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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51669	The spiritual vvorship exalted. Or A treatise concerning the worship and service of God shewing how uncapable men are in their natural and unconverted state of worshipping and serving God acceptably in this Gospel day. And that it is the light, grace and spirit of Christ revealed in men, which doth renew, fit, prepare and [q]ualifie them for performing that pure spiritual and acceptable worship which was instituted by our Lord, and practiced by his disciples and followers. As also several other things here inserted, worthy of observation. By a lover of truth, and wel-wisher of the souls of all men, George Myers.	Myers, George, 1653?-1714.	1687 (1687)	Wing M3174; ESTC R213894	43,291	111

should Prophesie what not but he was speaking of that order and decency which such as Prophesie ought to observe he was treating of Spiritual Gifts and of Speaking and Praying in an unknown Tongue and of the method that such should use If any Man says he speak in an unknown Tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret but if there be no Interpreter let him keep silence in the Church and let him speak to himself and to God let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge and if any thing be revealed to him that sitteth by let the first hold his peace for ye may all Prophesie one by one c. then he adds Let your Women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the Law and if they will learn any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for it is a shame for a Woman to speak in the Church And so he goes on and concludes that Chapter with these Words Let all things be done decently and in order By all which it is very clear plain that the Apostles drift was to advise them unto a decent comely and orderly method in the Church and that he did not intend a general prohibition unto Women howsoever they were called or qualified for then had he not only opposed their approved Practice in the Church but even his own Testimony in the very same Epistle where he saith Every Woman that Prayeth or Prophesieth with her Head uncovered dishonoureth her Head chap. 11.5 Thus he is so far from disallowing of Women Praying or Prophesing that he adviseth how they shall be covered and demean themselves in the performance of such Services and Devotions Again the Apostle says Ye may all Prophesie one by one and if All then Women as well as Men forasmuch as without any restriction he directs his Epistle to the Church of God at Corinth which no question consisted of Women as well as Men if then these words Ye may all Prophesie have relation unto them to whom the Apostle directed that Epistle as is certain then Women may Prophesie as well as Men provided they be truly called and qualified by the Spirit of God and that any thing be revealed and enjoyned upon them to declare and hold forth unto People from him who is and ought to be the sole orderer and disposer of the Hearts and Spirits of all his People And as for that saying of his unto Timothy it is much to the same purpose for he was speaking how Women should adorn themselves and how they should not adorn themselves then he subjoyns Let the Woman learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a Woman to Teach nor to usurp Authority over the Man but to be Silent 1 Tim. 2.9 10 11 12. There is no question but there were such Women at Ephesus where Timothy then was who had need of this care to be taken concerning them and at Corinth too such as were unlearned proud and tattling Women not come to the true silence and therefore he says Let the Women learn in silence with all subjection Again its probable there might be such as would be teaching and usurping authority over the Man such had need to be silent indeed that 's without dispute for if they were for usurping authority over the man they were very unfit to be Teachers of others But what of all this although Proud Vain Tattling Ignorant and Unlearned Women are not to be permitted to Speak in the Church nor to make disturbance there with their unseasonable and unlearned Questions and Discourses but are to learn in Silence with all Subjection and to be under Obedience as also saith the Law yet it does not therefore follow but that such Women as are become Meek Humble Sober Grave Temperate Wise and Discreet and keep their Place and Station in the blessed Truth and have been content to learn in silence with all subjection may do and perform such Services and Devotions in the Church of Christ as they may be called unto and have a necessity from the Lord laid upon them to be found in the practice of whether it be in publick Declarations and Testimonies for God and his Truth or in Prayers Praises and Thanksgivings unto him The Scriptures do afford us divers Testimonies that Women as well as Men have been concerned upon these accompts to pass by divers that might be mentioned whose Names are recorded in the writings of the Old Testament in whom the Spirit of the Lord has been so prevalent that they have appeared Zealous for the God of Israel we shall only speak of those mention'd in the writings of the New Testament who have been concerned in the Work and Service of the Gospel We Read that Anna the Daughter of Phanuel was a Prophetess and Preached to the People in the Temple at Jerusalem the Clorious Day of Israel's Redemption Luke 2.36 37 38. The next is the Woman of Samaria with whom Christ himself Conversed she was taught of Christ himself that he was the Messiah and then she went and Publish't the same in the City Sychar John 4.26.28 29. Again we find that ridings of Christs Resurrection was first publish't by a Woman viz. Mary Magdalen and that she was commanded by Christ himself to go to his Brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God John 20.17 18. And also Philip the Evangelist who was one of the seven mentioned Acts 6.5 had four Daughters Virgins which did Prophesie Acts 21.8 9. Moreover the Apostle Paul himself was so far from discouraging Women upon these accounts that he mentions several being concerned with him in the Work and Service of Gospel he begins the 16 chapter to the Romnus thus I commend unto you Phebe our Sister which is a Servant of the Church which is at Cenchrea Again Greet Priscilla and Aquila my fellow helpers in Christ Jesus Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis which laboured much in the Lord Rom. 16.3 12. All these were Women except Aquila Also the same Apostle in his Epistle to the Philippians writeth thus And I intreat thee also true Yoke-Fellow help those Women that laboured with me in the Gospel with Clement also and other my fellow Labourers whose Names are written in the Book of Life Phil. 4.3 Thus it is manifest that serious godly and wel-disposed Women whom the Lord by his Grace and Spirit stired up in former Ages to serve him and to bear a Testimony for his Name and Truth were owned by the Apostle in their Service and accepted of in the Church of Christ and indeed they ought to be so still wherein it is manifest that their Exercise and Service stands in the Truth and in the fellowship

of that Divine Spirit and Power wherein there is neither Jew nor Greek Bond nor Free Male nor Female but all are one even in Christ Jesus Gal. 3 28. who by the operation of his free Spirit may exercise whom he pleases in Building up Strengthening and Confirming his Church and People as also in bearing a Testimony unto his Blessed and Holy Name amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men. And yet nevertheless as it hath been so it is and ought to be observ'd that such Women as are not truly called qualified for such Services in the Church ought not to presume to Speak and Teach there but to learn in Silence with all due Subjection and indeed it concerns all both Men and Women to be very careful in these respects and also to be cautious that under the pretence of divine motion they be not found going into foolish Whimsies and Extreams out of the Liberties and Confines of Christian Prudence Decency and Moderation but that all keep under the Guidance Conduct Government Order and Discipline of the blessed and holy Spirit and Power of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ otherwise it may be said of Men as well as Women Let them keep silence in the Church for it is not permitted unto them to Speak in a spiritual unpreparedness and in dis-union with God and his People nor in any rule undecent or disorderly manner For our God is not the author of Confusion but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 Section VIII Concerning the Rise of Gospel Performances and the Qualifications of Gospel Ministers showing that they are not from Human Learning Worldly Wisdom and Natural Arts and Sciences but from the Divine Spirit FRom what hath been said concerning the Christian Ministry it is clearly manifest that the Vertue and Power of the Divine Spirit is absolutely necessary for the Qualifying Calling and Constituting of a Gospel Minister and that it is by the secret help motion and assistance thereof that every true Evangelist and Gospel Minister is to be acted and supplied in the performance of their Duties and Services otherwise it does no way appear that they can either be acceptable unto God or beneficial unto men inasmuch as man of himself in his natural and unrenewed State notwithstanding his outward abilities as to Human Learning is as it were a Stranger unto God and really anacquainted with the Mysteries of his Heavenly Kingdom for although School Learning Worldly Wisdom and Human Arts and Sciences are much look't upon and applauded in this our Age as Qualifications absolutely necessary for the Gospel Ministry yet we no where find any such ●ress laid upon the same in the Scriptures but on the contrary it rather appears from thence that the knowledge of Divine and Spiritual Mysteries are hid from the worldly Wise and is revealed unto those who by the vertue of the holy Spirit are born again and so are become Babes in Christ Unto this our Lord Jesus has given a very plain and ample Testimony Luke 10.21 22. In that hour Jesus rejoyced in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for it seconed good in thy sight All things are delivered to me of my Father and no mar knoweth who the Son is but the Father and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Again its observable that although the Apostle Paul was learned sufficiently and brought up at Gamaliel's Feet yet all his Learning and Knowledge could not truly open his Understanding in Divine and Spriritual Matters for whilst he was acted by that Wisdom which was from below he was so blind that he ran on in a fierce career to Persecute the People of God Acts 11.29 and was exceedingly Mad against them yea he confesseth himself that he was a Blasphemer 1 Tim. 1.13 a Persecutor and injurious and says That beyond measure he Parsecuted the Church of God and wasted it Gal. 1.13 But after it pleased God to meet with him to call him by his Grace and to reveal his Son in him he came to learn an other Lesson he was so far from applauding and exalting worldly Wisdom and human Arts and Sciences as Qualifications of absolute necessity for a Gospel Minister that he rather seems to oppose the same saying Where is the Wise Where is the Scribe Where is the Disputer of this World Hath not God made Foolish the Wisdom of this World For after that in the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1.20 21 c. the World by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that Believe For the Jews require a Sign and the Greeks seek after Wisdom but we preach Christ Crucified unto the Jews a Stumbling-block and unto the Greeks Foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God. And also he says verse the 27th But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that are dispised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no Flesh should glory in his Presence Thus we see the Apostle doth much endeavour to debase the Wisdom of the World and to exalt the Power and Wisdom of God as yet still further appears in the following Chapter where he begins to speak concerning himself and his manner of coming unto the Corinthians saying 1 Cor. 2. And I Brethren when I came to you came not with excellency of Speech or of Wisdom declaring unto you the Testimony of God for I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him Crucified and I was with you in Weakness and in Fear and in much Trembling and my Speech and my Preaching was not with enticing Words of Mans Wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power that your Faith might not stand in the Wisdom of Men but in the Power of God. From whence it is very plain and clear that the Apostle Paul was no way enclin'd to allow that place unto Worldly Wisdom which of right belongs unto Divine Wisdom nor yet to attribute that unto natural Arts and Sciences which is only peculiar unto the holy Spirit which thing is also further confirm'd in the sequel of the same Chapter where the Apostle saith Eye hath not seen chap. 2.9 10 11 14. nor Ear heard neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man viz. man in the Fall the things which God hath prepared for them that Love him but God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the

when they were at Salamis they Preached the Word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews Acts 13.1 2 3 4 5. From whence its observable First That the Elders of the Church at Ephesus were made Overseers there by the Holy Ghost Secondly That it was the Holy Ghost that called Barnabas and Saul unto the Work and Service of the Gospel and that it was the Holy Ghost that sent them By which it appears that the power of Calling and Ordaining Gospel Ministers resides in the Holy Spirit and that those who are Called and Ordained thereby are approved by the Church being set apart by God for the Service they are called unto which thing doth very well agree with the saying of the Apostle Paul to the Church at Corinth God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets Teachers c. 1 Cor. 12.28 And likewise to the Ephesians he faith When he ascended up on high he led Captivity Captive and gave gifts unto Men and he gave some Apostles and some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastours and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ Ephes 4.8 11 12. By which it also appears that it was not Man but God that set Apostles Prophets and Teachers in the Church and that it was through the gift of God that they were made Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastours and Teachers and thereby were they rendered capable of perfecting the Saints of the work of the Ministry and of edifying the Body of Christ Furthermore it is observable that when the Apostle Paul was giving an account before King Agrippa how the Lord met with him in his way to Damascus he says that Jesus told him For that purpose he appeared unto him to make him a Minister and a Witness both of those things which he had seen and of those things he would appear unto him in Acts 26.16 And also the same Apostle in his Epistle to the Galatians says When it pleased God who seper●●●d me from my Mothers Womb and called me by his Grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Heathen immediatly I conferred not with Flesh and Blood neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were Apostles before me but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus Gal. 1.15 16 17. And again in his Epistle to Timothy he says I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful putting me into the Ministry 1 Tim. 1.12 All which doth yet further set forth that it was the Lord Jesus Christ that made Paul a Minister and that it was by his Grace Spirit and Power that he was enabled and put into the Ministry neither does it appear that he went up to Jerusalem at that time to be ordain'd by them who were Apostles before him but he went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus as is before set forth Objection It s probable some may object and say That though the Apostles and Ministers of Christ in the primitive times were immediately called to that Work and Service by the Spirit of God yet it was for an extraordinary Work and if any now do pretend to an immediate call they ought to confirm it by Miracles Answ Unto which I Answer That although it was an extraordinary Work which they were sent to do yet the degree does not change the kind They were to preach Christ Crucified and risen again and were to preach Repentance and remission of Sins through his Name They were to turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto God that so they might receive forgiveness of Sins and an Inheritance among them which were Sanctified by Faith in Christ Acts 26.18 Even so are the Ministers of Christ in this our day to hold out the same Doctrine according to the Dispensation of the Gospel committed unto them nor is there any necessity for Miracles to be wrought by those who are called of God in this our day to the Work of the Ministry for the confirmation of their Testimony when as they preach no new Gospel but what was preacht by the Servants of Christ in the primitive times and is already confirmed by the Miracles of Christ and of his Apostles and when nothing is offered but what is answerable to Truth and agreeable to the Testimony of the Scriptures and besides that we do not find that either John the Baptist or several others of the Prophets did any Miracles and yet they were both Immediatly Extraordinarily sent Section VII Concerning Women Preaching AS this Divine Spirit hath been and is extended universally unto all People at certain times and seasons during the day of their Visitation according to the Good-will and Pleasure of our God and that in order to call gather and renew them unto himself so it hath been the good Pleasure of our God to call and qualifie whom he thinks convenient for the Work and Service of the Gospel and upon this account it may please him sometimes to make use of Women as well as Men according to his Promise by the Prophet Joel And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall Prophesie your old Men shall dream Dreams your young Men shall see Visions and also upon the Servants and upon the Hand Maids in those dayes will I pour out my Spirit This Prophesie had a respect to the Gospel Day and related to the more plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit under that Dispensation both upon Male and Female as was witnessed at the day of Penticost When the Apostles with the Women and Mary the Mother of Jesus with his Brethren were gathered together it s said They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance Acts 1.13 14. and 2.4 And if All were filled with the Holy Ghost and Spoke then Women as well as Men forasmuch as Women were there present with the Men as the Text holds out Object Now so it is that many are enclined to object against Women Speaking or Preaching and upon that account do alledge the words of the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 14.34 35. 1 Tim. 2.11 12. Answ In answer whereunto I say that although these Texts may be mystically understood as some have observed yet if we take them literally and withal consider the scope and tendency of the Apostles Words both before and after and compare other Expressions of his with those which will be one way to give satisfaction concerning his meaning and also observe the Practice of the Church upon those accounts it will appear that Women as Women or of that Sex and for no other reason are not prohibited to Preach It s observable that the Apostle Paul in that Chapter 1 Cor. 14. was not treating who or what Sex