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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75462	An Anti-Brekekekex-Coax-Coax, or, A throat-hapse for the frogges and toades that lately crept abroad, croaking against the Common-prayer book and Episcopacy and the copie of a letter from a very reverend church-man, in answer to a young man, who desired his judgement upon this case, viz. whether every minister of the Church of England be bound in conscience to reade the Common-prayer : with another letter from a convinced associatour, that a while boggled at the Common-prayer, to a brother of the same association, not yet convinced, together with the above-said reverend person's brief and candid censure thereupon, with some uses of application by the publisher.		1660 (1660)	Wing A3483A; ESTC R43600	20,576	45

The very Poets and Oratours among the antient Ethnicks took this care before they did dare to commit any thing to publick view or audience not only for the propriety and puritie of the words and phrase but also for the soliditie and pertinencie's sake of what they penned as the Illustrious Lipsius and since him the learned Vossius shew in their treatises de Recitatione veterum And shall Heathens be more tender of their credits then we Christians of the peace of the Church and of Charity I know nothing has conduced so much to the bringing us into those late horrid confusions and so likely to hurry us back again into them as that overweening Enthusiasticall opinion which the common people have got among them viz. That when a man is got up into the Pulpit especially if he make use of no Notes he has a speciall extraordinary inspiration not much short of if not the very same with that of the old Prophets Evangelists and Apostles and that God puts even the words and phrases into his minde and mouth and that what he there prayes and preaches as they call it is the very word of God farre transcending that which is read in the Pew below The occasion or cause rather of this opinion among people is that this and the like prefaces are ordinarily recited in the Pulpit never in the Pew viz. Hearken to the word of God as you shall finde it written c. Or hearken to the good word of God as it shall be delivered to you upon these words c. Or give good heed or attention to the whole minde of God as it shall be exhibited from these words c. Whereas alas too too often to the great grief of sober minded Christians some are so far from giving the minde of God that they do not understand the minde of learned men upon those places they undertake to handle What if a man should say that since the death of the Prophets Evangelists and Apostles there is no preaching at all properly and strictly so called For they were the only proper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Heralds Proclaimers Predicatours or Embassadours that brought the sacred Messages to us immediately from God and the Ministers of the Gospell now are bound up to their Canon may not adde or diminish one Iota and therefore are rather Expositours then Preachers unless it be in a very large and improper sense What if a man should say that the expounding of any place of Scripture must be done in the same way and by the same helps that a Master or Usher in a School uses in the exposition of Isocrates his Paraenesis or Tullie's Offices or any other Classicall Author What if a man should say that publick praying or preaching in a large sense ex tempore if any be so prophanely rash and sinfull as so to do for some that are thought by the Deluded people so to do do nothing less but do make as many wry mouths close-stool faces in private to prepare those crudities as they do in squeezing them out in publick is no more then for a school-boy to make a rude Theam Oration or Verse ex tempore 'T is true indeed that praying and preaching still I mean in the larger sense are Acts conversant about sacred things and yet are no more properly gifts then any of the liberall sciences God's good blessing no doubt does go along with them where they are soberly and Regularly used in their kinde and so it doth with a christian scholar or student in his other learning in it's kinde And any one in the Pulpit if he hath not read much and studied hard before hand may as soon mistake the true sense of a place of Scripture or faulter in his prayer as a school-master or scholar at the Desk or Table if they be not circumspect in expounding construing or parsing an Authour or composing and pronouncing Theam Verse or Oration And this I take to be correspondent to the mind of that Illustrious light of our Church Doctor Hammond in his preface to his precious Annotations upon the New Testament and of all the most pious and learned Church-men of our Nation who are content with that Honour which God hath given them by an ordinary call and his ordinary Assistance without desiring to boy upthemselves in the esteem of the Vulgar by a Pretence to such Mountebank Enthusiasmes as others boast of And for the Specialties or particular Bills that are put up in some of our Churches it were well if they were a little better considered of and whither they tend As for example if a Lace-maker or Button-seller hath occasion to go to a Faire or Market at thirty o fourty miles distance or to place a Boy to School or an Apprentice the Prayers of the greatest Congregations are olemnly desired for a blessing upon the Journey and Under taking 'T is true God's Providence is over the meanest thing and the lowest Actions of men as over the very Sparrows and the very hairs of our heads and yet if a Sparrow that one loves should be sick or ones haire begin to fal off were it fit to put up a particular publike solemn prayer in a Church for them What will wise men say to this Bill viz. A Servant that is fallen into a prophane Familie desires the Prayers of this Congregation that God would be peased in mercy by his Providence to finde out a way to remove him out of that Familie Whither I pray tends this but to faction and sedition in Families as well as in the Church and State One would have thought if it had been fit at all that such a thing should be put up in a Bill for publick Prayer it should rather have been thus viz. A Servant that is fallen into a prophane Familie desires the prayers of this Congregation that God would give him patience to continue there and be a blessing to that Familie as Joseph was to Potiphar's and Instrumental for God's glory by his good example But should we tell of all the strange Extravagancies of some men in their praying preaching thanksgivings and fastings as how one desires God to make the King truly a Defender of the Faith as if it were not his legal Title and an Injunction of both Houses that he should be prayed for as Defender of the Faith truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolick and in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal in his Majesties Realmes and Dominions Supreme Head and Governour But some men fondly think if his Majestie be not for Presbyterie or Independencie against Bishops and Common-prayer he cannot be truly a Defender of the Faith Another appoints a publick Fast of his private phancie and prayes that God would humble the Nation for not sticking close to the Covenant for starting aside from the Covenant for not Adhering to the Covenant in it's principal and main ends and intentions Another begs God to undermine and pull down the great ones in the Nation that are combining against God and Jesus Christ and the Power of Godlinesse in the Nation and that he would set up his Zerubbabels again in the Nation Another preaches that a true Minister of the Gospel must use Distraction in his preaching and not such a kind of general preaching as was now coming up in the Nation which would break no bones and convert no soules Hath his Majestie been so gracious as to forgive so much and to declare for a warning his Resolvednesse to use all rigour and severity for the future against all such as by word or deed shall do any thing contrary to the Government which comprehends as well that in the Church as that in the State and yet dare these Audacious Incendiaries still go on under a pretence of zeal for God's glory to blow the Trumpet of Sedition and another Rebellion Let them take heed that the hand of God and Justice do not overtake them e're they be aware as it hath some of their wicked crew The Reader is desired to take notice that whereas there is a scandalous story grassant in dishonour to the Reverend Bishops and Doctours of our Church viz. That when the first newes of the Parliament's due submission to and close with his Majestie 's Gracious declaration was brought to the Hague His Majesty should call upon a Bishop or Doctour then present in these or such like words Come Doctour since it hath pleased God to be so Gracious to me and my people let Us immediately give God solemn thanks here while the Commissioners be present At which the Bishop or Doctour was much abashed as the story runs and making shift for a Common-prayer-book did tumble it and fumble it a long time for some forme or formes to serve the particular occasion but after long ado his Majesty with some passion said Why cannot you give God thanks upon such an eminent occasion without your Book To which the Bishop or Doctour replied may it please your Majesty I desire not to be wiser then the Church At which His Majesty hastily snatcht the Book from him laid it under his own Armes and gave God thanks ex tempore in an admirable manner This is the story but upon good enquirie and discourse with sundry Persons then present it appears to be indeed but a story and if it be otherwise let any of that gang disprove it if he can in the next Pamphlet or Journall Doctour Earle and Doctour George Hall are Persons fide digni and were present all the while the Commissioners were delivering their Message to the King and they have been talked with and averr the contrary And no question His Majesty if he be humbly asked will make good what they averr VVell fare Mr. Faireclough of Wells in Somersett who hath the Knack of praying Ex tempore as well as the best of them and hath gone for a Presbyterian that at a friendly Conference with some Divines in Dorsetshire ingenuously confessed That he never prayed so heartily in his life as at Cambridge by the Common-prayer And that rather then there should be another such a Confusion in Church or State he could wish all the Presbyterians and Independents in England banisht FINIS