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justice_n	aaron_n	moses_n	order_v	14	3	9.2346	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75847	Gospel publique worship: or, The translation, metaphrase, analysis, and exposition of Rom. 12. from v.1. to 8. Describing, and prescribing, the compleat pattern of gospel-worship. Also, an exposition of the 18th. chapter of Matthew. To which is added A discovery of Adam's three-fold estate in paradise, viz. moral, legal, and evangelical. / By Thomas Brewer.	Brewer, Thomas, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing A4429; Thomason E1654_1; ESTC R208992	154,122	337

preservation in health and life ibid. the Pittier or Shewer of Mercy to the persons of the Church in need thereof called also Deacons Rom. 16.1 Phil. 1.1 1 Tim. 3.8 as also the fourth sort are These are also called Widows because they must be widows that be admitted to this office and also of 60. years old lest they should by nature be urged to marry and by their husbands be hindered in their office 1 Tim. 5.3 9. to 16. For two Institutions of God must not oppose nor cross each other as being in act nor the course of Nature and its Institutions be inverted nor everted so that all sorts of good are treasured up for us by God in his Church-worship therefore spare no labour to know nor cost to buy the same Mat. 13.11 44 45. Ninthly v. 5. it is expressed that the particular matter of this Divine Worship i. e. Christians are encorporated and enchained together therein for each others benefit and made as members of each other so that both the particulars of the ministerial and mystical Church are for the good of each Christian as estated in Gods instituted Worship Tenthly while the 5. particulars of Divine Worship for our fivefold or omnifold good are freshly mentioned I will add a tenth proof and motive to this point conjoining the perfect good and the good perfection of Divine Worship in one small Table wherein also many other motives thereto and matters worthy our observation will accur God as a One * in essence b Existed man as an integrum of c Soul d Mental Understanding willing d Practical by that Understanding and Will to preserve his soul or rational part by rational provision of information conformation and confirmation by his Creators means both natural as a Feeder and spiritual as a Physitian ● Body Mediatly providing maintainance for immediatly preserving health of his body by God's means as Creator for the present and Redeemer perpetually and as sanctifying the former b Ordered e Man for his own glory as of through and for himself e For Man f Means of his information conformation confirmation provision and preservation f Powers g Agent Operative for and effective of his informing conforming confirming providing and preserving g Recipient of knowledge sincerity good conversation provision and preservation * Authority or absolute Monarch Natural h Concreating his Law in Man toward God and Man h 1. Instituting his Worship natural for his natural service Internal toward himself External toward others In this respect Paradise was his instituted Church-Worship as parts of the second Commandement without typical relation to Heaven Adam being the Teacher and Ruler thereof as the Minister of the Teach●ng conforming and nourishing Sacraments and other Ordinances and as Orderer and Dresser of Paradise and Eve being the Provider and Preserver by her being an help to him Gen. 2.20 and the taught conformed and ruled All this a well-ordered integral mean between God as unum and Man as integrum by which as by Jacob's Ladder there was an alternal communion between God and Man which is the common scope and correlation of all integral Worships ever since but in other respects far d●fferent and without Works legal restauration or grace Spiritual 2. Legal instituted That 1. Natural Worship with this condition If you do this you shall live eternally in Heaven Not this you shall dye an Hellish death 2. The Legal Worship of Adam and of Mos●s with the same typical condition If thou do this thou shalt enjoy the Land of Canaan and its Kingship Priesthood and Prophetship and its provision and preservation Not this thou shalt be deprived of them all 3. Evangelical i Imposed on Christians Evangelical worship for his service i Proposed to Christians Evangelical worship for their benefit with his promise and power operating and effecting the same upon and in them and accepting it and them therein and thereby k Typically as the Redeemer of Man from his Fall into Hell and the guilt power and curse of sinne unto Heaven and his imputing infusing and imparting Christ unto us l Historically in Noah's Ark as the Church Noah as the Ministerial Teacher Exhorter and Ruler and his Wife as helper in matter of provision and health The seven persons subject to him as the informable conformable rulable to be provided for and preserved and the Waters as our Baptisme shewing and conveying reconciliation 1 Pet. 3.20 21. and so the Food as given by Noah answered to the Lords Supper and receiving into and casting out of the Ark answered our admission and excommunication Abraham's family as the Church Abraham as the Teacher Exhorter and Ruler thereof Sarah as his helper in provision and health His Children and Bond-servants as the matter and body of the Church Circumcision as our Baptisme and the Sacrifices the Spiritual Food of his Family as the Lords Supper Personal Teaching Perswasion and Ruling as ours instituted now which is to be supposed in the former ideas hereof in Adam and Noah and the admission into or birth in the same as ours now and so likewise of his casting any out of his family as answering to Excommunication duly ordered now Gal. 4.24 to 30. This and that Ark have not onely primary relation to the Mystical Church but also to the Ministerial secundarily through their general likeness yet is there not identitie and so no perfect likeness between them l Instituted as m Transient or typically leading to Heaven that is the National Corporation of Israel in the Wilderness Moses the Ruler with his seventy Deputies Aaron and the Priests as Reconcilers Myriam and other Prophets as Teachers the Levites as Deacons Moses and his Deputies functions were to order the Nation and Army and matters of Justice and Protection Aaron and the Priests to order the Tabernacle and its Ordinances Myriam c. to order the Colledge Company and course of the Prophets the Levites to help in all matters of service to any of them especially of provision and preservation All this as in the way to the Promised Land and its permanent worship Deut. 1.8 to 18. and throughout that book this kind of Worship typed this under the Gospel as it is the transient Kingdom of Heaven parabled by the two Sowers the Mustard-seed Leaven Treasure Pearls the Draw-Net Matth. 13.52 and oft else-where mentioned in personal respects and without relation to this Church-Worship the Anttitype of them m Established the Nation of Israel with its Regal Thrones in Jerusalem the Temple and its Ministries and Ministrations the Colledge of Prophets and their Offices and Works and the Lodgings of the Levites about the Temple and their Cities throughout Canaan with all their teaching uniting or reconciling ruling providing and preserving Ordinances as compleated by Solomon as the Type of Christ as King in his constituted Church under the Gospel the neerest Signe Seal Livery of Seisin and Earnest of the real compleat Glory of Heaven k Antitypically answering to the former Types and really

to do something Obj. He had power to do well and liberty to offend Answ That could not be for doubtless God gave him not a positive command to do one thing and liberty to do another i. e. to do or not to do the same thing that 's a contradiction and therefore he had no liberty to offend neither had free will being bound to obedience Obj. Not a permissive liberty i. e. an allowance to ill but an inclination and aptitude to ill yet was commanded the contrary and had power to obey that command Answ No Man had no aptitude no inclination to ill for then he had not been made after the perfect Image of God that could not will work or incline to ill but he and man if made after his Image was positively good holy and perfect therefore man was made perfect in respect of his power of obedience for an imposed Law which is the business in hand but for the Proposition by him accepted he had no power of obedience God is Ens Sciens Potens Habens Man depraved in will to good is Non Ens Non Sciens Non Potens Non Habens For indeed we have no power to do that that is not but as we our selves are not i. e. by our depravation we have no entity in good being depraved and in our selves ill and therefore by our own power can do no good And on the contrary Adam being perfectly good could not do ill because he could not do nothing for all his actions tended to perfections The Order of Gods Supremacy whereby he governeth all his Creatures and rational Subjects is two-fold Instinctive and Institutive FOr the Institutive that we may not derogate from God nor arrogate to Man more then is meet it is to be understood that in acknowledgment of Gods Order and Power of Supremacy or Monarchship mentioned Isaiah 45.22 23. there are four particular permanent Prerogatives Institutions and Ordinances peculiarly appropriated to God therein over Nature and Grace which manifest his immediate Divine Authority and absolute Power over and above his Rationals from the Creation in procreation preservation gubernation and adoration and therefore hath God instituted a four-fould divine observable order therein to wit of Meats Marriage Government and Worship as followeth The Table of Institutions Institutions are Prerogative Precepts of God above and after the Creation which are a Competent b Fultive or for mans sustenance in his c Kind that is Marriage Gen. 1.28 c Particulars d Immediatly by meats Gen. 1.29 d Mediatly by his commanding use of all other Creatures viz. his government of them Gen. 1.28 b Cultive of or for Gods worship e Moral f Solely i. e. Paradise and its Paradisals f Mixt with the Worships ensuing e Super-moral g Legal h Paradisal h Mosaical g Evangelical i Familick from Adam to Moses i National from thence to Christ a Compleat or Celestial viz. The Gospel and its Institutions as called the Kingdome of Heaven which are Corporational that is an encorporate Church with its Ministry and Members and their Functions and all their Sabbath-meeting exercisings and observations The second Method MAN microcosmus micraner micricon at and by his Creation or Earthizing was first in respect of God as the Father an existing respective and operative person as earthy ortive ordive ardorive odorive Sonne the Form Character Image and Impression of Gods Natural Order Law Light and Wisdome Spirit the life sight might and emphasis of the Holy Ghost as natural enliver and acter of all Trinity or triunity of all three the compleat natural 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Earth Water and Air encorporate and enspired with the second-heaven fire as its constituting and distinguishing form Secondly as Stative he had Right to enter into a legal Covenant of Works meriting heaven with God it s and his Creator and so King Monarch Supream c. in all superiorities Light to understand that right Covenant merit Heaven God King c. and the tye bond duty and Religion on both sides Sight to know the particular Covenant made at and by his entring into Paradise with all its respects as the minor to the major of the two former heads and that personally voluntarily freely and in confidence of his good thereby Bright print of that Covenant visibly expressed and described by the Sacraments of Paradise Adam as the official dresser orderer thereof Gen. 2.15 And the trees and fruit thereof especially those of Life and Knowledge signifying Heaven or Gods Palace City and Kingdome and God dwelling and raigning with Adam therein and life and all eternal and perfect heavenly and divine happiness therein unto man if he observed and fulfilled that Covenant or the contrary if he broke it and that not naturally but mentally medially institutively and statively sacramentally instrumentally sealingly possessingly enrightingly deliveringly and seisingly so signifying by Gods expression therein which so cleerly signifying and estating Covenant if he entred into he knew that it bound both parties to exact keeping thereof whereby and not before nor otherwise it became a Law consequently not originally and simply for though God had instituted all that to be his worship so far as the second Commandement extendeth only yet neither it nor Adam had any heavenly or divine estate upon them thereby And though Adam and Eve supposed it a glorious and free gift of heaven as it had been if he had been of a divine and heavenly nature yet in Gods purpose project intent end it was an inevitable exposer of all to Gods justice and just condemnation Rom. 8.3 Gal. 3.21 22. and to his glory therein And secondarily God ordered this to be the first matter of Gods greatest work of grace and mercy in mans redemption from hell and adoption unto heaven v. 23 24 25. for Adam did and could not but eat of the forbidden fruit and so became a breaker of Gods Covenant and Law and lost his wager even earthly perfection and happiness which he wagered against heavenly obtained it not but became guilty of its contrary even of hell and perfect and eternal curse malice and misery The preceding worse and corruining fall of the Angels upon the same rock and the proofs of both with their illustrations and controversies are not of this indical synopsis but of its succeeding vindical illustration But to pass on toward the third quarter of this quaternity 1. Man by this his entry into this instituted mental and supernatural Covenant became stative from personal and from earthly to heavenly and from personal to practional or federal 2 And as it was meritorious and upon condition of perfect heavenly works and obedience it fitteth the usual Scripture terms of the Law Law of Works Works of the Law legal c. as opposite to the Gospel Faith Evangelical faithful And thirdly as it was broken on mans part it is called enmity our specialty against us the curse condemnation c. by a Metonymie of the effect for the cause