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A75847	Gospel publique worship: or, The translation, metaphrase, analysis, and exposition of Rom. 12. from v.1. to 8. Describing, and prescribing, the compleat pattern of gospel-worship. Also, an exposition of the 18th. chapter of Matthew. To which is added A discovery of Adam's three-fold estate in paradise, viz. moral, legal, and evangelical. / By Thomas Brewer.	Brewer, Thomas, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing A4429; Thomason E1654_1; ESTC R208992	154,122	337

worship him therein when we distinctly discern and observe the same in our actuall worshipping him and it is also of special use for our discerning the difference both in kinde and degrees of Gods wise love between Gods former and present worship especially for the discovery of Antichristianisme the present opposite worship and of other former false worships Z 2 Opposite in not conforming to but separating from world-worship v. 2. but conform not unto the world viz. in the matter in hand i. e. Divine worship z 1 Entall 1 Internall 1 Materiall Nations professing Christianity which as a totum are termed Christendom and Priests v. 1. Brethren v. 3. Faith with v. 2. 2 Formall Christendom framed into one Hierarchicall visible church of Priests by civill and Ecclesiasticall authority Cons Nice Can. 6. Con. Sandic Can. 3.4.7.11 2 Externall 1 Efficient 1 Supreme Satan and the Popish Princes and Priests of christendom as opposite to God v. 2. and Christ v. 5. 2 Mediate and proper 1 Active the papacie or hierarchicall body of priests whereof the Pope is the head as opposite to the Apostles v. 3. and their Gospel v. 1. 2 Declaring viz. his decretalls and canons v. 1. the word as their opposite v. 2. but conform not to its opposite the world from which to separate because they are opposite to or not the true worship is our right souldier-like service of God wherein properly is our suffering for God 2 Tim. 2.3 Finall to usurp oppose and vilifie Christ as come in the flesh and to set it self as for and instead of his church visible which in his visibility and as Gods visible anointed he instituted v. 1. a sacrifice to God worship Psal 2.12 2 Thes 2.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as for instead of the church of God with 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. z 2 Subjective in all the four possitive respects last mentioned especially in the last and proper i. e. a church integrum with its members our separation from Antichrists hierarchy and its hierarchicalls as its opposite is a point of Divine worship and of the second commandment commanded and commended to us but it being rational and positive it is in that respect internall worshipping God though the opposite hierarchy it self be the existent subject of the present world-worship forbidden v. 2. but be ye not conformed to the world i. e. in the particulars of Gods worship following especially unto the image of that integrall Beast Rev. 13. This Antithesis of Antichrist and his worship againsts Christs instituted church and church-church-worship in their adaequate parrellel opposition requireth a distinct tract which I will annex to the tract of the Thesis or positive worship it self Y 2 Aposteriori or in its proceed unto its end Thus the externall worship as 1 True or of the word is in obedience and love of God to observed as a sanctified mean of 1 Gods glorifying and worshipping objectively v. 1. sacrifice to God worship this is the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or internally moving end and the denominator of a sincere and son-like worshipper as the using of the matter sanctified by God for his worship as such and in obedience to his command tryeth our subject-like and servant-like obedience therein but the doing the very particulars themselves is our true worshipping God 2 Our benefit v. 2. good will of God in faith v. 3. portions of saith that is as crowns seals and priviledges of ●aith and as exercisers and increasers thereof and of its Fruits 1 Internall viz. Knowledge v. 7. The Teacher Obedience and confidence v. 8. The Exhorter within Exhortation Holy conversation ibid. the Ruler 2 Externall viz. Maintenance v. 8. the Distributer And preservation ibid. the shewer of Mercy All which Offices and their Functions with answerable gifts and their exercise are given by God for our good according to their particular effects and our answerable need in all five respects 2 Powerfull and blessed to these ends v. 2. good acceptable and perfect will of God is to be in confidence and wisdome observed as an effectual mean to these ends X 2 Collateral i. e. our observance of collaterall respects of the five Offices their distinct Functions and their correspondent gifts and exercising emphatically and by express Apostolike authority charged v. 3. as in the Metaphrase All these respective Observances are the soul and life of the subject body of worship and its members and their works and workings and so are the internall worship of God of which as informing that together with that body hypostasing the same the whole fabrick of Divine worship consisteth whereof this is a summary synopsis Genesis as declared Rom. 12.1 to the 8. whereof the other table is a like synoptike Analysis which differ not in matter because Divine worship in the Radicalls thereof is the adaequate object of that place and it the sprig whereby the many Grapes thereof are epitomised concatenated and encorporated into a cluster of Grapes grown and enwined by God for his own Cup of Communion with his Saints onely this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shews the naturall course of Gods creation or institution t●ereof after the manner of his creating Adam first in his body of the lowest solum or matter of the earth in the sense of Gen. 1.1 and then informing him with his own breath of life Gen. 2.7 And that Analysis shews the artificiall course of Gods creation and institution of his Spiritual Creatures of the highest coelum as Christ was first the second person in the Trinity and after was made man by assuming our earthly nature so was Divine worship or the kingdome of Christ first instituted in the second Commandment in the generall wherein all particulars essentially consist as in Gods generall will prescribed therein and after in this particular wherein all universalls actually exist as in Gods particular will or special thing willed described in the particular thereof of all which this place is the head and radicall compendium most accurately both composing Divine worship into a joynt body and disposing it in all its distinct parts both lineal and colaterall which being shewn it resteth that I proceed to the Doctrines thereof with their proofs and applications and then to the like in the Antithesis of Antichristian worship yet obiter and sparsim laying the grounds thereof in the use of this Thesis wherein for order and memories sake I will follow the trace of this geneticall table as best fitting our summary creation our best intelligible object and capacity naturall answering thereto and that first gathering thence the porismata from its generall of worship and its adjuncts and then do the like in its particulars of the Church and its Churchitives the former is charged upon us verse 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which compared with its after particulars yeildeth this Doctrine Divine worship is Gods instituted will for his peculiar service THE EXPOSITION OF The 12.

Gospel Publique Worship OR The Translation Metaphrase Analysis and Exposition of Rom. 12. from v. 1. to 8. Describing and Prescribing the compleat Pattern of Gospel-Worship ALSO An Exposition of the 18 th Chapter of MATTHEW To which is added A Discovery of ADAM'S threefold Estate in Paradise viz. Moral Legal and Evangelical By THOMAS BREWER 1 Tim. 3.15 But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy self in the house of God which is the Church of the living God the pillar and ground of the truth See Gal. 6.1 Gen. 2.7 and v. 17. with Chap. 3.3 and v. 15. LONDON Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Eversden at the Sign of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1656. Gospel-Worship by Mr. Tho. Brewer THE EPISTLE TO THE READER READER IN the ensuing Treatises are represented to thy view a few of those many excellent Manuscripts penned by Mr. Thomas Brewer who besides many former and some long Persecutions endured under the Prelates suffered Imprisonment by the Bishops in the Kings-Bench Prison above the space of fourteen years for saying That because the Prelates did not derive their Offices from his Majesty as they ought therefore he durst not partake with them nor the Derivers of their Offices from them in the proper works of their Offices which in his Petition to the Lords of the Upper-house of Parliament 1640. he proveth Legal Loyal Reasonable and Seasonable a Copy whereof is herewith published for which cause they often deprived him of many of his Writings by which means and through transporting and transmitting c. some Papers pertaining to this Treatise are missing for the Author wrote very largly of these subjects yet is not any thing hereby deformed or obscured though abbreviated Whereby he was prevented from publishing these with divers others of his Works the which he intended who upon the presenting of the said Petition was released but about a moneth after dyed in a good old age and full of days Indeed his sufferings for the truth were very great and of long continuance but as his sufferings did abound so his graces and vertues did much more abound and like odours being crusht gave a more fragrant scent or like silver passing the fire were more refined But what need I to guild a Diamond or what needs he my commendation his Piety Learning Experience and Depth of Judgment are eminently known both in this and other Nations and are in part discovered in these ensuing Tracts which are not many broken fragments of others Writings patcht up together but profound studied matter extracted from the very nature and scope of the several Texts and Subjects whereof it treats and wherein was made good to the Author those Promises Prov 2.5 9. in a great measure most of which with many other of the like nature were the Authors own Experiences and Practises and Experimental Observations who in the time of his liberty was a frequent publisher of them himself at Leyden in Holland where he walked in communion with Mr. Robinson and also with Mr. Ainsworth also after the time of his restraint procuring liberty of his Keeper and sometimes in the Prison he taught them frequently in several Congregations in London which is well known to and testified by many of his Hearers yet living But for my own part I had onely the happiness to become acquainted with him the three last years of his life within which time although it was part of the time of his close Imprisonment I reaped much precious benefit from him by the opportunity of visites c. and like Apollos Act. 18.24 25. he was a man mighty in the Scriptures and being fervent in spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord. The truth of the matter published I am humbly confident is able to defend it self against all Adversaries though subject to be scandalized from which the best things are not free First here is a more ample foundation for and a more stately Edifice as it were pourtrayed out of Gospel-Worship which both regulates and improves grace than ever yet was published this 1300. years since Antichrist reigned for as Gen. 1. and Job 38. and 39. Chapter contains the whole and also the main particulars of the Creation Exod. 20. and Deut. 5. the summe of the Law Gen. 12.2 3. the summe of the Promises Dan. 2. the summe of the Prophesies Matth. 5 6 7. Chapters the main qualifications of Christs Disciples Matth. 6.9 c. Luke 11.2 The Pattern of all Prayer 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. The prime Signs and special Demonstrations of our Election Vocation and Salvation So these first 8. verses of the 12. Chapter to the Romanes as our Author saith well contain the whole body of Gospel Church-Worship And as Moses Exod. 25. to Chap. 40. and David 1 Chron. 28.11 gave exact patterns of the Tabernacle and Temple so here the Apostle Paul prescribes the like compleat pattern for this Spiritual Fabrick of Gospel-Worship of which the former were but Types and expressed so to be 2 Cor. 6.16 1 Tim. 3.15 R●v 21. compared with Lev. 26.11 Ezek. 37.26 27. This is the Central and Cardinal place of Scripture sanctifying the Divine Worship of the Word about which all other of this subject have their proper motion and use and whereon they depend as so many branches springing from this root and by which they are encorporated into one Order the want therefore of the clear understanding hereof is the cause of the seeming disjoyntedness of the Order of Worship and the long and much prevailing of Babylonisme thereby yea and errour and darkness yet so abounds that we have just cause to pray as the Psalmist doth Psal 43.3 Secondly in expounding the 18. Chapter of Matthew here is lively held forth that Meekness Love and Mercy which ought to be used for the recovery of a sin-sick-Saint Gal. 6.1 and on the contrary that pride railing and racking prosecuted both by the publike and personal Antichrist in such cases as Jam. 4.1 to 11. Thirdly and lastly here is set forth that three-fold or rather four-fold Estate of Adam in Paradise viz. Moral Legal Evangelical and Celestial his legal Estate or first Covenant of Works was saith the Author and what need be said more the first grand grandsire mystery of the Word and the Door key and Candle to all other Theologick Religious Personal publick and polemike the Epitomal Pattern of the Mosaical Law in folio and the Bridge garrison and Tutor unto the Gospel the Ladder and Key of Heaven These four Estates were founded in Paradise the first cultively the second epitomally the third personally the fourth inchoately so that this is the main hinge whereon the whole state of all mankind dependeth Now since this Work hath stuck so long in the Birth and having this opportunity now yet not till now put into my hands and withall considering the diversities of Judgments about and the many diligent enquirers after these things

by competencie King The Ruler ruling with diligence the conversation with honesty Preserver The Pittyer widow or mercy worker pittying or shewing mercy with cheerfulness to the body or naturall man for health Ver. 7 8. Or an Office whether it be the Teacher the Exhorter the Distributer the Ruler the Pittier and v. 6. gifts that are divers viz. Offices five V. 6. gifts that are divers viz. Teaching Exhorting and so by the same consequence Distributing Ruling Pittying or shewing Mercy V. 8. with or in singleness of eye or simplicity with diligence with cheerfulness and so the same consequence of the same course with understanding with wisdom yea and the speciall requisites of any other sort unto any Office Function or end v. 2. that good will of God i. e. good to or for us in the worship now in hand and v. 1.2 acceptable for none can do any work acceptable to God but he must give a proportionable and acceptable good to him thereupon b Ordinances Existing as means of Gods Worship v. 1 2. Blessing us v. 2. as above Ordered into c Sorts viz. as d Ministeriall Ecclesiasticall viz. all that are to be ministred by the Distributer Ruler and Mercy-worker Ministerial Proper as the Sacraments common as all the rest d Membrall Viz. Common viz. what Christians may do out of a Church or p●rsonall viz. Teaching Exhortting Comforting Contributing Visiting c. v. 6. whether prophesie Proper actions of power viz. judging Officers Members to be so not so c Heads viz. five appropriated to the five Officers as their proper Functions unto a fit exercising in the five sorts Operator or Effector of all the former parts viz. in all their five ends Accepter of his Servants services graces and works v. 1 2. acceptable will of God But for cloying the Reader and cumbering the Tables both large and this less there might have been added unto these four sorts and their particulars their many divine and humane respects both a priore and aposteriori mentioned before which do exceedingly clear strengthen and compleat the distinctness of these particular Offices but I desire rather that these things may be well digested and the other after at least their divers Objects viz. their wit will acts state and body There now remains only three tiles of this house to be laid which I will very briefly do The first is the illustrating v. 4 5. by 1 Cor. 12.4 to 30. The second is the epitomising the tree and body at large prosequted The third is an extracting or recapitulating of the Arguments for the main point The scope of 1 Cor. 12. is to confute the Corinthians Opinion of Excellencie Glory Contentment and Happiness in common Spiritual Gifts which he doth first generally by affirming them ignorant in that Point v. 1. by proving that they are herein to suspect themselves and respect him v. 2. and by proving that they are not properly Spiritual gifts of the Holy Ghost and then specially that the three sorts of them viz. given Powers Ministries and Effects are so distinctly set and disposed by God that we cannot ingross them to our selves nor deprive others of them and therefore neither simple nor comparative happiness can be attained in them this he doth in all three series summarily affirm in the first v. 4. in the second v. 5. in the third v. 6. and at large prove in the first v. 8. to 27. importing therein by the same reason or a majori the second also The second v. 28 29 30. in what remained or needed plainer to be exprest The third in both the former for if they were so then must their effects be accordingly as is exprest v. 7. The first is peculiarly handled v. 8 9 10. the second v. 28 29 30. and both very excellently proved and amplyfied in the verses between both in the words their plain exposition of our v. 4 5. yea it is so far exemplyfied that I wil content myself with referring the matter to the reading and comparing both those places by the ingenuous though of mean capacity what I have said hereof being well considered only for v. 28 29 30. observe first that he expresly distinguisheth the Offices and their Functions so that one cannot have more then one v. 28. God hath set some in the Church as first second third then after that and so of the rest and v. 29 30 are all Apostles are all Prophets are all Teachers are all c. to seven particulars Secondly that he inferreth the same upon his former proofs that no Member hath many powers and therefore cannot have many offices or their given works Iohn 17.4 And thirdly that he proveth both by Gods practise viz. God giveth but one power to one and another to another and so of Offices and their Functions and therefore we are not to take more to or upon our selves and therefore no happiness can be had in them whether absolute because he cannot have many much less all or comparative because he shall bebeholding yea inferior to another in another respect gift or office now if God used this discreet respectiveness in the time of profuseness of his Spirit Acts 2. with Ioel 2. how say some that the PASTOR hath all Offices included in him as if he were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or exempt from the rule of Gods practise and Pauls consequence of right thereupon both in Powers and Offices and others that the Offices are indeed distinct but it is only in degree as if all gifts were common and given to all and differed only in degree or as if the works of the Ministers were as common as those of Christians which are required no more of one then another but onely according to their more gifts means or occasions yea as those of every Subject of a Kingdom Servant of a family to whom no particular work nor talent is given but onely by a generall place of a Servant or charge to do the work of the Family and so Gods Kingdome or House were more without Offices or they without distinctness then the Kingdomes and Families of the world but especially others that the Teacher Exhorter and Ruler are but one Office expressing what the other import and professing what the other dare not for the vehememcy of the word and world against it The main scope of this Chapter and the next is to prefer happiness by grace above that by gifts upon this ground that that is indeed common as they wrongly suppose this to be which all those opinions cross are more crossed by it Lastly for I haste These make way for indifferency of Offices Functions Ordinances and Orders in Gods House give way to Hierarchycall yea Romish usurpation as if they had not that love of the Truth of Gods VVorship which he exacteth at least not that first-first-love which he best accepteth but this being at the utmost of my occasion beyond my intent when I began it I pass to the second

them both which exceedingly dignifieth our subject of Worship or taken per emphasin which the urging thereby to disconformity with World-worship and to transformity in grace and the emphatical that v. 1. that Word-worship necessite it expresseth worth and necessity of this knowledge of the highest nature yea that double demonstrative emphasis importeth an unexpressable dignity and necessity thereof Which latter sense not onely excludeth the former but also importeth yea enforceth it by the mutual emphasing and inseparable Nature of the two emphased matters Fifthly beside the compacture of the number of particulars in the five last verses in the latter Table shewn there is a special distinctness of those particulars to be observed pressed v. 3. and expressed in the metaphrase analysis and genesis thereof Therefore there is not onely all kind of knowledge requisite unto this special matter but also in the same how to discern the several particulars their joynt encorporating and enchaining and their distinct order both lineal and collateral Sixthly another proof of the same kind is from the like compacture of all manner of compleatings of this subject both lineal a priori posteriori and collatera dextral and sinistral shewn in the main part of the former Table summarily and shall be in this prosecution thereof illustrated that therein the Deity in its Unity and Trinity as α ω the efficient and end in all its ordering means and actuating powers Natural and Civil Spiritual and Ecclesiastical personal publike pleaseth to encircle embrace this his own instituted Son Image and Spouse as thereby parallelling his adopted and imputed mystical Church the particular matter of this his Ministerial Church of both which conjoyned and glorified he intendeth the compleating of his perfect celestial Church By these glimpses you may discern in this proof strength enough to evince the matter in hand that the subject of Divine Worship is very worthy of our knowledge and best endeavours to understand even as any thing knowable for Gods essence none can know and live a natural life and so there is no corrival but the mystical Church and the like relation of the Deity to it and of it again to the Deity which is the soul of our present body as in the next proof Seventhly 1. call to mind here the manifold motives and divine commands to get knowledge understanding and wisdome and the spiritualness and plenty of teaching thereof in the word and 2. the world-cloying Volumes thereof of the Divines of all sorts and ages and also the unsatiable and uncessant studies and labourings of Christians of all sorts and ages after the same and then consider that it is wholly reduced to the Ten Commandements Exod. 34.27 where it is expressed that they are the Epitome of Gods whole Covenant with his Church And 3. consider that onely the first second and fourth Commandement prescribe matters between God and Us for the third onely requireth our sincerity and seriousness in them and the other six are immediatly between man and man And in the first mentioned three that the first toucheth onely matters personal immediatly between God and Us and the fourth onely the Sabbath so that the second Commandement is the adequate object of Divine Worship Whence conclude the highness of the nature thereof that it is of the second sort all the matters of Religion and also the extent thereof that it possesseth the whole head of one of the Ten wherein God hath contrived his Covenant and that the largest of the Ten and strengthened with many excellent Reasons and Motives of all sorts expressed therein which yet are excellently varyed and illustrated in the three first verses of Rom. 12. and the particulars thereof compleatly in the kind thereof instituted in the five next and their distinctness charged with Apostolike authority v. 3. All which shew the highness of the matter and the excellency of this place and therein the necessity dignity and pretiousness of the knowledge both of the prescribing and instituting place and it s instituted matter Eightly Obedience then to God necessiteth us to know these his peculiar commands and the love of God constraineth us thereto the excellency also of the matter and its order both internal and relative lineal and collateral strongly moveth us thereto which two heads shew it acceptable to God and perfect in it self if now it also appear specially beneficial to us then it wanteth nothing to prove it that good acceptable and perfect will of God for that therefore mind the ends thereof and you shall find the one half for our good for as they are for Gods glory and worship which proveth them to be son-like duties of love to our Father upward so are they for our good five several ways and so they are means and so duties of wisdome for our own and brethrens benefit and so we thereby serve God immediatly as in Duties of the first Table and mediatly as in the second therein also serving and preserving our selves in wisdome and our equals in love The first of these five is in getting knowledge of all kinds of good to be obtained and the Science of Science it self and so of the means and manner of obtaining them which is proved v. 6. Prophesie which is expressed 1 Cor. 14.3 to be for edifying which cannot be without knowledge and its counter-distinction from exhortation and comfort proveth knowledge to be meant thereby and v. 7. the Teacher within teaching So one whole office with its function and exercising is for our information The second is in getting grace sincerity and holy power and vertues of all sorts which both are proper and prime good things and the Sanctifiers of all other goods whereby they become onely good to us yea and of all evils also in turning them to our good whereby even our sins are our physick and many wayes for our benefit in their co-operation and last end This is also proved v. 6. Prophesie with 1 Cor. 14.3 Exhortation and comfort and v. 8. The Exhorter within Exhortation and so also the whole 2d office and its ministration and administring are for our internal sanctification of Heart and Affections Thirdly the Ruling-Ministry and its Function Works are for the external nourishment of both these internals and suppression of their contrary Heresies and wickedness in the Church v. 8. the Ruler Fourthly God hath given to the Church not onely authoritative and magisterial Labourers in the Word and Doctrine and Rulers 1. Tim. 5.17 with their ministerial information exhortation and government Rom. 12.7 8. 1 Cor. 12.28 but also inferiour and servant-like helpers and their works of servant-like helps ibid. both for our personal provision in and by the Church Rom. 12.8 the Distributer i. e. the Orderer and Disposer of the provision of the Church by a Synecdoche of one particular for the general whereof there are many branches of which more at large else-where and also fiftly for our personal

being the Kingdom of Heaven compleat ● e. the Evangelical Ministerial Church its five-fold Offices Ordinances Works and Uses derived from and answering to Christ as Prophet Priest King Provider Preserver as Instituter of his five Church-Offices i. e. the Teacher Exhorter Ruler Distributer Pitier with their five Functions of Teaching Exhortation Ruling Distribution Pittying enrighting us by these three sorts of Christs five-fold respects to Teaching Exhorting Ruling Distributing Pittying for and unto the knowledge sincerity honesty provision preservation of our understanding heart and its affections Christian conversation estates and possessions persons health and life as from through and for God as an essential Mind Will actus good Being or Essence a Respecting our five-fold needs of him sent n Christ as to Sons to be received by Faith so to his Servants to be worshipped by Works as acknowledging Christ therein and n The Holy Ghost to adequate Christ as our Mediatour with all gifts Son-like to receive the benefits and Servant-like to do the Works of instituted Church-worship By this Table is Synopticè to be seen the external relation of our present Divine Worship to all Gods former Worships and the internal order of the materials thereof within themselves and also their respects to God Christ the Spirit and Man all exactly parallelling each other in all particularities and also compleating all things Divine into an integral unity perfectly resembling the perfect uniformity of the glorified Heaven and proposing to Us the present enjoyment thereof in an exact Epitome by a proper Livery of Seisin and imparting earnest so that nothing is more worthy of knowledge in respect of the perfection and gloriousness thereof nor more desirable in respect of its pretiousness to us and for their acceptableness it cannot but be discerned through their evident being of through and for God yea in the highest degree on earth Alas that this kind of Knowledge is so unknown and the pearl and treasure thereof as hid in the earth though like yea being Wisdoms house pillars and food proposed to yea proclaimed for us with many and manifold motives by her maidens Prov. 9.1 to 12. and though so unlike the contrary false worship and folly of Antichrist that foolish Whore and whorish folly so vilified and deterred in the rest of that Chapter as illustrating true worship by its contrary the particulars of this worship are so many and magnifyed that I dare not move by one of them Eleventhly This word-worship is the subject of the greatest part of the Scripture in its describing the particulars thereof prescribing the observance thereof prohibiting the contrary historying the practises of both sorts and the answerable blessings and judgments and making use thereof for future encouragements and terrours of the proceeders and adding farther comforts and threatnings accordingly but the particularizing hereof requiring a kind of Exposition of half the Scripture I must refer the marking this point in your daily readings thereof wherein you shall find these things exceeding useful and worthy your knowledge Twelfthly the great and many blessings of the Word are annexed to this true divine worship and the plenty of fierce Curses are denounced against the false and because this and the other are too large to prosecute to the full see both verified in the Decalogue-Epitome thereof in the second Commandement for that is so large as all the rest except the fourth Commandement which instituteth Gods set time for the celebration thereof and so it rather secondeth than affronteth our point and pronounceth moe and higher blessings and denounceth heavier judgments in this matter than all the body of the Decalogue beside But I more need to excuse my prolixness herein and to break off from the many proofs of and motives to this point then to proceed herein both since the matter is so pregnant and the remaining points so many and special above my ability to accomplish your patience to read except you be more then vulgarly transformed for this purpose which v. 2. requireth and also the suppressedness of the matter by the wrong exposition of this place and its parallels and the wronging opposition of their subject than which none is greater And therefore having made some use of the point and proofs I will pass to other for if I should instance the particulars of this Worship I should be drowned in the multitude of their special motives to this point of the worth and need of their knowledge Since then Evangelical Worship is so many and main wayes worthy and necessary to be known why is the knowledge thereof so slighted as worthless and useless and that not onely by the world and its world-worshippers for I as much slight the slightings and the fightings of Christs adversaries but by the Lovers of the Word and also of Gods worship in the general and of the particulars thereof which they hold so to be i. e. of preaching the Word administring the Sacraments and Prayer But the main and radical parts thereof i. e. the Church as encorporated and congregated the diversities of its Ministries and their Functions their derivation from the Church their ministration i. e. service in and unto that Church their set number and nature and their distinct collateral order and more the more particular appropriating of Divine Ruling order and acts to the proper Ruler of such a Church and in its Congregation but most of all the most particular act of that Ruler in admission and ordination and the knowledge whether those acts or the decree of the Congregation give the being to a member or Minister of a Church All these and divers other points of great use and worth they hold to be Walls Hedges Orders and Circumstances of Religion and Gods Worship but not of the substance thereof and therefore put off the knowledge thereof in pretence of their love and esteem of the substance thereof Alas that Professours of Religion should thus he Ushers of Antichrists Hall to make room for his entrance Porters of his tryumphant chair of estate to bring him in and supporters of his Hierarchy with their own shoulders upon such groundless pretences for Antichristianisme consisteth in the confusion of those main points of Religion and thereby those things which they call the substance of Religion But first ad hominem hath God set them for walls of defence of his true worship and worshippers and will they through ignorant negligence relinquish the walls to their and their Kings mortal enemy since the winning the Walls is the winning the City and all therein and the subjecting themselves to the enemy either to his service direct or indirect or destruction yea in God's Matters to both if to the first Secondly hath God bounded his Services with Hedges Dikes or other Fences and Circumferences to distinguish Christs servants and services from Antichrists and shall we slight Antichrists encroaching on Christs Tabernacle Tent or Church and Inheritance or Clergy and entitling himself with those names of

Religion Heb. 6.2 The Doctrine of Baptismes and the former subjective in the fourth foundation and next words and of imposition of hands as also their commandedness is in both their relation to the two first Principles v. 1. of repentance from dead works and faith towards God and their commendedness in the two last v. 2. and of the Resurrection from the dead and eternall Iudgement It being the excellent course of the Holy Ghost in notifying things capitally to set the most noted adjunct of the particular intended to be set synecdochecally for the generall head of the thing notifiable it being the briefest plainest readiest and certainest course and freest from the corruptions incident to diversity of Ages Nations and Languages and cavills of the Heretical opposites For Baptism is the first necessariest and notedest seal and adjunctive solemnizing rite as imposition of hands is the subjective and rites being the most and imposition of hands meere notifying as Moses Gen. 1.3 intending to mention Gods creating fire notifieth it by Light as by its most evident and eminent quality and most obvious to the most but this place abruptly * 2 Rational or respective 1 Internally to themselves and their proper relatives viz. the respect of the Subjectives as such to their adjuncts and of the adjunctives to their subjects as so bounded and charged by God v. 3. as God hath apportioned to every one the portion of faith and v. 4. in setting a body members and works and particular Ordinances within the confines whereof we are to serve God and out selves by observing their contents otherwise it is desolation perdition abaddon 2 Externally to their colaterals and remote linealls from both which we are disbounded by the consequence of the same places especially v. 6. according to the proportion of faith that is walking servant-like in their confined stint and not disproportionally to their sonlike portion as transgressing the station and circuits thereof as the Angels did Iude 6. for which Antichristianism is called Babylon and Babel i. e. confusion as breaking the disboundings in Gods Worship as it is for adding to it stiled that abomination Mat. 24.15 with Dan. 11.31 Rev. 17.5 and Man of Sin viz. from breaking Gods band and bounds 2 Thess 2.3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 1 Ioh. 3.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sinne is a band-breaker or bound-breaker and Lex and Religio are a band and rebinding or confining and stinting of Gods servants especially of his instituted or statuted Worshippers over which to step is superstition or supra station Iude. 6. and also for his destroying each of the stinted matter or order named Abaddon Apollyon that desolation son of perdition c. This I have shewn in the Text Metaphrase and Analysis of v. 3. and in the distinctness and stintedness of each state and work to be the scope of the Holy Ghost and of the Apostolick Emphatical charge v. 3. so jealous is God and ought we to be in this his marriage band bound and bed that he useth no active word much provoking or emphatical in all the five last Verses of the capital matter of his Divine Worship but onely restrictive and many wayes bounding terms and phrases for this distinctness sake Hitherto of the body or external part of Gods Worship and not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it is natural proper and simple existence Now of its soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scope and life thereof † 2 Internal or Theorical X 1 Lineal Y 1 Previal or respective a priore Z 1 Positive 1 Causal 1 Internal 1 Material 1 Of the Church viz. visible Saints and faithful in each others judgment v. 1. Brethren v. 3. portion of faith 2 Of its estates of its Ministery Saints graced and gifted for that end v. 3. as God hath apportioned to every one the portion c. v. 6. distinct 3 Of their functions moral teaching exhorting ruling distributing tending the sick natural bread wine water and actions of breaking powring giving dipping and set words of consecration 4 Of the membral states thereof viz. hearing with understanding and tractableness submission taking eating going into water 2 Formal as 1 True Worship so all the institutions external as of the word are the form of that ens verum unum ●onum and the particulars thereof its integra 2 Ecclesiastica so a corporation its estates and their works is its form v. 4 5.6 we v. 5. so we c. for the Church is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 basis the estates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 order and their works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vigour their administration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 effect perfected 2 External the efficient 1 Supreme 1 Simple God the Father willing them v. 1. to God v. 2. of God v. 3. as God v. 6. of God 1 Commanding v. 1. holy v. 2. perfect will v. 3. I charge 2 Commending v. 1. by the mercies acceptable v. 3. good v. 3. Portion of faith v. 5. every one each others members So 1 Cor. 12.6 diversity of operations but the same God who worketh all in all things 2 To us 1 Ordering estating and enriching Christ v 5. in Christ as instituter and founder of its authority to 1 Be Gods Worship v. 1. to God even the Word Worship with v. 5. in Christ so in the same 1 Cor. 12.5 ministrations but the same Lord 2 Do as his Church-Ministry Ministrations Members viz. Rom. 12.7 8 with 1 Cor. 12. v. 4 5. 2 Acting gifting enabling the holy Ghost v. 1. living v. 2. be ye transformed in the renewing c. v. 6. gifts distinct according to the grace of God so in that place 1 Cor. 12.4 gifts but the same spirit 2 Mediate 1 Active viz. the Apostle v. 3. I 2 Declaring viz. the word v. 1. of the word 2 Subjective b 1 Universal As an unum with its particulars As a genus with its species Id est Gods prescribing his Divine Worship in the generall and its particulars as the subject of our active service of him in generall Devotion to him as willing it by his majestick and prerogative will v. 2. perfect will of God with particular and distinct discerning of speciall Order therein by Christ v. 5. in Christ b 2 Particular as an 1 Whole with its parts 2 Integrum with its members 1 Gods prescribing his existent worship consisting of a subjective totum with its adjunctive parts i. e. Paradise Noahs Ark Abrahams Family Moses Tabernacle Solomons Temple with their appendant things Rites and actions v. 1. sacrifice synecdochically for the whole legall or precedent worship and all its particulars 2 Gods instituting the present Evangelical Church and its Adjuncts as an integrum with its integrall members and their faculties proper and common and their actions v. 4 5. to the 8. Note These subjective respects I call internall worship as transient from God towards us and we do accordingly internally