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A78421	The account audited and discounted: or, a vindication of the three-fold diatribee, of [brace] 1. Supersition, 2. Will-worship, 3. Christmas festivall. Against Doctor Hammonds manifold paradiatribees. / By D.C. preacher of the Word at Billing-Magn. in Northamptonshire.	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing C1621; Thomason E1850_1; ESTC R209720	293,077	450

is the Judgement of Scripture and the best Divines That said I which the Scriptures of the Old Testament call Additions the New calls Superstition Will-worship c. But I must not scape so n. 9. In those few words named last there are many infirm parts 1. That additions to the word are in the New Testament called Doctrines He cuts of my words I said Doctrines Traditions of men and so they are Matth. 15.6.9 By your Tradition opposed to the Commandment of God and In vain do they worship me teaching Doctrines the Commandments of men He flies to his old Muse Their teaching their own Traditions for Doctrines is adding them to the Scripture c. But then is it not evident 1. that their Doctrines and Traditions were Additions to the word 2. That these Doctrines concerned the worship of God and so Additions to the Rule of worship in vain do they worship me and are not these Additons excesses what sense then is there in his new coin'd gloss Doctrines thore simply signifying not that addition but that to which the addition was made What means he that Doctrines signifies the Scripture for to that the Addition was made so he sayes Adding them to the Scriptures what their own Traditions Then their Doctrines were added to the Scripture but were not Scripture and if not Scripture Additions to the Scripture 2. But my next infirmity is that I say Those Additions are called Will-worship The contrary whereof he sayes is proved in the Treatise of Will-worship I shall not anticipate the place All I say now is but this If it be Will-worship to devise new sorts of worship and to offer them to God for worship as the Doctor confesses it is pag. See p. 10. n. 11. p. 15. n. 24. 96. n. 6. Then those Additions may well be called Will-worship and such Will-worship may very well be called an Addition to the Rule of worship 3. This is yet another of my mistakes That additions to the rule of worship are any where in the New Testament called Superstition I desire he would shew me one such place for my concordance will not afford it me Let him not evade by those words Called Superstition That is in so many words and I will shew many places where the thing is apparant that Superstition is an Addition to the word and Additions to the word are Superstition But in stead of all I shall produce his own words Sect. 46. of Superst To affirm God to command when he doth not is Superstition under the notion of nimiety or excess because that man addes to the commands of Christ Which place will shortly come to be considered He sayes Those Athenians Act. 17.22 sure p. 23. n. 10. never medled with and so added not to the true rule of worship any otherwise then as all that abandon it adde to it live by some other false rule and minde not that and if they are for so doing to be stiled adders to the rule of worship adulterers are so in like manner and so every sin in the world is Superstition This is a strange gloss 1. Do not Idolatres Polytheists such as these Athenians were meddle with and adde to the rule of worship surely then none in the world do Is it not a moral Law written in the hearts of all men though blotted much that God alone is to be worshipped do not they that worship other Gods with or without him meddle with and adde to this rule of worship 2. Does it become the Doctors Learning and Divinity to make adulterers and so every sinner in the second Table to be with them afore stilled Superstitious when worship and so Superstition is onely in the first Table let the Reader judge Against my second proof exception is taken p. 23. n. 12. 1. Because I use the same medium as in the former proposition An heavy charge as if the Doctor did not know that one medium may prove several propositions The question is whether it proves the present proposition or no 2. Then he undertakes to put my argument into form but that I refuse and renounce his whole Syllogisme as none of mine upon this ground because he hath changed the question from uncommanded worship to uncommanded ceremonies and then playes his feats onely I shall remind him what he grants in his proposition 1. That worshipping of the Daemons is an excess opposite to Religion ergo Superstition is an excess 2. So also is the worshipping the true God after an undue and unlawful manner an excess ergo Superstition is of larger extent then the worshipping of Daemons which both the Doctor seems to deny Now I shall put my argument into form If profaneness the one extreme of Religion he a defect of Religion then Superstition the other extreme is an excess of Religion but the first is true and cannot be denied ergo If the Doctor did not intend to decline the force of this proof and to make a diversion to his Reader he would not have started a new Hare that himself might escape My next proof was from the Doctors own concessions p. 24. n 13. See p. 227. c. the numb 13. twice where he first espies a Numeral fault a figure of 4. twice Whether this was mine or the Printers fault he hath no cause to complain having 6. for 5. But that 's a trivial excursion yet ordinary enough First the Doctor grants Superstitiosus may denote such an excess an excess of Religion n. 16. What excess in Religion the super statutum every addition 1. Every uncommanded circumstance or ceremony in the worship of God thus he must mean if constant c. No such matter but every Addition of worship supra statutum above the command of God The question was of worship it self from the beginning not of Circumstances of worship If Superstitious signifie such an excess will it any thing help the Doctor to say so did Religiosus sometime signifie too Yes 1. Superstitio and Religio were among Heathens the * They were not the same see ad p. 70 n. 1. But one a vice the other a vertue same and 2. All such excesses are not culpable in their opinion If they once did signifie excesses in Religion and culpable it matters not what their opinions after were who were ill Judges of Superstition and Religion And what ever Religiosus may signifie let the Doctor shew us any Protestant Divine that ever took Superstitio or Superstitiosus in a good sense But what is the meaning of those words n. 17. My pretensions in that place were onely this that Superstition among all Authors signified not any criminous excess Does he mean that Superstition never in any Authors signifies a criminous excess That he cannot say or that all Authors do not take it for a criminous excess the words may bear both senses that 's too dilate for the Doctor to affirm It 's enough for us if in

Will of man may well be called will-worship the Vncommandedness of them as well as the Superfluity will name them so And if any one such Ceremony be lawful and so a second and a third c. The more the better and how then can there be a fault in the multitude when as the Doctor said If they be wholesome Of Superstition s 41. then there will be little reason to accuse them of excess for they will then more probably help the inner devotion then encumber it But of this afore sufficiently and we go on All Ceremonies in the sense above are forbidden n. 10. 4 Vsing or instituting one or more Ceremonies not forbidden yet not commanded but founded in some pious or prudential consideration c Of this he sayes It is not Worship in it self and I need not allow that the title of Will-worship Does not the Doctor in this and the next Tract plead for VVill-worship in Ceremonies and Uncommanded VVorship in Festivals c. and yet now will not allow them the name either of VVorship or VVillship n. 11. but refer it to those Circumstances of VVorship c. But suppose this one or more Ceremonies be made parts of Worship not meer Circumstances will he not them grant them Superstitious and so VVill-worship by the VVill of man as was said to the third sense afore 5. Offering to the service of God any thing which God hath any way reveal'd he will accept of and reward if duly performed c. But what means he by offering to the service of God that men may offer service or VVorship which God hath not commanded This I suppose he will not say yet palpably does it in his maintained VVill-worship what then will he say it is not VVorship but a Circumstance of Worship Then it cannot indeed be called VVill-worship for it is not VVorship at all yet to this the Doctor applies the word in the Apostle under the notion of voluntary oblations and as good and commendable no way vitious if it be truly such as it pretends to be So then he calls that VVill-worship which is no VVorship and yet with a limitation if it be truly such as it pretends to be So that if it be not truly such such what such VVill-worship as is good and commendable the Doctor begging that there is any VVill-worship good will not allow that the name of VVill-worship in the Apostle though it be instituted meerly by the Will of man There is yet one way more 6. Lastly when either for the degree or frequency of any known act of VVorship a man doth more then be is by Gods law strictly required to do prays or * Fasting is not an act of VVorship but an help to VVorship yet here and elsewhere made so fasts oftner c. But to this I say 1. This is impertinent to the point for we are speaking of VVill-worship not of Commanded Worship VVorship devised by the VVill of man not by God as prayer is 2. The degrees and frequency of these VVorships are under a precept if not particular yet general with respect to abilities and opportunities but the VVill-worship we speak against is under no precept at all unless by way of prohibition 3. He that will take upon him to Pray or Fast oftner then Gods law strictly requires of him must certainly know how oft Gods law requires him to pray c. and no oftner which the Doctor may do well to determine out of the chair 4. We speak not of degrees and frequency of acts of Worship commanded but of new sorts or kindes of Worship not commanded instituted meerly by the VVill of man And of such VVill worship the Doctor must speak or he sayes nothing Let him now consider whether by his sixth-fold distinction he hath not rather clouded then cleared the business VVill-worship cannot be imagined to denote any more then some one of these six things c. Whereof the four first are not allowed the title of VVill-worship The two last are not properly VVorship at all I mean He call them six species of VVillship n. 14. p. 98. n. 13. new sorts of VVorship and besides fall under Commanded VVorship But we speak of VVill-worship which respects the VVill and choice of VVorship by man without any necessity imposed by God as himself states it n. 13. Let him speak plainly What does the Apostle mean by VVill-worship In which of these six senses must it be taken Is forbidden Worship Will-worship no that 's not truly but equivocally Worship Are forbidden Ceremonies Will-worship no they are but Circumstances of Worship but no Worship and so of the rest I must profess I know not well what he resolves to be Will-worship but I conjecture he means it of the fifth and sixth part of his distinction See n. 11. 12. voluntary oblations which God by no law exacts from every man or Fervency and Frequency in commanded Worship Now if these two be either no VVorship or no new sorts of Worship instituted by the will of man then the Doctor hath denied that there is any such thing as will-VVill-worship at least sinful will-Will-worship in the world I will not anticipate but onely in a word or two The first sort of his will-Will-worship is voluntary oblations which God by no law exacts from every man But then I say To those of whom God does not exact it it is no VVorship at all and to those of whom he does exact it for of some the Doctor grants he does exact it it is VVorship commanded and so uncapable both wayes of the title of will-worship Nay if those of whom God does not exact it should tender it to God as new VVorship they would incur the censure of sinful VVill-worship But this is new Divinity to the Doctor though it is his own and must wait till it's time comes And I proceed with him to consider what he thinks of my distinction which was this The words in both languages may be taken in a double sense 1. For willingness and freeness in worship commanded by God 2. For worship devised by the wit and appointed by the will of man p. 98. n. 13. To the former part he says That can be no species of that will-worship which respects the choice and will of man c. I pray did I make it a species of will-worship to worship God willingly in commanded Worship And not rather make that one sense of the word as it is compounded with will of man mans will I hope may willingly perform commanded Worship and that may be one sense of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first part of the word And why does the Doctor refuse this sense Because he supposes that in the commands of God not onely the action but the chearfulness of this performance is in like manner commanded by God and so necessary and not voluntary Grant this true yet I ask may not a man do a command of God

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