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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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But here Captain George Masterson (that Morpheus of our City, 1wanting nothing but an inculca me tanquam salem insipidum, to make him the E•ebolius of our age, having turned his Belt into a Girdle, and Buff into a Canonical Coat, relinquished the Law and the Testimony to run to the Common-prayer Book, unto whose plea, borrowed from the Learned Hooker, these Exceptions are framed biddeth a Stand to my March; and tells us in Answer to our Covenant, Herod and the Jews lying in wait for Paul sware: That is true, and if he will make good his Inference of the Covenant, I will promise him to save the Hangman the labour and burn it, and what I have written for it with my own hands; in which if he fail, 2he must needs be found wicked and fallacious, but that is not strange to him: therefore,
- 1A Captain in the Churchregiment for the Commonwealth Ruin•, who gave in their Ensign, The Law and the Testimony for their Motto.
- 2See his Spiritual House. p. 130.See his S•i•itual House. p. 130.
He tells us, Lawful Authority is essential to make an Oath obliging; but by his leave, though it be to make an Oath lawful, I deny it to be essential to make it obliging. I believe he dreams every unlawful Oath void, but Bishop Sanderson will teach him better Divinity: But that his Bow may not break, (which could never hold to shoot one forcible Shaft) he adds another Paradox, To de•y the Covenant wanted lawful Authority is treason: He lives indeed near the Inn• of Court, and hath conversed much in High Courts of Justice, and may bless God for a gracious Prince that he is not as sensible of Treason as his brother Peters: Yet I shall make bold to tell him, I have denied it, and do deny it,