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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25460	Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3218; ESTC R36639	391,570	601

and other exercises spent their time The very mentioning of this should make these things not so much as to be named among Saints c. yea what height of impiety was con●eived as when a Mayd out of most parishes was culled out personally to represent this Flora under the notion of a May-Lady who oftentimes by relation proved a May-where c. 3. From the circumstances that do accompany them appear they to be sinfull and the day of those glorious Saints prophaned as 1 Stealing this is so frequent and so known a custome that it needs no proof and so odious that it needs no confutation 2 Prophanation of the Lords day Once in seven years the day set apart for the Lords resurrection must be abused by those May-games and the day of the Lords Apostles is 〈◊〉 prophaned by these sports it is held unlawfull to prophane the places set apart for the Lords worship by any thing that is not comly sure this therefore upon this day ought not to be esteemed decent 3 Great loosenesse as quarrels fightings drunkenesse which so certainly are known to attend it that good honest moral men have no hand in them but the loose wicked and deboyst If it were good holy men would own it if not bad wicked men would not incourage it 4. Eventualy there is no good in them What Christians do ought to be for the glory of God either originaly or eventualy now these sports originaly tend to his dishonour casualy prophanes his day really and sensibly breaks his laws abuseth his creaturs and in the close brings no honour to Christ and therefore are not to be suffered where God or Christ is owned If this day be set apart in pious memoriall of Christs disciples for the doctrine of the Gospel to be publickly taught Flora who in these May-games is remembred ought not to be commemorated which so suits to the doctrine of Devils left prophannesse in the streets hinder our prayers from heaven I would have insisted on this longer but since the delivery of this there came forth a tract in particular against May-games called Funebria Flora to which I referre the Reader CHAP. 8. Of a Church or Temple WE are now to speak of the place of publike teaching cryed down in these days of Schisme there being some that speak of them as the Edomites in the day of Ierusalem Psal. 137.7 Rase them Rase them even to the foundation Not that teaching is confined to a place for with our Saviour men may preach upon a mountaine Mat. 5.2 or in a ship Mat. 13.2 but that a place gives a lustre to teaching and a place being an ordinance of God comes within the compasse of our intentions and those places that are set apart for Gods worship in a publick and orderly manner being in our days slighted it is not unprofitable to speake something of them In the handleing of which we shall see 1 That there were such places 2 The names of those places 3 The necessity of such places 4 Resolve some questions SECT 1. That there were some cert●●● places wherein men did worship● the Lord in times of peace and settlement is clear in Scripture both before and after the law 1 Before the law Gen. 4.3 4. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and Abel brought of the Firstlings of his flock and offering unto 〈◊〉 Lord. Now bringing suppo●●● a place which they both brought their offerings unto even that place which by their Father Adam who shall be the priest that offered his sons sacrifice had been as it were consecrated for Gods house wherein he and his family might publickly worship for Cain when he had slain his Brother is said to flee from the presence of the Lord which must in this sence be only understood This is the first congregation we read of and represents all other to the end of the world It is a mixed one consisting of good and bad members sincere and Hypocritical offerers As bringing supposes a place so a sacrifice supposes an altar in which or at which the Lord is said to dwell and an altar and a sacrifice suppose a priest which in regard of dignity must be Adam Who as a priest unto his family as Iob for his offers up sacrifices for their sins and offences Lo here at the very beginning of the world do we implicitly see a place set apart for publick worship For God to dwell in for God to be praised in for God to be consulted withall and for God to be offered to which not only used for that time of Cains offering but constantly dureing Adams aboad in that place Gen. 4.16 In this sence generaly Divines take that place Gen. 4.26 Then viz. In the days of Seth began men to call up●n the name of the Lord. Not that he was forgot before but in more publick places or Churches for men at that time building citys and houses for their own security and ease it is not to be supposed that places for Gods worship to be celebrated in with safety and honour was forgotten since nature taught the very heathen to set apart places for the worshiping of their false Gods Especialy since the distinction of clean and unclean beasts which was chiefly in respect of Sacrifice was known before the flood Gen. 7.2 That God that taught them to offer sacrifice taught them also which to offer and how to offer without doubt taught them also where to offer for the more honouring of his name in the eyes of the sonnes of Cain To let passe that place of Mount Ararat where Noa that preacher of righteousnesse builded an altar and sacrificed Gen. 9.20 and come to Abraham for by him God intends and from among his sons purposes to get himself a name and establish to him self a Church he near Bethel builds an altar and there he worshipped God not for a day only but as long as he and his family lived there Gen. 12.8 by reason of a famine Abraham is forced to dwell in Egypt who comeing thence when God had visited Canaan with bread came to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first and called upon the name of the Lord Gen. 13.3 4. that is at Bethel whose name of old was Beersheba Gen. 20.10 19. At this selfe same place did Isacck build an altar and worship God Gen. 26.23 24. In the same place did God appear to Iacob Gen. 28.10 Surely saith he the Lord is in this place the house of God vowes that it shall be Gods house and that he will give his tithe thereto or offer them thereon ver 17. And when after twenty years he returned he is called upon to go to Bethel and offer sacrifice which he did Gen. 35 1. At the same place he offered when he went down into Egypt Gen. 46.1 For to sojourn with his son Ioseph Thus we see Bethel was as it were the Mother Church to these three glorious patriarcks their other

enemys of the Churches peace get more ground then since their hands have been weakned and their faces blurred by the violence and malice of wicked proud and ambitions men 7 Men cannot profit under them as they might without praying for them It is certain that non can justly expect that blessing from God which they never asked of him if some would but spend as much time in praying for Magistrates and Ministers as they do in barking against them they might in mercy receive more good by them then ever they are otherwise like to have they may in anger be crossed perplexed by them when in mercy they might live quietly peaceably and holily under them yea in a great measure they bring upon themselves the guilt of their magistrates and Ministers failings and miscarriages for who knows but the power or fervency of thy prayer may stirre up God to hold him by the hand in his stumbling that he might engage the soule the more unto him as people will give the nurse good things for love of the Child so God may give those nursing Fathers gifts and graces if not for their own yet for thy sake c. 3 We are to pray for apostates and backsliders When we see any turne from the Lord we are to turn for them to the Lord. When any leaves the paths of uprightnesse to walke in the wayes of darknesse as those wicked ones Prov. 2. 13. least the Lord suddenly shoot them and they fall into the pit we should 〈◊〉 with the Prophet Lord forgive Amos. 7.2 1 Because of the great and unavoidable perdition that they are likely to fall in who are guilty of that sin in the least the shortest step men can make in it carries them a great way towards that sin unto death that sin against the holy ghost Heb. 6.4 5 6 7. we ought therefore to strive in prayer for him 2 The truth of Christ is the more confirmed by their recovery trees shaken and totterring by the winds opens the earth and in calm gets a faster hold then before being bettered rooted by that blast these soules that are shaken by the wind of false doctrine may be afterward if they returne which yet we seldome hear of better established and rooted in the faith then before 3 Our own glory shall be the greater in heaven Dan. 12.3 It is a glo●ious and happy thing to have a hand in the conversion of a soul a multitude of sins is hid by converting a sinner from the errour of his way Iam. 5.20 and if God should harden his soul to proceed in his back-sliding yet the prayers made for him return seven fold into the bosome of him that made them 4 We must pray for Heathens Infidels or Idolaters there is a generation that have gone a whoring from God and cast off the thing that is good that have altogether broken the yoak and burst the bands and others there are that have not the knowledge of his law these must be thought on and for them God must be intreated by those that call upon his name For 1 Certaine damnation will be their portion they that depart from God whether in point or in point of worship of practise God will depart from them Neither is there any name given under heaven by which men can be saved but the name of Iesus Christ whom men killed and God raised from the dead that he might be the justifier of them that believe but now how can men believe on him of whom they have not so much as heard Let us pray therfore that the Lord of the harvest would send forth laborers into his harvest And that God would open a doore of faith unto the Gentiles Act. 14.27 And return to the many thousands of Israel That Jacob may tak● root and Isra●l bud and blossom● and fill the face of the world with fruit Isa. 27.6 2. They are of the same common nature with us they have the same kind of souls we have and for ever must lye in flames or shine in thrones when the earth and the Sea Death and Hell gives up the dead that are in them they must also appear before the judgment seat of Christ and if we know these things what ought we to do but be jealous over them with a godly jealousy that they may be builded together with us for an habitation of God through the spirit Eph. 2.22 And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written Rom. 11.26 And all Flesh see as well as we the salvation of God Luk. 3.6 3 It will much rejoyce the soul of Christ to see this accomplished if the Angels rejoyce at a sinners conversion how shall Christ abundantly be satisfied since he poured out his soul as an offering for their sin verily verily there is joy in the heir of heaven over one sinner that repenteth let us therefore fulfill his joy and pray that his other sheep may be brought home Which in time ●ast were not a people but now may be made the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now may obtain mercy 1 Pet. 2.10 and that he may see of the travell of his soule and be satisfied Isa. 53.11 4 The Certainty of Christs aboad in heaven untill this be accomplished might of it self presse home the duty pleaded for The heavens must containe him until● the restitution of all things untill all things spoken of him in the Scriptures be fulfilled the end shall not be he that waits therefore for the coming of the Lord and longs to be cloathed upon must wait at the throne of God u●til the fulnesse of the Gentiles become in then shall come out of Zion the deliver●r and shall turne away ungodlinesse from Iacob Rom. 11●25 That there may be but one sheep-fold as there is but one sheepheard Iohn 10.16 and when we see these things then know that summer is nigh 5 God hath promised to bring in all the elect even in our dayes viz. In the lattar dayes which in the old Testament signifies the beginning of the Gospell Isa. 2.1 And in the new the end of the world 2 Tim. 3.1 if God hath promised that in our time he will do this great work O let us Pray and Importune God to build up his Church by the home-bringing of the Iews and in calling of the Gentiles and amongst other arguments let this be one That the time to favour Sion yea the set time is com● that th● Children of Israel may returne and seek the Lord their God and David their King and fear the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Hos. 3.5 To open th●ir eyes and to turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sinnes and inheritance among them that are sanctified Act. 26.18 5 We must pray for the Saints pious or religious such as worship God in the beauty of holinesse are to be beautifull in our eyes and