Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11627	The course of conformitie as it hath proceeded, is concluded, should be refused.	Scott, William, ca. 1566-1642.; Calderwood, David, 1575-1650, attributed name.; Melville, James, 1556-1614, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 21874; ESTC S120840	184,517	202

Ierusalem but no particular determination of the places and Synagogues even so under the Gospell a publick place for publick vvorship necessary but no particular situation nor appointing of Congregations In Iudaea a nomination of the tribe of Levi for the Ministery the like vvhereof could not be under the Gospell throughout the whole world far lesse whither Iohn or Iames. Publick preaching and prayer commanded but the individuall points of doctrine petitions of prayer and some other particular circumstances concerning the order and manner of worship impossible to determine because they must varie according to the occasion and cases of persons places purposes c. Archip That seemeth to me both a sure and plain ground my soule blesseth you for it come on with the second Epaph. The other is vvhatsoever vvas unprofitable or needed not to be determined particularly by divine authority The second ground as being most easily discernable by the light of nature that is not particularly determined by the vvord but left to the determination of the Kirk keeping still the direction of the generall rules And hence it is manifest that the determination of the Scripture could not possible be more particular vvithout superfluity This is the perfection of that wisedom that it hath neither defect nor excesse that it neither wanteth any thing possible nor hath any thing unprofitable It is commanded that the Pastor shall preach to the people but whether he shall stand on his head or his feet with his face or his back turned toward them in a high or a low pulpit it is left to the light of nature That Baptisme be ministred with water but as the vvater of Iudaea had been impossible so it vvas unprofitable to determine with vvhat vvater That the Lords Supper be celebrate in bread and wine but as the bread and vvine of Iudaea vvas impossible so the light of nature directs whence vve shall haue them The determination of the time and houre vvas not possible and may be known by naturall reason but the gesture is determined and albeit it had not been expressed it followeth upon the table Archip. I take it up And it vvould seeme that your two grounds joyn together in this that what was most hardly determinable in the generall by divine authority was most easily discernable by natures light And againe what in the particular was most cognoscible by naturall knowledge vvas most difficult to generall determination Epaph. A threefold consequent out of the two former grounds So it is and ye shall see that being well considered they furnish us vvith this threefold consequent for our direction First nothing meerely positiue voluntary or that floweth from free institution vvithout any help of the light of nature can bee by nature indifferent in the vvorship of God or can be the matter of Ecclesiastick constitution vvhether it come by humane invention imitation of the enemy or translation of Gods ordinances because whatsoever is necessary of that sort is not onely possible but easie to divine and generall determination Archip. How serveth that first consequent for our direction Epaph. Because hence it followeth that wine sale spittle crosse in Baptisme surplice kneeling in the time of receiving festivall daies c. are to be rejected For albeit kneeling in some other exercises of Religion may be naturall yet in communicating it is meerely voluntary Even as diverse religious washings under the Law were of divine institution Heb. 9 10. Yet the other religious washings remembred Math. 15.1 and Mark. 7 4 were onely of mans invention and institution because wrong applyed Math. 1● 3 Mark 7 7. That vvhich is necessary by the light of nature or by divine institution in one part of divine worship may be positiue and vvil-worship in another Observation of daies is of the same kind The determination of an anniversary day is no lesse positiue and as easily determinable by a generall law as the observation of the weekly Saboth Archip. Which is your second consequent Epaph. The second is whatsoever is left to Ecclesiastick determination after that it is determined hath a reason from the light of nature wherefore it vvas so determined and not otherwise having in it a certaine expediencie or a kind of necessity sensible to every one endued with naturall reason As wherefore one houre or place rather then another is chosen for divine exercise vvhy one person rather then another is to be a Minister why fasting at one time and not at another why such doctrines and petitions at one season more then another Now the light of nature vvill never teach any to kneele in the time of eating and drinking at the Lords Table but rather to use a Table-gesture Nor can the light of nature giue a reason why the 25 of December should be observed except it be pretended to be the birth day which is evidently false or because it is a fit time for feasting which is both profane and sensuall Archip. Which is the third consequent Epaph. The third is the variable matter of Ecclesiasticall determination can never be vniversall nor concluded upon internall or generall reasons but locall temporall personall circumstantiall otherwaies it could not be changeable neither could it haue been left for men to determine And therfore kneeling vvith the reason vvhereupon it is concluded cannot bee a matter indifferent but necessary to bee practised by all communicants in all times and places And observation of dayes is of the same sort for were it a thing indifferent then one kirk vvould make choyce of one time for instructing of the people in the naitivitie and another kirk another time Vniformitat in majoribus caeremon●s necessaria in minoribus impossibilis Either that observation must be necessarie or unlawfull Everie indifferent thing is variable and upon occasions may and must be changed and therefore all conformitie in greater ceremonies is necessarie because they are specified in the word so conformitie in lesse ceremonies is vnpossible because they depend upon circumstances variable as conformitie in language and naturall disposition Archip. O vvhat a happines vvere it if men could keep themselues vvithin their marches and not sacrilegiously usurpe the Lords propertie If they would make onely such matters the matter of their Ecclesiastick Canons as the Lord had not passed any determination upon before And by that vvhich yee haue taught me if the vvill of men did not stand in their light it were easie to see what things were in nature indifferent Epaph. It were indeed the beginning of a happines but it might end in a miserie if the rules concerning the use of things in nature indifferent were not observed Rules for the use of things indifferent as vvell as their nature rightly taken up And it feareth me when ye haue thought upon these rules ye shall find that we are more mistaken in the use then in the nature Archip. Some men are so licentious that they thinke they may make