feare him and his righteousnesse unto childrens children To such as keepe his Covenant and to those that remember his Commandements to doe them Iesus the sonne of Syrach saith They that f Ecclus. 2.15.16 17. feare the Lord will not disobey his Word and they that love him will keepe his wayes They that feare the Lord will seeke that which is well pleasing unto him and they that love him shall bee filled with the Law They that feare the Lord will prepare their hearts and humble their soules in his sight They g Isa 66.5 tremble at Gods Word they dread to transgresse h Iam. 2.10 any part of it David saith Serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with i Ps 2.11 trembling Paul saith to the Romanes Bee not high minded but k Rom. 11.20 21. feare For if God spared not the naturall branches take heed lest hee also spare not thee To the Philippians he saith Work out your owne salvation with l Phil. 2.12 The third Duty To love God feare and trembling The third is To love God with all our heart with all our minde with all our soule and with all our strength To love God is to love that which God is as namely heavenly m 1 Iohn 1.5 light n 1 Iohn 4.7.8.16 charity o Pro. 8.12 14. Wisd 7.25 26. with Heb. 1.3 wisdome for God is in Scripture said to be Light Charity Wisedome Hence Christ saith Yee are my p Ioh. 15.14 friends or lovers if yee doe whatsoever I command you This is the q 2 Ioh. 5.3 love of God saith Iohn that wee keepe his Commandements and his Commandements are not grievous Againe he saith This is r 2 Ich. 6. love that wee walke after his Commandements Wherefore Christ saith If yee s Ioh. 14.15.21 23.24 love me keepe my commandements He that hath my commandements and keepeth them he it is that loveth mee If a man love me he will keepe my words He that is of God t Ioh. 8.47 heareth Gods words The entrance of Gods words giveth u Ps 119.130 light God is a w Ioh. 4.24 spirit of light a spirit of love and a spirit of eternall wisdome They therefore that love this Holy Spirit blessed for ever cannot but love his nature and propertie They delight to have heavenly x Ps 43.3 light come more and more into their understanding they delight to y Eph. 5.2 1 Cor. 16.14 walke in love They unfainedly desire to doe all things in z 1 Sam. 18.5 Prov. 13.16 Wis 7.8 Col. 1.9 godly wisdome God requireth that we a Prov. 23.26 Luke 10.27 give him our whole heart minde soule strength and that the b Iam. 4.7 1 Ioh. 5.18 ill spirit have no part nor portion of us David a man after Gods owne heart said to God With my c Ps 119.10 whole heart have I sought thee The Lord saith by Ieremiah Yee shal seeke me and find me when yee shall search for me with your d Ier. 29.13 whole heart The Lord Iesus saith If any man come to me and e Luk. 14.26 hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life also hee cannot be my Disciple To hate in this place signifieth to love lesse as it is observed to signifie so in sundry f Gen. 29.31 Deut. 21.15 Mat. 6.24 other places The holy Prophets and Apostles which for the Lords sake left not onely their earthly substance but their friends wives and children yea and their owne bodily lives they in some measure loved God as the commandement requireth So such as unfainedly strive to be more and more dead unto g Rom. 6.11 sinne to bee more and more buried with Christ in his h Rom. 6.4 Col. 2.12 1 Cor. 15.31 death to i Rom. 6.6 crucifie the old man and utterly to abolish the whole body of sinne as it is prescribed in the Baptisme-service to the end that the k 2 Cor. 4.10.11 life of Iesus may be manifest in their mortall flesh and that his kingdome of grace may l Zach. 14.9 Obad. 21. Luk. 17.21 onely and wholy be administred in their soules they in some measure love God as his Law requireth The fourth duty is to worship God Christ saith God is a spirit to be worshipped in m Ioh. 4.23.24 spirit and in truth The fourth duty To worship God Paul saith Glorifie God in your n 1 Cor. 6.20 body and in your spirit which are Gods As I live saith the Lord every knee shall o Rom. 14.11 bow to mee and every tongue shall confesse to God Of the outward worships due to God read the 68. Chapter afore There are also other bodily worshippings of God mentioned in the Holy Scriptures besides those as to p Gen. 17.3 fall downe on ones face to the earth unto the Lord c. The receiving of the Sacraments is said to bee a part of Gods worship yea and the due observation of all his other outward ordinances as r Mat. 15.9 See concerning Gods inward worship or worship in spirit in the end of T. 2. p. 75 teaching c. is worship to God also The inward worshipping of God is the doing of all such duties within the spirit as thēce are to be performed unto God immediately as to ſ Micah 6.8 humble ones selfe so as to walke with God to do our parts towards the t Iam. 4.8 purifying of our hearts to u Ioel. 2.13 Ezech. 36.31 beare sorrow for our sinnes committed to rent our hearts to do our parts towards the w Ezech. 18.31 making of a new heart and a new spirit c. The fift duty is to give thankes unto God The fift duty to thanke God And this duty is to bee done within the spirit in bearing a gratefull minde x Eph. 5.20 continually unto God for all his mercies So did the Virgin Mary when she said My soule doth y Luk. 1.46.47 magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour So did David when hee said Blesse the Lord O my soule and al that is within me blesse his Holy name z Ps 104.1.2 Blesse the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits Concerning thanking God outwardly see Chapter 44. The sixt duty To trust wholy in God The sixt duty is to put our whole trust in him We are said to trust wholy in God when wee a Ps 37.7 rest on him and b Ps 37.5 depend totally upon him with hope of receiving his promises wee faithfully doing our parts in keeping the c 2 Kings 18.4.5.6 conditions wherewith his promises are made Trust or confidence in God proceedeth partly out of knowledge of Gods Attributes or properties as it is written They that know thy d Ps 9.10 Name will put their trust in thee
in the same which doth in any wise concerne us And we thus honouring the Church our spirituall Mother God our heavenly Father will give us his blessing Hee will send us light in our understanding readinesse and obedience in our will discretion in our words and actions true serious and loyall indeavours As wee are taught to pray for in the latter part of the Prayet next after the Letany in the late Fast Booke for the peace and prosperity of Ierusalem the unity and glory of this Church State That so we may love it and prosper in it full of grace in this life and be filled with glorie in the life to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Advertisement SInce the a 2 Tim. 3.1.2.3.4 time that b Isa 5.21 Wisedome in ones owne eyes and prudence in ones owne sight hath so much abounded it is familiar with very many when they see or heare any thing delivered concerning religion if it be a matter which they affect not presently to passe an hard censure thereon though the deliverie be the very established doctrine or discipline of the Apostolicall Church of England by Law established under the Kings Majesty The c Rom. 3.13.14 Ps 140.3 poyson of aspes is under the lips of many Who say with our d Ps 14.4.3 tongue will we prevaile our lips are our owne who is Lord over us The holy Prophet saith The Lord shall cut off the tongue that speaketh proud things The holy Apostle saith e 1 Tim. 3.16 Without controversie great is the mysterie of godlinesse And though the men of God have signified that the Holy Scriptures divinity is partly f Heb. 5.12 milke for babes or little children in g 1 Cor. 1.3 Christ partly h Heb. 5.14 strong meate for the i 1 Ioh. 2.13.14 young men and partly hidden k Rev. 2.17 Manna for the fathers in God also that naturall ones l 1 Cor. 2.14 cannot know the things of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned yet notwithstanding so outragious is the pride and arrogancie of many who since they came to the yeares of discretion have made no progresse in regeneration or the new birth unto the m Rom. 2.2 renewing of their mind and the amendment of their n Philip. 1.27 1 Pet. 2.12 1 Pet. 1.15 Eph. 4.22 conversation according to Gods Holy word that rashly they o 2 Pet. 2.12 will speake evill of the things which they understand not and as the Apostle saith p 1 Tim. 1.7 desire to be teachers understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirme Moreover how contrary minded soever each is to other yea how greatly different they are from the minde and life prescribed in the Divine Service of the Church whom some of them sometimes will acknowledge to be their Mother Yet each one taketh for granted that the grounds in his q Prov. 21.2 Prov. 12.15 owne minde are the right and that the grounds in all r Philip. 2.3 others mindes in any manner differing from his are the wrong and withall every one for the most part of the aforesaid unhumbled heart by his owne imagined-right groundes without any feare of the Eternall Almighty God and without any reverence unto the Supreame divine Wisedome of Christs holy Church contained in the bookes of her publike worship will s 2 Pet 2.10 presume to be able to judge of yea will assume confidence and boldnesse or rather most damnable audaciousnesse to condemne deliveries in the aforesaid bookes which the Soveraigne Majesty hath ratified and the most reverend Fathers the Archbishops and all the right reverend fathers the Bishops and the rest of the whole Clergie not any one excepted Quod medicorâ—m est promittunt â—ediâ—â— tractant Faâ—â—ilia fabri Sola Scripturarum ars est quam siâ—i passâ—â— omnes vendicant Hanc garrula anus hanc delirus seneâ— have Sophisia verâ—â—sus haâ— universi praesumant laceraâ—â— docent antequam discant Hierâ—nymus in epissola aâ—â— Pauâ—aum presbyterum de omâ—bus divine hâ—storia libris which hath entred into holy orders according to such manner and sort as by the Ecclesiasticall Law it is appointed have allowed and by subscription have witnessed the same But let the unpartiall reader of this treatise following where doubt about any matter may arise throughly consider the Holy Scriptures which either are expressed or in the margent but quoted for the confirmation of the point mentioned And let none except here against because the deliveries are in no Philosophicall method but in the most vulgar plainnes for all hereof is written for the furtherance of the laity and aswell in termes as in forme and manner accommodated unto the meanest capacity All teachers which study to edifie their auditory doe well know that it is farre easier to expresse their mindes in divine matters so as the learned may comprehend than as the unlearned may but a litle apprehend It is written concerning Christ for our example that t Mark 4.33 hee spake the word unto the people as they were able to heare it There are now extant in English sundry bookes very profitable which few of the common people doe make use of for that their style and words for the most or a great part are for Schollers reading onely Great was the divine Wisedome of the Church in setting forth her Homilies in so familiar a manner And by those most sacred Sermons all Pastours and teachers should take u 2 Tim. 1.13 example how to frame their meditations unto their auditories easiest and speediest edification Furthermore let none expect to finde any common place of divinity here fully handled but let this worke be accounted only an introduction into the bookes of the divine Service where as in an Ocean of divine truth there may bee had a great abundance of information both touching he matters ensuing and also concerning many more This book may be used as a finger of one that pointeth us unto such places as we have not throughly taken notice of afore Also the godly reader shall perceive that every one which w Mat. 5.6 hungreth and thristeth after righteousnesse to have within him more and more the x Phil. 2.5 1 Cor. 2.16 minde of Christ and to have the life of Iesus more and more made y 2 Cor. 4.10 11. manifest in his body may forth of every Chapter following receive some light unto the apprehending of everlasting truth in the matter there treated on Lastly Seeing that in the bookes of divine Service there are such heavenly sentences and speeches even as the learned are delighted in reciting the sayings of the Fathers of the Greeke Latine Churches so should wee unto z Exod. 20.12 1 Cor. 4.15 Ecclus. or Ecclesiasticus 8.8.9 due honouring of the Fathers of our owne English Church enable our selves to say on every point of divinity that which they have with one
he is a Papist he is an Heretike O how the Church is divided O how the Cities bee cut and mangled O how the Coat of Christ that was without seame is all to rent and torne O body mysticall of Christ where is that holy and happy Vnity e Iohn 15.5.6 Eph. 2.12 out of the which whosoever is hee is not in Christ * Marke well this sacred delivery concerning the Absolute necessity of being in Christian Vnity or of unfeined striving thereunto If one member be pulled from another where is the body If the body be drawne from the head where is the life of the body Wee cannot bee joyned to Christ our head except we be glued with concord and charite one towards another For he that is not of this Vnity is not of the Church of Christ which is a Congregation or Vnity together and not a division Saint Paul saith That as long as emulation or envying contention and Factions or Sects be among us we be f 1 Cor. 3.3 carnall and walke according to the fleshly man And Saint Iames saith g Iam. 3.14.15.16 If ye have bitter emulation or envying and contention in your hearts glory not of it for where as contention is there is unstedfastnesse and all evill deeds And why do we not heare Saint Paul which prayeth us whereas he might command us saying I beseech you in the name of our Lord Christ Iesus that you will speake all h 1 Cor. 1.10 one thing and that there be no dissention among you but that you will bee one whole body of one minde and of one opinion in the truth The same Apostle also saith i Eph. 4.1.2.3.4.5.6 I exhort you that you walke as it becommeth the vocation in which you be called with all submission and meekenesse with lenity and softnesse of minde bearing one another by charity studying to keepe the Vnity of the spirit by the bond of peace For there is one body one spirit one faith one baptisme There is saith he but one body of the which he can bee no lively member that is at variance with the other members There is one spirit k Eph. 2.22 1 Cor. 12.13 which joyneth and knitteth all things in one And how can this one spirit l 1 Kings 19.11.12.13 raigne in us when wee among our selves be divided There is but one faith and how can wee then say he is of the old faith and he is of the new faith There is but one baptisme and then shall not all they which be baptised be one m Prov. 13.10 Contention causeth division wherefore it n 1 Cor. 11.16.18 Rom. 16.17 Gal 5.19.20.21 ought not to be among Christians whom one faith and baptisme ioyneth in an Vnity Againe Saint Paul saith o Phil. 2.1.2.3 If there be any consolation in Christ if there bee any comfort of love If you have any fellowship of the spirit if you have any bowels of pitty and compassion fulfill my joy being all like affected having one charity being of one minde of one opinion that nothing be done by contention or vaine glory In the * T. 2. p. 179. Homily for Good-Friday it is said Christ delighteth to enter and dwell in that soule where p Ioh. 14.23 Act. 2.1.2.3.4 love and charity ruleth and where peace and concord is seene In the second part of the * T. 2. p. 203. Homily concerning the Sacrament it is said Saint Paul writeth that we being many are q 1 Cor. 10.17 one bread and one body for all bee partakers of one bread Declaring thereby not onely our communion with Christ but that Vnitie also wherein they that eate at this table should be r Col. 2.2.19 knit together For by dissention vaine glory ambition strife envying contempt hatred or malice they should not be dissevered but so joyned by the bond of love in one mysticall body as the cornes of that bread in one loafe In the fourth part of the * T. 2. p. 235. Homily for Rogation weeke it is signified that by love and charity which is the onely livery of a Christian man and by godly peace and quiet wee bee knit together in one generall fellowship of Christs ſ Eph. 3.15 family in one common t Eph. 2.19 1 Gal. 6.10 houshold of God And because that all true members of Christs Church doe live in unity of the most holy faith and in uniformity of godly life or unfeinedly endeavor thereunto they are therefore in the first Collect for Good Friday called Gods Family and in the Collect for the fift Sunday after the Epiphany are called God Houshold David saith u Ps 122.3 as in the Divine Service translation Ierusalem is builded as a City that is at unitie in it selfe Saint Paul very lively sheweth the unity of Christs Church saying From the head Christ the whole body fitly w Eph. 4.16 joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectuall working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of it selfe in love To the Colossians he saith From the head Iesus Christ all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and x Col. 2.19 knit together increaseth w th the increase of God S. Paul to the Corinthians speaking of himselfe and other servāts of Christ saith * An holy Scripture much considerable hereto Walked we not in the y 2 Cor. 12.18 same spirit walked we not in the same steps Were wee not of one minde and of one life The Lord by Ieremiah promiseth to all people obedient to his will that he will give them z Ier. 32.39 one heart and one way that they may feare him for ever for the good of them and of their Children after them Zechariah saith And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day there shall bee one Lord and his a Zech. 14.9 name one Saint Paul saith to the Corinthians As the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are b 1 Cor. 12.12 13 14. one body so also is Christ For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether wee be Iewes or Gentiles whether we bee bond or free and have beene all made to drinke into one spirit For the body is not one member but many Saint Paul saith to the Ephesians Christ is the Saviour of his c Eph. 5.23 body of members indeavouring to keepe the unity of his spirit He will save his d Heb. 5.9 obedient e Mat. 1.21 people from their sinnes but will condemne to everlasting destruction f 2 Thes 1.8 9. such as willingly disobey the commandements of his Gospell If a man saith Christ g Iohn 15.6 abide not in mee he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into