A53671:98
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.
London : s.n., 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
having therefore boldness to enter into the holyest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, and having an High-Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. This is the glory of Gospel worship, and the beauty of it; whose consideration whilst the minds of men are diverted from, to look for beauty in the outward preparation of ceremonies, they lose the privilege purchased for Believers by the ⟨p. 61⟩blood of Christ. Instead then of furthering the beauty and comeliness of Gospel worship, they are apt to lead men into a dangerous error and mistake, namely that the beauty and excellency of it consists in such things, as upon a due consideration will appear to be mean and carnal, and far beneath those ceremonies and ordinances of the Old Testament which yet in comparison of the Worship of the Gospel, are called Worldly, carnal, beggarly, and are said to have no glory.
having therefore boldness to enter into the holyest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, and having an High-Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. This is the glory of Gospel worship, and the beauty of it; whose consideration whilest the minds of men are diverted from, to look for beauty in the outward preparation of ceremonies, they lose the priviledge purchased for Believers by the ⟨p. 61⟩blood of Christ. Instead then of farthering the beauty and comeliness of Gospel worship, they are apt to lead men into a dangerous errour and mistake, namely that the beauty and excellency of it consists in such things, as upon a due consideration will appear to be mean and carnal, and far beneath those ceremonies and ordinances of the Old Testament which yet in comparison of the Worship of the Gospel, are called Worldly, carnal, beggarly, and are said to have no glory.