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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35047	Reformation not separation, or, Mr. Crofton's plea for communion with the church ... in a letter, written July 20, 1661 ... / by the said R.S. to whom it was written ; unto which, is added the copy of another letter, written on the same occasion and subject.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.; P. E., Reverend.; R. S.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7000; ESTC R12168	52,912	78

offer according to the Law of Moses confined his Ministry and Apostles to them till after the vaile of the Temple was rent in token of the expiration of their worship and departure of God accounting them children and all others dogs and charged the Disciples to hear them who sate in Moses seat under all their God-provoking Church annihilating corruptions he neither practised or prescribed a non-communion or separation 1 John 2.6 And in all extreams I desire to make him my pattern and walk as he walked who never went astray Do any stumble at the prophanenesse of the members and the neglect of corrective discipline rudenesse and irreverence in the use of Gods Ordinances Prophadess of members and disorder in Ministration confused method and the disorder of popular acclamations in publick prayer and other acts of worship I wish I could say these stones lay not in their way or that they were in my power to remove them but I think they run on a much greater Rock who run out of Gods Church or from solemn publick worship because thereof for the Church at Corinth was greatly corrupt and provoked the severity of Apostolical reprehension and that once and again 1 Cor. 5.1 2.10.21.11.20.21.14.26 2 Cos. 12.20 21 there being amongst them incest not to be named among the Gentiles and an heaven-daring ostentation in it instead of correction of it a participation with the table of Divels by their attendance on the Idol-feasts of the Infidels a rude and deboist drunken Communion at the Lords Supper intermingled and confounded with the Love-feasts intollerable disorder in their publick Assemblie all speaking at one and the same moment their very women not keeping silence and that in different matters and tongues every one had his Psalm his Prayer his Revelation his Prophesie his gift of Tongues in all which respects they were more confused than our popular acclamations and constrained the Apostles to check them by the nature of God as a God of order and not of confusion in all these the Apostle advised and endeavoured with all authority a Reformation but not separation or non-communion nor transplantation into a new gathered Church I cannot imagine he would make Schism from the Church 1 Cor. 3.4 a signe of a spiritual who judged Schism in the Church an evidence of a carnal mind Do men complain as they have cause that some Roman Rites and order was retained Rom. Rites when this Church was reformed let them consider many pious Kings of Judah have their reforming governments stained with a but the high places were not taken away but the people went thither to worship yet I finde not that any God-fearing Israelite who loathed those Reliques of Idolatry ever barred themselves because thereof from Gods Altar and worship My very soul is grieved to consider Englands back-sliding Backsliding Lukewarmness Indulgence of erronious Doctors and doctrines formality and lukewarmnesse in Religion yet when I observe that Ephesus who lost her first love Pergamus indulging the doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolaitans Thyatira suffering the woman Jezabel who called her self a prophetesse to teach and to deceive Gods people Sardis having a name to live but being dead and Laodicea Englands Counterpart so lukewarm that no good is spoken of her by all which these Asian Churches were rusted and therefore reproved by the Lord yet not rejected but represented to the world as the Starres he held in his right hand and golden Candlesticks among which he walked I dare not disown her relation to God disclaim mine own relation to her nor voluntarily decline communion with her Corruptions are not all alike My good friend all corruptions in Gods Church and worship are displeasing to God and distastful to his people imbracing the simplicity of the Gospel but all corruptions are not alike in operation quality and extent nor of a like influence on Gods Church and worship consider therefore some corruptions are substantial and intrinsecal vitiating the very subject and so universally spread through the worship of God that it cannot be used without sin others are circumstantial and extrinsecal to the same vain needlesse appendants superadded by mans will but which notwithstanding Gods Ordinances remain entire and exactly his and may be used without participation in the affixed corruption Some corruptions incident to Gods Church and worship I say are substantial and intrinsecal not arising out of Gods Ordinance as the genuine product and effect thereof but entring into the very body of the Church and substance of Gods worship Corruptions substantial and intrinsecal as a Spider into wine or venemous Worme into an Apple so as to vitiate the subject that it cannot be used with safety and nullisie the very Ordinances of God that it altereth their very nature to the losse of their efficacie and transmit certain destruction to such as sit under the same yea which is done either by changing the matter and retaining the essential constitutive form as by a solemne regular cutting off a Dogs head or offering swines blood instead of a Lamb or a Kid a baptizing as some have done by fire i●stead of water or retaining the matter but changing the essential forme as did Jeroboam and the Samaritans worshipping the true God by the very Sacrifices and in the very order himself appointed but before self-devised Symbols Calves to the one and the Dove to the other in a self-appointed place Dan and Bersheba to the one Mount Gerizim to the other and by self-consecrated Priests the lowest of the people and so departing from the Temple in Jerusalem Gods Ark in it and the Tribe of Levi all which were essentiall to the form of divine worship and thus did the Corinthians eating and drinking at the Idol Sacrifices which the Apostle severely corrected with a ye cannot par●ake of the Table of the Lord and the table of Devils ye cannot drink of the Cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils and by pointing them unto the essential form of the Sacrament the Cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ and the Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the body of Christ Of this nature is Baptism 1 Cor. 10.16 by a Midwife or any other private hand though with water and in the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost or by water and a lawful Minister but in the name of God the Father of all things and Truth the Mother of all things as I have read some have done Corruptions extrinsecal Corruptions extrinsecal and circumstantial and c'rcumstantial are Ordinances superadded unto and so concomitant with or conversant about Gods Ordinances but enter not into nor do vitiate their subject the which these notwithstanding doth exist in matter and essential form perfect and entire capable of due operation in their own course and nature as stinking fish doth nourish or water pudled or in an unclean