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A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

and 40 verses together it well easily appeare Zech. 13.1 Gen. 4. Heb. 11. but as they finde and center upon Christ And it is common with the most of men to build their false righteousnesse where the nest may easily bee pulled downe Vpon some non causes some meere probables or some peeces or fragments of obedience some care of the second Table with neglect of the first or contrariwise To seeke righteousnesse or put righteousnesse in any of all these is as vaine as to seeke waters in the Mill-streame when they are exactly pind up in the Mill-pond If the fountain of Christs righteousnesse be not opened upon the uncleannesse of men how shall they be washed righteous in person nature And if not righteous in person nature how shall they practise any righteousnes towards men as a righteousnesse much lesse can they doe any performances of religion so rightly as to make of them any small peece of righteousnes Abell by faith i. e. in Christ offered an acceptable sacrifice First Christ is made to us righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1. two last before wee can make or doe any thing so as we may glory in God or take comfort in him and not in our selves 2. Negligent of righteousnesse when men know of the fountaine Christ of the Scriptures the promises the cocke to let goe that fountaine of faith the only hand to turne it yet are of a sluggish nature and practise strive not to be eminent in righteousnesse eminent in the assurance and application of Christs righteousnesse and in the insurance and warranting that application by the evidence of a conversation of righteousnesse as a Christian I say this sort at most Heb. 10 22.23 Ephes 5.15 strive not to be eminent to beleeue confidently to wake accuratly lye along as contented to live as bed-ridden Chrstians from hand to mouth No good suit to their backs of Christs righteousnesse by application No good glasse upon that suite or profession of Christ of more holy and innocent conversation No good warmth by putting on of Christ as by the spirits infusion of abundance of grace This Spittle or Hospitall of pittifull Christians these impotent professors grant they be true improve not their stock And so at every turne of great expence of much faith and hope and prayer in a sickly time of feares and afflictions they are found to bee exceeding poore A defection or declining from righteousnesse more and more appeares oft in this old Heaven As when people and Ministers the starres and the starers after them erre from the right doctrine and doctrine of righteousnesse when they dislike the puritie power and plenty of it what neede thinke they such grinding the edge of the sword of the spirit the word so thinne what neede such nice and close dividings by it Heb. 4.12 And lesse of any preaching will serve once a day enough of conscience i. e. of their conscience and enemy to the rule of conscience lesse profession is enough 2 Tim. 4.1 unlesse men will be too forward They like a mixture that may abate the acrimonie of sound truth as not induring truth in the simple Therefore the ingredients these men give and take in the mixture are smokey distinctions popish evasions carnall pretences pharisaicall collusions human rules and traditions fleshly formes of worship seeming pretences of flattering devotions by all which to blinde the eyes and puddle the streames of the Scriptures sibires non se rebus submittere For they make the Scrptures by violence to justifie these not to try these just by the Scriptures This pack or heard of men are like horses that first pounce or plunge with their feet and mudde the water and then drinke They put in their corrupt ingredients to the word or doctrine and then give it and take it to drinke Thirdly the want of righteousnesse in the old heaven appeares by a frequent disaffection to righteousnesse to deale and to unrighteously doe set against and abuse righteousnesse to bee unrighteous both against God and man First against God Father Sonne and Holy Ghost The world will smite God by oathes cursings imprecations blasphemies God never wronged them he that is wronged by them was the maker of them Acts 17.28 Jn him they live and move c. against whom they move and live so wickedly they debase and vilifie God to his face They preferre every creature yea every sinne they have a minde to commit above God himselfe To commit spirituall adultry idolaterie in preferring the first and witchcraft to love and put confidence in the devill in preferring the second is nothing with them Psal 11 9. God is good and doth good to them And they are evill and doe evill against him as a meet requital As for Christ if they do not sweare by his precious wounds passion body death sacramentall bread they will be sure to slight his merits Heb. 10.29 his sufferings as things of no necessitie or use to them His Gospel to them a pack of fables no more faith and credit to speake of effectuall faith doe they give to it As once a Bishop one of the Popes said how great a gaine have we made of this fable of the Gospell They live as if they should never dye and die as if after that they should never live As another of the Roman Bishops a Pope was unresolved at his last dying pillow Saying now I shall saith he be resolved of three things 1 Whether there be a God 2. Whether the soule bee immortall 3. Whether there bee an Heaven and Hell And for the Holy Ghost they will jeare and scoffe at that holinesse that is wrought in mens spirits by that holy spirit yea hating and opposing all holy profession and conversation Secondly they are unrighteous against men both themselves and others They will put out both their own eyes to put out one of their godly neighbours like the Philistins that stopped Isaacks * A fountaine and an eye in Hebrew called by the same name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wells to their owne hurt as well as his They reproach religion as fast as they can wherein they doe as the Roman that cut off the bridge he stood on although hee must needs fall into the river himselfe so as hee might drowne his enemies Religion and profession is the bridge to carry them over the lake of hell to heaven yet it s no matter they will cut it off by sharpe sarcasmes and derisions that by their good will there should bee no such conscience-troubling profession upon earth Therefore they let flee freely at others that seeme to have any thing of God in them These worldlings these earth Ier. ●ar●● ●●●th as the Prophet speakes all dirt will bedaub the Saints most odiously They will smite them as I●r●miah with the tongue Name-blast them They will smite them in the body Acts as Saint Paul on the mouth yea on the back● Yea they will

stick yet closer to them They will smite them in the conscience stick a dagger of offence in it pull it out who can So in the ten persecutions by feares to make men sacrifice to the idoll So in the Phillip and Marian persecutions to threaten men till they made them abjure and forsweare the truth And when they have wounded thus will they can they heale Howbeit God would not loose his Martyrs but his spirit made them keepe their first vow in Baptisme and so after they suffered death for Christ voluntarily Exech 13.22 no. If the Pharisees draw a Judas into a fact of Treason against Christ all they answer to him comming to them with his consience dreadfully bleeding see you to it what is that to us much lesse doe they regard the affliction of a Ioseph although as in that Hos 6. caused by them It is their joy to make the hearts of Gods people sad whom the Lord would not have to be sad and to strengthen the hands of the wicked Marke the hands for sinne cannot strengthen the heart And yet they thinke they come not close enough and therefore they will give the Saints one deepe stab more They will smite them in the very image of God in them You be the holy brethren And how are they brethren but by being children of one Father God having his divine nature in them 2 Pet. 1.4 And how are they holy but by from God wishing working them to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1. Mat. 3.7 yet this holinesse they venemously just as a generation of sharp toothed vipers bite at You be the precise ones pure ones the Puritants Which last terme hath beene a long liv'd murtherer to kill sound doctrine holy life sobrietie equitie all that is good As said a Parliament man in Parliament the word Puritan in the mouth of an Arminian signifies an Orthodoxe divine in the mouth of a drunkard signifies a sober man and in the mouth of a Papist signifies a Protestant So generall is that name grown now that with it the wicked Ismaelites open their mouths wide make an odious wide mouth Isa 57.4 and sp●rt themselves So that their mouthes being venomed and their throats hissing this name in them is as a sting to make them ●ike the dragon Revel 12.4 ready and prepared to devoure a young professor before hee is hatch't Therefore pious Queene Elizabeth seeing the mischiefe comming upon religion by such approbious termes made an injunction against them that they might not thunder strike or lightning blast or cerebrate the gay blossomes of tender profession And I live in hope to see a good law enacted against so bad a malefactor as this soule-killing Nick-name hath beene for these many yeares even farre too many And thus and thus and thus will the wicked smight and smite the godly the meane while Revel chap. 13 10. chap. 14.12 if the Saints lie still and if they doe here is the patience of the Saints the wicked smight on and strike as if they cudgelled onely a sack not a Saint The smighters sing whiles the Saints cry The smighters curse whiles the Saints pray The smighters shed the Saints blood whi●es they shed teares If on the otherside the Saints ever so modestly stirre in the behalfe of righteousnesse what a stirre doe those men presently make If the god●y speake of and in the behalfe of righteousnesse before ch●se m●n then they jeare them These be factious all ●or law they be precise pharisaicall hypocriticall seeming to be after Gospel If the Godly speake to th●se men fo● righteousnesse and justice then they will use them as the So●●mites did Lot at least say they would viz. worse Gen. 19 9. for speaking but reason They will misuse them wose for intreating them to be better Exod. 2.17 c. as Pharaoh dea●t with the Israelites If the Godly speake to God much in prayer to procure or administer to them justice and righteousnesse then their small friends those sons of the world will call them Lollards Fox Act. Mon. in Queene Maries time because they cry Lord Lord unto their God If they bee hunted with persecution so that they are forced to turne night into day to pray before day or a portion of righteous usage among men and to worship the maker of night and day then those sonnes of Belial spirt that poyson upon them that they rise early to worship the Sunne-rising Fox Act. Mon. of the ten persecutions If they professe their beliefe of and in all the Scriptures that promise them succour and propound to them examples how the Lord hath delivered his people from their enemies as Sampson and by him the Israelites from the Philistines by the jaw-bone of an Asse then they cast upon the Christians this Heil-hatch't obloquie Fox ibid. and made-ly that the Christians worshipped an Asses head If the Saints professe they love the righteous and especially that right doctrine and righteous conversation they confessed and professed as Waldus Hus Luther Calvin c. then they call them in scorne Waldenses Hussites c. As if either of these was the highest originall of that truth they professe and that they were as very Hereticks as they would have those to be in the opinion of them and their adherents Finally if these poore harmelesse sheepe are worried and wearied from among men Heb. 11. to mountaines and dens and Caves and so part with all and kisse povertie with pietie rather then in riches to loose Christ yet the wicked leave them not but as the dragon cast out these floods vomit out this filthy flegme after them that they are poore men of Lyons the religion doth nought but make men fooles and turne beggers as many amongst us now adayes can say on lesse occasion and that such flying Christians are * i. e. wolves of the ●ocks Fox Act. mon. Turri-lupins If these are not touches enough to discover the unrighteousnesse of the old heavens then mens cyes are old and their judgements u●righteous that they cannot or will not see the right For proportionably still it is so every particular way of piety and equity and standing for these get an ill report and a scornefull name from the black mouthes of the sonnes of darkenesse As that they are Factionists Humorists Scrupulous fooles Protestants stript of their witts enemies to the common peace c. Thirdly This Doctrine instructeth us in this That as long as the Church dwelleth under or in the old heavens though shee may in her true members have some newnesse and righteousnesse in themselves yet in regard of the present opposition of this old unrighteous world and the indisposition of the present old Church contented with her old wrinckled ragged condition as if shee knew no better that newnesse and righteousnesse are nothing to that she shall have when she shall see and sue for a better condition The footing of this

the mention whereof Saint John beginnes because such doctrines As good doctrine transformes 2 Cor. 3. last so bad such All-things State doctrines make timeservers phantastick quidditative doctrines make proud factious man advancing doctrines the power of his will the goodnesse of his nature the worth of his workes make licentious livers in confidence they can mend and make God amends when they lust Sin-mincing doctrines Socinianisme is herein worse thē Arrianisme Arrianisme denies the Deitie of Christ But yet makes him as ancient as the creation That God created Christ first and then by him all things But Socinianisme denies the Deitie of Christ saying he is of no more antiquity then his conception Est ne Christus Deus Imo sed non summus So the Socin Chatechisme Phil. 3.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 21.25 John 7.16 2 Pet. 1.21 The Pope is not The Antichrist neglect of the Lords day after publike duties is no fin c. Make a high way for the Popish Synagogues and the Protestant Churches to become one masse or lumpe of confusion For this cause this is laid first as a foundation of comfort that the Church hath no corrupt sea of false doctrine No sea of Rome no Episcopall sea that shall commit or permit or shall be permitted to cause any tides of new Arrianisme i. e. Socinianisme or Pelagiamisme Semi-Pelagianisme Arrinianisme advancing nature or Papisme advancing superstition and workes Observe that the new Heaven and new Earth hath no sea when new i. e. when the power of the Church was restored to her selfe all the Heavens the Earth called the Church and in it wholly was the power to sist doctrines No Churches so free from diversities and corruptions of doctrines as the Churches of Holland Geneva c. 2. Heavens as heare are many Heavens mentioned so many things to be noted But we can but name them hardly because many 1. The Church is called Heaven 1. because she is heavenly Heavenly in her mind conversation Her whole politie or traffick is in heaven her doctrine is from heaven not from men Heavenly in her devotions Vnto thee O Lord saith David Psal 25. will I lift up my soule And thy will be done in earth as it is heaven O our Father which art in Heaven Heavenly in her intention all she doth do tend to heaven that shee may end in heaven 2. Because shee is Heavenlike 1 Cor. 10.31 Revel 4.10 11. The whole platforme of her discipline and forme of worship is according to the fashion of Heaven See you make all things according to the patterne shewed thee in the mount Heb. 8.5 i. e. from heaven When she prayes in all things thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven be sure she meanes chieftly in things of divine worship Malach. 4.2 Revel 1● 1 that all may bee as immediately from God to God as spiritual as may be Shee is heavenlike for her light heate motion influence c. She hath the light of the sunne The glorie and righteousnesse and doctrine of Christ Shee hath at her severall changes when it pleaseth God to cleare her nights the light of the moone outward comforts Revel 12.1 Revel 1. Gen. 1. She hath the light of the starres her Ministers and all their parts to inlighten her Yea as God made the first heavens all a light body before the severall lights were made since by the translucidation of all the starres no part of heaven is dark Ier 31.34 So all the heaven of the new Church is full of light in every member every true member hath the spirit of illumination and knowledge teaching them the inmost meaning of the Scriptures in all necessaries to salvation So also hath the Church heate as well as light as the light of the heavens is the chariot to bring heat to and in the sublunarie bodies here below naturall and proper light that is not borrowed will not be separated from heat Therefore the officers of the Church are called Angels And they oft are called Seraphims coales for their zeale and all the members of the Church are said to seeth in spirit i. e. Rom 12.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 servent in zeale Not like Sardis nominall or like Laodicea lukewarme in profession The Church also is full of motion like the Heavens She hath her motion of trepidation Psal 2 She rejoyces in the Lord with trembling at his glorious greatnesse Shee serves him but with holy feare Shee hath her direct motion from east to west she riseth from death to life she growes in her graces she hath her sublimities of heavenly raptures and she hath her retrograde motion her returning motion That when shee hath gone astray like a loss sheepe she repents and return's to the chiefe shepheard of her soule she returnes to her first husband 1 Pet. 2. last Shee returnes to her father as the Prodigall For her motion Hosea 2. her Ministers are also called Angels which are oft called Cherubims i. e. wings Finally Luke 15. the influence of the Church is hevenlike That as the heavens prosper the earth with spring and harvest so whoever receive and entertaine the Church or its members prosper for her sake Potipher by entertaining Ioseph Laban by entertaining Iacob Psal 122. Obed-Ed●m by entertaining the Ark● yea all that love and pray for Hierusalem shall prosper 3. Church called Heaven Because as there is more heaven then earth So there is reckoning every way spiritually more heaven then earth more heavenlinesse then earthlinesse i. e. In the Churches judgement desire approbation supplications She altogether esteemes approves desires all heavenly things And all earthlinesse creepes in by stealth with dislike when discovered The Church meddles with earthly things but in an heavenly manner Shee hath to doe with earthly things but for a moment but shee hath an eternall state of glory in heaven Finally the earth is of no use to her Luke 16.9 but to further her towards he● ven The unrighteous Mammon to be her friend to befriend her in her journey to heaven Acenter is onely to draw a circle 2. The Church is called or compared to heavens in the plurall And that because there is a plurality of heavenly things in the Church Beside that principally God is there Revel 21. His doctrine is there His worship is there his graces there in every true particular member So that here is the heaven of the primum mobile the first moving heaven viz. Convertion by Gods grace God is called by the heathen Philosopher the first mover and he first moves by his grace Here is the Christalline heaven The heaven of purity and sanctitie of discipline moving every thing orderly Here are the heavens of the starres of light of which before Yea here is in the reformed Church The Caelum empyrium the heavens of glory For that sanctification of mens persons conversation is nothing else