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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61427	The Cranmerian liturgy, or, The subtilty of the serpent in corrupting the true English liturgy, by Cranmer and a faction of Calvinists.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5425A; ESTC R222003	8,497	9

The CRANMERIAN LITURGY Or The Subtilty of the Serpent In corrupting the True English Liturgy by Cranmer and a Faction of Calvinists THat there is in the most Solemn Proper and Peculiar part of the Christian Worship anciently in all the Western Churches intitled the Mass now in English the H. Communion as it hath always been celebrated throughout the whole Catholic Church not a Sacrament only but both a Sacrifice and a Sacrament hath been the Doctrin not only of the Catholic Church in all Ages received from the Apostles and accordingly it was called Sacrificium Quotidianum but also of most of those of the Church of England who Composed the First Book of Ed. 6. and upon good Deliberation and special Consideration of the Question fitted it for that purpose moreover of divers of the most eminent for Learning in England ever since as Andrews Feild Montague Cousens Laud Mede Heylyn Thorndike Taylor Sherlock Hooper c. As may be seen or perceived in their Writings besides others who are known to have been of the same Judgment though they have left nothing in writing concerning it and others who out of Fondness for the Church whereof they were Members affecting a kind of Infallibility and preferring the Honour of it before the Honour and Unity of the Catholic Church and Peace of the World have rather cavilled at it then could in their Conscience plainly and positively deny it But Cranmer with his Calvinists who were amongst them who composed that Book being unable to carry all in that work according to his own mind in an Honest Plain Orderly way presently applied himself to do it by Craft and the Secular Power though in a Factious and Schismatical manner And a Review of that Book though but just before declared by Act of Parliament to have been composed by the Aid of the Holy-Ghost was soon presumptuously if not impiously resolved upon without any worthy cause as the next Act saith expresly And instead of an English Synod or Convocation of the English Clergy not one of them it seems but had either so much Conscience or so much Caution as not to appear in it Martin Bucer was sent for from beyond Sea and the Book was translated into Latin for him to consider and model according to his own and Master Calvin's humour ad Petitionem Archiepiscopi as far as was thought fit and like to pass Bucer did what was desired and presuming too much upon his own Judgment and perhaps the more thro' the over valuation of it by Cranmer and his Faction tho' he might mean well dismembred disordered and deformed it in the principal part as may be seen in his Scripta Anglicana but was soon after call'd to account for what he had done in another World tho' I do not find that all the Corruptions and Abuses in it are chargeable upon him and particularly that which was none of the least the Defacing and Misplacing the Prayer of Oblation of which more hereafter But he was farther imploy'd to promote the Work by writing to Mr Calvin that by his Perswasions and Authority the Protector and the King himself and other great men might be disposed for the passing it in Parliament whether the Clergy would or not And so the New Book was approved by the King the Young Head of the New Church of England and by him now grown up to fifteen and sufficiently instructed in the New Doctrin recommended to the Parliament so taken up with the Spoils of the Monasteries as left little leasure to think of Liturgies and by them imposed upon the Church and Nation without any Synod or Convocation or declared Consent or Privity of any one of the Clergy of the Church of England who is known to have had any hand in the Alterations besides Cranmer and upon mere Politick Considerations without any other just Cause as is declared by the Act it self by which it was established And this is the true Generation of this spurious supposititious deformed Cranmerian Changling which hath been hug'd by a company of ignorant inconsiderate abused People like a Bastard child by a silly abused Husband made a Bone of Dissention and ridiculously contended for in several small matters by such as were shamefully imposed upon in the greatest of all and therein very tamely and weakly complyed with such as had put the Abuse upon them an Abuse not easy to be digested or thought on without some Motion of Indignation by any intelligent person who hath any Sense of and Concern for the Honour of God of our Saviour or of his Church the true Catholic Church or any remainder of it in this Nation But in short this is matter of Fact not to be denyed and upon this matter of Fact two things are to be inquired 1. By what Spirit this might be done Whether by the Spirit of Christ or the Spirit of Antichrist 2. How far or Whether at all one having Knowledge or Notice of this Abuse ought or may use this imperfect and disordered Form or comply with it by reason of any Humane Law or of his own Subscription before Notice or any Knowledge of it To which may be added a third and fourth 3. Whether the People may communicate in the use of it and not be Partakers in the Guilt 4. Whether the Clergy in general and every particular person of them ought not to use in the Celebration of these Holy Misteries a more Compleat and Perfect Form notwithstanding any temporal Laws to the contrary as they will answer it to God upon the Salvation of their Souls at the last day The First of these Questions may easily be resolved upon a due Consideration of the Alterations which were made of which there are 4 or 5 Very Considerable and notoriously Contrary to the Practice of the whole Catholic Church in the three Principal parts of that Office In the Prayer for the Catholic Church the Commemoration of the Saints and Prayers for the Dead In the Prayer of Consecration that part wherein the Greek Churches and all Antiquity place the very Form of Consecration And the whole Prayer of Oblation the three former expunged and the last not only maimed of a principal part but the remainder removed from its proper place and most perversly plac'd after the Communion In all these Alterations so Considerable in themselves and moreover in respect to the Reverence which ought to be used toward the Holy-Spirit of God and the regard to be had to the Honour of the State if there appear no Considerable Advantage to the State to excuse them nor any thing really for the Honour or Service of God which required them but much to the contrary with great and manifest Gratifications of the Adverse Powers the Devil and his Angels it will not be unreasonable to believe that they were made by the Importunity of Cranmer Arch-Bishop and God-father to the King and thro' the Instigation and Energy of those Powers by whom he was deluded