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,