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Peter and S. Paul but said they What if St. Peter and St. Paul be also un-sainted what must we then do They were told that then they should dedicate their Churches to the Trinity which they did and so they stood at that time quietly e De Schism Angl. p. 92. This Story is reported by Nich. Sanders in his Book De Schismate Anglorum I do therefore here exhort both my self and others also that seeing the old Saints and even the Apostles themselves are not now adays vouchsafed the title of Saints although they cannot be unsainted because that is not in mans power and that the Churches named by their names and also by the Appellation of Ecclesia sanctae individuae Trinitatis do for all this suffer wrack and are bereaved of their rights and riches and left Mat. 24. 15. desolate as if the Abomination or Desolation were come upon us and for as much as we see that none of our outward stony Temples are either Persecution-proof or Reformation-proof Let us in the name of God consecrate and dedicate our own little Chapels our private Tabernacles and Temples of our Bodies and Souls to the everlasting Blessed and glorious Trinity that so they may abide firme for ever for then their riches will continue un-sequestrable there where Theeves cannot break through and steal Mat. 6. 19. By what hath been said I trust it appears That in the God-head there are Three Persons all Coequal Coessential and Coeternal and all to be invoked worshipped and glorifyed for see how the Apostle evidently expresseth this truth 1 Cor. 12. where speaking of the diversities of gifts of the Holy Ghost yet calleth the Author of those graces The same Spirit The same Lord. The same God which St. Ambrose also accordingly 1 Cor. 12r Elegantly expresseth thus f Ambr. de Dignit hom c. 2. Ipse Deus Tria est unumquodque horum Trium Deus est omnia Tria non Dii sed Deus est i. e. God is Three and every one of these Three is God and all these Three are not to be called Gods but God To this I must add one consideration more That the constant faith and confession of this Mysterious Doctrine of the Trinity is of such near concernment that without it all our endeavours will be but fruitless Now since God hath so plentifully revealed it under the Gospel as we also read in Origen upon Job if that Book be his g Orig. in Job lib. 1. p. 420. Quicquid fecerint homines si non in fide Trinitatis fecerint sine Causa agunt a quo enim recipient mercedem i. e. Whatsoever any man shall perform except he do hold the faith of the Trinity his labour is lost for who else will give him any reward Most doleful therefore must be the condition of unbeleevers whose labours though ever so morally specious yet they are but like one that runs swiftly in a wrong way as h Aug. in Psal 31. St. Austin thinketh but yet more deplorable is the state of those who do not only not beleeve or dis-beleeve but moreover slight and also blaspheme the holy Trinity with such foul language that I think unfit to publish and which caused Gregory Naz. to break forth into admiration of the patience of God k Naz. Orat. 13. O Trinitas Longanimis quae eos a quibus proscinderis tam diu toleras i. e. That it was admirable Longanimity in the Holy Trinity to endure such blasphemers so long And this impiety is yet more hainous when it is found to be among those that profess Christianity whereas indeed the denial of the Trinity is most truly by St. Austin accounted Judaism Into which l Aug. de Temp. Serm. 194. dangerous infidelity it is to be feared that more Christians will fall then the great endeavours of these times will convert Jews from it And this because so many Scandals or stumbling-blocks are laid in their way of which I take my self to be obliged to give some intimation to the Reader before I conclude this Treatise CHAP. VIII Scandalous practices against the faith of the Trinity by forbidding the worship of the Lord Jesus By dis-use of the Doxologies and of the Creeds in Baptism And by dissolving Episcopacy which is a disparagement of the Holy Ghost by whom Bishops were ordained Of Presbytery That is no sacerdotal Order but only an Office KIng Solomon adviseth Prov. 22. 28. Not to remove the Land-marks which our Fathers have set yet commonly in all prevailing Schisms or prosperous heresies the first act of Reformation is in removing all or very many of the former usances although they be ever so good useful and laudable St. Basil saith that in the Arian Heretical Schism a Basil de Spi● Sanc. ad Amphil c. 30. Omnes patrum termini loco moti sunt magna est inclinatio temporum ad Ecclesiae eversionem caligo ecclesias occupat unicus amicitiae finis est Id. Epist 1. 61. 65. ad gratiam loqui Erroris similitudo est res firma ad Seditionis societatem Quilibet est Theologus Episcopatus ad homines vernas devenit Patrum dogmata Apostolorum traditiones contemnuntur Recentiorum hominum inventa dominantur Pastores abiguntur Lupi in roducuntur Domus Oratioriae deseruntur Qui maxime blasphemant in populi Ediscopatum eliguntur Gravitas sacerdotum periit Christianorum nomine tecti sunt persecutores Nulla est apud judices iniquos cani capitis reverentia Thus he and much more also to the same purpose Concerning the abuses of those Hereticks in abolshing the good old Doctrines and Disciplines of the Church the abusing of the most Reverend Ministers and in bringing into that holy Office unlearned men and any Quicunque vult of the lowest of the people Now although the dangerous heresies of Arians and Socinians have been discountenanced both by the late Parliaments and also by the present Government and some of their writings condemned to the fire which acts are by godly men esteemed very commendable and are very comfortable unto them yet many Land-marks and excellent parcels of our Christian Religion and those things wherein the Church of England did correspond with the Primitive Church are of late in many places removed and disused as if they were either impious or Superstitious or of very little or no concernment although some of them are of very great use and necessary This is that which occasioneth many weak Christians to be scandalized so far as to be suspicious of the truth of the most high and necessary Doctrine of the most holy Trinity as namely First Concerning the God-head of Christ it might stagger the faith of many weaker Christians when they find it was commanded by order of a great and wise Council that No Declarat of the Commons in Parl. Sept. 9. 1641. Phil. 2. 10. man should bow his knee when the Name of Jesus was named
Christians is so rare that in many congregations it hath not been administred above once in ten years The uniformity of publick prayer and worship which our Ancestors established and gloryed in is quite gone So is the reverend Decency of Christian Burial and the Sacerdotal benediction of Matrimony and also the Ecclesiastical cognizance thereof which surely should be in the Church because the Apostle not only giveth precepts concerning matrimony but 1 Cor. 7. also passed an Ecclesiastical censure upon 1 Cor. 5. 5. the transgressor thereof Though all these are taken from us and many other things also besides Ecclesiastical Lively-hoods yet in the name of God let us still hold fast the Faith and confession of the Holy Trinity even to death for if that go away all Christianity will go with it There was in Constantinople in the days of Theodosius the elder a parechial Church which formerly was called the Church of Alexander but afterwards it was named Anastasia i. e. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Resurrection and this for many reasons but principally because in that Church Gregory Nazianzen had revived the Faith and Doctrine of the Trinity by his Preaching which before had been by Hereticks quite extinguished and buried therefore this Church was called the Resurrection as Sozomen reports a Soz. l. 7. c. 5 pro resuscitatione Nicaeni Dogmatis as that poem shews Tuque fidem extinctam quae per mea verba vocasti Ad lucem vates dulcis Anastasia I pray God that our Churches in this point may not prove Saint Sepulchers to bury the Doctrine faith and confession of the Trinity and that we may never have cause as that learned Bishop had to say at his Farewel with a sad heart and voice b Vale Naz. Poemat Sur. Comment ad An. 1546. Trinitas meditatio mea i. e. Farewel O blessed Trinity my long study and Meditation Surius the Carthusian Fryer telleth us that when Martin Luther was lying on his death-bed he called to the standers by in these words Orate pro Domino Deo Nostro ejus Evangelio ut ei bene succedat i. e. pray for our Lord God and his Gospel c. This the Fryer telleth in disgrace of him as if Luther thought that God had need of our Prayers But both the Prayer and the intention of that good man was holy and zealous I will make no doubt of concluding this discourse with the like desire Good Reader let us hartily pray for the Holy Trinity thus far that the most sacred wholsome and necessary Doctrine thereof may prosper and never be forgotten or dis-believed among us Amen Amen L. Deo FINIS Courteous Reader these Books following are printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard Various Histories with curiosts Discourses in humane Learning c. 1. 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