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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10179	Certaine quæres propounded to the bowers at the name of Iesvs and to the patrons thereof. Wherein the authorities, and reasons alleadged by Bishop Andrewes and his followers, in defence of this ceremony, are briefly examined and refuted; the mistranslation of Phil. 2.10.11. cleared, and that tet, with others acquitted both from commanding or authorizing this novell ceremony, here gived to be unlawfull in sundry respects.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20456; ESTC S103164	42,726	52

ever the Bishop objects against it Whether Calvin Marlorat Bishop Alley Doctor Whitaker Bishop Babington Doctor Fulk Doctor Willet Doctor Ayry and other domestick Divines in their authorized workes resolved not in expresse termes that the bowing at the name of Iesus in time of Divine service and sermons is not a dutie either warranted by grounded on or commanded in this Text That the Sorbon Sophisters Papists Iesuites are more then ridiculous and absurd who will inferre and prove this Ceremony from it That it is an absurd and idle consequent and nonsequitur not deducible from it the name Iesus being neither the name nor this kinde of bowinge the bowing intended in the Text That those who used this Ceremony make the name of Iesus a kinde of magicall word which hath all its efficacy included in the sounde if so as they all doe then how absurd ridiculous superstitious and magicall are those who deduce such consequences from the Text now Whether this Ceremony of bowinge at the name Iesus in time of divine Service or Sermons be enjoined or prescribed in the Booke of common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England if not which is most certaine whether those Bishops and Ministers who use or presse this Ceremony upon others or preach in defence of it or any others not prescribed in that Booke contrary to the expresse statute of 1. Eliz. c. 2. which enacts that no Person Vicar Minister or Curate shall use and no other person or persons enforce or perswade any of them to use any other Rite or Ceremonie in saying of Mattens Evensonge or administringe the Sacraments then such as are prescribed in the Booke of common Prayer before which this Act is printed under paine of imprisonment and o●her forfeitures have not thereby incurred the severall penalties mentioned in that Statute And whether they are not more conformable to the Lawes and established doctrine and discipline of the Church of England who refuse to use this Ceremony then all or any of those who thus enforce or practise it contrary to the provision of Statute which inhibits it the Booke of common Prayer wherein all the ceremonies by Law and Parliament established in the Church of England are comprised so farre forth as concernes Divine Service Sacraments and Preachinge together with our Homilies and Articles of Religion not so much as mentioninge or requiringe it and so in truth exploding it by their silence Obj. If any object that the 18. Canon enjoynes it therefore it must be used Answ. I answere first that the Canon speakes not one word of bowinge or cappinge at the name Jesus but only saith That when in time of Divine Service the Lord Iesus not the name Iesus which is not the Lord Iesus shall be mentioned Due and Lowly reverence not putting off the cap since this Canon enjoynes all to si●t uncovered in the Church sh●ll be ●one by all persons present as h●th bene accustomed c. The Canon therefore speaking only of the Lord Iesus not of the name Iesus and of due reverence that is such as God requires in his Word not of bowing the knee or vaylinge the Bonnet which God no where prescribes or requires as due to Christ makes nothing for this purpose 2. The Canon if it doth any thing only adviseth it by way of direction not simply commands it as necessary to be obeyed Leavinge it arbitrary to men to use or not to use it and prescribinge no penaltie to those who shall omitt it Whence Archbishop Bancrofi in his Visi●ation Articles not long af●er the Canon made doth wholy omitt the urging or inquirie after the use of this Ceremony Bishop Andrewes● being the first that ever gave it in charg in Visitation Articles at least 16. yeares after its first compiling 3. These Canons were never confirmed by Act of Parliament or consented to by the temporall Lords and Commons but by the Major parte of the Prelates and Clergy in Convocation and that with much opposition of Bish●p Rudde and others of the better though the weaker side Therefore they are no wayes obligatorie or binding in point of L●w either to the Clergy or Laity neither can they controll the Statute of 1. Eliz. c. 2. or Booke of common Prayer thereby establi●hed by prescribinge new Ceremonies in time of Divine Service and Sermons not mentioned in that Booke and Statute the Ceremonies whereof being confined and limited by Parliament can neither be altered nor multiplyed but by Parliament which hath the hole power and right of makinge Lawes and Canons to binde the Subjects as well in Ecclesiasticall and religious as temprall matters as Bishop Iewell recordes in his Defence of the Apologie of the Church of England part 6. c. 2. Divis. 1. p. 521 522. and Bishop Bilson in his true difference betweene Christian subjection and unchristian Rebellion part 3. p. 540 541 542 543. and the confirming of the Booke of common Prayer of the Order of makinge and consecrating Preists and Bishops Of the 39. Articles of Religion and all other Ecclesiasticall matters together with the very Subsedies of the Clergy by Act of Parliament witnesse As for the last clause in the Statute of 1. Eliz. c. 2. for the publishing of new Ceremonies by the Queene with the Archbishops or her Commissioners advice as it clearly shewes that Bishops have no power to make or alter Ceremonies as they dayly doe nor yet the King unlesse specially enabled and authorized by Parliament else this proviso had been idle so it is personall only to the Queen whom the Parliament knew and trusted not reaching to her heires and successors which were then unknowen and therefore purposely omitted and not named or trusted in this clause though they are since named in other clauses of this Act so that being personall only it quite expired with them and descending not to her successors can give them or the present Prelates no power to prescribe or enforce either this or other rites and Ceremonies as they doe I shall therefore conclude all with the Wordes of Doctor Willet in his Synopsis Papismi The 9. generall Controversie Error 51● The bowing at the name of Iesus as it is used in Popery to bende the knee at the sounde thereof is not commanded in this place of Phil. 2. 10 11. which shewed especially the subjection of all Creatures of Turkes Iewes Infidells yea of the Devills themselves to the power and ●udgement of Christ The kneeling at the name of Iesus is superstitiously abused in Popery for the people s●oope only at the sounde not understanding what is read and so make an Idoll of the Letters and Sillabes adoring and worshipping the very name when they heare or see it And againe in sitting and not veyling at the name of Christ Immanuell God the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost and bowing only at the name of Iesus as the Papists