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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61133	The smoke in the temple wherein is a designe for peace and reconciliation of believers of the several opinions of these times about ordinances, to a forbearance of each other in love, and meeknesse, and humility : with the opening of each opinion, and upon what Scriptures each is grounded ... : with one argument for liberty of conscience from the national covenant ... : with a full answer to Master Ley ... against my late New-Quere ... / by John Saltmarsh.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing S499; ESTC R25538	77,440	97

though Presbytery be but a very Church-gathering and founded on a Principle of seperation yet do they not disapprove and condemn separation and semi or half-separation and Church-gathering for Schism c when their own power is a Schism respectively to the Parishes that are distinct and whatever distinction is formed to make them appear as part of their Congregations yet is it indeed so Is not their whole power defended to be entirely essentially dispensatively in the Presbytery called by themselves the Church and by the very authority of one whom I name with reverence to his learning and moderation Master Herle So as I wonder why there should be such envyings rayilngs accusings dissentings betwixt us that are beleevers though of severall wayes when as each is principled founded administred upon the same ground and way of Schism separation and Church-gathering nay the Presbytery hath more Schism and separation in it then the rest by how much it is constituted from the people and Brethren and acts in its ministration apart too viz. over the people rather then with them None to be forced under Christs Kingdome as in the Kingdoms of the world IN a Spirituall Government the ignorance of people which some would have for expedition that they may practically know it is no Scripture way of knowing in practicall godlinesse things must be knowne before practically known and practice is to begin from faith and faith from knowledge else the obedience can be but blind mixt and Popish Indeed in things civill or morall practice may bring in knowledge habits may be acquired and gotten by acts a man may grow temperate by practising temperance and civilly obedient by practising civill obedience but it is not so in spirituals there habits go before acts spirituall infusions before practices Indeed the Lawes of States and Kingdomes and Civill Policy teach men best by ruling them practically but it is not so in the Church men are not to be forced into Christs Kingdome as into the Kingdomes of the world the Kings of the Nations exercise their Dominion it shall not be so among you The power of a formall Reformation in a Government makes it not Christs Government A Government though not purely Christs may be made up of such Scripture and prudentiall materials as may much reform the outward man even as a meer prudentiall Civill-government may do if severely executed The Romanes by how much they excelled other Nations in Laws so much the more they excelled them in a people reformed moralized ●nd civilized in many Civill States meerly from their wholesome Policy and administration excellent and pretious flowers spring up many morall vertues as prudence temperance obedience meeknesse love justice fortitude Yet all this makes not a Government to be Christs but only that which is meerly the Discipline of Christ and Policy of Christ Prelacy in its Primitive time did reforme the beast like a lamb which compelled the Nations to Worship and made even fire to come down from Heaven or was religious in the eyes of men and did miracles yet was no true nor heavenly Power neither There are certain parts and degrees of Reformation common and communicable with the Government of Christ other Governments but then there is a form and Image of Christ in it which no others have and some certain spirituall operations and workings which exceed the power of all other Governments and this makes the difference and puts on the essentiall true and individuall form upon it so as in choice of Governments they are not to be chosen by some Summer-fruit in the outward man but by the Word and Spirit The visible Church or Communion is the Image of the invisible or mysticall THe invisible or mysticall Church is made up of pure living stones all is spirituall and yet all not spirituall in the like kinde nor degree Iesus Christ the corner stone is both God and man and some of his differ in glory as one Star differs from another and as it is here in this spirituall invisible glorious building so it is in the outward visible Communion below or building here which is the Image of that above The Temple here is according to the Patern there and as that is of true reall essentially spirituall living stones so the Church here is to consist of such as visibly formally and outwardly appear so and therfore called Saints and golden Candlesticks and holy Nation c. and though all the materials in this building are to be proportionable pure to make up a representative of the Church above yet all is not of one square and measure and polishing some are greater and some lesse some Babes and children in Christ some smoaking Flax and bruised Reeds and as this Church bears the Image of the heavenly so the materiall one bore the Image of this there was pure stones gold and Cedar so as there is roome in the Church now for any small stone or the lest peece of timber if it be but lively or squared if Cedar or firr How Christ is a King of the Nations and of the Church and how an Head Christ is a King to the Nations and to the Church nor doth he rule the Nations as the Church nor the Church as the Nations he rules ministerially in his Church and monarchically in the Nations he rules with a golden Scepter in his Church with an Iron Rod in the Nations nor doth Christ rule as the Kings of the Nations who finding people rude barbarous uncivill subdue them into obedience and civility but so doth not Christ in his Church that we know on the dispensation of his Word not of the Government first subdues And it is true Christ is an Head but not an Head to every body he will have a body proportionable to his Head both here and hereafter in earth as well as in heaven he is a pure holy glorious Head in his Gospel dispensation and well have a body suteable pure Not onely is the visible body of Christ thus pure but every truth of Christ bears the Image of Christ every truth of his hath something of himselfe in it who is Truth it selfe I am the Truth saith Christ every beam of light is light every truth is a sparkle of truth it self Thus we may judge of truth by what of Christ we see in it They who break a Crystall may see their face in every peece and parcell so in every thing of Christ there is an Image of Christ either of his purity or holinesse or love or humility or meeknesse c. The Presbyteriall Government and the Worlds of the same equall Dominion WHat kinde of Church-government is that which will set up it selfe with the Civill and State-government even co-ordinate with it if not to the ruling and tutoring of it which hath as large a Dominion as the other which is as full as ample as high and as supream which no lesse territory then a Kingdome will serve then a whole Nation