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A55574	Common-prayer-book no divine service, or, XXVIII reasons against forming and imposing any humane liturgies or Common-prayer-books, and the main objections to the contrary, answered also, the English Common-prayer-book anatomized, likewise twelve arguments against diocesan and lord-bishops, with the main objections answered, and the great disparity between them, and Timothy and Titus, shewed / by Vavasor Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3084; ESTC R40660	35,918	54

Common-Prayer-Book NO Divine Service OR XXVIII REASONS AGAINST Forming and Imposing any Humane LITURGIES or COMMON-PRAYER-BOOKS AND The main Objections to the contrary answered ALSO The English Common-Prayer-Book anatomized LIKEWISE Twelve Arguments against Diocesan and Lord-Bishops with the main Objections answered AND The Great Disparity between them and Timothy and Titus shewed By VAVASOR POWELL The Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged Why do you also transgress the Commandement of God by your Traditions Mat. 15.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not as though yee were Lords of or over the Heritages 1 Pet. 5.3 London Printed for Livewell Chapman and are to bee sold at his shop at the Sign of the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1661. TO The Composers of Imposers of Readers of Hearers of Disputers and Writers for Common-Prayer I Would desire you all in the Name and Fear of the All-seeing Almighty and All-judging GOD to set these following and the like Considerations to your hearts and your hearts to them Consider 1. How jealous the Lord of Heaven and Earth is of his own Worship and of all the Parts and Circumstances thereunto belonging Deut. 5.9 Hos 5.11 Mat. 15 3. Col. 2.21 22. Rev. 22.14 20. 2. How abominable and unacceptable to this holy just God have been and are all Idolatrous Superstitious and False Services and all that do serve him in any Way or Thing which he hath not himself commanded and appointed Deut. 7.25 26. Isa 30.22 66.3 4. Jer. 9.13 14 Ezek. 20.4 3. How sorely and severely he hath punished those Kings Priests Prophets and People that have been false Worshippers and swerved from His Holy Commandements 1 Kin. 11.6 Num. 11.3 4. 4. Whether God doth call upon any of you all to offer him any such Service as this is And whether he may not say to you as he did once to Judah Who hath required this at your hand Isa 1.12 2. How inconsistent with the Day and Light of the Gospel is this Service God having sent his Word more fully and plainly to direct his Ministers and People and given his Spirit in a more abundant measure to help and inable them to call upon him 6. How little good if any at all hath been done by the long use of the Service-Book though men have prayed long by it That the rest of their Lives might be holy and righteous and yet they still continue prophane and unrighteous 7. How much hurt it hath done in shouldring and thrusting out many godly painful soul-saving Preachers and in bringing in and maintaining so many ignorant scandalous lazy and formal Priests and Curates to the deceiving and utter undoing of precious Souls 8. Whether the imposing of the Scottish Liturgy which in some things was better though in some others worse than the English was not the beginning and first Cause of the late grievous Wars and if so whether men should not be more cautious to do the like for the future 9. Whether if the Truth were thorowly and truly weighed and examined the first end of composing the Common-Prayer-Book which doth so much symbolize with the Mass was not to bring Papists to Church but it effected so little therein not because they so much dislike it as because it was not in Latine and commanded by the Pope that it did rather confirm them in their Mass-Service 10. Whether some now may not intend by the re-establishing of this Book to oppose and pull down that excellent and gracious Spirit of Prayer and Preaching which God hath poured out upon his Ministers and to make this a Snare and Net against all Preachers and People that out of Conscience cannot conform thereto 11. Whether any Persons can produce any such Liturgie or such Form of Prayer from the beginning of the World either among the Jews or Gentiles till above three hundred years after Christ when Antichrist began to exercise Papal Power 12. Whether if there were no other Reason but that this Book hath been so much idolized by the generality of men and offensive to so many Christians it should not be done with as the Brazen Serpent was by Hezekiah 1 King 18.4 13. Whether one end of Christs coming into and one part of his work in the world was not to redeem men from the Rudiments and Traditions of men of which this is one And whether it be not a Sin against the Blood Spirit and Gospel of Christ to impose maintain and continue still to use the same 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Heb. 9.10 11. 14. They that worship God in a false way are said in Scripture to worship Devils Lev. 17.7 Deut. 32.17 2 Chron. 11.17 1 Cor. 10.20 15. Whether at the great and terrible Day of judgement any Magistrates Ministers or People can justifie before Christ the making imposing reading or hearing of this or the like Service And whether good men as far as they build with this Material will not then suffer loss And whether those can then stand in the Judgement without fear shame and sorrow that have cast out persecuted imprisoned or otherwise afflicted the true Preachers and Servants of God who did chuse to obey GOD rather than men and to observe His Divine Will rather than Mens Traditions Consider what I say and the Lord give thee you understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2.7 I esteem all thy Precepts concerning all things to bee right and I hate every false way Psal 119.128 Against Imposing the Common-Prayer-Book COLLECTIONS OUT OF SM EC TY. MN VVS Dedicated and presented to the Lords and Commons in Parliament IN Page 5. that the first and purer times knew no stinted Liturgy as it appears from Tertullian in Apol. 9. cap. 30. Epist 121. who saith The Christians of those times prayed Sine monitore quia de pectore That is without any Prompter but their own hearts Austin also telleth us Liberum est it is free for us to ask the same things in the Lords Prayer aliis atque aliis verbis sometimes one way and sometimes another and Justin Martyr tells us Hee who instructed the people prayed according to his ability p. 7. yet have some Bishops blasphemed the Spirit of Prayer and many able learned conscientious Preachers have been molested and suspended for letting the constant flames of their fixed conceptions mount up from the Altar of their zealous heart unto the Throne of grace p. 8. their tongues also have raged against this way of Prayer have sealed up the mouths of Ministers for praying thus in publick and imposed Penances on private Christians for praying thus in their Families and compelled to abjure this practice endeavouring with raging violence to banish this Divine Ordinance from our Churches and Dwellings professing in open Court it was fitter for Amsterdam than for our Churches as did Doctor Corbet Mr. Nevil and all this in behalf of that Book of Common-Prayer the Original whereof is published in that Proclamation of King Edward the Sixth p. 9. which they so rigorously pressed to the casting out

Ezek. 18. compare these words with the Scripture there vers 21 22 and you will finde both adding and diminishing contrary to Deut. 4.2 Prov. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 2. Leaving some part of Scripture out as the Book of Canticles c. and not to bee read throughout the whole year and many if not most part of the other Books of Scripture so that by the Rubrick in the Common-Prayer-Book a great part of the Bible should never be read publickly at all which is contrary to 2 Tim. 3.16 3. Gross alterations and differences are between the Psalms in the Bible and those appointed to be read in the Book of Common-Prayer as in Psal 14. in the Bible there is but seven verses but in the Book of Common-Prayer there is eleven so in Psal 106. 30 it is in the Bible Phineas executed Judgement which is according to the Hebrew and Greek Transsation and according to Numb 25.7 8. but in the Book of Common-Prayer he prayed So in Psal 22.31 in the Bible and according to the Hebrew a seed shall serve him but in the Book of Common-Prayer My seed So in Psal 40.9 in the Bible and so in the Hebrew and Greek and Latine Translations it is I have preached Righteousness but in the Book of Common-Prayer thy Righteousness adding the word thy So in Psal 105.25 In the Translation of the Bible it is Hee i. e. God turned their hearts to hate his people But in the Common-Prayer-Book whose hearts turned 4. Some Chapters are appointed to be begun in the middle of them though but short destroying the Connexion between the words going before and where they begin As upon the day called the Nativity of Christ the third Chapter of Titus is appointed to bee read for the second Lesson beginning at the fourth verse which depends upon the third verse So Luke 2.10 which is joyned to the ninth verse 5. Appointing many Chapters to be read out of Apocrypha as Wisdom chap. 1.3 6 9 19 22. Ecclus 19.29 38 44. Caveat omnia Apocrypha saith Jerom Take heed of all the Apocripha and yet of 172 chapt or thereabouts in the Apoc. 104 chap. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereabouts are appointed to bee read every year contrary as the last Synod observed in their Catechism to Luke 24. 27 44. Rom. 3.2 2 Pet. 1.21 and yet in the preface before the book it is said That there is nothing ordained to be read but the Scriptures c. Obj. But why are not those Apocrypha Books to be read Ans Not onely because the Scriptures are sufficient of themselves 2 Tim. 3.15 but because there are many foolish and fabulous things therein as in Tob. chap. 6.7 11.14 12.15 so Jud. 9.2 10 13. Ecclesiasticus 1.15 12.5 48.13 with many the like compared with the Word of God will easily appear to be false 6. In many places to call the Writings of the Prophets and the Acts of the Apostles and Revelations Epistles as Isa 7.17 40.1 50.5 63.1 Jerem. 23.5 Joel 2. Acts 1.1 2.1 8.14 11.17 10.24 13.26 Apec 7.2 12.7 14. as the Epistle for the day of Christs Nativity the Epistle for Innocents day Did any of the Sectaries in citing a Scripture call the Prophecy of Isaiah or Jeremiah an Epistle he should be hissed at 7. Calling the Lords Day and other the days of the week by the names of the old Saxon Idols as Sunday from the Sun Monday from the Moon Tuesday from Tuiseo Wednesday from Wooden c. contrary to Exod. 23.13 Hos 2.17 and the way used in Scripture Gen. 1. 5 8. 13 19 23. Mat. 28.1 8. Dedicating dayes to the Angel Michael and to the Apostles and other Saints contrary to Exod 31.15 Gal. 4.10 Col. 2.6 16 17. and calling those Holy-days and yet the Sabbath Sunday likewise dedicating one day to all Saints answerable to what Heathen Rome did to their Idols and what Antichristian Rome still doth to Saints But God may say Who hath required this at your hand Isa 1.12 9. That the Minister is called so often Priest in it Obj. But are they not called Gods-Priests and Gods-Clergie 1 Pet. 2 9. 5. 3 Ans Not the Ministers distinct from the People but the beleevers are called a Royal Priest-hood and Gods Clergy or Heritage speaking in an Old Testament-phrase by way of allusion to the Jewes Gods select people but it is not in that sense that the Minister is called a Priest in this Book but looking upon him as one that belongs to a peculiar Tribe and as they did and usually do pray for themselves as being of the Tribe of Levi which if they be they are Jews and by the Law of England if you beleeve some Lawyers to be banished 10. That the people should pray audibly Turpe est Dectori cum tuipa redarguit ipsam or with a loud voice with the Minister as in the Confession and other prayers which is confusion and contrary to good order 1 Cor. 14.40 which they blame in other men 11. That the Lessons Epistles and Gospels should be sung as you finde in the Rubrick immediately before Te Deum laudamus No such Command from God nor such practice in the Churches of God 12. That Te Deum Laudamus Benedicite omnia are appointed to be read throughout the whole year after the first Lesson Sure if a good Preacher did preach one and the same Sermon every Lords day in the year these men would distate it And what is meant by retaining still the Latine Titles and those which are commonly used in Popish Nations but that we seek uniformity with them But what concord hath Christ with Belial or what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2 Cor. 6.15 16. 13. In that called Te Deum there is a difference made between Angels Cherubims and Seraphims making as the Papists do divers to wit nine degrees of Angels Wee read but of one Arch-Angel in Scripture which is Christ Dan. 10.12 12.1 and not Arch-Angels as the Com. Prayer-Book saith See Communion and likewise in setting days apart for Michael and all the Angels Though it be very probable that by Michael is understood Christ himself by comparing Rev. 12.9 with Zech. 3.2 and Judg. 8.9 but were there such an Angel who hath appointed a day or daies to be observed to him or them This is contrary to Col. 2.18 14. That in their Canticle or Benedicite omnia c. after the spirits and souls of the Righteous are called upon to bless the Lord Ananias Azarias and Misael are called upon to bless the Lord As if they were not included in the spirits and souls of the righteous 15. After the second Lesson This implies it is used in Latine as divers other things in the Service-Book are in the Romish Church which much incourageth them in their way as learned Parker and others shew Benedictus in English is to