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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28234	A little treatise concerning things indifferent in relation unto worship directed to the King and his council and all others who are concerned (or do think themselves so to be) in matters of religion : for them to weigh well, mind, and consider (if they please) ere any determination be had in things of that nature / by one that loves the truth and peace, George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2997; ESTC R23090	17,476	24

Word preached did not profit them not being mixed with Faith in them that heard it And without Faith it is impossible to please God This is my wel-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him saith the Lord of his Son in whom he is well pleased in the measure of him and no other And therefore hath he given a measure of him a measure of the Spirit of him to every one to profit withal that every one in it might know how to do his Will so that he need not ask Who shall ascend into the Heaven c. Or who shall descend into the Deep to bring Christ down or up again as a thing without them Nor depend upon another to know the Will of God but as every man must be saved for himself or damned and as the Lord will require an Account of every man and as every man must give an Account to the Lord for himself not for another nor another for him as to the deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil So hath he put a measure of himself into every man that every man might have in him something of the Lord to Direct him and Guide him and lead him into that which he should do by which he might know what he is to do and how to worship God so as it may be acceptable in his sight For that which pleaseth God stands not in the will of man though it is fit there should be in the Creature a ready mind If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that a man hath not 2 Cor. 8. 11. And thy People shall be willing in the day of thy Power in the beauties of Holiness from the Womb of the Morning thou hast the dew of thy Youth Psal 110. 3. My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Psal 57. 7. because of its Relation unto God and its Dependency on him to be ready when he moves whose Spirit is as the Wind which bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but knowest not from whence it comes nor whither it goes So is every one saith the Son of God that is born of the Spirit Joh. 3. 8. I say that which pleaseth God in which he will be worshipped standeth not in the Will of man though it 's fit the Creature should be willing and ready when the Lord moves and in the Day of his Power it will be so as aforesaid as that which answers to God is hearkened to and obeyed by which his Power comes to be made known which makes his People willing but in the measure of him in every one which as I have said he hath placed in every one that every one may know how and in what to worship him which every one is to know and in which every one is to believe and to wait to know what is the Will and Counsel of God and how and when and after what manner and in what he will be worshipped that so it may be acceptable in his sight Let the Words of my mouth and the Meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Psal 19. 14. prayed the holy man of God For all other Services or things done from this measure of him in the will of man Or of the spirit that is in him that lusteth unto Envy and knows not God is as Swines flesh He that killeth an Ox saith the Lord by the Prophet is as if he slew a Man He that sacrificeth a Lamb as if he cut off a Dogs neck He that offereth an Oblation as if he offered Swines blood He that burneth Incense as if he blessed an Idol Isa 66. 3. and such must come to an account for their Services and Worships as for their Transgressions and Sins and this will be hard when in that Day a man shall find that that which he thought pleased God and he therefore did it as thinking it might please God being deceived by the Enemy to offer that and from that which is not God's from the measure of him which he requires and only accepts is Iniquity For then what is left a man in which he can hope If his Righteousness if his Worships if his Services as he thinks to God be as menstrous rags be iniquity and the Lord is weary to bear them as hath been said and it is a trouble to him and his Soul abhors them and he cannot away with it and it is an Abomination in his sight What then is left a Man wherein to hope Or wherein is it that he can say I am accepted of God seeing that in him alone in the measure of him that which comes from the measure of him Christ Jesus it is that the Lord is well-pleased and that which is done out of him out of the measure of him can have no hope in Christ Nothing that is truly so but all such hope will fail a man and that which is done out of the measure of him is not in him and that which is in him is as he is for as he is so are we in this world 1 Joh. 4. 17. and he that doth righteousness is righteous as he is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. And if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a New-creature Old things are passed away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 17. And this will be found so in the Day wherein the Lord will judge the Secrets of all men by the Man Christ Jesus Therefore it concerneth every one to come to and to heed and to know the measure of God in him whereby to know in what and when and how to worship him and to do that which is acceptable in his sight For God is a Spirit as I have said and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth and that which is Letter is not Spirit and therefore the manifestation of the Spirit which is given to every man to profit withal which is that which reproves that which makes manifest must of necessity be come unto heeded and believed in ere there can be a worshipping in spirit or that the Worship which is in spirit which the Father seeketh such to worship him who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth can be known For nothing is known out of its Principle and the Measure of God is the Principle of the things of God in which only God is known and the things that are of him which Principle is as aforesaid which must be come unto believed in and obeyed viz. that which reproves that which makes manifest ere that the Worship of God that which is truly so can be known or the way how to worship him who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth So hither all must come to this Principle to that which is of God in them and from

hence they must offer who offer unto God and are accepted in his sight Something that is his own from his own of his own the measure of him which is not born of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God As David did in the figure when he and his Princes offered unto the Temple the figure of him who was to come Christ Jesus by whom all our Sacrifices are to be offered who is come the second time without sin unto salvation of thine own saith he have we given thee For we are strangers before thee and sojourners as were all our Fathers see how low he was when he came to offer to the Figure to that which perished the Temple and the things thereof against the time it should be builded which was to be after his dayes For he was not to build it though it was in his heart because he had made great wars and had shed much bloud but Solomon was to build it for in his dayes peace and quietness the Lord said he would give Israel and that he should be a man of Rest and that he would give him rest from all his enemies round about He shall build an house for mine Name and he shall be my son and I will be his Father and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever said the Lord 1 Chron. 22. 7 8 9 10. See the difference between the man of Blood and the man of Peace and the offering that comes from each and what it signifies and who it is that is to build the Temple of the Lord and which the Lord accepts and in whom he is well pleased it is Solomon the man of rest Our dayes on the earth are as a shadow and there is none abiding O Lord our God all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy Name cometh of thine hand and it is all thine own 1 Chron. 29. 14 15 16. and this the Lord accepted And it must be of his own that now must be given him else he accepts it not and his own is that which is of him of the measure of him as aforesaid And therefore a necessity there is for all men hither to come ere that they can come to serve or worship him acceptably with reverence and godly fear who is a consuming fire and will be had in reverence by all that are about him Heb. 12. 29. Psal 89. 7. Or that he will be worshipped of them Therefore hath he moved me and it hath lain upon me from the Lord to write these things unto you that you may not be mistaken as to your Worships or think ye be doing that which is well-pleasing to him when he accepts it not For he is a God of purer eyes than to behold evil and no iniquity can come near his dwelling nor can he look on iniquity and he beholdeth the proud afar off and he scattereth the proud in the imaginations of their hearts how then can they come near him For nothing can come near him but what is like him and as he is as aforesaid This is my well-beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased hear him saith the Lord. So to the Son every one must come to the measure of him in every one that which reproves that which makes manifest that they may know the Lord and his Power and his Arm and his working the mighty power of his working who is able to subdue all things unto himself and to bring down the mighty from their seats and to exalt the humble and meek For Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones Isa 57. 15. For all these things hath mine hand made Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Foot-stool where is the House that ye build unto me and where is the place of my Rest and all these things have been saith the Lord But to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and that trembleth at my word Isa 66. 2. And thus it concerns every man to mind for as much as he stands in a state of dependency upon God and hath need of him and his Mercy to save and preserve him to all Eternity for as much as there is something in him which is eternal that can never be destroyed with which if it should be ill with for ever it will be sad and this the Lord knowes and in what state man is and what need he hath of him and therefore hath he placed something of himself in man to shew him how it is with him and his state and the way to God who is lost in the fall and how he may please him and do that which is acceptable in his sight that so it may be well with him for ever For otherwise what is a man profited saith Christ if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give see how high it goes in exchange for his soul Mat. 16. 26. And now is the hour of your visitation whilst ye are here and whilst the Lord strives with you the measure of him in every one of you which calls upon you to heed this and tells you this is so and ye believe this is Truth but yet are not guided by that which tells you it is so and which ye believe though ye believe it and know it is so and that it is good for you to heed it thereby to be led out of the evil and to be delivered from all evil and so redeemed unto God for the Redemption is from evil and the deliverance which holds the mind in captivity and estrangeth it from God so that it knows him not who gives it life and breath and moving and the displeasure of God is against the Creature because his mind is alienated from God by wicked works And therefore that his creature may be saved and delivered from the wrath to come from that on which his wrath is revealed and will be revealed the Lord Jesus will in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in them that believe 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9 10. I say that his creature may be saved and delivered from the wrath to come hath he put something of himself in him that he may know whither to go to be delivered And because no man may say in his heart who shall ascend for me into Heaven that is to bring Christ down