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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34669	Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himselfe sent them over not long before his death.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6416; ESTC R37665	7,538	26

in his Judgement and yet doe approve also of a Congregationall way and is destrous to joyne in Covenant with a Congregationall Church whether may be not in due order be lawfully admitted and continued a Member of a Congregationall Church Yea further Notwithstanding the different state and way of Presbyterian and Congregationall Churches and the Defects which the one or the other may observe or surmize either in other yet even whilest they so stand and walke whether may not the Members of either without just offence mutually Communicate one with another as occasion shall be offered at the Lords Table The Affirmative seemeth probable For as Error in Judgement about Discipline is not an Heresie against the Foundation of Christian Religion And the Apostle instructeth Christian Churches to receive the Christian Jewes into their Church-fellowship who yet dissented from them about the obsetvation of Leviticall Rites which were as much discrepant from the Truth of the Gospel in the Order of worship as these other be in Order of Government Besides God accepteth cleanness of heart in his faithfull servants in their approaches to his Table though there be defects in full cleansing according to the Order of the Sanctuary 2 Chron. 30.18 19 20. The 8. Querie If a godly Minister called to Office by a People professing Godliness whether under Episcopacy or Presbytery and afterward repenting of any knowne sinne in his way shall be desirous of a more pure Reformation whether may not his godly people acknowledge his Ministeriall Calling without sinne Why not For he had the Essence of a lawfull Calling before in the free choice of his godly People and in his owne free acceptance of them and of their Call Nevertheless if any of his godly People should stumble at his former Calling whether may not a more select Company and body of the People renue their Call of him and there to accept the Concurrence and Consent of the rest of the Congregation And whether may not he also doe well instead of stiff standing upon the validiy of his former Calling to condescend to renue his Acceptance of them yea and to receive a New Ordination from them with express designation to the Office either of a Pastor or Teacher and that without prejudice or dishonour to his former Calling For a renued Act doth not invalidate much lesse evacuate the old but cleare it and confirme it so farre as there is any thing of God in it as in Scripture all Ingeminations doe Saul was thrice Ordained King over Israel 1 Sam. 10.1 ver 24. 11.14 15. thrice to the same Calling and with severall solemnities Neither is Ordination of the Essence of a Ministeriall Calling but a solemne Adjunct of it which may be renued upon occasion of any New spirituall Imployment or Function Place or People Acts 13.2 3. The 9. Querie If the godly Members of a Congregation formerly subject to Episcopacy but repenting of their sinfull subordination thereunto and being studious of Reformation have solemnly Covenanted to endeavour the same and have chosen their former godly Ministers one or more into the Pastors or Teachers Office Whether may not those Ministers withhold their Ignorant and carnall Hearers from the Lords Table though they had their consent to their Election untill they be able to discerne the Lords Body and be fit to receive it without prophaning it But yet in the meane time whether may they not dispence some other Ministeriall Acts unto them as to Preach the Word and also to Catechize them and their Families And if hereby they shall attain unto so much knowledge of the Principles of the Doctrine of the Gospel as to professe before the Church both their need of Christ and his Covenant to themselves and the Seale thereof unto their Seed and also their owne Duty of subjection unto Christ in his Ordinances and shall likewise be found free from any open scandall or else openly judge themselves for the same Whether may it not be lawfull for the Minister to admit them to the Lords Table and their Children to Baptisme For it is not with such as with Ishmael and Esau who though they were borne in the Church and sealed under the Covenant of Circumcision yet when they grew up to yeares the one mocked at the Heire of the Covenant and the other despised the Birth-right of the Covenant and so the one was cast out and the other withdrew himselfe from the fellowship of the Church and both of them deprived their children of Circumcision But such is not the Case here of these we speake of but rather they are like the Seed of the Israelites who though many of them were not sincerely godly yet whilst they held forth the publick Profession of Gods People Deut. 26.3 to 11. and continued under the wing of the Covenant and subjection to the Ordinances They were still accounted an holy Seed Ezr. 9.2 and so their children were Partakers of Circumcision Yea further though themselves were sometimes kept from the Lords Supper the Passeover for some or other uncleanness yet that debarred not their children from Circumcision Against this may it not seeme vaine to stand upon a Difference between the Church of Israel and our Churches of the New Testament in that theirs was a Nationall Church and ours Congregationall For the same Covenant which God made with the Nationall Church of Israel and their Seed It is the very same for substance and none other which the Lord maketh with any Congregationall Church and our Seed When the Jewes and their children were cut off from the fatness of the Olive we and our children were engrafted into their roome and estate Rom. 11.17 19. so that we are now become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coheires concorporate and compartners with them of the same promise in Jesus Christ Eph. 3.6 The 10. Querie When any Christians desire to be admitted into the Church the Covenant thereof whether is it regular that the Elders should take all the Tryall of them in a private Consistory alone unlesse it be in way of preparation that so they may more fitly and safely commend them to the publick Tryall of the whole Church But were it not meete that the last Tryall of Members upon which they being approved are received either into the Church in a Congregationall way or to the Lords Supper in a Presbyteriall way should be transacted before the Church For as no Members are to be cast out of the Church-Communion but by the Judgement and Consent of the Church as well the Brethren as the Elders so none should be received into the Communion of the Church but with the approbation and Consent of the Church The 11. Querie Whether is it just matter of Offence If a Member of any Church which lyeth under the Leaven of Corruption after the use of all good meanes for the healing of the corruptions of his owne Church be it Presbyteriall or Congregationall and after long waiting for the