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A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

close to the sense of the Service-book because it is from their own Mass-book and gives this as a reason why Michael is painted fighting with a Dragon both Opinion and Reason are of the like weight Now from things without colour of Ground what colour or ground is there for that speech in the end of the Magnificat O Ananias Azarias and Mizael Praise the Lord If this was the Prayer of these men when they were alive what sense or reason that we should speak to them being dead more than to others For Popish Tenents Sect. look that Prayer at the Burial of the Dead That we with this our Brother and all other our Brethren departed in the true Faith of thy holy Name may have our perfect Consummation and Bliss both in Body and Soul First here every one Buried is a faithful Brother which cannot be said of every one no not in the Judgement of Charity It is true indeed That the Priest of Newgate bid the poor Condemned Thieves provide Money for their Burial and they needed not doubt of their Salvation Again the words are an express Prayer and tyed to be said by the Minister Now for the Ceremonies having place in Gods Worship and being mans device must needs be Idols or Idolatrous Actions Quicquid praeter mandatum est Idolum Whatsoever is placed in Gods Worship without the Commandement of God is an Idol for none hath power to Ordain or Place a Ceremony in Christ his Church but himself who is King of it For instance whereof there is a remarkable place amongst many Numb 15.39 And it shall be unto you for a Fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the Commandements of the Lord and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which you use to go a Whoring where Observe both the Ceremony and Signification to be from Gods own Appointment And further every device of man in Gods Worship is to be avoided but against those there are divers Treatises never Answered nor like to be yet it shall not be amiss by one indissolvable Argument to put all the Defenders of the Ceremonies to it which is this That which is mans Device and hath been an Idol in Gods Worship must of necessity be an Idol still in the Worship of God But the Ceremonies mentioned in the Service-book have been Idols in Gods Worship as Cross Surplice c. Ergo they must be Idols still in the Worship of God The Proof of the former Proposition is from instance of Abrahams Grove Gen. 21.33 but being abused to Idolatry as 2 King 17.10 Jerem. 51.2 Isa 57.5 then God forbiddeth his People the usage of it because it was an Idol yea commanded to destroy it Deut. 12.13 The latter Proposition none can deny Here we may add the foul Abuses of the Sacraments as Baptism and the Lords Supper and that Jewish Popish Instrtution of Churching of Women called Purisication that bastardly piece of Confirmation the particular Eno●mities whereof we need not stand upon they are so well known especially to your Honours which is a part of our happiness Again the Treatise would be too large yet we would not have the Lent Fast forgotten which the Patrons of our Liturgie make a Religious Fast 2 Part of Homil. of Fast Anno quinto Elizab. C. quint. abusing places of Scripture by mis-application of Scriptures as Joel 2.12 Mat. 6.16 2 Cor. 6.2 Mat. 4.10 clear contrary to the Law and indisputable Prerogative of God the Homilies appointed by the Law of the Land the most and best Reformed Churches the harmony of Confessions none siding with them in it but Papists and Popishly affected Now we come to Touch Sect. and but to touch upon the foppish and foolish things in the Book besides the foolish and sensless Translations of some Psalms pressed by the Service-book as Psal 58.9 Psal 68.30 which would be too large to set down and canvafs What can be said for those Tautologies and Battoligies used in the Service-book as Lord have Mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us the very Popish Kyreileison Christaleison condemned Matth. 6.7 the word Battology here condemned cometh as the learned observe from one Bactus a ridiculous Poet repeating the same words or verses often and so Christ forbideth a vain repetition of words or phrases and the better the words are the more grievous is the sin so the vain repetition in Prayer is most odious of all both the heathenish and Popish Battologies are struck dead at one blow saith Master Cartwright for mumbling up the same prayers again and again and can these repetitions of ours being the very same in English go scot-free One foppery more for we cannot name them all namely that mutual salutation between Priest and People in these words The Lord be with you and with thy spirit which Doctor Boyce girding at the Novellists takes upon him to defend from Ruth 24. with many invictive strains with other matter to little purpose is it a good Argument from salutation in civil conversment to fall a saluting one another in the worship of God Luke 10.4 2 King 4.29 if our Lord and Saviour forbad his Disciples to salute any in the way so far as it might be any impediment to his service like unto that of Elisha the Prophet how much less will Christ admit salutations in the middest of his Service It seems their devotion is very hot that falleth to tosse a salutation whilest they are upon Gods Worship Hence is that apish trick in the Northern parts that all the Women especially in coming into the Church make a courtesie to the Priest Dr. Boyce for further confirmation citeth the Liturgy of James Chrysostome and Basil but all know as hath been said that they who are acquainted with this subject know these Liturgies to be as Apocryphal as the subject the Dr. Lib. 2. de Missa c. 16. Lib. de Scrip. Eccles fol. 51. confesseth upon the report of Bellarmine that Tritenhemius writ a whole book upon Dominus Vobiscum in which are many fruitless questions and so we are sure the thing it self is fruitless CHAP. V. Of the Letany VVE come now to the last piece of the matter of the Lyturgie but not the least sinful but rather the most offensive Namely the Letany not a stump or a limb of Dagon but the head of the Masse-book appointed to he said on Sundayes Wednesdayes and Fridayes yea and at other times if the Ordinary appoint it of this it may truly be said as one said of the Pharisees sin that it was either the sin of the Holy Ghost Tossan in Mat. 12. Canon 15 or a sin very nigh it so the Letany is either blasphemy or very nigh blasphemy upon these dayes one of every house must be present setting a note of some preheminency both upon these week dayes and the Service yea from the Etymologie of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉