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A40655	The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of the University of Cambridge snce the conquest.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of Waltham-Abby in Essex, founded by King Harold.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2416_PARTIAL; Wing F2443_PARTIAL; ESTC R14493	1,619,696	1,523

merits of the blood and passion of our Saviour JESU CHRIST Item That this certain faith and hope is gotten and also confirmed and made more strong by the applying of Christs words and promises of his grace and favour contained in his Gospel the Sacraments instituted by him in the New Testament And therefore to attain this certain faith the second part of Penance is necessary that is to say Confession to a Priest if it may be had for the asolution given by the Priest was institute of Christ to apply the promises of God's grace and favour to the penitent Wherefore as touching Confession We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us to their spiritual charge that they ought and must certainly believe that the words of absolution pronounced by the Priest be spoken by the authority given to him by Christ in the Gospel Item That they ought and must give no lesse faith and credence to the same words of absolution so pronounced by the Ministers of the Church than they would give unto the very words and voice of God himself if he should speak unto us out of heaven according to the saying of Christ i i Iohn 20. 23. Whose sins soever ya doe forgive shall be forgiven whose sins soever ye doe retain shall be retained And again in another place Christ saith k k Luke 10. 16. Whosoever heareth you heareth me Item That in no wise they doe contemn this Auricular Confession which is made unto the Ministers of the Church but that they ought to repute the same as a very expedient and necessary mean whereby they may require and ask this absolution at the Priest's hands at such time as they shall finde their conscience grieved with mortal sin and have occasion so to doe to the intent they may thereby attain certain comfort and consolation of their consciences As touching to the third part of Penance We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us to their spiritual charge that although Christ his death be the sufficient oblation sacrifice satisfaction and recompense for the which God the Father forgive and remitteth to all sinners not only their sin but also eternal pain one for the same yet all men truly penitent contrite and confessed must needs also bring forth the fruits of penance that is to say Prayer Fasting Alms deeds and must make restitution or satisfaction in will and deed to their neighbours in such things as they have done them wrong and injury in and also must doe all other good works of mercy and charity and expresse their obedient will in the executing and fulfilling of Gods commandements outwardly when time power and occasion shall be ministred unto them or else they shall never be saved For this is the expresse precept and commandement of God l l Luke 3. 8. Doe you the worthy fruits of penance And S. Paul saith m m Rom. 6. 19. Like as in times past you have given and applied your selves and all the members of your body to all filthy living and wickednesse continually excreasing the same in like manner now you must give and apply your selves wholly to justice excreasing continuoslly in purity and cleannesse of life And in another place he saith n n 1 Cor. 9. 27. I chastise and subd●e my carnal body and the affections of the same and make them obedient unto the spirit Item That these precepts and works of charity be necessary works to our salvation and God necessarily requireth that every penitent man shall perform the same whensoever time power and occasion shall be ministred unto them so to doe Item That by penance and such good works of the same we shall not onely obtain everlasting life but also we shall deserve remission or mitigation of these present pains and afflictions in this world according to the saying of Saint Paul o o 1 Cor. 11. 31. if we would correct and take punishment of our selves we should not be so grievously corrected of God And Zecharias the Prophet saith p p Zech. 1. 3. Turn your selves unto me and I will turn again unto you And the Prophet Esay saith q q Isa 58. 7 8 9 c. Break and deal thy bread unto the hungry bring into they house the poor man and such as want harbour When thou seest a naked man give him clothes to cover him with and refuse not succour and help the poor and needy for he is thine own flesh And if thou wilt thus doe then shall thy light glister out as bright as the sun in the morning and thy health shall sooner arise unto thee and thy justice shall goe before thy face and the glory of God shall gather thee up that thou shalt not fall And whensoever thou shalt call upon God God shall hear thee and whensoever thou shalt crie unto God God shall say Loe here I am ready to help thee then shall thy light overcome all darknesse and thy darknesse shall be as bright as the sun at noon-daies and then God shall give unto thee continuall rest and shall fulfill thy soul with brightnesse and shall deliver thy body from adversity and then thou shalt be like a garden that most plentifully bringeth forth all kinde of fruits and like the well-spring that never shall want water These things and such other should be continually taught and inculked into the ears of Our people to the intent to stirre and provoke them unto good works and by the self-same good works to exercise and confirm their faith and hope and look for to receive at God's hand mitigation and remission of the miseries calamities and grievous punishments which God sendeth to men in this world for their sins The Sacrament of the Altar Fourthly As touching the Sacrament of the Altar We will that all Bishops Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us unto their spiritual charge that they ought and must constantly believe that under the form figure of bread wine which We there presently do see perceive by outwards senses is verily substantially really contained and comprehended the very self-same body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary and suffered upon the Crosse for our redemption And that under the same form and figure of Bread and Wine the very self-same body and blood of Christ is corporally really and in the very substance exhibited distributed and received unto and of all them which receive the said Sacrament And that therefore the said Sacrament is to be used with all due reverence and honour and that every man ought first to prove and examine himself and religiously to trie and search his own conscience before he shall receive the same according to the saying of S. Paul Whosoever eateth r r 1 Cor. 11. 27. this body of Christ unworthily or drinketh of this

long time accustomed to be taken the Law already established providing a sharp and severe punishment for such as shall exceed the same Besides an order also which we at this present have taken amongst our selves for the better performance thereof I therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty to continue your gracious goodness towards us who with all humility submit our selves to your Highness and cease not daily to pray for your happy estate Mar. 24. and long and prosperous Reign over us Your Majesties Chaplain and daily Orator most bounden John Cantuar. Thus the old year on the last day whereof this Letter was dated ended sadly and suspiciously with the Prelates but the next year began Cheerfully and presented good tidings unto them 25. For Her Majesty will alter nothing materiall to church government the Queen to verifie her Motto SEMPER EADEM and to disprove that Inconstancy generally charged on her sex acquitted Her self more then Woman in Her masculine resolutions and nothing of moment was altered in Church discipline Many things indeed were offered to both houses debated agitated and as it seems passed the Commons but nothing in fine was effected Thus the Major may propound what it pleaseth and the Minor assume what it listeth but no conclusive argument could then be framed without the Ergo of the royall Assent which the Queen refused to affix to any materiall Alteration 26. And few dayes after the session of the Parliament for the present broke off Mar. 29. Parliament dissolved wherewith ended the assenbly of the Ministers And now all of them had leave to depart to their own homes Otherwise such members thereof as formerly went away without leave were obnoxious to censure Witness one of them in his Ingenious confession a Mr. Gelibrand to Mr. Field cited by Bp. Bancroft in his dangerous positions pag 75. Touching my departure from that holy assembly without leave c. I crave pardon both of you and them c And thus commending this holy Cause to the Lord himself and your Godly Councell to the President thereof I take my leave 27. The next day the Convocation ended Iohn Hilton in Convocation abjoreth his hereticall opinions having effected nothing of moment save that in the 9 th session thereof Iohn Hilton Priest made a solemn Abjuration of his blasphemous heresies according to the tenour ensuing b b This was by me faithfully transcribed out of the records of Canterbury In Dei nomine Amen Mar. 30. Before you most reverend father in God Lord John Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitane of all England and the reverend fathers in God the Bishops of this your Province of Canterbury here Congregated and Assembled together in this holy Synod and Convocation I John Hilton Priest of my pure heart and free will voluntarily and sincerely knowledge confess and openly recognize that in times past I thought beleeved said held and presumptuously affirmed and preached the Errors Heresies Blasphemies and damnable opinions following c. Here he distinctly read a Schedule containing his heresies which what they were may be collected by that which ensueth and then proceeded as followeth Wherefore I the said John Hilton detesting and abhorring all and every such my said Heresies Blasphemies and damned opinions willing and with all my power affecting hereafter firmely to beleeve in the true and perfect faith of Christ and his holy Church purposing to follow the doctrine of Christ and his holy Apostles with a pure and free heart voluntary minde will and intent utterly forsake relinquish renounce and despise the said detestable Errours Heresies Blasphemies and Abominable opinions Granting and confessing that the blessed Trinity consisteth in three distinct persons and one Godhead as God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost coe quall in power and might Secondly that Jesus Christ is both God and man and my Saviour and Redeemer and of all other baptized and beleeving in him Who of his Father of his own substance in his humanity was conceived by the Holy Ghost incarnate and for our Redemption being very God became man And that by the death of Jesus Christ we be not only made partakers of his Testament and so deduced to the knowledge of his godly will and power but also that we have full Redemption and Remission of our sins in his bloud And where I did most ungodly detestably and blasphemously affirme that the Old and New Testaments were Fables now being most sorry for that abominable and damnable assertion I do most humbly and c c Here the record is so ill written that this word is not legible beleeve the same Testaments to contain all truths necessary to salvation and that I and all others are bound to beleeve the same as the undoubted word of God and that without that I cannot be saved And therefore the said Errours Blasphemies and all other Heresies false doctrines and damned opinions in generall contrary and repugnant to the faith of Christ I utterly absu●e forsake and purely renounce before you most Reverend father in God and the rest of this holy Synod here assembled And moreover I swear by this holy Evangelist by me here bodily touched that from henceforth I shall never hold teach believe or affirme the said Errours Heres●s ●lasphemies or damned opinions or any other against contrary or repugn●t to the holy saith of Christs Church Nor yet shall I by my self or any other person privately o● apertly defend maintain succour favour or support any person that to my knowledge holdeth beleeveth affirmeth or teacheth any such Heresies Errours or damned opinions So help me God and these holy Evangelists In witness whereof to this my present Abjuration and renunciation I have with my own hand voluntarily subscribed my proper name JOHN HILTON 28. Upon this his Abjuration Pennance imposed upon him Pennance was imposed on him first that he should attend at Pauls Crosse upon the Preacher Sunday next all the time of the Sermon and there penitently stand before the said Preacher with a faggot on his shoulders Secondly that he should not preach minister Sacraments nor exercise any Ecclesiasticall function in the Church except specially licensed by the Arch-Bishop thereunto Thirdly that he should recant the said heresies and damnable opinions in the Church of S t. Martius in the fields at a sermon there to be made by the Arch-Deacon and there to shew himself very penitent I finde in the Records a recognizance of five hundred pounds drawn up to the Queen whereby the said Hilton bound himself for the performance hereof but because the rude draught of the bond is crossed I conceive it not insisted on and finding nothing to the contrary presume the aforesaid pennance by him exactly performed 29. The Ministers or Brethren now missing their mark Exchange of important Letters betwixt the Earl of Leicester and the Arch-Bishop abated much of their former activity in so much as that

A petty rebellion happened in Merton Colledge in Oxford small in it self Papists stickle in Merton Colledge great in the consequence thereof if not seasonably suppressed on this occasion Some Latine superstitious Hymns formerly sung on Festivalls had by order of the late Warden Dr. Gervas been abolished and English Psalms appointed in their place now when M r. Leach a Fellow in the House on Allholland-day last had the Book in his hand ready to begin the Psalme in springs one M r. William Hall a seniour Fellow offering to snatch it from him with an intent to cast it into the fire adding a Manuscript Records of Cant. in Matthew Parker pag. 322. moreover that they would no more dance after his pipe This was done in the intervall of the vacancy of the Wardenship For though John Man was lawfully chosen to the place yet Hall and his Popish faction whereof M r. Potto M r. Binnion and S r. Appleby the Leaders opposed his admission And whereas in this House great was the power of a Seniour-Fellow especially in office over the young scholars Hall raised such a persecution against them that it was poenall for any to be a Protestant 48. Arch-Bishop Parker hearing hereof Are curbed by the Arch-Bishop his visitation summoneth Hall to appear before him May 26. who cared so little for the same that some of his Party plucked off the Seal from the citation which was affixed to the gates of the Colledge Whereupon his Grace made a solemn visitation of that Colledge wherein all were generally examined Man confirmed Warden Hall justly expelled his party publickly admonished the Young Schollers relieved Papists curbed and suppressed Protestants countenanced and encouraged in the whole Vniversity 49. * Cranmets children restored in blood A Parliament was called b Parliament Roles quinto Elizabethe wherein a Bill passed for the assurance of certain lands assumed by the Queen from some Bishopricks during their vacation Anno Regin 5. Janu. 11. Another for the restitution in blood of the children of Thomas Cranmer late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 2. 156. 3. Here fain would I be informed by some learned in the law what needed the restoring of those Children whose Father was condemned and died only for Heresie which is conceived a Personall crime and not tainting the bloud For although this Arch-Bishop was first accused of high-Treason yet it afterwards was waved and he tried upon haereticall opinions * I have read that he was condemned of treason Cromptons juris courts fol. 2. b. which Treason was released unto him yet he saith Holinsh excepted out of the general pardon intricacies I understand nor An Act for translating the Bible into Welsh Except any will say that because not solemnly and formally pardoned in majorem cantelam such an Act was not amiss or else done not so much for the use of the living Children as honour of their dead Father Anno Dom. 1563. 50. A third Bill passed for the Translating of the Bible into the Welsh tongue which sicnce the Reformation may hitherto be said to have been read in Latin in their Congregations English being Latin to them as in the most Parishes of Wales utterly un-understood This some years after was performed principally by the endeavours of a Godwin in his catalogue of Bishops p. 641. William Morgan Doctor of Divinity afterwards Bishop of Landaff and thence preferred to S t Asaph but worthy for his work of better advancement 51. In the Convocation now sitting Janu. 29. wherein Alexander Nowel Dean of S t Pauls was Prolocutor The 39 Articles compiled in Convocation the nine and thirty Articles were composed For the main they agree with those set forth in the Reign of King Edward the sixth though in some particulars allowing more liberty to dissenting judgments For instance in this Kings Articles it is said that it is to be be believed that Christ went down to Hell to preach to the Spirits there which last clause is left out in these Articles and men left to a latitude concerning the cause time and manner of his Descent 52. Hence some have unjustly taxed the Composers for too much favour extended in their large expressions Why favourably drawn up in general terms clean through the contexture of these Articles which should have tied mens consciences up closer in more strict and particularizing propositions which indeed proceeded from their commendable moderation Childrens cloaths ought to be made of the biggest because afterwards their bodies will grow up to their garments Thus the Arcles of this English Protestant Church in the infancy thereof they thought good to draw up in general terms foreseeing that posteritie would grow up to fill the same I mean these holy men did prudently pre-discover that differences in judgments would unavoidably happen in the Church and were loath to unchurch any and drive them off from an Ecclesiastical communion for such petty differences which made them pen the Articles in comprehensive words to take in all who differing in the branches meet in the root of the same Religion 53. Indeed most of them had formerly been sufferers themselves Most confessors who composed the Articles and cannot be said in compiling these Articles an acceptable service no doubt to offer to God what cost them nothing b 2 Sam. 24. 24. some having paid Imprisonment others Exile all losses in their Estates for this their experimental knowledg in Religion which made them the more merciful and tender in stating those points seeing such who themselves have been most patient in bearing will be most pittiful in burdening the consciences of others 54. It is observable English Articles and Trent Decrees contemporaries these Articles came forth much about the time wherein the Decrees of the Councel of Trent were published Truth and Falshood starting in some sort both together though the former will surely carry away the victory at long running Many of which Decrees begin with Lying and all conclude with Cursing thundering Anathemas against all Dissenters Whilest these our Articles like the still voice only plainly express the Positive truth 55. But some nine years after The 39 Articles confirmed by Parliament Viz. Anno 1571. the Parliament c See the Statutes in decimo tertio Eliz cap. 12. confirmed these Articles so far that every Clerk should before the Nativity of Christ next following subscribe the same And hereafter every person promoted to an Ecclesiastical living should within a time prefixed publickly in the time of Divine service read and profess his consent to the same on pain of Deprivation ipso facto if omitted 56. No Lay-person was required to subscribe But only imposed on Clergy-men no Magistrate none of the Commons according to the severity in other places For the persecuted Church of English in Frankford in Queen Mary her dayes demanded subscription to their discipline of every man yea even of women