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A96831	Beaten oyle for the lamps of the sanctuarie; or The great controversie concerning set prayers and our liturgie, examined in an epistle to a private friend: with an appendix that answers the paralell, and the most materiall objections of others against it. Unto which are added some usefull observations touching Christian libertie, and things indifferent.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3338; Thomason E163_14; ESTC R4346	40,803	77

unto all these words the devise of man then S. Paul was unto some men the worke of Gods hands If I should not wish that those were cut off that trouble you I read in the 14. Levit. 14.39 c. of Levit. That when a house was tainted with the leprosie and the plague spread in the wals thereof the Priest had an order from the Lord to view it And upon discovery of the infection hee was to command them to take away the stones in which the plague was and put other in their places and to cause the wals to be scraped and plaistered with other morter And if after all this upon the Priests review the plague had not spread in the house vers 48. hee was to pronounce it cleane the plague was healed But if the plague brake out againe after the Priest had caused it to be swept and garnished as aforesaid then the Priest was to demolish it and the ruines thereof were to bee carried forth out of the Citie into an uncleane place for it was a fretting leprosie So I may say of the old Roman Liturgy vers 43.44.45 It was a leprous house the plague was spread in it but our wise Reformers purg'd it from all appearance of infection They picked out all the stumbling stones of Idolatry those bricks the workemanship of the spirit of infernall bondage were broken downe and their Roome was supplyed with hewne and well polisht stone the wals were scraped and cleansed from the dust of superstition and new plaistered with well tempered morter If after all this paines the plague should appeare to spread againe in it I should submit to have it rendered as inhabitable as the torrid Zone that no soule no affection of our Communion may lodge in it That the leaves thereof may be shut up and have a seale stampt upon them that may marke out their infection that the contents be never understood amongst us but by that fatall superscription usually affixed to those doores by which the destroying Angel's entred Lord have mercy upon us But I must tell you that although you have visited this body your selfe and brought it to Friest after Priest to be reviewed and accus'd it of many plague-sores prickt those sores as deepe as your charity would suffer you yet hitherto no corruption hath appeared and therefore 't is to be judged cleane by law and to enter into the holy Campe. If we doe find some defects in it we must consider the Compilers were no moro inspired then our selves They had many woulds and sores to heale and those very old and deepe festered and therefore no marvell if upon the sudden healing the skin was a litle contracted and tuckt up with wrinckles A man driven with sicknesse and desperately diseased will admit and embrace health though attenàed with deformity When you view the scarres in this body you should looke backe upon the sores that caus'd them and learne to be thankefull for the present soundnesse to which it is restored Before the people were led to hell blind-folded by the way of superstition and Idolatry understanding nothing of their devotions but the number of the beads they prai'd by but now your hearts are made acquainted with their owne desires which their 's in a manner were not you know what you doe and wherefore The vastnesse besides the benefit of this alteration may seeme to make some small defects pardonable Though Rome was not built in a day shee was soone pull'd downe here That alone was a worke of wonder though the structures built upon her ruines wanted more of that state and comelinesse which is desired Bee but candid in your interpretation of them and there are no blemishes but are more tolerable then a violation of the sacred bond of peace for the untying of the girdle of Christs Spouse is a great step to her deflowring The time will come when the Church shall ascend up to the Mount of God like our Saviour and be transfigured in her devotions til her face shine more gloriously then the face of Moses but to forsake * Primùm te hortor ne oblat●e functio●● te subdacas extrasunctioxem permanentes con emendabitis quae displicent imò vix concessa retinchitis Quodsi ad guvornacula ecclesiae sedcatis spes est multa et sinon omnia p sse corrigi Pet. Mart. Amico cuilam in Angliam inter Epistolas ad sinem loc com pag. 1 127. her is not the next way to further and hasten her ascention Is there still that Antipathy betwixt you that either your selfe or this † Booke of Common Prayer book must be banisht from the holy Congregation I desire you would take up a serious resolution to bethinke you and not suffer your selfe to be transported or misled by fancie Sense is apt to bee deluded being so much subject to fallibility looke with a single sted-fast and discerning eye before you give your judgement If you discover any spots that are assuredly plague-tokens you have just cause of feare administred and a firme ground raised for your removall But if not I beseech you remember the words of the Apostle Heb. 10.23 24 25. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good workes Not for saking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another Surely the Apostle or the spirit that directed him foresaw what strange opinions you would dwell upon or else hee could not have brought this peece so home to your very threshold yet I am perswaded no man presse the footsteps of the Apostle in the former part of that exhortation with a more upright foot then your selfe but take heed your foot slip not in the latter and so deceive you for if you take a fall now your bones will feele it and make you complaine hereafter Iob 20.11 To conclude those may make sweet musicke that play by booke And it was the water of a standing poole which was troubled by the descending of an Angell and received the gift of healing No man when he hath drunk old wine desires new a Luke 5. v. 39. if his palate be as well affected as our Saviours for he saith the old is better Looke not after a new vintage when the Church hath preserved old bottles of spiced wine for you In his Church God breaks 'to us the bread of life b Cant. 8.21 in our private houses we are indeed under Gods Table but there we can find fragments onely some few scattered crums of his spirituall refection As long as I have my teeth to chew it I care not much for having my bread grated I am sure Gods ordinances are wholsome for me if I have but a heart to receive and ponder them and therefore I will take my portion thankfully as God distributes it in his ministery And Lord evermore give me this