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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42672	Tears shed in the behalf of his dear mother the Church of England, and her sad distractions gathered and brought into this small paper vessell for the use of the vulgar, and common people, not to play with religion / by her adopted son, Daniel Getsius ...	Getsius, Daniel, 1592-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing G632; ESTC R31519	48,008	156

Assembly of men elected and called 1 Pet. 1.1 2. 1 Cor. 1.2 1 Thess 1.1 2 3. Rom. 8.28 If the Church be 1. An Assembly one alone cannot be a Church as Elias conceived 1 King 19.10 For one is not a people flock a multitude of believers 1 King 19.10 a holy nation City of God the Congregation of the just as the Church is said to be 1 Pet. 2.9 Chap. 5.2 3. Eph. 2.19 Act. 4.32 2. The Church again is an Assembly of men not of Angels who neither are men nor chosen or called as men 3. Thirdly the Church is a Company or Assembly of the elect or chosen 1 Pet. 1.2 Rom. 8.28 29 30. 4. Fourthly It is an Assembly of men elected and called therefore it is not sufficient to be elected calling is required also Election appoints them but calling makes them actuall members declares them Thus Paul by destination was a member of the Church in his Pharisaisme even then when he persecuted the Church But by calling he became an actuall member Gal. 1.15 To the contrary whereas excommunicated persons and such as are newly come into the Churches pale to be instructed but are not as yet baptized may be elected called as may appear by the example of those who were excommunicated by the Jewish Church Iohn 9.22 Of the Thief on the Crosse Luke 23.43 And Cornelius Act. 10.2 34. These therefore may be also members of the Church and are indeed as many as have true faith Children also and mad men belong to the Church Outward by Condition of their birth which causeth them to be called holy or Saints being born of faithfull parents either one or both 1 Cor. 7.14 Secondly they belong to the Church inward or invisible by the gift of inward calling Rom. 11.29 By which known to the Lord are those who are his 2 Tim. 2.19 2 Tim. 2.19 Those who are deaf may not onely be partakers of the inward but also outward calling not by hearing indeed but by sight as often as Christ Crucisied is set forth to the faithfull in the Gospel and Sacraments Gal. 3.1 CHAP. III. What it is that makes the Church with her true markes THat which gives being to this holy Assembly the Church is that the same is called by the word and spirit of God out of the State of sin into the state of grace All and every member of the Church are such by calling Thus Abraham is called out of Vr of the Caldeans Paul out of Pharisaisme all that are Members of the Church by being called out of the state of sin into the state of grace Outwardly by the word whereby also are called evē these that are not elected Mat. 20.16 and 22.14 Inwardly by the holy Spirit according to Gods purpose Rom. 8.28 and of election Chap. 9.11 belonging onely to the elect Rom. 11.29 2 Pet. 1.10 Hence is the Church called and said to be 1. Visible according to outward calling by the word being sensible or subject to sense And 2. Invisible in respect of the inward calling by the Spirit not being sensible or subject to sense onely known to him who calleth 2 Tim. 2.19 The Lord knoweth who are his and is also discerned by those who are called Rev. 2.17 For none knoweth that new name in the white stone saving him that hath received it Christ therefore saith the Kingdome of God commeth not with outward observation or shew but is within Luk. 17.20 21. that is in secret Psalm 45.13 The Kings Daughter is all glorious within and so we confesse in our Creed to beleeve the Church and faith is of things not seen Heb. 11.1 Yet the Church is visibly known by a marke purely divine the word which marketh out the Church two ways infallibly and sensibly 1. Infallibly because the Church is a body or company of those who embrace the word of God and every company or body embracing the word of God is the Church according to Christs word Joh. 8.47 He that is of God heareth Gods word and vers 31. If you continue in my word then are you my Disciples indeed Chap. 10.27 My sheep hear my voyce and v. 5. they know not the voyce of strangers 2. Secondly the visible Church is known sensibly by the word which may be seen read and heard The preaching of the word and profession of the same as also the use of the Sacraments are secondary markes together with order discipline flowing from the former which is purely divine But these are of a mixt nature partly divine and partly humane in respect of mans help in the administration of the same whence they are more or lesse pure and incorrupt according to the dispensers of the same CHAP. IV. Of the Prerogatives of the Church HAving shewed the nature of the Church in the next place let us view the priviledges and dignities of the same for God hath graced this Assembly we call the Church with special prerogatives above all assembly's in this vniverse all must be subservient to her Kings must be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing mothers Isa 43.23 These dignities may be considered either in 1. Generall Isa 54.1 we read of the enlargment and advancement thereof under the name of a tent wherein anciently they dwelt the stretching out the Curtains the lengthning of the cords the breaking forth on the right hand and on the left inheriting the Gentiles and making the desolate Cities to be inhabited what meaneth it but the enlargement of the Church Christian consisting joyntly of Jew and Gentile There was a time when it did belong to the Jews and to those that did joyn with them but now Christ hath broken down the partition wall and hath laid all the world common Eph. 2 13. now he hath enlarged the Church and spread it all the world over This is that Peter speakes of Act. 10.34 Of a truth I perceive that God is no accepter of persons but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousnes is accepted of him see Mat. 8.11 The particular dignities and priviledges of the Church are these 1. First the Church is Christs body namely mysticall whose head and very soule is Christ quickning the same with his spirit Eph. 1.22 23. Hence whatsoever is done to any of the Church he taketh it to himself Act. 9.4 Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Membris adhuc positis in terris caput clamat in coelis non dicebat quid persequeris fideles meos August Serm. 11. de anct Whilest his members were as yet on earth the head cries out in heaven and he saith not why persecutest thou my faithful ones but why persecutest thou me 2 Secondly the Church is Christs Love Ps 45.20 Eph. 5.31 Spouse Sister and Queen Daughter of a King yea his Wife This is a neere relation and partaking A man shall be joyned to his Wife saith the Apostle and they two shall be one flesh This is an ineffable mystery the