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A26906 The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1670 (1670) Wing B1234; ESTC R1684 258,570 520

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of that censorious zeal which unchurches Persons or Parishes without just tryal and proof upon rumours of fame or their own surmises DIRECT XI Understand well what is the power of the Keys and what the Pastoral offiae is as they are the Governours of the Church entrusted by Christ with the power of admission and rejection that so you may know how far you are to rest in the judgement of the Pastors and may not attempt to take any part of their office to your selves THe power of the Keyes is the power of taking into the Church and of Governing it and of casting out Both in respect to present Order and in respect to future happiness by a Ministerial declaration of the sense of the Gospel concerning the state of such as they The power of Baptizing is the power of the Keyes for reception into the Church The private members have not the power of baptizing nor were the Pastors ever appointed to do it by their advise consent or vote Therefore the private members have not the power of the Keyes for admission And it is most apparent in the Gospel that the Keyes for admission and for exclusion are given into the same hands and not one to the Ministers and another to the Flock Therefore the people that have not the first have not the later For full proof of this observe the meaning of these Texts Isa. 22. 22. And the Key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open Isa. 9. 6. The Government shall be upon his shoulder Mat. 16. 19. I will give thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven c. Mat. 18. 18. Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound c. Joh. 20. 23. Whose soever sins ye do remit they are remitted to them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained Math. 28. 19. Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. Joh. 20. 21. As my Father hath sent me euen so send I you Acts 1. 16 17. Judas was numbred with us and had obtained part of this Ministry Acts 20. 28. Take heed to your selves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers to feed the Church of God Rom. 1. 1. Paul a Minister of Iesus Christ called an Apostle separated to the Gospel of God 1 Cor. 4. 1. Let a man so esteem of us as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the mysteries of God Acts 14. 23. They ordained them Elders in every Church Tit. 1. 3. Ordain Elders in every City as I appointed thee V. 7. A Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God 1 Tim. 3. 5. For if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God 1 Tim. 5. 17. Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour 1 Pet. 5. 2. Feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof Heb. 13. 7 17 24. Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls salute them that have the rule over you 1 Thes. 5. 12 13. We beseech you brethren to know them that is acknowledge their power and labours that labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake and to be at peace among your selves Read these with judgement and then believe if you can that the power of the Keys or Government is in the People Shew us what text doth give them that power and where the Scripture calleth them to exercise it by Votes Or where God requireth ability in them for Church-government or where he calleth them to leave their Callings and attend this work When those that must perform it he separateth to it as by office and calleth them to give themselves wholly thereunto 1 Tim. 4. 15 16. Tell us when the people were authorized to baptize or to rule the Church that is themselves Obj. Mat. 18. 15. Tell the Church if he hear not the Church c. Answ. Many Expositors think that by the Church there is meant the Ministers only by this reason The Church that m●st teach m●st be heard the Church that must be heard must be told But that is only the Pastors and not the People Ergo But I easily grant you that the word Church there signifieth the whole Congregation as Dr. Taylor in his Second Disswasive hath well shewed But it is as an Organized body only And so the Office is to be performed only by the Organical part and not by any of the rest When I say to a man Hear me I do not mean that he should hear me with his eyes but only with his ears And when I bid him See or Read I bid him not do it with his ears but with his eyes Nor do the eyes receive this power from the feet or hands but immediately from the Head Though if they were separated from the body they could not retain it So if another Kingdome send to England to desire an Army of Men to help them they mean the King only as the Commander of them and the people as the executors of his Command So when you are bid to tell the Church it is qu●t●nus aurita that it must be told And when you are bid to hear it it is as Teaching that it must be heard So that this talketh not of any Government in the people either to use or to give Obj. 1 Cor. 5. Paul biddeth all the Church to put from among them that wicked person Answ. Note that Paul passeth the sentence first himself I have judged as if I were present not that you deliver but to deliver such an one to Satan And therefore he doth this in himself in the name of the Lord Iesus and supposeth himself among them in spirit and power when they do it and my spirit with the power of our Lord Iesus Christ. 2. And I have said He speaketh to an organized Church which had two parts and accordingly two works to do The Ruling part was to put away the Offender by Iudgement or Sentence And the people were all to put him away by actual shunning his Communion which is but the obeying of that sentence If the King send to a Corporation to execute any Law he meaneth not that all persons must do it in the like manner but the Magistrates by Command and the people by obeying them and executing their Commands If I desire a man to transcribe me a Book and bring it me I mean not that every part of him shall herein have the same office But that he read it only with his eyes and