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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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Q. These Heretics 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?
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 cashier and cast out these also.
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 administereth 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; 1the meaning is plainly this, Ye shall observe all mine Ordinances, Moral and Ceremonial, and them only; 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 only thou shalt serve; more expressly 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