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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25199	An orthodox plea for the sanctuary of God, common service, white robe of the house being writ for the good of all, but more especially intended for the common sort, being composed in a stile fittest for their capacities / by G.A. Sometime of Oxford, of St. Johns.	Alsop, George, b. 1638.	1669 (1669)	Wing A2902; ESTC R16186	26,026	98

and Goddesses to Plays and Vestal Virgins to the repairing of Churches and maintenance of Ministers whereas these things did not onely at first serve Anti-Christ but even the Devil himself you might as well deny almost every thing that you necessarily and commonly use as this For know if you will use nothing that hath been dedicated to Paganism or Idolatry you must drink no wine for the Heathens consecrated it to Bachus nor eat no bread for they consecrated it to Ceres Water to Neptune Learning to Mercury but this observance were ridiculous for as learned Mr. Hooker speaks in his Ecclesiastical Polity Idolaters may judge even what is decent about external affairs of God as of greater thing● that are true yet nevertheles● what ever Idolaters hav● thought or done idolatrously let it be abhor'd yet of tha● which is good even in evi● things God is the Author Fo● should we forsake those part● that are good in Idolaters we might forsake many things and those substantial too without which there would be no salvation we might then cease to believe in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost with other necessary points all which Papistical Idolaters believe and maintain But in this we ought to be very careful that we do not press and burthen the people of God with any such bondage as to let them use nothing that Idolaters hath used being lawful before God I ask the Question whether the people of God did disown the Ark because the Philistines played and sported with it It was not their carrying of it from Gath to Ekron and from thence to Askelon no they received it with joy when once God returned it to them again Were the people of God to disesteem the House of the Lord because Manasses was an Idolatrous King and built up Altars in the House of the Lord unto false gods 2 Chron. 33. and worshipped them when he had done No upon the Lords chastising of him and his returning to the true Religion pulling down those Altars that were built up to false gods and erecting an Altar to the true God the same House continu'd serviceable still thus the consecrated Censers that Corah and his Complices used Numb 16.37.38 were not to be thrown away though they imployed them to a most prophane use no more are our Churches to be refrained because they have been Idolatrously abused as I have noted before for if we must pull down our Churches for former polutions then have we work enough to do not onely in respect of the Papists abuse at first but in respect also of the late abominable corruptions that the last wicked times stained them withal for it is not unknown to many that some of our Churches which were consecrated to Gods service were then converted to base and abominable uses very few to any good for those that they did not make Stables and Ware houses they made them the Conventicles of Blasphemy Nonsence and Rebellion for in them they have with more than ordinary confidence prayed as they called it to the God of mercy that he would assist them in the work of revenge and destruction against King Priest and People in them they animated the Father against the Son and the Son against the Father See at large Reverend Dr. King Bishop of Cicister in a Sermon 〈◊〉 preacht before his Majesty the 30 Jan. in them they maintained it was no sin to murder Gods anointed to banish and illegally suspend his Ministers sure then the Houses of God were sufficiently abused Here the Church had cause enough to cry out Was ever sorrow like mine Yet all this and more injuries offered to her though they were great griefs in their time yet not cause enough to make the People of the Lord to disesteem or forget her but with Israels Captives they still did sing If I forget thee Oh House of God let my right hand forget its cunning It is not any thing indeed that can be us'd against Gods House that can make the Orthodox-christian dis-esteem it No he mourns with her in adversity and rejoyceth with her in prosperity never forgetting her howe're she is dealt with There are too many I would I could not speak it that now appears in the vindication of the House of God because they see she 's highly favoured of the Lord that should she ever be eclips't again which I heartily pray may never be would soon draw from her and prove the very worst of enemies There is too too many of these false hearted Sycophants that can cry all hail to day and crucifie to morrow that serve her more for profit than they do for love Oh that the Reverend Bishops and my very good Superiours with submission be it spoken would think on some way to purge our Church from base temporizing Pulpitters such that whindle cry bemoan and fawn upon her in publike that too frequently stab her to the heart in private that wait and pray for another wicked change that they might be uppermost again but from such false hearted Proteus's that turns to every side that can be a prick-ear'd Phanatick to day and a seeming Orthodox-Christian to morrow that can off with a Jump and on with a Cassock that can swallow a large Scottish Covenant without streining at it from all such in the words of the Letany Good Lord deliver us But oh the true Orthodox-Servant of God which stands unwavering to his original principle that doth not say with him that went to Mass To tullian Eamus ad communem errorem Lets yield to common errour 'T is not the torrent of common practice can draw the religious Christian from his true grounded resolution 't was not the proffer of a Living of a hundred a year or Chaplain to Nol● could do it they were like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego they 'l die first they are no starters nor flinchers but like Davids Worthies stick to her in all her troubles Sons of the Church and not o● the Kirk they are builders and not destroyers of the House of God that repair her breaches and not rend them wider that reverence the House as the Habitation of God and not scornfully set by it as a place of no worth or value of a certain I may speak it and that within compass that there are none but a sort of mad and perverse Rake-hels that sin against the light of Reason and Conscience that will not allow God the same benefit they have themselves to dwell in a house but let such inveterate and erroneous judgements aim as destructively as ever they can against the Dwelling of the Lord God hath and shall for ever have a House for his Honor to dwell in For while there is a visible Church upheld by God so long will there be a material house for his people to worship in kept up by the same power for 't is not the devil nor mans envy can harm either visible or material but Gods judgement