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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88108	A brief plat-form of that government which is called Presbyterial. By William Ley minister of the Word at Charlwood in Surrey.	Ley, William, b. 1620 or 21.	1648 (1648)	Wing L1887; Thomason E457_1; ESTC R204958	18,562	30

not censure but by the law of God But is not the Church holy and hath it not in it many times rare gifted Brethren as well as officers Is not this objection a kin to that of Core Yee take too much upon you you sons of Levi seeing that the congregation is holy There is a three-fold Holiness 1. A Regenerative holiness of sanctification 2. A Federall holiness of covenant and Church-membership 3. A Separative holiness by way of Office Jer. 1.5 Though the Church may bee granted to bee holy in the first and second sens yet never in the third Remembar Vzzah Corah Dathan Abiram and King Vzziah 2 King 15.5 But to the point 1. Som are gifted as Christians 2. Others are gifted as Officers and in this sens the Brethren are ungifted Brethren Rom. 10.15 Hebr. 5.4 But here a great question is moved at this day Whether the Magistrate have not the power of Church-Government in him and so the Keyes fall not onely out of the hands of the people but of officers themselvs The Reverend Divines of London tell us that the Mag●strate hath a power circa not in Ecclesiam 1. They have a defensive patronizing power Isa 49.23 2. A Diatactick or Regulating Ordering Power 3. A Compulsive Punitive Power as Custodes utriusque Tabulae the Keepers of both Tables But as for a Supreme power they desire to bee excused as bound not onely to give to Caesar what is Caesars but to God what is Gods To these I add what Sleidan relate's of Luther Sleid. Com. 1 14. That hee would not have Caesar stirred up as head of the Church or as Protector and Defender of the Faith for this saith hee is a wrong to Christ and these are fals and emptie Titles Ambrose tell 's us in his Epistle to Valentinian A good Emperor is within the Church not above it Eusebius bring 's in Constantine thus speaking to the Ministers Euseb l. 4. de vit â Constant You are Overseers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of those things don in the Church I of those things which are don out of it Ridley in his conference with Mr Latimer Fox Martyrol saith Fox Martyrol pag. 1564. Here cometh to my remembrance that notable saying of Valentinian the Emperor for choosing the Bishop of Millain Set him saith hee in the Bishops seat to whom if wee as men do offend at any time wee may submit our selvs Rivet in his Commentary on the fifth Commandement tell 's us that the Magistrate may bee considered either as an officer of the Common-wealth or els as a member of the Church as an Officer of the Common-wealth so hee hath authority over each particular person as a member of the Church so hee is subjected to Ecclesiastical discipline this hee illustrate's by a Simile The The King doth command and obey his Physitian and confirm's also by a proof from Heb. 19.17 Master Calvin could not brook this Title of Supreme Head and Governor Calv. nos Anglos blasphemos dixit quòd Regem summum caput sub Christo vocarent Cal. Gom. in Amos 7. ver 12. and therefore accounted our English Courtship of styling our King next to Christ Supreme Head and Governor to bee no less then blaspemie and hee tell 's us further that somtimes the Magistrate is negligent nay somtimes the Magistrate may stand in need of correction himself as hapned to Theodosius Caesar who was excommunicated by Ambrose for his great slaughter at Thessalonica Pareus tell 's us that the Magistrate punisheth one way the Church another the Magistrate imprisoneth the Church excommunicateth the Magistrate proceed's immediately the Church by leasure first admonishing then censureing the Magistrate his eye is upon the Law the Churches on Repentance The promise of bindeing by excommunication Ista promissio an unius anni dicenda vel paucorum Cal. in Instit lib. 4. cap. 11. of loosing by receiving into Communion was not a promise made to the Church for one yeer onely till the Christian Magistrate were grown up it was not a Leas but a Legacie And indeed were it otherwise the Church would bee in a wors condition under Christian Magistrates then under Heathen For Paul's command prevailed over the Corinthians to purge out their old Leaven 1 Cor. 5.7 Now it is neither Paul nor Apollos that sine nutu Caesaris can prevail for Reformation and bring his Congregation to an effectual purge If a Physitian should bee prohibited to purge the body of his Patient till hee were back't with a command from higher Powers as the Officer is to purge the body of his Church hee would esteem it a thing extreme injurious to him and his Patient III. By Presbyterial Government every particular Church shall have a Consistory consisting of Pastor and Elders of the same Church who ought to meet once a week to dispatch incident business Acts 21.18 It hath authority to assemble and inquire into the conversation of men of all sorts and degrees to judg upon Lewdness Prophaneness Negligences and thereupon to admonish 1. Privately 2. Solemnly 3. Publickly And to withdraw Communion that they may bee ashamed to suspend from Sacrament upon contumacie 2 Thes 3.14 And to conclude inferior differences ariseing within the Body IV. In the last place I com to set down the variety of Officers which are thus disposed 1. Pastors are thus disposed 2. Elders are thus disposed 3. Deacons 1. Pastors are Officers instituted by Christ Rom. 10.15 Heb. 5.4 1. Pastors Tit. 1.5 1 Tim. 3.2 to ver 8. Naynot onely by Christ but by all the persons of the Trinity 1. God the Father 1 Cor. 12.28 2. God the Son Ephes 4. ver 11.8 3. God the holy Ghost Acts 20.28 Consider good Reader the desperate malignity that such bear to the Trinity to the Church to the Scripture that denie the office of the Ministerie to bee instituted by Christ what doth the great Wolf Satan desire more then the delivery up of the Shepherds that so hee may tear in pieces the Flock of Christ while there is none to deliver see Matth. 28.19.20 Go saith Christ and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father the Son and the holy-Ghost teaching them to observ all things that I have commanded you and Io I am with you to the end of the World with you Hee mean's not their Persons for they died but their Office which is perpetual This place will not admit of so frivolous a Descant as som have made of it Mr. M. of H. * That Christ promiseth his Saints to bee with them to the World's end which though true yet it hath no ground nor is deducible from this proof for there are two different and distinct Particles in the last vers them and you By them is understood the Flock by you the Pastors To conclude that which God hath promised in all ages that calling which hath its Seal from heaven in