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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61438	Positions concerning the differences between the true English liturgy and the deformed disordered Cranmerian changeling, by which it was supplanted.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5435A; ESTC R222010	3,897	5

POSITIONS concerning the Differences between the True English Liturgy and the deformed disordered Cranmerian Changeling by which it was Supplanted 1. THAT THE FIRST BOOK of Ed. 6. which was Composed by known Persons The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and certain of the most Learned and Discreet Bishops and other Learned Men of this Realm appointed by the King to draw up the same with respect as well to the most sincere and pure Christian Religion taught in the Scripture as to the usages in the Primitive Church as by the St. 2. 3. Ed. 6. c. 1. is declared and by the said Sta. is Enacted to be used is moreover by the Sta. declared to have been by the Aid of the Holy Ghost with one Vniform Agreement of them concluded and set forth and again by Sta. 3. 4. Ed. 6. c. 10. A Godly Order agreeable to the Order of the Primitive Church and in it nothing to be Read but the very pure Word of God or what is evidently grounded upon the same And again by Sta. 5. 6. Ed. 6. c. 1. A very Godly Order agreeable to the Order of the Primitive Church very comfortable to all good People desiring to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the State of this Realm And that the Doubts risen in the Vse and Exercise of it were rather by the Curiosity of the Ministers and Mistakers than of any other worthy Cause 2. That THE SECOND BOOK of Ed. 6. by which the former was supplanted in the Principal part that is the Office of the Faithful Intiled The Order for Administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion is directly contrary to the former in all or most of the particulars aforesaid viz. 3. That it is not such a Godly Order but the former Godly Order disordered absurdly Inverted interrupted with Impertinencies maimed and dismembred in some of the Principal and Essential parts of that Office 4. That it is not agreeable to the Order of the Primitive Church but disordered and dismembered contrary to the Order of the Primitive and whole Catholick Church 5. That it was not concluded by any unanimous Agreement of any certain known discreet Bishops or other Learned Men of this Church or Realm but corrupted and disordered by the Councels and Assistance of Foreigners and by the Practice and Contrivance of Cranmer promoted in Parliament and by Parliament Authority Schismatically imposed upon the Church and Nation without the Consent of the Clergy of this Nation or of any one of them who is certainly known to have had any hand in it 6. That it was not concluded by the Aid of the Holy Ghost but disordered and dismembred by the subtile Instigation of the Spirit of Antichrist to do dispite to the Holy Ghost to abrogate the Honour of our Saviour abolish the Solemnity of the peculiar Christian Worship to stifle even the true Notion of it to bring it into Disuse deprive us of the Benefit of it and bring the Judgments of God upon this Church and Nation 7. That it hath not been Profitable to the State of the Nation but brought 1. Severe Judgments of God upon the first Authors of it and Corrupters of his Worship and 2. All the Evils before mention'd design'd by that Wicked Spirit of Antichrist upon this Church and Nation to this day 8. That as the unhappy Differences of Religion have been a Principal Cause or Occasion of much of the Wars which in these last Ages have Infested Europe so the Corruption of this Liturgy is one Principal Cause of these Differences Indefensable on the part of this Church by Law Established and which makes it no glorious Church but a Schismatical Faction 9. That these things have been long since perceived at least in a great measure by many Learned and Judicious Men of these Nations who have all desired and some indeavoured to have them rectified 10. That if these things be so there is great Danger that a Wilful Neglect after a plain Admonition thereof by any Person whatever in such as are in place of Authority to Reform and Rectify these Disorders Corruptions and Abuses in the Solemn Worship of God and our Saviour may now produee the like Judgments of God upon themselves if not also upon the Nation as the first abused Corrupters thereof did upon themselves and the Nation heretofore 11. That the seting up of the Kings's Armes in the place of our most Solemn Worship and over the Commandments and the most holy Name of God was an Insolent Prophane and Impious thing And tho it was first done by Factious inconsiderate People without Authority yet if after notice it be Conniv'd at or Tolerated by those who are in Authority and may and ought to Reform it it will become their Sin and may provoke the Judgments of God upon them 12. That as the King's Arms so placed is a proper Ensign for this Church as an Emblem of the Subjection of their Religion to the Suprimacy of the Civil Power so the Flying Dragon in stead of the Sign of the Son of Man upon the Spire of Bow-Church the Peculiar of the Arch-bishop in the chief City of this Nation is as proper an Ensign and Emblem of that invisible Power by whose Operation and Energy the Corruption of the Solemn Worship of God of the Discipline and of other matters of Religion have been effectually accomplished and setled under pretence of Reformation and these Ensigns 13. That it is manifest that the Superstition of former Ages is in this turned into great Prophaneness and that People not only the Laity but the Clergy also are grown cold and senseless of the Dishonour done to God in these and other matters so that divers things which in former ages have been reputed great and provokeing Sins are commonly now thought to be no Sins at all or but mere Peccadillos 14. That the principal Cause of the Contempt of the Clergy is the just Judgment of God upon them for their Insensibility and little Concern for the Dishonour done to his Divine Majesty in these things and the Scandal of that and their temparizing compliances and Greediness of Preferments and that there is great Probability that the time is at hand that they will all be cast out if they do not speedily awake and mend their Manners QUESTIONS concerning Prayers for the Dead 1. WHether Prayers for the Dead be any part of Popery or a true Catholic Practice of the Church of Christ in the first purest and most flourishing Ages of it 2. Whether S. Paulinus and S. Augustin for the Latin Church and S. John Chrysostome S. Epiphanius S. Cyril of Jerusalem for the Greek Church be not competent and positive Witnesses for their Age that Prayers for the Dead was then the Practice of the whole Catholick Church and believed to be an Apostolical Tradition 3. Whether S. Arnobius and S. Cyprian c. be not such competent Witnesses for the Age precedent and Tertullian who lived in