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A15304	The schysmatical puritan A sermon preached at Witney concerning the lawfulnesse of church-authority, for ordaining, and commanding of rites, and ceremonies, to beautifie the Church. By Giles Widdowes rector of St Martins church in Oxford.	Widdowes, Giles, 1558?-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 25594; ESTC S120720	21,327	48

our Saviour The purification of the Blessed Virgin c. to praise the Lord. And herein we transgresse not the fourth commandement Sixe daies shalt thou labour c. For that law bindes vs to thanke the Lord for the creation and Restitution of the World and God requires but the seuenth day to performe our holy thanksgiuings vnto him in the publique congregation and yet he requires other holy daies vpon other speciall reasons as 't is proued hereafter at Leuiticus 23. Church pictures are an externall beauty of the Church a memory of honour to the dead and S. Gregory cals them lay mens bookes Church Organs are musicall signes of our exultation they are the lowd and as sweet as lowd expressions of the Churches greatest ioy towards God so are church-Bells though sometimes they are the churches solemne call that Gods people should assemble to worship the Lord with holy worship And seeing that I haue proceeded thus farre in the Narration of church-rites and ceremonies giue me leaue to tell you how ancient Godfathers and Godmothers haue beene in the church and how long interrogatories haue beene vsed at baptizing little children They are as ancient as Dionysius the Areopagite as it appeareth in his seaventh chapter de Ecclesiastica Hierarchia who lived in the 70. yeare after Christ The church is not Abrahams private house when he was witnesse to his sonne Isaacs circumcising but the church is catholique and therefore shee must accordingly haue witnesses to preserue her catholique communion of faith T is a ceremonie a rite of the church to bring the dead body the corps into the body of the church For that body Christ did sanctifie with his blood and did make it the temple of the holy Ghost And therefore at performing of our last duety wee must not thrust it out at church-dores but honour it with church-entertainement For blessed are the dead for whom the Lord Iesus laid downe his life I haue giuen you a view of All things of All things in my text 'T is Church doctrine let your faith beleeue it 'T is Church discipline let your liues obserue and Keepe it 'T is Church ceremonie let your frequent vse exercise and renew it In the first place you shall honour God your Almighty Father In the second place you shall honour the vnity of brethren which the Psalmist commends with admiration Oh how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in vnity God hath not authorized these things that you should neglect them but his good pleasure is that they should Be Done Let all things be done which is my third part of text and followes next to be handled in these words Be Done This is the obeying of a commanding authority 'T is the Church that obeys For she obserues and keepes the doctrine the discipline the rites and ceremonies of the Church The scripture is the command Let all things be done and the Church obeys And then compare which is the greater in authority either that which commands or that which obeyes To obey is vnder authority command and therefore the Scripture is greater in authority then the Church The Churches obedience is not only passiue still to be an hearer only but the Churches obedience is also actiue for she must not be only an hearer of the Scripture of the law but she must be a doer also First shee must heare the Scripture say Let all things be done and then shee must doe what she heares commanded to be done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fiant inquit à vobis vestro consilio So Pareus when the Scripture hath said it Then let all things be done by the Church by the iudgement of the church Here the Apostle hath by Scripture given authority to the Church to gouerne decently and in order in doctrine in divine precepts in Church-discipline And therefore the Church may in the first place expound according to rules of exposition and make any lawes which she sees to be decent and orderly in every place Omnes Ecclesiarum Episcoporum Doctorum leges c. de decoro ordine externo c. disponere debent Pareus The lawes of Churches of Bishops of Doctors must beautifie and order the Church Let all things be done decently and in order These words doe authorize the Church to ordaine Church-orders expositions rites and ceremonies that not of late but from the Apostles times so Iustin Martyr Irenaeus Tertullian St Cyprian St Basill S. Ambrose S. Hierome S. Augustine and fiue Councells say the same But what doth the Scripture say that there must be any such traditions Yes the scripture saith the same Read 1. Cor. 11. 2. 1. Cor. 11. 34. And Church-ceremonies are contain'd in the scriptures not in expresse sentence but by pregnant consequence by vertue whereof the Apostle doth grant a generall license authority to all Churches to ordaine any ceremonies that may bee fit for the better serving of God so our Right reverend and learned Bishop Morton The same ceremonies will not sort in all places and therefore our Saviour left them to the different disposition custome of times and countries so Calvin lib. 4. Institut cap. 10. parag 30. Therefore to deny this power to the Church to ordaine ceremonies is to depriue her of christian liberty so Bucer If our Church-ceremonies were dumbe non-significant they might bee well condemn'd for vnlawfull but they being significant are lawfull so Kemnitius being significant they are profitable for admonition and testification of our duties so B. Iewell Kemnitius and Zanchius The ceremonies of our church haue speciall signification they are signes and doe signifie not with sacramentall signification but with decently morall For they are signes of Church-beauty for moral ornament as you haue heard by the bowing at the name of Iesus by other Church-ceremonies in my former particular Our Church-ceremonies our Church-traditions are grounded on good authority for they are contain'd in the Scriptures in genere ent is aut in virtute causae either in their generall or in the power of their fundamentall cause My Text will serue for the generall to signifie all Church-ceremonies and my Text serues for the cause to ordaine all Church-traditions that are lawfull All things decently and in order there are all Church-ceremonies signified Let them be done there is Church authority giuen by Scripture to cause them to be ordain'd But to bow at the name of Iesus this is expresse Scripture Philip. 2. 10. To kneele at prayer this is expresse Scripture Psalm 95. 6. and wee pray at receiuing the Lords Supper The body of our Lord Iesus Christ preserue my soule and body to everlasting life To take vp the Crosse and follow Christ is expresse Scripture Mat. 16. 24. And to take vp the Crosse is the fundamentall cause of the signe of the Crosse to bee done decently in order The man and wife are one flesh is expresse Scripture Mat. 19. 6. And to be one

flesh by covenant by troth plighted by Church-authority which is the essentiall vnion is the fundamentall cause of the signifying vnion which is the ring giuen in marriage to signifie that mā wife are no more twaine but one flesh T is expresse Scripture that t is granted to the Church to weare fine linnen white and cleane Rev. 19. 8. There is a similitude betweene the triumphant and militant Church and so an expression of the ones glory by the others signification and is it then contrary to decency and order to weare the surplisse Holy daies are contain'd in the Scripture The Lords passeover which we call Easter Levit. 23. 5. The feast of vnleavened bread Levit. 23. 6. The feast of first fruits Lev. 23. 10. to the 24. verse The feast of Trumpets Lev. 23. from 24 to the 34 verse The feast of Tabernacles Mordecai had his Holy day Hest 9. Iudeth had her Holy day Iudeth 16. Macchabeus had his Holy day Macchab. 1. 4. And seeing that Holy daies did not transgresse the fourth commandement before Christs comming the Apostles Agapae Festivall daies and our Church-holy-daies doe not transgresse that law We should bee very vnthankfull vnto God for the multiplying of his great mercies if we did not solemnely keepe them the reason is shew'd before In his rebus de quib nihil certi statuit scriptura divina mos populi Dei vel instituta maiorum pro lege tenendasunt D. August Epist 68. to Casulanus In those things which the Scripture hath not verbatim set downe the customes of Gods people or the institutions of our Predecessors ought to bee receiued for lawes so that they be deduced from Scriptures and be not contrary to Scriptures they are S. Augustines limitations Seeing then that the church hath authority giuen her let her exercise her authority Let all things be done For as long as the church is rul'd by Scripture Shee is the pillar and ground of truth 1. Tim. 3. 15. to the vnlearned to the catechised to the vulgar vnderstanding then S. Augustine being an infant in faith beleeues quia dixit Ecclesia because the church did teach him to beleeue As long as the church is rul'd by Scriptures Shee cannot erre hell gates cannot prevaile against her Mat. 16. 18. And therefore let all things be done decently in order whatsoever our well reformed church commands to be done Let the Priest weare the surplisse let little children to be baptized haue their Godfathers and Godmothers let the baptized be signed with the signe of the Crosse Let all communicants kneele reverently at receiuing the Lords Supper Let all bow in solemne assemblies at the name of IESVS Let them that are to be married be married with the Ring Let Holy daies be kept Let the Lord bee praised vpon Church Organs and on the Sabbath and Holy daies thus let him bee magnified with the musicall sound of all Church-bells Let the dead be honorably buried You haue a little booke of Articles which containes seven generalls all our church-traditions The first is concerning the church-yard Vicarage-house The second is concerning the Ministerie divine service and Sacraments The third is concerning Ecclesiasticall Courts The fourth concerning School-masters The fift concerning the parish clearke and Sexton The sixt concerning the Parishioners The seuenth concerning church-wardens Sides-men Let all these things be done For the doing of them well doth honour God and saue your owne soules But if church-offenders are growne hard-hearted stiffe-necked stubborne not to be reformed by neighbourly loue good counsell wholsome exhortation Dic Ecclesiae tell the church For all things must be done Decently and in order which is my fourth part of text Decently and in order Here is the manner how Gods command first secondly how the churches command is to be obeyed and this is Decently and in order On the outside by beauty Decently within and without according to rule In order Nihil peruerso ordine vel per contentionem vel per inanem gloriam faciatis so S. Hierome vpon these words where there is perversenesse ouerthwarting faction there is noe church-decencie factious contention and vaine spirited glory is noe part of this church-order Non temerè non indecorè non insanè ordine conueniente so S. Chrysostome Not rashnesse not vnseemelines not distemper is the decency or order that which is seemely is church-decency that which is conuenient is church-order Omnia cum pace disciplinâ so S. Ambrose the peace of the church this is church-decencie the discipline of the church this is church order The decencie of the church is opposite to vanity to sordidnesse to luxury The order of the church is opposite to confusion and troublesomenesse soe Pareus The decency of the church is that Gods temple should be all glorious at least very conuenient that church-vessells and the materiall parts of the church be cleane and comely that the Priests vestments be seemely that all church actions publique and priuate be void of lightnesse and superstition that church-teachers and hearers behaue themselues with diuine grauity modestie and piety as it becometh them that stand in the presence of God and his holy Angells Church order giues euery one his conuenient place to superiors superior places to equalls equall places to inferiors inferior places to euery church-necessary a necessary place Order obserues church-time as well as church-place and it staies not there but appoints who shall be church-teachers and who shall be church-hearers and to keepe both in order there are appointed times to pray to preach to sing psalmes to catechise to communicate to baptize c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caueatur aedificatio ecclelesiae singulorum maximè promoueatur so Pareus The transgressing of church-decencie and order must be shun'd the edifying of the church and of all in the church must be carefully obserued And we must goe a little farther the beautifying and honour of the Church must be carefully regarded And wee must on a little farther The able gratious practise of the Church must be preferred aboue all the edifying beautifying and externall honour of the church S. Hierome saith that there is no church-decency no church-order where is peruersenesse and diuision and therefore Thomas Cartwright was noe true teacher of church decency and order let his 21 dangerous points of doctrine and his one and fifty vntruths falsifying of Scriptures fathers of the church Historiographers and other classicall Authors be witnesse as 't is obserued by D Whitguift in his booke against M. Cartwright S. Chrysostome saith where there is rashnes vnseemelinesse distemper that there is noe church-decencie noe church order and therefore the precise ones are noe teachers of church-decencie and order for they are rash to thrust that vpon vs for true religion which began at the 250 yeare after Christ and was put downe by the first Councell of Nice S. Ambrose saith that there is church-decency where is the peace and the discipline of the church

THE SCHYSMATICAL PVRITAN A SERMON PREACHED AT WITNEY concerning the lawfulnesse of Church-Authority for ordaining and commanding of Rites and Ceremonies to beautifie the Church By GILES WIDDOWES Rector of St. MARTINS Church in Oxford TITVS 1. 15. Vnto the pure all things are pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeving nothing is pure but their Minde and Conscience are defiled Printed at Oxford for the Author 1630. TO HIS GRACIOVS LADY KATHARINE DVTCHES of BVCKINGHAM HER GRACE all health prosperity and salvation through Iesus Christ MADAM IMportunitie of friends hath with vn-answerable perswasions constrained me to imprint this Sermon because an ignorant zeale of some hasty spirits would cry downe the lawfull Authority of the true Doctrine and discipline of our Reformed Church I therefore desire your Graces favour most earnestly to accept these my first fruits sacrific'd on the Presse and to wish them safe protection My oblig'd duty directs and necessitates me to be thankefull vnto you for your speciall favours beyond my desert to dedicate myselfe and these my orthodoxe labours to so good and Gracious a Lady The Lord Crowne your merits with spirituall and temporall blessings for Christ Iesus sake and that for the hearty praiers of Your Graces most humble servant and Chaplaine GILES WIDDOWES TO THE PVRITAN IT is your practise to run from the Church Iam sorry that so learned and so holy men as you would seeme to be doe want true Christian patience to heare orthodox holy doctrine But let me intreat you to vnderstand me this one time I hope it will be for your edifying This is my prayer vnto Almighty God through Iesus Christ My businesse with you is the Puritan whose name distinguish'd whose essence rēd'red in the very property and whose severall kinds essentially differing I giue into your owne hands that you may see and learne true Reformation Concerning the name Puritan it is ambiguous and so it is fallacious For some good men are called Puritans and they are Puritans indeed They are pure in heart and so blessed that they shall see God Mat. 5. 8. And some evill men are called Puritans who desire to seeme to be iust and holy but in their doctrine and discipline they are the vnderminers of our True Protestant Reformed Church Are you angry because I tell you the truth Be angry but sin not and I will tell you the essentiall definition of this fallacious Puritan A Puritan is a Protestant Non-Conformist A Protestant this is his Genus his kinde of being A Non-Conformist this is his differentia his essentiall difference his essentiall Qualitie A Puritan is a kind of Protestant For he wil be tryed by the Scriptures concerning his faith and his Christian morall life so farre as his Spirit will endure the text But the scriptures deduceable sence in Essentials Essentiates Efficients Finals Subiects Effects and their Modalities being opposite to their tenets confounds this Professor and overthrowes his Chaire but he asham'd to forsake his seducing profession a long time vehemently clamarous taketh fast hold only on the letter and chapter of the text So then this Puritan is a sullen fallacie of the Reformed Church being confuted he will not learne to turne still he is pure not really but in his owne suppose The Lord graunt him grace to reforme This Puritan is a Non-Conformist For he is oppositely set a Contradictist to the Scriptures deduceable sence in three things The first is the 39 Articles of our Churches Reformed faith The second is our Common Praier-booke The third is the Canons of our Church And yet the doctrine of the Articles the faith of the common prayers and the lawfulnesse of the Canons are contained in the deduce-able sence of holy Scriptures The Articles of our Reformed Churches saith which he opposeth are these the 3. 6. 9. 16. 17. 20. 21. 23. 26. 27. 33. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. This is proved in the severall kindes of this irregular scripturist The praiers in the common prayer-prayer-booke which he contradicts being collected and translated out of the mass-Masse-booke yet corrected and purged from grosse errors those selected prayers he refuseth every one because they were thence collected The Absolution he disliketh because he makes a quere whether the congregation did faithfully and penitently confesse their sinnes The Lords prayer hee will not say because hee will make a praier like to the Lords praier Nunc dimittis c hee reiects because he will not any praier or hymne but such as hee thinkes fit according to his owne will The Letanie he saith is composed of coniuring and swearing and of vnnecessarie and vnlawfull Invocations The collect on Trinitie Sunday he saith is composed of an Impossibilitie And that the last collect but one read at holy Communion is composed of vntruths He is ill-disposed oppositely affected against prayers at Christnings Confirmations and Burialls I make answere thus To pronounce He pardoneth and absolveth all them which truely repent and vnfainedly belieue is the actuall duetie of Evangelicall Priests and so good a duetie is no sinne Ministers must say the Lords prayer The Lord hath said it Luk. 11. 2. And they must make their praiers according to the forme of the Lords prayer It is the text they must vse no vaine babling their forme of praier must be effectuall not vaine briefe not stuffed with tautologies and iterations Read Matth. 6. ver 7. 8. 9. God did regard vs with a Saviour in that he did regard the Blessed Virgin with a Sonne and a Saviour therefore we say the Magnificat Wee shal be saved by the same faith as old Simeon was therefore we say Nunc dimittis In the Letanie we pray to bee delivered from sinne and punishment And how must Christians pray for to bee delivered but by Christs agonie and bloody sweat c And is this swearing or coniuring Is praying in the Winter to be delivered from thunder and lightning vnnecessarie Lightning and thunder are Gods secret iudgements he may afflict sinners with them in the Winter though naturally summer bee the time for those terrifying Meteors but because they are Gods secret iudgements therefore we pray alwaies for deliverance Is praying for theeues and whores vnlawfull the one being included in all men travayling by land or by water the other being included in all women labouring with child Our Saviour saith that his Heavenly Father is mercifull to the iust and vniust and that all Gods people must be so mercifull Math. 5. 48. c And S. Paul saith doe good vnto all Gal. 6. 10 and therefore we must pray for all On Trinity Sunday we pray to be delivered from all adversity and it is thus in the Lords praier Deliuer vs from all evill And shall we not pray as the Lord hath taught vs In the last Collect but one at the holy Communion wee Confesse our vnworthines and blindnes And wheresoever sinne is inherent and a fighter there must be necessitate causae sin being an actuall cause an