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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47777	The parasynagogue paragorized, or, A parenetical confutation of the epidemical error which asserteth, separation from parochial church-communion : demonstrating their practice, who on the Lords day neglect the publick exercises of divine worship in their parochial congregations, and frequent (cæteris paribus) other churches, to be anti-scriptural / by John Lesly ...	Lesly, John, d. 1657.	1655 (1655)	Wing L1171; ESTC R11754	60,778	214

so highly pleasing the Lord as the three Persons in the blessed Trinity have put themselves in Order to shew how well they love it And order is a thing so neerly concerning us Mat. 28.19 1 John 5.7 Zech. 10.7 as break Order once and break both your Staves saith God in Zachary both that of Beauty and that of Bands The Staffe of Beauty for no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no manner of decency or comeliness without it but all out of fashion The staffe of Bands for no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no kind of Steadinesse or constancy but all loose without it Gen. 1.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All falls back to the first Tohu and Bohu for all is Toha empty and void if God fill not in Order all is Bohu a disordered rude chaos of confusion if Christ order it not Every body falls to be doing with every thing and so nothing done nothing well done I am sure Every man then should whatever his Gifts be order his Place and Standing in Divine Worship by Christ assigned him This is judged needful even in secular matters Write one never so fair an hand if hee have not Orderly the Calling of a publick Notary his Writing is not authentical Be one never so good a Lawyer if he be not ordered to be a Judge he can give no definitive Sentence Scot. l. 2. Sent. d. 2. q. 12. n. 3. Aquin. 22.26.1.0 The Order of Nature is prefixed by God and is necessarily to be observed by every Natural cause saith one Schoolman And wheresoever there is a beginning there must be some Order saith another § 2. Ignorance of the Truth as Lactantius noteth well maketh incertam labentemque sententiam an uncertain and slippery assertion Will-Worship is no Religious Act because it is not directed by Divine Order Neither are good Intentions enough John 4.23 We must be certain of Gods revealed will to order us in his Worship otherwise we cannot do it in faith Now this is Will-Worship to make any thing answer for Gods Worship to our selves of our selves without Order from God and warrant of his Word Amos 5.26 Colos 2.22 2. Sam. 16.16 We must be Passive not Active here Mans Devise and Self-wisdome at the best pretend what he will is no warrant for Gods Worship especially Amphibolies Equivocations Mental Reservations or the like for howsoever they may silence the cry of a carnal conscience yet they are but shifts and shuffles which have no ground from Gods Word Though Israel had builded Temples in Dan and Bethel Hos 8.14 to the memory of God yet the Lord calls it a forgetting of him their Maker God will be worshipped onely by the rule of his Word Notwithstanding the dignity of Adams excellent condition in Innocency the variety and plenty of provision he had without any cost or paines of his own he was not to live an idle life and without order And though he were to work on the Week dayes without sweat or wearinesse yet on the Sabbath by Gods example if not by his command he was to rest from that work to give himself more intentively to the Worship of God and communion with God which he could not so well do if he did any thing else at the same time It is not then as Anaxagoras said Lactan. l. 3 c. 9 and our Atheists and Epicures do Man was born to see the Sun and look unto the Heavens but to seek know and serve the Lord his Master He not only giveth life but means also by which we may orderly distinctly Act. 17.27 observing due cicumstances come to know him § 3. A thing then may bee good in the substance and yet in the Circumstances Time Place Person c. unwarrantable 2 Kin. 12.3 Deut. 12.11 As the Israelites worshipping in the High Places the Duty was good but the place where it was performed was prohibited so the Duty of Will-worship in the Indeterminate Service of God in a Church enjoying her freedome the Schoolman telleth us Aquin. 12.73.7.0 That the Circumstance aggravateth the Sin In matters that concerne God who is so fit to be consulted with as he whom God setteth over us and ordaineth for the self-same purpose In the order of the Universe not only is the Kind or Species intended but also the individuals in the principal parts thereof saith Scotus Scot. in Sent l. 2. d. 3. q. 7. ad 5. Aquin. 1.47.3.0 1 106.3.2 ● And all things created by God have an order to God and mutually to themselves saith Aquinas His reason is Because all Order dependeth on the Will of God Hence I infer That oftentimes the circumstance of an Action marrs the substance and that in divine matters we must not only look that the body of our service be sound but that the cloathes be sit The Princes of the Philistines had before given their voices what should be done with the Ark of God 1 Sam. 5.10 yet nothing is done without the direction and assent of those whom they accounted Sacred Nature it self sendeth us in divine things to those persons whose Calling is divine It is either distrust or presumption or contempt that carries us our own wayes in spiritual matters without advising with them whose lips God hath appointed to preserve knowledge The Philistines desired to be directed by their Priests and Diviners in the matter of their Oblation 1 Sam. 6.4 What shall be the Trespasse Offering say they which we shall return unto God They knew well that it were bootlesse for them to offer what they listed Pagans can teach us how unsafe it is to walk in the wayes of Religion without a determined and certaine Guide This is likewise confirmed by the custom and Canons of the ancient Church For it was decreed in the Councel at Eliberin about the year 310. Conc. Eliber cap. 21. That if any man without a lawful cause stayed three Lords Days from his Parish Church his punishment was that he should be so long time excluded from Christian Assemblies Moreover Coriolanus citeth out of Burchard another Canon of the same Councel in which it was determined That they who came seldom to their Parish Church should not at their approach to death be admitted into Communion before they brought forth fruits meet for repentance § 4 In vain is comfort expected from God Be Hall Contemp. 81 if we consult not with his particular Vice-gerent that hath oversight over us For David in his distresse for Ziklag 1 Sam. 30.7 spoiled by the Amalekites called for Abiather he could not live in the Court of Achish a Heathen King without his Seer and overseer Hence Gad is called Davids Seer 2 Sam. 24.11 Ravanel in Videre Heman the Kings Secr 1 Chron. 25.5 Jeduthun the Kings Seer 2 Chron. 35.15 because they put their Kings principally and particularly in mind of those things which appertained to the service and worship of the Lord. 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