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A42880	Panta dokimazete a sermon treating of the tryall of all things by the Holy Scriptures, the confest rule of faith and practice : shewing the deplorable abuse of that rule, with an attempt touching the examen of ceremonies / delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral November 8, being the xxi Sunday after Trinity, by J.G.	Goad, J. (John), 1616-1689.	1664 (1664)	Wing G902; ESTC R535	23,350	40

they differ from Scripture or from one another the constant Belief of the Church the constant Publick Practice the Authority of the Church the Summaries of Faith commonly called the Creed the example of Saints of God the great example of our Lord Jesus the common Tradition and sense of mankind those notices of good and evill implanted in our souls by our great Creator God blessed for ever commonly called Recta Ratio or the light of Nature Some of which are contain'd in the Scriptures as the Pith and Marrow of the same as the Creed and the example of Christ some are supposed to the whole body as right Reason and the light of Nature and some things are naturally annexed to the vigor of the Scriptures viz. the authority and practice of the Church in all points which the Scriptures have put into her hand Against any of which it will be unjust and violent to oppose the Scriptures upon this account because they all agree in a sweet and necessary subordination at least one to the other and 't is a material rule subordinata non pugnant subordinates are not to be set at variance The Scriptures that were left to the Church as a conservatory of Faith since Faith is but One must be left also by Gods design as a conservatory of unity But seeing that is lost among us it is too apparent that it is even with the Scriptures as with other Rules and Instruments Mathematical they are exact and infallible in themselves but yet every one knows not how to use them The error arises because Mathematical Instruments are not assumed by any without the precognition of some prolepses and postulata premised to their due operation To give you a more clear example in the Sun which is the Rule the only Rule and Index of the hour of the day so certain that all other Machines must be corrected by it but no man can find that hour of the day by the Sun it self unless he knows before-hand the Horizon which is East and which is West yea and the Meridian also Secondly These Rules must be applyed to their proper Correlatives the Ruler for Lines the Square for Angles not contrary the Rule for an Angle or the Square for a Line they were not given us to that purpose Scripture is a rule according to the Writers intent of Faith Not of Ceremonies Nor of every dictate of Nature and Nature again is a rule of practice and conscience within its sphere not of things beyond it matters of meer Faith and mystery For want of some such directions as these I say the error arises and doth not the Scripture attest the same that men know not how to use the Scriptures Doth not that learned Apostle S. Paul say of some that call themselves Teachers of the Law Which yet understand not what they say nor whereof they confidently affirm 1 Tim. 1.7 Doth not the Scripture confess that the Scripture is and may be wrested by such and such persons 11 Pet. 111.16 Those certainly that know not how to use them Doth it not once again say That the Law the Scripture is holy and good but then it must be used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawfully 1 Tim. 1.8 to bring us to Christ not to draw us from him and so in like manner to bring us to Unity not to draw us from it And is not the Scripture then used not lawfully when we wilfully exclude all other Guides or Lights or Rules which the Scriptures themselves own and abet and impose on all that will take her word These things if true as 't is pity they should not for Truth and Peace and Order sake we should quickly learn to search the Wounds of the Church and tent them and by Gods grace heal them For all contrary pleas of schism and disunion would fall to the ground since it would be as unreasonable to say I will be guided by Scripture only not regarding the Light of Nature or common dictates of Conscience I will be sway'd by Scripture only not respecting any Creeds or summaries of Faith how antient soever I will be judged by Scripture only defying all manner of publick Testimony or Tradition whether it hath footing in the Scripture or no Scripture shall be my Rule not the example of Christ for many cry up the one that little think they are obliged to the other This upon deliberation will appear to be q.d. I will be guided by the Sun alone not by the imaginary East and West or the humane invention of the Meridian I will build my House level by the Plumb-line not regarding which is up and which is down Now since we are engaged to prove all things matters of Faith Practice and Ceremonies also you are to take notice that we may duely prove all things that there is a difference between the former and latter that the difference stands thus as I trust we shall make it good that the Scripture which is a distinct Rule for Faith and Practice is not such for matters of Discipline It is only general for this as viz. When it commands Decency and Order and Obedience but in particular it is not whence a distinct testimony of Scripture is not to be called for by our Posers for every Ecclesiastical Usage nay it is ignorant and absurd so to think but in the other a distinct Rule is indeed acknowledged Yet again with these cautions that in matters of Faith no interpretation of Scripture must thwart the Creed or in matters of Practice cross-grain the Light of Nature To begin with this first The Light of Nature and Natural Principles are supposed to the holy Scriptures as Unit is to Numbers or the Dawning of the day to the Sun-rise a Beam of the Divine Conscience shot into the soul in the day of the Creation when God said to the little World Let there be light and there was light and God saw that it was good And though great was the loss of that light in our first Father yet the growing darkness reach'd not so far without question as to extinguish all that was good the very shame that was left him was a sign of some good remains he knew that disobedience was nakedness his fear and flying for the same shew that he was not past all grace he was not delivered up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No Divine ever said so Natural Principles therefore remain in us and if they should not without doubt we should all run like Beasts into the Wilderness with Nebuchadnezzar in the head of us for by these all mankind know since I question whether the Sea-Monsters in our shape be of the same race with us know I say Good and Evil that there is a GOD a Law a Vengeance a Worship and we give more then guesses at what is truly Honest and Iust and Modest what becomes our natures and what misbecomes us Vnjust Inhumane and Vnholy also For the Heathen always could and can to

be proved to be not sincere by the strength of Reason as to deny Tribute to Caesar and yet see the superscription to wipe the outside and let the inside be filthy to behold the mote in my brothers eye and not consider the beam in my own eye to be uncovered in the presence of my Master and not to shew the same reverence in the presence of my God I could adde more but I shall be too long on this point only this must not be omitted That Religion without Reason may carry us into a Frenzy I would this Land of ours did not shew you the truth of what I deliver The Spirit of God is no frantick Spirit but the Spirit of love and a sound mind 2 Tim. i. 7. The Apostle asks his disorderly Corinthians what they mean Will not they say that you are mad 1 Cor. xiv 21. The Apostle would not have us be of a crackt Religion If then the Light of Nature implanted in us be such a Light which we must have recourse to when the case serves if that must also with the holy Scriptures have some share in proving all things then we are something toward a settlement we have what will keep us sober at least 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle speaks Rom. xii 3. We shall put up no hideous impudent pretences that shall dare to thwart this Light we shall not be wild or brutish with the untamed Heifers or the wild Ass that snuffes in the Wilderness we shall not be like the populous Fish of the Sea that have no Ruler we shall not preach down Crowns and Scepters the Ordinance of God and Nature and set that new Magistrate the People above them On pretence of Freedom we shall not bring in Confusion and invade other mens Estates on the Plea of Saintship we shall not from the example of Jael Phineas and the Canaanite preach hideous Massacres of all the Loyal Party to such numerous Congregations which are able to do the feat we shall not with those Fanaticks in Jeremy vii 10. believe that we can possibly be redeemed even to commit such abominations we shall have none strip themselves of Shame and Garments and display themselves Naked through our once civil Streets none will desie the civilities of a salute we shall not study to do things quite contrary to humanity only because all mankind that were in their wits had done so before we shall not forget we are men because we are fellow creatures we shall save our natures if we do not save our souls And so much for the first particular Prove all things which concern Conscience by the Rule of holy Scripture but at no hand excluding the Light of Reason or Nature Our second particular treats of the proof in matters of Faith Faith strictly so called in which sense not every point of Spiritual Knowledge is an Article of Faith i. e. necessary to salvation the Scriptures are the Rule of both Faith and Spiritual Knowledge but so as their interpretation keep a fair correspondence with the Rule of Faith the Creed the publick confession of Christ from the first minute of Christianity made in the Church by all the Candidates of the holy Baptism as you hear by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the first Person I believe c. Which confession is brought down to after Ages not in Tables of Stone saith Saint Hierome but in the hearts of them that believe unto righteousness and in the mouths of those that have made confession to salvation For to this very practice doth the Apostle there referre Rom. x. The greatest searchers into the annals of the Church Voss de Symb. confess that the Apostles Creed as now it stands was in use above twelve hundred years ago viz. before four hundred years after Christ Let us take their grant and let us ask them in the Name of Christ Was the Apostles Creed then thought an Innovation such inferences giddy people are apt to make But if we look into the Scriptures there we shall find that Catechism into the Faith of Christ and Confession of the same is elder then the very name of Christian Acts xi 26 as it must be because nothing else could give them that name Elder by some years then the writings of the New Testament Saint Lukes Theophilus was catechis'd into Christian Religion before the Evangelist wrote his Gospel S. Luke i. 4 The Creed and the summe of Christianity differ secundum magis minus a straiter and a larger compass the Creed believes the Son of God the summe of Christianity saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one substance with the Father This believes the Resurrection of the Body that explaines it self a Shining and Glorious Body they differ not in substance but as the Bud and the Rose in Explication only Now the summe of Christianity is the Immediate Rule of Faith the Scriptures being the Rule quatenus They contain in them this great Pawn and Pledg the grand Depositum of our Religion This Depositum was left with the Church and also committed to writing Left with the Church thence the Apostle exhorts in in several places to hold it fast So 2 Tim. i. 13 Hold fast the Form of sound words in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus Observe first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Form of sound words a Draught a Breviate so Ptolomy calls his Maps of the World 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Form and a Rule Thus is our LORD's Prayer a Form of sound words and a Rule viz. of Prayer the Decalogue a Form of sound words and a Rule of Life Observe 2ly a Form of sound words or rather sound Articles and Propositions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for single words are not capable of soundness or of the contrary Thirdly the Contents of this Form the Credenda and Agenda as all Creeds rightly understood do contain Matters of Faith and Matters of Practise witness that Article of Remission of sins Gloriously and Catholickly explained by I believe one Baptisme to Remission of sins Now these Credenda and Agenda the Apostle calls Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus Next that this Form must be held fast that 's some signe it was of no unreasonable extent it must be grassed first before it can be held fast such as doth not overlade the Memorie as the Apostle seems to speak 1 Cor. xv 2 where he is explicating the Articles of the Creed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Construe it how you please it makes for us Now to tell us that at first Voss de 36. Symb. dep 3. p. 14 it was enough for the Baptized to profess Belief in the Lord Jesus or the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Act. ii ch viii 12 c. is contrary to those very Scriptures and Reason For he that believeth in the Lord Jesus doth not believe in those two words only but in all those Great Things concerning him All that he