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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33377	Mr. Claude's answer to Monsieur de Meaux's book, intituled, A conference with Mr. Claude with his letter to a friend, wherein he answers a discourse of M. de Condom, now Bishop of Meaux, concerning the Church.; Reponse au livre de Monsieur l'évesque de Meaux, intitulé Conférence avec M. Claude. English	Claude, Jean, 1619-1687.; Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1687 (1687)	Wing C4591; ESTC R17732	130,139	128

shalt thou be established In the same sense Jeremiah speaks of it They shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them for I will forgive their inquity and I will remember their sin no more Ezekiel says as much I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean I will give you a new heart and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgements In like manner Joel Then says he shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers pass through it any more Likewise Zechariah In that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts What can all these great and wonderful promises mean This Circumcision of Heart This way of Holiness where the unclean shall not pass over This keeping out of Lions and ravenous beasts This being taught of God This universal knowledg joyned with a pardon of sins This pouring out of the spirit which shall take away the hearts of stone and change them for hearts of flesh This Holiness of Jerusalem so as to suffer no stranger nor Canaanite in the midst of her I say What signifies all this if the form and essence of a Church consist in a bare profession and if this Communion can be composed of unjust as well as just of Bad as well as Good men V. St. Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians endeavours to make us apprehend the Church aright by resembling it to a man's body As the body says he is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ For by one spirit are we all haptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit I need not here observe that by Christ he means the Mystical body of Christ That is his Church this is manifest of it self and he explains himself so afterwards You says he are the body of Christ and members in particular All we have to do is to enquire what he makes to be the principle and ●and of this unity here attributed to the Church and with respect to which he likens it to the body of a Man And this is easily understood for in his opinion it is the spirit and consequently not a bare profession But still it may be doubtful what Spirit this is Is it a spirit of direction only that attends upon the Clergy and prevents their giving erroneous determinations and publickly professing any such how wicked sover the persons exercising this Authority be By no means It is the spirit which the faithful receive and whereof Baptism is a sign For says the Apostle we are all haptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit Thus you see the band and principle of the Churches Unity The evident consequence whereof is that inward regeneration is essential to it and that as many as have not been washed by nor made to drink into this heavenly spirit cannot be parts of this body VI. But the Apostle carries on his Argument yet further for he takes notice that although God had put a difference between the members as there is likewise in those of the Church yet he had so qualified this difference That there should be says he no schism or division in the body but that the members should have the same care one of another so that whether one member suffers all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it From hence it is plain that according to St. Paul there is as real an agreement between the members of the body of the Church as there is between those of a humane body without any contrariety or discord and that this good correspondence is founded on that Unity which makes each part to have one and the same common interest Now what true agreement or common concern can there ever be between the members of Christ and members of the Devil Or in St. Paul's own phrase What fellowship between light and darkness What continual enmity on the contrary must there needs lurk under the Covert of such an untoward seeming Peace as a bare outward profession may make Every one aims at advancing his own Master's honour so that the sentiments designs and methods of the Servants must of necessity carry as great opposition as there is between the Masters they serve VII In his Epistle to the Galatians he gives us another description of the Church very like this As many says he as have been baptizeed into Christ have put on Christ There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Thus far respects Communion with the same Christ which is the very thing that constitutes the Unity of the Church and is the essential form of it so that persons out of this Communion are not of the Church because they have no part in the Churches Unity If you would now Know what kind of Communion this is attend to what follows If ye be Christ's Ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise So that St. Paul does not treat of a Communnion consisting in a bare outward profession but such a one as makes men Mystical Children of Abraham and heirs of God VIII In his Epistle to the Romans he thought it not enough to say They that are in Christ Jesus walk not after the flesh but after the spirit which yet is intimation sufficient what nature that Communion is of that makes this Mystical Body of Christ the Church but he goes further and is express afterwards If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Words of such strength as will not allow us to acknowledg wicked men belong to the Church unless we should make a Church that is not Christ's If the Church formally and as such be Christ's this must be true of all that are of the Church and participate of that which constitutes it such Now according to M. de Condom's definition wicked men and reprobates may be of the Church therefore in his opinion they may be Christ's Notwithstanding St. Paul avers that they that are Christ's live not according to the flesh and that as many as have not Christ's spirit are none of his so that he is of a judgement different from M. de Condom's If an outward profession alone be the common

being reduced to a bare external profession Would God have sent us a new Jerusalem a new Sion a new City from above and make this up of Righteous and Wicked Hypocrites and true Believers indifferently Does not the Apostle understand it so when he says that Jerusalem is free that her children are not in bondage i. e. those who are the Children by promise that they shall not be cast out like Children of the bondwoman but shall be Heirs and that there is the same difference between this and the other Jerusalem that was between the two Wives of Abraham Sarah and Agar Would God make him a new Tabernacle a new House a new Temple and build it of holy and profane materials indifferently St. Peter did not intend it so You says he as lively stones are built up a spiritual house Would God separate to himself a new people a new Israel a new Nation from all other Nations and require from it no more than an outward profession which alone works no regeneration at all To shew that God himself never intended this observe how himself speaks This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people We must take notice that all these names above mentioned are derived from the old figures of the Mosaical dispensation this the very reading of them plainly testifies Now this very thing makes directly against M. de Condom's definition For as it is essential to a figure to consist of something External and Corporeal so is it equally essential to the thing figured to consist of something Internal and Spiritual The Church therefore is no longer a Jerusalem an Israel a people linked together by outward bands only this would correspond well enough with the figures of the old Law but it is a people an Israel a Jerusalem united and compacted by the inward hands of the same Faith and the same Sanctification This very term the Church is of it self sufficient to confirm this truth M. de Condom acknowledges the Christians had it from the Jews which is true He says the Jews made use of it to signify the visible Society of God's people the Assembly which makes profession to serve him I agree with him in that too He adds That the Christians have kept it in the same sense I am not of that opinion This word when applied to the figure can signify no more than a visible outward Assembly but when to the thing figured it must of necessity imply something more it must denote an inward community a company not of Bodies only but Souls too for it is not enough that a confession be made with the mouth men must also believe with the heart unto Righteousness III. This will be yet more evident if you reflect on some other applelations given to the Church with relation to Jesus Christ For it is called His flock his sheep his spouse his sister his dove his well-beloved his body a Body whereof He is the head a Body that is his flesh and his bones a house built upon him as upon a Corner-stone the sanctified in Jesus Christ the Children which God hath given him and other expressions like these Now who can ever imagine these glorious Titles should import no more than an outward profession or that profane persons and reprobates can have any share in them It is his flock but what flock Fear not little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom They are his sheep but how My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand It is his Spouse and his Sister but in what respect Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse thou hast ravished my heart It is his Dove but why his Dove My dove my undefiled is but one the daughters saw her and blessed her She is his well-beloved but Wherefore his Well-beloved As the lilly among therns so is my beloved among the daughters It is his Body but how his body The edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ He is its Head but what sort of Head From him the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth maketh increase of the body to the edifying of it self in love It is his flesh and his bones but how these No man ever hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church It is a structure built upon him but how In him all the building fitly framed together groweth into an holy temple in the Lord. They are the sanctified in Jesus Christ but how sanctsied They are such as in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. They are the Epistle of Jesus Christ but in what regard the Epistle Written not with Ink but with the spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the heart It is his People but what kind of people Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of holiness They are the Children which God hath given him But wherefore were they given him To exhibit them one day saying Behold I and the children which thou hast given me Thou hast given me power over all flesh that I should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given me Can any man after all this grant that the Church should be defined A Society making profession to believe c. or imagine that Hypocrites belong to this mystical Divine Body IV. If we search the Scripture yet further we shall find other Arguments in confirmation of this Truth Among these I reckon the predictions concerning the Church of Christ to be met with in the Prophets Thus it is described by Moses The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live There shall be saith Isaiah a high-way and a way it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men tho fools shall not err therein No lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon it shall not be found there but the redeemed shall walk there And in another place All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children In righteousness