Our Answerer will tell you, if you will believe him, that there is not one Collect or Prayer, in the English Liturgy, taken out of the Mass-Book. But then why do some Church men Plead for the Collects taken out of the Mass-Book, that those Prayers are in themselves Good; and therefore the taking them out of the Mass-Book, cannot make them to be Evil? Are not Six Canticles in the Common-Prayer Book, taken word for word from the Mass-Book? But our Answerer has the Front to tell us, that Papists will not Communicate in our Liturgy. He would persuade us, that they cannot endure the Common-Prayer Book. But how then did Parpalio, the Popes Legate, offer to Queen Elizabeth, in the Popes Name, that the English Liturgy should be Confirmed by his Holiness? And how then does Dr. Heylen (whom I take to be one of this Answerer's Brethren) affirm, that for several Years, Papists continued in Communion with the Church of England; and that when they did forsake it, 'twas not because they ⟨p. 15⟩approved not of our Liturgy; but upon Politic Considerations, and because the Pope had Excommunicated the Queen. If Papists are such terrible Enemies to the Common-Prayer Book as this Answerer would make us believe, how does Bishop Hall, in his Quo vadis, say, That his Eyes and Ears can testify with what Applause the Catholics entertained the New translated Liturgy of our Church? And does not Dr. Moor, in his Mystery of Iniquity, pag. 468. say, It is well known, that for some space of Years, the Catholics joined in Public Prayer and Service? But to put an end to this Dispute, Whether the English Liturgy is (as to the Substantials of it) taken out of the Romish: The Truth will be as clear as the Light of the Sun, Obsignatis Tabellis. Let us then now Compare them before we go any further, and see with our Eyes, whether it be not so. Mr. Delaune, in his Plea for the Nonconformists, has done it to our hands. He has truly observed, that as to the Time of Worship, the Roman Breviary and Calendar do divide their Year into Feasts, Vigils, Fasts, and Working-days: The English Liturgy takes these directly from them, dividing their Calendar by them, both as to Feasts, Vigils, Fasts, and Working-days. It is true, that they have more Feasts than we; but all ours are found in theirs, and taken from them. In the Popes Liturgy, ⟨p. 16⟩their Moveable Feasts are, (1.) Their Easter Day, on which the rest depend;
Our Answerer will tell you, if you will believe him, that there is not one Collect or Prayer, in the English Liturgy, taken out of the Mass-Book. But then why do some Church men Plead for the Collects taken out of the Mass-Book, that those Prayers are in themselves Good; and therefore the taking them out of the Mass-Book, cannot make them to be Evil? Are not Six Canticles in the Common-Prayer Book, taken word for word from the Mass-Book? But our Answerer has the Front to tell us, that Papists will not Communicate in our Liturgy. He would perswade us, that they cannot endure the Common-Prayer Book. But how then did Parpalio, the Popes Legat, offer to Queen Elizabeth, in the Popes Name, that the English Liturgy should be Confirmed by his Holiness? And how then does Dr. Heylen (whom I take to be one of this Answerer's Brethren) affirm, that for several Years, Papists continued in Communion with the Church of England; and that when they did forsake it, 'twas not because they ⟨p. 15⟩approved not of our Liturgy; but upon Politick Considerations, and because the Pope had Excommunicated the Queen. If Papists are such terrible Enemies to the Common-Prayer Book as this Answerer would make us believe, how does Bishop Hall, in his Quo vadis, say, That his Eyes and Ears can testify with what Applause the Catholicks entertained the New translated Liturgy of our Church? And does not Dr. Moor, in his Mystery of Iniquity, pag. 468. say, It is well known, that for some space of Years, the Catholicks joyned in Publick Prayer and Service? But to put an end to this Dispute, Whether the English Liturgy is (as to the Substantials of it) taken out of the Romish: The Truth will be as clear as the Light of the Sun, Obsignatis Tabellis. Let us then now Compare them before we go any further, and see with our Eyes, whether it be not so. Mr. Delaune, in his Plea for the Nonconformists, has done it to our hands. He has truly observed, that as to the Time of Worship, the Roman Breviary and Kalendar do divide their Year into Feasts, Vigils, Fasts, and Working-days: The English Liturgy takes these directly from them, dividing their Kalendar by them, both as to Feasts, Vigils, Fasts, and Working-days. It is true, that they have more Feasts than we; but all ours are found in theirs, and taken from them. In the Popes Liturgy, ⟨p. 16⟩their Moveable Feasts are, (1.) Their Easter Day, on which the rest depend;
