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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04528	The lavvfulnes of hearing the publick ministers of the Church of England proved, by Mr. Philip Nye and Mr. John Robinson, two eminent Congregational divines. Together with the judgment of Dr. Goodwin, Dr. Owen, and other independents, as well ancient as modern, concerning forms of prayer, parish-churches, and communion with them: and the judgment of other nonconformists about kneeling at the sacrament.	Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625.	1683 (1683)	Wing N1496; ESTC R203023	37,350	46

THE LAVVFULNES OF Hearing the Publick Ministers OF THE Church of England PROVED By Mr. PHILIP NYE AND Mr. JOHN ROBINSON Two Eminent Congregational Divines Together with the Judgment of Dr. Goodwin Dr. Owen and other INDEPENDENTS as well Ancient as Modern concerning Forms of Prayer Parish-Churches and Communion with them And the Judgment of other Nonconformists about Kneeling at the Sacrament Published as well to satisfy those that yet scruple Communion with the Church as to vindicate those that have complied from the uncharitable Censures of those that vilify them as Temporizers or that they have done so to qualify themselves for an Office to serve a Turn or to save themselves from the Penal Laws LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1683. TO THE READER THe design of these Sheets is to satisfy the Consciences of those Dissenters that hold Communion with the Church of England unlawful beseeching them seriously to consider what is here said in order to the Church's Peace and to prevent their designed ruin by Learned and Holy Men that are of the Separation commonly called Independents I have quoted none of the Presbyterian Perswasion only in the business of kneeling at the Sacrament because it would be an endless work they generally both Ancient and Modern having asserted the lawfulness of at least Lay-Communion with the Church of England And besides I perceive their Arguments will not prevail with Independents who deny a National Church I know there are many that are convinced it is lawful to Hear Sermons but not the Liturgy as an imposed Form They may find here what the Reverend and Learned Dr. Owen says concerning Forms of Prayer in the latter end of these Sheets And whereas they complain the Church-Prayers are empty Forms I wish they would come and fill them with Spirit and Zeal But the greatest Scruple that hinders them is kneeling at the Sacrament and that which pinches them most is that this Gesture is said to be Adoration given to the Elements but they should consider what the Church says concerning that Gesture which me thinks should remove that Scruple and satisfy every reasonable Man in that particular which for their satisfaction I here quote at large Viz. Whereas it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the Lord's Supper that the Communicants should receive the same Kneeling which Order is well meant for a signification of our humble and grateful acknowledgment of the Benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy Receivers and for the avoiding of such prophanation and disorder in the Holy Communion as might otherwise ensue Yet lest the same Kneeling should by any Persons either out of ignorance and infirmity or out of malice and obstinacy be misconstrued and depraved It is here declared that thereby no adoration is intended or ought to be done either unto the Sacramental Bread and Wine there bodily received or unto any Corporal Presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remains still in their very natural substances and therefore may not be adored for that were Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in Heaven and not here it being against the truth of Christ's natural Body to be at one time in more places than one This Caution which wholly denies Transubstantiation together with that Prayer about the Gunpowder-Treason being now incorporated in our Liturgie do as Dr. Goodwin told a Reverend Doctor of the Church of England now living make it impossible there should be any Reconciliation with the Church of Rome The Reverend and Learned Mr. Perkins an old Puritan says to this effect That that Adoration used in the Sacrament is not terminated in the Elements but a token of Godly Reverence to Christ himself sitting in Glory c. Mr. Cartwright says also That a Man must not refuse to receive the Sacrament kneeling when he cannot have it otherwise Mr. Fenner speaks to the same purpose And the Learned Mr. Vines says That Gestures at Receiving are Moveables and not of the Free-hold of this Ordinance In short whether Men are satisfied in whole or in part I wish they would consider seriously what that excellent Man Mr. Jer. Burroughs a Congregational Divine says in his Irenicon pag. 182. viz. That one great dividing Practice hath been this That because Men cannot join in all things with others they will join in nothing Mr. PHILIP NY's Resolution of this Case of Conscience Viz. Whether we may lawfully hear the Now Conforming Ministers who are Re-ordained and have renounced the Covenant and some of them supposed to be scandalous in their Lives Answer FOr the Resolution of this Case there is a three-fold Consideration pertinent Consideration I. About the Duty it self Hearing the Word There are four ways by which at this Day the Great God conveyeth the knowledg of himself and his Mind unto sinful Man 1. His Works of Creation and Providence Psalm 19.2 2. The suggest of Conscience even the remainder of God's Image in us 3. The Word or Law of God written expounded or applyed in ordinary Preaching 4. The Church which is the Ground and Pillar of Truth the Knowledg of God and his Mind is more especially there held forth by the Gifts given and Offices therein appointed by Christ These are distinct Ways and Methods of God by which he is pleased to make known himself and we are obliged even by the Law of Nature to attend when God doth speak it is therefore an undoubted moral Duty to attend the speaking of God in whatsoever way by Providence brought unto us The Scripture with the Interpretation and Application thereof commonly termed Prophesying or Preaching is one of the forementioned Means by which God makes known himself to us this is a National Gift according as God in his Providence shall dispose Psal 147.19 20. Such National or Publick Preachers may be said to have their Call from Christ he having a hand in ordering the Motions of Providence for the Good of his Church John 5.17 And particularly in this Providential sending of Ministers Mat. 9.38 and this is the calling and sending mentioned Rom. 10.15 The Lord in these Administrations by Preachers thus sent according to the good Pleasure of his Will finds out a People before they seek him This is a dispensation of God to Men as his Creatures For Application to the Case The Word of God interpreted and apply'd by preaching in this providential way is a choice Mercy and Gift wherewith God hath blessed this Nation for many Years to the Conversion and Edification of many thousands The Governors thereof have successively according to their Light made divers good Laws and Statutes for improving this Mercy for the best advantage of the Nation as appears in that 1. There are Schools and Universities maintained for the bringing up of Persons in Learning also there is a constant setled Maintenance