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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10795	Gods holy house and service according to the primitive and most Christian forme thereof, described by Foulke Robarts, Batchelor of Divinity, and prebendary of Norvvich.	Robartes, Foulke, 1580?-1650.	1639 (1639)	STC 21068; ESTC S121261	55,029	143

by the holy Ghost in the reasonable creature And this holinesse is either inhaesive or expressive In haesive holinesse is that seasoning and gratious constitution wherewith the heart and conscience is Ps 51. inwardly so qualified by the holy Ghost as disposeth it wholy to the will honour and glory of almighty God And this is it which David hungered after when he said Create in me a mew heart and Eph. 4. 24. renew a right spirit within mee Yea this is that Image of God according whereunto man was fist created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Expressive holinesse is the outward manifestation of the former by the words of our mouthes and by the performances and gestures of the rest of the lymbes of our bodyes as in their severall kindes we be occasioned to make use of them and this is fully required at our hands Ro. 12. 1. present your bodyes a living Sacrafice holy and acceptable unto God This expressive holinesse is to be practised two wayes First in our conninuall conversation before God Secondly in our speciall approaching unto God As the duty of a Servant to his Master is first in being diligent and faithfull in all his businesse Secondly in his respective behaviour when he commeth to his Masters presence or is in speach with him and yet more specially when he is to crave favor or to give thankes for favors received from him So the Servant of God having his heart possessed with the feare of God is first very carefull that he offend not in the tounge that there be no pride nor lust in his eyes that his feete neither walke nor stand in the way of the ungodly that his hands be free from bribery oppression and all iniquity And finally that all his members be instruments of righteousnesse unto God and his conversation honest before the world That his light may so shine before men that they may see his good workes and glorifie his father which is in heaven God hath made as well the body as the soule And therefore he is to be served as well by the outward members of the body as by the inward abilities of the soule He that saith by Solomon Sonne give me thine heart Saith also by Saint Paul present your bodyes a living sacrifice And as there must bee no strife among the members so neither must the soule and bodye disagree But joyne sweetly both 1 cor 6. 20. as one in the Service of God And therefore he saith Glorifie God in your bodyes and spirits for they are Gods And of all this we must be constantly carefull Ps 16. 8. so to set God alwayes before our eyes and to have alwayes a good conscience both towards God and towards Act. 24. 16. man that when we come to give an accompt of our Stewardship we may with joy heare that comfortable approbation of our Lord and Master well done good and faithfull servant But when the servant of God approacheth unto God in his holy House ai his holy Table to speake to God by holy Prayer to heare him in his holy word to give him thankes for received blessings for health food rayment manifold preservations forgivenesse of sinnes the hope and expectation of the joyes of heaven to begge all things requisit for body or soule to receive the holy Sacrament of the body and blood of his blessed Saviour thereby to be sealed to the day of Redemption Then as to be specially reverend and devoute in heart within so to expresse the same by such behaviour and respect without as may shew the reverence and humility suitable to and becomming the holy servant of the holy God in so holy a businesse in the holy place And in all this there is no Superstition CHAP. IX Gods worship is to be performed with outward expressions THat in the common way of our ordinary conversation wee must conscionably serve God as well with the members of our bodyes as with the faculties of our soules None except peradventure some bruitish familists a generation given over to a reprobate sence will deny But I finde it beyond exceptation difficult to perswade diverse men who yet will seeme specially zealous Pro. 23. 28. to have God rightly worshiped that in Gods worship there is any use of any more then the soule or minde alone And that because it is sayd sonne give me thine heart And herein they deale with us as the Papists do in another case For when we teach that a man is justified by faith in Christ They presently charge us that we exclude workes as not requisite in a Christian So these men hearing us urge that the members of the body must be used in the worship of God except against us as if we excluded the heart from this duty But I would gladly request my bretheren to understand that as being justifi●d by Jac. 2. 18. faith wee labour to shew our faith by our workes knowing that to be no true or lively faith which doth not fructifie and bring forth good workes So by the outward gestures of our bodies we declare that worship which is in the heart assuring our selves that there is no devotion in the heart of that man who maketh no expression thereof in his outward behaviour And whereas God saith sonne give me thine heart I conceive under correction that God dealeth herein as a tender father who seeing his sonne plunged into some dangerous gulph saith sonne give me thine hand not that the father intendeth to reskue onely the childes hand But because the hand is the gainfullest limbe for the child to reach out and for the Father to take hold on to draw the whole childe out of danger So almighty God seeing his childe at a lametable passe ready to sinke to the bottome of hell saith sonne give me thy heart That so God having gayned hold on the heart may thereby draw the whole man to eternall safety There is such correspondency and sympathy between the Soule and the body as maketh to accord one with an other like those Creatures and wheels mentioned by the Prophet Ezech. when those went these went when those stoode these stoode when those were lifted up these were lifted up for the spirit of the living Creatures was in the wheeles So may I well say when the Soule moveth forward in devotion Eze. 1. 21. towards God the body will not be left behinde but will beare the Soule company If the Soule in humility be dejected then the body with a bare head a bowing waste and bended knees is in all gestures of submission If the Soule be elevated and encouraged by desire and hope towards God then the eye looketh up and the hand is lifted up towards heaven expressing outwardly the inward disposition of the Soule And on the other side every man findeth in his owne experience that his Soule doth sympathise with the temper of his body For if the body be tired with labour the minde becometh heavy

well disposed doth as I have said ingender quicken increase and nourish the inward reverence respect and devotion which is due to Soveraigne Majesty and power which those whom the use thereof cannot perswade unto would easily by the want thereof be brougbt to confesse for which cause I crave leave to be excused by them herein if in zeale to the common Lord of all I choose rather to cōmend the vertue of an enemy then to flatter the vice and imbecillity of a friend Finally I know not any that dissallow the adorning of Churches except Anabaptists and Brownistes into whose schisme and faction too many of our bretheren seem to be too much inclining Indeede Theod. l. 3. c. 12. the unfaithfull disciple afore mentioned did grudge at what was bestowed on Christ and came not into the bagge which he had in keeping And wee read of one Felix an apostate and great treasurer to the apostate Emperour Julian who beholding the goodly vessels which the piety of the good Constantine and Constantius had bestowed upon the Church sayd in the bitternesse of his malice en quibus vasi●s ministratur Mariae filio i. Behold what goodly vessels the sonne of Mary is served in But as the history relateth this sonne of Beltal quickly came to a shamefull end To adorne Churches is not Superstitious but to deprive them of their ornaments to hinder their endowments and to repine thereat are all no better then sacrilegious And now me thinks I heare some of our bretheren call upon me to listen to the sounde that is made in our Churches by voices of singers by Organes and other instruments of musique and to tell how I can cleare this from being Popish or superstitious But God be thanked as there is no law to prohibit the use of musique even in the Church Service so withall being rightly used it is very usefull and profitable for the spirituall man in that it stirreth up his christian affection the more chearefully to prayse God Pet. Mart. saith that in Musique rightly ●nd judic 5. ordered tria bonorum genera concurrunt honestum utile jueundum i. three good things concur viz. comely profitable and pleasant When God had brought his people through the red sea therein whelmed the Aegyptians The Israelites as they expresse their gladnesse by their songs so to proportion their joy the best they can to the measure of their hapynesse do set their ditty to an instrument of Musique The like is done by devoute Deborah For when God had given the life of Siserah into the hands of Jael and peace to Israel in the confusion of Jabin Then sung Deborah and Barak prayse yee the Lord for a venging Israel But this was done once upon speciall occasion at the red Sea not above once more in nere two hundred Object yeares in the dayes of the Judges what is this then to the standing use of musique in the publique worship of God But this was done in the publique worship of God Ans by the people of god without any breach of any law of God therfore it is stil lawful to be done again as well twice as once as well cōstantly as sometimes And therefore the King and prophet David the only man ever Chronicled to have been a man after Gods owne heart and well might he so be being so zealous as he was for the house and honour of God as Ps 69. 9. he composed his Psalmes to be tuned and sung to severall instruments of Musique for Gods honor so he brought that musique into the Church and erected 1 Chro. ea 16. Ca. 25. the most glorious Quire that ever was under the cope of Heaven for song in the house of the Lord with Cymballs Psalteries and Harpes for the Service of the house of God But this was in the old Testement and therefore Object is like to have beene some Leviticall Ceremony The is no such Institution among all the Leviticall Ans ceremonies which were all delivered by God to Moses and by Moses to the people 400 yeeres before David was borne Yea the text telleth us 1 Chro. 25. 6. playnely that this was according to the Kings order And therefore it is no Leviticall ceremony in that there was no institution thereof before the dayes of David And then I hope here is no feare of Popery to be in the use of the Church Musique because it had the first Institution in the dayes of David 1500 yeares before any Popery began And therefore Eph. as it were in approbation of so good a practise Colos our Saviour Christ with his Disciples sing a Psalme at the end of the Sacred Supper And S. Paul adviseth the use of the Psalmes hymnes and spirituall Comm. Judic c. 5. N. 1. Songs Pet. Mart. proveth that musique hath beene of use in the Christian Church from the dayes of the Apostles because Plinius secundus writeth unto Trajan euseb l. 3. l. 30 that the Christians did hymnos antelucanos Christo suo canere i. Sing Psalmes to their Christ before day light They found themselves thereby charged in Gods worship And I do assure my selfe that man who shal bring to the Church where Musique is rightly used a devout hart not perverted with prejudice and attend unto the Prayses of God which are set out with Musique cannot choose but feele his thoughts therewith elevated and enlarged the more pathetically and feelingly the more amplie and fervently to acknowledge and magnifie the goodnesse of God It is true that some of the antient Fathers do find fault with the abuse of Musique in Gods Worship but that condemneth not the right use thereof any more then the holy Supper is condemned by St. Paul whilest he blameth those who shamefully prophaned it In the right use therefore of church Musique there is good profit and edification to the affection but no Superstition CAP. VIII Gods Servants are Holy and not Superstitious HOuses are usually framed to suit their owners especially when they build them for their owne habitation And such masters such men Salomon had not only builded an house answeareable to the wisdome and state of so great a King but was also sorted with servants suitable to the wisedome Levit. 19. 2. of their prince and to the order and magnificence of his house and throne And God whose house and habitation the Church is is holy The Church also being Gods house is holy So the holy God hath an holy house as is suitable Neither will he want answerable servants who by their holy demenure shall manifest it to the world that they are the Servants of the holy God The true servants of God must be holy For the Lord God their master is holy And St. Peter telleth us that we are an holy Nation And here we do not meane only a relative holinesse such as times places garments and the like are capable of but such an holinesse as is wrought