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A64233	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem a visitation sermon. / preached at Gainsbrough, May 7th 1691 by Nathanael Taylor ...	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing T547; ESTC R33904	20,217	32

So our Church of England allows of nothing for Doctrin but what is plainly made known in Scripture or may be genuinely deduced from it Our Faith is founded on the Sacred Word of God epitomized in the Apostle and explained by the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds confirmed by the Writings and Decrees of the Primitive Fathers and Counsels and sealed with the Blood of Martyrs Our Church in her Articles adores the holy and undivided Trinity without any Rivals of Saints or Angels receives the Faith of Christ without any thing that destroys his Divinity as Images and Pictures or that nulls his Humanity as Transubstantiation and owns all his Offices without the Doctrins destructive to them of the Pope's Supremacy and Infallibility of Merits and Purgatory and so Believers of the Gifts and Graces of the Holy Ghost as to be free from Enthusiasm or Prophaneness She admits of no Doctrin concerning many States of Creation Apostacy Grace and Glory that any way ecclipseth God's Glory and Mercy and Christs Merits and Satisfaction but all things in her Articles and Homilies are so proposed as may most set forth Gods goodness and Mans vileness our Misery by Sin and Happiness through a Saviour and all this in so plain and familiar a Stile and in our own Language that no Member of her can justly plead a cause of Ignorance of her Principles Let us then be Unanimous in our Doctrins and have a care of basely betraying or denying her or Apostatizing from her It becomes not us to prostitute our dear Mother to the pleasure of every Malecontented Adversary to substract from her Ancient Catholick Principles or to add to their new Opinions as this or the other Party pleaseth whose Zeal against our Church outruns their Knowledge of her Doctrins And when I earnestly beg to lay aside prejudice and heat and employ that Liberty of Conscience granted them in searching impartially and seriously weighing our Doctrin in the 39 Articles and Book of Homilies I doubt not but they would soon find Reason and Religion perswading them to repent of their past Folly and Sin of Schism and to unite with us and pray for the Peace of our Jerusalem Our Church of England which is the envy of all Dissenters and the Glory of the whole Christian World For us Ministers in publick or private to detract from the Doctrins of our Church is Judas like to kiss and betray her And let us but seriously ask the Dissenters or consider with our selves should we recede from our Received Principles where should we center Are our Adversaries agreed what to ask And if we should grant what they now desire would they adhere to their present Proposals or oblige their Congregations to unite with us How indeed can this be thought on when there are so many Sects contrary to us and to one another amongst us The Papists deny the Truth of our Church because of their Multitude The Dissenters separate from us because we are so many and not selected Congregations The one upbraids us with Novelty the other dislikes our Antiquity and would have us change our Religion as often as they please To gain some we must part with the Apostolick Regimen of our Church by Bishops and instead of one have every one to Lord it over us To bring in others we must throw away Infant-Baptism and reduce the Church to Heathenism again and make it always gathering never gathered To engage a third Party we must deny all Christianity in a manner Christ's Incarnation both Sacraments the Resurrection of these our Bodies and must own an Infallibility in every one whenas now but one pretends to it and he grandly mistaken in it too To reconcile the Papist we must disown almost all the Articles of our Church and not only them but of our Creed also and receive Twelve new ones on necessity of Salvation tho' of no longer Date as such than the Trent Conventicle Nor is this all to unite with them we must not only lay aside Christianity but our Humanity also and must deny our Reason and Senses to believe Transubstantiation For tho' we see smell taste and feel Bread and Wine yet must we believe it to be Christs Flesh and Blood the same he had of the Virgin Mary And now consider where we should stop or what a Chaos our Church would thus be Jerusalem would become a Babel and it would be a strange Reformation in order to our being purer and better reformed to lay aside Religion Reason and our Senses and turn any thing but Christians and Men. The Heathens had a Form of Doctrin delivered down to them to which they so adhered that one saith * Cotta in Cicero de Nat. Deorum l. 3. Opiniones a majoribus acceptas defendam defendi semper nec me ex ea opinione quam a majoribus accepi de cultu Deorum immortalium ullius unquam oratio aut docti aut indocti movebit Much more reason surely have we to keep to our Religion which is truly Apostolical was that Faith once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. Rev. 2.10 and in which being constant to Death we may expect a Crown of Life Let us then not be wheedled or frighted to recede from Antiquity or be imposed upon by Novelty We have subscribed the Thirty Nine Articles and they include the Book of Homilies Let us not then against our Judgment our solemn Profession and serious Subscription of them turn from or be ashamed of the best of Churches 1 Tim. 7.20 Such Persons may remember that Hymeneus and Philetus are stigmatized for their Apostacy to all Posterity Let us rather propagate this Faith by Catechising that the People committed to our Care when Men may not be Children tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrin Eph. 4.14 and after some years preaching among them Heb. 5.12 have need to be taught again what are the first Principles of the Oracles of God The Heathens own the necessity of instructing Youth * Theog v. 1001.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Roman Orator † Cicero l. 4. ad Heren accounts it a great piece of Wisdom and the greatest Service we can do in our Generation God calls for it and our Church enjoyns * Can. 59. it Prov. 22.6 punishing its continued neglect with Suspension and Excommunication most if not all Dissenters practise it And shall they be industrious to propagate Error and we not careful to train up our People in the true Faith God forbid Let our past remisness make us more zealous in this Practice Our Church injoyns a Catechism which contains the Summ of the Christian Religion the Credenda in the Creed the Agenda in the Ten Commandments the Petenda in the Lords Prayer and the Recipienda in the Doctrin of the Sacraments and she explains them all concisely obliging her Members to their performance from their Vow in Baptism and the Benefits they receive

thereby This Practice would stop the Divisions of this and lay the Foundation for the Peace of our Jerusalem in another Generation by causing an Unanimity amongst Men in Religion to which see how earnestly St. Eph. 4.1 2 to 8. Paul beseecheth all Christians from their being Children of one God Members of one Christ c. And let me beg with the sincerest Affection of a Christian and Minister the Dissenters to unite with us against a Common Enemy and not expose themselves and us to inevitable Ruin by their needless Divisions for 't is impossible if they bring Ruin upon us themselves should escape in that publick Misery In a word If a common Officer commanding you in the King's Name can make you keep the Peace in a Civil Sense if Julius Caesar could Sueton. Jul. Caes c. 78. and did appease the Roman Decumani when multiplying by that Trisvllable Quirites intimating they were Roman Gentlemen and Souldiers and ought not to quarrel amongst themselves let me as an Ambassador of the God of Peace beg 2 Cor. 5.20 and begging prevail from that Tetragrammaton compounded of quiescent Letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with every of the Members of Christs Church or that own themselves the Children of the God of Peace by Unanimity of Doctrin to endeavour the Peace of our Jerusalem and let our Prayers St. Prosper in loc and St. Prosper's words conclude this Head Fiant unitas abundantin diligentium te 2. Another thing conducing to the Peace of Jerusalem is Vniformity in Worship This we find the Israelites exemplary in Psalm 122.4 in this Psalm Let us go say they into the House of the Lord our feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem whither the Tribes go up the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks to the Name of the Lord. They must be very Strangers to Heathen Writers who know not that as they had their Gods so they had their Temples set apart wherein to worship them and a distinct Order of Men to be Priests to perform that their Worship Arist Polit. l. 7. c. 8. T. 3. p. 581. c. 9. p. 583. which Order the Philosopher to the shame of many Christians accounted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the chief Order and he gives this good reason for it because they had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Care of Divine things the Worship of their Gods And that they had Forms of Prayer is plain from their Historian Liv. l. 4. c. 30. who tells us That when through a great Drought about 326. V. C. Diseases fell on Man and Beast Animos multiplex Religio pleraque externa invasit novos ritus sacrificando c. Donec publicus jam pudor ad primores civitatis pervenit cernentes in omnibus viris sacellisque peregrina atque insolita piacula pacis Deum exposcendae Datum inde negotium Aedilibus ut animadverterent ne qui Dii nisi Romani neu quo more quam patrio colerentur And as for the Jewish Church that was under a Theocracy the immediate Government of God himself and had Forms prescribed by him and observed by them Aaron and his Sons were especially set apart by God for the Ministry and were consecrated by Man also Heb. 5.4 Exod. 28. they had their appointed places for Worship the Tabernacle in the time of their sojourning and the Temple after and the People were especially the Males obliged to appear three times in the Year before the Lord in the place the Lord had chosen which was where the Ark or Tabernacle was at first in Shiloh after at Jerusalem where the Leaned Mede observes Mede 's Works l. 1. c. 48. on Deut. 16.7 Assembly in Deut. 16.17 they had not only stated times by God but a place they were to appear not at every place of their own chusing but at one of the Lords chusing They had also general Feasts appointed by God the Passover agreeable with our Easter and their Pentecost or Feast of Weeks suitable to our Whitsontide Their Sacraments of the Circumcision and the Passover with their Order and Ceremonies Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12. were appointed by God to be observed by them on pain of being cut off from Israel Yea they had Forms of Prayers and Praises prescribed them by God Thus Aaron was ordered how to bless the Children of Israel or pray to God for them And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Numb 6.23.24.5 6. speak unto Aaron and unto his Sons saying On this wise ye shall bless the Children of Israel saying unto them The Lord bless thee and keep thee the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious to thee Which Form we use in our Visitation of the Sick Thus also in a time of Gods punishing them Hosea 14.2 Hosea from God tells the people a Form of Prayer saying Take with you words and turn unto the Lord say unto him Take away all our Iniquity and receive us graciously so will we offer the Calves of our Lips And by the Prophet Joel a publick Fast being set apart Joel 2.17 the Ministers were charged to use what is part of our Litany Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach But what need particular Instances of the Jewish Forms of Prayer whenas the whole Book of Psalms was the Jewish Liturgy or their Vocal Service which is intimated by the Titles of the Psalms Mode l. 1. c. 1. p. 2 3. shewing them to have been recommended to the several Choirs and Masters of Musick and by their beginning with Oremus Cantemus Deo Venite exultemus 't is plain they were Forms used by the Jews in their praying to and praising of God And as for the Christian Church the ever-blessed Jesus our great Lord and Master not only instituted the Christian Sacraments Baptism and the Supper of the Lord as agreeable as could consist with the Gospel-Oeconomy with the Jewish Circumcision and Passover which were Types of them but did himself teach his Disciples and all Christians a Form of Prayer for tho He in Matth. 6. seems to propose it as a Pattern to pray according to it yet at another time when his Disciples asked him to teach them to pray as St. John also taught his Disciples Luke 11.1 2. 3 4. He charged them in express Words when they prayed to say Our Father which art in Heaven c. And himself and his Apostles used Forms of Prayer Thus our Saviour tho' filled with the Holy Ghost above all Pretenders to it now yet repeats the same Petition in the same Words thrice Mat. 26.39 42 44. Father if it be thy Will let this Cup pass from me And St. Paul in most of his Epistles useth the same Form of Prayer in the beginning Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 2 Cor. 1.2 Gal. 1.3 Eph. 1.2 Rom. 16.24 as Grace be unto you and Peace from God the