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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42468	The churche[s] publick order argued and opened by a second confere[nce] betweene Silvanus and Himeneu[s] ... wherein the ordinances of the Church of Engla[nd for] Gods publick worship are proved to beagreeable to Gods sacred word / by L.G. [i.e. I.G.], a continuall friend and lover ofthe tr[uth].	J. G.	1643 (1643)	Wing G33; ESTC R42041	23,389	47

THE CHVRCHE PVBLICK ORDER Argued and opened at a second Confere●●● betweene SILVANVS and HIMENEV● Discussing foure questions 1. Of Ministers Officers and People 2. Of the time or times of meeting 3. Of the place or places where 4. Of the worship it selfe both for matter and m●●● Wherein the Ordinances of the Church of Engla●● GODS publick Worship are proved to be agreeabl● to GODS Sacred Word By I. G. a continuall friend and lover of the 〈◊〉 PSALM 74.4 Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy Congregations c LAMEN 4.2 Among all her lovers she hath 〈◊〉 to comfort her all 〈◊〉 have dealt treacherously with her they are becom●●●●mies 〈◊〉 Printed for W. W. 1●●3 TO His most Excellent Soveraigne Lord Charles of England Scotland France and Ireland KING the just Defender of the true Faith Most valorous and religious King YOur Magnanimous and Heroicall spirit in Martiall and Military affaires And your zeale fidelity and unshaken unmoveable constancy in the establisht Religion of Gods Church in this Your English Nation fills the hearts of your loyall subjects the Lords servants to praise the God of Heaven for You And to pray earnestly that hee that hath covered your head in the day of battell would bee alwayes as tender over You as the Apple of his owne eye and so preferre You as the Signet on his right hand and that the gifts of Gods wisdom and grace may be doubled on You his Anointed servant Your gracious acceptance of my former endeavours hath incouraged mee not only to compose this short discourse of the Churches publike Order for the true worship of God which declares the outward form of the Churches service as the former Treatise Dedicated to Your Majesty doth the inward truth of the Church it selfe But also to presume to present it to Your Royall and serious consideration for as much as many of Your honest Subjects want the knowledge of it And all Your factious people oppose contemne and hate it even those weeds spring up amongst the good Corne As Brownists Anabaptists Papists Familists Antinomists with solly and Semi Separatists all which having not their parts in the feare the sorrow the povertie and preparation spirituall come all short of Gods Spirits testimony although● like Mountebankes in market-places they lift up their voyces avouching the goodnesse and proofe of their medicines which notwithstanding all their brags and vaine boasting cannot give a foote to the lame nor an eye to the blinde And compared with truth are at of them found poysonous doctrines of death that instead of saving health wee are mad● thereby deadly sicke And were it not fo● that unparalleld veritie of Your Majestie confessions and resolved resolutions we have for our remarkable examples next an● immediately under him that is our goo● GOD over all blessed for ever we● might fall into the same Consumption 〈◊〉 our soules in matter of Religion as now w● are in our lives and estates for false corrup● and lying doctrins have so darkned the cl●a● light of the pure truth like smothering fire and smoake have destroyed many weake Christians yea such an universall destruction as the plagues of Aegypt made in that land on ●an and beast fruitfull Trees and every ●reene hearbe but blessed bee the Lord for ●he good will of him that dwelleth in the bush ●hat hath blessed Your Royall Head and Heart like the head of JOSEPH that still ●ou have beene the same Anointed with the ●ame truth in which truth the Children ●hereof are your truest loyal'st and faithfull'st ●ubjects of whom although the most unworthy 〈◊〉 your Highnesse servant that suffereth and ●eleeveth with you I. G. TO The Right Honourable the LORDS and Commons of the High COURT OF PARLIAMENT ONE unknowne to the most of You yet dayly praying for You all that the God of Heaven the alone giver of the best Counsell would sit with You to guide and counsell You all in all things for the present and to come As those great blessings through his blessing You have effected for Vs already in suppressing the pride the Idlenesse and superstition of the Clergie the destruction of the abominable popish innovations the annihilating of the great oppressing Courts of High Commission and Star-Chamber And that of honour which was greatly dishonoured and above all that incomparable Act of the Triennial Parliament a permanent benefit to Gods Church for a ground and foundation of continuall Iustice and Religion that reformation both of Magistrates and Ministery in ruling and teaching may be perfected and such order and manner appointed for the peoples obedience that unitie and concord in the truth may bee harmonious throughout this kingdome And our gracious King with Your most honourable Assembly and the whole Nation blessed And because the best reformation and perfect restitution are spirituall things the one the new making or re-begetting of mankind unto God the other the inheritance or purchased possession of Gods Children called in Scriptures regeneration and the perfection and restitution both which are the subject of my discourse in my former Treatise Dedicated to Our dread Soveraigne His Gracious Majestie And in regard that life is hid for the present and those truths are inward and spirituall whose heavenly nature is not apprehended and understood by all Ministers and I am certaine by fewer of the people but they all for the most part looke for outward forme and things exterior being such our selves for the greater number Right Honourable the mistake of the Scriptures are so general in this particular in applying the testimony of the Holy Prophets who generally speake and altogether agree in promising and assuring the eternall heavenly and perfect estate to bee fulfilled and accomplished at the Resurrection the Glorious comming of our Lord to judgment Notwithstanding such is the daily and continuall misprision of those precious promises to a worldly temporall and conceited estate here in this life by many severall factions some of which as in this so in my former Treatise I have instanced this mistaking I say hath constrained me and as I am perswaded in bounden dutie I am obliged to Dedicate and present in all humble submission this short Treatise unto Your Grave wisdomes that by Your favourable countenance and respect to a thing so meane and from the hands of one meaner My Brethren and fellow Citizens may come to see that Your prudent and Honourable predecessors since the time of Reformation from that mystery of iniquitie and superstitious darkenesse of Anti-Christian Poperie that GOD Almightie hath so assisted them by the ayde of the HOLY GHOST that the Ministers Ordination the time place the matter and manner prescribed for Gods publicke worship as is within this short Treatise briefely touched is agreeable to GODS holy Word for so farre as they have gone And for the rest in a further and larger manner Or for the better and more perfect ordering of what is already done the LORD of Heaven direct the heart of

in a set-form of words I make a generall demand to all opposites whosoever If there be any thing alike authentick to the precept and example of our Blessed God Oh how are those men therefore to bee reproved even withstood to their faces that have and doe preach that all set-formes of Prayer are from the Devill and first invented and found out by him when that holy man Moses being led by the Holy Ghost every day morning and evening when the Congregation journyed used these very words constantly when they took up the Arke in the morning thus hee prayed Num. 10.35 36. Rise up Lord and let thine enemies bee scattered and let them that hate thee flye before thee And every evening when they set downe the Arke or rested he said Returne ô Lord to the many thousands of Israel and the very words of Moses the Prophet David writes downe for a forme to be used and sung in the Temple many a hundred yeares afterwards Psalme 68.1 And the Lord Iehovah commands Moses even his servant Moses to give to Aaron and his Sonnes a set forme of words to blesse the Congregation with Num. 6.22 And the Lord spake to Moses saying speak unto Aaron and to his sonnes saying you shall blesse the Children of Israel saying unto them The Lord blesse thee and keep thee the Lord Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and grant thee peace Here the Lords Name is three times used in one forme of blessing And yet I hope none is so ignorant as to say it is vaine repitition So in 150. Psalme Prayse God and Praise him is used thirteene times in sixe verses so in 126. Psalme to the praise of God these words For his mercy endureth for ever are used or repeated twenty and six times so in 107. Psalme O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes for the Children of men where the Prophet in this Psalme repeats the same words foure times And the Apostle for the Romans prayes thus The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ bee with you Rom. 16.23 and so for the Corinthians 1 Cor. 16.23 2 Cor. 13.14 and so for the Galatians Gal. 6.18 and so for the Philippians Phil. 4.13 and so for the Thessalonians 1 Thes 5.28 2 Thes 3.18 And also for the Church in Philemons house Phil. 25. using the same words of prayer and blessing eight times for six severall Churches Thus even thus the Old and New Testament agree together in this one truth as the holy Prophet gives direction 1 Chron. 16.3 5. Say yee Save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the Heathen that wee may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise Hym. That a forme may bee lawfully used in Gods publicke worship of prayer and prayse is a truth so fully proved by you that men nor Angels cannot gain-say to disprove But I have heard a Minister preach it is unlawfull to use the Lords prayer because we find no example for it in any of the Apostles Sil. We doe not read that any of the Apostles in the act of Baptisme repeated all the words commanded by our Lord in the forme of Baptisme which are these Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost is it therefore unlawfull for Ministers to use the words or the Church to enjoyne them and is it therefore unlawfull for the Minister to use the words of our Lord which he used at the institution of the Lords Supper because wee doe not read the Apostles did use them at the administration thereof They doe no lesse than the Pharisees their Fathers in denying the lawfull use of the Lords Prayer to make the Commandment of God of none effect by their contrary Traditions Matth. 15.6 And these are the last dayes and perillous men and times the Apostle fore speaks of 2 Tim. 3. and Saint Iude in his generall Epistle Hym. Pray let me see how the Ordinances for the Sacraments appoynted by authority agree with the Scriptures Silv. The Traditions and Order that the Church hath prescribed for the manner of celebrating the Sacraments are very agreeable to the Scripture as I have before shewed in the manner of the celebration of both and that there is no circumstance added the Scripture omits neither in the admonitions and exhortations appoynted to bee read before the Communion or Baptisme nor any thing that concernes Ministers nor people in the communicating of one or either nor the blessing in dismissing the Assemblies as in particular before instanced but what stands with the holy honour and dignity of the ordinances themselves and the glory of God And therefore our Obedience thereto falls in with this generall rule of the Apostle whether therefore yee eate or drink or whatsoever you doe do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.31 Hym. Some Ministers will not administer the Lords Supper to any but such as are regenerated that so by faith they may eate Christs body and drinke his bloud Sil. For any man to preach that none ought to commucate of the communion of the signes of the Lords body but such as have justifying faith by which they are incorporated into his body they erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God as the Anabaptists doe in poynt of Baptisme for our Saviour himself gave it to Iudas that never had the faith that justifieth so the Apostles never denyed the preaching the Word nor the participation of the Sacraments to any that received the common faith as Circumcision and the Passeover was not to be denyed to any that became Proselites nor to the Children of such as did believe Now I have shewed before that the Passeover was the same in signification to the Iewes as the Lords Supper is to the Christians and it is as lawfull for Christians to receive the Sacrament as to heare the Word for as by the Word preached the eare is instructed in the Gospell way of Life so by the Lords Supper Christ Crucified is taught visibly to the eye Now a the Word and Sacrament have a teaching faculty or operation so also they have a nourishing strenthening and confirming faculty or operation to teach grace where it is not and to confirme and increase it where it is And there is no rule in all the Scripture to exclude a common Christian from these common Ordinances but in such cases as concerne the censure of excommunication within which a true beleever through weaknesse may fall aswell as an ordinary or common beleever and he doth discerne the Lords body that rightly understands the Sacrament in one sence thereby to bee brought to Christ as hee that by faith eates Christs flesh and drinks his bloud in a saving and spirituall sense and the word preached to the disobedient is the savour of death unto death