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A49797	Magna Charta ecclesiæ universalis the grand charter issued out and granted by Jesus Christ for the plantation of the Christian faith in all nations ... / by George Lawson ...	Lawson, George, d. 1678.	1686 (1686)	Wing L708; ESTC R37962	90,290	226

this Chapter is to reduce the matter of these Commandments into the form of a more explicit vow that so every one that owns his Baptism may know what by vertue thereof he is more particularly bound to perform 1. I believe in one eternal infinite glorious Lord who hath by his Almighty power created Heaven and Earth and all things therein Redeemed mankind by the precious blood of his Eternal Word made flesh sanctifies his Elect people and by a Covenant of grace is become my God in Christ do renounce the Devil the World and the Flesh and all false Gods and Idols and all Profane Irreligious thoughts I deny my self and wholly resign up my self unto him with all the powers and faculties of my soul and body I take him for my supreme Lord Lawgiver Judge Redeemer by Jesus Christ upon whom alone I depend for Salvation and for whom I am ready to bear the Cross and sacrifice my self at any time when called unto it He alone shall be the object of my great Love Fear Service Reverence Confidence Joy Solace and Delight To him alone I will present my Prayers Praises Thanksgiving Glory Honour as only eternally worthy of it and abhorring all Pride I will with greatest humility adore his glorious Majesty and be nothing in my self that I may be all in my God I tremble to think of Apostasie or denying my Saviour to whom I will be faithful to the end as I expect glory and life everlasting from my God by him 2. I will not make any Image or Likeness of any thing in Heaven and Earth or in the Waters under the Earth for to represent his glorious and eternal excellency and God-head but will abandon all false and base conceits and apprehensions of him and look upon him as represented in his mighty and wonderful works and his holy and most blessed word I will not bow down unto any Image or Likeness for to worship it nor perform any service unto it as though it had any Divine excellency or sanctifying power in it or were any sign of Gods special presence without his institution I renounce all Traditions Ceremonies Customs Inventions Practices of men in Religious Worship that are contrary to Gods Word or imposed and enjoyned as necessary parts of Worship I will serve and worship my God with that kind of worship which he hath instituted in the Gospel which shall be the rule according to which I will pray confess give thanks praise hear the word celebrate the Sacraments and perform all other Religious Service unto him in the name and mediation of Jesus Christ and not of Angels Saints or the blessed Virgin And this shall move me much because the Lord my God is a jealous God and will not endure Superstition in Worship the devices of men which pollute and debase his service tend unto and many times end in Idolatry which he will punish not only in the Fathers who begin it give examples to others but also in the Children unto the third and fourth Generation and will shew mercy to such as worship him with a pure Virgin love according to his institution unto a thousand Generations Both the fear and love of my God and the hope of Reward according to his gracious promises shall work much upon me 3. I will not swear vainly or falsly nor call upon my God to be a witness against my soul in affirming or denying any thing which I do not certainly know to be so as it is affirmed or denyed by me or in promising that which I know I have no power to do or no sincere intention to perform for so I should dishonour his glorious name deceive and disappoint my neighbour lose my interest in my God and bring his curse upon me for he will certainly punish and severely revenge all such iniquity I promise that when I take up the name of my God in swearing praying unto him praising of his name and in performing all other his religious service I will do it with humility reverence deliberation due preparation the sincerity of my heart that so I may be innocent before God just towards men and that my service may be accepted of him and effectually conducing to his glory I will abhor all prophane cursing all blasphemous thoughts and words against his Majesty his word and holy Institution 4. Seeing my God requires a set and determinate time to be set apart for religious worship and his more solemn service I will remember and have a special care to observe that holy rest and apply it to the performance of more holy duties converse with my God and prepare my self for that eternal sabbath and full communion with him which he hath promised and prepared to be enjoyned by his people in the place of eternal glory And seeing he hath granted mesix days for my wordly business and secular imployments I will endeavour in that time so to order and dispatch my business that I may not be distracted in his service upon that day which he hath appropriated to himself and in a peculiar manner made his own And I will have a care not only to rest and sanctifie that time in mine own person but I will command such as are under my power and use all means to cause them both to rest and sanctifie it with me And seeing according to the Gospel the first day of the week is honoured blessed hallowed by the Resurrection of my Saviour and the coming down of the Holy Ghost upon both which depends our eternal Salvation I will weekly observe and sanctifie that day in remembrance of the great benefits of Redemption by Christ and of sanctification by the Holy Ghost and of taking down the partition-wall and the shadows of Moses Law the body and substance whereof is Christ. And by the observation of this time I will renounce all Heathenism Mahometism and Judaism and testifie my self a Christian believing in Christ already come This day I will not neglect or profane by idleness or any works and so profanely mispend it to the dishonour of my God and the hindrance of my Salvation As for works of necessity of charity towards man or beast or such as tend to the sanctification of the day I will take liberty to do them according as my God hath allowed neither will I neglect those solemn times of prayer and thanksgiving appointed by Ecclesiastical and Civil Authority for the publick service of God And I shall account the free and quiet enjoyment of these holy times and the Communion of Saints to be a great blessing 5. Next unto my God I must love my Neighbour made in his image and redeemed with the precious blood of Christ and I must love him as my self These are natural Parents civil Powers and Magistrates in the State Ministers in the Church and all such as God hath set over us for our good These I promise to reverence and honour according to their excellency and dignity I will

The thing petitioned for in these words 1. The will of God is sometimes his decree sometimes his command or law this will here intended is not his decree but his law the matter of the decree is something that God will do the matter of the command is something that man must do and the effect of this will once signified is the obligation of man unto obedience or upon disobedience unto punishment and by this will here is meant the Laws of God Redeemer in force under the Gospel And these Laws by some are reduced to repentance faith obedience to Gods Laws continued after our first faith and conversion and this according to the parts of the vow made in Baptism All well ordered Kingdoms have their laws which all such as will be admitted subjects or will receive protection and enjoy the priviledges of that Government must observe And so it is in the Kingdom of God Redeemer and these Laws are moral yet Evangelically understood or positive and ceremonial The moral are fundamental or superstructive The fundamental is that which requires subjection aad fealtv to the Soveraign Christ Jesus and submission to his power the superstructive are such Laws moral as are grounded upon this such are all the Commandments following the first And whereas some understand this will as well of the Executive will as the Legislative yet that 's not proper though true in some sense 2. To do this will doth presuppose that the Laws be published and that by the same the will of God be made known that none but such as are negligent or wilful may be ignorant This being presupposed 1. We must have a certain knowledge of the Will of our heavenly Father For if in every action of a man as he is a man and a rational creature knowledge be requisite and necessary much more in this obedience To do that which is commanded by God and not to know its Gods command is no obedience unto God 2. After this Will is once known there must be a free and full consent and stedfast resolution for to conform unto it and that not only because the commands of God are just and holy the doing them is pleasing unto him and beneficial unto man but for this very reason because we know them to be the commands of God 3. Because neither of these can be done except we renounce our own conceits imaginations lusts and corrupt inclinations of our own hearts therefore we must resign up our understandings to the wisdom and our own wills wholly to the Will of God 4. This doing doth not stay and rest in knowledge and good affection but must proceed to endeavours and if our power fail not to the doing prosecuting and finishing of the things commanded for our obedience should reach to the full measure of the command 5. This will is observed not only in doing good but in suffering evil and that with patience and thankfulness 6. We must submit unto the executive will of God and be content therewith even then when the works of Gods providence do cross us and seem to be contrary to his Laws For they may seem sometimes to be so though they never are so yet they may be above these Laws and beyond the reach of our understanding No man can do this will by nature except he be regenerate by grace And because our knowledge is imperfect at the first and our spiritual ability poor therefore we must improve them more and more 3. The manner how this will must be performed and the measure of our obedience is expressed by a pattern given us in heaven For we are taught to pray Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven This implies that God hath Subjects in Heaven 2. That these do his will more perfectly 3. That we must follow this Example and aim at that perfection These Subjects are not the Stars and Lights of Heaven as some do understand the words Though its true that these observe a constant regular Motion according to an order preferred in the Creation and never were Exorbitant or swerved from the rule since the beginning Only if God do command them to stand they stand or go back they go back or withhold their light they refuse to give it But these are not intelligible creatures or capable of Laws yet they may be witnesses against us confound us and make us for ever ashamed of our disobedience Therefore the words are meant of Angels which are Spirits Intellectual and most noble creatures and their proper place is Heaven and therefore styled in Scripture the Angels of Heaven Of these its written That they do Gods Commandments hearkning to the voice of his pleasure Psal. 103. 20. The perfection of their obedience is in this that they never sinned but always obeyed God from the first moment of their creation They did Gods will 1. Always and in all times 2. They did it in all things 3. They did it freely readily and with joy and delight 4. They did it in the highest degree of their perfection So that their obedience was constant universal free and perfect This example we must follow striving to attain their perfection though we cannot reach it and never rest till God hath fully sanctified us and made us perfectly Righteous and Holy as they are This pattern doth not exclude that of Sanits and Martyrs though it come short yet we have a more excellent and glorious example of Christ which is more perfect then that of theirs because they never denied themselves and bare the Cross as he did 4. In these words 1. We confess our ignorance errours blindness corruption inclination to sin aversness to good and our impotency which by nature is such that of our selves we can do nothing 2. We pray for Gods preventing regene rating co-operating assisting and consummating grace and that he would enlighten us inspire and sanctifie us so that we may clearly unsterstand and effectually do his will from our hearts aiming at his glory 3. That we would sanctifie us more and more that we may dayly improve our knowledge and Obedience 4. That he would strengthen and assist us continually that we may persevere in an universal obedience to the end This sanctifying grace we desire as merited by Christ to be given us by the Spirit according to his promise yet we do not expect it so from him as though he should do all things and we do nothing we must use the means he hath appointed exercise the power he hath given us hearken unto the Doctrine of the Gospel meditate in the same and continually pray for his assistance we must be diligent careful watchful continually depending upon him To this position we may and must refer all the prayers of Gods Saints recorded in Scripture wherein they seek of God knowledge understanding wisdom faith charity and all other heavenly vertues with the increase of them and Gods perpetual assistance and direction And though our perfection be