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A78280 The Case of using or forbearing the establish'd liturgie, during the late troublesome times, and prohibition of it by the then usurpers. 1672 (1672) Wing C1191A; ESTC R173505 15,248 44

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might satisfie the letter of the Ordinance rather then forsake my Station My next business then was to bethink my self of such a course to be thenceforth held in the publick worship in my own Parish as might be likeliest neither to bring danger to my self by the use nor to bring scandal to my Brethren by the disuse of the establisht Liturgie And the course was this to which I have held me ever since I begin the Service with a Preface of Scripture and an Exhortation inferr'd thence to make confession of sins which Exhortation I have framed out of the Exhortation and Absolution in the Book contracted and put together and expressed for the most part in the very same words and phrases but purposely here and there transplaced that it may appear not to be and yet to be the same Then follows the Confession it self in the same order it was only with the addition of some words whereby it 's rather explained then altered the whole form whereof both for your fuller satisfaction in that particular and that you may partly conjecture what manner of addition or change I have made proportionably hereunto yet none so large in other parts of the holy Office I have here underwritten OAlmighty God and merciful Father We thy unworthy servants do with shame and sorrow confess that we have all our life long gone astray out of thy wayes like lost sheep and that by following too much the vain devices and desires of our own Hearts we have grievously offended against thy holy Laws both in thought word and deed We have many times left undone those good duties which we might and ought to have done and we have many times done those evils when we might have avoided them which we ought not to have done We confess O Lord that there is no health at all in us nor help in any creature to relieve us but all our hope is in thy mercy whose justice by our sins we have so far provoked Have mercy upon us therefore O Lord Have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare us good Lord which confess our faults that we perish not But according to thy gracious promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord Restore us upon our true repentance into thy grace and favour And grant O most mercifull Father for his sake that we henceforth study to serve and please thee by leading a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name and the eternal comfort of our own souls through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After this Confession the Lords Prayer with the Versicles and Gloria Patri and then the Psalms for the day and then the first Lesson After which in the Fore-noon sometimes Te Deum but then only when I think the Auditory will bear it and sometimes an Hymn of my own composing gathered out of the Psalms the Church Collects and a general form of Thanksgiving which I did the rather because some have noted the want of such a form as the only thing wherein our Liturgie seemed to be defective And in the After-noon after the first Lesson the 98 or 67 Psalm then the second Lesson with Benedictus or Jubilate after it In the Fore-noon and in the After-noon a singing Psalm then followeth the Creed with Dominus vobiscum and sometimes the Versicles in the end of the Letany From our enemies defend us O Christ c. if I like my Auditory otherwise I omit the Versicles After the Creed c. instead of the Letany and other Prayers appointed in the Book I have taken the substance of the Prayer I was wont to use before Sermon and disposed it into several Collects or Prayers some longer some shorter but new-modell'd into the language of the Common Prayer Book much more then it was before and in the Pulpit before Sermon I use only a short Prayer in reference to the hearing of the Word and no more So that upon the matter in these Prayers I do but the same thing I did before save only that what before I spake without Book and in a continued form and in the Pulpit I now read and in a written Book broken into parcels and in the Reading Desk or Pew Between which Prayers and the singing Psalm before Sermon I do daily use one other Collect of which sort I have for the purpose composed sundry made up as the former for the most part out of the Church-Collects Adventual Quadragesimal Paschal and Pentecostal for their proper Seasons And at other times Collects of a more general nature as for Pardon Repentance Grace c. And after one or more of them in the Fore-noon I usually repeat the ten Commandements with a short Collect after for Grace to enable us to keep them This hath been my Practise and is like still to be unless some happy change of Affairs restore us the liberty of using the old way again or it be made appear to my understanding by some able charitable Friend that I have therein done otherwise then I ought to have done For I may say truly that I have not yet met with any thing in discourse either with my own Reason or with others of sufficient strength to convince me that I have herein done any thing but what may stand with the Principles as well of Christian simplicity as prudence There are but three things that I know of that are of any consideration opposed viz. 1 The Obligation of the LAWS 2 The SCANDAL of the Example 3 An unseemly symbolizing at least with Schismaticks if not a partaking with them in the SCHISM 1 LAW Object 1. The first and strongest Objection which I shall therefore propose to the most advantage of the Objectors is that which is grounded upon the LAWS and their Obligation For it may be objected 1 That an Humane Law rightly established so long as it continueth a Law obligeth the Subject and that for Conscience sake to the observation thereof in such manner and form as in the said Law is prescribed and according to the true meaning and intention of the Law-giver therein 2 That a Law is then understood to be rightly established when it containeth nothing but what is honest and lawfull and is enacted by such person or persons as have full and sufficient Authority to make Laws 3. That a Law so established continueth a Law and is in force till it be either repealed by as good and full Authority as that by which it was made or else antiquated by a long continued unenforced disuse with the tacite presumed consent of the Law-giver 4 That the Act printed before the Common Prayer Book and entitled An Act for the Vniformity of c. was such a Law being it was established in a Full and Free Parliament and in peaceable times and ratified by the Royal Assent 5 That it still continueth in force Being not yet repealed but by such persons as at least in the opinion of those that maintain the