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A31762 The charge of the Scottish Commissioners against Canterburie and the Lieutenant of Ireland together with their demand concerning the sixt article of the treaty : whereunto is added the Parliaments resolution about the proportion of the Scottish charges and the Scottish Commissioners thankfull acceptance thereof. Scotland. Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1641 (1641) Wing C2061; ESTC R11362 19,842 56

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in divers places witnesse their dislike of Papists A Minister sal be deposed if if hee bee found negligent to convert Papists Chap. 18. 15. The adoration of the Bread is a superstition to be cōdemned Cap. 6. 6. They call the absolute necessity of Baptisme an errour of Popery Chap. 6.2 But in Canterburies edition the name of Papists and Popery is not so much as mentioned 5. Our Prelates have not the boldnesse to trouble us in their Canons with Altars Fonts Chancels reading of a long Leiturgie before Sermon c. But Canterbury is punctuall and peremptory in all these 6. Although the words of the tenth Canon Chap. 3. be faire yet the wicked intentions of Canterbury and Ross may bee seen in the point of justification of a sinner before God by comparing the Canon as it came from our Prelats and as it wes returned from Canterbury and printed our Prelates say thus It is manifest that the superstition of former ages hath turned into a great prophanenesse and that people are growne cold for the most part in doing any good thinking there is no place to good workes because they are excluded from justification Therefore shall all Ministers as their text giveth occasion urge the necessity of good workes as they would be saved and remember that they are via regni the way to the kingdome of heaven though not causa regnandi howbeit they be not the cause of salvation Here Ross giveth his judgement That hee would have this Canon simply commanding good workes to be preached and no mention made what place they have or have not in justification Upon this motion so agreeable to Canterburies mind the Canon is set down as it standeth without the distinction of via regni or causa regnā●● or any word sounding that way urging onely the necessity of good works 7. By comparing Can. 9. chap. 18. as it was sent in writing from our Prelates and as it is printed at Canterburies command may be also manifest that hee went about to establish auricular confession and Popish absolution 8. Our Prelates were not acquainted with Canons for inflicting of arbitrary penalties But in Canterburies book wheresoever there is no penalty expressely set down it is provided that it shall be arbitrary as the Ordinary shal think fittest By these and many other the like it is apparant what tyrannicall power he went about to establish in the hands of our Prelats over the worship the souls and goods of men over-turning from the foundation the whole order of our Kirk what seedes of Popery hee did sow in our Kirk and how large an entry hee did make for the grossest novations afterward which hath beene a maine cause of all their combustion The third and great Novation wes the booke of Common Prayer administration of the Sacraments and other parts of divine Service brought in without warrant from our Kirk to be universally received as the only forme of divine Service under all highest paines both civill and Ecclesiasticall which is found by our nationall assembly beside the Popish frame and formes in divine worship to containe many Popish errors and ceremonies and the seeds of manifold and grosse superstitions and idolatries and to be repugnant to the Doctrine Discipline and order of our reformation to the confession of faith constitutions of generall assemblies and Acts of Parliament establishing the true Religion that this also wes Canterburies worke Wee make manifest By the memoirs and instructions sent unto him from our Prelates wherein they gave a speciall account of the diligence they had used to doe all which herein they were enjoyned by the approbation of the Service Booke sent to them and of all the marginall corrections wherein it varieth from the English booke shewing their desire to have some few things changed in it which notwithstanding wes not granted This we find written by Saint Androis owne hand and subscribed by him and nine other of our Prelates By Canterburies owne letters witnesses of his joy when the book wes ready for the presse of his prayers that God would speed the worke of his hope to see that service set up in Scotland of his diligence to send for the Printer and directing him to prepare a black letter and to send it to his servants at Edinburgh for printing this booke Of his approbation of the proofes sent from the presse Of his feare of delay in bringing the worke speedily to an end for the great good not of that Church but of the Church Of his encouraging Rosse who wes entrusted with the presse to go on in this peece of Service without feare of enemies All which may be seene in the Autographs and by letters sent from the Prelate of London to Rosse wherein as he rejoyceth at the sight of the Scottish Canons which although they should make some noise at the beginning yet they would be more for the good of the Kirk then the Canons of Edinburgh for the good of the Kingdome So concerning the Leiturgy he sheweth that Rosse had sent to him to have an explanation from Canterbury of some passage of the Service Booke and that the presse behoved to stand till the explanation come to Edinburgh which therefore he had in haste obtained from his Grace and sent the dispatch away by Canterburies owne convaiance But the booke it selfe as it standeth interlined margined and patcht up is much more then all that is expressed in his letters and the changes and supplements themselves taken from the Masse book other Romish Ritualls by which he maketh it to vary from the book of England are more pregnant testimonies of his Popish spirit and wicked intentions which he would have put in execution upon us then can bee denied The large declaration professeth that all the variation of our booke from the book of England that ever the King understood wes in such things as the Scottish humour would better comply with then with that which stood in the English service These Popish innovations therefore have beene surreptitiously inserted by him without the Kings knowledge and against his purpose Our Scottish Prelates do petition that something may be abated of the English ceremonies as the crosse in baptisme the ring in marriage and some other things But Canterbury will not only have these kept but a great many more and worse superadded which wes nothing else but the adding of fewell to the fire To expresse and discover all would require a whole booke we sall onely touch some few in the matter of the Communion This booke inverteth the ordour of the Communion in the booke of England as may be seen by the numbers setting downe the orders of this new Communion 1. 5. 2. 6.7.3.4.8.9 10. 15. Of the divers secret reasons of this change we mention one onely In joyning the spirituall praise and thanksgiving which is in the booke of England pertinently after the communion with the prayer of consecration before the communion and that under the