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A75462	An Anti-Brekekekex-Coax-Coax, or, A throat-hapse for the frogges and toades that lately crept abroad, croaking against the Common-prayer book and Episcopacy and the copie of a letter from a very reverend church-man, in answer to a young man, who desired his judgement upon this case, viz. whether every minister of the Church of England be bound in conscience to reade the Common-prayer : with another letter from a convinced associatour, that a while boggled at the Common-prayer, to a brother of the same association, not yet convinced, together with the above-said reverend person's brief and candid censure thereupon, with some uses of application by the publisher.		1660 (1660)	Wing A3483A; ESTC R43600	20,576	45

no restitution But his Majestie hath forgiven hundreds nay thousands I doubt millions that never truly repented of their trespasse against Him and his Father of blessed memory and for ought that yet appears intend no restitution 'T were to be wisht they would consult their beloved Mr. Calvin Mr. Perkins c. and then answer this Question viz. VVhether they be not bound in Conscience to make Restitution to those they have wronged to their utmost ability if ever they hope for Heaven notwithstanding the Kings Act of Oblivion which absolves them only in Foro Humano not in Foro Conscientiae But it is too too Apparent how farre from any such Act as this nay how Diabolically malicious some Non-conformists and Phanaticks be if they cannot compasse their irregular designes by a late Horrid slaunder that an unworthy more then Treble Turn-coat wretch the other day forged against the Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Bath and Wells not sticking to brand him in the Audience of one of the most eminent persons in the Nation for an old Leacher or Goat as the vile foul-mouth exprest it affirming That the good old Father who is now in his fourscorth year and even bowed together with age was a most insatiate effeminate person and had lately married a young wench of one or two and twenty and yet was not satisfied with her but neighed after other women Now all this Hellish Aspersion was raised upon no other ground but because the said vile wretch a vertiginous Colonel forsooth of the worst stamp could not wrest out of the said Reverend Bishops hands one of the best Mannors belonging to the See of Bath and Wells But the Bishop being as was said now in his eightieth year and his second wife whom he married about foure or five years since for a Nurse and Comfort in his disconsolate condition being a very grave Matron of sixty years of Age what spark of Probability or ground for such a base slander there could be let all candid Christians judge to whom the Reverend Father does appeal and the same Father is ready to take an Oath with such an Awful Execration for his purgation in that particular that his slanderers dare not follow him therein Yet what if an Ancient Bishop or Churchman had indeed taken a young Abishag in the way of Matrimony to comfort and cherish him in his old age as David did without it had it been such an abominable thing The truth is too many of our English Nobilitie and Gentry as vvell as the Commonaltie do speak too vilely of Gods Ordinance Matrimony especially in the Clergie as if they did more then encline to Poperie in that point And some coy Ladies that think it a fine thing to have a spruce Chaplain to vvait upon them in a little higher Sphere then a Serving-man do even vomit to hear of the marriage of a bavvdy Priest as they most unchristianly speak as if they honoured neither God nor his Christ so much as Ethnicks honour'd their false gods and their Priests for their sakes Hovv frequent is it vvith the most to make a scorn in all companies of a Minister of the Gospel by calling him Parson Parson at every turne not in Respect but in base contempt Which vvord hath too long and yet doth continue to be in as great derision as of late the name of King Duke Earle Lord or Bishop And vvhat mocks and flouts are daily and hourely cast at the Regular Clergie as they passe in the streets and even in some of the most Eminent Noble Families in and about London 't is a shame to hear and see And if his Majestie and other Noble Personages do not speedily declare in their Families and elsewhere their detestation of such scornes and give open countenance to those that are set apart for God's Service as well as to that Worship by Common prayer established by Law 't is to be feared that all our old Animosities will ferment to that height that 't will be too late to suppresse them 'T was some few daies ago spoken in no lesse a family then the Lord Generall 's by a Majors wife who may be supposed to speak the sense of her husband and of divers others of that gang that the Kings Quire were no better then a company of Fidlers and that she hoped to live to see all such superstitious fooleries pulled down with a vengeance and to have those that love to go in long Garments and yet were indeed Wolves in Sheeps clothing to bestript of their formalities and that she knew there were thousands nay millions in the three Nations of her minde The reason why this is here inserted is that if possible some notice of such seditious spirits may come to his Majesties and the Lord General 's eares and be speedily checkt That slander lately raised against the Bishop of Bath and Wells is much like that other of old forged and in all Pulpits of the Non-conformists most impudently as grosse a lie as it is proclaimed to make him and that whole order odious viz. That he should say that he thanked God he had left never a Lecturer in his whole Diocesse Whereas there is not a Person of any Intelligence that lived in that Diocesse but knowes that there were continually as learned Lectures of Reverend men with the approbation of the said Bishop in the said Diocesse as in any other Indeed that prudent Governour of the Church was and is somewhat of Sir Henry Wootton's or rather of Lipsius his opinion that not only Disputandi but also Praedicandi pruritus fit Ecclesiae scabies and therefore did his endeavour to suppresse and hinder the placing of single Lecturers in Cities Townes and Villages by any faction of the people without and against the good liking of the lawfull Rector or Incumbent And how many are there that were the greatest followers and admirers of such single factious Lecturers that are now convinc'd that they were the bellowes that blew up the flame that hath so long wasted both Church and State And indeed such is imprudence and passion of many Preachers that wise men conceive Sir Francis Bacon's proposal not without very good reason and that it would tend more to the Churches peace and the good of souls if there were one compleat body of wholesome Homilies or Sermons one or two for every Lord's day and other Festivalls thorowout the whole year composed or collected by the most learned and pious of our Church and set out by Authority to be read to the people in stead of so many Crude Rhapsodies as are many times through haste or want of learning and prudence obtruded on them And that only some few that are known to be prudent and of a right sober and peaceable temper upon very speciall occasions or emergencies should be allowed to compose Prayers or Sermons of their own and those likewise to be well scanned by some in Authority before they be pronounced in publick

having acted a part in a Comedy in derision of an old puritan whereas the said Comedy was onely to represent the extravagancies of love and was performed chiefly to gratifie the honourable and hopefull Baronet Sir VViliam Portman vvho vvith all that were present God be thanked are yet in perfect health save onely Mr. Ball vvho in a journey aftervvard in the exceeding hot vveather took a surfet by eating Pork and Caule and thereof dyed and to give him his due now he is gone 't is fit to be known that he was the Son of a very great Presbyterian and Non-conformist and so are most of his relations and in that way and those schismaticall principles he was bred yet being a very good schollar and after his coming to Oxford reading indifferently the books of both sides and seriously weighing their scriptures Antiquities and reasons forsook the Presbyterians and freely and chearfully came over to the Episcopall judgement even in those times when there was not the least glimps of hope of his advantaging but rather blasting his preferments by so doing And of sundry the like notorious afflictions upon diverse Ministers and other Non-conformists in sundry Counties It would make up a far larger book then that wherein the Army of the Toads is so ridiculously set forth and that not so much to shevv the judgements of God against the revivers of Common prayer as of Quakers and other such Phanaticks and sectaries as any but mere dolts may observe in diverse particulars of that book however the title page layes all on the Common prayers score According to the old ones Maxime calumniare fortiter aliquid haerebit cast dirt enough and some of it will stick on the smoothest and purest wall or garment Perhaps some will say Doctor Brownrig who was for Episcopacy and Common prayer died of a sudden extream fit of the stone the scholars or hard students disease but Hugh Peters who is against both is hang'd drawn and quarterd according to Law pray which is the greater judgement the Duke of Glocester who was for both died of the small pox for which some vile wretches have kept a thanksgiving day with words to this purpose Lord as thou hast cut off one of the limbs of that wicked family to go on to destroy it root and branch till there be not one of that wicked race left but Henry Martine who was against both either is already dead or like to die of the great otherwise called the French or Gallick Pox to save the hangman a labour I pray which is the greater judgement Thus you see how easie it is to accumulate undeniable Paradigmes more then a good many of such as are or have been Adversaries of the good old government of the Church of England and the Liturgy thereof and have felt god's scourge heavie upon them and thereby to stifle the noise of the Croaking Toads that of late have been creeping abroad to the disparagement of the good old way of God's worship But the truth is by all these things 't is hard to judge of god or evill 't is Turkish or Cromwellian divinity to judge of the right of a Religion by the lives or events of those that profess it let Holy writ as it is interpreted by the ancient Church and Fathers who were nearest the Fountain be our guide and never go to the Episkies of Enthusiasmes and mis-applyed providences vvhich must needs mis-lead us The true Copy of a Letter from a very Reverend Church-man in ansvver to a young man who desired his judgement without delay upon this Case viz. Whether every Minister of the Church of England be bound in conscience to read the Common-prayer SIR I Receiv'd your Letter in folio with others inclosed which I have returned The Books you write of I have not received yet I thank you for your good intentions I am sorry the paper is printed by it self it will be the less publick sooner die and vvill make the Authour the more enquired after vvhich may prove prejudicial Your Case you sent me must be put thus vvhether a Minister that is every Minister of the Church of England All indefinites in materiaâ necessariâ are equivalent to universals be bound in conscience to use the Common prayer The Case thus put there seem many things to be said to the contrary E. G. 1. No Minister is bound in conscience to do any thing which will be more hurtfull then profitable to God's Church but vve think this vvill be so Ergò c. 2. No Minister is bound in conscience to that vvhich will offend any godly men but this vvill do so Ergò c. 3. No man is bound in conscience to any thing forbidden by lavvfull Authority But the Common-prayer was forbidden by Lords and Commons Ergò c. 4. That which hath been disused and so is antiquated doth not binde without an Act of Reviver The Common-prayer hath been thus disused and there is no such Act c. Ergo c. 5. Nothing can thus binde which is not of faith for what is not of faith is sin But thus to do is not of faith to some Ergò c. 6. The Minister is not bound in conscience to any thing which will cause him to be suspected of lightness and so bring him and his Ministry into contempt with the people But this will do so Ergò c. 7. He is not bound in his conscience to do that against which he hath shevved his dislike either by preaching or conference with his people But some Ministers have done so Therefore not lawful for them or at least they are not bound in conscience c. Ergò c 8. No man is bound in conscience to any Act of imprudence which may make him ridiculous to others But this may be such if there should come from supream authority either a prohibition or alteration of that service But c. Ergò c. 9. No man is bound in conscience to that from which he hath a dispensation from his lawfull Superiour But some have been so dispensed with c. Ergò c. 10. None are bound to this who was ordeined without Oathes and Subscriptions But some Ministers have been so ordeined c. Ergò c. This is all you have in your paper and all I think can be said by others which question not the thing in it self as did the old Puritans as unlawfull for the Negative For the Affirmative it is said 1. Every man is bound to that which the Law of the land still in force require of him But the Law of the land still in force requires the reading of the Common-prayer Ergò c. 2. Every Minister is bound to what the Law of the Church by her Canons and Constitutions requires of him But c. Ergò c. 3. Every Minister is bound in conscience to use that kind of publick worship supposing neither restraint nor danger which is best for the peoples edification