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A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

Canon in stead of remedying their vices decreed that the Commutation of Penance shall not be without the Bishops privity XXIV The general abuse of that great ordinance of Excommunication which GOD hath left in his Church to be used as the last and greatest punishment the Church can inflict upon obstinate and great offenders and that the Prelates and their officers who of right have nothing to do with it do daily excomunicate men either for doing that which is lawful or for vain idle and trivial matters as working or opening a shop on a Holi-day for not appearing at every beck upon their summons not paying a fee or the like yea they have made it as they do all other things a hook or instrument wherewith to empty mens purses and to advance their own greatnesse and so that sacred ordinance of God by their perverting of it becomes contemptable to all men and seldome or never used against notorious offenders who for the most part are their favorites XXV Yea further the pride and ambition of the Prelates being boundlesse unwilling to be subject to either man or Laws they claim their Office and Jurisdiction to be Jure divino exercise Ecclesiastical authority in their own names and Rights and under their own Seals and take upon them temporal dignities places and offices in the Common-wealth that they may sway both swords XXVI Whence follows the taking Commissions in their own Courts and Consistories and where else they sit in matters determinable of Right at Common Law the putting of Ministers upon Parishes without the Patrons and peoples consent XXVII The imposing of Oaths of various and trivial Articles yearly upon Church-wardens and Side-men which without perjury unlesse they fall at jars continually with their Ministers and neighbours and wholly neglect their own calling XXVIII The exercising of the Oath ex Off●●io and other proceedings by the way of Inquisition reaching even to mens thoughts the apprehending and detaining of men by Pursivants the frequent suspending and depriving of Ministers fining and imprisoning of all sorts of people breaking up of mens houses and studies taking away mens Books Letters and other writings seizing upon their Estates removing them from their callings separating between them and their wives against both their wills the rejection of prohibitions with threatnings and the doing of many other out-rages to the utter infringing the Lawes of the Realm and the Subjects liberties and arraigning of them and their families and of later time the Judges of the Land are so awed with the power and greatnesse of the Prelates and other wayes promoted that neither prohibition Habeas Corpus or any other lawful remedy can be had or take place for the distressed Subjects in most cases onely Papists Jesuites Priests and such others as propagate Popery or Arminianism are countenanced spared and have much liberty and from hence followed among others these dangerous consequences I. FIrst the general hope and expectation of the Romish part that their superstitious Religion will ere long be fully planted in this Kingdom again and so they are encouraged to persist therein and to practice the same openly in divers places to the high dishonour of God and contrary to the laws of the Realm II. Secondly the discouragement and destruction of all good Subjects of whom all multitudes both Clothiers Merchants and others being deprived of their Ministers and over-burthened with these pressures have departed the Kingdom to Holland and other parts and have drawn with them a great part of manufacturé of Cloth and Trading out of the land into other places where they reside whereby wooll the great staple of the Kingdom is become of small value and vends not trading is decayed many poor people want work Sea-men lose employment and the whole land much impoverished to the great dishonour of this Kingdom and blemishment to the government thereof III. The present wars and commotions hapned between his Majesty and his Subjects of S●otland wherein his Maiesty and all his Kingdom are indangered and suffer greatly and are like to become a prey to the common Enemy in case the wars go on which we exceedingly fear will not onely go on but also encrease to an utter ruine of all unlesse the Prelate● with their dependancies be removed out of England and also they and their practises who as we under your Honours favour do verily believe and conceive have occasioned the quarrel All which we humbly refer to the consideration of this honourable Assembly desiring the Lord of Heaven to direct you in the right way to redresse all these evils FINIS THE ANATOMIE OF THE Common Prayer-Book Wherein is Remonstrated the Unlawfulness of it and that by Five several Arguments Namely From the Name of it The Rise The Matter The Manner and The Evil Effects of it John 9.31 Now we know that GOD heareth not Sinners but if any man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A pure Prayer is Gods Temple By DWALPHINTRAMIS Printed in the year 1661. TO The Well-affected READER Christian Reader OUt of a Respect to the Glory of the great God who is a God that will he worshipped by true Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth as also with a Desire of thy eternal good here is presented this following Treatise which was formerly Penned by some Eminent Orthodox Divines Late Non-Conformists wherein are many solid Arguments and Reasons declaring and clearly proving the Book of Common-Prayer or Liturgie to be wholly taken out of the Masse-book As first The Common-Prayers are taken out of the Breviary Secondly The Administration of the Sacraments Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick are taken out of the Ritual or Book of Rites Thirdly The Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels are out of the Masse-book Fourthly The Ordination of Archbishops Bishops and Ministers is out of the Roman Pontifical So that the Service-book being thus unmasked is plainly evinced to be a rank Impostor in Gods Worship and notwithstanding its long Possession it is even a violent intruder in the House of God Then a Word to you Readers which are of Three sorts either doubtful in suspense vvho by this Treatise may be fully resolved or such as use it and Idolize it by strength of Reason may be brought off and that such as cannot brook it may be encouraged not only as a Learned Author observeth because many of Gods People are of the same mind but chiefly because God is of the same mind Lastly How much doth it concern all such who have lifted up their hands to the Most High God in a Solemn League and Covenant for the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Prophaness and the Reformation of Religion in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the Word of God and the best Reformed Churches to contend earnestly for the Truth and for purity in Gods Worship This being the prime work of the day and of this

afraid to deliver his opinion of such a peece of ordnance mounted fully charged upon him the great Canoneers sitting by ready to give fire yet with much ado plucking up his spirits he told them freely that it was a halter to lead a blind horse to the water such dumb Diegoes or devouring Caterpillers might rightly be called as the Prophet speaketh foolish Shepherds and so the Service-book the Instrument of a foolish shepherd Zach 11.15 they truck away their Souls and the souls of others for a crust are they not then errant fools And this foolish instrument the Service-book is the Broker in this unhappy bargain Sect. There are another sort of bad Ministers Phil. 3.2 Vers 18. who will not be idle as they say but they are very ill exercised such the Apostle calls evil workers doggs enemies to the Cross of Christ The Apostle bids us beware of such but indeed ours are worse than those false Apostles for they preached Christ though of envy Phil. 1. ●5 but ours preach error heresies blasphemies calumnies out of envy not Christ Were there ever the like accusations heard of for number nature as hath bin laid against those unparallel'd Ministers for vileness both in living preaching The Goliah his staffe wherewith they maintain all this and all their brags against the Host of Israel is the Service-book which is the Helena of the Hierarchy the strict and total observation whereof Lincoln Articles do punctually appoint To those we might adjoyn Nonresidents Pluralists who knowing that Service will serve the turn can have choice of Readers to serve their Cure at a cheap rate In Kent a common Fidler read Service for 12. d. a week In another place a Black-smith did the like yea the Prelates themselves trade in this comodity when they have an old off-cast servant the ruines of a profane wretch good for nothing then make a Priest on him witness a Prelates Porter made Priest of Paddington One that we all know diebus illis Chaplin to a great Officer of State but now a proud Prelate in the time of his Chaplainry possessed 3 Benefices to the value of 700. l. a year or thereabout allowing nothing out of all this for the feeding of so many flocks save 10. l. a piece or thereabouts to three poor Curats with a number of cast Service-books which are no good meat neither cold nor hot yea had not this Service-book been this man and others could never have been so unconscionable Sect. Yet further the Service-book hath been the bane of many good Ministers and that of two sorts Conformers Non-conformers the latter of whom were deprived of their Ministery dearer to them than their lives cast out of their Free-holds against the Law of the Land Excommunicated Imprisoned their Families dissolved and cashired from all Callings yea their very Being through calumnies and injuries thrust at so that with Fambria against Scaevola they quarrelled with them Quod totum ferrum in se non receperant Tul. that they received not the whole deadly Weapon into their body and what the quarrel but the Service-book To which the Ministers must not only conform but also subscribe As to four Books more some of which it may be they had never seen that nothing in them was contrary to the Word of God Monstrum horrendum O fearful sin to father falshood and lies upon God for which the Lord may justly quarrel with this Nation Now for the godly and painful Ministers yet conforming and subscribing the Service-book was a heavy burden to them and they groaned under the rigour of the Service It may be said of the Service-book as it was said of Gath in another kind namely It was Metheg Amath the bridle of the hilly tract or strength of the Philistims so the Book was the strength of the Philistim Prelacy and a bridle with a Curbing bit to stop to winde and turn them at their pleasure yea sometimes to cut them in the Mouth if they delivered any such part of Gods Counsel as touched their Copy-hold besides the scoffing calumnies that the Prelates and their Janizaries would put upon them How did they grieve the souls of divers worthy men that divers of them were forced to break thorow that Egyptian bondage with danger of their liberties and lives if they had been reached by the Prelates ill Angels but flying with the Woman into the Wilderness the flood of the Service-book out of the mouth of the Serpent was sent after them but both fire and water conspired to the devouring of it witness its arrival at New England two fellows being drunk addressed themselves by water to disperse some bundles of them one of them swearing that he would have a Pipe of Tobacco in despite of the Devil striking fire the sparks fell into a barrel of gunpowder which blew both men and Books all into the Air the men were saved by swimming in the water and the Liturgy sunk when it could not swim and so we hope it shall Some of us heard a painful Minister complain with abundance of tears a little before his death That so long as he and such as he carried the Prelates fardel after them they would never down We will shut up this point with a very remarkable observation Ier. 23.23 Joh. 4.23 24. Though God made conforming Ministers being the dispensers of his Word the means to turn many from their evil wayes yet this proved for the most part but in the point of life and conversation and not in point of Purity of Worship according to our Lord and Masters practice upon his Patient that Samaritan Woman whom he reclaimeth not only from uncleannesse of life but also from a polluted Worship the Woman here is not only touched in Conscience for her evil life but also desires to be rectified in the case of Religion Christ healeth her of both those Diseases and having given check as a Father observed both to the arrogancy of the Samaritans Ciril and of the Jewes for the latter was faulty as well as the former though not in the like degree he layeth down an undeceivable Rule for both that they and all who will worship God acceptably must worship him in spirit and in truth in spirit that is opposed to bodily service as washings anointings garments c. In truth that is opposed to shadows and figures whereof Christ is the substance and the body such converts then as will reap Comfort out of respect had unto all Gods Commandments Tract 15 in Ioh. they must come down from the mountains of impure worship Austin hath a pretty saying upon this that he that will draw near to God must come down from his own mountain or from the mountain of his own device in Gods worship it is a duty laid on Christs Messengers in preparing of his way to lay those mountains level as well as others but the good men durst not meddle with the