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knowledge_n	heart_n	light_n	shine_v	8,936	5	9.6862	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66890	Anti-boreale an answer to that seditious and lewd piece of poetry upon Master Calamy's late confinement, supposed his who wrote Iter boreale.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3334; ESTC R31824	84,472	126

son was dead and he is alive again he was lost but is found Hast thou any interest in the Ark that interest will kindle joy at the prosperity of it The children of Zion will be joyful in their King if he be their King and in the decent setttlement of his solemn worship But 3. If thou hast no interest in the Ark hast thou no need of it they that go down to the sea in ships and are tossed which storms and tempests and are in jeopardy and within an inch of death every moment their needs teach them to value the securities of the haven and to bless God for their arrival at it Hast thou no need of the Oracle upon this Ark hast thou no doubts to be resolved no fears to be removed no jealousies to be calmed hast thou no darknesse neither upon thy minde nor upon thy heart hast thou no need of light to clear up thy knowledge or thy comfort that light must shine forth for thy satisfaction out of the Oracle hast thou no sin no guiltiness about thee dost thou not want expiation and pardon that must come if it comes regularly if it comes at all it must come from the Mercy seat of the Ark art thou not weak and feeble hast thou no sense of thy infirmities dost thou not want strength strength for protection and assistance this must be brought to thee upon the wings of the Cherubims that attend the Ark God must send thee help from his holy place and strengthen thee out of Zion And then 4. The advantage thou receivest from the Ark will engage thee to congratulate its solemn settlement It is the Ministry of the Ark that doth abolish sin and tread Satan under thy feet and make thee wise unto salvation oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness Psa 108.21 22. and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men let us not be like the beasts in Noah's Ark unsensible of the Sanctuary that did preserve them let such as love the Lords salvation and the se●tlement of the Ark that brings it say always The Lord be praised These are the oblation that we should make the burnt sacrifices and peace-offerings which we should offer before the Lord. But if this be our duty what meaneth then this bleating of the Sheep in mine ears 1 Sam. 15.14 and the lowing of the Oxen which I hear In Rama there is a voice heard lamentation and weeping Mat. 2.18 and great mourning Some passionate people there a e whose zeal is too hot for their knowledge that weep for the Ark and will not be comforted as if it were not well setled and instead of joyning with us in our gratulations in our peace-offering they are ready to put the whole Kingdom into a new flame and if they had opportunity would make all the dutiful Sons of the Church a burnt sacrifice to their Fury Why what is the matter they love the train and throng well enough but not the dance they would have the Ark but not the Hierarchy the Mercy seat but not the Rod unless it be in their own hands they would have the Oracle but not the Musick and the Ephod the Covenant they would have too but with such new Articles of their own addition as would destroy the whole solemnity and glory of Divine Service If the Ark may not be allowed to be hurried along in their new Cart and set up in their Consistory they had as liff it were still in the Camp of the Philistims The glory is departed they will cry out if it shines not to give countenance to their designs and lustre to their reputations They had rather it should wear the rough badgers skins the course habit of the wilderness then be inthron'd in a Tabernacle of Davids setting up though he hath the allowance and approbation of Almighty God for it But will that Hierarchy overthrow the Arke now that did then attend it by divine appointment will those decent Ceremonies and Solemnities disgrace it now that were thought then to adorn it Or did the Ark do better service to mens souls or to this Kingdom when it was lately hurried upon their new Cart then formerly it had done when it moved regularly upon the old Priests shoulders if you will but with an impartial eye reflect upon the horrour of fire and sword the desolations of spoil and rapine the expence of blood and treasure that hath been of late amongst us and weigh well upon what account these confusions raged for so many years together I shall refer the determination of this Question wholly to your selves But it will be objected to me Objection You tell us of pomp and ceremony of splendour and solemnity in Gods Service and we look upon all such things as legal types and shadows that are vanished at the rising of the Sun of Righteousness and we conceive our selves to be freed from them by the Charter of our Christian Liberty for we are not under the Law but under Grace Nay for us to observe such things were to perform what we suppose to be Will-worship and unwarrantable and therefore our Consciences do take check at it being afraid the Lord should upbraid us as he did the Israelites Isa 1.12 Who hath required these things at your hands But stay do these men understand their own objection Solution Of what things speaks the Prophet that Doth ●e not speak of their Sacrifices and burnt offerings of their New Moons and Solemn Feasts yea of their very Sabbaths and many Prayers And did not God require the observation of these things at their hands Most certainly he did The exception therefore that God takes there is not made to the things themselves no nor yet to the requiry of them To what then Why to the gross Hypocrisie and the foul indignity of the persons that did perform them Zach. Ursin Comment in Isa 1. pag. 30. Requirebat Sacrificia alias Ceremonias approbabat tanquam Cultum sibi placentem quatenus ficbant eo modo fine in quoipse praeceperat nempe in vera fide poenitentia tanquam horum adminicula exercitia Ut per Ceremonias adduceretur ad Christum ipsius beneficia quae per illas significabantur God did require Sacrifices and other Ceremonies and approved them as a Service acceptable to himself as they were performed after that manner and to that end that he prescrib'd them When they were the off-spring and the exercises of a true faith and led the devotions of the people unto Christ and his benefits But if you take the external rite without the internal piety the ceremony stript of all faith and fear repentance and humility obedience and thankfulness so it was but as a perambulation in the Sanctuary it gave God no satisfaction in that sense it was not of his institution it was but a profane wearing out of the Pavement and who hath