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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
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5. 1The assurance Harding, Bristow, and Carrier, those seducing Jesuits, gave themselves, that they might yet convert England to the Catholic Church, whose Service and Ceremonies she yet retained; 2the l•st of whom saith expressly, The English Common-prayer and Catechism containeth no point of Doctrine contrary to the antiquity of the Romish Service.
5. 1The assurance Harding, Bristow, and Carrier, those seducing Jesuites, gave themselves, that they might yet convert England to the Catholick Church, whose Service and Ceremonies she yet retained; 2the l•st of whom saith expresly, The English Common-prayer and Catechism containe•h no point of Doctrine contrary to the antiquity of the Romish Service.
- 1Bristow's Motive 34.
- 2Confid. p. 45. sect. 8, 9.
6. The Service was (and yet is) the Engine of Accommodation between Rome and England on the designed Spanish Match, unto which none was more potent than the similitude and symmetry of the English to the Romish Service; 1of which, that the Court and Clergy of Spain might be convinced, the Bishop of Lincoln then Lord Keeper, caused the English Liturgy to be translated into Spanish by a Franciscan (seeming Protestant) and sent it to the Duke of Buckingham (there resident) to obviate the Exception,