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A32780 The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ... Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. 1680 (1680) Wing C377; ESTC R1330 19,289 31

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to girding with Sack-cloath and behold joy and gladness slaying Oxen and killing Sheep eating Flesh and drinking Wine saying with the Epicurean Drolls of all Ages Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die And it was revealed in my ears by the Lord of Hosts saith the Prophet surely this Iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die saith the Lord God of Hosts Nor do I aggravate the matter here by this Comparison beyond what is Just and Right For whensoever our Governors both in Church and State do by their Laws and Orders call us to Mourning and Fasting and Humiliation we are to look upon it and interpret it as if God himself call'd us by them thereunto See 2 Cor. 5.20 1 Thes 4.8 c. and he expects we should take the warning which they as his Deputies give us and construes our despising of them as a contempt to himself by whose Authority they Act And so also of old he gave the warning to his People according to that of the Prophet Joel ch 2. Blow the Trumpet Sanctifie a Fast Call a Solemn Assembly Gather the People Sanctifie the Congregation Assemble the Elders gather the Children and those that suck the Breasts Let the Bride-groom go forth of his Chamber and the Bride out of her Closet Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the Porch and the Altar and let them say spare thy People O Lord This you see is the Truth of the Case we are all herein Transgressors though it may be aggravated in some by their Contumacy and mitigated in others by their Seduction and Inadvertency Beseech we God of his infinite mercy therefore that he lay not this great Iniquity to the Charge of this sinful Kingdom Pray we as Moses did for the Israelites Deut. 9.27 Look not O Lord unto the stubbornness of this People nor to their wickedness nor to their sin Or as we have it our Letany From hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us However upon all these Considerations laid together I have purposely diverted unto the Text even now Read that I might meet with those who will not so much as afford their presence at such a Solemnity and give them that account of this part of our Service which may by Gods Grace engage them hereafter to a conscionable frequenting of it And that I may do this with the better success I will First set before you the Law and Practise as it stood among the Israelites what was the Divine institution and Ordinance among them in this matter and then Secondly shew you how far we are still concerned in it or what this observance among them suggests to invite and justifie or vindicate our imitation First It is good to consider the Order which the Lord kept with his People in times pasts T. 6. L. 1. p. 196. as the Nonconformists themselves have sometimes worded it upon other Occasions The First provision about this we Read of Deuter. 11.26 c. Behold saith Moses Augmentatio Boni Diminutio Boni Aben-Ezra I set before you this day a Blessing and a Curse that is Good and Evil Happyness and Misery A Blessing if ye obey the Commandment of the Lord your God which I Command you this day and a Curse if ye will not obey And it shall come to pass saith he when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the Land whither thou goest to Possess it that thou shalt put the Blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the Curse upon Mount Ebel Are they not on the other side Jordan c Ainsworth in Loc. Thou shalt put or give the Blessing Upon or Towards Mount Gerizim for so the Hebrew Preposition Gnal sometimes signifies that is cause it to be pronounced there and so the Curse in like manner Upon or Towards Mount Ebel Thou shalt see or take care that the Blessing and Curse be given forth by the Priests Dandam curabis operâ scil Levitarum Vatablus the Levites towards these Mountains respectively by the Levites I say whose Office it was to teach Jacob Gods Judgments Deut. 33.10 and Israel his Law by whom God had before ordered the Solemn Blessing ch 10. and the Curses too as afterwards we find it But of this same matter he speaks more particularly and distinctly in This 27th Chapter Psal 12. c. These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the People when ye are come over Jordan Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph under which Ephraim and Manasseh and Benjamin These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to Bless the People Vatablus ad audiendam benedictionem to hear the Blessing pronounced on the People for Obedience And these shall stand upon Mount Ebel to Curse Reuben Gad and Asher and Zebulun Dan and Naphtali These on Mount Ebel to Curse or for the Cursing that is in like manner to hear the Curse denounced for Disobedience For the People were not on either Mountain to pronounce the Blessing or the Curse but to hear and witness unto both proclaimed by the Levites as it follows And the Levites shall speak and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice Cursed be or is the man that maketh any Graven or Molten Image an abomination to the Lord the work of the hands of the Craftsman and putteth it in a secret place And all the People shall answer and say Amen Cursed is he that setteth light by his Father or his Mother And all the People shall say Amen c. Munster is mistaken who reckon'd but 11. in Twelve particulars in the end of each of which it is prescribed still in words at length And all the People shall say Amen And as this Office was twice prescribed by Moses in the name of God unto them as we have seen so afterwards we find it put in practice under Joshua when he had Conducted them over Jordan to this place Josh 8.33 c. And all Israel and their Elders and Officers and their Judges stood on this side the Ark and on that side before the Priests the Levites which bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord as well the stranger that is the Proselite as he that was born among them Half of them over against Mount Gerizim and half of them over against Mount Ebel as Moses the Servant of the Lord had Commanded before that they should Bless the People of Israel And afterwards he Read all the words of the Law the Blessings and Cursings according to all that is written in the Book of the Law there was not a word of all that Moses Commanded which Joshua read not before all the Congregation of Israel with the Women and the little ones and the Strangers that were Conversant among them An august and full assembly we see here of the Rulers and all the People Women and Children too and Strangers who had embraced their Religion