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A53671 A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1667 (1667) Wing O721; ESTC R9489 80,905 231

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the Supper of the Lord Matth. 26.27 1 Cor. 11.25 and all these graces which they teach they also exhibit and are the means of the communication of them unto Beleivers Moreover the experience of all Beleivers who have conscientiously waited upon God in their due observance may be produced in the confirmation of it The instruction edification consolation Spiritual strength courage and resolution which they have received in and by them hath been witnessed unto in their lives and ends and they to whom these things are not of the greatest importance do but in vain pretend a regard unto God in any thing whatever Farthermore God hath appointed our duty in the observation of his instituted worship to be the means of our glorifying him in the world Nor can we otherwise give glory to God but as we own his authority over us and yield obedience to what he requires at our hands And what we do herein is principally evident in those duties which lye under the eye and observation of Men. Some duties of obedience there are which the world neither doth nor can discern in Believers Such are their faith inward holiness purity of heart heavenly mindedness sincere mortification of indwelling sin some whose performance ought to be hid from them as personal prayer and almes Matth. 6.2 3 4 5 6. Some there are which are very liable to misconstruction amongst Men as Zeal in many of the actings of it But this conscientious observation of instituted worship and therein avowing our subjection unto the authority of God in Christ is that which the World may see and take notice of and that which unless in case of persecution ought not to be hid from them and that which they can have no pretence of scandal at And therefore hath God appointed that by this means and way we shall honour and glorifie him in the World which if we neglect we do evidently cast off all regard unto his concernments in this World Herein it is that we manifest our selves not to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ of him and his words which he so indispensably requireth at our hands Mark 8.38 For saith he whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels Hereby do we keep the commandments of Christ as his freinds John 13.35 for these peculiarly are his commands and if we suffer for them then we do most properly suffer as Christians which is our glory that 1 Pet. 4.14 15 16. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified but let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evil doer or as a busi● body in other Mens matters but if any Man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God ●n this behalf And a happy and a blessed thing it is to suffer for the observation of the special commands of Christ. Farther to encourage us in our duty the holy faithful God hath given us many great and precious promises that he will graciously afford unto us his especial sanctifying blessing presence in our attendance on his worship according to his appointment For as he promised of old that he would make glorious the place of his feet or abode amongst his people Isa. 60.13 that he would meet them in his sanctuary the place of his worship and there dwell amongst them and bless them and be their God Exod. 29.42 43 44 45. Deut. 14.24 so the Lord Jesus Christ hath promised his presence to the same ends and purposes unto all them that assemble together in his name for the observation of the worship which in the Gospel he hath appointed Matth. 18.20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them And therein is the tabernacle of God his gracious dwelling place with Men. Rev. 21.3 Now when God offereth unto us his presence his gracious blessing sanctifying and saving presence and that in and by promises which shall never fail what unspeakable guilt must we needs contract upon our own souls if we neglect or despise the tenders of such grace But because we are apt to be slothful and are slow of heart in admiting a due sense of spiritual things that fall not in with the light and principles of nature to stir us up unto a diligence in our attendance unto the will of God in this matter he hath declared that he looks upon our obedience herein as our whole loyalty unto him in that conjugal covenant which he is pleased in Christ Jesus to take Beleivers into with himself Jer. 3.14 turn O backsliding children saith the Lord for I am marryed unto you and will take you one of a City and two of a family and will bring ye unto Sion and I will give you Pastors according unto mine heart which shall feed ye with knowledge and understanding Coming unto Sion in the worship of God under the leading and conduct of Pastors according to the heart of God is our answering the relation wherein we stand unto him as he is marryed unto us and thereupon he teacheth us that as an Husband he is jealous of our discharge of our duty in this matter accounting our neglect of his worship or profanation of it by inventions and additions of our own to be spiritual disloyalty whoredome and adultery which his soul abhorreth for which he will cast off any Church or people and that for ever See Exod. 20.5 Deut. 4.23 24. Jos. 24.19 Ezek. 16. whatever he will bear withal in his Church he will not bear with that which his jealousie is exercised about If it transgress therein he will give it a bill of divorce which repudiated condition is the state of many Churches in the World however they please and boast themselves in their meritricious ornaments and practices To give yet farther strength unto all these considerations that we may not only have rules and precepts but examples also for our instruction God hath given many signal instances of his severity against Persons who by ignorance neglect or regardlesness have miscarried in not observing exactly his will and appointment in and about his worship This was the case of Nadab and Abi●●s the sons of Aaron Levit. 10.1 2. of Corah Dathan and Abirain Numb 16.3 8 9 32 35. of the sons of Ely a sin not to be expiated with sacrifices and burnt offerings forever 1 Sam. 2.28 29. of Vzza in putting the Ark into a Cart when he should have born it upon his shoulders 1 Chron. 16.13 of Vzzia the King in offering incense contrary to Gods institution that duty being appropriated unto the Priests of the posterity of Aaron 2 Chron.
43 45. Deut. 14.23 Psal. 133.3 Math. 18.20 Rev. 21.3 5 Exod. 20.5 Deut. 4.23 24. Josh. 24.19 Ezek. 16. 6 Levit. 10.1 2. Num. 16.3 8 9 32 35. 1 Sam. 2.28 29. 2 Sam. 6.6 7. 2 Chron. 26.16 19. 1 Cor. 11.30 Explication For the most part the instituted worship of God is neglected and dispised in the World Some are utterly regardless of it supposing that if they attend after their manner unto moral obedience that neither God nor themselves are much concerned in this matter of his worship Others think the disposal and ordering of it to be so left unto men that as to the manner of its performance they may do with it as it seems right in their own eyes And some follow them therein as willingly walking after their commandments without any respect unto the will or authority of God But the whole Scripture gives us utterly another account of this matter The honour of God in this world the tryal of our faith and obedience the order and beauty of the Church the exaltation of Christ in his professed subjection to him and the saving of our souls in the wayes of his appointment are therein laid upon the due and right observance of instituted worship and they who are negligent about these things what ever they pretend have no real respect unto any thing that is called Religion First therefore in every state and condition of the Church God hath given his Ordinances of worship as the touchstone and tryal of its faith and obedience so that they by whom they are neglected do openly refuse to come unto Gods tryal In the state of innocency the tryal of Adams obedience according to the law of nature was in and by the institution of the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil Gen. 2.16 17. And the Lord God commanded the Man saying of every tree of the garden thou maist freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die This was the first institution of God and it was given unto the Church in the state of innocency and purity And in our first Parents neglect of attending thereunto did they transgress the whole law of their creation as failing in their duty in that which was appointment for their tryal in the whole Chap. 3.11 Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat c. And the Church in his family after the fall built upon the promise was tryed also in the matter of instituted worship Nor was there any discovery of the wickedness of Cain or approbation of the faith of Abel until they came to be proved in their sacrifices a new part of Gods instituted worship the first in the state and condition of sin and the fall whereinto it was brought Gen. 4.3 4 5. In process of time it came to pass Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect The ground whereof the Apostle declares Heb. 11.4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts In the observation of that first institution given to the Church in the state of the fall did Abel receive a testimony of his being justified and accepted with God Afterwards when Abraham was called and peculiarly separated to bare forth the name of God in the world and to become the spring of the Church for future ages he had the institution of circumcision given him for the tryal of his obedience the Law and condition whereof was that he who observed it not should be esteemed an alien from the covenant of God and be cut off from his People Gen. 17.9 10 11. God said unto Abraham thou shalt keep my covenant thou and thy seed after thee in their generations This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee every man-child among you shall be circumcised Verse the 14 and the uncircumcised man-child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised that soul shall be cut off from his people he hath broken my covenant And in like manner so soon as ever his posterity were to be collected into a new Church state and order God gave them the Ordinance of the Passover Exod. 12.24 Ye shall observe this thing for an Ordinance to thee and to thy Sons for ever and that upon the same penalty with that of circumcision to these he added many more on mount Sinai Exod. 20. all as the tryals of their faith and obedience unto succeeding generations How he hath dealt with his Church under the new Testament we shall afterwards declare In no state or condition then of the Church did God ever accept of moral Obedience without the observation of some instituted worship accommodated in his wisdome unto its various states and conditions And not only so but as we have seen he hath made the observation of them according unto his mind and appointment the means of the tryal of Mens whole obedience and the rule of the acceptance or rejection of them And so it continues at this day what ever be the thoughts of men about the worship which at present he requires Besides God hath appointed that his Ordinances of worship shall be as effectual means as to instruct us in the mysteries of his will and mind so of communicating his love mercy and grace unto us as also of that communion or intercourse with his holy Majesty which he hath graciously granted unto us by Jesus Christ. And this as it is sufficiently manifested in the Scriptures quoted in answer unto this question so it is at large declared in the writings of those holy and good men who have explained the nature of gospel Ordinances and therefore in particular we need not here insist much in the farther proof of it Thus Abraham was instructed in the nature of the covenant of grace by circumcision Gen. 17.10 which is often explained in the old Testament by applying it in particular to the grace of conversion called the circumcision of the heart Deut 10.16 Chap. 30.6 Jer. 4.4 as also in the new Testament Coloss. 2.11 And by the Passover where the people taught not only the mercy of their present deliverance Exod. 12.23 24. but also to look for the Lamb of God who was to take away the sin of the world John 1.29 the true Passover of the people of God which was sacrificed for them 1 Cor. 5.7 how our incision or implanting into Christ is represented and signified by our Baptism the Apostle declares Rom. 6.3 4 5. as also our communion with him in his death by