and the part of the Body afflicted Six Sermons Preached by Dr. Hill viz. 1 The Beauty and Sweetness of an Olive Branch of Peace and Brotherly Accommodation budding 2 Truth and Love happily married in the Saints and in the Churches of Christ 3 The Spring of Strengthning Grace in the Rock of Ages Christ Jesus 4 The strength of the Saints to make Jesus Christ their strength 5 The Best and Worst of Paul 6 Gods eternal Preparations for his dying Saints The wonders of the Load-stone by Mr. Samuel Ward of Ipswich An Exposition on the Gospel of the Evangelist St. Matthew by Mr. Ward Clows Chyrurgery Marks of Salvation Christians Engagement for the Gospel by John Goodwin Great Church Ordinance of Baptism Mr. Love's Case containing his Petitions Narative and Speech Vox Pacifica or a Perswasive to Peace Dr. Prestons Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow Pious mans Practice in Parliament Time The Bishop of Canterburies Speech on the Scaffold The King's Speech on the Scaffold A Treatise of the Rickets being a Disease common to Children wherein is shewed 1 The Essence 2 The Cause 3 The Signs 4 The Remedies of the Disease Published in Latin by Dr. Glisson Dr. Bate and Dr. Regemorter now translated into English Mr. Sympsons Sermon at Westminster Mr. Feaks Sermon before the Lord Major Mr. Phillips Treatise of Hell of Christ Geneology A Congregational Church is a Catholick Visible Church By Samuel Stone in New-England A Treatise of Politick Power wherein 7. Questions are Answered 1 Wherof Power is made and for what obtained 2 Whether Kings and Governors have an absolute Power over the People 3 Whether Kings and Governors be subject to the Law of God or the Laws of their Countries 4 How far the People are to obey their Governors 5 Whether all the People have be their Governors 6 Whether it be lawful to Depose an evil Governor 7 What Confidence is to be given to Princes The compassionate Samaritan Dr. Sibbs on the Philippians The Best and Worst Magistrate by Obadiab Sedgwick The Craft and Cruelty of the Churches Adversaries by Matthew Newcomin A Sacred Panygrick by Stephen Martial Barriff's Military Discipline The Immortality of Mans Soul The Anatomist Anatomized King Charls his Case or an Apeal to all rational men concerning his Tryal Mr. Owens Stedfastness of the Promises Mr. Owen against Mr. Baxter A Vindication of Free-Grace Endeavoring to prove 1 That we are not Elected as Holy but that we should be Holy and that Election is not of Kinds but Persons 2 That Christ did not by his Death intend to save All men and touching those whom he intended to save that he did not Die for them only if they would Beleeve but that they might Beleeve 3 That we are not justified properly by our Beleeving in Christ but by our Christs beleeved in 4 That that which differences one man from another is not the approvement of a common ability restored through Christ to all men in general but a Principle of Grace wrought by the Spirit of God in the Elect. By John Pawson The Preface THE setting forth of the publick Confession of the Faith of Churches hath a double end and both tending to publick edification First the maintenance of the Faith entire within it self Secondly the holding forth of Vnity and Harmony both amongst our selves and with other Churches Our Churches here as by the Grace of Christ we beleeve and profess the same Doctrine of the Truth of the Gospel which generally is received in all the reformed Churches of Christ in Europe so especially we desire not to vary from the Doctrine of Faith and Truth held forth by the Churches of our Native Country For though it be not one Native Country that can breed us all of one mind nor ought we for to have the glorious Faith of our Lord Jesus with respect of persons yet as Paul who was himself a Jew professed to hold forth the Doctrine of Justification by Faith and of the resurrection of the dead according as he knew his godly Country-men did who were Jews by Nature Galat. 2.15 Acts 26.6 7. so we who are by Nature English-men do desire to hold forth the same Doctrine of Religion especially in Fundamentals which we see and know to be held by the Churches of England according to the Truth of the Gospel The more we discern that which we do and have cause to do with incessant mourning and trembling the unkind and unbrotherly and unchristian contentions of our godly Brethren and Country-men in matters of Church-Government the more earnestly do we desire to see them joyned together in one common Faith and our selves with them For this end having perused the publick confession of Faith agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster and finding the Sum and Substance thereof in matters of Doctrine to express not their own Judgments only but ours also and being likewise called upon by our Godly Magistrates to draw up a publick confession of that Faith which is constantly taught and generally professed amongst us we thought good to present unto them and with them to our Churches and with them to all the Churches of Christ abroad our professed and hearty assent and attestation to the whol confession of Faith for substance of Doctrine which the Reverend Assembly presented to the Religious and Honorable Parliament of England Excepting only some Sections in the 25.30 and 31. Chapters of their Confession which concern Points of Controversie in Church-Discipline Touching which we refer our selves to the draught of Church-Discipline in the ensuing Treatise The truth of what we here declare may appear by the unanimous vote of the Synod of the Elders and Messengers of our Churches assembled at Cambridg the last of the sixth Month 1648. which joyntly passed in these words This Synod having perused and considered with much gladness of heart and thankfulness to God the confession of Faith published of late by the Reverend Assembly in England do judg it to be very holy orthodox and judicious in all matters of Faith and do therefore freely and fully consent thereunto for the substance thereof Only in those things which have respect to Church-Government and Discipline we refer our selves to the Platform of Church-Discipline agreed upon by this present Assembly and do therefore think it meet that this confession of faith should be commended to the Churches of Christ amongst us and to the Honored Court as worthy of their due Consideration and Acceptance Howbeit we may not conceal that the Doctrine of Vocation expressed in Chap 10. Sect. 1. and summarily repeated Chap. 13. and 1. passed not without some debate Yet considering that the term of Vocation and others by which it is described are capable of a large or more strict sense and use and that it is not intended to bind apprehensions precisely in point of Order or Method there hath been a general condescendency thereunto Now by this our professed consent and free concurrence
then the Church without such graduall proceeding is to cast out the offender from their holy communion for the further mortifying of his sinn and the healing of his soule in the day of the Lord Jesus 4. In dealing with an offender great care is to be taken that wee be neither overstrict or rigorous nor too indulgent or remiss Galat 6 1 our proceeding herein ought to be with a spirit of meekness considering our selves lest wee also be tempted Mat 18 34 23 c 6 14.35 Ezek 13 10 Jer 6 14 that the best of us have need of much forgivnes from the Lord. Yet the wining healing of the offēders soul being the end of these endeavors wee must not daub with untempered morter nor heal the wounds of our brethren slightly On some have compassion others save with fear 5. Mat 18 17 1 Cor 5 11 2 Thes 3 6 14 While the offender remains excommunicate the Church is to refrarn from all member-like communion with him in spirituall things and also from al familiar cōmuniō with him in civil things farther then the necessity of natural or domestical or civil relations do require and are therfore to forbear to eat drink with him that he may be ashamed 6. Excommunication being a spirituall punishment it doth not prejudice the excommunicat in nor deprive him of his civil rights and therfore toucheth not Princes or other Magistrates in point of their civil dignity or auothority 1 Cor 14 24 25 And the excommunicate being but as a publican and a heathen heathens being lawfully permitted to come to hear the word in Church assemblyes 2 Thes 3 14 wee acknowledg therfore the like liberty of hearing the word may be permitted to persons excommunicate that is permitted unto heathen And because wee are not without hope of his recovery wee are not to account him as an enemy but to admonish him as a brother 7. If the Lord sanctifie the censure to the offender so as by the grace of Christ 2 Cor 2 7 8 he doth testifie his repentance with humble confession of his sin and judging of himself giving glory unto God the Church is then to forgive him and to comfort him and to restore him to the wonted brotherly communion which formerly he injoyed with them 8. The suffering of prophane or scandalous Livers to continue in fellowship Rev 2 14 15 vers 20 and partake in the Sacrament is doubtless a great sin in those that have power in their hands to redress it and do it not Nevertheless Mat 23 3 Acts 3 1 in as much as Christ and his Apostles in their times and the Prophets and other godly in theirs did lawfully partake of the Lords commanded Ordinances in the Jewish Church and neither taught nor practised separation from the same though unworthy ones were permitted therin and inasmuch as the faithfull in the Church of Corinth wherin were many unworthy persons 2 Cor 6 chap 15 12 and practises are never commanded to absent themselves from the Sacraments because of the same therfore the godly in like cases are not presently to separate 9. As separation from such a Church wherin profane and scandalous Livers are tolerated is not presently necessary so for the members therof otherwise worthy hereupon to abstain from communicating with such a Church 2 Chron 30 18 Gen 18 25 in the participation of the Sacraments is unlawfull For as it were unreasonable for an innocent person to be punished for the faults of others wherin he hath no hand and wherunto he gave no consent so is it more unreasonable that a godly man should neglect duty and punish himself in not coming for his portion in the blessing of the seals as he ought because others are suffered to come that ought not especially considering that himself doth neither consent to their sin nor to their approaching to the Ordinance in their sin Ezek. 9.10 nor to the neglect of others who should put them away and do not but on the contrary doth heartily mourn for these things modestly and seasonably stir up others to do their duty If the Church cannot be refermed they may use their liberty as is specified chap. 13. Sect. 4. But this all the Godly are bound unto even every one to do his endeavor according to his power and place that the unworthy may be duely proceeded against by the Church to whom this matter doth appertain CHAP. XV. Of the Communion of Churches one with another ALthough Churches be distinct Rev. 1.4 Cant. 8.8 Rom. 16.16 1 Cor 16.19 Acts 15.23 Rev. 2.1 and therefore may not be confounded one with another and equal and therefore have not dominion one over another yet all the Churches ought to preserve Church-communion one with another because they are all united unto Christ not only as a Mystical but as a Political Head whence is derived a communion suitable thereunto 2. The communion of Churches is exercised sundry ways 1. Cant. 8.8 By way of mutual care in taking thought for one anothers welfare II. By way of consultation one with another when we have occasion to require the judgment and counsel of other Churches touching any person or cause wherewith they may be better acquainted than our selves As the Church of Antioch consulted with the Apostles and Elders of the Church at Jerusalem Acts 15 2 about the question of circumcision of the Gentils and about the false Teachers that broached that Doctrin In which case Acts 15 6 when any Church wanteth light or peace amongst themselvs it is a way of communion of Churches according to the Word to meet together by their Elders and other Messengers in a Synod to consider argue the points in doubt or difference Vers 22 23 and having found out he way of truth and peace to commend the same by their Letters and Messengers to the Churches whom the same may concern But if a church be rent with divisions amongst themselves or lie under any open scandal yet refuse to consult with other Churches for healing or removing of the same it is a matter of just offence both to the Lord Jesus and to other Churches as bewraying too much want of mercy and faithfulness Ezck. 34.4 not to seek to bind up the breaches and wounds of the Church and Brethren and therefore the state of such a Church calleth aloud upon other Churches to exercise a fuller act of brotherly communion to wit by way of Admonition III. A third way then of communion of Churches is by way of admonition to wit In case any publick offence be found in a Church which they either discern not Gal. 2.11 to 14. or are slow in proceeding to use the means for the removing and healing of Paul had no authority over Peter yet when he saw Peter not walking with a right foot he publickly rebuked him before the Church though Churches have no more authority one over another than
one Apostle had over another yet as one Apostle might admonish another so may one Church admonish another and yet without usurpation In which case if the Church that lyeth under offence Mat. 18.15 16 17. by proportion do not hearken to the Church which doth admonish her the Church is to acquaint other neighbor-churches with that offence which the offending Church still lieth under together with their neglect of the brotherly admonition given unto them whereupon those other Churches are to joyn in seconding the admonition formerly given and if stil the offending Church continue in obstinacy and impenitency they may forbear cōmunion with them and are to proceed to make use of the help of a Synod or counsel of neighbor churches walking orderly if a greater cannot conveniently be had for their conviction If they hear not the Synod the Synod having declared them to be obstinate particular Churches approving and accepting of the judgment of the Synod are to declare the sentence of non-communion respectively concerning them and thereupon out of a religious care to keep their own communion pure they may justly withdraw themselves from participation with them at the Lords Table and from such other Acts of Holy communion as the communion of Churches doth otherwise allow and require Nevertheless if any Members of such a Church as lieth under publick offence do not consent to the offence of the Church but do in due sort bear witnels against it Gen. 18.25 they are stil to be received to wonted communion for it is not equal that the innocent should suffer with the offensive Yea furthermore if such innocent Members after due waiting in the use of all good means for the healing of the offence of their own Church shal at last with the allowance of the counsel of neighbor Churches withdraw from the fellowship of their own Church and offer themselves to the fellowship of another we judg it lawfull for the other Church to receive them being otherwise fit as if they had been orderly dismissed to them from their own Church IV. A fourth way of communion of Churches is by way of Participation the Members of one Church occasionally coming unto another we willingly admit them to partake with us at the Lords Table it being the seal of our communion not only with Christ nor only with the Members of our own Church 1 Cor 12.13 but also with all the Churches of the Saints in which regard we refuse not to baptize their children presented to us if either their own Minister be absent or such a fruit of holy fellowship be desired with us In like case such Churches as are furnished with more Ministers than one do willingly afford one of their own Ministers to supply the place of an absent or sick Minister of another Church for a needful season V. A fifth way of Church-communion is Rom. 16.3 by way of Recommendation when a Member of one Church hath occasion to reside in another Church if but for a season we commend him to their watchful fellowship by letters of recommendation but if he be called to settle his abode there we commit him according to his desire Acts 18.27 to the fellowship of their Covenant by letters of dismission VI. A sixt way of Church-communion is in case of Need to Minister relief and succor one unto another Acts 11.22 either of able Members to furnish them with Officers vers 29. Rom. 13.26 27. or of outward support to the necessities of poorer Churches as did the Churches of the Gentiles contribute liberally to the poor Saints at Jerusalem 3. When a company of Beleevers purpose to gather into Church-fellowship it is requisite for their safer proceeding the maintaining of the communion of Churches Gal. 2.1 2. and 9. by proportion that they signifie their intent unto the neighbor Churches walking according unto the order of the Gospel and desire their presence and help and right hand of fellowship which they ought readily to give unto them when there is no just cause of excepting against their proceedings 4. Besides these several waies of communion there is also a way of propagation of Churches when a Church shal grow too numerous it is a way Isay 40.20 Cant 8 8 9 fit season to propogate one Church out of another by sending forth such of their mēbers as are willing to remove and to procure some Officers to them as may enter with them into Church-estate a mongst themselves as Bees when the hive is too ful issue forth by swarms and are gathered into other hives so the Churches of Christ may do the same upon like necessity and therin hold forth to them the right hand of fellowship both in their gathering into a Church and in the ordination of their Officers CHAP. XVI Of Synods SYnods orderly assembled and rightly proceeding according to the pattern Acts 15.2 to 15. Acts 15. we acknowledg as the ordinance of Christ and though not absolutely necessary to the being yet many times through the iniquity of men and perversness of times necessary to the wel-being of Churches for the establishment of truth and peace therein 2. Synods being Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Assemblyes are therfore made up of Spiritual and Ecclesiastical causes The next efficient cause of them under Christ is the power of the Churches sending forth their Elders Acts 15.2 3 other Messengers who being met together in the Name of Christ Verse 6. are the matter of the Synod and they in arguing debating and determining matters of Religion according to the Word ver 7. to 23 and publishing the same to the Churches whom it concerneth do put forth the proper and formal acts of a Synod verse 31. Acts 16.4.15 to the conviction of errors and heresies and the establishment of truth and peace in the Churches which is the end of a Synod 3. Magistrates have power to call a Synod by calling to the Churches to send forth their Elders and other Messengers 1 Chron. 29 4 5. to 11. to counsel and assist them in matters of Religion but yet the constituting of a Synod Acts 15. is a Church act and may be transacted by the Churches even when civil Magistrates may be enemies to Churches and to Church-Assemblyes 4. It belongeth unto Synods and Counsels to debate and determin controversies of faith Acts 17.1.2.6.7 1 Chron. 15 23. and cases of conscience to clear from the Word holy directions for the holy Worship of God good government of the Church to bear witness against mis-administration and Corruption in doctrine or maners in any particular Church 2 Chron. 29.6 7 Acts 15 24. vers 28 29 to give directions for the reformation therof Not to exercise Church-censures in way of discipline nor any other act of church authority or jurisdiction which that presidentiall Synod did forbeare 5. The Synods directions and determinations so farr as consonant to the
removal of Habitations in case of changing Church-Relations provided that it may be done without too much detriment to their outward estate and we for our parts have done the same But to put a necessity of removal of Habitation in such a case it is to foment and cherish a corrupt principle of making Civil Cohabitation if not a formal cause yet at least a proper Adjunct of Church-Relation which the Truth of the Gospel doth not acknowledg Now to foment an Error to the prejudice of the Truth of the Gospel is not to walk with a right foot according to the Truth of the Gospel as Paul judgeth Galat. 2.14 4. We do not think it meet or safe for a Member of a Presbyterial Church forthwith to desert his relation to his Church betake himself to the Fellowship of a Congregational Church though he may discern some defect in the Estate or Government of his own For first Faithfulness of Brotherly Love in Church-Relation requireth that the Members of the Church should first convince their Brethren of their sinful defects and duly wait for their reformation before they depart from them For if we must take such a course for the healing of a private Brother in a way of Brotherly Love with much meekness and patience how much more ought we so to walk with like tenderness towards a whol Church Again secondly By the hasty departure of sound Members from a defective Church Reformation is not promoted but many times retarded and corruption increased Whereas on the contrary while sincere Members breathing after purity of Reformation abide together they may by the blessing of God upon their faithful endeavors prevail much with their Elders and Neighbors towards a Reformation it may be so much as that their Elders in their own Church shall receive none to the Lords Table but visible Saints and in the Classis shall put forth no Authoritive Act but Consultative only touching the Members of other Churches nor touching their own but with the consent silent consent at least of their own Church which two things if they can obtain with any humble meek holy faithful endeavors we conceive they might by the grace of Christ find liberty of conscience to continue their Relation with their own Presbyterial Church without scruple 5. But to ad a word further touching the gathering of Churches out of Churches What if there were no express example of such a thing extant in the Scriptures that which we are wont to answer the Antipaedobaptists may suffice here it is enough if any evidence thereof may be gathered from just consequence of Scripture-Light Doctor Ames his Judgment concerning this case passeth for ought we know without exception which he gave in his fourth Book of Conscience in Answer to 2. Quest C. 14. Num. 16. If any saith he wronged with unjust vexation or providing for his own edification or in testimony against sin depart from a Church where some evils are tolerated and joyn himself to another more pure yet without condemning of the Church he leaveth he is not therefore to be held as a Schismatick or as guilty of any other sin Where the Tripartite disjunction which the judicious Doctor putteth declareth the Lawfulness of the departure of a Church-Member from his Church when either through weariness of unjust vexation or in way of provision for his own edification or in testimony against sin he joyneth himself to another Congregation more Reformed Any one of these he judgeth a just and lawful cause of departure though all of them do not concur together Neither will such a practice dispoil the best Ministers of the Parishes of their best Hearers For 1. Sometimes the Ministers themselves are willing to joyn with their better sort of Hearers in this way of Reformation and then they and their Hearers continue still their Church-Relation together yea and confirm it more straitly and strongly by an express renewed Covenant though the Ministers may stil continue their wonted preaching to the whol Parish 2. If the Ministers do dislike the way of those whom they otherwise count their best Members and so refuse to joyn with them therein yet if those Members can procure some other Minister to joyn with them in their own way and still continue their dwelling together in the same Town they may easily order the times of the publick Assembly as to attend constantly upon the Ministry of their former Church and either after or before the publick Assembly of the Parish take an opportunity to gather together for the administration of Sacraments and Censures and other Church-Ordinances amongst themselves The first Apostolick Church assembled to hear the Word with the Jewish Church in the open Courts of the Temple but afterwards gathered together for breaking of Bread and other Acts of Church-Order from house to house 3. Suppose Presbyterial Churches should communicate some of their best gifted Members towards the erecting and gathering of another Church it would not forthwith be their detriment but may be their inlargement It is the most noble and perfect work of a living Creature both in Nature and Grace to propagate and multiply his Kind and it is the honor of the faithful Spouse of Christ to set forward the Work of Christ as well abroad as at home The Church in Cant. 8.8 to help forward her little sister Church was willing to part with her choyce materials even beams of Cedar and such precious living stones as were fit to build a silver Pallace In the same Book the Church is compared sometime to a Garden sometime to an Orchard Cant. 4.12 13. No man Planteth a Garden or Orchard but seeketh to get the choysest Herbs and Plants of his Neighbors and they freely impart them nor do they account it a spoyl to their Gardens and Orchards but rather a glory Nevertheless we go not so far we neither seek nor ask the choyce Members of the Parishes but accept them being offered If it be said they are not offered by the Ministers nor by the Parish Churches who have most right in them but only by themselves It may justly be demanded what Right or what Power have either the Ministers or Parish-Church over them Not by solemn Church-Covenant for that though it be the firmest engagement is not owned but rejected If it be by their joyning with the Parish in the calling and election of a Minister to such a Congregation at his first coming there is indeed just weight in such an Engagement nor do we judg it safe for such to remove from such a Minister unless it be upon such grounds as may justly give him due satisfaction But if the union of such Members to a Parish Church and to the Ministry thereof be only by cohabitation within the Precincts of the Parish that union as it was founded upon humane Law so by humane Law it may easily be released Or otherwise if a man remove his Habitation he removeth also the bond of his relation and
A PLATFORM OF Church-Discipline Gathered out of the WORD of GOD and agreed upon by the ELDERS and Messengers of the CHURCHES assembled in the Synod at CAMBRIDGE IN NEW-ENGLAND To be presented to the Churches and General Court for their Consideration and Acceptance in the Lord. How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts Psal 84.1 Lord I have loved the Habitation of thy House and place where Thine Honor dwelleth Psal 26.8 One thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his Temple Psal 27.4 Printed in New-England and Reprinted in London for Peter Cole at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1653. To all that are Faithful in Christ Jesus especially to the Godly of the Common-Wealth of England and the Nations thereunto belonging Grace Mercy and Peace BEloved in our Lord and Savior being employed as an Agent from New-England these Six years past to the Right Honorabl the present Parliament of England upon some weighty occasions Amongst other Papers of concernment that came to my hands from thence I received sometime since this ensuing Treatise from divers of the Reverend Elders there with liberty to Re-print it as I saw occasion It being intituled A Platform of Church-Disciplin gathered out of the Word of God and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches Assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New-England to be presented to the Churches and general Court for their Consideration and acceptance in the Lord. It would be too long for me to insert the many Things that have occasioned the Delay of Reprinting it But meeting of late with a Coppy thereof Re-printed not only in a disorderly way but very Falsly to the great prejudice of the Work the Proofs in the margent amongst other gross Errors not rightly placed and so not proving the matter against which they are set I made it therefore my work to Suppress that Impression and have gained a Promise They shall never come to publick sale This Impression I have carefully examined by a Coppy I received from that Known Reverend Painful and Faithful Minister of the Gospel Mr. John Cotton of Boston under his own Hand directed to my self for the end before mentioned and do find it to Answer the Coppy received some smal faults excepted the proofs in the margent being duly placed only sometimes a Figure is mistaken but for the most part in Texts so familiarly known to every studious Reader as I conceived it would need no Errata not doubting but the charitable Reader will bear with it and Correct it as he reades it it being Re-printed at so great a distance from the place where it was first Collected It would be but as a drop of water cast into the great Ocean for me to go about by my Praises to ad to the worth of this Work and therefore such as the said Elders and Church-Messengers from their Synod at Cambridge aforesaid presented to the Churches and general Court for their Consideration and Acceptance in the Lord Such and the same I Declare this to be and desire the Lord to make it useful to his Churches and People for the finding out and true Discovery of that Order and Government the Lord Jesus hath left in his House till his second Coming which is the Prayer of Yours in the Lord Jesus EDW. WINSLOW Books Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall London And are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil by the Exchange Seven Books of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs lately published As also the Texts of Scripture upon which they are grounded 1 The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment on Phil. 4.11 Wherein is shewed 1. What Contentment is 2. It is an holy Art and Mystery 3. The Excellencies of it 4. The Evil of the contrary sin of Murmuring and the Aggravations of it 2 Gospel-Worship on Levit. 10.3 Wherein is shewed 1 The right manner of the Worship of God in general and particularly In Hearing the Word Receiving the Lords Supper and Prayer 3 Gospel-Conversation on Phil. 1.17 Wherein is shewed 1 That the Conversations of Beleevers must be above what could be by the light of Nature 2 Beyond those that lived under the Law 3 And sutable to what Truths the Gospel holds forth To which is added The Misery of those men that have their Portion in this Life only on Psal 17.14 4 A Treatise of Earthly-mindedness Wherein is shewed 1 What Earthly-mindedness is 2 The great Evil thereof on Phil. 3. part of the 19. vers Also to the same Book is joyned A Treatise of Heavenly-mindedness and walking with God on Gen. 5.24 and on Phil. 3.20 5 An Exposition on the fourth fifth sixth and seventh Chapters of the Prophesie of Hosea 6 An Exposition on the eighth ninth and tenth Chapters of Hosea 7 An Exposition on the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Chapters of Hosea being now compleat Twelve several Books of Mr. William Bridge Collected into one Volumn Viz. 1 The great Gospel-Mystery of the Saints Comfort and Holiness opened and applied from Christs Priestly Office 2 Satans power to Tempt and Christs Love to and Care of his People under Temptation 3 Thankfulness required in every Condition 4 Grace for Grace or the Overflowings of Christs Fulness received by all Saints 5 The Spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural Impossibilities 6 Evangelical Repentance 7 The Spiritual-Life and In-being of Christ in all Beleevers 8 The Woman of Canaan 9 The Saints Hiding-Place in time of Gods Anger 10 Christs Coming is at our Midnight 11 A Vindication of Gospel Ordinances 12 Grace and Love beyond Gifts A Godly and Fruitful Exposition on the first Epistle of Peter By Mr. John Rogers Minister of the Word of God at Dedham in Essex Five several Books by Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology 1 The Anatomy of the Body of Man Wherein is exactly Described the several parts of the Body of Man illustrated with very many large Brass Plates 2 A Translation of the New Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London Wherunto is added The Key to Galen 's Method of Physick 3 A Directory for Midwives or a Guide for Women 4 Galen's Art of Physick with a large Comment 5 The English Physitian Being an Astrologa-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation wherin is shewed how to cure a mans self of most Diseases incident to mans Body with such things as grow in England and for three-pence charge Also in the same Book is shewed 1 The time of gathering all Herbs both vulgarly and Astrologically 2 The way of drying and keeping them and their Juyces 3 The way of making and keeping all manner of useful Compounds made of those Herbs 4 The way of mixing the Medicines according to cause and mixture of the Disease