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A47625	A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1654 (1654)	Wing L1008; ESTC R25452	1,648,569	942

in any such exercise of religion for the end and purpose of pleasing God and getting grace from him with respect of conscience to him as esteeming that he must and will have it so or else the service shall not be well-pleasing and acceptable to him this is a part of worship or of divine Service For example a man brought an Ox or a Ramme a Lamb or such like thing and presented it to the Priest he did offer it unto God and that directly with intention of exercising obedience and faith to God Likewise this Offering was to be made by a certain person in a certain place at a certain time with certain Garments and Rites So all those observations became parts of this worship for in these also the intention of the doer was directly carried to God hoping and purposing by them to please God and exercise faith and obedience and other graces as well and as much as by the very offering it self and accounting the service not to be acceptable to God without them The things commanded here are of two sorts 1. For the performance of divine service 2. For the preservation and continuance thereof For the right performance of divine worship some things are to be looked unto for the substance and circumstances of it For the substance of worship also some things are required for the Matter of it Manner of it For the Matter some things are required for 1. The Object of the service 2. The Subject of it that is the kindes and parts of it For the Object two things are required 1. That it be to the true God alone 2. For the parts that they be such as are prescribe and appointed by the true God For the Object it must be only the true God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which is the maker of Heaven and Earth the Sonne of God our blessed Saviour and Mediatour the blessed Spirit our sanctifier which God hath manifested himself to us in the Scriptures to him and him only must we tender our worship which is so essential to worship that it cannot be true unlesse it be appropriated unto him according to the words of the Law repeated by our Saviour saying Thou shalt bown down to the Lord thy God and him alone that exclusive and confining particle our Saviour addeth by way of interpretation Shalt thou serve or worship for so that word which in the original is Thou shalt serve Christ rendereth Thou shalt worship And great cause that he alone should be worshipped who alone is worthy of worship Seeing this worship is a solemn acknowledgement of his Deity we testifie that we esteem him the onely true God upon whom we depend and to whom we give our selves as servants Secondly This true God must be the object of our worship purely and by a clear work of the understanding conceived of in his Attributes and Properties not represented to the eye or any way pictured forth or imagined under any visible or sensible form or representation because there is no possibility of resembling him to the life by any similitude that any man or creature can invent or frame yea all resemblances fall so farre short of his perfection that it will prove an imbasing of our conceits concerning him to attempt any such resemblance and therefore Deut. 4. 2. is expresse telling Israel that they heard a voice alone in the time that God came amongst them to deliver the Law and saw no manner of Image or likenesse and therefore they ought not to corrupt themselves by making any Image or Representation God is not a body but a Spirit and Essence a Spirit whose being is every way above all that all creatures can attain and reach to proportionably to the excellency thereof by the most deep contemplation of their minde And therefore also the Prophets do cry out against the picturing of God or worshipping him under any such form or picture saying Whereunto will ye liken me What similitude will ye make of me Isa. 48. 18. The way to cure this evil 1. Purge your hearts more and more from carnal affections Psalm 17. 15. Matth. 5. 8. 2. Beg the assistance of the holy Ghost to raise your apprehensions of the Divine Essence 2 Cor. 3. 14 15 16. The Spirit gives us light and makes it powerfull to change the heart 3. Be much in the study of the Scriptures they are the image of Christ and he is the image of God 2 Cor. 3. 18. 4. 4. 4. Be obedient to divine institutions God knows what worship is best for himself Col. 2. 23 Obedience to Gods will keeps up the repute of his Essence See 2 Sam. 6. 6. Nihil adeo offendit hominum mentes ac simplicitas Divinorum operum Tertul. 5. Consider your experiences of grace Exod. 15. 11. Mic. 7. 17. Luk. 1. 46. 6. Often view God in his stupendious works Psal. 104 observe the bounding of the Sea the hanging of the earth upon nothing Iob 26. 7. the beauty and motion of the heavens the order of all the creatures Hosea 2. latter end See Psal. 40. 18. 7. When you make use of sensitive things to increase your knowledge of God you must proceed by way of negation and argument and not by representation See Isa. 45. 15. 8. Labour to get a more perfect and clear notion of God follow on to know the Lord Hos. 6. 3. Heaven consists much in the vision of God For the parts of worship it is required that they be all prescribed unto us by the written word of God that he may not have cause to except against us saying Who required these things at your hands For seeing we do them to him we must from him know whether they will be acceptable unto him yea or no. His own will is the right rule of his own worship what is not conformable to the rule cannot be true worship Wherefore the Lord chargeth Israel that they should not adde any thing to the thing by him prescribed but keep themselves strictly to his appointment doing alone that very thing which he required without swerving to the right hand or to the left Deut. 4. 2. Iosh. 1. 7. Prov. 30. 2. If God had left us without a patern in the wayes of his worship we should have wandered in incertainties the Heathens by the light of nature knew that there was a God and that he was to be worshipped yet they did but grope after him because they wanted a rule of worship Humane inventions in matters of worship have been brought in 1. By Satan he knows 1. That they take away the glory of worship that only is excellent which it plenum sui 2. That they take away the Majesty and Authority of it God shews no such Majesty any where as in his Ordinances but in heaven Revel 4. 2. 3. That they take away the power of Ordinances Matth. 15. 6. all the power of Ordinances consists in Gods presence in them

of him Unkindnesse Unkindnesse is a fault This is contrary to a plain precept Put on kindnesse and Be kindly affected one toward another Reasons 1. It springs from bad causes some habitual distempers of self-conceit pride malice or ill education and a kinde of testy and pettish temper or some present passion of anger grief or fear which withdraws the minde from the consideration of that which is comely and convenient 2. The fruits of it are evil It discontenteth and offendeth those to whom it is shewed We must consider of our slips in this kinde and be humbled for them 2. Let us learn to mend this fault and to be plentifully constant in the practise of the contrary duty even to be kinde affable and gentle in our whole carriage and at all times to all men so far as just occasion offers it self and not to give over our selves so farre to any passion either of grief or anger as not to exercise this vertue Unsetlednesse See Gen. 49. 4. Iames 1. 8. Such Christians as are unstable are easily seduced 2 Tim. 3. 6. 2 Pet. 2. 14. One Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria was nicknamed Euripus because of his ebbing and flowing One sort of Sect●ries there is which will not ingage to hold any thing but are known by beleeving nothing these passe now under the name of Seekers The usual way in these daies is to play the Scepticks and question almost every thing in Religion and hold nothing or else to place Religion in some new opinion Unstedfast Christians are rotten-hearted Psal. 78. 36 37. and will never hold out in time of danger Rivet Discus Grot. Dialy si Sect. 8. p. 262. taxeth Grotius of great inconstancy Causabone Epist. 513. to Scaliger saith thus of Lipsius Omnino magnam literae jacturam in eo fecerunt majorem tamen facturae si quam verbis docuit constantiam vita exhibuisset Such Christians should be carefull to wait on the Ordinances the Ministry Ephes. 4. 14. Pray to God to stablish them see 1 Thess. 3. ult 2 Thess. 2. ult and frequent the company of setled and stablished Christians and take heed of seducers Unthankefulnesse Unthankfulnesse to God or man is a great sin It is contrary to plain precepts Col. 3. Be ye thankefull and in respect of God he saith In all things give thanks The nine Lepers are secretly taxed by our Saviour for not returning to give thanks unto him when he had delivered them from that foul and infamous disease of the leprosie The Apostle also taxeth the Gentiles for it saying That they glorified not God as God neither were they thankfull Reasons 1. It springeth from evil causes either from the strength of pride and self-conceit in that a man thinketh himself worthy of all that which is done for him and more and conceiveth that all should serve his turn or from notable folly and unreasonablenesse that he wanteth wit to consider of his own need of benefits or at least from some sudden and vehement passion and distemper 2. The effects of it are also naught it offendeth men it causeth them to repent of their labour cost love and if it be practised toward God it offendeth him also and hindereth him from bestowing benefits Let us blame our selves and be humbled for our unthankfulnesse in defrauding God or men of their due praises and acknowledgement for mercies received unthankfulnesse to God shews great blindnesse of minde great want of humility in the consideration of our own un worthinesse and want of faith in Gods providence let us be humbled for it and crave pardon of it 2. Let us be carefull to reform it and be constant in the contrary duty Usury Usury say some is a lending for gain One describes it thus Usury is when a man makes a gain of lending and binds the party borrowing without consideration of his gains or losses to repay the principall with advantage It is hard to desine some vices as Heresie Sacriledge and also Usury It is matcht with theft Ezek. 18. 13. with adultery vers 10. and with violence vers 11. It is condemned there amongst the great transgressions of the moral Law therefore that Law Levit. 25. 36. is not Judicial as some say but Moral see Exod. 22. 25. Deut. 23. 19. Psal. 15. 5. To borrow a thing on usury is to covenant with the lender to return him not only the thing lent in the full quantity of it but something over and above only in liew and recompence of the lending of it which is unlawfull saith Mr Elton on the eighth Commandment and he proves it by Ier. 15. 10. and answers there the chief objections brought for usury of any kinde Sir Francis Bacon cals it the bastard and barren imployment of money and the bastard use of money Vel minimus fructus ex pecunia percipi non potest sine Dei offensione proximi injuria Calvin Epist. 226. see his Epist. 383. where he gives strict cautions to those that take use See B. And. Theologic determinat de Usuris B. Downames Treatise on Psalm 15. against it and Knewstub on the eighth Command Thom. Aquin. 2ª 2ae quaest 78. Artic. 1 2 3 4. and Theatre of Gods Judgm part 1. c. 42. and especially Dr. Fentons Book Rivetus in Catholico orthodoxo Tractatu quarto quaest 15. Salmasius de Usuri● c. 4. and Zanchy on Ephes. 4. and Mr. Perkins on 8th Cammand and Dr. Ames on Psal. 15. and de Consc. l. 5. c. 44. and Dr. Hall in his Cases of Consc. seem to allow of it in some cases Yet Dr. Hall in his Practicall cases of Conscience saith All usury which is an absolute contract for the meer loan of mony is unlawfull both by law natural and positive both divine and humane There is not a toleration of usury by that Act Eliz. 13. c. 8. but a limitation of it the Title of it is An Act against Usury and it calleth it a detestable sin CHAP. XXV Of Witchcraft VVItchcraft is a great sin 1 Chron. 10. 13 14. God would not have Witches to live therefore he would not have others to use their art and counsell Deut. 18. 10 11. he forbids all to consult with familiar Spirits and more plainly Levit. 19. 31. Reasons 1. The cause which moveth any to seek unto them is distrust in God or impatience under Gods hand or some inordinate desire of knowing or doing things which the Lord allows not to know or do things secret and strange 2. The persons sought to are in league with the devil and so are an abomination to God Deut. 18. 11. 3. The effect of seeking unto them is dangerous it works confidence in them and so in Satan whose vassals they are and withdraws the heart from God Bodin lib 4. Daemon proveth by many examples and confessions of Witches that witchcraft hath no power upon the Regenerate or upon Magistrates who execute the Laws against them which is fully