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A41704	Conformity according to canon justified, and the new way of moderation reproved a sermon preached at Exon, in the cathedral of St. Peter, at the visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Anthony by divine permission Lord Bishop of Exon / by William Govld.	Gould, William, d. 1686.	1674 (1674)	Wing G1438; ESTC R10196	17,842	58

the Garment Popish and take occasion hence to withdraw the Creature-comforts Not give the Sacrament to any men but such as kneel that is if the posture be approved by such as have Communion with the Lord Jesus in the purest Ordinances To bid Prayer before Sermon is to pray by the Spirit and as breisly as conveniently we may is more or less half an hour or a full glass according to the Judgment or contribution of the Saints The Sick shall be prayed for by the Form at the Visitation prescribed that is the Parish-clark shall keep the Ticket till the Soul-searcher is in the Pulpit The same Form to be used in private unless the Schismatick puts his hand in his pocket and makes a Present and then the case is altered and the Law not violated No Man vows Poverty when he swears to obey the Bishop But the Man of God can sometimes supererogate He shall preach one Sermon every Lords day that is to say two at the least He shall use Catechizing in the afternoon that is if the people et vox populi vox Dei had not much rather have a Sermon And the Desk is unhallowed It is no Sermon neither unless it come from the holy Mount After all we must have a strain of Sternhold and Hopkins after Sermons for our godly solace while precious the Man cons over the Heads of the foregoing Discourse a way of singing and canting which hath neither Law of the Land nor Canon of a Synod to justify its use nor any Approbation upon Record either of Civil or Ecclesiastical Superiors but the people love to have it so By this craft these Men of God have their wealth and this shall be observed not required above all the Churches ancient and laudable Constitutions thus precious Man Divines for Money and the small Levite for handfuls of Barley and pieces of Bread and turns Spiritual Pedlar to avoid the Statutes of Vagrants and both sells the Church for a Subsistence and rebels against the orderly Laws and Constitutions Secondly We will consider him as a Casuist likewise and then the Commentator will appear to be less ridiculous With our Brother-Conformists of moderate Opinions to comply with a Faction against the Church and the Laws for a benevolence is to be a Jew with Jews and a Gentile with Gentiles and being crafty to take their Money then they catch the People with guile as the Apostle did in the conversition of Souls admirable Casuists who cannot or will not reconcile St. Pauls two Sentences Becoming all things to all men and if I yet please men I should not be the Servant of Jesus Christ the best Salvo they have is a late Act of Parliament which being duely executed It did appear there was no difference between the Purses and the Consciences of Nonconformists rather than lose an Office of profit the Conscience was satisfied that he could communicate with the Church and kneel at the Eucharist and was not defiled with the company of Sinners at the holy Ordinance So that he that gains the Purse gains the Soul of our precious Dissenters a use of Consolation to our moderate Casuists But if this doth not help them they are certainly lost to all intents and purposes It must not be Paul a servant of Jesus Christ but something else If such imitate that zealous Apostle who by omission of known Ministerial Duties have forfeited the Faith of a Priest and the Feast of a good Conscience who subscribe with their hands and something besides which ex animo signifies in some approved Dictionaries and yet Pope Interest is supream over Kings and Bishops and can dispence with all imaginable engagements to Ecclesiastical Superiors and Constitutions For Sixty years and upwards our present Canons have been obligatory upon us but these Casuists can tell you that a Custom of Five or Six years If it let in the Evangelical Graces of profit and ease can prescribe against the Custom aforesaid and every offender against this New Law must be called a Hyperbolical Conformist to the Church of England But I humbly conceive with submission to better Judgments that for a Priest after Subscription neither to obey the Churches Laws nor to require it of others to serve upon his holy Mother all his sordid and degenerous ends and keep open her bleeding Wounds for his own advantage and to turn Renegadoe as a Souldier for pay flies to the Tents of Enemies is a Crime that doubles its malignity from the Quality of the Actor and if possible we want a number above the plural to express so complicated a wickedness 3. I do as little understand the Politicks of these men as their Casuistical Divinity or barbarous Commentaries what they call a prudential Compliance is only the want of Courage and Resolution their Moderation is an open defiance to that Heroical integrity which should speak the Priest a Saint and a Gentleman It is with these men as Tacitus said of Fabius Valens Captain to Velleius utrumque consilium aspernatus est quod inter ancipitia deterrimum est nec providit It is so with these partial Conformists they have not Courage enough to embark heartily on one side nor Providence enough to escape the hatred of both It were more politick to take the advice of Suetonius Quando non efficias quin alterum habiturus sis inimicum aut socium Jacienda tunc est alea alterutri adhaerendum est Let them be either thorow Conformists or Non-conformists the middle moderate practice is attended on with an Episcopal Rod executing the Canon against Revolters and an angry God who as he hateth robbery for burnt-offerings so he abhors the Priest that curtails the Sacrifice of Obedience Nay to add more torment to their lives there is a Sacrilegious Layman who believes in his Conscience he may as well diminish the Titles as the Priest the Service Wilt thou sue him in the Court of the Bishop whose Orders thou dost despise Wilt thou fly to that Law in thy necessity to which in point of Duty thou hast denyed thy homage When the same Law puts thy Bread into thy mouth and the Common-prayer-book into thy hand Wilt thou Read the Litturgy in the way of Moderation and take the Lay-man by the Throat for the uttermost farthing Hast thou Confidence enough to accuse him of Sacriledg before the Right Reverend Diocesan when Clodius accusat maechos Catilina Cethegum These things duly considered suffer I beseech you my reverend Brethren The Word of Exhortation 1. It is taken for granted that the reading of Divine Service as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If first beseech you therefore to read this Worship with all imaginable Devotion and Reverence let us be a sort of incarnate Seraphins when we officiate by the Liturgy in the holy Oratories thus we shall silence the calumny equally uncharitable and ridiculous of the Presbyterian Divines who in their grand debates briskly tell us that an able and holy Ministry flows

Moderate Clergy can make it probable that in the solemn and set Assemblies of Christians constantly observed a Presbyter was ever allowed to utter any thing of his own or others composing premeditated or extemporary without the approbation of his Bishop first had in the matter of Prayer which we now are discoursing of It is an impudent and untrue Assertion I wonder it could ever enter into any Mans mind that Ministers may of themselves curtail or add to the Service prescribed or modify the Worship of God But on the contrary as Baxter in his Cure of Church-Divisions doth well note no Man questioneth but some Form of Prayer was imposed on the Jewish Ministers of old and a Form of Prayer taught the Priests Joel 2.17 To which I add since the Word of God hath given us Forms of Worship of Praise and Prayer in the House of God If we will allow the Composers of those Forms to be of Gods own appointment which cannot be denyed we have in Scripture too in concurrence with the Ancient Church found out some appointed to make Prayers for other Pastors and Churches to offer up unto God And we find Titus for this purpose left in Creet to set in order what was wanting ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Grotius Pertinet and Timothy is charged with this Office as Bishop 1 Tim. 2.1 an Order is there given him touching the substance of Publick Prayer to be setled in the Assemblies of his Jurisdiction as Master Thorndyke notes and proves in his Treatise The Service of God in publick Assemblies in Timotheo mandata dat Episcopis so Grotius Again in the Imposition of orderly Rites attending on the publick Worship it was the stile of old Si quis praesums●rit si quis contumaciter fecerit Anathema sit which is well Englished in our 34th Article by Laws established Whosoever shall through his private Judgment openly and wilfully and purposely break the Rites of Decency and Order enjoyned shall be censured c. Such therefore who are in profession Sons of the Church of England whose Imposition of a Liturgy and decent Rites is thus prudentially primitive and moderate and do wilfully and studiously violate the Orders prescribed by robbing God and the People of any parts of the publick Worship or Rites thereof upon the account of Preaching or the free Prayers of the Pulpit they do very wickedly I leave their own Consciences to condemn them till God himself doth which he will certainly do without a more honest and zealous adhesion to the Regular Constitutions It would be Ridiculously arrogant in me to prove out of Antiquity that the reading of the Litany the observation of the Feasts and Fasts Catechizing visiting the Sick and giving them their viaticum the Cross in Baptism the Rites of Decorum and the Decent Habits of the Clergy-men and many other Canons which this present Audience sufficiently knows to be truely consonant to the ancient Canons and primitive usage But you must give me leave to say that these are so far omitted not out of a prudential but schismatical Compliance Pudet haec opprobria nobis is too mild a reproof like that of Eli to his Sons It is no good report ye make the Lords People transgress Too meek a reprehension to such Sons of Corah or Diotrephes who by a barbarous disobedience to the Laws indeavour to bring into this Church tot schismata quot Sacerdotes Consider we again under this head of the Fathers and Councils the Authority confirming the present Canons of this Church and we shall find That also by undeniable evidence equally primitive with the Constitutions themselves We have such Canons as are treated on by Bishops and Priests but they do not with the Westminster-Conventicle of Divines meet without the Royal Call and Summons nor sit and act when the King Commands their dissolution with the Glascow-Assembly of spiritual Lay-elders but we own the Kings Power a parte ante to convene the Prelates and the Clergy-Representatives and a parte post to oblige their Subjects by their Confirmation to a Regular Obedience A clear primitive Practice assoon as ever God gave Kings to be Nursing-fathers to the Church as is admirably proved by Causabon Grotius Morney Duplessis our own Jewel Field Whitaker and others beyond all exceptions Now where King and Bishops thus joyn in Ecclesiastical Laws according to the constant Practice of Christs Church where Moses and Aaron the Oaths of Allegiance and Canonical Obedience meet together to oblige us there is not now the least pretence for a Man in Orders to despise such Rules as are truely Primitive in themselves when the Canons are treated on by the Episcopal Order which hath filled our Calendars with Saints our Histories with Fathers and Church with Martyrs and when this Order is subject to Kings and supported by Moses and both appointed of God for the Management of the Church under the blessed Jesus he is neither a true Priest nor Christian that denies obedience And here I do with all duty and submission most humbly beseech your Lordship and all under you advanced to any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to Countenance the truely-regular Clergy in their cheerful submission to the truly ancient Laws and Canons of this best of Reformed Churches When the Schismatick keeps a Faction in pay and allows Schism a Salary and gives a pension to the hollow-hearted Judas of moderate Principles to break and divide us 't is pitty the Zealous Conformist should want a Benefice whilest the Enemy thus nourisheth Vipers to eat their way through our Mothers Bowels God knows my heart I abhominate a private design when I thus speak as much as a moderation against the Rules of the Church of England I petition for a poorer sort of Brethren than my self for the Priest unbeneficed who is Ingenuous and Open-spirited Generous and Devout and a Lover of the Church of England And would not the primitive Canons of this Church be rather more than less observed If such an incarnate Seraphin had always the next Living of value in the Churches own gift If Self-interest should ever creep into a Cathedral it will first pull down the Honour and then the Walls It is not certainly for the peace or safety of our holy Mother that any Regular Conscientious Learned Priest should spend his time in a discontented Contemplation of his misfortunes whilest a barbarous Nonconformity without and Moderation within are sustained with a full and free enjoyment of all Creature-comforts in order to the ruining of the best of Churches This is I hope a pardonable digression as consonant with the Text and not repugnant to Antiquity in the Case before us as tending to increase and support the very little flock God knows of the truely zealous for our no less Ancient than Orderly Constitutions Fifthly To this Power of Ecclesiastical Superiours we have the harmonious assent also of all Reformed Churches Thete are two Excellent Books of Mr.