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A20031	A true, modest, and iust defence of the petition for reformation, exhibited to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Containing an answere to the confutation published under the names of some of the Vniuersitie of Oxford. Together vvith a full declaration out of the Scriptures, and practise of the primitiue Church, of the severall points of the said petition.	Sprint, John, d. 1623. Anatomy of the controversed ceremonies of the church of England.	1618 (1618)	STC 6469; ESTC S119326	135,310	312

tela divexi sed ad Russin meo tantum vulneri admovi manum Lastly wee note our brethrens oversight 4. observat in their manner of proceeding in publique impugning what was secretly intended and in proclaiming to the world that which only we presented to your Maiesty And whereas our brethren suggest that soone after this our petition and motion being made were sent forth Epist p. 3. into all quarters of the Realme store of the sayd pretended Petitions It is true may is please your Maiesty that no copies of the sayd petition were delivered to any beside our selues excepting that only which was exhibited to your Maiesty since which time no copies at all were dispersed into any quarters of the realme much lesse into all neyther before were any hands required to it but only consent So that notwithstanding these pretenses our brerhren are found to bee troublers of the state not the petitioners and to haue blowne the coales and kindled the flames which wee goe about to quench Wherefore wee humbly desyre your Maiestie that it bee not imputed to vs as a presumptuous part to answer for our selues being provoked neyther preiudiciall to the conference determined wee may verily say with Hierome si superbum Ad Theoph. sit respondisse multo sit superbius accusasse If it be a proud thing modestly to answer much more insolently to accuse Besyde as is our Brethrens cause such are theyr proofes they haue inmayntenāce The Censurers sparing in their proofs out of Scripture of theyr fāsies throughout theyr boke alledged but one text of scripture for any matter in question betweene vs which are about the number of thirty seueral points so that wee may say vnto them in Augustines words Qui divina testimonia non sequuntur pondus humani testimonij perdiderunt They which follow not the divine testimony haue lost the credit of their owne Now we humbly commend the innocency of our felues and the goodnesse of our cause to your Maiesties Christian iudgement we sue for nothing but wherein Gods word doth beare us out whereof your Maiesty hath given us hope and for the which we doubt not but to answer for our selues in the presence of God We trust that God hath raised your Maiesty up as another David to settle the pillars of the earth Psal 73. 3. that were shaken and as the Prophet sayth to take off the heavy burthens Esay 58. 6. burthenous ceremonies burthenous censures burthenous abuses which many haue a long time groned under Augustine to this purpose sayth well handling these words of the Psalme They haue ploughed upon my In Psa 128. back Ascende in dorsum meum portare te habeo c. Nunquid semper super dorsum meum eris veniet tandem qui te inde excutiet And he is now come wee trust which shall breake these yokes and God we are perswaded will inable your Maiesty to do that which shall bee acceptable to himselfe profitable to his Church comfortable to your own soule that we may all salute your Maiesty with the salutation of the Church of David Psa 20. 4. 5 the Lord grant thee according to thine heart and fulfill all thy purpose that we may reioyce in thy salvation set up our banner in the house of God when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions that we may all triumphātly say of your Maiesty as Ambrose of Ambr. Theodosij fides the good Emperour Theodosius Iacobi regis fides nostra victoria Your Maiesties most faithfull subiects The humble Petitioners the Ministers and Preachers that desire reformation according to the word of God THE ANATOMY OF THE CONTROVERSED CEREMONIES OF THE CHVRCH OF ENGLAND BEEING considered in their Nature and Circumstances By Iohn Sprint Minister of Thornby in GLOCESTERSHIRE 1 Beginning 1 Blinde zeale and superstition as the Fountaine 2 Tradition as the streame and Channell 3 Popish Masse-booke as the puddle 2 End 1 Of inventing 1 To please Iew and Gentile by a perverse imitation 2 To paint Gods Worship with a needlesse adornation 2 Of maintaining 1 To claw and curry favour vvith Papists Atheists c. 2 Vo uphold our Church corruptions 1 Lordly Prelacie 2 Non-residency 3 Dumbe Ministery 3 To snare the faithfull professor 4 To nourish the carnall Gospeller 5 To thrust out the faithfull Teacher 6 To keepe out Christs Discipline 3 Persons 1 For them 1 Ordaining 1 Sathan inspired them 2 Man invented them 3 Fathers by tradition delivered them 2 Commanding and enforcing them 1 The Beast 1 Antichrist 2 His Bishops 2 Man 1 The Magistrate abused 2 Lordly Prelates abusing 3 Defending 1 Popish Champions 2 Dignified Chaplins alias Chop-livings 3 Covetous Chancellors 4 Ambitious Pluralists 5 Symonaicall Patrons alias Latrons 4 Approving 1 Impious Atheists 2 Ignorant Papists 3 Dumbe Homilists 4 Temporizing Statists 5 Povvling Registers 6 Provvling Paritors 7 Prating Proctors 8 All prophane livers 2 Against them 1 Refusing the most faithfull painfull blessed 1 Pastors 2 Exiles 3 Martyrs 2 Disliking the most zealous and godly people of all sorts 3 Disproving the most sincere learned forraine English 1 Writers 2 Preachers 4 Rejecting the purest and best reformed Churches 4 Matter 1 Negatiue No ordinances or commandements of God 2 Affirmatiue 1 Mans 1 Inventions 2 Precepts 3 Traditions 2 Antichrists 1 Idols 2 Will-vvorships 3 Reliques 5. Manner of urging maintaining 1 Reasoning 1 Cavilling 2 Railing 3 Slandering 4 Stirring up the Magistrate 1 Against the Innocent 2 Against their Brethren 2 Censuring 1 Suspending 2 Excommunicating 1 For a trifle 2 For things good 3 Ipsofacto 3 Deposing depriving degrading of 1 Law 2 Living 3 Ministery 6 Qualitie 1 Needlesse and superfluous because 1 Added to Gods perfect Ordinances 2 Gods Church worship may be without them 3 Not required of God nor having any speciall or generall ground out of the Word 2 Vnprofitable because they 1 Edifie not Men. 2 Glorifie not God 3 Serue not in the Church 1 For Order 2 For decencie 3 Hurtfull unto the 1 Weake by offence 2 Ignorant by superstition 3 Popish by Idolatry 4 Brethren by dissention 5 Godly by 1 Inward griefe 2 Outward persecution 6 Schismatickes by separation Occasioned 4 Wicked against the 2d. commandement 1 In disgracing the Sacraments Worship of God 2 In being defiled with superstion and Idolatry 3 In being the monuments of Idolatry 4 In being Will-worships 5 In bringing into Gods Worship the manner of 1 Iewes 2 Gentiles 3 Hereticks 4 Papists 6 In being symbolicall or signifying holy signes of mans invention Effect 1 In the persons for them 1 Prescribers and maintainers 1 Privation or abolishing of good namely of 1 Of Christian liberty to bind the conscience 1 Where God hath not tied 2 Where Christ hath freed 3 Vnder the same censures are greater penalty and strictnes then the breach of Gods commandements 4 Not to do that 1 Which is agreeing to the Word 2 which

If this bee unlawfull much more the other 10. The Canons doe not onely hold it unlawfull for lay men to possesse tythes usus decimarum secularibus provenire non potest Caus 16. qu. 1. c. 68. Nullus decimas ad alios pertinentes accipiat Leo caus 16. qu. 2. c. 4. But they doe grievously censure them Qui non Ecclesiae restituerint iterum c. He that restoreth not to the Church the things which belong to the Church neither do yeeld his evidences to be cancelled let him stand accursed till he doe it Caus 12. q. 2. c. 13. Decimas quae in usus pietatis concessas esse c. Tythes which the canons shew to haue been given to pious uses wee forbid any lay men to hold whether they haue received them of Kings or Bishops unlesse they restore them to the church let them know that they haue committed sacriledge and incurred the perill of damnation Caus 16. q. 7. c. 1. VVhat more grievous sentence could bee given then that they which usurpe the tythes of the Church commit sacriledge stand accursed and are guilty of eternal damnation 11. Bishops also and Clergy men making grant of tythes to lay men are censured by the Canons Episcopus qui non sacerdotibus sed laicalibus personis decimas conferat inter maximos haereticos Antichristos c. A bishop conferring tythes not upon Priests but lay men is not the least among heretikes and Antichrists Caus 16. q. 7. c. 3. Statuimus ut si quis alicui laico concesserit c. He that granteth a Church or a tythe to a lay man let him be cut off from his place as an unfruitfull tree Greg. lib. 3. qu. 30. c. 17. 12. Impropriations where sufficient maintenance is not left to the incumbent are supposed not to bee good in law By what degree impropriations came in That this may appeare we will shew by what degrees they were first founded 1. At the first the annexing of tythes to other places and converting them to other uses was held unlawfull as mention is made of a generall Councell wherein it was decreed Quod ex tunc canonicis ad eorum sustentationem capellae non cōcederentur That Canons should not haue chappels for their maintenance Greg. l. 3. tit 5. c. 33. 2. Afterward a restraint was made that no more Churches should be appropriated Vt praelati beneficia non applicent mensis that Prelats apply not benefices to their tables Clem l. 7. tit 5. c. 1. 3. Then order was taken that no Churches should be appropriate unlesse sufficient maintenance were left to the Minister non obstante Episcopi consuetudine notwithstanding any Episcopall custome And that he which did not leaue congruentem de proventibus Ecclesiae portionem a competent portion of the Church revenewes should bee depriued of the benefice sciat se authoritate istius Decreti illa privatam Decr. Greg l. 3. tit 12. c. 1. 4. By the law of the land bequeasts alienated and not employed according to the mind of the founder are forfeited being contra formam collationis ann 13. Edward 1. as in this case tythes are which were first given for the maintenance of the Minister and preaching of the word 5. Yea it is also provided that no Church bee appropriate but a certaine summe of Money should go yearely to the reliefe of the pore parochians and vicar bee well sufficiently endowed otherwise to bee voyd ann 4. Henr. 4. c. 12. and what it is to be conveniently endowed is there expounded to do divine service to enforme the people and keep hospitality ibid. 13. VVe will lastly shew the inconveniences that arise by farming tithes to laymē 1. By this means we shewed before an unpreaching ministry is maintained and many perish for want of teaching 2. Learning decayeth the rewards thereof being taken away Vnde fit ut in his regionibus c. Wherefore it commeth to passe that in these countries scarse any parish Priest is found qui ullam vel modicam habeat peritiam literarum which hath any mean knowledge of letters Decr. Greg. l. 3 tit 5. c. 30. 3. Hospitality faileth and the poore want their relief 4. The Ministers themselues are in great want and many times driven to hard shifts as Hierome complayneth in his time mendicat infoelix Clericus in plateis The pore clergie man beggeth in the streets and is constrayned to liue of his labour and to aske almes de 7. ordinibus 5. The Marriage of Ministers is made scandalous who dying by this means wanting provision leaue many pore widowes and orphanes 6. It is the occasiō of Non-residency pluralities whē Ministers not finding one liuing sufficiēt are forced to take another to it 7. By this means where a sufficient pastor is wanting the wolfe taketh occasion to spoyle the flock many Seminaries and Iesuits do creep in corners 8. The people paying their tythes to others are burthened which new collectiōs to maintain a preacher 9. Clergy men giue offence in disposing so evill of theyr impropriations and cause other noble and gentle men by their example to draw backe and they themselues are corrupted by it and become carelesse in their owne flockes as Hierome well noteth si carnales diuitias quae labuntur non benè dispensatis c. If yee doe not well dispense riches that fade the true and euer enduring riches of heauenly doctrine who shall giue you Hier. Algas q. 6. 10. They cause other men to usurp upon the possessions of the Chur. occupying the place habitation of Rectors and parsons as they are called not being answerable to the name in any duty which kind of title and calling the Ciuill Law vtterly condemneth Si quis sub nudo appellationis velamine se collegiatum appellat c. If any doe call himselfe by the naked name of a Collegiate or Ecclesiasticall person another shall be put in his roome Cod. lib. tit 5. leg 9. Theodos Valent. All these inconveniences might as much as in them lyeth easily bee helped if Bishops Cathedrall Churches Colledges would demise their tythes only to the incumbent Minister during his life and incumbency for the old rent and some reasonable fyne at his entrance as the first years fruites the charges diducted Obiections answered 1. Object THESE Canons before alleadged onely prohibite lay men in theyr owne right to possesse tithes Answ Yea they forbid that they should take tithes to farme sub interminatione anathematis c. Vnder paine of the curse Ne laici Ecclesias ad firmas teneant that lay men take not Churches to farme Thus Alexander the third did write to the Bishop of London Decr. Greg. 3. tit 50. c. 6. Which Canons are yet Law in the Church of England where they are not contrariate to the statutes of the Realme 2. Obj. But ministers are prohibited by statute Law to hold any leases or farmes Answ This law was made onely against that abuse of Ministers which busied