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 SCOTS INNOVATORS 
 
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 DIVINE SERVICE 
 
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 And Places ; adjacent thereto. 
 
 Being a Compendious Colleftionrof the choiceft Arguments, a&aWt the 
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 Remember from whence you are fallen , and repent — Revrj. %. 
 
 By a lover of the Church ofSCO TLJND. 
 
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 To the Readers, 
 
 IBefeecb you Brethren, mark them which caufe Divisions 
 and offences contrary to the Dotfrine, rvhich ye have Learned, 
 and avoid them. 
 
 For they that are fuch, Serve not our Lord Jefus Chrifijbut their 
 ewn Belly ; and by good Words pud fair Speeches deceive the Hearts 
 tftbe Simple. Rom. 16, 17, 18. 
 
 Ceafe my Son to hear the Inftru&ion that caufeth 
 to err from the words of Knowledge. Pro. 19. 27. 
 
 And middle not with them that, are given to change 
 Frov. 24. 21. 
 
 To the Law and to the 1 eitimony, if they Speak not 
 according to this word, it is becaufe th'ere is no light in 
 them. Ifa. 8. 20. 
 
 In vain they do Worfhip me, Teaching for DoQrines 
 the Commandments of Men r — Forjaying afide the Com- 
 mandment of God they hold the Tradition ofgMen 
 Mark 7. 7, 8. 
 
 Thus faith the f Lord, ftandye in the ways and fee, and 
 ask for the Old paths, where is the good way and walk 
 therein, and ye fhall find reft for your Souls. Jer. 6. 16. 
 
 No Man having Drunk Old Wine, ftreight-way defi- 
 rethNew, for he faith, the Old is better. Luke 5. $9. 
 
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 CLUERIES 
 
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 Scots Innovators in Divine 
 SERVICE. 
 
 I. QVERIE. ¥S it not Sinful to make Schifms and Divifions in the 
 
 I Church, to rent CHRIST'S Myftical Body, and tear 
 
 *» the Bowels thereof-, particularly in Separating from 
 
 the Church of Scotland^ while prnfeffingSoiinHnefcin rWVrine, and pra- 
 
 ftifing Purity in Worfhip , and Holinefs in Life j and when there is no 
 
 finful Condition of Communion required of you ? And thereby to break 
 
 the Bond of Peace, and Charity among Chriftians, ftir up Strife amongft 
 
 neareft Neighbours and Relations, and foment Heart-burnings , Envy- 
 
 ings , Evil-fpeakings, Difloyalty and Licencioufnefs, together with your 
 
 Sacrilegious robbing GOD's Poor of their due and wonted Subfiftence, by 
 
 improving your Meeting-houfe Collections for the Maintenance of your 
 
 Preachers *, whereby, in many places, the Poor are redacted to ftraitning 
 
 and fhrving Circumftances. 
 
 2 Q^ Are you not likewife turned Schiimaticksfrom your own Epifco- 
 ' pal Church of Scotland^ by devyfing a new Form of Worfhip, never allow- 
 ed by -Her in former Times, nor 'pra&ifed by fuch as are indulged in 
 Churches to this Day ? Did not A/cM'ifiop Spotfwood^nd others oppofe 
 the Introducing the Englijh Service ^ before the Year 1637*, and thereby 
 incurr the Dilpleafure of the Court f Wljy then do ye apoftatizs front 
 the WprfTrip and Principles whetein ye were baptized and brought up, 
 and thereby reproach your Fathers, and Mother Church as living and dy- 
 ing in Ignorance of the true Worfhip and Service of GOD.' Yea further 
 do ye not hereby condemn all our famous Reformers and Predecefsors, 
 who at the Reformation threw off the Yoke of theie uninftituted Rites 
 
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 End Ceremonies ,top€tW With the other Errors ^Corruptions of Popery. 
 & always vigoroufiy withrtood the Return thereof,when it wasattemptedr 
 Do you reckon your felves more learned , wife, holy or zealous than they 
 vvert ? Arpyou n*t ^onfc^us to ypvr felves^ that-the*«-was more prac"ti~ 
 cal Godlinefej more Family and Secret WQr'fhip, fcnd more of the Spirit 
 of Grace and $upplication,amongpyour Fore-tirh^ajjhut 75). Years ago, 
 when they with fo much Abhorrence rejected theTe Innovations, rhan 
 there is now among you their Chrldren,wh© introduce them? How come 
 you then to degenerate fo far from your Anceftors, and be fond of licking 
 up the Vomit they fpewed out t Have ye difcovered any Scripture War- 
 rand for thete thing$,whicii'they cou4d n«vcr find f 
 
 3^ Q. Are ye not chargeable with Perjury, in counteraclirtgahe So- 
 lemn Oaths and Subfcriptions, whereby we in this Land are engaged, to 
 renounce fuch Rite* and humane Inventions in GOD's Worfhip ? Did 
 notour King, Nobles and all otlter Rinks of Perfons in this Land, fwear 
 and fubferibethe National Covehanf, with the Content , and by the Au- 
 thority of both Church and State, in the Years 1580, 1581, 1590, 1639. 
 wherein thefeCeremoniesj you are now introducing, are particularly 
 afcjured ? Moredvtr have ye not renounced thefc- Innovations., by the 
 very Oath of the Tefh ( the Obligation whereof ye ft ill own , and fonie 
 dPyou fo far r asirumit to plead* againft your joyningpwith the Efta. 
 Hlined ehurrt^^bdh w&khQathye are fvvorn 5 to maintain the Confetti 
 oh' or Faith,* which was'eftablifhed by the Parliament, Anno 1560, in 
 fWiich Confeffion 'we' hate thefe expre& Words, Sett; tfa Evil Works art 
 wot only thefe,tkafi expre/ly are done against GOD's Commandment , but 
 the/e alfo, that in Matters of Religion , and Worfbipping of GOD , have no 
 tther Ajfurance, but the Invention and Opinion of Man , which GOD 
 from the Beginni g, hath ever rejected, as by the Prophet Ifaiah, and by 
 our Matter CHRIST JESUS We art taught in thir Words, In vain do 
 they worfhip Mt teaching for Dotlrines the Precepts of Man, And in Setl . 
 21. ''-is declared, That all Superstitious Ceremonies ought to be changed. 
 And in Sett. 25, Corrupting of the Sacraments, with Mens Invent i§ns,fuf> 
 fering Women to baptise, &c. . are plainly condemned. How then can ye 
 anl vcr to GOD, or Confcienee, for the Breach of thefe Solemn. Engage- 
 ment ? O! think upon the drtedfuLGuilt of Perjury ,, and the Punish- 
 ment due thereto, and tremble,, and labour to prevent the fame, by your 
 timely Repentance* 
 
 4* Q. Have ye any Command either of Church or State, for $hefe In- 
 novations in Worfhip and Ordinances- v or wa* it ever known, that Re- 
 tfgious Cerernoriies^ were eftablifhed in ar\y Church or Province, but by 
 fame Ecclefiaftical Authority /rWu cannot pleswd the Authority of the 
 Cfrarch vf England^ feeing (he ^aa^haV^ao Jurif4i<tioaan or over Neigh- 
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 bouring Churches : Yea in the Preface to the ServiveBook fhe Difcla^ms 
 any fuch Authority, declaring, thatinjthefe Ceremonies, they are not 
 to prefcribe Rules to other Churches or Nations, but to their own Peo~ 
 " pie only : Say not s that now we are one Kingdom, and therefore muft 
 be one Chujch, for rhe fame Aft. that mak^s us one Kingdom, owns us 
 to be two Diftinft Church"^ free andjndependent of one another * 7 But 
 it feems you intend ro betray your Mother Church, to fubjeclion to 
 the Church of England \ and thereby to con firm the Old forged Claim, 
 of the Englijb Primates to the Obedience of the Scots Clergy \ Strange L 
 are ye grown worfe than your Fathers anno 1637. Who tho' they ac- 
 cepted to. be the Tools of England, for impofing a Liturgy on us, yet ab» 
 folutely refufed to admit the EngVfl) Liturgie,left it might be taken as an 
 Acknowledgement of theChurch of Scotland her fubjeftion to the Church 
 of England, but would have one different from theirs. 
 
 5. Q. How come ye for the fake of thele Rites and Ceremonies ( which 
 you commonly grant to be Matters of indifferency ) to kindle fuch fiery 
 Divifionsand Controverfies in Scotland, and make the Breach in this poor 
 Church wider than ever? Have not thefe Ceremonies been the bone of 
 Contention in England it felf ever fince the Reformation, and railed 
 fuch dreadful fLmes of Perfecution there, as to oblige many Thoufands 
 to go feekpeacable Habitations, in the wild Deierts of America, wheie 
 they might enjoy Freedom in their Confciences ? And when it was . 
 tempted, to introduce thefe Ceremonies into this Church anno 1637, 
 ir's well known what convulfions, they did occafion both in Church 
 and States mould any Scatfrnau then, willingly throw fuch a Fire bali , 
 into the Land of his Nativity, to Ut his Country- Men by the Eirs, and 
 kindle Strtft,& Animofiries fo drftru&ive.to Chriftian Charity, and Dif- 
 paraging to our Holy Religion &.which may be of dangerous confequence 
 to the Common Wealth.* Is this like the healing Spirit of Love, Uni- 
 ty and Peace, which every good Ch rift ian and Country -man fhould 
 Study to promote? But alas/ inflead of this, there is perfecution al- 
 ready begun by fome, who without Law or Authority compel their 
 Tenents and Dependaries, againft their Coufciences, to feparate from 
 the Efhbliftied Church, and attend their New Woifhip, under pain oji 
 being ruined, or caft out of their Houies and PoiTtfTlonsj Are thefe 
 Compel methods* which you take, for advancing your Caufe, were they 
 ever reckoned the figns- or Concomitants of a good Caufe ? h it not 
 prefumptuous boldnefs, in any Mortal, to afcend God's Throne, to Lord 
 it over God's Heritage, and exercife a Dominion over their Faith and 
 Conlciences? Is not Confidence Gods Deputy in M^n and fubjett to none 
 but him, what a Monftrous piece of Tyranny, matt it be? then to im- 
 pofe on a Man's Conference, in the Matter of Divine Worfhip f will ye 
 
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 (5M the like pra&ifed in Turky't the Turks, when they catch Chriftians, 
 tho* they nv-ke Slaves of their Bodies, they le*ve their Coniciences free, 
 and do riot force them to their Mofquesov Mahumetan Worftnp. 
 
 Objetticti. We may remove Tencnts, and ier our Land to whom we 
 will and this i 3 no perfecution. Anfwer Bleffed be God that this is all 
 the peiTccuiion you can raifc, it is indeed the M. j rcy of Gods people that 
 you can Btnim them no farther than your own Territories -, tho* it is 
 pretty Odd, that Papists and Quakers may pofTefs your Land, bat/Ve;- 
 b^ierims cannot? Pray, remember, that the Earth is the Lord's, He is 
 the Judge of Nations, and Lord of the Confcience •, think it enough, 
 that ye have your own Souls to account for at the Great Day, tho' ye 
 tike not on you the Burden of other Mens. Let me here alfo, fpeak a 
 word to the Opprefjed for Confcience, Remember, the Commands of 
 Men cannot loofe you from the Obligation of GOD's Commands, and 
 in Matters of Faith you are Subject to no Power on Earth*, Still mind 
 the Apoftles Anfwer to the Council zljerufalem, when enjoyned to do 
 things contrare to their Confcience, Acts 4. 19. Whether it be right in 
 the fight of GO H, to hearken unto you more than to GOD, Judge ye" 
 As alio mind the refolute Anlwer of the three' Children to the Great 
 King Nebuchidnezzar, Dan. 3. 16. 17. 18. They would rather hazard 
 a fiery furnace, before they gave the leaft external Complyance, An fal-, 
 ling, down, to pleafe the King, tho* they faw many Thoufands doing it 
 round about them, the Kings fiery furnace was terrible to them, b ut 
 GOD's Furnace was much more, they knew GOD could deliver them 
 from the Kings Torments, bat the King could not deliver them from 
 GOD's. To be caft out of your Rooms is fad, but to be caft out of 
 Heaven is infinitely more fad-, did ever any that fuffered for Chrift's 
 Caule lofe at his Hand, or will ye be the firft ? what loll the three Chil- 
 dren by it? to have feen them bound Hand and Foot, and caft into the 
 Fire, you would have reckoned them gone Men,but no fooner are they 
 in VheFire,but they are loofe again, and the Son of God makes the fourth, 
 Will ye not venture on a little fuffering for Chrift's Kindnefs? if ye 
 cannot abide a Mans Frown for Religion, how would ye endure a 
 Rack or Fire for drift? If ye be fo foon frighted in the Land of Peace, 
 how would ye be Martyrs? See that word ; n Jer. \%, 5. If thou hast 
 run &c. O will not drift and a good Confcience be better Friends at 
 a Dying Hour, than your Mafters or Super- n*< forget not the cafe of 
 Francis Spira, who agiinft his Light, Apoftatized from GOD's Truth 
 for fear otMan, what a fearful Spectacle became he, before he dyed, he 
 looked like a Man living in Hell before he left the Earth. 
 
 6. O Why do ye cry up the Courch of England, as a perfeel pattern 
 of Reformation, and their Service Book for fuch a perfect piece, when 
 
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 yet U hath been five times mended fince it was made; twice in King 
 Edwvrd's Reign, once in Queen Elizabeths, once in King James 6tb's 9 
 and once in King Charles ids. And was not the Convocation the very 
 la ft Year 171 1 : ordered by the Queen, to add feveral things to it 
 which were wanting ? Why then fhould ye adore it as fuch an Incom- 
 parable Book ? Isitnotfad to fee the Ignorant fondnefsof fome amor)? 
 us,who equal, nay prefer it to the Bible, for they have a Service Book, 
 but no Bible in their Houfe, they take the Service Book to the Publick 
 Worfhip, but never took the Bible to it, and fome that wont to caufe 
 their Servants carry their Bibles, muft needs carry that Book themfelves, 
 Objection. O but there is much Scripture- and many good Words in if. 
 jinf. The fame may be alledged for the Apocrypha^ the Jevoiflj Talmud 
 and Turfajh Alcorn, which never the lefs are not to be Named in one 
 Day with the pure and uncorrupted Word of GOD *, it is ufual to find 
 Errors mixed wita truths, to kt them the better off. Obj. O but they 
 were good Men, and Martyrs that made this Book. Anf. \mo. You 
 fbou Id rather lay, who Collected and Englifhed it out of the Popifh 
 Latine Service, -of which more afterwards, ido. We may pofiibly grant 
 that it was nota diicommendable Work at thattime, when the Church 
 of England, made her firil ftep out of the mift ot Popifh Ignorance and 
 Superfticioa, yet probably, if the Compilers of it were now living, they 
 would be difatisfied with itaswelJ as we, foe that which was calculated 
 for rhe dawning of the Reformation, and to wean People by degrees from 
 Popifh Soperftition and Ceremonie?,cannot be Adapted for the Meridian 
 oftheGofpel light and purity, we allow Children to creep or go by holds 
 at firft, but would be nardly content, if they continued doing lb, all 
 their Lite afterwards. 
 
 Itio. tho they were good Men, fyet they were not Irtfpired md In* 
 fallible in their writings, and confequ^ntly their perfornurites cannot 
 be a conftantrule to us , tho they had a good defign in what they did, 
 yet they knew but in part, and did not forefee ail ihs bad confequen- 
 ces of things \ Good Men have frequently out of a good Intention, de- 
 viled new things for promoting Religion, which in procefs of time, have 
 proven a Snare to the Church, and been th<:occafion of much Super (tition 
 and Idolatry, thisisobfervable in the riieofnnny of the Popifh Errors 
 and Innovations,' particularly as to the Worfhipping oi Saints, firft their 
 Days were obferved and Pictures kept for pri**te Memory, afterwards 
 they were brought into Churches in Gregories time in the 7th Cent, for 
 Remembrance and Inftrutlion, but with an exprefs Prohibition of Wor- 
 fhipping them j but in the 8th Cent, the Worfhiping of them was en- 
 joy ned by the Council of Nice, But what need we fearch Humane Re- 
 cords, when we have Pregnant Inftances, to this purpofe in Holy wnre, 
 
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 particularly in Judges 8. 27. Where we find Gideon, both a good and 
 a oreit Man ( anl hz muft be a rare Innovator this day, that claims his 
 Name or Character. )He makes an Ephoi, being a facred Garment of 
 the choiceft of the Midiannes Spoil?, and puts it into his City, Gideon 
 no doubt, had a ^ood Intention in this, to perpetuate the Remembrance 
 of fo Mir<JColous a Victory, and perhaps to be an Oracle for the People, to 
 confult nearer Home- then Shiloh, where the Ark was*, but the Peoples 
 refpcfts to the Ephod growing; ftili more and more Superftitious, becaufe 
 fo good a Man as Gideon hid fet it up, it proved a r ad Snare to Gideon's 
 Houfe, his City and all Ifrael, by abating their Zeal for GOD's Ark, 
 and by degrees Alienating their Hearts from God's Altar and Prie fthod at 
 Shilo, and afterwards drawing them into grofs Idolatry, and breeding 
 great Con fufion in I[rael\ thus you fee, that the beginning of Superftition 
 and Idolatry is as the letting forth of Water, and many have been Infnared 
 into evil ccurfesbv one wrong ftepofa good Man *, therefore hang your 
 Faith at no Mans Belt, give blind Obedience to no Mortal, call no Man 
 Af after but Chrifty Math. 23 10. tho Good Men fay this is the way of 
 Worfhip, if Cbrift the Lawgiver Cay it not too in his Word, abandon it : 
 Follow not Gideon* nay nor i\*a/,furder than they follow Chrift, 1 Cor. 
 11. 1. But let us return from this Digreflion to fay fomewhat fiirder 
 anent the perfection of the Service Book, fo much now Boafted ofby (ome 
 Innovators, it hath neither Superfluities nor Defetls, fay they, tho a 
 very ordinary fearch may Difcover both. — — - Is not the Service Book 
 Catechifm defective in exprefling the very Fundamental and EflTentialPomts 
 of Chriftianity, except where they ate generally mentioned in the Creed, 
 and ??ath fcarce any thing anent the Nature of Faith , Repentance, the 
 two Covenants, Regeneration^ Jujiification, &c. Should not a Catechifm 
 be full , and explicit upon thefe Heads? Likewife your Forms of Pray- 
 er are very defecKve , particularly your Confeffions, in exprefling Origi- 
 nal Sin, and even Actual Sin, except it be very generally mentioned •, 
 Jhere. being fcarce any tmflg in them anent particular Sins , or their Ag- 
 gravations.? And in deprecating of Wrath and Judgements, there is lit- 
 tle Mention of the particular evrjs or Plagues, and efpecially thofe of a 
 Spiritual Nature, you need to be delivered from ? And do you not- want 
 fuitable Forms of Prayers and Petitions for many needful Cafes andOccur- 
 rences? Particularly, for j4jfijtance to the Minifter , that is to preachy 
 andf r a Blejfing on what he hath preached , and for the Affijtance of the 
 Spirit in Prayer, alio for the f pre adihg of the Gofpel , the Converfion of 
 the Jews and Gentiles, the Downfall of Mahomet and Anti Chrift, the 
 Rooting out of Superstition and Romifn Idolatry \ as alfo for perfecuted 
 Protectant Churches, for Schools and Seminaries of Learning, f r Male 
 faftors and Per Jons under Sentence of Death 1 And many other Occafions 
 
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 that might be enumerate ? But what need is there for ft > feing* thek ve" 
 ry Men , who talk fo much .of the Perfection of this B >ok, thn it hath 
 nothing Superfluous nor -Defective, do,by their daily Practice, give their 
 Tongues the Lie, by overleaping all the Prayers for Quee* Annini 
 prince fs Sophia ; r &nd interlining fome Petitions in the Room thereof, viz.. 
 to blejt their Ancient King, andbtivg home the Banified y &c. As for 
 the Superfluities of the Serv>ic^ Bookjyou will fiadanny of them .mention-, 
 ed afterwards , in this Tractate. 
 
 7. Q^ How can ye vindicate the Service Book from 4 Pobjffi Original, 
 when by comparing, wevfind it taken out of the Ponifh Latine Service, 
 viz,, the Common Prayers out of the Roman Breviary. / the Service for 
 Adminifcration of Sacraments,, Matrimony., Vifuauon of the Sick and 
 Buriab, out of the Ritual, the Corifecfation of the LORD's Supper, Cil- 
 lers, EpifUes^nd Gofpels, out Of the Mafs Book, as Honker , Cambden^ 
 H p ylin y Burnet, and orher Church oi England Writers, do confei* as 
 alfo doth &\ng r Edjva d 6 h> in hi-Letter to the ,DevonJhire Rebels, who 
 made an Insurrection upon account of the then Alterations in Religion, 
 Tho it feemeth to you to be anew Service ( favs he, ) yet it is indeed none 
 ether but the Old, the [elf fame Words in Englifh , which were in Latine. 
 And a little after, he fays, nothing is altered but to [peak with Knowledge, 
 that' which was f poke with Ignorance. Wherewith the Rebels went away 
 fatisfled , thinking themfelves 110 Lofe?8 by the Bargain. Yea the Pipifis 
 liked this Service fo well, that they continued to attend it (everal Years, 
 in Qjeen Elizabeth's Reign,till the Pope excommunicate her for drown- 
 ing his Authority ' 7 and both Pope Pius -qth and Gregorie 1 ith offered to 
 confirm the Liturgy , if fhe would have owned their Aurnority : And 
 no Wonder, ieing the ft veral parts of it were of the Pope\ own devyfing 
 at the Beginning , as Platina y Duravdtts.Polycbreffirgiliznd other anci- 
 ent Writers teftify , telling us the par ticular Popes by whom , and Cen- 
 turies and Years in which the feveral Ceremonies, and parts of the Li-* 
 turgy were introduced. And is it not known, when the Pope interdicted 
 : Queen Elizabeth , Secretary Walfihgham procured two Perfons to come 
 to Et gland from the Pop'? to whom he (hewed the London and Canterbury 
 Service in all the Pomp thereof , who thereupon declared, that they w )u- 
 dcred the-Pope mould be fo ill advifed, to interdict a Prince's wh>4e Ser- 
 vice wat Jo like his own\ an* therefore procured the Bull a^aimt her to be 
 recalled. - Hence one of the Church of ' - Engla, d\ Bifheps was forced to 
 fay, lhai fhe Strvtce of the Church of 'England was riowfodreft, that if 
 the Pope fautd come and fee it ^ he would claim it for hU own, but that 
 it is in Eiiguftu Ana K\f\gjames6th y in his Speech to the General AiTcm- 
 bi.y : Anno 1590, called it an ill f aid IjAafs in Englifh. And tho' indeed, 
 £a King, Edward dttis Tune, thtre w«u ^Petition in. the Litany, to be ds 
 
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 livered from the ' ftificp of 'Rome, and his deteftable Enormities; yetTtwat 
 afterwards ilruck our, to gratiflethe Papiils. Isit not r run a -iiiculous 
 Tale that is common in your Months, that the Serv : B. is the gnatejt 
 Bulwark again ft Fepery ? 
 
 8. Q. What better are the Church of England's Pleadings againft 
 many of the Popifh Ceremonies and Superftitions , than ours are againft 
 theirs ? The Church of England rejefts many of the hoi v Days and Rite* 
 which the Church of Rome retains, fuch astheOy/, Sa t and Spitle in 
 Eoptifm , Exorcijm, holy IVate* , Baptizing of Bells, bowingt 6 Images, 
 &c. And their Argument for doing fo, is, That GOD never inftituted 
 them, and therefore may be lawfull> rejected. What then mould hin- 
 der us from ufing the fame Plea , for rejecting the holy Days and Cere- 
 monies, which theChurcfrof England ftill retains, fuch as their Otrtft* 
 crationof Churches, Priefts, Surplices , Altars^ O-gans , finging Services f 
 Litanies, Absolutions , private Communions, Rcjponfes, Ft aft s, Fasts, Vi* 
 gils\ bowing to the Altar, Eaft, and the Name ofJESVS, Crojs in Em- 
 ptifm, Godfathers , kneeling at the Sacrament, Service at Burials, &c. 
 feingthefe want Divine Institution , as well as the forefaid Popifh Super: 
 ftitions they have fcored off •, if their Defence a&ainft the Papifts be valid^ 
 can ours againft them be weak ? 
 
 9. CK In ead of gaining the Papifts( as is pretended ) by retaining 
 fa many of their Ceremonies, are they not thereby the more hardned 
 abd confirmed in their other Superftitions and Idolatries.* are there not 
 many things in your Liturgy, that gives Countenance to their Errot4, 
 viz.. In the Litany, there is Mention made of Deadly Sin, as it were, in 
 Contradiftin&ion to other Sin that is not fo-, doth not this favour the Po- 
 pifh Di ft i nation ot Afortal and VemalS\x\0. Is not every Sin deadly in 
 its ownNature,and the Wa^es thereof Death.? Again in the Catechifm there 
 is a Queftion, How many Sacraments hath Chrift orda'tned'i The Ar,[. is 
 that, There are two only, a* generally nectffary to Salvation. Which leems 
 toinfinuate, that he hath ordained moe Sacraments ( fuch as the Pa- 
 pifts five baftard Sacraments ) tho* only two are necefTarv to Salvation* 
 And further, the Serv : B. homologates the Papifts fuperftitipus Obser- 
 vation of Lent, and all tht tridays in the Year, as times of Religious 
 JFaftisg, withoutany Scripture Warrant for the fame : IsCHRIST's Ex- 
 ample in fading Fourty Da>9 any more imitable , than his other miraco- 
 lous Works ? Alio your Prayers at Bur\itrg the Dead, encourage them m 
 then praying for the Dead, at that Time, especially feing, it is no where 
 declared in the Serv : B. that the Prayers and Praifes then ufed, are 
 no ways for the Benefit of the Dtad, but of the Living: But on the 
 contrary , fuch a Declaration was refuted, when the Presbyterians earneft- 
 ly defired it, at the Savoy Conference 1661. Moreover, the Popifh Ah* 
 
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 filutiom , their Worfhlpping the Altar, Bread, Croft, Images , &c. are 
 countenanced by your Praclices,fo far as to furnifh them with Arguments 
 to plead for, and defend the fame •, if ye challenge them for their fore- 
 faid Idolatrous Worfhio , will not they retort your Arguments, and fay, 
 Do ye not Bow at the Name of JESVS , kneel at the Sacrament , as well 
 as we? Do ye not bow to the Altar , yea kneel before it , when there is no 
 Communion , as it is directed in the Office of Matrimony ? If ye reprove 
 them for worfhipping the Crofs, and their fuperftitious blefilng and fign- 
 ing themfelves with it, on all Occafions , do they not commonly anfwer 
 you, why do ye crofs your Children at Baptifm ? If it be profitable then, 
 can it be hurtful now ? Are not the Papifts encouraged by your Com- 
 plyancefo far with their Superftitions, toftandftill where they are, ex- 
 pecting your Return ? Do ye not now give them Ground to fay, the Pro- 
 teftanrs are grown weary of their Reformation, and are turning back 
 again by Degrees, we fee their Religion cannot ftand without Help 
 from ours? 'Tis even turned into a Proverb among them, If ye love 
 not our llefb, why drink ye of our Broth} If ye like not our Doftrine , 
 why borrow ye our Ceremonies? And why conform ye not to all the 
 other Rites and Cuftoms of our Church , as well as to thefe ye obferve, 
 have they notall the fame Foundation and Authority ? Hence alfothey 
 frill perfwade themlelves, that the Church of England, whatever they 
 profefs , hath a Heartbking to their Church. Is your Practice a proba- 
 ble Way then, to gain them ? Surely Augusl ine's Opinion about 
 winning the Pagans was much better, he makes the Queftion , Vn.de 
 illuminentvr Paganil unde ad Salutem vocenturl He anfuers, Aeferite 
 cmnes Solemmtates ifforum^ deferite Nugas eorum, &c. In ftead o( gain- 
 ing Papifts by theie things, ye rather lofe Proteihnts, caufing them to 
 favour Popery the more , and difpofing them the more eafily to a poll: a- 
 tizc thereto upon Temptations, as Experience teacheth •, I wiih ye be 
 not like Men in a Cock- Boat, pulling a Reck unto them, who, the more 
 tkey labour to draw the Rock , the nearer they go toft. 
 
 10. £a May we fiot be Jealousof our Scots Innovators having z.Tcp'p: 
 defgn, and an Eye towards Rome, in bringing in thefe Romiflf Cere- 
 monies,, which their Fatherscaft out t It is an Old obferve, that <u <he 
 Morning ufiersinthe day, jo the Ceremonies of any Religion Jtrve to 
 bring in the Religion it felf, and it is too likely that thele who are fo 
 fond oi Foftering thefe Babylomjh brats, af:er they have been dafhr a-' 
 gainft the Stones, have too much love to the Harlot that brought them 
 forth, and there are thefe things which encreaie our Sufpition, Viz* You 
 Pray not lor cur Proteftant Queen ( I mean you in the &bjlb ) nor fyje 
 a Fret ttt ant Succejfor to the Crown, nor Jor preventing a Tcp'jh aje y nor 
 for the usxkcuied.Proteftants Abroad, nor for the ddvvhfil of 'Anil 
 
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 thrift, and Pcp : Jb Snperfiition and Idolatr\ : Nay you appear to beprett7 
 big i ./the Papijli of this Land, who openlv .aiaiv their, iatistacti- 
 on with vourTnr.ovations, *s a co afiderable a fvai cc towards tiitra ; Ad 
 you difcover little mo'e Affftion to the Bo&rwaUirticUf of u\z Chuuh 
 o! England than to our ConfeJJlnn or Fa>th, tiey being lu uppoite to the 
 Rmi'lb Errors*, But are ext.r^amiv foni nf^er Wonhip andC^rcmo- 
 r::v which ate (o agreeable to thofe of Rame y ye& .axe wore ^upcikui- 
 cu^ therein, than thefe vou pretend to imiitte. And are there run le?. V i/s 
 of vou who fay in. plain Terms, they would rat htr^ow With Pap-.fts than. 
 ?<esbferians, th it the Pcpe is not Anticbrijh s that the Church of Rome 
 is a parforfhe CathoVck Church, but the Church of Scot tana isnopart _- 
 of if, And likewife efpoufe many of the Pp.fb Tenets, ikying tnat 
 B"«pti'm Regenerates every Perfon, takes, away Original i?, and is ab- 
 solutely neccfTary to. Salvation ", Exalt the fewer of Freewill, confound 
 Juftifving r a th f with Obedience,. and » good Works,,, and alio di (own the 
 Jprotestant D >£tnne touching the Decrees of GOD, Sufficiency of the ■ 
 Scriptures, the Imputation of Chrift's Righteoufnefs, Affurance, Perie- 
 verance &c. May we not fufpefr fojiie of the Innovators of Our Day,.as 
 Refembling Trench Privateers putting forth Enghfl} Collours. to deceive 
 fimple Merchants, and making their Innovations a Cover both for their 
 Top'fi and Jacobitifi Deflgns, for thefe interefts are clofelv linked toge- 
 ther : I do not fay, th it all our Innovating Teachers are fuch, but what 
 Charity can we have for thefe, who openly arraign the Revolution. Be- 
 Spatter K\r. glVtiliam 9 .s Memory, difown the Queen, wiih Succefs to the 
 Trench Tyrant, Triumph on our Fait Days, and Mourn on our Thankf- 
 givings*, and by their Prayers, Dilcourfes and beginning^*' Healths, are 
 Patrons of Disloyalty and Jacobitijm, do not fach Perfons,-look like Men, 
 who would make a Bridge.and pave the way to carry you over to Ron r* 
 or St. Germains f Would not fuch gladly open the Door talet in Popery 
 and Slavery among us ? And do not their late Innovations contribute 
 much, to remove the wonted abhorency Gf Popery ^na PupiJJj Govern- 
 ment, that the People were pofTcfled with,- and to make them entertain 
 2. more favourable Opinion of Papists, and thereby fmooth the way for 
 the return of a Pcpifi Prince \ which Effects,, are already too vifible in 
 fome parts, where thefe Innovators prevail, And mould any true Scots 
 Trot eft ant Join IfTue with fuch Men ? And as for fach of you, who may 
 be found P ret eft ant s^ I would ask you, what do you mean to fet Rome a 
 rejoicing, to fee you forfaking your former purity , and flmplicity of 
 Worfhip, and making nearer approaches to them, by thefe Innovations 
 and Ceremonies. Is it not ftrange to iee you, willingly, and of your. 
 own free choice, put your felves at fo great a dtftance from, and Dif 
 conformity ;o the rnoft part of Prote&ant Churches in the Woild ( who- 
 
 threw 
 
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 threw off thefc<Uftinft*tu£ed Cercmtfnj^iloj^lhfrswit'h the other. Cor* 
 ruotious.tf Popery, at their '-Reformation v). ; a'n&ri hereby to divide, and 
 tte*k-n the Protejiant fat ere ft} >fq \ \ .- , 
 
 ii. C?. fenot Chrift- theGreatKtiTg arid Lawgiver in his Church, who 
 hath the Co\& power of appointing the method and manner. ot hisxnvn 
 . "W orfhip^ Shall not we then allow hkny thelamfe Prerogative ti&h&fehO 
 K-ingsf ot Determining the order and Gereanoniesi of AddrciTing,and Serv- 
 ing him ? Andisaot his Wo*d the only Revelation of. his will to his 
 Church) arid our ohlv rule of Faith, Worfhipand practice ia^ReligiouSj 
 matters,*, to which we are to look, and keep clofs. in every Ordinance, 
 Reckoning whatever is not contained in this rule** to he unlawful and 
 forbidden? WharWarrand have ye .then f torn this rRute- forthefeilnnova- 
 tions in Worftip, did Chrifl- cr his Apoftles enjoyn or pratl:ifeany/jfuch 1 
 K,iy, onthecsntrare, we find^them pra&.ifwga. pare, fenple and foirrt- 
 ual way ot Worfhi ping God, and Difpen ling, his Ordinances, without 
 ufing any Theatrical Pomp or Ceremoniesto Beauiify^the fame,. Rtckon- 
 ing their own native Purity and Simplicity, together with inward Sancti- 
 ty and Sincerity on our part, to be their chotceft Ornaments \ it is th$ 
 Gaudy Wnbre not thechaft Matron tbat-ufcth paintii g\ to ra nt a Dia- 
 mond Spoils it* Luftre, to Gild a Sword blunts its Ege, let us not then 
 Deface GodVpure Worfhip with Mans-vain Devices; ■ 
 
 12 O. Are not Human Inventions*^ the Worfhip of .God very provoke 
 ing tohim!Pray,Readiy^/. 106. 29. 3# 40 .Ez,ek. 43. 8. and Hof 8, 14, 
 Our Savnour condemns the Phartfees for Teaching for Doctrines the 
 Commandments of Men, calling fueh things, a vain Worfhip Math. i$» 
 o, and Will- worfhip Col. 2. 22. 23." Hence we may Qbjerve, whatever 
 you pra&ife in Worfhip without a Divine Warrant is Will 'rv or flip i. e. a 
 fetting up Mans- will for a Rule in place of GOD's will, and by the fame 
 Rule youreceive one will.Worfhip, you may receive twenty. Again, its 
 'vain Worfhip k e.fuch as will never reach the end of Worfhip:, or bring 
 you to Communion with God, feeing it wants his Instruction and blef- 
 fing, all the thanks you will get for it, is in If a, 1. 12. Who required- 
 this at your Hands i itis an Excellent faying of Cbryfoftom, horn. 2 in Rom. 
 
 * Its a greater fin in God s Worfhip, to do what we fhould nor, than to 
 
 * omit what we fhould, for ^ faith he ) by the one, we fhew the difficulty 
 
 * of the Law,- but by the other, we charge the Law, .and Lawgiver with 
 
 * folly, and make our felves wifer than GOD. In the one, we Ibew our 
 
 * weaknefe, in not doing the will of God, but in the other we fhew oui: 
 
 * Impudence, to control the Wifdom of God. Itisalfoa noble faying 
 in Artaxerxes decree Ezja 7. 23. Whatfoever is commanded^ by the God* 
 of Hearten, let it be diligent ly done for the Hon fe of the Gcd of Heaven^ 
 It is only thexommandof ©ni? that is the rule of Building, Jiis Houfe,.. 
 
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 and of all WMfmfVers Teaching, for his hit words to them on Earrli 
 wer^\ Teachto oh ferve all things what foever J have commanded you. Mat* 
 28. 20. Is not our i ord's Teftament exaft and conaplcat, and ought it 
 nor to remain Inviolable ? You fear to alte r, or add to a Man's Tefta- 
 ir>ent\ and will ye not Tremble, to alter the Teftament of the Son oj 
 God ? Or wil! ve with Papiftsrieny the Srriptures,to be a perfect rule of 
 ■Faith and . ■>* or (hip? Oraccufe Chriil aOefs Faithful in his Hoinle, as a 
 Son, than Mo{es as a Servant \ feeing Mofes ordered theleaftpin in the 
 Tabernacle, and left nothing to the Artificers wail ? Hath not God the 
 Father approven Ckrift in all things, is he not infinitly wife, and hath 
 done all things well, and will anv find Fault with his management ? Doth 
 he nor in the (econd Command Declare, that he rs very Jealous of his 
 own Worfhip, and wil) be Worshiped bv no other way than What he 
 hath appointed in his Word ? And in matters of his Worfhip he Exprefly 
 orders us, to do what he commands, without adding thereto or Diminifh- 
 ing from it, Read Deut. 12. 30, 31, 32. Did he nor fhew his Fiery In. 
 dignation a giintt Nadab and Abihu , for Innovating his Worfhip, and 
 devifing a new method of offering Incenfe^eir. f o. 
 
 13. ±K If it be warrantable for you , to fwerve from the Written 
 Word, and devife fignificant Rites and Ceremonies in GOD's Worfhip 
 and Ordinances, upon pretext of Edification , Decency, Humility, &c. 
 why may not other Ceremonies be added on the like pretexts , and fo on 
 without Bounds, as hath been already experienced? For when the 
 Church lefrthe Simplicity wherein the A potties delivered tht Chriftian 
 Religion to the World, and began to invent Rites and Ceremonies, for 
 beautifying its Ordinances *, thefe Additions, at length fwelled to tha£ 
 intolerable Hight, that now we find them in the Church of Ramp: and 
 Jhath not that Church, as fair and plaufible Pretexts, for others of their 
 Ceremonies, which ye reject , as for thofe ye receive ? 
 
 14. Qj Is it not unlawful , to fymbojize with Idolaters in Worfhip 
 and Ceremonies*, if the PapifVs be Idolaters ( as certainly they are ) 
 what have ve to do with their Altars, Crofses, Garments, Gestures \ 
 Liturgies, Holy Days, and other Monuments of th*ir Superstition and 
 Idolatry? How ftri&ly- doth* GOD discharge us to imitate Idolaters, and 
 to ferve or worfhip him , after their CuTloms, p^ay, read "and believe 
 thefe Scriptures , Exod: 2$. 24/ Lev : 18. 3. 1'eut : 12. 30. 8c i£. 9. 
 Yea, he commands u* to a'bolifK and deftroy the Instruments and Monu- 
 ments of Idolatry, Deut: 7. 25. And to deteft the Coverings and Orna* 
 ments of Idols: ija: 30: 22. And forbids to take of the Babilomjb Ma- 
 terials , either a Corner or Foundation Stone , for God's houle, Jer: 51. 
 2d. How fharply doth GOD reprove his People , for conforming to the 
 flues of Idolaters, zChron: 13*9. iJQttg* J7. jj. And highly approve 
 
 iuch 
 
latrv, which are of Antichrist'* inftiturin£. ft it nor norour that, Altars , 
 bowing thereto keeping Saints Day < , the Sih of, * the Crofs , kneeling at the 
 Sacrament y difpenfing Sacraments in private Places, &c. were by the Pa- 
 pifts abufed to abominable Supeffrkion ', and MoUtry : For thev wor- 
 fhipped and pray^ d to the Crofs, Aftar^ Sacramental Breaiy the Sain*-^ 
 &c? Ought not theie unfcriptural Rire? and Cufrons thus ^hufrd to . 
 dolatry , to be abhorred and ab Mift'd t feing the PAlmift decUres, that 
 he would not, fo much as take u^ the Names of Idol Go\% into hi« Lips, f 
 Pfali 16. #?- And Hielordhimfelf (hew? lirs^Oeterfat'on of thefe Names , 
 that are appropriated lioh, B{ea 1. i >. 7/wa Jhalt call me Ishi, <™4 
 no more Baali. Now tho' ///;* and Baali figniffethe fame things according 
 to the Original, viz. Mv ffusbandy and the Name Baali is afcribed to . 
 GOD himfelf, ffa: 54. 5 Yet, when it came, that that Natifc began to 
 be» abufed to Idolatry , and given to Idol-Gads , he abhors , and would 
 no more be called by it , and if we mutt rcjca Names , when abufed 
 txvSuperriition and Idolatry , far more ought we to abandon 
 Things thus abufed. And further, can you be thought finceretjr 
 to repent of, and abandon the Idolatry of your Fathers, while' 
 you value and retain the Monuments and Reltyies thereof, which are 
 wholly of Men's devyfing/ The Papifts are as really' Idolaters, as the) 
 Pagans r and the LORD "gives us the fame Call, to come out from the one, 
 that he give* to come out from the other , fee Rev : 1$. 14. compared 
 Yi'nhzCorx 16. 170 Nay the Pope being now revealed, to be that Great 
 jinthbujiy Satan's prime Agent > and Chrift's chief Adverfary on Earth, 
 
 which he hath devoted to Deftruclion , there appears greater Ha^rd, in 
 
 ftaiion , as the hateful Tokens and Badges of that God-provocking Sin o^ 
 Idolatry \ fo that your Cafe differs extreamly from that of the Church of 
 England , that was never purged from them .-And therefore your Sin is 
 the greater*. Is it believed of the fober and i'oundeftProrvftants in that 
 Church, that if once they were free of thefe Rites, which for the time 
 are their Burden^ they would not confent to readmit them *, and the 
 great Reafon why they comport with them, is their fear, that by looting 
 a Pin, the Church fhould rend into Se&s, and Parties? 
 
 15. Qj Doth not the Second Command forbid all Tentatfons, and Pro«J 
 vocation to Spiritual Fornication, an much as the Seventh doth tothatf 
 
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 which is car/yal/.and arf^not the forefaid .Rius evfdeflttyofthflt Nature , 
 Is' it fafe piflawluJ , to tamper with.fuch reatatiqns r ^when the Apoftle- 
 commands' us to' ablbin lrpm the very .appearance of evil? £rror is in- 
 fectious, and tpreads like a Gangrene^, and our Nature. is prone to Su- 
 perftition and Idolatry , and fhould we wVHingly <run into Tentations, 
 and Courfes, which have a direct Tendency {hereto ? 
 
 16 ^.Granting rh.efe Ceremonies were Harnjlds and indifferent (a* 
 you fay ) hit not a fin to'ScariiiUz?; wtea& 'and tender Cpnfciences, - by 
 coing thefe things, that .might WiwTuijy f >rtorn, ought not the ftrong* • 
 er yeild to the weaker f the generality of Proteftants judge thefe rites 
 unlawful, as wanting Divine Inftitu ion, being abufed to Idolatrv and 
 tending there:<^T it lawful then for you to {tumble or offend thena,by : youc . 
 Practice, when ye mujl iknoviedgr thefe thi tgs to be. indifferent, aid 
 confequyntly no fin to emit them ? The Apoftle clearly determines, ihis 
 Matter', a grin ft your Practice , in a parallel 'C*!c of eating Flelh, that 
 had been offered to Idols: JR.ead the 8 Ch*p : of i-Cor : aua? particularly 
 Ver: 12, iju.' 
 
 17. (X How can ye plead, any Warrant kr Rowing at the Name ?£- 
 
 SVS, from "Phil- % rn.' when the m'oft 'Lear rued of the Churcn of £«- 
 
 gland's Writers and Commentators underftand it, not literally, but me* 
 
 ta^hrirlcally , 'and' by bowing the knee, mttri.SubjeclJeti, and by the Name 
 
 e^JESVS^^n his Power and Authority,, as they areufuaMfy taken in other 
 
 ' places ofScripturj ?*And if ye will, contrary to the !>c*pe of that place, un« 
 
 derftand it.literally, why doye not keep.clofsby the-very Letterof the 
 
 Text and alwaysbow the Knee,and notthe Head^not only it one, but eve.. 
 
 ryNameof'JhSUS andlhat m every place, ,and as oft a*you hear • • 
 
 the Name mentioned f And when ye bow the Knee, why do, ye not as 
 
 oft confejs mthyour'tonguts.y that Jefus is the LORD , feing bowing and 
 
 confeffing are equally enjoyned in thatTex't? And I would fain know how 
 
 the Text can be meant literally of the Angels in Heaven, and Dey/ls in 
 
 Hell therein mentioned ^ who jia ye* neither Kuees to bow, nor Tongues 
 
 toconfefs. 
 
 18, Q. Are ye not afraid of the Plagues and Cur fes denounced again ft 
 ibofe, who alter, add to, or take away from GQD's W jrd: Read Deur 
 4. 2. Prov : 30. 5, 6 Rev : 22. 18. -Are ye not guijty of this Criine" - 
 in reading the. Books o[ Apocrypha, wherein there areifesural- fnHwipiftoJ 
 ri#, and ridiculous Pift^ & 
 
 gon ,. a Lying AngeLaW+Kn-tikeCharm ofaFJJj Liver % &c. and re,d. 
 ing tfrefcat youf publick Worlhip, inftead o( feveral Books- of GOD's 
 Holy Word, which ye allow not to be read there/ As alio in appointing 
 feveral Pfalms and Hymns, taken from the Mafs Service, to be u fed m 
 ffwrcta,^ lake W ife in 
 
 the 
 
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 the Serv :-B. Pfalms, we find GOD s Titles and Infcrip'tions of the fede- 
 ral Pfalms taken out to make WayWor the Popijb Latin? Tu Us. . which 
 pofTefs their place *, As alfo the Holy Ghnft\ Exhortation to pnife rh? 
 LORD cut oft* from the end of moft of the Psalms*, and Man's Exhorra- 
 tion to praife, .appointed to be faid or fang, in its ftead. Moreover , 
 there are three whole Verfes added to the 14 Pfalm , which are not in 
 the Original \ yea, there is an exprefsContradi&ion to the Original, and 
 to the Pfalms in our Bibles , infert in Pfai : 105: 28. Befides many other 
 Alterations, thro* the reft of thefe Pfalms in the Serv: B. But no 
 wonder it bti fo, feing they are tranfl.ited from the Pnpijh vulgar Latine 
 Bible, which abounds with Errors. And farther in the Serv: B. we 
 find, always at the end of the Fourth Command , in ftead of the Sabbath 
 Day, it is faid, GOD blejfed the feventh Day, contrary to the Original^ 
 As alfo the mo t part of GOD's Preface to the Commands, and the Con* 
 dufion to the LORD'S Prayer is commonly left out. And are not fucfe 
 Practices very (inful and provocking to a w«fe and holy God ? 
 
 19. £X \\ny fhould there be fo many Unfcriptural and harm found- 
 ing Names and expreflions retained in the Service Book, fome whereof 
 favour of the Pop JI? and Pagan Superftition and Idolatry, fuch as Advent 
 Sunday, Epiphany, Eafker, Ember, and Rogation days, Quinquagefima^ 
 All Saints, and many of the Poplfh imaginary Saints Names let dowr* 
 in the Kalendar, and the Heathen Name Sunday is always ufed inftead 
 of the Lords Day or Sabbath, which are the Scripture Names ? 
 Again there is oft mention of Godfathers and Godmothers, which are 
 too honourable and Divine Titles far earthly Men, there is none can be 
 ftlled,- both our God and Father:, but the God of Heaven. Alfo there is 
 a Sett of Mini iters mentioned therein, called Curates and Priejis^ where- 
 of there is no mention among the Officers of the Gofpel Church in the 
 ijew Teftament *, and I am pretty fure, the Scripture knows no fucfe 
 Officer as a Curate, that hath the Cure of Souls under a Bifhop, and not 
 immediately under Chrifl. Indeed there are Prtefts frequently fpoke of 
 in Scripture-, but there we have only two orders ofPriefts the firfi i% 
 of the Order of Aaron, viz. The Leviticai Priefts, whok Office k 
 was to offer Sacrifices Typical of Chrift's great Sacrifice, which Order, 
 together with the Sacrifices, was abolifhed by Chrift's Death. The 2d,, 
 is of theOrderof/^/c^/tf^c^and this is Chrift whoistheone only High 
 Pried of his Church, who offered up a great propitiatory Sacrifice to 
 Juftice, for the Elecls fins, and remaineth a Prieftfor ever without an/ 
 Colleagues or Succeffors in his Office *, I know not where to find the In- 
 flation of a third Order ofPriefts fave in the Papisls Mafs Book, the 
 Ground of their claiming this Title ofPriefts, bei g, that they pretend 
 to offer in the Sacrament of the Eucharist a propfiatory Sacrifice, fo 
 
 G , • the* 
 
^ fins of d tifviPM, znd have tTie Power rf pardoning fin. 
 
 Are $e Service Priefh of tHs kind, or will they fet up for a fourth 
 
 Order of P. it ft hood* by thefufelves. But to proceed, What tollerable 
 gucd Sen (eon that Idolatrous expreflion bear, in the* Office for Matri- 
 n:cny^ With trx b^dy-Ithte /fV/ft/p/ As al(o that Prayer m the Litany, 
 to pneftyye ai, I . ana by Water, without any Limitati* 
 
 or., ajhicfe compeht,fis l i\6hhx:r' anckPirafel ' fhouldwc pray for prefer- 
 
 And t isTK fl<* &™ng€ tr. [ afichiJm mould be ta«gh.r Children in tnis 
 
 Land, .who -were .-not Baptized with Godfathers and Godmothers, k 
 they cannot repeat it without lying? harder, it faith, that Children 
 bv Baptifm are made Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven *, If it were. 
 Heirs, it would. found better/, For to be Ihhtritcrs, implys actual pof- 
 'feftion. Moreover it makes a Promife of .Faith and Repentance, equi- 
 lenrto tfm actual performance oftnern. Moreover in the Athanafian 
 Creed there are fome ExprdTions that found harmly, aliening that none 
 can be faved, but all muft per-ifh eternally who believe not all things 
 "contained in the (aki Creed \ That deed indeed is an excellent Sum of 
 the Chriftian Faith, and a good Explication of the Doctrine of the Trinity j 
 "But it is very hard to conclude every one Damned Eternally, that doth 
 ^not believe everv Word-there written •, .as far inftance, one of the 
 Articles of the Athanafian Creed is, the H>ly Ghojl is .of the Father and 
 of the Son, in this Article th^ Greek Church 'differs from the Latine, 
 holding that the Holy Gh( ft proceeds from the Father only : Now tno* 
 the Greek Church be in an Error, its a moft uncharitabk Cenfure to 
 hold them all undoubtedly Damned for it. 
 
 Likewife in the Exhortation before the Communion, it is afTerred,that 
 ?70??e fh r ,uld come to the H dy Ccmmuni.n but with a full Trufi in God's 
 frfercv and a quiet Confcienee, which exprefiion,. tends to dicou age and 
 iceep back all thole who nave any trouble in Mind,- or doubt anent their 
 Souls eflate, that yet may have a Right to tnis Ordinance. Alio there 
 is a Rule given in the Service Bo >k, for finding ou* Eafter^ which in 
 many Years, contradicts the Table therein for finding the moveable 
 Teafts, as hath been frequently Demonftrated. 
 
 20. Q± How can that Book or Liturgy be in all things approven And 
 Subicribed unto( which every Churcn o f England Minifrer is bound to 
 do 1 that harh Co many things therein, tending to lull poor Souls afleep 
 in a courfe of Sin, and the neghft of Holy Duties, and to keep them 
 from the Knowledge of their Mifery by N.Uure, the ufefulrrefs of Chrift 
 e$ a Remedy, and of the neceffity of Faith, Repentance, Holinefs, and 
 
 of 
 
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 Spirit, made a Child of God, and an In fi editor of the Kingdom/of Heaven 
 And th^r ii^ry Child dying before rhe 'Commiffion of acTta-af fi.i ( tfto" 
 born '&*£$%$ or /^^ParentO if he be. bitt Bip'ized, in undoubtedly 
 Saved;, Thibis pi lirffroa |he 0^:eMW.8i>Vfi^nJ Coa^matiou a 
 fmnr' the Catechu. ' *. 
 
 2. All Baptized Perfons or Children that cap Repeat the Service Bo.ok 
 Catechifm^ fio* never io mu en unqualified otherwile ) mull; be confirm- 
 ed, and God Prajied at that Occaiiqn, for Regenerating them jbv 
 Holy Spirii ,ai4. -forgiving them all their S-rs, fe.s /%; Office for <&{$* 
 
 3. Every brie that is confirmed, being judged . Mi to be admitted to 
 the Lords;' Supper, is obliged tc Communicate, at kail' three Titrusia 
 the Year. 
 
 4. All Perfons on a Sick Bed, if they but make an outward Profef-. 
 fion of R pen ta nee to the Pried- are to get ^Dtyjjption from him, wilier^ 
 is to be ablolutejvf^nd particularly txpreft in.theie wordU I. arVfqJve t 
 
 'thee from all thy fins ) without fubjoyning any condition,' ift/iou ikiieve, 
 or Repeat. 
 
 5. The Curate is obliged alfo by the. Rubrici to give the Holy- Comg. 
 munion, to every Perton on a Sick Bed, if he bu; defires it. 
 
 6. The Catechifm iffert? that Ciri'it.hath Redeemed all MankiricL 
 
 7. At the Burial of tie Dead,, tho* never [o profligate in their Live 5^ 
 if they were not U^baprized, Excommunicate- or Self Murderers, the 
 
 Prieft is directed at their Graves, to bleis God for delivering them out; of 
 the Mileries.of a fin fuL World, and for hi* taking their Souls to h-imfelf 
 -In great Mercy> and alio to commit their Bodies to the Ground in fcrje, 
 and certain hopes' of Refurre&ion to Eeennal Life. And by Uie Church 
 Canons the Piiefts and Curats are no wife allowed 'to perform or for- 
 bear the fore faid Actions and Declarations according to their Judgment 
 of Difcretion. You may cloak theie things 'with the fair pretest o£ 
 Charity, but iurely it is cruel Charity that flitters and hood winks peo- 
 ple in ..the broad way to Deibu&ion, and k*eps the m Ignorant of ttheit 
 Danger, till it be pad Remedy \ by fuch Means, Millions are btro-ug^ht 
 to everlafting Torments, and are in is Day curftng, ch^tCha rity chat' 
 brought them thither ^ lam fare fuch a Charity hatn no foundation in 
 in the; Word of GOD* but, is exprefly contrare thereto, as fna 11 be 
 afterwards made evident. 
 
 21 Qj DotJuheHoly Scripture give any countenance to fuch Danger* 
 pus and Soul-ruining I^prefiions, as are before. mentioned, when 01 tne 
 
 . G 2. co^rar. 
 
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 eofitrar we are told thereby, that there are none faved but God's Ele#, 
 and that thereare few walking in the narrow way to Life, and but few 
 really Regenerated, and that Nicodemus was a flranger to Regenerati- 
 on, 'thohewas Circumrifed. And St won Magus was ftill in the Call 
 of Eitternefs and Bond of Iniquity r ko he was Baptized Act. 8. And .that 
 Erunkafds, uric lean, &c. Shalt net inherit the Kingdom ttf God, 
 1 Cor. 6. 9, TO ' And that thefe who have dnre evil Jhall come forth to 
 the Refurrellion f Damnation, John 5 29. A-,d inilead of Chiilt's R (: > 
 deeming all Mankind, heexpreflv tel/s us, tha* he laid down his Life for 
 his Si eep, and gave his L fe a ranfom for many, not for all M^kind, not 
 for ^vdas, ortheDamnci in Hell. The Scripture and the Experience 
 of Saints tefti/y,that the New Birth or Regeneration is a work of great 
 Difficulty, but the Service Book reprefents it as a thing very commorv 
 a"d eaile, as appears by the Thankfgivings after B.vptifrn, and at Con- 
 firmation, which give Ciround to multitudes ofloofe and fecure finners 
 to think themferves fu Ardently Regenerated already, and to apprehend 
 that there is no nectfliry of feeking any further Regeneration, if once 
 they be Baptized and confirmed. And is it not ftrange thatfhouidbe 
 aflertedatthe end of the Office for Baprifm, tkat-it is certain by Cods, 
 
 - World 
 
 broadis the Way and wide is the Gate that leads to Life, and many there 
 he that go tn thereat, &c. For according to the 68th Canon of the Church 
 of England, Minitters are bound to Baptize alt Children without Excep- 
 tion that are offered to them, tho they be Children of Atheifts, Jews 
 Infidels, Blafpbemers, or the mbft Scandalous finners, and then as foon as 
 the Office is over, Ble Is God for Regenerating them by his Spirit, and 
 lay it down as undoubtedly certain, that they are faved, if they die in 
 infamy : Hence if a King or Conquerer mould enter into a Pagan or 
 Mahumetan Country, and by Force take alf the Children to be Baptized" 
 it would bean hb of Ch-anty and Kindnds in him ( after he had by 
 Baptifm given them a certain paifport for heaven J to KiH them, and 
 give them poflcilion of Eternal HappineM} and fo it would be in the 
 pow.r of Man to make Infants fur e and certain of Salvation. Hence alfo 
 it might be concluded to be^ good and Charitable wo-k for Church of 
 England Minifter«,to go in Difguife lojurky and the Indies, to hunt for 
 Children, and Baptize them fecretly. But as thefe things are Ridiculous, 
 fo much this Doctrine be *, for Children have no Right to, Baptifm, buC 
 in their parents, as they are the feed of the Faithfull and within the* Co- 
 venant, which is made with Believers and their feed. How then fbourd 
 *te GfeSfe? ?!"■ Notorious Adulters, Atheifts, &c. have a Right to 
 
 Baptiih*, 
 
( it ; 
 
 B^ptifm? oriftheydiefoonafrer tfa^.im, how can we be certain ■ -Iry 
 God's word that they are fa ved, efpecially feeing God Declares in the 
 2d Commandment, that he will Punifh the Iniquities of the Fathers upon. 
 the Children to the jd and 4th Generation ? 
 
 It is alfo as raucn contrary to the Scriptures, and of Dangerous con 
 fequence to harden the Wicked in fin, to declare every Man to be in a 
 hnppy State at his Burial, if he be not unbaptiz^ed^ Excommunicated or 
 a Self murderer *, Is it not certain that Thoufands are cut orTin the- "mid ft 
 of iheir (Ins, Drut:k*rds, Whoring, Swearing, &c. Without any/ign 
 of Repentance? And how can it be hid or Determined, that God hath 
 taken away Iuch Perfonsjn Mtrcy\\x\\ in Great Meny,w\i€(\ bv the man- 
 ner of thtir Death they are taken away from all Poilibility of future, Re- 
 pentance and amendment of Life - v may it not be rather feared that in fuch 
 cafes, God takes them away in his wrath, being provoked by tneir long 
 impenitency and abufe nf his Patience? Yet its not only fa id that God 
 hath takea'them away in merty, but that God hath taken them to himfilf. 
 i e. into Heaven ^ if a Minifter ruuft (ay this of iuch Perfons, whit 
 Doctrine would he Preach from the forecited Texts, 1 Cor. 6. 9. John 
 5. 29. Doth God's word oblige Minifters to condemn known Adulterers,. 
 t)runkards, &c. From the Pulpit ? And wiU the Service Book oblige, 
 them topronounce them Saved at the Grave. 
 
 22. Q, What warrant is there for Confirmation, after the Method of 
 *he Service Book ? And why is the Apoftles Practice alledge for the Bi~ 
 (hop's impofing of Hands in confirming of Children, when the Apoftles ne- 
 ver ufed it in that cafe? And is it fufficient to qualify any Perfon or 
 Child for Confirmation, to be able to repeat the fhort Catechifm in the 
 Serv: B. when a Child of five or fix Years old may do this? Andoug! t 
 their doing this be reckoned a fure Mark of their being in a regenerate ai d 
 pardoned State, and they thereupon declared to be in Iuch a happy Co* « 
 dition ( as is done in the Office for Co ; irk motion >when it is nottour,that 
 many Children and others, whonn repeat the Catechifm , (hew no lik- 
 ing toGodlinefs, but inftead thereof, difcovermoft viuoua Inclinations^ 
 and breakout into grols Sins, which aj$ fmaUEvidences of their Regene- 
 ration , and Forgivenefs? Moreover, is it not ftr.ange, that there 
 fhould a higher Value be put upon Confirmation ( one of the Papifts ba-, 
 (tard Sacraments ) than upon the Sacraments oi our LORD'S Inftiruuon* 
 feing Deaco»Sy Curates, and unpr caching MiniUers y are allowed to dif- 
 penie h.'fe , but the Bifijp alienarly can diipenfe this , which furely 
 liiuft be a Ta<k tob.great for any one Man* if rightly performed *,. yea* 
 more than an hundred can well manage , there being (everal hundreds of 
 Parifhes in fome Diocefes. 
 
 23* •& What Authority from Scripture have ye for giving the Com* 
 
 munio^ 
 

 ma ntoPerf 1/ bit letorffe 
 
 'ii e and E . : in. 
 
 ftich * .V f Is it rot a reaay Way ;o encou 
 
 \i thtff IgAirf r.ce, Supertfition anl lie?' 1 tiou- pr. t ce< .' fs it iuft , I 
 
 fs, b) the Rubrick i,; fie SeTv : B. Ihoiila be obliged to give the 
 Sa. '. tocvtTN gfk Per' , : :n it is Dottoyr, 
 
 that Pcrfons g c ran I , v 
 
 fer f.'veanv Evidenced Repentance j fire ir^ vea, Periods w 
 
 ly unfit frrltj bv Reafm of their roving Fits in Sickneft, may d 
 the Ccmmunioh? Aim is it nor ft: >uld no Eiceprioi be 
 
 :r of fcc s Mmifcrs, 
 
 ta:ive!v, pr J . nirticu! r W to a . - : 
 
 B. authoize' Minirers to do ? Shall 
 
 GOO's Prerf ga:ive alone? Ag)in,Is it (ufficient to entitle any 
 thi> Absolution , tba r he lay to the Prieft , He repents? may not a wic- 
 ked Man dying by H- Drunkennco, Whoredom, &c. f«y (o/ \ 
 Atheift pretending ficknei's may fay r a ?rieit to 
 
 him, on porpofe to deride h : Gofpel , an: ifter be' 
 
 obliged to abfolve fuch Per fo- s, and likewije do ic tbfolutely^ 
 ny Condition, or Limi f ation / Hiing be I 
 
 why ihould ye not be pMn and exp.re s in this Matcer , u 
 
 both Ink and whole , that the Prieft's Abfoiti nly conditional a d 
 
 fh r. thing , wit'v u r F.nith and Repentance in the tick Pcrfon.f Do 
 
 not iMu!r.fuies quite mitt-ke here, apprehending^.that their receivings 
 t u e ^aciament , yvith thePtidt's Abfolurion, on a Death Bed, will 
 t em Rraigbt to Heaven , what: eir former Li>e or prefent State 
 
 m be, a id fo are hardened in a Courfe of bin and Ignorance to th 
 Eternal Ruinc? 
 
 24. ^. I> it not ve r y hard to oblige every Parifconer toe. 
 catc a ieaft three times i 1 tne Year , "of which E.islcrtobs cr.e ( as ap- 
 peirs by the RuMck , at the end of Office for the Communion ) \ 
 the Exception < f the Ignorant or Scandalous^ or of any poor r . 
 cnoly , doubting Chrifrian , that dare not adventure to this Ordinance 
 fo oftj or 3t fuch precifeTim^s •, yea, the nitk, Canon , the Names of 
 all that neglect are to br exhibited to the Bijh p , or his C 
 they refuie, afrer Prefentation, they are to be Exccmmunk ate.* 
 rii n ly able to be com td in a Priiou , tiil they die, by Yertue 
 Write, de excommunicato capiendo. Is it any of CHR!5T'> Methods , 
 thus tofoce :ne Fgnorant and Scandal' u-s upon tne facrilegious Profana- 
 tion of tr.is folemn Ordinance Co their Damnation andRuirje? Or. do 
 you ihitik a Priforr, a proper Way to force Sinners our of [heir Ignorance,, 
 aau UngcxHiacfs 5 or doubling Chriftians ou* of their Fears. 
 
 25. & 
 
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 f 25. "Q. What Warnnt have ye for making new Terms of Church 
 Communion and for altering and contradicting ofChrifl's appointed terms 
 ef Adnriilion to Church Ordinances and Sacraments? Chrift faith, Bap- 
 tize all that are made Dilciples, ail that Repent and Believe •, and like- 
 wife warrands his Minifters to Adminifter the Lords Supper to every one 
 that hath Faith and Knowledge. No, faith rhe Service Book and Canons, 
 Baptize none, tho' they have all that is necefTary to make them Difcioks 
 of Chrift, unlefs they take the Aerial Sign of the Crofs, and be prelented 
 by Godfathers and Godmothers. DHpenfe the Lord's Supper to none, 
 whatever be their Knowledge, Faith, Repentance or other Graces, if they 
 fcruple to receive the impcfition of the Blfhop- Hands in Confirmation, 
 or to receive the Sacrament in a Kneeling poiture That thefe things are 
 To, is evident from feveral of the Kubricks in the Offices for Baptifm, Con- 
 firmation, and th^ Communion, compared with the Church Canon* •, and 
 all the Minifters- of the Church of England are bound to pra&ile accord- 
 ingly, by their Solemn Declaration, Subfcription and Oath, and none 
 clare Difpenfe with any of the forefaid Rites and Institutions, under the 
 pain of icvere Cenfures and Penalties. Is it not hard to deny Baptifm to 
 the Children of Godly Parents for fcrupling any^f the laid Rices, viz*. 
 The Sign of the Crofs, or Godfathers^ when yet the Parent h ready to do 
 his own part in profefting his Faith, Dedicating his Cnjid to God, pro- 
 miffing a Religious Education and willing to do every tftmg that Chrift: 
 hath appointed? Is it noT moft uncharitable and cruel to deprive Souls 
 of vifible Chriftianity, or Damn poor Infants for want of an humane in- 
 vention or uvnecejjary Formality when its mdintair'ed, that Baptifm gives 
 them certain ajfuTance or Saltation ? Moreover is it not hard to deny 
 the Holy Communion to thofe who are true Believers, real Penitents, 
 'knowing C-riftians, h<Iy and Gbnfcientfbtrs Livers, onW- hecdufe they 
 fcruple that Epijcopal Ceremony in Confirmation, when yet hey are will- 
 ing, ro own tneit Bjptifmal Covenant, witft great undtrltanding and 
 ferioufnefe before the Church or Pallors thereof > And is it not a cruel 
 thing to exclude a Man from \ht Sac/ament, and difown him to be a 
 Chr'ftian, becaufe he will nor yeild to the altering of ihatpofture which 
 Was uled by our Saviour and his Apoftles in trie firft Admi ^iitration, and 
 in the Universal Church for raa^y Hu idred Years there ifwr *, and - be- 
 Cufr he fcrupleth 'to Symbolize with Idolaters in kneeling al rhe Altar? 
 And yetnotwiffianoi.ng ofthis. unre.tfonaMe rig', ui tofenicr Co defences, 
 to admit to the Lords Supper f without icruple ) perfons ^rofly igno- 
 l^;t, and immoral. 
 
 And furde ; ' is it not moft hard and unreasonable ro exclude fro n Mi* 
 nifterial Communion, all thoTef however eminently Learned ih tJ ious 
 they may be ) who (hali fcruple to Wtj&d whiteSurplicc wi(h$lewfs 7 d\ir- 
 

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 ftrg their laying PubV'ck Pravers ar»4 Mmiftxing the Sacraments ( as ap* 
 pejrs Trom the Rubrick before the Order for Morning Prayer, compared 
 with the 58th Carton) whyfhouldthe church be deprived of the Gifts 
 and Labours of nnnv excellent Minifters, becaufe they are not for wear- 
 inf? the Popijb Priefts Veftments, or ufing a white Surplice, which is ap- 
 pointed as a Sacre^ Symbolical Garment, withot any warrant from Chrift, 
 who, of Right, is Matter of ceremonies in his own Houfe. 
 
 26. Q VVhyd-oye not retain the Popljh Oyl, Sak^and Spittle in Bip- 
 tifm, as well as the Sign of the Crop? feeing thefe have as much Scrip- 
 ture warrant as the other \ and Papifts fay they are very Ancient and 
 Significant, as the Sign of the Crofs *, O ! fay they, Oyl was ufual in A~ 
 minting Kings and Priests, we are directed to have our Speech feafoned 
 with Salt, and Chrift: anointed the Blind Mans Eyes with Spittle, &c. 
 Yea more may be (aid for retaining thefe, in fome refpecl, than foi t >e 
 Sign of the Crofs, in regard they have not been fo much abufed to Ido- 
 latry, as it hath been by the Papifts. What then have we to do with n? 
 efpecially feeing Cartwright and other Learned Men make the Sign of 
 the Crofs to belong to the Mark of the Beat}, which he gives to his 
 Worjhippers in their Forehead and Right Hand mentioned in Rev. 13. 
 16. 17. and 14. 9. 10. for Papifts give rhis Mark at Baptiiai on the 
 Forehead, and at Confirmation in the Right Hand. 
 
 27. Q* What wants the Sign of the Crofs , as you ufeit , of a new Sa* 
 
 crament fuperadded to the Sacrament of Baptifm .^ School-men define a 
 
 Sacrament, Signum vifibile, invifibilis Gratia *, there is an^ outward vifibU 
 
 •Sign, Viz.. A tranfient Image of a Crofs made by a Minifter, and received 
 
 in the Fore head by the baptized Perfon : The thing fignified y is Chrift 
 crucified , and the baptized Perfon's engaging to fight, under his Banner 
 ( and indeed the Duties and Engagmentsto which we are bound by Ba- 
 ptifm , are more espresly affixed to this humane aerial Sign , and new 
 devifed Sacrament , than to the Sacrament of Baptifm itfelf, tho % inftitu- 
 ted by Chrift ) How then can ye quarrel Papifts for multiplying of Sacra- 
 ments, feing you are guilty of the fame Fault ? 
 
 28. CK fs it not a great Miftake in the^Serv : B. and Canons to owii 
 nothing -fTential to Baptifm, but the Wfatr and Words , and in Confe- 
 quence thereof , to allow unpreaching Minifters to baptize ( fee Office 
 for privat Bapt. compared with 57 Canon ) and likewife to permit Laicis 
 and Midwrves todifpenfe this Sacrament? Is not this a horrid Profanation 
 of CHRlTS's Solemn Ordinance, and contrary to His Commiffion to his 
 Apoftles , wherein he closly connects Preaching and Baptizing together? 
 How abfurd is it for you to=be fond of that Liturgy, that tolerates Mid- 
 wives to baptize, and yet pretend Scruples to baptize with Presbyterian 
 Minifters* p 
 
 29. (* 
 
 
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 -0 Qs Why do ye hinder Parents to prefedt , name andengige for 
 their Children a't Baptifm ' , and appoint Godfather* and' God- mot hers for 
 that Office (fee Office for publick *3apt; compared with 29th Canon ) re 
 not Parents , who have the natural [ntereft in Children , a;rd power of 
 their Difpofal and Education , only ricteft to Covenant in their N^mesj 
 and will not GOD make them accountable for them at the Great Diy , 
 why then mould ye. roil thisCliarge upon orhers/ and upon Per.funs , in* 
 Choice of whom, there is no Care or Caution required , it being ufual to 
 admit Children, loofe Per Ions, and thofe who live many Miles from the 
 Children , and often' never fee them after Baptifm , to be Snonfois , or 
 Godfathers to them yandjho* they folemnly engage in behalf of the. In-,, 
 fant, yefthey look upon. all asiiaeer Ceremony or Complement , and hold 
 themfeves really, bound to nothing , and are no more concerned about tht 
 Child's Chriftian Education, than our Gojjips or Name-fathers \ but think 
 themfelves exonered by giving fome Complement to the Child, Nurfe, on 
 Midwife. Hence it is made a-Proverb of Peribns , who mind no: tokeepi 
 their Promife , tnat they are like the God* fat hers in England. More- 
 over, is it not moft ridiculous, for a Man to undertake tobeii'eve, re- 
 nounce the Devil and obey GOD'S Commands , in the'Ntime -and Room o( 
 another , as the Godfathers do at Baptiim for thti Child, wiien yet tig ,\y 
 of them, never perform thefefor themlei^es, and tho* th^y din <-. tiws 
 Child be profited or laved by the Faith df a Godfather ' ? Again is it 
 not an untruth in the Ca tech rim , to fay, that ih^ Godfathers and Godmo- 
 thers , a- Baptifm , promifea 'tnat the Children fooald'^//*^,. renounce^ 
 &c. when yet they a&uaify and expressly profcifc to do it themselves in 
 Name of the Children , which are cljariy two d; if- rent things f Laitly, 
 Is it fie thar the Fonts for Baptifm mOuld be fifuate. in reared Corners of 
 the Churo , mould not Baptiim be adminiitred in Face of the whole Con- 
 gregation , and where they may bed hear and fee? 
 
 30. c3. Is it not a craei and uncharitable thing to damn poor Infants, 
 who die without Baptifm, as the Serv: B. feems.to.do, by defying tbem 
 chriftianBurials,ranking them with the Excommuicate andScif murhe ers 
 and holding them as unregenerate and Children of Satan f Were all lac 
 Child re rv damned , who under the Law , .died, before the Eight Day ap- 
 point d for Circum€ifion,or will ye put it in the /ow-r of wicked r 'areius, 
 or Minifters, to damn poor Infants ? by granting or refusing, nafimg or 
 delaying Baptifm at their Pleafure? 
 
 31. Q. Are there not feveralthings H the Rub'rick s and Practice of 
 the Church of England, anient the Admiuiitra'ion of the LORDS, Supper, 
 very improper ana incongrous, fuch as, imo y An unpreachin^ Mi;iiiter 
 may difpenle the fame. ido s The Advertifemelst to be g.ivii to the Con- 
 gregation anent the Aminiftration thereof, is only upon the Sunday or 
 Holy Day iramediatly preceeaing , and this may happen to be on the ve- 
 ry Frtdav or Saturday before the Sacrament, which furely allows too 
 fhort Time for the People , to prepare for fo folemn an ordinance, itio* 
 The Notice to be given to the Minifter , of jk$ womuauaiant* Names , 
 
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 c^w the Dw >mmei!.u!y proceeding the Samment, allows too little 
 time f >r a Miniiter ra enquire into their Knowledge and Conventions, 
 aWo Herwiie rb- a (lift "hern in their Preparatory Work. $to, The Mini- 
 ver's preaching at the Celebr*tion.of rhis Ordinance is left indifferent by 
 theRubHck, a^d reading.pf one of the Churches Homilies, is reckoned 
 fuflv <t*f thuTmie-, lu^-iv, it mizht be thought , if 'ever a Minister 
 fl' red ttphit G'fr, in l-ifou'ins. to awaken , convince ,- excite and direct 
 his Pennie in their Work , by preaching of 'the Wi'd , it Ihould be at fucb a 
 Solemn OccaOon. <tto, Ufeemstobe a Superjacent Vracbce^ fox Mini- 
 sters in Prayer at the Cmmunion, to turn away their Faces from the People, 
 or towards the Fart, how can the People this way hear, or joy n in Prayer ? 
 Mav not the Priefr. as w*M-prayin Latinel 6to, In rhe Time, when the 
 People are giving Alms for the Poor, at r he Commun'^n , the Priest is- 
 ordered to read \uch Parages from Saipturc, as direct People to afford 
 Maintenance to P aft or s,\\h\ch apoears to he very impr per, and looks as it 
 the Priest were begging their A : ms far himfcif jto , ChrifVs Example 
 is not followed neitner in the Pj}u?e{ of which 3 forwards ) nor in the 
 Words of Institution, nor in th«- Manner of Distribution', for according 
 to the Serv : B. The Prieft at distributing the Element s,ufcth not Ch rift's 
 Words of Institution , but another Form o Words, which he always re- 
 peats over to every Communicant , it may he a thoufand times in one day, 
 he gi/ingthe Elements to every Individu,! Perfon , out of his own hand. 
 Surelv ic is more agreeaMe to our Saviour's Example, ani the Nature of 
 this Ordinance , for Minivers to uTe. the Words of Inftitution, as near 
 a* may be, at diftributing the Elements, and to fpeak to Communicants 
 joyntly, in the plural Number •, and to allow them ( after the fir ft break- 
 ing and diftribution by the Minifter ) to dure and. divide the Elements 
 among themfeWes, thereby to teftify their mutual Charity to, andCoo> 
 munion one with another. 
 
 32. Q^ What Authority have ye for Kneeling at the Lord's Table, feing 
 the Evangelists tell us , that CHRIS! and his ApoflLes ch\i fed fitting , or 
 the common Table Gefture, at the firjf Inftitution ? Was eyer Knce'ing 
 reckoned a feasting Posture, or do ye pretend to be wifer or humbler 
 than CHRIST and his Ap files , that ye defpife t )eir Pofture ? Or, Will 
 ye accufe them of having an undectnt, or irreverent Getture at this holy Or- 
 dinance ? Or, Will ye cnarge the whole Catholick Church, with Ldecen* 
 fyand Irreverence , who never ufed kneeling at the Communion, for 
 many hundred Years after CHRIST ? Was it ever praftiieci in the Chuch 
 till the Du&i'me * >fTr an fubjt ant 1 at ion was broached, anJ People were di- 
 rected to vpo'jbip CHRlSVs Booy andBloid in trie Sacrament ? So that it 
 is but a Pop'fh modem Po&ure , not above 500 Years (landing , for Pope 
 Honorim was the firft that decreed it , about the Beginning of the \$tb 
 Century : Wherefore our Zealous Reformers and Fathers in this Land y 
 threw out this Idolatrous Pufiure , with the frlfe Do&rine to which it be- 
 longed, and would never admit it to return : Our old Communion Tablet 
 with Seate fixed vuno thesis, may tell u* wAil ha;a been tneir confhnt 
 
 Praaice 
 
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 practice* ^'* | f - vft M* no Intention cf .Symbolizing whh Mlaters In 
 tWPoflurer^u/only^raaiie it Tor ife?*#>i fake , whfi'do yc not 
 ordain Adult Perfons* who are baptized to receive Wi Sacrament fortfc 
 f^g alfa f Laftly, Mav not the Vapid s , near srs well , etfcufeiiaeif Wor- 
 shipping CHRIST by Images , from Idolatry, as you can do your wor- 
 shiping him in Kneeling before the Elements, and that with Reverence 
 and Refpeft to the fe Elements, which ire Confecrated Creatures, inten- 
 tionally placed before you, to be an Image and Reprefentation of Chrift 
 tint o you ? 
 
 33* £L What Power have ye to infthutofo many Holy Days and to put 
 Saints Days on a Level with the LO D\> Drfj/ , bs obliging People to *b- 
 ftain wholly from Work thereupon? Is not the Inttitution of holy Days 
 a plain Encroachment upon CHRIST s Legiflttive Power, who alone c n 
 make Davs holy, and particularly on the Fourth Command , tha* o ly 
 appoints One Day in Sf^*?? to be kept holy , and allows u< to V K u S*x 
 of them . p Doth it not if- fringe vurChriftian Liberty,. zx\d. bring Chrftians 
 vnder a Yoke of Bandage, of which CHRIST harh made them free , by 
 taking off the old Yoke of Carnal Ordinances , which confined in a mult i* 
 tude of fitch Oblervationsi The Apofrte would lay no Burden on the 
 .D/fcipleJ, bu ' neceffar\ thinjsA&s 15. 2,8. And we are c-harged to ft and 
 f«ft in the Liberty wherewith Chr-ft hath made m free , that we be not 
 em angled again withfnch a Yoke Bond ge, Gal .*.$, j. Do:h not rhe.Apo- 
 ftle find Fault with the Galitians for (uch Practices, Gal : 4. to, w. 
 Ye obferve days, months, times and years , 1 am afraid of you left I have be- 
 flowed on you labour in vain. Is not this to be over much righteous and 
 •wife above what u written, and what Reward can ye expect for it r* And 
 laftly, How fenfual and fcandal us is the ufual Manner of' obfervmg thefe 
 Days, fo that inftead of Holy, they iv ay more juflly be termed Vnholy 
 Days 
 
 34. Q. What Authority have ye for Infirumental Mufick in the Wor- 
 fhip of GOD, from Chrilt or his ApotUes, or the pnft ife of rhe Primi- 
 tive Chriftians for many Ages thereafter ? wa*not Pope Vitalianus the 
 firit that brought in iht O gans and other M.fical Iuftruments into 
 Churches, toward the end of the (eventh Centmy .? 
 
 35. Q. Is it not a great Defec"Hn the Church of England to want a 
 Godly Church Difcipline fo^cenfuring the Scandalous, which fhc her {Hf 
 ( in the Commi at ion, and by reading the fame every fi.ft day of Lent ) 
 hath yea r lv acknowledged for thefe 1^0 Years bypafl •, tho' fhe makes 
 no endeavours for reflorin^ r he fame, but alwiysrefts in an empty wijh 
 for it, as if this were fufficient to exoner her for the want of it f And 
 for any fhadow of Difcipline Ihe hath, it is lodged in the Hands of Lay 
 Men, who grievoufly abufe and proftitute the lame, to the Scandal vt 
 Ihe ChriHian Religion. 
 
 36. Q^ Have ye any warren \ from God's Word for impofwg Set Forms 
 of Prayer ( and thele for the vouft part compofed by Pap.fts ) Vnd Re- 
 ftrifting all forts oi Pcrfons to the ufe of tacm, £y r fading tfom off he 
 
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 ^r^ wrier^they Pray, and that ££o#er ariS'ofer without Viriatioi, 
 however much their caff and circumfiances fhould alter ? Is there - 
 mention Qi&-Liiur£y or Prayer Book through the whole Scripture I 
 "griy of the Saints then u"cd r We are frequently Exhorted to R 
 and S^udv the H^l* < cnptur&s, hut never to Read' any Prayer Book, wh 
 would not ^°en omitted if there hid been any ', have we not r, 
 Tfalffl* or Fflrwj fl//Va//fJ,which they'u(ed,crfrdfw//y preferred and Hint- 
 ed dw- 1 to ut, and is it credible that their fVw.r of Prayers, w 
 never be ence .mentioned . ? Solomon gives not the leaft hint of anv yVJ? 
 i~ >'-^ r , at the Dedication of x\\tltmplt ( at which time.it had been moft 
 proper to have done it ") but on the contrar, begstheLord to hear what 
 SupptWaiio'ls fhall be made by the people in that Houf j , when every one 
 fl-all know his own Sore anU his cwn Griefs and the Blague of his own 
 Heart/, l King. 8. $8. I Chtbn. 6. 29. when he fpeaks of no other 
 Trayrr.Bo'ik, than the Knowledge of their own Grief and Heart PlagueL 
 or a particular acquaintance with their own Souls Condition, whicft 
 "certainly is the btTt help for Prayer, next to the Spirit of GOD. And 
 jn Scripture we-have feveral Prayers of the Saints recorded, is&avia^ 
 Solomon, Ez,ra, Nehemiah, Daviel^ Hez,ekiah y Jebofaphat, ftc. but no 
 mention of anv Set Form or Book that they made ufe of, but on the 
 contrary we alwavv fi.-.d thtni conceiving their own Prayers fuitabte 1 9 
 the prefent Circumstances and ' Neceffitie of Soul or Body they were I 
 zi der, and letirrg the pu % *e flame* of their own Conceptions mount up 
 from the Alur of their ZmIcus Hearts unto the Throne of Grace, but 
 never] reading the' Words of other Men y fjv Prayer j for they recko ied 
 that the words of their own Afouths, and Meditations of their own Hearts 
 ' tvtuld he mofl acCfpt able in the fight of the LORD. PJal. 19. 74. Njy 
 fhe the very PtmtcatirWtf&n he went up to the*7 emple to Pray, conceives 
 his fyayer fuitablejo. his cafe without any Bock or \Farm, Luk. j8. 
 And furely if the Compofing and Reading of a Prayer Book, were ft 
 an eycellent mean 6\ Devotion ( as you pretend J^Chrifi and his Jg, 
 pofiles would not haye omitted to reccmimend it to the Church, for thq* 
 ihey thrmfMves needed it not, they Knew aft er~ Ages would* 
 
 37- Q WaitCouatenavce hivt ye lor Turn Read Prayers ft on: Jthe 
 Bife of Primitive Chrifiians in the firft and' pureft Age*? Seeing 
 tullian in his jip*lozy ( in the third Century ) faith of the C 
 then,' that they were not afhamed to Pmy, fine mqmtore,quiaex pki 
 3. e. without a Book or'Diutlory^ as coming from the free motion of their 
 Hearts: And Juftin Martyr, in the'fecond Century, f.ttih That their 
 Ministers Prayed to their titmft abilitie y which could not be by Read 
 Trayers, for Reading' is no great Specimen of a Minifters Abilities. And 
 Socrates in his Hiftory faith, 1 hat among alt the Christians, in his jAgi,. 
 fcarce two were foupd that, ufed she lame words in Prayer, Yea its con- 
 fefled by Church of England Writers that there were no Pui? lick Li- 
 turgies appointed in the Church for the firft 400 Years, after Chriit : u 
 being Pope Gregorv the fir ft that Irfftituted them, together Wfth many 
 nther Ceremonks. in his New pQTtn of Service* called the MaCs. I« 5* 
 
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 h-ot abfurd then to reproach all extemporary Prayers, as ye do, faying, 
 tnat there is no trua Prayer, but by your Book and read Prayers} Do 
 ye not heteby condemn not only ) our own former praElxe, butalfothe 
 ScriptureSaints^nzPrimitive Christians ^yen and the w tioltEpifcptlClergy 
 in tuis L«iiid,!youi PredecefTors,as Strangers to. the trueMetnodof Prav^ r * 
 "38 £A Seeing the Lord enjoy ns both Reading and Praying as two 
 disiinfl duties, fhoula ye rake up the whole Public]^ Worfeip with Reading. 
 only ? Can thele two Duties be duly peitormed at 'one and the fare time, 
 which in trumfeives are fo diftintt, for by Reading the Lord Speaks to 
 us, but by Prayer we. Speak unto him?- Prayer is a p.uring out of the 
 Heart to the LOtvD by an immediat ^Application to Heaven, and a 
 direct lifting up of the Soul to GOD in the moft Spiritual and Abftraftcd 
 man; er, whiebcafrnot butbe greatly interrupted by Reading and con- 
 frdering ot a Book, in tne time of fuch a Duty. Is it not then more 
 proper to have our Minds and Eyes lif up to Heaven,, then to have them 
 ftoupipg and fix t to a Book in time of P* ay erf 
 
 H- 0^ Jsit not both an injury toJESVS CHRIST, ! and to the .Holy 
 Ghofi, to confine Ministers and others,, to- thele Read Prayers} Seeing 
 Cforifi AJcendid up on high to give Gifts to Men, of Prayer as well as 
 of Preaching ; but »f thele Read Prayers take Place, there feenis to be no 
 need of fuch Gifts, foi thefe who have no Gift of Prayer, if they can but 
 . lUadt'lfiAl^ may'Pr^y as well as thefe who have the greateft' Gifts, and 
 thus one end of our Saviours Alcerifibn .would -be Fruftrat. Again it 
 would be a Limiting and Stinting of the free Spirit of GOD, whole work 
 it is to allift his Peoplein the Duties of Prayer, and therefore is called the 
 Spirit of Grace and Suplication and the Spirit that giveth utterance, which 
 the Lord hd h efpecialiy promifed to pour out upon us in Gofpel times 
 , and to give trceiy to thele that ask him, and.that not only for helping us 
 to* Suitable Praying Frame, but even to maitter' and .words fitting our 
 cafe* in Prayer, for the Lord fends forth his $p rit into his Children s He arts 
 even to to teach them ( without a Book } to cry Abba Father,- Gal. 4. 6. 
 As alfo to help our Infirmities, when we know not what to Prav for as we 
 ought Rom. 8. ,16. which certainly mutt be by helpingus to matter and 
 words, as well as a Frame :> this gromife would appear needltfs to the 
 Formalifts of our Day, for they flill know what to pray for, and are 
 never at a lofs this way it they be well acquaint with the Book. There 
 •was truly good Senfe. in the faying of a fimple Man anent the Author/ of 
 tie Service Book, who learned .them, laid, he, to take the' Office of the 
 Holy Ghoft off his Hand I 
 
 4° Qj. I s tn e Divine Majefty taken with Artificial Human Compofures 9 
 or Do running Sentences, and fine Flights of R^ttorick x tickle his Earsas 
 they] do mans r Doth he not look chiefly, to the Fervency ol our Hearts in 
 Prayer I And ufualy when the Heart is moft. fervent, the is kaft Arti* 
 ficedind Nieety of Exprefiion. Whether wou4dyebe mod afFcc'ted with 
 a/Beggar,. that.would Confidently come and ask Money from you, by 
 Reading an Artificial Speech from a Printed Paper £ or with -a Poor Man 
 
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 (o Diftrelp: u VM..» vjw,cb aiiu wants, mac ye mignt percevic ,.,_ 
 
 neceftiries di&atjng his words, with the Tear in his Eye, and his Hea'rt 
 at his Mou,:!:? Would ye not.be ready to fay, the one is fome Idle 
 JR<K**4!id deferves nothing •, but the other is an Objecl of Pity, that muft 
 Dtsdts be helped t 
 
 41 {A Do allChriftians5;>7/, Dangers, Wants, lent at ions, Mercies^ 
 tire* run ftill in one and the fame Channel, fo that a Prayer Book will al- 
 ways fuit the fame ? f)o not fome Bilievers cafes change many ways in 
 one Day, fo as no compojed fo> ms can fit them, and far lefs thofe in the 
 ServiceBook, and is it juft to reftrift them to Foims, that are unfuitabl.-? 
 luppofe a Man be Trifted with fuiden danger by Fire, Water, &c. Or 
 wiihfome Extraordinary fnrpniing difficul-ie^ which call for pre 'J em J r up. 
 plication, not allowing time to get or ufe a .Book, hall he forebear Prayer 
 in that cafef Or if after he hath got and (earched che Book, and not find 
 inga Pray er/«*>#«g his fingular cafe, (hou'd he either omit Prayer, or 
 make ufe of one, thUis unfuitable tohisco dition ? May not a Child in 
 danger^ cry to his Father tor help, till he ihali learn a pointed Dijcourfe 
 to Addrefs him with f Stire, none will fay it •, and fhall not God's 
 Children be allowed the fame freedom with their Heavenly Father 
 in time of need? 
 
 42. ££; What (hall become of thefe, whoareuncipable to make ufe of 
 this Book, fuch as the Blind that cannot fee, the Vulearned that cannot 
 Read, and the Poor that cannot buy it ? Will ye Retrain or Excufe tnenv 
 from this abfolutely needfull duty of Prayer ? And likewiie Dying Perfbns 
 and others who in the Night time want the benefit of light for reading 
 it, (hall they alfo want the Benefit of Prayers ? Or muft Chriftian Fami- 
 lies, upon any of the forefa id accounts, be obliged to live as Heathens-, 
 without calling on the Name of the Lord f 
 
 43. Q. Why fhould there be fo frequent Paufes and inter upt ions in the 
 folemn duty ot publick Prayer, as are occafioned by tne many mort 
 
 . Collects and Prayers in the Service Book. Is it ealy for People to work 
 their Hearts into a Devout and Suitable Praying frame in k> Puort a time ? 
 And if they attain it, is it fit they immediatly break off again, and there- 
 by (title the Breathings of the Spirrt} Were not the Prayers of rhe fore- 
 eited Scripture Saints, and his Apoftlts ufuaiy long without fuch flops and 
 frequent beginnings and endings, or the Alternat Interlocutions of the 
 People, which leads me to the 
 
 44 Q. What Authrity have ye for the Peoples Refp nfes in Worfhip, 
 and for enjoy ning the whole Congregation Men and Women to repeat 
 Prayers and Pajlms after the Pri eft, and thereby caufe a nioft confuted un- 
 intelligible noije and muttexing of Tongues} How can this be acceptable to 
 him whom we Worlhip, l who is a God of order and not of Confufion ? 
 If the Minifter be the Peoples Mouth to God in Prayer, how come the 
 People,Men, Women and Children all to fpeak at once? Do not the People 
 toofar Invade the Sacred Office of the Miniftry, by Reading half of the 
 Pfalms, Hymns, and Prayers, fometimes together, and fomepmes by 
 
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 turns with the M T "nifter\, and by being the Only Petitioners in the mofi 
 part of the Litanie, while the Minifter only reciteth the matter of the 
 Prayer, and m^kes no requefr at all? May not the People, by the fame 
 Parity nf Reafon, cljirh the other parts of the Minifterial Function ? 
 
 45. Q Doth not our Lord's forbidding us to ufe vain-Repetitions in 
 Praver as the Hrarhensy Matth. 16. condemn the Repetitions in the Ser- 
 vice Book which are Borrowed from the Papifts ? There being Petitions 
 Repeated in the feme Pravers, fometimes 4 times, nay 8 times, yea zz 
 times over, which are to be ufed every. Lords Day, befides the other 
 davs for Publick Wo; (hip through the Week, and that by the People aj. 
 well as the Miniver ^ Whence fome have conjectured, that one J-eafon 
 why the E -Men are greater fawners than rhofe of other Nations, may be 
 their frequent and cu'Vmiary Repetitions of the Lord's Name in their 
 Refponfes, whereby man are ready to lofs that Awful Dread, &reve* 
 rear- Due to Hi<* S cred Name. 
 
 46 Q. WhatW 1 rand nave ye for Shredding and Parcelling the Scrip: 
 tuir* into Epiftks ard Golpels after fuch away in your daily reading,and 
 for reading P ophefitsot rhe Ola Teftament for EpifUes, and never joyn. fc 
 ina Expounding with your reading, like Ezjta and the Jewijh Priefts 
 Nehem 8. 8. or the Primitive Chfiftians, who were well acquaint with 
 Lecturing or Expounding the Scriptures* And how came ye to fit at 
 reading the Epiftles-, frand up y bow and refpond at reading the Golpels 
 and Kneel at reading the ten Commandments? Are fhey not ail the word 
 ofGod, and of equal Infpiration and Authority? And what warrant have 
 ye for ringing of Epiftle* and Gofpels the Creeds &Lords Prayer,in Publick 
 Worfhip, as if thty were Pfalms ? It not this to make the Scriptures 
 Unintelligible, and Encourage Papiefts in their Superftitions. 
 
 47. Q^ Is. not the Device of reading Publick Prayers and Service from 
 a book, a likely way to indulge Sloath in both. Mimfters and People,*.n<& 
 far? rhem from improving the Gift of Prayer , and imploying the Spirit'* 
 jfjfislance therein, yea T to turn their Prayers to an idle Form and Rhat* 
 ryme y that leaves no impreflion on the Mind? Doth not common Expe^ 
 rier,f e fhew , that the befl: are apt to lole much of their Life and Affetti- 
 en, by theconftant Ufe of the fame Words and Forms? If a Miniftet 
 ftiould preach the fame Sermon twenty times over , tho' never fogood-, 
 both Mimfters and People would be lefs moved by it, than at the firft, fo 
 •oth it fare with Read Prayers \ Is this Read Service an ordinary Mean 
 of Converfionl Doth GOD blefs it for convincing dead Souls , breaking 
 hard Hearts, or w^kuwgfecure Conferences ? Is it a ready way to attain 
 teethe Growth and ExerctJeofGraee, the Communications of 60Us Love % 
 and Inf luences of his Spirit ? Ah I Superflition and W*S twfiip * * ? re * 
 J///fpphoje Leaves the Fruit of the Spirit doth n<* thrive. Is it not a 
 *^T* to *™ our age an ignorant unlearned M>mslery in the Chureh.vtho cart 
 neither preach nor pray , and alfo to banijh the Preaching of tm* Gofpel, 
 as Experience teftifyeth in many parts of England^ it being thought fuf- 
 ficient for People to have the Service Booh read to thera or. the Sftbbatht 
 tho" they get 110 gmchlag ..: *% 
 
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 , I ^\\ conclude, with a Word to any well- meaning Chrifiians, who may 
 be in Hazard of Seduction. Beware ot the^fir ofWiJdom, that is m Wili- 
 vyqrfliip , Col : -2. 23. And of the good Words and fair Speeches of Innoya< 
 tors, aud Church dividers Rm : 16. 18. And of the Sleight and cunning 
 Oaftinefs of Deceivers, Eph: 4. 14. For there is no Idolatry or Superfti- 
 tion in Rome Co grofs , but they have many gjptfible Difb'hftions to pal- 
 liate the fame:. Be not like the fimplethat believes eve v Wvrd,but like the 
 prudent that looketh well to his going, Trov : 14. 15. Seek plain Scriprure 
 for every thing, Imitate the "JSMe Bereans, who fearched the Scr-ptures 
 .for trying the Do£trine that was delivered to tjiem, Acts 17. u. Bring 
 all to this Toucrrftone, and what abides not this Tryal reject as Hay and. 
 ftttbie^ whatever be the pretextsfvi it from \ Custom, Tradition, Ami qui* 
 tie, &c. where the Scripture hath not a Ton^ae to fp-ak^h'.ve you not 
 an Ear to Hear, nor an H-art to believe. Ag.vn quite not one Hvof of 
 Truth, but Prize all GOD's Truths as invaluable Jewels, and the lead 
 of them, as more precious than ycur tefi Blood or treafure, J he Law, of 
 thy mouth is better unto me than^tboujands of Cold 4*jfifmG&er, faitft the 
 PfalmisJ, Pfal 119.72. Ruatcalum potim quamuna mca veritatis 
 per eat faid Luther'^ Contend earnejily for the Faith, Jude 5. You are 
 Jruslees for the Generations to come^Betray not your TruJi, by bring- 
 ing a KomifJ) Yoke on poor Pofterity, left they rife up and Jurfe you 
 when ye are dead and rotten. Mind how proyocking to God, Innova« 
 tions in his Wor (hip are, and how quickly the Piague foMo.ved them,/ 3 
 106. 29. O grieve not the Heart of your Redeemer -by Apoftacy thereto, 
 as many are doing : me thinks I hear Him laying to you , as onc j . to nis 
 Difciples, in a time of common Defe&ii n Job, 6. 97. Will \e clfo y t o away} 
 Mind with what quaking Hearts,quivering Lips mi trembl t% Ap6- 
 
 ftates will one day (land before him. Laitly, itiil keep up your 1 iC e 
 
 at Popery, as a bloody, blafphemous and dam?uble Religion: Forget nut 
 thu Maflacres of J. ( land, Paris, and others of their B,, c series: befell 
 what ever hath a t£rrdency to Rome^ and be not decried "with h j e fy 
 and modeft beginnings of" innovators, for evil men and feduxefs wax- 
 worf and wor fa 2 Tim: 2. 13, 14. Believe not every one that calls hnii- 
 felfa Church of England Min fter, that yet can fhtw no D <u ncnt of 'Or- 
 dination by any of th^ Englijb Bifhops, or of fublcribing the 39 Articles^ 
 left. you be impofed on and led into dangerous Errors by Wolves m JJjeeps 
 clodth'ng, or Papifts in mafquerade, and thofe thafare i$}eaiie$ to a Yu\ 
 teftant Queen and SuccefTor. r> 
 
 Since Litanies are come in faff/ion^ IJJjall clofe wr 
 From Captuitjs for to lead us back From Anti-chrifi'j Idolatry 
 To Egypt,/GrA indState towrat% And persecuting lyrrany , 
 From Bam preachers Rage and Fume + From Schifa & corrupt In. 
 
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