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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

And Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his Censer and put fire therein and put Incense thereon and offered strange fire before the Lord WHICH HE COMMANDED THEM NOT. And there went out Fire from the Lord and devoured them and they dyed before the Lord. Lev. 10.1 2. In this high-provoking act of the Sons of Aaron for which the severe jealousie of God brake out immediatly upon them in a consuming fire there was no disobedience to any Command I mean unto any particular or express Command of God he had no where forbad them at least explicitly or directly to offer ordinary or common fire which is termed strange fire because the Commandment of God knew it not in their Priestly Ministrations nor is any disobedience in this kind charged on them by the holy Ghost nor so much as mentioned as any cause of that terrible execution which was suddenly done by the immediate hand of God himself upon them their only crime and guilt was that they offered strange fire before the Lord WHICH HE COMMANDED THEM NOT they presumed to worship God otherwise than he had appointed or commanded The sin of Uzzah in putting forth his hand to stay the Ark for which he likewise suffered the same measure from the provoked jealousie of God being by him struck dead in the place was of like nature and consideration For neither did he therein transgress any express Command of God for he had no where commanded that none but the Levites should touch or meddle with the Ark only he had commanded that the Levites should wait upon the Tabernacle with what appertained to it So that the provocation in his sin also only was his intermedling with the holy things of God relating to his Worship without his Command And thus David upon the ground that we maintain namely that all Worship uncommanded or unappointed by God is unlawful and displeasing unto him or which is the same that his order and appointment are requisit to legitimate any Worship or holy Service proved it to have been unlawful for any other to carry the Ark of God but the Levites only None saith he 1 Chron. 15.2 ought to carry the Ark of God but the Levites for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the Ark of God and to minister unto him for ever It was unlawful for all other persons the Levites excepted to carry the Ark of God not because he had prohibited them by the letter or direct import of any Law to carry it but because he had not chosen or appointed them as he had the Levites Again Secondly Of the same or like import with the texts already cited are all those also in which God stigmatizeth the Worship which men performed unto him with this character of his hatred that it was of their own chusing or devising after the imagination of their own heart c. In all such places as these which are not a few he asserteth unto himself the appointment of his own Worship as belonging prerogative-wise unto himself and wherein he will not indure any creature to have part and fellowship with him For otherwise as we reasoned before no Worship were reprovable simply upon this score that it is of mens own chusing or devising We shall not stand to argue any of these places as we did most of the other the inference or result now mentioned from the general tenour of them all is pregnant and convincing enough And if it be an hateful brand upon any form of Worship to be of humane extraction or to call any man or any numbers of men Father how much more hateful and provoking in the fight of God must it needs be to attempt to bind any such spurious and base worship upon the generous and heaven-born consciences of the sons and daughters of God or indeed upon the consciences of any men with the hard cords of Imprisonments Confiscations Banishments or what other Cruelties Satan shall please to suggest unto men for the promoting of his worship and service in the world under the delusive pretence of the Worship and Service of God But places of the late mentioned character are these with their fellows And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the Commandments of the Lord and do them and that ye seek not AFTER YOUR OWN HEART AND YOUR OWN EYES after which ye use to go a whoring Numb 15.39 Take heed unto your selves that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other Gods and worship them and then the Lords Wrath be kindled against you c. Deut. 11.16 17. And it cometh to pass wh●n he heareth the words of this Curse that he blesseth himself in his heart saving I shall have peace though I walk IN THE IMAGINATION OF MINE OWN HEART That is in such a way of worshipping God as I conceive to be pleasing to him as appears by the mention of God's Jealousie in the words following to add drunkenness to thirst The Lord will not spare him but the Anger of the Lord and his Jealousie shall smoke against that man c. Deut. 29.19 20. So he Jeroboam offered upon the Altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month even in the month VVHICH HE HAD DEVISED OF HIS OWN HEART c. 1 King 12.33 He that burneth Incense is as if he blessed an Idol yea they have CHOSEN THEIR OWN VVAYES and their soul delighteth in their abominations Isa 66.3 From whence it is very observable and maketh with an high hand for our present purpose 1. That it is incident to men to chuse wayes and methods of their own i. e. of their own devising for the worshipping of God in stead of and before the wayes prescribed by himself for that purpose 2. That these ways of mens own devising and choosing are their abominations that is ways for which they must answer to God as for things that are abominable in his sight or at least may be yea and sometimes are such 3. And lastly that notwithstanding such ways be their abominations yet they are wont animitùs deperire to love and delight in them with their whole soul and to be enflamed with zeal over them as the Scripture testifies in many places and our own experience in the importune and bloody Promoters of the Service-Book doth confirm as if God himself loved and delighted in them as much as they There are many more texts and passages of like notion with those now cited and which offer the right hand of fellowship unto the Doctrine which hath been made good by them but those already mentioned I judge abundantly sufficient for the eviction of this Truth That all worship of humane device or contrivement is of an unpleasing resentment with God and will be cast as dung in the faces of those that shall offer it unto him of how sweet a savour soever it may be unto

prodigies of mischief whereunto our unhappy Service-Book hath been highly accessary we may be groundedly confident that they would never have found either heart or hand to lift up toward the promoting of it But in them is fulfilled the latter part of this old Distich 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good Fruit on bad Intendments sometime grows And from good meanings sometimes Evil flows 5. And lastly upon the present account It is not unworthy his consideration whose heart is firmly set within him to please God in worshipping him that the Liturgy or Prayer-Book into which we are yet enquiring is like unto a Net which seldom encloseth any good Fish but multitudes and great sholes of those that are bad It is sufficiently known that the great body or bulk of those that go wondering after it and can savour no other kind or manner of Worship at least none comparatively but that which the tradition of this Book teacheth them are more generally men and women of one or more of these sad characters ignorant prophane superstitious time-servers fearful unbelieving haters of those that are good Drunkards Adulterers Extortioners Covetous c. And though the proportion of one of a City and two of a Tribe of persons of Conscience and truly fearing God at whose Judgements and Consciences the Convictions of the Unlawfulness of that Worship are not yet arrived may be found in that Crowd yet it is hardly credible that such as these should at any time partake in it with any great contentment or good apayment of Soul Persons of crazy and ill-aboding Consciences especially if they be as well outwardly as inwardly obnoxious are therefore in all likelihood so impotently devoted to the Book and Prayers we speak of because these take pity on them and intreat them gently according to the common saying Missa non mordet THE MASS BITES NOT It is not like unto the Spirit of God in the mouth of his able faithful and zealous Ministers of a searching expostulating convincing sharply-reproving nature the sound of it is not like that of Thunder to awaken or terrifie men but as the noise which a soft and gentle stream makes among Pebble Stones which disposeth unto sleep Now amongst many Arguments which war strongly against the said Book and Worship dictated therein this methinks should do thorow execution upon the Judgements and Consciences of those that are spiritually-minded and make treasure of the Love of God viz. That they that are so zealously addicted unto them even to the hatred and persecution of those that in the use of them cannot say Amen with them are more generally if not universally persons much estranged from the life of God and affectionate lovers of this present world For it is no light presumption of the Carnality of a Worship and that it is such as pleaseth not God when it so pleaseth his Enemies for such are all those that live not in subjection to his Laws Luk. 19.27 Rom. 8.7 and withal is of an uncouth and horrid taste unto those that love him and keep his Commandments It is a sign of the voice of a stranger and not of Christ when the Sheep of Christ do not hear it but slee from it John 10.4 5 27. And the reasoning of this Apostle 1 Joh. 4.5 about matter of Doctrine is as demonstrative in the case of Worship now before us They are of the World i. e. Teachers of whom I admonish you that you take heed are of the same genius with the generality of men in the world who love Ease Pleasure Riches Honour c. therefore speak they of the World or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of or from the world that is they enquire and observe how matters go in the world that so they may know how to promote their worldly Interest and accordingly they frame their Doctrines and Teachings And the World heareth them that is persons worldly-minded fall in readily and greedily with them their Doctrine so well suiting their Principles Dispositions and Desires So when a Form or Method of Worship for there is the same reason of Worship and Doctrine as to the consideration in hand as was lately hinted shall generally court and comport with the Humours Fancies and Consciences such as they are of loose ignorant superstitious and earthly-minded-men it is an argument concluding above all peradventure that the complexion frame and constitution of it answereth the genius temper and spirit of these men much like as in Solomon's resemblance face answereth to face in the water That manner or kind of Worship which God seeketh and delighteth in is not like to rellish with the corrupt taste of sensual and carnal men any whit better then Paul's preaching did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst those that were lost or rather perishing that is in imminent danger of being lost to whom it was the savour of death unto death 2 Cor. 2.16 that is it filled their Consciences ever and anon with strong resentments of the wrath of God coming out against them like an armed man to destroy them for their sins It is recorded of Antisthenes that when the unworthy multitude contrary to their wonted manner of dealing by vertuous and worthy men commended him he expressed himself in this question 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alas what evil have I done If the Common-Prayer-Book did no evil we may very reasonably judge that the great host of the present Proselytes and Admirers of it would leave it as solitary as a Beacon on an hill And it was the right saying of another Recti argumentum est pessimis displicere it is no light argument of the goodness whether of a person or thing when those that are very bad are displeased with either Nero's hatred of the Gospel was by ancient Christians construed as a testimony of the excellency and worth of it Certainly the right and approved Worship or way of worshiping God will never make glad the hearts of such a Generation of men as now rejoyce in and glory over the Book of Common-Prayer But 2. Though these general considerations relating onely to the matter and form or substance of this Book unto which many others of a more particular import and drawn from the unmeet expressions and passages in it which are very numerous might be added upon the same account are too considerable and weighty to be easily removed off the Judgements and Consciences of serious and considering-men yet the little finger of the imposition of it and of the Worship so called directed and held forth in it is by many degrees heavier then the loyns of a thousand such considerations and of a more tremend aspect in the eye of every Conscience that is enlightened duely and clearly to apprehend the nature and consequence of it For suppose the property of the Book should be so far altered that whereas it is now like the politick Body of the Jewish State in Isaiah's days The whole head is sick and