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A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

Secondly more distinctly and exactly that it was measured with a reede 12 thousand furlongs and the length and breadth and hight were equall First from the more indefinit expression observe that however it was a square whiles it is expressed under the notion of a citie And the Church is a round a round heaven and a round earth whi●es expressed under the notion of a world the round to signifie the laboriousnesse of the Church labor agricolae currit in orbe 1 Cor. 3.9 the Church is Gods husbandry her worke is never at an end She must continually move here propter qui●tem that she may rest whe shee is above the rowling heavens To signifie that the Church thus renewed shall be capeable of all truthes and conteine and know and teach all truthes of doctrine of discipline of manners and practise then too As a circle saith the Philosopher is the most capacious figure that is The square to signifie that as according to the Philosopher a square is the most setled and solid fast standing figure so the Church thus renewed refined in doctrine Heb. 12.26 discipline and manners shall never bee shaken any more never altered in the substance of either no not of her discipline that hath beene liable to so many changes but only in degrees to as much better as may be Secondly from the more distinct expression that the Church is as much in altitude as latitude as high as broad this signifies that as the Church is growne eminent in holinesse and high in heavenly mindednesse so shee is seene of men and esteemed and esteemed and highly extolled with the respect she hath from them So that Hier●salem is the praise of the whole earth according to promise Isay 62.7 So that as King David preferred it above his chiefe joy Psal 137 6. So all Kings shall bring their honour to it Revel 21 24. All shall as the Psalmist delight to tell the towers thereof Psal 48.12 i. e. joy to finde all perfect nothing missing All shall lay downe all forget all even the cunning of their right hand in comparison of the Church as Psal 137. Christ in this his comming shall as at the last day be admired of all that beleive 3 Thes 1.10 Thus of the forme or fashion Next of the matter oredifice which includes the Walles Townes Streets● Temple or publike place of worship The walles are confidesor their Situation Foundation Superstruction Apertions First her situation 1. The walles are without the citie 2. Containe all the citie 3. Are conformable to the fashion of the citie 1 Without the citie to signifie that no annoyances things or persons should come neere the citie of the reformed Church Mat. 27.33 without the walls are the dunghills without Hierusalem is Golgotha the place of dead mens sculls The forme of execution of offenders was to carry them out of the citie Heb. 13.12 and so to punish them The civill punishment carrying in it a character of the spirituall excommunication Phil. 3.2 The Church is warned to beware of Dogges i.e. Those Mat. 7.6 For they are of the concision and are evill doers as the Apostle intimates They have their dogges nature and skinne still in and on in heart and in life for they are evill doers biters as well as barkers And how shall the Church better beware of dogges then as the house-holder by shutting them out of doores So the prophesie runnes Revel 22.15 without there shall bee dogges which are described by their dogge-trickes Their mad sorceries filthy lecheries biting murthers houling idolatries false barking lyes 2 The walles thus situated containe all the whole citie parts and persons thereof exclude none of those To signifie that Christ his Church in no wise doth plucke up the wheate in stead of tares For she sees plainely the tares to bee tares Mat. 13. by their ripenesse before she plucke at them She remembers her Saviours rule That hee will in no wise cast out him that commeth to him Iohn 6.37 Thirdly the walles so conformed to the citie signifie the sweet harmonie proportion and conformitie that is betweene the Church and her discipline She is not yoaked with a discipline that will wring her neck gall her shoulders Nor with such a one as is like the hoope that the Juggler can creepe through Gal. 5.1 Compare ma● 11.28.29 Her discipline reacheth to all occasions causes persons things Shee makes not her meshes so wide as Actaeon A hunter of wild beasts that catcheth only those that would with open mouth devoure him Nor doth she as Vulcan make her net so subtile that the simple naked soule may be catcht before it is aware The Church hath from God her exact measure how to knit her discipline the pure golden measure of an unstrretchable reede i. e. The pure word of God Revel 21.15 Isa 8.20 Gal. 6.16 Blessed are they that walke according to this Canon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marke the double emphasis This notable Cannon This Canon of Christ This Canon of the Scripture or this Canon of walking as a new creature in and by Christ according to the Scripture Secondly Foundation And this is of twelve precious stones The naturall foundation as of an house the rocke 1 Cor. 3. gravell or compacted clay is onely one and that rocke is Christ But the Artificiall foundation as of an house is the wall built within the ground this is twelve fold or many fold consisting of the plurality and variety of all the offices These twelve stones were used in the old Testament as prophesies of the qualities conditions of the twelve Pa●●ia●k●s and their tribes And hereof the state and condition of the Ministers building 〈◊〉 ●ew Church on the doctrine of the Apostles ministers and their severall gifts grounded and guided by the doctrine of the Apostles Small parts or peeces make not a foundation many ranckes of stone make a foundation Disunion or interruption of the continuation of a foundation is dangerous The Church cannot consist with an index expurgatorius cannot possibly beare inhibitions of reading these or those bookes of Scripture of preaching these or those fundamentall doctrines or sound truthes 3. Superstruction or raising the superstructure And that is done up all of Iasper as the foundation was of 12. precious stones whereof the first also was a Iasper as two other were the Sardius and Emerauld which three stones are put to represent the Trinitie Revel 4. The green Iasper the eternall Godhead and Father the redde Sardius the crucified Sonne Christ The groenish Ra●e-bowlike emerauld As Gods bow in the clowd a token of an outward covenant Gen. 9.14 15. the proceeding Holy Ghost the token of Gods covenant in the heart Now that the wall mu●●●● built up above the foundation all of Iasper what can 〈◊〉 signifie but that the Church must be ad of God all according to the Scriptures If men will build on the

and 40 verses together it well easily appeare Zech. 13.1 Gen. 4. Heb. 11. but as they finde and center upon Christ And it is common with the most of men to build their false righteousnesse where the nest may easily bee pulled downe Vpon some non causes some meere probables or some peeces or fragments of obedience some care of the second Table with neglect of the first or contrariwise To seeke righteousnesse or put righteousnesse in any of all these is as vaine as to seeke waters in the Mill-streame when they are exactly pind up in the Mill-pond If the fountain of Christs righteousnesse be not opened upon the uncleannesse of men how shall they be washed righteous in person nature And if not righteous in person nature how shall they practise any righteousnes towards men as a righteousnesse much lesse can they doe any performances of religion so rightly as to make of them any small peece of righteousnes Abell by faith i. e. in Christ offered an acceptable sacrifice First Christ is made to us righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1. two last before wee can make or doe any thing so as we may glory in God or take comfort in him and not in our selves 2. Negligent of righteousnesse when men know of the fountaine Christ of the Scriptures the promises the cocke to let goe that fountaine of faith the only hand to turne it yet are of a sluggish nature and practise strive not to be eminent in righteousnesse eminent in the assurance and application of Christs righteousnesse and in the insurance and warranting that application by the evidence of a conversation of righteousnesse as a Christian I say this sort at most Heb. 10 22.23 Ephes 5.15 strive not to be eminent to beleeue confidently to wake accuratly lye along as contented to live as bed-ridden Chrstians from hand to mouth No good suit to their backs of Christs righteousnesse by application No good glasse upon that suite or profession of Christ of more holy and innocent conversation No good warmth by putting on of Christ as by the spirits infusion of abundance of grace This Spittle or Hospitall of pittifull Christians these impotent professors grant they be true improve not their stock And so at every turne of great expence of much faith and hope and prayer in a sickly time of feares and afflictions they are found to bee exceeding poore A defection or declining from righteousnesse more and more appeares oft in this old Heaven As when people and Ministers the starres and the starers after them erre from the right doctrine and doctrine of righteousnesse when they dislike the puritie power and plenty of it what neede thinke they such grinding the edge of the sword of the spirit the word so thinne what neede such nice and close dividings by it Heb. 4.12 And lesse of any preaching will serve once a day enough of conscience i. e. of their conscience and enemy to the rule of conscience lesse profession is enough 2 Tim. 4.1 unlesse men will be too forward They like a mixture that may abate the acrimonie of sound truth as not induring truth in the simple Therefore the ingredients these men give and take in the mixture are smokey distinctions popish evasions carnall pretences pharisaicall collusions human rules and traditions fleshly formes of worship seeming pretences of flattering devotions by all which to blinde the eyes and puddle the streames of the Scriptures sibires non se rebus submittere For they make the Scrptures by violence to justifie these not to try these just by the Scriptures This pack or heard of men are like horses that first pounce or plunge with their feet and mudde the water and then drinke They put in their corrupt ingredients to the word or doctrine and then give it and take it to drinke Thirdly the want of righteousnesse in the old heaven appeares by a frequent disaffection to righteousnesse to deale and to unrighteously doe set against and abuse righteousnesse to bee unrighteous both against God and man First against God Father Sonne and Holy Ghost The world will smite God by oathes cursings imprecations blasphemies God never wronged them he that is wronged by them was the maker of them Acts 17.28 Jn him they live and move c. against whom they move and live so wickedly they debase and vilifie God to his face They preferre every creature yea every sinne they have a minde to commit above God himselfe To commit spirituall adultry idolaterie in preferring the first and witchcraft to love and put confidence in the devill in preferring the second is nothing with them Psal 11 9. God is good and doth good to them And they are evill and doe evill against him as a meet requital As for Christ if they do not sweare by his precious wounds passion body death sacramentall bread they will be sure to slight his merits Heb. 10.29 his sufferings as things of no necessitie or use to them His Gospel to them a pack of fables no more faith and credit to speake of effectuall faith doe they give to it As once a Bishop one of the Popes said how great a gaine have we made of this fable of the Gospell They live as if they should never dye and die as if after that they should never live As another of the Roman Bishops a Pope was unresolved at his last dying pillow Saying now I shall saith he be resolved of three things 1 Whether there be a God 2. Whether the soule bee immortall 3. Whether there bee an Heaven and Hell And for the Holy Ghost they will jeare and scoffe at that holinesse that is wrought in mens spirits by that holy spirit yea hating and opposing all holy profession and conversation Secondly they are unrighteous against men both themselves and others They will put out both their own eyes to put out one of their godly neighbours like the Philistins that stopped Isaacks * A fountaine and an eye in Hebrew called by the same name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wells to their owne hurt as well as his They reproach religion as fast as they can wherein they doe as the Roman that cut off the bridge he stood on although hee must needs fall into the river himselfe so as hee might drowne his enemies Religion and profession is the bridge to carry them over the lake of hell to heaven yet it s no matter they will cut it off by sharpe sarcasmes and derisions that by their good will there should bee no such conscience-troubling profession upon earth Therefore they let flee freely at others that seeme to have any thing of God in them These worldlings these earth Ier. ●ar●● ●●●th as the Prophet speakes all dirt will bedaub the Saints most odiously They will smite them as I●r●miah with the tongue Name-blast them They will smite them in the body Acts as Saint Paul on the mouth yea on the back● Yea they will

stick yet closer to them They will smite them in the conscience stick a dagger of offence in it pull it out who can So in the ten persecutions by feares to make men sacrifice to the idoll So in the Phillip and Marian persecutions to threaten men till they made them abjure and forsweare the truth And when they have wounded thus will they can they heale Howbeit God would not loose his Martyrs but his spirit made them keepe their first vow in Baptisme and so after they suffered death for Christ voluntarily Exech 13.22 no. If the Pharisees draw a Judas into a fact of Treason against Christ all they answer to him comming to them with his consience dreadfully bleeding see you to it what is that to us much lesse doe they regard the affliction of a Ioseph although as in that Hos 6. caused by them It is their joy to make the hearts of Gods people sad whom the Lord would not have to be sad and to strengthen the hands of the wicked Marke the hands for sinne cannot strengthen the heart And yet they thinke they come not close enough and therefore they will give the Saints one deepe stab more They will smite them in the very image of God in them You be the holy brethren And how are they brethren but by being children of one Father God having his divine nature in them 2 Pet. 1.4 And how are they holy but by from God wishing working them to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1. Mat. 3.7 yet this holinesse they venemously just as a generation of sharp toothed vipers bite at You be the precise ones pure ones the Puritants Which last terme hath beene a long liv'd murtherer to kill sound doctrine holy life sobrietie equitie all that is good As said a Parliament man in Parliament the word Puritan in the mouth of an Arminian signifies an Orthodoxe divine in the mouth of a drunkard signifies a sober man and in the mouth of a Papist signifies a Protestant So generall is that name grown now that with it the wicked Ismaelites open their mouths wide make an odious wide mouth Isa 57.4 and sp●rt themselves So that their mouthes being venomed and their throats hissing this name in them is as a sting to make them ●ike the dragon Revel 12.4 ready and prepared to devoure a young professor before hee is hatch't Therefore pious Queene Elizabeth seeing the mischiefe comming upon religion by such approbious termes made an injunction against them that they might not thunder strike or lightning blast or cerebrate the gay blossomes of tender profession And I live in hope to see a good law enacted against so bad a malefactor as this soule-killing Nick-name hath beene for these many yeares even farre too many And thus and thus and thus will the wicked smight and smite the godly the meane while Revel chap. 13 10. chap. 14.12 if the Saints lie still and if they doe here is the patience of the Saints the wicked smight on and strike as if they cudgelled onely a sack not a Saint The smighters sing whiles the Saints cry The smighters curse whiles the Saints pray The smighters shed the Saints blood whi●es they shed teares If on the otherside the Saints ever so modestly stirre in the behalfe of righteousnesse what a stirre doe those men presently make If the god●y speake of and in the behalfe of righteousnesse before ch●se m●n then they jeare them These be factious all ●or law they be precise pharisaicall hypocriticall seeming to be after Gospel If the Godly speake to th●se men fo● righteousnesse and justice then they will use them as the So●●mites did Lot at least say they would viz. worse Gen. 19 9. for speaking but reason They will misuse them wose for intreating them to be better Exod. 2.17 c. as Pharaoh dea●t with the Israelites If the Godly speake to God much in prayer to procure or administer to them justice and righteousnesse then their small friends those sons of the world will call them Lollards Fox Act. Mon. in Queene Maries time because they cry Lord Lord unto their God If they bee hunted with persecution so that they are forced to turne night into day to pray before day or a portion of righteous usage among men and to worship the maker of night and day then those sonnes of Belial spirt that poyson upon them that they rise early to worship the Sunne-rising Fox Act. Mon. of the ten persecutions If they professe their beliefe of and in all the Scriptures that promise them succour and propound to them examples how the Lord hath delivered his people from their enemies as Sampson and by him the Israelites from the Philistines by the jaw-bone of an Asse then they cast upon the Christians this Heil-hatch't obloquie Fox ibid. and made-ly that the Christians worshipped an Asses head If the Saints professe they love the righteous and especially that right doctrine and righteous conversation they confessed and professed as Waldus Hus Luther Calvin c. then they call them in scorne Waldenses Hussites c. As if either of these was the highest originall of that truth they professe and that they were as very Hereticks as they would have those to be in the opinion of them and their adherents Finally if these poore harmelesse sheepe are worried and wearied from among men Heb. 11. to mountaines and dens and Caves and so part with all and kisse povertie with pietie rather then in riches to loose Christ yet the wicked leave them not but as the dragon cast out these floods vomit out this filthy flegme after them that they are poore men of Lyons the religion doth nought but make men fooles and turne beggers as many amongst us now adayes can say on lesse occasion and that such flying Christians are * i. e. wolves of the ●ocks Fox Act. mon. Turri-lupins If these are not touches enough to discover the unrighteousnesse of the old heavens then mens cyes are old and their judgements u●righteous that they cannot or will not see the right For proportionably still it is so every particular way of piety and equity and standing for these get an ill report and a scornefull name from the black mouthes of the sonnes of darkenesse As that they are Factionists Humorists Scrupulous fooles Protestants stript of their witts enemies to the common peace c. Thirdly This Doctrine instructeth us in this That as long as the Church dwelleth under or in the old heavens though shee may in her true members have some newnesse and righteousnesse in themselves yet in regard of the present opposition of this old unrighteous world and the indisposition of the present old Church contented with her old wrinckled ragged condition as if shee knew no better that newnesse and righteousnesse are nothing to that she shall have when she shall see and sue for a better condition The footing of this