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A75437 An ansvver to the nevv motions or, A serious and briefe discussion of certaine motions now in question. 1641 (1641) Wing A3427; Thomason E205_4; ESTC R15235 10,697 25

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our Calling into the Ministery c. bee those which Christ appointed It is easie to demand much you should rather have shewed your particular dislikes But I answer that they are Our Calling hath that Ordination which the Apostles used and S. Paul appointed Timothy and Titus to use viz. by the imposition of the Bishops hands and of the other Ministers that are present at that action for they also lay on their hands juxta manum Episcopi by the Bishops hand according to the antient Canons And before this we have the election and approbation of the people or of the cheife of them whereby wee are commended to the Bishop as you may know by the Law of Patrons and of Iustices and of Neighbour-Ministers whose commendations are necessary before any be made Minister or admitted to any place in the Church For our Administration it is of Gods Word and of the two holy Sacraments and of publick Prayer all which the Minister ought to doe Other Administration have we none unlesse you meane Marrying and Burying which perhaps you mislike that the Minister should doe them but why I know not For Marrying God himselfe first acted it and brought Eve to Adam Gen. 2. And Christ said after of all Marriages Quos Deus conjunxit c. Those whom God hath joyned together c. Who then fitter to doe this in the place of God and in his name than he that is his Messenger and in his stead For Buriall it is the field and Seminary of the Resurrection and who fitter for sowing than hee that is Gods Sower And for our Maintenance it is by Tithes better than yours by Almes for it was so before the Law and under the Law and under the Gospel as soone as the Magistrate was Christian And your Almes onely used in time of Persecution when no better could be had For where the Ministery shall have no Maintenance but what must bee at the mercy of his Auditory how apt is hee to smooth humour and subscribe to such and wave their darling and pleasing sinnes in whose power it is to deny him sustenance were there no other reason for the independency of his Maintenance The fourth Demand Whether the Sacraments being Seales of righteousnesse which is by Faith may bee administred to any other than to the faithfull and their seed or in any other manner and ministery than is prescribed by Iesus Christ And whether they be not otherwise administred in the Cathedrall and Parochiall Assemblies at this day in England or no Answer THe Sacraments the Seales of righteousnesse are onely to bee given to the faithfull and to their seed or to such as seeme to be faithfull as Iudas Simon Magus Demas and such like and to no other are they given in the Church of England for if any bee profane un-holy or notoriously wicked the Minister is by Law to repell them Neither are they given with us in any other Ministery than Christ hath appointed unlesse you you meane the Baptizing by Midwives which in our Church is not approved nor now any where practised Neither are they given in any other manner unlesse you meane hereby externall and variable circumstances as kneeling at the Eucharist and such like as I thinke you doe And then I answer you to receive it kneeling is most fitting and decent seeing it is an Action of more humility and devotion than standing or sitting is At the first they received it sitting or rather lying and leaning for Saint Iohn then leaned on Iesus breast as their manner was then to eat But this is no more perpetuall or necessary than to receive it at night or after Supper for these were then used according to the present occasion Even as many circumstances were used in the Passeover at the first institution in Aegypt which should not bee perpetuall as the sprinkling the doore with blood their not going out of their houses that night their eating of it standing with loynes girt and staves in their hands all which as mutable ceased in the land of promise The fifth Demand Whether the Booke of Common-Prayer with the Feasts Fasts and Holy-daies stinted Prayers and Lyturgie prescribed therein and used in these Assemblies be the true worship of God commanded in his word or the device and invention of man for Gods worship and service or no Answer YOu aske whether the Book of Common-Prayer be Gods worship or the Invention of man It was thus composed by men godly and learned men and many of them Martyrs of Christ The doctrine thereof is according to Gods Word a book as fit and full of edification in the Prayers and Administration of Sacraments as possibly can be devised or made The things that you here dislike in it are Feasts Fasts and Holy-dayes stinted Prayers and Lyturgie In our Feasts and Holy-dayes first observe that wee have none to Legend Saints but Christ his Apostles the blessed Virgin and Saint Iohn Baptist Secondly that wee worship no Saints in those dayes but praise God for them who made them profitable to his Church Thirdly it is lawfull for the Church to appoint such dayes to glorifie God in For in time of the Macchabees the Church appointed an Anniversary Feast of Dedication of the Altar after they had rid the Temple from Antiochus his profanation 1. Mac. 4.59 And our Saviour Christ himselfe observed it Iohn 10.11 Fourthly that the observation of such times is very ancient and generall for in the first Generall Councell of Nice there was great question about the day whereon Easter should bee kept but not a man either in the Latine or Greek Church but then thought it meet to be kept so farre was the Church then from your nicety In the Prayers and Lyturgie you here finde no other fault but that they are stinted and set Prayers for you would have no Book at all nor any forme of celebrating Holy things nor any set Prayers but all voluntary at every Pastors discretion If this fancy should take place not onely every Minister would vary from himselfe but one would agree with another like Germans Lips Nothing is more needfull in holy things than conformity so the forme be good But to speak onely of stinted and set Prayers which fault you find First in the Temple the booke of Psalmes was their Psalter or set Prayers for they were appointed to bee used continually and are set to certaine orders of Priests and to certaine times and instruments for daily use as the Hebrew Inscriptions of all the Psalmes doe testifie Secondly the Priests had a solemn set forme of Prayer which they used when they solemnly blessed the people the words are prescribed Num. 6.23 24 25. The Lord blesse thee and keepe thee the Lord c. Thirdly they had a set forme of Prayer in the wildernesse which they used when the Tabernacle removed Exurgat Deus Let God arise c. And another when the Tabernacle was pitched Let God returne c. Num. 10.35 Fourthly