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truth_n	body_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,550	5	9.5500	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31115	[Antiteichisma], or, A counter-scarfe prepared anno 1642 for the eviction of those zealots that in their workes defie all externall bowing at the name of Jesus, or, The exaltation of his person and name by God and us in ten tracts against Jewes, Turkes, pagans, heretickes, schismatickes, &c. that oppose both or either by Tho. Barton ... ; wherein is added A tryall thereof.	Barton, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1682 or 3.	1643 (1643)	Wing B996; ESTC R21325	100,426	115

proper there Isidore saith there is affinity betweene the Knees and the Eyes Because men dum ad genua se prosternunt statim lacrymantur when they are on or doe bend themselves toward their Knees be aptest to weepe If teares be so acceptable to God that he as the Psalmist desireth will bottle them up can the posture be displeasing which helps them forward I doe not make this the Apostles argument but this sheweth that bowing being of outward gestures the humblest is also the heartiest For it is a quick sense at the heart that causeth teares to distill at the eyes An outward humble and hearty motion that is required Holy Kings have performed it in the worship of God as David Psal 95.6 Solomon 1 King 8.54 Ezechias 2 Chron. 29.30 So did the Prophets as Daniel Dan. 6.10 Esras Esr 9.5 Micah Mic. 6.6 The Wisemen did so Matth. 2.11 To us our Saviour is the president Luke 22.41 and the Apostles ever kept it in practise as S. Stephen Acts 7.60 S. Peter Acts 9.4 S. Paul Ephes 3.14 So did the whole Church Acts 20.36 21.5 But that was in prayer True then we bow lowest when we name Jesus unto God But is the act lawfull then and may it not be lawfull when God in his word or by his Ministers names Jesus unto us Is not prayer an humble acknowledgement of our unworthinesse and Gods superiority Is bowing at the Name of Jesus any lesse or any more Yea no man sues unto God and not in or at his Name If we be not prepared to carry it before us our petitions will be preferred in vaine For God heares us not except we come in that Name nor can we see how to honour him but through it In or at or through it as was before expressed we may Bow the Knee the devout will at prayer and at the Sacrament of the Lords body and bloud It is well and wished that all would examples I know are store in the old and new Testament for the one but none for the other Nor can any produce a more evident precept for either then this that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow For we beginning prayer in his Name conclude with it and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is the most lively expression of Jesus to our soules So is the one and the other so Why then is not the naming or mentioning of Jesus sufficient reason of geniculation The person signified to us and by us minded is the same and we are sure the text is plaine for this whilst we inferre the other That in the Primitive times this bowing was in use Eusebius tels where he recordeth a ● egion of Christians on their bare Knees unto Jesus at the fight of Marcus Aurelius against the Germans and Sarmatians about the yeare of our Lord 178. Tertullian saith that at Philip. 2.10 genu plane fatetur the Knee doth openly confesse securvande by bowing it selfe Flectere-genu to bow the Knee declares not a carnall subjection onely but a spirituall obedience also to the worship of God so Origen and in the forecited places he takes it literally So doth Saint Cyprian and Novatianus so It was the accustomed manner in Eusebius time Athanasius speakes for the time past and to come Omne genu flectebatur in posterum fl● ctetur every Knee did doth and shall bow Saint Ambrose meant it corporally Ruffinus likewise and Saint Hierome Saint Ch● ys● st● me Saint Augustine and Saint Bernard in the former quotations The Councell of Nice mentions genuflections in use The Fathers at the Councell of Ephesus read this verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and give all adoration outward and inward unto Jesus At the Councell of Basil it was in practise still Alphonsus Abulensis Osiander Gorran Musculus Calvin Zanchius Aretius Polanus c. conclude the literall sense and like that this duty should be thus payed The Church of England ever since the first reformation observed it thus in the speciall time of Divine Service For at the generall confession of our sinnes acknowledging Jesus to be Lord we kneele When the Apostles Creed is rehearsed we bow the knee head and all When the second Lesson is read if we sit yet we bow at the Name and at the Gospel we bow standing Sitting or standing when the word is read or preached we bow at the Name of Jesus This precept then is now observed but the full observance is not extant now nor ever will be in this world For God raigneth now by the Gospel and his Majesty is no otherwise honoured right then whiles the same being knowne by his word is reverenced saith Master Calvin Grace doth owe her knees and her knees are not in but governed by the heart With heart and knee bowing at the Name we both testifie that he is Lord who died to save sinners and retribute glory for the inestimable benefit For the meaning of the Holy Ghost is simply to affirme saith he that all men should not onely acknowledge Christs power with the heart but by externall gesture of the body which he noteth by the bowing of the knee shew forth the yeelding of obedience also But the word of God hath alwayes enemies that frowardly resist and contemners that prophanely scoffe at it as trifling or fabulous At this day are many such God amend them and give his children patience till all things be renewed Such there are and ever will be scorners Whereby it appeareth that this bowing is indeed begun in this life not perfected When all the enemies of Christ shall be thrown downe that they may be the footstoole of his feete then at the Name of Jesus shall every knee bow ad plenum of those in Heaven in earth and under the earth The Patricians that deny the substance of humane flesh to be of God the Paternians that give the inferiour parts of mans body as peculiar to the service of the Devill the nefarious Postellus of Sorbon that said his Harlot and not Christ redeemed us from the navill downeward all Hereticks also that worship in spirit not in truth all Hypocrites that worship neither in spirit nor in truth but in shew and all luke-warme Christians who have some affection yet because many will breake leaving the Church and God too rather then bend doe keepe the knee for their own use or bring it into Gods service as if they were ashamed it should be knowne there are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the whole of man according to every part is Gods and the outward worship proceeding from the inward the knee at times to expresse the obedience of the heart doth he challenge of every one All Neuters or indifferent soules Halcesaits I may call them that hold it equall to bow or not to bow all Jewes Turks and Pagans that yeeld no obedience unto Jesus all Agnoclyts Ethicoproscopts Puritans Anabaptists Brownists or other perturbers of the Church

persons in the unity of the essence But hereby is manifested that the person vilified in this Name was the Sonne of God and Man and is now in the same Name to be adored by all as God and Man which cannot be said of the Father or of the Holy Ghost Of the Sonne alone because he onely was incarnate and yet as I have ever taught to the glory of the most transcendent Trinity It is apparent now that we cautelously observing the idiotisme vary not from the sense of the phrase At the Name we rest not vainely in the sound but are carried to the substance of the name or object of our faith the person of Jesus Christ Not to the humane nature Seorsum per se severally and by it selfe For so doing we divide the person overthrow the communication of proprieties and the due unto the Creator we render to the creature which is Idolatry Yea if in our worship we can consider the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost three subsistences and one substance yet all this availes not unlesse we take with us our Mediatour If we mind not a true Man-hood gloriously united to the God-head without change of either nature without mixture of both whose presence whose merits must give passage vigour and acceptance our prayers ascend in vaine At this worke thoughts should be holily mixed of a God-head and humanity two natures in one person and of the same Deity in divers persons and one nature Bestirre our selves we ought so to distinguish these apprehensions that none be neglected so to conjoyne them that they be not confounded We sin if fixing the heart on one we exclude the other retaining all and mentioning one we offend not Who rest their thoughts upon the humanity must still adore the Deity and thence climbe up unto the holy consideration of the blessed Trinity For in Jesus onely is that Mystery revealed to us and through him onely is our worship directed to the sacred Trinity in Unity Following this short weake counsell study and pray that you may apprehend right and worship well Be thus minded and bowing at the name you shall not be superstitious Bow and honour Jesus heartily for the more we honour him the more we honour the whole Trinity If you cannot beleeve me yet let not the Apostle misse your faith It is Gods command he saith and therefore our duty Minding the one we shall not forget to pay the other Endevour we to pay it sincerely and the God of Heaven direct us enable us that when we worship him we may neither prove sacrilegious nor idolatrous The Jewes Infidels and Philosophers that abjure scorne and deride the Name of Jesus the Schismatickes whether Catharists Anabaptists Brownists Separatists or whatsoever called that neglect and contemne all manner of outward reverence at this Name the Papists that superstitiously use it and the Prophane that in their debauchednesse most impiously blaspheme it are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there the Holy Ghost will have the Name super-exalted by God by us also super-exalted with respect and honour The Arrians and other Heretiques that hold Christ a meere man onely or a God in Name not indeed the Cerinthians and Colarbasians that make Jesus one and Christ another the Nestorians that determine two persons in Christ one of the divinity and another of the humanity the Timotheans that thinke him one person of two natures mixed and confounded and the Romanists that constitute the Pope as another head beside Christ of the Church are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the honor at the Name is to Immanuel in one person perfect God and perfect Man God hath so made him head of all above and below that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow This and all we maintaine from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and still the argument is the union and our Salvation True Christians we seeing that God hath exalted the person and the Name and knowing why are bound in conscience for the same reason to exalt the Name and Person Not according to our owne humours but in Analogy of that Truth which is set forth for us to beleeve and doe We seeke no by-wayes to avoyd the duty nor lead we others from it A plaine Text paralleled by others literally must we understand properly as the other are The truth expressed in the Letter cannot be mistaken but by a figurative construction the Letter may be forced to a wrong sense The sense of the former verse which is the ground of this being literall makes this literall also We have proved it ever so conceived in the Church and will not alter it now Nay dare not because we are sure that by the third commandement and the first petition Gods Name whether spoken read heard or written must have reverent usage And if it must may we deny that manner which himselfe hath expressely prescribed The anathema sounds still in our eares Cursed be he that taketh from or addeth to If God then will have outward worship exhibited at the Name in the Name of God let him have it If he will be so honoured that is reason enough why he should But he hath given reasons store if we will not doe it now we are now in contempt and without repentance shall be without excuse hereafter Nor may we thinke to leave the duty undone because some count it superstition Indeed at the Name and no more were vaine But at the Name to bow unto our Saviour is one way we worship him and we have no other way to come at him save by his Name He is gone his Name is left that by his Name we may minde him and through him adore the blessed Trinity At the Name therefore let the heart ascend unto the person and outward obeysance expresse our faith in and high esteeme of whole Christ As true God and true man for as God and man he is exalted in person and Name that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow Tract V. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Every Knee should bow GOD who made the whole creature lookes after all he made The soule principally because it principally resembles him and the body next because in that Organ he will have the soule glorifie him 1 Cor. 6.20 The Fathers therefore according to the Scriptures carefully set forth a two-fold worship of God Internall the one externall the other Both congruous to the word and from a heart purified by faith proceed both Both spirituall because both are motions of our spirit renewed by the Holy Ghost For such worshippers will God have as shall serve him in spirit and truth John 4. vers 23. Such as in spirit practically mortifie the workes of the flesh and in truth contemplatively maintaine sound doctrine is one of Theophylacts expositions Such as moved by his Spirit doe all things sincerely in faith according to his will and unto his glory is Polanus full interpretation Such as