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A33073 The Church of England as by law established being the very doctrine and express words of the homilies against popery.; Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. Selections. 1685 (1685) Wing C4191; ESTC R43032 10,456 4

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and none of us so bold as once to open it or read on it and instead thereof to spread us abroad these goodly carven and gilten Books to teach us such good and godly Lessons IV. Concerning the right use of Churches and the gross abuses of them under Popery And have not the Christians of late dayes and even in our dayes also in like manner provoked the Displeasure and Indignation of Almighty God partly because they have profaned and defiled their Churches with Heathenish and Jewish abuses with Images and Idols with numbers of Altars too too superstitiously and intollerably abused with gross abusing and filthy corrupting of the Lord 's Holy Super the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood with an infinite number p. 131. of Toyes and Trifles of their own devices to make a goodly outward shew and to deface the plain simple and sincere Religion of Christ Jesus Partly they resort to the Church like Hypocrites full of all Iniquity and sinful Life having a vain and dangerous fancy and perswasion that if they come to the Church besprinkle them with Holy Water hear a Mass and be bless'd with the Chalice though they understand not one word of the whole Service nor feel one motion of Repentance in their Hearts all is well all is sure Fie upon such mocking and blaspheming of God's holy Ordinance Churches were made for another purpose that is to resort thither and to serve God truly there to learn his blessed Will there to call upon his mighty Name there to use the holy Sacraments there to travel how to be in Charity with thy Neighbour there to have thy poor and needy Neighbour in remembrance from thence to depart better and more godly than thou cameest thither What Dens of Thieves the Churches of England have been made by the blasphemous buying and selling the p. 80. most precious Body and Blood of Christ in the Mass as the World was made to believe at Dirigies at Month's Minds at Trentals in Abbeys and Chantries besides other horrible abuses God holy Name be blessed for ever which we now see and understand All these Abominations they that supply the room of Christ have cleansed and purged the Churches of England of taking away all such fulsomness and filthiness as through blind Devotion and Ignorance hath crept into the Church these many hundred years Wherefore O ye good Christian people ye dearly beloved in Christ Jesus ye that glory not in worldly and vain Religion in phantastical adorning and decking but rejoyce in heart to see the Glory of God truly set forth and the Churches restored to their ancient and godly use render your hearty thanks to the goodness of Almighty God who hath in our dayes stirred up the hearts not only of his godly Preachers and Ministers but also of his faithful and most Christian Magistrates and Governours to bring such godly things to pass V. Concerning Prayer in an unknown Tongue First St. Paul to the Corinthians saith Let all be done to edifying which cannot be unless common Prayers p. 137. and Administration of Sacraments be in a tongue known to the people For saith St. Paul He that speaketh in a tongue unknown shall be to the bearers an Alien which in a Christian Congregation is a great Absurdity As touching the times before the coming of Christ there was never man yet that would affirm that either the people of God or other had their Prayers and Administration of the Sacraments or Sacrifices in a tongue that they themselves understood not As for p. 138. the time since Christ till that usurped Power of Rome began to spread it self and to enforce all the Nations of Europe to have the Romish Language in admiration it appeareth by the consent of the most ancient and learned Writers that there was no strange or unknown Tongue used in the Congregation of Christians St. Austin writing upon the eighteenth Psalm saith what this should be we ought to understand that we may sing with reason of man and not with chattering p. 139. of Birds For Owls Popinjayes Ravens Pyes and other such like Birds are taught by men to prate they know not what but to sing with understanding is given by Gods Holy Will to the nature of man Let us therefore conclude with God and all good mens Assent that no Common-Prayer or Sacraments ought to be Ministred in a Tongue that is not understood p. ●… of the Hearers VI. Against Invocation of Saints or Angels and that Prayer ought to be made and directed to God alone But that the truth hereof may the better appear even to them that be most simple and unlearned let p. 114. us consider What Prayer is St. Austin calleth it a lifting up of the the mind to God Isidorus saith that it is an affection of the heart and not a labour of the Lips Now then is there any Angel any Virgin any Patriarch or Prophet among the Dead that can understand or know the meaning of the heart The Scripture saith It is God that searcheth the heart and the reins and that he only knoweth the hearts of the children of men as for the Saints they have so little knowledge of the secrets of the heart that many of the Ancient Fathers greatly doubt whether they know any thing at all that is commonly done on earth And albeit some think they do yet St. Augustine a Doctor of great authority and also antiquity hath this opinion of them that they know no more what we do on earth than we know what they do in Heaven For proof whereof he alledgeth the words of Isaiah the Prophet where it is said Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel knoweth us not Esa 63. Thus you see That the authority both of the Scripture and also of Augustine doth not permit that we should pray unto them O that all men would studiously read and search the Scriptures then should they not be drowned in Ignorance but should easily perceive the p. 115. Truth as well of this point of Doctrine as of all the rest For there doth the Holy Ghost plainly teach us that Christ is our onely Mediatour and Intercessor with God and that we must not seek and run to another Let us not therefore any thing mistrust Gods goodness Let us not fear to come before the Throne of his Mercy let us not seek the aid and help of Saints but p. 117. let us come boldly our selves nothing doubting but God for Christs sake in whom he is well pleased will hear us without a spokes-man VII Against the Doctrine of Merit But this saying That we be justified by Faith only freely and without works is spoken for to take away clearly all merit of our works as being unable to deserve our Justification at God hands and thereby most plainly to express the weakness of man and the goodness of God the imperfectness of our own works and the most abundant Grace of