\ AnApologie againft Brownijh. . 575 --- A JdTe BabyIon than the ChurchofEngland: Behold gow,by your ownConfel!ions, eitherAm!terdam!hall be, orEngland !hallnot be Bobylon: Thefeeleven crimes youhave found andJlrodaimed in tbofe Dutch and French Churches. Firft That theA emblies are fO contrived, that thewholeChurch comesnot toFr.Jrlhnf.Art"c gether inone:So that theMinillerscallOOt togetherwith the FlockGnCl:ify theLords l~:ainft the day;the prefenceofthe member~ of ~he Churchcannot be'~nown,and finally,no pub- Ftench>nd -· like aa:ion,wbetherExcommumcatton,or anyother,can nghtly beperformed.Could DoJtch Chur· you fay worfeofus? Where neither Sabbath can be ri~htly faofrificd, nor prefence chc:. or abfence kown,nor any holy aCl:ion rightly performe ,what can there be bur meer confufion? B Secondly, Tbattheybaptiletbefeedofthem who are no members.ofany Vifible Church. ofwhommoreover they have not care as ofmembers, neuher admit their Parents' to the Lords Supper: Meer Babylonifme, and fin in confiirution, yea the fame that makes us no Church: fur what fep•ration can there be in fuch admitranee?whatother but afinfull commixture? Howis the Church ofAmfierdamnow gathered from theWorld? Thirdly,That in thepublikewor!hipofGod they havedevifed and llfed another forme of Prayer, befides that which Chrill our Lord both prefcribed, Mmh. 6. readingout ofabooke certainePrayers inventedand impofed byman. Beholdhere !arr.~inft our fellow-Idolaters: and ( osfollows) adayly Sacrifice of afct Service-booke, which infiead ofrhefweet incenfeoffpiriruall praiersisotrered toGod;verySwines- GJff. Be!h, a new Portuife, and an equaUpanicipationwith us ofthe Curfe ofaddition tO c the Word. Fourthly, That rule and commandemem ofChrifl:, M41th. 1 8. 1 5. they neither ohferve, nor fulfer rightly tobe obferved among them. Howoft haveyoufaid that therecan be nofound Churchwithouttbiscourfe, becaufe no feparation?Behold the maineblemilb ofEngland in the faceofAmfrerdam I Ji'ifthly, •That theywor!hipGodin the Idol Temples ofAnrichrifr: fo theWine ismarr"d with the Velfell; their fervice,abominationwith ours: neitherdo thefeAntichriiHan fiones wantall gloriousornamentsoftheR.omilb Harlot: yet more. Sixtly, That theirMinifrers have their fer maintenance inanothermanner than Cbrifl bath ordained, 1 Chron.14.and that alfo fuch,asbywhichanyMinifiery at all, whether Popifborother, might bemaintained: Either Tytbes, or as ill: Behold,on-e D ofrbemaineArgumentswhereby ourMinifiery is condemnedas falfe and Anc~ehittian, falling heavy uponour Neighbonr!. Seventhly, That their Elders change yeerely, and doe not continue in their Office, according te the Dollrineof the Apofiles and practice of the Primitive Church:What canour Church haveworfe than falfe Governours?Both annuall and perpecuall they cannot be : What is(ifnot this) a wrong in Confiitntion? Eightly, Thatthey celebrate marriagein the Church, asifit were apart ofihe Ecclefilllicall Adminifiration : afoule lbame and finne: and whatbetter thanour third Sacrament ? Ninthly, That they ufe a new cenfure of{ufpenlion, whichCbrifr bath not ap- " pointed : no le!fe thanEngli!h prefumption. Tenthly, That they obfervedayes and times, confecrating certainedayes in the yeere to the Nativity, R.efurreCl:ion, Afcenfion ofCbrifr: Behold their C1llender as truly poffeffee: Two Commandemestsfolemnly brokenatonce; and we nor Idolaters alone. Elevembly, which is lafl and worfr, that they receive unrepentant Excommunicatestobe members oftheir Church, which bytbismeanesbecomesonebody withfuchasbe delivered unto Satban; therefOre noneofChrifls body: England can be but amili:ellille rabbleofprophanemen; The Dutch and French Churches are be likenobetter : who can beworfe than an unrepentantExcommunicAte?Go now! H·Ain(w~;rtlt and fay, It is theApofiafieofAntichrill tohavecommunion with theWorld in the inhisCoun-- holy things ofGod,whichare thepeculiarsoftheChurch,•nd cannorwirhomSacri- "'"p<>yiOn. legebefoprofiituted and prophaned; Goe fay that the plaguy-fpi tituall-leprofie of
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