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Anti-boreale an answer to that seditious and lewd piece of poetry upon Master Calamy's late confinement, supposed his who wrote Iter boreale.
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Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.
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shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering For my name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts This is that solemn Commemorative Oblation of the Sacrifice of the Cross with our Adorations Laudes and Prayers in that Sacramental Eucharist of Christs own Institution Christ is given us in pretium saith that Learned Bishop * Bishop Andrews Ser. 2. of the Nativity for a price a price either of ransome to bring out de loco caliginoso or a price of purchase of that where without it we have no interest the Kingdom of Heaven For both he is given Non habentes oblationem majorem neque puriorem quae Deo posset offerri quà m Eucharistiam eam in omni offerunt loco Dignam planè Deo oblationem cujus respectu jam holocaustae bostiae omnes antiquae Deo non placent tantopere illa placet sc Eucharistia Paul de Palacio in Mal. 1.11 offer we him for both He was given us to that end we might give him back We wanted we had nothing valuable that we might have this he gave us as a thing of greatest price to offer for that which needeth a great price our sins so many in number and so foul in quality We had nothing worthy God This He gave us that is worthy him which cannot be but accepted offer we it never so often Let us then offer him and in the act of offering ask of him what is meet And a little after This his flesh he gave for us in sacrifice and this he giveth us in the Sacrament that the Sacrifice may by the Sacrament be truly applied to us What an irreligious what a scandalous neglect of the Ark of God in respect of this part of our Solemn worship hath been throughout this Kingdom I need not tell you you cannot but remember it But I wish there were and I pray God there may be such a sense of our miscarriages in these particulars as may produce a Salutary shame a Cordial and thorow humiliation There is nothing else can fit us for so lovely a prospect as is the external Beauty of Gods house and solemn worship To this purpose it is very remarkable what the Lord saith to the Prophet Ezekiel Chap. 43.10 11. Thou Son of man shew the house to the house of Israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern And if they be ashamed of all that they have done shew them the Form of the House and the fashion thereof and the goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the Forms thereof and all the Ordinances thereof and all the Forms thereof and all the Laws thereof and write it in their sight that they may keep the whole Form thereof and all the Ordinances thereof and do them And this will lead me to the last Stage of my Discourse which is the end of my Design viz. to give you some directions how you are to demean your selves in reference to the Ark of Gods solemn worship But these Directions should be usher'd in with a word or two of admonition to such as are in highest Authority over us 1. The First is To support and countenance the Hierarchy that Order of men who are set apart by a special act of Consecration to attend the service of the Ark the Ark of God cannot appear glorious under the Ministry of a contemptible Priesthood It is the Learning and Piety the Prudence and Gravity the Splendor and Authority of the Episcopal Order that must keep up the Ark in a steady posture amongst us Aspiring Novices will run it into bogs and precipices and leave it without a guard to be overlaid with Superstition or exposed to the rude hands of Sacriledge and Prophaness Where there is such a Hierarchy as keeps every one to his Station and Office there the people are instructed by the example of their regular subordination to keep their Order and Decorum and this is the Apostles Bulwark opposed to seduction Col. 2.5 and such as keep to it are impregnable For as that Reverend and Learned Bishop observes Bishop Daven ad Colos 2.5 Rarò in errores praecipitantur qui ordinem obedientiae Praepositis debitum observant è contrà ubi ordo praecipiendi parendi negligitur ibi tanquam per disjectam aciem facile perrumpitur They seldom fall into Errours that observe the order of obedience due unto their Prelates * Not one Ranter or Quaker or Anabaptist of all that adhere to the Bishop nor an Antitrinitarian c. but on the contrary where the order of commanding and obeying is neglected there the enemy easily breaks in as into a routed Army To this purpose we may observe that Holy Martyr St. Ignatius very full and pressing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be ye subject unto the Bishop as unto the Lord For he watcheth for your souls as he that must give account Epist. ad Trallian And a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is necessary that you do nothing that you attempt nothing without the Bishop And a while after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reverence your Bishop even as Christ according to the precept of the blessed Apostles For he that is within the Altar within the communion of the Church is an intire pure Christian and for this cause obey your Bishop and the Priests But he that is not within this communion he that acts of his own head without the Bishop not in conformity with him and the Priests and Deacons is polluted in his Conscience and is worse then an Infidel * 1 Tim. 5.8 thus Ignatius The Hierarchy therefore of the Church is by all means to be kept up and all due veneration and obedience is to be paid to it But this belongs chiefly to the Higher Powers and yet something you may all do towards it It is Recorded that when Chrysostome was to be banished from Constantinople the people were so affected with him that they all went to the Emperour and Petitioned for Chrysostome professing they could no more miss Chrysostome then they could miss the Sun out of the Firmament and yet which I desire you to observe and carry home with you Chrysostome was not the peoples mercenary Curate or flattering Heb. 13.17 Lecturer but the Bishop of the Diocess and his See was Constantinople And I suppose this might be one reason why Mr. Calamy as he saith was so loth fully to tell that story But 2. There is a second Admonition directed to all that are concern'd herein to take care that this Hierarchy be really such as the name importeth A Holy Order or Governance Holy in their persons and conversation and holy in their ministration and address Lev. 10.3 God will be sanctified of all those that draw nigh unto him Be ye holy ye that bear the vessels of the Lord upon the bells of the horses Zach. 14.10 saith the Prophet shall be
cadent omnia quae terrena sunt ac mundus ipse subvertetur saith Origen such an Earth-quake might ensue as should remove those Mountains of earth that oppose in our way to heaven and level the world under our feet and bring down the Comforter to inlighten and assist us Let us therefore approach the Ark of God with unanimity and this will make us inclinable to the last part of our duty in our demeanor towards the Ark. 4. To approach it with uniformity for our unanimity is to terminate and center there in uniformity Hence the Apostle is so pathetical 1 Cor. 1.10 Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions or Schisms among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment And why so why that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 15.6 That promise of God Jer. 32.39 Ezek. 11.19 I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever hath reference certainly to the Christian Church But this is such a promise as implies our co-operation for the accomplishment of it I demand then whether God hath perform'd his Engagement to the Christian Church whether he hath done his part in giving his people one way if not then we are to expect some new Revelations for the discovery of that way for how shall it be set open to us otherwise But this is not only contradicted by the Apostle but sentenced too with the dreadful commination of an Anathema for thus he saith though we or an Angel from heaven Gal. 1.8 9. preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed And for the greater verification of this truth he doubles his asseveration as we said before so say I now again if any man preach any other Gospel unto you then that ye have received let him be accursed I am the way saith our Saviour and the truth too and that can be but one we have the mind of Christ 1 Cor. 2.16 saith the Apostle and no man can no man dare deny that to be the one way that God hath promised and this is set open to the world Acts 16.17 by the Ministry of the Apostles and Evangelists These men are the servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of salvation And if you ask me why some men refuse to walk in this way I must refer you to some of their stubborn fellow travellers for answer Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk therein Jer. 6.16 And why not why here lies the quarrel God hath appointed certain Guides to direct us and point out the way to us and we are offended at this we make our Guides our stumbling-blocks God hath also given a general Order to these Guides to set up some shades for our better accommodation and to hang up some lights for our more safe and regular walking in this way leaving it to their care and prudence what these shades shall be made of and where these lights shall be set up and here having an over-weening conceit of our own worth and wanting that due reverence for our Guides and Governours which we ought to have we fall out in and about the way too pride and prejudice Envy and Animosity strike in and make us NON-CONFORMISTS The Apostle foresaw this or rather had a present intuition of it in some Churches of his own planting and therefore when he injoyns this accord and uniformity for securing this duty he prescribes also these Caveats Let nothing be done through strif Phil. 2.2 3. or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better then themselves And the same charge he gives to the Ephesians Ephes 4.1 2 3. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long suffering forbearing one another in love and by keeping this temper especially towards our Guides endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Uniformity is this bond of the Churches peace and 't is that that makes her terrible as an Army with Banners which attribute no society of men can boast of Cant. 6.10 but where they all keep the same posture and observe the same motions and obey the same word of command under their respective Officers In obedience therefore to the Apostles command as well as for the honour and advantage of Gods Church Let us as many as be perfect be thus minded Phil. 3.15 that is as it follows in the next verse Let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing And I must add to take away an objection that may arise from the words intervening it may be very justly expected that we should be so perfect as is there required for though some novices in the Faith who were then but newly crept out of the darkness of Heathenism or the shades of the Jewish observances though these I say might then expect some further Revelation to inlighten them more clearly in that which by reason of their ignorance or prejudice they were not for the present satisfied in yet we are to expect no such matter we have already attain'd to the utmost we can expect of immediate Revelation a Gal. 2.8 9. Jud. ep 3. and it is our duty Divine Revelation and Command hath made it so in all doubtful matters to resign our judgments up to the conduct of such Guides †Heb. 13 7 17. as God hath set over us and for the truth of this Position I appeal to the declared doctrine of Mr. Baxter for thus he saith * In his Unsavoury Volum◠against Mr. Crandon or his Nosegay presented to Mr. Joseph Caryll page 83. ante finem Let me be bold to tell my opinion to my Brethren of the Ministry that though I deny them to have either credit or Authority against the known Word of God yet so great is their credit and Authority even as Teachers and Guides of the Church in Causes agreeable to the Word and in Causes to the people doubtful and unknown and in Causes left by the Word to their determination the Word determining them but generally that I think the ignorance of this truth hath been the main cause of our sad Confusions and Schisms in England and that the Ministers have been guilty of it partly by an over-modest concealing their Authority and partly by an indiscreet opposition to the Papists errour of the Authority of the Church and I think that till we have better