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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37249	De jure uniformitatis ecclesiasticæ, or, Three books of the rights belonging to an uniformity in churches in which the chief things, of the lawes of nature, and nations, and of the divine law, concerning the consistency of the ecclesiastical estate with the civil are unfolded / by Hugh Davis ...	Davis, Hugh.	1669 (1669)	Wing D417; ESTC R5997	338,525	358

more stated solemn service of God the remembrance of God as Creator and governour of the world as in the ancient Judical Sabbath the Creation of the world and Gods resting from it to proceed to governing were assign'd as the reasons of it And it was the Doctrine of St. Paul to the Athenians Acts 17.24 that God that made the world was to be worshipped and as this is the reason of Gods Right of prescribing the Precepts of Religion to man so alike also are the reasons why the matter of such Precepts by being according to Gods will must be necessarily on mans part his Service and Worship For if otherwise the Issue of it will be no less then the removal of God from being either a rewarder or a punisher of men and so consequently from having to do at all authoritatively in Humane Affairs and so in the end all Religion it self towards him will be destroy'd which would be all one as to man as if God's very being it self were removed out of the world For a reward is for something done according to ones will And Paena est noxae vindicta Punishment is vengeance taken upon a fault sayes Vlpian But if Religion by being according to Gods will be not mans service and worship there can be no reward annex'd to it from God nor punishment because he is not wronged if the precepts of it be violated and the impulsive cause of all Divine Worship in man being naturally and primarily Hope and Fear towards a Deity and good and evil to be expected from him being the only objects of these affections and the light of Nature where Divine Revelation is wanting as it is supposed to be in this case dictating no other principles of expectation of good or evil from him but that of reward for serving him or punishment for offending him If Gods having to do authoritatively by such rewards and punishments be removed from amongst men what ground or reason would there be left for the practising of any Religion at all towards him and if not towards him then towards none at all since none else but the Creator hath any right of prescribing it The consent of Nations and the commands of God himself about it III. From these Grounds and Principles in Nature concerning these things then it is that the consent of Nations hath dictated the derivation of all Religion only from God And the Divine Law also hath commanded the same thing In Moses his Prescript of Worship it is the reason prefix'd to the whole System of his Laws which were delivered after the Moral Laws as well as to the two Tables of the Moral Law it's self I am the Lord thy God and by the same Laws the Idolatry of the Nation was forbidden to Israel as well as that the prescribed worship of God was commanded In the Law of Christ he himself contra-distinguish'd the commands of God to the traditions of men Mat. 15.9 and his followers practised the very same Doctrine and that expresly upon the very grounds in Nature which we have mentioned There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Who art thou that judgest another saith St. James And St. Paul lays down that maxime Chap. 4.12 That Without Faith it is impossible to please God and he annexeth the reason of his assertion for he that cometh to God Heb. 11.6 must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him The same thing concerning duties Mat. 10.28 that Christ himself also before him hath prescribed concerning sins Fear not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell The like hath been the Doctrine of the Heathen Sages also upon these very accounts Divine Plato says De Legib. Dial. 10. in princip That those are the two great sorts of destroyers of all Religion in the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either who deny the being of the Gods or else do affirm them not to take any care of humane affairs De Natura Deor. Lib. 1. And Cicero Sunt Philosophi fuerunt qui nullam habere censerent humanarum rerum procurationem Deos quorum si vera sententia est quae potest esse Pietas quae Sanctitas quae Religion That there are indeed Philosophers and have been who have thought that the Gods had no care of humane Affairs whose opinion if it be true what Piety can there be what Sanctity what Religion And Stratocles heretofore was laugh'd at when he asked a Law at Athens That whatsoever should please King Demetrius that should be reputed Religious towards the Gods and just amongst men IV. And these Grounds then of the Divine appointment of Religion being thus assigned from Nature The derivation of Religion from God instanced in the Law of Moses Contra Appion passion We shall also find the Universal consent of Nations to it in like manner if we will but take a view of the several prescripts of Religion both True and False that have been in the world So first as to that of Moses the most ancient Law-giver as Josephus in his time and when Gentilism was so rife in the world durst avouch him to be against all the Heathen prescripts He received his two Tables written with the finger of God Exod. 32.15 16. Thargum in Cant. Cap. 1.11 and the Judicial and Ceremonial Laws of Israel from the same hand at Mount Sinai And it is a Tradition amongst the Jews that the Tables were hewn out of the Saphire of the Throne of Gods Glory which they say is mentioned Exod. 24.10 But I need not insist further upon this particular V. Let us proceed next to the Prescript of Heathens So also the Heathen dated theirs and view their Derivation of their Religion from Divine Authority The only creditable and authentick Records of former ages that are left in the World are those generally of the Greeks and Romans In Timaeo circa princip and therefore Plato calls the Greeks alwayes Children because of the defect of the Histories of former Ages amongst them that was even in his time and they being the Elder of those two latter Empires if any are to be believed concerning the derivation of their Religion they are First then as to them and afterwards we will come to the Romans Herodotus says That they derived their Religion from the Aegyptians In Terpsichore In Cratyl Epimoni c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato from them the Phaenicians Assyrians and others Plutarch from Thrace But all agree in this That they received it traditionally from the Institutions of the Gods in those Countries And it is evident that from these and such other Countries they received it because they worshipped the same Gods and in the same Order generally that they did So the two famous Greeks Homer and Plato