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A61104	Chrysomeson, a golden meane, or, A middle way for Christians to walk by wherein all seekers of truth and shakers in the faith may find the true religion independing upon mans invention, and be established therein : intended as a key to Christianity, as a touchstone for a traveller, as a probe for a Protestant, as a sea-mark for a sailor : in a Christian dialogue between Philalethes and his friend Mathetes, seeking satisfaction / by Benjamin Spencer ...; Way to everlasting happinesse	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1659 (1659)	Wing S4944; ESTC R13439	363,024	312

harm may be done by rash suspension from the Sacrament or excommunication from Christian societie nor lesse harm by facile and easie absolution Therefore though a Priest hath power to denie the Sacrament upon good grounds yet not to excommunicate from all society in the Church without the authority of his superiour nor was it wont that one should be received again to the Sacrament without the hand of the Superiour and Clergy was laied upon his head Cyp. l. 3. Ep. 16. in token of reconcilement So Bishops were wont to give account to Synods of their excommunicating men Conc. Nic. Can. 5. Concil Sardcens Can. 14. And for absolution of Schismaticks it is true the people have been called together to be satisfied in their repentance not to confirm the sentence but to satisfie their conscience in the absolution and to prevent schisms afterward they observing how the party was stricken with fear and recovered with shame but this was no proofe of a Lay Presbytery Mathe. What was then the Presbytery mentioned by St Paul Phila. It is but once mentioned in all the New Testament as in the 1 of Tim. 4.14 which I have proved to be only spirituall men as Pastours and Teachers called Elders as at Jerusalem fifteen years after Christs ascension were Apostles and Elders Acts 15. So at Antioch were Prophets and Teachers as Barnabas Simeon Lucius Manahen Saul and Mark and others Acts 13. which the Apostles placed in Cities where they had planted the Gospell This was done for the defence of beleevers against seducers that crept into houses and subverted many by teaching things that they ought not for filthy lucres sake 2 Tim. 3. And that those ruling Elders were Lay Judges that Paul speaks of it plainly appeareth to the contrary for the Apostle there speaks of maintenance allowed out of the Church stock which I never heard or read was given to any Lay ruler and certainly if St Paul was loath to have the Church burdened with a widow 1 Tim. 5. so long as her own kindred could maintain her would lesse put the charge of a Lay Judge upon it The Governors in the Apostles times were moderators of dissentions 1 Cor. 6.4 between party and party by their gifts of wisedome discretion and judgement by-which decision of controversies the slander of the Gospell might be prevented in their going to law before Magistrates who were Infidels 1 Cor. 6.1 But beside these I find no Lay rulers to meddle in Ecclesiasticall affairs 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I mean common people called Lay from the Greek word that signifieth people or secular men but only Presbyters i. Priests in a short speaking Beside we find that God hath alwaies governed his Church by Regall Propheticall or Sacerdotall jurisdiction therefore Christ being all these in himselfe governeth his Church so by Magistrates Teachers and Pastors Now the Lay Elder is neither of these for they are no Prophets because they have no charge of his word nor have they Priestly power in regard of sins and Sacraments as Jam. 5.14 15. If any be sick let him send for the Elders of the Church who shall pray and annoint him with oile and his sins shall be forgiven him These Elders were not Lay men but such to whom was committed the gift of healing and absolution Nor have they the Regall power for then the Magistrate must be subject to them not they to him or if they had it can last no longer than when the Magistrate is a Christian So that I see not how Lay Elders should be governors of the Church but they must be Magistrates or Ministers Mathe. If there be no Christian Magistrates must then the Ministers take all the power of government Phila. They may do as was done in the Primitive times when the Church was not protected by the civill sword but rather persecuted Mathe. But what if they grow Hereticks or prove pernicious Phila. Then the whole may avoid the unsound for in such cases the people have power of desertion but not of coercion they may avoid or decline but not punish their Pastors as John 10. my sheep know my voice but strangers they will not follow So Rom. 16. mark them that cause divisions and avoid them for no doubt where the publike State is not Christian Cyp. l. 10. Ep. 4 the people have power to chuse a good Pastor and refuse a bad one Mathe. What Presbytery is that which the ancient Fathers do so often speak of in their writings Phila. First you must know that the Scriptures speak of three degrees in the Church and so do the Catholike Fathers viz. of Deacons Elders or Presbyters and Bishops and when they speak of a Presbytery they mean a company consisting of these as if you read them you shall find in Ignatius Jerom in Tit. 1. Amb. in 1 Tim. 5. Ignat. ad Trallianos Magnes Philad Smyrn Antioch Aug. de civit dei l. 20. c. 9. in Psal 106. Isid Originum lib. 7. Tertul. in Apolog. In his tract of flight in the time of persecution And Aug. speaking of seats of Church Governors shewes plainly that Lay men had not judgement seats in the Church for who governed the Church he tels us in Psal 106. they that sate at the stern as himselfe did Mathe. How came Bishops to be above the Presbyters Phila. Christ made a difference in the degrees of Apostles and disciples so did the Apostles of Bishops and Presbyters for though at first both the Bishop Presbyter and Deacon were all included in the Apostles yet as they found reason to lead them to make Deacons Acts 6.3 and also Presbyters in severall places to keep up the Gospel which they had planted as there were Presbyters at Ephesus Acts 20. and also among the converted Jewes 1 Pet. 5. where St Peter calleth himselfe a fellow Presbyter i. in care and pains not in office and degree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the equality of Presbyters breeding faction among the people they were forced to commit the care of the Church planted to some choice person who might oversee the flock as Pastor of the place and the rest to be his helpers in dispersing the word and advising in the Church government and to these were committed ordination and imposition of hands and the keies not to the Presbyters which the Fathers call Episcopall power This may be seen by Paul's Epistles to Timothy and Titus 1 Tim. 1.2 So c. 5.22 Tit. 1.5 and how they kept the keies to themselves may be collected from the 2 Thes 3. where he bids the Presbyters only note him by a letter that would not obey his words but the use or sparing of the rod he keeps to himselfe 1 Cor. 4. 2 Cor. 12.13 and delivers it to those no doubt whom he made overseers or Bishops like themselves who were also called Bishops Cyp. l. 3. Ep. 9. Amb. in Eph. 4. Epiph. cont

He signified Christ in his innocent life and his death He never did his brother wrong yet he killed him and therefore Christ himselfe called that murther the blood of righteous Abel So though Christ did so many good works among the Jewes yet they would have stoned him and though they could not convince him of fin yet they crucified him whose blood notwithstanding speaks better things then the blood of Abel for that cried for revenge but Christs for remission The next is Henoch the seventh from Adam Henoch and so a sabbaticall person pointing out him in whom mankind must only rest as on the sabbath His name signified Taught or dedicated so Christ was taught of God in the humanity for he increased in wisedome and favour with God Exod. 21.6 Luke 2.52 and was dedicated to God as a perpetuall servant * Arias Mont. Pagnin Psal 40.6 7 8. mine eare hast thou bored so the word erithus signifies though the Apostle turn it and a body thou hast given me to shew how his body was to be given as a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour Ephes 3.2 Againe Henoch was a Prophet Jude 14. so was Christ Henoch walked with God so did Christ * Cat. Arab. c. 20. fol. 27. a. Rabanus in Gen. 5. Jacob Brocard in Gen. 5. Henoch sorrowed three hundred years for Adams fall and Christ wept often but never laughed that the Scripture mentioneth Henoch was taken away of God and so Christ from death Henoch was no more seen nor shall Christ till he commeth to judgement The next was Melchisedeck after the flood Melchisedeck in his generation Heb. 7.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Council Ephe. He signified or shadowed Christ in his generation name and office 1. In his generation being without father or mother or kindred without beginning of daies or end of life So said because his generation was very obscure nor committed to letters or the Genealogy in those times So Christ had no father as man nor mother as he was God yet the Council did rightly stile the blessed Virgin Mary the mother of God that is of the hypostaticall union not of his eternall generation she was the medium of uniting the manhood and Godhead together but no beginning of his subsisting in the Godhead which never had beginning of daies nor can have end of Being Yet who was this Melchisedecks father is hard to say Some say he was Shem the son of Noah But others say of one Heraclim the son of Phaleg who married Salathiel Vide Epipha and the Arabic Catenam the daughter of Gomer by whom he had this Melchisedeck 2. 2 In his Name His name signified the King of righteousnesse and as King of Salem it signified peace so Christ was both King of righteousness that was his name Jer. 23.6 and the King of peace Isa 9.6 because he wrought it Isa 53.5 by suffering chastisement for us he made peace through the blood of his crosse Col. 1.20 In which regard St Paul cals him our peace Eph. 1.14 and our righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1.30 So that as in his generation so in his name he shadowed Christ also For as Melchisedecks parents were unknown to that time so were Christs in his time for few beleeved his father was God or that his mother was a virgin And as Melchisedeck seemed to be without beginning or end of daies in respect of any expresse account given of it So Christ had no beginning in his divine nature nor no end of his Mediatorship for his Godhead and his manhood making one person never to be dissolved he is a Mediator without end yea he lived while his body was dead in the grave which he raised again by the eternall spirit And thus what was spoken of Melchisedeck respectively was fulfilled in Christ simply and fully So Melchisedeck was called King of righteousnesse and peace in regard 1. That he stood unchallenged of injustice in that time when the four Kings made war against the five Kings his neighbors for injustice and rebellion after twelve years subjection 2. Gen. 14.4 He was called King of peace not only because he was King of the City Salem afterward Jerusalem signifying peace but because he was in peace when all his neighbours were at wars round about him But Christ was King of both righteousnesse and peace radically universally and effectually in himselfe and in all beleevers 3. In his Office he was a King and a Priest King of that City Shalem 3. In Office which afterward was possessed of the Jebusites and called Jebushalem a disordered place after which it being inhabited by Israel and King David it was called Jerushalem the vision of peace and so a type of heaven He appeared like a King by his munificence when he brought forth bread and wine to Abrahams wearry troops Gen. 14.18 Chrys in Psal 106. Isid de Eccl. off l. 1. c. 18. Cyprian Basil Jerom. signifying Christs Sacrament of Bread and Wine given to all the faithfull to refresh them in their battels against spirituall enemies 2. He was a Priest to the most high God and so no idolatrous Priest He shewed himselfe a Priest in blessing Abraham and in receiving tithes of him So he shadowed forth him that was to be both King and Priest after his own order not of Aaron but of Melchisedeck Heb. 5.6 The next shadowe was Isaac whose name signified laughter Isaac Luke 2.10 and Christ was the joy of all people He was begot and born in Abrahams old age so was Christ in the latter daies and old age of the world Isaac was freely offered up by his father Heb. 1.1 Beda in Gen. 22.6 so Christ was freely given of God for the world Isaac carried the wood and Christ carried his crosse Isaac died not John 19.17 Heb. 11.9 Clem. Alex. paedag l. 1. c. 5. Greg. in 6. Hom. in Ezek. but Abraham received him from the Altar in a similitude i. of Christ For as he died not on the Altar so neither did Christ as he was the only begotten Son of God For his divinity could not die but was like the scape goat that went from the sight of men into the wildernesse or the land of sequestration while his humane nature like the Ram that died in Isaac's room was caught in the thorns of our sins signified by that crown of thorns put on his head Gen. 22.4 Isaac was delivered the third day after that he was voted to death so Christ was raised the third day after that he died The place of his deliverance was called by Abraham Jehovah jireh The Lord will provide in the mount so God on mount Calvary provided for us a sacrifice and a Saviour also These were shadowes of Christ before the Law Mathe. What other shadowes of Christ were under the Law Phila. The first Personall shadowe under the Law was Aaron whose name signifieth an high mountain So it is prophecied of Christ