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A95937	The vindication of a true Protestant, and faithfull servant to his church, Daniel Whitby, rector of Thoyden-Mount in Essex. From articles exhibited against him in the exchequer-chamber at Westminster, by a few schismaticall, tempestuous, illiterate heedlesse people: together with a sermon preached at Rumford the last visitation in Essex, in defence of the liturgie of the Church of England, which is most objected in these articles.	Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10.; Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10. Vindication of the forme of common prayers vsed in the Church of England.	1644 (1644)	Wing V468; Thomason E40_34; ESTC R19242	31,300	47

with are Malignants Ed. Prudden Ed. Gibbs John Field Drunkards Swearers and men of very scandalous lives as D. Wright M. Nicolson M. Everington and such like persons and when he was absent these onely supplyed his place I thought I might have beene excused my Companie-keeping ANSWER seeing I make no more use of it then to preserve Civilitie and Curtesie it doth not extend to the Ale-house or Taxeme but to the doores where I live where there be better witnesses to take notice of my behaviour I have beene six yeares in this Countie and scarce know six Gertlemen to whom I owe Visits I am an utter stranger above two miles from home I did not expect to be accused of Companie that am accused of Stoicisme For these Gentlemen exprest I was never witnesse of any such ill qualities some of them I have not seene since the Notion Malignant came up and I have reason to thinke better of them then these report Those that will lye unmercifully to paint their Minister will stretch a little to set out the colours of a stranger For their Preaching in my Church it is rare perhaps once a yeare I entertaine a helper when I visir my Father and for their Doctrine my Accusers have commended it when they preacht in my Church they preacht very well The ninth Article He said That our Townes-men were right for the Cause John Brown botcher solus to rayse Warre against their King but for his part Cursed be his heart that lends any Money he would not goe on in those wayes This strange man brings nothing but Cursing and Swearing ANSWER and filthinesse against me but imagine that we met upon Mount Ebal I hope the Committee will not beleeve that I was so mad as to curse my selfe With that I layd downe a Bill of Expences for this yeare which I had payd and given the Parliament 20 pound out of a poore Living of 80 pound the Constables Oath was offered to testifie the payment of so much from my Purse The tenth Article That the said M. Whitby hath beene privie to Ed. Gibbs Susan Field and assistant in sending one privately with Letters to Oxon. This is a good Article to wind up the bottome ANSWER there appeares nothing in it but a Lye and the Image of Jealousie Since there hath beene a Controversie in this Land Oxford hath not beene the wiser for me by a syllable but I sent a Letter to a Friend dwelling towards Cambridge and they mistooke the Universitie Robert Clark was called in whom they accused for carrying the Letter and hee offered to take his Oath hee knew not where Oxford stood Have you tooke the Nationall Covenant M. WHITE ANSWER M. WHITE ANSWER No. Will you take it I will take it Passivè but not Activè it belongs not to my Calling to root out Episcopacie I take it as Elisha tooke his Masters departure 2 King 2.3 patiently I promised them obedience to it but preserved my opinion of it because my Reading had made such impression upon my Judgement I spake too much to this Question and feare it did displease yet I hoped for pardon it being a sudden Answer to an unexpected Question and I onely laboured to shew an honest mind PSAL. 82.8 Surge Domine judica terram 1 PET. 4.19 Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their soules to him in well-doing as unto a faithfull Creator THE VINDICATION Of the Forme of COMMON PRAYERS Vsed in the CHURCH of ENGLAND In a Sermon Preached at the last Visitation at RUMFORD in ESSEX By DANIEL WHITBY Master of Arts Parson of THOYDON-MOUNT Lately accused at the Committee in the Exchequer Chamber for the said SERMON OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Universitie 1644. An Advertisement VVHere any Limb of the Article is to be found in the Sermon it shall be noted by an Asteriske * in the Margent especially that Contradiction Prayers by the Spirit did quench the Spirit There is no Inventorie of it but pag. 27. in an Objection where the Reader may gather the great Abilities of these Religious Mountebanks that cannot distinguish betwixt an Objection and Thesis in Divinitie nor know when a man speakes out of his owne mouth or out of another mans The Vindication of the forme of COMMON PRAYERS used in the Church of ENGLAND MATH 6.9 After this manner therefore pray ye HEre is an Ergo in my Text Therefore it shewes this Verse is an inference of the former Now lesse any man should say to me as Christ to the intruding guest Friend How camest thou in hither Mat. 22.12 be pleased in one word to take the Ergo the dependance Our blessed Saviour in this Chapter censureth two sorts of people for errors in devotion Hypocrites ver 5. Heathens ver 7. The Hypocrites are challenged for two things The Posture of Prayer The Place of Prayer first Standing secondly Streets and Synagogues Not that either of these were evill in themselves but in their choyse and affectation They love to pray standing c. They affected them both out of Pride and Singularitie secondly out of an evill end To be seene of men and so they have their Reward The Heathens are condemned for Tautologie and idle Reperitions that served their Prayers as the Cooke his Dinner dressed Pork in severall Sauces and Messes all was but Perk So they loaded Gods eare with multitude of words to no purpose Christ labours to preserve his Disciples from them both The former ver 6. The latter in my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The parts of this Text are two A Precept A Patterne A Dutie A Direction The Commission Pray ye c. The Copie Our Father c. I will say nothing touching the latter the lords-Lords-Prayer though it begins to grow out of request in many places you shall not heare it at all 〈◊〉 15.20 Now the servant is not greater then the Lord no wonder if they despise our Prayers when that which cropped from Christs mouth comes not in their lips as if not worth the owning The Lord maintaine his owne Prayer I shall labour to maintaine ours in the first parts of the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After this manner c. Where that I may not spend one graine more of my Glasse in a Preface I shall presently acquaint you what I intend to doe Foure things will absolve this Text and my intents First The Dutie and Approbation of common-Common-Prayer Pray ye All. Secondly The Excellencie of set formes of common-Common-Prayer After this manner Thirdly The Commendation of our set forme of England Fourthly I shall wash it from the staine of Poperie First To begin at the lowest Stayre of this Division and so climbe upwards It looketh the better in my conceit for its Name and Title that it is called Common-Prayer For the better any thing is in Religion and Gods Worship the more excellent it

Sacrament and bore me this grudge ever since If any miss'd the Sacrament besides let them thanke themselves and not complaine of me I did my Dutie openly in the Church according to the Rubrick If any have not Received in either kind or both let them speake or signifie there was no intimation of any that wanted and so I went to Thanksgiving They must observe me I cannot studie particular persons in the Exercise of my Function I dare say shee came artificially to want it and lost it to object against me You said M. WHITE Those that would not conforme to those Orders were no better then Witches and Devils They make the Scripture looke enviously upon me ANSWER I said no more then Samuel 1 Sam. 15.23 Preaching upon that Text Obedience is better then Sacrifice Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft I disswaded my Congregation from disobedience from that Phrase wherewith it was stigmatiz'd in the Text Witch-craft which was Conjuring and dealing with the Devill and I would not have them partakers with Witches and Devils 1 Cor. 10.20 What Chymicks be these Article-mongers that can extract Quidlibet è quolibet Turn a faire Text into a foule Article You desir'd God M. WHITE not to heare their Prayers that would not joyne with you in all your performances If any such uncharitable Wishes should proceed from my mouth ANSWER I should utterly be ashamed of it and abhorre my tongue for speaking it but the truth is this I often threatned the neglecters of * All my Accusers are absolute enemies to the Common-Prayer-Booke Divine Service that stayed from Church all Prayers-while for purpose that God would not heare their Prayers that would not heare ours which they have molded to this strange forme Here I appeale to all the world Whether it be not the dutie of an Auditour if he heare any thing fall from his Minister contrarie to sound Doctrine to come and tell him of it personally according to Christs Rule Matth. 18.15 Dic inter te illum then Dic Ecclesiae c. In many things wee offend all as Jacob said of the Money in his sonnes Sacks Gen. 43.12 peradventure it was an over-sight if a man offend not in tongue he is perfect Many times a Minister le ts fall an utterance besides his mind yet to shew you the constitution of these Auditours I never heard of these Faults before nor ever should but to doe me a disparagement The third Article That he Preached Susan Field John Field Ed. Prudden That it was lawfull for Christians to joyne with any Nation in their outward Worship and hath said That the Roman Church is a true Church in respect of Fundamentall Points of the Religion although it be stained with Heresie and that when wee are in Italy or Spaine wee must doe as they there and proved it from 1 Cor. 9.19.20 What say you to this Article M. WHITE ANSWER This Article carryes that Fallacie of Aristotle A benè divisis ad male con●uncta The first and last of this Article are one delivered in a breath But here is a Line riveted into the Piece about the Roman Church which was delivered at a vast distance of time to invite you to beleeve that M. Whitby laboured a Communication with the Church of Rome in Worship for so the Cobweb is spunne to catch the hearers I make no question but to satisfie the Judicious and Charitable and I care for no more I beseech God to blesse me in this world and in that to come to and no otherwise but as I have beene a constant enemie to that Church from my education and abhorre a Communion with their Tenents c. * My afternoons Exercises are wholly instituted against the Rhenish Annotations and have dayly begot the detestation of her in my Auditorie yet I am a Foe to none beyond the Line of Reason And therefore to acquaint the world with what I once delivered and is upon Record I once mov'd that Question Ex abundantiâ copiâ doctrinae out of nicitie for so I qualified it at that time Stabilire opinionem non unitatem an Romana Ecclesia sit Ecclesia Dei Or belongs to the Catholique still And stated it affirmative out of Doctor * Append. of the fifth Booke of the Church p. 882. 883. Field for I measured his syllables in deciding it It belongs to the visible Catholique Church and borrowes that Title * As S. Aust The societies of Heretikes contribute to the Catholique and Salomon Cant. 6.8 describes the Church replenisht with Concubines as well as Queenes and Virgins It is Verè Ecclesia potius quàm vera in Mornay's Criticismes Vera is but the Emphasis of Ecclesia if wee use that phrase and bespeakes the truth of being not of Doctrine Metaphysicè not Moralitèr As a Leper or a maimed man that hath but body and soule together is styled Verus homo be his person never so deformed he is called a Man still and nothing else so the Church of Rome is a Church Templum Domini else wee must not expect Antichrist from thence and Children baptized there must be rebaptired so that in respect of the Profession of Religion the holding of some saving Truths as the Divinitie of the God-head and Trinitie of Persons wherein wee agree some Articles of Faith Ordinations Baptisme shee steales that Title of Ecclesia Christi as the same Author how dangerous is it for a Scholar to use his Judgement and Reading among ignorant men in whom is more malice then discretion their gall above their judgement But to answer the Article the first and last were one continued discourse about indifferent matters expressely about the Postureor the Sacrament I told them in France they receive it standing or walking in Germanie sitting in England kneeling all these are best at home and did wee come to their Church wee ought to comply as Saint Paul loco citato observed the manners of the places where he travelled Italy or Spaine c. Understand this of our owne Religion and Profession I did not open a Gap to Libertinisme to teach men to be Jews or Turks or Papists c. with the Polype fish to change their colour with the next Rock The fourth Article That he laboured by all meanes Susan Field John Field Ed. Prudden both by Preaching and otherwise to disgrace our Brethren the Scots calling them in many of his Sermons Rebels and Traytors and made a Sermon purposely against them calling them the sonnes of Belial and said Now adays a Rogue and Tinker a Pedlar any Body was good enough to draw subjects to Rebellion against their King This Article was omitted I was not questioned here perchance it was buried under the Act of Oblivion But what I spake I spake under Protection of State the Kings Proclamation to that purpose and a Prayer in the Church to boot Besides this Article is aged it was

will be by being publike Bonum quo communius c. As the Heavenly Bodies are more usefull by expansion the Sunne most serviceable when he spreads him widest in our Hemispheare So Gods service is most serviceable to him and us by being common and freely communicating it selfe to all the people thriveth both in the vertue and praise Solitary and single Prayer is sweet and presents the Soule with Security and Liberty and Raptures to convey her selfe to God But Common-Prayer is more forcible and fortified by Union and agreement of Christian minds Where so many hands and hearts are lifted up together they pull downe God among them by force of Armes ver 20 Where two or three are gathered I am in the midst Exod. 25.8 Revel 1.13 Mat. 18. Marke how intimate he will be to the Congregation Christ Jesus the middle Person of the Trinitie loveth still to be in midst When he was borne he was in medidio jumentorum at twelve yeares old in medio Doctorum in the midst of the Doctors all his life in medio Discipulorum at his death in medio latronum of Theeves in Heaven Angelorum in the midst of Angels in the Church in medio orantium in the midst of Orators c. Do you know what it is to have God in the midst I fancie something more then ordinary in the phrase 't is not onely his presence but his yeelding and condescending to their joynt desires 't is to compasse God in out suits to hemme him in to have of him what we aske and will as Souldiers a Prisoner that he cannot escape when they have begirt him round in medio So if I may use the Metaphor with Reverence to Almighty God God giveth joynt prayers the Day and Victory over Heaven suffers himselfe to be taken and led Captive by the faithfull Devotion of an Assembly We seldome read in Scripture of God thus conquer'd and led Captive in single duties and duells of Devotion onely twice Gen. 32.28 Hos 12.4 Exod. 32.10 when Jocob got him in his armes by prayer and would not let him goe and when Moses bound his hands Let me alone God begs to be Released these single Israelites prevailed with God But now every pious Congregation is sure of such a purchase Ego in medio God readily resigneth himselfe to consenting Soules So that those hands which single are too weake for such a Victory Exod. 17.12 when Aaron and Hur helpe them in their Devotion become prevalent Even in Private Families this Common-Prayer day and night is powerfull much more at Bethel the Sanctuary and Temple where the place it selfe bespeakes its necessity Esa 56.7 My house shall be called a house of prayer to all people where two things The Appellation House of Prayer The Generalitie of it Common-Prayer to all people God gave the Church her Name as to Adam in Paradise and fure he did not Nick-name it it must not stand for a Cipher Christ defends this Name and Text of the Prophet Esay Mat. 21.13 by his tongue hand Repeating and lashing it into their apprehensions in his Gospell Doe not they deserve the lash that would disgrace it God chuseth this Name for the Church above all that we should choose this worke above all Churches had not beene built but for Publike Oratories shall we rob God of his intertions the end to which he gave them or preferre any thing above that which he chiefly commends to us But ye have made it a den of theeves faith Christ Who Buyers and Sellers How By stealing into the Church creeping with their stalls into the House of Prayer but still they let it be a House of Prayer They did not envie but advance that and stood there to further it But I will tell you of a strange fort of theeves in our dayes that will steale out of the House of Prayer in Service-time my will steale the Prayers out of the Church and banish them and wound them with hands and tongnes worse then the traveller Luk. 10.30 But may not I be mistaken and doe them wrong they love Common-Prayers and Church-Prayers so they be not Printed so they be poured instantly from the Spirit Memory and Man So it be given them in that Houre as the Scripture speakes Mat. 10.19 wherupon they challenge the Pulpit for a sudden Service they will Frequent those Churches and meetings where the businesse is without bookeresigned wholly to the Preachers present thoughts they will take such as God sends ex tempore Good or bad Let it be given them fresh and each day variety and they are well Like Ahimelecks Shew-bread 1 Sam. 21.6 which was to be set hot upon the Table in the remotion of the Stale So if the Bread of Life come hot each Sabbath from the Preachers Oven they will accept it othewise they are more curious then David and will not have the Stale To correct this vein of Humour in our age I step to the second Stayre of my Division The excellencie of set formes of Common-Prayer And here Part 2. to winne more credit to the cause I shall use this Art having but slender Abilities of mine owne I will take some abler Scholars by the hand to confirm and lead me in the entrance of my opinion Two onely shall be named which may suffice In the mouth of two witnesses c. M. Daniel Dyke on Psa 124. Let Israel now say c. M. Attersol on the Booke of Numbers 6. c. 23. c. 10.2 last ver Where both with one Pen proclaim this conclusion the lawfulnesse and use of set formes of Prayer and praises in Publike and Private M. Attersol proveth it at large and answers the objections to the contrary I shall commend the practise of set formes from good Arguments as well as men The Arguments are of three sorts From Scriptures Reasons Consent of Reformed Churches We find the discovery of set formes in Old and New Testament Argum. 1 under the Jewish and Christian Church Those two places Numbers 6.23 Thus shall ye blesse he children of Israel c. The Lord blesse c. which was given to the Priests for the whole Congregation to be pronounced at all times in the Tabernacle It was appoynted to Jacob for a Law and to Israel for an everlasting Testament And whereas some object thus ad hunc modum that is after such a manner not the same words this is very ridiculous Then Moses and the Prophets carrying Gods errand Exod. 3.13.14.15 Thus shalt thou say unto them I am hath sent me to you or The God of Abraham Isaak and Jacob c. might not say what he said but must coyne something else like unto it Moses used one set forme for the marching and ressing of the Arke c. 10.35 though he knew how to speake a word in season and out of season as well as any Separatist He that offered the Basket of first-Fruits had his set-forme of