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A57315	A true prospect for the bishops, priests & deacons and all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England who are professors of the common prayer, through which they may see how far they are short in faith, principle and practice of divers sound truths therin specified : also the proper right of the Quakers to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for ... / published by Ambrose Rigg.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1499; ESTC R25100	19,344	24

A true Prospect For the BISHOPS Priests and Deasons And all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England who are Professors of the Common Prayer through which they may see how far they are short in Faith Principle and practise of divers sound truths therein specified Also the proper right of the Quakers to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for which no other people upon the earth can justly challenge And instead of being persecuted the Quakers ought to be protected by the Laws of King Edward the sixt Queen Eliz. Charles the 1st and Charles the Second which established the book of Common-Prayer in Equity and Right Reason which is the life of all just Lawes VVhereunto is annexed divers of the Priests practises for which they have no proof in the Scripture Published by a lover of truth and Righteousness where ever it appears known by the name of Ambrose Rigg And this is the confidence that we have in God that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth 〈◊〉 John 5. 14. But let him aske in Faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a Wave of the Sea driven with the winds and to s●ed Jam. 1. 6. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from God Verse 7. Printed for M. W. To the moderate and Courteous READER MY principle end and aime in this small Treatise is to set forth and vindicate the sound and antient Truth in the Common-Prayer Book as it is now established and to bring the same forth as the Sun from under the Clouds that they may shine in brightness to the ends of the earth which thou wilt find true if thou reade over this small book with a single eye and not stumble at my plain down-right dealing with the men who so much cries up that book at this day and yet cannot away with those who answers the same in life and practise even every particular thereof which is gathered out of the Scriptures and onely denies those things and them for practising those things which are not taken out of the Scripture wherein doth lye the great difference between them at this day wherein the Lord is bringing to light many things which long hath laid hid and vaild in secret and is revealing the Mysteries of his Kingdome unto his sons and daughters servants and handmaids And all Superstition and superstitious Ceremonies he will utterly deface and demolish though never so strongly fortified outwardly and will set up his own righteousness and way of worship which is in spirit and truth according to the testimony of his Son in former Ages Iohn 4. 24. In which alone he will manifest his love power presence and vertue unto mankind again in the way of their recovery from the snares of death and darkness under which their souls have long mourned that they may set forth his noble Acts and declare his wondrous works unto generations to come And for this cause he hath raised up many at this day to testifie unto his Name and power and is leading them from one Nation to another people 〈◊〉 testimony unto his Son who is come into the world to save sinners and to finish transgression in the earth that his praise may be perfected among the Sons of men and he will suffer one Potshard of the earth to dash in pieces another until this be accomplished and no weapon formed against this decree shall prosper for this is that cause for which he ever appeared in any age and time whatsoever and for which he hath manifestly appeared in divers manners in this our age and hath overturned many high Mountains of the earth that he might fully vindicate his own truth where ever it appeareth without respect to rich or poor bond or free male or female high or low but in every Nation they who fear him and work righteousness he will accept that no flesh may glory before him who is rich in mercy and tender in compassion to all who early seek his face inrighteousness Therefore be not rash nor inconsiderate in these things which are of great moment but weigh every sentence in the ballance of equity so wilt thou come to a right understanding of the truth herein declared And my end is not in this treatise that the Priests who so grosly abuses their own principles and Prayers should be destroyed with a carnal weapon for my weapon to them is not carnal but that they may come to repentance and find mercy with the Lord and that the people may be truly founded upon the Rock of Ages never more to slide nor fall and for this doth my soul travail in suffering and heavinesse even to this day waiting for the promotion of that truth spoken of in the book of Common Prayer which the Scriptures of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles bears witness unto in patience induring all things till the words of God be fulfilled written the 22. day of the 4th month 1663. Who am a lover of Righteousnesse and truth and a sufferer for the same Called Ambrose Rigge A true prospect for the Bishops Priests and Deacons and all other within the Jurisdiction of the Church of England c. GOd who in the beginning made man upright in his own image and likeness and gave him life and dominion over death and darkness and the power thereof making him an instrument to shew forth his praise and glory in the earth far above any other living creature which his hand made In which dominion and life while man stood he had the blessing and presence of Almighty God upon him and with him and had perfect dominion over all the Beasts of the field and the Fowls of the Aire and knew no sin neither curse death nor darkness but stood in perfect freedome as the son and heir of God in whom God had more delight then any other creature which he made insomuch that he set him in that place in which his chiefest delight was that he might dress it and keep it for his Creator to walk in where also was the tree of life which yielded food to man so that he was altogether unsencible of any misery sorrow or tribulation of body or soul neither was he in bondage to any creature but Lord and Ruler over all the whole creation according to the word of the Lord Gen. 1. 28. in which free covenant of life he perfectly stood till the Serpent grudged his glory and in the envy sowed a cursed seed which took root in his heart since which time hath brought forth many wicked branches which hath long cumbred the ground And for receiving this and disobeying the word of the Lord he was disthroned from all his glory and was exposed to all misery and cursedness of body and soul with all his seed end race after him and was driven into the earth from the presence of the Lord and then was altogether unsencible of life and immortallity with God

hearing of them Our plea is to such that forasmuch as the teachers of this age who reads the Common Prayer doth deny those solemne covenants which they cause many to take at the first receiving of a child into their Congregation causing them to promise and vow three things in the childs name First that he shall forsake the Devil and all his works and all the sinful lusts of the flesh which covenant they say when the child comes of age he is bound to perform And we find by dayly experience that when the child comes of age the Priest tells him that he cannot forsake all the Devils works but must have a body of sin while he is upon the earth as they commonly do which is absolutely contrary to their promise and vow in Baptisme and therefore we deny them as Covenant-breakers and turn away from them according to the Apostles command 2 Tim. 3. Our second plea is that notwithstanding they injoine the Godfathers and Godmothers as they call them to promise and vow that the child shall keep Gods will and Commandements and walk in the same all the daies of his life and afterward in their preaching saith it is impossible to keep Gods holy will and Commandements as many can witness but break them every day in thought word and deed as they commonly say And therefore we turn away from such confusion in wich they as Babylons Merchants are dayly found answering the word of the Lord which saith Come out of her my people be not pertaker of her sins least you pertake of her plagues and we finding them so grosly overthrowing the foundation principles of the Church of England by their preaching and practise that we are neither bound by the law of God nor right reason to uphold or follow them Yet nevertheless though we deny them for abusing their own principles and duties which in words they prosess and vow to persue yet we retain that pure principle in life and practise which brings young and old to forsake the Divel and all his works with all the sinful lusts of the flesh which can never be performed or kept by the carnal man in his will though he may promise and vow to do it neither have we attained to the performance of this while we followed them but as we received that which discovered their confusion unto us and we standing in this principle at this day which the Lawes of King Edward Queen Eliza. Charles the 1st and Charles the 2d doth protect we ought not by right reason to be persecuted but rather the Priests who dayly confound this principle which gives every Infant admittance into the Church of England to be a member thereof 2. We retain that which brings us to keep Gods holy will and Commandements which is Gods love shed abroad in our hearts and by this doth many know that we love him because we keep his Commandements and his Commandements are not grievous but joyous Joh. 14. 15. Therefore it is contrary to right reason that we should suffer for keeping these principles pure and inviolable which the Church of England imposes upon every Infant while their own teachers in doctrine and practise are opposers of these principles in affirming that no man on this side the Grave can keep Gods will and Commandements but must have a body of sin while they live through which the Commandements of God is broken every day witness their dayly outcry against perfection in this life which the aforesaid principles holds forth for he who forsakes the Divel and all his works and all the pomps and pleasures of the world and all the sinful lusts of the same and keeps Gods holy mark that will and Commandements and walks in the same all the Mark that also dayes of his life is not such a perfect man all the dayes of his life and if so is not this contrary to the Priests Doctrine who dayly affirme the contrary therefore let any rational man judge whether we or they ought to suffer by the Kings lawes Furthermore our plea is against them in this thing in causing men and women to promise and vow such things as aforesaid which cannot be performed and so layes heavy burthens upon them which they themselves are so far from touching that they cry out it is impossible to be born and so makes them truce-breakers and teaches the children to call such Godfathers and Godmothers which is not so for they are neither the childrens God nor their father nor mother neither hath their God a father or a mother So this thing we cannot but deny them in because we beleive it is not of God neither do we read that any of the sons or daughters of God in the Scripture of truth did use such sayings nor the Ministers of the Gospel impose such things upon any in their infancy but if any aske how this was instituted first and how these Ministers came by such things who now use them my answer is according to the antient writers In the year of the world 4102. and of Christ 142. being the first year of the reigne of Anthonius the Emperor was Iginus consecrated Pope he reigned four years three moneths and six daies he ordayned that every child in Baptisme should have a Godfather and a Godmother standing at the Font and so likewise at the time of confirmation Therefore we not finding such a practise warranted by the Scripture but invented by the Pope as aforesaid we cannot own it nor them in it or think it to be requisite to salvation nor beleive it is of God at all but a blind ceremony set up in the invention of man and practised by them who cannot keep the commands of God and therefore is not to be required of any man according to the 6th Article of the book of Canons in these words Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not contained in the Scriptures nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be beleived as an Article of the faith or to be thought requisite or necessary to salvation Likewise in the 20th Article The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies of faith and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to Gods word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another wherefore although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy writ yet it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought not to inforce any thing to be beleived for necessity of salvation Likewise in the 21. Article of the Canons General counsels may not be gathered together without the Commandement and Writ of Princes and when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed by the spirit and word of God they may erre and sometimes have erred