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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	administration_n	prayer_n	sacrament_n	2,563	5	7.2488	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87167	An answer to lame Giles Calfines Messe of pottage, which hee termes in his halting speech to be well crummed and seasoned, &c. Proving that the service-booke is no better than pottage, in comparison of divers weeds which are chopt into it, to poyson the taste of the children of grace, by the advice of the whore of Babylons instruments and cooks. In which small tract you shall find such reasons given against it, as are unanswerable by any man whatsoever. For pure prayer is Gods temple, and where it is not so used, it is but idolatrie and will-worship. by M. T. S. T. R. A. I. S. P. H.	M. T. S. T. R. A. I. S. P. H.	1642 (1642)	Wing H91; Thomason E143_11; ESTC R951	3,618	8

An Answer to lame Giles Calfines Messe of Pottage which hee termes in his halting speech to be well crummed and seasoned c. Proving that the Service-Booke is no better than Pottage in comparison of divers weeds which are chopt into it to poyson the taste of the Children of Grace by the advice of the Whore of Babylons Instruments and Cooks In which small Tract you shall find such reasons given against it as are unanswerable by any man whatsoever For pure Prayer is Gods Temple and where it is not so used it is but Idolatrie and will worship By M. T. S. T. R. A. I. S. P. H. Printed in the yeare 1642. Being in the same yeare of confiding An Answer to lame Giles Calfines Messe of Pottage which hee termes in his halting speech to bee well crummed and seasoned c. WHereas it seemes to some lame in reason and blind in judgement a great indignitie to call the Service-Book Porrage by a metaphore and similitude which will verie well hold considering the fat Cooks that first composed it out of the Popes Kitchin and have put thereinto weeds of Idolatrie thickened with many tautologies and repetitions yet because Similitudo currit quatuor pedibus Similitudes are more cleare to illustrated than strong to prove it shall be here demonstrated that the Service-Booke is corrupted and unlawfull and first from the name then from the nature for that which is called the Liturgie is the same with the Masse and so promiscuously called by the Papist Iesuites and is only but an English Masse as theirs is in Latine Now it is knowne that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 names are the verie images of things so that this Liturgie is either a Lethargie of worship or a Masse of Idolatrie it is therefore the Popes porrage and his Idoll of Ignorance and wee are not to offer to an Idoll Ergo We are not to offer it to God as a worship But that you may take a view of this Crambe recocta this twice-sod pottage mark the ingredients therof and whereof it is made and you shall find therein no puritie but all papistrie the common prayers taken out of the popish Breviarie out of the Papists Rituall is deduced the Administration of the Sacraments Buriall Matrimony and Visitation of the sick and then the Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels are taken out of the mass-Masse-booke and besides in all the essentiall and integrall parts thereof it is omoregenous with the Masse and therefore being taken and translated word for word out of the popish Masse it is not a booke of Divine Service and worship but an abomination to God and therefore to be abolished which may be proved out of these places of Scripture Deut. 7.25 2 King 23.13 Ezra 9.1 and Esa 44.19 Thus you see it is not taken out of the garden of godlinesse nor composed of pure wholesome herbs as some ignorant Cooks would pretend but the old profane pot-herbs of papistrie Now you shall next discerne the matter of this porrage which is false and erroneous in the corrupt translations of the Word as first Psal 105.28 the booke hath it thus They were not obedient to his word but the Scripture saith They were not disobedient to his word Another place is Luke 10.1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventie also and sent them two and two before them but the Service-booke reads seventie two Besides there are many omissions as of Hallelujah in the 72 psalme and for Praise the Lord seventeenetimes omitted the Book putteth in Gloria Patri drowning also 160 Chapters and in stead therof have placed the Apocrypha Besides in reading the Scriptures they take but scraps and shreds And thirdly much superstitious action in reading the Epistles and Gospels Having thus proceeded against the Service-booke in these accusations of false translations additions omissions and mis-nominations there are other faults in this booke committed by mis-application of Scriptures by coyning things and by popish expositions and by pressing upon Ministers and people an heap of popish Ceremonies and Tenents as the prayer at the Buriall of the dead Crosses and Surplices and bowing and cringing to the Altar and Christening Fout all which being mans invention must needs be idolatrous for Quicquid praeter mandatum est Idolum Whatsoever is placed in Gods worship without the commandement of God is an Idoll besides there are foppish foolish things in the book as tautologies and battologies vaine repetitions of words and that mutuall salutation between priest and people in these words The Lord be with you and with your spirit and women at the comming into the Church making a curtesie to the Priest besides all this there is a Letany which is not a stump or limb of Dagon but the head of the Masse-book in which there is nothing but vaine repetition and a multitude of words as Lord deliver us Heare us wee beseech thee and ridiculous Invocations like Magick spels and no better than conjuring And therefore if the matter of the Service-book be partly false foolish ridiculous and frivolous therefore the worship therein contained should not be presented unto God Now as for forme which is the essence of a thing it is nothing but an unformed heap of disorder and will-worship the Minister using a strange and ridiculous change of voyce posture and place and then many short Collects of short shreds patched-up together to make a wearisome Service upon the long last and much tossing or driving the Service between the Priest and the people praying with the Priest or repeating his prayer and adding some responses and answers Thus the name originall matter and manner of the Service-book hath been shewed to be naught and corrupt and there not to be suffered but abolished which hath beene proved by nominall and reall Arguments and now it shall be also clearely evinced from the proper and necessary bad effects thereof and the evil cause is worse than the effect Nam propter quod aliquid tale c. is a position in Logick and Philosophy and these evill effects are foure first it maketh a number of Sir Iohns meere Surplice and Service-book men also many non-residents and plurallists who take choyse of Curates to serve their cures at a cheap rate besides it was a great affliction to Conformists and non-Conformists so that the Service book was in some sort like the Metheg Amath the bridle of the Belly tract or strength of the Philistims so this Service-book was the strength of the Philistim Prelacy and a bridle with a curbing bit to stop to winde and turne them at their pleasure and some about this Service-book were committed to Aegyptian bondage In the second place this Service book brooked up all preaching Doctor Houson affirming that preaching was no part of Divine worship and thus Christs Word gave place to a fardell of mens devices besides the Service Booke entrenched upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the people Religion and Law

and especially upon the Law by imprisoning and exercising jurisdiction in rebus non spiritualibus in matters that were not spirituall and then good people suffered in this Furnace in spoyling their goods losse of liberty and forsaking their owne Countrey Genio patriae plangente as Lipsius saith the Genius of their Countrey lamenting after them or else laid in prison till their bones rotted as Doctor Abbot said Master Baits should be who was afterwards starved in the Gate-house And thus the Furnace for not adoring the Service Booke as Nebuchadnezzar for not adoring his Idoll was ordinarily heated and devowred many that were cast into it and all opposition in that kind was punished with cutting branding slitting whipping pilloring and fining Then for bad people if ignorance bee the mother of destruction then much guilt lyeth in many places of the Service-Book having in some parishes not had a Sermon in many yeers and in other places Sermons that were onely Husks and no bread to feed upon and all this proceeding from divers places of the Liturgy and Service-booke wherewith the Common people and Priests of Ignorance were enforced to be content The last evill effect of this Service-book is directly and immediately against God Calvin in his Letter to Frankford calleth it the leavings of the popish dregs and the Frankford book calleth them burthens yoaks and clogs to Gods people and his Service this derogation from Gods service is their festivall dayes to Saints and their kneeling at the Communion for none but God can appoynt an holy-day and for kneeling at the Sacrament it is a popish moderne posture of but 400. yeeres standing and is meere will-worship for denying of which some have extreamly suffered and in regard this kneeling is a respect and adoration by or before a creature it is Idolatry and likewise there may bee many strong arguments urged against the Cr●sse to prove it the marke of the Beast Lastly the intercession of the Saints must bee according to the will of God otherwise hee heareth them not but the prayers of the Service Book are not such but delinquent and peccant both in name originall matter forme effects properly proceeding therefrom therefore they have no acceptance before God they shall not by him be heard and therefore are profanely and superstitiously used and being grosse papistry may bee called the Popes pottage made of divers weeds in stead of Herbes preposterously served up by the Priest unwholesome for the soule and displeasing to God as being mans Cookery full of absurdity contrary to Gods glory Thus lame Giles Calfine I hope I have satisfied you in your halting and Laodicean opinion for whereas you say it is the true bread of Life I doe thinke you are mistaken and that you were an hungry and wanted your Breakfast at that time and whereas you say they are well seasoned you are mistaken also unlesse you had put some flesh into your pot or at leastwise the foure first letters of your name which if you had done they would have beene somewhat better crummed and seasoned So in fine good Giles Calfine hopping to an end I le leave you in the middest of your pottage and for my part I wil put off my Doublet and will swim to the meat which is fitting for men and not for such Children as you are who are ignorantly brought up and still are as innocent in matters of Exposition as all your generation was in matters of state-affaires And so much for this time FINIS