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A31437	Diatribe triplex, or, A threefold exercitation concerning 1. Superstition, 2. Will-worship, 3. Christmas festivall, with the reverend and learned Dr. Hammond / by Daniel Cawdry ...	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1654 (1654)	Wing C1626; ESTC R5692	101,463	214

which is due to such and I am not blameworthy If hee meane that his resolution and vow makes his voluntary oblation more accepted he addes to his Superstition to second Will-worship with a vow and so profanes his vow as well as the worship of God If he meane that his vow is a further degree of worship what will hee answer to the Papists who make vowes of single life and povertie c. to be a speciall worship of God which he rejects If he say their Vowes are of things unlawfull but mine of things lawfull I grant this difference but then say that in making those vowes or things vowed to be parts of the worship of God they both agree and both are Superstitious § Sect. 53. 41. It is not then the straining of these any degree above their ranke as elevating an ecclesiasticall constitution into a Divine precept c. That onely makes him faulty and that perhaps saies he capable of the title of Superstition For if either the Church or he place divine worship acceptance more acceptance because not commanded or more perfection c. in such performances it is and will be Superstition still what ever they think Besides in devised worship it is not enough to free from guilt of Superstition to say or think I account this or that holy onely by the Authority of the Church and not of Christ For whosoever is the Author of such Holinesse he places more in it than God allowes and so must needs be Superstitious § 42. Obj. Papists and other Superstitious persons have don so and so the thing is Superstitious and must be forborn Sol. 1. Sect. 54. The ill use of a thing will not corrupt a thing commanded or an innocent thing True but we suppose your voluntary oblation not to be a thing commanded but to be a thing forbidden as all Willworship is and therefore to be forborn 2. He saies there is nothing to oblige me to abstain from that which they have Superstitiously used unlesse danger of being thought Superstitious as they or making others be so which is not Superstition but scandall To be thought Superstitious when I may avoid it is a wrong to my credit to cause others to be so is a wrong to their Soules But these are not consequent of that we speake of that is of Will-worship which is one of the worst kinds of Superstition tendering that to God as worship which he commanded not § 43. And now the Doctor may be pleased to review and if he will recall his bitter false uncharitable conclusion Sect. 57 58. unbeseeming both his piety and gravity For now it will appear and shall doe more hereafter that the charge of Superstition upon some men is no Mormo nor yet unjust but what is avowed by himself and party to be their opinion and practice and what is proved to be really Superstitious according to the true Notion of the word Superstition amongst Reformed Orthodox Divines which if it be not sufficiently yet manifested shall more fully be made good in the following Exercitation of Willworship EXERCITATION THE SECOND OF WILL-WORSHIP WITH DOCTOR HAMOND BY D. C. Math. 15.8 9. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honoreth me with their lips but their heart is far from me But in vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrines the commandments of men August de consens Evang. lib. 1. c 18. De um sic colere oportet quomodo ipse se colendum praecepit London Printed for John Wright at the signe of the Kings Head in the Old Bayley OF WILL-WORSHIP Section 1. HAD the Reverend and learned Doctor as it became him distinguished the words either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek or Will-worship in English before he began his Defence of them wee should better have been able to judge of his Discourse about them For the words in both languages may be taken in a double sense 1. For Voluntary Spontaneous or willing worship that is willingnesse and freenesse in worship commanded by God and then they were too blame that put an ill notion upon them Or 2. For worship devised by the wit and appointed by the will of man as contradistinguished to the wisdome and will of God and then it was not so much the ill-Fortune as he calls it as the just punishment of them to passe under an ill notion and to be taken for somewhat reproveable as well in a Christian as in an Heathen For the summe and scope of the second Commandement August de consens Evang. l. 1. c. 18. in the Affirmative part being this God must be worshiped with his owne prescribed worship and in the Negative part to forbid all devised worship of God This is acknowledged by the Doctor God is to be worshipt in a manner peculiar to him appointed by him Apend on 2d. Commandement by the wit or will of man The very name of will of man put to worship of God as opposed to the will of God the onely Rule of worship is as a brand in the forehead of it to characterize it as condemnable in all § 2. How oft or seldome the Greek word is used in other Authors or the Translators of the old Testament wee shall not trouble our selves to enquire when the thing signified by it in the second sense above in which sense the Reverend Doctor doth and must take it or he hath no Adversarie that is devised and imposed worship by the will of man is so much decryed and declaimed against in Scripture as an high Indignity and affront to the Divine Majesty This is something little to the credit of it That the simple word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are but twice a pe●ce used in the booke of wisdom and alwaies in an ill notion 2. That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it self being but once used in the New Testament it is by the judgement of most Interpreters Protestant and Popish taken in an ill notion as shall appeare hereafter § 3. What the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the place Col. 2.23 signifieth may indeed be gathered from the Contents But the Reverend Doctor seemes too short in laying of it out The Apostles discourse in that place is saies he of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doctrines of men teaching some things to be forbidden by God that he forbiddeth not This is in part true some false teachers might impose some Doctrines upon their brethren as Gods Commands when they were not as being now outdated by Christ but the scop of the Apostle is Bez. in locus to dispute in this Chapter against the corruptions that were creeping in in their Christian worship which was the use and end of those Doctrines and to stablish the Colossians against them Which that it may appear let us review the context from the 4. verse downwards Thus he begins This I say that no man should beguile you with enticing words