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A33338	Medulla theologiæ, or, The marrow of divinity contained in sundry questions and cases of conscience, both speculative and practical : the greatest part of them collected out of the works of our most judicious, experienced and orthodox English divines, the rest are supplied by the authour / by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4547; ESTC R1963	530,206	506

therefore much more may we to the Images of God and the Saints in Heaven Answ. Kneeling before the Chaire of State is a meer Civil VVorship only to shew our subiection to our lawful Soveraign and so is commanded by God but we have no such warrant to bowe to Images neither is it Gods VVill that they should be Tokens of his Presence Quest. VVhat Vertues are required in religious Adoration Answ. Feare which is a great part of Gods VVorship Isa. 29.13 with Mat. 15.8 9. where feare and worship a●e taken for one and the same Inward obedience of the hidden man of the heart which is preferred before sacrifice 1 Sam. 15.22 and this stands in two things 1. In yielding subjection of the Conscience to the Commands Threats and Promises of God so that we are willing to be bound by them 2. VVhen the rest of the powers of the soul in their place and time perform obedience to God 2 Cor. 10.5 Patience which is when a man in his afflictions submits his VVill to Gods and quiets his heart because its the Lords doing Psal. 37.7 and 39.9 2 Sam. 15.26 Thankfulnesse to God which shewes it self in two things 1. In acknowledging that our selves and whatsoever we have is Gods and proceeds from his blessing alone 2. In consecrating our bodies soules callings labours and our lives to the honour and service of God Quest. VVhat Adoration is due to the creatures Answ. The creatures are either 1. Evil spirits 2. Good Angels 3. Living men 4. Saints departed Quest. Is any Adoration due to the evil spirits Answ. No for they are Gods enemies and accursed of him therefore no honour is due to them neither are we to have any dealing with them at all but utterlie to renounce whatsoever comes from them or their instruments as Spells Charmes Enchantments c. which serve to work wonders but have no such vertue from God either by Creation Nature Word or Institution Quest. VVhat Adoration is due to the good Angels Answ. If they did appear to us and we certainly knew them we might adore them but only with a civil and sociall worship So Gen. 19.1 they refuse Religious worship Rev. 19.10 Quest. VVhat Adoration is due to men Answ. That which is meerly civil and that in respect of the gifts of God that we see in them as also of the authority and place they have amongst us Enjoyned in the fifth Commandment So we see in Abraham G●n 23.7 which Adoration must be according to the laudable custome of the Countrey where we live Quest. May not religious or mixt Adoration be given to them Answ. By no means Peter blamed Cornelius for it Acts 10.25 26. Mordecai refused to give it to Haman Esther 3.2 Kissing the Popes toe is therefore unlawful because its a Civil worship mixed with Religious tendred to him as to Christs Vicar and is not done to any Potentate on the earth Quest. VVhat Adoration is due to the Saints departed Answ. All the worship that we owe them is no more but a reverend esteem of their persons and imitation of their vertues No religious worship is due to them they having nothing to do with us nor we with them Quest. Doth any Adoration belong to the unreasonable creatures Answ. No there belongs nothing to them but a reverend and holy use of them For Adoration is a signe of subjection in the Inferiour to the Superiour but Man is their Superiour and therefore is not to worship them therefore not the reliques of Saints or the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament Quest. Is any Adoration due to the works of the Creatures viz. Images Answ. None at all For 1. It s expresly forbidden in the Second Commandment 2. The Superiour must perform no Adoration to the Inferiour Now man is a more excellent Image of God then any other Image and therefore better then it yea the meanest worme which is Gods VVorkmanship is better then any Image made by man therefore we may better worship a worme then an Image Mr. Perkins Vol. 2. p. 84 c. CHAP. V. Questions and Cases of Conscience about Adultery Quest. WHat is Adultery Answ. It is uncleannesse about the Act of generation between a man and a woman wherof one at the least is married or betrothed to another Quest. Whether wh●n the husband or wife committeth Adultery the bond of Marriage is thereby dissolved Answ. No neither may the nocent nor innocent party put the other away but still they remain man and wife till the cause be fairly heard by a lawful Magistrate and by him judged and determined which is proved 1. Because the Scripture still calls them man and wife Abraham was still Sarahs husband after he had committed Adultery by lying with Hagar So of David c. 2. Though Christ hath allowed it to the innocent party that he or she may commence that action and being judged put the other away yet no where hath he commanded it that before judgement he should put her away which if she had ceased to be his wife he would have done Matth. 19.9 3. Only he that joyned them can separate them and make them not man and wife which is God only Indeed Jerome reports of Fabiola that without the judgment of the Church or Magistrate she put away her husband who was a very vitious and an adulterous man But though he write not the rest yet others say that she was made to do publick pennance not that she made a divorce but because she did it of her self without the judgement of the Church 4. As private and clandestine marriages are not allowed by reason of manifold inconveniences So privy and secret divorces are not allowable because it would prove prejudicial to the good of many 5. They are man and wife till a just cause be justly known to the contrary but that cannot be in private but before a competent Judge God allowing none to be accounted Adulterers but such as are lawfully convicted of it before a lawful Magistrate for by no right can a man be both Party and Judge 6. If Adultery be not known to the innocent then they are still man and wife though there be great presumption of it why not then if known Knowledge or not knowledge breaks the bond never the more unlesse it be proved judged and determined 7. Divorce is a punishment for a fault committed now none may punish it but a lawful Judge See Stock on Mal. c. 2. p. 118. Quest. How may married persons prevent and withstand temptations to Adultery Answ. Consider that the Adulterer makes himself the member of an harlot which will lie heavy upon the conscience when time serves that in sinning this sin the body is thus made the member of a Strumpet Consider that Adultery gives a deadly blow to the knot of marriage It s cried out on exceedingly in the word It cuts asunder the sinewes of families It corrupts the minde and takes away the use of reason It brought

of Christ wherein there are so many corrupt persons Answ. They may and are true Churches Look upon Jerusal●m Matth. 23.37 you shall see that the eleven Tribes were Apostates there were in it dumb dogs Isa. 56.10 there were Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites they had corrupted the Doctrine of the Law with their false glosses the Temple was made a den of thieves yet the Evangelist calls it the holy City and that 1. Because there was the service of the true God in the Temple the Word preached Sacrifices offered the meetings of the Church of God 2. Because as yet they had not received a bill of divorcement So have not we the word of God preached the Sacraments truly administred c. and when did the Lord give us a bill of divorcement and therefore to encourage us against the cavills of the Separatists let us remember 1. That the word of truth is truely preached amongst us which appears by the conversion of thousands whereas never was any converted by a word of errour Jam. 1.18 2. That our Ministers are of God because by them so many are begotten to God Christ thought it a good reason when he said believe me that I came out from the Father for the works sake the blind man saw this Joh. 9.30 3. Our meetings are holy meetings For 1. Our people are outwardly called by an holy calling and to an holy end 2. They profess faith in Christ which is an holy profession and therefore in charity they are to be judged Saints 3. Congregations are called holy in Scripture from the better part not from the greater as an heap of wheat mingled with chaff is called an heap of wheat so 1 Cor. 6.11 with chap. 2.12 4. Mixt Congregations are holy in Gods acceptation who esteems them not as they are in themselves but as members of Christ Israel at the best was a stiffnecked people ye Balaam said that God saw no iniquity in them Numb 23.21 Quest. How is the Church Gods peculiar Answ. First Because Believers are the most precious of men even the most noble upon earth Hence Cant. 6.7 they are the sons of God brethren of Christ heirs of heaven Secondly In regard of God they are a peculiar people distinct from others by the grace of Election by which they are chosen out of the world and advanced in Gods favour above all others Hence they are called an holy Nations the Spouse of Christ the dauhgter of God the choice of God and Gods delight Thirdly in regard of their whole manner and condition of life Hence they are said to dwell alone and not to be numbred amongst the Nations Numb 23.9 as for instance 1. Their Original are not some few families coming out of some corner of the Earth but they sprung of Christ of whom all the families of Heaven and Earth are called 2. Their Countrey is not of the Earth here they are Pilgrims and strangers but Heaven is their home from which they look for their Saviour Ephe. 3.15 3. Their King is neither born nor created but the everlasting King of glory who rules not some one Countrey but from Sea to Sea c. and not for an age but for ever 4. Their Lawes are Spirituall reaching the Conscience as well as the outward man most perfect never changed nor abrogated as mens be 5. Their war and weapons are not carnall but Spiritual as their chiefest enemies be their Captain was never foiled nor can be and therefore they are sure of victory befo●e they strike a blow and as for their corporal enemies they overcome them non feriendo sed ferendo not by striking but sufring 6. Their Language is that of Canaan their Speech shews them to be Citizens of Heaven therefore called a people of a pure language c. Zeph. 3.9 7. Their garments are devised and put on by God himself even the garments of innocency long robes dyed in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7.14 8. Their diet springeth not out of the Earth but descends from Heaven Jesus Christ the bread of life c. of whom whosoever feeds shall continue to eternal life Quest. Why is the Church compared to a woman Rev. 12.1 Answ. First as simply considered in her self and that for three causes 1. Because to the Woman was first made the promise of the blessed seed that should break the Serpents head and it s still made good to the Church under the same similitude for to her all the promises of God doe properly belong 2. Because she is feeble and weak as a woman without her Husband Joh. 15.5 3. Because she is a pure and chast virgin not defiled with Idolatry as the Romish strumpet is 2 Cor. 11.2 Secondly As she stands in relation to others and that 1. To God and in this relation she is the daughter of God Cant. 7.1 Psal. 45.10 2. To Christ in which relation she is the Spouse of Christ. 1. Contracted to him in his Incarnation So Cant 4.10 2 Married to him as his Bride and taken home in his second comin● to dwell with him for ever 3. To Christians and in this relation she is their Mother For a woman through the company of her husband brings forth children So the Church by her conjunction with Christ and the power of his word brings forth nurceth and brings up many children to God Quest. What duties doth this relation of a Spouse to Christ teach her Answ. First to cleave to her husband For God seeing that it was not good for Adam to be alone he made the woman of his rib being cast into a sleep and brought and married her unto him saying for this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his wife c. Gen. 2.24 So God seeing after the fall that it was much less good for man to be alone he institutes a second marriage with the second Adam whom he casts asleep by death and brings his Spouse out of his side pierced and marries the Church to him that renouncing all Loves and Lovers but him she might cleave undevidedly to him and this she must doe foure wayes 1. In person For as the wife delivers up her person to her husband alone So Believers must deliver up their souls and bodies to Jesus Christ. For 1 Cor. 6.19 20. we are no longer our own c. 2. A faithful Shouse is married but to one man 2 Cor. 11.2 So the Church 3. Christ our Husband communicates his whole person to us he gives his life for his sheep only prayes for no other 4. Christ as a faithful Husband leaves Father in Heaven and Mother on Earth and cleaves to his Wife 2. To cleave to Christ in faithful affection loving our Husband Christ as our selves nay better then our selves not loving our selves to the death for his sake seeing his love to us was stronger then death and more to us then to his own life 3. To cleave to him in affliction as a Wife takes her Husband