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A15303	The lawlesse kneelesse schismaticall Puritan. Or A confutation of the author of an appendix, concerning bowing at the name of Iesus. Written by Giles Widdowes rector of St Martins Church in Oxford, and late fellow of Oriell Colledge	Widdowes, Giles, 1558?-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 25593; ESTC S120669	63,717	96

gouerne the church the King the Realmes nay Iesus himselfe If obiection be made that the most Reuerend Arch Bishop Cranmer the Right Reuerend Bishop Ridley Father Latimer and other learned and Holy Martyrs were burned into ashes for their constant profession of the doctrine and discipline of this reformed Church Answeare must be made that the Holy Mother Geneua hath better doctrine and discipline then Cranmer Ridley and Latimer ever knew The doctrine and displine of faithfull Geneua are all substance they are all gold Oh if that Religion were here administred euery presbyter shall be greater than a Monarch and euery Iustice of peace aboue the Presbyter And were not this an Excellent Reformation when the Children of the Church her Subordinate Members shal be made such Transcendent Princes A daring phantastique superstition The Honour of Iesus exalted farre aboue all Heauens must be nullified to make Schismaticall Puritans Kings Imperious Holines See a strange wonder here is Lucifer-like pride in deede The Deuills were cast out of Heauen Esay 14. 14. for their pride because they would not belieue in the Sonne of God the Confirming Mediator of Angells so the Schoolemen And shall sly Professors then be spared seeing they will not Bow at the name of Iesus which is a signe that they doe not belieue in the Redeeming Sauiour If a Lawie● shall industriously write against the law is it credible that He is a Religious Obseruer or a lawfull Professor of the law Where is the good Conscience the Necessary Subiect of the higher Powers mentioned at Rom. 13. 5 This stands at the Barre and alleageth Gods Heauenly law All knees shall bow at the name of Iesus and t is baffled with an Outery A Reformation A Reformation To bow at the name of Iesus is Superstition To bow at the name of Iesus is Superstition The good Conscience desireth a pacificall dispute but the violence of aspiring Spirites will not endure to feare the truth therefore I desire the Christian Reader to obserue the plea of a good conscience Thus The tie of Gods law and of the Kings lawes deriu'd from Gods is Obligatory to binde all good Subiects vnto Obedience First the text binds all Christians in faith to belieue and in manners to Bow at the name of Iesus which I haue proou'd at handling this Question Whether Bowing at the name of Iesus be a duty of the text To second the text our dread Souereigne Lord the King hath foure lawes to humble his Subiects in faith and manners to Bow at the name of Iesus The first is the 20th article of our Reformed faith which is the Authority of the Church to ordaine Rites and Ceremonies whereof Bowing at the name of Iesus is one though it be commanded by God originally yet in application to reforme Non-conformists t is the Churches Canon Then by the Doctrine of our Reformed faith T is plaine that we must bow at the name of Iesus Because our church-Church-Authority hath decreed this Bowing as you see according to scripture The second is the 34 Article which is the Traditions of the Church and bowing at the name of Iesus being vniversal is more necessary then those being particular and express'd thus Whosoeuer through his priuate Iudgment willingly and purposely doth openly breake the traditions of the Church c. ought to be rebuked openly that others may feare to doe the like as he that offendeth against the Common order of the Church and woundeth the Conscience of the weake Brethren Then t is plaine by the testimony of Orthodoxe faith that all must bow at the name of Iesus Sub paenâ publicae redargutionis vnder paine of open Rebuke The third law is the 6th Canon of our Church The words are these Whosoever shall here-after affirme that the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by law Established are wicked Anti-Christian or superstitious or such as being Commanded by lawfull Authority men who are Zealously and godlily affected may not with any good conscience approue them vse them or as occasion requireth subscribe vnto them let him be excommunicated ipso sacto and not restored vntill he repents and publiquely revokes such his wicked errors Then by vertue of this Canon he that writes against Bowing at the name of Iesus should be taught better manners He should be deliuered to Satan by his Diocesan for to tame his fleshly and diuision-making faction in the Church to teach him and his priuate friends Canonicall obedience And t is very good reason so to doe for transgressing the 18th Canon which is the 4. law The words are these When in time of Diuine seruice the Lord Iesus shal be mentioned due and lowly Reverence shal be done by all persons present as it hath beene accustomed Testifying by these outward Ceremonies and Gestures their inward Humility Christian Resolution and due acknowledgment that the Lord Iesus Christ the True and Eternall sonne of God is the only Sauiour of the world in whom alone all the mercies Grac●s a●d promises of God to mankind for this life and the life to Come are fully and wholy Compris●d And then is not he very worthily excommunicated that scornes to Bow at the name of Iesus s●ing the fin●ll end thereof is to testify his Humble Cristianly R●solute a●d due acknowledgement of his faith that the Lord Iesus is the Sauing King of the Catholique Church And is this Christian Reader Idolatry to be cried down● To Bow at the name of Iesus is Idolatry To Bow at the name of Iesus is Idolatry Is this Religious Bowing to bee b●fled with an outery A Reformation A Reformation Vnreasonable Ani●als Wilfull Gainesaying Humonsts He that peremptorily and impenitently teacheth against this Rev●rend Honorable Bowing at the name of Iesus ●o●es not the Lord Iesus and St. Paul● would haue such an ob●●inate sinner rewarded according to his great stomack● Thus If any man Loue not the Lord Iesus let him be Anathema Maran●atha 1. Cor 16. 22. L●t him be accursed with a bitter curse with the Greater Excommunication I must not say that M. Prin●s heart doth not ●o●e the Lord Iesus only God is the s●archer out and the d●●ce●ning 〈◊〉 of the secret court of consc●enc● But t is very cert●ine t●●t M. ●rinns daring phansy hath most vnsuff●rably disho●o●red the exalted the most honoured and the most glori●●s na●● of Iesus His Appendix ●s wi●tnesse which is a contradictorious suppose Ignoratio Elenchi a ●a●e supposa●●● That bowing at the name of Iesus is nothing His suppositious prooffes to defend this Erroneous despightfull Hypothesis are two Thus bowing at the name of Iesus is neither a duty of the text nor an arbitrary harmelesse and decent Ceremonie If you will see Mr Prinne in full view of his colours you must obserue these foure questions First whether bowing at the name of Iesus be some thing Secondly whether bowing at the name of Iesus be a duty according to the letter of Phil. 2. 10 3ly whether bowing at

yet this is not true Christo Iesu Domino nostro c. omne genu curuetur so Irenaeus l. 1. c. 2. adversus Haereses pag. 51. Every knee must bow to Iesus Christ o●r Lord. Donatur Iesu vt Caelestia terrestria inferna genua Electant so S. Hilary l. 9. de Trinitate pag. 135. God gaue Iesus this honour that all knees in heauen earth hell should bow to him But yet let Puritans bow in the name of God in the name of Iesus if they will follow the Fathers any expositors but Beza and his followers Let them bow in the name of Iesus who doth hinder them Beza translates at the name of Iesus Iunius and Tremellius in the name of Iesus These trāslations are quiet enough in the same testament A Schismatique cannot make them differ St. Hieromes translation is in the name of Iesus the translation of S. Chrysostome St Cyril c. Surius Binius and Crabbe in their collection of Councells render the Fathers speaking Every knee shall bow at the name of Iesus The difference is so litle that a Schoole-boy scornes so silly an Argument But what doth not our Church translation the last render every knee shall bow at the name of Iesus Consule Textum Read And doe not our Ancient English writers say at the name of Iesus What say you to Queene Elizabeths 52. Iniunction which saith that our Church hath heretofore beene accustomed to bow at the name of Iesus before that Iniunction was made Doth not Mr Prinne knowe that Bishop Andrews Dr Boyes Mr Hooker are ancient enough to be his Tutors in Divinity O but they are not Non-conformists And shall Non-conformists put downe our Church doctrine and discipline Away rather with such Lawlesse and Headlesse fellowes to Amsterdam or to New-England In the causall sense of these translations in the name and at the name of Iesus it is thus In the name That is in the power and authority of Iesus we bow And hence you may obserue the originall Efficient of bowing to make it a very lawfull bowing At the name of Iesus That is Iesus is Finis cui the all glorious Person for whose honours sake we bow to testifie that he is worthy of all praise Thus the end of bowing at the name of Iesus is to good purpose necessary and noble The authority of Iesus is lawfull therefore bow The honour of Iesus is the greatest honour therefore they that loue his honour will bow at the name of Iesus And are the authority and honour of Iesus nothing among Hypocriticall Outside-conceptists This imperious daring generation doth provoke authority to punish and honour to reject such ignorant coniecturall Divinity Objection The letter doth not signifie the name Iesus but only his power or person For Iesus is the Genitiue Case and the genitiue case denotes only power or person not Iesus his particular name And the text Isay 45. 23. Rom. 14. 11. saith Euery knee shall bow to me Solution To bow to Iesus his name and not to his person no rationall man can be so ignorant How basely doth Mr Prinne iudge of our Church-worship To bow to Iesus his person without a name what is this but to take away his name from his person And take away his name and how then is his person signified or honoured The Iewes did acknowledge Iesus his name with scorne these were open and profess'd enimies They bow'd their knee mock'd him vilified his name and crucified him The Puritans are sly sirs They will say nothing but holinesse they will doe nothing but holinesse they are professed Puritās no where but in Cōvēticles If Chameliōs had a religion they are such Chainglings then a rationall man may say with safety enough that there are the Puritans They are holy in their owne conceipt They will not bow to IESVS Not to his name nor to his person Grace hath no knees The time of Glory hath knees in every thinge Glory shall bow Grace must be vnreuerend and vnmannerly this is their holinesse Here obserue Mr Prinne that Iesus his name cannot be the Genitiue case Why Only power or the person of Iesus is put in the Genitiue case This is easily to be refelled Thus. In nomine Iesu What part of speech is Iesu A Nowne and a Nowne Substantiue Of what case Of the Genitiue Why Because Iesu is the latter of two Substantiues Nomine is the former Iesus is the person here signified in the Genitiue case this M. Prinne vnderstāds But what Nowne else but Iesu signifies this person in the Genitiue case It is against Puritanisme to answere Is it possible if hee did honour the person of Iesus but that thereby hee must honour the name of Iesus For that which is honour'd as the Quo by which Iesus is signified to be honoured is his name Iesus That which is honoured as the Quod as the thinge to be had in all honour by our soules and bodies by our hearts knees this is Iesus his almighty persō because he hath deserued more thē our knee-honour by suffering all disgrace So here is one reason more then Almightinesse why we must bow at Iesus his name More then the reason at Esay 45. 23. Rom. 14. 11. Holy and Reverend is the name of the Lord. Thus the Psalmist But Iesus Quâ Iesus deserued more than by any other Attribute of his is signified For all say that greater is the worke of Redemption restitution saluation than of creation I will tell Mr Prinne one answere more to this argument Because Aristotle saith cap. 2 pag. 4. lib. de Interpretatione that oblique cases are not nownes Yet in a cadency they are nownes though only the nominatiue case be the originall instituted nowne This I haue said because Mr Prinne may remēber that he did learne that Sophistry-argumēt at Oriel Colledg when he was there a Freshman You know the law Thou shalt not take Gods name in vaine You must not say that Gods name is not honourable that it is not to be honoured And is not Iesus God Semper vt Deus a Creaturis Colitur D. Cyril Thesauri lib. 8. pag. 99. The creatures must worship Iesus as God And thus the psalmist psal 98. psal 71. psal 28. psal 19. These are St Cyrills Quotations Obiection The letter of the text is that every knee must bow at that name which is aboue every name But the name Iesus is not aboue every name For it is not aboue these names Mediator Saviour Christ Lord Sonne of God Lambe of God Emmanuel God c. For all these doe signifie Christ so well so properly so really as Iesus doth Solution All these names are the names of Iesus They doe signifie Iesus well and properly Mediator signifies the office of Iesus that he is the only reconciler of God and man Saviour is the interpretation of Iesus Matth. 1. Christ signifies Iesus to be the anoynted of the Lord. Psal 2. Lord signifies Iesus to haue dominion