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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

by the Liturgie or declared to be the Church of God and to refuse to meet in point of Religion and Worship with such as are not of Gods Houshold and Family is not to refuse to come to the Church and Service of God but to assemble and meet together in point of Religion and Worship of God with the Houshold and Family of God to perform Duty unto him at any time and in any place is to come to the Church and Service of God according to the allowance of the Liturgie of the Church as aforesaid What is owned by the Liturgie to be a Church what is not That the Church is not owned or declared by the Liturgie to be either the Parish Meeting places or wicked unsanctified persons though they may assemble and meet there is very plain because the Liturgie declareth and saith the Church either are or should be Regenerated and Born of God and they who are not Regenerate and Born of God are not owned or declared by the Liturgie to be any Members of the Church of England And again the Church is declared by the Liturgie not only to be Regenerate and Born of Water and the Spirit but it is also Declared by the Liturgie that the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified by the Spirit of God for proof thereof Order of Baptism Good Friday Col. see that called the Order of Baptism and on Good Friday the Collects Admittance into Church-Fellowship and becoming C●urch members according to the Liturgie Seeing then it remains true according to the Liturgie that none are admitted into Church Fellowship nor accounted Church-Members but such as are Regenerate and Born of God and they who are Governed and Sanctified by the Spirit of God Then to assemble and meet together with such as are born of God and Governed and Sanctified by the Spirit of God is not contrary unto but according to the manner allowed of by the Liturgie of the Church of England The Government of the Church is Spiritual according to the Liturgie If the whole Body of the Church be Governed and Sanctified by the Spirit of God then every particular Member thereof is under the Government and Sanctification of the Spirit of God as aforesaid and it seems such are the only Church Members allowed by the Liturgie of the Church of England then they who have the sense and knowledg of the Work of Gods Spirit upon their hearts 1 Cor. 6.11 Gal. 4.6 7. Heb. 8.10 11 12. Rom. 8.14 15 16 17. and working within them both for Regeneration Government of heart and Sanctification and also testifying unto their spirits that they are the children of God as the Saints and Believers in Christ aforetime had according to the Scripture Record those are the true Church and they and their Meetings are allowed of by the Liturgie aforesaid Then they who are not governed and sanctified by the Spirit of God Who are owned to be Mi●isters and Members of the Church and who are not both according to the Liturgie and Scripture are no Ministers nor Members of the Church neither according to the Liturgie nor the Scriptures For the Liturgie saith the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified by the Spirit of God then they who are not governed and sanctified by the Spirit of God are not owned either as Ministers or Members of the Church and the Scripture saith If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Christ doth not own any either as his Ministers or Members of his Church if they have not his Spirit as aforesaid See Rom. 8.9 Seeing that the whole Body of the Church is declared by the Liturgie to be Governed and Sanctified by the Spirit of God is not the body of the Church a sanctified Body and under a spiritual Government And ought not Spiritual men to hear and determine spiritual matters And seeing that it is a spiritual matter that is like to come in question about meeting according to the allowance of the Liturgie or no may not those that are to be tryed in such cases justly appeal to the spiritual Judges to judg of spiritual Causes and not to the Temporal Judges for is there not belonging unto the Imperial Crown of the Realm a Body Politick compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in Terms and by Names of Spirituality and Temporality to render and yield Justice and final determination to all manner of people resiants or subjects within the Kings Realm in all Causes Matters Debates and contentions hapning to occur insurge or begin with the limits thereof And hath not the Body Spiritual power when any Cause of the Law Divine hapneth to come in question or of Spiritual Learning to declare and determine all such doubts and are not the Laws Temporal for Tryal of Property of Lands and Goods 24 Hen. 8. Chap. 12. and for the Conservation of the people of this Realm in unity and peace without Ravin or spoyl And are not those Temporal Laws to be administred and executed by sundry Judges and Ministers of the other part of the said Body Politick called the Temporality If the Body Politick be divided into and consist of two Parts the one part called by the name of Spirituality and the other part called the Temporality the one to hear and determine spiritual matters and causes and the other to hear and determine Temporal causes and matters For as much as ours is a spiritual matter or cause being concerning the Worship of God ought not the Temporal Judges to leave it to the spiritual Judges to hear and determine The whole stress of the matter lyeth in this thing that is to say whether Meetings upon the account of Religion be allowed by the Liturgie or practise of the Church of England or no For those Meetings that are not contrary to the allowance of the Liturgie or practice of the Church of England are not it seems neither prohibited nor punishable by the Act as aforesaid It is declared by the Liturgie of the Church of England 2 Coll. for Peace that the Service of God is perfect freedome and seeing that by the Liturgie of the Church of England the service of God is owned allowed of and declared to be perfect freedom whether ought any person or persons whatsoever to be forced either to it or from it by outward compulsion but rather left to their liberty and freedom concerning the same Concerning Oaths and Jurors or Judges c. WHereas it is said in the late Act That there are some persons that do obstruct the proceeding of Justice by their obstinate refusal to take Oaths lawfully tendred unto them in the ordinary course of Law It is enacted That if any persons do refuse to take a judicial Oath in any Court of Record except Court Leets being duly and legally summoned or served with process to appear in such Courts as aforesaid as a witness