AnApologie againft Brownijlr. ~A----~--------~--~----~---~~ SEP. Which ftP~"ti"' theChNrch ofEogland tzrit6er hathm~de, nordothm a~, but Jf~m/, alJN#IIJ one'll'ith all that plfrl oftheWor/dwithi11 th• Kingdome;l7iti){)HIJeparatio": for ,.hicb coufe, amongft other/ , we ha'lJ! chofen bJ the gr•ceofGod, rathettofeparate oNr fohm 11th~ Lmlfromit, tha11 with it fmn him,intheflijible confliiHiiofJofit. SECTION VI. B . Ut all rhefeexamples,perhapsarenor fo much eowarrant what you have done as 10 condemn the ChurchofEngland for what the harh nor done: for fuch B fepararion the neitherbathmade nordorh make, bur frandsall:ually one with aU char part oftheworldwithin the Kingdome without fepararion. Lo, here the tnain groundofrhis Scbilm,which yourProto -MariJrB•rrow hammers uponin every pJge. an ill conllitution: Thus he comments upon you~ words : For where fuch propbane confufe multitudeswirhmnany exceprion,fepararionorchoife,were all of rhern from puhlike Idolarry,at one infranc received or rathercompelled to bemembersoftheChurch, in lome parilbor other, where they inhabited, without any due calling ro the fairh,by the preachingofthe Gofpell:g~ing befor':lor orderly joyning together in rhe faith, there being no voluntary or pamcular contefiion of their own faith and dutiesmadeor required ofany, and lafrly, no holy walking in thefaithamongfr rhem ; whocan fay that rhefeChurches confifring ofthis people, were ever rightly gatheredorbuilt occording rorhe rule ofChrifrs Teframent? In his words & C yours I find both amifcolleetion, and a wrong charge. For the former: thewanr of notingone poore dif\in/lion,breeds all this confufion ofDoetrine,and feporationof men: for rhereisone cale ofanew Church to be called from Hesrhenifm to Chrifrianity,another ofaformer Church to be reformed from errors, tOmore fincereChriflhnity. In the firfl: ofthe(e is required indeed afolemn initiation byBaprifme. and before rhar, a voluntary and particular confeffionoffaith, and therefore a clea~e (e. pararion, and exception ofrhe Chrifrian, from the infidel!: In the latter, neither is new 2aptilme lawful! (though fomeofyou belike of old were in hand with a rebaptization:which not then lpeeding,fucceederh now to your thame)nor a newvoluntary and particular confeffion ofFaith, befideschar in baptifine (though very commendable) will ever be proved fimply neceffary to the beingofaChurch- fo longas D the erring parries doe aCtually renounce theirdoCtrines, and inopen profeilionembrace the t~ut~;and(a~ genc:ally in rhepublikeconfefiion ?10 parricuIarly upon good occafion g1ve )Ufr tefl1momes ofrbett repentance: ThJS !Sour care,wedid not make anew Church,butmended an old: yourC/ifion is driven ro this hold by neceilityof Argument; Orherwile he fees there is no avoyding ofAnabaptifme: Mended faith your DoCtor, and yet admitted the mifceline rabble ofthe prophane?Say noV: that loch lepararion were notmade: Ler fome few be holy,and the more part prophane: Shall r.helewdneffeof!ome dilanull God~ Covenantwith others~ This isyour mercy Gods 1smore: who{:hJI held Ilraell for h1s, when bur few held hJSpure Cervice: Let tharDivine Pfalmift teach you howfull rheTents oflfrael wereofmutinousRebels in rhc Defart; yer rhe Pillar by day and night forfook them not; and Mojes was fo farrefromrejeaing them, that he would not endureGod lbould rejeCt them to his owne advantage: look"ihto rhe black cenfi1res, and bittercomplaintsofall theProphets •ndwonder that rhey leparoted nor : Looke into the increafed malfe ofcormprions in that declined Church; whereofthe bleffed eyesofourSaviourwere witneffcs,andmuvell ar his filem B:- ~ociable incurioulnelfe: yea, hischarge ofnor fepararmg;Ye know nor ofwhat lpmr you are:Now you fly to confr,tution,as ifnotorious evilswere more tolerablein continuance, than in rhe collection ofAffemblies: S~rdi had buta few names that had not defiled their garments; God prailes rhefe, btds them nor feparate from the reft. rh,atira lulfers a falfepropheteffe: the refr that have not rhis learning, yet are biddenbm to hold theirown; not to feparate from the Angel!,which hath not fepamed ']eza~el from rhe Church. Zz o SECTION ;~t~tcm-ati· madeb}'Churchcsinthcir K::ar~.r~- InhJS Preface to the Reader, andinh6 Clufcsoffepar.ttf.. oA cicfendcd. P"l:-+ EjKjd~m lla(. lO Refi.t:al.ofM. G1/f.p.u.&::t. TrtmfirtfM• 52.,&f,.,66,& 7o,i;,&S6. &c. Incon~oi l!rtn:f;1:.-,p. tto. Inquiry into M. trhitt,confeffedby p,_ }olmfon p4. 6j. ~lxtwixt Cbfimrand s,.ith . And concerning the conftitution of the Churches, &c. But the c~~~~: afrcrthede~· llion of Antj.. chrift,m.1y morepr~rly becall~dareplrin,gdxma COn.fiiwtion, &c.
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