4 5 ApretàGle Exp firion b.Petttión. Now,if thófc wórthies oftheLot d,for fö märiy and great cuils,t,ot of one or two then, but cum almotlofthe whole peoplc ,madeaconf iencc,yetnot toeflrange tliemlclues trout he Churelt,ihnll not you and I arrogate too much to our (clues, ve'ee paliiti to ííìx' it in tilde daycs ? V'Lill not that Paying of Saint Ail be hideuponvs,f eLcnto the Donartriervpon like occafiou ? Finxervnt fe mimes tu_' fio witrnrotarnveltiut pertorrhare. They made diet-hi-clues too holy,whcn they would dais trouble Air Thettfore à fivecte moderation of all good delres, according to theft true pre fdcn is a:xtholy c xamplcs,aflitredly would be mofl acceptable to the Lord bimfclfc,as it Vas's în then. Come wee from the ophets to our SauiourChrillhimfelfe, that if any man makelefle account of the former then bee flrould,this latter may moue him, and fatisfte him further. \Nhat canner of Church was then; the Gofpell teacheth at large,and we-are not ignorant, when Chrifl hued, and preached among the Lewer. A moll corrupt efface it Wits and full of fores, that Chrifl fharplyreproued in his times. Yetneytlirethatde{' perateimpietieofthePharifes ,northatloofeliberrie that overflowed as it Were theChurch then,could hinder Chrifl,either from vfing the fame tonne of fcruingGod with the people, or from cot-tuning into the fame _ Tcinple,with the mulch ice to the publik e czercifes of Religion there appointed. Luke.l;3t.zz But he Would be círcumnfed with ,the re,tl,and prefcnted in the Triple as others were when the time came, and doe all things with thern,appoynted by the Lawe to doe. Galat11.4.4. any Mats doubt of it,lec'him confider the Scripture Well that faitie :-1Yhen the futnerofTtrrmemitecome, GotfntfóortbhirSonne made ofat7eman,undmadewader the Lawe,that he »aeóht redeem<'themwhich were vndd r the Law, that we might receyue the avian efSonner. He fpenketh of the Ceremonial) Law by r ant e,and therforeno queflicxn but bee performed whatfoeuer therein was commaunded, and of Man, whom he was to redeeme,ought to be performed. Let him confider alfo Chrifier òwnewocds when he faide,Weeworfhtpwhatme !¿none, ioyninghimfelfenot with a fewepiickedand choyfeChriffians, but with the whole'me1eìtuc of the people of the 'ewes, and adding a real-on that prouethfomuch. For faluatioscommeth from the I met. Which is as much, as if bee fhoutdhauefaide for theReligion( not of morne certaine ) but ofthe whole, -or bodieof the Ieves, is a feruice that pleafeth God, for his owne appoyntment of it , and therefore I communicate with them therein my felfe and `ireworfipwhatwehnowetogether. -cikh fcultt' confderiog as much,therfore noteth by our Sauiours examples, what Mtn[c.in Iohn, care and confcience ought to bee in euery Chiffian, to obferue the forme of his pag.toz. owneNettion in fettling God,if it may be warranted. And it 'is flot vnnoted of many others , that-our Saviour notwtthflanding the great corruptions of that Flee enured Church,conmunicated with it in all holy exercifes, & made not another Church fallintotheyr by hnnfelfe of foie certaine betterpeople,and yet there wanted not fuch even in Synagogues thdfeeuill dayes diners ; as 7, aehary,Ebzabeth,tfiary, Symeon, and others, befides &preached, his difciples. So that our Seuiours example is plaine againl a this deceiuing errour and prayed, that we fpcake of : Namely, that any man communicating in thepublike exerci- &c. on the fes of religion,according to the word ofGod appointed,with thewicked,fhould Sabothday. byt hcyrcompaniebepolluted, hechimfelfehauingagoodeonfcience ,anddo, ing his duetie as hee ought. From our Sauiour CHRIST, let vs come next to his Difciples times, and fee/ if they followed not the very fame courfe,and erode not in the very fame fleppes of theyrMaiflerspraElife, s Cotr z Let vs remember the Church of Corinth: which the Apofllein the fpiritoftruth called the Church of G o D: Santfifìed, beloued, and abounding with the giftes C1iap'3'3' of God. Aodyetinitweremanyimperfe&ions,and'fundriegreatandfowlee- normitics.. There wasenitying,and firife, and diuifons; one holding of`Ptutle, an otherofe/1po11os, an other of Cephaa : in fomuch that the Apoflletelleththem they
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