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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61438	Positions concerning the differences between the true English liturgy and the deformed disordered Cranmerian changeling, by which it was supplanted.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5435A; ESTC R222010	3,897	5

the same Age wherein S. John writ his Revelation for that Age that it was then the Practice of the Church and believed to have been received by Tradition from the Apostles 4. Whether divers learned Protestants both of the Church of England and of foreign Reformed Churches have not confessed and asserted this to be so and desired to have the Catholic Practice restored 5. Whether any of the late Writers of Controversy against the Papists have denyed this or asserted any thing more against it than that the Prayers for the Dead used by the ancient Christians do no● prove Popish Purgatory and who are they 6. Whether there be any clear and express Scripture to prove that the State of all Souls immediately after their departure out of the Body is so determined that they are incapable of any Augmentation of Glory or Mitigation of Pain or Benefit by Prayers or any thing that can be done by the Living 7. Whether it be not imprudent and inconsistent with the Profession of Belief of the Holy Catholick-Church to reject the Authority of such a truly Catholick Practice and become Sectaries after the opition of one or two particular persons 8. Whether it be consistent with Charity with due respect to the Body of Christ which is his Church and with Profession of the Believe of the Communion of Saints to Reject such a Practice of Communion of Saints 9. Whether the Calvinists by opposing of this have not greatly over-shot themselves given great Advantage to the Cause of the Papists and made their own worse and indefensible in this particular 10. Whether it be not the truest Wisdom and a Duty of manifold Obligation to desist from all Contention in this case and return to true ancient Catholic Practice ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS concerning Prayers for the Dead 1. WHether the Evidence produc'd in the late Tr. OF PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD dedicated to the Judges for the Apostolical Authority of that Practice be not as great as can be produc'd for Baptism of Infants for Episcopacy and for several of the Writings of the New Testament 2. Whether there be any plain Evidence of any one Church upon the Face of the Earth since the time of the Apostles in Cathoic Communion where the most solemn part of the Christian Worship was ever performed without Commemorations for the Dead 3. Whether Refusal of Communion with any Church or Person for that Practice be not an implicit forsaking the Communion of the whole Catholic Church in all former Ages and Actual Sin of Schism 4. Whether to put all such Commemorations out of the publick Offices of any Church be not a Contempt of the Authority of the whole Catholic Church and a Formal act of Schism involuing all in the Guilt thereof who consent to it 5. Whether it was put out of the true English Liturgy by any proper Ecclesiacal Authority or only by indirect Practice by Cranmer and mere Lay Authority 6. Whether the People of this Nation have not been grosly abused by the Prejudice they have been led into against such a Catholic and Apostolic Practice 7. Whether Such as Deny or Discemble their Practice or Belief of the Lawfulness of Prayers for the Dead and do not honestly declare the same to undeceive the People may be trusted as Faithful Ministers of Christ or are rather to be avoided as temporizinig Men pleasers Deceitful Workers and actually guilty of Hypocrcy of abuse of the People Contempt of the Authority of the Catholic Church and of Schism 8 Whether the Clergy of the Church of England by Law Established having from the begining pretended much Reverence for Antiquity and especially for the Times of the four first General Counsels and appleaed thereunto for Determination of Controversies they who now oppose that Practice and yet connot deny it to have been the Catholic Practice of those times as received from the Apostles do not plainly signify their Belief that either the Principles or the Pretences of the sad Clergy from the begining have been false 9 Whether the Prejudice which the People have conceived upon that Abuse be not really mere Superstistion in such as are sincere and the Opposition of others for fear of Reproach or Tomporal Respests much worse 10. Whether this of Prayers for the Dead be not one of the unhappy Differences in Religion indefensable on the part of the pretended Reformation which have been the Occasion of so much