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A47939 A whipp a whipp, for the schismaticall animadverter upon the Bishop of Worcester's letter by Roger L'Estrange. L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1662 (1662) Wing L1325; ESTC R10187 33,398 64

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Enslav'd the Nation and Setled Nothing Marque now the Menace of his last Period What does it say but This Let the King take up his Bishops or look to himself And to Embitter the People against Bishops Feuds and Animosities he presages though this Bishop cares not EXCEPTION VIII A WHether as to the matter of Fact the French Protestants do enjoyn standing at the Sacrament and the Dutch kneeling I will labour to enform my self of some more Unbyassed witness than this Bish●p for in the Ecclesiastical Laws of those Churches which I have carefully perused I can find no such matter But if they did so this would not at all justifie the Imposition of Kneeling because 1. The Question is de Jure whether it be lawful to prescribe any one such certain Posture without submiting to which it shall not be lawful to admit any to the Sacrament and till the Affirmative of this be proved by Scriptures Examples and Instances from the Practice of men will not satisfie a doubting conscience 2. Neither of those fore-mentioned Postures are so much to exception as Kneeling because this last is manifestly more superstitious for 1. It varies most of any from the First Pattern 2. It hath been monstrously abused by the Papists to Idolatry which alone renders it most unsafe to be practised and most Unwarrantable to be imposed Especially till it be again explained as in the very first Liturgy of all it was which I particularly mention to shew how little our Reformation since Edw. 6th time hath been improved A HE cannot passe the Bishop without a Reverence Some more Unbyass'd Witnesse then This Bishop c. This is the handsomest Ly he has given the Bishop yet But to our Businesse leaving the French and Dutch to their Pleasure we have already argu'd that whatsoever is Deductively in the Scripture is sufficiently There to warrant the Practice of it and we have prov'd Kneeling to be rationally and evidently compriz'd in the General Precept of Decency Now to his Particular Exceptions It varyes sayes he from the First Pattern Was it a Pattern for a Posture or the Institution of a Sacrament Mind the Text. The Lord Jesus in the night when he was betray'd took Bread and when he had given Thanks he brake it and said Take Eat This is my body which is broken for you THIS DO ye in Remembrance of Me. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Bloud THIS DO as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me We have here the Complement of the Institution Now see the Extent of the Command DO THIS What 's That Take Bread Give Thanks Break it and say Take Eat c. So likewise of the Cup in such manner as is Prescrib'd Here 's the whole Precept without any Mention or the least Hint of other Circumstance either for Time Posture Habit or the like All which being left equally Indifferent why not at Night in the same Habit Language and Syllables as well as the same Posture But Kneeling he says has been abus'd to Idolatry and therefore not warrantably Impos'd Have not Churches been Abus'd has not the Holy Scripture it self been misapply'd and made the ground of Heresie Are they not therefore Warrantably Used Finally the main stumble they make of Kneeling is the Command now if a Posture of Body may not be Commanded what may So that ex professo their Enmity is not so much Levell'd at the Evil as at the Government EXCEPTION IX A AS it was needlesly so was it likewise Uncharitably done to revile the whole body of Presbyterians for the Faults of Mr. Baxter upon supposition that either he is a Presbyterian or so culpable as the Bishop would make him For since every man is to bear his own Burden what Bible did the Bishop find it in that he might without scruple asperse a whole order of Men for the pretended miscarriage of one who by the Bishop's own Confession was not of so Amicable and complyant a Temper as the rest And therefore certainly they ought not to be brought in as Parties in that crime of Unpeaceableness from which the Bishop just before had●absolved them but choler spoyls the Memory and sure his Brethren the Bishops would not take it well of a Presbyterian should he cry out Crimine ab uno disce omnes See what manner of Spirit these Bishops are of and judge them all by the Bishop of Wercester ' s example Truly Sir I am a little angry when I consider how much this one mans Indiscretion hath exposed all of the same Order to Censure For were they all like him which I do not nor dare not think I should not scruple to pray heartily what the Bishop doth in scorn concerning the Preachers Lord deliver us from such Bishops And let all the People say Amen A OF This Cavil we have both had enough and said enough in and to his first Exception and the Animadverter discovers that somewhat has spoyl'd his Memory too as well as he sayes Choler has done the Bishops which is a Pitty considering how little Pretense the Libeller has for a Bad one and how much use for a Good one I would Gladly know in what Bible the Animadverter learned to despise Government and speak evil of Dignities to bear false Witnesse against his Neighbour c. He sayes the Bishop judges Uncharitably in measuring All by One and that he now condemns whom just before he absolv'd Answer Neither the One nor the Other First his words are only in Proportion of the whole Party which does not Imply either All or in the same Degree And for the Bishop's Contradicting himself with what Ingenuity can any man extend his Meaning to All which in Terminis is limited to Those of Mr. Baxter's Judgement and in distinction from others of a more complying and Peaceable Temper To go on with him D. E. tells the Honourable Sir that he is a little Angry to consider how This one mans Indiscretion exposes all of the same Order to Censure Grosse Impostour Does he not streyn his little Wit and huge Confidence to the utmost only to start a Scandal and fix a Blot upon the Bishop with what Temper of Spirit with what weight or in truth Colour of Reason with what Ingenuity and Affection he has menaged This Discourse let the Indifferent determine He concludes his Exceptions with a Prayer Lord deliver us says he from such Bishops Good God say I Preserve his Majesty from Treason and Deliver the Church from Schism POSTSCRIPT A THus Sir you see how willing I am to serve you in proposing my Exceptions the fuller prosecution of which I must leave to some other Pen more able both in Divinity and Policy who may convince both the Bishop and the World that it is not yet time to sow such Tares This Age is a liitle too knowing to be gulled