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A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

Gerezim of the Service-book because they were captive to it and partly because the Philistims that kept it would fall upon them We come in the second place to the Ordinances Sect. blocked up by the Book as close as the Ministers we must give but a touch as our Liturgian Mass-mongers esteem more of the Service than Preaching so they justle out and keep out Preaching with it For the former let Howson speak not being ashamed to assert That Preaching is no part of divine worship Serm. on Psal 1.8 p. 78. agreeable to that Canon of the Constitution Anno. 1603. making a clear and possitive distinction between Preaching and Worship in these words In time of divine Worship or Preaching And for the latter Can. 19. we will cite but one testimony for brevities sake namely from the same Canons If any Minister having subscribed to the Articles to the Lyturgy to the Rites Ceremonies therein contained do afterward omit any thing he is liable to the penalty of suspension for one month after that if he amend not to excommunication and lastly if he continue so the third month to total deprivation they have their pattern from Pope Pius the fifth who made the same impious sanction for the Breviary that at no time nor in any case any thing thereof should be omitted yea the Congregations of London have had too much experience of Service for Sermons which exchonge is very robbery contrary to the proverb for it is ordinary with the Journey-men Levites and Letany-Priests to spin out all the time in making up that course thred of the Service that is allotted for Sermons and this they do of malice like the dogg in the manger but were it good they would never be so eager upon it for the Countrey Priests will cast it through a riddle and curtail it to the waste to gain a long afternoon for prophane sports but judge ye Honourable Senators if this be not a miserable case that Hagar should not only insult over Sarah but also thrust her out of her own house How unreasonable yea how dangerous a thing it is that the wholsome and soul-saving Word of the Lord Jesus should give place to a fardel of mens devices in the Worship of God! We come now in the third place to the People There are three things of note in every Common-wealth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the People Religion and Law the Service-book intrencheth upon all these as first upon the Law in so many particulars though we cannot name them all that it justly may be called Nomomastix a scourge to the Law we will instance in one or two particulars first by the Law of England No Clergy-man to the very Pope himself shall bear any Rule or exercise any jurisdiction Nisi in rebus spiritualibus except in spiritual things witness the second Lawyer that ever wrote of our Laws namely * Lib. 1. f. 5. n. 2. Bracton who lived in the time of King Henry the third when Popery was in the Ruffe for a little before in King John his time the Crown of England was at the Popes disposing which I alledge the rather to shew the Insolency and Impudency of our Prelates managing of the Service-book against the Law to which Book if Ministers will not conform and subscribe they out them of their Free-holds contrary to Right and Law the iniquity of which course hath been clearly manifested in Caudryes Case Another witness yet more antient appears in this particular namely * Lib. 4. f. 32. cap. 6 Glanvil the first that ever writ of our Lawes in the time of King Henry the second under whom the said Author was Lord Chief Justice and speaking of the Case of the triall of advowsons belonging as he alledgeth Ad Coronam dignitatem Regiam to the pleas of the Crown he produceth a prohibition to the spiritual Court which he calleth Curiam Christianitatis that they meddle not with the matter though it might seem collateraly to belong unto their Courts and if they should persist after their Prohibition then they are commanded by appearance to answer it in the Kings-Bench But how many of the Kings prohibitions have been slighted by the High Commission threatning those that have brought them the Case then depending having its rise from that Service-book Another instance we will cite of their incountering of the Lawes it is decreed that Ecclesiastical power Sect. shall neither imprison nor fine except in case of mutation of Penance but how many good Christians both Ministers and others have been not only Fined more than they were worth but also closely imprisoned in the nastiest dog-holes they could devise never Parting with them till their breath departed from them And what was the ground of all these illegell and cruel courses contrary to the Common and Statute Laws Stat. Art cleai c. 1. Fitzher de natu● brev fol. 51. Edw. 3. c. 6. but Non-conformity to that Service-book and Ceremonies We might be large in this Point but the Treatise will not bear it onely we Pray your Honours who are Judices Vindices Legis the Judges and Revengers of the Lawes and breaches thereof to look upon this Law-destroying-piece and to manifest that the Law of God is in your hearts with which it cannot consist cast it out of Gods House that he may delight to dwell amongst us In the second place for the Service-bookes affronting of Religion somewhat hath been said and more we have to say in the fourth Evill effect namely against God but now a little more of its malignity against the people wherein we will be briefe People are of two sorts good and bad how the better sort have suffered from this Iron Furnace it is more then manifest in spoyling of their goods loss of liberty desolating of their Families being forced to wander from place to place their nigh friends and acquaintance not daring through feare to lodge them at last forced either to forsake their native soyl and dearest friends with no small grief genio pa●riae plangente the genius of the Country to speake with Lipsius lamenting after them or if they staid by it and were catched in the Prelates clutches they told them when they petitioned they should lye till their bones rotted as Doctor Abbot then Prelate of Canterbnry said of Mr. Baits whom they stifled in the Gate-house and all this because they could not eat and swallow down to the choaking of their conscience the Arsnical Goblets of that poysonable Book Deut. 4.20 which is worse than the Iron Furnace for so the Spirit terms it Gods People came out of that but the Furnace heated for the not adoring by their Service-book as Nebuchadnezzars for not adoring of his Idol did ordinarily consume such as were cast into it so that it became like the Lions Denne whereof the Poet speaks Omnia te advorsum spectantia nulla retrorsum Many impressions of ingress but none of regress But