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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20465	Certain reasons of a private Christian against conformitie to kneeling in the very act of receiving the Lords Supper. By Tho: Dighton Gent	Dighton, Thomas.	1618 (1618)	STC 6876; ESTC S118440	77,664	164

to forsake all other how learned and reverent how wise and ancient how holy and universall soeuer and in our conformitie in all matters of religious use especially in the publicke worship of his name which being the marriage bed of necessitie is carefullie to bee kept holy and undefiled cleaue onely unto him so long as wee both shall liue being tied to him not onelie by our creation with the great bonds of loyall subiection and cheerefull obedience of loving and naturall children but in our redemption with that indissoluble loue and most loyall affection of a deere and faithfull wife Seeing then our nature is thus inseperablie united unto the God-head in the incarnation of our Lord how deere any true member of his mysticall body in the religious actions of his divine service conforme to the devices of strange lovers and such are all whatsoever they be as require any other ceremonies callings or gestures then Christ Iesus the Lord is author of Doth not everie wife if she desire to be found faithfull ●are how shee may bleas● her husband Hearken therefore O daughter and consider yea incline thine eare and giue diligent attention for thou shalt haue many dissembling lovers who will perswade thee to the contrarie but thou must forget thine owne people and thy fathers house and not regard the customes and traditions of nature the devices of reason or the innovations of wit and sence though never so graue and learned but in the obedience of faith conforme onely to the holy and wise ordinances of thy Lord yea in all religious actions giue this honour and worship one lie to him let all thy garments ceremonies or callings smell of Myrrh Aloes and Cassia out of the Ivory Pallaces his owne holy and glorious ordinances which make the heart of the godly to reioyce and not stinke of novelties and incertainties out of the high places of mens precepts or devices which make heavy the soule of the righteous so shall the king haue pleasure in thy beautie or in that worship which thou givest unto him when it is pure and sincere not painted or sophisticated with the Italian pensill whoori●h or carnall inventions for he is thy Lord God and therefore thus Reverence thou him even performe every ceremonie and gesture of religious use in his publicke worship according to his owne commandement and no otherwise for else thou deniest Reverence unto him and givest it to those whom thou doest conforme unto Remember how he washed thee from Popish Antichristian that whoorish Idolatry and clothed thee with broidred work even the pure doctrine of iustification by faith working by loue and manie other divine truthes and sanctifying graces doe not trust now in thine owne beautie or excellencie of gifts and so play the harlot presuming of thy renowne because thou art famous over the Christian world for thy wisedome and learning and other worthy endowments ●owr not out thy fornications on every one that passeth by and makes loue unto thee let no carnall respect ever kindle thy desire to such abhominable courses Deck not thy high places or Cathedrals with divers colours bring not into Gods holy worship those sweet delights of the sences which are no better then the alluring baits of an harlot the like things shall not come neither hath any sincere Church euer conformed to such abhominations Bee not I say so presumptuous as to abuse those siluer gifts and golden Iewells which the Lord hath conferred vpon thee to purge his worship and to preserue his service pure and sincere from all kinde of mixture of any carnall devices to defend the indifferencie or lawfulnes of whoredome or humane inventions therein offer them not thy brodered garmēts neither set the oyle perfume of the Lord. Those divine truths which then teachest purely before them Thou thinkest in the pride of thy heart that these will be sweete and sauorie vnto them and so by an enforced subscription causest those sonnes whom thou hast borne vnto God to sacrifice their studies how to giue best content to these strangers by mingling their abominations Gods holy ordinances indifferently together is this they whoredome a small matter Oh turn thee from all these most grievous and carnall inuentions and remember the daies of thy youth when thou wast naked and polluted in thy bloud how weake is thy heart saith the Lord God seeing thou doest all these things which are the workes of a presumptuous whoore or a Lordly lawlesse and over-ruling woman Yet for all this it is schisme to denie that thou art a true Church yea there is no doubt but when thy Harlots and Bawdes with their carnall and fleshlie devises haue borne the punishment of their wickednesse and abhomination the Lord will remember his couenant made with thee in the dayes of thy youth and will confirme unto thee an everlasting covenant then thou shalt remember thy wayes and be ashamed Oh our reverend and most deere mother is it not the glorie of the man to haue his wife humble obedient why wilt thou then thus presse us even upon thy blessing as wee would not incurre thy displeasure and curse to Conforme to ceremonies callings or gestures which beare no Image or resemblance of the most holy ordinances of our heavenly father but the direct similitude or likenesse of that Character or marke of the Beast oh forget not thou faire one the most amiable loue of that sonne of his loue that we are the true or legitimate fruit of thy wombe is it possible for thee to be unmindfull of this can we ever forget those sweet instructions and most heavenly consolations which wee sucked out of thy beautifull breasts O thou sister and spowse of that holy one call to minde what excellent graces hee so enamiled thee withall that hee cannot but loue and delight in thee unlesse hee should hate himselfe are all the gardens of the East or living fountaints of the west or sweet fruits of Camphir spikenard Calamus and Cynamon with all the trees of Incencer mirr●rand Aloes yea all the chiefe spices in the whole world possibly able to shadow out that high excellencie and most soveraine dignitie where with out of his owne verie prerogative hee hath truely and Really endowed thee why then by thy conformitie to these humane devices wilt thou shut the dore against thy wel beloved and not suffer him to enter into his gardē to eate his pleasant fruit but offers him grapes w ch thou hast gathered of these thornie Inventions figs which these thistly traditions haue brought forth was it not thine own instruction from our Creadle that we must put of the old man with all his works and put on the new even bee made conformable to the will or word of God in all things both in our tender years and stronger age and oldest dayes and must wee now learne another lesson or manner of

of God which is good which nothing possibly can be but that which comes from God the sole author of whatsoever is good For howsoever it cannot bee denied but that surely there is a spirit in man and great excellencie of learning wisedome government and discretion in the subordinate tutors or teachers of this other master yet the inspiration of the Almightie or the inspired word of God onely by the effectuall working of the holy Ghost giveth understanding especially in all things of a religious use in the publick worship of God To ground religious conformity therefore vpon any thing els whatsoeuer is directly to forsake the right way and there is but two wayes the one of truth which is streight and narow and but a few that will subscribe vnto it and to go astraie and follow the broad way or to learne the easie lesson of Balaam the sonne of Bosor which loued the wages of vnrighteousnesse I iudge none but intreate all to take heede of those swelling wordes of this other Schoole or Synagogue full of vanitie least they bee beguiled by them and so bee wrapped also in their error especially to take heede of the second entangling for the latter end of such is farre worse then the beginning to whom the black darknes is reserued for euer Seing then there be but two chiefe masters God and the Deuill and but two wayes grace and nature and seing all that ground their conformitie truly on the scriptures are in the way of truth though imprisonment and other grievances inflicted on them make it some thing streight and narrow and are verily taught of God it must needs follow that all that ground their conformitie vpon any thing els or vpon these erroniously are taught of the diuel which their maner of reasoning allegation of their best authorities doth not obscurely discouer But here perhaps one will strike me on the face and say why should the clay call the potter to account why hee made it thus or so or why should our adversaries demand why this gesture of kneeling should not be as comely and as comfortable as a table gesture Surely I for my part can say no more but ipse dixit our master whose teaching we onely rely upon hath by his own practise openly and solemnlie published and proclaimed in the word as with a silver trumpet to all Churches and congregations for ever the excellent and divine dignitie thereof The other master teaches from fathers and counsels from the precepts of men yea as he bragges from unitie Antiquitie and universalitie as with the verie quintessence of Parnassus melodie that kneeling in the verie act of receiving the holie bread and wine in the Lords supper is the most humble thankfull reverent and fittest gesture in the the whole world yea far beyond that of the table Thus either master hath flows in a different sence let everie servant disciple or scholler therefore cleaue fast to his own master and quite forsake yea hate and despise the other but ô man who art thou are thou mortall must thou come to Iudgement and yet darest thou aske a question of the immortall sonne of God in his members or servants why the gesture which he made choice of and used and ordeined should bee better then that which the sonne of perdition devised and exalted mayest thou not as well aske why there should be any Sabboth or but one not two why two sacraments and not seven why he wrote to 7. Churches and not onely to the metropolitan why wives should be subject to their husbands more then in name or the Church unto Christ further then in shew let us examine and trie these things therefore whether they be of faith for else they are sin yea no man can be ignorant of this that if Christ do not warrant them by his word they are reprobated and serue for no other use but to bring some to reprobation and to hinder others in the means of their salvation for as there is no law or condemnation against any fruit of the spirit or against them in whom it is yea though the world make a law against it yet is great consolation to be found in suffering for it even so if these things in question be the lusts or inventions of the flesh then can they not possibly serue to any other use but to fulfill the will of the flesh and of the mind and so in their verie nature are as I may say the children of wrath as well as others even as well as those damnable devises of sacrificing for the quick and the dead of disposing of crowns of dispensations with corporall and spirituall adulteries or Incests and other like hellish abominations or humane inventions for they al com frō one the same root flow out of one the same fountain haue all every one of them as good warrant by the doctrine of this second master one as another even from the prince that ruleth in the aire that spirit which worketh in whatsoever is not donne in the obedience of faith in all things of Religious use Dare we then conforme in the Religious actions or gestures of our bodie to the ceremonies of that spirituall harlot or to the likenesse of them especially seing in this great secret or mystery of our union with Christ wee are now ioyned in a far neerer bond unto God then in the innocent estate and therefore a far greater and stricter subjectiō is required at our hand True indeed by creation wee were the lovely sonnes and amiable daughters of the most high having no thing uncomely nor any disposition thereunto in any part of us but by sin we made our selves strangers yea enemies most filthie and euen loathsome to look upon yet even in this estate to look upon when he saw us polluted in our own bloud or filthy nature when we were naked and bare utterlie void of all goodnesse or any disposition thereunto even starke dead by sinne in sinne I say in this hatefull condition hee looked upon 〈◊〉 with the eyes of his love and covered yea clothed our filthinesse with the skirts of his own righteousnesse and sware unto us even entred into covenant with us and so contracted vs to him self to be come wholy and in all things his and his onely euen flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone therfore did he wash us in that fountaine of the house of Dauid and annointed vs with an ointment from that holy one decking vs with all spirituall ornaments of grace and sanctification of life so that his holines in the Godly though never so contemptible to the world is become as truly glorious and honorable as a kingdom euen as wickednes makes the mightie and great ones in the world ignominious and contemptible Is it possible therefore to expresse what great and iust cause we haue