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Show 3i4 t668. ~ Chap. IX. No CROSS., No CROWN. Voi. 1. ' overthrow aU Manner of DiftinB:ion among Men, und~r their diversQYa' lides, and introduce a Reciproct~l and Relational Rejjdl m the Roo':'l of it : Bur if it be fo, I can't help it, the A~o~le James muA: ~nfwer for tt, whO h1s given us this DoE\rine for Chn{han and Apoftohcal. ~nd yet one greater than he told his Di~ciples, of whom. J.amu was one, vrz. 1t ~now, that t1Jt Princes of the Genules exercif~ Dommron over tbem, &c. !Jut 11 jhaU not ie Jo among you; but to~ofoever. wtll be great among .yon, let btm be your ..(t1inij1er; tmd u•bof_otvn- wtlt be chuf among yo11, let htm be.yo11r Servnm,. That is, he that alfeas Rule, and feeks to be Upper.moft, Chall be efieemed leaft among yuu. And to fay true, upon the whole Matter, whether we regard thofe early Times of the World, that were Ante.ced~~ to the Coming of Chiift, or iOon after, there was yet a grear~r Smrplwry, than in the Times in which we :uefallen. For thofe early Trmu of the World, as bad :a:s they were in other Things, were great Strangen to the Frequency of thete Follies: Nay, they hardly ufed fo"'!e of them, at leaft, very rarely. For if we read the Scriptures, fuch a Thm_g as .My Lord Adam, (though Lord of the Wodd) is not to be found: Nor My Lord Noob neither, the Second Lord of the Eanh: Nor yet My Lord .Abraham, the Father of the Faithful; nor My Lord lft~ac; nor My Lord Jacab: But much lefs My Lord Peter, and A1y Lord p,zyl, to be tOund in the Bible : And lefs Your Holinefr, or Tour Grau. Nay, among the Gentile:, the People wore their own Names with more Simplicity, and ufed not the Ceremonioufnefs of Speech that is now pra8:ifed among Chriftians, nor yet any thing like iL Jl1y Lord Solon, .illy Lord Phocion, My Lord Plato, .illy Lord Atiftotle, .1lly Lord Scipio, My Lord Fabius, My Lord Cato, My Lord Cicero, are not to be read ip any of the Greek or Larin Storie:, and yet they were feme of the Sagu and Heroes of thofe great Empires. No, their own Names were enough to diftinguHh them from other Men, and their Virtue and Employment in the Publick, were their Titles of Honour. Nor has this Vanity yet crept far into the L11tin Writers, where it is familiar foJ: Authors to cite the Mofl Learned, and the .Moft Noble, without any Ad· dition to their Names, unlefs Jl'ortby or Learned: And if their Works give it them, we make Confcience to deny it them. For lnfiance: The Fa~ thers they only cite thus; Polycarpru, Ignati'tn, lren~lls, Cyprian, TerruOian Origen, JJ.rnohilli, Laflantivs, Chryfojl_om, Jerr>m, &c. More Modern Writ: crs; Damafcen, R,tbanrll, Pifcbnjirn, Theopbilall, Berna,rJ, &'c. And of the !aft ?tge; Luther, Mrial18br>n, Calvin, Btza, Z ttinglills, Marlorat, Vojfim, Grottll!, DaUem, Amarn!dus, &c. And of our own Country; GiJJa.~, Beda .Alcuinut, Horn, Bra8on, Gro{leed, Lttlet_O?t1 ~rtmmtr, Ridley, ]ttl)d, Wbi~ taker, Selden, &c. And yet, f prefume, th1s wtll not he thought Uncivil or Rude. Why then ls our Simplicity ·(and fo honeftly grounded too as Confcience againft Pride in Man, that fo ea~erly and pernicioufly l~\'es and feeks Wotfhip and Geatnefs) fo much defp1fcd and abufed, 3nd that by profefs'd Chrifl.ians 100 , ~ho take themfelv~s to be the Followers of him, that has forbid rhefe foohfh CuUoms, as plamly as anv other Impiety con· demned in his D?lhine > I ea_rnefi:ly beg t~e Lovers, ·urers, and ExPefterS of thefe Ceremomes, to let thts I have Wrtl have fome Confideration and Weight with them. §. XXXVI. However, 0Jr;{liftnt are ~o,t fo 111-hreJ, as the World thinks; for they , fhew Ref peS: too : But the Dlflerence between them lies in rhe Narure of the Ref pea they perform, and the Reafons of it. The World's RefpeEt: is an Empty Ceremony, no Soul or Sub(bnce in it: The Chriftian's i'i a folid Thing, whether by Obedience to Superiors Love to Equals or Help and Coununance to Inferiors. Next, their R~fons and Moth•;s to Honour.and Ref pea, are as wide one from the other: For Fine Arparrl, Empty '['ala, or La~gc Revenue.r, ar~ t.he Worl.d's ~oti\'es, being Things her. Ch1Id;en '_¥orll11p: But the ChriflMn'r il1otzvt, ts the Senfc: of his Du· ty m .Gods S1ght; firft, to Parents and ldagiflra/et; and then to Tnferi(>r Rela11~nr: And laftly, to .All People, according to their Virtue Wif.Jom and P'"l: Which ·i• far from Refpea to the mcer Perfons of Me~, or h31.: .• in& VoL. I. No cR. 0 s s, N; cRowN. ing their Perfons in .Admiration for ReUJMd. mu"h lefs · bate Moth•esas Wealth and Sumptuous Rai~ent on fuch mean and 1668. §. XXXVJI. We lhall eafily granr Our H~nour a . . ~ more Hidden; and that neither are ro' difcernable by W0} ~1Re~gton, is Cbap. IX. grateful_ to them. Our Plainnefs is odd, uncomb, :~nd goes ~i [ti1 en, !10r · the Gram; but fo does Chrijlianiry too and that {! h ~ Y agamft Bt:~t ha~ not the Heathen· Spirit prevail'd' too long u~~e: ~ (.~~n~cafons. ftj]ion, H would not be fo hard to difcern the R" ht fi nJ'tall Pro-- 0 that Cbrifliant would look upon themfelves withtgh G~o~ the . Wrong. ne(s, that which tells true, and-gives them a~ exa£\ K a Is of Rt,gbuolfl· felves I And rhen let them examine what in th now edge of them .. grees with Chriit's Dotl:rine and Life · and the e~, and abouc the:m, a~ ther t~e.y are real ChrijliAnt, or but ifeJitbenr 'tb ~~ fodon !efolv~, whe· of Chriflranr. ll ene wuh the Name Some T E S TIM~ N I ~' S from Ancient ami Modern Wriur . ravo11r o1 our B E H A V 1 0 U R. t, tn §. XXXVIII. hLrlorat out of Luther and c 1 · ble Paffage, I juft now urged from the A oftJ a vm, u~n that Remarka· thofePrimitive Reformers had of RifpeOP P. eJame~, g1ves us the Senfe To refpe~.Perfons (beu) is to have Regard t:o rbe oH.\·ln t~e~ 'rords, vi::, pojlle jignifies, lhat fucb rifpefling Perf01ts H fi a a an ar : The A· tbat they are altogetb~r inconfiflent . Bu if b p contrary to true Faitb, Rrtard .. , prevail, and weaken uha~ itt o} chri_p j';flP• n'!d otber Wor~Jiy Fauh, Yeo, fo ,great ir the . Glory mzd Splendor 'of Ch ~i~ of" ~ecaytog I hat all tb'e Glories of rbe World bave n Ch :1 u , tn a P1ol/~ Soul, ofT hat, unto "one fo righteoujly inclined :o Thea~ifli: :::e~'{• in Compari_(on . of Pc:rfons, to be rep11gnant 10 the Li ht (wi h' . flub RefpeEEing who f?Uow rhofe Praflicu, are ctmdim~ed fro~ ~i t;.em) h uifomuch, ar tbry S~~ft~ty ought to be tht Reafon or Motive, of nlJ ~~/:a:d ~mfelves. So rbat ~011t IIJO be honoured, upon nny .Account lnu H 1. fi TejjeO; and lhat lor at. ou.r if this be uu.e Do&rine, we ar; much ~:n:h~:R. h•Js tt,lUth Alar~· Conformuy, to the vam RifpeOs of worldl M 1ght, m rcfufing §. XXXIX. But I fhall add to there the ~d en .. • f · tnr Wt·iur, who lived a hove 1200 Years fi mon;uon o E~ Learned, Anci .. Jcrom, who writing to a Noble Manon mce, o . grca_t fteem, namely, live in the Midft. ?fher Projjerity and Ji.. , Celantta, dnefti-ng her how to ouslnftruEtions, ipeaks thus: Heed not !J7:"r~r:b~?ngft many other Religifon for thee t~ take Place of any, Efleem noJ rhoft'?j rror let that he a ~ea .. · ID he .tb)' lnfenors ' for Ollr Relision admits of no k fi aeanefrPExtraQron, doth It IRduae ur, to rep11u Mew ]rom an E. . e P~ . o erfons. nor lRwnrd Frame and Dijpojition of Mind . ~~ ~tbnn~ Cobdtlron, hut /rom their Noble or Bafe. With God not to fe;v g.s ~re ~ t at we pr01tounce Men Virrue, is to he Noble: G~ btu chofen t\ tn, It to ~Free; nnd !o excel in World, whereby UJ humhle the Great On: m~if£/11 • C?ntemptlble of thit dhpfl hit Gentility, fince aU are eguaUy ~jlee~~J1h 11 c] d a £ oU1i for till)_ Je. O?r, and Rich, coflChrift an Equal E {B o , e~ a.n~omOf ten a! m what State a Man ir born· theN xpcnce o lood. l\o~ '! u.ma-' But if n·e will forget, how .wt all Jefctndedwfi rearure hath no DrfimCbon. letifJ perpetyaUy to remember, that we h~zve. b/1/0n ~ne. Father, ae ot~gbt fit\ §. XL. But fince I am engaged · ft h fc ~ e aviOur. (the proper Efl'eEls and Delights o'lE}-;"- t ~ ~;on1aMnd [ruitkfl Cult oms; one Memorable Paffage more as . a_m an rou mds) let me yet add his Difcourfe of Vfe and Ct~{lo~n· ~~IS r~lathd· bl the famoUs Ca1Jfu6on, in. tween Su!piriiH Severm, 31id R;ulint!rBifuo n~f y leportS, what pall beas gave d0 to reJeem Caprivct Wh 'lft h P J\ola,~ (bu_t fuch an onE! may fhew who is their Malter , 1 k?t ers of that Fuothon, that they th:er, by coumellancing the, fl:e dma Ing trranr, both B~(gttri. ~nd Cap• pure Confciencc to GOd) He b .~ er. ::tn.d Imprifonm~nt of C~rijhan:, for nngs It In th-us: He u ngJ covn'rri o Civil · Man |