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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27541	Ludlow no lyar, or, A detection of Dr. Hollingworth's disingenuity in his Second defence of King Charles I and a further vindication of the Parliament of the 3d of Novemb. 1640 : with exact copies of the Pope's letter to King Charles the first, and of his answer to the Pope : in a letter from General Ludlow, to Dr. Hollingworth : together with a reply to the false and malicious assertions in the Doctor's lewd pamphlet, entituled, His defence of the King's holy and divine book, against the rude and undutiful assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.; Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Reply to the pope's letter [of 20 April 1623]; Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2068; ESTC R12493	70,085	85

how the Mutinies and Disturbances in Scotland sprung from thence which truly I am very sorry for 'T is well we are agreed in this point that from the imposing this Liturgy the Scotish Troubles did arise so that hitherto there 's no Ungodliness in my Story But you proceed I am sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion profess'd amongst them if they had submitted to the Vsage of that Book and continued it ever since This in truth Sir is ungodly and malicious all over you are sure it had been better for the Christian Religion c. Why not Protestant Religion CHRISTIAN RELIGION is indeed in its true and genuine Sense so good an Expression that a better cannot be found for the only true Religion but these Laudean Church-men the Papists in disguise must be narrowly watch'd for 't is notoriously known that they hold the Roman-Church to be a true Church though we know 't is idolatrous We must hold them to the Shiboleth PROTESTANT when they pretend to tell us what is best for the Christian Religion Laud himself spoke at the rate which you crafty Turn-Goat here do his Letters expressed his fear of delay in bringing in the Common-Prayer-Book for the great good not of the Church of Scotland but of the Church My Lord Bishop of Salisbury may surely be allowed to be a more competent Judg in this matter than you He saith Pag. 30. of his Memoires The Liturgy had some Alterations from the English which made it more invidious and less satisfactory The imposing it really varied from their former Practices and Constitutions Pag. 33. The Lords petitioned complaining against the Liturgy and Book of Canons offering under the highest Penalties to prove they contained things both contrary to Religion and the Laws of the Land Pag. 36. The Earls of Traquaire and Roxburgh by Letter to the King advised him to secure the People of that which they so much apprehended the fear of Innovation of Religion saying that they found few or none well satisfied Pag. 33. The Earl of Trequaire went to Court and gave account that all the Troubles were occasioned by the introducing the Liturgy with which scarce a Member of Council except Bishops was well satisfied neither were all these cordially for it for the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews from the beginning had withstood these Designs and the Arch-bishop of Glasgow was worse pleased See now what the Scotish Nation offered against this Liturgy which you Doctor are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had received and used it Their Commissioners in their Charge against Laud exhibited in our Parliament in 1641 say Pag. 11 c. This Book inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of England of the divers secret Reasons of this change we mention one only In joining the Spiritual Praise and Thanksgiving which is in the Book of England pertinently after the Communion with the Prayer of Consecration before the Communion and that under the Name of Memorial or Oblation for no other end but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Praise mentioned in it may be understood according to the Popish Meaning Bellar. de Missâ lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the Spiritual Sacrifice but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord. The corporal Presence of Christ's Body is also to be found here for the words of the mass-Mass-Book serving to this purpose which are not to be found in the Book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incall'd that of his Almighty Goodness he may vouchsafe so to bless and sanctify with his Word and Spirit these Gifts of Bread and Wine that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Christ. On the other part the Expressions of the Book of England at the delivery of the Elements Of feeding on Christ by Faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleted Now one would think that if such a whissling Doctor as you are were not past all shame as you affirm me to be it would make you blush but we may sooner expect to see you burst that you who appeared but now very tender of passing a Judgment upon the Actions of the accused Star-Chamber should be found so pragmatical so arrogant as to censure King Charles the First who damn'd this very Book by Act of Parliament and the Kingdom and Church of Scotland in this Point and declare That you are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had submitted to the Vsage of this Babylonish Book and continued it ever since But you are so inflexible that there 's little hope of reconciling you to that Nation I had almost said to the King and Queen unless this well-approved Liturgy be sent down once more and entertained there For then you say pag. 18. the Worship of God would be performed with Order and Decency and in a way suitable to his Divine Nature and Perfections And consequently could not have been nauseous to the soberly wise and seriously devout part of that Kingdom as now it is by reason of those rude and undigested Addresses those ex-tempore and unpremeditated Expostulations with God those bold and saucy Applications that for want of a good Book or a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to memory are so commonly made use of in their Pulpits too many of the accounts of which we have lately since the great Turn in Scotland received from very good Hands and undeniable Testimonies This is I am sure a nauseating if not an ungodly and prophane way of Talking You poor weak Man as you are run away with a gross Mistake that because there were Bishops in Scotland till the great Turn as you term the legal Settlement of that Church by their present Majesties they had also a Common-Prayer Book but believe me or let it alone as you please they had no such thing it was detested even by many of their Episcopal Clergy I shall not pretend to remark upon your most unbecoming and malicious Representation of the praying of the present Ministers of that Kingdom but 't is well known that their Divines are of good Ability and every way well qualified for the discharge of the Ministerial Function And whereas you pretend to recommend a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to Memory for the prevention of rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications I would fain know of you what Canon allows a Minister of the Church of England to frame his own Prayer and to mutter out a good part of it so as no body can tell what he says And then to rise constantly in his Voice when he comes to the Ox and the Ass But to talk seriously of this most serious Matter pray see what the Devout and Learned Bishop of Salisbury says of such Doctors as your self in his Sermon Ian. 30. 1680.