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A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

be with men a lyar Rom. 3.4 So when there is any inconsistency or contest between any of the Laws of God and the Laws of men the case is soon decided as concerning the equity or binding force of either Let the Law of God be just and holy and good and even upon this account also challenge with authority obedience from men but the Law of men unjust unholy and evil and so a nullity and of no authority at all to require subjection to it Thus Peter with other Apostles in the presence of the high Priest and a great Council with him was very positive and definitive in the case We ought rather to obey God then men Act. 5.29 not long before being with John brought as guilty persons before another full Council he judged the equity of the case so notorious and broad on Gods side that he feared not to make the Council it self his Arbitrators although they were Parties and his Adversaries Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you or to obey you according to the former translation more or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 than God judge ye Act. 4.19 So those three Servants of God lately mentioned being commanded by King Nebuchadnezzar to worship the Golden Image which he had set up and in case of refusal terribly threatned to be presently cast into the midst of a fiery Furnace declared unto him That they were not careful to answer him in the matter Dan. 3.16 the contrariety between the Kings Command and the Command of God was so manifest that they required no time to consider of an answer or what to do in the case but immediately resolved to keep fast and close to the Command of God though in so doing they must and did disobey the Commandment of the King Therefore if it be the Prerogative of God to appoint and command his own Worship that Law or humane Constitution which attempteth to divest him of it and to communicate it unto any Creature one or more or never so many is indeed no Law but an Usurper of the name and title of a Law wanting the Spirit Life and Soul of a Law which stand in an equitable force to bind to the observation of it But no equity bindeth any man to give away the glory of God to another So then not to submit to any form of Divine Worship devised and imposed by men is to do the will of God and consequently not to transgress or disobey any Law of man Now for the demonstration and proof of that Assertion or Ground formerly mentioned out of which the five Conclusions lately argued grow as naturally as so many Boughs or Arms of a Tree out of the Trunk or Body of it Let us first hear weigh and consider diligently and impartially whether the Scriptures do not speak to the heart of it and whether God himself doth not here claim such a Prerogative as therein is asserted unto him Secondly We shall consult some of the Maximes of Nature and Principles of Reason about the truth of it For the first I intend not to insist upon all places which offer themselves willingly enough to serve in the present warfare this would carry us far beyond the bounds of our intended brevity but shall argue only some few of those which speak more plainly to our purpose First Where God reproveth rejecteth or condemneth any Worship Form or manner of Worship upon this account That He commanded it not especially when there are other things in it one or more very hateful and highly reproveable he plainly declareth and asserteth it as his Prerogative to appoint and command all Worship Else why should he make this the emphatical character of such a Worship which his Soul abhorreth That He commanded it not especially when this Worship is as was now said otherwise and in it self abominable If men had any authority to appoint or command a Worship this were no reasonable or just exception against any Worship whatsoever That God commanded it not but if it be justly reproveable it must be for some intrinsecal evil either in the matter or in the form of it or in both But passages of the import now specified the Scripture affordeth many And they have built the high Places of Tophet which is in the Valley of the sons of Hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire VVHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT Jer. 7.31 So again They have built also the high-places of Baal to burn their sons with fire unto Baal VVHICH I COMMANDED NOT nor spake it neither came it into my mind Jer. 19.5 In both these places it is observable that though the man-devised worship mentioned was in it self abominable full of unnatural and barbarous cruelty and besides performed to the honour of a most filthy and abominable Idol yet God in reproving it taketh no notice of either of these abominations but insists only upon this that HE COMMANDED IT NOT as being the greatest abomination of all and which comparatively justified all the rest Again And they built the high-places of Baal VVHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination Jer. 32.35 By comparing this expreshon in all these passages VVHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT with the express Command of God Lev. 18.21 Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass thorow the fire unto Molech it plainly appears that in the case of Worship for God not to command and expresly to forbid are of one and the same consideration Even as in a Conveyance of Lands whatsoever is not expressed is no more conveyed than what is excepted Yea and it is very observable from the said passages that God intending to put the sharpest accent upon the breach of his Law in the matter of Worship which doubtless he doth intend in reproving and condemning it He doth not place it in matter of simple disobedience unto such his Law this being found in every sin I mean disobedience unto his Law 1 Joh. 3.4 but rather in the presumption of men to attempt any thing in that kind without besides or beyond his Command Several other passages there are besides those mentioned of like character with them If there be found among you man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God in transgressing his Covenant and hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them either the Sun or Moon or any of the Host of Heaven which I HAVE NOT COMMANDED c. Deut. 17.2 3. Thy People which thou broughtest out of Egypt have corrupted themselves they are quickly turned aside out of the way WHICH I COMMANDED THEM c. Deut. 9.12 implying that in the Worship of God of which he here speaketh to turn aside out of the Way WHICH HE HATH COMMANDED is to corrupt a man's self that is to dispose or prepare himself for ruine and destruction unto what way soever he shall betake himself otherwise

themselves and consequently that the appointment and commanding of his own Worship is a darling prerogative unto him the glory whereof he will not give unto another The truth of this Doctrine runs clearly enough in other veines of Scripture besides those in which we have seen it already by the opening and arguing of which we might have more enterviews and appearances of it in somewhat differing shapes How strict is the charge of God unto men neither to add to nor take from the Word which he hath commanded them that they turn not aside from it either to the right hand or to the left Deut. 4.2 5.32 12.32 17.20 28.14 Josh 1.7 Pro. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 19. Doubtless they who turn their backs upon the Appointments and Commandments of God concerning his Worship and will impose Apocryphal Forms and Models of Worship upon men saying in effect first to God himself Except thou wilt be pleased with that worship which we prescribe and enjoyn thou shalt not be worshipped at all as far as we have to do and then unto Men Unless you will worship God after our mode and with the worship which we enjoyn you be it good or be it bad true or false you shall not worship 〈◊〉 at all if we can help or prevent it such m●n I say is these do ●o a very broad sence both add unto and diminish from the Word 〈◊〉 God hath commanded I shall not need to interpre●●r pre●● 〈…〉 of this assertion And indeed for the conviction and 〈…〉 of those that are spiritually ingenious and tremble to detain the truth in unrighteousness that which hath been already argued and pleaded from the Scriptures I know cannot but suffice But for those that are contentious or of cavilling spirits and do not will not obey the Truth if it toucheth the apple of their eye and thwart their carnal interest the Sun and a Sack-cloth the Light of the Noon-day and the Darkness of the Mid-night seven Demonstrations from the Scriptures and seven Stories out of the Golden Legion are much alike Yet let us in a few words further weigh and consider that ingenuous acknowledgment of the great Apostle Paul to the Corinthians that he had not a dominion over their Faith 2 Cor. 1.24 To have dominion over a mans Faith requireth a lawful Authority to impose any thing upon him to be believed which the Impo●er pleaseth or judgeth meet upon the account of his own judgement and will and under what penalty he pleaseth and again to prohibit him the believing any thing upon the like tearms Now then evident it is that neither Paul nor Cephas nor Principalities nor Powers nor Cherubims nor Seraphims nor all the Angels in Heaven have any dominion over the Faith of men but only He whose judgment is universally and in all things infallible and his will in like manner impeccable Especially the Dominion we speak of is not competent unto cannot reasonably be imagined to be vested in such a creature that knoweth but in part that seeth darkly and through a glass only and besides is sold under sin and in or with his flesh serveth the Law of sin all which our Apostle acknowledgeth of himself and that which concerneth imperfection of knowledge he affirmeth of all men without exception even of the most enlightned Christians 1 Cor. 13.9 12. And if so great an Apostle who was so high in favour with God as to be taken up into the third Heaven where he heard words that were unspeakable and which it was not lawful or possible these were the same with Paul for a man to utter and who doubtless knew more of the mind of God and of Christ than all the world besides and beyond all this was so mightily subdued under the Truth that as he professeth he could do nothing against it but do and suffer all things for it yea and was so effectually mortified unto the world that he could most gladly spend and be spent for the souls of men if I say an Apostle thus highly accomplished above all his fellows and in the largest capacity amongst ten thousand to be made a Lord over the Faith of men yet was not by God judged meet for such an investiture himself declaring and professing as much as we heard how intollerable is it in men who being compared with Paul scarce hold the proportion of the snuff of a Candle to the Sun to claim and exercise that most high and sacred Dominion we speak of as if it were vested by God in them Or do they any whit less than claim exercise it who under sore mulcts and penalties impose a necessity upon men to believe subscribe unto and teach what conceits opinions and tenets they please in things appertaining to God and withall to renounce and abjure all such opinions and perswasions which please them not Or do not they broadly usurp the Dominion we speak of who command men at the peril of their Estates Livelyhoods Liberties c. to believe that such or such a Form of divine Worship which pleaseth them pleaseth God also yea and that it pleaseth him better than any other Form yea than any other Worship whatsoever which they are capable of performing or exhihibiting unto him Or do they thus command men to use their Form of Worship whether they whom they command believe it to be pleasing unto God or no If this be the sence of their command it is yet more imperiously impious and horridly prophane Therefore in commanding them to use it they implicitely yet next to explicitly command them to believe it to be lawful and good Nay if they rightly understood the nature and import of that command of theirs we speak of they do not only command those on whom they impose it to believe that the Form of Worship enjoyned them is simply lawful but that it is better and more acceptable unto God not only than any other set Form of Worship they can use but then any other Worship kind or manner of Worship whatsoever of which they are capable For he that shall use any set Form of Worship without such a belief as this I mean without being perswaded in his soul that he cannot Worship God better in any other way or by any other Form exposeth himself to the curse denounced Mal. 1.14 Cursed be the Deceiver that hath a male in his flock and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing debile a weak thing as the Latine rendreth which Grotius explains by vitiosum aut foemininum that which is faulty or feminine For I am a great King saith the Lord of Hosts and my Name is dreadfull among the Heathen What hath been demonstrated from the Scriptures concerning the Prerogative of God touching his own Worship is not obscurely taught by the Light of Nature it self and by the Principles of Reason especially if we shall allow them now and then a little assistance and relief from the Scriptures For 1. The Light