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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62456	Just weights and measures that is, the present state of religion weighed in the balance, and measured by the standard of the sanctuary / according to the opinion of Herbert Thorndike.	Thorndike, Herbert, 1598-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing T1051; ESTC R19715	213,517	274

bee but a Church in name that shall bee Ruled by the fansies of those whom it is to Rule And when the interest of publick peace so visibly concurreth with the interest of saving souls it will hardly become the profession of a Christian Kingdom not to trust God for the success of that which is designed upon so Christian considerations This is the place where the first Service ended and the second Of that which goes before the Preface in our Communion Service began in the antient Church The Creed follows after the Sermon in Dionysius who writing a little before the Council at Chalcedon is the first that mentions it in the Service Hee calls it an Hymn and wee may call it the Catholick Hymn glorifying God for the substance of Christianity with his whole Church That which wee call the second Service following immediately hereupon was nothing but the Eucharist and the prayers of the Church which it is to bee celebrated with And that is the reason why I do not think our Communion Service sufficient for those Assemblies in which the first is too long to hee used For the Office ought to consist of Psalmes and Lessons with Hymnes interposed of an instruction and of the Eucharist with the prayers which it is celebrated with Now it hath been always the use of Christs Whole Church even from the Apostles to offer at the Eucharist both the Bread and Wine which it is to bee consecrated of and also what their hearts moved them to contribute for the maintenance of Gods Service And therefore the Prayer for the whole state of Christs Church is here proper in regard of those that offer to that purpose the rest that offer not concurring with their prayers to that effect for which they offer The confession of sins afore the Eucharist is seen in some of the antient Liturgies nor do I find it questioned on any hand as either unseasonable or not requisite in this Action The Decalogue and Answers which since Q. Elizabeths time wee begin the Communion Service with seem more proper to be placed here to branch forth the particulars of those sins which wee confess For the Commandments are certain heads to which men may refer the sins for which they ask pardon and grace to avoid them But there is great reason why they are not found in the Service of the antient Church The reason is because the Decalogue is proper to the Law and unproper to Christianity and it is a sad effect hereof which wee see For it is certain and manifest that the Sabbatarian error hath had the rise or increase from the construction which ignorant Preachers have made of the prayer for remission of sins against this fourth Commandment which the Church prescribeth Nor have I ever found any authority of the Church for using the Decalogue for the Rule by which the sins of Christians are to bee ranked but only in some late Offices of those ages which wee who profess the Reformation are not to own After the confession of sins the General Preface which follows Of the Prefaces and the Prayers of Consecration after Sursum corda would bee inlarged with thanksgiving to God for making the World and man for not forsaking man having forsaken him when hee was made Lord of his Creatures but first sending the Fathers to reclaim their several Ages then giving the Law and the Prophets to instruct his own people in his service And when these means took not the effect which hee sought for sending his Son to redeem and reconcile us to him by the death of his Cross After this the Proper Prefaces and the Seraphims Hymn are of too antient and general use in the Catholick Church to bee omitted without a mark of Apostasie from the devotion of it which they express The Prayer which wee consecrate with seemeth agreeable to the intent of Gods Church but more agreeable in that form which the first Book of Edward the VI. revived by the Scotish Liturgy prescribeth And that Memorial or Prayer of Oblation which is there prescribled to follow immediately after the Consecration is certainly more proper there then after the Communion ending with the Lords Prayer and the Peace after that For this is the form of the whole Church so constant and so uniform that I am thereby perswaded that the close of it For thine is the Kingdom the the Power and the Glory for ever and ever being alwaies frequented by the Church either in terms or in substance in this place upon that occasion afterwards came to bee put into the Copies of St. Matthews Gospel For it is well enough known how many antient Copies and Commentaries have it not But there is not any of the antient Liturgies that hath not some form of Doxology in this place either in the same terms or to the same purpose And seeing it is manifest that the Kiss of Peace is an Apostolical custom and used in the Western Church before the Communion though before the Consecration in other places though the Ceremony bee set aside in regard of the change of times and customs it should not seem burthensome that the Christianity is remembred which it expresseth But if my Opinion might pass I would not rest contented Of the Prayer of Oblation and the place of it herewith I would enlarge this Memoral with all the Principal heads of our Litanies which might seem to comprize the necessities of all estates and conditions in the Church according to that measure which the Time would allow For this would bee the offering of Christs sacrifice upon the Crosse for the necessities of all Christian people which the whole Church of Christ hath alwaies frequented from the beginning without any pretense of sacrificing him again no reason requiring any more then to commemorate that sacrifice And here would there bee room for all private and publick necessities as well of the Church and Kingdom of the Diocese Province and Country and the respective Governours thereof as of the Congregration and of any particular member of it and that according to such Order as the Ordinary may find cause to give in cases that do indeed require a provision for the Time The antients celebrating the Eucharist every day had by that means daily opportunity of interceding for particular necessities according to St. Pauls order for such intercessions the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth They that consider not the defect which follows upon the decay of this order are ready to impute the defect that is found of forms of intercession for particular occurrences to the prescribing of set forms by the Church not allowing the arbitrary fansies of Curates But hee that hath known the manifold folly malice that our London Pulpits have vented taking upon them to intercede for what occasions they think fit in what form they please will find it absolutely necessary to redeem the scorne that our profession suffers from such disorders by