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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08981	Christian advertisements and counsels of peace Also disswasions from the separatists schisme, commonly called Brownisme, which is set apart from such truths as they take from vs and other reformed churches, and is nakedly discouered, that so the falsitie thereof may better be discerned, and so iustly condemned and wisely auoided. Published, for the benefit of the humble and godlie louer of the trueth. By Richard Bernard, preacher of Gods word.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1608 (1608)	STC 1927; ESTC S113766	84,709	210

God Christ the Lord by whom onely and alone they shall be saued That this is the true matter of the Church of God thus I prooue I. Because they beleeue the summe of the Gospell which Gospell who so maketh outward profession of are the true visible matter Rom. 10. 9. Ioh. 1. 12. and 3. 36. Ioh. 17. 3. II. Because it was the doctrine alone by which the Apostles did gather people to make them a Church and disciples vnto Christ Act. 2. 36. and 9. 20. and 19. 4. 5. and 18. 28. Luk. 24. 47. 1. Cor. 15. 3. and 3. 11. III. Because such asmade profession hereof were without any stay or let receiued into the Church as true matter Act. 8. 37. and 16. 31. 33. and 11. 26. IV. Because he that doth make open professioÌ„ hereof doth differ from Iewes Turks Pagans yea and from Papists for the former hold not Iesus Christ to bee the sonne of God and these latter doe ioyne works in the cause of saluation which is against the true nature of faith in the Sonne of God and destroieth it Rom. 10. 3. Gal. 3. 2. and 5. 2. 4. Act. 15. 1. 10. 11. And likewise against the truth of the Gospell Gal. 2. 14. 18 and 1. 6. Thus we see by these reasons that such We are true matter of a true Church as make this profession are true matter and so are we for wee all professe this saith and are baptised thereinto as is appatrent 1. By the doctrine of our Church receiued by all the reformed Churches in the harmony of confession 2. By the same publickelie preached 3. By the same maintained by our lawes by writings and euen sealed with the blood of holie Martyrs against the Papists and other hereticks and therefore are we true matter of the visible Church Yet here againe note that true matter True matter is either good or bad is either good or bad for who can deny that to be true matter of building which yet is not good as timber and stone is true matter but yet not some timber and stone good matter So is it in the spirituall building all that thus professe Christ are true matter but euery one not good matter Such good and bad matter was in Corinth and in the Church mentioned in the Reue. 2. 3. and hath bin in all the Churchs of God in the world which bad matter by due proceeding is either to be reformed or else to be cast out of the building not as false matter but as no good matter though true therefore a man excomunicate is cast out not as false matter but as bad and corrupt matter onely and therefore is to be held a brother 2. Thes 3. 15. Neither let it seeme strange that the Outward profession of the true faith maketh a man true matter of the visible Church albeit for his conuersation he be bad matter outward profession by word maketh men to be true visible matter whether they be hypocrites for the Apostle receiued Simon Magus an hypocrite Act. 8. and Christ Iesus receiued Iudas for many are called few chosen Mat. 22. 14. or whether they be men of leaud conuersation within the Church deseruing iustly to be cast out as bad matter for that the Scripture calleth such brethren for their profession 1. Cor. 5. 11. Neither doth Christ Reue. 2. or his Apostles 1. Cor. 3. 12. 13. for corruptions of manners or for building hay or stubble cal them false matter This may appeare in marriage of man woman by which similitude Christ setteth forth himselfe and the Church Two persons lawfully marrying doe openlie by words acknowledge their consent each to other and doe professe duties of loue in marriage but afterward the wife doth not performe the same as she ought and did couenant Is therefore the woman no true wife She may be accounted vniust in her word and not a good wife but yet is shee a true wife till the bond of marriage bee broken and a bill of diuorcement bee giuen out A man professing obedience to a king acknowledging him his king and none other and subiecting himselfe in generall to his lawes he is a true subiect to that king albeit he doe transgresse in some things greatly and openlie else kings in these daies should haue but verie few true subiects A man that maketh profession of one onely calling or trade and of none other by that onely profession is he truelie called that tradesman albeit hee bee but a bungler in his trade or carelesse in liuing by it none will say that hee is a false tradesman but either no good tradesman or vnprofitable Euen thus is it in the profession of Iesus Christ as is alreadie said for whosoeuer doth professe Christ is a Christian and true matter of a visible Church though neither good to other nor profitable to himselfe Good Christian Reader miscarry not in thy iudgement from the truth onelie of a good affection desirous to haue all well and grieued at what is amisse for thou shalt find euer cause thus to bee affected wheresoeuer thou commest in in this vale of miserie and corruptions False matter is contrarie to this true What false matter is matter The visible forme is not false which The visible forme constitution of our Church is not false is the vniting of vs vnto God and one to another visiblie For as by laying of the foundation in a building and so the rest vpon it cemented together maketh the forme of an house so doth it in this spirituall building called a house 1. Pet. 2. 5. And that we are vnited vnto Christ and made one with him it is manifest Goe to the Scripture and see how a By many euident notes there be many which shew themselues in mans iudgement to be of the inuisible Church of God amongst vs. people are inuisibly the Church of God and secondly how visiblie The forme of the inuisible Church is the vnion betwixt God and man and one with another which is first by the spirit by which inuisible hand God immediatly taketh vs by the heart and saith he will be our God 1. Ioh. 4. 13. Ezech. 36. 27. Ephes 2. 22. 4. 4. 1. Cor. 12. 13. Galat. 4. 6. Rom. 8. 9. 2. By faith in Iesus Christ by which inuisible hand as many of vs as be regenerated do take hold vpon the promise of the Spirit Galath 3. 14. and of Christ Ephes 3. 17. beleeuing that we are his people and he our God For if we be in Christ and hee in vs wee haue vnion with the Father Ephes 4. 6. Ioh. 17. 21. and with the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 13. 13. and 6. 19. Rom. 8. 9. Thus God and man are inuisiblie made one and vnited 3. One with another and that is 1. As they be all knit to the head by faith the Spirit 2. As they take hold one of another by loue and are bound together Colos 3. 4. Ioh. 13. 35. Thus is

neither speake nor write with distempered passion Let the Word bee thy warrant onely thy calling thy bound the Spirit of God thy directour godly wise thy counsellours Gods glorie thy marke truth the matter of thy trouble other mens corrections thy Schoolemaster their miscariage thy caueats thy enemies watchings thy warines in liuing and thy liuing such as ready to die with an euer holy remembrance of thy end thou shalt neuer do amisse Amen DISSWASIONS FROM THE WAY OF the Separatists as they haue principles by themselues the grounds of their separation commonly called Brownisme Probabilities against the Separatists schisme FIrst from the likelihoods so I call the first reasons that they may not * A sin vnbefitting men professing to go so farre beyond all other in puritie yet I wish it were not vsuall in them scoffe at them had I iudged them more solide arguments and great probabilities that that way is not good I. Is the noueltie therof differing from I. Likelihood all the best reformed Churches in Christendome The guides in that way with colours of the opinions of the reformed Churches and with some shewes of like practise in some things doe perswade their hearers that the one and the other differ almost nothing but if their words be true I. why will they not ioyne vnto They differ much euen in things of great moment from the reformed Churches beyond the seas else why ioyne they not with them and why doth Barrow condemne their gouernment as false them if the difference be so small Saint Paul himselfe would not neither taught the Disciples to separate from the euill disposed Iewes but only when they obstinately resisted to receiue the outward profession of Christ and did blasphemously raile on him Act. 19. 9. II. Howsoeuer they call them true constituted Churches yet are they so farre from reuerencing them therefore as Barrow calleth their way in contempt of it a sillie Presbyterie and Eldership and in hatred thereof perfidie and apostasie the building of a false Church to the Harlot a second beast Yea Barrow and Greenwood doe auouch it as new strange and Antichristian as preiudicial to the libertie of Saints to the power right and duties of the whole Church as they thinke the gouernment by the Bishops is Such as seeke that kinde of reformation he calleth wretched disciples of Caluine counterfeit reformists transgressors of the worship of God disturbers and violaters of the holie order which Christ established Their writings for it he calleth pernicious forgeries and sacrilegious prophanation of Gods holie ordinance their owne timber and stubble deuices Whatsoeuer therefore they now say except they publikely in print disclaime these opinions of Barrow and Greenwood herein they are as farre out of liking with other Churches as with ours and can like none but such as are from and after their owne deuised constitution Sithence then their owne mouthes and present practise witnesse the noueltie of their way from all the world it is â—â—euitie to entertaine a new deuice suddenly it is dangerous to forsake all Christian Churches in the world for it and it is a proud presumption to imagine themselues to see what other yet neuer saw neither can bee made to see â—y any thing they yet published viz. â—hat their deuice is the onely truth and to goe away with so peremptoric condemnation of all other Churches to be â—alse Churches for these men now liâ—ing doe call ours a false Church and Barrow you see calleth that forme of gouernment in reformed Churches a â—alse forme and the building of a false Church vnto Antichrist yea to bee the second beast what can be said more against vs II. For that it agreeth so much with the II. Likelihood See for this M. Gyfford against Brownists ancient Schismatikes condemned in former ages by holy and learned men Such were the Luciferians Donatists Nouatians and Audians And lest men might think that these are not to bee likened to the ancieÌ„t Schismatikes in respect of sound Nothing commendable in these new Schismatikes in which the ancient Schismatikes heretofore were not commended and yet of the Church condemned Vide Mornaeâ—m de Ecclesia truths which these hold and for that these be of so religious a conuersation let such vnderstand that Lucifer was banished and suffered persecution for the faith of Christ agreed vpon in the Nicene Councell So did Nouatus vnder the Emperour Maximinian It is said of the Donatists that they beleeued one and the same things that they were baptised and did baptise after one sort with the Churches of God then Of Audius it is reported by Epiphanius that he was vpright in life in faith and full of zeale towards God and can any thing more be said in commendation of any and yet neuerthelesse for separating themselues from the Churches because of corruptions they were condemned for their Schisme into which after they were fallen they persisting obstinately in the same were left of God to their particular conceits which afterwards bred further mischiefe wherein also they as willingly stood as in the former beginnings Heretikes are full of craft and subtiltie Schismatikes more plaine and of passionate affection but both wilfull in their courses as experience doth teach III. The manner of defending their opinions III. Likelihood The truthâ— needes not such ill means to maintaine it and prouing their assertions I. By strange expositions of the Scripture coÌ„trarie to the generall and constant opinion of Diuines for which one chiefe leader of the latter companie is reprehended by diuers godlie and learned men extant vnder hand writing II. By pulling and writhing the Scriptures to their opinions and alleaging many impertinently See Doctor Allisons Confutation of Brownisme in which he confuteth the Brownists description of a visible Church for which they are reproued of one who hath challenged the chiefe of the Church of Amsterdam to answere about twentie positions which another principall member amongst this latter companie hath also This note by the way that to deuise first a course in a mans head and then to Beware of this goe seeke for Scripture to maintaine it is the breeder of all heresie schisme and what not an abuse of holie truth for no lie is of the truth and it is to make the holy and blessed Spirit of God a nurse of impietie and euils a horrible sinne But to shew you that haue not obserued the deceit in their allegations of Scripture which is done diuers waies obserue these things carefully I. In quoting Scripture by the way They abuse the Scriptures and misleade the Reader thereby diuers waies that is for things comming in vpon occasion but nothing to the maine point by which to the simple they would seeme to speake nothing but Scripture when indeed the maine point considered they speak nothing lesse then Scripture as if all spake for the controuerted question when in truth it is nothing so II. By vrging commandements admonitions

Christ though testimonie were giuen vnto him by one whoÌ„ they knew to be sent of God shall not this Great pride is it and obstinacie to dâ—spise the voice of all the Churches of God in the world further the condemnation of these men that they refuse to heare and receiue vs though we be commended to them by the testimonie of so many Churches Some cases there are wherein wee are commanded to seeke for the iudgement of other Churches and to account it as the iudgement of God Else why did the Church at Antioch in a questioÌ„ that could not be debated at home seeke to the Church at Ierusalem for helpe specially seeing they had two such excellent men with them as Paul and Barnabas whose iudgement they might safely haue trusted vnto Acts 15. 2. Saith our Sauiour to any particular congregation of the faithfull in our owne land that Whatsoeuer they binde on earth shall be bound in heaueÌ„ Mat. 18. 18. and saith hee it not also to the Churches of other nations Shall he be accounted as a Heathen or Publicane that will not regard the iudgement and censure of that particular congregation whereof hee is a member and shall not they much more Matth. 18. 17. Those of the separation to be held of vs as Heathen and Publicans be so accounted that despise the iudgement of all the Churches Must the spirit of the Prophets be subiect to the Prophets amongst whom they liue 1. Cor. 14. 32. and must not both people and Prophets of a particular Church be subiect to the iudgement of all the Prophets and Churches in the world The abilitie to trie and discerne the spirits and doctrines of such Teachers as arise in the Church is such a gift as the true Church neuer wanted 1. Ioh. 4. 1. Reu. 2. 2. neither could it be the pillar and ground of truth 1. Tim. 2. 15. if it should be ignorant of a truth so necessarie to the saluation of men as this is viz. What people is to bee accounted the true Church of God If God hath giuen his Church power to iudge and pronounce of a particular man that he is in the state of saluation and that so infallibly that hee hath promised to ratifie in heauen the iudgement which the Church in this case shall giue vpon earth Mat. 18. 18. hath hee not much more made his Church able to discerne and pronounce of a congregation or people that it is a true visible Church which is a matter of no such difficultie as the other So that to conclude though these men make so light account of the iudgment and testimony of other Churches as if the word of God had come out froÌ„ them or vnto them only 1. Cor. 14. 36. or as if they themselues were better able to iudge of vs then all the godlie learned in the world besides yet do we take much comfort and assurance from hence that wee are the true Church of God The first obiection against the whole body of our Church that it was not rightly constituted The first thing they obiect against the whole bodie of our Church and of our parish assemblies is this That it was not gathered by such meanes as God in his word hath ordained and sanctisted for the gathering of his Church For faith H. Barrow in the 10. page of his discouerie all this people were in one day with the blast of Queene Elizabeths trumpet of ignorant Papists and grosse idolaters made faithfull Christians and true professors And in the 3. page of that Epistle to the Reader which they haue prefixed to their refutation of M. Gyfford they haue these words Where such prophane multitudes were all immediately from publike idolatry at one instant receiued or rather compelled to be members of this Church in some parish or other without any due calling to the faith by the preaching of the Gospell going before or orderly ioyning together in the faith there being no voluntarie or particular confession of their owne faith and duties made or required of any who can say that these Churches were euer rightly gathered or built according to the rules of Christs Testament To all that they thus obiect against But this cannot warrant their separation our first gathering this answere wee giue First that we might lawfully bee accounted a true Church though it could Because the knowledge of this is not necessarilie required to be stood vpon not appeare that wee were at the first rightly gathered For euen as the Disciples might bee well assured of Christs bodily presence amongst them when they saw and felt him Ioh. 20. 19. 28. though they could not haue discerned which way or how hee could possiblie come in so may we esteeme them a true Church of whose present profession and faith we are well assured though wee cannot see by what meanes they were first gathered Else may wee still doubt whither Melchisedech and the families of Iob or Cornelius were true Churches and members of the Church because we cannot find how they were first gathered and conuerted neither indeede can wee see by what commandement in Gods word wee are required to examine how they were gathered and made a Church of whom wee are now certainly perswaded that they were a Church Nay we find good warrant in the Word to the contrarie For wee read of many who hauing by that they heard and saw perceiued euidently that a people was the Church of God did ioyne themselues willingly vnto them without inquiring how they were gathered and conuerted as Abraham to Melchisedech Rahab to Israel the Eunuch to Philip the Iaylor to Paul Silas Secondly wee might be rightly gathered Secondly because meÌ„ may be brought otherwise to the outward profession then by the meanes which are most ordinary to the societie and fellowship of the visible Church by other meanes theÌ„ by the preaching of the Gospell for proofe whereof wee alleage first their owne iudgement and opinion which how vnsound soeuer it be yet hath it force enough to stoppe their mouthes namely that men may be wonne to the true faith of Christ not only extraordinarily but euen ordinarily also by other meanes then the publike and ministeriall preaching of the Word For if seuerall members may bee conuerted without this meane may they not much rather without it bee gathered together and made an assembly Secondly admit there were no other meane whereby a man could bee soundly conuerted but only preaching yet it is euident that by some other meanes men may lawfullie bee brought to an outward profession and so be made a visible Church Many in the daies of Christ beleeued that is were prepared to heare and beleeue and did also so follow him and professe theÌ„selues his Disciples that no man could without sinne haue denied them to bee members of the visible Church who yet were not all drawne by his word but some by his miracles Ioh. 2. 23. 25 some by the report they

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