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A30646 The protestation protested, or, A short remonstrance shewing what is principally required of all those that have or doe take the last Parliamentary protestation Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1641 (1641) Wing B6171; ESTC R22769 12,519 23

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Discipline Government Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England are all of them so many branches of Popery For proofe hereof first for the Liturgie this is a branch of Popery in two generall respects First in regard of the whole frame and matter of it as being translated out of the Romish Latin Liturgie as is confessed in the Booke of Martyrs see for this the late Parallel between the English Liturgie and the Masse-booke I omit to say any thing heere of the many vitious particulars throughout the Service-booke which run as the corrupt blood through all the veines of it and are by others sufficiently discovered This is enough to shew it to be Popish The second generall is the imposition of it upon all mens Consciences Which bare imposition alone were the Liturgie in it selfe never so free from other faults yet being a Service of mens devising the imposition I say makes it a branch of Popery For Popery wee know is Antichristianisme And Antichristianisme is an opposition to Christ so as this imposition upon the Conscience is an opposing and overthrowing of Christs Kingly Office who is the sole King and Lord over the Soule and Conscience an office incommunicable to any Creature or Power in Heaven or Earth Whereupon John saith Who is a lyar but he that denyeth that Iesus is the Christ He is Antechrist Now to deny Iesus to be the sole annointed King of his Church is to deny him to be the Christ And he that sets up man as Lord over the Conscience in prescribing and imposing what Service of God hee pleaseth of humane invention denyeth Iesus to bee the Christ to wit to be the sole King of his Church who is the sole Law-giver to the Common-wealth of Israel in his spirituall Kingdome And for this cause the Pope is proved to be that Antichrist who is * the Advesary that exalteth himselfe above all that is called GOD or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in or over the Temple of God which is every mans conscience shewing himselfe that he is GOD Now in nothing doth Antichrist exalt himselfe more then in usurping Christs power in giving Lawes whereby hee exerciseth a Tyranny over the true Temple of God over the spirituall Kingdome of Christ And this tyranny is cheifly exercised in usurping dominion over our Faith and Conscience in the worship and service of God which they place in the Liturgie This is the highest pride and presumption of Antichrist that possibly can be This is that Wil-worship or a worship invented of mans will and choyce which the Apostle * expressly condemneth and brandeth as the highest Tyranny which to bee subiect unto is the spoiling and cheating men of their salvation as we read at large Col. 2. v. 8. 18. and a separating us from our Head and King Christ v. 19. and an evacuating of his death v. 20. The Imposition therefore of a Liturgie upon the Conscience devised by men and pretended for the worship and service of God yea and the onely divine publike worship of his Church is a maine branch of Popery as being the Character of Antichrist or Antichristianisme which is the very with Popery Popery Antichriāisme being convertible termes Thus it is as plaine as brief that the imposing of a Liturgie of mans devising upon the Conscience is the pretended Service of God though indeed it is rather the service of many * and which God condemneth as a a vaine worship of him is a maine branch of Popery Secondly for Ceremonies of mans devising in the worship of God and imposed upon the Conscience these being the same nature with as being a part of the Liturgie are by the same reasons as before proved to be Popery Third●y for Discipline which stands chiefly in correction of manners and inflicting of Censures as Excommunication such as is and hath beene exercised in the Church of England by the Prela●●s ever since the prete●ded Reformation in this po●●t that this is also another maine branch of Popery doe but compare it with that Discipline in the Church of Rome and you shall find it in all points so to jump and agree as you must of necessity conclude i● Rom●s Discip●i●● be Popery then certainly our Engl●sh D●scipline is Popery too For in nothing I say doe they differ so as Discipline of our Church being false and counterfeit because Popish and so our Church wanting the true Discipline which ought to be one of the three markes of a vi●●ble true Church as it is noted in our Homilies the Church of England wants this marke at the least And if the Sacraments be not duty administred as being mixed and corrupted with a service of mans devising and ministred pell mell as in the Lords Super to ignorant and profane persons then for ought I see it wants a second marke of a visible true Church And if as lately and still in many places the word of God in the preaching of it be generally corrupted as when the full and free liberty of it in sundry points of Evangelicall truth is restrained and prohibited by orders and edicts not yet called in and damned by this reckoning it should want the third marke so much the more in case the calling of the Ministery it selfe should prove a peice of Popery too But this by the way onely it leads us the way to the next point which is the Government of the Church of England Fourthly then for the Goverment of the Church of England by Archbishops Bishops Arch-Deacons D●anes Commissaries Officials and the rest of that fraternity if this be not Popery yea and a top-branch of it I know not what is sure we are not any one of all this rabble is found to be in the Scripture and therefore of divine Institution this Government is not And consequently Christian it is not It must needs then be of Antichrists Order and Papall meerely So as if Romes Hierarchy be the top-branch of Popery in that Church how can it be denyed that the Hierarchy here in England is the top-branch of Popery in this Church For if we looke upon this Hierarchy from Canterbury to ●arlile and goe through all their Courts their Officers their Offices and Administrations therein wee shall therein behold the perfect image of the Papall Beast from horne to hoofe And if any will object here that the subordinate Ministers beare a part in this Government alas that 's but a meere mockery For these are but the Prelates Curates and a company of Priests little differing from Romes Order of Priestho●d in the estimate of our Prelates saving that they are not shaven and have beene of late prevented of being Sacrificers But a part in the Hierarchicall Government they have none unlesse a dumb Priest commonly or some Doctor now and then be the mouth to thunder out Excommunication in their Courts which the poore Curate at the Commissaries beck must publish in the Congregation And to these