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A35179	An humble plea for the quiet rest of God's ark in a sermon preached before the right honourable Sr. John Moore, Lord Mayor of the city of London, at St Mildred's church, Feb. 5. 1681/2. / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing C7268A; ESTC R18008	19,832	46

to the Diet at Noremberg to make Promise in his name That as this whole evil had arisen from his Court so he would use the utmost endeavours that from whence this corruption had originally sprung from thence likewise Reformation might for the future stream forth But these fair Promises being more speciously made than Religiously kept the disease increasing and the Patient still languishing the concern great and he that would needs impose himself upon us as sole Physician being beyond Sea and very far off we did as we justly might make use of lawful help nearer hand Our Church without any indecent reflections upon others proceeded to its own due Reformation rather than incur more guilt and danger under that common infection The whole conduct of this good work were a voluminous History The summ is this The exorbitancies of Rome were grown our heavy burdens Our Physician little better than our Disease And the casting off his usurpations and evil practices upon the Patient our only way of cure Hereupon the Popes Titular I might say Chimerical Supremacy became thrown down His Tables of Money-changers those sordid pecuniary Indulgences and other the like dehonestations of Christian Religion turned out of the Temple The inherent hereditary Prerogatives re-assum'd into the Crown and the Ancient Faith and way of Worship so unanimously observ'd in the purer ages of the Church freely restor'd Thus the Waters formerly bitter were now healed The Naaman before leprous became now cleansed And the Ark after many high indignities put upon it restor'd once more with much joy and comfort to a state of better rest amongst us I might now justly say as once Jonathan to his Father Saul concerning David with very little alteration This great Salvation God wrought in Israel Our pious fore-fathers saw it and highly rejoyced in it Wherefore then should we sin against such riches of Divine Goodness and ungratefully turn our backs upon so happy a Reformation 1. So happy that the whole Kingdom in Parliament assembled resented our Liturgy as a work done by the aid of the Holy Ghost Giving their most hearty and lowly thanks to King Edward for his godly travel therein Nor did they less publickly lament the want of it when it had been for some time interrupted They thought fit to declare again in Parliament that the taking of it away had proved to the great decay of the due honour of God and a discomfort to the Professors of the truth of Christs Religion So highly have our sage Governours reverenced what our common people can now as rashly despise 2. So happy that experience hath been able to set a fair Seal to the good fruits of it As a person of great Honour and Piety upon undeniable observation assur'd Queen Elizabeth's Council Certifying them That in King Edward 's time and in the beginning of her Reign while this Book of Publick Prayers was uniformly used the Gospel mightily prevailed but since this Schism and Division the contrary effect hath fallen out Whoever are gainers we see Religion is a sufficient loser by our divisions 3. So happy that Foreign Divines have highly congratulated our Church herein Greatly commending that timely care which Arch-Bishop Cranmer and others took for the good settlement of Religion amongst us before it grew too late And soon after when we became thus setled then as heartily wishing We might long enjoy this singular benefit of God and that it might be continued to us for ever God forbid we should count that a burden now which was thought so great a blessing then 4. So happy that our Neighbours of Scotland as their own Historians attest could then take hold of our skirt and cheerfully resolve to go with us They subscrib'd and promis'd to use the same way of worship and rites there which our Church useth here A harmony not more comfortable than needful in both Kingdomes Oh how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity 5. So happy that our reverend and rare Jewel hath been able in words of truth and soberness to tell the whole world We are in this Reformation come so far as through frailty we could attain to the Church of the Apostles the Church of the ancient Catholick Bishops and Fathers which we know to have been a pure and uncorrupt Virgin and that not only in our Doctrine but in our administration of Sacraments and Publick Prayers In the bosome of such a Church let us live in the bosome of such a Church O Lord let us die Lastly Which will be yet more Sacred with us as a Divine Sentence from the lips of a King 6. So happy that our late Soveraign under the greatest violence from his Rebellious Subjects when he apprehended he might never see his dear Childrens faces any more as indeed he did not but became buried in that barbarous obscurity yet then even then he leaves this Royal Legacy of Divine Counsel to our present Soveraign I require and entreat you as your Father and King that you never suffer your heart to receive the least disaffection from the true Religion established in the Church of England I have tried it and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the World not only in its Community as Christian but in its special notion as Reformed Such is the state of the Church of God amongst us Encompassed with so great I might still have added a far greater cloud of Witnesses all of them bearing their several testimonies of honour to it And now let the whole World judge from what Spirit those men speak who can take upon them before all Israel and before the Sun temerariously to revile this good order as a meer Antichristian incroachment upon the inheritance of Christ Our Liturgy and Episcopacy as The two great Plague-sores of the Land The Reverend guides of the Church as The Military Instruments of the Devil The Inferiour Clergy as Hogs Dogs Wolves Foxes Forlorn Atheists And the whole body of our Divine Worship as A stinking heap of Atheistical Roman rubbish full of all abominations But these calumnies though very lewd were thrown out generally amongst the inferiour common people Our accusers have appeared yet higher threatning even to astonishment so august an Assembly as that of Parliament If they learn not to detest this our English Church with a perfect hatred they shall be left without excuse before the Majesty of God Nor have they feared to arraign both Governours and Government with this odious charge We are so far from having a Church rightly reformed that as yet we are not come to the outward face of it So heavy were their censures of us and yet the actions wherewith those censures were to be seconded much heavier They have elsewhere expresly menac'd That they would set themselves against us as the professed Enemies of the Church of