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<P>Thou &s;halt fear <HI>GOD,</HI> and reverence my Sanctuary.</P>
<P>A SHARP REBUKE, <HI>OR</HI> A Rod for the Enemies of COMMON PRAYER, That wrote the Book of unmasking of it with lies; I al&s;o prove it to be the pure Wor&s;hip of God taken out of his Word, his revealed will.</P>
<P><HI>By Thomas Hicks.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>R. L.</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>Thou &s;halt fear God and reverence my Sanctuary.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Loving Chri&s;tians,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis la&s;t week being the beginning of <HI>Se|ptember,</HI> there came forth a &s;landerous Book and a lying fal&s;e Book, called <HI>Common Prayer, a &s;inful Idolatrous wor&s;hip of God:</HI> I an&s;wer to tho&s;e ungodly wicked men that would pluck up that pure and un&s;potted wor&s;hip of God the <HI>Common Prayer Book,</HI> and the Succe&s;&s;ors of the Martyrs that gathered that Book out of the pure Word of God, like &s;o many Flow|ers out of that plenty of Gods revealed will, tho&s;e wicked men in this matter are the Devils chief friends, wor&s;e than lewd and debauched men: for they are not able to come with &s;uch lying &s;hewes of godline&s;&s;e. Beloved Brethren, did not tho&s;e un|godly Governors that u&s;urped authority, that took
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away mens rights of lands goods &amp; power, did not the&s;e men put down the pure wor&s;hip of God, the <HI>Common Prayer book,</HI> did they not de&s;troy Gods Laws and ten Commandements, did they not love the Preachers that led innocents out of the right Way into a bloudy War, did not tho&s;e men love the Preacher that praid &s;inful, corrupt prayers al|mo&s;t an hour long not agreeing to the pure word of God, the <HI>Common Prayer Book</HI> never learned men &s;uch le&s;&s;ons, <HI>Co~mon Prayers</HI> are pure prayers taken out of the Word of God, they are no Po|pi&s;h Ma&s;&s;e, nor idolatrous, nor &s;uper&s;titious wor|&s;hip of God, as the&s;e lying men &s;ay, that writ this Book which they call <HI>Common Prayer</HI> unmasked, but the&s;e men are ignorant judges in this matter, or el&s;e they are proud and wrangle, and God hath not revealed his &s;ecrets unto them &s;o much as unto meek and humble men: but I pray God to keep my &s;oul from their blind zeal, the Papi&s;ts hate the <HI>Common Prayer,</HI> and did put it down in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> dayes, becau&s;e they are pure and holy taken out of the Word of God, and offered up in the name of <HI>Christ Je&s;us</HI> the only Son of God, &amp; hath no Idolatry in them, there is nothing pre&s;ented in them to the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> nor to any Saint or Angel, they are &s;uch godly prayers as God
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Almighty loveth: <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> heareth &amp; receiveth them in the publick Churches, the prayers of his weak Lambs, and the prayers of his faithful &s;heep, he being the chief Shepheard of their &s;oules, and offereth up their prayers to the holy and ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Trinity,</HI> and he &s;endeth down his ble&s;&s;ing upon their &s;oules, and maketh them grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and he &s;endeth down his ble&s;&s;ing upon their bo|dies, their goods, and their lands, and ble&s;&s;eth their increa&s;e, for Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, <HI>The good things we have are &s;anctified by Gods Word</HI> and prayer, the humble Confe&s;&s;ion, the faithful Ab&s;olution, the Lords prayer, and the earne&s;t cry of <HI>Lord have mercy upon us, Chri&s;t have mercy upon us, Lord have mercy upon us,</HI> and the &s;tanding up, and gi|ving glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Gho&s;t, the ground work of Chri&s;tian faith, brings great comfort to humble, repenting &s;inners, and quietne&s;&s;e of &s;oul, more &s;weeter to them than the fatne&s;&s;e of marrow, or the hony or hony-comb: I confe&s;&s;e with the Author of that hard-harted Book, that the invi&s;ible mighty God is a holy pure Spirit, and mu&s;t be wor&s;hipped in &s;pi|rit and truth: but our Lord and Saviour <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> took the body of man upon him and gave
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us an example of &s;tanding and kneeling: and we hope by faith in <HI>Je&s;us Christ</HI> to have our bodies rai&s;ed and glorified. Then let not mortal men be &s;uch Clowns or Fools, but let us wor&s;hip God with our &s;ouls &amp; bodies, &s;o God commandeth you &s;hall fear God and reverence his Sanctuary, our bodies are comely creatures when they are clothed with the clothing of this World, then how beautiful wil they be when they be clothed with righteou&s;ne&s;s and eternal &s;alvation in Heaven. The Author of that malicious Book, finds fault with the Cro&s;&s;e in Bapti&s;me, and with ten pound a year and le&s;&s;e to &s;ome Readers, and he &s;ays God will not hear the prayers of the Service Book, others like him&s;elf commend him, O evil and wicked judges you have beams in your own eyes! and yet you will ca&s;t out the motes in your brothers eyes: the prayers of the faithful Mini&s;ters of God in charity for the people, are neer to the prayers of <HI>Common Prayer,</HI> and prevail much with ble&s;&s;ings for the people, but you have corrupted your prayer with &s;elf-&s;eeking, and pray for the de&s;truction of better men than your &s;elves. The enemies of our <HI>Com|mon Prayer Book</HI> are known to be fierce judges, far from patience and long &s;uffering, and far from
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judging righteous judgment, you are again&s;t holy Government and degrees of men in the Church of God, when you may know there is degrees of Saints and Angles in Heaven, the enemies of <HI>Com|mon Prayer</HI> in that Book de&s;ire the Honourable men in authority to pluck up the <HI>Common Prayer</HI> branch and root with the godly Governours of the Church! O ungodly de&s;ires of the&s;e men they would turn the glory of God and the comfort of the Church of <HI>England</HI> into the darkne&s;&s;e of a Nation, or a City, or a few Towns which come far &s;hort of the godly wi&s;dom and government, and godly <HI>Common Prayers</HI> of the Church of <HI>En|gland.</HI> Why my reformed Brethren, did not the Church of God the Jews u&s;e prayers in the Temple. Did not the godly generation of <HI>Seth</HI> in the be|ginning of the World begin to call upon God? Why <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Abel</HI> offered &s;acrifice before, therefore I think they meet together to call upon God. The be&s;t of the Kings of Gods own Church|es to the Jews, King <HI>David,</HI> King <HI>Solomon,</HI> King <HI>Abiah,</HI> King <HI>A&s;a,</HI> King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat,</HI> King <HI>Hezechias,</HI> and King <HI>Jo&s;ias,</HI> the&s;e godly Kings, ap|pointed P&s;almes of prai&s;e, and P&s;almes of prayer, and P&s;almes of Thankfulne&s;s, and P&s;almes of prophecies to be read and &s;ung in the Church of
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God, be&s;ides the reading of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> Law: and our Saviour <HI>calls it the Hou&s;e of Prayer,</HI> and yet the <HI>Scribes</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;es</HI> did teach there: and Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> and Saint <HI>John</HI> went up to the Temple at the hour appointed for Prayer: at Prayer the ninth houre, which is at three a clock in the after|noon with us. Why, &s;ure the Apo&s;tles did well in going, did Gods Church the Jewes call upon the God of <HI>Abraham, I&s;aac</HI> and <HI>Jacob,</HI> and &s;hall not wee Chri&s;tians call upon God in the name of Chri&s;t Je&s;us our Lord and Saviour, where he hath commanded us to come to him, <HI>We are weary and heavy laden with &s;ins,</HI> Let us pray in the common prayers of the Church, let us pray to God pri|vately in our chambers, let us pray to God upon all occa&s;ions according to his Word, his revealed Will, in the pure&s;t times of Religion men did meet together to pray, the Apo&s;tles and the godly wo|men continued in prayer with one accord, and they met upon our Sunday, and &s;o the godly and be&s;t of Chri&s;tians hath met together, and prayed with one accord. And now in the&s;e Reformed times it plea&s;ed God to rai&s;e up King <HI>Edward,</HI> Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and King <HI>James,</HI> and King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, which with help of the godly Bi&s;hops and Martyrs of Je&s;us Chri&s;t have tran&s;la|ted
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the Scriptures into our own language, they have gathered out of Gods revealed Will, &s;uch good <HI>Common Prayers</HI> as the whole World cannot mend them: therefore will I (by the help of God) thank God with heart and &s;oul upon the knees of my body for the mercy of God in the bringing of our gracious Sovereign Lord King <HI>Charles</HI> the Se|cond, which hath brought much quietnes to the&s;e Lands, and &s;uffereth the <HI>Common Prayer</HI> to be re|&s;tored to us again: And although I am but weak in knowledge and not worthy to petition, yet I humbly intreat our gracious Sovereign Lord King <HI>Charles,</HI> and all his noble privy Coun&s;ellors, Lords, Knights, and Burge&s;&s;es of Parliament, Ju|&s;tices, Aldermen, and Mini&s;ters, to encourage the pure wor&s;hip of God, the <HI>Common Prayer,</HI> and God grant that we may pray heartily and reve|rently in Church, and &s;end his people to pray at home Evening and Morning, and &s;eeing the Lord hath been merciful to us, God grant we may be a good example to other Nations: this is my peti|tion to God and man, and &s;o I end this &s;mall wri|ting being &s;ixty &s;ix years old, hoping that &s;ome a|bler pen will write &s;ome larger Book of this mat|ter.</P>
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