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A54721 The vvay to heaven most clearly discovered and the manner how to walk in this way exactly described. With a brief vindication of the Church of England against all her enemies. By Nicholas Philips, late chaplain to his Majesty's garrison in the Isles of Silly. Phillips, Nicholas. 1681 (1681) Wing P2038; ESTC R213941 16,756 24

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on till she return thither again And a true Israelite when he hath with King Solomon tryed all the things in the world pleasures riches honour will in the end conclude with him that all worldly things are vanity and vexation of Spirit And that there is no true content nothing that can satisfie a mans mind no hope of Salvation to be had any where but in the true Ark of Gods Church 3. Damnable is the estate and on the very brink of hells pit are the feet of those Factious and Schismatical Spirits who out of pride and singularity of heart or because they disgust some of the outward external ceremonies of our Church forsake the Society of the faithful separate themselves from the lawful allowed Church assembly and repair to Conventicles and private meetings where having no lawful allowed priests to officiate they cannot have the word of God sincerely Preached nor the Sacraments rightly administred according to Christs Ordinance for though it be granted lawful for private persons within the limits of their own family to open and expound the Scripture according to their talent yet he who without a lawful call and mission shall presume in a publick Congregation to handle and expound the word Though he handle it never so well and expound it never so truely yet doth he not preach nor is his Doctrine sufficiently qualified for the Salvation of Souls For how can they Preach except they be sent demands the Apostle Rom. 10.15 proving most plainly by this his interrogative that effectual Preaching such as is sufficiently qualified for the Salvation of Souls is the proper work of the Ministry of those that are lawfully Called and Sent forth to execute this publique function in the Church And no man as saith the Apostle Heb. 5.4 may take this hence to himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron i.e. unless he have as Aaron had not only an inward call and inclination of the Spirit but also an outward one and a solemn ordination to the sacred function 4. Since there is no Salvation to be had out of the Church and the Lord addeth daily unto the Church such as shall be saved Oh how infinitely are they bound to be thankful unto God and alwayes to praise and bless his holy name who find themselves to be placed in the state of Salvation or made visible Members of the holy Catholick Church for it is not by their own natural inclination nor by the care or piety either of their natural or spiritual Fathers though these be good helps and means that men are placed in the state of Salvation and added to the Church but by the exceeding goodness mercy and grace of God And it is as saith my third position the Lord that daily adds unto the Church such as shall be saved God is the principal agent in the great work of mens Salvation he is the Author and Finisher of our Faith the beginner and perfecter of every good work yea he that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure as saith the Apostle Phil. 2.13 Rebecca may look the Venison but it is Isaac that must give the blessing Paul may plant and Apollo may water but it is God that gives the increase He he it is who perswades wild Japhet to come and dwell in the tents of gentle Sem that being men as the Apostle phraseth it that were born Aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel Strangers and Forreigners to become fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God Now this work of mans regeneration of his being begotten a new in the Gospel and added to the Church God works not extroardinarily by miracle but ordinarily by means And the ordinary means which God makes use of for the perfecting of this great work we may find here in this Chapter by the means which he used for the making of this great addition to the Church of 3000 Souls to be the word preached faith to apprehend and belive it and baptism to confirm and Seal it These primitive Converts had the word preached unto them by Saint Peter And being convicted in their Consciences of the Truth of it they believ'd it And applying themselves to Saint Peter and the rest of the Apostles for advice what to do that they might be saved they were prescribed by them the baptism of repentance for the remission of their sins Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins v. 38. And they as it is testified v. 41. thankfully embraced his advice gladly received his word were immediately baptized and on that very day there was an addition made unto the Church of no less than 3000 Souls And of these initiating grounding Ordinances and Graces I would more largely discourse but that I remember you are persons who being born of Christian Parents and within the pale of the Church are already by Baptism added to the Church and made visible Members thereof and therefore it is more seasonable and necessary to shew you the way and means which you must be careful to use if you will keep your selves in the Church and the State of Salvation and this if you will do you must take these Primitive Christians here at the 42. v. for your pattern For they being by Baptism added to the Church continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and breaking of Bread and in Prayer And of these Four precious preservative confirming Christian Duties I shall now by Gods gracious assistance orderly discourse And first of the Apostles Doctrine By the Doctrine of the Apostles is here signified that form of sound Doctrine concerning Christ and his being the true Messiah promised unto the Fathers which the blessed Apostles first viva voce in their Sermons and Harangues delivered unto the people and afterwards for the instruction of the Church unto the worlds end wrote in their Gospels and Epistles This contains in it all things necessary unto Salvation both as to the credenda and what we are to believe and to the agenda and what we are to do And he who being by Baptism received into and added to the Militant Church on earth receives nothing as an Article of Faith and recessary to be believed but what can immediately be induced out of the holy Scriptures and who in matters of Obedience resigns up himself wholly to the practice of those Rules and Directions which are given us in the wholesom words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Doctrine which is according to Godliness shall not fail in due time to be made a glorious Member of the Church Triumphant in Heaven And able are holy Scriptures to make a man wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus as it is written 2 Tim. 3.15 Surely he who to Heaven will be directed aright must neither be guided by the false fire of the Conclave or the Conventicle must neither