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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

Note THIS Discourse was drawn up during the Regency and Authority of the Old Service-Book since which time the many Diseases cleaving to it have it seems occasioned the Death of it and this the raising up of another in its stead of a new Calculation So that I know not whether the Scrutinie here made into the former Book will in all Points touch with the latter I suppose the Herings in the one Barrel differ not much from those in the other Common-Prayer-Book DEVOTIONS Episcopal Delusions OR THE SECOND DEATH OF The Service-Book WHEREIN The unlawfulness with advantage of the Imposition of Liturgies or stinted Forms of Prayer or of the Worship of God and more especially of the English Service-Book is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures and grounds in Reason with Answers to the Arguments and Pleas insisted on in Defence of the said Impositions But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3.9 His Spirit was stirred within him when he saw the City wholly given to Idolatry Acts 17.16 For this cause was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the Truth John 18.37 And so will I go in unto the King which is not according to the Law and if I perish I perish Hester 4.16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4.16 Adulterum est impium est sacrilegium est quicquid humano furore instituitur ut dispositio divina violetur Cypr. Lib. 1. Ep. 8. Veritati potest nemo prescribere non spacium temporum no patrocinia personarum Teitul de Veland Virg. Doctis in speciem sanctis hoc consuetum ut caeteris Christo obnixius resistant Mulculus in Mat. p. 423. Printed in the Year 1666. To the Conscientious Reader CHRISTIAN READER THIS ensuing Discourse needeth no Epistle to commend it nor humane Patron to protect it an Epistolary Porch can add no more to its worth than a well placed Beauty-Spot to a good Complection whose Brightness is set off by the contrary Blackness The Workman was a person as well furnished with Stuff Tools Skill for Temple-work as most this last learned Age hath produced the weighty Truth he so strenuously presseth in this ensuing Tract was not the exercise of his Skill and Parts but the genuine birth of his Heart and Conscience a Truth so dear to him that he chose rather to part with Liberty Livelyhood and dear Relations than to shake hands and bid farewel to so endeared a Companion a Truth for which he had been a Sufferer in former Persecutions and for adhering to which he ended his dayes in a kind of Exile in this present Storm a Truth that was so revived upon his Heart and so powerfully prest upon his Conscience when the Blossoms of the Grave were upon him and the welcome messengers of Death had summon'd him to his Rest that he could not Dye till he had Commended it nay Commanded it to all that fear the Lord. The subject matter being a Defence of Pure Primitive Worship needs no Patron but he that is our Lord and Law-giver who stands with his Sword drawn to beat off all Copemates in this his Prerogative and although FILII PERDITIONIS may tug hard to justle Jesus Christ out of his Throne and to sit Paramount in the Temple of God chopping and changing Divine Institutions for Humane Inventions yet the day is at hand when the Builder of the Gospel-Temple shall plead his right with fury poured out How light soever some Scepticks Latitudinarians and others homines omnium horarum may set by Instituted Worship yet in all Ages of the World the sincere Servants of God have chosen rather Banishment and Death than to embrace the Customs of the Heathens or the Institutes of Roman Babylon in their Divine Service as both the Scriptures and Ecclesiastical Writers fully demonstrate Come we to our late times even since the Witnesses in the Marian days Where were more Learned more Godly Men in the World than Cartwright Parker Reynolds Greenham Ames and who knoweth not that these and many more of the same heavenly stamp suffered extream Persecution Deprivations and Banishments rather than they would touch with the Graven Images the work of the Craftsmen that then were and now are the Snares and Nets upon Mispah and Tabor Holy Cotton Shepherd and many others eminent for Piety and ability chose rather to end their dayes in a howling Wilderness than to defile themselves with Idols Learned Cotton answering the greatest Prelate then living that Cultus non Institutus was Idolatry But because some who have been Professors have now their eyes opened with tasting the Hony of Preferment Gain and Security and therefore will not take the Persons before mentioned as competent Witnesses in the Case I might summon in a Jury of the ablest Conformists in former dayes to give in their Verdict for the Araignment Condemnation of Invented Worship In a word all out Protestant Writers who contend with the Papists do use the same Arguments against their numerous Holy-dayes their Oyl-Crisme their Holywater Mass c. as we do against Holy-dayes and other retained Services and Ceremonies But because I will not keep you too long from the Banquet this Book presents you with take only a most famous Prophet of their own the Learned Bishop of Winchester Dr. Andrews in his Exposition upon the Second Commandment his words are these This Commandment which concerns the manner of Worship contains a Precept set down by way of Prohibition in these words NON FACIES TIBI SCULPTILE The Sanction in these words EGO ENIM DEUS TUUS SUM ZELOTYPUS Shewing how they shall be corrected that will not be directed by this Law Concerning the Performance of this Worship two things are commanded first God will have MODUM A SE PRESCRIPTUM Our service must be done in that manner himself prescribes Non simulacrum non Imago damnatur sed non facies tibi thou shalt not make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Invented and Will-Worship devised by Man is here forbidden Men would have Worship of their own whereas God hath told them whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it Hoc tantum facere quod Deus precepit and he brings in a reason assigned by Chrisostom Qui honoratur is maxime eo honore delectatur quem ipse vult non quem nos volumus non est honor sed dedecus si vel contra vel preter mandatum fiat It is rather a disgrace than honour to God to Worship him either against or besides his own Rule Since therefore you have such a Cloud of Witnesses let us run with patience our present race follow them who through great Tribulation have adhered to Jesus Christ If you can stand before the wrath of a jealous God if you can drink the