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A94222 Reasons shewing that there is no need of such a reformation of the publique 1. Doctrine. 2. Worship. 3. Rites & ceremonies. 4. Church-government. 5. Discipline. As it is pretended by reasons offered to the serious consideration of this present Parliament, by divers ministers of sundry counties in England. By H.S. D.D. Chaplain to his Majestie in ordinary. H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672. 1660 (1660) Wing S762; Thomason E1043_7; ESTC R202300 19,132 32

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of Preachers But one place is alleadged out of the Epistle for 16. Sundry after Trinity which hath no ground in the Word of God in as much as it implies that the Father must be Father of himself Answ. That it does not necessarily follow For in that he is said to be the Father of all that is called Father in heaven and earth among this all he is to be excepted who is this Father As when it is said All things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted that hath put all things under him 1 Cor. 15. Further Observations 1. In the Kalender THe first Exception besides what hath beene answered before is that 188. Chapters of the Old Testament are left out and of the Apocrypha which contains 173. there are read 121. Chapters by the Kalender of 5. 6. of Edward 6. as well as by that of later date The answer hereunto is set down in the Order how the rest of the holy Scripture besides the Psalter is appointed to be read which begins thus The Old Testament is appointed for the first Lesson at Morning and Evening prayer and shall be read through every year once except certain Books and Chapters which be least edifying and might be spared and therefore are left unread 2. That of St. Hierome Caveat omnia Apocrypha relates to matters of Faith not of manners besides that the ordering of the Apocryphall Chapters to be read is intended chiefly for the benefit of the Clergy as appears by the Preface who having not alwayes a competent number to joyn with them at Church are enjoyned neverthelesse to read them at home Besides this generall Exception there 's one or two more against particular Apocryphall places as 1. Against that Tobit 3. of Asmodeus his killing of seven Husbands of Sarah the daughter of Raguel before they had layen with her Answ. I have heard of as unlikely a matter as that but however it 's not impossible 2. It 's excepted against Tob. 3. 8. where it 's said that Almes-deeds deliver from death and purge away all sin Answ. That they do so and that one way is in that they declare at the last day the Saints to be justified in the sight of God Mat. 25. Nay they confesse themselves Title 1. of Doctrine that a charitable construction may be Wyre-drawn out of the words And is not there as much wyre-drawing to be used in making a good construction upon these words Make ye friends of the unrighteous Mammon that when ye faile they may receive you into everlasting habitations another way of expounding the words is in the Homily it selfe namely that God for the doing of Almes-deeds does repute us as clean and pure not that they have any such strength or merit in themselves To the other Exceptions against Raphael vers. 15. and elsewhere and also against Judith I answer that though it were granted that the story were untrue yet the ill quality or carriage of the persons in it are not fit Mediums to discredit the truth of it for then many books of the holy Scripture must be false 2. Of the Rubricks 1. EXception is that the Minister is called Priest I answer That the word Priest is the best and properest word that can be used even in the sense of the Authors of this Exception themselves in as much as it is nothing else but an abbreviation of the French word Prestre which is Presbyter in all words that are French and that end in E feminine as Prestre does the English cannot pronounce the E feminine but by a kinde of stifling of it which in time degenerateth into an E quiescent which at last gives occasion to the leaving of it quite out of the Orthography of the word as unnecessary As in Alarme Baptisme Catechisme Prestre with a number of other words which are now written Alarm Baptism Catechism Prest and to lengthen the word to the French manner of pronunciation the letter I is put in as a Metheg to bridle the over-hasty prolation of the same And as for the word Minister it is taken either generally so it comprehends the Apostles and Bishops themselves for they and we are all Ministers of the Gospel or else specifically wch is the thing here intended and so 't is Diaconus a Deacon and contradistinguished from a Presbyter So that upon the whole the Authors would have us say Deacon instead of Priest Now as for the Scotish Liturgy if it hath hit upon a more unknown name then Priest is we do well to retein this which is better known 2. Except is a meer mistake For the Rubrick prefixed to the Epistles and Gospels runs thus The Collects Epistles Gospels to be used at the celebration of the Lords Supper and holy Communion throughout the year Whence they falsely infer that they were never intended to be read but when there is the celebration of the Lords Supper Whereas the Rubrick at the end of the Communion sayes that when there is no Communion shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion untill the end of the Homily concluding with the prayer for the whole estate of Christs Church militant here on earth with some other Collect But that the Communion is not celebrated throughout the whole yeare is occasioned for want of a competent number of Communicants 3. Exception is That the Rubrick before the generall Confession at the Communion runs thus Then shall this general Confession be made in the name of all those that are to receive the holy Communion either by one of them or else by one of the Ministers What is this say they but to admit a private person to assist and bear a share in the administring of the Lords Supper against the 17. Article of Religion I answ. That the confession to be made by one of them or by one of the Ministers presupposeth the Priests speaking first the which confession made by one of them is as much as if it were made by the Clerk who does not alwayes communicate and consequently in that case is to absent himself Or were it made without the Priests leading them yet it concludes not a liberty to Lay-men to administer the Sacrament in as much as to confesse and to consecrate are two distinct things 4th Exception is That before the proper Prefaces at the Communion it is said that upon Christmas and seven dayes after upon Easter day and seven dayes after c. the same shall be read As if every one of the seven were the same with the first and what was done the first day were done every day following I answer That the first of those dayes is the Originall the rest are all Copies thereof the Feast continuing the rest are the same in Ecclesiasticall account though the first be the principall 5th Exception is That every Parishioner shall communicate three times in a year of which Easter shall be one yet the Minister is required every Assembly day to