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The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-wealth,…The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-vvealth,…
The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-wealth, declared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords at the public fast, August 27. 1645. / By Anthony Burges, pastor of Sutton Coldfield, and now preacher at Laurence-Jury, London.The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-vvealth, declared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords at the publike fast, August 27. 1645. / By Anthony Burges, pastour of Sutton Coldfield, and now preacher at Laurence-Jury, London.
London: printed by G.M. for T. Underhill, 1645London: printed by G.M. for T. Vnderhill, 1645
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A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the House of LORDS, A… › Part › Application
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1. What the thoughts are which God hath about a worship that is none of his, Joh. 4. You worship you know not what; men do they know not what, howsoever they dote most upon their own invented worship. There is a Papist Raymundus saith, There are as many mysteries in the Mass, as drops in the sea, Angels in Heaven, Stars in the firmament, atoms in the Sun-beams, or sand in the sea shore; but that which is highly esteemed among men, is abominable before God.
1. What the thoughts are which God hath about a worship that is none of his, Joh. 4. You worship you know not what; men do they know not what, howsoever they dote most upon their own invented worship. There is a Papist Raymundus saith, There are as many mysteries in the Masse, as drops in the sea, Angels in Heaven, Starres in the firmament, atomes in the Sunne-beames, or sand in the sea shore; but that which is highly esteemed among men, is abominable before God.
2. The danger of our own hearts in such things; God doth frequently forbid our own wisdom and discretion, in matters concerning him; and the wiser men are, the more absurd they have been in their worship, when they have not been guided by the light of the Scripture, as in the Egyptians, who were noted to be a fountain of the arts, and much knowledge; they were of all the Heathens ⟨p. 17⟩most ridiculous about their gods. And all Popery may sufficiently advertise us, how dangerous it is to leave Gods word, and to follow our own imaginations: In things of this life, a Magistrate de jure suo tantum remittere potest, quantum pacis studium requiret: sed alia est ratio spiritualis regiminis.
2. The danger of our own hearts in such things; God doth frequently forbid our own wisdome and discretion, in matters concerning him; and the wiser men are, the more absurd they have been in their worship, when they have not been guided by the light of the Scripture, as in the Egyptians, who were noted to be a fountain of the arts, and much knowledge; they were of all the Heathens