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A05460	A light for the ignorant or A treatise shevving, that in the nevv Testament, is set forth three kingly states or governments, that is, the civill state, the true ecclesiasticall state, and the false ecclesiasticall state	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1638 (1638)	STC 15591; ESTC S103338	13,640	22

as hath beene formerly said the false Church hath no power nor Charter nor office for all these things are locked up within the body of the Clergie soe is it as true that they are distitute of all lawes or administrations amongst themselves so that all they haue at any time is brought to them by these Crowned Stinging messengers of that authority as Common sence and reason proveth ●hat the Clergie being a pollitique and distinct body of themselves from the Layety hauing all power and authority Ecclesiasticall in themselues must of necessity haue all lawes ordinances and administrations in themselves whether they bee divine which they haue by vsurpatō or humane by their own Inventiō they only posesse them and haue power to vse them not fearing adding or detracting the Lay congregations being altogether passive herein til their Jnju●tion make them active Soe the lawes and ordinances of this state being innumerable as their officers are J must omit for to name them as their severall false holy things Kneeling in the of receiuing Signeing with the Crosse in Baptisme Churching of women Reading Prayers with the Consecrating of Dayes Times Places Persons Garments with their Anoynting of the Sicke and vnholy Orders of consecration with other innumerable inventions not worthy aplace in Christians thoughts onely note the opposition of their law against the law of Christ in vehement prohibiting and strongly barring all Lay men as they call them from preaching that let Christ giue never soe great abillities or guifts to lay men they are never suffered to make any publique vse of them but it is horrible prophanesse and sacrelegious presumption soe to doe and this prohibition of the Clergie is and hath been so vniuersall that it reacheth to the foure Corners of the earth and with holdeth this spirituall winde of Christ Jesus in the mouth of his Saints that it shall not blow upon them that are in the earth Revel 7. The true Ecclesiasticall State A Sevevth Disproportiō is betwixt their subjects or members the subjects or members of Christs Kingdome 〈◊〉 Church must be beleeving Disciples they must bee Saints by Calling sanctified in Christ Iesus 1 Cor. 1.2 they must be liuing stones to build his house withall 1 Pet● 2.5 such as these and these onely are enjoyned to observes whatsoever he commands them to these only is his Kingdome and dominiō given these be they that are crowned as Kings anoynted as Priests the mediatour himselfe being theirs he hath committed the administr●…ion of his mediatorship in his Church to them But to the Wicked saith God what hast thou to do with these things Psa 50.16 Thou hast not a wedding garment therefore binde him hand foote cast him out as leaven dangerous to hurt the body 1 Cor. 5.7 For without shall be dogges inchanters and those that loue make lyes Rev. 22.15 But within there shall be noe vncleane thing Revel 21.27 The False Ecclesiasticall State But the Subjects of this foule body are all vncleane and hatefull birds Revel 18.2 the Cage that holds them being the Ecclesiasticall state of Rome is become the habitatiōs of Devils the hold of every foul spirit so that the vnfit●ests members which they can least indure or suffer amongst them are the conscious saints they are the soonest turned out cut of and killed by them Revel 13.15 but yet if the saints or Christ himselfe can by temptations or compul●ion bee drawn to worship the Devill he will haue it of them Mat. 4.9 for he will haue all the world to worship him if high and low rich and Poore bond and free be all the world he will compell them to bee subjects or members in his black Regiment Revel 13.16.17 For these dwell and rule make change lawes and times in this their habition which is the bottemlesse pit as the Father Sonne holy Ghost do in their habitation which is the New Jerusalem The true definition of a true visible Church of Iesus Christ. 1. THat every true visible Church of Christ are a company of people called and seperated out of the world a By the word of God Ioyned b together in the fellowship of the Gospell by volentary c profession of fayth and obedience of Christ a Levit. 20.26 Nehe. 10,18 Ezeche 44 7.9 1 Pet. 2.9.10 Act 2.40 Act 19.9 1 Cor. 1.1 2 Cor. 6.17 Revel 18.4 b Act. 11.21.23 Ier. 50.4,5 c Act. 2.41 2 That every true visible Church of Christ is an independent body of it selfe Revel 1.3 chapt hath power from Christ her head Coll. 1.18.24 to bind loose to receive in cast out by the Keys of the Kingdome Mat. 18.17.18 Psa 149.8.9 1 Cor. 5.4.5.12 2 Cor. 2.7.8 3 That Jesus Christ hath by his Last wil and Testament given vnto and sett in his Church sufficient rodinary Officers with their quallifications Callings and worke for the Administration of his holy things and for the sufficient ordinary Instruction Guidance and service of his Church to the end of the world Rom. 12.6.7.8 Ephe. 4.11.12.13 Heb. 3.2.6 1 Tim. 3.2.8 Chapt. 5.9.10 Act. 6.3 And that all the Officers in the Church are but onely five and noe more namely Pastor Teacher Elder Deacons Widdows Rom. 12.7.8 Ephe. 4.11 Phil. 1.1 1 Tim. 3.1 Ch. 5. Tit. 1.5.7 FINIS

as Realie as wee Heare and obey the King by stooping and submitting to a Constable who sees not this These haue each of them proper and severall lawes statutes ordinances and administrations for their severall officers to attend vpon The Civill State Sixtly In this state or in these Citties are the lawes and ordinances of men that the saints must obey in the Lord for though in the time of Christ and his Apostels there were no Christian Kings yet the Churches of the Saints were commanded to obey their Lawes Religious Lawes they could not bee Because the Magistrates were all infidells therefore the Apostle Peter distingusheth them from the Divine by calling them the Ordinances of men due vnto Caesar as divine obedience is unto God The true Ecclesiastcall State Even so this Cittie of God with 〈◊〉 officers are to obserue whatsoever Christ hath commanded them Math. 28.20 the Church of Corinth kept them 1 Cor. 11.2 and Paulls Charge to Timothy is to teach the Church to obserue all without prefering one before another as he would answer it before Christ Iesus and his Elect Angells These divine things are due to Christ Iesus and to him to him onely belongs this visible worship Ioh. 4 21.22.23 The false Ecclesiasticall State The Lawes administrations of this whorish Church are partly their owne Inventions contained in the Bookes formerly named with some divine truthes which vsurped they injoy which truthes they vse as a help to set a glose vpon their inventions that they may passe with a better acceptation but both Divine and devised are consecrated dedicated by the Beast and are administred by his Officers and power Seauentlhy All these three haue their subjects or people which their pollitique Bodies consist of The Civill State Lastly this State hath Subjects which are the Kings alleiged people and are bound to him their Head by the Oath of alleigence as any of them do purchase a Charter from him to become a Cittie or Corporation they are bound by vertue of their Charters to walke submissiuely to him their pollitique head and in that relation are by duty bound to keepe the Lawes of their Charters in his name power which is their pollitique obedience This Ciuill State is Gods Ordinance and is here borrowed to Jllustrate manifest and set forth the other two in the former perticuler and soe we leaue it The true Ecclesiasticall State Soe in the last place the Subjects of this State are only Saints noe other that is such as by the Rule of the word are to be Judged one of another to be in Christ otherwise they haue no right to this Kingdome 1 Cor. 4.20 Chapt. 5.13 But are intruders Iud. 4. verse and soe not of the Kingdome though in the Kingdome 1 Iohn 2.19 and the Saints are out of their places till they come within this Holy Citty To this State all Gods people are Called both out of this world and all false Churches especially from this Regiment of darkenesse there discribed 2. Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 The False Ecclesiasticall State Lastly the Subjects of this Kingdome of darkenes are all the Inhabitans of the Earth Kings subjects Rev. 13.16 Chap. 18.3 Yea it hath a commanding power bond and free to receive a mark of subjection and servitude there is none soe bad but will serve his turne if any proue too good bee casts them out kills and destroys Rev. 11.7 This is the State and Kingdome of darkenes with which the Devill hath deluded all nations from which all Gods people Servants are bound in duty to seperate that soe they may bee free from that wrath of God which shall fall upon the Kingdome of the beast to the Ruine ouerthrow thereof Rev. 18.4.5 19.20 14.9.10,11 Leaving the premises let every one note these ensuing differences or disproportions that are betwene the ● Ecclesiasticall States for thir different natures The true Ecclesiasticall State The First disproportion betweene the true and False State is in the Originall from whence they arise The true State came from Heaven and is the house of wisdomes building Pro. 9.1 wherin the sonne of God the wisedome of his Father Heb. 1.3 hath beene as faithfull as was Moses in the former Heb. 3.2.6 is that Heaven discribed Rev. 12.1 and that Citty said to come downe from Heaven Rev. 21 and is an habitation for God to dwell in and for all his people to come into to dwell with God their Saviour for the name of the Citty is the Lord is there Ezec. last Chap. and last ver The False Ecclesiasticall State Likewise it is no hard Mistery to know the Originall of this False Ecclesiastical State for the Clargie as Goodwins Catologue of Bishops Fox his Booke of martyrs Rev. 9. 13 ch by their Preaching writing hath taught vs plainly that Antichrist the man of linne the sonne of perdition is seated in Rome the same Clergy doth also teach us that their Ministery Goverments of Bishops Arch Bb. successiuely proceedes from thence for our confirmation herein we read that Gregory the first of that name Pope of Rome about 1000 yeares since sent Austin the Monke into England consecrated him first Arch B. of Canterbury and he consecrated the rest of the Bb. and established the Ecclesiastical state which state platforme remaines vn-altered to this day notwithstanding the Head thereof be changed This state then being the man of sinne it is said to arise out of the Bottomles pitt Rev. 9.1 is called the King of the Locusts Rev. 9.11 is said to come by the effectuall working of Sathan 2 Thess 2.9 and as he is the sonne of perdition v. 3. and the Mistery of Iniquity v. 7. so shall he come to confusion by the mouth of the Lord v. 8. go to perdition Rev. 17.8 as the sonne heire thereof he shall haue the company of his Fatther the great Dragon the Devill and Satan with the yonger Brother the False Prophet that deceiued them that worshipped him these three shall dwell in the tormenting lake of Gods wrath forever and evermore Rev. 19.20 20 10. And thus wee see Originally from whence hee came and whither he must goe The true Ecclesiasticall State A Second disproportion is betweene the true power and the false The true power which Christ our King hath received of his Father Math. 28.18 and hath comunicated to his Saints 1 Cor. 5.4,12 and Psal 119. and to them onely This is that Dominion that the Antient of dayes hath giuen to his Saints Dan. 7..14 compared with ver 22 27 and with Revel 5.10 being lost hee will recover it againe vnto them as Daniell speakes in the New Testament is giuen to every Particuler visible Church or Assembly of Saints Math. 18.17.19.20 and 1 Cor. 5.12 In which point of Power we are to note two things First the Subject or place where it doth recide that is