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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43698	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkeley, Governour, and the Company of Merchants of England trading into the Levant Seas at St. Peters Church in Broadstreet, January, 25, 1680 / by Charles Hickman ...	Hickman, Charles, 1648-1713.; Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1896; ESTC R11269	15,523	36

thou hast dealt with others so will God deal with thee also he will reward thy good deeds and pardon what thou in ignorance hast done amiss Then shall thy worship be always acceptable in his sight and by granting thy humble Petitions he will turn all thy Prayers into Praises and Thanksgiving This is the first Character of the true worship taken from the temper of the worshippers 't is our Saviours own Rule Ye shall know them by their fruits and the Fruits of the Gospel we know are Peace Charity Humility and Love Love is the fulfilling of the Law and the great glory of the Gospel and where this virtue is wanting there can be no pretence of Godliness no shew of a Christian Church The next Character may be taken from the place of worship our father 's worshiped in this mountain said the Samaritans to justifie their Separation and so say the Romanists unto us Our Fathers worshiped in this City the Fathers of the Church plead for us and Antiquity is on our side and where was your Church before Luther To this the Answer is as obvious as true Our Fathers worshiped at Rome but not all our Fathers for from the beginning there were several pious and learned Fathers and Martyrs of the Christian faith that own'd no dependence upon the Church of Rome There was then a Roman but not a Roman Catholick Church It was not Christian Humility and the Primitive Simplicity of the Gospel but Pride and Secular Interest that mov'd the later Pastors of that Church to bring all Nations under their yoke 'T was that Lordly humour which our Saviour reprov'd in the sons of Zebedee when they strove to be accounted greatest telling them that this ambition more became the Heathens than his Disciples the Kings of the Gentiles ye know exercise dominion but it shall not be so amongst you Our father 's worshipped at Rome it may be so So did Jacob in the mountain of Samaria when the whole Church of God consisted only in him and his Fathers house and yet this was no plea against the worship of the Temple when God had chosen that place for his Habitation and our Fathers who themselves worshiped at Rome have not told us that at Rome is the place where we also ought to worship If there must still be one Holy City to which all the tribes must go up certainly Jerusalem that City of Peace had been a fitter place for the Seat of that Universal Empire than Rome which was always the Seat of War and only made great by Tyrannies and Invasions upon all the world If that time of liberty be come when our worship shall not be confined either to the Temple of Jerusalem or the Mountain of Samaria we may also conclude that neither at Rome shall we worship the Father But yet our Fathers worshipped at Rome 'T is true but Rome was not then what now it is their Church and Faith was then as glorious as now t is offensive to all the world It exercised then no unjust Usurpations either upon the Persons or Consciences of men but taught Obedience to God and his Vicegerents upon Earth No man under what title soever sat in the Seat of God imposing upon the belief of others and creating new Articles of Faith but in all things they submitted themselves to the word of God as their only Universal Infallible Judg. And there was our Church before Luther and even before Popery it self But now since her innovoations are multiplyed and she has departed from the Truth no wonder if we forsake her in those things wherein she has forsaken Christ and fly from this City because of her abominations Her Fathers which worshipped in that place will not now justifie these degenerated Children and since they boast so much of their antiquity we must needs reckon the date of their worship like that of the Samaritans not from their Father Jacob a Holy Patriarch but from Salmaneser a Babylonish Prince Again Our Fathers worshipped in this mountain and therefore so do we said the Samaritans Thus also many amongst us say Our Fathers the Apostles and Primitive Martys of the Church worshipped in Mountains Dens Caves and private Houses and therefore so may we also To this I answer that the Apostles worshipped in the Temple and Publick Assemblies also when they might be permitted and it was only the iniquity and necessity of the times that drove them into private places which necessity being now removed a separation from the Publick Assemblies upon the bare account of Christian Liberty grounded upon that Practice of the Apostles is no move justifiable than that of the Samaritans from the Jewish Church upon the Authority of their Father Jacob. 'T is as if we should say Our Fathers the Apostles admitted none into the Church by Baptism unless they could first give an account of their Faith and therefore now also it is unlawful to Baptise Infants that have no knowledg of Christ Or thus our Fathers Abel Enoch and others were forced to marry their own Sisters when there were no other women in the world and therefore we may do the like Here we see what was commendable in the Apostles is pernicious in us what was necessary in our fore-Fathers is abominable Incest in our times so deceitful may an Argument prove drawn from the practice of our Fathers if we make not allowance for the different circumstances and necessities of the times The third Character of the true worshippers may be taken from the object of their worship Ye worship ye know not what said our Saviour And so may we also say to the Romanists ye worship Idols Graven Images Reliques Sepulchres Miraculous Trifles Superstitious Legends and ye know not what And though perhaps the more wise and learned of that Communion may be so clear-sighted as to look beyond this veil of wood and stone and have an Eye upon the true God whom they thus falsly represent yet certainly the ignorant multitude fall down and pay a real worship to these beggarly Elements and then how can they themselves be excused who by these unwarranted practices have brought the people into Idolatry The fourth and last remark upon the worshippers of these times may be concerning the manner of their worship which our Saviour has commanded to be in Spirit and in Truth By Spirit here we must understand first the faculties of the Soul which is the Spirit of a man and secondly the gifts of the Holy Ghost which is the Spirit of God In the first sence we are taught that God is a Spirit and we must worship him in our Spirit all our thoughts and inward faculties must be imployed in his service and we must adore him with all our heart our mind our soul and our strength our understandings must be clear and apprehensive of what we want our Wills must be ready and active to draw up our wants into Petitions and our affections must be zealous and