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B23147 Several plain truths manifested and declared from the spirit of God and born testimony to by Christ, the Apostles and Scriptures of truth. I. Concerning Mount-Sion. II. A distinction betwixt wars and armour in the Old Testament and the New. III. Concerning Cain. IV. Concerning uniformity and conformity. V. The authority of the Church of Christ. VI. Concerning exhorting and admonishing. VII. Concerning such as cry against orders, &c. By G.F. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1684 (1684) Wing F1904A 24,305 29

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to Timothy Give attendance to Reading to Exhortation to Doctrine neglect not the Gift that is in thee and bad Timothy Teach and Exhort and to be an Example to the Believers in Word Conversation Faith Charity and Purity 1 Tim. 2.4 6. And the Apostle exhorts Timothy Preach the Word in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all Long-suffering and Doctrine the time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but turn their Ears away from the Truth and heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears And therefore ye see the Churches authority to Exhort Rebuke and Reprove such 2 Tim. 4. But the Apostle saith to Timothy Rebuke not an Elder but entreat him as a Father and the elder Women as Mothers c. 1 Tim. 5. And the Apostle saith to Titus in Chap. 2. Exhort rebuke with all Authority and exhort Servants to be obedient to their own Masters c. that they may adorn the Doctrine of God in all things And the Apostle exhorted Titus To set in order the things that are wanting in Creet and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee And they were to be such as were able by sound Doctrine both to exhort and convince Gain-sayers and the Apostle exhorted Titus To rebuke sharply the Vnruly and vain Talkers and Deceivers Tit. 1. And Titus received the Apostles Exhortation when they sent him to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 8. And the Apostle said A man that is a Heretick after the first and second Admonition reject And the Apostle saith Let us consider one another to provoke one another unto good Works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the Day approach to wit of Christ Jesus Heb 10 24 25. And the Apostle said ●eseech you Brethren suffer ye the Word of Exhortation c. Heb. 13. And the Apostle saith to the Colosians Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all Wisdom teaching and admonishing one another c. Col. 3. So here you may see the Church of Christ from his Word dwelling in them were able to teach and admonish one another from the Word of Wisdom in them So it seems then they did not set a Priest over them that he might be always teaching of them and they might be always paying of them And the Apostle saith to the Romans Rom. 15.14 I my self also am perswaded of you my Brethren that ye are full of Goodness and filled with all Knowledge able also to Admonish one another So here you may see the Church of the Romans were able to admonish one another then without setting up of Colledges to make Priests to admonish them and therefore as the Apostle saith to the Philippians in Chap. 2. That ye may be blameless and harmless the Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a Crocked Generation among whom ye shine as Lights in the World holding forth the Word of Life And the Apostle saith I have sent Tythicus unto you the Ephesians that he might know your Affairs and he might Comfort your Hearts Ephes 6. Here the Churches knew and made known the Affairs one of another in the Lord. And Jude exhorted the Church in his general Epistle That they should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints or sanctified Ones which Faith Christ is the author and finisher of And now had all Christendom contended for this Faith or Belief then they would not have made so many Faiths or Beliefs to kill and destroy one another about which had they kept in Christs saving Faith which saves and doth not destroy and with that Shield of Faith ye do not War with Flesh and Blood to destroy it And the Lord sent Jeremiah to admonish the Children of Israel that they should not go into Egypt but they disobeyed the Word of the Lord unto Jeremiah and went into Egypt therefore Jeremiah told them They should dye in the Land of Egypt and should be consumed Jer. 42.43 44. Here you may see what became of them that disobeyed the admonishment of the Lord and his Prophet and therefore Solomon saith Better is a poor and a wise Child then an old and soolish King who will no more be admonished or knoweth not to be admonished Eccles 4. And Solomon saith The words of the Wise are as Goards and as Nails fastened by the Masters of Assemblies c. by these my Son be admonished Eccles 12. So it is good for all to receive the Exhortations and Admonishments from the Power and Spirit of Christ and Christ bad John write unto the Church of Thyatira and that he had a few things against them because they suffered Jezabel to teach c. Rev. 2. And so you may see this Church came under Reproof because they did not make use of their Power and Authority in the Spirit of Christ to judge Jezabel's Spirit and therefore the Church of Christ now is not to suffer Jezabel's Spirit lest they come under the same Reproof if they suffer that Jezabel's Spirit to teach now as then And here you may see how that Christ hath given his Church Power and Authority in his holy Spirit to admonish exhort judge reprove and rebuke in his Power and Spirit G. F. Concorning such as cry against Orders GOD is a God of Order and not of Consusion and the Apostle saith to the Church of Christ Let all things be done decently and in Order Mark all things in the Church of Christ So then there is nothing to be done undecently out of the Order of the peaceable Truth for God is not the author of Confusion or Tumults or Unquietness but of Peace in all the Churches of the Saints and therefore if God be not the Author of such Confusion Tumults and Unquietness but of Peace in all the Churches of the Saints therefore then confused tumultuous unquiet undesent and disorderly Spirits with the Power and Spirit of God they must be admonished to the peaceable Spirit of God in them and with it judge out the contrary else the Church of Christ in its power and peaceable spirit can have no unity with them but with the spirit and power of Christ judge that undesent confused tumultuous unquiet disorderly Spirit for God as I said before is a God of Order but the Devil which is the Worlds God hath made the World like a Wilderness which lies in Wickedness and this Devil or Satan in whom there is no Truth the power of death and darkness and confusion got into Adam and Eve by their disobedience and rules in the hearts of the Disobedient where all tumults disquietness confusion and disorders are for who went and go into disobedience from God they went and are gone from his Image from the innocency and simplicity and his power and spirit within and so go out and from his Power Spirit and Image in which his
as in 2 John v. 10. And therefore my Beloved follow not that which is Evil but that which is Good for he that doth good is of God and he that doth evil hath not seen God Here is the true Judgment of a true Watch-man in the Power and Spirit of Christ as many as receive Christ to them he gives Power to become the Sons of God which were born not of Blood nor of the will of the Flesh nor of the will of Man but of God these had Power from Christ to admonish reprove and rebuke such as went out from the Will of God into Sin and Evil and the Apostle said Though I should boast some what more of our Authority which the Lord hath given us for Edification and not for your Destruction So here the Apostles had Authority which the Lord had given them for the Edification of the Church to keep them out of Destruction 2 Cor. 10. And the Apostle said to the Church of Corinth I fear lest when I come I shall not find you as I would and yet I shall be found unto you such as ye wo●l● not lest there be Debates Envying Wrath Strifes c. and lest when I come again my God will humble me amongst you and I should bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of your Uncleanness Fornication and Lasciviousness which you have committed I write these things being absent lest being present I should use sharpness according to the Power which the Lord hath given me to Edification and not to Destruction Here you see the Authority and Power from the Lord the Apostles had to judge such as these for the Edification of them that profess Christianity not for their Destruction 2 Cor. 11.12 And the Apostle faith For to this end also did I write that I might know the truth of you whether ye be obedient in all things to whom ye forgave any thing I forgave it for your sakes in the Person of Christ So here you may see where there was an Obedience to the Truth there was a Forgiveness in Christ 2 Cor. 2. And the Apostle saith For verily as absent in Body but present in the Spirit I have judged already as though I was present concerning him that has done this Deed in the Name of the Lord Jesus when you are gathered together and my Spirit with the Power of our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the Flesh c. Know ye not a little Leaven leavens the whole lump purge out therefore the old Leaven that ye may be a new lump 1 Cor. 5. Here you see the Apostle and the Church of Christ had Power and Authority from Christ to cast out and to purge out that which is Evil or the old Leaven out of the Church of Christ that they may be a new lump for the Apostle said He would shortly come to the Church of the Corinthians if the Lord will and I will not know the Speech of them which are puft up but the Power to wit of the Speech for the Kingdom of God is not in Word but in Power So here the Apostle in his Authority in the Power of Christ would know the Power of Christ in others and would have the Church of Christ to do the same for the Apostle saith Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the World So the sanctified which are made holy judge the unholy World And again Know ye not that ye shall judge Angels Angels are Spirits they that keep their habitation in the Truth and are in the Spirit of Christ do judge the Angels and Spirits that are ●a●●● from the Truth and their Habitation in the Truth yea I say the Devil and his Angels in whom is no Truth they that walk in the Truth and live in the Power and Spirit of Jesus do judge such and therefore it was a shame to the Church of Christ who had this Power to judge small things to go to Law one with another before the u●b●lieving World whom they had Power to judge and not to set up the least in the Church to judge of outward things pertaining to this Life seeing they had the Power to judge of greater matters So here you may see the Church of Christ hath Power from Christ to judge the Angels to judge the World and to judge in outward matters of things that pertain to this Life 1 Cor. 6. Concerning Exhortation and Admonition COncerning Exhortation Judas and Silas c. exhorted the Brethren with many Words and comforted them Acts 15. And the Apostle confirmed the Souls of the Disciples and exhorted them to continue in the Faith and that we must through many Tribulations enter into the Kingdom of God when he had ordained them Elders in every Church c. they commended them to the Lord whom they believed Acts 14. So you may see here was Elders ordained in every Church and the aged Women are commended as well as the Men as in Titus 2. And Barnabas exhorted the Church of Antioch yea he exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. And the Brethren wrote exhorting to receive Apollos who when he was come into Achia helped them much who had believed through Grace Here you may see it was the practice of the Church of Christ of exhorting and did help them which believed through Grace Acts 18. And you may see in Acts 20. how the Apostle had given the Church of Macedonia much Exhortation and this Exhortation was in the Spirit and Power of Christ for Christ gave to his Disciples Power and Authority over all Devils c. Luk. 9. And the Apostles exhorted the Thessalonians to exhort 2 Thes 3. and in Thes 4.1 and said We beseech you Brethren and exhort you by the Name of the Lord Jesus that as you have received of us how ye ought to walk and please God And said Moreover ye know how that we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you c. that ye walk worthy of God who hath called you unto his Kingdom and Glory 1 Thes 2. wherefore comfort your selves together and exhort and edifie one another even as ye also do and we exhort you Brethren warn them that are Unruly and comfort the Feeble-minded and support the Weak and be patient towards all Men. Here you may see the Church hath Authority both to support and comfort and exhort and warn the Unruly 1 Thes 5. And you may see how the Apostles did command and exhort such as walk disorderly in 2 Thes 3. And the Apostle did exhort saying Save your selves from this untoward Generation Acts 20.40 And the Apostle exhorted the Marriners that were in the Ship To be of good cheer for there shall be no loss of any mans Life I believe in God and that it shall be even as it was told me to wit by the Lord Acts 27. And the Apostle saith