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A37416	A defensive vindication of the publike liturgy, established ceremonies, and setled patrimony of the Church of England against such as (putting themselves to an ill occupation) have unjustly impeached or oppugned them / by a peaceable sonne of the same church, no way addicted to novelty or innovation.	Peaceable sonne of the same church.	1641 (1641)	Wing D823; ESTC R17218	23,627	39

orderly manner Comelinesse becomes all actions but more especially religious actions and is duely to be observed in all places but chiefly in the Church which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the School of comelynesse as Clemens Romanus calls it lib. 8. cap. 31. For the Church is Gods House the place of his speciall presence and if men be carefull in the presence chamber of an earthly King to do nothing uncomely or unbeseeming the respect which they owe to so great a Majesty much more ought we to be carefull in the House of God which is the presence Chamber of the King of Kings to do nothing uncomely or unbeseeming so great and sacred a Majesty And as all things in the Church are to be done decently or in a comely fashion so are they to be done orderly for where disorder is there is tumult and confusion but where order is there is discipline and peace t is S. Ambrose glosse upon the forecited Canon of the Apostle by vertue of which Canon the Apostle gives power and authority to all Christian Churches to make orders to ordain rites and ceremonies for the more decent and orderly performance of Gods publike service and wills all who live under the Government of such particular Churches obediently to conform themselves to the orders of the Church wherein they live First the former Rule or Canon prescribed by the Apostle is saith Pareus of very great importance Et universaliter ad ecclesiam pertinens and doth universally concern all Christian Churches thoroughout the world decorum enim ordinem eorum arbitrio relinquit for it leaves all matters of outward order and decency in the Church to the free disposall of Church Governours When the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let all things be done ritus externos in libertate nostra ideo reliquit ne putaremus culeum dei illis inclusum he leaves the ordering of all externall or ceremonious rites in every particular Church to their free power and determination least we should deeme them essentiall parts of Gods worship and of absolute necessity to salvation saith Calvin in the judgement then both of Calvin and Pareus every Christian Church hath warrant from the forecited Apostolicall Canon to ordain o These things the Lord left to the liberty of every Church pattly because they are not of the substance of his worsh●p but adiuncts onely partly because one form therof cannot fit every Country but must be varyed and applyed to severall nations and times as shall be found most convenient thus teacheth S H●erome E●ist 28. concluding with this saying unaquaeque p●ovincia abundet in sensu suo thus S. August Epist 86.118.119 and thus Zanchius the great reformed Schooleman Tom. 8. loc 16. de tradit ecclesiast pag 821 c. externall rites and ceremonies and to make ecclesiasticall Lawes and Canons for the more decent and orderly performance of all religious duties in their publike assemblyes That their is such a power left to each Church and to Church Governours it is evident for if every man might do what he list and serve God at what time in what place after what manner he pleased or according to his own humour and fancy what other can be the issue and sequell of such licentious and unrestrained liberty but infinite distraction and disorderly confusion in the Church For the preventing of which we must of necessity grant if we will be reasonable that each Christian Church hath power to make lawes and to ordain rites for decency and orders sake and to command and force her children obediently to observe them And their is not any reformed Church but is of this minde they all with one consent hold this opinion that it is not necessary ecclesiasticall rites and ceremonies should be in all places alike but that they may be divers in divers Countries and Churches so that nothing be ordained against Gods Word that this is the judgement of our Church is plain from the 34. Article that all reformed Churches are of the same judgement with ours M. Rogers in his explication of that Article makes it manifest by particular instances And reflect your eyes back to the primitive times and you shall finde that even in those dayes every particular Church was allowed to have those orders and ceremonies which she in her wisedome thought most fitting and convenient So we read that some Churches used to receive the Sacrament thrice others twice a week others onely upon the Lords day some Churches gave the Eucharist in the morning some at even Aug. Epist 118. ad Ian. some Churches did dip the infant baptized thrice in the water others but once onely as Tertullian witnesseth de Coron milit cap. 3. all which Churches notwithstanding the diversity of these or the like ceremonies were the true Churches of God and held Union and Communion one with another Dissonantia in his non sustulit consonantiam fidei they knew that although the Kings daughter were all glorious within yet her cloathing was wrought about with needle work of divers colours by which needle work of divers colours q Sit una si les universae quae ●●iqu dilatatul ecclesiae tanquam intus in memmis etiam si ipsa sidei unitas quibusd●m div●rsis obs●rvatio 〈◊〉 celebratur qui●us ●udo modo quod in side vorum est impeditur Omnis enim pu●●●●●udo filiae Regis intrinsecus illae autem observatio●es quae variae celebrantur in eius veste intelliguntur unde dicitur in fimb●iis au●eis circuma●●icta v●ricta●● s●dea quoque vestis ita diversis celebratiombus varietur ut non adversis contention●bus d●ssipetur Aug. Epist 86. ad casul S. Augustine understands the diverfity of ceremonies in particular Churches and if the judgement of one or two Churches must be hearkened unto and may not be despised or contradicted rashly much more ought the judgement of all reformed Churches to be regarded Certainly for a few persons to call in question that which hath been held for a truth at all times in the true Churches of God argues such singular persons to be singularly proud and possessed with a spirit of contradiction I will conclude this point with the q This is not the doctrine of Calvin onely but it is the constant doctrine of all O●thodoxe Divines and Churches both ancient and modern that God hath sufficiently and perspicuously del●vered the whole substance of his own proper worship and all things necessary to mans salvati●n in the holy Scr●ptures and that these things must evermore be unalterably the same in all Churches but the cir●●mstances and ceremonies of his publike worship as of place time ornaments gestu●e c he hath left to the wisedome of every nationall Church to determine and make choice of so that all things be done according to the Canon of Canons delivered by S. Paul 1 Cor. 14.40 judgement and resolution of judicious Calvin who in the fourth of his institutions Cap.