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A27487	The anatomie of the service book, dedicated to the high court of Parliament wherein is remonstrated the unlawfulnesse of it, and that by five severall arguments, namely [brace] from the name of it, the rise, the matter, the manner, and, the evill effects of it : whereunto are added some motives, by all which we clearly evince the necessitie of the removeall of it : lastly, we have answered such objections as are commonly made in behalfe of it / by Dwalphintramis.	Dwalphintramis.; Bernard, John.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing B1997; ESTC S100014	61,280	81

piacle against God and man to offer to make up the waight with humane Lawes It is not unworthy your remembrance how one of the later brood of the Scotrish Prelates alleadging or rather mis-alleading before our late Soveraigne King Iames some Act of Parliament for the establishing and maintenance of the Prelacy the King asked a Noble-man being by being a great Legist and Officer of State what he thought of those Acts the Noble-man replyed That it went never well with them since their Church men laboured more to be versed in the Acts of Parliament than in the Acts of the Apostles But to the matter for all this cry we are more than halfe confident they shall have but little wooll for the service-Service-booke from the Acts of State when they are well looked into Wee know not any colour of confirmation for this service-Service-booke except that Statute prefixed to it which how little it maketh for it let the words of the Statute testifie of which we shall set downe those that are most pertinent for it is needlesse to write them all In the fifth and sixth yeare of King Edward the sixth an Act was made for the establishing of a Booke called The Booke of Common-prayer the which was repealed in the first yeare of Queene Mary which Statute of repeale was made voide by this same Act the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth and that the aforesaid Booke with the alterations and additions therein added shall stand and be and all Ministers shall use the said Booke authorized by Act of Parliament in the said fifth and sixth yeare of King Edward the sixth and no other This is the summe of the Statute in relation to the Subject namely What Service-booke it is that the Statute establisheth and for any thing we can see there is not one passage or title for confirmation or establishing any other Service-booke but that of King Edward the sixth divers Ministers in King Iames his time urged vvith subscription answered the Prelates True it was that if they refused they and theirs were like to bee desolated but if they yeelded they should make themselves transgressours of the Lawes of the Kingdome in subscribing to another Booke than that established by Law the Prelates in pressing this subscription forced two Statutes namely the Statute alleadged by the change of the Booke and also another Statute requiring no subscription but barely to the Articles of Religion which onely concerne the Confession of true Christian faith and the Doctrine of the Sacraments Now to come to further answer let us grant by way of Confession that there were an Act or Acts for ratifying of the Booke which in terminis we cannot see as Statutes use to be expressed yet by the Law of charity and duty we hold our selves bound to beleeve that a State professing the truth of Religion would never inact so for a Service-booke of mans device as that it might be a snare to the people of God having other ends as a kinde of uniformity supply for want of Ministery and bringing Papists to the Church but not to presse it in the bulke beyond the spheare of any mans Conscience witnesse a Rubricke in King Edward the sixth his Booke but give it to speake as punctually for the Booke as they would have it shall it be simply good for that it is onely in the power of a divine Statute simply to make a thing good all Divines Humanists and Lawyers that have written on the Laws concurre in this Maxime Omnium legum inanis censura nisidivinae legis imaginem gerant the power of all Laws is void except they beare the impression of the Law of God the Orator gives a reason for it ●ex divina omnium legum censura the divine Law is the standard of all lawes yea a thing evill in it selfe established by a Law becommeth worse as the learned tell us it becommeth armata injust●tia an armed injustice or with Laciantius to the same purpose legitime injurias inferre to do injurie in forme of Law just with the Poet jusque da●um sceleri well Englished and licenced Which truth also is cleared from divine Authority the Psalmist complaineth of the injurious evill done upon Gods Church and People aggravating it from this that is it was framed by a decree which place the Authour of Zyons Plea applyeth very pertinently to the Hierarchie proving it to be the Master-sin wherewith the Church and State are pestered and for which especially God hath a controversie with us because it is decreed by a Law and as a Law for the Hierarchie proved of no force to keepe it up no more then the late Lawes of Scotland could uphold their Prelates so grant that there were a Law for the Service-book the thing being naught what could it help it Within these hundred yeeres there was a Law in England for the Popes supremacie say that were not repealed stood it either with Reason Religion or Loyalty to submit unto it Yea some fragments of Lawes are yet unrepealed in this land that no judicious man will obey neither have we alledged those evidences upon this suspition to encounter with any Statutes but to stop the mouthes of those men who would make the Statute-Law a blinde guide under which their unlawfull callings and superstitious service might march furiously against the word of truth Now to come to an end for we are sorry we could be no briefer we will onely answer this Quaere consisting of these two heads First whether we do approve of any set-prayer in a more private way And secondly whether we do approve of any set-liturgie in publike to both these we answer ingenuously as we thinke and for the former we do thinke that parties in their infancie or ignorance may use formes of prayer well and wholsomely set for helps and props of their imbecillity yea riper Christians may do well to read such profitable formes the matter whereof may by setting of their affections on edge prepare and fit them as matter of Meditation the better for Prayer but for those parties so to continue without progresse to conceived prayer were as if children should still be poring upon spelling and never learne to reade or as if children or weak should still go by hold or upon crutches and never go right out We may say of set-prayer used for infirmity as Divines say of the legall ceremonies in the interim that they were tolerable not necessary and so vvhatsoever is or may be said in the behalfe of it is not so much as vve conceive for the commendation of it as for the toleration of it for a time and for giving satisfaction to scrupulous consciences for the vvarrantable use of it in case of necessity To the second head for a set forme of Liturgia in publique vve ansvver that vvith all the Reformed Churches vve do allovv a sound forme of set-liturgie as an exampler or president of our performance of

a Curbing bit to stop to wind and turne them at their pleasure yea sometimes to cut them in the mouth if they delivered any such part of Gods Counsell as touched their copy-hold besides the scoffing calumnies that the Prelats and their Janizaries would put upon them how did they grieve the soules of divers worthy men that divers of them were forced to breake through that Egyptian bondage with danger of their liberties and lives if they had beene reached by the Prelates ill Angels but flying with the Woman into the Wildernesse the flood of the Service-booke out of the mouth of the Serpent was sent after them but both fire and water conspired to the devouring of it witnesse its arrivall at New England two fellowes being drunke addressed themselves by water to disperse some bundles of them one of them swearing that he would have a pipe of Tobacco in despight of the Devill striking fire the sparks fell into a barrell of Gun-powder which blew both men and bookes all into the ayre the men were saved by swimming in the water and the Liturgie sunck when it could not swimme and so we hope it shall Some of us heard a painefull Minister complaine with abundance of teares a little before his death That so long as he and such as he carried the Prelates fardell after them they would never downe We will shut up this point with a very remarkable observation though God made conforming Ministers being the Dispensers of his Word the meanes to turne many from their evill wayes yet this proved for the most part but in the point of life and conversation and not in point of parity of worship according to our Lord and Masters practice upon his patient that Samaritan woman whom he reclaimeth not onely from uncleannesse of life but also from a polluted worship the Woman here is not onely touched in conscience for her evill life but also desires to bee rectified in the case of Religion Christ healeth her of both those diseases and having given check as a Father observed both to the arrogancie of the Samaritans and of the Jewes for the latter was faulty as well as the former though not in the like degree hee layeth downe an undeceivable rule for both that they and all who will worship God acceptably must worship him in spirit and in truth in spirit that is opposed to bodily service as washings annointings garments c. In truth that is opposed to shadowes and figures whereof Christ is the substance and the body such converts then as will reape comfort out of respect had unto all Gods Commandements they must come downe from the mountains of impure worship Austin hath a pretty saying upon this that he that will draw neare to God must come downe from his owne mountaine or from the mountaine of his owne device in Gods worship it is a duty laid on Christs Messengers in preparing of his way to lay those mountaines levell as well as others but the good men durst not meddle with the Gerezim of the Service-booke because they were captives to it and partly because the Philistims that kept it would fall upon them We come in the second place to the Ordinances blocked up by the booke as close as the Ministers we must give but a touch as our Liturgian Masse-mongers esteeme more of the Service than Preaching so they justle out and keepe out Preaching with it For the former let Howson speake not being ashamed to assert that Preaching is no part of divine worship agreeable to that Canon of the constitution Anno 1603. making a cleare and positive distinction betweene Preaching and Worship in these words in time of divine Worship or Preaching And for the later we vvill cite but one testimony for brevities sake namely from the same Canons If any Minister having subscribed to the Articles and to the Liturgy and to the Rites and Ceremonies therein contained doe afterward omit any thing he is liable to the penalty of suspension for one moneth and after that if he amend not to excommunication and lastly if he continue so the third moneth to totall deprivation they have their patterne from Pope Pius the fifth who made the same impious sanction for the Breviary that at no time nor in any case any thing thereof should be omitted yea the Congregations of London have had too much experience of Service for Sermons which exchange is very robberie contrary to the Proverbe for it is ordinary with the Iourney-men Levites and Letanie-priests to spin out all the time in making up that course thred of the Service that is allotted for Sermon and this they do of malice like the dog in the manger but were it good they would never be so eager upon it for the Countrey Priests will cast it thorow a riddle and curtall it to the waste to gaine a long after-noone for prophane sports but judge ye Honourable Senatours if this be not a miserable case that Hagar should not onely insult over Sarah but also thrust her out of her owne house How unreasonable yea how dangerous a thing is it that the wholsome and soule-saving Word of the Lord Iesus should give place to a fardell of mens devices in the worship of God We come now in the third place to the People there are three things of note in every common-wealth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the People Religion and Law the Service-booke intrencheth upon all these as first upon the Law in so many particulars though we cannot name them all that it justly may be called Nomomastix a scourge to the Law we will instance in one or two particulars first by the Law of England no Clergie-man to the very Pope himselfe shall beare any Rule or Exercise any Iurisdiction Nisi in rebus spiritualibus Except in spirituall things witnesse the second Lawyer that ever wrote of our Lawes namely * Bracton who lived in the time of King Henry the third when Popery was in the ●uffe for a little before in King Iohn his time the Crowne of England was at the Popes disposing which I alledge the rather to shew the Insolency and Impudency of our Prelates managing of the Service-booke against the Law to which book if Ministers will not conforme and subscribe they out them of their free-holds contrary to right and law the iniquity of which course hath been clearly manifested in Caudryes Case Another witnesse yet more antient appears in this particular namely * Glanvill the first that ever writ of our Lawes in the time of King Henry the second under whom the said Authour was Lord Chiefe Iustice and speaking of the Case of the triall of advowsons belonging as he alledgeth Ad Coronam dignitatem Regiam To the pleas of the Crowne he produceth a prohibition to the spirituall Court which he calleth Curiam Christianitatis that they meddle not with the matter though it might seeme collaterally to