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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67134	A view of the face unmasked, or, An answer to a scandalous pamphlet published by divers ministers and entituled The common prayer book unmasked wherein the lawfulness of using that book is maintained ... : whereunto are added also some arguments for the retaining of that book in our Church ... / by Sam. Wotton ...	Wotton, Sam. (Samuel)	1661 (1661)	Wing W3657; ESTC R34766	45,602	60

with never an one of them they are now at last onely named in the end of the Chapter and follow in the Chapters now to come The first whereof they take from the example of others the second from the danger of not doint what they desire the third is from the covenant The two first we have in the next Chapter the last in Chapter ten To which I come in their order CHAP. IX Of the Pattern TO follow their disorderly proceedings still like themselves as in the former Chapter they intituled it of three Motives and yet medled with never a one so this Chapter they give the title of one motive onely namely of the Patterne and yet handle two the Pattern for doing and the danger of not doing what they would have done First then of the Pattern Wherein 1. They tell us that all the reformed Churches have done it 2. They press us with the example of the Scots To the first we answer That their Allegation is not true but they name some Churches that have done it yet many more might be named which have not done it 2. For the Scots we are neither bound to follow their examples nor any other further then they have done well nor so far if we shall not do well also in following for it will not always hold that what is or hath been done well by some in some places can be done well by all others in other places I have no mind to censure other men and their actions but will rather proceed to their next motive Onely I must touch one thing in a word which here they say namely They seem to hope for the bringing back of the King which through the infinite mercy of God blessed be his n●me for it for ever we see now effected if they desired the Kings return before or be glad of it now it is done let them express so much in suffering him to be a King now he is returned and not force or appoint him how to govern that Church which God as to a nursing father hath committed to his charge And so I come to the second motive the danger of not doing what they demand to be done Which danger they propound to be looked upon in a twofold respect a Priori and a Posteriori from what is past and what is like to ensue The former they say is to be looked upon in way of prophecy or in a way of performance Concerning the former they tell us How the servants of God have prophesied of the increase of Popery and the suffering of true Religion by many revolting in times of tryal Now the ground of all this if you will believe them is the Common prayer and the Bishops one upholding the other which later clause I have already refuted where they first mention it in their Preface whether I refer the Reader and for the former part faining the Bishops and book to be ground of the increase of Popery who sees not the quite contrary that rather rebels and schismaticks have done it Popery having got more strength and our Church more shame and slander in these late times they have born the sway then all the time since the reformation before So that as it was a godly Prayer set forth to be used upon the fifth of November by Act of Parliament to be used that upon that horrible treason of the Papists through the goodness of God so happily discovered God would strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with judgement and justice to cut off those workers of iniquity so we have as much cause to pray against these detestable Sects and murderers of King and all Subjects which most strangely opposed their damnable and devilish proceedings the cause of all which doings whether it were the Bishop and book as these men would have it or the rebellious minds of the enemies thereto it is needless now to say and whether the chief want of a through reformation be not suffering such spirits rather then suffering the Bishops and the book to remain these late times have shewed wherein the two later books and Bishops have been all the while in a total Ecclipse and the former rebels and Schismaticks shining in full and unlimited power and lustre Next for future dangers they alledge Zions plea again against which we must also again oppose the answer thereto In the rest of this Chapter after much vain and idle railing according to their custome they come to particular dangers to those to whom they write their book if they obey them in an extirpation of the true pretended enemies wherein they bring no new arguments but use a flourishing exhortation to perform the work they would have done all which exhortation being grounded onely upon the supposed unlawfulness of the book proved as they think by their undeniable arguments as they call them all those arguments having been sufficiently answered and so no proof of any unlawfulness in the use of the book remaining good this brave exhortation falls of it self so that the third Motive onely is left CHAP. X. Of the Covenant COncerning the Covenant in general we need say but this 1. As they moved men to break the Oath of Allegiance and Canonical obedience by saying though most wickedly and falsely That they were unlawful Oaths and so better brok●n then kept that may we truely say to them concerning the Covenant and so their mouthes ought to be stopped and for the unlawfulness of that so unjustly and tyrannically imposed Covenant that it was utterly unlawful may easily and clearly appear in these two respects 1. In that it was absolutely forbid by our Dread Soveraign Lord the King then being 2. By the matter of it in it self For the first it is a truth without any question or dispute that it is simply unlawful for any subjects though never so many and powerful to make any solemn League or Covenant concerning any innovation or alteration in government to be made by them without the Kings consent much more then when his Majesty hath not onely given no consent but also declared absolutely against it and peremptorily forbidden it as we all know the King did while the Covenant was in hand Secondly for the matter of it if any one particular in it were simply unlawful the Covenant is thereby unlawful Now the extirpation of the Church-government by Archbishops and Bishops in our Kingdom where the Gospel hath so long and so abundantly flourished under it the Kingdom with it and by it which Government also hath been even in the Church of Christ since the Primitive times and is most agreeable to the word of God the extirpation I say of this Government and the ruine of all the officers therein without any just cause or ground but upon distast taken against some of them which way it can be lawful is not in imagination possible Secondly the Covenant being one intire thing consisting of many branches