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A16491 A sermon concerning decencie and order in the church Preached at VVood-Church, in the diocesse of Canterburie, April. 30. 1637. By Edward Boughen parson of Wood-Church. Boughen, Edward, 1587?-1660? 1638 (1638) STC 3406; ESTC S113532 15,437 30

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with what conscience can we expect obedience from those that are under our government Our Saviours rule is m S. Mat. 7.12 Whatsoever yee would that men should doe to you do yee even so to them Obey then that yee may bee obeyed obey heartily that yee may be obeyed accordingly the servants of Christ doe so they obey from the heart Eph. 6.6 Consider that as your children are commanded to obey you so you are commanded to obey your Governours But your children are commanded to obey you in all things Col. 3.20 And shall you obey the Fathers of the Church in what you list surely where the Scripture hath made no limitation it is not for us to make any S. Paul calls upon us in generall termes without limitation to n Heb. 13.17 obey to submit our selves to our Rulers that watch for our soules and must give an account for our soules And gives this reason for it o Ib. that so they may give up their account with ioy and not with griefe for that is unprofitable for you Unprofitable it is indeed for you if Calvin say right for thus he writes p Calvin in Heb. 13.17 Significat nos sine propriae salutis iactura non fore Pastoribus molestos vel immorigeros The Apostle acquaints us that we cannot be offensive or undutifull to our Pastors or Bishops without the losse of our owne salvation And then he addes q Calvin Ib. Quum vix decimus quisque hoc cogitet hinc apparet quantus vulgo sit salutis neglectus since there is scarce one of ten that takes this into consideration it is too too evident that there is a generall neglect of salvation amongst us But it may bee you are doubtfull whether that which is commanded be lawfull or no. If so then must you seek for a resolution from persons worthy to bee credited in this case And Calvin tells us r Calvin Ib. that it is necessarily required ut plebs FIDEM ac simul reverentiam Pastoribus habeat that the people BELEEVE and reverence their Pastors Indeed who so fit to be trusted as he that is trusted with your soules and must account to God for them If the Parson or Vicar cannot satisfie the parties doubting they are then ſ Preface before the book of Common prayer to resort to the Bishop of the Diocesse And if the Bishop of the Diocesse be in doubt he is to be advised by the Archbishop and to rest upon his resolution Thus wee are taught by the Church of England and this is a safe and warrantable course If you obey and trust them though the case be questionable you may justifie your obedience t Heb. 13 1● by this and the like texts of Scripture But if you hearken to any other that have not the charge of your soules and disobey them to whom the cure of your soules is committed by your mother the Church o Ib. u the griefe will bee your rulers but the discommodity yours Hoc enim non expedit vobis saith S. Paul for this is unprofitable for you It is not for us then to question their commands or to deliberate upon them we must beleeue our Governors and reverently obey them when they command nothing that is expresly contrary to the word or honour of God S. Paul requires obedience not examination submission not consultation To this adde the oath of the Churchwardens they cannot avoid presenting those that observe not the orders of the Church without manifest perjury Consider the warning given them at the Visitation namely that if they present not truly and sincerely according to the Articles they are liable to the High Commission and upon just proofe to be censured for perjury Pity the danger that you are like to draw upon your owne heads or the heads of your neighbours and conforme your selves Our Diocesan desires rather to amend us then to censure us and hence it is that time is given us to redresse what is amisse Consider that pride and disobedience are reckoned amongst those sinnes whereinto they usually fall whom God hath given over to a reprobate sense Rom. 1.28.30 Consider that to walke after the flesh and to despise government are joyned together 2. S. Pet. 2.10 Yea saith Calvin w Calvin in ep B. Iudae v. 8. these two are almost inseparable ut qui projecti sunt ad nequitiam OMNEM ORDINEM abolitum esse cupiant that they who have given themselves over to work wickednes have alwayes a stitch against order and would faine have it utterly defaced And if x Haec duo semper s●c coniuncta sunt Calvin Ib. these two be almost inseparable then surely they that are such enemies to order in Calvins judgement are projecti ad nequitiam lewd dissolute persons A blemish not to be washed off without submitting our selves to order Consider that REBELLION is as the sinne of WITCHCRAFT and STVBBORNNESSE as IDOLATRY 1. Sam. 15.23 Consider that when false teachers prophane and blasphemous seducers are decypher'd by the Apostles one of their markes is that they are audaces sibi placentes bold presumptuous selfe-willed men DESPISERS OF GOVERNMENT 2. S. Pet. 2.10 Such as DESPISE GOVERNMENT and speak evill of authority S. Iude 8. Consider that they who mislead you are discontented ambitious men such as Korah Nolentes obedire quod nequeant imperare that cannot indure to obey because they cannot get into a Rochet Consider that those who speak against authority are undeserving ignorant unlearned men Proud knowing nothing So S. Paul 1. Tim. 6.4 In his quae ignorant blasphemantes speaking evill of those things they UNDERSTAND NOT. So S. Peter in his second Epistle 2.12 And S. Iude sayes the same v. 10. Nay if Beza be not mistaken in his translation they are no better then mad Insanientes circa quaestiones ac pugnas de verbis 1. Tim. 6.4 growing starke mad about questions and quarrells concerning words As if like mad men they left the apple and fell together by the eares about the shadow Observe what sentence is already passed upon these selfwilled stubborne disobedient persons In the Law y Deut. 17.8.9.12 The man that will not in matters of controversie hearken unto the Priest that IN THOSE DAYES standeth to minister IN THAT PLACE before the Lord that man shall die In the Gospel z Rom. 13.2 Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves DAMNATION damnation at least of that which is commanded to obey and that 's the Soule Rom. 13.1 S. Iude therefore saith plainly that to these is reserved the blacknesse of darknes for ever S. Iude v. 13. Look upon Korah Dathan and Abiram they murmured against Moses and Aaron Prince and Priest and they suddenly went downe alive into the pit of hell Num. 16.33 Tertul. Hoc vero erat futuri judicij praejudicium this doome is a fore-runner of the day of Doome and a true President of that sentence which shall passe upon disobedient persons in that dreadfull day that so all those that read it or heare it read may take warning by their example and avoyd the wrath to come God of his mercy grant that all of us may gaine wisdome by their losse that with all alacrity we may submit our selves to the higher powers that we may do all things in the Church decently and according to order that so we may passe from Church to Church from this Church militant to that triumphant through Iesus Christ our Saviour to whom with the Holy Ghost three persons and one God be ascribed all honour and glory c. FINIS Imprimatur haec concio JOHN OLIVER Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Domino Domino Arch Cant. Capell Dom. Vbi metus in Deum ibi gravitas honesta diligentia adtonita cura sollicita adlectio explorata communicatio deliberata promotio emerita subjectio religiosa apparitio devota processio modesta ecclesia unita Dei omnia Tertull.