'himfef, then by pretending himfelfto be wifer then Maker and Redeemer ? Is it not bad enough to equalize your (elves with him unies you exalt your (eves above him ? If you do not fo, what mean you by coming after him to corred his Laws, or mend his work, and make better laws and ordinances for his Church then he himfelf hach done? 2. And I think it is no better then Pride for men fo far to exalt them(elves above the Church ofGod, as to inflitutenew figs and ordinances, and fay, El commandyou all to worfhip Godaccording to thefe any info' rations and inventions : and he th.et will not thaw ttorfhip him, fhall not have liberty toworfbip him at all, nor to live in the Com- nuenion of Chri{lian.r.] What's Pride and arrogancy, if this be not ? s. 9. Real.$. None knoweth the mind of God concerning his worfhip, but by his own Revelation : If therefore he have riat Revealed it to man, that he would be ferved by fuch myftical Rites, and Ceremonies, then no man can know that it will pleafe him. And if it Pleafe him not, it will be loft labour and worfe and we may expect to hear. [ -who requireth this at your hands t] How do you know that it plealeth him to be ferved by Images, Exorcifmc, Croing., and many pompous Ceremonies ? He ha h nowhere told you fo. And your will is no proof of the will ofGod. . ro. Real. 9. God would not have taken down the Legal Ceremonies, and delivered us from them as a burden, and com- manded us to fland fall in the Liberty with which Chrift bath made us free, and not again to be entangled with the yoak of bondage Gal.S. r. ifhe would have given men leave tohave im.. poled the like burdenfome obfervances at their pleafure. If ou fry that chofe prefent Ceremonies are not burdenfome ; I aske, why then were chore of Gods inflitution burdenfome ? That yoak was ftreight and burden heavy ; and Chrifi bath called us to take upon us his yoak that is eafy,and his burden that is light. Matrh. r 1.28. It was not only the threatnings con fund againft the difobedient, that made the Jewifh Ceremonies to be . a burden, which they werenot able to bear, AEI. r . nor yet hecaufe they were but Types (for to be T} Os of Chrii, was the r higheft honour :) But alto becaufe they were,numerous, and required labour and time, and were unneceffiry (when Chrift waF come) and fo againft the liberty Of the Church, as Col.
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