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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Christendom and also against the ground of Scripture and reason approved by them themselves who most professe hatred against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the self-convicted yet are they herein contradictory to themselves false to their own grounds and condemned in avowing by their practise what they so disavow in their eminent profession But since their profession against Antichrist concurreth with the prescript worship of the Scripture cited and this part thereof now in handling and its and their many parallels let us lift up our eyes to behold that cleer light of those and the like Scriptures which so gloriously magnifie divine worship and provoke us to the knowledge thereof even of those parts thereof which their onely opposites do in their protesting against Antichrist so dignifie by the rule of contraries in their placing the essence of that Antichrist in his counterfeiting and usurping the parts of worship besides Preaching Sacraments and Prayer withall supposing that their practise in the positive would also follow theirs were it not for the worldly sinister respects of the flatterings and fooleries of the world-worship or Prelacy especially of those three parts thereof which they both in profession and practice so highly and positively magnifie which indeed will enforce the introduction of the rest by their own necessiting them to the Ministry and that to the Church Thirdly the particular Churches of Ephesus and Corinth are expresly said 1 Tim. 3.15 2 Cor. 6.16 to be the houses of God and that without peculiarity and therefore indefinitly and as such and therefore of every particular Church for quod est quatenus ipsum est de omni That Church also indefinitly taken and so every particular Church is there said to be the pinacle and subject of truth i. e. the first evidencer and evident part of divine true worship and the radical ground subjective chair and proper basis thereof and the then true Church of Rome is said to be the body of that word-worship in Christ Rom. 12.5 as above is particularized for by comparing that v. 5. with v. 1. it is cleered to be a particular part of that word-worship and with v. 7 8. to be the body and subject thereof which is so evident in that place that I will not farther prove it but even by It prove what is inferred from 1 Tim. 3.15 against the two oppositions thereof The former is by expounding the word Truth onely of the Doctrines of Faith and Holyness but are not the Doctrines of Gods Word of truth Joh. 17.17 concerning his true worship instituted onely thereby and our answerable holy serving him therein so well as those concerning Faith and Holiness personal Why are they not so proper yea so special truths of that word of truth Nay they are more proper to the Church since Faith and its personal fruits are proper and immediate to the person of each Christian and the other parts of worship proper and immediate to the Church yea these have no other subject pinacle pillar chair nor ground neither can they subsist nor exist in act but as of and in the Church but Faith and therefore all its fruits are in their perfection of parts in each true adult son called and regenerate before he is admitted into a Church for he is thereinto received as being such and not as to be made such and again upon manifestation that he is not such he is rejected and cast thereout as not fit to be of the Church and therefore is he not to expect nor receive his Faith in from or by the Church how then is it the Fountain or Root of the Scripture-Gospel or Doctrine of Salvation by Faith working by love as so working as the Papists hold as their life on the one side Or as the Controverters against the same say How is it the Post or Pasquil pillar of Rome whereon all publike notifications use to be affixed in respect of its shewing Faith unto the passers by A very poor interpretation of that place and an embasing of the Church which to dignifie in a special manner is the scope of that sentence wherein the Popish Exposition is the far better onely whereas this high dignifying the Church to provoke Timothy and other Officers thereof to a reverent diligent and cheerful discharge of their Ministry therein is by the word as its Dignifier and so it is evident that the dignity of the causall priority and the fundamental and fontal originalness of the word it self as the proper truth of God Joh. 17.17 is excepted as God is excepted in this express universal assertion 1 Cor. 15.27 For he hath put all things under his Christs feet wch is in the next words expressed But when he saith all things are put under his feet it is evident that he is excepted which did put all things under him so that that is as evidently false as the other though not so unsavoury and ridiculous in making the Church it self but a Bill-post of truth which hath but this goodnes to oppose the falshood of the former nor excuse but that they know not the proper meaning of truth in that place nor the distinct acception thereof for true worship in the Scripture both in its positive and privative use thereof yea and both for divine worship in the general and also more particularly for these special particulars thereof in hand as Rom. 1.25 Who turned the truth of God into a lye or the true worship of God into false and worshipped and served the Creature rather then the Creator i. e. in their worshipping and serving him in by and under created resemblances which God accounteth for a serving the creature according to all Gods natural courses and appearances and no institution of his supposing any other rather than their Creatour whose Will they were to know in that their divine Worship for of the Idolatries in the Scripture both of the Jews and Gentiles there is no one wherein by the intent of the Worshipper there was any other original person of the Deity adored than the same which we adore as Creator of the world Of which briefly as followeth Of False Counterfeit or World-Worship FAlse Counterfeit or World-worship is instituted by Man having two Roots and moving Reasons but both rotten and unreasonable the first is because man hath instituted in him a duty to please God in a visible instituted Worship which he supposeth he hath discharged when he hath separated to him from common use the best and most acceptable thing in his judgment which he therefore presumeth that God so judgeth and accepteth also which is expressed Esa 41.1 to 7. and illustrated unto Chap. 44.20 as the Sum and Index of this point whose vindex possesseth the third part of the Scripture and all the world but a few The other reason is because the same ordinances in kind are sanctified and blessed by GOD especially by Christ under the Gospel or at or since his coming in the flesh This is the

Worship and our spiritual welfare what can be of a greater necessity of duty or concluder of Rebellion against God or murder of our own soules especially since they are expressed to be that good acceptable and perfect Will of God Rom. 12.2 That Word-worship so vehemently pressed v. 1. unto the approbation of both which we must be transformed into a renewedness of mind and disconformed from the World-worship as dead unholy and unacceptable unto God v. 1. and renounce our own Wills as evil odious and imperfect v. 2. by which high dignity of the Commander and Commender of these for his own peculiar Divine Worship and his Worshippers eternal glory and the Divine Nature of the Worship and Worshippers and the heavenly end of the former and benefit to the latter and also by the Deity of the Mediator and inspirer of them thus manifested another promised branch is also performed but competently indeed in respect of what may more be said of them yet compleatly being compared with the dignity of any other thing but God their original Author and ultimate End and his Saints for whom they and all things but God are and by and for whom they are exercised and their Institutors and Divine Declarer and Grace and Heaven for which they are But I haste to their further dignifying by shewing the odious baseness of their Opposites Antichrist and his Worship having only first marshalled them into their comely order lineal and collateral Psal 19. Gods natural works are highly extolled in that their line is gone through the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World v. 4. and the like is said of the Sun v. 6. but the extension of Gods spiritual works are far more magnified in the rest of that Psalm and throughout that spirituall Record nothing is more evident and eminent both in lineal and collateral extension than the pillar and ground of true Worship which is the House and Church of the Living God 1 Tim. 3.15 For the Word is Truth both as the Sanctifier of the Truth of Salvation and also of Worship but the Church is not the pillar and ground of the former but of the latter it is as shall be synopsed presently which also best sorteth with the subject of that whole Epistle especially at that part thereof which is an instruction of Timothy how to behave himself in ordering and acting Gods publike worship The rock and root of this line is God the Father as the absolute Willer thereof the Anchor or Hank end thereof is Christ as the original Revealer thereof his immediate Deputies therein are the Apostles Prophets and Evangelists by their precepts and practice thereof the Divine Record whereof is their Writings of the new Testament a Divine Progeny and previal Line indeed but the internal Line hath five parts 1. The Church 2. The power thereof 3. The Church-estates 4. Their Functions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12.4 or Portions of Faith v. 3. 5. Their object or matter What these five things are is shewn but I onely touch their lineal or successive order The filial or posterial Line of Gods Worship extendeth to all publike union and communion with God and his Saints in all grace and glory First in this life as an Earnest Broad-seal Livery of seisine and Court or Temple of Sanctum Sanctorum and the very Heaven an heavenly Issue and Inheritance indeed and so a Royal Race and Heavenly Line indeed The collateral respect of Divine Worship is either internal or external the former is the fraternity of its parts which is actual in its four last parts and virtual in the Church as causally respecting each branch of the four brotherhoods each whereof hath nine particulars according to the number of the Church-estates or Memberships 4. Whereof are integral as Children Women Men and Prophets And 5. Organical or Ministerial as the Teacher the Exhorter the Distributer the Ruler the pitier whose 9. portions priviledges or proportions of Faith Rom. 12.3 6. or Functions v. 4. may by these nine terms be understood receptive submissive active instructive teaching exhorting distributing ruling and pittying but the particulars of the matter wherein those Functions are to be exercised cannot so briefly be expressed but by reference to what is said of them which is sufficient for this place over unto in by and for these brotherhoods is the Church power authoritative over them in giving them their being or essentiative unto them preservative in them usive by them beneficial for them for all gifts ministrations and operations are given to the Church to profit each other member its Function and its matter to be executed 1 Cor. 12.7 The external fraternity of our Evangelical Divine Worship is either spiritual or natural the spiritual is either cotypical or antitypical the particulars of them all are 7 five are past one is and the seventh is to come so exactly is this white Line parallel'd with that black one in time number and particulars Rev. 17. though in all substantials exactly antiparallel'd as may appear in the counter-parallel of this Image of Christ with that of Antichrist The cotypes then are five Paradise Noah's Ark Abraham's Family Moses Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple which I cannot plainly and plentifully say and seal in few words and yet many I may not now use 1. Paradise as a type of the Church Adam as the Teacher or Declarer by Moral Teaching and the Tree of Knowledge As the typical preserver by the Tree of Life and Exhortation As the Orderer or Ruler by casting out of Paradise This was also a Legal Type of Heaven and the first Covenant 2. Noah's Ark. Noah the teacher of Righteousness by the spiritual signs of the Ark The typical preserver of all in the Ark by the Food of the Ark The Ruler by admitting into and rejecting out of the Ark. This was a Legal and Evangelical Type cleering the worship after the Fall 3. Abraham's Family in Covenant with God Abraham the Teacher of his Family by publication of Gods Promises and Commandements The Sealer thereof by Circumcision and the Sacrifices The Ruler by Excommunication This was an Evangelical Type cleering the second Covenant made with Adam Gen. 3.15 4. The Tabernacle The Priests and Levites as Teachers by Moral and Typical preaching As Exhorters and Sealers by the Passover Sacraments and Sacrifices As Rulers by Tryal shutting out and purifying the Lepers the Unclean c. This was properly legal and cleering the first Covenant made with Adam Gen. 2.17 Yet secondly it Was Evangelical as typing the Worship of the Gospel 5. The Temple The Priests c. as in the Tabernacle but thereto as also to the Temple as being neerer to Christ then the other three there was also annexed a cleerer distinctness of the teaching and offices of Christ in the Colledge of the Prophets and their prophecying exhorting and ordering the children of the P●ophets and in Jerusalem as the prime place of Expounders of the Law

which will shortly appear in their glory and exaltation according to Esa 2.2 3 4. then shall we see World-worship destroyed and Word-worship alone exalted throughout the World I judged it my duty to be instrumental to its bringing forth into the World My own experience also of their great worth was no small motive to their bringing forth lest peradventure these precious Dawnings or rather Radiant-beams of Light should have perished in the Birth and so have been buried in the dark vale of Oblivion There is also of the same Authors a large Treatise of the Sabbath or the Lords Day ready for the Press since the Sabbath and Worship are an inseparable pair of Twins being both founded on the first Table of Gods Law These Treatises of them had not been divided had opportunity served but wanting the same thy acceptation of this may promote the publication of that Which is divided into three parts or periods VIZ. Moral Mosaical and Messiacal In the first period is shewn us divine duty and rationality with seven practical Observations thereof to second and countenance the same before its precepting Exod. 20. Secondly that it was all the Mosaic● period commanded practised and approved upon the same Moral Reasons Causes and Motives with the first though covered with Judaical glosses and Bondaging Austerities in the third period that it was Gospelized and entred thereinto at and by Christs Resurrection with the same soul right faculties and priviledges that it had at the first Sabbath and that in a far higher kind and more glorious degree and also that it was observed and approved by Christ his Apostles and the Primitive Churches forty Arguments stated anatomizing the whole for the vindication thereof 12. at the least for each period and all the main Objections of the Adversaries answered In which Treatise Adam's Estate is also largly handled in relation to his sanctification of the first Sabbath Gen. 2. Also divers other small Pieces VIZ. A Body of Divinity epitomized of God of the Creation of the ten Precepts paralleled with the Sabbath of the Lords Prayer of Supremacy of Adams three-fold Estate more at large of the original working of the Evangelical Mystery of Iniquity and the generation of Antichrist in the Apostles days Wherein he not onely cleereth divers obscure passages but also the whole scope of the Epistles of John and Jude This with some other of his Writings are likewise an excellent Introduction to the understanding of the Prophesies Also he wrote A Chronology of the times of the Persian Monarchy and upon the Prophesies with several others and many fragments of precious use all which are well-worthy the publication For all his Writings savour much both of Knowledge and Piety As for those who would have no controversal Divinity published let them go and learn what that meaneth Dan. 12.4 Many shall run to and fro i. e. in discourse and knowledge shall be increased Besides our Author herein handleth the main Principles of Religion very judiciously in an excellent method As for obscure Words Phrases in this Book observe what our Author saith upon the like occasion saith he you will most disrellish the concise compoundness and the like-soundness of some Words but they being intelligible to the verst in reading and hearing the first sort will be palliated by their saving tedious Circumloqutions and the second by their helping memory and delight And in another place speaking of the excellency of the like matter he saith My Wits must be erect and your ears arrect in the fitting Words Phrases and Form suitable thereto in newness because the radicalness is farther to be now discovered than formerly and the Adversaries have by their new fraud devised new Weapons and Stratagems which must by New Wisdome be defeated and by their worse fury more charged their Canons and fierced their rage wherefore we must new our offensives and defensives and re-inforce our courage and powers or decline Gods War with Meroz and get its Curse yet vvill I frame all so intelligibly as I can yea and so plausibly as the intelligiblenes of the matter wil suffer In reading this Book make that use thereof which the Author intends who saith that the 1 Cor. 8. plentifully and plainly enough reproveth all swaying the Conscience in purpose or practice by and for any personal respect of the Teacher or fore-practice even under great censures therein expressed Wherefore saith he I will fear and flee what I can from all perswading the Conscience but by helping it to understand the Conscience-swaying Word of God by the rules thereof and our enlighted reason natural in natural things and matters of fact and especially spiritual by consequences from the Positions of Faith and received therewith and thereby So assuring my self that the sincere and serious Seekers and Lovers of Truth will find a large Field of Knowledge for themselves to walk in with great variety in the unfolding of Adams several Estates in Paradise Also that Christian temper of love mercy compassion pity forbearance and forgiveness Jam. 3.17 18. lively displayed which should be exercised for the restoring of an offending brother with the odiousness of the contrary proud persecuting carriage And likewise an excellent Discovery of the unity and peculiarity of the Gospel Church-state with the diversity of its gifts offices and Administrations entirely and exactly compacted Those eight verses being as well saith the Author A divine general Prescript and particular Description of the Gospel Worship of God and Heirship of his Sons and of their reciprocal union of Church-state and communion in the Ordinances thereof for proof of which and for thy further satisfaction in the Premises I refer thee to the Book it self and rest remaining Truth 's devoted Servant H. P. July 31. 1656. TO THE Right Honourable the LORDS of the Upper-House of PARLIAMENT The Humble Petition of Thomas Brewer close Prisoner in the Kings-Bench Sheweth FIrst that the Petitioner was Anno Dom. 1626. October the 18. imprisoned by the Prelates and their second Court-Day after fined one thousand pounds and condemned to be close imprisoned till he at Pauls Cross should recant his Legal Loyal Reasonable and Seasonable saying That Because the Prelates did not derive their Offices from his Majesty as they ought therefore he durst not partake with them nor the Derivers of their Offices from them in the proper Works of their Offices II. That that Fine and Imprisonment hath been extended without mitigation to all extremity in their power to the near ruining of his Life and Livelyhood ever since onely for the said saying on due occasion by their long-laboured Project without hope of relief but by Parliament which is the sum of what ensueth III. That that saying was Legal by the Law of God and by many Statutes and the Common-Law and that their so Fining Imprisoning and extream Pressures were Illegal the Petitioner is ready to prove and also that they profess that their Illegal Derivation in