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A34268 A Confvtation of M. Lewes Hewes his dialogve, or, An answer to a dialogve or conference betweene a country gentleman and a minister of Gods Word about the Booke of common prayer set forth for the satisfying of those who clamour against the said Booke and maliciously revile them that are serious in the use thereof : whereunto is annexed a satisfactory discourse concerning episcopacy and the svrplisse. 1641 (1641) Wing C5811; ESTC R6214 77,899 100

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Majesty But in this you speake against us just as did the Pagans sometimes against the Christians who imputed all the calamities that befell them to be in regard of the Christian religion plagues famine fires and whatsoever publike calamity befell them was for no other cause This therefore made the poore Christians suffer the more persecutions and come under the greater troubles even to rhe shedding of their blood with a purpose of destroying them quite and rooting them out Howbeit the God of Heaven did sometimes send them times of breathing and at last stirred up a powerfull patriot carefully to defend them all which was shewed in vision to Saint John as we may read it in the 12 Chapter of the Revelation And as for us beside the whole Answer to your Dialogue I have already even in particular shewed you how Letanies have prevailed with God in times of danger And are these services now become odious to Heaven not in themselves but in those who doe not use them as they ought For God is the same alwayes from one Generation to another he changeth not but is the same for ever and is well pleased to see us come into his Courts and to doe our devotions before him But this is evermore the fashion of your Sect to dive deeper into Gods secrets then they who are wise unto sobriety dare determine God blesse the King and direct aright the High Court of Parliament and so guide and direct us all that we may with a joynt consent strive together truly to set forth his praise and glory To which let all that love the Lord say evermore Amen Amen An addition in a word or two to give satisfaction concerning the Surplice THe Dialogue I confesse meddles not at all with this But because some scruple at it without cause I shall speake a word or two about it The attire which the Minister of God is by order to use at times of Divine Service is a long w●ite garment which we commonly call a Surplice to which Graduates have their hoods and such like other Ornaments added according to their degrees in the Vniversity The use whereof is not only appointed by Canon but established by Act of Parliament as may be seen in the Rubrick intituled The Order where Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used and said Which Rubrick is set before the beginning of Common Prayer comprehending also the Ornaments or Robes of Bishops as well as of other inferior Ministers All which were likewise in u●e by Authority of Parliament in the second year of the raign of King Edward the fixt and by like authority continued amongst us even ever since The originall of this white garment came not first from Popery but was used in the Church of God long before They do ill therefore who affright themselves at the fight thereof and terrifie others also with it as if it were a Relique or R●g of Popery Were it not better saith worthy Hooker Eccles Polit. pag. 61. lib. 5. that the love which men beare to God should make the least things that are imployed in his Service amiable then that their over-scrupulous dislike of so mean a thing as a Vestment should from the very service of God withdraw their hearts and affections Divine Religion saith Saint Hierom hath one kinde of habit to Minister before the Lord another for ordinary uses belonging unto common life This he said in his Comment upon the 44. chap. of Ezekiel in regard of the ornaments which even the Priests under the Law were clothed with Howbeit his words are extensive to Divine Religion in generall and therefore he chides with Pelagius when he taxed at large all neat apparell as if he had ment somthing also against the white garment worn by persons Eccle siasticall when they administer the usuall Sacrifice Hieron advers Pelag. lib. 8. c. 6. For this he saith they did in a garment that was white Chrysostome also mentions the same and cals it A white shining garment as may be seen in that which he speaketh to the Clergie men at Antioch where he doth not accuse them because they wore it but told them as Hooker fitly noteth that it was a matter of small commendation in it self if they which weare it do nothing else but aire the robes which their place requireth Chrysost ad popul Antioch tom 5. Serm. 60. The Priests garments under the Law had I grant their mysticall reference peculiar to those times beside which they served likewise for comelines expressed in Exod. where it is said They were for glory and for beauty Ex. 28.2 and are not therfore exempted from the choice of the Church of Christ to select some speciall one or other out of the number of those holy garments or to appoint some other to be worn for decency and order according to that generall Canon of the New Testament which the Apostle mentions in the 1 Cor. 14.40 Nor is it but certain that the Analogie of their Law is a rule to us yea the equity and righteousnesse thereof bindes us still and even in this teacheth us that Gods Ministers as well now as then are not only to be differenced from the people but even from themselves in respect of their attire at other times For the more solemn the performance is of any publike duty the better it is imprinted in the regard and esteem of others Eccl. Polit. p. 168. lib. 4. For we must not think but that there is some ground of reason even in nature whereby it commeth to passe that no Nation under heaven either doth or ever did suffer publike actions which are of waight whether they be Civill or Temporall or else Spirituall and Sacred to passe without some visible solemnity as Hooker speaketh Magistrates of note have their robes in highest Courts and Judges at Law are gravely attired And shall not Ministers officiate in comely garments The Angels that appeared at our Saviors Resurrection were then imployed in a part of their service And were they not cloathed in white a fitting Pattern for Gods Ministers whom the Scripture sometimes termeth Angels Malach. 3.1 and Revel 1.20 It is writen also in the Revelation Revel 15 6. that the Seven Angels came out of the Temple cloathed in pure and white linnen a pattern againe for Gods Ministers and more perspicuous who as they are Angels in name so may be like Angels in this whilest they doe service to their God in any Temple And if as one speaketh Mr. Reeve in his Divinit p. 103. it be granted to the wife of the Lamb that she should be arayed in fine linnen clean and white for the fine linnen is the righteousnes of the Saints why may it not saith he be granted to her more excellent M●mbers to be so arrayed in presence of that Lamb land in his publike service with materiall fine linnen clean and white in signification of the righteousnes of Saints wherewithall they ought most eminently to be