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<P>THE BOOKE OF Common Prayer, now u&s;ed in the Church of ENGLAND, Vindicated from the a&s;pertion of all Schi&s;matickes, Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, and Seperati&s;ts.</P>
<P>Proving and maintaining, that the Engli&s;h Common Prayer as now it is, was made and compyled by many mo&s;t Reverend Divines of our Church in the Raigne of that ever-famous and fir&s;t confirmer of the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion in <HI>England,</HI> King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixth.</P>
<P>With a true Catalogue of their names and dignities, collected from the records of Parliament Rolles in the Tower.</P>
<P>Together with a di&s;covery of a &s;ort of people called Rebapti&s;ts, lately found out in <HI>Hackney</HI> Mar&s;h neere <HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Iohn Thomas.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="defense of the Book of Common Prayer">
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<HEAD>The book of com|mon prayer now u&s;ed in the Church of <HI>England,</HI> vindicated from &s;chi&s;me and errours.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is very well knowne, to mo&s;t profe&s;&s;ors of the prote&s;tant Re|ligion in the Kingdome of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> that the reformation (ful|ly to be effected) began in the Raigne of that ever-famous Prince King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the &s;ixth, who&s;e pious and godly care was &s;uch, that with the advice of his mo&s;t reverend and worthy Divines, an uniforme Booke of common prayers, and forth with complyed, and by act of Parliament, then fully confirmed, fur|thered the &s;ub&s;equent yeares, of his ever deare &s;i&s;ter, Queen Elizabeth of everla&s;ting renowne: it was more amply manife&s;ted by acts of Parlia|ment and Proclamation to her Eternall prai&s;e, and Gods glory, and the joy of all Prote&s;tant profe&s;&s;ours throughout the Chri&s;tian world, all who&s;e times it &s;o continued with generall ap|plau&s;e.</P>
<P>And &s;ince, hath beene upholden by two mo&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="3">renowned and religious Princes, King <HI>Iames</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory decea&s;ed, and King <HI>Charles</HI> our dread Soveraigne now raigning over us, whom God long pre&s;erve, till of late &s;chi&s;me and facti|on ari&s;ing in the Malignant &s;pirits of &s;ome Browni&s;ts, Seperati&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, who like the Egiptian locu&s;ts &s;warme in every corner of the City and Kingdome, and having of late got a head, began to oppo&s;e and &s;purne at that anci|ent monument, defiling of it, with their op|probrious tongues, and as much, as in them lies, &s;eeking utterly to treade it under foot, and quite aboli&s;h the &s;ame, by calling it popi&s;h, and &s;uper|&s;titious, others by taxing of it, <HI>viz.</HI> The Letta|ny, to be in part conjuration, and &s;uch like charms or witchcrafts, to the great hearts griefe of good Prote&s;tants, and true profe&s;&s;ours of the Go&s;pell of Chri&s;t, now hath it beene, depraved and reviled by tho&s;e Ignorant, haire-brained, and Illitterate fellowes, who doe all things, by the motions of their unguided, unlearned, un|advi&s;ed, and fooli&s;h ra&s;h &s;pirits, as they boldly in great multitudes from time, to time, mo&s;t impudently &s;eeke to maintaine.</P>
<P>Proofes of the holy Scripture alleadged in Iu&s;ti&s;ication of the Booke of Common Prayer, now u&s;ed in the Church of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, THat Go him&s;elfe appointed in the Law, a &s;et forme of Benediction, <HI>Numb;</HI> 6.23.24, 25.26.</P>
<P>Secondly, that <HI>David</HI> him&s;elfe, &s;et P&s;almes
<PB N="4" REF="3">to be &s;ung upon &s;peciall occa&s;ions, as the title of them &s;heweth,</P>
<P>Thirdly; That the Prophet <HI>Ioell,</HI> appointed a &s;et forme of Prayer, to be u&s;ed by the Prie&s;ts at &s;olemne fa&s;t; <HI>Ioell</HI> 2.7.</P>
<P>Fourthly that Chri&s;t not onely commandes us to pray, after &s;uch manner, <HI>Mat.</HI> 6.9. But to u&s;e a &s;et forme of wordes, <HI>Luk.</HI> 11.2. when ye pray, &s;ay <HI>our Father.</HI></P>
<P>Fiftly. The &s;pirit of God is no more re&s;trai|ned by u&s;ing a &s;et forme of Prayer, then by &s;ing|ing &s;et hymnes, or P&s;almes in meeter, which yet the adver&s;aries of our Common Prayer, prac|tice in their a&s;&s;emblies.</P>
<P>Sixtly, Of all prayers, premeditated are the be&s;t, <HI>Eccle.</HI> 5, 2.</P>
<P>Seventhly, And of premeditated prayers, tho&s;e which are allowed by publike Authority, are to be preferred above tho&s;e, which are utter|ly by any private &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Eightly, All the Churches in the Chri&s;tian world, in the fir&s;t and be&s;t times, had their be&s;t formes of Liturgies, whereof mo&s;t are extent in the writings of the Fathers unto this day.</P>
<P>Ninethly, Let our &s;ervice booke be compa|red with the French, Dutch, or any other Lit|turgy prefered in any of the reformed Church|es, and it will appeare to any indifferent Rea|der, that it is more exact, and compleat then any of them.</P>
<P>Tenthly, Our Service booke was penned and allowed of, not only by many learned Doctors'
<PB N="5" REF="4">but glorious Martyrs, who &s;ealed the truth of the reformed Religion with their blood, now what tho&s;e mo&s;t reverend Compylers of the book of Common Prayer as it now is, this en&s;u|ing Table will truly and really dili|neate.</P>
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<HEAD>The compylers of the Engli&s;h Com|mon Prayer as it now is.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Cranmer</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Goodricke</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ely,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Skipp</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Hereford</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Thirlby</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Day</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Chiche&s;ler</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Holheck</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lincolne</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Ridley</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Roche&s;ler</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor <HI>Gox</HI> King <HI>Edwards</HI> Almoner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter <HI>Taylor</HI> Deane of <HI>Lincolne</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter <HI>Heynes</HI> Deane of <HI>Exeter</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter <HI>Redman</HI> Deane of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter <HI>Robin&s;on</HI> Archdeacon of <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI></ITEM>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Men&s;e Maii. 1541.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVhat grounds then have the&s;e Factions, and &s;chi&s;inaticall people, &s;eing it is demon&s;tra|ted unto us, to be both lawfull and nece&s;&s;ary in the Church, both by the word of God, and the learned Fathers in tho&s;e times, but what can wee expect from a Mechanicke and Illiterate people, who&s;e un&s;eemely G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tures, are dayly apparant to the eye of the world, witne&s;&s;e their Riotous, and uncivill di&s;orders in the &s;treets, on the Sabbath day, at the Church doore, un|till divine &s;ervice be read, talking all the while of pro|phane and Idle matters, a rude and Ignorant fellow of that &s;ect, violently tore a great part of a Communion
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">book in a Church in <HI>London</HI> lately, And being brought before authority for the &s;ame, an&s;wered nothing for him&s;elfe, but that he could not abide in it, however hee was not &s;uffered to pa&s;&s;e &s;o impudently without puni&s;hment, for he was comitted and &s;uffered accor|dingly, many other in divers places of this Kingdome, have committed many &s;uch like outrages, in&s;olencies, again&s;t Church Government, and if there bee, not &s;ome cour&s;e taken for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of &s;uch outra|ges, a great confu&s;ion is feared thereby to fall upon our Church; and for tho&s;e, that have boldly taken up|on them in private holes and corners, to bla&s;t the wor|thy antiquity thereof, by their violent pens, but thanks be given to God, Revend Divines have vindicated the cau&s;e thereof, by the holy Scriptures, both in print and Pulpit to the &s;hame of all oppo&s;ers what&s;oever.</P>
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<HEAD>The di&s;covery of a ba&s;e &s;ect of people called <HI>Rebapti&s;ts, lately found out in</HI> Hackney <HI>Ma&s;h neere</HI> London.</HEAD>
<P>ABout a Fortnight &s;ince a great multitude of people were met going towards the river in Hackney Mar&s;h, and were followed to the water &s;ide, where they all were Baptized againe, them&s;elves doing it one to another, &s;ome of which per&s;ons, were &s;o feeble and aged, that they were fayne to Ride on Hor&s;ebacke thi|there this was wel ob&s;erved by many of the Inhabitants living there abouts, and afterwards one of them Chri|&s;tened his owne Child, and another tooke upon him to Church his owne wife, an Abominable Act, and full of gro&s;&s;e Impiety.</P>
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