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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
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We must submit to this Settlement in regard of that Ministry under which it is setled these are not like those false Prophets which come in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves We know them well enough by their fruits these are contented to subsist upon that portion which the Laws of God and man allow them and would not be Pensioners to your Purses lest they should be tempted to flatter you and betray your souls for they seek not yours but you These are none of Jeroboams Priests the meanest Mechanicks amongst the people set up by an Usurper to entertain the devotions of the people in the worship of his Calves left by having recourse to Jerusalem to the Ark of God and the Priesthood that does attend upon it they should be invited to their duty and return their Allegiance to their Sovereign This Hierarchy that now attends the Ark and worship of God did not arise up of it self as the heads of Factions many times do or out of the bottomlesse pit which is no better a Pedigree but it derives its Mission and Authority as it should do in a visible line of succession from Christ and his Apostles and is most Consonant to the pattern in the Old Testament where as we are told by the Apostle the Synagogue was a Type or Shadow of the Christian Church Heb. 10.1 where likewise God did promise that for the service of this Church being made up for the most part of Gentiles He would take of the Gentiles and make them Priests and Levites to himself Isa 66.22 by which legal name of Priests and Levites what doth he understand but such as we call Presbyters and Deacons upon which grounds the Antient Fathers presum'd a correspondence between that Hierarchy of the old and this of the New Testament And if we look into the Degrees of this Hierarchy we shall find they run parallel in their agreement See Clavi Trabales p. 117. with those designed of old to Minister unto the Ark of God There was Aaron answerable to Christ Eleazar a Numb 3.32 Neh. 11.10 11 14. to Archbishops Princes b Ezr. 8.24 29. of Priests b to Bishops Priests to Presbyters Princes c Neh. 11.16 22. of Levites c to Archdeacons Levites to Deacons Nethinims to Clerks and Sextons Is it not probable then that God will bless and accept of a Ministery of his own institution and allowance 1 Chron. 15.12 rather then one of our fond contrivance and seeing the saving efficacy of the Ministery depends wholly upon Gods blessing and gracious acceptation are we not highly concern'd to submit to that Ministry which derives its Original regularly from God and upon that account hath the fairest title to his blessing and acceptation if this be not inducement enough we have an obligation laid upon us from his command Heb. 13.7 Remember your Prelates your guides which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation and Vers 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you 4. There is one Consideration more that should induce you to submit to this Settlement of the Ark and that is the solemnity with which it is setled Besides the Type and Pattern for it in the Old Testament there are four general Rules left upon Record by the Apostle for the direction of Prelates and other Superiours in setling the Ark of Gods solemn worship 1. That all be done to the glory of God a 1 Cor. 10.31 2. That all be done to the edification of the Church of God b 1 Cor. 14.26 3. That all be done decently and worthily c 1 Cor. 11.27 29. as becomes the service we perform and the Majesty we adore d 1 Cor. 14.40 4. That all things be done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to order e 1 Cor. 14.40 These Rules are observ'd in our Settlement 1. And first of the last of these It belongs unquestionably to the Office of Ecclesiastical Governours to set things in Order so St Paul in the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 11. ult The rest will I set in order * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when I come so Titus in Crete an Island that had 100 Cities in it for this cause I left thee in Crete that thou shouldst set in order †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the things that are wanting or left undone Tit. 1.5 and it was not left to every mans choice whether he would submit such as did not observe these Orders were punished by the censures of the Church 2 Thes 3.6 14 15. Now we command you brethren in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not after the tradition which he received of us But when Order is kept it is matter of satisfaction to the Apostle so he tells the Colossians for though I be absent in the flesh yet am I with you in the Spirit joying and beholding your order It cannot be denied Col. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but this Rule is observed amongst us in the Settlement of the Ark the solemn worship and service of God is setled by Order And 2. It is setled decently is it decent to be uncovered in the presence of a Magistrate and is it not decent to be so in the presence of the eternal God is it decent to kneel when you tender a Petition to your Prince and is it not decent to do so when you Petition the King of Kings is it decent to rise up and bow the head when you make an acknowledgment to your Superiours and is it not decent to use the like reverence when you address your recognitions and homage to him who is Lord over all blessed for ever is not external bodily worship required in the second Commandment Is it not your duty are you not called upon in holy Scripture to worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse And what doth the Church of England require of you but this in her solemn service And 3. Is not the Settlement of the Ark according to the third Rule for edification I hope there are none so impudent as to deny it of the Prayers themselves and those Portions of Scripture Hymns appointed in this Service these are not non-sense they are intelligible and for edification and for the rest the Gestures and Ceremonies I shall make it clear to you We kneel at our prayers to signifie that we are in want and that we are humble Petitioners to a Divince Majesty We stand up at the Gospel and the Creed out of Reverence not only to signifie that we will stand fast in the profession of