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<HEAD>LIX. EXCEPTIONS AGAINST THE BOOKE OF Common Prayer.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>May 28^t^h 1644</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Book of Common Prayer containeth in it, &s;undry things that are contrary to the Word of God; For,</P>
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<ITEM>1. It appointeth a Liturgy which in the whold matter and forme thereof, is too like unto the Ma&s;&s;e-booke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. It appointeth a Liturgy which by the length thereof, doth in many Congregations oft-times nece&s;&s;arily &s;hut out Preaching, viz. When Bapti&s;me, the Communion, Marry|ing, Churching and Buriall concer altogether (as oft times they doe) in great Congregations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. It approveth of a mini&s;try as lawfull which wanteth ability to preach.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 It containeth in it &s;undry popi&s;h errors, or &s;uch things (at lea&s;t) as tend &s;trongly to the maintenance of popi&s;h &s;uper&s;tition. As,
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<ITEM>1. The mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel is throughout the book, cal|l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d Prie&s;t.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 2. It comm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">h the ob&s;ervation of many Holy-dayes, and requireth the mini&s;ter to bid them, and preferreth them (in &s;ome &s;ort) before the Lords day, For the ordinary Le&s;|&s;ons appointed in the Calender for the Lords day, mu&s;t give place to the proper Le&s;&s;ons of that holy-day that falls on the Lords day, and Athana&s;ius Creed is appointed to be read only upon certaine Holy dayes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. It appointeth Saints Eves to be kept as fa&s;ting dayes, and commandeth the Mini&s;ter to bid the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. It appointeth the time of Lent to be kept as a religious fa&s;t, and pervetteth both the example of Chri&s;ts fa&s;t, and &s;undry other places of Scripture, to the ju&s;tifying thereof. It pre&s;cribeth a &s;peciall &s;ervice for the fir&s;t day of Lent, and appointeth the Commination and other &s;peciall prayers and exhortations tending to repentance, to bee read upon that day only, and it affirmeth that, It was a godly di&s;cipline in the Primative Church, (the re&s;toring whereof is much to bee wi&s;hed) that notorious &s;inners at the beginning of Lent, were put to open Penance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The weeke before Ea&s;ter onely of all the weekes in the yeare, hath pre&s;cript &s;ervice appointed with Epi&s;tles and Go&s;pels for every day, as &s;olemne, as the holy dayes are wont to have.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. The Friday before Ea&s;ter is called Good Friday, and hath three &s;peciall Collects appointed for it, as hath no one day of the yeare be&s;ides.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. It commandeth every Pari&s;hioner &s;hall receive the Communion at Ea&s;ter.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 8. It appointeth the Congregation to pray that God would give them that, which their prayers dare not pre&s;ume to aske.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. The Catechi&s;me (in delivering the number of the Sacra|ments) &s;aith, there are two onely as generally nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Themini&s;ter (as if Bapti&s;me were of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity) is allowed not onely to Baptzie in private, but to u&s;e the words of In&s;titution, and the element, though he have not &s;o much time as to &s;ay the Lords Prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. The Mini&s;ter is allowed and directed to admini&s;ter the Communion to one &s;icke of the Plague, though there be not one more to communicate with him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Interrogatories in Bapti&s;me are mini&s;tred unto infants (as if repentance and faith were requi&s;it in them, before they may be baptized) and it is &s;aid in the Catechi&s;m, That Infants performe faith and repentance by the Sureties who promi&s;e and vow them in their names.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. Every child baptized as if out ward Bapti&s;m did con&s;et grace to all that receive it) is &s;aid to be regenerate and in the Catechi&s;me it is &s;aid, that we are by Bapti&s;me made the children of grace, and (in the Rubrick immediatly before catechi&s;m) that is certain by Gods word, that children being baptized have all things nece&s;sary for their &s;alvation, and be undoubtedly &s;aved.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. The Mini&s;ter is appointed to command that children be brought to the Bi&s;hop to be Con&s;umed, yea none may be admitted to the Co~mmunion till <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e have b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Confirmed. In Confirmation children are &s;aid to be certified thy the &s;igne
<PB N="4" REF="3">of the impo&s;ition of the Bi&s;hops hand) of Gods favour and gracious goodne&s;&s;e towards them. And Confirmation is &s;aid to be mini&s;tred to them that are bapti&s;ed, that by impo&s;ition of hands and prayer, they may receive &s;trength and defence again&s;t all tentations to &s;in, and the a&s;saults of the w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rld and the divell. Yea confirmation is dignified above Chri&s;ts Sacraments, in that none may ad|mini&s;ter it but a Bi&s;hop. And it is &s;aid to be admini&s;tred after the example of the holy Apo&s;tles, &amp; warrant therby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. It &s;aith that Matrimony doth &s;ignifie unto us the mi&s;ticall union betwixt Chri&s;t and his Church, and that God did con&s;ecrate the &s;tate of Matrimony to &s;uch an excellent my&s;tery, that it is &s;ig|nified and repre&s;ented the &s;pirituall marriage and unity betweene Chri&s;t and his Church. And the ring in Matrimony is appoin|ted to be laid on the Book, and the Prie&s;t to take it and de|liver it to the man, and to teach him to &s;ay thus, With this Ring I thee wed, &amp;c. And the prie&s;t is appointed in his prayer unto God to &s;ay, That the Ring is a token and a pledge of the Covenant and vow made in Marriage.</ITEM>
<ITEM><P>16. The Prie&s;t is appointed to ab&s;olve every &s;ick per&s;on (that findeth his con&s;cience troubled with any weighty &s;inne, and maketh &s;peciall confe&s;&s;ion of it) in this forme, By Chri&s;ts authority committed to me, I ab&s;olve thee from all thy &s;innes in the name of the Father, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And in another place the people are appointed to come to the mini&s;ter to receive the benefit of ab&s;olution.</P></ITEM>
<ITEM>17. Burial is made a mini&s;terial duty, and a pre&s;cript Litur|gy is appointed for it to be &s;aid at the grave, and we are ap|pointed to pray thus. That God would ha&s;ten his kindome, that
<PB N="5" REF="3">we with this our brother, and all other departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, way have our per&s;it con&s;ummation and bli&s;&s;e, hoth in body and &s;oule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18. Churching of women is commanded and made a mi|ni&s;teriall duty, and a pre&s;cript Liturgy appointed for it, and the woman is appointed to kneele neele to the place where the table &s;tands, and the Prie&s;t to &s;tand by her, when he Churcheth her, and that &s;he mu&s;t offer her accu|&s;tomed offrings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. Both in that place and el&s;e where, in the booke, offring dayes and an Offertory are allowed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20. In the Catechi&s;me it is &s;aid, That the Sonne of God hath redeemed all mankind, taking that phra&s;e in a larger &s;en&s;e|then for all the Elect, as is evident by the words immediat|ly going before, and following after.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>5. It appointeth &s;undry things that end directly to the profanation of the holy Sacraments either by pro&s;tituting them to unworthy per&s;ons, or admini&s;tring them unre|verently. For,
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<ITEM>1. All Prie&s;ts &amp; Deacons in Collegat Churches are com|manded to receive the Communion, every &s;unday at lea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Every Communicant may choo&s;e whether he wil give notice of his purpo&s;e to receive, till after the beginning of morning prayer on the &s;ame day that he is to Co~municate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. All new married per&s;ons mu&s;t receive the Communion the &s;ame day they are married.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Private Bapti&s;me in &s;ome ca&s;es is allowed to be admi|ni&s;tred without any prayer, doctrine, or exhortation.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>6. It avoucheth &s;undry, manife&s;t, and apparant untruths.
<PB N="6" REF="4"> As
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<ITEM>1. That in the Calender (&s;o much as may be) the reading of the Scripture is &s;o &s;et forth, that all things might be done in order with|out breaking of one piece from another.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That nothing (by this book) is ordained to be read, but the very pure word of God the holy Scripture, or that mhich is evidently grounded upon the &s;ame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That this booke is &s;o plain and perfect, as that the Curates &s;hall need no other books for their publike &s;ervice, but this booke and the Bible, and yet it injoynes him to read Homilies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That all our Ceremonies pertaine to edification, and are apt to &s;tirre up the dull mind of man, to the remembrance of his duty to God, by &s;ome notable and &s;peciall &s;ignification.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. It calleth certain chapters of E&s;ay, Ieremy, loel and the Acts, Epi&s;tles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. It appoints us to &s;ay every day, from Chri&s;t|mas day, to Newyeares day in a Collect, that Chri&s;t was born this day And upon Whit&s;unday, Munday and Tue&s;day, God which on this day ha&s;t taught, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. It affirmeth that Michael (mentioned, Rev. 12.) is a crea|ted Angel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. It peremptorily affirmeth &s;undry things that (if they be not manife&s;tly fal&s;e) are doubtfull. As,
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<ITEM>1. That the Infants whom Herod murthered, were inno|cents, and Gods witne&s;&s;es; and that they confe&s;&s;ed his prai&s;e by dying.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That there are Archangels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That every one that is buried is a brother, that God hath taken to him&s;elfe his &s;oule, that we commit his body to the ground in &s;ure and certaine hope of re&s;urrection to eternall life.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>8. It appointeth &s;undry things that bring great di&s;order and confu&s;ion unto the wor&s;hip of God. As
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<ITEM>1. That the people &s;hould &s;ay after the Mini&s;ter, whole &s;entences of Prayer and Scriputre; yea the Mini&s;ter one part of the prayer, and the people another. And in &s;undry parts of the Letany, the people make the prayer, and the mini&s;ter only directs them what to pray for.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That the Mini&s;ter is appointed to &s;ay &s;ome prayers kneeling, &s;ome &s;tanding, &s;ome in one part of the Church, &s;ome in another.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That one of the people is allowed, to make the generall confe&s;&s;ion of &s;innes at the Communion in the name of the whole Congregation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That at &s;ome one meeting of the A&s;&s;embly the Lords prayer is to be repeated eight &s;e|verall times, and Gloria patri twelve times.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. That the holy Scriptures are &s;o mangled into &s;hreds and pieces, in the Epi&s;tles and Go&s;pels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. That the words of the In|&s;titution are to be pronounced and repeated to every &s;eve|rall Communicant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. That the Churchwardens are appointed to goe about on Communion dayes to gather the devotion of the people in the mid&s;t of divine Service.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>9. It contains &s;undry things that are ridiculous and ab|&s;urd, and &s;uch as no rea&s;onable &s;ence can be made of; for
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<ITEM>1. It commands the reading of &s;uch Homilies as &s;hall here|after be &s;et forth by publick authority.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. It commands every pari&s;hioner to communicate at Ea|&s;ter, and al&s;o to receive the Sacraments and other rit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. It mini&s;treth Interogatories to Infants, which their God|fathers an&s;wer unto, and &s;aith that Infants performe faith and repentance by their Godfathers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. It appointeth (in &s;ome ca&s;es) Bapti&s;me to bee admini|&s;tred
<PB N="8" REF="5">conditionally in this forme; If thou be not Bapti&s;ed al|ready, I Bapti&s;e thee, in the name of the Father, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. It requireth that every husband be taught by the Prie&s;t 10 &s;ay to his wife (in the &s;olemnization of Wedlock) With my body Ithee wor&s;hip.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>20. It contains in it &s;undry evident contradictions; for
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<ITEM>1. In the 2 Articl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Rubrick after the Communion, the Mini&s;ter is forbidden to celebrate the Communion, except there be a great number to communicate with him, and in the 3 Article of the &s;ame Rubrick, he is allowed to cile|brate it, if there be but three to communicate with him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. In one place it i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid that, It is thought good to follow the cu&s;tome of the old Church (in mini&s;tring Bapti&s;me, but twice a yeare) &s;o neere us convemently may be, and yet el&s;e-where, it alloweth Bapti&s;me to be admini&s;tred not onely every day of the yeare in publike, but al&s;o every houre, either of day or night in privatei</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. In the Ca|techi&s;me it is &s;aid, there are but two Sacraments, and in ano|ther place the booke giveth to confirmation what&s;oe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the definition of a Sacrament &s;et downe in the Catechi&s;me) belongs to the nature and e&s;&s;ence of a Sacrament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. In one place it us &s;aid, that children &s;hould be brought to the Bi&s;hop to he confirmed; &s;o &s;oon as they can &s;ay the Lords prayer, the Creed, and the ten Com|mandements; In another it &s;aith, that our cu&s;tome is agreeable to the u&s;age of the Church in times pa&s;t, whereby it was ordained, that Confirmation &s;hould be mini&s;tred to them that are of per|fect age.</ITEM>
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<P>London printed for R. B. 1644.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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