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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

the easier wrested to the provoking and stirring up the gifts and powers had there been the least word of provocation or exhortation expressed and therein some way should seem to have been given to the Babylonish confusion of Gods Worship currant in the World for the true yea the zeal for the Worship established mixed with the acuteness and violentness of the interessed therein would have made it seem that it had made way for the same but the Holy Ghost would not give them so much cloak for their sinne and deceit of the weak neither know I what other pretence of the scope of this place can yield to any kind of audaciousness of Conscience herein Seventhly he could not have perfected that verse nor v. 7. nor 8. but he must have endangered the other and so the whole in some measure at least if the phrase which is as the Charret-man of the Holy Ghost should have failed in this sore-front of the Battle the fearful and far-of would first have shrunk and then the next would have followed for company and so the rest must have been overcome by violence which was the case of Darius Codomanus and the reputed Cause of the translating of the Monarchy of the Persians to the Grecians But the All-seeing Wisdome better provided for his Charret-man in th●s great Case though ordinarily he rideth more open plainly boldly and at liberty This therefore is a second Argument that the scope of the place is to teach the distinctness of the Offices and their Functions in that this sixt verse is left so extreamly imperfect and no other good reason being for it but to prevent evasion there-from for though it be said v. 6. Let us prophesie and v. 7. Let him wait on and v. 8. Let him do it yet there is not a word thereof in the Original but the Translators have taken liberty to insert them all because to them there seemed otherwise no sense whereas they have thereby made new Scripture of their own yea contrary to the intent of the Holy Ghost if they and their Readers intend any Exhortation to the Acts of Prophesie Ministration Distribution with Simplicity c. or to vehemency in any of them or to any thing but the precise observance of Gods allotment committed to them Thirdly as the first Argument proveth the intent to charge the distinctness and the second to prevent all evasions there-from so doth the exact Analysis of all Church-States and their Functions in the matter preceding second both therein In ver 4 and 5. we are to observe first the positive part and then their opposite and in the former their Fabrick it self and its use and end their Fabrick is a body with its members and their works the end thereof is the entire good of the body and each part thereof the other ends thereof are proper to the relation of these verses with the three former and three sollowing The Fabrick it self is two-fold Natural and Spiritual the former is set by the Holy Ghost here as the Protasis and Pattern of the latter and the latter as the Apodosis and reflex of the former not as a bare simile or allusion but as such a necessited and compleat Directory and Pattern of Divine Evangelical Worship as the Pattern seen by Moses in the Mount was unto him for the Tabernacle and all things thereof and the Pattern left by David to Solomon was to him for the Temple and all things of the Temple and both for the main Warrant of the Legall Worship so is the Protasis here said to be the Pattern and thereby made the Warrant of Evangelical worship a distinct and intent view therefore is to be taken of this Divine Exemplar that our writing may be answerable and so acceptable divine and holy whereas otherwise the fairest writing in letters of gold and with all ornaments is odious to God as self-boasting yea against him This Pattern is not simply a natural body but as it is the Pattern and Protasis of a politick body as the scope of the place and the offices v. 7 8. being the instanced parts of that body shew Divers Doctrines gathered from Rom. 12. v. 3. to 8. Doct. 1. THE first Doctrine v. 3. is from To each one That Gods charge benefit in his Worship is to be singularly respected by each Christian and not onely in the lump and general for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is so placed as it respecteth both Paul's charge and Gods apportioning of Faith The 2. is from the Portion Each Christian hath his portion in Gods Worship and its blessings And the 3. God giveth his Worship as Sons portions The 4. is in the Faith Faith onely giveth interest in God's Ordinances The 5. is in that this generalness of the boundedness and distinctness of Gods Worship is set down between the proper generals and particulars thereof we are taught That boundedness and distinctness of Gods Worship is to be observed as a part thereof in the prescription and practise thereof From the illustration of the matter of the three first verses by assimiling the body and members of our person with their Functions Works and Distinctness ariseth the 6th Por●sma that the body and the estates or enrighting designations of Gods instituted Worship with their Functions Works and Distinctness are most like to the same in our persons The 7. is from For v. 4. Of the same rational nature with For v. 3. That no exact illustration of the body members with their employments boundedness distinctness and uses of Gods Worship is to be om●tted in the Declaration thereof And the 8th That no justifications of the assertions thereabout are to be neglected The 9. is from As That the proper similies of the Scripture not onely exemplifie but prove so far as they are applyed either in the Protasis or Apodosis The 10. is from Body That the Church of Rome to which Paul wrote was but as our individuall body ●ot as a compact of all humane bodies as now that so called is The 11. is from One body That the true Church is as the unum primum or Basis wherein all things Ecclesiastical inhere and from whence they are derived and whereby they actuate and fructifie but not any Church-Office whether Pope King or Pastour nor any Society of Officers as Assembly or Synode universal or particular Classis or Consistory The 12. is from In That all Church-States enrighting to Church-works or Benefits are inseparable accidents proper adjuncts and essentiated inherents of the Church not of any officer The 13. is from Members That the Church is a body organical in its plenary constitution And the 14. that no Church-State is the body but a member thereof and therefore the Pope nor no supream Officer can be the Church The 15. is from Many That there are many Church-States and not onely one from whence other Officers or States are derived and so should be Deputy-States not Church-States And the 16. That God is

it may be objected with the Jesuits and other Hierarchians that Christ there forbiddeth onely tyranny pompous and vain-glorious Titles and Master-fulness over Inferiours and not the superiority over other Ministers I answer First that I hope they will not more destroy the generals of Truth and light of natural Ingenuity than the Jesuits themselves of Rhemes who in their Annotations on Luk. 22 24 say The Apostles perceiving Christs departure from them and his Kingdome to be neer as infirm men and not yet endued with the Spirit of God begin to have emulation and cogitations of Superiority one over another which our Master represseth in them by Exhortation to Humility and by his own Example that being their Lord yet so lately served them They as Expositors of the Scriptures minding their scope and apparent truth suffered themselves with the Pythonisse Act. 16.16 17. To speak the truth though it utterly destroy their and their Holy Fathers Kingdome and they as Antichristians and men of scared Consciences presently after contradict the Truth and themselves adding Not forb●dding majority or superiority in them but Pride Tyranny and Contempt of their Infer●ours How can these Jesuits brook their name without a metathesis of s and u and b set in the first place of s then indeed they with the Jebusites are treaders of Mount-Sion the most holy place of Jerusalem under foot Rev. 11.2 i. e. professing possession of Mount Moriah yet being true Intruders thereinto and blind and lame contradicters of themselves and the true David and King thereof and contradicted and destroyed with their blind and lame gods THE scope of Rome 12.1 to 8. is exactly yet summarily to describe teach and effectually to charge the matter and manner of Gods instituted Worship as is expressed v. 1. in the general and v. 6. in the particulars Those two Verses are also expresly connected by causal and illative Conjunctions which are the absolutest Connecters of the Connection of v. 4. with 5th and 7th with 6th and 8th with 7th there can be no doubt Now the soul and sinews being of the same body the flesh and bones cannot but be granted to be of the same also neither is the encorporatedness of these 8. Verses onely literall but especially reall each without other being maimed and all joyntly yielding an excellent description and charge of Gods Worship the Root in v. 7. and 2. giving life to the body in v. 3 4 5. and to the branches v. 6 7 8. the body giving sustenance and sustentation with the Root to the Branches and the Branches shewing the Heavenly Fruit of both Let the words be observantly read and a sense worthy the Scripture be conceived and the matter being the same with the second Commandement and yet being very imperfectly delivered but in this place and here also in the common sense and I cannot but think that the Understanding and Ingenuous will find an admirable conciseness of such a large matter a clearness in this dark and s ecial point of the Word yea a pleasantness in what is most harsh to Nature as being not onely above it but mainly intended to thwart it and to proclaim and constrain God's absolute Will to be submitted unto as to the Lord and Ruler of all the Fall also of Adam and the most abominable sinnes ever since were there-against and all desolations thereout and the yet prevailing Antichristian sinne assisting in oppositeness thereto and usurpation thereover The drift therefore of the Holy Ghost being herein to preach and press preciseness in the matter and distinctness in the manner of God's speciall Worship The latter of this place and the rest of this subject must have their spirit from hence which also will not onely easily but excellently sort therewith and better than with any other and though the manner or order of any thing cannot be shewn but upon supposition of the matter known or in the shewing to be withall made known yet when the Apostle cometh v. 6. to assume and conclude his intent in the premisses v. 1. to 5. he seemeth to have supposed and intended onely the distinctness of the Church states by their peculiar Functions and the order of exercising them in the Church Assembly onely in the handling Paul after the excellent Scripture-manner interlaceth the peculiar vertues of three of the Offices which were hardest to be known leaving the other two easier to be by the like course understood as on the other side he expresseth his main drift of charging the distinctness of the Offices and their Functions onely in the two first leaving the like to be supposed in the other three so that it is expresly proved that the Offices are distinct v. 6. which after are expressed to be five In the Inference therefore of v. 6. is the drift of the Holy Ghost expressed which is the Soul and Life of the whole Context upon it therefore we are to stand as we use to do on the parting of the Branches from the Body of the Tree for the best finding and gathering the Fruit of the Tree whereby the Nature of the Tree and Intent of the Planter is best to be discerned that therefore saith We having then gifts or since then we have gifts according to the grace measure of Faith v. 3. that is given measured v. 3. different divers or distinct whether it be Prophesie the estate or ability of a Church-Prophet or both according to the proportion measure v. 3. gift v. 6. of Faith grace v. 6. 2. Of the Interest in Christs body v. 4 5. or Worship and Will of God v. 1 2. He seemeth to have left the speech very imperfect yet therein he most excellently perfecteth the drift of the Holy Ghost affirmed that is to prove a distinct observance in the offices and not to provoke unto vehemency in the execution which will undoubtedly follow this distinct discerning the speciall intent of Gods zealous and jealous distinguishing them Secondly it suiteth with the ten times greater care that is taken throughout the Scriptures that Gods Worship should be observed according to his Precepts Statutes or Institutions or Laws and Zeal that is used in the reproof of the contrary than that a zealous Worship should be given him Thirdly he therein well observeth the order of the Commandements in more regarding the second then the third And fourthly the order of Nature which first and more regardeth the truth of the matter then the measure And fiftly his own scope intimated in the five former verses and oft expressed to take care for Gods Worship of his Word v. 1. of his Will v. 2. of his apportioning v. 3. of his disposing v. 4 5. of his divers giving v. 6. and of his exact distinguishing v. 6 7 8. more than for the measure thereof Sixthly he well preferreth the maine of the matter before the exactness of words yea than competency but in this case of endangering the proper scope of the place which would have been