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A56807	The conformists plea for the nonconformists, or, A just and compassionate representation of the present state and condition of the non-conformists as to I. The greatness of their sufferings, II. Hardness of their case, III. Reasonableness and equity of their desires and proposals, IV. Qualifications, and worth of their persons, V. Peaceableness of their behaviour, VI. The churches prejudice by their exclusion, &c. humbly submitted to authority / by a beneficed minister, and a regular son of the Church of England.	Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.	1681 (1681)	Wing P976; ESTC R1092	66,864	80

our Posterities and extended to such as do not yet enjoy the Benefit thereof Of Private Baptism We desire that Baptism may not be in a private place at any time unless by a lawful Minister and in the presence of a competent number and where it is evident that any Child hath been so baptized no part of the Administration may be reiterated in publick under any limitations and therefore we do not see any need of any Liturgy in that Case Exception of Confirmation Altho we charitably suppose the meaning of these words was only to exclude the necessity of any other Sacraments to baptized Infants yet these words are dangerous as to the misleading of the Vulgar and therefore we desire they may be expunged Except of the Catechism We desire the first Question may be altered considering for 20 Years past many had no God-fathers and and the 7th Q. The second Answ Wherein I was visibly admitted into the number of the Members of Christ That the Commandments may be inserted according to the last Translation of the Bible That in the Exposition of the Commandments some clause may be inserted to refer to the fourth Commandment that those words be omitted Answer thus given Two only Baptism and the Lord's Supper c. A more full Explication of the Creed Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments c. Except of the Form of Marriage The word Worship being much altered in the use of it since this Form was drawn up we desire some word may be used instead of it This Rubrick doth either enforce all to forbear Marriage as are unfit for the Sacrament or the unprepared to come to the Sacrament And therefore we desire it may be omitted the rather because that Marriage Festivals are too often accompanied with such divertisements as are unsuitable to those Christian Duties which ought to be before and follow after the receiving of that Holy Sacrament Except Visitation of the Sick That form of Absolution be declarative and conditional as I pronounce thee Absolved instead of I absolve thee if thou dost truly repent and believe This Psalm 121 seems not to be so pertinent as some other viz. Psal 113. Psal 128. Except Burial of the Dead These words cannot in truth be said of Persons living and dying in open and notorious Sins Except in the Litany In regard that the Wages of Sin is Death We desire that this clause may be thus altered From Fornication and all other hainous or grievous Sins Gen. Proposition 12. p. 6. Because singing of Psalms is a considerable part of publick Worship We desire that the Version set forth and allowed to be sung in Churches may be amended or that we may have leave to make use of a purer Version I shall not draw the Parallel any further but infer these following Observations 1. That those great and famous Men did see some necessity or reason for altering of many things in the Liturgy and therefore the Presbyterian Divines most of whom were and are Non-Conformists were not altogether captious and quarrelsom they maintain'd a Necessity of Reformation On the other side there were learned Men who maintained there was no necessity of Reformation But you see against the sense of those admirable Divines that met in the Dean's House 1641. 2. I observe That the Proposals and Exceptions of the Commissioners in the Savoy were not without great President and insisted upon many things which the most eminent Fathers of the Church of England would have yielded to them and doubtless much more if not all for Peace and Union 3. To speak a word for the reproached Brethren of the Non-conformists who are represented to have all the ill Humours of factious Persons and discontented that know not what to ask nor what they would have is but a piece of Justice and Christian Charity Men think nothing but Presbytery and Covenants and Directory will please them which is not just nor true They desired that the Liturgy may consist of nothing doubtful or questioned amongst pious Orthodox Learned Men c. Dr. Allen of Huntingdon-shire and Clerk in the Convocation did earnestly labour with the then Bishop of London afterward Arch-Bishop that they might so refine the Liturgy that no sober Man might make Exception He was wished to forbear for what should be was concluded on or resolved They desired the observation of Saints Days might be omitted c. The most Reverend Vsher and the rest begin their Considerations with this Whether the Numes of some departed Saints and others should not be quite expunged the Kalender They desired that there might be no such Imposition of the Liturgy as that the Exercise of the Gift of Prayer be thereby totally excluded in any part of publick Worship The most excellent Vsher p. 5. ● 16 and the rest recllon it among the Innovations By prohibiting a direct Prayer before Sermon and bidding of Prayer which is now the mode all over the Bishoprick of Duresm as some that are no strangers in it say They at the Savoy stood for a Reformation and were not singular therein for without it the Reverend Dr. Featly a worthy Man and great Sufferer in our unhappy Warrs which is like the Sword that makes no difference printed this Challenge and Manifesto 1. The Articles of Religion need no Alteration at all but only an Orthodox Explication in some ambiguous Phrases and a vindication against false Aspersions 2. That the Government by Bishops removing all Innovations and Abuses in the execution thereof is agreeable to God's Word and a truly Ancient and Apostolical Institution 3. That the Book of Common Prayer N. B. the Kalendar being reformed in point of Apocryphal Saints and Chapters some Rubricks explained and some Expressions revised and the whole correctly printed with all the Psalms Chapters and Allegations out of the Old and New Tement according to the last Translation is the most compleat perfect and exact Liturgy in the Christian World Dippers Dipt p. 16 22. and Gentle Lash 1644. And this is the same in effect with what the Divines at the Savoy humbly proposed and without all these Exceptions that Champion Dr. Featly would not undertake his Vindication of them by which it seems the first of the Church-Constitution and Discipline was not tenable as it stood at that time but our great Church-men were resolved that the World should know their Strength as well as Reason to regain with advantage in 1661 what they lost in 1641. The Presbyterian Divines as they were called did urge both rationally heartily and humbly that the Ceremonies might be omitted being doubtful whether the Church had power to enjoin mystical teaching Signs which the Imposers confessed indifferent of no real goodness c. which many of the Opposers accounted sinful others inconvenient and unsuitable to the simplicity of the Gospel and had been for a hundred Years the Fountain of manifold Evils c. And herein they were not singular for other Men when disengaged and

Common-Prayer 2. Whether the Reading of Psalms Sentences of Scripture concurring in divers places in Hymns the Epistles and Gospels should not be set out in the New Translation 4. Whether Lessons of Canonical Scripture should not be put in the Kalendar instead of the Apocrypha 5. That the Doxologie should be always printed at the end of the Lord's Prayer 6. Whether the Rubrick should not be mended where it is that the Lessons should be sung in a plain Tune why not read with a distinct Voice 7. Whether Gloria Patri should be repeated at the end of every Psalm Consider 9. Whether the Hymns Benedicite Omnia Opera c. may not be left out 3. Whether the Rubrick should not be mended where all Vestments in time of Divine Service are now commanded which were used 2. E. 6. 10. In the Prayer for the Clergy that phrase perhaps to be altered which only workest great marvels 11. In the Rubrick for the Administration of the Lord's Supper Whether this Alteration to be made that such as intend to Communicate shall signify their Names to the Curat over Night or in the Morning before Prayers 12. The next Rubrick to be cleared How far a Minister may repulse a scandalous and notorious Sinner from the Communion 13. Whether that Rubrick is not to be mended where the Church-wardens are straitly appointed to gather the Alms for the Poor before the Communion begins for by experience it is proved to be done better when the people depart 14. Whether the Rubrick is not to be mended concerning the party that is to make his general Confession upon his Knees before the Communion that it should be said only by the Minister and then at every clause repeated to the people 16. Whether it be not fit to insert a Rubrick touching kneeling at the Communion that is to comply in all humility with the Prayer which the Minister makes when he delivers the Elements 19. Whether in the first Prayer at the Baptism these words Didst sanctify the Flood Jordan and all other Waters should not be thus changed Didst sanctify the Element of Water 20. Whether it be not fit to have some discreet Rubrick made to take away all Scandal from signifying the Sign of the Cross upon the Infants after Baptism or if it shall seem more expedient to be quite disused whether this Reason should be published that in Ancient Liturgies No Cross was consigned upon the Party but where Oil also was used and therefore Oil being now omitted so may also that which was concomitant with it the Sign of the Cross 21. In private Baptism the Rubrick mentions that which must not be done That the Minister may dip the Child in Water being at the point of Death 22. Whether in the last Rubrick of Confirmation those words be to be lest out and be undoubtedly saved 23. Whether the Catechism may not receive a little more enlargement 24. Whether the Times prohibited for Marriage are quite to be taken away 25. Whether none hereafter shall have Licenses to Marry nor be asked their Baues of Matrimony that shall not bring with them a Certificate from their Ministers that they are instructed in their Catechism 26. Whether these words in Matrimony with my Body I thee worship shall not be thus altered I give thee power over my Body 27. Whether the last Rubrick of Marriage should not be mended that the new married Persons should receive the Communion the same day of the Marriage may it not well be or upon the next Sunday following when the Communion is celebrated 28. In the Absolution of the Sick were it not plain to say I pronounce thee Absolved 29. The Psalm of Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth Were it not fit to be composed out of proper Versicles taken from divers Psalms 32. In the Order of the Burial of all Persons 't is said We commit this Body to the Ground in sure and certain hope of Resurrection to eternal Life Why not thus Knowing assuredly that the Dead shall rise again 34. In the Litany instead of Fornication and all other deadly Sin Would it not satisfy thus From Fornication and all other grievous Sins 35. It is very fit that the Imperfections of the Meeter in the Singing Psalms should be mended and then lawful Authority added unto them to have them publickly sung before and after Sermons and sometimes instead of the Hymns of Morning and Evening Prayer The Commissioners in the Savoy 1661. In regard of the many defects which have been observed in that Version of the Scriptures which is used throughout the Liturgy We therefore desire in stead thereof the New Translation allowed by Authority may alone be used 8. p. 5 -9 It is therefore desired that nothing may be read in the Church for Lessons but the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament Exception 3. We desire that the words For thine is the Kingdom may be always added to the Lord's Prayer Except p. 13. The Lessons and Epistles and Gospels being for the most part neither Psalms nor Hymns we know no Warrant why they should be sung in any place and conceive that the distinct reading of them with an audible Voice tends more to the edification of the Church Excep We desire it may be used but once in the Morning and once in the Evening Except We desire that some Psalm or Scripture-Hymn may be appointed instead of that Apocryphal Except We desire it may be left out The Prefaces of many Collects seem not to have any clear and special respect to the Petitions c. Partic. p. 7. In the Order for the Lord's Supper Except The time here assigned in the Rubrick for notice to be given to the Minister is not sufficient Except We desire the Ministers power both to admit and repulse from the Lord's Table may be according to his Majesty's Declaration Octob. 25. 1660. Except Collections for the Poor may be better made at or a little before the departure of the Communicants We desire it may be made by the Minister only We desire that the following Rubrick in the Common-Prayer Book of 5. of Edw. 6. may be restored for the Vindication of the Church in the matter of kneeling at the Sacrament c. It being doubtful whether either the Flood Jordan or any other Waters were sanctified to a Sacramental use by our Saviour's being baptized We desire this may be otherwise expressed 18. General Proposal After strong arguing they conclude We therefore most earnestly entreat the right reverend Fathers and Brethren to whom these Papers are delivered as they tender the Glory of God the Honour of Religion the Peace of the Church the Service of his Majesty in the accomplishment of that happy Union which his Majesty hath so abundantly testified his Desires of to join with us in importuning his most Excellent Majesty that his most gracious Indulgence as to these Ceremonies granted in his Royal Declaration may be continued and confirmed to us and