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water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80635	Some treasure fetched out of rubbish: or, Three short but seasonable treatises (found in an heap of scattered papers), which Providence hath reserved for their service who desire to be instructed, from the Word of God, concerning the imposition and use of significant ceremonies in the worship of God. viz. I. A discourse upon 1 Cor. 14.40. Let all things be done decently and in order. Tending to search out the truth in this question, viz. Whether it be lawful for church-governours to command indifferent decent things in the administration of God's worship? II. An enquiry, whether the church may not, in the celebration of the Sacrament, use other rites significative than those expressed in the Scripture, or add to them of her own authority? III. Three arguments, syllogistically propounded and prosecuted against the surplice: the Cross in Baptism: and kneeling in the act of receiving the Lord's Supper.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Nichols, Robert, Mr.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6459; Thomason E1046_2; ESTC R208022	73,042	79

he hath chosen as to hold it presumption for any to imitate him in devising of the like For example none might devise an Oyl like his nor an Altar besides his Exod. 30 38. Lev. 17.3 Lev. 10.1 none a fire like the fire that he hath chosen yea in his works themselves he is not magnified as he deserveth till we confess None is able to come after him and till we say Who is able to do the like Exod. 3.14 Again where man deviseth new signs the signs of God are vilified as if they were from an Humane Spirit yea as if they were lesse fit and convenient And whereas Man is carnall blind and impotent and yet a lover of his own devices no lesse than Pigmalion of his own Picture if he should be suffered to invent new Signs they would be carnal and not spiritual dead having no Power dark veiling the brightness of the Sacraments and yet more loved and delighted in than the Sacraments themselves Calr opusc de Neces R form pag. 59. Joseph Antiq. lib. 15. cap. 8. Aegesip lib. 2. cap. 13. For example a Temple built on Garezim like the Temple of Jerusalem overtopped the Temple And to what fame arose a Temple which Orias built in Heliopolis like to that of the Lord 's in Jury What our heavenly King delivereth his People must be marked with no other form or print save that which is framed in his Word and in his own Sacraments And however God permitted the ancient Fathers to fail in heart in some particulars against thei● general Doctrine yet they ever disallowed and abhorred the changing of signs instituted by God and the devising of others determined to signify the same thing that was sealed by the Sacraments The memory of the Barsamani and Semidalitae is abhorred Danes in Aug. de haer cap. 64. Concil Bracarens 3. cap. 1. Conc●l Constan 6. in Trullo cap. 99. Aug. de haeres cap. 28. Can. Apest c. 3. Decret par 3. dist 2. cap. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7 Concil Const 6. in Trullo cap. 32. Lamb. Dan. in Aug de haer cap. 28. 64. Concil Antisiodorens can 8. for that instead of Bread they used Meal even as others are utterly condemned for bringing in Orapes instead of Wine The Ar●●mans added sodd meat to the Bread and Wine of the Lord's Supper The Aquarli changed Wine into Water The Artotyritae added Cheese to the Bread in the Supper upon an imitation of ancient times when the fruits of the Earth and the fruits of the Cattel were wont to be offered to the Lord Others added Hony to the Wine in the Supper and some Milk But all these are condemned because they are not in the Institution Q. These Hereticks and Sects condemned brought in their devised signs as parts of the Sacraments which is a thing to be condemned But what say you of signs devised by humane Authority and annexed to the Sacraments not as parts but for signification only A. Signs annexed to the Sacraments for signification to declare or teach what God promiseth to man or what duty man oweth to God are parts of the Sacraments no more than some of the former and the Reasons brought to condemn them do cashiere and cast out these also 1. For if he be not devout but presumptuous who administreth otherwise than he hath received of the Lord then must all strange signs be abandoned which hath not been seen and approved of God The charge of the Lord to his People is this Ye shall do my Judgments and keep my Ordinances to walk therein Lev. 18 4. Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.10 Deut. 6.13 Mat. 4 10. Deut. 12.32 Deut. 4 1.2 Zanch. d. Scrip. q. 8. prop. 1. Co. s 2 A●g Exod. 12.24.43 27.21 29.9 30.21 Deut. 4.1 the meaning is plainly this Ye shall observe all mine Ordinances Moral and Ceremonial and them onely as the words of this Law is explained by the Apostle All things which are written in the Book of this Law And him thou shalt serve is expounded by our Saviour Him onely thou shalt serve more expresly the same Commandment is repeated in other places What things soever I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add unto it nor diminish from it To what might they not add neither to the Law Moral nor Ceremonial as the Word signifieth and all Circumstances of the Text do convince For in the former of those places Israel is exhorted to hearken unto the Statutes and Ordinances of the Lord under which two words often joyned together are comprised all duties of the Law moral and ceremonial And thereupon immediately follow these words Deut. 4.8.40 Deut. 5.1 and 6.1 and 12.1 Mal. 4.4 Lev. 18.5 and 19.37 and 26.22.18.22 Deut. 4.1 2. Exod. 25.9 40. and 27.19 Ye shall not add unto the Word or things which I commanded unto you The same is more clear in the second place for having recited many Precepts Ceremonial and some few Moral he concludeth Whatsoever I command you to observe take heed to observe it c. And Moses himself faithfully in this performed the charge of God for having received a Commandment from him to make all things pertaining to the Tabernacle according to the pattern shewed in the Mount he presumed not to add one pin to that was shewed him but strictly followed his Sampler in every point Exod. 39.42 43. And if Moses durst not challenge authority of himself to ordain Sacramentall Rite● and annex them to the holy Ordinances of the Lord how shall we be assured that the Church hath any liberty herein what reason can be given why that should be warrantable in this age of the Church and in that unlawfull If the Church will presume to claim any such Prerogative it is necessary she produce the Charter wherein the Lord hath confirmed such a Priviledg unto her which before he denied to that his Faithfull servant with whom he was pleased to speak familiarly and in most friendly manner The worthy Reformers of Religion who lived in the Church of the Jews after the dayes of Moses knew no such grant for they kept themselves precisely to the Law of the Lord by the hand of Moses not turning there-from in any thing without special and extraordinary inspiration David gave to Solomon his son 1 Chron. 28.12.19 the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit of the Courts of the house of the Lord of all the Chambers round about c. And Hezekiah set the Levites in the house of the Lord 2 Chron. 29.25 with Cymballs with Psalteries and with Harps according to the commandment of David and of Gad the Kings Seer and Nathan the Prothet for so was the Commandment of the Lord by his Prophets Ask the Scripture whether ever the godly Kings among the Jews had any such Authority to bring in any special Action or Ceremony into the service of God without special warrant Search the Scriptures about this matter and if