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A95311 The temples foundation laid: or, a way for setlement of religion. Humbly presented unto the Parliament. By M.T. M. T. 1653 (1653) Wing T31; Thomason E724_13; ESTC R207271 5,747 18

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THE Temples Foundation LAID OR A Way for SETLEMENT OF RELIGION Humbly Presented unto the PARLIAMENT By M. T. LONDON Printed by G. D. for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle near the West End of Pauls 1653. THE TEMPLES FOVNDATION LA OR A Way for SETTLEMENT OF RELIGION Let your Moderation be known unto all men for the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. v. 5. IN Church discipline or the affaires of the Church it was the great expectation of the people of God and the grant of Authority they rejoyced in that there should be a due regard had to tender Consciences Yet Episcopacy Presbytery c. having as they conceived the sword of authority in their hand made some Saints groan and their cry hath come up into the eares of the Almighty who hath said Touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harm For if ye touch them ye touch the apple of mine eye And having taken to himself his great power and powring forth his Viols of wrath most have blasphemed and not repented and in the confidence of their wayes have not eyed whether Moderation hath been found in them and that Righteous Law Quod tibi ne feceris alteri ne facias the Perspective Glasse into all Lawes hath been by them neglected And hence come Warres Fightings Back-bitings c. and who knows how soon the cryers of Hosannah may cry Crucifie Crucifie And the ground of this hath been Zeal but not according to knowledge Therefore it is necessary to consider Zeal First As it hath been contrary to God and his People Secondly As it may and ought to be every Christians practise Zeal then considered as contrary to God and his People will not need much labour to prove as having been by most of the people of God granted and by their practise in opposition to the Lawes in force under Episcopacy and Presbyterie made manifest For the slying of some to New England to Holland and to secret Coverts to avoyd the High Commission testifies clearly the truth of their sufferings rather than to conform to the Act of Uniformity And the keeping up of the same Lawes in the time of Presbyterie shewes the same spirit active then But it may be Octjected That those very Ministers that cost many vast estates to carry and maintaine them beyond the Seas do come and enjoy the fattest livings in the land now and performe every thing those Ministers did against whom they cryed Seperate and be ye seperated and therefore it will be necessary to enquire whether there were a true ground to seperate and whether those things so zealously imposed were against God and his People The Tracts are many and large against mixt Communions which to every understanding man to whom these are intended are so clear that I shall forbear to to urge any more texts than come out of her my people and what fellowship hath light with darknesse And my opinion is that whosoever shall command any thing in the worship and service of God sits in the Temple of God as God and if he does command Tables to Altars making of Churches and Ministers thereto jure divino He is Antichrist in the height and sits in the Temple of God against God an Enemy ready for destruction And whosoever obeyeth such commands is to be separated from in it But it will be Objected That there was never any thing imposed yet but under colour of Scripture Authority To which I Answer Their works accordingly were burnt up and they suffered losse It will be Objected againe That fear of flying to high may cause a flying to low therefore if no course be taken by Authority in Settlement of Religion the consequences appears already to be very dangerous To the which I Answer That the most disputable points most commonly insisted on for setling Church Government about the visible Churches the Ministery and Sacraments will not be found any wayes conducing to the ends proposed For the great advantage to the civilizing of People to extirpate all viciousnesse and to encrease knowledge in the Scriptures hath been the Preaching of the World or the Saints of God giving forth their apprehensions of the Scriptures which are the Preachings of the Prophets and Apostles and as they were sent so by their writings do preach to the end of the world And this present age hath been much puzled labouring to find out and set up men as their successours which prosecuted vi armis with their interests hath caused the Judgements of God who will vindicate his own way And therefore before I go to lay down that Order of Preaching or searching the Scriptures necessary for the Nation I shall briefly set forth the true and false Ministery The true Ministery seems to be held forth to me in Ephes 4. v. 11 12. And he gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors some Teachers for the joynting or grafting in of the Saints into the work of the Ministery And the Lord accordingly hath owned the Ministery in this Land qua Saints and disowned and punisht that which was set up Authoritatively as an Idoll or as one having a gold ring and as it stopt the mouthes of other Saints met in the fear of the Lord. And as the Observator upon Clement Pauls fellow-labourer the best piece of Antiquity in the world shewes that in his time when there was a visible Church a visible Ministery c. That even then as he writes omnes Sancli sunt Cleri And the word Laicus had not to this day obtained a place in our Lexicons It would certainly be dangerous to set up a Ministery of mans making But as this is dangerous to assert in these times wherein we hope better things I am bold to adventure the danger not knowing that I erre from the most Orthodox Writers Scriptures or Councels As for Writers to the point of the visible Church never any of note or worth noting answer Bellarmin and the Papists otherwise than that it is not necessary the Church should be Visible Willet in his Synopsis Papismi uses it and so does Calvin and all the chief Writers Which seems to me a weak answer and this day it is the first point and onely one a Jesuite insisteth on against us and our unhandsome dealing therein wiling to keep our Hierarchy hath sent thousands back to Rome For in truth if a visible Church most commonly by lovers of Truth adjudged theirs for the Channel laboured to be cut by divers seems to have the impregnable Alps in the way But if no visible Church no visible Ministery being as inseperable as the soul from a living man And many of our late Orthodox Writers say expresly that the Church was invisible as Brightman and divers others And the Scriptures are evident for it for upon the opening of the seventh Seale the Sun was darkened the Moon lost her light and the Starres fell from heaven which was doubtlesse the ceasing of the visible Church