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A26049 The assenters sayings published in their own words for the information of the people : being in requital of Roger L'Estrange's Dissenters sayings / by an indifferent hand. Indifferent hand. 1681 (1681) Wing A4019; ESTC R4649 21,051 39

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all the Liturgies that are or ever have been and remove from them whatsoever is scandalous to any Party and leave nothing but what all agree on and the event shall be that the Publick Service of God shall no ways suffer Whereas to load our Publick Forms with private Fancies upon which we differ is the most Soveraign way to perpetuate Schism unto the worlds end Prayer Confession Thanskgiving Reading the Scripture Administration of Sacraments in the plainest manner were matter enough to furnish out a sufficient Liturgy though nothing either of private Opinion or of Church Pomp of Garments of prescribed Gestures of Imagery of Musick of matter concerning the Dead of many Superfluities which creep into the Churches under the name of Order and Decency did interpose it self For to charge Churches and Liturgies with things unnecessary was the first beginning of all Superstition and when Scruples of Conscience began to be made or pretended then Schism began to break in Page 216 217. 103. If the Spiritual Guides and Fathers of the Church would be a little sparing of incumbring Churches with Superfluities and not over rigid either in reviving obsolete Customs or imposing new there were far less danger of Schism or Superstition and all the Inconvenience were likely to ensue would be but this they should in so doing yield a little to the Imbecillities of Inferiours a thing which St. Paul would never have refused to do p. 218. 104. Wheresoever false or suspected Opinions are made a piece of the Church Liturgy he that separates is not the Schismatick for it is a like unlawfull to make Profession of known or suspected falshoods as to put in practice unlawful or suspected Actions Ibid. 105. They but abuse themselves and others that would perswade us that Bishops by Christ's Institution have any Superiority over men further than of Reverence or that any Bishop is Superiour to another Page 224. 106. It hath been the common disease of Christians from the beginning not to content themselves with that measure of Faith which God and Scripture have afforded us but out of a vain desire to know more than is revealed and have attempted to discuss things of which we have no light from Reason nor Revelation Neither have they rested here but upon pretence of Church Authority which is none or Tradition which for the most part is but figment they have peremptorily concluded and confidently imposed upon others p. 212 213. 107. In Jesus Christ there is neither high nor low and in giving Honour every man should be ready to prefer another before himself which sayings cut off all Claim to Superiority by Title of Christianity except men can think these things were spoken only to poor and private men p. 125. 108. This abuse of Christianity to make it lacquey to Ambition is a vice for which I have no extraordinary name of Ignominy and an ordinary I will not give it least you should take so transcendent a vice to be but Trivial Ibid. 109. All pious Assemblies in times of Persecution and Corruption howsoever Practised are indeed or rather alone the lawfull Congregations and publick Assemblies though according to Law are nothing else but Riots and Conventicles if stained with Corruption and perstition P 231. 110. The Church as it imports a visible Company in Earth is nothing else but the Company of Professors of Christianity wheresoever Disperst in the Earth To Define it by Monarchy under one visible head is of Novelty crept up since men began to change the Spirituall Kingdom of Christ to secular Pride and Tyranny and a thing never heard of either in the Scriptures or in the writings of the Ancients p. 137. 111. Schism is sometimes upon the account of matter of Fact as when it is through error taken for necessary that an Easter must be kept and upon worse then Error if I may so speak for it was no less then a point of Judaism forced upon the Church p. 202. 112. It is Schism upon wilfulness that brings Danger with it Schism upon mistake and Schism upon just occasion hath in it self little hurt if any at all p. 84. 113. Why should it be any longer said and that with so much colour of Truth that Loyalty and Piety can not dwell together in the same Breast Why should it be any longer said to our shame that swearing and drinking and deriding Religion and making a mock of Holiness are the principall Badges of such as call themselves Loyalists Ellis's Sermon before the Marquiss of Newcastle p. 38. 114. A Citizens Skull is but a thing to try the Temper of a Soldiers Sword upon Lestrang's Apology p. 48. 115. The very mention of a Parliament Inrages them and there is reason for it there heads are forfeited and if Law lives they must perish But all this while are not we in a good Condition when the Transgressors of the Law must be the Judges of it Apology p. 51. 116. A Furious Bussle the Presbyterians make with silly people for fear of Popery Lestrange's Relapsed Apostate p. 240. 117. I Defie any man to produce another Gentleman in the Kings Dominions under my Circumstances that hath suffered so many illegall Arbitrary and mean Injustices from any abusers of the Kings Bounty insomuch that after one and thirty years faithful service to the Crown the Bread hath been taken out of my Mouth and in a large proportion shared among some of those very people that pursued the late King to the Block Lestrange's Englishmans Birth Right p. 44. 118. Who knows not that Interest governs the world and that for Reasons best known to themselves he that is a Protestant in his heart may be induced rather to appear a Papist and the other though in Heart a Papist may find it his Interest yet to seem a Protestant Lestrang's further Discovery p. 18 119. We find the Court dangerously Thronged with Parasities Knaves Represented to the King for honest men and honest men for Knaves Lestrange's Caveat for Cavalliers p. 12. 120. If men will be Damn'd they had better Damn Rich than Poor and keep their Lacquies and their Whores and at last go to Hell in Triumph Le Strang's Apology p. 23. 121. A Parisian Massacre a Guisian League a Powder Treason a Covenant Reformation a Spanish Inquisition House and an English High Court of Justice the fighting for Reformation and bidding Defiance to Heaven by whom Kings Reign these are Abominations so scandalous and Antichristian as do non-plus Hyperbolies and silence Invention and next to these there is scarce any thing more Criminal than the equally sinful and Ridiculous Bill against the Succession of his Royal Highness Goulds Sermon p. 20. 122. I believe the Framers of that Bill had a further Design than the Dukes Person and am clearly of Opinion that there is both a Popish Plot and a Presbyterian one at this time against the Church or the King or both in Conjunction Ibid. 123. He that maintains such a thing in