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A34903	An answer to a late book intituled, A discourse concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God, by William, Lord Bishop of Derry wherein the author's arguments against the manner of publick worship performed by Protestant dissenters are examined and by plain Scripture and reason confuted, his mistakes as to matters of fact detected, and some important truths concerning the spirit of prayer and external adoration, &c. vindicated / by Robert Craghead ...	Craghead, Robert.	1694 (1694)	Wing C6793; ESTC R7154	118,658	170

meriteth consideration and so much the more because the Paschal Lamb Typified Christ who is called our passover and the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the World and tho' I do not observe this thereby to plead that the celebration of the Lords Supper should be no more frequent than the Passover yet it may be conducive for softning the rigide censures of some against others who cannot celebrat this Sacrament oftner than once a year though they willingly would Page 147. Since our Saviour hath taken off the confinement as to time and place it follows that they who celebrate it seldomer than the Jews did their passover must needs have less regard to the memory of Christs death and the deliverance wrought by it than the Jews had to their deliverance out of Aegypt there being no other imaginable reason that can tempt them to neglect purifying of themselves c. Ans This reflection is more severe than well proved for even those who have some measure of regard to the memory of Christs death may have such impediments invincibly crossing their desires that sometimes they cannot celebrate so often as once a year which may be the affliction of some ministers but not their sinful neglect nor oblivion of Christs death but. 2ly It 's rare to celebrate it more seldom than once a year in any congregation of our Communion where the congregations are brought to any tollerable Settlement I grant the time was that the people of our perswasion both Ministers and others were so pursued by Bishop's Courts because of their meeting together and adhering to their sound principles that some were imprisoned many Excommunicated and their Families broken other hunted as Patridges on the mountains and especially if they were found celebrating the Lords Supper if these be the times that the Author chargeth us with the guilt of seldom celebrating it is not fair for he knoweth as well as I who were to blame and I know where the Righteous God placeth the guilt Page 148. And there can be no better way of determining when we are oblidged to do it than by observing when God in his goodness gives us opportunity for either we are oblidged to do it or else we may choose whether ever we will do it or not Ans I am well satisfied with this proposals of opportunity providing that all consider and a be consider at a that every thing be considered to make it an opportunity indeed and a seasonable occasion for this celebration But First There may be a seasonable opportunity for the Ministers part when it is not an opportunity for the people There may be an opportunity for the Minister and some of the people when it 's not so with others of the people and renting of Societies must be guarded against There may be a fit Season both for Minister and people and yet all of them be obstructed by external lets Yet 2ly The Author 's calling this the opportunity whensoever they meet together as Page 149. I say this cannot generally hold for Christians may have occasion to meet together even for worship when there is no opportunity for celebrating the Lords Supper as when God requireth them to meet together for prayer and fasting and the day spent in such humbling exercises as are then suitable But. Page 149. The very design of our publick meetings on the Lords Day and not on the Jewish Sabbath is to remember and to keep up in our minds a sense of what Christ did and suffered for us till he come again Ans That the Lords day is designed for a memorial of Christs Resurrection all acknowledge but that it 's instituted for a memorial of his Sufferings and Death is new and unwarrantable if this had dropt from a Dissenters pen we had heard it again on both sides of our head Page 150. It seems then probable from the very institution of this Sacrament that our Saviour designed it should be a part of Gods Service in all the solemn Assemblies of Christians as the passover was in the yearly Assemblies of the Jews Ans The paralel made by the Author between the Jewish Assemblies and Christian Assemblies runeth not even and to make it straight it must run thus our Saviour designed our Sacrament should be a part of Gods Service in all the solemn Assemblies of Christians as the passover was in all the Solemn Assemblies of the Jews the paralel holdeth not otherwise and then it followeth that the passover was a part of Gods Service in all the Solemn Assemblies of the Jews which could not be since the passover was but once a year 2ly If then the passover service as to the time when were designed as a pattern for the time when our Sacrament should be celebrated then it will follow that our celebrating should be but once a year so that whatsoever was designed by Christ it 's evident our Author's design is at a great loss by what he now sayeth Page 150. And the same is further manifest in the second place from the examples of the Apostles and of the Churches of God in the New Testament they cannot be supposed but to have understood what Christ meant by these words Do this in remembrance of me and if it appears that they did make this feast a constant part of their ordinary worship we may safely conclude that Christ meant it should be so also and here it is observable that we do not find any Solemn Stated meeting of Christians for worship in the whole New Testament without it At first the disciples had their meetings every day and then they likewise daily received this Sacrament Acts 2 46. and they continued daily with one accord in the Temple and in breaking of bread from House to house Their meeting together was on purpose and with express design to celebrate this Feast 1 Cor. 10. 20. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lords Supper and downward Page 151 Then surely the Apostles saying that when you come together into one place this is not to eat the Lords Supper c. Gives us ground to conclude that in his opinion eating the Lords Supper ought to be one constant end of our coming together Page 152. When the meeting of Christians came to be fixed to the first day of the week or the Lords day the breaking of bread was likewise brought to the same day so Acts 20. 7. And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them Ans By all this the Author is labouring to get the time of celebrating the Lords Supper fixt which he hath said Christ did not prefix 2ly He passeth now from his first overtur that opportunity was the time when this celebration should be for a Stated time is now his pursuite 3ly As to this Stated time he hath two of them in hand the one is every day the other is the Lords

AN ANSWER To a late BOOK Intituled a Discourse Concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of GOD. By William Lord Bishop of Derry WHEREIN The Author's Arguments against the Manner of Publick Worship performed by Protestant Dissenters are Examined and by plain Scripture and Reason Confuted his Mistakes as to matters of Fact Detected And some Important Truths concerning the Spirit of Prayer and External Adoration c. Vindicated By ROBERT CRAGHEAD Minister of the Gospel Job 17.9 The righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger Jer. 15.19 Let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them Jer. 30.2 I will give them one heart and one way Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno Dom. 1694. TO the Right VVorshipful the MAJOR the ALDERMEN and BVRGESSES of the City of LONDON DERRY and of the Presbyterian perswasion THese Animadversions on the Bishop's Book are Dedicated to your Service the Author and his Labours being yours by Right Tho' this piece of Service be extorted having no apprehension of appearing in this manner had it not been the vindication of Truth the undeceiving of strangers and your uneasiness to find our manner of Worship exposed vilified and represented to the World as pure humane Invention and therefore nothing but Will-worship and yet worse being made as black as Heathens denying due Adoration to God and casting his Word out of our Assemblies a rare notion that all the polite Masters of most exuberant Invention had never the brow to brand our perswasion with before this Author appeared who will be singular And since we are now set out to the world as worse than the most degenerated and barbarous people that ever called themselves Christians and thereby a Clothing of wild Beasts forced on us as on many primitive Christians to inrage their Devourers it s presumed none can offend if by a just Vindication we strip our selves of this covering that the World may see we are no Savages However this may appear impar congressus as not standing on even ground with the Bishop yet Truth being on our side and he the first Aggressor there 's no fear but the God of Truth will throughly plead his own Cause Therefore lest by the Author 's bare naming of many Scriptures whether pertinent to this purpose or not any should be seduced or vainly think his Book cannot be answered by any of us who are arraigned and provocked or that we are haters of Light and unwilling our deeds should be made manifest whether wrought in God or not or that we are ashamed of our manner of Worship or that we have not the confidence to convince gainsayers and so suffer Truth to be betrayed by unreasonable silence and lest that strangers or our succeeding Posterity should be impressed with Calumnies for Truths tho I be the very weakest of my Brethren yet being in some special manner concerned in this place and a Book sent me by the Author am willing to try the strength of his Arguments trusting that God will appear to make the issue and result of this Debate conducive to the further strengthning and establishment of many fearers of God who desire to live and die in the Old Good Paths and therein to find rest to their Souls Yet I do freely declare to you my Worthy and Beloved Friends that the constraint of putting such a Book into your hands on so mean a subject ministreth to me some melancholy reflections for if ever any of my poor Labours had been worth your notice after I had finished my course it would been more comfortable to me if the subject had engaged a Discourse of things more profitable spiritual than meer Jejune forms knowing the people of London derry being as a Firebrand pluckt out of the fire stand in need of more suitable entertainment how to make due returns of gratitude for so signal deliverance than to be treated with a Dispute of Forms so remote from the power of Godliness and the present due sense of Works of Wonder done for this people which we are apt sinfully to forget tho peremptorly required to take heed lest we forget the things which our eyes have seen lest they depart from our heart all the days of our life but to teach them to our sons and sons sons God hath much to require of Derry more than other places in point of Gratitude August epist ad Marcell speaking of gratitude piously saith what better thing can we bear in our mind express with our lips record with our Pen hear more joyfully consider with greater pleasure or what better fruit can we bear than gratitude It cannot therefore be unseasonable to put you in mind of these things tho' ye know them or to improve this occasion for the help of others hereafter to retain a due impression and regard to the great Works of God there being no people in these Kingdoms whoever had more special and immediat appearing of Soveraign Dominion Wisdom and Mercy than this City if it be considered That after vast numbers of people were frighted into it as a place of refuge not knowing of one another nor what they should do when within these Walls having no Ruler but God alone as of different perswasions so of different sentiments many consulting a Surrender on Terms as most rational some few resolved against it of which I was an Eye Witness many secret enemies within corresponding with those without a potent Army under good Conduct closs about the City Streets Lanes and Walls often as in Fire with multitude of Bombs and many killed in Houses provisions failing and Soldiers almost starved yet sallying out waxed valiant in Fight when their Enemies strong and full found not their hands but fainted in the day of Battel when not only mens bodies were faint and sick with Famine but hope of relief being deferred made their hearts sick also yet when weakest were animated to that heroick resolve to put a period to their own miseries and perpetuat their loyalty by fighting to death when they could stay no longer within these Walls rather than yield I know of one fainting man who said within these three days we must either surrender or be dead men by famine but was smartly taken up by others replying he was not worthy to live who spoke it and while there was Dog or Cat in Derry yet remaining there should be no surrender and further told him you shall eat that Hat on your Head ere we yield At this time the City was all over Deaths and Corps and rare to see a Mourner for the nearest Relation when buried many fainting on the Streets for want of the Fruits of the Earth the City then appearing for no other use but to be a common Sepulchre to them all nothing remain'd but hope against hope only by the good Providence of God there were many Godly praying