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29

2.

VERS.

15.

Doff.

Natural!

men

hate divine

ordinances.

Ephefans,

Chap.

2.

VE

R,15.

I

tians, Exod.

8.26.

Apparcll, geftures,

diftin

&ions

of

meats

,

Swines

flefh

:

It

is

not their

Idolatry onely, but

their

fuperftitions which do

make

a

divorce

twixt

them

and

us

;

and we

fee

that with

us

matter

of

Ceremony bath the

fame

ufe

:

If

of

God

,

they do both

ferve

to

be bonds

of

unity, and walls

of

feparation from

thofe without

;

if

of

man,they do binde fuch

together

as

receive

them,and

are

a

wall

twixt

fuch and

others who cannot yeeld

to

entertain

them. I would

it were

not

too

apparent

,

that they from their

firft admiffion

were

oetafron

and

prop

of

difference: and

now Chriftians are fubdivided by

them

into conformable

and

unconformable.

The

ufe

hereof

is,

to

let

us fee

what the

form

of

Gods

worfhip

is

to

us

,

it

is

as a

wall

about

us

,

both

garding

us

,

left we

go out,

and

keeping others from having

acceffe

to

us.

And

it

letteth

us

fee, what

is

the

belt

conflitution

of

Worfhip, the

fpirituall

worfhip, with

what

care

we

are

to

maintain

it

,

if

we will have

the

city

of

God

in

fafety:

For, look

as a

breach

made

in

the wall, the

city

is

foon entred.

The

Papift bath polifhed his

Do6trine; for what, but

in religious Rites and

praEtife,

(lands all

their

Worfhip

e

Never

more extremely

obferved;

teaching every

thing by

force fenfible fignificant

Rite

or

other:

Whereas, God

will have no fenfible Rites

in

his

Church,

teaching

any

thing to the minde, but Baptifine,

and his

Supper, which himfelfhath

ordained

as fufficient.

'Wicked therefore is their

prat-life,

that would

(till

bring the Church

to

be

in

the

A.B.C.

and

to

ufe

the

Feskue,from

which Chrift by

his

death bath delivered

it.

We

learn hence,

to

turn away from monitory

and fignifying

figns;

why

fhould

we

rake

up

that

which

is happily

buried

a

True

it

is,Gods

Worfhip

is

for the fubftance

of

it fpirituall, and was alwayes;

but for

the manner

of

it, it was carnal];

that

is,

ftanding

of

fenfible and

flcfhly

obfervations which

God

did prefcribe, not

as

limply delighting

in

them, but

as

accommodating himfelf

to the

childifh

condition

of

the

Church

in

thofe

times, wherein the more plentifull prefence

of

fpiri-

tuall

gifts was

not obtained,

Chrift

not being

as

yet

manifefted and

glorified.

VERS.

15.

in

abrogatingthrough

his

flefh,the hatred; that

is, the

Lam

of

the

commandementr, which

fiandeth

in

ordinances,

for

to

make

of

twain,

one

new

man

in

himfel

f,f

making

peace.

Hatred.]

Obferve

hence, how

thofe without

are affeûled to

the

Difcipline and

Worfhip which God

himfelf

ereóted ,

they

have

it in

utter hatred

:

The

naturali

man

Both

not

entertain

the

things

of

God,

1

Cor.

2.

14.

The

wifdom

of

the flefh cannot

be

fubjelt

to

the

wifeless;

of

God,

but it

enmity againfi

it, Rom.8.7.

Though that

this

Divine Ser.

vice

and

Worfhip

did

onely

(of

all

Worfhip

in

the earth)

lead to

the

knowledge

of

our

(elves

by

Chrift,

and falvation

in

him

a

yet the

Gentile, becaufe it favoured

not with corrupt nature, had

it

in

dete-

ftation

:

And

fo it is

the portion

of

the

wifdom

of

God, to

be

rejeéted

with the world.

We

fee,

that the orders which Chrift

bath left for

the governing

of

his

Church,

the

frmplicity

of the

Word

and Sacra.

ments,