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A96887	A conference of some Christians in church-fellow-ship, about the way of Christ with his people, and the result therefrom. This serveth only by way of introduction to take off the reproaches, that are cast upon pastour and people, whose earnest care and endeavour is to walke with a right foote in that holy way. Which is held forth here by the light of the sacred Scripture, as it appeares unto them, and how curious and circumspect their walke should be, who pretend to it, and to walke therein. The scandalls in and against the way are removed as they could be.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3485; Thomason E868_4; ESTC R207653	29,701	36

Lord God hath laid His hand upon us and by His Finger His Holy Spirit written the Law of our Relation upon our hearts as He Upon Gal. 2. 20. pag. 36. standeth to us and we to Him in Jesus Christ we borrow this expression from that Man of God M Bridge who to us spake much in that little and surely it containeth much and we have made through Grace much of it as may appeare throughout our seventh and last Section Not doubting but whosoever shall enquire at that Law of Relation what is to be done as to Church Administrations shall have full resolution therefrom and so end the matter Therefore here we shall be very briefe making mention of it onely in Reference to our selves our way and walke and this we were saying If the Lord hath don thus with us as having beleived we have spoken then we humbly conceive these things must follow 1. We must follow the Lord fully as deare children by the guidance of the Holy Spirit of Faith and Adoption which the Sons of God have another from that of the world which rules in the darknesse thereof We must walke by rule even as He walked 1 Joh. 2. 6. If children of the light we walke in the light even as He is in the light 1 John 1. 7. Else 1 we should cleane crosse the end of our Election chosen in Him that we should be Holy and without Blame before Him in Love Eph 1. 4. And 2 wee should else crosse the end of our Calling As He who hath called you is holy so be ye Holy in all manner of Conversation 1 Pet 1 15. 2. 9. And 3 we should else crosse the end of Gods Discovering to us His Gospell and way of Holinesse It was that we should walke thereafter having a Conversation as becometh Phil 1. 27. least our unholy practise should give our holy profession the lye but we hasten 2. If we can say Truly our fellowship is with ths Father and with His Son Jesus Christ 1 Joh 1. 3. Assuredly then we can not but seeke after and bend towards a Communion and fellow ship one with another that we may watch over each other help to beare each others burthen supply each others wants pertake of each others Graces doe all things as becommeth a Communion of Saints on earch which is saith that Learned Man Upon Job 16. pag. 25 4. the Lower heaven of the Saints serving each other in Love For thus wee have concluded That as it is with lines in a Circumserence the nearer to their Center the nearer one to another So nearnesse to Christ cannot possibly consist with a strangeresse or distance one from another for wee are members one of another 3. If as He is so are we in this world 1 Joh 4. 17. That is as we have heard it expounded If we have His image in us and stamped upon us if His Love be shed abroad in our hearts If He be in us by His Blessed Spirit we in Him by our faith If he dwell in us and walke in us 2 Cor 6. 16. Then ought we to walke even as He walked which was said before But from hence we humbly conceive these two things will follow 1. Wee must come out from among them and be seperate from the world so farre as is possible and not goe out of the world 1 Cor 5. 10. in all times and places specially at the Lords Table for so saith the Lord Be ye seperate and touch not the uncleane thing if ye expect that I should receive you and be a Father unto you and ye Sons and Daughters unto Mee 2 Cor 6. 17. Surely they that walke with God as friends cannot walke with the world be companions with the men thereof upon choice their affaires not requiring and when they plainly see they can give no good unto them But if they could have the least hope they could by conversing with them communicate good unto them they would most willingly doe it yet then not as companions with them but Physitians to them for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse what Communion hath light with darknesse and what concord hath Christ with Beliall And 2. Wee must meet often in some place besides the common meeting place else how can we speake often one to another so making full proofe that we feare the Lord Mal 3. 16. Surely it is cleare from that place That that was the manner and practise of the Saints of old And M. Rogers in his fift Treatise pag 109. gives us a famous Instance of some brethren with their Pastour that met together in the yeare 1588. privately in one house there to complaine to each other of their sinnes and wants and to finde out the remedies against the same That holy man in the same place gives us to know the good of that Conference which he brancheth forth into many perticulars if we well remember but we finde them contracted into three 1. This meeting was a great whetting-on to them to frequent the publique Ministery more carefully and fruitfully aftervvards 2. These two kinds of meetings publickly in the Church and privately in their houses thus carried did knit them together in that bond of brotherly love which during life could never be broken 3. It was a meanes to make them have Christian conference and godly communion in greater account Wee vvill take leave to adde hereunto that holy Man's words Mr. Tilling Serman p 200. now with Him whose he was and whom he served The reason why there is so little of the Spirit given forth though it be the great New Testament promise is this Because Saints are no more in assembling together Saints are not found as they should be in their worke of Assembling together When the Lord Christ gave His Spirit to His Apostles immediately at His Resurrection it was when they were assembled together Joh 20. 19. 22. When the Disciples were assembled together He breathed on them and said unto them receive the Holy Ghost And so we reade in the 2 Acts where wee have the more full giving-forth of the Spirit It was when the Saints were assembled togetehr when they were all with one accord in one place He might have given it to them one by one when they were alone But our Deare Lord chooseth to give-forth the Spirit when they were Assembled together To assure us how much He loveth the Assemblies of the Saints He will not give to every one in a corner alone but when assembled together So that if Saints neglect their meeting together there may be little enjoyment of the Spirit though it be the great promise of the New Testament Administration There is much more to be said for this meeting together of the Saints and there is much said against it vvee shall referre both this and that to another place the last Section 2. Wee proceed to remove an offence taken against us we say taken for God knowes we

so much the better for that That old liar and Murtherer with his servants are still casting a flood upon it vvhich they will never doe upon their owne way of sinne and death yet that is one let and a great rub to flesh and blood And 2. This is another because many of that vvay vvalke not so orderly in it as were to be wished and vvee have flesh as well as others and carry the same Dung-hill and Hell about us as the vvorst of men doe yet with this difference for wee must not vvrong our selves much lesse the worke of his grace in us this Dun-hill savoureth like a dung-hill in our nostrils the filthiest sinke that is in the world but with a wicked man like a garden of spices so our heart is an Hell too and an Hell to us whereas to a vvicked man it is an heaven because it issueth forth to him the way and meanes first wrought and moulded within whereby to reach at and if possible to attaine all the sweets of profits and pleasures here below but as vvee were saying because we have this Dung-hill and Hell within us which is still putting forth from us and wee have many eyes upon us to observe our walking wee are carefull with all our care that wee may cut off all occasions that the way of Holinesse may not be blasphemed through us for though wee doe meet once a weeke yet so as it doth not hinder but further our private affaires as wee have found by good experiences and indeed so much profit every way specially to our inward man though Piety is prosperity enough where ever it is and Impiety misery enough where ever that is the hid man of the heart is the all of man so be that prospers all prospers for seldome or never without abundance of grace doth the outward and inward prosper together we were saying That wee are through the grace of God such gainers by attending the meanes of grace that wee would not for a world neglect the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but hold-on exhorting one the other and so much the more as wee see the day approaching for this was spoken once and we heard it twice That they who will have nothing of the Sabbath on the weeke day will take-in much of the weeke on the Sabbath day if not all The meaning is plaine to them that will understand 6. But now to cut off occasion wee walke in desire and endeavour orderly and as becometh the Gospell wee meddle not with things too high for us wee are not Intruders into the sacred Office and utterly dislike those that are wee take counsell at Gods mouth and of his Ministers wee pray and exhort one another much in those words Onely let your conversation be as becometh Phil. 1. 27. the Gospell of Christ And then wee depart home and finde no want of our absence there according to the good word of our Lord wee finde it hath been with us other things have been added to us As our Lord knew our needs were Wee take it for granted our Master in Heaven is the best Master and gives the best reward to his servants for He Himselfe and not another for Him will be their reward So will He be their Defence also nothing shall hurt them or be dammage to them while they are attending His service Wee will insist upon this a little that we may give if not some satisfaction yet some answer to those that say Is is enough and as 2 Tim. 4. 2. Nempe quod ad carnis prudentiam attinet Bez. 1. much as is required to attend Gods service on the stated-Day in season and an houre out of season as the wisdom of the flesh calls it would be no small losse or hinderance to them 1. To this we would humbly reply 1. That this being so solemnely charged upon the Minister to preach the Word to be instant in season out of season it reacheth the hearers also If there must be preaching there must be hearing and there must be some time of conferring together about what was heard and comparing the Ministers sayings as those wise hearers did Acts 17 11. with the sayings of God and what profit came of it all which cannot be as we conceive but by speaking often one to another And for that supposed dammage That an houre or two in a weeke would cause unto the outward man it is but cast-in by the carnall reason of those that minde earthly thengs It is an unquestionable Truth The flesh never complaineth of the waste or losse of time while it is pleased but every houre is two while that is vexed and put to cost yet wee may be resolved at this point While the Soule is a gainer the man is no looser and while the soule is a looser the man is no gainer Spirituall accommodations will make a good heart forget temporall incommodities It is worthy our best observation as that worthy Man hath it what a full Upon Job 6. 6. p. 441. Ch 22. 21. compensation the Lord makes to His people for the want of corporall bread and water Though ye are cut short in outward things yet ye shall not be shortned in Spiritualls The raine of the holy Doctrine shall not be removed from you which we translate Thy Teachers shall not be removed Isai 30. 20. Joel 2. 23. Surely they that looke Sion-ward finde much in this to engage them to heare much and to conferre about that they heare and to take time for it what possibly can be spared from their worldly employments which must be served in their season yet so as greater matters of infinite concernment be not neglected 2. In the second place we could take the boldnesse here To entreate the people of God to speake their experiences whether they have not found as gratious an hand with them and as singular a providence over them attending Gods service at convenient times as once the Israel of God did while they are so well employed according to their Lords command The enemy shall not exact upon them nor the Son of wickednesse afflict them What a sweet and heart-chearing providence was it That when all the Males of Israel appeared thrice in the yeare before the Lord at Ierusalem none of their Neighbour Nations though professed enemies to Israell on the East the Ammonites and Moabites on the West the Philistines on the South the Egyptians and Idumaeans and on the North the Assyrians should so much as desire their Land Exod 34. 24. Such a fatherlike care their God had over them while they tooke care of Duty That He not onely stopped hands from spoiling but hearts from desiring Againe it was as sweet a providence as it was wonderfull That after the slaughter of Gedaliah so pleasant a Country left utterly destitute of Inhabitants and compassed about with such warlike Nations as were the Ammonites Moabites Edomites Philistines was not invaded nor