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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30892	The anarchy of the Ranters and other libertines, the hierarchy of the Romanists, and other pretended churches, equally refused and refuted in a two-fold apology for the church and people of God called in derision Quakers : wherein they are vindicated from those that accuse them of disorder and confusion on the one hand, and from such as calumniate them with tyranny and imposition on the other ... / by Robert Barclay.	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1676 (1676)	Wing B718; ESTC R10444	60,765	91

there are no Extravagancies so wild which they will not cloak with it and so much are they for every ones following their own Mind as can admit of no Christian-Fellowship and Community nor of that good Order and Discipline which the Church of Christ never was nor can be without this gives an open Door to all Libertinism and brings great Reproach to the Christian-Faith and on this hand have foully faln The German Anabaptists so call'd viz. John of Leiden Knipperdoling c. in case these monstrous things committed by them be such as they are related and some more moderate of that kind have been found among the People in England called Ranters as it is true the People called Quakers hath bin branded with both of these extreams it is as true it hath been and is their Work to avoid them and to be found in that even and good Path of the primitive Church where all were no doubt led and acted by the holy Spirit and might all have prophesied one by one and yet there was a Subjection of the Prophets to the Spirits of the Prophets There was an Authority some had in the Church yet it was for Edification and not for Destruction there was an Obedience in the Lord to such as were set over and a being taught by such and yet a knowing of the Inward Anointing by which each Individual was to be led into all Truth The Work and Testimony the Lord hath given us is to restore this again and to set both these in their right place without causing them to destroy one another to manifest how this is accomplished and accomplishing among us is the Business of this Treatise which I hope will give some Satisfaction to men of sober Judgments and impartial and unprejudicate Spirits and may be made useful in the good Hand of the Lord to Confirm and Establish Friends against their present Opposers which is mainly intended and earnestly prayed for The 17th of the 8th Moneth 1674. By Robert Barclay THE CONTENTS Section First THe Introduction and Method of this Treatise page 9. Section Second Concerning the Ground and Cause of this Controversie p. 12. Section Third Whether there be any Order or Government in the Church of Christ p. 18. Section Fourth Of the Order and Government we plead for p. 31. Section Fifth In what Cases and how far this Government extends p. 37. Section Sixth How far this Government extends in Matters spiritual and purely conscientious p. 47. Section Seventh Concerning the Power of Decision p. 66. Section Eighth How this Government altogether differeth from the Oppressing and Persecuting Principality of the Church of Rome and other Antichristian Assemblies p. 75. The Conclusion p. 84. Page 20. line 18. for Gatherng read Gathering p. 21. l. 17. f. Chucrch r. Church l. 19. f. Persecutiton r. Persecution p. 24. l. 22. f. dding r. adding p. 42. l. 2. f. Go d r. God SECTION First The Introduction and Method of this Treatise AFter that the Lord God in his own appointed time had seen meet to put an End to the Dispensation of the Law which was delivered to the Children of Israel by the Ministry of Moses through and by whom he did communicate unto them in the Wilderness from Mount Sinai divers Commandments Ordinances Appointments and Observations according as they are testified in the Writings of the Law it pleased him to send his own Son the Lord Jesus Christ in the Fulness of Time who having perfectly fulfilled the Law and the Rig●teousness thereof gave witness to the Dispensation of the Gospel and having approved himself and the Excellency of his Doctrine by many Great and Wonderful Signs and Miracles he sealed it with his Blood and triumphing over Death of which it was impossible for him to be held he cherished and encouraged his despised Witnesses who had believed in him in that he appeared to them after he was raised from the dead comforting them with the Hope and Assurance of the pouring forth of his Spirit by which they were to be led and ordered in all things in and by which he was to be with them to the End of the World not suffering the Gates of Hell to prevail against them by which Spirit come upon them they being filled were emboldned to preach the Gospel without Fear and in a short time Thousands were added to the Church and the Multitude of them that believed were of One Heart and of One Soul and great Love and Zeal prevailed and there was nothing lacking for a season But all that was caught in the Net did not prove Good and Wholsom Fish some were again to be cast in that Ocean from whence they were drawn of those many that were called all proved not chosen Vessels fit for the Master's Use and of all that were brought into the great Supper and Marriage of the King's Son there were that were found without the Wedding Garment some made a Shew for a Season and afterwards fell away there were that drew back there were that made Shipwrack of Faith and of a Good Conscience there were not only such as did backslide themselves but sought to draw others into the same Perdition with themselves seeking to overturn their Faith also yea there were that brought in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and also of those Members that became not wholely corrupt for some were never again restored by repentance there were that were weak and sickly and young some were to be fed with Milk and not with strong Meat some were to be purged when the old Leaven received any place and some to be cut off for a season to be shut out as it were of the Camp for a time until their Leprosie were healed and then to be received in again Moreover as to Outwards there was the Care of the Poor of the Widdow of the Fatherless of the Strangers c. therefore the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Head of the body the Church for the Church is the Body of Christ and the Saints are the several Members of that Body knowing in his infinite Wisdom what was needful for the good ordering and disposing all things in their proper Place and for preserving and keeping all things in their right Station did in the Dispensation and Communication of his holy Spirit minister unto every Member a Measure of the same Spirit yet diverse according to operation for the Edification of the Body some Apostles some Teachers some Pastors some Elders there are Old Men there are Young Men there are Babes for all are not Apostles neither are all Elders neither are all Babes yet are all Members and as such all have a Sense and Feeling of the Life of the Body which from the Head flows unto all the Body is the Oyntment of Aaron ' s Beard unto the Skirts of his Garment and every Member has its place and Station in the Body so long as it keeps in the Life of the Body and