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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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Thirdly, The scandal & symmetry of the Service-book doth not so much satisfy us, and stir us up unto the desire of abolishing the same, as to see it so shamefully Idolized, by not only the Vulgar, but such as affect to be accounted the Fathers of the Church: in which respect it calls as loudly for a zealous Hezekiah to make it a Nehushtan, and break it in pieces, as ever he did the Brazen Serpent.
Thirdly, The scandal & symmetry of the Service-book doth not so much satisfie us, and stir us up unto the desire of abolishing the same, as to see it so shamefully Idolized, by not only the Vulgar, but such as affect to be accounted the Fathers of the Church: in which respect it calls as loudly for a zealous Hezekiah to make it a Nehushtan, and break it in pieces, as ever he did the Brazen Serpent.
This Idolizing of the Service-book is grown most obvious and common, having been super-superlatively expressed by the applause of it, acclamations for it, as the unum necessarium of salvation, only way of Gods worship, and all of piety; unto the ⟨image 8⟩thrusting out Preaching, and planting in the Church a Reading Ministry, appropriating to it the effect, and attributing to it the honour of all Gods Ordinances, palliating all profaneness and neglect of piety by the bare use of the Service-Book, and zealously persecuting unto bonds (and death if possible) all that decline to use it, thinking they do God good service: I have been often astonished at the high devotion to it, 1and commendation of it by meaner persons; but the considerations of our Antagonist hath screwed it to that height, that if it presage and provoke not its utter extirpation, I cannot but conceive men want sense or zeal.
This Idolizing of the Service-book is grown most obvious and common, having been super-superlatively expressed by the applause of it, acclamations for it, as the unum necessarium of salvation, only way of Gods worship, and all of piety; unto the