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A59372 Several arguments for concessions and alterations in the common prayer, and in the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England in order to a comprehension / by a minister of the Church of England, as by law established. Minister of the Church of England. 1689 (1689) Wing S2752; ESTC R33871 58,452 80

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Prayer in the Whole Duty of Man called a Prayer for Grace comprehensive of particular Graces And then no doubt the use of it would be more acceptable in Families than it is now when it runs out so much in Intercessions and so little in Petition Again I offer to their Consideration whether the Hymns and Offices of Praise after the Lessons especially in the Evening Service are not become less edifying in their present use where those Spiritual Songs are barely Read as in Parish Churches and not Sung there being one way of Singing or an Harmonious Reading of them useful and edifying though another way not so much to Edification because out few understand it in the way of an Anthem There are some things of particular respect to the Virgin Mary and good Old Symeon not so suitable to the Congregation Whither the Wisdom of our Governours may not see reason to forbear those Anthems wholly in Parish Churches or to leave the use of them indifferent or limit them pro hic nunc according as times of Joy and Victory require our Praise or other times of Humiliation to forbear them One thing more I beg leave to offer If our Governours see reason to alter any thing in the Baptismal Office about the sign of the Cross Sureties or elsewhere whether it were not desirable to have some such Scriptures inserted as Job 25.4.14.4 How can he be clean that is born of a Woman Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean that parents may see their Childrens Condition since the fall defil'd with Sin polluted and unclean and so their great need of the Grace of Baptism to be washed and cleansed through the Blood of Christ from their Natural pollution and defilement by Sin. If this were but clearly expressed and well understood as it would be one of the strongest Arguments for Infant Baptism from their Childrens need of the Baptismal Grace so it would be a good preservative against Anabaptism And as to the General Thanksgiving perhaps it were to be desired that to the Redemption by Jesus Christ and the Means of Grace were added and for the Spirit of Grace sanctifying an Holy Catholick Church and for the Forgiveness of Sins which we believe and hope for and the Resurrection of the Body unto Eternal Life Some have thought our Thanksgiving too general in that there is no mention made in it of Sanctification If any of these things approve it self unto our Governours my Labour is not lost Out of this variety I doubt not but that their Wisdom knows what to chuse as shall be most for God's Glory and the Churches Edification II. Arg. For Concessions and Alterations in the Common Prayer because that Worship according to the Acts for Uniformity or the exceeding strictness of the Enjoyn'd Conformity to it hath been occasionally or at least eventually Evil. First In respect of our Unchristian Divisions and Separation Those that dislike this Worship as there have been such from the Divisions in Queen Maries dayes at Frankford and refuse to joyn in it whether do they usually betake themselves but to separating and setting up another Worship Even those that will joyn with the Minister in his own Prayers and his Sermon yet separate from the Common Prayers above any other Worship Hence are so many Sects and Opinions among us that our Nation is scandalous upon that account among other Protestants who have a common saying Half England is not of the Church of England Good God What would become of Peace and Union Love and Charity if the next Age should be as fruitful of Sects and Parties and differ in their Modes of Worship as much as the present hath done wherein thy Church hath been so miserably divided How long O Lord the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord wil't thou suffer such Confusion in the Churches of the Saints 2. This Worship with the Penal Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil that inforced the Act for Vniformity hath been occasionally or at least eventually evil by bringing hard suffering upon the contrary-minded Many formerly chose rather to leave their Native Country and shelter themselves in New-England than endure the Severities then and Conventions before the High Commission Court. And if I should speak of the Presentments and Excommunications the Fining Imprisoning and Confinement from Corporations in latter years it would be no more pleasing to some to hear of them than it was to others to suffer them Ah how harsh did these things sound in the Ears of Merciful Men and the Reformed Churches abroad that Protestants should be worrying one another biting and devouring one another and doing the Enemies work for him who scornfully rejoyced at it and used to say Give the Hereticks Rope enough and they would hang themselves But Blessed be God who hath taken away the occasion of these Evils and done that effectually by the present Parliament which the Preceeding would have done as we are informed in the Memorial from the English Protestants to His Highness the Prince of Orange p. 28. Four of our Succeeding Parliaments perceived the abuse of these Penal Laws and the mischief thereby to Conscious Christians and declared their intention of relieving them if the King would have permitted them yet they endeavoured to stop the Execution of them and desired a Settlement of Liberty of Conscience as is due to Christians Adieu now to these Presentments Fines Imprisonments Excommunications Troubling the Peace of our Neighbours and too often it hath been our peaceable Neighbours though I am apt to think but few have suffered comparatively with the many that escaped yet those that suffered were too many and to be pitied several of them as honest well-meaning Persons though mislead through weakness of Judgment and scruples of Conscience 3. This Worship considered with the Acts for Uniformity hath been occasionally or at least eventually Evil in respect of the War and Miseries in King Charles the First his dayes occasioned much if not beginning by the Imposition of the Liturgy on Scotland for an Union of both Nations in Worship That Nation was so much incensed that they drove or were ready to drive the Ministers out of their Churches at the reading of it and broke out into a Rebellion which infected England with their Covenant to down with the Liturgy and Bishops 4. This Worship by the exceeding strictness of the Acts for Uniformity Subscriptions Assent and Consent c. hath been an occasion why so many Dissenting Ministers of considerable Gifts and Graces have been rendred in a great measure unserviceable to the Church by Suspension or Deprivation Some in Queen Elizabeths time when as the Reverend Dean of St. Paul 's saith in his Vnreas of Separation they could very ill be spared not to speak of those in King James the First his Reign and King Charles the First of later years as the return of King Charles the Second a great Number of Ministers Good and Worthy Men in the main