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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

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

Ceremonies may be called Worship of God not only ratione modi but even ratione medii not only as additional things belonging to the reverend use of God's prescribed Worship but also as a mean though not by vertue of any thing in it self but by vertue of somwhat else If so with what face can they blame Papists who place worship indeed in their Cross Crucifix but not by vertue of any thing in it self but in respect of Christ crucified whom say they it represents Once more 4. A thing pertains to the Worship of God say the * Ad cultum Dei pertinet aliquid dupliciter uno modo cum cum aliquid Deo offertur alio modo cum aliquid Divinum assumitur Aquin. 2. 2. Quaest 95. Art 2. Schoolmen two manner of ways viz. vel quoad oblationem vel quoad assumptionem either when we offer to God any thing in point of Worship or when we add and receive any thing into his Worship Hence they are guilty of a superstitious and Ceremonial Worship not only who offer to God for Worship but also who assume in God's worship as sacred what God himself hath not ordained Such are Jewish-Popish Ceremonies Ergo c. Thus I have pursued at large the Vse of Reprehension having respect to my Text O that the Lord would second it with the powerful convictions of his Spirit Vse 3 Here is matter of Consolation Beloved Here is a Summary of Evangelical Comfort here is the choicest thing that is displayed in Gospel What A Redeemer for undone Mankinde A Saviour for sinners And that one of their own flesh and blood too viz. The Son of God made of a woman Here is Semen Mulicris the * Seed of the Woman which was five thousand Gen. 3. 15. yeers ago promised and preached by God Himself the first Evangelist and Preacher of Christ and Gospel I will put enmity said he between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed and IT shall bruise thy head c. This was the first Gospel that ever was preached The second Evangelist was an Angel who made a comfortable Sermon upon the same Text Fear not said he to the Shepherds for behold I bring you good tydings of great joy for unto you is born this day in the City of David a SAVIOVR c. Luke 2. 10 11. This Angelical was a truly Evangelical Sermon It is well worthy of our observation that an Angel was imployed in the first publication of the Nativity of our Lord and Gospel-comfort redounding from thence to sinful undone Man But I would not I must not be too prolix here The comfort that doth accrue to poor broken captive sinners from God-Incarnate may appear from an inspection into the capital benefits mentioned v. 5. viz. 1. Redemption 2. Adoption God's great designe in assuming to himself our Nature was saith our Apostle That he might 1. Redeem them that were under the Law 2. That we might receive the Adoption of Sons These be priviledges of the first magnitude and they are gradual In the one we are exempted from a Servile In the other we are dignified with a Filial condition By the one we cease to be Slaves by the other we become Sons I shall through mercy speak to both but to the latter more briefly for displaying to the Saints Gospel-comfort which divides it self here as it were into two streams or channels Of Christian Liberty 1. The first is Redemption This is a Believers Christian Liberty that great Evangelical Priviledge wherein he is freed from his Native Bondage and Captivity intimated while he is said to be under the Law Now Christian Liberty considered in its full Extent and Latitude hath in it these eight steps 1. The first is Exemption from the Curse and Condemning power of the Moral Law There is a twofold Power in the Law viz. 1. Mandatory 2. Damnatory A Commanding and a Condemning Power And accordingly the Legal Obligation is two-fold viz. 1. Active 2. Penal That is an Obligation to Duty This is an Obligation to a Penalty 1. The Mandatory and Directive Power of the Law is ever in force for the Law is a standing and Irreversible Rule of Life and Obedience But 2. The Damnatory and Maledictive Power of the Law by vertue whereof sinful Delinquents are bound over to death to a curse and condigne punishment on the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die said God to Adam concerning the Probational Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil Gen. 2. 17. is fully answered and disanull'd for Believers by Christ for he hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed the Saints from the curse though not from the command of the Law And in this sense it is said that the Law is not made for a righteous person 1 Tim. 1. 9. which therefore we must not understand in the Antinomians and loose Libertines sense as if the Law were not at all Obligatory to a righteous person binding him to holiness and obedience O no! The Law is ever recti-dica but never male-dica to Believers In a word Believers are by Christ exempted from the Penal curse malediction and condemnatory sentence of the Law So that Though temporal death is inevitably common both to the Redeemed and to Reprobates for it is by an old infallible Statute appointed unto all men once to die Heb. 9. 27. yet the Redeemed of the Lord are not lyable to death nor indeed to any affliction whatsoever by vertue of any maledictive influence of the Law upon them Mors illis nec abest nec obest though death is inevitable yet it is not hurtful Death is necessary in the Saints not by way of satisfaction to injured Justice for Christ hath performed that and Justice were not Justice if it should require sarisfaction twice but as I may say by way of Introduction into Glory they are by a blessed exchange possessed of Eternal Life with the loss of a Natural life Death is not a Penal or Judicial thing in the Saints for Inane est delirium illud Papisticum de exemptione a poeno aeterna sed non a poena temporali the curse and sting is taken away The same may be said of all the Saints afflictions they are not properly penal but rather probational or castigatory chastisements rather then punishments they are crosses not curses Medicinal not Maledictory Physick not poyson for instruction not for destruction O! What comfort is that There is not now mors in olla the deadly pottage are healed though I die yet I shall not be damned c. 2. The second is exemption from the Rigour of the Law and its Exaction of Inherent Righteousness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Law in its strictness and first constitution did require of us perfect and personal Obedience and that upon pain of death according to its Active condition Do this and live Now