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The agreement of the associated ministers of the county of Essex: proposed to their particular congregations, and to all such of the county that love the churches peace; with a word of exhortation to brotherly union.
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part of the same that through death he might destroy c. And became man 1 Tim. 2.5 there is one God and one Mediatour between God and men the man Christ Jesus Being conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary Matth. 1.18.20 21. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise Luke 1.27 31 35 42. When as his Mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his name Jesus c. Made of her substance Rom. 1.3 Concerning his Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh Gal. 4.4 In the fulnesse of time God sent his Son made of a woman and borne of her Matth. 1.25 she brought forth her first-borne Son and he called his name Jesus Luke 2.7 Who being perfect God and perfect man in one person Matth. 1.23 Behold a Virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Sonne and they shall call his name Emmanuel John 1.14 Rom. 9.5 1 Tim. 3.16 which being interpreted is God with us Free from sin even in his humane nature and life Heb. 7.26 1 Pet. 2.22 1 John 3.5 2 Cor. 5.21 for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we c. Heb. 4.15 he was without sin Having fulfilled all righteousnesse Matth. 3.15 with 5.17 Jesus said unto him suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousnesse Gave himself a sacrifice for our sins and a ransome for us Eph. 5.2 And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us Heb. 9.14.26.28 Mat. 20.28 1 Tim. 2.6 1 Pet. 3.18 Mat. 26.38 and 27.46 Gal. 3.13 Phil. 2.8 Rom. 3.24 25 26. with 5.9 Heb. 2.17 1 Pet. 3.18 and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour By suffering the wrath of God and the death of the Crosse 1 Pet. 2.21 24. Christ hath suffered for us c. who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree c. To reconcile us to God 2 Cor. 5.18 19 21. All things are of God who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ and hath given unto us the ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them c. And being buried Acts 2.23 24 27. Col. 2.15 Heb. 2.14 yet so triumphed over death that he rose again the third day And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures And afterwards ascended up into heaven Luke 24.51 Acts 1.9 11. Mark 16.19 after the Lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven c. Where he remaineth Rom. 8.34 Act. 3.21 whom the heavens must receive until the time of the restitution of all things Ruling in equal power and glory with the Father Col. 3.1 Eph. 1.20 21 22. which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principalities and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church And making intercession for us Heb. 7.25 Rom. 8.34 who is even at the right hand of God who maketh intercession for us Whence he shall come again 1 Thes 4.14 15 16. Act. 1.11 this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven At the appointed day to judge the world in righteousness 2 Thes 1.7 8 9 10. Acts 10.42 with 17.31 John 5.22 27. for the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement unto the Sonne And hath given him authority to execute judgement c. I beleeve that God the holy Ghost who proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne Gal. 4.6 John 15.26 But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall c. Luke 24.27.44 Rom. 3.22 with 15.4 2 Tim. 3.15 16 17. 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. Ephes 2.20 Deut. 9.2 Rev. 22.18 19 Ephes 2.8 Acts 13.48 Joh. 6.37 39 44 45. 2 Thes 2.13 Tit. 3.4 5 6 7 Eze. 36 26 27 Nehem. 8.1 2 3 Isa 59.21 Acts 15.21 with 17.11 Mat. 15.10 Mark 7.14 Rev. 1.7 11. Mat. 28.19 20 1 Cor. 12.28 29. Hath fully revealed the truth and will of God contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament Luke 1.70 as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which have been since the world began To be a perfect perpetual and onely rule of Faith and obedience Psal 19.7 The Law of the Lord is perfect Isa 8.20 to the Law and to the Testimony Luke 16.29 They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them And doth effectually apply to his elect by working Faith in the saving benefits of that redemption purchased by the blood of Christ Eph. 1.5 7 9. Which precious benefits are dispenced by the same Spirit 1 Cor. 6.11 But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God In the Use of those holy Ordinances John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me Which Christ hath instituted in his written Word Eph. 4.11.12 And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ 2 Tim. 4.2 John 6.44 45. Acts 12.37 with 10.44 26.18 1 Pet. 1.23 25. For the begetting Rom. 10.14 15 17. how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher And how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautifull are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace and bring glad tidings of good things So then Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God And encreasing Grace James 1.18 1 Thes 5.19 20. Acts 2.42 46. 1 Cor. 10 16 17 with 11.20 23. 2 Pet. 2.2 As new-born-babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow thereby Carefully to be observed Isa 2.3 Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob Luke 4.16 Acts 13.14
all disintending and neglect of a duty arises from over intending and following something else that should not be done The neglect of the publick must have some ill unworthy ground and occasion There 's some evil that infects the Heart of Men that breeds this animi deliquium this heartlessness unto the publick It was holy Paul's complaint in his time All seek their own and none the things of Christ. The defect of publicknesse of Spirit seeking the things of Christ breeds from a private Spirit and sinfull seeking our own things There is a very private narrow Spirit gone out into the Nation that like Pharaoh's lean and ill favoured Kine eats up the fat and good Many Christians many publick persons many Ministers for their own safety ease self-enjoyments and attendance on their own private affairs design retiredness and please themselves in unprofitable Privacies lying hid and lying still withdrawing themselves from the publick in a great measure when the publick cals so loud to all for help There is a very sinful unworthy Spirit in divers this way suffering themselves to be of little use in comparison of what they might and hiding much of their Talent in the Napkin of an unprofitable privacy This is as if the Springs and Rivers should seal up themselves or hide themselves under ground and bid us go seek our water As if the Sun should stand still draw a Curtain before it and then bid the Moon and Stars to warm the world and make day Ah how sinfull is it to be all self Center-self and Circumference self aimes and actings all self Or to prefer a mans own petty privacies and particularities before the publick to have all the heart on the one no heart on the other or in an exceeding great disproportion Never any Christian yet had his license made him or his quietus est given him to retreat from the publick and lie still in meer unactivenesse It is the alone prerogative of him that is immutably self-sufficient and from whom all things only are to be solely for himself Weigh it seriously there are but two sorts of Creatures in the world that have made themselves a license to be meerly and only for themselves and they are Divels and wicked men left to themselves There is nothing in the whole Creation but as it is stampt with a principle of self-preservation so likewise it hath a strong inclination and will accordingly on occasion to bestir it self into a zealous activity to preserve the universe Many heathens though moved only by principles of Morality yet were often Persons of a most Publick and Heroicall Spirit eminently carried forth and acted to undertake and adventure for the publick good Holy persons in Scripture are purposely put upon the file of a glorious Record for their excellent publick Spirit their being so studious and zealous for promoting the publick and not regarding their own private as to estates liberties lives or whatsoever might be dear and precious to them As Moses David Nehemiah Paul and many others The Saints in Heaven though so secure and happy yet are all of a most publick transcendently publick Spirit engaging for the Church Militant in their requests continually The glorious Angels are of this publick Spirit being daily most freely ministring Spirits for the good of the Heires of Salvation The most Blessed God although he needeth nothing and is under no obligation to any but as himself pleases yet hath the largest heart and most liberall hand doing good to all especially his Churches and guides continually every thing as to his own glory so the good of his That private Spirit that designing of and pleasing it self in unprofitable recesses latencies and lying still That Spirit which is under a Spirituall Listlesness and Cowardize for doing and adventuring any thing to promote or preserve the publick is the most improper and irregular thing in the world The most excellent Christians have the most publick lively Spirits the greatest thoughts highest aimes largest affections most abundant Zeal activity and equality of endeavours for the publick These when private narrow listless Spirited men that overminded their own will have but a bad account to give in to Christ These will render up their account with greatest joy and confidence This the first great Obstruction to our healing and relieving Union want of a publick Spirit and this from being so much of an unprofitable private Spirit set upon and seeking our own and not the things of Christ The second and which also greatly grounds the former is that very great want of Love First To Jesus Christ his cause and Gospel-Brotherly Love Love which is exclusive of a meerly private and narrow of a listless cold and dull distemper introduces a free and enlarged active adventurous and zealous disposition and way and is one of the great Fountains and Feeders of publickness of Spirit One of the great Legacies the Lord Jesus bequeathed to his Disciples when he was leaving the world was peace And one of the great Commandments given in charge by him was Brotherly Love the ground of peace and unity let that be well considered Brotherly Love which besides that great weight of the golden Scepter of Christ lying on it all the Scriptures over and the clear stamps of his authority in those frequencies of strictest Scripture Precepts to make it more passable and currant it received from Christ himself a peculiar Stamp and new Signature and is that alone in all the Scripture which is stiled the new Commandment required to be the proper Gospel-badge of Christs Disciples Herby shall all men c. And Brotherly unity is the genuine and rare fruit of Brotherly Love by every Christian to be endeavoured to the utmost extent of Gospel possibility Nothing in our own Spirits of corrupt distemper carnal ends or undue prejudice should hinder it nothing in our Brethren sound in the Faith and of Godly Conversation though not absolutely agreeing with us in way disposition or opinion in all things Christians cannot be all alike here All have not the same intellectuall complexion It is a great defect of meekness of wisdome to refuse all agreement with others because they agree not with us in all things Neither may any other Christian precepts hinder us Ah that we could duly consider of this new this one new Commandment our Lords peculiar charge given upon ground of great necessity in Gospel times foreseen perfectly by the Lord the all-knowing Law-giver and King of his Church Certainly when Christ will heal and stablish a people he fills their Spirits with over-powering Brotherly Love to smooth off heart-unevennesses of disinclinations distrusts and misunderstandings and makes them firmly piece together in Godly unity Love as the Apostle hath it is the bond of perfectness Yea Love is the fulfilling of the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That will encline and enable wise for and make willing with it and constrain us into it into all the latitude of