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A44337 Judicious Hooker's illustrations of Holy Scripture in his ecclesiastical policy; Ecclesiastical polity. Selections Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. 1675 (1675) Wing H2634; ESTC R4356 20,633 51

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Gods Ministers there is not required in them an universal skill of every good Work or Way but an Habilitie to teach whatsoever men are bound to do that they may be saved And with this kind of knowledge the Scripture sufficeth to furnish them as touching matter S. 1. ii 1 Tim. 4. Every creature of God is good and nothing to berefused if it be received with thanksgiving because it is sanctified by the word of God and Prayer The Gospel by not making many things unclean as the Law did hath sanctified those things generally to all which particularly each man unto himself must sanctifie by a reverent and Holy use Which will not serve their purpose who have imagined the word in such sort to sanctifie all things that neither food can be tasted nor rayment put on nor in the World any thing done but this deed must needs be sin in them which do not first know it appointed unto them by Scripture before they do it S. 3. iii. Rom. 14. 23. Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin So Paul doth mean nothing else by Faith here but only a full perswasion that that which we do is well done against which kind of Faith or perswasion as St. Paul doth count it sin to enterprise any thing so likewise some of the very Heathen have taught as Tully that nothing ought to be done whereof thou doubtest whether it be right or wrong iv 1 Cor. 6. 12. What things God doth neither command nor forbid the same he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone All things are lawful unto me saith the Apostle speaking as it seemeth in the person of the Christian Gentile for maintenance of liberty in things indifferent whereunto his answer is that nevertheless All things are not expedient in things indifferent there is a choice they are not always equally expedient What light shall shew us the convenience which one hath above another but the Judgment of discretion ib. v. 1 Chron. 17. 4. Thou shalt not build me an House to dwell in To think that David did evil in determining to build God a Temple because there was in Scripture no commandment that he should build it were very injuri●us the purpose of his heart was Religious and Godly the act most worthy of honor and renovvn neither could Nathan chuse but admire his vertuous intent exhort him to go forvvard and beseech God to prosper him therein But God savv the endless troubles vvhich David should be subject unto during the vvhole time of his Regiment and therefore gave charge to defer so good a vvork till the days of tranquillity and peace vvherein it might vvithout interruption be performed David supposed it could not stand vvith the duty vvhich he ovved to God to set himself in an House of Cedar Trees and to behold the Ark of the Lords Covenant unsetled This opinion the Lord abateth by causing Nathan to shevv him plainly that it should be no more imputed unto him for a fault than it had been unto the Judges of Israel before him his case being the same which theirs vvas their times not more unquiet than his not more unfit for such an action S. 6. In Book III. i. Eph. 2. 16. All Christians make but one body The unity of which visible body and Church of Christ consisteth in that uniformity which all several persons thereunto belonging have by reason of that one Lord whose Servants they all profess themselves that one Faith which they all acknowledge that one baptisme wherewith they are all initiated Christians by external profession they are all whose Mark of Recognisance hath in it those things which we have mentioned yea although they be impious Idolaters wicked Hereticks persons Excommunicable yea and cast out for notorious improbity S. 1. ii 1 Cor. 7. 8. To be commanded in the Word and grounded upon the Word are not all one If when a man may live in the state of Matrimon seeking that good thereby which Nature principally desireth he make rather choice of a contrary life in regard of St. Pauls judgment that which he doth is manifestly grounded upon the Word of God yet not commanded in his Word because without breach of any Commandement he might do otherwise S. 8. iii 1 Cor. 2. 14. The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God Those properties of God and those Duties of men towards him which may be conceived by attentive consideration of Heaven and Earth we know that of meer Natural men the Apostle testifieth how they know both God and the Law of God Rom. 1. Other things of God there be as the suffering and rising of Christ from the dead which are neither so found nor though they be shewed can ever be approved without the special operation of Gods good Grace and Spirit As Grace hath use of Nature so we hold that Nature hath need of Grace ib. iv Col. 2. 8. Philosophy we are warned to take heed of Not that Philosophy which is true and sound knowledge attained by natural Discourse of Reason but that Philosophy which to bolster Heresie or Errour casteth a fraudulent shew of Reason upon things which are indeed unreasonable and by that means as by a stratagem spoileth the simple vvhich are not able to vvithstand such cunning The vvay not to be inveagled by them that are so guileful through skill is throughly to be instructed in that vvhich maketh skilful against guile and to be armed vvith that true and sincere Philosophy vvhich doth teach against that Deceitful and Vain vvhich spoileth ib. v. 1 Cor. 1. 19. I will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise c. There are that bear tho Title of vvise men and Scribes and great Disputers of the World and are nothing indeed less than what in shew they most appear These being wholly addicted unto their own Wills use their Wit their Learning and all the Wisdom they have to maintain that which their obstinate Hearts are delighted with esteeming in the phran●ique Errour of their minds the greatest madness in the World to be Wisdom and the highest Wisdom Foolishness Such were both Iewes and Grecians which professed the one sort a Legal and the other Secular skill neither enduring to be taught the Mystery of Christ unto the Glory of whose most blessed Name whoso study to use both their Reason and all other Gifts as well which Nature as which Grace hath indued them with let them never doubt but that the same God who is to destroy and confound utterly that Wisdom falsly so named in others doth make reckoning of them as of true Scribes Scribes by Wisdom instructed to the Kingdom of Heaven ib. vi 1 Cor. 2. 4. My preaching hath not been in the perswasive speeches of humane Wisdome As Calling from men may authorize us to teach although it could not authorize St. Paul to teach as other Apostles did so although the Wisdom of man had not been sufficient to enable him such a Teacher