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A40928	Christian religious meetings allowed by liturgie are no seditious conventicles, nor punishable by the late act, or, What persons and meetings are owned and allowed by the liturgie of the Church of England and also, what makes a religious meeting to pass and suffer under the name of a seditious conventicle, and likewise, what is a conventicle and what is not a conventicle ... / written the beginning of the fourth moneth in the year 1664 by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1664 (1664)	Wing F476; ESTC R25391	17,848	36

Christian Religious Meetings Allowed by the Liturgie Are no Seditious Conventicles nor punishable by the late Act. OR What Persons and Meetings are Owned and Allowed by the Liturgie of the Church of ENGLAND And also What makes a Religious Meeting to pass and Suffer under the Name of a Seditious Conventicle And likewise what is a Conventicle and what is not a Conventicle And concerning the Church and its Government And the Difference between obstinately and Conscientiously refusing to take Judicial Oaths And concerning the Jurors and Judges who may be concerned to hear and determine the Causes and Matters aforesaid Written the beginning of the fourth Moneth in the Year 1664. By R. F. Christian Religious Meetings allowed by the Liturgie are no Seditious Conventicles nor punishable by the Late Act c. WHereas by the Act Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles It is Enacted and Declared That if any Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards being a Subject of this Realm at any time after the first day of July which shall be in the Year of our Lord God 1664. shall be present at any Assembly Conventicle or Meeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the Liturgy or practise of the Church of England at which Meeting or Assembly there shall be five persons or more assembled together over and above those of the same Houshold Then it shall and may be lawful for two Justices of Peace to commit them to Prison c. for the first and second Offence in Order to Transportation Is not this a matter very disputable and doth it not belong to spiritual men to judg what Meetings upon the account of Religion do agree with or are contrary to the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England before the penalties of the Act be put in execution against them For if to assemble and meet together upon the account of Religion according to Scripture be to assemble and meet together according to the Liturgie and practise of the Church of England then they who assemble and meet together upon the account of Religion and Worship of God according to the Scripture to the number of five or upwards they do not meet contrary to the allowance of the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England as aforesaid If the Liturgy do allow of meeting together according to the Scripture then they who meet together according to the Scriptures are no seditious Sectaries neither is their Religious meetings seditious Conventicles or punishable by the said Act being according to Scripture and allowed of by the Liturgie of the Church as aforesaid The Liturgie allows of the Scripture as its foundation The Scripture is owned as the ●ound●●●●● of the Liturgie c. and the Scriptures are acknowledged by the Liturgy to be the moving cause of peoples Confession and Acknowledgment unto God of their manifold sins and transgressions with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that they may receive forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy for proof thereof see the beginning of the Liturgy What the Liturgie alloweth at Meetings To assemble and meet together before the Lord to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary as well for the Body as the Soul and to accompany one another in prayer with a pure heart and an humble voyce to the Throne of Gods heavenly Grace is that which the Liturgie owns and allows of as its own and the Churches Practise see for pro of thereof that part of the Liturgy at the beginning where it is said Dearly Beloved Brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and transgressions To meet according to the Liturgy Seeing it is so Then for us and the People of God to assemble and meet together to the number of five and above before the Lord upon the account of Religion as Worshippers of him to render thanks for the great benefit we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary as well for the Body as the Soul and to accompany one another in prayer with a pure heart and an humble voyce to the Throne of Gods heavenly Grace is allowed by the Liturgie Meetings not punishable by the late Act but freed from the penalties being allowed by the Liturgie c. and according to the practise of the Church of England And therefore such ought not to be punished but acquitted and tolerated who assemble and meet according to the Liturgie or practise of the Church as aforesaid because such their godly religious meetings are allowed by the Liturgy of the Church and such meetings are not prohibited but allowed by the Act as are allowed by the Liturgy or practise of the Church of England By what hath been said it may and doth appear what the Liturgie of the Church of England is How can evidence or Judgment be safely given without danger in such cases c. and what it doth allow and that our godly and religious Meetings are not contrary to the allowance of the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England as aforesaid How can they then that come to swear against us swear with a safe Conscience that we meet and assemble together on the behalf of the Lord as his Worshippers contrary to the allowance of the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England And if our Jurors or Judges be not spiritual men and understanding in Divine matters how will they judge aright in this case that they may not destroy but preserve us in our Liberties Principles and Practises Seeing that in this Case much ambiguity or doubt may arise and if this be a Spiritual cause and divine matter which is to be heard and determined that is to say Whether we meet and assemble together on the behalf of the Lord as his Worshippers or no And whether such our godly and religious meetings be contrary to or agreeable to what the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England in such cases alloweth of ought not we herein to be judged by Spiritual men Because it is said in the Statute of the 24 Hen. 8. That the Body Spiritual having power 2● Hen. 8. Chap. 12. when any Cause of the Law Divine happens to come in question or of Spiritual Learning to declare and determine all such doubts and to administer all such Offices and Duties as to the●r Room Spiritual doth appertain for the due administration whereof and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection the Kings most noble Progenitors and the Ancestors of the Nobles of this Realm have sufficiently

good Protestants covenanted with God by promise and vow against Swearing as aforesaid Consider well of it And likewise if it be asked of us why we refuse to swear and take Oaths may it not be truly answered and pleaded that we cannot swear take Oaths because the Bishops and Priests have bound us under a solemn Vow against Oaths by causing us to covenant with God by promise and vow in order to the obtaining that honourable Title of Christians c. to forsake the Devil and all his works and to keep Gods holy Will and Commandments all the dayes of our lives and doth it not plainly appear that Swearing under the Gospel Dispensation is against the Will of God being contrary to the command of Christ Jesus as asoresaid And we make Conscience of it it is great matter of Conscience to us both to keep Covenant with God and also to keep the command of Christ Jesus and if you or any can convince us that we may lawfully break Covenant with God and disobey the Command of Christ Jesus without incurring the displeasure of God and violating the Fundamentals of the Episcopal and Protestant Religion we shall hearken to you and take it into due consideration And moreover many of the friends of Christ Jesus are excommunicated as Christ hath foretold in his Prophesie John 16. and doth not that Act of Excommunication put them out of a Legal capacity of taking a Judicial Oath John 16.1 2 3. or bearing an Office And if so may not that be pleaded and taken as a Legal plea to justifie or excuse such for refusing of Oaths And if Swearing before a Magistrate be lookt upon to be of Divine Institution and according to the appointment of God where doth or can it be made apparent by any plain Text of Scripture that God ordained and appointed one Magistrate to administer an Oath to another before he could be admitted into his Office and that an Oath was ordained and appointed of God to be administred to a third person by a Magistrate for the decision of a Controversie and if that can be proved by Scripture it may be of great satisfaction and if not Ought not tender hearted people to be freed from the imposition of Oaths upon their Consciences in the cases aforesaid And for that and the causes and reasons aforesaid Ought not the Jurors and Judges to be tender towards the people of God reproachfully called Quakers and to acquit them from the penalties provided by the Act against Meeting and Swearing Consider well of it in Christian Moderation and the fear of the Lord and the Lord guide you and them in the wayes of right Justice to give Judgment in the matters and causes aforesaid who are or may therein be concerned Concerning the people and worshippers of God owned and allowed by the Liturgie of the Church of England SEeing that meeting together upon the account of Religion and Worship of God contrary to what is allowed by the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England to the number of five or above is accounted an offence punishable with Imprisonment and Transportation by the late Act it is very good to take notice and that all Jurors Judges and Ministers of the Law as well as Witnesses do consider who are the only persons and people owned and allowed of by the Liturgie as the people and worshippers of him that such may not be punished upon such an account but clearly acquitted from the force of the Penalties concerning the same 1. They who are owned and allowed by the Liturgie as the people of God and worshippers of him Publick Baptism are such as God the Father through the Son of his love hath out of his bounteous mercy granted that thing unto which by Nature they could not have that is to say Regeneration the work of his Spirit 2. They who are Regenerated and by that Act of Regeneration are grafted into the Body of Christs Congregation which is holy and declared so to be by the Liturgie 3. They whom God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath been pleased both to Regenerate with his holy Spirit Publ. Bapt and to receive them for his own children by Adoption and to incorporate into his holy Congregation are the worshippers and people of God owned and allowed by the Liturgie of the Church of England and therefore they may meet and assemble together upon the account of Religion according to the allowance of the Liturgie 4. They who being buryed with Christ in his death Publ. Bapt are dead unto sin and do live unto righteousness and are made partakers of the Resurrection of Christ they are the people of God and allowed by the Liturgie as aforesaid 5. They in whom the old Adam is buried and in whom the new Man is raised up Publ. Bapt in whom all carnal affections do die and all things belonging to the Spirit do live in them and grow are the people of God allowed by the Liturgie so to be and may meet upon the account of Religion and Worship of God to the number of five and above 6. They who have spiritual power and strength from the Lord and Victory to tryumph against the Devil the World and the Flesh Publ. Bapt and are endued with heavenly vertues and are made Members of Christ and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven those are the Worshippers and people of God allowed by the Liturgie as aforesaid 7. They who are not viciously but vertuously brought up to lead a godly and a Christian life who following the example of Christ and to be made like unto him See the latter end of publick Baptism and that called the Communion feast of Trinity only that as he died and rose again for them so they should die from sin and rise again unto righteousness who do continually mortifie in them all evil and corrupt Affections and do daily proceed in all vertue and godliness of living those are the people allowed and owned by the Liturgie who may meet and assemble together to perform duty and service to God at any time and in any place which is very meet right and their bounden duty and that according to the Liturgie See Publick Baptism and Communion upon the Feast of Trinity 8. They who are the servants of the ever-living God who are regenerated by him to whom he hath granted forgivness of all their sins See that called confirmation or laying on of hands and doth strengthen them with the holy Ghost the Comforter and doth also daily encrease in them his manifold Gifts of Grace the Spirit of wisdom understanding the Spirit of counsel and heavenly strength the Spirit of knowledge and true godliness and are filled with the Spirit of Gods holy fear those are the people and worshippers of God owned and allowed by the Liturgie as aforesaid and they may meet and assemble together in the way of the Worship of God and ought not