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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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4. This place in hand holdeth forth also this further Truth, That what things the Church seeth (by the former Rules) to be indifferent and decent, or which Church-Governors shall declare so to be, those things may lawfully be done.
4. This place in hand holdeth forth also this further Truth, That what things the Church seeth (by the former Rules) to be indifferent and decent, or which Church-Governours shall declare so to be, those things may lawfully be done.
For the further clearing hereof, and the better discerning of the Power of Church-Governors in these matters: It may be observed that of decent things lawful to be done in God's Church, some things are
For the further clearing hereof, and the better discerning of the Power of Church-Governours in these matters: It may be observed that of decent things lawful to be done in God's Church, some things are
1. Indifferent and decent, As to preach in a Gown or Cloak, whereof the one is no more necessary or expedient than the other. 2. Expedient and decent; As to abide in single life, or to enter ⟨p. 3⟩into Marriage; of which, though Marriage in time of Persecution be indifferent, yet single life is much more expedient to prevent trouble in the Flesh. 3. Necessary and decent; either always, as a Woman to keep silence in the Church, or at least, Hic & nunc, so as the neglect thereof would be uncomely to the light of Nature, Scripture, Custom: As a Woman to be veiled in the Congregation in the Eastern Countries: So, to abstain from Blood, whilst the eating of it was offensive to the Jew.