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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

too low they know not the true Pedigree of our Common-Prayers which is older by many dayes then Poperie it selfe and was borne before that Schisme came in For this I would have Wife men understand we doe not claime any thing in our Church from the Church of Rome but above them We doe not like the Israelites borrow any Jewells of the Aegyptians but like Laban to Jacob we search their houses to see what Jewells they have of ours which were lest us by the Primitive Fathers And dare be bold to say as Laban Gen. 31.43 with a farre better title These Ceremonies be my Ceremonies these Prayers my Prayers as he of his Daughters c. For I will never yeeld that we derive from them that we are the Apes of Rome or consent with them in any thing but what they reserve from the Primitive Churches and that belongs to us likewise To conceive this aright no man can be ignorant that doth but listen how the world went befor us that we and they Protestants and Papists were all one Family of Christ one true Church heretofore there were no such names and distinctions heard of nor Schismes conceived but lay in one bosome of a Church and served God with joynt hearts and minds This Union was from the Apostles times downewards to the Primitive Fathers To take all along with us now doe you think there were not Liturgies and Formes of Service then Yes no phrase more common among the Ancient Writers then to talke and recite their Liturgies S. James Athanasius Basil and Chrysostomes Liturgie c. Well then in those Formes of Prayer which the Father 's used we were both friends one Family still But afterwards the Israelites fell out strove and would not be parted both sides hasted from one another We Mark 14.52 like the Young-man in the Gospel that night Christ was taken fled away naked and lest all our Formes and Ceremonies behind us Exod. 2. Gen. 28. like Moses quitted the Court of Aegypt and went into the Land of Midian like Jacob from Esaus fury fled and dwelt in Syria by reason of the Persecution All this while the Liturgies of the Fathers by them was utterly corrupted and patched up into a Monster of Superstition by us they were almost lost like the Booke of the Law in Hilkiahs dayes 1 King 22. v. ● 2 King 7.15 it was hid in a cornet and all our observances touching Gods Worship like the Syriaks vessels were cast away for haste and feare of Persecution At last when Religion and Reformation began to looke out againe and beare a face wee began to bethinke our selves where once wee were and what the Church had when wee were both friends And that wee challenge now as a Legacie from our fore fathers not an imitation and courtesie from a Brother As if a Jew should lose his ancient Rites and Prescripts of Moses as at this day much is lost in many Synagogues by desolation of that people yet comming into the Empire of the Turke hee may espie many of his Rites and Legall Ceremonies though much abused and thence seeing his priviledges and what once hee had may purifie and compose to himselfe this forme of worship you could not the Jew in this case be said to borrow his Religion from the Turke but Moses So wee by looking on their Liturgies see our way the better by their darknesse to arrive at last at the primitive formes of Service So that I may say of our Reformers and composers of this Worke Gen. 42.15 as Josephs Brethren pleaded for their honestie Thy servants are no Spyes Hereby it shall be proved that wee are true men by Antiquitie not Noveltie not by Benjamin but Jacob wee have a Father an old man the ancient Fathers of the Church And when I see our Prayers filled with Scriptures Saint Ambrose Athanasius Chrysostome the Apostles and Nicene Fathers I cannot be so dull but beleeve that it is older then Poperie and lived before that Schisme the substance and matter if not the contrivance Many learned men have shewed the antiquitie of our Church Rites and Service therefore will I say no more here But onely excuse the ignorant in their conceits that are apt to foster strange Jealousies of that which is out of their reach and older then their idle braines The Jewes had a conceit that Melchisedech had no Parents because they knew them not in their time so people beleeve this Booke to be a Bastard because they were not the Gossips But the Face bespeakes whose Child it is and proclaimes it as like the Fathers Liturgies as unlike the formes of Rome Secondly there is no point nor passage in all Divine Service that is Poperie or favours a Tenent of the Church of Rome I prove it by this Argument That forme which is taken out of Scripture almost to a syllable is not Poperie for it the Scripture cannot defend it from Poperie I have no more to say But our forme is so Ergo the Minor is true as I have proved by an Induction of every part The Conclusion followes that it is no Poperie at all And ' though all Heretikes make Scripture their Asylam and shrowd their Lyes under the wings of Truth yet there is difference still betwixt Scripture speaking and Scripture made to speake Wee doe not goe about to force a Text to countenance our forme by corrupting the Originals and Translations but the Bible freely and naturally offers it selfe to defend us in our Liturgie I know there have beene many Objections and Exceptions raysed to make a piece of Poperie appeare out of Baptisme Burtall Letanie c. But they have found a Grave by abler Champions then I if any chance to stirre hereafter I doubt not but there will be a * Mahanaim Gen. 32.2 An Host of God to meet them Thirdly there seemes to be too much affinitie betwixt their forme and ours in Actions Devotion Rites Ceremonies Vessels Orders Crossing Kneeling Surplis Table Font Bishops c. wee dwell too neare them they looke too like us or wee like them These men are sickly peevish in my conceit that would rather have a face like an Asse or no body then an enemie one whom they love not But I will not quarrell about the complexions Wherein soever our Services conspire Rites Actions Ceremonies Vessels Orders c. They are Ancient Innocent Indifferent Which is enough to quit us in the Judgement of all Reformed Divines that write upon Ceremonies of the Church First They are Ancient Jer. 6.16 we doe not goe a begging for them England is called the Ape of Nations for the fashions of the body but for those of Religion I beleeve she is her selfe and waits on none but God and Reason Secondly They are Innocent if a man in the Law of God had taken a woman Captive of the Gentiles Nation Deut. 21. v. 12. in the Warres of Israel yet he might shave her head and