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A95584	Some small and simple reasons, delivered in a hollow-tree, iu [sic] Waltham Forrest, in a lecture, on the 33. of March last. By Aminadab Blower a devout bellows-mender of Pimlico. Shewing the causes in generall and particular wherefore they doe, might, would, should, or ought, except against and quite rufuse the liturgy or Book of Common-Prayer.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T513; Thomason E64_14; ESTC R16828	6,540	9

SOME SMALL AND SIMPLE REASONS Delivered in a Hollow-Tree in Waltham Forrest in a Lecture on the 33. of March last BY AMINADAB BLOWER A devout Bellows-mender of PIMLICO SHEWING The causes in generall and particular wherefore they doe might would should or ought except against and quire refuse the Liturgy or Book of Common-Prayer Oxon Aug 10th 1643 PRINTED Anno Millimo Quillimo Trillimo Some small and Simple Reasons delivered in a Hollow Tree in Waltham Forrest in a Lecture on the 33. of March last MY Dear-beloved and Zealous Brethren and Sisters here Assembled in this holy Congregation I am to unfold unravell untwist unty unloose and undoe to your uncapable understandings some small Reasons the Matter the Causes the Motives the Grounds the Principles the Maxims the whyes and the wherefores wherefore and why we reject omit abandon contemne despise and are and ought to be withstanders and opposers of the Service-book called by the hard name of Liturgy or Common-prayer which hath continued in the Church of England 84. yeeres I have exactly examined and collected some Notes and observations out of the Learned Hebrew translated volumes of Rabby Ananias Rabby Achitophel Rabby Iscariot Rabby Simon Magus Rabby Demas and Rabby Alexander the Coppersmith and all nor any of their writings doth in any place so much as mention that Book or any such kind of Service to be used all by them I have farther taken paines in looking over some Caldean Persian Egyptian Arabian and Arminian Authors of which I understood not one word I also with the like diligence and understanding have viewed the Turkish Alacron and there I found not any syllable concerning either Liturgie Common-prayer or Divine Service As for Greek Authors I must confesse I understand them not or negatively for which Reason I leave them as impertinnet and touching the Latine Writers they are partiall in this case the tongue being Romanian and the Idiome is Babilonish which seems to me an Intricate confusion I having carefully veiwed the Tomes and Tenets of Religion and books of all manner of Hierogliphicks writings Scrolles Tallies Scores and Characters and finding nothing for the maintaining of that Booke or Liturgie I lookt into the Ecclesiasticall History written by one Eusibius and another fellow they call Socrates wherein I found many Arguments and Incitements to move men to such doctrine as is comprised and compiled in the Liturgie After that I searched into the Acts and Monuments of this Kingdome written by old Fox and there I found that the Composers of it were Bishops and Doctors and great learned Schollers men of unfained Integrity of Impregnable Constancy who with invincible Faith suffered most Glorious Martyrdome by the Papall Tyranny for the writing and maintaining that Book with the true Protestant Religion contained in it Brethren I must confesse that I was somewhat puzzled in my mind at these things and I could not be satisfied till I had consulted with some of our devout Brothers our brother How the Cobler was the first I brake my mind to and we advised to call or summon a Synod to be held in my Lord Brooks Stable the Reverend Spence● the stable Groome being the Metropolitan there At our meeting there was Greene the Felt-maker Barebones the Leatherseller Squire the Taylor with Hoare a Weaver Davison a Bonelace-maker of Messenden Paul Hickson of Wickham Taylor with some foure or five Bakers dozzens of Weavers Millers Tinkers Botchers Broomemen Porters of all Trades many of them bringing notes with them fitting for our purpose which notes they had taken carefully from the instructions of the demi-martyrs and round and Sound Confessors St. B. St. B. and St. B. out of which with our owne Capacities and ingenuities to boot we have collected and gathered these sound and infallible objections against the Book of Common Prayer or Liturgie as followeth For our owne parts my Brothren it is for the Reputation and Honour of our Holy Cause and Calling to contest maligne and cavill where we are not able either to convince by Reasons or Arguments therefore I having trac'd the Booke from end to end and yet upon the matter to no end for such ends as we would conclude upon I find nothing in it disagreeing to Gods word or or agreeing with our doctrine The first prayer called the Confession is quite contrary to our appetites and profession for to consesse that Wee have erred and strayed like lost Sheep is to acknowledge our selves to silly horned Beasts and Cuckolds our Children by that reckoning should be Lampes our Wives Yewes and we their innocent husbands must be Rame and every Lay Preacher or Preaching Treadesmen would be accounteda Bellwheather to the flocke or Heard Neither do we think it fit to make our selves appear so weak witted or Pusillani mious as to confesse that We have left undone those things Which we ought to have done done those things which we ought not to have done for such a confession will lay open our Disloyalty our Intrusion our Transgressions Rebellions and Treasons we shall therein acknowledge our selves by omitting of duties and committing of Villanies in Churchand State do deserve justly the severity of God and the Kings Lawes to be our deserved Wages besides we hold it to be a retractive deminishing of valour a Popish kind of Cowardly Effeminate submission which our stout hearts stiffe necks and stubborne knees will never stoop or bow to for the old Proverb is Confesse and he c. Concerning the second Prayer called the Absolution for the remission of sinnes through Christ though Christ hath given power and commandement to his lawfull Ministers to declare and pronounce in his Name to all true repenting sinners the absolution and remission of their sinnes yet we will not beleeve it to be available but esteeme it as Popish and Superstitious As for the Lords Prayer which the Pa●ist● call by the Romish or latine name of Pater Noster we must confesse it is Pithy and short but had our advices beene at the making of it it should have beene two yards and a halfe longer by Londons measure besides we would like it better if it were not Commanded or enjoyned upon us Mat. 6.9 and Luk. 11.2 for our faiths cannot brook to be limited within the compasse of any Command Deeree Edict Law Statute Order Rule Ordinance Government or Authority either of God or the King besides in that prayer there is mention made of forgiving such as Trespasse agianst us which our Doctrine or Natures cannot incline to for we doe never remember a good turne and very seldome or never forget or forgive Injury Therefore for these considerable Causes and many more we think it requisite to forbeare that brief Prayer and zealously to advance the Altitude of our spacious Eares to receive the longitude of a three houres repetition for our more furctifying Edification Thirdly for the desiring the Lord to open our lips that our mouths might shew forth his

praise it is known that we can doe that extempory by the spirit and it belongs to our Teacher to open his lips and pray but it is our parts to give spirituall attention and not to open out lips but onely at the singing of old Robert Wisdomes Madrigall or the like And whereas we are commmanded to stand at the saying of Gloria Patri to avoid that Ceremony we hold it best not to say it at all As for the 95. Psalme or O come let us sing c. we obiect against it for two Reasons the one is of falling downe and worshipping and kneeling and the other is we will neither kneel fall downe or worship because it is an expression of humility and revererce which we utterly refuse to give either to God or man As for the order of reading the first Lesson we could like it better if it were not so ordered It were necessary we had freedome to read what when and where we list for order is odious and whereas there is appointed a Hymne called by a latine name Te Deum laudamus we doe conceive the matter of it to be very good but that it was composed by a Bishop one Ambrose of a City and Province in Italy called Millaine and that the said Ambrose was not onely a Bishop but for his godly life and holy writings he was made a Saint for these causes we leave him and his Hymne to as being too much conformable to edification decency order and obedience Likewise the second Lesson may be read but not that which is appointed for the day for as is aforesaid we cannot abide any thing that is appointed or ordered by Authority that our Consciences being at liberty we may the more freely shew our selves the lawlesse sonnes and daughters of confusion And though it hath beene a custome very significant and as ancient as the primitive times of Christian Religion to repeat the Articles of the Beleise standing our understanding notwithstanding doth withstand that kind of Posture for no other reason but because the Church ordain'd it and the Law commands it and truly we doe know no sence or Reason to stand to any saying of Faith for it is one of our principles that whatsoever we say we will stand to nothing Next followeth the Lords prayer againe as the Protestants-call it and a prayer composed of Versicles wherein the Minister and People do as it were by Questions Answers desire Gods mercy and the granting of salvation after which they pray O Lord save the King which is by us wonderfully dislik't and omitted and when we are to render the cause of it we shall not want insufficient Answers which we have studiously pond●ed in the learned Colledges of Amsterdam and New-England Then there followeth Give Peace in our time O Lord which we utterly detest for if once that Prayer be granted many of us except the King be more mercifull then we deserve shall be hanged for rebellion and treason and glad we scape so too the best we can look for is the advancing againe the Protestant Religion and then downe goe we with all our spirituall inspirations and Long-winded Repetitions we shall be silenced which is a terrible torture or banish't from our zealous Sisters our Collections and Contributions will be abrogated and annihillated our Puddings and Plum-broth will be in the forlorne hope and our selves excluded extirpated exiled excommunicated as extraordinary extravigant unexempled Rascals and Coxcombes for these considerations of martiall validity weight and deep consequence altogether Repugnant and Malignant to our holy profession of Brown●sme and Anabaptisme we will neither have Peace although we dare not fight in warre no Peace I 'le pray for therefore good brethren I pray you no prayer for Peace And for saying God make our hearts cleane within us and take not thy holy spirit from us these words are impertinent for us to speak for we know our hearts to be cleane and pure already and for the Spirit it is tyed so fast to us that it cannot be taken from us or from any that will beleeve us For the Evening prayer there is one Collect for Peace and another for the enlightning of our darknesse we have already declared our minds though all the world knowes us to be Hipocrites yet we doe know that a godly ●oyall peace will coufound us therfore we will not Hypocritically pray for that which we desire not to have and for our darkenesse though it be palpable to be felt like the darknesse of Aegypt yea more darke then Ignorance it selfe yet we have by instigation found light in abundandance our weights are light our Mothers Wives Sisters Annts Neeces Daughters and female servants are light our invisible Hornes are light our Words Deeds Thoughts Consciences payment of debt and Religion is light or of light account our faith in God and loyalty to the King are most Translucently light Apparantly light Reful gently light Illustrately light Transparently light Internally light Externally light Infernally light Emblazond Perspicuated Cognominated Propogated and Promulgated to all the world to be light lighter then any thing that can be called lightnesse lighter then Vapour Ayre Smoak Flame Dust Chaffe Wind Feather Froath Cork Yeast Fogge Puste Blast a Whore Vanity yea more light then Vanity it selfe As concerning Quicunque Vult or whosoever will be saved it is an argument that he that will be may be and he that will not may chuse whether he will or no which implies a free will a very Popish conclusion also that Creed is concluded to be called Catholicke which word we like not Next followeth the Latinie which is a hard word to us and sounds in our spacious Eares as it were latine or the Beasts language we confesse there are some few sentences that may be tolerated but we ought to remember our selves and take heed that we avoid praying against fornication sedition Conspiracy false Doctrines Heresie hardnesse of heart and contempt of Gods Word and Commandement for you know Brethren that these are daily and nightly Contemplations and Recreations besides it seemes to be a swearing kind of Invocation As By the Incarnation by the Nativity and Circumcision Baptisme Fasting Temptation Agony Bloody sweat Crosse Passion Death Buriall Resurrection Ascension and comming of the Holy Ghost All which is most certainly true but we ought to find out some other By word then the word By for though by them all true Beleevers are saved yet that is no warrant or argument we should sweare by them Then there is praying that the Church may be ruled and governed in the right way which if that be granted what will become of us that doe know our selves to be none of the true Church therefore that prayer belongs not to us Then followeth beseechings for blessings to be upon the King Queen and Royall Posterity and that they may have Victory over all their Enemies and all the World knowes we are none of their friends therefore these prayers