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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82555	The Quakers confuted, being an answer unto nineteen queries; propounded by them, and sent to the elders of the church of Duckenfield in Cheshire; wherein is held forth much of the doctrine and practise concerning revelations, and immediate voices, and against the holy Scriptures, Christs ministry, churches and ordinances &c. Together with an answer to a letter which was written and sent by one of them to a family of note and quality in the said county, which pleaded for perfection in this life, and for quaking. By Samuel Eaton, teacher of the Church of Christ heretofore meeting at Duckenfield, now in Stockport in Cheshire.	Eaton, Samuel, 1596?-1665.; Waller, Richard, d. 1657.	1654 (1654)	Wing E125; Thomason E719_8; ESTC R9865	69,620	98

the Ministery of the Word upon that account casting off se●ing of Tables did joyn prayer unto it and did wait upon these joyntly Act. 6. 4. Thirdly we reade that it was the Custom of the Apostles to begin every weighty serious business with prayer when they were to cast a lot they went to prayer first when they were to lay on hands on Deacons they first prayed when they were to send forth Paul and Barnabas to the work which God had appointed them unto viz. to preach the Gospel they prayed first when they ordained Elders in every City they began it with prayer so that all was attempted with prayer preaching therefore being a weighty work should be performed with Prayer Fourthly prayer is that which sanctifieth all things and persons have a Christian holy use of things which in their nature are but Civil Every creature of God saith Paul 1 Tim. 4. 5. is sanctified of God by the word and prayer much rather should holy and religious services be used holily by adioyning prayer thereunto Fifthly The Apostle Paul giving direction in his Epistle to Timothy how the worship and service of God should he carried on in the Churches of Christ doth in 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. enjoyn that first of all Prayers and Supplications should be made his scope is not to direct particular Christians but Churches of Christians in their publike Assemblies as appears from vers 11 12. where Women are commanded to keep silence and are not suffered to teach Now this respects the publike meetings of the Saints and in 1 Cor. 11. 4. the same Apostle gives light how publike exercises of Religion were carried on in the Christian Assemblies there was prayer and prophesying afoot amongst them prophesying was not without prayer Sixthly there are also many general rules amongst others that in Phil. 4. 8. which serve to justifie this practice What ever things are just true honest pure lovely of good report if there be any vertue any praise think on these things Now I leave it to the judgement of any person who is not given up to a wicked spirit whether prayer before and after preaching be not such a thing And the Apostle many times requires that things which make for edification may be done 1 Cor. 14. 4 5 12 26. Eph. 4. 26. 1 Thes 5. 11. But these men shew what spirit they are of by their arguing against the most religious and holy Exercises and spiritual Performances which the Saints use and which the Devil and the Flesh have alwayes much opposed Concerning set times days and hours which was in the Concerning set times and days and hours generation which was enemies to Christ who observed such things I know not what answer to make unless I understood what it is that they find fault with The Charge runs as if we did keep up those Jewish Sabbaths and holy Fasts and Feasts and Hours of Prayer which were observed in Christs time whilest he lived on Earth amongst those of his own Nation most of which were enemies unto him but they are or might be convinced of the contrary concerning us that we set no such times a part for worship as they did neither was it the practice of the enemies of Christ only to set such times and days and hours apart but of the friends of Christ also and of Christ himself while he was upon the Earth and of the Apostles seeing it was by divine institution that the people should meet at such times Acts 3. 1. Nor was it any part of their enmity against Christ but rather of their subjection to God that they met at such times therefore these Persons have another intent and scope in their question It is our Lords day-meetings and our Christian Fasts and Thanksgiving-days that we keep that they are offended at it is the hours of prayer in our Church-meetings and Families which they find fault with and in this also they strike at Godliness for if they can but destroy all forms the power will fall with it for though the form be but the shell yet it preserves the kernel the power is put forth in a form and if they can but acquit and discharge the body from service and religious exercise the spirit will not bear up in it any long time after but all devotion and duty Godward both in body and soul will fall in short time Therefore the Devil and his Instruments plead against set times days and hours knowing very well that Gods worship cannot at all be performed by many Christians together without times and days and hours no nor yet kept alive any long time in any But for the better justification of set times days and hours Concerning the first day for Gods service let it be considered First that time is a perpetual adjunct of action there is no action can be done but it must be done in time It is therefore a necessary adjunct of divine and spiritual actions so that if God will enjoyn a worship and a service to be performed to him he must needs enjoyn the time in which he will have it performed Secondly let it be duly weighed that both the Apostles themselves were wont to meet upon the first day of the week to worship God and that Christ met with them upon that day twice and thereby shewed his approbation of their meeting upon that day Joh 20. 19 20 26. And also that the Churches that were planted in the world by the Apostles observed that day in course as it came and set it apart for divine exercises 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Act. 20. 7. and further it is to be observed that the Apostle annexed duty to that day and bound the collection of the Saints to that day as it should come in course which how he could do without usurping upon them unless he had received it from the Lord I cannot understand And also that that day above all other days was denominated the Lords day and it was spoken of as a noted known day to all the Saints by that name Rev. 1. 10. which name Lords day doth point at an institution as when the Supper is denominated the Lords Supper it is from the institution which it had from the Lord Christ that it is so named and Lords day holds the setting of it apart to the Lords use and to call something for remembrance which can be nothing but the resurrection as the Lords Supper is for remembrance Thirdly let it be observed that occasional Fasts are justified in the Concerning fasts and thanksgiving days New Testament as well as in the old from Primitive examples both of Apostles and Churches Acts 13. 3. and 14. 23. and upon the like accompt will occasional thanksgivings be maintained and we have in the new Testament besides the instances that may be fetcht from the Old Testament something that looks that way Acts 4. 23. to 32. Fourthly concerning hours it doth not appear from the New Testament