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A35696	Jus Cæsaris et ecclesiæ vere dictæ or, A treatise wherein independency, presbytery, the power of kings, and of the church, or of the brethren in ecclesiastical concerns, government and discipline of the church : and wherein also the use of liturgies, tolleration, connivence, conventicles or private assemblies, excomminication, election of popes, bishops, priests what and whom are meant by the term church, 18 Matthew are discoursed : and how I Cor. 14. 32. generally misunderstand is rightly expounded : wherein also the popes power over princes, and the liberty of the press, are discoursed / by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing D1066; ESTC R9164	326,898	268

shall be accounted for a Law and hath confirmed it with an accursed Canon viz. that if any man shall say that by the Commandment of God or of necessity all and singular the Faithful of Christ ought to receive both kinds let him be Accursed They are not herewith content but they will impose upon us Five other Sacraments which God never ordained for Sacraments Baptism and the Eucharist Christ Instituted commanded and practised but for those other Five Supernumerary Additionals they are of Papal and not of Christs Institution Of the same Parentage is their leaving out of their ordinary Catechisms one Commandement of the Decalogue written with the Finger of God himself lest it should rise up in Judgment against them for their Idolatries and Superstition Non obstante Gods command Deut. 4.2 Ye shall not add unto the word that I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it that you may keep the Commandment of the Lord your God which I command you and Non obstante Rev. 22.18 19. If any man shall add to these things God shall add unto him the Plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this Book Which Devillish Arithmetick of adding and subtracting to and from Holy Writ being diametrically opposite to Gods Holy Word must proceed as the rest from their Father the Devil For had they acted and decreed by the Spirit of truth he would have led them into all saving truth But these are so far from that that they hold the Truth in unrighteousness and thange the Truth of God into Lies even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the Faith 2 Tim. 3.8 And in as much as in them lies do make void and null the everlasting Gospel of Christ and set up a new one of their own as one of their own Communion hath collected out of Palavicim's History of the Council of Trent All which considered I cannot but wonder and stand amazed with what confidence the Papalins can preach and write so contrary to the Word of truth of both Testaments with any hope to be believed of others or to be saved themselves thereby being forewarned by the Apostles themselves that tho they themselves or an Angel from Heaven should preach any other Gospel than that which we have preached let him be accursed Gal. 1.8 Let these suffice for should I rake farther I should cloy the Reader usque ad naus●am to make scrutiny into their other Doctrines Services and Ceremonies all of the same Father the old Serpent the Devil their Idolatry Pargatory Pardons Indulgencies Merits Works of Supererogation Transubstantiation Incredible Miracles Reliques Prayers for Souls departed Sacrifices for the Dead Pilgrimages distributing their Worship in their publique Masses to so many Saints of their own making more Prayers by many to Mary than to Christ and those to make yet more ridiculous in an unknown tongue and not without ridiculous Gesticulations Consecrations Exorcisins Whisperings Sprinklings Censings c. all phantastical tricks and juglings more besitting the Stages of Piginello or Merry Andrew than the Temple and Service of God Almighty § Do they bely themselves Papists imitate the Heathen in their Worship or do they not in their Worship imitate the very Heathens or have they not borrowed many of their absurd Ceremonies from the Worshippers and Sacrificers of the Heathen Gods Carol. Patin Imperat. Roman Numismata Edit Argentine 1671. so 296. inter nummos Caracallae tells us that the fourth Picture or Medal represents the Poutifical Insigns or Emblems viz. the Lituus or Divining-Staff the Secespita or Sacrificing-Knife the Vrceolum or Flagon the Capedo or Vessel for holding of Incence and the Aspergillum or Sprinkling-bush or Asperforium a Vessel with small holes to sprinkle the Holy-water The Romans used these in the Ceremonies of their Sacrifices The Lituus the constant Sign Note or Embleme of the Augur furnished us with the form of our Pastoral and Episcopal-Staff The Secespita used by the Flamins of both sexes where by the way take notice there were Religious Orders both of Men and Virgins and by the very Pontiffs their Sacrifices or when the Popae Popes slew the Victims as an Instrument unused in the Christian Religion because our Sacrifice is unbloodied The Patera which used to hold the Praecordia of the Victim retaineth the name of Patera in our Religion and is employed for the holding the body of our Saviour Christ The Vrceolus when great was called Vrc●um and was appropriated for the holding of Oil Wine Milk and Honey Our Priests use Vessels like to these for the holding of wine and water whilst they celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass The Capedo or Capedunculus differs very little from the Simpulum so called from its holding the Incence was used by the Priest or Pontifex in their Offering The Aspergillum was used by that Age when the people purified with Holy-water then called Aqua lustralis and we in our time retain the same Thus Virgil hath it Aeneid lib. 6. Ossaque tecta Cado texit Chorineus alieno Idem ter socios purà * Verbum lustrale circumtulit undâ Spargens rora leni ramo foelicis Olivae Lustravitque viros dixitque novissima verba Chorineus did his bones in brass inclose And thrice about with Holy-water goes Purging his friends which sprinkingly he cast From happy Olive boughs then spake his last So Ovid 2. Fast Ah nimium faciles qui tristia crimina caedis Tolli stuminea posse putatis aquâ Ah silly souls that deem the guilt of murder Purified may be by Popes (a) Popes Holy-water Holy-water Lustration was nècessary to sacrifice without which they could not sacrifice nor exercise any Religious Rites So Juno returning from Hell was purged by Iris before she went to Heaven Ovid Met. lib. 4. In omnibus sacris Sacerdos quum diis immolat rem divinam facit prius corporis ablutione purgatur c. Alex. ab Alex. lib. 4. c. 17. § The Romish Ordinance of Hallowing and Consecrating Consecrations and Exorcisms and Exorcising relates and appertains to many things as it plainly appeareth Every seventh day which we call Sunday when there be many people in the Church assembled the Priest exorciseth as they term it first Salt after Water And when he hath mixed the Salt and the Water together he sprinkleth the People therewith which springling is believed to give health both to Body and (b) Haec Aqua benedicta deleat mihi mea delicta according to the Monkish Rhyme Soul and to drive away the deceits of the devil and purify not only Men but also things without life For it is cast upon the ground and on stones

the Son of a Boarnerges yet fury he hated sire and faggot were none of his principles after much solemn deliberation chose to Steer his Course in a mild and gentle way and therefore first recalled those that had abandoned the Kingdom and released the Imprisoned because they would not submit to Romish superstition and corruptions that they might enjoy that liberty of Conscience for which they had suffered extremities in his Fathers time and that they might be serviceable to him in the furtherance of the work of Reformation and forthwith without staying for the return of the Banished he smoothed the way to the intended work by setting out some preparatory Injunctions yet extant which were sent abroad into all parts of the Kingdom by certain Commissioners or Visitors attended by Godly and Learned Preachers appointed to instruct the People where they were to sit and Act the better to facilitate the work that the people might not cool or relapse these Preachers were more particularly instructed besides the points contained in the said Injunctions to disswade the People from Praying to Saints to the dead from Adoring of Images from the use of Beads Ashes and Processions from Mass Dyrgies Praying in unknown Languages c. all which was done to prepare the People by little and little that with the more ease and less opposition they might insensibly admit the total intended Alteration in the Face of the Church In the whole Progress they did deem it best to remove those things first which were least needful and newliest crept in and therefore did Abrogate a number of Sts. dayes and recalled the Latine Services and all Antiphoneys Missals Grailes Processionals Manuals Legends Pies Portuasies Journals and Ordinals after the use of Sarum Lincolne York Bangor Hereford or any other of Private use and all other Books of Service that might hinder the Service in English and so Established the Liturgy which was also Translated into the French for the use of the Marches of Calais and the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey famous for that unparallel'd Martyrdom of Perotine Massey who being great with Child was in the Marian dayes there committed to the Flames amidst which her Belly bursting and her Child falling into the Fire was like a Brand pluckt forth thereof by one William House but was presently ramanded again to the flames by Gosling the Baily that it might have the Honour which never any had before to be born as well as dye a Martyr Articles of Religion and discipline Catechisms Churches cleansed of things burthensom to the People offensive and scandalous to the Simple to which God gave such Blessings and Success that many Papists considering the reasonableness and purity of the Worship frequented our Churches and turn'd Protestants others tho Papists still frequented our Churches until the Pope made it a signum distinctivum and then many return'd with the Dog to the Vomit and with the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the Mire unto their old Idolatrous and Superstitious fopperies again Tho this most worthy Prince by his wise and moderate Council and management brought that great that difficult that admirable work of Reformation to such excellent perfection in so short time that this Nation hath found the Blessing and comfort of it ever since even to this very day yet doth it not escape the private reproach of this Author among others tho elsewhere he seem also in some part to approve it who would have us remember that our Reformers were but men who never claimed Infallibility and that the Reformation was performed by men which never claimed perfection f. 36. that the Book of Common Prayer became a bone of contention from its very Cradle to this Nation and unto other parts of the World many of the People and Ministers seeming to be enlightned with a beam of truth with an equal luster and brightness with that which shined in the minds of their Brethren wholly decrying that prudential Complyance with the Peoples Ignorance and Adherence to Popery and which Considerations he supposes ought to prevail with sober men to take the whole matter of the Imposition of this or the like form once more under a Sedate Consideration f. 40.41 § It is true that our Reformers were but Men that they never claimed Infallibility nor their work perfection such perfection as God promises Isay 35.8 a High way of Holyness throughout this Land that Way-faring men tho Fools should not err therein yet such perfection as the wisdom of the wise and Godly of those times and the posture of Affairs then could devise and would admit of we humbly conceive they had and ought so to be esteemed But is not he that Objects these and were not those great Luminaries he minds us of Men subject to like Passions and Infirmities with their Brethren or is he or were they any more Infallible than those he Objects against If not so nor so why so quarrelsom why so Captious O! to have the whole matter taken once more into a Sedate Consideration The request I confess is modest and mannerly and not without Reverence and it shall be considered with like respects By this Discourse of his he seems to me to be of Opinion happily not erroneous viz. That there is no such Contrariety between the different Opinions of the Assenters and Dissenters in point of Liturgies and things indifferent but that some moderation and connivance may be indulged to the Dissenters without peril of Inconvenience to the Government and that without it these petty differences and trifles may accidentally foment Divisions and disturb the quiet State of the Kingdom and therefore the more prudent and safe way were to connive at least by a prudent Neutrality between the Contrarieties and take care that none do Condemn the other nor yet the present Government but that all do live peacibly and Piously together In the dayes of Luther many moderate Popish Princes were of the same Opinion and that many of the Modern Innovators Opinions might have been tollerated if they had been modestly Maintained without Condemning the Church of Rome and the Doctrine of the Schools which constrained Leo to retort against Luther those Arrows which he had first Shot against the Apostolick See But what more usual in all Countries Ages and Times than for Innovators by Petition nay by Protestation to shew willingness to refer themselves and to submit to a Sedate Consideration nay even for Papists themselves in their Differences and Disputes which are not few as may be seen in Bellum Papale to refer themselves to the Pope yet neither the one nor the other ought to be believed that he or they have a purpose to acquiesce if a neat and sit occasion be offered to evade Of this great truth the Arrians the Dominicans and Franciscans Jansenists and Molinists indeed all Sects and Heresies give abundant Testimony nay of this Luther himself was a Manifest example who while he had to do only with