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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75462	An Anti-Brekekekex-Coax-Coax, or, A throat-hapse for the frogges and toades that lately crept abroad, croaking against the Common-prayer book and Episcopacy and the copie of a letter from a very reverend church-man, in answer to a young man, who desired his judgement upon this case, viz. whether every minister of the Church of England be bound in conscience to reade the Common-prayer : with another letter from a convinced associatour, that a while boggled at the Common-prayer, to a brother of the same association, not yet convinced, together with the above-said reverend person's brief and candid censure thereupon, with some uses of application by the publisher.		1660 (1660)	Wing A3483A; ESTC R43600	20,576	45

having acted a part in a Comedy in derision of an old puritan whereas the said Comedy was onely to represent the extravagancies of love and was performed chiefly to gratifie the honourable and hopefull Baronet Sir VViliam Portman vvho vvith all that were present God be thanked are yet in perfect health save onely Mr. Ball vvho in a journey aftervvard in the exceeding hot vveather took a surfet by eating Pork and Caule and thereof dyed and to give him his due now he is gone 't is fit to be known that he was the Son of a very great Presbyterian and Non-conformist and so are most of his relations and in that way and those schismaticall principles he was bred yet being a very good schollar and after his coming to Oxford reading indifferently the books of both sides and seriously weighing their scriptures Antiquities and reasons forsook the Presbyterians and freely and chearfully came over to the Episcopall judgement even in those times when there was not the least glimps of hope of his advantaging but rather blasting his preferments by so doing And of sundry the like notorious afflictions upon diverse Ministers and other Non-conformists in sundry Counties It would make up a far larger book then that wherein the Army of the Toads is so ridiculously set forth and that not so much to shevv the judgements of God against the revivers of Common prayer as of Quakers and other such Phanaticks and sectaries as any but mere dolts may observe in diverse particulars of that book however the title page layes all on the Common prayers score According to the old ones Maxime calumniare fortiter aliquid haerebit cast dirt enough and some of it will stick on the smoothest and purest wall or garment Perhaps some will say Doctor Brownrig who was for Episcopacy and Common prayer died of a sudden extream fit of the stone the scholars or hard students disease but Hugh Peters who is against both is hang'd drawn and quarterd according to Law pray which is the greater judgement the Duke of Glocester who was for both died of the small pox for which some vile wretches have kept a thanksgiving day with words to this purpose Lord as thou hast cut off one of the limbs of that wicked family to go on to destroy it root and branch till there be not one of that wicked race left but Henry Martine who was against both either is already dead or like to die of the great otherwise called the French or Gallick Pox to save the hangman a labour I pray which is the greater judgement Thus you see how easie it is to accumulate undeniable Paradigmes more then a good many of such as are or have been Adversaries of the good old government of the Church of England and the Liturgy thereof and have felt god's scourge heavie upon them and thereby to stifle the noise of the Croaking Toads that of late have been creeping abroad to the disparagement of the good old way of God's worship But the truth is by all these things 't is hard to judge of god or evill 't is Turkish or Cromwellian divinity to judge of the right of a Religion by the lives or events of those that profess it let Holy writ as it is interpreted by the ancient Church and Fathers who were nearest the Fountain be our guide and never go to the Episkies of Enthusiasmes and mis-applyed providences vvhich must needs mis-lead us The true Copy of a Letter from a very Reverend Church-man in ansvver to a young man who desired his judgement without delay upon this Case viz. Whether every Minister of the Church of England be bound in conscience to read the Common-prayer SIR I Receiv'd your Letter in folio with others inclosed which I have returned The Books you write of I have not received yet I thank you for your good intentions I am sorry the paper is printed by it self it will be the less publick sooner die and vvill make the Authour the more enquired after vvhich may prove prejudicial Your Case you sent me must be put thus vvhether a Minister that is every Minister of the Church of England All indefinites in materiaâ necessariâ are equivalent to universals be bound in conscience to use the Common prayer The Case thus put there seem many things to be said to the contrary E. G. 1. No Minister is bound in conscience to do any thing which will be more hurtfull then profitable to God's Church but vve think this vvill be so Ergò c. 2. No Minister is bound in conscience to that vvhich will offend any godly men but this vvill do so Ergò c. 3. No man is bound in conscience to any thing forbidden by lavvfull Authority But the Common-prayer was forbidden by Lords and Commons Ergò c. 4. That which hath been disused and so is antiquated doth not binde without an Act of Reviver The Common-prayer hath been thus disused and there is no such Act c. Ergo c. 5. Nothing can thus binde which is not of faith for what is not of faith is sin But thus to do is not of faith to some Ergò c. 6. The Minister is not bound in conscience to any thing which will cause him to be suspected of lightness and so bring him and his Ministry into contempt with the people But this will do so Ergò c. 7. He is not bound in his conscience to do that against which he hath shevved his dislike either by preaching or conference with his people But some Ministers have done so Therefore not lawful for them or at least they are not bound in conscience c. Ergò c 8. No man is bound in conscience to any Act of imprudence which may make him ridiculous to others But this may be such if there should come from supream authority either a prohibition or alteration of that service But c. Ergò c. 9. No man is bound in conscience to that from which he hath a dispensation from his lawfull Superiour But some have been so dispensed with c. Ergò c. 10. None are bound to this who was ordeined without Oathes and Subscriptions But some Ministers have been so ordeined c. Ergò c. This is all you have in your paper and all I think can be said by others which question not the thing in it self as did the old Puritans as unlawfull for the Negative For the Affirmative it is said 1. Every man is bound to that which the Law of the land still in force require of him But the Law of the land still in force requires the reading of the Common-prayer Ergò c. 2. Every Minister is bound to what the Law of the Church by her Canons and Constitutions requires of him But c. Ergò c. 3. Every Minister is bound in conscience to use that kind of publick worship supposing neither restraint nor danger which is best for the peoples edification