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A27487	The anatomie of the service book, dedicated to the high court of Parliament wherein is remonstrated the unlawfulnesse of it, and that by five severall arguments, namely [brace] from the name of it, the rise, the matter, the manner, and, the evill effects of it : whereunto are added some motives, by all which we clearly evince the necessitie of the removeall of it : lastly, we have answered such objections as are commonly made in behalfe of it / by Dwalphintramis.	Dwalphintramis.; Bernard, John.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing B1997; ESTC S100014	61,280	81

THE ANATOMIE OF THE SERVICE BOOK DEDICATED TO THE HIGH Court of PARLIAMENT Wherein is Remonstrated the unlawfulnesse of it And that by five severall Arguments Namely From the Name of it The Rise The Matter The Manner and The Evill Effects of it Whereunto are added some Motives by all which we clearly Evince the Necessitie of the Removeall of it Lastly We have answered such Objections as are commonly made in the behalfe of it John 9. 31. Now we know that God heareth not sinn●s but if any man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A pure Prayer is Gods Temple By DWALPHINTRAMIS Printed in the yeare c. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS AND The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Honourable House of COMMONS GReat Senators though in those stormy times and Illiads of great affaires wee present to your Honours as one did to Antipater a Treatise the subject whereof is Happinesse {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} yet wee are Confident wee shall have a better Answerthen I am not at leisure Our humble suit is for the Pure Worship of the true God and the quite abolishing of the Service-Book with the Hierarchicall Maintainers of it both Enmity to Christ Kingdome this as we conceive is the prime Worke of the day saving health is the greatest good and Purity in Worship is the onely meanes to attaine the End and you are the Instruments of Instruments to advance this Worke We desire no more of your Honours but that the Reasons of our requests may be weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary ut res cum re ratio cum ratione comparetur that Matter with Matter and Reason with Reason as a Father saith may be compared and that which is found light may be cast out of the Sanctuary It suits neither with the Honour of your Place nor greatnesse of the work that you should either see with Dr. Halls eyes or with ours but that Eye-clearing word should be the light of your Eyes as we hope it is the Doctor his Charging upon Gods people with Passionate reproaches recoyles enough upon himselfe though Tully telleth us that bad Orators instead of Reasons Vse Declamations we could not have expected it from so great an Orator as the Doctor we seeke not Corban nor Mammon as our adversaries doe but the Kingdome of Christ in the Purity of his Worship which is first of all to be sought for Reformations begins at the Sanctuary You are those Eliakims that must set the Lord upon his glorious Throne and hee will make you as Nayles in a sure place to whose Honours wee shall ever he devoted In all humble Service To the well-affected READER THE Waters of Affliction not long agoe had so overflowed the Bankes of Zion that wee might truly say with the Oratour that our Contention with our Adversaries was not for Mounds and Marches only but even for the whole Possessions of our heavenly Inheritance but blessed bee our High and Mighty God who hath not onely limitted those proud waves but beaten the Authours backe with shame and confusion so that wee may now with boldnesse challenge and maintaine the Mounds and bounders of our heavenly Rights and that before such a lust and Supreme Iudicature as cannot deny Christ of any part of his Right before them we have our suit against the Service-Booke which we have clearely evinced by the Anatomizing of it to bee a ranke Impostor in Gods Worship and notwithstanding of its long possession to be a violent Intruder in the House of God upon which grounds we desire and hope to have an Injunction for Casting of it out Then a word to you Readers which are of three sorts either doubtfull in suspence who by this Treatise may bee fully resolved or such as use it who by strength of Reason may be brought off and lastly such as cannot brook it who by this ●reatise may be strengthened and incouraged not onely as a learned Author observeth because many of Gods people are of the same minde but chiefly because God is of the same minde Let us then with sound mindes and solid love quit our selves like Men as the Scripture phraseth in Contending for the Truth and the Truth shall overcome and make us free or as Iob Behold my signe that the Almighty will witnesse with me although mine adversaries write a Book against me Cap. 31. 35. AN ANATOMIE OF THE SERVICE BOOK CHAP. 1 The Preface ASloyaltie to King and Countrie is the very fortresse and wall of Politie being commanded and commended both by the Lawes of God and nature so pure and 〈◊〉 fil●d Religion is the Fountaine and Rocke of approved loyaltie yea equity charity sobrietie and loya tie are the vi●gin daughters of unspotted piety as the foresaid place witnesseth we could be large in this Theme but we hasten to the particular the Subject whereof is one of the weightiest pieces that yet hath beene presented Namely The Service-Booke which notwithstanding the present surfet of bookes yet we hope it shall finde a place in the most serious and judicious thoughts we may well call it with the Comick Fundi nostri calamitas The 〈◊〉 helming storme of the purity of worship for as it is true No Ceremony No Bishop because the Ceremonies are the pitchie wings whereon they flie so it is as true that no Service-booke no Ceremonie for that is the M●gazine of nimble Ceremonies Doctor Boyes in his epistle Dedicatory to Richard Canturburie upon his Exposition of the Liturgie complaines heavilie yet causelesly that the Liturgie is crucified betweene two Malefactors on the left hand Papists on the right hand Shismatiques meaning Puritanes both of those he calls Foxes but by a just retortion we shall set the saddle on the right horse and shall make it appeare that the puritie of Christ his worship in this land hath long been crucified between two theeves namely that superstitious and Popish Liturgie and ranke Atheisme varnished with superstition to whom we may well apply that saying of Luther They are tyed together by their tailes to do mischiefe though by their heads they seem to be contrary and though we have no time to tunne over the common places of Ath●isme and superstition and to shew how like Pilate and the superstitious lewes they concurre to the crucifying of Christ in his worship yet thus much the Scripture witnes●eth and experience proveth and we humbly desire your honours to minde it that all superstition and the purity of Gods worship ever have been and shall be at continuall warres and can no more dwell under one roofe than a cha●te Spouse and a proud inveigling Strumpet or no more in one Temple than Dagon and the Arke Superstitioest res insana Superstition saith one is a mad thing and so indeed it is for it is contrary to the wisdome of the Word and of the

wished that there were one Confession of Faith one forme of Catechisme one directory for all the parts of Gods publique Worship as Prayer Preaching administration of Sacraments c. The Arguments that they use are first from the Conjunction of spirit and presence both of great and small of Assemblies in the Court and other where where there is Onenesse of worship but by the contrary there is division where the worship is diverse Secondly Vnity of worship will extinguish those Nick-names as Puritanes and Shismaticks put upon professors Thirdly This will make the Ministers of both Nations with face of face labour strenuously and cheerfully to build up the Body of Christ Fourthly and lastly This will break the back of the Recusants hope of bringing Rome into England all which works strongly for peace the sense whereof we cite though not the very words But if this unity of Worship be not say the Commissioners there is no unity in Polity or Church to be looked for for as all the former combustions and stormy tempests formerly arose from that Popish Service-booke borne in upon them whereby all the three States were much indangered so they professe in plain termes that their Reformation so dearly bought shall again be spoiled and defaced from England and whatsoever peace shall be agreed upon they do not conceive how without Reformation it shall ever be firm and durable for that Service Governement and Officers being none of Christs but the maine Evill and the cause of all Evill in the three Nations that Maxime observed by the Commissioners we may feare will prove too true the same causes will not fayle to produce the same Effects witnesse Symeon and Levyes digging through the wall that is the present conspired Plots of Treason like to blow up all if they be not hindered even when you and your Brethren are making up the breach Now as we are tyed by Oath to the preservation of this Peace according to our Power We can look for no Peace with God nor blessing from God if we give way to that or suffer that according to our power that breaketh this peace They say in the Preface of the Ceremonies that without Ceremonies it is impossible to keep Order or quiet Discipline in the Church So we reply that Mans Ceremonies in Gods Worship will spoyle the peace and quietnesse both of Discipline and Worship witnesse the putting of the Arke upon the Philistimes Cart though it was a new one Erasmus telleth us quòd mala non sunt tantùm abolenda sed etiam quae speciem mali in se habent things evill of themselves are not only to be abolished but those that have in them Appearance of Evill In all this Noble Senators We take not upon us to put uncouth glosses upon your Edicts but under favour we use the words without forcing to overturne that which crosseth the Truth and Peace of Religion and State as Meanes conduce to the End so impediments frustrate the end if they be not removed And now since under favour We have presumed to inlarge our selves in this point of Peace We beg leave of your Honours to speake a word or two of the Improbabilities of Peace here among our selves without removall of that stumbling block the Service-Booke People can worse be without the Ordinance then without Liberties Lives and Being When Pompey the Great was about to supply Rome with food in a great ●amine the Master of the Ship told him when he went aboard a great Storme appearing that he could not sayle and live Pompey replyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} There is necessity of Sayling but not of Living and in this case what shall they doe for with this Mock-ordinance or Will-worship of the Service-booke they dare not joyne There are such multitudes of people saith Smectymnu●● that distaste this Booke that unlesse it be taken a course withall there is no hope of any mutuall agreement between Gods Ministers and their people We will say no more of this but let the sudden tumult raised by that make-bate Service-Book in Scotland be a seasonable Caveat to us and all other Nations to strike with Authority lest that which should be done with the Right hand be done unhappily with the Left hand Here might be place for another Motive namely from the reward sed recte fecisse praemium to doe nobly is reward enough God imployeth not man propter indigentiam sed propter munificentiam so much for any need of him as for honouring of him by that imployment up then as the Lord biddeth you your Honour shall be blazoned through the world you shall be called the Saviours upon Mount Zion in setting Christ on his Throne and the Kingdome shall be the Lords Answer of the Surplice WEe had almost forgotten to say somewhat of one ragge of the Ceremonies namely the Surplice of all the Idolatrous Rites not the least yea worse we dare averre than that Plague sore Clout which was sent as should appeare to infect Master Pym and the rest of the House for this ragge is so infectious in Gods worship that many thousands of Gods people dare not joyne with it and that upon good grounds as shall appeare for as it hath been argued against all the rabble of the Ceremonies it is mans device and hath beene an Idoll in Gods worship Therefore in the worship of God it must be an Idoll still The Antecedent no man will deny for it hath beene the Master Idoll in worship amongst the Papists sanctifying all other Idols and without which it is unlawfull to officiate The Consequent is as clear from induction of particulars as hath beene instanced from groves and things of that nature yea from the Brasen Serpent though of God his Institution now according to the rule of Art either let the Defendant give an instance extra propositum besides the thing in question or acknowledge the truth of the Consequent without contradiction This hath beene a grand Instrument of much mischiefe against the Ministers and People of God as we can shew at large depriving the people of their faithfull Ministers and the Minister and theirs of all meanes of livelihood The unlawfulnesse of this Babylonish Garment will further appear if we looke to the originall whence we have it Wee must either have it from heathen Rome which in her Idolatrous service did Apishly imitate Aaron his garments as it is instanced in the raigne of Numa 800 yeares after the Law or we must have it from the Druides the mad Heathen Priests amongst the Gaules and Britaines or from the Antichristiā Rome as we have indeed it being one of the Popish Ceremonies retained or lastly from the Priestly attire of Aaron which Heathen and Popish Rome hath impiously followed denying thereby the Lord Jesus to be come in the flesh who with his graces was typi●●ed out by those godly and beautifull garments which being shadowes are done away and Christ the