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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56208	A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4081; ESTC R5455	105,415	150

for the easier benefit of those who celebrated them he caused to be most exactly printed in the Vatican and published for the common good in the year of our Lord 1604. as he declares in his Bull praefixed to this Missal dated at Rome the 7. of July the same year with this additional Title Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacro-sancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum Pii 5. Pont. Max. jussu editum Clementis 8. auctoritate RECOGNITUM ET CUM MISSIS NOVIS DE SANCTIS à Paulo 5. Gregorio 15. S. D. N. Urbano 8. ordinatis Missae propriae de Sanctis OMNES AD LONGUM POSITAE SUNT PRO FACILIORI CELEBRANTIUM COMMODITATE If therfore the Council of Trent it self thought meet to reform the antient Roman Catechism and Missal formerly established into which it confesseth either by the vice of times or unwariness or dishonesty of men many things had crept which were far from the dignity of so great a Sacrifice and had need to be reformed that due honour and worship to the glory of God and edification of faithfull people might be restored to it Yea to set out a new Masse-book by authority of Pope Pius the 5. and this Pope within few years after held it necessary and expedient to make some alterations and dispence with other things in it relating to the Kingdoms and Church of Spain and Pope Gregory the 13. within 3. years after to dispence with some other Formalities and Rubricks thereof upon the same reason And Pope Clement the 8. about 30. years after held it necessary to revise the whole Masse book to correct the Printers errors the Mistranslations of the Epistles Gospels Psalmes therein varying from the Original Text and adde new Rules Rubricks to it explaining supplying the defects of the former together with New Masses for New Saints notwithstanding all former printed Bulls Prohibitions Decrees to the contrary and the pretended Infallibility and Inerrability of their Chairs Church Councils Then by the self-same Presidents and better Reasons Your Majesty with advice of Your pious learned Divines and Parliament who have by Law established these Articles of our Churches Belief to which all Bishops Ministers have subscribed That not only Popes but General Councils may erre and sometimes have erred even in things pertaining to GOD. That it is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one or utterly like FOR AT ALL TIMES THEY HAUE BEEN DIVERS MAY BE CHANGED ACCORDING TO THE DIVERSITY OF COUNTRIES TIMES MENS MANNERS so that nothing be ordained against Gods word Every particular or National Church hath authority to ordain Change and abolish Ceremonies or Rites of the Church and Liturgies too ordained only by Mans Authority so that all things bee done to edifying may with much more Justice Piety Prudence reform all errors mistranslations of the Epistles Gospels Psalms and obsolete or unfit expressions in the Book of Common Prayer twice altered reformed in som particulars in few years after its first publication by authority Acts of Parliament yea change abolish such unnecessary Rites Ceremonies attending it which have given just offence and occasioned much Schism Dissention in our Church between the Protestant Members of it as well of the Clergy as Laity ever since its first establishment in the 3d. year of K. Edw. the 6. till this very day and will do so in perpetuity if not removed by your Majesties Piety and VVisdom according to the purport of your late Incomparable Declaration for which the whole House of Commons and all Your Protestant Subjects whom they represented returned Your Majesty their most cordial publike Thanks by their Speakers own mouth the blessed fruits whereof they all now hope and long to reap not only without the least prejudice to our Religion Church and main Fabrick of the former Liturgy but with great advantage to them all It is a received Maxim among all Polititians Artists that no human Institutions Laws Inventions Edifices are so absolutely exact usefull wholesom necessary but that they may upon just reasons of Policy piety sundry emergent occasions and necessities be amended altered with wisdom honour safety an publike utility Your Majesty since your most happy miraculous restauration have with great prudence and glory made some laudable alterations in Your Royal Palaces Walks Parks of Whitehall Hampton-court and in Westminster-Hall itself as well for Conveniency as Delight though very noble usefull compleat before without any prejudice to their Structures Foundations Soile And those Bishops Deans and Chapters who seem most opposite to the least alterations in our publike Liturgy or Ceremonies have yet very much altered improved their old Rents and Tennants likewise to which they will not be confined by Your Majesties late Declarations or Commissions yea they daily violate and dispense with the very Rubricks in the Common Prayer Book and several Acts of Parl. by selling Licenses to marry to all sorts of people for filthy lucre without asking the Banes three several Sundayes or Holy-dayes in time of Divine service the people being present after the accustomed manner In reading the Epistle Gospel and second Service at the Communion Table when there is no Communion and in not receiving the Communion in their Cathedral Churches every Sunday at the least though they have no reasonable cause to the contrary as the Rubricks enjoyne them And may not your Sacred Majesty then with as much wisdom honour and all your Bishops and Cathedral Clergymen with farre more piety justice prudence in obedience to Your late Royal Declarations and Engagements to all Your Subjects dispence with the Oath of Canonical Obedience the use of Surplises and other Ceremonies for which there is no Rubrick Statute or known Law of the Land the reading of Psalms Epistles Gospels in the Church according to the New Translation of Your Royal Grandfather of famous memory KING JAMES yea freely admit all able godly Ministers ordained only by Presbyters during the late unhappy Differences and Confusions of Government to Benefices Fellowships Lectures Cures of Souls without a Re-ordination by Bishops as well as admit reclamed Popish Priests ordained by Bishops in the Church of Rome without the least opposition contest for future Peace Amity Unity between all Your Protestant Subjects of different perswasions in these dividing particulars To facilitate promote this much desired work I have spent my few vacant Holy-day hours in compiling this seasonable short sober pacific Examination consisting principally of 4. Particulars discussed in several Sections to wit the Use and Frequent Repetition of Gloria Patri standing up at it and at Gospels Creeds Wearing of Surplises with other Pontifical Sacer dotal vestments in the celebration of Divine Service and Sacraments in the last wherof because most peremptorily insisted on from pretended grounds of Scripture Reason by many Romanists and some Protestant Prelates and Divines I have most expatiated I hope without the least offence to moderate sober Christians