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A34207 A guide to the true religion, or, A discourse directing to make a wise choice of that religion men venture their salvation upon seasonable for these times wherein there are such diversities of opinions and wayes of religion : to inform the ignorant, to resolve the wavering, and to confirm the weak / by I.C., M.A. of T.C.C. I. C., M.A. of T.C.C. 1669 (1669) Wing C57; ESTC R5667 45,610 112

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Worship owned viz. That God only is to be Worshipped no Creatures Saints or Angels That he is to be Worshipped only in and through Christ as our only Mediator and Advocate that he is to be Worshipped in Spirit truth to be Sanctifyed of them that come near unto him 3 As for Fundamental Duties and Points of Practice here is a Profession of Faith in Jesus Christ alone for Salvation of Repentance from dead works and love to Jesus Christ and to all that are his and obedience to the Moral Law of the Yen Commandements Here is a professed Renuntiation of the Devil the World and the flesh with all their sinful works and Lusts All these call for an ingenuous and candid acknowledgment How would our fore-Fathers that lived in former times of Popery have rejoyced to have seen such things in England We should bresse God that hath vouchased such a mercy to us Honour our Defender of the Faith under whose protection this Profession is made and shew more Reverence to the Church then many do who will pettishly slight all this because they have not all they would have Secondly we are next to consider those things that are disliked by such as scruple Communion which are especially reducible to three Heads 1. Government and Discipline which though it be various in the Reformed Churches yet notwithstanding they hold mutual Communion with each other as Sister-Churches and many particular wise and godly Members of those Churches hold Communion in the Ordinances of God administred in the Churches of different wayes occasionally when they reside amongst them 2. Forms of Prayers and Ceremonies concerning which some disallow all set and imposed forms whatsoever others only dislike the form by law established accounting it inconvenient disorderly and defective and rejecting the Ceremonies yet wise and sober persons generally Non-Conformists as well as Conformists reckon external forms and modes of Divine Service not of the Essentials of Worship but adjuncts thereunto belonging Ames Cas l. 4. c. 14 c. 17. Prestons daity Exercise E. G. The Essence of Prayer lies in lifting up true desires to God in the name of Christ for things agreeable to his will in the elevation of the heart or mind to God c. Words are but the outward clothing of these desires and holy affections or the Chariot wherein they mount up to Heaven And for the Ceremonies used in England they are utterly denied to be any parts of Worship and declares only circumstantial appendants thereunto see the Preface to the Common Prayer and Canons c. 3. Corruption in manners and that both in People and in Ministers which when found in the latter makes the offence far greater as when the Sons of Eli were wicked they made the offerings of the Lord to be abhorred These things premised We shall now offer our advice in this great Controversie and annex such Reasons thereto as shall evidence it both safe and profitable We lay it down in three particulars 1. To beware of a Total withdrawing from the publick Assemblies in the Church of England and the worship of God therein whilst the Fundamentals of Faith and essentials of Worship are therein maintained because you apprehend therein some corruptions defects additions or errors which are circumstantial This advice though it might be urged with manifold arguments yet the Brevity I intend in this Discourse requires me to give but a few 1. If you will make the Scripture your Rule herein you may see so clear a Beam of Light all along through the same witnessing hereunto That it is a wonder any should be found to Question this duty Consider the Prophets and people of God in the time of the Old Testament did they separate from the true Worship of God in the Jewish Church or teach any to do it when there were very great defects corruptions therein There was at some times a defect of some Solemn Ordinances for a long time together as Circumcision the Passeover c. Some Monuments of Idolatry remaining amongst them and the People many of them defiled therewith Very great corruptions of manners not only in the People but in the Priests as in Eli's Sons c. Yet whilst the true Worship of God was continued amongst them there 's neither precept or practice to be found of total withdrawing therefrom Indeed the godly Levites People did withdraw from the Idolatrous Worship of Jereboams Calves leaving their dwellings and going to Jerusalem 2 Chro. 11.14 16. but no mention is made of withdrawing from the true Worship of God for such causes as were before named About the time of our Saviour Christ and his Apostles the State of that Church was greatly corrupted by many degrees more then any sober person can judge the present Church in this Nation now to be The Interpreters of the Law had taken away the Key of knowledge and that little knowledge that remained was miserably corrupted not only with the Leaven of the Pharisees but with the damnable Heresie of the Sadducees The Worship of God much prophaned and the Temple polluted and made a Den of Theeves A multitude of Superstitious Ceremonies introduced that were a burden too heavy to bear The power of godliness subverted whilst small things were exactly minded the weighty things of the Law as Judgment and the love of God were neglected a general over spreading of sin not only amongst the Vulgar but the Priests themselves and that in their Ministration and calling as well as in their Lives c. Yet did not the Godly withdraw from the Communion of that Church for the same We read that Simeon Anna and Others continued in the Temple Worshipping God daily Holy Zachary forsook not his Priestly Office but Ministred in his course in the Temple And Christ himself was circumcised and presented to the Lord in the Temple with the accustomed Sacrifices offer'd for him according to the Law of Moses he kept the Passeover and other Feasts of that Church was frequently in the Temple and in the Synagogues with his Disciples allowed of the hearing of those that sate in Moses's Chair only gives caution against their Errours and bad lives sent divers to the Priests to Offer their accustomed Off●rings required in the Law Nor did he in the dayes of his flesh wholly forsake the Communion of that Church nor his Disciples after him untill the Jews did contradict and blaspheme the Truth obstinately refuse to owne the Lord Jesus for the Christ and persecute to death the Professors of the Name of Christ In the Churches of Corinth Galatia c. We read of great and dangerous Errors in Faith grievous pollutions in Worship sad miscarriages in Manners yet concerning withdrawing from these Churches we find not a word but many reprehensions of their Schisms and Divisions In the Churches of Asia there were several things they were blamed for as well as some things commended in them But no hints of Separation from