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truth_n	father_n	true_a	worship_v	5,831	5	9.4836	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00901	The fall of Babylon in vsurping ecclesiastical power and offices And the miserable estate of them that pertake of her fornications.		1634 (1634)	STC 1101; ESTC S101521	80,856	100

word made flesh that reveale the father for thou shalt worship the Lord thy God Mat. 4. and him only shalt thou serve And above all in this in beleeving his word only who can not deceive nor be deceived Otherwise though thou pray vnto him and vse all externall devotions he will not account that service or following him but following a man knowes not who what or wherefore for how shall they call on him in whome they have not beleeved Rom. 10.14.15 And how shall they beleeve in him of whome they have not heard there can therefore be no true serving him without hearing and beleeving nor no hearing to salvation without hearing of him nor indeede without obeying or following for therfore it is added But they have not all obeied the Gospel Some obey it not at all as Iewes others would serve God and Mammon others Christ and Antichrist others Gods word and the precepts of men but this is not to obeie the Gospell to follow Christ to worship him aright for he saith In vaine they worship me who teach for doctrines the commandements of men Thus doe they who teach that diocessan Bishops should be received and obeied Mat. 15 9. which make Gods word of the presbiterie of none effect and this they also doe by other theire traditions and precepts which not only crosse the Gospel in other things See the crowne of a Christian Martyr but serve men for a religion and so make the word of God of none effect And while they hold that Gods will is that they should be obeied that is in effect to teach them for doctrines they are no longer things indifferent but necessarie or rather presumptions that turne from the truth Mar. 7.8 and make men lay aside the word of God for laying aside the commandements of God ye hold the tradition of men As if he saide ye cannot hold the tradition of men but ye lay aside the commandement of God as wee finde true in matter of the presbiterie and other things Againe No man hath seene God at any time Ioh. 1.18 the only begotten Sonne which is in the bosome of the father he hath declared him All things are delivered vnto me of my father and no man knoweth the father save the Sonne Mat. 11.27 Ioh. 15.15 and he to whome the Sonne will reveale him But he saith to his Apostles All things that I have heard of my father J have made knowne vnto you so he hath fullie declared him And the Apostles have declared vnto vs in the new Testament all the counsell of God If therfore the Sonne Act. 20.27 have not revealed these traditions and precepts of men in his Testament it is a greate presumtion to say they may be imposed or that Gods will is that they should be obeied For because Christ only is the word that revealeth the father therefore that only should be taught which he hath revealed by his Apostles Evangelists but he hath not revealed these precepts of men and therfore he saith In vaine they worship me who teach for doctrines commandements of men As if he saide rejecting God his word ye worship him whose traditions ye receive Ioh. 4. and that with the greatest and trewest worship The true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and truth Viz. in obeying the truth and yealding themselves to be wholly governed by it as by a perfect and necessarie rule which requireth not a difference of meates or such triviall things but righteousnes and peace Rom. 14 16.18 ioy in the holy Ghost He that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God He is a true worshipper For so Paul saith After the way that they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers beleeving all things that are written To beleeve the Testaments and no more Obejed is the true worship This must needes be the worship vsed by them who are saide to worship in the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimonie Rev. 11.1.19 because there was nothing seene in it but the Arke of his Testament they beleeved and obeied all things that were written therein and no more 1. Sam. 15.22 To beleeve and to obey is better then Sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of rammes It is the best service and worship as the very Iesuits prove from this place Ignati de obed virtute sect 5 and thereby condemne themselves who give this best service to theire superiour by beleeving and obeying him as one that can not be deceived though they cannot perceive but he commaunds things contrarie to God and so make him theire God Thus the Pope sits in the Temple of God as God or as men say most maister in things and thus papists worship the Beast and his image For his servants ye are to whome ye obey And yet this worship in matters of religion is only due vnto God whose word alone is the spirit that giveth life yea men have more or lesse the Spirit of prophec●e 〈◊〉 ●●●uld be obeied as they speake according to that word and th●●●fore the Angel saith worship God for the testimonie of Iesus is the Spirit of prophecie Rev. 19 His testimonie and no other For the church is subject to Christ not to the preceps of men This testimonie ye ought to beleeve and obey Ephes 5.24 as Paul did in beleewing all things that are written and so to worship God in Spirit and truth For the Father seeketh such to worship him The Papists then in receiving and teaching for Doctrines precepts and traditions of the Pope and Church of Rome so contrarie to the word do certainly giue them this true and greate worship which only belongs to God and so are like them who changed the truth of God into a lie Rom. 1.25 and worshipped and served the creature more then the creator who is blessed for ever Thus they are saide to worship the Beast and his Image Many thinke that some such thing is done by those in England that defend teach the authority of the Bishops theire hierarchie Canons decrees and ceremonies because many of them are popish and more pressed by many then some points of the Gospel And though divers doe not doe this with a purpose to set vp poperie vnlesse in a few things neither can be perswaded that the hierarchie is a limbe of the Beast yet the obedience to it in these things if they or it be not of God is a worship to it and a serving the creature more then the creator which indeede is much more donne by the Papists to the Beast and his Image And here by the way it is a thing worthy observation that if in the primative ages of the church vnder the first Christian Emperours some were touched with some of the popish opinions as very few were and those only in some things yet they did neither maintaine them against such light of doctrine

in theese and theire feare towards him hath beene taught by the precepts of men doe you thinke he will ackowledge this for his marke or that it may stand together with his as some thinke it may in Papists who hold the Christian faith and truth in many things and that he will not rather say unto them who required these things at your hands And not rather to abide in the word and suffer your wayes to be reproved by it Ioh. 18.37 for every one that is of the truth heareth my voice he watcheth and keepeth his garments that ye would not doe in these things but persecuted them that haveing the marke and testimonie of Iesus would have drawne you to it but ye have mocked at theire arguments and rejoiced to see them prohibited and trodden vnder foote so wretched is the condition of many of the Prelates and theire defenders in England And indeede nothing doth more shew the Rottennesse of theire cause and that they are not of God then theire forbidding of bookes written in defense of Gods ordinances about the presbiterie and power he gave each church in election of presbyters excommunication c. wherein they have beene such cruel adversaries that they have by suppressing all bookes and preachers that doe but touch on these points left men no meanes of defending or knowing the truth in such cases like the Philistins who suffered not a Smith in the land of Israel saying 1 Sam. 13.19 least the Hebrewes make them swords or speares This thing alone sheweth that so great power as Bishops have in the church can not be of God and that it serveth chiefely to suppresse the truth and forbid the defense thereof in these things and in those others about Gods free-grace in election free will perseverance of the saints or any thing else that either they doe now or may hereafter prohibit in doctrine discipline or ceremonies as in like manner the church of Rome did in one thing or other till at last she became full of abhominations and filthines the first steps whereof were the establishing and increasing the power of Bishops against the presbiterie c. which gave them power to effect theire pleasures in these and all other things About the yeare 400 a councell in Carthage did forbid to reade the bookes of the Gentiles but allowed them to reade the bookes of the Heretiks the Decree whereof is amongst the Canons collected by Gratian. Histor of the counc of Trent p. 472. This saith a learned Author was the first prohibition by way of Canon for in the church of Martyrs there was none The bookes of Hereticks containing doctrine condemned by Councels were often forbid by the Emperours for good government So Constantine forbad the bookes of Arrius Arcadius those of the Eunomians and Maniches Theodosius those of Nestorius Martinus those of the Euticheans and in Spaine King Ricardus those of the Arrians But this is no warrant for Kings or Prelates to forbid those which are written in defense of the presbiterie or any of Gods ordinances It sufficed the Councels and Bishops to shew what bookes contained damned or Apocryphal doctrine Idem So did Gelasius in the yeare 494. and went no further leaving it to the conscience to avoide them or reade them to a good end After the yeare 800. as the Popes of Rome assumed a greate part of the politik government so they caused the bookes whose Authors they did condemn to be burned and forbad the reading of them Notwithstanding one shall finde but few bookes forbid in this sort till this age Martin 5. doth in a Bull excommunicate all the Sects of Heretikes especially Wicklifists and Hussites not mentioning those who reade theire bookes though many of them went aboute Lev. 10. Condemning Luther did with all forbid his books upon paine of excommunication After Popes did the like The Inquisitors made Catalogues of those whome they knew Philip King of Spaine was the first that gave a more convenient forme in the yeare 1558. making a law that the Catologue of bookes prohibited by Inquisition should be printed After this example Paul 4 caused an Index composed by that office to be printed in the yeare 1559. At last all they pleased were fetched into this number to deprive men of all meanes of knowledge A better mysterie was never found then to vse religion to make men insensible So doe English Bishops who though they follow not the same forme yet they vse another as rigorous and prevalent They have the licencing and censuring of bookes in these cases and so are both Iudges and parties they can scoffe suspend fine imprison silence and degrade whom they please yea men in these cases goe in jeopardie of theire liveings and lives by which meanes as by the weapons of their warfare they must needes obtaine their cause as the Romanists have theires so like are they in som things to Babylon the mother of Harlots Ioh. 8.43.44 and to those Iewes to whom Christ saith Why doe ye not vnderstand my my speech even because ye cannot heare my word ye are of your father the devill and the lusts of your father ye will doe he was a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth he is a liar and the father of it And because I tell you the truth ye beleeve me not He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore heare them not because ye are not of God Iudge therefore whether it be not with good cause that som English who hold with the Geneva and french reformations have said that the English hierarchie dominion and practise of the Prelates and many of theire canons customes courts and ceremonies are popish and a parte of the marke of the Beast not so much in those who have of infirmitie subscribed yet doe not defend them as in them that maintaine these things scorne them that doe not and will not see the mischiefes that follow that in these cases men cannot without great trouble freely speake or write the truth to convince them that they bring forth popish fruits flatterie superstition ignorance non residencie ambition prophane mocking newtralitie Episcopal tyranie wicked policies Arminianisme and the like and that therefore they ought to be abolished That these evills doe so increase through theire power and practises that they may justly feare that Christ will one day shew them to theire cost that this maintaining of them against the reasons and proofes of them that in the reformed churches hold the ordinances of God is not to savour the things that are of God but those that are of men not to have the marke of God but rather that of the Beast that at least som of them are in divers respects Popish and tend to poperie and that therfore if to maintaine that they ought to be obeyed be neither directly nor indirectly to worship the beast and his Image or take a part of his marke yet they have theire