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The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the…
The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the liturgy of the Church of England wherein the reasons by him produced for imposing the said liturgy upon all, are found to be so weak, his defence of things offensive in it so slight, the arguments against the liturgy by himself afforded, are so strong, that some, who upon His Majesties declaration did incline to the liturgy, are now further from it, by reading his wordy discourse about it : also some reasons humbly rendered, why many ministers, as yet cannot conform to that liturgy, but not out of disloyalty, pride, ingratitude, peevishness, nor schismatical petulancy, as the sarcastical pen of this uncharitable doctor hath published ... / by G.F.The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the liturgy of the Church of England wherein the reasons by him produced for imposing the said liturgy upon all, are found to be so weak, his defence of things offensive in it so slight, the arguments against the liturgy by himselfe afforded, are so strong, that some, who upon His Majesties declaration did incline to the liturgy, are now further from it, by reading his wordy discourse about it : also some reasons humbly rendered, why many ministers, as yet cannot conform to that liturgy, but not out of disloyalty, pride, ingratitude, peevishness, nor schismatical petulancy, as the sarcastical pen of this uncharitable doctor hath published ... / by G.F.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. What the Doctor means by Consecration, I know no•; how others understand it, I know: but I can see nothing in the Book that is done to keep out Mass, that is not done by other Ministers, who yet stumble at a Liturgy imposed upon all; a strange Argument, that only by reading of the words the Mass is kept out, else nothing that makes against the Mass in it, but we use.
Answ. 1. What the Doctor means by Consecration, I know no•; how others understand it, I know: but I can see nothing in the Book that is done to keep out Masse, that is not done by other Ministers, who yet stumble at a Liturgy imposed upon all; a strange Argument, that onely by reading of the words the Mass is kept out, else nothing that makes against the Mass in it, but we use.
Secondly, But doth not your Book by commanding kneeling, do something which may help in the Mass; till Transubstantiation began to be started, kneeling was not known; you know the gesture for some hundred years was quite opposite.
Secondly, But doth not your Book by commanding kneeling, do something which may help in the Masse; till Transubstantiation began to be started, kneeling was not known; you know the gesture for some hundred years was quite opposite.
Secondly, it is a Bulwark against Popery, he saith.