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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42880	Panta dokimazete a sermon treating of the tryall of all things by the Holy Scriptures, the confest rule of faith and practice : shewing the deplorable abuse of that rule, with an attempt touching the examen of ceremonies / delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral November 8, being the xxi Sunday after Trinity, by J.G.	Goad, J. (John), 1616-1689.	1664 (1664)	Wing G902; ESTC R535	23,350	40

Goats Beard c. Yet given no question by the wise Creator for use and ornament but we that perceive not the Divine Reason herein think them idle luxuriant Excrescencies We know what our Saviour hath express'd against Traditions and we do more then partly believe him He doth at no hand condemn any Tradition or Rite of the Elders directly mark that but such only as manifestly thwart the Word of God such are the unnatural neglect of maintenance of our needy Parents upon a religious pretence of Corban S. Mark vii 11 As for washing of the hands he condemneth it but not directly as if unlawful in it self because no where commanded as S. Chrysostome uncautelously lets fall but indirectly i.e. in such a person whose scrupulous Hypocrite could make great conscience for the less and none of the greater Thus elsewhere he condemneth the Pharisees yea pronounceth woe against them in several cases Matth. xxiii First Woe to you Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites for you compass Sea and Land to make a Proselyte A woe and yet no fault in the World All Religion that is good or believes it self to be good will do so But what followes You make him a child of Hell twofold more then your selves Again Wo to you Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites because you garnish the Tombs of the Prophets and say If we had been in the dayes of our Fathers c. No faults again none I hope in that repentant expression If we c. But chiefly that of tithing Mint and Cummin which our Saviour saith they ought to have observed and yet woe to the Scribes for such tithing whilst they omit the great matters of the Law S. Matth. xxiii 23 And if I much mistake not our Saviour puts this difference and distinction himself the phrase of the Text being clearly altered in one from what it was in the other In the matter of Corban our Saviour charges them home with making void Gods Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is sinful and impudent but in the Washing it is onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are taxed for laying aside the Law of God the Law of greater matters S. Mark vii 8 But doth our Saviour deny any where That he which maketh conscience of the great matters of the Law may be if he will punctual in the less If the Pharisees heart should be clean wash'd would the washing of his hands defile him Let any man judge what our Saviour did and all his Disciples at the Marriage of Cana in Galilee where there were six Water-pots set for this Ceremony yea and other times also As an innocent Ceremony doth not sanctifie a man so neither doth it defile him Let us take heed of hypocrisie and secure the greater matters and the less are free for us To the clean all things are clean Tit. i. 13 Ceremonies may be superciliously censur'd poor things but as the Herald says In civil matters there can be no State or Majesty so in Religion there can be no Devotion no solemnity without them All wise men know that Religion is not a meer reserve nothing outward For how then shall our Brother be edified How shall our Religion be professed How solemnly professed If there be in Religion a solemnity there must be some such thing as a becoming Ceremony The unhappy Covenant could not be the solemn League and Covenant without the assumption of an outward Ceremony lifting up of the hand to swear And I appeal to any man that hath a heart humbly to serve God whether when he composeth himself to devout powring out of his soul to God he can forbear the natural expression of his eye and hand with heart Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in the Heavens Lam. iii. 41 I ask whether the Publican could forbear in his holy indignation against his enemy himself to smite his breast There is a natural spring in our bodies that moves our hands and eyes and knees according to our inward affection And as I remember pious Anatomists give the reason why Nature made our eyes with such Muscles and our knees with such a Flexure God must be worshipped in Spirit and Truth therefore he may not be worshipped by Ceremony only But must he therefore be worshipped without any It is enough for me that our blessed Saviour who best knew his own meaning used them when in the solemn time of his last Devotion he ador'd on his ‖ S. Matth. xxvi 39 face yea and on the Cross it self when he delivered up his tormented spirit to the Father the Text saith He * S. John xix 30 Bowed his head and gave up the Ghost They that will say a Ceremony is just nothing should be ask'd how they would take it if any one should spit in their faces 't is but the Ceremony of DeFiance Or if Christs Disciples should shake off the dust of their feet for a testimony against them Matth. x. 14 I am sure our Saviour expects such testimonies from us See what he saith to his friend Simon when the ceremonious Woman came in that wiped his feet Simon I have something to say to thee S. Luke vii 44 He accuses him of the defect of a triple Ceremony and then brings in the Woman for a sairer example Thou gave me no water to wash my feet this Woman hath washed me with her tears thou gavest me no kiss this Woman hath not ceased to kiss my feet my head with oyl thou didst not anoint this Woman hath anointed my feet with oyntment And what is the conclusion He loved little and she loved much So true is it there is no devotion without them Our Adversaries therefore would have done ill to have lived in the dayes of Christs flesh who might perhaps have been contented to have cried Hosanna but they would have scarce made one at gathering of branches to strew Christs way they would hardly have laid their Carpets and Garments in his Road while his Disciples laid all under the feet of his very Beast S. Matth. xxi 8 I know these practises are liable to exception The holy Womans ointment Judas put in ad quid praeditio haec Had not it been better sold and given to the poor And yet our Saviour defended that Woman So to lay my Garments under an Asses feet What sense is for that Yet our Saviour accepted this and God give us grace to do those things that our Saviour will accept But now to the Rule What is the Rule of these things R. Affection Charity A high esteem is the Fountain and Rule of these expressions You do not hear me say a distinct Text of holy Scripture that is for the greater matters of the Law There was no express Scripture for tithing of the Mint The Apostle is discoursing of these things 't is good to ask him What is the Rule of Ceremonies The Apostle answers Light of Nature 1 Cor. xi 14 What is the Rule again the same Apostle answers