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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70943	An answer to Mr. William Prynn's twelve questions concerning church government at the end whereof, are mentioned severall grosse absurdities, and dangerous consequences of highest nature, which do necessarily follow the tenets of Presbyteriall, or any other besides a perfect independent government : together with certaine qveries.	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?; Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1665; ESTC R17515	26,672	28

Independent way but if it do it is a strong argument that the erecting of Nationall Churches is no Ordinance of God as being over liable to casualty and subversion if the Prince thereof only or every lesser part has a capacity to overthrow it But whereas you say that as the Christians multiplyed so were Church Officers and their Church Government and Discipline varied the Church Officers encreased new Gospels written prescribing new necessary rules canons and directions c. and transmitting the same liberty unto posterity of supplying and instituting the like as they themselves should afterwards finde requisite the phrase or rather doctrine of new Gospels stumbles me not a little conceiving we finde it branded with a curse Gal. 1. 8. 9. 1 Tim. 1. 3. and I feare me you may as well question whether we have that true Gospel which was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. as multiply or coine us new ones for if there be more then one or since all Christians are endowed with Christian liberty all alike if a Lutheran Calvinist Anabaptist or Brownist if a Papall Presbyteriall or other Synod if Rome Spaine France or England may make new Gospels all other States Synods and People of what opinion soever may doe the like and then what spirit lesse than wonderfull and infallible can assure us which is the true one and yet such as will make new Rites and Ordinances their very Ceremonies becomming Ordinances by their enjoyning them to binde the consciences of their brethren must necessarily derive their warrant from some new and unknowne Gospel or have no new ones their owne confession implying no lesse in that they hold a necessity of new Rites and Ceremonies whereof they acknowledge to have no expresse warrant for them in the Scriptures which are common to us and for the liberty you say Independents use in this respect they impose it no otherwise upon any but that every particular man which apprehends it not to be Gods way may peaceably withdraw himselfe But for Micah 4. 1. to 5. Zach. 8 22. and Es. 2. 2. 3. And it shall come to passe in the last dayes that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted above the hills and all Nations shall flow unto it And people shall goe and say come ye and let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his waies and will walke in his paths for out of Zion shall goe forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which you bring to prove the Prophets prediction of Nationall conversions and consequently of Nationall Churches after their dayes but you can no more justifie a Nationall Church of Christians from thence than that the same Nationall Church of Christians shall likewise goe up to the Temple of Jerusalem from whence by the same Prophesie they are also to receive the Word of God and not from Parliament Pope Synod or Presbytery nay the same Prophesie goes futher and sayes That they shall then breake their swords into mattocks and their speares into sithes Nation shall not rise up against Nation neither shall they learne to sight any more v. 4. May then a Presbyterial Spirit carve or mince this Prophesie out unto us by peece-meales which the Spirit of the most High hath joyned and if it be to be verified of our times that Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learn to fight any more must not these sonnes of thunder these men of Warre these Church Incendiaries which doe little besides preaching fire and sword with incensing of their over credulous disciples to drive out of the Country out of the World or persecute even unto death such as only dissent from them in opinion must they not I say condemne themselves this course may make a People become a Nation of Divels or sooner cut a whole Nation off than make them grow into a Nationall Church to serve the Lord in sincerity and truth But what if whole Nations should be converted if Nationall conversions may or ought to prove so many Nationall Churches suppose English Scotch Dutch French whereof no one will submit unto the other though they were all orthodox Protestants would not they be all independent in respect to one another why then may it not be tolerable in the eyes of God for as many lesser Churches or Congregationall Assemblies in one State or Kingdome to enjoy a like independencie is God a respecter of numbers or of Nations but if the severall Nations so converted ought to make but one Nationall Church why may not the proselites of all Countries as well make one Nationall Church since we find in Zach 14. 16. whilest he prophesieth of a Nationall Church and worship that every one that is left of all the Nations which came against Jerusalem shall goe up from yeare to yeare to worship and which of them shall have the honour of the denomination and christning of it wherefore should it be called after one rather than after any other of them I feare me the Gossips will not agree about the name especially the Spaniards who have the Catholicke King and thinke all Nations of the World bound to leave their owne and learne their fashions language and what not and yet the Jewes will tugge hard for it both with Rome the Spaniard and all others pretending that all Prophesies and other Scriptures which doe make for a Nationall Church declare it plainly to be Iewish Es. 49. c. Mic. 4 1. 5. and the truth is that under the Law whoever of the Nations were then converted were properly said to be of the Iewish Church in whatsoever climate or Country they were resident but how an English-man can be a member of severall Nationall Churches at once as he may happen in his life time to have lived severall yeares in severall Countries or be one yeare a member of one Nationall Church and another yeare of another I know not but conceive it to be totally inconsistent and yet you will make him be a member of the Nationall Church where ever he resides for the present and that if the Church be now Nationall whosoever is once a member can no more cease to be a member by leaving one Nationall Church and joyning to another than in time of the Jews when there were but two estates to wit within or without the Iewish Church But if severall Nationall Churches may make up one Catholique why may not so many more Independent Churches doe so too And if all beleevers must now make but one Nationall Christian Church must it not insinute one High Priest one Pope to be head thereof that it may the better hold parallel with the Jewish If well examined 't is not unlikely something equavalent thereunto may be discovered will not these changelings like Micha's vagabond Priests which remove from one Benefice