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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95584	Some small and simple reasons, delivered in a hollow-tree, iu [sic] Waltham Forrest, in a lecture, on the 33. of March last. By Aminadab Blower a devout bellows-mender of Pimlico. Shewing the causes in generall and particular wherefore they doe, might, would, should, or ought, except against and quite rufuse the liturgy or Book of Common-Prayer.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T513; Thomason E64_14; ESTC R16828	6,540	9

praise it is known that we can doe that extempory by the spirit and it belongs to our Teacher to open his lips and pray but it is our parts to give spirituall attention and not to open out lips but onely at the singing of old Robert Wisdomes Madrigall or the like And whereas we are commmanded to stand at the saying of Gloria Patri to avoid that Ceremony we hold it best not to say it at all As for the 95. Psalme or O come let us sing c. we obiect against it for two Reasons the one is of falling downe and worshipping and kneeling and the other is we will neither kneel fall downe or worship because it is an expression of humility and revererce which we utterly refuse to give either to God or man As for the order of reading the first Lesson we could like it better if it were not so ordered It were necessary we had freedome to read what when and where we list for order is odious and whereas there is appointed a Hymne called by a latine name Te Deum laudamus we doe conceive the matter of it to be very good but that it was composed by a Bishop one Ambrose of a City and Province in Italy called Millaine and that the said Ambrose was not onely a Bishop but for his godly life and holy writings he was made a Saint for these causes we leave him and his Hymne to as being too much conformable to edification decency order and obedience Likewise the second Lesson may be read but not that which is appointed for the day for as is aforesaid we cannot abide any thing that is appointed or ordered by Authority that our Consciences being at liberty we may the more freely shew our selves the lawlesse sonnes and daughters of confusion And though it hath beene a custome very significant and as ancient as the primitive times of Christian Religion to repeat the Articles of the Beleise standing our understanding notwithstanding doth withstand that kind of Posture for no other reason but because the Church ordain'd it and the Law commands it and truly we doe know no sence or Reason to stand to any saying of Faith for it is one of our principles that whatsoever we say we will stand to nothing Next followeth the Lords prayer againe as the Protestants-call it and a prayer composed of Versicles wherein the Minister and People do as it were by Questions Answers desire Gods mercy and the granting of salvation after which they pray O Lord save the King which is by us wonderfully dislik't and omitted and when we are to render the cause of it we shall not want insufficient Answers which we have studiously pond●ed in the learned Colledges of Amsterdam and New-England Then there followeth Give Peace in our time O Lord which we utterly detest for if once that Prayer be granted many of us except the King be more mercifull then we deserve shall be hanged for rebellion and treason and glad we scape so too the best we can look for is the advancing againe the Protestant Religion and then downe goe we with all our spirituall inspirations and Long-winded Repetitions we shall be silenced which is a terrible torture or banish't from our zealous Sisters our Collections and Contributions will be abrogated and annihillated our Puddings and Plum-broth will be in the forlorne hope and our selves excluded extirpated exiled excommunicated as extraordinary extravigant unexempled Rascals and Coxcombes for these considerations of martiall validity weight and deep consequence altogether Repugnant and Malignant to our holy profession of Brown●sme and Anabaptisme we will neither have Peace although we dare not fight in warre no Peace I 'le pray for therefore good brethren I pray you no prayer for Peace And for saying God make our hearts cleane within us and take not thy holy spirit from us these words are impertinent for us to speak for we know our hearts to be cleane and pure already and for the Spirit it is tyed so fast to us that it cannot be taken from us or from any that will beleeve us For the Evening prayer there is one Collect for Peace and another for the enlightning of our darknesse we have already declared our minds though all the world knowes us to be Hipocrites yet we doe know that a godly ●oyall peace will coufound us therfore we will not Hypocritically pray for that which we desire not to have and for our darkenesse though it be palpable to be felt like the darknesse of Aegypt yea more darke then Ignorance it selfe yet we have by instigation found light in abundandance our weights are light our Mothers Wives Sisters Annts Neeces Daughters and female servants are light our invisible Hornes are light our Words Deeds Thoughts Consciences payment of debt and Religion is light or of light account our faith in God and loyalty to the King are most Translucently light Apparantly light Reful gently light Illustrately light Transparently light Internally light Externally light Infernally light Emblazond Perspicuated Cognominated Propogated and Promulgated to all the world to be light lighter then any thing that can be called lightnesse lighter then Vapour Ayre Smoak Flame Dust Chaffe Wind Feather Froath Cork Yeast Fogge Puste Blast a Whore Vanity yea more light then Vanity it selfe As concerning Quicunque Vult or whosoever will be saved it is an argument that he that will be may be and he that will not may chuse whether he will or no which implies a free will a very Popish conclusion also that Creed is concluded to be called Catholicke which word we like not Next followeth the Latinie which is a hard word to us and sounds in our spacious Eares as it were latine or the Beasts language we confesse there are some few sentences that may be tolerated but we ought to remember our selves and take heed that we avoid praying against fornication sedition Conspiracy false Doctrines Heresie hardnesse of heart and contempt of Gods Word and Commandement for you know Brethren that these are daily and nightly Contemplations and Recreations besides it seemes to be a swearing kind of Invocation As By the Incarnation by the Nativity and Circumcision Baptisme Fasting Temptation Agony Bloody sweat Crosse Passion Death Buriall Resurrection Ascension and comming of the Holy Ghost All which is most certainly true but we ought to find out some other By word then the word By for though by them all true Beleevers are saved yet that is no warrant or argument we should sweare by them Then there is praying that the Church may be ruled and governed in the right way which if that be granted what will become of us that doe know our selves to be none of the true Church therefore that prayer belongs not to us Then followeth beseechings for blessings to be upon the King Queen and Royall Posterity and that they may have Victory over all their Enemies and all the World knowes we are none of their friends therefore these prayers

are Apocryphy to us neither will we be so simple to pray against our selves and the Case is plain that Rebellion must be tamed before the King can be victo●●ous Then followes praying for Bishops whom we cannot abide nor can we shew wherefore and amongst the rest there is a prayer for all women lahouring with child in which prayer many a loose harlot may be comprehended therefore it had been firter to have prayed for all women labouring of child lawfully begotten for verily it is sinfull to pray for either Root Stock Lim. Bough Branch Sprigge Leafe Fruit or seed of the wicked I like well of the last verse except one of this same Latine wherein we pray that the fruits of the earth may be given and preserved to our use but with this proviso that we alone and none but we who labour in the holy Cause should enjoy them in due time or at any time Then there are prayers for Mercy for Grace for Desence victory in war for preservation from Plague and Pestilence for Bishops againe and Curates for Raine for faire weather for Reliefe in dearth and famine then there followeth 84. things which they call Collects wherein many holy Saints are Remembred on certaine peculiar dayes and though we can justly find nothing but what is agreeable to Gods word in the whole Liturgy yet the purity of our singular Doctrines doe hold it prophane and Popish for we have the Spirit to prompt us insomuch as our grave Patriots have lately thought it fit to unsaint all the Saints and all the Churches and Houses of God in London have been these many monthes distoabed of their Sanctimonious names and are all excommunicated out of the weekly diseased Bill for now the Churches are to be called no more St. John St. Peter but Peters Andrews James Johns Georges Church or Parish with so many dyed of such and such diseases or by casualty such or such a Rascall hang'd himselfe for playing a Judas part against his Soveraigne Next followeth the ten Commandements which we neglect to say because they are of the old Testament and the Law was given to the Jewes we that are Christians are freed from it by the Gospell besides it is said to have two Tables one shewing our duty towards God the others towards man concerning the first of them we hold our selves clea●e from Idolatry swearing and prophanation for the second vve conceive it not to bind us either to give honour to the King or Magistrates they being the Fathers and P●otectors of our Country Wealth estates and all vve enjoy under God nor to our naturall Parents if they be not of our faith At the Communion there are prayers for the King againe and the Beliefe vvith Repeating some portions of Scripture to move men to Charity and good vvorks all vvhich vve omit for onely faith is our practice and for good vvorks or Charity vve hold it to be unnecessary and therefore vve vvill neither use or doe any Neither will we receivelying standing sitting nor kneeling by any meanes nor any way that is commanded by order in what place or Country whatsoever as for publike or private Baptisme vve are able to doe that our selves either in a Bason a River a Brook a Pond a Pool a Di●ch or a Puddle nor doe we hold it fitting but that we be Godfathers and Godmothers to our Children our selves and call them what Scripture names we list Nay we will Church our wives our selves too And as for Matrimony we will save that charges and take one anothers words for we must take our wives vvords for our Children and vvhy nor for themselves as for the visitation of the sicke and Buriall of the dead they are both fit to be done the one is necessary because the Brethren and Sisters may meet and salute and Feast And as for the Buriall of the dead the case is all mens besides Boyes vvomen and Children but a grave and learned long standing Lecturer did lately find out the right vvay of Buriall for an old man that dyed in the Parish of St. James neer the Dukes place vvithin Aldgate at vvhich Funerall he Preached and in his Sermon he told the dead man his faults very Roundly and abused the Corps more for ten shillings then any Conformable Preacher vvould have done for tvventy and vvhen he came to the laying the Body in the Ground he ommitted all old order and Ceremonies of Buriall onely thus briefly he said Ashes to Ashes dust to dust Here 's the Hole and in thou must So there 's an end and an end of my Lecture A Poscript IT is humbly desired that the Reader do not censure the Writer with any thought or touch of Prophanity for in this foregoing discourse he hath onely disciphered the foolish Grounds Tenets which the Teachers of the Pestilent Sects of Schismatiques and Separatists doe hold and maintaine Yours J. T. FINIS