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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77860	Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation of the publick [brace]1. doctrine, 2. worship, [double brace] 3. rites and ceremonies, 4. church-government, and discipline, reputed to be (but indeed, not) established by law. Humbly offered to the serious consideration of this present Parliament. By divers ministers of sundry counties in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5678; Thomason E764_4; ESTC R205206	61,780	69

that which is evidently grounded upon the same yet are there sundry things more in the Body of that Book which are neither certain nor true nor evidently grounded on the Word For to omit the imperfect and corrupt Translations mentioned before in the Sheet of Paper inserted into this present Book and many more not therein cited which shew there is too much which is not the very pure Word of God it is too too palpable that in the Prayers and proper Prefaces for Christmas day and Whitsunday as they are called there are some things not only uncertain but false yea impossible to be true and therefore not evidently grounded upon the Word of God In the Collect or Prayer for Christmas day and seven days after we must in prayer say unto God that he hath given Christ this day viz. Decemb. 25. to be born of a pure Virgin On what Scripture is this viz. that he was born that very day evidently grounded and if it did so appear how can we say the same without manifest and gross lying unto God seven other days more one after another seeing he was born but once and on one day onely The like must be said of the proper Preface for that Day of which before in the Rubricks Such also is the Collect for Whitsunday which begins thus God which as upon this day c. And more clearly in the Proper Preface it is said the Holy Ghost came down this day from heaven c. And this must be said not only on that day but on six days after Can this be true when he came down in that manner but once And when that day was is very uncertain especially with us with whom Whitsunday is a Moveable Feast falling out as Lent and Easter do some years in one month some in another but never on the same day of the same month two years together What horrible abusing of God and that in very Prayers is this 8. After the Proper Prefaces at the Communion followeth this Therefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the Company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name c. Here is another uncertainty to say nothing of the untruth of it for the Scripture never speaks of more Archangels then one which is mentioned 1 Thes 4.16 This one was Michael Jude 12. to wit Christ the Prince of his people Dan. 10.21 which most if not all expound of Christ Even Him who is mentioned in Revel 12.7 where it is said There was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels and prevailed not c. It is true that the supposititious Dionysius Areopagita takes upon him in his Celestial Hierarchy to divide the Angels into three several Hierarchies but Quo warranto further then his own bare word he doth not at all so much as propound only he pretendeth to take it from Ephes 6.12 Col. 1.16 of which interpretations see Zanch. in Ephes that exposition being a meer dream 9. In one of the Prayers after the Communion it is prayed that those things which for our unworthiness we dare not and for our blindness we cannot ask vouchsafe to give us c. This is a Contradiction for while we say we dare not ask we do ask and pray him to give us Can we pray thus in faith Yes you will say when we pray for this for the worthiness of Christ as after followeth But then take this Reply If our own unworthiness causeth us not to dare to ask why do we pray elsewhere for ought else at all It is not mans worthiness but Gods promise 2 Sam. 7.18 19. and ver 25 26 27. and Psal 119.49 but especially Christs warrant and command Joh. 16.23 24. that gives us boldness to dare to ask whatsoever we need 10. In the second Prayer at publique Baptism we pray that Infants coming to Baptism may receive remission of their sins by spiritual regeneration How can this be it is true Remission of sins and regeneration flow from one and the same fountain and are both conveyed and sealed in Baptism seminally at least to those within the Covenant by the same Spirit But remission of sins is not received by or from spiritual Regeneration but by and from the bloud of Christ For without shedding of bloud there is no remission Heb. 9.22 that is to say the bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us in respect of guilt from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 It is not then by the grace of regeneration wrought in us but by the bloud of Christ shed for us that we receive remission of sins Away then with that expression in Baptism unless we be more for mans falshood then for Gods Truth 11. All that is in the Catechism touching the Sacraments was contrary to the Act of 1. Eliz. 2. added in King James his Reign but never confirmed by Parliament therefore not safely to be used although somewhat in that kind be useful and necessary yet not that model The Answer to the first Question viz. to that How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church is this Two only as generally necessary to salvation which Answer is very dubious and liable to exception For it may without racking be interpreted as a tacite admission of more as Marriage Holy Orders c. though not generally necessary for all Again where it is demanded why are Infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them that is they cannot repent nor believe which the Answer to the next preceding Questions admits to be required of persons that are to be baptized the Answer is this Yes they do perform them by their Sureties c. which is a meer tale For however the Sureties promise and engage for these in behalf of the infant and upon that account a charge after Baptism is given to the Sureties to take care that the Infant so soon as he is able to learn be taught what he by them vowed in Baptism and what further is required of him yet it was never read or heard of in Scripture that one man either repented or believed in the name and room of another whereby that other did receive all or any of the spiritual benefits exhibited and sealed in either of the Sacraments to such as are admitted to them And to say the Infants perform repentance and believing by their Sureties because the Sureties vow them both in the Infants names is a strange and untrue expression for it is not vowing by one that another shall repent and believe when he is not at present able to do either that can truely be said to be a performing of them by him that makes that vow supposing him to be a true believer which many Sureties be not 12. In the Commination appointed and enjoyned by the Rubrick before it to be used divers times in the year however a learned Doctor would shift off the objection against it by saying Non tam