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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10177	A briefe suruay and censure of Mr Cozens his couzening deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his booke of priuate deuotions, or the houres of prayer, lately published, to be meerely popish: to differ from the priuate prayers authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to be transcribed out of popish authors, with which they are here paralelled: and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church, and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20455; ESTC S120656	100,630	151

preseruation and propagation of that pure orthodox sincere Religion which we yet enioy Which Religion as it is the breath and fragrant odor of our nostrils the delight and pleasure of our eyes the swetest harmony and musicke to our eares the most luscious hony and Manna to our pallats the most rauishing ioy and satisfactory contentment to our hearts the onely food the essence life and being of our soules the grand procurer of all our outward comfort and prosperity the onely Author of our peace and welfare the most transcendent glory and honour of our Nation the brazen wall the strongest fence and bulwarke of our kingdome the chiefest dread and terror to our Enemies the sole encouragement and comfort of our Confederates the fundamentall prop and pillar of our State the onely pawne and euidence of our future hopes and happinesse and the onely polestar way and passage to conduct and lead vs vnto Christ to God to heauen and eternall blisse all motiues for to prise and hold it fast in these degenerating declining and reuolting times so if we once but slacke our hold or let it goe it being the very rocke on which our Church our kingdome and we all do rest and Anchor both Church and State our selues our soules and all we now poss●sse are wrackt and lost for euer Wherefore right Christian Worthies what euer becomes of other outward Priuileges and hereditary liberties the losse of which you cannot brooke with any patience where as the condescending vnto them alone would win your hearts and purses too be sure to hold fast and guard this maine foundation whereon our Church our kingdome and we ours stand against all Cozening vnder miners and Fauxes whatsoeuer who labour for to blow it vp If this bee safe our Church our King our Kingdome our liues our goods and liberties are all secure we need not feare what Spaine what France what man can doe vnto vs For then God is ours Christ is ours the holy Ghost is ours Angels and Men and all the hostes and creatures of heauen and earth yea earth and heauen it selfe and all is ours all these will take our parts plead our cause against our Enemies and if these be for vs who what can be against vs But if this be once endangered or rased but a little O then we sinke we droope wee perish our God our Crowne our peace our glory our wealth our liberties and all those sundry magazines and heapes of blessings which we now inioy will forthwith take their winges and flie away and leaue vs destitute helplesse hopelesse forelorne in those ouerwhelming floods and bitter stormes of misery bondage sorrow want and woe which shall euen breake our hearts and crush our bones and sinke our soules in endlesse horror and despaire O therefore looke betimes to this Foundation which now begins to shake to totter and moulder by degrees settle but this a right and roote out all those domestique Romane and Arminian Pioners who dig so deepe and fast to vndermine it and then both Church and State will soone be settled in their former peace and happinesse O consider that the present totterings declinings and ruines of our State arise but from the wauerings wastings and backslidings of our Church Our State and kingdome now decline so fast and hasten to the period of their former glory because our Church our faith our loue our Religion lose their ground Our Realme is full of factions and diuisions because our Church is so Popery Arminianisme False doctrines sin and all prophannesse haue ouer-spred our Church yea wasted corrupted our Religion no wonder then if pressures greuances losses crosses penury misery beggery shame and a world of other euils do now annoy our State Our State Enemies are no other but our Church Enemies O therefore curbe purge out quite suppresse the Achans Errors and great Annoyances which trouble oppresse and vndermine our Church and our Religion and then our State and Kingdome will be settled and freed from those many pressures miseries and afflictions which they now sustaine and not before In vaine is it to mend the tiles and vpper roomes till the Foundation be repaired in vaine doe any labour to repaire the decke whiles the keele is full of leakes whiles the head and heart is sicke the other members cannot prosper Neuer looke that our decaying State should thriue or flowrish till our Church be healed and recouered Goe on and hasten therefore with this maine and weighty Cure and haue a speciall eye to this great Cozening and infectious plague-sore whose briefe Suruay and Censure I here in all humility present and tender to your Honours and the great Physitian both of soule and body so blesse and ayde you in all your good endeauours that all the festring wounds and sores of our gangrend and consuming Church and State may now receiue a sound a perfect and a present Cure be reduced to their perfect soundn●sse that so our wildernesse may be like Eden and our Desart as the Garden of the Lord that our wast places may be comforted and all our sad and drooping hearts may bee filled with ioy and gladnesse with thanksgiuing and the voyce of melodie that you and I and all the people of the Land in the period and perclose of this your great Assembly may be sent away vnto our tents and habitations glad and merry in heart for all the goodnes that the Lord hath shewed vnto Dauid and Salomon to our King our Church our State to Israel we his people by this your happy and much desired meeting and let all that loue our Dauid our Salomon or our Israel say Amen Your Honours in all humility seruice and respect WILLIAM PRYNNE A BRIEFE SVRVAY AND CENSVRE OF Maister COVZENS his Couzening DEVOTIONS IT hath alwayes beene the beaten rode and method of all Heretiques and seducing Spirits in all the ages of the Church to Dulcerate their Venomus Harsh and bitter Potions with Lushious and sweete Ingreedients Nemo venenum temperat felle hell●boro sed conditis pulmentis bene saporatis saith Tertullian Heretiques and false Teachers are alwayes cunning Apothecaries they neuer temper their Poysons with Gall or Colloquint but with the best and pleasantest Conserues their venome lurkes in Honie Potions that so men may swallow it downe with greater greedinesse and lesse suspition Viperium obducto potamus melle venenum Heresies and false Doctrines yea all euill things whatsoeuer as they are of an Odious so likewise are they of a Timorous and Bashfull disposition they dare not walke Vnmasked especially in the brightest Orbe and Hemisphere of the Gospel-sunne for feare of present discovery whence they alway claspe and twine themselues at first with knowne and approued Trueths which serue as Sauce or Baites to draw them downe and cloathe themselues in the Amiable dresse and Rich attire or at least wise Christen themselues