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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04211	Anno Domini 1616. A confession and protestation of the faith of certaine Christians in England holding it necessary to observe, & keepe all Christes true substantiall ordinances for his church visible and politicall (that is, indued with power of outward spirituall government) under the gospel; though the same doe differ from the common order of the land. Published for the clearing of the said Christian from the slaunder of schisme, and noveltie, and also of separation, & undutifullness to the magistrate, which their rash adversaries doe falsely cast upon them. Also, an humble petition to the K. Majestie for toleration therein.	Jacob, Henry, 1563-1624.	1616 (1616)	STC 14330; ESTC S120216	22,778	71

religious we believe as is sayd those offices of Christ to be most absolute and perfect Indeed so perfect in every such particular now so alsufficient and so necessary to be submitted unto of all Christians as the sayd offices of Christ were under the Law We believe that Christ in these things no lesse then in matters inward concerning religion is the foundation to the whole building even of his visible and politicall Church now under the Gospell as well and as throughly as he was under the Law appointed by God over all things yea all these things as the head to his sayd Church which is the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things And so wee believe Christ our Mediator in the kinde and nature of his offices to be not changed much lesse diminished but altogether the same unto us now as he was heretofore to his people the Iewes as it is written ‡ Heb. 13.8 Act. 3.23 Luc. 19.14.27 Mat. 21.43 Iesus Christ the sonne yesterday today and forever Yea we are perswaded if we should believe otherwise we should rob Christ of his honour and give his glorie to others which is a part of the highest sacriledge that can be And therefore where in this Article we are cōtradicted by some who say plainely that Christ in the Gospell though he bee the Prophet King and Priest to his Church yet he is not the onely or absolute Teacher Institutor King and | The Approvers of Gabriel Powell de Adiaph c. Lawgiver of his outward Church nor of the visible administration thereof and namely not in the forerehearsed outward thinges And likewise that Christians now have libertie and free choyce for the saide outward thinges in the exercise of Religion till mans Authority do determine them and that then such outward things are necessary to be observed but not otherwise This we cannot consent unto but we renounce it as highly derogating from the true and due offices and honour of Christ as is above shewed Of the Allsufficiency of the Scripture 2. Wee believe the holy Scriptures Allsufficiencie even in the sayd outward matters spirituall now likewise as well as it was believed and professed by all the faithfull under the Law And for that reason we hold this sense which indeed was and is the onely true sense of the 2. commandement viz. that touching the generall matter thereof or generally it containeth onely in the exercise of Religion free and voluntary Ordinances that is having no cause for their sayd use neither in civility nor in naturall Reason but the meere will of the Author of them Yea we believe that such ordinances both outward and inward private and publique doe wholly make the 2. commandement both in the affirmitive and Negative part They against us abroade in the land hold not this sense of the 2. cōmandement but deny it As likewise with like dishonour to Christ which wee noted before and with no lesse disgrace to his word | Doct. Whig in pref against T. C. saith it is a rotten principle they deny the Allsufficiency of holy Scripture in the said outward pointes as we believe of faith Christian Religion and most materiall and weightie under the Gospell They call them circumstances Accidents to Gods worship But most unjustly The Scripture indeed serveth not to specifie circumstances or Accidents Wee willingly agree to this Neither did it so at any time As namely not under the Law But we deny this constantly being therein well assured our matters in controversie are not circumstances nor Accidents in Gods worship And therefore also not indifferent A circumstance is A circumstance which of it selfe and by the very nature of it hath sometime and to some persons a helpfull a profitable and needfull use of Gods worship yet is not any part of Gods worship nor perpetually fit nor meerely voluntarie nor used onely therin An accident is An Accident which being no way a part of Gods worship is sometime in it sometime not A matter substantiall in the worship of God and that which is a part of it is of 3. sortes Either a thing not Civill but properly pertaining to Gods worship and yet a meere voluntarie ordinance therein Or a thing having absolute necessitie in nature and naturall reason to be a part of Gods worship Or otherwise which by the Scripture is plainly commanded or forbidden in Gods worship Our matters in controversie are all substantiall of one of these 3. later sorters namely of the first And therefore what soever of them is lawfull must be commended to us in the Scripture Else they are all unlawfull sinnefull and wicked The severall pointes we shall here presently note in particular at least namely these which follow Of Christes true visible Church generally 3. Wee believe that for more cleare understanding Christs true Church is to be noted and considered 4. wayes First Christ hath a true Church * Ephes 3.15 Heb. 12.23 Invisible which is the Universal number of his elect Secondly He hath a Church Militant considered meerely as it is † Gal. 1.13 Philip. 3.6 professing and suffering that is as the severall members doe professe the true faith and doe endure the opposition of enemies for the same Thirdly the church is taken for a Christian family so well nurtured and ordered in Religion that they are ‡ 1 Cor. 16.19 Bez. Annotat ibid. like unto a litle Church So a Church is figuratively and metaphorically taken But none of all these is to our purpose Fourthly The Church is taken as the same | Math. 18.17 1 Cor. 5.12.13 Act 1.26 is politicall or indued with power of outward spirituall policie and administration of Gods holy ordinances the meanes of salvation for mens soules Now this Church under the Gospell and with this consideration is that which onely we doe here treat of seeke and desire And wee believe that the speciall forme of this that is Christs visible politicall Church under the Gospell and the particular kinde of Government thereof must be of divine Institution they are matters ordinarily necessary to Saluation they are matters of faith matters of the 2. commandement no lesse then they were under the Law Wee believe that these things are no circumstances nor Accidents nor Indifferent nor at all changeable by the discretion of men But we believe that these are matters of Substance in Religion and that by these things one visible politicall Church differeth essentially or substantially from another to wit in the nature and kinde of the outward spirituall Administration thereof As namely the Iewes visible politicall Church under the Lawe did substantially differ from the Christian visible politicall Churches under the Gospell And rather the proper Diocesan and Provinciall and Catholike Churches since Christ doe so differ from the churches which are but ordinary Congregations independent Moreover Laying on of handes Heb. 6.2 set for the forme of making Ministers under the Gospell