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A64270	A disswasive from contention being a sermon preached and designed for the last itineration of the King's preachers in the county Palatine of Lancaster / by Zachary Taylor ...	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing T596; ESTC R81	21,461	36

They seek to justify their Non-conformity by venting False at least dubious and unsound Positions Such are these That our Ceremonies are Parts of Divine Worship But where do they find this or do we teach any such thing No surely for are Parts of Divine Worship alterable according to the difference of Time and Place Art of the Church of England 24. May they be ordained changed or abolished by Authority of Particular Churches as we assert of these They might be ashamed of such a Calumny And I desire they would advise with Casuists of their own Denomination Latae á Deo Ceremoniae sunt Cultus Dei ab omnibus institutae non sunt Cultus Dei sed si bonae sunt cultui divino serviunt Vrs Cat. par 3 Q. 92. Ab Ecclesia Institutae Ceremoniae non sunt Cultus Dei 16. Q 103. and these will tell them That Ceremonies which God establisheth are indeed the Worship of God but what men institute are not the Worship of God Though if they be good they are Subserviceable to the Worship of God And again Ceremontes instituted by the Church are not the Worship of God And I wish this may satisfy them But they pretend the same Reason to separate from us that we had to forsake the Church of Rome How implacable is Malice Were bare Ceremonies the cause of our Desertion or what do you mean by these Notorious Falsities Do we frame New Articles of Faith or equallize Tradition unto Scripture Do we subject the Scepter to the Crosier or arrogate Infallibility unto our Church Do we offer Sacrafice for the Quick and Dead or do Transubstantiation Purgatory and he like come out off our Mint Or do you meet any of our Church that will justifie Rome as you do us and confess that she is sound in Doctrine and Morrality So gross the Untruth so apparent the Envy that I admire that any one can have either so great Impudence for to averr it or so little Sense to be deceived by it Yet the Imposers you will say were Culpable and the Guilt if there be any lies at their Door By the same Example Malefactors may cry out upon the Law Traitors at the Prince and Sinners against their God But let us scan it seriously And though you would mischieveously insinuate as though our Governors should have designedly contrived these for so many Snares and Gins upon the Conscience Be informed my Brethren for all they did was this When other Rites were abolished they reserved these unabrogated They made no Positive Act whereby they did create or Originally enact them but only suffered them for to continue and that at a season as you shall hear anon when no man scrupled but all had used them So far were they from a thought of Burdening Men's Consciences thereby And have we not now Reason to complaine as Bishop Bilson doth Epist to the Reader before the Gov. of Christ's Church This is an endles Quarrel of theirs declaring they either do not or will not understand the matter for which we chiefly contend But their Conformity would make them guilty of betraying that Liberty wherewith Christ made them free God forbid that you should be again intangled in the Yoke of Bondage Gal. 5.1 But mistake not Submission unto Governors as inconsistent with your Christian Liberty To withdraw is Extravagancy it is Licentiousness and not Liberty That very useing of it for a Cloak of Maliciousness which the Apostle reproveth 1. Pet. 2.16 Christian Liberty is an Exemption from the Jewish Paedagogy a Manumission from that Yoak that our Fathers could not bear Gal. 4.5 And beside this I know no Liberty appositely appropriated to the Christian for as it implies our Freedom from the Slavary of Sin and Satan it is Judaical as much Christian A Branch of that Oath which God sware to Abraham That we being delivered from the hands of our Enemies might serve him in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our Life Luk. 1.74.75 And so far is our Submitting unto Rites and Ceremonies from trespassing upon our Christian Liberty that each one of these is an Instance of that Freedom which Christ purchased for us For whereas it was the Jewish Yoke that they were so determined in their Modes and Forms that they could not alter nor dispence with Proselites in such Rites and Ceremonies as with Men of disserent Climates meet with as diverse a Construction Christ to obviate that Infelicity which had been an unremoveable Impediment unto the Gospel hath wholly delegated this Authority to the Pleasure of his Church requiring no more then that all things be done Decently and according to an Order 1 Cor. 14.40 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a Canon or Injuncton for so the word without the least Impropriety of Signification doth import Whence they to whom this Language was Vulgar term their Rules of Discipline 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And so the English that follows Beza's Traslation renders the Text Let all things be done Honestly and By Order which cannot but respect some Rule established by Authority So far is our Christian Liberty from Interfering with Authority that whosoever extends it beyond these Limits is no other than the Advocate of Confusion But their Conscience will not suffer them to comply I might churlishly return and with a sting of Truth What is that to us See you to that But is it your Conscience Be not mistaken Perhaps it is but some over-weeldy Opinion or if it be Conscience shew me the Rule on which it doth proceed for Conscience as your own Guides will tell you doth not Accuse or Excuse but according to some Rule Jus. Div. Roy. Ecc. Principle or Law of God that is above the Conscience Now the Work is short produce any thing above the Conscience to justifie your Pretensions and we are silent for ever But I would gladly ask Did your Conscience of it self frame these Scruples or were they instill'd by Education Converse Interest Affection c. If the former is not your Conscience defiled and erronious Tit. 1.15 For if it be you cannot expect that out of Christian Sympathy we should defile our selves and err too Besides some of your own Casuists resolve Errans Conscientia liganda rather than ligat Lightfoot's Ser. to Comm. That such a Conscience is so far from binding that it ought it self the rather to be bound If the latter Wo be to them by whom the Scandal cometh Mat. 18.7 For this is that very Case to which that Wo is threatned The Scandal there is not an aversion or dislike of something that we see is practised but the being ensnared thereby Consul Ames de Cons into an occasion of Sin Which is the misery of our Dissenting Brethren If they Conform they act against an Opining Conscience and they conclude that Sinful If they refuse they become Disobedient in not submitting to the Ordinance of Man for the Lord's Sake 1 Pet. 2.13