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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45150	The peaceable design being a modest account of the non-conformist's meetings : with some of their reasons for nonconformity, and the way of accomodation in the matter of religion, humbly proposed to publick consideration by some ministers of London against the sitting of Parliament in the year 1675.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1675 (1675)	Wing H3701; ESTC R24391	30,262	97

our private and of the Parochial Congregations We should be ready to do any thing we could to the healing this scandal But there are matters of another moment which if we had liberty to open to the World at large as our cause requires We doubt not but that it might come to see whether we have reason to stick at conformity or no. There are few of us who are not sensible in some measure of the corruption which hath crept into the Church in regard to the discipline or government of it by the Hierarchy and Diocesan Bishop so much degenerated since Cyprians time from the primitive simplicity And there hath passed a solemn Oath over the Nation engaging the main Body of it to the endeavour of a Reformation Now when the same government is returned upon the Land with all its former corruptions and more heavy Injunctions if we should generally submit again to it without obtaining any amendment composition or abatement we dread to think on it with what faces they shall be able to stand before God who have lift up their hands to him for things quite contrary in the late Revolutions But to proceed at last Besides the matter of this Declaration the strict prescription as to the form of words is more especially to be noted That this Declaration be made in these words and no other And what if a Minister would read the Book of Common Prayer without this Declaration Or what if he would declare to the contents of the Book in other Expressions Why should these crooked SS's be ramm'd down the Throat to choak any If we were put to declare in this form of words to any Book we know of this Bulk even to the Bible it self as to any Copies we have yet seen of it we must for ought we see still stick out It is said in the Kings That Ahazia was two and twenty years old when he began to Reign and in the Chronicles that he was two and forty Both these cannot be true If we were put therefore to Declare in these words and no other I A. B. do declare my Assent to every thing contained in our Bible we should be gravel'd For we cannot Assent to the Truth of both these places in the English nor Consent to the errour of the Transcription or Translation when we know not otherwise how to reconcile the contradiction in them In Psal 105. v. 28. our Psalter reads the words thus And they were not obedient to his Word our Bible reads them And they rebelled not against his Word We argue here One Particular contained in the Book of Common Prayer is the Translation of the Text. But if the Translation be true in the Psalter it is false in the Bible And if it be true in the Bible it is false in the Psalter That they rebelled and rebelled not no Man can give his Assent We know indeed how the words may be true in both Translations as to the minds of the Translators the one referring them to Moses and Aaron and the other to the Aegyptians But we urge this more strictly The mind of the Text it self of the Holy Ghost or Davids mind whose Psalm it is was but one While the Translators then are contrary in their minds both of them cannot have Davids mind and so one of the Translations must have that meaning which is false And why must we be made then to give our Consent that both these Translations should be used when the false may be amended by the right We mention this little thing among many others that have been objected by Non-conformists heretofore to shew the insuperable incumbrance of these continued Injunctions There is one such a little thing more which perhaps hath not yet been publickly offered It is the Rule prescribed us for the finding out the moveable Feasts and Holy-days Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the first Sunday after the first Full Moon which happens next after the one and twentieth day of March Now examine this Rule for the last Year 1674. and you will find the first Full Moon after the 21th of March was upon the 10th of April and consequently if this Rule hold good the next Sunday which was April the 12th should have been Easter-day But Easter-day was upon the 19th of April as the Table for 40 years in the Common-Prayer does tell you as well as our Almanacks did Well! And how then shall we declare our Assent and Consent to all and every thing contained in this Book The Table is in the Book and the Rule is in the Book If the Rule be true the Table is false If the Table be true the Rule is false It is a grievous Case that we must be turned out of our Living because we cannot give our Assent and Consent to Both. Having mentioned these lesser things in the way we shall perhaps be blamed if we neglect some other that are of more notice and moment with our Brethren In the Office of Baptism the Parents are not admitted to covenant for their Children and how shall the Infant answer Credo Abrenuntio out of the mouth of the Godfather It is the Parents being in Covenant that gives Title to the Childs Baptism and unless the Father or Mother make such a profession as that we can probably judge the one or the other thereby to be in Covenant we cannot some of us admit the Children to Baptism nor themselves to the Lords Supper In the Burial how shall we be able for our lives to say of every one that dies Un-excommunicate in the Parish that God of his great Mercy hath taken his Soul unto himself with such like Expressions Or that it is certain by Gods Word that every Child Baptized before Actual Sin is in a state of Salvation Let our Learned Gataker be consulted De Baptismatis Infantilis vi Efficacia and then judge of it who will In the Service for the Holy-days there ale the most of us not agreed upon the Lawfulness of such days Six days shall thou labour But above all the rest there is one thing in S Clements day prescrib'd by the New Common-Prayer Book that we wonder how those themselves that put it in can give their consent to it which is the change of a profitable Chapter in Esay for the Story God defend us or Bell and the Dragon There is lastly the use of the Cross a compleat Institution of it self brought in or added to the Ordinance of Christ appearing to be of the same nature and end This we doubt does entrench upon his Kingly Office and must humbly therefore offer one reason for the removal which we sollicite whatsoever be done in other matters The Ceremonies in use amongst us says Mr. Hooker are retained in no other respect saving only for that to retain them is to our seeming good and profitable To which purpose We are content with these only says the Common Prayer Book as be apt to stir