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A77293	Gospel advice to godly builders: for the pulling down of Babel, and the building up of Sion. For the most part written in three letters, to be communicated to the Reverend Assembly of Ministers in Westminster. By the unworthiest of all the Gospel ministers, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4325; Thomason E475_37; ESTC R205459	16,503	25

exh●rtation ●●r preaching an ordinary word given all publi●●●xercise 〈◊〉 bounded and ●imited by that which followeth wh●●● sh●ws wh●●●● is to preach ●●proof ●xhort 〈◊〉 T●● 〈◊〉 words followin● prescribe the manner of doing it as in the sig●●●●●●●ve with all 〈◊〉 ●●ffer●●g and doctrine doctrine here sh●●●●is ●●pro●●●●d ●●hortation shoul● be taken from the Word onely that it may av●●l Lastly preach was to distinguish private reproof from publick and pastorall The onely Scripture you have set down to prove it by is that of 1 Cor. 14.3 ●e that ●●●hefieth speaketh to edification and exhortation and comfort In which ind●●d are all the distinct operations of the Ministery But 1. The Ministery though consisting of severall parts is spoken of as one in the Scripture though the ministery of Apostles differ from that of Prophe●● that of Prophets from that of Evangelists c. yet Act. 6.4 We will give our selves continually to prayer and the ministery of the word he●e the ministery of the word is spoken of as one particular work onely when the Apos●●●●●d at severall times and places all the parts 〈◊〉 ministery 2. As the ministery so the Ministers are said to be one 1 Cor. 3.6.8 v ● I ●●ve planted Apollo watered ver 8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth 〈◊〉 now they are o●● that 〈◊〉 Vnum minister●●m sed duo ministri 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this place is conjunctio completi●● and is put for pr●inde signifying and then the being thus to be read He that prophesieth doth it to edifie ation and then to exhortations and after it hath effected its w●●k sufficiently then to consolation 4 Ver. 6. following expounds it clearly s●●th the Apostle What shall I profit you except I speak by revelation as a Prophet by knowledge as an Evangelist by prophesie as a Pastor by doctrine as a Teacher in an extraordinary ●●e having a call to exercis● all 1. Hence he joyns revelation an extraordinary with the ordinary 2. To shew ●●one by 〈◊〉 ordin●●y call may da●e to do them unlesse he could do 〈◊〉 extraordinary also as he could or this is no pattern for any 5. This is held o●● cle●● 〈…〉 ●●●●tion v. 7. And even things without life giving sc●●d whet●●● 〈…〉 except they give a distinction in th● 〈◊〉 how sh●ll be 〈◊〉 ●hat i● piped or harped v. 8 〈◊〉 if the 〈…〉 an u●●●rtain found who shall prepare him c. 1. Here are three Instruments signifying this threefold Ministery Pipe Harp Trump 2. They must have sounds Rom. 10.18 3. They must have distinct differing sounds according to their differing Ministery as now the Ministery is exercised it is ●●t ●own what is piped or harped 6. To say one may do all is to confound the whol● frame of that discipline Christ hath set up in his Church and is against the many Scriptures which clearly hold out the differing ministeries and sets Scripture against Scripture For Antiquity I onely commend now unto you that of Tertullian in his book de exhortatione castitatis a man that knew better the Gospel discipline then any now living he being about the yeer 200. when the Church had some purity in it his words are these Differentiam inter ordinem plebem constituit Ecclesia authorit●● honor per ordinis cons●ssum sanctificatus adeo ubi non est Ecclesiastici ●●dinis consessus Offers Tinguis Sacerdos es tibi solus sed ubi tres Ecclesia est licet Laici unusquisque sua fide vivit necest personarum accepti● apud Deum quoniam non auditores legis justificantur à Deo sed factores s●cundum quod Apostolus dicit Igitur si babes jus sacerdotis in temetipso ubi necesse 〈◊〉 habeas etiam ●portet disciplinam Sacerdotis Digamus Tinguis Diga●●● Offers quanto magis Laico digamo Capitale est agere pro Sacerdote cum ipsi Sacerdoti digamo facto auferatur agere Sacerdotem Object Sed necessitati indulgetur inquis Resp Nulla necessitas excusatur quae potest non esse For the understanding of this 1. the cause of it was from Gods forbidding the Priest under the Leviticall Priesthood of having two wives which he spiritually applyeth to the Ministers of the Gospel 2. The tearms are obsolet of Offers for the Evangelist Tinguis the Teacher Sacerdos the Pastor 3. That in Tertullians time Lay-men did usurp the Minist●●y ●s he complains De praescrip Haeret. and so here The sence of Tertullian I apprehend to be this The Authority of the Church makes the difference between the Mini●ery and the People and the honour is sanctified by the Confession of the ministery so as that where there is not a Conf●ssion of Ecclesiasticall order the Evangelist and Teacher and Pastor thou art by thy self alone that is thou art not in nor of any tru● Ch●rch society but where these three are there is a Church though each Laick lives by his own faith nor with God is there any respect of persons for not the hearers of the Law are justified before God but the doers as the Apostle saith If thou hast therefore the right of a Pastor in thy self that is by calling as it is necessary it behoves thee also to have the discipline of a Pastor and doing any thing of the Evangelist or Teachers ministery thou art become the Priest having two wives how much more capitall is it for a Laick to exercise severall parts of the ministery seeing it is capitall to the Priest himself being for the like fact deprived of Pastorship Obj. But thou wilt say it should be yeelded to necessitie Resp No necessity is excused by that which cannot be Conclusion Reverend and beloved Brethren I the more earnestly seek these things of you because the way of God clearly known and held out will unite the spirits of Saints now strangely divided and procure the assistance of God to defend us and his truth and give men incouragement to fight the Lords battels against the Enemies of truth and comfort them against sufferings when otherway many may think they fight for the truth and fight against it much of all which lyeth in your hands to help Which help I and our Lord Christ by me with the Saints call on you for in doing whereof you shall make your name a praise on the earth and be called The Restorers of the Lords paths to walk in and the blessing of the Nation shall fall on you Of which and greater then all which God make you fit for in your faithfull doing the work of the Lord ye sit to do So prays your unworthy fellow Servant in the Gospel J. B. Septemb. 12. But to the discovery of the mystery that it may appear plain to the ending of farther debates about this one main and of all other most weighty work by which the rest are upheld The words of the Propositions The Lord having given divers gifts and divers exercises according to those gifts in the ministery of the Word

GOSPEL ADVICE TO GODLY BUILDERS For the pulling down of BABEL and the building up of SION For the most part written in three LETTERS To be communicated to the REVEREND ASSEMBLY OF MINISTERS IN WESTMINSTER By the unworthiest of all the Gospel Ministers JOHN BRAYNE Malachy 3.3 He shall sit as a refiner and purifyer of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed in the Year 1648. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honorable GOd having made you great among the People in the great intrustments mercies and deliverances he hath lent you expects a great return of all from you in your doing good to his Saints and exalting h●● service in the Land and here I beseech you in all humility to have especiall care that no power by Your Authority be set over the Family of God other then what God hath set up of himself And I desire you to examine the foundation layed for the Presbyterian Government and I suppose there will appear sanctinesse and not sufficiency from the Word to uphold it The fear of God and des●re of your eternall wel-being move me to mind you of the Covenant You and the People of God have made to God in the Land and that in the matter of his worship that it shall be according to the Word as near as may be Now I presume in this small ensuing Treatise your Honors may see a Reformation may be made for nearer to the Gospel rule then I conceive any is yet made And then not onely to God but to Gods people also in the same thing on which ground they thought their greatest losse would be their greatest gain in failing whereof the Lords peoples expectations dye and hopes fail within them And lastly I presume to present this to your Honors consideration that untill you finde a way nearer to the Gospel-pattern then Presbytery is I fear you will finde there will be but little peace in the Land the foundation whereof must be layed in God or it will not be good to you nor those that love and serve You. Thus beseeching you to try the truth and trust no man and to set up Christ among us as the Gospel sets out the way to set him up by onely then the People shall be happie and You high and your Memory blessed in the generations to come For all which The unworthy but willing Servant in the service of the Gospel prays to be heaped on You JOHN BRAYNE To you my Reverend Brethren of the ASSEMBLY LEt it not seem strange to you that ye see that made publick which was sought earnestly at your hands to have been determined in private because in my second and third Solicitation I received this full Answer from a Reverend Friend and one of your Members that the Assembly will not take that which is once concluded into a second consideration upon any private motion In which case I think it my dutie not to forbear the making of it publick for the Truths sake as in the difference between Peter and Paul Galat. 2.5 And then secondly if I did come up to the Assembly to inquire into the Truth of the Propositions I should but lose my labour so that there remains but this only way for me to discover the Truth that it be made publick for all to judge and see how weightie and necessarie a thing it is these things should be re-debated and considered of in love the things questioned being the substantials not of government onely but worship also Thus praying God to direct You to do what is according to his will and discover to you your failings therein I rest Your unworthy fellow-Labourer in the Gospel JOHN BRAYNE To the godly and faithfull READER IN the reading this little Treatise I desire thee to observe that the things contained in the greater Letter were not sent in the Epistles sent to be communicated to the Assembly but are added to make things more full and clear unto thee I thought good to acquaint thee that for divers Months since I have finished a brief Treatise concerning the practise of the Primitive Church in government and how it fell by degrees and how it may be set up in this Kingdom as my labours in my publick Ministery preaching foure or five times a week will give me leave but the maintainance allowed me by Authority being detained from me I am disabled for that and other works of like or greater concernment which God in his time if it be for the promoting of his glory will give being unto In the mean time I commend thee to God and the Word of his grace beseeching thee in thy prayer to remember Sion and those Saints that sit by the waters of Babylon who have hanged up their Lutes on the willow Trees not knowing how to sing the Lords song in a strange way and that thou pray for and prepare thee for the bringing forth the corner stone that thou give up unto it cryes of grace and shew thy love to God thy Lord that thou may be thought worthy to be called to the marriage of the Lambe now ready to be amongst us in which God shall turn the sorrow of all his Saints into sweet and saving joy which shall make blessed the eye that seeth it and the ear that heareth it such is the happinesse God our God is about to reveal in this our Land in which our Earth and Heavens shall be new and Sea shall be no more In the heaps of all which happinesse the Lord make thee happie and in that which is to come So prayeth thy Servant in the Gospel John Brayne To all the MEMBERS of the Reverend Assembly of DIVINES at Westminster be grace and wisdom multiplyed to the inabling you to the right understanding of all Truths Reverend and beloved IN discharge of the dispensation of the Gospel of God committed to my trust I desire that both you and I may comfortably meet together before the Lord Jesus Christ at his appearing and be able to deliver up our accounts at last of our stewardship with joy and not with sorrow at that day and that we may keep our Covenant made with God and his People in making such a Reformation in the Church as shall be according to the Word of God Now I beseech you leane to an examination of your Propositions proposed to the high Court of Parliament and examine you them again and what in them ye find not to be agreeable to the Word I desire you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ to correct for the truth and for the Church sake and for the comfort of your own souls First I desire you to examine all those particulars concerning the Evangelist as stated in my Letter dated Aug. 21. The Evangelist being the first ordinary Church Officer