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A55382 Evangelical worship is spiritual vvorship as it was discussed in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Maior, at Pauls Church, Aug. 26. 1660. By Matthew Poole minister of the Gospel at Michael Quern in London. Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679. 1660 (1660) Wing P2837; ESTC R218310 16,718 32

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Evangelical Worship IS Spiritual Worship As it was Discussed in a SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Maior At Pauls Church Aug. 26. 1660. BY Matthew Poole Minister of the Gospel at Michael Quern in London The Second Edition LONDON Printed for Sa. Thomson at the Bishops-head in Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Ingenuous Reader THat this Sermon is brought to light it is not from my own choice inclination but by constraint not only in respect of the importunities of many that pressed me to it but in regard of the mis-constructions censures and scandalous aspersions of others that forced me to it It hath fared with me as it did with David They laid to my charge things that I knew not Psal. 35. 11. and fastned such reports upon my Sermon as never entred into my thoughts being it seems well instructed in that Diabolical Lesson calumniare fortiter adhaerebit aliquid For my part I thank the Lord who hath taught me that it is a small matter to be judged of man or of mans judgment I could not expect better measure than my Saviour had of whom we read John 7. 12. Some said he is a good man others said nay but he deceiveth the people It is sufficient to me that I have the Conscience of mine own integrity and the uprightness of my aimes that whatever was said was not spoken out of a spirit of contention or bitterness or opposition nor with any other design that I know of God is my witness but from a Conscience of my duty and an abhorrency of that unchristian and antichristian spirit which breaths after the ruine of all those who cannot stretch to the length of their bed and consent to them in every punctilio To which I was the more encouraged because his Majesty hath frequently expressed his dislike of that furious spirit and his resolution that the affairs of the Church should be managed in a moderate way I intended not to meddle with Common-Prayer of which I spake not one word however I am traduced nor Ceremonies considered in themselves but only as some endeavour that they may be pressed with an AEgyptian rigour and violently imposed upon the Consciences of their Brethren I supposed that there were divers of the Episcopal perswasion of more sedate and peaceable dispositions who were unconcerned in my Discourse and I must needs do them that right that some of that opinion and those of considerable esteem in the world for Learning and Goodness were pleased to pass a favourable construction upon my Sermon and to acknowledge that I had reason for what I said I spake no more for substance than what some of the Bishops of England however overborn by a more potent Party have said in their Speeches and Writings that have declared their dislike of those tyrannical proceedings whereby Learned and honest men were forced to forgo the exercise of their Ministry for some Ceremonies As much was said by the B. of St. Davids in a Convocation An. 1604. as it is cited in a Treatise called Beams of former Light printed this year p. 205. Which is worthy of the perusal of all those that would not have the Ministers and people of England to bite and devour one another and thereby make sport for the common Adversary I thought it was an hard case if a man should be accounted violent for dehorting men from violence and immoderate for pressing them to moderation I concluded that I could not do his Majesty better Service than by endeavouring to disswade men from those practises which might occasion the dividing distracting and unsetling of his Realms and to perswade unto such a temper in which the generality of the people of the Land seem prepared to acquiesce if they be not turned out of the way by the Pride Cruelty and Tyranny of some exorbitant Persons As for what some have fastned upon me that I had seditious passages and Reflexions upon his Majesty it is well that beside the witness of my own Conscience I have so many hundred Compurgators I desire alwaies to abhor that sinful practise of speaking evil of Dignities I have learned to fear God and honour the King I am instructed in that Lesson that I must not curse the King no not in my Bed-chamber much lesse defame him in a publick Assembly And other Sedition I am resolved by the Grace of God not to be guilty of than this to offer up my most hearty and fervent Prayers publick and private for his Majesties long and happy Reign here and in Heaven and that God would guide him to those counsels which conduce most to his own and the Nations Peace Amongst other Calumnies which have been cast upon me one is this that I wisht their fingers might rot that plaied upon the Organs where I must not only condemn the falshood and impudence of those that raised and propagated so abominable a Lie but also I must blame the imprudence and uncharitableness of such as were ready to receive and believe so improbable a report The Reader will see that I only declared my dislike of Organs in our Churches and therein I think I have better Authority than those that are of another mind forasmuch as in the Homily of the Place and time of Prayer a Book established and enjoyned by the Laws of the Land p. 131. they bring in some superstitious Persons complaining that they could not hear the like Piping Singing Chaunting and Playing upon the Organs that they could before To this is immediatly answered thus But Dearly Beloved We ought greatly to rejoyce and to give thanks to God that our Churches are delivered out of those things which displeased God so sore and filthily defiled his holy House c. Which how our great Zealots for these things who pretend to be the only genuine sons of the Church of England can reconcile with their Principle and Practise let themselves consider and let the Indifferent judge I shall adde no more but this that to the best of my knowledge and remembrance this Sermon is printed as it was preached without either omission or alteration of any one material word and so I commend thee to the Guidance of the great Counsellour of his Church Begging that the God of Truth would lead us all into every Truth but especially that which concerns his Worship wherein he is so jealous which is the Prayer of Thy Servant in the Gospel M. P. JOHN 4. 23 24. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth IN this Chapter you have an holy conference between Christ and a Samaritan woman who at first entertains his discourse with scoffs but afterwards began to be more seriously affected and upon the occasion of his strange discovery of her secret wickednesse she saith ver. 19.