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An humble essay toward the settlement of peace and truth in the church, as a certain foundation of lasting union by Sir Edward Harley.
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Harley, Edward, Sir, 1624-1700.
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the Temple at Jerusalem the only fixed and authorized Place in the World for Sacrifice to be offered by God In all which there was not any the least particular of Humane Invention or Institution Heb. 3.2 for Moses who was faithful in all the House of God Heb. 8.5 made all things according to the Pattern shewed to him in the Mount and did all things according to all that God Exed 40.16 commanded him so did he Also David a Man after God's own Heart and Solomon the wisest of Men did not presume to appoint any thing concerning the Service of God of their own Device The Place for the Temple was designed by God and Consecrated by Fire from Heaven and all the Buildings and Apartments of the Temple 1 Cron. 28.11.12.19 all the Courses of the Priests and Levites withall the Vessels of Service in the House of the Lord were according to the Pattern David had by the Spirit all which said David the Lord made him to understand in Writing by his Hand upon him even all the Works of that Pattern But all these though of unparralel'd Magnificence and Beauty in their Composure full of sublime Wisdom in their design and of significant Instruction in their use were yet Heb. 7.18.9 as the Sripture saith Weak and unprofitable could make nothing perfect Acts 15.10 A yoke not able to be borne Heb. 8.7 A Law faulty and decaying unable to make him perfect Heb. 9.9 that did the Service as pertaining to the Conscience 1 Pet. 7.21 For it was not possible thereby to take away sins Heb. 10.4 Therefore the Wisdom of God to revoke his Church from Ceremonial Ritual Service and to prepare for the Simplicity and Liberty of the Gospel Worship Heb. 8. ult caused the Glory and Excellence of the Mosaical Law to decay and wax old and at last to vanish away This was the reason the Structure of Zorobabels Temple was so sadly unlike the Magnificence of Solomons Hag. 2.8 for Silver and Gold were then as before at God's dispose The second Temple had no Ark nor Mercy Seat nor Vrim and Thummim Heb. 9.8 All this signifying that Light and Perfection Peace and Blessedness could not be manifest while the first Tabernacle was yet standing Therefore at last the Temple was utterly destroyed not in Judgment for rejection of the unbelieving Jews but in Mercy to the believing Jews and Gentiles in remedy for ever against Ritual and Ceremonial Worship For if the Law of Ceremonies when commanded and blessed by God were a Yoke too heavy for any Neck to bear how dangerous then is it for any Humane Authority to tempt God Acts 15.10 by commanding what is by God with no less Solemnity abolished then it was before Instituted Concerning which St. Chrisostome eligantly Discourses to the Judaising Chiristians of his time Chrisost Orat. prima Contra. Jud. that as a Physitian who to prevent his Patients mischief by unseasonable drinking cold water breaks the Cup in which he would drink so the most wise God to cure the zeal and dotage after antiquated Rites and Ceremonies all fulfilled in Christ utterly overthrew and destroyed Jerusalem which was the only place lawful by God's special appointment to offer Sacrifices and perform other Rites according to the manner and time prescribed by God It is also of special remark that Julian the Apostate designing thereby to ruine Christianity commanded the Jews to offer Sacrifices and set up the Jewish Religion they replied it was not lawful in any other Place then Jerusalem Julian thereupon not only Authorized but furnished Money to reedifie the Temple at Jerusalem Accordingly the Jews attempted pulled up all the Foundations of the very ruines left by Titus overthrew and prepared materials for a new Temple But dreadful Fire and Tempest from Heaven destroyed those preparations and dissipated the Enterprizers of that new Babel with so much terror Tripart Histo Socra Scholast Lib 3. c. 17. that never since was made the like attempt Upon which event Civil then Bishop of Jerusalem pronounced the fulfilling of our Lords Prediction that of all the goodly Buildings of the Temple there should not be left one Stone upon another Moses as a Servant was faithful in the House of God he did not detract from nor add unto any of Gods commands and whoever presumed to do either received a just Recompence of Reward Heb. 2.2 how much sorer is the guilt to Usurp and Invade the Authority of our Lord Christ who was faithful in his own House the Church of the Living God Isa 33.22 over which He is the only Lord and Lawgiver James 4.12 who having accomplished all things prefigured by the Ceremonial Law John 19.28.30 He took it out of the way Col. 2.14 Dan. 9 24. nailing it to his Cross Having brought in Everlasting Righteousness He established a Spiritual Worship such as Man performed in Paradise and suitable to what is done in Heaven John 4.23.24 so neer as Humane Frailty Such only is the true Worship God seeks and accepts Two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper and no more our Lord Instituted in his Church to be Administred to all Nations and to remain until he come to Judge all such as presume to withhold from or impose upon his Church purchased by his Blood any thing less or more then his word of command and promise hath ordained These are not empty signs but through the Spirit 2 Cor. 11.3 real effectual Exhibitions and Seals to Communicate Divine Grace But what dismal havock in the Church hath Satan made by the abuse of these Holy Mysteries 'T is the inevitable consequence when once Minds are corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Christ to be miserably deceived and disturbed Innumerable have been the Schisms 2 Cor. 11.23 Persecutions and Desolations of Christian Churches upon this account St. Paul who had the Spirit of God reformed the abuses among the Corinthians concerning the Lords Supper by reducing them to the Institution of Christ Quod volumus Sanctum est But proud and haughty Prelates full of that Typhus Secularis The old bane of the Church have Consecrated their own will and pleasure to be the Standard of Divine Service Thence came the presumption to deny the Cup to the Laiety Rev. 1.6 because not Priests in their Stile though in Gods account every true Christian is both King and Priest and by the greatest absurdity to Metamorphose the Bread into a most abominable Idol An Idol of Moloch to which so many Thousand Children of God have been Victimes Thus still where the Hour and Power of Darkness prevails the Body of Christ is not Communicated but Crucified afresh and his Members torn asunder and tormented As the Sacrament of Love so that of Faith and initial Life Baptism hath been wretchedly abused by the additions of vile and nauseous or vain and insignificant signs