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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05459	Against the apple of the left eye of antichrist, or the masse book of lurking darknesse making way for the apple of the right eye of antichrist, the compleat masse book of palpable darknesse : this apple of the left eye, commonly called, the liturgie, or service book, is in great use both among the halting papists, and compleat papists, and the things written heere are also against the compleat masse book.	Lightbody, George.	1638 (1638)	STC 15591.5; ESTC S2182	52,108	90

be discerned by religious adoration from a priest when he rehearseth the law yea a priest is honoured and not God for when God gave the law the people did only stand and kneeled not Also Christs personall presence if he visiblie were beside us could not be discerned from the sacramentall elements by religious adoration Item the holy desires and the libertie of Gods people are restrained from expressing the religious divine adoration in due time and place as Gods spirit teacheth them to eschew the confusion of divine adoration with other points of Gods service 8 They restraine Gods honour and dignity in that his sacred word which for the exellency thereof should be written and set apart by it self and so declared to be more esteemed then all other word it is put together into one incorporation with Apocrypha and humaine traditions and so made only equall to them 9. They presse down the dignity of Christs sacraments and consequently the wisedome of Gods Spirit by whom Christ gave these sacraments in that a presbyter or deacon may give baptisme and the Lords supper but the bishop must only give confirmation as if it were more excellent then the sacraments of Christs ordinance But the bastard office of a tyrannizing bishop which God never planted is the fittest minister of a bastard sacrament 10. By making one part of divine service to hinder another part thereof as the reading of the Psalmes twelve times in the yeer hindreth the other Scriptures to be read six times in the year as if a servant would labour and plew all the year upon two or three rigs of his masters land and leave no time for plewing the rest of his field 11 By binding the significations of divine ordinances unto humaine traditions as when at baptisme they demand questions at infants as if they could understand and speak like their parents they make the sign of the Crosse in the Childes fore-head after hee is baptized saying Wee receive him in the Congregation of Christs flock as if Baptisme it self did not signifie our entrie into Christs kirk So they deny the force of Baptisme attributing it unto crossing they make crossing also a token that he shall confesse the Faith of Christ and resist the divel the world They spoile this also from Baptisme they make matrimonie to signifie the mystical union betwixt Christ and his kirk and so they make it a sacrament This signification is also robbed from Christs Sacraments for Baptisme signifieth our beginning and ingrafting in Christs mysticall body and the LORDS Supper signifieth our continuance in that union Matrimonie is a Divine ordinance but the using of it as a Sacrament is a humaine ordinance 12. By making the Clergie in divine service keep the precise words of this Masse book so that they may not read one verse of any chapter of Scripture more then the passages quoted in this book neither may they diminish one word or verse which is printed in this book yea where this book hath all the LORDS Prayer they must say all the LORDS Prayer where it hath but a part of it they must say but a part of it Where this book omitteth Christs descending into hell in the Apostolick Creed they must omit it and where the Creed hath all the Articles they must say all Where it hath the Creed of Athanasius they must say it So oft as the book hath the words Lord have mercie upon us which words are the Popish Kyrie Eleison the Priest must say them as often and no more They adde unto GODS word and diminish from it as they please they will have none to adde unto their traditions nor diminish from them Thus the Man of Sin as GOD sitteth in the Temple of GOD and exalteth him above all the three Persons which 〈◊〉 called GOD and the most High is used as a slave The most wicked men will make use of some of the speeches of their slaves if they can make these words fitting for their purposes So the Antichristians make use of the word of God for earthly gaine pleasures 13. By hindering Gods people to use extraordinarie fasting and praying and solemne humiliation unto GOD even when the LORD plagueth his people with many and grievous plagues spirituall and corporall Thus the Antichristian Prelates themselves are become the greatest plague of Gods kirk when they hinder the lawfull meanes of taking away Gods judgements 14. By forcing the People to fasting and solemne humiliation at Lent and other set times albeit GOD were blessing his People with all good things without any plague and so restraining the dueties of solemne thanksgiving 15. By ordeining the Scriptures which they appoint to be made use of in publict divine service not only to be read upon fixed dayes of the year as was said before but also they have appointed them to be read on such daies of the moneth when People because of their civile distractions may not come to heare them So except the twelve whole chapters that are only written in this Masse book the rest are but parcels of Chapters and the hundreth and thirteene chapters which are appointed for the Sundayes of the year there shall no more whole chapters be read on Sundayes through the whole year for the rest of the scriptures are so appointed for the dayes of the moneth that if these dayes fall upon the Sunday then the chapters ordeined for these dayes of ●●e moneth shall be omitted at that time but if they ●all on the week dayes these scriptures shall be read except I say these 12 and 113. Chapters the people shall never heare the rest of the scriptures read in publick divine service being hindred by lawfull civile bussinesse on the week dayes The jewes were more religious for they caused the whole old testament to be read on the sabboths at the least once in the yeer It is said in a fable that a foxe invited a cran to a dinner and he powred forth scatred abroad on a broad table a thin broath for the cran to eate But the cran smitting the table with his long beak could not take up the broath scatred abroad So these deceaving foxes have so scattred abroad divided the spirituall food of Gods word that Gods people can not be the better of it They have appointed it for such dayes as people can not come to heare it And upon the sabboths when they should heare it they finde a serpent in stead of a fish in stead of the bread of life which is Gods word they feed more upon humaine stonie traditions Qu. By what clouds of darknesse is the light of Christ the son of righteousnesse obscured in the antichristian kingdome Ans By diminishing Gods word in the Canonicall register as when they left out the second commandment of the morall law 2. By diminishing his word in choosing some places of scriptures to be insert and read in their service book rejecting the most part of the

apparitions and visions we have need therefore of greater abundance of the evidency of his revealed will in the Old and New Testament Qu. 19. But now neither the reading nor the preaching of the Scriptures profiteth the people They loath the word as an unsavory thing They live without zeale without faith repentance Therefore they will make better use of humaine traditions Ans Thou should have said also that GODS word doth no good unto the preachers else they would not have beene so presumptuous as to have thralled GODS kirk with humaine traditions and carnall instructions 2. I confesse that wesps will make more use of poison then of hony The children of darknesse love rather the night then the day yea GODS people when 〈◊〉 spirituall graces decayed liked better of the flesh 〈◊〉 of Egypt then of the heavenlie Manna 3. Humaine traditions may work in men blinde zeale a temporarie faith a Pharisaicall repentance but no saving grace for God will rather blesse his own ordinances then humaine traditions If he do not so he will give no blessing of saving grace at all If GOD forsake Saul the Prophet Samuel can do him no good albeit he honour him before the people much lesse shall witches and devils help him in his distresse The waters of Damascus shall not cure Naaman of his leprosie if the waters of Jordan GODS ordinance do it not If God make not effectuall the ordinary meanes of his word it is time to fast and pray that GOD may turne back his spirituall iudgements least He plague us with finall desertion Qu. 20. Do not the prayers in this book witnesse that there is great humilitie in the Clergy and prelates Ans 1. The ambitious obtruders thereof upon GODS kirk for establishing their bastard orders have declared their greatest pride in the exercise of prayer wherein should be seene greatest humilitie for first because they dare not do otherwise in the Letany used on Sundayes Wedinsdayes and Fridayes they have a forme of prayer for the King the Queene and their children next for the prelats Bishops and elders of the clergy Thirdly for the Nobility then for the rulers and Magistrats lastly for the people So they must come before God as they ride in Parliament usurping place before the Nobility and magistrats They stand 〈◊〉 for off like the Publicane They who humble not themselves like little children shall not enter into the kingdom● 〈◊〉 heaven Also in the same Litany there are 3. partic●●●● prayers one for the King an other for the Queene their children the third for the Bishops and clergy but no prayer for the Nobility Magistrats and people 2. Neither can they hide their covetousnesse in their religious service wherein they should be most charitable for this book commandeth the halfe of the almes which the communicants give to the poore shall be given to the presbyter that celebrateth the cōmunion That which is given to the poore is given to God for they are the members of Christ If the clergy rob the sacred almes from Christs members they will not have it called sacriledge but if a superstitious portion be taking from them when they have more then sufficient that is called sacriledge when as the antichristian clergy and all that teach errors and idolatrie live only upon sacriledge for God as he alloweth neither false nor idolatrous doctrine so neither alloweth he meanes for sustaining false teachers though he permit the same This book appointeth them also to have an accustomed duety at mariages what will they do at baptisme at the kirking of women and at the making of testaments when they are so shamelesse at the Lords supper and at marriages Ambition covetousnesse idlenesse cause them praise this book highly in their pulpits Qu. 21. If wee correct this book and take away the faults of it may it not then be read for Divine service in Gods kirk Ans 1. That is Repugnantia in adjecto a speech contradictory to it self for if you take all the blemishes away this book can have no being for it is 〈◊〉 it blemish because it usurpeth the place of Gods word and it layeth bands on Gods Spirit in that if God would give as excellent gifts unto his servants as ever he did unto my Prophets or Apostles they may not exercise these gifts being hindered by the formes of this book and albeit the Scriptures contained in this book are in themselves good yet as they are placed in this book they are but a blemish as a gold chaine is an ornament about the neck a of queen but it is a blemish about the neck of a sow for how much so ever these Scriptures do procure credit and respect to this book and to the superstitions thereof so much they procure discredit and contempt to the rest of the Scriptures as when Dinah was defiled with Sechem it was a shame to the whole family of Jacob and if the son of a Prince become a theefe he shameth all his kinred If any wold glew the nose and lugs of a man to the face of an ox or the nose lugs of an ox to the face of a man both these wayes it is a disgrace unto man So the glorious banner of Gods word is disgraced whither it be incorporat and sewed together with the dishclou●s of humaine traditions and errors or whether they be incorporat with Gods sacred word 2. They make choose of some Scriptures to be insert in this book as if the rest of the Scriptures were but babling and not beseeming the wisdome of God and as if God unadvisedly had sent them unto his kirk 3. If nothing were in his book but these few Scriptures the clouting and clamping of them together is a despising of the order wherein God Spirit placed them as if he were not a God of order And it is a restraining of Gods Spirit by the continuall reading of them to hinder the free passage of the re●● as an herald receiving many ordinances from his king by the oft repitition of one or two of them he leaveth no time to promulgat the rest In the Kalendar they ordeine the Psalmes to be read twelve times in the year They appoint not the rest of the Scriptures to be read six times in the year and 122. chapters of the scripture are never appointed to be read 4. They miscall some Scriptures is a historie in Act. 10. vers 34. which is read on Munday in Easter week and Act 7.55 c. read on S. Stevens day Joel 4.12 c. read on the first day of Len● Revel 7.2 on all Saints day these and such other places are niknamed Epistles Qu. 22. In what order do they minister the communion Ans Their pride is seene also in this for all bishops presbyters and deacons must alwayes first receive the cōmunion before others they say it is done that the clergie may help to distribute the elements but they do it when there is no need of help