thereof as differ from the Liturgy of the Church of Rome such principall parts of the said diuine Seruice are here to bee iustified to bee established amongst vs according to that Doctrine which our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles haue deliuered For performance whereof it is to be vnderstood that there are sundry points of Religion set downe in the said booke whereof no pretended Catholique is supposed to make any doubt Of this sort it is that the said Booke appointeth the reading of the holy Scriptures of both the Testaments and particularly out of the old Testament of the Law of the two Tables contayning the ten Commandements of Almighty God and out of the new Testament of the Lords Prayer Of like kinde also it is that in the same our faith in many of the highest and most sacred mysteries of Christian Religion is declared and professed in three of the most ancient and notable Confessions of Christian faith that haue beene gathered out of the Scriptures in any former ages Of which Confessions or Creedes as they are commonly called the first and most ancient is that which vsually is called the Apostles Creede because it containeth many principall points of the Doctrine of the Apostles and in a great part followeth from one degree to another the Story of the Gospell concerning the sundry degrees of the humiliation and glory of our Sauiour Christ The other two are somewhat larger declarations of the same points of doctrine that are in the former of which Confessions or Creedes the one is of Athanasius that resolute constant Professor of Christ worthy in honour to be immortall in the Church according to his name The other the Creede set forth by the first and most famous oecumenicall Councell of Nice Besides these though not expressed in this booke the Lawes of England so receiue the holy determinations of all the first foure generall Councels in that they agreeably to the Scriptures determined of the doctrine concerning Christs two natures of God and Man and of the Vnity of his Person and of the Godhead of the holy Ghost against the damnable Heresies of Arius Nestorius Eutyches and Macedonius as they ordaine punishment by death vpon any that shall obstinately maintaine the foresaid Heresies Moreouer the said booke appointeth the order for the administration of both the Sacraments instituted by our Sauiour Christ as signes and seales of the Gospell of Christ and of the righteousnes that is by Faith viz. Baptisme the Sacrament of our new birth and the Lords Supper the Sacrament of our continuall nourishment by him to life euerlasting Finally the same booke containeth besides the Lords prayer the true rule and direction whereby all other are framed many other godly prayers for all estates and degrees and applied to the confession of our sins to the administration of the Sacraments and other like occasions of the Church Thus farre of such particulars as it is to be thought no Christian doubteth but that they are from God Wherefore the proofe to bee made seemeth needfull only in such points as our Church hath reformed in the Religion and Liturgie professed and vsed in the Church of Rome Now therefore the principall things of difference betweene our diuine Sâ—ruice and the Liturgie of the Church of Rome follow to be considered in the principall parts thereof after that two points haue beene debated which are to be regarded in them all whereof the former is the subiect or person that is to say who it is that with Sâ—ruice of Religion ought to be serued and worshiped by vs * In the Church of England God only is worshipped with diuine seruice not any creature or dead things as Images reliques suâ—n like in England by publique Authority with Diuine seruice the law intendeth that onely the true eternall God the Almighty creatour of heauen and earth and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ is to be religiously serued and honored by vs. For which cause it is ordained that the word of God be read and expounded that his Sacraments bee administred and that all our prayers be made to God and to God alone And by like Authority there are learned Homilies set out declaring and prouing that to worship creatures in themselues or in their Images and to haue them in Churches is not lawfull Now in some former time by the authority of the Sea of Rome our Churches Temples in England were wont to bee full of Images some representing God the sacred Mystery of the Persons in the Godhead and some representing Iesus Christ both otherwise and specially as hee was crucified besides these there was also almost an innumerable multitude of Images representing the Saints departed out of this life besides many other of whose Christian vertues there appeared little proofe And as these Images were brought into the Churches so they were by like authority serued and worshiped with garments ornaments kissing kneeling creeping candlelight censing reading their Legends finging Anthemes and making prayers to them and to their honour or at least to their honour that were represented by them Which being so it is to bee considered what our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles taught concerning the subiect of diuinâ— Seruice that so it might appeare that our Religion and manner of seruing God in England is the same in this respect that was taught by them and that the other of the Sea of Rome is directly contrary to their Doctrine Our Sauiour Chist taught that God is a Spirit Ioh. 4.23 24. and that whosoeuer will worship him aright must worship him in spirit and truth whereby it is plaine that the Godhead or any person of the Godhead cannot be represented by an Image For if no Art of a man can truely represent the soule of a man because it is a spirituall substance which no bodily thing can truly represent much lesse can the spirituall substance of God be represented which without all comparison is more simple Rom. 1. verse 18. to 24 25. For which cause the Apostle saith that the Gentiles representing God by creatures were guilty of lying and turned that which God truely is into a false resemblance In which respect also the Prophets call such Images teachers of lyes Hab. 2.18.19 Ier. 10.8 which is manifest so to be because it is a false representation to represent Eternity by that which had a beginning incorruption by that which is corruptible the creator by the creature and that more false then if a man would repâ—esent the day by the night light by darkenesse and life by death Moreouer Rom. 1.24 to the end the Apostle there teacheth that God held himselfe so highly dishonoured thereby as for that cause he gaue them ouer to their owne lusts to dishonour themselves with all kinde of shamefull dishonour and abhominable iniquities Whereunto the sâ—me Apostle doth adde in another place 1 Cor. 6.9 that Idolaters shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Reuel
ENGLANDS IVSTIFICATION FOR HER RELIGION Wherein it is maintayned to be the same our Saviour Iesus Christ hath taught us Presented to the High Court of Parliament By a Well-wisher of Peace in the Church and happinesse to the Kingdome Acts. 24.14 This I professe unto thee that according to the way which they call Heresie so doe I serve the God of my Fathers beleeving all things which hath beene written in the Law and in the Prophets Vigilius against Euryches lib. 1. This is the Catholique Faith and Profession which the Apostles have delivered which the Martyrs have confirmed and which the Faithfull preserve even to this present age Printed at London 1641. The Contents of the seuerall Chapters of this Booke CHap 1. The summe of our Religion professed in England pag. 1. Chap. 2. The particulars of our Religion professed in England pag. 3. Chap. 3. Diuine Seruice is to bee administred in a language which the people vnderstand pag. 18. Chap. 4. Of the reading and expounding to the people the word of God and not the Legends and Fables of men pag. 29. Chap. 5. Of Preaching pag. 35. Chap. 6. Of Sacraments pag. 41. Chap. 7. Of Baptisme pag. 43. Chap. 8. Of the Lords Supper pag. 44. Chap. 9. Of Prayer pag. 56. Chap. 10. Of Martyrs pag. 68. FINIS The vvriting occasioning this Treatise I Desire to haue it proued that the Religion now professed in England is the same which our Sauiour Christ taught his Apostles and they preached ouer all they world and conuerted thousands at one Sermon vnto Jf it be the same then there may bee some named that suffered for it For it is not likely that so many thousands which were conuerted to the true Faith should all be destroyed and no mention made of them in ancient Histories A IVSTIFICATION OF THE RELIGION NOW PROFESSED IN ENGLAND CHAP. I. The summe of our Religion professed in England TO proue that is here desired had beene sooner done if the matter had concerned onely some particular poynts of our Religion professed in England but now the proofe required being general without any limitation and restraint and extending it selfe to our whole Religion it must first bee shewed what Religion we professe and then such proofe is to bee made of the same as is here demanded both summarily and in some principall parts thereof First that our Sauiour and his Apostles taught the same then that the Martyrs mentioned in ancient Histories gaue testimony to the same by their death For clearing of the former point it is here to bee vnderstood Acts 24.14 First that Religion is the way and immediate duety whereby men serue God And further that true Religion and the right way to serue G d is that onely which God hath reuealed to men Now God spake to the Fathers in old time by the Prophets declaring his will herein by peece-meale or by sundry parts and in sundry manners but in these last dayes saith the Apostle he hath spoken to vs by his Sonne Heb. 1.1 that is by Iesus Christ In which words the nature of the opposition of these two reuelations of the will of God declareth that by Iesus Christ his onely Sonne God hath reuealed his will concerning true Religion and the right way to worshippe and serue him not any more by parts but wholly and fully nor in any manner that may be after changed as was the worship of the Fathers but in a manner certaine vnchangeable and to remaine for euer This Religion our Sauiour Iesus Christ first taught in his owne sacred person as it is declared in the history of the Gospell written by foure witnesses two Apostles and two Euangelists after by his commandement his holy Apostles preached and published the same Religion to all Nations For the preaching whereof vnto them while they yet remained at Ierusalem Acts 1.5 8. according to his promise they were baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire By which holy Spirits inspiration Acts 2.3 4. they being clothed with power from aboue and hauing receiued the miraculous gift to speake with strange languages and a mighty increase of all spirituall graces needfull for that seruice so spake of the great workes of God to the Iewes that from all parts of the world were come to Ierusalem that the same day there were added to the Church about 3000. persons Acts 2.4.1 Acts 8.1 After by reason of the persecution that was raised against those that receiued their doctrine and other occasions that God disposed their doctrine was published in diuerse Countries Acts 11.26 and at Antioch in Syria so preuailed that there first the Disciples were naâ—ed Christians of Christ whose Religion they receiued of which beginning and proceeding of the Gospell to the time of the Apostle Pauls imprisonment at Rome the Euangelist Luke hath written the vndoubted certainty in his history of the Acts of the Apostles which story is inlarged by that was written also hereof by some of the Apostles themselues in their Epistles and also in the Reuelation By which sacred bookes of the new Testament it most certainly and manifestly appeareth what the religion and doctrine was which our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles taught and Christian Churches after professed that continued in their doctrine And this is summarily that most holy faith and true Christian religion which is now professed in England and established by publique Authority Thus summarily answers is made to that is here desired CHAP. II. The particulars of our Religion professed in England NOw for further satisfaction in the particular points of our Religion now professed in England it is to be vnderstood that there are two bookes established by publique and highest authority amongst vs wherein are declared the particular points of Christian Religion as they now are receiued and professed in England the one of these is intituled the booke of Articles of Christian Religion agreed in the Conuocation in the yeere of our Lord 1562. In which booke is declared shortly in seuerall Articles the whole doctrine of Faith and of the Sacraments which we professe The other is the booke of diuine Seruice and common Prayer wherein is set downe the whole order whereby we serue God publiquely in our Churches In these two or in either of them for substance is contained the declaration of our Religion wherefore if the Religion deliuered in either of these bâ—e prooued to bee the same which Christ and his Apostles taught and that which for any part whereof true Martyrs of ancient time haue suffered then is that prooued which is here desired which proofe at this time it seemeth most conuenient to be made especially of the booke of diuine Seruice For the Law with vs requireth especially to serue God according to such forme as is established by Authority and set downe in the booke of diuine Seruice and common Prayer Therefore to yeeld satisfaction to such Romane Catholique Recusants as are offended at such parts
here to set downe that which is reported by Epiphanius himselfe and is translated by Ierome Epiphanius in his letter to Iohn the Bishop of Ierusalem writeth hereof in this manner I found in a Church at Anablatha a veile hanging in the doore of the Church stained and painted and hauing the Image as of Christ or of some holy man for I do not well remember whose Image it was Therefore when I saw the Image of a man to hang in the Church of Christ contrary to the authority of the Scriptures I cut it in peeces and gaue counsell to the Keepers of the place rather to winde it vp and carry out to buriall in it some poore man deceased And a little after I pray you command that such veiles bee not hanged in the Church of Christ which are against our Religion Here might bee shewed the story from what beginning and by what degrees this corruption entered and prevailed in the Church till at length the second councell of Nice directly against the word of God and all ancient practise of the Church decreed the setting vp of Images in the Churches and worshipping of them For that the Doctrine of our Sauiour Christ and of his Apostles was contrary hereunto the same which our Church in England doth teach and maintaine whereof here is question hath bene already declared Therefore touching the first point of our religion in diuine seruice which concerneth the subiect which is that God onely is to be religiously worshipped not Images or yet any creature whatsoeuer Thus it hath bene proued which was disired that our Religion herein is that which the Lord Iesus himselfe his most faithfull ministers the Apostles taught and deliuered Now followeth the second poynt of those which are common to all diuine Seruices that is in what language or tongue it is to be performed wherein the doctrine and practise of our Church in England is that it be administred in a speech knowne and vnderstood by all the people In which practise it is now to bee shewed that wee haue our Religion in this respect in like manner from Christ and his Apostles teaching and ordaining such administration of it CHAP. III. Diuine Seruice is to be administred in a language which the people vnderstand OVr Sauiour Christ performed his owne Ministery in a speech vnderstood by all the people for hee read and expounded the Scriptures to them in a tongue which they vnderstood as it appeareth Luke 4. He prayed also in like manner Iohn 17. Further also in saying Heare yee Moyses and the Prophets he commandeth the reading and exposition of their writings to bee performed in a language that might be vnderstood for otherwise they could not heare them with any vnderstanding but should be as deafe men whereas his meaning there is that they should so heare as they might be taught thereby and forewarned to gouern the course of their life as they might avoyd the torments of hell Likewise hee taught his Disciples to pray in a tongue which they vnderstood and in them so instructed all other that should be his Disciples after to call vpon God in a speech knowne by them both in the Forme he taught them saying When ye pray say thus Our Father c. and by the direction of that prayer to make all our petitions priuate and publike Instituting also the Sacrament of Baptisme hee commanded his Disciples Math. 28. To preach the Gospell vnto all nations and to baptize such as should beleeue which teaching and beleeuing necessarily implyeth the vse of a speech known in the administration of Baptisme In like manner he instituted and administred the Sacrament of his Supper amongst his Disciples in a speech which they vnderstood and charged them as oft as they should doe the like to preach his death vntill his comming againe wherefore it is plaine that he intended the Sacraments should not bee dumbe showes and spectacles but that they should bee so administred as the people might know and vnderstand the meaning of them Finally after his ascension amongst other spiritual graces Acts 2. he indued the Apostles with the guift of tongues whereby the same day they spake to the Iewes that were then from all nations assembled at Ierusalem the great acts and mighty works of God For it is expressly written and that the people maruelled that they heard them speake euery one in the language of the Countrey wherein they had been borne By which miraculous guift bestowed first vpon the Apostles then after vpon many other and by such vse of it in teaching the people of euery nation in their owne language it is manifest that our Sauiour Christs ordinance is that diuine Seruice should bee administred in a speach vnderstood by all the people This is also confirmed in that the Apostle Paul in his former Epistle to the Corinthians Chap. 14. saith that the ordinances set downe by him in that place amongst which this was one that no man should speake in the Church and Assembly of the people a strange language not vnder stood by them except it were interpreted are the commandements of the Lord that is of Iesus Christ Thus then it appeareth to be the practise and ordinance of Christ that diuine Seruice should be administred in a speech which the people vnderstand Now that the Apostles taught the same is likewise manifest for first that their practise was such appeareth Acts 2. Where hauing receiued the guift of tongues they imployed it rightly to that end for which it was giuen and spake to men of diuers tongues in the language of the Country wherein they were borne And this was the generall practise of the Apostles as appeareth in the booke of their Acts. Now the Apostle Paul debating this matter at large 1 Cor. 14. not onely teacheth manifestly that all diuine Seruice should bee performed in the Church in a speech which the people vnderstand but confirmeth this doctrine by many reasons In which discourse it appeareth that diuine Seruice ought to bee administred to Gods glory verse 47. For it being the Lords cōmandemēt that it should be so performed as the Apostle there calleth it it is for the glory of God that with all due obedience it be so performed Besides this the reason of this commandement doth likewise proue it which is that by such meanes the knowledge of God is enlarged Acts 2. the great and marueilous workes of God as his Creation Prouidence redemption of the world by his onely begotten Sonne his lawes and his commandements the promises of the Gospell preached in the Word set out in the Sacraments which are of forgiuenesse of sinnes of life and immortality to euery one that beleeueth and such like are made knowne to men to Gods vnspeakeable glory as it was by the Apostles By that meanes also the people vnderstand the prayers and thanksgiuing which are made by the minister yeeld therin consent to such services of God
vnderstood by the people is profitable for them and fit to further them in the knowledge faith and obedience of God and as honorable to God by making knowne his goodnesse mercy Iustice greatnesse and peâ—fection in all respects vnto his Church and people This is confirmed also at large by the Apostle Paul in his former Epistle to the Corinthians Chap. 14 as it hath beened clared Hereunto may bee added that it appeareth by the 33 and 36. verses that the Apostle ordayned thus in all other Churches that were taught by him and that the Church of Corinth in that disorder differed both from the Church of Ierusalem and from all other Churches that at that time had receiued the Gospell Further also it appeareth that in all ages before the true Church serued God with knowledge and vnderstanding of that was taught them and yeelded to God their Seruice in such sort as they knew what duty it was which they performed vnto him For first almighty God himselfe deliâ—ered the two tables of the tenne commandements in that speach which the people vnderstood After also by his commandement often times repeated both Moyses and the Priests Exo. 19 9. Exo. 20.18.19 Deut. 5 10 11 28 29.30 c. are charged to teach the people to heare and know learne and obserue the low of God Particularly the law commanded that the King should write the coppy of the law in a booke coppied out of that booke which was kept by the leuitical Priests Deut. 6.1 2 3. c. wherein he is charged to reade all the dayes of his life chap. 17.18 19. Deut. 12.1.27.1 c. 29.1 c. that he may learne to feare the Lord his God and to obserue and doe all his commandements In many places of the bookes of Moyses and especially in the booke of Deut. it is sayd that Moyses taught all the people the commandements and statutes which the Lord had deliuered vnto him Ios 1.10 11. c. Iosuah in like manner dealt with all the people instructing and exhorting them to the obseruation of the statutes which God had deliuered vnto them In the like manner did Dauid 1 Chron. 16.2 4 7 35 36 37. and all the Prophets deliuering Psalmes and other bookes of Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue for the publique vse of the Church of Israell which they had indited in the Hebrew tongue the common speech of all the people Likewise Solomon 1 Chton 25.2 5 28.2 8. c. 1 Kings â—â— 55 57 58 61 62. Dauids son at the dedication of the Temple which hee had builded made his solemne prayers and publique supplications vnto God in the hearing of all the people in their owne Hebrew tongue which they best vnderstood And of Iosias it is also particularly recorded 2 Kings 22.11 23.2 3. c. that hee read in the hearing of all the people from the greatest to the least of them all the words of Gods Couenant which had beene found in the house of the Lord. After the captiuity also wee reade Ezra 8.21 9.5 â— 10.1 that Ezra at a publique feast once or twice made his earnest supplication vnto God for all the people they hearing and so vnderstanding him that men women and children wept and lamented exceedingly And in the booke of Nehemiah it is written Ezra did reade the booke of the law of God from morning to mid-day before all the people men women and all that for vnderstanding were fit to heare and that all the people was attentiue to the booke of the law and when Ezra blessed all the people said Amen Nehe. 8.2 3 4 7 8 9 10 c. Amen with lifting vp their hands and bowing downe their heads they worshipped God with their faces towards the ground In the time of our Sauiour Christ the Apostle Iames sayth Moyses was read and preached euery Sabbath in the Synagogues Acts 15.21 13.15 of which custome wee reade an example in the 13 of the Asts where it is said that after the reading of the law and the Prophets Paul and Barnabas were willed to exhort the people Of the example of our Sauiour Christ it is expresly written as hath beene touched before Luke 4.16 17 21 22. that hee entred into the Synagogue of Nazareth vpon the sabbath day as his manner was and there standing vp to reade when the booke of the Prophet Esay had beene deliuered to him hee opened it and read that which is written in the begining of the 61 Chap. of that Prophecy And further that hauing deliuered againe the booke hee sate downe and the eyes of all that were in the Synogogue were bent vpon him To whom hauing sayd that that Scripture was fulfiled that day in their hearing they all bare him witnesse that it was so and maruelled at the speeches full of grace that proceeded out of his mouth The like practise of the Apostles in their Liturgie and publique ministry in the Church at Ierusalem appeareth in the booke of the Acts and namely in these places Acts 2 4 7 8 14 22 37 38 40 41 42 46 47. Throughout the same booke and likewise in all Epistles of the Apostles it is playne that this was their practise amongst the dispersed Iewes and the Churches of the Gentiles as of the Romanes Corinthians and the rest yea that they did so ordaine in all Churches in their time 1 Cor. 14.33 36 37. For the time succeeding it appeareth by the Apologeticall writings of Iustin Martyr Tertullian and others that the Liturgies in their time were such as the people vnderstood The like appeareth in Ierome who was so desirous to further the knowledge of Religion in the common sort as hee translated the Scriptures into the Dalmaticall Sclauonian tongue for the vse of his Country men Origens Hexapla and Octopla bookes setting out the Scripture in so many diuers translations witnesse the like care and desite in him And of others Augustine writeth that the Latine translations were not to be numâ—red The Liturgies that go vnder the name of Basil and Chrysostome declare also that in the time wherein they were written when soeuer it was for they cannot be of their time but latter the Church vnderstood the Scripture Prayer Thankesgiuing and other parts of diuine Seruice that was administred amongst them And in the East Church it continued so â—â—long time as appâ—areth by many exhortations of Chrysostome and other of the Greeke Teachers to the reading of the Scriptures and by some parts of the Liturgie whereof mention is made in their writings So did it like wise long continue in the West Church euen till almost all things were corrupted and that darkenesse had ouer cast the face of the heauens and taken the light thereof from these parts of the earth namely in the Church of Romeâ— which howsoeuer it hath preuailed and continued a long time in diuers parts and especially in these of the West yet in this
should feed his sheepe Finally they smally regard either the promise of the Garland that neuer withereth or the threatning of the punishment of the vnfaithful seruant that is to bee cut in two and to receiue his portion with Hypocrits and Infidels Thus as these enormities are iustly reprooued so our contrary proceedings in England are iustified in the care that is held that the doctrine preached should bee holy and true and that the preachers should faithfully and diligently instruct the people in the same And thus much of the word of God both read and preached in our Churches in England CHAP. VI. Of Sacraments IT followeth to consider of the Sacraments and of prayer Concerning the Sacraments our Church in England doth professe that they are in nature holy signes and seales of the doctrine of the Gospell and of the righteousnesse that is by faith thereof In number also wee professe that there are two viz. Baptisme and the Lords Supper And that our Religion herein is that which Christ and his Apostles taught is thus proued That Iesus Christ ordayned these two Sacraments is most manifest in the Gospell wherein is declared both that Christ ordained these two and in what manner hee appoynted them to bee administred We reade also in the Gospell Math 28.19 20. 26.26 and in other bookes of the new Testament that the Apostles accordingly did administer them both But of any other Sacrament wee reade not that either our Sauiour Christ ministred and ordained any nor that the Apostles did administer any other As for those fiue which the Sea of Rome addeth to the number of the Sacraments some of them wee acknowledge to bee holy ordinances and states of life allowed in the Scripture but haue not like nature with Baptisme and the Lords Supper and some haue beene brought into the Church vpon a corrupt following of examples not intended for Sacraments But because this question is at large debated in answer to another question concerning this matter it may suffice to haue said thus much in generall touching the Sacraments Concerning the Sacraments as farre as we differ from the Sea of Rome and haue reformed the abuses thereof in the administration of them wee administer them in the English speech with declaration of the chiefe doctrines signed by them wherein our Religion and practise is according to the word of God For it hath beene Gods good pleasure alwayes that the Sacraments should not be as dumbe shewes and spectacles but so administred as the people might bee taught to vnderstand what were the Doctrines that were signed and confirmed by them This was also the Doctrine of our Sauiour Christ as appeareth by this that giuing charge to his Apostles heereof he saith Teach all Nations Math. 28.19 baptising them declaring thereby that the meaning and Doctrine for confirmation whereof hee ordained Baptisme should bee declared And of the Sacrament of his Supper saith As oft as yee doe this 1 Cor. 11.26 shew forth the Lords death till he come And againe Doe yee this in remembrance of me Now Christ taught the Doctrine of that ordinance which hee there instituted and deliuered Such was also the Doctrine of the Apostles in all places of the New Testament that make mention of their Doctrine and administration of the Sacraments of Baptisme Act. 2.38.41 10.47 4â— Act â—0 7 and of the Lords Supper CHAP. VII Of Baptisme PArticularly concerning Baptisme wee administer it without adding thereunto exorcisme or adiuring the diuell to goe out of the child Because it is not written that our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles vsed any such ceremony or appointed any such to be vsed in the administration of it Further also because it is a superstitious ceremony in sundry respects and grounded vpon a false supposition that the infants that are to bee baptized are possessed with the diuell For our Sauiour saith that Theirs is the kingdome of heauen Math. 19.14 1 Cor. 7.14 And the Apostle Paul saith that The children of Christian Parents are holy yea though but one of their Parents be a Christian and faithfull And wee administer Baptizme without exorcisme or adiuration so doe wee likewise without salt spittle creame honny oyle Chrisme Candlelight c. Which Ceremonies wee doe not vse in the administration of Baptizme 1. Because there is neither commandement nor example of the vse of any of them giuen in the Scriptures by our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles 2. Because wee haue sufficient commandement in the Scriptures for the administration of it that is without any of these 3. Because wee haue many examples in the Scripture of such as were lawfully and duly baptized without the vse of any of these Act. 2.41 and 10 48. 16 33. 4. These are the deuices of men added to the ordinances of Christ and to the worship of God according to which inuentions it is not lawfull to serue God Thus it appeareth that our Religion in this part also is according to the Doctrine and practice of our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles CHAP. VIII Of the Lords Supper IT followeth now to speake of the Lords Supper which is the other Sacrament of the new Testament In the administration of which Sacrament the order vsed by the Church of England is after due preparation by euery ones tryall of themselues in faith and repentance to administer it with declaration of the institution of Christ and of the doctrine signed and confirmed by it in the English tongue that all the people may vnderstand We doe also administer it in both kinds of bread and wine Further the minister doth take the bread and giue thanks breake it and deliuer it to the communicants Likewise hee taketh the cup and after thanks-giuing powreth out the wine in the cup to bee deliuered to all that are to bee partakers of the communion The people that doe communicate receiue the bread and eate it and the wine likewise and drinke it Now the end and vse of all this is added hereunto which is in generall the solemne commemoration of the death of Christ In particular and that first in regard of God and of his Sonne Iesus Christ to magnifie the goodnesse of God in not sparing to giue his onely begotten Sonne for the redemption of the world and to giue him most due thankes for such his vnspeakable grace and mercy It is likewise to glorifie our Sauiour Christ and to giue thankes for his exceeding loue to mankind in that for our redemption he hath vouchsâ—fed to humble himselfe to take vpon him our nature and the forme of a Seruant and in that nature to humble himselfe for vs euen to the death and that the accurssed death of the Crosse In respect of men viz both of all other to professe our Christian faith and also in regard of our seluâ—s that our faith and by iâ— our Communion with Christ may be increased whereby wee may bee made more and more partakers of