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A96831	Beaten oyle for the lamps of the sanctuarie; or The great controversie concerning set prayers and our liturgie, examined in an epistle to a private friend: with an appendix that answers the paralell, and the most materiall objections of others against it. Unto which are added some usefull observations touching Christian libertie, and things indifferent.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3338; Thomason E163_14; ESTC R4346	40,803	77

advantage to wrest ought therein contained to other sense then the Church of England intendeth nor any troublesome or ignorant person of this Church be able to take the least occasion of cavill against it Thus that oracle of wisedome And how should we thinke that service guilty of any known popery in King Edward 6. his time when wee find this clause in their Letany From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine c. good Lord deliver vs. And although this clause was left out in Queen Elizabeths time perhaps for avoyding of scandall yet in one of the prayers of our publike Service f wee still pray unto God to root out that Babylonish and Antichristian Sect and to cut off those Workers of Iniquity Prayer for the 5. of Novemb whose Religion is rebellion whose faith is faction c. And surely a Liturgy that directeth us to pray thus carries not a Pope in the belly of it But I should rather incline to the opinion of Mr. Burton that the Jnnovation alteration Mr. Burtons Apol. and dashing out of some of the prayers of our Liturgy was a signe of some dangerous plots to change the Orthodoxe Religion established in England and to bring in Romish superstition in the roome of it And to him I shall joyn this opinion of Mr. Prin concerning this Booke of Common Prayer In his Anti-arminianisme Mr. Prin his Anti-Arminian Edit 2. wherein seven Anti-Arminian Orthodox Tents are evidently proved their seven opposite Arminian once popish pelagian errours are manifestly disproved to be the ancient established undoubted doctrine of the Primitive and modern Church of England So in the title of his book Then alleadging the Booke of Common Prayer saith In this Booke of Common Prayer established by Act of Parliament in our Church there are sundry passages to prove these severall Anti-arminian positions See page 21 22 23 24 25 26. And concludes thus you see now by all these premises that these our Anti-arminian not their opposite Arminian assertions are the apparent and resolved doctrine of our Common Prayer Booke composed by the first Reformers of our Church who concurred wholly in opinion with us Therfore they must needs be the undoubted the established the received doctrines of our Church Thus that learned man where I desire the Reader at least to beleeve Mr. Prin of whom the world is so wel perswaded that he is not guilty of the least tang of Popery I say beleeve him that those which composed our Com. Prayer Booke concurred wholly in opinion with us and therfore wee need not have a suspition that they give us Rats-bane in our prayers To him I may adde a Booke put forth since the sitting of this honourable Parliament which I pray God to direct and prosper by Fran. Taylor B.D. Rector in Clapham in Surrey He gives the Book of common Prayer the first place amongst the Authentick Records of the Church as he cals them 't is dedicated to Sir Edward Dering and beares this title The faith of the Church of England concerning Gods worke on mans will wherein he proves all these severall points against the Arminians out of the prayers of our Liturgy Gods omnipotencie in our conversion Gods speciall grace Gods worke in Infants Giving of internall grace to men The internall effect of grace The Purification of the heart The externall effects of grace Gods governing us Gods preserving us in godlinesse and from sinne The progresse of the Begenerate Gods grants Other proofes he might have produced for our own insufficiency as the Collect for the second Sunday in Lent c. and likewise for the confirmation of almost all our Doctrines against Popish Arminian errors And indeed neither our Homilies nor our Articles are so good so inviolable evidences of the Churches doctrine as her prayers for we see what glosses and Coments both Papists and i Sancta clara Arminians k Mont. can make upon those of the first sort to countenance their assertions but 't is not possible any man should so befoole us out of our devotions as to make us beleeve we did not understand the sense and meaning of our prayers And therefore it were good Christian policy to retaine our formes of prayer though it were done only upon those grounds upon which saith Smectymnus i Answer to the Remon pag. 7. set and imposed forms were introduced which was not saith he how truly let the defence of the Remonstrance witnesse untill the time that the Arian and Pelagian heresies did invade the Church and then because those Heretikes did convey and spread their poyson in their formes of Prayer and Himnes the Church thought it convenient to restraine the liberty of making and using publike formes And for as much as too much poyson may be vented this way and in the opinion of some hath beene and is in these present times I should thinke it would not bee amisse to retaine the use of this Liturgy amongst us that it may be as a standard to regulate the rest of our devotions This booke hath beene accused of swearing often though many that have as good eares and have beene as diligent observers of it as others could never heare it but I never knew that it had beene convicted of perjury before that the testimony of it should now grow invalid amongst us But whether it be fit that that which hath beene alleaged so often as good evidence for our Doctrine in Queene Maries dayes against the Papists in our owne times against Arminians and Innovators whether it be fit I say that this without any fault committed for its owne part should now be arraigned at the Bar of life and death I will not say as our late Soveraigne does m upon the frivolous suggestions of any light spirit but upon so weake an accusation and be as it were condemned before it can be heard speak for it selfe whether this be justice I leave to every wise and indifferent Reader to consider But for my part I must say Amen to that curse that hath beene lately sealed by so very great Authority * Babilons downfall published by order of the honourable house of Commons Cursed shall hee be that removes the ancient Land-markes and let all the people say Amen What is the ancient Land-marke of England but our Lawes and Religion which containes as well facienda as credenda and hath as well the Liturgy as the Articles and Homilies for her Boundaries and therefore if any man shall remove this Land-marke cursed shall he be of the Lord cursed and let all the people say Amen And although the Author of that Booke intituled Christ on his Throne n Case 6. p. 23. thinkes it enough to startle Christians as he termes it that this is an extract out of Romes Latine Service yet hee might remember how himselfe seemes to unfold that command given us to come out of