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The Book of common prayer confirmed by sundry acts of Parliament, and briefly vindicated against the contumelious slanders of the fanatique party tearming it porrage by Gyles Calfine.
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Calfine, Giles.
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1660
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Wing C293; ESTC R15722
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THE BOOK OF Common Prayer Confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament and briefly Vindicated against the Contumelious slanders of the Fanatique Party Tearming it Porrage From all Sedition and privy Conspiracy from all false Doctrine and Heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandments Good Lord deliver us By Gyles Calfine London Printed by T. M. for William Potter 1660. The Booke of Common-Prayer Confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament briefly Vindicated against the contumelious slanders of the Fanatique party terming it Porrage I Need not make an Apology to the ensuing Discourse T is well known to all honest and discreet Protestants how basely our Service-Book is tearmed by the name of Porrage a name very frequent in uncivil mouthes and trampled under foot by unreasonable men that have neither Faith nor Charity and although they be now well fed to the full and may go from one Church to another to please their palate and taste of what pleaseth them best yet there may a time come which I pray God there do not that they may be glad of the crums which fall from their Masters Table but let them alone awhile the thing that I say is this That our Common Prayer is so abhorred depraved detested and despised of by many as if it were the most vilest thing in the World nay if the Devill himself had composed it it could not be more villified then it is T is a shame to speak and I blush to hear it that Men that think themselves such rare Divines that people that think they have such knowledg zeal to tearm such a good thing and such holy matter as there is to be Porrage oh fie where is your judgment where is your moderation what quite lost is this your zeal turned to hate you are surely of a hot and fiery Spirit contrary to the nature of warm and wholesome Porrage if you knew but the right virtue of Pottage you would not have tearmed the Common Prayer so but your own Prayers For do ye not know that they were godly men that made them they were not made extempore but with deliberation not hand over head as many do in these dayes but seriously considered of and premeditated and do you not know That these good men laid down their lives for this and the Truth and do ye not know that they were established and maintained by Acts of Parliament in the Raigne of three Kings and one Queen and is it now made a laughing stock surely you should have more manners then so Indeed t is Parliament time and men speak and do what they list now and so do ye for ye speak evill of Kings of authority and dignity and despise government contrary to the Apostles rule Oh the great malice that is one against another against Peer and Peasant against Priest and People oh envy thou limbe of the Devill how rulest thou in the hearts of people especially against Bishops oh how odious is that name to many but I counsell you to speak moderately and judge charitably if they be stained let them be pained they have faults as well as we yet they are Gods Embassadors his Stewards his Angels disposers of Gods secrets disbursers of his treasuries then revile them not For t is written Thou shalt not speak evill of the Ruler of the People But as for that which you call Porrage who hatcht the name I know not neither is it worth the enquiring after nor the worse for that name nor none the worse that useth it for I hold porrage good food it is better to a sick man than meat for a sick man will sooner eat porrage than meat Pottage will digest with him when meat will not Pottage will nourish the blood fill the veins run into every part of a man and make him warmer so will these prayers do and work more effectually set the body and soul in a heat warm our devotion work fervency in us lift up our souls to God And many things more it worketh in us if we had but appetite to them and t is well stored with herbs out of Gods garden here a little and there a little as appears in the beginning of the Common-prayer and so forward to the end of it For there is the hearbs of Gods own planting in our pottage as you call it the ten Commandments dainty herbs to season any pottage in the world then there is our Saviours form of prayer and that is a most sweet pot-herb cannot be denied then there is also Davids herbs his Prayers Psalms helps to make our pottage rellish well then S. Pauls precepts also the Creed a very faithfull pot-herb and the Song of the blessed Virgin a good pot-herb so that this porrage hath abundance of choice herbs to season it and those that will eat no such porrage as these so well drest it is pity but they should fast and as the proverb is those that will eat no Porrage must eat no meat Though they be as some tearm them Cockcrowed porrage yet they are as sweet as good as dainty and as fresh as they were at the first The Sun hath not made them sowre with its heat neither hath the cold winter taken away their vigour and strength but they are as wholsome and as well rellished as at the first and unlesse you be sick for novelties you cannot eat better then these Compare them with the Scriptures and see if they be not as well seasoned and crumb'd if you find any thing in them that is either too salt or too fresh too bitter or too sowre too little or too great that herb shall be taken out and a better put in if it can be got or none at all And as in Kitchin porrage there is many good herbs in it so there is likewise in this Church-porrage as you call it For first in Kitchin porrage is good water to make them so on the contrary in the other porrage is the water of life 2. There is salt to season them In the other is a prayer for grace to season our hearts 3. There is Oatmeal to nourish the body in the other is the words of him that is the bread of life which nourisheth our souls and bodies to eternal life 4. There is Thyme in them to rellish them it is very wholsome in the other is a wholsom exhortation not to harden our hearts whilest it is called to day this rellisheth well 5. There is a smal Onion to give a taste In the other is a good herb called Lord have mercy upon us which gives a sweet taste to the soul 6. There is Rosemary to comfort and refresh the body in the other is comfortable words of Christ Come unto me all yee that are heavy laden and I will refresh your souls 7. There is Mary gold leaves to revive the spirits And so in the other there is the souls magnifying the Lord and the spirits rejoycing in God our
Saviour These and many wholesome herbs are contained in it and all these boyling in the heart of mans will make as good porrage as the world can afford especially if you use these herbs following for digestion v.z. The herb repentance the herb Grace the herb Faith the herb Hope the herb Love the herb Good-works the herb Piety the herb Zeal the herb Fervency the herb Ardency the herb Vigilancy and the herb Constancy with many more of this nature which are most excellent for digestion And those that despise this porrage of ours have no appetite to the Lords prayer the ten Commandements the Psalms of David and other good matter that is in them this being contained in the Common Prayer must be despised also but me thinks I hear some say they despise not those What is it then I pray that you dislike in this Porrage Oh Sir I know your meaning by your gaping this sticks in your teeth and spoils your stomack 1. There is you say too much of the Surplice which smelleth of the garment of the Whore 2. There is too much crossing in Baptism and that smels you say of the mark of the Beast but of what beast I wot not 3. There is too much bowing and that tasts of Idolatry 4. There is too much ring in Matrimony and this smels of Superstition 5. Too much kneelling at Sacrament this tasts of Antichrist 6. Too much standing up this smels of vain-glory 7. Too much glory be to the Father and this is superfluous 8. There is too much Lord have mercy on us and this is needlesse 9. Too much Lords Prayer and this is odious in every ones mouth 10. There be too many prayers and they savour not of the spirit And what of all these do they savour so strong in your nose that you dare not peep into the Châ—â—ch Then I may say you savour of an ill smell and are very absurd and you have got a great cold in your feet and it is fumed up into your head so stuffs your brain that you cannot smel at all and carrion is as good to your scent as good and wholsome porrage is That which you hold to be the worst as namely crossing bowing surplice kneeling c. is not worth the speaking and he is a mad man that believes there is salvation in them and so of necessity we must use them no they may be left at any time when authority shall command they are ordered but for decency sake and as neer to the Primitive times as could be gathered and if we have no order in our Churches we shall be a reproach to all people If we should be of that mind as the fashion is or many people are we then must have a new form of prayer every year so you would have something but you know not what so that you are never content full nor fasting neither with Porrage nor without If Pottage had not been good food Jacob would have made none neither would the Angel of the Lord have carried Abbacue by the hair of the head to Daniel in the Lyons Den that he might eat the Pottage which Abbacue had prepared for the reapers I 'le warrant you Daniel was glad of them he went not behinde the doore to eat them as many in our dayes do stay at the Church doore till the service is done and then come and eat the bread out of others mouths but believe it there 's no death in this Pottage in this Common Prayer though many have preached and said there is and that t is meer Popery If this be the opinion of Roundheads then t is no marvel we are so subject to change for mark it alwayes that that which is round is soonest moved and never constant neither in manner fashion or place their wit is like quick-silver in a foot-ball alwayes running so nothing will stay their humour Therefore I counsell you to doe as Esau Jacobs brother did who sold his Birth-right for a Messe of Pottage so would I have you to doe to sell your self-opinions for this Porrage I do not mean that you should sell your chiefest Birth-right The word of God that unto which you are born and must die for not to sell this for Ceremonies not to sell the substance for a shaddow but despise the bare conceits of it and I dare warrant you that the using of this which you call Porrage will never prove your bane neither shall you commit any sin in the least degree provided that you use them to no other end then they were ordered unto and that is as St. Paul speaks concerning the World to use it and not abusing it for the fashion of the World passeth away to such end we may use them and not abuse them knowing that it is in the power of King and Parliament to alter and change them when they please if in case they be corrupted You that unto the Flesh are so inclin'd And love all meats but Porrage that 's your minde Hark in thine eare what I say look well too it For too much Flesh perchance will make thee rue it Set not thy minde upon the Flesh too much Least that it prove too hot for thee to touch This kinde of diet meat and Porrage filleth But too much Flesh alone the body spilleth Post-script Feare God Honour the King Let every soule be subject to the Higher Powers Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake for God is a God of Order and not of Confusion FINIS