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A69044	A sermon necessarie for these times shewing the nature of conscience, with the corruptions thereof, and the repairs or means to inform it with right knowledge, and stirre it up to upright practise, and how to get and keep a good conscience. To which is adjoyned a necessarie, brief, and pithy treatise af [sic] the ceremonies of the Church of England. By Anthony Cade Batch. of Divinitie.	Cade, Anthony, 1564?-1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 4330; ESTC S107399	57,371	130

of an indifferent Ceremonie is all the impression or inscription that it hath even as the Elements in the Lords Sacraments are onely sacramentall in the sacramentall use and not before or after as the water used in Baptisme Dr. Burges in a digression pag. 475. seq shews great differences in the operative vertue holinesse necessitie and worship of God which Papists place in their Ceremonies being wondrous many from our few and plain ordained onely for comelinesse order and edification And pag. 285. Ours are meerly significative theirs beleeved also to be operative as exorcismes crossings sprinkling of holy-water oyl chrisme exsufflation ringing of hallowed bells and such like to drive away the Devil ours arbitrary theirs held necessary ours of morall duties onely theirs signifying and shadowing out divine graces procuring and meriting them at Gods hand Our small threeds I hope may well passe through the needles eye where these their Camels cannot 295. CHAP. VI. The Surplesse Crosse at Baptisme and Kneeling at Communions approved BUt this is better seen in the particulars which our people do most stick at the Surplesse the Crosse and Kneeling at the receiving of our Lords Supper Of the good use of the Surplesse amongst us I have said enough in the third chapter now of our difference from the Papists Among them the Surplesse might not be used untill some Bishop or his deputie had solemnly hallowed it with prayers to defend the wearer from the Devils assaults and with many crossings and holy-water sprinkling which done no publick act of ministeriall service might be done without it except in the Masse which required higher geare The Masse-priest either with the Surplesse or without it at his choice must put on the Missal furniture the Amice Alb Tunicle Stole and the rest otherwise he sinnes mortally These things Dr. Burges sheweth and proveth out of their own books pag. 475 476. It is not so with us we use the Surplesse onely as a decent distinctive garment as also the additions of hoods shewing learned mens degrees in the Universities may assure us In which use the Divines of reformed Churches do allow it according to the examples of the ancient Fathers Chrysostom Hom. 83. in Matt. Hieronymus lib. 1. cont Pelag. Of this judgement is Zanchius De Redempt cap. 16. Pet. Martyr loc epist Hooper fol. 1087. citing Chrysostome and Cyprian Bullinger and Gualter citing Theodoret hist. 2.27 Socr. 6.22 Polanus Zepperus c. Thus Mr. Sprint pag. 88. Melancthon and Benhagius counselled ministers to weare the Surplesse rather then with foolish frowardnesse to trouble and hinder the Church Concil Melancth part 2. fol. 91 92. Sprint pag. 129. Bucer wrote that godly men might use these garments godly Martyr calls the Surplesse a thing indifferent which makes a man neither godly nor wicked Calvine would not have men contend de pileo veste linea Beza would not have churches forsaken for Surplesse Caps or such other things truely indifferent to whose writing herein subscribed Nicolaus Colladonus Simon Goulartius Francis Porta Henric. Stephanus and finally Mr. Cartwright himself Sprint 130. seq Bucer script Angl. Censura fol. 458. c. Martyr loc com fol. 1085 1086 1127. Calv. epist 120. fol. 217. Beza epist. 8. fol. 77. Grindallo epist 12. fol. 98 99. Of the Crosse in Baptisme our use is 1. Lawfull 2. Safe 3. Profitable 4. Necessary 1. See our 30 Canon Lawfull By the judgement of the Primitive Church which used it and gloried in it without any thought of superstition for which cause it was retained also by the reverend Fathers and great Divines in the dayes of King Edward 6. of which some suffered banishment some death for the testimony of the truth and such as returned from exile in Queen Elisabeths time continued the use of it You must condemne all these grave ancient and late-learned Divines Fathers Martyrs if you condemne us if you absolve them you absolve us Adde unto them The late harmonie of confessions of other reformed Churches allowing it and also the most learned particular Protestant Divines Bucer who saith It is nec indecens nec inutile Beza who bids rather use it then forsake the ministerie and Vtantur ipsi sicut par est libertate suâ Hemingius Adiaphora sunt let not schismes arise for them Zanchius It may be used without superstition yea with commendation and without perill and bindes not the Conscience Polanus It was used by the Fathers without sinne so saith Zepperus and Mr. Perkins and Goulartius cited by Mr. Sprint pag. 138. seq Bucer script Anglic. censur cap. 12. fol. 479. Beza quo priùs fol. 98 100. Heming Syntag. ad 4. leg decalogi § 33 34. fol. 365. comment in 1. cap. Joan. he saith Minimè improbo signum crucis Zanchius compend Relig. loc 16. de tradit eccles fol. 654. Polanus in Ezech. cap. 9. vers 4. fol. 258. Zepper de Sacrament cap. 16. fol. 357 358. de polit eccles lib. 1. cap. 10. fol. 57 58. Mr. Perkins Problem tit Signum crucis sect 1 2 3. fol. 83 84. 2. Safe without doubt See our 30 Canon § Thirdly c as it is used by our Church with sufficient Cautions and Exceptions against all Popish superstitions and errours For 1. it is no part of the substance of Baptisme but being used after the infant is fully and perfectly baptized it neither addes any thing to the vertue and perfection of Baptisme nor being omitted doth detract any thing from the effect of it And in this use we hold conformitie with the safe and honourable Primitive Church but no conformitie with the later Papists as Dr. Burges well sheweth Dr. Burges pag. 476. seq Our ministers saith he do not crosse themselves nor the people nor fonts water Communion table cups or the bread and wine or any other of Gods ordinances all which their priests are bound to for their consecration and without which nothing is with them consecrated or holy We crosse not the childe before baptisme on the forehead breast or any part which their priests must do to drive away the devill and to make the Sacraments efficacie more easy and strong And after baptisme we crosse not the infant with oyl chrisme or without on the crown as their priests must do to give them their full Christendome lest they die before confirmation And at confirmation our Bishop is not to crosse the forehead with chrisme or without which in Popery is injoyned as an essentiall part of their Sacrament of confirmation Thus Dr. Burges there who also reciteth manifold abuses of the crosse among the Papists pag. 584. seq worthy to be read but too long to be here inserted 3. Profitable for as by Baptisme we receive a great blessing so we must be mindefull to perform a great duty As the infant by Baptisme is made a member of Christ the childe of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of heaven that is a