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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20465	Certain reasons of a private Christian against conformitie to kneeling in the very act of receiving the Lords Supper. By Tho: Dighton Gent	Dighton, Thomas.	1618 (1618)	STC 6876; ESTC S118440	77,664	164

to forsake all other how learned and reverent how wise and ancient how holy and universall soeuer and in our conformitie in all matters of religious use especially in the publicke worship of his name which being the marriage bed of necessitie is carefullie to bee kept holy and undefiled cleaue onely unto him so long as wee both shall liue being tied to him not onelie by our creation with the great bonds of loyall subiection and cheerefull obedience of loving and naturall children but in our redemption with that indissoluble loue and most loyall affection of a deere and faithfull wife Seeing then our nature is thus inseperablie united unto the God-head in the incarnation of our Lord how deere any true member of his mysticall body in the religious actions of his divine service conforme to the devices of strange lovers and such are all whatsoever they be as require any other ceremonies callings or gestures then Christ Iesus the Lord is author of Doth not everie wife if she desire to be found faithfull ●are how shee may bleas● her husband Hearken therefore O daughter and consider yea incline thine eare and giue diligent attention for thou shalt haue many dissembling lovers who will perswade thee to the contrarie but thou must forget thine owne people and thy fathers house and not regard the customes and traditions of nature the devices of reason or the innovations of wit and sence though never so graue and learned but in the obedience of faith conforme onely to the holy and wise ordinances of thy Lord yea in all religious actions giue this honour and worship one lie to him let all thy garments ceremonies or callings smell of Myrrh Aloes and Cassia out of the Ivory Pallaces his owne holy and glorious ordinances which make the heart of the godly to reioyce and not stinke of novelties and incertainties out of the high places of mens precepts or devices which make heavy the soule of the righteous so shall the king haue pleasure in thy beautie or in that worship which thou givest unto him when it is pure and sincere not painted or sophisticated with the Italian pensill whoori●h or carnall inventions for he is thy Lord God and therefore thus Reverence thou him even performe every ceremonie and gesture of religious use in his publicke worship according to his owne commandement and no otherwise for else thou deniest Reverence unto him and givest it to those whom thou doest conforme unto Remember how he washed thee from Popish Antichristian that whoorish Idolatry and clothed thee with broidred work even the pure doctrine of iustification by faith working by loue and manie other divine truthes and sanctifying graces doe not trust now in thine owne beautie or excellencie of gifts and so play the harlot presuming of thy renowne because thou art famous over the Christian world for thy wisedome and learning and other worthy endowments ●owr not out thy fornications on every one that passeth by and makes loue unto thee let no carnall respect ever kindle thy desire to such abhominable courses Deck not thy high places or Cathedrals with divers colours bring not into Gods holy worship those sweet delights of the sences which are no better then the alluring baits of an harlot the like things shall not come neither hath any sincere Church euer conformed to such abhominations Bee not I say so presumptuous as to abuse those siluer gifts and golden Iewells which the Lord hath conferred vpon thee to purge his worship and to preserue his service pure and sincere from all kinde of mixture of any carnall devices to defend the indifferencie or lawfulnes of whoredome or humane inventions therein offer them not thy brodered garmēts neither set the oyle perfume of the Lord. Those divine truths which then teachest purely before them Thou thinkest in the pride of thy heart that these will be sweete and sauorie vnto them and so by an enforced subscription causest those sonnes whom thou hast borne vnto God to sacrifice their studies how to giue best content to these strangers by mingling their abominations Gods holy ordinances indifferently together is this they whoredome a small matter Oh turn thee from all these most grievous and carnall inuentions and remember the daies of thy youth when thou wast naked and polluted in thy bloud how weake is thy heart saith the Lord God seeing thou doest all these things which are the workes of a presumptuous whoore or a Lordly lawlesse and over-ruling woman Yet for all this it is schisme to denie that thou art a true Church yea there is no doubt but when thy Harlots and Bawdes with their carnall and fleshlie devises haue borne the punishment of their wickednesse and abhomination the Lord will remember his couenant made with thee in the dayes of thy youth and will confirme unto thee an everlasting covenant then thou shalt remember thy wayes and be ashamed Oh our reverend and most deere mother is it not the glorie of the man to haue his wife humble obedient why wilt thou then thus presse us even upon thy blessing as wee would not incurre thy displeasure and curse to Conforme to ceremonies callings or gestures which beare no Image or resemblance of the most holy ordinances of our heavenly father but the direct similitude or likenesse of that Character or marke of the Beast oh forget not thou faire one the most amiable loue of that sonne of his loue that we are the true or legitimate fruit of thy wombe is it possible for thee to be unmindfull of this can we ever forget those sweet instructions and most heavenly consolations which wee sucked out of thy beautifull breasts O thou sister and spowse of that holy one call to minde what excellent graces hee so enamiled thee withall that hee cannot but loue and delight in thee unlesse hee should hate himselfe are all the gardens of the East or living fountaints of the west or sweet fruits of Camphir spikenard Calamus and Cynamon with all the trees of Incencer mirr●rand Aloes yea all the chiefe spices in the whole world possibly able to shadow out that high excellencie and most soveraine dignitie where with out of his owne verie prerogative hee hath truely and Really endowed thee why then by thy conformitie to these humane devices wilt thou shut the dore against thy wel beloved and not suffer him to enter into his gardē to eate his pleasant fruit but offers him grapes w ch thou hast gathered of these thornie Inventions figs which these thistly traditions haue brought forth was it not thine own instruction from our Creadle that we must put of the old man with all his works and put on the new even bee made conformable to the will or word of God in all things both in our tender years and stronger age and oldest dayes and must wee now learne another lesson or manner of

he taught as one having authority not as the learned Scribes which he shewed in opening the sence and meaning of the holy Ghost deliuering fit doctrines and making profitable uses and applications from the word so that he spake to the hearts and consciences of his hearers in the power of his ministerie which they doe not who teach the precepts of men but speak only to the ears of their hearers yet alwayes the motives that he used to perswade thē to conformity was not these things are not forbidden or they are the traditiōs of our godlie Elders or they are most fitting this state and present government or it is the pleasure of the civill magistrate or the Church Rulers hold it meet though indeed divers learned men at that verie time used such kind of arguments in their ministerie and teaching for that subscription which they required but his Doctrine which hee preached and the things he urged and pressed was not his own but his that sent him it was not of his humane Invention which yet was a great deall freer from errour then all the fathers and 〈…〉 cels in the world but onelie such as 〈◊〉 that sent him to preach and teach the glad tydings of salvation was the authour of As whereas some might object unto him these are thine own speaches and in the pulpit you haue libertie to say what you list and to gird at whom you please make it playn to our capacities how we may know who is of God and who is sent of the Devill for thou and the Scribes and Pharisees teach both of you verie learnedlie and zealously but in verie manie things especially in the ceremonies and callings actions and gestures of Religious use in the publick worship of God directlie contrarie one against the other and therefore most certaine that both of you cannot possiblie be of God he therefore giues them a playn and an unerring Rule whereby the simplest in a congregation may discerne which preacher teaches the doctrine that comes from God and which speaks onely from men or the deuill first do the will of God get a good and an honest heart free from preiudice and profanesse readie to doe whatsoeuer the Lord requires of thee in generall as thou art a Christian or in particular as thou art a magistrate or subiect minister or hearer husband or wife parent or child master or seruant bond or free old or young rich or poore maried or single or of what condition soeuer for els if thou haue neuer so much wit learning vnderstanding discretion hast not respect vnto all his cōmandemēts though thou feare and reuerence the faithfull ministers of God yea heare them gladly and reforme thy selfe in doing many things which they make plaine to thy conscience is not the will of God yet if thou wilt not captivare thy Iudgment and subdue thy will and affections to be obedient vnto all that God requires it is impossible for thee to discerne the truth or to be preserued from error but if thou wilt be sincere which is Euangelicall perfection free thy heart from hypocrisie and be that thou wouldest seeme to be then if thou wouldest know indeed which preachers are worthy of double honour and which deserue shame contempt looke not at their spruce neatnesse in their attire or excellencie of gifs or degrees of learning for herein perhaps there will appeare no great difference both being graue wise and understanding men but hee that is sent of God seeketh his glory that sent him Yea but which is that the same is true you shall never heare him presse or teach novelties or incerteinties but onely such things as are plainlie grounded on the word of trueth whatsoever they concern faith or government godlinesse or ceremonies yea there is no unrighteousnesse in him nor any unrighteous inference in his ministerie but Christians may most safelie commit their souls to such a one even to depend upon his ministerie as a most powerfull means ordeined by God to bring them to salvation the other seeks his own glory that is a foule fault and he is a very prowd fellow I warrant him what shew soever he make but how may we take true notice of him he speaketh of himselfe and seeketh his own glory his manner of preaching is in one kind or other verie vaine glorious using all possible means though in some verie covertly to set forth himselfe and to make known his great reading or Iudgment his wit art and understanding in all manners or kinds of deepe learning and true schollership and therefore he comes in Excellencie of words and studies most painfullie and carefullie for such Intising speeches wittie and well ordred sayings pleasing passages pithy sentences and elegant phrases even whatsoeuer might ravish the hearers and by the admiration of the excellencie of his gifts and exquisitnesse of his Art might so prevaile that their faith might be in the wisedom of men even to beleeve onely so much as flesh and blood can disclose a man by nature may perceive which kind of preaching with words and manner of handling which mans wisdom teacheth makes the crosse of Christ of none effect and when excellencie or grace of words is more affected then the dignitie or worthinesse of the matter which is intreated then are their sermons beautified with most glorions speeches wherein the focre and power of eloquence doth shew it selfe to allure and delight the hearers but he that is sent of God labours and striues to speake in such words and phrases seeme they never so plaine base or contemptible wherein the power of God may bee made manifest to the consciences of their hearers honour and reverence such but it is most dangerous to commit thy soul unto and to depend upon the ministerie of the other though he be as great a scholler and as wise a man as is in all the World These courses therefore all those that desire to use their talents profitablie in the ministerie of the Church must purposely avoid even as they would the golden legend or like Deceiveable fables not but that those to whom God hath given a beautifull forme of speaking may use it as well as they that have comely shape or fairefaces but as they that bee black must not paint themselues so preachers may not affect oratorie to the eare but to the heart nor yet that rude and grosse phrases are the onely powerfull manner of speaking but that every one is to use that gift which God hath given him to the edification of his auditorie which consists in delivering the sence plainly in the evidence of the spirit and applying it powerfully to the conscience and this deuiding the word aright that euerie one may haue his portion seasonably ought to be studied for and affected of all faithfull ministers not a painted or pensild maner of speaking But those that scorn this māner of handling the word