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A67024 A collection of private devotions, fitted for every day of the week by Thomas Wooley. Wooley, Thomas. 1670 (1670) Wing W3525A; ESTC R38761 42,629 168

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of Death and the due Preparation to it for there he hath these expressions which for brevities sake I divide into parts First That God would preserve the Supplicant ever in the Communion and peace of the Church Secondly bless his Death-Bed with a holy and Spiritual Guid which is a Priest Thirdly with the assistance and guard of Angels Fourthly with perception of the holy Sacrament Fifthly with patience and dereliction of his own desires Sixthly with a strong faith firm and humble hope Seventhly with just measures of Repentance and greater treansures of Charity to God and all the world therefore never neglect those means that God hath been so graciously pleased to impower his Priests to communicate unto you untill the second Coming of his Son untill which day after you shall depart this transitory world the great God of Heaven grant that your Souls in the Arms of the holy Jesus may be deposited with safety and joy there to expect the revelation of that day and then to pertake of the glories of his Kingdom Amen ANd since I am gone thus far I will proceed a little further to give you a few particulars both of the Church and your behaviour in Publique Assemblies It is impossible to be in this world and to be without Enemies for it was the lot which befel our blessed Saviour and his Apostles so the Church cannot be without them Some especially there are that strike at the very Root of all and say that upon the death of Queen Mary none of the Bishops of the Church of Rome could be prevailed with to Consecrate the Bishops appointed by Queen Elizabeth but that she appointed them by Act of Parliament and so the Succession of Consecration of Bishops from our Saviour Christ and his Apostles failed which could not be continued by Act of Parliament and their succession failing the Successive Power of Ordination of Priests must likewise fail so no Bishop no Priest no Priest no Church but certainly this was but a device of Saunders and some others for Mathew Parker who was Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was the first Bishop Consecrated in Queen Elizabeth her time and was Cannonically Consecrated by Coverdale Scory Barlow and Haskins who were likewise Cannonically Consecrated in the time of King Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth of all which you may more fully satisfie your self in the Learned Treatise of Mr. Mason upon the Institution of the Bishops of England to which when it will be time for you to be satisfied in the question I refer you and likewise to the learned Dr. Heylin in his Ecclesiastical History of the Church of England both which Books you may find in my Custody And as for the Government Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England I can onely let you know my weak judgment therein and the observations I have made by the reading of many learned and pious Authours that the Frame is as Apostolical and according to the Primitive Institution as possibly could be imagined Two things I observe out of Dr. Heylin speaking of the Opinions of Calvin Luther and Zwinglius how in other Countries they did receive the Reformation of the Church tumultuously but was in England reteyned with more moderation bearing no respect to any other but abolishing such things as were dissonant to Gods Word and reteyned such Ceremonies as without offence the liberty of the Church might establish wherein certainly saith he they dealt more advisedly then their Neighbours who in meer detestation to the Church of Rome abrogated such things altogether which their abuse had defiled though never so decent in themselves and allowed in the Primitive times And certainly saith he I perswade my self had the Reformed party abroad continued an allowable correspondency in some things with the Romish Church as the Church of England doth now it had been to their advantage far greater and lesse stomacked And this was the Censure of Monseur de Rhosney Duke of Sicilly at such time as being Embassador here for the King of France he had observed the Majesty and decency of our Church Service in Cathedrals I have also heard it saith he reported that when Peter du Moulin that great Light of the Church of France heard how indiscreetly some of our English Clergy had silenced themselves because the Cap and Surplice was Commanded he replyed That would the King of France give him a general license to Preach in Paris though it were in a Fools Coat he would most willingly accept the condition and that he never would deprive the Church of those gifts wherewith God had blessed him But it is very true as the said learned Dr. Heylin very worthily observeth that the Iesuits and the Puritans are the very Disturbers of our Peace And a long Experience hath found it so to be For saith he untill the Iesuits are taken out of the Church of Rome and the peevish Puritan Preachers now called Presbyterians out of the Church of Great Brittain there would never be any peace in Christendom For very true it is that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth those that continued Members of the Church of Rome and yet would not acknowledge the Queens Supremacy yet for the glorious Orders sake of the Service of the Church of England did constantly repair to the English Service and never left the same out of any dislike they had to it but rather in regard of a Decree set forth in the Councel of Trent prohibiting all resort to the Churches of Hereticks which notwithstanding the far greater part continued in their first obedience until the coming over of that roaring Bull from Pope Pius the 5. who being instigated thereunto by means of the Jesuitical Faction by which Bull the Queen was excommunicated the Subjects discharged from their obedience to the Laws And their going or not going to Church made a sign distinctive to difference a Roman Catholick from an English Protestant And truly it is very probable that they might have stood much longer to their first Conformity for all the Decree of Trent and this Bull had not the true Disturbers of the Peace of the Brittish Church come into their Aid which were those Presbyterians of the Zwinglian and Calvinian Opinion who about this time brought in their multitude of Innnovations both in Doctrine and Discipline which Faction were then called Puritans or rather a Name they did appropriate to themselves because of their pretending to a greater Purity in the Service of God than was held forth unto them as they gave it out in the Common Prayer-book and to a greater opposition to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome than was agreeable to the constitution of the Church of England But this purity was accompanied with such Irreverence and drew along with it so much Licentiousnesse as gave great Scandal and offence to all sober men And these last thirty years hath given the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland a