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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	article_n	church_n	fundamental_a	4,539	5	10.3758	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86482	Certain queres modestly (though plainly) propounded to such as affect the congregational-way, and specially to Master Samuel Eaton and Mr. Timothy Taylor. With an epistle also directed to them concerning their late book intituled A defence of sundry positions, &c. / By Richard Hollingworth, Mancuniensis.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1607-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2488; Thomason E316_16; ESTC R200531; ESTC R233855	20,720	31

Doth not Election of and Submission to the same Officers and Ministery ordinarily frequenting the same Ordinances and Worship joynt maintenance of Officers and Ordinances not to speak how considerable ●ohabitation and private Christian Communion is include a sufficient though an implicite covenant or consent which may be justified by holy Writ Whether there be any Precept direct or indirect or President at the founding of the first Churches for a solemn expresse verbal Covenant or Agreement more explicite then this and if not are not they guilty to say no more of strange boldnesse which make it not onely lawful but useful and far better then the said implicite Covenant yea a binding Ordinance of God necessary if not to the being yet to the welbeing strength and purity of the Church Whether there be a Church Covenant in Scripture viz. which not onely in general promiseth Service and Obedience but hath also special relation to Church State and Church Members duties as such as marriage Covenant hath to conjugal duties as such May not the Scripture Covenants viz. God shall be our God c. be taken by two or three though too few to make a Church or by one Family or by persons of several Churches and yet leave them in the state they were in and not make them Members of a distinct Church as Independents Covenants are said to do Whether Subscription to your Confession of Faith be as essentially necessary to Church Constitution as entering into Covenant Is your Confession the very same with the Confessions of other Independent Churches or a Different Is the Confession of your later Churches the very same with the Confession of your former Churches Do your selves esteem all things therein unquestionable Fundamental Articles of Faith seeing you require Subscription to them all alike as a Confession of Faith and that upon pain of Non-Admission Whether there be any Precept or President in Scripture for requiring a Promise before we admit Members that they will not depart without the Churches leave Is this a standing Ordinance or but a Politique invention requisite for the good of Societies so moulded Are not Church Members Liberties much infringed when they can neither dispose of themselves or their children in Service Marriage and Factorship remote from that Church without discovering the causes them thereunto moving which is not alway fit and safe to be done and having Approbation and Dismission from her which sometimes is hard to be got especially for rich and useful Members Whether any Apostle or other in the Primitive times did refuse to admit any known beloever to the Sacrament because he was not to use the new phrase of these times in Church-state or that they enquired of him whether he was convenanted into some particular Congregation and that such a one as they might lawfully hold Communion with Was the Baptism of John and of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ a Seal of Congregation Communion Was Paul the Apostle and the Ennuch Baptized into a particular Congregation did not the ordinary Pastors of Corinth Administer that one Baptism ahd Baptize in the same Body that John Baptist did and that Paul Baptized Crispus and Gains and the houshould of Stephanas into Is Baptism one time a Seal principally of Congregational Communion and other times not and what Scripture is there to warrant such a distinction Whether every Congregation which joyns in Covenant doth or must consist of all or some Christians able to try the sufficiency of an Elder yea fit to discharge that Office Or whether visible Sanctiry without such ability be not sufficient And may this Congregation lawfully without assistance of others unlesse themselves please notwithstanding their apparent inability chuse their own Minister and that one of themselves also which must needs be an Insufficient one May this Congregation also suppose they had a godly learned Pastor proceed against him in case of Errour and Heresie even to Deposition and Excommunication if their weaknesse shall judge it fit And is the said Deposition valid whether just and unjust unlesse the said Church be pleased to recal it to deprive the said Pastor of his Ministerial Authority and Office and is there no remedy in such a case Is it not improper to call them that rule onely by the name of Elders and them that both rule and labour in the Word and Doctrine by a meaner name Ministers Doth the Scripture apply the name of Elders rather to Ruling then to Preaching Elders and if it doth not why should we Are the Ministers in the New Testament called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ministers or Deacons of the Church or of the people Are they not usually called Ministers of the Lord of God of Christ of the New Testament of the Gospel of the Word c and with reference to their people Elders Rulers Pastors Teachers Overseers Ministers for them c Doth that Expression in the second Epistle to the Corinthians Chap. 4. Vers 5. Our selves your servants wherewith Paul call-himself as well as others 〈◊〉 imply that he received his Authority and Office from the Church did Officiate in their names was censurable by them as a servant by his Master or that he made himself a servant to them as Christ did to his Disciples and as all good Ministers do to their Flocks for their good Are the spirits of the Prophets subject to the people or to the Prophets Is not this subjection of the Spirits of the Prophets to the Prophets viz. Of the fewer to the greater number as well in Synods and Assemblies of Churches or of their Messengers as in particular Congregations Whether these two Propositions Synods or Assemblies of Churches or of their Messengers to say nothing now of their Jurisdiction are Gods Ordinances and Every particular Congregation may yea must enjoy all Gods Ordinances within it self be not crosse and contrary one to another or how are they reconciled according to Scripture grounds Is it any priviledge for Congrogations to subsist every one by her self May they not stand and flourish surer and better in an holy and Brotherly combination and coordinate subjection then in a divided singularity Doth not Communion of particular Churches require and the light of nature and the equity of Scripture rules and examples teach that they may and ought to enter into mutual Consociation or Confederation amongst themselves in Classes and Synods that they may so far as conveniently can be make use of common consent and mutual assistance especially in those things that are of greater moment If the Keyes be given to Beleevers to be exercised by them as Beleevers then are they not given to all beleevers whether in Church Covenant or no Church Members or no If they be given to Church Members as such doth it not then follow that Pastors as Pasors or Elders as Elders have no more power of the Keyes then othher Church Members And