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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12700	A brotherly persvvasion to vnitie, and vniformitie in iudgement, and practise touching the receiued, and present ecclesiasticall gouernment, and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie. And seene, allowed, and commended by publike authoritie to be printed	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1607 (1607)	STC 23019.5; ESTC S102433	84,881	104

it fitter and more to edification to read a chapter of the new for any that is appointed of the old then so to do And indeed this being euen so as any man may see it is in that place in that thereby he is so left to his discretion to change any chapter appointed to be read of the old and therefore thereby some times may so do with a canonicall chapter what reason hath any man to thinke but that hee may so do also with the Apocrypha or who can truly say that euer yet any minister was troubled for his quietly and peaceably taking and vsing his liberty herein you heard also before what the same reuerend man truly reported to haue been said by his Maiestie in the foresaide conference touching the omitting the reading of any apocrypha chapter that iustly might be charged with any fault crossing the canonicall Page 63. of his report thereof since in print Further certaine it is that Doctor Abbots Deane of VVinchester one called also to the foresaid conference and then vice chauncellor of Oxenford in his answere of late published against Doctor Hill Page 317 vrgeth againe the direction of the said preface to the second booke of Homilies published by authoritie 1563 whereas the booke was authorised some foure yeares before to proue that the minister by warrant from thence may lawfully in stead of any of the Apocryphall Chapters appointed to be read on sundaies and holy dayes and therefore much more as hee saith vpon the working dayes as he in his wisedome and iudgmeÌ„t shall think fit vsing prudence and discretion in that behalfe read other canonicall lessons and so likewise others in print haue answered this obiection since as it should seeme with the good liking and allowance of them that be in authority which being so all the branches of this obiection are euen thereby quite cut of as also all the hard consequents imputations by reason therof imposed vpon the booke or the order thereof so farr as conformity is vse and practise therunto reach are vtterly remoued especially seeing also in the preface of the booke it is said that nothing is therby appointed to bee read out eyther the pure word of god or that which is euideÌ„tly grouÌ„ded thereupon and the late Archbishop as plainly refuses to defend any thing allowed thereby to be read not grounded vpon the word of God Page 720. of his foresaid booke But suppose the worst namly that it be not or were not so or if it had beene so that now yet by better view of the Callender for the order in this respect in August and by the canons it were taken away as some alleadge though looking thereinto and as seriously considering therof as I can I find nothing to lead any man iustly to think that in that regard the case is any thing altered or otherwise then it was before yet though by the booke we be tyed neuer so strictly to read them yet we are not therby bound to iustifie them to be faultlesse neither do we for likewise by the said booke by a certaine rubrick in the treatise of the communion wee allow sermons to be made and if we read not a homily wee should preach yet we therby do not iustifie all sermons made according to that order alwaies to bee without all faults but surely most if not all the supposed faults against them that by the book are appointed to be read by fauourable construction would bee much lessened if not quite remoued And in that by the very expresse order of our booke wee are both before after we read them to note out of what booke euery chapter thereby appointed to be read is taken and in the sixt article of the booke of articles published first concluded on in conuocation 1562 which was three yeares after the booke was first authorised all the Apocrypha bookes are apparently seuered from the canonicall there further it is said that as Hierom faith the Church doth read them for example of life instruction of manners yet it doth not apply them to establish therby any doctrine it is most euident howsoeuer they are appointed to be read and some canonicall omitted and on some solemne feast daies and holy daies and as chapters of the holy scriptures or of the old Testament that yet by none of these or all these together may wee or can wee gather without doing the Church of England manifest wrong that euer it was or is her meaning to equall them much lesse to make them in dignity or in edifiing superiour to any of the canonicall but rather indeed all these notwithstanding her meaning and desire is that euerie one should know that they are but Apocrypha chapters and therefore farre inferiour to any of the caconicall especially wee hauing acquainted our people as we should which bee canonicall bookes and which bee apocrypha teaching them euen by their names to know and discerne them In common charity therefore wee are bound whensoeuer either in the booke or in the Homilies they are said either to be Chapters of the old Testament or holy Scripture to conceiue whereas holy scriptures or old Testament are taken either according to the vulgar and common speech for all that commonly is wont to bee bound togither in Bibles with the holy scriptures of the old testament or more properly and strictly for those onely bookes therof that we are sure were written by such direction of the holy spirit that preserued the writers thereof from all erring therein which therefore onely wee count and call canonicall in so speaking of them that the said books speake and therefore are to be vnderstood so to do onely in the former sense And when therein there is comparison made betwixt chapters of the old testament of lesse and more edifying we can not for the foresaid manifest difference acknowledged to be by our Church betwixt all the canonicall bookes of the old Testament and all the Apocrypha euen in that respect vnderstand it to be betwixt any canonicall appointed to be read or not read and the Apocrypha set down to be read but only betwixt the canonicall appointed thereby to be read and those that are not And looking into the Kallender for proper lessons for sundaies and holy daies in that therby I find none but canonicall appointed for the sundaies and Apocrypha often for Saints daies I alwaies haue taken it that euen thereby our churches meaning was plainly to giue vs all to vnderstand that as shee in her regard and estimation preferres the Lords daie before all other holy daies so she would haue vs euen by this order to see that so she preferred the canonicall before the Apocrypha in worth credit and dignity but suppose the comparison shold by the booke be meant of certaine chapters of the Apocrypha it is so for that the same are wholy consonant with the canonicall and are more now to our edification then the canonicall either for

9. Of the order and practise of the book in reading the scriptures Canonicall Chap. 10. Touching the reading as the booke appointes of the Apocrypha Chap. 11. Concerning the interrogatories in Baptisme Chap. 12. Answers touching diuers other obiectioÌ„s against the booke Chap. 13. Touching subscription and certaine obiections against the same Chap. 14. Answers to more obiections made against the same Chap. 15. Answers to certaine obiections against the booke of ordination Chap. 16. The conclusion and an exhortation to vnitie A PERSVVASION TO VNIFORMITIE VNto his Christian brethren The Preamble Chap. 1. THough I must needs confesse well beloued that none that with any diligence haue read the Ecclesiasticall stories and the monuments of the ancient councels and fathers but that therein they must needs see and find that alwayes there haue bene diuersities of opinions in causes Ecclesiasticall euen in the best times sinse the Apostles and that amongst the best and most famous Christians otherwise especially about the outward orders and customes of the Church yet no small griefe hath it bene vnto me to see and behold now for these 34. yeares that I haue bene in the ministerie the originall growth and continuance of these our domesticall controuersies amongst our selues about the outward policie and rites of our Church For whiles men haue spent their times and zeale in the pursuit thereof as of both sides they haue very much so much time leasure and oportunitie hath Sathan got to sow and water his tares of Atheisme Papisme and of sects and schismes amongst vs. Insomuch that the sight and consideration therereof hath often made me to thinke and say as occasion hath serued me to men of both sides as Moses did to the Israelits Exod. 2. Why smitest thou thy fellow being thy brother and as Paul sayd to the Galathians Gal. 5. If ye thus bite one another take heed yee be not consumed one of another For alwayes it hath bene and still is my opinion in such cases Conferant fratres sed non contendant for doubtlesse in such matters as these especially S. Paul hath told vs if any list to be conteÌ„tious that we haue no such custome nor the Church of God 1. Cor. 11.16 Foreseeing yet what further inconuenience might grow of these controuersies in the end if it were not in time preuented I haue long and much wished and prayed that God would raise vs some one that both for authoritie skill and will were fit to be a moderator therein and so an effectuall composer thereof Wherein his name be blessed for it at the last he hath graunted that my desire in sending vs him to be our soueraigne Lord and king whom he hath who accordingly vpon his first entrance into this his kingdome most religiously and christianly hath sought by a solemn conference to end and determine the same by letting both parties therein see wherein they had gone too farre what was the Medium in which they were both to meete and agree Wherein his Maiestie so caried himself that verily I thinke I may boldly speake it in the name of all that were then present thereat that neuer any of his place before in such varietie of questions and matters shewed himselfe more worthie of admiration and applause of all either for his indifferency in deciding or for his iudicious kind of examining of euerie thing that then came in question Insomuch that without all doubt if once whatsoeuer then and there his Maiestie resolued of might take effect and accordingly be put in execution witnesse but the report of the sayd conference alreadie with allowance published in print great hope there would be that the vnitie that thereby his Highnesse aimed at would quickly be attained and happily continued For euen thereby it appeares that an vniuersall learned and preaching Ministery through his dominions and that also by all good meanes prouision should be made for the same as soone as might be was then yeelded to be fit and verie necessarie Pag. 52. 96. The carelesnesse and negligence of sundrie ministers in this Church also was therein by his Maiestie inueyed against and condemned Pag. 52. And that stricter order should be taken for the due sanctifying of the Sabaoth was then vniuersally approued Pag. 45. Likewise how and by whom hereafter the censures of the Church might be euerie way and in all Ecclesiasticall courts most fruitfully and sincerly administred then and there was so resolued of as that if accordingly there be proceeding therein we shall all therefore haue great cause to reioyce Pag. 19. 78. 89. 94. And for the better maintenance of the puritie of religion amongsts vs then and there by his Highnesse order was taken which since most carefully and religiously his Maiestie hath caused to be gone about that as pure and perfect a translation should be made of all the scriptures as may be that then that onely both to the ending of all quarrels touching translations as much as possible might be both amongst our selues and also with our aduersaries should after be publiquely vsed in our Churches Page 46. Then also it was to the same end agreed that our Catechisme should be perfected Page 43. which since thereupon as we see hath beene enlarged amended Thirdly to that end likewise it was yeelded vnto that there should bee a straiter restraint for the selling of Papists bookes then before had beene Page 49. And lastly then also it was graunted that the words in the sixteenth Article of the booke of articles touching falling from grace of regeneration should be explayned by addition of some such words as wherby plainly it might appeare that it taught not that the regenerate and iustified either totally or finally fall at any time from the same Page 30. 41. Further concerning the communion booke to make the vse and subscription thereunto the easier to be yeelded vnto it was by his Maiestie with the assent of the Bishops concluded that to the title of absolutioÌ„ shold be added for the better explanation of the meaning thereof these words or remission of sins Page 13. And that to the title of confirmation should be annexed these laying on of hands vpon children baptised and able to render an accompt of their faith according to the Catechisme following Page 36. And that the Rubricks touching priuate babtisme should be so altered as that thereby it might be euident that the booke in no case of necessity allowes any but a lawfull minister to baptise any childe Page 19. 86. And that those words his disciples shold twice be left out in the Gospells Page 63. al which we see in our new communion bookes don And then also certainly as it is plainly set downe Page 61 of the said booke of the coÌ„fereÌ„ce his Maiesties order was that none of the Apocrypha should bee read at all wherein there was any error and therefore his highnes willed D Reynolds to note those chapters in the Apocrypha bookes wherein such errors were and to

day and the Epistles on Easter eue and Michaels day lastly that the portions of scripture inserted into the booke and the Psalter annexed thereunto are so prescribed thereby to be read as they are wherein yet there are many knowne faults that by no meanes can stand with the same Scriptures in the originall tongues wherein they were first written The first whereof is prooued to be a great fault for that it is a kinde or taking from the word and forbid Reuel 22. and a depriuing the people of one good meanes the better to enable them to search them and so is the second said to be for that by the precise appointing them at those times the people are occasioned to mistake and to misunderstand them and likewise is the third for that so there is false witnesse borne both against the scriptures and the spirit of God the authour thereof as to haue said and meant that there which they neuer did But to the first of these for any thing that I can gather out of the 14 Canon for by the statute made at the first Eliz. 1. to establish the booke aswell all addition detraction or alteration thereof in the vse and practise of it was forbid as it is now by that Canon it may as well now as before and indeed both before and now truely and iustly bee said that no such inconuenience neede arise by that order for that no minister eyther by the booke or by any other ordinance of our Church is ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ forbid ouer and aboue those that are appointed being allowed to be a Preacher to read any or all of those that are not at such times as he shall thinke good with exposition thereof and sure I am I myselfe haue so done and in ful perswasion that therin I haue done nothing against order therin taken eyther before or now For doubt lesse any man may iustly think that by our Churches order they were onley so left out as they are in that they were not thought so lightsome and easie to be vnderstood as the other that are appointed to be read being but barely read without exposition and interpretation and in the meane time none that can are forbid to read and studie them priuately But if they were by the Kalender aswell appointed as the other orderly to bee read yet in that in parish Churches the people com not together but vpon few daies in the weeke they might misse the hearing of most of them aswell then as now And as for the second the inconuenience imagined to arise therby euery minister that makes scruple at conformity being a Preacher as commonly and generally he is that likewise he in reading of those Scriptures at those set times by soundly interpreting them and preaching thereupon which the booke no where nor any other Canon forbids him may preuent And touching the last I hope shortly all occasion of that obiection will be remoued when the new translation by his Maiesties most Christian and Princely order in hand shall be finished and authorised as the onely authenticall translation to be vsed in our Churches and in the meane time I am perswaded that no Bishop in this land will denie any minister that can and will in peace and quietnesse vse that his liberty to read all the foresaid Scriptures in the booke according to the great Bible by order alreadie from themselues appointed to be in Churches that we may read the Chapters out of it for though we may find that the Booke appointes Epistles Gospels Chapters and Psalmes to be read yet no where shall we finde there eyther that they are said to be any part of the Booke and therefore they were left out in the latine translation thereof or that it ties or bindes vs to any one certaine translation for the same But if it expressly did may we iustly thinke that it is contrarie to the word to read the Scriptures to the common people in a translation that hath such faults as the originalls thereof rightly vnderstood sometimes will not beare Doubtlesse then I feare in faith and assurance in our consciences that wee doe alwaies well therein we shall neuer allow them to read or to haue read vnto them the Scriptures in any translation at all for when can we be certaine that any translation is free from all such faults vnlesse therefore with the Papists we would debarre them from hauing and hearing the Scriptures at all in the vulgar tongues we must be contented that they read and haue them read vnto them in translations that happily when we haue all done may haue some such faults And this is it that both they and we must content our selues withall in this case first that the faultes be such which though they stand not full with the originall yet they import not any errour against any necessarie truth elsewhere taught in the scriptures of which kind for any thing that I can remember amongst all the faults noted in the foresaid inserted Scriptures in the booke there is not one and then that those faults are not so defended by our Church to be no faults but that alwaies it hath beene permitted the godly learned ministers in preaching of any of the said Scriptures in a wise and discreet manner notwithstanding to acquaint the people with the sense most agreeable with the original yea we see most of the same faults corrected and amended alreadie in the foresaid great Bible commonly called the Bishops Bible and now againe that that whole translation and others are to be examined and so all faults that haue past in any hertofore as far as the learning and diligence of man can reach vnto are to be reformed all which duely considered I hope may serue to answere these obiections CHAP. 10. Touching the reading of the Apocrypha NOw the next is touching the bookes appointing the Apocrypha to be read as it doth wherein many faults are found also as that they are appointed publikely to be read at all that they are appointed to be read as Chapters of the holy Scripture of the olde Testament and as more edifying then the Canonicall omitted to giue roome for theÌ„ and that often there is a speciall choyse of them for certaine solemne feast daies or holy daies All which obiections as I sayd before the Deane theÌ„ of Chester now L. Bishop of Rochester no man then or there finding any fault with that his answer in the conference before his Maiestie shewed was needlesse because by the preface set before the second volume of homilies which is by order of our Church allowed authorized aswell as the booke and indeed published since the bookes first authorising in the yeare 1563. and therefore euen by that circumstance more likely and fit to serue in this point to explane the meaning of the booke the minister is exhorted to wey and to read his Chapters priuatly before he come to read them publickly and thereupon if in his discretion he thinke

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