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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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