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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

exundans flamma deficientibus nutrimentis emoritur Though the affections may be more inlarged Jerom ac● suriam p. 83. and dilated in sudden ebullitions raptures and passions as some women swell to an unusual bigness because they keep not themselves under the restraint of laceing and the waters that covered the earth at the first creation were shallower than when they were reduced into the bounded channels of the Seas The blood and spirits called forth into the outward parts of the body leave a lesser proportion about the heart to guard it from a delinquium and such feavorish distempers often prove mortal Yet may not those devotions which are performed by the standard of prescribed forms though they make not such a blaze like coals of Juniper preserve that he●●● longer which they have conceived May not these deliberate and rational services be more deep though they make not so much noise May not I pray with judgment understanding and intenseness of soul when I read as well as when I say a prayer without book when I open my eyes as well as when I shut them I pray read the true meaning of those words The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth as expounded by that good man Mr. Hildersham On John 4. Let 's not dispute so long about the mode of prayer untill we forget either what it is or that we owe any such tribute unto God As I have heard a wrangling Sophister so earnest in snatching at collateral and incident disputes untill he hath forgot the question in debate And I have seen some ill nurtur'd doggs so violent in questing after every little Bird that they have left the game behind them Let us offer up to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clo. Alew p. 717. the incense of a righteous soul let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 converse with God and keep close unto him in the pantings and motions of our souls Basil p. 772 and then if this may be done by a form le ts be wise unto sobriety in hushing of unchristian quarrels and by joyning together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one consent in the same work of such regular prayers Now because some of you will condescend to a form as lawful and expedient yet you have no kindness for ours Just as I knew a Gentleman who had variety of drinks and those the best in their kind approved off by his neighbours round about yet he was alwayes out of conceit with his own liquors and sent his man far and near even to obscure places to buy or borrow what might better please his own palate The application is as easie as the story is realibut were it fabulous the moral would prove very pertinent We admire things at a distance and those that are far fetcht do best please such persons whose imaginations are stronger than their reason Were the Officers of Geneva or Amsterdam translated into England I 'le warrant you many nice stomacks for a time would make no bones of them nay how would they be imbrac'd and cry'd up not because they are better than ours but in that they would be novelties amongst us Although our usages and methods in Gods service have been commended and the harshest particulars practis'd by the most eminent reformers in the world ours have stood without any contradiction that I have met withal except it be such as the Moon meets with whose lustre may be bark'd at by whiffling currs but 't is farre enough elevated above the reach of their teeth That stratagem-that our Liturgy was taken out of the Mass-Book did execution in its season whilst it w●s managed by the brawny Arms of those en●ssa●es of Apolyon who were resolved to be strenuous in their calumni●s 't is yet uncertain whether ●●s charge did proceed most from impotent ●●●lice of desp●rate impudence This imposture is now so ●●●parent that the mear●●t capacities begin to ●●e thorrow it and discover the legerdem●● thereof If to pray to God in our Mother ●●ngue ☜ and not in latin 〈◊〉 to pray to him only in the name of Jesus Christ without any addresses to the Virgin Mary or any other Saint or Angel If to acknowledge but two Sacraments if to receive the Lords Supper in both kinds with a declaration against transubstantiation elevation and adoration If neither to respect the Popes Supremacy purgatory justification by works or prayers for the dead If those prayers which were compos'd by martyr'd Protestants against which the Pope sends forth his roaring Bull as if they were level'd directly against his Throne and will sooner dispense with his followers for hearing our Sermons than joyning with our prayers I say that I may put a period to this sentence which might easily be drawn forth into a whole paragraph if these things savour of the Mass-Book Praeflat culpam agnoscere guam deprecari I must confess before the Sun that I am a Papist that our Liturgy and Articles were fram'd out of the Romish mint But since there is nothing of this denomination once insinuated in our prayers Since the whole compages of our service is purg'd and fan'nd from all the rubbish and chaffs of Popish trash since we have recover'd those vessels which Nehuchadnezzar had carried out of Jerusalem Ezra 7.8 may not we bring them again into the house of the Lord May not we fetch the Ark out of the territories of the Philistines and carry it unto Shilo may not Lot be redeemed from the Kings of the Nations after he had been taken prisoner And may not the Creed Lords prayer ten commandments some excellent prayers and laudable usages which were usurp'd upon by the tripple Crown be restor'd to the service of the Church as a captiye Woman might be married to an Israelite after her head had been shaven her nails pair'd Deut 21.12 13. and the raiment of her captivity taken from her Especially seeing the beams and rafters of our Liturgy were in the Church long before there was any such thing as Popery in the World This Lyon being hunted out of your way this bug-Bear being devested of all its terrible vizzards Bishop Taylar Le ts see what in the next place affrights you And herein I could have said more to the purpose if I could have prevailed with any of you to have given me your particular exceptions to which you would have stood For I perceive there is almost as much variety in your exceptions as there is in your faces One pishes at and slites what another cries out against with a stentorian voice as an intollerable abomination But this I could never obtain either by my self or by the mediation of proxies whom I employ'd to the same purpose As if it were as difficult a matter to procure a catalogue of your objections against the Liturgy as 't is to get a list of the Churches traditions I cannot suppose that men of your pitch can be offended with those

have Titus circumcised He well knew that the confronting of establishments is not only to throw down the battlements but even to undermine the very foundations of the Church Et utinam probè expenderent sayes Calvin I wish that such persons as stand for an unlimited liberty and cast off the yoke of subjection would seriously lay to heart Epist ad Questiones circa disciplinam Ecclesiae p. 461. how by his meanes they contrive the ruine and desolation of the Church 30. You say 't was otherwise in the Law there every pin every circumstance in Gods worship was prescribed but there is this difference in the Law we were little children under the pedagogy of it now we are adulti A Camer p. 369. and injoy the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free CHAP. XIV Good Subjects may lawfully declare or swear that 't is not lawful to take up Arms against the King THE next Mountain in your way which you have not faith enough to remove is that you cannot declare it to be unlawful upon any pretence to take up Arms against the King And this suggests one true reason why some of you are so inveterately bent against the Lyturgy Take it in the words of our Martyr'd Soveraign One of the greatest faults some men found with the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book I beleive was this p. 285. that it taught them to pray so oft for me to which petitions they had not loyalty enough to say Amen This is such a Shibboleth that some of your lisping tongues are not able to pronounce And this discovers that the main spring or primum mobile of your hearts hurries you another way And herein we are the more confirm'd since many of you have chosen to flitt your habitations and expose your wives and children to the mercy of the Parishes wherein they dwell rather than take that oath of fidelity which in effect is no more than the oath of Allegiance in other termes which the wisdom of the Parliament thought fit in these times of danger to impose upon you that they might make a tryal how your pulse beates or how you stand affected to the Kings welfare and the Kingdoms peace Whether you are likely to follow the right line of David or revolt into the tents of Jereboam And I wish that former manners had not occasioned this Law Who is ignorant that one Sinon within the walls is more dangerous than a whole Armado without one Doeg or Achitophel at home than Armies of professed enemies abroad therefore 't is a Proverb in some Countryes God deliver us from our friends that is such as do salute and stab us under the fifth rib at the same time And may not Kings in such a case use lawful means and take security even by the Ordale of an oath to distinguish chaff from wheat bran from flower who are Israelites indeed such as will obey Gods Vicegerent for Consciscience sake and such as are Subjects in an abusive signification per Antiphrasin because they will be no longer subject than his command doth comply with their own wills If he cross them let him look to himself To your Tents O Israel we have no part in David Now although such persons as these are who can never be good Christians because ill Subjects will make as little Conscience of oaths as they do of their allegiance yet the best of Kings have bound their Subjects unto them by this kind of ligature 1 Chron. 11.3 When David came to the Crown the Elders of Israel came to him to Haebron and made a Covenant with him there And when Solomon succeeded his Father 1 Chron. 29.24 all the Princes and mighty men submitted themselves unto Solomon the King or as it is in the Hebrew they gave their hand under Solomon which was the custome Gen. 24.9 or manner of swearing among the Hebrews Ephes 8.2 as is apparent by Eliazar putting his hand under Abrahams thigh and swearing to him The Annotators therefore do with good reason understand Solomon speaking of this oath of fidelity Icounsel thee to keep the Kings commandment that in regard of the oath of God Hence it is that some of the more sober dissenters amongst you being convinced of this truth and foreseeing the scandal they should gain had they refused have submitted to the present oath unto whom I could make this address Go on my brethren mastering and subduing all the remaining difficulties until ye arrive both at the Penand the Pulpit I hope that you having pass'd this Iron-gate you 'l make no stop until we all meet in Navi Ecclesiae in the body of the Temple that we may not be Almost but Altogether such Subjects Christians Ministers as may most advance our Masters service Rumpantur ilia let their bowels like Judas's gush forth who rather like Devils gnash with their teeth than with Angels rejoyce at the return and reception of such brotherly coadjutors That 's a poor surmise that we are afraid lest your glory should eclipse our names No your glory shall be ours As Saint Paul rejoyced at the flourishing of the Romans Rom. 1.8 that it was spoken of through the world so the lustre of your parts industry piety and integrity shall be so farre from offending my weak eyes that I shall exult with joy that my Master is so well provided with servants that I am the meanest of those that wait at his Altar and of the lowest form in the school of the Prophets But I must break off this delightsome theme and come to that more unpleasing task of reasoning with those who refuse to give this assurance of their loyalty to their Prince Sirs where 's the Thorne that pricks you Are you troubled that your distinctions are cut off that your old Avenews and Postern-Gates are in this Declaration and oath now shut up Are there not Evasions or starting-holes left open Are you to be so cloister'd up that you can make no excursions 'T is no wonder if men sweat that are so strait lac'd if the waters roar that are penn'd up with such dams Le ts look back and see what pretences there were for an unnatural warre p. 141. I may usher in this discourse as Jerom did his concerning the Arrians Claudite aures qui audituri estis ne tantae impietatis vocibus polluamini 10. Some thought it a sufficient ground of warre to remove evil Counsellors that is all faithful Hushai's from the King All loyal souls that trembled at listing up their hands against the Lords anointed were cursed with bell book and candle Curse ye Meroz c. 20. Others told us they might fight against the King if it were for the cause of Religion to purge the Church from idolatry and superstition Master Baxter seemes to go this way in his Book of rest as if Nero and Claudius had been Saints and there had been no idolatry or superstition in theird ayes when Saint Paul and Sain