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A56184	A moderate, seasonable apology for indulging just Christian liberty to truly tender consciences, conforming to the publike liturgy in not bowing at, or to the name of Jesus, and not kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, according to His Majesties most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects concerning ecclesiastical affairs ... / by William Prynne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing P4011; ESTC R5505	132,513	174

the Church And likewise licet in Primitiva Ecclesia c. Although in the Primitive Church this Sacrament was received by the faithfull under both species Tamen c. Yet notwi●hstanding to avoid some Perils and Scandals this ●●stom was introduced afterwards that it should be received by those who consecrated under both spec●es and by Laymen only under the species of Bread Since it is most firmly believed and in no wise to be doubted That the intire Body and Blood of Christ is truly contained as well under the species of Bread as under the species of Wine Wherefore seeing this custom was rationally introduced and very long observed by the Church and Holy Fathers it is to be reputed for a Law which is not lawfull for any to reject or change at pleasure without Authority of ●he Ch●rch Wherefore to say that it is Sacrilegious or unlawfull to observe this Custom or Law ought to be reputed erroneous pertinaciter asserentes oppositum praemiss●rum c. and those who peremptorily assert the co●trary are to be banished and grievously punished as Hereticks by ●he Diocesans of the places or their O●●icials or by the Inquisitors of Heretical pravi●y in Kingdoms and Provinces in which any thing shall peradventure be attempted or presumed against this Decree according to the Canons and lawfull Statutes wholso●ly invented in favour of the Catholick Faith against Hereticks Also this Holy Synod decreeth and declareth upon this matter that processe shall be directed to all the most Reverend Fathers in Chr●st Lords Patria●ch● Primates Archbishops Bishop● and their Vicars in Spi●ituals wherever constituted in which it shall be committed and commanded to them by Authority of this Council under pain of Excomm●nication that they effectually punish those offending against this Decree who communicate the people under both species of Bread and Wine or that exhort or teach them that it ought to be done And if they return to repentance they may be received to the bosome of the Church wholsome Pennance being injoyned to them according to the measure of the ●ffence But such of them who with obstinate minds shall not care to return to repentance are to be restrained and punished by them by Ecclesiastical censures and the ayde likewise of the Secular Arme is to be invocated for this end if need shall require Here this Popish Council sets up the late Custom Power Canons of the Church 1. To alter the very institution of Christ himself the practise of the Apostles and primitive Church Fathers first in two particular Circumstances or Ceremonies observed by them in the celebration of the Lords Supper to wit 1. In the time of receiving it after Supper 2ly In the manner of receiving it after meat but not fasting And ●rom these 2. Alterations in these Circumstances proceeds in the third place to make justifie decree ● Most sacrilegious alteration in the substance of it in taking away one Part thereof to wit the Cup and Wine from all the Laity at one blow upon this absurd heretical Whymsical Reason and notorious untruth laid down as a most certain undubitable truth That the Body and Blood of Christ are by way of concomitance conteined and received under each species of Bread and Wine 2ly It sets up justifies decrees a direct contrary custome of receiving the Lords Supper 1. only in the mo●ning 2. only fasting 3. for Priests only in both kinds 4. for all Laymen under the species of Bread alone without the Cup with a most a●dacious blasphemous peremptory NON OBSTANTE to Christ himself the Apostles and primitive Churches Practise and In●titution 3ly It prohibites Priests and People too either to imitate their examples or institution for the future or to say preach or affirm they ought to imitate them or so much as to speak against any of those their late Cu●tomes and Antichristian Innovations Errors 4ly They excommunicate banish punish all those as HERETICKS and prosecute persecute them with Ecclesiastical censures of all kinds and the power of the secular arm if they once presume in any place by words or deeds to follow the Precept or Pre●ident of Christ his Apo●●les and the Primitive Church or oppose or submit not to their Innovations Inversions and subversions of them 5ly If the terror of those Ce●sures prevail to force conformity to their Innovations in any former Non-conformist whether Priest or ●ayman he must not be received into the bosome of ●he Chu●ch without publick penitence and Pennance proportinable to his offence What effusion of Christian blood Martyrdomes Wars Schismes Tumults Controversies this Canon hath procured throughout Ch●istendome ever since the Histories of Bohemia G●rmany France Spain Italy England the Netherlands Mr. Fox his Acts and Monuments with other Martyrologies and will abundantly inform us Our most gracious Lord God Author of this holy Sacrament of love unity so in●pire direct our Religious indulgent Sover●ign Lord the King his Parliament Council Bishops Ministers with the Spi●it of Wisdome Clemency Moderation and Christian compassion towa●ds the ●ender scrupulo●s consciences of many thousand Ministers and truly loyal d●tifull pious Subject● in this particular that the Alteration of receiving the Lords Supper from its primitive antient usual gesture of sitting practised by Christ his Apostles the primitive Church Ch●istians for many hundred years to Kneeling only by late Custome since Transubstantiation and Adoration introduced by the Church of Rome for the premised ends the total abandoning of Sitting and enjoyning the sole use o● Kneeling to all Ministers and Communicants whatsoever the suspending pious Ministers from their Ministry Benefices inflicting ●cclesiastical Censures on them as Non-conformists Schismaticks for not Kneeling or delivering the Lords Supper to their People sitting or writing preaching in defence of this Ge●ture practised heretofore the dep●iving of those Laymen who refuse to receive Kneeling for the premised Reasons not only of the consecrated Cup as this Popish Council of Constance with the Councils of Basil Se●●io 30. of Trent Sessio 21. c. 1. si●ce that did but even of the Bread too which Romis● Priests indulge to all Laymen and totally secluding those from the Sacrament who out of conscience refuse to take it Kneeling yea Members of Parliament themselves and passing them by with publick contempt as of late when they were all enjoyned to receive the Lords Supper together and that against the expresse words of his Majesties most gracious Declarations to all his loving Subjects of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs then newly published That none shall be denyed the Sacrament of the Lords Supper though they do not receive it Kneeling in the Act of Receiving Which hath given just ca●se o●●ear of greater seve●ity towards them and others by over-rigid imperiou● Pr●lates P●iest● and ●lergy-men when the Parliament is not Sitting Ecclesiastical Cou●ts and new Liturgies confirmed resto●ed to their pristine Vigor and that barely upon p●etext that the Custome of Kneeling

made a Footbanke unto that Antichristian Monst●r of Transubstantiation only by misinterpretation of it by such as sought out all means and laid hold on any colorable thing that might suckle the monster of their brain when it was once born So this Doctor This kneeling then in the Act of receiving is acknowledged by all its learnedest Advocates to be introduced only by Custom Vsage after Transubstantiation and Adoration of the Host prescribed first by Pope Honorius about the year of Christ 1226. promoted by the Feast of Corpus Christi instituted by Pope Vrban and confirmed for ever by multitudes of Pardons in the Council of Vienna by Pope Clement the 5. in the year 1310 as our learned Bp. Iewel and others affi●m without any Canon imposing it on the people The first Rubrick that ever I met with except that of the Missal for the Friers Predicants forecited is that in the Common Prayer-book set forth and confirmed by King Edward the Sixth in the year 1552. used continued in all Books of Common P●ayer ever since Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds himself and next deliver it to other Ministers if any be there present that they may help the chief Minister and after TO THE PEO●LE IN THEIR HANDS KNEELING Which Rubrick as the words and manner of penning declare is rather a Direction than Injunction to the People to receive KNEELING For it commands not in precise words That the People shall all receive the Communion Kneeling or only Kneeling in the Affirmative not Sitting or Standing in the Negative much lesse doth it threaten or inflict any penalty at all on the Minister if he give or on the People if they receive it otherwise nor enable the Minister to refuse the Lords Supper to such who scruple to take it KNEELING for he is peremptorily enjoyned by the Statute of 1 E. 6. c. 1. Not without a Lawfull Cause to wit for the scandalous crimes conteined in the Rubrick or Exhortation before the Communion and in case of Malice or Hatred to DENY the Sacrament TO ANY WHO SHALL DEVOUTLY AND HUMBLY DESIRE IT ANY LAW CUSTOME OR ORDINANCE TO THE CONTRARY NOTWITHSTANDING Onely it directs the Minister to deliver it to the People in their hands KNEELING and withall makes an Apology in another Rubrick in both King Edwards Books to clear the use of kneeling from any Superstition or intention of Adoration of Christs Body in the Elements or any justification of Transubstantiation to which ends the Church of Rome had abused it All which being duly pondered and that the first Reformers of our Religion under King Henry the Eighth in their Treatise concerning the Lords Supper compiled in the year of our Lord 1533. printed at the end of Mr. William Tyndal our famous learned Martyr his Workes p. 476 477. desired That Christian Princes would command and establish a Forme of Administring the Lords Supper by them described wherein ALL THE CONGREGATION are ordered TO SIT ROUND ABOUT THE LORDS TABLE as Christ his Apostles and the Primitive Christians did And then compared with these ensuing Confessions of Doctor Iohn Burges in his learned Treatises purposely written in his Defence of the Lawfullnesse of KNEELING in the Act of Receiving dedicated to our late King CHARLES and the Lord Keeper Coventry Namely That the Church of England holdeth sitting or standing to be as lawfull and holy as kneeling putting no necessity or worship of God in any of these arbitrary Ceremonies That there is not to be found any Decree for the gesture of Kneeling in the Act of Receiving no not in the Roman Church before or after th●●eal presence nor yet in the Greek Churches That Beza and other Churches which live pell-mell with the Popish where Idolatry is openly in the streets committed in bowing to a piece of bread as i● it were nothing else but Christ himself shifted into a new suit of apparell had reason enough to forbear this gesture in their Churches and to disswade it as a thing which had been and therefore might be dangerous And there●ore Beza doth no where condemn the use of it as in it self unlawfull but only defendeth the Churches which in respect of the perill that might ensue or out of a desire to root out the bread-worship out of the minds of men do decline the use of this Ceremony And this was the judgement of all those Divines who in the name of the French and Dutch Churches made certain Observations upon the Harmony of Confessions set out at Geneva in Beza his time Anno 1581. for in their fourth Observation on the Confession of Bohemia sect 14. they say thus In this Rite of Kneeling we leave each Church to their own liberty not that we condemn it simply as evil in it self used with caution given in our fourth Observation But for the rooting of bread-worship out of mens minds it is better that Ceremony in most places were abolished in receiving of the signs themselves May sufficiently perswade his Majesty our Bishops Lords and Parliaments to indulge the liberty of sitting to those who scruple kneeling at the Lords Supper since the Church of Rome her self prescribes it not by any Canon or Rubrick in the act of receiving and there hath been is and may be peril and scandal in its use Now whereas some conceit and object That it is a great contumacy irreverence sawcinesse boldnesse for those who confesse themselves unworthy to gather the crums under Christs Table at his Supper to presume to sit and eat the consecrated Bread and drinks the Cup at or upon the Table it self not KNEELING at a distance before or prostrate under it I desire such Objectors to ●ons●der 1. That Christ himself out of his infinite love invites all Communicants not to gather up the crums under this his Table like Dogges or as the captive Kings did under Adonibezecks the proud Tyrants Table but to sit down eat and drink the consecrated Bread Wine and this his Heavenly Banquet at his Table Therefore it is rather a high contempt disobedience voluntary sinfull Humility or slighting undervaluing of Christs love and grace for any invited Gue●ts like Dogges and Slaves to lye prostrate before or under his sacred Table then with Faith and holy confidence to approach unto it to sit eat and drink thereat as he enjoyns them 2ly That if it were no ill manners presumption or irreverence for the Disciples Lazarus and others to sit down with Christ himself whiles on earth at ordinary Tables the Pascal Supper and Lords Table too or in St. Iohn to lean on his breast and bosome at it or in the Primitive Church Christians to sit eat and drink the consecrated Elements at the Lords Table for many hundred years after Christs Incarnation then doubtlesse it can be no contempt misdemeanor irreverence unmannerlinesse for any now to do the like but rather it must be so in

A MODERATE SEASONABLE APOLOGY For indulging just Christian Liberty to truly TENDER CONSCIENCES Conforming to the PUBLIKE LITURGY In Not Bowing at or to the Name of IESUS AND NOT Kneeling in the Act of receiving the Lords Supper according to His Majesties most Gracious Declaration to all his Loving Subjects concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs Comprising the principal Reasons for their Nonconformity in point of Judgement Conscience not Humour or Schism to these two Ceremonies The first whereof is at large discussed both as a pretended Duty of the Text or Necessary Ceremony grounded on Philippians 2.9 10 11. and its true Original progresse abuses in the Church of Rome fully discovered The Second briefly and occasionally touched as inferred from that Text. p. 64 to 90. In Three serious and sober Inquiries concerning Bowing at the Name of Iesus Compiled above 30. years since Published with some few Additions to prevent Uncharitable censures and satisfy or pacify all of contrary Judgement and Practise in these Particulars By William Prynne Esquire a Bencher of Lincolnes Inne 1 Thess. 5. 14.15.21.22 26 Now we exhort you Brethren Comfort the feeble-minded support the weak be patient towards all men see that none render evill for evill unto any man but follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men Prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of evill Greet all the Brethren with an holy kisse Gal. 5.14.15 By Love serve one another For all the Law is fulfilled in One word even in this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self But if ye bite and devour one another take heed lest ye be consumed one of another 1 Pet. 3.8 Finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitifull be courteous LONDON Printed for the Author by T. C. and L.P. 1662. To the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY Charles the II. Most Gracious Soveraign THis Moderate Apology for Indulging just Christian Liberty to truly Tender Consciences not separating from the Publick Liturgy of the Church of England in Not Bowing at or to the name of Jesus and Not Kneeling in the Act of Receiving except some short Additions suiting it to the present Occasion was compile● and part of it Printed thirty two years since for my own Necessary Defence and others Satisfaction The chief cause of its present Publication is the Justification of Two of Your Majesties Royal Christian Indulgences to Tender Consciences generally promised in Your Gratious Letter and Declaration from Breda the contents whereof so miraculously Bowed the Hearts of all Your English Subjects notwithstanding their former disloyal Engagements and Oppositions against Your Vndoubted Hereditary Right to reign over them as their KING that they all as one man immediately dispatched the self-same Message to Your then Exiled Majesty as the men of Judah did to their King David when thrust out of his Kingdom by Absoloms Vsurpation Return thou and all thy Servants And since Your Majesties most glorious Return from thence and Happy Restauration thus really performed and particularly granted expressed in Your Royal Declaration to all Your Loving Subjects of Your Realm of England and Dominion of Wales concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs Provided That none shall be denyed the Sacrament of the Lords Supper though they do not use the Gesture of Kneeling in the Act of Receiving No man shall be compelled to bow at the Name of IESUS or suffer in any kind for not doing it Which Indulgent Declaration so ravished the Hearts of all Your Loving Subjects that Your whole House of Commons their Representatives then assembled in Parliament immediately after its Publication repaired in a Body to Whitehall and there by their Speakers Oration in the Banqueting-House expressed their extraordinary great Ioy and presented their generall Thanks to Your Ma●esty for this Your most gratious Declaration and dispensation with their Consciences in these and other matters not being of the substance or essence of Religion ●hich gave abundant satisfaction to all peaceable sober-minded men and such as are truly Religious In which return of their Thanks they were all unanimous Nemine Contradicente then Ordering a Bill to be drawn in pursuance of Your Majesties Directions therein Yet notwithstanding the premises such was the Presumption of an Over-Ceremonious Doctor though Chaplain to Your Majesty as soon after publikely to deny the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to my self and other Members of the Commons House when ordered to receive it all together in St. Margarets Church at the beginning of this Parliament because we kneeled not down to receive it from his hand ●raving the benefit of Your Majesties Declaration and Liberty to receive it sitting being the gesture which Christ himself and his Apostles used at its first institution and celebration who as St. Chrysostome Theophylact with other Antients and some modern Divines affirm after he had eaten the Passeover standing as they conjecture though the Evangelists and most others accord they did eat it sitting Sate down on purpose with his Disciples to celebrate and receive the Lords Supper sitting to signifie thereby that they were then come to their Journeys end the perfection of Religion and Sacraments This publick contempt of Your Majesties Declaration seconded with the sedulous Endeavours of others totally to deprive Your loyal peaceable consciencious Subjects constantly resorting to Common Prayer the Lords Supper and all Gods publick Ordinances without separation of all the Indulgence● therein expresly granted and really intended to them by Your Majesty to their great Disconsolation in Derogation of Your Royal Prerogative as Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England as well in and over all Causes as Persons Ecclesiastical who have no Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction but what is derived to them by from and under Your Majesty nor any power● to controll Your Majesties Dispensations or Christian compassions to tender Consciences have engaged me out of Duty to Your Majesty sincere desires to prevent all future Scismes in matters merely Indifferent and Ceremonial and to wipe off those unjust aspersions usually cast upon them for not bowing at or to the Name of Jesus or not kneeling at the Lords Supper as Persons obstinately Scismatical void of all Grounds of Scripture Reason Conscience Antiquity inducing them to scruple or omit these Ceremonies to publish this Apology in their behalf consisting of Three Serious and Sober Inquiries Wherein all the Arguments Reasons Authorities for Bowing at or to the Name of Jesus either as a pretended Duty or necessary Ceremony grounded on Philippians 2.9 10 11. are largely examined refuted retorted and those for Sitting or Kneeling in the Act of Receiving the Lords Supper summarily discussed with such Christian Ingenuity and Moderation as I humbly conceive will give ample satisfaction to Your Majesty and the most zealous Champions for these Ceremonies that their Non-conformity to their use proceeds not from any Scismatical