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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10061	The laver of the heart; or Bath of sanctification Preached at Pauls Crosse the first of September last, 1615. By Gabriel Price, minister and preacher of Gods word.	Price, Gabriel.	1616 (1616)	STC 20306; ESTC S102929	54,546	178

of the Diuine to pronounce iudgement at the barre why should the Diuine by mans directions bee taught to speake in the Pulpit If the Captaine must not sight when the meane souldier will appoint him nor the souldier fight with such weapons as his enemies will appoint him then Gods Ministers ought not to teach what the best man in the parish will appoint him But the proposition is true Ergo wofull it is to heare how the gold of the Sanctuarie is changed Ierem. Lam. 4.1.2 and become dim and how the Noble men of Sion comparable to fine gold are become earthen pitchers waiting on the humour of men to be filled with winde that they may fill others with vanity that the Lord may say now as this Prophet said of Iudah and Israel Lam. 2.14 Thy Prophets haue looked out vaine and foolish things for thee and they haue not discouered thine iniquitie to turne away thy captiuity but haue looked out for false prophecies and causes of banishment The vse is both for reprehension and for instruction first for reprehension it reproueth first such Ministers that bee slaues and vassals to mens affections Such were the foure hundred 1. Reg. 22.6 Prophets to please Ahab And would to God there were not among the Prophets that will speak as the best man of the parish will haue him speake and that will speake mans inuentious in painted eloquence to set forth themselues and that there were not that because they may not speake what they will speake not at all making a diuorce betweene the tongue and the hart lest their Poperie be seene 1. Cor. 7.23 Galath 1.10 1. Thessal 2.4 Secondly it reproueth such that teach for the doctrines of Gods commandements 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mans precepts setting forth their owne inuentions and their Traditiones sancta Romana with more authority and commendation then the word of God Maith 15.9 because if men or Angels proach otherwise then wee haue receiued from Christ and his Apostles they bee accursed Anathama marah natha According to which doctrine of the Apostle Saint Paul Galath 1.9 Cyp. ad Powp p. 228. faith Nihil innonetur nisi quod tradit●●n est vnde est istae traditio vtrum de dominica Euangelica authoritate descond●●s an de Apostolorum mand●● is at ques Epistolis veniens ca eni●● fa●●●da ●sse qua scripta sunt c. and proposed vnto Iosuah saying Let not the booke of the Law depart from thy mouth Vntill I deeply weighed this I was drowned in the opinion of learning resolued that where learning is there is the light of true vnderstanding till together with this I say I called to minde that the Scribes and Pharisees chiefe Doctors experienced in the Scriptures vnderstood not the Law nor Christs parables aright because to them it was not giuen Matth. 13.1 Luk. 10.21 but was giuen to babes Whereupon I am now moued to say it is not the wise dome of flesh and blood that can iudge of the spirit not learning but God enlightening that directeth the vnderstanding to the right obiect Wherfore I praise that illustrious Scaliger exere 359. who saith Nostra hac in literarum studijs peregrinatio sine suprema Luce miserabilia quadam erratio est This our painfull peregrination in studies if it be destitute of that supreame light in nothing else but a miserable kinde of wandring Yet in giuing this glory to God I commend not certaine speculatiue spirits that runne in the other extreame who thinke God will make knowne his mysteries to them whether they take paines or no. For if the prouision of this baser life cannot bee gotten without the sweat of our browes much lesse can the food of that better life bee gained without the sweat and industrious searching of our soules But to returne to humane traditions from whence we haue digressed In speaking of humane learning I beseech you to vnderstand me and that with distinction For whan I name humane inuentions traditions whether of doctrines or of ceremonies I pray rightly to be vnderstood For concerning doctrine I meane not that it is vtterly vnlawfull to mention men mens writings in the place of God in preaching for it is lawfull to alleage in Sermons the authority of men making for the truth of God as it was lawfull for Dauid to kill Goliah with his owne sword For an arrow out of a mans owne quiuer against himselfe doth more fester the wound and wound him to death then the sword of his enemy And concerning humane learning I say with Saint Basil Ad●●potes that both the knowledge and vse of naturall learning in a Minister is lawfull and somtimes necessarie and this doth the very example of the Apostle reach vs Act. 17.28 Saint Paul to conuince the ignorant and idolatrous Athenians of great blockishnes and prophanesse alleageth the saying of Aratus the Poet to proue the true God who said 1. Cor. 15.33 that in God wee had our liuing our mouing and being And in the question of the resurrection reprouing the Epicures who as if there were no resurrection nor life to come gaue themselues to all pleasure and riotousneste of life S. Paul condemned by a sentence out of Menander the Poet saying Euill speech corrupt good manners The like he alleaged out of Epimenides Tit. 1.12 saying the Cretians are alwaies liars Thus wee see not onely humane but prophane learning may serue Diuinicy as hand-maidens being purified and cleansed from the Idolatrie and impiety of the Heathen Thus farre I dare goe albeit I dare not speake with the spirit of Atheisme and blasphemie that Plinies Philosophie equalleth the bookes of Moses not that Aristotles Ethickes and Politickes equall the Proverbs of Salomon nor that Mareus Aurelius equalleth Marke the Euangelist nor that Merlius prophecy be one with the Prophecie of Isay nor the eloquence of Cicero and Demesthenes equall the cloque noe of the holy Ghost nor any Doctors or Fathers before the doctrine or Christ much lesse the Pope and his decrees to be before or equall with the decrees of God in the Bible Neither doe I meane of traditions concerning ceremonies that it is vtterly vnlawfull to vse any in the Church-apparell and seruice being commanded by the Christian Magistrate For as religion can stand without Popish trash from Rome and Rhemes yet ●ru● religion neuer was without certain ceremonies euen as a learned Lecturer of Geneua hath said Bucer in Mat 18. that Cerep●oniae enim testes religiouis sunt Ceremonies are witnesses of religion for there are religious as well as irreligious ceremonies Can Baptisme bee without water and the Lords Supper without bread and wine bee not prayers performed with kneeling and what letteth the Sacrament to bee receiued kneeling when the words deliuering the same into the hands of the people it nothing else but a prayer and the precisest I hope will not denie kneeling at prayer The Scripture soundeth as forth of a Trumpet that indifferent things