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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74656	Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises. By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.	Needler, Benjamin, 1620-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing N412; Thomason E1443_2; ESTC R209640	117,247	301

set before thee as Incense And the righteousnesse of Saints Psa 14.2 Fine linnen And to her was granted that Rev. 19.8 she should be arayd in fine linnen clean and white for the fine linnen is the righteousness of Saints Being an allusion to the garments of the Priests so in this case Gospel-graces and duties are called Sacrifices A Learned Author observes that we may parallell Christian sacrifices under the Gospel to those under the Law Repentance is as a trespasse-offering Zeal a burnt-offering praise a free-will-offering sincerity the oblation of unleavened bread c. Well then let us be exhorted in the words of the Apostle To offer up our bodies Rom. 12.1 a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service every word in this verse is very Emphaticall 1. Present your bodies viz. your whole person as Christ gave himselfe for you so you must give your selves to him As he was sacrificed for you so you must be sacrificed for him not your sheep nor your Oxen nor your Goats but your selves Cainistae sunt saith Luther offerentes non personam sed-opus personae Now saith Origen Instead of a Ramme we must kill our irefull passions instead of a Goat our unclean affections instead of flying fowles our idle thoughts 2. A living sacrifice because the Jewes sacrifices were dead sacrifices Beasts dyed when they were sacrificed but men live when they are sacrificed nay they dye unless they be sacrificed 3. An holy sacrifice the Jewes might sacrifice beasts and not be holy but the Christian cannot sacrifice himselfe but he must needs be holy 4. An acceptable sacrifice before the sacrifice of beasts did not please God unlesse they did sacrifice themselves too but if Christians sacrifice themselves it doth please God though they do not sacrifice beasts Quest 5. vers 3,4 Whether Cain and Abel knew that God was to be worshipped this way viz. by offering up of sacrifices by the light of Nature or whether they had it by tradition from Adam Our adversaries of the Church of Resp Rome contend that they knew by the Light of Nature that God was to be worshipped this way and that they learned from their father onely some circumstantials of worship The reasons they give for this their judgment are 1. That the Heathens by the Light of Nature worshipped God this way 2. That the Law of Nature doth oblige us not onely to the worship of God but to such a worship as might most fitly set forth the Majestie and dominion of God and the subjection and homage of man and this was best represented by sacrifices To both these answer may be made As for the first though Heathens worshipped God by sacrifices yet it remaines to be proved that they knew this way of worship by the Light of Nature As for the second it doth not appeare but by the intervention of a positive Law of God obliging thereunto that the killing or sacrificing of a brute creature was the best way of worship to set forth Gods soveraignty or our homage Therefore as to the answer of this question we affirme that by the Light of Nature we may know that God is to be worshipped and that with inward and outward worship but deny that this kinde of worship is to be found out by the Light of Nature The Orthodoxy of this perswasion will be cleared up if we consider that the killing or sacrificing of a beast did not please God any further then as it was a type of Christ now the doctrine of Christ being such a mystery as never yet hath been discovered by the Light of Nature the same may be said concerning this way of worship that pointed thitherward So then Cain and Abel were instructed in this way of worship by their parents Adam and Eve From the consideration of the whole we may note 1. Outward performance of duties are gracious evidence Cain offers sacrifice as well as Abel They come unto thee as the people Eze. 33. 31. cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they heare thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousnesse As a statue hath all the parts of a man head and armes and legs and feet but it wants an inward principle of life so an Hypocrite hath all the outward parts and lineaments of a Christian he prayes and hears and receives the Sacrament but there wants an inward principle of grace Be ye doers of the word not hearers onely deceiving your own soules A Learned Jam. 1.22 Author observes that the word in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a terme of Art and it implieth a sophisticall Argument or syllogisme which hath an appearance or probability of truth but is false in matter or forme and is put by the Apostle to imply those false discourses that are in the Consciences of men viz. They that heare the Word shall be saved But I heare the Word Therefore I shall be saved Therefore have a care of resting upon holy duties Satan still tempts us to be like unto God to be Christs our selves and Saviours our selves The dove made use of its wings to flie to the Arke but it trusted not in its wings but in the Arke We may make use of good duties to bring us to Christ but we must not trust in our duties but in Christ A good work rested on is as b●d as a sin committed Consider God is a Spirit and he looks to the spirit All the wayes of man are Prov. 16.2 cleane in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits A man may deceive his neighbour yea he may cheat himselfe but God is not mocked The Lord knoweth our inside The Lord tryes the spirit he turnes up the bottome of the bagge as Josephs steward did and then comes out all our Abominations and wickednesses that have beene so long hid A man may miscarry though he be employed in the highest duties and services Mat. 7.22 23. Many will say unto me in that day Have we not prophesied in thy Name and in thy Name cast out Devils c A man may have the gift to cast out Devils and yet at last may be cast unto the Devil A Minister by his preaching may be instrumentall to save others and yet not be saved himselfe The shipwrights that built Noahs Arke were drowned themselves 2. Note here the duties of Parents toward their children Adam nurtured his children very well for 1. He provideth for them till they come to age 2. Then he appoints them their callings for one was an Husbandman the other a shepherd 3. He taught them the worship of the true God Adam should be a patterne to Parents in these particulars and especially in that which is the greatest matter of all these viz. instructing of their children in the true worship and service of God A Learned Author observes that furthering