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B03688	An account of Mr. Edward Sclater's return to the communion of the Church of England and of the recantation he made at the Church of St. Mary Savoy, the fifth of May, 1689. Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Sarum, preaching the sermon there that forenoon. / By Anthony Horneck D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2816; ESTC R178249	11,650	15

to see what every Man sees viz. That their Aim and practices tended to the Subversion of All that was either Law or Religion After All I am sadly sensible That what I have heretofore said written and done may justly render my Sincerity suspected even in these my Confessions But if a diligent search into the Secrets of my own Soul If a deep affliction of Spirit for what is past If the strongest Desire of being reconciled to that Communion I have so wickedly forsaken If the firmest Purposes of evidencing all these by suitable Actions for the future be Proofs of being sincere I am sure I am so and I desire your Charity in Praying for me and may the Almighty graciously answer your Prayers and mine that as the Church does compassionatly receive me into her Communion so God will be pleased in Mercy to ratifie her Act and Receive me a Returning Penitent to his Pardon And grant that I may recover his Favour and the Assistances of his Holy Spirit that my Repentance bearing some proportion to my Crime the remainig part of my Life short as it is like to be may be spent in his True Faith and Fear and to his Glory And I do here in the presence of God his holy Angels and this Congregation protest that I have done all this freely without Equivocation or Reservation and do solemnly promise and Oblige my self to continue in sincere and constant Communion with the Church of England to my Life's End. EDWARD SCLATER ADVERTISEMENT TO give Light to some Passages in the Historical Part of these Papers and to let all Men see with what Earnestness Mr. Sclater sued for a Reconciliation and what Arguments he went upon to convince himself of a necessity of returning to the Church of England it is thought fit to add some of his letters written with his own Hand both to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were known to him in order to his being Re-admitted to our Communion LETTER I. To Mr. Hutchins Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Danby Dear Friend WHen my Observations for two Years and upward below mentioned had made me reflect upon the Doctrine of Infallibility so wounded mortally by their own practices I found I must needs lower the Notion or be engaged in impossible Work of making Contradictions true I think it cannot be denied but the Church in every Nation is so far irrefragable that it is Unchristian to contradict Her in the least undecent manner but am perfectly convinc'd by the present Bishop of Lincoln's Book that the Romish Church has infallibly allowed and approved of many not only Errors but Unchristian ones That I did not see this so well before was perhaps in the Providence of God that I might see it the better now I shall be highly to blame if I ever cease to be truly sorrowful for the unhappy Want of his Informations Yet that I left the Church of England for Interest I utterly disclaim and assure you That I was not so short sighted nor so little vers'd in their practices to be any thing dazled with that prospect I knew several Instances long ago of their not only neglecting but avoiding those they thought they had secured for fear of Applications of that sort Besides I have declared to several that it were not at all prudential in them to encourage proselytes upon that account for so they might have many Converts and few Christians many for the Loaves and few for the Bread of Life Nay so far have I been from making any such Application that a Noble Lord of that Communion can be my Witness I assured him I never would make any and I am sure I have been as good as my word it is some small comfort to me in the midst of my hearty Sorrows for my Fault that my Fault is I think so much the less 'T was not Gain I aimed at but their Piety as I was mis informed surpassing all other Communions in the World. The name of a Church of that extent pretended to be so united in all the Truths of the Holy Jesus and withal so full of Piety as all their Writers boasted of methought was as glorious a prospect as this World could yield and well it were if there were such an Heaven upon Earth Who would not be glad to see it Who would not be more glad to be in it But I now conceive it must be our prayers because as yet it can be no more than our Hopes for in my own House I have had one Priest at one time so eager for the Pope's Infallibility even extra Cathedram that he has plainly assured me I should beyond Seas be Burnt for an Heretick for my contesting against it And another as eagerly at another condemning the former for his fierce insisting upon a Point that might give disgust and impede their progress in making Proselytes Having too rashly swallowed the Doctrine of Infallibity God of his infinite Mercy Pardon my Rashness my main inquiry was the Eucharist a point of all the most difficult that I was Dazled with its sublimity will not be a wonder to any Man That it is mysterious every good Christian will say nay that it is Tremendum Mysterium Now that one Man highly distasted at the low Expressions of some Protestants should fly too far from them is just as natural as that another equally distasted with the Doctrine of Transubstantiation should fly as far from it This I humbly conceive states my Case Nor was it long before I found I had taken too far a flight I could with ease believe as Real a Presence as they would have me if they will call this Transubstantiation I should not disbelieve it but I could not give over my Faith to the annihilating the Elements nay the oftner I saw it after Consecration the less I could believe it thô I confess I strove my utmost to force my Faith up to it but it would not do Here I began to condemn my own Rashness and inconsiderat Precipitancy nay to think must at last become an Infidel and believe little more that there is a God which even Nature it self would teach me when I must believe God bids me believe what I began to find every day more and more impossible for me to believe Here I began to mistrust I had mistaken Zeal and fervent Expressions of some of the Fathers concerning this high Mystery quoted in an unhappy Book for the ancient Doctrine of the Church and that must lower their high Raptures to a more intelligible and rational Sense So that since Whitsontide last thô Mass was said most dayes of the Week in my House yet I have never Received and more than that could not find in my self much inclination to Receive Antecedent to which you know is Confession which I began very much to mistrust was a mere piece of Formality as practised by them especially as to my own particular

or whatsoever in it shall be thought fit to be Retracted In the mean time as I have signifyed to your Grace already so I again repeat it having more seriously consider'd and compared the late Practises and past Usurpations of the Church of Rome I sincerely think the Testimonies of the first Six Centuries most fairly Interpreted by the Divines of the Church of England My Lord I humbly beg my speedy Reconciliation Pass by my rash and inconsiderate Aberration and compassionate my afflicted Spirit If Sorrow quite overwhelm What will become of a Soul out of Communion This is my great Grief But my Lord as Flesh and Blood I cannot but be much concern'd also for the aking Hearts of a miserable Family continually in Tears because ruin'd without some speedy prevention by my Folly. The God of Heaven and Earth make my humble Petition successful with your Grace and that I may once more Subscribe my self Your Grace's most Dutiful and Obedient Son and Servant EDW. SCLATER LETTER III. To His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury May it please Your Grace THose few Rays of Comfort my Dear Friend Mr. H. brought me last I hope will spread themselves into a much larger brightness Your Grace has promised to admit me to your Presence My Heart full of Thanks is too little a return for so great a Clemency Yet pardon an afflicted Spirit if I think every Minute very tedious till that happy time come I understand by him the great Obstacle of my farther Relief and Comfort is the suspicion of my sincerity I cannot condemn it the Hearts of Men are only known to him that made them I wish I may testifie the sincerity of mine with the best assurances possible to be thought of and will be glad of any assistance that can inform me of better than I can inform my self vae soli But what I can as yet do only in Words shall with Gods Assistance be always confirm'd by future Actions and Endeavours sutable to them Till I remov'd I was at too great a distance from the possibilities of discerning the secret Intrigues of that mischievous Faction being totally taken up in my daily Imploys and therefore easily detain'd under their strong Delusion But I hope no pious and charitable Heart will conceive I can now be thought so blind as not to see what every Man sees viz. That their Aim and Practices tended to the subversion of all that was either Law or Religion Impiety may be so cunningly dawb'd over with Artificial Colours as may if not blind yet dazle the best of Eyes but can it do so when it is manifest I humbly hope much better things will be thought of me and Charity will plead for me in some such form as this a better I shall never wish Forgive him he knew not what he did My Lord To those whether of the Clergy or Laity whom I have formerly made sorrowful for my Follies I shall always hereafter make this return of Thankfulness I will ever make it their comfort that they find me an Object of that Joy that even Angels in Heaven have at the Conversion of a Sinner Those that mistrust my Sincerity I will still by what Methods I can take endeavour to manifest to them they also ought to come in partakers of that Joy. I have spent no small time in searching my Heart for an affection towards those former Delusions that may lurk behind and do assure your Grace I find no one nor any thing but an abhorrence of them Nay my Prayers have been already and ever shall be that all deluded by them may speedily get from under them And now my Lord my Heart is full of Supplication to your Grace for Compassion that I may be Reconcil'd I 'll not give your Grace the trouble the Reading the long Enumeration of them The Sum of them is this Father I have sinned against Heaven and before Thee and am no more worthy to be called thy Son make me as one of thy hired Servants So shall Bread and not Husks be once more the Food of Your Graces most humble Petitioner E. S. LETTER IV. To the Reverend Dr. Battely Reverend Sir PArdon an afflicted Spirit the giving you the trouble of delivering the inclosed to his Grace if I have presumed in so doing put it upon the account of that Christian charitable office of receiving a Stranger which God reward to you with the entertaining tho' not an Angel yet once more a good Man and Your much obliged Servant EDW. SCLATER LETTER V. To His Grace the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY May it please Your Grace I Have Writ to a One perverted to the Church of Rome by Mr. Sclater's Example Mr. Wilkinson though I assure your Grace I cannot call to mind who he is or that ever I converst with any Man of that Name however I pray God what I have Written may be successful upon him I humbly beg I may receive the Blessed Sacrament My continual Prayers are for your being restored to perfect Health and that you may live long to Gods Glory and the Good of the Church I am Your Graces most Obedient Petitioner E. S. Printed at London by Edward Jones and Re-printed at Edinburgh Anno Dom. 1689.