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A51669	The spiritual vvorship exalted. Or A treatise concerning the worship and service of God shewing how uncapable men are in their natural and unconverted state of worshipping and serving God acceptably in this Gospel day. And that it is the light, grace and spirit of Christ revealed in men, which doth renew, fit, prepare and [q]ualifie them for performing that pure spiritual and acceptable worship which was instituted by our Lord, and practiced by his disciples and followers. As also several other things here inserted, worthy of observation. By a lover of truth, and wel-wisher of the souls of all men, George Myers.	Myers, George, 1653?-1714.	1687 (1687)	Wing M3174; ESTC R213894	43,291	111

of that Divine Spirit and Power wherein there is neither Jew nor Greek Bond nor Free Male nor Female but all are one even in Christ Jesus Gal. 3 28. who by the operation of his free Spirit may exercise whom he pleases in Building up Strengthening and Confirming his Church and People as also in bearing a Testimony unto his Blessed and Holy Name amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men. And yet nevertheless as it hath been so it is and ought to be observ'd that such Women as are not truly called qualified for such Services in the Church ought not to presume to Speak and Teach there but to learn in Silence with all due Subjection and indeed it concerns all both Men and Women to be very careful in these respects and also to be cautious that under the pretence of divine motion they be not found going into foolish Whimsies and Extreams out of the Liberties and Confines of Christian Prudence Decency and Moderation but that all keep under the Guidance Conduct Government Order and Discipline of the blessed and holy Spirit and Power of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ otherwise it may be said of Men as well as Women Let them keep silence in the Church for it is not permitted unto them to Speak in a spiritual unpreparedness and in dis-union with God and his People nor in any rule undecent or disorderly manner For our God is not the author of Confusion but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 Section VIII Concerning the Rise of Gospel Performances and the Qualifications of Gospel Ministers showing that they are not from Human Learning Worldly Wisdom and Natural Arts and Sciences but from the Divine Spirit FRom what hath been said concerning the Christian Ministry it is clearly manifest that the Vertue and Power of the Divine Spirit is absolutely necessary for the Qualifying Calling and Constituting of a Gospel Minister and that it is by the secret help motion and assistance thereof that every true Evangelist and Gospel Minister is to be acted and supplied in the performance of their Duties and Services otherwise it does no way appear that they can either be acceptable unto God or beneficial unto men inasmuch as man of himself in his natural and unrenewed State notwithstanding his outward abilities as to Human Learning is as it were a Stranger unto God and really anacquainted with the Mysteries of his Heavenly Kingdom for although School Learning Worldly Wisdom and Human Arts and Sciences are much look't upon and applauded in this our Age as Qualifications absolutely necessary for the Gospel Ministry yet we no where find any such ●ress laid upon the same in the Scriptures but on the contrary it rather appears from thence that the knowledge of Divine and Spiritual Mysteries are hid from the worldly Wise and is revealed unto those who by the vertue of the holy Spirit are born again and so are become Babes in Christ Unto this our Lord Jesus has given a very plain and ample Testimony Luke 10.21 22. In that hour Jesus rejoyced in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for it seconed good in thy sight All things are delivered to me of my Father and no mar knoweth who the Son is but the Father and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Again its observable that although the Apostle Paul was learned sufficiently and brought up at Gamaliel's Feet yet all his Learning and Knowledge could not truly open his Understanding in Divine and Spriritual Matters for whilst he was acted by that Wisdom which was from below he was so blind that he ran on in a fierce career to Persecute the People of God Acts 11.29 and was exceedingly Mad against them yea he confesseth himself that he was a Blasphemer 1 Tim. 1.13 a Persecutor and injurious and says That beyond measure he Parsecuted the Church of God and wasted it Gal. 1.13 But after it pleased God to meet with him to call him by his Grace and to reveal his Son in him he came to learn an other Lesson he was so far from applauding and exalting worldly Wisdom and human Arts and Sciences as Qualifications of absolute necessity for a Gospel Minister that he rather seems to oppose the same saying Where is the Wise Where is the Scribe Where is the Disputer of this World Hath not God made Foolish the Wisdom of this World For after that in the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1.20 21 c. the World by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that Believe For the Jews require a Sign and the Greeks seek after Wisdom but we preach Christ Crucified unto the Jews a Stumbling-block and unto the Greeks Foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God. And also he says verse the 27th But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that are dispised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no Flesh should glory in his Presence Thus we see the Apostle doth much endeavour to debase the Wisdom of the World and to exalt the Power and Wisdom of God as yet still further appears in the following Chapter where he begins to speak concerning himself and his manner of coming unto the Corinthians saying 1 Cor. 2. And I Brethren when I came to you came not with excellency of Speech or of Wisdom declaring unto you the Testimony of God for I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him Crucified and I was with you in Weakness and in Fear and in much Trembling and my Speech and my Preaching was not with enticing Words of Mans Wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power that your Faith might not stand in the Wisdom of Men but in the Power of God. From whence it is very plain and clear that the Apostle Paul was no way enclin'd to allow that place unto Worldly Wisdom which of right belongs unto Divine Wisdom nor yet to attribute that unto natural Arts and Sciences which is only peculiar unto the holy Spirit which thing is also further confirm'd in the sequel of the same Chapter where the Apostle saith Eye hath not seen chap. 2.9 10 11 14. nor Ear heard neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man viz. man in the Fall the things which God hath prepared for them that Love him but God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the

to the Ephesians says And you hath he quickened who were dead in Trespasses and Sins yea God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in Sins hath quickned us together with Christ by Grace are ye saved and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Ephes 2.1 4 5 6. From whence it is very clear and plain that it is the Spirit of Christ that quickeneth the Souls of those who have been dead in Trespasses and Sins and that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his and if he be none of Christs he is none of the true Church and consequently no true Worshipper Again he says That as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God and if Sons then Heirs and Members of the true Church who worship God in the Spirit Moreover as the Lord Jesus Christ by his divine Spirit and Power doth thus work upon the Hearts and Souls of those that receive him in order to cleanse from Sin and Iniquity and to raise up into newness of Life so also it is he only by his holy Light and Spirit that truly prepared and disposes the Hearts of People for the service of God and opens the Mysteries of Truth unto the Sons and Daughters of Men He it is that hath the Key of David that opens and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth Rev. 3.9 And without him the vision of divine things are as a Book that is Sealed and hid from the wisdom of man in the Fall and no man is worthy to open the Seals thereof for which cause it seems John Wept as we read in the Revelation And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the Throne a Book written within and on the back-side sealed with seven Seals and I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice Who is worthy to open the Book and to loose the Seales thereof and no man in Heaven nor in Earth neither under the Earth was able to open the Book neither to look thereon and I wept much because none was found worthy to open the Book neither to look thereon and one of the Elders said unto me Weep not behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Root of David hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the seven Seals thereof Rev. 5.1 2 3 4 5. By the Lion of the tribe of Juda is to be understood the Lord Jesus Christ who prevailed with the Father to open the Book of Truth and to loose the Seals thereof without whom no man is able to open the same be he never so Wise in worldly Wisdom and never so Learned in natural Arts and Sciences as may hereafter in its due and proper place more fully and at large appear Section IV. Concerning the Gospel Church and Evangelical Temple AS it is the Light Spirit and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ that truely quickens and renews People unto God and renders them capable of performing that Spiritual Worship which is acceptable unto him so also it is by the vertue and influence of the same Spirit and Power that the Lords People have been and are stated in a joynt Fellowship and Communion and are drawn into an outward and visible Society and so come under the name of a Church yet for a better understanding of the word Church or what is meant thereby it may be considered in a two fold respect First As it comprehends all whatsoever of every Nation Kindred Tongue and People whom the Lord God by his universal Spirit and Power revealed and made manifest in and through our Lord Jesus Christ doth truly call and gather out of the Life and Spirit of the World and the Pollutions and Defilements thereof into that Pure Holy and Righteous State of Faith and Life wherein they are cccepted of God and owned by him as his Children and People which make up that one true Universal or Catholic Church out of which indeed there is no Salvation Secondly The word Chuch may be taken for a certain number of Persons who being Members of this Universal Church are gathered into an outward and visible Society and do Meet and Assemble themselves together really to wait upon and Worship the Living God and to bear a Testimony for the Truth against Error The Church in the first sence in Scripture terms is called The New Holy and Heavenly Jerusalem the general Assembly and Church of the First-Born the Lambs Bride and the City of the Living God Heb. 12.22 23. Rev. 19.7 and 21.2 9 10. The Church in the latter sence we have it often mentioned in the Scriptures as appears Mat. 18.17 1 Cor. 1.2 Gal. 1.2 1 Thes 1.1 also Rev. 1.4 John writteth to the seven Churches in Asia Thus it is not the outward House Frabrick or Building of Wood or Stone that is or can be truly term'd the Church or House of God in this Gospel day as some vainly do conceive and therefore do ascribe some imaginary Sanctity or Holiness thereunto but it is the Assembly of Believers in this sence gather'd together as aforesaid who are the Evangelical Temple Gospel Church and House of God the Ornaments whereof are not the Embroideries and Furnitures of wordly Art and Wealth but the Gifts and Graces of the holy Spirit Love Meekness Faith Patience Long-suffering Humility Self-denial and Charity with other Christian Vertues 'T is true the Jews under the old Covenant and Dispensation of the Law had an outward Temple where they were to Worship as in 1 Kings 9. and 2 Chron. 7. and because the Lord was pleased to Hollow it for his Name and honour it with his Presence as also to cause an outward Glory and Majesty to appear there by causing Fire from Heaven to consume their Sacrifices c. therefore it was called the House of God as is manifest in the writings of the old Testament And also the Lord Jesus before he was offered up gives it that Name Mat. 21.13 Joh. 2.16 But then after Christ was offered up and the pure spiritual Worship and Service came to be Exalted and born Testimony unto by the Apostles and Servants of Christ that outward Temple being left desolate of the Glory and Presence of God it came to Ruin according to the saying of the Lord Jesus and the true Ministers of the Gospel plainly testified That the most high dwelt not in Teinples made with Hands Acts 7.48 and 17.24 25. Neither was he Worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all Life and Breath and all things but he is Worshipped in Spirit John 4.24 His Tabernacle is with men he will dwell with them and they shall be his People Rev. 21.3 Therefore the Apostle thus writes to the Church at Corinth Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the Spirit

Name by which they have known Salvation As for artificial Musick although it was practized in the Jewish Church yet we do neither find any Precept or President for it in the writings of the new Testament We read that David had Singers and appointed men to make use of Musical Instruments yea sometimes made use thereof himself yet we have cause to believe that what he appointed to be done upon these accounts was not intended by him for gratifying vain foolish and wanton Minds but the more to influence and affect the People at that time with that Worship and Service of God and to sing Praises to his holy Name therefore says he Awake up my Glory awake Psaltery and Harp I my self will awake early I will praise thee O Lord among the People I will sing unto thee among the Nations Psal 57.8 9. Again Make a joyful noise unto God all ye Lands sing forth the honour of his Name make his Praise Glorious Psal 66.1 2. But then although David's intent might be good in making use of those Musical Instruments at that time yet we read that when Israel was departed from the Lord and the Counsel of his Spirit and made use of those things in a Formal and Customary way the Lord declared against them saying Take thou away from me the noise of thy Songs for I will not hear the melody of thy Viols Amos 5.23 And again Wo to them that are at ease in Sion and trust in the Mountain of Samaria That Chant to the sound of the Viol and invent to themselves Instruments of Musick like David That drink Wine in Bowles and anoint themselves with the chiefest Oyntments but they are not grieved for the Afflictions of Joseph Amos 6.1 5 6. From whence it is manifest That it was then so far from being acceptable unto God for Vain Wicked and Sinful men to Chant to the sound of the Viol and to invent unto themselves Instruments of Musick like David that the Lord declares he will not hear their melody and also pronounces a Wo against them that are in the practice of such things and inasmuch as it was so then that the Lord was pleased to declare and testifie against the Songs and Melody of the Jews under that Dispensation it certainly behoves those who are called Christians seriously to consider what ground there is in true Christianity for the use of artificial Musick upon any account whatsoever and especially in the performance of their Devotions to God Almighty for as hath been before observ'd we do no where find that either Christ or his Apostles did at any time either command or recommend any such thing to be used among Christians not does it in the least appear that the practice thereof is any way consistant with the Purity and Spirituality of that Religion and Worship which was Instituted by our blessed Lord and Practized by his Disciples and Followers in the primitive times The Conclusion SInce then it is clearly manifest by what hath been said that it is the Lord Jesus Christ by his Grace and Spirit that is and ought to be the chief and principal mover and actor in the Hearts and Souls of his People in order to call and gather them out of the Vanities and Pollutions of this present World and to fit prepare and qualife them for performing that pure and spiritual Worship and Service which is acceptable unto God in this Gospel day whether it be in publick Preaching Testimonies and Declarations or in Prayers Praises and Thanksgivings unto him and that all men in their natural and unconverted State notwithstanding human Abilities until they be converted to God and have the help all such undertakings shall certainly feel and witness the returns of Divine Love Life Peace and Satisfaction from the hand of the Lord unto their Immortal Souls and shall be secretly uphelp supplied and supported by the blessed and holy power of God in all Straits and Difficulties that shall attend them upon the account of their service to God and his Truth and shall also be enabled thereby to persever in Faith and Patience unto the end of their Course until such time as it shall please the Lord God of Eternal Glory to call gather and remove them hence into an heavenly Habitation of Rest and Peace with him forever So that when the Wicked and Rebellious shall be seized upon with perpetual Sorrow and Anguish those who have thus received the Lord Jesus Christ and by his blessed and powerful hand have been conducted to their Eternal Mansion shall together with all the Saints and Children of God that are gone before them Everlastingly Praise Magnifie and Adore the Divine Majesty who alone is worthy of all Honour Glory Praise Magnitude and Dominion at this time henceforth and for evermore Amen ERATA In the Title Page line 12. read revealed in men in the Preface page 2. line 4. for Religions read Religious p. 4. l. 3. f. anology r. anology p. 5. l. 13. f. saw the r. saw that the. p. 17. l. 14. f. hollow r. hallow p. 20. l. 2. f. meet r. met p. 38. l. 18. f. silent r. in silence p. 43. lines 3 4 5 6. not to be ●alick Letter p. 51. l. 2. dele unto p. 59. l. 18. f. intened r. intended p. 68. l. 16. f. feed r. fed l. 25. f. Christ r. Christ's p. 88. l. 11. f. God r. Gods. THE END