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Some treasure fetched out of rubbish
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-governors 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.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.
London : s.n., printed in the year, 1660
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1. The Surplice being a garment of a special nature, and use, in that it is a mere Ecclesiastical and Mystical Rite, ought to have a special Divine Institution, as such garments have had in the Church of the Jews: for Reason requires that the ground be suitable to the nature of the thing. But such a ground it hath not, neither can any show any special Institution.
1. The Surplice being a garment of a special nature, and use, in that it is a meer Ecclesiastical and Mystical Rite, ought to have a special Divine Institution, as such garments have had in the Church of the Jews: for Reason requires that the ground be suitable to the nature of the thing. But such a ground it hath not, neither can any shew any special Institution.
2. There is not so much as any general warrant for it in the Book of God. First, there is none in the Old Testament: The Priestly garments were tied only to the place of Ceremonies,1 not used in any of the Synagogues of the Land, nor in any of those 460 which are reported to be in Jerusalem: Were typical, (wherein it stands not with the nature of the times of the New Testament to mitigate them,2 Spark perswas. to uniformity, cap. 5. pag. 22.) Neither were they used in the Peoples sight, except once extraordinary by occasion of the presence of the Ark before the People. So that if there had been any further use of them (viz.) for glory and comeliness, as one saith,3 not considering, that in the use also they were typical, yet they cannot possibly warrantize Vestments in the sight of the People.
2. There is not so much as any general warrant for it in the Book of God. First, there is none in the Old Testament: The Priestly garments were tyed only to the place of Ceremonies,