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nation_n	lord_n	people_n	world_n	4,365	5	4.5054	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94773	Truth vindicated from the unjust accusations of the Independent Society, in the city of Norvvich. Wherein is proved, 1. That the Church of England is a true church of Christ. 2. That it is a sin to seperate from the true church. 3. That the Independent Society in the city of Norwich is no true church of Christ. 4. Divers reasons and arguments used to perswade men not to seperate from the Church of England and joyne to their Society, shewing the sinfulnesse of so doing. / By S.T. Imprimatur, Ia. Cranford. Aug. 10. 1646.	Townsend, Sampson.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1987; Thomason E351_4; ESTC R201063	12,843	21

and for the truth S.T. TRUTH VINDICATED From the false Accusations of those of the Independent Society c. 1. THat the Church of England is a true Church of Christ for the cleering of this I will shew First the divers acceptations of the word Church 2. In what sence the Church of England is said to bee a true Church of Christ 3. I will lay downe arguments grounded upon the word of God whereby it doth appeare that the Church of England is a true Church of Christ For the first the word Church is put first for all those that shall be saved Heb. 12.23 To the generall assembly and Church of the first born that are written in heaven Colos 1.18 And he is the head of the body the Church Secondly it is put for the faithfull of a family we reade of the Church in Priscillaes and Aquilaes house Rom. 16.5 1 Cor. 16.19 of the Church in Nymphas house Colos 4.15 And of the Church in Philemons house Philemon verse 2. Thirdly it is put for the houses or places where the faithfull do meete together to preach the word of God and to administer the Sacraments as appeares if you compare 1 Cor. 11.18 verse with the 20 verse In the 18 verse he saith when ye come together in the Church and in the 20. verse when ye come together in one place Fourthly it is put for the professors of Christ scattered throughout severall Regions Acts 8.13 Acts. 12.1 The Apostle Peter writing to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia in the 1 Peter 1.1 he calleth them in the second Chapter of that Epistle and the 5 verse lively stones built up to a spirituall house that is a Church of God Fiftly it is put for every congregation gathered together to worship God 1 Cor. 14.23 If therefore the whole Church be come together into some place 1 Cor. 4.17 As I teach every where in every Church Sixtly it is put for the representative Church that is those who have the government of the Church in their hands and are to provide for the order peace and discipline of it Mat. 18.17 And if he shall neglect to hear them tell it to the Church that is to the Ministers or Governors of the Church who have power to cast him out as a heathen man and a publican not every particular member of the Church as appeares by the Apostle 2 Cor. 2.6 sufficient to such a man is this punishment or censure which was inflicted by many he would not have restrained it to many if it had been done by all Seventhly and lastly by Church in Scripture is understood a Kingdome or Nation Province County or City enjoying the word and ordinances of God and professing faith in God Such a Church was the Church of the Jewes to whom were committed the Oracles of God Rom. 3.2 And from whom should proceed the word by which God worketh salvation Isay 2.3 By which word they were distinguished from all other Nations in the World Psal 147.19.20 and became the peculier people of God Deut. 7.6 And thus the Kingdome of Israel became the Kingdome of God or Church of God Our Saviour Christ speaking of the rejection of the Iewes from being his people and Church over whom he raigned by his Word and Spirit saith Mat. 21.43 the Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof intimating that whatsoever Nation received and believed the word of God did become the Church and people of God as the Nation of the Jewes was before they were rejected The Prophet Isay prophesying of the conversion of the Gentiles saith Isay 55.5 behold thou shall call a Nation thou knewest not and Nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee by which it appeareth that whole Nations shall become the Church and people of God according to that promise Isay 52.15 he shall sprinkle many Nations And thus ye have the divers acceptations of the word Church 2. I come now in the second place to shew in what sense the Church of England is said to be a true Church of God And that is according to the last acceptation of the word Church which is when a Nation joyne themselves to the Lord by receiving professing believing and practising the word of God to salvation by which God becomes their God dwelling in the midst of them and they become his people Psal 33.12 according to that in Zach. 2.11 and many Nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of them which was practised Jerem. 50.5 Come let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten And it was most exactly performed in this Nation Deut. 26.17.18 by our late Nationall Covenant made with God We read of a Covenant between God and his people consisting of mutuall conditions on the peoples part the conditions are faith whereby they embrace him and rely upon him as their God and obedience to his commands as their Lawmaker and Governour verse 17. and on Gods part the conditions are to take them for his people which imployeth both his protection of them and provision for them both for this life and the next in this 18 verse the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his people and in the 9 verse of the next Chapter this day thou art become the people of the Lord. Not that they were not Gods Church and people before for we find it expressed they were so Deut 7.6.7 Deut. 14.2 But hereby it is yet further confirmed to them they were Gods Church and people And thus and in this sence the Church of England is a true Church of God And this leads me to The third thing propounded to lay downe arguments grounded upon the word of God by which it cleerly appeares that the Church of England is a true Church of God Our Saviour Christ when he would prove to the woman of Samaria that the Church of the Jewes was the true Church of God he doth it thus Iohn 4.22 Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jewes Whence I infer this first argument 1. That Church in which salvation is obtained and God is worshipped according to the knowledge of his will revealed in his word is the true Church of God but in the Church of England salvation is obtained and God is worshipped according to his will revealed in his word Therefore the Church of England is the true Church of God A second argument may be made which is necessarily implied in the text thus 2. Salvation is not ordinarily obtained out of the true Church of God but salvation is ordinarily obtained by the preaching of the word in the Church of England therfore the Church of England is the true Church of God An other argument may be grounded upon that by which the