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A91228	A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4017; Thomason E495_2; ESTC R203274	40,067	59

Mr. Harding against Bishop Jewel who refutes it in the Name of the Church of England Yet now professedly avowed of late in A Brotherly and Friendly Censure of my 4. Quaeres p. 8. in Dr. Drake his Anti-Quaeries and Boundary to the Holy Mount and sundry others as their chief ground of keeping suspending all those they deem unworthy from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper alone but from no other part of Gods worship This opinion first sprung from Popish Transubstantiation which as it introduced e Adoration of prostration kneeling bowing to towards before the consecrated Elements Altars and railing in Altars in the Church of Rome so it f lately brought into our Cathedrals and Parish Churches prostration kneeling bowing to and before the Sacramental Elements and rayling in of Altars Lords Tables at the East end of our Quires in imitation of the Romanists by our Popish Prelates and Priests Witnesse Archbishop Lauds own words in his Speech in Star-chamber An. 1637. p. 47. The Altar is the greatest place of Gods residence upon earth I say the greatest yea greater than the Pulpit For there t is Hoc est Corpus meum This is my Body But in the Pulpit it is at most but Hoc est Verbum meum this is my Word And a greater Reverence * no doubt is due to the Body than to the Word of the Lord And so in relation answerably to the Throne where his Body is usually present than to the Seat where his Word useth to be proclaimed Which Popish dotage of his seconded by Dr. Pocklington Dr. Heylin Dr. Laurence Edmund Reeve Shelford and other Popish Innovators I have g elsewhere at large refuted 2. That the Lords Supper is more holy dreadfull excellent venerable and more dangerous damnable to such who unworthily approach unto it than any other Sacrament or divine Ordinance whatsoever And therefore necessarily requires a greater measure degree and another manner of worthinesse fitnesse preparation qualification self-examination confession of sin faith repentance Grace Holinesse in those who are to be admitted to receive it then Baptism Prayer hearing reading of the Word thanksgiving fasting or any other part of Gods publike worship to which they and our rigidest Presbyterians freely admit all their Parishioners without any trial or transcendent wor●hinesse fitnesse or preparation Hence h Popish Councils Writers stile the Lords Supper Excellentissimum Sacramentum quia continet in se● actorem totius Gratiae et Sunctificationis Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum et verum Christi Corpus et sanguinem And thence inferre Excellentia hujus Sacramenti requirit dignum mysterium et ideo volens recipere vel conficere tantum Sacramentum debet se praeparare per Contritionem et veram Confessionem peccatorum suorum ac puram devotionem Statuimus quod nullus deinceps ad Eucharistiae Sacramentum teneatur aliquem admit●ere nisi prius illum audierit in Confessione aut prius sibi fide facta quod more fidelium poenitentiae reciperit Sacramentum Nemo sine speciali Contritione Confessione et Satisfactoriis operibus dignè praemunitus ad Eucharis●iam sumendam accedat Moneantur conjugati non nisi praeparata aliquot dierum continentia ad Eucharistae sumpsionem accedere c. Which very Popish Doctrine and Consequence of an extraordinary transcendent degree of worthiness preparation c. are professedly asser●ed by the Authors of the Antidote to and Brotherly friendly censure of my four Questions Dr. Drake in his Anti-quaeries boundary Mr. Collins in his Juridical Suspension and others 3. Upon these precedent false Principles and the extraordinary danger of unworthy receiving the Popish Priests and Prelates inferr i That they are bound to admit none to the Lords Supper but such whom they upon a precedent private examination and Confession of their sins to themselves or such as they appoint shall absolve and deem worthy and prepared to receive it And their Councils Decree Nullus Parochus ad hujus Sacramenti sumptionem quempiam admittat cujus conscientiam non noverit aut ipse aut ab eo ei negotio praefectus Nec quemquam Parochi seu Curati ad Communionem admittant nisi quem privs sciverint confessum fuisse peccata aut ipsis aut eorum Vicariis seu Sacerdotibus deputatis And upon the self-same grounds as the Church of * Saxony in the beginning of Reformation admitted none to the Communion unlesse they were first examined heard tried and absolved of the Pastor and his fellow-Ministers Complying herein over-much with the Papists So now k Mr. Rutherford l Dr. Drake m Mr. Collins and other over-rig●d Presbyterians assert They are bound in duty conscience prudence first to try examine the knowledge faith graces repentance lives and visible worthinesse of all their Parishioners before they come to the Lords Supper to admit none thereto but such whom they and their Presbyteries upon trial shal deem worthy and prepared to receive it and to seclude all others from it concurring herein with these Popish Priests and Prelates 4. That there is n a lesser Excommunication whereby the Prelates and other Officers of the Church are authorized impowred judicially by way of Church Censure to suspend and keep back scandalous ignorant unconfessed obstinate Church-members who refuse to submit to the examination and orders of the Church from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper only without any actual sequestring of them from any other publike Ordinances in which they may freely communicate with other Christians distinct form that Excommunicatio major which totally secludes Christians from entring into the Church and all Christian fellowship and Communion in any publike Ordinance and all private society with Christians Which lesser Excommunication was first introduced by Popish Councils Casonists Casuists only for lesser mortal sins and conversing with persons lying under the censure of the greater Excommunication And is now most eagerly asserted by o Mr. Rutherford p Mr. Gillespy q Dr. Drake r Mr. Collins s The Ministers of Syon College and others as committed to Church-Officers and Presbyteries by the will and testament of Jesus Christ though no ways warranted but contradicted by all the Scripture testimonies they produce to warrant it and by the practices of the Primitive Church as I have proved at large in t former publications The only memorable particular example recorded in antient Ecclesiastical Histories of a publick excommunication denounced by a Bishop for a scandalous crime especially against his Soveraign is that of St. Ambrose Bishop of Millais against the Emperour Theodosius the first thus recorded by u Theodoret and others The Inhabitants of Thessalonica a rich populous City in Macedonia in a popular tumult slew their Judges all and who took part with Theodosius in the Government Where with he being highly incensed so far exceeded the bounds of justice and reason in the punishment thereof that he caused his