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A42920	The holy arbor, containing a body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion collected from many orthodox laborers in the Lords vineyard, for the benefit and delight of such as thirst after righteousness / ... by John Godolphin ... vvherein also are fully resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are, now controverted in divinity : together with a large and full alphabetical table of such matters as are therein contained ...	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1651 (1651)	Wing G943; ESTC R9148	471,915	454

Word is no sufficient note of a true Church for the Israelites had circumcision and yet the Lord saith they were not his people Hos 1.9 Again they overturn the inward power of Baptism by denying Justification by Faith alone in Jesus Christ And as for the bastard-bastard-Rites and Ceremonies invented and patched by men to Baptism as hallowing of the Water Tapers Exorcisms Chrism Salt Crosses Spittle and such like they are not of the true Church but a corruption of the Sacrament And as these men attribute too much to this Sacrament holding that it gives Grace ex opere operato so on the other side there are other giddy heads who number Baptism among things indifferent and so to be used or refused at our discretion Lastly seeing the administration of the Sacraments is a part of Ecclesiastical Discipline or rather Doctrine indeed they that are not called thereto and especially women may not in any case usurp the power and authority to Baptize Christs Herauld sent by Proclamation To enter our Initiation Sprinkled the Water and the sacred Blood Made the faithful though sinful appear good This is Bethesda 's Pool or Siloam's stream Whereof the frothy Anabaptists dream The right use to Infants daign'd may not be Though some of Abrahams Posserity Thus Christ himself they proudly Countermand Whose word when all the world 's dissolv'd shall stand §. 3. The Lords Supper THe Lords Supper is a Sacrament instituted and appointed of Christ unto the faithful for a memorial of him whereby Christ doth certainly promise and seal unto the faithful That his Body was offered and broken on the Cross and his Blood shed for them as truly as they see his Bread broken and Cup distributed to them and that he doth as certainly with his Body crucified and his Blood shed feed and nourish the Souls of the faithful unto everlasting life as certainly as their bodies are fed with the bread and the cup of the Lord is received from the hand of the Minister which are offered to them as certain Seals of the body and blood of Christ and binde them to mutual dilection and love The Evangelists shew it was instituted of Christ the same night he was betrayed after that he had supped and had eaten the Easter-Lamb according to the Law yet is it so called not so much because it was the night wherein Christ was betrayed as to shew that it is indeed a Spiritual Supper given of God unto the faithful It is indeed the Sacrament of our Redemption by Christs death insomuch as to such as worthily and with faith receive the same the bread which is broken is a partaking of the body of Christ and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of his blood Such therefore as declare themselves in confession and life to be Infidels and ungodly are not to be admitted to this Supper lest thereby the Covenant of God be prophaned and the wrath of God stirred up against the whole Assembly 1 Cor. 11.20 Wherefore the Church by the commandment of Christ and his Apostles using the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven ought to drive them from this Supper till they shall repent and change their life and conversation The Signs of the Lords Supper are twofold 1. Representing Signs as Bread Wine the breaking and pouring out 2. Applying Signs which do appropriate the same as the giving and receiving of bread and wine the first serves to renew our knowledge the other to confirm it As the Signs in the Lords Supper are 1. Bread broken and eaten 2. Wine distributed and taken So the things signified are 1. Christs body broken and blood shed 2. Our Union with Christ by faith The breaking and communicating of Christs body is signed by the breaking and receiving of the bread for two causes 1. Because Christ commandeth those Rites unto which we ought to give no less credit then if Christ himself did speak unto us 2. Because he annexeth a Promise That they who observe those Rites with a true faith must be assured and certain that they have communion with Christ The similitude or proportion of the Signs with the thing signified viz. 1. As the bread and wine nourish our body to temporal life so the body and blood of Christ nourish our souls unto life Spiritual and Eternal 2. As the bread and wine are received by the mouth so the body and blood are received by faith 3. As the wine is severed from the bread to signifie the violence of Christs death so his blood was sundred from his body signified also by the breaking of the bread and as the bread is eaten being broken so the body of Christ is received being sacrificed 4. As in corporal food is required an appetite unto it so in this Spiritual food is required faith 5. As of many corns is made one loaf so are we being many made one body The maner whereby Christs body blood doth nourish us is 1. The respect of his merit for us Christs body is given and his blood shed for us and for the body and blood of Christ we have eternal life given unto us 2. When we receive that merit that is when we believe with a true faith that for it we shall have eternal life 3. When the same Spirit uniteth us by faith unto Christ and worketh the like in us which is in Christ for except we be grafted into Christ we do not please God The remembrance we are to have of Christ in receiving the Lords Supper consists 1. In the memory of Christs benefits 2. In faith whereby we apply Christ and his merit to our selves 3. In thankfulness or publike confession of his benefits The Sacramental Rites of the Lords Supper are twofold 1. Respecting the Minister which are twofold 1. To take the bread and wine to break the one and to pour out the other that is that Christ suffered for our Redemption 2. To give the bread broken and to deliver the wine poured out that is that God doth offer and give Christ unto us together with all his benefits 2. Respecting him that cometh to the Lords Table it is required that he receive eat and drink the bread and wine given unto him that is that in the Supper we do truly receive Christ eat his body and drink his blood by the which we are nourished into the hope of eternal life if we do not cast him from us through unbelief The properties belonging to a fit guest at the Lords Table 1. He must be bidden Luke 14.8 2. He must be humble Luke 14.9 3. He must have knowledge of the person to whose Table he comes 4. He must bring a Spiritual appetite to eat 5. He must put on Christ his wedding garment Rom. 13.14 6. He must be ravished within himself concerning the use of these mysteries 7. He must be sober in using them 8. Chearful in receiving them 9. Loving to his fellow-guests 10. Thankful to the Master of the feast To the right use

God who as he will not be coupled with Idols so will he have his Truth severed from lyes 3. For our own Salvation that the faithful may know which to joyn themselves to and of what Kingdom they are 4. For the better confirmation of our faith and comfort when as we see that to be rightly in our Church which is wanting in others 5. Lest we being deceived should embrace the Doctrine of some other Church or Sect for true Religion 6. Lest we be partakers of the punishments which are to come on such men Rev. 18.4 7. That the wicked may be left unexcusable Why God oftentimes suffereth for a while his Enemies to prevail over his Church 1. Because his own people sin against him and therefore he is even compelled to correct and chasten them howbeit in mercy not in fury for their instruction not for their destruction that they may not be condemned with the world For as the Bush which Moses saw in the Wilderness though in the midst of a fire yet not consumed so is the Church on Earth in the midst of Persecution yet not overcome 2. That his children may learn to rest in God alone and not on themselves or upon the Arm of flesh rather then upon the living God Thus profited Manasseh more in the Prison at Babylon then on his Throne 2 Chron. 33.11 12. 3. To harden the hearts of the Enemies that they may run forward to their own confusion and fill up the measure of their iniquity The difference between the Church before the coming of Christ and now since is fourfold viz. 1. The Church before Christ did set him forth his Death and Resurrection but darkly by certain outward ceremonies as Sacrifices Lights Washings and the like 2. This consisteth in Reformation of life for as the knowledge of Christ is now greater so also the efficacy and working of the Holy Ghost is far greater which mortifieth our flesh so as we do more earnestly obey his Commandments according to the Promises declared by the Prophets some special gifts granted to some special men as Moses Elias and others who went far beyond us onely excepted 3. In that everlasting life was but obscurely and darkly offered to the Israelites wrapped or folded up onely in earthly Promises 4. The Church under the Law was as it were bounded with the borders of Judea or shut up within that countrey but now it is dispersed and scattered throughout the whole world neither is it tyed to any one place time or people The difference of the true doctrine from others viz. 1. This Doctrine was delivered from God other Sects are sprung from men and have been invented by Devils 2. True Religion hath firm Testimonies both Divine and Humane such as quiet Consciences and convince all other Sects of Error 3. In the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles is rightly delivered the whole Law of God and both the Tables of the Law are perfectly kept other Sects cast away the principal parts of Gods Law the Doctrine concerning the true knowledge and Worship of God contained in the first Table and reject the inward obedience of the second Table 4. The whole Gospel of Christ rightly understood is in the true Church alone taught and in this true Doctrine alone contained other Sects are either quite ignorant of it or do patch some little part of it out of the Doctrine of the Apostles unto their own Errors True Christian Religion consisteth especially in five principal points distinguished thereby from all other counterfeit Religions 1. It maketh all the chief Points of the Doctrine thereof to agree with the nature of the true God in the knowledge of whom it strengthneth and keepeth the godly 2. That it establisheth the glory of God in the Salvation of men and so the godly are more and more confirmed in the certainty of their Salvation 3. That it joyneth good Works with our Salvation by a most near band although it be no way grounded upon them so that the faithful cannot take any matter of boasting in them 4. That it openeth a way for us unto God to crave of him all things necessary for soul or body for this life or that to come 5. That it yieldeth to the godly matter of patience and joy in adversity yea also Assurance in the greatest dangers and not without much circumspection care and watchfulness in the most prosperous condition The difference between the Church and Commonweals viz. 1. Commonweals are distinct in divers places and times the Church is alway one and the same 2. The States of the World have many Heads the Church but one and that in Heaven 3. Kingdoms are governed by mens Laws the Church by the Holy Ghost and Gods Word 4. The civil State requireth outward obedience onely the Church both inward and outward 5. States give Power to Civil Magistrates to alter and make new Laws the Church is so tyed to the Word of God as she may not adde to or detract ought from it 6. The civil State hath Corporal Power but the Church punisheth by denouncing Gods Wrath out of the Word of God 7. In the Church are always some Elect and holy but not always in the Commonwealth The Office and Authority of the Church as concerning the Scriptures 1. It is as the Keeper of the sacred Rolls and Records to preserve them not to authorize them 2. It is as a Touchstone to distinguish them from counterfeit Scriptures not to make that Scripture which is no Scripture 3. It is as the voyce of a Cryer to preach publish promulgate and teach the Truth but cannot adde to or take from it nor authorize nor alter or change it 4. It is as an Interpreter and Expounder of the Scriptures according to the Scriptures How the Church may be said not to erre 1. The whole doth not erre though some Members do 2. It doth not erre universally though in some points of Doctrine it may 3. It erreth not in the Foundation As the Church may ordain ceremonies tending to order decency unity and edification so hath it no power to appoint what she please For she may not decree any Rites or ceremonies that are 1. Idle or unprofitable but must all tend to edifying 2. For their nature impious like the Ordinances Maners and Idols of our Forefathers Ezek. 30.18 Teachers of vanity Jer. 10.8 and of lyes Heb. 3.10 3. For use Superstitious like the Brazen-Serpent Hezekiah brake 2 Kings 18. 4. For their worthiness in the eyes of the ordainers either of equal price or of more account then the very Ordinances of God so as for the performance of them the Laws of God must be left undone Mark 7.8 13. 5. Against the liberty of Christians to the intangling of them again with the yoke of servile bondage Gal. 5.1 6. For their weight over-heavy and grievous to be born Luke 11.46 7. Any way contrary to the Commandments Will and Word of God Mat. 15.13 8. They must

three respects 1. By right of Redemption because he hath ransomed us from our sins 2. By the right of Conquest for he hath subdued the Devil who had us in his power Heb. 2.15 3. By the right of Spiritual Marriage because he is to the Church as the Husband is to the Wife So likewise Christ is our Head in three respects 1. In respect of his perfection because he is both God and Man and in gifts as touching his Humane Nature exceedeth all creatures Col. 2.9 2. In dignity order glory majesty power and authority which in his Humane Nature glorified he now openly sheweth forth and declareth Heb. 1.2 3.6 3. In respect of his Office for he is over every member of the Church he ruleth governeth quickneth nourisheth and confirmeth them We are also in three respects the members of Christ 1. Because by Faith and the Holy Ghost we are joyned unto him and also are knit together amongst our selves as the members to the Head and one with another 2. Because we are quickned and guided of him and from him as the Fountain we draw all good things so that except we continue in him we have not eternal life in us 3. Because as in mans body are divers faculties and functions of the members so are the gifts and functions divers of the members of Christ in the Church Jesus is called Messias or Christ or Annointed 1. Because he was appointed of his Father from everlasting the Mediator that is the chief Prophet Priest and King of the Church Joh. 7.28 2. In respect of the gifts of the Holy Ghost which were poured on him thick abundantly and most perfectly Joh. 3.34 The Anointing of Jesus signifieth 1. The ordaining of the Son of God to the Office of the chief Prophet Priest and King of the Church 2. The especial communicating of the gifts of the Holy Ghost necessary for this Office 3. Gods approbation and prospering of this Office Isa 53.10 Now we must not here understand Christs Anointing as if it were a Typical Ceremonial or Sacramental Anointing but real and Spiritual that is he received the thing it self which was prefigured and signified by the Ceremonial Anointing which was the Holy Ghost Psa 43.97 Heb. 1.9 Christ as touching his Office was Anointed of God to be 1. A King by his Divine Power delivering us from the Tyranny of our Enemies Devil Sin Death Making us Subjects to his Kingdom Ruling us and his whole Church By the Scepter of his Word By the Power of his Spirit 2. A Prophet by declaring all the Will of God unto us by his word giving us the Holy Spirit to understand consent to and obey it 3. A Priest by making an Atonement by offering up himself once for all by offering on the Cross his Body and Blood for us to God the Father that he might make satisfaction for our sins Christs Royal Office is 1. To Rule by his Word and Spirit his Church gathered out of all Nations from the beginning of the world 2. To defend and preserve this his Church in this life against all both inward and out ward foes 3. To make his Church partaker of the blessings of his Kingdom and to adorn her being raised up from the dead with everlasting glory and bliss 4. To overcome and rule his Enemies by his might and power and at last to thrust them down into eternal torments The Office of Christs Prophetical function for which he is called The Word viz. 1. To open and declare unto men God and his secret Will of saving Believers by and for him shewed unto him immediately of God himself 2. To refine and purifie the Law and Worship of God from corruptions Mat. 5.6 7. 3. To open the Promises of the Gospel concerning himself to be born to suffer and to dye concerning Remission of sins our Reconciliation unto God and of Salvation and Everlasting life 4. At length also assuming and taking to him Humane Nature to teach as by his voyce the will of God concerning us and towards us and to confirm this Doctrine of Miracles 5. Not onely to give Oracles and Prophesies to open the will of God by Prophets and to teach and expound it himself but also to ordain and institute the Ministery of the Word and Sacraments that is to call and send Prophets Apostles and other Ministers of the Church and to furnish them with gifts necessary to this Ministery Joh. 20.21 6. To give the Holy Ghost Mat. 3.11 7. To be through his own and others Ministery effectual in the hearts of the hearers that is to open and lighten our mindes by his Spirit that we may understand his voyce Luke 24.45 8. To effectuate also that which by the efficacy of his Spirit he speaketh in our hearts that is to move our will to yield assent and obedience to those things we learn and know Eph. 5.25 The four principal parts of Christs Priesthood 1. To teach men both outwardly by his voyce and the voyce of his Ministers and inwardly by the efficacy of his Spirit 2. To offer himself a Sacrifice and a Ransom full sufficient and acceptable unto God for the sins of the world 3. To make continual Intercession for us to the Father 4. To apply his Sacrifice unto all those for whom he prayeth Again the distinct parts of Christs Priesthood may be these two 1. Satisfaction which consisteth partly in suffering partly in obedience 2. Intercession in that he is become our perpetual and perfect Advocate that thereby God might be appeased and we reconciled unto him the fruit whereof is that we are Cleansed from the guilt of sin Redeemed from the wrath of God Ransomed from the curse of the Law Justified before God Delivered from the burthen of Ceremonies Freed from fear of condemnation How the Church of Rome doth endeavor to overturn both the Regal Priestly and Prophetical Office of Christ 1. His Regal Office by making the Pope the Head of the Church and giving him power to make Laws to binde the conscience as Gods Laws do 2. His Priestly Office by their Massing Priesthood wherein they daily offer up an unbloody Sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead 3. His Prophetical Office by saying the Scriptures are imperfect without Tradition in giving liberty to the Pope to make new Laws and to expound the Scriptures as Supreme Judge These things they teach and therefore that Church is not worthy to be counted a Member of Christs Church How Moses is said to write of Christ 1. Because he recounteth the Promises concerning the Messias to come In thy seed shall all Nations be blessed Gen. 12.3 God shall raise you up a Prophet Deut. 18.11 A Star shall rise out of Jacob Numb 24.17 2. He restraineth the Promise concerning the Messias unto certain persons of whom he was to be born by which afterward the Promise of the Messias was more and more renewed and revealed 3. The whole Levitical Priesthood and