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A15304	The schysmatical puritan A sermon preached at Witney concerning the lawfulnesse of church-authority, for ordaining, and commanding of rites, and ceremonies, to beautifie the Church. By Giles Widdowes rector of St Martins church in Oxford.	Widdowes, Giles, 1558?-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 25594; ESTC S120720	21,327	48

our Saviour The purification of the Blessed Virgin c. to praise the Lord. And herein we transgresse not the fourth commandement Sixe daies shalt thou labour c. For that law bindes vs to thanke the Lord for the creation and Restitution of the World and God requires but the seuenth day to performe our holy thanksgiuings vnto him in the publique congregation and yet he requires other holy daies vpon other speciall reasons as 't is proued hereafter at Leuiticus 23. Church pictures are an externall beauty of the Church a memory of honour to the dead and S. Gregory cals them lay mens bookes Church Organs are musicall signes of our exultation they are the lowd and as sweet as lowd expressions of the Churches greatest ioy towards God so are church-Bells though sometimes they are the churches solemne call that Gods people should assemble to worship the Lord with holy worship And seeing that I haue proceeded thus farre in the Narration of church-rites and ceremonies giue me leaue to tell you how ancient Godfathers and Godmothers haue beene in the church and how long interrogatories haue beene vsed at baptizing little children They are as ancient as Dionysius the Areopagite as it appeareth in his seaventh chapter de Ecclesiastica Hierarchia who lived in the 70. yeare after Christ The church is not Abrahams private house when he was witnesse to his sonne Isaacs circumcising but the church is catholique and therefore shee must accordingly haue witnesses to preserue her catholique communion of faith T is a ceremonie a rite of the church to bring the dead body the corps into the body of the church For that body Christ did sanctifie with his blood and did make it the temple of the holy Ghost And therefore at performing of our last duety wee must not thrust it out at church-dores but honour it with church-entertainement For blessed are the dead for whom the Lord Iesus laid downe his life I haue giuen you a view of All things of All things in my text 'T is Church doctrine let your faith beleeue it 'T is Church discipline let your liues obserue and Keepe it 'T is Church ceremonie let your frequent vse exercise and renew it In the first place you shall honour God your Almighty Father In the second place you shall honour the vnity of brethren which the Psalmist commends with admiration Oh how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in vnity God hath not authorized these things that you should neglect them but his good pleasure is that they should Be Done Let all things be done which is my third part of text and followes next to be handled in these words Be Done This is the obeying of a commanding authority 'T is the Church that obeys For she obserues and keepes the doctrine the discipline the rites and ceremonies of the Church The scripture is the command Let all things be done and the Church obeys And then compare which is the greater in authority either that which commands or that which obeyes To obey is vnder authority command and therefore the Scripture is greater in authority then the Church The Churches obedience is not only passiue still to be an hearer only but the Churches obedience is also actiue for she must not be only an hearer of the Scripture of the law but she must be a doer also First shee must heare the Scripture say Let all things be done and then shee must doe what she heares commanded to be done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fiant inquit à vobis vestro consilio So Pareus when the Scripture hath said it Then let all things be done by the Church by the iudgement of the church Here the Apostle hath by Scripture given authority to the Church to gouerne decently and in order in doctrine in divine precepts in Church-discipline And therefore the Church may in the first place expound according to rules of exposition and make any lawes which she sees to be decent and orderly in every place Omnes Ecclesiarum Episcoporum Doctorum leges c. de decoro ordine externo c. disponere debent Pareus The lawes of Churches of Bishops of Doctors must beautifie and order the Church Let all things be done decently and in order These words doe authorize the Church to ordaine Church-orders expositions rites and ceremonies that not of late but from the Apostles times so Iustin Martyr Irenaeus Tertullian St Cyprian St Basill S. Ambrose S. Hierome S. Augustine and fiue Councells say the same But what doth the Scripture say that there must be any such traditions Yes the scripture saith the same Read 1. Cor. 11. 2. 1. Cor. 11. 34. And Church-ceremonies are contain'd in the scriptures not in expresse sentence but by pregnant consequence by vertue whereof the Apostle doth grant a generall license authority to all Churches to ordaine any ceremonies that may bee fit for the better serving of God so our Right reverend and learned Bishop Morton The same ceremonies will not sort in all places and therefore our Saviour left them to the different disposition custome of times and countries so Calvin lib. 4. Institut cap. 10. parag 30. Therefore to deny this power to the Church to ordaine ceremonies is to depriue her of christian liberty so Bucer If our Church-ceremonies were dumbe non-significant they might bee well condemn'd for vnlawfull but they being significant are lawfull so Kemnitius being significant they are profitable for admonition and testification of our duties so B. Iewell Kemnitius and Zanchius The ceremonies of our church haue speciall signification they are signes and doe signifie not with sacramentall signification but with decently morall For they are signes of Church-beauty for moral ornament as you haue heard by the bowing at the name of Iesus by other Church-ceremonies in my former particular Our Church-ceremonies our Church-traditions are grounded on good authority for they are contain'd in the Scriptures in genere ent is aut in virtute causae either in their generall or in the power of their fundamentall cause My Text will serue for the generall to signifie all Church-ceremonies and my Text serues for the cause to ordaine all Church-traditions that are lawfull All things decently and in order there are all Church-ceremonies signified Let them be done there is Church authority giuen by Scripture to cause them to be ordain'd But to bow at the name of Iesus this is expresse Scripture Philip. 2. 10. To kneele at prayer this is expresse Scripture Psalm 95. 6. and wee pray at receiuing the Lords Supper The body of our Lord Iesus Christ preserue my soule and body to everlasting life To take vp the Crosse and follow Christ is expresse Scripture Mat. 16. 24. And to take vp the Crosse is the fundamentall cause of the signe of the Crosse to bee done decently in order The man and wife are one flesh is expresse Scripture Mat. 19. 6. And to be one

vnworthynesse of Gods favour and blind ignorance not in the necessary precepts of saith but in Contingents with what particular blessing when where and how God will blesse sinners Prayers at Baptisme doe regenerate though you denie this T is the text Aske and you shall haue To pray is to Aske To be Regenerate is to haue The blessed Apostles did confirme the Churches which they before had converted Act. 14. 22. Act. 15. 32. For confirmation is a Principle of the doctrine of Christ next to baptisme Heb. 6. 1. 2. Therefore S. Peter and S. Iohn did pray impose hands to confirme the Church with the holy Ghost Act. 8. 17. And little Children being more weake in the state of Grace then such Converts must necessarily be confirmed by the Bishop the Apostle of the Diocesse though not by miraculous yet by seaven of the holy Ghosts gifts We must pray for the dead Thy kingdome come Oh Lord raise the dead prisoners in the graue And herein we pray for their soules and bodies God be with them to comfort their soules deprived of their bodies I say to comfort them with hast'ning the Re-vnion and the consummate ioy of soule and body Thus the Primitiue Fathers Iunius B. Bilson Mornay Chameirus This is not to defend Purgatory but the receaued answere against Purgatory These things being thus answered obserue that this Puritan would obstinately cast out of the Church Gods sauing mercy saving hope saving charity and the seauen guifts of the holy Ghost And what then is his religion but faction But marke those that cause diuision in the Church contrary to the doctrine which you haue receiued For they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus but their owne bellies and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. 17. 18. The third thing in which this Puritan is Nonconformist is the Canons of our reformed Church These 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 24. 29. 30. 31. 48. 49. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 60. 61. 73. 127. c. But who is this Puritan What is his name Mr Rogers in his Preface to the 39 Articles saith that since the suppression of Puritans by Arch-Bishops Parker Grindall and Whitegift none will seeme to be such irregular Professors But the eie that beholds their daring oppositions in the Church may very well beleeue that such Rebellions are taught in their Conventicles What Rebellions Their teaching against the Kings Supremacie a reiecting of our Reformed saith a refusing of Gods holy worship written which is the Common Praier-booke a despising of Canonicall obedience a repugning against our Reformed Church Yet this seditious Schysmatique would be the most true Reformist of Church and Religion but read the Suruey of the Pretended holy discipline and hence it is euidently proued that he knowes not what he is nor what he would be Therefore for his better edifying let him learne to beleeue to pray and obey according to the vnderstanding Rules of this Reformed Church For the 39 Articles are true precepts of faith all Collected out of holy writ The Common praiers are godly praiers The Canons are true wholesome lawes Therefore he that will not beleeue pray and obey according to this established estate of Church gouernment is noe pure man in heart He studies Consusion of Church and Common-wealth The specificall kinds of this Puritan promise neither truth nor goodnes and therefore let noe man fauour their vnrighteous dealing and let our Church stand fast in her faith instruct correct rebuke that this Non-conformist may be a true Reformist The species specificall kinds of this Puritan are these 1. the Perfectist 2. the factious Sermonist 3 the Separatist 4. the Anabaptist 5. the Brownist 6. Loues-familist 7. the Precisian 8. the Sabbatarian 9 the Ante-disciplinarian 10. the Presuming Predestinatist These ten kinds in their opinions are the best Christians and every one differs in the Reciprocall Quatenus i. e. in his proper essentiall Quality from other as much as white and blacke yet the same subiect of inhesion man may be all these ten as the same eie is white and blacke though whitenes and blacknes differ essentially The Perfectist is he whose purenes is continuata perseverandi actio sanctificans neuer to sinne after baptisme This is the Nouatian Catharist But St Paul did sinne after baptisme Rom. 7. This is a perfect keeper of Gods law Thus he is a Papist But S. Paul could not doe the good which he would but the evill which he would not His opinion is that a Christian sinning after baptisme is damned Our Reformed faith is That by the grace of God he may Repent and amend and thus S. Iohn if we confesse our sinnes he will forgiue 1. Iohn 1. This Puritan sinnes against the 16. Article The factious Sermonist is he whose purenes is to serue God with sermons and extemporary praiers made according to his supposititious inspiration His opinion is vaine glory Preachers Compos'de not according to his hasty rule he sayth are vn-worthy and therefore they must not be heard to preach nor resorted to at holy Communion Then S. Peter if vnworthines might depose Preachers should neuer haue preach'd after his forswearing his master Our reformed faith is that we may vse the ministery of vnworthy Ministers And t is strange that he commends himselfe to be worthy whereas S. Paul is not a teacher of his opinion 2. Cor. 2. 16. in these words Who is sufficient for these things This sinneth against the 26. Article Another opiniō of his is that preaching is better than Praier But both being most necessarie Preaching for to instruct the people and praier to worship God instrumentally to cause regeneration by baptisme c. It followes that this Sermonist is a peeuish disturber of Religion A third opinion of his is that priuate Praier made by a tardy commer to Church is the sacrifice of fools As if too late cōming to Church were not a sinne to be repented of and that one soe ill prepar'd to ioyne with the congregation should not pray for remission and Gods blessing and then praise the Lord with the whole Assembly The Separatist is he whose Purenes is Pharisaicall He commends himselfe in the Temple to be farre aboue all others for holines Our Sauiour sayth that the Publican repenting was more iust than he Luke 18. 14. His opinion is that only he is the Elect the Regenerate and faithfull child of God And that all others are reprobates the wicked the vnregenerat and the damned But Gods iudgments are vnsearchable Rom. 11. 33. And who art thou that iudgest why dost thou Iudge c Rom. 14. 4. 10. 11. 12. 13. The iudgment of our Church is that al that are baptized are regenerat Thus Seeing that this child is regenerat grafted into the body of Christs congregation c. And the Church regulated by scriptures is the pillar and groūd of truth 1 Tim. 3. 15. therefore