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A42476
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Charis kai eirēnē, or, Some considerations upon the Act of uniformity with an expedient for the satisfaction of the clergy within the province of Canterbury / by a servant of the God of peace.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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and every thing contained and prescribed in a Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be said or sung in Churches and the form and mauner of making Priests and Deacons Prop. 2. We are agreed That a Form of Prayer is lawful 1. grounded upon the word Numb 6.16 Hos 14. 1. Math. 6 2. agreeable to the general custom of the Church which useth Liturgies Liturgy James Basil Chrysostom Liturgy of the Church of Scotland Liturgy of Geneva the Liturgies of the French Churches for the instruction of the ignorant the maintenance of truth unity and peace yea according to the opinion of the Non-conformists Liturgies are lawful for they composed no less than three in Queen Elizabeths time and one since the King came in Prop. 3. We are agreed 1 That upon search our Lyturgy comes neerest the primitive ones of any established beginning with Sentences and exhortations according to the Scripture 2. that the confession is Orthodox that the Absolution the Lords Prayers the Hymns the Psalms the Chapters Creed with all the Prayers are such as may be allowed by any that judge charitably We are agreed That the people may as well repeate the words of the Prayer after the Ministers as say Amen after them to stir up their affections to declare their consort to keep up their fervency suis quisque verbis resipiscentium profiteatur preces repetat and repeat the Psalms as Moses and Mirian Exod. 15.1 and as the Angels answer one another saying Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath Prop. 4. We are agreed That the gestures of standing in confession of kneeling are our reasonable service and that the vestures imposed may be used decently according to the rules in St. Jerome divine Religion hath one kind of habit wherein to Minister before the Lord and another for ordinary uses belonging to common life in this we approve St. Basils Counsel Let him that approveth not his Governors Ordinances plainly yet privately shew his dislike if he have a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the true will of God and meaning of the Scripture or else let him quietly with silence do that which is enjoyned Prop. 5. We are agreed 1. That we may safely say those words When thou didest overcome the sharpness of death virtually at the beginning of the world and actually in the fullness of time thou didest open the Kingdom of heaven to all believers 2. That we may safely say God deliver us from sudden death that death when it cometh may give us time with David Moses c. leisurely to end our lives in peace praying for posterity confirming conforting and instructing our relutions dying the death of the righteous and having our latter ends like his or if death come suddenly we may prepar for it in our lives 3. That we may say that for our unworthiness we cannot ask what for the merits of Christ we do ask looking inward we are silencedby our sins looking upward we speak and prevail 4. That we may say O Lord deliver us from all adversity if it be possible yet resolving that not our will but the will of God be done in earth as it is in heaven 5. That we may safely pray that God would have mercy upon all men when the Apostle would have supplication to be made for all men because God was willing that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved 1 Tim. 2. 3. and our Charity hopeth all things 1 Cor. 13. 7. Rom. 9. 3. 10. 1. Math. 10 11 12. Jer. 15. 1. 6. That we may say the childe hath all things that its capable of which are necessary to salvation when he is Baptised 7. That we may say according to the Scripture John 3. that the Baptized is regenerated of water and we hope of the holy Ghost if it die before the Commission of Actual sin Rom. 5.12 c. 8. That we may say of any particular person dying in the faith that we bury him in hope of Resurrection unto life by that charity that hopeth all things Prop. 6. We are agreed To use the cross and other innocent Ceremonies and ancient as signal marks of Faith Humility Purity Courage and constancy in some parts of the worship and service of the Church as not conferring grace but as reverential in the solemn calling upon Gods name as decent in Gods publick worship and as instances of our obedience to superiors in Church and State commanding things not contrary to Gods word in faith mysteries and manners and thereby reducing the uncertainty of necessary circumstances as time place vesture gesture measure and manner to that fixed unity and comliness as seems to the Church most decent for the nature of the Duty the conveniency of the people and the beauty of holiness In a word we are agreed to submit to the established Liturgy as agreeable to the word of God Joel 2. 11. Eccl. 5. 30. as agreeable to the custom of the Ancient Churches as agreeable to the custom of Modern Churches who retain Liturgies to this day as exact as any of theirs if compared and allowed by the foreign Churches by learned Doctors and holy Martyrs who sealed it with their blood especially considering that we shall not be so strictly tyed to the Liturgy but that we may use our own Gifts before and after Sermon 2. Whereas we are obliged in the next place to declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And that we do abhor that traiterous of taking Arms by his authority against his Person or against those that are Commissionated by Him Prop. 1. We are agreed That its scandalous to our Religion whose doctrine is Obedience 2. That its dangerous to our Profession such positions provoking Rulers to root us out of the earth 3. That it is contrary to the profession and practice of good men in all Ages whose way was prayer and patience 4. That it is contrary to the Scripture to resist and that whosoever resisteth 't is his own damnation If any kill with the sword he shall be killed with the sword here is the patience of the Saints 5. That it s originally Jesuitical for Subjects to raise War against their King Prop. 2. We are agreed That the Scripture provides not onely for the safety of the Royal Government but of the Royal Person when we are forbid to despise Dominion to speak evil of Dignities not to resist the Powers ordamed of God O its absurd to follow the Kings person with arms in one place and to preserve his Authority in another miserable is that Power that cannot protect the Person in whom it is 3. Whereas we are obliged in the third
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR SOME CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE Act of Uniformity WITH AN Expedient for the Satisfaction of the CLERGY within the Province of CANTERBURY By a Servant of the God of Peace London Printed for Edward Thomas and Henry Marsh 1662. Some Serious CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE Act of VNIFORMITIE WITH AN Expedient for the Satisfaction of the CLERGY within the Province of CANTERBURY K. CHARLES I. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 161. Neither do I desire any man should be further subject to me then all of us may be subject to God SECT I. ALthough fraile nature below Heavenly grace above and the common float of all things round about me the lively Emblems of Mortality summoned me to dye dayly the misery of late time giving leisure enough their injustice allowing occasion more then enough to those Contemplations of Mortality which are never unseasonable because this is alwaies uncertain Death being an Eclipse which often happeneth as well in a clear as in a cloudy day Although the common burden of Mortality that lyeth upon me as a man the clear apprehensions of another world that I am indued with as a Christian and the serious observation of the successive Revolutions of nature that I am capable of as an inhabitant of the world have put me most of the dayes of my appointed time to wait when my change should come when I should say I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the Inhabitants of the world the keepers of the house trembling the strong men bowing themselves the grinders ceasing because they are few and those that look out at the Windows being darkened this dust of mine expected that it should return to the dust from whence it came and this spirit of mine should return to God that gave it I was willing that God should hide me in the Grave and that he should keep me secret untill his wrath and our calamity was overpast Although I was thus willing to retire to another world while that darknesse covered the face of this Yet when by a wonderfull Revolution of Providence managed by nothing lesse then an Omnipotence that perplexed Chaos of affairs and confused heap was admirably disposed to a sweet order and beauty and a new frame of another world viz. a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse I was in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better neverthelesse to abide in the flesh I thought might be more needfull for the Church whose sad breaches I hoped should now be carefully repaired whose sacred order peace honour unity and happinesse I hoped should now be recovered to a glory becoming so antient so holy so true so venerable so divine a Religion as ours in its nature author end center and circumference so one so deserving to be most united and uniform in the Catholick truth which is according to holinesse justice order and charity after the Primitive pattern and constant practice of all true Churches Preachers and Professors founded upon Verity fortified with Charity edified in Unity Reverend for Antiquity permanent in their Constancy according to the particular Constitutions of every Church which still kept the great and Catholick Communion as to the main every Christian Catechumene Penitent Communicant Deacon and Presbyter keeping the peculiar place wherein God Nature and the Church hath set them every Member keeping to its Congregation every Congregation to their lawfull Minister set over them to watch over their Souls every Minister to his own Bishop obeying them that have the rule over them and submitting themselves every Bishop to his Metropolitan upon whom is the care of all the Churches and the Metropolitan to his Soveraign as Supreme and he to God over all blessed for ever The Faith delivered to the Saints I thought might have been solemnly established the worship in spirit and truth decent and in order legally settled the Primitive Discipline orderly restored and our antient Church recovered to that beauty order glory and majesty for which it was spoken of throughout the Reformed world that rejoyced to behold our Faith and Order and therefore I was contented if it stood with the good pleasure and will of God to be absent a while from that Church which Christ presented to himself that glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that it should be holy and without blemish that City of the living God that Heavenly Jerusalem from an innumerable company of Angels from the generall Assembly and Church of the first born which are written in Heaven and from God the Judge of all and from the spirits of just men made perfect which I well hoped to enjoy that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Heaven upon Earth the Church in rest and peace round about with the beauty of holinesse without as well as all-glorious within in its Doctrine Apostolical in its Government Primitive in its Order Venerable in its Members Holy and Devout in its Worship Heavenly in its Laws Exact and Prudent which preserved every Christian every Family every City every Country every Province not only in a Church way Communion and Correspondence as to their particular bounds and nearer Relations in every Parish Congregation City or Country but as to that generall bond of charity that Catholick unity of an universal spirit in a bond of peace which binds all Christians in one fellowship of one body whose head is Christ to whom every true believer and visible professor in the whole Latitude of the Church being by the word of God and spirit of Christ fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part doth both edifie and increase it self and others in truth and love 1. Instead of the immediate presence of God whom blessed are the eyes who see which I hope to enjoy with these eyes face to face One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple for I have loved the habitation of his house and the place where his honour dwelleth ever since I have gone with the multitude ever since I have gone with them into the house of God with the voyce of joy and praise with a multitude that kept Holy day How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord God of Hosts my soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God blessed are they that dwell in thine house for they will be still praising thee 2. Instead of that perfection of Soul Nature Faculty Gifts and Graces which I hope for I am contented to stay here a while growing in grace and in the knowledge of God perfecting