A Minister to preach in his own charge without a Licence or in a cloake 2. A Father at Baptisme to offer to the Minister his own child and undertake for the Infants education and so prevent an high presumption of others who may be witnesses but not undertakers promising for the child that which they neither can nor ever intend to do 3. Some going to another Parish to hear Sermons which at baptisme they are exhorted unto when they have none at home 4. Some meeting together to read the Scriptures and good Bookes allowed to be printed to sing Psames and pray together 5. A poor man and in need to work vpon an holy day for reliefe of his poor family 6. A Minister or a Deacon having unworthily taken those callings upon them to leave the same upon trouble of Conscience because they find themselves to be utterly unfit and to betake themselves to some more fit course of life 7. One for having his Hat on 8. An other for not standing up at the Creed others for not bowing or not putting the Hat off which they may not have on more at the name of Jesus than at Lord and Saviour Christ These and other such like who dare to present for sins offences crimes and faults before God And yet Church-wardens and Sidemen do so to the grievous wronging of their own souls Oh take pitty take pitty of this their perjury and sinful swearing bringing a curse upon them That a Bishop in his visitations do go abroad to visit and not force all Ministers and many old men to come to him many miles when he is but one and they very many for this is a making of them to visit him and not he them but all this is to spare his own pains and his own purse that which he gets at such Visitations may be his without any expences Provident Prelates SECT VI. Of the Praelatical Churches THe Praelatical Churches besides their private Chappels are the great and vast Cathedrals or other Collogiate Churches Dependents of these 26. Great Deanes next unto Bishops with their Attendents and Servants 544. Canon Residents and Prebendaries The rest also are many hundreds As Their Vicars Peticanons Singing men and boyes Choristers Organists Gospellers and Epistlers Virgers and who else appertain to this idle and fat fraternity A 300. or 400. Thousand pounds yearly in lands Rents Leases and other Revenues and profits do thereto belong Quaere Whether such idle Droans are worthy of so much for their service such as it is Whether Jesus Christ cannot be better served with farr less cost and better pleased Whether all these thousands might not be better employed to greater good in the training up of thousands in divine and humane Learning As thus 1 That never a Dean have any Pastoral charge but be continuall resident at the Cathedral Church being a godly and learned Doctour there to read twice or thrice a week a Divinity Lecture and interpret the Scriptures II. That all the Canon residents be also without Pastoral charges and that they be learned grave and godly Divines or else others in their stead chosen out of the Universities to assist the Doctour Deane in and about spiritual and divine exercises daily to study controversies cases of conscience and some special Tracts of Divinity c. that other Ministers in the Countrey may come thither for help and for better information of judgement as need shall require III. That the greater part of the rest of the Prebendaries be turned into special selected Schollers Graduates out of either University such as for natural gifts their Learning in Tongues and Arts and pious disposition by grace do give very good hopes to become good Divines and here trained up under the Deane and the other Divines for the ministery IV. That seven of the best Prebends be allotted to seaven learned men to become Schoolemasters to teach Scholers Every Schoolemaster to be accurately skilful in one Art and secondly to have ability withal to teach the said Art to his Scholers with some speed and dexterity The 1 To teach to write very fair 2 To teach Musick 3 To teach Grammer only 4 To teach Rhetorick 5 To teach Poetry 6 To teach the Greek tongue 7 To teach the Hebrew That their Schollers may come thus furnished to the Universities there to learn Logick and other Arts and to take the degrees of Schooles Every Master must make known the aptness and untowardnesse of every Scholler that the Master may not be troubled with uncapable boyes V. That the Vicars Peticanons singing men and boyes with the rest be turned into Schollers ingenious Lads pickt out here and there from among mean mens children to be brought up under the aforenamed Schoolmasters to be after sent to the Vniversities and maintained there by some Revenues belonging to the Cathedrals that so they may be taken thence if they prove not unworthy and brought back again as places be void to be trained up for the ministry By all these in the Cathedral Churches Gods publick worship Morning and Evening might be performed And by this pious and profitable transformation of these Cathedrals 1. When any Benefice falls void hither may the Patrons come for a learned and godly Minister taking their choise 2. If any Pastour happen to be sick or have just occasion to be absent hither may he send for one to supply his place for preaching and prayer he till be well or return home Were this so happily done who could but approve thereof if godly and wise hearted The humble Petition THat the goodly Revenues belonging to these Cathedrals be employed to some such good and godly use as the wisdome of the state shall think fit for better advancement of Gods glory Learning and Religion then now they be That the so many needles Prebendaries might not be allowed nor to take up so great summes as some do for preaching 2. or 3. Sermons a year either by themselves or by some other whom they can hire for a noble or an angel a time That the so many gifts of livings in the hands of Bishops Deanes Archd. and the rest be looked into for better bestowing thereof then they commonly be SECT VII Of the Praelatical Service THe Praelatical Service is the Cathedral service consisting in these things 1. In a long wearisome Liturgie read after a finding manner syllable and words drawn out unto a tedious length wh ch Liturgy is framed out of 3 Romish books the Breviary Purtuis and the mass book so as King James said of it that its an ill said Masse from which it needeth purging and from some vain repetitions and from a corrupt translation of holy Scriptures and other abuses thereof 2. In an unedifying singing and piping on Organs 3. In superstitious crynging to the name Jesus towards the Altar towards the East 4. In a formal observation of Habits Surplesses Hoods Copes variety of gestures and ceremonious devotious devised by men Quaere Whether such a
Canon in stead of remedying their vices decreed that the Commutation of Penance shall not be without the Bishops privity XXIV The general abuse of that great ordinance of Excommunication which GOD hath left in his Church to be used as the last and greatest punishment the Church can inflict upon obstinate and great offenders and that the Prelates and their officers who of right have nothing to do with it do daily excomunicate men either for doing that which is lawful or for vain idle and trivial matters as working or opening a shop on a Holi-day for not appearing at every beck upon their summons not paying a fee or the like yea they have made it as they do all other things a hook or instrument wherewith to empty mens purses and to advance their own greatnesse and so that sacred ordinance of God by their perverting of it becomes contemptable to all men and seldome or never used against notorious offenders who for the most part are their favorites XXV Yea further the pride and ambition of the Prelates being boundlesse unwilling to be subject to either man or Laws they claim their Office and Jurisdiction to be Jure divino exercise Ecclesiastical authority in their own names and Rights and under their own Seals and take upon them temporal dignities places and offices in the Common-wealth that they may sway both swords XXVI Whence follows the taking Commissions in their own Courts and Consistories and where else they sit in matters determinable of Right at Common Law the putting of Ministers upon Parishes without the Patrons and peoples consent XXVII The imposing of Oaths of various and trivial Articles yearly upon Church-wardens and Side-men which without perjury unlesse they fall at jars continually with their Ministers and neighbours and wholly neglect their own calling XXVIII The exercising of the Oath ex Offâ—â—io and other proceedings by the way of Inquisition reaching even to mens thoughts the apprehending and detaining of men by Pursivants the frequent suspending and depriving of Ministers fining and imprisoning of all sorts of people breaking up of mens houses and studies taking away mens Books Letters and other writings seizing upon their Estates removing them from their callings separating between them and their wives against both their wills the rejection of prohibitions with threatnings and the doing of many other out-rages to the utter infringing the Lawes of the Realm and the Subjects liberties and arraigning of them and their families and of later time the Judges of the Land are so awed with the power and greatnesse of the Prelates and other wayes promoted that neither prohibition Habeas Corpus or any other lawful remedy can be had or take place for the distressed Subjects in most cases onely Papists Jesuites Priests and such others as propagate Popery or Arminianism are countenanced spared and have much liberty and from hence followed among others these dangerous consequences I. FIrst the general hope and expectation of the Romish part that their superstitious Religion will ere long be fully planted in this Kingdom again and so they are encouraged to persist therein and to practice the same openly in divers places to the high dishonour of God and contrary to the laws of the Realm II. Secondly the discouragement and destruction of all good Subjects of whom all multitudes both Clothiers Merchants and others being deprived of their Ministers and over-burthened with these pressures have departed the Kingdom to Holland and other parts and have drawn with them a great part of manufacturé of Cloth and Trading out of the land into other places where they reside whereby wooll the great staple of the Kingdom is become of small value and vends not trading is decayed many poor people want work Sea-men lose employment and the whole land much impoverished to the great dishonour of this Kingdom and blemishment to the government thereof III. The present wars and commotions hapned between his Majesty and his Subjects of Sâ—otland wherein his Maiesty and all his Kingdom are indangered and suffer greatly and are like to become a prey to the common Enemy in case the wars go on which we exceedingly fear will not onely go on but also encrease to an utter ruine of all unlesse the Prelateâ— with their dependancies be removed out of England and also they and their practises who as we under your Honours favour do verily believe and conceive have occasioned the quarrel All which we humbly refer to the consideration of this honourable Assembly desiring the Lord of Heaven to direct you in the right way to redresse all these evils FINIS THE ANATOMIE OF THE Common Prayer-Book Wherein is Remonstrated the Unlawfulness of it and that by Five several Arguments Namely From the Name of it The Rise The Matter The Manner and The Evil Effects of it John 9.31 Now we know that GOD heareth not Sinners but if any man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A pure Prayer is Gods Temple By DWALPHINTRAMIS Printed in the year 1661. TO The Well-affected READER Christian Reader OUt of a Respect to the Glory of the great God who is a God that will he worshipped by true Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth as also with a Desire of thy eternal good here is presented this following Treatise which was formerly Penned by some Eminent Orthodox Divines Late Non-Conformists wherein are many solid Arguments and Reasons declaring and clearly proving the Book of Common-Prayer or Liturgie to be wholly taken out of the Masse-book As first The Common-Prayers are taken out of the Breviary Secondly The Administration of the Sacraments Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick are taken out of the Ritual or Book of Rites Thirdly The Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels are out of the Masse-book Fourthly The Ordination of Archbishops Bishops and Ministers is out of the Roman Pontifical So that the Service-book being thus unmasked is plainly evinced to be a rank Impostor in Gods Worship and notwithstanding its long Possession it is even a violent intruder in the House of God Then a Word to you Readers which are of Three sorts either doubtful in suspense vvho by this Treatise may be fully resolved or such as use it and Idolize it by strength of Reason may be brought off and that such as cannot brook it may be encouraged not only as a Learned Author observeth because many of Gods People are of the same mind but chiefly because God is of the same mind Lastly How much doth it concern all such who have lifted up their hands to the Most High God in a Solemn League and Covenant for the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Prophaness and the Reformation of Religion in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the Word of God and the best Reformed Churches to contend earnestly for the Truth and for purity in Gods Worship This being the prime work of the day and of this
could not have hatched the Dragon that was sent unto Scotland The Superstitions of this Bulk are such and so many that if Paul were here and saw them as hee saw that of Athens hee would undoudtedly cry out Act. 17. Men and Brethren I see that in all things you are too Superstitious We may better apply that Speech of Tacitus concerning Superstition 22 Annal lib. 14 not exitialis hurtful or dangerous but execrabilis cursed and execrable and so it is indeed both to whole Churches and other People whose eyes God hath opened to see the evil of it which wee are confident you do Act. 25 27. and I say as Paul said to King Agrippa Wee know you beleeve it But as it seemed unreasonable to Festus to send Paul a Prisoner without the charge laid against him Act. 26.27 so we neither will nor dare charge any thing upon this Lyturgy which wee shall not Prove nor desire the outing of it without good and sound Reasons for our desire and therefore wee humbly and heartily desire your Honours to take into your consideration these five Reasons following The first is from the Name wherein the Champions of the Service-book agree with the Papists calling it the Masse The second is from the Ground of it The third is from the Matter of it The fourth is from the Manner of it The fifth is from the Effects of it to which wee will adde some Motives CHAP. II. Of the Name FOr the First the Service-book-men and the Papists do mutually interchange the Name of Lyturgy and Masse the latter call their Masse by the name of Lyturgy the Jesuite Sanctes Professeth That the most convenient Name that can be given to the Masse Liturg. p. 8. is that of Lyturgy or Service not but that the word Lyturgy is of good use for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to officiate in sacred Worship witness Act. 13.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they were ministring unto the Lord. Where the Rhemists vaunt of a coined liberty Ro 15.16 to translate the word saying Masse which were to cross the truth and all the learned upon the place as Oecumenius Theophylact and Chrysostome yea and their own Expositors as Casetan and others the Apostle rendreth it by another Word of the same value 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but howsoever they scrape kindness to a word of use till they abuse it yet who knoweth not that knoweth any thing that their Liturgie is the very Lethargie of Worship And what difference between our Liturgie and theirs Truly nothing but a pair of sheers and putting ours in a Coat of another tongue as shall afterward abundantly appear only ours hath not all that theirs hath but ours hath nothing to a word but out of theirs And thence it is that our Lyturgian Patrons do meet the Jesuite mid-way by owning the name of Masse to our Service-Book Sunday n◠sabbath Witness Pocklington who calls the second Service just the same with the Masse so Cozens witness Master Smart's Sermon and not only so in relation to the second Service Antic p. 10. but even in regard of the whole Bulk as Pocklington in the end of his Altare c. and Mountague In name you see then there is an unanimous agreement and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 names are the very images of things for their agreement in matter manner in all things of importance we shall make it as evident as the former in the mean time what reason is there that we should groan still under the burthen of a Lyturgie born in upon us under the Name and Nature of a Masse which is nothing but a Mass of Idolatry and an Idol of Abomination The name is a name of Blasphemy out of the Devils Cabula as we take it For what language it is or what it signifieth for any thing we know was never yet known the Hebrews call their Tribute by the name of Missa witnesse that place in Exodus laying out the oppression of the Israelites by Pharaoh and his Princes or Officers Exod. 1.11 who are called Officers of the Tribute set over Gods people the Word Tribute in the first language is Missa of thé word Messas as the Learned observe which signifieth to melt both the name and Etimologie suit very well with the Popish Masse for it hath melted away true Religion and Spiritual devotion and as it inslaveth the souls of people by leaving them naked as Solomon saith of the Preaching of the Word Prov. 29.18 for so the word signifieth so it is made an engine to screw out the bowels of their estates wasting melting mens substance as the snow against the Sun besides the universal experience of the extortion of the Mass where ever it beareth sway we may instance it too fully in this Island where infinite Masses of Money hath been melted away within these few Yeares without any profit to the King or Subject but to the great prejudice of both for the exhausting of the Subject is the emptinesse of the King Tiberius could say Adulterinum est aurum quod cum subditorum lachrymis exprimitur it is a base kind of Gold that is squeezed out with the tears of the subject but who hath cast the State in this consumption of mony Who hath made the hearts to ake and the Souls to groan of honest Housholders when they have been forced it may be to part with more than they had Who in time of Peace and under good Laws have caused mens Houses and Fields forcibly to be entred their Goods to be carried away Who have caused the Kings liege People and that for obeying the Laws of God man to be carried to stifling Prisons contrary to the Laws of the Land and priviledge of the Subject Who have caused some to be Tormented and Tortured with unparalel'd cruelty both for kind and continuance Lastly Who have been the Incendiaries or Firebrands to melt away if they could the Kings love to his Subjects and the Subjects true loyalty to the King who we say but these Lyturgian Lords and their Jesuited confederates together with their Popish and hellishly prophane Priests Officers and Appendices to prove these or any of them were to shew a Man the Sun and many sheets could not hold the Particulars But to the purpose in hand the Service or Masse-Book as they call it is the main engine it is the Saddle and we to speak a homely Truth are the Asses for Englishmen are called by the Jesuites the Popes Asses the Hierarchie their Adherents are our riders the Saddle hath so pinched and galled our Backs that we know not how to take on the burthen of the Lord Jesus though it be very light our riders have with Spur and Rod of their Rhadamanthean Courts and Temporal Usurpations so jaded us with leave be it spoken that they have almost rid the Spirit of zeal and courage out of us and had they but
afraid to deliver his opinion of such a peece of ordnance mounted fully charged upon him the great Canoneers sitting by ready to give fire yet with much ado plucking up his spirits he told them freely that it was a halter to lead a blind horse to the water such dumb Diegoes or devouring Caterpillers might rightly be called as the Prophet speaketh foolish Shepherds and so the Service-book the Instrument of a foolish shepherd Zach 11.15 they truck away their Souls and the souls of others for a crust are they not then errant fools And this foolish instrument the Service-book is the Broker in this unhappy bargain Sect. There are another sort of bad Ministers Phil. 3.2 Vers 18. who will not be idle as they say but they are very ill exercised such the Apostle calls evil workers doggs enemies to the Cross of Christ The Apostle bids us beware of such but indeed ours are worse than those false Apostles for they preached Christ though of envy Phil. 1. â—5 but ours preach error heresies blasphemies calumnies out of envy not Christ Were there ever the like accusations heard of for number nature as hath bin laid against those unparallel'd Ministers for vileness both in living preaching The Goliah his staffe wherewith they maintain all this and all their brags against the Host of Israel is the Service-book which is the Helena of the Hierarchy the strict and total observation whereof Lincoln Articles do punctually appoint To those we might adjoyn Nonresidents Pluralists who knowing that Service will serve the turn can have choice of Readers to serve their Cure at a cheap rate In Kent a common Fidler read Service for 12. d. a week In another place a Black-smith did the like yea the Prelates themselves trade in this comodity when they have an old off-cast servant the ruines of a profane wretch good for nothing then make a Priest on him witness a Prelates Porter made Priest of Paddington One that we all know diebus illis Chaplin to a great Officer of State but now a proud Prelate in the time of his Chaplainry possessed 3 Benefices to the value of 700. l. a year or thereabout allowing nothing out of all this for the feeding of so many flocks save 10. l. a piece or thereabouts to three poor Curats with a number of cast Service-books which are no good meat neither cold nor hot yea had not this Service-book been this man and others could never have been so unconscionable Sect. Yet further the Service-book hath been the bane of many good Ministers and that of two sorts Conformers Non-conformers the latter of whom were deprived of their Ministery dearer to them than their lives cast out of their Free-holds against the Law of the Land Excommunicated Imprisoned their Families dissolved and cashired from all Callings yea their very Being through calumnies and injuries thrust at so that with Fambria against Scaevola they quarrelled with them Quod totum ferrum in se non receperant Tul. that they received not the whole deadly Weapon into their body and what the quarrel but the Service-book To which the Ministers must not only conform but also subscribe As to four Books more some of which it may be they had never seen that nothing in them was contrary to the Word of God Monstrum horrendum O fearful sin to father falshood and lies upon God for which the Lord may justly quarrel with this Nation Now for the godly and painful Ministers yet conforming and subscribing the Service-book was a heavy burden to them and they groaned under the rigour of the Service It may be said of the Service-book as it was said of Gath in another kind namely It was Metheg Amath the bridle of the hilly tract or strength of the Philistims so the Book was the strength of the Philistim Prelacy and a bridle with a Curbing bit to stop to winde and turn them at their pleasure yea sometimes to cut them in the Mouth if they delivered any such part of Gods Counsel as touched their Copy-hold besides the scoffing calumnies that the Prelates and their Janizaries would put upon them How did they grieve the souls of divers worthy men that divers of them were forced to break thorow that Egyptian bondage with danger of their liberties and lives if they had been reached by the Prelates ill Angels but flying with the Woman into the Wilderness the flood of the Service-book out of the mouth of the Serpent was sent after them but both fire and water conspired to the devouring of it witness its arrival at New England two fellows being drunk addressed themselves by water to disperse some bundles of them one of them swearing that he would have a Pipe of Tobacco in despite of the Devil striking fire the sparks fell into a barrel of gunpowder which blew both men and Books all into the Air the men were saved by swimming in the water and the Liturgy sunk when it could not swim and so we hope it shall Some of us heard a painful Minister complain with abundance of tears a little before his death That so long as he and such as he carried the Prelates fardel after them they would never down We will shut up this point with a very remarkable observation Ier. 23.23 Joh. 4.23 24. Though God made conforming Ministers being the dispensers of his Word the means to turn many from their evil wayes yet this proved for the most part but in the point of life and conversation and not in point of Purity of Worship according to our Lord and Masters practice upon his Patient that Samaritan Woman whom he reclaimeth not only from uncleannesse of life but also from a polluted Worship the Woman here is not only touched in Conscience for her evil life but also desires to be rectified in the case of Religion Christ healeth her of both those Diseases and having given check as a Father observed both to the arrogancy of the Samaritans Ciril and of the Jewes for the latter was faulty as well as the former though not in the like degree he layeth down an undeceivable Rule for both that they and all who will worship God acceptably must worship him in spirit and in truth in spirit that is opposed to bodily service as washings anointings garments c. In truth that is opposed to shadows and figures whereof Christ is the substance and the body such converts then as will reap Comfort out of respect had unto all Gods Commandments Tract 15 in Ioh. they must come down from the mountains of impure worship Austin hath a pretty saying upon this that he that will draw near to God must come down from his own mountain or from the mountain of his own device in Gods worship it is a duty laid on Christs Messengers in preparing of his way to lay those mountains level as well as others but the good men durst not meddle with the
your Honours as ye would have God to be in his worship and his blessing upon it and upon you and us in a perfect hatred of that menstruous Cloth and Garment spotted with the flesh to cast it out and all the rest as Carcases of abominable things but withall we intreat you to set the Masters of the Wardrobe on packing with them It is observed as a custom among the Papists that they bury their Prelates in all their Pontifical robes of which a learned Divine tells us he could give no reason except they meant they should do service when they were dead that had never done any thing alive If your Honours will lap up the Prelates in the Sear-cloth of their own Surplices and intomb them in the Tabernacle of the Service-book imbalmed with the strange ointment of their own Ceremonies and bury them under the Oake that is in oblivion Gen. 35.2 Verse 5. Jos 2.9 as Jacob did the Idols of his family and as our neighbours and brethren have done with the l ke stuffe then the fear of you shall be upon all your enemies and the child that is to come shall blesse God for you CHAP. XI The Objections NOw we come in the last place to remove some Objections which we shall shew to be of no great weight and therefore we use the fewer words Object 1 The first is from the antiquity of the Service-book to which Doctor Hall Sect. and others have received an answer by Smâ—ctymnuus but say it had Antiquity without truth it were no better than a custome of error Et nullum tempus occurrit Deo there is no prescription to the King of Kings Object 2 The second Objection Many good men have used it and liked it well for answer Testimonia humana non faciunt fidem Sect. Mans approbation is not current of it self but as it buts upon the faithfull witness otherwise it is an inartificial argument as Logicians call it the Patriarches used and did many things that were not approveable some good Kings of Judah as Amaziah and Johosaphat tooke not a way the High places 1 King 14 41 22 3. 2 King 18.4 to 9. were they any whit the better for that yea the suffering of them is set up as the Kings fault it were better to follow Hezekiah that took them away Master Wommock alleadgeth for the Service book that Rome is not demolished in the first day so we alleadge against it that good men in mending times did either see as far as their Horizon or at least as they durst So we have more light and are set upon their shoulders therefore it is both sin and shame for us not to see more and do more than they did Hebeziah did more than Jehosaphat and Josiah more than they both Thirdly Object 3 it is objected that it hath many good things in it that is answered already Sect. the Alcoran and Talmud have many good things in them yea the Apocrypha Books have many excellent truths in them are they therefore to be presented in Gods worship The fourth objection is from a more convenient course of correctings Object 4 of it than of cashiering of it For answer what King or Sect. State did ever yet thrive in moyling and toyling themselves to make clean the Popes leprous stuff to bring it into the worship of God but all that ever prospered in that work made utter exterpation Popes will be content to hear of reformaon and give order for it to their Cardinals but they are joyned to their Idols Hos 4 17. and God speaks of Epâ—raim let them alone Secondlâ— this is not Gods course in reforming of his House as the rubbish of the Leprous house was to be cast out into an unclean place as hath been said so polluted pieces of Idolatrous Service Rev. 14.13 are not to be brought by any cleansing into the House of God God commandeth his people to throw down the Altars of the Canaanite where under Altars are comprehended all other abominations they were not to set a new trim upon any of them but because they obeyed not the Lord they smatted for it Blessed be God who hath put it into your hearts to strike at Altars Railes Pictures Crosses and all the Popish Idols Judg 2.2 we are in good hope you will not leave a Popish Relique in the â—and neither in Church or Street and then we may be sure there shall no Canaanite dwell in our Land this scraping and picking that Master Wommock speaks of will be no better than paring of the nayles and shaving of the hair which as the Great Turke said of his Army will quickly grow again yea and grow again the faster too good medicines in natural things may be extracted out of rancke poysons but so cannot pure worship out of things polluted being mans inventions Esa 30 22 therefore the Prophet Esay tells us that nothing will serve but the casting away of the polluted thing not cleansing of it Object 5 The fifth and last Objection is from Acts of Parliament Sect. which the Service-book-men make their staff of their confidence and yet in truth being well tryed it shall be found that they abuse the state and consciences of men most grosly Doctor Hall and others strike much on that string as Parliamentary Acts peremptory establishment yet they make but very harsh Musique A man would think that Doctor Hall being a learned Divine would first have laid this worship of Liturgy in the â—allance of the Sactuary and tryed the weight of it there and if it had proved too light as surely it would then to have counted it a piacle against God and man to offer to make up the weigh with humane Lawes Iâ— is not unworthy your remembrance how one of the latter brood of the Scotish Prelates alledging or rather mis-alledging before our late Soveraign King James some Act of Parliament for the establishing and maintenance of the Prelacy the King asked a Noble man being by being a great Legist an Officer of State what he thought of those Acts The Noble-man replyed That it went never well with them since their Church-men laboured to be more versed in the Acts of Parliament than in the Acts of the Apostles But to the matter for all this cry we are more than half consident they shall have but little wooll for the Service-booke from the Acts of State when they are well looked into We know not any colour of confirmation for the Service-book 1 Eliz. c 7. except that Stature prefixed to it which how little it maketh for it let the words of the Statute testifie of which we shall set down those that are most pertinent for it is needless to write them all In the fifth and sixth years of King Edward the sixth an Act was made for the establishing of a Book called The Book of Common-Prayer the which was repealedâ—n the first year of Queen Mary which Statute of repeal was made voyd