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A05459	Against the apple of the left eye of antichrist, or the masse book of lurking darknesse making way for the apple of the right eye of antichrist, the compleat masse book of palpable darknesse : this apple of the left eye, commonly called, the liturgie, or service book, is in great use both among the halting papists, and compleat papists, and the things written heere are also against the compleat masse book.	Lightbody, George.	1638 (1638)	STC 15591.5; ESTC S2182	52,108	90

King and his familie of Cou●seders and of the whole members of the College of Justice of his Majestie subjects of all degrees from the highst to the lowest of the which kingdome if to the prescription and custome we fa●de it i● perpetuall and recent observation unto this day If we look to the Prelats the authors and urgers of the present novations we finde that they themselves have subscribed the same Confession before but now they have laboured to involve us in the same guiltinesse with themselves and Our Subscription at the time is the most innocent most worthy and most powerfu● meane to confirm Our selves and to stop O●r ad●●●sar●● their presumptions that they no more here ster attempt ●● like amongst us and so far as the secret intention of the 〈◊〉 of man may be seene Our proceedings to this time the tenor that which We do now subscribe and OUr whole deportment and carriage We make manifest to all who are not possest with prejudice against us that We meane nothing but the maintenance of the reformed Religion to the glory of GOD the honour of Our King and the happinesse of Our kingdome for now and for afterward The first Objection That it is the making of a band against the Act of Parliament Anno 1585. Answer 1. That naturalists know the parts of the world must sometimes forget themselves and passe their particular bounds for the preservation of the whole As in naturalibus individua operantur ac aguntur contra naturam suam particularem ad conservationem naturae universalis nam ascendit grave descendit leve ne detur vacuum Item manet grave in superiori leve in inferiori loco ad evitandum vacuum A flaggon full of water if the narrow mouth of it being open shall be holden streight downward to the earth the water will remaine still having the lighter air under it A kan which watereth herbs having many holes in the bottome if it be filled with water and if thou hold thy thumb upon the narrow mouth of it the water will not run out at the holes of the bottome but if thou uncover the mouth of it the water shall rin out A pipe of lead that convoyeth water from one place to another if the middle part of the pipe ascend the water will ascend in it providing that the ascending part of the pipe go foreward unto a discension which shall in the end bee lower ●●en where the pipe began to ascend in which descension when the water beginneth to descend the lighter air shall des●●● before it So in morall observations politicks justly plead 〈◊〉 the safetie of the people is the soveraigne law It is law●●ll yea necessarie to passe by one legality or formality of the law for the preservation of the whole lawes of the kingdome seing every particular law must abide the exception of Salvo jure cujuslibet of the fundamentall law of all lawes which is Salus reipublice suprema lex esto If a Gangrene hath consumed a finger or a toe the chirurgian cutteth of the member least the disease spread unto the rest of the body If the patient be bleeding with great danger the chirurgian cutteth a veine in another place for avoiding the danger If a house be burning servants will leave their masters service to quench the fire least their masters house and the whole city be burnt and men will cast down the tback and covering of the houses beside least the fire come upon them and thereby finde a passage unto the rest of the city In all these there some transgression of a civill law but they agree with the fundamentall law in the preservation of men or of the city So in matters of religion Christians can not but acknowledge that Queene Esther did better in coming to the king which was not according to the law then if according to the law of the kingdome she had destroyed her self and her fathers house with the hazard and destruction of Gods people If she had not come to the king it had beene very hurtfull unto Gods kirk If King David so faithfull a servant of God and ruler of Gods people had perished for hunger therefore to keep him from this evill the Priest gave unto him of the shew-bread to eat which according to Gods own law Levit. 24.9 Matth. 12.4 was lawfull to none to eat but the Priests then salus Ecclesiae canon esto To this effect the people would not suffer king Saul to kill Ionathan when he had eaten of the honey when Saul band the people with an oath not to eat untill the evening This was no treason when they hindered the king 〈◊〉 secute his rash intension but it was his honour and glory 〈◊〉 preserve his children alive It is reported that King Iames the 6. in a treatise anent the powder treason said Pro aris focis patre patriae c. That is when the religion the Common-wealth and the King are in danger men should not bee silent but the whole estates and members of the kingdome as one man should arise for the safetie of any of the three Hath not the body of this kingdome good reason to arise when all the three are in danger at this time 2. It is a mistaking to think that this is a new band against law since it is nothing but the renewing of the Confession of Faith warranted by the command and example of King Iames and by the acts of Counsell and Assembly and if it were a new band yet it is lawfull and agreeable to the fundamentall law foresaid in respect that both King countrie and religion were compassed either with spirituall dangers or with both spirituall and bodily dangers through the tyrannie of the antichristian prelats 3. It is not a privat league or band of any degree of subjects among themselves but a publict Covenant made of the collective body even the estates of the kingdome as well collective as representative with God and for God and the King 4. It can not fall under the censure of sedition quae est seorsim itio à republica ecclesia à lege rege grege nor of troubling the peace of the kingdome mentioned in the act of Parliament since it is for the maintenance of religion the Kings authoritie and the preservation of the lawes liberties peace of the kingdome against all trouble and sedition a duetie whereunto all his Majesties subjects are bound by the law of God and man to concurre and they who are enemies thereunto are enemies to the peace of the kingdome and seditious ●e 2. Objection Is from the Act of Pearths assem●●y commanding the practise of these novations in the worship of God which by this Subscription we oblege us to forbear Ans 1. The conclusions of these meetings can not have the authoritie of a generall assemblie with us except we by seeking precepts of that kinde for these novations had inclined unto the same and because it

of the bread after that the celebration is ended and the eating of it only by such as communicate showeth that they esteeme more of it then of a Sacrament For after the Celebration of the Sacrament the elements are no more holy by a Sacramentall relation then they were before the celebration Any man might drink the waters of Jordan after that men were baptized in it So any man may eat and drink the Sacramentall elements when the Celebration is ended Therefore in the Primitive kirk they did not keep the Sacramentall bread neither for them that were in sicknesse nor in health It was not hanged up in the pixis to be worshipped as is now done by the Papists and intended by the halting Papists who now by ●●eping the elements will come the more easily to the worshipping of them Origen said Comment in Leviticum that of old in some places they brunt the Sacramentall bread which remained And Euagrius in histor Eccles saith That in some places children learning at schooles were called to eat it Hieron in comment in 1. Corinth 11. saith That after the celebration the Communicants did eat t●● Sacramentall bread and drink the wine in the k●●● their common supper Our formalists as they superstitiously keep the bread so do they keep the water in the font 9. The pretending of the necessitie of salvation when they minister private baptisme and private communion showeth greater vertue and merite attributed unto them then either pertaineth to a Sacrament or to any divine ordinance except the death and merite of Christ whereupon only dependeth the necessitie of our Salvation The professing of a necessitie of salvation to depend upon a private communion is a denying of the spirituall use and benefite that men receive by the publick Sacrament 10. The hindering of GODS word to be read making it give place to the reading of humane traditions is grosse idolatrie for this honour belongeth only unto God that as all religions in the world should give place to the true religion whereby God is rightly worshipped according to his own word So the reading of all traditions in the world should give place to the Divine traditions of his sacred word dited by his holy Spirit and that chiefly when religious Divine service should be exercised 11. The dedicating of dayes to be solemnly keept for the honour of Martyres Saints and Angels is grosse idolatrie as is the praying unto Saints and Angels and the religious kneeling to them or to their pictures used by Papists all such sort of honour belong unto God only 12. The usurping of power to ordeine Sacraments as the Popish Prelates have ordeined five bastard sacraments and the halting Papists ordeine Confirmation to bee observed among themselves To appoint holy dayes for Angels and Saints to make rites and ceremonies have spirituall and religious significations to make these things to be points of Divine worship and religion All Rulers who do such things in doing the same they commit Divine-laesmajestie usurping Gods place for the power and authoritie of ordeining such things belongeth unto God only All people that give obedience in such things unto any but unto GOD they commit idolatrie for the honour of that kinde of obedience only belongeth unto GOD and that only when he commandeth such things to be done If men obey GOD in these things when he neither commandeth nor giveth approbation nor warrand for such obedience it is wil-worship when things indifferent are counted divine service it is wil-worship and idolatrie in the large sense but when things only belonging unto GOD are robbed from him and given unto creatures albeit usurpers will have the same also called GODS honour yet it is grosse idolatrie So when prelates usurpe this honour and authoritie they become idol-GODS And as GOD by his own law and by no other law commandeth children to honour their parents servants their masters so the prelates by their owne lawes and not by GODS law doe command men to obey GOD as if GOD were inferiour to prelates so they exalt themselves above GOD in giving lawes how God should bee obeyed as God giveth Lawes how parents should be obeyed 13. The communion table must stand at the uppermost part of the chancell or Church conforme to the standing of the Popish alters when the table is covered with superstitious vestiments the Priest standeth at the north side or end of the table with his back or side to the people saying the Lords Prayer with a collect After the collect he turneing to the people rehearseth the Commandements the people all the while kneeling and asking God mercy at the end of every commandement All this showeth a conformitie to Popish idolatrie for they fixe religious adoration determinatly unto the Priests act of rehearsing the commands as if God were personallie appearing and speaking out of the Priests mouth The Priest kneeleth not as if he were not a sinner neither prayeth he with the people for mercy 14. The most part of things cont●ined in this book were first decreed and ordeined by Popes the 〈◊〉 authors of antichristian idolatrie which showeth th●● the obtruders of this book do draw men unto grosse idolatrie Qu. 5. Rehearse some of these examples Ans Pope Pius the 1. brought into the church the font and the hallowing thereof as say Sabellicus and Platina 2. Pope Sixtus the 2. first ordeined altars whereat they celebrat the Lords supper Volateran Durandus 3. Pope Sixtus the 1. ordeined the corporall cloath Platina Sabellicus 4. Pope Boniface the 2. ordeined the partician between the chancell or queer and the church that the people should hear divine service in a severall place from the clergy Platina So as Moses might not come neer the bush where God appeared in the fire but should declare his reverent respect of his glorious Majestie by standing far off The sinfull laicks must have the same respect unto the sacrilegious holinesse of the clergy by standing in a severall place from them 5. Pope Clement the 1. as Papists affirme commanded all the baptized to be annoynted with oyl and crossed on the forehead Ioannes laziardus No marvell if this be true for the mysterie of iniquitie began in the dayes of the Apostles 6. Pope Honorius the 3. commanded the Sacrament to bee worshipped and kneeled unto by the people Liber conciliorum 7. Pope Fabian commanded all Christians to receive the Sacrament thrise in the year to wit at Easter Whitsunday and Christmas Eusebius Platina so the Communion was fixed superstitiously unto set times 8. Pope Zepherinus appointed that all professing Christians being of 12. or 13. yeares or upward should at least once in the year as at Easter receive the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ Platina Sabellicus Laziardus 9. Pope Clement the 1. ordeined Confirmation or Bishopping Some say it was Pope Sylvester the 1. Platina Volateranus all agree in this that some bastard Bishop of Rome ordeined it 10. Pope Gregorie the 1. and Pope