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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

superstitious burial of the dead churching women and confirmation some of all which and other sorts of superstitions all the Daughters of Rome observe in homage to their mother of Abominations and in love of her whoredomes of the earth Thirdly in prohibiting Church-Covenants admission and excommunication of members election and dejection of Officers by the Church-power and in forbidding Baptisme without the cross c. and it and prayers without the Surplice and the Father to challenge his priviledges of Baptisme to his Infants and all to receive the Lords Supper every Lords day and at the Evening and at all without kneeling and the Surplice of any one and women to taste of the cup of blessing and in denying ordination to Rulers Distributers and Widows and prophecying to the gifted to teach exhort and comfort and to ask his doubts in the Congregation Fourthly in disordering all the Works of Divine Worship by Minister and people in mingling of their reading the Psalms and Prayers one verse by the one and another verse by the other and of singing with their reading and prayers and with the Lords Supper even in the very time of administration thereof and of prayer on their knees in the very act of receiving the same Fifthly in deifying the Ministerial Works far above their nature as in imputing to the Water in Baptisme to be the real blood of Christ and in ascribing to Baptisme washing away the guilt of sin ex opere operato and purging original sin and actual regenerating and to the Lords Supper real transubstantiation both of the bread into the body and wine into the blood of Christ and strange operations on the Sick in healing all Diseases and dispossessing them of divels by the very act of priestly administration yea they have ascribed the same unto the Cross it self in supposition that it is a Divine Institution or rather because it is a Bird of his own hatching and many the like wonders doth this Worlds-wonder work especially in Ordination which of every way the least Ministerial or Church-work he hath made by his omnipotency the Creatour of the Church Ministry and all things Ecclesiastical and Ministerial and himself the Creator Orderer and actor therof and of them all thereby Proofs of and Motives to incite to the knowledge and practice of the word-Worship FIrst from v. 2. which expresseth the word Worsh●p to be worthy of yea to exact our best Wits and most serious yea emphatical extensions thereof in these words But be ye transformed in the renovation of your mind Secondly from the parental or proper procreating cause thereof expresly said v. 2. to be that Will of God which to know we are bound by all the Bonds of allegeance love wisdome glory and what not that is naturally or spiritually good Yea this equalenting that word Worship v. 1. with that Will of God v. 2. the particulars whereof are v. 4. to 8. expressed to be our present Church-Worship then practised in the Churches doth more radically and deeply dignifie it than can without more than ordinary ability and industry yea without our transforming our selves not onely into that new and spiritual Nature according to our new and supernatural estate by Faith but especially into the renovation or rouzing up of that new mind and nature be understood and without a special degree of Sanctification be approved which is expressed i● the intervening words For all that is there meant by that Will of God is that Word-Worship v. 1. in the general and its particulars v. 4. to 8 and much more is all that is meant by that Word-Worship v. 1. that will of God v. 2. But there is nothing of a higher natute either divine instituted or created than Will absolute neither is any thing more identically essentially and reciprocally predicated of God than Will for whatsoever is an absolute Will is God and God is an absolute Will and what is God is a simple Will And I could never attain to a properer definition of God than this God is a Will well actuating it self But you will say that Will of God is there taken metonym●cè by the cause for the effect True yet it is therefore both a proper and a special effect of that Will of God by this rule What is in the second declared by a descendent Metonymie is a prime propriety or proceed of that superiour Neither is that here taken meerly denotatively of any thing as aforesaid but properly demonstratively and emphatically for that which of all other things is most properly willed of God and may most truly be said and be thereby best taken for the will of God without farther addition than of the demonstrative article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. That This shal be farther cleered in the next Porisma where I shew by all the instances of Scripture I can find where God is said to be forsaken and that other gods are worshipped in his stead and the like that those places are not meant of the person of God but consequently which by that same consequence well proveth our point because they had forsaken this his Word-worship and used another which using God there and that will of God here for his Word-worship then and now ought much to provoke us to that through-knowledge thereof and devote us to and in the use and enjoyment thereof and also justifieth the approved use of Worship which properly signifieth Lord-ship as before for the signs means marks and testimonies of Gods Lord-ship over us by a Metonymie of the end or signed for the mean and sign which soul of that word ought never to be separated from the body thereof though never so frequently used left we understand not our own words or neglect them If then we would know what of all other is most necessited and worthy to be known know that will of God and what it willeth approve also know God himself and that whereby and wherein he most manifesteth his Deity and accordingly apply it to thy soul and thy self to it as therein most approving Gods Lordship over us Thirdly from the 3 Divine Epithites of that Will good acceptable and perfect good to us therefore omit not your benefit of this high nature acceptable to God therefore expose your selves in the extent of your love and fear to please him of through and for whom are all things perfect in them both and it self in kind and degree therefore this is above all things worthy and necessited to be throughly known Herein are three proo●s all very effectual but I rather avoid tediousness through the plenty of matter than heap up petty colours or search for quantity of matter herein Fourthly from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which taken demonstratively must have reference to that Word-worship v. 1. which expresseth that will v. 2. to be the efficient cause of that Worship v. 1. and its particulars v. 4. to 8. and the joynt cause thereof with the word yea of

Religion Heb. 6.2 The Doctrine of Baptismes and the former subjective in the fourth foundation and next words and of imposition of hands as also their commandedness is in both their relation to the two first Principles v. 1. of repentance from dead works and faith towards God and their commendedness in the two last v. 2. and of the Resurrection from the dead and eternall Iudgement It being the excellent course of the Holy Ghost in notifying things capitally to set the most noted adjunct of the particular intended to be set synecdochecally for the generall head of the thing notifiable it being the briefest plainest readiest and certainest course and freest from the corruptions incident to diversity of Ages Nations and Languages and cavills of the Heretical opposites For Baptism is the first necessariest and notedest seal and adjunctive solemnizing rite as imposition of hands is the subjective and rites being the most and imposition of hands meere notifying as Moses Gen. 1.3 intending to mention Gods creating fire notifieth it by Light as by its most evident and eminent quality and most obvious to the most but this place abruptly * 2 Rational or respective 1 Internally to themselves and their proper relatives viz. the respect of the Subjectives as such to their adjuncts and of the adjunctives to their subjects as so bounded and charged by God v. 3. as God hath apportioned to every one the portion of faith and v. 4. in setting a body members and works and particular Ordinances within the confines whereof we are to serve God and out selves by observing their contents otherwise it is desolation perdition abaddon 2 Externally to their colaterals and remote linealls from both which we are disbounded by the consequence of the same places especially v. 6. according to the proportion of faith that is walking servant-like in their confined stint and not disproportionally to their sonlike portion as transgressing the station and circuits thereof as the Angels did Iude 6. for which Antichristianism is called Babylon and Babel i. e. confusion as breaking the disboundings in Gods Worship as it is for adding to it stiled that abomination Mat. 24.15 with Dan. 11.31 Rev. 17.5 and Man of Sin viz. from breaking Gods band and bounds 2 Thess 2.3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 1 Ioh. 3.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sinne is a band-breaker or bound-breaker and Lex and Religio are a band and rebinding or confining and stinting of Gods servants especially of his instituted or statuted Worshippers over which to step is superstition or supra station Iude. 6. and also for his destroying each of the stinted matter or order named Abaddon Apollyon that desolation son of perdition c. This I have shewn in the Text Metaphrase and Analysis of v. 3. and in the distinctness and stintedness of each state and work to be the scope of the Holy Ghost and of the Apostolick Emphatical charge v. 3. so jealous is God and ought we to be in this his marriage band bound and bed that he useth no active word much provoking or emphatical in all the five last Verses of the capital matter of his Divine Worship but onely restrictive and many wayes bounding terms and phrases for this distinctness sake Hitherto of the body or external part of Gods Worship and not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it is natural proper and simple existence Now of its soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scope and life thereof † 2 Internal or Theorical X 1 Lineal Y 1 Previal or respective a priore Z 1 Positive 1 Causal 1 Internal 1 Material 1 Of the Church viz. visible Saints and faithful in each others judgment v. 1. Brethren v. 3. portion of faith 2 Of its estates of its Ministery Saints graced and gifted for that end v. 3. as God hath apportioned to every one the portion c. v. 6. distinct 3 Of their functions moral teaching exhorting ruling distributing tending the sick natural bread wine water and actions of breaking powring giving dipping and set words of consecration 4 Of the membral states thereof viz. hearing with understanding and tractableness submission taking eating going into water 2 Formal as 1 True Worship so all the institutions external as of the word are the form of that ens verum unum ●onum and the particulars thereof its integra 2 Ecclesiastica so a corporation its estates and their works is its form v. 4 5.6 we v. 5. so we c. for the Church is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 basis the estates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 order and their works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vigour their administration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 effect perfected 2 External the efficient 1 Supreme 1 Simple God the Father willing them v. 1. to God v. 2. of God v. 3. as God v. 6. of God 1 Commanding v. 1. holy v. 2. perfect will v. 3. I charge 2 Commending v. 1. by the mercies acceptable v. 3. good v. 3. Portion of faith v. 5. every one each others members So 1 Cor. 12.6 diversity of operations but the same God who worketh all in all things 2 To us 1 Ordering estating and enriching Christ v 5. in Christ as instituter and founder of its authority to 1 Be Gods Worship v. 1. to God even the Word Worship with v. 5. in Christ so in the same 1 Cor. 12.5 ministrations but the same Lord 2 Do as his Church-Ministry Ministrations Members viz. Rom. 12.7 8 with 1 Cor. 12. v. 4 5. 2 Acting gifting enabling the holy Ghost v. 1. living v. 2. be ye transformed in the renewing c. v. 6. gifts distinct according to the grace of God so in that place 1 Cor. 12.4 gifts but the same spirit 2 Mediate 1 Active viz. the Apostle v. 3. I 2 Declaring viz. the word v. 1. of the word 2 Subjective b 1 Universal As an unum with its particulars As a genus with its species Id est Gods prescribing his Divine Worship in the generall and its particulars as the subject of our active service of him in generall Devotion to him as willing it by his majestick and prerogative will v. 2. perfect will of God with particular and distinct discerning of speciall Order therein by Christ v. 5. in Christ b 2 Particular as an 1 Whole with its parts 2 Integrum with its members 1 Gods prescribing his existent worship consisting of a subjective totum with its adjunctive parts i. e. Paradise Noahs Ark Abrahams Family Moses Tabernacle Solomons Temple with their appendant things Rites and actions v. 1. sacrifice synecdochically for the whole legall or precedent worship and all its particulars 2 Gods instituting the present Evangelical Church and its Adjuncts as an integrum with its integrall members and their faculties proper and common and their actions v. 4 5. to the 8. Note These subjective respects I call internall worship as transient from God towards us and we do accordingly internally

be active in the active priviledges and seals and to receive actual assurance thereof themselves The third is of Males of age and discretion enrighted thereby both to the nourishing and trading Church-priviledges and also to the Church-power of voting whereby their voices are to be accepted The fourth is of Prophets or membral or integral Teachers enrighted to use and exercise their personall abilitie of Speaking to Edification Exhortation and Comfort in the exercise of Prophesie to edifie the Church These are the integral parts of the Church The first of the Organicall is the Teacher whose Ministeriall Office is Ministerially to teach inform prove disprove and administer the Teaching Seals for knowledge The second is the Exhorter whose instituted office is to exhort dehort comfort reprove and terrifie by the preaching the Word and administration of the Sacraments as Seals thereof unto the Sanctification of the Church The third is the Ruler whose office is to order Church-actions and other Church-estates and offices in their execution and pronounce the Church-sentences of Admission Excommunication Ordination Deprivation for good behaviour The fourth is the Distributer Deacon or Helper whose Office is to receive and distribute the alms of the Church to provide Meeting-places Bread Wine and Water with their fit Vessels for the Sacraments for provision The fift is the shewer of mercy Mercier 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Widow or Woman-Deacon whose office is to keep the Sick and supply their naturall wants in Food Physick Warmth and other helps for their preservation The first three of these Offices are called by one common name of Bishops Act. 20.28 because their Office is set to oversee take care and charge of the Church in all Spirituall means of knowledge grace and honest behaviour for the benefit of the Church thereby Secondly they are Feeders Shepherds or Pastours Act. 20.28 for their duty to feed nourish and physick the Church by all means of information reformation and preservation spirituall for its benefit thereby They thirdly are also called Elders Presbyters or Ancients Act. 20.17 for their duty to be grave staid discreet and to be examples to the younger sort and by their experience and habit of knowledge vertue and gravity to benefit the Church The other two are also joyntly called Deacons and Helpers for their office of service to the Church and help to the other three offices in the mentioned particulars that nothing be wanting to the Church and its overseeing offices These are the nine sorts of Church-members Portions Proportions Gifts and Graces Rom. 12.3 to 6. enrighted there by to receive the benefits of Christ and do his speciall works allotted to his Church for his speciall worship and their good The first four as children women men Prophets have by their Church-membership an addition to their Personal Saintship of publike right to the duty and benefits of Divine Worship the second Commandement and the second Petition for their grace and exercise The last five as Church-officers have a farther priviledge and duty by their instituted offices to purchase a good degree in the Faith and to be promoted to an higher work and so to expect a greater blessing here and hereafter These are the particulars of the reall parts of Divine Worship c. and their subsequents the immediate previal thereof is the power of the Church sanctified by the Word of the Apostles of the Christ of God to enright those estates in those works for those ends The immediate previal cause of the first four is the actuated Covenant of the Saints to be a Church whereby they are made members thereof and therewith enrighted to receive and do their distinct works unto those benefits But of the last five it is the Church-power electing and ordaining them into those Offices enrighting them to those administrations for the Churches and their own edification exhortation and comfort and for Gods Worship Therein are two doubts whether Election or Ordination be the proper and predominant informing cause 1. But Church-Election is the procreating act in the Spirituall Nature of things 2. Giving the Office and Right 3. To administer 4. To God and the Church For Ordination is onely a Ministerial and no immediate and proper Church-action but one Minister hath no power sanctified by God to procreate another as under the Law but is onely as the Midwife to help in the birth of that office c. Secondly Church-election according to the express pattern of the Church its Power Offices and their choice and working set Rom. 12.1 to 8. createth giveth right charge unto the Officers elected to work for the Church but Ordination is onely a necessited act appointed by the body to manifest and compleat its choise by some ceremoniall act instituted to that end without any reall or arbitrary Power in the Ordainer c. The second doubt is Whether the consent of the chosen be essentially requisite but it is onely by conveniency and for the bene esse the efficient Power being in the Church to chuse its Officers c. but not to contract The superiour and remote previals and precedent Causes efficient material formal and intentionall are many but the chief are mentioned already The Uses are first in the generall of all the parts to observe their concordance in one Root even the Church from which they receive their Being Life and Power The four first by their admission The five last by their Election to do and receive good Then their agreement with each other in thei fraternity and portions Children having the same Church-membership with the other 8 women the same right with the last 7 to the Word Sacraments and Prayer Men the right to Church-power with the last 6 and Prophets so true a right to speak in the Church to the edification exhortation and comfort thereof as the three sorts of Bishops Pastours and Elders though not with the like measure charge authority and blessing Likewise the Teacher hath charge and authority over all both integral and ministerial members in matters of knowledge proof disproof and motives to knowledge The Exhorter over all in matters of Exhortation Comfort and their Opposites The Ruler in matters of order and government Also the Distributer hath charge to serve all Church-members in matters of provision and help in Church-services and the Widow in matters of preservation Secondly observe their speciall distinctness according to their diversity of gifts graces and proportions commanded Rom. 12.3 6 7 8. to every one of the Church in particular 1. The Under-aged to rest in their being estated in the Church and their passive priviledges of Baptisme and measure of the Word Prayer and Order and not to usurp above their giftedness with natural activeness 2. The Women not to meddle with any kind of authority order or power their inferiority of Sex dis-inabling them therein by a naturall disproportion thereto 3. Adulti and of active discretion not enabled to speak as Prophets must according to

last of all actions in the Congregation for the Widow is to do no work therein 3. It is the last and least of all Church or Ministeriall actions it being onely complementary ceremonial for solemnity distinct orderlyness but the essence and substance of the Ministry is effected in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Church-election by hold●ng up the hands or the like choice-declaring act whereto the Rulers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or laying on of his hand is but ad bene esse and for the solemnity of the Divine Office so that their first is Gods last their greatest is Gods least and the Prelats essence and essentiating work is it self but a circumstantial and complementary Ceremony no marvell then that they are such Ceremony-mongers Makers and Masters I had almost said Ceremony-Monsters These are extenuations of a speciall Nature but suppose it a Divine Ordinance yet there are many great extirpations of that Divineness and deposers thereof below the basest things as they use it For the Prelats appropriate it to their Bishops office which is none of Gods as they institute it distinct in office from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Presbyter Elder or in their own term Priest for the two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are of the same extent convertible and used prom●scue and that expresly in all the places where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used which are but four Act. 20. Phil. 1. 1 Tim. 3. and Tit. 1. and so their Ordination of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as by a distinct office is not a nullity divine but even an absolute nullity or worse even a Devil or Idoll where God's holy things are given or sacrificed Secondly their Ordination is administred not only out of the Church but without all relation as from it yea or as by it nay nor for it which is their only pretended respect thereof to the Church for first they suppose no Corporation for or to whom they are confined but onely the universall Church which is the mystical body of Christ and no Ordinance of Worship but that which is worst of all they usurp the nature arrogate the name of the Church to themselves and their natures and practise in all things proportionably though in case of opposition or danger they hide it as all Traytors Fellons c. do But alas this brevlate will not endure the deserved Aggravation of this Trojan horse but must in this entrance thereon abruptly refer the prosecution thereof to a distinct Tract no occasion being sufficient 4. The duties and works of the Distributer are receiving the contribution of the Church and distributing the same with simplicity Secondly helping the Church and Elders in providing Water Bread and Wine for the Sacraments and fit Utensils to that end and in other necessary services therein according to their names helps and servants not onely in respect of the Church but the overseeing offices thereof in counter-distinction from whom they are termed Deacons or Servants Thirdly preservation of the Church-stock as keeping of the purse by solliciting the Law-suits and attendance on the employments of that stock for the setting the Poor thereof on work and building or repairing the place of meeting 5. The admin●stration of the Mercier or shewer of mercy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to attend the Sick especially the Poor Sick who cannot hire helpers in their Food Physick Warmth Comfort and Naturall necessity Secondly their visiting the Sick and dejected in spirit and comforting them with all cheerfulness of motives mind and behaviour Rom. 12.8 with cheerfulness which is more proper to the diseases of the mind then of the body More especially of the th●●e first offices and their functions both joyntly and severally as they in the generall agree in any terms and as they are effecting the same thing though in divers respects for the first they are joyntly termed and called in the Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surveyours Overseers or Bishops Act. 20.28 Phil. 1.1 1 Tim. 3. 1 Tit. 1.7 Secondly Act. 20.1.7 Tit. 1.5 1 Tim. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Elders Ancients or Seniors etymologically and Priests Popishly and Presbyters the Mincers and Refiners of Popish terms Thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shepherds Feeders Pastours Act. 20.28 Ephes 4.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leaders Superiours and Watch-men 1 Thes 5. 1 Tim. 5.17 The first 3. being applyed expresly to them as officers of one nature well joyntly mentioned by and under those three names The fourth or latter three have express relation onely to their joynt actions of going befor● standing over looking to the Church which yet are to be supposed to have respective relation to those Offices whose properly they are known to be by other places of Scripture which by the scope of the Holy Ghost not onely distinctly describe but institutingly prescribe them to us as divine and holy Offices or Ministries jointly concurring in those terms and things sign●fied by them Now therefore to confuse this distinct order of God and to dis-joyn what God hath thus conjoyned is an abomination to the Divine Author and a desolation to his Divine Order and therefore well sirnamed by him that Babylon Babel or Confusion Rev. 14.17 18. both of Tongues and Terms originally both Gen. 11.9 and here and also and especially of his Divine Order of Worship therewith which God hath charged to be kept distinct Rom. 12.3 6 7 8. especially in the distinctness of these three eminent Church-offices so that to desolate them by pounding and confounding all three particular existents into one and that in the terms which the Scripture useth as general and common to all three yea thereby as by Divine Authority is the high degree of Ministerial confusion or Babylon that great Rev. 17.5 In the latter joynt respect they reflect a Externally on their b Author Enrighting i. e. Christ in his three Offices of Prophesie Priesthood Kingship Enabling i. e. the Holy Ghost in its three gifts of Teaching Exhorting Ruling b Objects Faculties or Powers i. e. their Understanding Heatt Practike powers Habits Moral knowledge vertue or sincerity in conversation Spiritual Information Exhortation Government a Internally on their subjects i. e. The Ministers Medial Ministerial or Functional Severally and particularly of the first it is a Church-office deputed by Christ as Prophet to administer all his teaching Ordinances for the Churches spiritual information Rom. 12.7 Ephes 4.11 the genus or common matter is a Church-Office the efficient is Christ deputing it as Prophet the formal scope or specifical difference is to administer all Christs teaching Ordinances the final cause is For Gods Worship and the Churches spiritual information All and onely which are requisite in this definition which is confirmed by the places annexed to be of a divine nature and authority for Christs service and Christians benefit in all spiritual knowledge compared with the rest of those Chapters and

Deputations of Christ and of like confident expectation thereof in the greater charge and duty to obey and also in the greater measure of gifts which are to be supposed in the Ministers whereof an answerable success is to be expected 8. None hath right to exercise as a Prophet out of a Church-Assembly at least but to Church members much less one that is no Church-member whether within or without the Church though they may and that successfully to the begetting and nourishing Faith and its fruits exercise the same gift because and as it is personal which also hath a less measure of authority charge promise and gifts annexed 9. The scope of the Prophets is to speak to the edification exhortation and comfort of the Church and not for triall no nor exercise of gifts though both may also yield that use and therefore distinct prayer in those respects onely is not good though the goodness of prayer alone be added because it is here used as a Sanctifier of an action and not as a distinct action for the edifying exhorting or comforting the Church much less is the Churches custome especially if begun on a divers reason warrant for it but least of all fear of Innovation both which are of through and for Babylonism and nourish up carkasses and traditions yea tyranny in the Church to the eating the heart of Religion and purity of Worship thereout Secondly therefore matters of sin or disorder therein are no more censurable within that time then the sins and disorders committed in any other Exercise but are to be referred to the Exercise of Ruling at least if great and turbulent but if onely in the length of time and number or other orders agreed by the Prophets they are to be remedied first by the reasons perswasion of the Prophets 1 Cor. 14.32 or by them referred to the censure of the Church in case of obstinacy Thirdly therefore each is to be referred to the knowledge of his own ability and to his fitting it with Text Doctrine and Manner for the fruit is much diminished by the inequality of the matter and ability Fourthly though respect be to be had of strangers in many mean circumstances and observations the main of the course is not to be shaped nor altered for them Again briefly of the Organical and five Officers there are five distinct objects functions portions and proportions of Faith Rom. 12.7 8. with 3 4 5 6. The first is of the Teacher who is v. 7. confined within Teaching which is fourfold Lingual Grammatical Logical and Ethical The first is his apt expressing the Original Tongues by the Mother-Tongue of the Church The second is his apt expounding the meaning of the Holy Ghost in the Grammer Phrases and Figures either in his own person or metaphrastically in the person of the Writer The third is his analytical dividing the word of truth aright into its proper parts and his genetical incorporating them into one body enspired or ensouled by the scope of the Holy Ghost The fourth is his distinct extracting the Doctrines of the Holy Ghost testimentary and preceptive and the genuine consequences from them both confirming and confuting and his suasive pressing them to approbation The second is of the Exhorter which is there called Exhortation which is either unto good from evil or to stay in good or flee out of evil which four are peculiarly called Exhortation Dehortation Comfort and Terrour Now the Sacraments and singing Psalms being both teachingly exhorting and exhortingly teaching are the works of both these Offices but most plenarily and properly of the Exhorter but prayer is equally common not only to these two but to the other three Offices before and after the execution of their offices and that in respect of their offices and not onely of their persons The third is that of the Ruler which consisteth in ordering of others in the execution of their functions and the Church in its Church-duties as its decreeing admission excommunication ordination degradation c. or in executing his own the former is his ordering the Church unto and in its Assembly and in its Members and Officers unto and in their Church-works late mentioned and promised the latter is his admitting excommunicating members ordaining degrading Officers and dismissing the Church and in respect of other Churches and persons and absent members to receive and read in the Church their Letters and write and send to them in this respect he is written unto under the name of the Angel of the Church seven times Rev. 2. 3. Chap. and charged with the faults of their Churches as not using their offices to their best redressing them and commended for their good on the contrary Fourthly the Function of the Distributer to provide for the relief of the Poor of the Church by the richer ones thereof and to do all the services of the Church in matter of provision by employment of Church-stock buying selling or building or ordering its meeting-place and following its necessary Suits in the Law and providing bread wine water and other necessaries for the Elders Bishops or Pastors proper discharge of their offices in which respect he is called the Servant Helper and Deacon of the Church The last and least is the Function of the Pittier shewer of mercy Widow or Deaconness of the Church which is to tend upon the health of each member thereof in cases of need as in sickness child-birth and in all matters of preservation of their persons so that by these five offices and their functions all the needs of the Church are supplyed as by the five offices of Christ our Prophet Priest King Provider and Preserver and the answerable gifts of the mind infused and acquisite and humane innate abilities three whereof are the three faculties of the reasonable soul apprehending applying and expressing and two of the sensitive i.e. desire-of provision and preservation and so all Gods promises Christs purchases and the Spirits graces for us and all that Faith Hope and Love expect in this life is in these as in the immediate niples spoons and hands of the nursing Mother the Church encorporate for the visible preservation of the mystical or saved Church wherein the one half of the special uses and ends promised is performed and the other half will be shewn after my present summary manner by observing in them all God as our Lord as in the former half he is shewn to be Jesus or our Saviour which two are the sole object of Faith 2 Pet. 1.2 for they are means of Gods sanctifying both for his service and our preservation and that convertibly for whatsoever is divinely to serve God is divinely to preserve his and è contra and wherein can he be more glorified by us than by our acknowledging of all these to be means of and by God for our salvation and of all them and our selves also to be for Gods service and worship for if they be for Gods Divine