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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

chap. and 26 27 28 29. chap. Leviticus chap. 1. to 8. and 10.11.13.14.15.17.22.26 chap. Nombers chap. 1.2.3.4.18.19.26.33.34 chap. Deuteron chap. 14. Josua 11.12.14.15.16.17.18.19.21 2. Chronicl chap. inclusive 1. to 9. and 11.12.23.24.25.26.27.2 Chron. 3.4 Ezra 7. Nohem 3.7.11.12 Ezechiel 10. and 26. to 33. inclusive and 38. to 48. inclusive Amos 1. Nahum 3. in these the whole chapters are omitted 5. Prophesies and obscure Scriptures should b● read as reverently and attentively as the Apostles did heare obscure doctrine and parables out of Christs own mouth and they learned humilitie in that they would not bee wiser then Christ to make a glosse of their own upon his words but did patiently awaite untill that the Lord himself revealed the matter Gods Spirit by obscure Scriptures can also help our faith as Christ made the blinde to see with clay and spittle which otherwise maketh blinde This work of the Spirit is known when the Faithfull say in their hearts I know whatsoever you obscure words do meane it shall be fo● my well The traditions of men whether they be obscure or plain have no such authoritie nor warrand nor power of Gods Spirit therefore they have neither title nor right in this ministration 6. If Gods Word be true which saith All Scripturs is given by divine inspiration and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of GOD may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Then all Scriptures should bee read to make the man of GOD perfect But humaine traditions doctrine of errors and wil-worship do make the man of sin even antichrist perfect and furnished for all evill works their most charitable and pious works whereof they glory much are but evill and full of Divine-laesmajestie because they derogate from the merits of Christ in attributing merits unto creatures who before GOD have no merit of themselves so their most charitable works are most uncharitable Qu. 8. But these omitted scriptures do lesse edifie then other scripturs Ans 1. How much or little they edifie it is only known to God who by the weakest meanes effecteth the greatest works Therefore thou should only have said they seeme to edifie little 2. I suppone that they alwayes edifie lesse then other Scriptures yet the omitting of them maketh them not to edifie more but rather nothing at all which is worse We should do all things for edification 3. Their little measure of edification should not be despised but rather receaved with thanksgiving as we receive other benefites will a man pull out his infirm eye because it is more tender then the other eye Will he cut of his little finger because the other fingers are stronger Will a covetous Prelat refuse his small teynds because they are lesse gainfull then the other teynds Casteth he all away his coyne that is not gold Therefore as God abolisheth not the smallest stars in the firmament because they give not so great light as the Sun or Moone or greater stars so we should not reject the smallest lights of Gods truth albeit their shyning be not so bright as the glansing of other principles of Divinity The obscurest scriptures have some light in them and some cleer doctrine mixed with them for which cause also they should be read Qu. 9. Is not the reading of the masse book Divine service because of the passages of Divine Scriptures in it Ans There are as good passages of Scriptures in the Turks Alcoran in the Iewish Talmud and in witches charmes In these books and charmes the holy Scriptures are written to cloak and cover the deformitie and filthinesse of idolatrous superstitious and ●●mane traditions as good wine may hid deadly poison in the same cup. Qu. 10. You do choose on t particular Scriptures to be read as fittest for the purpose in time of plagues or extraordinary blissings and you confesse that to be Divine service so in this book wee have fitted the Scriptures for diverse occasions Therefore it is Divine service to read it Ans You have fixed the Scriptures unto set times but you have not fitted them for diverse occasions you are not Prophets you foreknow not the occasions we choose no Scriptures to be read at extraordinary times untill that God make the occasions sensible to our eyes and then his word inviteth us to choose such Scriptures saying Call upon me in the day of thy trouble and I will heare thee and thou shall glorifie me Psal 50. All our reading and preaching of such Scriptures are for expressing our desires in trouble and then God when he heareth us he blesseth us and then wee thank and glorifie Him extraordinarly in his worship but not in fixed dayes of the year Thou knowest not but thy fixed dayes of fasting and prayer for averting Gods judgements or delivering thee from plagues may be the very dayes of Gods greatest bountie in giving unto thee many spirituall and bodily blessings and then if thou keep thy humiliation foresaid thou art a mocker of God and lyest against him in pretending a plague when he blesseth thee and ●hus thou art unthankfull in not praising God solemn●y for these blessings The like mocking and lying against God are effected in thy fixed dayes of thanksgiving for his spirituall and bodily blessings when 〈◊〉 his anger God multiplieth his plagues Thus the antichristian Clergie are false prophets seeming to foretell by these fixed dayes of fasting and thanksgiving that God hath fixed His blessings and plagues unto the same dayes which God never intended 2. To read and hear divine service out of the canon of Scriptures which Gods Spirit hath authorized and sealed to be the rule of our faith and holy life and to be the register of Gods revealed will towards his kirk To read them I say out of this canon it is not divine service more then to read a witches charme which is full of Scriptures also But it is devilish service to obtrud the reading of them for divine service when they are incorporat into one treatise with humaine and devilish doctrine to beautifie and procure credit to the doctrine of devils The Scriptures are out of the authorized canon not when they are lying in louse sheets of paper or bound in severall books by themselves or when they are bound only with other books nor yet when they are made use of in sound doctrine of Divinitie for all these times they losse not their spirituall union and cohesion with the true canon But when they are incorporate into one treatise with humaine and profane doctrine with which they can have no spirituall union nor agreement of Divine veritie whereby they losse their dignitie more then if they were burnt in the fire for the burning of them procureth no credit to errors and lies as when they are incorporate into one treatise with errors and lies 3. The morall sentences of Philosophers containe many things which a●e in Gods word shall