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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48286	The only vvay to rest of soule in religion here, in heaven hereafter: shewed plainly and succinctly by pure scripture, in three treatises: demonstrating, I. That the church was left by Christ, as the means to teach us his gospel. 2. Which is she that was left in that office. 3. What it is, she teacheth for gospel. By I.L. Bach of Div. Licensed by the university of Oxford, to preach throughout Engalnd, and late rector of L. in the county of S. now a Catholike.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing L1832A; ESTC R218105	64,778	221

H. Ghost after his Ascension Ioh. 16.12 2. It contains not every particular of the form of Doctrine VVorship c. taught and settled in the Primitive Church by the Apostles Act. 2.42 and committed by them viva voce to the Pastors to teach and observe and commit in like manner viva voce to others Acts 20.20 27. 2 Tim. 1.13 2.2 c. If you say it does it will lye upon you to shew where 1. By making a Catalogue of all the particulars 2. Proving it to be a perfect one 3. Naming where every of them is contain'd I say it will lie upon you because presumption of reason is against it for two reasons chiefly 1. Because in those places where it was most proper to have named the particulars if it had been intended none are named except one or two of the chief but all wrapped up in generals Teach the Gospel Mar. 16.15 Teach all things I have commanded you Mat. 28.20 They continved in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayer Act. 2.42 Hold the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me c. 2 Tim. 1.13 Preach the word c. 2 Tim. 4.2 2. Because in some places they warn the people to whom they wrote to hold fast all they had taught them whether by word or writing 2 Thess 2.15 And refer the ordering of some things pertaining to the administration of discipline until their coming of which no more is said afterward 1 Cor. 11.24 Nay expressely left power with the Church to set in order the things that were wanting Tit. 1.5 Nay S. Iohn who wrote last and perhaps in the last piece he wrote had many things to write which he reserved to word of mouth 2 Ioh. 12. 3. It contains not those writings that are lost named sup c. 5. arg 9. § 4 5. 4. To put it beyond all gain-saying it contains not any express rule for resolving these questions viz. 1. What a Sacrament is 2. How many Sacraments Christ ordained in his Church 3. What water and action is necessary and sufficient to the matter what person to the Minister and what words to the form of Baptism 4. Whether baptizing Infants be pious or necessary or available to their salvation 5. What and which is the Church 6. Who is a lawful Pastor 7. What is meant by these names Presbyter Bishop Deacon 8. Whether anointing the sick with oyl Iam. 5.14 be an obsolete Law 9. Whether abstaining from things strangled and from blood Acts 15.19 be an obsolete Law 10. Whether that speech This is my body were proper or figurative 11. What proving 1 Cor. 11.28 is necessary and sufficient to worthy receiving 12. VVhat is the sin against the H. Ghost and whether it may be repented of and if so whether remissible or not to the penitent 13. VVhat is justifying faith 14. What is justification 15. In case of contest or doubt who are to be judged the higher powers 16. Whether the Law of the Sabboth and namely that part of it as concerns rest from servile work was by Christ abrogated or transferred onely to another day which soever it were whether in whole or in part onely and if the later in what part at most and least It were easie to name a thousand more of the like sort and the least of them importing mankinde to salvation But these are enough for instance Conclusion of the First Treatise ANd now dear Reader think sadly with your self what reason you have any longer to believe as now you do that the Scripture was left for your Guide and Rule 1. Is it because you have been ever taught so That is no reason unless your Teachers have been sent Rom. 10.14 which there is not one of them Independents Presbyterians or Prelatical hath any more authority to teach you then you to teach them as will be demonstrated in the next Treatise 2. Is it because you have read or heard so much in Scripture it self you cannot but see unless you shut your eyes it saith no such thing but the direct contrary in a hundred places 3 Is it because it speaks touching it self very great things you will not find any thing said of it but the same or something more excellent is said of the Church or her teaching For instance 1. Is it called the VVord Law Doctrine Oracles or Gospel c. of God Christ Salvation c. Her teaching is more to wit 1. The word of God and all other these attributes in simple sense whereas it is onely the written Word Law c. and so her doctrine includes the other as a part of it For a-among other grounds of Religion taught us in our catechising that is one There is a Book given by inspiration of God this is it c. And for that reason alone because she teacheth it we believe it at first And for that reason alone supremely or finally we believe it ever after for else she were not the ground of truth 2. The word of God in proper sense because at this present spoken by her as his mouth or Angel unto our ears Mal. 2.7 Luk. 1.70 and spoken to me and you and every creature in several or in his particular person Mar. 16.16 by an instrument indued with sense and reason and thereby able to explicate both her terms and doctrine and by applying her instruction and direction to every one according to his capacity need state c. to set and guide him in such a plain high-way as the way faring men though fools or children of five years old shall not erre therein Isa 35.8 And so hers is that word elsewhere also promised by Esay to the elect under the Gospel The people shall dwell in Zion c. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity c. yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into a corner any more as you say the Church may be sometime invisible to the eye of sense but thine eyes shall see thy Teachers and thine ears shall hear from their lips a word behind thee because at first by nature and afterward by actual sin we are all going in a wrong path toward hell with our backs toward God Almighty and his holy habitation and so he is fain to follow after us with his good inspirations saying This is the way walk in it or that you are to walk in Esa 30.19 A word therefore far more useful and beneficial to us then the other seeing there are multitudes of people yea Nations in the world who cannot read and of them that can none able to understand Scripture without some other interpreter then it self And so it is but a mute word properly speaking without her 2. Is it a light She is the light 3. Was it written for our learning She was given for our Teacher 4. Is it the Book of truth She is the ground of truth 5. Is its teaching of or with divine authority So is hers