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A91267	A seasonable vindication of free-admission, and frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. From the institution, precept, president of Christ himself; the doctrine, practice of the primitive Church, fathers, councils, Christians: the confessions, articles, records, chief writers of our own and other reformed churches: the dangerous consequents, effects, schisms arising from the disusage, infrequency, monopoly of this sacrament, to visible or real saints alone; and suspension of all others from it, till approved worthy upon trial. And that upon meer Anabaptistical, and papistical false principles, practices, (here discovered) unadvisedly embraced, imitated, asserted, exceeded by sundry over-rigid, reforming ministers; to our Saviours dishonour, our Churches great disturbance, their own, their peoples prejudice; and the common enemies, and seducers grand advantage. / By Will: Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne·	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4070; Thomason E495_3; ESTC R203285	81,072	108

there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement 3ly l Stand constantly upon your watch and m unite all your studies endeavours together against the manifold plots policies of Satan and your Iesuitical Popish Sectarian common Enemies who seek nothing but the speedy ruine of your persons Ministry and of our Protestant Religion Church State being more active subtle and successfull of late years in this design than ever in former ages And let their present joynt attempts combinations against you be a prevailing argument to unite your affections endeavours studies to countermine them 4ly Avoid all carnal Machivilian Policies all sordid Compliances and n base Fears of any Mortals how great or powerful soever And never o act nor consent to any evils error unrighteous impious Projects or hypocritical designes yea hope that any good may come thereby but rather part with your lives liberties and all worldly enjoyments than with a good conscience and the truth or Ordinances of God intrusted to your care 5ly Take Notice of some particular late failings and scandalous sinfull Omissions or Neglects in the discharge of your Ministerial Office in which divers of you have been and still are very peccant Whereas by our former Liturgies confirmed by p sundry Acts of Parliament yet in force the Decalogui or Ten Commandements of God himself q asserted by all or most of you to be Moral and Perpetual as they are a rule of Life and Obedience were to be publikely read in all Churches as heretofore was usual once every Lords day and when ever the Lords Supper was administred to the end the people might the better remember and observe them in their lives and conversations This godly custom hath for sundry years together been universally neglected and cast aside by all or most of you By which means the elder sort of people have quite forgotten these Commandements the younger sort are alltogether ignorant of them and generally know not whether there be any such Decalogue for them to learn know observe their Parents Masters not instructing them in them in their private families as formerly since discontinued publikely in our Chnrches The number of Antinomians is hereby augmented confirmed in their Error the Knowledge Sence Conscience of sinnes against these Precepts almost quite obliturated And these Laws of God with all other good Laws of the Realm quite cast aside slighted scorned violated in the highest degree by many professed Saints of the highest Orb like Old Almanacks quite out of date or force especially the 5 6 8 and last of them Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house c. nor any thing that is his now turned into an affirmative or quite expunged out of the Decalogue of too many English Protestants as well as the r second Commandement heretofore out of the Papists And whether this omission be not a sinne against Deutr. 6. 1. to 10. c. 18. 18. to 22. c. 4. 9 10. Acts 13. 15. Psal. 1. 2. Iosh. 1. 8. and other Scriptures fit henceforth to be reformed let your own Consciences with all Protestant Commentators on these Texts and the Decalogue resolve you 2ly Whereas the Summary Heads of the Christian Faith comprised in antient Creeds made Å¿ used in the Primitive Church and continued in all Christian Churches as most useful necessary ever since were usually repeated by the Ministers and people in all our Churches heretofore when ever they assembled to worship God on Lords-dayes and other Festivals or times of Devotion This Godly profitable Christian practice hath been generally disused and set aside by most of you for sundry years together whereby the old Principles of our Christian Faith and Creeds are quite forgotten or neglected by the ancienter sort and unknown to the younger people not instructed to learn or repeat them by heart as formerly by their Parents and Masters since disused in our Churches by Ministers and a world of New Faiths Heresies Blasphemies Errors have been set up and vented in opposition thereunto destructive to the very Foundations of our Religion Now whether this Omission be not a great Misdemeanour or Oversight in you repugnant to the 1 Cor. 15. 1. to 8. Hebr. 5. 12 13. c. 6. 1 2 3. 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15. c. 3. 2. and other Texts let all Old and New Expositors on the Creed determine and your own Consciences judge 3ly Whereas by the Laws of our Land confirming the Book of Ordination and the Liturgies of our Church all our Deacons Ministers formerly on Lords dayes and other times of publike Divine Service were specially obliged to read certain Psalms with one Chapter of the Old Testament and another out of the New in the Church for the peoples better edification and instruction in the Scriptures and incouragement to read them diligently in their Families and private Closets yet now of late years contrary to their Solemn Promise at their t Ordinations diligently to read the Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to the people assembled in the Church and contrary to Exod. 24. 7. Deut. 6. 1. to 10. c. 11. 18. to 22. c. 31. 11 12 13. Josh. 8. 34 35. 2 Kings 23. 1 2 3. 2 Chron. 34. 29 30 31. Neh. 8. 1. to 19. c. 9. 1. 3. c. 13. 1. Isay 34. 16 Ier. 36. 6 10 c. c. 51. 61 62. Luk. 4. 16 17. Acts 13. 15. c. 15. 21. 31. 2 Cor. 1. 13. Eph. 3. 4. Col. 4. 16. 1 Thess. 5. 27. Rev. 1. 3. c. 5. 4 5. 2 Cor. 3. 14. 1 Tim. 4. 3. contrary to the practice of Gods own people the Iews of Christ himself and his Apostles of the Primitive Fathers Councils Church Christians as u Bishop Iewel proves at large of all x Protestant Churches in foreign parts the Practice Canons Rubricks and Liturgies of our English Church and command of God himself in the forecited Texts most of our Independent Ministers have wholly cast off the reading of all Psalms Chapters of the Old and New Testament in their Churches and Meetings more particularly in Pendennis Castle in Cornwall where there was not one Chapter Psalm either sung or read during my near two years close imprisonment in their Meeting-house there yea many Presbyterians and other Ministers have overmuch failed herein reading only either one Chapter out of the Old Testament or New and somtimes only one Psalm without a Chapter now and then on Lords dayes and other Publick Dayes of worship By which ill president the generality of their people especially such who cannot read are become wholly ignorant of the Scriptures and made a prey to every seducer the constant reading of the Scriptures in privat is much neglected the Scriptures themselves much slighted yea many turned professed Anti-Scripturists rejecting the Old and New Testament both together and others who retain the New Testament have quite rejected the old as nothing

and undervalue Christs death and passion represented therein than those who in obedience to his Institution make conscience externally to receive it when administred and do neither externally nor internally Sacramentally nor spiritually receive the body of Christ when as the others who receive unworthily receive it externally and Sacramentally at least in the Elements Which Judas likewise did as Bishop Iewel there asserts out of two Quotations in i St. Augustines writings 3ly Consider that when our Saviour sent forth his Apostles and Ministers who succeed them to preach he gave them this Commission Mark 16. 15 16. Go ye into all the World and preach the Gospel to every creature He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved BVT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT SHALL BE DAMNED Which is likewise seconded John 3. 18 36. 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. If then the damnation of those who believe not the Gospel preached authorizeth not Ministers or Presbyteries to seclude any unbelieving Christians or other unprofitable hearers from hearing the Word and Gospel read or preached in the Church or elsewhere then by the self-same reason this danger of eating and drinking damnation and being guilty of the Lords body and bloud can be no sufficient Authority Ground or Commission for any Classi● Presbytery or Minister whatsoever to seclude any visible unexcommunicated Church-member from the Lords Supper no more than from the Word preached read prayer or any other sacred Ordinance which * God commands them to frequent which no mortals●may or can without the highest presumption usurpation juridically enjoyn them to abstain from or neglect Seeing we ought herein to obey God rather than men as the Apostle themselves have twice resolved Acts 4. 17 18 19 20 29 30 32. c. 5. 20 21 28 29. c. 42. and Daniel long before them Dan. 6. 5. to 18. All which particulars with what else I shall subjoyn in this Vindication duely considered together with that Commission which every Minister publikely received heretofore at his Ordination when he had this power conferred on him Be thou a faithfull Dispenser of the Word of God and OF HIS HOLY SACRAMENTS Take thou Authority to preach the Word of God AND TO MINISTER THE HOLY SACRAMENTS IN THIS CONGREGATION where thou shalt be so appointed And that solemn promise he then openly made k I will by the help of the Lord GIVE MY FAITHFVL DILIGENCE ALWAYS SO TO ADMINISTER THE DOCTRINE AND SACRAMENTS OF CHRIST AS THE LORD HATH COMMANDED AND THIS REALM HATH RECEIVED THE SAME according to the commandements of God will I hope through Gods blessing on them resolve and determine all those distracting needlesse Controversies touching Suspension of particular Persons or whole Parishes from the Lords Supper and remove all New-erected Bars and Rayles to keep the people from Free-admission and accesse to the Lords Table in all plaees where of late years they have been injuriously sequestred from it and restore the frequent Celebration thereof in remembrance of our Saviours Passion And so much the rather because the very Directory it self as well as our old Common Prayer Book in the Section Of the Celebration of the Communion or Sacrament of the Lords Supper resolves thus in the very first lines The Communion or Supper of the Lord is † frequently to be celebrated But how often may be considered and determined by the Ministers and other Church-Governours of each Congregation as they shall find most convenient for the comfort and edification of the people committed to their charge After which it directs When the day is come for administration the Minister shall make a short Exhortation expressing the inestimable benefits we have by the Sacrament together with the ends and use thereof setting forth the great necessity of having our Comfort and Strength renewed thereby in this our Pilgrimage and Warfare which being the things I plead for I cannot but hope all Ministers of the Church of England will henceforth cordially pursue notwithstanding all former Books Cavils Scruples to disswade them from their duties herein * If there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfil ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind herein * Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned received and heard seen in me do the God of Peace shall be with you The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen So prayes your unfe●gned Christian Friend and Brother in the Lord WILLIAM PRYNNE Swainswick Sept. 1. 1656. A Seasonable Vindication of the frequent Administration of the Holy Communion to all Visible Church-members Regenerate or Vnregenerate HAving heretofore in a several Publications from Divine and Humane Authorities of all sorts largely evinced That the holy Communion of the Lords-Supper belongs equally to all and every visible Member of every particular Church capable of self-examination not actually cut off from it by a legal Excommunication be he regenerate or unregenerate That it ought to be now frequently administred in publick to all congregations as it was in the Primitive Church That it is a powerfully Converting as well as a Confirming Ordinance That Christ himself admitted b Judas to it though a Devil Theef Traytor Covetous wretch selling Christ for money to his Crucifiers at its original institution as well as the holiest Apostles That all Ministers are bound by their Office Duty Christs command to administer and all their people of age of discretion often to receive it That none may or ought to be secluded from it but such as are for their Notorious sins actually excommunicated from Church-Communion and all other Ordinances That sole Suspension from this Sacrament by way of Church-censure with free admission to all other publick Ordinances and Examination by Ministers or Presbyters of other mens fitness by way of Jurisdiction before their admission to the Lords Supper are not warranted by any precept or president in Gods word That neither the Ministers who deliver this Sacrament to unworthy Receivers presenting themselves humbly and earnestly to receive it nor such who receive together with them are guilty of their unworthy receiving but themselves alone nor any wayes partakers with them in their sins Answering likewise all Objections to the contrary Which Mr. John Humfrey in his Sermons Vindications of Free-admission to the Lords Supper and Rejoynder to Dr. Drake hath acutely judiciously solidly backed vindicated since with John Timson in The Barre removed and Answer to Mr. Collings and Mr. Saunders And having newly in my Legal resolution of two Important Quaeres of General pres●nt concernment clearly demonstrated

communicating with him contrary to the nature and institution of the Communion than suffer the party to die in discomfort and be swallowed up in despair without it But many of our Ministers are now so cruel and hard-hearted to their Parishioners that they will upon no terms or intreaties daily frequently or yet at all deliver the Communion publikely to them in the Church in their healths that so they might not stand so much in need of it in their sickness as i Bishop Jewel adviseth to prevent this Popish Mischief and the Primitive Christians Fathers practised Neither will they administer or send it privately to them at their deaths as the Primitive Fathers did even to excommunicate persons on their death-beds to comfort their hearts strengthen their faiths and keep their souls from sinking in despair In this therefore they are more uncharitable injurious tyrannical than the very rigidest Popish Priests and Popes unto their People 9ly That k the Popes and Popish Priests having discontinued the daily Communion of the Lords Supper with the people have instead thereof set up Private Masses wherein the people stand by only as Ga●ers and Spectators onely of the Priests eating and drinking but yet must not eat drink or communicate with them at the Altar or Lords Table they ●either calling them thereto by words or gestures nor having any preparation for them if called making them believe the hearing and seeing of what they do is sufficient whereby they increase the Negligence of the people and discourage them from the Holy Commnion Which Practice though meerly Popish and Antichristian l contrary to the precept and practice of Christ and his Apostles the Custom Doctrine Canons of the Primitive Fathers Churches the m Confessions Articles of all forein Churches and of the n Church of England professedly condemned declamed against by the Exhortation prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer ratified by sundry Acts of our Protestant Parliaments by Bishop Jewel and all former Protestant orthodox Writers Yet Dr. Drake in his Antiquaeries Preface p. 6. and his Boundary to the holy Mount p. 160 161 c. herein plays the down-right Pope Popish Priest not only in imitating but thus justifying pleading for this Practice as fit to be introduced in all our Protestant Churches Scandalous Persons yea Heathens may be present at the Lords Supper and all Sacramental actions and that with a great deal of profit The fruit of the visible and audible Word may here be attained by bare presence c. But they must not be admitted to but debarred from the participation of the Sacramental Bread and Wine Mark his reason By presence benefit may be gained but the Danger of eating and drinking unworthily cannot be incurred without actual receiving A better solider Argument for Private Popish Masses if true than any produced by Mr. Harding Bellarmine or any Romish Pope or Priest In which passage he proclaims open war against the o Institution Practice Doe this c. of our Saviour who instituted this Sacrament not to be Gazed upon but eaten and drunken by all present admitted no bare Spectators but Gave it to ALL his Disciples Yea he therein bids defiance to the Holy Ghost and St. Paul himself 1 Cor. 10. 2 3 4. 16 17. c. 11. 22. to 34 to the p Ite Missa est Qui non communicat det locum Custom Doctrine of the whole Primitive Church Fathers Christians as Bishop Iewel will at large instruct him and more particularly to the 25 Article of the Church of England The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon or to be carried about but that we should duly use them And this Exhortation Resolution in our English Liturgy Whereas you offend God so sore in refusing his holy Banquet I admonish exhort and beseech you that unto this unkindnesse you will not adde any more Which thing you shall do let this Doctor and others mark it well if ye stand by as Gazers and lookers on those that do communicate and be not partakers of the same your self this makes the fault much greater and is a further contempt having the Mysteries of Christ in derision Is it not said Take ye and eat Take and drink ye all of this With what face then will ye hear these words Will not this be a neglecting despising and mocking the Testament of Iesus Christ c Wherewith other * Protestant Churches in their very confessions accord And St. Chrysostom long before them ad Ephe●●o● Hom. 3. Whosoever standeth by refusing to communicate is wicked and shameless and unworthy to be partaker of the Prayers Thou wil● say I am unworthy to be partaker of Christs Mysteries thou art then unworthy to be partaker of the Prayers Thou mais● no more stand here th●n one of the Catechumeni or Novices that was never Christened Thus Dum stulti vitia vitant in contraria currunt This New Doctor will on no means admit ignorant scandalous or unregenerate Christians to receive the Sacrament for fear they should eat and drink their own damnation but yet defines they may be present at it and all the Sacramental actions without receiving and that too with a great deal of Profit What I pray To make their fault much greater to commit a further contempt than if they unworthily received them by having the Mysteries of Christ in derision and neglecting despising and mocking the Testament of Jesus Christ as our whole Church resolves against this his Popish Whimsy contradictory to it self For if they may see and hear the Sacramental actions and administrations worthil● and with a great deal of profit no doubt they may also receive it with much more profit and comfort too and it will Nonplus this grand Rabbi to resolve us how any can be a fit a worthy a profitable Auditor and Spectator of this Sacrament and yet an unfit unworthy unprofitable yea damned Receiver Let him therefore not disown retract this his Popish Dotage Contradiction Absurdity to which he is driven to avoid the dint of my q former Arguments against his absurd new-found Suspension and excommunication of men by way of Church censure for notorious Scandals only from the actual reception of the Lords Supper but not from being Spectators at it and freely admitting them as unexcommunicate true Churchmembers to all other Ordinances without the least seclusion from them For which Mr. Iohn Humfrey hath since sufficiently schooled him in his Rejoynder to his Boundary 10ly That the Popish Priests having abolished daily weekly frequent Communions together with their people in the Church who ought to receive the Sacrament and remember the death Passion of our Saviour as often as the Priests themselves do yet to keep a perpetual remembrance of Christs death oblige themselves to say Privase Masses daily communicate alone without the people and offer up Christ daily in sacrifice to his Father wherein appeareth their wanton folly that they

capable of self-examination but such alone who are actually excommunicated from all Church-Communion and all other publick Ordinances for their notorious sinnes demeriting such a censure The contrary Doctrine Practice derived from and asserted by the u Anabaptists but oppugned by Protestant Churches Writers heretofore though now asserted by Independents and x rigid Presbyterians That this holy Communion belongs only to the truly regenerate or to none but visible Saints not to any unregenerate Persons or Sinners who are all to be seclnded from it That none ought to be admitted to it but such who upon trial and due examination by their Ministers or Presbyteries shall be adjudged worthy Communicants and sufficiently qualified extraordinarily prepared to receive it And the discontinuing of this Communion in most Churches upon these false Principles for sundry moneths and years together having been the original fountain sourse and principal occasion of all those unhappy Schisms Divisions Separations Contentions Sects Disputes Differences which have rent our Churches Realms into so many Pieces and brought so much hatred scorn contempt upon our Ministers persons Functions Ministry in wise mens observations To put this out of question I shall desire all sadly to consider that the greatest rents schisms that have befallen the Church of Christ in these later ages of the world have proceeded from Errors Crntroversies touching the Sacraments which have severed it into irreconcilable Sects and Separations The Popish Error of Transubstantiation and the consequences of Adoration of the Hostia Masses c. arising thence with the Sacrilegious depriving the Laity of the Cup by the solemn y Decree of the Council of Constance was the original Ground the principal though not only cause of all Protestant Churches Separation from the Church of Rome as Mr. Fox his Acts and Monuments the French Book of Martyrs Bishop Jewel Bishop Morton and others in their learned Works heretofore Dr. Daniel Featly in his Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome Mr. John Daille his excellent Apologie for the Reformed Churches shewing their Necessity of Separation from the Church of Rome and others in their late Treatises of Schism at large demonstrate And had not the Council of Basil since the Decree of Constance granted the use of the Sacrament in both kinds and restored the Cup unto the kingdom of Bohemia and the Council of Trent since upon certain conditions granted the same to other Kingdoms and Countries they had all totally revolted from the Church and Popes of Rome and turned Protestants so much were they displeased with them for this Grosse Sacrilege Hence the Council of Basil in their Act of Concession of the Sacrament in both kinds to the Bohemians useth this observable Preface * In the name of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Sacrament of whose most blessed last Snpper we shall intreat that he which hath instituted this most blessed Sacrament of Unity and Peace will vouchsafe to work this effect in us and to make us that we may be one in the said Lord Iesus our Head and that he will subvert all the subtilties of the devil which through his envious craftinesse hath made this Sacrament of Peace and Unity an occasion of Wars and Discord that whiles Christians do contend touching the manner of communicating they be not deprived of the fruit of the Communion Whereupon St. Augustine in his Sermon upon Infants in the Decrees De Consecratione Distinct 2. Quia passus saith thus So the Lord Iesus Christ certified us and willed that we should appertain unto him and consecrate the Mystery of our Peace and Unity upon the Table He that receiveth the Mystery of Unity and doth not keep the bond of Peace doth not receive a mystery for himself but against himself This we thought good above all things to be premised A clear testimony that the Popish Abuses in the Sacrament and this Sacriledge in depriving the people of the Cup was the original cause of all the Schisms Warres Discords then in and against the Church of Rome and between her the Bohemians and other Churches Kiugdoms Since this the a erronious Doctrine of Consubstantiation in the Sacrament hath totally and almost irreconcilably divided the Lutherans from the Calvinists and other Protestant Churches and set them at open variance hostility one against the other Moreover these erronious tenets of the b Anabaptists that none ought to be baptized before they can render an approved account of their faith and that none ought to be admitted to the Lords Supper but visible Saints who upon prec●dent trial and examination shall be adjudged worthy to communicate That communicating with any other but Saints doth prophane this and other ordinances and defile those Saints who communicate with them hath occasioned them first to separate wholly not only from the Church of Rome but from all other Protestant Churches whatsoever whether Lutherans Calvinists Presbyterians or Independents and to communicate with neither of them The Independents c taking up the Anabaptists wicked erronious Principles against mixt Communions have thereupon separated themselves from the Presbyterians and our Parechial Churches and upon this foundation erected new gathered Churches and segregated conventicles of their own And some over-rigid Presbyterians unadvisedly swallowing down this Anabaptistical Drugg d founding their New Presbyteries Triers Trials of all Communicants worthinesse Suspensions of all ignorant scandalous persons from this Sacr●ment and unmixt Communions only of visible Saints thereon have thereby split themselves upon a double rock and manifold inextricable inconveniences to the total subversion and unexpected sudden frustration of their intended platform and elevated hopes First by closing with the Anabaptists and Independents in this Foundation of their Separation from all other Churches and Christian Congregations they have made most of their conscientious Parishioners to turn e Anabaptists or Independents and to desert both their Church and Ministry whereby their numbers are decreased and these their Opposites Churches Numbers infinitly increased in few years space beyond all belief 2ly By denying upon this Account to administer the Lords Supper to the generality of their Parishioners as unworthy of it and none other but Dogs or Swine and by not administring it in their Churches upon this ground for sundry moneths nay years lest any unworthy Communicants should presse unto it they have therupon incurr'd the general indignation hatred contempt reproaches and lost the affections of the residue of their people caused many of them to turn Ranters Quakers Achiests contemners neglecters of all ordinances for to resort to old Episcopal Clergy-men and those who will freely admit them to the Lords Table And so by this their Error sacrilege ambition neglect in and forbearing to celebrate the Lords Supper against Christs own precept the Custom of the Primitive and all other Churches to their Parishioners as formerly and endeavour to set up a New Judicatory or inquisition over their Persons Consciences to

See Ledesma his Catechism Officium beatae Ma●iae and Popish primers which expunge it ſ See Cy-prian de Symbolo Dr. Jackson and others on the Creed and all antient Greek and Latin Liturgies t See the Book of Ordination u Bish. J●wel D●fence of the Apology ●ar 5. ● 9. d●vis 1. p. 489. 490. part 6. p. 608 and His Reply to Harding Art 3. divis 6. p. 117 118 and Artic. 15. Of reading the Scriptures p. 383 c. x Harmony of Confessions sect. 10. to 16. y B●sh Jewels Defence of the ●pol●gy part 5. ch. 9. divis 1. p. 499. z Exod. 15 1 c. Numb. 21. 17. Deut. 31. 19 c. Judg. 5. 12 2 Sam. 22. 1. 2 Chron. 29. 27. Ps. 18. 1. Ps. 92. 1. Cant. 1. 1. l. sa● 5. 1. c. 26. 1. c. 30. 29. c. 35. 10. c. 38. 10. Amos 8. 23. c. 8. 3. a Eph. 4. 14. Jam. 1. 6. b See a Transcript of a Letter ●●om the Summer Hands at the end of my Fresh Discovery of Prodigious Bending Stars c Mr. Henry Burtons Vindication d His Vindication of the judgment of the Reformed Churches Protestant Diviues concerning Ordination London 1647. e My Suspension suspended ● Legal Resolution of 2. Important Questions A New Discovery of some Romish Emissaries and Popish Errors f Bish. Jewels Reply to Harding p. 73. Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 910 911 912. g Sessio 13. Surius Concil. Tom 3. p. 821 822. h A Legal R●solution of two important Quaeres Harmony of Conf●ssions sect. 10. to 16. i See My Susperston suspended Tho. Beacons Catechism k Hist. Angliae An. 1208 1214. p. 239. 240. Mat. Park●r Antiq Eccles. Brit. p. 148 149. c. Godwins Catalogue of Bishops ● 62. 63 c. Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 324 326 c. Holinshed Speed Grafton and others in the life of King John l Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 324. m Sessio 13. Surius Concil. Tom. 3. Fox Vol. 1. p. 783. n Dr. Drakes Bounda●y Mr. Collings Juridical suspension others o See Gerson D. Featlies Grand Sacrileg of the Chur of Rome p My short Vindication of 4. Serious Questions p 17. to 29. 47. q A Brotherly and Friendly Censure p. 6 7. An Antidote p. 6. See My short Vindicatication p. 28. to 36. Dr. Drak●s B●nda●y and o●hers r Dr. Drake Mr. Collins others ſ Luke 12. 42. to 47. t 2 Chron. 30 8. u 1 Sam. 2 27 to the end x 〈◊〉 ●or 11. 1 2. 3. Ephes. 5. 1. ● Iohn 2. 5 6. y Mat. 26. 26. to 30. Mar. 14. 22. to 26. Luke 22. 8. to 23. 1 Cor. 11. 23 24. 25. * Mat. 20. 19. c. 26. 32. 27. 63. Mar. 8. 31. Lu. 18. 33. c. 24 25. 26 45. 46. z John 6. 70 71. c. 18. 2 3 c. c. 17. 12. 22. 6. Mat. 26. 14 15 16. 47 Acts 1. 16. to 21. a Mat. 26. 2. 17. to 26. Mar. 14. 14. John 18. 28 c. b See The Practice of Piety Mr. Rogers of the Sacrament D. Drakes Boundary Mr. Collings Juridical suspension c 1 Cor. 5. 7. ●3 d De Trinitat● ● 3. c. ● e Reply to Har●ing See here p 8. f In his 〈◊〉 ● 4●5 42● See M● Sus●●●●●● susp●●●● p. 30 3● * See M● J●h● H●ms●● his Second Vindication of Free admi●●ion p. 28. to 33. g ● Cor. 11. 24 25 26 Luke 22. 19 See he●e p. 50 * such a cannot as we read of 1 John 3. 9. Gal. 5. 17. Lu. 14. 20. Mat. 6. 24. Acts 27. 31. Lu. 11. 7. Rom. 6. 1 2. 2 Cor. 13. 8. Cant. 5. 3. which will well expound this cannot here * 1 Cor. 10. 16. Here p. 5. c. h See the Directory i Mr. Rogers of the Sacrament The Practice of Piety Dr. Drake his Boundary Mr. Collins Juridical suspension k See my Suspension suspended and Vindication of 4 Serious Q●estions l Luke 12. 42 c. 22. 19. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. c. 11. 23 24 25 26. c. 9. 16 17. c. 4 1 2. m Ezech. 2. 1. to 8. 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. Hebr. 4. 2. 7. n 1 Cor. 3. 6 7 8. Heb. 4. 1 2 o ●u 2. 34. c. 8. 18 c. 20. 18. Isay 8 14. 15. c. 28. 16. Rom. 9. 33. 1 Pet. 2. 8. Ma● 10 14 15. c. 21. 44. Mat. 16. 15 16. Iohn 15. 22. Ezech. 2. 3. to 9 1 Cor. 11. 25. to 30. 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. Heb. 6. 6 7 8. p Isay 1. 2. to 21. Z●p 2. 1. Ez●ch 6. 1. to 9. J●r 3. 1. to 24. 2 Chron. 33. 2. to 21. c. 36. 14 15 16. Mar. 16. 15 16. Rem 10 18 19 20 21. Tim. 1. 12. to 17. c. 2. 1. to 7. Psal. 65. 2 3. Ps. 95. 6 7. Ps. 96. 1. 2. to 11. Ps. 100 1 2 3 4. Psal. 146. 11 12 13. Acts 9. 1. to 23. q 1 Cor. 5. 5. 7. 1 Tim. ● 20. * Eus●b Eccl. Hist. l. 6. c. 45. Bishop Jewels reply to Harding p. 35. r 1 Cor. 5. 5. 7. 13 Gal. 5. 12. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Tit. 3. 10. 3 Iohn 10. Bochellus Decreta Eccl. Gal. l. 1. Tit. 14. Summa Angel et Rosella Tit. Excommunicatio Gratian Causa 11. Qu. 3 Articles of England Artic. 33. Harmony of Confessions sect. 10 11 14 15. Euseb. Hist. l. ● c. 46. ſ Reply to Harding Art 2 d●vis 25. p. 103 104. t August de Eccles. Dogma● l 1 c. 52. u Hierom. contra Luciferium x Cyprian de Lapsis Serm. 5. * See Mr. Blake his Covenant sealed p. 233. y Defence of the Apology● part 5. ●h 16. divis 1. p. 514 515. z Contra Crescon●um l. 1. cap. 23. a Contra Cresco●●um l. 2. c. 23. b De Tempo●●●● Serm. ●0 c De Tempore Serm. 120. d D● Pessi●● ●ruc● Dominis e De Ablutione P●dam * See here p. 45 46. f Defence of the Apology p. 515. g Aug. ad Bonef Epist. 50. h See the 〈◊〉 in the Common Prayer Bo●k Heb. 〈◊〉 24. 30. M●t. 〈◊〉 14 15. ●ct● 13. 45 46. 51. i Aug. Epist. 160. in Psal 3. * See Perkins cases of conscience book 2. c. 10. Every man of years living in the Church and being baptized is bound 〈◊〉 conscience by the commandement to use the Lords Supper k See the Book of Ordination confirmed by the Statutes of 5 6 F. 6. ● 1. 3 ● 6. c. 2. 8. El●z c. 1. † See Peter ●ombard Sent. l. 4. distinct 35. Henricus de Vu●ruma other Schoolmen thereon Gratian de Consec. D●st 2. * Phil. 2. 1. 2. * Phil. 4. 8 9 23. a 4 Serious Questions printed 1644. A Vindication of 4. Serious Questions A● 1645 16 Important Questions touching Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Censures And Suspension suspended published 1646. b Confessed by the whole Council of Basil Fox Acts Monuments Vol. 1. p. 909. Besides those Councils Fathers Protestant Confessions Authors of all sorts quoted in my Vindication of 4 Serious Questions p. 12. to 29. p. 47 c Concil.