N29748:13
Some remarks, on a pretended answer, to a discourse concerning the Common-Prayer worship. With…
Some remarks, on a pretended answer, to a discourse concerning the Common-Prayer worship. With an exhortation to the churches in New-England, to hold fast the profession of their faith without wavering. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Five lines of quotations]
Boston: printed for Nath. Hillier, 1713
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
In the First Edition of the Discourse, Printed in New-England, there is the word Jephilleth; whenas there is no such Hebrew word: But it was the Printers fault, who made Jephilleth instead of Tephilloth; which is the Hebrew word for Prayers: And in the Second Edition of the Discourse, Printed at London 1689, it is so expressed. Now this Answerer falls to Flouting at the Author of the Discourse, for that which was the Error of the Printer. What ingenuous Man would do so? But such mean discoveries of an evil Spirit are of a piece with the rest of the Answer.
As for the Jews saying, (which he Quarrels at) viz. That Christians receive their Tephilloth from Armillus; that is, their Prayer-Books from Antichrist: Dr. Owen, in the Preface to his Discourse concerning the Spirit of Prayer, pag. 20. Mentions it, for the same reason and to the same purpose as the Author of the Discourse has done; so that in Jeering him, he Jeers Dr. Owen too; a far Better and more Learned Man than himself. The Answerer would make you believe, that the Discourser is guilty of Scurrility and Profaneness, because of that Expression; Broken Responds, and Shreds of Prayers, whereby they ⟨p. 6⟩toss their Prayers between the Priest and People. Those words are not Originally the Discourser's; they are the words of a Person well known in the Church of God, in his Testimony from the Scripture against the Common-Prayer Book, pag. 72. Who had them, or part of them from the Famous Cartwright. The Judicious Dr. Rule, in his Rational defence of Non-conformity, pag. 229. has words of a like import. But I take these Authors to be as free from all Scurrility and Profaneness, as ou• Answerer. The Author of the Discourse affirms, that Bishop Juell, in the defence of hi• Apology, pag. 346. quotes and approves o• those words out of Leonicenus, viz. That th• Priests of •is used to wear Linen Surplices, which seems to be derived from them to our time. T• which the Answerer replies; It is not in th Place he refers to; if any where. Thus does h show his good Will to make the Discourse a Forger of Testimonies. Whereas, I kno not how many have for their Satisfaction seen that Book; and in the Page referred t found the words mentioned.