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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81232	A vindication of the Lords prayer, as a formal prayer, and by Christ's institution to be used by Christians as a prayer: against the antichristian practice and opinion of some men. Wherein, also their private and ungrounded zeal is discovered, who are very strict for the observation of the Lords Day, and make so light of the Lords prayer. By Meric Casaubon, D.D. one of the prebandaries of C.C. Canterb.	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.; Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.	1660 (1660)	Wing C817; Thomason E1921_3; ESTC R209969	43,421	134

c. is as much as to void all Scripture and to substitute our own phansies and imaginations in lieu of it The Scripture saith Thou shalt not worship images Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill steal c. Yea but every thing in the Scripture is not to be taken literally What then is the use of the Scriptures I would fain know if it be enough to say so when we would not have it to say what crosses our humors interest or prejudice The Reader will give me leave to insist a little upon this point It will be of good use to our present occasion and he will find it before he come to the end All things in Scripture are not to be taken literally No there be many Types and Figures in the Scriptures Metaphors and Translations many things spoken by way of similitude which must not be understood literally and may easily be understood without any other Comment or exposition than nature and common sense God speaking unto men doth condescend to speak to them in the language of men When Christ styleth the Pharisees Generation of Vipers can any be so simple or so malicious as to make him say that they were really begotten of Vipers or when he saith to his Disciples that he is the Vine and they the branches that he intended it of a real Vine and Branches When the Psalmist calls his God a Rock who would who could man woman or child that is come to the age of understanding argue from thence that David was an Idolator because he did worship stones But here is nothing of that nature figurative or metaphorical in the words we have to do with we shall not need to say more Again Prophecies are obscure it is their nature to be so not many things in them we grant ordinarily to be taken literally but we need not insist upon it here is no thing of that nature neither Again Mysterious sacramental things are commonly involved in figures it is their nature to be so That is not a Sacrament properly that doth not shew somewhat that may be seen whereby it would have somewhat understood that is not seen And do we wonder if Figures be used when they are spoken of Or should we in reason press the letter in such speeches even against all sense and reason Will any man say that the Circumcision was a Covenant literally because it is so called or that the Israelites were in motion when they did eat the Paschal Lamb because it is called the Passeover Or that Christ before he was made flesh was a Stone because St. Paul saith Christ was the Rock that followed the Israelites If therefore Christ saith the Sacramental Cup is the New Testament or Testament in his blood as St. Paul expresseth him or that the sacramental bread is his body can we be charged with infidelity because we believe a figure in the words the proper style of Sacraments though in that figure a reality as to the benefit as considerable to us as we could expect from a visible presence or participation Again St. Austin hath a rule and much notice is taken of it Si praeceptiva locutio est aut flagitium aut facinus vetans c. Where we have a command saith he or to that effect that commands nothing against civility or moral honesty we must take it literally otherwise figuratively But here is nothing in this question of the Lords Prayer that comes within that compass nothing of that nature objected against it that I know of or the use of it though the irreverent carriage of some men in some places as I have heard might make some men suspect that they if otherwise sober and religious apprehended somewhat in it very offensive to religious ears And now that the Reader may know this is no digression I must tell him I find them by some that have written against the use of the Lords Prayer as a prayer them I say that stick to the plain literal meaning of Christs words in the institution of this holy Prayer charged with some Popery or imitation at least of Popery upon this very ground because Papists stick to the literal sense of these sacramental words Hoc est corpus meum this is my Body I will set down their words In eo vero quod tantopere urgetis verba ipsa Quando oratis dicite Pater noster c. quid aliud agitis quam quod Papistae solent in quaestione Sacramenti urgentes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad nauseam usque objicientes verba illa Hoc est corpus meum They are the words of one Franciscus Johnsonus who had the reputation of a wondrous able man among the Sectaries or Puritans of those times in answer to John Carpenter a reclaimed Papist a son of the Church of England What particular Sect besides a Puritan them an was of I know not Some what it seems between Presbytery and right down Anabaptism For Anabaptism he disclaims And Presbyterian Government at the very last of his discourse as well as Episcopy he pronounceth to be derived from the Antichrist Whether Independants were then known I know not But let the Readee judge what these men would bring Religion and the word of God unto If this be Popery or Popish when there is no imaginable ground or colour for any other to stick to the literal sense of Scripture If I say to a thief steal not and tell him it is forbidden in the Scripture what a ready evasion will he have whilest I think to convince him by the word of God he will impeach me and truly we know many have really suffered for more ridiculous and groundless imputations as the Surpliss and the like of being a Papist or a friend to Papists to their cause I mean for their persons we may love and honour as they shall merit I hope without offence or perchance of making the Transubstantiation an article of my faith because I press the literal sense against stealing The best is ordinary theft the Law provides against but Sacriledge both by the Law of God and by the rules of right reason a greater theft will easily be avoided by this sophistry and perchance instead of a crime be made the Character of a Saint As this is so is all the rest that I find in that great Champion as he was accounted in those dayes of Sectaries against the use of the Lords prayer such ridiculous senseless sophistry as I scarce remember the like in any thing that ever I read But in such a case to prove twice two not to be four that the snow is black and the Sun the cause of darkness who can expect it otherwise Yet in this perchance we may commend his ingenuity above some others that he freely confesseth the literal obvious sense to be of our side This prayer then or pattern of prayer if you will is set down and recorded in two Gospels St. Matthew and St. Luke the