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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13438	Differing worships, or, The oddes, betweene some knights service and God's Or Tom Nash his ghost, (the old Martin queller) newly rous'd, and is come to chide and take order with nonconformists, schismatiques, separatists, and scandalous libellers. VVherein their abusive opinions are manifested, their jeeres mildly retorted, and their unmannerly manners admonished. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1640 (1640)	STC 23746; ESTC S118199	14,023	34

world From Wrong to Injury Shee 's daily hurl'd From Scylla to Charibdis flung and tost And did not grace preserve her shee were lost And yet Both those that thus doe her oppose One 'gainst the other are inveterate foes Yet both agreed maliciously entic'st Like Herod joyn'd with Pilate to kill Christ 'T was our sinnes kill'd him as my faith avowes And shall we rend and teare his sacred Spouse The Church I meane O impious shame of shames Unworthy are all such of Christian names The Ceremonies of our Church are three Which neat and decent and convenient bee Kneeling was one which I have treated on The other two I le not be long upon The Crosse in Baptisme that most Christian Signe 'Gainst which these seeming Christians doe repine About some seven and thirty yeares agone When blest King Iames did grace Great Britains Throne The first yeare over England that he reign'd Canons and Constitutions were ordain'd Wherein this Ceremony they derive From the true Church that is call'd Primitive For then the Ethnicks and the faithlesse Iewes Did both th' Apostles and the rest abuse Because they did beleeve and preach Christ dy'd And suffring on a Crosse was crucifi'd 'Mongst mis-beleevers all Christians were then Derided and esteem'd the scorne of men The Christians deeming all the world as drosse T' expresse their constant faith profest the Crosse The Iewes did mock the Christians and againe The Christians gloried in the Jewes disdaine The scornes of men not daunted them awhit The Crosse their comfort they rejoyc'd in it They lov'd the Crosse and triumph'd in the same And for the Crosse were never fear'd with shame Since then the Greeke and Latine Church combinde With great applause and one consent of minde That at Baptizings every Church and Nation Should Signe all Christned in each Congregation With that most Christian Badge to shew that we From world flesh fiend and sinfull lusts must flee And under our Redeemers Banner fight 'Gainst sinne the Devill and the worlds delight These reasons plainly doe demonstrate this This Ceremony now no new thing is Nor yet from Rome did first admittance win For from th' Apostles times it did begin Yet had it come from Rome the Roman faith Was Famous through the world th' Apostle saith And those that will have nothing that was there Must neither have Gods Church his Grace nor feare The Romish Church was Right for many yeares Till 'mongst their wheat the Envious man sow'd tares Wherefore we first began to leave her quire When shee began to mingle wrong with right Shee parted not from us but we from her And we left her in all that she did Erre As farre as shee leaves Christ 't is good that we Should so farre from her Errors sundred be The Romane Church was Right but superstition Hath made her Wrong and altred her condition Her Errors not her Essence we oppose With prayers and teares we doe resist our foes And they allow our Service and our Prayers Are good and that we leave much good of theirs But let them keep what 's good Let us be glad That we have left them only in what 's bad And for the signe o' th Crosse no man that lives Doth think it vertue unto Baptisme gives 'T is but a Ceremony us'd of old Which signes Christs sheepe and lambes into his fold All Emperours and Kings who Christ professe All Potentates and Princes great or lesse Their Hatchments Armes Escoucheons every one The figure of the Crosse is formed on Their Banners Ensignes Flaggs and golden Crownes The Crosse's figures fix'd for their Renownes And by the Ball and Crosse the world may see That underneath the Crosse the world must be And by the Crosse they shew by signes externall The Christian Faith professed is supernall All Christian Coynes doe likewise Crosses beare But those put not our Puritans in feare The sight of those to them are much delicious They only unto such are superstitious They love them with such zeale and verity They 'l never part with them in charity The Crosse's use prov'd since th' Apostles time Through th' ancient practice of the Church cald Prime And in the raigne of th' Emperour Constantine All Christians that were baptiz'd had this Signe And that from thence unto these very dayes This Ceremony hath been us'd alwayes By Christians through all Christendome so grac'd So long a time with great regard embrac'd Shall any proud Scismatique impure crew Dare offer to suppresse't or call it new It addes no vertue to the Sacrament Nor is it us'd for any such intent For after Baptisme's done our Church doth use To signe with th' Crosse which wranglers doe abuse Thus 't is a decent and indifferent thing And from it doth no superstition spring Yet not so ' indifferent any should withstand it It must be for the King and Church command it Th' Almighty doth the Higher Powers ordaine And Kings beare not the sword for nought in vaine And seeing this command is just and good It neither ought nor must not be withstood All power proceeds from God therefore submit And scape Gods judgement in obeying it We must not dare to conster mould or fashion The Scriptures to each mans interpretation And surely the unlearned and unstable To understand hard Scriptures are unable The Lords thoughts and his wayes are his not ours And high as Heaven from Earth above our powers Where God commands weake men must not dispute And where they understand nor there be mute Then as the King is Gods Leivetenant here Obey in conscience not in slavish feare And as the Church and State with paines and cares Ordain'd good Lawes obey'd for many yeares What bold audacious spirits then are they That King Church State and Lawes thus disobey Ten millions of their braines can ne're devise A book so good as that which they despise The Common Prayer I meane if they should sit Ten thousand yeares with all their Art and witt They would prove Coxcombs all and in the end Leave it as 't is too good for them to mend These are the Crew that under faire pretences By flatt'ry cause division and offences These serve not the Lord Iesus Christ a jot They are their bellyes servants well I wot With adulating speech and faire deceit They doe the hearts of simple people cheat Contentious men that doe contention crave We nor the Church of God such custome have And thus to these crosse men I have declar'd How much of old the Crosse was in regard And though the Papists use it with abuse That cannot take away the lawfull use For though a golden Idoll be a curse That makes not God well us'd to be the worse Materiall Crosses made of wood or stone Through zeale most of them are cast downe and gone From age to age the Sires to their succession Those Crosses stood t' expresse our faiths profession But when th' abuse of them began