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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

then without great presumptiō faine them to be sayd at another time place having no warrant of Scripture for the same I know indeed that (r) R. Solomon Iarchi on Gen. 12.1 some of your Rabbines who doe so often mislead you doe write that this call was from Charran but their authority is too light to rest upon it They will have Nun the last letter of the word (f) In Gen. 11.32 Charran to be written with the head of it downward and the lowest part of it upward contrary to the order to shew (t) R. Sol. ibid. that the wrath of God burned untill Abram One of your authors according to his Cabalisticall art (v) Baal hatturim on Gen. 12.1 tels us that the numerall letters of the word arecha used in the call of Abram Gen. 12.1 doe yeeld the same number that begnananim doth which signifyeth by the clouds to teach us that the clouds went before him shewed him the way in his journey And the inversion of this Nun haphueah is as well as worthy to be observed for matter of meditation instruction as are the great little letters which you (x) Annot. on Gen. 23.2 34.31 Lev. 1.1 mention for like use You tell us in the same place that the Hebrew doctours expound the name Charran by Charon aph that is wrathfull anger R. Menachem on Gen. 12. as if he were now to depart from the place of wrath c. but if you had alledged the place more plainly fully the vanity of that Rabbine would thereby have appeared while he saith that (y) R. Menachem on Gen. 12.4 whē Abram went to give his influence or abundance unto the higher land Lot went with him for that land was to receive from them both and the word Lot is from Levatin which signifyeth curses and this at his going from Charan the word charon signifyeth anger This is the vaine conceit contained in the allegation which you send us unto compare with so many places of Scripture And suppose Charan be denominate of anger yet this will not prove that the calling Gen. 12.1 was from Charan Againe it appeares to be the opinion of other (z) Chazkuni com on Gen. 12.1 Aben Ezra on Gen. 11. 12.1 Rabbines that this calling of Abram Gen. 12.1 was from Vr of the Chaldees before he came to Charan And besides these the judgement of learned (a) Merc. on Gen. 12. Trem. Iun. annot ibid. Calv. Musc com ibid. Christians is herein against you and more to be respected then the Iewish doctours whom you so much follow 3. Besides other things how grosse is that errour when you write (b) Annot. on Gen. 12.5 that the land of Canaan is a country in Asia the lesse c. It appeareth not by the Scriptures that Abram ever came into Asia the lesse And had he gone thither to seek Canaan he should never have found that land unto which he was called of God This your errour of misplacing Canaan is reproved not onely by the generall testimony of the cheefest (c) Ptol. Geogr. lib. 5. c. 2. Asiae tab 1. Strab. Geogr. l. 12. Plin. Hist nat l. 5. c. 27 Solin Polyh c. 43. Geographers but also by the evidence of the holy Scriptures which doe oftē plainly distinguish these countries make it very manifest that Canaan is not a country in Asia the lesse as you say Act. 2.9 16.6 20.16.1 Pet. 1.1 Touching your allegation of Gen. 13.6 7 8. we read there of the riches of Abram and Lot of the strife betwixt their servants of the Cananites and Perizzites dwelling in the land of Abrams care to avoyd strife but how you will conclude your Separation from hence together with the peoples power in excommunications who can imagine or comprehend it we would faine see what face of an argument you can paynt out unto us from this Allegation And as for Exo. 5.3 where Moses Aaron tell Pharaoh how the God of the Hebrewes met them how they desire to goe three dayes journey into the wildernes to doe sacrifice and of the danger of pestilence or sword to come upon them if they did it not by what consequence will you maintaine your Separation from hence and by what second consequence will you then demonstrate the peoples authority from this Separation here implyed as you write These things doe yet lye hid wrapt up in darknes that men cannot discerne what you meane thereby It is a strange folly in matters of so great controversy so barely to alledge such a number of Scriptures which seeme not so much as to looke towards the poynt of the question in hand and this your fault is so much the greater in that yon can finde time leasure to note and publish so many other idle and unproffitable things as when in the explication of this verse you set downe those dotages of Maimony about the Pestilence Deber which have no weight in them no ground or colour of trueth Why did you not rather manifest your Separation from hence if it be here taught as you say for the clearing of your cause plucking others out of the darknes shadow of death wherein according to your profession they do remaine CHAP. IIII. Whether the people be bound to be present at the proceedings against offendours A Nother errour concerning the government of the Church is this that you hold the people bound to be present at the conviction of sinners triall of causes Though Mr Iohnson (a) Advertis of Mr Clyft p. 41.42 left it free for any of the people to come if they would yet you (b) Animadv p. 42.43 hold not that sufficient unlesse they be bound to come to heare the proceedings Against the liberty of being absent or present you alledge many things and plead as followeth H. AINSVV. Is not this to divide the body when the head must be present the shoulders with the other parts and members may be absent ANSVV. It is no division in the body mysticall when the head labours for the good of the body though some members thereof be absent no more then there is a division or disunion among the friends that consult for the comfort of one another though not present no more then there is betwixt the States of these lands the people thereof when the States meet apart to determine some things without the people no more then there was a division when the Elders at Ierusalem met apart without the people Act. 21 18-25 H. AINSVV. The Apostle writing to the Church of Corinth how to doe when they came together for the Lords supper 1. Cor. 11.18 33. writeth also to them how when they were gathered together they should deliver the wicked unto Satan 1. Cor. 5.4 5. We finde no difference but they were bound to come to the one as to the other And if they answer they are bound