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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66373	A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the common-prayer being an answer to a book entituled A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the common-prayer worship lately printed in New-England, and re-printed in London, in which the chief things objected against the liturgy, are consider'd.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing W2683; ESTC R203	34,319	42

Heathenish and therefore it is unlawful to joyn with it This will be resolved into two Questions Q. 1. Whether the Common Prayer be taken out of the Mass-Book and be Heathenish as well as Popish Q. 2. Whether the being taken out of the Mass-Book makes it unlawfull to be used or joyned with tho it be good and lawful in it self Q. 1. Whether the Common-Prayer is taken out of the Mass-Book As our Author takes care to represent it one would think there is little of the Roman Service left out in ours The Common-Prayer saith he is in a great measure Popish is taken out of the Popes Mass-Book it cannot be denied it 's derived from thence p. 1. There is very little in the English which is not to be found in the other p. 2. This is matter of Fact and so is not to be determined by Authority He himself makes a fair proposal which I shall accept of viz. Let such as have any hesitancy about this matter compare the Popish Missal c. with the English Liturgy and they will be convinced Of what That he had never read and compared them or is guilty of a notorious Abuse that he puts upon his ignorant Reader that after he pretends to have read and compared shall assert so gross a falshood and say There is very little in the English that is not to be found in the other c. 1. For there is little comparatively in the English which is to be found in the Roman Liturgy and far more is left out than ever was taken thence This is indeed directly contrary to what he affirms and yet let any one compare them and he will be convinced of the truth of it Take that which is called the Cannon of the Mass or Form of Administring the Eucharist and there is no Agreement not one Collect or Prayer the same Go we to Baptism there is not one Prayer belonging to that Office that is in ours And as for the Litany there is not a third part of theirs in ours and much in ours which is not in theirs 2. There is nothing in the Service of the Church of Rome which makes it the Popes Missal and is peculiar to that Church that is in ours that is there is no Popery in our Liturgy This he is in part forced to acknowledge There are saith he things as Prayers for the Dead c. in the Roman Liturgy which are not translated into English His Et cetera if branched into particulars would be very large as he could not but know if he had read and compared them As for Example Where are their Crossings Elevation and Adoration of the Elements Where their Solitary Communion and Communion in one kind Where their frequent Crossings of themselves and of the Book Where their material Crosses and the Adoration of them Where their Prayers for the Dead Where their Intercessors the Virgin Mary and Saints that are to be found in the Cannon of the Mass Where are the many Exorcisms in Baptism the Puffs they blow in the Infant 's face their Conjuration of Salt for a wholesome Sacrament to the driving away of Devils that 's put into the Mouth of the Infant as a propitiation unto Eternal Life Where the Spittle with which the Ears and Nostrils of the Infants are touched with an Ephphatha be opened Where the Oyl of Salvation as it 's call'd wherewith the Priest anoints the Child's Breast and Shoulders in form of a Cross Where the Chrism or Oyntment wherewith he anoints the Crown of the Head in figure of a Cross Where the change of Garments their Purple and White Robe that the Child is to carry unspotted before the Tribunal of our Lord Where the lighted Candle put into the Child's hand that when our Lord shall come to the Wedding he may meet him Where the many Crossings of the Head before Baptism and of the Eyes Ears Nostrils Breast Shoulders Mouth c. to be found in their Ritual and Pastoral Lastly To go no farther Where are the O Holy Mary Mother of God c. pray for us Where are the Angels and Arch-Angels the Patriarchs and Prophets the Apostles and Evangelists the Martyrs Popes and Confessors the Priests and Levites the Monks and Hermits the Virgins and Widows the Forty seven Saints in particular and all Saints in general that are called upon in their Litany Pray for us And if nothing that is truly Popish be to be found in our Liturgy we have so far reason to deny that it 's taken out of the Mass-Book 3. I add That our Service is so far from being taken out of he Missal that whatsoever in it is the same with the Office in the Church of Rome is mostly taken out of the Ancient Offices of the Christian Church And because every one cannot compare it I will produce Impartial Authority for it Thus saith Mr. Ball a Nonconformist of great Note in the last Age The English Liturgy is not a Collection out of the Mass-Book but a refining of the Liturgy which heretofore had been stained with the Mass and is not a Translation of the Mass but a Restitution of the Ancient Liturgies So the Ministers of Old England in a Letter to the Ministers of New England wrote Anno 1637. It 's no hard task to shew that our Service-Book was reformed in most things according to the purest Liturgies which were in use long before the Mass was heard of in the World p 2. To these I will add one more for the Character our Author gives of him viz. Bishop Jewel whom he calls that great Light in the English Church p. 9. Who saith We are come as near as possibly we could to the Church of the Apostles and of the old Catholick Bishops and Fathers And besides we have aimed not only our Doctrine but Sacraments also and Forms of our Publick Prayers after the patern of their Rites and Ordinances To say the truth it 's a very odd thing to represent our Liturgy as Popish when those that composed and used the Liturgy were burnt by the Papists for it and when to this day they will not communicate in it nor with the Church that useth it Our Author saith There have been Jusuits and Popish Intelligencers that approved of our Service and Pope Pius 5 th would have ratified it And is it therefore Popish The Independent allows the Presbyterian Confession of Faith And this Author saith p. 4. It must be acknowledged that such of the Church-of-England men as keep to the 39 Articles in matters of Doctrine are as Orthodox as any Protestants in the world And is therefore the Independent a Presbyterian or this Author a Church-of England-man I trow not All is that they agree in the Common Principles the other receives and yet one is no more the other than if they had no agreement in such Principles And so is it here the English Liturgy has nothing but what is agreeable to the Doctrine