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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91143	An appendix to A seasonable vindication of free-admission, to, and frequent administration of the Lords Holy Communion, to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. By William Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Seasonable vindication of free-admission, and frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3894; Thomason E916_1; ESTC R203362	6,367	12

AN APPENDIX TO A SEASONABLE VINDICATION OF FREE-ADMISSION TO AND FREQUENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE Lords Holy Communion To all Visible Church-members Regenerate or Unregenerate By William Prynne Esquire a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Augustin in Psal. 48. Enar. Concio 1. Tom. 8. pars 1. p. 535. Manducant illi et adorant manducant isti et saturantur tamen Omnes manducant Exigitur de manducante quod manducat non prohibeatur manducare a Dispensatore sed moneatur timere Exactorem Audiant ergo ista Peccatores et Justi Gentes et qui habitant orbem terrigenae et filii h●minum simul in unum dives et pauper non divisi non separati Tempus Messis hoc faciet manus ventilatoris hoc poterit Nunc simul in unum audiant Dives et Pauper Simul in unum pascantur Haedi et Agni donec veniat qui segreget alios ad dextram alios ad sinistram Simul in unum audiant docentem ne segregati ab invicem audiant judicantem LONDON Printed in the Year 1657. An Appendix to a Seasonable Vindication of a Free Admission to and Frequent Administration of the Lords Holy Communion c. HAving at large demonstrated the constant practice of the Primitive Church in the frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all Visible unexcommunicate Church Members by the testimony of Fathers Councils other Writers of all sorts with the continuation approbation of this laudable Practice in our own and other reformed Churches till of late years I cannot but with much grief of heart behold the discontinuance and disusage of it in sundry of our Churches for divers years together as a sad symptome both of the Corruption Degeneracy Apostacy unzealousness of our Church and Ministers in these reforming times It being a Tho. Beacon his true observatior That when the Church of Christ was most pure the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ was most often received of the Christians Therefore the rare using suspending and quite casting aside of this Sacrament for sundry years together in many Churches is an undoubted evidence not of the reformatiō but corruptiō apostacy of those Churches especially of their Ministers the chief Authors of it through ambition faction design Anabaptistical or Popish principles which I hope those who profess themselves Judges of the Law will now take care publikely to redresse upon the peoples * sad complaints of their Ministers neglects herein on the one hand as well as to give them relief for their Tithes when or where injuriously detained on the other hand For their better incouragement herein I shall for the Honor of the Professors of the Law of that honorable Society of Lincolns Inn whereof I am a Member present the world with some Memorable Orders made by the Benchers of that Society in the Reigns of Q. Eliz. K. James and K. Charls for the frequent receiving of the Lords Supper in the Chapel therof by every Member of the same and expulsion of all such out of the Society as unworthy to be Members who refused frequently to receive it or forbore to Communicate in the Chapel there according very well with the Discipline of the Primitive Church and times now fit to be revived in the said Christian Society where two or three Sacraments for many years past have been and still are constantly administred every Term to give good Example to all other Churches Chapels throughout the Nation and convince all present Members of that Society who negligently or obstinately forbear to repair to the Ordinances and Sacrament there administred in this age how well they deserve to feel the rod of the antient Discipline of the Society inflicted upon such delinquents in former times comprised in these following Orders entred in the Black Books thereof for that end and the benefit of Posterity b Ad Concilium ibidem tentum in fest. Ascentionis Anno 12. Reginae Elizabethae in praesentia of 12. Benchers this Letter from the Lords of the Queens Council was read and entred in the Black Book To our loving Friends the Antients and Benchers of Lincolns Inne VVHereas of late time knowledge hath been given to us of her Majesties Council and the same also manifestly and orderly declared this day in the Starred Chamber at VVestminster being then accompanied with the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops of the Realm and certain of her Majesties Iustices and others of her learned Counsel that these persons hereafter named that is to say Roger Corham Gerrard Lother Henry Harper John Brown and Thomas Egerton being Fellows of Lincolns Inne have of long time misused themselves in contempt of the Lawes of this Realm and contrary to the Laws ecclesiastical partly in not resorting to the Church or other place of Common Prayers at accustomed times partly in not receiving the blessed Communion at times convenient but contrariwise using other Rites and Services which are by the Laws of the Land prohibited and in these disorders have lived and continued a long time to the evil example of others in their Society We have upon good deliberation ordered and decreed and by these presents do ordain and decree in the Queens Majesties name that every of the said persons shall immediately for these their former long and manifest contempts and offences be excluded out of Commons in that House and shall forbear to give any Counsel in the Law or to resort to any barr or place of Iustice there to plead by Plaint Defence or Demand in any Sute or Cause belonging to the Law other than for themselves if they shall be by ordinary Processe thereto called And that they and every of them shall obey this Order untill they shall by Gods goodnesse reconcile themselves and amend those their defaults which is a thing more desired than any punishment of them the same their reconciliation to be testified by the Bishop of London their Ordinary Whereupon they shall be received again into Commons and allowed to give Counsel and plead to all purposes as before this Order they might have done And otherwise upon continuance in their obstinacy to be utterly excluded for ever from the Society with such further punishment as shall thereto belong Furthermore to avoid the increase of these contempts in that House we have thought meet and so we doe by these presents command that no person of your Society being commonly or wittingly known or vehemently suspected to mislike of the Rites and Orders established in this Realm for Religion be called or allowed from henceforth to any degree in that house until the same have sufficiently purged himself of the said suspstion And to the intent that this our Order and Decree may be duely executed we will and straitly command you with all convenient speed openly in the accustomed place of your Assembly to notifie the same to the parties above-named and to all others of that Fellowship