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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Passeports and Protections so much t condemned in the late King have beene surreptitiously procured by such disguised Irish Footmen and Souldiers for other Friers Priests Jesuits And so much the rather because when I was a Prisoner at the Kings head in January 1648. under the Army-Officers who forcibly seized me and above 40 other Members of the Commons house as we went to discharge our duties in it to God our Soveraign Country and those for whom we served some ●riends of mine in London being then Convented be●ore the General Council of Officers of the Army at White-hall as they then stiled themselves for saying there were divers Priests and Jesuites in the Army the chief contrivers of the designs and change● the● acted and there justifying the same thereupon procured a Warna●t from Sir Thomas Fairfax then General to seise such Jesuites and Priests as they found in the Armies Quarters as well Souldiers as others whereby they presently apprehend two Jesuites and put them in ward that night who as they then and since informed me upon their credits being honest godly conscientious persons produced two Protections under the self-same hand that granted this Passe which they then saw and complained of And were thereupon answered that they were granted by misinformation and surprise however those Jesuits got themselves released the next day whereupon they thought it bootlesse and dangerous for them to seise any more of them having discovered many they knew to be such and so their good intentions were frustr●ted and the others sad designes carryed on under which we yet shake and languish in a most unsetled and divided condition Upon which considerations and presidents I can give no better advice to all our swaying Grandees of all sorts now than I did then in print in my Memento upon that occasion to tender the Oath of Abjuration to all Officers Commanders Souldiers Mariners and persons desiring Passeports or Protections that are not of known Integrity in our Religion and frequent not the publike Ordinances of God in our Parochial Congregations which will detect for the present and prevent for the future the creeping in the wandring abroad of such dangerous Romish vermin and Spanish Factors as this Conry and his Confederates in whose Detection I have been more large because of the Novelty of some of his Dispensations and Faculties which I never met with before in any printed Books or Popish Instruments I have perused and because it may give light to others to make the like or greater discoveries of their persons practices in this and future ages It is very strange and grievous to all true Zealous Protestants that this extraordinary disguised Missionary of the Pope should procure such Letters of recommendation Passe-ports Protections under hand and seal and that the Anti-christian Infidel Jews themselves should a be specially invited to come in and reside amongst us and finde many Grand Court-Patrons publikely to plead for their free re-admission b against former Parliamentary and Regal Edicts for their perpetual Exile in these times of Reformation and yet that all Protestant Ministers of our own Nation adhering to the late King though never so orthodox learned pious painfull peaceable should at c the self-same time by a publike printed Declaration Nov. 24. 1655. and special Instructions in writing to our New Bashaes without any hearing impeachment conviction of any new Crimes after sundry years Liberty to preach and that some call an Act of Oblivion onely for this their old pardoned Delinquency be all at one instant specially pr●hibited from and after the 1. day of December last TO PREACH in any publike place or private Meeting of any other persons than those of their own Family or to ADMINISTER BAPTISM or THE LORDS SUPPER or TO MARY or KEEP ANY SCHOOL publike or private or so much as to be kept as CHAPLAINS or SCHOOLMASTERS in any formerly sequestred persons Houses when utterly ejected out of their own Houses Benefices Schools Colleges by this New Edict and to be punished as Rogues or Vagrants if they wander abroad when thus enforced to begg their bread And that every such person offending in any of the premises their very preaching teaching administring Baptism the Lords Supper or marying being now become capital unpardonable Offences shall be proceeded against and imprisoned 3. moneths for his first 6. moneths for his 2d and banished his Native Country for his 3d. Offence VVhich uncharitable unchristian unevangelical restraints are still continued upon many of them and more particularly on Dr. Reeves our eminent learned Lecturer of Lincolns Inne notwithstanding the earnest frequent sollicitations of devout and learned Archbishop Vsher to the shortning of his dayes through grief as some conceive the frequent joynt and several Petitions Addresses of these Ministers themselves and their Friends the timely Petition of the whole Society of Lincolns Inne and Mediations of all the Grand Officers of Justice State of the Society for their Lecturers liberty to preach to the great rejoycing of our Popish Adversaries to the great grief prejudice discontentment of their Auditors the undermining of our Protestant Religion dishonor of our Church Nation the ruine of some hundreds of those Protestant Ministers and their Families formerly breaking unto us the bread of life who now want daily bread to ●eed them when as disguised Popish Emissaries Jesuites Preists Friers Quakers Dippers Hereticks and Blasphemers of all sorts have Free liberty and Protection to preach teach dip re-baptize administer the Sacrament meet together and do what they list in publike and private Conventicles without the least restraint And is this to defend propagate or not rather avowedly to supplant tread down the Protestant Religion d we covenanted and took up armes formerly to maintain thus to e smite silence starve ruine so many orthodox Protestant Shepherds Pastors at one blow and to threaten inexorable Imprisonments yea banishments to them if they but once presume to teach preach or administer Sacraments according to their f obliged duty and Christs own Injunction in publike or private for the peoples edification or their own or families supportation VVhen thousands of Romish VVolves Hereticks Sectaries of all sorts are so busie in all parts to seduce devour their flocks now left g like Sheep without a Shepherd in many places The Lord give those whom it most concerns and the whole Nation eyes timely to discern and hearts to bewail reform this Soul-devouring barbarous cruelty And let those who have been instrumental Contrivers of or Actors in it consider and remember Mat. 7. 2. With what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again and James 2. 13. For he shall have judgement without Mercy that hath shewed no mercy but this extremity of cruelty even to the Minsters of Christ himself and all those they deem their Enemies is contrary to the express precepts of Christ himself Mat. 5. 44

Souldiers without searching out the Malefactors to slay promiscously in a rage no lesse than 7000 of the Citizens putting no difference betwixt the guilty and innocent After this bloody execution at the Emperours next coming to the Church of Millain to pray and do his devotions of as custom he used St. Ambrose stepping to the Church-door as he was about to enter into the Church with much boldnesse prohibiting him to enter used this speech unto him Thou seemest O Prince not to understand what a monstrous slaughter of people is committed by thee neither doth rage suffer thee to weigh with thy self what thou hast done yet must thou know that from dust we came and to dust we shall Let not therefore the brightnesse of thy clothes hide from thee the weaknesse of flesh that is under them Thy Subjects are of the same metal that thou art and serve the same Lord that thou dost With what Eyes therefore wilt thou behold the house of this Common Lord and with what feet wilt thou tread on his holy pavements Wilt thou reach those hands dropping yet with the blood of Innocents to receive the most sacred body of the Lord Wilt thou put that precious blood of his to thy mouth which in a rage hast spilt so much Christian blood Depart rather and heap not one sin upon another Neither refuse this Bond of Excommunication which the Lord of all doth ratifie in heaven It is not much and it will restore thee the health of thy Soul All which the Emperour hearing with great patience returned presently to his Palace without entring the Church obeying the excommunication and there continued above 8 moneths space without coming any mo●e into the Church or putting on his Emperial Robes Af●er which upon his earne●t request and publike repentance for this crime● and his enacting this Law by St. Ambrose his advise by way of penance as some write That from thenceforth no man whom he or his Succes●ors should condemn to dye should be executed within thirty dayes after the Sentence of death denounced against him he being absolved from his excommunication came again into the Church and there making his prayers and performing his devotions received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper From which History it is apparent 1. That Excommunicate persons in that age were not suspended only from the Lords Supper but secluded from entring into the Church it self and from all publike x divine Ordinances used in it as well as from the Lords Table ●nd from all Christi●● Communion Hence y sundry Councils since with z Gratian and all a Popish Canonists resolve and decree Major Excommunicatio Seperat ab ingressa Ecclesiae à Sacramentis et à Communione fidelium Excommunicatus non potest interesse Divinis Officiis aut cum alii● orare in Ecclesia Her debet extra ita prope ●●are quod audiat And if any such excommunicate person come into the Church he is presently to be thrust out of it and the Priest must give over his begun Masse Prayers Preaching and not proceed therein till ne depart the Church Neither may any Christian wittingly eat drink conferre or trade with such a one under pain of Excommunication Yea our own Statute of 5 E. 6. ch. 4. against such as fight and strike in the Church Enact That such an Offender shall be excommunicate an●be e●cluded from the fellowship and company of Christs Congregation b This Excommunication our Laws c Lawbooks take notice of which likewise disables men to sue in any Civil Court of Justice if pleaded in barr against them under Seal In brief the 33 Article of the Church of England ratified by the statute of 13 Eliz. c. 13. and Sub●criptions of all our Ministers Defines Excommunication to be a cutting off from the Unity of the Church and whole multitude of the faithfull who ought to avoid an excommunicate person as an Heathen and a Publican untill he be openly reconciled by Penance and received into the Church by a Judge that hath Authority thereunto And the Confessions of Bohemia c. 8. 14. Of Helvetia c. 16. Of the French Churches c. 32 33. Describe Excommunication to be a removal of wicked scandalous obstinate Sinners from the Holy Fellowship of Believers a throwing them out from the Church and delivering them to Satan by Ecclesiastical punishment And absolution of such upon repentance to be A taking them again into the Church to the Communion of Saints and Sacraments Therefore the New-found Suspension and Excommunication of scandalous persons only from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper without seclusion from the Church and other Ordinances now so much contested for is but a meer Popish Innovation not warranted by Scripture Antiquity our own Statutes Articles or other Protestant Churches Confessions 2. That in that age all Church-members freely admitted to the publike prayers of the Church and not thus actually excommunicated from all Ordinances and the Church it self were freely admitted to the Lords Supper and all excommunicated persons too upon their absolution 3. That the Lords Supper in that age was usually received by all Church-members when ever they publiquely assembled to pray or hear Gods word and no other no greater worthinesse holinesse qualification preparation or self-examination required for Chri●tians free admission to the Com●●nion th●n to other publike duties which it did then daily accompany This president of St. Ambrose his excommunicating this godly Emperour Theodos●us and keeping him above 8 Moneths space from the Church and all publike Ordinances only for his over-rash execution of Justice upon his rebellious mutinous subjects upon so great a provocation notwithstanding his present humiliation and sorrow for it upon the first reprehension and that without any precedent private or publique admonition as it s no ways warranted by any precept or president in Gods word nor parallel example in the Primitive Church and censured by sober c Protestants as over-harsh indiscret rash and too Pontifical yea such as might have then pro●uced d a dangerous Schism in the Church to the great pre●udice of Religion had not this godly Emperour been more humble patient prudent than St. Ambrose So it hath in later ages been e much abused and insisted on by Antichristian Trayterous Popes Popish Prelates Jesuits Priests to justify their many illegal unchristian unrighteous Excommunications of Christian-Emperors Kings Princes their deposing them from their Empires Crowns Kingdoms their absolving their subjects from their allegiance to them and taking up arms against them to the great disturbance of most Christian Empires Realms States Churches Therefore it can be no justification or proof at all for any of our Protestant Ministers wilfully to abs●ain from the celebration of the Lords Supper and seclude● excommunicate all their Parishioners from it not only 8. whole Moneths but almost so many years together upon the forementioned Popish principles or any other ground especially not being all actually excommunicated or