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death_n	body_n	sin_n	time_n	4,986	5	3.8313	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77860	Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation of the publick [brace]1. doctrine, 2. worship, [double brace] 3. rites and ceremonies, 4. church-government, and discipline, reputed to be (but indeed, not) established by law. Humbly offered to the serious consideration of this present Parliament. By divers ministers of sundry counties in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5678; Thomason E764_4; ESTC R205206	61,780	69

think that any detriment shall come to children by deferring of their Confirmation he shall know for truth that it is certain by Gods Word that children being baptized have all things necessary for their salvation and be undoubtedly saved Where is that Word of God This cannot be understood of Children after Baptism dying in Infancy for it speaks of such as are capable of Confirmation and of Confirmation deferred This supposeth their living a good while after Baptism even till they come to some understanding and are able to give some good account of the Catechism else can they not be admitted to Confirmation as appears by the first Rubrick before Confirmation before which time they may be guilty of many actual sins every of which without true repentance makes lyable to Condemnation So that this Rubrick gives to Children once baptised more assurance of their undoubted salvation than ever God hath given them For if they be baptised let them live or die be godly or wicked they must know for truth that it is certain but not by Gods Word they not onely have all things on Gods part necessary to salvation but are undoubtedly saved Is this a truth 7. The Rubrick after Matrimony saith The new-married persons the same day of their marriage MVST receive the holy Communion Who do so what necessity of so doing And if they do not so who shall be punished for their omission The Minister if any body because he is bound to do all things according to the Book if established and not otherwise And if the marryed Persons will not receive what can the Minister do As for the marryed persons they by the Rubrick before mentioned are not bound to receive above thrice in one year which if they do they need not receive on their marriage-day 8. In the last Rubrick after Communion of the sick it is said In the time of the Plague Sweat or such other like contagious times of Sicknesses or Diseases when none of the Parish or Neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their Houses for fear of the Infection upon special request of the diseased the Minister may onely communicate with him By this the Minister is bound not onely to visit every person sick of the Plague c. standing at some distance but to administer the Lords Supper also to him if he desire it and that alone if none else will joyn as it is not to be expected they should This is no way agreeable to Christianity or common Humanity Not to Christianity for first the very nature of the Sacrament requires a publick Administration because there must be a Communion of more then two persons in the receiving of it This appears plainly by several other Rubricks of the same Book For 1. in the first Rubrick after the publick Communion it is ordered that if there be not above twenty persons in the Parish of discretion to receive the Communion yet there shall be no Communion except four or three at the least communicate with the Priest If it be said this is the Order for Publick Communions but it concerns not Private Communions of the sick it is answered 1. that it appears not by the Word that there is any warrant much less necessity for such private Communions for the first Rubrick after Communion of the sick directeth the Minister thus If a man either by extremity of sickness or for want of warning in due time to the Curate or for lack of company to receive with him or by any other just impediment do not receive the Sacrament of Christs Body and Blood then the Curate shall instruct him that if he do truly repent of his sins and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him and shed his Blood for his Redemption earnestly remembring the benefits he hath thereby and giving him hearty thanks therefore without all which what good will be get by receiving the Sacrament he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his souls health although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth 2. In the Rubrick before the Communion of the sick this Order is given that the Curate having knowledge over night or early in the morning of the desire of the sick person to receive the Communion and being signified also how many be appointed to communicate with him and having a convenient place in the sick mans house where the Curate may reverently minister and a good number to receive the Communion with the sick person with all things necessary for the same he shall there minister the holy Communion Therefore by these Rubricks no Communion is to be ministred to the sick where there be but two to receive it Secondly This is also no way agreeable to Humanity Must a Minister who hath the charge of many souls adventure his health and life to gratifie an infectious person in that which as by what hath been before alledged is no way of necessity to the fick mans salvation Must the Minister do this or be punished with Deprivation or otherwise What cruelty is this Nay the very Canons of 1603. Can. 67. provided more mercifully then so which runs thus When any person is dangerously sick in any Parish the Minister or Curate having knowledge thereof shall resort to him or her if the Disease be not known or probably suspected to be infectious to instruct and comfort them c. Here is a Dispensation in case of the Plague or other infectious disease for so much as visiting the sick and no word at all of giving the Holy Communion So much shall at present suffice to be spoken of the Rubricks III. Of the Body of the Book 1. THe first words of it which the Minister is to read are these At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sin from the bottom of his heart I will put all his wickedness out of my remembrance saith the Lord. This is in the Rubrick before it called A sentence of Scripture and the place alledged is Ezek. 21.22 But that Text runs otherwise in the Original and in the new Translation of the Bible viz. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful right he shall surely live he shall not die All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live Here is little harmony between the Service-Book and Gods Book especially considering the very first words in the Liturgy At what time soever Which hath no warrant from that Text and is dissonant from another To day if ye will hear his voice c. and from that Application of it Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God but exhort one another dayly while it is called To