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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96264	A sermon touching the divine right and due observation of the Lords day Preached before the Lord Deputy, and the Lords Spiritual & Temporal of the kingdom of Ireland; in time of Parliament. At Christ-Church Dublin. On Sunday the 6th. of October, 1695. With a preface humbly address'd to the whole body of English Protestants: especially those inhabiting the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1520A; ESTC R229732	26,838	68

have reckoned Communicating And herein some will conceive I have gone beyond the Law of our Church which Requires as they may think by her Rubrick that the people Communicate but three times a year To this I say this is indeed the least which according to the Laws of our Church will exempt people from Censure but this is far from being all which she would bring her Sons to For she has provided a Communion-service not only for every Lords day but for every holyday in the year And by diverse passages of the Rubrick more than I am willing to insist on at present it appears she desires more I may not wave that particular Text of the Rubrick In Cathedral and Collegiate Churches where there are many Priests every Sunday at the least except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary c. And further to back this Rubrick I must solemnly profess I do not see how any Christian can satisfie himself that he walks according to Scripture and Primitive Rule who except in cases of necessity or want of opportunity Communicates seldomer than each Lords day In the beginning of Christianity 't is plain from Acts ii 42. they Communicated dayly And this Custome continued in a great part of the Church for above four hundred Years after Christ St. Austin particularly who dyed not till the year of our Lord. 430 not only mentions it as then Customary but exhorts to it I will not urge that in the Romish Church we may observe the Footsteps of this practice still from their dayly private Masses But I must note that the minimum quod sic or most seldom returns that we read the Administration hereof had in the Apostolical age were on every Lords Day On the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break Bread c. Acts xxi And I wish those words which St. Paul reports as in the Body of the Institution from our Saviour and which our Church from St. Paul inserts into the form of Consecration Do this as oft as ye Drink it in remembrance of me had been better considered especially as they stand in the Original than they are by most interpreters I think I could easily and evidently make out that they import no less than an express command to this purpose every day whereon you publickly assemble see you celebrate my Supper Let this be a constant part of every days publick Worship But the due Deduction of this sense would take up more room than I may at present allow my self However still I challenge any instance to be produced from Scripture of Christians in the Apostles age communicating seldomer than each Sunday I may therefore reasonably conclude touching this Rubrick of our Church not punishing the negligence of such as Communicate but thrice a year as our Lord does touching Divorce Because of the hardness of mens hearts it is suffered to them but from the begining it was not so nor is it the mind of our Church it should be so The Lords Supper was and still ought to be as occasion requires Administred oftener than on each Lords day but it being plain that the constant celebration of the Lords Supper and the Lords Day coming in as it were together and that neither any order or practice of the Apostles nor any Canon of the Church has separated them or excluded the Lords Supper from the publick duties of the Lords Day the separation of them which is now come into the Church can onely be made by the corruption and degeneracy of the latter Christian ages And whether either the corruption or degeneracy of others will be a good plea for the like in us one day it behoves us to consider in time For my own part I am resolved I and as many as I can prevail with shall never run the venture I will Communicate or Administer if I can get but three Christians with me at least every Lords day And let others forbear it at their peril and as they will answer before God and Christ the Righteous Judge at the last day It remains now I onely add a word or two for removing those neglects which in the begining I taxed as so frequent especially amongst the Irish Protestants in most Country Parishes The Neglect of afternoon publick worship and so of Catechising youth with that constancy that the Laws have enjoyned is ordinarily pleaded to be necessitated or made in a manner unavoidable by the distance of the Parishioners dwellings from the Churches in the Country But to this I answer 1. This is not so constant every where but that there are some competent number of Protestant Inhabitants within such convenient distance as that there might be a smaller Congregation in the afternoon And then families might be warned by turns and in course to send their younger people on afternoons to Catechism which thing might be made convenient by a hundred little Contrivances that the meanest capacities if people had but a good heart for their duty would quickly find out As for instance if my young people came with me to Church in the morning I could easily let them stay a dinner-time at their Neighbours house neerer the Church than my own that they may be at Evening service and Catechism If they do not I can order them to be ready by such a time as I come home to take the Horse or Horses with which I and others of my Family went to Church in the Morning and they will be early enough for their duty A true good will and a litle zeal for our Religion may find out more and better expedients as circumstances may varie 2 If the Ministers house be so far distant from the Church are his and all substantial Religious Neighbours Houses so out of the way that there can be no small afternoon-Assemblies in any of them If any be unwilling to have their house so constantly troubled every Lords Day convenient Houses in several districts may be taken by turns and in the morning notice given at the Church that evening Prayers will be at such a Family this day and at such a one the next Lords Day c. Now here young people may conveniently appear for Catechism This will be made much the more tolerable to poorer Inhabitants if there be a rule set up that there be no such custom at any time permitted as giving Drink and Entertainments to the Neighbours that Assemble any more than there is at Church But I am ashamed to descend to such minute matters I leave this to good Christians piety and prudence And take notice in a word of the other more gross neglect above taxed namely the Clergies coming to their Cures but once a fortnight or seldomer Where the slenderness of the maintenance is such that better provision cannot be made this is to be born and lamented But in other cases I hope the Governours of the Church will not bear with it and I am sure it is