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A57540	Ohel or Beth-shemesh A tabernacle for the sun, or, Irenicum evangelicum : an idea of church-discipline in the theorick and practick parts, which come forth first into the world as bridegroom and bride ... by whom you will have the totum essentiale of a true Gospel-church state according to Christs rules and order left us when he ascended ... : published for the benefit of all gathered churches, more especially in England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Rogers ...	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?; Rogers, John, 1627-1665? Challah, the heavenly nymph.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1813; Wing R1805; ESTC R850	596,170	655

to be quite cut off and parted asunder but afterward being hurried through with that headlong and furious force I had strength to stay a little beyond it and to perpend the perplexible perill which I was in I stood as one amazed or rather as one that knew not whether he were alive or dead I knew not how to beleeve my self lesse then a dead man and afterward at least mortally and deadly wounded if not desperately and deplorably eut in twain Oh! how I stood trembling and tumbling in my thoughts untill the vitall bloud which was fled for the hearts defence began to disperse again and to go quietly to their own homes and then I looked about and turned me to the gate-way but the appearance was pass'd away the sword gone and vanisht whilest I was left alone the rest running away in a labyrinth of fears without any wound without but deeply and wofully wounded within and never si●hence to the praise of Gods grace as I know of have I had such extravagant preposterous expressions passed from me But Good God! What was thy will herein Thou who art not tyed to means or order best orderest and disposest of all things for thine owne design and glory and so this was I am sure but what it was I know not yet it left a lasting impression upon me and the scar is yet to be seen in my heart though the wound be healed But alas How long and lamentable I lay afflicted and in continuall fears after this Every thunder and lightning I look'd upon as my fate and sent for me and then would I fall to my Prayers and saying my Creed and Commandements and to my Sermons as fast as might be that I might be found wel-doing at least if not as a charme to defend me or a challenge to God by virtue of them to keep and blesse me this I remember was my great comfort to consider some did not do thus but altogether sl●ghted holinesse duties and did live wickedly and carnally in drunkennesse disobedience Sabbath-breaking and severall sins every day which I was so farre from grief at and weeping over that I in my heart rejoyced in it that I was in more hopes then they and as I fancyed my self better then they and should receive more favour But all this while like an Israelite in Egypt I work'd for life and my services were my Saviours and I would to my brothers sisters and School-fellowes and companions to take occasion to talk of heaven and hell and what a hard thing it was to be saved For some time after this is Malden where I was boarded and put to the Free-school I had a certain dream which by the consequence proved a praevision of what is now come to passe it was on a night about the time when the Spaniards and Hollanders had a scuffling and a kinde of Naumamachy upon the Downes for then some talking of that fight fill'd me full of fears and in the night my dream was that fire rain'd as I may say or rather powred down round about and looking where I was I thought it to be without the Coach-yard gate of my Fathers house and I was frighted to see nothing but fire looking upward and round about praying for deliverance none came nigh me round about by a good space but flaming else I thought in all places and I could see none exempted wherefore being afflicted for my Father and our family I fell on my knees for them and I thought I continued so long ere I could be heard but was at last bid to arise and look and then I thought the fire fell not so fast on my Fathers house as it did before but by little and little abated till I awaked Now although this dream had seised much upon my spirits yet I made no other account of it then of a fancy till five or six years after in the Isle of Ely meeting with Dr. Draiton D. D. he declared to me for severall reasons that this must be more then a meer dream as working of fancy and that something was to come which I should finde this to predemonstrate instancing in some of the like kinde which himself his wife and others had met with as warnings and predictions and therefore he wished me in no case to slight or contemn it for that he was confident it did shew some fiery and angry dispensation upon all our family and my father and the rest should lye under some trouble by the times or otherwise and my self should be set free and at this liberty to pray for them and that by degrees they should be recovered and brought out and the fire abate which interpretation more fully by farre from his own mouth is for the most part verified at this day But all this while I was labouring for life exceedingly formall and I did much covet to know the things of God and therefore wished oft I were but a Minister such a one as Mr. Fenner is or Mr. Marshall or Mr. Hooker or my Father or some other that was eminent that I might attain to their knowledge and then I thought I should do abundance more for God as if God were beholding to me for my obedience and I would then I thought be sure to get salvation as if I could then easily do it Thus a poor creature I continued for severall years together and if you knew but half what I have met with in that time you would say I was a poor creature indeed as any alive for I kept to my self many fast-daies and would eat nothing heard read sang Psalmes meditated used Soliloquies and prayed many times a day and what not and yet at last despaired even to the depth what by often thoughts of hell reading Drexellius upon eternity and then thinking of endlesse easlesse and remedilesse torments and what by frequent frights as before and what by my Father once preaching on the fool in the Gospel Luk. 10.20 Thou fool this night will I take away thy soul then whose shall those things be that thou hast provided Whence he handled a point of the folly of men to lay up here and forget heaven and shewing that heaven came not with ease on a down bed but many shall strive hard to enter and shall not be able and that except you exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 5.20 you shall in no case enter into the kingdome of heaven What with these and other things I was almost in the bottomelesse abysmes of torments I took the Bible to look these Scriptures read them over and over and over again but the more I read the more I roar'd in the black gulf of despair where I was cast so deep as to me and others I seemed sometimes past all recovery I prayed fasted mourn'd got into corners yea many times being I was ashamed to make my case known I have ran into barnes stables house-of

blamed but without any just blame might those Prelates be pictured out so half way in heaven for what they pretended and for the good they did but half in hel for what they intended and for the evill they did in afflicting the Saints accusing the brethren persecuting the Church and rendring the true Discipline of Gospel-fellowship odious and despicable to Magistrates Ministers people and all But furthermore the Antichristian Hierarchy and Discipline was so indulgently fostered up by Monarchy that King James could make it a maxime in which he proved a true Prophet No Bishop no King and it is clear to me out of many Scriptures Dan. 2.34 35. Rev. 17.12 and 18.3 that they both live and dye together like Hippocrates twins receiving both alike and at the same time power from and punishment with the Beast Wherefore let not the Prelates nor Papists thinke to hold long in any place for the day of the Lord his controversie for Zion shall finde them out neither need they to thinke their fall is by fortune for it is appointed of old and in these dayes wherein we are at suit with them let them not wonder if they all lose the day of us yea and the hot spirits violent Presbyterians too so called who agree too much with Popery and Prelacy as appears Ch. 9. lib. 2. at large and must meet with the like lamentable destiny and fate with you for as M● Hooker sayes in his Preface before his Survey of Discipline There is no such thing as a Presbyteriall Church i.e. a Church made up of the Elders of many Congregations Classic-wise to govern c. in the New Testament wherefore let them not wonder if they also fall in the heat of this Suit seeing the Law and the Testimony is for us this Terme-time and therefore the Judge must be for us too and the day will be ours in despight of all the world because that yee have trusted to forged titles that will hold no water The Camel seeking hornes lost his ears and so have these Disciplinarians they will not heare what belongs to their peace In this Summers day of the Lord Jesus the Sun will shine hot and scorch yea mel● violento aestu the waxen wings of all false-discipline and thereby throw down that Icarus-like loftinesse of High-Presbytery Popery and Prelacy in all Nations and then the whole bulke and massie body of Antichrist must beat his heels in the ayre and be found in the deeps and drowned in the Ocean of everlasting misery Rev. 19.19 they are already under the burnings of that day in the torrid horrid Zone and must shortly tumble into the tomb where the worme dyeth not This must bee for that they cannot bee converted into any other use for safety As the black cloath that will take no other Dye but must hold so and is most rotten uselesse and unserviceable for weare but the whit will take any other Dye so indeed will our Discipline of Gospel-institution which is in these latter dayes to bee restored into its Primitive purity as white precious spirituall Lilly-like and lovely this shall be capable of any Dye or administration and Dispensation to the end of the world any Dye it will take whereinto it is dipp'd by the hand of the Lord but the blacke base sooty and darke Discipline of Antichrist shall be but as a rotten ragge and good for nothing being in nothing capable of these latter dayes dyes which will be of divers sorts from one to another yeare after yeare and the best at last But furthermore the Dragon till these late dayes hath made use of earthly powers to oppose the Saints having no more place found for him in heaven but now it is that we heare the loud Voyce in heaven viz. his Church saying Now is come salvation strength and the Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ for the Accuser of our Brethren is cast down And now shall the earth viz. earthly powers help the Woman and swallow up the Dragons indignation though the remnant of her Seed must yet meet with Warres Conflicts and oppositions for a time It remaines now O England Ireland and Scotland that yee kisse the Sonne lest he be angry and yee perish Psal. 2.12 and that yee cast away your Popish and foppish trash and trumperies and those wicked traditions formes and ordinances of men which have made yee Captives and for many hundred yeares have inbondaged and endungeoned ye up in darknesse and deceit for as we can cousen little ignorant Children by giving them Counters and taking away Gold and those Counters too are only to quiet them so how easily can Antichrist cheat you which he hath done in our ignorance and infancy by giving us Copper for Gold and counterfeit Brazen-fac'd ordinances and tooke away Christ's telling us that they were better which he gave us and so quieting us for a long time but now alasse we are older and we must be wiser and not be so basely cheated out of our Ordinances Orders Doctrine and Discipline which Christ hath left us when he went from us but let us hold our owne and keep our Gold and to encourage us he hath promised us ere long to make another change in the Churches and to give them gold for brasse Isa. 60.17 the precious for the vile c. Wherefore it is O Friends that this true Religion Discipline and Gospel-worship of Christ's owne Coyne and Mint having his owne Image of his most precious Gold is offered you againe and once againe which hath often before been rigidly repulst and put off with disdaine and direfull reproach yet notwithstanding it is presented to you the third time and comes crowned with the twelve Starres and cloathed with the Sunne I meane with Christ the Super-intendent and sole Independent Lord and Law-giver yea and alone Light-giver to the Church and Saints This is especially the Honour and Ornament of this Discipline or Gospel-Politie viz. to be cloathed with light having Christ alone the Lord. Indeed hitherto hath many a sad soule sate and sigh'd yea and the Church in the Wildernesse too bewayl'd with Mary weeping Joh. 20.13 Oh! They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him Alexander used to say of his two Friends viz. Craterus and Hephestion that Hephestion loved Alexander but Craterus loved the King and yet the King and Alexander were both but one man and so Certes I may say of some in these dayes who professe to be Christ's friends they all love him as Christ Jesus our Saviour for his sweetnesse and excellency and lovelinesse and love which is better then wine and for his usefulnesse c. but how few of them that love him as the King to be commanded by him that are obedient to his Lawes and Ordinances unlesse they be in the Congregationall orderly Courches and there indeed Christ

embodied doe make up one Church of Christ or Kingdome of God Luke 10.11 Matth. 13.19 The Church is 6 Compared to Heaven also Matth. 13.11.24.31.33.44 45 47. Matth. 3.2 Matth. 11.11 12. Now the Saints which are to be high above the earth and the Throne of God and filled with his glory and decked up and enamelled with shining lights Stars of grace and spangles of glory most sweet and lovely the Sunne Christ moving in them and circularly round them and such as are seene plainly to bee what they are by a kinde of Vbiquity who ever they are in the Horizon or this Hemisphere I say such Saints united together in a body to make up one Church are one Kingdome of Heaven even as all the Firmaments Elements Stars Planets and Constellations together c. doe make up one visible Orbicular Heaven Mr. Jacob in his Treatise sayes A true Church is one Congregation so sayes Vrsin and others But thus much may serve to prove the Forme of Christs-Church which is to bee all one one body one building one City one Army one Kingdome one Heaven O how sweet is such a communion this Forme is the forma beauty of reason 1 all As the sweet cluster of grapes which gave taste of the Land of Canaan was bore betwixt two so in such communion we may finde and feed upon the fruits of Canaan But now to the Reasons First Why this is so requisite that Saints doe associate into one body of Beleevers is gathered from the Onenesse of all Saints For all have one Father Mal. 2.10 Jo. 8.41 all elect in one originall love Eph. 2.5 All are in one Covenant Hebr. 8.8 9 10 11. All have one Christ and Mediator 1 Tim. 2.5 and All hewn from one and the same Rocke Isa. 51.1 All beare one Image Rev. 15.1 Rev. 7.3 All lay in one wombe and have the same mother Gal. 4.26 All borne by the same seed 1 Pet. 1.23 1 Joh. 3.9 All are lead by one Spirit Rom. 8.14 Joh. 14.26 Eph. 4.4 1 Cor. 14.12.26 All called into one hope Eph. 4.4 All have of one joy 1 Cor. 12.25 26. Phil. 4.4 Joh. 15.11 and 16.22 and All eye and enjoy one and the same glory Eph. 3.21 1 Pet. 2.9 1 Cor. 10.31 2 Tim. 4.8 Hence it is that Christ praies so earnestly to his Father for this Onenesse to his Saints in communion in and with him Joh. 17.11 both for them that were present and to come to the worlds end in verse 20 21. Hence it is the Apostles tooke so much paines in all places to preach up this Church-way for Saints to live as in one Family together in unity 1 Cor. 1.9 10. c. And otherwise they will much degenerate from the principles of Saints Psal. 16.3 Besides for that unity and entity are convertibles and this is the meanes to keep up both in the bond of peace and love and perfection Col. 3.14 and Eph. 4.3 4. Act. 4.32 But Secondly Saints not separate from the multitude lose much of their lustre light and glory for the Forme makes reason 2 them faire as the Moon Cant. 6.10 but when the Saints are in one body then their beauty dazles the eyes of others as many beams of light together gathered into one or as many streams met into one runne with force and fiercely David sayes O how amiable are thy Tabernacles c. Psal. 84.1 So Christ Cant. 2.10 Rise up my love my faire one and come away So in verse 13. So Cant. 4.1 Behold thou art faire my love behold thou art faire So in verse 7. Thou art all faire my love there is no spot in thee but there may be on thee So in verse 8. Christ calls her to separate from the mountaines of the Leopards opened before in page 45 and then it followes Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my Spouse thou hast ravished my heart and how faire is thy love c. My garden enclosed c. So in Cant. 6.9 My deare my undefiled is one Saints so in one body united and then follows She is the onely one shee is the choise one the Daughters Professours saw her and blessed her and the Queens Sarahs true Churches and the Concubines Hagars false Churches admired at her comelinesse and beauty and praised her saying Who is this that looketh forth as the Aurora the Damaske red morning faire as the Moone clear as the Sunne terrible as an Army with banners Saints then thus embodied are embroidered with beauty but if they be not no wonder if the world nay good men many times will not owne them for excellent ones which otherwise they shall or be ashamed for the Forme is in a sense the life and lovelinesse of every thing what were a man without his Forme and if the Forme be misplaced that makes him a Monster What beauty doe yee behold in a Picture though the colours be laid on before the Forme be drawne Suppose peeces of Timber should be carved curiously and guilt gloriously for the builders use and also stones most artificially polished painted cut and carved yet they lose their lovelinesse with lying among the multitudes and heaps abroad and about but when they come to be put up orderly to be placed in the building there is a great deale of beauty in them and pleasant grace from them Thus will it bee and is it with Saints builded up and in body together according to Gospel-order quanto forma est nobilior tanto magis dominatur materiae say the School-men Thirdly Till thus in body they are but in confusion and disorders reason 3 among them without and trod on by every foule and fooles foot and as much wronged defaced and defiled as may be As polished stones that lye among the filhy rubbish so they wil aske much paines to picke and cleanse againe before they can be fitted for the Lords house but when they are embodied together as before they are in their order which others joy to behold Col. 2.5 and so as the members that are fitly placed in the body and properly employed doe appeare alwayes orderly decent and comely to the whole body and are helpfull one to another thereunto Rom. 15.2 1 Cor. 12.25 For as the Philosophers observe that there is a twofold motion in all naturall things one whereby they move to preserve themselves and the other to preserve the whole universe So must all Church-members have their twofold motion viz. 1. For themselves 2. For the whole Fourthly Saints unlesse thus in society fall fearfully reason 4 short of doing their duties to one another in love unity peace admonition exhortation tendernesse patience watching participating comforting edifying or brotherly reproving of one another So if a Brother offend to tell it to the Church and to strive to excell to the edifying of the Church c. Now

approve of Christs Christ hath commanded theirs and obedience to them they must command Christs and obedience to him And as the Saints for Gods sake Rom. 13.1 Gal. 4.14 are obedient to them for sancti non subjiciunt se homini propter hominem sed propter Deum so they for Gods sake are to be obedient to Christ and servants to his Church his Saints and people of God Let them make much of the Ministers of Christ neither to corrupt them with hono●s nor to honor them in their corruptions As Ministers cannot make Magistrates neither can Magistrates make Ministers and as Ministers of Christ cannot hinder Ministers of State or Magistrates in doing their offices for Bodies and in Civil affairs neither can Ministers of State hinder the Ministers of Christ in doing their offices for souls and in spiritual affairs Wherefore as I said before each must remember his place as Constantine could say Vos est is in Ecclesia sed ego extra Ecclesiam Episcopus to a Bishop or Minister in those days ye are Overseers and Officers in the Church within and I am an Overseer and Officer out of the Church without Constantine kept his course some time very well within his own jurisdiction without mingling or mangling Ecclesiastical affairs with Civil or Civil with Ecclesiastical so must every Magistrate be sure to do For it is Gods design to destroy those powers and policies that hinder Christs reign in his Zion and Church as the alone Head and Lord. Christs Kingdom of the Son and the Kingdom of glory the Fathers are both alike who rules in one rules in the other● who are admitted into one are admitted into the other whom the one receives the other receives and none else But the Kingdom of the Father receives not Magistrates as Civil Magistrates to rule and govern or punish there i. e. In Heaven to come therefore not here in the Kingdom of the Son And he that dares usurpe this power of Christ the alone Head and Lord takes too much upon him and as Chrysostom sayes Non est tributum Caesaris sed servitium diaboli c. It is not his due but the devils work And it will cause his unevitable downfal and confusion as it did the Devils Trap observes there on Matth. 22.21 the Greek Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is doubled and repeated for this purpose That our double and special care must be to give God his due Rom. 13.7 Oh! O that we did give the Lord his due then should we not plead so for Caesars Chair in Christs Church that he should sit there with the heel of his cruelty to kick the Saints brains out and to crush them headlong that stoop not to his form In a word Christ sits not on Caesars throne neither shall he who hath too long sit upon Christs throne For though other Lords have had dominion over us and have usurped Headships which are Brass and Iron Jer. 6.28 yet the Lord will give gold for brass and silver for iron Isai. 60.17 This Head of Gold and his Gospel which is better then the silver seven times purified And if the very Philosophers Aristotle Plato and others vid. Cartwrights Ecclesiastical Discipline of the Authority of the Church if they could see and say that Estate is best and those Citizens happiest that had God to be their King and Monarch and his Laws and Decrees to submit unto Sure I am the Church is never so happy holy and heavenly as when Christ alone sits upon his throne in the midst of them and governs them by his Word and Spirit see Cap. 2. 9. of Lib. 2. And sure this is the great work that our God is bringing about who is coming to reign for ever and ever In the mean time let us own neither the Brazen nor the Iron Heads for our Head I mean neither Spiritual nor Temporal Ecclesiastical nor Civil powers so called O none but Christ the Head of Gold our Master Lord Head and Law-giver without any other Partner or Paramount whatsoever as hath been at large proved Wherefore to conclude All others are beheaded having lost their long usurped ruledom and jurisdiction And with John Hus We say Christus sine talibus capitibus monstrosis melius ecclesiam suam regulavit Act. 27. Object Christ alone is Head and governs his own Church influendo infundendo without such prodigious helps or monstrous heads as Antichrist would crowd in Thus said Gregory the first Lib 6. Epist. 24. in his Letter to John Patriarch of Constantinople Quid tu Christo universalis ecclesiae capiti c. What will you answer at the last day to Christ the sole Universal Head of his Church and people that thou darest to arrogate that title which is Antichristian for thee so to do Hold fast the head saith the Apostle Col. 2.19 from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Therefore be sure you hold your Head For first it supplieth the members with all necessaries Secondly It knits every member to its self and one to another and thirdly It increaseth every one with a spiritual increase Now Christ in his The anthropie is this Head which we must fetch our life sense and motion from by Nerves Veins and Arteries Christiani Christo capiti adhaerent ab eo percipiunt hauriunt vitam spiritualem c. No Member of his but hath much moisture nourishment and spiritual growth And every Member is moved with their Head unless some Palsie-Members so Palsie-Christians that move not as the Head Christ directs When Cyneas the Ambassador of Pyrrhus after his return from Rome was asked by his Master What he thought of the City and State answered O Sir It is Respublica Regum a Commonwealth of Kings and a State of Statesmen And so is the Church wherein Christ is King and Head O happiness of such a Church For if he be in us Head he is heart hand and all For quickning of us he is our Anima the life and soul of the Church and of every Member as he resolves us he is Voluntas as he maketh us think he is Animus as he gives us to know he is our Intellectus as he deliberates us he is Mens as he keeps our remembrance he is Memoria as he gives us to judge he is our Ratio as he moves our desires he is Affectus as he breaths us and inspires us he is our Spiritus and as he enables us to apprehend he is our Sensus So that Christ our Head is our Heart and all VVherefore let us hold him fast for our Head and heare of no other no Brazen-face no Iron-pate no O monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum Christ willed when he saw Caesars stamp on the coyne to give Caesar his due so when wee see Christs stampe