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duty_n	command_v	law_n	moral_a	2,108	5	9.1759	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53999	Jerub-baal, or, The pleader impleaded being an answer to Mr. Croftons (lately published) plea for communion with the Church under her present corruptions, &c., entituled Reformation not separation by way of humble remonstrance thereunto : shewing, that non-communion with the Church of England in her liturgy and common-prayer, in those that (yet) joyn with her in the substantial ordinances and instituted worship of Christ, is no schism, and that such are unjustly called separatists : in a letter / written by T.P. for the private satisfaction of a friend, and by him published for common benefit.	T. P.	1662 (1662)	Wing P112; ESTC R7299	36,119	58

as is Gospel-Worship it being spiritual as God himself is a Spirit Joh. 4.24 or at least agreeable to Gods Will as the Jewish Worship by Sacrifices and Oblations the blood of Buls and Goats c. which had nothing at all to commend it but the Quod libet licet the very Will and Authority of the Law-giver else how irrational had it been God having by way of Indulgency accommodated the Outward Method and Manner of his Worship under the Law more to the Nature of the Jewes then to his Own whereas Evangelical Worship is not only agreeable to his Will but suitable to his Nature Since the agreeablenesse of Worship to Gods Will and the suitablenesse of Worship to his Nature is to be measured by the Manner as well as if not more then by the Matter of it That being the Distinctive Forme thereof And since the true Regular Manner of Divine Worship is only revealed and dictated in and by Scripture-Canon Scripture Light directing to the Manner as Natures Light directs to the Object of Worship else what advantage have We to whom are committed the Oracles of God over the Pur-blind Gentiles who are not taxed for not worshipping of God according to the light they had whereby they were directed to the Object of Worship but for not glorifying of God AS God Rom. 1.21 they failed in the Manner Since I say 't is so I must needs conclude that That Manner or Constitution of Worship which is not Prescribed is ipso facto Probihited which is not Commanded is consequentially at least forbidden Some possibly will Object What Reason that That which is not Commanded should consequently be forbidden more then why that which is not forbidden should be consequently commanded a common Plea in the Case But Dispar est Ratio there is a great disparity a Negative will prove a Sin but every Positive will not prove a Duty thus whatever is not agreeable to the Will of God is a Sin but all that is agreeable to the Will of God is not a Duty this is plain a Moral Duty is the Obligatory Influence of some Positive Law To proceed then That such a Constitution as Liturgy or Common-Prayer is not commanded of God the Assumption is proved aboundantly Where is there ever a Deus dixit a Thus saith the Lord for it in all the Book of God An Ecclesia dixit will not go down with me who cannot put Church-Infallibility into my Creed nor suffer my soul to become Captive to an Implicite-Faith Infallibility is one of Gods own Crown-Royalties He onely is Infallible in point of Knowledge who is Immutable in Being and Existence Where is there ever one Authentick President for it Mr. Crofton I know doth attribute the Essential Form of Prayer to it page 25. which he describes to be A calling upon God in the name of Christ But if he understand not in the Name of Christ the Will of Christ then I say 'T is not a Right Description of Prayer whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Essentiale Essential Form depends upon the Rule Gods own Prescript it being a Moral Duty no better then what may agree to the Romish Letany But if he do understand therein the Will of Christ I once more call for an instance in some Authentique Precept or President the onely Commentaries upon Gods Will Regulative for such a Constitution which I despaire ever to see I might have told you that it is a Humane Tradition and therefore a sin against the 2. Commandement being contrary to Bishop * Expos on 2. Com. Andrews his Modus Praescriptus Gods own Prescribed Manner of worship But I shall not need to go so far let it be proved that it is a Constitution whereof God is the Author the Word the Rule the Practice Apostolick the Pattern or what can it be other then Cultus ex humane cerebro confictus meer Will-Worship and Superstition which being † Sir France Bacon in his Essayes the reproach of Deity must needs be as well though not as much as Idolatrous Worship displeasing to Him who with his own finger twice wrote Himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Jealous God who therefore may justly say of such Officious Service Who hath required this at your hand O that men would seriously consider what I tremble at the very thoughts of namely the dreadfull doom and sentence gone out against such as either add to or substract from Gods own Volume Deut. 12.32 Rev. 22.18 19. Thus Sir a Conscience fettered with doubts is that which I plead as a ground of Real inevitable necessity in this case of my Non-Communion with the Church of England in her Liturgy and Common-Prayer So that whereas Mr. Crofton pleads for Communion with her in that as well as in other Parts of Solemn Publique Worship as a thing not onely Lawfull but Expedient yea Indispensably necessary I question all viz not onely the Necessity but the Expediency yea the very Lawfulnesse of it it being in mine opinion upon the accounts aforesaid none of the Real or True Worship of God but meer Wil-Worship and Contrivance of Men so that I cannot communicate therein without sin For To him that esteemeth a thing unclean to him it is unclean And he that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith for what is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.14.23 And what though my Conscience be Erroneous herein yet doth it lay upon me a Negative Obligation in the case Ligat though not Obligat Though an Erroneous Conscience obliegeth me not to do what it commandeth yet it obliegeth me to refrain from what it forbiddeth this is the determination of Learned Casuists in the Case Conscience being the Queen Regent-Faculty of the soul Gods Own Representative therein must not at least in matters of Indifferency be controled For * Ames de Consc lib. 1. cap. 4. Quicquid dictat dictat sub ratione Voluntatis Divinae Better it is that I should not at all communicate than to communicate with a Reluctancy of Conscience for in such a case what is an Indifferency to another may be Iniquity in me Mr. Crofton should rather pity than censure such a One what must all be cut off that are not skilled in his Shibboleth His Invective against Church-Yard-Loyterers Judg. 12.6 Page 24. might well have been spared in a time wherein Vineyard-Labourers are so few 2. The Real-Inevitable Necessity of my Wit●drawment from or Non-Communion in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper under the present Modes and Methods of Administration in the Church of England is grounded upon the * Constit and Can. Eccles An Dom. 1603. Can. 27. Imposed Gesture the Superstition and Corruptions which attend it which who can be such a stranger in our Israel as to be ignorant of Though I could go neer to approve of the gesture of Kneeling being lest Arbitrary and commended or practised only as an Outward Badge of more than ordinary