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A29276
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The churches resurrection, or, The creating of the new heavens written by an unworthy gospel-minister, John Bryan.
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Brayne, John.
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1649
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Wing B4321; ESTC R23804
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people lived untill John the Baptist Ver. 9. He sheweth that the covenant made with man under the Gospel should be far differing from that made with the Israelites in Egypt and therefore called a new covenant to which the old should give place decay and vanish away 1. The ministry under the new covenant or rather new administrations of the covenant is said to be a more excellent ministry Christ himself being the high Priest and Mediatour and not Moses intimated ver 2. nor Aaron 2. Having better promises Exod. 6. v. 6. it was to bring them from the burdens of the Egyptians and redeem them and bring them into the Land of Canaan This to be heirs of the Kingdom of heaven and redeemed from hell 3. A better covenant in that under it they have the Laws of God written in their hearts and mindes under Moses in stony Tables 4 Shewing That God would under these administrations have none to be his people in communion but such as had his Law that is of Faith written in their hearts The Law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ And so sheweth that the Gospel covenant or the administrations of the covenant under the Gospel admitted not of a Nationall Society and in this the new covenant is said to excell the old this being the ground of the covenant and being to go before it This is illustrated in that when Christ set up the Gospel Church he called men out of the National Church requiring that men first should be taught and beleeve before they be added to the church in which was plainly the vanishing of the old and the administrations of the new set out So that to maintain a Nationall church is to abolish the new and set up the old covenant and is Judaising being quite contrary to the tenour of the Gospel administrations Ver. 10. The holy Ghost sets down the time when the administrations of the new covenant take place that is after those dayes viz. after that Moses Ministry should have an end then the new covenant should take place and begin Ver. 11. It is said They shall not teach every man his neighbour and his brother saying Know the Lord as under the old covenant for all shall know mee from the greatest to the least The Eposition some make of these words to elude the true sense of them is That in the last days there shall be such abundance of knowledg that all shall know God but if we apply the words before or after this it s easily refuted as that all shall have it written in their hearts or that God will be merciful to the unrighteousness of all and not remember their sins any more is a thing I think that none will dare affirm when all that have this knowledg here spoken of written in their hearts shall have 1. Note that these words were to be fulfilled after the date of the old Covenant under the Administrations of the New in the Apostles times or in all times to come in which the true Gospel-Dispensations under the New Covenant shall be administred and have no respect more to time to come more then the Apostles times past 2. The words all shall know me are not to be understond only as a prophesie of the abundance of knowledg to be revealed of God under the Dispensation of Grace but also are to be understood as a conditional thing that was required of all even the least Christian the Infant in Christ before he could enjoy Communion of the Gospel Administrations with the Saints this is clearly held out 1 John 2. l 3. I write to you fathers who are here said to be the greatest because ye have known him which is from the beginning and then after I write to you little children because ye have known the Father and these are here called the least who without this knowledg are uncapable of being writ unto or preached unto in the Gospel way how much more unfit are they then for other more spiritual exercises And hence the Apostle shews That the New Covenant requires the least Christian to have the knowledg of God in him or he is not to be admitted a Church Member or accounted a Covenanter with God This knowledg and Communion with God shall have forgive-of sins and iniquities with it which make the knowledg of God sweet in its soul to it Quere Are none to be admitted Members under the New Covenant but those have the Law written in their hearts and have their iniquities pardoned Resp All that are true Members have and all that are admitted should have 2. The condition of making Members must be something visible the Church being not able to judg of the invisible estate of men 3. Here the condition is contained in the 11. Verse which is That the least Member shall have a knowledg of God and be able to manifest it to the Church whether it be in his heart or not God only knoweth 3. To make him a Covenanter he is to profess his faith in God according to the knowledg he hath of God in which he is said to take God to him to be his God and so became a visible Member of the Church 4. This Covenant was made with the Gentiles drawn from Idolatry 2 Cor. 6.16 And after the great defection made under Antichrist it comes to be made again at the beginning of the estate of the new Ierusalem Rev. 21.3 which time is yet to be I desire that it may be seriously considered how this making National Churches doth wholy destroy not only Christian priviledges but how it also makes void much of the Scriptures which are by this means as good as razed out of the Book of God As in the Scriptures that speak of the world as opposed to the Church 1. I desire those that maintain National Churches to shew where the world is in this Kingdom that they account wholly to be of the Church or a Church Iohn 15.29 I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Iohn 17.9 I pray not for the world Vers 6. I pray for them thou hast given me out of the world 1 Cor. 11.32 That ye should not be condemned with the world and elsewhere be ye not conformed to this present evil world 2. I desire to know how these Scriptures can be made right use of or be rightly applyed to the use of Saints until these are divided one from the other 3. How this doth hinder the Manifestation of the Calling of Saints and the Manifestation of their love to God and Graces 4. Now it hardens wicked men while there is no difference made between Saints and them in Church Privildges and how it suddens the hearts of Saints 5. How the Glory of God in the Saints is obscured by these means whom God hath endowed as it were with glorious light to shine to the world by 6. How the government of the Church can otherwise be then confused