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opinion_n	according_a	scripture_n	word_n	738	5	3.8622	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13963	A triall of subscription by way of a preface vnto certaine subscribers; and, reasons for lesse rigour against non-subscribers. Both modestly written; that neither should offend.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1599 (1599)	STC 24273; ESTC S106214	16,203	40

lesse for not subscribing to thē and all other partes of ecclesiasticall policie as to ordinances not contrarie to the worde of God FIRST their omission and scruple of such subscription is meerely of a cōscience fearfull to offend in allowing by acte or hande any thing not warrantable by the worde and therefore a meere invention of man According to that of zealous Dauid I hate vaine inuentions but thy Lawe doe I loue For in a godly ielousie of that spiritual whordome whereof the people of GOD ought carefullie to take heede they holde That what soeuer is not according to the expresse scripture or sound conclusion from the same is contrary to the worde Which their opinion omission aunswering therevnto seemeth vnto them grounded vppon the worde and iudgement of authoritie But sith it is not answerable to my present purpose here to sett down manie of their reasons drawne from the sufficiencie of the scriptures which can suffer neither adding nor diminishing declining to the right nor to the lefte hande from the sinceritie of the Gospell whiche can not brooke Iewishe much lesse Romishe ceremonies And from sundrie other good cōsiderations generall and particular I onely craue fauour to sett down one or two That the tendernes of their cōscience may somwhat appeare to proceede not from conceipted scrupulositie without at least some probable perswasions THE generall precept of the Apostle Walke as children of the light approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde and haue no fellowship with vnprofitable workes of darknesse concerneth not onely corrupt manners but vnprofitable ceremonies deuised by man without warrant of the worde at least by good consequence For it is an Apostolicall canon Let all things be done vnto edification And it is a Propheticall direction To the Lawe and to the Prophetes If they speake not according to this worde it is because there is no light in them But the saide faithfull Ministers see not howe ceremonies prescribed are profitable notwitstanding their godly significations pretended For if Christ who in these last dayes speaketh euidently by his Gospell and spirit had iudged signifying ceremonies convenient vnto edification he would not haue abolished so many prescribed by Moses as being fitt for children and appointed so few and those not onely for signification but principallie to be seales of spirituall graces And therefore this addition of signifying ceremonies seemeth vnto them to eclipse the glorie of Christ his wisedome and faithfulnes in providing for the full instruction of his people contrarie to the scriptures which giue him testimonie that he is as onely so a sufficient Teacher of his Church Neither doe they see how the signifying ceremonies bee otherwise according to the worde And the rather because that other cānon of the Apostle Let all things bee done honestlie and by order so much vrged in their defence doeth onelie commaund decent disposing of ceremonies of order not of figure and not that what soeuer may seeme tending to decencie is therefore to bee thrust into the Church In consideration of which so conceiued vnprofitablenes and vnwarrantablenes the saide Ministers dare not haue fellowship with prescribed ceremonies In giuing allowaunce by vsing or subscribing Againe this fearfulnesse of prescribed ceremonies and generall subscriptiō seemeth to them to be groūded 1 vpon the second commandment 2 the second petition 3 an vse of the Lords supper aunswerable to that article of our Creede where we say I beleeue that the Church is an holy cōmunion of Sainctes For the seconde commandement forbidding vs to bowe or yeeld to any Idoll of mans invencion vnder the name of Grauen Imaege the chief Idoll as all vncleannes is forbidden vnder the name of adulterie the grossest pollucion of the fleshe doeth withall commaund all thinges in and about the seruice of God to be according to his revealed will As appeareth by the opposition or relatiue respect of these wordes Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image to these of them that loue me keepe my commaundements And further by conferring the vse of Fringes whiche the children of Israell were to make vpon the border of their garments set down in these wordes And yee shall haue the fringes that when yee looke vppon them yee may remember all the commaundementes of God and doe them And that ye seeke not after your owne heart nor after your owne eyes after which ye goe a whoring In the second petition we pray That GOD would raigne in his Church by the worde of his Kingdome whiche teacheth vs That as a worldly kingdome cannot brooke two Monarches So Christ to whom the Father hath committed all iudgement is onely Maister among his Disciples onely Prince among his people And therefore the Apostle hauing reprooued the vnprofitable traditions of men As touch not taste not handle not exhorteth the Colossians to seeke those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the right hande of God As if hee should saye Christ onely ruleth Therefore ye are not to obey the commaundements of men but to be ruled by him onely The vse of the Lordes Supper before mencioned Saint Paule him self maketh when he thus argueth Wheras the bread which we breake is the cōmunion of the body of Christ that is a seale of that communion which we haue with Christ and one with an other in him Therefore we must be so farr from hauing any fellowship with Idolaters that how so euer we pretend the safe keeping of our hearts for God yet we must not no not onely in bodie be present at Idolatrous seruice From all which they thinke verilie that the spirit of God it selfe maketh this argument What communion hath the light of the worde with the darknes of mans inventions What cōcorde hath Christ our Sauiour with Beliall the Antichrist of Rome And what agreement hath the Temple of God which is our selues with Idolls of humane traditiōs Wherfore come out of Babilon that is the confusion or confused worship and gouernment of Rome touch no vnclean thing But as man him selfe who is borne in sinne and conceyued in iniquitie so his own inventions which make him more sinfull can not bee sanctified but by the worde The hypothesis or ground of this conclusion is a perswasion That the ceremonies which they stumble at bee not onelie the inventions of man but parte also of the scarlet woman her fornications yea notwithstanding they were in vse before Antichrist was exalted As circumcision was parte of the ceremoniall law notwithstanding it was not of Moses but of the Fathers And therefore such ceremonies are by thē in their zeale iudged to be more fitting the whore of Babylon then beseeming the chaste spouse of Christ who should be conformable to her husbande in simplicitie and sinceritie That their dislike of prescirbed ceremonies may 〈…〉 to them grounded