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A38628 An Essay of the form and constitution of a particular Christian church according to the model of the apostolick age, and as it is describ'd in the writings of the New Testament. 1700 (1700) Wing E3286A; ESTC R36575 11,722 48

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a true Visible Church are requisite three things First True Matter 2dly True Form 3dly True Properties The true Matter of a true Visible Church are Saints Exod. 28.9 10 15 21. compared with Rev. 21.14 21. and 1 Kings 5.17 compared with 1 Pet. 2.5 Levit. 11. to 13 43 44. compared with Rev. 18.2 1 Pet. 2.9 Deut. 14. 2. Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.2 Eph. 1.1 Phil. 1.1 1 Pet. 1.2 Heb. 3.1 Saints are Men separated from all known Sin practising the whole Will of God known unto them Col. 1.2 and 2.11 13. Rom. 1.7 and 6.2 12 22. growing in Grace and Knowledge 2 Pet. 3.18 continuing to the end 1 John 2.19 The true Form of a true Visible Church is partly inward partly outward The inward part of the Form consisteth in Three things First The Spirit 2dly Faith 3dly Love The Spirit is the Soul animating the whole Body Eph. 4.4 1 Cor. 12.4 11 13.7.10 1 Cor. 6.17 Faith uniteth the Members of the Body to the Head Christ Eph. 3.1 and 4.13 15. and 5.30 33. 1 Cor. 6.17 Love uniteth the Members of the Body each to other Eph. 2.20 21. and 4.16 23. Col. 3.14 15. The outward part of the true Form of the true Visible Church is a Vow Promise Oath or Covenant betwixt God and the Saints by proportion from the inward Form See also Gen. 17.1 2. and 15.18 Deut. 29.1 9 13. 1 Chron. 29.10 and 34.30 32. Psal 119.106 Nehem. 9.38 and 10.29 1 Cor. 12.25 26. Rom. 12.5 15 1● Matth. 18.15 17. This Covenant hath Two Parts 1. Respecting God and the Faithful 2. Respecting the Faithful amongst themselves 1. That part of the Covenant which respects God consists in their Solemn Personal Engagement and Profession to be his in Faith and Holy entire Obedience Esa 55.3.56 1. Ezek. 16.60 2 Chron. 7.18 2. That which regards the Faithful is a Solemn Declaration of their Submission to the same Lord Faith and Baptism under the same Church-order Josh 22 2-5 Rom. 1.5.6.16 17 18 19. Eph. 5.24 The Priviledges the Saints enjoy by thus entering into Covenant are Twofold 1. Communion in all holy Things of God 2. The Power of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1. and 3. 1 Cor. 10.16 and 5.4 5. Mat. 18.20 Esay 55.33 Act. 15.34 The holy Things of God are 1. Christ 2. Benefits by Christ Rom. 8.32 The true Church hath Title to Possession and Use of Christ Esay 9.6 Song 2.16 Mat. 18.20 1 Cor. 3.21 23. Eph. 5.30 The Benefits which the true Church hath by Christ are the Means of Salvation And the Priviledges the Members enjoy in the Church is receiving of Alms 1 Tim. 14.8 2 Pet. 1.3 The Means of S●lvation are the Word Sacraments Prayers Censures and the Ordinances of Christ for the Dispensing of them all Rom. 3.2 and 4.11 Luk. 19.46 Mat. 18.15 17. Acts 2.42 1 Cor. 11.23 26. Mat. 28.19 Psal 149.6 9. Alms are the Works of Mercy yielded to the Saints in Distress Acts 2.44 45. and 5.4 Mat. 25.34 40. Heb. 13.1 3. 1 Tim. 3.2 and 5.10 The Power of the Lord Jesus Christ given to the Church hath three Parts Viz. Power to 1. Receive in Joh. 10.3 Act. 9.26 27. and 18.27 and 6.5 2dly Preserve and keep within 1 Joh. 2.19 1 Pet. 1.5 3dly To cast out 1 Cor. 5.13 The true Visible Church hath Power to receive in 1. Members into Communion Act. 2.41 and 18.27 and 9.26 27. And 2dly Officers into Office Act. 6.5 and 14.23 The Way or Door whereby both Members and Officers enter in is Christ that is the Way taught by Christ in his Word Joh. 14.6 and 17.17 Mark 13.34 37. The Qualification of Members to be admitted in the Church is Faith testified by Obedience Acts 8.36 37. Mat. 3.6 Luke 7.29 30. Faith is the Knowledge of the Doctrine of Salvation by Christ 1 Cor. 12.9 Gal. 3.2 Obedience is a godly righteous and sober Life Tit. 2.11 12. Rom. 1.5 Members thus received into Communion are of two sorts 1st Prophets 2dly Private Persons 1 Cor. 14.24 1 Sam. 19.24 23. Prophets or Teachers are Men endued with Gifts proper for Edification Exhortation and Consolation 1 Cor. 14.3 Acts 13.1 Rom. 12.6 These Persons must first be appointed to this Exercise by the Church 1 Cor. 24.49 Acts. 13.1 The Prophets or Teachers Care must be to Teach according to the Proportion or Rule of Faith Rom. 12.6 1 Cor. 14.26 Let the Prophets speak two or three and the rest judge 1 Cor. 14.29 If any thing be revealed to him that sitteth by let the first hold his Peace 1 Cor. 14.30 40. All that have Gifts may be admitted to Prophecy 1 Cor. 14.31 Private Persons are 1st Men. 2dly Women Believers Private Men present at the exercise of Prophecy may modestly propound their Doubts which are to be resolved by the Prophets Luk. 2.46 47. 1 Sam. 19.20 23. 1 Cor. 4.30 Women are not permitted to speak in the Church in Time of Prophecy 1 Cor. 14.34 1 Tim. 2.12 Revel 2.20 If Women doubt of any thing delivered in Time of Prophecy and are willing to learn they must ask them that can teach them in Private as their Husbands at home if they be Faithful or some other of the Church 1 Cor. 14.35 1 Tim. 2.12 To hear this exercise of Prophecy may be admitted Unbelievers or they that are without 1. Cor. 14.24 Acts 2.6 13. The Exercise of Prophecy or the Preaching of the Word by them that are sent is that ordinary Means God hath appointed to convert Men 1 Cor. 14.24 25. Rom. 10.14 14. They are sent by God to preach whom the Church sendeth Acts 13.2 4. and 8.14 15. If any Man be converted by other Means it is not Ordinary Rom. 10.14 15. John 4.39 41. Acts 9.5 6. Therefore they that are converted in false Churches are not converted by ordinary Means 1 King 14.13 and 19.18 Rom. 11.3 4. Rev. 18.4 The Way of receiving Officers into Office is 1. Election 2dly Approbation 3dly Ordination Which must be performed with Fasting and Prayer Acts 6.5 and 14.23 1 Tim. 3.10 and 5.22 and 4.14 Tit. 1.5 Acts 13.3 The Person to be admitted into Office must first be a Member of that Visible Church whence he hath his Calling Acts 1.21 22. and 6.3.5 and 18.27 28. 1 Cor. 11.12 and 3.6 1 Tim. 3.2 3-10 Election is by most Voices of the Members of the Church in full Communion Acts 6.5 and 14.23 Query Whether Women Servants and Children admitted into full Commonion yet under Age may not give Voice in Elections Excommunications and other publick Affairs of the Church 1 Pet. 3.7 Ephes 4.4 1 Tim. 5.9 10. Numb 30.5 10 16. 1 Cor. 14.34 Gen. 3.16 1 Cor. 11.3 10. Gen. 18.19 Josh 24.15 Approbation is the examining and finding the Officer-elect to be according to the Rules of his Office 1 Tim. 3.10 and 5.9 10. Acts 6.3 In Approbation every Member is bound to object what he can especially they that denied their Voices Acts 15.37 38. 1 Tim. 3.2
AN ESSAY OF THE Form and Constitution OF A Particular Christian CHURCH According to the Model of the Apostolick Age and as it is describ'd in the Writings of the New Testament God is in the Midst of Her Psal 46.5 The Third Edition LONDON Printed for John Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1700. TO THE READER YOVR Candour and Attention are desir'd in the reading the ensuing Pages which were written for the Satisfaction of Friends and made Publick some time since at their Desire without any Design of Reflecting upon the present State and Constitution of Modern Churches For the Author 's Vndertaking was purely to give the World such a Draught of a particular Christian Church as upon his best Enquiry appear'd to be most conformable to the Model of the Apostolick Times when the Purity of the Christian Faith was yet untainted and the Shining Examples of a Holy Religious Life render'd the Christian Religion the most eligible Institution in the World And the Publisher is very much persuaded that if the Frame Government and Discipline of the Modern Societies of Christians were more agreeable to the Rules and Observations contain'd in this small Discourse the Peace and Happiness of the whole present Visible Church would be very much secur'd and promoted which is earnestly desir'd and the only thing propos'd in the Publication hereof by J. J. Books Sold by John Marshall ENchiridion Medicum Theoretico-Practicum sive Tractatus de Morborum Theoria Praxi In quo omnium Morborum Humano Generi officientium Nomina Naturae Causae Signa Prognostica unà cum eorundem Curatione breviter perspicuè delineantur Cui subnectitur Appendix de Lue Venerea Operâ Studio Josephi Jackson Med. The Interest of the English Nation under the Happy Government of King William III. once more asserted In Answer to the Challenge of a Jacobite Wherein is proved That that Law which forbids taking up Arms against the King upon any Pretence whatsoever is consistent with the Late Revolution An Essay concerning a Vacuum Wherein is endeavoured to be demonstrated that a Vacuum Interspersum runs through the World and is more or less in all Bodies By a Lover of the Corpuscular Philosophy A Discourse concerning God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Agency Wherein their seeming Opposition is Reconciled and real Consistency Demonstrated from the Holy Scriptures and Arguments thence deduced A Vindication of the Primitive and Apostolick Manner of Baptizing by Immersion with Remarks upon a Second Friendly Epistle to Geo. Keith from one who Stiles himself Trepidantium Malleus alias Sam. 01 Young AN ESSAY OF THE Form and Constitution Of a Particular Christian CHURCH A Man may be a Member of the Visible Church and no Member of the Catholick Church John 17.12 Gen. 4.11 1. Heb. 12.17 2 Sam. 7.15 A Man may be a Member of the Catholick Church and no Member of the Visible Church 1 Kings 14.13 Rev. 18.4 Rom. 11.4 1 Kings 19.18 The Catholick Church is the Company of the Elect John 17.20 and it is Invisible Col. 1.20 The Visible Church is a Society of Saints in Visible Communion Matth. 18.12 Act. 2.41 42 46. and 1.15 and 19.7 1 Cor. 1.2 Phil. 1.2 all which are to be accounted Faithful and Elect Eph. 1.2 4 5 7 11 13 14. till they by obstinacy in Sin and Apostacy declare the contrary 1 John 2.19 2 Tim. 4.10 and 1 Tim. 1.19 20. 2 Thes 3.14 15. 2 Tim. 2.17 18 21. It is one thing to be a Saint another thing to be of the Visible Communion of Saints 1 Kings 14.13 compared with 2 Chron. 13.8 12. The Communion of Saints is either Invisible or Visible Eph. 3.17 Matth. 18.10 Heb. 1.14 1 Cor. 3.13 9.13 The Invisible Communion is with Christ and the Elect 1 Cor. 15.28 Eph. 3.17 1 Cor. 1.13 Invisible Communion with Christ is by the Spirit and Faith Eph. 3.17 and 4.4 and 2.22 Invisible Communion with the the Elect is with Men and Angels Heb. 1.14 1 Cor. 13.13 Men Elect are Dead and Living Elect living are Uncalled and Called Communion with the Elect living is Prayer proceeding from love John 17.20 For them that are Uncalled that they may be Called Rom. 10.1 For them that are Called that they may be Confirmed Col. 1.9 12. Communion with the Elect Angels is the help of their Ministry Matth. 18.10 Heb. 1.14 Gen. 28.12 and 32.1 2. Psal 34.7 Reverence of them 1 Cor. 11.10 and love unto them 1 Cor. 13.13 A Visible Communion of Saints is of two three or more Saints joined together by Covenant with God and themselves freely to use all the holy things of God according to the Word for their mutual Edification and God's Glory Matth. 18.20 Deut. 29.12 c. Psal 147.19 and 149.6 9. Rev. 1.16 This Visible Communion of Saints is in a Visible Church Matth. 18.20 Act. 1.15 and 2.1 41 42 46. The Visible Church is the only Religious Society that God hath ordained for Men on Earth John 14.6 Matth. 18.20 and 13.14 2 Chron. 13.8 12. Act. 4.12 Rev. 18.4 2 Cor. 6.16 18. Religious Societies such as Abbeys Monasteries Nunneries and the like are unscriptural and not of Christ's Institution But the Visible Church is Christ's Institution and a Means to Worship God in Eph. 4.6 6. Mark 13.34 2 Chron. 13.10 11. Heb. 3.6 compared with Heb. 8.5 and 3.2 6. No Religious Communion to be had but with Members of a Visible Church Matth. 18.17 20. 1 Cor. 5.12 Act. 4.11 12. 2 Cor. 6.16 18. Rev. 18.4 Whatsoever Company or Communion of Men do Worship God being not of the Communion of a Visible Church sin 2 Chron. 13.9 10. Matth. 15.9 1 Cor. 5.12 13. The true Visible Church is the narrow way that leadeth to Life which few find Joh. 14.6 Matth. 7.14 Other Religious Communions are the broad way that leadeth to Destruction which may find Matth. 7.13 Acts 4.12 God's Word doth absolutely describe unto us the only true Form of a true Visible Church Mark 13.34 1 Cor. 12.5 Heb. 8.5 and 3.2 6. Rev. 22.18 19. 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Rom. 14.23 Heb. 11.6 There is one only true Form of a Visible Church Joh. 14.6 Eph. 4.4 5. 1 Cor. 1.10 13. Joh. 17.17 Forms of Visible Churches or Religious Communions to worship God in or by devised by Men are intellectual Idols Exod. 20.4 5. Matth. 15.9 2. Chron. 17.8 12. 1 Kings 12.33 Visible Churches or Religious Communions constituted according to the Invention of Men are real Idols and to join to them and to worship God in them is to join to Idols or to worship God in or by Idols by consequence from the former Visible Churches or Religious Communions are either true or false Joh. 14.6 Psal 119.23 2 Chron. 1.8 12. Eph. 4.4 5 6. The Visible Churches are such as have the true Essential Causes and Properties which God's Word ascribeth to the true Visible Church from the Definition False Churches are the contrary to the true by Proportion To