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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23818	The reform'd samaritan, or, The worship of God by the measures of spirit and truth preached for a visitation-sermon at the convention of the clergy, by the reverend Arch-Deacon of Coventry, in Coventry, April the sixth, 1676 : to which is annexed, a review of a short discourse printed in 1649, about the necessity and expediency of worshipping God by set forms / by John Allington ...	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing A1213; ESTC R2327	57,253	87

both to your trouble and my own but I must needs crave leave that you would thus far be an advocate both for me and all in my condition as to procure a belief that such who are constant to their Faith and Principles according to the established and old way of England may be held if weak yet conscientious Christians for it is none of the least pressures of the Cross upon us that we of all men are thought to have no foundation whereas we in our judgements believe verily if what we hold and suffer for be not that very Religion which the Divines of England unanimously subscribed and professed to ratifie there is not any in England that is above seven years old and to innovate in Religion hath I am sure by the Sages of this present Parliament been so severely looked upon that I should be very loth to be such a capital offender All that my soul longeth after is but to obtain the same liberty which all different parties but such as hold to their rule and Conformity daily have a free exercise of my Conscience in that way of Worship in which both Church and State visibly held and profess'd communion till very lately a way of worship in the days of Queen Mary justified against the Papist a way of worship in the days of Queen Elizabeth so highly protested against the Puritan that Stow in his Chronicle hath recorded at Bury Assizes 1538. Hacket and Coppinger were hanged for spreading Books seditiously penn'd by one Robert Brown against the Common-prayer-book Now reverend Sir till some better judgement shall unfold the mystery it must be my wonder that that very Form which this very Parliament pass'd under the notion of Divine Service should on a sudden become such an abomination that any way of Worship but it is permitted any body of Professors conscientious but such as use this all other Ways being held if not religious yet tolerable This I can assure you is no mean scandal and riddle to such as are very intelligent and very conscientious Christians Indeed a Declaration pass'd and by the House of Commons was ordered not onely to be printed but by special order to be published by the care of Knights and Burgesses against all such persons as should take upon them to preach of expound not being ordained here or in some Reformed Church But whereas in October last a Petition against this Declaration was exhibited and with thanks received by both Houses whereas notwithstanding that Declaration such as have no act of Ministerial Ordination pass'd upon them do daily uncheck'd preach and expound in Churches and publick places I humbly desire you so to qualifie my conscientious constancy to the most Christian form of the Church of England that to persevere in it be no more held contumacy against the Ordinance than was that Petition against the Declaration so shall I be bound to give you more thanks than were the Houses to give them In a word I beseech you good Sir by that conscientious subscription in which we both visibly agreed by that Canonical obedience which we both deliberately sware by that Doctrine which at our Inductions in the face of our Congregations and the presence of Almighty God we did profess to ratifie by that solemn Protestation which since this Parliament began we both took by these and by all those duties in which I suppose without scruple we did both within seven years last past practise and communicate Be pleased to look with some charitable respect upon one who now onely is what generally all the Divines of England very lately professed at least pretended for to be one I am who fear to change left as a defloured Virgin that having lost the chaste Vail of her strict modesty then lieth open to all proffers I should finde my self tractable to all changes and how various they may yet prove God knows Blessed be God for Religion whether in Doctrine Discipline Government or Form of Worship I am very well might I enjoy my peace within this pale I should bless God and the contrivers of it or might there be a Reformation and not abolition I should yet hope to live in a Ministerial way But however let me live I beseech you in your esteem either as a conscientious Brother or as your Convert Arguments may pierce deeper than Afflictions the one blessed be God I have born with a tolerable patience and the other I am ready to receive with a proportionable meekness Sir the total of my desire and endeavour is that either as a Divine you would satisfie my Scruples or as a Christian satisfie my friend and for either of these I shall subscibe my self December 22 1647. Your thankful Brother in the Lord John Allington THE ANSWER OF Mr. STEPHEN MARSHAL Of FINCHFIELD A Grandee in the late Assembly which could not be importun'd till after the printing of the Letter Responsa prudentum had of old an Equipage even with Law it self and since there hath been no recourse to Oracles no Vrim nor Thummin to give certain Answers the greatest Appeal left to doubting Man in point of difficulty or scruple it is to consult the Prudent Now that Mr. Marshal thought himself and was also thought to be an Oracle in his time I shall onely set down such Answers as except an Oracle who would dare to give For when he was consulted about that sad War which the Land cannot yet forget The Oracle thus The Cause is a right cause the Cause of God In the same year è Tripode in a Sermon preached to the two Houses Earl of Essex Mayor and Aldermen All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the Question in England is Whether Christ or Antichrist shall be Lord and King And then because Oracles are in point of War mainly consulted about the success The Oracle thus Believe this Cause must prosper though we were all dead our Armies overthrown and even our Parliament dissolved the Cause must prevail In his Sermon upon Mich. 7. 1 2. And as we may conceive he would not thus have spoken but that he believed himself possessed inspir'd and fitted to be an Oracle even so that he was taken so to be I shall now call to witness his eminent Employments Who was held fit to be an Oracle to the Army but Mr. Stephen Marshall who so fit to give Answers in Scotland as Mr. Marshall who to satisfie his conscientious Majesty as Mr. Marshall And when the City was in great Fears and Straights when they wanted an Oracle indeed through whom spake the Army but by Mr. Marshall He by Letters answered them The Army had nothing but good thoughts toward the City Upon the Answers received by this Oracle 50000 l. was lent the City-Gates set open and the Tower delivered yea I finde it written As Moneys are decried and inhaunsed by the King's Authority so is every mans Religion cried up or down by