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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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. THose who have Power and Authority to command me thinking it requisite that Mr. Sclater's Return and Reconciliation to the Church of England should be made publick in Obedience to their Order I shall impartially set down the Beginning Progress and the Publick Declaration he made of his Outward Repentance I say Outward for the Church judges not of things Occult and Inward and by that means give the Reader an Opportunity to exercise his Charity It was about the beginning of April last that Mr. Sclater sent a Friend of his to me to desire me to admit him to the Communion at the Savoy and the Motive alledged was That he had not only given my Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Satisfaction in the Sincerity of his Repentance but was ready to make a free and formal Retractation of his former Errors before me and to assure me that nothing but Conviction and Evidence and a clearer sight of the Truth had wrought this Conversion in him the Reason he said why he chose to Receive the Eucharist at the Savoy was because he intended to live thereabout in a House of his own and there to betake himself to such an Employment as he should be capable of The News of his Repentance though the juncture of Time was Temptation enough to suggest some Idea's which might incline me to a Smile yet I entertained with all the Gravity and Seriousness as became a Divine and a Christian that ought to be pleased with the coming back of a straying Sheep and much more of a Shepherd who had lost his way But the Admission of such a Person tho' neverso penitent appearing to me a matter of more than ordinary Consequence I soon resolved not to determine anything till I had consulted with my Diocesan the Lord Bishop of London I was willing enough in the mean while to hear the Reasons and Motives of this intended Change which upon Enquiry I found to be these That he had been mistaken deceived and deluded with plausible Arguments and specious Pretences and hopes of finding greater Truth and Piety and Severity of Life in the Romish Church than in our Communion which mistaks he was now so sensible of that he was ready to retract any thing he had said or writ against the Doctrine of the Church of England And when hereupon I acquainted my Lord Bishop of London with these his Confessions and Protestations his Lordship was pleased to refer the whole matters to his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury under whose Jurisdiction he had lived a great part of his time and to whose Cognisance and Determination the Difficulties attending his Re-admission into the Church did more immediatly belong After this his Grace being importuned and earnestly intreated to declare his final Resolution and to order the way and manner of a publick Acknowledgment of his Faults his Lordship was pleased to desire Mr. Gee to gather out of Mr. Sclatter's Book the most Offensive Passages with an Intent to have them inserted in his Recantation and Mr. Needham his Grace's Chaplain at the same time was ordered to take notice of such Consessions and Penitential Acknowledgements as Mr. Sclater had made in his Letters and Addresses to his Lordship in order to make his Retractation full and comprehensive and Satisfactory to the Auditors and Spectators before whom it was to be read and pronounc'd and in the framing of this form of Revoking his Erroneous Doctrines I was commanded to assist which I was very ready to do It being very agreeable to my Inclination to promote and wish well to all Acts of Christian Charity This being done and dispatch'd on Saturday the Fourth of May and Mr. Sclater giving his Consent to the Retractation we had drawn up and his Grace approved of Mr. Sclater accordingly appeared next day at the Savoy and after the Morning Service was ended just before the Psalm was sung in a very full Auditory and in the presence of a very great Throng of people and in the Hearing of my Lord Bishop of Salisbury who did me the Favour to Preach that Morning with a Loud and Audible Voice and with Tears flowing from his Eyes Read Pronounced and Repeated the Recantation which you have at the end of this Relation An Acknowledgment of this Nature I thought could not but be surprizing to a Congregation who had no Notice of it aforehand and therefore to prepare them for the Retractation I spake to them in the words following Beloved Hearers By Order and Direction of my Superiors I am to acquaint you That there is a Person in this Congregation who having some time since deserted the Communion of the Church of England and gone over to that of Rome and now detesting what he hath done sensible of the Errors of his Ways doth earnestly desire to be re-admitted into the Bosom of that Church which he hath forsaken The Person thus penitent and sensible is Mr. Edward Sclater late Vicat and Minister of Putney Touch'd with a sense of the Offence and Scandal he hath given to the Church both to the Clergy and Laity and all the Members of the Church of England he chuses to appear this day before this Congregation publickly to profess his unfeigned sorrow for that great Offence to make some Reparation for the Scandal It was about Christmas last when he made his first Application to the Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury and adress'd to him several Letters Declaring his abhorence of the Popish Doctrines in general and those particularly which he had offered to defend in a Book published to that purpose together with the Motives that oblidged him to think of forsaking that Erroneous and Idolatrous Church into which through mistake of their pretended Piety and Ignorance of the Danger of their Doctrines he had been drawn and enticed His Grace after due Consideration of his Protestations and Promises was at last content he should be admitted to Lay-Communion injoyning withal since he had reproached calumniated abused offended and scandalized the Church of England to make a publick Recantation of his former Erroneous Tenets and Opinions which Pennance if a Duty may be called so he is ready to perform this day before you all It 's very probable there may be found abundance of persons who will be loath to extend their Charity to a Belief of the Reality and Sincerity of his Return but to such I must crave leave to say that as it is not for us to usurp the Authority of God who alone is the Searcher of all Hearts so till we see manifest Proofs to the contrary our Religion binds us to believe the best and to forgive and receive him as a Brother Brethren If a Man be