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The purity of Gospel communion, or, Grounds and reasons for separation from persons of corrupt manners, or that hold erroneous doctrine in matters of faith essential to salvation, or that are guilty of false worship, or irregular administration of Gospel ordinances briefly discussed to prevent the increase of sin and disorder by a mixed communion in church fellowship / by Isaac Marlow.
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Marlow, Isaac.
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whether within or for want of time and growth of Grace and Knowledge were then waiting on the Ministry of the Gospel for farther Light without the Pale of the Visible Church and therefore the Apostle might properly say that so many of us viz. of all those Saints in general as were gathered into a Church-state and baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death Ver. 4 5. viz. into the likeness of his Death by Water-baptism and thus the Word many may be taken in its most proper Sence without the least implication that unbaptized Christians were admitted to full Communion with the Church at the Lords Table V. Object The Church in the Wilderness received Members the way which was not prescribed but directly against the revealed Mind of God yet stood a true Church and their Members true Members For this Church had Circumcision for their entring Ordinance Gen. 17.13 14. Exo. 12. and the uncircumcised were utterly forbidden to eat the Passover yet this Church received Members without and otherwise than by this entring Ordinance they also admitted them to the Passover so long as forty Years without it Answer It is expresly said That all the People viz. the Males that came out of Egypt were Circumcised Josh 5.4 to 8. Exod. 14.10 11 12. but all the People that were born in the Wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt them they had not circumcised because they had not circumcised them by the way From whence I observe that seeing the Children of Israel were not Circumcised by the way and yet that all were Circumcised that came out of Egypt it must needs follow that they were Circumcised in Egypt as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 12.48 to 52. which tho' it is there rehearsed after the account of the Destruction of the first-born of Egypt c. yet Circumcision was commanded before as appeareth by the two last verses of that Chapter Gen. 17.9 10. And so it was from its first Institution to Abraham again renewed by Moses as an entring Ordinance into a Visible Church-state and the Priviledges thereof but the occasion of the disuse of this Ordinance afterwards in the Wilderness not being expressed as I can find in any part of the Scriptures we must conclude that as God never approved of the Wilful neglect of the least of his Commandments and seeing he again commanded Israel to be Circumcised when they were entring in to possess the promised Land of Canaan we have not the least incouragement from Israels Example of Disobedience in the Wilderness which is so much in general 1 Cor. 10. Heb. 3.8 c. as well as in some particulars complained of in the Holy Scriptures nor from Gods renewing his Command to Israel for Circumcision to Countenance the neglect of any Gospel Ordinance but contrariwise in Case of any Declension among Believers to stir up one another to a Reformation according to the Institutions of Christ and the Primitive Pattern of Gods spiritual House on Sacred Record VI. Object It is farther said that Aaron let the offering for Sin be burnt Lev. 10. Ch. 6.26 that should have indeed been eaten yet because he could not do it to his Edification Moses was Content Answer Moses was content not simply because Aaron had done contrary to the Commandment but because Aaron had such things befallen him that day as that it would not have been accepted of God for him to eat the Offering as we find by Aarons Answer to Moses Lev. 10.19 And this being on the extraordinary occasion of Aarons loosing his two Sons Lev. 10.1 Nadab and Abihu who died before the Lord for Offering of strange Fire it is most likely either this Sin of his House or thereby was occasioned some unholiness or some other uncleanness happened to Aaron tho' it is not particularly expressed as did by Law prevent him from eating of the Holy Sacrifice Lev. 6.18 27. And so it is under the Administration of the Gospel that in case of Sin or any Uncleanness prohibited the Communion of the Church by the Laws of Christ the Offender until there be Repentance to take it off ought not to partake of the Holy Supper tho' it be commanded as a Gospel-Ordinance yea a whole Church may suspend it for a season rather then to partake of it with such evils as are prohibited their Communion by the Laws of Christ and who will say that such a Suspension of the Ordinance will be charged as her Sin if she be necessitated thereunto for want of a Person or Ministring Brother gifted and qualified for that Service And therefore from what hath been here said we may conclude that the aforesaid Old Testament Cases have no. Example in them as shadows to justifie any Believers admittance into Church-Communion without Water-Baptism but that those and all other Scriptures must be expounded so as to preserve the Concord of Sacred Writ with the plain and positive Institutions of Christ and his Apostles and their Examples with the Primitive Churches who clearly witness to the Ordinance of Water-Baptism preceeding Church-Communion Against Excess in Apparel THat Ornaments of Apparel in a Scripture Sence may be allowed so far as they suit and rather tend to the Credit and Reputation of the Gospel and that a difference in Apparel is not unlawful according to the State and Circumstances of the Saints is not denyed But yet whatever Ornaments are inconsistent with Modesty Gravity and Sobriety and are a scandal to Religion ought to be cast off as being a defilement to Believers and an Abominaton in the sight of God Isa 3.16 Zeph. 1.8 who reproved and brought his Scourge upon the Daughters of Zion for the Bravery Haughtiness and Pride of their Attire and by the Prophet hath said he would punish all such as were cloathed with strange Apparel And the Apostle saith I will therefore that Women adorn themselves in modest Apparel 1 Tim. 2.8 9. with Shame-facedness and Sobriety not with Broidered Hair or Gold or Pearls or costly Array but which becometh Women professing Godliness with good works And whos 's adorning 1 Pet. 3.3 4 5. let it not be the outward adorning of Plating the Hair and of Wearing of Gold or of putting on of Apparel but the Ornantent of a meek and quiet Spirit which is in the sight of God of great Price For after this manner in the old time the Holy Women also who trusted in God adorned themselves And doth not even Nature it self teach you 1 Cor. 11.14 that if a Man have long Hair it is a shame unto him And we are not to be conformed to this World Rom. 12.2 17. 2 Cor. 8.21 1 Pet. 1.14 but we are commanded to provide things honest in the sight of all Men and as obedient Children not fashioning your selves according to the former Lusts in your Ignorance But as he which hath called you is Holy so be ye Holy in all