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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13202	A defence of the Holy Scriptures, worship, and ministerie, used in the Christian Churches separated from Antichrist Against the challenges, cavils and contradiction of M. Smyth: in his book intituled The differences of the Churches of the Separation. Hereunto are annexed a few observations upon some of M. Smythes censures; in his answer made to M. Bernard. By Henry Ainsworth, teacher of the English exiled Church in Amsterdam.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1609 (1609)	STC 235; ESTC S117973	115,496	140

syn and impure by nature even as we by baptising our selves doe the like By offring sacrifices for syns they acknowledged themselves actual transgressors of the law and the killing of beasts argued themselves were vvorthy of death Novv it vvas not possible for the blood of buls and goats to take avvay synns and the lavv taught them so much therfore it vvas a schoolmaster to lead them to Christ that they mought be made righteous by faith This handwriting vvhich stood thus in decrees against the Ievves and vvhich rose up as an adversarie and contrary unto them Christ blotted or vviped out by his death on the crosse vvhere he spoiled also the principalities and powers the Divils vvhich vvere readie to plead against Israel urge this hādvvriting these ordinances vvhich they practised against them if they used them not vvith fayth in Christ but vvith expectation of justice by works of the law Now this word handwriting figuratively used and applied to the legal ordinances M. Smyth taketh properly for the written law and prophets as if Christ had blotted out them and taken them from his Church even as he took circumcision altars sacrifices c. which how far it is from truth I leave unto every conscience 〈◊〉 judge But were it as he thinketh the writtten word of God yet must it then be limited so farr forth onely as men do abuse it and learn not Christ by it for to such onely it is a handwriting contrary to them and so is at this day But this is not the proper use or end of the law or scripture in it self for it preacheth to men the word of fayth and righteousnes therby in Christ as wel as righteousnes by works of the law and the gospel hath witnesse of the law and prophets and they testifie of Christ are a sure word unto Christians Wherefore it were woe vvith us if these vvere blotted out and taken avvay as ceremonies and shadovves abolished the reading vvhereof both publik and private is a continual light and comfort to our harts and confirmation of our holy fayth And to substitute mens harts vvhich are by testimonie of the prophet deceitful and wicked above al things in sted of the holy bible vvhose vvords are al true and faithful is a miserable exchang for eyther men must be as vvere the prophets moved and caried by the holy ghost and so all their vvords taken for heavenly oracles or else vve shal be fed vvith chaffe in sted of vvheat and drink deadly poyson in sted of vvholesome liquor The serpent is subtile more then any beast of the field he savv this ground of making the scriptures of God ceremonies and abolished by Christ vvould be distasted of many yea of any that feareth God therefore he laboureth to svveeten this vvormvvood vvith an after receipt vvhich yet is so tempered as it may serve to help forward his purpose in taking the book of God out of the church M. Smyth in the next place granteth that the holy scriptures are the fountain of al truth the ground and foundation of our fayth that by them al doctrines and every spirit is to be iudged that they are to be read in the church and to be interpreted neverthelesse not reteyned as helps before the eye in tyme of spiritual worship There is no such battel as when a man is at warr with himself it is a special judgment wher with God smiteth his enemies Would any man think that such bitter sweet waters could come out of one fountain as have flowed here Standeth this eyther with religion or with reason that that which as an adversary is blotted out nayled to Christs crosse abolished as being ceremonial and a worldly rudiment should yet be the fountayne of all truth the ground of faith c. If these will stand togither what wil not Then also may circumcision altars sacrifices and other Iewish services although they were shadowes and abolished by Christ yet be reteyned and used of Christians with a little qualification and distinction of worship properly so called and this will like the Iewes very well But we that have learned Christ cannot brook such contrary potions For if the book writing reading of it be Iewish shadowes ended and abolished by Christ and the hart and speaking out of it be the shadowed thing the heavenly truth figured by and substituted for the other we would keep the substance leave the ceremony for such as follow shadowes But if the book of God the written scriptures be the fountaine of all truth and foundation of our faith as it is in deed and we so esteem it then can we not but detest that former plot as a groundwork of Satan that hung vp the scriptures as our enemy vpon the crosse so blotting them out as a cancelled bond and abolishing them for ever Wherefore the reading and expounding of the scriptures continueth now as of old in Israel where the lavv and prophets were read in the synagogues every sabbath for to teach inform Gods people in his vvayes so read vve them still for like end and vse and shall by Gods grace maugre Satans slights so do vnto the end And as for the snare the distinction I mean of spiritual worship properly so called Which vvas set to take the simple it is broken before and the adversary himself if any man be is caught vvith the same Yet ceaseth he not but proceedeth vvith reasons that the originall scriptures are not given as helpes before the ey in worship But the foundations being already overthrovvn vve shall vvith lesse difficultie and more brevitie discover and do away the errors His reasons are Because Christ used the book to fulfil all righteousnes Mat. 3. 15. having by the use of the book fulfilled the law of reading he shut the book in the synagogue to signifie that the ceremonie of book worship or the Ministerie of the letter was now expired and finished Luk. 4. 20. Ioh. 19. 30. First here is the law of reading brought to an end according to that first ground of ceremonies contrary to the second grant that the scriptures are to be read in the Church and to be interpreted which reading and interpreting if it be not Gods worship and service it is the worship of the Divil Thus M. Sm. wavereth as a reed shaken with the wind Secondly in the other side of the leaf M. Sm forgetting himself as a drunken man sayth all the worship that was appointed by Moses for the Preists was limitted to the holy place whether the people were not admitted and therefore reading was of an other nature performed in the utter court or synagogue or elsewhere eyther by the Levites or any other learned men quoting againe Luke 4. 16. and so no part of worship properly so called but onely a ceremonial ground or foundation of inward or outward spirituall worship