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heaven_n	angel_n	dragon_n	fight_v	3,032	5	9.6120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

corrupted altered cut in pieces No we would count them our deadly enemies that should do so and also traytors to the King What an eye of indignation then should your Honours cast upon such grosse abusing of the Word of the Epistle and Will of the Omnisciont and O●nipotent God If clipping corrupting or counterfeit coyning be treason by the law how much more and in a higher degree is it to deale thus with the Word Yea and more then that to maintaine this and cause Ministers to subscribe to it being no lesse then treason against the high and mighty God Culpam deprehensam pertinacuer tueri culpa altera est Pertinaciously to maintaine a fault openly discovered is a greater fault then the former on whom whether nation or person will the Lord rest upon saith the Lord by the Prophet Esay but upon him that trembleth at my Word that is a humble soule not onely moved to obedience to it in it selfe but further out of that reverence that it beareth to the Word it will not as much as in it lieth suffer the word to be abused by others as one speakes of the Papis●s that corrupting the Fathers they rather make them their so●●es to speake what they will have them then Fathers indeed Just so doth that booke and the Champious for it make the Word thus dealt with none of Gods but their owne if a Minister adde or take away from the Service-booke it is made matter of inditement but they it seemes may adde take away alter and corrupt what they will without controulement this course gives a shrewd randcounter to our learned and Orthodox Writers against the Papists witnesse Doctor Fulke his Answer to Campian discovering the evils of the Apocrypha Gregorie Martin recoils thus upon that learned Worthy that by those words he condemned their owne Service-book which appointed those Bookes to be read Having thus proceeded against the Service-booke for its false translations additions omissions misnominations we come now to some more particular untruths in the booke and that partly by false or misapplication of Scripture partly by coyning things that have no shew or ground for them partly by establishing some Popis● expositions Lastly by confirming and pressing upon Ministers and people a heape of Popish and Idolatrous Ceremonies a touch of every one will suffice For the first be pleased to looke upon that egregiously abused place or Christ abused and dishonoured by their dealings with the place namely Rev. 12. 7. Michaeland his Angels fought against the Dragon c. which words the Booke appoints for the Collect for Michaels day where they make Christ by misapplying the place a created Angel for the place is meant of Christ neither can it agree to any other for which we have a cloud of witnesses not onely from the universall concourse of the learned and Orthodox Writers as Fathers and moderne Authours as Austin Ambrose Musculus Calvin Beza Doctor Fulke Doctor Willet and many others but also from the very name Michael proper onely to Christ who verse 10. is called Christ and further from the scope of the place to set out Christ and his Angels encountering countering Satan and his Angels and lastly other places of Scripture parallelling the truth of this sense Dan. 10. 13. and 12. 1. Thes. 4. 16. lude 9. Angels here under their Generall Christ are said to be on earth in the Church Milstant for that is meant by Heaven and here they are said to die which suiteth not with heavenly spirits the Rhemists indeed hold close to the sense of the Service-book because it is from their owne Masse-book and gives this as a reason why Michael is painted fighting with a Dragon both opinion and reason are of the like weight now for things without colour of ground what colour or ground is there for that speech in the end of the Magnificat O Ananias Azarias and Misael praise the Lord If this was the prayer of these men when they were alive what sense or reason that we should speak to them being dead more then to others For Popish tenents looke that prayer at the buriall of the dead That we with this our brother and all other our brethren departed in the true faith of thy holy Name may have our perfect consummation and blisse both in body and soule first here every one buried is a faithfull brother which cannot be said of every one no not in the judgement of charitie it is true indeed that the Priest of Newgate bid the poore condemned theeves provide money for their buriall and they needed not doubt of their salvation againe the words are an expresse Prayer and tied to be said by the Minister Now for the Ceremonies having place in Gods worship and being mans device must needs be Idols or Idolatrous actions Quicquid praeter mandatum est Idolum Whatsoever is placed in Gods worship without the commandement of God is an Idoll for none hath power to ordaine or place a Ceremonie in Christ his Church but himselfe who is King of it For instance whereof there is a remarkable place amongst many Numb. 15. 39. And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the Commandements of the Lord and do them and that ye seeke not after your owne heart and your own eyes after which you use to go a whoring where observe both the Ceremonie and signification to be from Gods owne appointment and further every device of man in Gods worship is to be avoided but against those there are divers Treatises never answered nor like to be yet it shall not be amisse by one indissoluble argument to put all the defenders of the ceremonies to it which is this That which is mans device and hath been an Idoll in Gods worship must of necessity be an Idoll still in the worship of God But the Ceremonies mentioned in the Service booke have been Idols in Gods worship as Crosse Surplice c. Erg● they must be Idols still in the worship of God The proofe of the former proposition is from instance of Abrahams grove Gen. 21. 33. but being abused to Idolatry as 2 King 17 10. Ierem. 51. 2. Esay 57. 5. then God forbiddeth his people the usage of it because it was an Idol yea commanded to destroy it Deut. 12. 13. The latter proposition none can deny Here we might adde the foule abuses of the Sacraments as Baptisme and the Lords Supper and that Iewish or Popish institution of Churching of women called Purisication and that bastardly piece of Confirmation the particular eno●mities whereof we need not stand upon they are so well knowne especially to your Honours which is a part of our happinesse againe the Treatise would be too large yet we would not have the Lent fast forgotten which the Patr●●s of our Liturgie make a religious fast abusing places of Scriptures by misapplication of Scriptures as Ioel 2. 12. Matth. 6.