trickes Their mad sorceries filthy lecheries biting murthers houling idolatries false barking lyes 2 The walles thus situated containe all the whole citie parts and persons thereof exclude none of those To signifie that Christ his Church in no wise doth plucke up the wheate in stead of tares For she sees plainely the tares to bee tares Mat. 13. by their ripenesse before she plucke at them She remembers her Saviours rule That hee will in no wise cast out him that commeth to him Iohn 6.37 Thirdly the walles so conformed to the citie signifie the sweet harmonie proportion and conformitie that is betweene the Church and her discipline She is not yoaked with a discipline that will wring her neck gall her shoulders Nor with such a one as is like the hoope that the Juggler can creepe through Gal. 5.1 Compare ma● 11.28.29 Her discipline reacheth to all occasions causes persons things Shee makes not her meshes so wide as Actaeon A hunter of wild beasts that catcheth only those that would with open mouth devoure him Nor doth she as Vulcan make her net so subtile that the simple naked soule may be catcht before it is aware The Church hath from God her exact measure how to knit her discipline the pure golden measure of an unstrretchable reede i. e. The pure word of God Revel 21.15 Isa 8.20 Gal. 6.16 Blessed are they that walke according to this Canon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marke the double emphasis This notable Cannon This Canon of Christ This Canon of the Scripture or this Canon of walking as a new creature in and by Christ according to the Scripture Secondly Foundation And this is of twelve precious stones The naturall foundation as of an house the rocke 1 Cor. 3. gravell or compacted clay is onely one and that rocke is Christ But the Artificiall foundation as of an house is the wall built within the ground this is twelve fold or many fold consisting of the plurality and variety of all the offices These twelve stones were used in the old Testament as prophesies of the qualities conditions of the twelve Pa●●ia●k●s and their tribes And hereof the state and condition of the Ministers building 〈◊〉 ●ew Church on the doctrine of the Apostles ministers and their severall gifts grounded and guided by the doctrine of the Apostles Small parts or peeces make not a foundation many ranckes of stone make a foundation Disunion or interruption of the continuation of a foundation is dangerous The Church cannot consist with an index expurgatorius cannot possibly beare inhibitions of reading these or those bookes of Scripture of preaching these or those fundamentall doctrines or sound truthes 3. Superstruction or raising the superstructure And that is done up all of Iasper as the foundation was of 12. precious stones whereof the first also was a Iasper as two other were the Sardius and Emerauld which three stones are put to represent the Trinitie Revel 4. The green Iasper the eternall Godhead and Father the redde Sardius the crucified Sonne Christ The groenish Ra●e-bowlike emerauld As Gods bow in the clowd a token of an outward covenant Gen. 9.14 15. the proceeding Holy Ghost the token of Gods covenant in the heart Now that the wall mu●●●● built up above the foundation all of Iasper what can 〈◊〉 signifie but that the Church must be ad of God all according to the Scriptures If men will build on the

So that as in the morning you heard handled by my predecessor the Architectonica Out of 1 Chron 28.10 By Mr. Symonds the building of the new house of the reformed Church So now I am to present you with a map of the Cosmographie or discription of the new world of the Church A Map I say one map not severall particular ones and upon that to discoutse or at the bottom or margin thereof to set downe the historie thereof This one map is the generall thesis or doctrine I shall draw out of all the parts of the text or wherein I shall draw together all the parts of the text thus Doctrine What ever the world vainely promise themselves yet the godly in all ages hope for new Heavens and a new Earth of a righteous reformed Church according to Gods promise As for our historie or discourse to be added or annexed to this doctrinall map it consists of the explication vindication probation demonstration and application of if First Explication for the illation of the Doctrine from the text is most plaine I neede not insist upon it The knot is how the godly in all ages expected a reformed Church Gen. 3. which we explaine thus That as upon the First fall God made the first and grand promise of raising the Church so ever and anon as the Church tooke some wrenches of her old hurt so the Lord renewed and inlarged the first grand promise When the Church received a second blow in the murther of Abel the Lord bound her up with the birth of Seth and a prophesie upon him Gen. 4.25 And Adam knew his wife againe and she bare a sonne and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seede in stead of Abel whom Caine slew When the Church in Seths posteritie grew sore sicke then the Lord cheered the Church in Noah Gen. 6.2 Gen. 5.29 Gen. 6.18 Hee shall comfort her with thee saith the Lord will I establish my Covenant When by the drowning of the world the Church was almost fallen into her grave then the Lord raised her to life by a gratious promise to that most eminent Son i.e. Melchisedeck Gen. 9.26.27 King of Salem and of righteousnesse When the Church fell from the buildings of the tower of Babel Gen. 11. that she was confounded in her language like one speechlesse or amazed with a fall then God renewed the grand charter of the first promise with inlargements to Abraham and his posteritie Gen. 12. And at the same time that it was prophesied and after performed that the Church should sinke as low as the clay pits and brick kilnes of Egypt was it promised and after proportionably performed that shee should be advanced by Gods power in Moses Gen. 15. Exod. 12. 1 Sam. ● 1. Sam. 3.19 20.21 1 Sam. 8. 1 Sam. 13.14 When the Church was lapsed by Elies sonnes Samuel is chosen and manifested by speciall signes that that the Lord had appointed him as a support to the Church When things declined by Samuels sonnes and the ill propping it up by Saul then David was promised as a sure and perpetuall stay in himselfe and his posteritie Finally when the Church had that great blow in Babylon whereof shee lay sicke seventy yeares then was Christ promised Dan. 9. All the chapter the magnus instaurator The stay of all stayes for ever So that when Christ came and began the new Testament was Mirabilis annus the admired period of the Church All those periods of restoring and comforting the Ghurch in the Old Testament were but praeludia prefaces to this one of Christ comming in the New Testament But this great restitution of the Church of the New Testament hath severall particular periods before it come to that instaurationem maximam O that greatest and inaugmentable restitution at the end of the world For that is called and well may a restitution Whom the heavens must containe untill the time of restitution of all things Acts 3.21 For Saint Peter had seene one great period of the New Testament reformation from his fishing to his fishing after men as Christ promised and prophesied yet he thinks not that the foregoing promises of the Prophet Isaiah were yet quite emptied Some payments yet due some of the fart and strokings of these brests of consolation yet to be milked out Isaiah 66.11 Some thinke Saint Iohn lived till neere an 100. yeares after Christ Neverthelesse we looke for new heavens c. And Saint Iohn the longest living Apostle after Christ had seene more of the effect of Christs restoring the Church yet doth hee prophesie in the Revelation of seven particular periods of the Church of the New Testament to come in the seven seales the seven trumpets seven thunders and seven viols All which in briefe for our understanding them in short may be reduced to these two heads First That from Christs time till our time was the Apostolicall reformation particular and interrupted Secondly that after this time or not long hence as we shall shew more after in the use of examination That Apostolicall condition of the Churches reformation that hath beene but in few places or Kingdoms here and there Mat. 24.14 The Gospel shall bee preached to all the world and with many interruptions transplantations and the like shall from thence forward be universall as wide over the face of the earth as God will ever have it and as continued and uninterrupted as is sutable for a Church not yet in heaven it selfe 2. Vindication Because a doubt riseth out of this explication we insert this next before probation Object Object The objection is that if there be so many degrees and periods of the Churches reformation how shall each age know how much belongs to their time Answ Answ The answer is that first to each age to which belongs a perticular promise God gives a speciall light to compare the promise and the event together Secondly by consideration of evens yet unfulfilled in former ages Antichrist not yet pulled downe The Gospel not yet preached to all the world Isa 30.20 The Jewes not yet converted That the Churches teachers should be no more driven into a corner Thirdly that as Saint Iohn hath measured out the changes of the Church by periods of halfeings Daniels great period for his time to Christ which was about 490. yeares distinguishing them into about 250 yeares So the Church that casteth up far greater peeces of chronologie may the more easie account how the Church passeth through any of her seven two hundred and fifties especially of the first sixe so plainely noted by Saint Iohn by severall events and circumstances For as Eclipses of the Sunne or Moone or such remarkable events are the Time-markes of cronologie that in computation of hundreds of yeares not one yeare is lost So the sevens of events set downe by Saint John are the stages of the course of times

that the Church shall see that all in the worship of God that is not evidently from the word of Christ is not of Christs but of Antichrist then will the Lord reveale to her the full of the discipline of the Church The full freedome of the Gospel The scales must first fall from Saint Pauls eyes before he can see the Gospel to preach it Whiles our Church lay swadled and rocked in the unsetled cradle of humane inventions the face-cloth of ignorance lay over the eyes hundreds of truths lay hidden which now are talked of distinctly in every ones mouth So great an advantage of light doe they get that turne their faces towards the Sun-rising and their backes upon the darke climates of the old heavens 3. The scope and intention of the Church shall be to advance holinesse not to make her selfe great in honour and dignity among men but good with holinesse towards God Not to inrich her selfe with worldly pompe but with comfort and with conscience and the graces of the spirit Her doctrine her discipline her forme of worship c. all spread the winges to hatch up holinesse even as Saint John was carried by the Angell Revel 21.10 willingly to see what the Angell was eager to shew him from the top of an high mountaine touching the new state of the holy citie so sure the new Church must looke and aymes at holinesse and newnesse And not onely aymes and addresses all things to that purpose but also hitts the white For Fourthly the new Church is holy in practise and conversation Shee makes all her members in the common eye and charity of men to bee holy or else shee will not owne them for her children By this generall frame of holinesse in all her members Ministers and people she becomes all glorious For sanctification is a kind or degree of glorification Rom. 8. Therefore the Apostle wrappes it up in glorification in reckoning all the linckes of the chaine of salvation Psal 45. And the Church is said by holinesse to be all glorious within The Church is all glorious by justification But that is without her and about her She is wrapped in that as in a garment Rom. 13.14 But sanctification is within her as her proper qualitie as a Church Answerably Saint Iohn calles her holinesse and lightsomnesse with knowledge and reformation Verse 11. her having of the glory of God And that God was the light of the citie and the nations that were saved should walke in the light thereof And for all things that are contrary to this new holy Verse 23.24 and glorious estate shee cast out Revel 21. verse 4. verse 27. Fifthly and lastly holy in opinion and estimation The Church should be so really and universally holy making all her members at least outwardly and probably to imbrace holinesse that holinesse shall be in fashion and so in estimation among men It shall be no more a jeere but a joy As it s said by the Prophet many shall take hold of one Jew for religions sake so in this new Church much more shall men admire and esteeme her for holinesse So verse 24. The Kings of the earth shall bring their glory to the Church Revel 21. verse 24. And thus of the Civitas the citie the corporation of men Next of the V●bs the materiall citie of buildings c. whereof note 1. The forme or fashion 2. The matter or edifice The forme is considerable for two things 1. Quantitie 2. Figure 1. Quantitie As here the compellation or comparison Heavens signifies or intimates greatnesse For what is of created things extra calum ultimum without and beyond the utmost heaven So the geometricall dimention there in Rev. 21. delineated makes it by some accompts the greatest citie that ever was For if we reade the text according to the ordinary reading Verse 16. And hee measured the citie with a reede 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the some of twelve thousand furlones and understand them in a more plaine and obvious sence of the compasse of the citie that every side of the foure square was three thousand furlongs it will follow that this citie of the Church is twelve thousand round For every foure square is one hundred times as much every way from side to side as the length of that side is Supspose a foure square of 110. furlongs in each straight line of the sides of that square Th●s foure square measured all along over-thwart from side to side was 3000 furlongs ●●n King So Geographers And the whole plot of ground from each side to each side three hundred thousand furlongs which is beyond all other cities that ever wee reade of For old Babylon the great was but a village in comparison Every side of the square thereof being but 120 furlongs and so the whole plot of ground could be but foure thousand furlongs So Nineveh was not comparable for the text in the Prophet Ionah 3 3. was o● three dayes journey i.e. as the learned will have it the walles were three dayes journey about A dayes jurney being according to the civill law twenty miles So that every ●●●e square o● side of the quade●angle was 15. miles i. e. 15. 〈◊〉 eight furlongs i.e. 120 furlongs and so was just of the 〈◊〉 of old Babylon in the East and no more Not is Babylon in the West Babylon the new Rome comparable for at first it was but two miles in compasse now at last but a-leaven miles in compasse and in the middle age thereof but 50. in compasse so that it fall 10 miles short of the measure of the compasse of the walls of Nineve But if we reade as Arias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the summe of furlongs 12. times 12. thousand Then the citie is 44. thousand furlongs about and the whole flore a 100 times more And just as the state of the new Church under the notion or a citie is greater then other cities so under the notion of a Church greater then ever was any Church For the largest description of the former Church was but 144 thousand long and but 12. thousand broad But this renewed Church is by this last reading 144. Revel ● thousand in the whole square compassing it about And by the former reading 12 thousand in the whole square bouting the city And the whole floore or breadth every way 300. thousand measures For it makes no matter what you call them whether furlongs or c. The bare numbers sufficiently report the proportions And well may the new Churches proportion so exceed seieng this makes one maine difference that she shall be as wide as the world as wee said before nee●e upon before the Lord leave the worke And so she shall be as great as good i.e. greater and better both then ever any Church was 2. Figure Which is expressed first more indefinitly As if onely a square upon a flat i.e. square in regard of length and breadth