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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90523	A defence of church-government, exercised in presbyteriall, classicall, & synodall assemblies; according to the practise of the reformed churches: touching I. The power of a particular eldership, against those that plead for a meere popular government, specially Mr Ainsvvorth in his Animadversion to Mr Clyft. &c. II. The authority of classes and synods, against the patrons of independencie: answering in this poynt Mr Davenport his Apologeticall reply, &c. and Mr Canne his Churches plea, &c, sent forth first by W. Best, and afterwards for this part of it, under the title of Syons prerogative royall. By Iohn Paget, late able and faithfull pastour of the Reformed English Church in Amsterdam. Hereunto is prefixed an advertisement to the Parliament, wherein are inserted some animadversions on the Cheshire Remonstrance against Presbytery: by T.P.	Paget, John, d. 1640.; Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.	1641 (1641)	Wing P166; Thomason E117_1; ESTC R16734	348,418	298

the affirmative commandements in omitting things to be done were expiated by Burnt-offerings which vvere offered dayly for the whole Church or by particular persons as they would bring them as is shewed on Lev. 1. Also by the sacrifices offered on Atonement day whereof see Lev. 16. c. But how vaine is this distinction what just warrant is there that the expiation of sinnes of omission against the affirmative commandements should be restrained and applyed with such distinction unto the Burnt-offerings or unto that one day of Atonement It is a generall rule and received of Divines that in expounding the commandements the affirmative part should be comprehended under the negative and the negative under the affirmative And there is ground for this from the word of God who in his speech sometimes comprehendeth all our obedience of the Law under an affirmative commandement as Deut. 5.33 sometimes under a negative as Deut. 8.11 with Deut. 5.32 c. III. By a third restriction they doe yet further limit appropriate this Sinne-offering to the ignorant or negligent breach of such negative commandements for the presumptuous transgression whereof men deserved cutting off by the Law as is noted (o) Ibidem in generall by Mr Ainsworth for the interpretation and illustration of this ordinance But that the Reader may the better discerne and judge thereof I will set down the particular errours p Maimony in Shegagoth c. 1. The first when a man did ly with his mother 2. with his wives mother 3. with his mothers mother 4. with his fathers mother 5. with his daughter 6. with his daughters daughter 7. with his sons daughter 8. with his wives daughter 9. with her daughters daughter 10. with her sons daughter 11. with his sister 12. with his sister of his fathers wife 13. with his fathers sister 14. with his mothers sister 15. with his wives sister 16. with his fathers wife 17. with his fathers brothers wife 18. with his sonnes wife 19. with his brothers wife 20. with a mans wife 21. with a menstruous woman 22. with a male 23. with his father 24. with his fathers brother 25. with a beast 26. a woman lying with a beast And besides these 26 monstrous and unnaturall pollutions they reckon 17 other transgressions 1. Idolatry 2. giving of their seed to Molech 3. having a familiar spirit 4. to be a wizard 5. profaning of the Sabath 6. to work upon Atonement day 7. to eat or drink on Atonement day 8. to eat the remainder viz. of the sacrifice on the third day Lev. 7.17 18. 9. to eat leaven at the Passeover 10. to eat fat 11. to eat blood 12. to eat the abominable thing 13. to kill holy things without the court 14. to offer sacrifice without the court 15. to make the anoynting oyle 16. to make the sweet incense 17. to anoynt with that anoynting oyle Unto these 43 particular and enormous errours they restraine the Sinne-offering As by the former restriction they excluded all the 248 affirmative commandements so by this of 365 negative precepts they exclude 322. By these and sundry other groundles restrictions they doe many wayes make both this and other commandements and ordinances of God of no effect by their traditions and as for private persons so also for the Priest the Congregation and Rulers which being so vaine I will not insist upon further refutation of them they being also many wayes contradictory unto themselves about the same And as the Jewes doe thus offend in unjust restrictions so doe they also in a contrary extremity of extending the words of this ordinance in some other respects too farre as when it is sayd according to the translation of Mr Ainsw and shall doe of any one of them Levit. 4.2 hence they gather that this Sinne-offering is to be brought by such as break any piece or part of those negative commandements (q) R. Solomon Iarchi on Lev. 4.2 R. Moses Mikkotsi in Sepher mitsvoth gadol praecept affir 213. as for example if upon the Sabbath one should write Shim of Shimeon Nah of Nahor Dan of Daniel against such they doe apply the words of this commandement Now if for so small a transgression as writing with a pen upon the Sabath but half a word a syllable or two letters of a mans name they were bound to bring this sinne-offering and so accordingly for other sinnes of like nature and weight what man though the holyest on earth could have endured the labour and charge of so many sacrifices as such kinde of sinnes might have occasioned Though Bellarmine erred in labouring to (r) Bellar. de Paenit l. 3. c. 3. prove auricular confession of sinnes unto the Priest from the legall sacrifices as Mr Ainsworth mentions though the place be cited amisse which I suppose to be the Printers fault lib. 2. for lib. 3. yet Mr Ainsw himself doth erre likewise in describing an impossible unreasonable order in the Old Testament as Bellar. doth for the New Lastly suppose there had bene such a bond of necessity layd upon the Jewes of old to bring a sacrifice for each sinne when it was made knowne unto them yet this proves not that any new duety was prescribed in Matt. 18. which was not taught in the Law before We know that the legall sacrifices and ceremonies are wholly abrogate yet this hinders not but that the morall dueties observed in the midst of those ceremonies may still remaine when the ceremonies are abolished When the Ministers of the Lord in old time entred into their offices with knowledge and consent of the people and together at the same time were consecrated with divers sacrifices and other ceremonies Numb 8.9 10 c. Levit. 8.2 3 4 5. though the ceremonies of consecration be abolished yet the peoples right of knowledge and consent is not therefore abolished The Brownists themselves alledge (f) Confes art 23. Apolog pos 5. p. 46 47 48. the same places for the continuance thereof and why can they not observe the same for the rule in Matt. 18. notwithstanding any ceremonyes that had formerly bene annexed unto the practise observation of some dueties contained in that rule Moreover it may be observed from Mr Ainsworths owne words that the Rule in Matt. 18. and in speciall that which concernes the third degree of admonition was for the substance of it no new rule but that which was required and practised under the Law In Israel they told the Church two wayes 1. By telling the Governours that represented the Church because it then also chiefly appertained to the Ministers watchmen of the Church to give the people warning to admonish them of their wicked wayes to teach the people the difference between the holy and profane c. Divers Scriptures are (t) Cōmun of Sts. c. 22. p. 450. alledged by Mr Ainsw himself for proof hereof as Ezek. 3.17 18 c. Ezek. 44.23 Ier. 1.10 Hos 6.5 c. It was therefore