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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36103	A Discourse of the lawfulness of compliance with all the ceremonies of the Church of England		1660 (1660)	Wing D1605A; ESTC R15175	21,547	38

seek righteousness and justification by them Of how dangerous consequence the observation of these Ceremonies was may be gathered out of the Epistle to the Galatians The main design of the Apostle in that whole Epistle is to reclaim the Galatians from adhering to Mosaical Ceremonies by putting them in mind of the Gospel of Christ Gal. 4.10 11. He blameth them for observing the Jewish Festivals to which the Jews living among them persuaded them which were however the most inconsiderable Ceremonies And in Gal. 5.2 3. Behold I Paul testify unto you c. that is if those who were circumcised looked on Circumcision as that to which they were bound by the Law of Moses then they must observe the whole Law for à quatenus ad de omni valet consequentia And also if they stood upon that as a work of the Law by which they should be justified then Christ would profit them nothing they being debtours to doe the whole Law and therefore would have no benefit by the death of Christ So that you see that though these Ceremonies considered absolutely in themselves were indifferent yet by reason of some circumstances which might be annexed to them they were very perilous and of dangerous consequence Wherefore as some indifferent actions though absolutely in their own nature all may be said to be equally indifferent by reason of good circumstances usually attending them are of good report as tilling the ground and the like and some by reason of evil circumstances usually annexed to them are of ill report as performing the office of an Hangman or an Executioner which though lawfull is yet accounted infamous so if we compare the Ceremonies of the Church of England with the Levitical Ceremonies as used after the Ascension of our Saviour and promulgation of the Gospel by the Apostles we may say that ours are as the former theirs as the latter Some indeed excuse the Jewish Ceremonies in that they being instituted by God at first ought to have a decent Sepulture that the Jews being persuaded of their necessity must be tolerated and born with in their opinion But these excuses are nothing pertinent to the business in hand God's Institution when expired was extrinsecal and they were no longer to be observed by his appointment being abolished by the death of Christ Col. 2.14 Now if a Master appoint business for so long time and no longer if his Servant continue in it afterwards what he doeth is of his own will and he may be punished for it And that the Jews must be born with I do not deny but however this proveth not but that the observation of the Mosaical Ceremonies for that time was of very dangerous consequence And though ignorance might excuse the generality of the converted Jews yet it could not excuse the Apostles and Elders who know them to be abolished by the death of Christ Neither is the question whether the Jewish Ceremonies ought to have a decent Sepulture or no but whether such Ceremonies of so dangerous consequence and so nighly bordering on unlawfulness might not however be born with upon other more important causes So much of the first Proposition or demonstration of the Sequel by which it is manifest that if the Jewish Ceremonies which signified Christ to come who was already come and did abolish them by his death which were vain repetitions of Sacrifices for sin Christ being already offered up for all which were used as Sacraments looked on as necessary parts of Divine Worship were thought significant not onely on our part but God's too whose observation among the Jews did endanger their intrusion upon the Gentiles for whom it was utterly impossible to observe them all nay whose observation did tend to confirm the Jews in seeking righteousness by the works of the Law did infect many Gentiles as the Galatians with the same errour insomuch that Christ was like to profit them nothing and their faith to be in vain if these Ceremonies might at any time under such circumstances be lawfully used certainly much more the Ceremonies of the Church of England which are not liable to such inconveniences and many of which have been derived down unto us from the Primitive Christians So I come now to prove the second Proposition or Assumption but these Jewish Ceremonies were sometimes lawfully used even by those who assuredly knew them to be abolished by the death of Christ I shall not here instance in the generality of the converted Jews especially those who lived in Judea who observed them all because they might not at that time and so soon be fully instructed nor yet till the Temple it self was destroyed nor yet understand the extent of Christian Liberty But I shall prove my assertion as by the other Apostles so also by the doctrine of St. Paul and his example conformable to his Precepts who knew the obligation to all these things to be abolished by the death of Christ and did among the Gentiles to whom their observation must needs prove an intolerable yoke and burthen most oppose them As for the Apostles we see their conformity Acts 3.1 And St. Paul tells us how he reproved St. Peter for being carried away with dissimulation among the Gentiles as we reade Gal. 2. And as for St. Paul himself we may see his Precepts Rom. 14.1 2 3 4 5 14 15. wherein he exhorteth the strong among the Gentiles not to offend their Brethren the Jews by their overmuch freedom Secondly Let us take notice of his glorying as it were in his compliance and conformity with all sorts of men for their Salvation in these indifferent Ceremonies 1 Cor. 19.9 20 21 22 23. where we may note that as long as the Gospel is propagated we need not stand upon indifferences the Apostle did in these matters observe that rule Dum fueris Romae Romano vivito more Si fueris alibi vivito sicut ibi Now how the Apostle did put his doctrine of compliance and conformity in practice will be seen by these particular instances First by his circumcising Timothy Acts 16.1 2 3. where we find that Ceremony which the Apostle declared so much against in his Epistle to the Galatians telling them that if they were circumcised Christ should profit them nothing Gal. 5.2 was now by him applied to Timothy notwithstanding That he might not give offence to the Jews he took and circumcised him The fault was not then in the materiality of the action which was lawfull enough in it self but in the formality of the application among the Galatians And therefore Circumcision certainly was not unlawfull in it self though it was unlawfull to put any confidence in it as a work of the Law which the Galatians did For otherwise Paul would never have circumcised Timothy And so in like manner if any one should put any trust and confidence or think there is any merit or efficacy in the sign of the Cross if he should adore and worship it as his God he