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B02147 Christendom; or, The nature of Christ's kingdom opened, and the chiefest difficulties in divinity cleared in order to ending the controversies among Christian philosophers, scool-men [sic], and divines of all parties. 1687 (1687) Wing C3933; ESTC R171319 44,677 48

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yet not contrary thereto Things related are simul naturâ intrinsecally together not in Place outwardly but in Truth and Reality inwardly above both Time and Place Only this is to be noted that though the Manhood of Christ be sole Supream under God over all both Angels and Men as he is exalted at God's right Hand yet only elect Angels and Men be his Loyal and Obedient Subjects There are who hold some things necessary to the Integrity of the Sacrament but not to its Essence as breaking the Bread. But the Scripture hath no such distinction and indeed it is repugnant to the Nature of God who is an infinite Essence and in him is infinite Integrity Therefore there cannot possibly be Essence and not Integrity Therefore breaking the Bread is to be reckoned among those things which are not intrinsecally necessary to the Being and Integrity of the Lord's Supper As to which the general rule is to observe the way and custom of the Church where a Man shall come and abide But as to the Cup no power on Earth may deprive the People of it CHAP. XIV Of Divine Worship and Idolatry 1. THat there is a God and that he is to be worshipped as God is indelebly written in the Heart of every Man for every Man is either Godly or Ungodly To be Godly is to be a worshipper of God in Spirit and Truth To be Ungodly is to have an inward Sense and Conviction that there is a God and not to worship and glorify him as God. 2. The true God is God the Father not incarnate God the Son incarnate God the Holy Ghost not incarnate the Saviour of all Men specially of them that believe Any other God is an Idol and not the true God. To worship this true God is penitently to confess our Sins to call upon His Name and pray unto him for spiritual and corporal Blessings to give him Thanks for his Mercies to swear by his Name to vow and covenant our Souls to him to believe his Holy Word to trust in him for Life Eternal to walk as in his Sight and Presence to esteem him incomparably Excellent to prefer his Favour Honour and Glory and the doing of his Will before our Life and Friends and Estate and all worldly and temporal Things to have clean Hearts and pure Consciences and in all things to make it our chief care and business to please him and to obtain eternal Reward and Blessedness by righteous sober and godly Conversation In the Worship of God the Soul is Principal and the Body is Instrumental and the same thing is essentially both Act and Object For there cannot be the right Worship of God without Self-denial according to that of the Psalmist Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be all the Glory For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things Psal 115. 1. Rom. 11.36 Now Self-denial is both Act and Object Accordingly in all Idolatry the Soul is Principal and the Body is Instrumental and the same thing is both Act and Object For in every Idolater there is regnant Self-esteem Self-will Self-love and Self-confidence repugnant to heavenly Self-denial and Holy Trust in God. The Idolater putteth trust in his own Heart that tho he give the Glory due to God in Christ only to another tho he worship God in and by meer Creatures and not in and by Christ only yet he shall be saved and God will accept him This is Self-delusion and false Trust and Self-delusion and Self-confidence is both Act and Object 3. An Idol is nothing in the World 1 Cor. 8.4 That is as I conceive set aside the inward ungodly Lust and false Belief which is in Man's Heart and there is no such thing as an Idol nor can be Every Creature of God is Good Man is a special Creature of God and therefore must needs be specially Good. The Goodness of Man consists in the inward Rectitude of his Mind and hevenly dependence upon god and Resignation to his Will and trust in him for Life eternal When contrary-wise Man refuseth to be guided by God as to Life eternal and putteth trust in his own Heart and not in God for Life eternal and loveth himself rather than God now Man comes to have Idols in his Heart and committeth spiritual Whoredom and Adultery Some make the Belly their God some Idolize Money some worldly Glory some Beauty some Learning some their Errours some Angels and departed Saints some Images These are various ways of Idolatry but still it is the mind within as ungodly which makes the Idol and all Idolatry whatsoever is a transcendent Vice the worship of a false God and is repugnant to Holy Belief in God. As God is not two a material God and a formal God So Idolatry is not two material and formal but all Idolatry is a breach of the first Commandment and repugnant to godly Sincerity No Man doth or can in the commission of Idolatry intend to commit it but really he doth commit it he doth that which by the Divine Law is Idolatry The commission of Idolatry and intention to commit it differ specifically and cannot possibly concur in one and the fame indivisible Act as one and the same indivisible Act cannot possibly be two Acts. 4. The substance of Divine Worship is unalterably fixed by God and all addition to it and all diminution from it is Idolatry a Deifying of Man's Understanding and Will and setting it above the Understanding and Will of God. But there are many things respecting the outward Mode and Order of God's Worship about which the Scripture gives only general Rules the fitting whereof to particular Cases is left to Man's Wisdom and Discretion dependently upon God as Judg of all the World. Touching the substance of God's Worship nothing is a Duty but what hath a Divine Command and plain Warrant in God's Word Touching Things in themselves indifferent and variable nothing is sinful but what is plainly forbidden by God what is not forbidden is of it self Lawful 5. Religiously to invocate Angels and departed Saints is very Idolatry but bare desiring their Prayers I conceive is not Idolatry Superstition it is vain and erroneous Desire it is but tho all Idolatry be Superstition yet all Superstition and vain Desire is not Idolatry But if Superstition reign then it is Idolatry before God tho not before Men. And then doth Superstition and Errour reign when Persons lay their Salvation on it and trust in their Errour for Life Eternal Bare desiring the Prayer of Angels and departed Saints is not Prayer and Invocation in the strict sense and therefore I conceive it is not Idolatry Tho all Prayer be Desire yet all Desire is not Prayer in the strict sense Bare desiring the Prayer of Angels and departed Saints doth suppose them to know what indeed they do not know and so it is erroneous and vain Desire but it doth not necessarily suppose them to be simply