A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91228 of text R203274 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E495_2). 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Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. [2], 56, [2] p. Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbor, London : 1656. With a final errata leaf. Annotation on Thomason copy: "7ber 11th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Society of Friends -- England -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Lord's Supper -- Church of England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Church history -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A91228 R203274 (Thomason E495_2). civilwar no A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers;: as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion Prynne, William 1656 22121 411 0 0 0 0 0 186 F The rate of 186 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A NEW DISCOVERY OF SOME ROMISH EMISSARIES , QVAKERS ; AS LIKEWISE Of some Popish Errors , unadvisedly embraced , pursued by our ANTICOMMUNION MINISTERS . Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the Frequent publick Administration of the Lords Supper ; the Popish Errors whereon it is bottomed ; perswading the frequent Celebration of it , to all Visible Church-members , with their Free-admission thereunto ; and prescribing some legal Regal Remedies to redress the New Sacrilegious detaining of it from the people , where their Ministers are obstinate . By William Prynne of Swamswicke Esquire , a Bencher of Lincolns Inne . John 10. 10. The Thief cometh not but for to steal , and to kill , and to destroy . Chrysost. in Mat. Hom. 49. Ex ipsis veris Ecclesiis frequenter exeunt Seductores . Propterea nec ipsis omnino credendum est , nisi ea dicant , vel faciant , quae convenientia sint Scripturis . August . contra Faustum Manich. l. 19. c. 10. In nullum nomen Religionis , seu verum , seu falsum , coagulari homines possunt , nisi aliquo Sacramentorum visibilium consortio colligentur . LONDON , Printed for the Author , and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbor , 1656. A New Discovery of some Romish Emissaries , Quakers and others ; as likewise of Popish Errors , Practices lately embraced , pursued , avowed by some Zealots , and Grand Deformers , in secluding their Parishioners sundry years from the Holy Communion of the Lords Supper , &c. THe sad Complaint of old , to and of Consta●tius the Arrian Emperour , ( who a made his exorbitant Will , the only Law , and used this Papal Speech to Paulinuis , and other Orthodox Bishops convented before him for refusing to communicate with the Arrians upon his command , as being against the Ecclesiastical Canons : At quod ego volo pro Canone sit : Ita me loqu●nter 〈…〉 sustin●nt ; aut ergo obtemperate , Aut vos quoque exules estote ) made by St. Hilari● concerning the s●●…quent changes of the Christian Faith , and multiudes of Religions under his arbitrary Tyrannical Government , viz. b Faith is come now , rather to depend upon the Time , than on the Gospel . Our St●●●… is dangerous and ●●● serable ; that we have now as many faiths as wils , and as many Doctrines as manners , whiles F●●●●… are so written as we list , or so understood as we will . We make every year , and every month , a new faith , and still we ●●ch a faith , as if there were yet no faith ▪ c This O Constantius would ●●am know of thee , what faith 〈◊〉 length thou believest ? Thou hast changed so often , 〈…〉 know not thy faith , That is ha●●ed to thee which useth to follow unskilfull builders , ever disliking their own doings , that thou still pullest down that thou art still set●ing up Thou subbertest the old with new ; and the new thou rentest in sunder with a newer correction ; and that which was 〈◊〉 corr●cted . thou condemn●st with a second correction . O thou wicked one , What a mockery dost thou make of the Church , & c ? May now be the dolorous just complaint of every sincere English Christian , touching the manifold changes of Faiths , the multiplicities of Religions in our Vertiginous , unstable , arbitrary and Tyrannical Age ; wherein too many of all Degrees , make their own exorbitant lawless wills , the only Laws , Canons by which they act ; making Faith to depend rather upon their pleasures ( yea worldly designs ) than on the Gospel ; setting up of late years amongst us as many Faiths as Wills , as many Doctrins , opinions , as we have Manners , Sects ; coyning , venting , professing , what New Faiths they list , and understanding our antient Creeds as they please to interpret them ; new-making , or at least imbracing a new Faith every year , if not almost every month ; running from one New Sect , Faith , Opinion to another , still seeking after the newest Faith , as if they had quite lost the old ; changing so often , that none know of what Faith or Sect they are ; being one month . Presbyterians , the next Independents , the 3d. Anabaptists , the 4th . Quakers , the 5th . Ra●●ers , the 6th . Seekers , the 7th . Arrians , Anti-Trinitarians ; the 8th . Socinians , the 9th . Arminians , the 10th . Antinomians , the 11th . Antiscripturists ; & the 12. professed Atheists . Subverting their old Church , Religion , Faith , Sect , with a New one , that New , with a Newer , that Newer , with the Newest and last broached , ( as our Fashion-mongers change the shape of their garments ) till they have utterly lost all Faith , Piety , Religion , Conscience ; and made the Church of Christ a meer Mockary ; yea Christ himself , a Fable . Neither are they lesse giddy or unstable in their State-Mutations than in their Ecclesiastical or Religious , still changing from one mishapen New-Model to another ; so as what d Aelianus records of the sicklepated seditious Athenians ( the first inventors of New State Governments ) is as really verified of these English Innovators . Athenienses omnino ad commutandos Re●publica status eran● versatiles , & omnium prop●●sissimi ad vicissitudines , &c. In which respect e St. James his character of a double-minded man , unstable in all his ways , is now become their proper●st Motto , unlesse they like f St. Judes better ; These be spott in your Feasts of Charity , feeding themselves without fear : Clouds they are without water , carried about with winds : Trees , whose fruit withereth , without fruit , twice dead ▪ plucked up by the roots : Raging waves of the Sea , foaming out their own shame . wandring stars , to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever : Murmurers , complainers , walking after their own lusts , &c. These be they who separa●e themselves , sensual , having not the Spirit ; though they proclaim themselves , the only Saints having the Spirit ; which I grant most true , if meant of g the Spirit of Error ; or that h Spirit of perversities ( or gidd●nesses ) he Lord mingled in the midst of Aegypt , and the Princes of Zoan , which caused Aegypt , ( and now England ) to erre in every work thereof , as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit . That subtile Romish * seducing Emissaries , Jesuites , Franciscans , Popish Priests , Friers of all sorts , disguised under the Vizors of Independents , Anabaptists , Dippers , Quakers , Ra●●ers , Seekers , Soldiers , Factors , Marchants ▪ Artificers , and mechanick Professions of all sorts , have been the principal Instruments to infuse this Spirit of Giddinesse into our intoxicated besotted English brains ; the original Plotters , Broachers , Fomentors , Propagators of all the deplorable Warrs , Divisions , Errors , Sects , Heresies , Blasphemies , New Faiths , Changes of Government , which have of late years miserably rent both our Nations , Churches , Kingdoms , ( heretofore i happily united● in Christian Amity , Unity , under one Hereditary Soveraign ) into diverse incoherent pieces , Schisms , Factions , Churches , irreconcilably divided from and against each other ( threatning k our inevitable speedy ruine , without Gods infinite , reconciling , reuniting Mercy , beyond all human probabilities ) I have at large demonstrated by irrefragable Evidences formerly published in l sundry printed Pieces : to which I shall adde some other Fresh Evidences , to open the closed eyes , awaken the Drowsie spirits of our infatuated , stupid English Nation , and reclaim them ( if possible ) from those ways of desolation , in which they run on headlong , without deliberation , discretion , fear or wit . 1. It is worth our special observation , that in m Lancashire and those other Northern parts , where Popish Priests , Friers , Recusants formerly most abounded , there our last , newest , up-start Sect of Quakers first sprung up , and now most of all abound ; sending out their Popish Romish Emissaries thence into all other parts of the Realm , to seduce the people , and openly to revile , traduce , affront , disturb our Ministers in their Churches , Pulpits , Houses ; in going to , returning from their Churches , and in the open streets , in a more insolent manner , and with greater impunity , than ever the Popish Priests , Friers , or Papists in those parts , affronted , reviled , disturbed them heretofore , when they were most countenanced or connived at by our late Kings , or their Officers ; being encouraged thereunto by many in greatest Authority in those parts , of which I have seen lat● sad complaints in Letters of Ministers thus insufferably abused , disturbed daily by them , to their great vexation ; not only against n the late Statute of 1 Mariae , c. 3. but the antient Fundamental Laws of England before the Conquest , o presented to William the Conqueror himself upon Oath , by the famous Grand E●quest of 12 of the principal men chosen out of every County , and ratified by him i● Parliament in the 4th . year of his reign ; providing for the peace and quiet of the Ministers and people too , against all affronts and disturbances , both in their going to , continuance in , and returning from their Churches , or Synods , ( as well as to our Parliaments , and other Courts of Justice ) still in full Legal vigour ; by which , all such disturbers may , and ought to be fined , imprisoned upon conviction , according to the quality of their offences , as well as p other disturbers , infringers of the publike Peace , and bound both to the Peace and good behaviour for the future , ere released , with sufficient sureties . 2ly . It is remarkable , that these New Quakers were sent from those Northern Counties , into other quarters of the Kingdom , two by two , at first ; no doubt by the direction of their Popish Provincial , just as the Franciscan Friers are sent out by their Provincial . In the q years 1638 , 1639 , and 1640. there were sundry Franciscans , with whole swarms of Jesuits , Benedicti●s , and other Friers sent from forein parts , into England , Scotland , Ireland , Virginia , St. Christophers , and other English Plantations , to reduce the people back to Rome , towards which we were then running post . The Original Instruments of some of their Missions , with sundry of their Letters , Papers under their own hands and s●a●s , relating their intentions , proceedings , ( seised in the Capucins Cell , ad●oyning to the late Queens Chappel at Somerset-house , and in Mary-land , ( by a Sea-Captain my Client ) where the Jesuites erected a New Colledge and Society , the whole History whereof , and of their proceedings in those parts , was comprised in their Letters ) Gods providence brought into my hands , when they ▪ and their seduced instruments were most busie in reforming , new-modelling our Church , Religion , Parliaments ▪ Realms , Government , after the prescribed patterns of Robert Parsons the Jesuit , Thomas Campanella the Frier , and Richelieu the French Cardinal ; as I have r elsewhere demonstrated beyond contradiction . The chiefest of these Instruments , Letters , Papers ( of great concernment to our Church , State , Religion ) I intended long since to have published : But s Jo. Bradshaw and his Whitehall Associats ( out of their transcendent zeal to our Religion and Republike ) in the end of June , 1650 , by special warrants directed to Soldiers , plundred me of those , & all my other Papers , Letters , Writings , Records in my Study at Lincolns I●ne , and at Swainswicke , which they could seise on ; and then shut me up close Prisoner under strictest armed Guards , in 3. remote Castles , near 3. whole years , without any particular cause then or since expressed , or the least hearing or examination of me , only to hinder my Discoveries and publications of this Nature ; whiles these Romish Emissaries , in the mean time , wandred freely up and down throughout our Dominions without restraint , t published many thousands of Popish , heretical , blasphemous New Books ; and some of them were Souldiers in pay in their very Guards ; no doubt to help extirpate Popery , Superstition , Heresie , Schism , and for the Preservation , Defence , and Reformation of the Protestant Religion , the preservation of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament , the Liberties of the Kingdom , t●e Honour , Happinesse , Defence and Preservation of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity , according to the u Tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant , the quite contrary way ; and promoting their New Engagement , diametrically repugnant thereunto . Yet , notwithstanding all their diligent Searches , by Gods providence , they left one of those Original Popish Missions in Parchment , under Seal , undiscovered , ( which I lately found in my Study at L●●colns Inne ) whereby two Franciscans were sent by their Provincial of Bri●ain , in the year 1639. to St. Christophers , and other Western Ilands where we had plantations ; who ended their progresse at Somerset-house , ( where this Instrument was seised ; ) which beca●se it may give some light towards the Discovery of our Quakers Missions in like manner two by two , I shall here pri●4t verb●●tim out of the Original in my custody ; seen by many of my Friends . Admodum Venerabili Patri * F : Hugoni Ancenisiensi , Ordinis Fratrum Minorum , Sancti Francisci Capucinorum , Sacerdoti , * F : R●phael Nannetensis ejusdem Ordinis , et In Provincia Britanni● Provinc●alis , licet immeritus , Salutem , In eo qui est vera Sa●us . CUm divino incensus amore , et animarum Salutis sollicitudine pulsus , ex hac nostra Britanniae Provincia ad Insulas Occidentales per longa maris pericula sis vela facturus , ut illius regionis populos in umbra mortis sedentes , in ●ucem veritatis Christianae omni cum studio adducere valeas ; Nobisque ex regulae Seraphyci Patris Francisci praescripto incumbat , de mittendorum idonietate judicare , et à sancta Sede sit Nobis concessum , quos ad tale Apostolicum munus obeundum dignos censuerimus , illuc dirigere . Te , cujus Pietas et fervor animi animarumque Zelus Nobis innotuit , ad id munus , cum salutaris obedientiae merito et RR. PP. Definitorum applausu , ad Insulam Sancti Christopheri , Martiniam , aut aliam Insulam Occidentalem ; Ibique commorandi , si opus ●nerit , Confessiones excipiendi , caeteraque tui muneris Apostolici Officia exercendi , donec per Nos vel Successorem nostrum tibi aliter innotuerit ; Vna cum V. P. F. Epiphanio Alenconiensi , in nomine Domini mittimus et deputamus . Ut autem dignè quantum fierr poterit in tam celebri Missione peragenda te geras , omnibus facultatibus per nostra Privilegia concessi●● gaudere atque uti , in quantum se extendit nostra authoritas , libenter tibi concedimus . Monentes ●e●ut cum omni studio , vigil●●●ia , zelo , alacritate ac fidei fiducia , nec minus P●etate ▪ ac cum proximis Evangelica conversatione , quam doctrina , instanter ad hoc eximium , Deoque , ac Seraphyco Pat●i nostro●Pra●ciso acceptum opus te accingas . Rogamus autem omnes Christi fideles , ad quos in Itinere te divertere contigerit , aut quorum auxilio , consilio et favore indigueris , ut te tanquam unum obedientiae ●ilium cum omni Charitate recipiant ; fidem facientes omnibus praesentes Li●eras● inspecturis , de tua in fide constantia , doctrinae puritate , necnon Religiosae vitae immaoulata● observantia . Vade igitur in pace , Deumque pro Nobis deprecare . Datum in Conventu nostro Nannctensi die septimo Novembris Anni 1639. F. Raphael Provincialis . Ims ▪ The Seal a●●ixed to these Letters Missives is Oval , near 3. Inches in compasse , having St. Francis and another Friers Portraitures cut in it , standing over against each other , with a Book held up between them in their hands , and the holy Ghost , in form of a Dove , standing upon it , with his wings spread abroad over it and them , and a Coat of Arms at their Feet , with this Inscription in Capital Letters round about the Seal , Sigillum Pro. F F. in Capuc Provinc . Britan. lcross ; . Those who will diligently compare these Letters Missives with our Quakers Missions and Practices , may doub●lesse discern A ●ranciscan Provincial , and Franciscan Friers , to be the principal original Contrivers , Directors of , and activest instruments in their late Missions two by two into all our Dominions , to distract , seduce the people with their Franciscan Ten●nts of Evangelical Perfection , &c. their Franciscans coarse habits , H●●ir●●●th , Fasts , Mortifications , Revelations Practices , railings against our Ministers Persons , Callings , Doctrines , Tithes , &c. which I have x elsewhere more largely detected , and y others ins●●●ed on in print , to whom I remit the Reader for fuller information . And to this relation of a Gentleman lately arrived at Bristol from Marcelles in France , whose name is Mr. Charls Chester : who informed some persons of credit in Bristol , ( from whose mo●ths I had it ) That at his being at Marcelles , there came thither two Franciscan Capuchin Friers in their habits , who begged some relief from him and other English there , pretending they were Englishmen , newly come forth of England , and travelling towards Rome upon some occasions : whom he entertaining with good English beer ( a rarity in those parts ) when they were a little warmed with it , they began to discourse more freely with him upon his demands , how long , and in what parts they had been in England , and what persons they knew there ? They answered , that they had been in England some years space , and particularly in London and Bristol ; that they were very well acquainted with sundry particular persons in both places , whom they named to him ( some whereof are the principal Male and Female Quakers in Bristol , whose names I forbear ) that they went there under the name of North-Country men ( as the Ringleaders of the Quakers all doe ) but in truth they were Irish-men born● ; and when they had dispatched their businesse at Rome , intended to return shortly into England again . And upon his first relation he added ; That himself saw and heard them speak to the Quakers at the Red lodge in Bristol● , at one of their meetings there . If we add to this relation , that passage in Thomas Campanella De Monarchia Hispanica , cap. 25. ( De Anglia , Scotia , & Hiberria , how to reduce them under the Spaniard and Pope , by reducing them from Kingdoms Hereditary , into an Elective Kingdom , or into the form of A Commonwealth , &c. ) Where he thus writes of Ireland , p. 207. Quod in Regno illo , seu Insula , Catholici maxime monachi ordinis S. Francisci summopere deamentur , &c. Comparing it with the late monstrous increase of Jesuites , but especially of these Friers and Monks in Ireland , before the wars there brake forth , in which they were most active , as I have * elsewhere discovered in folio by undeniable evidences , to which I refer the Reader : And then compare them with the late extraordinary growth of Anabaptists and Quakers throughout Ireland , who have overspred that kingdom since the wars there ended , by means of those Jesuits , & Franciscan Capucin Friers , who turn disguised Anabaptists and Quakers to undermine our Church , Religion , Ministers , and seduce the people under these disguises , with more freedom , safety , countenance , successe , than ever they did formerly by any other Policies , or the open profession of Popery ; we may doublesse conclude , that they are the original erectors , the principal Ring-leaders , Fomentors of these encreasing New Sects throughout our Dominions ; as Ramsy the Scotish Jesuite ( under the mas● of a Converted Jew ) confessed in his considerable Examination taken at New-castle , printed 1653. p. 4 , 5 , 11 , 12 , 13. and Mr. Edwards in the third part of his Gangrena , p. 99. Yea , O. Cromwell himself ( a witnesse beyond all exception ) in his printed Speech in the Painted Chamber ( before the last Assembly there ) Sept. 4. 1654. p. 16 , 27. have published to the whole world . To put this out of further question ; I shall here unto subjoyn one late discovery of an Irish Francisca● Frier , and Missionary of the Pope , now in Prison at Bristol , which I shall more at large insist on , and desire all codial well-wishers to the Protestant Religion , and their Native Country , to take special notice of . On the 20 of November last 1655. the Mayor of Bristol examining a Malefactor there brought before him , was informed by a by-stander , that there was one walking over against them , whom he saw in this Malefactors company , and seemed to him a suspicious person . Whereupon an Officer was sent to bring him to the Mayor ; Giving no good account what he was , or whence he came , he was there upon ordered to be further examined and searched . Upon which he feigned a present necessity to ease Nature , and withdrawing himself for that end to an House of Office , the Officers attending him , imagining it was but an excuse , to convey away some things he had about him , perceived him to thrust his hand up under his doublet into his bosom , and into the li●ings of his hose , to take some things thence to convey into the Jakes . Whereupon laying hands on him , and narrowly searching him , they found sundry Papers and Letters in his Hose and Bosom ; and these large Faculties granted to him by the Provincial of the Friers Minorites , Under Hand and Seal , which I lately transcribed with my own hand before some persons of Quality , out of the Original Instrument it self , ●emaining in the custody of the Town-Clark of the City of Bristol , discovering the quality of the party , and the large Popish Faculties conferred on him , suited to the present times , most of them worthy our special observation . Facultates venerando admodum Patri * F. Mauxicio Conrio , Sacrae Theologiae Lectori , &c. Communicatae . I. z REconciliandi Haereticos , & Absolvendi in omnibus Casibus a●Censuris , & in Bulla Coenae Domini ▪ omnes etiam Ecclesiasticos & R●gulares . II. Dispensandi cum Clericis super Irregularitate quacunque occasione contracta , praeterquam Homicidii volun●arii . III. Tenendi & Legendi Libros Haereticos , & quoscunque Prohibitos , ad e●●ectum illos oppugnandi ; Ita tamen ut praedicti Libri non extrahantur extra Regionem . Quod si opus fuerit Laicis eandem facultatem faciondi , non fiat absolute , sed ad certum terminum majorem vel mino●em , pro ratione personae . IV. Administrandi Sacramenta omnia Parochialia , omissis pro necessitate solennitatibus & Ceremoniis solitis , non tamen necessariis . V. Ubi Breviarium ferri non possit , vel recitari officium absque periculo , recitandi Rosarium Beatae Mariae Virginis , vel alias Orationes , ac Psalmos , quos memoria t●net . VI . Consecrandi Calices , Patenas & Altaria Portatilia ▪ oleo tamen ab Episcopo benedicto : benedicendi Paramenta ad Missae sacrificium necessaria : nec teneantur inquirere , an Altaria portatilia contineant Reliquias necne . VII . Celebrandi Missas , quocunque loco decenti , & sub dio , subtus terram , tribus horis ante lucem Hyeme , una hora post Meridiem , bis in die , ubi necessitas postulaverit ; & coram Haereticis , aliisque personis excommunicatis , dummodo Minister non sit Haereticus . VIII . Hostiam Consecratam servandi in loco decenti , sine lumine , aliisque Ceremoniis quibus utitur Ecclesia . IX . Commutandi quaecunque vota , etiam jur●●a , 〈…〉 Castitatis , & Religionis : & relarandi juramenta , modo non fiat ad prejudicium tertii . X. Dispensandi ob magnam Necessitatem in tertio gradu ; modo etiam ante contractum Matrimonium . XI . Concedendi Indulgentiam plenariam in prima Confessione , et quotannis in Festis celebrioribus , et in mortis articulo , et quotiescunque Gen●ralem Confessionem pecca●orum fecerint , etiam Indulgentiam 40. aut 50 dicrum ad libitum . XII . Imprimendi et edendi Libros Catholicorum , tacito Nomine Authoris , loci , Typographi , ac reliquorum , Non obstante Concilio Tridentino , modò fuerint approbati à Nobis , vel ab atiis per Nos delegandis . XIII . Dispensandi cum Conversis ad ●idem Catholicam , super fructibus Bonoru●● Ecclesiarum malè perceptis . XIV . Absolvendi Haereticos cujus●ungue Nationis morantes in Anglia : ●●●tamen ex parti●us in quibus exercetur sanctae Inquisitionis officium in foro conscientiae . XV . Applicandi piis usibus bona restituend● incertis Dominis . Poterit ad tertium Ordinem administrare , modo instructiones similes et ubique conformes adhibeantur . Et habeant Registrum nominum roceptorum●annum et diem tam receptionis●quam Profes●ionis quae ad capitulum Provinciale deferet . De Uniformitate Fratrum . Pro majore Devotione● populi ordinatur , 〈◊〉 Sacerdotes in Celebratione M●ssae grav●tèr ●t religio ● observentur omnia quae ad hoc institauntur in Ceremoniis , Missalis . In audiendo vero Missam observent Ceremonias nostrae sacrae Religionis , uniformitèr , in quantum ratio temporis permittit ; praesertim in singulis Elevationibus , of ●●●entur terram . In recitatione Offici● divini , pro more fiat ante Altare . In Psalmis et Lectionibus , sedea● ; * surgendo et inclinando Ad Gloria Patri , &c. surgant etiam a● Evangelium , Capitulum et Hymnos in cor●● Altaris . Ad Magnificat verò , Nun● Dimittis , Benedict●● , Te Deum , cum Collectis , ad medium Altaris . Post Commemorationes Ordinis in Completa●io ▪ semper dicant , Tota pulchraes , &c. in honorem immaculati Conceptionis : adjungendo versum ; Mem●nt● Congregationis tuae . Resp : quam possedisti ab initio ; cum Collecta . Omnipotens aeternè Deus Custos Hierusalem Civitatis supernae , aedifica & custodi nos et Ordinem nostrum , Regem , ●egnum , et domum istam , cum omnibus Fratribus habitatoribus suis , ut perpetuum sit in illis domiciliunt salutis , Charitatis et Pacis , per cuudem Christum Dominum nostrum : Amen . Ante Missam Principalem . Pro Conversione Patriae semper recitentur Litaniae Lauritaneae . Singulis Feriis sextis in honore Passionis Dominicae Curent in quantum commoditas loci fert omnes Domesticos convocari , et quas Letanias ma●ores quae quotidie pro more recitantur , actum Con●ritiori● solennem sicut in instructionibus habetur Choratim repeti . An Act of Contrition . O My Lord Jesus Christ , true God and Man , my Creator and Redeemer , thou being whom thou art , and for that I love thee above all things , it grieveth , it greiveth me , it grieveth me from the bottom of my heart , that I have offended thy divine Majesty , and I firmly purpose Never to sin any more , and to flie all occasions of offending the● , t● confesse my sins , and perform the Penance injoyned me for the same . And for th●●ove of thee , I do freely pardon all mine Enemies ; and do offer my life , words , & works in satisfaction for the same . Wherefore I most humbly beseech thee , t●usting in thy infinite Goodnesse and M●rcies , that by the Merits of thy precious Bloud and Passion thou wouldest pardon my Offences , and grant me Grace to amend my life , and to persevere therein till death . Amen ▪ Jesus . Ut haec omnia prout jacent observentur praecipio , et pro ma●ore firmitat Provinciae majori sigillo , et proprio Chirographo communio hac ▪ 23. ●eb . An Dom. 1654. * Fr : Dan● a S. Joanne Mnr. Prlis : Over against the Provincials name there is the Provincial Seal in r●d wax with a white paper over it , in an Oval form ( like the former ) about 3. inches in compasse ; with the Picture of St. Francis ( as I conceive ) carved in the midst of the seal , and an inscription in Capital Letters round about the Seal , most of which are so bruised , that they are not legible ; but sigillum Prov : seems to be ingraven on that side of it which is least defaced ; as in the formentioned Letters Missives to Frier Hugo . 1. By these Faculties under Seal ( written in Paper , not Parchment ) it is most apparent , that this Maurice Conry , to whom they are Granted , is : First a person of very great note and esteem ; as the manifold and large Faculties , powers granted to him ; and the 4. first words , Facultates , Venerando admodum Patri , &c. import . 2ly , That he is by his Order , A Frier Minorite , or Capucin , of Saint Francis Order . 3ly , That he is a Professor of Divinity ; as his Title Sacrae Theolog●● Lector , &c. his 3d. Faculty , to refute Heretical Books which he reads , and 12. To print and publish Books , &c. manifest him to be . 4ly . That he is a great Scholar in the repute of the Provincial and others who granted him these Faculties ; and himself confesseth in his Ex●mi●at●on , that he was a Student for two years in the Vniversity of Paris , and after that went to Prague from thence . 5ly , That he is most certanly a Seminary Priest in Orders , as is evident . 1. By his first Faculty ; To reconcile , and absolve Hereticks in all cases . 2. By his 4th ; To administer all parochial Sacraments . 3ly , By his 7. To celebrate Masses in all convement places ; yea , in the open ●ields , and in any Vault or Cellar under the earth ; and that twice a day , if there be necessity ; and that before Hereticks and Excommunicate persons , at certain hours there pr●●fixed . 4ly , By his 8. To keep the consecrated Hostia in a decent place . 5ly , By his 9. To commute any Vows , and release Oathes . 6●y , By his 11. To hear Confessions , and grant Indulgences in such form as is there expressed . 7ly , By his 14. Faculty of absolving Hereticks of what Nation soever residing in ENGLAND : where ( as this Clause imports ) he was principally to exercise his Priesthood , and all these his Faculties . 8ly , By all the subsequent instructions and ceremonies he was prescribed to observe in the saying of Masses and Letanies . All a●d every of which , by the a Canons , Missals Pontifical , Ceremonial and Penitentiaries of the Church of Rome , are proper and peculiar only to their Priests in sacred Orders , and none others . 6ly , That he hath more than Priestly , and no lesse than Episcopal power granted him in the 1. 2. 6. 9. 12. 13. and 15 Faculties : To reconcile and absolve Hereticks , and all Ecclesiastical and Regular persons : To dispense with the irregularities of Priests in all cases but of wilfull murther : To consecrate Chalices , Patens , Altans , and all things necessary for the sacrifice of the Masse : To commute vows ; release oaths ; Dispence with mariages in the 3d degree ; For the perception of the profits of Ecclesiastical goods : To apply goods restored to pious uses ; and to admit to the 3d. Order ( the Papists b School-men have 7. and their Canonists 9. distinct Orders . ) All which the c Popish Canons , Canonists , School-men , appropriate only to Archbishops and Bishops , and not to any meer Priests alone , but by a special delegated Power from the Pope ; as doth the Roman Pontifical and Ceremonial . All which considered , no doubt this Frier is a very considerable Person , and Arch-agent for the Pope and See of Rome , to reconcile , reduce us back unto it ; therfore fit to be throughly examined and inquired after . And so much the rather , because he confeseth in his Examination , he was employed and sent over into England from Germany about 3. years since , under the name and garb of A Captain and souldier , ( under which no doubt many hundreds of Friers , Prieds , Jesuits now lurk and march freely amongst us ) to raise men in England and Ireland , and transport them into Flanders for the service of the King of Spain ; That he was oft at the Spanish Embassadors in London , where he served a Spaniard ; and that h● received these Faculties from a Gentleman at the Spanish Embassadors , to carry to another of his Name . Besides , he hath 3. or 4. Passes writen in French and Spanish , from the Governour of Flanders , and other Officers and Commanders of the King of Spain , under their Hands and Seals , for his Free passage without danger or molestation , and assistance in his affairs , to all under their commands , and for his passage into England : Therefore , no doubt , a special dangerous Agent , if not Spy and Intelligencer for the Spaniard , as well as a seducing Priest and Frier , under the vizor of a Captain and Souldier , as even his own Provincial stiles him in a Latin Letter found about and writ to him , when he sent him some Books and these large Faculties , congratulating his good successes , and great Harvest here , and incouraging him to proceed therein . True it is , in his Examinations , he confesseth his Name to he Maurice Co●ry , born at Ardkillin in the County of Roscomon in Ireland ; and that he was a Student in the University of Paris , &c. but denyeth himself to be the same party mentioned in the● Faculties , which were delivered to him by a Gentleman ( whose name he knows not ) at the Spanish Embassadors in London , to carry to another of his Name , without acquainting him , where he lived , or how to find him , or any Letters to him ; he promising to send him further Instructions afterwards ( which yet he hath not done ) where to deliver them to him . But this very improbable figment , that any Gentleman he knew not , should deliver a stranger such Faculties of importance to carry to another of his name ; without acquainting him where to find him , or without any Letters to him , or present Instructions where to deliver them ; his sewing them up between the linings of his hose ; his endeavours to convey them into the house of Office when seised ; the Latin Letter directing them to himself under the Name of a Captain and Souldier ; his 5. Passe-ports all under the same Name to himself alone ( not any other ) found all together with it about him ; with the Latin Popish Treatise found about him , Against Priests deserting their flocks and pastoral charge in times of persecution , unlesse in some special cases ; &c. besides other circumstances ; infallibly prove him to be the self-same person to whom they were directed , and such a one as they describe him : he being between 30 and 40 years of age , as is conceived , professing himself a Roman Catholick , and refusing the Oath of Abjuration . He pretendeth his stay in England of late , and his intended passage to Ireland ( for which end he came to Bristol ) was to compound for his Estate in Ireland : Which doubtlesse is a fiction ; he confessing he was not there in many years before , and went from Paris , where he studied , &c. into Germany to seek his fortune ; where he turned Souldier , which fortune he would not have sought in Germany , had he a fortune in Ireland . Yea , his last refuge to disprove himself a Priest , seems to me a strong evidence against him . After many Letters and sollicitations by Friends to procure his enlargement without trial , there is a lewd woman sent down from London to Bristol with a great Belly , and there newly delivered of a child , who avers he is her lawfull Husband ; and therefore can be no Priest , or Frier , having a wife . But there being already some proofs against her , no proof at all when , where , or how long they have been maried , or lived together , she is more likely to be his harlot ( which d Popish Priests have , or may have all Licenses to keep ) than wife . And if any mariage between them can be proved ; it will be e no strange nor new thing for Popes to dispence with Priests and Frie●s mariages in this age , only to secure them from Justice , and palsiate them from the knowledge or discovery of the common people , and ignorant Officers unacquainted with their disguises : and that if they consider the manifold dispensations granted to this Maurice Conry in these Faculties ; the second thing considerable in them worthy special observation . 1. Faculty 3. He is dispensed with the keeping and reading of Haeretical Books : and hath power to grant the same Faculty where there is need to Lay-men , for a larger or lesser time , as he shall think me●t , Against the f expresse Decrees of many Popish Councils , Canons , Popes Bulls , & Indices librorum Prehibitorum , et Purgandorum . And by such dispensations most Jesuites , Priests , Friers , and Roman Catholikes in England , keep English Bibles , and some Protestant Books in their Houses , and resort to publike and private Meetings , to preserve them from detection , apprehension , and Sequestration as such . 2ly , Faculty 4. He may g omit all Solemnities and usual Ceremonies in administring all Parochial Sacraments in cases of Necessity , Prohibited by h sundry Canons , and Councils , the Roman Missal and Ceremonial . 3. Faculty 5. Where he cannot carry his Breviary , or recite his Office without danger ; There he may rehearse the Rosary of our Lady , and other Prayers and Psalms without Book : And omit his Breviary and Mass . Against sundry Canons , and the Rules of his very Order . IV. He may consecrate portable Altars , without inquiring whether there be any Sts. Reliques in them . Faculty 6. Contrary to i Popish Councils , and the Pontifical . V. He may celebrate Masses in any place ; in a Hall , Chamber , Barn , Wood , Field , Lane , C●ller , Vault , Under ground ( as well as in a Consecrated Church or Chapel , where Masses by k Popes and Popish Councils Decrees are only to be celebrated , and by the Romish Missal , Pontifical , & Ceremonial ) Facultie 7. VI . He may reserve the consecrated Host in any decent place , without a Taper burning before it , or other Ceremonies used , though prescribed by the Church of Rome , by l many Councils , Canons , Decrees , Missale Pontificale & Ceremoniale Romanum . Facultie 8. VII . He may say Masse before Hereticks and other excommunicated pers●ns , m con●rary to sundry Canons of Popes and Popish Councils . 8. He may print and publish the Books of Catholicks , concealing the name of the Author , place of the Printer , and other circumstances , non obstante the Council of Trents Decrée to the contrary . Faculty 12. And those who will now give such a professed Non obstante in positive terms to the Council of Trent it self , and grant dispensations in all these 8 particulars to their Priests , against this and sundry other Councils , Popes Decretals , the very Canon of the Masse it self , their own Pontifical , Ceremonial , Breviaries , and Rules of their Religious Orders , to disguise their Priests , Friers , keep them from being detected , convicted , & circumvent , seduce over-credulous Protestants of thiefest ranks , as well as the ignorant vulga ; will they not dispense with a Priests , Jesuits , Friers , pretended marriage by collusion , with one of their own Religion , or a loose common strump●t , for the self-same ends 〈◊〉 connive at it , if done without a precedent dispensation , as they did at the marriage of Father Mena , a famous Jesu●te in Valladolld in Spain , Anno Dont . 1607. who married a Spanish Lady there , alleging n many Proofs out of Scriptures and Fathers , that Priests and Jesuits might have wives as well as other men . The story whereof is recorded at large by Lew●s Owo● , in his Speculum Jesulticum , London 1629. p. 5 , 6 , 7 , 8. who adds ; that if diligent inquisition were made , and th●t uth known , there would be some English ●a●les and Gentlewomen found to be married unto Jesuites and o a very many ●hat have had Ba●tards by them , especially such as have any good estates or portions , whereof they convey many into Flanders , Brabant , and other Countries to be Jesuitesses . There being ( then ) in Liege , a sumptuous College built by the English Jesuites ; and hard by that two houses of English Jesuitesses , &c. The 3. thing observable in these Faculties , is , That they make present great neces●ity and danger ( Num. 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 10. ) the ground of all the precedent , and other dispensations and powers granted to this Priest , ( and by consequence to all others lurking amongst us ) against their own Councils , Popes Decretals , Canons , Missals , Pontificals , Ceremonials , Orders , Oaths ; and not only a lawfull warrant to violate them all , but to commute , release , d●spense with any Vowes , Covenants though sworn , and absolve Oath themselves . And let p those , who of late , and present times have in●itated , equallized , out-acted them herein , and justified these their practices , in publike printed Papers , Pamphlets , upon the self-same grounds , or present great necessity and danger , now sadly consider whose Disciples they are , and who have been their Tutors herein . The 4. remarkable thing from num . 14 , 15. is this , That these Friers Minorites have a power now in England , to receive others into their order , society , and P●ofession : A Register wherein to record their names , with the dates of the day and year of thei● reception and profession , and their Provincial Chapters and Assemblies , whereunto they are to be sent . And that of all sorts of Nations residing in England , ( except Span●ards , and such who live under the Iuquisition , where it is exercised ) be they Irish , Scots , French , Dutch , Italians , &c. And by the Latine Prayer therein it is most apparent , They have their private houses in England , and other our Dominions , whereunto all the Friers of this Order within certain pre●incts , resort at certain times especially on Fridays ( or Saturdays ) every week , and use the special prayers and Letanies herein prescribed , privately amongst themselves , For the preservation and advancement of their Order , House , all their Friers , &c. The 5. thing of Note therein is , That before the principal Masse they are always enjoyned to recite the Lauri●an Letany ( some late one of that name ) for the conversion of the Country unto Rome , and Popery , here precisely required in positive terms , to which all these other faculties and their endeavours tend . The 6. extraordinary in it , is ; The inserting of most of the Ceremonies these Friers are uniformly to observe in their Masses , into this instrument , taken out of the Roman Missal , Pontifical , Ceremonial ; & Missale parvum pro Sacerdotibus in Anglia itinerantibus , printed in Quarto , Anno 1623. specially inserted after these Faculties in this instrument ( as I conjecture ) because they cannot now conveniently carry any Missals , Breviaries about them , for fear of being detected by them , as the 5. Facultie resolves in direct terms . Amongst these Ceremonies 3 are observable , which our r Popish Prelates much practised , pressed of late , and some yet observe , and begin to revive amongst us . And that is standing up at Gloria Patri : Bowing ( to wit ) at the naming of Jesus , couched in the , &c. relating to it , and clearly prescribed in Missale & Ceremoniale Romana , &c. And standing up at the Gospel read . The 7. observable is this , that however these disguised Friers seem outwardly to comply with the late and present Government and Governours to effect their own pernicious designs ; yet they do not pray for them , nor their New Republike , though r instrumental in the New modelling of it : being here directly prescribed this ordinary form of prayer , wherein they prefer themselves and their Order before the King and Realm ( another remarkable ) Aedisica & custodi nos & Ordinem nostrum , Rege● , Regnum , &c. The 8. that in the prayers here specified , there is not one syllable of Prayers to Sts. expressed , and all merits of their own , and Justification by works disclaimed , and relying upon the infinite Goodnesse , Mercies and Merits of Jesus Christ , and his precious blood and passion for the pardon of all sins , insisted on the English pray●r ; Yet in the self-same prayer , there is an offer of their lives , words and works , in satisfaction for their sins , ( as if Christs merits , blood , passion , were not sufficient ) and a particular Manuscript Treaty in Latine , found with these faculties about him , pleads for Merits and Justification by works , against justification by Faith alone : yea prayer to Saints is tacitly prescribed , Faculty 5. In the use of the Rosary of blessed Mary the Virgin , and other Prayers , and in the use of his Beades found with him . The 9. That these Faculties and Instrument , prescribe Confession , Absolution , An Act of coutrition and penance , as well as Masses , Altars , and Popish Ceremonies , where they may be conveniently used , without danger of discovery . The 10 observable is , That these Faculties proclaim all Protestants to be Hereticks sundry times , and ex excommunicate them as such . Yet they dispence with this Priest , num . 7. To say Masse before Hereticks , and other excommunicate persons ; so as no Minister which is an Heretick be there ( for fear perchance he should detect him for a Priest , notwithstanding the omission of most of his Masse Ceremonies here dispensed with ) which I desire Dr. Drake to take special notice of ; who pleads for the admission not only of scandalous , but actually excommunicate persons to be Auditors , and Spectators of the celebration of the Lords Supper , when administred , but in no ease to be actual receivers of it ; as these Hereticks and excommunicated persons are meet Auditors and Spectators , but not receivers of the Sacrament in these their Popish Masses . And thus much for this Instrument and those faculties , and the person to whom they were granted ; worthy special consideration , which I shall close up with this Observation . That the Pope about the year 1637 made choice of 20 Capucins to send abroad with entraordinary Authority to preach and hear Confessions in places he should deem most necessary , and thereupon gives charge to their Provincial , with mature advice , with the chief of the Fathers of the Province to elect sit persons for this special service , which was then done . Amongst these one Clovet a Frenchman , ( usually stiled Pere Ba●tle ) was elected , and sent forth as the Popes Miss●onary ( the eminentest of all the rest for piety and learning ) who had 13 extraordinary Privileges and Faculties conferred on him by the Pope , confirmed by his Bull ; which he soon after turning Protestant , printed at large in French in his Declaration , shewing the reasons he had to separate himself from the Church of Rome , and to joyn himself to the Reformed , A Sedane 1639. ( whiles I was prisoner in Jersey , where I met with this excellent acute Declaration ) chap. 17. p. 116 , 117. The 7 first of his faculties there , are the very same in substance , if not in terminis , with he 1 , 2 , 3 , 7 , 9 , and 10. Facultie● in this Instrument , as I find by comparing them together . Whereupon I conclude , that this Conry is such an extraordinary Missionary of the Pope , and hath these unusual Faculties granted to him originally by the Popes special Bull , as Pere Bastle had then , being one of the self-same Order . I shall only give you a brief account of what other Papers were found about this Maurice Conry , with his Faculties , and conclude this discovery . 1. There were several Latin small Treatises found with him , concerning Original sin , Justification , &c. concurring exactly with the Quakers new Franciscan Tenets : And it would be worth inquiry , whether he hath not been a Speaker amongst them , in some place or other , during his near 3 years aboad in England ▪ as well as others of his Order have been ? 2. There were sundry Physical receits , and Chirurgical Medicines found about him , most worn and used , with receits to drive away , catch and kill Rats , Lice , and other Vermin ; which makes me conjecture he professed himself a Physician in some places , a Chirurgion in others , a Rat-catcher in a third ; since his pretended imployment as a Captain , and Souldier , to raise men for the King of Spain , were out of date , by a breach with Spain ; as one Jervis a Priest , haunting our Quarters , hath a long time passed under the disguise of a Watchmender , and Physician . There were three or * 4 Passe-ports and safe conducts granted to him under hand and Seal by the King of Spains Officers . 4. There was this Passe-port in English amongst the rest , under hand and Seal , dated two moneths space before these extraordinary Faculties gra●●ed to him ▪ which probably might be a great motive of the Popes and his Provincials granting him , and his solliciting fo● and receiving such ample Faculties , with so many new-coyned dispensations to conceal him from de●ection . THese are to require you to permit and suffer this bearer Man●iee Conry , quietly to passe from London into Ireland about his lawfull occasions , and to return without any trouble or molestation . Given under my Hand and Seal the 28 of April 1653. To all Officers and Soldiers under my command ; and to all Captains and Commandors of Ships . O. Cromwell . Conry being examined how he obtained this Passe ? answered , that An Irish Footma●n of the Lord Protectors obtained it f●r him , from his Master . 5. There was a Letter of a late date from one of his Irish Footmen ( belike he who procured this Passe-port ) directed to another Irish Foot-man of his Sons , Henry Cromwel , in Dublin in Ireland ; specially recommending this Conry to him , as his indeared Friend , to do him all the Favors in his power , which he should interpret as done to himself ; with other Letters of like recommendation in his Favour to some Military Officers in Ireland from some others in England . It is very observable , that the Irish Capucins , and Franciscans , are some of the best and nimblest Footmen in the world , trotting on foot day and night from Ireland and England to Rome , Spain , France , and other forein parts , and back again and from one part of Ireland and England to another , with greatest celerity , under the disguised habits of Soldiers , Merchants , Footmen , with ſ private Messages , Missives , Letters , upon all occasions , especially immediatly before , during , and since the late Irish wars . And therefore it may be justly suspected , that some of them are become principal Footmen to the greatest persons at Whitehall and Dublin ; the procuring of this Pasport by such Irish Footmen , and these their Letters , giving great suspition , that this Conry and they are of the same Fraternity ; which it concerns others whom they serve now strictly to examine upon this Discovery ▪ for their own discharge and safety , as well as our Religions , and Nations . It is to be justly feared , that many such Passeports and Protections ( so much t condemned in the late King ) have beene surreptitiously procured by such disguised Irish Footmen and Souldiers , for other Friers , Priests , Jesuits ; And so much the rather , because when I was a Prisoner at the Kings head in January 1648. under the Army-Officers , ( who forcibly seized me , and above 40 other Members of the Commons house , as we went to discharge our duties in it to God , our Soveraign , Country , and those for whom we served ) some ●riends of mine in London , being then Convented be●ore the General Council of Officers of the Army at White-hall ( as they then stiled themselves ) for saying there were divers Priests and Jesuites in the Army , the chief contrivers of the designs and change● the● acted ; and there justifying the same ; thereupon procured a Warna●t from Sir Thomas Fairfax then General , to seise such Jesuites and Priests as they found in the Armies Quarters , as well Souldiers as others : whereby they presently apprehend two Jesuites , and put them in ward that night ; who ( as they then and since informed me upon their credits , being honest , godly , conscientious persons ) produced two Protections under the self-same hand that granted this Passe ; which they then saw , and complained of ; And were thereupon answered , that they were granted by misinformation and surprise : however those Jesuits got themselves released the next day ; whereupon they thought it bootlesse and dangerous for them to seise any more of them ( having discovered many they knew to be such ) and so their good intentions were frustr●ted , and the others sad designes carryed on , under which we yet shake and languish in a most unsetled and divided condition . Upon which considerations and presidents , I can give no better advice to all our swaying Grandees of all sorts now , than I did then in print in my Memento upon that occasion ; to tender the Oath of Abjuration to all Officers , Commanders , Souldiers , Mariners , and persons desiring Passeports or Protections , that are not of known Integrity in our Religion , and frequent not the publike Ordinances of God in our Parochial Congregations ; which will detect for the present , and prevent for the future , the creeping in , the wandring abroad of such dangerous Romish vermin , and Spanish Factors , as this Conry and his Confederates ; in whose Detection I have been more large ; because of the Novelty of some of his Dispensations and Faculties , ( which I never met with before in any printed Books , or Popish Instruments I have perused ) and because it may give light to others , to make the like or greater discoveries of their persons , practices , in this and future ages . It is very strange and grievous to all true Zealous Protestants , that this extraordinary disguised Missionary of the Pope , should procure such Letters of recommendation , Passe-ports , Protections under hand and seal ; and that the Anti-christian Infidel Jews themselves should a be specially invited to come in and reside amongst us , and finde many Grand Court-Patrons publikely to plead for their free re-admission , b against former Parliamentary and Regal Edicts for their perpetual Exile , in these times of Reformation : and yet that all Protestant Ministers of our own Nation , adhering to the late King , ( though never so orthodox , learned , pious , painfull , peaceable ) should at c the self-same time , by a publike printed Declaration , Nov. 24. 1655. and special Instructions in writing to our New Bashaes , without any hearing , impeachment , conviction of any new Crimes , after sundry years Liberty to preach , and that some call an Act of Oblivion ( onely for this their old pardoned Delinquency ) be all at one instant specially pr●hibited , from and after the 1. day of December last , TO PREACH in any publike place , or private Meeting of any other persons , than those of their own Family : or to ADMINISTER BAPTISM , or THE LORDS SUPPER , or TO MARY , or KEEP ANY SCHOOL , publike or private : or so much as to be kept as CHAPLAINS or SCHOOLMASTERS in any formerly sequestred persons Houses ( when utterly ejected out of their own Houses , Benefices , Schools , Colleges by this New Edict : ) and to be punished as Rogues or Vagrants ( if they wander abroad , when thus enforced to begg their bread ; ) And that every such person offending in any of the premises ( their very preaching , teaching , administring Baptism , the Lords Supper , or marying , being now become capital unpardonable Offences ) shall be proceeded against and imprisoned 3. moneths for his first , 6. moneths for his 2d . and banished his Native Country for his 3d. Offence : VVhich uncharitable , unchristian , unevangelical restraints are still continued upon many of them ( and more particularly on Dr. Reeves our eminent learned Lecturer of Lincolns Inne ) notwithstanding the earnest frequent sollicitations of devout and learned Archbishop Vsher , ( to the shortning of his dayes through grief , as some conceive ) the frequent , joynt , and several Petitions , Addresses of these Ministers themselves and their Friends , the timely Petition of the whole Society of Lincolns Inne , and Mediations of all the Grand Officers of Justice , State , of the Society , for their Lecturers liberty to preach ; to the great rejoycing of our Popish Adversaries ; to the great grief , prejudice , discontentment of their Auditors ; the undermining of our Protestant Religion , dishonor of our Church , Nation ; the ruine of some hundreds of those Protestant Ministers and their Families formerly breaking unto us the bread of life , who now want daily bread to ●eed them : when as disguised Popish Emissaries , Jesuites , Preists , Friers , Quakers , Dippers , Hereticks and Blasphemers of all sorts , have Free liberty , and Protection to preach , teach , dip , re-baptize , administer the Sacrament , meet together and do what they list in publike and private Conventicles , without the least restraint . And is this to defend , propagate , ( or not rather avowedly to supplant , tread down ) the Protestant Religion , d we covenanted and took up armes formerly to maintain ; thus to e smite , silence , starve , ruine so many orthodox Protestant Shepherds , Pastors at one blow ; and to threaten inexorable Imprisonments , yea banishments to them , if they but once presume to teach , preach , or administer Sacraments ( according to their f obliged duty , and Christs own Injunction ) in publike or private , for the peoples edification , or their own or families supportation ? VVhen thousands of Romish VVolves , Hereticks , Sectaries of all sorts are so busie in all parts , to seduce , devour their flocks , now left g like Sheep without a Shepherd in many places ? The Lord give those whom it most concerns , and the whole Nation , eyes timely to discern , and hearts to bewail , reform this Soul-devouring barbarous cruelty . And let those who have been instrumental Contrivers of , or Actors in it , consider and remember , Mat. 7. 2. With what judgement ye judge , ye shall be judged ; and with what measure ye mete , it shall be measured to you again : and James 2. 13. For he shall have judgement without Mercy , that hath shewed no mercy ; but this extremity of cruelty even to the Minsters of Christ himself , and all those they deem their Enemies , is contrary to the express precepts of Christ himself , Mat. 5. 44 , 45. Rom. 12 , 20 , 21. It is very remarkable , that h Dr. William Peirce late Bishop of Bath and Wells , who in the ruff of his Episcopal Power and Pride , presuming on his great Court-friends , suppressed all Lectures and Lecturers , both in Market towns and elsewhere , glorying in this his impious Tyranny ; and thanking God , that he had not a Lecture left in his Diocesse . And when he absolved Mr. Devenish Minister of Bridgewater , ( whom he suspended ab officio & beneficio , onely for preaching a Lecture in his own Parish Church on the Market day , which had continued above 50 years without interruption ) used this speech unto him , intimating , that preaching a Lecture was as hainous a crime as committing adultery : i Goe thy way , sinne no more , ( in preaching a Lecture ) lest a worse thing happen to thee : was by Gods just retaliating judgement soon after , quite stripped of his Episcopal Power and Revenues upon his Impeachment in Parliament , committed Prisoner to the Tower , sequestred , and now reduced to such extremitie , that in November last , he came to an honourable Knight of mine acquaintance in Westminster , complaining to him , he had not bread for him and his to put in their mouthes ; intreating his favour to procure any Lecturers or Curates place for him , though never so mean ( which he by all the Friends he had could no where obtain ) to keep him from starving . VVho thereupon minded him of these his former Speeches , and cruelty towards other Lecturers and Ministers , whom he reduced to extreme povertie ; wishing him , to take special notice how God had justly requited him in his own kinde , so as himself would now turn Lecturer , or the meanest Curate under others , in his old age , to get but a meer subsistence , and yet none would intertain him , as himself confessed , in any place . So as the judgement threatned against Ely his posterity , 1 Sam. 2. 36. ( And it shall come to passe , that every one that is left in thine House , shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver , and a morsel of bread , and shall say , Put me I pray thee into somwhat about the Priesthood , that I may eat a piece of bread ) was now actually fallen on this great Prelate . And let others now greater than he in his highest condition , consider it , though never so well fenced with Guards and armed Forces by Land or Sea , lest God reduce them and theirs to the like extremities , as they have reduced these Ministers of Christ , with sundry others : and that upon the serious consideration of this memorable History , recorded in k Aelian concerning Dionysius the younger , in these very words . Dionysius junior , imperium habebat optime constitutum , munitumque hoc modo . Naves possidebat non pauciores quadringentis ; hexeres et quinqueremes . Pedestres copias ad centum millia hominum , equitum novem millia . Civitas vero Syracusanorum maximis portubus erat instructa et moenibus altissimis circundata , atque in promptu habebat omnem apparatum bellicum ad alias Naves quingentas . Reconditum etiam habebat frumentum ad centum medimnorum myriades ; et armamentarium scutis , gladiis , hastis , tibialibus innumeris , thoracibus & catapultis plenum refertumque catapulta autem inventum fuit ipsius Dionysii . Praeterea sociis infinitis vigebat . His rebus confidens Dionysius , ADAMANTE FIRMATUM IMPERIUM OBTINERE SE PUTABAT . Sed ipse primum fratres suos morte affecit . Vidit etiam filios suos crudelissime mactar● , et virgineum pudorem filiabus eripi , atque deinde nudas trucidari . Breviter , nemo ex ejus propagine sepulturam justam adeptus est . Nam alii vim combusti sunt , alii dissecti , & in mare projecti sunt . Id adeo evenit ei , cum Dion , filius Hipparini , imperium invasisset . Ipse vero IN EXTREMA PAUPERTATE senex mortuus est . Theopompus dicit eum nimiae meri potationis vitio ejus oculos laborasse , ita ut caecutiret , et sedisse in tonstrinis , risumque scurriliter hominibus commovisse , atque in media Graecia turpiter & praeter decorum versatum miserrimam vitam traduxisse . Ita non leve documentum extitit mortalibus , ad amplectend●m temperantiam et morum honestatem , Dionysii ex tantis opibus in tam miserum statum , rerum vicissitudo . Pulcherrime a Diis immortalibus comparatum est , ut nullam Tyrannidem usque ad tertiam generationem propagent , sed aut confestim Tyrannos tanquam proceras piceas perdant et extirpent ; aut liberos eorum viribus denudent ac spolient . If God deal thus with Heathen , will he not deal more severely with Christian Tyrants , and underminers of his Gospel , who condemn others for that wherein they now exceed them , Rom. 2. 1 , 2 , 3 ? And here ( having done with my Discoveries ) I cannot but seriously lament , to consider , that as many of the late over-zealous New Modellers of our State , to accomplish their own self-ends , have ( contrary z to all their former Protestant Principles , Oathes , Protestations , Covenants , Remonstrances , Commissions , Trusts , Obligations ) ignorantly , or wittingly imbraced , pursued , justified , imitated , practised , if not out-acted the very worst and most dangerous , seditious , treacherous , Antimonarchical positions , practices , politicks of Antichristian Popes , and Machiavilian Jesuites . So divers over-rigid Presbyterian , independent Ministers , and Reformers of our Church , out of a preposterous zeal and scrupulosity , have blindly , rashly , or unadvisedly taken up , maintained , practised the erroneous Tenets , and exorbitant Practices of Popes , Romish Priests , Prelates , Jesuites , against the very Doctrine , Institution , usage , precepts of Christ himself , the Primitive Fathers , Church , Christians , in discontinuing the frequent administration of the holy Communion to their people , and secluding all or most of their Parishioners from it sundry months , nay years together ▪ by their own new Papal Authority , without any lawfull cause , hearing , trial , or excommunication , judicially denounced against them for any scandalous sins , whereof they are duly convicted , when as they freely admit them to all other publike Ordinances , without the least suspension from them ; instead of inviting , exhorting , compelling them ( a according to their duties ) to the frequent participation of this Soul-converting , heart-refreshing , Grace-communicating heavenly Supper , wherin the remembrance , fruits , benefits of our Savio● 〈◊〉 passion are most li●ely , represented to their senses , and applied to their Souls ▪ which Anti-christian , sacrilegious , new kind of Reformation ( to advance their own interests , Power , not Christs Kingdom , Glory , ) is principally founded on these ensuing erronious Popish Principles , all bottomed on and slowing from that monstrous absurdity of Transubstantiation , and Christs corporal presence in this Sacrament , which all b Protestants abominate , refute , renounce . 1. That Christ , and God himself , are more really , immediately present , and conversed with by Christans in the Lords Supper , than in any other publike holy Ordinance whatsoever ; asserted generally by all c Popish Councils , Schoolmen , Jesuits , Canonists , Casuists in their Decrees , Masse-books , Offices , Manuals , Treatises , Controversies touching the Eucharist , Sacraments , Masse , and Transubstantiation : and more particularly by d Mr. Harding against Bishop Jewel ; who refutes it in the Name of the Church of England : Yet now professedly avowed of late in A Brotherly and Friendly Censure of my 4. Quaeres , p. 8. in Dr. Drake his Anti-Quaeries , and Boundary to the Holy Mount , and sundry others , as their chief ground of keeping , suspending , all those they deem unworthy from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper alone , but from no other part of Gods worship . This opinion first sprung from Popish Transubstantiation ; which as it introduced e Adoration of , prostration , kneeling , bowing to , towards , before the consecrated Elements , Altars , and railing in Altars in the Church of Rome : so it f lately brought into our Cathedrals and Parish Churches , prostration , kneeling , bowing to , and before the Sacramental Elements , and rayling in of Altars , Lords Tables at the East end of our Quires , in imitation of the Romanists , by our Popish Prelates and Priests ; Witnesse Archbishop Lauds own words , in his Speech in Star-chamber , An. 1637. p. 47. The Altar is the greatest place of Gods residence upon earth ; I say , the greatest ; yea , greater than the Pulpit . For there t is , Hoc est Corpus meum ; This is my Body , But in the Pulpit , it is at most , but Hoc est Verbum meum , this is my Word . And a greater Reverence ( * no doubt ) is due to the Body , than to the Word of the Lord . And so in relation answerably to the Throne where his Body is usually present , than to the Seat , where his Word useth to be proclaimed . Which Popish dotage of his , seconded by Dr. Pocklington , Dr. Heylin , Dr. Laurence , Edmund Reeve , Shelford , and other Popish Innovators , I have g elsewhere at large refuted . 2. That the Lords Supper is more holy , dreadfull , excellent , venerable , and more dangerous , damnable to such who unworthily approach unto it , than any other Sacrament or divine Ordinance whatsoever : And therefore necessarily requires a greater measure , degree , and another manner of worthinesse , fitnesse , preparation , qualification , self-examination , confession of sin , faith , repentance , Grace , Holinesse in those who are to be admitted to receive it , then Baptism , Prayer , hearing , reading of the Word , thanksgiving , fasting , or any other part of Gods publike worship ; to which they ( and our rigidest Presbyterians ) freely admit all their Parishioners , without any trial , or transcendent wor●hinesse , fitnesse , or preparation . Hence h Popish Councils , Writers , stile the Lords Supper , Excellentissimum Sacramentum : quia continet in se● , actorem totius Gratiae et Sunctificationis Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum : et verum Christi Corpus , et sanguinem . And thence inferre . Excellentia hujus Sacramenti requirit dignum mysterium ; et ideo volens recipere vel conficere tantum Sacramentum , debet se praeparare , per Contritionem , et veram Confessionem peccatorum suorum , ac puram devotionem . Statuimus quod nullus deinceps ad Eucharistiae Sacramentum teneatur aliquem admit●ere , nisi prius illum audierit in Confessione , aut prius sibi fide facta , quod more fidelium poenitentiae reciperit Sacramentum . Nemo sine speciali Contritione , Confessione , et Satisfactoriis operibus dignè praemunitus , ad Eucharis●iam sumendam accedat . Moneantur conjugati non nisi praeparata aliquot dierum continentia ad Eucharistae sumpsionem accedere , &c. Which very Popish Doctrine and Consequence of an extraordinary transcendent degree of worthiness , preparation , &c. are professedly asser●ed by the Authors of the Antidote to , and Brotherly friendly censure of my four Questions ; Dr. Drake in his Anti-quaeries , boundary ; Mr. Collins in his Juridical Suspension , and others . 3. Upon these precedent false Principles , and the extraordinary danger of unworthy receiving , the Popish Priests and Prelates inferr i That they are bound to admit none to the Lords Supper , but such whom they upon a precedent private examination and Confession of their sins to themselves , or such as they appoint shall absolve and deem worthy , and prepared to receive it . And their Councils Decree . Nullus Parochus ad hujus . Sacramenti sumptionem quempiam admittat , cujus conscientiam non noverit , aut ipse , aut ab eo ei negotio praefectus . Nec quemquam Parochi seu Curati ad Communionem admittant , nisi quem privs sciverint confessum fuisse peccata , aut ipsis , aut eorum Vicariis , seu Sacerdotibus deputatis . And upon the self-same grounds as the Church of * Saxony in the beginning of Reformation , admitted none to the Communion , unlesse they were first examined , heard , tried , and absolved of the Pastor and his fellow-Ministers : Complying herein over-much with the Papists ; So now k Mr. Rutherford , l Dr. Drake , m Mr. Collins , and other over-rig●d Presbyterians assert ; They are bound in duty , conscience , prudence , first , to try , examine the knowledge , faith , graces , repentance , lives and visible worthinesse of all their Parishioners , before they come to the Lords Supper ; to admit none thereto , but such whom they and their Presbyteries upon trial shal deem worthy and prepared to receive it , and to seclude all others from it : concurring herein with these Popish Priests and Prelates . 4. That there is n a lesser Excommunication , whereby the Prelates and other Officers of the Church , are authorized , impowred judicially , by way of Church Censure , to suspend and keep back scandalous , ignorant , unconfessed , obstinate Church-members , who refuse to submit to the examination and orders of the Church , from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper only , without any actual sequestring of them from any other publike Ordinances , in which they may freely communicate with other Christians ; distinct form that Excommunicatio major , which totally secludes Christians from entring into the Church , and all Christian fellowship and Communion in any publike Ordinance , and all private society with Christians . Which lesser Excommunication , was first introduced by Popish Councils , Casonists , Casuists , only for lesser mortal sins , and conversing with persons lying under the censure of the greater Excommunication ; And is now most eagerly asserted by o Mr. Rutherford , p Mr. Gillespy , q Dr. Drake , r Mr. Collins , s The Ministers of Syon College , and others as committed to Church-Officers and Presbyteries by the will and testament of Jesus Christ ; though no ways warranted , but contradicted by all the Scripture testimonies they produce to warrant it , and by the practices of the Primitive Church , as I have proved at large in t former publications . The only memorable particular example recorded in antient Ecclesiastical Histories , of a publick excommunication denounced by a Bishop for a scandalous crime ( especially against his Soveraign ) is that of St. Ambrose , Bishop of Millais , against the Emperour Theodosius the first , thus recorded by u Theodoret , and others . The Inhabitants of Thessalonica ( a rich , populous City in Macedonia ) in a popular tumult slew their Judges all and who took part with Theodosius in the Government : Where with he being highly incensed , so far exceeded the bounds of justice and reason in the punishment thereof , that he caused his Souldiers , without searching out the Malefactors , to slay promiscously in a rage no lesse than 7000 of the Citizens ; putting no difference betwixt the guilty and innocent ▪ After this bloody execution , at the Emperours next coming to the Church of Millain to pray , and do his devotions , of as custom he used , St. Ambrose stepping to the Church-door , as he was about to enter into the Church , with much boldnesse prohibiting him to enter , used this speech unto him . Thou seemest , O Prince , not to understand what a monstrous slaughter of people is committed by thee , neither doth rage suffer thee to weigh with thy self what thou hast done ; yet must thou know , that from dust we came , and to dust we shall . Let not therefore the brightnesse of thy clothes hide from thee the weaknesse of flesh that is under them . Thy Subjects are of the same metal that thou art , and serve the same Lord that thou dost . With what Eyes therefore wilt thou behold the house of this Common Lord , and with what feet wilt thou tread on his holy pavements ? Wilt thou reach those hands , dropping yet with the blood of Innocents to receive the most sacred body of the Lord ? Wilt thou put that precious blood of his to thy mouth , which in a rage hast spilt so much Christian blood ? Depart rather , and heap not one sin upon another . Neither refuse this Bond ( of Excommunication ) which the Lord of all doth ratifie in heaven . It is not much , and it will restore thee the health of thy Soul . All which the Emperour hearing with great patience , returned presently to his Palace , without entring the Church , obeying the excommunication , and there continued above 8 moneths space , without coming any mo●e into the Church , or putting on his Emperial Robes . Af●er which , upon his earne●t request and publike repentance for this crime● and his enacting this Law by St. Ambrose his advise , by way of penance ( as some write ) That from thenceforth no man whom he or his Succes●ors should condemn to dye should be executed within thirty dayes after the Sentence of death denounced against him : he being absolved from his excommunication , came again into the Church , and there making his prayers , and performing his devotions ▪ received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper . From which History it is apparent . 1. That Excommunicate persons in that age , were not suspended only from the Lords Supper , but secluded from entring into the Church it self , and from all publike x divine Ordinances used in it , as well as from the Lords Table , ●nd from all Christi●● Communion . Hence y sundry Councils since , with z Gratian , and all a Popish Canonists resolve and decree , Major Excommunicatio Seperat ab ingressa Ecclesiae , à Sacramentis , et à Communione fidelium . Excommunicatus non potest interesse Divinis Officiis , aut cum alii● orare in Ecclesia ; Her debet extra ita prope ●●are quod audiat . And if any such excommunicate person come into the Church , he is presently to be thrust out of it , and the Priest must give over his begun Masse , Prayers , Preaching , and not proceed therein , till ne depart the Church : Neither may any Christian wittingly eat , drink , conferre , or trade with such a one , under pain of Excommunication : Yea our own Statute of 5 E. 6. ch. 4. against such as fight and strike in the Church , Enact , That such an Offender shall be excommunicate , an●be e●cluded from the fellowship and company of Christs Congregation : b This Excommunication our Laws , [ c ] Lawbooks take notice of , which likewise disables men to sue in any Civil Court of Justice , if pleaded in barr against them under Seal . In brief : the 33 ▪ Article of the Church of England , ratified by the statute of 13 Eliz. c. 13. and Sub●criptions of all our Ministers , Defines Excommunication to be a cutting off from the Unity of the Church , and whole multitude of the faithfull , who ought to avoid an excommunicate person as an Heathen and a Publican , untill he be openly reconciled by Penance , and received into the Church , by a Judge that hath Authority thereunto . And the Confessions of Bohemia , c. 8. 14. Of Helvetia , c. 16. Of the French Churches , c. 32 , 33. Describe Excommunication to be , a removal of wicked , scandalous , obstinate . Sinners from the Holy Fellowship of Believers , a throwing them out from the Church , and delivering them to Satan by Ecclesiastical punishment . And absolution of such upon repentance , to be , A taking them again into the Church , to the Communion of Saints and Sacraments . Therefore the New-found Suspension and Excommunication of scandalous persons only from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper , without seclusion from the Church and other Ordinances , now so much contested for , is but a meer Popish Innovation , not warranted by Scripture , Antiquity , our own Statutes , Articles , or other Protestant Churches Confessions . 2. That in that age all Church-members freely admitted to the publike prayers of the Church , and not thus actually excommunicated from all Ordinances and the Church it self , were freely admitted to the Lords Supper , and all excommunicated persons too , upon their absolution . 3. That the Lords Supper in that age was usually received by all Church-members , when ever they publiquely assembled to pray or hear Gods word : and no other , no greater worthinesse , holinesse , qualification , preparation , or self-examination required for Chri●tians free admission to the Com●●nion , th●n to other publike duties , which it did then daily accompany . This president of St. Ambrose his excommunicating this godly Emperour Theodos●us , and keeping him above 8 Moneths space from the Church and all publike Ordinances ; only for his over-rash execution of Justice upon his rebellious mutinous subjects , upon so great a provocation , notwithstanding his present humiliation and sorrow for it upon the first reprehension , and that without any precedent , private or publique admonition ; as it s no ways warranted by any precept or president in Gods word , nor parallel example in the Primitive Church , and censured by sober c Protestants , as over-harsh , indiscret , rash , and too Pontifical ▪ yea such , as might have then pro●uced d a dangerous Schism in the Church , to the great pre●udice of Religion , had not this godly Emperour been more humble patient , prudent than St. Ambrose ; So it hath in later ages been e much abused , and insisted on by Antichristian Trayterous Popes , Popish Prelates , Jesuits , Priests , to justify their many illegal , unchristian , unrighteous Excommunications of Christian-Emperors , Kings , Princes ; their deposing them from their Empires , Crowns , Kingdoms , their absolving their subjects from their allegiance to them , and taking up arms against them , to the great disturbance of most Christian Empires , Realms , States , Churches . Therefore it can be no justification or proof at all for any of our Protestant Ministers wilfully to abs●ain from the celebration of the Lords Supper ▪ and seclude● excommunicate all their Parishioners from it , not only 8. whole Moneths , but almost so many years together upon the forementioned Popish principles , or any other ground ; especially not being all actually excommunicated or secluded from the Church and all other publike ordinances as he was , but freely admitted by them to the Church , and all other publike Ordinances but the holy Communion , which he was not . The sad effects whereof , instead of making their people more worthy , more prepared to receive this Sacrament , and more regardfull of it , I have f elsewhere touched and shall more largely insist on in its due place . Only here I shall desire our Ministers to observe , what g two Po●ish French Councils hereto●●●e have noted , ●ouching the debarring particular ●ersons only from the Lords Supper for a years space or two , by vertue of actual Excommunications judicially denounced against them , and the dangerous effects it hath produced , instead of working any reformation in them or others . Qui● nonnul●i Excommunicationum Sententias , et quod detestabilius est , Dominici corporis Sacramentum contemnentes 〈◊〉 tempor●●● in ●en en●●●mo●●●ntur . De participatione Dominici corporis non curantes , &c. Quonian multos ●eperimus in●urato animo claves sun●●ae matris Ecclesiae vilipendentes excommunicationis sentoniam d●utius sustinc●e Corpus Christi in Ecclesia in Biennio vel ●riennio non suscipere , vel etiam non confi . e●i . Pr●●cipimus omnibus et singulis Rectoribus , &c. ut in tal bus falubre Consilium apponatur . If these their judicial excommunications of particular persons , instead of reforming their lives , made many of them only to contemn the censures of the Church , and the very Sacrament of the Lords body , which is more detestable ; and not to ca●e to receive it in two or three years space ; which they reputed a horrid mischief fit to be redressed by wholesom Counsel : Then certainly our Ministers Antichristian , undiscreet , * wilfull keeping back , excommunicating of whole Churches , Parishes , Cities , from the Sacrament two or three years space together , or more , without any actual excommunication legally denounced against them for any scandalous sins , must ne●ds be a more detestable Crime , and make the generality of the people not only to neglect , contemn their Authority , Ministry , Church-censures ; but even the Sacrament of the Lords Supper it self , yea totally to withdraw themselves from it , and all other publick Ordinances , yea from our Churches too , as many thousands of them have done of late years , since debarred from this Sacrament , under pretext of making them more fit and worthy to receive it ere admitted to it . It is an antient proverbial experimental truth in most other things and Christian duties , and so in this ; Qui non est hodie , Cras minus aptus crit . Those Parishioners whom our Ministers deemed unfit , unworthy to receive this Sacrament the first year they withheld it from them ; they find more prophane , unfit , neglectfull to receive it the next year , yea much more the third and fourth year , than the second ; Upon which account they have wholly cast this Sacrament aside for sundry years ; and must do so till Doomsday , against Christ own command , their Ministerial office , and the Primitive Churches , Fathers practice in frequent administring the Communion to all their people . Let them therefore henceforth learn this politick , safe Lesson , even from their Popish Tutors ; who debating these Questions , h Utrum Presbyter peccet mortaliter dando Eucharistiam ei quom scit in pecca to mortali constitutum ? And , Nunquid ●ss●t minus m●lum dare tali Hostiam non consecratam , vel non consecrare , quam Eucharistiam tali dare ? Resolve negatively , with some distinctions , as to the first ; and to ●h● last without any distinction , thus . i Resp : Quou Non : Ideo dicitur prorsus quidem falsa remedia sunt abjica●●● quae veris et manifestis periculis sunt graviora : as thi● debarring the people from the Sacrament for so long a space hath experimentally proved ; occasioning many more grievous sins , mischiefs than it hath prevented : being a remedy far worse , and more dangerous than the diseases it should cure . 1 Wherefore since ( i ) St. Aug. resolves ; Ne Catholicis quid●m Episcopis consentiendum est , sicubi fortè falluntur , et contra canonicas Scripturas aliquid sentiant : And 2 Pope Pius the 2d . concludes , Resiste●dum est quibuscunque in faciem , sive Paulus , sive P●trus sit , qui ad Veritatem non ambulat Evangeli : with whom 3 Bishop Jewel concurs . I hope none of our Ministers guilty of this Crime , can or will be offended with me for his my plain dealing with them . And I shall intreat all such indiscreet over-rigid Ministers seriously to consider , the Popish Principles forementioned wheron this their false remedy is founded ▪ with the bitter fruits it hath produced : And seeing it is an unquestionable sin in themselves not to administer or take ; and in their people , not to receive the Sacraments many moneths , nay years together , ( as well as not to pray , preach , read , hear , sing Psalms , and praise God for his mercies , or neglect baptism : ) let them now at last repent , reform without delay , and no longer excuse , much k lesse defend this Sacrilegious unchristian sin , since l Primasius , and m Bishop Jewel resolve ; Nemo periculosius peccat , quam qui peccata defendit : And St. n Paul himself determines , that there damnation is just , who do evil ( yea so great an evil as this , to rob whole parishes of the Lords own Supper , Table , Cup , Body , Bloud for divers years ) that good may come of it : much more if they persevere impenitently therein , after all admonitions to the contrary . The 4 Emperor Domitian intending a Reformation of the Empire , which afore his time , Tiberius , Caligula , Nero , and other wicked Emperors had spoiled and defaced , asked Apollonius Tyanaeus , a Philosopher , What order were best to be taken therein ? Who made him answer ; Sir , You must do as the Musician bad his Scholars do . How is that ? said Domitian : Sir , quoth Apollonius , There was a cunning Musician , that set his Scholars to an ignorant and homely Minstrel to learn Musick of him ; but before he sent them out , he gave them this Lesson ; Whatsoever ye see your Master do , see that ye a●oid it● he is unlearned , and his Lessons and ma●●er of singing naught ; therefore see ye do the contrary . Even so may I say ; Whatsoever we see that they have done , who were our late Masters before us , that have almost destroyed our Churches and Realms too , by their unskilfulnesse , erronious Doctrines , Illegal Practices , Innovations , Oppres●ions , Schisms , tolerations of all Religions &c. Let us now do the quite contrary , to repair , restore ●hem to unity , ●r●●●quil●ty , prosperity , safety . More particularly , let all our Ministers combine together henceforth duly and frequently to administer the holy Communion to their people ( being the chiefmeans , bond of Christian love and unity ; yea Sigrum demonstrati●um unitatis Ecclesiae cui homines aggregantur per ipsant ; as the 5 School-men , Canonists , our own A●ticles , with foreig● Protestant Churches resolve ; 6 a chief means of begetting , continuing , encreasing , confirming grace and holiness of life : ) and likewise diligently to exhort , excite , perswade , compell their people to repair frequently , constantly , with due preparation , and self-examination to this heavenly banquet ; yea in no wise to neglect it when administred ; and that in obedience to o Christs command , and upon this consideration of the p Council of Burdea●x , Ann. 1582. Quemadmodum corporibus , Sic & animis , sua sunt alimenta ●ribuenda ; ne si neulto tempore jejun● , languidique permanserint , in laboriosa vitae humanae peregrinatione et via defi●i●●t . ●deoque pane vitae quae de coelo descendit , nimi●um s●●c●osancto Christi corporo , quod in Eucharistia continetur , Parochi populos sibi commissos pascere satagunt , et assiduis cohortationibus ad hunc coelestem cibum invitent , &c. And if this will nor prevail , let at least the consideration of this notable Canon of the Popish Council of Rhemes it self , Anno 1583. induce them thereunto . q Cum nihil habeat Christiana religio Sacramento Eucharistiae praestantius & aug●●stius , ●●ilque ad sanctè et inculpatè vivendum efficatius ejusdem frequentissima participatione , dolemus tantam esse Christianorum hujus temporis incuriam , ut semel tantum in anno sumant tam salutaris Sacramenti substdia . Quare Paroeci et qui ad divini v●●bi p●aedicationem asciscuntur deinceps , de ●requentis Communionis antiquo usu , ejusdemque mitis frudibus et utilitate differant , ●t fidelibus persuadere ritantur ( ●ray mark it● ) nullum esse modum aptiorem et compendiostorem , quo sopitis et extindis Haeresibus , Ecclesiae Apostolicae facies nostro seculo redeat . Nos quoque fi●eles omnes hortamur , et per viscera misericordiae Dei nostri obsecramus ut quam saepissime , saltem vero Diebus solennibus communicent , et quotiescunque postulaverit ingruens necessitas , ●u●● vitam humanam ●n d●scrimen e● . periculum adducat . And seeing there is in * Prayer , hearing , and all other sacred Duties as well as this , a like double danger ; the one in neglecting , contemning them , which is the * greater ; the other in the unworthy performing of them , which is the lesser sin ; let our Ministers in this case presse both of them together on their people , and not the lesser danger only of unworthy receiving , without the greater peril of contemning or neglecting to receive the Sacrament , when publikely administred ; according to the Decree of the r Council of Cavailon under Charles the Great , An. 800. In perceptione Corporis & Sanguinis Domini magna discretio ad●ibenda est . Cavendum est enim ne●s● nimium in longum differatur , ad perniciem Animae pertineat ; dicente Domino ; Nisi manducaveritis carnem filii hominis et biberitis ejus Sanguinem , non habebitis vitam in vobis . Si verò indiscretè accipiatur , timendum est illud , quod ait Apostolus : Qui manducat et bibit indigne , judicium sibi manducat et bibit . Juxta ejusdem ergo Apostoli documentum , probare se debet homo ; et sic de pane illo manducare , et de calice bibere . And according to that Epistle of s Theodulphus Au●●llanensis Episcopus , Anno 835. ad Fatres et Compresbyteras suos Aure●ianensis Parochiae Sacerdotes : who thus advised them . Admonendus est populus ut ad● Sacrosanctum Sacramentum Corporis et Sanguinis Dimini nequaquam indifferenter accedat , ●ec ab hoc nimium abstineat : sed cum om●i diligentia ●ligat tempus , quando aliquandiu ab opere conjugali abstine●t , et v●t●s so purget , virtutibus exoruet , elecmosynis et orationibus insistat ▪ et sic ad tantum Sacramentum accedat . Quia sicut pe●iculosum est , impurum quemque ad ●●ntum Sacramentum accedero , Ita etiam periculosum est ab hoc proli●o tempore abstinere : Salva ratione illorum , qui Excommunica●i , non quando eis libet , sed certis temporibus communicant , et religiosis quibuseunque Sanctè viventibus , Qui pene omni vie in faciunt . Singulis diebus Dominicis in Quaedragesima , praeter hos qui Excommunicati sunt , Sacramenta Corporis et Sanguinis Christi sumenda sunt , et in Coena Domini , et in Parasceve , in vigilia Paschae , & in die Resurrectionis Domini penitus ab omnibus communicundum , ●t ipsi dies Paschalis hebdomadae omnes aequali religione colendi sunt . The like advise of pressing the people to the frequent receiving of the Lords Supper , yet with due preparation , and admonishing them withall of the danger of neglecting the Sacrament , as well as of the unworthy receiving it , is given by the Synod of Lingen , Anno 1404 ▪ and the Council of t Burdeaux , Anno 1582. ( As also by the Church of England in her Liturgie confirmed by Parliament : ) And this Synod of Lingen withall resolves , That if any person for any great Offence or enormous sin be adjudged but not declared and published Excommunicate , if he come publikely to receive the Sacrament , his Parish Priest may then thus admonish him in secret : Amice , tu scis quod fecisti tale quid , propter quod tu es excommunicatus ; caveas quid tis vis facere . Tu enim si accepis corpus Christi , sumes in tuam damnationem : Persuadeat sibi quod desistat à perceptione Sacramenti : Quod si ille non vult desistere , tunc Sacerdos sibi ministret ; quia in publicis negotiis sacerdos non debet illum excludere ; sed in privatis non debet secum participare . Which I wish our Non communicating Ministers to consider . The reason is , because he is still a Church-member , till actually denounced excommunicated ; and so not to be actually secluded from any publick Ordinance , to which he hath a just right , as a Church-member ; even as every Member of a Kingdom or State , though guilty of any Capital crimes desterving death , out-lawry , disfranchifement , or banishment , enjoys the benefit of all the Laws , Liberties , Privileges of the Kingdom , State , where of he is a Member , and cannot be justly debarred of them , till actually and judicially out lawed , disfranchised , exiled , or condemned to death for his Offences , by the lawfull Magistrate . I have lately u published in print , what Legal Writs , Remedies , all injured Parishionous illegally debarred whole years together from this Sacrament , by a worse than Papal Sacrilege and usurpation over them , may have , to compell their refractory Ministers to administer the Lords Supper to them at accustomed seasons , according to our Laws , and the Articles , Rubricks of our Liturgie , confirmed by Parliaments ; To which I shall only adde , That I am clear of Opinion , that Parishioners in such cases , may sue out a special Writ upon the Statutes of 1 E. 6. c. 1. & 1 Eliz. c. 2. De Sacramento Eucharistiae Parochianis deliberando ; Or , De Parochianis ad Eucharistiae Sacramentum admittendis ; By the self-same Justice , Law , Reason , Equity , as the x Register , and our printed Law-books resolve ; they may sue forth a Writ De Copia Libelli deliberanda , to the Bishop , Offio●●● , or Dean of the Arches , upon the Statute of 2 H. 5. c. 3. Commanding them to deliver to the parties prosecuted a Copy of the Libel without difficulty , where grantable by Law , when they refuse to do it , contrary to this Statute ; Or , a Writ , y De admittendo idoneam personam ad Ecclesiam ; Or , De Cautione admittenda : Or , Quare Impedit presentare : Or , Quare non admisit , to Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons , where and when they refuse to admit their Clerks to those Benefices to which they present them ; or to absolve them upon caution tendered to them , contrary to Law and their duties . Or Writs z De Clamea admittenda in Itinere ; Or , De At ornato admittendo et recipiendo ; to Justices in Eyre , Sheriffs , and other Courts , when they refuse to admit their Claims , or Attornies , contrary to Justice , Law , and the Statute of Merton , c. 10. The very Common Law of England gives every Landlord these several Writs , a De Consuetudinibus et Serviciis ; De Secta ad Curiam ; De Secta ad Molendinum , to compell their Tenants , to perform the accustomed Services , Sutes , and Duties which they owe unto them by their Tenures , though they concern only their Temporal Estates : And will it not by like Writs , Justice , Reason then , constrain our refractory Parsons , Vicars , Ministers to perform the accustomed Spiritual Duties , Services , and administer the Holy Communion to their Parishioners , at usual seasons , ( as themselves and their Predecessors have constantly done heretofore time out of mind , and they are still obliged to do ) which concern the very spiritual comfort and salvation of their Souls , and ought not to be denied or deferred to them any longer ? Our Common Laws , Lawbooks , Statutes have provided these several special Writs , for the inviolable preservations of the Liberties , Privileges , Rights , preventing , redressing the injuries , an● recovering the Tithes , Dues of Clergy-men , that they may the more freely , chearfully discharge their Ministerial Duties , and diligently administer the Sacraments to their people . b De Clerico infra Sacros Ordines constituto non eligendo in Officium Ballivi , Bedelli , &c. De Viris religiosis , quod non veniant ad visum Franciplegii . Quod Clerici non ponantur in Assisis . De Clerico per Statu●um Mercatorium non capiendo . De Clerico capto per Statutum Mercatorium deliberando . De Clerico convicto deliberando Ordinario . Quod personae Ecclesiasticae quieti sint de Theolonio . Quod Ecclesiasticae personae non americien ur secundum Beneficium . De Decimis solvendis Parsonis et Vicariis Ecclesiarum pro possessionibus alienigenarum : All which we find in the Register , and our Printed Law-Books ; Besides sundry Writs in Pa● . 10. H. 3. dors . 9. Claus. 12. H. 3. pars 1. dors . 7. 3. Pat. 20. H. 3. m. 24. Claus. 20. H. 3. m. 3. and 19. 10. 15. Claus. 32. H. 3. dors . 15. and c other Records , for the due payment of Tithes out of the Kings own Demeasn Lands , Mills , Parks , Forests , to those Ministers , Bishops , Abbots to whom they were due , or formerly granted . Claus. 18 H. 3. m. 5. A Writ to exempt Clergy-men from paying Toll and Customes for goods bought of , sold by them for the sustentation of themselves and their Families . And Claus. 39 E. 3. m. 8. A special Writ , Quod viri Ecclesiastici non contribuant pro clausura Villae de Coventry , there being a Commission issued to assess the Inhabitants to wall this City , towards which they would Tax the Clery . Therefore by the self-same Justice , Reason , Equitie , our Common Laws will provide special Writs , and Remedies for the people , to enforce their Parochial Ministers , Vicars , by power of our Temporal Courts of Justice , to administer the Sacraments duly to them , according to their bounden duties , and render them this their Spiritual food at the Lords Table ; especially seeing they have now no legal remedy to enforce them to it , and punish them for neglect thereof in our exploded Ecclesiastical Courts , as they might do heretofore . Trin. 17 Jacobi B. R. The Parishioners of Sutton Valence in the County of Sussex , according to their Custome chose two Churchwardens ; the Bishops Official at the visitation refused one of them , and swore another Churchwarden in his place , which had been Churchwarden before 5 years together , and was very contentious , and a maintainer of Sutes before the Official . After much debate a Writ was awarded out of the Kings Bench by the judgement of the Court to the Official , to admit and swear the Churchwarden the Parishioners had elected , according to the Presiden of 26 E. 3. where the Bish. of Exeter was commanded to confirm the Children , and send Crism to the Parishioners of St. Burian in Cornwall , which he denied them : And Fitzh : Nat. Brev. f. 200. where a Mandatory Writ issued to the Mayor of Oxford to enroll a demise ; and to the Ordinary to prove a Will , and to the Lord to hold a Court : as they are obliged to do by Law and Right . Mich. 22. Jacobi B. R. Mr. Noy moved the Court for a Mandatory Writ to the Ordinary , for the Parishioners of St. Thomas in London , to admit two Churchwardens which they had elected according to their antient custom ; against which the Parson objected the Canon , that he was to elect one of them : which upon consideration of the precedent cases , was granted . The like Writ to admit Churchwardens chosen according to custom , was granted to the Parishioners of St. Magnes in London , Tr. 7 Caroli B. R. And to the Parishioners of St. Ethelboroughs London , Tr. 15 Caroli B. R. wherein the custom of electing Churchwardens by the Parishioners was adjudged a Good Custonia Law , which the Canons made in Convocation , Anno Dom. 1603. Canon 89. could not impeach or deprive them of being a temporal right and inheritance setled in them . The like President was in Pas● . 4. Caroli , B. R. rot. 420. & Tr. 7 Caroli , rot. 1391. Mr. Noy in the case of St. Thomas Parish , cited such a Writ to the Convocation House 21 E. 3. reciting , that they affirmed our Lawyers held a damnable opinion because they would by Writs De Cautione admitten●a , compell Bishops and Ordinaries to grant absolutions to Excommunicate persons without amends , upon sufficient Caution tendered , which sufficiency was issuable , and to be tried at the Common Law . Judge Whitlocke M. 22. Jacobi B. R. and Pasc . 2. Car. B. Regis , cited one ▪ Midlecotes case adjudged in the Kings Bench to this effect . A Constable was elected and sworn in a Court Leet ; the Justices of Peace at the Sessions refused him , and elected and swore another . Whereupon the Lord of the Leet sued out a Writ of Restitution to the Justices of Peace , to allow of and restore the Constable chosen in the Leet , being the Lords inheritance : So if a Town-Clerk , Alderman , Burgesse , Recorder , or Mayor of a Town , be unjustly kept out , or removed from his place , or diffranchised ; A Writ of Restitution will be , and ought by law to be granted out of the Kings Bench , to restore them to the possession of their places , as t is resolved in Sir James Baggs case ▪ Trin. 13 Jacobi . Cooks 11. Report . f. 93. &c. in Audlyes Case , Pas. 2. Caroli , B. R. in Bostons case ; the case of an Alderman of Coventry ; Mr. Manniptons case , Recorder of Launceston in Cornwell , and sundry others in King Charles his reign . Therefore by like Law , Justice , Reason , a like writ of Restitution will lye for all those Parishioners , to restore them to the frequent use and actual enjoyment of the Lords Supper , who have been injuriously , unchristianly , and sacrilegiously ( without any Legal sentence of Excommunication for any Legal cause ) kept from it , by their imperious Ministers , against the Lawes of God and the Realm : It being resolved in * Bagges case , That the Court of Kings Bench hath authoritie , not only to correct judicial Errors in proceedings , but other Errors and Misdemeanors e●trajudicial ▪ tending to the breach of the Peace , or Oppression of the Subjects , or to the raising of Faction , Controversie , Debate , or to any manner of Misgovernment ; so that No wrong or injury whether publike or private , may be done ; but that it shall be there Reformed , or punished by due course of Law . I find in the d Register of Writs , a recital in a Consultation ; that the Archdeacon of Norwich antiently in his Spiritual Court , sued a Parishioner , ex Officio , for substracting his accustomed Oblations at Easter , Christs Nativity , and All Saints , &c. Et viaticum quod a singulis Catholicis semel in Anno recipi debet . cessante legitimo impedimento per multos annos recipers recu●abit , in perniciosum e●eniplum al●orunr . Who procuring a Prohibitien to stay this sute , and prevent the corporal punishment to be inflicted on him for these Offences , pro salute animae : Thereupon the King granted a special consultation to the Archdeacon , to proceed in this cause , notwithstanding the Prohibition ; to punish this Notorious delinquent , who refused to pay his oblati●ns , and to receive the Lords Supper for many years , ( which * ought to be received by all Christians once a year at least ) to the pernicious example of others : Therefore by like Justice ( now these Ecclesiastical Courts are suppresed ) ought special Writs to be issued out of our Temporal Courts , to correct , punish all such Ministers , who ( to the pernicious example of others , the scandal of our Church , Religion , and prejudice of their peoples souls ) for sundry Months and years together , have peremptorily refused to administer the Lords Supper to their Parishioners , though importuned by them to do it ; and likewise to punish all such Parishioners , who have obstinately , Schismatically or prophanely refused , or neglected to receive it , in such places where it hath been duly administred ; And that e by the very Statutes of 1 Ed. 6. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 2. 13 Eliz. c. 12. 3 Jac. ch. 3 , 4 , 5. Which I trust will henceforth be put in vigorous execution against all such obstinate offenders , who shall persevere in the Sacrilegious Non-administration , or impious Non-reception of the holy Communion , after these my weak , and other pious Mens endeavours to convince them of , and reclame them from these their Unchristian Practices : I shall conclude with that of f S. Hilary ; Si non sunt tanta peccata ut Excommunicetur quis , non se debet à medicina corporis et sanguinis Domini seperare . and with g Capitularia Caroli et Ludovici Imperat●r : lib. 7. c. 371. Placuit , ut omnes qui Ecclesiam Intrant ( nisi à suo fuerint Excommun●cati Sacerdite ) communicent . Si qui autem hoc facere noluerint , tamdiu à Communione et Christianorum consortio habeantur alieni , quamdiu per satisfactionem Ecclesiae à proprio mereantur per manus impositionem reconciliari Ep●scopo , & sanct●ae resti●ui Communioni : And that of the whole h Council of Agathen , about 441. years after Christ : Seculares qui in Natali Domini , Pasca , Pentecoste non communicaverint ( and by consequence , Clerici qui tunc Eucharistiam Secularibus non administraverint ) Catholin non credantur , nec inter Catholicos habeantur ; but ought to be reputed as meer Heathens , Publicans , Excommunicate persons , unworthy the name of Christs Ministers or Christians . Swainswicke , July 25. 1656. WILL . PRYNNE . FINIS . ERRATA . IN the Title page line 16. regal , read real . p. 1. l. 5. r. Reformers . p. 21. l. 33. or , r. of . p. 23. l. 3. Roman●● . p. 25. l. 31. two , r. ten . p. 39. l. 11. form , r. from . p. 4● . l. 4. r. 82. p. 47. l. 3. singing , r. fingering . l. 32. satagant . Margin . p. 21. l. 8. injured , r. maried . p. 35. l. 17. Independency . p. 39. l. 39. Opmerus . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A91228e-320 a Athanasius epist. ad solitariam vitam agentes . See Dr. Bilson his True Difference between Christian subjection , and unchristian rebellion . part 2. p. 182 , 183. b Hilarius ad Constantium . l. 3. c Hilarius , l. 1 Contra Constantium . d Variae Historiae l. 5. c. 13. e ●am. 1. 8. f Iude 12 , 13 , 16 , 19. S g 1 John . 4. 6. h Isay . 19. 13 , 14. * Non Doctores , sed seductores ; non Pastores , sed Impostores . Bernard . i 1 Iacobi c. 1 , 2. 3. Iac. c. 1. k Mat. 12. 25. 26. Gal. 5. 15. l In my Cozens his Cozening Devotions , Q●enchcole , The Popish●Royal Favorite , Romes Master-piece . Hidden works of Darkness brought to publike Light . Canterburies Doom . Speech in Parliament . M●mento● A Gospel plea . Ius Patronatus , Epistle to a Seasonable Legal Vindication , &c. A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny : The Quakers unmasked . m See Dr. Iohn White his way to the True Church , and Preface before it : & My Quakers unmarked . n See Lambert , f. 195. 333. 416. Da●●on , p. 124 , 115. Comple●t Justice , p. 223. o Heveden Annalium pars post●rio● , p. 601 , 602. Lambardi Archaion . Spelmanni Concil. p. 619 , 620. See 8 H. 6. c. 1. Rastall ▪ Parl. 12. p See Daltons Iustice of Peace , c. 38. q See My Royal Popish Favorite . Romes Master-piece . Hidden Works of Darkness brought to publike Light . Canterburies D●om . r My Speech in Parl. Memento ; Epistle to my ●us Patronatus ; And Historical Legal Vindication . s See a New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny . t See the Beacous ●●red . u A Collection of all Publike Ordinances p. 424 , 425. * Fratri . * Frater . x My Q●a●ersunm s●●ked . Edit. 2. y The Newcastle Ministers , Mr. Farmer , Mr. Baxter , and others . * Hidden works of darknesse brought to publike light , p. 93. 100 , 101 , to 214. 218 , to 252. * Fratri . z See Declaration de Pere Basil . A Sedane 1639. p. 116 ▪ * Let those who use these Ceremonies still observe it . * That is , Frater Daniel à Sancto Johanne ( St. John ) Minorum Provincialis . a See Gratian , de Consecrat , distinct . 1 , 2. Summa Angelica & Rosell● . Tit. Absolutio , Confessio , Missa , &c. Bochellus , Decreta Eccles. Gall . l. 1. Tit. 6 , 7. l. 2. Ti● . 7. b See Summa Angelica & Rosella , Tit. Ordo . Bochellus Decret. Eccles. Gall . l. 3. Tit. 2. D● Ordine ▪ Peter Lumbard . Sent. l. 4. dist. 24. qu. 1. c Laur. Bochellus , Decreta Eccles. Gall . l. 5. Tit. 8. l. 4. Tit. 1. Gratian de Cons●cratione , Distinct . 1. Panormitan , Hostiensis , Angelus de Clavas●o , Thomas Zerula , A●tonius Corsetus , and others , Tit. Episcopus , Consecratio Altaris , &c. d Cornelius ●grippa , De Vanitate Scientia●um . c. 63. Espencaeus de Contine●tiea , l. 3. c. ● . & in Tit. 1. Gravaminia Germani●e . e See Bishop Jewels Defence of the Apology , part . 2. c. 8. Divis . 3. p. 188. to 195. f See Laur. Bochellus Decreta Eccles. Gal. l. ● . Tit. 10. De Libris Vetit●s . Gosper Quiroga ; Dr. James and others . g Bochellus Decret. Eccles. Gall . l. ● . Tit. 6. l. 2. Tit. 1. De Sacramentis : & other Canonists of that Title . h Bochellus Ib. l. 1. Tit. 9. & p. 1339. i Gratian de Consecrat. dist. Bochellus , Decret. Eccles. Gal. l. 4. Tit. 1. and 5. Summa ●ngel . Cons●●●at . Eccl. & Altaris . k Gratian De Consecrat. Dist 1. & 2. Bochellus Decret. l. 1. Tit. 6. lib. 9. Tit. 1. Sum. Angel . Tit. Missa . & Consicrat Eccles. l Bochellus Decret. l. 3. Tit. 1. p. 363 , 364 , 372 , & . 554. m Bochellus Decr. Eccl. Gal. l. 2. Tit. 14. and others hereafter cited . n See Bishop ●ewels ●●efence of the ●pology , part . 2. c. 8. divis . 3. Bishop Halls honour of the injured Clergy . o See Bishop ●ewel . ib. Jo. Bale his Acts of English Votaries . Cl. Espenca●us de continentia . Nic. d● Clemangis onus Eccl. Alva●ez , Pelagius , Aventinus , and others . p See my Epistle to my 〈◊〉 Speech in Parliament . r See my Canterhuries Doom . p. 64. 65. r See my Speech in Parl●ament , and Epist. to my Historical and Legal Vindication of the Fundamental Rights and Laws of England . * 〈…〉 ſ My Hidden works of Darkness , &c. p. 218. to 252. t Exact coll . p. 115 , 116 , 117. a Menasseth Ben-Israel , his Humble Addresses and Declaration . b My My Short D●murrer against the Jews Remitter , part 1. p. 43. to 66. part 2. p. 111. to 125 , 135. c See short Demurrer , p. 103 , 104 , 105 , &c. d A Collection of Ordinances , p. 424 , 425 , 426 , &c. e Mat. 26. 31. f Mat. 28. 19 , 20. 1 Cor. 9. 5 , to 20. 2 Tim. 4. 1 , 2 , 3. g Ma● . 6. 34. h See my Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy , part . 2. ch. 6. p. 305 , 306. i John 5. 14. k Variae Hist. lib. 6. c. 12 , 13. z See my Speech in Parliament , Memento , New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny , Epistle to an historical and Legal Vindication of the Fundamental Liberties and Laws of England , and the History of Indepency . a Mat. 22. r. to 11. Luke 14 12. to 25. Harmony of Confessions , c. 10. to 16. Articles of England , c. 22. to 31. And exhortation in the Common Prayer Books . Thomas Deacons Cotechism . Concordia Iutherana , p. 542. to 550. Practice , of Piety . Mr. Humfrey of Free-Admission and Rejoynder to Dr. Drake . b Harmony of Confessions , c. 14. Bishop Jewels Apol. & Reply to Harding : Bish. Morton , Peter Moulins , and others . c See Bochellus Decr. Ecc. Gal. l. 3. Tit. 1. Summa Angel . Tit. Eucharistia : Gratian De consecratione , Distinct . 2. d See Bishop Jewels Defence of the Apology , c. 14. Divis . 1. p. 260 , 261 , 264. e Bish. Jewels Reply to Harding , p. 282 to 301. See my Canterburies Doom , p. 63 , 64. Quenchcole ; Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholike , p. 140. to 180. Bochell●s Decr. Eccl. Gall . l. 3. Tit. 1. f See My Quenchcole . Canterburies Doom , p. 61 , 63 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 101. to 125 , 474 , 475 , 486 , 487. * Yet Hierom in Psal. 147. and Bishop Jewel in his Treatise of the Sacraments , p. 276. write , Quando audimus sermonem Domini , Caro Christi , & Sanguis ejus in mentes nostras infunditur . g In My Quenchcole . Canterburies Doom , p. 198 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 474 , 475. A pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholick , p. 159 , &c. h Bochellus Decreta Eccles. Gall . l. 3. Tit. 1. c. 2 , 3 , 4 , 10. 43. 63. 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73. 82 , 84 , 85 , 88. 90 , 93 , 96 , 98 , 101 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 124. 140. 150. Petrus Aureosu● : and other Schoolmen , in l. 4. dist. 9. qu. 2. Summa Ancharistia 13. i Bochellu● Decret. Eccles. Gal. l. 3. Tit. 1. c. 71 , 72 , 73. 105 , 107. Summa Angelica Eucharistia , 3 Richard . in 4 sentent . Distinct . 9. * Harmony of Confessions , sect. 14. p. 336. 337. 327. k Divine Right of Church Government , p. 252 , 353 , &c. l Boundary to the holy Mount . m Juridical suspension . n See Graetian Caus. 11. Qu. 3. and the Glossers on it . Bochellus Decret. Eccles , Gal. l. 2. Tit. 14. Summa Avgelica , & Rosella . Hostiiensis , Th. Zerula , Antonius Corsetus , and others . Tit. Excommunicatio . o Divine Right of Church Government . p Aarons Rod blossoming . q Antiquaeries and Boundary . r Juridical suspension . s Considerations and Cautions , July 9. 1646. p. 5 &c. t A Vindication of 4 serious Questions . Suspension suspended . u Eccles. Hist. l. 5. c. 17 , 18. Sozonten lib. 7. c. 24. utropius , Zonaras , Oxmeerus , Pedro Mexia , Crimston in his li●e , Baronius , the Centuries of Magdeburg , Dr. Bilson , The true difference , &c. part . 3. p. 369 , 372 , &c. x See Capit. Carol . Mag. 5. c. 42. T●rtullian de p●enitentia . Dr. Hammond of the power of the keys . ch. 4. Sect. 43. 44. &c. My Vindication of 4. scrious Questions , and Susp●nsion suspended . y Bochellus Decret. Eccles. Gall . l. 2. Tit. 14. c. 1 , 2 , 3. 36 , 37 , 38. 45. 48 , 58 , 64 , 65 , 71 , 85 , 92. 121 , 126 , 136. 138 , 142 , 145. z Caus. 11. Q● . 3. a Panormitan , Hosti●nsts , Angelus de Clavasio , Lyndewood , ●Ant . Corsetus , Summa Rosella , Tho : Zerula and others , Tit. Excommunicatio . b See Fitzh. ●rook , Ash , Title Excommengment , Cooks 1 Instit. f. 133 , 134 , 3 Instit. c. 81. p. 177. Bracton . l. 5. f. 425 , 426 , 427. Fleta l. 6. c. 44. Capit. Caroli et Lud●vici , l. 5. c ▪ 23. 28. ●● . l. 7. c. 216. 361. 373. c See the Centuries of Magd. Cent. 3. & 4. D● . Bilsons True Difference , part 3. p. 376 , &c. d See Aug. contr. Petil. l. 3. c. 2. e A Defence of English Catholikes , c. 5. J. E. his Treatise of the Right & Jurisdiction of the Prelate and Prince . Baronius Annal. Tom. 3. 4. See Bilsons True Difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Reb●llion pa●t ▪ 3. p. 369. to 379. f Suspension susp●nd●d , p. 25 26. 36. g Concilium apud I●●g●s , & Synodus A●degavensts , An. 1●81 , apud Bo●hellum . Dec●●● . Eccl. Gall . l. 2. Tit. 14. de Excommunicat●●● , c●p . 90 91. p. 294 , 295. * Cum timerent ne Principatum ammitterent , cum Legum Latores , ut majores esse viderentur , multa innovabant ; quaeres ad tantavi pe●venit nequitiam , ut p●●c●pta su●i custod●●ent magis quam mandata Dei , Chrysost. in Mat. Hom. 52. h Rich. de Medie Vill●t , in 4. Sent. Dist. 9. Aquinanas , 4. pars qu. 80. An●elu● de Cla●asio Sum. ●ngel : ●ucharistia , 3. sect. 20 , 21 , 22. i Summa Angel ▪ Eucharistia , 3. sect. 2● . c. de ●omine de Cele : ●is● : B●shop Jewels Defence of the Apology , p. 34● . 1 De Unitate Ecclesi● , c. 10. 2 Ad Rector . & Unive●s . Colon . Uspe●g●nsis Paral●…pom : p. 435. 3 Defence of the Apology . part 5. c. 12. divis . 2. p. 502. k As Dr. Drake , Mr. Collings , & others do in printed Books . l ●d Romanos , c. 2. m Defence of the Apology , p. 347. n Rom. 3. 8. 4 See Sextus Aurelius & Dion in his Life : Bishop Jewels Sermons , p. 183. 5 Summa Angelica Tit. Eucharistia , 1. Articles of England , Ar. 28. Harmony of Confessions , sect. 14. 6 See my Suspension suspended : and Vindication of 4. Serious questions . o Luke 14. 23. &c. Matt. 22. 1. to 12. 1 Cor. 11. 23 , &c. p Apud Lau. Bochellum , Decret. Eccles. Gall . l. 3. Tit. 1. c. 101. p. 376. q Bochellus Decreta ●ccles . Gall . l. 3. Tit. 1. c. 105. N●ta . Nota. * Psal. 109. 7. P●ov. 2● . 9. Isa. 1. 13 , 14 , 15. c. 66. 3 , 4. 1 Cor. 2. 15 , 16. * Mat. 10. 14 , 15. Luke 10. 13 , 14 , 15 , 16. 1 Thessal . 4. 8. Heb. 10. 28 , 29. r Bochellus ▪ ●b . c. 20. p. 360. s Bothellus● Decret. Eccles. Gall . l. 3. Tit. 1. c. 23 , 24. p. 360. t Hochellus ibid. c. 72 , 75. u A Legal Resolution of two Important Quaeres . x Register Pars 2. f. 58. 4 E. 4. 37. Prohibition 8. Fitz. Nat. Brev. s . 43. E. y See Register pars 2. f. 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 66. Fitzh. Nat. Brevium , f. 163 164. 228 , 229. &c. z Register pars 2. f. 19. 27. 28. 164. 172. 198. Fitz. Nat. Brev. f. 156 , 157. Cooks 2 Instit. f. 99. 100. a Register pars 1. f. 159. 153 , 173 , 174. Fitz. and old Natura Brevium . Qui tardè de ●it , et diem de die extrahens prosuit , non ex animo fecit . Seneca de Beneficiis , p. 10. b Register , pars 1. f. 146 , 147 , 148 , 151 , 175. 179 , 180 , 184 , 187 , 260 , 281. Fitzb. old Natura Brevium . c Pat. 4 H. 3. pars 1. m. 1. Claus. 4 H. 3. m. 4. & dors . 16. Claus. 5 H. 3. m. 14. & 6. Cart 6 Johan . Reg. m. 12. * Cooks 11 Rep. f. 98. ● . d Pars 2. f. 50. b. * Sea The Canons , Anno 1603. Can. 21. 11● . e See Lamberts Justice of Peace , f : ●16 : The Compleat Justice , p. 286. f Gratian , de Consecratione Distinct . 2. g Fredericus ●andebrogus , Cod●x Legum Antiq. h Surius Concil. ●om . 1. p. 712. Gratian de Consecrat. Distinct . 2. Juo Carnotens●s , D●cret . pars 2. c. 33.