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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

exundans flamma deficientibus nutrimentis emoritur Though the affections may be more inlarged Jerom ac● suriam p. 83. and dilated in sudden ebullitions raptures and passions as some women swell to an unusual bigness because they keep not themselves under the restraint of laceing and the waters that covered the earth at the first creation were shallower than when they were reduced into the bounded channels of the Seas The blood and spirits called forth into the outward parts of the body leave a lesser proportion about the heart to guard it from a delinquium and such feavorish distempers often prove mortal Yet may not those devotions which are performed by the standard of prescribed forms though they make not such a blaze like coals of Juniper preserve that he●●● longer which they have conceived May not these deliberate and rational services be more deep though they make not so much noise May not I pray with judgment understanding and intenseness of soul when I read as well as when I say a prayer without book when I open my eyes as well as when I shut them I pray read the true meaning of those words The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth as expounded by that good man Mr. Hildersham On John 4. Let 's not dispute so long about the mode of prayer untill we forget either what it is or that we owe any such tribute unto God As I have heard a wrangling Sophister so earnest in snatching at collateral and incident disputes untill he hath forgot the question in debate And I have seen some ill nurtur'd doggs so violent in questing after every little Bird that they have left the game behind them Let us offer up to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clo. Alew p. 717. the incense of a righteous soul let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 converse with God and keep close unto him in the pantings and motions of our souls Basil p. 772 and then if this may be done by a form le ts be wise unto sobriety in hushing of unchristian quarrels and by joyning together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one consent in the same work of such regular prayers Now because some of you will condescend to a form as lawful and expedient yet you have no kindness for ours Just as I knew a Gentleman who had variety of drinks and those the best in their kind approved off by his neighbours round about yet he was alwayes out of conceit with his own liquors and sent his man far and near even to obscure places to buy or borrow what might better please his own palate The application is as easie as the story is realibut were it fabulous the moral would prove very pertinent We admire things at a distance and those that are far fetcht do best please such persons whose imaginations are stronger than their reason Were the Officers of Geneva or Amsterdam translated into England I 'le warrant you many nice stomacks for a time would make no bones of them nay how would they be imbrac'd and cry'd up not because they are better than ours but in that they would be novelties amongst us Although our usages and methods in Gods service have been commended and the harshest particulars practis'd by the most eminent reformers in the world ours have stood without any contradiction that I have met withal except it be such as the Moon meets with whose lustre may be bark'd at by whiffling currs but 't is farre enough elevated above the reach of their teeth That stratagem-that our Liturgy was taken out of the Mass-Book did execution in its season whilst it w●s managed by the brawny Arms of those en●ssa●es of Apolyon who were resolved to be strenuous in their calumni●s 't is yet uncertain whether ●●s charge did proceed most from impotent ●●●lice of desp●rate impudence This imposture is now so ●●●parent that the mear●●t capacities begin to ●●e thorrow it and discover the legerdem●● thereof If to pray to God in our Mother ●●ngue ☜ and not in latin 〈◊〉 to pray to him only in the name of Jesus Christ without any addresses to the Virgin Mary or any other Saint or Angel If to acknowledge but two Sacraments if to receive the Lords Supper in both kinds with a declaration against transubstantiation elevation and adoration If neither to respect the Popes Supremacy purgatory justification by works or prayers for the dead If those prayers which were compos'd by martyr'd Protestants against which the Pope sends forth his roaring Bull as if they were level'd directly against his Throne and will sooner dispense with his followers for hearing our Sermons than joyning with our prayers I say that I may put a period to this sentence which might easily be drawn forth into a whole paragraph if these things savour of the Mass-Book Praeflat culpam agnoscere guam deprecari I must confess before the Sun that I am a Papist that our Liturgy and Articles were fram'd out of the Romish mint But since there is nothing of this denomination once insinuated in our prayers Since the whole compages of our service is purg'd and fan'nd from all the rubbish and chaffs of Popish trash since we have recover'd those vessels which Nehuchadnezzar had carried out of Jerusalem Ezra 7.8 may not we bring them again into the house of the Lord May not we fetch the Ark out of the territories of the Philistines and carry it unto Shilo may not Lot be redeemed from the Kings of the Nations after he had been taken prisoner And may not the Creed Lords prayer ten commandments some excellent prayers and laudable usages which were usurp'd upon by the tripple Crown be restor'd to the service of the Church as a captiye Woman might be married to an Israelite after her head had been shaven her nails pair'd Deut 21.12 13. and the raiment of her captivity taken from her Especially seeing the beams and rafters of our Liturgy were in the Church long before there was any such thing as Popery in the World This Lyon being hunted out of your way this bug-Bear being devested of all its terrible vizzards Bishop Taylar Le ts see what in the next place affrights you And herein I could have said more to the purpose if I could have prevailed with any of you to have given me your particular exceptions to which you would have stood For I perceive there is almost as much variety in your exceptions as there is in your faces One pishes at and slites what another cries out against with a stentorian voice as an intollerable abomination But this I could never obtain either by my self or by the mediation of proxies whom I employ'd to the same purpose As if it were as difficult a matter to procure a catalogue of your objections against the Liturgy as 't is to get a list of the Churches traditions I cannot suppose that men of your pitch can be offended with those

legerdemain is so gross and palpable that 't is discernable by clouted shooes The other is of a person as highly elevated for parts and piety as any that hath moved in the sphere of the Church these many ages The most reverend Bishop Vsher Who in a Sermon at Saint Mary Oxon before those loyal and faithful Parliament men that left Westminster and came thither in the late war in obedience to the Kings commands speaking of the Covenant whether it had any binding power he used these words My soul upon it that Covenant binds no more such as have taken it than Sampsons withes which he brake asunder and cast from him at his pleasure If the deliberate judgment of any man will weigh any thing in the scale of Conscience I should think the resolution of this Apostolical casuist should statuminate and settle any soul that fluctuates about the Covenant Had either a superstitious ignorance or a cowardly compliance ever betray'd me into this snare upon the hearing of this Angel I would have gone forth and wept bitterly that ever I had adulterated my soul by swallowing such a poysoned gobbet It would have been gravel in my belly untill I had vomited it up by repentance I should have accounted my self free from any obligation from thence for the time to come When I consider how this unshapen Monster was usher'd into the World by the Mid-wifery of an unnatural war what a strages or desolation hath been wrought by this flying Role How it hath devoured Royal Noble Common flesh and laid the Lords Vineyard waste I cannot chuse but say A bloudy Covenant hast thou been unto us Therefore such as wish well to the King Church Nation others and themselves will never go about to unty those grave-clothes wherewith Authority hath bound up this Malefactor or open a door to let out this Minotaure to sport himself again in our gore For although it is prefac'd with these plausible inchanting words After the commendable practises of these Kingdoms and the example of Gods people in other Nations Yet upon diligent search by the best Historians there 's none can be found to run paralel with it but only that Catholick cursed league contriv'd by the Guises in the kingdome of France It differs from all other Covenants and hath a special signature of its own They began but this ended in blood Heb. 9.18 The first Covenant was not dedicated without blood and the second was laid in the blood of the Paschal Lamb. In the Jewish Covenants there was a Beast slain and divided then the Covenanteers pass'd between those parts to shew that they deserved to be slain and cut into pieces if they violated their Covenant When Catalin conspir'd the ruine of Cicero together with the Roman Common-wealth and now I think I have found another paralel he first kill'd a little boy and then his confederates mutually bound themselves together by an oath taken over the bowels of that child But this Covenant was wrapt up in fair professions at first but afterwards it floated in blood and ended in bitterness Nabis an arrand tyrant of Lacedaemon had a wife called Apega Dion Cassius l. 37. who fleec'd the women as he did the men he loved her so dearly that he made her picture with costly garments and when he could not get mony by fair means Sr Walter Rawley p. 618. he told them he would bring them to his wife perhaps she might perswade them So the Image opened its Arms as to imbrace but the arms and bosome of it was so full of Iron nails that they tormented those poor men to death who refused to lay down their monies Just such an Idol was this Covenant It was habited in the dress of a religious Matron Mulier formosa superne doted upon as the great Diana of the Ephesians I mean such as plotted the overthrow of Church and State and when other engines could not draw on that design fast enough this Amazonian Virago expands her arms and courts us with her killing rhetorick But those arms were so full of nails that had not the providence of God rescued us out of her imbraces she would have exhausted our very heart blood and killed us with a seeming kindness This was like that sagacious Hyaena which was to hunt out a prey for the hungry Lyons But perhaps this discourse is too general to alienate and divorce your arnorous thoughts from this painted Helena Many of you have so espoused her to your selves that you count it all one to forsake the Covenant as to break wedlock Therefore I shall come closer yet and try whether 't is possible to perswade you that there is not that obliging power in the Covenant as you imagine I shall put the tryal upon this plaine Sillogism No unlawful Oath is obligatory The Solemn League and Covenant was an unlawful Oath Therefore the Solemn League and Covenant is not obligatory Major prop. No unlawful Oath can lay an obligation upon him that takes it The Prophet sharply reproves those idolatrous votaries which said they would surely perform their vows Jer. 44.25 which they had vow'd to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven Whoever swears an assertory Oath calls God to witness that what he sweares is true and by laying his hand upon the book before a Magistrate doth imprecate upon himself the judgments of God in that book renounces any share in those promises that are involved therein if he swears falsly And in a promissory Oath he must swear in righteousness and truth otherwise his oath will be a bond of iniquity He will swear to sin and so by consequence sin in swearing for he calls the God of righteousness to record upon his soul that he will deal unrighteously De jure belli l. 20 c. 13. Jurata promissio sayes Grotius When a man swears to do any thing unlawful in it self by the Law of God or man such an oath is null and without force Scelus est fides our fidelity in the performance of such a promise would be a double iniquity Saint Austin wonders that any should nick-name this obstinacy in what is evil with that excellent title of fidelity Si executio ejus quod est promissum sit contra legem Lessius de jura l. 2. p. 618.619 vel publicam utilitatem c. If we fulfil a promise which is contrary to the Law or publick welfare Juramentum promissioni adjectum non obligat That oath which confirms such a promise binds not at all And the Casuist gives a good reason because Obligat Conscientia non per se sed ratione legis quae aliud praecipit vel prohibet Baldwin Conscience binds not of it self but by vertue of some affirmative or negative Law Therefore 't is an infallible rule to me In malis promissis when we promise any thing that is wicked such a promise is not to be perform'd But that the best way to make amends