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death_n	covenant_n	new_a	testament_n	4,131	5	9.2871	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78218	[Baʻal-samz] or, Soveraigne balsome, gently applied in a few weighty considerations (by way of quærie) for healing the distempers of such professors of religion as Satan hath wounded and drawn aside (under the notion of living in God) to the utter renouncing and casting off the use of divine ordinances, and Gospel-institutions of worship. With an apendix by way of postscript to such professors, wherein the most principall grounds upon which they build their practise, are fully answered and removed. And a catalogue of the errors that many of them hold since they left the ordinances, discovered. As also a true relation of Gods extraordinary working upon one of this way very lately in Plimouth, to the sight of his error, for the good of others published. / By Will. Bartlet, an unworthy minister of the Gospel, and lecturer at Bytheford in Devonshire.	Bartlet, William, 1609 or 10-1682.; M. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing B987; Thomason E549_19; ESTC R209139	79,502	81

of themselves it is to be feared they are so offended with ordinances and speak so contemptibly and undervaluingly of those that use them I shall say no more to such on this particular but wish them to be cloathed with humility and better to study the grounds of their own leaving ordinances before they call into question their brethrens in the use of them 5. The fifth ground upon which people build their neglect of Duties and casting off Ordinances is this That they look upon Ordinances and Duties of worship as Prayer Preaching admistring the Seales Church-fellowship c. as poore low dispensations weake formes childish things and such as be not so consistent with a persons living in God c. but out of which God doth lead his people to a more immediate enjoyment of himselfe in the Spirit Now for answer to this First I desire it may bee seriously considered Whether the Ordinances and Institutions of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ are low things poore weake childish dispensations Are those low and childish things in which the glory of Christs Wisdome Power and Faithfulnesse doth shine forth And are not the Scriptures divine Institutions and Ordinances of Christ held forth in them such Dispensations How then darepoore sinfull dust and ashes thus reason and argue Is it not rather a cleare Demonstration that such men and women as thus speak have low and base thoughts of Christ in the managing of that great busines his Father hath intrusted him with about the ordering and governing his House Kingdome Let that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 3.7 8.9 10 11. be seriously weighed and then tell me whether the Dispensations of Christ under the New Testament be low things and childish The Apostle in the former place shewes clearly that the very dispensation of the Legall Covenant ministery and ordinances was * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 glorious but how much more then saith he must the Evangelicall Covenant ministery and ordinances under the New Testament be glorious If the ministration or dispensation of Death and Condemnation under the Law and that which was to be done away was glorious how much more the Ministration and Dispensation of the Spirit under the Gospel which is perpetuall to remain so that we see that the Dispensations of Christ under the New Testament are all glorious things and if so how dare any speak so disgraeefully of them as to call them poore low weake childish things Doubtlesse the Lord Jesus will give men and women but little thankes for those * hard speeches of theirs they have uttered against him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at his comming to execute judgement upon all ungodly ones Jude Epist v. 15. Besides I desire such persons as speak so ignominiously of the Lord Jesus ordinances and Gospel-institutions would but answer mee or rather the Lord Jesus Christ to these few demands 1. Is the Name of the great and glorious Jehovah a low and meane a poore and childish thing and is not his Worship his name 2. Is the publishing and bearing forth his Name before the world a low and childish thing and is not the Ministery of the Gospel so much Acts 9.15 3 Is the sanctifying this great glorious Name of Iehovah a low childish thing And do not the Saints do so much when they drw nigh to God in the performance of the duties of his worship Lev. 10.3 4. Is Glory a low thing and not worth the looking after and is not Mount Syon and all the holy Assemblies so stiled Esay 4.5 60.7 In a word are not all the Vessels of the Lords spirituall Temple and House under the New Testament clean and holy And shall we call that common and unclean that the eternall God the King of Sion hath cleansed and sanctified As Christ said to Peter Act. 10.15 so may I say to such men Cal not those things common and unclean that the Lord Jesus the great Judge of quicke and dead hath cleansed and sanctified and set apart for his use and service call not the ordinances and institutions with the holy Saints and servants of Christ that are called out of the world to make use of them in order to the lifting up of the glory of their Lord and Master their Head and Husband poore low weak things If Christ will own them and honour them let men take heed how they despise and dishonour them 2. Whereas it is said that the use of such Gospel-ordinances and Institutions of worship are not consistent with a persons living in God I utterly deny it my reason for it is this because those things that are subordinate in their nature one to another may very well stand together without confounding and destroying one another And so is it here Divine ordinances of Worship as Prayer Preaching hearing communion with the Saints at the Lords Supper c. are subordinate wayes and meanes which Christ hath appointed to further not hinder a beleevers living in God And the more the Saints are in the use of those meanes with upright and spirituall hearts the more they are furthered therein Indeed living in God and living in ordinances cannot stand together because a person cannot give his heart to two lovers at once but living in God and using of Ordinances as meanes in order to the enjoyment of the end may very well stand together As for example A person that depends on God for his naturall life eats and drinkes and sleeps and marries and takes physick and useth these and other like meanes in order to the preservation of that life and the use of these meanes doth not null or make void his faith in or dependance on God Indeed placing our life joy comfort excellency in these and putting our confidence in them cannot stand with a persons living in or depending on God because it is to make them our gods not the Lord but where there is only a conscientious use of them in obedience to the will of God and in order to the furthering of his providence there a person may bee said to live in God and depend on him very well notwithstanding his use of these And thus it is in respect of a Christians spirituall life he lives in God alone through Christ and makes him alone the Rest and Center of his Soule and yet makes use of Prayer Preaching reading the Scriptures fellowship with the Saints c. as the meanes which Christ hath appointed in order thereunto And therefore what can be plainer then this that we affirme viz. that living in God and using of Ordinances are consistent and may well stand together And what horrible wickednesse and Hypocrisie is it in * I charge not all but some more especially that are 〈◊〉 of this opinion and practice who are grown very loose and prophane in their worship many of those that deny the use of Ordinances and affirm that living in God and using of ordinances and