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A34136 Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ... C. W. 1666 (1666) Wing C5572; ESTC R35602 67,445 80

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haste within the space of half a quarter of an hour But 3. Besides these gross and palpable Battologies which cannot lightly escape any mans eye that doth but cursorily view that highly honoured but more justly condemned Model of Devotion the Letany there are several others obnoxious enough to a little observation For 1. Presently after request here made for deliverance from all evil and mischief and from sin another request is made for deliverance from some evils and some sins as from Pride Vain-glory Hypocrisie c. from Fornication and all other deadly sin as if Pride Hypocrisie Malice Envy c. were but sins venial By the way They that are so desirous to cover the shame of the Romish Parentage of their sarling Letany much forget themselves to suffer so express a linea●ent of her Mothers feature to be seen in her face as the making onely of some sins deadly which supposeth others to be venial 2. After deliverance begg'd from the crafts and assaults of the Devil the like deliverance is within two or three lines begg'd again from all the deceits of the Devil and afterwards from those evils which the craft and subtilty of the Devil worketh against us 3. After prayer made for deliverance from contempt of Gods Word and Commandment prayer is here again made that we may diligently live after his Commandments and the third time that we may amend our lives according to his holy Word Passages and expressions symbolizing in words sence and meaning as near as these found in the conceived Prayer of an Anti-formist would be called tautologies to the great disgrace and contempt of it by persons who have addicted themselves to Liturgical I had almost said Lethargical Devotions 4. VVhen prayer hath been here made unto God to give and preserve to our use THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH so as in due time we may enjoy them we are compelled to pray again in dry weather for such moderate rain and showers that we may RECEIVE THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH to our comfort c. and yet again in wet weather for such weather whereby we may RECEIVE THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH in due season and yet after all this That our Land may yeild us HER FRUITS of increase 5. After the People have pray'd Have mercy upon us being beholding to their Minister for a Vocative-case they must pray out of hand yet again Lord have mercy upon us and for all this yet again Christ have mercy upon us and after all these agains yet again once more Lord have mercy upon us and now all the Beads of this string are told 6. This Prayer O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake is presently after corrected and amended onely thus O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine Honour 7. When we have prayed From our Enemies defend us O Christ we must pray unto Almighty God as if our Letany did a little Socinianize Save and deliver us from the hands of our Enemies 8. About the middle of this Letany after the thick and short Prayers the Minister as if the People and he had been idle untill now or at least about some other business then praying admonisheth his People to pray saying unto them Let us pray 9. And lastly to pass by several other impertinent Duplicats and Multiplicats or vain repetitions of Petitions within the compass of the Letany onely When the Minister and People shall have prayed with the uttermost devotion they can make between them for Charles our most gracious King and Governour for our gracious Queen Katharine Mary the Queen-Mother James Duke of Yorke c. they must recruit their Devotions very speedily or else they will pray the second time which is not far off but coldly for our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles our gracious Queen Katharine c. 2. Neither is this admired piece of Devotion so notoriously deformed as we have seen with Tautologies and empty Repetitions onely it hath sundry other Ailments and Diseases hanging upon it 1. All those eight Petitions or Prayers if such they be put into the mouth of the Minister unto which so many Good-Lord-deliver-us's are subjoyned as far as the Minister uttereth or prayeth them are absolute and gross Non-sence having no Verb at all in them onely the People are enjoyned to supply the defects of their Minister and to underprop his pendulous words with a principal Verb and so between the Premises of the one and the Conclusion of the other we have with much ado a Syllogism of Prayer formed That the Minister should pray by halves or make half a Prayer and the People pray another half Prayer and these two halfs be clapt together to make a whole Prayer is certainly a new-fangled device of praying and such whereof the Scripture yea and all Principles of Reason not superstitionized are ashamed But 2. Though Good-Lord-deliver-us joyned to the preceding words of the Minister make a competent and grammatical sence together yet those one and twenty Some-whats for Prayers they are not and what distinct appellation to give them I know not which are relieved with the like number of We-beseech-thee to-hear-us-Good-Lords do not of themselves make any sense at all nor any very good sence in conjunction with the words assigned unto them for their relief For to say That it may please thee to do this and that We beseech thee to hear us good Lord is little better then a Soloecism at the best but an unusual and harsh construction 3. Here are several expressions and passages besides not so considerate or well-digested 1. To pray to be delivered from Deadly Sins which supposeth the distinction of Sins into venial and mortal to be consonant to the Scriptures sounds rather Pontifician then Protestant Devotion though I think the distinction may in a sence be admitted this was touched before 2. To pray unto God to preserve all that travel by Land or by Water is it not to pray for High-way-men and Thieves Pirates and Murtherers if they be travelling either by Land or Water that they may escape the danger of being apprehended and punished for their wickedness and consequently that they may have peace and continue undisturbed in their horrid practices as well as honest and harmless men in such a condition 3. These expressions By thy Agony and bloody Sweat by thy Cross and Passion c. be they intended whether sensu Mediatorio Adjurativo re-memorativo or in what sence soever make no good sound in the ears of a good Conscience especially that is tender and unlearned 4. Every person that is enjoyned to pray for the sending down of the HEALTHFUL Spirit of Grace upon our Bishops and Curats c. hardly understands in what sence why or how the Spirit of God is here termed healthful 5. That God should be considered in his power of working Great Miracles when he is desired to send down his Spirit upon our Bishops and Curats c. Doth it