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A66891	Aron-bimnucha, or, An antidote to cure the Calamites of their trembling for fear of the Ark to which is added Mr. Crofton's creed touching church-communion : with a brief answer to the position (pretended to be) taken out of his pocket and added to the end of a scandalous and schismatical pamphlet, entituled Jerubbaal justified.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1663 (1663)	Wing W3335; ESTC R38319	81,961	126

for that Ministry And well might they undertake it for the Ark of God was not like the Idols of Egypt a burden to the weary Beast † Isa 46.1 it did not oppress or wring the Priests shoulders for the Text saith The Lord helped them to bear it 1 Chron. 15.26 Such is Gods goodness if we will but seriously endeavour it we cannot want a sufficient assistance to perform our expe●ted duty Thus you see with what Carriage or Instruments the Ark was transported But 2. With what pomp and solemnity and of this we may observe that it was very great but withal very pious very decent very delightful and very cordial 1. A pious solemnity It began with an accustomed Form of Prayer for so Moses had taught them when the Ark advanced to say * Num. 10 3● Rise Lord and let thine enemies be scattered To their Prayers they added Sacrifice Psal 68.1 2. 1 Chron. 15.26 A Sacrifice of thanksgiving that God did vouchsafe not only to spare the Levites whereas he had smitten Uzzah but also to assist them in their Ministry and that their devotions might be the more rational they make them intelligible by a Psalm of praise newly penn'd on purpose to adorn the pomp of this solemnity 1 Chron. 16.7 c. 2. It was a decent Solemnity 1 Chron. 15.27 for David was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all the Levites that bare the Ark and the Singers and Chenaniah the Master of the Song with the Singers David also had upon him an Ephod of linen See Eng. Annor on Judg. 8.27 1 Sam. 2.18 on 2 Sam. 6.14 The Ephod was an habit appropriated to Gods Service And there were two sorts of them one very rich and costly peculiar to the High-Priest made of blew purple scarlet and twined linen cunningly wrought and embroidered with gold of which Exod. 28.4 6. the other was a vestment of linen for Priests and Levites which others might freely use also though we finde it no where prescribed to them and such a one David used at this time say the English Annotators not only as being more light and fit for motion on 2 Sam. 6.14 but also to shew his devotion in his religious Service Here was decency and a signification of devotion in the use of this garment I pray observe and carry that home with you and hereupon the Votaries of the Lamb of God are represented to St John See Dr. Ham. Notes upon Rev. 19.8 as celebrating the solemn Service of God in the Christian Church in this habit Revel 19. 3. It was a delightful Solemnity For There was shouting and the sound of the Cornet and Trumpets and Cymbals making a noise with Psalteries and Harps 1 Chron. 15.28 God requires that his people should serve him with joy and gladness * Deut. 28.47 and as well to blow up and inflame that sacred fire as to entertain and discover it he allows the use of these bellows Musical Instruments as well as Voices When our melody is spiritual and does not degenerate into carnality and looseness when the Holy Ghost is the Master of the Musick it is so great an advantage to our devotions that we are exhorted even under the New Testament John 4. where all the Worship of God is to be performed in Spirit and in Truth even here under the dispensation of the Gospel we are exhorted to use it to raise up our devotions to the edification of our selves and others Eph. 5.18 19. Col. 3.16 Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit speaking to your selves and admonishing others in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs singing with your voice and making melody with musical instruments with grace in your hearts unto the Lord. And accordingly 4. This was a cordial Solemnity There are a sort of men in the world so rash so uncharitable so censorious that they condemn all the Service that is performed to Almighty God with pomp and ceremony or any shew of solemnity as meerly formal and hypocritical Let the practice of David upon this occasion confute their vain and false imaginations It is a contradiction to say the more there is of delight the less there is of the soul in any service David perform'd this duty not only with joy and gladness * 1 Chron. 15.25 2 Sam. 6.12 but with all his might and the holy extasies of his soul caused a religious transportation and rapture in his body in these exercises for he danced before the Lord with all his might † 2 Sam. 6.14 When his heart danced so for joy his body could not chuse but sympathiz● in the passion and dance in grave and comely measu●es with it My heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God Psal 84.2 When I went with the multitude into the house of God I poured out my soul in me saith he Psal 42.4 i. e. I emptied my self of all earthly and carnal delights Bellar. ad haec verba Psalmi that I might be filled with the pleasures of Gods house I expatiated and enlarged my desires and faculties that I might be capable to receive the influences of so great a blessing His body was in the dance with the decency of an Ephod but his very heart and soul were in the joy of this holy procession so cordial and so delightful so decent and so pious was this Solemnity And thus we have done with the first general part of the Text the Transportation or Conduct of the Ark So they brought the Ark of God We come now to the second 2. The scituation of it And they set it in the Tent that David had pitched for it This was in the City of David a part of Jerusalem 2 Sam. 6.12 where the Court was kept David knew there was need of a sovereign Amulet against those temptations that do usually ●aunt and follow greatness The splendour of a Court might possibly dazzle his eyes and make him forget his duty 't is good therefore to have the light thereof eclipsed by the greater splendour of a divine Majesty The bands of Religion may be drawn so close and tyed so fast about his soul upon the frequent sight of such a sacred Shrine as the Ark was that nothing could easily puff it up or make his spirits flye out into dissolution The sight of this was apt to strike the heart with awe and reverence 2. But besides David was certainly inform'd that the presence of the Ark had brought signal blessings evidences of Gods favour upon the Family of Obed-Edom and why should not he endeavour to share in the benefit who had at least as good a Title as Obed-Edom to the Ark it self 1 Cor. 12.31 To covet the best gifts and that earnestly is a very commendable part of our duty To hunger and thirst after righteousness after spiritual blessings is a holy thirst and hunger To be ambitious to

a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience shall be fulfilled In the mean while we are not without our Prognostications too that the Ark shall still reside and prosper with us 1. Our late Tribulations have wrought patience and our patience experience and our experience Hope A Hope Rom. 5.3 4 5. we trust that will never make ashamed We argue our selves into this perswasion by the Logick of Manoah's wise If the Lord were pleased to destroy us Judg. 13.23 He would not have received an offering at our hands nor would he have shewed us all these things He would not have heard our prayers nor have wrought such miracles of mercy for the Restitution of his Ark amongst us A mercy that the Church of England may very well celebrate with a very little variation of the expressions in the 83. Psalm For loe our enemies lift up their head and made a tumult They took crafty counsel against thy people They said Come let us cut them off that the name of the Church of England may be no more in remembrance They consulted together with one consent and were confederate The tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre Assur also was joyned with them and have holpen the Children of Lot But God hath upon the matter done unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin which perished at Endor they became as dung for the Earth He made their Princes like Oreb and Zeb yea all their Princes as Zebah and Zalmunna Who said let us take to our selves the houses of God into our possession Our God made them like a wheel that could never fix upon any solid ground of establishment but rolled and turned about in a restless variety of changes At last they were as stubble before the winde God did divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel He did confound their Languages that the building of their Babel could not go forward And all these dispensations were out of a design of mercy to the Adversaries of this Church God hath filled their faces with shame that they might be induced to joyn with the Church in a due and decent conformity to seek his Name And so let all the Combinations of thy Churches enemies perish O Lord but let them that love thee and thy Church be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might Judges 5.31 that our Land may be filled with piety devotion and glory and so have rest to all generations God hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce and what he hath done he is pleased to make his ingagement to do more if we do not render our selves utterly unworthy and forfeit our Tenure by our obstinate perversities This is one ground of our hope And there is A 2d. The Church of England hath a praying people a people whose devotions are solid and fervent regular and constant a people that do frequent the Publick Prayers of the Church out of humility and obedience out of judgment and prudence and yet do importune God in their Closets day and night too though they love not so much to play the Hypocrite as to sound their Trumpet to tell the world they do so You know the interest of ten righteous persons was so considerable to Almighty God that it should have prevail'd with him for the preservation of five most lewd and vitious Cities and God be blessed we have that number I trust many hundred times told over But because if we continue in sin the Epha a Zach. 5. will be full at last and if we neglect so great salvation and the things that do belong unto our peace those things will be hidden from our eyes and we shall bring upon our selves swift destruction b 2 Pet. 7.2 and then the devotions of holy Prophets will be injoyned silence by Gods own Order Jer. 7.16 Pray not thou for this people for their good c Jer. 14.11 c. 11.14 neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee And though they should pray earnestly and continue their importunity receiving no such express Order as that Prophet Jeremy had to the contrary yet their prayers in this case in this juncture of affairs when the harvest of sin is ripe how effectual soever for themselves would not prevail they would be fruitless as to the generality of persons and the calamity of the Nation for when I bring my sore judgments upon the Land though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live Ezek. 14.14 10. saith the Lord God they should deliver neither son nor daughter they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness Therefore to prevent this dreadful severity of Almighty God give me leave to propound some few Caveats and Directions to you touching your behaviour in reference to the Ark of God by which I understand his sacred Ordinances and so I shall conclude When God was about to descend upon Mount Sinai at the promulgation of the Law Exod. 19. he commanded Moses to set bounds to keep off the people that they might not press upon so dreadful a Majesty to their own ruine The presence of God with his holy Ark in his holy worship is no less sacred no less dreadful than it was on Mount Sinal I must therefore draw a line and set up rails about it as well to secure your interest in it as to preserve that respect and veneration that is due unto it These shall be made up of a six fold Caveat You must 1. Not over value or deifie it 2. Not undervalue or blaspheme it 3. Not invade or profane it 4. Not slander or belye it 5. Not intrude or pry into it 6. Not rifle or plunder it 1. You must not over-value or deifie it A very high esteem and reverence you must have for tthe Ark of God and you may relie upon Gods promise and confidently expect what God hath engaged to do for you by the Ministry thereof But you must not turn the Ark into an Idol exhibere cultum Dei creaturae est Idololatria saith Aquinas if you devote that service to it and place that affiance in it which is due to God alone you do then make an Idol of it You make the Type of Christ to become his Rival you make him jealous of his own Representative and you eclipse his honour by that shadow that was design'd to illustrate and set it off And yet there are some that do more then this worse then this amounts to they do Hyper-deifie it advance it above God yea against God for God will not patronize the guilty Christ will not save the impenitent 't is a desperate presumption to think they will if you expect this from the Ark you do not only turn it into an Idol set