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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63825	Forty sermons upon several occasions by the late reverend and learned Anthony Tuckney ... sometimes master of Emmanuel and St. John's Colledge (successively) and Regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, published according to his own copies his son Jonathan Tuckney ...; Sermons. Selections	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1676 (1676)	Wing T3215; ESTC R20149	571,133	598

are Gods Institutions and therefore called Ordinances as ordained by him and therefore also it was that when our Saviour had instituted them Matth. 28. 19. go and teach and baptize he addeth v. 20. that he would and that to the end of the world have all observed that he had commanded c. because he had commanded them And if the Rechabites did so adhere to Jer. 35. 6 c. their fathers commands the several Sects of Philosophers to their Masters Dictates and others to their Institutes should it not shame us Christians to sleight our Fathers Our Lord God and Saviours Institutions If he who resisteth a civil Ordinance of God receiveth damnation Rom. 13. 2. then he who sleights a spiritual and more Divine Ordinance will not go scot-free Were we not too proud in over-valuing our own fancies and conceits and too disingenuous and undutiful to sleight that which we ought most highly to reverence This only that they are the Institutions and Ordinances of our Soveraign Lord and dear Saviour might make way for their best esteem and welcome without any Letters of recommendation because his Ordinances 2. Because ordained for all for the best to be brought on and to be carried on to everlasting life by No saith the Enthusiast either only for the Non-Age of the Law in which they were to be taken heed to as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in our hearts 2 Pet. 1. 19. then they shall no more teach every one his neighbour c. Jer. 31. 34. nor need they that any man should teach them when they have an anointing which teacheth them all things c. 1 John 2. 27. Or if for any under the Gospel only for Babes and Punies who have need of milk of such festukes in their hands that live by faith which must have the hand-hold of a word or for darker times or at most as * Epist Anno 1529. Swenkfield and * Free Grace pag. 150. B●ight Star Cap. 11. 12. Saltmarsh say for the flesh the outward and old man of a Christian which is to be dealt with by Preaching and Symbols But to the inward and new man all means and ordinances are annihilated and he seeth God without means whatever faith may require yet under the Regimen of the Spirit no such need as no need of Star-light when the Sun is up as in the New Jerusalem no Temple found Rev. 21. 22. nor need of Sun or Moon to shine in it when the Glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof v. 23. This in a more full audience lately hath been discussed and determined In Comitiis 1659. and therefore needeth less now to be said to it Only if you please this 1. As to the difference between the time of the Law and the Gospel It was indeed then darker than when under the Gospel the day star was risen But I pray Remember It arose in the Ministry of the Gospel and therefore did not disannul it And although not so great need of teaching now as they then had and so in that comparative sense only the Prophet said they should not teach one another yet I hope Christ under the Gospel appointed Pastors and Teachers and them to continue teaching to the end of the world till we all come to a perfect man Matth. 28. 20. Ephes 4. 11 12. 2. Although some Gospel-Times may be more illuminate and perfect than others yet the Scripture Word and Ordinances are for the most perfect as long as we live by faith it must be by a word and the Apostle intimates to us we shall live here by faith till in heaven we do by vision 2 Cor. 5. 7. And if by the new Jerusalem be meant Heaven it 's true there will be as no Temple so no Ordinances But if a more glorious Constitution of the Church upon Earth No Temple signifieth no humane Constitutions nor legal Ceremonies no Jewish Temple which they yet expect but pure Divine Worship and Ordinances which Ezekiel according to the times he prophesied in foretold and expressed by Temple-worship Chapters 40 41 c. and Ordinances 3. And for Persons Although in Gospel-times some may attain to a greater comparative perfection than others yet when I read that the Scriptures are able to make even the Man of God perfect 2 Tim. 3. 16. I shall not aspire here to any higher perfection I hope the most sublimate and perfect here will not I am sure they should not be wise above what is written 1 Cor. 4. 6. And whatever men talk of the Regimen of the spirit the spirit of God himself hath fore-told and fore-prophesied and that of best Gospel-Times that the Word and Spirit shall go together Isa 59. 21. and although they that have received the Spirits Unction need not that any should teach them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as that anointing teacheth 1 John 2. 27. that is they by the Spirit being enlightned and established in the gospel-Gospel-Truth which they had heard from the beginning v. 24. that had been preached to them they were antidoted against the poisonous Doctrines of Anti-Christs and Seducers of which the Apostle there speaks v. 18 19 22 26. So that they needed not theirs no more than we that are by the Spirit rooted in written and preached Gospel-Truths stand in need of Enthusiasts contrary Doctrines or inspirations yet not but that they still needed further illumination and confirmation by the Gospels dispensations Else why should the Apostle in that very Epistle So Bellarmin de verbo Dei lib. 3. cap. 30. still further preach to them and instruct them And as Beza well observeth He is so far from by those words annulling either Ministry or Ministers that he could not well more highly commend them in that he shews by the assistance of the Spirit and the Blessing of God upon them their hearers were secured against all the Stratagems of Seducers which we also might be if we kept close to such Ordinances 4. Which have their operation not only on the outward and old man of a Christian but as the Apostle saith and Gods people by frequent and happy experience feel reach the Soul and Spirit Hebr. 4. 12. and build the whole man up to an everlasting inheritance Act. 20. 32. It 's well they will acknowledge an old man in them so it seems there is some flesh and they are not all spirit But however it 's by the word that we are sanctified John 17. 17. and sanctification reacheth soul and spirit as well as body 1 Thess 5. 23. This is and hath been the good old way in which the most eminent sober-hearted Christians have gone before us to heaven far exceeding our high flown sublimates in real godliness who ever acknowledged Gods Word and Ordinances not only milk for Babes but strong meat for strongest Christians and therefore should be highly prized as