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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15304	The schysmatical puritan A sermon preached at Witney concerning the lawfulnesse of church-authority, for ordaining, and commanding of rites, and ceremonies, to beautifie the Church. By Giles Widdowes rector of St Martins church in Oxford.	Widdowes, Giles, 1558?-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 25594; ESTC S120720	21,327	48

THE SCHYSMATICAL PVRITAN A SERMON PREACHED AT WITNEY concerning the lawfulnesse of Church-Authority for ordaining and commanding of Rites and Ceremonies to beautifie the Church By GILES WIDDOWES Rector of St. MARTINS Church in Oxford TITVS 1. 15. Vnto the pure all things are pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeving nothing is pure but their Minde and Conscience are defiled Printed at Oxford for the Author 1630. TO HIS GRACIOVS LADY KATHARINE DVTCHES of BVCKINGHAM HER GRACE all health prosperity and salvation through Iesus Christ MADAM IMportunitie of friends hath with vn-answerable perswasions constrained me to imprint this Sermon because an ignorant zeale of some hasty spirits would cry downe the lawfull Authority of the true Doctrine and discipline of our Reformed Church I therefore desire your Graces favour most earnestly to accept these my first fruits sacrific'd on the Presse and to wish them safe protection My oblig'd duty directs and necessitates me to be thankefull vnto you for your speciall favours beyond my desert to dedicate myselfe and these my orthodoxe labours to so good and Gracious a Lady The Lord Crowne your merits with spirituall and temporall blessings for Christ Iesus sake and that for the hearty praiers of Your Graces most humble servant and Chaplaine GILES WIDDOWES TO THE PVRITAN IT is your practise to run from the Church Iam sorry that so learned and so holy men as you would seeme to be doe want true Christian patience to heare orthodox holy doctrine But let me intreat you to vnderstand me this one time I hope it will be for your edifying This is my prayer vnto Almighty God through Iesus Christ My businesse with you is the Puritan whose name distinguish'd whose essence rēd'red in the very property and whose severall kinds essentially differing I giue into your owne hands that you may see and learne true Reformation Concerning the name Puritan it is ambiguous and so it is fallacious For some good men are called Puritans and they are Puritans indeed They are pure in heart and so blessed that they shall see God Mat. 5. 8. And some evill men are called Puritans who desire to seeme to be iust and holy but in their doctrine and discipline they are the vnderminers of our True Protestant Reformed Church Are you angry because I tell you the truth Be angry but sin not and I will tell you the essentiall definition of this fallacious Puritan A Puritan is a Protestant Non-Conformist A Protestant this is his Genus his kinde of being A Non-Conformist this is his differentia his essentiall difference his essentiall Qualitie A Puritan is a kind of Protestant For he wil be tryed by the Scriptures concerning his faith and his Christian morall life so farre as his Spirit will endure the text But the scriptures deduceable sence in Essentials Essentiates Efficients Finals Subiects Effects and their Modalities being opposite to their tenets confounds this Professor and overthrowes his Chaire but he asham'd to forsake his seducing profession a long time vehemently clamarous taketh fast hold only on the letter and chapter of the text So then this Puritan is a sullen fallacie of the Reformed Church being confuted he will not learne to turne still he is pure not really but in his owne suppose The Lord graunt him grace to reforme This Puritan is a Non-Conformist For he is oppositely set a Contradictist to the Scriptures deduceable sence in three things The first is the 39 Articles of our Churches Reformed faith The second is our Common Praier-booke The third is the Canons of our Church And yet the doctrine of the Articles the faith of the common prayers and the lawfulnesse of the Canons are contained in the deduce-able sence of holy Scriptures The Articles of our Reformed Churches saith which he opposeth are these the 3. 6. 9. 16. 17. 20. 21. 23. 26. 27. 33. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. This is proved in the severall kindes of this irregular scripturist The praiers in the common prayer-prayer-booke which he contradicts being collected and translated out of the mass-Masse-booke yet corrected and purged from grosse errors those selected prayers he refuseth every one because they were thence collected The Absolution he disliketh because he makes a quere whether the congregation did faithfully and penitently confesse their sinnes The Lords prayer hee will not say because hee will make a praier like to the Lords praier Nunc dimittis c hee reiects because he will not any praier or hymne but such as hee thinkes fit according to his owne will The Letanie he saith is composed of coniuring and swearing and of vnnecessarie and vnlawfull Invocations The collect on Trinitie Sunday he saith is composed of an Impossibilitie And that the last collect but one read at holy Communion is composed of vntruths He is ill-disposed oppositely affected against prayers at Christnings Confirmations and Burialls I make answere thus To pronounce He pardoneth and absolveth all them which truely repent and vnfainedly belieue is the actuall duetie of Evangelicall Priests and so good a duetie is no sinne Ministers must say the Lords prayer The Lord hath said it Luk. 11. 2. And they must make their praiers according to the forme of the Lords prayer It is the text they must vse no vaine babling their forme of praier must be effectuall not vaine briefe not stuffed with tautologies and iterations Read Matth. 6. ver 7. 8. 9. God did regard vs with a Saviour in that he did regard the Blessed Virgin with a Sonne and a Saviour therefore we say the Magnificat Wee shal be saved by the same faith as old Simeon was therefore we say Nunc dimittis In the Letanie we pray to bee delivered from sinne and punishment And how must Christians pray for to bee delivered but by Christs agonie and bloody sweat c And is this swearing or coniuring Is praying in the Winter to be delivered from thunder and lightning vnnecessarie Lightning and thunder are Gods secret iudgements he may afflict sinners with them in the Winter though naturally summer bee the time for those terrifying Meteors but because they are Gods secret iudgements therefore we pray alwaies for deliverance Is praying for theeues and whores vnlawfull the one being included in all men travayling by land or by water the other being included in all women labouring with child Our Saviour saith that his Heavenly Father is mercifull to the iust and vniust and that all Gods people must be so mercifull Math. 5. 48. c And S. Paul saith doe good vnto all Gal. 6. 10 and therefore we must pray for all On Trinity Sunday we pray to be delivered from all adversity and it is thus in the Lords praier Deliuer vs from all evill And shall we not pray as the Lord hath taught vs In the last Collect but one at the holy Communion wee Confesse our vnworthines and blindnes And wheresoever sinne is inherent and a fighter there must be necessitate causae sin being an actuall cause an