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Exercitations concerning the pure, and true, and the impure, and false religion. By Charles de Beauvais rector of the parish of Witheham, in the county of Sussex
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Beauvais, Charles de.
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1665
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Wing B1640B; ESTC R218158
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beginning of the Reformation in the Raign of Edward the Sixt. 1. THe first Service Book of King Edward was not altogether approved by Bucer and Peter Martyr but in some things reproved As the censure of Bucer upon the same doth declare Vide Bucer Script Anglican pag. 428. 2. That first Service-book was rather accepted of the Protestants by toleration because at first they could obtain no more then by an absolute approbation 3. The same Service-book was changed and reformed and many things were left out of the said Liturgie by another Edition thereof established in the Fifth Year of Edward the Sixt. 4. And that latter Service-book of King Edward is in substance all one with the Service-book of Queen Elizabeth 5. And that since King Edwards Reigne there hath been no material Alteration of the English Service-book 6. The Papists have no cause to inveigh against this alteration of the Service-book of the Church of England if they remember that themselves have changed their Breviaries Portesses and Missals more then once even of late years See Possevin Appar v. Missal Et ver Breviarum Of the mention of Saints made in the Liturgie of the Church of England and of their Feasts keeping yearly 1. VVHen in the Church of England according to the Liturgie thereof the said Church doth adorn the Calendar with the Names of some Eminent Saints and do make honourable mention of them in her Religious publick worship as the Antient Church did of her Martyrs yet she doth not call upon them She doth not lift up the hands nor bow the knees nor present offerings nor direct her prayers nor intend any part of Religious worship to them But to their God and ours as S. Augustine answereth for the practice of the Church in his time 2. She doth remember the Saints of God but in no wise made Gods of Saints She doth blesse God for them and not worship them for God 3. Although her Devotion doth glance by their Names yet it doth pitch and is fixed upon the Angel of the Covenant the Holy of all Holy ones our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ On the blessed Virgins Anniversary she doth honour Christ in his Mother On S. John Baptists she doth honour him in his forerunner On S. Michaels she doth honour him in his Archangel On the Apostles she doth honour him in his Ambassadours On the Evangelists she doth honour him in his Chroniclers On S. Stephen she doth honour him in his Martyr On S. John the Divine his day she doth honour him in his beloved Disciple who also leaned on his breast at Supper It is a great Error in the Worship of God to be altogether for Prayer and to make no esteem of the Preaching of the Word of God both must not be severed one from the other 1. FOr if it be said of Christ that his House is an House of Prayer and not of Sermons We must observe where he spake this it was in the Temple where he spake it And were not these very words part of a Sermon which he Preached to the Buyers and Sellers there 2. He hath but little skill in the Language of Canaan who knoweth not that Prayer and Invocation of Gods Name is in the Scripture by a Synecdoche taken for the whole Worship of God Acts 2.21 Rom. 10.13 3. Yet admit that our Saviour should in that place take Prayers strictly for that part of Gods Worship which consisteth in lifting up our hands to prefer our Petitions and Supplications unto him S. Paul furnisheth us with a direct answer to this Objection even by those Questions he propoundeth Rom. 10.14 How then shall they call on him on whom they have not believed How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher 4. As there is no powerful Preaching without Prayer to God for a blessing upon it so no good Prayer without Preaching to direct both in the matter and form and to enflame our hearts with zeal How the Magistrate is to carry himself toward Seducing and Seditious Hereticks that are not Tolerated in a State 1. LEt it be accounted Mercy not to execute the Rigour of Penal Statutes upon silly seduced Sheep But certainly it is cruelty to spare the Wolves which worry them 2. I mean those Wolves who plot Treason against their Natural Prince who scandalize the State and who stain with impure breath the Gold and Silver Vessels of the Sanctuary who turn Religion into Statism or rather into Atheism 3. Such Wolves are in England the Popish Priests and the Jesuites 4. Who not onely shew their Rage in not sparing our Sons and our Daughters and daily enticing them and by their Agents conveying them over beyond the Sea to sacrifice not their bodies but their souls their Faith their Religion to the Moloch of Rome 5. But besides who plot the ruine and overthrow of the State who say as the Children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem down with it down with it even to the ground or rather up with it up with it to the trembling Aire blow up King Queen Prince Parliament Clergy Laity Nobility Gentry Commons Lawes Statutes Charters Records all in a Cloud of fire that there remain not so much as any Cindars of them upon the Eearth lest parhaps the Phenix might revive out of her own Ashes We must not in England frequent Hereticks Seducers nor keep familiar society with them rather we must fly from them and detect them to the Magistrate when they be banished from the Countrey 1. WE must beware in England of the Agents of Rome Priests and Jesuites who go about to withdraw us from the love of our Countrey from our Allegiance to our Prince and which is worst of all from the true and pure Worship of God 2. If stealing away the bodies of our Sons and Daughters be so hainous a crime that many conceive it better to deserve the Gallows then the stealing of a Horse or of a Sheep what punishment do we suppose they do deserve who steal away their souls from God and their hearts from their Parents 3. If we account them as capital Enemies who seek the ruine of our Estate can we esteem otherwise of them who seek the utter ruine and overthrow of our Souls 4. And let us not be deceived in regard of them because their outward behaviour is fair and their company delightful For as they are Panther like which hideth her ugly visage which she knoweth will terrifie the Beasts from coming near her and allures them with the sweet smell of her body but as soon as they come within her reach she maketh a prey of them 5. Therefore as we tender the Salvation of our Body and Soul our Estate in this Life and in the Life to come let us take heed how we play at the hole of the Cockatrice And do familiarly converse with the great Whore or with any of her Minions lest they draw
and extraordinary manner 4. And that for the fulfilling in part of S. Johns prophesie Rev. 17.13 16. In these words that those Kings which had one mind and who had given their power and strength unto the Beast shall be them that shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire 5. O that other Kings for the fulfilling of this Prophesie would follow the example of this King and dispose themselves to serve God in a work so important and high Of the Demolishing of Monasteries in England by King Henry the Eight 1. KIng Henry the Eight separating himself from Rome consequently did very wisely to demolish the Monasteries that were in England and to cause the Fryars of them to change Habit and Vest of their Order 2. For besides that such men by their Errors Superstitions Idolatries and most of them by their foul and corrupt manners are utterly hurtful to the Church which they wast and corrupt more and more They are also greatly prejudicial to the State 3. Because 1. inclosing themselves in their Monasteries by that means they withdraw themselves from the Civil Jurisdiction both in regard of their goods and of their Persons 4. From whence often doth follow the Ruine of States that which remains to bear Arms being not in sufficient number to conserve and maintain them against their Enemies 5. 2. Because also that such persons are as many Creatures ready for the Popes Service to rise and rebel against their Prince if the said Pope gives them command so to do by the Superiour of their Orders the reason whereof is because they do not acknowledge themselves to be Subjects of the Soveraign of the State in which they live and are settled but onely of the Pope 6. Which thing well known and considered of the Popes they have not been contented of the Orders formerly established but moreover have erected new ones which they have spread every where to Preach their obedience The number of them in certain States is come to that greatnesse In France that they may compose ten good Armies 7. Among these last Orders of Fryars that of the Jesuits holds the first and principal Rank which leaves to the others the honour of the vows of Povertie and Chastitie and sticks altogether to that of Obedience being particularly sworn to the Romish See to which they swear to obey in all things by a blind obedience so called by the which they execute the commands of their Superiours without any Inquisition of the Cause 8. Which having been well observed by some States they did judge to be able to remain in quietness and peace unless they did cast out of their Dominious such dangerous persons and by Authentical Edicts have declared Anathema's all such that should dare to propound the reestablishment of them in the same Of the Reformation of the Church of England begun by King Henry the Eight 1. ALthough King Henry the Eight had shaken off the Popes yoke demolished the Monasteries and beaten down the Images yet notwithstanding all that he retained to the end of his life the other Errors of the Romish Church and did greatly persecute those who did not embrace them 2. From whence we may perceive that oftentimes great and marvellous works are not begun and ended altogether And by those who have been the beginners of them 3. Asa did not fully Reform the Church neither also Jehosaphat But that which was begun by them was perfected afterwards by the good Kings Ezekiah and Josias 4. The same thing is apparent in the last Reformation of the Church It was first begun by Martin Luther in Germany and perfected afterwards by John Calvin and other famous Divines raised by Gods Grace to that end 5. The Reformation of the Church of England having been begun by K. Henry the Eight was consummated by his most Worthy Children King Edward the Sixt and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory 6. The Father begun the said Reformation at the Root and his Children did cut the Branches Yea we must say that King Henry did cut off the very Head of the Romish Beast and his Children the Fingers and the Nailes For what Cause we may separate one from another in regard of publick Assemblys and Exercises of Religion onely for corrupt Doctrines and not alone for corrupt Manners Against Independants 1. VVHich is to be noted against Anabaptists and Separatists They will not communicate with the wicked for they pollute all say they 2. Yet did not the Prophets flie the Congregation Hagg. 2.4 Nor did Christ abhor the Publicans Luke 5.30 3. Then there is a double communicating one with the exercises of Religion and another with the works of Darkness The first is lawful but the second forbidden 4. Again there is a two-fold departure one with our Bodies another with our Minds One from the Evil and another from the Person The first must be followed 1 Cor. 5.10 The other cannot be avoided without departing the world For onely God is Just and giver of Righteousness The Militant Church prays for forgiveness of sins Mat. 6.12 And is assured when she shall Triumph to be blameless without spot when Death shall lose his sting and Hell forgoe the Victory 1 Cor. 15.55 5. Therefore I know not what to say of such Anabaptists and Separatists but as Constantine said to Acesius a Novation Bishop Set up a Ladder for thy self O Acesius that thou alone mayest ascend up to Heaven If they leave us because we have faults by the same reason they must needs flie into Heaven for there is no place on Earth for them 6. Attendis zizania triticum non attendis Thou lookest to the Cockle and the Wheat thou regardest not 7. When thou dividest thy self from Hypocrites which are in the Church thou dividest thy self from the Church Et membrum in Heterogeneis perit abscissum In Heterogeneal bodies a member cut off perisheth 8. O then forsake not the green pastures because of the Goats Nor forsake Gods House because of the Vessels of dishonour Nor Gods Wheat because of the Tares Nor Gods Net because of the bad fishes that are in it 9. Rather follow the Rule of S. Augustine against the Letters of Petilianus bear with the mixture of evil because of the good lest thou violate the charity of the good because of the evil neither let us forsake the good because of the evil but suffer the evil because of the good The Separatists of England have no just cause to separate themselves from the Communion of their Parish Churches for the evil Life and corrupt Manners of some Members of the same 1. FOr was not the Church of Corinth more corrupted in Doctrine and Manners than they pretend ours to be Yet S. Paul calleth it a Church 2. Doth not Christ call it his Field where there grew many Tares 3. Did not Christ suffer Judas whom he knew to be a Thief and a