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Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before…Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before…
Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annexed to the sermon, entitled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annext to the sermon, entituled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.
London: printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamie, 1647London: printed by R. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1647
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.
If Prelates entreated Princes to confirm by civill sanction, what was not Jure Divino, shall the Assembly not Petition the Parliament to confirm what is?
If Prelaes intreated Princes to confirme by civill sanction, what was not Jure Divino, shall the Assembly not Petition the Parliament to confirme what is?
But the more to cast dirt on that Ecclesiastical Reformation, which the Presbyterians desire of the Parliament to settle, he doth reproach it with this scandal; that after this manner the old Prelates Reformed, p. 5. l. 33. now observe how unjustly this is charged upon them, for, 1. The Prelates desired the secular power to enjoin conformity to boundless, groundless, burdensome, and superstitious ceremonies; The Presbyterians desired the removal of them all▪ 2. The Prelates desired the King to enjoin a law to profane the Sabbath; the Presbyterians desire laws to be still in force to have it sanctified. 3. The Prelates (saith Master Dell) brought the faith they studied to the King• and Kings must maintain it, and not question it, but that it was Jure Divino; but the Presbyterians say ⟨p. 10⟩not so, 1They acknowledge that it belongs to the Magistrate to have his Conscience satisfied in the truth of that government of the Church, which he will set up by his Authority. 4. The Prelates desired the civill Magistrates to inflict heavier punishments, fo• not observing a fruitless ceremony, then for gross sins in practice, or errors in judgement; but the Presbyterians do not so. 5. The Prelates had costly courts to pick the purse, and crush the person of him that came under their clutches; the Presbyterians desire none such. Yea, 6. The Prelates desired Princes to settle a government, which had no footing in the Word; the Presbyterians desire such a government settled, as may be most agreeable to the word of God, and the example of the best Reformed Churches: put these 6 particulars together, then do but judge whether Master Dell spake true, that the Prelat of old, Reformed after the same manner as the Presbyterians labour for now. Mr. Dell having laid down some differences twixt Heart-Reformation, and Ecclesiastical-Reformation, he hath this passage.