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A03342 CVIII lectures vpon the fourth of Iohn Preached at Ashby-Delazouch in Leicester-shire. By that late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ. Arthur Hildersam.; Lectures upon the fourth of John Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652. 1632 (1632) STC 13462; ESTC S119430 700,546 622

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then said yee shall not adde vnto the word which I command you neither shall yee diminish ought from it Deut. 4. 2. but now they giue a perfect direction to the whole Church that shall be to the end of the world It is said that the whole houshold of God is built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Ephes. 2. 20. Yea the Apostles are called the foundations of the new Ierusalem Apoc. 21. 14. 3. That had additions made to it in euery age to this neuer shall be any Therefore the Apostle Iohn who liued to see all the bookes of the New Testament written and the whole body of the Canonicall Scripture perfected and to giue his testimony to them all concludes his booke of the Reuelation which is the last of them all and of the same and no more diuine authority then all the rest and so sets his seale to the whole Canon I testifie vnto euery man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this booke If any man shall adde vnto these things God shall add vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke Reu. 22. 18. Therefore the Apostle obserues this difference betwixt the former times and the times of Christ Hebrewes 1. 1 2. At sundry times and in diuers manners God spake in old time to our fathers by the Prophets in these last daies hee hath-spoken to vs by his Sonne 1. We haue a more excellent and perfect teacher giuen vs then they had they had the Prophets we haue the Sonne of God himselfe 2. Then God reuealed his will at sundry times now all at once In which respect also thirdly it is to be marked that he calls that time wherein Christ and the Apostles liued the last dayes as Acts 2. 17. 1. Pet. 1. 20. And the ends of the world 1. Cor. 10. 11. Why are they called so so many 100. yeares so many ages before the worlds end Surely because there shall be no more alteration made in Religion the will of God shall be no further reuealed then it was then there shall be no more additions made to that which Christ hath taught vnto his Church The Reasons of this Doctrine are three 1. It is a part of Christs Mediatorship and one of the offices whereunto he was called and anointed of his Father to be the Prophet and teacher of his Church so Peter interprets and applies that place of Moses to be meant of Christ For Moses truely said vnto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise vp vnto you of your brethren like vnto me him shall yee heare in all things whatsoeuer hee shall say vnto you Acts 3. 22. yea he is called the onely Doctour and teacher of his Church Matth. 23. 8. 10. One is your Doctour to wit Christ. 2. There was no want of ability in him to reueale the whole will of his Father to the Church For Iohn 1. 18. Hee is in the bosome of his Father and knew all his secrets and Col. 2. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge 3. There was no want of faithfulnesse in him he was faithfull in his office as Moses Hebrewes 3. 2. yea more faithfull then Moses Heb. 3. 5 6. This Doctrine serues for the improouing and conuincing of three errors First Of the Papists that deny the perfection of the Scriptures and still adde traditions and vnwritten verities vnto them Christ hath taught vs all things and whatsoeuer he taught vs he taught it in his owne life time and in the daies of the Apostles And whatsoeuer he taught in his owne person is contained in the Scriptures Luke 24. 27. 45. Whatsoeuer the Apostles taught is contained in the Scriptures Acts 26. 22. The Scriptures before Christ and his Apostles had put the last hand vnto them and reuealed all the will of God were perfect and sufficient to keepe men from damnation Luke 16. 29. To make them wise to saluation 2. Tim. 3. 15. so as the Church then needed no traditions nor indeed might receiue any how can they then be vnperfect now The second error to be improoued by this Doctrine is of them that make too light account of sundry things that Christ taught by the Apostles iudging them temporary and abrogating them at their pleasure and esteeme the direction that God gaue to his Church vnder the Law in matters of his seruice more cleere and perfect then that which he hath giuen to his Church vnder the Gospell and that more is left to the power and discretion of the Church now then was then They grant that then nothing was to be done without Gods particular direction neither by the Church According to all that I shew thee after the patterne of the Tabernacle and the patterne of all the instruments thereof euen so shall yee make it Exod. 25. 9. neither by the Magistrate Dauid not as a King but as a man of God a Prophet commanded the courses of the Priests c. 2. Chron. 8. 14. And of the Musitians that were imployed in the Temple it is said that it was done according to the commandement of Dauid and of Gad the Kings Seer and Nathan the Prophet for so was the commandement of the Lord by his Prophets 2. Chron. 29. 25. but now they say there is more liberty giuen to the Church then was in those daies But this conceit is euidently ouerthrowne by this Doctrine We haue heard that Christ hath taught vs all things that concerne Gods worship indeed not expresly euery thing that belongs to the circumstances of Gods worship no more did he vnder the Law no expresse direction was giuen for the houre when the morning and euening sacrifice should be kept for setting vp the Synagogues or Pulpits for the forme of buriall and marriage but he hath giuen vs rules to direct vs in all these things and those more cleere and certaine and sufficient to resolue vs in all our doubts and to decide all controuersies that may arise about them then they had vnder the Law The third error is theirs that hold and put holinesse in sundry superstitious customes touching buriall fasting c. for which they haue no warrant but the tradition of their fathers as the Apostle speakes of many other vanities 1. Pet. 1. 18. The second Vse is for reproofe of them that are ignorant in these daies of the Gospell when all things are so cleerely and fully reuealed that the simplest person which with an honest heart shall vse the meanes of knowledge God hath giuen may attaine to a greater measure of knowledge of these daies it is prophecyed that the earth shall bee filled with the knowledge of God as the waters that couer the sea Esay 11. 9. If then God vnder the Law did so much abhorre ignorance in the Minister Hos. 4. 6. in the people Esay 27. 11. how much more in vs now if he required then that all should be instructed before they came to