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11 True it is that euerie one which receaueth the Sacraments receiueth not therewithal the things signified by the Sacraments that is Forgiuing of sinnes or other spiritual graces freelie for Christ his sake For we do find that Some do receiue the Sacraments and the things signified by the Sacraments So did Cornelius receiue the Sacrament of Baptisme Acts. 10 47. The Lords Supper The good disciples The godlie Corinthians Some receiue the Sacraments but not the things signified by the Sacraments So receiued Simon Magus baptisme Acts. 8 13. Iudas the L. Supper Iohn 13. 26. So receiue the 1. Cor. 11 27. c. Atheists Libertines Impenitent persons Some receiue not the Sacraments and yet are partakers of the thing signified by the Sacraments Such à communicant vvas the theefe vpon the Crosse Luke 23 v. 43. 44 This maketh vs to conceiue vvell Of those men and vvomen vvhich vvold and cannot communicate with the godlie Of the children of Christian parents vvhich die afore theie be baptized Furthermore it is appatent hovv Saluation is promised to thē vvhich are baptized yet not simply but if theie do beleeue Mar. ●6 16. VVhosoeuer shal eat the bread or drinke the cup of the Lord vnvvorthilie shal be giltie of the bodie and bloud of Christ. 1. Cor. 11 27 The same do the god lie Churches in their Cōfes testifie vnto the vvorld Confes. Heluet ● c 19. 21 Heluet 1 ar ●0 Basil ar 5. 6 Boem c. 11. 13. Fran. ar 34. 36. 37 Flan. art 33 35. Ausb art 3. 13. Sax. art 13 14. VVit c. 10. Suea c. 17. The Papists therefore be in à vvrong opinion vvhich deliuer that The Sacraments are not onelie seales but causes of grace The Sacraments giue grace euen because theie be deliuered and receiued ex opere operato That is à cause of vnvvorthie receiuing the Sacraments vvhich in deed is none as if a man or vvoman do communicate before he haue made à ful confession of al his sinnes vvith their circumstances vnto à Priest The lacke of à true and liuelie faith is not à cause vvhich in deed is the greatest cause in th' elder sort of vnvvorthie receiuing the Sacraments 26. ARTICLE Of th'un vvorthines of the Ministers which hinder not th' effect of the Sacraments ALthough in the visible Church the euil be euer mingled with the good and sometime the euil haue chiefe auctoritie in the ministration of the worde and Sacramentes yet for asmuch as theie doe not the same in their owne name but in Christes and doe minister by his commission and auctoritie 1we maie vse their ministerie both in bering the word of God in the receiuing the Sacraments Neither is th' effect of Christes ordinance taken awaie by their wikednes nor the grace of Gods gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightlie doe receiue the Sacraments ministred vnto them which are effectual because of Christes institution and promise although theie be ministred by euilmen 2Neuerthelesse it appertaineth to the Discipline of the Church that inquirie be made of euil Ministers and that theie be accused by those that haue knowledge of their offences and finallie being founde guiltie by iuste iudgement be deposed The Propositions 1 Th' effect of the worde and Sacramentes is not hindered by the badnesse of the Ministers 2 Euil Ministers are to be searched out conuicted and deposed but orderlie and by the Discipline of the Church 1 Of the ministers ecclesiastical the church is to conceaue Not too sinisterlie as though their vnworthines could make the word and Sacraments the lesce effectual to such as vvorthelie do heare and receaue them Not too high lie as if the dignitie of their calling vvere cause good enough that what thei do or saie ex officio take happie effects This by The scripture is autorized which teacheth vs that euen The wiked Are to be heard The scribes and Pharises sitting in Moses chaire Math. 23. 1. Preaching Christe though through enuie strife and contention Phil ● 15. Maie minister the Sacraments as did th'ordinari Iewish Priests and of them verie manie moste wikced both afore and vvhen Christe came into the world The beste are but The ministers of God 1. Cor. 4. 1. Gods laborers 1. Cor. 39. The purer churches of our time is abundantlie testified Confes. Heluet. 1. art 15. 20. 22. Heluet. 2. c. 18. 19. 20. 21. Bohem. c. 11. 12. Franc. ar 26. 28. 34. 36 38. Fland. art 33. 34. 35. Ausburg art 8. Saxon. art 11. 13. VVittem art 32 Sueau art 13. Neither is hee whosoeuer that planteth anie thing neither he that watereth but god that giueth the increase saieth S. Paul 1. Cor 3. 7. And à signe of à good spirit it is to regarde not so much who speketh or ministreth as what is vttered and offered from God The due consideration heereof vvill both settle vs the more deeplie in the truth make vs the more earnestlie to abhorre th' unsound opinions Of the VVho taught that the Sacraments are holie vvhen theie be administred by holy men not els Donatists Pe●lians Of Th'anabaptists which wil not haue the people to vse the ministrie of euill ministers Thinke the seruice of wiked ministers vnprofitable and not effectual Of R. H. publishing that it is the calling or dutie of euery Christian not to communicate where there is a blinde dumme ministerie Of the Papists For who seeth not that theie tie the graces of God to the worthines of persons when theie deliuer that Some sacraments Bishops and non els as Confirmation and orders must minister From som sinnes the Priest from some the Bishop and from some the Pope onelie must absolue Hee which entereth into holie wedlock being afore in orders turneth backe after Satan and becommeth an Apostata 2 Though vvee hold that the ministerie of vviked ministers is not vtterlie to bee condemned yet thinke vve not that in the Church of God theie must alvvaies bee suffered For theie are Th'euil and vnprofitable seruaunts Math. 25. 26. Theis vvhich offend Math. 18. 8. Th'unfauorie salt Math. 5. 13. VVhich are carefullie to bee seene vnto and if admonitions vvill not serue deposed yet orderlie and by the discipline of the Church For that God vvhich appointed à gouernment for the ciuil state hath giuen auctoritie also to his Church to punishe offenders according to the qualitie of their offence And so vvee maie read In the worde of God Math. 18. v. 17. ●8 1. Cor. 5. 4. c. In the confessions of our neighbour churches Confes Hel. 2. c. 18. Bohem. c. 9. Sax. art 11. Sueau art 13 Then haue not as R H. writeth the people of God in euerie congregation auctoritie To depose vn●cet Ministers To punish offenders against the word of God 27 ARTICLE Of Baptisme BAptisme is 1 not onelie à signe of profession and marke of difference wherebie Christian men are discerned from other that be not Christened 2 but it is also à signe of regeneration or newe birth wherebie as by

10. v. 16. This is the doctrine also of other Churches besides as mai appear by the ●onfession of Heluet. 2. c. 21. Basil. art 6. Bohe. c. 13 Fland. art 35. Saxon. art 14. Sueau c. 18 So think not those men VVhich contemne this Sacrament of Loue with Th'anabaptistes vvhich rail vpon it being vsed after the institution of Christe and call it VVith the Papistes A Table Prophane Detestable The cup of diuels A kinde of idolatrous meates VVhich denie it manie Christians and all owe it onelie to à few Antichristian shauelings VVhich abuse it with Halters and hollow harted Christians Corinthians that wil Drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of the diuels Participate at the Lords table and at the table of diuels 2 The Supper of the Lord Is to al christians à Sacrament of our redemption by Iesus Christe Math. 26. 28. Luke 22. ver 19. 20. Marke 14. 24 1. Cor. 11. 24 To such as receue the same It is the partaking of the bodie blood of Christ. 1. cor 10. 16. worthelie 1. Cor. 11. 28. c. By faith 2. Cor. 13. 5. Iohn 6. 35 A trueth this is not onelie in harte beleeued but by publik writings al so testified to the vvorld by our neighbour Churches Confes of Heluet. 2. cap. 11. Heluet. 1 art 22. Basil. art 6. Bohem. ca 13. France art 37. Flan. art 35. Ausb touching the Masce art 1. 3. Sax. art 14. VVittem cap. 19. Suca c. 19. This proposition diuerslie hath bin assailed For Some either deniing or not acknowledgeing the benefits of this so heauēly à Sacrament doe saie It is not à seale of spiritual graces but onelie à signe of Christian profession It is to bee receaued onelie for obedience take to the Princes procedings but is of non effect to the perfect ones an opinion of the Family It doth neither good nor hurt to the receauers the Mescalians error It is not à signe assuring the harts of the faithful hovv their sinnes bee forgiuen For vvee must alvvaies doubt of the remission of our sinns saie the Papists It is to bee receaued to the comfort of the bodie onelie but is no refreshing of the soule Som haue conceaued doe hold most erroneous opinions touching the manner of receuing the same deliuering to the world that It can profite such as haue no faith euen Babes or infants in this error wer the Nectorians Graecians Moranians that I saie not Cyprian Origen Austine VViked men destitute of al knoledge true sense of godlines and for no cause but onlie because theie receaue the same The dead bodies of men th' error of certaine condemned long agoe It can benefit such as recaue it not at al if it be ministred on their behalf being Theis errors the Papistes stifelie doe defend Absent vppon the seas in wars yea by death Praesent and yet do not participate but the Priest for them 3 Transsubst●tiation or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the supper of the Lorde we do vtterlie denie and the reasons mouing vs thereunto are for that It is repugnant to the plaine wordes of the Scripture For I wil not drinke hence-forth of this fruit of the vine saith our Sauiour Christ Matt. 26 29. Mar. 14 25. which fruit had it realie bine either the blood o● by waie of concomitance the verie bodie and blood of Iesus Christ then our Lorde and Sauiour had eaten himselfe vvhich is not onelie blasphemous to be spoken but also impossible to be done and directlie against the word of God vvhere commandement is often giuen that the blood with flesh not of beast much lesse of man must not bee eaten Gen. 9 4. Leuit. 17 14. The heauen muste conteine Iesus Christ vntil the time that al things be restored saith Saint Peter Acts. 3. 21. If Christ corporalie according to his humanitie be in heauen then is he not in the Sacrament As often as yee shal eate this bread ' not Christ his real bodie and drinke this cup not the real blood of Christ ye shew the Lords death til he come saith Saint Paul ● Cor. 11 20. Therefore he is not come which he must be being vnder the formes of bread and wine It ouerthrovveth the nature of à Sacrament For where there is none element there can be no Sacrament Because the word comming vnto Th'element maketh a Sacrament It hath bine the occasion of manie superstitions For from hence proceeded The reseruing of the transsubstantiated bread for sundrie superstitious ends Th' adoring of the bread euen as God himselfe and that of priest and people The carieng-about in pompous procession of their wa●er God The popish feast called Corpus Christi daie The due cōsideration hereof hath moued the reformed Churches to detest transsubstantiation as in hart word so by writing Confes of Hel. 2. cap. 21. Hel. 1. art 22. Basil. art 6. Bohem c. 13. VVittem c. 19. Abominable therfore be the popish errors that In Th'eucharist there is not the substance of bread and wine but onelie the meere accidents and qualities Substancialie realie the bodie blood together with the soule and diuinitie of our L. Iesus Christ and therfore whole Christ is conteined in the sacrament of Eucharist Vnder each kind and vnder euerie part of each kinde seueralie whole Christ is comprised After the consecration in the wonderful Sacrament of Th'ucharist the bodie blood of our Lorde Iesus Christ is and that not onelie in the vse while it is taken but afore also after in the hostes or consecrated peeces reserued or remaining after the communion In the holie Sacrament Christ th' onelie begotten sonne of God is to be adored with the verie worship of Latria Marcus also that detestable haeretike held that the wine of the lords Supper was conuerted into blood 4 Although our Sauior Christ bee in heauen as hath bine proued and therfore can not corporalie be giuen taken and eaten yet we beleeue that by à secret and incomprehensible vertue of th● holie Ghost hee doth nurish quicken vs by his verie bodie and blood apprehended by à liuelie faith For the better vnderstanding of this great mysterie wee are to note that the regenerate haue à double life with in them whereof One is carnal and temporarie vvhich theie haue brought with them from their first comming into the world This life is common to al men good bad and is praeserued by earthlie and material bread common also to al and euerie man One is spiritual and heauenlie giuen vnto them in their second birth which is through the worde 1 Pet. 1. 23. This life is peculiar onlie to the elect of God and maintained by the bread of life vvhich came-downe from heauen which is Iesus Christ Iohn 6 51 He nurisheth and susteineth the spiritual life of all Christians if he be eaten that is receiued of them spiritualie through faith Iohn 6 35. Rom. 3 25 vvhich spiritual bread that he might the

Crosces To vvhich theie giue diuine adoration Theis are flatlie forbidden of the Lord. Exod. 20. 4. Some are of things neither commanded nor forbidden as Of eating or not eating fleshe Of wearing or not wea ring some apparel Of keeping or not keeping of some daies holie c. VVhich are not to bee obserued vvhen it is deliuered as sound doctrine that such workes Do merit remission of sinnes Are th'acceptable seruice of God Do more please than th'obseruation of the lawes of God Are necessarilie to be done insomuch that theie are damned which do them not For th'auoiding of al theis vve muste remember that vvee are bought with a price and therfore maie not be the seruaunts of men 1. Cor. 7. 23. and that none humain constitution in the church doth binde anie man to break the least commaundement of God Act. 5. 29. The consideration heere of hath caused other Churches also with à svveete consent to cōdemne suche wiked ceremonies of man Confel of Heluet. 2. c 2. 24. 27. Heluet ● ar 4. Basil art 5 sect 3. art 10 Bohem. c. 15 Franc. art 24. 33. Flan. art 7. 29 32 Ausb art ●5 VVittem art 28. 29. 32. 3● Suca c. 8 c. 14 15 Such vngodlie traditions and ceremonies in à manner be al the ceremonies and traditions of Th'antichristian Synagogue of Rome and therefore to be abandoned of vs al. 4 It hath pleased our most merciful Lord Sauior Christe for the maintenance of his Church militant that tvvo sortes of rites or ceremonies should be vsed wherof Some God his most excellent maiestie himselfe hath ordained such is the ceremonie of Baptisme The L. Supper VVhich are til th' end of the vvorlde vvithout al addition diminution alteration with al zeale religion to bee obserued Some bee ordained by the auctoritie of each prouincial or nationall Church that for The Comlines of the Church that is to saie that By those helps the people of God maie the better be inflamed with à god lie zeale Sobrenes and grauitie maie appeare in the wel handling of Ecclesiastical matters Order sake euen That gouernors maie haue rules directions how to gouerne by That auditors may know how to prepare and behaue themselues in diuine seruice That à ioiful peace maie bee among al men by the wel ordering of Church affaires VVe haue proued alreadie that such traditions maie bee made and changed augmented and diminished as fit time and oportunitie shal bee ministred and that not by the Catholique for that is and hath alwaies bin impossible but by particular Churches Th' effect here of vvee maie reade in the Confes of Heluet. 2. c. 27 Bohem. c. 15. Fran. art 32. Flan. art 32. Ausbur touching abuses ar 7. VVitte art 35. Sueaue ca. 14. This sheweth th'intolerable arrogancy of the Church of Rome which dare take vpon her To alter the Sacramentes ordained euē by Christe himselfe To praescribe rites and ceremonies not to some particular churches but to the whole church militant 35 ARTICLE Of Homilies THE seconde booke of Homilies the seueral title whereof we haue ioyned vnder this article doth containe à godlie and wholsome doctrine and necessarie for these times as doth the former booke of Homilies which were set forth in the time of Edwarde the sixte and therefore we iudge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers diligentlie and distinctlie that there maie be vnderstanded of the people Of the names of the Homilies 1 Of the right vse of the Church 2 Against peril of Idolatrie 3 Of the repairing and keeping clean of the Churches 4 Of good workes first of Fasting 5 Against gluttonie and drunkennes 6 Against excesse of apparel 7 Of Praier 8 Of the place and time of praier 9 That common prayers and Sacraments ought to be ministred in à knowen tongue 10 Of the reuerent aestimation of gods word 11 Of Almes doing 12 Of the Natiuitie of Christe 13 Of the Pascion of Christe 14 Of the Resurrection of Christe 15 Of the worthie receiuing of the Sacrament of the bodie and blood of Christe 16 Of the giftes of the holie Ghoste 17 For the Rogation daies 18 Of the state of Matrimonie 19 Of Repentaunce 20 Against Idlenesse 21 Against Rebellion The seconde booke of Homilies as also the former I doubt not containe godlie and wholsome doctrine necessarie for this time But for somuch as this is none Article of the Catholique Religion but à priuate Article for our Church neither yet for the whol church of England but for some places where and for some time when able and fit Ministers are not praesent to preach the worde of God and serueth onelie as both from the booke of Cōmon praier maie wel be gathered experience proueth for an Interim as it were til fit Pastors be prouided for and again because most of those Homilies according to their seueral titles haue bine alreadie handled in this and th' other part of my subscription I cease from further wrighting of the same in this place 36 ARTICLE Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers THE booke of Consecration of Archbishopps and Bishops and ordering of Priests and deacons latelie set forth in the time of Edward the sixt and confirmed at the same time by auctoritie of parliament doth containe al things necessarie to such consecration and ordering neither hath it anie thing that of it selfe is superstitious or vngodlie And therefore whosoeuer are consecrated or ordered according to the rites of that booke since the second yeere of the afore-named K. Edward vnto this time or hereafter shal be consecrated or ordered according to the same rites we decree al such to be rightlie orderlie and lawfullie consecrated and ordered This Article simplie is none Article of the Catholique Church and so much thereof as vniuersalie is receiued hath alreadie both by the holie Scripture bin confirmed alowed by our neighbour Churches in the 23. Article 37 ARTICLE Of the ciuil Magistrate THe Queenes M. 1hath the chiefe power in this realme of Eng. and other her dominions 2vnto whom the chiefe gouerment of al estates of this realm whether theie be Ecclesiastical or ciuil in al causes doth appertaine and is not nor ought to be subiect to anie foraine iurisdiction Where we attribute to the Queenes M. the chiefe gouerment by which titles we vnderstand the mindes of some slaunderous folks to be offended 3we giue not to our Princes the ministring either of Gods worde or of Sacraments the which Th' iniunctions also latelie set forth by Elizabeth our Q. doth most plainlie testifie but that onelie prerogatiue which we see to haue bine giuen alwaies to al godlie princes in holie Scriptures by God himselfe that is that theie should rule al estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether theie be Ecclesiastical or temporal 4and restraine with the ciuil sword the stubborne and euil doers 5The ' Bishop of Rome hath no iurisdiction in this realme of Eng. 6The lawes of the realme

Of his seruants Of humane societie God is VVise Holie In that he wil haue it knowne who are iust who wiked who holie who prophane by preseruing of the one and punishing of th' other Herevnto our neighbour churches do set their hands Cōfesof Hel. 1. art 24. 26. Hel. 2. ca. 30. Basil. art 7. Bohē cap. 16 France art 39. Fland. art 36. Ausb art 16. Saxon. art 23. Th' aduersaries hereof are They which thinke the magistrate maie correct none at al much lesse by death dispatch any offenders as Crescon●ons They which denie that anie Christian maie iustly be put to death by the Magistrate for blasphemous haeresies yea for any offence the latter whereof Th'anabaptists do hold the former the Fam. of Loue. 7 There is faith Soloman Eccl ● 8 à time Of warre Of Peace And Magistrates are By lawes to condemne yea and by death to punish male factors for hainous and greeuous offences and sinnes as hath bine alreadie proued in the proposition immediatlie afore going By vvar and weapons to represse the power of enimies Foraine Intestin For theie are in auctoritie placed To defend the good quiet subiects against al oppression To remooue the violence of the wiked who soeuer theie be For this cause haue theie Horses praepared for the battel Pro. 21. 31 Munitions to defend themselues and to annoie th' enemies Subsidies to beare out charges Subiects to fight for theire Prince and contrie And better it is to haue vvar than to come into bondage and thraldome worset than warit selfe This is granted in the Confes of Heluet. 2. c. 30 Bohem. cap. 16. Saxon. art 23. Among other th'aduer saries of this proposition are The Manichies vvhich saide it vvas vnlavvful for anie man to make war and therefore theie saie Moses did not wel in subduing th' enemies of Th'isra elites by force of armes Th'anabaptistes who thinke it vnlawful for à Christian either Magistrate or subiect to go à vvar-far The Spiritualuts vvhich so detest war that there thinke it vnlawful for à Christian to vveare à vve●pon in vvhich error was the Fam. of Loue for à season 38 ARTICLE Of Christian mens goodes vvhich are not common THE riches and goodes of Christians 1 are not common as touching the right title and possession of the same as certaine Annabaptistes doe falselie boaste Notwithstanding 2 euerie man ought of such thinges as he possesseth liberallie to giue almes to the poore according to his habilitie The Propositions 1 The riches and goodes of Christians as touching the right title and possession of the same are not common 2 Euerie man is to giue liberal almes of that which he possesseth according to his habilitie 1 That which is alleaged in the next proposition folowing doth altogither confirm that which here is affirmed yet for further proofe that the riches and goods of Christians as touching the right title and possession of the same are not to be common it is apparent to saie nothing out of th' old Testament nor to set-downe examples of godlie Christians vvhich kept priuate houses and had goods priuatlie to themselues in the nevve Testament where condemned is Couetousnesse 1. Cor. 5 11. Ephes. 5 3 Theeuerie 1 Cor. 6 2 1. Pet. 4 15. Extortion 1. Cor. 5 11 1. Cor. 6 10 Idlenesse 2. Thes. 3 10. Commended is Liberalitie Acts. 20 35. 2. Cor. 9. 6. c. Iam. 2 16. Free lending Mat. 5 48. Luk. 6 34. A lawful vocation 1. Cor. 7 20. Labor Ephe 4 28 2. Thes. 3 10. Frugalitie 1. Tim. 5 8. VVhich declareth that the riches and goods of Christians neither were nor ought to be commō So thinke thereformed Confes of Heluet. 2. ca. 19. Fran. art 40. Flan. art 36. Ausbur art 16. VVittē cap. 21. This notwithstāding the cōtrarie defended Hath bine in times past by the Esseis Manichies Pelagians Apostolikes Fratricellians Is in theis daies by the Familists Anabaptists 2 Vnto liberalitie toward the poore according to our habilitie wee are prouoked in the holie Scripture By commandements from God euen The Father Prou. 5. 15 Deu. 10 19 Deu. 15. 11 Eccl. 11 2. The Son Mat. 5 ● 2. Matth. 6. v. 2. 3. Luke 6 30. The holie Ghost Rom. 12 13. 1. Cor. 16 2. By sweete promises of ample blessings Eccle. 11 1. Prou. 11. v. 24 25. ● Cor. 9 8 c. By threatnings of punishments Pro. 21 13 Pro. 28 27 By th'examples of the Apostles Gal. 2 10. Rom. 15 25. Primitiue Church Act. 11 29 2. Cor. 8 ● c. 2. Cor. 9 2. c. This liberalitie or cheerful giuing of almes is commended in the Confes. Heluet. 2. c. 23. 28. 29 Saxon. art 21. VVittem cap. 18. None there bee which dislike or else repine at this liberalitie toward the poore but Anabaptists that would haue no man either to giue or receaue for al things in their opinion should bee common and none bee either poore 〈◊〉 wealthie men The stonie hearted and miserable Oppressors Vsurers Extortioners Couetous men 39 ARTICLE Of a Christian mans othe AS we confesse 1 that vaine and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ and James his Apostle 2 So we iudge that Christian religion doth not prohibite but that à man maie sweare when the Magistrate requireth in à cause of faith and charitie so it be done according to the Prophets teaching in iustice iudgement and truth The Propositions 1 We maie not sweare vainelie and rashlie 2 A lawful othe maie be giuen and taken according to the word of God 1 The better t' auoide vaine and rash swearing it is good to haue in remembraunce that vvhich is said By our Sauior Christ in the 5. of Math. ver 34. Svveare not at al neither By heauen for it is the throne of God By th' earth for it is his foot-stoole By Hierusalem for it is the Citie of the great King By thin head because thou canst not make one heare vvhite or black But let your cōmunication be yea yea nay nay By Th'apostle Iames Before al thinges my brethren Sweare not Neither by the heauen Not by th' earth Not by anie other othe But let your yea bee yea and your nay nay least yee fal into condemnation The churches of Heluetia and Basil by their publique Confessions do speake against all vaine and rash othes and swearing Heluet 1 cap. 5 Basil. art 11. This condēneth The VVantons which for pleasure Couetous that for profite Blush not to take the name of god in vaine by idle and rash othes The Basilidians Helchisaits Priscillianists Familie of Loue. VVho for ease and libertie dread not to forsweare themselues The Papistes vvhich cōmonlie vvil sweare either by Saincts Idols God and creatures The Banist vvho deeme it hypocrisie for one Christian to reproue an other for common rash swearing and othes which are but trifles as theie saie 2 Thought it be vnlawful to sweare vainlie and rashlie yet ar● meere persons to take à lawful oth whē iust occasion is