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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

exundans flamma deficientibus nutrimentis emoritur Though the affections may be more inlarged Jerom ac● suriam p. 83. and dilated in sudden ebullitions raptures and passions as some women swell to an unusual bigness because they keep not themselves under the restraint of laceing and the waters that covered the earth at the first creation were shallower than when they were reduced into the bounded channels of the Seas The blood and spirits called forth into the outward parts of the body leave a lesser proportion about the heart to guard it from a delinquium and such feavorish distempers often prove mortal Yet may not those devotions which are performed by the standard of prescribed forms though they make not such a blaze like coals of Juniper preserve that he●●● longer which they have conceived May not these deliberate and rational services be more deep though they make not so much noise May not I pray with judgment understanding and intenseness of soul when I read as well as when I say a prayer without book when I open my eyes as well as when I shut them I pray read the true meaning of those words The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth as expounded by that good man Mr. Hildersham On John 4. Let 's not dispute so long about the mode of prayer untill we forget either what it is or that we owe any such tribute unto God As I have heard a wrangling Sophister so earnest in snatching at collateral and incident disputes untill he hath forgot the question in debate And I have seen some ill nurtur'd doggs so violent in questing after every little Bird that they have left the game behind them Let us offer up to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clo. Alew p. 717. the incense of a righteous soul let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 converse with God and keep close unto him in the pantings and motions of our souls Basil p. 772 and then if this may be done by a form le ts be wise unto sobriety in hushing of unchristian quarrels and by joyning together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one consent in the same work of such regular prayers Now because some of you will condescend to a form as lawful and expedient yet you have no kindness for ours Just as I knew a Gentleman who had variety of drinks and those the best in their kind approved off by his neighbours round about yet he was alwayes out of conceit with his own liquors and sent his man far and near even to obscure places to buy or borrow what might better please his own palate The application is as easie as the story is realibut were it fabulous the moral would prove very pertinent We admire things at a distance and those that are far fetcht do best please such persons whose imaginations are stronger than their reason Were the Officers of Geneva or Amsterdam translated into England I 'le warrant you many nice stomacks for a time would make no bones of them nay how would they be imbrac'd and cry'd up not because they are better than ours but in that they would be novelties amongst us Although our usages and methods in Gods service have been commended and the harshest particulars practis'd by the most eminent reformers in the world ours have stood without any contradiction that I have met withal except it be such as the Moon meets with whose lustre may be bark'd at by whiffling currs but 't is farre enough elevated above the reach of their teeth That stratagem-that our Liturgy was taken out of the Mass-Book did execution in its season whilst it w●s managed by the brawny Arms of those en●ssa●es of Apolyon who were resolved to be strenuous in their calumni●s 't is yet uncertain whether ●●s charge did proceed most from impotent ●●●lice of desp●rate impudence This imposture is now so ●●●parent that the mear●●t capacities begin to ●●e thorrow it and discover the legerdem●● thereof If to pray to God in our Mother ●●ngue ☜ and not in latin 〈◊〉 to pray to him only in the name of Jesus Christ without any addresses to the Virgin Mary or any other Saint or Angel If to acknowledge but two Sacraments if to receive the Lords Supper in both kinds with a declaration against transubstantiation elevation and adoration If neither to respect the Popes Supremacy purgatory justification by works or prayers for the dead If those prayers which were compos'd by martyr'd Protestants against which the Pope sends forth his roaring Bull as if they were level'd directly against his Throne and will sooner dispense with his followers for hearing our Sermons than joyning with our prayers I say that I may put a period to this sentence which might easily be drawn forth into a whole paragraph if these things savour of the Mass-Book Praeflat culpam agnoscere guam deprecari I must confess before the Sun that I am a Papist that our Liturgy and Articles were fram'd out of the Romish mint But since there is nothing of this denomination once insinuated in our prayers Since the whole compages of our service is purg'd and fan'nd from all the rubbish and chaffs of Popish trash since we have recover'd those vessels which Nehuchadnezzar had carried out of Jerusalem Ezra 7.8 may not we bring them again into the house of the Lord May not we fetch the Ark out of the territories of the Philistines and carry it unto Shilo may not Lot be redeemed from the Kings of the Nations after he had been taken prisoner And may not the Creed Lords prayer ten commandments some excellent prayers and laudable usages which were usurp'd upon by the tripple Crown be restor'd to the service of the Church as a captiye Woman might be married to an Israelite after her head had been shaven her nails pair'd Deut 21.12 13. and the raiment of her captivity taken from her Especially seeing the beams and rafters of our Liturgy were in the Church long before there was any such thing as Popery in the World This Lyon being hunted out of your way this bug-Bear being devested of all its terrible vizzards Bishop Taylar Le ts see what in the next place affrights you And herein I could have said more to the purpose if I could have prevailed with any of you to have given me your particular exceptions to which you would have stood For I perceive there is almost as much variety in your exceptions as there is in your faces One pishes at and slites what another cries out against with a stentorian voice as an intollerable abomination But this I could never obtain either by my self or by the mediation of proxies whom I employ'd to the same purpose As if it were as difficult a matter to procure a catalogue of your objections against the Liturgy as 't is to get a list of the Churches traditions I cannot suppose that men of your pitch can be offended with those

of Inchantment and Popery But methinks since 't is most plain the Cross was us'd in the Church when there was no such thing as Popery heard of in the World it should be clear'd from that aspersion for proof hereof we have the evidence of Tertullian de Resurrec Carnis Origen Homil. 8. Cyprian Epist 70.72 73. Jerom de Hillarione p. 241. 245. CHAP. XIII It is no enormity to have Ceremonies about Gods worship AS for the other Rites and Ceremonies retained in our Church which are as few as in any Church in the Christian world were you at the stern dictating to us the Idea's of your own heads I nothing doubt but we should have more circumstances in Gods worship than now we have but perhaps Cultus divinus non potest osse sine ceremoniss licet Ceremoniae non sint pars cultus Bald. 1138. neither so apposite nor ancient as these we have already I pray wherein are these contrary to Gods word or declared to be any part of Gods worship Bishop Gauden in his preface to Bishop Browwigs Sermons or taught for doctrines They are neither the meat nor sauce of Religion but only as the garnish of the dish to use the words of a reverend Bishop Sires agatur non modo frivole sed eliam iniqua quâ nob●… detrimentum adfertur tamen sipater out Magistratus preseripserit id faciendum est Camer de Eccl. p. 370. Epist 120. They are indifferent you yield in their own natures we say so too Neither doth the injoyning of them alter their intrinsecal condition but only as to their outward use we are not so free to use or not to use them as we were before As those things mentioned Acts 15. were some of them lawful in themselves to be used or forborn yet after the Synode had determined the controversies about those indifferent things then they are called necessary vers 28. of that Chapter That good man Bishop Hooper did for a time scruple the Surplice but after that Bucer Peter Martyr and Calvin in an Epistle of his had discovered his weakness unto him he was not so tenacious of his own conceit but he yielded to preach in his Episcopal habit before the King Book of Martyrs p. 1367. If you shall still say these things are indifferent as to their use Conscentia obligatur p●aeceptis Ecclesiae ij●quae spectant ad ordinem ad vitanda scandala indire Ele quanquam corum materia non est in varbo Dei tamen finis ordo est Camers de Ecl. p. 371. after they are commanded 't is all one as if you should say 't is indifferent whether we obey the King nay whether we obey God who commands obedience to the King Since God hath left us such a latitude to our Superious of setting things in order in the Church and determining what is decent so long as they intrench not upon divine Authority and so by consequence wound not the Consciences of men wherein shall we manifest our obedience unto them As King James was wont to say if not in things of this inferiour nature Especially where they are so suitable that good men would not refuse them were they left to their own choice as to kneel at prayer or at the Sacrament which is delivered by the Minister praying To stand at the Creed and Gospel to shew that we will stand for the maintenance of them both To stand at Praises Himns Songs of Thanksgiving which are branches of prayer and at that lesser Creed Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. Must not God be served with our bodies as well as our souls Can those that serve him in spirit choose to express the zeal of their hearts in the reverential postures of their bodyes As out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks so where there is the heavenly fire of true devotions in the pantings and regular motions of the Soul there it will sparkle out at the eyes break out at the knees elevate the hands and put the whole body into such a frame that it will keep time with those secret wheels and floatings of the soul Inward and outward worship are but the integral parts making up the same worship one without the other is but lame Jam. 2 26 imperfect defective The body without the spirit is dead and spirit without the body is but a meagre ghost Bodily service without the actings of the soul is but hypocrisie and these without the other are oftentimes a spiritual delusion Though God calls for the heart will he have nothing else Though we must worship him in Spirit must not he be worshiped too in truth because some superstitious persons lay the greatest stress of Gods service upon bodily adorations must we place none at ●t all therein lest we should be accounted superstitious Will a wise man forsake his mear because a fool calls it by some ugly nick-name When I see men rude careless slovenly inflexible like statues in Gods service am I uncharitable in judging their offerings to come from a cold Altar and to be no better than dead sacrifices Learned men tell us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Gods worship comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dog because as a dog crouches to his Master so must we humble our selves in our devu●addresses unto God I find Abraham falling on his face and worshipping God before the Law And I find the Meathen Romans by the very light of nature Livie l. 3. sweeping their Temples with the hair of their heads in their applications to their Gods And shall not we give God that respect which we would give to some noble personage or carthly Prince Go and offer it to thy Prince was once an Ironical check and may not God still use the same far casm expostulating with as much bitterness would you carry your selves so unmannerly if you were either to petition for or receive a favour from the hands of a King Mr. Torshal on Mal. 1.7 There is less danger in superstition overvaluing Gods worship than in profaneness I must refer you to my Authors in the Margin Baldwin p. 174. else I shall bear the blame The exercise of true piety lies in external worship and this is called Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence it is that Salvian so sadly complains Minori Reverentia introimus templum we shew less respect in Gods house than we would in a Judges Hall Or we go with as little reverence sayes the Martyr'd Arch-Bishop into the Temple as a Tinker and his dog into an Alchouse Were our Church cumbred and even oppress'd with so pompous liveless and numerous train of Ceremonies as that of the Church of Rome which might either distract or divert our devotions Were it with us as Saint Jerome sayes it was per totas Orientis Eccle●●● throughout all the Eastern Churches 〈◊〉 they read the Gospel Adversus Vigildation p 121