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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

viz. Rom. 3. 13. and quoted by the Apostle from other Psalms c. 2. It 's not the common-Prayer-Book that adds but the Translations which the common-Prayer followed viz. the Septuagint and Vulgar and tho it was a mistake yet it 's far from being such as incurs the penalty of Deut. 4. 2 c. As for the Gloria Patri I deny that it 's added to the Scriptures as Canonical any more than the Contents of the Chapters the Chapters and Verses of the Bible or the Dates of the Epistles are nay I deny that it 's added at all for any one that can read will see that it 's not inserted in the Psalter but only rehearsed as the Rubrick directs And it was for a good end that this was anciently used in the Orthodox Churches of old and is continued in ours viz. in opposition to the Arians and Anti-Trinitarians Sozom. l. 26. 4 He saith Sometimes words are sacrilegiously stolen out of the Bible As the last Verse is omitted Psal 72. So are the Scriptural Titles of many Psalms And I know not how often those words Praise ye the Lord are left out He durst not trust his Reader with the things left out for they would have appear'd of so little Consequence as would have betrayed the weakness of his Cause as well as his own partiality That verse omitted Psal 72. is this the Prayers of David the Son of Jesse are ended The Titles of the Psalms are for the most part such as are no key to the matter of them and without which the Psalms are as intire as the Chapters without the Contents The Clause praise ye the Lord as in the Hebrew Hallelujah and is only left out when it 's independent and has no immediate Relation to the preceding or following Verse And the reason of these Omissions seems to be Because the Psalms being to be read in Parts according to the ancient Custom in Chrysostom's time and before or chanted and so read on without naming the Psalm the Titles c. would have made a break in that order And this was done after the manner of Singing the Psalms in the Temple-Service in which the Titles and the passage the Prayers of David the Son of Jesse are ended were to be sure no part And so it is in the Singing-Psalms used by the Dissenters as well as us And who may as well be charged with such Omissions as we who there for the reason abovesaid use neither the Verse nor Titles Surely these Persons are hard put to it that after such a bloody charge of violating adding to and taking from the Word of God can produce no better proofs and evidences for it but only that we leave out the Titles and Hallelujah and that only in the ordinary Service in the publick where they themselves read it not at all and when upon the like way of arguing we may charge them with laying aside the whole Scripture out of which they read not one Chapter for the information of the People He goes on 3. In the Liturgy the Apocrypha Books are made equal with nay advanced above the Holy Scripture Strange that a Church should be guilty of this that in their Articles exclude them out of the Canon and saith That they are not read to confirm any Doctrine but only for informing the Manners But let us see how he proves this not by any Assertion of the Church but some stretches of Arguing As 1. They are made equal For in the Preface to the Common-Prayer it 's said nothing ordained is to be read but the pure word of God or that which is evidently grounded on the same But is the Apocrypha so Here for improving his Argument he alters the words of the Preface and for that which is in that agreeable to the same he reads evidently grounded on the same and then triumphs Is the Apocrypha so But take it how he will its evident from hence that the Apocrypha is so far from being made equal with Scripture that there is a plain difference between them for that to which a thing is agreeable and on which it 's grounded is above that which is agreeable to it and grounded upon it A Plea grounded on the law is surely of less Authority than the Law on which it is grounded The Apocrypha being read not for establishing any Doctrine but for informing the Mannners there is nothing in what is appointed of that kind to be read but what is agreeable to the word of God and not contrary to it and so may be read as well as their Sermons be heard which can pretend to no more 2. He saith The Liturgy appoints the Apocrypha to be read as Lessons just as I find it in the Pope's Service-Book and in a greater proportion than Scripture for as some have observ'd of 172 Apocryphal Chapters but 38 are omitted So that these Books are equalized with the pure word of God But surely he doth not find it in our Service-Book that the Apocrypha Lessons are read for Canonical Scripture and declared to be so as they are in the Pope's Service-Book but only as Apocrypha He that will look for the Apocrypha-Books in the Pope's Bible as well as Service-Book will find them mixed with the Canonical as Hester and Esdras c. but he that will find them in our Bibles will find them by themselves and Apocrypha in the head of them If as he affirms the Apocrypha is read in a greater proportion than Scripture it doth more than equalize and doth rather advance it above the Scripture and so belongs to his next Assertion which he would have done well to have reserv'd it to to make up the proof he is there wanting in As for what he affirms that the Apocrypha is read in greater proportion than the Scripture nothing more false For 1. All the Second Lessons throughout the Year are out of the New Testament 2. All Epistles and Gospels read on Sundays and Holy-days are wholly out of Canonical Scripture 3. All First Lessons on Sundays are out of the Old Testament and none out of the Apocrypha 4. On the 33 Holy-days on the Week-days there are but 26 Apocrypha First Lessons whereas there are 40 out of the Canonical Scripture 5. When the Apocrypha is appointed to be read in Course it 's not clear two Months for First Lessons but the Holy Scripture is read all the other Ten Months and more 6. Of the 39 Books of the Old Testament but 3 are entirely omitted viz. Chronicles and Canticles but of the 13 of the Apocrypha 6 are not read at all 7. Of the 929 Chapters of the Old Testament 753 are read in course and 176 only omitted the reasons for which generally will appear to the Reader but out of the 172 Chapters of the Apocrypha there are not as he saith 38 66 omitted and among them that of Tobit that he objects against Where methinks he that pretends to have