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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

quasi materia Either as something of or something belonging to Repentance either as parts of Penitency or * Ibid. Concil F●orent acts of the Penitent necessary either ut praecepta or media † Concil Trident in ●atechist ad parochos in sacrament poenitent as things of nature or conducing to the perfection of Repentance Many of them have said no more and for ought I see we may as much for when no stone is lest unmoved and sick man-like we have tossed us from side to side we are still in the same place We admit them all in some cases As for Confession to the Priest our Church approves and presseth it * Book of Common Prayer indeed as † B Vsher in answer to the Jesuit challenge p 92. Medicinal not Sacramental and though the Keys be grown rustie yet are they rich But we have not now to do with any secret sin Canus parte quinta de relict poenitent but with a known Capital offence And though with the Greek Church we content our selves oft-times with confession to God alone yet here together with them we do admit approve urge a publick Exhomolegesis open Confession and Church discipline S. Thom. ex Anselmo Satisfactio est compensatio Offensae prae teritae ad aequalitatem justitiae As for Satisfaction our intent is not to make level with the Almighty for our sins We know the disproportion between Mans weakness and Gods justice * Dr. Fulke ad 2 Cor. 2. S. 6. in Rhem. Test and against Stapleton Fortress 10. difference But publick offences may not be smothered privately and he that hath given scandal and offended the Church must to the Church give Satisfaction Said I that he must nay he will he will willingly He will cry ignosce pater for his Sin and ignosce frater for his Example All his grief is that he did sin and not that he doth suffer and freely and ingeniously he will confess That whatsoever is laid upon him whatsoever his pennance be either for the humbling of himself or for a terrour unto others 't is all too little Lib. 1 c 9. Irenaeus will tell you of a Woman seduced by Mark the Heretick which did spend her whole time in bewailing her offence and of others which did Ibid. in manifesto exhomoliges●n facere publickly acknowledge and lament their sins and wickedness Lib. 5 c 26. Eusebius will tell you of an Heretical Bishop Natalis who clad himself in sackcloth and ashes falls down to the feet of the Bishop and with a world of sighs and tears craves pardon Socrates will tell you how Ecebolius for renouncing his Faith Lib. 3. c. 11. lay along in the Church-porch and cryed to such as came in Tread me Tread me under your feet for I am the unsavoury Salt Lib 1. de poenitent c. 16. And Ambrose will tell you of many who did even plow-up their face with tears wither their cheeks with weeping prostrate themselves to the feet of the passengers and with their continual abstinence and much fasting they made their living bodies the very Image of Death I might add unto all these old Origen In Suida inter sua opera post libros 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Library of Learning and Ocean of woe But we will pass from voluntary submission to Canonical satisfaction And here give me leave to say somewhat of the Laws Ecclesiastical and punishment inflicted by the Church that which many ignorantly condemn and many most maliciously hew at Lib de poenitent Tertullian will tell you that such like Offenders as these must pastum potum pura nosse Bread and Water must be their diet as the Prophet David said My tears have been my meat day and night That they must pray and sigh and weep pray to God humble themselves to the Priest St. Augustine will tell you De mirabil Sacrae script that they must never think their pennance enough they must alwaies sorrow alwaies cry peccavi life and lamentation must end together St. Ambrose De poeniten lib. 2. cap. 1. The more a man throws himself down by sorrow and submission the more abject he is in his own sight the more accepted shall he be in the sight of God But this is general The Church did appoint certain forms of pennance according to the quality of the offences and for denying the Faith Grandem redeundi difficultatem sanxit antiquitas Apud Carranz cap. ●7 ejusdem Contil 't is a Canon in the Agathon Council about a thousand years agon Our Fore-fathers say they did command and enjoyn a bitter pennance to all such as had denied the Faith Indeed some as 't was said of Novatus would admit no reconciliation some would receive onely once all such as fell after Baptism The usual practice was to enjoyn a three years pennance at the least to such as did in time of Persecution and against their will deny some had their punishment prolonged even unto eight or nine years or more Carranz in Conc. Ancryan Can. 6. Ibid. Can. 1. and some were put off ad magnum diem even till the hour of Death or day of Judgment And if he were a Priest tkat fell he lost his Orders nor might he ever recover his former state but by enduring the brunt of a second Persecution Lib. Eccles Hist. 7 cap. 2. tom 1. ep 10. Pysh Alloy in Miscellan names four sorts ex Conc Nicen. Moses Maximus c. inter opera Cyprian tomo 1. epist. 26. And last of all If any were restored either of the Laiety or otherwise it must be done by laying on of Hands and Confirmation of the Bishop And this Eusebius calls the ancient Custome and Cyprian that to do otherwise were to ruinate and not restore Now during the time of these long appointed Pennance some were Audientes and might only stay the Sermon other were Orantes and might be present at Prayers but must depart when the Eucharist was to be administred To admit them to the Communion was to give that which is holy to Dogs some some and to press to the Altar was Domini corpus invadere De Lapsis Exam. Concil Trident. parte ult de Indulgentiis So Cyprian yet all this while there were Relaxations Moderations Mitigations or as the new word after Chemnitius hath it Indulgences from that rigour and severity and there was a peculiar reserved power in the R. R. Bishop † Concil Ancyran Cau. 2. 5. F Th Gavius de contrit he might either lengthen or shorten the time as he saw cause For as one saith out of Hierom. Apud Deum non tantum valet mensura tempoporis quàm doloris God regardeth not the length of the Pennance but the Contrition of the party not how long but how heartily we humble our selves This was the Discipline of the Primitive Church this was the remedy they did provide against