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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63876	Animadversions upon a late pamphlet entituled The naked truth, or, The true state of the primitive church	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1676 (1676)	Wing T3275; ESTC R15960	53,553	71

thither that they Personally examin'd all the People in that place who with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake And yet they laid their hands on them being I presume well satisfied with Philip's account of them and they received the Holy Ghost For Philip's Examination of them was in order to Baptism and after that it was usual to administer Confirmation and the Eucharist also to Adults at the same time For his Exception at Baptizing tolerated in Necessity to Midwives and he would gladly see any such thing in Antiquity Tolerated by whom by the Church Pray let him look upon the Rubrick concerning Private Baptism before he writes again where the words are these First let the Minister of the Parish or in his absence any other lawful Minister that can be procured with them that are present call upon God Yet were Tertullian now alive who knew the Customes of the Ancient Church as well I suppose as this Author he would not have censur'd our Church for Tolerating so much in that point For sure he goes much farther and will shew him somewhat more than this in Antiquity in case of Necessity such a Necessity they did believe of Baptism his known words are these that in such a case Quilibet Laicus ting it And I know not in this case and according to this Author's Principles what a Lay-man can do more than a Woman For the great things he speaks of the Power of the Keys in his Chapter of Church-Government they are well and truly spoken but so is not that which follows Yet this is in a manner quite relinquisht to Chancellors Lay-men c. The Church perhaps was never happier since the Reformation in men of this Profession that fill up those places with great Ability and Integrity and I add with great deference to their Superiours the Bishops No doubt they are most capable to examine and declare upon matter of Fact whether or no this or that person have done the fact to which the Canon has decreed Excommunication but they understand too well to think they have the Power of the Keys wherefore the Sentence where things are regularly done is pronounc'd by a Priest not by a Lay-Chancellour And his Similitude of the Parish-Clark jingling the Keys when the Rector has lockt any one out of the Church to which he likens those proceedings in the Spiritual Court is a Jingle it self and no better You will answer me saies he The Bishops themselves pass it over c. Truly in this you have reason and the blame must wholly light on them No I will not answer him so but I will ask him one plain Question Are the Bishops wholly to blame that the Canons of 1640 are not observed which make abundant provision against such Abuses or rather Are not those to blame who explode these Canons He tells us that in the times of Popery when Spiritual and Temporal affairs were all intermingled and horribly confounded the Bishops were frequently Lord-Keepers Treasurers Chief-Justices Vice-Roys and what not which is strangely Unapostolical and unlawful No men were greater Blessings to their times even in those times of Popery when they sat at the Helm than the Bishops 'T was Bishop Morton's Industrious brain that made up the Fatal breach and United the two Houses of York and Lancaster in the happy marriage between King Henry the Seventh and the Lady Elizabeth and it was under the Ministry of Bishop Fox who was Lord Privy-Seal and by his reaching Parts that the grounds were laid for a more happy Union between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland in that Marriage which was design'd with a deep and long train of memorable Policies that the eldest Daughter of Henry should marry James of Scotland and the younger should ma●ch into France that so if ever they should come to inherit Scotland might be the Annexe to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and that England might never be in the nature of a Province to France In the Old Testament there are Examples enow of Priests that were Ministers of State those I confess were Unapostolical that is long before the Apostles but he will have much adoe to prove them unlawful He might have omitted Lord-keepers and Treasurers for Bishop Williams and Bishop Juxon's sake one of them as able in the Chancery as the other in the Treasury And whereas the King is graciously pleased at this time to bestow the great Seal of Ireland upon a Reverend Praelate there I hope this Author will not deny but his Majesty has put him into a lawful Calling But whereas in the end of this Chapter he justly complains of exempt Jurisdictions as meerly Papal and a thing altogether unknown to Antiquity wherein he is much in the right I wonder he does not discern his own Scheme concerning Bishops and Priests to be Papal too and that Presbyterianism has no pretence to Antiquity but what it has from Popery It was Pope Innocent the 4th whom for such pranks as these his Party celebrate for a most wise Pope who decreed that ex dispensatione deputatione solius Pontificis Romani one Priest might ordain another whosoever then writes the History of Presbytery should make it begin from Rome and not take its rise from Geneva who does not know that the Popish Schoolmen and Canonists have made it their business to degrade their Bishops and confound them into one and the same order with the Presbyters to exempt the Regular Clergy from Episcopal Jurisdiction and as many of the Secular as they please who made the Cardinals that were but mere parish-Priests and many of them no Bishops to this day superiors to all the Bishops nay Governers and Judges over all Prelates in the vacancy of the Popedom The Consistory of Cardinals is then their only head of the Catholick Church upon earth which is all one as if it were headed with a Geneva-Consistory both Papists and Presbyterians take down the Superior order and advance the middle only Mr. Calvin and his Followers will have all this depend immediately on Christ himself whereas the Romish Party makes it depend immediately on one they call Christ's Vicar For how vehemently did the Papalins even in their Council of Trent urge and press it That the Power and Jurisdiction was wholly given to the Bishop of Rome and that every particular Bishop being only de Jure Canonico may be removed by the Pope's Authority he that would see more to the same purpose let him consult the Cardinal Pallavicino if he will not trust Padre Paolo where he may read the long Speech of Father Laynez all to this effect But though I had prepared some Animadversions upon this Chapter too concerning Bishops and Priests yet it has been so learnedly confuted in a Sermon preached at Whitehall which I hear is to be published by His Majesties special Command that I shall not need nor presume to touch that Chapter Animadversions on his Charitable

a kind of Chest that was fram'd for the purpose and plac'd them so that their Tayls should be gently screwed up through certain holes in a board and so they should be fastned all along in a row and Needles under their Tayls so dispos'd or plac'd that as the Musician struck the Keys the Needles prickt their Tayls which so nickt the Cats when the Organist came to play a lesson upon them that still as they were toucht they set up their Notes some high some low according to their several Capacities which made such harmony saies he as made the Rats dance and the men ready to burst with laughing Just such a Machine of a Church would this Author make us as this Musical Instrument if instead of our Screwing up the Non-conformists which we do not or their Screwing us up which once they did sufficiently he could screw them into the Church without more ado by this Project of his for Universal Toleration at least of all or very many Sects except the Papists for by what he delivers not only concerning the Ceremonies but also concerning Articles of Faith we may well conclude that he would not only have the Presbyterians who seem to stand out only upon Punctilio's of Ceremonies but also Independents Anabaptists and I know not how many more Sects if they call themselves Protestants taken into the Church or rather into the Drag-net as Bishop Laney calls it in his Sermon about Comprehension large and capacious enough to hold the Leviathan himself whom this Author follows a great way in his Notions of Sufficient or Insufficient Means for Peoples Conviction And when all such are received into the Church what will they do but set up their Cries and make their rude Noises in it if any thing in it afterward happens to pinch them Then instead of any Harmony or Concord I doubt there would be nothing in the Church but such a Discord as would make us only ridiculous to all that come near us Animadversions upon his Chapter concerning Church-Service HIS next discourse concerning Church-Service is all of a piece with the foregoing one about Ceremonies but one comfort is 't is not of so great length and every whit as remarkable for shortness of Reason Yet here as he makes his entrance he is a pretender to Reason for he slights and passes by some with whom he has no Reason to expect that reasonable Arguments should prevail Is he then for Reasonable Arguments But he should have added this Caution Provided they be not deduc'd from Scripture for you have seen he thinks it unsafe to make Deductions that is to Reason from thence Well he Supposes there is nothing in our Common-Prayer-book that is directly contrary to the Word of God and I may justly suppose till the contrary be proved that there is nothing in it contrary to the Word of God either directly or indirectly and p. 29. He also Conceives it absolutely necessary to have some Form prescribed to be used by all c. But now In Christ he humbly beseeches the Governours of the Church calmly to consider Were it not better to have such a form of Service as would satisfie most It is to be doubted or rather 't is out of doubt that most who are so unsatisfied with this are disgusted with all Sett Forms or would not be satisfied with any other Therefore we must be excus'd from trying his trick till he or some other Undertaker have corrected Magnisicat and the People the People whom he would have so caress'd have declared themselves satisfied with it or else have subscribed a Blank to be satisfied with whatever the New Projectors shall introduce His next Pique is at our saying the Second Service at the Altar which he saies was retain'd by the Fathers and first Reformers from Popery as carrying some resemblance with the Mass the Peoples delight which being now become the Peoples hate should for the same Resemblance by the same Reason be taken away For our Reading the Second Service at the Altar any one that can but read and is not a mere stranger in the Old Liturgicks knows that the Prayers were at the Altar many whole Ages before Popery either Name or Thing was heard of Therefore unless this Author knew the Reformers thoughts he can have no reason to put it upon them not at all for their honour though he would fain have it so that they prescribed this as carrying some resemblance to the Mass the peoples delight Why should he dream they did it to follow the Multitude in the Novelties of Popery and not rather to follow the Primitive Church I suppose the Reformers meaning in prescribing the Priest's going up to the Altar still was to declare and testifie to the Christian World that the Church of England highly approves Communion upon all High Daies as the Christian Sacrifice of Commemoration and the most Sacred Office in our Publick Worship and as it was constantly used in the Ancient Church upon every Lord's Day and every Solemn Festival They would no longer allow the Priest to receive the Sacrament alone because there was no ground either in the Scripture or the Fathers for such a Solitary Communion The very terms sound like a Contradiction But for all that the Refor●ers from Popery kept up the Communion Service at the Communion Table and so the Rubrick orders it still where the Place will bear it for it must be confess'd many of our Parish Churches are so built that the Second Service cannot be audibly read from the East end But where it can there it ought to be for a very sufficient reason that the mem●ry at least of Weekly if not Daily Sacraments might not be lost and that if the Peoples Devotion could be raised again which the Monkery of those times had turned into the Formality of Communicating once a year as the Roman Church requires no more of Lay persons then the Priest should be in his station to shew himself ready to Administer not only thrice a year which is all our Church has thought fit to exact hitherto but every Sunday and Holy-day It were better then that we fell to our prayers and endeavours that the People may be so well fitted and prepared to Receive as the Primitive frequency of Sacraments may be restor'd than to sit and make wishes that Reading the Second Service at the Altar may be taken away How consistent he is with himself in that which follows in the same page requiring Uniformity and Conformity after such and such Amendments I have already discoursed and shew'd it unpracticable even upon his own Principles As for his varying the Phrase and saying that again p. 24. which he had said over and over that Certainly his Religion is vain that would abandon the substance for want of the Ceremonies which he acknowledges to be no way necessary I answer that certainly his Religion is as vain if not vainer that would abandon the Substance as they do