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A45353 An account of familism as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers shewing the dangerousness of their tenets, and their inconsistency with the principles of common reason and the declarations of Holy Scripture / by Henry Hallywell. Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703? 1673 (1673) Wing H458; ESTC R25413 52,525 144

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this Office of Administring it was by our Lord Jesus bestowed and settled upon his Apostles and that they planting of a Church which should continue after their Death should appoint and ordain Successors to themselves to preside and officiate in that Church and particularly to administer this Sacrament to the People by way of Office to do as here Christ did And this not in a Mystical and Allegorical but Literal Sense so that though it be true that he that eateth not Christs Flesh and drinketh not his Bloud has no Life in him yet is this to be done by the partaking of the outward Bread and Wine and by our communicating of that according to Christs Institution we partake of his Body and Bloud in a Spiritual manner and all other benefits of his Death and Passion So that these Apostates and Heretical Persons by their Allegories and Mystical meanings would bereave the Christian World of the choicest Mystery of Religion in which we are confirmed and assured of the Pardon of our Sins and by Gods free remission the burdned and distressed Soul is refreshed and we receive further supplies and increase of Grace and the Spirit of God to enable us to do that which he will graciously in Christ accept at our hands i. e. to serve him in holiness and renewed Righteousness and to impower us if we be not wanting to our selves and to our own best hopes and Interests to continue and persevere thus to our lives end And now let all men consider seriously how heinous a thing it is Schismatically to separate from the Church and how grosly they are cheated and abused by these deceitful Quakers and imposed upon against the plain Sense and Current of the Holy Scripture and how they hope to look that Jesus with comfort in the Face at the dreadful Day of Judgment whose sacred Institutions they now vilifie and contemn Christ saith Eat this bread and drink this wine in remembrance of me and Saint Paul says that as oft as we shall eat this bread and drink this cup we do one to another annuntiate or proclaim the death of the Lord till he come again to judge us But these Fanatic Spiritualists would persuade us that this Communion is Heathenish and Abomination Now judge whom we are to follow in this matter whether Christ and his Apostles or these deceitful Whifflers For Christ and his Apostles did corporally eat and drink the material Bread and Wine and left command to his Church that it should so be done and that this Order was observed Saint Paul plainly shews 1 Cor. 11. where he sets down the manner of Christs Institution of this Holy Sacrament and rectifies some abuses the Corinthians were guilty of CHAP. III. Of the Holiness of Times Things and Persons under the Gospel BEcause the Church of God hath ever set apart some Times Things and Persons in a more immediate relation to God and his Service and that these seducing Familists persuade the People that all these are equally common with others and so no difference to be put between one day and another one thing and another or one person and another though in the nearest relation to God and his Service but that the Christian Sabbath is no more than another day the Church no more than a Stable or Barn nor a Minister or Euangelical Priest than another man as appears by their following many times their usual Imployments and Trades on a Sunday their despight and scorn cast upon the material Edifices or Churches wherein Divine Service is celebrated calling them Steeple-houses in derision and the reviling Gods Ministers by the names of Baals Priests Hirelings Serpents and whatever their black and impure Hearts and Mouths can think and utter I shall therefore for the sake of those ignorant People who are not yet drawn away nor bewitched with their Sorceries and Inchantments shew plainly and distinctly the Reasonableness of these things When God created Man he wrote this Truth on his heart that he was a Creature and therefore acknowledging Gods Sovereignty and Dominion over all the Works of his hands he must likewise confess that God has a Right and Propriety in every thing from his Sovereign Majesty and Dominion which can never be alienated from him or he ever dispossessed of Since then God by Royal Bounty has not only given Man his Being but likewise draws out this Existence which is the Time and Duration of it and enriched him with various Gifts and Benefits such as the free Use and Enjoyment of all earthly Creatures he is obliged and bound to pay some Service Duty and Fealty to this great Lord of the World and must return him back something of all that he hath given him But lest this should be left to the frail and mutable will of Man who being possessed of these Benefits might forget the Lord therefore God has expresly declared how and in what sort he shall hold and enjoy all these Blessings that is So that God the great Lord have a Rent or Portion reserved out of them to himself that thereby Man might still acknowledge Gods Sovereignty and his own Dependency upon him Now the Benefits God has conferred upon Man they are 1. The Time or Duration of his Life 2. The Place of his Habitation 3. The Means of susteining his bodily Life upon Earth Out of all these God must have his Honorary Part That is since God has given us our Beings and draws them out in length and continues our Life to us we owe in Justice some portion of this time to God So likewise since God has given Man so wide a place for his dwelling as the whole Earth he must allot some place some part of this great space for God And lastly since all Creatures are given Man for his own Use and Benefit 't is fit that God likewise have his Rent out of what we possess and enjoy SECT I. In the fourth Commandment God designed the seventh day for his Service and Worship For the Worship of Almighty God being once setled in all the Parts and Duties of it it necessarily follows that some time should be set apart for the more special performance of it And this Commandment being Moral as all the rest of the Decalogue are a Symbol of which was their being written by the finger of God in Tables of Stone to denote their eternal Permanency and Morality we are as much bound to the Observation of it as to its main Importance as to the sixth or seventh I say we are bound to the Observation of it as to the Equity and Morality of it And from this we conclude 1. That it is reasonable there should be a time set apart for Gods Worship For we being commanded to worship honour and serve God it is impossible to do it but within the Comprehension of some time or other 2. One day in seven is time little enough to be allotted for the more special Service of God