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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05459	Against the apple of the left eye of antichrist, or the masse book of lurking darknesse making way for the apple of the right eye of antichrist, the compleat masse book of palpable darknesse : this apple of the left eye, commonly called, the liturgie, or service book, is in great use both among the halting papists, and compleat papists, and the things written heere are also against the compleat masse book.	Lightbody, George.	1638 (1638)	STC 15591.5; ESTC S2182	52,108	90

pleased with such voluntary service no more is God pleased with the wil-worship of men 4. We are not bound in our prayers to say the Lords Prayer at all times in the precise words of the Text for Matthew chap. 6. at the fift petition saith forgive us our debts Luke chap. 11. hath other words viz. forgive us our sins The LORD and his Apostles oftimes thereafter prayed in the New Testament not using the words of this form of prayer Wee may either say this prayer as a perfect rule of prayer or we may conceave our own prayers after this manner as Matthew saith that is we should seek both heavenly and earthly things only so far as is needfull for setting forth Gods glory and for our own well salvation and seing in scripture none are bound to use the precise forme of the Lords words far lesse are we bound to be thralled with humane formes As for the set formes that we use for the weak memories of the infirmer sort we have libertie to change them also and we should change them if we think it needfull for the weak ones The Lords Prayer and the x. Commands are short compends the one of prayer the other of the contents of Gods Law both were ordeined chiefly for weak memories as the primitive kirk ordeined the articles of the Apostles Creed that weak memories might have perqueer a short summe of the historie of our salvation which is also a plaine kinde of preaching unto the ignorant explicating the chief passages of Scripture that concerne our faith Neither is it needfull at all times to rehearse and confesse the precise words thereof for in Act. 8. the Eunuch said only I beleeve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God And in John 20. Thomas said My Lord and my God Qu. 15. Is not the masse book as lawfull as catecheticall doctrine Ans 1. Catecheticall doctrine is for a memorandum to Preachers in catechising the people and for people to answere it hindereth not Preachers to propound and the people to answere other questions as GODS Spirit shall assist them 2. It is a preaching of the word by questions Preaching is commanded Matthew 28. vers 19 20. Luke 24.4 Act. 1.8 GODS word and the orthodox preaching thereof are both of Divine authoritie because God commanded both to be in his kirk but they are not of equall dignitie As by the same authoritie a man commandeth his treasure and the ark that containeth it to be keept in a strong house but the treasure is of greater dignitie So GODS word is of greater dignitie then the preaching of it The word is the light of a heavenly candle the Preacher is the candlestick preaching is a holding out of that light that men may see spiritually the masse book is a bushell under which the light of Gods word is hide and obscured Matthew 5. vers 6 7. Qu. 16. Did not God give liberty unto his Kirk to 〈◊〉 indifferent things as they please Ans Not as that thereby men shall obscure his glory pollute his worship corrupt his word or hurt the consciences of his people nor to persecute the professors of his truth nor to hinder his word to have free passage in reading printing preaching practising and professing it If indifferent things be thus abused they are no more indifferent but deadly unto Christian religion all these evils are effected by the masse book Civile magistrats have neither power nor authoritie to make indifferent things hurtfull unto Christian religion If any say that the royall authoritie is disobeyed when men obey not such hurtfull lawes I answer It is not disobeyed for there is not such a royall authority that may hurt Christian religion neither may the lawes of men be essentiall points of Christian religion GOD alone decreeth such lawes to be keept GOD giveth no power nor authoritie unto men but to defend Divine lawes and to make humane lawes conforme and subordinate unto the lawes of God and by the sword of justice to defend such lawes Hee will not give authoritie to men to command or do any thing against the law of God no more then a Prince will give power to a subject to spit upon his face If Magistrats ignorantly or by misinformation make lawes hurtfull to true religion if they repent amend God will forgive them albeit he approve not their sin Qu. 17. When then do lawfull rites and ceremonies become unlawfull Ans When opinion of necessitie or holinesse is known to be annexed to them either by such as impose them or by the people on whom they are imposed They then become unlawfull because they confirme and harden the people in their superstition Therefore Hezekiah rejected the brasan serpent which wont to be a divine ordinance much more should rites which never were ordeined of GOD be rejected in this case If thou say when Magistrats command indifferent things then they become necessare Ergo they should be obeyed I answer If they be hurtfull to true religion they are neither necessare not needfull to be obeyed but altogether to be rejected because they are contrary both to the commandment worship of GOD the supreme Magistrate 2. When the use of them is urged more or as much as the ordinances of GOD It is time to put the slave out of the house when he is obeyed as much or more then the Master of the house Absalon should not now live when he is more obeyed and respected then David the King 3. When the omission of them causeth men who otherwise agree with GODS kirk in matters of faith and manners to be esteemed shismaticks and sectaries and so are contemned as men of a contrary religion 4. When the omission of them is accounted and punished as a sin even out of the case of scandal 5. when they are hurtfull to true religion and to the professors thereof as was said in the preceeding question Qu. 18. Did not God without Scriptures teach the Patriarks as Adam and Abraham Sometimes with few Scriptures as in the dayes of the Judges May not God do the like now albeit we diminish the Scriptures Ans Who made thee wiser then GOD to dimin●●●●● the Scriptures which he hath registrat for the good of his kirk He may give lawes unto thee thou may not do so unto him he may abrogat thy lawes thou may not altar nor diminish his lawes neither restraine nor hinder the free passage of them 2. May as little food and rayment susteene men of a perfect age as susteeneth infants GODS kirk in the Old Testament was in the infancie when they had no written word yet in substance they had the same word of life which we have they had it by the traditions of their fathers which they heard of GOD personallie appearing and revealing his will unto them Sometimes he sent his Angels and prophets working miracles for their edification Afterwards the manner of revealing his wi●● was written and enlarged now wee want these

obeyed 3. Men now have more meanes of learning but they are more doted then the infancy of the Jewish kirk who were cōtent of the rites that were commanded of God but now men without warrand of God dote both upon Jewish and heathen rites 4. If they be more learned they have lesse need of the rudiments of this world which were fitter for the unlearned Qu. 37. We can not cast away all rites no religion consisteth without rites Ans ● Christ and his Apostles were religious above all men without wil-worship and idolatrous rites Qu. 38. If we eschew to do all things that idolaters and Pagans de we cannot live nor worship God at all Ans 1. We need not eschew things wherein they are like true professors but the things that make us conforme to idolaters and pagans Qu. 39. Why do you who kneele not to the Sacraments depart from our communions Are we not all under one Head Christ though we have a blemish A brunt and wounded finger is a member of that body which hath whole members should the whole members be cut off from the sore should you excommunicate your selves from us Ans 1. A man cutteth not the whole fingers from the sore ●●beit he neither burn nor wou●d his whole fingers that they may be conforme to the sore so we excommunicate not our selves from you though we hurt not our consciences with your blemish for we hear the same word and are baptized with you and we converse together 2. If a sore member refuse to be healed it rather excommunicats it self from the whole so you refuse spirituall health c. 3. Wee separate our selves not from you but from your idolatrous blemish for we should not countenance such contempt of God then heale your sore and we shall communicate with you 4. We communicate with the whole kirk of God if we take the sacraments publictly with any members thereof 5. All the pari●hes in the earth are not excommunicate every one from another though they communicat not all in one assembly Qu. 40. There is a double danger If I preach not the Ghospell God will punish me If I preach the Ghospell I must admit idolatrous rites and wo is me if I preach not the Ghospell 1 Cor. 9.16 Ans If thou preach admitting idolatrous rites and ceremonies God will punish thee If thou preach and do not admit them man will puni●h thee take now thy choose 2. If man punish thee deposing thee from thy place for not admitting these rites this hindereth thee not to preach for by suffering thou preaches more effectually then when thou did proclame GODS word in a publict place all the power in the world can not hinder faithfull preachers to preach either by publict speaking or by a holy life or by suffering for Christs honour Romanus the martyr in the dayes of Galerius the Emperor when Asclepiades the tyran was sent from the Emperour to persecute him after he had caused his body to be sore wounded in many parts Romanus still confessed Christ therefore Asclepiades caused the tormentor to smite him on the mouth Then Romanus said I thank thee for thou hast opened many mouths to me he esteemed every wound a mouth whereby hee confessed and preached Christ Qu. 41. Is it not better that I yeelde to same abuses rather then to leave my place and then a woulfe or a theefe shall enter in my place Ans It is better that a wolf or a thief shall enter into thy place then that thou remaining in the place shall turne into a wolf or thief by yeelding to these abuses c. 42. What outward meanes are best to be used for conserving the knowledge and practise of true religion among men that they be not suddenly turned into apostasie by every winde of corrupt doctrine Ans 1. If Pastors and Preachers would preach and continually catechize the people in the orthodoxe points of religion and at meetings cause some of themselves catechize one another and help them with their own questions and cause some of them say a conceived prayer or a set forme as they may best have it This shall cause them make conscience of praying to God at home in the fields albeit they could say no more but the Lords prayer upon their knees 2. If Pastors with the Magistrats and Elders cause masters of families catechize their domestiks and the domestiks to catechize one another and every one rehearse a prayer their time about 3. If schoolmasters would do the like with their disciples in catechizing and prayer and if after the master hath said his prayer then one of the disciples their day about say a prayer and if any disciples come into the schoole after the time of prayer let him pray privatly in a quiet place before he enter to his studies and let them do the like if they must go home before the evening prayers men of a good conscience will finde many wayes to make their disciples to be also Christ disciples Some of the grossest things are omitted in this book untill the people be confirmed in the errors thereof and ther● they ●●all receive the compleat masse book or bible of the whore These locusts deale so subtilly that they draw me● unto their kingdome unawars that they shall be citizens o● spirituall babylon before they know themselves to have departed from Gods truth and from the sanctuary of Sion If the iniquity of the false kirk had not beene covered with the shew of wisedome wil-worship and humility Coloss 2.23 Then Paul had never called it The mistery of iniquity for the antichristian vultures do pull out the eyes of heavenly knowledge of Gods word from people that they can not discerne error from truth and that they can not see to save their souls from hell their bodies from persecution and their estates from spoliation The lawfulnesse of renewing the Covenant with God and of the Confession of the Faith practised by the Kirk of Scotland ANNO 1638. and answers to some scruples FOR our subscription and our renewing of the Confession of Faith we are well warranted for if we look to God we have his Commandment MATH 11. Come unto me all ye that are wearie and heavie loaden and I shall case you take my yoak on you and learn of me c. we are now burdeined not only with our personall sins and infirmities but also with the heavie yoak of antichristian traditions and errors the least of these is too heavy a burden for pressing down our consciences If we look to the Godly in old we have their approven practise In the Old Testament GODS kirk fell oftimes into idolatrie and therefore then they renewed their covenant by repentance and GOD delivered them If we look to the kirk we have the authority of her assemblies if to the authoritie we have the declaration both of King and Counsel in the acts of Counsell if to our progenitors we have the laudible example of our

King and his familie of Cou●seders and of the whole members of the College of Justice of his Majestie subjects of all degrees from the highst to the lowest of the which kingdome if to the prescription and custome we fa●de it i● perpetuall and recent observation unto this day If we look to the Prelats the authors and urgers of the present novations we finde that they themselves have subscribed the same Confession before but now they have laboured to involve us in the same guiltinesse with themselves and Our Subscription at the time is the most innocent most worthy and most powerfu● meane to confirm Our selves and to stop O●r ad●●●sar●● their presumptions that they no more here ster attempt ●● like amongst us and so far as the secret intention of the 〈◊〉 of man may be seene Our proceedings to this time the tenor that which We do now subscribe and OUr whole deportment and carriage We make manifest to all who are not possest with prejudice against us that We meane nothing but the maintenance of the reformed Religion to the glory of GOD the honour of Our King and the happinesse of Our kingdome for now and for afterward The first Objection That it is the making of a band against the Act of Parliament Anno 1585. Answer 1. That naturalists know the parts of the world must sometimes forget themselves and passe their particular bounds for the preservation of the whole As in naturalibus individua operantur ac aguntur contra naturam suam particularem ad conservationem naturae universalis nam ascendit grave descendit leve ne detur vacuum Item manet grave in superiori leve in inferiori loco ad evitandum vacuum A flaggon full of water if the narrow mouth of it being open shall be holden streight downward to the earth the water will remaine still having the lighter air under it A kan which watereth herbs having many holes in the bottome if it be filled with water and if thou hold thy thumb upon the narrow mouth of it the water will not run out at the holes of the bottome but if thou uncover the mouth of it the water shall rin out A pipe of lead that convoyeth water from one place to another if the middle part of the pipe ascend the water will ascend in it providing that the ascending part of the pipe go foreward unto a discension which shall in the end bee lower ●●en where the pipe began to ascend in which descension when the water beginneth to descend the lighter air shall des●●● before it So in morall observations politicks justly plead 〈◊〉 the safetie of the people is the soveraigne law It is law●●ll yea necessarie to passe by one legality or formality of the law for the preservation of the whole lawes of the kingdome seing every particular law must abide the exception of Salvo jure cujuslibet of the fundamentall law of all lawes which is Salus reipublice suprema lex esto If a Gangrene hath consumed a finger or a toe the chirurgian cutteth of the member least the disease spread unto the rest of the body If the patient be bleeding with great danger the chirurgian cutteth a veine in another place for avoiding the danger If a house be burning servants will leave their masters service to quench the fire least their masters house and the whole city be burnt and men will cast down the tback and covering of the houses beside least the fire come upon them and thereby finde a passage unto the rest of the city In all these there some transgression of a civill law but they agree with the fundamentall law in the preservation of men or of the city So in matters of religion Christians can not but acknowledge that Queene Esther did better in coming to the king which was not according to the law then if according to the law of the kingdome she had destroyed her self and her fathers house with the hazard and destruction of Gods people If she had not come to the king it had beene very hurtfull unto Gods kirk If King David so faithfull a servant of God and ruler of Gods people had perished for hunger therefore to keep him from this evill the Priest gave unto him of the shew-bread to eat which according to Gods own law Levit. 24.9 Matth. 12.4 was lawfull to none to eat but the Priests then salus Ecclesiae canon esto To this effect the people would not suffer king Saul to kill Ionathan when he had eaten of the honey when Saul band the people with an oath not to eat untill the evening This was no treason when they hindered the king 〈◊〉 secute his rash intension but it was his honour and glory 〈◊〉 preserve his children alive It is reported that King Iames the 6. in a treatise anent the powder treason said Pro aris focis patre patriae c. That is when the religion the Common-wealth and the King are in danger men should not bee silent but the whole estates and members of the kingdome as one man should arise for the safetie of any of the three Hath not the body of this kingdome good reason to arise when all the three are in danger at this time 2. It is a mistaking to think that this is a new band against law since it is nothing but the renewing of the Confession of Faith warranted by the command and example of King Iames and by the acts of Counsell and Assembly and if it were a new band yet it is lawfull and agreeable to the fundamentall law foresaid in respect that both King countrie and religion were compassed either with spirituall dangers or with both spirituall and bodily dangers through the tyrannie of the antichristian prelats 3. It is not a privat league or band of any degree of subjects among themselves but a publict Covenant made of the collective body even the estates of the kingdome as well collective as representative with God and for God and the King 4. It can not fall under the censure of sedition quae est seorsim itio à republica ecclesia à lege rege grege nor of troubling the peace of the kingdome mentioned in the act of Parliament since it is for the maintenance of religion the Kings authoritie and the preservation of the lawes liberties peace of the kingdome against all trouble and sedition a duetie whereunto all his Majesties subjects are bound by the law of God and man to concurre and they who are enemies thereunto are enemies to the peace of the kingdome and seditious ●e 2. Objection Is from the Act of Pearths assem●●y commanding the practise of these novations in the worship of God which by this Subscription we oblege us to forbear Ans 1. The conclusions of these meetings can not have the authoritie of a generall assemblie with us except we by seeking precepts of that kinde for these novations had inclined unto the same and because it