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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50383	Unity restor'd to the Church of England by John Mayer.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1426; ESTC R28824	26,506	53

Letany and here because some petitions in the Letany are by some excepted against I will say somwhat in the justification thereof some except against this Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore Fathers As if in so saying we pray for the Dead but they are too captious that make this exception for the Lord threatneth to visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children to the third and fourth Generation And to the same effect our Lord Jesus threateneth the Jews Matt. 23. to bring all the Righteous Blood that had been shed by their Forefathers upon them Wherefore we pray only against vengeance taking upon us for our own sins or the sins of our Forefathers against which who but a cavellar can speak Secondly They except against this from Fornication and all other deadly sin Good Lord deliver us As if hereby the Popish Doctrine that some sins are venial and some only deadly Rom. 6.23 were implyed when as the wages of any sin is death unlesse repented of and pardoned But although it be so yet there are some sins greater then others of which it is particularly said that they who do such things shall die Exek 18. Gal. 5.19 and never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven of which Fornication is one wherfore every lesser sin indangereth him that committeth it in respect of the second death yet there are some greater sins whereby the Soul is more indangered because few of them that live in such great sins have the grace given them to Repent we pray therefore to be kept from all sin but more especially against the greatest as David Psal 19.12 13. Cleanse me from secret faults and keep me from presumptuous sins so shall I be innocent from the great offence which is most deadly Thirdly They except against praying against sudden death for we ought all to be alwaies prepared for Death and to such as are prepared it can never be sudden But seeing no man liveth and sinneth not who can be alwaies so well prepared as he should be and who then hath not need to pray this Prayer And sudden dying is more uncomfortable to friends surviving and may prevent the setting of our houses in order which was granted in favour to Hezekiah and the parents blessing of his children before he die as Isaac and Jacob did and their giving instructions to those about them which commonly are most memorable to the edifying of the hearers at that time and their own commending of their Souls to God by prayer and the death of the wicked is sometimes spoken of as a suddain going down into the pit as we have heard that some of them have done in the very acting of some great sin Fourthly They except against that petition That God would preserve all Travelling by land or by Water Whenas by land there are some Theeves travelling and by water some Pirates murtherers But by saying all we mean only all that be travelling about their lawfull occasions only Fifthly They except against that wherein we pray That God would have mercy upon all men for which there is a plain place 1. Tim. 2. Let Prayers and supplications be made for all men and a reason added that God would that all should be saved neither doth it make against our praying thus that few shall be saved it is enough for us that God would not have any perish but turn from sin and live and therefore this we must pray for as we would not be found defective in doing our duty herein by God commanded and helping what we can all men towards Salvation leaving the successe to God Some other exceptions also be made against our Book of Common-Prayer Except taken as against the Collect of the second Sunday after Trinity Sunday wherein it is said Give unto us that which our prayers dares not perfume to ask As if there were any thing that we durst not pray for in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when as he hath bidden us aske and ye shall have and said whatsoever ye aske in faith shall be done for you but the meaning is not that we dare not for our unworthynesse if we had not been warranted thereunto by his promise But thereupon we are made bold to aske the greatest boones in all the World the pardon of all our sins and Justification by faith and Salvation As for the exception taken to the words of the Prophet Ezek. Ezek. 18.21 22. in the beginning of our Divine Service not rightly rendred but so as may make a wicked man bold to go on in his sins till his last sicknesse At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart I will blot out all his wickednesse out of my remembrance saith the Lord Whereas the words of the Prophet are If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my Satutes and do that which is Lawfull and right he shall hereby live he shall not die all his transgressions that he hath committed shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousnesse that he hath done he shall live Betwixt which and the Book of Common-Prayer there is this great difference there forgivenesse of sin is promised only upon repentance from the bottom of his heart which may be understood of hearty sorrow and no more when he seeth the Ax ready to be laid to the Root of the tree to cut it down which Ahab did when he saw judgements ready to come down upon him and Judas also repented and was exceedingly sorry in the Prophet there is turning from all his sins and keeping all the Statutes of the Lord and doing that which is lawfull and right required in him that would not die but live of wicked he must turn righteous which one being deadly sick and dying hath no time now to do although he be penitent and grieved at his heart for his sins for if it be in truth he hath yet but two parts of Repentance in him which Reprobates may have as in the two examples beforegoing confession of the mouth and contrition of the heart But for want of the third keeping the statutes of the Lord and doing contrary to that which he did before he cannot expect the fulfilling of the promise of Life made to them that do thus wherefore instead of this beginning it is necessary to set down the very words of the Prophet that there may be no occasion given to the wicked to think when they have in the publick place confessed and sorrowed for their sins a while they are forgiven and shall be saved although they turn not from them all no nor from any but return as the Dog to his vomit And hitherto of that which I have thought necessary to be considered and amended or not in our common Prayers and that not without shewing good and solid reason which ought to bear sway with all that are

hath the honor of Knight hood conferred upon him so he that hath the honour of a Doctor conferred upon him by the Vice-Chancellor of the University kneeleth before him to be admitted to it and a Son before his Father at receiving his Blessing and why then may not a Christian before Christ his Sovereign Lord offering himself unto him to be received by the hand of his Minister his Representative If the practice of the Apostles at the Institution were obligatory to all Christians Cor. 11. St. Paul in commemorating the Institution would certainly have made mention of it as well as of other circumstances but because he doth not it is apparent that we are not bound to hold us to the same gesture and indeed that the Gesture is not material appeareth for that although at the Institution of the Passeover instead whereof the Lords Supper was ordained standing was appointed yet Christ with his Disciples did not eat it standing but sitting If it be objected against kneeling that is an appearance of evil that is of Artolatria the worshipping of the bread of Christs body held in the hands of the Priest believed by many to be no bread now but the Lords body who is to be worshipped Ans in such as believe so it is indeed Artolatria that is Idolatry but for so much as we do not believe it for substance to be any other than bread till sanctified to an holy use and Christs body only to such as believe it to be so to them when they have received it nourishing them to eternall life In our kneeling only for reverence to the Lord when we receive it cannot carry a shew of Idolatry although if when it is carried about as in the Church of Rome They that fall down upon their knees to it cannot but be guilty of this foul sin whether they believe it to be Christ or not Kneeling therefore in recieving by those that are of the same Faith with us cannot be justly accepted against yet because some weak ones will be scandalized hereby it may be received standing as it is in some Reformed Churches but sitting at the Lords Table is most undecent and unmannerly After the Communion followeth that Service which is to be used in Baptising Of baptism in which nothing hath been by the most scrupulous excepted against but against the requiring God-fathers and God-mothers to answer for them and in such words as they are biden to do and against signing with the sign of the Crosse for the first that there should be Sureties for Infants that cannot yet speak for themselves if they be wise and Godly and make conscience to do their indeavour when the Children are grown to Understanding that they may be taught and stirred up to profess and promise for themselvs what hath bin promised in their behalf it cannot but be acknow ledged to be good Christian care of the Church whereby it is thus provided But the questions asked of them would be a little altered thus First Do ye believe in God the Father Almighty c. and not doest thou as if the question were directed to the Child for this is by many counted ridiculous Secondly Do ye desire to have this Child Baptized in this Faith Thirdly Do ye come to undertake as much as in you shall lye that this Child shall forsake the Devil c. The answer to this last being we do thus undertake all these things for if the Children of believing Parents ought to be Baptized as all the Orthodox have ever held truly there is great need that some faithfull persons should undertake for them as hath been said and help what they can towards the Childrens doing so as is promised till they by learning the Catechisme come to answer for themselves Neither was the name of Anabaptists heard of for the space of 1500 years and upward where John Leyden an ambitious Taylor in the City of Munster in Germany aspired by such means after making himself a King as he did and by other abominable opinions which he then broached And for the baptizing of Infants we have this convincing reason grounded upon the word of God that if Infants under the N. T. who come of Gods people that professe the true faith ought not to be baptized there is no Sanctifying Ordinance for them and they are in worse case than the Infants of the Jews because they had Circumcision whereby they were sanctified and delivered from the danger of death to which they were by nature subject but being circumcised they were saved if they died in their Infancy but the Children of Christians should be altogether without any sanctifying Ordinance and so continue Children of wrath as all are by nature and if they die before they be baptized in danger of being cut off John 3.5 for unlesse one be born again of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Peter 3.19 and St. Peter saith that baptism is as Noah's Ark that saveth and how absurd is it to say that none can be saved till they they be grown up and attain to actual Faith for to say they ought not to be baptized til then is in effect to say so Now that Children born under the N. T. are not in a worse but a better case than they under the Old appeareth by this that we have now a better Mediator and a better High-priest and a more glorious Ministry for then Moses was the Mediator Aaron the High Priest and Moses had his face covered when he spake to the people but now the Son of God is Mediator and High Priest and layeth Heaven open more plainly by his Ministry and the way for Parents and Children to attain unto it viz. by baptism after that the Parent believeth administred both to him and them If this were not so what comfort could believing Parents have although they themselves were baptized but their children not for fear of their dying unbaptized and unsanctified for their children are as dear to them as their own souls If any shall think that they are sanctified by the faith of their Parent because it is said to believers at Corinth In case but that one Parent were a Believer otherwise your Children were unclean but now they are holy It is to be understood that the Apostle said so because that immediately after the Parent was baptized the children were baptized also and this is more than probable because Origen who lived about an 200 saith that it was held to be a Tradition of the Apostles that Infants ought to be baptized Secondly The Crosse touching the Crosse in baptism although it hath been very anciently used and God hath sometimes wrought miraculously thereby for the confirmation of the Faith as Chrysostom saith yet for so much as it hath been in time of Popery turned into an Idol by being adored and trusted in Godly zeal cannot indure it any longer but as Hezekiah that