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A64633	The true form of church government first instituted by Christ, novv used and practised in all the reformed churches of Germanie, France, and Scotland: humbly presented to the high and honourable court of Parliament, at this time most happily assembled. Plainly proved by Scripture, rectifide reason, and the testimonie of the Church, some hundreds of yeares after the Apostles time, and the generall consent of the Churches rightly reformed in these latter times, contrary to the Romish, and our archiepiscopall government.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.	1642 (1642)	Wing U16; ESTC R218880	62,509	79

Churches if the Lawes of God onely being the Housholder must be followed in the Church his House if the Word of God teach us in every good way whereof the Government of the Church is one if God must be glorified in the ruling of his Church which cannot be but by obedience to his Word if nothing be lawfull but that which is of Faith warranted by the Word if God have shewed himselfe as carefull for his Church under the Gospell as under the Law if Christ was as faithfull to give direction as Moses if in the Word be described sufficient Ministers and Ministeries to build up the Church if that Government which the Apostles taught and pract●sed be in the Word if every lawfull office and action in an ordinary building be from Heaven and revealed thence by the Word if God continued the same forme in respect of the substance in the time of the Gospel that was under the Law if every wise carefull King doe set downe Lawes for the direction of his Subjects If the Apostles have taught us to obey that which Christ commanded if both the Governours matter of Government and manner of doing it be set downe in the Word if all that pertaineth to Ecclesiasticall Discipline spring from the Scriptures if wee may bring nothing into the Discipline of the Church but that which the Apostles have delivered us lastly if that be Adulterous and Sacrilegious that is not according to the Word then it must needs follow that God doth describe perfectly unto us out of his Word that forme of Government which is Lawfull and the Officers that are to execute the same from the which it is not lawfull for any Christian Church to sw●rve And contrariwise that is a most untrue assertion to say That the Officers and offi●es are not particularly expressed but left to the discretion of the Church The reasons that they alleadge against this are in effect ●one and their objections to these reasons not worthy to be mentioned CHAP. II. EVery Officer in the Church must be placed in some Calling warranted by the word of God and some Congregation must have need of such a one before hee be called to any Function Wherein are these Propositions 1 No Calling is lawfull in the Church but that which is directly warranted out of the Word unto him that executeth it The Bishops and their adherents think otherwise as their practise in ordaining Archbishops Lord Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Chancellors Officialls c. doth plainly declare 2 The name and office of an Archbishop is contrary to the Word of God 3 No man may be ordained unto any Office in the Church untill there be such a place void as he is fit for T.C. 1 book page 61. They think otherwise as their making of so many Ministers at once proveth and as is holden Whitgift page 222. 1 The first is proved thus If Iohn was constrained to prove his Minister●● out of the Scriptures when the Priests accused him then is no Calling lawfull that hath not his warrant in the Word for if any be priviledged the extraordinary Ministers whereof he was one are specially excepted But hee proved his Ministery by the Word as appeareth by his answer unto them in the 23 verse Therfore no Calling is lawfull in the Church that hath not his wa●rant in the Word 2 The Callings under the Gospell must have as good warrant as they had under the Law because the light of the Gospell is at the least as cleare as that of the Law But there was never any lawfull Calling under the Law excepting those that were by miraculous manner confirmed from heaven which had not his direct warrant out of the Word Therefore no Calling is lawfull in the Church which is not directly warranted in the Word 3 If Corah Dathan and Abiram though they were Levites were punished for that they had no warrant for that which they presumed to take in hand then is every lawfull Calling both in generall warranted out of the Word and particularly layd upon the parties from the Lord But the former is true as the Historie teacheth us Therefore must the latter needs be true also 4 That which giveth comfort unto a man in the time of his troubles must have a warrant out of Gods word But every lawfull Calling giveth comfort unto a man to the time of his troubles Therfore every lawfull Calling hath a warrant out of Gods word 5 That which helpeth Gods people forward in god●ines must have a warrant out of Gods word for God hath promised a blessing to his owne ordinance onely But every lawfull calling in the Church helpeth Gods people forward in godlinesse Therefore every lawfull Calling hath a warrant out of Gods word Therefore if John did prove his calling out of the Scriptures if every calling under the Law was warranted out of the Scriptures if Corath c. were punished for enterprising that which they had no warrant for out of the Scriptures if comfort in troubles commeth onely from the Scriptures and lastly if every h●lp to godlinesse is warranted in the Scriptures then c. They confesse all these reasons to be true but doe denie that the Archbishops L. Bishops c. be distinct Ministers from others Whitgift page 303. which we hold T. C. 2. book page 438. and prove it thus 1 Those things that have divers efficient causes are divers Our Bishops and the Ministers of the Word have divers efficient causes for the one is the Ordinance of God the other the Constitution of humane Policie as themselves doe confesse Therefore they are distinct Ministers from others 2 A divers Forme maketh divers things the Ministers of the Word and the L. Bishops have divers formes for their Ordination even in the Church of England is divers seeing one L. Bishop may ordaine a Minister But there must be three to ordaine one of them Therefore they are distinct Ministers 3 Members of one division are distinct one from another the L. Bishops and ordinary Ministers be members of one division for usually the Minist●rs be divided into the Rulers and them that are to be ruled Therefore they are distinct Ministers 4 The things that have divers effects are divers in themselves one from another the L. Bishops and other Ministers have divers effects for the one effecteth Rule and Government the other Subjection and obedience Therefore they are divers and distinct Ministers 5 They that be imployed about divers things are divers one from another The L. Bishops and the ordinary Ministers be imployed about divers things for the one is exercised in generall view of many Congregations and the other in the particular direction of one Therefore they be distinct Ministers 6 That which is perpetuall and that which may be taken away by men are distinct one from another The office of the Minister is perpetuall Ephes. 4.13 and the Bishops may be taken away as themselves confesse Therefore they are

unto the poore also Acts. 6.2 Therefore no man can in any tollerable measure discha●ge the office of a Minister and Deacon also and consequently the Deacon is to attend upon distributing onely 4. If the Ministeries of the word bee perfect without the Deacon then may ●ee not meddle in the same for how may one lawfully labour in that wherein there is no neede of him But such is the ministery of the word where the severall Ministers thereof are named Ephes. 4.11 wherein the Deacon is not contained as Whitgift c●nfesseth pag. 308. 309. Therefore the Deacon may not meddle with the Ministry of the word and consequently must be implyed onely in destributing c. 5. If there be no qualitie required in the perfect description of the Deacon which is proper to the Ministery of the word then is not be to medle with the same But the former is true as appeareth 1 Tim. 3.8 Therefore the latter is true a so and consequently hee must attend onely upon distributing c. 6. If it belong to the Deacons office to meddle with the Minestery of the word and Sacraments then it is greater then that of the pastor for that the doing of both requireth greater gifts then the one But it is not a greater but inferiour office to the pastor as appeareth by all those places wherein they are described that the Deacon is described after the Bishop therefore his office is not to meddle with both and consequently hee must attend upon distributing c. 7. Deacons are Ministers of tables and not of holy things 8. In the Ministers sicknesse the Deacons shall roade the Homilies of the Fathers 9. The Deacons have neede of great wisedome although the preaching of the word bee not committed unto them and further it is absurd that they should doe both the office of Preaching and caring for the poore concidering that they bee not able to doe both thorowly 10. Although the goods of the CHVRCH increasing there were besides the Deacons subdeacons and Archdeacons and yet the Deacons remained still in their charge for the poore and were not as yet mingled with the Bishoppes or Priests and with the order of them which taught 11. The Office of Deaconshippe was religiously kept in the CHVRCH untill it was driven out by Antichrist 12. This Office must of necessitie bee restored as it is described Acts the Sxth if England for hee speaketh it in the behalfe of our Church will receive the Discipline of Christ 13. Speaking of these Deacons lamenteth that this order is so fallen out of the Church that the name doth scarse remaine 14. Describing the Deacons of the Apostles time saith that wee after their example ought to have the like 15. The office of distributing the goods of the Church is an ordinary function in a CHVRCH lawfully constituted the which Section thirty hee calleth the Deaconship Therefore if Stephen and the rest were imployed onely in distributing the goods of the Church if the Apostle maketh the Deacons office an ordinary and distinct office from all others in the Church if the Apostles were not sufficient for the ministery of the word and distributing if the ministeries of the word be perfect without the Deacon if in the description of the Deacon no qualitie be required that is proper to a Minister of the word if to deal in both would make the Deacon a g●eater officer then the Pastor if the Councels ancient writers and the sound writers of latter times do declare that the Deacons were to be wholly imployed in the distributing of the goods of the Church then must it needs follow that his office is not to meddle with any part of the Ministery of the Word and Sacraments but to attend onely upon the distributing of the liberalitie of the Church unto them that stand in need thereof Their objections hereunto be these two that follow 1 Objection Philip one of the seven Deacons did preach Act. 8.8 therefore Deacons may preach the Word Answer Philip was a Deacon of the Church at Jerusalem while they abode together but now he was not any more so but an Evangelist as he is ever tearmed after by vertue of which office he did preach 2 Object Steven being a Deacon preached Act. 7.2 Answ. He preached not for all that is there was but his Apology at the seat of judgement which every man in the like case may do and which many of the Martyrs have done So that the former proposition being true upon the grounds alledged notwithstanding these objections we are to proceed to the second which is this There ought to be such Deacons as are described in the former proposition in every congregation which is thus proved 1 That office which every congregation hath need of ought to be in every congregation But every congregation hath need of the Deacons office which appeareth by this that they have poore to provide for or else they must regard the necessitie of others and the liberalitie of others to distribute Therefore Deacons ought to be in every congregation 2 That which is indefinitely appointed for the good of the Church belongeth unto every congregation as well as to any one But such is the appointment of the Deacons 1. Tim. 3.8 Therefore there must be Deacons in every congregation 3 Every Church ought to have their office of Deaconship 4 All the reasons or the most of them that are alledged chap. 10. for a Bishop in every congregation and chap. 12. for Elders in every congregation are forcible hereunto Therefore if there be the like need of Deacons in one congregation that is in another if they be appointed indefinitely for the good of the Church if every Church must have their office of Deaconship and L●●tly if there be like reasons to prove them belong to every Church that be for Bishops and Elders then must it needs follow that there ought to be Deacons in every congregation CHAP. XIIII THere ought to be in every congregation an Eldership consisting of a Pastor or Pastors Doctor if there be any and Elders whose authoritie Christ hath ordained to be perpetuall in his Church to govern the same onely by the rules of Gods Word T.C. 1. book pag. 175. Discip. Ecclesiast 123. which containeth these 3. particular propositions defended by us and gainsaid by the Bb. and their adherents 1 The Eldership ought to be in every congregation 2 The office of the Eldership is perpetuall 3 The Church must be governed onely by the rules of Gods Word The first is denied by them Whitgift pag. 627. and by their practise in tying the government of many Churches to the Bb. sea it is thus proved 1 Whatsoever Chr●st hath ordained as a means to keep men in obedience to the Gospel that same must be in everie congregation for particular men are in particular congregations But Christ hath ordained the Eldership for that end as