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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66577	Cultus evangelicus, or, A brief discourse concerning the spirituality and simplicity of New-Testament worship	Wilson, John, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing W2926D; Wing W2901; ESTC R9767	88,978	144

said we willingly own and observe and both desire and endeavour that others may do the like And therefore the Papists as they wrong us in the former case so they do in this telling the world that we are against all Ceremonies whatsoever This was it that occasioned that request of the Lutherans to the Emperour Charles the fifth at the Diet in Augusta Let not say they your imperial Majesty give credit to those who that they may the better render us odious disperse strange calumnies against us They give it out that we abolish all ceremonies and all good manners in the Churches These things are notoriously false we do not only preserve such ceremonies as are of divine institution with highest respect but that we might increase the reverence of them have also taken away certain late abuses which have by the corruption of the times been brought in without any certain authority contrary to Scripture contrary to the ancient canons contrary to the example of the ancient Church So far they We think it meet to distinguish betwixt the institutions of God and the inventions of men as for the former we readily embrace them as for the latter we utterly renounce and disclaim them 2. Neither 〈◊〉 understand it to the exclusion of such circumstances as are necessary to the solemn and decent carrying on of the worship of God As our Saviour notwithstanding what he saith in the Text allows us the use of the ceremonies above mentioned so he doth likewise the use of such circumstances as are requisite to the orderly management of his service The main things belonging to his service God himself hath determined as what ordinances he will have used what discipline he will have exercised what officers he will have imployed and what duties he will have performed and these must by all means be kept sacred and inviolable It lies not in the power of Church State or any humane authority whatsoever to reverse or alter all or any thing thereof nay it were intolerable presumption so much as to attempt it What presumption then is the Church of Rome guilty of that forbids so many things that God allows and commands and allows and commands so many things that he forbids therein like their predecessors the Scribes and Pharisees making the commandment of God of none effect by their tradition Other things there are that be of less moment as the proper modes and circumstances wherewith the forementioned institutions are to be carryed on and these he hath not determined himself but left to the prudence of the Church in the choice and determination whereof she is to steer her course by those general rules the Holy-Ghost hath set down in Scripture for the guiding her in this matter To have set down particular directions for every individual case that occurs and varies every day would have been in endless matter and have swell'd our rule that now lyes in a narrow compass to no less than a stupendious voluminousness and therefore the Holy-Ghost waving that as both a needless and unprofitable work gave us only particular directions for fundamentals and general directions for circumstantials impowring and appointing the Church to accommodate and apply them to particular cases so as might tend most to the advantage and furtherance of the Gospel and her own edification and benefit To tell you what and how many these directions be would be a work too great for this place Those who have a mind to know them may have recourse to the Centuriators of Magdenburg who have with much diligence and exactness collected and digested them in the very words of the Scripture into an intire systeme of Canons or rules of Church-Government I shall only instance in those noted words of the Apostle to the Church of Corinth Let all things saith he be done to edifying And let all things be done decently and in order Clemens Romanns who was his fellow labourer and wrote an Epistle to the same place hath a passage to the same purpose We ought saith he to do all things in order That is to say in order to the due carrying on of Gods worship we must make choice of a fit time convenient place decent habit suitable gesture and such proper utensils as the nature of the ordinance and service we are about call for labouring by all means to avoid irreverence disorder and scandal But whiles we are improving these and such like expressions for a liberty in this kind we must take heed of stretching them too far and going beyond our bounds lest we fall into the tents of the Philistines It was through this passage that superstition wound in her head and afterwards introduced the whole fardle of humane inventions It is through this gap that light and sensual men have brought their innovations and vanities into the worship of God to the great prejudice of religion and reproach of the Christian cause For whiles they pretend to do it for edifying they do little less than subvert the very worship of God it self presenting him with a company of childish foolish ceremonies instead of inward devotion managing the work that should be carryed on with so much seriousness spirituality and simplicity as if it were a meer sport or play ordained on purpose for the gratifying of the flesh And whiles they pretend to do it for decency and order they beget little else than disorder and confusion I know very well that many amongst us who make the Scripture like the Materia prima and draw quidlibet ex quolibet put great confidence in this place of the Apostle touching decency and order urging it upon all occasions in defence of the Ceremonies Dr. Burgess treading the steps of Hosius Eckius and other Papists who urge it for their Sacramentals makes great account of it telling us it is the only place for the Churches Power in constituting Ecclesiastical Ceremonies but how little it makes either for him or them divers learned men have at large shewed And the thing is of it self evident for 1. The Apostle speaks not of constituting or making any New matters but of the due disposal and managing of such things as were already made 2. We must understand him of such things as he in that place discourses of which occasioned this his advice and those were not Ceremonies but meer Circumstances of Order He requires that he that speaks in the Church speak in a known tongue so as he may be understood that the Prophets when they prophesie do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one by one submitting themselves to the judgement of others that the women in Religious Assemblies keep silence and the like and what 's all this to mystical doctrinal Ceremonies 3. He propounds a Rule by which these and such like matters must be regulated let all things saith he be done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to order and what is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Order but that which he