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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50522	The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge; Works. 1672	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1588; ESTC R19073	1,655,380	1,052

W●●● Dorchester and Mr. T. of Sarisbury and others all of us have been exceedingly taken with them And it raiseth in me suspicions that you have many conceptions of the like nature for the clearing of divers passages of Holy Scripture and vindicating them from vulgar and erroneous interpretations and inflames me with a desire to be partaker of them I read to them somewhat also of your Mahuzzims which not only ravished them but wrung from them a protestation that none but your self could have found that out But modestie pacifies my importunity and forbids me to urge you too far having so extraordinary experience of your freeness this way All which I have returned with my best care so I trust they shall arrive safely in your hands And now taking your last Letter into my hands I find how by occasion of tidings from the East and from the North you fall upon this very place of Dan. 12. 11 12. which you acknowledge to be obscure and dark yet such light as you meet with you are pleased to communicate wherein I rest satisfied for the present and would not have you trouble your self any more for me thereabouts I have found some working upon Iulian's days when all hope of re-edifying the Temple was taken away but I find no colour of any Abomination of Desolation committed there but rather Abomination of Restauration yet from thence they think may be reckoned a determining of the daily Sacrifice But all along you carry me with you and where you make a stand there I make a stand I pitie I profess your neighbours in Cambridge that make so little use of your labours in searching those precious Mysteries especially when our selves are fallen upon the latter end of the accomplishment of them In answer to my Question I am glad your resolution was not to pass it over in silence and that you open your self in such manner Whereas you conceive I may perhaps have heard something that way you touch upon truly I never did but somewhat I have heard another way which hath made me recount my own fortunes in resemblance unto yours For sometimes I have been censured for a Puritan sometimes for a good fellow My preaching as in opposition to Popery was opportune to undergo the one censure before persons Popishly affected and my free conversation in the enjoying of my friends yet I thank God without all scandal hath exposed me to the other and that from the same mouths not judging indifferently but upon particular and those unjust distasts practising to disgrace me I see your fortunes have not been much unlike I trust we shall love mutually so much the more 1. I willingly subscribe to the difference you put between Imago and Locus or Signum praesentiae 2. Both your Rule and Instances of worshipping towards Locum praesentiae I approve 3. The reason of the difference mentioned between the use of a Creature per modum Objecti in Divine worship and the use of a Creature per modum Circumstantiae of Place Posture or Instrument I find likewise no cause to dislike the Lord having prescribed the one not the other but expresly forbidden it 4. That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Altar was ever in Christian Oratories accounted as Solium Christi I profess ingeniously it is a new thing unto me and most willingly do I communicate unto you my thoughts that have had their course hereupon That the Sanctuary at first and Temple afterwards might well be accounted Solium Dei I see this ground because the Sanctuary at first was made by God's appointment that he might dwell among them and so the Temple afterwards and chiefly the Ark there the Lord being said to dwell between the Cherubins Now I find not the like ground for the Table of the Lord to be so called 2. If so then the Table where and when these Rites of the New Covenant were first instituted was to be so accounted as much as any and that as well in reference to the participation of the Paschal Lamb that went before as of the Bread and Wine which followed after 3. And so it seems the Table whereon the Iews did eat the Paschal Lamb was to be so accounted 4. And why not the Altar for the Burnt-offering also 5. And are not the Mysteries of Christ's Death yea and Resurrection too represented in Baptism as Prudentius calls it Fontis ara as Mr. S. observes Yet I doubt not of Christ's presence there to the faithful receiver so he is to every faithful hearer of the Word and faithful petitioner God being a Sanctuary unto us in all places wheresoever we come and accordingly Solium praesentiae ejus Christi in every place to be found But as Sacraments are not Sacraments any longer than in the use of them of the same condition to my thinking for the present should the Lord's Table be conceived Like as we heard not long since D. B. should preach that Temples were holy only in respect of the holy use of them and it was thought he should be called in question for it but he was not I confess I am no more versed in things of this nature than as some occasional opportunity doth set my thoughts on work But fearing degenerate times coming on upon us and Superstition to encrease we may well be the more wary And we find by experience that albeit when any is urged thereunto sometimes it is carried only in the style of Genuflexio versus altare yet in common speech most call it Bowing to the Altar And a Iesuite sometimes meeting with a Friend of mine an intelligent Gentleman at Antwerp and offering him the kindness of having him to the great Church after he had shewed him other things bringing him up to the high Altar he pulled out the Pyx from behind the Arras and shewed it him saying This is the reason why we bow to the Altar otherwise saith he it were Idolatry 5. As for the Prayers and Devotions of the Church there offered unto God I find nothing amiss therein if the place be so ordered that it be convenient for the Congregation assembled to hear as it is fit they should And I find it alledged out of Iewel against Harding Altaria apud veteres non semper ubique in extrema Templorum parte quam vulgò Chorum vocamus sed in medio posita fuisse and divers Testimonies of Antiquity alledged for proof thereof And therefore that all things may be done to edification I find it nothing strange that in the Reformation our Fathers in the Church of England as well as in other Churches have altered that course when they found how miserably the Service of God was deformed Superstition from ancient times first creeping in and afterwards increasing more and more and no great matter where Latin Service was performed when the people understood it not 6. I make no question but it is lawful to invocate and call upon God at or towards the