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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37416	A defensive vindication of the publike liturgy, established ceremonies, and setled patrimony of the Church of England against such as (putting themselves to an ill occupation) have unjustly impeached or oppugned them / by a peaceable sonne of the same church, no way addicted to novelty or innovation.	Peaceable sonne of the same church.	1641 (1641)	Wing D823; ESTC R17218	23,627	39

dei praecipit homo quem pro deo habemus tanquam deum audire debemus But whatsoever in things of this nature man commandeth who is in the place of God we are bound to obey as God saith the same Father ipsum quem pro deo habemus in his quae apertè non sunt contra de●m audire debemus Gods vicegerents must be heard and obeyed ●n all things that are not manifestly y Nullius prohibiti● valet obvi●re ●●aeccptis 〈◊〉 ●ussio praeiudicare prohibitis Ber● ubi supra contrary to the revealed Will of God And such a limitation in the use of things indifferent brings no diminution to our Christian freedome or liberty which is seated in the minde or judgement but if we will draw and extend our liberty unto a freedome of actions thinking that we may do what we list in things indifferent z Some mislike our Churchti●es because no where commanded in Sc●iptu●e be ●●●o no more a ●●hose which they ●●●e is the Cap. or Surplesse no where commanded no more is the night cap or cleak ●●kn●e●●●g no where commanded at the receiv●●g of the ●●mm●nion 〈◊〉 is sitting o● standing and so of 〈…〉 are any of these ●●●bid 〈…〉 the Scripture without controul or without any reverence or regard unto the Magistrates orders or to the Churches decrees our liberty in the end will prove a licentious disturbance both of the Church and state Those men then go quite contrary to work even to the fearfull purling of their own and other mens consciences who use to argue in this manner This I have no warrant to do for where is it commanded Whereas they ought rather to argue thus this I have good warrant to do for my Superiours command me to do it and being no where expressely forbidden in the Word I may lawfully nay I must of necessity obey my Superiours in every thing they command that is not repugnant to the Word of God but it is not repugnant to the Word of God to wear a Surplesse to signe the childe with the signe of the crosse at the time of Baptisme according to the ancient use in Primitive and purer times to kneel at the receiving of the holy Communion to stand up at the recitall of the Creed or to use any other reverend Gesture prescribed by the Church If these be any where forbidden in the Scripture let the places be shewn as for farre fetcht and fallible deductions I value them not let one text or tittle of Gods Word be produced where all these or any ceremony appointed to be used in our Church is forbidden and I for my part will never use it though I should hazard the displeasure of all my Superiours by forbearing the use of it but if it cannot be shewn that these things are any where forbidden the use of them is warrantable and made lawfull by the Word of God and being commanded by lawfull authority I am bound to use them because God commands me to submit to every ordinance of man 1 Pet. 2.13 and to obey my Superiours in things lawfull Heb. 13.17 Neither will it help the Patrons of licentious libertinisme a whit to say that some of the forenamed ceremonies were superstitiously abused by the Papists be it so yet they cannot deny but that they were used in the Church long before popery did bear sway and the abuses mixt with them by the Romanists we affect not we allow not we defend not but have purged them from their abuse and restored them to their Primitive use and things abused may be well used and need not to be clean abolished Our worthy Ancestors saith S. Austin took the Temples dedicated to Idols and made them serve for holy Oratories or houses of prayers they took the revenews which were devoted to the Gods of the Gentiles and converted them to the maintenance of Gods Ministers And that holy Father saw no ●oel●cisme or incongruity in it Hoc de illis sit quod de ipsis hominibus cum ex sacrilegis impiis in veram rel gionem immutantur The change of them from an impious to a pious use was in his judgement but like the change which is wrought in men when of bad they become good of Sacrilegious religious August epist 154. where he gathers out of Deut. 7.25 that the gold silver and other rich o●namen●s of Idols may not be taken to mens private uses least they should seem to destroy the Idols for covetousnesse not for piety yet such things may be converted to Gods service as wicked Idolatrous men may be convert●d to h●s service as the water of Fountains dedicated to false gods may be used for Baptime as Bels rung to the service of Idols may be rung and used to the true Gods service and this he further confirmeth by Ioshua his preserving the Silver Gold vessels of Brasse and Iron Iosh 6.19.24 usefull for Gods service to be kept in Gods Treasury when all other things in the facking of Icricho were accursed and destroyed and Gideons sacrificing a Bullock unto God and burning it with the wood of the grove dedicated to Baal by Gods own appointment Iudges 6.25.26 the sacred Vessels of the Temple had been fowly abused in Babylon by Nabuchadnezzar and Baltazar yet when Cyrus had given Commandement for the restoring of them again Zerubhabel made no scruple to imploy them in there former holy uses The Magicians had abused the Starres yet God made use of a Starre to conduct them unto Christ the Athenians had abused the Altar that was dedicated to the unknown god and yet Saint Paul made use of an inscription written upon that Altar to preach unto them the God which they knew not Shall we with Lycurgus pluck up the Vines because some will be drunk with Wine or with Cotta in Tully condemn reason because some have made use of it to pleade an ill cause No where crimen non est in rebus sed in vitio utentis the fault is not in the thing but in him that useth it there we may apply it to a right use when we have removed the abuse But were the impugners of our Church ceremonies put to it they would finde it a very hard task to prove that any one individuall or particular ceremony used in our Church hath been at any time abused by the Papists For those Surplesses and other vestments which we wear those particular crossings wherewith we signe Infants at the time of their Baptisme in token that they should not be ashamed to confesse the faith of Christ crucified but manfully fight under his Banner against the world the flesh and the Devil and continue his faithfull souldiers and servants unto their lives end were made long since popery was banished out of the Church and so could not be superstitiously abused by papists unlesse they abused them before they had a being or were in rerum natura If any then take causelesse offence at the use of such innocent