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heart_n	apostle_n	law_n	nature_n	2,266	5	6.2593	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87511	Uniformity in humane doctrinall ceremonies ungrounded on 1 Cor. 14.40. or, a reply unto Dr. Hammonds vindication of his grounds of uniformity from the 1 Cor. 14.40. By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods word at Chedzoy	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing J510; ESTC R231583	113,930	100

of this limitation appeareth from this reason because the Apostles command of decency is not violated but by undecency This is at large set down in Ames his dispute about humane ceremonies pag. 77 78. Lastly your and my learned friend Mr. Barlow resolveth and proveth Exercit Metaph. p. 29. every morall evill every evill of sin to be against the law of Nature if not proximè and immediatè yet mediatè ex interventu legis positivae now the undecency here prohibited by the Apostle is a morall evill a sin malum culpae therefore 't is at least mediately against the Law of Nature Your great and learned Hooker pag. 95. of his Ecclesiastical Politie saith that this rule of the Apostle is an edict of Nature a Canon of that Law which is written in all mens hearts the Church had for ever no lesse then now stood bound to observe it whether the Apostle had mentioned it or no. And hereupon I shall infer that if you or your party doe not prove or make good that the administration of Baptisme without the Crosse that Preaching Praying without the Surplice is against the Law of nature in some sense at least mediately he is utterly refuted by Mr. Hooker his interpretation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or notion of decency and I doe not desire to live so long as to see such a proof as this made Dr. Hammond sect 15. This is indeed his meaning which though somewhat darkned in that his expression will appear but consequent to the two things which he hath premised in this matter from Amesius his notion of decency p. 64. in marg 1. that decency requires not that any sacred things be instituted de novo but onely that those things which are instituted by God be used in that manner which is agreeable to the dignity of them 2. That as order so decency belongs to civil offices as well as sacred things in which indecorum est vitium oppositum debito illi modo qui requiritur ad eorum justum finem usum consequendum indecency is a vice opposed to that due manner which is required to the obtaining the just end and use of those things Now if in the former of these the mode he speaks of as agreeable to the dignity of those things which are instituted be it self-supposed by him to be instituted by men then must he acknowledge humane power of instituting ceremonies which being so contrary to his design I must resolve not to be intended by him but rather that as the sacred things are instituted by God so the mode which is consentaneous to their dignity is instituted by God also and that nothing is decent in sacris which is not so instituted And so likewise on the second head that of civill offices For that indecency which is a vice or sin must be contrary to some Law of Gods and so also that which is opposed to the due manner which is required and so is necessary either necessitate medii or praecepti also to obtaining a just end this sure is more than the omission of an indifferent custome which may or may not be continued without any offence against nature even the omission of strict universal duty either natural decency or somewhat that bears proportion with it Jeanes Both Ames and my poor self confess that God hath by the Canon of the Apostle and by the light of Nature appointed and commanded that decency in his worship and service the neglect whereof would be undecent but that hee holds that there is need of a special divine institution to render a thing decent is disclaimed by Ames in several places of his writings Medul Theol. lib. 2. c. 14. sect 24 25 26. Hujusmodi igitur circumstantiae quae suâ naturâ sunt civiles aut communes non sunt particulariter in scripturis praeceptae partim quia in communem hominum sensum incurrunt partim quia infra dignitatem majestatem legis divinae ess●t ut talia figilla●im in illa praescribantur hâc etenim ratione ridieula multa fuissent singulari lege cavenda Exempli gratiâ ne in ecclesiastico coetu unus in alterius sinu sese colocaret in alterius faciem censpueret aut ne popijmos faccret in sacris actionibus Habendae tamen sunt tanquam ex voluntate Dei praeceptae 1. Quia in genere praecipiuntur sub lege ordinis decori aedificationis 2 Quia pleraeque earum necessario sequuntur ex iis quae à Deo sunt expressè constituta Cum enim Deus constituit ut fideles omnis generis convenirent ad ipsius nomen cultum celebrandum consequentèr etiam instituit ut idoneum commodum aliquem locum habeant in quo possint convenire horam etiam assignatam qua simul p●ssint adesse c●m etiam minister à Deo sit constitutus ad alios publice instituendos simul etiam constituitur ut sedem situm corporis illum habeat qui tali actioni congruit 25. Illa igitur quae pertinent ad ordinem decorum non ita relinquuntur hominum arbitrio ut possint quod ipsis libet sub illo nomine Eccles●is obtrudere sed partim determinantur generali●us De● praeceptis partim natura ipsarum rerum partim circumstantiis illis quae ex occasione sese offerunt 26. Variae enim ord●is decori circumstantiae tales sunt ut nulla institutione publica accedente debeant tamen à singulis observari neque possunt ab hominibus prohiberi sine peccato 24. Such like circumstances therefore which of their own nature are civil or common are not particularly commanded in the Scriptures partly because they come into mens common sense and partly because it would not stand with the dignity and majesty of the Law of God that such things should be severally prescribed in it For by this means many ridiculous things should have been provided for by a special Law as for example that in the Church assembly one should not place himself in anothers bosome spit in anothers face or should not make mouthes in holy actions Yet they are to be accounted as commanded from God 1. Because they are commanded in generall under the Law of Order Decency and Edification 2. Because most of them doe necessarily follow from those things which are expresly appointed by God For when God appointed that the faithfull of all sorts should meet together to celebrate his name and worship he did consequently ordaine that they should have a fit and convenient place wherein they may meet together and an hour also assigned at which they may be present together when also there is a Minister appointed by God to teach others publiquely it is withall appointed that he have a seat which is meet for such an action 25. Those things therefore which pertain to order and decency are not so left to mens wills that they may under the name of that obtrude what they please upon