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A36446	Theanthrōpos or The great mysterie of godlines opened by way of antidote against the great mysterie of iniquity, (now awork in the Romish Church.) In a sound and seasonable treatise; wherein 1. The incarnation of the Son of God (and evangelicall love, wisdome, humility, &c. expressed in that contrivance) is fully explicated and displayed. 2. Ceremonies in poynt of divine worship are concluded to be by Christ (the true Messiah) abrogated; and examined whether they are not since Christ, Jewish-anti-Christian; where the Jew and Judaizing Christian are deservedly taxed. 3. Christian liberty with its VIII steps and V boundaries, is modestly and briefly asserted; and many other matters of consequence and moment are imparted; but now published for vindication of the truth and its assertor. By Thomas Douglas, M.A. minister of the Gospel at Olaves-Silverstreet, in London.	Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing D2040; ESTC R212841	54,580	83

Man that I am What will become of me Where shall I dwell for ever Who shall be my companions to all eternity Damned Spirits or the Spirits of just men made perfect Such terrors and fears are as it were a Preface and Introduction to hell Now Redeemed ones are free from those Legal terrors and in stead of a Spirit of bondage they are possessed of the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father And this is that which breeds comfort in life and confidence at death in the children of God 7. The seventh is Exemption from the Ceremonial and Judicial Lawes of Moses That Unsupportable Yoke which neither the modern Jews nor their fathers were able to bear Acts 15. 10. This freedom and Immunity are we in a more especial manner to understand by Redemption in the Text. The Jewish Church like an Heir during his minority was subject to a Pedagogie viz. the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws of Moses in which respect the state of the Jewes seemed to be a servile-state but when the fulness of the time was come even the time of the Churches maturity and riper age God sent forth his Son made of a woman to redeem his Church from that bondage and servitude There were three Laws committed to the Jewes viz. The 1. Moral 2. Ceremonial 3. Judicial The Moral Law was ordained to be a standing and Unalterable Rule of Life and Obedience both to the Jewish and Christian Church The Ceremonial and Judicial Lawes were Appendices of the Moral Law The Ceremonial of the first Table determining the particulars of that Worship which was peculiar to the Church of the Jewes The Judicial of the second Table determining the particulars of that Policy which was peculiar to the Common-wealth of the Jewes So that the Ceremonial contained the Ecclesiastical Lawes of that Church and did respect God The Judicial the Civil Lawes of that Commonwealth and did respect their Neighbour Now Christ did in the fulness of the time redeem his Church both from the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws as a * Gal. 5. 1. yoke of bondage imposed not upon the necks but even upon the Consciences of the Jewes binding them to a strict and accurate observation of the same As touching the Judicial and Civil Law What things soever contained therein were communis juris of common Equity and had a foundation in the Law of Nature and might be enforced by the Law Moral are still Obligatory to Christians But what was peculiar to the constitution of the Judaical Policy and are not enforceable by any common Right but were the particular positive Laws of the Jewes do not more binde Christians then any other Municipal Law For Christ destroying the Jewish Commonwealth their Temple and City according to the Prophesie of Daniel chap. 9. v. 26 27. did withall abrogate and destroy the whole Jewish Policy and Lawes And thus it is said The Priesthood namely of Aaron being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law namely of Moses Heb. 7. 12. As touching the Ceremonial and Ecclesiastical Law That together with the Judicial Law might be condered in a fourfold respect as is evident from Scripture viz. as 1. A Badge of distinction between the Jewes and all other Nations Gen. 17. 13 14. 2. A Ratified signe of Guilt Col. 2. 14. 3. A Typical Adumbration of Christ and his Benefits Heb. 9. 9 10. 4. A Tutor and Schoolmaster to the Infant-Church Gal. 4. 1 2 3. Now The Christian Church is freed from the Ceremonial as from the Judicial Law in all these respects For 1. Christ hath broken down the middle-wall of partition between Jewes and Gentiles c. Eph. 2. 14 15. 2. Christ hath abolished and taken out of the way the hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us c. Col. 2. 14. 3. Christ the Typified Body of Levitical shaddows and Adumbrations Col. 2. 17. is come 4. When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. to redeem them that were under the Law his Church from a Mosaical Pedagogie and Elements Gal. 4. 4 5. Then 1. The Ceremonies are not things Indifferent in the Christian Church They were abrogated by the Son of God whose designe in coming in the flesh was to redeem his Church from that Legal Yoke so that to obtrude them upon the Gospel-Church were to frustrate Christians of one great End of the Incarnation and to infringe their Christian Liberty O! How sad is it when men pursue Iniquities for Indifferencies Ergo c. * Do Cas Cons lib. 4. cap. 11. Cas 3. Baldwin in his Cases of Conscience hath a passage which I cannot omit Charles the fifth caused a wretched book called INTERIM to be published wherein yeilding to the Cross Surplice Holy-dayes and other Ceremonies was enjoyned conformity thereunto being much urged by some furious Zelots who pleaded the Emperours Commandment in a thing Indifferent the non-conforming Protestants replyed That the Question was not about a thing Indifferent c. The same Reply might we make to those that urge the Ceremonies as Indifferent things How can those be said to be things Indifferent which Christ hath abolished From which he hath Redeemed his Church 2. How impudent is the Church of Rome in burthening Christians with a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were ever able to bear namely a heap of superfluous yea ridiculous yea impious and Antichristian Ceremonies But Sunt pompae istae omnes Ceremoniae Papisticae nihil aliud quam furi meretricii ad hoc excogitati ut homines ad spiritualem scortationem alliciantur Zanchy ad Regin Elizab. Epistol lib. 1. pag. 112. this is like her Though they are a burthen to the better sort of Christians yet they are a part of her Whorish paint whereby she endeavours to allure Christians to partake of the cup of her Fornications 3. The Ceremonies of the Jewish imposed upon the Christian Church were an Antichristian yoke What insolent Tyrannie is it then in the Romish Church to obtrude old Rotten Ceremonies together with a monstrous heap of her own cursed hatching upon Christians I pray God professed Protestants take not pattern by her its sufficient proof that she is Antichristian and that THE MYSTERIE OF INIQUITY is at 2 Thess 2. 7. work there By reason of such execrable Tyrannie the case of Christians I speak it with much regret is abundantly more sad and their condition more servile then was that of the Jewes O what pity is that Observe 1. The Ceremonies were imposed upon the Jewish by God himself They are imposed upon the Christian Church by Men like our selves There the Jews were the servants of God Here Christians are made * 1 Cor. 7. 23. the servants of Men. Nay 2. The Jewish was an Infant-Church the Christian is a ripe and Adult-Church The Jewish-Church was like an Heir under Age and more servile The Christian-Church is like an

his Head His Priestly Office by the Plate of pure Gold whereon was engraven Holiness to the Lord and the Ephod and Brest-plate whereon were engraven the Names of the twelve Tribes His Prophetical Office by the Vrim and Thummim in the Brest-plate from which he answered as from an Oracle as also by the Bells and Pomegranates the one typing the sound of his Doctrine the other the sweet savour of his Life As for the four extraordinary Garments which the High Priest wore only once a year to wit when he entered into the Holy of Holies upon the Propitiation day which were for colour white and therefore called Vestimenta alba 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white Garments and for number four viz. 1. The linnen Breeches 2. The linnen Coat 3. The linnen Girdle 4. The linnen Mitre Lev. 16. 4. These give me leave to say it were not so much signes of Aarons as Levitical Shaddows and Types of the Lord Christ that immaculate Lambe of God the Holy and Just One his Purity and Innocency the holiness of his Person and the Inculpableness of his Life He was our holy harmless and undefiled High Priest Heb. 7. 26. Amandus Polanus indeed saith that S. Paul in describing and prescribing the Christians Panoplia and compleat Armour Ephes 6. doth allude to the Sacerdotal Vestments under the Law viz. the Mitre Brest-plate Girdle c. But if the Christian Clergy-Men ground the Mystical significancy of Vestments upon this I know no reason why the Laity and every Private Christian may not challenge as good a right to the use of Mitre Girdle Surplice c. as they since it is incumbent upon every Christian to put on the whole armour of God c. From what hath been said it may appear that the Priestly Vestments under the Law were Levitical shaddows and Typical and yet those under the Gospel are said to be Symbolical only and Mystically significant then the same Ceremonies are both Typical and Symbolical Now if they were Typical why are they not abolished If they were Symbolical according to our Bishops else why are they retained in the Gospel-Church and yet Typical according to Polanus and as it is evident then t is needful that they study another distinction then that of Typical and Symbolical Ceremonies saying that Typical Ceremonies are all abolished but Symbolical Ceremonies may be retained in the Gospel-Church In conclusion I desire to be resolved what is the Mystical signification of a Mitre in a Christian Bishop Not Dominion I 1 Pet. 5. 3. hope over God's heritage O! Leave that to the Antichristian Bishop of Rome who is taught of his Father the John 8. 44. Devil to usurp power over God's Inheritance and to Lord it as much as he can over Consciences yea over Crowns too but surely it was not so from the beginning that the Crown should be subject to the Mitre Now The High Priest's Mitre was as I have shewed above a Type of Christ's Regal Authority and Kingly Office This is my second answer to that distinction of Typical and Symbolical Ceremonies more I might say but I forbear Only give me leave to add That a Ceremonial Worship is abolished not only Christi CORPORE but even Christi ORE not only by the Body but even by the Doctrine of Christ and his Personal teaching in the dayes of his flesh The hour cometh said he to the woman of Samaria and now is when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth John 4. 23. By worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth we are to understand a Now and Evangelical manner of Worship Here then is principally intimated Not 1. The Indispensable Need of the Concurrence of God's Spirit with a soul in Divine Worship Nor 2. Sincerity or the Absolute necessity of joyning the Inner with the Outward Man the Soul with the Body in Divine Worship for did not the Religious and Devout Jewes yea and for ought I know many Samaritans worship God thus viz. by the special assistance of God's Spirit and by a sincere joyning of the Soul with the Body in his Worship before it were an uncharitable part for me or others to think otherwise Now Christ doth here mean some New manner of Worship by worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth Woman saith he believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father v. 21. But c. v. 23. That then which is chiefly intended here is 3. The Utter Abrogation of the Old Carnal and Ceremonial Worship as a thing meerly Typical worshipping in Spirit being opposed thereunto as Carnal worshipping in truth being opposed thereunto as Typical and the substitution of a New and Evangelical Worship free from Jewish Ceremonies It is probable that the Ceremonians will say Though we make use of Ceremonies in Divine Worship yet ours is not a Ceremonial worship for we place not worship in the Ceremonies Answ 1. Holiness is placed in the Ceremonies Ergo Worship * lib. 5 s 69. Hooker in his Ecclesiastical Policy saith expresly that some dayes ought to be with men more holy then others Contrary to * de Fest Christ cap. 2. Hospinian who affirmeth that one day is not holier then another in it self else saith he the Heathens are not to be blamed who attributing events to inevitable fate distinguish of lucky and unlucky dayes But what shall I say Are not mens adulterate practises shrewd symptomes thereof as Their Incurvations and cringings before an Altar of stone a nice and superstitious regard to a table of wood which they enclose as if it were a second Holy of Holies their devout respect to a material structure and fabrick which yet possibly in the dayes of old was a Receptacle of Idolatry yea and devoted thereunto their declared singularity not to say sanctity of Vestments Procul O procul este prophani and such like Are not these I say shrewd symptomes of the truth of what I say But 2. Ceremonies are pursued as things necessary to Divine Worship Ergo c. Possibly they will not say that Ceremonies are Essential parts of the Worship of God though as I shall presently shew some have even gone this length yet I appeal to themselves whether they ground not a Necessity yea an indispensable one at least on the Mystical significancy or pretended teaching vertue They are resolved to teach if not Ore yet more Ah! dumb Teachers or pleaded order and decency of Ceremonies though it were an easie matter to disprove as the necessity so the expediency yea the pretended lawfulness and indifferency of them Now Quaecunque observatio quaesi necessaria commendatur continuo censetur ad cultum Dei pertinere saith * De vera Eccles resorm p. 367. Calvin Nay 3. * Dr. Burgess of the Lawfulness of kneeling c. cap. 3. See D. Burgess cap. 15. p 41 42. A great Formalist saith That