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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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-Prayer Pray ye All. Secondly The Excellencie of set formes of 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