Law-Power, Title page
LAW-POWER; OR The Law of Relation, Written in the heart of Miniſters and People by the finger of God, is mighty, through Him, to prevaile with both, to live as a people ſeparated to their God, and from the world, ſpecially at the LORDS TABLE.
So ſhall we be ſeperate, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth, Exod. 33. 16.
Goe from the preſence of a fooliſh man, when thou perceiveſt not in him the lips of knowledge, Pro. 14. 7.
I will be their God, and they ſhall be my people, wherefore come out from among them, and be ye ſeperate, 2 Cor. 6. 16, 17.
Come out of her My people, That ye be not partakers of her ſins, and that ye receive not of her plagues, Rev. 18. 4.
LONDON; Printed by M. S. for Henry Cripps in Popes-head-Alley. 1656.
THE CONTENTS OF The ſeventh and laſt Treatiſe.
Six things are premiſed, which may help us to make judgement, whether the Miniſters of this perſwaſion, That all are to have Admittance to all Church-Communions upon account onelyonly of their Infant Baptiſme, have the law of this Relation of a Miniſter written in the heart by the Spirit of God. Then is ſhewne, what this law of Relation is; And that where it is, and beareth rule in the heart of Miniſter and people, it will appeare ſo to doe, by what he teacheth his people, by his walke with them, and theirs with him, That all be well ſuiting to the Rule, decent, and according to Goſpel-order. In the next place is ſhewen, That the way of Gods people walking together according to Goſpel-order, is every where ſpoken againſt; And that Seperation from the world is the great offence in that holy way, yet ſuch a thing there is, and muſt be, a ſeperation ſutable to the mind of God; for he that will not ſeperate from the world, and falſe worſhip, is a ſeperate from God. There is a Communion of Saints on earth, they doe often meet and commune together. Some exceptions anſwered, Miniſters that ſtand croſs to this way are adviſed; They that pretend to this way are Cautioned. The judgement of the learned and Godly is taken-in here, and ſo concluded.