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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53999	Jerub-baal, or, The pleader impleaded being an answer to Mr. Croftons (lately published) plea for communion with the Church under her present corruptions, &c., entituled Reformation not separation by way of humble remonstrance thereunto : shewing, that non-communion with the Church of England in her liturgy and common-prayer, in those that (yet) joyn with her in the substantial ordinances and instituted worship of Christ, is no schism, and that such are unjustly called separatists : in a letter / written by T.P. for the private satisfaction of a friend, and by him published for common benefit.	T. P.	1662 (1662)	Wing P112; ESTC R7299	36,119	58

being preached by him as Prophet John 4.21 Insomuch that Two or Three wheresoever met in his Name have the Solemn promise of his presence now Mat. 18.20 whereas if the Solemnity of his worship were tied to any one place his presence and the Concomitant blessing of his worship should be tied to that place also Who would have thought that * Vid. lib. 3. De Cultu Sanctorum Bellarmine that great Light of the Romish Firmament the chief Atlas of that Orbe should have been so much in the dark as to think that Prayer or any other part of worship performed in a Material Church c. is of more Efficacy then if it were celebrated elsewhere as if Stone and Timber did contribure vertue to our devotion or Prayers Efficacy depended on Locality I wish there be not many Bellarmines in this respect foolish Superstionaries that cry The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord Jer. 7.4 c. like their silly blind Pharisaical Progenitors But Sir You and I are taught of God assured by Holy Record that Prayer or any other part of Divine Worship in what place soever performed will be accepted of God through Christ so he be but worshipped according to his own Canon viz. In Spirit and in Truth John 4.24 Let none then presently conclude from a necessary declension of Local Society in a Publique place a breach of Real Community in True Solemn Publique Worship which may indeed be maintained in any place indifferently Yet 3. The Church of England while she holds the Head Christ and professeth the True Religion being a True Church a Part of the Church Catholick-Visible as is acknowledged and a Publique Place being dictated by the light of nature and judged by men to whose Prudential Determination the Conveniency or Inconveniency of Place of worship as a Natural Circumstance is left though it be a meer matter of Indifferency under the Gospel and in it self to be fittest for Publique Joynt-Communion and therefore though not sanctified yet prudentially sequestred and devoted thereunto I must needs own my self called to communicate and in answer to that call I do communicate with her and that in the Place of Publique Assembly in all the Parts of Real-Solemn Divine Worship wherein I may without either let or sin And thus Sir 't is my known Practice which you are no stranger to to joyn with the present Assemblies in Prayer though not their Common-Prayer Praise or Singing of Psalms Hearing of the Word all which are Substantial parts of True Solemn Divine Worship what and yet a Separatist Judge how little I deserve that name while this is my practice and I exhort you and others to the like Onely give me leave to tell you that what was Reverend Beda's advice to him that should chance to read the Books of that Heretical Bishop Julian I desire and it may be so will you to improve in the hearing of ours Ita carpat botrum ut spinane caveat Take of the Cluster but beware of Prickles be sure they be of Canaans Grapes I would not willingly be starved but God keep me from being poysoned Take heed of Choaking chew before you swallow a Proselyting Romanist a Seminary Priest will tell you otherwise once swallow his Churches Infallibility and any thing will go down then there is no room left for dispute more no need of the true Ballance of the Sanctuary But I have not as yet laid finger upon the soar therefore consider 4. That the Church of Englands Liturgy or Common-Prayer the great apple of strife c. is a Part of this Real-Solemn worship of God and that Communion with her therein the thing urged is therefore a Positive Indispensable duty I must take leave at least till I see more cogent Arguments for it then have as yet been pleaded by the best that ever undertook the patronage of it utterly to deny This I know would seem strange to many what a Convocation-Master-piece the Summum quod sic of the Wit of men and Angels the Monopoly of Divine Service the Prayers of the Church c. and yet no Part of True Solemn Worship but that it is written for private satisfaction and by way of private Apology Sir 't is a fixed Principle with me which I should not fear to publish to the world had my tongue the liberty of mine Accusers in the case viz. That there is no True Divine Worship whereof God is not the Author as well as the Object the Alpha as well as the Omega What is not Instituted Worship is none of His Worship but meer Will-Worship for God will be worshipped Desuo his Soul loathing all that Service though possibly nick-named Divine wherein there is more of the Creature than of Himselfe more of Man than of God What Reason either from Scripture or Common Light can perswade me otherwise Now can Mr. Crofton say Bona fide 't is not a matter to be dallied withal that Liturgies or stinted Set-Forms of Prayer were ever Instituted by Christ Practised by the Apostles Intended in the Gospel or observed by the Primitive Christian Church in the best and purest ages after Christ whose Practice in the case was to be a Leading Case and an Imitable Example to all succeeding Churches In a word Can he prove Englands Common-Prayer part of Christs Instituted Worship Let him produce Authentick either Precept or President for it which will be a hard matter for him to do else surcease his censure for what other can it be then a meer Humane Ordinance Super-erogatory Worship Arbitrary Service even Scripture-bitten Will-Worship one of the justly condemned Commandements and Ordinances of men Col. 2.22 23. What is Will-Worship if this be not Yea but the Matter of it is good this is the ordinary plea but so is a great part of the Popish Missal with which it so much symbolizeth especially their Letany the first Edition of ours and so of the Turkish Alcoran But will that prove it a Divine Constitution Now the Question is not whether it be Divine Matter or not but whether a Divine Constitution or not and therefore I joyne Matter and Constitution together The Matter proves not its Legitimacy unless such a Frame Method Composure and Constitution of VVorship can be proved Jure Divino to be Christs Own Prayer is Christs own Institution I communicate with them in that but here is my Crime I joyne not with them in Prayer in such a Dresse or Form which though I neither question the Wisdome that composed it nor the Authority that imposed it yet I professedly declare is in my weak judgment meerly Humane and therefore I do not a little wonder that such a man as Mr. Crofton should become its Mecoenas and Advocate who cannot be ignorant of the unhappy occasion of the first introduction of such man-devised Forms and Frames into the Christian Church administred by the prevailing Arrian and Pelagian heresies above three hundred years after