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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39334	Admonition to Doctor Burges, and to those who either compos'd or caused to be re-printed, that seditious pamphlet, entituled, The common-prayer-book unmasked and to all others, who endeavour to maintain that factious opinion, that the use of the liturgie of the Church of England, is sinfull / Edmund Elis ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing E657; ESTC R41113	4,138	8

ADMONITION To Doctor BURGES And to those who either COMPOS'D Or caused to be RE-PRINTED That Seditious PAMPHLET Entituled The Common-Prayer-Book Vnmasked And to all others who endeavour to Maintain that Factious Opinion That the use of the Liturgie of the Church of England is sinfull By EDMUND ELIS Rector of East-Allington in Devon London Printed by Matthew Inman for James Magnes living in Russel-street near Covent-Garden 1661. To Doctor BURGES c. SIRS IF you believe There is a GOD that shall judge the World be not overhasty to condemn this Paper directed unto you from one whose Principal Encouragement to such attempts is That it being the Love of God which inclines him thereunto to Comply with those inclinations by the help of the same SPIRIT from which they proceed is it self a Reward becoming the Giver of every good and perfect Gift for of late my heart has been much vers'd in the apprehensions of this Truth That the Happiness of man wholly consists in Doing His Will who is the Fountain of LIFE and LIGHT and LOVE If it shall please GOD to give any successe to this Attempt by piercing your Hearts through my words by the Sword of his SPIRIT my desire is that it may never come to my knowledge unless the knowledge of it may prompt me to some fresh attempts of the like nature c. lest perhaps it should prove a temtation unto me to Expect the Praise of men and by that means deprive me of that which I now enjoy the praise of God Saith this Erroneous Opinion That the use of the Lyturgie of the Church of England is Sinfull Superstitious and Idolatrous was one of the greatest causes of those horrid Combustions in this Church and State which HE by whom KINGS Reign has so wonderfully Supprest and we hope in time will quite Extinguish I cannot but esteem those men as notorious Incendiaries who endeavour still to keep the people they have already Seduced in this Factious Opinion and continually to draw others into it I boldly appeal to the Judgement of all Impartial men upon the face of the Earth whether these two opinions which usually go together Viz. that the people may fight against their lawfull Prince so it be for Reformation c. and that our Religion as to publick Worship is sinfull and Antichristian so bad that t is necessary it should be Reformed do not tend directly to the stirring up of a new Rebellion Yea was not this Opinion the Entrance into that Labyrinth of Error wherein those Wretches had Lost themselves who were lately Drawn Hangd and Quarterd for being in Actuall Rebellion against him who has hitherto appeard to be not only the most Gracious of Princes but also the Meekest of Men But it may be you will say That you do not teach the People that it may be lawfull for them in some cases to take up Arms against their King but you plainly do that which is almost as bad You endeavour to perswade the People that That way of Worshipping God in publick which is practised by the King and the Bishops is sinful and by consequence that there is a very great need of Reformation in our Church Which Imagination was one of the Roots and Principles of our late Rebellion and in the mean time it is most evident that you Connive at lest at this Cursed Opinion That in case there be need of a Reformation the People may justly take up Arms against their Lawfull SOVERAIGNE if it may not be affected by other means Thus I have briefly discovered the Considerations which moved me to make this Address unto you To Charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ that you be not so Rash and Precipitant in endeavouring to engage the mindes of the ignorant Vulgar in such averseness to that excellent Set-form of prayer which was composed and is still used by so many men of Eminence for Parts and Learning and Piety whereas most of the Arguments which you produce against it are so notoriously weak and frivolous that I cannot but fear that the most learned of you do not believe your selves those things to be Truthes which you would impose as such upon the Mindes of others What an Argument is this which some of you have Printed that the Common-Prayer cannot please God because it pleases the Papists which I have answered or rather expos'd to contempt in a small Treatise I lately published What an Argument is this against that excellent Hymn entituled Te Deum which who that loves the Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity can possibly read or hear but must needs be affected with some Spiritual Delight in attending unto it That it is a piece taken out of the Mass-Book If you meant that t was composed by a Papist t is unquestionably false If you mean that the Papists make use of it in their publick Worship may you not Argue in the same maner against the use of many portions of Scripture But suppose it had been composed by a Papist shall we not make use of that which in it self is intirely good because he had some bad opinions who was the Author of it Oh blush be ashamed that ever you published such Folly as this Some of you have said that this part of the Letany By the Mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptisme Fasting and Temptation by thine Agony and bloody Sweat by thy cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us is not better then that Conjuring or Juggling of of the Magicians whereby they seemed to imitate Moses his working of Miracles Hear O Heavens and hearken O earth What impudence is this Could there ever be better words then these found out to be used in Prayer What words can we ever compose that are more apt to bring the souls of those that hear or reed them to an Inward Spiritual Sense of the mercy of God in CHRIST in which consists the very Essence and Formality of true Prayer or of the Worshiping of God in Spirit and in Truth Surely I fear that those men who wrote this Pamphlet had not Felt the power of Godliness working in their souls through a Faithful or Practical Apprehension or understanding of the Person of the Glorious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our blessed Mediatour the Son of God and the Sone of MAN for most improbable it is that any one who effectually apprehends the Mystery our great Salvation canne so Quarrel with those words whose Nature and Property is to Signifie it unto him to Actuate our souls in the Notion of those several wayes By or Through which CHRIST JESUS is made unto us of GOD Wisedom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption Rather then I would believe that this part of the Letany is no better then Conjuring c. I should think that those men are no better then Bewitched that