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A37416	A defensive vindication of the publike liturgy, established ceremonies, and setled patrimony of the Church of England against such as (putting themselves to an ill occupation) have unjustly impeached or oppugned them / by a peaceable sonne of the same church, no way addicted to novelty or innovation.	Peaceable sonne of the same church.	1641 (1641)	Wing D823; ESTC R17218	23,627	39

10. § 30. resolves thus Dominus totam verae justitiae summam c. God saith he hath in the Scripture evidently set down the whole sum of true righteousnesse and all the essentiall parts of his worship without omitting any thing necessary to salvation and in thefe he is the onely Master to be hearkned unto but as for outward Discipline it pleased him not to prescribe punctually and in particular what we should follow foreseeing that this dependeth upon the divers condition and state of times knowing very well that one form or fashion in these externals would not fit all ages in this case therefore we are to have recourse unto the generall rules of order and decency quae pro moribus unjuscujusque gentis seculi variè accommodari debent ad ecclesiae aedificationem which are diversly to be accommodated according to the manners of severall Nations and ages as shall be most for the behoof and edification of the Church Now as particular Churches have full power authority and Commission to make Ecclesiasticall laws and constitutions and to prescribe Rites and Ceremonies for the more decent and orderly performance of religious duties in their sacred assemblies by vertue of the former Apostolicall Canon so by the regular prescript of the same Canon they that live under the government of such Churches are to conform themselves to the orders of the Church in which they live and respectively with ready obedience to observe the same S. Austin r Dis●iplina nulla est in his melior gravi prudentique Christiano quam ut eo modo agat quo agere viderit ecclesiam ad quamcunque sorte devenerit August Epist 118. ad Casulan saith That there is no rule of discipline so fit for a grave and prudent Christian to regulate his carriage by then to do after that manner as he seeth the Church to do unto which it falleth out that he shall chance to come and ſ Tu ad quam forte ecclesiam veneris eius movem serva si cuiqua● non vis esse s●andalo nec quemquam tibi Idem Ibid. s●d ex ●re Ambrosii that to whatsoever Church he cometh he ought to observe the customes or ceremonies which be there in use if he will not give scandall unto others nor receive scandall from others t Quod neque contra fidem neque contra bo●os mores iniungitur indifferenter est habendum pro eorum inter quos vivitur societate servandum est Idem Ibid. Provided alwayes that the customes their used be neither opposite to the faith nor yet contrary to good manners which counsell S. Ambrose gave to Monica the mother of S. Augustine to direct her how she ought to behave her self in the Church of God and whosoever he be that will not observe the decrees of Church Governours in his de quibus nihil certi statuit Scriptura in those things concerning which the holy Ghost hath set down no certainty in the Scripture he offendeth God who hath given power to his Church to enjoyn the observation of such ceremonies which power were fruitlesse and to no purpose if men might do what they list contrary to the ceremoniall constitutions of the Church But is not this an abridgement of Christian liberty to restrain and limit the use of a thing indifferent No certainly for to make the restraint of the outward man in matters indifferent an impeachment of Christian liberty what is it else but even to bring Anabaptisme Anarchy rebellion popular parity disorder and confusion both into the Church and State and to dissolve the bond of subjection and obedience to lawfull authority Consider I pray you wherein can the power and authority of superiours properly consist and the duety and obedience of inferiours be shewed towards them if not in these indifferent and arbitrary things for things absolutely u Hoc advertendum quod quaedam suat pura bona quaedam pura mala in his nullam deberi hominibus obedientiam quoniam nec illa omittenda sunt etiam cum prohibentur nec ista vel cum iub●ntur committenda inter hoc sunt media quaedam quae pro modo loco tempore vel persona mala possunt esse bona in his lex posita est obedientiae in his fas non est nostrum sensum sententiae praescribere magistrorum Bern. epist 7. necessary as precisely commanded of God we are bound to do whether humane authority require them or not and things absolutely sinfull as precisely and determinately forbidden by God we are bound not to do whether humane authority forbid them or not there are therefore none other things left wherein to expresse properly the obedience due to superiour authority but things in their own nature indifferent and whosoever shall interpret the determination of Superiours in the use of things indifferent to be prejudiciall to Christian liberty or under that colour shall exempt Inferiours from their obedience to such determinations he is one of those saith a learned Divine of our Church of whom S. Iude speaks that dispiseth Government Iude 8. and he teacheth otherwise then Saint Peter did who wils us to submit our selves to every ordinance of man 1 Pet. 2.13 and contrary also to the doctrine of S. Paul ● D. Sanderson who tels us that we must needs be subject not onely for fear but for conscience also Rom. 13.5 And what probable reason can any man give why a childe is bound to obey his Father or a servant his Master when he limits him in the use of a thing indifferent and we should not be bound to submit our selves to our Superiors appointment in the like things when as it cannot be denyed but Superiors have the same authority for the peaceable ordering of the Church and Common-wealth that fathers and masters have over there children and servants for the ordering of their families Surely but that the Scripture hath foretold there shall and ever will be differences sidings and partakings in the Church 1 Cor. 11.19 a man would wonder how ever it should sink into the heads of sober understanding men to deny either the power in Superiours to ordain or the necessity of inferiours to obey the lawes and constitutions of the Church touching times places vestments gestures and other ceremoniall circumstances requisite to the more decent orderly and solemn performance of Gods publike worship and service Our Church I am sure is of another judgement for it is the Tenet of our Church in the thirtieth Canon That things of themselves and of their own nature indifferent do in a sort alter their natures when they are commanded or forbidden by a lawfull Magistrate And therein it teacheth rightly for in such matters of a middle or indifferent nature nec jussio nec prohibitio principum aut praelatorum est contemnenda neither the Commandement nor prohibition of Princes or Prelates is to be contemned saith S. Bernard Epist 7. Sed quicquid vice