life long no good be done yet you may take that Comfort your Master did Though Israel be not gathered yet shall I be glorious in the Eyes of the Lord. And in the Verse before I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength in naught in vain Yet surely my Judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God God knoweth with what uprightness I have done his work and therefore I know he will Crown me with Glory though my labour hath been lost as to the most part of the People THE SIXTH SERMON THe next sort of Persons in reference to whom Duty lies upon you are Christian Societies Assemblies that profess the Christian Religion and joyn together in the worship of the true God These are called Churches and of these there are two sorts false and true and your duty is to separate from those and hold fellowship with these Three things are required to the constituting of true Churches 1. That the Word of God and Doctrine of Salvation be truly taught in them ye are of the houshold of God and are built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets upon this Rock this truth confessed by thee I will build my Church the Church is God's Register that keeps his Records faithfully the Pillar and ground of Truth where the Doctrine of the Law and Gospel is truly taught God dwells with that People and Salvation may be there had 2. That there be Pastors and Ministers lawfully called How shall they preach except they be sent pray the Lord of the Harvest that he will send sorth Labourers into his Harvest Christ hath given his Ministry to his own Church 3. That the People receive and embrace the Doctrine and Religion of Christ and submit to and joyn together in the Worship of God Then they that gladly received the Word were Baptized and they continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and fellowship in breaking of Bread and Prayers Hereby may be discerned which are false Churches and which true The Roman Political Church as the Constitution of it is false and of Man's Invention Obj. They have the Apostles Creed the Books of Canonical Scripture and Baptisme Answ They acknowledge the Creed in profession and word but overthrow much of the sense by their superadded Articles and false expositions They retain the words of Scripture though in much not the sense of the Holy Ghost nor can Baptism though for substance according to the first Institution prove them a true Church more than Circumcision could Samaria to be so or a Seal pulled from the Writing and set to the bare paper A Thief may shew a true Man's Purse but that proves him not to be a true Man and they overthrow inward Baptisme the life of that Sacrament imputed righteousness and holiness which in Gods Church must go together with the outward Element 2dly As Papists they have no true Ministers the Romish Priest as such is no Minister of Christ not only because of the Anti-Christian Doctrines which he teacheth overthrowing the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles but also in that he offereth Christ a real Sacrifice for quick and dead wherein chiefly stands his Office and because as a Papist-Priest he receives his very Power from the Pope whose Office is not of Christ Qu. Why then should not one Baptized by a Mass Priest be Rebaptized Answ Because the action of a lawful Calling done by one that is not lawfully called is not a nullity the Ministry is lawful though as corrupted by them is bad 3dly Their People oppose God's true Worship and live in palpable Idolatry and profess themselves the Members of a usurping trayterous head the Pope Obj. Anti-Christ sitteth in the Temple of God therefore the Church of Rome is God's Church Answ In the Popish Church there is the hidden Church of God mingled as a little Wheat with much Chaff as a little Gold with much Dross So that though the Church of God be where Anti-Christ sitteth yet the Church whereof he is Head is no Church of God for there are no means there to beget or preserve spiritual life whether we regard Doctrine or Worship To speak plainly it is a part of the Universal Visible Church of Christians so far as they profess Christianity acknowledge Christ their Head but it is the Visible Society of Trayterous Usurpers so far as they profess the Pope to be their Head just as if a Traytor should make himself Deputy of Ireland against the King's will and all the People believe he is so and so profess themselves Subjects to the King as their Soveraign and to him as his Deputy Here it is a true Kingdome as it is still under the King and yet a Kingdom of Traytors or Rebels Secundum quid or so far as they adhere to the Usurping Deputy against the King's command From this Church therefore which is spiritual Babylon the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the Earth no Spouse of Christ but a Strumpet no House of God but an Habitation of Devils once indeed a famous Church but now dead and buryed and as is the Mother so is the Daughters God's People are bound to separate Come out of her my people and yet not from such therein who mean well in the general and secretly discent from her damnable Corruptions is this Obligation of Separation upon you Rom. 18. 4. Much less ought you to separate from Churches which have made separation from Rome as the reformed Protestant Churches in France Germany and other Countreys and these of Great Britain and Ireland have done in whose Congregations is found truth of Doctrine a lawful Ministry and a People professing the true Religion submitting to and joyning together in the true Worship of God I am not ignorant that many of you whose Habitation I question not but the Lord is who have your Habitations in all the several Countries of this Kingdom have drunkin a deep prejudice against all the Parochical Congregations whereof you are legal Members and where all you were baptized and thereby were made the Members of Christ the Children of God and Heires of his Kingdome I fear some of you will startle at these expressions found in the Common-Prayer-Book But if you consult the Holy Scripture you will finde them warranted in a Sacramental sense and your prejudice hath so far wrought upon you that you have forsaken the assembling of your selves together with your Neighbours in the publick Meeting Places I know with whom I am dealing Persons that have a comfortable assurance that they dwell in God and therefore are willing to hear any thing that may tend to the increase of their comfort and unwilling to retain any errour in their judgments or practice that may defile and dishonour their dwelling place or cause it to be evil spoken of by them that are without whose mouthes you know your absenting your selves from all the Solemn Assemblies open wide to cast a scandal upon your
having this Seal the Lord knoweth them that are his that the purpose according to Election might stand Even so at this present also there is a remnant according to the election of grace All that the Father giveth me shall come to me I know my Sheep and I give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish Ye are come to the Church of the first born which are inrolled in Heaven rejoyce that your Names are written in Heaven Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire Insomuch if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect. So that howsoever Salvation in the execution of it depends upon the conditional use of the means yet the will of God is not conditional incompleat or mutable because God hath absolutely purposed to give his Elect both will and power to perform those very conditions required namely Repentance Faith and Perseverance For the Decree of God predestinating must not be considered after this form I will choose Peter to Eternal Life if it shall so happen that he doth believe but rather thus I do choose Peter to Eternal Life which that he may infallibly obtain I will give him faith As many as were ordained to eternal life believed according to the faith of God's Elect. Elect according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation All gifts of grace leading into the habitation of holiness and whom to salvation are the fruits and effects of Eternal Election Neither is it true that we are Elected for faith and holiness for we are Elected unto both according as he hath chosen us in him that we should be holy Election therefore is before the spiritual blessings both in order and time Ye have not chosen me but I haven chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God As for this only General Election of all and every Man to salvation upon condition of faith it is indeed alone no Election because it predestinates no Man actually severs no one from another writes no Name in the Book of Life ordains no individual to have his habitation in God but only prescribes the manner of coming to salvation promiscuously to all neither by it is it decreed who shall be saved but what manner of Men. Moreover who holds this Universal Election alone must also grant an Universal reprobation For if God will only have all to be saved indefinitely if they will believe he willeth likewise that all shall be damned that do not believe and so God neither chooseth or refuseth any antecedently Finally this opinion makes Man's will to over-rule God's counsel Nor can you believe God's equal love to all Men when you hear him professing that he did not equally love two who were equal by Nature nor that he desires the salvation of all alike because all are not converted and saved it being as easie for him to effect as desire and by his effectual Grace to make Men of unwilling willing without destroying their voluntary liberty 3. Touching the efficacy of God the Holy Ghost working Conversion that it is not to be restrained to moral perswasion only which Man 's will may embrace or reject and finally resist is abundantly evinced by that one Text where the Apostle heaps up so many emphatical and significant words on purpose to declare the power of the spirit of God put forth in the conversion of a sinner That they may know what is the hyberbolical greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead To which many more may be added and that it depends not upon Man's free-will which can neither convert it self nor overcome divine grace to put forth for his conversion The Scripture every where plainly and expresly teacheth I mean that grace which is given with an absolute purpose to convert See 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Col. 2. 12. 2 Thes 1. 11. Luk. 11. 22. 2 Pet. 1. 3. Next to the principal efficient causes of their happiness the instrumental are to be owned and thanked Those from whom you had your natural beeing without which you had not been capable of this or any other good Honour is due to natural Parents how poor how bad soever nor must they be despised for any default of body or mind and it is a point of piety to relieve them if they be in want Nor can you ever sufficiently requite them though it must be your study so to do Let them learn first to shew piety at home and requite their Parents for this is acceptable before God Your spiritual Parents are much more to be honoured and much less to be contemned for as much as they have been instruments of your better beeing your being in Christ in God without which you had better to have been Dogs or Toads Yea good had it been for you if you had never been born In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel Think nothing too dear for these I bear you record that if it had been possible ye would have pluckt out your own Eyes and have given them unto me Time was when you held your selves happy in me and blessed the time that ever you saw and heard me Howbeit I do not say unto thee how thou owest me even thine own self Bless also all those who have been fellow-helpers with these by informing convincing reproving instructing advising comforting you against despair All these call for thankfull acknowledgment Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this Day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me from avenging my self Let the Righteous smite me reprove and chide me It shall be a kindness I will thank him for it and God for him for it and God for him The next sort of Persons to whom you owe duty to the performance whereof I shall earnestly exhort you are they who as yet are without God in the World to whom it may be said They have neither part nor lot in this matter but are in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity And that not only without the Pale of the Church Twenty-Six parts of the World divided into Thirty-One having not so much as the Name of Christians and of those Five that are Christians in Name What a World of Papists are there besides Hereticks that cut off themselves from the true Church But even in the reformed Churches and even in this Land of light and Valley of Vision there are six sorts and a great number of them who dwell not
of seeking love and the other of fullenjoying-love and both being the Dwelling of the Soul in GOD in several manners and degrees Do not wonder therefore if the Reverend Author of this Treatise my deservedly-much valued and honoured Friend and long a laborious Servant of Christ have chosen this Subject for his own delight and for his Readers benefit For however perhaps the burning of the City and the removal of many Ministers from their setled habitations might be some occasion of his choice yet the great reason no doubt was the Greatness and Necessity of this truth as suited to the greatest edification of Mens souls I foresee that there are some that will say that this running of Allegories so far doth carry away the mind from the just conceptions of the thing and hinder and delude the understanding by drawing it into the by-paths of improper notions and is the way of injudicious superficial Teachers And I confess it is so in several Cases As 1. When metaphors are chosen needlesly instead of more plain significant termes 2. And when they are chosen unaptly and are not fitted to the matter signified 3. When they are insisted on too far to the exclusion of the proper notions and tend indeed to seduce and carry away the mind 4. When they are run up so high as to infer any false conclusions or to introduce any groundless confectaries or applications But if you consider of the Allegory insisted on in this Treatise you will have better thoughts and censures of it upon these reasons following 1. It is not about a created subject where we have store of proper notions but about the Creator and our communion with Him where we must have improper thoughts and borrowed notions or none at all It is a controversie between the Thomists and the Scotists whether one syllable Ens be spoken Univocally of GOD and of the Creatures But that no other word is spoken Univocally of them they are agreed And the Scotists do not without reason maintain that Analogical Attribution is not a third member betwixt Univocal and Equivocal but is truly Equivocal as Metaphors are Talk not then against all Allegorical expressions about God till you would forbid Mortals to talk of God at all 2. Note that it is not so much the matter of our communion with GOD as the manner of it which the Allegory is used to express For the matter on our part I here tell you once for all that it is not any Fryar like fanatical notion of deification by an indwelling in GOD nor Andr. Osâ—anders conceit of Essential Righteousness nor the Platonists fancy of the Union of the Intellect with the thing understood which the Reverend Author doth assert But it is only the communion of the Three Essential faculties of the Soul with GOD the Vital and Executive Power the Intellect and Will partly receptively and partly operatively which is meant And the Allegory of Dwelling signifieth the Permanency Fixedness Constancy Familiarness c. Of these 3. And consider how apt and significant it is How fitly it expresseth the Habits of Grace the Souls fidelity the course of duty the contents and comforts of a Believer in his GOD c. as is here fully opened to you And how fitly it differenceth a Christian indeed who dwelleth habitually and devotedly in GOD from all sorts of Hypocrites who do but complement with him as a stranger or step aside out of their ordinary way to speak now and then with him either in formality or in their extremity and cast an Eye towards him sometimes on the by And that it is not a barren notion but most practical directing the thoughts of a Christian to a constant spiritual holy life yea that it is a very Consolatory notion speaking the beginning of Heaven on Earth and suited both to Grace and Glory and apt to lead up our Desires to the everlasting Mansions which we have scarce a more familiar conception of than by Dwelling with GOD And who would not be at Home that hath such a Home prepared for him when once He is prepared for it 4. And lastly consider that it is a Scripture metaphore yea frequently there used And what words of Scripture can seem more important to us than 1 John 4. 16 GOD is Love and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in GOD and GOD in Him And V. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of GOD God dwelleth in Him and He in GOD. And V. 12. If we love one another God dwelleth in Us and his Love is perfected in Us. 1 Joh. 3. 24. He that keepeth his Commandments dwelleth in Him and He in Him 2 Cor. 6. 16. For ye are the Temple of the living GOD As GOD hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their GOD and they shall be my People And there is another sort that I foresee will be offended because the Author hath said so much against separation from the publick Assemblies and Worship as now managed seeing he is silenced for Non-conformity Himself To these I shall only say 1. Why do they not wonder as much at the old Non-conformists Hildersham Paget Brightman Bradshaw Ball with many more who said much more against separation long ago 2. Consider that the Author is an ancient experienced Divine who hath lived to see the fruits of all extreams and in particular what the Love-killing and separating Spirit hath done in these Kingdoms these Thirty Years He hath been the Tutor and Father of more faithful Teachers in the Church than many other worthy Pastors have been of converted serious Christians And if the young unexperienced censures will but stay till they come to his age and experience and to half his Learning Wisdom and Grace and till they have done God's Church but the twentieth part of the service that he hath done it 's like they will be themselves of the same mind that he is But I could wish for their own sakes they would not do by him as they do by Mr. Tombes who having written a Book against Separation which none of them can confute with truth and reason they commonly and confidently affirm that he conformeth and then cast by his Book through prejudice and few that I hear of who most need it do read it Though he is so far from Ministerial Conformity that in the Epistle to that Book he still declareth his old opinion against Infant Baptism Partiality is a forfeiture of truth and contemptuously shuts the Door against it It will suffer Men to receive no instruction from those that differ from them And those that differ not can scarce instruct them because their Opinions are but the same which they hold already Alas then what will become of the understandings of this Generation wherein there are so few that are not in one Faction or other possest with partiality and unreasonable prejudice against the rest Reader the way to escape this Soul-perverting
also as a joyful witness both clearing our evidences and opening our minds to discern them The Spirit it self beareth witness with our Spirit that we are the Sons of God Hereby we come to have boldness confidence and a perspicuous manifestation of Divine love shed abroad in our heart and certain knowledge and full assurance of knowledge and hope of Faith Let us draw near with all full assurance of Faith The word imports a carrying on with full Saile like a Ship that hath Wind and Tyde and all the Sailes spread to the Wind. Those three parts of God's Kingdome Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost are consequents and effects of these three Applications The first namely that of adherence hath Wind and Tide against it The second hath Wind carrying it on but without Tide The third hath both Wind and Tide and all the affections like spread Sailes filled with the Gales of the Spirit causing joy unspeakable and full of Glory In the Church of Rome this Doctrine of full assurance is cryed down and an impossibility of attaining it by any ordinary Christians asserted and the main reason they render for the Confirmation of this Doctrine especially as to the subjective certainty of perseverance whereof Paul speaks when he saith I am sure that nothing shall be able to separate us from the Love of God in Jesus Christ Is the mutability of Man's will but the assurance of Christians depends not upon Man's mutable but upon the immutable will of God and upon his infallible truth who hath promised to keep them whom he receives in him by his strongest power if there can be conceived any degree in Omnipotency we are kept by the Guard of God's Power through Faith unto Salvation They askt what ground hath any ordinary Christian for special faith when there is no special promise nor any Divine testimony by audible Voice such as some choice Persons have had as Gen. 15. 1. Mat. 9. 2. Luk. 5. 20. 47. 48. 23. 42. 43. They are answered we will not contend about bare words whether it be better called special faith or assurance gathered from two promises the one in Scripture the other in our hearts so participating of Faith for that is our sence of special Faith but as to the matter 1. There are general promises with a command to apply them 2. Special Faith is gathered by argumentation thus whoever hath God's Spirit confesseth that Jesus is the Son of God that Man dwelleth in God But so have I so do I therefore I dwell in God 3. Sacraments give ground for special Faith wherein is made special application to the receivers 4. The Spirit is given for this end to believers as a seal and earnest and witness to assure them that God is their Habitation and Salvation And that it 's possible for a Christian in ordinary course to attain this grace if he do what in him lyeth We have God's express promise to this purpose Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and Redeemer and a charge is laid upon every Christian to make his calling sure and not to come without full assurance when they draw nigh to him in Prayer and other duties of his Worship Let us draw neer him in full assurance of Faith And we have the experience of God's People in all ages for it And though they that profess they had it as Job David Paul were rare Persons Yet the Faith of the meanest Christian is of the same Nature with theirs though not in the same degree This is the Doctrine of the reformed Churches who yet deny not the difficulty of attaining the highest degree and that very few there are that attain it and fewer that have it at all times alike nor any in that perfection but that there is some mixture of doubting And this is one sign of the truth and goodness of it when it is attained with difficulty and assaulted with infidelity For there are many whom Satan and their own heart have deluded in this point who are strongly perswaded that God is theirs never doubted of their interest in him make no question but the Lord is their Habitation who entered not in by the Door never received the spirit of bondage to fear have no fear of offending God no care to please him but live in known sin against the light of knowledge and checks of Conscience which evinceth them to be in the gall of bitterness Now these who in their own conceits have taken up their dwelling in God like those buyers and sellers that took up their seats in the Temple without the Warrant against the consent of the Owner of that House must be dealt with by the Ministers of Christ as those Intruders by Christ were driven out with a scourge And as Nehemiah dealt with Tobiah who had got a Chamber in the Court of the House of God who cast both him and his stuff out of it Avoid prophaneness come not here nothing but holy pure and clear or that which groaneth to be so may enter or abide one Moment at his peril To you who can prove your assurance that you are in God to be of God by the qualification of your Persons as having formerly been humbled for your living without God in the World and at present humble your selves to walk with your God and resolve so to do to the end of your life Unto you I am sent with a manifold Word of Exhortation 1. To prize this as the greatest blessing and rejoyce in it more than in all other blessings and accordingly to praise God for it that he hath given you to know that he is your Habitation Lifting up the Light of his Countenance upon you and giving you Eyes to see that Light There be many that say who will shew us any good Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon us Thou hast put gladness in my heart more than in the time when their Corn and Wine increased because thy loving kindness is better than life my Lips shall praise thee Thus will I bless thee while I live Because thou hast caused me to feel the effects of thy Grace at full even as the Sun shooteth out his Beames at Mid-Day And because I finde this to be the life of my life without which every Day would be more bitter to me than Death Therefore for this above all Mercies will I bless thee every Day and I will praise thy Name for ever 2. To hold fast what you have and be alway adding to it as worldly Men do by their Earthly substance How oft are Christians exhorted to hold fast every good spiritual thing that they have gotten Hold fast as with Tooth and Nail the faithful Word The pure and sincere Doctrine of the Gospel against those Gain-sayers that would snatch it from you and not only the matter but the forme
wills the reformation whereof is the absolute and adaequate end of all punishments and of the exercise of all Political Power but punishments were never ordained for the information of the understanding To return to satisfie the Objection It is not necessarily nor generally true of all Members of the Visible Church that they be called by the word if this be granted which cannot be denyed that as among the Jewes Men were incorporated into the Church by Circumcision so they are under the Gospel by Baptisme Col. 2. 11 12. and that as in those times many for by-ends and through fear joyned themselves to the Church Est 8. 17. so it may be and hath been under the Gospel Obj. But the greatest part of our people are ignorant and unsanctified yea prophane Persons Answ Ignorant and prophane Persons have alway been in the Church It was so in the Church's Infancy and so in her perpetual growth and so shall be to the end of the World at least till Christ come the second time but these are not of the Church which hath its denomination of the better part Obj. But open and prophane Persons are not cast out Answ The Law takes Order they shall be The fault is in the Governors We are not no Church or a false one because such are suffered 1 Cor. 5. Rev. 2. Obj. But we want the Form of a true Church Viz. a Covenant Answ It appeares not in the Apostles times any thing more was required to make Church-members of the Church-Universal than assenting to Evangelical truths embracing and professing Christian Religion and receiving Baptisme wherein all in our Church enter into a Solemn Covenant and confirm it when they come to years of understanding And moreover to settle them in particular Church-order the Apostle made Bishops or Elders over them in every Church Acts 14. 23. and required the People to obey them hear and honour them 1 Thes 5. 12 13. Heb. 13. 7. 17. 24. 1 Tim. 5. 17. And those that consented to this and did so were Members of that particular Church so that we confess as a Man cannot be a Member of the Universal Church if at age without his own consent so neither can he be of a particular Church however he may be antecedently obliged to consent But that this consent was wont to be signified by any express Covenant between the Pastors and the Flocks no Scripture mentioneth It is consent signified only which God requireth But whether this consent be signified 1. By the Peoples Election of the Pastors 2. Or by a Covenant 3. Or by lifting up the hands or any such sign 4. Or only by constant attendance with the Church on all God's Ordinances there God hath no where determined save only as circumstances may make one of these more fit than another and so oblige us to it in prudence And he which maketh Duties which God hath not made is a maker of superstition and a false Teacher or Speaker of God and his Lawes and addeth to them As to that you say you cannot joyn with our Congregations because they stand under a Devilish Anti-christian Government and the Worship in them by a number of Common-prayers is a devised Worship All that I desire of you is only this that laying aside passion you will but pause and ponder what is alledged to give satisfaction to this Objection which may cool at least the fierceness of your Spirits and abate that desperate prejudice you have conceived against the Government and Worship established in these Churches Touching the exercise of Ecclesiastical Government in general you know it is not of absolute necessity to the Constitution of a Church and as to the Government of the Churches by Bishops speaking of it only as they are Superiour to Presbyters without medling with the extent of their Diocesses c. when you finde so much written with so much confidence that Episcopacy is the true ancient Apostolical Government of the Christian Church That it was received in profession and practice in all Ages and is so far Divine that Bishops were in the very time of the Apostles that they were ordained and appointed by the Apostles themselves That there was an approved succession of them in the Apostolical Churches That in all the following Ages all the Churches in the World were governed by them for more than Fifteen Hundred Yeares without any opposition save by the Arrian Aerius who was therefore cryed down as an Heretick by the ancient Fathers That the first reformed Protestant Churches cast not off Episcopacy with any aversness to the Order as appeares by the History of the Augustane confession to which Calvin himself signed That some of those Churches are governed by Superintendents the same with Bishops That there was long since a challenge made to them that have aversness to the degree or order in these words We require you to finde out but one Church upon the Face of the Earth that hath not been ordered by Episcopal Regiment which to this Day as they say is not answered These allegations may me-thinks so far allay your heat as to restrain your thoughts and Tongues from passing so sore a censure upon the Government that it is Devilish and Antichristian till you can solidly absolve all these Arguments though notwithstanding all that hath been said you are perswaded that another Church Government may be better And that there is no cause why you should refuse communion with these Churches upon this account because Bishops are chief Rulers there Touching the devised Worship objected do but ruminate upon what you have frequently heard and read and you will see little reason to condemn stinted Prayers because invented and devised by Men. For how many inventions of Men are there of the same nature in God's worship which you approve of namely set-formes of Catechising studyed Sermons Interpretations of Scripture division of it into Chapters and Verses Contents of Chapters Marginal references putting Psalms into Meeter with a multitude more True it is invented or devised worship is unlawful yet it is lawful to serve God in a Form of words devised For the Form is not worship but the Prayer tendered in that Form And therefore they do not well that say a stinted Form of Prayer is a means of Divine Worship not ordained of God and that there is no warrant for it in the Word of God For God's Word warrants things not only by special Institution as all substantial means of Worship and by necessary consequence so the Translation of the Scripture is warranted because it must be read to edification and edifie it cannot unless it be understood but also by the Light of Nature and Reason according to the general Rules of Scripture And thus accidental means of Gods Worship which are only circumstances of the Celebration as time places order method phrase and sorme of words in the administration of holy things of God yea Pulpit to preach in and Bells to call