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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75036	A brief apologie for the sequestred clergie. VVherein (among other things) this case of conscience is judiciously handled: whether any minister of the Church of England may (to avoid sequestration) omit the publike use of the liturgie, and submit to the directory. In a letter from a sequestred divine, to Mr. Stephen Marshall.	Allington, John, d. 1682.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1649 (1649)	Wing A1206; Thomason E537_11; ESTC R204340	21,192	25

is as Mr. Perkins fully an act not of Superstition but Adoration For as it was no superstition in the Jew to worship God by bowing before the Ark or Westward so superstition it is not to worship God by bowing before his Holy Table that is in the phrase of antiquity Eastward As for bowing to the East or to the Altar I am able to produce a Letter writ by me 5. or 6. yeares ago ex Diametro against it and am still ready to ratifie that Doctrine The second act of superstition it is bowing at the Name of Jesus and to cleare that I shall thus argue No act directly tending and intended for the Advance of the glory of Jesus can be superstitious but to bow at the Name of Jesus in the sence of the Church of England is an act both tending and intended for the advance of his glory and therefore cannot be superstitious For the proofe of the minor Proposition I appeale to the 18. Canon of the Church of England where the end and intention of that gesture is clearly thus When in time of Divine Service the Lord Jesus shall be mentioned due and lowly reverence shall be done by all persons present as it hath been accnstomed testifying by these outward Ceremonies and gestures observe what their inward humility Christian resolution and due acknowledgement that the Lord Jesus Christ the true and Eternall Son of God is the onely Saviour of the world Now upon this ground I thus argue for as much as both words and gestures have their individuation and specification meerly by use Law or custome what this gesture of bowing at the Name of Jesus is to signifie and import in the Church of England this the Representative part thereof having clearly manifested we are to take it in that sence and in that signification in which and for which it cometh from them proposed and commended to us For as in Languages we receive and use words in and according to that power and meaning which the first authors and contrivers delivered them unto posterity even so that I might ever avoid the being contentious look what spirituall and internall duties my Mother the Church of England professed to expresse and signifie by such and such exterior gestures such I conceived they did import and in such sence and signification I did use and communicate them unto others Whereas then as the Canon clearly the due and lowly Reverence exacted at the Name of Jesus is only to testifie our inward humility Christian resolution and due acknowledgement that the Lord Jesus Christ is the true and Eternall Son of God This being the knowne and declared end and meaning of this gesture Bowing at the Name of Jesus can no more in my weak apprehension be accounted Superstition then is inward humility Christian resolution or the due acknowledgement of the Lord Jesus Christ to be the true and Eternall Son of God for being Actus exterior interior candem constituunt virtutem being the outward expression and the inward meaning do make but one compleat act if the inward be vertuous the outward cannot be vicious if the inward be religious the outward cannot be superstitious so that since bowing at the Name of Jesus is by the Church and use of England determined to signifie an expression of inward humility Christian resolution and a due acknowledgement of the Deity of the Son of God I cannot yet imagine how to him who so understandeth and so useth it bowing at the Name of Jesus can be counted superstitious Nor doth only the Canon of the Church of England but even the Canon of holy Scripture warrant mee sufficiently that superstitious it cannot be for Dato sed non concesso suppose it no duty of that knowne Text yet there is congruity enough to avoid the Superstition of it for if by those knees the Apostle meaneth the spirituall and inward knees of the heart then as he without thought of Superstition expressed that inward duty by bodily incurvation why may not I or any other by his example expresse my inward profession of the Deity as he by a corporall'expression by bowing at his Name But my intention is not to write a volume or indeed to say ought more then may conclude my design mentioned to prove that I have not been nor yet am scrupulous without cause nor a sufferer without reason Now my first scruple is whether a Minister may with a good conscience renounce or leave off any act Rite or gesture under the brand and notion of superstitious which he believes is not so I dare not do it for these reasons 1. I should bely mine owne soule in calling good evill and evill good 2. I should confirme a scandall laid upon many godly Orthodox Divines that they in thus doing have been superstitious 3. I should do an irreparable violation to those holy gestures which I do verily believe are advancers of Gods glory 4. I dare not omit that as superstitious which I believe not to be so for fear in so doing to this undetermined notion I might add such latitude that under the colour of Superstition even Religion it self may be violated In a word for my particular whether I look upon adoration in abstracto as the meer expression of that subjection and distance which dust and ashes oweth to his maker or whether I looke upon it in concreto as joyned with some other duty as saying our prayers receiving the Sacrament or profession of our Saviours Deity in neither respect it seemeth to me more guilty of Superstition or troubling the waters then was the Lamb in the fable when the Wolf charged him so that if by some greater light or latitude of understanding your clearer judgement shall discern otherwise I shall with all respect and thanks yeeld up my soule to further illumination which till it shall please God to give me I dare not in coole blood call an honest woman whore or what I conceive religious superstitious for more then yet I am or hope for to be worth And this may suffice for the first scruple viz. That my judgement concluding otherwise I dare not acknowledge or relinquish Adoration under the notion of superstitious innovation The second thing I have to do is to give my reasons wherefore I conceived it a sin of omission to lay aside much more to renounce the Liturgie and that I may do it methodically First I shall give my reasons why I dare not countenance the worshipping of God without a form secondly why I dare not in specie omit this form First I dare not countenance the worshipping of God without a form for being the Scripture chargeth not onely to hold the faith but to hold fast the very form of sound words I conceive set forme of prayer a necessary expedient to this end for being experience both ancient and modern hath taught us this sad truth that Errors Heresies and Innovations in Doctrine are instilled and infused by the conceived