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A66373	A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the common-prayer being an answer to a book entituled A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the common-prayer worship lately printed in New-England, and re-printed in London, in which the chief things objected against the liturgy, are consider'd.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing W2683; ESTC R203	34,319	42

saith This is agreeable to Scripture c. 24. 5. The Observation of Popish Holy-days especially such as are dedicated to Saints I look upon as highly Superstitious A. 1. He looks upon them as such but how far soever his Opinion may pass with his own Disciples yet others expect somewhat more 2. Why doth he add Popish Surely he that has read and compared the Popish Liturgy with ours must needs know that we have no Holy-days for Popish Saints in our Liturgy As to which I shall refer our Author to Mr. Perkins on Gal. 4. 10. 6. Of the Surplice he saith It 's highly Superstitious When Holy Vestments were in use among the Jews they had an express Command for them Should they have made a Mitre or Ephod or other Ecclesiastical Garment of their own heads they would have sinned greatly Witness Judg. 8. 27. If then the Church of God had no power to appoint Sacred Vestments no more has the Church in these days Moreover the Surplice is immediately borrowed from Idolatrous Mass-mongers Dr. Abbot who was no Fanatick saith That all Priestly Garments whereby Ministers are distinguished from the rest of the Church are a special part of the Character of the Beast The Papists take the Surplice from Jews and Heathens There were Vestments for the Worshippers of Baal 2 Kings 10. 12. Bishop Jewel saith The Priests of Isis used to wear Linnen Surplices Moreover the greatest part of our Protestant Divines have disliked this Superstitious Garment So Martyr c. 1. His Argument is the Jews had express Command for their Garments c. A. 1. Had the Jews no Power to appoint or observe any thing relating to Worship without express Command How then came the Feasts of Purim and Dedication the Places and Houses of Prayer Nay whence came the alteration of the posture at the Passover which our Saviour complied with contrary to the first institution And surely Vestments are much of the same nature with Times and Places c. 2. Supposing the Jews might not what is that to us Yes saith he no more can we Why so The Apostle shews we have a Liberty they had not and we may as well do what they could not as forbear what they might not They had not a liberty as we because under a Schoolmaster and of a Temper that needed it and whose Service was Typical And yet notwithstanding this they had a liberty which they might use and much more then have we 2. The Surplice he saith is immediately borrowed from Idolatrous Mass-mongers A. 1. What is that if there be no Idolatry borrowed with it Do we use it to sanctify Holy-water Bells c 2. As for his Quotation from Dr. Abbot it 's a gross mistake at least all he saith is That the Buyers and Sellers Rev. 13. 16. are the Bishops Priests and Monks that expose to sale Masses and Indulgences c. that bind themselves by Oath to the Bishop of Rome and in testimony of it are divided from the rest of the Church by Rites Vows Vnctions Tonsures Garments Where he speaks of Garments in general and no more of Surplices than Gowns and of Garments they ordinarily wear such as belong to Monastick Orders c. But if he had spoke of all Garments that distinguish the Clergy from the Laity Dr. Abbot had been in that a Fanatick and not Dr. Abbot who himself wore such Garments and surely did not think by that he had a special Character of the Beast upon him What he quotes from Bishop Jewel is not in that place if any where he refers to neither in the English or Latin Volume 3. The Papists take the Surplice from Jews and Heathens and for this latter quotes the Priests of Baal A. But the Text doth not say they were any more White than Blue or Black and he might as well have prov'd our Gowns we ordinarily wear or others prove their Cloaks to be such as well as he prove our Surplices Heathenish from that Text. 4. He saith The greatest part of our Protestant Divines have disliked it A. 1. What saith he to the Lutherans who all use the like Are not they Protestants 2. Do any he names dislike it so as to think it unlawful 3. Do they dislike it so as to make a Schism in the Church or for it Separate from a Church I am certain these he produces do declare just contrary Thus Pet. Mart. Epist Amico Hoopero c. Beza Epist Grindallo Zanchy Confes c 25. § 30. Hemingius in 4 Leg. Decal § 29. c. Enchir. tit Adiaph c. 16. Polanus in Ezek. 44. And Zanchy chuses the Linnen before the Woollen Garment for Divine Offices as a Sign of Innocence and Holiness de Redempt c. 16. I could much enlarge the Catalogue of such Testimonies if it were necessary So little did these Learned Men think Mr. Nichol's Argument of any force which our Author proposes viz. That all Vestments appropriated to the Worship of God and appointed for the Signification of Spiritual Duties by the will of Man are unlawful But the Surplice is so This our Author saith is Not easy to be answer'd But if it be to be answer'd no matter whether it 's not easy in his Opinion From hence arise two Questions Q. 1. Whether it 's unlawful to use any thing appropriated to the Worship of God by the Will of Man Q. 2. Whether it 's unlawful to use any thing in the Worship of God that is appointed for the signification of Spiritual Duties by the Will of man By the first it 's unlawful for men to appropriate places or times or postures to the Worship of God And so it 's necessary to avoid this Superstition to make all the meeting-Meeting-places to be houses of Merchandise and to be equally divided between Religious and Common Uses By the 2d any thing that has such a Signification applied to it is made unlawful by Vertue of such Signification and which without such Signification would have been lawful So a Surplice would have been a lawful Garment if not appropriated and without Signification and might have been in its self worn as well as a Cloak since Custom and Use only makes the difference but appropriate it and clap a signification upon it it 's unlawful And so a Cloak may be turn'd out of Service by the same way So it 's in posture kneeling and standing are indifferent but once appropriate kneeling to Prayer and make it significative and to be a posture of reverence and it becomes unlawful And so without end So much for Mr. Nichol's Argument and it's difficulty 7. Come we now to the Cross the greatest Devil amongst all the Idols of Rome as he tells us Mr. Parker sheweth He saith 1. The first users of it were the Hereticks Valentinus and Montanus A. That seems hard when those that wrote against them used it as Origen Irenaeus Tertullian and Epiphanius did against the former and several others against the latter We find it as