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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27487	The anatomie of the service book, dedicated to the high court of Parliament wherein is remonstrated the unlawfulnesse of it, and that by five severall arguments, namely [brace] from the name of it, the rise, the matter, the manner, and, the evill effects of it : whereunto are added some motives, by all which we clearly evince the necessitie of the removeall of it : lastly, we have answered such objections as are commonly made in behalfe of it / by Dwalphintramis.	Dwalphintramis.; Bernard, John.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing B1997; ESTC S100014	61,280	81

we translate it which might be more emphatically rendred sincere service unmixed service according to the Word for so the originall word signifieth as the Apostle Peter calls the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the sincere milke of the Word Now to draw to an end for we are forced in the bulke to exceed our intention we crave leave further of your Honours to binde our desires with three strong motives for effecting of the worke namely from Example or Patterne for doing of it from danger if it be not done and from the universall Covenant binding every one in his place to the doing of it CHAP. IX I. Of the Patterne FOr the first as the Apostle willeth to shew our selves to others Patternes of all good workes and words we should make others good Examples matter of our Imitation Brevius iter per exampla quam per praecepta Patterne is a more compendious way then Precept good Examples from Gods people have the force of a Generall rule to apply all the Reformed Churches when God turned them from darknesse to light they expelled the Prelates as the Officers of the Kingdome of darknesse and the Popish Liturgie as a false worship and worke of darknesse To passe France the Low-Countries Geneva the Palatinate and others bee pleased to cast your eye upon our Neighbour Nation of Scotland who have neither left root nor branch of Prelate or Popish Liturgie and have not wee the same reasons to reject both It is an infallible rule both in Divinitie and Politie both in Church and Common-wealth Vbi ●unt similes causae circumstantiae ibi locum habet exemplum where there are the like causes and circumstances there example takes place the causes why they cast both out were their offensivenesse to Christ his Church King and State and hath ever Nation beene so prejudiced in all these particulars as we have beene and have we not beene and are partly yet environed with a mantle wall of evill circumstances as the Prelates aggravation of their cruelty in pressing of that Booke and other like stuffe their insolent domineering over Nobility and others yea their daring attempts to set a-foot their interdicted power and their supercilious insultations their proud words and affronting attempts vented by themselves and their Priests even now when the hand of the Lord is lift up against them which they will not see but they shall see it in this they are worse than the Egyptians or Philistims who were content the Lord his hand being upon them not onely to let the Arke of the Lord goe but also sent it up in the handsomest way that they could taking Egypt for an example in this their insolent striving against God and his Truth they may be compared to the Peasants of Lycia whom the Poet fayneth to bee transformed into Frogs for their cruell and barbarous usage of Latona of whom Lactantius also makes mention but the Poet tells us that for all the Metamorphosis they left not their old manner Litibus exercent linguas Et quanquam sub aqua sub aquis maledicere tentant Englished thus Their brawling tongues but setting shame aside Though hid in water under water chide Or with Du Bartas in this posture they may be compared to Lyzards or Snakes cut in pieces Threat with more malice though with lesser might And even in dying shew their living spight Or as God said to Moses of Pharaoh that he would not let his people goe no not with a strong hand that is he will stand out with God so doe they they will not let the Ordinances goe the Liberty of the Ministery goe they will not let the Kingdome of Christ goe though Gods strong hand be out against them but as he fell at last so shall they and all their houshould-stuffe and never rise againe the Scots have put them in the Pond let the love of the truth lead you and their practice be to you as a speaking Embleme in the words of Gedeon Looke on me and doe likewise We will shut up the point with a parallel of loyall entertainment of Kings in their inthronization the men of Iudah and the men of Israel contended zealously who should be most officious in crowning King David though he was crowned before Iudah annoynted him King over them and Israel did the like over them and to bring the parallel nearer home what pious emulation was betweene us and out brethren the Scots to set King Iames of blessed memory upon the Throne of England they might both deservedly say for they shewed it in effect that they were his flesh and bone as Israel said to David he was no stranger as the Scripture hath it but a King from among his brethren never King was received with greater concourse higher magnificence and more applause this made the Kingdomes as Ierusalem as a Citie compacted in it selfe which the Septuagint translateth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a participation or communication together often indeed attempted but never effected till then but now blessed be the name of God in a more loving league and stricter bond than ever contending who shall doe God and his Majestie that now is most service shall we not then joyne with them heart and hand in bringing the Lord Iesus the King of glory into his Kingdome hee hath shewed himselfe no Stranger amongst us but done great things for us but to the woe of our hearts we have used him too long like a Stranger in keeping him at doores and the doore upon the hinges Now let us set open the gates and bring him in with triumph which will never be done so long as the Prelacie and the Liturgie or either of them keepe the house Non patitur regni socios Christ will have no consort in his Kingdome much lesse an Antichrist Christ bare many casumnies and injuries from the Iewes at his arraignment under Pilat and past by many things not answering againe but when Pilat came to meddle with his Kingdome he would not let that passe but freely avouched it Art thou a King saith Pilat thou sayest I am answered Christ and to this ●nd was I borne and for this cause came I into the world that I should beare withessse unto the truth of which words Paul giveth this testimony that Christ before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession which words of the Apostle have two remarkable things in them First that Christ hath a Kingdome which he will vindicate in despight of all opposing power wherein he will have his owne Officers Government and Service to take place Secondly that this course must continue till the comming of the Lord Iesus and every one that is of the truth especially Ministers and Magistrates must maintaine it as they wi●l answer it at that day for this worke God hath brought you together and if you should divert this worke so exemplnied and pressed by command

faciant Christiant quod Antichristi faciunt That light should borrow from darknesse and Christian should doe that in Gods service especially which the vassals of Antichrist doe From this discovery also the Service-booke is unbottomed of that maine plea from antiq●●ty which Doctor Hall in his humble Remonstrance makes his sheet Anchor but Smectymnuus in his answer puts him to it that for want of ground it is come home but to follow this a little further and to wave the antiquitie of a set Liturgie an instance whereof for divers hundred yeares the Doctor nor any of their Book-men cannot produce wee desire to know what antiquity they or any other can alleadge for this Liturgie surely hee can goe no higher than the Masse-Book and when it hath gone as high or higher than it can sometime abusing Scripture and sometime butting upon the coyned and counterfeit Liturgies fathered falsely upon the Apostles and Disciples of Christ yea and also upon the Fathers as Peter Iames Matthew Andrew Dents Clement Basil Chrysostome and others the falshood whereof Morney discovers at large yet for all this saith the same noble defender of the truth the Popish Masse is no part nor ever was of the divine Service of God and therefore the English Liturgy out of it and not able to ascend higher than it can be no divine Service as they call it and that inclusively by Catexochen or excellency it can be no divine Service but is indeed a devised service but suppose it or the unbloody Sacrifice of the Masse should looke as high as Cains unbloody sacrifice yet if there want truth they would prove no better then ancient errors Last of all to shut up the point the discovery whereof casts the Doctor upon a very foule shift namely the denying of the Liturgy to have its rise or to be selected out of the Roman models wherein we beseech your Honours to cause him to deale Obsignat●s tabulis by comparing the bookes together and besides all the evidences alleadged if it appeare not and that to the eye to be what we have said to be the truth we will de-relinquish our suit but if it be so as we averre wee desire no more of the Doctor and all the admirers of the Liturgie that they would deale candidly with the truth with your Honours and with us a whole Body of Petitioners who in conscience doe professe we desire to doe nothing against the truth but for the truth and as it becommeth not those that defend the truth fictis contendere verbis to skirmish with devised or velitory palliations as the Poet hath it even so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there is nothing becommeth candid ingenuity better than truth To defend evill cunningly is no good commendation it was no grace to the Orator of whom it was said Candida de nigris de candentibus atra That hee could with ill abused eloquence make black white and white black and yet when such men have done all what they can they finde that true of the Civilian Mala causa pluribus get mediis The malady of an evill cause stands ever in need of more medicines than he that undertakes the cure can affoord For a closure of the point in love to the truth we desire all men that have any wit to take notice of these two things the former a man had better be tongue-tyed than appeare in an ill cause the latter when they have done all they can it will fall out with them as it did with the Scribes and Pharisees envying that the people should follow Christ Perceive you not say they one to another how yee prevaile nothing the world is gone after him Just so in this case of the worship of Christ as it is partly begun and shall be more fully accomplished when they have done all that they can all is but lost labour they shall not prevaile the world shall goe after Christ CHAP. IV. Of the Matter NOW we come to the third particular namely the Subject matter of the Liturgy the graine is like the ground it growes upon the fruit must be like the tree it is not possible that any wholsome sap of life should come out of a noysome and poysonous root To give a delineation of the matter in generall we can use no better expression than that of Calvin in his pithy letter to the Church of Frankeford much troubled with this Service-booke where hee calls it the Keliques or leavings of the Popish dregs this may be made to appeare without contradiction by scanning some particulars for to goe through them all would fill up a great volume then to give a touch as briefly as we can the Matter is partly false partly ●ridiculously frivolous yea and some part of it is not without a tincture of blasphemy To this effect a worthy and zealous Pastor to that people of Frankeford regrating fore the troubles brought upon them by that Service-booke after that he had told them that nothing must be thrust upon any Congregation without the warrant of the Word and forasmuch as that in the English Booke there were things both superstitious impure and unperfect which he offered to prove before all men he would not consent that of that Church it should be received To come then to the first particular of the charge concerning the falshood of the Matter which we will first discover in the generalls and then come to some particulars For the generalls we lay downe these three instances in false or corrupt translations of the Word additions to the word and substractions all which the Service-book not onely allowes but injoynes subscription to them being so rendered in the old Latine Bible which translation the Service-booke injoynes to be used and no other yea to which the Ministers were to subscribe it being the most corrupt peece of all the Latine translation none of them being sound witnesse the current of the learned Fathers and others yea the very pleaders for the Booke and that Bible Si in Latinis exemplaribus fides est adhibenda responderit quibus c. If we must believe Latine translations you must first tell us which of them saith Ierome Which argues the Latine one fathered upon him not to be his but of all other Latine translations hee damneth this most which we are forced to follow as Erasmus testifieth of him ' Damnat superiorem translationem qua nos tamen maxime utimur he condemneth saith hee that translation meaning the vulgar translation condemned also by the grand pillars of Popery Burgensis Lyra Iansenius and others yea and by two Popes Sixtus the fifth and Clement the eighth Lastly wee have the dict of the defendants themselves Doctor Sparke drebus illis complaining of the corruptions of the Service-book instanced in these two particulars First for omitting much Canonicall Scripture and putting Apocrypha in the place of it Secondly for appointing a corrupt