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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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One thing that makes some diseases (as the Hypochondriaca Affectio, into which, the perplexed thoughts and cares about our state, may be enough to bring His Majesty) so difficult of cure, is found in our disease; viz. the [Greek or Hebrew] viscerum, wherein the medicines which are good for one, hurt another. Some men pretending Antiquity for fifteen hundred years, cannot be healed unless the Physician prescribe a Bill of six hundred, yea, a thousand Churches to one Bishop [as Cyprian and Austin had, if modesty will affirm it:] Lordly Title, Great Revenues, Pompous Ceremonies, Oath of Canons; which things of late, had almost destroyed our Nation: this is mala intemperies indeed. Others there are, who being under the Bonds of a Sacred Oath and Covenant, imposed by both Houses of Parliament, and as Solemnly taken as ever Covenant was, they cannot be healed, unless the Physician prescribe the Bill of Renowned King Charles the first in His dying Speech [When wise men die, they speak to the life] who wrote His Bill thus, 1Now Sirs, for to put you in the way, believe it you win never do right, nor will God ever prosper you, until you give God his due, and the KING His due; that is, in their course of time my Successors, and until you give the People their due. You must give God his due, by regulating his Church aright, according to his Scripture. [A Speech becoming a Christian Prince, and Subject to the King of Kings; I can hardly transcribe it with dry eyes:] The Holy Scripture, and the Covenant will agree; and this is to fetch medicines from God. How is that Covenant which before we so much pressed, 2come now to be so much slighted, I know not? Mr. Pryn as I heard published, and Mr. Crofton hath since affirmed, That by virtue of that Covenant, the whole Nation was bound to rise up; and bring in our King, although they did not all formally take it; and that they warranted from the Covenant, though made by Joshua and the Elders, with the Gibeonites; but afterwards broken in Saul's time. Sure I am, it made deep impression upon the spirits of some of us, though we had not taken it as others; whence, though we did not rise up in Arms, yet we did in fervent Prayers, and God gave the Answer, tantum-non, miraculously.
One thing that makes some diseases (as the Hypochondriaca Affectio, into which, the perplexed thoughts and cares about our state, may be enough to bring His Majesty) so difficult of cure, is found in our disease; viz. the viscerum, wherein the medicines which are good for one, hurt another. Some men pretending Antiquity for fifteen hundred years, cannot be healed unless the Physician prescribe a Bill of six hundred, yea, a thousand Churches to one Bishop [as Cyprian and Austin had, if modesty will affirm it:] Lordly Title, Great Revenues, Pompous Ceremonies, Oath of Canons; which things of late, had almost destroyed our Nation: this is mala intemperies indeed. Others there are, who being under the Bonds of a Sacred Oath and Covenant, imposed by both Houses of Parliament, and as Solemnly taken as ever Covenant was, they cannot be healed, unless the Physician prescribe the Bill of Renowned King Charles the first in His dying Speech [When wise men die, they speak to the life] who wrote His Bill thus,