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A75847	Gospel publique worship: or, The translation, metaphrase, analysis, and exposition of Rom. 12. from v.1. to 8. Describing, and prescribing, the compleat pattern of gospel-worship. Also, an exposition of the 18th. chapter of Matthew. To which is added A discovery of Adam's three-fold estate in paradise, viz. moral, legal, and evangelical. / By Thomas Brewer.	Brewer, Thomas, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing A4429; Thomason E1654_1; ESTC R208992	154,122	337

especially in these six verses the 1. or 15. verse is of private Physicking the 3. or 17. is of publike and v. 16. is mixt of both prosecuting the former and preparing the latter which is ratified in the rest Each of these three heads have eight parts of a meer instituted Church-nature besides their three adjuncts or accessories answering to the three coverings of the Tabernacle which type the three orders about but without the Church-state and Discipline Membral Ecclesial and Civil all of Humane Institution yet relatively and objectively Ecclesiastical though not really subjectively materially formally nor efficiently the membral is warranted by 1 Cor. 6.1 to 4. and by the usefulness of association of the Rulers Deacons and Prophets for the more equal and orderly discharge of their places by the mutual agreement of the whole or greater number of them in their setting each of their turns and distinct courses The Ecclesial is warranted 2 Cor. 8.19 22 23. and by the usefulness of one Churches advice countenance and help of another And the Civil by Esa 49.23 and the Churches need of civil protection permission and help Of which 6. verses and heads now somewhat more largly and particularly Of Matth. 18.15 to 20. in the Epitome THese 6. verses are the instituted Center of the Chapter which is v. 1. expressed to be a main and distinct head of our Gospel-Religion i. e. what is the highest degree thereof which who so hath is the greatest in the Kingdome of Heaven the sum whereof contracted into one word is Meek-love-mercy the first part is commended to us and commanded v. 2. to 4. The second v. 5. to 10. in the positive v. 5. In the rest in the opposite The third v. 11. to 35. morally v. 11. to 14 institutedly v. 15. to 20. exemplarily illustrating both and the whole Chapter v. 21. to 35. All the three vertues are inlarded in each of the three parts which shall first be shewn in this our middle and instituted part of the third part and of the whole Chapter Meekness is laid therein as the fountain and foundation of the whole point of instituted Discipline v. 15. First in reflexe on v. 14. One of these little ones and therein on the precedent part of the Chapter for v. 15. is connected to it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if yet if now if Secondly in sociableness in the word Brother Thirdly in fairness of means in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 argument him or convince him by reasoning not chide command warn admonish threaten him Fourthly in privacy in these words between thee and him alone to prevent vain-glory ostentation and applause the opposites to meekness Fifthly in easiness to be satisfied in these words If he hear thee thou hast won thy Brother i. e. thou hast done what thou meantest Sixthly in readiness to forgive in those words compared with v. 21. which was Peters Exposition of them Seventhly in relation to the other two ensuing Love and Mercy 1. Love is set as the body of the building respecting the said foundation as tending to save and do good to the person toward whom we shew meekness v. 11. 2. As freeing him from evil and perdition v. 14. Five other proofs that the Spirit of Love must inform this body of instituted Church-Discipline are in the five middlemost proofs that meekness must also so do 3. Mercy is of the same nature with Love in seeking the good of our brother onely love doth it in the positive and mercy in the privative both which without meekness are selfness self-authority self-seeking self-shewing c. but nothing of through nor for Christ or his Spirit of Grace or Faith which worketh by love and mercy and instructeth others in meekness whose good it seeketh 2 Tim. 2.25 and whom it seeth of through and for God v. 26. All these are yet more summarily contracted in this one single word Love supposed with its two infallible proofs that it is divine the former à priori in the face by which the Brittain Christians tryed English Austin to be an Antichristian Prelate and no Minister of Christ before he or they had spoken one word together The latter à posteriori for if mercy follow not our loving endeavours they are proved to be a Devourers pretences to be devoured by God in the latter part of our Chapter v. 21. to 35. and his repentance is there proved false and hypocritical This love so qualifyed is the soul of our six verses and the whole Chapter without which the body of Church-worship is dead and but a carkase in Christs account yet without the said body all publike divine worship is familisme or phantasie yea if both be not of the Word it is of the World and Antichristian Now therefore let us conjoyn to this Gospel soul its Gospel body of instituted discipline which is an active part of Divine Worship or Church-order for the government of its members It hath also three parts answering to the three said parts of its soul the first is formed v. 15. the second v. 16. the third v. 17. Of these three in that order 1. The first hath eight parts the first is a Church-members or Brothers sinning a sinne forfeiting that his membership or brotherhood If thy Brother sinne against thee not against thy person but thy brotherhood i. e. against Faith a good Conscience or Church-order 2. Another brothers knowing thereof experimentally not conjecturally or by credible testimony from without or the not Church-estated for a brother is bound by this place personally to sue his said brother with all privacy and so he sinneth in telling another thereof and that other in receiving it more in prosecuting it for he usurpeth that his brothers place intrudeth himself into his work and breaketh Christs instituted Church-Discipline and the second Commandement and so committeth abomination and idolatry and moveth not that his brother to observe the said Discipline and Commandement but fartherth him and partaketh with him in his committing desolation and deserting that Order Discipline and Commandment 3. The latters arguing and redarguing the former thereof personally not by Deputies much less may he tell any other thereof it tending to his reproach and that others partaking therein 4. The secrecy of that his convincing and converting his brother between him and thee alone besides the words argument him and thy Brother 5. Moral carriage of body and civil behaviour of actions for the loving recovery healing and winning of that sinning brother v. 14 and 15. to win him this is a general to all three and 1 Cor. 14.40 Let all things be done decently and according to order i. e. to civil order for Church-order is institutable onely by Christ and it is Antichristianisme to erect any or to respect that Idol 6. The success or effect of all those in the former or sinning brother which is either repentance if he hear thee or its contrary i. e. obstinacy but if he hear thee not

what spirit dare any member of such a Church do it yea and execute that sentence of his own to his using him as an Heathen Publicane or that wicked man 1 Cor. 5.13 2ly every night-professour yea civil man in England or other Christian Common-wealth or State may with Nicodemus say the same words for before due proof by competent Witnesses and the Defendants full answer may no sentence be pronounced in any matter whether criminal or actional nor before that sentence dareth any Sheriff much less any other do any thing as to a condemned man and yet will any Christian person Officer or Church make Christs Gospel discipline worse than the civil discipline of the Common-wealths of the world which yet they do when they upon a rumour or other backbiting receive matter of spiritual censure both as an accusation and testimony yea and forthwith sentenceth and also executeth that censure in his affections and actions and expecteth yea exacteth of others so to do upon his telling them thereof This in a person or officer is personal or official Antichristianism and if all the members of a Church so do it is Church-Antichristianism though the state be true before and after it yea though any many or all those Christian persons endeavour a tryal upon that rumorous fame and testimony yet their course is Antichristian and a part of that mystery of Iniquity whereby that state or man of Iniquity by his Spirit of Antichristianism wrought himself from an embryo in Pauls time 2 Thes 2.3 to 8. unto full complement afterward which now is in his raging death-pangs with Gods harping-iron in his belly with whom also all the sparks of his Spirit do therefore blaze as in their last light 3ly the very professed Hierarchical Courts have a pretending and seeming face of the said Mosaical and Civil Courts and censure none for a rumours accusation untill they hear the Accuseds answer and use a form of tryal of the cause more like the other than the said personal Spirits of Antichrist whom this Text properly concerneth and chargeth to sue and pursue his brother unto the Church censure upon personal knowledge of his corrupting sin but not to take a third brothers right charge and work from him nor to partake in his omission thereof nor his reproachful diverting from it to play the Informer to this censorious spirit of Antichrist for why else doth he reproach but to provoke to censure where he findeth a by-shop open thus to receive censure and butcher 'T is usurpation and folly to do his work and sinne not to charge him to do it himself Do all these Courts and courses hear the accused and know what he hath done and dareth any member of a Church of Christ make himself worse then Mosaical than civil than uncivil Courts Dareth he also make that Church a partaker and guilty of that seven-headed sinne yet let not that Church dare to partake with not permit it much less to practice and ratifie it Indeed this Christian cure is properly and personally commended and commanded to every Church-brother that duly knoweth of the disease personally and his telling any other of the particular is a reproach and backbite for all pretended consultings may and must be in the general and so what is said thereabout is true yet if credible Witnesses out of a Church-estate give to a brother certain testimony of his brothers conscionless sinne he ought to joyn his enrighting Church-estate which those Witnesses want unto their pregnant matter to discover and destroy that sinne that will otherwise destroy that brotherhood or church and if it be without exception he ought to proceed thereupon First to relate to the brother what they offer to testifie and if he deny it not or by his tutchiness dejectedness scornfulness or other confirmations make him confident that his brother is guilty then he ought to proceed according to Gods rule Mat. 18.15 to 20. onely by the Witnesses v. 16. all things are to be fitted to the conveniency of the Church by their personal knowledge of all requisites if the Witnesses from without be not fit to be brought in person into the Church but to do so upon a brothers report or rather reproach is as is above said and much worse incurring the censure of Jam. 4.11 12. 1 Pet. 4.15 Lev. 19.16 17. Prov. 18.8 26.20 21 22. Rom. 16.17 Jude 19. Esa 65.5 Matth. 24.51 yea of 2 Thes 2.4 in his sitting or estating himself as the Church like that Antichrist and of 3 Joh. 11. in his usurping over the Church and the Scripture with Diotrephes who upon his own suspicion that John meant him in his former Epistles rayled against him with malicious words and cast his friends out of the Church but more of this in the sixt particular The fourth addeth to the first three their Gospel-soul meek-love-mercy Saint-healing and Soul-saving Spirit v. 14. in the end of this v. 15. and the fifth addeth to all four their instituted meanes and effective power viz. An argumenting convincing reproof for his said sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is ill rendred by tell him for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an Argument Syllogism or evident proof which applyed to the said sin importeth a conviction thereof and its consequent reproof and charge of repentance compared also with if he bear which therefore importeth an answerable repentance all which necessite and dignifie the search of the scope of the place of Scripture in hand This enforceth a preceding proof of his said sin before our reproof and of that before our requiring his repentance and of that before our judging him irrepentant and of that before our taking one or two Witnesses much more before our telling it to any other upon any pretence much more before our telling the Church thereof and its tryall and condemnation or commendation much more before our barring him of Church-Communion but most of all before our using him as an enemy 2 Thes 3.15 and barring him of natural matrimonial or civil good things which are never to follow Christs Church censures but are fit onely for Antichrists who in state courses spirit and curses is flat opposite to Christ his Church-state Discipline Spirit and Censures which all tend to the saving of souls at the day of our Lord Jesus which is our fourth point by his Gospel-Institutions which is our fifth but because of Antichrists oppositness in them all God himself sirnameth him Abaddon and Apollyon that is Destroyer Rev. 9. which 5. Discipline or mystery of iniquity was in working in Pauls dayes 2 Thes 2.7 by that 4. Spirit of Antichrist that was in Johns days 1 Joh. 4.3 to the eminent estating of that Antichrist in Constantines days and his evident tyrannizing in Constantines days and to this time none of which four are yet ceased not the two first in true Christian Churches the latter which is our fourth point is practised in the Spirit of reproach in the