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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56143	A brief, pithy discourse upon I Corinthians 14. 40. Let all things be done decently and in order. Tending to search out the truth in question: Whether it be lawfull for church-governours to command and impose indifferent decent things (not absolutely necessary) in the administration of Gods worship? Written some years past by a judicious divine, and seasonable for our present times	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3915; ESTC R219594	10,985	16

Example a single man or woman are at Liberty to marry where they will 1 Cor. 7. 39. If the Apostle had bound them from marriage by any command of his though they had received that Gift of Continency yet he had then straightned and deprived them of their Liberty in that particular 1 Tim. 4. 3. 4. Col. 2. 20 21. 1 Cor. 7. 35 36 37 38 39 40. It is wont to be excepted against this that Christian Liberty stands not in the freedome of outward Actions but only in the fredome of Conscience As long therefore as there is no Doctrinal necessity put upon the Conscience to limit the lawfulness of the use of outward things Christian Liberty is preserved though the use and practise of outward things be limitted Whereto I answer 1. That the Apostle in this case leaveth the people of God at Liberty not only in point of Conscience for lawfulness to marry But even in outward Actions and Practise Let him do saith he what he will he sinneth not let him be marryed Vers. 30. 38. As who should say the Conscience being free from sin in it I will put no tye on the outward practise to restrain it 2. That true Christian Liberty consisteth principally in the free Actual use of things lawful and indifferent in themselves and the Prohibition or their free Actual use to Christians is expresly censured as Anti-evangelical a badge of false Apostles of Apostlates from the faith Hypocrites men of seared Conscienc●s Anti-christian Usurpers 1 Tim. 4. 1. 3. 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the later times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of divels Speaking Lyes in Hypocrisy having their Consciences seared with an hot Iron forbidding to Marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath Created to be received with Thanksgiving For every Creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving For it is sanctified by the word of God and Prayer Col. 2. 20 21. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the World why as though living in this World are ye Subject to Ordinances or Canons touch not tast not handle not no not Gods Ordinances Sacraments Creatures but in such Vestiments Gestures Postures which all are to perish with the using which things have indeed a shew of Wisdome in will-woorship and Punishing of the Body 1 Cor. 4. 5 6 Have we not power to Eat and to Drink Have we not power to lead about a Sister Wife as well as other Apostles and as the Brethren of the Lord and Cephas compared with vers 19. to 24. Rom. 14. 2 3. For one believeth that he may Eat all things another who is weak Eateth Herbs Let not him that Eateth despise him that Eateth not and let not him which Eateth not iudge him that Eateth For God hath received him Who art thou that iudgest another mans Servant To his own Master he standeth and falleth But why dost thou judge thy Brother or refrain him in the use of things indifferent or why dost thou set at nought thy Brother We shall all stand before the Iudgement Seat of Christ c. Let us not therefore iudge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his Brothers way c. to wit by any restraints Canons Inhibitions Censures in or concerning things or ceremonies that are but indifferent and not absolutely necessary by Gods prescription or the nature of the things themselves Therefore to prohibit any Ministers of the Gospel who are able and faithfull to preach the Word or to excommunicate or cast them or any other consciencious Christians out of the Church or debar them from the Sacrament because they cannot wear a Surplice kneel at the Lords Table or Supper or conform to every Punctilio in the Liturgy or Canons and to deny them their Christian Liberty in the free use or forbearing of Ceremonies which are only decent and indifferent indirectly repugnant to Christian Liberty the Gospel of Christ and to Acts 4 18 19 20 Ch. 5. 27 28 29 41 42. 1 Thes. 2. 14 15 16. 3 Iohn 9. 10. Rev. 13. 16 17. 1 Cor. 7. 8 9. 25 26 27 28 35 36 37 38 39 40 Gal. 5. 13. 14. The second reason may be this They who are not to judge or censure another in differences about circumstantial things or matters of Indifferency they surely cannot make a binding Law that all men shall be of one mind or of one practice in such things But the former is true from the rule of the Holy Ghost binding all Christians even the Apostle as well as others Rom. 14. 3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth for God hath received him Col. 2. 16. c. Ergo c. But if it be said here that this place speaketh only of private Christians not of Church-Governours I answer The place speaketh of Christians private and publick seeing it referveth and reserreth the judgement of our Brethren in such like things not to publick persons but only to Christ Rom. 14. 4. 10. The third Argument or reason is this They who did accomodate themselves in the use of indifferent things according to the judgement and practice of all Christians wheresoever they came they surely did not make Laws bind Christians to accomodate themselves to their own judgement and practice in the use of things Indifferent But the Apostles of Christ and the Christians too in the primitive Churches did accommodate themselves in the use of Indifferent things according to the judgement and practice of all Christians whersoever they came as appeareth from the Apostl●s Example 1. Cor. 9. 10 21 22 23. To the Jews saith he I became as a Jew c Ergo c. But here it may be objected though the Apostles rather chose to use their Liberty and their ●nity than their authoritie in these indiff●rent things wheresoever they came Yet if they had pleased they might have used their Apos●olical authoritie in binding all Churches to their judgements and pract●ce in such things Hereunto I answer first that doubtless if they had received any such authority they would in some place or other and at one time or other have claimed it and practised it For a sword never used ●u●●eth in the scabbar● And Frustra est potentia quae nunquam venit in actum I● is a true Axiom● and pertinent to what we speak of Secon●ly I say that the Apostle himself doth clear the point when he confesseth he did thus accommodate himself even to the weaknesses of Christians least be should abuse his authority in the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 18 19 20. O that such Governors as plead their succession to the Apostles and doe challenge in sund●ie passages of Government Apostostolical