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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66891	Aron-bimnucha, or, An antidote to cure the Calamites of their trembling for fear of the Ark to which is added Mr. Crofton's creed touching church-communion : with a brief answer to the position (pretended to be) taken out of his pocket and added to the end of a scandalous and schismatical pamphlet, entituled Jerubbaal justified.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1663 (1663)	Wing W3335; ESTC R38319	81,961	126

your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not after the tradition which he received of us But when Order is kept it is matter of satisfaction to the Apostle so he tells the Colossians for though I be absent in the flesh yet am I with you in the Spirit joying and beholding your order It cannot be denied Col. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but this Rule is observed amongst us in the Settlement of the Ark the solemn worship and service of God is setled by Order And 2. It is setled decently is it decent to be uncovered in the presence of a Magistrate and is it not decent to be so in the presence of the eternal God is it decent to kneel when you tender a Petition to your Prince and is it not decent to do so when you Petition the King of Kings is it decent to rise up and bow the head when you make an acknowledgment to your Superiours and is it not decent to use the like reverence when you address your recognitions and homage to him who is Lord over all blessed for ever is not external bodily worship required in the second Commandment Is it not your duty are you not called upon in holy Scripture to worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse And what doth the Church of England require of you but this in her solemn service And 3 Is not the Settlement of the Ark according to the third Rule for edification I hope there are none so impudent as to deny it of the Prayers themselves and those Portions of Scripture Hymns appointed in this Service these are not non-sense they are intelligible and for edification and for the rest the Gestures and Ceremonies I shall make it clear to you We kneel at our prayers to signifie that we are in want and that we are humble Petitioners to a Divinee Majesty We stand up at the Gospel and the Cre●d out of Reverence not only to signifie that we will stand fast in the profession of 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 ●s 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 Baptism 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 le●st every Lords day now this practice if it cannot sh●me 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 h●th 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 th●t 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 Ark 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 Christ●an 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

not allow the common people to gaze upon the holy Mount Exod. 19.21 secret things belong to the Lord our God Revealed things are for us and for our children Deut. 29.29 If we must needs afford a prospect to our curiosity there are Mysteries displaied to us in the holy Gospel 1 Pet. 1.12 such as the Angels desire to look into can we not satisfie our selves in the contemplation of these things If we must needs let our thoughts run out upon the judgment to come can we not confine them within the modest limits of sobriety and meditate upon the certainty and the severity with those terrible accidents that shall attend it is all our longing after the forbidden fruit that grows upon this tree See Gerh. de extrem Jud. mihi p. 190. how many impostures have the Christian World been deluded with upon this account for filthy lucres sake And of what ill consequence this is you may learn from Mr. Calamy * In his late Sermon he tells you it is the way to make men Atheists to believe nothing and thereupon he concludes that certainly those Ministers do no good to the Church that prescribe Times and Seasons for when those Seasons are come and we find our selves disappointed after that we will believe the Minister no more This was the sin of the Bethshemites prying into the Ark of God which cost them no less then 50070 lives Mr. Calamy was very sensible of this judgement upon those men 1 Sam. 6.19 and yet at the very same time he must needs be peeping into the Ark himself for what else means his hints touching those strong impressions upon the hearts of many learned men as to the year 1666. and the Book printed to prove that Antichrist shall then be destroyed what means he else by his hint that some pitch upon a neerer time which he is loth to name But he tells us he is sure that God is now pouring out his Vials upon Antichrist and the Throne of the Beast and although some few drops of these Vials may fall upon the Reformed 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 the ruine 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 as one of them is pleased to word it I say Mr. Arrowsmith ubi supra 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