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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23818	The reform'd samaritan, or, The worship of God by the measures of spirit and truth preached for a visitation-sermon at the convention of the clergy, by the reverend Arch-Deacon of Coventry, in Coventry, April the sixth, 1676 : to which is annexed, a review of a short discourse printed in 1649, about the necessity and expediency of worshipping God by set forms / by John Allington ...	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing A1213; ESTC R2327	57,253	87

the Church yet you shall finde this reverend Pastor so far from deeming this a circumstantial trifle that he offers his Goods his Body his Life in lieu of it Ea quae Divina Imperatoriae potestati non subjecta The things of God are not subject to Imperial power was the peremptory position of this Bishop and then proceeds Si patrimonium petitur invadite si corpus occurram vultis in vincula rapere vultis in mortem voluptati est mihi If you who are sent demand my patrimony invade it take it if my Body here it is if to bonds or death you desire to carry me it shall be a pleasure to me pro altaribus gratiùs immolabor I will gladly be a Sacrifice to preserve my Altar He would rather die the death than suffer an Arrian Minister to officiate in his Church yea as it is in the same Epistle cum propositum esset ut Ecclesiae vasa jam traderemus when the Emperour's Officers demanded a present delivery of the Church-Vessels the conscientious Bishop was so far from holding these such circumstantials as not to be stood upon that he plainly tells the Emperour it was neither lawful for him to deliver or the Emperour to demand them Trade Basilicam deliver the Church is as much as to say as the same Father to his Flock speak a word against God and die nay not onely so Nec solùm dic adversus Deum etiam fac adversus Deum It is not onely to speak but to do against God which in his judgement deserved no less than death Thus zealous of a circumstantial and of exteriour muniments was that holy Bishop to betray a Church yea a vessel of a Church it was in his Divinity a sin against the Deity an act against him for whose Glory and Service they were preserved In these sad times of trial I conceive one main end of God's Judgements especially upon his Clergy is to discern who those are who have hitherto merely related to him for their Bellies and who for his glory mainly who have been spiritual and who carnal professors of the Ministry For those who served him chiefly for their Bellies and carnal ends to them the invasion of nothing is considerable in which their interest and their ends are not involved but such who with purity of intention have mainly studied and sought the advance of God's Service to them as to St. Ambrose the muniments of Religion the abridgement or abatement of any thing that was adjuvant to this end is more considerable than all their secular interest or personal advantages of this world insomuch as I can knowingly say it for some Threescore pound a year and our old way will be preferr'd before 300 in a worse Model It is to me a consideration not unworthy my Pen to see how the judgement of God hath followed such who have measured and stuck to his interests merely as they moved with their own In the 21 year of Henry the eighth in a Parliament which began the third of November the Commons sent up to the House of Lords a Bill against the exaction of unconscionable Mortuaries to which Bill it is observed the spiritual Lords made a fair Face and were well content a reasonable Order should pass against them But this was saith my Author because it touched them little for when within two days after a Bill concerning Probates of Testaments in which there had been incredible extortion was sent up to the Lords then the Bishops in general saith the Historian frowned and grunted for that touched their profit then said the Bishop of Rochester Now with the Commons is nothing but down with the Church When the Bishops personal profits were toucht upon then as if the very Church were falling Fisher crieth out The Commons lack faith the Commons think of nothing but down with the Church Yea in the progress of this Reformation are not Bishops found conniving and abetting the demolishing of religious Houses and was not this probably with an eye to the preservation of their own as if they said Let Monasteries go so long as Bishopricks be preserved Well they are dead and gone but hath not vengeance followed upon Episcopacy Are there not now amongst us who cry Down with Bishops sell their Lands and think this no Sacriledge provided that Parsonages may be augmented and Tythes supported Well Bishops are preached down and their honours laid in the dust but doth not vengeance hasten after the promoters of it Do not the Presbyters finde that there are who conceive they have less right to Tythes than Bishops to their Lands Are there not who are as industrious to deprive them as they have been for their own ends to deprive their God An evident argument that Just and righteous art thou O God in all thy ways An argument that makes me verily believe those who for private interest and merely either for praise or profit throw off the Liturgy forbear their duties and betray the muniments of Religion and the Church of Christ God will in his due time reward such into their own Bosomes blasting that private Interest for which they have betrayed his Whereas then I must profess before God and the world I can apprehend no motive or inducement so prevalent as to perswade me that the Liturgy of the Church of England is any way a hinderer of God's holy Worship or an obstacle to the solid and sufficient ministration of the Word but on the contrary consonant to God's holy Word agreeable to Orthodox antiquity and an approved promoter of God's glory in the Church I live in being I say to consent to the abolition of Liturgy I finde in my Soul no moving motive but either the hope of more or the holding of what I have I dare not finding within me nothing but carnal interest put a specious shew of Religion upon it and tell the world that I lay aside the truely divine Service of the Church because Prelates over-valued it the ignorant doted of it the Papists nos'd with it and an idle and unedifying Ministry maintained by it These I profess to me are neither true nor weighty considerations for if I should now as I am forbear or lay it aside it is not any or all these but onely in mine own defence onely for mine own ends I should do it Now whether any man may salvâ conscientiâ prefer what he conceives in God's service a worse way merely for the boot of private Interest I leave it to your prudent consideration concluding with that of Chrysost Qui hominem timet ab co ipso quem timet deridebitur sin vero Deum hominibus quoque venerabilis erit He who in God's cause prefers man he shall be scorned of him he fears but he who fearing God despiseth man shall be had in reverence even of those men The patient abiding of the meek shall not alway be forgotten And here I had thought to have put a period