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B03688	An account of Mr. Edward Sclater's return to the communion of the Church of England and of the recantation he made at the Church of St. Mary Savoy, the fifth of May, 1689. Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Sarum, preaching the sermon there that forenoon. / By Anthony Horneck D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2816; ESTC R178249	11,650	15

overtaken in a Fault ye which are Spiritual restore such a one in the Spirit of Meekness considering thy self least thou also be tempted Gal. 6 1. This was the Rule the Apostle gave to Churches of Galatia and it would look very strange in us if we should not follow that direction especially when our great Master hath charged us Take heed to your selves it thy Brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him and if he trespass against thee 7 times in a day and 7 times in a day turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Luk. 17. 3. Were it so that the Ancient Discipline especially that of the African Church had been kept up the Penitent who appears before you have submitted to a far more more rigorous Task even the Religious Hardships of some years before he could have been admitted to the Holy Eucharist but the reviving of these Ancient Severities being rather an Object of our pious Wishes than a thing practicable in this Iron Age a publick Retractation Confession Acknowledgment Declaration and Protestation before an All-seing Eye and in the Face of a whole Congregation is as much as can be rationally desired And now Mr. Sclater having thus told your Case to the Congregation I do intreat desire and admonish you to confirm what I have said by your own free deliberat and considerate Profession before many witnesses Mr. Sclater the degrees of your Sin ought to be answered by the degrees of your Sorrow and Contrition your Apostacy hath been publick and your Repentance ought to be so too And may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who sent his Son into the World to save Sinners and to call them to Repentance give you a Repentance never to be repented of that your future Conversation and blameless Life may do as much good in the World as your former example hath done harm After this Preliminary Discourse Mr. Sclater read in the hearing of the whole Assembly this following Retractation I Edward Sclater late Curate of Putney being unfeignedly sorrowful for the Sin I have committed and the Scandal I have given by my late shameful forsaking of the Communion of the Church of England and joyning myself to that of Rome and having made my most earnest and repealed suplications to the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for his Permission to make the best reparation I am able for the great injuries done to the Church by that my Scandalous Defection in hopes of being again admitted to Communion in her Holy Offices Do here in the presence of the All-seeing God and under most serious Apprehensions of Judgment to come heartily and freely make the following Acknowledgement First As to the Romish Doctrines concerning the Infallibility and Supremacy of the Pope or Church of Rome and that Salvation cannot be had out of that Communion I do utterly Renounce them as contrary to the Word and Truth of God. And I do unfeignedly Assent to the Doctrine of the Church of England set forth in her 39 Articles of Religion Moreover I utterly Disown all those many false and scandalous passages contained in that unhappy Book which I styled Consensus veterum heartily wishing I had never published it More particularly I Renounce those disparaging and false Expressions concerning the Rule of Faith and the Use of it in the Church of England For whereas I there wrote That the Canon of Scripture in the Church of England was no other but what her own Members were pleased to allow that the Private Spirit was the Support of the Protestant Faith and that I myself whilst in that Church might have Choice of an hundred Faiths in Her. I am now fully convinced That the Church of England does receive the very same Canon of Scripture and the same Creeds which have in all Ages of the Church been most Universally received as containing all things Necessary to Salvation And that She has due recourse to the Ancient Fathers and the Authority of the Church as the most effectual Means for repressing the Extravagancies of each Man 's private Spirit and for the maintaining of Truth and Peace and good Order in the Church And having now more seriously considered these Things I sincerely think the Testimonies of the first six Centuries to be most fairly interpreted by the Divines of the Church of England and must own That I myself did alledge them very partially and corruptly in behalf of Transubstantiation and other Errors of the Church of Rome Secondly Whereas the usual Boastings of the Romish Emissaries had made me hope to find an Eminent Piety in that Communion I most freely profess and I speak it from my own Observation of two years and upwards that That Religion has approved it self to me utterly contrary to my Expectations My own Devotion was so effectually checked that altho' Mass was said most days in the Week in my House yet I did not Receive for several Months together nor found any I clination to do it Because I could never believe that there was neither Bread nor Wine remaining after Consecration Nay the oftner I saw the Elements after Consecration the less I could believe it tho' I confess I strove my utmost My whole Family frequently complained that they were nothing bettered by the Service it being performed in Latin. And do I what I could they could not understand what was meant nor what themselves were to do while the Priests were to Officiate I found the Priests very zealous for gaining Proselytes but very negligent of their proper Charge They would spend hours every day upon Wavering Protestants But scarce Catechise Children once a fortnight and then too not above half a quarter of an hour and without any Exposition I found what I did not believe before that Confession was practised by them as a means to gain Awe and Authority over the Laity the Priests pretending a Right to know every thing that was said or done in the Family And yet it was neglected by themselves For they would celebrate Mass without it altho' to my knowledge they were guilty of very heinous Sins So that my Expectations of an extraordinary Piety in that Communion were very far from being answered Thirdly I do sorrowfully and with Shame acknowledge That my seeking and accepting a Royal Dispensation to receive the Profits of Ecclesiastical Perferments when I knew my self incapable by Law and was perswaded in my Judgement that I ought not to Officiate and yet at the same time paid another for doing what I thought He ought not to have done was a just occasion of very great Scandal and might have proved fatal to the Church and Kingdom if many had followed my wicked example My best Pleais if I may mention any That I did not then discern the secret Intrigues of that mischievous Faction But I hope no Pious and charitable Heart will conceive I can now be so blind as not