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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. Doctor, these are but four Epithets, have you no more? add as many more, or as many as you will, yet I must tell you, there is so much Christian, grave, and wise counsel, in order to the Worship of God, there is so much divine solidity in that Book, that no judicious godly Christian will be beaten out of love with it by all your flashy Rhetoric: Let but a man who knoweth God, the work of Grace on his heart, and hath judgment to discern the nature of an Ordinance, but compare, I know where he will see the difference. As for the Confession of Faith, the Catechism, the Directory, made by that Assembly (of which Doctor Reynolds was one) let your new Episcopal men sit till doomsday, they will never mend them.
Answ. Doctor, these are but four Epithites, have you no more? add as many more, or as many as you will, yet I must tell you, there is so much Christian, grave, and wise counsel, in order to the Worship of God, there is so much divine solidity in that Book, that no judicious godly Christian will be beaten out of love with it by all your flashy Rhetorick: Let but a man who knoweth God, the work of Grace on his heart, and hath judgment to discern the nature of an Ordinance, but compare, I know where he will see the difference. As for the Confession of Faith, the Catechism, the Directory, made by that Assembly (of which Doctor Reynolds was one) let your new Episcopal men sit till doomsday, they will never mend them.
He tells us of a wilderness of sin, stings of fiery Serpents, venomous Inflammations, &c. that followed upon the removing of the Liturgy, and bringing in the Directory. Ibid.
He tells us of a wilderness of sin, stings of fiery Serpents, venemous Inflammations, &c. that followed upon the removing of the Liturgy, and bringing in the Directory. Ibid.