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A85284 LIX. exceptions against the Booke of common prayer. 1644 (1644) Wing F893; Thomason E49_31; ESTC R17158 4,042 9

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LIX EXCEPTIONS AGAINST THE BOOKE OF Common Prayer May 28th 1644 THe Book of Common Prayer containeth in it sundry things that are contrary to the Word of God For 1. It appointeth a Liturgy which in the whold matter and forme thereof is too like unto the Masse-booke 2. It appointeth a Liturgy which by the length thereof doth in many Congregations oft-times necessarily shut out Preaching viz. When Baptisme the Communion Marrying Churching and Buriall concer altogether as oft times they doe in great Congregations 3. It approveth of a ministry as lawfull which wanteth ability to preach 4 It containeth in it sundry popish errors or such things at least as tend strongly to the maintenance of popish superstition As 1. The minister of the Gospel is throughout the book call●d Priest 2. It comm●nd●●h the observation of many Holy-dayes and requireth the minister to bid them and preferreth them in some sort before the Lords day For the ordinary Lessons appointed in the Calender for the Lords day must give place to the proper Lessons of that holy-day that falls on the Lords day and Athanasius Creed is appointed to be read only upon certaine Holy dayes 3. It appointeth Saints Eves to be kept as fasting dayes and commandeth the Minister to bid the●rso 4. It appointeth the time of Lent to be kept as a religious fast and pervetteth both the example of Christs fast and sundry other places of Scripture to the justifying thereof It prescribeth a speciall service for the first day of Lent and appointeth the Commination and other speciall prayers and exhortations tending to repentance to bee read upon that day only and it affirmeth that It was a godly discipline in the Primative Church the restoring whereof is much to bee wished that notorious sinners at the beginning of Lent were put to open Penance 5. The weeke before Easter onely of all the weekes in the yeare hath prescript service appointed with Epistles and Gospels for every day as solemne as the holy dayes are wont to have 6. The Friday before Easter is called Good Friday and hath three speciall Collects appointed for it as hath no one day of the yeare besides 7. It commandeth every Parishioner shall receive the Communion at Easter 8. It appointeth the Congregation to pray that God would give them that which their prayers dare not presume to aske 9. The Catechisme in delivering the number of the Sacraments saith there are two onely as generally necessary to salvation 10. Theminister as if Baptisme were of absolute necessity is allowed not onely to Baptzie in private but to use the words of Institution and the element though he have not so much time as to say the Lords Prayer 11. The Minister is allowed and directed to administer the Communion to one sicke of the Plague though there be not one more to communicate with him 12. Interrogatories in Baptisme are ministred unto infants as if repentance and faith were requisit in them before they may be baptized and it is said in the Catechism That Infants performe faith and repentance by the Sureties who promise and vow them in their names 13. Every child baptized as if out ward Baptism did conset grace to all that receive it is said to be regenerate and in the Catechisme it is said that we are by Baptisme made the children of grace and in the Rubrick immediatly before catechism that is certain by Gods word that children being baptized have all things necessary for their salvation and be undoubtedly saved 14. The Minister is appointed to command that children be brought to the Bishop to be Consumed yea none may be admitted to the Cōmmunion till ●e have b●● Confirmed In Confirmation children are said to be certified thy the signe of the imposition of the Bishops hand of Gods favour and gracious goodnesse towards them And Confirmation is said to be ministred to them that are baptised that by imposition of hands and prayer they may receive strength and defence against all tentations to sin and the assaults of the w●rld and the divell Yea confirmation is dignified above Christs Sacraments in that none may administer it but a Bishop And it is said to be administred after the example of the holy Apostles warrant therby 16. It saith that Matrimony doth signifie unto us the misticall union betwixt Christ and his Church and that God did consecrate the state of Matrimony to such an excellent mystery that it is signified and represented the spirituall marriage and unity betweene Christ and his Church And the ring in Matrimony is appointed to be laid on the Book and the Priest to take it and deliver it to the man and to teach him to say thus With this Ring I thee wed c. And the priest is appointed in his prayer unto God to say That the Ring is a token and a pledge of the Covenant and vow made in Marriage 16. The Priest is appointed to absolve every sick person that findeth his conscience troubled with any weighty sinne and maketh speciall confession of it in this forme By Christs authority committed to me I absolve thee from all thy sinnes in the name of the Father c. And in another place the people are appointed to come to the minister to receive the benefit of absolution 17. Burial is made a ministerial duty and a prescript Liturgy is appointed for it to be said at the grave and we are appointed to pray thus That God would hasten his kindome that we with this our brother and all other departed in the true faith of thy holy Name way have our persit consummation and blisse hoth in body and soule 18. Churching of women is commanded and made a ministeriall duty and a prescript Liturgy appointed for it and the woman is appointed to kneele neele to the place where the table stands and the Priest to stand by her when he Churcheth her and that she must offer her accustomed offrings 19. Both in that place and else where in the booke offring dayes and an Offertory are allowed 20. In the Catechisme it is said That the Sonne of God hath redeemed all mankind taking that phrase in a larger sensethen for all the Elect as is evident by the words immediatly going before and following after 5. It appointeth sundry things that end directly to the profanation of the holy Sacraments either by prostituting them to unworthy persons or administring them unreverently For 1. All Priests Deacons in Collegat Churches are commanded to receive the Communion every sunday at least 2. Every Communicant may choose whether he wil give notice of his purpose to receive till after the beginning of morning prayer on the same day that he is to Cōmunicate 3. All new married persons must receive the Communion the same day they are married 4. Private Baptisme in some cases is allowed to be administred without any prayer doctrine or exhortation 6. It avoucheth sundry manifest and apparant untruths As 1. That in the Calender