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A32780	The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing C377; ESTC R1330	19,289	31

he should whoever they were and hereupon were moved to Obedience Or it may be there was thus much more in it they did Oblige themselves under a Curse to this Obedience as every one that appeals to God Almighty as witness and Judge in a Case doth saying in a manner God do thus and thus to me if I perform not And yet all the while this is not any uncharitable Cursing of our selves but a most charitable obliging our selves in the highest manner we can to our bounden duty by the Belief and dread of that Curse which otherwise we look for As we find it exprest in that solemn Covenant with God which Nehemiah Caused the Jews to Seal unto They enter'd into a Curse and into an Oath to walk in Gods Law ch 10.29 And thus now I have given you an account of the Pattern before us the Divine institution and appointment among the Jews and their practise according to it It remains only that I shew you next as briefly as I can how far we also may be still concern'd in it And First See Dr. Comber on this Office Compan to Temple part 4. p. 551. c. in the General should we grant it to have been wholly and purely Ceremonial a possitive and peculiar Ordinance of God for his People the Jews only yet thus certainly it becomes us all both to think and speak with all Modesty and Reverence of it as such God himself having Commanded that the Curses of his Law should be thus orderly and distinctly denounced by the Levites and that all the People at the hearing of them should as distinctly and audibly answer and say Amen We must not therefore presume to Condemn this either for a foolish or a wicked appointment We must take heed how we Blaspheme and affront God Almighty by the little Cavils and Exceptions of our prejudiced and forestall'd apprehensions To this height of impiety doth the zealous hatred of some against the Liturgie bring them What otherwise they pretend to Reverence in their Bibles they most ignorantly reproach and dispute against in the Common-prayer-book But then Secondly though there were confessedly some particular Circumstances in this Case that belonged to the Jews only such as the division of their Tribes after that manner upon the two opposite Mountains and the like yet the Substance of the thing it self is manifestly such as carries a great deal of natural Equity and useful morality in it and is the rather to be imitated by us because God hath gone before in prescribing of it to this very purpose of engaging and promoting Obedience among his antient People Obedience being unto us as well as unto them the way to Blessing and Disobedience to us as well as unto them the way to a Curse As for the Laws of eternal Equity and Righteousness our Blessed Saviour came not to destroy or put an end to them but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more fully to Preach and more effectually to press them upon the World And as to matters of Order and decencie among the People though of particular and positive institution we may observe a frequent imitation in the Christian Church under the New Testament without any challenge for so doing We Rehearse their Deealogue as the Rule of our Lives The very Petitions of the Lords Prayer had been used in their devotions The materials of both Sacraments the water of Baptism the Loaf and Cup in the Lords Supper took their rise from them Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Government of the Church are by the Fathers resembled to their High-Priests Priests and Levites * Vt sciamus traditiones Apostolicas sumptas de veteri Testamento Quod Aaron su●j ejus atque Levitae in Templo fuerunt hoc sibi Episcopi Presbyteri Diaconi vendicant in Ecclesiâ St. Hiron ad Evagr. And the very manner and order of worshipping God in their Synagogues for Reading the Holy Scriptures and Prayers as the Learned † Totum Regimen Ecclesiarum Christi conformatum fuit ad synagogarum exemplar Grot. in Act. 11 know hath been readily Copied out in the Churches of Christ No wonder therefore that our Reformed Church was easily induced to an imitation of this most useful Discipline likewise which hath Gods Honour and our Good the great ends of all our Lives stamped as it were in Legible Characters upon the forehead of it It tends apparently to the Honour of God and his Laws thus to have the Equity Truth and Righteousness of them made known proclaimed and acknowledged And it tends as apparently to promote Righteousness and Vertue in us thus distinctly to own and profess our firm belief that all the Laws of God are Righteous and Good and that the Sanctions of them are all just and equal and we left inexcusable upon the Transgression of them It is therefore a very fitting means and help you see both to Glorifie God and to promote our own good and happiness to bring us to Repentance for what is past and to keep us in Obedience for the time to come Nor hath this Transaction any thing in it that is repugnant or unsuitable to the Times of the Gospel more than of the Law to the Christian worship any more than to the Jewish Christ it is true hath taken away the Curse of the Law Gal. 3.13 being made a Curse for us as the Apostle hath it There is no dispute of that And so it was then too in Type and figure shadowed forth and adumbrated in their Sacrifices Revel 13.8 He being the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World and the substance of all those shadows But this is only still with respect unto True Penitents that is those who sincerely Repent of their former Disobedience and as sincerely resolve and endeavour to reform and amend for the future As to all others who bid God defiance and sin elatâ mann with an hand lift up against Heaven as it were daring the Almighty to punish them the Curse of the Law holds still in force and all the Acts of wilful sin and Disobedience are no less now than before under the Sentence of Gods Curse And we ought every one to believe and Confess this till by the sight of our Cursed wretched and miserable Estate by reason of Sin we are brought unto Repentance and Reformation and so qualified for the Pardon and Blessing of the Gospel of Grace through Jesus Christ Then we are assured that there shall be no Condemnation to us Rom. 8.1 who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit but we shall most certainly be deliver'd from the Execution of all those Threatnings not because there is no truth and certainty in them but in regard that our Redeemer by his merit and satisfaction hath purchased for us a Release and immunity from them We are yet to declare a stedfast beliefe of the Truth and certainty of these Curses thereby to own what our sins