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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48617	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, July 26, 1668, in defence of the liturgy of our church by Richard Lingard ...	Lingard, R. (Richard), 1598?-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2353; ESTC R15769	12,930	31

A SERMON Preached before the KING AT WHITE-HALL July 26. 1668. In Defence of the LITURGY of our CHURCH BY RICHARD LINGARD P.P. D.D. And Dean of Lismore Published by His Majesties special Command LONDON Printed by J. M. for John Crook and are to be sold at his Shop in Duck-Lane 1668. II CHRON. XXIX 30. Moreover Hezekiah the King and the Princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the Seer and they sang praises with gladness and they bowed their Heads and Worshipped THAT the Structure of the ensuing Discourse may be advanced upon a good foundation it may be worth our while to determine how far the abrogation of the Jewish Religion does extend and what are those Rites and Usages which we Christians may safely transcribe from thence without Judaizing and endangering our Profession This will be resolved by observing that there was a twofold service of God among the Jews Ceremonial and Moral the Ceremonial consisted in Sacrifices and Offerings c. and all that Digest of Mosaical Rudiments a Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances which Moses did particularly delineate according to the pattern in the Mount and was to be managed only by the Sons of Aaron and was to be confined to their Tabernacle or Temple in the place that the Lord their God should chuse and nothing here was left to the discretion of the Church and succeeding Ages but was to be observed most punctually as Moses had commanded without any accession or diminution Now this being Figurative and Typical representing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things to come and being protestations of Faith in a future Messiah they were to expire when Christ came and therefore de jure were cancelled at Christ's Passion being nailed to his Cross and the whole body of them were de facto buried at the Destruction of the second Temple never to be raised again but to be left with Christ's Grave Cloaths in the Sepulchre so that a re-calling them out of those Ruines a raking them out of the ashes of the Temple to observe them would not only be dangerous but deadly a protestatio facto contraria a pregnant denial of Christs being come The Moral service of God consisted in Prayers and Praises in Benedictions and Vows and Adorations which Nature teaches every rational Creature should tender unto his Maker and the obligation to this is immutable and perpetual by vertue of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Hierocles speaks that Oath of Allegiance and Fealty that Men make to God as soon as they are made Now the manner of performing this among the Jews was much distant from that of their other service as being supposed by Moses and to be but collected from him and though it was darkly insinuated by him yet says Maimonides Invocation and Prayer was primariae intentionis principally intended as being more grateful to God Psal 69.30 31. I will praise the name of God with Song and magnifie him with Thanksgiving this shall please the Lord better then a Bullock that hath Horns and Hoofs However it was left to the Prudence of the Church and the Jews say it was founded only on that general precept to serve the Lord with all the heart Deut. 11.13 Cultus cordis est precatio but the number and the form and the time was not specifyed therefore the management of this was the peculiar Province of their Prophets and Wise Men it was their work to instruct the People and reprove their sins and press them to Spiritual Obedience at such times when the People might repair to them 2 Kings 4.22 to praise God also with Psalms and Songs and to pray with and for the People so Gen. 20. 7. 1 Kings 18.29 36. 1 Sam. 12.19.23 And all this was not confined to the Temple but was performed in their high places the Schools of the Prophets their Colleges and Synagogues so that this service having it forms and determinations its parts and increments from Prophets and inspired persons could not but be consonant to the divine will thus Davids introducing of Musick into this service was owned for the Commandment of the Lord by his Prophets 2 Chron. 29.25 Admitting therefore this distinction of the service of the Tabernacle and of the Synagogue the first was entirely abolished but the usages and customs of the second were not so destroyed or disturbed but might remain as patterns to be assumed still so far as they fitted the ends of Christianity Thus when Christ introduces his own Scheme of Reformation like a true Reformer he does not widen the breach but reduces the differences into as small a compass as may be and was therefore willing to retain such Rites and Observations as contradicted not his oeconomy and dispensation Thus learned men do declare that the Government of the Christian Church was modell'd according to that of the Synagogue that our practice of Excommunication does correspond with the Jewish that our blessed Lord did elevate and adopt his Sacraments out of their Institutions Baptism being derived from their manner of initiating Proselytes and in the Lords Supper that the whole action of Christs was in pursuance of the Jewish Rites is so certain that I think no learned man at this day does doubt of it So here it was not intended by Christ and his Apostles to baulk their example in celebrating of praises and prayers to God for seeing the Moral service of God is to be the constant employment of all Christians and in the manner of it the Jewish Church is a laudable president it is but reasonable for us to serve God in that way which we are sure was once acceptable to him And thus I come to the Text wherein we have a Service 1. Imposed and commanded by Authority Hezekiah the King c. commanded the Levites to sing praise 2. Composed and prescribed in it self they are to sing praise with the words of David and of Asaph the Seer And therein consider it 1. As a determined form 2. In the manner of its administration and this will be a competent justification of the Service of our Church for none ever quarrelling with the matter of it as if it contained any thing contrary to the Christian Faith the exception must be 1. That it is a set solemn and composed form or 2. That the manner of performing it is inconvenient therefore if any here with the Jewish Children shall say What meaneth this Service what is the ground of this procedure in your holy Offices it will be sufficiently defended to be as S. Paul speaks Rom. 12.1 a rational Service if I can demonstrate that by these measures God was worshipped among the Jews and that the Christian Church did and always intended to follow the Example Consider then the words of David and Asaph 1. as a form of serving God and of this I shall give account in these ensuing Propositions 1. The serving God by prescribed forms of