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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53999	Jerub-baal, or, The pleader impleaded being an answer to Mr. Croftons (lately published) plea for communion with the Church under her present corruptions, &c., entituled Reformation not separation by way of humble remonstrance thereunto : shewing, that non-communion with the Church of England in her liturgy and common-prayer, in those that (yet) joyn with her in the substantial ordinances and instituted worship of Christ, is no schism, and that such are unjustly called separatists : in a letter / written by T.P. for the private satisfaction of a friend, and by him published for common benefit.	T. P.	1662 (1662)	Wing P112; ESTC R7299	36,119	58

Jerub-baal OR THE Pleader impleaded BEING An Answer to Mr. Croftons lately published Plea for Communion with the Church under her present Corruptions c. Entituled Reformation not Separation By way of humble Remonstrance thereunto SHEWING That Non-Communion with the Church of England in her Liturgy and Common-Prayer in those that yet joyn with her in the substantial Ordinances and instituted Worship of Christ is no Schism and that Such are unjustly called Separatists In a Letter written by T. P. for the private satisfaction of a Friend and by him published for Common benefit In cujus perniciem aliquando convenimus hoc sumus congregati quod et dispersi hoc universi quod et singuli neminem laedentes neminem contristantes Tertul. Apolog. adversus Gent. LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1662. A Letter Written by T. P. for the satisfaction of a Friend in case of Non-Communion with the Church of England in her Liturgy and Common-Prayer Honoured Sir SChism being a dissolution and breach of Vnion 't will not be amisse if for the better understanding of the nature of the Schism in question we make some enquiry into that Church-Vnion whereof it is a breach Now from the distinct notions and acceptions of the Church the nature of Church-Vnion will best appear The Church of Christ even that which is Militant for the Triumphant comes not here to be considered is usually distinguished into 1. Catholick 2. Particular The Catholick Church again into 1. Visible 2. Invisible 1. The Catholick Visible Church is the Vniversality of Persons called by the Word into External Fellowship with Christ and Communion amongst themselves professing the true Religion the Faith Doctrine and Worship of Christ throughout the world called Visible in respect of Outward Administration and Profession 2. The Catholick-Invisible Church is the Collective Body of the truly Faithfull the compleat Quorum of the Elect Gods Chosen ones called out of the whole World of Mankind into an intimate Vnion with Christ and Communion one with another not only externally by the Word but effectually and internally by Gods holy Spirit called Invisible no● quá Men but quá Elect the Man is seen but not the Christian The Lord only knoweth them that are his 2 Tim. 2.19 The Church-Catholick is under both those considerations called the Mystical Body of Christ viz. 1. By League Outward Profession under the former 2. By true Faith and real Possession under the latter Christ is a Common Head both to the one and to the other 2. A Particular Church is a Society or Societies of Persons called to the participation of and subjected to the Ordinances and instituted worship of Christ under certain external Rules accommodated for Local Joynt-Communion therein in a particular place Such are the English French Dutch Churches and such like including Parochial Distributions and Congregations as the Church Catholick includes them viz. as a totum Integrale or Vniversale so as that nec totum recte de una praedicetur nec una totum sibi vindicare possit saith Junius lib. de Ecclesia though the Papists make a kind of Monopoly of their Romish Church obtruding it for a Catholick yea the only Catholick Church in the World and thus by a cursed Sacriledge impropriate as I may say the Church of Christ This Distinct Notion of the Church ariseth from the diversified Nature of her Members the Constitutive Matter thereof who may be considered either 1. as Professors of the Faith of Christ in obedience to an Externall Call by the Word those constitute the Church Catholick-Visible or 2. as Possessors of Christ by Faith true Believers in Obedience to an Internall Call by the Spirit those constitute the Church Catholick-Invisible or 3. as Partakers of the same Ordinances and instituted worship of Christ in a particular place in Obedience to a Providential Call and in answer to an Opportunity serving thereunto those constitute a Particular Church so that the same Persons may be Members of the Church under that threefold consideration at once Church-Vnion then must be threefold or considerable under a threefold Notion 1. The First is the Vnion of the Members of the Church Catholick-Invisible with Christ and their Communion amongst themselves wherein they are through the Inhabitation and Indwelling of the same Holy Spirit in all and by vertue of a true Faith joyntly incorporated into Christ and concorporated one with another as Fellow-Members of the same Select Fraternity the Son of God having assumed their Persons into a Mystical as well as their Nature into a Personal Vnion with himself Now Sir This Vnion admits of no breach Christ and his Elect Members the true Branches of that true Vine are inseperably conjoined their Persons as well as their Nature are eternally matched and married to Christ the Mystical Vnion of the one is indissoluble as well as the Personall Vnion of the other with him There is no fear of a divorce here neither can the Body be severed from the Head nor any one Member from the Body the Members may quarrel an Israelite with an Israelite thus we read that Paul and Barnabas did contest and contend so fiercely that their Paroxysme of strife ended in Separation Act. 15.39 Yea they may joyn to their breach of Society a breach of Charity in some degree but neither is the one nor the other a dissolution of that Internal Union whereby the truly Faithfull are coupled together one with another and all of them joyntly with their Common Head Christ The Vinculum Vnionis the Conjugal-Vnion-Knot viz true Faith or the spirit of grace in the Faithfull being altogether inviolable The Holy Ghost is the Fountain-Radical of Faith as of all other Graces and therefore of this Communion One Spirit quickening influencing both Head and Members in the Mystical as one Soul conveys life and sense to all the Members of the Natural Body and hence 't is I conceive that Christ and Beleevers are said to be not One Body onely but One Spirit viz in Esse Mystico 1 Cor. 6.17 Now this same Spirit may suspend his influences viz Comfortable and Augmentative not Vital as in the dark and solitary dayes of soule-desertion and Faith may in such a case be much weakened and impaired viz in its Graduals but True Faith being the Seed of God 1 John 3.9 is in Esse vitali as to its Truth and Nature intrinsecally permanent an irreradicable principle Perseverance and indeficiency being its Genuine property as well as Christs purchase Luke 22.32 there is a kind of Immortality in it So that as there is a weaknesse in the strongest Faith so there is truth in the weakest now this Vnion depends not upon the strength but upon the truth of Faith and not upon the Gradual Communications but upon the Radical Inhabitation of the Spirit Such a suspension then is unfitly termed a seperation David lost Comfort but not the Comforter Psal 51.11 12. or if we grant with some that it is a