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A30646 The protestation protested, or, A short remonstrance shewing what is principally required of all those that have or doe take the last Parliamentary protestation Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1641 (1641) Wing B6171; ESTC R22769 12,519 23

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scarce one is able to give a reason of the hope that is in him Ob. But shall not good Preachers be set up in every Parish that the People may be instructed and so fitted to be mēbers of a Cōgregatiō such as afore is mētioned Ans. No doubt of that so so farre as is possible to provide Preachers Ob. But what shall the People do in the meane time who are ignorant and profane though not notoriously wicked For have they not received Baptisme Are they not Christians shall they not then be admitted into the Communion of the other Sacrament Ans. For this every Minister ought to bee very diligent and carefull to see that ordinary profane and ignorant persons be not admitted to the Sacrament * The lame or the blind is not to be offered up in Sacrifice Ob. But admit that such as are ordinary profane persons and have little or no knowledge of God bee admitted to the Sacrament pell mell may not godly persons communicate with them and therein not sin Ans. For that let such as are godly look to it For if Gods Ordinances bee profaned as they are by profane and ignorant persons comming to the Lords Table then others also that communicate with them are guilty of the same prophanation with them * A little leven leveneth the whole lumpe The Apostle applies it to a mixt Communion Let us keep the feast saith he to wit in participating of Christ our Passeover in the Sacrament not with the old leven c. And thereupon hee tels them I writ unto you in an Epistle not to company with fornicators c. And * This ye know that no whoremonger nor uncleane person nor covetous man hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Christ Be not therefore partakers with them Ob. But in Congregations be so mixed as they cannot or are not secured shall godly men for that cause deprive themselves of the Ordinance Answ. First there is no necessity that men in using the Ordinance should sin by communicating with others in the profanation of holy things Secondly It is not Gods Ordinance that his holy things should bee prophaned * Cast not your pearles before Swine nor your holy things to dogs * Who required these things at your hands to tread in my Courts And yet their Oblations their Sabbaths their solemne assemblies were Gods Ord. But because they were polluted and profaned by those that joyned in them therfore the Lord abhors them * Wash you make you cleane c. Ob. But what 's this to godly persons communicating with prophane Ans. To communicate with known evill doers which even in their presuming to communicate in the Ordinances do evil in their doing of evil is to partake of their evil deeds * Be not mingled with such saith the Apostle that they may be ashamed And v. 6. We command you Brethren in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly c. Ob. But if it be so where can a godly man communicate without sin For where are not the Congregations mixed Ans. It is true that if there be none other Congregations allowed but such as are in Parishes this confession cannot be avoyded Therfore of necessity there must be Liberty granted of setting up Churches or Congregations where Christs Ordinances are administred in their purity and so where none are admitted members of the Congregation but such as are approved of by the whole Assembly for their profession and conversation as against which there is no just exception Ob. But would you have other Congregations then such as are limited to every Parish How will this stand with a Nationall Church such as is the Church of England This would make a division and separation Ans. We must look in the first place what Christ commandeth and what manner of Congregations he requireth and how qualified If a State will set up a Nationall Church wherein many things out of reason of State are tolerated and prescribed for order sake as they call it and if there be such a necessity necessity hath no Law but let not this exclude and barre out the free use of such Congregations as whereof the spirituall Common-wealth of Israel consisteth over which Christ as King immediately raigneth by his Spirit and Word in the beauty and purity of his ordinances Let not the Consciences of Gods people be bound where Christ hath purchased liberty And where Christs Congregations are set up however they are separate from the world in the corruptions thereof yet they are not separate from the Civil State but are peaceable members therof subject and obedient to all the good and just Laws thereof Yea where such Congregations are erected and allowed or by a Civil State they are both a strength and beauty and procure many blessings unto it They are unto a Civil State as that fulminatrix legio that thundring Legion in the Emperour Antoninus his Army as he called it which consisting wholly of Christians among his other Heathen Legions did by their Prayers procure refreshing showers to the whole Army when it was sore distressed with drowt and terrible storms on the other side to the disconfeiture of the enemie And therfore the Apostle exhorts his Christians * to pray for Kings and such as are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty And ●er 29 7. Pray unto the Lord for the City of your captivity for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace implying if it is the duty of Civil Princes and states heathen or Christian to protect or tollerate the true Christian Religion in their Kingdomes as well as of the true Christians and Professors to pray for them For Christs Kingdome being spirituall is so farr from being any prejudice to Civil states that it is the very glory and safety of them And therefore the Emperour Domilian under whom was moved the second persecution and by whom the Apostle John was banished into Pathmos hearing that Christs Kingdome was celestiall and not of this World recalled his Edict for the Persecution Euseb. Eccl. Hist. li. 3. c. 15. so as thereupon it ceased Ob. But that there shallbe an order of Church goverment established in a nationall Church and withall a liberty left ●or other Church assemblies exempted from this goverment this may be a meanes to soment factious and envious emulations in a State to the disturbing of the peace thereof Ans. For this first there be good Lawes for civill government Seriously that any one among the exempted Congregations doe incorrigably misbehave themselvs the Law can take order with them Thirdly let no man blame them before they cry them Fourthly it hath beene an old stratageme of Satan still to lay all the blame of what ever disaster upon the Christians as Nero did Fiftly it cannot be expected but where ever the Gospel commeth in its power and purity it will