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A54721 The vvay to heaven most clearly discovered and the manner how to walk in this way exactly described. With a brief vindication of the Church of England against all her enemies. By Nicholas Philips, late chaplain to his Majesty's garrison in the Isles of Silly. Phillips, Nicholas. 1681 (1681) Wing P2038; ESTC R213941 16,756 24

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rely on unwritten Traditions nor on unwarranted Revelations but must make that bright shining and unerring light Gods holy Word his onely Director and Guide must neither add to it nor diminish from it must neither turn to the right hand and do more nor to the left hand and do less than is enjoyned him in the holy Scriptures And accursed be he yea though he be an Angel from Heaven that shall presume to preach any other Doctrine contrary to that which the holy Apostles have delivered unto us saith S. Paul Gal. 1.8 A Treasury full of all manner of precious Stones is Gods holy Word and there is no one of what condition or quality sex or age soever but hath his particular Rule given him in the Scripture and may if he come to the hearing or reading of Gods holy Word with an heart humbled and willing to be instructed find what he in his particular vocation and calling must especially do and perform what he must especially shun and avoid And 't is indeed the Reformation of those Abuses which we commit in our particular Callings wherein the power of Grace and Religion doth most especially appear Religion Religion my Brethren is not a thing merely of publick and common profession it dwells not onely in Churches and Temples no it hath a principal respect to the well ordering of our particular and personal Callings it saith to us as Christ did to the man in the Gospel whom he dispossessed of a Legion of Devils Go home to thy House and let thy behaviour and carriage there evidence and shew forth the truth and sincerity of thy Religion We read Deut. 11.20 that the Jews were commanded to write Gods Law not onely on the Doors of their Temples but also on the Doors of their Houses that so they might meditate and think on it to do it not onely on the Sabbath and holy Solemnities when they were called upon to go up into the House of the Lord but all the days of their life and as oft as they went in and out at their own Doors that so they might learn to regulate their personal Imployments and the works of their particular Callings according to those Directions which are given by God in his holy Law And 't is indeed according to the ordering of our selves in our particular Callings that God will proceed with us at the last day and when summoned to appear before his dreadful Tribunal we shall not be called to give an account of other mens Stewardships but of our own and how we have demeaned our selves in that state of life wherein he hath been pleased to place us Surely Brethren if we who have the Gospel printed amongst us bibles at home in our Houses and I hope read therein every day If we who have the Gospel preached amongst us and may if we be not sloathful and negligent on every Lords day hear it expounded and applied in our Churches and Synagogues would instead of curiously inquiring out of it with S. Peter what is other mens duty and required of them set our selves with S. Paul to inquire out of it what is our duty and required of us in that station wherein God hath placed us and set our selves sincerely about the doing of it we should most clearly manifest our selves to be true Members of his Militant Church on earth and should not fail in due time to be made glorious Members of his Church Triumphant in Heaven The second thing which you must learn of those primitive Christians if after you have been added to the Church you will continue and preserve your selves in the Church is to continue stedfastly in the Apostles Fellowship By Fellowship with the Apostles is here signified conformity unto them in those laudable and decent Rites and Ceremonies Customs and Orders that were practised by them in their Church Assemblies and publick Meetings In which whosoever refuseth to have Community and Fellowship with that Church into which he is admitted by Baptism and of which he is made a Member is void not onely of all Religion but even of all Reason and common Civility The actions of Religion and Divine Worship are twofold either Essential and ordinate or circumstantial and subordinate 1. The essential and ordinate parts of divine Worship are Faith and Holiness of Life and our Rule for this must be Gods Holy Word and we must receive nothing as an Article of Faith a thing absolutely necessary unto salvation which cannot be immediately deduced out of it 2. The circumstantial and subordinate Actions of Religion are the time the place the vesture the gesture which are required to be observed in our performance of Church Duties and these things being not absolutely determined of God in his Holy Word are left to the determination of the Church And God in that general warrant which he has given the Church 1 Cor. 14. ult Let all things be done decently and in order hath impowred her to cut out and shape each particular decency and order as will best suit with the condition the comliness and the edification of every particular National Church and it is no more necessary that all Churches should observe one and the same Rites and Ceremonies than it is that all Nations should wear one and the same kind of cloaths Surely these Orders and Ordinances Rites and Ceremonies which by our lawful Superiors we are enjoyned to observe in our Church meetings and Assemblies though they cannot immediately be deduced out of Gods Holy Word yet if they be not contrary unto it but serve for decency and comliness in the service of God are part of those Ordinances of men unto which we are commanded by St Peter 1 Ephes 2.13 to submit for the Lords sake And therefore though pride or arrogancy contempt or neglect to violate and break the established Order of the Church is to be guilty of no less crime than Disobedience to the Commands of God Indeed the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which our Translators here render Fellowship is the very word which St. Paul in the 1 Cor. 16.3 useth to fignify the Collections and Comributions which were made for the poor and that in this sense it is to be taken here is the opinion of the incomparable judicious Dr. Hammond in his Annotations on that place Piously indeed with great praise to themselves and much comfort to the afflicted Members of Christ were Collections for the poor ordained by the Apostles to be used in their Church meetings As I have given order unto the Church of Galatia Even so do yee saith St. Paul to his Corinthians 1 Cor. 16.1 on the first day of the week Let every one lay by of his store as God hath prospered him for the poor And though the practice of this Apostolical Primitive and most Christian duty be strictly injoyned in our Liturgy to be used on every Lords day and solemn Festival and after the Sermon is ended the Priest is required to