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A10177	A briefe suruay and censure of Mr Cozens his couzening deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his booke of priuate deuotions, or the houres of prayer, lately published, to be meerely popish: to differ from the priuate prayers authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to be transcribed out of popish authors, with which they are here paralelled: and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church, and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20455; ESTC S120656	100,630	151

GRATIAN COLLECTAE in these Editions which were the last best there is not so much as any touch or menti●n of these Canonicall Howers of Prayer or first sixt or ninth howers Neuer could I heare as yet of any Deuotions or Prayer Bookes intituled the HOVVERS OF PRAYER but onely one in Spanish Printed at Paris by William Merlin 1556. Stiled HORAS DE NVESTRA SENIORA The Howers of our Lady Fraught with the very dregs of Popery and Idolatrie The very Phrase and Emphasis therefore of this Title which is neuer mentioned by way of approbation in any Protestant writers nor yet in the Articles Common Prayer Booke the Bookes of Homilies or Canons of our Church nor yet in any Orthodoxe English writer doeth stampe a kinde of Brand and Impresse of Poperie and Superstition on the Booke it selfe and euidence it to be meerely Popish Thirdly the whole Fabricke Frame and Method of these Deuotions doe prooue them to be Popish For they are directly moulded formed and contriued according to our Ladies Primer or Office Printed in Lattaine at Antwerpe 1593. and in Lattaine and English for the vtilitie of such of the English Nation as vnderstand not the English tongue 1604. According to the Breuiary of Pius the fift and Clemens the eight Printed at Antwerpe 1621. and the Howers of our Lady Printed at Paris 1556. For first you haue here a Frontispice with I H S. in a Sunne held vp by two Angels and two deuoute Females one of them holding a Crosse in here hand Supplicating vnto it Then you haue for the Title A Collection of priuate Deuotions or the Howers of Prayer together with a Preface Iustifying Canonicall Howers condemning all conceiued Prayers and confining men to the vnerring Deuotions of the Church and to the Ceremonies Formes and Sacraments of the ancient Church which can bee no other but the Church of Rome as I shall prooue anon Then you haue a Calender with a Preface to it Containing the Festiuall and Fasting dayes of the Church and the Memories forsooth of none but holy Martyres and Saints though many of them were neuer found in rerum natura and others of them were neuer Sainted but at Rome Next you haue a Table of moueable Feasts and rules for them Then you haue the Fasting dayes of the Church or dayes of speciall Abstinence and Deuotion whereof our Ember weekes and Rogation dayes Ash-wedensday the Fridayes after Whitsontide and holy Crosse the Saturday after Saint Lucies day and all the Fridayes and Saturdayes of the yeere must bee the chiefe though our Church enioynes them not Next you haue the times wherein Marriages are not to be Solemnized which times the Calenders Articles and Canons of our Church doe neither mention nor prescribe Then succeedes the Apostles Creed in twelue Articles the Lords Prayer in seuen Petitions the tenne Commandements with the dueties enioyned and the Sinnes prohibited by them together with the Precepts of Charitie the Precepts of the Church the Sacraments of the Church and these forsooth must bee seuen the three Theologicall Virtues the three kindes of good Workes The seuen gifts of the holy Ghost the twelue fruites of the holy Ghost the Spirituall and Corporall workes of Mercy the eight Beatitudes Seuen deadly Sinnes and their contrary Vertues then Quatuor nouissima all Popish trash and trumpery stolen out of Popish Primers and Chatechismes as I shall prooue anon and neuer mentioned in any Protestant writers Then comes in His collections for priuate Deuotions with his Plees both from Scriptures Fathers and Popish Authors for the practise and obseruation of Canonicall Howers both in generall and speciall all taken out of Bellarmine Azorius and the Rhemish Testament And first you haue his preparatiue Prayers before Mattins and among them one at our entrance into the Church and another when we come into the Quire then you haue a preparatiue Hymne Then comes in a Iustification of the antiquitie of Mattins AND THAT AT THE FIRST HOVVER then followes His Mattins for the first the third the sixt and ninth Hower beginning with the Lords Prayer seconded with an Hymne continued with Psalmes and gloria Patri c. with a piece or fragment of a Chapter or Lesson and Consummated with some Prayers and a Thankesgiuing Then succeed his VESPERS then his COMPLINE all of them exactly framed after the Popish Offices Primers and Horaries and not according to our Common Prayer Booke or any Protestants Method Now follow some other Prayers with the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes Next the Collects of our Church with seuerall Aduertisments and Prefaces them then Prayers and Meditations both before and after the Sacrament and among them one WHEN WEE ARE PROSTRATE BEFORE THE ALTER a Prayer worth the obseruing another desiring the MEDIATION OF ANGELS Then follow seuerall formes of Confessions to bee vsed according to the directions of the Church especially before the receiuing of the Sacrament then a deuout manner of preparing our selues TO RECEIVE ABSOLVTION with a Thankesgiuing after ABSOLVTION then followes some speciall PRAYERS FOR EMBER-WEEKES not mentioned in our Common Prayer Booke Then Prayers for the Sicke Prayers at the Hower of Death yea and A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD then other Prayers and Thankesgiuings And as he beginnes with the SIGNE OF THE CROSSE so hee concludes with the VIRTVE OF CHRISTS BLESSED CROSSE yea and with the INTERCESSION OF ALL SAINTS as I haue heard before the leafe was altered and torne out vpon some exceptions taken to it So that if you Suruay the whole frame and modell of these Deuotions and Howers of Prayers either in the whole intire structure or in the forme and order of its seuerall parts you shall finde that it tooke its patterne and sample from our Ladies Primer and the forequoted Deuotions which runne in the selfe same method forme yea matter too not from the priuate Prayers of Queene Elizabeth nor yet from our Booke of Common Prayers as I shall prooue more fully anon Fourthly the very Stile and Phrases of it doe euidence and conuince it to be meerely Popish Take these for all the rest that might bee mentioned The Howers of Prayer which is eighteene seuerall times mentioned and some twelue of them by way of Preface or Title The ancient Church in the second Title page the Ancient Lawes and godly Canons of the Church in the first Preface The Festiualls and Fasting dayes of the Church the Title before the Calender The Fasting dayes of the Church The precepts of the Church The Sacraments of the Church which being all compared together with their subiect matter will plainely testifie that he meanes the Church of Rome and no other since the Ancient Lawes and Canons of the Church for the obseruation of Canonicall Howers the Precepts of the Church there mentioned and the Sacraments of the Church which hee makes seuen can bee appropriated to no Church but that alone and not vnto our own or other Churches which approoue of no such

hee must doe this not when hee is troubled in Conscience onely but as occasion is that is as oft as he receiues the Sacrament if the Priests leasure and his owne occasions will permit him All which are directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and all Protestant Authors and consonant to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome who approoues and practiseth Auricular Confession especially before the receiuing of the Sacrament and makes this one principall Precept of the Church as our Deuotioner doeth here To confesse our sinnes to an approoued Priest once a yeere and to receiue the Sacrament at the least euery Easter Therefore hee is apparantly guiltie of this grosse point of Poperie Come wee now to the eighteth That there are seuen Sacraments of the Church collected from these words The Sacraments of the Church here is the Title then follow the Sacraments themselues The principall and truely so called as generally necessary to Saluation are Baptisme and the Lords Supper The other fiue that is to say Confirmation Penitence Orders Matrimonie and Visitation of the Sicke which no Papist yet accounted any or Extreame-vnction though they are sometimes called and haue the name of Sacraments yet haue they not the like nature that the two principall and true Sacraments haue Loe here a litterall and manifest acknowledgement and publication of seuen Sacraments For first the whole seuen haue reference to the Superscription The Sacraments of the Church Secondly he stiles them the other fiue and names them in particular Thirdly he saith that they are sometimes called and haue the name of Sacraments quoting Scriptures for them in the margent Hee doeth not say that they are so called by the Papists who onely repute them Sacraments but that they are so called and named viz. by the Church to which onely it hath relation Fourthly he doeth not say with our Chatechisme there quoted that Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord are the two onely Sacraments that are generally necessary to Saluation nor with our Homelies and 25. Article that the other fiue that is to say Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony and Extreame-vnction are not to bee counted for Sacraments of the Gospel but such as haue growne from the corrupt following of the Apostles c. All hee faith by way of exclusion is onely this That Baptisme and the Lords Supper are the principall Sacraments truely so called that they are generally necessary to Saluation and that the other haue not the like nature with them which doeth not exclude the rest from being true or lesse necessary and inferiour Sacraments since all Papists who acknowledge seuen Sacraments doe confesse that Baptisme and the Lords Supper are the principall and most necessary Sacraments of all the rest And the rather am I induced to thinke that I haue not wronged our Deuout Author in his Arethmetique because he ioynes his fiue Precepts of the Church his sixe Corporall and seuen Spirituall workes of Mercy his seuen Deadly sinnes and seuen contrary Vertues his eight Beatitudes and other particulars Transcribed verbatim out of our Ladies Psalter and Iames Ledesma his Chatechisme where the seuen Sacraments are inserted with them with these seuen Sacraments since therefore hee iumpes so fully with the Papists in all the other particulars I doubt not but hee doeth concurre with them in this and so is culpable of this knowne and professed Popish Tenent which our second Booke of Homelies Hom. 9. our 25. Article and all our Orthodoxe writers doe with one consent condemne and disauow From these seuen Sacraments come wee now to his other Popery That there are but three kindes of good workes which doth necessarily result from these words Three kindes of good Workes Fasting Prayer and Almes-deedes which as they are transcribed verbatim out of our Ladies Primer Vaux his Chatechisme Matthias Coschi his Otium Spirituale melliftuarum Praecationum Printed 1617. pag. 105. and other Popish Authors So it altogether iustifieth that Popish Assertion That there are but these three kinde of good Workes Which our Homelies and all Protestant Diuines doe vtterly deny since Hearing Reading and Meditating of Gods Word the Honouring Louing Fearing Obaying and Seruing of God both in our generall and particular calling our beleeuing in his Name together with all other dueties of Pietie and Religion both to God our selues or others and the keeping of all Gods Commandements are as really and properly good Workes as those as our Homelies of good Workes and Scriptures testifie From this wee descend to the ensuing point That there are some sinnes which are but Veniall not Mortall in their owne nature which is euidently deduced from this passage Seuen Deadly sinnes 1. Pride 2. Couetousnesse 3. Luxurie 4. Enuy 5. Gluttony 6. Anger 7. Sloth which as it is directly stolne out of our Ladies Primer Ledesma his Chatechisme cap. 14. The Howers of our Lady Printed at Paris 1556. fol. 3 4 5. Bellarmines Christian Doctrine cap. 19. Otium Spirituale by Matthias Coschi pag. 112. and other Popish Pamphlets Chatechismes and Deuotions not out of any Protestant Authors so it necessarily implies that these seuen Sinnes are the greatest Sinnes of all others and that there are some Sinnes which are not Deadly in their owne nature for so doe the Popish writers inferre from thence whence it is that after they haue discoursed of these seuen Deadly sinnes they then fall immediately to dispute of Veniall sinnes which Veniall sinnes our owne and all other Protestant Churches doe renounce Neither is this any wayes salued by the clause as they are commonly so called which our Author conscious no doubt to himselfe of his owne guilt hath added to his latter Impressions For these are no where commonly called the seuen Deadly sinnes but among Turkes and Papists not amomg Protestants Whence our Ladies Primer and Iames Ledesma the Iesuite his Chatechisme cap. 14 Speaking of these seuen sinnes giue them this Superscription The seuen Capitall sinnes which are commonly called Deadly So that our Authors latter Edition which renders it not Deadly sinnes as his first Impression doeth but Seuen Deadly sinnes as they are commonly so called doeth rather marre then mend his cause because it is now more suitable to Ledesma and our Ladies Primer then before and so more likely to inferre this Popish Conclusion That there are some sinnes which are but Veniall in their owne nature which Protestants doe quite renounce But our Author doeth not set a stop and period to his Popish Errors here for loe hee proceedes euen to a Transubstantiation or a Corporall presence of Christ in the Sacrament which I clearely collect from these two passages Christs holy Sacrament his blessed Body and Blood At the receiuing of the Body Lord I am not worthy c. he doeth not say the holy Sacrament of Christs Body and Blood or at the deliuery of the Bread as our Booke of Common Prayers doeth in the Order

is so diuerse in his gifts and Heauenly operations for the good and welfare of the Church To these I may adde our Authors eight Beatitudes transcribed out of the Popish Pamphlets as all the other were as I haue prooued in my former Paralell for which hee quotes Matth. 5. as the Papists doe Now there are not eight but nine Beatitudes pronounced by our Sauiour in that Chapter the last of which to wit Blessed are ye when men shall reuile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of euill against you falsely for my sake c. Our Author and the Papists both omit and so dismember and abuse the holy Scripture to which no man can adde nor take away without apparant losse and hazard of his soule I will end and shut vp this Conclusion with the visitation of the Sicke which our Author makes one of his seuen Sacraments an absurditie solecisme and noualtie which I neuer heard nor red of yet in any Protestant or Popish Author But though this visitation of the Sicke be not a Sacrament as our Author dreames perchance because hee found it in the Common Prayer Booke yet I am sure it is a necessary duety which G●d and Christ yea and our owne Church and Canons impose vpon all Ministers How then shall those Nonresidents and Pluralitie men excuse themselues either to God or Man especially in that Great and terrible day of Iudgement when Christ the Maister good and carefull Shepheard of the Sheepe who is alwayes Resident with his flocke and hath parted with his Blood and Life to purchase Heale and saue their soules shall summon them to giue an account of all the Soules which they haue lost or slaine though carelesnesse or sloth and to exact their blood at their hands who are so farre from visiting the sicke and diseased bodies of their forelorne Sheepe that they quite neglect their dead and sickly Soules which fester rot and pine away yea die and that for euer in their sinnes and trespasses for want of Spirituall phisicke and Cordialls to recouer them O the hard-heartednesse of these Woluish Murthering and Soule-deuouring Pastors Who thus neglect nay starue and butcher the very dearest deare and Loue of Christ his chosen and beloued flocke which hee hath purchased with his dearest Blood had they any of Christs Loue or Bowels of Christs Pittie and Conpassion nay any sparke of Grace or Nature in them they would not they could not nay they durst not so much vnderualue Christs bosome Friends his Lambes his Loue his Blood his Spouse and dearest members as out of Couetousnesse Sloth Sensualitie Pride Vnskilfulnesse or Negligence to put them ouer vnto hirelings which God himselfe condemnes as if themselues were either to great or good for to attend them Alas the meanest Soules cost Christ as much and so they are as deare vnto him as the greatest Monarches they cost the very Sonne of God his best and dearest Blood And dare you then aduance your selues so farre aboue Christ Iesus whose vnderlings and seruants you professe your selues as not to deeme those worthy of your sweate your paines and greatest care for whom Christ Iesus died As to preferre your case your pleasures your bellies skinnes and backes your honours profits and preferments nay your very Asses Swine and beasts before the wealth and safetie of your flockes whose rich and peerelesse Soules are more of price and value then tenne thousand worlds As to withdraw absent and alienate your selues so from them as to become meere strangers to them scarse to visit them once a quarter nay once a yere vnles your Tithes and priuate gaines induce you to it though God himselfe and 30. seuerall Councels enioyne both Bishops themselues and al inferior Pastors vnto a fixed constant and laborious Residence condemning al Nonresidency vnder paine of deposition As to assigne them ouer to some carelesse hireling as if that personall duty worke and seruice which God himselfe hath layd on Ministers might be transferred ouer at their pleasures and bee discharged by a Proxie without any wrong to God or to their Flockes whiles you your selues are feasting and wallowing in your ease and pleasures in some Peeres or Prelates Palace or at some Cathedrall Church or Colledge like so many Epicures or Tonne-growne Abbylubbers as Pierce the Plowman phraseth them or i●tting vp and downe at Court in Pauls or London streets in Plush in Sattins Veluets Silkes and cocked Beauers which affront the Heauens carrying whole Steeples on your backes at once as if you were some Knights or petty Lords or the onely proude and swaggering Gallants that the Court or Kingdome yeeld as if you were the very bride himselfe or Lucifers proud Priests and Prelates as old Chaucer stiles them and not the meeke and lowly Ministers of Iesus Christ Who are bound by sundry Councels though they are the greatest and the richest Prelates to cloath and furnish themselues with modest humble meane and cheape array and Housholdstuffe to testi●ie the lowlinesse and meekenes of their gracious hearts and giue example vnto others abandoning all Veluets Silkes and Sattins and such exoticke costly proud Pontificall and heart-swelling array which Christ and his Apostles neuer vsed as the badges of their pride and blemish of their Function without any thought or care at all of your forelorne and forsaken Flockes Well let me tell you thus much from my heart and the Lord of heauen fix it on and blesse to your soules that as your Nonresidencie and carelesnesse in feeding of your Flockes depriues you of the very name and function of Pastors in Gods sight and so you haue no right nor title to the Fleece in Gods account because you attend not on the Flocke so there is a day of Iudgement and an Audit comming wherein Christ Iesus the carefull Master-shepheard of your Pasture-Sheepe shall call you to a strikt account for all the Sheepe and Lambs of which you vndertooke the Charge requiring all their bloud at your hands and then what plea Apologie reply or answere can you make to mittigate or salue this bloudy and soule-slaying sinne What will the Statutes or Canons of our Church which tollerate Pluralities and Nonresidence in some certaine cases will a Facultie a Totquot● or any such dissipating Dispensations be any Estople or Plea in barre to Iesus Christ No no He hath certified you by that written word of his by which you shall be Iudged at the last that there is an Woe to euery idle Shepheard that forsaketh the Flock the sword shall be vpon his arme and vpon his right eye his arme shall be cleane dried vp and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened and that he will require the bloud of all his Flocke at your hands which no humane Lawes nor Dispensations can controule Wherefore you must needss incurre that euerlasting doome