Atl Apology againp Brownijlr. A caufe chofe people have neither Faith, norOrder. For Faith firfi: Who are you that darethusboldlybreak into the clofersofGod, theheansofmen? andcondemn tbemtowanrthat, which cannot be feenbyanybut divine eyes? Howdareyou intrud• thusinrorheThrone ofyourMaker? Confider, and conferre fetioully: What Faith is it, that is thus neceifarily required to each member in thisQmffirurion? Your own Dofror fhall define it: Faith required to the receiving in ofmembers, is the knowledgeoftheDoctrineoffalvation by Chrifi, 1 Cor . u. 9· Gal. 3. 2, Now I befeechyou in the feare of6od,lay by awhile all unchrifiian prejudice, and peremptory verdil.ti ofthofefoules, which roll Chrin as much bloudas your own: and tellme ingenuoufJy, whetheryou darefay, that not onlyyour Chri!lianbrethren withwhomyou latelyconv•rfed, but even your fOre-fathers which lived un1 8 der Q!!een Eli·ubelhl firfi confufed Reformation, knew not theDoCtrine offalvation byChrifi: ifyou fay theydid not,your ratb judgement !ball be punitbed fearefully by himwhofe office you ufurp. As you look to anfwer befOre him that would nor brtak the bmifedReed, nor quench rhe fmoaking Flax ; · prefumc not thus, abovemen and Angels. Ifthey did,rhen had they fuflicient cl•ime both to true Con· fiiturlonandChurch: Buuhisfairhmuftbe tdlifiedbyobediencel fo it was. If you thinke nor fo, yours i• not tellified by love : both wereweak, both were true: w.,.kneifein any graceor work, takes not away rruth: Their finnes ofignorance could no moredifaaullGodsCovenant wirh them, than multiplidryofwiveswith thePatriarchs. c SECTION IX. WHat Waflted they then? Nothing but Order; andnotallOrder, but yours: Order, a thing requifite and excellent; butletthe world judge whether eifentiall. Confider now , I befeecb you In the bowels of ChriftJefus, whether thisbe amatterfot which heaven and earthlbould bemixed: whether fur want of yourOrder, all theworld muft be put our of allorder, and the Churchoutoflife and being. Nothing(faywe) canbe more diforderly, than the confufionofyour Democracy, or popular Clare (ifnot Anarchy :) Where all (in a fort )ordaine and excommunicate ; Wecondemn you not fur no truemembersof theChurch: what canbemore orderleife(byyourown •onfellions)rhan the T ril:e· Mne Churchat "'"fimlall1?. which yet yougrant but faulty.Ifthere bedifproportion and difJocationoffome parts, is it no true humane body ?..Will you rife from the fr.afi, unleffe the dilhes be fer on inyourownfatbion? IsitnoCity, iftherebe mud-w.ds halfbroken, low Cottages unequally built, no State-houfe I But your orderhathmore cifence than you can expreffe; and is the famewhichPoliticians in their trade call ( .....,,. ,;, ....,.,)an incorpotllring intoone common civill body,hy a voluntary union, and that under alawfullgovernment: OurChurch wantsboth: wherein there is bothconftraint , and·falfe office. Take your own refemblance and yoorown atking: Say that fome Tyranr(asBafiliiH ofR.ullia)lball furciblycompell acerraine number ofSubjelh intoMofco, and!ball hold themiri an awfullGarrifon, forcing themto new laws and Magiftrates, perhaps hard and bloudy : They yeeld; ondmaking the belt ofall,live rogerherin acheerfull communion,with due commerce, lovingconverfation, fwbmillive executionofthe enjoyned lawes: In fuch cafe,whether isMofcoa trueCity,or not?Since yourDotl:orcites Arijlotk, let it not irke him to le•rn ofthat Philofopher, who can teach him, that when C•lifihe- ~" had driven out the Tynm fromAthens, end fet up a newGovernment, and receivedmany ftrangers,and bondmeninto the Tribes,itwasdoubred, not which of rhemwere Citizens, burwhether they weremadeCirizens unjuftly. Ifyou tbould find acomp•nyof rrue Chri,ftians in utmofi Indi•, would you !land upon termes, and inquire how theybe= (o ? whiles they have what is necelfary for that heavenly profellion; what need yonr curiality trouble itfelfe with the meanes? Zz 3 SECTION 535 . ~- fcript. Tll.lltbum#tXtrinftc1AIII:IUfl9utmqHin~fli, put.u qutJivi tlu,vid~Jilllltlfl qut~u{q~ «11/11 babu, [tdocllli Domini {llllldti Jwmo in[.uitln,DtJtsinpr~ rorrfi« rMttmplatllr. Principles and mfcrences cot~eerning thevi!ibie Church Anno t6o7 pag-13Orckrt. Part of Conftirutt~ on,how&rre requifiteand whicherhittdcedby confiraint. D.A!Ii(.againft me d:falj<. Conteff.ofrhc Brawnijll. Brtm1,State of cnrChrifti- '"' Enquireinl:o M. whiu. ,/..f. Wid.,Mfl.P#l. 3·C11p,1. .tJ.rifl.Pof.3,C•J• Edeji1H&FrNJJJ/:'11tiN4pNtria /lttropioTyr]. rhtk{opho in l!ldJamtftportRti,ptJ11Jtaibi. ChriPum4mrtligiMtmpl»>tflumt,..''t,#ljfinoldJ, l.c4p.9.Fttminai11ltr Ibtrts,
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