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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95937	The vindication of a true Protestant, and faithfull servant to his church, Daniel Whitby, rector of Thoyden-Mount in Essex. From articles exhibited against him in the exchequer-chamber at Westminster, by a few schismaticall, tempestuous, illiterate heedlesse people: together with a sermon preached at Rumford the last visitation in Essex, in defence of the liturgie of the Church of England, which is most objected in these articles.	Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10.; Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10. Vindication of the forme of common prayers vsed in the Church of England.	1644 (1644)	Wing V468; Thomason E40_34; ESTC R19242	31,300	47

Sacrament and bore me this grudge ever since If any miss'd the Sacrament besides let them thanke themselves and not complaine of me I did my Dutie openly in the Church according to the Rubrick If any have not Received in either kind or both let them speake or signifie there was no intimation of any that wanted and so I went to Thanksgiving They must observe me I cannot studie particular persons in the Exercise of my Function I dare say shee came artificially to want it and lost it to object against me You said M. WHITE Those that would not conforme to those Orders were no better then Witches and Devils They make the Scripture looke enviously upon me ANSWER I said no more then Samuel 1 Sam. 15.23 Preaching upon that Text Obedience is better then Sacrifice Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft I disswaded my Congregation from disobedience from that Phrase wherewith it was stigmatiz'd in the Text Witch-craft which was Conjuring and dealing with the Devill and I would not have them partakers with Witches and Devils 1 Cor. 10.20 What Chymicks be these Article-mongers that can extract Quidlibet è quolibet Turn a faire Text into a foule Article You desir'd God M. WHITE not to heare their Prayers that would not joyne with you in all your performances If any such uncharitable Wishes should proceed from my mouth ANSWER I should utterly be ashamed of it and abhorre my tongue for speaking it but the truth is this I often threatned the neglecters of * All my Accusers are absolute enemies to the Common-Prayer-Booke Divine Service that stayed from Church all Prayers-while for purpose that God would not heare their Prayers that would not heare ours which they have molded to this strange forme Here I appeale to all the world Whether it be not the dutie of an Auditour if he heare any thing fall from his Minister contrarie to sound Doctrine to come and tell him of it personally according to Christs Rule Matth. 18.15 Dic inter te illum then Dic Ecclesiae c. In many things wee offend all as Jacob said of the Money in his sonnes Sacks Gen. 43.12 peradventure it was an over-sight if a man offend not in tongue he is perfect Many times a Minister le ts fall an utterance besides his mind yet to shew you the constitution of these Auditours I never heard of these Faults before nor ever should but to doe me a disparagement The third Article That he Preached Susan Field John Field Ed. Prudden That it was lawfull for Christians to joyne with any Nation in their outward Worship and hath said That the Roman Church is a true Church in respect of Fundamentall Points of the Religion although it be stained with Heresie and that when wee are in Italy or Spaine wee must doe as they there and proved it from 1 Cor. 9.19.20 What say you to this Article M. WHITE ANSWER This Article carryes that Fallacie of Aristotle A benè divisis ad male con●uncta The first and last of this Article are one delivered in a breath But here is a Line riveted into the Piece about the Roman Church which was delivered at a vast distance of time to invite you to beleeve that M. Whitby laboured a Communication with the Church of Rome in Worship for so the Cobweb is spunne to catch the hearers I make no question but to satisfie the Judicious and Charitable and I care for no more I beseech God to blesse me in this world and in that to come to and no otherwise but as I have beene a constant enemie to that Church from my education and abhorre a Communion with their Tenents c. * My afternoons Exercises are wholly instituted against the Rhenish Annotations and have dayly begot the detestation of her in my Auditorie yet I am a Foe to none beyond the Line of Reason And therefore to acquaint the world with what I once delivered and is upon Record I once mov'd that Question Ex abundantiâ copiâ doctrinae out of nicitie for so I qualified it at that time Stabilire opinionem non unitatem an Romana Ecclesia sit Ecclesia Dei Or belongs to the Catholique still And stated it affirmative out of Doctor * Append. of the fifth Booke of the Church p. 882. 883. Field for I measured his syllables in deciding it It belongs to the visible Catholique Church and borrowes that Title * As S. Aust The societies of Heretikes contribute to the Catholique and Salomon Cant. 6.8 describes the Church replenisht with Concubines as well as Queenes and Virgins It is Verè Ecclesia potius quàm vera in Mornay's Criticismes Vera is but the Emphasis of Ecclesia if wee use that phrase and bespeakes the truth of being not of Doctrine Metaphysicè not Moralitèr As a Leper or a maimed man that hath but body and soule together is styled Verus homo be his person never so deformed he is called a Man still and nothing else so the Church of Rome is a Church Templum Domini else wee must not expect Antichrist from thence and Children baptized there must be rebaptired so that in respect of the Profession of Religion the holding of some saving Truths as the Divinitie of the God-head and Trinitie of Persons wherein wee agree some Articles of Faith Ordinations Baptisme shee steales that Title of Ecclesia Christi as the same Author how dangerous is it for a Scholar to use his Judgement and Reading among ignorant men in whom is more malice then discretion their gall above their judgement But to answer the Article the first and last were one continued discourse about indifferent matters expressely about the Postureor the Sacrament I told them in France they receive it standing or walking in Germanie sitting in England kneeling all these are best at home and did wee come to their Church wee ought to comply as Saint Paul loco citato observed the manners of the places where he travelled Italy or Spaine c. Understand this of our owne Religion and Profession I did not open a Gap to Libertinisme to teach men to be Jews or Turks or Papists c. with the Polype fish to change their colour with the next Rock The fourth Article That he laboured by all meanes Susan Field John Field Ed. Prudden both by Preaching and otherwise to disgrace our Brethren the Scots calling them in many of his Sermons Rebels and Traytors and made a Sermon purposely against them calling them the sonnes of Belial and said Now adays a Rogue and Tinker a Pedlar any Body was good enough to draw subjects to Rebellion against their King This Article was omitted I was not questioned here perchance it was buried under the Act of Oblivion But what I spake I spake under Protection of State the Kings Proclamation to that purpose and a Prayer in the Church to boot Besides this Article is aged it was