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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53671	A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1667 (1667)	Wing O721; ESTC R9489	80,905	231

sending out and is referred unto the same series of miracles which they wrought in pursuit and by vertue thereof they cast out many Devils and anointed with Oyle many that were sick and healed them And by what is there recorded the subsequent mention of it James 5.14 is to be regulated but now unto a reall evangelical institution of worship it is required 1. That it be a command of Christ manifested by his Word or Example proposed unto our imitation Matth. 28.20 2. That it be given and enjoyned unto the whole Church with the limitation of its administration expressed in the Word 1 Cor. 11.25 3. That unto the due performance of it Gospel grace be required in them that attend unto it 4. That it teach or represent or seal or improve some grace of the Covenant and have a promise of acceptation annexed unto it and whatever is thus appointed the Church is indispensably to continue in the observation of unto the end of the World Quest. 14. May not the Church find out and appoint to be observed such religious rites as being adjoyned unto the celebration of Gods instituted worship may farther the devotion of the Worshipers and render the worship it self in its performance more decent beautiful and orderly as the appointing of Images and the like Answ. All acceptable devotion in them that worship God is the effect of faith which respects the precepts and promises of God alone And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship consisteth in its relation unto God by Iesus Christ as the merciful high-Priest over his house with the glorious administration of the spirit therein The order also of it lyeth in the due and regular observation of all that Christ hath appointed and therefore all such inventions are in themselves needless and useless and because forbidden unlawful to be observed Rom. 1.21 Chap. 14.23 Heb. 4.2 Chap. 11.6 Deut. 13.4 Chap. 27.10 Chap. 30.2.8 20. Chap. 11.27 Matth. 27.5 Isa. 29.13 Heb. 11.4 6. Ephes. 2.18 2 Cor. 3.8 9 10 11. Heb. 10.19 20 21 22. John 4.21 23. 1 Cor. 14.20 Matth. 28.20 Exod. 20.4 Deut. 4.2 Matth. 15.13 Isa. 29.13 Deut. 12.32 Chap. 17.3 Explication Three things are usually pleaded in the Justification of the observance of such rites and ceremonies in the worship of God 1. That they tend unto the furtherance of the devotion of the Worshipers 2. That they render the Worship it self comely and beautiful 3. That they are the great preservers of order in the celebration thereof And therefore on these accounts they may be instituted or appointed by some and observed by all But things are indeed quite otherwise God is a spirit and will be worshiped in spirit and in truth John 4.24 And no devotion is acceptable unto him but what proceedeth from and is an effect of faith for without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 and faith in all things respects the commands and authority of God for saith he in vain do they worship me who teach for doctrines the commandments of men Matth. 15.9 and he rejecteth all that honour which is given him by those whose fear towards him or worship of him is taught by the precepts of men Isa. 29.13 These things therefore being utterly destitute of divine Authority they can no way farther or promote the devotion of the Worshipers What natural or carnal affections may be excited by them as men may inflame themselves with Idols Isa. 57.5 or what outward outside devotion they may direct unto or excite is uncertain but that they are no means of stirring up the grace of God in the hearts of Believers or of the increase or strengthening of their faith which things alone God accepts in Gospel Worship seeing they are not appointed by him for any such purpose is most certain for to say that any thing will effectually stir up devotion that is excite strengthen or increase grace in the heart towards God that is not of his own appointment is on the one hand to reflect on his wisdome and care towards his Church as if he had been wanting towards it in things so necessary which he declares against Isa. 5.4 what saith he could have been done more to my Vineyard that I have not done in it so on the other it extolls the wisdom of men above what is meet to ascribe unto it Shall men find out that which God would not or could not in matters of so great importance unto his glory and the souls of them that obey him yea and it cannot be but that attendance unto them and their effects must needs divert the mind from those proper spiritual actings of faith and grace which is its duty to attend unto And this is evidently seen in them who indulging to themselves in their observation in multiplyed instances as in the Church of Rome have changed the whole spiritual worship of the Church into a Theatrical pompeous shew of carnal devotion Secondly The comelyness and beauty of Gospel worship doth not in the least depend upon them nor their observation The Apostle doth in sundry places expresly compare the spiritual worship of the Gosple with that of the Law whilest the Church had a worldly Sanctuary and carnal Ordinances Heb. 9.1 and although it be most evident that the worship of the Old Testament did for the glory and ornaments of outward ceremonies and the splendour of their observation far exceed and excell that worship which God commands now as suitable unto the simplicity of the Gospel yet doth the Apostle prefer this for glory comelyness and beauty unspeakably above the other which manifests that these things can have no respect unto outward Rites and Ceremonies wherein the chief admirers of them can no way vye for glory with the old worship of the Temple So the Apostle 2 Cor. 3.7 8 9 10 11. if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to be done away how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious for if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory for even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth for if that which was done away is glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious He compareth the two ministrations and the several worships of the Law and Gospel preferring this unspeakably above the other sufficiently manifesting that the glory of it consisteth not in any pompeous observance of outward Ceremonies And elsewhere He declareth that indeed it doth consist in its relation to God in Christ with the liberty and boldness of the worshipers to enter into the holy place unto the Throne of Grace under the Ministry of their merciful and faithful High-Priest being enabled thereunto by the spirit of adoption and supplications