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death_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	20,689	5	6.0033	4	true

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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

which God forbid then might Christ say unto you as David to his kindred yee are my brethren yee are my bones and my flesh wherefore are ye the last to bring back the King Wherein if you will not be faulty but intend as we verily hope you do to bring back the King then let it be your speciall honour to make the paths of the Lord straight by removing of that rubbish that the King of glory may enter in The second Motive is from the Danger of not removing of the Service-booke Danger as all know is the strongest motive to cause a people or nation to take heed Histories report that danger hath made a dumb man speak The danger from this Service-book may be looked upon in a twofold respect namely à priori from that which is past and à posteriori from that which is like to ensue the former may also be looked upon in a way of prophesie or in a way of performance the men and servants of God to whom he was pleased to reveale himselfe in more then an ordinary way especially in time of persecution or some pressure lying upon them have foretold how the house of David should wax weak and the house of Saul should wax strong that is Popery should make head and the truth of Christ should suffer much and many in triall should forsake it according to that of Simeon a sword shall pierce thorow thine own soule also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed Luke 2. 35. where by the swords piercing of the soule according to all the ancient is meant the wounding sorrowes of the mother of Christ at his sufferings and by the revealing of the thoughts is meant the discovery of some stumbling or taking scandall at his death Chrysostome Austin Origer Ambrose Theophylact and what is the ground of all this but these dregs of Poperie now in controversie and the hurtfull Hierarchie one of these upholding another a godly and famous Minister preaching to the banished beyond Seas in Queene Martes time that Gods anger was much provoked against England for slacknesse to reforme when they had time place and power and so it was indeed for he cast back that partiall reformation into the flames of Antichristian tyrann●● and gave many up unto fearfull Apostacy Further the good man said it stood them upon it to looke to it and to be circumspect for fear of after-claps meaning that a partiall reformation would not serve God will never indure as hath been said the posts and threshold of Baal and his to stand together the like more fully was delivered by Master R●gers that honourable Proto-martyr in his dayes when the Gospell should be established in England if the Kingdome of Antichrist were not utterly cashiered and totall reformation made in Gods worship that our persecution should be greater and our triall hotter then in the dayes when he and other suffered if we will not remove that which is an abomination to God as this Booke is proved to be it is just with God to cast us away One more of this kind from a Peer of this land who on his death bed cryed Wo to England because they turned all their religion into politie dangerous experience hath taught us the truth of these predictions for from that halting reformation after Queen Maryes death wherein we pleased our selves with Agrippa his almost in the originall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but a little the Babylonians and Edomites Prelates and Jesuits under the favour of their Canons got at length such footing and made such head for Popery Arminianisme and that especially by causing the Nilus of that Service-booke to swell and heating the furnace of persecution that Religion and Politie the two twins of Gods favour were ground like to Archimedes his tomb so overgrown with thornes that it could not be found yea the woman in the Revelation was brought againe unto that strait as to think on nothing but of flight to the wildernesse And further how nigh were our neighbours and brethren the Scots to the pits brinke of ruine both of Religion and State and that by readmitting of these synonicall Prelates and the Trojan horse the Service booke to enter out of which if God had not beaten the braines we were like to have had a new Babylonish captivity yea we may both truly say with David There was but a step between us and death had not God set in as a present helpe in our distresse and raised you and others the men of his right hand in the very nicke of need our enemies as the Psalmist hath it had swallowed us up alive As we are gone thus far with the danger past and partly present so we desire your Honours leave to present the appearance as we conceive of future danger and that partly to the Church and State in generall and partly more particular to your selves if this Service-book be not removed to make both these dangers more visible let us compare our presentment with the ninth Position of Zions plea in these vvords If the Hierarchy be not removed and the Scepter of Christs Government namely Discipline advanced to its place there can be no healing of our s●are no taking up of our Controversie with God yea our desolations by his rarest Iudgements are like to be the astonishment of all Nations As the parts of the Position are soundly proved so the same may be said of the Service-booke and the very same Arguments concerning our danger will serve the one aswell as the other wherefore we intreat your Honours to review the Position and its proofes the Hierarchy and the Service-Booke are resembled already to Mother and Child so may they be to two twins begotten and born of Pride and Superstition nursed and brought up in the lap of Covetousnesse these twins are born together live together and must dye together a great Judge returning from the Circuit of the Emperours service and hearing his Wife to be alive replyed si vivat illa morior ego if she live I am dead so if they live we meane their Callings then our life may prove worse then death God will beare with many sins in a People professing Christ but with keeping Christ out of his Throne by intruding Officers and a Superstitious worship he will not beare especially of a long continuance but will be avenged of such a People if they be as the Apple of his eye witnesse Samuels speech to the Israelites who besides their desiring a King before the Lords time were faulty in many other things as appeareth verse the 20. yet he telleth them If they and their King will follow the Lord they should both continue for that is the best reading where by following the Lord is meant especially the serving of him according to his will but if they should turne aside from following the Lord in a corrupt way of his worship then the hand of