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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	sovereign_a	3,527	5	9.3552	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79166	An answer, in defence of a messe of pottage, well seasoned and crumb'd. Against M. T. S. T. R. A. I. S. P. H. anagram, Strap Smith. Who falsly sayes, the Common Prayers are unlawfull, and no better than the Popes porrage. In which tract is answered his unanswerable reasons: by the same Gyles Calfine.	Calfine, Giles.	1642 (1642)	Wing C292; Thomason E144_28; ESTC R14834	5,738	10

AN ANSWER In Defence of A MESSE OF POTTAGE Well Seasoned and Crumb'd Against M. T. S. T. R. A. I. S. P. H. Anagram Strap Smith Who falsly sayes the COMMON PRAYERS are unlawfull and no better than the Popes Porrage 11. Job 2.3 Should not the multitude of Words be answered and should a Man full of Talk be justified Should thy lyes make men hold their peace and when thou mockest shall no Man make thee ashamed 23. Exodus 1. Thou shalt not raise a false Report In which Tract is answered his unanswerable Reasons By the same Gyles Calfine London Printed Anno Domini 1642. An Answer in Defence of a Messe of Pottage well Seasoned and Crumb'd THat it is a very great part of indignity to call the Book of Common Prayer the Popes Porrage is proved by three Reasons First In regard of the Matter in it Secondly In regard of the manner of it And thirdly In regard of the Lawes that have been Acted for the maintaining of it As for the Matter of it if you look well upon it you shall find grounded first upon the Scriptures yea Scripture it selfe in many places and not upon any Popish Masse 2. For the Manner of it wherein is first Reading and Meditating Secondly Heavenly Ejaculation conteyning short pitthy Prayers and they be of three sort first to be delivered from sin Secondly Petitions for Grace and Thanksgivings for Gods blessings towards Us The third Reason That it is an indignity to call it Porrage because they have beene est●blished by Acts of Parliament viz. in the daies of King Edward the sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and now maintained by our gratious Soveraign King Charles and therefore fourth Reason might be added That it is an indignity to the State to cast an aspersion upon them as if they should maintaine Laws against Gods Word for which cause there is pen●lties against those that did either deprave them or use any other in stead of them and to thi● purpose the Scripture saies well 13. Rom. 5. and 13. Heb. 17. and therefore it is not the Popes Porrage nor composed out of the Masse and if you will look back a little you shall finde That Liturgies and Formes of Prayers have been long before the daies of Edward the sixth if not before there was any Pope in the World Austea Basil Clement Chrysostome and divers other before their times who had formes of Prayers and did answer after the Minister sometime Lord have mercy one us c. and at other ●imes We lift up our hearts to thee O Lord and somtimes Amen By all which it appeares That it is an indignity to call it so and that it is not composed by the fat Cooks as you te●rme them of the Popes Kitchen but by Learned Divines and therefore not to be abolished But grant it were Composed out of the Masse-Boo● which I will never doe but defie it is it therefore so corrupted that it must needs be abolished and not rather corrected amended purcase you had a joynt of meat which I know you love well and that it were in a place of two tainted or as we usually say Fly-blown will you because of this cast your meat quite away and never eat a bit of it no I suppose you would not but rather cut out that which is tainted a d throw that away as not fit to be eaten and preserue the rest for your own eating And yet the Common Prayers is not taken out of the Popish Masse neither is it tainted nor an Idol-worship and can be no abomination to offer them to God and to this purpose your proofes are but slender that you prove that our prayers are abomination indeed if they were directed to any Idols Saints or Angels and not to the True and Ever living God they then were Idolatrous Prayers But being directed intended and Gods Glory onely aymed at t is a foule abuse and deserues the lye to say they are prophane and full of Popery therefore rayse no more Rabshakah like but lay thy hand at thy mouth and be silent for this kinde of zeale is like a fire that will burn up all Godly discipline and brings soules even to despaire if Gods mercy did not exceed his Works As for Baptisme Matrimony Visitation of the sicke Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels you say they are taken out of the Masse-Book which is false and that they are unlawfull and inventions of men then I pr●y shew a better way or forme that they may be performed according to the Scripture God did institute Marriage but we never read how the manner of performing it was we reade of divers that were buried but how it is not specified so for the rest therefore God hath left it to the Church to prescribe a forme how to doe them provided that they doe them according to his Word as neere as they can Indeed in these dayes of divisions there be many that Baptise Bury and Marry c. after another manner then the Common Prayer injoynes but what is their manner my thinks they come short of performing them so well as the Prayer Book Commands for in Baptisme ther●s scarce any Prayer made for the receiving of the Childe into the Congr●g●tion and for its growth in Grace and to perform these duties a Stable B●rne or Chamber is more fit then a Church and I thinke I should not lye if I did say a River as for Marriage th●r's little said wherefore it was ordayned for as soon as they come into the Church they are Married with a short Prayer of the Ministers and so flightly shuffled up and away So likewise at Burials some there be that allow of no Prayers at the Grave for say they t is Popery to reade to the Dead all that 's true but they doe allow of Sermons to be Preached over the Dead and why that they say it benefits the hearers as if the Prayers of the Grave did not and were onely for the Dead but if as much gai●e were to be had at the Reading of the Prayers as there is at the Sermons I question if any would sticke to say them Now let any indifferent Man Judge whether the Old way as the Church useth or the New way that Seperates and such like use be the best I for my part will leave it to the wise consideration of the King and Parliament to order things as They seeme best and that I will follow But why is the Epistles and Gospels tearmed patches and shreds T is but a grosse Phrase are you kinne to any Botcher that useth patches and shreds to make up a Garment And what foolish and vain repetitions are there as you say Is Lord have mercy upon us c. The Lords Prayer and other short Ejaculations battologies tautologies and foppish things what kind of absurd speech is this it seems you want none of Gods mercy and your Prayers are better then our Saviors that may be