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A32767 Ecclesia enucleata: The temple opened: Or, A clear demonstration of the true gospel-church in its nature and consitution, according to the true doctrine and practice of Christ and his apostles. By I.C. Chauncy, Isaac, 1632-1712. 1684 (1684) Wing C3750; ESTC R215133 47,294 178

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Ceconomy Nationality being the form of its constitution Having Officers Members Assemblies and Ordinances suited to its Nature The Aaronick Priesthood was National a Type of Christs Priesthood relating to his universal Church this Priesthood with all the appertaining Sacrifices Ordinances Ceremonies the Manifestation of the Antitype abolished yea that kind of Church Membership was utterly abolished viz. that none could be a Member of that Church but a Jew born or one Proselyted to that Nation it being the only Nation in the Earth that God had chosen with Exclusion of all other till Christ came and brake down the Partition-Wall between Jew and Gentile after which no man was any longer to be reckoned ever the more a Church-member because he was a Native of this or that Country Col. 3.11 But in the conforming to Christs likeness There is neither Greek nor Jew Circumcision nor Vncircumcision Barbarian Scythian Bond or Free but Christ is all in all and therefore of whatever Nation a man be of if he believe on the Lord Jesus Christ he shall be saved and becomes a capable Member of the visible Church and where-ever he is born without Faith in Christ he cannot be saved neither is without a visible credible Profession thereof capable of communion with the Visible Church in all Ordinances Moreover Christ Jesus abolished all the National Church Assemblies and Ordinances for the Jews as they were one Organized Church so they were to be but one Congregation which is not known now of any one Nation assembling together for the Worship of God in one place where their Ark of the Covenant was and therefore the Tabernacle of Publick Worship was called the Tabernacle of the Congregation where all the Males were required to appear before the Lord thrice a year Exod. 14.23 24. whereby they shewed themselves assembled and a Congregated Nation all in actual communion in the same Church-Administrations and in one place all which was duly to be observed during the time of the Tabernacle and standing of the Temple and though they corruptly retained their high places for offering some Sacrifices during most of that time till the full Reformation in Hezekiahs and Josiahs days yet the Lord still charged it on them as their great sin and witnessed against it by his Messengers the Prophets as such And though they had their several Synagogues they were but for reading of the Law not for Sacrifice or Burnt-offering which were National Services and were to be dispensed only at the Tabernacle of the Congregation or at the Temple yea all Sacrifices Expiations Purifications c. appertaining to particular Levitical Uncleannesses or moral transgressions were there to be performed Now our Lord Jesus Christ never erected such a Gospel-worship after this was abolished either for matter or form neither a National Congregation nor a National Pastor as Aaron nor Ordinances adapted to a National communion as the Sacrifices of old were he never intended in this way or manner to edify his Gospel-Church Besides As Christ established the Church of the Gospel it was not capable of such a constitution such being impossible to be sustained without the countenance if not the compulsive power of civil powers and we see that de facto it came into the ruines when ever in the Jewish Nation Wicked Kings swayed the Scepter we well enough are assured that our Saviour and his Apostles formed the Gospel-Churches every where under Heathen Princes and Governours who were for the most part severe Persecutors of them witness their Sufferings in the Apostles days and during the Christians bloody Persecutions till Constantines time for 300 years at which time of prosperity this National or then rather Provincial corrupt grandeur of Church-constitution began to enter proceeding from the corrupted minds of Church Officers aspiring to the accumulation of riches honours Soon after they fell under the Arrian Heresy under which the same Church pomp continued and proceeded to grow with much Persecution and confusion and distraction in the world with the daily increase of all manner of corruptions in doctrine and worship even to the introduction of Heathenish Abominations in the worship of God till the mortal wound was given to one of the seven heads of the Romish Empire and was healed by the eighth which was the false Prophet the Grand Church Imposter under which the great Apostacy hath so manifestly prevailed and during whose Usurpation the true Church of Christ hath been in the Wilderness and the Witnesses Prophesying in Sackcloth So that our Blessed Lord and Saviour seeing the present state of his little Flock when he ascended and foreseeing their future Suffering State for so many Ages to come under Rome Heathen and after pretendedly Christian constituted such a frame of Gospel churches that were capable of being Spiritual Polities under Heathen and Antichristian Princes and Governours and fitted Officers and Ordinances for their communion and edification suited to such a state which constitution was to last by his commission to the end of the world not alterable to another kind by the will of man in the ensuing prosperous estate that the Church might he blessed withal in after ages which hath been very rare hitherto nor much to be prejudiced as to its truly intended Oeconomy by the afflictions and sufferings that it was destined by faith and patience to encounter withal Hence it will appear there being a Politick Impossibility that the Church-constitution Established by Christ and his Apostles could be National because of the Power of the Dragon raging so much against it in Governours and Rulers of the Earth during the time of the first Ages of it and afterward for the most part by reason of the Tyranny and Usurpation of the false Prophet And when that any time in any Nations it was favoured with the countenance of Christian Kings and Princes had it been National it must have been subject to all the Alterations Additions and Diminutions in Form and Worship which the corrupt and changeable minds of men in Power would invent and impose especially upon change of Governours and Governments though Christian yet divers in their Tempers Understandings and Opinions concerning Gods true Worship as also in their Interests and carriages towards the Church that it would be the most difficult thing in the World to have known the manner and Fashion of Christs house Wherefore the Apostle saith Heb. 3.1 Holy Brethren Partakers of the Heavenly calling Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our Profession Christ Jesus vers 2. Who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house i. e. in all things appertaining to the Worship of God in his Church vers 3. For this man was counted worthy of more Glory then Moses in as much as he who builded the house hath more Honour then the house vers 5. Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a Servant for a Testimony of those things that were to be spoken