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A89779	The temple measured: or, A brief survey of the temple mystical, which is the instituted church of Christ. Wherein are solidly and modestly discussed, most of the material questions touching the constitution and government of the visible church militant here on earth. Together with the solution of all sorts of objections which are usually framed against the model and platform of ecclesiastical polity, which is here asserted and maintained. In particular here are debated, the points of so much controversie, touching the unity of the church, the members of the church, the form of the church, and church covenant, the power of the church, the officers of the church, and their power in church-government, the power of magistrates about the church, and some church acts, as admission of members, and other things set down in the table before the book. / By James Noyes teacher of the church at Newbery in New England.	Noyes, James, 1608-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing N1460; Thomason E359_12; ESTC R201171	85,622	104

work as to be a bed and sleep except it be for preparation 5. It is sutable to the first Institution by Moset To morrow saith Moses is the Sabbath of rest Exo. 16.23 The Manna which signified Christ fell in the morning because the time of grace is represented by the time of light The Quailes which signified fleshly bodily and external services came in the evening the time of darknesse Thus the Jews and Papists have excessively lusted after and delighted in fleshly services until their Worship stank both before God and men The Iews ended their Sabbath in the evening but what testimony is there to prove that it was their duty to begin their Sabbath in the evening as part of holy time Many do now suppose that the Iews began their natural day or rather their Civil day if we speak like the Romans in the evening They say it was Gods Institution Lev. 23. but there is no appearance of any Institution for the beginning of ordinary time and that Institution rather argueth that ordinarily the day was not begun in the evening Some observe that it was only the beginning of their religious dayes It was anciently concluded that the Iews began their day with the Persians and Chaldeans in the morning and it is answerable to the current of Scripture Many Fathers and Schoolmen do peremptorily hold that the first day began with the light and therefore understand by evening the end of light by morning the end of darknesse and all do not conceive that day doth there take in the night Object It seems Luk. 23.54 56. that the Iews in time of our Saviour esteemed the evening preceding to be part of the Sabbath Answ I answer this was a time of Superstition and Ignorance and the Evangelist may say that the Sabbath approached with reference to the evening preparation and the morning following 2. The Iews erred in counting that day the day of preparation and yet the Evangelist calleth it the day of preparation because it was so with the Iews So he may say the Sabbath approached meaning the evening because the evening was reputed a part of the Sabbath by the Iews It is concluded that that day which the Iews called the day of preparation was indeed the first day of unleavened bread because our Saviour had observed the Passover the day before this their day of preparation Concerning the manner of observing the Sabbath BOdily feasting was alwayes a subordinate solemnity of the day Pro. 1. 1. We have examples The Iews dressed meat on this day Neh. 5.18 Our Saviour accepted of an invitation to a wedding Feast as it seems on this day Luk 14. The Priest had a double portion on this day two Lambs The Primitive Christians had their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on this day 2. It is connatural to the nature of the day It is a remembrance of the wonderful works of Creation of the wonderful redemption of the world declared by the resurrection of Christ It was the day of the day of grace of which time the Prophet Sang Psa 118.24 that it was the day which the Lord had made It is the day of the circumcision of the heart of the effusion of the Spirit It is a natural sign or earnest of our Heavenly rest in glory as the whole time of grace is The Sabbath was a natural sign to the Iews of Gods sanctifying them because it was a medium thereof So this Sabbath is a natural sign of our Heavenly Sabbath because it is a medium and earnest thereof Christ the Prince of Israel meets his people on this day and makes their hearts glad Ezek. 46. Rev. 1. Iob. 38. Before Christ came the Sabbath was Ceremonially significative of the rest to come in grace and glory not only an earnest thereof The Ceremony vanisheth but the spiritual use of the day continueth It is aptly called by one aptum Simbolum laetitiae Object The Iews are bid to dresse their Manna the day before the Sabbath Exod. 16.6 Ans 1. The Iews were not forbid to dresse other meats on the Sabbath day 2. As for the Manna it did signifie Christ and the Sabbath did signifie the heavenly rest in grace and glory The dressing of the Manna must accordingly signifie our diligence to prepare our selves for the seeding on Christ in the Sabbath both of grace and glory A bodily Feast is not a co-ordinate solemnity of the Sabbath Pro. 2. as it was of other Feast days 1. It was not consecrated festivally with sacrifies as other Sabbaths were 2. All work is forbid in this Sabbath Lev. 23.3 and only servile work on other feasts This day was to be observed more spiritually then the other Feast days Feasts must never exceed modum naturae nor modum personae nor on this day modum cultus The Sabbath is rather a spiritual Feast then a bodily Feast yet a Feast because appointed for the refreshing of the body as well as of the soul and therefore not for the aff●●ting of the body All the Feasts of the Iews like rivulets have their confluence into the times of the Gospel therefore are spiritually to be enjoyed on the Lords day altogether Act. 20. This day is to be celebrated with works of Piety the publique Worship of God religious disputations Act. 17. reading of the Scriptures Col. 4. Meditations on Gods Law works of Creation and Redemption Psal 92. and with works that may declare Gods name directly and to this end the infirm man might carry his bed Joh. 5.2 Works of mercy are sutable to this days work of present necessity and immediate mercy Our Saviours healing of the sick on the Sabbath teacheth us to spare no labor in healing both the souls and bodies of men We may preserve our goods against storms fires inundations Enemies that shall assault us on the Sabbath The Lord God preserveth all his works that he hath made on the Sabbath from the beginning unto this time Lastly moderate attendence on the dressing of meats which may further our joyful service of God in spirit and in truth Eliah fasted on the Sabbath and so did our Saviour both attended upon a greater service All dead works are our own works all sin is servile work these are absolutely forbid on the Sabbath Spiritualiter observat Sabbathum Christianus Augustine Pro. 3. abstinens so ab opere servili id est à peccato We are to make preparation for the due celebration of the Lords day 1. Get sutable hearts such as may delight in spiritual things 2. 2. Chron. 30.19 2 Chron. 30.18 Exod. 23.15 Lev. 23.3 Keep our selves clean 3. Prepare an offering we must not appear empty 4. Rid our hearts and hands of Earthly things The Lords work is to be done on the Lords day We are to prepare our selves to feast on the Passover by dressing of the Lamb for the Feast of first fruits by considering the goodnesse of God from the time of our conversion to Thanksgiving for the feast of Tabernacles by perfecting mortification as on the day of expiation The Feast of the Passover was to signifie the Feast of conversion of Infant Christians the Feast of first fruits the Feast of confirmation of growing Christians the Feast of Tabernacles Eph. 4. the Feast of perfection of Christians that are come to a full stature And the proceedings of the whole Protestant Church especially may hereby be described The Sabbath is neither appointed for sleep nor work nor play The Passover in the first Moneth signified initium novae vitae the sheaf primitias bonorum operum 2 Cor. 5.1 Zech. 14.14.29 but for the Worship of God We are bid to remember this day six days are permitted for fervile work in the literal sense 3. It is called the Sabbath of the Lord and the Lords day 4. The Lord is our president in observing this day he rested himself 5. It is a day of refreshing it upholds all the Ordinances of our edification a day that is blessed of the Lord. All these particulars require us to observe this day as unto the Lord that we might habituate our selves to godlines We should shew our love to the Lord in shewing for whom we work on this day and shew that we make God our delight by making this day our delight Those that eat the Passover must make it their great businesse in purpose and resolution to prepare themselves for the enjoying of Christ those that feast it before the Lord in the Feast of first fruits must make it their great businesse to bring forth fruits unto God those that enjoy the Feast of Tabernacles must make it their great businesse to mortifie the flesh to perfect their humiliation If all leaven be purged out the bitter hearbs of affliction shall but acuate the appetites and cause us to relish the Lamb that is killed for us the better The leaven of sin made Davids heart feel the leaven of grief Psal 73.21 It is in the original My heart was leavened with grief The cakes of the shew-bread were renewed every Lords day if we renew our selves in preparations God wil not be wanting to renew us by confirmations of his grace towards us New cakes are vigorous and pleasant so are such as do dresse themselves anew to appear before the Lord on his high days He that works the six days for God shall rest the seventh day in God Hanc festivitatem nemo celebrare qui non operatus est bona spera Deo dignae potest Hesychius FINIS

Christ hath rent and a wrapping of him in Grave-clothes who is received up into glory The Church is now risen out of the grave of Popery like Lazarus and therefore our Saviour saith in effect to us Loose her and let her go To shew more respect to any thing then God hath allotted it Sepe later fulsum proximitate ●eri though for the producing of the end unto which God hath ordained it is Superstition It was not lawful for the Iews to shew so much respect to their clean meats which yet were holy respectively as to the holy meats of the Sanctuary To make a crosse with reference to Christ is to respect a crosse superstitiously and yet to honor the Lord Christ in ones heart upon the occasional sight of the crosse whether natural or artificial may be lawful To make some special use of natural things in natural circumstances so it be within the compasse of sobriety is convenient but to estate any mediums of Worship in unnatural circumstances is gradual Superstition and one step to Idolatry It is but necessary to confine our selves to some set times of Worship as in our families so likewise in publike time is but connatural to Worship a set time is but methodical all the while natural bounds be observed But the designation of perpetual times of Worship is proper to the Lord. 1. God gave not Adam this prerogative who was wiser then we God himself Instituted the Seventh day 2. He challengeth this power in all other constant means of Worship which may but insinuate into a state of religious respect 3. There is experience of danger in times of our own Election 4. We have the exemplary moderation of the godly The example of degenerated Ages is not imitable To draw to a period an addition of any kinde of Worship in any medium not already Instituted is Superstition in respect of the matter of Worship Such were the Traditions Pharisaical 2. Excessive respect to an Ordinance or medium of Worship already Instituted is Superstition in respect of the measure of Worship such like was the inlarging of their Phylacteries Gods Institution must be our Standard what is more then measure is too much what is besides the patern in the Mount is contrary 3. The use of any thing in circumstances of Worship which is not naturally a medium of Worship or the use of any thing in unnatural circumstances is at least Superstition in appearance Christ refused to wash his hands in the superstitious circumstances of the Pharisees 4. Those things are properly indifferent that are equally good in all points Rom. 14. Affirmative precepts do not binde semper ad semper Appearances of evil are only evil in respect of the opinion of men and therefore cease to be evil when men are convinced A propinquity to evil doth not make a thing evil Some vertues are next Neighbors to vice 5. Appearances that are countenanced by the greater part or better part are not to be avoided except in some particular cases as when a weak Brother is offended 1 Cor. 10.28 6. In lawful things we have power to offend our selves to eat or not to eat Rom. 14. In lawful things due means must be used for preventing of Scandal both with Jew and Gentile but natural necessities will excuse David in eating the Shewbread As no evil must be committed so some duties must not be omitted God must be Worshipped Daniel must pray towards the Temple and though Daniel had an extraordinary spirit yet all must pray together with Daniel because it is an ordinary duty and absolutely commanded Object The Jewish Ceremonies were practised by the Apostles after the coming of Christ Answ Those Ceremonies were not wholly and absolutely abrogated until the Gospel was proportionably made known to the Church Lawyers do allow time for the divulgation of a Law after the promulgation thereof for their sakes as may not be present at the promulgation 2. Gods Institutions as Augustine saith did deserve honor at their Burial mens Inventions deserve none Christ would not honor the Pharisaical Rites in the least measure neither did Daniel and such like the Institutions of men Dan. 1.8 The brazen Serpent was honorably retained not so the golden Calf 3. The Apostles were guided extraordinarily by the Spirit Act. 15.28 As for the Altar of the Reubenites it was no Ordinance or medium of Worship but a testimony or probation of their Interest in the Ordinances of God Josh 22.27 It behoveth the Israel of God to preserve the lock of their profession to distrust the flattery of the Romish Delilah 2 Pet. 2.3 the paintings of that Jezabel the kissing and crouching of that Absolon from henceforth If the Protestant witnesses of truth shall go back again the same way that they came with the Prophet 1 Kings 13. A Lyon lyeth in wait for to slay them Ezek. 43.10 Thou Son of men shew to the house of Israel that they may be ashamed of all their Iniquities and let them measure the patern And if they be ashamed of all that they have done Iud. 2.2 Deut. 12. 1 Cor. 10.20 c. shew them the form of the house and the fashion thereof and the goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the Ordinances thereof and all the Laws thereof and write it in their sight that they may keep the whole form thereof and all the Ordinances thereof and do them Antichristian Ceremonies are idle or significant and aggravated evils because they are badges of honor to a false Religion stumbling blocks to weak Protestants pollutions of Gods holy Ordinances 1 Tim. 4 1. Rev. 2.14.20 Ezek. 15.22 the Doctrines of the Devil they harden the wicked they stink in the sight of God they shall stink in the sight of the Church Ezek. 39.11 The Quails which the Israelites lusted after may justly signifie the fleshly Inventions and Traditions of men and their stink came out at their nostrils Num. 11.20 As for things that are properly indifferent which are such things as are equally poised with good in all points they cannot be made necessary duties without Superstition in Worship and usurpation of power much lesse such things as are unnatural either in essence or circumstance Circumstances do belong to the material object of an action and therefore are essential to the lawfulness of an action Bonum oritur ex integris Synods and Councels have not power to make Laws in form Pro. 2. or to exact obedience to their definitive determinations in matters that are disputable amongst the Saints Neither things indifferent nor things inevident are the subject of exacting power Sins of ignorance or of infirmity in weak Brethren must be tolerated In things not essentially fundamental though they may be fundamental consequently we must bear one with another in case there be not obstinacy As some things are Disciplinable in the Church which are not punishable in the Common-wealth so some persons are punishable

to a table Prayer to the Institution of the feast though it be not a direct Institution of it self Christ applieth and presseth sitting at Table Luke 22. as significant at least connaturally with the feast it self it being connatural to the nature of the feast Sitting at the Passover was an Institution else how came standing which was Instituted at the first to be abrogated especially considering the eating of unleavened bread which in part signified the same with standing was all along retained And if the Table at the instant of the Sacrament be significant why not sitting at the Table Rest is frequently an Emblem of our bliss in the kingdom of God and sitting down in the Kingdom of God in Scripture phrase is Analogical thereunto Mat. 8.11 Rev. 3.11 Luke 22.30 and 13.29 The Jews had a Land of rest both we and they a Sacrament of rest Heb. 10.12 and 4.1 2 3 4 c. and why should we swerve from the example of Christ and joyn issue with Antichrist When there appears no natural occasion of alteration nay when it appears that the practise of our Lord was most consonant naturally to his Institution I do not suppose sitting to be an absolute Institution yet it is clear that a Table gesture as circumstances may necessitate is signum natum dependent upon an Institution ex hypothesi a natural medium and an Institution correspondent to the Sacrament To draw to a period Antichrist hath been and is to be discovered by degrees Truth is the daughter of time Achan was taken first in the Tribe of Judah Iosh 7. then in the Family of the Zarhites then in Zabdi lastly Achan the Son of Carmi was taken in his own person God hath by a supetnatural lot of providence directed the witnesses of truth in the Reformed Church hitherto and yet all Antichristian Achanism is not discovered truth daily revives out of the ruine and smoke of Popery The Protestant Church is as Physitians speak in neutralitate convalescentiae Many Babylonish garments fat Beasts for Sacrifice are still reserved though Amalek be slain the throne of Satan in respect of Episcopal Authority remains Agag is yet alive though a Captive How can it be but that the Ark should totter all the while it is put into the new Cart of new Doctrines and new Ceremonies of Papal presumptions All the dust of Popery must be drunk up with just indignation Deut. 9.24 and washed away with the water of Christs blood and Israels Repentance before God will be reconciled It is for want of zeal that we do not feel the stink of all the Reliques of Popery and stop our noses until they are interred Ezek 39. There was a Levite in the time of the Judges that went after his Concubine to setch her home Iudg. 19. 20. but ●●agring and delaying in eating and drinking was benighted and forced in his return to turn into Gibeah where his Concubine was polluted and destroyed by men of Belial The Elders of the Church are fitly represented by this Levite in precedent ages they have been too negligent in expediting the Church to his home and too indulgent to themselves in ease and earthly pleasures hence the Church hath been benighted with Popish ignorance defiled and destroyed by Antichrist by men of Belial Now let the Levite bestir himself and give notice to all the Tribes of Israel concerning this Abomination This must be done by dismembring the Romish Church or Concubine Isa 66.8 and by sending the parts thereof of all Popery over all Israel A voyce of Prophesie from the City from the Temple must be heard against it We have been a long time comparsing the walls of Jericho with silent patience Now it is high time for the Priests to blow the Trumpets and for all Israel to shout together After the three days and half of extremest affliction Rev. 11. the witnesses shall put off their Sack cloth Multum interest gladio an arte solvatur nodus Antichrist shall come down The zeal of the Tribes in Israel hastned the fall of Benjamin there is hope if all Israel would concur to the burning of Achan and all that belongeth to him Babylon were come to an end 1 King 17. Mal. 4.5 Matth. 3. The Ministers of the Reformed Church the witnesses of truth are eminently the antitypical Eliah John the Baptist was the Eliah of Christs first coming Rev. 11. 12. the Protestant witnesses the Eliah of his second coming They correspond in their Wilderness habitation Wilderness habit and Wilderness dyer they correspond in Prophetical Power and Prophetical Doctrine Eliah prayeth and it raineth not and he prayeth and it doth rain the witnesses have the like power Rev. 11.6 Eliah brings down fire from Heaven so do the witnesses Rev. 11.5 Eliah Prophesieth concerning the destruction and extirpation of the ten Tribes the witnesses of the destruction desolation and extirpation of Apostatixed Christendom The Lord hath been a lopping and felling a long time but now the Ax is laid to the root of the Tree Antichrist and Antichristianism shall be cut down and plucked up by the root and cast into unquenchable fire The Pope like that grand Hypocrite Absolon hath conspired against our David and to make the Kingdom sure unto himself hath openly adulterated the Visible Church but he shall be taken even by the long hair of his Pharisaical Doctrines and shall be destroyed and hanged up to perpetual shame and contempt Daniel 12.2 Concerning the Morality of the Sabbath SOmething is natural in the fourth Commandment 1. Pro. 1. The observation of all seasons for Worship or for immediate Worship as some speak Time is connatural to Worship as concreated with the motion of the creature yet natural seasons may as well belong to this Commandment as natural circumstances to the third 2. Some constant and state time is secondarily natural A set time is as natural as a set place and a set time may be universally observed though a set place cannot since the inlargement of the borders of the Church A set time is necessary for the encouragement of Laborers and Servants it is necessary for the promoving of Society Spiritual and for the preventing of Civil damages If some should keep Markets on that day in which others are Worshipping of God this would be a loss to the Commonwealth Thus far a time appointed for Worship is a natural mediums not an Instituted medium of Worship Thus far the fourth Commandment is naturally Moral The observation of a seventh day is possitively or disciplinarily Moral Pro. 2. and perpetually a duty 1. The grounds of the first institution are perpetual and ubi ratio est perpetua praceptum est perpetuum Azorius observeth a meetnesse in acknowledging of Gods works by the first fruits of our works The same grounds that were observable for the first observation of the seventh day do last to the end of the World Time was from the