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A05611	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,802	32

and buryall by the glorious resurrection and ascention and by the comming of the holy ghost FROM BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS good Lord deliuer vs. VVe Sinners do beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. And so after my Letany I come to your other exceptions wherein you thinke they will argue mee of scandalizing them in saying they goe to their Venery in forma pauperis by which words I seeme to accuse the holy tribe of iucontinency and this you thinke they will make penall bnt for that to say nothing of my owne experience as I AM A PHYSITIAN nor of what I haue heard from the most famous of that profession of the incontinency of those followes who they haue had vnder their cure after their venery because I will not in any thing temerate our function nor be like those beastly Preists that in their displeasure against a man will reueale whatsoeuer was most secretly commetted vnto their trust in deepest familiarity and sweare to it also and make records of it to the vndoing of many a poore man and the violating of all the lawes and iura Ioues hospitalis to speake nothing now I say of my owne knowledg looke but a little into their bawdy Courts in all the diocesses through the Kingdome and there will scarce passe a Court day wherethere are not two or three Pre●●ts or more presented for incontinency and either for getting their owne mayds with child or their neighbours or it may be more profound vncleannes then they bring along with them their compurgators which doe that office vpon condition that they shall be compurgators for them an other time and so they are pronounced rectos in curia and freed from all crime and thus they harmonise together for the cloaking of one an others knauery Nor to say nothing of Chaplins in generall what base filthinesse they perpetrate euen in the familyes of illustrious men where they are entertayned and too much honoured sometime with their daughters or allyes sometime which their seruants or freinds of which the Kingdome cryes shame they professedly carrying kissing comfits in their pockets and blush not to publish their lesciuiousnes being at any time demanded what they smack I my self haue been an eare witnes of that good confession But not to speake of this neither nor of their codpisse Simony to vse their owne language and dialect nor of the suits that for their beastlinesse haue been cast on t of the HONORABLE COVRT OF STARCHAMBER But to come to the High Commission Court in the which if you please to be present you shall heare sometime foure or fiue in a terme of such base filthynesse OF THEIR PREISTS as no chast eares can heare them such things indeed as the apostle sayes expresly they are not to be named amongst Christians aud such as the very prophaue cry shame of and yet it is wonderfull to see with what grace and how distinctly and orderly the Registers will reade that good stuffe sometimes three or foure houres together and more and how diligently and attentiuely those reuerend fathers a whole after noone together will heare those BAWDY BVSINESSES when to be one houre in the pulpit to teach the people their duty towards God and their neighbour in half a yeare is a thing very tedious vnto them So that they cannot take it in ill part when their owne Courts do sufficiently proue their lewd behauiour which indeed now is well knowne through the Kingdome insomuch that though their incontinency with their debaushednes be proued neuer so manifestly they shall find compurgators and come well enough of except they be branded with Puritanisme also and that he preacheth diligently then perhaps he may lose his place for it But I say let his incontinency be neuer so euidently proued and that he is a breaker of all the lawes of God suspention is all that I euer heard was inflicted vpon such persons if they be conformable and if there be any other punishment against INCONTINENT PREISTS it is more then I know But this I haue often obserued that others that haue been proued men of an incontaminat life of holy conuersation diligent Preachers yet found fayling perhaps in some trifle of conformity they haue been depriued ipso facto of their ministry and of their liuely-hood and committed to prison without either mercy and compassion So much conscience is punished now a dayes and incontinency fauoured amongst our reuerend Fathers And therefore if they take pepper in the nose for saying they goe to their venery in forma pauperis let them do their worst for I will neuer feare to speake the truth Now whereas you suppose they will make it an hainous crime THAT I INVITE THE WHORE OF BABILON to my christning with the Prelats I do conceiue no such offence in that businesse For I hope all learned men and good Christians are well assured that Godfathers and Godmothers are not essentiall to baptisme and that many thousands were well christened in primitiue tymes and euery day are in many reformed Churches in our age without either Besides he that shall looke into the first originall cause of them will at this day see no need of them among vs at least very little For Baptisme succeding circumcision and as vnder the old law children were not to be circumcised whose Fathers and mothers were not within the Pale of the Church and within the Couenant So I say in the tyme of the new testament baptisme comming in place of circumcision none were thought fit in the first Christian churches being children to be receiued to that holy Sacrament of initiation but such as were the children of Christian parents for the promises were made and renewed to them and to their children Herevpon when children were to be baptised and to receiue the seale of the couenant Christians being but few in comparison of Iews and Gentiles and withall a persecuted generation of men and all forced to liue in obscurity and stragling one from an other and to haue their meetings very priuate especially in the great persecutions of the Church for the satisfaction of the whole congregation when they assembled together and when any INFANTS were there presented vnto them to be baptised there came in some two or three Christian neighbours to testify vnto the congregation that those children that were brought into the assembly were Christians children so that they might without any scruple admit them to the sacrament of Baptisme and this was all the end of witnesses in those times and all they did at the Font which any two either Iews or Pagan● might haue done as well as Christians for ought I know for the congregation desired but to know whether they were Christians children otherwise they admitted them not to baptisme Now a Iew or a Gentile that was their enemy would not haue their owne children incorporated among Christians but would make Christians goe among their owne fraternity therefore as I suppose their witnes would easily

made there and as great reuerence to be vsed as in ours and there was but this difference in them that the one set forth Christ to come and to be crucified and the other set forth Christ now dead and rose againe and in heauen but I say for the substance they were all one and the beleeuing Israelits were as really made partakers of Christ and all his merits in their Sacraments as we in ours and he as really present there as in ours and yet I say they vsed no posture of adooration in it neither was that gesture euer vsed in the administration of Baptisme where Christ is also as much present as in the Lords supper and that Sacrament also was honoured with the visible presence of the holy Ghost and the voice of God the Father the greatest miracle that euer was and the most certaine reall presence that euer we reade of in scripture was in that and this also is such a Sacrament and of such necessity as without which the aduersaries say there is no saluation neither can they deny but Christ is as really preseṅt there as in the supper yet this sacrament is administred by all the aduersaries themselues standing without the posture of veneration and yet they dare not say they baptise vnreuerently why then I beseech you do we vse a gesture of more reuerence at the one Sacrament then at an other when they are equally to be reuerenced or why should we leaue the example of Christ and his apostles in the one and follow Antichrists this I must confesse I see no ground of neither in reason nor in Scripture I haue read that when Gods owne Ordinances came to be abused to Idolatry they were then abolished and it was well pleasing vnto God And I am fully perswaded if that kneeling had been the gesture in Christs time in their ordinary repasts and meales and that Christ himselfe with his Apostles had kneeled in the receiuing of that last Supper yet if afterwards it should haue been abused to idolatry and haue giuen an occasion of much dishonour to God and scandall to the bretheren I say I am confident it would haue been well pleasing vnto the Lord to haue left it and vsed an other But when neither Christ nor his Apostles vsed this gesture of veneration in receiuing of the Lords Supper and it hath been an occasion of great Idolatry yea the greatest that euer was and is also a cause still of infinite dishonour to God and scandall to the weake and strengthning to the wicked idolaters in their courses I affirme and that vpon most excellent reason that this gesture ought now to be left and declined in the celebrating of that holy Ordinance But it hath indeed euer been the policy of the deuill to corrupt the best things He laboured first to bring the people to a profanation of this ordinance and whereas they met together to reioyce in remembrance that Christ dyed for them and was risen againe to free and deliuer them from death they in their reioycing began to exceed moderation and to dishonour God in the abuse of his creatures Sainct Paull therefore to preuent this writes vnto them reproues them for this so great abuse and tels them that such disorder brought a Iudgment vpon them rather then ablessing and wished them to examine themselues and to take notice that it was an ordinance of God himselfe setting forth the death and passion of Christ and the great deliuerance they had by it from the captiuity and slauery of sin and Satan and that as they were redeemed by his death and sufferings from that seruitude to be the seruants of Christ and not to be any longer at the slauery of the Deuill and to doe his workes by disordering themselues so they should prepare themselues remoue wickednes out of their hearts and actions should come with true thankefulnes vnfeined faith and true loue towards God charity towards their neibour with all sanctified affections vnto his holy ordinance that so they might procure a blessing vpon themselues by it and not bring downe iudgments vpon their heads by their inordinat carriage there and this was all the Apostle aymes at in that chapter must we therefore by and by think because the apostle reproues them of irreuerence and disorder therefore he doth licence Idolatry and the worship of the bread and wine as we say in our cōmon discourse there is a difference between staring and starke mad so there is a great deale of difference betweene reverence and Idolatry the one is by the Apostle indeed in this chapter commanded the other in the tenth chapter as highly displeasing vnto God is abominated But I would very faine know of our great Masters what they thinke of Christs and the apostles gesture of sitting where they reuerent or no I demand I hope they will not say vnreuerent will they then presume to be more reuerent then Christ and his disciples away with such hypocrisy and abominable blasphemy then we well perceiue that there may be reuerence in the Sacrament where there is no kneeling And yet these hypocrits call it vnreuerent setting vpon their tayles and make it an article in their Courts for the vndoing of many thousands a damnable wickednes against God and their brethren And without all doubt Paul that reuealed the whole will of God vnto the faithfull and in setting forth vnto the Corinthians the institution of the Supper of the Lord as he had receiued it from Christ himself now reprouing thē also for their vnreuerent comming vnto it and profanation of that holy ordinance if kneeling and bodily veneration had been a gesture fit for that action and would haue made more for the reuerent receiuing or the honouring of God in it he hauing now so good an opportunity would haue put them in mind of it nay he would haue inioyned them to haue vsed kneeling allwayes in receiuing vnles we will thinke Paul was not so carefull to prouide for the reuerent receiuing of the Sacrament as Antichrist and his disciples which were rashenesse to imagin But of kneeling there is altum silentium not a word the apostle leaues them still to their table gesture forewarning them onely of prophanesse and inconsideration of those misteries But behold in this thing also the deceit and craft of that old Serpent the deuill seing the Apostle had preuented his purpose in bringing in the profanation of the supper of the Lord this most excellent help for the edification of them in their most holy faith and well perceiuing that all his possibelity of working that stratagem was taken away and he was now disappoynted of his purpose he goes then an other way to worke and seeing he could not haue his will that way hee resolued to haue it an other and therefore brings-in a contrary extreme worshipping of the bread and wine for Christ himself the greatest and fearfullest idolatry that euer was in the world But for the