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A16491 A sermon concerning decencie and order in the church Preached at VVood-Church, in the diocesse of Canterburie, April. 30. 1637. By Edward Boughen parson of Wood-Church. Boughen, Edward, 1587?-1660? 1638 (1638) STC 3406; ESTC S113532 15,437 30

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great in any subject to disallow a law of the King a law of a Realme by long study free disputation and VNIFORME DETERMINATION OF THE WHOLE CLERGIE consulted debated and CONCLVDED This is most agreeable to our Saviours doctrine S. Mat. 23. h S. Mat. 13.2.3 The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses chaire in the chaire of the Law-maker the power is now in their hands ALL therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and doe Neither did our Saviour onely teach this doctrine but he practised it in his owne person giving us an example how to behave our selves in the like kind For our Saviour submitted himselfe freely to the orders of that Church wherein he lived as is to be seene by i S. Ioh. 2.13 his observing the feast of Easter and of k S. Ioh. 10.22 the Dedication of the Temple l S. Luk. 2.22 When his mother had beene purified himselfe was m Ib. presented to the Lord and n S. Luk. 2.24 for him an offering was made of a paire of Turtle Doves or two young Pigeons And which was most intollerable o S. Luk. 2.21 hee was circumcised the eighth day If I should tell you of the severe Lawes in the Primative Church and those Penalties and Penances which were strictly imposed and submissively undergone by Offenders in those times it would strike you into an amazement You could not but wonder at the rigour of the Canons as also at the humility and patience of those Christians But our Church imposeth no such sharpe Orders it enjoyneth no such rigorous courses We complaine of ease we cannot of rigour And yet how few of us willingly obey these easie these decent Orders But Saint Paul is very strict for them he will have us to doe them and to doe them as they should be done even Decenter secundum ordinem Decently and in or according to Order My last part V. Decenter secundum ordinem Decently AND according to Order To doe our duties but in one of these onely is to submit our selves by halfes but Saint Paul will have both It is not then for us to judge of decency we must hold that to be decent which is according to order prescribed for both these goe together in my Text and we must keep them so We may not then conceit a decency to our selves without order This is to affront the Apostle and all authority This is to side a Numb 16. with Korah and is nota distinctionis a sure token whereby to discerne the Schismatically minded from peaceable and orderly Christians Consider good brethren where there is no order there can be no decency and where there is no decency there is as little order and there can be neither where every man is left to his owne liberty It is an observation of a great learned man that b Franc. a victor Relect. 1. Sect. 5. n. 1. in the state of innocencie order should have beene observed and for that end if man had continued in that state there should have beene a power directive though not coercive to have prescribed order Non enim esset decora Respublica saith hee si quilibet SVO RITV Deum coleret etiamsi omnes recte viverent for the face of the Church could not be decent and comely if every man should serve God after his owne fashion though all men lived never so uprightly And what he speakes is not without reason for Paradise and hell are as different as may be But in hell there is no order Iob 10.22 Therefore in Paradise there must have beene order In heaven also there is decency and Order and uniformity as it is to be seene Apoc. 7. c In the ninth verse the Saints are all clothed q Revel 7.9 with white robes d Ibidem all stand before the Lambs throne e Ibidem v. 10. all cry with a loud voyce f Ibidem all use one and the same thankesgiving And as it is with the Saints so is it with the Angels vers 11. g Ibidem v. 11. They all stand round about the throne together h Ibidem they all fall downe before the throne together on their faces i Ibidem v. 12. they all use one and the same doxologie saying Amen Blessing and glory and wisedome and thankesgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen That the Saints have white robes is decent but that they are all clothed with white robes is orderly That they stand before the throne and fall downe before the throne is decent but that they all stand together and all fall downe together is orderly That they cry with a loud voice is decent that they all doe so together is orderly That they praise and glorifie God is seemely but that they all praise God in the selfe same words is secundum ordinem most agreeable to order Thus you see they 1 all worship together 2 after the same manner 3 in the same posture 4 the selfe same way 5 with robes of one and the same colour 6 and in the selfe same words not muttering betweene the teeth 7 but with a loud voice And is not this to give us an example how we ought to behave our selves in the Church of God surely our Church if you well observe may seeme to have set this heavenly patterne before her when shee made her Canons and Constitutions Let us then humbly and religiously submit our selves and doe all things according to that heavenly order which is injoyned Injoyned By whom By them that have power to injoyne it And who are they Kings and Bishops Kings Rom. 13. the most part of that Chapter tells you so And S. Peter seconds S. Paul in this point Submit your selves to EVERY ORDINANCE of man for the Lords sake to the KING as SVPREME as also to them that are sent or put in authority by Kings 1. S. Pet. 2.13 14. So then to Bishops because they are put in authority by Kings if they had no other claime But blessed be God they hold not only by this k As touching the Reverend Ordinaries of this land if there be any that dislike of their callings or conceive of the same as not grounded upon Apostolicall and for all the essentiall parts thereof upon Divine Right I would he were with Mr. Cotton in New England The holy Table c. 3. p. 64. but by an higher tenure l Rom. 13 1. since all powers are of God from him they have their spirituall Iurisdiction what ever it be S. Paul therefore yee see assumes this power to himselfe of setting things in order in the Church before any Prince became Christian 1 Cor. 11.34 The like power he acknowledgeth to be in Titus Tit. 1.5 And in all Bishops Heb. 13.17 Where he commands us to m Heb. 13.17 obey them that have the rule over us And who are they Even those