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A75971
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The agreement of the associated ministers of the county of Essex: proposed to their particular congregations, and to all such of the county that love the churches peace; with a word of exhortation to brotherly union.
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1658
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Wing A776; Thomason E955_2; ESTC R207612
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is wrought in us by the Word and the Spirit of God That Faith is that Grace whereby we believe and trust in Christ for remission of sins and Life Everlasting according to the Promises of the Gospel that whosoever believeth not in the Son of God shall not see Life but shall perish eternally That they who truly repent of their sins do see them sorrow for them and turn from them to the Lord and that except men repent they shall surely perish That a godly life is conscionably ordered according to the Word of God in Holiness and Righteousness without which no man shall see God That the Sacraments are Seals of the Covenant of Grace in the Blood of Christ that the Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord that the outward Elements in the Lords Supper are Bread and Wine and do signifie the Body and Blood of Christ crucified which the worthy Receiver by Faith doth partake of in the Sacrament which Christ hath likewise ordained for the remembrance of his Death that whosoever eateth and drinketh unworthily is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord therefore that every one is to examine himself lest he eat and drink Judgement to himself not discerning the Lords Body That the Souls of the Faithful after death do immediately live with Christ in Blessedness and that the Souls of the Wicked do immediatly go into hell torment that there shall be a Resurrection of the Bodies both of the Just and Unjust at the last day at which time all shall appear before the Judgement-Seat of Christ to receive what they have done in the Body whether it be Good or Evil and that the Righteous shall go into Life Eternal and the Wicked into Everlasting Punishment 3. Because some persons through want of Education weakness of apprehension bashfulness and other impediments are unable to express their minds in fit and composed words and yet others by roat can easily speak more than they understand we will therefore use the most familiar means by easie questions and discourse to discern the meaning of such not taking any for ignorant for want of apt expressions nor accepting every one for competently knowing who verbally can recite the fore-mentioned particulars but so far as we can discover we will make their ignorance or knowledge it self the ground of our proceeding Unblameable Conversation and Scandal 1. SCandalous sinners we agree cannot be admitted to the Lords Supper without great sin and judgement to themselves danger by their example of leavening the whole lump defiling the Ordinance and very great dishonour to Christ therefore we resolve not to receive any of what degree or quality soever that is proved such before satisfaction be given the Church by evidence of serious Repentance 2. We will not reject any from our own private apprehensions and suspitious or others bare report but where the matter of fact shall have some evident proof 3. Because all sins are not alike evil nor of a scandalous nature therefore we shall distinguish of such sins and accordingly proceed 4. We agree that no person ought to be judged scandalous for sins of such meer infirmity and daily incursion that all the Saints daily are subject to mourn for and strive against 5. But such we agree are scandalous persons who continue in any course or way of open wickedness whatsoever and particularly are evidently guilty of any of those wayes of sin mentioned in Scripture as marks and characters of wicked persons being utterly inconsistent with Holiness saving Faith true Repentance new Obedience and coming up to the terms of the Covenant of Grace sealed by this Sacrament and thereby appearing in open rebellion against Christ the Ordainer of it such as Idolaters Sorcerers Fornicators Drunkards Lyars and any such kind of evil livers 6. We agree that a person is scandalous by not only a way or course of open wickedness but likewise by any one single act or work of manifest wickedness whereby the people of Christ have that evil example set before them and may be drawn into the like Rebellion and disobedience against Christ such as a single act of Fornication Drunkenness Blasphemy Idolatry or any the like immorral and flagitious act To this we add for further evidence that innumeration of scandals by the Assembly in their Church-Government The words are as followeth All scandalous Persons hereafter mentioned are to be suspended from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper that is to say all persons that shall blasphemously speak or write any thing of God his holy Word or Sacraments all Renouncers of the true Protestant Religion professed in the Church of England and all persons who shall by preaching or writing maintain any such Errours as do subvert any of those Articles the ignorance whereof doth render any person excluded from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper an Incestuous person an Adulterer a Fornicator a Drunkard a prophane Swearer or Curser one that hath taken away the life of any person maliciously all Worshippers of Images Crosses Crucifixes or Reliques all that shall make Images or Pictures of the Trinity or of any person thereof all Religious Worshippers of Saints Angels or any meer creatures any person that shall profess himself not to be in charity with his Neighbour all persons in whom malice appeareth and they refuse to be reconciled any person that shall challenge any other person by word message or writing to fight or that shall accept such challenge and agree thereto any person that shall knowingly carry any Challenge by word message or writing any person that shall upon the Lords day use any Dancing playing at Dice or Cards or any other Game Masking Wakes Shooting Bowling Playing playing at Foot-ball Stool-ball Wrestling or that shall make resort to any Playes Interludes Fencing Bull-baiting Bear-baiting or that shall use Hawking Hunting or Coursing Fishing or Fowling or that shall publikely expose any wares to sale otherwise then is provided by an Ordinance of Parliament of the sixth of April 1649. Any person that shall travell on the Lords Day without reasonable cause any person that keepeth a known Stew or Brothel-house or that shall solicite the chastity of any person for himself or any other any person Father or Mother that shall consent to the Marriage of their Children to a Papist or any person that shall marry a Papist any person that shall repair for any advice to any Witch Wizard or Fortune-teller any person that shall menace or assault his Parents or any Magistrate Minister or Elder in the execution of his office any person that shall be legally attained of Barrotry Forgery Extortion or Bribery Thus the Rubrick before the Communion in these words If any be an open and evil liver so that the Congregation by him is offended or have done wrong to his Neighbour by deed or word the Curate having knowledge thereof shall advertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lords Table
he rose again the third day and afterwards ascended into heaven where he now remaineth ruling in equal power and Glory with the Father and making Intercession for us whence he shall come again at the appointed day to judge the World in Righteousness 5. I believe that God the Holy Ghost who proceedeth from the Father and the Son hath fully revealed the truth and will of God contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament for a perfect perpetual and only Rule of Faith and obedience and doth effectually apply to his Elect by working Faith in them the saving benefits of that Redemption purchased by the Blood of Christ which precious benefits are dispenced by the same Spirit in the use of those holy Ordinances which Christ hath instituted in his written Word for the begetting and perfecting grace to be carefully observed till his second coming 6. I believe that this Holy Spirit dwelleth and worketh in all that are drawn to believe in Christ who being united to him the Head maketh up one holy Catholike Church which is his body the members whereof having fellowship with the Father the Son and Holy Ghost by Faith and with one another in love do receive here on earth forgiveness of sin with the life of Grace in Christ and at the last Resurrection of the bodies of all men then dead shall for ever enjoy the life of glory with God in Heaven when the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment in hell I Believe that there is one only true God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost which are three distinct persons each of them God and all of them that one and the same God Infinite Eternal Unchangeable in being and all perfection I believe Mark 9.24 And straight way the Father of the child cryed out and said with tears Lord I believe c. That there is one only true God Deut. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord Isa 44.6 1 Cor. 8.4 Isa 44.6 1 Tim. 2.5 There is none other God but one and ver 6. to us there is but one God 1 Tim. 2.5 The Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Heb. 1.3 John 14.26 compared with 15.26 which are three distinct persons Matth. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 13.14 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Each of them God 1 Cor. 8.4 To us there is but one God the Father c. Rom. 9.5 Christ is over all 1 Cor. 8.6 2 Cor. 3.17 God blessed for ever Acts 5.3 4. But Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thy heart to lye to the Holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lyed unto men but unto God And all of them that one and the same God 1 John 5.7 For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Infinite 2 Chron. 6.18 Job 11.7 c. Psal 45.3 with Psa 139.7 8 9. But will God in very deed dwell with men upon the earth Behold heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee Eternal Deut. 33.27 The Eternal God is thy refuge Psal 90.2 From everlasting to everlasting thou art God Unchangeable Mal. 3.6 I am the Lord I change not Exod. 3.14 James 1. v. 17. With him there is no variableness neither shadow of change In being and all perfection Exod. 34.5 6 7 1 Chron. 16.27 with 29.11 Mat. 5.48 with 6.13 Job 37.23 Acts 7.2 Isa 46.10 Eph. 1.11 Gen. 17.1 I am the Almighty God Rom. 9.5 Who is over all God blessed for ever I believe that God is the Fore-ordainer Maker Preserver and Governour of all things according to the counsel of his own will I believe that God is the Fore-ordainer Prov. 19.21 There are many devices in a mans heart nevertheless the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand Acts 17.26 And hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation Maker Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth Acts 17.24 God that made the world and all things therein c. Preserver Neh. 9.6 Thou even thou art Lord alone thou hast made heaven Heb. 1.3 the heaven of heavens with all their Host the earth and all things that are therein and thou preservest them all Col. 1.17 By him all things consist And Governour of all things Psal 103.19 His Kingdome ruleth over all Dan. 4.34 35. Mat. 10.29 30. Acts 17.28 John 5.17 According to the counsel of his own will Eph. 1.11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will I believe that God made man upright after his own Image in knowledge righteousnesse and holinesse who by transgressing the Law of his Creator fell from that holy and happy estate and brought himself with his whole posterity into a state of sin and death I believe that God made man upright Eccles 7.29 God hath made man upright But they have sought out many inventions After his own Image Gen. 1.27 In knowledge Coloss 3.10 and have put on the new man Gen. 3.6 7 16 17 18. Rom. 5.18 19. with Rom. 3.9 10 11 12 23. which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Righteousness and holiness Eph. 4.24 Put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Who by transgressing the Law of his Creator fell from that holy and happy estate Eccles 7.29 God hath made man upright But they have sought out many inventions And brought himself with his whole posterity into a state of sin and death Rom. 5.12 sin entred into the world Psal 51.5 John 3.3 5 6. Eph. 2.1 2 3. and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned I believe that man thus fallen not being able to deliver himself from this state of misery Rom. 5.6 for when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly Eph. 2.1 Rom. 8.3 for what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh God so loved the world that he sent forth his only begotten Son Jesus Christ Joh. 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him Gal. 4.4 5. 1 John 4.9 should not perish but have everlasting life Who took to himself our nature Heb. 2.14 for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took