The cry of a stone, or, a treatise; shewing what is the right matter, forme, and government of the visible church of Christ. How, and wherein the present Church of England is wanting and defective, both in the body of the land, and in the parochiall branches thereof, with divers reasons and grounds taken from the Scriptures, to perswade all that feare God, rather to suffer any afflictions at the hands of men, than to submit to mans carnall policy and humane devices in the worship of God, or be deprived of the sweet fellowship of the saints in the right order of the Gospel. Together with a just reproofe of the over-strained and excessive separation, contentions and divisions of such as commonly are called Brownists. By Robert Coachman.

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The cry of a stone, or, a treatise; shewing what is the right matter, forme, and government of the visible church of Christ. How, and wherein the present Church of England is wanting and defective, both in the body of the land, and in the parochiall branches thereof, with divers reasons and grounds taken from the Scriptures, to perswade all that feare God, rather to suffer any afflictions at the hands of men, than to submit to mans carnall policy and humane devices in the worship of God, or be deprived of the sweet fellowship of the saints in the right order of the Gospel. Together with a just reproofe of the over-strained and excessive separation, contentions and divisions of such as commonly are called Brownists. By Robert Coachman.

Author

Coachman, Robert.

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London :: Printed by R. Oulton and G. Dexter, and are to be sold at the Stationers,

1642.

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Church of England -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.

Church polity -- Early works to 1800.

Brownists -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• A FORE-SPEECH To the READER.
• An Advertisement to the Reader.
• The CONTENTS of the BOOKE.
• The CRY of a STONE.
  • Of the essentiall marks and notes of the visible Church.
  • The visible Church hath right to all Gods Ordinances.
  • The Church or Churches of England cannot be iustified.
  • What Ordinances of God may be used in the Parish assem∣blies, and what not.
  • It is no wrong to Gods people, when the carnall multitude is taxed, and they perswaded to leave them.
  • It is best for wicked men to be kept from the comforts of salvation, untill they repent.
  • It is in vaine to seeke the reformation of a Church, when the materialls are naught.
  • It is a matter of great weight and necessity, for Christians to live in a right ordered Church.
  • The reformed Churches are not condemned, but admo∣nished by this strict practice.
  • The prohibition of the Magistrate, though he be a Chri∣stian, may not hinder our obedience to the Gospel.
  • Moses example in building the Tabernacle, was no ordi∣nary rule for after times.
  • The examples of the Kings of Israel and Judah, in resto∣ring Gods Worship, doe not bind to any fashions in Religion, but Christs.
  • A Comparison of the patterne of Christs Church with the Church of England.
  • A proportionable application of the Iewes State, unto our times.
  • The submission of the Jewes to the Heathen Kings about building the Temple, is no imitable practice about the Church.
  • The only way to establish the Gospel and the pure Ordinan∣ces thereof is to suffer persecution for it.
  • The time of suffering is now come.
  • Other motives to perswadeus to suffering.
  • It is no strange thing for Christians to be persecuted of Christians.
  • The scandalls in the separated Churches, is no argument to condemne their practice.
• THE SECOND PART OF THE TREATISE; WHEREIN THE TWO MAINE FAILINGS OF the Rigid Seperation are reproved, and their Objections answered.
  • The rigid Separationo verrun their course in their first onset.
  • The generall Objection against hearing in the Parish as∣semblies answered.
  • What Preaching is, and who may preach; as also where, and to whom.
  • Of the libertie that the Word of God ought to have.
  • The particular objections against hearing in the parish assemblies answered.
  • Other objections against hearing answered.
  • They that goe about to justifie the Ministers in England in their Office, drive men from the Church altogether.
  • The strict separation cannot hold together amongst them∣selves.
  • There are some sinnes that must be borne in the Church.
  • What kind of sinnes and sinners they be that may be borne in the Church.
  • Three cautions concluding the Doctrine of forbearance.
  • The Conclusion and Summe of all.