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A25462	Mysterium pietatis or The mysterie of godlinesse wherein the mysteries contained in the incarnation circumcision wise-men passion resurrection ascension. Of the Son of God, and comeing of the Holy-Ghost, are unfolded and applied. At Edinburgh. By Will. Annand, M.A. one of the ministers of that city, late of University Coll. Oxon.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3220; ESTC R218527	157,174	382

Mysterium Pietatis OR THE Mysterie of Godlinesse WHEREIN THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE Incarnation Circumcision Wise-Men Passion Resurrection Ascension OF The SON of GOD and comeing of the HOLY-GHOST are unfolded and applied AT EDINBVRGH By Will. Ar●and M. A. o●e of the Ministers of that City la●e of Vniversity Coll. OXON I. Tim. III. XVI And without contr●versie great is the Mysterie of Godliness London Printed for Robert Boult●r at the Turks-head in Corn-hill near to the Royall Exchange ANNO DO 1671. To the right Reverend Father in God George by the Mercie of God Lord Bishop of Edinburgh My LORD THE Almighty in His Law ordered none to appear before him empty handed yet he himself being to Flesh invisible the present was an offering to His Priest God who is also called Good accounting it churlish to addresse in thankfulnesse to Him without something that figured bounty to His Servant neither would he have his People alwayes takeing but sometimes also giveing unto which Law as a Conformist I in this your Clinical condition comeing to receive your Blessing presume to present this my Mysterium in regard of your Acquaintance with Godlinesse not according to the new stile which intimats separation but to Scr●pture-Dialect Respecti●● Holinesse and peace You have had experience of the CROSS and that at home we by your Lordships order in our Pulpits pray for your PASCH your self waits for ASCENSION in your bed the power of the RESURRECTION haveing said be not affraid My LORD when the Rivers of Babylon begu● to swell I mean when those tyds of confusion that destroyed all order in these pleasant Lands of late years did first rage you were one of the Hundreth and Twenty that resolved TO SIT by and weep retiring from your own to other Countries to any Kingdom rather then IN those waters to become instrumental of your Countries Sorrow Death or Discredit How did my dear and worthy Father your Brother and Companion in that Tribulation and in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ exult at his Death that he had in a bloody Time been free of the blood of all men whether executed on the scaffold or slain in battel and that in a time when one cryed up Character of a perfect Evangelist was to be an Incendiary to which how vehemently was he solicited in both Kingdomes IN those dayes of unleavened bread the Angel who Redeemed you from the same evill made you find Favour in the sight 〈◊〉 Strangers Providence among them alott alottin● you a Charge peculiarly respecting Church-Festivities and that Theme pursu'd untill Iniquity and Invasion gave Check to Royalty and Order but these again being Captiv'd by Truth and Decency a door was open'd and that Holy subject a fresh prosecuted Vntill God and the King whom you alwayes joyned called you to weare an Honourable Mytre in that City wherin you had so signaly Innocently and patiently endured the Crosse. VPON which score unto whom fitter could this manuel be delivered for Patronage then to you my dear Lord The Author co●fiding to be participant of the effects of those vertues whereof Experience hath evidenced to him you are copiously endowed conveyed into your breast as it were by Christanity and Blood finding one William Archbishop of St. Andrews Anno Dom. 1279. Chronicled for a lover of peace and your Names-sake and our Martyr Mr. George Wisheart to be fam'de for Humility and Charity Vpon which rocks I build my presentment Conceiving that your Aged Young and yet Accomplished Abilities shall not disdain my Improportionat Dedication but that you shall depart in peace even with me pardoning my failings praying for directtion to my good Intentions and for Additament to my weak endowments In gratitude whereof that your Nunc Dimittis with Simeon may be in Peace and that Peace to come in Job's opportunity as a shock of Corn cometh in his Season shall be the Prayer of My LORD Your Lordships most Obedient Son and Servant WILL. ANNAND From my Study May 15. 1671. To the Courteous Reader Ingenuous Friend IT is not unknown that Solomon of old said of makeing many Books there is no end yet by the expression it 's probable he only understood his own continued pains therein having acc●mplished Abilities therefore But grant him to check the plurality of other Writters I dare engage and promise never to write more that since his time if there had not been multitudes of Authors we should not have had one book for a hundreth which yet we profitably turn over Freedom therefore of Writting not being called in I have for my Mysteria the Apology of a late publisher in the year 1659. a time wherein the Presse like a skittish Jad had broke all bridles Curbs and Girhts of Licenses and Restraints who entitled his Book Let me speak too and believe it in some things he was worth hearing for in all to be perfect is the sole priviledge of Almighty GOD. LET me declare that I knew of no false Copies abroad of these Sermons that I never feared to be injured thereby though there had that Importunities from others never induced me to a composure or that Arguments were offer'd urging a necessity of Publication being convinced that the perpetual burying of these sheets should never have caused any sensible alteration in the affairs under agitation about the present expedition or Dunkirk Randevouz of the most Christian King But profitable I humbly conceiv'd they might be to such as will read then practise and having an education that said Stand off to tattle with a Natural Genius abominating To meddle I have some spare houres forming conveniences for profitting my Generation the immediate Parent of this and other Subjects which Time and Opportunity may bring to light IT is plain white-seam work without the Point or Lace of Marginal citations because Toylsome and Expensive yet one thing troubled me which was the throng of Authors upon this Subject being forced as sometimes Travellers are to forsake the path but never I hope the rode untill the Croud passed by which as may be perceived by the Scrutinous I had or took time to look about the Country and what others did lesse heed i● here respected with greater care and Vice Versa IF thou hast ever Printed thy self want of Charity is not to be surmised if otherwise perhaps thy Relations thy Kinsman thy Father hath and I presume some Paragraph or other hath Redundancy Deficiency Some Section containeth somewhat too laxe too dark and upon this score crosse I pray thee my Failings Beseeching also that when in the Title thou reads the Mysterie of the INCARNATION or ASCENSION unfolded and applied thou wouldst understand the phrase with this Restrictive note IN PART Farewell An advertisment by way of Caution unto all Readers AMONG other blemishes wherewith the face of this Age is disfigured and whereof she ought to be accused as being degenerat from that Pristine Beauty Justice Equity of which our more upright

Ancestors bequeathed ample legacies one is that whatever savors of that Ancient Doctrine established in the Church who for her age and Religious hoarinesse ought to be accounted venerable Invidiously is by some foolishly is by many houted upon as Superstitious Idolatrous and Anomolous to verity and Truth atteesting yet without ground that whatever in Divinis cannot be found in express text as Fornication should not be named among Saints Obtruding this upon some Disciples it cannot be supposed but this smal treatise because an ofspring of Antiquity shall be deemed scandalous and as a misshappen birth in the Midwifery of their forestalled fancy be smother'd as soon as parted from the womb of the Press and not buried but cast forth through the dung-gate of Obloquie or into the Kidrone of disdain NOT considering that if the question should be put concerning some approved practises and strongly pleaded for Resolves the legitimating of many Acts should be found to emerge from Scripture Logically that is Rationally understood conform to that rule a Minore ad Majus The Iewes appointing feasts as that of Dedication one great Jew instituting a feast as that of Purim the Zealous separating dayes from civil use to commemorat mercy the devout Magistrate designing such and such hours o● dayes for publick preaching Colledges Halls Hospitalls Schools solemnizing dayes in memory of their pious Founders Religious Benefactors exempteth the Church from Censure in enacting festivitys for her Lords birth passion or Resurrection SINCE the world could not contain the books had all things been writen which were done or said concerning it by Christ the world I inferr is to rest satisfied when any thing is done not contrary to the things in that one Book taught and delivered by him or at least not to condemn it which so much the less ●s to be done that the Judges of these exercises seldome if ever were they exactly scann'd are found seriously to reflect upon any one day in the year the matter wherefore these dayes were set apart which they condemne because fixed principaly upon one day ANABAPTISTS infringe that liberty our Lord hath procured for us in denying infant-baptism as if they were without the Covenant in which more higher priveledges are tacitly granted to the Jew then Christian he wanting the other enjoying the comforts of admitting his Son into that promise made of old unto the people the Almighty styling himself Lord God of your Fathers whereas the Baptized by them stands in a particular or personall Relation to the Same Lord from which there doth not flow so eminent Consolation in case of Death in Infancy AND such who will not allow the Church in separating times of worship for dazeling that is singular acts of Grace ought to reflect how the vesture of the Christian under Gospel-dispensation is our-tail'd being made more short more bare more thinn that is the Churches freedom more impared by the Death of he● Saviour then amplified and enlarged we b●●fore seeing the Phylactery of the Iew so extensively broad large honourably gracefull under Typicall oblations Synagogue and Temple-service the removeall of which discharging to the now Believer that piece of true devotion wherein the Faithfull of old appeared before God with joy haveing Roome that is liberty to make to keep Holy-day IT S granted that neither Jew nor Gentile men or Angel ●an dare or make offer to make a day holy now but to observe a day Holily or to separate a Civil day that is one of the six for a Holy use a Saint-like encompassing the throne of God for Celebrating praise or powring forth prayer as by many it is held good and performed in the week so ought it not to be judged supperstitious if done by others in the Return of the year IVDICIOUS Calvin expoundeth those places of St Paul Orthodoxly genuine Let no man judge you in meat or drinke or in respect of a holy day 2 Cal. 16. Ye observe day●s and months and times and years Gal. 4.10 One man esteemeth one day above another Rom. 14.5 For quis nisi Furioso who saith he but Mad-men will here understand any observation condemned save what ritualy shadowed Christ to come neque Ecclesias damnavero neither shall I censure marke the words those Churches who have instituted other solemn dayes for the Congregations Conveening together they Keeping from superstition of which they shall be free when appointed purely for good order and Discipline not as shadows of the Law c. Institut lib. 2. c. 8. S. 33. Whence its deducible that feasts so observed are not to be accounted either Jewish or Popish they being purely to Commemorat Christ already come and appointed for that end before either Pope or Romish Antichrist that is to say before the usurpation of the Bishop of Rome above all called gods FOR when the Records of the Church shall be exactly viewed and when again more diligently inspected and a search made after that then for greater security if once more there be a tumbling over the monuments of Ancient times the Time the Place the Persons by whom the dayes here marked were distinguished and first instituted shall never be found never be heard of so that it was a puzling and thorny question and for ought we find an Unanswered one proposed by our Late Soveraign April ● 1647. of blessed memory in these words I desire to be resolved why the new Reformers discharge the keeping of Easter the Celebration wherof being of the same Authority which changed the Iewish Sabbath into the Lords-day Saturday being no where discharged wherefor it must be the Churches Authority that changed the one and instituted the other therefore my opinion is that those who will not keep this Feast may as well return to the observation of Saturday and refuse the weekly Sunday when any body can shew me that herein I am in an error I shall not be a shamed to confesse and amend it till when you Meaning the Comissioners and Ministers treating in the Isle of Wight Know my mind C. R. THERE is no foot-steps of Antiquity indeed declaring the rise either of the one or other and those Arguments from proportion touching the vndenyed one wants not their influence in approving the other controverted the old Church by her own power abolishing the Iewish Sabbath though expresse law and Divine sanction for its observance is scattered throughout Moses the Prophets the present Church abrogating by not using Apostolical constitutions though enjoyned by the holy Ghost in proper terms as not abstaining from blood not anointing the sick not tarrying one for another before the Sacrament of the Supper in St. Pauls sense not having Deaconesses to attend the poor Clinick sick and bed-rid Against which such as are not distracted foameth not nor at the Churches desuetude thereof being convinced at the Reasonablnesse of her omission and her Authority so to doe which in the case under debate is also to be acquiesed in and