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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03797	Certaine greevances, vvell vvorthy the serious consideration of the right honorable and high Court of Parliament Set forth by way of dialogue, or conference betweene a countrey gentleman, and a minister of Gods word; for the satisfying of those that doe clamour, and maliciously revile them that labour to have the errors of the Booke of common prayer reformed. By Levves Hevves, minister of Gods Word.	Hughes, Lewes, fl. 1620.	1640 (1640)	STC 13917.5; ESTC R212825	20,742	44

in Baptisme but by hearing the Gospell preached 2 Cor. 3.8 Act. 10.44 To make mention of all the Popish errours that are in other prayers and Collects would be too tedious Gent. What doe they say of the Catechisme in the Service booke Min. They say that it is full of Popish errours as first in the Rubrick before the Catechisme it is written that Children baptized have all things necessary to salvation and are undoubtedly saved The truth is that they have no knowledge of sinne nor of the wrath and curse of God due to sinne nor of Christ nor of the Articles of the Christian faith and therefore have neither faith nor repentance without which none can be saved It is true that Infants borne of the Elect are undoubtedly saved by vertue of Gods everlasting covenant of grace so many as are of the number of the Elect I say so many as are of the number of the Elect because many of the Elect that are now Saints in heaven have brought forth children that are Reprobates and damned soules in hell For Adam had Cain as well as Abel and Abraham had Ishmaell as well as Isaac and Isaac had Esau whom God hated as well as Iacob whom God loved Gent. This errour you say is in the Rubrick what errour is in the Catechisme Min. In the Catechisme it is affirmed that Christ hath redeemed all mankinde The truth is that Christ came into the world not to redeem all mankinde but the Elect onely therefore the Evangelist S. Luke setting forth the genealogie of Christ beginneth from Ioseph and ascendeth to Adam and from Adam doth descend to Sheth who was the first of the Elect that was borne after the death of Abell and maketh no mention of Cain nor of any of his posteritie And S. Matthew beginning from Abraham and from Abraham descendeth to Isaac and from Isaac to Iacob and maketh no mention of Ishmaell nor of Esau nor of any that came of them Also our Saviour Christ saith that he gave his life a ransome for many Mat. 20.28 and that his blood was shed for many Mat. 26.28 He doth not say that his blood was shed for all mankinde but for many that is for the Elect onely who are many though but few in comparison of the multitude that are Reprobates It is also affirmed in the Catechisme that we are made the children of God in Baptisme The truth is that whosoever is not a childe of God before he be baptised shall never be a childe of God because all that are the children of God were before the world was made the children of God by vertue of Gods eternall decree of election It also affirmeth that there are two Sacraments generally as necessary to salvation intimating that the Sacraments are necessary to salvation so as if a child die before he be baptised he shall be damned which is the cause that Midwifes doe take upon them to baptize Intimating also that there are more Sacraments then two therefore it is written in the Rubrick before the Communion that every Parishioner shall communicate thrice in the yeare and also receive the Sacraments meaning the five Popish Sacraments For there are none other It affirmeth also that Godfathers and Godmothers doe promise and vow three things first that the Infant shall forsake the devill and all his works the pompes and vanities of the wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh secondly that he shall beleeve all the Articles of the Christian faith thirdly that he shall keepe Gods holy will and commandements and walke in the same all the dayes of his life which no man is able to doe of himselfe The truth is that the Godfathers and Godmothers doe neither promise nor vow that the Infant shall doe these things Gent. What then doe they Min. They doe nothing but counterfeit the Infants voice as if he were a conjured Ghost within every one of them speaking and saying that he doth all these things Gent. Are there any other things that doe offend and discourage the people from comming into the Church till service be all read Min. Yes Gent. What are they Min. They are the perverting of the meaning of the holy Ghost in many places of the Psalmes Epistles and Gospels by putting in and leaving out of words and also of the meaning of our Saviour Christ in many places of the Revelation Gent. Wherein is the meaning of the holy Ghost perverted by putting in and leaving out of words Min. In the Psalme 106.30 Phineas prayed are put in for Phineas executed judgement Psal. 105. Not obedient are put in for not disobedient Psal. 125. these words The rod of the ungodly commeth not on the lot of the righteous are put in for resteth not on the lot of the righteous In the Epistle on munday in Easter weeke these words Israel remembred are put in for He that is God remembred To make mention of all the places in the Psalmes Epistles and Gospels would be too tedious Gent. You said that the service Booke doth pervert the meaning of Christ in diverse places of the Revelation I pray you shew me some of those places Min. The fourteenth Chapter is appointed to be read on Childermasse day after the Popish manner for an Epistle of purpose to pervert the meaning of Christ Gent. What was the meaning of Christ in that Chapter Min. The meaning of Christ in that chapter was and now is to shew that in time of greatest persecutions when the heathen persecuting Emperours and after them the Popes did rage most against the Christian Religion and professors thereof Christ had his Church though invisible 144000 preserved by him and kept chaste and undefiled with spirituall fornication of Idolatry Gent. How is the meaning of Christ perverted Min. By misapplying that to children slaine by Herod which was written of Christians persecuted and slaine by the Heathen persecuting Emperours and Popes Gent. Why doth the Pope pervert the meaning of Christ by misse-applying that to the children slaine by Herod which was written of Christ and his Church persecuted by the Heathen Emperours and the Popes Min. The Pope and so many of our Lord Bishops as are Popish doe pervert the meaning of Christ by causing that Chapter to be read on Childermasse day of purpose to keepe weake Christians in blindnesse so as they shall not be able to give an answer to the Papists when they shall ask them where their Religion and Church was an hundred yeares agoe before Martin Luthers time Gent. What other meaning had Christ in that Chapter Min. His meaning was to shew that in his good time he would give a free passage and good successe to the preaching of the Gospell as thankes be to his holy Majestie it hath had in many Kingdomes since Martin Luthers time and shall have every day more and more Gent. I am glad to heare this I pray you goe on to shew where the meaning of Christ is perverted Win. On Michaelmasse