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A61497 The English case, exactly set down by Hezekiah's reformation in a court sermon at Paris / Dr. Steward ... Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651. 1687 (1687) Wing S5521; ESTC R3486 21,870 37

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to the Romans in the 11th chap. verse 21. Be not high minded but fear for if God spar'd not the natural branches take heed lest he spare not thee And that this Text implies the Christian Gentiles may be all cut off quite from Christ is here the Conclusion of Stapleton and of the Remists Notes on that Text and of divers of their way And to say the plain truth that Text I named can well bear no other comment unless we 'l fondly affirm that St. Paul warns the Gentiles to take heed of that mischance which yet indeed could not possibly fall out And then I beseech you observe if that same Church which boasts most of strength may yet run in Non Ecclesiam may become no Church at all she may much more run in Corruptam Ecclesiam into a Church so corrupt in her Publick Worship that she may now need a Reformation I say she may run into a corrupt Church and do but consider her new claim of Infallibility and you 'l easily yield 't is a Victory to prove that Rome may be conquered to make this appear She may err is enough to convince her of no little part of her Errors If you ask me to shew more I shall beg leave to reply That ' t is an Argument I affect not for I had much rather be employed in discourses of good life than in these of controversies as holding that in all kind of Contentions to be the most fit Christian Prayer Give peace in our time O Lord. Yet since I here meet with such Disputes and Waverings in some I 'le think out of Conscience in others either out of Vanity to entertain their time or that under pretence of searching Christian Truths they may indeed drive a Trade I must hence hold it a Duty I owe unto most of those that now hear me yea a Duty I owe to that venerable Church that baptiz'd us all though our now poor afflicted Mother to keep the Fruit of her own Womb from thus trampling on her to keep them as much as in me lies from being gull'd and cheated from her Unity and withal from communicating too deeply in sin with those who have now cast her on the ground If you ask then for the corruptions of the Western Church suppose I instance but in one alone She took the Cup from the People An Abuse set up against as clear Text as e're the High Places were Drink ye all of this saith our Saviour St. Mat. 26. And again as they interpret that Text Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood ye have no life in you in that 6th chap. ●o St. Iohn Mark ye have no life in you I know they defend this and make no question at all but some witty Scribe might have been as well able to defend the Iews who for ought I know might have said as they do That the Hebrew Church had power over the Sacraments and Sacrifices are no more or by their new Doctrine of Concomitance they might maintain much more probably that their High Places and Altars were but only us'd as Parts as Appurtenances as Concomitants of the Tabernacle than these that Shed-blood lies in the Host. For shed-Shed-blood it must be This is my very Blood which is shed for you So that to tell us of Blood in the Body of Blood running in the Veins is indeed to shew forth the Lord's Life but not as he commands to shew forth his death till he comes Nay admit the Doctrine of Concomitance which yet in this point is but a meer perfect fiction yet Christ enjoyns Drink ye all of this And I appeal to your own Sences themselves whether to eat Christ's Blood be to drink it Their Publick Service in an unknown Tongue is it not as clearly against the Doctrine of St. Paul 1 Cor. 14. How saith he shall the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks seeing he understands not what thou say'st in the 16th verse of that chapter Two things you see the Apostle there takes for granted first that the unlearned ought to say Amen at God's Publick Service Secondly they cannot joyn that consent of theirs but to those words they understand I might instance in many more particulars as in the Adoration of Images of Saints of the Eucharist in the Doctrine of Purgatory and those other Articles of the New Creed of Trent whereof some are of dangerous practise nay as Learned men amongst themselves have confess'd Gerson Espensaeus and many others they are of practice among the Vulgar at least some doubt not to add and among the Learned too no less than Idololatrical Others again are made Articles of Faith which yet for ought appears either in the Text or in Antiquity are indeed not so much as probable Opinions So that to say truth there are store of men who have not Ignorance enough to believe such Articles And yet the Western Church has forced many Souls into the Faith of this New Creed both by the Prison and the Stake And in this Tyranny hath shewed her self far worse than e're old Iudah did For though we read of no visible conspicuous number that did avoid the High Places yet in Charity we may think there were some few that did so and yet in this regard we read not so much as one either punished or disgraced by an Hebrew Magistrate 'T is true then that God's Church yea his Christian Church may be stained with some gross foul Corruptions But what Because she may thus err shall each giddy Brain be allow'd to controul or each private Hand to reform her Admit this Disorder once and let a Church be indeed most Apostolick yet you may be assured she shall ne're want Reformers if she have either Sons to be employ'd in Rebellion or Lands to be enjoyed by Sacriledge A Corah then will dare to tell Moses to his face That all the Congregation is holy as holy as himself or the best employ'd in the Tabernacle all Kings and Priests then and all this stir is rais'd not so much that he dislikes the Order of Aaron but that indeed he likes his Revenue And therefore in my Text there 's care had of this A Reformation follows but you 'l find it brought in by no less than by the Power Royal whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away and hath said to Iudah c. This part affords Varieties and I must therefore divide it Here 's then first the Prime Agent in this Reformation I nam'd Hezekiah the King. Secondly the Extent of the Reformation 't was only brought into his own Territories Iudah and Ierusalem Thirdly the manner how he setled it 't was done as well by teaching truth as by reforming corruptions He took away the High Places and he said Ye shall worship before this altar at Ierusalem First of the Prime Agent Hezekiah the King. But to remove these Abuses here did not this Prince first abuse