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fore-thewmg things
to
come
,
but
as
they
were
a
worldly or
carnal!
elementary kmdc
of inftrudion;
or
as
they were
fenfibletrainingsof
them,
to which
God
did condefcehd, becaufc
it
was
the baby
-age
of
the
Church
,
wherein men were carnall
in
great
meafure
,
but
in
little
meafure fplrituall.
True
it
is
,
Gods
worfhip
is
for
the
fubitance
of
it
fpirituall, and was alwayes
;
but for the mahner
of
it,
it
was carnal!,
that
is, standing
of
fenfible and
flefhly
obfervations, which God
did
prefcribe,
not
as
limply delighted
in
them,
but
as
accómodating
him
-
felf
to the childifh condition
of
the Church
ih
thofe
times: This
was
thewifdom
of
God,
in
training
the
minority
of
his people.
The
ufe
of them
remaineth
in
liberty,
without thefe formal( re-
In
what
rarer
fpects,
with
thefe three
limitations
:
LegaR
Cere-
a.
To
open
a
door
of
Edification.
monies might
be
pled
after
l'
2.
To
avoid fcandali
of
the weaker.
Christ.
-
3.
To
keep
the
die
time
,
till refraétory wilfulnefle, rather
then
teachable infirmity, craveth their continuance.
Ceremonies for Order
are abolifhed, this generali remaining,
that
all
things be
done
in Order
;
it being
in
the power
óf
the
Church,
to
conclude minilleriall Rites tending
to Order.
Now
for the
Reafons
of
their removal!:
2.
z.
The
ends
of
thefe Laws are
ceafed ;
if
Reafon
is
the
foul
of
Reafons
of
re-
a Law, look
then
as
when
a
foul
departeth, the body
dyeth;
g,üxs
e.
fo
when the Reafon ceafeth, the
Law
is
abolifhed.
:.They
were given
but
for
a time:
Now
a
Law givento
a
certain
time;
the
Law,
when that date expireth
, is
a
nullity,
every
thing
runneth
as
before,
it
is
a
dead
thing till
it be
quickned,'
till the time
of
correéìion, &c.
3.The
nature
of
them,they
were fhadows; when
the
Sun rifeth,
fhadows
are
eclipfed
:
The
(tare
of
us
in
minority,might
re-
quire
them,but.men
at
years need
no
Guardian.
The
life
is
to let
us
fee
the
Lords indulgencie to
us,
and it fhould
Yje
r:
binde
us
to moft
free fervice
:
Circumcif
ion
,
Sacrifices, infinite
Be
the more
heartyin fpi-
circumftances
they
were eyed unto to obferve ,
which we
are
ritvanwormip
freed
of.
Secondly,
it
letteth
us
fee
the Laws liberty to change
his
fervices;
y,
not
that
God becohieth
another,becaufe his fervice one
whilenis
thus,.
Liberty of
another thus: As
if
a.ftripling have
a
difeafe,
the
Phyfitian defcri-
°d
inch
a-
ging the
forms
both one
thing; if
when
a
grown
man, he giveth another;
his
art
is
ofhùfcrvicc.
confiant,
though
his prescript
changeth
:
So
God,
in
our
infancie
in
one
kinde he miniftreth
to
us,
in
out
confiant
and
grown age; in
ano-
ther. And
we
owe him the reverence, how
oft foever he fhall reveal
himfclf thus
or thus, to
eve
attendance.
It
dots confute
thePapifls
,.
as reverfers
of
the liberty
by Chrift,
3.
and fettei:s:up
of
that
he
bath palled down, intheir
fervice
letting
up
a Papas
con
-
foolith
imitation
of
the
old worQiip
doomed
for
leech,*
Throughhrr
fle/h;] that
is,
his
manhood,
in
the dayes.of his
flesh
Jewabwormip
and
his
manhood
:
A
Synecdoche;
for
this
our
nature-is an
iditru-
ment