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A25206	An exercitation on the historical relation, Matth. 15, 1--9, Mark 7, 1--13, concerning eating with unwashen hands by way of appendix or supplement to the discourse concerning indifferencies ...	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing A2909; ESTC R19152	16,898	44

Titus is required to snow uncorruptness in doctrine Tit. 2. 7. i. e. to deliver the pure truths of God not dashed with the water nor alloy'd with the lead of humane inventions whereby 't is corrupted as wine is with water and gold with lead So that as the matter of all our Teaching is laid down Positively in that Commission Matth. 28. ult Teaching them to observe whatsoever I have commanded you So here teaching and urging any thing in the worship of God not only contrary to but besides the Word is condemned in these words by Christ and they that take their measures in Worship from the Commandments of men their worship is vain bootless and unprofitable yea mischievous and abominable And such persons Christ pronounces to be Hypocrites and such we must take 'em for except we will contradict his judgement Your zealous assertors of and great sticklers for the observation of humane inventions in God's worship are great hypocrites in Christ's account and they that urge and impose such things as strictly or more strictly than the observation of divine Institutions are guilty of gross hypocrisie whatever they pretend as to Decency Uniformity Authority or the like For though a practice be really a matter of Decency and Conveniency and thereupon some Rules and Directions may be given by Authority about it yet it ought not to be enjoyn'd as strictly or as much stress laid upon it as upon the substantials and vitals of Worship as for example In point of Time or Place or Gesture or Habit 't is to be supposed and I think we may well take it for granted that generally n●…ither Ministers nor People are such bruits and so void of understanding as to perform Duties with such undue Circumstances at such inconvenient Times in such inconvenient Places with such rude Postures in such undecent Habits as may render the service or worship notoriously undecent and wholly unprofitable and inconsistent with the Glory of God and the good of Souls or if any particulars should be guilty of such foul miscarriages then let Governours take notice thereof and censure offenders proportionably to the demerit of the crime and not perdere substantiam propter accidentia imbroil the whole Church by and silence hundreds or thousands of inoffensive Ministers for non-compliance with Impositions about such matters Certainly the greatest evil that can be imagin'd to follow upon some irregular undue circumstantial miscarriage in worship is not proportionable to the thousandth part of that mischief which we have always found has follow'd upon these Impositions Sect. 19. 3. The last method that Christ uses for the Vindica●…ion of his Disciples for their Non-conformity to this Imposition is by way of Instruction to inform the people What it is that really and properly does pollute a man Matth 15. 10 20. Mark 7. 14 23. Where as before he undermin'd the foundation of all their Traditions in general so here he overthrows the ground-work of this Tradition in particular by teaching and proving that eating with unwashen hands defiles not a man Matth. 15. 20. and if so then there 's no need to wash before meat But this being besides my present design I shall give it a discharge from any further attendance And Sect. 20. For a close of all I shall wind up the substance of all that has been said in a narrow compass Here was 1 A Law Precept Injunction Constitution or call it what you will it was something they look't upon as obligatory and that 2 made by lawful authority yea the Supreme authority of the Nation and this 3 about a lawful matter viz. that which was not anywhere forbidden by the Law of God nor contrary to any command yea 4 it was a matter of civil Decency and 5 that which they pretended some ground from Scripture for And yet for all this 6 this Law or Command did not oblige for then the neglect thereof would have been blame-worthy which yet it was not as appears by Christ's Vindication of his Disciples for it though they did not obey this Command nor observe this Custom yet he does not in the least blame ●…em for it Nay 7 The Observation of it upon such an account was not only not necessary but unlawful as appears in that Christ blames and taxes the Pharisees for this and such like observances and therefore Lastly Nonconformity herein was so far from being a sin that it was their Duty and Conformity or Compliance had been a sin from all which I infer That A lawful practice enjoyn'd by lawful Authority is not thereby and purely on that account made necessary but there is something else required viz. That the matter of the law be necessary antecedently to the law either in its own Nature or in respect of some Circumstance as has been shewed in the foregoing discourse about Indifferencies or else it obliges not FINIS These Books following are Printed for Benjamin Alsop at the Angel and Bible over against the Stocks-Market MElius Inquirendum or an Inquiry into the Sober Inquiry c. The Non-conformists Plea for Peace the first Part by Rich. Baxter A Defence of the Non-conformists Plea for Peace against Mr. J. Cheyneys Answer called The Non-conforming Conformist c. To which is added a Letter written by the Author of Melius Inquirendum The Royal Charter of Confirmation Granted by King Charles the II. to the City of London Taken from the Records and Translated into English by S. G. A Seasonable Warning to Protestants Being an Exact History of the Parisian Massacre August the 24th 1672. With the Popes Bull to Encourage and Justifie the Massacre and Rebellion of Ireland A Word to Sinners and a Word to Saints by Tho. Gouge Minister of the Gospel With any other Books of the same Author Jacob's Ladder or the Devout Souls Ascension to Heaven by Jo. Hall B. D. Young's English Scholar in Spelling Reading and Writing Enlarg'd the 4th Edition a Pharisaei perfectioris exteriorum observantiae exemplum scribae scientiae authoritatem sibi vendicabant Brug a Hi doctrinae religionis totius obtinebant arcem Brug Judaei in Galilaed submiserunt Scribas Pharisaeos non vulgares illos quales in Singulis Galilaeae Synagogis habebantur sed qui Jerosolymis erant praecipui qui eruditione solertia authoritate addo etiam m 〈…〉 iâ reliquos superabant Ger. Har Nihil novi nec insolens est ut illi qui primatum sibi in Ecclesia vendicant primi etiam sint qui de opprimendo Christo ejus Evangelio consilia agitent Ger. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 institutum hoc constitutionem vertere possumus Eras.