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A78093	Temple-defilers defiled, vvherein a true visible Church of Christ is described. The evils and pernicious errours, especially appertaining to schisme, anabaptisme, and libertinisme, that infest our Church, are discovered. And directions to preserve from the sin and punishment of temple-defiling, delivered in two sermons preached at the lecture in Kingston upon Thames, Feb. 20. & 27. 1644. out of I Cor. 3.17. / By Richard Byfield pastor in Long-Ditton, Surrey.	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6394; Thomason E278_20; ESTC R200019	46,454	48

the Ministery they destroy and prophane Gods Temple by their errours diversly 1. Everting the Lords owne Canons for the Examination and Ordination of Ministers or Bishops by the Presbytery The Epistles to Timothy and Titus were written to order Gods house 1. Tim. 3. 15. there are drawn by the Holy Ghost the Church Canons the Constitutions of the Church of the New Testament Christs Directory by the hands and Ministery of that elect Vessell Paul the Apostle In these Canons the Presbytery that is the society of Teaching-Elders or Bishops Paul knew no other Bishops the Assembly of the Elders so the word is used in Act. 22. 5. where our last Translation reads it the estate of the Elders the Elder-ship 1 Tim. 4. 24. 5. 22. 3. 2. 9 10. Tit. 1. 5. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 2. hath the charge of Examination of those that are to be made Ministers and the power of Ordination by imposition of hands they that are to be made Ministers must be apt to teach 1 Tim. 3. 2. and they must be ordained by laying on of hands Tit. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 22. their aptnesse to teach must be tryed and examined 1 Tim. 3. 10. having spoken of Bishops before and now speaking of Deacons and that concerning their holding the Mystery of Faith he saith and let these also first be proved also that is as well as those that desire the office of a Bishop they must first be Examined touching their aptnesse and ability to Teach so must the Deacons also about their holding of the Mystery of Faith in a pure conscience Now this Charge of Examination lyes upon the faithfull men the Presbyters that are able to teach others 2 Tim. 2. 2. and the power of laying on of hands or of ordination is in the Presbytery We find this order of men but we finde no other in these Epistles that have any charge over the House of God the Church of the living God Now those overthrow these Canons and defile the House of God that take Ordination away that take it out of the hands of the Presbytery and put it into the hands of the People or any other that take away this Presbytery that set up Ministers or run into the Ministery and will not submit themselves to the tryall of the Assembly and estate of the Teaching-Elders the Ministers that are opposite to the Government by the Presbytery these are the everters of the Lords owne Canons 2. Subverting the Lords owne Ordinance for the Ministery that those that Preach the Gospell should live of the Gospell 1 Cor. 9. 13 14. they would have them get their livings by the Plow or by Trades The Apostle chargeth Timothy and in him all Timothies all Ministers of the Gospell to give themselves wholly to Reading to Exhortation to Doctrine that their profiting may appeare to all and to contemne in them who can doe so and drive a trade and follow another calling the Apostles called to be Fishers of m●n left their Nets and applyed not themselves to catch F●sh If the Ministers be doing this they need take care of no more nay this is that deed to which the Promise is He shall both save himselfe and them that heare him 1 Tim. 4. 13 15 16. They Object the Apostles did worke with their hands Sol. 1. They had immediate and infallible assistance of the Holy Ghost in their Ministery 1. So have none now 2. But that is not all they wrought not ordinarily but in a case as it appeares in the 2 Cor. 11. 9 12. to cut off occasion from them which desired occasion 2 Cor. 12. 13 14. and in that place where he saith I robbed other Churches to doe you service that is he took maintenance of others while he Preached to them what ●ver he did it is evident he had power to have lived wholly of the Gospell and that is the Lords Ordinance which the Church must stand to and be bound by 1 Cor. 9. 14 15. they would have the Ministers maintenance by Almes and Contributions Mat. 10. 10. Luk. 10. 7. 1 Tim. 5. 18. but it is hire not Almes can you make Wages and Almes to be the same It is a due and as truely earned as whatsoever any laborer gets at his fingers ends They cry down Tythes as Popish and Iewish but that way of maintenance is neither Popish nor Iewish which was before the Law Melchisedech took Tythes of Abraham and of Levi in Abrahams loynes and Melchisedech was not a Priest of Aarons Order our Lord Jesus is the Priest after Melchisedechs order Iacob promised maintenance of Gods Publique Worship by paying Tythes 3. Confounding the Lords order who hath instituted a Ministery to Preach the Gospell Mark 16. and to teach Mat. 28. 19 20 21. and they give power to every Member to Preach abusing that Text in ● Cor. 14. 31. yee may all Prophesie one by one it speakes of the Prophets in that Church not the Members read the Text v. 29. let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge v. 32. and the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets yee may all Prophesie that is all the Members that were Prophet● not all the members as members those that had the gift of Prophesying not those that had not the gift Now the truth of the place is there were then in the Church extraordinary gifts as of Healing of Miracles of Tongues of interpretation of Tongues and so of Prophesying that is either fore-telling things to come or of unfolding the Prophesie of Scripture that concerned the present times of the Church with a speciall gift of dextrous application and accommodation of the Exposition of the Prophesie to the estate of the Church for comfort for exhortation and for edification those that had these gifts ought to use them for the good of the Church but with order and with submission to the tryall and judgement of the Assembly of the Prophets in the Church These gifts are ceased now yet if any s●y they have them l●t them shew their gift according to the Apostles Rule yeeld to the tryall of the same and if they have any such gift we will blesse God that now also gives such gifts to the children of men we will open our Pulpits for you but because they can bring forth no such thing but raise from the Dead and from Hell old Heresies and errours and trouble the people with trifles and endlesse Disputes that tend not to edification in the Faith we reject them and yeeld not to them any Authority to meddle with the worke of the Ministery but observe while they pervert this Text perusing the words let the other Prophets judge the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets ere ever we are aware we are faln upon a Judicatory a Presbytery an Assembly of Prophets 4. D●stroying the provision for an able Ministery debasing Learning and Universities under the Old Testament there were the Schooles of

Temple-defilers defiled VVherein a true Visible CHURCH OF CHRIST Is described The Evils and pernicious Errours especially appertaining to Schisme Anabaptisme and Libertinisme that infest our Church are discovered And Directions to preserve from the sin and punishment of TEMPLE-DEFILING DELIVERED In Two Sermons preached at the Lecture in Kingston upon Thames Feb. 20. 27. 1644. out of 1 Cor. 3. 17. BY RICHARD BYFIELD Pastor in Long-Ditton Surrey Mal. 3. 1 2. The Lord cometh suddenly to his Temple But who may abide the day of his coming For he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers sope Miror quod non cogitant posse aliquem aliquando utrumque novum scilicet vetusque Testamentum legere divina ope intellectum utrumque laudare ●raudemque istorum atque malitiam vel dolere tanquam hominum vel cavere tanquam Haereticorum vel irridere tanquam imperitorum superborum Aug. Tom. 6. l. contra Adimantum Manichaei discipulum cap. 13. London Printed by John Field for Ralph Smith at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill neer the Royall-Exchange 1645. To the Right Worshipfull and the rest Dearly Beloved in CHRIST JESUS the Auditory at the Lecture in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey IT is the mighty worke of God beset with wonders of fatherly Providence that you enjoy againe a Thursdaies Lecture Preached by some of the Ministers now standing on their feet by the spirit of life from God entring into them who upheld it heretofore untill Prelaticall usurpation with furious tyranny suspended them and spoiled their Nest as their proud threats phrased their malicious Pharisaicall Act a little before they had fully acted it The fourth Commandement must be turned up by the rootes the power of godlinesse and of faithfull Preaching with Prayer in the Holy Ghost as bad with them as Preaching the undeniable enemies of the Prelaticall Kingdome Crown and Dignity must all be outed Lectures by godly Ministers that desired to be found faithfull may not b● endured and now for this work that was their day Their power through their interest in the Royall favour was superlatively great their Hierarchy fastly rooted in the ancient Lawes and grown up with the body of the Kingdome Parliaments exploded the Vniversities theirs All preferment in their hands thousands of their Enemies gone in Colonies to the Indies the utmost ends of the earth many great and choice wits with them some of them profound Schollers some with them preferred by them to the choisest Sees for ancient fame and present maintenance as good men and of as good report even among the godly as ever any Age had all the rest of them painted Tombs goodly Pharisees to see to And their old friend Rome had got no little ground among us by matching one of his Daughters here and for all the Reformed Churches beyond sea they were brought very low What wisdom of man would not have thought but that in such a day they should undoubtedly have ●ad the day For my part I sate down under their unjust illegall Sentence with this saying to some of my acquaintance yet alive through Gods mercy There is no coming in for me again but with the breaking of the whole State An alteration that must change the Kingdom and the Laws thereof I sate down willing to see the way of God in his work the desires of my soul were towards him in that hour and power of darknesse I drew a small draught of it for my own direction Little did I think the return of our captivity had been so neer and who could conceive the glory and terrour of it Neverthelesse in the time of that four yeers and four weeks suspension and sequestration that I suffered my thoughts among other things were on that Text in Zach. 2. 13. Be silent O all flesh before the Lord for he is raised out of his holy habitation In which collecting the signes of the Lords arising I saw the ruine of these Luciferian Vsurpers yet not conceiving it to be so neer in such unparalleld wayes of high providence with such well founded proceedings of legality that hath slain all them and cast out their carc●ses and their worm dyeth not and their fire is not quenched and they are an abhorring unto all flesh With such streams of blood with such executions ●pon a sensuall Nobility Gentry seat of Iudges shop of Lawyers ●●nke of Civilians and sinfull body of a Malignant Commo●alty Of which we may say not without astonishment and high ●raises What hath God wrought Must this be the way of Vindication of the Ministeriall Liberty of such a miserable sinfull worme as I am From the Lords right hand went a flame of that fiery Law for us A fiery Law is the Decalogue of the ten Commandments called the fourth Commandment is then a flame of the fire Deut. ●3 2. and it hath fiered the State and habitations of these transgressors that sentence warmed and refreshed my heart and touched my tongue in that winter season and now should fire us with Gods praises for the time draweth on ●pace of the Churches Hallelujahs Rev. 19. I write this that you may not forget how we come to preach again unto you at all But now when I came to preach to you at this time not only neighbourhood of habitation and former ancient relation to you and my unfeighned desire to do you good by imparting some spirituall gift but your desires your divisions and the care of the Churches which towards you came upon me because of your divisions did much move me I had no thought at all of making these Sermons publique your import●●ity brings them forth that word Paul Apolles Cophas all the Ministers ar● your● that word bound me Being bound two things more facilitated my yeildance when I durst not withstand the suitablenesse of the subject to the times and the diseasednesse of the Congrega●ion of Kingston to which I was once though most unworthy a Teacher this year disease is The Lord help and heal the disease of the Church of England through grievous poverty grown upon her under the impositions and oppositions of her Diotrephesses the Spring of the year of glorious Gospel-●iberty coming on there appears a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ph●hiriasis she begins Ph●hiriasis to swarme with Vermine this ariseth from want of concocting the wholesome food of sound Doctrine even the truth which is after Godlinesse if we feed favourly on the solid substantiall truths that concerne faith and love which is in Christ Iesus and not turn aside after watery trash that food will quickly set us sound and so nourish us that we should ru● off and rid us of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pht●ires these Lice and Wormes Phthires Wash you with the waters from under the Sanctuary and that is Soveraigne to kill them and clear the body and cleanse the skin of the Church I le reach you some that flowes out of one vein of Scripture it r●ls