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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13438	Differing worships, or, The oddes, betweene some knights service and God's Or Tom Nash his ghost, (the old Martin queller) newly rous'd, and is come to chide and take order with nonconformists, schismatiques, separatists, and scandalous libellers. VVherein their abusive opinions are manifested, their jeeres mildly retorted, and their unmannerly manners admonished. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1640 (1640)	STC 23746; ESTC S118199	14,023	34

to grow That to those Crosses Sotts would creepe or bow For this cause chiefly they were overthrowne Abus'd from their first use were beaten downe But our Crosse us'd in Baptisme still hath beene A signe invisible yet never seene Nor doth it on the Infants face appeare That ever any Crosse was figur'd there Then what madde men are those that beare such spleene Against a thing not to be felt or seene Yet heard though hardly to be understood By many of the perverse brotherhood For of their constant faith we may despaire Who are affraid of shaddowes in the ayre And thus much for the Crosse may well suffice To give content to all except precise Now for the Surplice which is third and last Of Ceremonies which make fooles agast Such as doe prize it as a ragge of Rome An issue of the Whore of Babels wombe Such as doe hold it for their Sect more meete To suffer penance in a milk-white sheete And think it better doth affect their sight Than in the Church to see a Surplice white These Amsterdamnable opinions runne As fierce as pellets from an Elder-gunne Their witt 's lesse than their reverend beards by halfe And each of them as wise as Walthams calfe And wisedome is as thick amongst the rout As Water-grewell when the Oate-meale's out Yet they are wise enough with tooth and nayle To libell and talke nonsense rave and rayle And with a scandalous and vile intent To cast contempt upon all government Now for an answer to their cavilling Who are indeed not worth the answering Note what high names the Holy Ghost hath pend To honour such as on his Church attend For their great dignity he doth afford To call them Angels in his sacred word To the Angel of the Church of Ephesus Of Smyrna Sardis and of Pergamus Of Thyatira Philadelphia And of the luke-warme Laodicea To these seaven Ministers St. Iohn did write And gave them each an Angels Epithite And heavenly Angels often did appeare In vestures white as snow bright pure and cleare Which doth denote that Church-men ought to be In Doctrine sound and in integrity Angelical white cleane and cleare unspotted Wherefore the Surplice was to them allotted To be an Emblem of pure Sanctitie And for distinction of their qualitie Whereby the ministeriall function may Be knowne and well distinguisht from the Lay. And as on White a spot is soonest seene So with Gods Ministers it still hath beene A Lay-mans crimes like little Glo-wormes glow A Church-man's like prodigious Comets show Therefore the Surplice was on good pretence Giv'n as a Robe of spotlesse Innocence To shew that though all men are sinfull fraile Pastors should be most cautious how they faile Because so many looke on them and prie And to their conversations have an eye The Surplice came from Rome I dare confesse What tho 't is not to be esteem'd the lesse Nay more it was Romes Bishop did ordaine it And yet that not a jot at all doth staine it Pope Stephen liv'd as by Record appeares Since Christ two hundred fiftie and two yeares And as his Name was Steven so his fate Was that he did Saint Stephen imitate When Decius was the Romane Emperour That Pope dy'd by that Pagan Tyrants power He for his Saviour suffred Martyrdome And he ordain'd the Surplice first in Rome Thus when the Church was in her prime perfection This vestment was ordain'd by good direction For order ornament and decencie And not for perverse Non-conformitie There were no Brethren then so out of frame To think cleane linnen was the Churches shame No they beleev'd That long white Robes in Heaven To th' everlasting blessed should be given And in that place sev'n Angels did appeare And they all pure white linnen Robes did weare Pure fine white shining linnen doth expresse The Saints most ever happie blessednesse And at the Marriage of the Lambe 't is said The Church Christs Spouse in white shall be array'd And when our Saviour graciously did shew His Glory to Iohn Iames and Peters view His face shin'd as the Sunne his cloaths as white As was the radient luster of the light Yea very white as Snow and that no Fuller Upon the earth can make so white a colour And therefore with our glorious Blest Messias Appear'd two good men Moses and Elias Thus spotlesse Innocence Immaculate In most pure white was seene in glorious State Thus Angels Saints and blest immortall Spirits Who are where all true happinesse inherits And Christ when he his three Disciples led To Tabor's Mount and was Transfigured They all wore Linnen white or like the same They did themselves in their appearance frame The Saints wore white as figures mysticall Christ as a glorious Robe Majesticall Which shewes Gods Ministers in Imitation May weare a Surplice in the Congregation For men on Earth are in the best estate Who doe the Saints in Heaven most imitate These Ceremonies Three are prov'd to be Past fifteene hundred yeares Antiquitie And they that murmure prate and call them New Are Corahs Dathans and Abirams crew 'T is falsely call'd Religion that doth cause Men to resist God's King's and Churches Lawes They being all from Gods decree deriv'd So long us'd with such charge and care contriv'd So Tolerable to be undergone So necessary easie to be done So reverend in their use discreet and neat Most decent as I did before repeat That they who 'gainst them doe revile and brawle Are in their fiery zeale Topheticall T is not Religion 'T is Divillitie T' oppose the King 'T is bad Divinitie And what a fine Church were we like to have If these companions had what they would crave Yet not to wrong their learning in a letter 'T is knowne no men can raile or libell better As if th' had learn'd of Oyster-wives to prate At th'Universitie of Bellinsgate Cain sacrific'd and Iesabel did fast Prince Absolom some silly fooles embrac'd So Iudas kis'd when as to kill he meant So Pilate wash'd yet was corruptly bent So Ananias brought his feigned gift So Satan alleag'd Scripture for a shift These were all Hypocrites and so are you Pretending Truths intending nothing true Whose glazen Arguments will bide no hammer For they are but bad Logick and worse Grammar Their suppositions false mistrusts and doubts They prove with nothing else but lyes and flouts A Good cause may be spoil'd and quite disgrac'd By indiscretion and by words misplac'd But these mens causes being bad their course And filthy language makes it much the worse And these sweet Rules and Grounds they doe professe As mighty Maxims of their holinesse Such men who in authoritie are great With Envie still are round about be set They are not only blam'd so doing ill Put for not doing all that all men will Their honours are so mixt with toyles and cares Which oft before old Age doth bring gray haires Their broken sleepes make us more soundly

three Holies lowd doe cry Unto the Lord of Sabbothes majesty The Glory of whose majesty doth fill Both Heaven and Earth whose praise is singing still By blest Apostles Prophets Martyres and The holy Church through every Realme and Land All these doe knowledge him alone to be The Father of infinite majesty Whose honorable true and onely sonne By his obedience hath our pardons wonne The Holy Ghost the comforter of all Such as with stedfast faith for comfort call To this God Good and Gracious Glorious Great To him all knees must bowe all soules entreat All those that will not bend such power he hath That he will break them in his furious wrath 'T is well t' avoyd will-worship but 't is ill To frame what kinde of worship each man will When in the Temple we doe God implore 'T is God and not the Temple we adore The Priest did worship t'wards the mercy Seate And 'twixt the Cherubins our God entreat He worship'd neither Seat nor Cherubins But only God that takes away our Sinns And as on Sea and Land in every place With humble reverence we must sue for Grace So in his Church and houses consecrated And to his service only dedicated Wherein Christ Crucified is preach'd where he In Word and Sacraments doth deigne to be Sure in those places where Gods love is such All mens best manners cannot be too much For though we owe God reverence everywhere Yet in the Church it best becomes us there When we participate most of his Grace O then and there shew manners in that place The Saints in Heav'n doe kneele and praise Gods name And Saints on earth must likewise doe the same O come let 's sing unto the Lord rejoyce In our salvations strength our hearts and voyce Let us with thanks before his face appeare And shew in him with Psalmes our Gladnesse there O come let 's worship fall and kneele before The Lord our maker let us him adore This doctrine David to the Church did teach Which from those times to these all good men preach Only a new fantastick upstart Troope Of proud contentious spirits scorne to stoope I have shewd proofes and more I will produce How men are bouud unto this reverent use St. Paul repeats the places I have shewd That every knee shall to the Lord be bowd For there 's no other name else under Heaven But Iesus name by whom Salvation 's given Th' Apostle kneel'd and told th' Ephesians why To pray that Grace their faith might fructifie In Iesus blessed name our soules releife And life eternall doth consist in chiefe In all we say or doe we still must frame To say and doe with thanks in Iesus name Beleevers in this name with faith most steady Are sav'd and unbeleevers damn'd already This name alone was the Apostle's ayde To dispossesse the devill from the mayd That from this name no bonds should make him flye And for this name he willingly would dye Full of such proofes as these the Scriptures are Which to all people plainly doth declare That 't is th' Almighties Mandate and decree That all at Iesus name shall bend the knee And in all ages till these times and dayes The Churches practice it hath been alwayes And that amongst us this duty is not new But Queene Elizabeths Injunctions view Or else King Iames his eighteenth Canon read There by Authority 't is published Archbishop Whitguift if you please to note In 's Book which he 'gainst master Cartwright wrote Maintaines that all men must this duty doe Imprinted page seaven hundred forty two And learned Hooker doth the same defend In that rare Tract and Treatise which he pend Ecclesiastick Polity instil'd The true use there of Kneeling is compil'd So absolute acute and exquisit That all the Christian world approveth it Those unkneeling saucy Separatists Are often falsly called Calvinists For master Calvin's flat against their side And they are all from his directions wide He in his Institutions doth allow At Iesus name that every Knee shall bowe Those that will read may in five places finde How Calvin clearely hath declar'd his minde Madde Innovaters in their Consultations Doe nothing but cry out 'gainst Innovations Like he that rob'd himselfe and by and by Cry'd theeves theeves and pursude with Hue and Cry So these men have new fashion'd fangles found Which have from Scripture or the Church no ground Whilst we in our Church Governement doe hold Not any thing but what 's authentique old Yet vile Impuritans revile the State And Church when they themselves doe innovate Sure they are Ignorants or Hypocrites That are inspir'd with these unholy fits And with a heav'd-up hand and white of eye They 'le doe a man a mischiefe zealously And on religious points will stand most stoutly But in conclusion cozzen men devoutly These peoples braines are stuft with froath and bubbles Their concord 's discord and their peace is troubles He that can measure smoake or weigh the wind Or to the Peace the restlesse Ocean bind Number the Starres or Sands on Neptunes bounds Or take great Whales at Sea with hunting hounds Make Mountaines swim stop Rivers in their source Or stay the Sunne in his Diurnall course He that can doe all these hath power and skill To fix these fellowes stedfast in their will These are our Church and Ceremony haters That love to fish in foule and troubled waters Swift in defame their reason is their will And Will shall be their reason they say still To end this point they are a sort of youths Whose judgements still are farthest off from truths But He that in the Heavens doth reside Doth see their malice and their plots deride And though they rave and raile our State shall stand Supported only by th' Almighties hand And through the venom'd vapours of their spight Our Churches Government shall shine more bright Their errours have beene answer'd quash'd and quell'd And often by grave learned men repell'd Their causes have beene canvas'd and disputed By Scriptures Councels Fathers all confuted Ecclesiastick Canons Statutes Lawes Decrees Sense Reason all against their Cause All Institutions Orders Decencie And Ancient Custome tells them all they Lye But all these they esteeme at slender rate For they have vow'd still to be obstinate They'have beene refeld by wise-men grave and good And learn'd and still all these they have withstood Therefore they are unworthy of Reply From wise men but from such poore fooles as I To Answer their poore cavils they are such A Sculler 's fitter than a Scholler much I know two Enemies Gods Church resists The Papists and Schismatique Separatists And Shee alas like Christ betweene two Theeves Prays daily for their Pardons and Repreeves For why Betwixt the Romane Monarchie And the severe Geneva Anarchie Our Church disperseth her resplendent Beames As blessed Vertue is 'twixt two extreames For whilst Shee hath a biding in this