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Anti-boreale an answer to that seditious and lewd piece of poetry upon Master Calamy's late confinement, supposed his who wrote Iter boreale.
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Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.
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our Faith but to intimate also that we esteem that profession venerable * Jam. 2.7 We bow at the Name of Jesus to assert his Deity and that he is to be adored as Mediator in his Humane Nature wherein he doth accomplish the work of our Redemption and so effectually becomes a Saviour We kneel at the Sacrament that the Ceremony may be a memento to us of Christs real presence in those dreadful Mysteries and put us in mind to invoke his blessing and assistance in the action Wherein the Crosse in Baptisin doth edifie I need not tell you you are told as often as it is used what it signifies it is a token that we should not be asham'd to confess the faith of Christ crucified * See S. Mark 8.34 with 38. How the Surplice the fine linen serves unto edification you may learn of the Psalmist whose Prayer as well as insinuation it is Psal 132.9 16. that the Priests be clothed with righteousnesse and salvation that the Saints may shout for joy And does not the Ring in Marriage edifie doth it not give a lesson to the married Couple It doth teach them that the love and fidelity plighted to one another should be inviolable and endlesse That very order of reading the second Service in the Chancel at the Altar or Lords Table where it is used does signifie something to our edification for you must know that part of the Solemn Service does belong to the Communion which the piety of antient times frequented at least every Lords day now this practice if it cannot shame us out of our neglect and carelessness yet it will put us in mind that it is our duty to draw nigh unto God in that sacred Ordinance and it may heat us into some holy and passionate breathings after it which is a spiritual kind of communion In short let the Solemnity wherein the Ark is setled amongst us be well and duly considered and there is not a circumstance but hath something of decency in it and a tendency to the use of edifying according to the Rule of the Apostle 4. And for the glory of God which is the prime and fundamental Rule of all every thing hath a tendency to that and if I could conceive how any one Ceremony in use amongst us does tend to Gods dishonour with the leave of Authority my own hand should be the first upon it to pluck it off the Ark. But indeed there is not a Church in all the world that hath those glorious advantages that this Church of England hath where there is such a beauty of holinesse where there are such decencies of external splendor to set off the efficacy of her essential purity And when I speak of external splendor in the service of God do not take offence at it for the Aâ—k under the Old Testament did put off her Wilderness habit her old Tabernacle with the Curtains of Goats-skins when it came to be setled in a state of peace and prosperity in Jerusalem and so should the Church of God do under the Gospel Rev. 12.6 She is indeed resembled to a woman fled into the Wilderness in the times of persecution but afterwards when Constantine the Emperour became a Christian and a nursing Father to the Church then we find her decked and trim'd up as a Bride adorned for her husband Revel 21.2 The Kings daughter is all glorious within and her clothing is of wrought gold this is a Prophesie of Christs Spouse his Church under the New Testament Psal 45.13 c. She shall be brought unto the King in rayment of needle-work and the Virgins that be her companions shall bear her company with joy and gladness shall they be brought and shall enter into the Kings palace and this leads me from the first part or ingredient of our Peace offering for the Arks happy settlement our dutiful submission to it to the Second 2. Our joyful gratulation for it And now I must call upon you as the Psalmist doth O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise Take the Psalm bring hither the Tabret the merry Harp with the Lute blow up the Trumpet as in the new moon When the Ark of God was solemnly setled the people of God had their joyful gratulations for they cried out Psal 132.8 9. Arise O Lord into thy rest thou and the Ark of thy strength Let thy Priests be * In their Priestly habits clothed with righteousnesse and let thy Saints shout for joy and shall not the Saints under the Gospel rejoyce as much at the setling of the Christian Ark Rev. 19.6 7 8. St John informs us of a Revelation he had to this purpose I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thundrings saying Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made her self ready And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousnesse of the Saints so we render it but very improperly as the learned have observed it signifies rather the Ordinances of the Sanctuary the habits of the Pâ—iests under the Law and by way of allusion it is an intimation of the priviledges of the Church See Dr. Ham. Annot. on Rev. 19. and the decent solemnities of Gods publick worship and service under the Reign of Constantine And if they did so thunder out their gratulations then for such a happy settlement why should not all good Christians do the like now If you have not motives enough without you have you not enough within you 1. Where is your love to the Ark of God do not all the friends of the Bridegroom and Bride put on their wedding garments and rejoyce to attend the solemnity of their espousals the Spouse of Christ is now put into her wedding dress amongst us if we have any love to Bride or Bridegroom we cannot chuse but rejoyce and put on our festival robes the garments of praise at least festival affections I will lift up my hands to thy testimonies kept in the holy Ark which I have loved love will make a man lift up his â—ands to blesse God and himself too God for the settlement and himself for the enjoyment But 2. If thou hast no love to the Ark hast thou no interest in it interest will begeâ— love and kindle joy we see â—his in all relations in the parts of the body in reference to their fellow membeâ—s if one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it we see it in the woman in reference to her money rejoyce with me for I have found my groat which was lost in the Father in reference to his Son it was meet we should make merry and be glad for this my
Churches to chastise them yet the Vials are intended for the Whore of Babylon and shall at last be all poured out upon Her to ther wine of Antichrist and all his Adherents Why truly these men are much beholden to the Beast and do make much use of his Throne to uphold their seditious doctrines and practices For Antichrist is their stalking horse when the present Government is their quarry For by Antichrist they understand not onely the Pope of Rome or the Great Turk but the very Hierarchy of the Church with the Solemn Service of God which is performed and upheld by it And by amuzing the people with the sudden and certain expectation of this Antichrists ruine they keep them in a posture for sedition that when they see their advantage to give the word they may be ready to arme and give fire upon their Governours But for this pretence of pulling down Antichrist it is a saddle that will fit any back Hath not the Presbyterian party been called Antichrist yes and that in Print too and perhaps they had had a war made upon them upon that account had they insisted stifly upon their pretentions to that Government But for my part I think it more then probable that the great Antichrist the Apostle speaks of * 2 Thes 2.7 8 9 10. See Dr. Hammonds Annotations is destroyed already If not yet the question is not sufficiently determined by them who are in expectation of his ruine who he is much less when his Kingdom is to have an end And when men have been engaged to the expence of so much blood and treasure to the ruine of so many Persons and Families in pursuance of such a design and there comes nothing on 't but their supposed Antichrist or his supposed Adherents continue still and appear to be so much less Antichrist then themselves in that they desire to live in peace and to render unto God the glory due unto his Name which the real Antichrist certainly does not who shall answer for all the horrible outrages that have been committed to no purpose but to the dishonour of God and the scandal of mankind to the reproach of our Christian Profession and the just indignation of our Superiours Who I say shall answer this at Gods Tribunal Will that excuse serve the turn which is all that can be pretended to That the promoters of these confusions were mistaken and do now begin to think that the Church the woman they fancied to be all this while in travel with the designs of their own begetting has not yet gone her full time Mr. Arrowsmith ubi supra as one of them is pleased to word it I say will this excuse serve the turn before the dreadful Judge But suppose there were an infallible discovery of Antichrist yet where is the Commission where do we finde any warrant to levy war against him It is said of that Beast and his Complices Revel 17.14 That they shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them But where do we finde that the Lamb makes war upon them It is with the Spirit of his mouth that he consumes them and with the brightness of his coming not by the mouth of the glittering sword 2 Thess 2.8 It is said also Revel 17.16 that the ten horns which are interpreted to be ten Kings v. 12. shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire But in all this I can see no warrant nothing that looks like it for Subjects to take up Arms without much less against the Kings Authority There is a Prophesie indeed that Antichrist shall fall and be destroyed but that will not justifie what is done against Gods Command For there is a Prophesie likewise that the Devil should cast some of the Servants of God into prison Revel 2.10 and yet he is a Devil still A Prophesie that Jeroboam a 1 Kin. 11.31 should have ten parts of Rehoboam's Kingdom and yet he was a Rebell b 1 Kin. 12.19 and an Usurper c 1 Kin. 11.17 and he made Israel to sin d 1 Kin. 15.26 34. We must frame our lives and actions not by dark Prophesies but by clear Precepts And we are no where informed who is Antichrist no where enjoyned to fight against him but earnestly exhorted To be quiet and to do our own business e 1 Thes 4.11 To follow peace with all men and holiness without which pair of virtues no man shall see the Lord f Heb. 12.14 Certainly therefore our wisest course is not to trouble our heads about Antichrist but leave Christ himself do deal with him and to betake our selves to Prayer and Fasting with other pious exercises to prepare for the Advent of Death and Judgment This is the fifth Caveat not to intrude or pry into the Ark. 6. The sixth and last Caveat is you must not rifle and plunder the Ark. The Apostle tells us Heb. 9.4 That with the Ark there were not only the Tables of the Covenant but also the golden pot that had Manna and Aarons rod that budded The Tables of the Law are of indispensable necessity to salvation for the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him to such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to do them Psal 103.17 18. And Aarons Rod is requisite to excite and quicken the Pot of Manna to strengthen and encourage unto the duty There is a mixture of severity and sweetness Lib. 2. pastoral Cressol Anthol Dec. 2.161 as Gregory hath observed Rigor disciplinae dulcedo humanitatis quae sacrosanctas legum Tabulas custodiunt There must be Discipline and there must be Sacraments else the Law cannot be observed The one to awe the other to enable us to that observation All the Service performed before the Ark under the Law was not Typical though the Sacrifices of fowls and beasts be out of date and abolishâ—d yet the Sacrifice of hearts and souls is in force still There was incense to be offered and God was to be solemnly thank'd and praised Morning and Evening * 1 Chron. 23.30 and this continues still though the other be extinguished Nay as they had their Sacrifice prefigurative to protest their hâ—mage and devotion to awaken their repentance upon a suggestion of their guilt and their demerits and to excite their faith to lay hold upon the passion and death of Christ to come for their expiation and atonement so we have our Sacrifice representative to protest our devotion to awaken our repentance and to excite our Faith to lay hold upon the Passion and Death of Christ already past Mal. 1.11 See Mr. Meade upon this Text and the Ancient Fathers by him cited For from the rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense