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A18905 An abstract of fayth grounded on Moses, and applyed to the common Creede; plainely and briefly. By Henoch Clapham, in the beginning of his third yeares bands. Clapham, Henoch. 1606 (1606) STC 5328; ESTC S118540 16,421 46

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Bishop is a terme corruptly deriued from the Greeke word Episcopus 2. Tim 3. which signifieth an Ouer-seer namely of soules In him is required Aptnes to teach which includeth Knowledge and Vtteraunce as also the spirit of Gouernment for his sufficient ruling of that Corporation Else-where he is called a Pastor in English a Shepheard or Feeder for that he is called to feed and guide that Flocke of Christes pasture In other places these Bishops or Pastors are tearmed Elders in respect of the many yeares they were ordinarily possessed with before they attained such orderly place of ouersight To haue one or moe of these in one particular Church is not of Substaunce but of Circumstaunce and therefore to be caryed as edifying Circumstances require But with this Prouiso that where moe then one be there one for order and comlynesse sake be called before the rest to ouersee vppon whom the burden of Doctrine and Gouernement may rest as it did in the Churches of * Reuel 2. 3. Asia written too by S. John where one vnder the terms Angel or Embassadour is charged principally with the Churches occasions As for the terme Doctor in English Teacher if it be considered apart from the Pastor it can imploy no other then him that is speciall attendant vnto the Schoole of * 1. Cor. 14. Prophecie that is the Schoole of Christian learning wherein people are trayned vp for supplying the Churches necessitie The terme Deacon is deriued from the Greekes and is in English Minister or Seruitour First for the seruice he was to doe to the Church Secondly towardes the Ouer-seer or Ouerseers To the first in cases of helping the poore To the second in assisting by his spirituall guiftes as necessitie shall call for it For the performance of all which duties it is required that they be full of the Holy-ghost Act. 63. 1. Tim. 3. and of Wisedome hauing the mysterie of Fayth in a pure Conscience such as can rule their owne Househouldes well c. The conclusion then of all this is that for the wel orderly gouernment preseruation of euery particular established Communion of Saincts there be some of best qualificatiō set apart so to attend on the sayd duties whilest the common people on the other hand do attend the duties of their common callings This being all and easie to be learned and obserued if people were not bent to contend about Words and Termes rather then Thinges what is there in it which Moses taught not Israel long since In the place of Pastors Israel had Priestes all their lippes bound to preserue Knowledge and equally attending the Alter howsoeuer one Priest principall as the Angell of the congregation In stead of our Deacons they had Leuites vnder the Priestes and for the businesses of the congregation The Bookes of Exod. Leuit. Numb and Deuteronomie doe largely declare this So Ceremonie and Circumstance is changed but the substaunce and equitie abide still The Word which they are to teach 1 VVord is the pure Word of God which was so perfect in Moses as it was a curse to him that should detract from it or add vnto it as reason euinceth when man shall alter Gods Word Deut 12. 32. All inuentions of men herein be but as the strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu or as the Leauen of the Pharises which poysoned the hearers The Sacraments in common to be administred 2 Sacraments are Baptisme and the Lords Supper Baptisme in Moses was represented by Ceremoniall washinges Purifications intending the Lambes blood whereby we are clensed The Supper was represented in the Paschall Supper and other Ceremoniall eatings intending the body and blood of Christ Jesus the Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the worlde whereby the Church is nourished by Faith in vnity So farre is it from being to be ministred as Antichrist doth for binding people in and to Rebellion and blood-shed The Discipline to be administred 3 Discipline Markes of an orderly established Church is either brotherly Admonishments and Rebukes according to the nature of the sinne be it priuate or publique or a Separating of the Sinner for his not repenting All these Moses teacheth when first he sayth in Leuit. 19. 17. Thou shalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour and suffer not sinne vpon him with other places the like And secondly when vnder ceremoniall Vncleannesses representing Sinne some were seperated more and some lesse But in cases of Blasphemie generall Apostacie and hy-handed Rebellions the Priest was to leaue him vnto the Magistrates sword like as for the Sinne against the Holy-ghost of the same Nature the soule is to be left to the Iudge of Heauen with an * 2. Cor 16. 22. Anathema maran-atha seeing they openly declare themselues to haue Apostated from louing Christ Iesus A sinne which the Hebrewes are taught to consist * Heb. 6. 1 2 3. 4. compare● with Chap 10. 25. c. first in a Free-departure from the groundes of true Religion once held with comfort Then secondly in a voluntarie Schisme from Fellowship or Spirituall communion with such beleeuers The first is a voluntarie reiection of Fayth The second a willing reiectiō of Charitie In which Desertions they must be held for not Louers of Christ Iesus and therefore fully Anathematized or accursed to vsward and left to the Lordes comming intended in the worde * In Chaldi● forme Marae is The Lord and Atha hee cōmeth N. is interposed for sound sake Maran-atha in English The Lord commeth namely with Fire to render vengeance Such is the Anathema too ignorantly shot out of the bosome of many Counsels as if they delighted to cloath themselues ipso facto with Execrations and curings The duetie of the whole Communion of Sainctes is first to * 1. Cor. 16. 13. 14. Heb. 3. 12. 13 watch ouer one another in Loue Secondly to administer of the store which God hath giuen them to the reliefe of the needy specially on the * 1. Cor. 16. 1. 2. first day of the weeke namely the Lords day that so their actions of worship towards God may be mixed with Charitie towardes their neighbour All the Law and the Prophets do teach that The whole Communion so vnited is a litle Citie compact in it selfe seated on a Rocke beauteous and inuincible Distraction in Fayth and Manners is called * 1. Cor. 11. 18. 19. Schisma Schisme in plaine English a Rending a sunder The making choyse of some opinion in Doctrine whereto a soule vnreasonably tyeth it selfe to the violating of Faythes foundation that is called Haeresie With this our Churches be canker-fretted to the harming of Fayth and with the former they be generally torne a sunder to the violation of Fayth and Charitie The Lord purge our Churches of these euils though as with violence of * Hellebore is a violent purger but rightly applyed is wonderfully effectuall Hellebore Section 6. ¶ Remission of Sinnes NOw followeth the