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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75492	A consideration of certaine controversies at this time agitated in the kingdome of England, concerning the government of the church of God. / Written at the command and appointment of the Walachrian classis, by Guilielmus Apollonii, minister of the Word of God at Middleburgh. And sent from the Walachrian churches, to declare the sense and consent of their churches, to the Synod at London. Octob. 16. 1644. Stilo novo. Translated out of Latine accorning to the printed copy.	Apollonius, Willem, 1602 or 3-1657.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3535; Thomason E1155_2; ESTC R208676	76,829	175

A CONSIDERATION OF Certaine Controversies at this time agitated IN THE KINGDOME of ENGLAND Concerning the Government of the CHURCH of GOD. Written at the Command and appointment of the Walachrian Classis BY Guilielmus Apollonii Minister of the Word of God at Middleburgh And sent from the Walachrian Churches to declare the sense and consent of their Churches to the SYNOD at LONDON Octob. 16. 1644. Stilo novo Translated out of Latine according to the printed Copy London Printed by G. M. for Tho. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1645. To the most Excellent and Noble Lords The Lord William Boreel Lord of Duynbeque c. Counsellour and chiefe Syndick of the City of Amsterdam The Lord John de Reede Lo. of Reinswoud c. Deputy in Ordinary in the Generall Assembly of the United Provinces in the name of the Province of Vtrecht The Lord Albert Joachimi LORD of Oedekenskerk in Oostende Secretary of the Republike of ter-Goes Ambassadours in the name of the High and Mighty Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces of the Netherlands Most Excellent most Noble Magnificent and most Illustrious Lords THe Pastors of the Churches of the Walachrian Classis being moved with the deplorable face and condition of the English Churches would gladly contribute some assistance for the quenching of that flame of controversies risen amongst them concerning the Discipline and spirituall Government of the Kingdome of Christ and afford not their prayers only but their counsell and assistance also meet for composing these contentions whereby the billows of dissentions might be asswaged and a happy peace restored to those troubled Churches By their authority therefore and command they have imployed me in this present worke and out of pure zeal and brotherly love to those Churches have lately injoyned me to exhibite to the Assembly of Divines at London our Ecclesiasticall Government proved by the word of God and confirmed by grounds of holy Scripture and the cōsent of Reformed Divines Which work being now finished and after a diligent Examination by those Pastors approved I offer to your most Noble and most Excellent Lordships for to you as is well known to us all the tenderest care of the true Religion and the sacred peace and unity together with Truth of the Churches of England is by the Command of the High and Mighty Lords the States Generall of the Netherlands principally cōmitted The promoting whereof with all your utmost endeavours would even by the event be manifest if so be the condition of the Kingdome and Church there would permit And surely if God shal by his providence sometime prosper your endeavours and make the earnest prayers of us all effectuall I do certainly trust that the wounds of the Church of Eng. may by your assistance and help be cured and the dissentions raised by your peaceable and prudent counsell be composed For God hath conferred on you large gifts of Wisdome Prudence Piety and Zeale whereby the disturbed condition of the Church of the Sonne of God may be reduced to the moderate counsels of Peace and the perplexed affaires of a shaken Kingdome to the straight bonds of renewed amity Which that the Great and Gracious God may more and more stir up and increase in you and blesse with prosperous successes in the businesse committed to your most excellent Lordships I beg with fervent prayers and from my soule desire that he will gratiously preserve your most Excellent most Noble Magnificent most Illustrious Lordships and inspire those counsels into his Royall Majestie and the High Court of Parliament which you affording your assisting indeavour may restore to the Churches of England peace and tranquillity together with edification in the faith and increase of love Middleburgh the first of November 1644. Your most Excellent and Noble Lordships most observant Guilielmus Apollonii Pastor of the Church of God at Middleburgh in Zeland TO THE SYNOD at LONDON Reverend and Beloved Brethren in Christ assembled in the Synod at London WE have received by your most courteous Letters written some Moneths since to the Churches of Zeland an expresse testimony not only of your entire friendship but also of your confidence and sincere affection towards us into whose bosome you were pleased to poure forth your fluctuating minds Our wishes and endeavours are that we may give you a reall experiment of our brotherly compassion for our very inmost bowels burn within us with the zeale and love of Christ and the Saints when we heare of the Churches of Christ in affliction when the moanes and lamentations of our holy Brethren pierce our eares and when we seriously consider the causes of your calamities O that our eyes were resolved into Fountaines of waters that we might lament day and night the desolations of the people Our mind trembles to heare the desperate counsels and wicked attempts of those whose endeavour hath been to blot out from amongst you the whole face of a Reformed Church and totally to hinder all better counsels and have brought it thus to passe that the band of the Kingdome being broken all things are now involved in a cruell warre all hope of peace and agreement taken away and the happinesse of Church and Kingdome overthrowne But as God doth by his favour prosper right counsels so for the most part he brings the wicked plots of men upon the heads of those who contrive them and by a divine wisdome doth over-rule the vices of the world whereby his Church is oppressed either to the safety of his own or a triall of their Piety For whoever they are that truly love God they doe not fasten the Anchor of all their hope on the barren sands of mutable things and humane strength but on the solid Rock which cannot be moved by any waves that is Jesus Christ the Churches Husband peculiar and present with every one In whose bosome who-ever do with full confidence repose themselves and cast all their care on him alone are quiet in the midst of troubles and injoy comfort and are as well thankfull in adversity as in prosperity Though to speake the truth what is adverse but that which hindereth us in our course to eternall happinesse what is prosperous but that which conduceth to it Christ is both the Husband the Lord and Physitian of the Church The Husband because being out of love to us drawn to die he hath knit us to himself and himselfe to us in an everlasting Covenant The Lord because by the price of his bloud he hath rescued us from the tyranny of Satan he governes us and beares rule in us and disposeth at his pleasure of his own propriety The Physitian because he is the Saviour he alone doth efficaciously heale the evils of men dispelling the diseases and distempers of the soules purging his Church and restoring it to health He is oft-times more mercifull when he sendeth bitter things then when he refresheth with sweet things He knowes what is expedient for his