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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43195	A Healing motion from abroad to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c.		1657 (1657)	Wing H1302; ESTC R19483	19,994	72

the way of true Christianity is held forth amongst the generation of his children to the rest of the world Reflecting therefore in the second place upon the People of God he ought to discern the duty which by his place with his best abilities he oweth unto them namely that he is appointed to bear them as they are the vessels of the Lord even all the vessels of great and smal quantitie from the Vessels of cups to all the vessels of flagons The cups are the younger sort the flagons the elder The Schools for the younger and the Churches for the elder are to be borne up and the breaches of many generations therein to be repared and that is to be done by so much Publique Authority as God hath given to nursing Fathers and with so much care and influence as becometh Elders and Leaders in a way sutable to the Gospel and to the day of Christs power He that cares not for these Concernments of Gods people to advance in his station the evidencing of Gods goodnesse unto the seed plots of the Nation as well as to the plants of full growth but would have all ingrossed to some one party with the exclusion of others cannot be said to serve the generation of his children and consequently is not found faithfull to the publique trust committed unto him for if he will be counted a Shepherd or leader of the flock he ought according to the nature and in the capacity of his place to carry the Lambs in his bosom and lead tenderly those that are with young to oversee the husbandry of mens souls and to seek the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem that the beauty of holiness by the goodnesse of the Lord may rest manifestly upon his people that all wicked doers may be cut off from the Citty of the Lord in that way which the Lord himselfe hath appointed and taught the Judges of his people as at the first and the Councellors as at the beginning For the way of the Lord is plain as well in the streets of naturall reason as in the path of Christianity and they that will see may see the means to be made use of and find a Directory for the application of the same without difficulty First they will see that the word revealed in the Law and Testimony ought not to be concealed from Gods people That the Ordinances ought to be countenanced and upheld that the faithfull Teachers ought not to be removed into a corner and thrust away from the faithfull of the Land either by subtilty or violence That the Office of the Ministry should not be made contemptible and become an object of strife and contradiction That fit men endowed with Ruling and Propheticall abilities should be set a part to dwell before the Lord and attending the charge of his house without distraction they should be counted worthy of double honour they should not want sufficient food nor durable cloathing nor the respect due unto their faithfullnesse in their places Secondly they will see further that the liberty of the Saints should also be maintained That none should be suffered to assert or attempt to have dominion over the faith of Gods children nor to put a yoak or snare upon their consciences yet that this liberty should not be suffered on the other hand to run out into licentiousnesse by the dissolution of all rule or the neglect of the orderly wayes of mutuall edification under a pretence that Christ is the sole Lord and Ruler in and over the conscience and that in the latter dayes all shall be taught of God for although Christ doth by his power rule the whole world yet he rules his Saints within his Church and hath never exempted their conscience from the rules of his word and Spirit nor promised to teach any without these as held forth in his Church nor purchased a priviledge to any not to stand under the direction of his revealed will in the Law and Testimony given to his Church nor limited the power of his vicegerents over the society of men so that it should be unlawfull for them to see the rules observed which he hath given to mankind and to the assemblies of his Saints which they are commanded to protect whereby the glory of his goodnesse unto them is made manifest Thirdly they will see also that not onely in civill Administrations but in the Assemblies of the Saints God hath appointed distinct callings That these are regulated by him because he is the God of peace and good order and not of disorder and confusion That the limits of these callings should be discerned and observed and that men who in humane affaires have no rule over their own spirit and yet take upon them to rule all Spiritual matters onely by the unruly motions of their private fancies should not be hearkened unto but be brought to know their bounds in speaking and acting and consequently that women should be made obedient to the Apostles Law which is that they should keep silence in the Church knowing that it is a shame for them to speak in the congregation 1 Cor. 14.34 35. 1 Tim. 2.12 or to take upon them to teach and to usurp Authority over men Fourthly they will furthermore see that the Saints ought to be induced and walk in love to owne one another in that whereunto they are come to agree in the clear rules of mutual edification and removing offences which dishonour the Gospell To bear one anothers burdens and to make manifest their agreement and brotherly union in the way of Truth and Peace till God bringing them unto a compleat growth in Christ and their moderation being made known to all men they may attain unto the measure of the stature of the fullnesse of Christ and be no more carried up and downe as Children with every wind of doctrine By the use of these means and the discreet setting of them a foot the reproach which hath been cast upon England by their adversaries with much industry and artifice shall be taken off from the face of the people of God in the course of their visible observing of Ordinances and the obloquie of the ignorant which by this occasion hath been raised against all the Reformed Churches abroad shall be silenced and then the communion of Saints with Forrain Churches may be set a foot and hopefully continued till the prayer of Christ be fullfilled Joh. 19.10 〈◊〉 wherein he desired that all who shall beleeve in his name by the word of his Apostles may be one as the Father is in him and he is in the Father that they also may be one in them to the end that the world may beleeve Joh. 3.16 that the Father hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that whosoever believeth in him may not perish but have life everlasting For this is the great testimony of the love of God and of his goodnesse towards his people and this is that which is