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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59764	The excellence of the order of the Church of England, under Episcopal government set forth in a sermon at the visitation at Blandford, Anno 1640 / by William Sherley ...	Sherley, William.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3240; ESTC R21422	23,064	42

no otherwise then a dead Letter to be of no force or power In this Congregation that most Heavenly piece of Devotion the Litany for many Years since banished as Apocryphal and the rest of Divine Service so curtailed upon every occasion and like the Garments of Davids Servants so cut off at the wast as if the Prayers of the Church were of little other use then to serve onely as Musick before a Play to entertain the Company till the Seats be full Whereas it may so fall out that in the very next Parish a Sermon on the contrary hath been such Dainties as that the People unless it be upon some great Solemn Feast or other have not had that Dish served up unto them Thus thus may he that travels over a County observe here and there the noysom Smells the Boggs and the Myre of it whereas by viewing of it at a distance or in a Map he shall see onely the Towns and the Woods the Rivers and the Hills nothing but what is fair in it self and a Pleasure likewise to the Eye for to behold How singular therefore a design of this was Saint Paul's worthy altogether of such an Apostle as He for to undertake who the better to finish that Reformation which he had begun concludes upon a Coming amongst his Corinthians that so as for those matters which in that Church of theirs were not as yet redressed he might by this his Visitation put likewise in Order as being the end of my Apostles Coming or Visitation and therefore in the next place now to be treated of Will I put in Order The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Ordinabo Constituam Praescribam so that my Apostle here in this place according to the Judgement of the best Commentators aims wholly at such things onely as belong unto outward Order and Discipline or as St. Aug. 1. Ep ad Januar. Austin is pleased to express it ad Ordinem Agendi to the Ordering of all such Services as in the Church were to be performed A matter it should seem of no small consequence in regard my Apostle beats so often and so much upon it who having here spent no less then a whole Chapter upon this one Business falls nevertheless upon it again in as ample a manner as here he doth in the 4th Chapter of this very self-same Epistle where having insisted likewise upon the Ordering of divers other Particulars in the Church his conclusion there at the last is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let all things be done decently and in Order ver 40. Nay that he might the better mould his Son Titus to this his temper in Church-affairs he lays his Commands upon him in the first Chapter of that Epistle and the 5th to Order the things that were wanting in the Church of Creet such it seems as St Paul himself had not disposed of at his being there And no marvel neither that my Apostle both here and other where in himself and others seemed so zealous for Order The Church being as anciently she hath been stiled Constit A. post l. 8. c. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The very School of good Order wherein Lessons of Order are daily to be taught and learned and practiced also Nay Order hath heretofore been conceived so proper unto the Church as that by this no otherwise then as by some peculiar badge or cognisance She anciently hath been known No sooner had Jacob in that Vision of his beheld the Orderly ascending and descending of the Angels from Heaven together with the Lord Himself standing at the top of that Ladder whereon they went but being once awaked from this his seeing of so much Order he presently makes to himself this peremptory Conclusion This is no other then the House of God Gen. 28.17 Whereas our Saviour out of the great desire he had to see no irregularity at all in the Temple vouchsafed oftentimes to heal the Blinde the Dumb the Deaf and the Lame even in the Temple as if it had been so great an eye-soar to Him that any in that place especially should want either an Eye to read or an Ear to hear or a Tongue to speak or a Knee to bow when the Discipline of the Church required these Duties of them as that he chose rather to be at the expense of a Miracle Himself for their redress And were our Saviour yet still on Earth as indeed He is now in Heaven how many such Cures as these might He meet with in most Congregations Some being blinde by reason of a Cataract of wilful Ignorance that is grown over their eyes others lame in regard of a strong Convulsion which Rebellion and Inconformity have caused in their Knees whereas a certain prejudice against the Liturgy of the Church hath so far possessed a third as that this alone to them is a dumb and a deaf Spirit also making them oftentimes to have the use neither of Tongue nor Ear in these our Assemblies The Fancies of whose Humors were they but once fed and cherished the Church would soon leave of to be what at the 4th of the Canticles and the 12th She is stiled A Garden enclosed A Garden being ordinarily a place of so exact contrivance as that here may be observed a Knot there a Square next to that a Bank and above that again a Walk hem'd in with Trees that stand in a row at an equal distance each from other all things being done there by line and measure disposed of to the best advantage by method Order whil'st the Church would be then a Wilderness or a Forest rather where without any distinction at all a Lilly a Thorn a Bryar Straw-berries and Thistles good and bad might be seen to grow all upon one piece of Turf together insomuch that Babel it self no nor the Primitive Chaos neither were never guilty of a greater Confusion then that which would be then acknowledged for to be in Her But the Text speaking as here it doth not of Order simply but of putting in Order may not but be conceived to look equally two ways at once whil'st hereby it doth not onely point at the Necessity of Orders in a Church but it reflects likewise upon their Persons in whose hands it lies to enact these Orders so that as from the one side it is to be gathered that there is no subsisting for a Church without the having of Order in regard that Ceremonial Circumstances being absolutely necessary for the performance of all outward Acts whatever without rules given and observed concerning times places manner and the like there can be no outward Worship done unto God So likewise from the other is it to be understood that every one is not Master of the Mint so far as to presume to stamp this Coyn this being a Prerogative wherein they are to be sharers onely to whom the Government of the Church belongs which is the reason that here in