Synagogue it was common to read or teach Luk. 4.16 17. Acts 13.15 The ruler of the Synagogue I take to be none else but one designed in especial to take care of the well-ordering of all things to be done therein In the word is no priesthood after this administration but a scribe a writer of the law that knew how to read it well Hence the people are called a Kingdome of Priests every one being to be a law-priest for expounding the judicial law Exod. 19.6 Object What confusion would this bring forth in families Resp Is there more amongst us then was among Jews and Gentiles at the first erecting of Churches 2. Did not Christ foretell as much when he said there should in one house be three against two and two against three Luk. 12.52 3. Doth not the Apostle say the servant then to the heathen was the Lords freeman 1 Cor. 7. See how God plagued Pharaoh for keeping his people from serving him Object Rev. 18.4 God calls his people out of Babel or Rome the false Church onely Resp This is the first step from her to separate the world and Church 2. We are not to come out of Babels Church-practice onely but her state-practices also not in duties of the Gospel only but the law also A people in civil society cannot be without the law as in the Church-society they cannot be without the Gospel and be with and under God therein The first-day-Sabbath is of the covenant of grace the seventh of works Moses is taught the seventh Christ the first natural men observe one believers the other yet both sanctified and Sabbaths and to be kept holy Object This would be exceeding loss to the Nation Resp Never man did lose by serving God but gaine 2. The godly man must sell all If he will be a Christian and deny himself and be dead to all Note The heathens set apart some time to serve their Gods of wood and stone in though they had no warrant to do the same shall not those are the people of God much more have some day to serve him in and what day but that God in the laws instituted from which before the Son hath made them free they are not discharged from what service the law requires nor what penalty the law imposeth on them for disobedience apply Mat. 5.19 Hear what the law saith to those under the law James 2.10 Whosoever keepeth the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all Rom. 3.19 that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God Gal. 3.10 Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them Appl. This seems to me that men under the law are strictly bound to the observation of the seventh-day-Sabbath of which number all unbelievers are who are bound to serve God for the creature-comforts and mercies though they know not Christ but are in the state of the world Appl. The Lords-day-Sabbath is only to be observed in the Church by men made free by Christ from the law curse and condemnation thereof Heb. 4.9 There remaineth a Sabbatisme to the people of God called another day vers 8. from the 7. Note verse 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is of great concernment to be inquired into that whiles we strive to build up what we should not we pull down what we ought not I hope you would not for a world make a law to make void the law of God The Sabbath gave way to circumcision though it were not of Moses that is Moses law John 7.22 23. that the law of Moses concerning circumcision might not be broken It is very remarkable that in all the conflicts the Scribes and Pharisees had with Christ about the Sabbath he never spake of the abolishing of it nor condemned the right observance of it though the Jews were more oft offended at Christ for this then any thing he curing more on that day then any because looked on by the Lord as the work of the day and they the more troubled at it because done thereon which they judged to be a profanation thereof Note As the law was given by the found of Trumpet so the congregations of the Synagogues were to be called by trumpet and not by bells Numb 10.7 Exod. 19.16 which minded them of giving of the law and the covenant then made the believers by rising of the Sun that is the time and call of them for their worship Sabbath dayes journey some understand one some to be two miles which was no less to be observed under the Gospel then under the Law-day-Sabbath Joshua 3.4 Acts 1.12 The Scriptures rightly expounded will clear this Antichristian darkness O take the vaile from our eyes and hearts Mark 16.1 The Sabbath being end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 2. Early in the morn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the first of Sabbaths it being the first of the Lords-day-Sabbath or the first of the two Sabbaths the Lords day being the first the seventh day the last of the week according to the Scripture The first shall be last and last first And for the ceremonial Sabbath they are no more called Sabbaths but the seventh and first day are called Sabbaths alway in the word The Scriptures speaking of the lords-day-Lords-day-Sabbath misinterpreted for the first day of the week and calls the seventh day a Sabbath also are these Mat. 28.1 Mark 16.2 Luk. 20.1 Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 That the Scriptures are misinterpreted when read the first day of the week is clear for when God speaks of the first day of the week Mark 16.9 he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the singular no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the plural and thus the Pharisees Luk. 18.12 fasted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. After Christ the Law-day-Sabbath was observed by the Jews men under the Law among whom the Apostles taught and never in one word reproved them Acts 18 2. Paul as his manner was went into the Synagogue to the Jews and three Sabbath dayes reasoned out of the Scriptures with them Note his manner was and thus in many other Scriptures 2. The lords-day-Lords-day-Sabbath was observed among believers Act. 20.7 On the first or one of the Sabbaths when the Disciples came together to bread bread Paul preached to them c. and that 1 Cor. 16.2 On every first of Sabbaths a command to the Church of Corinth every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him 3. Having shewed you that both the first and the seventh day that under the covenant of the law and that under the covenant of grace Moses Sabbath day and Christs conjunctly are called Sabbaths and so of divine authority alike onely one is a command to men under the law the other to men under grace now I shall shew you how they are distinctly called Sabbaths Heb. 4.4 He speaks of the seventh
THE NEW EARTH OR The True MAGNA CHARTA OF The past AGES and of the AGES or World to come CALLED The JEWS COMMONWEAL Written by an unworthy witness of the truth of the great God JOHN BRAYNE Isa 42.21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake he will magnifie the law and make it honourable Richard in Paules Church Yard Att The London Printed for Richard Moon at the seven stars in Paul's Church-yard neer the great North-door 1653. To the Supreme Authority THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Commonwealth of ENGLAND Right Honourable THe men without law that is the Nations to whom God had not given the knowledge thereof were a law unto themselves and made laws of their own wherein one man became as a God to another but we which have the law of God and use it not as a law are indeed in a kind as those Gentiles were altogether without it or worse who by our traditions for so indeed are humane laws have made voide the laws of God Mat. 15.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus the Pharisees had unauthorized the law of God before us Concerning the ceremonial law Mar. 7.8 and the moral law v. 10 11 12. by which then as now the word of God was made of none effect v. 13. and was committed in many things besides these particulars that are set down and expressed when man and not God reigneth nor doth God whiles his laws judge us not judge but man the law of the Nation and not of God untill men are judged by Gods law judgement is not the Lords but Justinians Gratians or other mens upon which the people imploy their time and study but if Gods laws were set up among us by his Bible or Statute book every man would easily become a lawyer where no acts are ever to be repealed but out-last those of the Medes and Persians No word must be added or diminished there is therein no more or less then should be so full hath God made it to govern by Deut. 4.1 2 6 8. the Ruler of the people was to have it alway by him and not to turn from the right hand or the left Deut. 17.18 19 20. It was the excuse of the Heathens they knew not the law to make use thereof it was the wickedness of the Papacy that it was not used therein though they knew it they well seeing that both they and their practice were under the condemnation thereof and that they had no authority thence to set up themselves and Lord it over the world putting themselves in the place of God without God But yee O yee Princes of the people into whose hearts God put it to give assurances to the nation that your desire is to make it happy which the Lord tells you consists in setting up Gods law Rom. 9.4 Deut. 4.6 7 8. God hath laid ingagements on you as on his people of old Deut. 4.24 though other alterations in the State were troublesome God will prosper you in this and in your undertakings for this remember ye have the ingagements of men upon you and of God on you and of vows made to God on your own souls O what shall or can hinder you need not fit a day to do it it is done for you to a word in the word untill when nationally we are not the people of God Iam. 4.12 tells us there is but one law-giver consider then what it is to give a law that is not according to Gods especially when we have the law by us and are not to go to heaven or beyond the Seas for it and I pray consider that the Gentiles Rom. 2. though they had laws of their own to judge by yet not having Gods law they are said to be without law and observe well thence what God may say of us our law and judgement Do O do as Iosiah did 2 Kings 23.2 3. bring forth the law do you and your people make a covenant and all the people with God to restore and obey the law in the commands the statutes and judgements thereof so shall no injustice nor oppression be used in the land this is the New Earth which the Saints even in the Apostles dayes dayes looked for in which dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 3.13 the Romans having destroyed that government before and hath laine hid to this day in the word untill which the foundations of judgement and justice being out of course though you are never so wise just and willing to do the nation good ye cannot for the foundations are out of course and what can the righteous do saith David And let not the cry of the Prophet take hold of you Psal 119.16 Vp Lord for men have made void thy law Examine I pray if your laws have not in some kinde made void Gods laws which is the greatest guilt of a nation that may be under which we have layn ever since we had the knowledge of it amongst us Give me leave to tell you It is not enough you have put down the power and authority but you must put down the rule of the fourth Monarchy also as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 15.24 O that ye might be honoured of God to put down that and set up the Lord and not your own when indeed ye shall be healers of the nation and restorers of the paths to walk in on which I beseech you to look as on that is Gods work and your chiefest duty to set up judges in the right place of judgement that they judge according to the law that judgement may be indeed the Lords and they called gods in which you shall do more for the nation then all the Parliaments ever were and deliver your own souls make prosperous the people establish authority and rule compose the differences in being among us and make the people one for it must be God that must make those of one house much more those of one nation to agree whereby ye may onely do it to which I leave you and pray the Lord to help you and direct you therein and remaine A faithful servant and well-wisher of you all in the Lord John Brayne THE foundation of all the gracious dealings of God with men hath alwayes been laid and began in or with Covenants in which God takes a people as a man a woman and espouseth them to himself Exod. 19.8 24.3 7. where in stead of the blood of the sacrifice we have Christ to make it in 1. There is the first covenant the Mediator or Minister thereof was Moses which was legal and made with all the people That they should keep the commandments the Statutes and Judgements set down in the books of Moses Deut. 5.1 2 3 5. vers 27. The blessings of this covenant were temporal for this life when it was broken temporal blessings were withdrawn The Kings of Israel as Josiah 2 Kin. 23.2 3. renewed it Deut. 29.10 11 12 13. 2 Kings 11.17 And another then this legal covenant
dayes rest Vers 5. In this againe of an other rest which is a dayes rest as the seventh day was is clear from vers 7. and the 8. Verse 9. This other day is called Sabbatismos a sabbatisme which is proper onely to the Church or people of God Vers 10. This Sabbath-rest men must strive to enter into in the other all men are compelled in this none but believers in the Kingdome of God injoy into which men are bid to strive to enter Object Here they are said to enter into this sabbatisme which is proper to the state of heaven to be entred into Resp Believers in Christ are said to enter into or be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the law to Christ or one in law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Christ 1 Cor. 9.21 Object Mark 2.28 Luke 6.5 Christ is said to be Lord of the Sabbath and in what was he so but in putting an end to it Resp That Scripture saith not so and is contrary to many express Scriptures where Christ saith A tittle of the law shall not perish and the Scripture is falsly rendered the word is The Lord is Son of man and of the Sabbath because made of woman and made under the law Gal. 4.4 Command the Fifth Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother c. Statute LEvit 19.3 Ye shall fear every man his father and mother Vers 32. Ye shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man Mark 7.10 Gen. 22.6 Isaac submitteth to his father to dye Luke 2.51 and thus Jesus Christ the Rechabites obedience Jer. 35. and Gods blessing them Judgements Gen. 9.25 26. Noah curseth Cham with bondage and blesseth Japhet Deut. 27.16 Cursed be he setteth lightly by his father or mother Levit. 20.9 Every one that curseth his father or mother shall surely be put to death his blood shall be upon him Exod. 21.17 Exod. 21.15 He that smiteth his father or mother shall surely be put to death Numb 12.14 If her father had spit in her face should she not have been ashamed seven dayes which was a thing of contempt as in Deut. 25.9 and it may be either for disobeying or contemning of him Mark 7.10 The Gospel confirms it Who curseth father or mother let him dye the death Prov. 30.17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out Statute Deut. 4.9 Forget not the things thine eyes have seen c. but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons Vers 10. Especially the day thou stoodest before the Lord in Horeb Vers 13. and he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to performe even the ten commandments Deut. 6.7 Thou shalt teach them diligently thy children and shalt talk of them when thon sittest in thy house when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Judgement Deut. 21.18 If a man have a stubborn and a rebellious son that will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and that when they have chastened him he will not hearken unto them Vers 19. Then shall his father and mother lay hold of him and bring him out to the Elders of his City and the gate of his place Vers 20. They shall say to the Elders of his City This our son is stubborn and rebellious and will not hear our voice he is a drunkard and a glutton Verse 21. All the men of his City shall stone him with stones that he dye so shalt thou put away evil from amongst you Appl. Why is so much rebellion against parents is not because the law of God is silent this being executed all England would hear and fear 2. Is there another way besides this to put away evil from among us appointed of God Note God saith So shalt thou put away evil and no other way 3. Or is not the Law of God just the judgement true and righteous that it is not set up amongst us or will it ever be well with us or ours until it be set up Statute Parents marriage of their children It was to be confined to such as were in convenant Deut. 7.6 Exod. 34.16 Thou shalt not take of their daughters to thy sons and their daughters go a whoring after their Gods and make thy sons go a whoring after their Gods Deut. 7.3 Thou shalt not make marriages with those nations God will destroy thy daughter shalt thou not give his son nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son The reason whereof is rendred vers 4. Appl. As men under the law were not to match with those nations were not under the law so men under grace were not at liberty to match with any but such as were in Christ 1 Cor. 7.39 2. Were we under the law this would condemne all marriage with idolaters more strongly then the work of the law in us hath done Numb 25.6 1 Kings 21.25 1 Kings 11. from 1. to verse 9. 3. See here the authority God hath given to men under the law over their childrens marriage they are said to give and take Esau took a daughter of Canaan Jacob obeyed his mother and married Labans daughter Exod. 21.9 If a man betroth his maid-servant to his son he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters Note Betrothing was the fathers work in which he gave his daughter or took the daughter of some other to his son to wife 2. The Magistrate or Elders are not to approve of marriage made with any out of covenant It is to be considered that God under this word Father doth comprehend the Magistrate and obedience and honour hence due to him 1. Because all authority and rule was first in the father Gen. 38.24 2. It came from him to the one Judge Moses 3. To Judges in every City who had laws from God to judge the people by in which administration only 1 Sam. 12.12 the Lord God was said to be their King And now againe when this law is the rule of judgement to the nation then is the Lord Christ said to raigne which shall be a thousand yeers God having committed all judgement and authority to the Son Mat. 28.18 Rev. 20.6 and who would not strive to set up Christs rule Note As Judges were of God before Kings so if Kings be put down ye must return to Judges again God setting up but these two wayes of rule and God himself ruling in that of Judges and therefore best nor doth God rule by Judges as distinct from Kings unless they be set up as in the beginning to rule by the laws of God 4. The government came from Judges to Kings in which the people were said in their asking for a King to have committed great wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Sam. 12.17 yea and God himself said herein they had rejected him and not Samuel that he should not raigne over them I beseech you what the
of God hath 3. It is not the least evil against God to say of the law It is not sufficient of it self to judge us by 1. If the law is not perfect God would not have said Add not to nor diminish a word from it 2. This is indeed to despise the law Heb. 10.28 which was death without mercy 3. The law was the moral law a law for all Nations that would be Gods people as well as Jews to be governed by 4. David saith Thy law is exceeding broad and large but thou that knowest not the law and art rude and ignorant of Gods wisdome therein which is a great deep dishonourest God and sayest it is onely for a foundation of a law but it will not serve for a law At the last day it shall judge thee and all else for all their acts words and thoughts against God and yet is it a narrow law 5. Say what you can a Nation untill it hath covenanted with God in this law they are not the people of God nor is God the God of that nation more then other heathens whatever he may be by faith to them that believe 6. This would be a means to call in the Jews to acknowledge Christ in the Gospel with believers when they see we acknowledge God in the law with them Object These are but few cases in compare of the Statute-book that is more full and large and plaine this is obscure Resp 1. I have deduced but part of what is in the law I having not spent a weeks time in meditation thereon to this end 2. This hath more in one line then the wit of men laid down for law in an hundred 3. That they have more then is in the law of God must be destroyed and not acknowledged law but traditions only 4. Much lyeth hid thereof to us as yet being not searched out 5. Judges in special were ordained to judge the difficult causes and that by the word also which appeared not to the common judges to be in the word clearly 6. The laws being reduced to the command we are to judge of cases according to the nature of the fact and the command against which the sin is committed 1. The law is clear plaine and full of light and clearness and so better then our corrupted intricate unknown law which the Judges of the land know not themselves This needs no counsel 2. It is brief and needs not seven yeers study to come to be able to speak law 3. It is so easie a man needs no sollicitors it shews plainly what every man is to do or suffer 4. It cannot be corrupted by demurs nor delayed in proceedings 5. It is so just no man shall have wrong that is innocent nor no man shall escape that is guilty Deut. 29.19 20. 6. It is so free it puts no man to a peny cost 7. It is so holy it condems all evil in every man alike 8. It is so good that he is accursed that obeys it not and he is blessed that observes it 9. It is free from oppression it imprisons none O ye men and lawyers of the world bring forth that law that is like this law of the Lord as Moses rod eat up the sorcerers so shall this devour yours Your law is as darkness this as light it will make it vanish In a word all Rule and Government compared to Gods in the law for a Nation is but bramble-rule Judg. 9.14 and who would call for that rule Conclusion PSalm 144.15 Happy is the people whose God is the Lord that is that people onely who are in covenant with and under the government of the Lord and his law and thus with Moses Deut. 4.5 Behold I have taught you statutes and judgements even as the Lord my God commanded me Vers 6. Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdome and understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these statutes and say Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people Vers 7. for what nation is there so great that hath God so neer unto them as the Lord our God is in all things we call upon him for Vers 8. and what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day Who can speak evil of that I have here written and not speak evil of the law who can despise it and not despise that law shall judge him at the last day God judgeth by it let therefore the Gods judge by it In a word who are they if any that shall condemne me for what I have written God is he that will justifie me when he shall arise and plead my cause with them In a word if I have erred the law erreth not let me be judged by that to that I plead and make my appeal unto professing before the most high God My aime onely is Gods glory the restoration of Gods rule and government the peoples freedome and happiness Judges freedom of conscience from blood guiltiness the deliverance of the Nation from the now wrath of God the Parliaments eternal honour in advancing truth and righteousness with these and onely these desires of soul with Esther though she knew the law of the king to put to death any shall come within the inner who is not called except such to whom the king holds out the golden Scepter that he may live But I have not been called to come in unto the king Esther 4.11 Vers 16. I will go in unto the king which is not according to the law if I perish I perish And as Mordecai my soul tells me If I altogether hold my peace at this time deliverance shall arise to this people from another place and I and my fathers house shall be destroyed The fear of God and his law that drove me and the hope I had in you as in men loving God Justice Righteousness and vowing to God and the people the same with hands lifted up to have your and the peoples freedome being bound up in one drew me to this service in which my hearts desire is to serve you all and be Your affectionately well-wishing servant in the service of the Lord John Brayne The Postscript contains Objections and Resolutions of what is said against the Rule of the Law Quer. DOth not the Apostle say Those without law shall be judged without law Rom. 2.12 then what need the laws government Resp 1. Some are without the letter and true sence of the law and the rule of it as those heathens Rom. 2.14 Who became a law unto themselves 2. Others are without the true sence only and not the letter as Paul Rom. 7.9 3. Others without the rule but not without the letter and thus we are without the law this day If Paul only without the true inward sence of the law a Minori ad Maius though not without the rule and government out-outwardly and
Elias he is sent to Bethel 2 Kings 2.2 at Bethel it is without question he taught in that School and among the rest told the Children of the Prophets ver 3. that the Lord would take him away being Elishas Master from his head that day and the same being sent to Jericho in vers 4.5 where the Jews received that tradition of his teaching in their Schools that Elias shall first come Matth. 17.10 11. That passage of 1 Sam. 19.20 24. was an extraordinary case to preserve David in which Saul and his inessengers were changed as before in Esau when he came against Jacob and that of Sauls meeting the Prophets 1 Sam. 10.3 5. which were given him for signes to confirm him by in Gods electing of him 5. These Schools were in all Towns usually as our Grammar-Schools are having onely the reading of the Law and the Prophets used among them who were according to their several capacities taught and distinguished as in our Schools by forms and places one from the other In which nor Cato nor Virgil nor Homer nor Aristotle were not usually read but the commands of God by the knowledge whereof God was honoured and they sanctified 6. In this study and society God would manifest himself when he would not in the obscene readings of Ovid and the lying fables of the other Poets 7. In this teaching men were not devoted hereunto onely but had other callings to employ themselves in to live by and were taught also in these Schools one part of the day as Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel was by his profession a Tent-maker 8. Out of the Word Astrologie and other natural Philosophy may be deduced with Tropes Metaphors and Figures Geographie c. by which men may be better acquainted with the Word then now they are This is the wisdom of a people and not the knowledge of the custom of Heathens which onely tends to make men such and justifies them 9. Lawyers hereby may be made and rightly fitted to judge according to the Lord. 10. Every man is rightly taught to live in their youth according to Gods law as David Psal 11 9.9 98 99. verses 11. Now if they offend they dye more justly being taught the sence and sentence of the law Appl. Ye Universities the wrath of God will break out upon you your dayes are numbred and your time neer come in which you will see that it is not a reformation will serve your turn or save you from the decree 2. Ye princes of the people in Parliament a people are rude without learning O be intreated to convert sufficient maintenance to the maintaining of some freely to teach in all towns 1. To teach the Hebrew reading to some 2. To teach the moral or judicial law to others 3. The prophets to others and their meaning 4. To teach the Greek and in those schools only read the Histories of Jesus Christ written by Matthew Marke c. with the Epistles of the Apostles 1. As for Latine and the long time spent in obtaining thereof the time is coming that the authors and learning laid up in their writings will be of little or no use to the world God will instruct them with better of his own The time is coming knowledge shall cover the earth as water the seas and all those mighty Libraries be but lost matter 2. It is as a bage of the Roman conquest which will cease with that Empire in a maner amongst us the laws and true learning being turned into our own language 3. By this means in the meetings on the seventh day sabbath the gifts and knowledge of every particular person either in his exact reading of the law or understanding of the mystery or prophesie of the prophets comes to be made use of and exercised they being herein a nation of Priests and so would beget much wisdome and emulation for knowledge in every man and comfort in every man by seeing and knowing the gifts and profittings of his children in the law who would come to be spurs and goads to provoke the elder to a more diligent search of the law and knowledge thereof that they may not be under the teaching of children that they shall speak and themselves be dumbe they going beyond the elders in describing the history and in opening the mysteries of the law and prophets In this estate of Moses or mens being under the law was no priesthood at all yet is he preached every seventh day Acts 15.21 when and where the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teaching did what he could to make men from Moses to Jesus Christ in a right and true way Act. 21.21 whence though many are called few are chosen The priesthood in the time of Moses belonged to the temple and was conferred on Aaron and his sons who taught not the law in the Synagogues those that taught there sate in Moses not Aarons chaire or priestly succession Moses being before Aaron Jer. 7.22 23. The which priesthood ceasing and another even that of Christs being now instituted of God and set up in the place thereof in the Church called from Moses consisting of believers which was given to the Apostles and their true successors to administer under the Lord Jesus which call no man was to take on him but according to the Lords institutions who were to attend on that place of ministry whereas Evangelists pastors or teachers as they were called to minister before the Lord under Jesus Christ who were not to be cumbred about any worldly occasions 2 Tim. 2.4 Luk. 9.33 Let us make three tabernacles one for thee one for Moses one for Elias The tabernacle was the place God first had his worship set up in under Moses and Aaron and here signifieth moveableness 1. The service of God under Moses and under the law is meant under tha◠tabernacle for Moses 2. The service of God under Christ and grace is meant by the tabernacle for thee or Christ 3. Which administrations falling in the hiding of the Church are againe to be restored in our dayes by that Elias in that tabernacle is attributed to him How men came from Moses to Christs administration is most excellently set forth Rom. 7.1 6. Moses disciples were taught the letter of the ten commands Christ taught his disciples the commands in the spiritual part of it as Mat. 5. which are called by Christ my commands in which his disciples were to walk with God in a more holy and more acceptable way which commands the world could not receive In the New Testament three Scriptures respect Magistrates supream and subordinate 1. The which are kings and their deputies 1 Tim. 2.2 Rom. 13.1 The powers that be viz. Nero's and his deputies are ordained of God Thus 1 Pet. 2.13 to kings as supreme vers 14. or to governors as to them that are sent by him 2. God ordained no powers but Kings and Judges and the Kings of the Nations from whom the Jews took