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A66997	Law-power, or, The law of relation written in the heart of ministers and people by the finger of God, is mighty through Him, to prevaile with both : to live as a people separated to their God, and from the world, specially at the Lord's Table.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3496; ESTC R25194	60,431	76

scoffing at Holiness as it is too too easie to find such nay where may one find better in the state they are now-in and a godly preacher comes to this people and a few Godly own him Must this preacher and those few Godly be enforced to communicate with such after due meanes used for the instruction of the rest or may they not withdraw from the rest who are scoffers at Godliness sure we beleeve God and Angels and Saints will justifie such a seperation in this ordinance and to draw into a closser communion to practise Discipline among themselves specially while such a Congregation was never orderly united and joyned together by a free submission to the Gospel having in most places never enjoyed it in the power of it which Consideration indeed wipes off many objections So far that worthy man Truely Reader thou hast the very marrow and substance of the whole matter already Yet because we have made it our very work and business in this place to remove the scandalls in the way to this seperation and the offences taken against it and withall to speak to the understanding or the simple as we our selves are slow and dull to conceive we take leave to proceed according to our proposed Method and this we would say first First We take it from Holy Writ That this must be there must be a seperation For as holy Bradford said There are but two Masters Christ and Satan Two kinds of people righteous and wicked Two wayes the way of Holines and the way of wickednes Two mansion places heaven and hell Now it is not possib●e to serve both these Masters If you joyne to one you seperate from the other And as impossible for the one and the same person to be holy and unholy at the s●me time as it is to be in an extreate heate and in an extreame cold at one and the same time As impossible to have our foote stand in both these wayes as it is for one foote to tread Eastward and the other West or to fixe one eye on heaven and the other on earth Impossible also that we should arrive at heaven when we saile with winde and tide hell-ward as that one and the same way should lead us to two d●ffe●ent and contrary Mansion places Hence then it must needs follow to goe over this againe that here must of necessity be a seperation They that will with full purpose of heart serve their great Master the Lord Jesus Christ must turne their backes upon them that will serve the other Master And seperate from them as to any familiarity or intimacie with them They that are resolved at this high point they will be holy they have not a velliety a faint wish or cold desire but they will be holy and walke holily As the men of the world say they will be rich come on it what will they will be rich though they make shipwrack of faith the profession of faith and of a good Conscience what care they they will be rich though they pierce themselves thorough with many sorrowes The others say as resolutely too with the helpe of God and blessing upon the meanes they will be Holy These now must make a separation from the other They cannot be holy and unholy together It is said that seldome it is that the inward and outward man prosper together such an enemy walketh and prosperity is to the soules weale But certaine it is holines and unholines are so far from thriving together that these would come no nearer together than the East comes to the West Therefore the holy and unholy must part and separate as their wayes must part and when they come to the end of their way then there must be an everlasting seperation and as far as heaven is from hell those so separated mansion places In the second place Secondly Gods people must seperate for He hath as marv●ilously separated them His gratious Saints as He did between the Israelites and Egyptians Now how unworthy had it been and Psal 4. 3. unbecoming for the Israelites to have mixed themselves with the Egyptians I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will 2 Cor. 6. be their God and they shall be My people Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the uncleane thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty As if the Lord had said not else If ye expect I should walke with you ye must walke as is comely for sons and daughters that looke to have that sweet and comfortable presence of God with them If ye walke with the world and as the world doe that is familiarly and not having buisines with them nor with an intent to doe good unto them If ye will walke with them I will not walke with you saith the Lord. If ye will not separate from them I 'le separate from you and woe unto you when I depart from you It is as if a man should be conversing with some nasty poluted Creature while He is talking with the greatest Prince on earth or as if a Bridegroome to some great Princesse should be courting of a strumpet before his Ladies face whence we conclude That there is as good a warrant for Ministers and people that know the law of their Relations to seperate from the Nationall Church as they have to seperate from the world and from Babylon God will have it so If Ishmael fall a mocking out with him saith the Lord Gen. 21. 9. 12. If they will seperate from Me seperate ye from them Gods people will doe as their Lord bids them Thirdly We say that Godly Ministers and their people cannot be said so much to make a separation from the wicked as these from them The wicked will have no communion with godly Ministers or people unlesse at the Lords Table o● at a feast of wine and strong drinke we meane where the flesh is feasted no where else they abhorre all other communions You must communicate with them in sin else they will have no Communion with you The world loves to Converse with whom they love their owne And should not they that are chosen out of the world love to doe so too The Godly need not separate from the wicked these will separate from them These can endure holy Company no more than they can endure Holinesse which they have persecuted out of their house and would persecute it out of the world And should these be admitted to partake of holy things who persecute holines and will Communicate with you no where else but at the Lords Table and if not there no where And why so willingly and chearefully there to speake that by the way Holy Bradford gives you we thinke the Reason of that wherefore your people are so ready to Communicate with you at the Lords Table onely what he spake

Creature but we owe our lives to God our best service and all so we owe not as we conceive our Religion to Infant Baptisme but to the glorious worke of the Spirit together with the Ministry of the word thereby as an Instrument in the Spirits hand He Rivi●●s Christian Religion into the body of a Nation and into the hearts of His people growne up to the yeares of understanding Let the Covenant be opened first the abundant riches of grace therein through Jesus Christ whereunto we owe our selves and all and the seales will follow of course We take leave to tell our perswasion A godly Minister looseth more by giving so much to Infant Baptisme than he will gaine by his praying for the successe of the Gospell his God hath intrusted him with Againe ye pray for the full 〈◊〉 and liberty of Gods Ordinances doe ye not Take heed ye doe not 〈◊〉 ●ut the sinewe of this your prayer and quite weaken it by granting a liberty free Amission to all whilest you set parity aside as a neglected thing though it be the maine even the all of the Duty Remember ye should still the one is to be as full as the other full liberty and as full purity A liberty without purity will certainly bring us into straightness of place which we English anguish Rom. 2. 9. such as we cannot tell what to doe-in to get one minutes time of ease If ye will give liberty see it be stinted and bounded within the bounds and limits which God hath set us To keepe within the compasse of Gods Commands is the best liberty of all Then shall I have liberty when when I keepe all thy Commandements If we Psal 119. 45. would have liberty out of God and beyond His bounds our liberty will proove our misery our undoing and utter destruction Looke ye to it as ye looke God should looke after you and your prayers That ye carve not forth so liberally in your Lords matters granting to your people a full liberty without regard had at all to full purity But having said so much against your full liberty and all those impurities which cleave as fast to that liberty as ever any did to their Idol we will say no more here onely as ye goe on praying ye will goe on sinning and provokeing your Lord to His face in His owne House if ye doe not looke better to His Administrations there than hitherto ye have done Seventhly Be pleased to Consider That the Body whereof our glorious Lord is the Head and the Saviour is as like Him as likenesse can be a very comely and a glorious Body and however little glory or comelines may appeare from without and none at all in the worlds eye yet is she all glorious within partakeing of her Lords owne glory though not in the same degree and every one of this Mothers genuine Children are made Princes in all lands where any one of them is there is a Prince how poore and meane soever the out-side be for whatever the Lord-Christ is by Nature he and she are by Grace Consider we pray you this thing then we know what will follow upon this Consideration so be ye be much if not wholy in it That the fire will consume all that is glorious in the world yet a very little while and there will be no excellencie but the excellencie of Christ and His Church and Children we are bold to presse you unto this Consideration againe because ye and we know what must needs follow thereupon First Ye will give the Lord Christ the preheminence in your assemblies and at His Table specially ye will set His deare Children Beloved Friends and faithfull servants next unto Him And by no meanes will ye suffer that which may offend or grieve them And ye will stave off those nasty filthy Creatures two footed Dogs and swine from comeing neare unto them till they have bethought themselves what they are and of their uncleannesse And Secondly As ye know The first thing the Spirit of grace doth within doores is to set God and Christ in His own place the heart so that person that is acted by that Spirit will shew forth or proclaime Gods Justice in the world and Christ His Righteousnesse in His Church which is to set Him in His place a King and a Prophet a Prince and a Saviour and perswade an hearty obedience and subjection to Him to be directed by Him for if a man be subject to Christs Kingly Office His Propheticall office shall guide him and cause him not to erre in that he speaks from God or to God or in what he is to doe for God and His People CHAP. VII WE would give you two or three Scriptures to muse upon draw two or three things from them and then draw to a close of all The first Scripture Isa 52. 1. From henceforth there shall no more come into them the uncircumcised and the uncleane The like promise ye have Joel 3. 17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy Mountaine Then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no Stranger passe through her to defile her No stranger to open that notion as we read Mr. Ca●yl Job 15. p. 89. it opened unto us No stranger that is no child of Bolial no wicked person shall passe through her to defile and pollute her But strangers may passe through her to be visited and relieved by her The other Scriptures Mal. 3. 16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another Acts 2. 42 43. They continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship And all that beleeved 1 John 1. 3. Truely our fellowship is with the Father and with His Sonne Jesus Christ Rev 21. 27. 22. 15. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth nor whatsoever worketh an Abhomination for without are Dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters And who so loveth and maketh a lye From the premised Scriptures we would Conclude First SECT I. First THat it is one of the highest priviledges promised to the Church that a time shall come when the wicked shall not come unto her Awake awake Put on thy strength O Sion put on thy beautifull garments O Jerusalem the Holy City Wherefore must Jerusalem the Holy City awake thus and be ready in her dresse in her beautifull garments why there is good newes for her from henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and uncleane As if He had said In times of Sions defection or opposition when there was no due Reformation of worship nor order among worshippers than the uncircumcised and uncleane came and stood yea even dwelt with thee as thy owne Children but oh Jerusalem A Time shall come when the uncircumcised and the uncleane shall not so much as come into thee they shall be rejected and cast out for ever Prophane ones shall find no place

to Mr Hotchks his Treatise of forgivenes of sins where they speak very worthily each of other He dips his pen in the same gall writing to the Separatists and Anabaptists in England The Pharisees liturgie is of too frequent use in the separated Congregations I thanke Thee O God that I am not as other men are c. nor even as this Publican Thus he speaks not making a difference It might be easily shewen here That this good man frequently wounds the most eminent Men amongst us for learning and pietie through the sides of Separatists Anabaptists and Antinomians But we proceed Object 6. It is said This way of the Holy is a cloystered way Ans We say that reasonably this cannot be said against it For how doth it appeare They can say here much after the words their Lord and Master spake I ever taught in the Synagogues John 18. 20. and in the Temple whither the Jewes alwayes resort and in secret have said nothing We may we hope give-in curious Fullers his gloss upon this we meane in point of expressing himselfe by his pen understand Him that He never wilfully affected Conventicles as ashamed of his doctrine or willingly declined the Temple when afforded convenient entrance thereunto otherwise He taught also on the Mount in the Ship in Synagogues in private houses The Godly Ministers may say much the same They preach in the publique place on the stated day and it grieveth them to see how thin their Congregations are yet when they are thinnest and they have fewest hearers even then they know their Lord hath sewer Though indeed the people come more willingly to the publique place for they Idol●ze places still as they doe their duties and their sins very superstitious that way they choose to pray and to heare chiefly in the publique place what they doe in the closet God knowes It seemes but little or to little purpose by that they doe in point of prayer in the open place and in point of practise at home and abroad which is with most as contrary to the Rule of Gods word as if they never heard a Sermon or the word of life preached unto them But we were saying they doe not cloyster up themselves nor their Doctrines They are not as a ' Candle under a bushell but on a Candle-sticke and so would give light to all that are in the house If they speake in a private place as ordinarily they doe and must so doe come-in to heare as many as will the more the more welcome They make a separation no where but at the F●nt as they may see cause and warrant from the best and best learned Calvin Perkins Amesius and the Lords Table there they depart from the world And there they have as cleare a warrant to doe it viz to keepe Dogs from taking holy things as they have for staving off a Dog from flying in their faces or from leaping-up their Table You will say what before the Church hath passed their Censure on them and declared them to be Dogs It was said before Christ will neither wait the leysure of the State nor of your Church He hath given power into His Ministers hand to doe if not more yet as much as that To keepe the wicked from communicating in holy things The manner of Godly Ministers in ancient times as auncient Records tell you surely even in these matters it may be said as we read The Remnant of Mich. 5. Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord as the showers upon the grasse that tarryeth not for man nor waiteth for the sons of men so we have concluded That godly Ministers have as sure a warrant to keepe out dog● and swine from communicating in holy things as any man hath from keeping a dog from flying in his face or a swine from entri●g his closet and if ●e feeles the power of this Relation upon his heart he will find power enough in his hand intrusted there by his Lord and Master Himselfe so to doe and not to waite the State or Churches leysure what they will doe Their Lord hath given them a key and they must give it their hand He power to them they must put it forth for them and if not here at the Lords Table then no where the key is of no use CHAP. V. WE come to that which the great Devider that Selah-Hammalekoth if we may express it so that rock of Divisions betwixt person and person people and people Thus it is objected Object 7. The people of God as they call themselves make a separation from others these shall not come to them they will not come to these We will heare what two ready Scribes well instructed both unto the kingdome of heaven have said to this Dividing thing we call seperation We will set downe what that holy and learned man saith who speakes much in a little contracting as we may say the spirits of a point into a few words which are these Seperation Eschol p. 51 52 53. generally heares ill in the world and yet there is a seperation suitable to the mind of God He that will not seperate from the world and false worship is a seperate from Christ Now the seperation here commanded from any person is not in respect of naturall affections nor spirituall care of the good of their soules Rom. 9. 3. Nor yet in respect of Duties of Relation 1 Cor. 7. 13. Nor yet in offices of love and Civill converse 1 Cor. 5. 10. 1 Thes 4. 12. Much less is not seeking their good and prosperity 1 Tim. 2. 1. or not communicating good things unto them Gal. 6. 10. or living profitably and peaceably with them Rom. 12. 18. But in 1 Manner of walking and conversation Rom. 12. 2. Eph. 4. 17 18 19. 2 Delightfull converse and familiarity where enmitie and opposition appeares Eph. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. 3 In way of worship and ordinances of fellowship Rev. 18. 4. These three and the like commands and discoveries of God are most express Necessity abundantly urgeth it spirituall profit and edification no less requires it Causeth seperation from established Churches walking according to th' order of the Gospel though perhaps failing in the practise of some things of small concernment is no small sin but seperation from the sinfull practises and disorderly walkings and false unwarranted wayes of worship in any is to fullfill the precept of not partaking in other mens sins To delight in the company fellowship societie and converse of unsavoury disorderly persons proclaimes a spirit not endeared to Christ So far that Holy and learned man We will make bold also to subjoyne worthy Mr Ant Palmers Pag. 165. words which are these in the second part of his Answer to Mr Hs objection against seperation from the wicked unless in case of excommunication What if a Congregation be so leavened with Customary ignorance and profaneness and