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A10399	Tvventy nine lectures of the Church very necessary for the consolation and support of Gods Church, especially in these times: wherein is handled, first, in generall concerning first, the name; secondly, the titles; thirdly, the nature, fourthly, the diuision of the true Church: secondly, of the visible Church ... and lastly, the application of it to all Churches in the world so farre as they are knowne to vs. By that learned and faithfull preacher, Master Iohn Randall, Batchelor of Diuinity, pastor of Saint Andrewes Hubbart in little Eastcheape, London, and sometimes fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford. Published by the coppie perfected and giuen by the author in his life time; carefully preserued and adorned with notes in the margent, by the late faithfull minister of Christ, Master William Holbrooke.	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1631 (1631)	STC 20683; ESTC S115641	423,199	550

hath reference to something else First some are absolute without reference to any thing else the first is in the former Testament Cant. 4.12 It is called a Garden inclosed a Spring shut vp a Fountaine sealed vp Here two titles are giuen to it first it is called a Garden for as in a Garden growes many fragrant and goodly flowers pleasant to the eye and sweet and comfortable to the smell so in the Church many goodly graces like fragrant flowers doe grow and flourish the Word and the Sacraments Faith and Obedience Iustification and Sanctification c. these spirituall flowers cast a wondrous pleasing sight vpon the eye and a sweet smell to the nostrils of euery spirituall man that is able to see into and discerne them Yea the Lord himselfe makes this Garden as his walking place delighting and solacing his Maiesty with the sweet odors of the fruits of this Garden that is the graces and beauty of this Paradice Secondly it is calld a Spring or Fountaine first because as a Spring hath water in it so the Church hath water excellent water euen the water of life This is it our Sauiour speaks of Ioh. 7.38 39. He that beleeues in me out of his belly shall flow Riuers of water of life this spake he of the Spirit which they that beleeued in him should receiue These waters are the spiritual gifts and graces which God bestowes vpon his Church Secondly it is called a Spring or a Fountaine because as a Fountaine hath water so it hath cleare water so the waters in the Church the gifts and graces of Gods Spirit wherewith it is adorned are cleane and pure not stained with puddle and dirt of sinne and errour Thirdly as a Spring or Fountaine hath waters in it selfe at the first hand and hath it not deriued to them by any channels or secondary meanes so the gifts and graces of the Church they haue them conferred vpon them immediately from Christ himselfe who is the Fountaine of the Gardens as in that Cant. 4.15 And there is one common adiunct affirmed of each of these titles A Garden inclosed a Spring shut up or a Fountaine sealed vp And this is added to shew the priuatenesse or seueralnesse of it in it selfe that it is hedged in or shut vp This shewes first the speciall protection of God ouer his Church or People He hedges and walles and incloseth them in and seales and shuts them vp so that nothing can come at them to worke their annoyance Secondly this intends a separation betwixt them and the World first a separation of them from the World that they may not communicate with them in their corruptions in their manners and fashions but that they may continue within the compasse of their owne societie Secondly a separation of the World from them that they cannot communicate in their pleasant fruits and pure waters prophane and gracelesse people they can haue no part in the gifts and graces of Gods Spirit they are restrained only to the Church and to the chosen So much of that place out of the old Testament The other place is in the new Testament In the 1. Pet. 2.9 Yee are a Chosen Generation a Royall Priesthood a Holy Nation a Peculiar People set at liberty c. First they are a chosen Generation there are many other generations in the World yea but they are reiected these are chosen Secondly a royall Priesthood there was another Priesthood yea but that was seruiceable and meane these are a Royall Princely Diuine Priesthood Thirdly a holy Nation there are other Nations but they are prophane and wicked these are holy separated and sanctified by Gods Spirit Fourthly a peculiar People there are other People yea but they are of the common fashion fit for all companies and courses these are a peculiar people reserued onely to themselues and to their Religion and to their God So much of those titles that are absolute and concerne the Church simply in it selfe The second sort are respectiue titles such as concerne the Church as it hath reference to some other thing else and these are either first such as haue reference to God or secondly such as haue reference to Christ or thirdly such as haue reference to the faithfull or fourthly such as haue reference to the World or fifthly such as haue reference to the Truth First those titles that are giuen to the Church in respect of God are many Isai 2.2 Micha 4.1 it is called Gods Mountaine because God hath set it vp in an high and eminent place as a Citie on an hill and also because hee hath stablished it so strongly that as the Mountaine of God it shall stand fast for euer So in Psal 87.3 it is called The City of God because he built it and made their walles and repaires the breaches making them Lawes granting them Priuiledges maintaining their Charter ruling and gouerning them by his owne Ordinances In the 1. Tim. 3.15 it is called The House of God as being the place where his owne honour dwelleth conuersing daily with his people and carefully prouiding for them as a Master of a Family for his houshold In the 1. Cor. 3.17 it is called The Temple of God It is more then a house a holy house euen as the Lord that dwelles in it is holy Lastly it is called 1. Pet. 2.10 The People of God and that by a speciall and mutuall appropriation both of them that are his Church to him and of him to them he being their God louing and fauouring them aboue all others and they being his people consecrated wholly and intirely to him and his worship so peculiar they are to God that they are his Inheritance Isai 19.25 all others are seruants and vnderlings and not Gods Inheritance And so much for those titles that haue reference to God Now secondly follow those that haue reference to Christ and they are many too first it is called his Loue Can. 4.1 namely as Christ louing her dearely aboue his owne life and as the Church louing him dearely aboue all the world besides And Can. 4.9 the Church is called his Sister as partaking together he with her of the same flesh and bloud by nature and she with him adopted into the fellowship and state of Gods Children as he himselfe is the Sonne of God So in the same verse she is called the Spouse of Christ he marrieth her vnto himselfe in righteousnesse and in Iudgement and in mercy and compassion as the Prophet sheweth vs Hos 2.19.20 And thereupon she obtaineth the Title of a Queene Ps 1.45 19. and good reason shee being married to the King of Kings the Lord Iesus In Ioh. 10.27 the Church is said to be his sheepe as he feeding and ruling them like a faithfull shepheard and they as good sheepe hearing following and obeying him and none other Eph. 1.23 she is called his Body as hee like a perfect head

is the Husband the Faithfull are his Wife Ephes 5.23 therefore as in the estate of marriage the husband and the wife are one flesh so in the estate of this spirituall marriage Christ and the faithfull are one Ephes 5.30 and 1. Cor. 6.17 Thirdly there are particular reasons for this first on Gods part secondly on Christs part thirdly on our part First on Gods part his election aimed at this communion He chose vs to be made like vnto the Image of his Sonne Rom. 8.29 and 1. Pet. 1.2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father vnto sanctification of the Spirit through obedience and sprinckling of the blood of Christ Secondly his Couenant is so Deut. 23.13 that we shall be one with him and he with vs. Thirdly he hath confirmed this by his free gift of Christ to vs and vs to Christ as I shewed before Fourthly the Fountaine of all is his loue to vs God so loued the world that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne c. Fourthly the particular Reason on Christs part is his exceeding great loue towards vs Gal. 2.20 who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me Fifthly there are particular reasons on our part first is our Faith for by Faith we beleeue in him and are ingrafted into him and made partakers of him Heb. 3.14 Secondly we did couenant it in Baptisme and we doe daily renew it that wee will bee one with him Deut. 26.17 18. Thirdly it is confirmed on our parts by gifts we consecrating our selues and all wee haue or are into his power and mercy Fourthly our loue is another reason for that makes it a true vnion where it is truely planted Ephes 3.17 Where loue is linked with Faith Fifthly our necessitie so requires it for we cannot bring forth any good fruit except we be and abide in Christ Ioh. 15.4 The meanes of this communion which is betwixt Christ and the Faithfull is first the Spirit secondly the Word thirdly the Sacraments 1. Cor. 10.16 The Cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ c. The Vses of this Point are these First here is matter of Vse 1 reproofe against the Papists that hold the communion of the Church one with and vnder the Pope affirming that we haue no communion with Christ vnlesse first wee haue communion with the Pope they acknowledge that at the second hand we haue a communion with Christ but mediately by the Pope he being the Vicar of Christ and the ministeriall head but the Scripture you see is cleare that the true communion the faithfull haue is in and with Iesus Christ Rom. 12.5 and the Apostles had a communion with Christ when there was no Pope Yea but say they Christ is not present with vs now in earth but the Pope he is the Head of the Church on earth and except we haue fellowship and communion with him wee can haue none with our Head in heauen I answer though Christ bee absent in body yet hee hath left vs his substitute that is his Spirit which is his true deputie of his owne appointing and not the Pope as Ioh. 14.16 17. and Ioh. 16.7 and he alone it is that workes this vnion making vs one with Christ and Christ one with vs. 1. Cor. 6.17 The second Vse is to teach vs what a blessed estate Vse 2 Gods Children are aduanced to they haue Communion and fellowship with Iesus Christ they are fellowes yea fellow-heires with him in grace here and glory hereafter And heere is our Patent Royall vnder the broad Seale of Heauen and Earth for our Interest that we haue in God because we partake with Christ Iesus the Sonne of God and therfore we must needs partake with God and haue Communion with him too So likewise for the promises of God by this I know I haue right and interest in all the promises of God because wee are his and hee is ours in whom they are all yea and Amen 2. Cor. 1.20 So likewise wee haue right and Interest into all his Offices Kingdome Priesthood and Prophecy and all the benefits of the same Iustification Sanctification Saluation yea our full and finall glorification because wee are his and hee and all his is ours Heere likewise is our answer and generall Acquittance against all the pleadings of Sinne Satan Death Hell Damnation Law Iustice and accusing Conscience here is our Answer to them all I am Christs and hee is mine and therefore if you haue any thing to say against me goe to him hee will answer for me nay hee hath answered for mee already and therefore ye can haue nothing against mee that can hurt mee there is no Condemnation to mee for I am in Christ Iesus So likewise we see here on the contrary what a miserable and fearefull case all others are in that are out of the true Church whether they bee of no Church or a false Church whether not yet assembled or cut off and that either by withdrawing themselues or else cast iustly out for being without the Church they are without Christ and being without Christ they are without God and so without life and without hope and without comfort and without grace and saluation yea they are the very prey and slaues of sinne and the Diuell and eternall confusion as hauing no priuiledge nor barre against them specially if they bee such as persecute the Church Vse 3 The third Vse is for examination to teach vs to examine ourselues hereby whether wee bee of the Church or no. Doth Christ Iesus liue in thee by his Spirit Art thou ioyned to him Doest thou beleeue in him obey him submit thy selfe to his ordinances and directions Doth thy heart tell thee vpon good ground that thou art one with him and he with thee then thou art one of the Church then thou art a chosen vessell else thou art but a Reprobate 2. Cor. 13.5 proue your selues whether ye are in the saith saith the Apostle Examine your selues know ye not your owne selues how that Iesus Christ is in you except ye bee Reprobates The Papists not feeling this Communion with Christ that hee is in them as none can feele it by their Doctrine cannot bee in the estate of Grace for wheresoeuer it is surely it may bee felt by the Spirituall man Fourthly this teacheth vs that if wee haue fellowship Vse 4 with Christ then wee must looke for afflictions while wee liue here We must be like our Head If we looke to haue fellowship with him in his glo●y we must also haue fellowship with him in his afflictio●s Phil. 3.10 It is impossible that we should Communicate with him in the sweet but that we must taste of the sowre also though indeed afflictions are not sowre but to the outward man they are sweet to the inward man the spirituall man reioyceth in affliction because they b●ing forth the sweet fruit of Righteousnesse Heb.

all which is aboue all and through all and in you all And in the 1 Cor. 12.6 the Apostle speaking of the edification of the Church vseth the very word in the note There are diuersities of operations saith he but God is the same which worketh all in all And this we shall find to bee the voyce of Gods Church Psal 95 6 7 8. Come say they let vs worship and fall downe before the Lord our Maker c. hee is our Lord our Maker our God and wee are his people of his pasture his sheepe of his hand Why but all other are his people Yea but we are his people after a speciall manner Ephes 2.10 Wee are his workmanship But you will say so are all things else Yea but we are another kind of workmanship wee are created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes we haue not onely our being but our well-being from him hee hath not onely created vs as men but re-created vs or regenerated vs as new men wherein howsoeuer many things concurre as the Word and Sacraments c. yet all is his doing hee is the worker of it he is all in all Let vs inlarge our thoughts in this point that God is all in all in causing of his Church and let vs consider first how euery one of the three persons in the Trinitie haue a speciall and an effectuall hand herein First God the Father the first person he hath a speciall hand in it Ioh. 6.44 No man can come vnto me except the Father which sent mee draw him So likewise the second person Iesus Christ hee hath a speciall hand in it Ioh. 14.6 No man commeth vnto the Father but by me So likewise the third person the holy Ghost he hath a speciall hand in it 1 Cor. 12.3 No man can say that is by a true perswasion that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost God the Father he loues the world and in that loue of his hee decreed that such and such should be gathered to his Church and so be saued and also in that loue sends his Sonne to redeeme vs and to pay our ransome and giues vs his Spirit to sanctifie and to comfort vs that are his Church So likewise Christ Iesus hee loues the Church and in this loue of his comes downe from heauen and takes our nature and our sinnes and our punishment vpon him and layes downe his life for vs that hee might purchase the Church with his owne blood as the Apostle speakes Act. 20.28 and incorporates vs into himselfe and makes vs bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh Ephes 5.30 and brings vs to his Father Ioh. 14.6 So likewise the holy Ghost he loues them and in that loue which hee carries to them hee comes and dwels in them and enlightens them gouernes them and frames them to obedience sanctifies them and applyes the meanes of grace to the particular conscience of euery one of them hee makes them apprehensiue of that course whereby they are saued and applyes it vnto them 1 Cor. 2.10 12. Secondly euery part and seuerall worke that tends to our saluation is of God as first Election that is from God Ephes 1.4 He hath chosen vs in him c. so our Calling is from him Rom. 8.30 Whom he predestinated them also he called likewise our regeneration is from him Ioh. 1.13 Which are borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God So also our teaching is of God Ioh. 6.45 They shall be all taught of God Our iustification is also of him Rom. 8.33 It is God that iustifieth Lastly our sanctification is from him 1 Thes 5.23 Now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout c. So that euery seuerall worke that tends to our saluation is of God Lastly euery seuerall meanes both within vs and without vs is Gods doing but of this we shall speake in the Reasons and therefore we will now come to them Reas 1 The Reasons are these God is all in all in his Church First because the Church is Gods House 1 Tim. 3.15 now who should build a House for God but God himselfe Reas 2 Secondly the visible Church is a meanes to worship God by Deut. 12.11 Where God puts his name there he will be worshipped Now who shall or can prescribe Gods worship but himselfe therefore he is all in all in his Church Reas 3 Thirdly the living members of the Church are Gods adopted Sonnes members of Christs mysticall body Kings and Priests unto God in all which the like causes God is most sensibly all in all in his Church for hee makes them Kings and Priests c. Revel 1.6 Fourthly to be made a Church or a true member thereof Reas 4 is altogether a worke wrought vpon the heart now God onely workes upon the heart all other meanes and instruments are excluded but onely so farre as they are assisted by him Lastly consider the efficient cause in comparison to all Reas 5 other causes and then it will appeare plainely that the cause of all causes is the Lord himselfe First the efficient cause is God himselfe yea and hee alone which is proofe enough that God is all in all Secondly the instrumentall causes they are wholly and onely of him First for the outward causes as the Word Sacraments Ministers and Gifts First God ordaines them and giues them their being and therefore they are called Gods Word and Gods Sacraments and Gods Ministers and Gods Gifts Eph. 4.11 12. he hath giuen some to be Apostles some to be Prophets and some to be Euangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the gathering of his Saints for the worke of the ministery c. Secondly he vouchsafeth the presence and tender of them to such persons and places where hee would haue his Church to be as we may see Act. 16.6 Paul Silas were forbidden by the holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia and Vers 7. the Spirit suffered them not to goe into Bithynia And in the tenth Verse it is said they went into Macedonia being assured that the Lord had called them to preach the Gospell there Sometimes God restrayneth the meanes from some and enlargeth them to others as Matth. 10.5 Goe not into the way of the Gentiles compared with Act. 13.46 47. It was necessary saith the Apostle to the Iewes there that the Word of God should first haue been preached vnto you but seeing ye put it from you and iudge your selues vnworthy of euerlasting life Lo we turne to the Gentiles for so hath the Lord commanded vs c. Lastly God giues the successe and blessing to the meanes and so makes them effectuall 1 Cor. 3.5 6. Paul planteth and Apollo watereth but it is God that giueth the increase And Act. 11.21 the hand of the Lord was with them so that a great number beleeued and turned to the Lord. 2 Chron. 30. from the sixth to the twelfth verse

these priuiledges are Surely they are more greater then can be spoken or vnderstood yet because though we doe enioy them they are not such a comfort to vs except we know them Therfore I will labour to giue you some tast of them They are of two sorts some are humane that are granted by men and some are diuine granted by God himselfe First some are humane granted by men as by Kings and Emperours Councels and States either politicke or Ecclesiasticke yea somtimes by Heathenish States as well as Christian for somtime God stirred vp Heathen men to be beneficiall to his Church these priuiledges were outward either of their persons from war or of their goods from taxes or the places consecrat to religious vses were freed from arrests such like hence came priuiledged places But these as they came from men so there is no such excellency nor comfort in them they were intended only or chiefly to Churchmen as they call them that is the clergy But yet euen in these things let vs obserue Gods loue to his Church for as it was the Lord that gaue Israel fauour in the sight of the Egyptians that they gaue them their iewels c. Exod. 11.3 so it was the Lord that inlarged the hearts of those Princes States to be beneficial to his Church but the priuiledges we seek are much more material excellent and are cōmon to the whole Church people as well as ministers these are diuine priuiledges granted immediatly by God himselfe And these are of diuers sort generally they are of two sorts The Church of God is priuiledged partly in respect of others and partly in respect of themselues In respect of others they are priuiledged First in regard of their friends whom God blesseth for them and also in regard of their enemies whom God curseth for their sakes as in Gen. 12.3 I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them that curse thee Yea they are priuiledged in respect of the world it selfe whose substance standards they are Isay 6.13 It was made and is preserued continued altered and shall bee destroyed for their sakes As it was a great Priuiledge of the Arke of God that where it entred and was well esteemed and vsed as it was in the house of Obed Edom the place and persons were blessed by it where it was not worthily esteemed as amongst the Phylistims they were accursed by it So it is a great priuiledge to the Church that they that are friends vnto it are blessed by it at least in outward things and that they that are Enemies to it are cursed and plagued for it Secondly they are priuiledged chiefly in respect of themselues whereby they fared the better in their owne persons And these Priuiledges are of two sorts some concerne their outward and temporall estate others concerne their inward and spirituall estate First some concerne their outward and temporall estate as first protection and defence against Aduersaries Isay 4.5 6. there the Church is called the Glory and there is a promise of vniuersall Protection to it so also defence from ordinary Euills that befall others as Psal 91. and likewise they are priuiledged in regard of victory ouer their enemies as Psal 149. verse the last That they may execute vpon them the Iudgement that is written This Honour shall bee to all his Saints Last of all the continuance of the very outward being of the Church through all Ages to the worlds end is a Priuiledge to it as in Psal 46.5.6 the Prophet saith God is in the middst of it therefore it shall not bee mooued Let the world doe what it will yet it cannot depriue the Church of the outward being of it it may waxe and wane as the Moone doth yet as that hath alwayes a being so shall the Church euer bee These are temporall Priuiledges The second sort are such as concerne our spirituall and eternall estate and they also are of two sorts such as are common to all the members of the Church Hypocrites as well as true Beleeuers as the vse and profession of the Word Sacraments Prayer Fasting Gifts of the ministry Profession of the Gospell Knowledge of Gods Will and outward conformitie and obedience thereto as also Historicall and temporary Faith and some tast of heauenly things Heb. 6.2 and such other common gifts of the Spirit These in the godly tend to their eternall good but in the wicked and reprobate to their eternall condemnation Secondly such as are proper to Beleeuers onely as the Spirit of Adoption and such like and these are also of two sorts First matters of present possession secondly matters of future certainty First matters of present possession and they consist of diuers kinds First wee are priuiledged in respect of God Secondly in respect of the Creatures Thirdly in respect of Gods ordinary dealings in the world Fourthly in respect of the workes hee doth for vs Fiftly in regard of the graces hee workes in vs Sixtly in respect of the comfort hee impartes to vs And lastly in regard of the liberty he giues vs. First they are priuiledged in respect of God hee is theirs and they are his God the Father is their Father Master and Preseruer they are his Children Creatures and Charge Iesus Christ is their Head they are his members hee is their husband they are his Spouse hee is their Sauiour they are his redeemed hee is their Aduocate they are his Clyents hee hee is their Sheepherd they are his Sheepe yea they in some sort are one with him and hee with them so likewise the holy Ghost he is their master they are his Schollers he is their Leader they are his followers he is their Counsellour they are his Clients he is their Sanctifier they are his Temple hee is their Quickner they are his frame and workemanship to a new Creature Yea the whole blessed Trinitie doe most graciously concurre by their personall Actions in euery part of our Saluation here is a singular priuiledge if we had no more but only this it were enough to stirre vs vp to glorifie God and to comfort vs against all our present afflictions how truely then may we say with the Prophet Psal 144. last Blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. Secondly we are priuiledged in respect of the Creatures the holy Angels are seruants and attendants vpon the Church they are ministring Spirits sent forth for their sakes The Saints in Heauen acknowledge vs to bee Members of their Body the Catholique Church and doe instantly desire the full accomplishment of our saluation that they and we may be perfected together The Saints on earth loue vs pray for vs reioyce at our good sorrow at our harmes The wicked of the world oftentimes reuerence and admire vs for our holinesse and the good things wee haue though otherwise we be most odious to them